 Welcome everybody. This is June 12th, 2023 and the Select Board meeting has been posted in three public places, right? Yes. And on the website, and emailed to interested parties, so we can move forward. Frank and I are here. Pat, are you in on Zoom? Yes, I am. And do you have a suitable enough connection to have input? Yes, I do. Okay, good. Then let's go forward. I'm going to start with the minutes from the prior meeting of May 22. And I didn't see any corrections to that, so I moved to approve those. I second that. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Great. And we have some guests here, and we might as well just jump right on to you guys, Deb and Sarah. Asia, you guys didn't know on one topic or multiple topics? Basically one topic. Okay. It's an update on the housing committee meetings and then some opportunities that are coming up that we just wanted to let the Select Board know about and see what their thoughts are. So we have a meeting coming up on Wednesday. We collated the information from the Hey Neighbor event. We can get a whole lot of feedback on the postcards. We hope for more, but we got some. And we have some future events coming up. One is a DIY home creators event where we're hoping to put a panel together of people that are either doing ADUs or renovating properties and tapping into some of the state funding resources that are out there and available. And just kind of have people that have done it talk about what they've done. And then we're hoping eventually we're thinking in the late fall maybe to have a community forum on housing. And we're also actively looking at opportunities of houses or land or places where developers might be able to put in a small housing deal. I did go to the historic preservation day last week with Beth Kennett and Sarah was there as a presenter. And there's a developer in Fairleigh that he moved back to his hometown and he took an empty lot in Fairleigh and developed, put this small apartment building on it that's high energy resources. And he tapped into a lot of the state resources so it was just a lot of opportunity out there and he's willing to share with anybody that might want to contact him. So that's where we're headed. But Sarah has more to talk about. Yeah, so one of the things the community is considering I would want your input on is that the state agency of commerce and community development recently launched a project called Homes for All. I don't know if you've heard of it. There's a lot of information on the website and actually printed out a couple of things to leave with you all. It's a statewide effort to focus statewide, according to the website, focus statewide attention on small scale, gentle infill and incremental development as a strategy to address remote housing and affordability crisis. There's four different components of the statewide project. One of the items is a missing middle home design guide that was going to be a builder's workbook and some training resources. One of the four elements is a Vermont neighborhood infill design case studies, which is a series of five case studies showing how missing middle housing building designs can be integrated into existing Vermont neighborhoods and communities using illustrated visualizations. These case studies and visualizations will be generated in partnership with five pilot communities. And the pilot communities will each receive a half day visit with project consultants. After the visit, communities will receive visualizations that serve as problem solving tools for the community illustrating strategies for advancing context sensitive designs that meet city and town regulations and community design objectives that are feasible from market perspectives. Stakeholders can use the test fit visualizations to consider alternative configurations and explore ways in which they can overcome some common and unique challenges of infill development. They currently have the call for applications to become one of the five pilot communities. They currently have opened the call for applications for communities to become one of the five pilot communities and what they're proposing to help with is perfectly in line with what the housing committee would like to do and with the help that the housing committee would like to receive. The obligations on the part of the pilot communities are simply providing a space for the welcoming event, leading a tour of potential infill locations and helping get the word out in their communities, all of which the housing committee is happy to take on the responsibility for. So I'll hand you this information, but the request I think of the housing committee is whether the select board would agree with the housing committee applying to be one of the pilot communities for these essentially just consultations and visualizations of infill housing. And Sarah would help us with the grant, it's not a grant application, but with the application, you know, the proposal that we would submit. And certainly you would see the proposal before it would go anywhere, but just we don't want to work on it and then find out that the select board is not in favor of it. And we don't need an answer tonight. I believe it's Friday of next week. So you need an answer fairly up. It's at the end of June. So we'll have another meeting before that. Is that correct? Yeah, 24th, right? Yep. Okay. So it's the end of June, not next Friday. Yeah, I can actually double check my phone right now. Because it'd be good to have, if we don't have another meeting before that, we need to have a special meeting. Oh yeah, Friday, June 