 I'm taking care of what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the shotgun to get the audio out of the ceiling, out of the whole room, because for some reason you can't get it out of the picture. No, they're all, their microphones are working very well, but for some reason I can't get them into my camera. So, all we're going to do, yeah, or I can just get up and bring in our microphone and use the shotgun on. Okay, okay, okay, thank you. Thank you, that's very greatly appreciated. So, yeah, that was Jordan. He just cut in. Okay, good, thank you. Okay, so, I'm not getting any audio. Okay, the thing is usually, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, so normally I run an XLR to their wall and that's how I get my audio, but for some reason that's not working today. So, basically I'm standing right underneath the speaker and I'm just going to get it off. The volume is more than enough, it's booming with the speaker, so everything's going to be fine. He could not help me. No, yeah, I'll try it all out. I'll try it all in a different way. You did a great job last time. Yeah, yep, you're welcome. We're all set. We're good. Hey Charlie, how are you? Hello Ellen, I'm fine. How are you? Was there a storm relatively well? Yeah, delayed me. I wasn't about to take my equipment out in the rain, so I had to sit in the office for 15 minutes. I zoomed and subsided. Did they ever see Charlie film at a council meeting the day of the event? Pretty much that's it. Oh my. Hello Sue. You're not going to be on film tonight because you're sitting right beside the camera. Yes, it's okay. Larry, since you're here, I did talk to Mike about this. I unplugged it from my thing upstairs. You can get me on Bluetooth. I'm kidding. Really? Yeah, I know you can get me on Bluetooth. A little bit. A little bit. I'm going to go over there with you now. Here's my microphone. Wow, yes. You filled it up. Okay. This is how it's getting today. I washed it out for you. You should be on it. Thank you very much. We're going to give it to the most observable we can do. We don't need to hear anyone. Don't give it to the school. Is that a better card? Yes. That's very good. Thank you. How about backwards? In back of you, dim that too? Back here? No, I'm just trying to. Just the screen? Okay. I think that's good right where it is. All right. I have time. Should I go along and put a timer? Absolutely not. 10 directions. Okay, that's good. Oh, you know how to likely put it out? You've got shorts on for guys. So what's the big deal tonight? What? I don't know. Same old, same old. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Same old, same old. Yeah. Sue, Alman? Yes? Do you have a copy of the... I see him. ...motions that Sim will be making when... When you get to them? Yes. Just for a minute. Yes. I was looking for my reading class. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. You are in reading class this week? We can all look again. Good to see you. Oh, it's good to see you. Oh, my word. Been a while. Wow. Yeah. Well, I'm here for the Jennifer Cooper Resolution. I'm still at a challenge. So am I. I have no idea what she is. That's wrong. I don't think it's wrong. Well, I was here. But, you know, I think it's wrong. I didn't hear any of that. But I guess I'll have to go back to work as long as I can. Right now. One product. Seven or eight. Seven or eight. Seven or eight. Seven or eight. Seven or eight. Two elements. Yes, sir. Can you have a friend next to you? Hey, John. How are you doing? Good to see you. Good to see you too. Best wishes on your new venture. Thank you. Whatever it is. My wife's going to tell me what it is. Can you hand me some? Hand some young buck that he is. Learned. Learned. Learned. Counselor. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Hunter. Thank you. Thanks. You're welcome. Thanks. Hi, Sam. Hi. Hi John. Hello. Thank you. So why haven't you come in? Hi. We can sit together, right? You can have your own bubble. Here. Unless you don't want us to? Yeah. Some people are just sitians. Some people are. Okay, no, this is just for Ward 3, only for Ward 3 in August. Some people are suspicious, but I'm fine with that. Okay, let it dry all day inside. It's the 17th Tuesday. And it's never caused grand lack. August. Okay. So we have lots of time. Yeah. But I wanted to give people who, you know, need the income first shot at it. Yeah. Boxes and boxes. Boxes and one vote of bouts. I mean, I'm not promising it, because it's still early. But I've only got like five assistants at the moment. So that's the end. The opportunity to, you can do the money. So they're, they're saying, Okay. Okay. Okay. I know. Now that we're back on the vote. A week in August, January 7th. Okay. No. All right. Tuesday to the 17th. I will. You cannot enter faith in it unless he's married, because of the blood of his friend. So you're not married? I said to do what you did. I didn't do what you did. Well, that's interesting. I tell seven days and then dig her in. We don't want to do that. If you wanted it, I think it would be nice if you would buy it. Can't write it this way. It's a long time like this. Long time no see. That's not going to be me. That's not going to be me. That's not going to be me. That's not going to be me. She's amazing. And she's still up there. You're probably still working at the store in South Europe. How's it going? I don't know. Oh yeah, she can do it for a business, right? We're okay. Everything's different. Everything's different. I don't know what's going on. That's great. Wow. Sorry. Okay, so who would know? She's going to know. She should be on the news. She should be on the news. Sure. I understand your reaction, but it could be a business. Do you know the password? I love it. For the city wire SP guest. SP guest, that sounds familiar. You should do it. SP wireless is the biggest one. So capital S, capital B, capital W. Well, let me go to settings. And we'll see what comes up, huh? Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah. Big change. Okay, SP city guest. Andrew SP city guest. SP city guest is the capital S, capital B. Yeah. It looks like, let's see if there is one. Okay, what's my security? Okay, so capital S, capital B, capital W, lowercase, iris, and wireless. Wireless, because I didn't know of you. Yeah. I was going to say, I was going to say, I was going to say, I was going to say, okay, so now, I'm going to say, I've tried it again. Capital S, capital B, and then lowercase, wireless. Awesome, thank you. Yeah, they're the one. Yeah, okay. You know, Larry did not work. I've seen a little more of you than you have of me. It's written on the upstairs. I can go behind it, I'll go down the way. Oh, there's Janice. There's not a one. Yeah, I usually measure how many people are around by how many are in the substance. I have a sparkling mark, but I can't go on ours. I have to go to the fourth. Turn left. Oh, okay. Yeah, there you go. She's going to come over. Yeah, that's Janice. Looks like that works. Okay. I'd like to call this important meeting in order of the City Council for Monday, June 21. And we'll start at my welcome, everyone. Really quite nice to meet you. Thank you. It's really quite nice to have some faces in the audience. It really is. And so we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance, which is also something we've been doing for a long time. Pledge of Allegiance to the life of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, the foundation of the God, the individual, the integrity, and justice for all. The second item is the Gender Review. Are there any additions or additions or changes in order of agenda items? I just have a little one, and that is after Item 13, we'd like to have just a little teeny break so students can stretch their fingers. So that would be a good time to celebrate, so we can have a snack and stretch our legs, and then go back to the business. Okay, everyone. The third item is the Council Resolution and Honor and Memory of Community Member Jennifer Crokeman. We want to acknowledge that her daughter, Jen's table is here. You want to put your picture on, Jen, your video. Oh, Jen, if you want to put your picture on in video, I know you want to say a few words. Would you like to do that before I read the resolution? Whichever, whatever. Why don't I read the resolution first and then you can make a comment. I get this mic right up in your face. So this is a resolution recognizing and honoring the service of Jennifer Crokeman. Whereas the members of the South Burlington City Council are mourning the sudden passing of her beloved neighbor and friend Jennifer Crokeman, and whereas we've lost one of our very best, tireless advocates working to improve the quality of life of our residents with a deep love and devotion to this community, and whereas remembering the beauty, culture, and shared value of community engagement she observed during her childhood years, Jennifer moved from the Midwest and made her mom her home from 1969 and South Burlington from 1987 until her passing. Whereas during her career Jennifer ran a statewide newspaper, a radio news show tunered at the Lund Home and was the director of public relations at Howard Mental Health. And whereas Jennifer was an inspired and involved member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Burlington, and whereas Jennifer was committed to giving back to her community and served in various capacities as chair or vice-chair on the Mount Mansfield Union School Board for 13 years, chained in East School Board for 12 years, Vermont Women's Health Center Board for three years, South Burlington Recreation and Parks Committee for 12 years, South Burlington Public Art Selection Committee for five years, Wheeler Conservation Easement Task Force and the South Burlington Library Board of Trustees for three years. Whereas Jennifer was recently celebrated by Planned Parenthood of New Hampshire as an oh no England, excuse me, as an everyday champion for her work with the Vermont Women's Health Center in the 1970s creating one of the country's first freestanding women's reproductive clinics. Whereas Jennifer has worked with the South Burlington Police Department and other community stakeholders to better support the and by giving a voice to survivors by courageously sharing her story. And whereas with the team of community leaders, Jennifer Colkman was instrumental in the development of our new community center and was as a tireless community advocate throughout the public process by participating in public meetings, drafting countless public letters of support to the other paper as well as advocating in any community Facebook, in many community Facebook and front porch forum publications. Whereas as a lifelong supporter of community recreation Jennifer advocated for an indoor municipal recreation center where our residents could enjoy year round recreational opportunities. Whereas Jennifer exemplified public service and served our community with elegance eloquence, elegance too I guess, integrity honesty, hard work, grit, determination, dedication, and loyalty. Now therefore let it be resolved that on behalf of the residents of the city of South Burlington, the city council does hereby recognize and extend its deepest appreciation for Jennifer Colkman's service and dedication to the residents of the city of South Burlington whose life will be better by her years of service. And let it be further resolved that we the members of the city council recognize and honor our neighbor and friend Jennifer Colkman for her current intelligence, quick wit, candor, courage, honesty, and determination she gifted for the betterment of those around her and our community. And let it be further resolved that a signed copy of this resolution shall be presented to Jennifer Colkman's family, her husband Frank, and two daughters Janice and Lena, and that the text of this resolution will be inserted in its entirety in the minutes of this meeting of the South Rooms and City Council dated June 21st, 2021. And that this recognition of her service be prominently displayed to me in our new city hall library at the senior center at 180 Market Street. By order of the city council this 21st day of June 2021. I'd like to move that we adopt this resolution recognizing and honoring the service of Jennifer Colkman. Any further discussion? I would just like to say as someone who stood next to her as she told her story, which here we counted in this resolution that I was particularly moved by that request on her part that I be at her side. And I have for years benefited from her example from her hutzpah I am not wearing lipstick tonight and she would tell me don't ever forget to put lipstick on so I apologize Jennifer but she was a force of nature and just a wonderful person who will live on in us. So thank you to Janice and her family for sharing her with South Burlington. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. All in favor signify by saying aye. All in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you. Resolution passes 5-0. Janet please share some words with us. We can hear you. Thank you so much. That was a beautiful tribute to my mom. She would have been extremely touched and it's all still very raw for me. My mom has passion for city governance but I did not at all understand. I come from a long line of people who believe in service to their communities and my mom is the most prominent most devoted person that of my family has done that. Thank you for making her feel like she was doing something in the city and giving her an outlet for all of that need and energy and drive and recognizing her hard and good work. I appreciate it. Thank you for giving her options. Well we loved her. Janice we hope your father is well and we want you to know that our thoughts are with him as well. He has a yearly fishing trip with his cousins where he is without any connectivity right now and probably really excellent for him but I will absolutely pass on your kind words. Thank you very much. I did get an email from practice this afternoon. Talk into the mic. You can hardly hear me. First of all thank you for doing this but I got an email from practice afternoon. He was very touched. I sent him the resolution and he wanted me to thank you. Thank you. Next item of business is number four. The possible executive session to consider pending or probable litigation to which the city is a party and confidential attorney client communication for the purpose of providing professional legal services regarding the same. I have a motion to read. So I move that the council make a specific finding that premature general public knowledge of the council's consideration of pending or probable litigation to which the city is a party and confidential attorney client communications made for the purpose of providing professional legal services to the council regarding the same. We clearly place the city as a substitute. Second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. And also having so found I now move the council enter into executive session to consider pending or probable civil litigation to which the city is a party and confidential attorney client communications for the purpose of providing professional legal services to the council regarding saying inviting Kevin Doran, Tom Hubbard, Jesse Baker, Andrew Bulldoch, and Amanda Latterty. Second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. And we will be back hopefully at 702. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's August. Is that the right date? I think it's a pretty sure it's a 702. I get that. I'm going to tell you there is a part of the line. She's there. Okay. Yeah. You. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I know what we're just saying. It's a little bit of a monthly chair and a mask, but that's easier. I am, and I don't think it's required, but I prefer it. It's just this capability. It's pretty good. Great. Thanks to both of you. I don't even know how to sum up where you're at. I'm going to afford to go out and change the agenda and kind of figure out where the center is. Oh, I can tell you exactly where it is. I'll tell you then. Here's the map, but the map's not good enough to help you. This is yesterday, you know, like before. There's a little break in the... How far down? It's before you get to where my party was held. People's Club, it's before that. Same size as the row. That's... It's on the right side. It's on the right-hand side. How do you remember exactly what it's opposite and why it's in front of you? It's right in front of you. It's before you get to that. It's going to be a breath and a half, and you cannot see it from the road. What you see is a patch of grass, and then there are some trees and stuff, and an opening. And if you go back into that opening, there's the little cemetery. And I noticed that it was... I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not going to talk about it. I'm going to talk about the... I'm going to talk about the... the power on the property. I should have said it. There is a gate down there somewhere. It's a little further south. There's a car viewership or something, just on the other side of it, and there's... Most of the graves in there go back a long, long way. And I went over with Donna, because I didn't know it was there. I wanted some of these cards in there. I don't like crowds. So I said, that would be cool. Okay. And so I went over and we walked through it and it was very amazing. She has such a sweet day. And it's really nice to hear. Absolutely. I thought I'd talk to the minister. The rates bar for the... for residents of $300 for a class, and $400 for... I've always been trying to talk to them into three months. I haven't been in a long time. I wanted to talk to them about it before. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, but actually it was... Consensely. They talked about it. We got back about a couple of weeks ago. I don't know about that. Yeah, but it was... Yeah. Right now. And there's so many numbers in there too. But it's very, very small. From one side to the other, there's about 15 volume stacks. Mm-hmm. And what I'm saying to you is like a volume fence. They had a cleanup crew come out there on one of those... So whatever they had cleaned up today or not cleaned up or cleaned up yet, their volunteers won't clean up the sites. I didn't see anything like this. But when I was there and thought, you can kind of get to college or something, I'm going to have somebody do a little bit of... Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? So how did you find out that there was a pre-sufficiency here by the quote-unquote sextas? I'm not into this anymore. And it's so interesting. Yeah. You know, I just do want to be here, but I don't want to be where the question is. It is very quiet. And there's a lovely tree in the middle. I went off to the double. I went up to the craft, just to store a type of holiday. I know it's fine gift for a couple. So she just came over and she saw what I was working at Chaldea Center for a long year. And I was planning to get powerful. So she was probably going to be happy that I didn't get them. She was just... When I got them, I had to follow them with other tasks. And then I needed them. But it didn't work. And though I got that, I followed her all the time. Lots of people, that woman, kept us in business. From her sales, kept us going for a long time. Sadly, she has moved to Florida. Oh, not too bad. We had people come in and ask for them. Because they were a child sign. Oh, yes. They lived in my house all winter until her daughter could come. And she backed up and her daughter came and got them. They couldn't move into the new house. They were living in a mobile home. And then finally, because they couldn't get any materials to put into this house during COVID, they finally got the house built. There are still some signs. But my sister came over and got them out. And that was almost all the stuff from my father. One thing only was that. And we got those masks when he sat. So we're very sad. We just love those pieces. We had a very funny bit of... My sister and I were crying out. I think that's what I just got in the mail. A bill from the state. It was $5,000. Because we didn't file any transfer. No. Okay. Oh, my God. Normally, we opened an orgy. But because of last year, we didn't open for the end of June. We didn't even want to ask to remember. Because we don't file the transfer. We don't want to make money out of that. Okay, Bailey. We always file the orgy. We're on the books. We shouldn't... We don't want hours to make sure. So I'm sorry. Yeah. Hi, guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know, right? It's $50. But wait, Jeff. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. $8,000. We got that. $9,000. $9,000. I said, how much? It was. $5,000. We've never paid the bill. More than $200. What's going on? Yeah, you don't want to file the transfer. You don't want the details on your case. What do you tell Mr. Curley? Oh, yeah. It was for a year. And you wrote the students' survey. You didn't want to file the transfer. But you never feel like you didn't know how I worked at that point. I had a better year than the year before, several of us did. I heard about that, I'm not certain. Yes, interested. Very well at Christmas time. June 21st, 2021. We'll move on to item 5. Are there any comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda? Anyone in TV land out there? Allie, you have the floor. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Okay, great. My name is Allie. I just graduated from South London High School a week ago. And I'm just here to talk a little bit about the climate crisis from young Christmas perspectives. And I just wanted to start with this quote that I'm going to be reading from a book called Reconnecting the Earth to the Earth by Aaron Boops. So it goes, We stand on the threshold of a profound shift in our world. Our all-consuming industrial civilization has led us down a destructive path that has compromised our soil, food, water, and atmosphere. The drive for perpetual growth in profit has fractured our idea of community and instilled values of selfishness and personal gain in the people. It is now becoming apparent that our way of living has reached the point where going forward in the same order is no longer feasible. The times come to either the same thing different or basically the nature of turmoil or in the breakdown of our way of life. So basically I just wanted to take one here for a moment and say that as a young person, as I've been growing up in Vermont and I've lived here almost all my life, it's just, you know, we live in such a beautiful state and such a beautiful time. And I'm still very grateful to be alive what I am and to be able to experience such beautiful nature and everything. But, you know, the more that I've learned about the climate crisis, the more intense I am for our future, and the more I realize that unless we treat this truly as what it is, as an intending crisis that needs to be addressed as the most aggressive and, like, you know, effectively possible, we can't just treat this as something that is going to be far off from future because we can see the index there right now. And I'm concerned as, you know, I just turn to people in my review as well. I'm concerned as a young adult for my future and for the future of people my age and for the future of the next generation because, you know, I know that the beauty that we see all around us cannot continue and it can't last unless very drastic measures are taken. So I just wanted to put that perspective in here because I think that it's a point that needs to be made as much as possible until things start to change. Thank you very much. I share your concerns. Are there any other comments from the public of items not on the agenda? So seeing none, we'll move on to number six announcements and the city manager's report. Tom? Two things. One, I was happy to take part of the book parade with my kids. It was a great event, moving books from the university mall over to the new library. Great attendance, about 100 people. It was a fun day. So I just want to recognize that the library put so much energy into pulling off a great event on the tail end of this pandemic. The other thing is I had coffee with the new deputy town manager up in St. Albans, the town, Cory Parent. And he was showing me this really cool software they're putting into place to manage customer relationship management. So to track all text messages, phone calls, anytime people reach out or somehow interface with the city, it all sort of ties into one. They've got this new product platform and I kept saying, you know what? I really hope that South Parlington sees that. So I'm hoping they're going to reach out and it's this new company that they're targeting the municipal entities out there. And I think there's a real opportunity to at least consider it. We might already be doing some of these things. I don't know, but I just thought I'd mention it here. Thank you. Megan? Yeah. I just wanted to speak on behalf of the former members of the Synapsee Committee. An update would be most welcome. I spoke with Carmen Sargent on Friday and I said, you're further down on the to-do list, but we haven't forgotten. So I just think some kind of update would be really, you know, really appreciated. She's still very much interested in following that discussion. Also, I met with Travia Childs, who is a school board member, but also she is an owner of a nonprofit called Trinity. And I introduced her to Bruce Wilson, who we worked with on the Chillout Center, because Travia wants to open a youth center. And so we met last week and we checked out some sites. There's potentially a site in the mall that would be open through September. And I said that I would raise that with the council since we gave them a little bit of seed money when they opened back in 2018, not 17. 17, before my son graduated in 18, I think you're right. And she put together a proposal. And of course, it's not on the agenda tonight. This came to my inbox this afternoon. And I'd like to forward this to everybody. And I know that she is someone who, like Bruce, has a real passion to give students alternatives and young people alternatives. She just, here I'll just read one part of her report, which is really thorough. It's 34 pages, just to give you an idea of someone who does her homework. Why now? Vermont Department of Health publishes numerous reports, including the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, Health Effects of Marijuana Use Among School-Aged Youth, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Chittenden County Community Profile. The Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs annual overview in 2019 and covers individuals ages 12 and above. They use alcohol more than any other drug. In the past month, based on the report date, 62% of individuals of 12 years and above drank alcohol and 57% of the 62% binge drank. So those are concerning statistics and she would like to do something after school. That would be open later on Fridays and Saturdays. I will forward the report to the council and our new city leadership. And hopefully we can take this up in July so that we can take advantage of the open space in the mall. She's looking for a more permanent location with the rotary. You might have heard something about that. Hey, thank you. Matt? Yes, thank you. I want to report that I participated in my very first meeting last Tuesday as the South Burlington Commissioner for Green Mountain Transit. As you can imagine, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on ridership. If you were people taking the bus, not just because they're working from home, but also concerned about riding with members of the public in a closed area. I'm learning. This is my first meeting. Thankfully, federal funds have assured continued operations and free fares. I look forward to working with this group and ensuring that GMT continues to provide sustainable public transportation services that reduce congestion and pollution. I also use the bus at an office in Montpelier and it is a great and inexpensive way to get to the capital city. I want to thank all of you for your confidence in me in appointing me to this position. In more personal news, some of you may know that I operate a non-profit organization that is one of the state's leading providers of training for the skilled trades. I'd like to report that I was appointed to the Weatherization Workforce Group. Last week we had our first meeting with Senator Christopher Gray and Representative Tim Brickwood, who was chairs of the Energy Committee. There are some of the leading voices when it comes to energy and climate policy. I'm working with Efficiency Vermont in this group and with the Community Action Agencies, which of course have the low-income weatherization programs to develop plans for a coordinated delivery of a standardized statewide building science curriculum. So we can meet the goals, which are pretty lofty, of weatherizing 120,000 homes. That's about half the homes in Vermont over the next decade. It's exciting work but challenging because we have the money thanks to ARPA, but we don't have the people. We need to train thousands of truck drivers and heating technicians to be part of our weatherization workforce, and I'm proud to take on that challenge. I would like to also today take the opportunity to address a member of the community, Ethan Goldman, who at our last meeting suggested that I disclose anything related to my personal and professional life, which may have the appearance of a conflict of interest, specifically with regards to a resolution regarding climate change before the City Council, that we've discussed at our last two meetings. I would like to report that at a very lengthy and cordial phone conversation with Mr. Goldman, we discussed our professional lives in the energy policy arena, areas where we agree, areas where we disagree. Let him know that I would address his concerns about any appearance of a conflict at the next meeting, which I'm doing now. So let me state clearly, I have never held a financial interest in any company that distributes energy in Vermont. I am a 7th generation Vermonter with a fairly common French-Canadian surname. South Georgia residents may have seen Dakota trucking trucks out of Essex or Dakota propane out of South Europe. There is no relation. Come on over to Winesap Lane and I'll show you the genealogy. I was born and raised in Westminster West, which is near Bellis Falls for those that aren't familiar with the geography of Vermont. That's Wyndham County. That's the corner of the state that's boxed in by the New Hampshire and Massachusetts. My grandmother Helen and her husband, Kenneth, settled there in the 1930s after leaving the family dairy farm in Stratford, Vermont, trying to make a better life. Helen and Ken like to think of themselves as the early environmentalists in Vermont because they converted hundreds of homes in Bellis Falls from dirty coal to kerosene and then to heating water. This business named Code & Coda, Helen and then Ken, is now owned by a cousin. There's no ownership by me or anyone in my immediate family and this is a Bellis Falls business. I am not, was never a business owner of any kind. I was a journalist for 10 years and for the last 15 years I've operated a nonprofit trade association. I'm registered lobbyist and serve as a regulatory resource in the energy sector for all types of fuel, renewable and non-renewable. Weatherization companies, utilities, electric heat pump manufacturers and distributors are part of my organization. Most of my work, quite frankly, is with plumbers, heating and ventilation, air conditioning contractors who rely on me for interpreting building codes, fire codes, and to operate a school where not only can they get their continuing education to maintain their licenses and certifications, but also to train their sons and daughters in the next generation of skilled workers which we so desperately need, whether they're installing heat pumps, boilers, furnaces, or performing weatherization work. I'm proud of that work I do. It is not higher learning, but it is highly important. I appreciate the opportunity at any time I have in my campaign trail to talk about my work in energy policy. This work includes reducing sulfur dioxide emissions in Vermont by leaving the effort to ban high sulfur heating oil. This effort was recognized by Governor Peter Schumlick who presented me with the Environmental Excellence Award. More recently, Governor Phil Scott pointed me to the Climate Action Commission, a precursor of the Vermont Climate Council. The governor, as well as lawmakers, has sponsored the Global Warring Solutions Act, certainly see value in my work, retraining our workforce to focus on energy efficiency and developing a clean heat standard for renewable liquid fuels and biomass fuels. One more point that I think I need to address. The first draft of the Climate Change Resolution set emissions reductions as, quote, the principle of guiding mission and moral requirement of the City Council. My objection to that language, my reference to the City of South Wellington's expenditure, was simply to point out that filling our ambulances, police cruisers, and fire trucks with fuel would seem to be in violation of the intent of that resolution. I admit I missed an opportunity to make that point in a more thoughtful way. I prefer the resolution that I, climate resolution that I drafted, I also support the edits suggested by Councillor Barrett and Councillor Reilly's language in the amendment offered on Tuesday, June 8th through an email. I think the City Council is making great progress. This is how, in my opinion, my humble opinion, good policy works with a back-and-forth dialogue. I have, and will continue to show, that I can act fairly, I can act objectively, and I can act in the public interest and the interests of self-required residents. I think my personal, my professional life, and my volunteer work, including five years and two appointments to the South Wellington Development Review Board, and two years as chair, shows that this is in fact the case. And thank you for the opportunity to say this words. Thank you. Tim? I have something briefer than that. So I didn't get a chance to take part in the book parade, but I was there a weekend before that with my cordless drill. And as Jennifer Murray knows, I'm the guy that deconstructs, and then constructs, and then deconstructs. So I spent the Saturday morning deconstructing what I constructed when they moved there from what I deconstructed when they left school. Are you going to reconstruct it at 1.80? No, I can't, because they have a building manager, and he's not going to allow that. So I'm retiring my cordless drill. So that's all I have to report. All of the high spots, I was responsible for taking anything down that was over six feet. I don't know why. No idea why. But I did need a stepladder. Although I'm not training a stepladder, nobody was injured at the locations. Thank you. Well, thank you. I think I, along with some other people, participated in a Vermont League of Cities and Towns listening meeting last Thursday, 10th, I think Megan was there, and Matt, right? And you failed to mention this. But it was a great meeting, and I think Jennifer, I mean, Jesse, of course, was there. It was a great meeting, and I think South Burlington had the corner on the most people there, and probably the most comments, I think, at that particular listening meeting. But it was really helpful. And then I, along with the rest of the council, also were fortunate enough to take a tour, the last public tour of 180, before they make the finishing touches. So it's really, that was really cool. The last manager's report from this manager, how are you? I'll be very short, because the next manager's got a lot to talk