 Email. He always refers to it as DOT. You know, public works. Oh, yes I haven't I've been on the roads. I haven't been able to check. I haven't been checking emails. It was Today at 338 It says it was sent. So he was happy with the Repayment of the rumble strips in front of essentially the front of his house We're not done yet though. Well, that was his point Okay, thanks Can get started Also So I'll call me in order. It's just a little past seven We have the minutes from September 4th 2018 to approve if we wish Is there a motion? I'll second page one One thing on page one under item number three and if the answer is no, we shouldn't add anything That's totally fine. But if I remember correctly when mr. Need to get his name, right? Nettie came in and spoke with us. I believe he mentioned a tenant or landowner on Hurricane Lane who May complain and I just wonder if that should be added. We don't know who would write we don't know I Saw speculation. So I just thought he remembered, you know Remember there was a specific concern. He had about a complaint This concern is at some point in time down the road something might happen It might but right Okay, all right. If you don't want to add anything, that's fine. It's just I it's something I recollected and If it should be added You know some page one page two Number seven. Was there a motion for approving the chickens regulation or it was not it was just a sort of a straw vote that we took It turned out to be three to two Whether there was consensus to continue developing it. Yeah, I got enough support I just wondered if we should we should have documented a motion. So the answer is no on this one on Under discussion under the north Williston Road traffic calming. Yes So I think I said I mean this isn't a quote, but what I what I believe I said is that My preference is to remove all of the rumble strips, but I wouldn't Vote against removing some of them, I mean, I thought we should remove them all that was my strong opinion Vote against removing some so if you could just reword that first sentence You've got that right Right and then a number 12 Terry yes On the policy it says that I suggested the policy state that the MUT CD Guidelines must be followed, but it it already says that in the policy. So I'm not sure I'm not sure that's an accurate quote. I'm not sure I don't remember Saying it quite that way, but It doesn't feel accurate What I what I think I've said it on the policy so far is I'd like to see us make sure that we We protect against what we you know the errors we had with a north Williston Road, but I Don't know if the policy actually covers north Williston Road. That's really not a neighborhood, right? And is this policy a? Traffic calming policy for neighborhoods or generally throughout the town That's what I thought so it doesn't really apply Okay So did you want just to strike that? If you don't mind I just don't think it I don't think it makes sense. Yeah And then under number 12 the second paragraph the first bullet Ken might have said that I just remember him talking about emergency vehicles. I didn't remember him talking about utility trucks He did okay, but he did too Just when they drive over those humps because they have stuff in the back they rattle I wouldn't want them in my neighborhood. I think any truck going over them or probably some cars are going to make a racquet, but You know some page three Page four Retreat really the 23rd. Yes. Is that the date? Okay, all right if there's nothing else then Proving the minutes of September 4th 2018 say aye. Aye. I get posed and no extensions Move on to public comment This is the time for anyone in the audience who has any comment to make on anything on the agenda or not on the agenda This is your opportunity If you wish to speak If you just identify yourself Car in the traffic we have Truck traffic that comes by our house just all the time, especially late at night I Know that you folks or was in our local newspaper about South Williston and south for now road and some others eliminating traffic or trucks and We have the trucks coming by our Neighborhood we are residential because we do have signs on either ends saying we are residential, right? Yeah, and I'm just Why can't most of these trucks or all of these trucks that are heading into Burlington or to go on to the interstate when they come out of avenues ABCD Why can't they make a ref a right-handed turn? To get there instead of taking a left-hand turn Beating the heck out of our little bridge there That we've already resurfaced and since I've lived there we've already had to redo that whole bridge That's our tax money So we could eliminate that kind of an expense By then coming out and making the right turn instead of the left turn if you take the time to come from Williston Road to make the The Left-hand turn to come on to industrial Avenue You'll notice is a good hump in the road where these heavy trucks are making the turn all the time The same thing is happening in front of my house right now Again, if you make the trip down industrial Avenue come across that bridge The road is breaking up already And and then we do have the humps there The road has been resurfaced. I've lived there since 1972 So when I bought the house was kind of a whole bunking road We want to call it that being a little more than they're here now. It's a million artery so If we could Change that And I don't see why not Because there isn't a bridge going the other way for us to have to repair And I don't think there's one even for the state to have to repair and I did speak with mr. Horro a while back and He said it's probably going to be within I don't know a number of years. We're going to have to redo that bridge again Now I have to say that our cement trucks and most all of our Tire trucks, which are really heavy The only time I really see them come by our house is when they're going into the Essex area Not making the right hand turn to get out on the interstate or go to Burlington so Not only from my neighborhood. I call it my neighborhood because I'm the old time of there They've all come and gone except for this guy That Will save some tax money And I thank you my taxes only went up 88 dollars this year and I know that my Taxes are a lot less than most communities, but then again in the same breath I have to say why shouldn't they be there hasn't been a community in State of Vermont that has grown like Williston in the last what 20 years I'm on a small-time business owner retired of course Fixed income doing pretty good with the start market, but how long does that last okay? So The one does have the reputation of being the most expensive state for retirees to live in So With that I want to stay here. I don't want to move. I love where I am except for maybe a couple months of the year I have a daughter that's done south so I can go stay there. She still says come on down dad. I'm still welcome Okay, so with that, I wish you folks would give some thought to what I've just said here It's a simple thing for them to come out of out the way through D Take a right turn and that'd be the end of it. These trucks have gone by our place or our residential area All day and really all night And I one of the things I don't carry this like going on you The other thing is there any any kind of ordinance or anything about these loud mufflers Because I have somebody that comes by our house about 4 30 in the morning And I swear I can hear him until until the end of industrial 11. I swear the guy does it on purpose So I don't know if there's any ordinances on these loud I know you can't do anything about the Harleys. That's who they are But on all of these other vehicles With these loud Mufflers that they have So I thank you for your time Please give it some thought And I appreciate it very much and I'm sure my neighbors would too and maybe our tax payers Because maybe if we don't have to do that bridge over my taxes won't go up 88 dollars Thank you. Thank you very much ask the other worst department to Take a look at whether there's any way that we can do that realistically and I live not too far away from you and travel and know the truck travel travel on that road, but there is an industrial Area to that need to get to whether they need to come down Route 2 a and down industrial matter and all but it's a good question. So, thank you So anyone else who has any public comment tonight If not, I will move on to interview and appointments and tonight we have Jill Pardini who's here Looking to be appointed to the Planning Commission Last week we interviewed two other folks who were The Planning Commission we now have two vacancies to fill as well as as well as one for the recreation committee and Jill we do have Your CV that we had given out last week and we do have your application so if you would give us a brief Description of your background and why you'd like to be on the Planning Commission that would be very helpful So I see the job of the Planning Commission as a group of people that balance the need for development and business and economy with trying to maintain a balance with the ecosystem and community members My background that relates to planning. I worked For the Planning Department in Baltimore City and that was during a time when they were creating their sustainability plan So in that some of my tasks were around more of the the cleaning and greening initiatives trying to figure out How they would put that into their plan. So that included things like an initiative called tree Baltimore So trying to find places and spaces to put more trees throughout the city It was to rewrite zoning codes in order to do some more urban Farming so turning in either vacant lots into community gardens or looking at areas that were fairly blighted to perhaps raise them And then create more large-scale urban farms Additionally When I was working on the sustainability plan I was looking at some things that sounds like you've been recently talking about so I was trying to figure out How could we get chickens back in the city? So if people wanted to have a few chickens in there in their backyard for those