23rd. 23rd, it's our next meeting. It's on the 24th. The 24th is on Saturday. Saturday? Our next meeting is the 26th. 26th, yeah. So we'll have to have a special meeting after we have some review with that. One thing we could do is do a draft and send it out. I mean, what the commitment is, is we have the space to have... Yeah, which that's not a problem. I wouldn't think to have the space to have a presentation. No, that's not... It seems very similar to the event that we had a couple months ago. Is this an offshoot from that? It's similar, so that one had been sort of spearheaded locally by GMEDC and the White River Valley Consortium, which I represent. And this is more, this is top down from the state, essentially their work looking at really similar types of housing. And they're looking for communities to partner with, to be illustrations of the concepts. So actually that's one of the reasons I think Rochester would be very well positioned to be one of the pilot communities. Because you have already started having these conversations and had that event in the past. So it's not technically an offshoot because it's been being instigated from the state side. But it's the same topic, same idea. So we're kind of familiar with these ideas. This would be one of the actual professional consulting feedback on that type of event. Pat, do you have any input on that? Zena, as you're not here in the room, I can't read your face. Not at this time. It definitely seems worth exploring. Yeah, yeah. So I think that'd be a good step if you guys want to put a draft together. And then we could circulate that, then we could hold a special meeting to get together and give the official go ahead on that. But I don't see any reason that we would put a block in front of that. Now, does the state want commitments from the select board? I don't remember. I actually did look at the application to be one of the pilots. I was very straightforward, but I don't remember off the top of my head. I just think it would be helpful if that were the case. And if it were not the case, then I don't think we would go forward to submit. No, that sounds promising. Great. So I'll work on, we can touch base and I'll work on that. We have a meeting on Wednesday at one o'clock that's open to anyone at the park house. We had advertised it. Kristen helped us and we put it on front porch forum and I think on Facebook, but I'm not on Facebook. At the park house? At the park house? Park house one o'clock in the dining room. What day? This Wednesday? This Wednesday. When would we want to do the draft by and have the special meeting roughly? When would you need it by the draft? About midnight tonight? No. I think we should get it early. So we can read through it and see what it is. The sooner you can get it, the better. You know, I'd assume after this meeting Wednesday where you have more information, but it would be nice to have it, you know, by the beginning of next week, maybe? In advance so we could read through it. Sounds great. That would be great. Well, thank you. That's it. Thanks for working on that. Thank you. It's Asia back there? Yeah, Asia. So I'm actually here with the farmers market, but do you want to just, don't we just dive in? Oh, that's on the agenda. Okay. Yeah, why don't we, um, wait until we get to that. Thank you. So, um, is Greg Russ on zoom? Yep. Yep. We want to give us an update for the riverbrook drive Colbert. Yeah. So, um, So we have funding to implement the project. Um, so I've been pursuing the, uh, temporary and, uh, construction easements and the permanent easements with the adjacent land owners. Um, and, uh, just waiting for the, for the last bit of paperwork, paperwork from a Java's nephew, Chris out in California. I called last week and said he was sending it. And once I have that, I'll, I'll make sure the town has that on file. Um, and so I'd like to go and put this to bid. Um, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I know it's a little late in the, in the year. Um, but you know, fingers crossed. Um, Maybe you ought to get someone to bite. Um, And, um, Um, So, um, Got money. You got plans to go. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so we, we want to put it to bid. Uh, we'll work with, um, So the partnership would do the bid. Uh, we, we'd work with cricket on that. Uh, we, we, uh, do the contract and, uh, oversee the implementation with cricket. Um, Of course, keeping, um, uh, Frank and Cooter in the loop. Um, And we plan on, um, you know, we put it in the Herald. Uh, and then on the state website. Um, and I just wanted to confirm, uh, Uh, See if the town. So like we've done these in the past where, um, We have the contractor, um, supply a certificate of insurance, listing the town as additionally insured. And I just want to confirm that. That's what you guys want us to do. Yeah. Okay. Um, And I think that's it. Uh, there is, I've talked to Frank a little bit about this. Um, But I have to say it, uh, there's a, The O and M from the funding, uh, has to get signed by the town. And I'll work with Frank on that, But I just wanted to have to mention it. So, um, But that's it. Um, if, if, If that all sounds good to you, you know, you guys, we can, I can, uh, go ahead and put this to bed and see if we can implement this year. If not, we'll, we'll do it next year. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good. Thank you. Just let me know, Greg. Okay. All right. Yep. Thanks. Okay. Great. Thanks a lot. Okay. Good. All right. Next item on the agenda is the, um, consideration and possible approval of the promissory note to, Um, Mass Goma Bank loan number 6, 3, 0, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 1 million, $100,000. And this is for moving forward on the West Hill bridge. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And so this is, um, A little, um, background. This is basically working money, but that a lot of this we should be getting back. Yeah. We've got 775 cemented and grants and a flap grant from the U.S. Forest Service and 175 from the structures grant from the state. Um, we can apply for another 25 from the state after June 30th, I think. Is that correct? Yeah. Kristen, I think. So, and they assured us that we would be getting that. So we've got 800 secured for this project. And when we discussed it earlier in the spring, we didn't feel we had any other choice but to go ahead with this, whether it was right or not. We did get the contractor to lower his bid a little bit, um, by taking on some of the work on our own, which we'll have to coordinate. And that should be starting maybe this week. Um, they're looking at maybe putting foot, footings in this week or in a base there on one side. So we'll have to do due diligence on that to get the contractor to do the cement testing. So, but it's moving forward. The guy's doing a good job. He wants to get it done. He's had a lot of issues too. I guess with his other projects that he's on, but he's going forward. So Pat, if you got any questions about this project is moving forward very nicely. Every time I go by, it's more has been done. So, so far no snag. So I'm, I'm fine with the promissory note. This is an anticipation for bond. Right. So we can be clear that it's not. Yeah. That you're borrowing all that. Yeah. This, this will be for the balance will be looking to bond in the end. So whatever's left, we're not sure what's going to be left. And it's a draw. It's not all at one time. Yeah. It'll just be drawing as we need it. Um, so we don't know what it'll be in the end until after it's all done. So I'd, I'd move to go ahead and set up this, this basically it's like a line of credit and maskoma. And it's, yep. Yep. I second that. All in favor. I. I. So Pat, when you get back in town, you could come in and sign off on this because they want all of our signatures on this. You got it. And it looks like they want a lot of all of our signatures. Maybe we'll finish signing this at the end when we're signing the bills. So we can move forward with it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, so you guys here, um, want to talk about the farmer's market some. Yeah. So, um, I'm Asha. Ken at La Beja. I'm the manager of the Rochester farmers market. Um, I have been for a number of years. Um, in part of the community for the better part of 24, almost 25 years. Um, and the Rochester farmers market, I've been running it by myself for the last three years. Um, I'm here as a direct result of the last select board meeting. So I did watch the video, um, after I was prompted to, um, by community members. And there was a lot of confusion in the meeting, um, which led to a lot of misinformation. Um, so I'm here to on the record clarify certain things. I was misquoted. Um, and there were some things, some confusion and comments made on farmers market policies. So to begin with the farmers market is a community event. It's a not for profit market. So Frank, you had mentioned in the meeting, they're, they're making money. So I'm not sure if you're referring to the market because the farmers market's not making money. What the money that's made goes back into the market. Um, I hundreds of my hours of my work are not compensated. Um, and I pour in quite a bit of my own money as well. And that's just what, and I'm proud to do it. I'm happy to do it because the community loves the farmers market. Let me say that. Um, and you know, the select board has brought up concerns with the grass and signage and I've met all those concerns. So my, I'm, my voice is shaking because I'm fairly upset. Last meeting, um, to hear, you know, my policies discussed and labeled as ridiculous and everything without me there to explain myself. I felt was unfair. Um, we can play back the videos. It's on video. It's on video. So anyway, so come to continue. So our, I'm, I'm just labeling the comments so that it's on public record, the actual facts. Um, we're a community events. We're not for profit. We welcome non agricultural vendors. Um, there was some misinformation that I had told Jan McCann something, which Jan says, what I never said. You know, so again, that's the danger of third party communication at a public forum. Um, so did this stem from Jan? Yes. Filing a separate park use application. Okay. Yes. So as I said, um, I had had a conversation with Jan the year before. And I said, look, we're such a small market. We're not actually covering our expenses with what comes in. That is why I asked all informational and nonprofit boots if they want to be part of the ring to pay in. It's $12 a week. Some people find money from sponsors or grants. Like that's a prop. That's, that's doable. Jeff get part has, has paid out of pocket before. And that was what was called ridiculous. Um, he has never, he and I and the climate initiative and the farmers market. I want to say on the record, we have a wonderful relationship and we have, this has never been a problem. Um, I think looking forward, you know, after this meeting, I've had talks with several community members who are concerned and they were saying, okay, well, let's start fundraising. Let's, you know, because if we want to allow vendors to come in without paying, um, we're