 Starting in process welcome everyone it looks like 7.15 6.15 to me What's the computer say? 6.14 6.14 so a lot of talks So we've posted this agenda at three places publicly and on the website and emailed interested parties correct so we can move forward And was it the 12th of September here, and we have a prior meeting minutes from August 22 2022 and I it looked good except I found one correction on page 2 in the middle of the paragraph where I left out that Remediation is not by the property. It should also say owner After that But otherwise it looked good to me anyone else have any corrections? You had something about Arpa funds Was that on that one? Yeah, just that we take out the word maybe because we did use some Arpa funds on that I mean we're going to use Arpa funds. We were going to use all the John's money on that So take out the word some All right, so I've moved to approve second mom favor. All right. Okay, cool, and We have Some officers from the fire department here with something to speak about right? Big thing is our jobs are 20 years old and they've got An upgrade kit if they can do now you send it in and make it off cordless will get rid of a Bunch of weight like he's got 68 pounds So we get they make it 100% cordless. So right now you have a battery pack then you got 10-12 feet cord heavy cord So to make it work and they got this Introduction out to take you can use everything on ours. They rebuilt it refurbish it For about six grand, but we just don't have the money to do it but it is 20 years old and Next year we got send it in without that we put at least three thousand into it. I think I Last time we send in a cast of 2,500 what send it in just for refurbishing. Yeah So that upkeep would happen in the process of upgrading it right What is it that they do This is what we had is one of these and this cold And it all be gone and just have this unit now Why say yep, so they rebuild this handle and stuff and this here gets all rebuilt So is the battery just It's they're tangible just like let's be a battery right here. Yeah, they just plug in the top of it Just like any battery tool. Yeah, how many batteries come with that? To so you always have one ready. So what do you use for a battery now like a it's a regular 12-volt car battery Not quite that big but probably that like that It's a little bit bigger Yeah, and so it requires two people to somebody has to carry the battery around So this way you can't really hand it across to somebody This is moving into lithium, correct But that's what it is right there So do the upgrade And we'd have to spend probably half of that pretty soon. Just update the unit Maintenance you're saying right. Yeah next year. We'd have to yeah, so I can't see what I mean We just thinking we just don't have the money I mean in our budget to come up with six grand as you know the extra money we got right now is earmarked for the new truck right so we're here to See a few folks would like to donate some of that money The Jaws of life on our budget This is a breakdown of what we spent on our but this year and how this was the original Payment we had the hundred and sixty thousand right and this is what we have left of that original hundred This is like adding this in this is what we actually have After the addition except for we haven't wrote the check to pay for the Paving down at the town garage. I mean so there's roughly about this amount left in there about a hundred four thousand Yes, yeah So I don't see any problem. I think it's money well spent. Yeah I Think you have a question out there and you're on mute Martha you're on mute Martha There you go. I'm sorry. I thought um, I heard here I heard chili say jaws and I thought he must mean jobs of life Then I heard you say it just after I started waving my hand. So that's what you mean is the jaws of life Yes Okay, thank you. I just want to make sure it is correct about that Did we have our performance earmarked for anything else for the fire department? We the only thing I know that I had on the list for them was If they needed more funds to refurbish the truck Right And we we're with a lot some more I think the total that's gone to the fire department now has been For the air pump was 15 750 and then if we do this that'll make 21,000 to them Now see a problem with it personally, I mean it'll save down the road and we don't have the money in the In the reserve funds. I don't believe is there any money in that? Yeah, yeah, so that'll go towards the truck anyway, or if we need some but Right just the way it is. Yeah, I heard eight months to eight years before you get a truck So you feel the fire department feels this is the best use of that $6,000 that there isn't another place that you would like you go guy wish we done Just that all of our tools are getting old I mean I guess me too and But you know, we got a couple nozzles of change And you know what a fire nozzle an inch and a half nozzle is about thousand dollars Right, so is that is that and we're gonna take why we're buying a couple of what we're taking out over budget That was in our budget. Okay, I just want to this is something that we don't have in the budget And we figured it out and they're 20 about 20 years old When we raise the money out and a new one is about 17 sex Well, we're keeping an eye on the rest of the ARPA funds and we want to make the best use out of all I think this is a great use just for safety and not an endless pot. There will be an end Right, and I don't think we've been asking for an endless pot We got to reserve some for Well, this is a limited time thing may not be around next year this this offer No, I'm perfectly fine with it. Yeah, no I might move to Improve that expenditure of the ARPA funds. I second it all in favor Thank you guys Jump out of bed and you go take care of the situations that arise and this makes it safer and easier with the help Sorry about you but you you voted to approve So it basically should say that you voted to approve $6,000 of ARPA funds to Give to the public to give to the fire department to Thousand so it would bring on the quote. It was like yes, Martha 6,000 5,980 Yeah To replace their jobs of life To Reparation upgrade Yes No One of the major Mike Triple A's for a lithium batteries 980 to refurbish and upgrade the jobs of life. Is that correct? Thank you Well, thank you guys We have we're going to review the treasurer's