 6.01. So I'll start with the preamble here which is because of the COVID situation. And as chair of the Rochester Select Board, I find that due to the state of emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to add them 6 to executive order 1-20 and act 92, this public body is authorized to meet electronically. 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. We're using the Zoom platform for this remote meeting. All members of the board have the ability to communicate contemporaneously during this meeting through this platform. And the public has access to contemporaneously listen and, if desired, participate in this meeting by contacting the town clerk to request the invitation to the meeting, which will give you the link or the phone which you call in to do. We previously gave notice to the public of the necessary information for accessing this meeting, including how to access the meeting using the telephone, video, or other electronic means in our posted meeting agenda. And instructions have almost also been posted on the town website. So we have provided a mechanism for the public to alert the public body during the meeting if there are problems with access. And I guess for this meeting, that would be my phone number at 802-767-4464. If you're feeling like it's not working for you and you want to alert someone, call that number. And if we need to continue the meeting in the event the public is unable to access the meeting, it will be continued at a time to be specified later. All votes that are taken during this meeting that are not unanimous will be done by roll call vote in accordance with the law. And let's start the meeting by just taking a roll call of the attendance of all the members that are signed in here. So I'm doing Hendricks. I'm here. And I see everybody is here. Rob and Shar Gardner are here. Vic Roboto is here. Frank Serri is here, even though he's headed to the sink. Amy Wilt is here. Nick, how do you pronounce your last name, Nick? Pichicuto. Pichicuto is here. I see Catherine Shankman is here and Midge Scanlon has joined us. And our select board assistant, Joan, I'm spacing on your lap. How can I do that? It's Alan. All right. Well, it wasn't on my script. And we have Orca Media is also here recording this for the public. And Julie Smith, Martha Slater, Burma Cassidy, Nancy Woolley, Kristen Leppell, Bruce Flewelling, Deb, who are you? Oh yeah, Deb Moore, and Lolly. I'm not sure what Lolly's last name is. Lindsay. Lindsay. Lolly Lindsay. Lolly Lindsay. Yep, that's me. Present here. And I believe the anonymous phone number on the bottom is a double up on Nancy Woolley. And I guess as Pat, as you allow more people into the meeting, maybe you could just announce them. Sandy just chimed in, Bill. All right. I don't see her, but I guess she's coming. There we go. All right. Welcome, Sandy. There you are. So at this point, now that Sandy, you just missed all the preliminaries, giving us mentioning the rules that give us authority to have an electronic meeting and all that. So at this point, does anyone have any additions to the agenda that was posted? Annie, was that on you? Yeah, okay. Hi. I've been working on the school Rochester Senior Scholarships, and I was wanting to discuss with the select board tonight the town portion of the senior scholarships. All right. Anybody else got something to speak about? Nope. All right. Then let's start off with the minutes for the prior meeting of April 27th, which I did not make. So I can't approve those, but Frank and Pat can go ahead and if they're so willing. I second it. All in favor. All right. All righty. Okay. For the departmental reports, let's start. Joan, what have you got for updates for us tonight? Okay. First, chapter about five on the continuing saga of reimbursement from the state for Bethel Mountain Road. At first, what was it? Last week, we were told that they sent us a check for the entire cost of site one, which was about $484,000, something like that. But when we checked our bank accounts, both of them, they weren't there. So finally, I think I was able to talk to my contact at VTrans, and they were all surprised too because according to their records and those of even the state finance department, the money had been wired. So then they got back later on and said, well, we found out that there was some kind of minor snafu that had nothing to do with our process or anything, but there's a federal person who sits in the VTrans department and has to do the final sign off. And there was something to do with some paperwork that had not been filed internally in VTrans that held it up. So we're profusely embarrassed and apologetic and said, we'll get this to you right away. Well, then I just found out this morning that, you know, the state's fiscal year ends, and traditionally what they do is like a month before the end of their fiscal year, they stop sending out any monies because they have to work on their books. This is something that's done for everybody, that state money. So the information I got today was that they hoped to be able to make a partial payment on site one sometime this week for something in the neighborhood of $330,000. And then there will be a delay on the remaining balance for site one as well as everything they still owe us for site one, B and two. And she, here, so was not sure whether it would make it by June or July. So that's the latest. So we might have some money this week, and I'll let you know if not it's going to be a couple more months. Part of that is just because the end of the fiscal year, but she also said everything else that's going on, which I assume means, you know, everybody working remotely and related to that. Anyway, sorry for that news. But I'll let you know when the money comes in, whatever it is. Sandy Haas, you're here. Do you have any insight as to whether the state is we can count on them coming through or are there talks about emergency cutting back on paying stuff like this? Do you have any idea about that? I have no information on the plan to cut back on. But I would need further to answer that. This is federal money anyway. So even at the state, we're cutting back in some way. I mean, it's already committed. I don't think there's any question that we're not going to get it. It's just a matter of the timing. Waiting some more. Okay. Yeah. So let me follow up with some good news. All right. The West Hill Bridge kickoff meeting, which is the design engineers are getting started. Okay. I have to do I have to collect a bunch of documents for one of the things they're sticking with is a lot of rights of way information and adjoining property owners. And they have to do a survey to verify where we're exactly right away. In fact, Bruce and I were in touch a little bit earlier today by email to see what documents might exist on his end or in the town office. So question I had for you on whether you know of any anything that might have been done on West Hill Road in the past, even the distant past having to do with surveys or anything like that. Well, they must have done one when they did that bank up there. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, I would think that's just above that bridge. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. So I don't know that was done, but I would think they would have done something. Plus they had to gain access to that. Well, yeah, that's, yeah, that's a different issue because the access came through the Carter's property. Yeah. But I'll have to come into the office sometime before the kickoff meeting and go through files there and see what I can find. It's it's a problem of even if we don't find anything, they just have to know what kind of surveying they have to do and when. But that meaning the kickoff meeting is going to be in person at the bridge site on Friday. What time? And what time on Friday? 11 o'clock. So, June, will you be able to come? I should be able to do that. And if any more select board members are going to come, I'm going to have to post it and all that kind of stuff. So you're going to need to let me know. You guys interested in coming and we could post that. I just soon be there. Okay. Yeah. All right. So I get an idea of what's going on. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be the first of many, many meetings, but this will be a good one to attend. Yeah. Everybody will be getting acquainted and stuff. Make sure to maintain social distance and bring a mask. Right. And four. But no tape measure. The nascent bridge culvert replacement on Bethel Mountain Road just below Perry Severy's house is out to bid. If it hasn't gone out today, it'll be posted tomorrow on various state sites and it will be in the Herald on Thursday. Okay. And the bids will be due on June 3rd and will be totally transparent with any of the bidders because as of right now, we still don't know for sure that we have state funding though. I've seen references made to our application by Chris Bump. So and because it's Bethel Mountain Road, I don't think we have you know any reason to doubt it, but we don't we don't have confirmation of that yet. But anyway, we're still going out to just share that information with them all the bidders. And there won't be an in-person site visit for that one. Bidders will just be invited to visit the site on their own if they want to. And then the next one is Mount Cush culvert. We're making good progress on getting all the state approvals needed a wetlands per not a permit but a registration and also to work in the floodplain from both Dune as our floodplain administrator and from the state. And that is in place. So the only thing left to do there in order to put that out to is getting the landowner on board and Dune and I have been coordinating on that one. Joan, can I ask you a question please? Sure. You said regarding the Mount Cushman culvert project that you're making good progress in getting approval for what? Or getting? There were approvals needed from the state. Well we need there's a stream alteration permit um which we have um then because the area around the culvert is in the river corridor and it's also considered to be wetland we had to get approvals from the state to the area. Thank you. Sorry I didn't quite hear you. And that's all I have for now. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks Joan. We don't have anyone from the library highway or utilities operator but I in terms of the utilities department that could jump ahead on the agenda and we have got to go ahead to appoint Jackie Harvey as a water sewer assistant is basically a backup to have a some more redundancy in case something should go down with Terry and Dana and she's got the um certification to to hold that that form so I do the right certification for that Dune. She does yeah. Terry's got a class our water systems class three what's her class on her license is it a three or two? She has a two. She has a two so she can't take Terry's place on the water system anyway. So I've got an idea here that um we want to talk about this in a closed meeting and come up with a better solution something more long term because our community if you look around we're probably 60 percent COVID positive for uh you know long in the tooth kind of thing and I think we need to look for younger blood to take that over and it is a process that I haven't looked into it fully but I do know it's a it's a year long after a person has got a class three license that he has to shadow someone or whoever it is has to shadow someone so I think for a benefit of our community we ought to look a little more a long term than a short term and I'd like to see this tabled until we get a little more information on what we really need to do there rather than just put somebody in a position and say we're good but we're not so I'd like to look look into this a little more to make sure what we're doing is the right thing. You have any problems with that? We've been looking for quite some time we've actually been looking for uh close to two years already um so this would put an assistant in place and um it doesn't change the way things are being handled now um it just uh puts somebody with some type of license as second in command if Terry were to go on vacation or something where to happen um I would still like a little more time to look into this I think we need a little time to look through it personally and I'd take that bow I don't care I can roll ahead with that and look look through the state level to see what we really need to do what's going to benefit us in the long run and not just a short termer but that's my feeling. Okay um Jackie's license needs to be renewed by the end of June I believe so um you know we we can tell her you know not to bother or so we probably would want to make that decision fairly soon about that second person that assistant um we would love to table it for the I'd like to table it for the next meeting then the next meeting yeah personally I think we need to look at it in a longer term solution than just to have somebody on board I'd rather have somebody on board that we can go further down the road with than just somebody to just take a place because Harry's not getting any younger and my concern is before long we're going to have somebody if something happens to him nobody's going to know where all the other things are that he knows whether it's the septic or the water system right and I had conversation with him about the chloride today and he's hoping that if they don't renew the the COVID-19 emergency on May 15th that we might be able to get out of the chloride after that the chlorine and chlorine yeah that'd be nice Friday so he's going to be in touch on Friday with me after he you know here's from the state so well I can you guys can vote I can wait but I'm voting I'd like to table it myself yeah I I could see tabling it to the next meeting but the the main thing is that we know that there is someone that we could fall back upon whether or not we appoint her tonight that in case something does happen to Terry that we're basically looking for some redundancy with the whole COVID situation in in in all our emergency services trying to you know but if you want to do some more research I know Patty are you all right with the table in that yeah I I don't want it to go too long I won't I won't bucket any longer than next meeting I just like to explain down a little bit more and and maybe we can find a solution that will work better for the community in the long run I've been trying to Dana into going to school but he's not really into it I know Dana Dana isn't we might be able to find somebody else who is like I've got a couple ideas all right so I'd like to have time to research all right thank you sure yep we're not on on the agenda specifically but I would consider that the the COVID emergency task committee is is kind of a departmental report and this kind of you know segues into that Vic do you want to give an update on where we're at and what our thoughts are around the town's preparedness yeah so just a quickly recap we've been focusing on I think five different categories of issues one is communicating timely and useful information which we've been doing through newsletters and postings on the bulletin board and front ports forum another is in the air public health where we are fortunate to have Jan McCann who's a public health nurse advise on a number of issues whether it's the Red Cross blood drive which was very successful and we met with Jodi Martin and and walk through how that would be set up and and felt very comfortable that they had an arrangement to keep people safe and at the same time provide for a very much needed Red Cross blood drive because the drives have been way down because the pandemic and there are quite a few people in in our community who really depend on certain blood products to survive quite honestly so that was very helpful I thought another area is in family and social services where we have set up so that people can call into the town clerk's office and make known concerns they have that have arisen out of or gotten worse because of the the pandemic and we've gotten a couple calls and Catherine has handled a couple of those herself and we're fortunate to have other folks working with her Paula um Sternberg and uh and Peggy the thank you sorry blanking on Peggy's last thing um and then and then uh in food security so Catherine and I are in touch with uh several times a week with people from a number of other towns and talking about with other community leaders about what's going on what are the key issues that they're dealing with and the top three issues that keep coming up time and time again are how to keep local businesses from failing internet connectivity especially to support school children and food insecurity and it just keeps coming up over and over again uh so uh you know we've had some conversations with the uh the the food shelf at the the federated church and as you know from our prior conversation we were looking for an emergency food distribution point in addition to what the church offers on a regular basis and so that's