 Class 2, 15.9, class 3, 32.03, state highway, 16.941, class 4, 9.33, legal trail, 3.32. What about the roads that we gave up? You did that last year. Was that the year ago? Oh, okay. Time goes quickly. Okay, and what's the class, the trails? How many? I'm sorry? What's the trail? 3.32. It's kind of interesting, the data. It's always emotional proof. Thank you, Mary. Second. Thank you, Phil. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Did we all need to sign this? No. Yes, you all need to sign it yourself. Okay. You didn't notice my signature about this? I thought I did, yeah. Mary. Thank you. Why don't you go ahead, Phil? Okay, so yesterday I was starting to do the pilot on the email and I got part way down the road and then working with Liz back and forth last night. I realized, see, I have two accounts, so I have a management account to manage the email and then I have my own account. So the first information I sent you guys was for the management account. Oh, that would have been bad. Well, you couldn't get into it. Well, your timing was really good when you sent out that email because I was just sitting down to try and do it. I went, oh, that's not going to work. Yeah, Liz was the first one. I'm just getting this thing going around and I couldn't figure out what the heck was wrong. So I kept digging and digging and what, oh, so then I sent it to Liz and she got in. And Steve contacted me today to say, are we still on hold? But I'll have it. I just want to do new instructions and send them out. I'll send it to you tomorrow. So that's easiest. Computers are ordered and should be here soon. I just have a funny experience with Dal. The first guy I had as an account rep basically ghosted me as the kids say. I was like, you know, he worked with me up to a point and then was gone. It was like, okay. Maybe he went on vacation. Or got fired or something. I don't know. But I finally worked my way through and found another person who's the state rep who I found through my friend Peter, the agency of education. Hi. And he was great. Very apologetic in terms of not happening. Actually got some better pricing than the one for us. So everything is ordered. And I made up a purchase order number because he said, I just built you an account. So, and I don't even know that I need a paper purchase order, but I'll give you information just so that we have it put in the system. So I think a couple of the computers will arrive next week. One of them, I think it's the laptop won't be here till the 1st of February. And we've got the Chromebook. So it's probably as soon as those two desktops arrive, we'll get the tech group guys. Is there something behind it? Is that a box? Is that a box? Heard of it? That's the mailbox. Oh, that's the mailbox. The maintenance department was here today. Ah, okay. That's all. That's the man who's on. But anyway, that's where we stand. Okay. Okay. So Steve, Liz is now here. Hi, Steve. Hi, Liz. She's smiling, but not talking. I said hi. Oh, all right. That's the first one. All right. Okay. Good. Okay. So let's go. Let's go back to review and approval of the warning for the March 3rd, 2020. And Steve, you don't have a copy of this, correct? I emailed it to you, Steve. It was emailed half an hour ago. Yeah, it was emailed. Well, we can go quickly through them one at a time. I mean, there's a couple of things here we really need to talk about. But Article 1 is elect a moderator for the ensuing year. That's Standard Article 2 to elect a grandeur and town agent. Standard Article 3, the list of all the officers by Australian Ballot. Article 4. And do we have people running for all offices? What's our? We do not have. We have everybody running for something except elect group delinquent taxes. And I don't have anyone running for the budget. Otherwise we have cemetery commissioner, blister, planning commissioner, pressure and help. Okay. Are there two slots open on the budget committee? Yes. Yep. So we need to open that. Yeah. So open. So who's running and who's not? Open. For what? Budget. It's just that the people who are there are still serving their terms. Last year only one of you could elect three and only Elias ran. And so Elias was elected. So that's why you have two years of a three-year term on that. Oh, gotcha. And we have one person running for? You have no one running for either of them. Nope. It's not for lack of frying. And do we have any, any contested races? So far so good. Okay. Okay. Um, so article four is receive an act upon reports of town officers. Um, article five, uh, lays out the dates for the payment for payments of taxes. Uh, and you pick those dates so they all work. All right. Consultation with Darynda, some of them land on days that the office isn't open, but Darynda thought it was a good idea to stick with the 20th just for consistency. So yeah, I think it is. We can put something else and be aware of the town offices and get them to be open. So the dates are, the dates are August, August 20th, November 20th, February 20th, coming right up and May 20th. And it has the standard language accepted postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service Honor before the aforementioned dates according to 32 VSA, blah, blah, blah. Um, article six, see if the town will charge interest at the rate of half a percent per month of fraction thereof on overdue tax installments. That's a repeat. That's, that's the same. And, uh, article seven, get ready budget of 1.323867 dollars. Is that the same number that we looked at? That's the same number you voted at last time. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good question though. Yeah. It's nice to have those, you know, for me to say again. Um, article eight is, uh, shall the town voters appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the middle sex conservation fund. Article nine, uh, and this was by petition, shall a town authorize the expenditure of up to $8,000 to purchase two radar speed feedback signs to be installed on the north and south lanes of Vermont Route 12 in Putnamville by petition. Would you have to take a position on that or should we? By petition. So it's on there. I don't think we do. Yeah. I think we, okay. Now here we go. Shall the town voters authorize it spending $275,000 for the purchase of a new town road greater to be financed over 10 years. Um, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Paul today and also Steve on the subject of this greater and I asked them both the same question is, are we, how much of a chance are we taking to push this law for another year? I mean, if anything's causing me heartburn with a budget increase, it's that even though we all know that there's no money that's going to be expended in the next year, it just seems like overkill. I thought we had decided a year at the last meeting not to put it on. We had not decided. We talked about it, but we didn't, we didn't decide. Because I said put it on and if we don't need it, we can hold on. Could it be reworded so that it at least says so that people are like, oh, we'll spend another $275. Well, let me just, let me just tell you what, what, uh, and kick in here, Steve, but I talked to Paul and I were up with the, with the state guy looking at the parking situation up on Notch Road today. So I had a little bit of a chance to talk to him and I had him trapped in my car with nobody else in the car and I said, so, what do you think about pushing the grader off for another year? And what he said, which I had already heard from the, from the road crew is probably we can do that. It will need to have the, I'm going to call them legs and arms and links and all the widgets that make the mowboard attached to the grader, the mowboard being the scraper. It's all loose. So one of the reasons we have the washboards that we have is that that shakes when it goes down the road. And I don't know what you think the number would be. Steve, Paul said probably 20 grand. Well, it's going to be definitely in that vicinity. To redo that particular part of the grader to get it by for another year. Now, of course, the irony is, if we buy the new grader, that's roughly going to be 25 grand and it's going to be put off a year versus spending 20 grand now to put the purchase of the grader off for a year. Well, and I think if we explain that, because people are going to ask about it and that's what we explained. So, you know, they have the right to vote on it and say whether or not they want to do that. So I guess you're saying, I say put it on the belt. I mean, because I think it does. I mean, it's just whether they're going to look at it and think we've all lost our minds or maybe we have. Well, I mean, there's some people who think we've lost our minds just because of who we are. But this is going to be in next year's. There will be no, we will buy it and take out the note. But there won't be any payments due until next year's budget. There won't be any payments due until next year's budget. 25K will be in next year's budget or we have, as for the next 10 years, or we have 20K that we're going to have to pay out somewhere. Well, where are we going to take it? We're asking them to approve. Well, but we don't have it in the budget right now. No, no, if we have to do the next year's budget. No, if we have to do the votes. It'll be a year off. I'm saying if we have to make a repair, we're pulling out our discretionary money. 