report That's on the agenda It might be in the back We do have a couple park use applications one From the White River Valley players No, it's application for use of the town's cemetery You're right and that is for on the agenda Well, it was park use. Yeah outdoor theater. It's there. They're modified because we usually don't have applications for use of the cemetery Count Park, it's for a theatrical production For it would be a kind of exploring some of the history that's resides in the cemetery And it's a fall show on October 22nd 23 Should we bring the cemetery Cemetery Commission gave them permission to do it. Okay, so the seven yet I thought they'd talk with you about that So I'd move to approve a second it all in favor And the second one Is for the park And for a concert in the park dedicated to life and music of grandfather Speedy Wyman the application is Daniel Wyman He's a singer and plays fiddling guitar All are invited to hear music and dance family and children appropriate and This would be for the 8th of October 12 to 3 and Sounds good to me. I approve it a second all in favor All right And Tony is not here with us today and nor Cooter, but we did Finally finish the paving around the installation of the stormwater control system down by the town garage And the new paving is very popular with the skateboarding crowd And And they started Accumulating sand again for the winter. I know who does a little anxious to like for them to finish up the work so they could start You know building that pile up. So that is that is happening Dana is scheduled for Jerry duty And so we'll have to figure out a deal with that it will have to look at the so they give you If you get so they give you $30 a day. Yeah, and I think that it was He had mentioned something about the town possibly Offsetting the lack of income I think we'll have to look at the policy Isn't it in the personnel policy We're reading it the other day. It's a little confusing, but yeah, but well, I told him we'd figure something out So yeah, yeah, he overly concerned Hopefully doesn't get selected if it is we'll have to write it because it'll be in October Yeah, what if you got in for one of those year long? Yeah I don't know to what extent if that did go into winter there are I mean there's Extenuating circumstances if this is someone in charge of the safety of the whole town for being one of a three-man road crew I would think that would get some yeah, we could argument Draft something He's going tomorrow for the first installment, and then I think it's in another two days he has to go It's twice this week. It doesn't mean he's going to get where is he going? I don't know. He didn't tell me why I didn't Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that's where he's going. He didn't say And I didn't ask so but I just said he was more concerned about his pay They hit up Rochester Terry you got anything on the utilities front Are you upset with the pavement everything's good there, right? I know I'm actually getting today, so I'm hoping they pay attention. They don't seem to mark all the covers, so I Pay attention. Yeah. Yeah So when they get back up and I told him I said if I had to dig this up, I said it's on you. It's not me I showed you guys, you know three ton mark these out four or five times now It seems like some way how to write down a piece of paper, right? They don't I mean that way Bobby's a only mark tool from this last time. Oh, really this morning. I went down Doug out the other one market market there looks like talking to the Pike guy this morning He was saying that they're going to be stepping the pavement out through the village a little bit You know, so there it looks like we're going to have a little bit of a pedestrian spot and bike spot Yeah, I don't know what they're gonna do like old buddy me house. There's two vows there and they didn't I Don't think they can do anything there the mailboxes are there and that telephone pole is there I think they're stepping it out where they can is the way I took that Which will be nice and very good and up there in front of the biggest hall. I mean, he's Four feet there today from Stockbridge and someone did red marks everywhere on the road Right, they mack in the road for a baby So you see where they did that area in front of the library going to be dealt with yeah Has to be they're gonna pave right up to the grass So I don't know how they're gonna leave that what they dug out You know, that's going to be up to This has to do with that paving coming going through the village and I know it's the state doing it, but When we had a nervous fear I noticed it was there was a Section of this of a place on the sidewalk It used to have and the sidewalk facing main main street that used to have like a little I guess you'd call it a ramp area But an incline so you could get up it if you had a wheelchair or a walker or something and they have put a big Pavement there. I mean obviously it's not finished or something Do you know if they're going to leave that kind of stuff and do you know when they might be doing the paving? They told me this morning that they were going to start next week And it'd be starting from the south and I'm sure when they get done They're going to make it accessible to the sidewalks and in all around areas. That's they have to do that I mean, I never noticed that kind of stuff until I had to walk with Walker and now I do it and Several people came through the fear gate because I was on the gate at harvest fair all Saturday Mentioned one, you know, ask me if I knew when we were going to start paving and if they were going to fix the sidewalk And I said, well, I'll ask it this way for me. Okay. Thank you very much. Sorry about you guys Thank you Thank you. And just another Thing on the highway. I did go over to Gilead and look at that class that trail over there for the logger that goes out through Gilead road up and back on our trail and It's it looks to me like it's not of any problem as far as it's it's pretty flat out through there And where they're going to put the landing is is or at least that's where I believe they're going to put the landing Is on a flat area with it's not going to road or anything that I could see so I don't see any issue with it The guy wants to you know, you are just logs out there and truck out through there. Yeah, plunge of the Fixes in that. Yeah, yeah, and