to you about. I just want to pass on, at Alana's request, the council had approved additional bonding consistent with the prior public vote on both the Garden Street and the remaining costs on 180 Market Street. We're not going to go into the summer round of bonding. We're going to wait until the fall round. So just if you were wondering, had we gone out into the market, we're not. I think we don't need the money right now, and there's a belief from the bond bank that the rates are still going to be good this fall. So Alana wanted me to pass that along. Also, there's a Chinook County Public Safety Authority meeting next Monday morning, and we're hoping that we'll have heard from the city of Burlington that their budget has been approved, because we've been waiting for that to happen since they are a major player in that. And once the budget passes, they can commit funding to the first round of renovations to the building. So with that, I would like to give the rest of my time to Jesse. Thank you. Just a few things. One, we are getting some chat comments that it's hard to hear. So just a reminder to speak right into the mic. For those who are virtual online tonight, we are hoping that if you have comments to make, you will make them with your own voice on camera. So please indicate in the chat if you would like to speak or turn your camera on. Just want to remind everyone of the grand opening of 180 Market Street on July 23rd starting at 4.30. We really hope that that will be a community-wide celebration, and folks will come out and view the new beautiful building. We are running into a slight conflict, not conflict, but challenge between the moving space and meeting the new open meeting law requirements per the end of the state of emergency. So just want to flag for both the council and the public that for the July council meetings, there will be a virtual in-person option. It will be at the police department. But we are really encouraging folks to participate virtually. Kind of go back to the virtual method for two meetings in the hopes of getting into our new building by the first or second meeting in August. But I will be present at the police department for whoever would like to come and join me in person. You are welcome to do so. You know, I wonder with the continued comments that they can't hear us, that maybe the councillors should also be virtual since I think they could hear us better. What you are saying, councillor, really is that if we are at our homes, like we were doing it during the pandemic, everybody is on equal footing and they can all hear each other much better. So you are suggesting for July we all stay in our own nodes in our homes and not go to the police station. Correct. And we will be set up for public participation at the police department if the public chooses to participate in person. I think once we move into the new auditorium, it will flow better. It will be much better. I am sorry. Go ahead. The guidance, I just want to make sure, the guidance from VLCT was we just have to have a single person present and it has to be open to the public. Is that correct, Jeff? Correct. Yes. So you can be that person and you can leave the door open. And I can leave the door open. Yes. Okay. Tom. I want to remind you I have committed to my children that I will be visiting Mickey Mouse on July 5th, so I will not be even remotely in attendance, but I will be at the late July meeting virtually. Will the kids be visiting Mickey as well? No, just me. Just me. That was his father's thinking. Get him out of the house, mom. Yeah. All right. One more. I think one, we just did misspeak. The fifth is a holiday that celebrates life. So the meeting will actually be on July 6th. Just to clarify that. Which is a Tuesday. Which is a Tuesday. And then finally, I just want to thank the staff who has done such an amazing job orienting me, obviously Kevin and Tom, but all the department heads as well as community members who have taken the time to so warmly welcome me to South Burlington. So thank you very much. Since I'm organizing potentially a special meeting, would you like that now or under other business I realized I was late and I apologize for not being able to say that I had an issue for other, it's not an issue. Oh, why don't you do it now? Okay. I have been in touch with Helen and Jessica Luizos and Bernie Gagnon. No, Monica Osby rather. And Larry Kupferman and Bridget Burkhart and Travia Childs about having a meeting about land use and equity. And there was general agreement that that would be very welcome. And Jessica was the first to say that her commission has an interest in such a discussion. So I am seeking a date for such a meeting. It's going to be a challenge, but I would like to know if we can find a date sometime this summer, ideally in July, perhaps later in July, though I know someone else is going on vacation later in July, and someone else is going to be receiving family later in July. But if we could find a date, there are several researchers and specialists at UVM, including a scholar in residence at Silverbury, as well as someone who is a former member of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs, a student, an alum of UVM, and a program, a farm program coordinator for the AALV at the Interveil that I would like to invite to this meeting to talk about land use and equity. And so Jesse suggested that I bring it up tonight. And I don't know if we're going to be comparing calendars now, but perhaps an email. You have some dates that you already identified. I do. And maybe you can announce those, and then the council can get back with Jesse? Yeah. If any of those dates work. Yeah. I've come up empty so far, but I will keep trying. All right. So the dates are July 7th or 8th. That's a Wednesday or Thursday of that week. July 12th, which is the off Monday. Tuesdays are wonderful for some of the people that I'd like to invite. So that would include the 13th and the 20th. Of course, we have a meeting on the 19th. And those are the dates we've talked about so far. What time of day are you meeting? Whenever people are available. I guess it could be any time. But other days, it would be in the evening. So 630, just like our normal meeting time. Six. Yes, Matt? If I had a preference, it would be the 7th, 8th, or 12th. I'm happy to do a doodle poll to both the council and the planning commission if that would be more effective. That would. Let's do it around. Yeah. Thank you, Jesse. Great name for it. Okay. Is that it? Four announcements. All righty. We'll move on to item 7, the consent agenda. We only have one item, which is consider and sign the disbursements. I move that we approve the disbursements. Second. And moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Here is unanimous. It was passed 5-0. All right. Moving on to item 8. I'm sorry. What is your name? So item 8 is the introduction of the new deputy city manager and appointment of the city treasurer effective COV. Close of business. Oh, close of business. I've never owned a business. June 25th, 2021. Thank you, Madam Chair. So it is my distinct pleasure and honor to announce that Andrew Bouldock will be our next deputy city manager. That comes, I want to tell you a little bit about the process and tell the community a bit about the process. We posted the position in April. We had 26 applications, about half from Vermont and half from out of state. Six of those were selected to be interviewed by a team, by myself and a team of department heads, including chief Francis who is here with us tonight. Of those six, three moved forward to a final interview with me and I selected Andrew. As most people probably know, Andrew grew up in South Burlington. He's been the city attorney for the city for almost five years and before that was in private municipal practice. I selected Andrew because he is deeply knowledgeable about the functions and operations of South Burlington. He is a logical, creative and clear thinker and communicator. He's universally trusted by staff and he really values providing equal services equitably across the community. I'm very excited to work with him and excited for him to work with all of you as well. I would respectfully request tonight you put a charter, appoint the city treasurer and I would request that you appoint Andrew to that position effective at the close of business on June 25th, 2021. The reason that is so specific is thanks to our current city treasurer who is very conscientious about these things and payroll goes out that week so Andrew's signature needs to be on the checks that are issued beyond July 21st so we need to have him able to sign as of June 26th. I would entertain that motion. So moved. In a second? Second. There any further discussion? Good choice. Yes, great choice. It strikes me Andrew is our city treasurer or deputy treasurer but he's not going to be our lawyer anymore. Correct, good point. He will be stepping down from the city attorney position. We have posted that position as of Friday and are currently seeking a city attorney as well. Although I believe he will retain his legal license which will be exciting for us. I would agree it's a great choice. Are we ready for that vote? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Congratulations and thank you very much. Do you want to say a couple words so why you weren't interested in it? I'm assuming this is a move up in your mind. I first just want to say I can't believe the career that Thomas had and there's absolutely no way to replace what he's brought to this community. 42 plus years of service to the city of South Burlington and we are all beneficiaries particularly in this last year in a way he's been able to fiscally, responsibly manage a budget through a pandemic and bringing us out the other end of this in really good shape. I'm kind of very thankful for that and as a community we are all beneficiaries and will be for decades to come continuing to feel that. So thank you very much, Tom. I also just wanted to briefly say that it was four and a half years ago that I was in that chair being appointed to the city attorney and it's been an absolute dream come true and the profound honor of a lifetime to serve in that role since then and I'm looking forward to that dream kind of continues now into this next phase. So thank you very much and very honored and very excited to work with this fantastic team and with Jesse. Thank you. Next item number nine presentation from Chief Francis on the major repairs needed for fire apparatus and possible council action related to funding repairs. So welcome Chief Francis. How's everybody this fine stormy evening? Good. You really have to get close. People aren't hearing anything we're saying. I'm afraid. So in August of last year fire department conducted an annual inspection of the apparatus done by third party, UL is the third party which is necessary for fire protection of the city. We checked the fire pumps the hoses get tested apparatus get tested the aerial gets tested and unfortunately the aerial did not pass its inspection. The reason it didn't pass its inspection is we have a significant amount of rust on the main frame of the chassis and on the torque box the torque box is what holds the ladder up and transfers all torsional energy into the frame of the truck so that the ladder doesn't collapse. So as a result of that lots of investigation we have a report now from Pierce the manufacturer of the apparatus that we need about $152,000 worth of work done to the apparatus to get it back to pass its test which is due again in August. With that said because of COVID the manufacturer tells us they cannot get it back to the plant until October November. They are literally have to take part piece by piece to get down to the frame of the truck. Main frame of the truck is rusted there are holes in it we've been able to limp it along they said we are good for about a year we're coming up to about a year but if we go back for retesting we would literally have to park the apparatus which means that the citizens would have an 850 to 1.1 million dollar piece of equipment 11 years old sitting idle inside the station so that's what we're faced with not a pleasant bell at all said about $152,000 the one thing that's good about it is it will extend the life of the apparatus typically a ladder is good for 12 years in severe service which is what the city of South Brompton experiences by apparatus standards and it will extend the life of that apparatus about five potentially seven more years instead of having to replace it sooner like next year will be able to extend it out again it's five to seven years one of the things that Pierce has found some of the products that we use on our roads making salt a little stickier magnesium chloride and some I believe it's a cranberry extract that we're using on the roads to keep salt and salt slurry on the road sticks very nicely to metal as we probably all know from washing our cars the past couple of winters that's what's corroding the main frame of the truck the proposal from Pierce is that in addition to literally taking the truck replacing the equipment the main frame rails is that they'll use a new type of electric coating paint and corrosive material to stop that this seems to be very common in New England because of again what we use on our roads to keep us all safe here we are and no plastic trucks no plastic trucks we are working on hybrids but no plastic trucks so what was the proposed replacement schedule for this truck we were looking at 2024 to order 2025 to replace it so this by spending $152,000 now which we have to do I guess we'll get maybe five to seven more years is that what you said so that pushes that out a little bit farther than we had budgeted about another three to four years from what we were currently budgeted to do that certainly has some value I mean I would agree but do they take the truck away from here or do they do the work here literally we'll go back to Appleton, Wisconsin where the truck was manufactured the company will come and pick it up here drive it out there do all the work takes about four months and then drive it back they'll retest it re-certify it so the parts you believe are available in October and November they're able to do the work in October and November they're building outgrounds because of COVID they had to shut down for a short period of time supply being what it is having trouble getting steel and also so the four months time frame starts in October so we get it back in February right in December okay thank you are there other questions? so $152,000 does that include any anticipated costs of that four month period without this apparatus or does that carry any additional cost in your mind to provide coverage with the community? what we'll do is we already have mutual aid agreements for apparatus including ambulances if we have ambulances in the service we can borrow an ambulance from somebody or we would rely on it most likely be Burlington as they have three aerials to un-confirm structure fires smoke in the building that type of thing getting an aerial apparatus started our way who else has aerials? for aerials Burlington has three South Sheldon has a brand new one Williston is getting a brand new one Essex Junction has an aerial Mallets Bay those are the ones that come to mind okay thank you how close is Burlington aerial? Burlington typically gets us an aerial in about four minutes and the airport doesn't have one? they do not they rely on ours they'll rely on Burlington won't they? yes they will any further discussion yeah I don't think so but we do need to designate where the money is going to come from Tom and I had talked about this early on Tom word obviously it's not a budgeted matter but not in this fiscal year nor next but where could this come from? yeah I think it might make sense to accrue some money since we know we're going to be okay from this year into FY22 from savings off the expenditure lines that we're not going to spend so that we provide ahead of time the money to fix the truck and it doesn't directly take a hit against the FY22 budget which I'm sure would be beneficial to the new administration but I think we're in a position that we can do that and I would recommend that that's probably the way that we do it it would just be less money going on to the fund balance FY21 and none of the ARRA money can pay for something like this I don't believe for maintenance no and where would the savings come from Tom yes I get into the reports later Megan we'll find it yeah the expenses are going to be a pretty good shape so do we need to vote to approve that is the council in agreement that this makes sense or Tom to find the money to make the order replace the order like ASAP I guess is Ariel the ladder truck alright thank you very much you didn't totally reign on our day as long as we have the money you know we're not borrowing it I guess okay moving on to item 10 the council sitting as the cemetery commission discussion possible action related to request the request from the sextons requesting funding for the repair of fences at city cemeteries Councilor Chittendon clarify so we're not requesting funding we have the funding and we have the fencing so my understanding from the conversations with Justin but Tom please correct me afterwards we do have existing 11,000 or so in the cemetery account I just want to remind the council that going back to October before the pandemic if we can remember that time right before Halloween we had the great presentation with the candy and the cemeteries okay so in that report it talked about what we need to do and want to do with our two city-owned cemeteries and one of the key things that the three sextons identified as something that needs to be done both because there's Vermont State statue but also because these are city-owned properties and if we had the fences that are on the Shelburne Road Cemetery in front of our city hall we fix it so we need to fix it so we all