 to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, one God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'm your moderator for tonight. I'm Paul Gillis. And if you will turn to page two in the book, you will see the school district morning for article 67. We're not voting tonight. We're just talking and asking questions. I was just telling Chris that I just received word from the court that the lawsuit is probably dead on arrival and that there won't be an overturning that. So it's more than likely this is the last pre-hearing meeting of the school district. But you never know. Things could change. The court did rule this afternoon to deny the injunction. So article six, now before we start, some of you are not residents of the town. Raise your hand. Who will object to them talking when it's time without going through any fold-or-all? No one? You're welcome. But when you do go to talk, fold-or-all, yes, what do I do for a living? However, and even if you are a resident, if you're going to speak, I'd like to have you introduce yourself so that we have a sense of it. And if you are a non-resident, you don't have to be embarrassed about it, but you have to tell us so that you keep an idea as to how to balance your statements against our thinking. So article six is the election of school directors. And we are electing one school director for one year of a two-year term. Who is a candidate for that? Or is there anyone here who is a candidate for that? And we'll want to acknowledge that. No. All right. And then we have a school director for two years of a three-year term. Is there anyone here who is a candidate for that? Is anyone here who would like to be a candidate for that? You could have a write-in. Or two school directors for a three-year term. Anyone? Well, that's discouraging. And then article seven is the school district budget. Shell the voters of the school district approve the school board to expend $3,630,287, which is the amount the school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year. It's estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $17,637 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is 4.41% higher than spending for the current year. Is there anyone? First of all, who will answer questions on this? I will be happy to make an exception. And so who has questions about this budget? I would have a question, which is, is this a budget that will make any difference if the court upholds its decisions? So for those of you who don't know me, I'm Chris Winters. I'm the school board chair until tomorrow, I guess. The news of the lawsuit and of the judge ruling against a stay or a preliminary injunction was news to me as Paul came in here and sat down next to me and let me know. That's one of the reasons that we thought it was prudent to go forward with a town budget tomorrow was because we thought either the lawsuit could halt the merger or there's also the possibility that the legislature does something to halt the merger and then we would be without a budget. So we felt it prudent as your school board to go ahead and warn this budget but in our conversations with the central office that prepares this budget for us to massage into what we want and then propose it to the voters, this budget would simply be rolled up should we merge. It will simply be rolled up with the other four towns in the U32 budget. So the outcome of the lawsuit really would have no effect on this budget. This is the budget we're proposing. We looked at this as a budget that we felt that the residents of the town of Berlin could support and should support and we hope you support. And so it's not going to change depending on the lawsuit. Well if the merger goes through will this budget be our portion of the unified school district budget? If the merger goes through you will see one budget and so this would be our portion. The other towns are building their budgets as we speak as well. Some of them are putting them before the voters, some of them are not but the budgets as built and approved by the local school boards right now I believe are just going to be rolled up into one budget. There won't be any shifting around based on merger or not. That could come next year if we're one board, one budget. We're going to look at things I think a little bit differently. We're going to look at them as a group rather than as individual local boards. It's just going to be very interesting. But this year it's still the same process that it has been in past years and our portion is going to just be what it is a portion of the overall one budget. Any other questions? Mike Streisberg, Junction Road in Berlin. First of all commend the board for putting together this budget. As a contingency I think it was the smart thing to do with the outcome of what was coming. But my question is therefore when we vote on this tomorrow assuming the merger is going forward whether the budget passes or fails becomes immaterial. Is that correct? This will be the budget that goes forward even if we voted down. I think the only other thing that could happen is the house has passed the house has passed a bill to delay merger for one year. It's not overturning at 46. It's not saying we aren't going to merge but to delay merger for one year the Senate is going to take that up or maybe already has started to take that up. If the Senate approves it and if the governor doesn't veto it that means we get one year to prepare for merger an extra year to prepare for merger. So I think it's still important that we have this budget and go on it. It's possible that it is going to be a move point and that we'll see a unified budget proposed in a couple of months. Now that we'll have to go ahead with the organizational meeting and the election of the new board and that new board has to put forward a budget for the