an ongoing discussion um and in the meantime uh Lollie has been in touch with the food bank about setting up a veggie van Gogh distribution point here in town could be potentially at the uh at the Rochester clinic that's operated by Giverd or potentially even at the school and so uh Bonnie and uh and uh Lindy uh Bonnie Byrne and Lindy Stetson the co-principals of the Rochester Stockbrook school and uh a number of us are going to be in conversation with the food bank about that later this week and uh let me just pause there and see if uh anybody else on the team has anything to add to that Catherine or Rob or Lollie so you know so I will speak for the grocery delivery service which is launched on March 30th and that is being done uh a partnership with the task force the emergency management committee task force and um and rebuild Rochester uh it's going well there are certain people who are once or twice a week so we know that we're providing uh an ongoing service for people who are too vulnerable to go into the the stories themselves and there have been clusters of new people who are through the going through the quarantine and it's going well so uh Sue Roboto was the uh the person to initiate that and uh she has now passed baton to Mary Sue Crowley and it's going well so yeah we're getting four or five requests a week and and Julie's been late in the office uh receiving those calls and triaging them and and uh making it all all work so it's going well one other point I just want to come back to in terms of the the uh the church food shelf you know we we want to work and partner with the food shelf they have the exclusive uh franchise if you will with the food bank and uh you know keep trying to do that and uh you know to have an emergency service set up you know the the the unemployment uh just to sort of speak the big picture for a moment unemployment last Friday uh was reported nationally at 14.7 percent uh which is huge I mean this is this is a depression area uh unemployment and uh in Rochester uh well there are there's data published no should copy the report there's data published by the Vermont Department of Labor about local area unemployment for all towns of a thousand and more so we know if for Rochester what's the workforce size what's the unemployment level month to month and uh in the year prior to March it was about 3.3 percent in March it went up to 4.5 percent we'll get the April report in about a week and if it's at 14.7 percent that means that it's about 85 people in Rochester are unemployed out of the workforce which usually runs about 19 people so that's a big increase and um that doesn't even count Hancock and Granville so talking probably 100 people have lost their jobs just in past month if that 14.7 applies to Rochester as well and then you know the family members of those people so you could be talking 200 250 people affected by uh loss of jobs and this is a long term problem so we need to have a contingency plan in place for dealing with this as a as a food access emergency and um I'm also in touch with uh people from the other towns from Hancock and Granville and uh and the two co-principals on a weekly basis and we were talking this morning about how they're starting to hear about families who are who've been on the edge and now with loss of job they're getting pushed over the edge uh so the stuff is really starting to hit uh in the Rochester area and we need to be mindful of that and and rebuild Rochester uh is also receiving applications from um families with children who are unemployed who are in fact still waiting for unemployment benefits um filed more than six weeks ago uh stimulus checks are running out um anxiety is increasing um the that the they express the how difficult it is to even ask for help um and so there's a little bit of a motion there's quite a bit of a motion around processing these applications and um trying to really use the messaging that Rob has put out there that this is not anybody's fault you know um that we're here to help and we want to help and we'd like to be able to you know put that word out more widely in fact so that folks have no hesitation to contact us for assistance so we also got we connected these folks up with legal aid attorneys who really want to hear from people who are um not yet receiving their uh unemployment benefits and and Sandy might want to weigh in on that because uh sometimes the legislators can so legislators can help with a phone call Sandy do you want to speak to that um I confess that I was getting a snack so what was the question the question is for people who have experienced uh long delays between the filing of their unemployment still not receiving it over six weeks I've been uh establishing some connections with legal aid attorneys to help these folks through the process and I was told that the legislators are also helping sometimes with just a phone call the DOL and not not a not a phone call but I do have I do have a magic well uh not magic I have a form I can fill out um that um that gets into the queue so uh uh use my ledge address and send it to me and I will follow up and um and connect with people and fill out the form and get it in um I have I have only had um limited uh success so far I think that you know unlike the Irene situation where we could look and see whose house was destroyed by the flood we can't see who's truly being impacted and for people who've never been in this kind of situation before it's difficult for them to know where to go how you know the process that they have to go through and so we're trying to be there but we also need to really explore more ways of reaching out so on the um so on the top of Kevin McLaughlin I see that you're here representing the food shelf and thank you for joining us tonight and um and basically want to really um let you know that there's there's um funding through the rebuild Rochester and also some volunteer help that's available to the extent that you can ramp up the um you know to to deal with any increased need do you want to speak about what what your thoughts are on that we have we have our volunteers that have been with us for many years and know the process and do it very well so at the time we do not need more volunteers the space is too small to do that the number of people this past month was 18 and we delivered to um a few older people who do not want to come out and we had one or two new people but we ended up with about 23 so the average the average is 16 to 18 showing up and we delivered to a few so we're up maybe one or two and that seemed to cover it as far as we work off of donations we get donations from Rochester Hancock and Granville uh but the bulk of the donations come from people who donate to the food shelf and they can do that by sending it to the Federated Church attention of the food shelf so at the time we're well stocked we have I think we received three calls one was a no show so um at the time we we do not have a situation that's out of control or that we can't deal with this is Vic uh can I comment just uh um so as I was just speaking and Kevin I don't know if you were on the line here when I was talking earlier about the sort of the bigger picture and unemployment in Rochester but I think what we're seeing is a lot of people who've lost their job who've never gone to a food bank before and they're either um don't know how to do it don't know where it is don't know what it's about or are ashamed I mean it's just a natural human response to something like that so if we were to conduct a you know significant communications campaign you know using flyers front porch forum whatever yard signs in fact yards and I saw in Randolph they have yard signs that say need food come to the food shelf it's easy and then they give the address and phone numbers they try to make it as easy as possible for people who need to get over that barrier that emotional barrier and take advantage of service that's available so my question is if Kevin if if we were to mount a and why we I mean with the food shelf you come up with a plan for making a you know well known announcement that food shelf service is available would you be able to ramp up you know to more hours a month then are available now because I could see that that would generate more demand for the for the food shelf the food shelf is posted all month in the post office and being a not just a grand villain Hancock the word is pretty much around where the food shelf is and it's available so if you want to post something else you can go ahead but I don't see a large at