agree that the fencing needs to be fixed we've accrued the money over the last couple of years thanks to again the excellent stewardship of our departing deputy manager unless we can convince him to stay tonight I don't know if that's going to be a possibility so there are just really two two and a half segments of this fence line that were exposed in that community cleanup more so necessary community cleanup earlier two months ago Justin states that he that the money exists as well as there are fencing segments left from previous city projects that is available so all he said is to just prioritize this work to bring to send forward to the Cemetery Commission of which we all are de facto we have the authority to just charge them to fix the fence line hopefully this fencing won't come from the dog fencing that we need at Wheeler okay as long as we're not trading that trading it away and then finding it's not there okay you haven't known from me yeah good enough so do we need a motion or is this another it's something to fix and you have the money so let's do it yes where is the other cemetery besides the airport oh Eldridge correct Eldridge is the airport cemetery this is the Shelvernote Cemetery that nobody ever knows is there until you really pointed out to them it's just south of the Olive Garden and so there's just two fencing segments that have been in great disrepair that you don't really see but we needed to carve back the wilderness growth and so now that we've done that they're more visible and they just need to be fixed because we're fixing a fence and not putting in a new fence it doesn't require a permit I assume I don't believe so if we're replacing as is but we will confirm that before we do the work okay thank you we're moving on to item 11 council consideration possible action on a resolution related to the city's fair and impartial policing policy councilor emory well I first have big thank you and I think that there's some people in the audience who are going to be among the people I list here there is a number of there are a number of citizens in our community who are quite active on a number of important initiatives and fair and impartial policing is one of them and last year Helen and I were contacted by the citizens group self-organized and very much active and well informed so Susan Schoenfeld as well as Nancy Helen, David Shiman and Kate Bailey and they have been in touch with Helen and me as well as our chief of police and our city manager and I know that we all have seen them before us before we discussed fair and impartial policing before and I just wanted to say that since that time I have just talked more with people who are very close to local farms and how is state policy, it is legal migration policy where these very needed workers come here to Vermont in order to provide food for us they are on our orchards, they are on our dairy farms and therefore I'm quite honored that you brought this to me as well as to our chair and I it is a delight to be able to bring this to my council tonight it has been read and reviewed by our chief of police who suggested some I think very acceptable amendments and therefore the final product I am simply the messenger of a lot of hard work done behind the scenes and I do want to give credit where it is due so thank you very much and I think you've read it it is basically as we said at the last time it is turning into law what is already practice and has long been practice and the hope is of course that our state attorney general will turn this into state law but at this point this is just simply making formal policy here and it's a support for that formal policy it is not formal policy it's not an ordinance it's support for the formal policy that we hope to see forth coming from our attorney general's office simply in support of the practice of our police which is not to inquire about the immigration status of anyone we have to work and then to other people who would like to speak David Scheinman do you want to hear from Chief Burke we have the floor thank you very much I think it was a collaborative process I really appreciated the inclusive nature and I feel as though we've got the policy exactly where we need it to ensure public safety and to have inclusive police services in the city of South Burlington they were great so thank you so much David Scheinman did you want to speak and then Alex David go ahead so I can't speak because I can't hear what others are saying oh I'm sorry so you have the floor David can you hear me now right so Alex yes we can I'm a community member and I support this so I'm happy to see this is happening today great thank you is there any further discussion by the council so I would Tim? the last result part says that we support the adoption of the following parent and partial policing policy but it's not attached here do we have to say the following or just say the adoption of the parent and partial policing policy I think it's the policy that is unwritten policy of our police it's a policy in practice that we hope to have implemented statewide do you want to strike the word following? adoption of the following parent and partial policing policy but then there's nothing printed afterwards that identifies what that policy is Susan? Nancy thank you that's right hi just to clarify and thank you for bringing that up because I think it says following so what I would suggest is that when this goes into the minutes the policy goes with it and that they're together so it's it has that statement and then the policy is there and it's the current one and so it would be the 412-21 policy is that okay with you Tim? okay so do we all have copies of that policy? I don't have a copy of that policy I'd love to see that first before I decide not to write into the microphone I don't think I have a copy of that policy so of course I'd like to see it read it before but it's already existing they're already practicing it I don't care who is practicing it I'd like to read it first I'm sure it's fine but in order for me to vote on this and it says following and I don't have the document that person I think that that would be proven of all of us to do that well I think I probably read it because I've given a lot of materials but that doesn't mean you've read it I'm sorry it says following and if it's following I'd like to have that document included here so that we can all read it it's a fair concern and I share it so is there a hurry to pass this tonight or can we get that policy and just vote on this at the next meeting I have no objection right now if it says following it's not pretty could the Chief maybe talk about the policy I don't think it's well it sounds like Councillor Barrett would really like to read it versus having to be told about it so I would suggest and I'm sorry that you came tonight well except I think everyone isn't supportive of this but we will put this off for the July 6th meeting which is a Tuesday and we'll have the policy attached to the resolution and then probably won't even need a whole lot of conversation and discussion you'll just need to read it and then it'll be very quick just a question with regard to the climate change policy that was again discussed tonight and that will likely see on July 6th it refers to policies that we will be working to meet do we need to include language of the state policy and the federal goals for you to review in order to sign off on that that depends on what that resolution looks like at that time okay so there are hundreds of pages from the UN this is specific to a policy that Chief Burke is working to implement now but I haven't physically read it so before I vote on anything it's a very simple thing we can wait because it sounds like the police department is already taking action on this and this is a formality for us in fact we have been told that we didn't even really need to do this at all and now we're being asked to do that I don't have a problem with that but somebody changed their mind to have us have this resolution I'm just saying now that we have the resolution I'd love to see that document as well that's all but I just need to know what I need to get to you to forward to maybe Jesse the policy and then it can be distributed in the packet for July 6th okay and then we'll have the policy that this refers to because of course we have nothing to say about that policy right which policy you're talking about? the police policy that's a procedural policy right but I still want to read it okay so we'll take action plan on taking action on the 6th okay thank you and if you want to strike the word following we'll vote on it right tonight if you'd like to but it refers to the same policy I'm just saying you have the word following if you want to strike that and just have it be a generic supports the fair and impartial policing policy then I don't have a problem but when you say following then that implies there's a document then I haven't read the document then I feel like I'm short changed a little bit that's all exactly where is that language the second line it's going to be a result I had a similar concern so Tim it's very valid and if there's no hurry I think voting on this on July 6th makes sense alright well unless you want to strike the following I don't I'm okay we'll wait okay we'll do it this way thank you so moving on to item 12 steps taken to work with the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission on an action climate action plan and Paul Conner sent us a nice memo and he's here to take us through that and bring us up to date on actually what they are doing good evening folks, good to see you all Paul Conner, director of planning and zoning and chief sustainability officer you have to put your mouth right next to it right on top where they don't hear I'm used to wearing headphones and the mic is right there it's a whole different technology so I will try to remember to speak directly here so as councilor really said I provided you with a little two page memo that gives you his data update on the climate action plan that you asked us to initially had put forward in resolution September of 2017 and then more recently this past fall asked us to set into motion and seek funding for various participants so I won't go through the whole memo because it's in your packet but just briefly the plan that we presented to you at the time or the approach was to essentially take this in a couple of phases so based on the resources available phase one develop what I'm calling the principle climate action plan you could call it the framework this would using the goals set by council establish existing and projected energy greenhouse gases emissions establish targets not just one target but a target within the different sectors of energy a value identify a series of pathways that's the terminology that's used in the state statute of Act 174 which is the enhanced energy plan they mean pathways approaches tools that kind of thing identify a series of them through public input and then using the steering committee take those and evaluate each of the ones that are selected or at least potentially selected for what impact they will have so to try to make everything in this measurable in order to attain the goals and then ultimately have a toolbox of likely more than one way but an approach that will achieve the council's climate goals and so the model from the state gives different examples of let's say you reach 90% of vehicles becoming electrified by 2050 that can meet x% but if it's 80% of vehicles then how else do you make up that percentage so it's not just a single way of doing it it might be a few ways of doing it depending on but it can be adjusted over time essentially the that's really what the main would do and what we have as resources available to that is city funds through the planning and zoning consulting budget that have reserved time from the CCRPC staff to the tune of about $21,000 for the climate action plan and other mapping efforts needs of the city that was approved by the regional planning commission as part of the work plan at the member rate which is a well-discounted rate for us the second piece of the puzzle the implementation plan can be one plan it can be multiple plans the approach that we decided to take initially was to look at this by sector and really be able to take a proper deep dive into that sector to have to get to not just sort of the mom and apple pie solutions but how do we actually implement these things so if we're going to use my vehicles electric vehicles what does that actually mean that actually could mean a strategic a strategy for getting more electric vehicle charging in public places it might be bylaws and incentives to get vehicle charging not just in single family homes but in the complicated more complicated situations of apartments where it's not necessarily a sign parking and on and on and on to the actual solutions and draft language or things like the main plan might identify that we need to have to centrally located parking the implementation plan would go to the next stage of working with property owners to find those locations we have funding this year through our unified planning work program request to the regional planning commission for the transportation sector they get federal transportation dollars and they thought that this was a creative approach that was very not very consistent with what they're trying to do with the work plan so they've assigned $30,000 of which we have 20% matched so $6,000 towards the transportation sector other sectors would be to follow and nor if the council wanted to look at the resources to identify how to implement those on a faster time frame that can certainly be a conversation with council on whether we're talking about thermal, electric or the governance part of it which is our role as a city I have been to use the term corporate entity rather than as a policy making entity and that's its own sector essentially so that's essentially where we're at in terms of, I've described some of the funding staffing I think you're well aware right now the planning and zoning staff is really focused on implementing and completing the work under the term zoning so we have been working with the regional planning commission to get the scope of work for this the climate action plan in good shape and to start to work with them on the transportation side they would likely bring in a consultant that they would work with us to help to do that and their their priority would be to get these both completed in the coming fiscal year council you can help us to determine the priority within that but we know right now that the first priority is getting the projects under term zoning so that's the dime tour we've proposed a few key questions for you all to consider I think the biggest one I mentioned at the beginning that the climate action plans would be striving to implement the goal an approach that can be taken is for the working group the steering committee to come back to and propose what the ultimate goal is that can be an approach I will say that based on experience the likelihood is that developing a goal from a grassroots perspective will take up a substantial amount of the budget you've assigned to the project another approach could be that the council uses a goal such as the one that you established in 2017 to essentially adhere to the state's goal of 90% greenhouse gas emission production by 2050 in the Paris Accord or set a different goal that you all determine in the not too distant future to give everybody the same the same objective from whoever is going to be working on the project so that's question one for you question two is the steering committee governance of this our recommendation including that of the energy committee is that this be a cross-section of people from different perspectives to make sure that ultimately this isn't a plan that sits on a shelf but it's one that is really challenging assumptions and getting by it and then the third one is we described the current staffing and funding available is that if that's satisfactory then we can then we've talked about the timeline for rollout we know that there's been interest in making sure this is a top priority so that's an open conversation for yourselves on resource availability as well so those are really our three key questions the thing I did not talk about in the memo is the relationship of this work to the comprehensive plan the comprehensive plan will be next due for readoption by March of 2024 which sounds like a long distance into the future but it's about two and a half years sent these plans can be written as being adopted by reference or they can be designed to be inserted into the plan that's a conversation that we can follow up on but I would suggest that either way if the council chooses to well you already chosen to proceed that it be designed to integrate into the next plan because two and a half years adoption will come around pretty quickly so I think from day one that we should be considering that the way that it's written and the designs of it really meld directly into what will become eventually the comprehensive plan but this is not itself the comprehensive plan Jesse? Thank you, thanks Paul just by way of introduction the reason this is before you tonight last council meeting when you had the conversation about your climate change resolution and then at the fall of energy commission I think that there was potentially a misperception or not full knowledge about what staff was currently doing so we wanted to bring forward to you the work that Paul and his team and others have been working on for the last couple of months and lay out for you where we think we are going in order to give you an opportunity to weigh in on that process along the lines of three key questions Paul just posed or redirect us as you think about your future policy statements about a climate action plan or other energy related resolutions Thanks. Comments