going to need more sources of revenue. So as of this year already, we're not breaking even. I didn't want to raise vendor fees because these people are making money. There are community members are neighbors. This isn't Walmart. Walmart's not coming to our market. Okay. These are small vendors. These are small farmers, small producers, small businesses and they're doing it to be part of something. So if not for profit or, um, informational vendors want to come. Unfortunately right now, I still have to pay for them under my insurance. Vendors have individual insurance, but I still have to pay for them under my insurance. My insurance goes up if I have more vendors. That's the way it works. Unfortunately, that's just the way it works. So if they trip over one of their polls, I get sued. Not the market, me, because it's my name. It's a sole proprietorship. So it is a little personal. Um, that being said, I said to jam last year, you are welcome to set up anywhere near the park. The library has a fantastic program on the gazebo. I mean, it's thriving. I don't know if you guys have seen if you've come to the market, um, but it's thriving. So I said, you know, you're welcome to put a table right there, take advantage of the hundreds of hours of work that the other vendors have done and use that busyness. Like use it. Definitely. We're welcome. I mean, the Harvest Fair, which is another fashion like fabulous organization, they charge their informational nonprofit vendors too. They get a discount, but that event is, you know, to raise money for the fabulous organization. So I'm not alone in doing this. And, you know, if I were to consider changing the policy, I'd have to change it. Um, and it would mean finding more sources of revenue. And as of this year, um, I've had some people come forward and offer to sponsor music. Thank you to Catherine Shankman and Joe Shankman, because they covered the cost of, uh, the SNAP EBT software, which we have to pay for in order to run SNAP and EBT, um, which I have been paying for by myself. Um, and so all of these things factor into these policies. And I would be more than happy to explain why we do these things, um, if I were to be asked. So that's all I really have to say. I was really disappointed, um, to hear the select board's comments and, you know, I have tried to adhere to all of the policies and, you know, the community is incredibly supportive and loves the farmers market. The musicians list fills up in February. You know, people are begging me in December. I have to tell people not before the new year. Um, so I'm super supportive and super grateful to the community for their support. I guess I would like to hear a little more supportive comments from the select board members. That's all I have to say. Okay, so if Jan, it gets a separate permit from the select board to be on there, then she doesn't incur liability under your insurance. She can't be in my event unless she pays in currently under our current policies. She is welcome to be anywhere else on the park. The gazebo is right there. I don't know if you know how we set up, but the gazebo, we open up essentially so that the gazebo, so that people can funnel right into the library program. And the library now has a thriving children's program thanks to Maya, but also thanks to the farmers market traffic. The kids who come to the farmers market go to the library program. Yeah. So yeah, she's, I mean, I can't stop. Like you guys said, I can't stop anywhere from being on the park. And before we've had political groups, religious groups who've asked to be part of the market, and we've been like, well, we don't feel comfortable, but you're welcome to set up, you know. So this is not you. And I'm not alone. And I'm not the only market who does it this way. All right. If you felt that we were in the wrong spot there. Yeah. That's not the way it was meant to be. Yeah. You know, we are rewriting the policy at some point, and there might be some use fees for using the park because of the cost of being there. It just is an environmental issue that happens, and we can't change that. I mean, it used to be you could have the park mowed on a Friday or a Thursday to have it look nice for the weekend. But now I don't want to mow on it after Wednesday because if he does, it gets so much use on the weekends. And Friday is the farmers market, which has a lot of use and no offense to anyone, but it does cause an environmental issue with the park. And it is a problem. So we're trying to make it work for everyone. Can you explain what the environmental issues are? It's just the traffic. Everybody drives all over it, parks all over it, and there's just a lot of use. And if you have where you don't have any rain for a while or whatever, and it gets a lot of use in one spot, the front would have been ruined. I'm not picking on anybody. I'm just saying it's just a lot of use. Driving all over, we don't drive all over. We literally back up to where we're going to be. Well, it's just, it's not just driving all over, but everybody parks there too. And I understand that. And that's fine. So we're just trying to make it work for everyone. And it costs money to do all that. And it costs money to do all that. And it pays, everybody has to pay for that. So it comes out of our budget. Yesterday or today, we're car parking all around the park exactly the same way. I understand that. Did you talk to them the same way? I would, but I can't. You can't control that. Yeah. This is something we can control. So there is a difference. The park is there for everybody to use. Yes. And