 Okay, now we're recording. This is disability access advisory committee meeting for June. 2022. Beginning at. I don't know what time exactly 1150 something on. June 14th. And somebody I'm hearing something from. Somebody's computer about a cash reward. Okay. We'll take that. I don't know, but it went away. Okay. I got distracted. Okay. So this is a rather short agenda. We have a few announcements at the beginning. I don't know if we have anyone from the public. I don't think we do. No, we do. Tracy is in attendance. Aha. Okay. Do you have any. Comments to make. Or should we. Are you just listening? Oh, so Myra. So. Let's see here. We had spoken on the phone. Yeah. Talk to Tracy about it. I forgot to talk. Yes. So let's see here. Her hand is raised. So would. So Tracy Zaffian is a member of the public. And she's also the chairperson of the town's transportation advisory committee meeting with the board like to make Tracy. Zaffia and a panelist. Sometimes I go to their meetings and they've made me a panelist. Okay. Just because it's easier to. Yeah. Interact that way. And. She's ahead of a board that we want to have some connection with. So it seems logical. For her not to be a privileged person from the community. She's actually a town board. Head. Okay. Sure. So I can make her a panelist. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I actually don't have very many comments. There were a couple items on the agenda. And I have another meeting at one. Yeah. Well, we do too. Okay. All right. So this will be quick. So Maureen sent out announcements about the June. 27. Second listening session for the. Age and dementia friendly community. And I went to the last one. But I couldn't stay for the whole thing. It was pretty interesting. People had good things to say. They put us in breakout rooms. We talked about last time it was all about. What was it about? Show you where my brain is anyway, this one is taught. Tell us Maureen what this one's about. Yes. So I'm. Assisting senior services with a year. Long projects called the age and dementia friendly. Community projects. And we hope to make Amherst, a designated age and dementia friendly community. And part of this project will be hosting. Several listening sessions on various topics that. That will engage seniors and care caregivers. And. This information and feedback that we received from seniors will be incorporated in the final plan. And that will be part of this project. So the next listening session. Is on social participation and inclusion, communication and technology and civic engagement. And. It's scheduled from. But okay. Two 30 to four on Monday, June 27th. Via zoom. And you can find the meeting. Posting on the town calendar. And it has all the information. You do need to register for the meeting. There was a link provided to you all in the, in an email I sent out last week. That's promoting the listening session. And. And then you can also find that link on the town calendar. And we include a flyer that's in English and also in Spanish that helps promote the flyer. We're. Reaching out to various organizations. In town boards and departments to help promote this event. And so we hope to have speakers or a consultant, Becky Bish, who's a. Planner with pioneer. Pioneer Valley planning commission will be speaking, giving a presentation. And we've asked Jen moisten our assistant director. To the office on disability equity inclusion to speak about. What. What the town is doing to engage all members of our public. And we've asked. Brianna. From our IT department to talk about. How we're using communicate how we communicate and use technology. To engage with members of our public. And then we'll have a breakout session. So we'll give a presentation, a couple of presentations. And then we want to hear from seniors and caregivers. About their thoughts and pros and cons and. And what, what opportunities could be. Be given to, to be more inclusive. So, yeah, so. And also, I think the link is on our agenda. So if you want to just go to our meeting agenda, you can find out more information on our agenda. And then the second item on the for under announcements. Is so Amherst's has selected its first director of diversity, equity, inclusion. This might be slightly outdated information and maybe Pat can fill us in. So the town manager appointed. Pamela Nolan young as the town's first director. Subject to review by the town council. The town manager referred this appointment to the town council for approval in accordance with the Amherst home charter rule. Miss young is expected to start her role with the town on July 1st. And Pat, did the town council. Approve. Yes, we did. Great. And you can read more about Pamela's, or Miss young's background and professional experience. And the link provided on the meeting today's meeting agenda. It's linked to our town website. And as the town manager had indicated in an email, sent to Myra feels like good, a good few months ago. We're like, December. So, you know, the office on diversity, equity, inclusion. We'll capture, you know, accessibility. And so we hope to invite Miss young to whatever upcoming meetings to see how, you know, what, what does that entail? But first, let, let, let us let her get settled with the town. So. I was thinking September or October. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I'm sure it'll take her couple of months just to sort of get lay of the land and so we can certainly invite her and then hopefully by September or October, we'll have a better understanding. What does this new sort of relationship with that department have to do for the, for this committee. So yeah, so let me write that down. So September or September or October have her attend the meeting. Okay. Anybody have any ideas about that? So sound all right with anyone with everyone. Fine. Okay. Okay. I have a question. Yep. I'm not in relation to this, but I wasn't at the. Architectural access. Meeting that you guys had for, for the variants. I was just curious what happened with that. Oh. That was for the park. Well, the shelter for the emergency shelter. Next to the park. Yeah. Yeah. So, it turns out that the entire. Amethyst Brook really isn't accessible at all. And the piece of property that has this building on it. Is. On the edge of a farm. That's a working farm. And the farmer said that. It would take up a lot of space that he uses. For his farm. And. Although. I don't think any of us was thrilled about. Them having a program that isn't accessible. That would be required. To make the emergency shelter. Accessible when the entire program isn't going to be accessible. The farmer said that it would take up a lot of space that he uses. For his farm. To make the emergency shelter accessible. So, I don't think any of us was thrilled about having a program that isn't accessible. They were able to show us that they actually have quite a few programs that are accessible, but not at that site. And so. Given that the program has fewer than 10 kids in it at a time. I think the vote was. Serent abstained. I think. The rest of us voted to do it. Because we didn't want to have a program that wasn't accessible. But it didn't seem to be any reason. To not approve it. Because the entire program. Isn't accessible even without the emergency shelter. So if you've ever gone into Amethyst Brook. It needs a lot of work to be accessible. Okay. Does that. Does that answer the question? Does anybody want to. Yes. Anybody want to define it in a different way? I think. Marty had. You know, pointed out. The sort of financial burden on the applicant. Yeah. You know, building that shed is, I forget, you know, how much, but you know, lowering the shed to the ground level or installing a ramp, particularly would cost like, you know, at least $10,000. For. A very small shed and, you know, with. That seems like a financial burden. To, to this, that nonprofit. And so. Yeah, so I did for it. Farmer's way. I mean, the farmer wasn't. It was going to get in the way of the farm. Right. Have that ramp there. Okay. I just, I was curious what happened. Yeah. Tracy has her hand up. Okay. Thank you, Pat. Hi. So I had a question just about the age friendly listening sessions. So I, I think I had, I had listened to the recording of some of the earlier meetings and I had seen that transportation. Was terribly there was a listening session. Was that the right date or is that not confirmed? I can, if you shoot me an email, I can let you know, I don't, I wasn't prepared to have the information today. Oh, I just because it was about transportation. So I know I had shared it. I, because at some point, like that whole, the whole schedule of all the listening sessions was sort of mapped out. So I wasn't sure if they were confirmed, but sure. I'm happy to send you. They have been confirmed. I just don't have that. And I guess one other thing is that I know that the committee. And as part of this effort, right? It's interested in listening to both. Caregivers and seniors. So what if, what if an Amherst resident is a caregiver. But the person that they're caring for, like doesn't necessarily live in Amherst. So is it the idea to support them? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what they're caring for. Like doesn't necessarily live in Amherst. So is it the idea to support caregivers? Like even if they're supporting somebody who lives in Hadley or Sunderland. Sure. Yeah. It's, you know, yeah. I think we're a welcoming, inclusive group. So. We're not, there's no, you know, hard and fast regulation on it. Yeah. In fact, one of the people in my group last time. Had been a professional in Amherst for years and years and was on the council and council on aging for many years. Didn't live in Amherst. And then they decided that you had to live in Amherst. So they kicked her off the council of age on aging. But, you know, so. I think it used to be a little more open. I think it's more about the working group. For this. Town projects. I just meant to listen to these sessions because there was somebody I had reached out to and they're like, well, are you a caregiver? You know, they were very like, why do you think you can even whatever. So. But I just, I mean, a lot of people. You know, or a lot of people in their, even 30s, 40s, 50s, or like caregivers for either parents or grandparents or whatever. I mean, there's a lot of caregiving that goes on all around. And sometimes caregivers need support. And the people that they are caregiving for need more