 Okay, so I'm recording the meeting. So yeah, this is all, you know, we're so used to doing things in a certain way that now it's. It's a bit different. But and where will the recordings go. We have the date. So the town of Amherst has a YouTube site for all of the Amherst meetings. So we direct people to go to YouTube and to look for the Amherst site, but I will receive a link to the recordings and I'll just send them out to everybody. I'll just send you a link to the recording. Great. Thank you. And put it on the YouTube site too. I don't do that. That has to be it. I can't, I don't have the administrative authority to do that. So you just send it to it. It automatically goes, they, they automatically get it. Okay. But they don't, they're not always necessarily up to date. So I, I don't, I have the recordings of all our meetings. So if anyone is ever looking for a specific meeting and you can't find it on YouTube. Then just reach out to me and I'll get it to you. But I think as a matter of course I'm going to send these to this group. Because again, we're not just a town of Amherst committee. So I'll just make sure that everybody has a link to the recordings after the meeting. Okay. Sorry, let me get the agenda up here. Okay, so we're official. We have a minute taker. One of the other things that we should discuss is the frequency of our meetings. We've been meeting every few weeks. So what do we want to set a regular date and time? The requirement is that I post 48 hours in advance of a meeting. We don't necessarily have to have a specific day of the week or time of the week, but as long as I have 48 hours to post our meetings. We're good. But if we want to set something, which will make it easier for all of us probably. I don't have North Hampton here. So I'm a little bit reluctant. I'd be comfortable setting the next meeting, but maybe we wait on that decision till the next meeting. Because I think North Hampton needs to weigh in. Okay. Okay, so. For right now, at least let's just say where are we today's the third. So if we were to go two weeks from today, our next meeting would be on the 17th. Unfortunately, I have a conflict that day unless we. We can do a different. Day of that week. Or we could go to the following week, the 24th. Originally we were meeting on Mondays. At 9am, which was hard for some. Actually 8am. Even earlier originally. So. We could go to Mondays Monday, maybe the Monday, the 13th. At what time. We could say 10 and hope that North Hampton can make that meeting. Okay. Tom, is that good for you? It is. Mondays are no longer good for me, but. Obviously. It's Chris, you and Tom that matter. Okay. Well, Monday, the 13th. Yes. At 10am. So we'll say that tentatively for, you know, we'll say that for now, but that doesn't mean that'll be the regular meeting date. I think once Chris comes, we can have more of a discussion about what will work best. Okay. So. As far as our CCA next steps, I guess that was going to be where I was going to give you an update on. The draft contract before legal counsel. And that we would be hoping to get it to him as soon as possible. I know he's, he's raring to go. He's. You know, ready to work with us. So. So once. You know, once we get that contract in place, then we'll also have to. Be. Working on formalizing the J.P. So even though we are celebrating the MOU. We really want to get moving on the JPE and making that official as well. Where does that stand? I think it's both the, I sent the contract back to legal counsel again and said now that we have the MOU signed, we need to get the JPE in order. And if you recall, we had had a few outstanding issues, which we addressed and sent to legal counsel. And I haven't heard back from them about that document. So I have a meeting with Rick. Later today. And I'm just going to make a note to myself actually right now. To ask him about that while I have him as a captive audience. Do we know where it stands in the North Hampton hierarchy? No, because it was both, if you recall, it was both Alan Seawald and Rick Holland were reviewing it together. And. They both had to comment. And I don't think. I don't recall. If I heard back once we, they both had similar comments. And we addressed them and sent it back out to them. And that's where I haven't heard anything since. So I haven't gotten anything from Alan either. So once I hear back from Rick, I can make sure that North Hampton gets it before Alan Seawald. To ensure he doesn't have any final edits. Okay. Thanks. Okay. So let's see. So we were going to review the founders document. Today, I think so. Let's see. Darcy, I know I think you were going to do some edits to it. The last time we met. Yeah. I did them. Okay. Do you want to, do you have the link? Ooh, let's see. If not, I can probably pull it up. Just not to bear with me a minute. It's. It's on the, in the notes. So. Okay, hold on. I'll. I'll have it up in a second. I just want to make sure I have the right one. Yeah. I think so. Yeah, I just resolved some of the comments and. Well, I'll explain it to you when we see it. Okay. Just give me a minute to. Get it up here and share my screen. Okay. Can everybody see that now? Yeah. So. My comments were in the comments until I resolved them. But we, we did look at them last week and I was given permission to resolve things. So. The main thing was. Just. Language that we had used. That was referring to articles three and four by their previous names. We had changed them to methods. And key elements on the suggestion of Aaron O. Tool. But then they got changed back. And the process of editing. So I just changed it to. Include purpose goals and policies. That is the title of article three and