 Good evening, I'd like to call the Regular Schedule, the Brown Select Board meeting to order for Monday, March 15th, 2023. Willis tonight are to my left, Flo Smith and Joe Staub. To my right is Tor Nelson. And Willis also is Vince County Town Administrator and Diane Isabel Town Treasurer. Additions or changes to the agenda? Yes, I have two additions. The axiom, camera discussion with the Chief. And the resolution with norther borders for a grant that we've talked about a couple of times just to make sure we get that resolution signed tonight. Okay, any public comment? Hearing none, appointment of Richard Voltax to the DRB. Mr. Chair, I'm gonna refuse myself for this discussion due to my other involvement with the DRB at this time. Okay, I'm going to door it. So I thought he was gonna make it, but... Voltax with a B. Voltax. Oh, it says Voltax, I don't know. Okay, that's why it sounded vaguely familiar, but not completely familiar. I'll fix that. It's a B? Yeah, instead of B, it's a B. Correct. I'll fix that, pen and ink it. Yeah, he came in, I think he talked to you. He's been to a couple of the meetings. He talked with me, seems pretty excited about participating in that of the town. We'll have to take and have this changed here on the signed sheet too. Yeah, I'll fix that. I'll pen and ink it on the signed sheet. I'll initial that. Thank you. I think you've met with him as well. You've met him? Well, don't believe I haven't. No, I thought he came to one of the meetings to talk. No. I make the motion to approve the appointment of Richard Bolthat to the DRV as presented to us this evening. Oh, second. Any discussion? Does anyone? Because I don't know the gentleman. I don't know him. He's a retired school teacher at the moment. He lives off, what's the development? I don't know, it's Apple something up on Hill Street. Apple would drive. Is there an extension? Okay, yeah. Spinner pen for quite some time. Yeah. Any discussion on this? Those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. When you go outside of this one, is this corrected or? I can pen and ink it. And initial it. Okay. That's correct. Okay, well, welcome to the DRV. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see here. Planning commission update to the board, Carla? Okay. I think just generally I'll say that the planning commission after the last two years has been very focused on the town center, new town center designation and then the neighborhood development area aside it, now that's completed. And so now we've been spending a lot of time or Tom's been spending a lot of time looking for funding or doing studies on various projects to improve that area and looking for funding. And there is a significant amount of funding out there although we haven't seen the benefit of any of it yet but a bunch of it. But so we were gonna, Tom was gonna, Tom and I were gonna walk through the sort of the projects that are being proposed or money applied for. But other than that, you know, the planning commission has been jointly meeting with the rec committee and so getting them involved because a lot of the projects do involve sort of the recreational aspect of the town center in that area and the bike path around the town. So it's been nice to sort of see what each other's doing and because I really didn't have much knowledge of what was happening. And I think that's a good model that hopefully we can move forward with. I know this reconstituted the economic development committee and I, you know, hopefully that gets some traction and actually gets going and maybe we can collaborate with them as well in the future. Just so that we all sort of are working, rowing in the same direction, which I think is important. But yeah, so Tom, do you want to talk about the list? They've got a copy of it by the way. This is the list that. I mean, I will say, some of the things that we recently been talking about, you know, we've been so focused sort of on the plateau area of the town. You know, we are also working at Riverton to do a wastewater system down there to try to, so I think we've got, do we have the funding for that? No, but I think it's a good chance of getting it. So we're trying, so that would be a good, really good benefit to that area because a lot of the limitations down there have to do with wastewater so it can help develop either, you know, hopefully some commercial aspects down there that store never could go because they didn't have any wastewater. So that's something that we're trying to do down there now. We're going back to Bearmouth Clear Road looking for funding for sidewalks, streetscape improvement. Just kind of trying to spread the wealth. Before you move off of Riverton, back when the Planet Mission revised their zoning regulations, 2019, they created this hamlet district down there, which includes the village of Riverton. And it's the Planet Mission baked into that district. It's the third highest residential density. You could have one dwelling unit per 8,000 square feet of property. And up until that time, it was one for every 40,000 square feet of property. So you could put four or five dwelling units now on where you could do that before. And limiting factor has been still continues to be lack of septic capacity. So what Carl is talking about, the Planning Commission is going through is there's through the, and the Planning Mission got a village center designation for Riverton several years ago. And that opened up a bunch of potential funding. But there, the Village Center has dollars for these community wastewater