 day. I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is the More Town Select Board meeting. It is Monday, May 18th. Going again on the phone conference based on safety forecasts and guidelines. But I think by next meeting, our first meeting in June, we should be able to meet. And Don at that point, now we should get together. I'm sorry we didn't talk, but I just spoke with John and decided that we probably was better to have it on the phone this week. Yeah, that's what I was putting in the email. So, we'll just go ahead and then is anyone on the line for general public comment? No. All right. And Cheryl, and you just joined, huh? I did. Thank you. All right. So, I think that's everyone that's on the line. If you haven't been introduced, please take yourself off mute and then do. Introduce yourself, if everyone's accounted for. So, let's go ahead. If there's no general public comment, Cheryl and I believe you were wanting to be put on the agenda and that's the budget revote procedure in June. Is that you? Yes, that's correct. All right, what's up? So, we have a vote on June 16th for a revote on the Harvard Union Unified District. And the governor has just signed up on Act 22, 2020 for COVID. Elections of the flex board can adopt one of five different procedures to use to conduct an election. And due to the COVID, I'm asking the flex board to adopt the drive up voting method so that we can hold this election safely for voters as well as myself and staff. All right. So, I don't have those those five choices in front of me. Do you mind discussing what they are and then we can talk about the drive-up voting? Sure. Can you just say it's an opposite spot on them? Yeah. The flex board can adopt to have every voter be mailed about it. They can implement a drive-up voting procedure. There are other different ways of holding, you know, we could just mail about to everyone. I don't think that that's a feasible way of doing it. So, rather than have everyone be face to face, I'm asking that we can hold the drive up. I was intending to have people drive in through the school entrance, be checked off the entrance checklist and then vote in the parking lot and then deposit their own ballot in the ballot box that would be held at the little parking area right near the church, as well as absentee ballots can be done just as normal as they always have been. All right. And you think that'll be doable with all the construction going on and such? It can't be any different than having them drive into the parking lot anyway to come vote into the office because that's where it would be otherwise at the office. So, they're going to be using the parking lot no matter what. Yeah. All right. What's everyone think? John, you want to start? That sounds okay to me. Ray, you got a thought on this? Yeah. No, it sounds doable to me. I think, you know, we'll just have to all work it out with the Du Bois crew that on that very day that we would limit ourselves to trying to get our materials and stuff out into the street earlier, the previous day or something like that, that we won't be interfering much with the traffic there. So, I think it's doable. All right. Kelly, how about yourself? Any opinion on this? That's fine with me. All right. Donnie, what do you think? Well, I don't know if that's all. I'm going to drive in in my car, put my window down and say hi. I live out of a resident and I come to vote. I check in that way, correct? Correct. And then I'm going to park my car and get out and vote in a booth and then drop my ballot in. I think we can get back in my car. No, you're going to vote in your car in the parking lawn so that you don't have to be facing the case with anyone. And then on your way out, you're going to exit and drop your ballot into a box, into the ballot box. Well, I'm in my car. Well, you're in your car. Oh. The other option was to be able to just have a local election right outside, like in the fall field there. But I don't think that that will be wise because we don't know what the weather's going to be like. So if anybody's going to be getting wet and so wet, it'll be myself or my staff under a tent. Yeah. And then people wouldn't come and vote. So, you know, right? So we're still going to have balloting just like we always have. Right. Well, that's coming up. When is the vote? June what? June 16th. And rather than having polls open from seven to seven, I'm going to have them open from ten to seven. So if you vote absentee, someone has to call, reach out to you and get a ballot sent to them? Correct. Well, they'll either call, leave me a message or send us an email, which is what, or yeah, that's what they always do anyway. So they'll either call or send me an email. Right. No, it's just a small, it's a short window of time. It's Billy a month. I hear you. The clerks and now, and even the Secretary of State has tried to get them to hold it off until the primary, but they don't want to do that. Hey, Cheryl, I think what you've come up with, if you have proper PPE, you and your staff at the tenth, as you're handing, you're taking a name, checking it off, and then handing a ballot, you're not receiving anything from anyone. I think it's a good idea. And then as long as, you know, there's somewhere on the other side that's a, that it can be dry, then they can drop it into a, some kind of a ballot box, you know, even that, yeah, that'll work well. Okay. And as far as the primary and the November election, the state is still trying to work out procedures and determining how we're going to do it. They have not come up with a definite solution yet as to whether or not they're going to mail about every person or not. So that's something we don't have for the first time. Um, yeah, well we can, as that gets closer and as they make their decision whether they're going to have mail-in ballots or leave it to the towns, you know, we can certainly do that. But I think for this one on June 16th, that's a great idea. Okay. So I just, if you guys agree with it, I just need you to adopt, um, the municipality may implement a drive-up voting procedure so that I just need you to adopt the drive-up voting procedure and I'm going to work with Will Sending, the director of elections, and he's going to walk, he's going to help me through it. All right. Anyone want to make a motion on that to adopt the drive-up procedure? Sure, I'll make the motion. Thank you, Ray. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Callie. All right. The motion is to see if the town, or more town, the select board will adopt a drive-up voting procedure for the June 16th Harvard Union Unified School District budget revote. All in favor vote aye. Hi. I just have one question. All right. I'm sorry. Any further discussion? Ray, go ahead. Yeah. I'm sorry. I left my phone there for a minute so I can hear all the conversation. But uh, so when they exit, will they be putting the ballot into a box or into the uh, let's just ballot this one? No, it'll go into a locked ballot box. There's no tabulator for Harvard. It's just a paper vote because it's all co-mingled at the end of the night. Okay. Okay. That was not the question. Just like it is at town meeting when we have to vote on the Harvard budget, you drop your colored ballot into that box and your town ballot goes into the tabulator. There just won't be a tabulator. And those ballots will be brought over to Harvard for counting? Yep. Two BCA members will bring it over for me. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Just before we don't we have a vote in August that we were going to be doing or are we not doing that now? No, we do. It's the primary. Everyone was suggesting that the school board got into that, but they chose not to. No, no. I understand. So, you know, August and we'll have to, I'm just wondering, well, we're taking this vote. Do we want to or do we want to wait until then to see what the procedure will be then in August? Well, the Governor and the Secretary of State are debating that now. They're working together to try to figure out what is the best procedure. Yeah. So, until we hear what they have come up with, whether it's an all, and I don't think it's all, you know, they're talking about it all, everyone gets a mailed in or a mailed ballot, which I don't think is going to happen, but, you know, we will take our, you know, marching orders from them and then, you know, whatever we have for options. Maybe they'll give us again this option to do it the way we're doing it. Any further discussion on the motion? All right. All in favor vote aye. All right. All right. All right. So, there you go, Sherilyn. You can work with Will and figure out what works best, but if there's anything you need from us, you know, let us know. Okay. Thank you. While you're on the line there, why don't you share a little bit with us about, you've been back now, I know, a couple of a couple of weeks. You know, can you tell us how that's working, what needs to be changed, and then maybe share a little bit about grant you're working on for COVID-19 recovery for expenses and such. Yeah. I've been going back to the office, obviously, to do payroll and AP, and I've also been going in once a week to allow title searches to happen. Most town court offices are not even doing that, but I just felt that there was a lot going on, had some feedback from attorneys and felt that it was necessary to go back. Space masks and gloves are to be worn at all times, and I haven't had any problems with anyone having an issue with that, so it's been working well. It's a buy appointment only, and as far as paying for the working our way up towards slowly reopening, we've purchased some face masks and gloves so we still don't have access to everything and think about being open to folks. We're going to continue to do what we're doing. People seem to be fine with it. Everything's been going through the mail, and I haven't had any, so I have a quote coming tomorrow on Larry at the office tomorrow to do some measurements for the Plexiglas. He's going to done duly up a quote so that I submit a grant with three FEMA quotes that it won't be everything, but the majority of our expenses will be paid for. Our expenses have to be $3,500 or more in order to qualify for a grant at all, and it looks like we'll be well over that with the Plexiglas because it's pretty expensive. So Larry has actually drawn up a plan, and the glass company has actually purchased this, are taking on his plan for what he's, you know, constructed for offices or stores or whatever. So it looks like we're going down the same route, a good route. I didn't want to go somewhere where we're not going to look nice for the nice office that we have, but at the same time I told him we didn't want to spend a whole lot of money. So after speaking with him last week, it looks like it's going to run anywhere between $35,000 to $5,000. Again, like I said, I'm going to apply for this grant, but I can't do that until I have the actual quote in hand, and I should have that this week. Thanks, Shirlen. Any questions, Shirlen? Yeah, I'm here. No questions for you. Oh, no, I'm off that. Anyone else has any other questions? Right, anything? There's no questions. Shirl, you want to hold on or I don't, I guess there's nothing pending for you. Is there anything else that you had? No, I'm off that. I actually have one little question there. So in the office and then the meeting room, when we eventually can get back in there and have a meeting, I think Tom, you mentioned we could maybe next meeting we might be able to have there. What do we do there? We're not going to have plexiglass up in that, but we're just going to fall six feet apart. Is there any requirement? You know, I think, again, I want to look at it with you, but I think we can look at the town office, but we may want to start in the other building at this point in the town hall, because it is much larger and we can space out and probably get a few people in the building as well. Or maybe the school, even. Either, yeah, one of the two. I probably use the town property, though. Yeah. Can I take one real quick? Sure. I just want to let you know that title searchers right now are actually set up in the meeting room so that we don't have any, they don't have access to the town clerk's area at all. So I've had to move the table sideways in order to set up the search station. I have to clean in between every single person that comes in and have to allow 15 minutes between each person in order to do that. So I'm glad you're going to end up coming back to the office. You can just give me some time so I can figure that out. It's just we're trying to keep everyone so that we're not on the same room. Oh, yeah. It would seem just to make sense that we, you know, meet in the town hall. Yeah, I think that's a big enough building. It's a great building. It's got parking and, you know, we can work it out. I'm not sure we'll have to speak with the library and see what their plans are. You know, I don't know what, you know, for those spaces, you know, what the protocol is going to be going on going forward because it is, you know, with books and such. So, you know, we just don't know. But we can certainly use the space, you know, here at the same time. Well, they don't allow anybody, you know, the books when you take, it's all curbside. Right. So it may or may not affect them at this point, but they may get to a point where there is, you know, an opportunity for people to go back into the library. So that's why we'll, you know, we'll reach out to the library and see what their plans are. But also let them know that these are our plans. And this is what we're going to be doing. And we'll have to spend a little time in there. To figure out what configuration will work best. But I think that's what we'll do. Well, we're talking about the library space, the town hall space. We are still not, we're not renting the town hall at all until further notice. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Have you had anyone that's wanted to rent it? I have not had anyone ask, but we do have a booking. I believe it's in August. I don't have the calendar right up in front of me. So I'm trying to hold it off on that one. Maybe, maybe I should reach out to them and just say, Hey, this is where we're at. We don't know what's going to happen, which I'm sure they probably wouldn't even want to have anything right now either. But yeah, what's the event? It's a birthday party. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we can, you know, don't need to pull a trigger on that one yet, but yeah, we're not sure at this point what's going on. Right. All right. So we've got anything else with, with Sherilyn? Not at my end. Nope. Everyone's good. All right, Sherilyn. Well, thank you. Feel free to stay on if you want. Okay. John, I just have a question for John. Are you all good with the finance committee report? Or do you want me to hold off and wait for you? No, I'm okay. Okay. All right. Then I will sign off then. All right, Sherilyn. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thanks, Sherilyn. Yeah. Thank you. Good night. All right. We'll live. All right. Let's go ahead and move on. Construction update. I don't know if Ray, you want to start without. I don't know if you're doing anything. So, so we, we really started mobilizing the top mobilization. Last Friday we started to sign up and kind of continued on that route today. Got some materials today. Had a meeting on site with the hunt and looked at the hedges by the fire station and came up with an agreement that we're going to, we're going to remove them with the excavator and hopefully replant them and, and they'll live. If they don't live, then we'll replace them. And everybody seems to be happy with that. All right. Good. Yeah, they were very, they've been very agreeable. Initially it was a little, little shaky when Nick and I first met with James Hunt. But they've really come around and, and they're pretty much on board with, you know, basically everything that we want to want to do. The only other issue was, was the, the outlet pipe and, and we had talked about, you know, trying to put more dirt on top to make a look of it. Then we realized that we wouldn't be able to put any dirt down, down there anyway. So, but yeah, they were okay with, you know, the design we talked about and everything. Yeah, John, late today, I did talk with, I sent an email and I could have copied you, but anyways, so the design, the design engineer has signed off on shortening the pipe. So the pipe won't be sticking out in the middle of the screen there. And we're just going to make the channel larger. The only thing they're asking is whether the town to sign off on it. So there'll probably be some sort of paperwork out to you tomorrow. Just for you to sign off on that as the town that you're okay with that. Yeah, that's fine. That sounds good. Okay. Good. So the lone pine is still, is still standing. Was that correct? Yes, just Dream Mountain Power did their thing, cut some branches and so on. So I think later this week, right Ray? Maybe. Yeah, I think actually John, I think it's probably, at this point, going to be right after Memorial Day. Okay. All right. It'll be next week, I'm sure. Okay. All right. The reason it didn't get done this week was there were some issues with the traffic control plan and it got sent to somebody who sat on it. I didn't know what to do with it. So it was kind of, but we're all set now. So things are falling to place that shouldn't be any more delays that I know of. Okay. So can we get, I don't know if anyone saw that. There was a upfront. Yeah, I was just going to bring that. There's been a couple. I've gotten some directly emailed to me and stuff too. So is there a way, Ray, to get a few slices or a piece of that tree? Yes. Oh, definitely. Definitely. We'll work with, you know, when the tree is being cut. I don't know if Don or Don admitted somebody else would help. Guy did so that too, but I don't see that as being a big problem at all. All right. Good. Yeah. And then we, I don't know, get them somewhere and whoever wants to put something together can do it. Yeah. You think those guys across the street could mill it for the tower or something? No, it's too big. Too, it would be too big. Yeah. We already, we already tried that. Yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, I've heard people who also mentioned maybe even some benches or a picnic table or something. Right. Yeah. As a matter of fact, Michael Brown, you know, he's got his company, Birds Like Forestry, he said that he would be happy to donate time and effort and, you know, putting together benches and so on too. So I think we're, you know. You know who's doing that now? We'll use a bunch of it. Yeah. Yeah. Gary Brown, you know, he's been milling wood now. That's what he's doing. You know, Harold's house. Yeah. Yeah. Because, uh, so he might be able to help. Yeah. So all right. So, John, make sure you're with Ray and make sure there's a significant, you know, I'm sure it's just, it's pine. No one wants, you know, otherwise it's not a real valuable piece of trees. So let's get all the big working portions that we can. And, um, we'll. And I've also also gotten another email out to Rachel, um, Milner because after all it is her tree. So, I mean, you know, we've been talking about what we're going to do with the wood and everything and, and, uh, but I know that she doesn't have any interest in, in any of it, just some wood chips. Yeah. Which I'm also going to get some, but, um, I'd love some too. Yeah. I figured it'd be nice to have that, some wood chips from that tree and, and the garden. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, uh, something that alone pine will be well, uh, well used. So is there any other construction updates on that project that we want to talk about? Well, just on the back of the pine tree would, I mean, would want me to reach out to and ask Gary Brown about it. Do you have any suggestions if he can mill it or anything? Um, or just. Yeah. Why don't we see what we get, um, Cheryl works with us quite a bit. So, uh, yeah, uh, and John, so yeah, we can, uh, certainly work with them. Right. Right. Yeah. All the time. Yeah. I talked with Cheryl, uh, periodically myself so we can all, yeah. Yeah. I've pretty much copied her on, on just about everything. So I, you know, I'll, I'll double check with her. Yep. Yeah. All right. Um, right. Anything else or John or anyone, any other issues on this and start or start a construction? Uh, no, uh, well, we may, um, there's just one other tree that we're probably going to end up taking down. And that's the, the ash tree that's, uh, in front of the, uh, Westerman, Gemp's rental property right next to the store. Yep. Um, and that's not. Covered. That's, that's since it's out of the right of way, um, that's not part of the project. So, uh, Ray, you're, uh, you're going to get the numbers from tree works would be. Yeah. Yes. I will, John. And then we'll, we'll just touch it further at that point. Yep. What is, uh, why, why is that one coming down too? Well, it would have to be trimmed up, but it has, does, does have some, uh, rot in it. Um, it also looks like, uh, that emerald ash borer is in there as well. Um, and, uh, because I have lots of, lots of exit holes, but it could, I could have to do with the rot too. So I'm not definitely positive, but, um, I think eventually it's going to be, it's going to be a danger because the, the side where the rot is is, it's like half of the tree and, you know, that it could come down in the sidewalk. So, no, no, no, that's good. I just wanted. So, no, I know, I know. I'm just, well, I'm just saying, we, we looked at it and, and, uh, Westman and Gantz are fine with taking it down. I think they would prefer to have it taken