merged district. So we're likely going to see another budget to vote on in the coming months that would replace this one. Although these numbers I think are going to be the same thing that you'll see as part of the unified budget. Any other questions about the budget or the process or the school district's future? I do have a YouTube video PowerPoint that's 12 minutes long. I'm not going to force it on anyone. If you don't want to watch it, it explains what's in the budget. It tells you the percentages. It tells you the dollar figures. Yes, no. Maybe. You'll be doing this tomorrow? Yes. I tried to watch it with a link and I couldn't get there. I think we can suffer through it in 12 minutes. Cue it up. Thank you, Bill. You're welcome. Aaron probably knows the best way. Maybe just this quadrant. Thanks for taking a moment of your time to view this Berlin Elementary School proposed budget for 2019 and 2020. My name is Chris Winters. I'm chair of the Berlin Elementary Board. And Tuesday, March 5th is town meeting day. So we hope that you'll come out and vote on your local Berlin Elementary School budget between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. at the school. There is going to be a public hearing on this budget at Berlin Elementary the night before on Monday, March 4th at 6 p.m. With this Berlin Elementary budget and the estimated budget for U-32, here's the bottom line for our taxes. We are going to see a net 2.67 increase in spending over the last year's budget. And when that's combined with a decreased tax impact from the U-32 budget, we'll see a projected education tax increase of .003 cents or $3 for each $100,000 of assessed property value. Before we begin this budget presentation, I just wanted to say that this is a really unusual year for a Berlin school district. We're operating under the assumption that we will be merged due to a state order and that a consolidated budget will be proposed to all voters of the five towns in a few months and it's possible that this budget and vote will be replaced by that merged budget. But until then, we as a board believe we have a duty to present to Berlin voters with a local budget because there is a lawsuit and pending legislation that might halt the merger. We felt we needed to go forward as an independent school board as we currently exist and prepare for both tracks. The budget of the merged boards would most likely be the very same budget, but it would just be rolled up as one of five six counting U-32 budgets for a vote of the entire district. Your school board asked for a level service budget this year maintaining the same level of educational services as the previous year and we're now asking you to approve that budget that includes, as I said, a net 2.67 increase in spending over last year. I'll talk a little bit here about the budgeting process, the components of the 2019-2020 budget and the tax impacts, which include four factors, including our local budgets, the state tax rate, the property yield, and the common level of appraisal. These are some of the competing pressures when we're determining our budget for the elementary school. There are curriculum decisions, contracts, economic pressures, required student services, educational quality, political pressure, revenue projections, federal mandates and benefits, tax burdens and test scores. These are all some of the things that we take into account when we're developing our budget. In developing our budget, we first got a draft from the principal superintendent and business administrator with staff input. We reviewed multiple budget drafts and gave feedback on what we wanted to see included or not included on the budget. We had multiple meetings in open session at our regular school board meeting to discuss the budget and solicited community input. Eventually, we came up with a budget that we all approved and now we move that forward to you, the voters, in hopes of your approval. The proposed budget we have this year is a total of $3,630,287. That's an expense change of 3.4% over last year. With increased funding due to special education, the net impact on taxes is an increase of 2.67% over last year. Our proposed education spending per equalized pupil is $17,633. Last year, it was $16,892. That equalized spending change is 4.39% higher than the current year. You'll see on your ballot when you come out to vote the number 4.41% higher than last year's equalized spending per pupil. Those calculations are changing all of the time and this slideshow is based on the most recent information we have from the agency of education. But again, that's not 4.41% increase in spending in spending per equalized pupil. Our actual expense change is a net impact of 2.67% increase in spending over last year. These charts show you a little bit more about how we spend our money at Berlin Elementary School. As you can see, a large part of it is direct instruction of students in special education. You can see other categories here around operation of the building, the assessments from central office, and administrative costs. You can see on this slide some of the budget change highlights. We have salary increases and benefit changes from negotiated teacher contracts. We have staffing changes that is also contributing to an increase in expenses. Due to some teachers coming, some teachers going, and depending on the experience of those teachers that we've hired, the total for those negotiated items and salary increases, benefits, and staffing is $122,548. That's 3.49% of the budget. It is really most of the increase that we're talking about over expenses from last year. As far as non-salary items go, we've actually cut spending just a little bit at $3,179 less than last year for a total combined of $119,369, or that 3.40% of the budget we talked about in the beginning. We have