he will so So that's taking care Do we have Jeff here from the energy coordinator? Hello Jeff Hello Not really much of anything to report Yes, kind of a low energy evening here Which came off pretty well, I thought We did run an energy committee booth there and there was a lot of a lot of people stopped in At least come through the gate and that doesn't mean that other people that didn't go through the sides And it was the weather was perfect. It was just such a good there was our 33rd fair Anyway, sorry, I I'm the producer of the fair so I was really proud of how well All right, so I'm sure we'll talk more about energy as the weather starts to get colder, right? Shaking his head. Yes. All right moving on to the old business. We were talking about the master financial policy, and then are we ready to adopt section sections one three and four Did have Jim Barlow had Offered his his corrections and improvements on that and they got incorporated. Yep What do you guys think yeah, I was good with it. Yeah. Yeah with the changes Yep, so I'd move to adopt sections one three and four of them this year's version of the master financial policy Second that non-favorite And now we also have in Jim put his eyes on sections five six and seven So I'm Yeah It's it was two hundred twenty five dollars to have a review And I don't know if you feel confident of spending You know that more money going forward Well the way or what's the whole point of adopting these policies or to make sure that we're We're following Protocol the protocol so we don't get tripped up and right and lose access to Fundings because we don't have the proper Verbiage in place. So I think it's probably money. Well spent I have a couple of comments. Yeah on them In section six It says in the middle of the paint the first page items purchased as a set not bought purchases and have an aggregate value of $2,000 or more I think that that two thousand dollars should be higher In today's day and age that could be auto parts. So This just seems as though If you want to buy a computer something that you're going to consider an asset and capital asset and listed on our inventory And depreciate all our stuff that maybe maybe we should jump up to three to five thousand for something like that So that's saying in a it says two thousand in but that's in the in the bulk Yes Items purchased as a set. This is in the next section. You said five. So you said this was in section six section six. Yeah, I Think I was okay with five. I just had a couple number six Thanks And then thinking about Item e on the third page about infrastructure assets are long-lived capital assets um I don't know that we uh Keep track. I know we have a culvert survey, but I don't know that we have, you know drainage lines and systems fiber optics beaches and boat ramps docks and piers and you know, um, I know we have some of that inventory But I don't know that we have all of that under inventory As infrastructure I think a lot of our water sewer is under that Inventory Do we have a value on the culverts Um, I'm sure there is a a number I don't have it I don't have it either and I don't know The maps are all up to date as far as what we have in the ground By right, I just think we should read that over and think about that one. Yeah The replacement value you wouldn't you couldn't even begin to go with that No, we just have an inventory of where they are where they are in the links and let's just think about that Whether we want to say that we need to have a value on every bridge and our culvert and good rail in our town Oh And this was a lot of these were pulled from other towns Right, so kind of a boiler plate, but yet we just want to Customize it more to our town. I'm not saying we shouldn't I'm just saying let's think about that. Yeah So we can review that part. I also had something on number and Um number five reserve fund expenditures Uh down on the end says any John number one Reserve funds for any other purpose shall require the authorization of the more majority of the voters at the annual meeting or town meeting So I guess that means that anything reserve fund expenditures That is used for something for something other than other than that other than that reserve Yeah, which is I don't know if we need that or should we Have to think should be We use that when we sold the constables cruiser and put the money into the general fund We did that's the only time I've encountered that situation, but yeah So I don't see where it hurts to have to keep that in kid keeps the reserve funds reserve for for that purpose What we wanted to be I just wasn't sure if I was reading it right or not. I guess I wasn't so that's all right But no, but that puts in Mechanism in place for something comes up and we do Need to shuffle the money around we can you know Not do it just ourselves, but the town meeting right for a special meeting. Yeah. Yeah, we're special Okay I'm good with it So you want us to um, I still think it'd be worth Letting Jim take a look at it for a couple hundred bucks And I don't send it to him until we've all reviewed it just so that we can get a lot of the editing done Right, and I would like that question you just asked about is that an appropriate value to Maybe we want to change the terminology make our life a little easier. Yeah All right, I had a so we're tabling this moves on Um, thank you. We're in the process of reviewing. Yes So, um, do you have something else? Yeah, I guess we can move into the public comment. Yeah, um, I just this is just a quick last Tuesday the Rochester Stockbridge Unified District unanimously passed a motion To support the work of the committee including going back to review their budget For funds to heat and power the building this year That's the high school building They made a pledge to work together With the committee which is doing a charitable drive fundraising drive To make the commitment to keep the high school building heated for the winter So that was the the Basic Progress coming out of that meeting And they've got a meeting right now. They're meeting right now. So oh this could change That's how it stood up until 5 30 tonight And that's it for me. Yep Anybody on zoom have anything we'd like to speak about? Well There you have it 29 minutes We get one of those every once in a while. She tried to move to adjourn. I second. All in favor? All right. Good night. Thank you