down. Um, but, um, you know, we, we could also look at taking out the side that is leaning over the sidewalk, but, you know, might as well take the whole thing down. Yeah. Well, you're doing it. Do it right. Yeah. All right. We'll, uh, we'll hear from Ray or they're two boys or what that's going to change. So, all right. Um, what about your Christian road? How did, how's everything there? Uh, yeah, we finished that up last week. I, it was, uh, it was a challenge, but, uh, we put a lot of big stone in there. We were about, uh, I think around 20 times over what we originally thought, but, you know, that's how it goes sometimes. Um, uh, but, uh, as far as I know, uh, the project is completely sent to an invoice. Donnie, what, what's your, you were looking good. I think, um, uh, Martin's just waiting for, you know, as we drive on it, some traffic and, you know, just kind of, uh, push, you know, uh, compact in a bit. And then he's going to grade in front of there. Um, and then, uh, basic, I mean, at some point, uh, I guess, you know, some kind of God rail is going to be happening there as well. You know, that's what he's thinking. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. And so we were able to move, um, the money that was on for the mountain road grant. Um, so that money was successfully moved over to this project here. And we will, we will reapply for, um, the structures grant here on that mountain road project. Also the grants covering Dickerson road, the, the state allowed you to transfer it over? Yes, yep. Oh, cool. Yep. Sherilyn, um, puts a considerable amount of time working with, um, the, um, people with a state on that, a lot more difficult than it sounds, if you would believe it, but, uh, it was, uh, successful anyways. So you may have to, uh, tell me, want to look at possibly putting guard rail there. I know Martin doesn't want to put it in and not a heavily traveled area, but it is, with the trees gone now, it's pretty open too. Um, I think he might not always have, uh, kind of, Jackson guard rail, certainly, because of the, the snow and such, but, um, builds up and it's a little more difficult to, to work around them. But I know we put the ones on the hill going up that are a little bit easier to work around. And maybe something like that might work there. Um, and still provide the, the protection that we're looking for. Yeah. And as long as this, um, we have this grant, if we can get them under that, I'll, we'll try to do that. So we'll have them reach out and get a, um, quote on that. Uh, because there's no sense of closing this out without trying to, um, maximize it, especially if we need that. I wonder if it could be something, if it could be like, wouldn't, uh, you know, like, um, you know, like just a couple of wooden posts and a wooden being, you know, and just, and, and keep it really simple. I mean, someone, you, you know, I'm going to, you got to be, I don't know how you, yes, you've got to be careful driving through there. And that's what you need to be. Yeah. No, I think so. We don't have to overkill, but, um, yeah, but you hate to lose over the hill there. If it's, like I said, it was only one tree that was there. It was not like there was a hell of a lot of stuff there anyway. Right. I mean, we might have to work with, uh, upper valley services, maybe. And, and I mean, I could talk to Dennis spray. He's a great guy and we've done it before, but those cedar bushes that are on the right side, you know, maybe they just got to really get some serious cut back to them or something. So people could be a little bit more to the right of the road and, you know, it wouldn't be, you know, the only time there's, there's quite a lot of people when they play upper valley services going on, there might be 40 cars during the day going in and out of there. So, um, sure, there's got to be something, but, you know, like, like you just said, maybe it doesn't have to be overkill. Right. We'll have Martin work with, uh, see what's out there. And if he, the family keys, we'll thrilled about putting anything there. So I think you'll get something minimal, um, that's still doing the job because he's looking to make sure things are safe, but, um, so maybe I can reach out to Dennis Gray, you know, I'll reach out to him because I was in touch with him during the whole construction and shutting the road. And maybe I can meet him down there and just sort of like, we could take a look at it or get maybe Martin could look at it. We should see like, when you get, so all right, Don, once you set up a time with, um, upper valley services and then let Martin know that you're meeting with him and Martin usually pretty good. Unless he has something really hard scheduled, he'll, he'll make it there. And, uh, first of all, if he, I think he'd rather cut something like that back than, than have guard rails there. So why don't you try to reach out and do that? Copy Martin and ask him for a meeting or say, you know, I've got this schedule. Can you attend with me? And if not, just go yourself and talk and then bring it back and meet with Martin. But it's better if you can have, so you're cutting out. Martin will have questions that you don't think of, um, just because that's what he does. So yeah, okay. All right. Very good. So the construction stuff sounds like everything is going well. Thank you, Ray. Anything's come up? Of course, John, um, thanks for, for, uh, being right on top of stuff as well. And we look forward to, to more, uh, updates as they come along. So that was just the sidewalk, right? Sidewalks and catch basins. Yeah. And, and Dickerson Road, but is Kim, do we, in this, at this time of the meeting, as far as construction update, do we talk about the bridge? Um, you can. What, what, what is it you want to talk about with the bridge? Well, um, let's see. Well, there was, uh, there was, I guess, some notification, um, a letter that we all got at the beginning of the week from the project manager for the state saying that it could potentially be closed August and September. Right. Correctly. Right. We, uh, I think it was Rachel, um, whatever. Yeah. It doesn't matter who it is, but yeah. So, uh, that's, I mean, the bridge until we find out further when construction starts, I don't know if there's a lot that we can, uh, uh, do or plan around it. Oh, so we don't even really have a, they don't have a physical start date. No, they were looking to start. And if you read that through, they were looking to start, I think, June 22nd, 25th in that range. Um, but because of the contractors having, uh, problems with supplies, they're not sure, you know, when that date's going to be. And that's what she was looking at. If we had any feedback, whether those, um, whether it pushed back made a huge difference. You know, and that's the bridge would be closed. I'm looking at the email that the bridge would be closed mid-August to the end of September. Right. So, um, I actually asked Tosher, should I send her some comments? And I did, which I could, you know, just quickly share with you, you know, with the rest of the board. And as far as, I mean, there's probably nothing we can do about it, but if it is delayed, that'll get into the school season. And the increased traffic of everybody driving their kids or kids driving