supportive. So. Oh, absolutely. No. And that's. Yeah. No, and that's been expressed in, in, in a variety of these meetings as part of the agent. Agent dementia friendly project. Is how can we be more supportive of caregivers? And you know, it's, it's definitely underrated. And underappreciated. Yet very important role that. You know, family members or, you know, professionals. Provide. And so. So that is definitely a big aspect of this project as well. Okay. New business. I actually have. Yeah. Just a quick comment. I know. The Amherst senior center used to have a discussion group. For caregivers. I don't know if they still do, but, um, you know, anybody from any of the surrounding communities, Hadley, Holyoke could come to that. So, so, you know, that's a model right there. Yeah. Good to know. Yeah. Good to know. Thank you. Yeah. So I wrote to Mindy Dom. As an advocate for increased funding for the regional transit. Authorities throughout the state. They had proposed an increase. They didn't get it either from the Senate. Or from the house. There is a little bit of extra money in the Senate version to support, uh, people to defer. Um, To defer costs of regional transit. That was very unclear what it meant. But for example, in the Worcester regional transit. In the ADA service there, they don't, they haven't been charging people in the pandemic. In hours, we've always been charged. I think the Springfield regular, um, The fixed route service stopped charging people for a while. So there isn't any, um, Kind of uniformity about it, but there is a little extra money in the Senate version. So I wrote to our state representatives and state Senator to ask them to vote for the version or to tell their conferees to vote for the version that has the most money. And Mindy Dom wrote back that she had met, uh, With a group of people from North Hampton. And she described them as activists, disability activists. And they want to work on issues of access to businesses in Amherst. I don't know what that's about. She said she wasn't, uh, She wanted to know if we wanted to meet with them or talk to them. And I said, sure. She said, She didn't want to step on anybody's toes. So I'm waiting to find out who these people are and how she wants to, or how they want to go about having this joint meeting or having them come to one of our meetings. It's not clear, but apparently. She doesn't even represent North Hampton. So it's not clear to me why she's involved in this at all. Um, so, uh, I don't know what it's about, but I'm in dialogue with her. So something will be coming. And I don't know if any of you would know about any people. I don't know if any of you would be concerned about access to businesses for people from other towns. I haven't heard of anything. My God. Doesn't mean they're not out there. Right. I have a feeling. So you remember the. The rally in North Hampton for disability. Right. I, my gut tells me that. This group of individuals at Mindy's working with might be those that organized that rally. Um, because I know that that was something that was talked about a lot during the speeches at the rally was how do you provide, um, You know, how do you work with the restaurants in North Hampton to ensure that they're accessible? Yeah. Okay. Including the snow. In winter time. So. Yeah. I think that's a good idea for us to find out more about it. I mean, if there's safety in numbers, right? We'd be happy to advocate for them too. But it's still confusing to me because Mindy doesn't represent North Hampton. Or have Lee. So, um, she only represents Amherst and one. Part maybe a third to a half of grand B. And power. Yeah. Maybe it would be nice to have her. She does now. She will. She will not represent poem in the next election. So I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that is right now. You're right. They took it away from her. So with the committee members won't be, um, Would you all entertain the idea of if, you know, Mindy suggests that. Those individuals wanted to meet with you all. Would you want to invite them to like an upcoming meeting? Yeah. I think that's a good idea. I think that would be a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think it would be a good idea for other activities as well. So it really makes sense to me that we use there. We're having dialogue with them. Yeah. If thinking and what their plans are, et cetera. Agreed. Yeah, are these people involved with the committee? They have maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I will pursue it further. I'll try to find out who they are and. like we don't know what's going on. But at the same time, there might be people who've had incidents with our business people that we don't know about and that we wouldn't have a way to know about. So, you know, it's important for us, I think in many ways to all work together. And I just, you know, it was a request that I thought I'd bring to you. And I'll tell her that we'd be happy to meet with them. But I want to know more about it because as I said, they have their own state rep and they, that's not who contacted me. So, okay, so then we have a lot of updates on projects. I don't think, do you want to quickly go through them Maureen? Sure, very, very, there's anything different from