that's fine. Absolutely. You know. So if somebody stops by with their car and has a picnic, walks their dog, doesn't pick up their dog poop, you know, what do you do about that? You know, do you put signs up? Do you have, you know, so we're trying to deal with all that too. So Nancy, comment? I think, I'll show you made some really good points. And I think that your points have clarified a lot of things, which in other years, I don't believe we've heard how the operation works. Until tonight. And it makes a lot of sense. But I think it would have been helpful over the past few years if you had come to some of these meetings and explained exactly how your not-for-profit works. We've asked, the board has asked lots of questions, but they don't get answers. And including that last meeting. I've never had anyone reach out to me. Well, it was, the comments from the board were addressed to the people that were here making a presentation. To who's the part? No, they were saying, that's ridiculous, that the farmers market's been asking the climate initiative to pay out of pocket. That was, that was the last meeting. Right. But she also wasn't informed that she was going to be spoken about. Right. And if she would have been informed that they were going to talk about the farmers market, who would have been? Should have been tabled. Well, the climate initiative was, that's presented as a different thing. You know, it was, he was taking advantage, yes, taking advantage of the fact that the farmers market is there to, you know, use that traffic. But in our perspective, why we maybe said that was ridiculous, that he would pay is that, that's, he's presenting information to, as a representative of the town, to try and help, you know, make things more efficient for people. So, it's not ridiculous. You know, it was not meant to be an insult, please. I know you've taken it that way, for sure. It's hard not to, when I'm trying to do something nice for the community, and rather than get encouragement and support, I'm constantly, like, fighting. Like, the grass, the signs. But I think that Chan is trying to do something nice with the shelter. She's trying to put information out on the shelter. And we didn't stop her. And Jeff is still doing the same thing. And their walk is so big. But, when this came up at the last meeting, it was, why would a town entity have to pay to show up on the park for a farmer's market, and we didn't even know the rules of your market. It's technically a private event, which is why I have to apply to be there. Well, the library has to apply to be there. Right. So no one could walk onto the gazebo while Maya is running her program and just set up a political table. People would be like, oh, wait a minute. They couldn't do it anyway without coming to the town. So we have someone on Zoom that has a comment. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that. Our slack board member. So I think what we need is, since they are an official nonprofit, they must have articles of bylaws. And so if we have that at hand and we know. When we have conflicting requests for the same day for the park, we know what would fit and what would not. And we know how to explain to the other entity about the farmer's market and how they should be situated. And we know how to explain to the other entity about the farmer's market. We know how to explain to the other entity about what's going on. And we can answer other people's questions more intelligently. If we have the bylaw rules for the farmer's market. We are, we are a not for profit. We have, we don't have a 501 C three. So we don't have a board of members. We are really small market. So we just don't have the capability of doing that right now. Can you write the, can you write those? That criteria up for participants. Would not participate. So I have our, our vendor form rules, which all markets have the vendor form. I look through all the other markets and they don't have like, if you're a nonprofit or if you're informational, like I don't see those on any of them. I mean, I can give you the, the vendor form agreement that says that you have to produce or make at least 60 to 70% of what you do, you know, so on there, it's not, there isn't even anything about the informational or non-sellers because that's just never been an issue until now. There's an issue now. So maybe it is something that should be written in or at least noted to us so that we can make, we can identify what, what works and what doesn't work. And we can explain that when we have meetings. Yeah. And, you know, again, if asked, I'm welcome to, you know, I'm more than happy to explain. I was just caught off guard. Yeah. Which I, just one suggestion. I don't think so. It's a good idea to change day for the other organization because again, there is a still on farmer market people coming and there is nothing wrong. If there is a little bit over their table, they may be more interested to go take a look what they have to offer. Instead of you suddenly nowhere in the middle of the park of that some day there is one little table. It has less chance. Yeah, there's no question that it makes sense to, to bundle these informational things on there. And if they come and get their own permit to come and be on the park, then that takes that responsibility off of you then, right? So that would actually be helpful. If they're not in the event space. Insurance is really tricky about this. Like if they're part of the event, then they're covered under my insurance. So they have to be marked, markedly not part of the event. So like the library is