 Just who I thought I'm here. Oh, yeah, you're there. Okay. And pass here. So as chair of the Rochester Select Board, I find that due to the state of emergency declared by Governor Scott as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to add an end to 6 to executive order 01-20 and act 92 this public body is authorized to meet electronically, which we are doing in accordance with act 92. There is no physical location to observe and listen contemporaneously to this meeting. However, in accordance with the temporary amendments to the open meeting law, I confirm that we are a providing public access to the meeting by telephone, video or other electronic means using the zoom platform for this remote meeting. All members of the board have the ability to communicate contemporaneously with this meeting to this platform and the public has access to contemporaneously listen and if desired participate in this meeting by contacting the town clerk to request an invitation to the meeting and previously gave notice to public of unnecessary information for accessing this meeting, including how to access the meeting using the telephone, video or other electronic means in our posted meeting agenda. Instructions have also been posted on the town website and we are going to provide the mechanism for the public to alert public body during the meeting if there is problem with access. If anybody has a problem, please call me at 802-767-4464 to respond to the problem with your connection. Certainly we will have you and continuing the meeting if necessary and the agenda of the public is unaided access to this meeting. It will be continued at the time and place on how that's going. One concern that I had in terms of the telephone health language, during this meeting there are not unanimous to be done by roll call vote in accordance with the law and let's start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance of all members participating in the meeting. So I'm in the agenda between the authority to continue and I'll let them in and I see we have Frank Severe here, Mark Severe, Pat Carby, someone at 802-767-4453. Would you like to announce yourself? Thank you, Rob. Very good point. Nancy. Okay Nancy Boyle. All the members of the public. James Hall of Dubois and King, Julie DeTowne-Clerk, Orca Media is reporting us for posterity. Brian Austin is here, John Olin of Boyle Tanners here, Brad McCurrier, and there's another Nancy down here. I totally understand it makes sense why the prospective payments are so valuable during the time when there's a great deal of non-COVID-19. That's everyone. We have 12 participants at the meeting and we're here to the first piece on the agenda is to open some bids for Julie. Do you want to read off the bids or is it Joan? Would you like to read off the bids here? Joan is signing on right now. Okay. All right. Here we go. Add 13. Joan Allen, the select board assistant is joining the meeting and she has got the bid information when she gets fully connected. Your audio. Can you hear me now? Now we hear you Joan. Okay. Okay. So you want to just give us a quick preview of what these bids are for and how many we've got and who they're from? Sure. This is for the design engineering and permitting work on the replacement for the West Hill road bridge. Yay. We're doing in cooperation with US Forest Service and we have received four bids, one still at the printer, but I have a little amount. So the first one is from VHB and their amount is, oh thank you, their amount is, I can hardly read it. $3,533.25. Okay. The second one is from Du Bois and King and their proposal is $66,853. Third one is from Hoyle Tanner Associates. Hoyle Tanner, did you say? Hoyle, H-O-Y-L-E. Okay, thank you. Their total is $135,221. And the fourth and final one, let me just double check, but I believe that will be the last. No, no new ones have come in. Okay, so the final one is from Weston and Samson and the amount is $147,996.65. Excuse me, Joan, the first one you read was for only $3,533? No. Okay, because that's what I got too. I was saying, boy, that's what I've got too. Sorry, you might have missed one of my digits. If this is from VHB, that's the one. $63,533.25. So $63,000. Yeah. All right. Sorry, I just thought that was a big gap there. Sorry. It was. It would be. And the Weston and Samson, is it spelled W-E-S-T-I-N? W-E-S-T-O-N. O-N, thank you. All right. So we are not going to make a decision on those bids at the moment because we are going to have the engineers evaluate them and the people that know more than we do to help us with that decision. But thank you for the four bidders that brought that in. And we'll let you know as soon as we've made a decision who's going to get the bid. June, I wasn't, Brian and I had an email exchange this morning and Brian is with USFAR Service and another engineer. Two of them will be technical review and we're expecting that they'll be able to give us their recommendations by next Tuesday or around next Tuesday. Next which day? Next Tuesday. Is that right, Brian? Yes. All right. Great. Thank you. So we'll be able to get back to everyone around that time. Great. All right. Thank you to all bidders for the work you've done so far. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. All right. Thank you guys. Yep. Thank you. Thank you very much. And so there's a couple other pieces of business on the agenda here. And one is the adoption of the local emergency management plan, which that's with the adopt that by May 1st. And with that has the few modifications, like the changing of the select board members and our member rather. Welcome, Frank. And I would move to adopt this local emergency management plan as updated. I second that. All in favor? That sounds unanimous. So we don't have to do a roll call vote. And the other piece of information that we want to deal with today is the revised delegation of authority, and which is relative to all this. And I'll read this out so we all know what's going on with it. I Chief Executive Officer or Chief Elected Official of Rochester, Vermont, hereby appoint Victor Roboto as Incident Commander for the period of 3820 to 6820. And have delegated to this individual the authority to perform following functions. One, provide overall leadership and accountability to the select board for incident management. Two, set the incident objectives, strategies and priorities. And three, delegate authority to others. Additionally, the following authorities have also been delegated to promote control of the spread of the coronavirus. Provide for timely and useful public information about the pandemic and what people should do to better protect themselves from the coronavirus. Excess the availability and