 is 602. Call to order change. Any changes to the agenda team? I do want to give an update on the project we have Donna working on the grants project. Okay, great. The warrants are the orders are circulating. That's just an update that we'll do somewhere. Yeah. The warrants are circulating. I think we I'd like to go into executive session to discuss personnel matters. Is there a motion to go into executive session under one BSA 313. So moved. A second. Three. All right. Seconded any discussion on favor please say aye. Aye. Okay. So we're back and we came out of executive session at 657. 657. Yeah. I think you report. We have we have nothing to report. Okay. Do or we already did our changes to the agenda. Right. Circulated have circulated grants update at some point. Okay. Let me ask if there are any items of public comment for topics on the agenda. Can I make a comment? I'm looking at the public. No. Okay. You have something you want to say? Yeah. I'd like to announce that I am going to run for town clerk and I hadn't made up my mind until you know I saw that Jeremy wasn't running and I feel like I can help and serve my community in a new role and a new effort and I'm going to resign my position as select board at the end of the meeting tonight. Okay. Denise. Thank you. Thanks for running Denise. Thank you. Thank you for your service. So just so you know Jeremy Jeremy has decided Jeremy Weiss our current town clerk has decided not to run again for his office. He's filling out Judy's term last two years of it. Right. It's a three year position and so Denise is plan is to run for that office and resign at the same time from the select board. It's a new three year term. So it would be 2026 right? Yeah. So I'm looking forward to working in the office and putting my skills to a new use. It's very exciting. Learning new things is really exciting. I won't get Alzheimer's right? That's right. All right. Denise. Thank you. Yep. Congratulations. Thank you. Exciting and hard decision. It's hard. It was it was an agonizing decision. An agonizing decision. So but I had good support. Well now you can move on to the next right next phase. Yeah. Okay. So we have the next item is to ratify the signing of the Lister's errors and omission report. So this is a document that we because we had a really tight timeline. We signed it last last meeting even though we didn't warn it and we are now going to just make the motion to formally accept the report and the form the form and make the motion to I guess make the motion to accept it. Noting that we've already signed. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. Any questions or conversation? No. All right. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. And now it is 704. Can I give an update? Yes. This is yeah. We have when he's calling a 750. Right. Okay. This will take long. Yep. You'll remember we have proved Donna to work on the projects of organizing the grants doing making a spreadsheet blah blah blah. I met with her today because I know Rick's been busy but you are going to have to go in and we're going to have to find a time when you can maybe some evening even after work. She started on the project. I'm going to feed her some more information. I need she's going to call Sandra. She's probably going to talk to Wendy. So she'll she'll she'll run with it and she'll do a great job. That's great. Yeah. She's really excited about doing it too which is great. Yeah. Yeah. Does she have like is does she have like the ECCT grant that I've been pushing buttons for? We got all that stuff. All of it's on her radar. Right. Well is what she's like to think of I'm going through stuff some grants may be over and she doesn't need to put them on a spreadsheet. Right. But the idea we talked about was you know the grant they always just give you this number of a grant and you got to go five or six pages in to find out what it is. So she's going to start out with the name of the project and then the grant number she'll you know she's going to do like a separate tab for highway separate tab for like the CLG a separate tab for ECCT so that it's easy to access. Okay. And you know put in like you know how much it's for what's the town's match critical then lines you know that kind of stuff that all makes I said you know just make it doesn't have to be you know really confusing just keep it as simple as possible. But the information you actually right. Yeah. So she's she's running with it. That's a really good project. Yeah. Organizing. Okay. Thank you Denise. Yeah. Okay. So now we need to move on to town meeting. I did not print out the warning. Well, I got the warning here. It's on. I only brought my copy because I think it's in the drive. It's in the folder. I meant to go look and print it out. I forgot. Yeah. And I can't we got to make we got to finalize the numbers tonight as we're going to do. We need we need to have the language and this is something that when I we find when we get to the point where we want Joe to review it I can send it to him and about the reserve