additional revenues from special education of $25,531 for a net impact on taxes of 2.67% over the last year. Student enrollment ended up being leveled from last year. Again, we don't get those numbers from the Agency of Education until very late in the process, and it really changes each day as children move in and out of our town. Our pre-K through 12 enrollment is projected to be leveled over the next five years and has been relatively steady over the last decade. Here's a little table to help put in perspective the spending for equalized pupils in Berlin as compared to the other towns in our supervisory union. You can see the expense change for our proposed budgets and the net tax impact here looking at the five towns in our supervisory union. And as you can see, Berlin is at for $3 for every $100,000 of assessed property value. When we look at the tax impact, there are four factors affecting the local tax rate, the common level of appraisal, the statewide education tax, the property yield, and the Berlin Elementary and U32 budgets. We really only have control over the fourth item. The common level of appraisal or CLA is an adjustment to the education tax rate to account for the gap between appraised value and actual value of the property. The 2018-2019 CLA for Berlin is 102.14%, which is down just a little bit over last year's 102.45%. This results in a very small tax increase. The statewide tax rate as of February 20th of this year is a series of calculations where all of the statewide education spending is put together into a pool and redistributed out to the towns. The legislature comes up with this rate and it's subject to negotiation, perhaps veto or approval of the governor. This is some information about those tax rates and this is one of the factors in determining what our local tax rate is going to be. This slide shows you a little bit about the tax rate impacts for 2019 and 2020 for Berlin and for the other four towns in the supervisory union. As you can see here, the residential tax rate is $3 over 100,000 of assessed value and the non-residential tax rate is $5 per 100,000 of assessed value. It's important to note that these rates don't reflect income sensitivity adjustments, which are available to most homeowners with incomes less than $136,500 per year. This is a little more information on income sensitivity. 57% of Berlin residents receive support for their property taxes from the income sensitivity, so they won't see the same tax rate of $3 per 100,000 of assessed value. 43% of the Berlin residents will pay the full tax rate. Here's a little bit more information on property tax adjustments, showing how many folks in Berlin have that income sensitivity adjusted rate and how many do not. In summary, the Berlin Elementary Board is proposing a budget of $3,630,287. That budget is a 3.4% increase over last year's expense budget. When you include special education revenues, this amounts to a net impact on taxes of 2.67%. Passing both the Berlin Elementary School and the U32 budgets will result in a .3 cent increase in the local homestead tax rate. That translates to an increase of $3 per 100,000 of assessed value. Our tax rate is projected to increase in part due to the change in the common level of appraisal and the statewide education tax formula, along with what we've chosen to spend on the local budget. We think this is a responsible budget balancing fiscal constraint for your support. A public hearing will be held at the Berlin Elementary School on Monday, March 4th at 6 p.m. to provide information to be voted by an Australian ballot at town meeting. Anyone with questions can contact me, Chris Winters, through the Berlin Elementary website. You'll also see some posts on some front porch forum about this. If you're not registered to vote, please do. You can contact the Secretary of State's office through their website and register online. If you're not registered to vote, please contact the Secretary of State's office at town clerk and register there. You can even register to vote on the same day that you come in for town meeting. Thank you for your support, and we hope to see you at the polls. Now that your appetite is well over one other question. Yes? Yes. On the slide that shows and I know that there's a lot that goes into that for facility cost, special education, all that. With this forced merger, though, would you look into your crystal ball and expect that those perfugal costs are going to be flattened out equal between the schools? I'm having a really hard time seeing anything in my crystal ball about this merger. Given the direction things have been going, the tension that we've seen between the towns, but I think eventually we're all going to get more pressure. But I'm not sure if that means there's going to be pressure for everybody to spend more at the higher end or pressure for everybody to spend more at the lower end. I don't know which way that pressure is going to move. I wouldn't dare to predict this way. But I do think there will be more pressure for us to treat our students the same way across the district. Berlin has made certain particular decisions about how we want our school to operate. I don't think one is any better than the other. We seem to have been in the past able to do well with a lower perfugal spending. I think the renovation bond kind of drove that up some in recent years. You'll see that East Montpelier and Middlesex have chosen to spend more in their districts. And that's not just renovation bonds, but that's also a number of staff per student that they choose to spend their programs they choose to put in their schools. So those individual community decisions are going to play off each other as you're saying. And there's going to be pressure to be I think more even across the district. But I'm not sure which way that pressure