assess the availability in Rochester of free and low cost food to meet the need of residents who might have trouble affording sufficient food. Plan for ways to address a gap between need and availability. Provide ways to address unmet social service needs created or worsened by the pandemic and brief the select board periodically on identified issues of concern and actions taken. The following restrictions have been set on this authority and that is do we will not commit town funds beyond $5,000 without select board approval. And I would move to approve this delegation authority to our incident commander for this current situation that we're experiencing. I'll second that. All in favor. All right, that's also unanimous. And excuse me, Dune, can I ask you one quick question before you move on. Sure. Since I couldn't write down as everything you said that quickly. Would you like me to forward you a copy of this? Yeah, if you wouldn't mind, do you have my news at our Herald email, right? Why don't you just spell it out for me real quick. Okay, it's all our case letters, so it's the word news, N-E-W-S, then the at sign, and then O-U-R-H-E-R-A-L-D dot com. So it should read news at our Herald dot com. That's my direct email they gave me. All right, I'll forward that to you. Thank you. I was just going to ask you if it was correct, if it would be okay to just say he voted, you voted to officially point him as the incident commander, but it'd be great to have the other stuff. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, sure. I already interrupt you. No, that's okay. That's why you're here. That's why you're here. Let me get back out of this window. Okay, so anyone else have anything that they wanted to contribute to this meeting here? No, we've addressed everything that was worn. Yeah, except for the local hazard mitigation plan. Isn't that on there too? Nope, that happened at the last meeting. Okay, but it said something about ratifying adoption. It was on the YouTube. Oh, yeah, good point. That's we're going to, I moved to ratify decisions that were made at our first Zoom meeting, which predated the legal authority to have a Zoom meeting by a day. We anticipated, we're under the understanding that the governor had made that declaration we were a day early. So I moved to ratify the decisions that were made in that meeting, which was predominantly to adopt the local hazard mitigation plan. I'll second that. I believe it's already done. Well, it doesn't hurt to extra ratify that. Yeah, all in favor? Okay, yeah. So yeah, just to make sure all our T's are dotted and I's are crossed. That's correct. That was the essence of our special meeting is to exciting to hear that there's movement on the West Hill Bridge that, you know, again, that was a target we thought was pretty far out in the future. And lo and behold, here we go. It's happening. So just like Bethamon Road got dumped in our lap a year ago. And that's been dealt with. So, you know, I'm glad to see that the frost heaves have calmed down on the upper half of Bethamon Road. Not so bad. Yeah. They always do. Oh, here's somebody is waiting to get in and then the meeting. I'll see who that is and see if they have any questions for us. They might have popped up there. Hey, Jack, let's see if he is. Hey, Jack, you hear us? Yes, I can. So I'm sorry, I hear a little late to join the meeting. Do you have any questions about what we just took care of? Or you want us to summarize that? If you could summarize it, that'd be great. Yeah, we opened four bids for the West Hill Bridge and we are not making a decision on those. Those are going to be evaluated by people a little more skilled in that field than us, but we hope to have a decision by next Tuesday. You need to know what the bid amounts are. So when you say the bid amounts, yes, please tell me. Okay. VHB submitted a bid of $63,533.25. Dubois and King submitted $66,853. Hoyle and Tanner bided $135.221 even and Weston and Sun bid $147.996 and $0.55. June, I just got another one. It came in exactly at 4 o'clock. Exactly at 4 o'clock. Okay, if it came in exactly at 4 o'clock, why don't we add that to the list? Okay, I just... You came in, Jack. You helped us grab another one. That was the one from Jack. All right, so what is that one, John? Hold on, I'm just opening it now. And read the name completely that it's from because I don't know who Jack is. Yes, I'll get there. Thank you. This is from Fortin, Tomasetti, T-H-O-R-N-T-O-N. First word, second word, T-O-M-A-S-E-T-T-I. And hold on while I scroll down to... I haven't been able to print it out yet, but I can scroll down to the amount. Total proposed cost is $139,417.11. $139,000, what I'm writing, $417.11. Thank you. All right, great. So we've got five bids. And then... Yep. No, go ahead. Yep. Then on top of opening those bids, which I said we hope to have a decision by next Tuesday, and we'll notify all the bidders of that and then make an announcement, well, that will be the day after our next select board meeting. I'll email everybody with the results. Okay. Yeah. And we also adopted our local emergency management plan and delegated Roboto for the authority as incident manager commander for this current pandemic situation. And that's the action that we took. I think perhaps Jones should let the two engineering firms that were part of the beginning of the meeting know that a fifth bid came in. Yeah. Okay. I can do that. Yeah. Who was there? I didn't get a chance to see. DuBoy and King and Hoyle Tanner. Okay. I'll let him know. All right. And thank you, Dune, for emailing me that extra info. I appreciate it. Yeah, I'll do that directly. Okay. Is anything else anyone would like to chat about while we're at an officially warned meeting? Okay. I'd just like to say thank you very much to the town of Rochester for letting us submit a proposal to do the work there. We're pretty far down low on the cost proposal piece, but I did just want to say thank you to the town and we wish you the best of luck. I hope you have a chance and opportunity to read through all the technical proposals as well. Yeah. And Jack, I'm not clear which company are you associated with. And Thornton Thomas Eddy. Okay. That was 139,417. Yeah, 417. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank you, Jack. Thank you. Pretty close time in there, buddy. Yes. Yep. Yep. No. Yes. And yep. We had some technical glitches, but yeah. Yeah, you made it. Yeah. All right. Does anyone else have anything else I'd like to mention that this now we're officially at a warned meeting? We'll just move forward and we'll have a regular select board meeting next Monday night. See you then. Thank you. We'll zoom in later. Have a good evening. Thank you. Bye. Bye.