20 grand instead of the budget, we're asking them to approve. Well, we do. We do and we don't because we've got a big number in there for repair. I mean, you know, it's a question. Is it a truck engine? Is it the grader? Is it whatever? We don't know what it is. You're right. But if we put 20,000 in to fix that stuff, do we stand any chance of getting that back out of the grader? I asked, well, I said to Paul, so if we have that all tuned up, won't that mean we'll get more money for the grader and you say you'd be lucky to get a quarter or half of it back? I mean, you'll get some of it back. Yeah. Yeah, but no, you won't get it all back. No, you won't get it all back. But we'll also be using it for a year. Right. And we're also... So it'd be 5,000 to 10,000 to use it for another year. The other part of it is if heaven forbid the transmission goes or the engine goes or whatever, we've lost our trade in and we'd have to turn around and rent a grader until we can get a 30 to buy one. Which would be a special boat. We'd be a special boat to buy, or we'd wait until 10 meeting depending on when it was. But the good news is, unlike the trucks, where you can't just go out and rent a town truck because they're not any out there that have all the equipment on them, you can rent a gray one. With a couple of days' notice, there are graders sitting in the Jordan Milton lot up there and John Deere and everywhere. So you can get a grader pretty quick. How much did they rent for? What's the monthly rental on a grader, Steve, about? It would be somewhere in a vicinity of, I think probably an incentive, 8,000. A month. A month. 10,000 a month. Yeah, 8,000. How long has the grader last? 25 years. A grader? They used to. You've got a sense of humor. Yeah, they used to. I would tell you they don't anymore. I mean, there's so much. I mean, the greater we have has almost no electronics on it. And the new ones are all. They're going to be expensive to maintain the new ones. Very. Well, all the risks we've had with our new trucks, you know? I know. Now, heavy equipment is different than trucks. Think of that. You think of our loader. I mean, we haven't put a penny into that loader. Have we, Steve? No. No? You know, so heavy equipment is likely to be. But how long does it last? Well, we hope it's going to last 15 years. We hope we'll have a few payment free years. Are your loans supposed to be the life of the? Well, for sure. How old is our grader right now? I know that it's not the same quality. Well, it was 10 or 11 years old when we did the rebuild. Yeah, I think we're, I think we're all like 16 or 17. So that's important to know. That's what I would say. Well, we did the rebuild how long ago? I was six years ago. Because that's when we were supposed. That was, do we buy a new one then or do we put a chunk of money into it? And that's basically worked. I mean, it hasn't worked perfectly. We had that transmission job. Okay. I don't know. I don't know if it matters. I've been in the amortization schedules. And the principal is about $25,000. But then you have $10,000 worth of interest. Right. So. Is this, and this is a 10-year note? Or is this so? That's a 10-year note. Of course, your interest would go down every year. Right. It's 10,000 total in interest? For the first year. Oh, because it's $275,000. Yeah. That's based on $275,000. That's $35,000. So. What's the interest rate? I just threw in 3.5. The last one we got was 3.25. That was for the truck we bought. So I used a 3.5. Okay. I just wonder what your interest rate is. Your interest would go down by what? Maybe a grand? Yeah. A year? Yeah. Do we have anything else coming out of highway? Well, we've got trucks coming. No, no, what I mean is any debt service ending? No, nothing's paid off this year. Well, we had, yes. We pay, well, in 2019 we paid it off. There's nothing due to come off in 2020. I have a 21. 21, no. We've got only, I think. So we don't, we can't do any replacement. Kind of like, oh, well, this is going off. And so it's really only going to close this X. We just retired two loans this year. And how much was that? We say, I suppose that I'd have to go back. Okay. I don't have it. I'm trying to think when these other ones come off. We have the international truck doesn't come off until 2024. And 2019, when we just bought doesn't come off until 2025. And what happens when you sell the greater? What do you do with that money? They use it as a trade-in. Oh, it's just a trade-in. It's just a trade-in. Okay. So lower is the amount we have to borrow. Okay. And I mean, I guess I, my personal feeling would be because it's not coming out of this year's, this note isn't going to be added to this year's budget. I would say if Steve thinks it's something that our road crew needs and in the long run will be a better investment than repairing, I would say we keep it on and we just explain that this is, you know, this note will be for next year's budget, but we're approving it to purchase it this year. Because it has to be purchased either this year or next year. Yeah. So all we're doing is just delaying it, where it's not going to be this year regardless. So it's either going