is going to go. Is it going to go to the higher end or to the lower end? Thank you. Anything else on the school district to turn to the town morning? To each one. And as with the school district, we have candidates who here might be a candidate for the select board for a three-year term. We recognize themselves. I'm Brad Town. I'm running for chair of the select board. I am running for re-election just tomorrow. Thank you. And candidates, there are two vacancies for one year term. I'm Florence Smith and I'm running for a one-year seat on the select board. I'm a resident here in Berlin. I've been a resident for 25 years and I'm a good upstanding citizen. I hope for your vote. Thank you. Thank you. Justin Lawrence. I'm running for a one-year term. I've been born and raised. Went to this school. My children went to this school. I'm running for the one-year term. Good. Any other candidates want to announce tonight? Article 2, shall the town appropriate 3 million $2,503 for necessary town expenses for the period July 1st, 2019 through June 30th, 2020. Questions for the select board on the town budget? Silence means none. Article 3, shall the voters in the town of Berlin about the land use and development regulations formally zoning and subdivision regulations filed in the town clerk's office January 15th, 2019. I assume that the town has had public hearings on this already, so you have discussed it, but is there anyone who has questions about the pending land use regulations? Speak up now. Don't sit on your hands. Article 4, shall the town appropriate $267,968 for the Berlin volunteer fire department for payment of necessary expenses from July 1st, 2019 through June 30th, 2020. Anyone here from the fire department? Want to talk about that? John Stov, president, corporate president of the fire department. Anything you would like to ask? Anything unusual about the budget? Well, a few things that are out of our control is the communication dispatch which went up like 7%, which doesn't sound like a whole lot, but when you're going up from 45 to over 47,000 that's a considerable amount. We have outsourced our accounting now for over two years and that comes with the cost. Of course. The one thing that we did put in the budget last year and we had a zero on it is our contingency plan and we're looking towards expenditures that are unpredictable, emergency funds such as that. We didn't fund it last year. This year we did fund it with $5,000 from carry over for last year's budget and so that is coming from our budget but it was appropriated by the town. That is something that's going to be new and I'd like to continue that and that would be things such as replacement of the roof, the furnace which is probably at least $10,000 to $12,000. It's those emergency expenditures that we can't afford. Those are the only real changes in the budget this year. Any questions for John or about the budget for the school or for the department? Okay, thank you. $5,000, shall the town appropriate $30,402 to the Cali Covert Library. Sir. Good evening. I'm Tom McCown from the Cali Covert Library. I live in the Cali Covert Library. So thanks for letting me speak tonight. The Cali Covert Library is an independent nonprofit organization. It serves Berlin, Calis, East Montpelier, Middlesex, Montpelier, and Worcester and it's important to remind people it's not a municipal library. So we depend on the six communities that we serve for 52% to manage without that. We're very grateful to the taxpayers of Berlin for their generous support and we're again asking for as Paul was saying, $30,402 the same amount that Berlin voters approved last year. So we're not looking for any increase. That is 3.3% of the cost of running the library and the rate is also considerably lower. The per capita rate is about one-third of what the statewide average is for municipal support of local libraries. So we think it's a good deal we're offering. We get a last year Berlin residents power almost 10,000 items from the library. Good old fashioned books are still the most popular thing about the library. We have e-books and e-audio books and those have grown in use over the years, but they still are very small. Their use is still very small compared with use of books. We have a collection of about 67,000 books and other materials. So I could talk all night but I know you don't want that and I'm glad to answer any questions that you may have. Any questions? Tom? Do you make an effort to sign up children for library cards in the school, elementary schools? What do you do? And we actually come here at least once a year and some years we've been here twice. We come in to some evening event and using the internet we can bring a advice where we can do library cards on the spot and people can leave with their library cards. So we'll keep doing that. The other thing we also added this past year is the the give a book, take a book at the Berlin Mall which has been really popular. It's right outside of Planet Fitness. So there's a little corner that the mall gave us and we have some shelves there. We bring free books. The main thing is to get books in the people's hands. So people can take books. It is give a book, take a book. Some people give a book too and that's great. We keep those shelves stocked. And also the mall has provided us furniture there so people can sit and read. So that's something new in the past year. So you actually make an effort of coming into the school and letting the children sign up. So I'll have a library card. We have done that and I don't know how recently we've done that. We invite the school, the company, the library also. How many Berlin residents are you signed up at? I don't know. We have 521 Berlin residents who have library cards. We have active library cards. Active is used in the last two years? Last two years. Okay. Thank