 Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. Any discussion on the current version of the town plan? This would include the suggested edits that we got. Any concerns with the edits? Any public comment on the town plan? Seeing none. This is the night to vote to accept it. I believe we'll entertain the motion for that. OK, so I'll move to move the town plan as edited. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. Motion to adjourn the public hearing? To move. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. Now we're called to order the Board of Liquor Control. First on the agenda is any comments on liquor control? Not the regular select board. Seeing none, approve the agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Approval of the minutes from May 9? Approval of the minutes from May 9? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. New business? This is our first class liquor license for Chefs Downtown Deli. Conversations with the Sheriff's Department. They don't have any reason to believe that this liquor license would create a problem. The general community, the restaurant, is currently operational and has been operational for some time. There's nothing to report, other than that to the Board. Any questions, comments, concerns on this liquor license? I'd like to maintain a motion to approve. I move to approve the liquor license for Chefs Downtown Deli. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Other business? That's from stuff at the back, sorry. No samples? Motion to adjourn? So moved. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I'd like to bring up approval of the agenda. So moved. If I may ask, actually, sorry about that, Pat. Not good enough. I know. We've been working with the Chandler group, and they have asked if we could potentially add a grant that is due very soon called Our Town to the agenda. We may have some issues with actually submitting the intent to apply paperwork because of logins with the federal government website. But we're hoping that at the very least, we can get some approval and we could add that item under grants, which is our town, NEA grant. Any concerns over that? Nope. I also added some minutes that weren't on the agenda. And I think we could add that under the second calendar. This is public hearing for the dogs from July 29. Yes. Any concerns on that? And you can go for it, Pat. All right. I hope to approve the agenda as adjusted. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Stained. Motion carries. Consent calendar. This is the regular meeting minutes of July 11. The special hearing of July 29. Warrants and the cemetery plot sale. All right. Make a motion to approve the consent calendar. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Stained. Motion carries. New business, traffic control agreement with the Sheriff's Department. Every year, the town enters into a year of long agreement with the Sheriff's Department for traffic control outside of the police district. We have a new agreement that was submitted by the Sheriff's Department for our review, and it has our town edits. If the board, we ask the board to approve the agreement. It's the standard agreement that we ask the Sheriff's Department and the town enter into every year. Questions? Is this a higher amount than last year? No, the amount is the same in this agreement. However, we have been speaking with the Sheriff's Department about increasing. We did not increase the amount for this agreement because we just didn't increase it as we had initially told the Sheriff's Department we would work with them on. We have committed, for the next fiscal year budget, to increase the amount, because this amount has remained static for the last at least two years since I've been with the town in the previous year since before I arrived. We increased it last year or the year before because it hadn't been increased for six years. And he was going over every time. And then he was basically charging other funds that he was getting for the work he was actually doing for us. Used to be 8,000 or 10,000. Yeah. Yep. Make a motion to approve check control during the Sheriff's Department 2019. Second motion. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Stay. Motion carries. Thank you. Please just read data brief from the Sheriff's. Are we waiting for them to arrive? Yeah. We'll go on and see if they show up. We could pass it on. If for some reason they don't arrive, I could also add to the next month's meeting agenda. Assembly permit for the Green Mountain stage race. They're coming back, huh? They're coming back. We've expressed to the event organizers that we are becoming bigger in the outdoor economy. That's a big issue for us. They said they'd love being here. They wanted to be coming back. And they submitted the same, similar application to last year. Same route. They are working with the Sheriff's Department with the state police that will guide the cyclists. And we didn't have any problems with the group last year. In fact, there was an event that sprung up around the stage race over at Ayersbrook Farm. There was food stands that set up. There was live music. So we're hoping to build on that to actually increase the audience of the race. They have no employees? Volunteer base. Gary Kessler is the person that we work with the most. He's a person who typically submits the applications. He's expressed to me that it's mostly volunteer driven, but I don't know if they have any. I didn't actually ask directly to have any direct employees. Any reason to ask is there a certificate of insurance that doesn't show workers' comp, which is one to believe that they don't have any? Yeah, right. All right. Cheers. All right. Any questions? No. Motion to approve assembly permit for the Green Mountain stage race. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. Appointment, we have Bruce Butler for Trustee of Public Funds and Melissa Scalera and Bob Presley for Health Officer and Deputy Health Office. I have spoken with the Trustee of Public Funds Chair, who also happens to be Cliff Rankin, our finance director. And the group do recommend Bruce as the recommend Bruce to the board to be appointed for Trustee of Public Funds. I have spoken with Melissa. I have spoken with Jerry Ward, who is our current Deputy Health Officer. He feels that Melissa would be a good candidate for the position. Not sure if they both worked together in the past, but Melissa has expressed an interest in the position and understands that time requirements do vary depending on the issues and would be willing to help. But this isn't a job that requires necessarily a medical background. That's right. It's going in and seeing if landlords are doing what they're supposed to. Just checking to see what should be done is getting back. So we don't need an OBGYN? Nope. We do not. Type of certificate. Does she have any background in landlord issues and that type of thing? Because that seems to be a bigger fit. Do they have some rental property? Until they get a complaint on their own, right? They're not in the law of that. They're not in the law of the law of the law. OK. She has been, she came to the office. She seeked us out. She learned of the position where we initially advertised as owning administrator, health officer position. And the Herald then sparked her interest, which is why she came in to speak to us about it. I think sitting outside the door would be somebody who can make the recommendations here. Any questions or comments on Bruce Butler? We can do that one first. I'll make a motion to apply it to a point. Lewis says the trustee of public funds. Take care of that one. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Change motion theories. Timely. Very timely. Any questions, comments, concerns? Would be applicant? A motion? I think she's doing a fine job. Want to make a motion? Keep it rolling. Move to a point. You know, it's a square block. That's the health officer in the system. That'd be a health officer. What happens when they're on vacation? That's a great question. And I would assume that you guys live as two weeks. I'm just wondering who doesn't. Is that you, Adelpho, or is that me? Because that will make a big difference on how I vote. That would fall to me and the Board of Health. But I, serving as the staff member, as the Board of Health, I would take the bullet. Thank you. Yeah, I'd tag on that. Well, then I'm for it. You're for it now, right? Sure, I'm for it. Yeah, you might not be for it. All right. Was there a motion? There was, there was. A second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. I'm done. There it is. So who is deputy? Is it? No. Oh, fine. Melissa is health officer and Todd is deputy. Town, plan, amendment, ratify. Is that what we just voted on in the other meeting? Yes, that was the amendment that we need ratified because of the email conversation. The vote would have to happen at the select board meeting. So even though it was approved at the hearing, the Board of Select would have to approve the Is it ratified? Yeah, have to ratify. Exactly. Okay. A motion to adopt the town plan as amended. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries again. Transfer station infrastructure. We've received notice. So I received verbal notice from Kasella of their interest in investing in the infrastructure at the transfer station. They would like to remove the garbage truck that shows up three days a week. They would like to put more permanent bins that would be more accessible or accessible friendly. Bins that would essentially help them to reduce the cost of bringing the truck every three days, but the bins themselves would be stationed in a place. They would essentially remodel where it is now. Right now we walk up a ramp and then there are steps. They would make it so that anyone who has to access the locations would essentially use the ramp and have access to all the three bins. There are no concrete plans now. I've said to Kasella that I would bring this issue to the board so that everyone is familiar with their interest in upgrading the infrastructure. They are not making any requests of the town. I suggested to them that we could potentially, depending on the investment in the infrastructure, the town could potentially extend the agreement that we have with Kasella because they're willing to make the infrastructure improvements as opposed to our expenditure or tactical expenditures. They're willing to have any conversation, but at this point there's nothing concrete because we have not received anything from them in terms of plans, environmental schematics, or even artist renderings. They are aware of that and they intend to bring more information to the board for the next meeting. Just adds up. Just make it easier for them. Is that the purpose? It certainly would. It would save them on fuel because right now they're driving a truck down three times a week. The truck is parked in an area that during the winter it's not necessarily the most ideal. If they have three permanent bins stationed there they would send a truck down only when they would have to to pick up the actual container and then chip it out. So it's fewer, fewer runs for them with the trucks. It just makes it easier for them. It also would make it easier for people bringing materials to the landfill. I know we've had issues with residents advising us that they can't get to certain areas. They need help when they arrive and so this would fix some of those issues. ADA issues. Next on the agenda is grants, municipal planning grant. I had received word from Josh, Director of Economic Development. He is interested in applying for a municipal planning grant or receiving approval to apply for a municipal planning grant. We've had three different conversations about potential planning grants. I don't recall a project that we're actually looking to apply for. What we're hoping to do is obtain approval from the Board to really supply four municipal planning grants. One of the three options would be to determine what we could do with the village laundromat in conjunction with the channelers interested in not owning the laundromat any longer. The other option is a municipal planning grant to determine the feasibility of a child care facility owned by the Singer Building. That is one of the other options. If we had approval to apply for a municipal planning grant, what we would do is submit the application by the deadline, which is, I believe, September 1st. That would be tied into the approval of our regional plan from two areas, which is expected to come next month. The only thing that would happen now is just to seek approval of applying for a municipal planning grant for either one of those two projects. Sounds like a good thing to me. Is that a motion? Sure. A motion to authorize Josh to secure him in a municipal planning grant for one of the two projects that Andalfo described. Second. I just want to make sure we're specific here. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Staying? Motion carries. What's the maximum of that? 25,000. Vermont Arts Council grant agreement. This is the 15,000 that was applied for to do the bathrooms over at the library. That's right. We had members of the Port of Trustees from Kimmel Library come and speak with the board several meetings ago, and we now have a grant agreement to perform the work. Who signs the grant agreement? You? Just because it makes a difference in the motion. It would either be the town or the Port of Trustees or the library director, which would be Amy. If we could ask the board to either approve that I could sign or Amy, and then this way, either Amy or I could sign for the grant. Any questions on the project? No? That makes sense. Are there any motions? What do you want to sign? Either one. I don't care who signs it. Doesn't matter. Let Amy do it. I'm fine with that. In the library. It sounds like we could make a motion that would say either one of them. Either one. Yeah, I know either. It's like just get it done. Whoever wants to sign it can sign it. Yeah. Right? Yep. Okay. So I'm going to make a motion that we finalize cultural facilities grant agreement and Delpho or Amy can sign the necessary documents to finish it. Motion in a second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. Chandler, our town intent to apply for the grant. The our town grant is offered to the National Endowment for the Yards. This intent to apply originates with meetings at the town and the Chandler to try to bring them more into the community to have the Chandler organization become more than just the building itself. So the grant is essentially Chandler trying to work with the town to make sure that they're bringing events to make sure that if the town is participating we can close roads to have live music, entertainment, family-friendly activities. So if the town were the select board would authorize the town to apply for this grant Chandler as the lead agency would submit the intent to apply they would need the town to serve as a partner group because the grant requires that a nonprofit organization serve as a lead applicant and have support from the municipal governing body. So in this case approval to apply would allow us to partner with the lead agency which is Chandler and this would be necessary in order for them to apply for the grant itself. And from Karen Dillon what I have here the event will include live music concerts, free family event activities, a town-wide art walk, an artisan crafts fair and a series of sponsored collaborative art projects, murals, sculptures, mosaics and more that will beautify and energize our environment. Family jam for musicians of all ages to perform and play together. It's essentially a big event that's also including the White River Craft Center. A lot of different partners. And I had a conversation with Karen last week and I think that this is that sounds like the intent of this is to be more of a rolling of series of events throughout the summer. That's right. Not just a one-time event but something along the lines of what Gifford does with their concert series. And I think it was either a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday afternoon. They were going to try to move this into the village. So some of the stuff would start at Chandler but they would try to take in up through, you know, as the event grew possibly they could secure a merchant's row on a Sunday afternoon or something along those lines. We need a motion to authorize them to apply. So move to my turn. Yeah, it's your turn. But I'm not going to jump into it. Okay. Do we have a motion and a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Stained? Motion carries. Old business. This is a draft agreement but it looks like it's the final agreement. There was some changes from the previous agreement that the board had approved. Our attorney went back to the Soles and said this is the approval that the agreement that the board had approved with the edits because there were some edits that needed to be made including the name of the road which is Bethel, or East Bethel Road. There was also a request by Mr. Soles and the request was to have the penalties owed, not paid to the town at one time by the end of October, but spread out over the year to help them with their financial situation. The town's attorney spoke with them, related to me, shared his counsel. The goal for us in this situation was to clear it up as opposed to put Mr. Soles in a financial hardship. And so we said for long as the payments are made and if the payments are not made in accordance with the agreement, then penalties would be added including interest for the whole of the years worth of payment. So we felt that was fair and they agreed and this is a new agreement. The majority of the document with the exception of the payment schedule is the same as what was to be applied for. And all the pictures for the registry lines, are they? Yeah, yeah. I wanted to make sure we knew what was happening. Any questions or comments on the agreement? Motion to accept. Do we accept this agreement between the town and Mr. Soles? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Stained? Carries. Other business? Hang on the board, other business first. We would have been under public comment. I did not realize you were going to sit through. We're rolling. And I was late from work. We are rolling. We would respectfully ask to submit my report there. We'll come back. Do you have any other business, Hidalpo? No other business, just managers report. We'll go back up to public comment. We need arrivers. Thank you. I have a couple of work clouds to share with you from the Board of Trustees recent retreat that we where we, I think she's got these double-stalled. Yeah, she does. Work clouds are kind of a nice way of looking at piles of word data to see which things seem to jump out. One of the things that certainly jumped out for the trustees is looking at the lifestyle in Randolph and how we can enhance that and how we can make that fit and also programming for our youth. And so as we talked, our priorities in the short term seem to surround increasing our capacity to host more events. Harry Potter Day, as I reported, I think the last time I had the privilege of coming here was a huge success. And we have had several other events like the Drag Queen Story Hour that we had last Friday that had more than 80 people in attendance, parents and children. And Star Wars Day, which is coming up on this Saturday. We'd like to be able to do more of that. We'd like to reach out to be able to hit our community and provide opportunities for them to experience all kinds of things. Over the long term, we would like the library to be able to accommodate community events. We'd like meetings to be able to be held there. We would like to figure out how to have increased capacity to have groups be there to meet the concerns of parents that come into the library along with the wishes of folks. We are not the same. The library was built 100 years ago. And we are not the same town that we were then. And we ask different things of our library than we did then. And so to have the space meet those different asks of the community I think would be really important. We all think would be an important thing. We follow what's a format called the Golden Circle when we did our retreat, which takes a look at the things, first the things that we currently do, and then how do we currently make them happen and what is it that we want to do. And so all of the data that we had, we took data from all of the community meetings that have been held about what Randolph looks like in the future. They are all in a spreadsheet. There are 1,300 data points. We are happy to share that spreadsheet with the board if you would like to look at them. And so that you can see the input that we receive from the history that we have around town. And we just want you to know that in terms of how we spend our money and how we respond to the community at large that we are trying to listen. It feels as though that's one of the great needs is for people of different viewpoints to feel like somebody is listening to them and trying to respond to their needs. And so the trustees are committed to that. And I thank you for letting me insert myself. I really, I looked at the agenda. You had two meetings. I thought, okay, it's all my fault down here a little late when I get out of work. No. They were easy. I didn't look at what those meetings were about. Well, I did. I read those agendas. I thought, Tom, you know, somebody's going to want to talk about that, you know. It's been talked about a lot. Last time I got caught with meetings ahead of the select board meeting, I was here for like an hour. I was waiting for public comments. I never know what's going to happen. So thank you very much. We, you know, we as always welcome input from the select board. But we do want you to know that we are thinking, you know, and we are thinking about what people want and what people need and how they are expressing it and how the library can fit into those asks of the community doing those things. Great. If there are questions. So as you collect your data, where were you getting your data sets from? I'm sorry. We got it from everything, actually. We took it from the Randolph revitalized surveys that were done. We did a survey at that meeting. We kind of collected any time people, a group has gone out and asked the community what they want. We brought all of that back. So out of all those studies, if I'm making the connection correctly, lifestyle was the most important thing that came out of that. It was huge. It's not economic development, which seems like the focus of the community. Well, economic development happens. You know, and if you look at the cloud, economic development is in larger types. So when you look at a word cloud, the bigger the word and the bolder the type, the more frequently something was mentioned. And economic development is certainly present there, but the way that we choose to live and the resources that we offer, however, those groups define the lifestyle, that seems to be a big thing. So, Leica, what was it? So business also had similar... Yeah. So, I mean, to just... So what was the business part of the business? Is it more business? No. More... I would rather send you the data... I'd love to see it. Can you put that in an email? I'd love to see it. Yeah, I'd love to take a look at it. It's stretchy. It's email size. Yeah, great. I'm happy to send that to the board. I'd love to ship it off to a Delpho. Maybe we should all take a look at it. It's an aggregation of all of the various constituencies that have held meetings around town. And what Amy did, I think, was to, you know, use the categorizations that happened at those meetings as people grouped stuff together and built the word cloud to see what popped. So, and then we looked at, you know, what popped, and, okay, so how does the library facilitate this? Mm-hmm. What's the library's role in that? Yeah. Yeah, because it's not the same as it was. No, it's hard. Four years ago, you know, it's not the same as it was when I... really, when I first started on the board. Four years ago. So we need to keep moving with the town and the... I'd love to see it. Thank you. Awesome. I will make sure that you get it. Thank you. Now we'll drop down to manager's report. Uh, I'll try not to take an hour. We still get a little dolphin here. If you put yourself there, you know, we can go for a couple holes here. Um, the first item is related to Kimball. Um, with the event that the library just recently had, uh, we... I've engaged in conversations with, uh, the library director, Amy, and I've expressed to her the email messages that arrived and the type of programming that, um, that was held at the library. And also shared with her some of the recommendations that residents were recommending to the town in terms of the types of events that, uh, for example, they would say, well, if this event is happening, then why can't we have this event? And the library's response was, absolutely, you know, you know, have them call us and then we could start scheduling the event, um, and we could host it for them. So the library seemed to understand what the programming that they had scheduled for last weekend, the type of impact it would have, and they're also very much prepared to work with anybody who has alternative views and wants to program or wants to schedule other programs that they feel are counter to that. Um, they're willing to work with them. So I wanted to share that with the board so that you, at the very least, would all know that the library's open to working with everybody as opposed to just, you know, this one lifestyle angle that, uh... I think it did achieve one thing, in which people realized that Kimball was in town. Yeah. The events. Now does Phil the name of it in their emails. Brought out a ton of suggestions for other things. They did. Which I think is great because if they're willing it's probably is a bad thing that maybe that opened up, you know, an opportunity. You know, the trainees right. People now know that the library is there and they now know that if they wanted to plan a different type of event they could and that the library wouldn't say no to them. Of course they would have to vet to see what the event is, but they were open to doing it. Well, so you look in the back of your page, the events was... was another thing. Okay, so... Can the public comment? Sure. Um... We're not here to discuss the event itself. It's just the feedback that came to the town. If they were offended they shouldn't go. Well, this is more on what the impact to the town staff was with the emails that were coming in and how they were handled. That we're talking about yet. No, we don't want to talk about it. Okay, you got a lot to say. Yeah. The next item would be the zoning administrator recruitment process. It's still ongoing. We received most recently with the new recruitment process. We've had one applicant submit paperwork. The process is... The recruitment process is going to stay open until we have the appropriate candidates. But up until now we don't feel comfortable with the limited pool that we have available for the position. We want to make sure we hire the right person and we've expanded our recruitment search to VTC and VTC contacts with our contacts of Greenmount Economic Development Corporation. Ask them to relay the information as wide as they can in the hopes of finding someone with experience or somebody willing to help us in this role. So, search continues. Until then, come to me. I'll try to figure it out. Um... Uh... East Randolph Community Group and the East Randolph Fire Department and I have had conversations about a welcome to East Randolph sign similar to the one on 12, similar to the one in Randolph Center. Um... They've asked if the town would be interested in working with them to install a similar looking sign for East Randolph. I've said, absolutely. Let's, you know, find a location. Funds aside for community improvements, which this would fall under. Um... So, if we have the appropriate location and the cost for being similar or true to what they were before, we could bring it to the board and ask us to move forward with that project. Roughly, about $1,500 for a handmade sign. We had a conversation a few years ago about the sign and at the time we had to keep them consistent. Not let each little part of town create their own design, their own... If it's one town, the signs are good, but they should be consistent. And there was one foot over there. It's put right in front of the hall. I'm not sure why that site was chosen. That wasn't part of that piece, but the one that was made for over there, that's where it went. And it's probably still right there. Yeah, absolutely right. We want to maintain a consistency. The one that was put in Randolph's center, it was as close to the older one as possible given that it was a different artist or a different woodworker that we had selected, but definitely going to try to keep it as consistent as possible. Um... I haven't thought where they want it. They haven't decided on a location yet. Okay, just curious. I've got four different ways to get in there. They did say that it would get one because everyone has one. Everybody's got one. Pick the most ideal spot. Pick your best candidate. We may not settle on a place for a year, but we'll figure it out. We're going to get a little time. It's got to be made. They can discuss that amongst themselves. We have a requirement that needs to be fulfilled due to the town's participation in the Armstrong Mobile Home Park CDBG grant that we applied for on behalf of the Randolph Area Community Development Corporation. The closeout of that project requires a second hearing and the hearing would have to be held before October 1st, so if the board is open to it, we could have a hearing scheduled for just immediately before next month's select board meeting, similar to today, and that would fulfill the CDBG requirement with them on that project. Two huge pieces of news, one bigger than the other, so I'll start with the smaller one of the two. We have been in communication with EC Fiber. EC Fiber has asked if they could place their internet router or internet communication device here at Town Hall. What they've offered in exchange is to provide Town Hall with free internet service in a small town building within the village with free internet service. The town has identified that the internet service provided by EC Fiber would exceed our internet capability now. It also would say taxpayers roughly about $5,000 a year in internet costs, so we'd get free internet and also get higher speeds. I assured EC Fiber that we wouldn't all be watching movies if we could, if we all wanted to, but... You can have yourself a little screen outside here. Like Times Square. Yeah. Movie night. On the town lawn. Is it a hub that they're asking for? It would be a hub. Yeah. And we received a draft agreement today. I informed EC Fiber that because it arrived today I couldn't bring it to the board because it requires back and forth, but I did commit to informing them that the agreement had arrived, the requirements in there essentially fit what our conversation has been, which is internet exchange for posting the hub. One of the benefits of having the hub here is that we also have an emergency generator, which would keep the hub working in times of emergency. Our internet, or not internet costs, our electrical costs for having the hub on a yearly basis would be in the low hundreds in exchange for the thousands of savings if we were protecting internet costs. So when we have a more less draft agreement I could bring it to the board for the board review. But so far the name's good. It's very good. EC Fiber's hoping to install it in the gated area where the emergency generator is located now. So it would have to be outdoors and we would have to find a way at EC Fiber's expense to connect it to our emergency generator electrical supply. But that's working. They're willing to pay for all that infrastructure. So that's great. The infrastructure, oh sorry. I was just going to ask that's a good sign for others of us getting EC Fiber. It's part of their growth. Absolutely. It also would potentially work with one of our ongoing partnerships with RACDC and they're applying to have a downtown Wi-Fi. RACDC would like to have a downtown Wi-Fi. It's part of the downtown designation program efforts. I didn't have any opposition to the hub that we have here being Wi-Fi available or Wi-Fi friendly so long as there would not be a back way to enter the town hall systems through the Wi-Fi capability. EC Fiber says that they were more than comfortable with the technology that they would put in here that it would prevent or have a firewall so no one could access the town systems. Help you with the partnership. Sounds good. The bigger piece of news is something that I shared with the board is that we were awarded a Northern Borders grant $450,000 We're very happy about it. We applied for $500,000 so I've got words to share with the people who awarded the grant. Thank you. Sure. Yeah, those are the two words I want to share with them. No, we're very pleased with the award. That is just one piece of the overall project costs so we're going to also apply for community development block grant to $500,000. We are required to have a village income survey or a water district survey for that grant. We partnered with a different group in the past that have provided us with an income survey. We've asked them again for help. They've committed to providing the income survey free of charge for free of cost so we'll get that free. So we're moving forward with the well and reservoir project at least conceptually. What do you think the timeline is for that? We probably will not apply for CDBG grant, won't be ready for it because of the income survey requirements until the spring time. So if we do move forward, when we did apply for other borders it was contingent upon all these other funding sources. So if we are successful with the spring time application you know probably maybe by I wouldn't say construction next calendar year but maybe the start of 2021. There's a timeline on spending the northern borders. I believe it was 18 months from the start of construction is the time of crossing the two. We would be within the construction timeline start of the project if we started early in 2021. I don't remember the actual timeframe for it but you got to start construction in 12 months. Okay. I have to go back to her. That's where we continue with that. The one way you can play that is if your grant was contingent upon the CDBG grant you can argue with them that your 12 months shouldn't start until you've met the other contingencies. Yeah. We've done that. When I started that, why couldn't you phase the project? Why couldn't it be phased in? Well done. You can get an exception. But if you're going to deal with northern borders why couldn't you do part of the project earlier? Because it's not 100% funding. You can use the CDBG as match if they approve it. There's also the funding sources we hope to go after which is USDA as well and negative interest loan funding. But we are working with our CDBG contacts just to make sure that this grant doesn't affect that application. They don't think it will but we'll work with our northern borders staff to ensure that their timeline doesn't start until they have our CDBG funding in place. Okay. Good stuff. We had a meeting with RECDC recently in their managing of the Downtown Destination Project program. We felt this was one of the follow-up meetings. We felt like it was a good meeting. We discussed different types of events. We discussed issues with bears in the community and how it's affecting one of the events that they had proposed for later this year. Was it a berry and honey? Yeah. We talked about donuts in a different part of town than in the event. We may have found an alternate location for the event in October which RECDC has agreed to explore. We thought it would be a great event over at the disc golf course over at the park. The conversation also spurred into ways of how to increase density for events that are already happening in town. If we could add different smaller events to the bigger events just to invite more people. The conversation then also linked to how to engage the business community into these events like Safe & Seen. Out of that came potential competitions between our business communities for window decorating. Ways to get them involved and get the community involved to see the windows and not just come around and ask for candy, but be more of a family friendly event. We felt that that was a great way to spice up the events that we already have. So we're going to move forward with it. I volunteer to schedule a meeting between all of our larger event holders. They can see in 4th of July Bluegrass Festival, New World Festival, Polamtown, get all of those organizations or those event coordinators in one room and ask them how the town could help their event. How they can potentially help some of the smaller events to promote more density at their events like I'm trying to get more people to attend those. We also had breakdown, at the very least a verbal breakdown of what events happened in Randolph over the course of a year and we found that pretty much 9 out of 12 months we have an event happening in town and it's just a matter of being able to promote those events more and more and more. Or to attach smaller little things to those bigger events to become more of an active community year round. So I haven't started scheduling that meeting. We had our meeting with RACDC yesterday so we hope to have a much bigger meeting while of our event organizers over the next few weeks. Anything you'd like to add, Larry? No, just that it felt like a really positive, productive meeting and hopefully we'll start some more good stuff coming out of that. The goal is to really let these event organizers know that the town likes that they're doing their events and that we want to be as helpful to them as possible so that it could help us in our local businesses. More information to come. The last thing I have is we have one of our properties in town that I've shared with everyone over email about which is at 10W street. We have followed up with the Department of Environmental Conservation. They have essentially said to me that there are other priority projects and that they understand that the property owner has ignored DEC's requirement to clean up the property. The property owner has accumulated more debris onto the property which is keeping DEC personnel from going on to the site and making sure that they comply with DEC's order from 2010. Their response to the town was well, the town should get rid of the debris and then we'll show up and clean up or make sure that the cleanup actually happened. So, still looking for help from our state legislators and the Governor's office to force DEC to do what threatened the owner to do 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 3 years ago and not let this go. We're also going to continue to push on the municipal level so that the property is in accordance with the town's chunk and solid waste ordinance. The challenge with not having help from a partner with DEC is that the town going at it alone will probably take us up to 2 years to clean up the property which is what's been the standard over the last multiple offenses from this property. So, we're going to push on different angles, try to get as much support to clean up the property. Maybe we're talking to Brookfield about the fund they're having. I think they're on 10 or 11 years. For that one, they've won in court multiple times and the state still won't step in and help them. Yeah. They feel the pain, too. It's a challenge. I jokingly had mentioned to folks that my style is to show up with a couple of tin wheelers a couple of staff members just clear it all out and, you know, oh well, take this court. Our attorney said don't do that. The Sheriff's Department advised me not to do that, so I can't do that, but it was an option for a short period of time. Kyle, did you look into the jump that's in the town right away and what we might be able to do about that? I did. I have not spoken with, well, I spoke with the Sheriff's Department with our local commanding deputy. His position is that if the town was going to do work, if we were going to clear the road, if we were going to do work along the entire right of way then we could force them to move it. They could then move it and then put it back. So we wouldn't be able to do it for just one property. It would have to be for everyone. We found out that if we asked everybody to push the trucks back because we're going to mow the ends of the roads, that would happen, but it wouldn't have the desired effect of clearing at the very least and then moving it to the right of way. They could move them and then put them right back. Except there's no way for them to put them off-site. It's an option. Twice a month or three months? Yeah. So, yeah. It's still an option. We're still working on it and that's just one of several properties and that's where we are with that property. Just got to keep on moving on. Just got to keep on staying on top of it. I did notice that trailer sticking out into the road again. It sticks out. The Sheriff's Department has confirmed to me that nowhere in state statute that discusses parking it all addresses vehicles. It doesn't address trailers and we don't know why, but we have a feeling it's because of our agriculture friendly position with the state and trailers are usually a part of the agriculture industry and we can leave them on the roads. So, there is no real mechanism to ticket trailers, especially the type that's in front of that property. If we were to ticket, even if we were to ticket, the feeling is that the person wouldn't pay. And we just accumulate tickets. How long has it been there? I noticed it when she came two weeks ago and it does stick out a little onto the road. The issue was that it was obstructing the right of way. It doesn't stick out very much but it sticks out enough to for me to be able to say it obstructs the right of way. But because there is nothing that we could say there's nothing that we could do. There is no indication that we could ticket trailers as we could ticket vehicles that are on the road. We couldn't even ticket the actual trailer itself. So, according to the Sheriff's Department, this morning, I'm turning over as much as I can tricks-wise or anything else to clean it up. Can it be towed as of November 15? Overnight parking? Sure. If it wasn't personally on there, you could call it a abandoned vehicle and get it with that. I didn't do it. We'd have to wait until November 15. Or change our ordinance for the so-called parking trees. We'll change it and we'll change it back. August 15. So, it'll be a heavy lift to clean it up especially if the state isn't helping but hopefully we can get some help because of the environmental contamination that has been identified on the property. That's all I have for one last thing. We are town staff and I are discussing ways to just read ourselves of equipment and stuff that we just don't need to sit around. And that conversation came from radios and cell phones that we've had that date back 10, 15 years that are really no good to us anymore. As we transitioned from the Randolph Police Department to the Sheriff's Department, we find ourselves with cell phones that we no longer need. They're iPhone 6 phones and we can put them up for sale. Unless there are any objections from the board, we're going to just put them out and the revenue of the sale of the phones will go back to the police district because that's why they were purchased for in the first place. There's also the question of the town manager car. I live across the street and unless the board has a desire to change managers, the next one probably won't come around for a few years and by that point, the car will be much older and ready to be traded in so the thought had circulated about potentially putting the car for auctions so that the revenue could then just be plugged into the town. You don't use it when you go to meetings in different places among them? The maintenance of the vehicle is because it's getting older it's going to cost more and it would cost less to just pay for the mileage it's just for meetings and more earlier really in town driving I could just hop into one of the trucks with their highway drivers and go there probably would be safer the winter time for me to be in one of the bigger trucks than in the Honda it isn't something that I'm prepared to tell the board we're actually going to do it we're trying to first figure out how much we could potentially get and if it's an acceptable amount we bring it back to the board and say this is how much we would get for the car this is how much we typically would get mileage wise if we sell the car because at the moment it's mostly being used for staff if they do have a training I ask them to take the town manager car and they could drive to it instead of driving their own car for mileage so for the most part it sits in the parking lot. Shani drives it sometimes to post notices And there's annual maintenance registration insurance expenses also the registration is free because it's registered to the town so it doesn't cost us but the vehicle itself it's got some brake issues now it's making some interesting noises just turn the radio off yeah I think it is new I do but once I have more concrete amounts I'll certainly bring it to the board because if we could potentially use that money to offset some of the costs for one of our big 10 wheelers if we have to upgrade soon it could be used for that probably probably be cheaper to pay mileage that would be the only maintaining the car on the phones if you consider offering those to the fire department they don't even need a plan but we're doing a lot of stuff pre-incident planning tracking sheets STS sheets all that other stuff that we can go on there and they can go because we have one right that the town provides on one of the engines but if you have pre-incident plans on there we have take pictures of something it would be nice to have one on each of the trucks or a couple of different trucks for each department as tools there wouldn't cost any, don't need a plan with them just as a mini computer what we had to them for the police department was so that they would only use them for photographs and for on duty calls so that if they were ever subpoenaed or the phone needed to be taken away for a case they could take that phone and not their personal phone so it's a good idea to look into transferring the phones one for every fire truck sure I don't think we have enough phones split them up you can dimmy them up between the department's developer I know we'd certainly have a value value we'll do that and that's it that's all I have for the manager that's all executive session none for this meeting are we going back to the fire stuff he said he was going to have them come back later yeah I'll have the Sheriff's department visit they said they would be here today maybe they just can they get there motion to adjourn so moved all those in favor