 on the website and emailed to interested parties. So, properly warned, we can have a proper meeting here. Does anyone have any agenda additions before we start? Do what's already on the agenda. I've got a comment when you come to Roads. Roads, all right. You can see that here. All right, so what we start with a couple quickies, like Gary, you're back again. Stage race is gonna happen again? Yes, it is. I was hoping we could have two of the fields come through town and Houston town roads. Last year, the race was probably about the worst weather day possible. That's 103 miles of suffering, I think, for the racers that did this part. Of course, we had quite a few people drop out, but we would like to come back again this year. It would be September 2nd, Sunday, September 2nd, and we'd come over the Bethel Mountain Road and back around and then back through town again, and they'd head back over to the Middlebury Gap. So that would be there, route through town, essentially. Two groups? Just two of the fields. It would be the pro men and the category two men, so the two sort of high level fields. And I worked with the Constable last year, as well as with the, we had the state police leading every group. And there's a whole race caravan for the racers that are in the group. This will be that 18th year of the race. And we, it comes from town last year, again, very bad weather day, but also a number of years ago in the past as well. So I'm trying to offer a couple of days. It's a four day race, a couple of days where the higher level fields will get over 100 miles of racing each day. So that's the stage here. So one will start down and face and come into town over the Bethel Mountain Road, then over the Middlebury Gap and finish on the top of the Appalachian Gap. That's the course, effectively. You said it was a four day race, but the only day it's coming through Rochester would be the second, September 10th. That's correct, yes. Thank you. The first day's in Warren, the second day. I'm hoping we'll be over and Randolph in Northfield. And then the last day's up and downtown Burlington for just a criterion. So that's the race. I do have a form if you're amenable. I mean, I think it went well last year. I worked with the local trails group, which I'm also hoping to be a member of, but with Rosta and a number of their members, volunteered during the race and the race made a contribution to develop some of the new trail in town. So I'm hoping we'll get to do that again. That would be the plan. I didn't hear any negative feedback last year. I didn't hear much, because probably everybody stayed in their house to stay out of the pouring rain that day. But yeah. I have no problems with it coming through. Of course, I have a bike shop, so maybe I should excuse myself. But I'm not making any money off this race. So I think that's, yeah, you have something to make one. I do. Basically, with this, I'll get this two-aggress permit from the state police. So you're going to pass on that? Since I've been on the bike shop as well, I'm going to go ahead and just make a movement. Make a movement to approve this. I'll second it. All in favor? Aye. So what I'll do is I'll scan that and send it back. And then also, I have, I don't think there's any risk or liability, but I still have insurance through USA Cycle, which is a governing body. And I'll send you a copy of that binder listing the town as an additional insurance. And I can't think of too much else. I hope the Rasta crew will be interested in helping out again. They helped out in pouring rain last year. Especially if it's nicer. Right. That would be great. And I can just scan and copy and send it back if you feel like. Yes. There you go. How many people does it take to pick up on that? All right, great. So you'll scan that, send that back to the insurance company? Yeah. Thank you so much. Thanks very much. We'll go back and paste it. And you'll see. And Carol, you had a little update on the EC fiber hub construction. So we're getting ready to actually do the construction of the hub. And in our engineering and design, we came to light that we'd need a little bit bigger hub than we had anticipated. And the next size hub from the one we originally showed you sits on a concrete pad. That's what they've marked out outside. Right, that's right, right outside. That's the area that you had approved once before. But I wanted to give you an opportunity to ask questions or comment on that before moving forward because our contractors are just ready to start. Did you guys see the pictures of that? Why do we need a bigger hub? Because Rochester, right now, we come into Rochester by way of Stockbridge. But as we move further north into Hancock and Granville in Rochester, it becomes the major hub for that area. OK. And where's the hub located? Right outside this window. OK, that's what I thought. No, it looks more substantial and actually serious than the original one, just a piece of plywood on a couple posts. So I think that looks better, actually. It's more durable. So I have no problems with that, do you guys? No. No? Yeah, do we need just verbal permission or do you need something to write it? No, I don't really have your hub agreement and it's been signed and it just says that we've come to a pre-administration location. So I'll just give you a brief update. The pole make ready work is still in process for attaching to the utility poles. So the utilities have been moving their facilities on the poles to make room for us in Rochester as well as in Hancock and Granville. And that is proceeding faster than last year. So I'm hoping it stays on schedule and then the construction will start as soon as we get access to the poles. So we should be ready to build it later this summer. And that's to facilitate the