or questions for Paul? Megan? I shared this with Jesse and I think she shared this with you earlier Paul that in addition to the CO2 emissions I think that we as a city need to address the environmental part of the equation that we are having an impact on our environment and on our ecosystems and they sustain life on this planet and so in addition to addressing the reduction of CO2 emissions we also need to as a city make sure that we are a sustainable community in terms of sustaining the natural environment that sustains us so I would like to see that included in our climate action plan Tom? I just want to endorse the Steering Committee approach that you were referencing from the Energy Committee discussion I met with Keith Deppstein over the years and it seems like the next opportunity for the city is to look beyond the residential housing but also look at the commercial sector as well as transportation so I think the Steering Committee composition that you are describing should forward so I definitely want to endorse that direction you are going in and just to follow up on that it may be a primary Steering Committee that leads the climate action plan as a whole but then as you engage in different sectors that we might suggest that that then evolve to if we are focused on transportation then it is transportation and if we are focused on governance then it is really more inward looking Matt and then Tim? With regards to your first question in my opinion the goal is the state mandate 26% reduction in emissions by 2025 or 2005 levels 40% reduction by 1990 levels by 2030 we are 13% there we will get 3.5 years to make up another 13% so when you talk about Paris or that zero my opinion is that the state mandate has a benchmark for our climate can you have a language in case the state changes their mind about some goal all these goals keep changing right so if we hang our star on a particular numerical number because we did a number you know then where are we if science changes it a little bit and we did already commit to the Paris climate goals in 2017 right I don't know if they included your environmental no but we didn't read the hundreds of pages that agreement comprises and that's my question for you Tim is how much do you want to read so I have a question what's important to me is not so much the goals because the goals could be A or B or C whatever it might be what's important to me is the steering committee and whoever is working on it really understands and identifies what the dials are that we can turn we don't have a dial on building codes in South Burlington we do have I think a clause that says that certain types of construction have to agree to the Activity Stretch Codes I don't know where the Activity Stretch Codes are anymore are they the tightest codes that exist or are they working on enhancing that to make buildings even tighter and more efficient but that's the kind of question I want to know is do we need to turn a dial that says that we're going to establish our own building codes and make them really strict because if the building code has their own codes they're going down some paths that are really interesting but we also have the ability to turn some regulatory codes and our own capital plan should probably reflect things so what I'm interested in knowing is what are all the dials that we have at our disposal and do we have to invent some new ones and which ones would give us the most return for the least investment that we can take advantage of so what's the low hanging fruit to start with and how do we change actions that we can take and that's fair and I think that especially on a subject that is global like this understanding where the city wants to put its efforts is going to be important in my mind are sort of three basic buckets there's the regulatory tools that we have that could be regulatory tools and policies that the city has that we can enhance, modify the tools enabled to us that we have not considered yet as a city and then those subjects beyond us that the city can choose to lobby others frankly, lobby the state legislature to change and so deciding where you want to put effort ultimately into these categories I think would be so just to answer Helen's question it does address the issues and the agricultural uses and all the rest okay, thank you so I'm on the code council that is going on the public service department to update the RVs and CVs the regional building energy codes and the commercial building energy codes and those will be updated I don't know how that will what the end result will be but I'm sure CCRPC is looking at how they can be integrated and adapted well we could specify that though correct in the direction of what we would want them to include or review would be if there's updates in building codes the state codes if they're tighter than what we have then I would think we would want to adopt that and that's most likely the scenario that's going to happen so it's also as Senator Chittenden would know action always addressing active 50 whether or not active 50 residential housing and commercial construction has to meet certain higher standards for energy efficiency so that's also happening but that doesn't address single family lot private home no active 50 so to Megan's point and when you really think about the natural landscape is there a way to estimate the value of like old forest growth because they are carbon sequester or sink right? they're called sinks okay and you know as part of our work so that if you opt to cut down an old growth forest then we would be reducing our resilience and ability to meet those goals would we not? I mean it's probably a hard thing to estimate but it seems like that needs to be part of the conversation that there are natural features that are working unbeknownst to what extent but science says they work really well so don't mess with them so that seems to me needs to be part of the equation and conversation when we talk about regulations and what we can do as a community to meet these goals whatever the goals are and I think that it's preparing for what we're hearing about which is lowered access to food increase prices of food increasing doubling by 2030 and really the need to that's why I'm inviting someone who works with new americans on agriculture to provide the ability for our individual plots to be part of our land development regulations whether or not there's an HOA whether or not it's a PUD that they're in addition to civic space and recreation space that there be space for people to grow food because that is what we're facing and so that's part of the resilience to build a resilient community you have to be prepared for what is coming Tom? I definitely like the approach of working with the regional commission and aligning with Vermont State Goals because South Burlington is not an island so we want to have policies about forest sinks that are consistent with as the Eau Claire property shows us that we want to work with our neighbors to adequately plan for land use and if we do it in isolation I don't think we're going to achieve our goals nearly as well and that also reminds me another thing that I think is why it's so important to take the steering committee approach and also continuing your work with the CCRPC I was on a weatherization call today and I didn't see you on there but Senator Bray was coordinated as well and they raised something that I had not heard of before on bill financing to support and finance weatherization projects we've talked before about pace financing which has to do with the municipal entity holding liens on properties and that hasn't really gone far because of a variety of issues but on bill financing through agencies like Vermont Gas opens up a whole other revenue stream for low income individuals to be able to weatherize their homes so South Burlington can't do that I just really like working with Regional Planning Commission aligning with the state goals because I think we're going to get to our ends and our means better as a team and rather than in isolation it's just one community setting these priorities All the energy efficiency work and sound work that the airport is doing with the homes in Winooski and South Burlington and I guess for some in Williston as well is in partnership with Vermont Gas to do and efficiency Vermont to do some of that while they're putting in I guess new doors and windows to maybe throw in a heat pump or something to improve that structure Matt? I hate to keep harping on this but I just want to correct what Senator Chitton just said the state no longer has goals they have mandates the state is sued under the Global Warming Solutions Act so we have mandates that we have to meet to reduce emissions and there's a number of work that's happening including what council really suggested at the climate council where they're talking about how they calculate forests and agriculture as a carbon sink and how that can be included in the calculation to determine whether or not we meet not the goals but the mandates as established in Cold Warming Solutions Act at the state level so I just want to share that we do have folks online who would like to make public comment when you're ready for that are there other comments like councillors? I guess I would just add that with regard to the governance two things one I think the concern is also the staffing of this kind of steering committee and so I'd just like to talk with my fellow councillors Tom, Helen, Matt and Tim about perhaps retasking the Natural Resources Committee and increasing its membership to include the leadership skills and experiences that we would like to have on such a steering committee that way we would have Ashley perhaps serve continue to serve as the staff liaison and we wouldn't have to staff a whole new steering committee that was a suggestion I had that's part one, part two is I think it's really important that we take the step because with regard to governance I think that the public and our constituents will respond well to this action on our part and they are going to look to us to make these steps and we will in fact instill in them confidence that this is something that is doable and that's important so I really support this effort okay, if there's Paul I just wanted to add that this is a really excellent discussion and I thank you councillors for your thoughts on this the the impression that it leaves back with me which is something that we've had this is a big lift this is a substantial citywide effort to be tackling this from not just a individual project perspective which you've heard of I think a lot of excellent work that's been going on in the last few years but what I'm hearing as feedback it really sort of gets to has a lot of roots any one of the suggestions and ideas that were brought up this evening are not big projects so I don't want to I want to make sure that we're not underscoring the scale of this and also that as we think about what will be in year one and how we make use of our resources with the Chippin County Regional Planning Commission that the funding allocated to that is you know it's substantive but it's small in the big scale that what we're getting in each stage of this is meeting your expectations at each stage so I just wanted to make sure that we're all thinking about that from day one if I could sure and then I'll go to the public thank you that I see that there are short term and long term goals and with regard to the short term I think the steering committee but also the current regulations that we are working on as a city long term goal for us to include in this deliberation for the long term goal and I believe I sent to this council a link to a discussion with oh the marine biologist Sylvia I'm sorry I'm blanking it's thank you it is senior moment that yeah it is you have ten years we have ten years to slow down the inertia and so I don't want you know the big lift I don't want people to think that we have to lift up everything in a year we have ten years right and so this can be done incrementally and we have to think strategically what needs to be done now what can be done in two years what can be done in three years just like the you know aerial the ladder truck we have to think that way so I just I want everyone to say yes we have to act but we have ten years window where we can plan and hopefully right feel that we can make a difference okay thank you let's go to the public okay so Roseanne Greco would like to speak so councillors I'm at a real disadvantage because for whatever reason the audio tonight is horrible so I think it's got pieces of what people were saying so what I'm saying is you may have already said if so I'm just going to you know reiterate the fact and so I'm sort of shooting him that it's been oh Roseanne you're frozen no yeah if you turn off your video Roseanne we might be able to stream your voice more easily turn off the video yeah we can hear you yep we can hear you okay so I'm going to be wrong-winding here but I believe the initial effort was focused solely on one half of the climate crisis problem and that is the use of fossil fuel and the intent to reduce some obvious thing that is you know it's necessary to be done but the other half is to stop destroying the natural resources that have the ability to help us get through the climate crisis and that is nature trees, soil, grass waterways so there's two components of life not believe the way it's written now that that second component is included so the other thing is I attended a few seminars from the climate and global warming and they are mentioning the two halves of it and I think I said the link to y'all I encourage you to watch it but don't miss half of it is the stuff that you can do without having to go through long-winded study and that is stop destroying whatever we've got left of nature so the other thing I think I've heard counselors saying and I've heard this the last meeting and I think I've heard it again let somebody else take care of it the state's working on it so what the heck are we doing we all again everybody doing the same exact thing which is it down the road cities, municipalities have the authority and the power to make change you don't need to wait for another city or state or a nation or the world to do something cities can do it I encourage you to take action take it forward and not rely on somebody else there is no somebody else nobody's coming to save us we have to save ourselves so I hope I was able to be heard as much bigger as you possibly can thank you thank you Roseanne I don't think I heard tonight anyone saying that let's let somebody else kick the can down the road I think when we talked about the goals the state goals were referenced and I think we are talking about developing an action plan not that kind of coordinates with that but then focuses on what the city can do so I think we are on the same wavelength on that so is there someone else who wants to speak somebody Jill Stevens with her mic unmuted I'm not sure if she would like to address the council Jill are you interested in addressing the council oh ok is there anyone else alright have you got enough direction or do you need some more we still have 15 minutes so this is like unheard of so if you Kevin? I just have one thing and this is this is something Jesse is going to have to deal with this is an enormous project and it sounds like the council is very committed to it I would ask you that as you move forward with this and talk about your steering committee that you really consider the impact on staff and it may cause you to think about pulling back on some of your other work some of your committees are doing and refocus their attention on this because I can see this taking two or three staff people and those staff people already 100% committed to their committees so if even as you move forward with this you can think about pulling back on some other things that committees are doing I think that that would provide the resource you need and not over burden the staff one of the things that I have spoken with several councilors as well as Jesse is early on 10 years is really getting the committee chairs to share with us what their goals and what they're working on so that we can do just that Kevin we can say maybe that was a big need or interest two years ago but we would like you to focus on something else and really coordinate their work a little bit more so hopefully we can achieve that because I appreciate it this is a big lift and we have I don't know probably 80 or 90 volunteers on all these different committees so that's a considerable pool of energy and people and thinking that if we redirect them appropriately we might be able to get somewhere and Jesse likes to work that way I know well this is really helpful I appreciate your time I think a couple of things that we'd like to take back and think about maybe bring back to you our councillor your thoughts of the different pieces of this the first thing that that brings to mind to me is this this brings it closer to the multitude of issues that comprehensive plan gets into and that's not a bad thing it just means how do we shape this in a way that is really informing the next comprehensive plan and maybe this is not making any commitments to anything at this tonight but maybe we think about the timeline of the next comprehensive plan not being necessarily 2024 but can we if this is a really high council priority to integrate these issues throughout subject areas do we think about sort of from day one that this is a climate act the implementation part of it is climate action and the plan part of it is sort of really tying into a the next comprehensive plan that might you know maybe that sooner than 2024 and then also your thoughts around the committees I think is a really good idea and thinking about how can a variety of different groups be supporting working in in support to this so they can follow up with Jesse and Andrew on this and come back