who had the space And it was also looking at things like compost which people were very up in arms about So when you went to big Group meetings or community meetings, you know, everyone had fears of compost means rats So I have been in spaces in places where there's Potentially a contention around what is there is not on the docket and then being able to Be in a room with folks and facilitate both experts and members and have people sort of listen and communicate around these types of complex ideas Later on when I worked for the the Baltimore City Mayor's office. I had quite a bit of opportunity to collaborate with the planning department on various initiatives So in my portfolio were things like education and health and human services So we had a big opportunity to do some Changes to our schools to our actual school facilities This became as you can imagine because people feel very strongly about their kids and their their schools and their their education community We were thinking and planning long-term for schools that we might need to Completely tear down and stop using or schools that we would build build anew or how we would consolidate something that Vermont's familiar with so You know, those are community meetings that I have strong memories of People being very adamant and vocal about how would we go about doing that and working with the planning department in that way Another thing that came about as a result of the changes in environment and inclement weather that has been on the rise in Maryland So they've had a really wet summer this summer. That's been something they've seen in it as a trend It's been increasingly hotter in the summer. So we were looking at An opportunity to create things called resilience hubs So the planning department was was looking at particularly post the 2015 riot How do you have communities be sustainable in crisis? If you can't get first responders there because there's traffic or because there's protesters or there's because it's flooded and roads are out So it was looking at communities to identify spaces where you could have a Generator access to water access to first aid and that's that was a huge priority for the mayor at that time where these resilience hubs The third thing that we did were things called cooling centers. That was an initiative with the health department. It's something for folks who were Older so seniors people who were Disabled kids or students who might not be able to have anywhere to go So it was when it was extreme heat It was a space where people could go to get into the air conditioning to get some water to just stay out of their Their row homes or places where they didn't have access to to cooler temps So these are some things that I've done that are sort of planning related and I'd love to take some of that experience and apply it here to Wilson Question was for Jill from the board on your application soccer without borders What is that? So that was a nonprofit. I started after graduate school It predominantly used soccer as the hook to engage newcomer students So kids that are from other parts of the world that had been resettled via refugee status or a siley status or undocumented immigrants and these kids were Very excited about soccer. So I was trying to get that to be able to engage the families and you know different Different needs that they had so financial literacy for parents kids getting academic tutoring We did a lot with kids once they started getting into middle school in high school to do college prep for vocational programs So soccer was the fun part and then we tried to sneak in all the other stuff on the back side Yeah, that's a great question, so I knew this one was coming for me. I moved here just over two years ago We relocated my partner is from from Vermont the official sort of seven generation And it didn't take much convincing to tell me that this is a great place to live work and sort of family So I think we're here for the long term. We fell in love with Wilson for its You know, it's beautiful. It's it's got it's got everything you need, you know, especially coming from a city We weren't we weren't totally interested in having to drive 45 minutes to to a grocery store or a pub or wherever And we see so much opportunity for this town just with how big it is and its location to Burlington and its location to Montpelier And so I'm excited about being a part of that long-term planning And it says you're a full full bright scholar in Malaysia. Yeah, that was what does that mean? So that was an opportunity to essentially take a full year to live in a country to Do an intensive research sort of partnership. So what I did there was I was curious about a Country that does a nationalized curriculum. So imagine especially since I'm interested in education policy How do you take all sort of a once a one model that's built usually built in the capital? So in Kuala Lumpur and then try to put it everywhere else in this country That's vastly different. Kuala Lumpur is like a state-of-the-art 21st century high-tech city and then you go to rural Kuala Chirangana where I decided to do a lot of my on-the-ground sort of qualitative research And you just find that you can't pick up that model and put it in places that just don't have the same resources So I was curious from sort of a macro scale of you know This is a great idea in theory that we could all be working off of some sort of pedagogy that we agree with or a curriculum We agree with and it's just in practice. It becomes really really challenging So first a comment then actually a couple questions if you don't mind I Try to take notes when people are when we're interviewing people I could not keep up with you So thank you I guess I want to shift the focus a little bit to Williston Have you had a chance to take a look at our town comprehensive plan? And if yes, what do you think of it? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? Where should we be focusing on I did have a chance to look at it. It's comprehensive rate 130 plus pages where I get excited about it is the Inclusion of certain things that I just haven't seen because of the places I've lived previously So the inclusion of things around energy efficiency and moving towards, you know, things that I think Williston is able to do around could we could we think solar could we think? You know things that you're talking about with compost I think there's so many opportunities that Williston can do because of it being located in Vermont and then because as the gentleman said previously It's it's a place. That's actually booming right unlike so many other places in Vermont. It isn't having a dwindling tax base It isn't having a problem if anything our problem is we can't keep up with the building to have people here So that excites me I think another thing around I have a passion for sort of access and equity issues And I think there already is more transportation opportunities in Williston than there aren't so many other areas in Vermont Which is a huge challenge for people who are under resourced so I think Starting with that as our base but then in thinking about conscientiously building that out So so that Wilson could be an inclusive place because it is a place that folks want to get to because we do have things You know like the big buck stores and in places that are affordable for people to eat or buy clothes for their kids Okay, good. Thank you. My next question I tend to ask not sure why but And it's the ask everyone. I don't know what it is you do for work But it's the conflict of interest Question what would you do to recognize a conflict of interest in interest and what would you do about it? So at this moment because I am a full-time PhD student and I hope to eventually work You know when I finish my dissertation, which I'm very much in the the middle of So I don't perceive a lot of comfort conflict of interest in terms of just like logistics So time and showing up and being there and being prepared by having read materials If anything adding more stacks to my reading it wouldn't be a problem at this point in terms of more tangible I like Theresa mentioned. I'm new new to Wilson. So I don't have sort of this invested Relationships whether it's business or community members. I'm getting to know my neighborhood And I'm getting to know the communities that we've sought out already But at this moment, I feel that to me is one of the unique things I bring to this to this interview and this opportunity to serve is that I think this is an Opportunity for Wilson to look at if you are looking for folks who want to come and be homeowners and start families To sort of offset this aging population in Wilson I bring that perspective in because I absolutely was excited to come and be here and put down roots and And being mindful of that in long-term planning I think is a unique a unique lens that I bring and do you see a potential? I realize you're a grad student now or I didn't realize but now I realize You're a grad student now so there's probably minimal potential for there to be a conflict between let's say your professional life and Decisions you need to make on the planning commission. So that's really where I was trying to focus this I'm sorry if I didn't ask the question. Well, yeah, no, I I'm sorry if I misunderstood it But I don't see that I would have a lot of conflict of interest around decisions We were making if while I serve in these next okay, and once you were let's say Employed versus being a grad student. Do you think they're? Again, there might be a potential for there to be conflict I think my instinct would be to ask my instinct would be if it if it felt or it looked as though There could be any inclination for it or any linkage whatsoever as soon as I discovered that I think I would one bring it to the Commission or The local Wilson staff or the select board whatever the appropriate avenue would be to raise that. Okay. I'm not interested in sort of Using this as a position of power in a new way to me. It's more a position to serve. Okay, great. Thank you I Further questions for Jill Thank you very much, and I