fund for the planning commission the creation. Right. And Joe can give us that language and then it'll be right or we can look back on a previous town report and get the language. I took out because hang on let me let us know you're not there. Okay. No. No. I had to sign in. Let's see. Where is it? Oh right here. Just make sure. Yeah. One nine. This one right here. Right here. Yep. Oh yeah. And after we got done with our meeting last time I went in and wrote in the numbers but I'm not sure that those are right now. Barbara. Barbara. Thank you. And Wendy. They double checked the social services. Hang on Denise. It's the January 9th. Yeah. Draft one nine. That's John's name on it. It's called so the title. There's several versions of the warning in here. There's one. There's one that's going to go back. Yeah. Go back because there was one that you could click on that was supposed to be the 9th. Yeah. This one that says it's Kelly's warning 2023 annual meeting last modified by John. Is that the right one? John Bravan over here. John might have made an edit. Yeah. Did you add did you make a change in the warning John today? No. You might have like in the past I did the section with the horses. No, that's that's not the warning. That's what works. No, I didn't know maybe you might have made it a space or something. Yeah. So that should be the right one, Rick. Okay. So all right. So I got it open now. Yeah. You got it. Okay. So notably what we all know from email, but I'll say out loud for anybody who cares. We've talked about we've talked about the format for town meeting. First, we said we we don't have an option to do it virtually. So we're gonna do it in person. Then we heard no, they're fast tracking legislation to do it virtually. And we heard through Denise that there was some interest in doing it virtually for safety reasons. Right. And then we've heard the pendulum has swung back that there's no way that legislation is going to get through. So we're in. There's no way it's going to need to happen. About a 15th. That's what the latest report is. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we are so it's in person. It's going to be in person on Tuesday, March 7th at the house and lamentaries. And what time Barbara 9 30? Not 30 to completion is the way it's been stated in years past. Okay. And I think better write that down. When I was in the office today, Barbara noted that and even Donna said, you know, let's not worry about lunch. And you said that they're not available. Anyways, right? I contacted historians corner folks a month or so ago to ask what their plans were. And they could not commit at that time. And it sounded like they were not inclined to send my perception that they were not to do that. Yeah, I think we should just for it's another way to cut down on the crowd with everybody standing in line, talking this school has, you know, the gym is pretty big to spread out chairs. So going through this. So I've added 9 32 completion. And it's Tuesday, March 7th. I have the new I have the blanks to fill in for the article three. And to update the people that are running cemetery budget should be 49 five, not 425 on article four. Kellogg Hubbard, we know that amount. Article six, the total of the special appropriations request is 31,100. We need to create the language and I can look at an old town report for a reserve fund language. I have not calculated when the second when the tax bill, the dates on the tax bill stuff. So we need to do that. I took out the grace period language that we agreed to take out payments. Right. We agreed to that a couple of meetings ago. We didn't we didn't vote on it. We listened to the argument. Do we need to vote on it? No. Yeah, I'm just new to say. Yeah, no, I vote. Right. So I took that out because I think we all agreed to that. So let me just get clear on that. So taxes are due when they're due end of discussion. Right. And postmark counts postmark counts, but there's no grace period. Unless somebody could option from the floor that we put that back in. You know, there's always that we should be prepared to Right. Back at the old some old drafts and see what we had. I think that's pretty much it. We have the fire departments, their dollar amounts filled in. And we are expecting a petition from Curtis pond association. Yes. So that we'll have to go on here too. Do you want to put a placeholder in here while I'm here? Yeah. Could you put in I don't know where to where we want to put it. I might as well make an article 17. Oh, you're doing it too. Yeah. And I noticed that on other warnings, we didn't have on there to adjourn, but it seems like it should say that. That's adjourned. Yes, because I put in there. Oh, okay. Yeah. When do they have to get us their petition? When does Curtis pond have to get our get the petition? They have to have a valid petition. By the 19. Oh, okay. That's for warning. Articles running for offices. Right. Barbara did a great job. Last night, explaining all the different. She got it down. She got it. So I so take me to