to us in additional thoughts would be great any further comments for Paul for questions just to pass along to Paul and we didn't report on this but Helen and I and Jesse attended the energy committee meeting the last one and I was in touch with Ethan since and although at the energy committee meeting they declined our invitation to be the climate action task force Ethan let me know in an email we still want to work on this and to support it since this very much involves what we do as the energy committee so just wanted to just to go along with what you were saying Paul I want you to know that the energy committee is already present and ready and willing that's fantastic and thinking about how to have committees such themselves working in support of and and building to a greater single and not sort of be working in parallel on the same issues and I think that would be an important structural thing for us to address as a community so thank you okay thank you very much so moving on to item 13 this is the council consideration and possible approval to submit a federal raise grant application to fund a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over I-89 at exit 14 and letter of support and is Alana joining us by video we already had a schedule I might add so we could take our snack break early if you want okay why don't we do that so for those of you in the audience we have a wine public member yay I um this is a bit of a celebration consideration of a lost council I mean a resident changing of the guard the new guard so that's great so I made some strawberry shortcake and I'll get out of the refrigerator and you can help yourself and then we can celebrate before the fact of saying goodbye and after we said hello so we'll just take a 10 minute break and so all of you at home if you're still listening take your glass of wine and raise it to this new administration and all the considerable issues that we continue to struggle with I don't want to post a break but it did just say Alana has arrived let's do the work and Helen is the chef I just wanted to give credit to Helen no, Mary was going to bring champagne and I was told I was told I would be gone there's a policy no booze on the April 10th since 2004 and in 2017 the city partnered with McKelley Regal Planning Commission to go out for this processing to provide an alternative mean for bicycle, pedestrians skateboarders wheelchairs everyone cross over the interchange between Brawlington plus Brawlington so I wanted to post a video for Wilson when it's the Brawlington plus Brawlington as they go through their day so we have applied for the Ray brand is the current incarnation under the Secretary of the United States for transportation improvements in the $10 million to $25 million range was first incarnation was at the Tiger brand and said it was the Bill brand we applied several times before with increasingly better reviews as we agreed daughter applications last year we actually made it to the Secretary's desk it's a very very competitive brand and since and so by making it to the Secretary's desk we went from sort of one sort of with like a billion dollars being granted and 10 billion asked for to a billion dollars being granted and 2.5 billion being asked for this year the program currently has more than a half billion and we are requesting just under 12 million we will need to match this the required match generally for the program is a 20% match the because we're a rural project we can ask for a 0% match in an application we did have a conversation with the staff about this project and generally and they said that certainly there is what's favorably on if a community has given the game this project is a is a tax increment financing a group project so it's eligible for district financing for up to 30% of the costs so just under 4 million dollars can we spend so we're recommending that we ask for a 20% to be provided or that the city commits we obviously haven't signed any grant documents by submitting the application but that we provide a 20% match to the federal government for their grant and then some of the funds the delta between the 20% and the 30% of project costs are used for all the costs including a grant award as well as any non-recipatory costs for example anything that's proprietary we run a specific street light because it matches other street lights within the city or specific landscaping that is a proprietary type of tree like any tree that has a name on it as opposed to just being a city tree so things like that are not eligible for the grant generally so I've attached the grant for which is sort of our formal request for approval to submit a grant and then there's also a draft letter of support for the grant I did correct the typo of the version that is in the folder and then notice the funding opportunity we are working with the grant writers here and as you've seen it's a pretty complicated grant application we write a 30 page narrative and we are making adjustments this year in order to conform to the expectations of the new secretary last year equity was not a priority this year it is a priority so we're working on just incorporating all of the great things that our region is doing around equity and how it relates to this bridge and making this bridge a good project for the overall community so and then there's also I've attached the study which sort of reviews the public process to date we would anticipate that if the city receives the grant we submit the grant application we receive the grant that we would and this is described in our application that we would hold a design competition that the public would be able to participate in in order to select the actual design for the for the project and that this would be part of our selection process for the design team meaning the development papers etc that develop the project so that concludes my presentation I'm happy to answer questions are there any questions by the council let's do this of sickness a couple of times but Matt is not and forgive me for asking another new guy question but I remember before there was some general discussion about expanding the district or did I or did I miss out here or is that not even possible anymore I'll take that Alana we had been considering expanding the TIP district but the sentiment in the legislature right now is against allowing communities to expand their TIP districts that being said qualifying infrastructure can also be outside the TIP district if it serves the TIP district so in fact this proposed location for the bridge is outside the TIP district but it will serve the purposes of the TIP district and so it is eligible for that reason and it is one of the 13 approved projects so we don't need additional approval if the voters the voters have to approve it any other questions I think it's as I've said before a really cool project and we should do it and I'm hoping that we get the funding this time so I Sandy did you want to say something turn it on as most of you know I've lived here a long time I just wanted to tell you that and most of you may not be old enough to remember Art Hogan who was chair of the regional planning commission in the early 90s he recruited me to be one of South Burlington's representatives on a Tri-City Light Rail Feasibility Study which was Burlington-Wanewski and South Burlington and I believe that was the very first time that this bridge was put on a map so I don't know if that would help your application that we've wanted this since the early 90s a lot of it but I just thought that with you and I'm so hopeful that maybe with a new administration we'll get a yes in response to this application so right on great thank you alright so I would entertain a motion to submit the federal raise grant application for this pedestrian bicycle bridge for any further discussion other than Hallelujah okay all in favor by saying aye good work Alana these are they always change them right so it's not like you can just pull out last year change the date thank you thank you very much for persisting with this okay moving on to number 14 reports from counselors on committee assignments are there any I have one for the airport we met on the 16th and well actually there's two things one is that the sound insulation plan will be sent out this week or next so getting that includes all the outreach and the design and it describes the location for the monitoring which is different than that but there's also the monitoring for the community our monitoring will be set up at the Chamberlain school and it's apparently a separate like a little big box that they come in there are three one is in Burlington South Burlington Nuske and that is at City Hall and the third one is Williston and I think that's can't remember is it the fire department or something like that so those are the three sites and there will be a public portal and you literally will be able to go in and see exactly what planes were flying and the noise they generated in their flight path the only thing that's a little uncertain that you can probably appreciate is the F-35s don't like to share their schedule and apparently they because they're stealth planes you can't follow them very well with radar I would hope you couldn't follow them at all but you'll hear the noise you'll probably be able to guess that must be one of the six that are taken off and there will be like decibel graphs over time on this portal oh yeah it'll tell the noise so that should be another way to identify these planes when they fly by the time of day absolutely and then there's also as you might be aware the Planning Commission created a subcommittee to look at some very very limited airport zoning changes where the old dog park was right along the fence and they would like a counselor on that and it's I think it's a fairly short lived commitment I'll do that would you like to do that? I mean I'm happy to do it too but oh I'm willing to do it I don't have a committee commitment which is why then we'll appoint you you'll be working I think it's Monica and Carmen Sargent no I was thinking from the Planning Commission it's Monica Ian do you remember who else? Paul Engels, that's right and then there'll be some public members and I don't know who's selecting those has Carmen been appointed? Yeah it could be good okay so it's very small we're not talking about rezoning everything okay so that's my report from the airport commission could I went for a walk on Friday to several people's neighborhoods and you know there's Chamberlain neighborhood but we all kind of have our little neighborhoods but you know block parties and things and some people talked about how pilots are doing you know, kinds of turns and rollovers and 35 right over the neighborhood and wondering if this was more than necessary and required and did it have to be done over neighborhoods is that a question that you could take to somebody or should that be addressed the only people that can address that really is the air force or the air guard the airport is told when they're going to fly so could we write the council and ask if that's necessary we ask the commander if the council would like to have that inquiry we certainly can I'll just inform the council that in the past there are mechanics retired mechanics who live in Chamberlain and they informed me that these are not necessary so I think it might be worth the question and there's certainly the complete option as well but we could certainly write a letter from the council just inquiring about their flight patterns we haven't had the guard in for quite a while but let's invite them alright no we did that 2015 it's sort of 16 so it's been 20 times yeah I don't know if we can do it in July but we can try for August yeah okay let's Jesse remind me or put it on one of the agendas please that would be great okay good idea item 15 of May financials last time doing this Tom it is indeed yes so thanks we'll go up some sales tax so you have received a copy of the May financials and as you look at it we're 93% in current revenue collected and we're about 79% in terms of our expenses and just as a reminder the expenses were on the budget for a good part of the year we expect that expenses will stay well under spent at least under spent in terms of balancing out the revenue for the year which to Megan's point earlier dollars that we could attribute to a specific project or something like the fire truck so I think we're in good shape there and I can talk a little bit about some general expenses and revenues for May but we'd like to talk a little bit too about some projections for the end of the fiscal year just to kind of give you my perspective on that from where we sit right now on the new side we've collected all but a small fraction of our property tax less than 1% is still out there and I mean it's a very small percentage that's left we're in good shape with the property tax the local options tax we've been talking about that all year the rooms and meals it's going to be down it's a question of how much I think it's going to be somewhere in the half million to $600,000 range that's actually Jesse if you want to pass those around fire inspection revenue is going to be down it's really related to building and planning and zoning permits issued ambulance billing is going to be down interest on accounts is going to be down because the interest is very low right now in terms of fund investments police department impact fees also associated with development is going to be down and road permits are going to be about half what we expected them to be for this fiscal year that's the bad news the good news is we have enough revenue to make up for that on the other side of things so as we look at the fact that we don't have to pay anything on the pension note this year that's about $661,000 the coronavirus relief fund has given us a little over 164,000 FEMA in terms of a receivable that we have for them we have an additional $322,000 in the general fund coming in and a $40,000 additional in our enterprise funds that will be coming to us clerk recording fees continue to be really good Don is making up some extra revenue there and for the first time since I've been here we're actually getting a workers comp reimbursement instead of an additional payment after our workers comp audit our mod is less than one it is really good right now the overtime for the past year has been in check pretty well and we received $107,000 check just last week from our insurance agent so there's a combination of things that even though we're going to be roughly $1.3 million short on major revenue streams that we currently have we're over that 1.3 million with other sources of income that we've received and the fact that we know we're going to have expenses that we're not going to spend the other area that I'd just like to address is health insurance we're in really good shape this year with our health insurance I'm projecting somewhere between $300,000 to the good at the end of this fiscal year and I'd like to suggest as Andrew and Jesse bring that back to you once the fiscal year is closed and we know exactly how much is there assuming that we've met budget and everything is balanced while that we create a special fund for health insurance now that we're self insured there's probably going to be years where there's going to be a little bit more expenses than what we budgeted for but this past year we're in really good shape and it might be wise to establish that fund just as additional insurance so to speak so that if we have a year that's a little bit tough we're able to fund that without impacting the general fund so would that be just a one-time creation with the savings this year? Are you anticipating that every year we might have well the fund I think only needs to be created once but I think each year Andrew and Jesse need to look at it and see what additional revenue might want to go into the fund or just go onto the fund balance I think it's essential that we have something in the account I'm not sure that it's necessary every year that we put a couple hundred thousand dollars into it I think once we establish a good pool of money that we can access if we need to then that might suffice so again once we close the books I think we can look at that a little further and the only other thing I would suggest is that we probably just kind of accrue the paving money into FY22 there's an additional $335,000 that we haven't spent in fiscal year 21 Justin has projects all lined up for fiscal year FY22 and that money is ready to go you've approved the paving schedule that he submitted to you I think back in April or May and again I would suggest that maybe we take that $335,000 if it is not needed and again we won't know that until about the end of August when we officially close out FY21 then we accrue that money and allow that for additional paving to go to Justin to make up for some of the backlog on streets that haven't been paid over the last couple of years because we've had to pull that money back so that would be my only other suggestion even with that I think we're going to be putting money on the fund balance so we're in really good shape the federal government's definitely helped out and changed the perspective that we had back in January but even with that we're going to be able to make budget this is just the loudest to do the things in FY21 including all the expenditures with the exception of the paving one I just made of all our CIP purchases being procured at this point so that's fleet projects and everything so that's good news that doesn't put us in the backlog for FY22 and it looks like there's a green light for FY22 for CIP projects and for the budget to move forward as planned Andrew that's a bar yeah exactly thank you questions yeah so this budget that you're presenting to us was approved by the voters back in early March of 2020 about a week or two before the world stopped already if I recall correctly in the pandemic in your time