expansion farther off of Route 100, is that it? Well, in Rochester it will do all of the roads that have not been done yet. So we've done 173 and so be all of those other roads that are really much more rural and I think that people are looking forward to it. They didn't mind today. Oh, they did your drop to your house. So that is the other thing that is happening is to prepare for it. We're doing- No, they changed the pole. They changed the short pole to the taller pole. Yeah, so there will be a few pole replacements that we will pay for for the utilities. But in addition to that, we are doing the surveys on customers who have signed up already. So we'll do surveys to see how we connect from the road to their house or from the pole to their house. That's being done and they're getting the results of those surveys immediately. And then the second piece of that will be as soon as we start to do construction, they may do drops from the pole to the house in advance of having the network be ready. So you may see some of that going on too. That's really just so that we can light people up quickly and we can finally get the network done. Any other questions? Thank you. You're welcome. That's a very nice challenge. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We got the right gear out. Thank you. All right, so we'll move on to our final public hearing for the parkhouse with Julie and Amy. And- Amy, you can copy here this evening. Diane, teams are listening. Oh, thank you. So I guess we'll move to open that special or final public hearing for the parkhouse. And do you have something you'd like to present? Certainly. Thank you all once again for your participation in this project. If you didn't know already is that Rochester received a $505,000 grant from Vermont Community Development Program. 501,000 of that was given to Rochester Community Care Home toward our renovation and 4,000 was set aside for any administrative costs that might be incurred as a result of the grant. That was added to some other money that we received from other state and federal grant sources. For a total of $1,474,451. That paid for planning and architecture and engineering, but what we really got out of it in a practical way is that we did upgrades to fire safety. We got a sprinkler system and a suppression system in our kitchen. And that was crucial because prior to that we had stopped being able to take any tenants who had mental assistance vouchers. And I think it probably helps our fire department to be more comfortable. We also had a lot of upgrades to our 25, 26 year old elevator. And that actually also besides functional included a lot of safety features in that you can no longer get trapped in the elevator. It has a safety feature against that. And we've seen it work. We also did a lot of upgrades to our other mechanical systems. The alarm system was getting older. And we had some structural reinforcement to the very old building that allowed us to do a lot of air-sailing and insulation work so that we can do our part to use less heating resources and also save money in the future. We had bathrooms added. We now have only two rooms remaining with a shared bathroom. All of the other rooms do have private bathrooms. The new ones are considered fully ABA accessible. The ones that were already existing and functional were kept as is to save costs. We had many of our windows replaced. Not every single one, but most of the bedrooms now have new insulated double pane glass windows that are operationable. That's how to work by our clientele. And the renovation was complete in January, the last step being the replacement of our attic windows. That was a big historic preservation piece. And in fact, this renovation did comply with historic preservation standards as well as the other standards by the grant money that we received. Toward the end of the renovation, we had the great news of being assigned some project-based rental assistance vouchers, which was key because those are hard to get tenant-based and serving senior citizens the way they do. That can be crucial for people. That being said, does anyone have any questions or comments? Was all of this work done by one contractor? We had a general contractor who was hired under a construction management paradigm, which was HP Cummings Construction Company. Subcontractors were hired by HP Cummings following the federal standards set out by HUD on the big process per go. And are you satisfied with that? I am satisfied with the work. I mean, there were obviously bugs going through it because the building's old and has been renovated many times. There were unforeseen circumstances, but yes, I was very satisfied with the people who worked on it. Good job. Thank you. There's no other public comments on that. I'd move that we close this final public hearing for this Parkhouse Renovation Project. Second? Second, I'll unfair. All right. And we'll move on with the regular select board meeting with the presentation of the minutes from the last meeting, June 11th. And I will accept those minutes as tucked up. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Accept those. And that's what we'll do. Good. Joan, what you got? Very much, really. Good. Not because I haven't been doing a lot. No, I understand that. We worked some extra days last week in order to submit the sidewalk application, so that went in on Thursday. And it was a very rough estimate that I was able to pull together with some help from two rivers and from Du Bois and King, gave me a little bit of advice about the positive things. So we'll see how that goes, be at least a month before we hear anything from them. And then, meanwhile, the stormwater master plan process is moving along. Folks from the watershed consulting services were here in town, I think a couple weeks ago, doing a lot of D-Long scoping sessions. They just have sent us a whole bunch of information, which I'm going to be reviewing tomorrow with Mary Russ at Wakefield Partnership. And what they did is they came up with 19 possible project sites. All of them with some kind of preliminary information about, you know, they scoped it out, basically why was it chosen as a site? It's not really chosen yet. It's proposed as a possible site, what the issues were that they discovered and what the possible solutions would be, what the drawbacks might be to doing something there, and photographs and various other things. And there's 19 of them. And we have to go through them all eventually with the consultants and help them prioritize I think it's the contract calls for up to three projects that we might do on a short-term basis. So sometime, probably in the next two to three weeks, we'll be looking to have them come here and do a presentation and discussion about all of those projects and what you feel about what might be priorities and why. So I'll make sure you get that information packaged up in a way that you can get a good feel for what they've done so far. Otherwise, we're still, you know, ongoing with road projects. I'm helping you right here on your end, grant information for the end of the budget year. Onward. Thank you. Nobody's been here for the last hundred constables. Bruce, you had something you wanted to talk about? Yeah, the last life board meeting, we talked about the Forest Service contributing money toward the grading of the bingo road. And I did check with Brian Austin, the engineer out of Rutland. There still is an active co-op agreement with the town. However, this year they did not allocate any money toward the grading of bingo. The money coming to Rochester was supposed to be used toward the Wingbrook-Culliver job. Well, that's a separate co-op agreement. So it's news to me that they're not gonna do anything with bingo. Well, that's just what Brian reported to me. Okay, it just would have been nice if they had told us that, but I don't know if there was plans to do any grading there. It's not gonna work out. It's not something we do on a regular basis. Yearly basis? I'm wondering if he was probably been confused that there's two master agreements. Well, I asked him specifically about the bingo. Oh, that's a separate agreement. Oh, email. They're agreeing up in there now. No. Not the town. National Forest has their own degree up in there. They got a contractor up in there. And he went out of there today. I don't know if he's heading up to Chattanooga or what. They're grading their roads. Yeah. I have something to add to roads and traffic, if I may. My name's Jamie Benson. I'm the resident to the town. I live up Austin Hill, 904. Since I moved in, love the town. I'm having a problem now with the speed on Austin Hill Road. There are some repeat offenders that are residents up there that are doing 50 plus miles an hour up Austin Hill Road. And I've given them some friendly slowdowns and they continue to ignore it. And the biggest problem I have is the dust storm that those cars generate at those speed. It's just like going through the Mojave Desert. And I can't open the windows in the front of my house. It'll just fill the house with dust. I'm about 40 feet from the road. So I was wondering if there was any kind of product the town could put on the white crushed dusty stuff to prevent some of this from happening. And I was wondering if some signage could be put up for speed limits because there's only one on Austin Hill Road. It's just past my house and it's quite old and faded. So they speed up and down. It's excessive. And we do put calcium chloride on the roads to control the dust. And without that, it would be horrible. So has that been done recently? I don't know. Not that I know of. The town has been putting some newer kind of white crushed powdery stuff, which is great. It's nice on the vehicle and it stays. But it creates a ton of dust when the people are inconsiderate and blow by the house at 50 plus miles an hour. So there's a lot of other people that lives below me on Austin Hill and as well as Maple Hill that are experienced in the same issues. And I know it's a dirt road and I've lived on a few dirt roads and they're dusty, but when people are just going by that kind of speed, there's nothing really you can do about it. So I was just wondering if there's something the town could do to remind people of the speed limit and try and control some of the dust. I have a question. How many people are involved in your opinion? I'm just the beginning of hawk. There are at least two or three on Austin Hill that are complaining north of me and I know some of the people on the lower part of Austin Hill where they have to do the severe climb because of the vehicles are going up so fast, they're washboarding it and they're getting the dust too. And Maple Hill just got done part of it and I know those people are all keeping their windows closed and we've talked and there's a lot of pedestrians and older folks walking their dogs and stuff up there. They're reckless driving and they're in such a hurry to get up to their homes up on the top of the mountain. They have not a lot of concern for just the folks they drive by. There's a few of us. I don't know if anybody's ever come down and brought it to your attention, but I thought I would because. Yeah, that's a good step to take. Yeah. Is there any particular time of the day that's worse than the other and that cars versus pickups? It's the morning commute out and the evening commute up. Okay. The UPS guy, he kicks up a lot of dust too and some of the propane trucks and that, I understand that, but it's mostly the people that, the residents that are just. Cars and SUVs. Cars and SUVs. And I'm not talking 10 miles over the limit, okay, I'm talking excessive. So I've tried to try to be nice and just a slow it down. I have a dog, you know, and I keep them in the yard, but you know, anything can happen. So. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for bringing it up and getting it on film and getting it in the paper and getting it in our notes. That's the first step. See if we can't encourage the constable maybe to spend a little time out there one of these days. Yeah. During those hours. During those hours. I think that'd be a good idea. Not in the middle of the day. Now the school's out and he's not done watching stuff at the school. Well. Thank you, James. Appreciate it. Thanks. How long have you lived up to? I moved in just February. February. February. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a small project. Yeah. Well, we're here twice a month. You're welcome to come. Great. Thanks. And he was going on and on. So project is moving forward. Yeah, they didn't work. They, I thought they were going to. Oh, it's too nice today. Yeah. Well, I think last week, he wanted me to make sure I was going to be around because they wouldn't start cutting the holes in the top. Now one, the tanks are all back filled. The tanks are in the backfields on the new field. And he was talking because they don't work next week. Right. Yeah. The fourth of July, we can't work in. So he wanted to get this all the steel in and, and the hatches all went down here this week. They still could. I mean, it's not too great way to explode. Maybe they didn't want to. They didn't work down below today either, which I could understand because they're at the point now where they're going to start doing the field today. Cause it can't really do much to pipe in until the fields. So I'm assuming he's waiting to start on the field after the fourth, and then you can give it. You know, they've done pretty well. They had, they blocked it off really well at night and stuff, so people can't get in there. I mean, he's done the extra effort. Yeah. It's pretty good. The day they're setting the tanks, I was there cause we had to back a couple of trucks out there on their property. And I told them, I'm sorry, there's more than one truck and said that we were going to get done. We receded it and had it looking top notch. GMP down there there. We thought maybe they might set the pole to the north outside the field. Figuring that way they could get a truck in there to do their camp pots and stuff, but cause they're going to replace the pole. It's slated to replace that pole that's inside the field now. And instead of replacing it there, I said, well, maybe replace it there, but it's going to be too long a span. And she's going to cook us $3,200 for the pole. So I said, I'd move the side back down there cause it makes a shorter run for the contractor. So they're going to set it outside the fence on lower end which is better for us. Then we don't have to dig that old field up. I'd like to think that we could keep the old field impact and use it in the summertime for another 15 years or 20, you know? Cause if you give it that break for three or four months that really helps the other ones. It's still functional. As long as it doesn't, you know, the check monitoring too, you know, weekly. And it says nothing. Of course this year, everything's a try yes. I, you know, this year you could let it go for a long time. Other than that, I had a week as I marches that we fix. Water week. And then I had the sewer man home over here in front of the bean house. We've been sort of written up on it cause it's got loose breakers, but we hadn't done anything cause it's in the middle of the black top and then my hair called me up and said that they're going to add that black top. So we fix that. You know, so it doesn't cost it down much cause they're going to do the black top and just, you know, we dug it up and put it, you know, we're using cement collars now instead of brick for risers. So I've got two, three others. So whenever black top happens, I mean, like back years over front park out, we did that one. Wherever the brick I tried. How big of a riser is it? That one there is a good one. But there was four courses of brick that we took out. So that's two and a half inches of course. So it felt the same. And I guess we're all set. That's what Terry did to get a chance to repair those two tires on the Jetset and both flat. I don't know. I'll get them. I'll take my air compressor down. Tell them I didn't have an air tank. I thought they had one like caught up day and up today and he said no, he didn't have one. So I'll just bring a little compressor down. Fill them up. I think that's all I need is just air there and up. Yeah. They aren't flat there. Flat, flat, but they aren't weakly flat. They got a little bit of air still in them. He has it down. They need air by it before he moves. They must be weak. I don't think so. Why not be flat? Well, maybe a little bit. If they are, I'll just take them off the lines and get a fix. I'll keep track of it. I'll just leave my compressor down there for a couple of days and I'll check them. Let's say I'll just take them on my way. So moving on to other stuff. Your stuff. This is your management letter for the auditors. For the auditors. At the base units, the same thing we do every year. Yeah, every year. And they put the fancy wording into that you're coming to auditors. Basically, I would have moved to engage Pace and Holly one more time to do the audits. OK. Nice. Here are the audits of the books. All in favor? Aye. Pace and Pace. Pace and H-A-W-L-E-Y-L-L-C. It's an auditing firm. Auditing firm, yeah. Auditing firm. Thank you. Specs for putting out the roadside mowing to bid, which is asking