 Okay. I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is actually 734, addition to the agenda. I didn't see any on the second board report, but are there any? No additions to the agenda. Review of minutes, February 27th. Full of small changes, eight pages of minutes. Congratulations on capturing in such detail, the long discussion that we had on that night. Page six, the first full paragraph. Complete streets is kind of a concept program, and it would be clear if the first line there, we had Richard and I are noted a mention of my period of complete streets committees and ask. Can I go on it? Sure. Oh, were you done or do you have more changes? Because I have a few. But once you go ahead and I'll take, I'm pretty sure I understand it on, but I'm not seeing it right now. So in the first page, and by the way, Deirdre, awesome minutes. Like I just have to say, they made me weep almost. I mean, you got really good information capture. On page one, Melissa Gorham is listed as being there twice. On page three, there is a very minor typo. It says, the audit made recommended reviewing. I don't think you, I think made should be omitted. The audit recommended reviewing. Do you see where that is? I will tell you. Oh, is that the first one? Mm hmm. What says on page three? Page three. Yeah, I'm going to see if I can find it. Also know the volume. Mr. Hewitt. Oh, it's the third paragraph. Mr. Hewitt also noted the audit made recommended reviewing that that sounded wrong. I mean, I think it should be okay. And page five, it's a very small typo. It says something about, I'll try to find the exact paragraph. It says red field instead of rec field. But it was, Mrs. McFadden asked how the red field parking lot, that is one, two, three, four, five, paragraph five. Is that it, Amy? That is it. Okay, I found the other one. It's on the final page. It's just above the motion to adjourn. The previous motion isn't clearly stated as a motion. So it should just say motion colon. And then if you could, if you could bold both the word motion and the motion itself as its practice, that would be great. That was me. Okay. The other one little typo, has Mary Jones listed twice in the slide board. Did you get that one already? Listed twice on the in-person public attendance. It's Mary Stone and then it's Mary Stone at the end. Mary Stone at the beginning of that. Thank you. The issue was a few of the dynamics, President- I didn't want to look at that. Yeah, you did a good job. That's pretty minor, but. I move that we accept the minutes with those minor changes. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The ayes appear to have, they do have it. Um, okay. So the minutes are done. Public comment. I see public, public comment. No comment. What's that? Oh, you're talking to yourself? No, I'm just talking to myself. No, okay. That means you're either going nutty or you got money in the bank. Is that what it means? Yes. I just thought it meant I shouldn't read it for the first. Seven 40 PM discuss Murray bliss. Barnes roads, ash tree removal project request for proposal. I'm really just bringing this to you. Well, I called the previous town administrator to find out how this process worked. And as I've been going through it and working with the resilient birds committee, yeah, it occurred to me that it was never mentioned bringing it to the select board in any way. And I thought that I should do that. And then also I'm a bit confused because we have a purchasing policy that outlines the RFP process, but it doesn't appear as though we fully follow that policy for these types of projects. I reached out to Times Argus, for example, part of that policy is an ad is supposed to be taken in Times Argus and no ad was taken last year in this time period for this. So I did create a public notice that's actually posted on this building posted just like we do any other warning for a meeting. I did not take out an ad yet in Times Argus and I wanted to ask you all this tonight to see if that was necessary. It's posted here. Yeah, post office. In post office, four corners. And then I put it on the website. So our policy states it goes on the website. It gets posted in the typical public areas. And but also that an ad is taken out in the paper, but it doesn't appear as though we've done that. I reached out to Times Argus to ask just in case I was overlooking something. And speaking with Jeff, he, Jeff Cuetta, with the Resolute Roads Committee, he's like, I don't think we did that because we kind of cover our bases with every forester in the area and didn't seem, but I just wanted to bring that to you all because it is a deviate from policy. So I just... We've had three bids every time we've done it. Yes, yeah, you have. Yeah, so I just wanted to bring this to you all because I don't know. In my history from an internal control perspective, when there's a policy and you don't follow it, you want to document that in some way. So if we are comfortable with not following the policy with eliminating the need for a Times Argus ad, I wanted that documented in minutes that the select word was comfortable with that and... I'm comfortable in doing that if we discuss it and find that it's the best way of doing things. I'm not comfortable in doing that just by forgetting about it. So thank you for bringing that to our attention. And if the Resilient Roads Committee is comfortable that they have reached out and themselves notified, all the individuals or companies that would be likely to respond to the RFP, then there's a fairly limited universe of those. So I'm comfortable with foregoing that the Times Argus ad. Yeah, they're currently working with landowners on any... We have submitted all the documents to the landowners. So they've been notified. They're giving us their feedback in regards to the handling of debris and all that kind of fun stuff. So, and they will... They're already working on following up with any that we have not received. So as you all know, they've done this before. They are certainly very good at working with landowners and working through this process. So also it's to be going well so far. So we will be looking at the bids at March 20th meeting. Our next meeting, okay. Okay. So that's it on that item, I believe. The next item... Rachel, you could turn up. You could turn up at your camera again. Yeah, I hope she left her tone up or sound up. Yeah, we're 10 minutes early, but... I thought I was gonna get to eat dinner. All right. Okay. So... So you see the annotated agenda on my democracy from Rachel. So I'm bringing it to the select board. Thank you. Do you want to present this orally, Rachel? So could you unmute yourself? No, I think I've said what I had to say at the last select board meeting and then you asked me to write it up. So I did. Yeah. So... So I can take it from here. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. It looks good. That's a good reason for putting together a committee and a good charge. Okay. Are you gonna be on that committee? Yes, I would like to be on that committee. Okay, excellent. You have any ideas for other people? That's a good question. I was just asking Paul. He came up with one name, but we can think about others as well. He thought Ken Hertz would be good because he's got an engineer's mind. What number of committee members do you think is appropriate? I don't know. Maybe five people gets on wheelbie after that. Well, Gina, I think Gina should participate. If she can, I know Gina, you're out straight, but you've got all that experience from Florida. I would probably sit this one out if it's in the immediate coming up until we're fully staffed. I would like to sit back. Well, we're leaving on March 22nd, and we're gonna be gone until the end of April, so I don't know how quickly people want to move. That's up to you. We can put it down on front porch forum. We can do that, and then we'll see what happens. We aren't gonna get this committee put together before the snow season is over. Whether we do it in March or in April, I don't think it's a big deal. Do you want to wait until you're back in town? I mean, if people feel like it can wait, yeah. When are you back in town? We'll be back for the last week of April, so I probably wouldn't be ready to start before the first week in May. Okay. But then we can put it out on front porch forum other ways of publicly looking for people. Right. And that can be done beforehand. That doesn't have to wait until... That's what I'm thinking. We could do that any time after town meeting, which is tomorrow. We could start to reach out and see if we can get some interest. Good. Great. Okay. Down good. All right. Thank you. What do you all think of, I mean, we were saying earlier for the other business in town meeting that we'd wanted to discuss something. I don't think this is the one that we wanted to discuss, but what do you all think about just raising the question of, okay, how'd you get through the big storm, the power outage, and how could we be helping each other better? We're good. Yeah, we may be looking to fill up the times. That's a good thing to write down and remember. Yeah, okay. Of course, the other one is a town meeting question. Yeah. That's a great discussion. Yeah. Could last for a while. Yeah. There you go. Fill up the time for it. It's still a food trade. Yeah. Okay. The next thing is warrants. Oh, no. Oh my God. Carl, I almost forgot. The next item. The next item is one of Carl's favorites and Gina always participates also is discussion on town management and light of COVID-19. I usually defer to my vice chair. You've done the homework and put into the select board menu memo that according to what I now consider to be pretty much worthless CDC community level tool because of lack of accuracy of reporting, Washington County is that low community transmission. What I was going to say last time, but deferred because it was a long meeting was I had just come from a performance of the high school musical in Montpelier and it was a completely packed auditorium. They were setting up risers in the back. So it wasn't quite standing room only, but they were making chairs where there weren't chairs before. And I got word that some people I knew who went to an earlier performance of that came away with COVID from that or some other thing. And then the next day I went to a concert in a church in Montpelier and that church was completely full and people were singing and clapping and I hadn't seen any church that full since the beginning of the pandemic. And neither of these events were, there are any efforts to encourage masks and most people I think did not have masks. And there weren't any efforts to take names and contact information to people asking for people to get back and tell someone if they got COVID. So that got me reflecting. We used to talk about super spreader events and I'm wondering now do we just call them events? You say a super spreader events? Pardon? Instead of super spreader events? Yeah, now we just have events and we have no idea knowing which ones, no way of knowing which ones are super spreader events. That does put out in kind of a negative message about an event if you call the super spreader event. Yeah. Are you gonna say that about Tommy? And so that's why I think it's important. Attendants will drop. That's why I think it's important to encourage the masks. Yes. And we are taking at least somewhat attendance. We're checking in the voters. And you know it probably wouldn't be, that's a good question. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to ask people if they experienced symptoms of COVID and or test positive in the next, what, five days to let the town office know so that we can. So maybe we would cancel the next town meeting because of the super spreader event. So we could put the information out there. We wouldn't tell anybody's name, but we'll at least say somebody came down with COVID after town meeting. Right. Does that make sense? So you're gonna say a town meeting if anyone had COVID symptoms within five days after town meeting that they can let the rest of us know? Please let the town office know. And could put it out on front porch for him. Call all the people that went to town meeting. I think some of you could do. Super. Well, it's just tough to me. So many people are out and right in the world without masks. I don't know how you do it. I can't identify. Yeah. They're super cute. Beyond some of the protocols that were in place. I think that's why you don't hear the term super spreader event. No one's tracking this stuff anymore. Yeah. No one's saying. Right wrong or different, they're not. No, the point is not to talk about who got it at town meeting, but to talk about who was possibly contagious at town meeting. So what's the point would we, I don't wanna put a post every day if people start calling the office every day because they're sick with COVID after town meeting. So what time period so that we could do this once? Yeah, I would if calls received. This is something that I'm just thinking of in conversation with Seth. So I would wanna do a little bit of research on it, but I mean, five days, something like that comes to mind. So they should call the town office if they got COVID within five days at the town meeting. If they get COVID symptoms and or test positive. I don't know if it makes sense. I'm just thinking a lot of it. I think Scott has a comment if he can make it. Yeah, it's just so impractical. I served lunch today at the Unitarian Congregation handed out lunches and to 20 or 30, 20 people. I didn't go that close to them, but how do I know if I come down with COVID because it's 24 hours later that I showed up at town meeting and nobody's reporting this stuff to the state anymore. The numbers are low, but I don't think they're realistic. It just, I understand the, it makes sense from the perspective of we wanna be safe, but the exposure that we're all having just walking in and out of the co-op or anywhere else, I just think it's impractical to try to do contact tracing that no one else is doing anymore. Yeah, that's basically what you're talking about too, was contact tracing. Yeah, yeah. And I just think it's impractical from my perspective. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, thinking about further, okay, what would a person do with this information if they got the information that somebody had come down with COVID five days after town meeting, they might take a test, but maybe it's a good idea to take a test anyway after you go to a big event if you're susceptible. So, okay. All right, well, any more discussion on COVID-19? No. No, okay, okay. So the next item on our agenda is our warrants and because there's only two people here, I think we better just authorize me to sign it or tiny anyway. Yeah. And I have already, yeah. So I think we need a motion to- A motion, I move to authorize the chair to sign the regular warrants. I second that. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. If they appear to have it, they do have it. The next thing on our agenda is the town administrator report. It's fairly short and sweet. I'm out of the office Thursday and Friday and will not be checking emails. And maybe, and the town clerk's office will be closed on Thursday, basically Thursdays until the office is fully staffed. And then we have the future meeting schedule, which I, oh no, I did pick off the six. Town meeting, March 20th, April 3rd, April 17th. So if everyone could just check travel schedules and let me know if those dates work. Yeah, 20th, no, the third of my year, if I could give me, yeah, third of my year. Okay. Oh, we gotta go on executive session. Lastly would be an executive session. I move to enter executive session to discuss a personnel issue. Hi, second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. You guys have it. Thank you all for joining us. Oh, we have, we've come out of executive session. Yeah. Come out of executive session, no action taken. I move we adjourn. I second that move to adjourn. Very good. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.