explain Barbara did a great job explaining what explaining all the different positions, the fire. Oh, where did we? There was a meeting last night at the Maple Corner Community Center that was open to the public and I went and it was out, you know, vacant positions and Barbara did a great job explaining about when you have to have a petition filed. If there's an error, they're doing the 30th, but if there's an error, they find out the next day because the town clerk has to check to make sure the signatures are actually valid registered voters and call us correct. And then they have until they have another additional 24 hours after that to cure their petition. Yeah, so the commission is the early the town court custom now by the 31st. If you're petition and all their paperwork is acceptable or not 24 hours of February 1st is the absolute because of the ballots going to print on that February 2nd. Right. And Barbara was, you know, explained about the consent form about the petition. How many signatures you have to get so she's got it down. Well, and I'm glad to hear that because I was assuming but also wondering whether the Curtis pond folks are like overrunning their signatures. I was trying to. Yeah. Yeah. They're safe thing to do. They're veterans. Yeah. Barbara wants to come in. May I add something? Uh huh. So the town office is also prepared a meet the candidates form. Not certainly form. It's a memo to candidates asking them to provide a 250 word statement as to why you're running why they want to hold that office, what contributions they could make to it and a headshot. And we're going to compile all of that and print it out. Really hard copy have it distributed at the four corners around Alice. So it'll be the opportunity for voters to meet the candidates in their own words. Right. And then now we're going to include our personal email addresses in case somebody wants to help. How are you want to? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Nice. And phone number. Yeah. Because in recent elections, the town office has got a lot of phone calls saying, who are these people on the ballot? I don't even know them. So we're going to try to fix that. That's great. Great. Great. So when they see the face, they'll know when they see them. I've seen that person around. Right. So that's a good opportunity to try to encourage people to vote for them. Yeah. That's great. So Wendy should be contacting us any minute. So are we good on the morning if I go back and fill in some of this stuff and then we're going to and then we'll have to, we won't be able to vote on it on our meeting on the 23rd because Curtis Pondam Association petition, that's their deadline. So. Okay. And we have to finalize our numbers with Wendy. Right. Right. I need to get this away from me. I know exactly what I said. And I've had two children. Somebody else's turn. Oh, I've got a lot of barbers here. Okay. And so once we finalize the figures with Wendy, can I just say something about that? So we voted on a budget and the other night. Yeah, it was a regular meeting. No, it was a regular meeting. And then right on time, we made we made some changes that we thought were going to affect the overall numbers. But when Wendy, when we said Wendy, we got back from her was slightly different than what we thought and we were formally approved. So good. Wendy. Thank you. Thank you. So Wendy, Wendy Wilton is here. Wendy works for NEMRIC and has been contracted with us to support us performing some treasure function. Wendy, thank you. And you've been the the strong mat the mastermind behind getting our proposed budget together. And I was just explaining that even though we voted on it last week, when you sent it back, it had some and we're working on a sales Excel spreadsheet with like cell formulas. So no surprise that Wendy's fine tooth comb sharp pencil found some discrepancy. And I asked her to join us to or Denise asked and we both did to to explain why her bottom line was 20,000 less, right, than ours. Okay, that's why you're here. I just sent Karen, I just sent you a little spreadsheet about your data analysis. Okay. And it was really easy to find the bottom line of the budget that I sent you on the 11 is correct. And the differences and the differences. Okay, here's the email. So you should have your general fund should be $581,987. Now, did you, Wendy, did you send the email to all of us? Just to me. So let me between the two spreadsheets I mentioned to you. Yeah, I'm going to send it to everybody right now. Okay, we can talk about that in a second, but I want to make sure you guys know what the accurate number is first, but you need a little bit of what happened on the time. Yes, the general fund is $581,987 January 10th. Wait a minute, we're playing, we're playing catching Okay, wait a minute. Can you can you give us a second, Wendy? We're trying to play catch up Sharon's emailing something to us. Okay, so what is the there it is. What is the total general fund and highway fund figure? $1,565,090. Okay, that's what I had. And