for one side mower of a six-foot minimum and one over-the-rail mower with a five-foot minimum. And contractor must have spare mower and tractor so they can keep working. And contractor must have proper signage and liability insurance and workers' insurance for ditch mowers or sickle bar mowers. What's a ditch mower? I don't know. This is just a recycle over. You go to the whole town? It doesn't specify. That's the one thing we need to specify is what is getting mowed. No, we can't do that whole town. So what is getting mowed? Yeah, that's probably going to make a fall, right? Yeah. But we don't know, so we don't have documented what exactly is being mowed. No, not yet. This is just the end. The reason I say that is because I know it's difficult for people to quote on this that they don't know what they're going to mow. Absolutely. Well, yeah. So can you do it by the mile? Or by the mile. How far back are you going to make? Three, four passes or what do you mean? That's why it's a good discussion. That's why we're not going to make a fall. How about if I'm back, so you can reach? I should. Is there any way we could schedule mowing so that like we could whack chervil before it goes to seed? You know, that would be like starting it probably two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. You know, maybe we could at least hold it to where it's at, you know? I don't think we mowed it all last year. I know. We cut money there because we needed someplace else or something. But generally, we mowed later on in the year, even though it's not optimal for chervil, right? So we don't have to. Well, I'm just thinking, you know, we can kill two birds with one stone. I personally, you know, would pay more to get it done twice, you know, once when it comes into seed like two weeks ago. And once again, you know, if it comes back, you know, a month later. Or maybe the town could look into like getting a machine that'll do it. Well, that's what I was just going to say, you know? Comes around to that. Yeah, all you need is a brush-eye without an iron. The loader would do that, you know? The loader, you guys own now. Could do that. The chervil's at least waist-high. Yeah, but if we could hit it, when the loader would go... No, I mean, it's... It's just gonna put the money on the boat. You mean the mowing or that? The mowing. The loader could do it. Yeah, they make a mower. When the flail mower would be a better solution for the mows, rather than a brush-eye type? Well, you get this... Not before you get the rocks and stuff, but... Well, flail mowers work pretty good on them. Yeah? Rocky. Yeah, over the rail and stuff, but... They're pretty forgiving, that's all I'm saying. Yeah. You can hit a lot of things in the grass. Yeah, okay, yeah. But they do make them, you know, they go on the front of any quicker path tractor. The loader could do it. This is what it was like then. And we probably end up mowing more if we had... I know. Spending the money to go out to bed and deal with that. Or more of that. Gee. No, we're not. We're not. But... Well, what's wrong with that figure? What's the... You know, on a normal year, what's the time spent, you know, when they mow? When we mow. When you mow the whole town? It was almost 9,000. Yeah. It was one year and it was 6,000. And that was, like, incredibly low. No, it was a guy who just... Yeah, he kind of just like... Big C enter crisis. He goes, I got two kids. I'm a single dad. I got them all. And so he did. And he was good. But he's... More across the pipe. 40,000. 40,000? Oh, really? Oh, yeah. So they got to be... Take a few hours. And we... He's still... Yep, he's bound. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of maintenance levels. Yeah. All of the rail ones. Yeah. Yeah. And there's the hourly wage for whatever he's running. Right. Right. But the hourly wage on the road crew is probably going to be a lot less than the contract. Right. It's fine. It makes you do whatever you want. Yeah. Right. Right. You can spend a day here and there doing it. As opposed to making a big project. Yeah. They utilize the loader to do it better. Yeah. Do we have that attachment we talked about? No, we don't. Yeah, we have the loader, but not the attachment. Yeah, that's why I meant to. I know we have the loader. No, but you need a caterpillar attachment that goes to a skid steer attachment, which then you have to buy those more. So you have to buy two pieces. Yeah. So it's done. We're getting budget for this next year coming up. It's, um, it's not the first time it's come up. And it's, um, as well as that, we probably could use a little rubber-treaded excavator and we could do a lot. Yeah, I don't know if you can. Yeah. Yeah. The problem is actually, now you've got a trail. Yeah. And then you need a class A. No, that's when our advertisement. I see that. It's a class A. Like, whoa, you've got to step it up a little. Don't we else have that one? So this, we brought this up just to start the discussion. Not like we're putting this ad in the paper next week. This is to, um, we also. Is this like a format for an ad? Say what? This is like, this is going to sell the squad in? No, this is not something that's going in. This is to open up the discussion about exactly. We're also people that have, in years past that have requested us to not mow there. So we don't need to just say they're going to mow the whole town. Right. If there's people that don't feel like they want it or need it. You know, I think on Jerusalem. Oh yeah. I think that option is always there. Yeah. Just flag yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember what we put in the budget for mowing next year? You know. The story next week, we'll have to look that up. That's the, going to determine how much we can mow is basically we did