what? Yeah, they're my I don't I listed a bunch of projects. Some don't have updates, but I included them just so we don't forget. For future reference. So the first one is, you know, the town we received a grant through the mass office on disability. And it's to deal with architectural barriers relative to the front door of the bang center. And so that work. Sorry, just bear with me that work is to replace the broken automatic door control and associated door and provide a ADA compliant level landing at the automatic door and and to install a sign that doesn't need that entrance as accessible. And to provide a ADA compliant, clear floor space at the at the door as well. So basically in a nutshell is to help make the door entrance ADA compliant. And so that work needs to be done by the end of this month. And so there need to regrade outside too. Yeah, yep. So they're going to do some re grading slightly at the at the entrance at the doorway and have it meet the sidewalk at that at that existing grade. So work should be starting today or this week and and we need it completed and invoices sent back to the state by the end of this month. And we hope to achieve that deadline. And the Amity Street sidewalk improvement project. It appears to be completed. I'm not maybe Tracy can provide an update on that. The one. Oh, at least I mean, okay, go ahead. I've walked it and it's great. It's You know, I saw a sign that said Lincoln Street and it's it's a little bit past that that they've completed. Yeah, they did and it's good. Oh, that's great to hear at least thank you. And also I'm happy to report that that you know or Amherst coffee we had that problem last summer. With the Sidewalk a day there. They did that little park when I guess you call it or whatever they fixed it so that you know the the seating is on the street. Now if they fixed it. Oh, great. And do you like it. Yeah, I can, you know, you can use the sidewalk. Yeah, they did. They did what they were supposed what we wanted them to do. So Yay. Yeah, good. At least the squeaky wheel gets oil. Yeah. I appreciate that Amherst coffee isn't roping off their walkway anymore. I always was really not happy with. I do have a quick I mean the amity. It looks great on both sides and at least I know this might be of interest to you, but I've been in touch with the property owner on the south side of between Um, like north of Dana, whatever that is between like Lincoln and Dana. Oh, that's bad. And where that well first of all, there's like that little break in the sidewalk. It's sort of steep, but then also this one owner like had the bushes be completely overgrown. And I know that owner and He said, well, there's nothing I can do. And I was like, Oh, and if you actually even take a picture, you can see that there's all this new growth and currently it's going almost like a third to half. Of the sidewalk. Yeah, my head. I walked and he said that if he said like he was told by No, guardian person if he cut it back, it would never grow again. And I said, well, what did the old owners do? He's a pretty new owner there. He is on South Pleasant. And anyway, I just let him my electric hedge flipper. So hopefully they'll do something. Because I am annoyed to I did have a question just about the the steeper parts of amity. And so one thing I've heard repeatedly and it's come up the tack beatings to is there are some sections of that steeper section of amity between, you know, up to data like Lincoln and Dana. And I mean, I think, you know, I think it even gets to like 78% grade. It's definitely not a da But then one thing I've heard and it's come up at the tack means to this is just a general question and comment is that So what we've been told is that well, there's nothing we can do to fix that sidewalk. You know, on that steeper section because it can never be like at 88 compliant grade. And so I was just wondering, I mean, what do we do and what happens in communities that have hills and so I just, I don't know. Well, that's in fact a much bigger question. So because he said that he can't fix he can't put in a sidewalk on the west side of Kellogg up by Triangle Street for the same reason, right. What he said. I can't, I can't recall his reasoning. Somebody said that it was impossible to put a sidewalk on that log where there isn't one. Guilford has said that in public meetings. That's true. But it is not impossible to put a sidewalk where there isn't one. You just have to be a little creative with your machines to grade it. But I guess that's the question in like, I mean, in terms of the ADA and somebody I'm sure knows way more than me but it seems like, you know, if there were these facilities on hills that you should still be able to fix. You know, it's like, you're never going to make, you're never going to be able to make the hill go away, but it should be able to smooth it out. Thank you, Pat. Thank you. So the way that 521 CMR reads and the ADA reads is that sidewalks. And a sidewalk is defined as a walkway that is parallel and adjacent to a roadway. Those are not required to meet the slope requirements either side to side or length wise. The reason is because in order to do it to make it accessible, you would have to end up re grading the entire road. And you may still not be able to do it. So then you end up having to build switchbacks in order to get a legal ramp up there. So that's why those sidewalks are exempt. And the reason for not having one on Kellogg doesn't make any sense to me. No, it doesn't. Because it may not comply, but you can still build it because it is an adjacent sidewalk to a road. Right. Next to a busy street. Yes. Right. It would make sense that you would go ahead and do that even though it's not accessible. But there is a perception in town and I've run into it and on my driveway that, that every sidewalk has to be accessible and that's actually not true. Okay. Yeah. I mean, top of topographically, what you're saying is totally logical. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm having to carve down a lot of things that you can't really do. Yeah, I would want to have the code in front of me so we can cite it. I certainly, I certainly believe you Marty. And I've, and I've read that and all that. Would it be helpful at maybe at a future meeting to consider maybe writing a memo about about this? Because I do feel like there might be some fear of like something wrong from folks that they don't want to upset you or like do something wrong. And so then they're so concerned of doing something wrong that they decide, let's just not do anything because they're so scared. And so to hear this kind of feedback. You know, you would be okay with, you know, if the town were to ever put in a sidewalk along Kellogg, like, sure, if you could make it a compliant but, you know, due to section and blah, blah, blah. You know, you're exempt from meeting that code. And so it gives them. I have it right here. Oh, great. Yep. It's a CMR 521. Section 22. And the exception is specifically 22.3.1 22.3.1. Oh, thank you. Well, so I guess now that we have the section cited. We, you could all can think about that, but just as a friendly sort of gesture. It's like, I don't know if that is needed, but, but just to point out like, you know, you guys acknowledge that, you know, if, if, if, you know, it's impractical to make a sidewalk ADA compliant, you know, there are exemptions under under the code that allows that and that you would want to still see connections, progestering connections through town when, you know, whenever possible. So this is a perfect opportunity for the transportation committee and us, because I think you're working on sidewalks right Tracy you're. We do work on sidewalks sometimes. I mean, well, and I've been doing stuff with safe routes to school about sidewalks, but I think it would be really helpful. Frankly, there is a school right across the baseball field from there. It would be really helpful to like have clarification and if the committee, right, if your committee writes a memo to clarify, because I mean we really do here and I mean in the case of amity where you have tree roots and you have cracks in the sidewalk I mean, obviously it would be safer, even at the greed it's at if those are fixed. I mean, I just don't want that to. Yeah, it just so thanks. Right. Yeah, and yeah, so sidewalks are a major problem in this town. I think they are in lots of places but they are really in this town, because they haven't been maintained at all. I've lived in this neighborhood for 42 years they haven't repaired a sidewalk here since I live here. And it's really quite astounding. So, I think they're about to do a little bit of sidewalk work on Taylor Street. But there's so much more. And, you know, I don't need that doesn't even begin to cover it. So, I think it's important for our two committees to work together, especially when, you know, the middle school is pretty adjacent to High Street where there are pretty terrible sidewalks. And the high school is across the baseball field from Kellogg where there are no sidewalks. I don't know. Anyway, so, other than that, it seems like everything else. So I have a question about the bank center Maureen jumping back to your other topic. Does the elevator work well in there. I believe it does. It did. Yeah, I believe it does. I personally haven't used it and if memory shows, I don't use it. The banks, the ADA plan for the bank center. I believe didn't call it out being as like a non ADA compliant. Because that building has so many levels and making one entrance accessible is great, but the other entrance on the other side is almost more convenient for people going to the senior center. So, I don't have that one is accessible right that one is self door, which is near Johnny's restaurant that there is a automatic door opener control there was on the front door too but it doesn't work. Yeah, unfortunately, it broke recently and that's why we applied for this grant. Yeah, that's one of the reasons. Okay, I just wanted to make sure because that's a funny building. It is. It's a very funny building. Okay. All right. So the other ones. The. You said you didn't have any further comments. Yeah, let's see here so the downtown parklets that those have been installed and those are so ones installed in front of Amherst coffee and it's great to hear from Elise that that you like the layout and that it's not blocking the sidewalk down so now you can just freely use a sidewalk as a pedestrian pathway. And then the