systems. So it's think of your home septic system on steroids, right? So we're looking at the regulatory agency views one home of in-ground septic to base the same as 25 homes of septic. And so there's not a lot of onerous regulations involved with this. So it's a good program. I think it's $2.25 million that the Planning Commission has and the public's work board have jointly made to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund should get on their priority list. I'm fairly confident we're gonna get some some monies from that when you talk to the folks at the agency. We have a willing property owner now. And there are impacts to the river down there from poor septage management. So I think there's a lot of good things in our favor that we're hoping to get fully funded at two and a half million dollars. And there's one site that's actually, the landowner's on board and that will be, how many? That's about 20 homes worth of capacity. I met with a joining landowner yesterday and so he has some interest maybe in joining. They want to see the tires kicked and some meat on the skeleton before. But I think, I mean, it was a very good meeting with him. Good. But then the point I was gonna make is we also identified, the study identified at least one other very viable site. So it's so that there could be, because 20 doesn't sound like a lot although it would help because I'm sure there are probably 20 homes down there now that need a new system. But besides, you know, doing extra stuff. But so it's nice to have another site to potentially do down the road to help it out. So. Question on that. Would that project be for current homes only or is this supposed to be sparking? That's it. Okay. This gentleman who was, it wasn't yesterday, it was yesterday, it was Sunday. But Friday, I think he came in. He's one of the larger multi-use family home owners down there. And he has a keen interest of maybe redeveloping some of those into larger, larger capacities. And this is the springboard for that to occur. Okay. So do you guys want to go through the list? Do you want us? I think what we've done is there's a series of grants and other funding opportunities. You may have heard of the state treasure has an $85 million pool of money, low interest money. So we've got, we've got sparks of interest in that. At the end of the day, I don't know what version you have but at the end of the day, we've applied for, can't apply for about $63 million worth of project monies. Some of it does involve match. The ones that we do know match on, you could see on the column that says match. A big one is the Scott Hill Loop that the public's work board is looking at. That's the final connection of the water system that we built in 2015. Right now there's a 1.6 mile stretch of that water line. If there was a break on it, there are no other ways for water to go where the system is shut down. So what we want to do is create a loop system and which there is a break anywhere in the system. There's another way for water to get past but you just have to close some valves to get that past. So the public's work board has been working on that and we've baked that into a three-project Northern Borders Regional Commission Grant. Scott Hill Loop was about $3.7 million. As we, the Planning Commission has applied for but didn't get to receive funding for it this year. Scoping studies look at what they and rec committing are calling across Berlin Trail. It's a series of trails connecting Berlin to trails in Montpelier, very town, very city and eventually East Montpelier. But as we've baked into this Northern Border is about two miles of bike lane on Scott Hill Road. The thought is if we're tearing up Scott Hill Road to put in water system, it'd be the ideal time to widen the shoulders there and Scott Hill was one of the key arteries in this cross Berlin Trail network. So that was about $2.2 million, I believe. And the final piece was another and the one, this bike trail was a collaboration with the Rec Commission and the final piece is over the ice rink here. Vince has been working with some of the folks from the Rec Committee and students and professors down at Norwich University to look at putting a canopy over the ice rink and to make it eligible for Northern Borders the thought process is to put solar panels in on that structure, which would then take this one season use here to a four season use. It would put in two pickleball courts and a tennis court here, it would be undercover. And that was about $800,000 worth of project there. So collectively the Northern Borders grant is a project is $6 million, we're asking for $3 million of grant for that. It's a competitive grant. Vermont, you had to submit a letter of intent in early Mar May. And they came out with a short list and Berlin has made the short list. I think there was 80 applicants and I think there was 24 that made the short list. So we are now in the process of doing the final application which is due June 2nd and Vince mentioned this earlier that needs a resolution of support from the board to submit that application in. Hospital Hill, we've asked for Senator Welch came out with the request for earmarks. The public's work board asked for $10 million worth of sewer improvements. At the end of the day, we're having conversations with the possibility of about $1 million of grant available which would replace circa 1980 main pump station on route 302 and so those conversations are going on. Vince and I met with Michelle Monroe from Senator Welch's office. I think we had a very good