put money in for the, for mowing this coming year that starts in a couple of weeks. So you won't be putting the, the, mowing your individual activity in the fiscal year to start? Right. This, yeah. This would be in the new fiscal year. Yeah. We're just starting the conversation because we can't mow the whole town. And, and in the past, we've tried to, you know, attack the hotspots and, and, you know, rotate around town where we can mow. Well, corners, blind driveways. Exactly. That kind of stuff. Yeah. First, and then what's left is left, I guess. It'd be nice to, you know, public land that nobody really gives a shit about. We're letting Jerusalem grow wild. Wacking that, you know. That's, I don't know how much power they had. The shade's too low for the car. Yeah. This is, this is like for like next year probably, you know, it takes a little advanced play. Not a lot, you know, but. I hate it when you throw it into the car roads. It's the one going water like away. You know. We've got to start doing something with the shed or it's going to be everywhere, you know. I know people that spend hours, hours a week pulling it. I've done it for three years in my place and I can finally see it does work. Really? Yeah. It does. You've just got to keep that, you know. I've done it all the day now. Yeah. I've done it three days. It's probably greater though. Yeah. So that's, I think we need to work on that. We need to figure out what we have in the budget for it and then get some ideas about what it's going to cost. And look at some from years past. Exactly. There was some parameters going forward. Yeah. But we're not going to come up with anything tonight and all that. But if we're trying to schedule it for really not this September. We're going to need to start. We've got to talk about it now. Yeah. We can get around, you know, about the mountain road. It wouldn't hurt anything. You've got a little bit of that brush so you can see down. When you pull up that intersection to go down the village. Yeah. You can't see. It's getting harder and harder. You're right. You're out in the middle of the road before if the car is coming up through and they don't turn. They're testing their brakes. Yeah. You cannot see past that song. Those of us that go straight a lot because that's where we live. Right. You really got to slow down because you can't see that somebody's going to miss that stop. And if you stop, if you stop where that stop sign is and where the line is and you leave from there, there's no way you can see. No way. I go over in the back every day and tonight when I was coming home, I really saw that I had to edge out and edge out. And just as I edged out and thought I was fine, somebody came going up and they weren't turning. So yeah, we just need to collect out those spots. You know, spots come to somebody's mind. You see almost lost your new guardrails, too. That's about it. You see that? No, I didn't. Black marks go right up. They go right down the side. He must have rubbed on them. They did. Maybe it's a trailer. Yeah. Big semi must have come down through there. Today, this morning or sometime, it wasn't there. It wasn't there. It wasn't there. It was early this morning. I don't know. But 50 feet of black marks probably. Right. Yeah. They go around. They go to the guardrails. They look to be all right. Well, we'll work on that. Maybe, you know, maybe Martha, if you've mentioned this and just say if anyone has trouble areas that they know of, they can let us know. Yeah. So we can put them on a list. Or as well, if anyone has areas that they don't want done to mark it off so that they don't get them. So you're looking for input. Yes. I'm sure I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. I'm going to get it. 43 equal good. No problem. That's going to be three, four times a year. Yeah. Yeah. And then we've got an agreement between Able Waste Management from Plymouth in the town of Rochester. The town agrees to allow bail to operate the Saturday fast trash program from July 1st through June 30th next year. And the hours are between our first and third Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. And they're asking for the town to continue to be operated here. At the town clerk's parking lot. And they will also provide all employees and equipment necessary to receive recyclables and trash. And there's going to be a cost of $3 for a 13 gallon bag, not to exceed 15 pounds of trash, or $6 for a 33 gallon bag, not to exceed 30 pounds of trash. I've never seen them with a scale out there. But they think they're probably used to it. But if it does exceed that, they have the right to charge a customer 10 cents per pound for the additional weight. They agreed to provide compost bags at a cost of $4 for 13 gallon compost bag of food, residuals, yard debris, $6 for a 33 gallon compost bag of food, residuals, and yard debris. Provide compost bags or accept compost bags. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't know if they have the right word. I think they would accept it. I think maybe accept it. But let me check on that. Oh, it says specific bags for compost are available only through ABLE at any ABLE fast trash program or in the office. Yes, they have specific bags for compostable stuff. And ABLE employers will collect all the fees for trash to cover the cost of landfill disposal, as well as defray the cost of the entire program and cash directly from customers. Town of Rochester agrees to pay $1,200 per month for all acceptable recyclable products delivered to the fast trash program. This fee allows all participants in Rochester to utilize the single stream recycling program free of charge. So the charging is at the drop off is only for trash or food, not for recycling. And what were we paying last year? $1,200. $1,200. So