Tom with such a challenging budget year as this one was and is this the best year to go out on or do you want to stick around for another couple of years just to keep things to do I appreciate the thought Tom but by far this has been the most challenging year with the budget while we've had a budget freeze like for a month or two we've never had one that's started on July 1st into a new budget year and really gone well into the quarter of the year so that's significant our managers, our department managers have been great they've understood where we were fiscally they've managed their budgets really well and now they're at a point where they can actually see those expenditures still take place before the year ends so we ended on a good note but it was hard to know where it was going to go and it was definitely challenging and certainly didn't want to leave things at all that's not the way to go out but I've encouraged this to where we're at at this point well thank you any other questions? Matt? just a bookkeeping question we show on the light item for local option taxes and here you're seeing $25,000 less than the budget amount but whatever the number is is that what the state sends us after they've taken their cut 30% we should change that what's the meaning of it? $87,000 or something? the flat fee or a percentage? yeah I actually think I sent it to you Matt I'll look it up I'll resend that to you but because we're not actually doing it the money flows back the 1% minus the 30% and minus the fee that's what you show and just to further get your go not all communities pay that there are Burlington and St. Albans don't pay that 30% well they're grandfathered so if we had the choice we would prefer to do it ourselves as well but the state does not give us that choice Tom's working on that who is the state? oh you are as I said Tom's working on that I'm sure yeah I think it's really interesting that you really started a municipal health savings account essentially with that surplus so I think that's a really great concept if we continue going down to a captive insurance model that will be really beneficial to have that and that's kind of one of the models that private companies have for many of their employees so not it's the best model but it's good to have that money and use it for that purpose yeah I really felt the way that we were going with the major carriers was not going to be sustainable for us we saw what those increases were and I think it's 12% for next year so we're looking at a much much less than that in the captive the workers comp is in the captive is that through VLCT or is that workers is through Hickok and Board and travels okay any other questions well great okay thank you it is good I feel a lot better about that report than I think I would have imagined we appreciate that very much so so moving on item 16 recommendations to the council related to staffing and possible action involving investing funds from the American Rescue Plan to ARPA and Jesse thank you so what I'm looking for tonight from you all is comment or a general head nod of a plan to use an initial phase of the ARPA funds to quote unfreeze the positions that are currently in the FY22 budget but not funded in the FY22 budget so a few more sentences about that as I think you heard congressman Welch share a couple months ago South Burlington may be in line to receive about 5 million dollars of ARPA funding the reality for us right now is that only a third of that is directly allocated to us as an entitlement community the two thirds of that is allocated to county government nationwide and in Vermont our Vermont delegation has worked really hard to say we don't really have county government in Vermont municipalities US Treasury is not buying that argument so it's likely that those dollars will go back to the legislature as they did during ARA and then the legislature will have to do whatever they're going to do they could do lots of different things we are hoping that they'll allocate the majority of it back to municipalities as was the intent of our argument as was the intent of the federal legislation is what we have an allocation of about 1.8 million dollars as an entitlement community and one of the qualifying ways to use that money is to fill revenue losses so what you see in the memo is the analysis that's been done about where we've seen those revenue losses so these are very similar to the same chart that Tom just described in the May projections so that is all to say we have we could use about 1.2 million of the 1.8 million to fund revenue losses bring them into the budget and then allocate those out to bring back staffing I am not convinced we would need to use the full 1.2 million for that it would be about half a million dollars in FY22 if we've brought it on July 1st all of those positions were unfunded so with a tacit agreement from you all that you're interested in looking at some staffing models to unfree some of those positions we would do some analysis and bring you back a set of recommendations about which positions to unfree at what point in the fiscal year and then how we would use those funds over the next five years to grow us back to the tax rate capacity to fully staff those positions into the future what's the impact for FY22 but what would the impact in FY25 be on the tax rate have you had preliminary discussions with the employees who might come back not preliminary discussion I have not had preliminary discussions with the employees we've had preliminary discussions with the department heads who have those positions funded and part of why we're talking about this tonight is Tom and Kevin have the historic information were any of those positions actually rift or were they vacancies these are vacancies we don't have anybody waiting to come back for these positions I thought there was a childcare situation at least for one employee that's been resolved and that position was not part of these so the positions you see on here are would be open positions that we would hire into because to be clear everybody who was furloughed back in the spring and summer has returned they were all brought back in August so none of these people are still waiting to come back so because planning and zoning is pretty understaffed right now right yes so we would be looking to hire new personnel city planner in this particular case so just to reiterate also all of these positions are either someone left or retired or they were funded and we froze the position because at the time the budget was frozen and we were furloughing people so we weren't hiring at the time so that's the combination of the positions I think there's about eight total positions right now that Jesse would be looking at okay any other questions well I certainly would appreciate you coming back with the plan I think that makes a lot of sense to sort of figure out how to have the least amount of impact on the taxpayer but also a planned way to resume or have the staffing that we need going forward to meet all our old and new obligations great thank you very much we will come back okay well this is the hardest part of tonight and that's saying goodbye to wonderful employees and our leaders and I'll start with Tom and just I don't think any of you were on the council maybe Megan came back but when I first came on the council about a year later we fired our city manager and when Kevin came on board as interim but during that time we as I understand it almost lost quite a few of our really dedicated and wonderful directors as a result of the poor management style I guess among other things of this departing or departed city manager and Tom was one of those people I understand he was very close to saying goodbye to South Burlington because of the employment situation and it really got intolerable and I think my stars that he didn't take that step because I really think that he has this certain gravitas with the employees and the management found and see if this new guy can pull us out of a pretty dark place and then you know he moved up in ranks and really became Kevin's sidekick in a way I mean it was a team it was wonderful they fed off each other in a really positive way and I think together really helped make the rest of the staff willing to try it to stick out to stick with it and I'm just really grateful they did and I think that's fortunate for Jesse she's really inheriting a really wonderful leadership staff and it's in part I think a large part to the leadership of these two but I just think there's a special hats off to Tom for being with them in the trenches and helping convince them that things could be better and they will be and clearly tonight's news we've come a long way through some really dark days for our country in terms of the economy and city government and our ability to deliver the services we need to deliver in light of a pandemic so I'm really going to miss you you have a great personality a great way with numbers and words and making them that's not my strength the numbers but you made it understandable for me and that's saying a lot and so I really appreciate really all that you've done for the city, 42 years is a long time few people stay married that long and I think even fewer stay employed with the same company so you've done both so that's really wonderful so I really thank you from the bottom of my heart and then Tom you have some comments for us too but I think there's some other councillors who would like to bother you off too thank you for sharing that I appreciate it I won't be nearly as eloquent but I just want to say a couple of things Tom, I've only been in this role in my 7th year but as I hear from many community members and it's all councillors do they don't usually come see us when they're happy and one thing I have found that your reputation is impeccable in the community that no matter how furious they are with one thing or another with the city they love Tom Hubbard Tom Hubbard is just the guy that's helped them with all the issues over the years so the whole community is going to miss you so I just hope you know how much South Burlington really appreciates everything you've done here I do feel that Tom, thank you I just want to second what Tom said and I want to say that yeah I think that there's a lot we could say I'll just share one personal story that there was a concern of a neighbor about noise in a club nearby and Tom scheduled a meeting on the first day of the semester and I was going to go until the first day of the semester became overwhelming with all kinds of student requests and Tom without batting an eye went and represented the city and checked in with me he said I know it's your first day and you missed the meeting I was like oh my gosh I was overwhelmed by the first day and that's who Tom is he filled in he played the role that needed to be played and it's just an anecdote that he was the neighbor he was the advocate he was someone who could you find a solution and get things done and on top of what Helen said with your number sense and your communication skills it's quite a package and the city has benefited tremendously and I've learned a lot from you over the many years thank you I remember that I took a visit to that club did you resolve the issue and still is still is, thanks to Tom even better thank you so I mean 40 years is a long time I'm approaching my 40th so I'm behind you I just want to thank you for the I've only been here since 2016 but I've been in residence since 92 and I know my wife has known you for a long time because she was born here you know the work you did with Parks and Rights in the park a long time ago but what I knowing what goes on in the city who are your customers your customers are taxpayers city council and most of the taxpayers are voters as well and then you have staff within the city and what I think they've perceived what I've received is what people really want in leadership is they want somebody first of all who's competent Tom you're competent and those two things together when you relate to people when you're as personable as you are and as professional as you are it just puts it over the top in terms of trust because that's what you really want in leadership is you want people that you can trust so I really appreciate that quality and we're going to miss that not that we're not going to have it but we really appreciate it thanks for your service I appreciate that I mean you don't have to I've only known you since 2021 but you know the responsiveness anytime we ask a question you can see if the leadership went down my time on the DRV the staff cares what the volunteers care about and are responsive to their questions and the leadership all the way down we really respect that thanks now we'll listen to you okay I'll try to get through this I have prepared some statements that really been meaningful to me so I'm actually going to read this because I need to so as I sit here with you for the last time tonight it seems a bit surreal that 42 years with the city of South Burlington is coming to a close it's certainly been an incredible journey and one I sincerely appreciate and am truly grateful for when I first came on board in my early 20s then city clerk Peg Peacart some of you know her used to refer to me as the baby of city hall because I was the youngest and newest employee at the time and it just seemed like it took forever to get somebody else in that role but anyway things have changed just a bit and while I'm not the oldest here I'm certainly the longest tenured and others will follow and surpass that as well South Burlington is a place that I've been able to call home for many years not only with my work but also where my wife and I were able to raise our family develop countless friendships and enjoy lifelong bonds with many of our neighbors I've been honored to serve the city as a long term employee with roles as both the assistant director and director of recreation and parks with Bruce O'Neill as a great mentor and under Bill Samansky and Chuck Hafter's leadership as city managers for much of my career I've been part of the leadership team as a department manager and in more recent years as the deputy city manager I'm fortunate to have been able to develop relationships enhance partnerships and help build a level of trust and respect with residents employees, departments you as members of the city council and the community at large I've been blessed with the various roles and opportunities that have been offered to me and I want to take this opportunity to say thank you thank you to all the residents I've served over these many years this interaction with the public has been one of the most gratifying aspects of my different roles it is this interaction that has allowed me to develop relationships with so many people with individuals, families the business community community partners local organizations and service groups throughout the community I'm grateful that I've had the privilege to work alongside an amazing group of leaders and dedicated employees representing the various departments throughout the city the degree of experience and expertise that sits around the table at our bi-weekly department manager meetings is unparalleled this talented group of leaders represents the best the city has to offer to each of them thank you for the honor of working with you it's a huge part of what I'll miss the most thank you to all the city employees for doing what you do day in and day out the special team of 170 employees is what makes city government function the roles have varied but the significance of each and every person performing their work diligently on a daily basis on behalf of the community together with everyone taking pride in what they do is what makes South Burlington such a special place to work and thanks to all of you on the city council for whom I've served for entrusting me with the responsibilities of my role and the support and confidence you've had in me to perform my work here for the city of South Burlington and thank you for your untiring commitment and leadership I witnessed first hand the amount of time dedication and passion that you've all invested in making South Burlington a wonderful place to live, work, and enjoy on a personal level I want to express my utmost thanks to my wife Ann and to all our adult children and their families to Tim, Jeff, and Ann family's always been the center of my life and will continue to be and has provided the balance and perspective with everything that I do being out at many of the recreation programs in my younger years as evidenced in the most recent picture in the paper where somebody caught me square dancing led me away from the house many a night when my wife I'm sure could have used to break from the kids but she never complained and has always been supportive of my work as for the kids they were with me at many of the programs and events providing fun memories and experiences I wouldn't trade for anything they were rec program troopers for sure and for all you've each become and the many accomplishments in your own careers I could not be a more proud dad and thank you for all the love and support throughout these many years you've been the rock at home the most incredible mom and the most supportive wife throughout my career thank you for all you've done for me and for them I love you and I look forward to our new chapter and to Kevin thank you for the opportunity to serve South Burlington as part of your city management team working with you has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my career we ascribe to many of the same ideals empowering our leadership setting the example encouraging and inspiring others and letting them do what they're hired to do while supporting and recognizing their efforts it's always been a team approach and one you've fully embraced thank you for your steadfast leadership your sense of humor your intuitive word of the day that not many people know about but I can and