the moment I don't see a large of need at the moment there is not a large need they are not coming to the food shelf we like I said we have maybe two or three more than usual yeah but what I'm saying is that it just because people aren't coming there doesn't mean the need isn't there because we're talking about people who have been employed for you know who knows a long time and now suddenly they're thrown out of work and the prospect of getting a new job is pretty grim so this is a level of need that I think that our community has to take more assertive action about to go and find and help these people and so what I what I hope we would do is you know work with you to work out a contingency plan of how do we put together I think it's going to be a need for more hours more food more money uh more aggressive communication and do it in a way that is that is respectful and is charitable towards people and inviting them to come and take advantage of the of the of the food that's available and this is happening in other communities and and and again I think once the the Rochester specific unemployment data comes out in about a week for the month of April I think there'll be even more data so to prove the point and may is supposed to be even worse and in talking with with Linda Anderson from capstone community services and and other people this morning from the other towns you know people are are aware that there's $1,200 stimulus checks they're going to end and the extra unemployment benefit is going to end you know that only has an eight-week life to that and so I think we have an opportunity now to prepare for what is very likely to come as a significant increase in need for supplemental food in this community and I would just ask you to work with me on this and let's let's let's really go after it we are we are well prepared for people that that come we have the advantage of being probably being a month ahead in supplies we cover I'll repeat again we cover Rochester Grandville and Hancock those are the three towns we cover right so I am not sure you're going to see the amount of people that you're that you're um well we just would in any haven place having place um knowing that there is no there's funding available and backup help available for if it does it's basically trying to plan ahead just to make sure that um that we're prepared you know and if if we don't see that that's wonderful but we'll um not be caught you know um you mentioned the the lack of space meaning you know not enough room for more volunteers but I guess it'll be more not so much more volunteers at the same time there's maybe volunteers that could take up another shift and um you know under your guidance be able to um you know have it open more than one one month I know that people can call in but um you know it gets to the point where you're getting a phone call every day you might want to um take up some the offer of some more volunteers to the staff that have some more open hours I guess is what my thought is just so you know there's there is backup help available you know people want to help lolly lolly wants to add to this conversation yep yeah I just I just wanted to share um something I thought was kind of surprising and I'm not sure if you're um you're aware Kevin but we surveyed a couple of other um food shelves around in the area um and the numbers suggest that the need is there but people are going elsewhere um if I add it all up from Granville Hancock in Rochester the numbers from last year just at two of the food shelves that are that are well ones close to us the other ones pretty far away you're looking at 264 individuals that have that have gone and and utilize those resources um I just wanted to add that number it was a surprising number to me um after seeing or an understanding that that you are around more like a 18 to 20 you know um a month the um the people you're talking about also come to the food shelf uh and then they go elsewhere to shop like BJ's and they take advantage of the food shelves there while they're there it's free food so that's been taking place for a long time uh so that really doesn't concern us too much we have um been aware of that for a long time but as far as the demand now they can call us anytime we're open to be called anytime uh the number 767 303 all if they need to call us they're free to do so we set an appointment and meet them I don't see that changing rapidly right away if it does we'll adjust to it but we have no problem covering what we're doing at the moment I wonder if you would be um willing or interested in um sort of a medium idea in which um we open up for like two days a week on like a trial run and just see if um if we see more people and if we see a greater need um that might help us decide if you want to do that on your own go ahead but um we're not going to do it um right now through our food shelf because we're maintaining what we have and we don't have the demand if the demand is there we'll be there for them do yeah um this is disappointing um I'd like to request that the uh select board take a vote on using the constable's office space for emergency food distribution center we have talked about that a little bit and there's um I'm not sure it's it's optimal frank pat do you have I don't I toured it with you vick and I I personally think that the space isn't really good enough for that I would think that um what kevin is offering you is an opportunity to promote the food shelf as it is and even if you open it at your pace in the parking lot and say I'm here at such and such a time each Thursday and Friday or whatever days you want to be open and then you call kevin haven't come down and if you see a greater need I would think you'd be able to tell I mean the if kevin doesn't think there's a greater need you folks obviously do so kevin's willing to or so he says he's willing to you know if he gets a phone call to feed so if you advertise the food shelf throughout the three communities on a time limited basis and volunteer have your volunteers in the parking lot and when somebody shows up they call kevin kevin comes down gets their food and goes on and I would think that that would that would see you would find out then if there is an increased need I'd say that right Frank what's that I'd say that's right and and then you'd know if there's an increased read if you advertise it throughout the three communities and do all the advertising you want to post it at the town office say food shelf is available Thursday from nine to noon or or Friday from three to five and you have your volunteer sitting in the church parking lot and if somebody drives in for food then you can call kevin and kevin can come down and and do his thing in the food shelf without anybody else as far as he's got the food shelf set up to the way that it's worked for a number of years for him 20 you would all be able to figure out if the need is there and then if it needs to be increased we can add money to it we can also do more hours if so needed and that way we solve the the problem without doing anything else my biggest concern is duplication I don't want to see duplication I think that's kind of too bad and if this thing grows then we can look for another venue I think this would serve the emergency system as well as as what kevin's saying if he doesn't think there's a greater need and you do the way to solve it is to offer more hours and see if it works and if you've got volunteers that are willing to step there at different times and wait and if somebody does need food and they stop in kevin will be down to to serve them and and that's the way I would do it and just to see if there is a need you know to answer his question and put your questions to rest and then you feel whether or not it works or not and if we need to increase the size of the food shelf then we'll do that at a later date but it might be obvious that with the downstairs of the of the town offices it's a dump site and it needs to be have a good plan down there on what the future should bring for that and I personally think the school would be a better option for any kind of food shelf in the future but we also are looking at that for our voting coming up this fall and we've gone we walked through the school on Saturday so there are a couple rooms there that we kind of want to reserve for our polling as our polling station and voting area so we've got permission to do that and we walked through it on Saturday and it would be a good fit for our voting polling stuff so I would like to go at this with caution I think