think we'll Take up the issue now as far as appointments for the two spots that we can I have a recommendation Okay would recommend I'm looking at my notes. We have good good candidates and all but I would recommend Jill and run to the Planning Commission and Sydney to the rec committee. Do we have three positions? We have two positions for the Planning Commission, right to open and one for the Recreation Committee so you did Jill and and Okay, but we have different dates that we need to point them to one for through June of 2019 and one through June of 2022 and then the Rec Committee is through June 2019. So there are three different Motions that are recommended to be made so Do you want me to make motions or well? Yes, we can just have a quick discussion I actually agree with your summary if I look at my notes in my Lack of a better word. Sorry about this. I don't want to put in these crash-turn, but the rating system I used I actually wonder if we could ask either one of you if you have a preference that would help make our life easier You're supposed to make our life easier okay Preference for what? Oh for who would be fill what slot the terms are different lengths one is shorter than the other Yeah, the the thought is is that people won't leave after Short time they would We would be reappointing probably reappointed people in 2019 so yeah unless there was some issue where the person didn't like the role So I'm willing to make a motion. Good. I'm I moved to a point Ron Bomer to the Planning Commission to an unexpired for your term through June 30th 2019 Second do them all together. I can I moved to appoint Jill Pardini To the Planning Commission for an unexpired term four-year term through June 30th 2022 and I moved to appoint Cindy Provost to the Recreation Committee to an unexpired term Three-year term through June 30th 2019 second second office. We have a motion made and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? It is a tough call actually Cindy would have done well on the Planning Commission Any further discussion on the motion? It's always tough actually we always have good candidates people who volunteer generally are enthusiastic and and want to serve so So all those in favor of the motion say aye No, thank you So moving on to the stormwater grant policy amendment James Schirard stormwater coordinator is Here and he has written us a memo regarding this so perhaps you would Give us a overview of your memo and you're requesting nice to see you all I Actually wrote you two exceptionally wonderful memos for tonight The first on the list is the stormwater grant policy amendment pretty straightforward the general just is You'll call a while back. We put a lot of time and effort into figuring out how to Get grant funds and then redistribute them equitably to all the neighborhoods participating in the flow restoration plan now luckily we don't need to rehash that but We can't begin to give out the money under the current wording of the stormwater grant policy and the reason that that's the case is it's linked to incorporation Into our state permit our general permit I can touch upon this in greater depth if you'd like in my next memo But in short that permit expired was administratively continued. We could not incorporate permits Individual permits While it was administratively continued and even though the permit has come back out We can't incorporate any of the town's permits into our greater General permit until we Renew something called the Swimp the stormwater management plan That's due January of 19. We'll probably take us that long till get there and then it needs to go both through approval and public comment at the state level so Realistically, we'd be sitting on funds potentially until next spring The policy language change I've suggested is we just swap incorporation into the town of Wilson MS4 general firm permit For formal excess acceptance of the stormwater system in accordance with our stormwater agreement We've formally accepted two neighborhoods so far and they would be the only ones eligible to receive their proportion By the end of this calendar year. We'll have Three to five more likely so We can start unloading these funds and I know Jennifer would like to do that Questions for James. No, I think it's the right thing to do Emotion then is in order Move to amend the neighborhood stormwater grant policy as presented second as a discussion of the motion If not, all those in favor of the motion say aye Any opposed and no abstentions. All right, then we move on to the program update Yeah, the slightly lengthier memorandum starts out with what I was just touching upon we have a General permit to rule them all here in the town of Wilson That expired it's back in play town staff myself is Working on updating that Swimp, which will likely take to 2019 and For all intents and purposes we're still covered underneath that permit. It's just been administratively continued and we need to get this Swimp in place to Have the new one which is adding a lot of new requirements a few of which I'd love to list to you because we'll probably be talking about them in the coming years Well, you're all very familiar with the Florida hillstone Which does that mean? Yeah, so any Road segments that are directly connected to a water of the state So a road segment could drain into someone's field and that's not hydrologically connected A road segment that goes right into muddy brook is hydrologically connected. So That's luckily been delineated for us But we're going to need to systematically chip away at addressing those that could be new ditching Regrating a berms so and so forth. There are a lot of different things that go into play But that's one of the things we're going to need to address in that Swimp update Another one and this is probably the big one if I had to rank them is the phosphorus control plan Lake Champlain is impaired due to phosphorus and every MS4 community which we are in the basin needs to have a phosphorus plan There are a variety of ways that we can address that of which you'll probably hearing more of in the future But that's going to be similar to the flow restoration plan, but just with the focus on phosphorus instead of flow Lastly, and this is the one that I still have a lot of question marks about There's a portion of a tributary to muddy brook. That's impaired due to chloride It's the portion that you would probably guess it has our box stores on it Marshall Ave Tributary number four to money brook in case anyone was really curious That's gonna require a chloride plan. So still we don't actually have What's required us from the state so I can't talk in detail what that looks like but That's coming down the pike and those are all part of that Swimp. That's due in January so two questions One on the you know the phosphorus control I have a hard time thinking we need to spend money in Williston Tell it to the state I know I'm just I'm just saying is there any discussion? I don't know what higher levels of discussion were involved in but when the town of Burlington frequently dumps out three million gallons of Partially treated sewage. I have a hard time thinking about the lawn runoffs or It's in terms of a priority. I'm not saying it's not a problem You know should we address first and I understand it's our community money not Burlington's community money that we're dealing with here, but it still seems like The state should be focusing on where the maybe where the problems are but I understood and you bring up a really good point and I think the state and Non-profit advocacy groups can do a better job getting that message out to the residents of Vermont Waste water treatment plants certainly with combined sewer flows. That's a health hazard brings lots of pollutants and Damaging constituents into the lake however from a phosphorus standpoint. They're less than 3% of the total problem so To put that in perspective develop surfaces such as rooftops roadways parking lots That's 40% of the phosphorus problem ag land our dairy farms and other ag lands. That's another 40% of the problem so when you're looking at Communities that are contributing to the issue. It's rural. It's urban and the wastewater load is Isn't coming from the treatment plants coming Yep so you're saying the the impact of the Sewage plants over spilling is more just Inability to swim in the water because it's loaded. Yeah, I would say it's necessarily causing algae blooms. It's a cute problem that Could have long-term health effects if you swim at the wrong time But it's an acute issue when you have a combined sewer overflow the systemic issue is the constant introduction of phosphorus via With regards to how to oh, sorry. Do you mind if I just address one more point with regards to one of the things you said about how we prioritize our money It's going to be a permit requirement. So if we don't meet their timelines that they laid out We could lose our permit coverage and I actually don't know what happens if you refuse to abide By your MS4 general permit, but there could be fines What is phosphorus get? Where does phosphorus come from if it's on a roof in a driveway and goes into storm water and gets into the lake? I mean, how does their phosphorus from my roof? Great question. So there's something called dry deposition and basically when the wind blows what we're not seeing is a lot of Minuscule particles depositing onto surfaces Some of those come from So we're if you're looking at the entire United States as the wind blows New England's unfortunately about the tailpipe of everything That's flowing through so power plants in the past had a large contribution of phosphorus and sulfur Through improvements via the EPA and scrubbers and our power plants that's been reduced But still through doc through dry deposition the stuff the winds blowing that gets on rooftops and roadways vehicular Traffic also adds a lot of phosphorus. There's phosphorus in the oils and gasoline that can drip and land on our roadways so roads and parking lots have In a rough sense about twice the parts per milligram or Twice concentration of phosphorus