other parklet is located in front of fresh side, which is on let's see here. So, yeah, self pleasant street. Yep, exactly. And so both parklets are ADA compliant. And there is a threshold connecting the parklet to the sidewalk so it's a nice easy, you know, threshold into into and out of the parklet and Yeah, and they look aesthetically pleasing. It looks like people are using them and really enjoying them so the fresh side also has tables in front on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant as well. They do so they did ask for that as well and so it's not it's it's kind of narrow. And Amherst Amherst coffee still has their ones next to their like. Yeah, so it goes from building wall, then, yeah, sort of laying than seating and then there's a, there is a pedestrian pathway and then the parklet. So, it does meet code for the width of a sidewalk. I originally didn't know I didn't I wasn't aware that they were still going to maintain tables and chairs on the sidewalk itself. But they did request that to the town. Have you tried to get through there have you had any trouble. I haven't gotten a chance to go in this though. I haven't been downtown. Go check it out. We have a budget Tory you can get yourself a cup of coffee. I had a question is how long in the parklets intended to stay installed. So the town manager approved them as temporary uses so they should be removed this fall. Maybe that could change I don't know maybe, maybe the businesses would want them to stay up a little longer. I'm not too sure on that but that has that right now they're considered temporary uses. Okay, imagine they'll be removed before we have snow because they're really possible to plow around. Yeah, I tend to agree. They're actually built modularly so they can be removed stored and put back. Oh good. Yeah. They can be reused year after year they're quite well built I watched them build the one for fresh life. Yeah, yep, yep. That's great. Yeah, great. Okay. Are there any other I saw there's no update for Pomeroy so I assume, I don't have an update I don't know if anyone else has an update. I just had a lot to comment about Pomeroy actually I mean if you go back to when the original timeframe. You know that it was actually supposed to I think be constructed by now but can go for had brought up at attack meeting that. I mean I thought it was supposed to be by like March or something like that's definitely on there. One of their priority projects. I mean I think they actually need to the town is supposed to go to the town needs to spend the money, you know with a certain amount of time like it's not infinite. So, I thought they were supposed to be going out to bid now. Do you know Pat. No I don't but I can find out. Okay. And email you. Okay. So it seems like all the, all that's, you know, they did. They did the best they could, given that they're building roundabout so. I think it's, you know, it's just time for them to, to do it and yeah. No. So, I don't know that we have anything else that we have to have any opinion on. Do I have a question. Oh, go for it. What is the both would work project. Where is it at now. What would walk, what would walk. I mean, they were going to get rid of the parking lots of parking on the town hall and one way street, and we were thinking of the parking places for the north common. Correct. Yeah, so good question, Sarah. But the town is looking for to secure more funding for that project. And so it's been put on hold until we can secure more funding so. Because we read some concerns in the important concerns. Correct. Yeah. Do you know, yeah, tell us. They talked about it some last night and that the suggestions from this group, I believe have been incorporated into the design, the design. I'm not sure all of them I can have been but that's what was stated last night. Yeah, the cost of the project has skyrocketed because of construction costs, and they, I don't have my notes here, but they've received two grants to move ahead with that project. So there is no discussion on the board before it's even designed to revisit taking away the parking or partial parking lot it's all going to be grass except the perimeter. Yes, I know. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so nobody's revisiting that. Okay. All right. I think that might be everything I think. Yeah. That might be it. So the next meeting we would have normally would be July 12. And the question is, do we want to have a meeting. If we just have updates, or do we want to take a summer vacation and skip till August? I don't know how anybody feels about it. I'm taking the first two weeks in August. So I will not be here for the name here actually. Maybe we should have a July meeting and not an August meeting. We could do that. We could do that. We could do that. Yes. Unless we have some kind of a proposal that we have to do something about, but we never know about those till the last minute anyway. Right. Maureen, they never give you a lot. Yeah, true. That is a very, well, let's, what if, so we would, we would be meeting July 12. Do folks want to put that in the books? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. August unless some reason comes up that we need to. Sounds good. Yeah. Okay. We'll have a lovely June. Oh, by the way, there's no more taste of Amherst. Is that right? Oh, really? I don't know. Not this year. Just not this year. I don't know. Tracy raised your hand. Yeah. Okay. I had a question about the East pleasant street. The project near the Kendrick. I don't know. I don't know. Are. Are them the rapid rectangular flashing beacons and those crosswalk. I mean, is do, does the town have those yet? Or has the town decided where to put those flashing lights? That's a good question for Guilford. I do. I do believe that the equipment to. Install the flashing beacons have arrived. But yeah, your questions are really geared to. No, that's fine. Yeah. Well, um, Yeah, I've been thinking about it just with the safety of some of the crosswalks and particularly I've been working on some state foods to school. Stuff and like assessing. All the schools. I was down to cracker this morning, but. To me, it seems really hazardous that at the. Crosswalk, the intersection of East pleasant and strong street, which is not that far. But that there's only a crosswalk there. There's no like flashing lights or anything. And so like, if any students are trying to cross or anybody, but if, particularly for students, if you're trying to cross and it's not in that little window that the crossing guard is present. It's a lot, it's a lot harder. So I mean, some of the discussion with the schools, you know, has been like the wildwood is so much more walkable than Fort River, but every time I think about that one unsignalized intersection with nothing. I have concerns about it. I don't think it's a DAC issue, but it's a good issue. Elise has raised your hand. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, you're muted Elise. Where is she? Oh, here we go. There's actually construction going on near my building. I don't know where it's coming from, but it's been happening. I have one more sidewalk comment and I don't think it's been addressed, but I just want to mention that the, I know there's a bus stop on the side, on the Amherst common. And the sidewalk leading up to that is pretty treacherous just to throw that out there. Where's this? I'm sorry. I was typing something. Say that one more time. Which street. I don't know the street street or on South Pleasant street. I don't know the street or on South Pleasant street. I don't know the street. I just know it's right next to the common. It's like where the farmer's market. Happens. But that's the one on South Pleasant street. Yeah, that's right next to spring street. Yeah, there's a bus stop. Some of the buses stop. You know, it's near where that little yellow building used to be. Yeah. The sidewalk is pretty horrible. Oh, sure. Yeah. So I just wanted to throw that out there. That really could use a fix up. Yeah. And I think that's something that the town hopes to incorporate as part of a part of the. The common. The north part of the town common project. Is to replace the, that stretch of the sidewalk along South Pleasant street in the common. Yeah. And I, yeah, I think we all agree that needs some love and care. Yes. Thanks. Tracy, your question about strong street is a good one. There's probably not great visibility there either. But it's not a DAC issue. Okay. I didn't, I mean, just in terms of accessibility. I understand. And just, just to let you know, too, that the tack, I'm still really interested in the question about like snow access. Like we talked about that a little bit. And now it's summer, but before we know it, there'll be snow back. So I am in touch with walk boss and about it. I'm hoping that a walk bus and person will come to. One of the tack meetings, but maybe it could be a combined. Whatever. Maybe we can figure something out. Right. Well, actually, we can get that Pamela. Nolan young meeting. Maybe we can talk to her about how that's. That's actually an issue of inclusion. Yeah, I mean, I haven't gotten anywhere with her with disability access, but maybe if she makes it an issue of inclusion, she can get somewhere. I mean, and that's where too, I had mentioned at one of our meetings that I had reached out to Earl Miller just because when people don't shovel their sidewalks or have their cars blocking the sidewalks that. I don't always want to call the police dispatch line, right? So. And I think that's really receptive on that. But I'll just mention too, just I had gone for some reason, I was in some of my archives over the weekend and I have letters. I have a letter from 2003 where I had written. The town and it was a letter to the editor to the bulletin too, asking for better snow shoveling because there had been people coming to the select board asking for better snow shoveling, including one of my elderly neighbors. And then I also found the letter about requesting that the walk and don't walk signals be repaired. And this is from 2001 to the DPW that director that he was not good for that. These are long-term thing. No, that they don't happen. Yeah. In 2001, he wasn't here yet. He was here in 2002. Yeah. Well, so this is 2001, but I had documented all the broken signals and I sent it to you. So, well, there we go. So progress. Next generation or something. Yeah. Right. Everybody July 12th. Same time. Well, thank you everyone. Thank you. Bye. Bye.