to be next year or the year after. Yeah, we push the note off one more. I know. I know. It's spending $20,000. Getting one more year out of it. Yeah, I know. To get one more year. So from that point of view, if you figure, the thing costs $275,000 for 10 years, if we're paying $10,000 for one year, $20,000 for one year, that's cheap. Yeah. So. But we're also rolling a dice. Yeah, we're rolling a dice. We get a catastrophic failure. Right. Right. And so, I mean, what are your thoughts, Steve? Do you think there's going to be a catastrophic failure? And we're holding you to us. Yeah. Yeah, right. No, I mean, but you know the machine. It's like you, it's been maintained. People have looked at it. I mean, does it look good? People have looked at it. I mean, does it look like it could last another year? You're talking more like 18 months. Not just a year. Right. Because you're not going until the next Friday. Right, right, right. It should be after July 1. Right. But we got it for the next six months anyway. It's an additional 12 months. Right. And then it's an additional. Right. But you're talking 18 months away. And so, Steve says. Steve just passed out on the couch. He's not responding. Well, no, I haven't passed out enough. I've been listening to this. My mind is spinning. I just really don't have a good feeling about going for the. New grader going for bond for the new grader this year with, with everything we've done. And saying that, I mean, I know we're going to spend money to fix the grader, but you're going to, you will recoup some of that and you're pushing it off another year. That's fine. The other thing I would say is in my discussion with Paul today, he said, you know, they've been checking the, when they changed the transmission oil or changed the engine oil, I've been sending out the transmission oil as well as the engine oil and it comes back clean. Okay. Which means that's something we haven't done in the past that we're now doing to try and keep an eye on these catastrophic issues. He said. Yeah. You know, Paul's thing was the, the grader itself has got good tires on it. Good engine, good transmission, the hydraulics. I mean, there's probably a few seals or whatever that could be, could be fixed. But that's basically all good. What's bad is the attaching part to the motherboard. Is there any fear that you're going to bring it in and then they're going to say, Oh, well, actually it needs this whole new thing because this is actually rusted out too. And that's going to be another 20 though. Then we have a special time meeting. Of course there's a chance. That's what happens every time you take your car. Exactly. That's what I mean. Right. We all have that fear. Um, so. Is that the action they use when they tell us that? I don't know. Exactly. But I mean, then that's fine. I would try, I mean, I defer to you because you're the one who runs the equipment and knows the road. So I am. And it just gives me, it gives me heartburn to have it on there. Then let's take it off so that you don't have heartburn. I don't think if you know where it comes. Okay. Or something. But what I would say, and maybe as a compromise, Phil, you could add to your little thing we had considered, you know, doing a greater, look forward to that next year. I mean, just as a little, with the cost associated with it. This is coming down the road. And this is, we decided not to do this, even though it wouldn't have affected our budget this year. The truth of the matter is the greater as scary as it is, the annual cost is no different than buying one of our trucks. Right, I know. Right. But it's the scary. It's the last a lot longer. But it just gives people a little heads up. That's a really good idea, Liz, to have a film. Okay. List it. So I am. Number 10. Putting a cross out through number 10. Go on. Number 11. Number 11, right, Sarah? I'm going to go. Yeah. I'm listening to my computer. Remember now. So. Um. Or you just have to take another line out. Yeah. I have to sort of remember the article numbers too. Oh. So just, do you want to keep reading for Steve? What's on that, on the article? Yep. So, um. 11. Economic development. Yep. So these are all the petition articles. Yeah. 600 dollars for economic development. 4050 for home health and hospice. 3000 for community connections. 1500 for girls and boys mentoring. 29,000 801 for the Kellogg Hubbard library. $7000 for the Montpelier senior activity center. $10,000 for the Waterbury senior center meals on wheels. And then all the. Oh, the other little ones. Yep. And is we going to order for that, do we? $4,368 for all the little guys. 73,319 for everything. Dorinda's got her eye, got her eye on the. Was it 17319? Is that what you said, Dorinda? 