than a rooftop, but they both still have them when it comes to ag land The real issue there is that phosphorus binds to soil So if you had a phosphorus fertilizer or manure and you spread it over a field When if a light rain comes it will slowly get that phosphorus into solution But then binding on to the soil so as long as the soil stays on the farmers field We don't have a phosphorus problem. The issue is through poor agricultural best management practices for generations We haven't protected our stream buffers. We haven't protected our river buffers. We've had agricultural practices that don't have Plants crop cover plants When your your primary crop is out so it increases erosion from those ag lands and that results in Phosphorus laden sediment being washed over Farms into Brooks into the river and into the lake As a kid growing up in Richmond, there were a couple of farms that used to wash their manure spreaders off in the rivers So we'll send you the bill That was a victim sir Couldn't swim at the gorge one time because of that So my second question was just the chloride you talked about that's primarily just salt on the that's from salting the parking lots Is that all is that what that is? Yeah, so again, we haven't been given the level of detail. We are expected to receive from the state So I'm not sure how much detail I can get into but I can say that the town of Wilson actually has a Fairly good chloride plan. We do not jump salt when we do not need to it's expensive We do our best to hold off on that. We have looked into other Processes such as brines But large part we still use salt it is my guess that the reason that that tribe is the one Contaminated to chloride and not others in the town is because of the box stores and Traditionally what happens is they hire a subcontractor to salt their parking lots and their Their walking areas and because the subcontractor doesn't want to get sued They dump as much salt as they possibly can and they still make money and that results in Glorification of those streams There are some really exciting ways to address that that's being pioneered in New Hampshire Which is nice because they're a bordering state that has not come over into practice in Vermont yet But we are talking about it at all of our chloride conferences. So it's on our radar The only thing I'll add is it's easy to blame the state for the phosphorus limits or Pains that we have to go through but I'll remind everybody that the TMDL is an EPA our partner In Vermont participated in developing it, but it is not Vermont's TMDL It is EPA's and we have to abide by it. No, I would I'm the last person that would want to stop cleaning up the lake I just wanted to make sure it's proportional So I'm glad you educated me on where that phosphorus comes from because I was thinking sewage from these plants would Create phosphorus problems and evidently they don't so it's good to know It would be an economic disaster for Vermont to lose Something like the lake or the recreational benefits of the lake Just out of curiosity it doesn't affect our policy so I don't always think any time but just ask this quickly What what percentage of the phosphorus? Dry deposition is atmospheric coming from other states Do we know like that's getting into Lake Champlain? I cannot answer that question although when you're talking about dry deposition on the lake I mean dry deposition in the lake on the rooftops on that's getting into the lake eventually If I understand your question correctly The number for develop surfaces, which is essentially anything impervious again roads parking lots rooftops That's set at a roughly 40% of the problem So while that's not all dry deposition A portion of it is what that portion is. I can't tell you Reminds me of the acid rain issues that we had in the 80s. So, okay. Thanks Any further questions for James? Unless I can keep going through the stormwater update if you'd like Very similar to the last update I gave I just updated the numbers for the grants I think the one to mention is that we've been awarded $930,000 in grant funds to facilitate on 1,800,000 in projects. So all of those grants for 50% match Which is incredible and I think we thank DEC and their project partners for helping us get those grants Significant percentage of those 1,380,000 is for the flow restoration plan which again I would say will soon is leaving the pack and how aggressive we've been in our timeline getting these things in the ground We have a couple other small grants, although important that 21,000 is for a program Dedicated to address those hydrologically connected roads We're going to receive That 21,000 which is in addition to 15-5 that we got this past summer I'll run through the Allen Brook. We have a number of neighborhoods participating We are making progress this year in particular two neighborhoods have been accepted Brandon Woods in Southridge. That's a big deal seven neighbors are substantially complete and we're work basically working on getting final legal documents in in place to accept those so Probably the majority of those will be accepted by this year. That's my hope Two neighborhoods are under construction. Now when I wrote this that was the case. I have heritage meadows and Meadow Ridge Heritage meadows is Essentially done with construction. We just need to do a final walkthrough of the engineers Three neighborhoods are going to begin construction Old stage the construction equipment is on site Tafts Farms and Indian Ridge have not started yet. They are anticipated to start this summer Well, this fall at this point One neighborhood has recently received a grant that was just fully executed Rick I think you just got that stuff in your mailbox past day or so It's us for Wilson Commons right down the street here and then three neighborhoods haven't made any Progress that the town's aware of but they have plenty of years to do so and still meet their stormwater agreements Moving on to lamp light acres You guys are well familiar with this. We got a grant from It's a TA grant from vTrans the big update there is that we Got over the right-of-way clearance hurdle, which is a big deal It means that we can work where we want to work and don't need to buy any land or anything so we just recently got that and We're planning on putting out bids for the work this January With construction hopefully completed next calendar year and that'll be great for the residents of lamp light Work with Jennifer to pull together these last two categories of the the loans Six neighborhoods have signed agreements for loans ranging from 26,000 to 370,000 and the cash flow on the very last page Depicts those Already one of those neighborhoods is beginning to pay back their loan and then the cash flow which again Jennifer pulled together I think the big takeaway there is that by next June June 2019 We should have After everything said and done with all of our other water quality projects and outstanding loans We should have 240,000 available for more loans to neighborhoods In the write-up it says we may need to move funds from perhaps the flow restoration bucket into the loan bucket If needed, I just point out If Meadow Ridge is lucky enough to want to move forward or get a grant to help move forward The final phase of their project could cost 300 plus thousand dollars and if they asked for a Loan on top of the loan they already have that would obviously empty our coffers not that we couldn't handle it in the budget We just might need to move some things around So that is the update any questions for James Things are coming along very nicely Our neighborhoods pond looks guys did a really Fabulous job Particular contractor has now worked with us for two summers and he's done a great job. So we're happy to keep working Who is it? Red line Red is Mo Du Bois, Jr. Sorry is Mo Du Bois, Jr. Oh, okay. That's also known. Yeah Two-person company actually he's just him and us in one other person and he Did a fantastic job Think so thanks Good thank you James Move on to the comprehensive plan amendments and our new planning director met the lingerie is here and You've written an extensive memo here, so So if you could give us a good overview of this we would be appreciated certainly So there are two proposed comprehensive plan amendments that have been forwarded by the planning commission to the slide board for consideration One is edits to the existing chapter 13 of the comprehensive plan. This is currently the open space chapter and broadly amendments will add some interests related to historic and cultural resources archaeological resources forest fragmentation and Natural and wildlife resources Directing the town to examine some of the ways our bylaw works in those areas in particular the Adoption of some language in the comprehensive plan as that relates to archaeological resources is important Because it's a requirement of the downtown board for the maintenance of our state designated growth center at Taft Corners that the town have archaeological resources discussed in its comprehensive plan And managed in its development review and the way it spends its money and considers projects and things like that So that's the chapter 13 edits very broadly The other piece is the village master plan and so this you know where where what you see with chapter 13 is a red line Strikeout document what you see for the village master plan has no edits because it's all new and it's proposed to be adopted currently as an Appendix to the existing comprehensive plan the village master plan comes out of some public process that we started back in May of 2016 and resulted in policies and objectives related broadly to land use standards in the village and historic preservation as it relates to how buildings are modified or built Transportation infrastructure ie. Williston Road and making sure that that corridor is bikeable walkable drivable for all of the users who come through the village or access the village using it and The slightly more nebulous category of village vibrancy Making sure that the goals of the town plan and its regulatory scheme enhance Activity in the village