it's it's better and do it in a way that would work for you plus work for Kevin what's that for me it's for hungry people yes I understand that Vic I'm not I'm not disputing what you're saying I'm just saying if you want to what I don't understand is is is to say one of your volunteers will stand in the parking lot regardless of the weather regardless of anything and if somebody should drive up we'll call Kevin they get served Kevin goes back and then we stand in the parking lot till somebody else I I mean really that is the easiest solution to this as opposed to a better one you want to just yes yes I do have no I think it's better to work with some of the volunteers we're not asking Kevin I know I think definitely but if he would allow another volunteer to come in and be there at a different hour just to test it like a soft run is as Lolly was suggesting I mean that's working in partnership not standing having somebody stand outside and call him if somebody drives by that's really putting the burden on volunteers and it seems a bit inflexible we we've been running that I've been there about 12 years we have it under control we do it very well we have what we need to do it with if people need us they can call anybody can call I would advise you to just put out the number and tell them the call as far as people coming in and working in the food health the answer is no because we are responsible for it and we have to get it through USDA comes in inspects food shelf inspect we're not going to go any farther than that if you want to do something other than that that's up to you can I interject here according to the open meeting laws we have on our agenda our report from the Rochester food shelf we don't have anything on our agenda saying we are going to vote on anything therefore we cannot vote for anything tonight we can put it on next the agenda for the next meeting but anything that we any decision we make anything we vote on has to be warned on the agenda prior to the meeting we can't just meeting and vote on it so this would have to go okay eating anyway I I just wanted to say that I think we're all very grateful for for everything the McLaughlin's have done and the church has done from from erecting this food shelf so you know from its beginnings under Beth Kenned to the present what I think the COVID-19 task force is trying to do is under the category of emergency preparedness and if that emergency hits us in June or July Kevin you're saying you feel confident that you can handle it what we need to feel is confident that should there need to be an extension of the services that there is a contingency plan in place just like Vic pointed out and if you could even just sit down with us and discuss how that could happen I think it would go a long way to feeling as though this particular possibility will be planned for we'll deal with that when the time comes if it comes that ramping up isn't a problem but first we have to see that it is going to happen there's no indication right now that that's going to happen in these three towns well the indication is well we'll see in another week what the unemployment rate is and we are getting some indications of need and in order for people to go to a food shelf they have to be welcome to it they have to understand where it is and how it works and you know this is all new for a lot of people so you know if we were to go ahead and put a a communications campaign out go ahead I'd say go ahead 90% of the people in the three towns know where the food shelf is some of them have been there some come only occasionally because they only needed occasionally so you go ahead and put your campaign out and we'll see what the result is that's the answer that I mean that that's um that's a starting point if we um you know if um someone can sit in the car and and we can advertise that the food shelf is is open on you know a couple days a week and and see what what kind of interest we can generate and then we'll instead of theorizing we can actually have um you know data and then move forward and if um if it's Kevin if you get flooded with with um requests I I would hope that you would be open to um some you let us know if you need more money and there is more money available and if it needs um if it makes if it's obvious that your your phone is ringing off the hook I would I would think that you would you would consider um you know um expanding the the hours does that make sense what I would what I would think you would do would be to advertise the date the food shelf is open with the caveat that they can call if it's an emergency and they need food start here well well right now it's it's that date is is one day a month and what we're talking about is advertising that date at least one day a week and then see if we get more response from that because when you say that the food shelf is yes you can call but uh we're we're really trying to make it um make it obvious so I guess that's um that would be a starting point we're not going to be open one day a week for two people or three people or four people when they can come on the designated date that we're open we certainly can take a lot more people on the designated date than we have now Kevin this is Rob Gardner do I understand clearly that that you guys the food shelf has no interest in a partnership with the town to expand hours and expand service would you say that was not at this moment because there isn't a need for it but you're saying you have no interest in that at this time not at this time because there isn't a need for it all right thank you okay all right um I guess we'll um move on from there um or was I new business maybe um we have some new business that is a little bit more mundane than than food um but we have the issue of concerts on the park and um Joe has gone ahead and scheduled concerts on the park and and has got a lot of um excitement about that um we haven't really talked about that much in terms of the um emergency committee I I think that it's um um dune excuse me run it up because I um am the park committee now yeah um and um Joe had informed me that he had gone ahead because he normally does that every year of course and it's great that he does that that he'd gone ahead in and um organize those I think there are five specific dates and he might have another one coming um but anyway I wanted to check in with you because I normally we do get permission from the select board just on an normal year for permission to use the park for an event um and so it's for this and I've also next on the agenda is the 4th of July parade but that's another thing to discuss but anyway I wanted to from what I was hearing from the governor when I've been seeing his his conferences it sounded like he was opening up but would be by then it would probably be okay because it's an outdoor event those concerts on the park and it's very it would be very easy to do the social distancing on the park um however I don't know what I wanted to find out what the what the um board thought about this and if you had any specific information further um from you know from the state about that kind of thing well I guess we're all still waiting for the ongoing information from the state on this um one of the one of the aspects of this whole situation that that we're realizing is important is to um to have a little bit of energy and a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel I personally think that the park is big enough and bands can play loud enough that we don't know that we could probably be on that park and have some space and and and be safe what do you guys think about that well I think all of this is a very liquid situation it changes three times the governor is talking so um I would say that we could continue with our plan as it is now but listen to uh the guidelines as they unfold and see where it leads us um you know if the numbers turn around and go up all of this conversation we're having would be yeah you know right done so I just say continue to monitor this until that drop dead date that Joe would need to do a cancellation and into account then Patty the first I believe it's the first Sunday in July is the first date he has I think he has all of the Sundays in July and and I think the first two in August planned I have it written down elsewhere and I don't have it right in front of me I'm sorry so that's a month and a half it should be pretty um clear by then maybe we just have the musicians just turn it all the way up and everyone stays in their houses and we can hear it anyway well I looked at