markedly not part of the event. So if a kid trips on the gazebo, like that's not, I don't get sued. And Tasha, last year they did it. They had table on the site. Yeah, last year. Yeah, it was very good. Quite a few people came to see them. Okay. So that's something that we were not aware of that, that requirement. So in the future, when they have a request to do something like that informational, because they're not there making money, they're disseminating information on behalf of the townspeople. Yeah. And so that's something that like I said, if I find ways to increase our budget, like maybe that's something we can discuss, but that would be a discussion I would have with my vendors, you know, with the market community to see how they all felt about that, rather than just me deciding, like I do this for the community. It's not what I want, what I decide, because I'm not making money off this. So I'm doing what I feel is best for the market vendors. And if at some point we want to have that discussion, like that we can have that discussion. But again, it's not my call. And you're not upset or you don't have problems with us giving permission to like the shelter community or the... No. She said it was huge. It's a huge park. In fact, people are welcome. Oh yes, that is, yes, yes. That goes like around your vendors. So I'm not required to do that. During COVID, I was required to do that. I had to mark exactly where, and actually COVID took out like all of the money that had been in our budget that we had racked up, because we had so many extra, we had to provide masks. I mean, it was awful, but we did hit. So we had to mark it out. Now it's a little bit more loosey about that. Some markets are in parking lots, and so they don't really, but it's pretty much who is part of your event, which is tricky. So going forward, then for Jeff or Jan that want to have present information, just specify, yes, okay, well, okay, I permit to do that, but be aware that even though you're piggybacking on the energy of the farmer's market, it needs a separate location. Yeah, and actually, I'm not going to speak for the climate initiative, because Jeff contacted me personally after all that, and they're working on grants, and they're working on a way too, because they really enjoy being part of the farmer's market. Well, yeah. I would think that makes it more of a complete thing, and we're talking about $12. So sponsors are, you know, so again. Paula, Kevin, you guys got any input on this? Well, I'm just really glad to see the beginning of this open communication, and if this had been the case from the beginning, probably we wouldn't have these issues. And I hope it can continue with everybody keeping an open mind about it and trying to understand the concerns of the select board and the concerns of the market as well. And that's pretty much it. As vendors, we have no problem with nonprofits being there. In a way, it bakes for a stronger market to have those people on the park. Just because there's not very many of us, there's one more, and it just makes it look better from the road, if you will. So I really don't see where there's a big issue here, and it sounds like it's pretty well resolved. Well, it's a good opportunity to open up the communication between the select board, the market. Yeah, like Nancy said. Please accept, well I can't speak for the whole board, but for me, an apology for if you were offended by... Yeah, me too. ...the navigating the permit structure that we have here and the request that we had. We felt a little offended too, so that's the way we thought it too. So we're glad to get it out of the way. Or at least I am. I know about you. That's a good way to do it. And as my daughter, as a father, thank you very much for your kind words. Thank you. And by the way, I'm losing money too. Dad, can you go to Hardware Store by this? Can you go? You think I got money back? No. It never ends. Let's get a zucchini layer. Well, thank you, and let's keep the communication. I'd love that. I would really appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thanks for being in the market. We're glad to have it. I think it's a big asset. I mean, everyone that I've talked to would be devastated if it was not there. One of the things is the Windsor County Sheriff Department contract. Has he ever come and proves by the market when you're there? No, I went to a meeting with him the other day. Yeah. Yeah, and he's really excited that Rochester's investing in him being here more. Yeah. Right? And he wants to do more school community stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's really excited. So we have that contract here. Yeah. Yeah, that's the largest. Where is that? The contract's in there somewhere. It's stuck in there. That's where there are so many blue things to sign on that. All right. And this is for the time period from July 1. 23. Yeah. It looks like a typo. That says 22. I think we're going back in time. So it'll be July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. Thanks. My chance. Okay. So I'd move to approve that contract with the Winter County Sheriff's Department. Second that? I hope. Yes. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Aye. Do you know how often they are in town? He hasn't been here for a couple of weeks. Quite a while. He's been a couple of weeks since he's been in town. They were here last Friday. They were. I saw him. I can't remember. He had two guys who were in them the last time I saw him. I think they're probably training somebody new. He came in Friday to introduce a new guy to Julian and myself. It's saying here an average of 8 to 12 hours per week. Yeah. Which will be rotating and documented on a monthly basis. Yeah. It's showing all their monthly invoices. On the air invoice at times, yeah. But they're mileage and the dates that they were here for how long. I think we have a good time. All right. And after that we have a driveway permit for GT 21 forest lane. John's all right with that. Yeah. He said that they're going to have to. It's kind of steep. Yeah. You know where forest lane is. First put the first turn off the access road to the right. And it's out there just past the old Mordine house on the left. And it's I wasn't sure there was another lot in there. But he said it's going to be a steep driveway. But that's what they looked at up on the map. And it when you come into forest lane, there's an entrance there. But you wouldn't be coming off the main access road. You'd be coming in. It's coming. Coming off. Forest lane. Yeah. It's going to be steep. It's down. A little bit there. All right. So I've moved to approve. Seconded. All in favor. All right. All right. He says aye. She had the broken spoke. And speaking of the park, we have an application from the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute. Pam Reed is the one that liked that. And that is going to be there for weeks. Everyone knows that the event here is for their opening event. I believe on Thursday, July 13th from five to seven. And picnicking and fiddle concert. So I'm glad that we have the Suzuki camp coming once again. And I would move to approve this one. Seconded. All in favor. All right. He says aye. Then there's also the application for Suzuki week ice cream cookie cart. And now it's on July 7th through the 14th. One of those afternoons in there, I guess it's weather dependent. Teaching. It says Mary Beth Teavis. And part of this is about teaching their son about serving others. But yeah, the ice cream social, I've moved to approve that. Seconded. All in favor. All right. Okay. All right. He says aye. He says aye. And Tony, thanks for hanging in there. I hear lots of action on the library roof lately. Yeah. So it seems to be going along rather nicely. They had to put plywood underneath, but you see that. The library will be closed tomorrow because it'll be, they'll be working, of course. But thanks to the Crosby's, it's really moving along nicely. There is, well, we also have a trustees meeting tomorrow night. And I think that'll be at the library. It'll be after, it'll be at 5.30. So we'll be able to get in there, I guess, for that. There is coming up this weekend Saturday reception, celebration for Jeanette and her retirement from two to four. At the library? No, that's on the park. Okay. That's right. We signed a permit. We must have that. Yeah. All right. Okay. So, I think that's it. Great. Thank you. Nice to see that action happening over there. Yeah. Okay. Got any news from the highway from? Other than the bridges? The bridges. And John's in the process of trying to figure out what he's going to do with one of the grants we received. I think so. What was that? Not a structures grant. What was that one for? Bethelmount, 60,000 or something. 48. I think he's looking at a game plan for that, for Rodgers Brook. We've got to sit down and talk about it. And we haven't had a chance to. He's been grading roads and cleaning things up. Yeah. Kept it up with it. Yeah. Doing the best he can. Had a breakdown today. Teddy broke down over in Forestdale. I don't know how that all came out. But just blew a hose so he had to repair it. I'm not sure what they wound up doing. But Paul's good. All right. Terry's not here to talk about utilities unless he's on Zoom. Nope. Nope. Is Jeff in there? Yes, he is. Hey, Jeff. Good evening, all. I guess the things I should report. Probably the first one you may already know, but the Greenmont power electric vehicle charger is operational. There are two charging stations per pedestal. On each pedestal, there is one Chattano connector. And one CCS connector. So these are fast chargers. They're not super chargers like the Tesla's have, but they're fast chargers. The Chattano was installed because the public service board does not want the original Nissan leaf. They want to be without a means of charging while they're on the road. It's a little bit of a strange policy because it's a one size fits all. The Nissan leaf gets about 90, 70 miles of range on its battery charge. So it's not the kind of vehicle that sold in very rural situations and for the most part. It's great that GMP put it there and be interesting. We will continue to work with them and monitor things, see how it's working for them as well. We had hoped to do an electric vehicle demonstration day this year and to celebrate that charger. But the Valley Energy and Climate Action committees is going to dial that one back. We have agreed to participate with Randolph and Bethel on what's called a window dressers program. Window dressers as a nonprofit started in Maine and spread to Vermont and actually New Hampshire starting to pick up on it. It's a better community building kind of activity than the EV demo day would be. We will be measuring windows for interior inserts. The way this program works, you set up a management team. You recruit measures. The measures really are doing that. There's outreach. There's the measurement. And the sizes, the term and the cost of it, the frames are built with pine can be either white or natural. And a polyolten. Plastic is used to wrap both sides of the window. Insert. So it creates two more additional air spaces. In