that's what you have in what I sent you, Denise, for the article. Yeah, yeah, that's what I have. I think I sent everybody today the final budget that I sent to the designer and those are the same numbers that are on there. And the differences arise because I can explain. Okay, wait a minute. Before you do that, can we just go back to the amount that has to be raised by taxes and non tax revenue to make sure I have those numbers, right? Yeah. Yeah. Our estimated non tax revenues are 319,717,717 dollars. Yep. Okay, and not the so the overall budget that we're approving is $1,956,645. And that is comprised of I think when we voted it last week, we Well, you are approving a budget with your article, right? No, because I was get voted on correct. You're approving $1,055,089. $089 or $90? I think I rounded it up with $90. I think what I need to do is you're right. We approve. We approve the and that's what we approved on last week. And we when we approved it, Wendy. So yeah, so I didn't write down the what we need so we can revote is the general fund number plus highway, right? The highway number and the general and the combined because I think when we voted the whole thing, we mentioned the sub pieces. Okay, so yeah, so we need the the voters shell where I thought you ought to start because I can explain those differences. Primarily, they are three things. When you pass the numbers on the nine, I hadn't had a chance to recalculate the shift of the benefits and the payroll tax from general funds to highway for the DPW director. And in that $0.39 I should. Okay, it went from one fund to another fund, right? But that doesn't affect the bottom line. Right. On the test, I told you that the server alone is right. So it doesn't even impact this 24. So that's a little over $6,000. Okay, and so we we heard that it was in at 425 and it's 495. 62 you think you 62 five. Right. Right. And it's back down to the 495. So that's where the difference that's where the difference was. I thought we'd taken out the server, but I guess we hadn't. Okay, so. Alright, so that so give us the three numbers give. Okay, Karen. Yeah. They're writing total. Okay. Yeah, I have total. Okay, no, it doesn't get it doesn't get broken down in that way for the warning. Well, the warning is general fund and highway fund together. Right. But what we voted on last week was it was like this. We said we recommend we make a motion to recommend to the voters or something like that. A combined budget of general fund and highway of $1,565,090 comprised of a highway budget of 983,102 dollars and a general fund budget of 581,987 dollars. Correct. That's the motion. That's correct. And if you look at the spreadsheet showing the difference between Sharon's spreadsheet and my update, which is the final yep. You'll see all those numbers there. Is he total general fund? Yeah, right. Yeah, that's and that's where that's where I just read them. Yeah, 581,987 general highway 983,102 and they combined to do you have that number Denise? 156,590. Yeah, I got that. Okay, so is there a motion to present to the voters a budget of $1,565,090? Actually, why don't we first hang on stop? Is there a motion to rescind the vote from last week on that budget? So moved. Second. Second. Okay, all in favor. Wait, wait, wait, wait. John Rick to rescind last week's vote. Budget vote. Yeah. Last somebody think we're giving them to vote. Right. Okay. All right. Now, is there a motion to approve an overall town budget, i.e. general fund and highway of $1,565,090 comprised of general fund budget 581,987 and highway budget of 983,102. Second. Okay. Any questions? Did you got it? Rick. Okay. All in favor. Please say aye. Aye. Okay, so that is done. And then okay, but okay, now for the warning we need to know. Okay, we got the total budget $1,565,090 of which what what amount shall be raised by taxes? And what is non-tax revenue? Do you put that on this spreadsheet? Which I wrote that down when Wendy said it of which 1,636,928. Okay, so I'm gonna try to have taxes. Do we have to vote on that too? No, we just have to vote when we do the warning. We'll have to get it right. Okay. Well, wait a minute, there's two different rates by taxes thing here. The one that I just feel like with what it looks like involving articles you're focusing on. But I think your article three really focuses on general fund. Right. Yeah, it absolutely does. And if I send you the wording on that. Yeah, somewhere. Yeah, I'll find it down through the article. Yep, you checked them all. And I send it as a draft to you with the cemetery budget and stuff. Okay. So, let's take a look. Hang on. I think, Denise, that we Oh, I see it. I can't do the warning. I've got it right here in an email that I printed out. So I didn't I don't think I brought that email with me tonight, Wendy. What? You know what? I will make sure I'll scan it. And I'll email it all to you tonight. But here are the numbers for the article three. Okay. You have your total of $1,565,000. $090,000. Right. $319,717. We are your estimated non-tax