conversation with her. She then pointed us to the director of the Northern Borders grants and he visited us last week and I came with the impression. He thought he was very impressed with where Berlin stands, the energy we have and Berlin Corners is this area in town. It's a public's work board is asked for $410,000 from the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund. It would be putting in collection of wastewater in around this area going to a small municipal pump station and pumping it to our new pump station on Stewart Road. The Senator Sanders, you know we're doing a Burlington Center road diet over there and we've done a multi-use path over there over there in the final throws. So we pulled the planning mission, pulled all those projects together and the Senator Sanders came out with an earmark and solicited communities. And so we said, well, we need $12 million to build everything we want to do over there. They came back with, well, we may have a million dollars for you. And so the discussion is that that multi-use path that we've just gone through scoping may be eligible for funding through Senator Sanders' office. Route 302 sidewalk, some of you may know that in 2014-2015 town of Berlin did a scoping study on Route 302 looking at a road diet down there and you may recall that what came out of there was painting the roads and making bike lanes and such. So this is a grant application to, and V-Trans is I think to do June 1st to put in the first segment of sidewalks and the bike lanes that will go from the CBMC pharmacy down just past the McDonald's there at the bus stop. We have right across the street now the folks from the Good Samaritan have those homes there. People are crossing there that it's a very busy highway. I know we've met with Jim Vecto who owns property on Overlook Drive. He's thinking of putting in an application for 30 units of housing at the top of Overlook Drive which would add to the pedestrian traffic down there. So the planning mission thought it was a good time to be seeking some grant funds to build some of that pedestrian infrastructure. And again, that's due June 1st. And this one's a complete wag. We put in $1.5 million. I think it's gonna be less than that but you could see that would require a town match of $300,000. And as I mentioned, we've got a couple of workforce housing projects through the state treasurer's office. It's low-interest loan monies. And we have two housing developers have approached us and we've had one developer to look at infrastructure in the new town center. So we're looking at three projects there. Those aren't grants, those are low-interest loans and the town would be the conduit for the funds and the developers would borrow the money from the town and you could borrow anywhere from one to 30 years and there's a escalating scale of interest rates over time. So collectively we're at $63 million of projects and we hope we can get some of these. We've got some fairly good vibes from the regulatory folks but proof is always at the end of the day. So if you take any questions, Carly, you want to add anything? Well, I do, I just have one more thing. So the other thing that's been on my mind in terms of, because the Fisher Road, I don't know if anybody's looked at that Fisher Road scoping study, but I mean, it would be fantastic to have that redone and live the roundabout in the streetscaping and the lanes, but the big problem is this limited test highway over here. And I unfortunately didn't have time to research it but I really would like to consider trying to get the state to reclassify that highway so that we could actually have, so people can actually have, you can't walk on it right now legally. So to get it so we could have people walk from the town center to the school to increase the pedestrian capacity. I know the town, I think it's fairly easy to request a reduction in the speed limit but to reclassify the highway, I'm not sure what that process looks like and how difficult that is, but it is something that I think is worth pursuing to make this whole, project work over there with the town center. Speed limit reduction would help a lot, it really would. But it wouldn't allow us to use it for access. You start with a bone and then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, I will look into that, but I just wanted to throw that out there because I think it's something we should be thinking about. And I know we've probably taken way more time than we were supposed to, but does anybody have any questions? Those are very valid points, but I know we talked about that quite some time ago. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that would be such a bonus to get rid of that designation for that highway. And I know it's right off the interstate, but it's a short stretch of highway and I really think that from the stop lights down, if we could just get that changed. Or pedestrian. Yeah, exactly. Yes. I mean, because there was talked about creating a road to go over to Granger, all kinds of potential ideas that you can't do with it, with this designation, so. Right. So we still have a lot going on and we're still very busy, but different focus now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm gonna fow out now. Thank you, Carla. Have a good evening, Carla. Town clerk office update. Question, okay. Excellent. Always asking for something. So I guess the most exciting thing right now is we have gone live with our digital land record system. So we have just a few weeks worth of records in there at this