to school, if the court school starts, but let's assume we get some kind of normalcy and schools get back. Right. So there'll be the buses and the cars. I mean, this is what I've ordered to Jennifer. There'll be potentially two holidays, Labor Day and Columbus Day, if the project goes late and goes into October, which will be also be increased, you know, fall foliage traffic and stuff. And then, um, so then when I mentioned that to her, and then I just went here's some stuff that could maybe be thought about as far as, you know, some signage and I won't bore you with the details. I can forward to you what I wrote to her as far as some suggestions. And, um, the only other little update I have about that, so I will send you what I wrote to this woman, Jennifer, through Sasha. Sasha, you must be on the line, right? Yeah. Yeah. So you forwarded that to her, right? What I wrote to those bullets. Yeah. Okay, cool. So I'll send it to the, I should have copied the rest of the board, but I didn't. I'm sorry. So I did, one other little thing is that I did reach out to John Jamison, who's on the select board at Wait and Waitfield, and just chatted with them about, you know, Beto Road and Coney Farm Road and North Road. And he was going to talk to his board tonight as far as participating in, the sharing the cost, the signage, what kind of signage we, you know, is it going to be the electronic billboard with something written on it? And then, you know, I was even talking about do we get some signs that people's neighbors, our neighbors can put it in their yard, like, drive as if your kids lived here, you know, we could maybe get a few of those signs as well. So that's my little Coney Farm Road update. All right. Any questions for Don on that? No, none here. All right, yeah, I mean, I think as far as the comments to her, I mean, we all, I mean, I think the obvious, I mean, if anyone doesn't know the school's going on or goes on, it's nuts, but they want to get it, from the discussions that we've had, they want to get it started as soon as possible. It's not a question of them wanting to push off. I just don't want to see them decide to say, all right, we push it into another season. So I think we need to be careful pushing too much because that might be, you know, what they're, they come back and say, all right, well, you guys want you know, so we got to be careful about what we say and how we say it because they can take that and I don't want to go through another season, you know, with this bridge the way it's at. Oh yeah, no kidding. No, I mean, this is just, you know, some thoughts on how to make it so the people who live on that road and walk on, you know, don't just get totally destroyed. No, I think, you know, I think we've talked about that. Yeah, okay. As I said, we've got, in both Austin and Watesfield have, there is money, so they, you know, I'm hoping they will participate. So it'll be interesting to see what they come up with, but continue your dialogue with Mr. Jameson and let us know what happens, but certainly prior to sending out stuff, please let me start with me or start with the board as far as that goes. I just worry if we put up too much signage there, we're going to attract more people to go over that road. Kind of the thing, you tell people not to do something, they're going to want to do it more. Or people who may not be aware that that goes anywhere are now going to see these signs and wonder, oh, where is that going? No, I agree, Callie, you make a good point. It's balanced because that's what when we were on one of the calls with the state that was brought up. I think actually Cheryl was on the line at that point, and she brought, she talked about putting more signage on Pony Farm. And the state's opinion is the more you put up, you do, you attract a lot of people with it. And the locals know it's there and are going to do it, and you need to make them aware of safety issues. But the more marquee signs you start putting up, it starts attracting more people. Again, we need to discuss that and work through that, but I appreciate your point there, Callie. All right, anything else as far as signage or construction, Pony Farm or anything? I notice Martin has spent the last week or so out on that road. They've been doing ditching, and I think they put down some material. I know they have because my wife was trying to bike on it today and or run on it or something that wasn't very friendly. So there's a lot of fresh material on that road, and I know they've been working on the ditches. So I think it will be up to the traffic when it does start. There's nothing else there. We'll move ahead. Sasha, what do you have for reports? Actually, I have nothing tonight. Nothing, all right. John, I know you had a meeting with the finance committee this morning. Do you have some stuff to share? Yeah, sure do. First thing was from Cheryl Lynn mentioned that as soon as the grievances are held, we should need to have a special meeting so that we can set the tax rate. Sooner or the better to get some money coming in. And the finance committee also thought that it would be a good idea to or Cheryl Lynn as well. Thought it would be a good idea to get some kind of an announcement out in front of the forum reminding people that they can pay early if they want. Not that they're going to get a discount or anything. Cheryl Lynn said some people aren't even aware that they can do that, because the way we talk about it, the way we at town meeting, the article always says November 1st, but we don't make it clear that we'll take your money any time. So, at any rate, that might be a good idea to do. I know. I think Don has brought it up a couple of times talking about the tax as well. So, as soon as we know what the tax rate is and the bills are out, I think the bills will go out, but also remind people that there is no penalty for paying early. So, on the tax as though, I mean, I know it might not be possible that anything will happen this year, but if someone is only getting 1% or 2% on their money, it's really low the interest rate right now. So, if we were to say to someone, pay your taxes early, we'll give you 1% off, but the town takes that money and then invests it while we're waiting to spend it, or we must have a place that we put it in some bank or some place that we get interest on that money. Wouldn't it just kind of be a wash and that would give people an incentive to pay early? Yeah, unfortunately, we can't do anything with taxes like that. You need to, that has to be voted on by the town. No, no, I understand, but maybe that's something to look into in the future, next year, or the year after. No, I think to the last meeting or even the meeting before, we talked about that as far as looking at ways for people to pay early. And I think the funding committee is actually, that's something that we've asked them to pick them up with something. Yeah, so that's what we also discussed, that we'll review that at some time. Right. And then not too distant future for next year. Right, yeah, that might be a good thing. Yeah. My thing that works out. The other thing, the thing for the excavator, there is more state money and federal money, or, well, what's happening, according to Cheryl Lynn, right now is that there's a bill