I looked at my records from last year and last year at this time the first meeting in May was when I asked you for permission to have those concerts on the park so I wanted to make sure that I you know got it in the you know in the pipeline you know and so that to think about also because I have to know about um the I have to send out the the information for the 4th of July parade by the 1st of June and that's next on the agenda so both those things were in my um on my own personal agenda to to find out from you about that was all right right now I don't think you could have them I mean there's only a 10 crowd a 10 person limit so they were talking about letting the farmers markets go ahead although with various um provisos and obviously you'd have more than 10 people show up for that although I think they have to have a lot of spacing and stuff right now do you police that I don't know and see from from my own personal viewpoint I was looking at the park like doon said it's a big park and people often do sit fairly far apart although obviously they sit in groups too um but it would be pretty easy to sit far enough apart I think I don't know you know we have to wait and see obviously to get um but I just wanted to get it I just wanted to get it in in um everybody's you know mind about what you know this was something coming up that has to be decided on and you know Joe with the concerts particular Joe has done the work to go ahead and book these um entertainers and everything that's through the recreation committee and also through the park committee and so um I just um you know I I remember back um in the days when the majority of the people parked along the edge of the park sat in their cars to listen to the music and then they would honk their horn instead of clapping at the end yeah when I was a little yeah when I was a little kid the the most of the band it was most often the town band that played you know every every week it wasn't other various different musicians it was them and we used to just even if we were playing on the park my sister and I run back to our parents car and honk the horn you know you're right absolutely right that was the thing to do it might be worth um keeping in mind that the the farmers market rules right now prohibit music in order to discourage people from gathering yeah yeah you're right whole system of distance in order to operate they may change that if things get better that was that was sort of the the business behind that so I don't I don't know if you can have both both operating well I don't think you have to make any specific decision tonight obviously but I just wanted like I said to get it in your in your um radar you know yeah no it's definitely a fluid situation and and it's gonna have the time I'm gonna jump in here I've been following the governor's press conferences religiously when I can and what I heard today is that they are um what is he saying um turning the spigot slowly so I think for us to make a decision today at the beginning of May about what's gonna happen in July is really premature yeah um yeah if Joe can book acts if Joe can book acts that are flexible right if they need if they need to guarantee then maybe we need somebody else but I think we can probably go forward um most of us sit in our little in our little familiar groups on the park um and we can make our own choices about who we sit with well he has already booked he has the names of everybody sent them all to me so but I'm hoping that's going to be okay the other thing I'm concerned about since I need to know by June 1st so I could bring it up at the next meeting um um is the 4th of July parade because I have to order um I have to order like the trophies etc etc now the 4th of July parade is a different kettle of fish because it's a total different kettle fish that's a much denser crowd and it's something we've done for years and years I've done it for almost 20 years I've been in charge of it and I've had a number of people email me or call me and ask me if we're going to be having a parade and I can't answer that because like you said it's a fluid situation but that's the other thing I just wanted to bring up that that's something I would really love to be able to do because I think people need not only I mean of the many types of help that people need they need mental like cheer up you know things to make them feel better help you know things like that especially events do you know yeah now the 4th of July parade has got to be 10 to 20 times more crowded than most of the concerts on the park are of course of course and I mean it's just something I want to do it but I don't know and I didn't want to go ahead and tell people it's canceled because if we can have it I would like to do it and I will do the work I'm willing to you know so anyway keep in mind keep in mind that the Addison County field days closed in the Barton County Fair also yeah yeah okay well they've already canceled their themselves for this year um if they're in August we have one more meeting before I have to make a decision as far as ordering trophies and things like that and sending out the letters and that would be the last um select board meeting in May so if if you're okay with it I'd like to bring it up again and and maybe in two weeks things will have changed enough that we could go yay of course we will see but I'm I'm I'm kind of the mind that we probably should should cancel it um but I guess we can we can in two weeks things are happening so quick we don't have to make a decision right now we could table that for two weeks but at this point I would think that's it's probably not a good idea I just have one question um do you know what the earliest time that Joe could cancel any um people that are coming for the concert you know let me just let me just say that most of the musicians are so hungry to perform oh I know I can't imagine they are I don't think it's going to mess up their schedules much you know because most of them are performing you know like we're meeting here through different screening methods but um I'm just wondering Martha if you're committee are you the only one on this committee I am the Fourth of July parade committee and have been from of 20 years yeah well that's that's a big job and uh like I said I'm just wondering if we couldn't you know sort of get together and maybe strategize a different way of doing it but still having a town celebration of it that would be all COVID compliant you know there might be other alternatives ways we could get around things just the way people are trying to uh work out alternatives to graduation well that's a fun I'm willing I'm willing to to do that if there's somebody who would like to I'll uh I'll do some idea exchange and brainstorming with you I think that could be fun here for you Martha excuse me I said I'll volunteer for you and who is that I can't hear Molly thank you yeah I mean I took it over Heather Masterton started it probably 25 years ago and when she moved out of town she I had been her her um helper she turned to me and she said oh you know how to do this you can do it when I leave and she left and that was that and I tried to get several people to help but nobody was that interested so I've been doing it ever since and it's become you know there's traditions like Dylan Dudley on his on his bike you know and people you know and the the Kenet farm float throwing the cheese at everybody and things like that you know and um you know it's it's fun I'd like to do it but again if we can't we can't you know so but if Catherine if you and Lolly and some others might be interested you know it's worth a fun meeting of thinking of different ways to celebrate that particular very important holiday well you know and now that we can have meetings of 10 people or less we could all hang out on the park or something or my front porch or whatever this is Nancy I'd like to just interject one other thing far before these other things Memorial Day is two weeks away right of course nobody has given any thought to Memorial Day it's highly unlikely given the directives from the governor that we are going to have a Memorial Day parade who normally organizes that I've never known Nancy well it's a military American Legion and the VFW but I would suspect that they have already discounted it I haven't heard anything about it no I have it either I'm sure you haven't that's too bad you know I couldn't hear you you don't know of anybody that we should be in touch with about that do you possibly Steve Martin Bill Harvey will be home another week