they haven't raised it. They're continuing that some unusual in this day and age. How are they doing a sufficient job? I love the fact that I only make a whole bag of trash in one month for three bucks. I can just bring it here. And I bring them my recycling too. And they're very pleasant. You're not finding someone that showed up too late to just let their stuff in from you? No. Well, they're three hours twice a month. And they're just getting the hang of it. And it is another social event in town. It is, yeah. Do you guys remember it? I think I sent you an email about a woman in Hancock who comes down. Yes. And I said, this is free for Rochester residents. She goes, I don't even care. If you guys don't care, I don't care. They do recycling up in Hancock as well in the Grandville. I've taken my trash up there and paid for it, but I don't take my recycling to where their citizens are paying for it. 6-1-1 doesn't have any other cases of this. Are there other known cases of it? I know. I mean, people drive in with New York plates and stuff, but they could be hot now. Yeah, second home owners. I think if it gets to the point where they need a second truck or they can't handle the volume, then we need to crack down on that a little bit. Because they don't know either. No, they don't know. They don't need to make a big stink of it. They don't need to encourage it. Right. But I think we'd be able to agree to this. Yes. We'll continue the service. All in favor? All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. I think we budgeted for it last year. Join us for an article in favor on those alternate weeks of recycling containers or cars. I know there is for Rochester. Do you know if they do that for Hancock or Grandville? I put it in myself for Rochester, but no one from Hancock or Grandville noted by me. I could certainly ask them. But I mean in the article specifically for Rochester residents, not just recycling in Rochester. I think that's what I said. I don't know how it reads because I don't read it. I think I said Rochester residents, but I'll check. Yeah, if you would mark that, like I said, I know it's there, but I don't read it. Oh, thanks. Well, I know it's us. I know it's you. So in part of generating that recycling, we've got a liquor license application from the Purcell conversion. Huntington House people. Oh, the new owners of the Huntington House. Has it gone through yet? It hasn't gone through yet, but they're doing the paperwork. Yeah, I believe it's August. August, yeah. So I'd move to welcome them to town by approving that application. Are there two permits at the same time for a month? I don't think this is going to play until they pick owners. Right, right. My house is good until October. So if theirs would stay in place until this closes. And when is it closing? And so will Scott or August. It's in August. August or August. So it's not like they'll be too. They just want to get all their paperwork done. So I've moved to approve that. Do they have to have a liquor license with the state in order to get one for the town? This is as they go through the town and the application goes to the state. But the town, the state will not give them one if the town does not approve it. So that's what they do. Yeah. Yeah. And the state does their own road background so that's all that. Properly. Yeah, they do. Yeah. So move to approve that. Second date? All in favor? Aye. Roger Purcell. I don't know if they're going to keep it. Regina and Vincent, I think it is. I don't know what they're going to do. Vincent Purcell Corporation. You can still call in at the Huntington House in. You know the problem? New York, somewhere. New York? Yeah. Everybody that works there's method that says that you really need to do this. Yeah. He's the shop. He's the shop. Yeah. She still keeps working. Not much is going to change that we know of. And you're staying August. We also have a contract for garden work at the library. For Marnie Weichel, who has been doing that for several years. She's got the, um, so. I move to execute that. A odd number about how much we're looking to borrow from a grant anticipation note, which is basically money to pay some bills until the money comes back from the grant, which usually they want to see work completed before we get the grant money. So this is just a, the Mascoma Bank has offered no fees in a 2.65% municipal rate, which is pretty fair in the one year term. And she'll be back in time. What this is for, the biggie is the septic project. Right. Wing farm. Wing farm. Project. And what's it called again? It's a, the, um, the wastewater project. No, no, I mean, this is the thing that you're going to apply for. No, it's, um, grant anticipation. Thank you. Now like a month ago. $396,800. $396,800. Yeah. Tell Line Project is about 95% done. It'll be done tomorrow. The road's open. Yeah. See the road's open. So you got, there's a bunch of piles. Piles to pick up. And there was a couple of spots where I drove, drove up there with Dana today. And there was some of the burn removal where it was pushed off into the woods, not pulled out. And I could see where that makes sense in some spots, but there was definitely a few spots where it, it still is higher than the road. And it got, I don't know if it's going to totally shed water. So maybe when you're picking up your piles, you could just eyeball the, I don't know, are you going to be up there doing the pickups? I know you had other guys out there doing the work. Yeah. No, they're, they're going on, moving on other things. Right. So if you're doing the final pickup, maybe you can do the final quality control. Yeah. Couple of the spots and just see if it, and then the ditch down by Harold Hubbard's, they still have a little bit more ditch in the connect, those two culverts. Yeah. Some of that got kind of Dana kind of said, we really don't need to do too much other than the edging, like you said. Yeah. The ditch going up, it's pretty deep already. Right. Maybe just pull some of the vegetation up. That's what's been at the very bottom. Yeah. Over that culvert. Yeah. Those two connect. That's going to happen tomorrow. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for jumping on that. Yeah. And I'll, I didn't really say, but I guess I assume I'm going to take care of the old culverts, is that correct? That would be great. Yeah. Where do you just... I'll have to bring them landfill. That wasn't defined in the... Yeah. It wasn't. It probably should be. I mean, it's kind of a $300 item, but they'll be, you know, I'm taking care of it, but it's a, you know, I'll bring them to landfill one moment probably. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, they're fairly torn up. Not useful for much. No. You'd have to take a lot longer to save the culvert. Yeah. If the culvert's not worth saving, it's awesome. No, again. Okay. Thank you for that. So in terms of this, I guess I'd like to move that we do go into this grant anticipation now with Mescola. So the thing is that so much money that has to be paid out in the process is that it will come back, but we can't pay it out without that. Right. It's just bridging over until it's done. I don't like to do it. There's no... How long is this anticipated to be out? This loan would... One year. It'll keep it for a year. It'll keep it for a year, but there's no fees, there's no early payment things, so it's really going to be up to what happens. We want to pay that one to use. So much sooner than that. We would run it out for a year. Okay. Yeah, so. It would be nice if we just had plenty of cash to mow everything and just pay all the bills ahead, but it'll happen thanks to the grants. So. Oh, for tomorrow. Yeah. So I'd move, we move forward with this. Secondly, and I want it. I want it to be generous. So we can have it. Yeah. It'd be great. Great. Thank you. This is just a funny little thing that came in the mail. The last action lawsuit that has been put forward by some towns, somewhere else, not for towns that did not receive enough payment and low tax money. And they think that Rochester is one of them. So if you want to sign on in this, you might get more built money, but it's not going to cost you anything to do it. But I figured I wanted you guys to receive and approve before I signed it off and say, really, you won't. They're not taking away what we already got. You have to see. No, I haven't. I haven't either. Yeah. So I guess. I don't have to do it right away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather read it than see exactly what this from Utah, King County, Utah versus the United States. So I get this. I'll read it. There you go. I'll look it over. In old business, we had what Harlan, you'd made a request wondering how much the fees have added up. We'll get that in a minute. Okay. As of today, the town has spent $19,205 and 61 cents on legal fees to keep that road open. I'm just to find gap. Yeah. I'm going to go around. Yeah, I'm going to go around. Yeah, I was going to go around. That's two years of roadside mowing that we haven't had money for for the last two years. Yeah. So. With a couple grand and a half to book. Yeah. It's a shame it's come to this. Yeah. Well, but the road goes nowhere. Not totally nowhere. It goes somewhere. It's a lot of people said that about the bridge being rebuilt up there. So basically we went to his house that it was a bridge that went to nowhere for a couple hundred thousand dollars. Well, you know the story on that. Why don't you get that straight? The reason that bridge is so big is because the town at the time didn't want to spend money on a bridge. The cheapest way out was to go with FEMA money. And that's why the bridge is so big. It was built to FEMA specs. I would have much rather seen a bridge equivalent to what was there that would take a log truck. They still. It's all about the design. Well, I mean, what's done is done. What's done is done. It's done, right. And making this bridge sound like it has to go somewhere. The only reason we got the bridge in the first place is because nobody wanted to spend the money to replace what was there. This was the cheapest way to do it. Well, nobody wanted to spend the money to replace what was there. It wouldn't have been built. Exactly. It's kind of a circular argument there. Exactly. Anyway, the point is when you just said a road that goes nowhere. No, you would have had to build a bridge. It does go somewhere. Yeah. It does go somewhere. You have to build a bridge. You would have had to replace that somehow. And you chose to go a theme of mine. So consequently, we ended up with a four-lane bridge because it had to be built to F-SPACs. I don't think two cars could pass that. Well, it's a little overbuilt from what was there. What do you say? Well, it's built to F-SPAC. It was built to withstand the... Next flood. It didn't go out in Irene. Yeah, but it wasn't built to hook up to a throughway or anything. It was built to... Anyway, that's not the point right now. The point was Tom didn't want to spend the money. They got FEMA money, and they got that bridge. I spend the money if you get it for free. Yeah. I mean, that's... I get it. I get it here. I get it. But everybody makes a point on how huge this bridge is. That's why. Okay. Okay. We got that straight now? You got that straight. Okay. You got that straight. Okay. There is nothing else on the agenda. We're going to pay bills and go into executive session to talk about employee issues. So, thank you. Go. They have it. I have it. 26. All right. Yeah. That's fine. Thank you.