73,319 for all the special articles. Including the two smaller ones? Including the smaller ones. No pennies? No. And that includes the conservation commission? That includes all special articles, which is up 14.16% from last year. Wow. Good. Well, there's not that much that's new, though. Oh, there's some new ones. There's a, yeah. I tried to mark new. Which ones are new? Well, under the 251 request is our CVDAR animal response team. I don't have that. I'm yours. It's a CV disaster animal response team. Okay. And then there's Big Heavy World that's new. And what in the hell is that? It's an arts association. Okay. They're in Burlington, but I don't know what. How the hell are they getting in here? When Husky Natural Resources. And I think the one that I marked new is Vermont Family Network. I think that's a replacement for the Family Center of Vermont. Family Center of Washington County and also the Children's Room. And the Children's Room. So that one, even though it's new on the list. Well, the bottom line is they're on there. We can't take them off. Those are just letters to the select board. You can take them off. You don't have to do those. They're not by petition. They're just letters to the select board. So, but don't we say to organizations, if you ask for less than that, we put you on. We don't say we're going to make a decision about whether we put you on. Well, by law, even if somebody petitions an article and it does not fall under the special article, you rubric, you can, the select board has the right to take you off. Your policy has always been not to. So when we had the last few things, like storing school records in Wisconsin, was that okay? Do you remember that one? Yeah. You still left it on. Some towns did not accept that petition. Oh. In this case, these are just letters to the select board asking us, would you please put us on a warning? So you can take, you can put any of it on or off that you want. That certainly hasn't been our practice though. I know. I mean, like, did we give them a letter? We do that. We need to say, I think we need to say we're going to be reviewing and making a decision about whether we put you on or not. I don't know. How do you guys feel? Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. We have to give them notice that. I feel like we do. Yeah, that we've always had a policy and I think we should follow the policy. I'm just trying to find the ones from last year. Where were they? Do you want my glasses, Mary? It's under the, it's under the warning. We have, we have, we have, we have an office fair. Resident readers is the warning. It's usually at the beginning of the book. Look at the beginning. Look at the, look at the, there's a table of contents. Yeah. That would be too easy. Right there. Like basic education isn't on this year. Some of it, like we don't do it anymore. Capstone business. Yeah. Because too much work doesn't go into it. Too much work. Good beginnings. Too much work to write a letter. No. It's way more than that. To do it to all the towns. It's the man, the person power that it takes to do it. And then get someone to be there. If they need to speak about it. It's just not worth our time. That's why people say Capstone has a lot of money. Because I wanted to give them more from Washington. I could go up and say Capstone has so much money. We don't have so much money, Mary. I was just saying that. All right. We're not discussing, we're not discussing the Capstone budget. I just said I wanted to give them more. Okay. So drum roll please. Wait. What is this one? Article 19. 19. That's a big one. I did. Oh. He petitioned it. You got a petition. No. I just asked Sarah to put it out. I'm going to request that be taken off. And then later in the meeting, I'm going to request an executive session to discuss our attorney's opinion regarding this matter. Okay. The bad news is, I don't think our assistant's going to let us go into executive session. Yeah. A legal department. It is. A legal department. Okay. He's not here. I talked to him earlier. No. It's not his fact that there was a legal discussion. You're talking about legal advice. This life board is allowed to go into. It's like, yes. Isn't that what I asked if we were going to talk about? No. I said you wanted to just talk about the issue in general. You did not mention the magic word, which is legal advice. And you didn't prompt me to say you have to handle the word? Come on. Well, he's down. All right. Okay. I'm happy about that. Because that was a little on maybe more than a little unsettling to me to do it. Yeah. As a preemptive. Okay. That's right. So. Move approval of the warnings as amended. Why? I just got to redo it. Well, you know, I mean, the thing is, it's you could report it afterwards. Well, no, you have to sign it. So it has to be signed. But we can still do the motion. Okay. Move. It is. Second. I will. Liz. All in favor of the warning as amended. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. So Mary move and Liz seconded. Yep. Yep. So it is unanimous. Okay. Wrinkled. I'm going to go like this. Good idea. I think it's dangerous to keep. Yeah. I think they have a copy and they should accidentally go to the fire station. Did you guys just find a symbol? The wrinkled copy. I asked my last paper. Did you remember those articles? I did. Of course she did. And also Mary is always ahead of it. But Sarah it still says draft. It does not. Does it? Yes it does. For the paper. That was her last piece of paper. She was just seeing if we were on our toes. Oh man. Damn it. Is it really your last piece? Well let's hope not. Let's hope not. Because I could have put it on the other side of this now. Yeah. Okay. I move approval of January 7th to 2020 minutes. I feel like that was me. Second? Second. Was that just last week? No. Two weeks ago. Yeah I think it was here. You weren't here. You were in Oregon. No I was not in Oregon. No that wasn't that the night she was late or something and then we got through the meeting. That was December. That was December. Liz was here. You were here. Liz has been late because Liz has a big job now and never leaves her desk. No I'm not criticizing you. I'm just saying you want to do this I know. I just have a lot to do at Capstone. I'm in charge of a lot of things now and I have no time to do anything but be in charge of them. Okay. All right. It's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the January 7th meeting all in favor. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Okay we've approved them. Somebody just tell me who moved it. I moved it and I feel seconded. Okay. And I think that's me with other vote last week too. And on the on the on this morning it was Mary moved and Liz seconded. Yes. Oh. Yes. In the morning. Yes. Oh my God. Why am I just tapping on the spot? She's doing too many things. Let's slow down for a minute here. Everybody take a breath. Well I think it's nice to have a cup. Good. You got some. Okay. Can you just pass that one around? Thank you. Thank you. I want to come up into key. In case someone calls. I can say what's on the morning. Does anybody ever ask you about that? No. But I do have the budget right next to my phone just in case. Really? Well where else am I going to find it if someone calls? Does that only call about the budget? No. But what if someone does? You say I'll look into it. I'll say oh look here's my budget. It's right here. Extra warnings. I memorized it. I'll take one so I get this special arbitration. There you go. Inside. Thank you. That's a threat. Here you go. There you go Sarah. All signed, sealed, delivered. All right. Thank you so much. You guys signed this? Yeah. Great. I'll do a sign in minutes. Okay. So we're ready for the treasurer's report? It's just this. Yeah. I think the only thing our financials aren't ready for December yet so I don't have those. I thought I might but we didn't. But we talked last week about mention that we possibly would have a property that was going to go up for tax sale. So I want to officially announce that I'm going to turn the property at 13 Rich Road. Is it 13 or 14? I have on mine. 13. I don't know. That's what I have on my notice here but maybe it's better. I saw it was 14. Yeah we better. Is it 14? Maybe it's Rich Road. It's the one that's right over the back way. The extension of three mob Rich Road. Yeah. You know when you're going to. You know where the house that's up on still? Yes. The famous still child. Yeah this one that we talked about. It's the one that never had a permit anyway. So it's officially entered into the records and. Yes that's all. The other good news is that you all got the email from Sarah that there is funding to buy out that place. That was a long time ago. No no no. It's been when last week? It's the place next door. Jennifer Evans house. Yes. Not this house. Right I'm sorry. Yes. And they're coming to this live board meeting in February to talk to you about what the town will have to do. Janet Evans is the end of the road. Jennifer is the end of the road yes. Yes. And the issue was who was going to bring up the 25% match. We were having a hard time and FEMA went out there and saw it was so dire that they somehow found a way to get the 25% match in addition to the 75% that FEMA's putting up. Wow. There's the good news. The bad news is we have to front the money and get reimbursed. But we can. That's a hell of a lot better than incurring the. Yeah. What else is now? We've done that before. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. No it's good. And guess what? I want to thank Sarah before it starts. Because it was a lot of work the last time we did it for those trailers. Well let's see. Remember that? Yeah. We're going to get this new land for Skinner Park. For a pond. I want a couple of picnic tables. They might be underwater. I mean for all bikers and central money, it would be wonderful. There was just on the news this past week about they just awarded funding for the floods. One of the floods we had or something. Yeah. I saw that. Did you see that? had or something. Yeah I saw that. Did you see that? So are we gonna get any of that? Do we know or which ones? It was I don't recall which one but they were on the news just that they just declared that we were on. Like in Vermont in general. Washington County was one of the counties. I think it was two different events. Two different flood events. Yeah and it was so I didn't get all the details. I think one of them was the one that we got the money for. It might have been. Yeah I think that might have been true. I think that was getting federal maybe getting federal money to reimburse the I don't know I read it quickly and I was confused. Because they acted like this was new news and but I didn't know where it was coming from because there was more money coming but all right so you're officially telling us you're putting anything into the attorney? Because of the problem that chances are this won't get sold and or redeemed. I was gonna ask you. So it's going to be something down the road but we've got to get it off the tax books after we're on our fifth year now. Right. Is anyone living in it? From what I heard no. No and not only that the notices are coming back right I mean we don't know where the people are. No but no notices are coming back. Oh so they're getting the notices or they should be sitting in a mailbox or whatever they're doing. So this says it was just the other day. It was just the other day. Well but it seems to be the same flood it says President Donald Trump has approved his disaster declaration for areas of Vermont damaged by a severe Halloween storm and flooding and ordered federal assistance to help with the recovery. Well that's not Irene. That's the one I know. This is the Halloween storm which we wouldn't have received money for. Yeah I said there was in November already. There's all these. How did you find that? It says oh it says Vermont seeks federal wait no it says Vermont receives federal funds for repairs following Halloween storms on November 25th that was reported. So it says agency of transportation will receive 500,000 in emergency relief funding from the Federal Department of Transportation to repair damage to Vermont's highways in the wake of last month's heavy rains and flooding. So this must be a separate pot of money. That's right. So how did you find that? I went on what is called the World Wide Web. The information super highway. Okay but what did you type in again? I typed in flooding Vermont federal funds. It's all about knowing how to do those searches. So it looks like there's extra money. But we didn't have any damage in that storm. And the Halloween storm we didn't? We didn't submit anything. I mean I'm sure we had a little damage but we didn't have enough damage. You probably have to reach a certain threshold. Okay so just so you're prepared we'll have I guess the town however when this goes up I don't know if we if nobody bids on it if the town bids on it I'm not sure how the process goes. We get up by default if nobody bids on it right? I don't think so. I don't know. Is that what happens? I think we do yeah. Or is it 12 months? That's what's happening. No because no they have 12 months to redeem. So I don't know how that works. But who would want this? I guess it's up to the town either the town takes it or the town says well I try again and you go through the whole legal process and all the expenses again but without the research because that would have been done. We don't need to do that. Okay well it's just something that'll be coming out of the real deal. So who do we hire? Do we hire Rob or do we have that other? That's how they did it last year we just went through Rob's office. Yeah. Oh I'm sorry I didn't know I ended there. I didn't either I was wondering where I went. Okay we approve the minutes signing of town personnel policy revised January 7th 2020 action likely. We got it? I do now I'm proud of it. Maybe I'll have it for the last time let's see. Remember this? Yeah. That's it. Yeah. I mean we did it we're just we're just signing it. Little approval oh we've already done it. No we've already done it. It was just signing it. And Steve. Yeah. I think you can be excused. All right. Thank you very much for your participation. Keep uh keep doing that physical therapy. Yes absolutely. Where are you Steve? Are you in Vermont? He's in Hollywood. He has a brand new hip so he's oh he's special. Yeah. You're gonna feel so good. Well actually I say that wait a minute we you want to go into uh executive session right? Right. Maybe you should stick around for the executive session I'm sorry. Okay. So Steve where did you have your surgery done?