I think I'd start with Steve Martin okay I wonder if other towns are canceling their Memorial Day parades I haven't heard I'm well I know that Granville Hancock Stockbridge and Pittsfield and Rochester are basically all when they go from one town to the next and Steve Steve I think you if you called Steve I think you might get information on it and Jeff Brown might know too well I think Steve is probably more in charge okay all right so we're gonna table the 4th of July parade it doesn't sound likely the concert's on the park we're kind of going to be fluid with and then see how things unfold that's still a month and a half for the first one of those thank you for talking about I appreciate it yeah sure no it's all part of it we have so it kind of goes along with that we have an application for the town park for a green up day so who's who's in charge of green up day and they feel they can do that in a socially in a physically distant fashion hi yeah Nick here yeah I'm I'm in charge of that and I feel that we can do it you know the last few years there hasn't been a huge turnout anyway and there's there's there's hardly ever been large groups of people gathered at the same time you know um and that's what's that and they're also spread out yeah and they're spread out and you know I would be there and anybody that wanted to help me to be there to make sure that people are you know staying within the guidelines that we need them to be and uh so there's other logistics to work out um but as far as being safe I feel that we can pull that off what's the date for that Nick 30th and where were you planning on having this take place I see that you made a proposal for the park but that was uh before are you thinking of going back down to the school now that you can do that um well I was I don't know and it's it's uh it's up for discussion I I uh I thought that the park would still be a good idea uh just only because that it's it's a little more visible than the you know the miss school you know when I mean people can still see the school and the driving by but if it's on the park it's more of a thing we might get a couple more people interested I don't think it would be we'll get that many more people interested it would become dangerous you know but uh you know just having a little more awareness of it is I don't don't think it's a bad thing but if if it's uh if there's a few people that that believe that it's not a good idea then you know then we can move it back down to the school I just thought maybe a a change would be good but could you just outline just briefly what exactly it entails the the the green update activities would entail well it's just very simple I mean we'd we'd have a table there and with a few things you know on the table and food and and and then people would bring their you know they'd either come and get their bags their green up bags their green green up bags there or they can get them beforehand at the town clerk and they would then they we look at the map and we see where there's a need and then they would go out in and gather trash and then bring the trash back and the the only the the one thing that I'd want to discuss would be that where we would put the truck where we're you know if if if we could park the truck somewhere else uh somewhere on the park um either on the street or you know in a area so that we can dispose you know we can throw the the trash that people bring into the truck if there's the truck on um I think it is it called park row between the park and park house that's the name of the little street right park yeah that might be the best spot if you were going to do that yeah yeah that'd be good well I don't I don't see any um problem with it sounds like it's an activity focused on sending people in different directions to go pick up trash um what do you guys think I'm fine with it as long as the the truck isn't actually parked on the grass you know it stays on the pavement somewhere yeah I guess I'm okay with it if the truck stays on the pavement and you don't use the front so much of the park because that's being trashed by the the farmers market that grasses are coming back very well at all and we're going to need to have some a different approach with the farmers market coming up I think if they're going to continue to use it um I'd like to see that move to a different place because that grass is really you know the park is our signature of our community really it's uh and it's been getting a lot of use with the with the farmers market and that grass in the front is all gone it's just not there anymore last last year the people that run the farmers market did step forward and say that they would assist us in the restoration of the grass so perhaps just put that little word out that this is the time to care for them to step up to the play maybe they did we see it last fall but it's it's still not gonna if you put a lot of use on it it's just not going to hold up it's going to become a mud pit that's basically what's going to happen there yeah taking from my farmer background I can see what's going to happen yeah well they were taking responsibility begging us please don't move the farmers market area so you know we could just touch base with them again what what they want to do on that but as for green up day um I I'm fine with it as long as it's it's managed safely yeah I agree um in touching on the farmers market if it's allowed to go forward this is probably the perfect opportunity to spread it out throughout the park and increase the distance we don't have to we don't want to stack everybody up next to each other and we might as well use the park and this would be a good catalyst to to get it off of that part of the park you know so yeah um the rules and regulations for the farmers market were sent out by email today and they're all pretty specific they don't talk about location as such but they are notifying all the particular vendors and it is particular um and the rules that are going to have to be followed and then I wanted to just mention it to nick also they can't have open food and things uh with the farmers market and so that's just a clue to you with food and and green up okay yeah I was thinking I'll I'll send you the if you like I'll send you the rules okay so okay so we'd have to so people wouldn't be allowed to eat they're right on the park I don't think you can provide food probably not a good idea yeah yeah okay so it would have to be a foodless endeavor all right it could be it could be open food that you can't have I don't know I think probably Beth or Asha are the ones you should talk to about what you can do with food they were sending things out for the farmers market food is just for you know just to entice people to come and and just for them to grab a little something as they're they're following rather specific rules from the Department of Agriculture yeah I think that um that's probably um I'd probably stay away from that aspect of it okay yeah okay yeah fine yeah I mean you could maybe have you know um drinks and then cooling you know in a tub of alcohol and ice you know you get a lot of cookies and cookies and bags but um anyway they'll don't know about that so um thank you Nancy all right okay um um before I forget um should put a shout out there that um there's very uh very low response so far in completing the census I've heard a number like it's like 35 percent of the people in Rochester have completed the census forms yet which is um not um not that good I know it's easy to overlook it with all the drama that's going on right now and things that seem much more important but down the line it is important so just a shout out to everyone out there and you and TV land that um take the time to fill out your census are we going to have I don't think we're going to have door-to-door census takers are we yes Joe is one of them oh yeah so that's going to go forward he just met with him this week yeah to get fingerprinted and all that stuff so um do and I'm confused because they keep having announcements on the on the news about how they want you to go online to a website and fill out your census form they don't ever mention anything about paper forms but yet I heard a different one just Catherine just say that Joe is signed up to be a census taker so what are we do you know what should we be looking for we all should have received something from them already yeah they haven't I have and it's already gone back February me too yeah we had ours months ago and went back in so if you didn't get one Martha you can go online