up where they will, for tax anticipation notes, they will lend it either very, very low rate or zero percent rate. And she thinks that we might, it might also be for purchases. So capital expenditures. So we're going to wait on that before we make any final decisions on how to finance. Sure, yep. Okay. But we did figure that the rates are low enough through the banks that even if that doesn't come through, it might be wiser just to borrow from the banks. Because Cheryl Lynn really has some concerns about using any of the savings reserve money, you know, in case we do need it for a tax anticipation note. Okay. No, that's fine. Like you said, money's cheap right now. So I'm getting cheaper, so that's probably where to go for it. Right. So, you know, rather than do a motion this morning, a couple of people wanted us to, you know, have a what-if type of motion. And I suggest we just wait and just meet again, you know, in a month or whenever we find out. And then we can decide. So, and then the other thing is in adding a member. I believe that if we want to add a committee member, because we did have Don LaRocca before, but he resigned several months ago or about a year ago. And so I think we just basically just need this flex worth blessing that we can add another member. All right. Happy you guys get someone to mine or are you going to how are you? Well, we did, but then we didn't want, nobody's talked to him yet. So they suggest we don't mention any names in case he reads minutes and says, what? I never asked to do that. Right, sure. I don't find out if, well, I think, you know, we've had someone on there. You know, it should, we don't mind having another person. Right. Everyone should have an opportunity or, you know, it should be something that we open up. But if you guys have a candidate in mind, you know, I would certainly keep that in mind as I'm talking to candidates. But, you know, it should, everyone should have an opportunity to be on that board. Yeah. Okay. No, I agree. So, yeah, so as long as we have the flex worth blessing that we can add to them, then basically we'll have... What does everyone else think? Or is that position important enough that we appoint someone that we, that that committee has done out in handpicked? But my thing is that... Go ahead, Ray. Okay. Yeah. No, I think I don't mind adding another board member to that. But it should be put out there that if we're going to... We should make it open to everybody. I think you suggested that earlier, that, Tom, that we should just limit it to... Oh, okay. Yep. Don, what was your... What do you think? Well, I could still ask the guy, I would think, you know... Well, yeah, I know. Well, Bob... I'll put it out there. Bob Bolden just didn't want to say anything to this candidate. And I don't mind telling you, just nothing in the minutes at this point. Dan Zucker's name came up and I agree he would be wonderful because he really is really interested in the town. And he's spoken very well at town meeting and so on. But at any rate, so, you know, we just didn't want to recommend anybody, number one, without talking to him and then also didn't want to talk to him if we didn't have the select board's blessing on adding somebody. Well, I think... But I mean, it's bottom line is, you know, we were also reminded that, I mean, that, you know, select board has interviews with people and we did with Bob Bolden. And I don't remember if we did with Becky. I think we did with Becky O'Claire as well. Yeah, I think everyone. We did, yeah, yeah. You know, go ahead and I think it's fine, you know, but, and go ahead and talk to Dan and say, look, we'd like you to be on the board. You need to apply. There may be other people applying. Yeah, yeah. But just, you know, if we get some superstars, I mean, that would be our, you know, our biggest problem to have two or three superstar economically people come out of the woods, you know. I'd expand the board to, if it was that, if it was something like that. So, right, right. Let's not worry about that. Let's try to give them any qualified people. Right. Okay. All right. All right. Callie, did you have any communications announcements or anything? No, the only thing I was going to say is I kind of worry about doing a discount on the pass rate because I wouldn't know how that would work with people who have their S roads. I mean, it's hard enough to get the bank to pay it on time sometimes, let alone having to pay it early. So that kind of cuts a large population out of new homebuyers who do that. Yeah, something to think about. Yeah, I think you're right there. All right. Don, have you had anything more for announcements, communications or such? No, I don't know if that would, I have something else I want to talk about, but I think it would either be an older or new business. So no, I'm good. I don't have any now. The other thing we had, we had communications, I think you all saw, they came from Peter Hewless. Is that how it was pronounced? Yes. Did everyone have an opportunity to look at that? Yeah. He was looking for us, the select boards, he was a resident from Waterbury, writing the select boards, urging open discussion with the Harwood Union Unified District School Board about Bridget Neesey concerning transparency and other issues. John, have you heard anything about this or read much about it? No, I mean, that's the first I had heard anything about it. And it's not only transparency of Bridget, that's the board, primarily the chair and vice chair, who it looks like knew all about it too. And they never brought it to the board. So I think we've, yeah, that should be pursued further. All right. Well, I haven't had an opportunity to really spend a lot of time looking at it. I have read it, but as we're meeting next time, why don't we between now and then take a little bit more time, take a look at that. And then maybe the board, we'll see. So maybe the board, as they're getting out of this budget woe that they've been in, and it sounds like they made with this new vote, maybe this is something that they could put on their agenda. But let's bring this up on our next board meeting as an old business item. Yeah, and perhaps, Tom, if you could reach out to our representatives to see what they know about it. Okay. Yeah. You know, it would be good to get their input. And then, you know, that would help us quite a bit too. All right. And that's Maxine and... No, no. No, I mean... Oh, our board members. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. I will do that. I mean, it's really good to reach out to Maxine. Well, they should. I mean, but... Yeah, it's just a white thing. So... They absolutely run away from anything that is any controversy, which is really disappointing. But anyways... But do I understand that just in a quick nutshell, that we're going to be voting on the same budget amount that was turned down, but it's not going to have the school relocations and the construction and all that. I mean, the middle school is going to stay at Harwood, and the, I mean, and 5-6 is going to stay in Moortown, and that's going away for another year at least. Is that how you understand it? Yeah, that's how I understand it. You're doing well, Donnie. What? I as well understand that as well, like that, that it's... That seems to be the word. I haven't seen anything, you know, really... I'm waiting... This week's Valley Reporter will probably have that story. Right. That's the one I thought I heard. Okay. And I did see... There was a piece in the front page part there on that Peter wrote. Yeah. And Peter has been an advocate for voting down the budgets and has been really on top of this as far as what's going on. And he's endorsing this and saying they're on their way to the right way. So that gives me a little bit of confidence that things are going in the right direction. Well, does that now make it that we can backburner Neil Ness, the pulling out of the school district, the Neil Ness petition and such? I mean, maybe that's going to go in a little bit of the backburner. We'll see. Yeah. You know, let's hear more of what they have to say. I mean, this is... Yeah. You know, I think you never want to say no to anything until you get everything right in front of you, but I think things can be worked out. Yeah. This is just for one year and, you know, who knows what they'll have the following year. So... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they didn't really have much choice, you know? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know, how they were really over a barrel and, I mean, they put themselves there. Oh, yeah. I mean, for God's sakes. For God's sakes, but I still wonder whether they understand what they or why they were put there, but anyways. So that's how I just wanted to bring that up. The other thing is I did sign off on a letter to CB Fiber from the towns, and it was urging funds for, you know, expanded Fiber into the town of Plea because of things that are going on. So nothing big. Just another endorsement there. Okay, good. And so I think that's all I had. I guess we have the minutes for the 4th, May 4th, 2020. Is there any one that has a motion on that? I'll move. We accept those minutes of May 4th, May... May 4th? You're right. May 4th, yeah. You good? Is there a second? Second. Thanks, Kelly. Thanks. Any further discussion or is there anything anyone wants to address in those minutes? Nope. All right. Here, nothing. I'm going to ask for a vote. All in favor of a aye. Aye. Aye. Sounds like a unanimous. Thank you. All right. So now we're into old business and it sounds like you might have had something that you wanted to bring up in old business. What do you got? Well, I wanted to, you know, when we had a meeting before we all shut down, we were all thinking about different things that we wanted to, you know, like see or want to do and stuff. And then obviously we were tabled at all because it was just so crazed, right? But I was thinking about getting back on some thinking about the town hall slash library and whether we would actually try to see if we could get some kind of a committee or I don't really like the word task force, but you could throw that name out there, you know. And, you know, you put it out there so some people might want to volunteer, but they'll ensure some library trustees would be interested in being on a committee like that. Just sort of start to get a feel from the community and we have another year now is going to go by and at least maybe during this year we could be thinking and talking about some possibilities. Going forward with the town hall. So that's what I'd like to try to work on or try to do. I mean, even though the first kind of meetings might be by Zoom, but, you know, at least you can get it going. Yeah, I think it certainly has to start. I think with the decision we made to have the library there for the next year, give this a little time because it's not like we have to even debate about, all right, what are we going to do in this fall? Are we bringing the library back or are we not? I think it just wins the timing right as far as this pandemic to try to start getting something together. I don't know, maybe people have a ton of time right now and can do it, but I'm concerned that some of the people that may have some interest in this and some skin in the game here, you know, aren't the Zoom types. Some of the historical society people. And so I don't want them to feel like, hell, we're getting bamboozles here. They may be tech wizards. So I shouldn't. Yeah, no, I hear what you're saying. We want to make sure it's totally inclusive. Right, so I think, you know, what I maybe have you do, Donny, is why don't you come up with a plan of, all right, this is what I want this group to do. I mean, I think we all know what we want it to do, but let's put something in writing and let's think out, all right, what are we, how are we going to put this together? What's this group going to look like? And why don't you come back with a board to that and say, all right, I've got a plan. This is what I want. I want to start this month here to get eight members, nine people, seven, whatever it or as many people that would do it, have a public form here, you know, and start like that. There's a plan that we as a board can endorse. Yeah, maybe even a schedule, rough schedule. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm good for that. Yeah. Okay. Good. Cool. Sounds good. Is everyone else good with that? Yeah, that sounds fine. All right. So any other old business that anyone has or wants to bring up? Very good. I think I'm good. Oh, yeah, I have one. Yeah. All right, Don. We want to be thinking about the Mad River Valley Ambulance that's on our back burner about how they came to us and said, you know, I mean, then, of course, we went into everybody's, you know, I think we decided that something in August, I think November is what we originally thought on the election, right? I think so, Tom. Yeah, I think we wanted to give us some time and certainly now with what's going on before I start giving away too much, we need to figure that out. But, you know, I think it's good, it's, you know, we can put that on an old business pending down below so that it's something that doesn't fall off the radar. But it's nothing that we need to proactively work on now. I don't think. Yeah, yeah. All right. So any other new business or any new business out there? Have you seen the most recent email from Katrina Brackett just came through? No, an hour or so ago. No, no. It's pretty short. Let me just read it quickly. Hi, everyone. I have helped Mecca turn into a non-for-profit called Mecca of the Woods. The superintendent informed us yesterday no summer programs can use the school this year. We kind of anticipated this so are already thinking how we can run in multiple locations. Do you guys have any suggestions? One thought was the basement of the town hall for the pre-K kids. Please let us know your thought. I think it's a little early to start thinking about, you know, something this summer for the little kids. Yeah, I think you're right. You know, something outside maybe, but I don't see indoors as being a... I mean, especially the basement is not the greatest place. Yeah, yeah. They can't even use the elementary school, huh? So this was Mecca, again, what we're talking about? Yeah, and then she signs it. Katrina Brackett, Mecca of the Woods office administrator. So are they just like canning the whole program they had at the school? It sounds like... Yeah, it does sound that way. Because that's what was a major draw there that Dwayne worked on. I thought it was... I mean, even she talked about it as being, you know, was even financially worked. And now they're discontinuing it. Well, it doesn't sound like they're discontinuing it necessarily. They're taking them out of the buildings, John. I mean, you know... Well, no summer programs can use the school. In other words, they can't... It's not there now, and they're... And look, it sounds like they're not going to do any summer programs as well. Yeah, well, yeah, I don't see where we... I don't know. Yeah, so I think... Thanks for bringing that up. I think we need to look into that a little bit more. Yeah, no, I definitely... Yeah, no, I definitely agree. And I certainly would want to know what this turning mecca into a non-profit is all about, too. It's kind of weird. Yeah, no, it's weird that... But, you know... John, can you maybe forward that to us or something? Oh, she sent it to everybody. Oh, she did? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't get it. Okay. Oh, you're not on there. Come to think of it. There you go. Yeah, I'll forward that to you. Okay, thank you. Okay, I can't 537. I just picked up my... Thanks. Yeah, all right, yeah, that's something we should be interested in taking a look at. Here it comes. All right. All right, so any other new business? Well, you guys are going to kill me. I got to just ask something because I just looked at my notes and it goes back with Tom and Ray, myself. So, you were talking about, this is just quickly on the sidewalks, about trying to meet with all the people in town or, you know, be able to talk to them. Remember, we were going to try to do that and realize it's not doable. But so, Ray, I think you said you were handing out a flyer to everybody and... Oh, that's... I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that. Yeah, what we did actually is Sasha and Sherilyn sent out a letter to everybody. Oh, right. It was the letter that came from Du Bois. And we decided it would be a better idea. Actually, I spoke with Tom about it, so that would be better for them to get something, mail to them rather than stick it on their door or something, you know. Right, right. Yeah, so, those all went out. And there's, you know, one or another thing to get done. It's a little new because you just got on. But we've been dealing and talking with these people in the village for several years about the project. I mean, I mean, we have met, you know, over the years several, several times. So, at this point, nothing's new. You know, that's why I even said to John, what else? Do we need to tell? We don't have anything else to say or tell. Yeah. You know, everyone knows what's going on. It's been a part of the process. So, you know, sometimes we forget that or we did it. Okay. But with everything going on, they came up with a letter. It was sent out. And, you know, more of what I've gotten from anyone is like, you know, when he is starting, you know, so, you know, I think that's how that was handled. I will say it did prompt a response from Carla and Fred Messer. They owned the little house right at the corner, Drs. Brook Road, right at the end. And they were mentioning that their septic line actually goes under the road to the other side. And we have other lines. Cutlers is the same thing. Goes across or, you know, Miltoners. Same thing goes under the road to the other side. And they said it was never on the drawings. And so, I confirmed that with Nick at Du Bois and he said, yeah, it's not on there. So, you know, it was really good. We did get that letter out because, you know, they never came forward before way back when when we were talking about these things. So. Yeah. Well, good. I guess it's good. We don't want to be digging up sewage lines. Right. Right. You know, let them go. So, I've called and left a message with them that we would sure like to know the exact location. I mean, if they could mark exactly where it is. So, they can be really careful when they were digging out there. Now, this is, those aren't on any kind of town deeds or anything like that that we know of them. Well, I mean, you know, again, this is all the work that Pat did. You know, I mean, that was, as far as I know, that was his job to do all that beforehand. So I guess whatever happened, it was never put on the drawings. The court that we heard the Cutler, the color building sewer goes right into the town Hall sewer by deed. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And so, so I mean, I'm sure they were at some point, I would imagine everybody's probably went under the road, you know, until they dug their own well. And, you know, on that side, the other side. And there's also water. I mean, I know, I know people that have their springs are up on the hill. And that, you know, where they have their water fed down across the road. So that stuff on there, John? Yes. Yeah. Those are all on there. I thought, all right. Well, let's continue with that. And thanks for sharing that stuff. So you got done this. Yes. No, I understand. I was just curious about how it was done. It was done. It wasn't dropped. It was just something that was taken. There was actually, I think there was an email Sasha was covered in there, but planned in the bottom. But yeah, Sasha, anything else that you have that's going on concern? No, Sasha is back in the office working. We don't have anyone. It's not open for people to come in. Sasha, why don't you share any highlights or disappointments or anything that we should be aware of? Really anything right now. I'm not back in the office every day, but I've been going in and being able to get a little bit more work done with the photocopier and scanning things and stuff like that, that I don't have at home. All right. All right. So, if there's nothing else anyone has on their mind they want to discuss? Well, I did get the thing about to look at the being the first Constable, and I don't think I'm up for the challenge. So, we're still in need of a first Constable. You know what, speaking of first Constable, what we need to petition the next time we see our Maxine and the other lady there, Kara, we can ask them about maybe the state can change their laws, but the Constable should have powers to do speed enforcement. You know they have had some complaints with people with speeding cars and such, but we've never been able to, I mean the Sheriff's office was worthless when we had them contracted. They couldn't give us reports when they were here, where they were, and they wouldn't take any direction from us. The state police does what they can, but you know their thing is you need to continue just to call us if you want us to come around. But if we had a Constable, the only thing they did was just ran a radar gun and did that and had the powers to give a ticket. I think we could settle a lot of our speeding problems and I mean I just think it's a huge problem. I don't know any solutions aside from you know having someone, I don't know. I don't know, yeah. You're talking to them, they want to do good and make a nice law, you know, when they do that force. All right, so okay, motion to adjourn. So moved. All right, all in favor? All right, all right, good night everyone. Good night.