support the multi-use commercial and residential community in the village and really leverage those things That make the village a unique place within the town So those are the three broad categories. There are objectives and policies for each I can go into more detail on any of them or Answer any questions you folks have about what's in that document as well Let's ask What if they have questions regarding the documents first of all I read the The chapter 13 pretty carefully Because of the you know be just because it was an edit from something previously approved And I was just wondering why some sections were I just thought it funny some excerpts What you know things were taken out and replaced with other verbiage and I was I Was just It almost seemed Like a history revision or maybe So Part of that for example talking about river corridors you see it come out you see it go back in I saw that Little ways down right the other one. I think where that's happening is in the discussion of some of the historical, you know about the geological historical First people so what we what we wanted to do here was be Quite a quite a bit more expansive Than than the plan was in the past some of this language didn't really have much of anywhere to live before It is a little bit lengthy, but in the end the policies that come out of it in 13 4 1 2 3 are Directly the ones that were recommended to us by the agencies at the state that deal with these things So, you know consider archaeological resources and development review Use the division for historic preservation and evaluating impacts These are things that have been To some extent off of our radar at the local review level and just saying oh well, you know act 250 will catch that The reality for us is that there are a lot of sub act 250 projects that still involve, you know pretty extensive potential impacts to these resources so Calling out in here that we would look at how we could do that in our local review still leaves up the question of What that by-law amendment would really look like and how restrictive or prescriptive it would be Okay, this just sort of establishes it needs to be done But what needs to be done would be an ordinance or by-law issue So this is a consider and then the by-law might say Evaluate and protect You know, we have a pretty solid map of where we believe our potential archaeological resources are Most of them are in flat places floodplains and near river corridors because that's where people were so There's there's a great deal of development that is not likely to hit any of those maps potential archaeological resources In fact the most recent example of development that did touch on those resources was development proposed by the town related to our trail system where where we did need to go in and do additional assessment and Think about how we were going to deal with the potential presence and in fact presence of archaeological resources in our work area I mean, and I realize I'm jumping the gun. This is only the shit. You know consider But with that Potentially fall on the landowners, you know who potentially want to develop on their shoulders Or should I think of arcade archaeological resources as more of a town-wide benefit and thus the town should be Doing some of the assessments. So we have a better idea where they are. So when it comes time to develop Let's say a specific piece of land instead of saying go figure out what's there and you know Whatever step or level that requires we would be further along in that and say, okay, this is where we know Potential is I'm just trying to get a sense of that but maybe now it's not the time to have that discussion because The obviously the town plan won't get into that level of detail I think we have a good model in the way. We've looked at some of our other conservation resources So we can start with what's been mapped by someone else generally something that comes out of the state But we can add local knowledge to it And in fact that's really been our experience of what we need to do when it comes to our wildlife habitat Areas and travel quarters the state map that we base Jurisdiction for those things on Meaning that if you propose a development that's in one of those areas in Williston you have to do what's called a habitat Disturbance assessment. So you do have to provide additional expertise and information when you're proposing to be in one of those areas Those areas as they are currently mapped are very extensive Basically everything in Williston that's forested is mapped as a wildlife habitat or wildlife travel corridor And what that means is every one of those applicants then has to go hire a wildlife biologist to do a disturbance assessment and report it at the DRB and So we've had this rule since 2014 and it's become a bit of a rote exercise in other words The outcome of the habitat disturbance assessment doesn't really ever say oh gosh don't develop this parcel It shifts things around a little bit and some of them say yes, it's forested. It's on the map Nothing really of note that's particularly utilizing this area that we need to protect We know that we can integrate more of our local knowledge and refine that map In fact, that's one of the things that this plan amendment calls for us for us to go in and refine those maps so they touch fewer areas in the town, but when they do it really matters and We're really trying to focus in on those things that need to be protected I would look at the archaeological resources the same way We have some broadly mapped areas that we know are probably sensitive We're lucky and that many of them are in areas where development is not likely to ever be proposed But we can add to that with local knowledge places UVM has studied places that people tell us they found artifacts We can we can refine that map using the direction this plan gives us and I would look at all of that as a Component of what we call chapter 27 of the bylaw where we have all these additional mapped resources that we will consider if they're present and Focusing those in Do people generally know if they own property that has archaeological significance? I don't know that they would know offhand if it if it fell within one of those mapped areas It would be one of the first things we would be able to tell somebody That's part of our pre-application review for developments is to look at all those resource maps and say yep You know your parcel touches this this and this here are the information pieces You're gonna have to provide other folks who have been on their land for a long time If you know you've got a cornfield that you've walked through after you plowed and you found flints or arrowheads If you're down near the river, you're very likely to have something Some folks are aware that the mound Between Allenbrook School and Williston Road the little hilltop there is a is a significant archaeological resource Yeah, that's it. It's paleo Indian Artifacts that have been found there in the past But I don't know that the mound itself is an artifact, but it was a high point that people you know probably used Over a significant amount of time enough to accumulate those resources And I had which is one more small comment. So I understand I think your other points 1317 it says monitor and assess a significant wildlife habitat area model data for its continued relevance and Then you deleted monitor and assess out of the verbiage for the actual I guess the Implementation or work that you were going to do Yeah, I think what we're really you know the the language monitor assess in the top end makes sense But what we're really doing is Reviewing what's going into the maps that are being produced outside of town and how should we be adjusting them based on what we know About the town so it you know monitor kind of sounds like we're looking over the state's shoulder and saying we're making sure you're doing your job Making those maps. That's not really what it's about. It's about adding local knowledge. Okay. That's good. I like that. Thank you so our request tonight is to Schedule two public hearings on the amendments to the comprehensive plan and there If there are no other questions for that Motion to that effect would be in order So is this for both section 13 and the town With the village plan That's the request. Yes. That's very close. So we haven't discussed at all the village plan I mean, we have not well we have more opportunity at the You know at and around the times of getting public comment So is there I guess the question was is there a time commitment that we need to Fulfill for the the vision I'd be nice to get an overview right like have that kind of present This is what we're thinking because I have to admit I quickly went through it. It's a big document That's brand new so it's not an edit wasn't necessarily what I expected and I saw pictures of things like strip malls in there. I know that's historical It's in there. It's a picture. I don't want to see strip malls, you know The city hall that was actually a model of a strip mall that was created Right as one was placed at Slate Barn to show what that would be nice to have somebody present I don't know if anybody else thinks that way, but no, I think so just the question in mind is is there a time Problem with doing that as a separate item because don't we want to do that before we take it to a tower Or is it the results of the town the town's people's input along with our own that would go into an update that There are going to be two public hearings required in this okay, so that might buy you a little bit more time But if the boy if you don't feel comfortable, that's fine Let me ask you this way at the at the first one will Matt Present to us or present to the it would be good to see kind of that vision and you know cure it Yeah, I'm I'm happy to give a Presentation that kind of hits the high points of what's in here and answer questions happy to do that as part of the first public hearing you set if that works I Wouldn't yeah, I think I can do it in five or seven minutes and then give give you guys room for questions after that It's a relatively lengthy document when I break it into sections Some of these are recitation of history or planning history of the village and Right I did get that so there's a lot of history in there for sure So I kind of I went over that quickly, but I caught this the strip mall But it would be nice to know is here's what the village is as a result of the last how many years we've we've got this This is what we'd like to change and this is how we're going to go about changing it or we think does that sound sure If it's acceptable for the the board to do it at one of the at the very first public hearing then that's fine So then a motion To schedule a two public two public hearings would be a motion that would be in order and Move to schedule two public hearings to consider amendments to the Williston 2016 to 24 comprehensive plan Discussion the motion The only thing I wanted to add to that discussion is one thing that gives me Because I've not spent the time on this I want to Before eventually voting yes or no but one thing that gives me confidence to move it forward at least is when the Planning Commission has reviewed it and Decided that it is in a it's what they want to send to us That to me is a whatever the right word to say positive Indication of that all like it. I may have some specific little issues with it But overall I like it. It's one of the more important things. It seems like we would do Strategy plan Further discussion of motion Stop all those in favor of the motion say aye. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am So moving on to Legal counsel for general matters Rick, I presume you're talking about this. I'm gonna let Eric So the board may recall a longtime town Attorney Joe Fallon is retiring at the end of the year So we've undergone a process the last Select a new firm to represent the town We issued a request for qualifications that was due back at the end of June and the committee put together to review those included Ted Rick and Public Works director Bruce whore the committee met we got four responses for to the request for qualifications the committee reviewed them Before a recommendation a consensus the firm's this will page in Fletcher at a brilliant as the preferred firm From their Rick check references that were listed a number of references thoroughly We had a meeting with Staff at such a page in Fletcher last week and that meeting confirmed Committee's recommendation to take the board tonight for them to serve as our new counsel So questions for Rick and Eric regarding the recommendation What kind of criteria did you come up with the score of the different? the different firms what the Law experience was one the type or the number and quality of Members of the law firm that they assigned because it is necessary going to be dealing with just one person Like we were with Joe Fallon. It's probably a good thing. Right. Well, there's advantages and disadvantages, but yeah Overall, I think it's probably a big thing but Joe served as well for 20 years So it's hard to complain about that No complaints for me and I know when I in some of the one of the references I checked was Joe Fallon and His comment was there a great firm. They're very knowledgeable on Municipal law He said your legal bills will probably go up a little bit though that's largely because Joe's hourly rate is lower than most other firms and so that was a nice added advantage that Joe offered to us another person I checked with because she's legal background of course is one of our board members of joy who was I just read an email a moment ago I was checking in she apologized She had a plan to be here this evening, but last minute something came off relating to her business But she spoke very highly This firm as well and maybe totally in your hands in terms of the recommendation The one question I have or I Maybe it's more of a comment just to make sure I'm correct or correct me This is for general legal services on a case-by-case basis. We may choose a different law firm or attorney It with a specific Expertise that we need help with actually we will continue to use Paul Gillis for Land use issues. We will continue to use McNeil, Leti Am I sure I get the name? For labor relations if we have any major personnel matters, we might go with someone else, but Generally, that's what we've been going with There's certainly the possibility in the future. We might shift some of that work It were added to Stencil page, but we're not making any commitment at this time. It's just general legal Issues that Joe has been handling Do they support any other towns or municipalities? Yes, many Yes, it's nice in their main focus So there's no concern about Time or their ability to support another town I don't have any concern about that one concern we might have is Occasion wouldn't be very often there might be a conflict of interest about one of their members for example if we have a Dispute with a neighboring town like Shelburne for example or say they support Shelburne They support Shelburne's their client. Yeah, that it's a very rare thing and if it does happen We have other resources. Okay, that's fair enough. Yeah We may end up having a some sort of dispute with Shelburne because there's one property that is There's a question of where the town border is and some That'll be an interesting one The deal is One final thing too Joe is We may be needing this firm sooner rather than later First of all Joe does not want to handle any issue that might lead to litigation because he doesn't want to he won't be able to Follow through in litigation and secondly, he's moving out of state. I think the end of October So he won't be in the area anymore any further questions The motion is in order Stitzel page and Fletcher for general legal services Sorry discussion of the motion Hearing none all those in favor of the motion say I Moving on to traffic calming policy and Eric you Have some modifications of it since we talked last I believe so if you'd like to talk about that Your package is a redlined Her draft for this report review and discussion tonight the majority of changes are under section three of the policy Statements so I'm from our discussion the last few meetings. I'm looking at Policy incomes North Wilson Road issue and things we've discussed Brennan Woods Trying to I went back and thought about this and trying to be clear about Traffic calming and traffic control devices. So I've added draft language in here to kind of find those two pieces talk about best practices in terms of Traffic calming referencing FHWA and a B trans resources and also distinguishing the roles of the two the traffic calming devices physical roadway changes May require MUT CD compliant signs and markings Additionally added MUT CD compliant signs may be a recommendation in some circumstances to come traffic But traffic control devices are primarily regulatory in nature Interim implementation in many circumstances must be warranted by data collected. So Trying to parse out the separation of those two there is some overlap But traffic calming is really going to be physical roadway changes which are supported by federal state level best practices interpreted by Consultants that would lead to give us the different pros and cons to weigh on on each There's the major changes in section three And then the other major change We had an appendicee in here before that had a draft scoring matrix after going through this thinking It's a new policy Recommendation from the RPC on that was these scoring matrices They're best evolved over time as you have cases to score So I've changed I've struck an appendicee and put language in there that DPW would work to develop this and revise as Necessary and could certainly keep the board a prize to what that looks like as it's further developed We have some scoring comments from them as well as we do that work Always a little scratchy tonight I Use or comments regarding the revised Suggested policy Well one thing and I'm sorry if I didn't pick up on this earlier one thing. It's on the minor side Don't get me wrong, but I noticed in at least two places. It's under section three it says it is a policy of the select board and I would think it would say it is a policy of the town Yes, the select board adopts it, but and maybe that's a Maybe that's I don't I just when I saw that I I always thought when we adopt policies We're adopting it for the town not for us. Yeah, I don't know if that's a big deal at all I don't think it is Yeah But but other than that, I'm good with it I am my one concern and it's not a concern to change anything, but with the Mutcd, you know that Guidance document. I like the idea that there'd be some flexibility But when we say things like, you know shall follow Or with no exceptions It takes away any flexibility. It doesn't take away, but it really limits I sent the same comment to to Eric that So I'm agreeing with you that we should have some common sense or flexibility in these things and not make it When things are adopted on a national level, it's sometimes hard to bring those national Standards if you will down to a local road, you know There's another main piece in here because I think what you've done in this latest edit is basically said well the Mutcd is not really traffic calming That's traffic control. The document is traffic calming. So the policies we're adopting are really somehow best practices of the federal highway administration and v-trans not Mutcd anymore. I think that's what you're saying So again, I would like to see Again some common, you know use a little common sense in these as well So I appreciate your comments and you're about safety for pedestrians and bicyclists much appreciated Those were some comments I had sent back to Eric as well because it seems like we have to have some kind of Some verification and the last thing is something I kind of harped on about Bruce's exceptionally, you know Experienced and but when he came in here last week and and was telling us about the policy and difference to mr. Finifrox Input he would kept them making the comment that that the P. E's recommended something And as