you. I'm retiring in June 30th. So they're doing a search now. Thank you. Thank you. Good day. Article 6, shall the town appropriate $10,920 to the Green Mountain Transit? Anyone here from Green Mountain Transit? If not, your questions will probably go on answer. Shall the town appropriate $12,500 to the Montpelier Senior Activity Center? Anyone to speak on this? 8, shall the town appropriate $6,450 to Central Vermont Home, Health, and Hospice? I'm going to keep going until you stop to say you want to talk about some of these. Shall the town appropriate $3,000 to the Central Vermont Council on Aging? Shall the town appropriate $2,000 to the Washington County Mental Health? They're not here but they did leave an information sheet from those interested in some details. Good. And most of these I think have reports in the town report as well. If they were funded last year. Shall the town appropriate $1,200 to the Central Vermont Adult Basic Education? Shall the town appropriate $1,000 to the Vermont Center for Independent Living? Shall the town appropriate $1,000 to the Central Vermont Memorial Civic Center? Shall the town appropriate $975 to Circle? Shall the town appropriate $800 to the Family Center of Washington County? Shall the town appropriate $700 to Capstone Community Action? Shall the town appropriate $500 to the People's Health and Wellness Clinic? Shall the town appropriate $500 to the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired? Shall the town appropriate $500 to the Washington County Youth Services Bureau? Shall the town appropriate $500 to the Sexual Assault Crisis Team of Washington County? Shall the town appropriate $500 to Washington County Diversion? Shall the town appropriate $400 to Community Harvest of Central Vermont? I will say something. Thank you. Just to break it up a little bit. There you go. You've probably heard this before. I'm Allison Levin from Community Harvest of Central Vermont. I'm also a Berlin resident here. I just wanted to share a little about the organization if you weren't familiar. Our mission is to bring the community together through gleaning to recover surplus food from local area farms to feed those in the community with limited access to fresh local food and in the process bring our community together to gain a greater awareness for the local food system, healthy eating and waste reduction. We work with volunteers to use the nutritious food that's already being grown here in our community to feed that otherwise we would otherwise be going to waste to feed people in need. I founded the organization 2014 and since then we've been able to donate over 175,000 pounds of food that would translate into about 527,000 servings that would have otherwise gone to waste. This is donated to food shelves, senior meal programs, early childhood and after school programs also students here in Berlin benefit from the program and other programs in the community mostly in Washington County. We're asking for a small amount from all the towns that we serve throughout the county to help cover the small portion of the costs of us delivering the food to all the organizations throughout the community. We donate to all of the sites that we bring the food to. All of our gleaming recovery work is done with 2-300 volunteers each season to glean the food that we recover. We want to ask for your support again this year to continue the gleaming work that we're doing to reduce waste and feed 100 people. This is the same amount of $400 that we asked for last year. This food goes to about 9,000 people here in Washington County all that we've been able to glean. Just in 2018 we were able to donate 149,000 servings of food which was our biggest year ever and we hope to be able to continue doing that. We donate that food to about 20 different sites throughout the county. Berlin residents benefit from the program and have for the last five years through our partnerships with Area Food Shells and CU Meal programs and all of the surrounding towns that serve meals on wheels and other programs to Berlin residents. We also partner with the Berlin Elementary School on the Farm to School program to engage students and provide them hands opportunities to get out and glean to eat healthy food and learn about food production and also healthy eating in the classroom. And also, last year, we were able to get about 65 of those students, parents and teachers to come out and glean with us at one of the farms, the orchards that we've gleaned. We also partner with two farms in Berlin Dog River Farm and Rogers Farms at Red Hover. So they're serve plus food that they want to provide to community members that they're not able to sell. We're a 501 safety free non-profit and again, thank you for your past support and we hope for us tomorrow. Thank you. Questions? Yeah, any more time for questions? Thank you for your service. Thank you. And shall the town appropriate $300 to the good beginnings of central Vermont? And shall the town appropriate $300 to home share now paint? Thanks for coming. We have a couple other people who are part of the funding request but first from emergency services and Tim from the Capital Grange that would you like to say? All right. Let's start with Chris. Sorry. I'm Chris from Berrytown EMS. I'm not a resident so thank you for allowing me to speak with you all. So I usually ramble for a few minutes. I try to write some things down this year so just some things that I thought were good to bring up as we just approved for our last two years of your contract of your town so it's good we don't have to worry about that any more years. Our call volume is continually increased so this past year we had a 3.7% increase in calls about 7% over the last three years so our call volume continues to rise which has some positive some negatives and things we're