each window that is treated. There are provisions to provide the windows at no charge to low income folks. And we hope to measure and offer and provide the select board with an option to consider regarding the town office. As I mentioned, we're collaborating with Randolph and Bethel on this and the community bill will actually occur in November. I believe in November, go for five, six days, depending upon the number of. Insert sold. Randolph did this last year. And they had 187. Windows installed. Something like 30 to 40 actual homes being treated there. Let's see. There'll be more about that coming up with a lot of PR. As we seek to recruit volunteers. I attended the first meeting of my council and rural developments climate economy work with Bethel. There, Bethel and Vermont Council on Rural Development is seeking ways for energy coordinators and committees to collaborate. One possibility that they want to discuss is as a possible shared energy coordinator, which will be a paid position. So I'm just monitoring what's going on and we'll report back to you guys I have no authority to make any call on that. So, it's just to keep you up to date. I'll also just use the forum here to mention that Mitch Scanlon is seeking volunteers to clean up high school and ready it for the Suzuki camp. They believe it is Tuesday and Wednesday that back let me dial over here and get it so I get it right. So Tuesday and Wednesday, the group will gather at the high school for the cleanup that goes from 9am till noon, and then a one to four, each of the two days. So, hopefully, there's going to spread the word maybe participate. Sorry, I just wondered if Jeff met, like tomorrow and Wednesday of this week before the paper comes out or the following week. This is tomorrow. Okay, so I'll just mention that she was looking for them I there's no point in me really putting much about it because it'll happen after before the paper. Okay, I just wanted to check I'm sorry. Thank you. Hey, Jeff. Yeah. Hey, do you have a number for the charger down there? As far as someone that me in touch with apparently one of them is not working. Okay, Zach Casey. Zach is doing it. I can get a hold of him. I wasn't sure who's going to be spearheading it after it was installed. I'll be I'll get in touch with Zach. I know Zach. Yeah, I haven't used it myself as I charge at home. The number I have for Zach. There's a 2297913 is business and mobile phone is 802-373-8853. Okay. Thank you. Hey, Jeff. Thank you for keeping an eye and being reporting back on this, the movements to create a coordination of the energy position. I just want you to be aware that we're very appreciative of your energy and and and we will not commit you to more than that without your express desire to do so. Thank you for talking for a job. I've said yes too many times already. Sure. And I know you guys have gals have to. Okay. Well, thank you. Any grant updates that we haven't talked about yet? I've got a couple. Our requisition number three was sent in on Friday the second for the high school study. We sent in a wreck for $9226.74. I'm expecting that we'll hit our bank account soon. We're getting submitted today. The stream alteration permit application to the rivers program to the state of Vermont with regards to the retaining wall. So that has been sent in. Yes. Yeah, that's all set to go. I got a call into two rivers. I got to read it. She was going to look to see if there's some piggyback money we might be able to get for that because it protects a sewer line there. And she was going to let me know but it might be if we can get extra money for it. We might just wait until next year to do it do the project because it's getting late in the season one. If we can get extra money, it might be a year out before we could receive the funds. And if we can, it'll give us, it'll free us up some more money that we're going to put there for another project that we could use. And there's definitely a couple that we need to do. There is, it's not exactly old business, but we did get a letter from the planning board asking us about. Well, this is not something that we can do anyway because it's not been on, we didn't post it on the agenda. It's under employee issues. Under employee issues? For executive sessions. No, it's not a paid position. So we do want to advertise the fact that we're looking for people interested in being on the planning board. And the issue here is someone that we did appoint to the planning board that has been AWOL and not really involved at all. So there's, and that would be a public decision to take that position away from them. But I don't think we need to really do that in the executive session because we're interested in having made known that we're looking for people that are interested in being part of the planning process. But we can't make that decision now. We would have to put it on the agenda, I think, for our next meeting. So this is just a preparatory, preparatory to that. Warm up? Yeah, warm up. Yeah, we should post that on the website and also perhaps Martha put some blurb in the paper there that we're looking for volunteers for the. Is there just one position that. Yeah, I believe so. I will include that in this article. Okay, so you discussed the fact that just like we're just looking for some for a member for the planning board. A member, am I correct? Yes. Okay, thank you. Anyone else out there in zoom land have something they want to comment on? Quiet. All right. If we just talk another minute or be an even hour. All right, so thank you all for coming and I've moved to adjourn.