revenue. Right. Yeah, that's the number I have. So the amount raised by taxes for general fund and highway is the difference between those two, which is $1,245,372. Yeah, that's the number I had from last week. Yeah, somehow. And I think that I think I got that from what you had sent me. Yeah, she sent it on the 10th. And then when I like that over the weekend, I was confused, which is why we're And I'll scan it right now and send it to you all right now. Yeah, okay. So I had the I had the right numbers. That's good. Yeah. Okay. Because in our calculation for the total tax rate, we took the total including the articles, right, to be voted on. Right, we have to reduce that by the 319,390,000 to come up with a tax rate assessment. Right. Because the spread, those are articles just on your general fund and highway budget, spending reduced body revenue, right. And the other was an estimated tax rate. If everything gets voted on. Right. Yeah, I have that spreadsheet. Hang on. Hang on. Let me let me get clear on this. The article reads shall the voters approve total general fund and highway fund expenditures of that's the number we just that's the 1565,090 that we just voted on. Right. Right. And then of which 1,245,372 shall be raised by taxes and 319,717 non-tax revenue. What was the one that needs to be raised by taxes? 1,245,372. And that's the difference between the 319,717 is the difference between the total re-raised by taxes and the total combined budget. No, you didn't. Okay. Are we good on that? So we just so we just approved the numbers that are here and that are in the morning. And the overall is the overall, well, the increase. So the increase over last year is the overall increase is about 6% is it exactly 6% or is it the one the night the one from the ninth was five 5.7. I can actually take a look based on this. This is this says this says 6.5. Or the actual okay so so okay so that answers one of my questions in earlier email is that that that 20,000 difference doesn't make a difference in it doesn't change five point mine was also five points. Right, right, right, right. Right. So so the percentage difference is still 5.7, which is what we said last week. We're going up 5.7. In your endorsement chair, you had a difference of 7%. But when we took out the server, it dropped it down to 6. Okay. Right. 5.7. Right. Okay. And so just for just for fun, when I was doing all looking at all this yesterday, I went out to see if the Bureau of Labor Statistics had posted the CPI for December and they have all they have. Yeah, it was. So we were working from end of November, which I'm not suggesting we should change of 6.4 as the rolling 12 month ending in November. And that's where we got our number to budget. You know, just to be aware of what increases are and our so the end of the year December number was 6.1. So either way, we're coming in at 5.7. So we've actually are slightly under CPI for whatever that's worth to the people out there. The other thing to make note of is that the total budget, the budget for general funds highway plus the work of articles because your cemetery by 20 grand, they did they that we are giving them their request. Right. Yeah. Okay. The total on the $1,956,000 budget between general funds highway and articles actually is increasing by 4%. So the overall right. So if it wasn't, yeah, so if the if it wasn't for the special articles cemetery library, all those the budget increase would be 4.3%. No, the opposite. If you weren't even thinking about the special articles and the cemetery, it would be 5.7. But because thank you cemetery commission, they had a one-time expense last year that they're taking out. Right. So that knocks the when you add them in right this year, it tells a different an even better story. Yeah. And I did double check with Juanita to make sure that we got the right figure that they and she said yes. Yeah, that's what they want. That's great. That's great. That's everybody doing their part like okay, we got what we needed last year. We don't need to come back again. Right. Great. Perfect. Alright, so even though their main budget for the cemetery plan up for 24, because they didn't have that $20,000 in, it's a reduction of $13,000. Yeah. Okay. Now, did you send, does the printer have what they need to format? I'm just gonna ask, ask if I can ask a question. Yeah, sure. So, hey, Wendy, it's Barbara. So, Barbara, I think what I understand, would you please confirm that all the financial files that you sent to the graphic designer were correct, right? Correct. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. We just, we are both, our vote did not support them. Okay. Now it does. Right. Okay. Do we vote? We never voted, right? Yeah, we did vote. We did vote. We don't say aye. Aye aye, Rick. Aye aye. Alright, so where are we? We're in the report. Okay, so we've done them. We did the warning. We're gonna put on that next week. We understand the numbers and why they changed from our vote last week. Wendy, I think, are we done with Wendy? Yeah, we're done. Wendy, thank you. I think you are, right? Yeah. Wendy, are you coming in the office this week? Today, based on schedule. Okay. And okay. Oh, yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Wendy. You guys are on your way. Thanks. Can I give you, can I give you Wendy? Yes. Take care. Bye. Okay. Report. There's paper here. People want it. It's in the folder. I think we've all, except, yeah, we've all pretty much all touched it. Thank you, Barbara. We have an opening section that says, you know, blah, blah. No, I should be more articulate than that. We just need to remember to take, oh, we got to send it to Barbara, so I'm sure she'll read it. I want to, as long as I'm assuming everybody has been in it has kind of read it. Here's a couple of things that I left flagged to be obviously I have to update the numbers and I will do that and the pie. Yeah. Let me open my electronic version of it. I wanted to talk about Denise, did you look at the, well, actually, well, let's get there. So we, my Barbara, thank you. My Barbara, thanks a lot. We anticipate that next week, we will take a couple of votes. So let's just check. Well, the Shade Tree Plan and the generator coming, the generator is coming from ARPA. Oh, that's right. I got to fill in that amount. I will do that. And the 15,000 to the Conservation Commission to fund work on invasive species. That's how I just, yeah, we need to do that. The invasives and the Shade Tree. But let's wait for John to get back. So everybody's on the same page here. And I thought it was important to put in the creases that we gave over last year. I agree with that. But I want, that's one of the things I wanted to talk about. And let's, John will have an opinion too. So let's just wait. I don't care how you're worried. I just want. Yeah, no, no, but here's. So Denise, I, so the topic is just bullet approved and increased cost of living for the following employees and elected officials. I, I struck that one line as approved by the voters because we always say that we reserve a right, of course, to recognize what we're doing is making a budget. We are not right. We actually ran into that with one person. Right. The voters approve an increase and you didn't give it to me. That's absolutely correct. And we don't have to and we're not going to. Yeah, no, it's fine. So how do we change that line? We just direct that line. We just take out that word. It is no big deal. Yeah, I just wondered if anybody felt strongly about it. No, I see. I see. No, I just wanted to be granted the increase, but it wasn't by not by the voters has approved by no, the voters approved the budget. The select board has the ability to give the increase up to what was budgeted or not. Right. So we approved an increase and we just leave it there. Yeah. And we want to list the crew. I'm ambivalent about that, but people it's public knowledge. Yeah, that's information. Well, and actually it gives them a place to say, Oh, that's where our crew is. Yeah. And okay, so we'll make that one change there. Yeah. And then John, we were starting to talk about earlier under this second bullet, but the ARPA funds. So we anticipate that next week we will. So when we approve the generators, we that Nick was here to talk about, we I've got the figures at home. Yeah, we talked about so so we talked about who pays for them and we have to do a town match. It's it's federal money. It's federal money that's come to the state. It's a FEMA. Right. And we have to do a match. And there was a conversation that night about, Oh, we can even match it from ARPA. But we didn't vote it that way. Now we didn't vote. Right. So so we thought, Well, do we want to vote it that way so that we're it was like 16,000 or so. Yeah, it was something like that. So we could bring it tonight. But this is a this is the sense of the group because we need to finalize this report and anticipation of a vote next week. Right. So we need to put that figure in and we need to make sure everybody's going to be okay with that next week and not have this update that we're not going to vote for. Right. And then the other thing is, when we were developing the budget, yeah, when we were developing the budget, the conservation commission had requested 15,000 to work on invasive species. And we said, Hey, hang on, we can take that from ARPA. And so that's something we can formally vote on next week. Yeah. Okay. But we can put it in the report. We can put it in the report. I just want to make sure that everybody I think we're all inclined to vote. Yes. And then the third thing is the shade tree plan that we haven't voted, but we have an email from Neil that he and Dan have worked out their differences. Do we have a new one? Or did they just he was going to send it to us? I don't know that he ever did. I'll bug him because yeah, if we need the new plan because we need to post it. Right. Okay, so then I questioned and he says we did it. We increased roadside mowing to three times a year. Did we actually mow three times this year? Does everybody think we did? I can't answer that right. I think we I know we increased it. I know we did. Okay. How about we have we don't have to say we don't have to say the number. We can just say increase. Beyond twice a year. Increase roadside mowing. Yeah, just say that. Period to help. Which where's that bottom of page three. I know they were still mowing in the fall. They were Dana was mowing. Yeah. No, that's a good thing. Yeah, we can just say we can just say increase roadside mowing from spring to fall. From spring to fall. Yeah. Okay. Hang on. I'm just going to go ahead and make these changes right now. You are right. Yeah. That works well for us. Okay. Increase roadside mowing from spring to fall to help reduce. I will remove the comments. Okay. Then what else did we want to talk about? Technology. I read technology sounded good. Okay. Yeah. So it sounded like it's fine. It's very, very largely redundant to last year, but not a lot has changed, you know, other than we are, I think somewhere, I think I put in about the technology fund. Oh, it might have been in the bullets. It's no, it's in there with voter approval, slideboard, established technology. Yeah, it might have been in there last year or two. I don't know. I put that in today. Okay. And then emergency services. Has somebody read that? Yes, I did. Okay. Sounds okay. I read it. I just didn't know if there was more we could say. I don't think I added that bit about we hope to establish a program for honorariums for callous residents, blah, blah. Okay, so you're using the word honorariums. Yeah, I put that in. Okay, I'm going to take out that note that this piece, the rose piece came from Rick. Yeah, I just I just think it up a little bit. Mentioned the crew. I think that's great. And John wrote a section about legal issues. Yeah, it looks good. And then we are thanking everybody and signing off and saying that we are here for you. We are always here for them, always. So I think it looks good. Oh, Barbara Butler left. Yeah. Yeah. I went to the bathroom. She left. Did you get to go into the bathroom? She was good. Alright, so we're in good shape on this, right? We are good. We just need to take out the draft at the bottom. Well, I need to update numbers on the pie. Okay, which is quick. There is FYI, everybody. I moved it up from last year. Because we're all still going to be around. There's a pie chart spreadsheet that's in the folder that has a different tab for every year. And all you have to do is update numbers. Yeah, just FYI. If you have maybe you want to borrow it for something else, you have to do in your world. So you change the numbers and the thing adjusts automatically? Yes. How do you do that? That's very clever. Not there in the spreadsheet. You have to do it in Excel. Oh, I see. I see. I see. Yes. I need a lesson on all this. Oh, yeah. That's great. It's a great function. Okay, so are we ready to pass? I will accept a motion to approve the select board report with the minor tweaks left to do that Sharon Denise will make. So this is the SB report. Who seconded it? John. John. I thought you did. Okay. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. You guys were getting still. Okay, what else do we have to do? Review select board timeline items. No, we're done. We're done. We missed Barbara's deadline. Not my little bit. But I think she'll I'm sure I think she'll forgive us. She seemed forgiving. I'm happy about that. It's it's it feels good to have moved through this and this I actually feel good about this a couple weeks ago. I didn't know. Okay, so I think we need to go back into executive. Oh, wait, no, before we do, there's one thing I should have made this update earlier. I got an email from Stephanie today. So let me just remind every step in Kaplan. Yes, chair of the conservation. It's been carried down this version. I asked Denise, you know, let's take off all that tail because we got to go through and clean it all up. But it's been on here that the conservation commission was working on the curb cut ordinance and they actually were. Oh, good. Yep. And she met with Joe. Me. Are you the attorney? Yes. Yes, there's another attorney and there is another attorney. And he said it happens all the time. So she connected with Joe to figure out what of what they wanted to propose is actually statutorily acceptable in the context of court of curb power. And so the concept and I love this is they want to it's what we always wanted, you know, integrating our road stuff with our environmental stewardship. And so they have taken the lead conservation commission reviewing this was when we had that curb cut ordinance that we were going to update with a form, etc. Stephanie said, hang on, we have some ideas. So she's been working on it. The group has and Joe has gone through it with her around what is, you know, legally acceptable to build in through court curb cut ordinance. So she wants to bring to this board a proposal from the the conservation commission. So I just want to put that out there because I'm going to do it on the 20th. I don't know. I haven't even I've got this at like, you know, 430 or 4, 530. Okay. So I haven't even said, you know, what's your timing because we're, you know, but she knows what she's asking. She's asking for a really quick turn around. But I want to make you aware because I'm excited. It's exciting. And they did all the work. All right, so there's I just want to mention that to you guys. Okay, so then we need a motion. Is it does anybody else have news to share? No, I got it like literally as I was printing the stuff for tonight. So and I don't have the document, she just put it on my radar that they're going to want to come. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so we need a motion to go back into executive session. Do we do we need to? So I would like a motion to go into executive session to discuss the appointment of a public officer or employee under one PSI 313. What time is it? It is 751. 751. Okay, and this should be brief, right? It should be brief. So should be brief if you want. Jeremy, sorry. Jerome. Okay, which one of those Jerry's which one are we going in under one appointment of a public officer one VSA 3133. Did we get a motion? Did you sell second? All in favor, please say aye. Okay. Is there anything to report for the minutes? So we went into executive session to under 1383. We came out at 755. And we wanted to ask Denise whether she was willing to be appointed to serve in her vacancy, which begins the vacancy begins tonight with your announcement earlier. And Denise said that she is willing to serve until an election can be held. And election can be held and will be held actually in March. So that's a great opportunity for somebody to be elected to finish out Denise's term, which is one more year of a three year term. Is that correct? That's correct. And Denise, thank you. I think this I love this model where people who are are transitioning out plan well and allow us to appoint them because the voters have already selected you to serve. And that spares us, both the work and the drama and the politics of appointing somebody, creating what I refer to as a bias of incumbency. And then all of the question around when should election be held? Do we, you know, and my player, they considered holding election even before March to fill the mayor's seat and the council seat. So people take that opportunity for the public to elect really seriously. And I think this is good. This is good that you're willing to serve. Thank you. And so I think we need a motion to appoint Denise to serve in the vacant seat. I will proudly move that. Thank you, John. It would be through the end of town meeting 2023. Until whenever that happens. Until the election can be held. Until somebody new is sworn in, I guess. Yeah. Properly sworn. And I'm going to abstain from voting. Okay. So is there a second on John's motion? It's a motion to appoint Denise into position she just vacated tonight. And she will remain in that position as an appointee until a new individual is elected into that position. Or at very least the end of town meeting if no one's elected. That's right. And then there's, we don't know. Right. I'll second that. Okay. So there's a second. Any other discussion or comments? Denise, thank you. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. And Denise, you'll let the record. And just for clarification, this, the select board has done this twice before. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. Couple weeks, I guess, when both myself and both I and Mark Mahaly, two select board members resigned their spots in the midst of their term. And so we were really both reappointed by the select board. We're appointed by the select board. They're the same premise. To serve in the vacancy. And we will post the vacancy. So that everybody is aware of this opportunity to run. Barbara is also going to be posting. She'll post it. She's posting. She's going to repost everything. And we just need to make sure it's in it. This is going to be included. Okay. And what she posts on front porch. Jim had that form to use. I don't know if it matters. Remember when we had to do this when Judy resigned? Oh, there was a special form like it's supposed to hang up in the town office and whatever. Is that the 10 days thing? We have to do it within 10 days. We have to announce the vacancy within 10 days. So we could and we are allowed to appoint before we've announced the vacancy. The purpose of announcing the vacancy is that somebody can run in the election. All right. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Appreciate you. Thank you for your confidence. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm excited for you. I feel excited for you. Thank you. This is a great. It's an exciting development. All right. I think our meeting is adjourned. Is there a motion to adjourn? I would move the meeting adjourned. Is it is is it like 803 or something? 802. Eight o'clock. Eight o'clock. Eight o'clock. Straight up. Eight o'clock. Straight up. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Okay. Awesome.