services activities and undertakings. That's the. Title of article four. So I just switched that. And then below where it says founders intent key elements. I did go through all of them because I, I was, I didn't want us to be redundant of what actually did make it into the JPE. Because I thought there might be some there, but as I went through almost everything that's listed here is not in the JPE or is in much more general language. And thirdly, I, there were two sections. One that was basically article three and one article four. And I just combined them so under key elements, just to make it simpler to understand. So the last section, if you scroll down, Stephanie. To. Numbers. Five. Six and seven were under a separate category. And I just included it. And I just included it. So, because there's no reason there was not any particular reason to have two section. So it was all just. You know, nuts and bolts. Nothing. Substantive. I would. As I look at number five. I know that we've, we've gone through this document before, because that language got into it. The highlighted language through our. Last run through of this document. And looking at it again, it really feels like we should say something stronger than we should say. Like we'll strongly consider or. We'll make all efforts to include. Since that sort of is the. One of the core differences in our model. To everything else that's at least being done in Massachusetts. So that's my, that's my main substantive comment. And we haven't gone through all of this yet, the key elements. So I'm just noting that one comment. And certainly our intention was to have. An adder for a staff person. Right. I mean, that was kind of a given all along. And that's something that's certainly allowable. I think that. Initially I had put in. Will. Have an operational adder. And so. And our past go through. Since, since we weren't in any way sure that DPU would allow us to do that. We just changed it to consider, but, you know, I'm further looking at it. It just seems a little weak. Because any, anything could be considered considering, right? So. That's why I think it needs to be strengthened. The language. Why can't it just say the JPA. The aggregation plan will recommend. Including. Operational ladder. Yeah. That would be good. That's what we're going to do. We'd like to do. And the same with the second. We'll consider because it just means that we will. You know, we will go to DPU and try to get this at some point. Yeah. Okay. Do you want me to. Does that make sense? Yeah. No. I just wanted to like take a step back. Given that this is our first official meeting. To say that. This document. Comments on. A joint powers. Agreement, which we've drafted. But. Which is not. Official. And. Certainly. May. The yet change. So. Just. Like. Met a document. A document. Is still in process. So. Do you want to change? You can't change it. Or can you change it? I think I can. We can take care of that. Highlighting later. Cool. So I don't know if we want to go through the whole thing. Or. Cause we didn't, we didn't actually. I think we just got through the first. Paragraph the last time. We got down to key elements, I believe. So he stopped here. And Chris was one of the main commenters. So I. I would hope that we wouldn't have to do it all over again with Chris and Wayne, not here. Cause this is a pretty important document to be talking about without North Hampton. Yeah. I know. And that's why. What I'm thinking as well. I mean, we could. I mean, what we could do is just go through it. And if there's any. You know, Make note of edits or suggestions and then. Sure. Have Chris take a look on his own and just, he'd have to bring them to the next meeting. So what we can't. Oh, that's another thing. Be careful what you wish for, right? It's really wonderful that we're official now. But let me just say this is a challenge. Because I'm realizing now that we can't even, we're not supposed to be working with. Google docs anymore. Like I can't. At least the way I am, our stop rates is we can't use the Google doc to go in and be editing and doing this kind of thing. So I think. At least again, for this meeting, because this is our first one. We then have to make this. We can't work in Google docs any longer. At least I. No, I can't. And I think we can do it during a meeting though, right? And then I think we can do it during the meeting. But we can't like. Chris can't go in and start working with us. I mean, he could have a copy to review. And get comments. Back to you as the person who's working on the document. But like, I can't. Because otherwise we could be conceived as. Deliberating. On, on this document. Does that make sense to everybody? And why this is. Problematic. So anyway, let's just, let's just go through it now. If we will, and then send a copy out. To Chris and make sure that if he has additional comments, we just can't see what his comments will be. Until like. The next meeting. Or he can give you his feedback directly. To you. Okay. Okay. So do you want to. Do you want to go over this now or. I mean, we have 20 minutes left. Do we want to just read this section one? To ourselves and see if anybody has any issues with it. That works for me, Tom. I'm good with that. I like. I like it. I mean. Okay. All right. Then why don't we just sort of take a moment to read through and when people are ready, just let me know you're ready for me to scroll. I don't want to go too quickly. It's a minor thing in paragraph C. There's locally need to be. Oh yeah. That is because it's in the. Definitions. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But this is a, this is not. The official JPA documents. So. Oh yeah. Whatever. Yeah. And the question about. Whether unbundled is defined somewhere. Again, this is just an aid to the. Board of the JPE. And. Doesn't have to follow all the same rules. Make that a lower case cell because that's going to bug me. I like it. People good with me scrolling down. Yes. Yes. I'm just going to mute myself. This is kind of. Repetitive. Am I missing something? Which is. Repetitive. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Promoting local. Is there again? Andrew, just how I read that is that it's just talking about the portfolio. Broadly. And then it's. It's more. Defining what these things are. Or how it will achieve these things. Okay. And how's that different from number one? I'm scrolling up. Sorry, people. This number. Number two is energy efficiency. So number one is supply. Right. Two is energy efficiency. And conservation. Okay. Three is jobs. I have to mute this. I think it's okay. And four is climate justice. Five, six, and seven are. Are what were methods, you know. The practical means of doing these things. Yeah. Summary of a lot of years of work. Yeah, these are just the actual articles. Yeah. They're just the original version of these articles. In the last six months or so. So they're probably slightly changed right now. You should probably delete them and just. Yeah. Yeah. The document. JPA. Yeah. It was helpful to go through them to see if they were. But it, it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think that's. Satisfying. Stephanie. Are you still with us? I'm sorry, I'm talking to you and I'm realizing I'm muted. I've actually been talking for a little bit now. What I was saying was. I'm. I'm putting the founders. I don't think we should have any kind of official vote just because Northampton's not present. To accept the founders document has now written, but I'll put that on the next agenda. Just bear with me. This is going to take some getting used to being official. It was nice to be unofficial for so long. But now is when the action starts. Yeah. Well, yes. We can officially start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So let me just see what else we have. So I don't think we have any public for public comment. I mean, lost Catherine. So. Dwayne, thank you for sticking with us because this is. We're fumbling through a little bit just because. This is a new way of having to work with one another. Now that we're official. Well, I know that for me back. Yes. Yes. Let me, let me just say, I, I, I've been, you know, and speaking for River and I, you know, we're, we're been following the great work that the CCA has been doing. And I thought I'd just check in on this milestone. To see, see what, what's new and what, what sort of the next steps are. So. I, we don't work for the clean energy extension. We've been sort of technical advisors in the past and not so much as, as things have really been getting much more administrative and action oriented. So we don't, we river and I don't plan to join all the meetings at all. But we're available. If you need us to do any analysis or technical support services. And so just thought I'd check in today. But I'd like to stay on the email list, but whether we're panelists or public. I'd leave that up to the three towns to decide going forward. And how you want to, how you want to treat us, but just thought I'd check in with the group and say hi again. Yeah, we can keep you on as panelists. I don't think there's any harm in that for now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you get the, the meeting notices and also you can come into the meeting and have a role to discuss. More easily, but also, I think when we engage Paul Gorma, I know you had said you were interested at one point that once Paul is on board. There's likely to be a meeting with Paul. Yeah. Invite Paul to meet with us all. Once he's officially engaged. I think he's not willing to probably do it until we, you know, get engaged. But I expect that will be soon. I would hope it could be by the next meeting, but I don't know for sure. Yeah. Okay. Well, just want to also offer congratulations on getting this. Milestone and, and, and the formally in progress. So it's great. Yeah, it's been some time coming. So, I know. So, okay. Well, yeah. It's a great group. Yeah. We've worked hard. I think. You know, at this point, there's really not much left on the agenda for today. I don't want to get into much of anything else. Without North Hampton. And in the meantime, in between this meeting and the next one, I'm going to work on trying to. Have a web page. So we have somewhere where we live. That's, you know, like a lot of, um, the public opinion on how to help those communities. That they can use for their communities as well. Again, I will put together agendas, official agendas, they will go to everybody, but they'll go to Tom and Chris in order in time to post. For the next meeting. And what else as far as our documents. We really cannot work in Google doc anymore. But Darcy, sorry. I'll work on that. I'm just right now, I'm talking more about the sort of technical setting us up. That I will do, but this like that stuff really absolutely has to happen. I think before our next meeting, you know, because I don't know how well, you know, I know with Valley bike, I didn't ever post the meeting agendas or anything in Amherst, but Dwayne always posted them. I'm sorry, Wayne always posted them in Northampton. So I'm assuming if we post them and it has all three towns listed and I'll specifically maybe say on the agendas now, I'll list Northampton, Pelham and Amherst. So we have a domain name, right? For Valley, didn't we get both Valley Green Energy and Valley Green