your ability to think outside the box and bring the right people together and your consistency in representing the community with professionalism and integrity there's nobody who's witnessed this more closely than I have day in and day out and it's been an absolute pleasure to work alongside you and I appreciate your confidence in me to carry out the deputy role with your unwavering support and finally to Jesse and to Andrew transitioning as the new city management team I look forward to my continued work and transition with you in the days ahead and I know the city will be well served and in good hands and I wish you both all the best thank you very much I would like to request that his particularly because the sound is pretty stinky tonight that Tom's presentation be included in the minutes that looks like he has a copy hopefully that went through because I'm peeking it looks like my wife is online but I don't know if people can hear maybe others I want to make sure they couldn't hear so thank you thank you Helen well to acknowledge or say something nice about Kevin and I have a resolution but before we all read that I I just want to say when you're chair you develop a particularly different relationship with the city manager and I've enjoyed working with Kevin a lot I really respect the work you've done your professionalism I love how creative you can be you and I used to dream a lot and I always like that to really think about talk with you about what could be sort of downplayed very much you brought some of my ideas to reality but I think some of them built on yours so I really appreciate that you've been a real steadfast important leader for this community I think we wouldn't have Tiff without you and Alana of course but it was really a lot of your leadership and connections and just knowing how to get things done and who to talk to to get things done so it's really been an honor I worked in the legislature when you worked there and I wasn't on any of the committees that you ever served on so I didn't really know you in fact I was annoyed with you at some point because I was trying to cut the conservation housing trust fund and you had to carry that water and so I was really annoyed with you and then I realized as you were working here that one of your strengths is you know who your boss or bosses are and you are so faithful about carrying out that direction and that's sometimes hard to do I'm sure we bet you do things that you were like why did they make that decision but they did and I'm going to carry it out to the best of my ability and so I I really admire that and I thank you do you want to speak yes and then we'll do the resume I feel like we're compelled to go around the room again real quick alright I'll just say this Kevin for these offices and my first exposure to public office was City Council back in 2015 and I honestly didn't know much about being a City Councilor so many of you can attest to that I'm sure but I will say Kevin was one of the best resources I had he gave me any phone call any lunch a couple of times initially and I remember when I was first on council I sat where Mr. Councilor Coda Matt if I may is currently sitting and it was our first meeting at one of those long meetings and I had to turn to Kevin like can I go to the bathroom right now I actually told this story to other people because I didn't know if he could get up and break away from the space so that's just an example how I've gone to Kevin over the years for advice guidance and he's been great so Kevin thank you I have learned a lot from you I'm going to miss you and keep in touch well now that I sit next to Tom he's never asked a question like that I have a lot I could say about Kevin as well so I just have to share yes my my respect for your integrity and my just 120% trust in you which is key to this form of government and I was serving under the former city manager and veiled ship and I'm very sorry Tom that I veiled ship I'm very sorry that was a hardship um just a funny anecdote I think I'm the only one who laughed at your joke at the police awards dinner when you talked about the guy in the snow storm in Minnesota and I have to say that as someone who was born in Minnesota with a Norwegian great grandmother and the whole scene up there I felt that joke just briefly I don't even know if Kevin knows this but I first met you in 2007 when I was a former journalist moving back to Vermont from California took over this job for a trade association we had a similar background running trade associations and meeting some of the people in our circles and knew that you had become the secretary of commerce and talked about wow that is public service to devote your yourself to because it is a 80 hour week job not a lot of glory not a lot of pay and I thought that is the example of what I want to be and it inspired me to get into elected office I don't have a bathroom joke I like that you do but I knew that the first time you met and I was just elected there was a little bit of tension between us I think the circumstances under the election and what was going on but that resolved pretty quickly and I've enjoyed working with you ever since I didn't enjoy it right then but it was a learning experience because we didn't know each other but I did have the pleasure of co-conducting your review like three years ago and I can personally attest to the reviews that the department heads gave to Kevin and how how good they were so I mean that's a real measure of a manager when that manager's managers think very highly of that person so I think that speaks volumes and I'm going to we have a new team coming on board there's a lot of things that we're going to tell you probably here in a couple of seconds I would appreciate it your leadership on some cutting edge concepts that have really helped the city and I really appreciate that and I think it's not helped just this city I think it's helped other communities around us because as you know we're just a web of people trying to help each other in some way or another so I really appreciate that so thank you so please get your copies out we have a resolution the resolution of the city council for Wellington for Kevin Dorn city manager whereas Kevin Dorn was hired by the city council on April 15, 2013 and provided transition as city manager during turbulent times he brought back trust predictability openness empowerment and re-established partnerships with the city council whereas Kevin had previously served as executive director of the home builders association and as secretary of commerce and economic development throughout the Governor Douglas administration and whereas Kevin has always been willing to think outside the box present ideas bring the right people together to help make the right decision and take the right course of action and be professionally responsive and accountable to citizens and city councils, city leadership and city officials in Burlington including airport management to bring about a resolution to the airport taxation issue that was fair and reasonable to all entities and provided for longer term stabilization whereas Kevin always worked in a collaborative way with the team approach with managers and consistently supported professional development of employees and management and fostered advancement opportunities within the organization and whereas as city manager Kevin worked diligently with the city council to recommend and adopt various policies and decisions in the best interest of the community served as liaison to various committees testified at various meetings on behalf of the city presented at various conferences and workshops and always represented the city in a professional manner and whereas Kevin was always appreciative of the work of others and consistently acknowledged accomplishments established to performance review system citywide across all departments while providing online training programs for all employees through the various online platforms and promoted development of the city news featuring employees of the city and the work they're doing and whereas Kevin spearheaded the completion of market street development of city center establishment of the tax increment financing district to include the new public library at city hall at 180 market street and build a foundation for the city center reserve fund and whereas city manager he established employee safety and wellness committees brought all facilities up to standard promoted employee health and wellness provided security systems within city buildings and established a welcome center at city hall and whereas Kevin coordinated with public safety Howard mental health the emergency department at UVM medical center and neighboring communities and managers to establish the community outreach program to embed mental health counselors with our public safety departments to provide appropriate assistance to individuals suffering with mental illness and whereas Kevin served as a leader with local managers on current issues and consideration of regionalization of services and is a founding member and chair of the Chittenden County Public Safety Authority which he helped establish to consolidate regional dispatch efforts he has also been instrumental in developing shared service agreement services agreements with neighboring communities and whereas Kevin explored options for alternative health insurance and helped formulate the captive insurance agreement for the city and supported the concept of an employee health clinic secured the facility in arrangement with partnerships and provided leadership to open the summit health center for city employees and partnering businesses and whereas Kevin fostered the digitization of records and documents through the laser fish platform, recommended the overhaul of our payroll system, updated employee rules and regulations and the movement of all new employees into the Weber's retirement system and recommended and hired significant positions within the city to assist with legal matters, communications and social networking, facilities management, energy efficiency and technology and whereas Kevin encouraged and supported the formation of the South Burlington Business Association is a founding director of the South Burlington Food Shelf and ardent supporter of social service organizations within the community and whereas Kevin served a city manager during unprecedented times with the pandemic ensuring the best possible protection safety and well-being of all employees making sure all departments were well resourced to handle the efforts and providing the support, strategies and technology necessary to make remote working conditions feasible wherever possible and conducted virtual town hall meetings with all employees to keep them engaged and formed and supported during challenging times and whereas Kevin is well known for his positive attitude sense of humor, open door policy humility, approachability professionalism and his caring and respectful sensitivity to both the needs of employees and the needs of the community therefore therefore be resolved that the city council of the city of South Burlington hereby expresses its great appreciation for all the work accomplishments and leadership of Kevin Dorn as the city manager for the city of South Burlington over the last eight plus years and be it further resolved that the city council wishes Kevin and his family all the best as he transitions from his position into the world of retirement and be it further resolved that the South Burlington city council hereby constitutes the naming of the new South Burlington senior center in the new public building at 180 market street as the Kevin L. Dorn senior center as among many other things he was instrumental in including the senior center into the development and construction of the new city building. Signed this 21st day of June 2021 by the newly undersigned members of the South Burlington city council. We would solicit donations from the council current and several of the past members were too many and and we have gathered a little over $1,300 to give to the South Burlington food shelf in honor of both you and Tom. He's also a secret fellow. I know, lots of secrets. Mike Burnett. I should never follow Tom. I should have gone first. I can't control the agenda. I made a big mistake. I simply am overwhelmed by the resolution and the senior center recognition is just hugely powerful to me. We've had our seniors in this room for meals and all and this has been great. We've had good staff supporting it and the seniors love it but they're always getting chased out of here for one thing or another for a meeting that has to come up and now the seniors have their own place and it's a great place and I'm just I'm very touched by this. Thank you. You made it work Kevin. You did. We have all those meetings we ran. I appreciate the trust that the city put in me two years ago. Helen noted we were in a tough spot at the time and I was very concerned that our great team was going to break up and go elsewhere and with Tom joining me and working by my side we were able to keep them all and it was critical for the ability of people to move forward that we kept everybody together and so I really appreciate the trust that this council and predecessors put in me and in Tom to do this. I just memories keep flooding into my head about many of the wonderful wonderful things together we have all accomplished for the people of this community and I think the kind of person who says yeah but there's more I wanted to get done and there's more we wanted to get done but those things are going to happen with Jesse and with Andrew. I have total confidence of that. The two of you are going to be great leaders and everybody I think knows because I told people this and everybody recognizes it. Tom Hubbard rather really ran I was kind of along for the ride doing the fun stuff on the outside but Tom Hubbard ran South Burlington and Tom I can't tell you how much I've appreciated what you've done for this city and for me. Megan used the word total trust. I just had total trust in everything that you did. Tom and I worked as a team. We shared decision making and we shared the problems and the defeats and the victories as well but it goes to the bigger question and bigger issue that city government and 170 people will work with us. They work with us not for us we are a team and we've always been a team. Tonight you saw some of our very best you saw Chief Burke you saw Alana you saw Larry King sitting in here after a long day Larry's been moving technology over to 180 Market Street but here he is at almost 10 o'clock at night making sure that this meeting could be shown out to the public and I appreciate it. These are examples of what Tom called the very finest and I've said this to the team and I'll say it here I've had a lot of jobs over my life I've never worked with a finer group of people than this group of people it is a tremendous team that you're inheriting and they're going to do well by you and you're going to do well by them I know I too want to thank my wife my children there's a level of things that you take home in these kind of jobs that more often than not they have to deal with in how you react to things I want to thank my wife for having the patience and the endurance and my kids the same the patience and endurance and the love to stay with me and be a great partner some of you know my wife was very active in government in Washington DC and so working for Congress and in a political job and so she understands it better than most but still the patience and the love there was critical to this I want to thank the council again not just for the initial round but I so admire people who will stand before the voters and tell the public and the voters what you stand for why you want to serve it is a high calling that you all have answered and I so much respect and admire what you do as elected officials and I have some understanding of the pressure that you're under to make the right decisions and the work that you go through to prepare for these meetings it is an amazing thing and I wish that the public recognized and let you know more often how important you are to them without you we don't have democracy we don't have government without the willingness to stand up and serve we can't do this thing that we call the great American experience lastly I want to thank the people of South Burlington who have been there to support the city the council the administration through 8 successful budgets that this man developed and that you fostered through the process they've supported tax increment financing votes that have brought about the finest public facility I believe in New England which is now opening its doors and you will commemorate on the 23rd of July and they supported us as volunteers and I'm looking at Sandy out here who knows how many how many hours or even how many committees she served on and Judy behind her who ran the finest local newspaper I've ever seen any place those are the kind of people who are here and those are the kind of people that I have been deeply honored to serve so I thank you all for this opportunity this is very special to me and I'm just overwhelmed I've touched thank you, thank you very much you'll have to visit the library to see your name the senior senator good so why don't you hold that up so I can take a shot yeah oh that's the long resolution oh yeah I did sure yeah I think she's going to send it to her Tim he probably has a better camera he probably has a better camera yeah thank you very much so is there any other business to come before us seeing none motion to adjourn your last meeting second Mo in favor hi hey Judy um show her a shortcake over there that's why you can't she probably she was probably watching at home and saw the shortcake and said I'm going to show up for that yeah that's special yes you do I'll cruise through okay I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know