a result and I just don't think that I think that Just because the P. E's recommend the P. E's are the professional engineers just because they recommend something It doesn't necessarily mean it's the right thing for the situation, right? And it I guess I had the impression that there was nothing checking that right at the end of the day to me The buck stops with us and then then to Rick to Bruce, you know this and Bruce's staff. It's not You know, I get we could blame the P. E's, but it's our town. It's our residents They're being impacted so we should have some and I guess I don't know what that is though I don't know what I'm not a traffic expert, but I could find this stuff And what didn't take too much work to find out that, you know, 10 foot wide roads weren't smart to put rumble strips on There are safety issue Or at least in some places they're listed and documented as safety issues including these federal documents. So Subsection 3.3 to try to get that issue and it left it kind of broad Yes, the intent was that these federal and state regulation Documents would be interpreted by P. E. Serving as consultants and as that Consultation takes place that analysis would the board need to interpret that and what they use their expertise to To bring to the board then ultimately the board need to decide based on their on their interpretation What path to go down? I think it's a I think it's a great thing to do. I mean, I don't get me wrong I like this I just want I just come back to now We're getting away from the MUT CD. We're going to other Sets of documents. We should have some Some say or some there should be some wiggle room in terms of what makes sense for Williston so just agree with we need to have some other wording on that particular item and in the Changing that the in the three point three and three point four It's a policy of the town. It's the select board. I like I like that too. Yeah So we would need to address this at the next meeting perhaps With the appropriate wording changes I ask would it be wise to have town council Whoever's that going to be One of the issues that I'm concerned about is that you know when if If the federal and state standards are that the MUT CD Is the standard and it must be followed That's you know, that doesn't really affect the town It's something that is you know another government has said this is what has to happen my concern is that You know actually going back to the three point four with no exceptions all traffic control devices must follow the MUT CD if What I'm concerned is is the flip side of the question is like the town liability if we have a Traffic calming Measure that we put in that we thought well the MUT CD Says that this is what should happen at this in this context, but our comments until sense tells us not to do it And then someone gets hurt Well, they sue us because we didn't follow the legal standard that the law requires from federal and state mandate on the other hand Are we going to are we going to get are we going to open ourselves up to litigation for? Following it when we don't necessarily have to and any fool would have known not to put rumble strips in So it's it's a question of What what kind of legal duty does the MUT CD pose on the town now? and then what What would be the legal Risk to adopting a regulation or ordinance that says it We either must or or in the alternative may follow the MUT CD If someone gets hurt, can they sue us because we didn't engine So I'd like a legal opinion on that if possible. It's I think it's a good thing to ask I mean, I'll bring up Bruce's brought this up at many times during his talks about different traffic You know stop signs and requests for things and I'll bring up the one over where I Can't think of the name of the road Is it the extension of Zephyr that goes across to a into Zephyr Blair Blair, is it Blair? No, no Zephyr goes from across the whole area of Finney crossing But does it does it to Blair Park is a different whole different Road all right where the People's Bank is yes What's I can't think of the name of the street But it goes across and and there was that circle back there of residential mixed development And we took out the stop sign. Oh, yeah, but that stop sign was there for 20 years or something well that didn't follow I'll bring it up as an example That was violating the MUT CD guidelines and we were never sued for that so the Maybe no one's got an accident yet. Well, I have to believe that That seems doubtful after that I don't know of course I don't know but Just a thought but I think it's good to get legal opinion What is our culpability if we follow a PE advice when they haven't really checked? Best practices or guidelines it seems like we need some kind of a check here. I don't know an independent check or verification or But I just don't know what that is so I don't know what to recommend right now So it sounds like we want to post one action on this until we get some legal advice Yeah, yes I think it's a good thing right I also in my personal opinion is the speed arms I Would not want them in my development. I just wouldn't I think it's I think it's going to be If they're in front of somebody's house, I think they're not going to like them at the end of the day But and I know traffic What do you call it traffic? policing Enforcement, thank you enforcement is expensive, but You kind of penalize you kind of penalize all the residents I think the woman wrote a letter saying it's the same couple people speeding up You got to fix the problem because you're going to penalize the other that's a big development They're the one we're talking about Brennan Woods. We're going to penalize 300 households for Few kids or who knows who's doing it? Anyway indeed Moving on to town charter hearing notice Rick you've written say memo regarding this It's Eric also So this is just a small procedural item. We're preparing for the first public series of public hearings to the town charter revisions at the war in the first public hearing Reviewing statue as I was warning we need to I've posted Red lines and language added complete text of the hearing Sorry the charter revisions rather Other pieces moving forward we'll need to have published the hearing in the paper We'll have other public hearings need to be warned in order to post a summary and lieu of the red lines version every state statue asset the board Provide a motion for that first stop to do so. I'm asking for a motion In the language from state statute to allow a summary of the charter proposal to be posted in lieu of the full so which We don't see the we're not seeing the warning proposed language now. You're just looking for Okay, to do it. Will we see it before we approve it? We approve Hearing those just get published In this particular case to just publish a summary it requires like board action How long would it be if it's not a summary? But there would be two of the charter Whatever 15 20 pages. Yeah, so I've posted that because I need to meet the warning Requirement within the time period specified last week, but the moving forward will have to warn this and a couple other potentially Makes it a little more efficient the board feels that way so people will be able to see both the Document the red line document as well as a summary a summary Which makes a lot easier to read for sure and this would provide that we could just publish the summary in the newspaper as opposed to Make the red line version available on the website. Of course copies will be available here at the town hall Right. It's been filed with the clerk's office. So it's failed for public inspection in the town hall. There's Any other kind of notice on that Charter Tried any other we talked. I've asked a couple of times about any other Getting more public involvement or feedback One We can do us perhaps a segment on what's up Williston at some point before between now and January You got feedback now in March Have you gotten any feedback on that yet? Yes, that's not a lot But I I was at our rotary club meeting recently and two or three people were talking about for different reasons Great Also tried all promo this one other communications from porch forum Facebook and Twitter some things on Facebook have taken off recently all depends on the topic too So cast a wide net on these things is always advisable and see what you get back It's a motion has been requested and there's one in the town manager's report I'd move that the charter proposal is Too long or unwieldy to post in amendment form for town warnings and should therefore be published in summary form Zero second second Sorry discussion on ocean Hearing none all those in favor of the motion say aye Hi post Moving on to manager's report so Just a quick couple things they included in your packets is the first financial report for the new fiscal year Doesn't tell you a whole lot because it is new but so far revenues in the Inline in the big revenue source Is of course taxes and that's consistent with years past Also somewhat telling is our recreation revenue because the Largely summer programs those are largely over at this point. And so and that was running ahead of schedule expenditures or for the police and For the fire department are running a little bit behind But not anywhere near as much particularly in police as they had been in the past because we're filling these positions now And in the fire department, we just have one opening We had hired someone and basically they didn't show So we had to kind of start over again You know where they went today Did you know where they went or what happened? It's kind of a long story I don't know what the rationale was but So so that's the financial report Any questions of that before I move on The next item I want to touch on is a select order retreat that is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23rd We have it as it stands now scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Early start time other Retreats have started even earlier than that So we were kind of debating Whether we should start even earlier, but I'm hoping that five o'clock will be reasonable