Alliance? So I have, you mean on the web? We secured those web domains? Yes, we did. I have to double check with Bree because I'm not sure if a year's gone by because you have to renew them. And I think we automatically, I'm pretty sure I used my credit card to automatically renew them. So I'll have to check with Breanna because she set it up. So I'll check with her. But what I'm talking about setting up a page right now is just on the town's website. I'm not talking about doing like a whole, I feel like when we get... I think, I believe that Karen Ribeiro set up the domain names and she used her credit card. She did and they expired. And I renewed them through our communications manager. Great. We had to re-up them. And when she and I spoke, we said that we would try to make sure that they just automatically renewed. So, but that's why I have to double check with her. But what I was about to say is that right now, we're not, I think we need to wait until we engage Paul Gromer before we sort of set that all up. Right now, all I'm talking about right now is setting up a webpage as a place to have meeting agendas, minutes, documents, just as a place to sort of get things started that's accessible to the public because that's my big concern right now. And I have to do that if we're an official committee, I have to do that through the town's website. As far as when Paul Gromer comes on, there'll be probably something more that we'll do. They're gonna set up a Valley Green Energy page probably because that's what they do is part of securing them for the separate. Which will morph into Valley Green Alliance? No. I don't think so. I think it'll be separate because that will just be the CCA. So the CCA will be Valley Green Energy but the Valley Green Alliance will be the JPE presence and that doesn't exist yet. So I'm not worrying about that. And we will have to set up a website for that. Yes, but not right now. So when we get a little closer, I mean, I think we've got enough to sort of, for me, I just wanna make sure we are, in meeting open meeting law and making sure we have our documents and information accessible to the public. Definitely would it be helpful if I sent you links to all the Google Docs that are sort of the foundation documents to put into, you know, PDFs and they'll change. Yeah, they'll be, yeah, I mean. At least they'd be available for the public. It won't be hard for me once we get something set up. So I just have to talk to Brianna. Once we get something up, I think it should be fairly straightforward to be able to add those links to those things. So you can just send them to me. I know Darcy has a lot in her link now. They're in, most everything is in the notes. Yeah, I think when I look at your link that you send Darcy, I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong thing. I'm thinking that we could make a public, you know, directory for just the basic documents for anyone wants to catch up on what we've been doing. You don't need all the notes from before. Yeah, we just need the basic documents. Like, I don't think we need large meeting notes from every meeting. All we need is that, like you said, like the founder's document, you know, I don't know. Our report, the MOU, the report, those kinds of things. The grant report, we have them on the LEA website resource page if you want to find them, there's a lot on there. And yeah, so that would be good to have because that's sort of a basic, especially the report of this group in January, what was it, 2020 or 2019, I can't remember. Duane was the lead on that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we'll definitely want to have that information as well. So yeah, so lots to sort of work on just to get us kind of set up. So I don't think Breanna is actually in today. So I'll send her an email. I know she's out. I don't know when she'll be back next week. So I'll send her an email and she and I will connect hopefully before the next meeting, but we'll try to get as much of this together as we can. Yeah. On the next meeting, I think you said that Chris is out until the 13th. Yeah, actually, I think he's out. Let me just give me a second to see if I have his response so that I, because I think there was a date. Bear with me one second here. It doesn't seem like it makes any sense to schedule a meeting if you can't. Oh, yeah, no, actually, he's out until the 13th. So maybe we want to make that meeting. I know, so, you know, with everything, the challenges was availability. And I know Darcy, you have a hard time with Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yeah, I mean, we could just meet next Friday and then do it two weeks from then. It just seems like there's so much going on right now. Well, Chris, I don't want to meet again before Chris is back. I want to wait until Chris is back and he's not back till the 13th. And I can't do Friday the 17th. And so do we have any way of finding out from him by email, whether he's away? He's not going to respond. I think Chris, typically, when he takes vacation, he does not check in. He checks out. He doesn't have anybody who knows his schedule, right? Yeah, so he doesn't. Yeah, it's like me. No one knows my schedule. And who is Carolyn that was mentioned earlier? Carolyn is the assistant director. And she's going to be the acting, planning, and director of planning and sustainability for Northampton while they do this. Who are you discussing with her? Well, yeah. Carolyn Mitch is her name. Yes. And Carolyn and I have, Carolyn was in contact with me because I reached out to her about this meeting. And she said she was unavailable. And she basically said, send me documents. But I don't know how much she's going to be attending because Chris is now officially representing Northampton in this effort. So I don't know that Carolyn will be attending. I think we should find a way to encourage her to come at least a couple of times just to not have that position working with us. I don't know. Maybe Adele is the Northampton resident advocate. Maybe you want to reach out to Carolyn. I'll think about that. I can ask her. I mean, I can ask her. But I, you know, I mean, again, Chris, Wayne was very clear that I think the mayor appointed Chris as the liaison to this group. So I don't know that Carolyn. I mean, it didn't say Chris and Carolyn. So. Right. It's unfortunate, though, because she needs to be up to speed on what we're doing. And maybe she is because she's been there. But we don't know that. Or Chris is to keep her up to date. Yeah, that's true. I think that's the point is that Chris will, like, you know, Chris will be the liaison and he would keep her up to date. I mean, I think Wayne himself was just really involved in all of this, you know, and it was an interest of his. I don't, you know, and if Carolyn is acting, but she may not be the next director. I mean, she may or may not be, I don't know. So we don't know who the next person is if they're going to have the same level of commitment to this initiative if Chris is already appointed. So and it might be that kind of thing, as you said, where he may just be reporting back to them on where we are. I don't know. Just sort of thinking that if Chris couldn't come on the 13th, then maybe she could cover for him for that one day. But I don't know if she doesn't know what we've been doing that minute. Yeah, I don't know how much that will be helpful. But let's we could say, do we want to maybe say instead of the 13th, do we want to say June 15th? Is that OK? It's a Wednesday at 10 a.m. I should check my before I commit myself. I should look. I have a conflict with that. I can probably change an appointment that I have at 1030. Or we could do 9 a.m. Well, at 9 a.m. I have a standing. Yeah, me too. That's the meeting. What about 1 o'clock? What about what? 1 o'clock on the 15th? Stephanie, I'm going to I'm starting a new job. Actually, I started it on Wednesday and I'm going to be out in California. I can do, you know, 6 or 7 a.m. California time, but by 1 o'clock here, 10 o'clock there, I'll be out in California that day. So I won't be available after that. OK, I'm sorry. Who had a conflict with 9 a.m.? Andrew and I, what about what? Why don't we just say Friday this? Oh, I can't do this. OK, I think we have to say the 15th at 10. And if Chris can't make it, we got to schedule it so that he can be there. It'll be another meeting like this. What I'm going to do right now is tentatively say Wednesday, the 15th at 10 a.m. And I, you know, I'll send an email to Chris specifically asking him if he can make that date and time. And if he can't, I mean, you know, we might have to do at least that week. Darcy, we might have to do a Tuesday or Thursday. Or Andrew and Adele, we might have to do Wednesday, the 15th, that may be a different time. I'm just worried about, you know, Tom, to accommodate Tom, I feel like we need to make sure we do it at an hour that works for him. So it would be either 9 or 10. And that would be true that whole week, right, Tom? Yeah, I mean, I'm home on Friday, but that doesn't help. Yeah, I'm sorry about Friday. I could maybe do 9 to 10 on Friday. I've just got work. Yeah, I'm taking the afternoon off. Actually, I was going to take the whole day off. So but I could maybe do 9 to 10. Does that work for everybody? If I did 9 to 10 on the on Friday, the 17th? Yeah, works for me. But could we give Chris two options in pencil and both those options for us? And all right. So I'm putting Monday. OK, so I'm saying either Wednesday, the 15th, the 10th, or Friday, the 17th at 9. I'll give him those two options and see if he can do either one. OK, sounds good. OK. All right. Well, I will let you know. Yeah, the meeting has to be posted. So if it's Friday, the 15th to 10, we'd have to post on Monday before 10. So right, we'd have to post on Monday before 10. So it would be very tight. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to bring up one other thing, which is that the Andra, Adele, and Sam, and I had volunteered to try to start looking for members that could potentially, we could potentially recommend to be on the Community Advisory Board Committee. We haven't really started doing that yet. So I just wanted to remind us that that is something that once we get the Valley Green Alliance up and running, we'll want to have that right away. So we're still working on it. My point is that we still know that we're trying to put together a list of recommendations. The hard part is that every organization that I'm a member of, which is quite a few, we're all doing the same thing. We're all looking for diverse membership. I was at a League of Women Voters meeting last night. Big section of the meeting devoted to let's diversify our membership. And so it's a challenge, but we are working on it. All right. Andra, you look like you were about to say something. No, no, no. I have to go to another meeting now. OK. Yeah, I do. I have not forgotten my commitment to get the list of community solar providers. So it's been a while, six months, as I've been leaving one job and going to the next. So but I'll have that. No worries. All right. I will let everybody know I'll send an invitation out when we confirm the next meeting. And if I don't hear from Chris by Friday, the 10th or whatever, I may have to just make a decision. Yeah. So OK, everybody, thank you so much. Take care. Thank you. Bye.