point. Within the next month or two, the company will be coming on site to scan back 40 years. And I imagine that's gonna be very useful to people very, very soon. Pretty exciting. So that's probably the biggest update that I have on what's different over there. We've been busy doing dog licensing, the liquor licensing expires at the same time and then the excess weight permit shortly after. So we've just been doing a lot of communication with people trying to get their renewals in for all of those things. I did wanna see about maybe putting a dog license reminder in the next round of tax bills perhaps if that works out. So just to try to get people to do it. The special election is coming up next week. So hopefully we'll see you all there. To date, we have had 47 absentee ballots requested and 26 have come back voted upon. So it's just a start. Hopefully we'll get more people next week. Let's see, I think we probably know we've been taking credit card payments now in the town clerk's office and that's been really helpful to people. We're able to take requests for vital records, dog licenses, things like that online and people can pay right from the comfort of their home. So that's been great. And so because of that and our new online record system I would like to make our Lister cards available online to the public. I know a lot of other towns do it and Nemerc has a process already established that would be very familiar to people. So that is what I'm coming to to request that it is a $500 one time setup fee and it's $500 every year. They'll update it at any point that we ask them to probably after the grant list has been lodged or perhaps after any tax appeals have been done. We can debate the timing of that but that would allow people to go online and get their own property Lister cards. So that's one of our big requests day to day. So who would set up the Lister cards again? So Nemerc would set that up. If we commit to doing it, they can have it up and running within two weeks time. And basically what they'll do is give us a link once it's set up to put on our website that will allow people to view them from the website. And then you would advertise it also on the website letting people know that it's available. That's wonderful. Yes, yes. We've been trying to keep our social media presence there anything we can think of to post and just be out there, we've been trying to do. So if you have anything you want out there, let me know. Any questions for Rachel? Thank you very much. Thank you. I think I have Rachel as my apologies. I missed the BC meeting. I will forgive you. I found the notice today when I was looking for my sewer bill. Oh, goodness. So Diane's fault that the sewer bill was mentioned before. But are you set on workers for the election? I think they were all set on workers. I've got a couple of volunteers that we would love to have the more the merrier account because we will be doing here. I'll stop by at seven if you don't need me. Yeah, that's perfect. And I'll do the same. I'll be there for seven for counting. Excellent. Does the board decide, desire to make a decision on the module? I like the idea. I guess my question is what would be the source of, what would be the funding for? We're going to have to find that. Because there's nothing that we've obviously built into the. So it's going to be, it'll be $1,000 that we have to find. I mean, I'm extremely excited about it. I'm okay with the cost. Just where, where would it come from? And if it's approved, then we find $1,000. Again, I'll throw out our bug and we have $1,000 there that could cover that. We'll put it, make sure we put it in the budget for next year if we decide to go that way. Because it is an expenditure or a potential expenditure. Put this on the next meeting, morning. People have a chance to speak up about it if they want. Thank you, Rachel, for giving us a great explanation. Excellent. And all your research is out. There's no questions. Rachel, thank you very much for coming in. Yeah. Yes, definitely. Okay, invasive species control on the roadside. So I had a call asking me to put this in front of the board to get their thoughts. I've talked to Tim about it as well. There's two roads that there seems to be a resident or two concerned with about knotweed. One is up on Darling Hill and the other is on Brookfield Road. So they were asking if we could do some sort of treatment, we could control it and so on. And if I bring it up to the board. I think knotweed's one of the harder ones to get rid of, even if you, even if we hired it out, you know, to someone to spray it, I think that's a tough one. I heard some from the state that that doesn't always work very well. There's really not much. I think you have to really cut it, spray it and cover it to keep the sun off it as well. Yeah, so my due diligence, I'm bringing it to the board for a discussion. Tim is not in favor of it because he said it doesn't work. All right, best thing that we can do is just keep cutting it and, you know, other than going out there and pulling it up in the springtime for a couple of years in a row. I'm not sure, maybe, you know, I could talk to a forester and get their take on it as well. See if they've come up with any new methods of maybe treating it or how they're dealing with it. But. Has there ever been any pulling of it in the past or has it just been? No, it's just the past. Roadside mowing and a way it goes. I think the Conservation Commission has an invasive species. They use a plan. They do. They're actually trying to force it. I have to look at it and see if the knotweed is mentioned in there and if they had any other strategies. Yeah, I didn't see anything about specific on knotweed. It was mostly buckthorn and burberry. I think there was one other one. Because there's really not a lot of knotweed in the town forest right now. It's mostly on the roadside in a couple of areas. Well, I don't see a problem with finding out the information. The only trouble is, I think one of the chemicals they're using is Roundup. And that's not cheap. No. I'm pretty sure we probably don't want to use that around the pond. No. It would be. Definitely not. Have you tried it quartered? For the whole party. I tried to think, you said there was a patch of knotweed on Darling Hill. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be a tough one. Yeah. I mean, from what I've heard, even Roundup and a few of the others don't work very well. No, that's it. So I'll talk to a forester and see if they've found anything new that's more environmental friendly or I'll get their thoughts on it as well. Follow up with you after that. All the good ones about a lot. Yeah. Barrel plots. Yeah. Well, okay. Any other questions on this? Town and cabinet policy. Yeah, that one was deferred to this meeting. I wanted to take and maybe have a look at it and think about it a little bit. So it's on there just for discussion. Get your thoughts back. Or if you want some, if you pen and ink to any updates that you think would be useful, I'll take those and do another revision and look at it again. Or not. Where's Montpelier? I'm buried with this right now. Montpelier has one in place. That was the baseline for this one. Okay. And they had theirs vetted through the Leeds Cities and Towns as well. And was Barry at the table with this as well? Barry has a copy of Montpelier's similar to we. Where they stand with that? I don't know at this point. But when I got this from them, that theirs was, Montpelier's was in place. And Barry was going to look at it and consider it similar to what we're doing. This didn't change from the last meeting. It did not change from the last meeting. I think that stood out to me the last time when I read through it was the part of page 11 under item F, all dismantled camps and moved brought to and stored in the Brown Town Office. So that was a subject of discussion. In my opinion, how that would come to pass. Yeah, I've got that noted as well. And then they take it a step further. A blob it says under C above, brought to the town office to be stored for 90 days. But then further below under 5A says 30 days. I just, well, I guess I have a few questions. I'm in comments on that. I guess first of all, we should have the right to immediately dispose of something that's, caps are this here, a public safety threat. Either based on the opinion of the town office or the fire chief or something like that. So I think we should have that in the policy to begin with. I agree. I guess we're going along with the flow is coming. Do we really have the space available to store the stuff if we get to that point? I mean, just a little leery about storing any of it. Correct. I feel the same. I feel it's a hard and fast to know that we don't have the space for one and what you just said, Brad. It's me, it's more, it's personal pocket. It's nothing we should be looking at after. Correct. So I can reword the personal property if we choose not to store it, that if we do a cleanup, it's immediately disposed of something to that effect. After they've had a notice and it's discarded, there's no point in keeping it. Yeah. And I would say something on that way. They'd be immediately discarded, donated or sold based on the preference of the slip orders, don't get it to whoever. You know, give us the options, but Yeah. Right. No, I understand that we're going to keep it for the length of time. So you're saying not to have the ability for someone to claim it, reclaim it? Is that what you're saying? Because they haven't claimed it. Well, it was not a bad way to dismantle, that means we took it away, right? And so what we may consider, you know, not worth much, that's all they have. Well, I think, is that not true? Well, no, I think what we're trying to say here is that we're going to give them a bit of a notice, right, that they need to move on, right? So if they abandon the encampment and move whatever they leave behind, they had the option to take. They were not, we're not going to, we're not going to come in in the middle of the night and pillage the place and take everything away, right? We'll give them a notice. If they move on and move out, whatever they leave behind, they've abandoned, right? We're not going to be forcefully dragging anybody away, leaving property behind. We'll give them a reasonable notice. You know, this may not be a safe place for you to take an encampment. We don't encourage it here, but we do over here for now, right? So please relocate. And we're going to be coming in in 48, 72 hours and we're going to be cleaning this up. So anything you want, please take it with you. We can do it, you know, put it in the context. That's probably cleaner and neater for everybody, really that way. Any more comments on this? Yeah, if you have any other thoughts or whatever, you know, just use the word document. Yeah, I can. And then I'll take all the comments, try to revise and draft something and send it back out to you ahead of time and set up, put it on the agenda for another meeting down the road to see where we are with it. Thank you. And before, I'm just going to