concerned about. One of the interesting things I did look up is in any given year we have 989 ambulances scheduled to be on the road every single day and estimated we put about 978 of those ambulances on the road last year 99% over 99% of those with a paramedic on the truck and I would challenge any other service in the state of Vermont to compete with that. Nobody near here competes with that. Nobody else in the state competes with that. It's a phenomenal benefit you get with our scheduled ambulances. By all means if we have a 4th or 5th truck on the road you might not have that paramedic but having the highest level of care on all of our primary trucks is a great feat. Something we're really proud of. The last piece I'd like to bring up is that this past year we added $16,000 of our budget was geared towards improving some things on our ambulance putting some high level medical equipment. We purchased a ventilator to go up to three ventilators we include some video laryngoscope so being able to do some high level procedures with newer technologies which are safer and more efficient we added some new radios and iPads so we can do some documentation so that was all really good stuff. The concerns and things we're thinking about for the future is that we're looking at while our call volume is increasing the number of patients we transport to the hospital is actually decreasing. We increased our non-transport calls from about 17% to 22% last year. Which is great that we're able to show up and help people and get them to where they need to be and then leave them where they are. The negative is that EMS since its inception in the mid-60s has always been based on miles transported to patient. We have no funding from insurances or other billing sources when it comes to patients we don't transport. So that is a concern going forward that we always worry about. That's pretty much the actually I'll end with a positive. I looked up the number of times we turn over calls. Ambulance services like fire departments, police departments sometimes get two or three calls at a time you have to sometimes turn those over and last year we went to counting transfers out of the hospital. We went to 2,165 calls last year in the town of Berlin. We were called approximately 2,170 calls. So we made it to 99 point some odd percent of the calls when we're asked to come to your town. Which again is something I would challenge any other service in this area or in the state to meet that fee. That's all I've got for you for today. Questions for Chris? How many of those calls are just Berlin not the hospital? No. Do you have that? No. Did you actually look that up? Here we go. Let's see. The actual 9-1 calls in Berlin last year was approximately 480 calls. That also, that doesn't include the nursing homes in Berlin. That's just private residences in Berlin. Okay. I just have to acknowledge the proficiency and the incredible skill and professionalism that you've been very much needed. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you all. I'm Tim Swartz. I'm the president of the Capital City Grange. Thank you. Thank you. We are located in Berlin over on Route 12 as probably all of you know. You've probably seen our sign. I'm not here to ask for any money but to thank you for the tax exemption which we were given in March of 2016 at the town meeting at that time. I just wanted to come back and let you know that we are working hard on all the projects we had going then and more. Not having to deal with the property taxes has allowed us to not ask for fundraising from groups that use the Grange as we used to and in fact we've been able to invest money in the Grange instead of losing money every year which is what we're doing. This last year for example we installed an on-demand water heater instead of the storage water heater and electricity. We did a lot of landscaping around our main entrance. You can see the boulders that we placed so the plantings would be protected from the snowplow and that's certainly been very appropriate this year which has been quite snowing. We've got lots of things going on within the Grange itself and the people that rent from us. Among the things in the Grange is a baking contest and an Indian cooking workshop we had a holiday sing-along holiday boxes we donated to your Washington County Head Start and there's all sorts of classes, dances, all sorts of things going on at the Grange Hall. We are an all-volunteer organization and we welcome people to come and join us and we offer free rentals and organizations and individuals. At the time that we asked for the exemption we said that we wanted to give at least two rentals a month on average to brilliant organizations and having checked the figures we've had 76 rentals in the three years since so we're reaching and slightly exceeding our goal. But we have room for more people to use the hall so we'd like to spread the word and I have some cards here with information about how to contact our rental agent and we'll be happy to help you use the hall assuming that it's not already rented for one of the other things that's going on for us. Does anyone have any questions? Don't forget the potluck. Oh, that's right, yes, that's right, sorry. Never forget the potluck. We do have a potluck dinner on the first Saturday following our monthly Grange meeting at six o'clock and it's a chance for people to sit down and enjoy a lot of really good food. We've had some really great spreads recently when 30 or, I don't know, 25 or 30 people when you say last time, last couple of months. Anything else? I'm going to leave this here and hopefully it can stay up so that people that are coming to vote tomorrow can see it also. Thank you. That's the agenda for tonight. Tomorrow at 10 o'clock we start with a school district meeting and see you there. Thank you.