for everyone and allow us to enough time to get some work done the topic of course is goals and objectives for the future and The last several times the boards had those kinds of discussions the department heads have been invited So they will be invited to this session as well and The meeting will be held at the Marriott in Courillard on Hurricane Lane We're still working on the dinner menu and The facilitator I approached one facilitator Tony lamb and he is going to be in Spain 23rd I Approach mr. Dickon who would work with us at town meeting several years ago. He is also Not available. I think he's in Colorado with that week. So I'm I'm still working on it and I think that's about all I have on that particular issue Next item I want to touch on is the International City County Management Association are having their annual conference in Baltimore this year It starts on a Sunday and runs to Wednesday And following the conference, I'll be taking a couple days off and visiting relatives in the area And as I have in the past I'll provide the board with a written report on the conference The new four-way stop is going up He put up nice big signs I like that It's Gotten some notice on social media. How many hits do we get over 12,000 people looked at and 200 shared it That was one of those things that took off I don't know if it's classifies this viral, but it certainly had a lot of interest when you say social media that's Town Facebook page The town Twitter account is still small Get more people up to 17 people I guess the other final thing is Brian Claffey sergeant Claffey Is a sergeant in the police department and has just completed his 20th year of service in the department And he'll be recognized for that That's all I have for this evening my manager Your other business we have a couple of short things is and one not too long, but the municipal planning grant You know on Your emails the latest today, but this is from Melinda You as well so Rick, we just give us a brief Run down on this. I'm going to actually turn this over to Matt. I think that's why he's maybe hanging around Good, I thought I'd stick around just to provide an overview on this So municipal planning grants is one of the programs available to towns Who are looking to engage outside help? Get some resources to do that to achieve One or more of the goals in their town plan Our staff got together a few months ago and took a look at the planning grant program and took a look at the list of the Things the 2016 comprehensive plan says we're going to achieve or try to achieve and Tried to pick a project that we thought matched what was going on and the one we came up with is A grant to obtain some outside help to really assess the Possibility feasibility and location of park and ride facilities in Williston that would be locally created and managed We're hoping to start from a pretty broad base and look for You know resident preference, you know where where would if a park and ride was somewhere would you use it? Would additional wayfinding help would would signs just saying yes, this is a town parking lot You you may park here help And then mapping those so what? Opportunities are there on nodes where there is also bus service going by nearby or right there What we're calling mode shift facilities I go from being in my own car to being in a car pool or being in my own car to being on the bus or Bike to bus or walk to bike all of those things So not just a parking lot But what else should be at some of those facilities to enhance all of those different ways that people use to travel? so This fulfills or will help us fulfill a goal stated in the comprehensive plan that just states build a town parking ride That goal has been in the plan for a very long time Stems in part from frustration over the loss of the original state parking ride adjacent to exit 12 And also the lengthy timeline running up to the hopefully eventual construction of a new parking ride at exit 12, which Last I heard might get started before the end of this calendar year, but I'm guessing it's more like spring of 19 By now so the grant would be for us to retain some professional help to get that project off the ground You know somebody to help us collect the public input to help us do the mapping to connect us to best practices around Developing those things things like that We need authorization from the select board To allow Rick to be the agent to allow the planning commission to represent the town and the staff to manage the grant And that's what we're requesting tonight, so we can get the application in and see if we can get this project off the ground Thanks and questions for Matt The only question is it's a real brief one one. I would have with anything along these lines is we have a pot of money We can draw the town match from Yes, so we have some money budgeted in our planning operating budget for miscellaneous planning studies and we would we would look to Tap that or look at what this project, you know as we get a feel for the budget We may roll that into part of our budget request going forward. Okay, and the 22,000 which is the Maximum we can apply for Will that be sufficient? Do you think or do you think I don't think we'll need that much? Okay? All right, good. It's a relatively contained project. We're not building anything We're we're collecting information and getting it into a report so we can use it Okay, good. Take some actions in the future, right? So we would need a motion to adopt the Resolution if we wish to Do have a signed copy from the planning commission chair I'd move to adopt the fiscal year 2019 municipal resolution for municipal planning grant Sufficient as a motion Second is there a second second As a discussion on the motion Not all those in favor of the motion say aye. I am any opposed And then we have a special events permit to Sure The this is for an event scheduled for October 21st is scheduled to be held at the catamount outdoor family center Facility and they will stone it by at that point so the Name of the company that's going to be the licensee is frost beer works LLC What's the event? It's a fundraising event. I believe It's calling turning over a new leaf at cat about and it says here that the of some a percentage of the proceeds Will be donated back to catamount and it's scheduled to run in the afternoon Is there a motion to approve some moved? Is there a second? And the discussion of the motion I'm going to abstain because I'm a neighbor Drops to me. What's that? Yes, sir. Any other discussion on the motion? If not, all those in favor of the motion say aye Any opposed and one abstention Passes And we have in general will approve all these special events like this pretty much They're in the reason for approving something like this because it's a private This is actually like our board is acting as a local liquor control board. We weren't just the select board We were a liquor control board just like that. Then we switch it was it was primarily for the beer use it Yes, beer happens. Okay, so things happen in between Select board meetings and the board is authorized to chair to either approve or disapprove of Events that happen in between And I do that occasionally This happens in every town, right? They have to yeah The last thing is we had over out League of Cities in towns is having their town fair Coming up in the next month. I believe October 3rd and I believe at the fairgrounds in Essex and we have been requested to name a to designate a delegate to the The town fair recommendation is to designate Deb Beckett as the delegate Is there a motion? Second, there's very discussion on the motion. She does she is she on the board? Yes. Yes. Yes Oh, I just that's just a question is our delegate sure. Yes Yep, so you said it was the third October 3rd October 3rd, and it's actually going to be held at the double tree By Hilton It's on the third and the fourth the business meetings on the third All those in favor of the motion say aye The next meeting of the select board is the 2nd of October At 6 o'clock on site at the Chapman Chipman Hill Chipman Road Site at 6 o'clock then the board will convene here at 7 So I had one item I missed under manager's report. If you don't mind sure I'm gonna actually ask Eric to do this report One of our firefighters gave Cummings was deployed with the Vermont Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 To North Carolina to assist with the hurricane Florence recovery and rescue This past week I spoke with chief Morton today and can I update the share of the board? They've extended the deployment another four days. So they expect the task force arrived back in state. It's coming Monday morning They've been actually actively engaged making many rescues from homes vehicles and people who are stranded Firefighting Cummings. He's been in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. I googled that this afternoon and it's off of them a Bay just off of the Atlantic inland a little bit. I'm and seeing from the news that does it devastating flooding down there So like with the hurricane Harvey relief in Houston last year the Vermont Task Force has received accolades It's being a very well-organized structured and efficient rescue team They're doing good work down there Second time we've participated in that We could somehow pass on our appreciation there Any other business to talk about tonight, can I ask about the item just before this? This was another schedule One of the meetings is starting at six Yeah, what's the date the second one for me at six October second Rick when you send out that email Large letters Where are we meeting? I'm sorry. We'll meet right at the end of The road just before you get to the railroad crossing down in North Austin Just go to the end of the road will meet. There's a used to a field to park in down there I'm sorry. I'm Where it is? Chapman Hill Chapman Hill Chapman Lane Chapman Lane. It's just gonna it's off of north. I'll find that Yeah, I just I kept on missing the chick missing the Chapman Lane Okay Just go to the end of the road. Yes Any other business to talk about tonight If not then