stake my thinking on this. Before we get to adopting it, I would like for the police department to look at it, especially Sergeant Fussett, I'd consider our town expert on the situation. So what about his input? Sure, we'll circulate it. We'll have to have public hearings as well on it. So. Yes, I appreciate the input. Okay, no other discussion on this? Review and discuss the approved letters for residents on town Highway 74 and Brownsville Extension. Those are the two in the last meeting we talked about with Tim about throwing those roads back up. There's two letters in your package that I drafted, very similar, just going to different, the two residents that are on those streets. With the board's approval, I will send those out to start the conversation with the residents as well. I guess my question is, do we want to just continue the roads to one request, find us a pass forward or a trail? Well. Do nothing. The question would be, if you throw the roads up and the roads revert back to the landowner, I don't know, do the people on 74 own from their house to the Route 12 or they only own to the railroad right away? I believe they only own to the railroad right away. So we'd be leaving the landlocked. So. I'll double check that one. I think you're better off instead of having the roads, instead of staying having the roads thrown up is just having a cost light either for or a trail. Yeah, I guess my recommendation is re-class it as a class four and then we as the slip board can authorize private maintenance on the road under our class four road policy. But it still gives us the the legal authority over the road. You know, at some point in the future we need to upgrade it again or something. So re-classify the one off Route 12, right? I would say both of them. I'd say both of them. So you hold on to the. The other one they, I believe they own the property, right? That a bus? Right, right to the. Yeah, but I'm not saying we should give up our authority over that. We can re-classify it, get us out of the maintenance requirements of it, but still retain the right of way on that. Well, that's, that's the concept done wasn't it? So Brown's Mill is just a short, five, what, three, four hundred feet of road. It's probably 70 feet at the most. 50 to 70 feet. And then it goes to private drive. Private driveway and a single house right there. That's it at the end of the driveway. Yes, that's, I mean, there'd be no, be no road managed to holding on to that one. Exactly. You know, because we don't, it'll never, it'll never come to anything. But the one on 74, that's different. 74 is a little bit different. Circumstance there up to the railroads. Yeah. On the other side. So the one on Brown's Mill road, if you're coming down with winter maintenance, that gives you the ability to maybe dump some snow off before you then make that turn to go on the bridge. Would it not? If you want, if you need, if you need it to, whereas if that, you see what I mean? No, I don't. So you, you go across, go across the bridge and up the hill. Yeah. For Brown's Mill. Yeah, across them dumps. And so now you're coming back down and before you make that turn to get back on the bridge to go to room 12, if there was a need to go dump some snow before you actually make that turn, could we still do that? No, not really. Cause that's part of the problem now is you have to plow up into their driveway to get rid of any of that snow. From there. That's part of the problem. There's trees. Yeah. There and on garbage day, there's garbage cans there. So. But the thing of it is, if you throw the road up, and let me work back to the owners, then it's no different than a town truck going by your driveway and plowing snow into your driveway. Okay. Fair enough. So I don't highway 74. The town would still have the maintenance need to maintain from 12 to at least the rail tracks. Not if it's a trail, you just give us four or a class four, right? You give the owners of Mr. Driscoll the ability to take him plowed for himself. We used to apply that. And can we do that with the railroad? Yeah, because we still have a right away there. Okay. I didn't know if the railroad had a problem crossing a private drive. No? No. I mean, there's lots of drives involved that go through the railroad. Okay. Crossing. So if you can change those around then you just have to change the word discontinuous. I mean, the railroad is no different. There's a number of farm fields that have private crossings on the railroad. One is right down there by the sword plant on earlier. That field over across the railroad tracks behind Capitol Steel. So you're crossing the tracks to go to a field. Okay. It's not a full time rest. I just saw that. It's being a little different. So what I will do is I will change the discontinuous to reclassification of both letters. Yeah. And I'll send them out this week. I'm fine with everything else. To the 5G meeting for discussion. Okay. Okay, anything else on this? The licenses, thermos, vouchers, applications. I think the motion to approve payroll warrant 23-23 for payroll from April 23rd, 2023 to May 6th, 2023. Payment on May 10th of this year in the amount of $60,979.21. Payable warrant 23G21 with checks 22945 to 22972 for payables in the amount of $29,602.83. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Approval of May 1st, 2023 minutes. I make the motion to go ahead and approve the regular support meeting on Monday, May 1st, minutes as presented to us this evening. I'll second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Located now, your additional items. Yes, axiom cameras discussion with the chief. This is just a plan to see, I understand you can't make any decisions regarding extenders, but her cameras are failing faster than I anticipated. We are looking at replacing four with all the supporting hardware that goes with it. Axiom breaks payments down over a three or four year period, so what you're seeing here in front of you is that breakdown from here with a total expenditure of $16,000. Last year we were able to get some help from the league of city tenants on some of your grant, I think, we need to replace these cameras soon. So I don't, I can't wait for this round of grants to assess some of the costs and the future. Chief, these are the body cameras and not the dash cameras? These are body, body cameras. We don't do vehicle comparison. No. And that's on, unfortunately, it's the only game in town, really, and they know it, so a barter in two miles. Life expectancy in those cameras? Well, unfortunately, that's kind of the problem too. I think when we first came out, we could probably get about 10 years out of them and now we're getting the three. Usually the issue is the battery starts to die out, option just to replace the battery. Usually they change the models and designs from year to year to year, so we have to get the whole package to do that. And how old are these cameras? They're getting on about four years old. So there are at least this, I would say second generation, the second iteration that we've had. So I think we'd probably approach these. Could be three or could be, there have been several generations since they started. Yeah, I'm not, I don't remember, but as far as turn over, turn over that we've replaced them. I couldn't tell you before my time. These aren't the original ones. No, no, no, absolutely not. No, no, we've turned over a couple of times at least. Okay. We just bought two or three last time around and this will put us in a better position. It'll be a good chunk of time before we have to replace anymore. So this will be on the next board meeting as well for approval of the funding to be able to move forward on this to see our where. And what was the other one, the vaccine? The next, the other addition is the resolution that Tom spoke up for the Northern Borders and there is a copy of that in the package. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you. My only concern with this is resolved by the town board of select me. I do remember getting severely chastised by Pat McDonald for that word. Okay. No, I'm not gonna wear that. How would you? How would it? Tom select board. Tom select board. Okay. Yeah, got it. Yeah, no, it all makes sense. Severely chastised. Yes, I'm with you. Okay. I'll let Tom know as well for the next round. But other than that, I move that we approve the resolution for the Northern Borders Regional Commission grant application and authorize the select board chair to sign. Did I second that motion? Any further, is there a second? Yes. Yes. Was any further discussion of this? All those in the budget, I know Tom, I'm sure Vince, it's put a lot of work into as a result from the planning commission update. They put a lot, putting a lot of work into these new and innovative funding sources. Most definitely. Yeah, there's a lot. There's been a ton of questions to hand as well. It's impressive. The dollars we've been able to find to go after. Any other discussion on this? If not, those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. Round table, Joe? Aye, I'm good, thank you. I've set the seat. Thank you. I'd just like to welcome new business town. I think I'm saying this right. K-O-B kitchens in Bath and the very Mopila Road. Grand opening this Friday. Still excited to see new business in town. Thank you all. Wonderful. We're about to set. To the plaza right in front of the place chapter next to the, and there with the Aspen demo. Yeah. And Hobby Lobby is open now, too. People have expressed a lot of positive comments that I heard. Okay. I have nothing. Vince, do you have one I'm glad you asked. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I have one item. It's in your package. You'll see an email from Mr. Adam Goudreau in the state of Vermont with regards to the Route 12 bridge in Riverton. We were talking about maintenance agreements. I contacted East Montpelier. They said they thought they had one, but nobody could find it. I said, great. We're not the only town like that. Thank you very much. So I reached out to Adam again. They did find one in the town of Guilford. So I've included it in your package, just so you can look at it, get familiar with what it looks like. I'll put it on the agenda to talk about for the next meeting as well. It's about the maintenance of the sidewalks and what it looks like that they had to do with the state to get agreements on that. Because the state obviously needs our answer soon to get moving on the whole bridge design I think. So, actually he needs a written confirmation by day after tomorrow, but I'm gonna tell him that we're in progress and it looks favorable. We just need to work out the details of the agreement, what that looks like. So that's what that's for. It's information for you guys so that we can talk about what we want it to look like. That's wonderful. I did read through that in its entirety and it looked good, but I'd like to look at the beginning. So that's great. Anything else, Vince? That's it for me. Can I take the motion to adjourn? I guess so. I make a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries.