 So we're calling to order the Become a liquor control board to order first First up is public comment. It's coming on anything not on the agenda Let's see in anything flashing and nothing hanging no hands up. How about approval of the agenda? I'm moving the way Go ahead I will second Paris Motion hey all those in favor Motion carries Consider the outside consumption permit for the forge. This is changing the boundaries of where they are now We have no questions. We'll entertain a motion No questions, and I'll make a motion to approve the outdoor consumption permit for the forge. I will second All those in favor hi. Hi Hi Motion carries next up is the permit for Sidewalk florist to deliver beer great idea Yeah The state says it's okay, I guess it's okay That's on a motion. Yep motion to approve the sidewalk floors for delivery beer. I will move that I'm looking forward to my next bouquet I favor Opposed motion carries contain a motion to adjourn I'm moving adjourned. Okay. I'll second that one favor hi We'll call to order the select board meeting the first up is public comment. This is anything not on the select board agenda Not seeing anything you got anything there Trevor No, I don't think so They move to approve the agenda Move we approve the agenda back in all those in favor Hi Go into a public hearing for the USDA grant for Kimball library There's a required piece of their US RDA, I think it is free facilities grant application the chance for anyone Wants to be heard Anything that you want to consider for public comment? This is their $50,000 great application with the board authorized the application back in March It's for ventilation cooling upgrades Babe anybody there with comments any board members with comments? not seeing any Entertain a motion to close the public hearing Second All those in favor This is a great pace Calendar with the meeting minutes and warrants a movie approval of the consent calendar or meeting minutes of 519 and the warrants Second that all those in favor. Hi. Hi Post motion carries Next up is business and first up. We have Sheriff Bonyak and Captain Scott who dear for Sheriff's update Well, good evening everyone. This is Sheriff Bonyak and Sorry, I'm not there in person, but unfortunately COVID caught up with me and I've been home quarantine in the right now just mild symptoms. So Hopefully they'll stay that way and get back to work soon I Believe Scott has About a one-year snapshot of the stats what we have done for the town that's all it's arrest Incidents and tickets and warnings So if We got questions on one thing I will point out on the on the incidents If you look at if you look at a copy of it, you'll see directed patrols and what's nice about this is it actually shows The date time and the address where we did directed patrol so if you have any questions if like we're up at reservoir or Whether it's the high school or in high school, we've been primarily it's after school Just monitoring speed So just kind of give you a flavor everything we're doing it's documented even even the warnings all traffic stops are documented whether they get a ticket or a warning and Just so you have an idea of about Roughly 75% of the people getting stopped in the village are getting warnings. You know the 25% of getting tickets and With the ticket just so you're aware of this The one-year snapshot Any local speed tickets or municipal tickets that are issued we The village code is on there and the village should be receiving 80% of any of those violations and this The one-year snapshot was approximately 80% would be about $8,500 Now that's if the people pay the fines if they can test it They found that guilty Sort of or if they just don't pay the fine, but roughly about $8,500 worth of Violations local violations should be coming back to Randolph village If you look through there, you'll see there's five Addresses blocked out and earn sexual assaults on usually any sexual assault mainly children or pornography We want to protect the victim so we block out the address And the other thing just want to point out with the when you see it if you look at the traffic stops You'll see the daytime and in the address the address is actually actual Where they're stopped it may not be the The violation Where the actual violation took place example Central Street we have people leave in a village and we end up stopping them By stock farm road, so it'll show traffic stop by Stock farm road Violation was in the village So just kind of give you a flavor. Do you have any questions so far? Nothing from me All right, but well Scott you want to add anything to this? No, sure pretty well. I Provided a came with stats So all together you're looking around to around 2000 documented incident slash tickets warnings for a one-year snapshot June to June I'm open for any questions seeing any recent state of higher-profile instance in other towns combined with some of the stories on Challenges and staffing are we seeing either or both of those pressures in terms of What reason increase seems like it's a lot of it's all related in that time going in a four-door We see any increases or worry about increases sort of died to that Really say specific and I've heard it and then how did some of the staffing shortfalls play in or are you just worried about staffing generally? Sure So something's always you know a problem for so technically we are Stab I've got one out on the tourney leave and the other was just the full-time Academy He'll be back early next month And then We just had a never-definite paper training So we're looking pretty good staff-wise You know in regards to high-profile incidences We're not immune to that we We've seen quite the increase in the narcotic stuff Which leads to mental health issues, which means getting those things, you know boarding care driving We've seen an increase of that. We've been seeing the increase of the new violence of crimes Symbols all it's schools We've seen quite the uptake of that kind of stuff. We were busy When you're talking about the staff and you're talking about the staffing here in the village Yeah, so we pull you know just about everybody to cover this We've got dedicated deputies that sit here But if they're out for vacation sick leave or whatever we'll pull from within our ranks to come cover down on the ship Everybody that's in the barn is trained to be here So it's not something out of the norm. It's just not there every day daily duties But you know, we're off the staff A moment ago you talked about mentioned the Mental health responses that you've had and I've been sort of reading a lot sort of in a big picture way about how policing has been sort of responding to increased mental health needs And give us any more background about how you Are You know your office might be changing with response to how you handle those kinds of calls We we've definitely changed it a lot We're we've really kind of slowed down and we're not going all the way since our rooms We're not trying out more heightened the situation all about the estimation Where we can actually take the time To sit down and figure out what is going on What resources can we pull in right there on steam or where can we bring the patient somewhere to receive more services? We will actually sit down and take that five whether it's you know, 10 minutes whether it's an hour or more we will take that time to Figure out what is needed and get the service in play We're opposed, you know years ago You good cool redone and On to the next one where we're taking more time and we're missing we're de-escalating the entire situation We're not rushing in we've gone strong or it's a very soft more softer approach Every situation that you know dictates something different, but normally We'll de-escalate before we Is that reflecting Certain So all our guys, you know, all done the t2 training we've had recent mental health updates, you know, that's required by the Vermont Academy More training is always official and anything that kind of comes out to be pointed in that direction So we have that more well-rounded response to these time calls for service So so sure how is the department feeling comfortable like now with the sort of range of things that you need to respond to or Are there still places where you feel like why I wish we knew better how to do this or we had more people These kinds of things like where do you feel like we're out in general? I'm kind of giving you an open-ended Question here, but I'm just kind of get a sense of you know Where where where might be we like those have some work to do You know overall we're overall we're doing pretty well. We're always we're always open to looking at, you know additional trainings You know mom till your police department is offering what they call CIT it's a critical incident Training that's it's basically for mental health. It's a 40-hour course. We'll be looking into that for for some of the deputies Right now is a difficult time to send somebody away for 40 hours But also technology, you know, we we invested in what they call the wrap a bolo wrap It's a non-lethal. It's it's actually Scott has it one on him currently And what it does It shoots out a It's almost like the weighted fish hooks two of them with a Tepar string in between about a five foot string and when it fires it wraps around there If you you know primarily like their legs They'll wrap around their legs and stop them from you know doing anything further It's less than lethal technology that's it's it's fairly you know, it's been on the market for a couple years now and You know, it just gives us another tool in our toolbox, you know, of course, you know, we have the tasers that we And anytime we use any use of force, it's all documented So it's not like we we just go use it and then no one hears about it It's everything we do is documented when it comes to use of force So but we're making sure we're staying Keeping up with technology find out what's what works what doesn't work for for Randolph And You we really want that You know the where what Scott was talking about was the communications with people that are especially in distress you're taking that time to talk with people and you know Resolving a conflict that it's mutually benefit for everyone You know and try to get people help, you know, I Know, you know Personally we I've been on a couple of these calls with Scott and You know, we actually sat down right outside Gifford on one of the good things benches we talked to a person for over half an hour and It really defuses situation just by taking that time and talking to people not just coming in there like Scott was saying, you know, like Guns drawn or tough guy or something like that, you know treat people like, you know, you'd want to be treated and I Think that really goes a long way So I hope that answers party of your question or all of it Yeah, that's really helpful When you're when you're responding to To to cause where there is a mental health aspect you have a pretty clear idea of what you're walking into when you get there or Or you don't really know The unfortunate part about having embedded that these here in the community is And so we would have that kind of knowledge If it's a group of flyer We deal with a lot of people a lot of So if they're in crisis, we know what's kind of going on how to approach that Somebody that hasn't reached our radar and you were always walking in that unknown We may have additional resources coming in and once we've just used this integration to be cancelled There's other resources. I mean more live questions back of whatever But any kind of crisis situation is always an unknown And so you walk in the door and see what you got I just want to also point out with that Right now, Vermont we're all on one record management system rms and with with that We may have someone who Unfortunately, it's dropped off and differed from another Location which happened a few times already that dropped off from Berlin or somewhere else at the hospital, but When we find out who they are, you know We're able to pull up their information Because we're all in that one system now, which is which is great so Sharing of information does help a lot great If we also have questions I have a couple more. I don't want to have the whole stage I just have a couple first. I'd like to know if there's anything the town could do that would help you In your role not only in the village, but also in the work that you do in the rest of the town and the second one is um, I understand there's some congratulations in order for our pereponiac on a national Role he's going to be playing so maybe he could tell us about that a little Um, I'll let me I'll start with this One of the things I'd like to do because we do have a good relationship with the town highway crew I'd like to get the frequencies in our in our in our cruisers Um, I think that'll be a big help from from us this way whether it's winter time or You know car going off the road or something else We can have that direct communications with with the highway and You know, thank you for that So on june 30th this year I get sworn in as the president of the national sheriff's association it's It's a one-year term. It's an honorary position. It's like It's like being a chair of a select board, but on a national level Um, I'm not moving anywhere back on nowhere. My my family my roots are here in Vermont right here in Randolph I'm very fortunate for my children. We all live in Randolph and uh, so Uh, yeah, it's just it's a one-year term and Uh, majority of this has been online uh, just twice a year that I have to go to a um Washington D.C. for a couple days and um, this year I'll be going to Kansas City for a few days. I'll be sworn in but uh it's here for a rural sheriff being honored on the national level and Just proud to be a vermoner How cool is that little orange county, Vermont has an actual fee? Very cool it is it's awesome. Yeah Like I said, I'm not going nowhere. I'll be I'll be here And uh, like all my roots are here, so I'm not going nowhere Yeah, this is sonny bill. I'm proud that you're a rotarian also Thank you sonny like I always said it's better to be a part of the community than part from it So thank you Great. Do we have any more questions or comments? I think Larry you said you had a couple more Yeah, um, I'm wondering where we're at with um the county So everybody here in the village happens by campus Uh, I saw we're actually working on a federal grant to supply the entire apartment with upgraded cameras Um, but everybody here in the village is wearing what How how long the records kept how is it all how is the data management hand? So there are all the cameras here are here at the substations. Um, we've got uh, several uh, or just a couple of uh, sort of like hard drives We even have uh past history from mental PE when they had their block cameras. We we retain those seven years. Oh, wow Um, and then we can start moving on So we'll have you know, the terrible high guys started in evidence years on Let's always sort of the body camera data How's it right now? And then my last last question is around, um What your policy is around um non safety related traffic stops What was that again like What do we have a policy around like non safety related traffic stops, you know, like somebody who has uh, You know, you know, like you know, like inspections that are overdue and things like that We have a policy around when you stop people for those sorts of violations versus Versus when you don't stop when we're you know, pick those things up with somebody who's already stopped things like that And just to be clear Infections are safety My little Uh, it's a it's part inspecting sticker. It's a violation of level 23 for inspired inspection You can't stop that kind of stuff We we we kind of backed off on traffic stops due to covid But we're kind of ramping up and I'm going back into the traffic stops just because it's When when we're out there making those kind of stops It's not just, you know, pre-technical stops just stopping people just because there has to be a valid reason why they're being stopped If it's a safety impact Effective equipment, which is a violation title 23 Um, it's they're not getting tickets. They're getting warrants Um, pay, you know, fix, fix your tail and fix your headlight Whatever that may be Try to get that squared away Um And we're going to stop policy Like I said from the beginning all traffic stops are documented. So whether it's a warning they They may not get a piece of paper, but it is being documented internally That's part of the race data collection that we must You know, we we must do so Um, it is being documented every stop And Scott, you said that during the pandemic you backed off on some of those kinds of stops, but now they're coming back again Um, when you back off, did you see any uptick in issues that you feel like you get that you're now that you were missing that now you're aggressive So we had a lot of complaints in regards to Uh, speed violations because we weren't making those stops We had a lot of violations of people not much from the vehicles, not inspecting their vehicles And we didn't do those stops on the safety of us trying not to get COVID Um, back in the beginning of the pandemic we we did zero We did zero traffic stops unless it was major major, uh, motor vehicle violation Or we thought that the offer may be a pair Um Out of the abundance of trying to keep our record With a kind of winging in this kind of pretext right now More often just not through vehicles and because of that I'm sure That's why we're increasing more on that traffic soft level future and definitely finally not to be around in every way that's been vaccinated That's Thank you like before we before we move on I just want to say that um In the Three plus years now Working in the village I'm taking over from our now defunct department I have the vast majority of the feedback I've gotten from the public has been overwhelmingly positive Just want to put that out there that um that it's By all accounts, it's it's been a positive change and thank you for that good work that You know gotten that kind of response Thank you for that comment and we uh, we do try we want to make sure you know, we're we're fair and uh You know, we're still enforcing the laws but making sure we're doing it in a fair practical way You know, we're all you and we all make mistakes You know and as far as the on the traffic tickets, you know, we do look at You know the the demeanor at the stop of the person the operator If they got previous violations and So we do take a lot in consideration, but you know, we try to work with people and uh That goes for everything we do down there and it's we want that throughout the county, so Thank you for that comment, and we truly appreciate it and we appreciate the support of all the select board members Thank you Great. Do you have any more questions or comments? Not seeing any Great. Well, thanks for your time Thank you. You're welcome to join us for the rest of our agenda All right, next up is the chamber of commerce request for a banner. Hi there. It's the Andrea. I'm here. Okay. Let's uh, hang on. Let trevor Give us a little bit Yeah Sorry, we were trying to fix because this is the internet connection. There's a little uh little one here tonight So we have some freezing Tied it out. We make sure we're all plugged in and everything. Um, but you have before you for this one is a request to put the banner across Main street Advertising the fourth of july events. Uh, I understand this is the same location or similar location as prior years Andrea is here on behalf of the chamber of commerce which answers the questions related to that The sign ordinance requires the select board to bless any requests for banners and a few other Or technical requirements with it such as certificates of assurance plans for installation and removal I'm sort of clarifying that once that banners up That's the responsibility of the banner owner of the town To put it up to maintain it to take it back down. So We had a we've had some issues there with the anchors and the buildings Um And whatnot so I would assume at that point the town said we were not responsible For the anchors or anything to do with those So does that does the new application that they submit make whoever's hanging the banner responsible for how they get it up there and Any damage that might happen to the buildings it's connected to We've got a recommended motion before you that would include provide a plan for installation maintenance and removal And then the commercial general liability insurance requirement along with it And so that could be part of the other approval that there is that when it's planning awareness In addition to whatever's already in the sign ordinance And how does the Andrea can tell us how the sign is how they plan to get the banner up there In the past the Randolph center fire department has assisted in raising it So we're going to address them again after this meeting if we get the approval to hang it From my understanding from our conversation at our meeting a couple weeks ago um the anchor on the red lion in has been replaced in accordance to a building code Julie if linda are you on this meeting? I don't know so part of the issue andry is the town didn't want any liability for anything to do with the banners Being hung up there. So right the fire department was not an option hanging these bans Okay, um, we didn't want the liability of the town being the one that put it up So I'll have to refer back to linda on that. Um Because that's what she spoke about when we met So if we do that we we have a insurance policy for the day of the event on the 4th of july You need to have one that covers the any damage that might happen from the banner That's what we have to check out if we are able to extend that policy to that banner To include the time that it would hang there So you're saying that we cannot ask Services of the fire department because they're part of the town of randolph. Is that correct? correct Okay, well, um I I can't do any I can't give you more information than that at the moment and I have to go Answer those questions before we can make any confirmation on hanging a banner Is that do you agree? um I think before you can answer the questions But we need to take action on this tonight if you're going to be able to hang the banner because we till after the 4th That's right. I think that maybe we need to Look at whether we approve this as long as You guys can provide proof of insurance that covers the banner and the event and Have a way to We have the event coverage certificate already. I can get that to you. I think trevor Did you get that trevor from linda already? Uh, I haven't seen it yet. We made a request this afternoon a follow-up request for it. So I All right He's taking care of a friend who had eye surgery today So, um I will talk to her tomorrow about that But yeah, I know that the certificate is valid and ready because we spoke of it the other day So I get back to you by monday Well, you gotta wait to see if the board puts a motion through first Treaty I'd like to this is time here. So I'd like to make a motion that we approve the banner contingent upon receipt of a certificate of insurance From the chamber that the any any damage that Results from the banner is included in the coverage for the 4th of july event Okay, do you want to just the town care how they get it up there? I don't think we do Right No, I mean so long as it's it's not a town entity that's putting it up there, right? I don't we need that in the motion No, I don't think so Yeah, are there any suggestions on how we might get it up there if the town Hang on a minute. Andrea. We've got a motion on the board. Do we have a second on it? Before we bring it up for discussion I'll second it Um, okay all those in favor Bye. Bye Oh Motion carries anybody have any recommendations Sure Few electricians with bucket drops and Oh, that would be awesome if someone has a good suggestion. Um, I'm all yours Well, check with how many electric because they were the ones that helped like put the lights on the Christmas tree So they've got a toable left that maybe they don't Okay, thank you great Next up is a conversation with sarah of battle communities on the whitewater valley working communities Hey, that's me. Yeah sarah's here with us in the room and she's in the front row and ready to go I think Thanks for having me everyone and I apologize for my cough. My seasonal arteries are really terrible to speak. Um That's a brochure about the whitewater life and social work communities challenge And a lot of you are probably familiar with it already since Randolph has been the driving factor So I'll just do the really short recap summary of it And then I'm happy to answer any and all questions you have about the project so the short summary is that um The working communities challenge is a grant and technical assistance program that's coordinated by the federal reserve bank of boston And it's meant for communities in vermont. They've run this in a couple of other states too and the vermont version is for communities of vermont to Um, collaboratively work on any economic opportunity community development issues that they identify together So the other piece of this grant program is that Municipalities with less than five thousand residents were encouraged were actually required to band together to form a larger regional entity So back in 2019 it was actually the town of Randolph that really spurred the creation of the white river valley consortium in order to take advantage of this opportunity So josh Jerome and then um in partnership with rebecca sandborn stone who's a community organizer in bethle Reached out to surrounding towns in the white river valley and invited Town neighboring towns to join in this consortium in order to participate in this grant opportunity Um, it's also a two phase grant program. The first phase was a planning phase So the town of Randolph actually served as the fiscal agent for the uh planning award And josh was leading that project during the planning phase. So that was from 2019 through the end of last year roughly COVID And then at the end of last year the consortium so over the course of the planning phase the consortium was like Engaged in deep discussions on what issues should we even work on in this really open And after a lot of conversation ended up selecting um Increasing the amount of housing that's affordable for entry-level workforce and beginning entrepreneurs as we all know There's a huge housing crisis. There's a lot of different issues. We could have worked on there's a lot of different A lot of different challenges that were identified But the group really felt that housing was a one of the most pressing and b one of the ones where The foundation was actually in place where we actually could do something about it rather than some opportunities that were Some challenges that were too big to either like We could tackle in this three-year grant program Have to talk more about why that topic came up But the short version is that last fall we submitted an application as a consortium To the implementation phase of the working community challenge program and we were awarded this implementation grant So I mentioned the town of Randolph had been the fiscal sponsor during the planning phase But for the implementation phase vital communities is actually the fiscal sponsor However, the town of Randolph has stayed a core team member and josh was a member of the steering committee up until the day of his departure So the grant funding includes uh Of supporting variety of different bits and pieces of staffing including a full-time coordinator for the consortium for this work And that's me So I am actually a community member that live in royalty and I have been a part of the consortium during the planning phase And in january, I was hired to be the coordinator for this work. So we've spent the last few months really getting our ducks in a row logistically and Now we're at this point where we're ready to start working directly with the communities again, including with all of the selected boards So there's really like three different buckets in which we're planning to work with the town of Randolph We're working with community members as volunteer them to the collective from your residents I've also talked with trevor about Stepping into josh's role on the steering committee And then the third bucket is that we really are trying to connect with the select boards of all 14 of the towns that we're serving as well Which is why i'm happy to talk with you tonight And then that's really the there's a lot of things we would like to work on With the select boards, but that first step that really specific request tonight Is about this june 30th workshop, which is really the first opportunity to bring the select boards together Hear from the federal reserve bank staff about this program of what working communities challenge really is and then start talking with each other and figure out where Where to go from there So it's like the really quick Speed through a summary of that and i'm yeah, i'm here to really answer any questions you have and and You know start the conversation about how you all would like to work with us As a select board and also trevor i guess in term and i aren't doing a conversation about Having brand-off representation on that steering committee I have question um, I read the we um The sort of introductory documentation that's like this meeting and It all sounds good. It makes sense, but it's all kind of abstract. Yeah, and so I left it. I left thinking like Where does this really go? How does it get implemented? What what are the kinds of things? That we not necessarily Expect to see but like could possibly see like as products like just that kind of like Even if it's like something which never happens just as an example of what the possibilities Are in terms of where we could end up when we're done with this process. Yeah, absolutely. That's a very valid question and um Yeah, so it's a so the implementation phase is a three-year award and it's an extremely flexible grant programs They really understand that it takes a while to build the relationships and really scope out what exactly to work on Which is why I don't have a concrete answer for you yet about what we're working on um Where we're at currently as a consortium is that we've just launched really two separate tracks of information gathering One of them is looking at what are some of the concrete housing solutions out there that other people are doing And we're teaching ourselves about them essentially so that we can understand whether they would even be applicable here The other track is community outreach to really do really deep and robust engagement with members of the White River Valley To figure out what are the real I mean the challenge is here, but also what are the opportunities and what would we actually want to see Not just what the challenges are in terms of number of units. We know that already so those two information gathering tracks will run concurrently for A few months to the remainder of the year and then dovetail it at which point will make Collectively make a decision about what projects to actually work on So that's the process for getting there, but in terms of your question about what types of things are we even talking about I can say that that Project exploration track that first track has started trying to understand more about solutions like Support programs from supporting accessory dwelling units. That's a really promising solution But it can be really hard for individual homeowners to do alone There's some really interesting models in brumont and around the country of Municipalities nonprofits that are supporting homeowners in doing in doing that in building accessory apartments We're looking at Solutions around like if there's four properties in a downtown area, that's really important to the town Are there creative public private partnerships that could be used actually turn those sites into housing? We're looking at new new forms of ownership models such as co-ops We're looking at tools that might not necessarily build more units, but Make it more equitable who can access existing units. For example A model called a preferred renter certificate program It's actually there's an instance of this in the shuffling champagne valley here in brumont It's a training program for first-time renters or renters who are Coming out of incarceration for example And it's a training program for the renters But at the end they also receive a preferred renter certificate And there's landlords in the area who agree to give priority to those tenants Which can add a lot of security for the landlords who want to help their community and are just nervous about managing unknown tenants while also helping people Get a leg into the market. I mean thinking of our specific focus area being on housing for entry level workforce if you have An 18 or a 22 year old who has no tenant history. How can we help them actually be competitive in Competing for our short supply of apartments some models like that as well as once they increase the number of units Um, there's a lot more. I've got a running list of 30 plus solutions that people have suggested to us But those are just some of the highlights that Across the spectrum. No, thanks. That's really helpful And I will also say um r.i.c.d.c. Julie Evelyn is an active member of the steering committee as well So we're definitely drawing on her expertise from her work. So Any other questions? See any questions. I think what you're looking for is a board member to volunteer So if none of the ones present want to volunteer the one that's not present could be volunteered So that june 30th workshop will be um I don't think I had this information come down yet my set that email But it'll be it'll be located at the Bethel town offices. So not that far away and it will be An hour agenda with an optional half hour beforehand Requestions and networking so trying to keep it reasonable for the folks who are asking to attend I'm a day is it Um, we haven't it's in the evening. So we haven't pinned down the exact start time yet But that hour and a half will fall somewhere between 6 and 8 30 And that's in thursday Yeah, I think that so we definitely want an ongoing relationship with the select board But the person who attends that june 30th workshop doesn't have to be the ongoing point person for this work I mean, especially if forever gets involved, yeah We really just want to be an opportunity for to make sure the select boards get the chance to hear directly from the working community's challenge staff And also to meet each other just to have touch points with as we try to work collaboratively on this issue Yeah, nobody else is chomping at the bed. I'd be going to attend that meeting There you go Thank you Yes, yeah, we should have that thing done within the next day All right, any other questions before we move to the next item All set great Thanks, Sarah Thanks, sir Next up. We have an appointment to the water wastewater committee Yes Water wastewater committee right now has Or So I'm updating my calendar here Right now we have four members on our committee And one of our members is um spends part of a year outside of the country And so sometimes leaves us with three members Which is really not adequate for Our community so I have found a potential new member is um steven right He is a neighbor of mine He is a recently retired um geologist from University of vermont. I think taught that for many years and um He's an engaged community member. He's the person who's been running our green up day for several years now and um It seems like having a geologist on uh Our committee couldn't couldn't be a bad thing and um, he's uh super smart easy to work with Upstanding fine human being and uh, I'd love to see him be appointed to uh to join us in the future Any questions from anyone if not any motions? I'll make a motion to uh nominate steen right to the wastewater water wastewater committee I'll second We're motion and a second all those in favor. Hi Hi Hi post Motion carries Next up we have authorization of the tax anticipation note This is just the rfp Yeah, just provision to essentially publish the rfp. There are some dates we got to to block out Just in terms of when it goes out comes back We're slightly ahead of last year's schedule, but not a ton and The amount envisions since early in the budgeting process with fiscal 23 is 1.5 million What's the number you see reflected in the budget? You do publish this For the policy and where we can but we do have a bank contact checklist all the normal players. There's So there's at least seven of them on there and we've sent it directly to them as well And that helps us for the kind of a quick turnaround time So it's just blanking out the dates once they get the approval and we just got to figure out How to finish the the cash flow exercise with fiscal 23 with all the comings and goings and transitions so We've got a few different ways to get it that it's not exceedingly good So they want to put a motion out to issue the rfp or I can do that Motion to approve the rfp for the tax anticipation now, I'll second I have a motion and a second all those in favor I posed Stained motion carries next up is the rfp for paving projects Yep, same idea. This would be amount being excessive the thresholds and the policy we're seeking permission to publish the rfp Or a little bit out of last year. Remember last year actually went out sort of two separate rounds And we're successful on the second round because there's We used the Enhanced list of contacts again to publish it but again probably another eight to ten direct contacts We have Experience from a condition maintenance standpoint We're at Some kind of treatment What area So the list you have in front of you in the table Flex that exercise In the capital improvement print plan. We have thought that we might do a larger kind of reclamation new page project on the stepper row, but as they looked at it A little more there were two sections in particular that they've got Each and a half you know shim so you level everything out and each and a half overlay some of the help we get on western school might be a good treatment option for you there is More this year. I'm gonna use the life of five years depends on traffic These are that stuff for shim and overlay Good entry point to that The two areas on these stepper rows that's still in the mix The shorter one is up in that section And along the front of the DTC campus right there for that kind of first soon that the intersection On the school house when the second piece of the longer piece If you think you go all the way down to the crocker road end where that kind of weird intersection triangle pieces to work back from there to sort of the next page in the scheme I looked it up on our Richardson farm on a white farm kind of up through headed toward DTC kind of up over on the hill So it would be that section there and those people too that they thought would benefit the most from that some of the other areas we've You know, you've got redded in or broken up pavement And so with some of the spot treatment on main street, for example, we've had a really difficult time we did the icing Ice control pressures spend a little sweep some of those wheel ruts So you have to go through a couple of times. That's why you still see residual stuff It's kind of a blow it out pick it up blow it out pick it up exercise That that happens there And so all of these other pieces have that kind of component to it maple street Which we talked about way back that the scoping study is on here recognizing that we're probably We've been saying three to five years out the complete project. I think five is Might be the more risk realistic kind of thing getting anticipated costs So given the condition there even though we've done some spot treatments That would really benefit from something a little more durable and more comprehensive So it's about 19 will less than 19,500 linear feet We were thinking originally about 335 for the East Bethel piece using last year's tonnage big reasons and rough pavement calculator applications that are out there this this could be more than that in 375 Maybe baseline based on last year prices again, you know, it's where they'll end up We do have pretty healthy reserve balance and the paving reserve coming out of last year We certainly could do that without just that thing To a certain Said it's it I'm close to emptying that reserve out That makes future use of the more complicated plus. There's another hundred thousand dollars ship that's going That's a transfer that I was through after July one So So this would be the list how the students see that come back So So working For the next cycle This would just be opposition to have us put these up to this and the kids go out and also include It's for the need for the issue of shoulders and long term Attempting water with water and storm water ride So there are a couple of other things We may put in Grouping soft bars or anything to struggle at that. Well, we need to do those ourselves So Such as a speed home for a It's There would be a cost and I think there might be that larger conversation about the effect and especially with speed, huh? How is how effective is it versus What does it create from a pavement management? Other safety factors, you know, they struggle with the ones on school streets. There's a little bit of a push pull and they may help control speed but I've really complicated some of these challenges there Yeah And so I think when we think longer term about speed controlling about some of these projects, it might be adding other traffic on the moment Such as save on power to mirror like those types of things on once you get off kind of Ends those sort of side or other accessories And um on Salisbury street, um, I remember right Of length of that street. It's privately known um Irritating that section of how do we Like what's our relationship with maintenance and the kind of nature of that structure world? Yeah, I I have to admit that I I don't know the details of that we put that in there as it's one of the sections that is heavily used We included in the table we can get it wrong and sort that out or have that conversation on is it worth it With that part of that That's the No, it's a good question. Yeah, for which john and I just Have enough historical knowledge to be able to say I Have a proposed list of paving locations and a request to put them out to bid And then evaluate what comes back any other comments on it Not any motions from the board. I'd like to move that we uh, okay the rfp for the proposed list, uh, and uh Ask for a second There's a motion in the second all those in favor Hi Motion carries Next up we have the Ratifying the boat to purchase the fire trucks So this is the follow-up to this conversation started at germany being with A blessing for Price different options in the in between they were able to find one for a new armored tanker truck The cost of that truck is a little more so less than $350,000 for all of the pieces that's going to be through this or see See where it's here. We're over there primarily Folks to deal with So for this new truck in chassis, we do have enough in that fire equipment reserve We are $543 and 19 cents to the good if you spend every everything else on this truck so Another hundred and ten thousand dollars going over in fiscal point three Transfer Yeah, so there is again that same replenishment mechanism While right behind plus this truck would be a fiscal point three purchase that actually happened after july 1 and then delivery is still I think if I remember remembering all the conversation correctly There's some hope that it's delivered in 23 But it could be stated early on four and part of the reason for the cycle is that Probably wanted to do this sooner than later, so it's even further out than that If actually You've seen this with all kinds of pieces of equipment from the gun trucks to everything else They didn't touch on if that's Scott and bill are seeing this with cruisers to beat in the 20 months out So there is kind of a time component to having done this now and you Have offered your provisional authorization for this And So just to clarify The body is already At the shop. They're waiting just for the chassis to arrive and that's anticipated to be there early fall If it arrives on time, we will have the truck by january or february If we ordered from spec, we're now out the 20 to 24 months So entertain a motion Sure. I'll move to ratify the purchase of the fire truck second Motion and a second all those in favor Hi Hi those Motion carries And right on time Thanks to mr. Brady in the audience He is our next agenda item Nice to see you Trevor Nice to see you training. Thanks for having me today And I'm here by Kelly how tech Kelly you want to come forward and hang out with me up here? I'm going to get your title wrong, but I believe you are the director of other writing not quite yet Senior underwriter and marketing but I'm Ted Brady. I'm the executive director of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns I think the owl is picking me up and you can see me, right? On and I'm here really for one simple reason Which is to thank The town of Randolph for being a member of the league, but also I guess I'm here for two reasons But also kind of a call to action to try to make sure that Randolph knows What the league needs from you folks right now to make sure that we're successful as a team And so I wanted to quickly go through a couple of things about what the league's up to And then talk a little about passive and what passive is up to And then hopefully just take some questions and answers and hopefully this is 15 minutes of your time not more than that So hold me to it. I do have A presentation which I'll leave a few copies of Trevor I and share electronically in case you want to share with the board But just to remind everybody what the league is We are your member owned association all 246 cities and towns soon to be 247. Thanks city of s junctions Some intimate knowledge in this room with that fun All 246 cities and towns Our members currently it's been that way for about 40 years Which is pretty exciting in addition to that we have another 142 other municipal members like your cud Your communications union district in this region your solid waste management district your county all those wonderful things We we're here. We're here to it. We exist to serve and strengthen you So if that's not how you perceive us, I need to know that because that is the sole reason we exist We do that through five key areas we provide support And the biggest way we do that is through the municipal assistance center And the municipal inquiry service if you're curious, this is where we get about 4,000 Member inquiries a year from select board members planning commission members managers administrators We're getting about 10 a year from randoff So about 10 emails and phone calls picking up and saying hey, how do you how do I do this? What's going on? How do you run the deal of this open meeting while I issue things like that? We provide knowledge and we do that through trainings A lot of virtual trainings lately But as I think many of you probably know What back in March we did an open meeting a lot training with you folks For your account officials. And so we do that's the second thing knowledge Uh, we represent you. I'll talk about that in a few moments in the state house and down in dc Uh, as kelly will talk we provide you insurance and then finally We're really about connection. I just came from the downtown conference in st. Johnsbury Right, you know, they were about I don't know five or six dozen municipal officials Uh getting together to talk about Their downtowns, which I know you folks are proud of yours We just finished a strategic planning process Which a few you a few of you were involved in we did a member survey We did some outreach to our staff. We did some listening sessions And we came up with these four key things where we're going in the future And I want to just review them for you real quickly We're focused on growing a member focused organization sustainable and relevant member focused organization What does that mean? It means asking less from you and dues and Trying to find other creative revenue sources so that we can continue to serve you We're here to strengthen the capacity of the government. It's getting more complex We need to provide more offerings a big area, which I'll talk about in a moment it HR and the things are not what they were 20 or 30 years ago We need to develop an attractive outstanding talent pool and workforce for you So this is an area that you cannot no municipality can do this alone People don't think about coming into municipal government necessarily when you come out of high school and Randolph, right? And we want to change that we want people to think not just about how cool it would be to be a firefighter or a police officer, but it's a pretty incredible opportunity to be in finance and a municipality to be in public works These are good paying jobs with a secure retirement unlike some of the other retirement systems around the country And we need to develop that pipeline and then the fourth area that we're really trying to help you with which is new Is championing inclusive and resilient communities? This is an area the league has not worked in before but we're really trying to move there So a couple of quick facts as to what you're paying for Last year I mentioned you get about 4,000 municipal inquiries. The number just keeps going up and up Our friends in the insurance the pool. Sorry the risk pool that Kelly represents returned 3.1 million dollars in member equity Which means your your cost of your insurance Was not your personally, but to the entire portfolio was 3.1 million dollars less That would have been otherwise because of member equity being returned to you instead of profit going to the insurance company That's double The largest return to our members. We've ever done 3.1 million dollars uh ours We created a new program the arpa program the american rescue plan acts assistance and coordination program people from randoff have talked to katie buckley are The director of the program she managed 2000 queries in the last year just about the american rescue plan all right, we're getting more than a quarter million views at the webpage at vlct.org a lot of that has been Covid related in the last year So I hope you managed to use that and then I think the thing I'm most proud of recently is That arpa money you did receive was not a sure thing you know That money about two thirds of it was supposed to go to the counties and the treasury department made a decision that Vermont had county government And we had to advocate on our behalf to explain the reality with our congressional delegation governor that 200 million dollars shouldn't be going to the counties It should be going to our municipalities A couple of highlights of things we're working on right now that I wanted you to know about One is it services So we did a member survey About a year ago and asked our members what they're struggling with and I hope some of you responded to that survey And we found kind of three key things number one it number two cyber security number three information technology so This seems to be the biggest pressing issue for our municipalities right now dealing with it and we acknowledge it We're working on it. We just finished up a project for chance lane college I do an assessment of our membership and find out what they needed and as a result The league published an it services options catalog on our website just about a month ago an it services rfq template And a sample rfq so if town of randolph decides it wants to go out for a bid for advantage IP services We now have a model model rfp for you You all know that that's something we do really well. We create model policies and model rfp is really well That's just the beginning. There's more and my call to action will focus on that in just about two minutes. I promise Another area we've been spending a lot of time on is diversity equity inclusion When I got here, we had just formed a committee an equity committee It's made up of about two dozen local officials and we're trying to help towns that you know the battle through a really difficult conversation And so you should check out our website at vlct.org backslash dei We have we're about to publish a toolkit about two weeks That can help towns, you know, how do you form an equity committee? What are definitions? What's some reading material? What's a model declaration of inclusion randolph? Did you guys about have you guys adopted a doi or did a localized version? excellent So you guys are ahead of the game You know you're amongst the top what 75 or so that it does We're also about to launch a welcoming communities cohort So if randolph's interested in applying for this We're hiring a consultant to do some cohorting of other communities that are Trying to work and just making sure their communities are welcoming for us and select board members and managers to participate And we've also partnered with the Vermont community foundation and the state of Vermont to create a grant program people can apply for up to $10,000 to Do equity work in their town so pay attention to that I I promise you I only have two slides left in my presentation I want to get to representation really quick. We had some enormous successes in the state house this year I think a lot of people did the legislature generally Performed well it turns out when there's not a scarcity of money People can get along really well And so in that eight point some odd billion dollar budget 25 bigger than a typical state budget typical year There are a couple of things I want you to know one is h518 Which now has an act number that I do not know because it's been cited in the law, I believe It's the municipal energy resilience grant program this is a 45 46 million dollar pot of money to help communities across the state view energy assessments of municipal buildings and then implement energy retrofits fuel switching Electri vehicle electric vehicle stations put on a long list of things grants of up to a half million dollars per community to do the implementation $5 million to do energy audits not per community, but You'll be able to apply through bgs We think towards the end of the summer For energy audit money and then sometime in the winter we expect That a 36 million dollar pool of money for implementation to be available and the original planning commissions got two million dollars to Help you apply for that funding The number one criteria by which you will be competing is your energy burden And I can tell you that randoff is not in the work shape, but it's not in the best shape either. So you're of the 200 and 70 some odd Municipal entities that are explored. I think randoff's right about 100 So you have a chance of accessing some of that 40 some odd million dollars and I encourage you to do so The other exciting thing this year that municipalities need to know about and all of this is in addition to the You know 100 million dollars in the water and wastewater money 50 million dollars in new housing money There there's a lot of economic development money out. There's just specific municipalities There's a 40 million dollar community recovery and revitalization grant program Uh, the municipalities can apply for economic development. So I just want to flag that one for you ACcd will be running that and I think that'll be coming out in the next probably three months We had big success on a new municipal authority bill s 181 uh, and this municipal authority bill is This is a step, you know, we we thought we fought in that legislature for I don't know 60 years about local control And we finally said this makes no sense. Let's find a happy place. And so the idea is we've gone to the legislature We're going to do it every year and say here's a bunch of stuff that we'd like you to give towns the authority to do using ordinance authority And instead of fighting further, you know, right to do it period We're just trying to get you some ordinance 30 for things like eliminating offices like constable for things like Deciding that you don't want your you want to allow non residents to serve on boards Things that otherwise you'd have to go and either get a charter change or get back to the legislature period So we had some good luck there. We moved that Then there's the stuff that we um, well, I should also point out that we expanded the think vermont recruitment incentive to include municipal employees including law enforcement And we created a federal assistance program with a little funding so that we're going to help you navigate with rpcs The infrastructure bill and then there's a list of things that we successfully May not happen and perhaps the biggest one there is preserving qualified immunity for law enforcement officers Which is not wrapped up, but it's certainly out of its way The end of session report, which some people really love is going to be published tomorrow So watch your email boxes Because that should show up sometime midday tomorrow and that will be a weekend read of all this wonderful stuff So my final thing is a call to action And that call to action number one is if you are not getting vlct emails We send three specific types of emails. The vlct news it comes out bi-weekly I we sent a monthly journal Uh, and then we send the legislative advocacy updates Those are the three primary things we do if you do not get those I hope you will sign up at mailings at vlct.org. I'm sorry that I don't have the Screen share for you right now, but I I'm going to leave copies of this and I'll send an electronic copy mailings at vlct.org Vlct.org will get you access to all of our Things we are no longer sending You know a hard copy magazine So it's really important that you're watching your inbox if that's not working for you. I really need to know that I also have a few other calls to action one the loss control program that kelly's team runs This is a $10,000 grant program. Have you guys taken advantage of it this year yet, trevor? So this year There's no match recording So if you have a loss control thing if you're going to do a cyber assessment if you've got you know some issue that One of our loss control experts has pointed out where you think you have a loss control issue something to make your town safer This is the opportunity to get a grant with no match We also have a full Reimbursement for cyber security training and phishing penetration testing. Have you guys use that yet? So we have it through a partnership with no before It's a cyber assessment a cyber training. Sorry and then phishing penetration testing We will fully reimburse the town for subscribing to that try to help eliminate some of your cyber risks We need your help signing up for summer legislative committees this year Now we have dozens of appointments. We have several permanent appointments as well like the opioid settlement committee We have seven appointments to make local officials. So if you're interested in serving on a committee Look at that wrap up report because we're going to have the specific opportunities available And then my final thing is We'd love you to follow us on facebook Because as I said We're trying to go less print and more digital right now. That's the primary social media functions. The lcp is using It's facebook. It kind of shows you why I have gray hair. So I guess i'm not on instagram and tiktok yet, but Really ask you to do to hop on board Before I turn it back over to you. I hope that was only about seven or eight minutes I'm a little over Kelly is there anything you'd like to add about the passive side? So passive is obviously our insurance side I know we have a rich history with you folks with certain buildings that rhyme with ryer station So I know you a lot of you know about it but Kelly is there anything you'd like to add You touched on a couple of things I had definitely want to make sure I look back I wouldn't see any use of the grant program right now. So we definitely want to make sure this year is so much better As Ted said it before was a 50% match to 5,000 this year. We did up to 10,000 but 100% match Um, and if there's anything you're not sure about that may or may not be eligible Just get in touch with us first just ask rather than going to paperwork. We want to make sure Everything's efficient. Um, yeah, it's really meant florist management types of things Some kind of putting in on security cameras Things like that sprinkler systems even So $10,000 can go a long ways to help out with things like that So definitely we'd love to see members do that sooner than later. If you have anything because those funds are going to The number four is what Ted mentioned as well the fishing gear service That we really want members to start taking advantage of that. We've only had a select shoe I think we've had up to 12 so far who would capitalize. We have a lot more funds remaining And we use it ourselves at BLCT. We get a monthly email 5 to 10 minutes Fizz at the end. It's it's really simple and kind of fun pictures easy But it focuses on the employee level, which is where we found most of the Cyber attacks have happened. People just are busy through their day and hackers are getting better smarter. They know how to mimic I get emails from Ted Saying he needs me right away. He has an important mission for me. There you go So those kinds of things just teaching people to be really aware of some things the origin seems out character Constant reminder and it's helping us as well at the LCT to be more knowledgeable But yeah, again 100% reimbursement. We do need to make sure I have something I can send you if you want Um, you have to sign up for the correct one because we negotiated all of our rate for this the diamond level service To get the full reimbursement you better go We don't want anybody to be mixed on that Overall looks like Randolph was trending really good. I look back at the notes Your contribution wise it's coming down and as Ted said we were excited that this last year coming into 2022 We have that additional return So you guys got back about 31,000 dollars in credits For your contribution. So that's great. We love when we can do those kinds of things remembers Give it back however possible, especially if you're performing well things are going good for you But I'm on the road to like Ted. I'm checking to see what members need what what's going on for you guys What are the things that we do on our side as well? We're trying to offer too many services You know that you're calling in or emailing in and sending contracts for review If you have just general insurance questions We're here to try and do as best as possible dig in do some research We've got Jill on our HR side. She's she's always there for General HR talks in for trainings again now. She's back in the trainings And our law specialist has her back on the road too and they're starting to get into our trainings as well So anything we can help or if you think of other ideas That's a member's want to see some Things that they saw in the past or they'd love to see in the future We want to hear from you guys what your needs are so we can brainstorm on how that's to help you out So are there any questions any you want me to touch on anything you wish I hadn't said? I have just a couple of items Ted um Do you guys ever follow rulemaking? I know you follow the legislature and you do a good job communicating on that But what about rulemaking? Yeah, I do think that Karen so Karen horn or 36 year director of advocacy And gwin zakoff Absolutely do follow some rulemaking issues when it clearly is very pertinent to a municipal High priority item. We don't follow them all So if there's something that you folks think we should be following and weighing it on And showing up, please let us know. Is there anything Trini in particular? um I just learned today that anr is going through rulemaking to change a lot of their wetland mapping And that'll have a huge impact on the communities around there, especially if you've got a project going on or or even some of the property values If they suddenly become in a wetland that they weren't in wetland and whatnot, I just It just kind of the fact that you were on the agenda and that was happening I was just curious if you guys follow Some of that stuff because menace pallies wouldn't necessarily know about it unless you have a reason to have it brought to your attention and That can have a huge impact I do believe that Karen follows. Is it iCar? Is that the committee that makes those rules and passes those rules in the end? It is yep So I I know Karen follows that but I'll specifically flag that one and that to circle back to make sure that I'm not overstating how closely we're following that stuff And and the other one is we We started down a path researching this with some staff at the league and some staff at financial regulation I don't know probably three years ago so pre-ted And it's the issue that municipalities run into with their fire departments And we have a lot of people who are volunteers That are in jobs that they don't have workers comp coverage on So local farmer, he's the one in town all the time first one to get to the scene Doesn't take out workers comp on himself gets injured at the fire There's really no coverage for him because his 200 or 400 a year he gets from the town Is all that counts towards his worker comp coverage? and so we started Having a conversation about how do you get some type of coverage on these folks and It would be interesting to know how many of them are out there statewide And how you do get something that helps them, you know, they As your first responders, those are the ones you want at the scene, right? They're the ones still working in town in most cases um And in a lot of cases they don't they believe they are covered Oh, the town's got workers comp on me What they don't understand is something happens It's only on what the town pays or whatever somebody pays in for An insurance premium on them So I think it's a bigger issue than just Randolph, but I know we've got Two of our stations more than half of them Don't have a workers comp policy on their normal paying jobs Yeah, uh, Trini, who are you working with on that? Do you remember? Oh, um, Mike Perchlich was working with me from financial regulations And I don't know I can go back and find the name And get it to you, but it's a it's a topic that I think somewhere In the state we got to take up I don't know what the answer is. Is there an aflac type policy That you could take out on these folks to help them have something is it And we started looking at that from the perspective of What would it look like if randolph just took one out to cover their firemen versus any type of Subsidy year compensation that they get from us. It's not really compensation because it's It's pennies on the hour, but You know just you know, what does that look like and that's a it's a tough one Yeah, I do recall seeing some notes on that and I think I think jillier was involved originally on the HR side There was some questions came through and she deferred over to fred and our department as well These are every director I think some of the hitch actually was some of these sole proprietors who had already Waved their workers comp Because they run their own business Uh, I think when df r got involved was because they had They had actually contractually waived that We have a number of folks who are volunteer firefighters, but we do have And randolph does as well you have the workers comp through the assigned risk program So you do have that workers comp coverage But I think there might be a select few individuals where that's hanging up And I'll need to dig into that a little deeper with fred to find out Where where the problem lies because if the department weighed in and they They said that We couldn't afford that workers comp coverage then unfortunately when you start to run to a sticking point But like you said, they they're providing a service for the town And a very high exposure service at that there certainly needs to be some kind of coverage But let me dig into the details and figure out where they got with that because there was only some terrible notes that I found So I assume there's probably a little bit more to this story and then want to know all the details first before we commented We'll keep digging into it and I'll ask fred tomorrow Yeah, the big challenge we had was in how workers comp is calculated And it's calculated based on wages for which somebody pays worker comp premiums on them So we'd gotten to the point where we decided it couldn't be a workers comp policy It would need to be some other type of coverage that would give some benefit In the event something happened. So it kind of went more on to an accident or Or short term disability or some type of other Plan That wasn't labeled workers comp I think that's kind of that's where we got to and it kind of stalled Yeah, I'll look into that tomorrow and find out for sure because like I said, I could tell by a high level note There was more to it. Um, but yeah, I hate to comment incorrectly Not knowing all the details, but we'll certainly dig in deeper I'll let you know what I find out Great. Thank you Thanks for two good questions tree That's my only few So it's wide open anybody else have any I do Sorry, I think this is for you Ted. Um When um when you weigh in on um legislation some of it's You know from like unbelievably mundane to like truly profound stuff and then we're gonna kind of process you go through to get to the place where you actually issue like Where for this we're against this here's why How does how does that work? It seems like some someone that's like Really big deal stuff and it could be like like some potentially pretty contentious issues in there Yes, and oftentimes completely unexpected That's the hardest part. So the most important thing is that the league is a non-partisan political organization And so we don't take any partisan Physicians we take positions based on what our members tell us to And so every two years and we're actually in that process right now We conduct summer study committees summer Policy committees and we just finished an open call to members to volunteer for those policy committees We have five different policy committees. I will try my best. We have a finance and regulation policy committee we have quality of life and housing policy committee and environment policy committee public safety policy committee and I believe a transportation policy committee And members and those five things review last the previous year's policy They're they're broad policy positions and say, you know, we support more funding for the bridge local bridge program We support You know eliminating active 50 jurisdiction in downtown And some even higher policy positions, which are you know, we support local authority in all opportunities that there are and then we use that as our north star and so Throughout this summer, we will hold these policy committees again And if anybody's interested in being in a policy committee, it's not too late We simply have closed the application period because we didn't think anybody else wanted to join But if you're interested, please do We then spend the summer building these policies and we bring that policy to the full membership to be voted on That policy is voted on a town fair, which this year is october 6 and 7 pink foliage in killington And we bring that whole policy to the membership where it can be amended from the floor. It has Been amended regularly on the floor, which is a complicated game of elections and parliamentary procedure And then once the entire Group has said yes, this is what we want. You get a positive vote on it We use that as our north star and we try our hardest To base every decision we make in the state house when something comes forward on what that policy document says In the event that something comes up that we had not thought of or that we are confused We being staff as to whether or not we should take a position one way or the other we bring it toward a board And so like you The vlct board really operates like a municipality. I am a very powerless executive director My board holds that power and so the board I will make a decision to say yes You shouldn't support this or no, you shouldn't support this based on either what's in the policy municipal policy or based on their beliefs that This is what the membership will want So the answer in the question did I go too long? No, that's great. Thank you I do mean if you're interested in joining one of those committees, we'd love to have you I'm on the other side As as the one of the local representatives. Yes Any more questions or comments Hearing none. Thanks for coming down guys Thanks Trini. I'm going to leave copies of the presentation that was the outline for what I spoke about our 2022 member guide And the passive annual report here with trevor So, uh, you can recycle those after I leave. Just don't tell me you did it. So I feel okay Thanks for the opportunity everybody All right next up we have the mrgp grant and aid Authorization for the for us to submit a letter of intent to participate. There's a Sort of a preset amount that's already designated for us In less than 42,000 dollars. They're 80 20 grants. They're pretty easy to obtain and administer and we use them for projects that you could broadly describe as water quality improvements So we have to use them on some of the gravel roads in the more rural areas for doing wine this summer on power hill We base the candidates on our road erosion inventory and if you've ever seen that map there's yellow green Some red and we try to focus on the areas where there are the red segments that looks at what they call the hydrology to connect the roads any of the roads for the storm water to make it into Some other directly go by next to body water or indirectly find its way in there And so we use these improvements like stitching is Turnouts runouts Armoring culverts on either end you know exit Those types of things that Generally here to that sink it slow it spread it instead of storm water principles And really successful the regional bank wishes the two rivers read in particular help us identify Find our way through the grants And so we would this would just be a letter of intent to come participate that we'd be Asking them to approve tonight and we'll identify candidates working with the database on that where the erosion inventory The early favorite is something up in the area of where roger's road North Randall road all come together That's where there's a couple of different segments that meet And some of these projects, you know, and it kind of continues that work from that how Order off into that section a lot of our red segments are sort of in that kind of North Randall Section of the ridge they'll really spread out for our county that work in a quicker area, but That was the initial thought once we dig into them And the 20% I believe has always been able to be made through in kind so oftentimes we'll we'll be provided the labor Track time the operator equipment and materials will be supplied colors to supply rock That goes to our 20% batch They're they're generally Grant hesitant this is one of those programs where they're they're easy to obtain and easy to administer So You can have any questions or comments if not any motions I'll move that we approve the Letter of intent for the mr. GP grants and aid participation second Motion and a second all those in favor I I those Motion carries assembly permit First Fridays Yeah, yeah, come on Stephanie's here on behalf of the demand organizers you had left it after your main meeting that First Friday number one first Friday the first would occur you'd revisit it for Making a decision on the subsequent Needs in the event series. So this is a return event to see How things went and if that authorization is extended throughout the proposed This proposal then slates and we even put the original application in the packet. So you can Do that Yeah There was going to be The reason to extend it was to make sure the heart store Was okay because we had nothing from them saying yay or nay and They were potentially going to be looking for alcohol and would need to submit the layout for that and Outdoor consumption permit Those were the two items. I think that we had That kept us from giving every Friday um, so we decided um It's like what we would like to do instead of having a full-on street for this down for the alcohol permit It just have each of them have their own It's outdoor area that um, so one name's maintaining theirs because the music's down at that end anyways um And then taco cat has theirs. I think waiting for it to steam forward with theirs I believe for you guys. So just like what their normal space is So we're not modifying anything that doesn't already exist So we're not adding on anything If that makes sense We don't have then on merchants row We don't have space for One main Correct. They're on the front part. Yeah, they're maintaining what they already have on the main street side Um, because the band is on merchants are right next to that so it actually kind of provides You know viewing area from their current location. So they have no change what they're wanting they're wanting to make at this point And what we're thinking is it kind of makes it easier for everyone just because otherwise there's really no State regulation that would allow us to do that And so one of the restaurants would have to take Lead and then we have to hire security and then and really what happened was everybody was going inside all the businesses to consume or staying with areas and that's what we want is we want people to be attending the businesses and enjoying the community events. So Um, everyone was really happy with how it went and they didn't really feel like having like that fear garden atmosphere was really necessary so As far as the parts store, it seemed fine. No one's anything to us and I don't know if you guys heard any problems or anything, but It isn't contacted by office I didn't hear that Trevor was there a complaint or no complaint Yeah, we haven't heard anything I haven't either Not generally bashful Anybody have any questions? comments What we're being asked is to grant the same permit as we did before with no changes for the first friday for the next four months I'd like to move that we um that we approve the permits for the next four months for the first friday event on merchants row That motion and a second all those in favor I I posed paint motion carries Next up is other business Stephanie I don't have anything for you But uh managers report Uh, maybe a couple quick ads. We're still working. There may be a way to continue the wells in the reservoir project We start this summer and do some of the critical pieces By essentially splitting the project up into sort of the necessary components What do you think of as the finished components and that would allow some more time to identify Both that remaining funding gap contractors Put that one forward. So we're trying to work that through to see if that's something you can see would would be okay with So we still may be able to have something kind of closer to like some of the fall For the effects of the reservoir there We we've been interviewing Frequently this this week For different positions Recreation director primarily we put together a little hiring committee for that So we'll head a quartet there We'll continue to work to identify candidates for the vacancies Maybe And some illness related absences both the months are sort of a regular folks and even some of our contract people so let's Have this kind of been at the slower pace well And we are working to fiscal year closes at the end of the month and when we think about grants at least in the short term we can focus prop ourselves to take advantage of some of maybe the bigger options that are out there I mean that will will be at a better staffing place at some point And in between some of these like grants aid the equipment grants the lead that are a little lower hanging fruit but have those Significant impacts They're not so free We have so many of those active in some form Reporting to reverse imp requests They're eating at the substantial jump of time And then have the downstream impact site I want to kind of highlight that if you think about We can queue up to take advantage of some of the cycles that This has to be talking about with some of the other opportunities To yourself staffed out it all should work fairly seamlessly Tomorrow's plan is to requisition money type for the orange county parent child center Sowers So it's it's we're trying to keep everything but it's the longer this short staffing goes on and So we are we are actually trying to fill some of the things We are trying it's kind of a how you all already know this Precision required with anybody's business Here's a later season later. We are trying So far we can travel so fast That was it Any questions Well, yeah, I'm going to do a Similar go around the capital brand had some conditions that we put some of our sidewalks for sure money into More significant meetings by the way We're trying to find a few of those one of those together So we just have to identify those candidates there's some sections Just got some sections that it's patched through and they're in pretty good shape When we weigh them against some of our other areas, but certainly aren't in ideal shape either We'll just figure out what the right means Any other questions If not, we will entertain a two-part motion to go into executive session We're worried I'm looking that we find that executive session is necessary and prudent in that premature General public knowledge to place a counter disadvantage And then move to enter do you have to do these separately? Yeah That's my first motion I'll second that Willowson-Bever Hi Hi Hi Opposed motion carries So we'll follow up to the executive session Pursuant to 1DSA 313a1a contracts and 1DSA 313a2 real estate and 1DSA 313a1e Then the probable Yeah, good for you Oh, I'll second what he said