I guess and do it the main thing is to um spread the word that's something that um wouldn't hurt to um put in the paper yeah okay that's why I was putting it down well the other thing and putting it to paper they really need to understand how the funding that comes to this area is dependent on the census it's really important yes it is all right um so um we have um we need to appoint uh ec fiber representative which is um John White and I think he's willing to continue on to that so I'd move to reappoint John White as our ec fiber representative I second that on favor all right all right so that's unanimous and also my um I believe that we've been asked to appoint uh John White is our health officer we've been asked to appoint a covid specific health officer and I talked with John White and he is also willing to um take that mantle on so I'd I'd move to appoint John White to to that position I'll second that in all in favor all right all right you got him twice thank you John you're out there watching and we also have um uh first class in outside um liquor license for Sandi's books in bakery I guess that's two separate licenses one for inside and one for for out so that's a hopeful sign that they anticipate reopening so I'd I'd um I'd move we approve those applications I second that in all in favor all right all right um that didn't really vote on the application approved um for the using the park for green for green up day oh okay you're right I would um I would move that we approve that application to um for them to use the park and green up day and I second that no no all in favor all right all right okay thanks for keeping track of that Patty thank you and and also doing I'd be willing to call Steve Martin on the Memorial Day priorities yeah thank you okay I'm gonna strike them um so I think that is really unless anyone else says something oh wait no Amy I'm sorry you're on there yeah this is important you're you're up okay thank you so as I said I've been working on the the scholarships that we used to give out at the end of the school year to our graduate senior in that on there was two scholarships that were given out by the town and that is the propatric memorial scholarship and the martin farms appreciation award and I guess to start with I want to ask if um the select board wants the school district to include those two scholarships in the application and communications that we're sending out to um our seniors in the surrounding schools by all means yes okay great um so I do I have a lot of information um and I do I have to um Julie someone had a question down there was that you Nancy supporting documents to you guys that you can take at um just second Nancy you had a question I just wanted to confirm that the martin farm still is an active scholarship and that there are still funds in it uh the information I've received that was that yes there is an account that is martin farm it's a cb that has funds for the martin farm thanks Amy okay um so uh speaking of the martin farms award from you guys will just you need to determine the amount that you're going to give for the scholarship um I have looked through the wills and paperwork and stuff and I have my recommendation but um that would be something for you guys to decide and then uh second for the propatric um scholarship what I'm asking the the select board to do is to review the criteria um for the scholarship and to possibly make some amendments um the current propatric scholarship criteria was created by the select board back in 1990 it is um not of part of the propatric will that the this criteria was created um the current one states that the graduate have to maintain at least an uh 80 grade point average is accepted at a four-year school and has demonstrated good citizenship in school community life and who otherwise would be unable to pursue further education because of low family income as defined as total family income below the median family income for Addison and Windsor counties um my recommendation would be um to one remove the needs base point area be as far as kind of hard for the seniors for to determine what individual's median family income is when we had them in our um we're graduating from Rochester we were able to look at things such as like frame reduced lunch applications to be able to identify um that need uh the other thing that I would recommend is um to change the wording from accepted at a four-year school to open it up a little bit more uh maybe to such as um uh that they must be accepted in an accredited program of higher education this could help open the scholarship up to um uh a student who wants to be like a vet tech or something like that uh or a two-year program um the grade point average the grade point average um can can kind of be transferred into the new proficiency based grading um but you know that you might want to look at that as well and change it change the wording to maybe you know a strong academic background or or something on like I said the 80 grade point average we can with the new proficiency based grading it can kind of be transferred over um so that is what I would like to ask you guys to review and talk about on possibly changing those those um the criteria for the catholic scholarship I just wanted to add to that you know RN programs are two-year programs four-year is a bachelor's in nursing but to be an RN a registered nurse you only need a two-year program and we definitely need medical workers right I think it would open it up to a lot of uh possibilities for accredited higher education um and again this was developed in 1990 it's probably time to review at means of change and change stuff um and so so what I want to say uh your your thoughts about what you thought would be a reasonable amount for the martin farms award okay so we can studying on it I'd be careful I have been sticking on it so um kind of quickly from what I have been able to glean and please you know any town elders might be no a little bit better but what I was able to glean is that the original uh funds that were put into this award was the in the amount of $2,000 the it has been put into a cd and since 1970 1972 it um now is at $4,000 um but as we all know uh cds um you're not gonna accumulate a lot of interest on cds every year and the award has to be um is only allowed to be given on the accumulated interest of in a hundred dollar increments so I guess my recommendation is that you would stick with $100 um for the award because within a year at um you know $4,000 cd is um gonna be hard pressed to to earn a thousand or a hundred dollars yeah so really this is really a symbolic gesture you know a hundred dollars isn't gonna go too far in terms of helping someone get through school this is a book yeah a book yeah exactly it you know it's the small stuff um you know while I've been working on this scholarship stuff um you know there's just there's not as many scholarships out there you know these they're they're just they're a lot of small scholarships and I think our town did a very good job making sure everybody who graduated was able to have some type of scholarship um you know but they are kind of symbolic yeah yeah um so right and the the nice thing about the martin farm award is that the um anticipated uh even in trust it says in the event that the rochester school is incorporated into a larger school district so they were you know thoughtful and and and that um so that's what I recommend for the martin farms and then of course I'd like you to review the the wording the criteria for the carpatric and then uh part of the second part of the carpatric is the amount that you're going to give in the original um application that was created in 1990 it says that there was uh 1400 dollars given as a scholarship um but I believe looking at the uh town the um uh the budget it is a thousand dollars budgeted for this year and I don't know if that also needs to be put into officially in minutes you know into a motion of what the amount of that scholarship will be going forward or if you want to specifically not put it in there well I think that is it was already figured into the budget so that's been kind of accepted already by the budget right well just does that kind of trump any any you know motion that you guys would make in the future you know or the motion that was made back in 1990 that it's supposed to I think it's kind of a year it's always been a year by year thing is that right Nancy? Maybe it's pretty much and if you look across it's been a thousand dollars yeah that's what I thought for the last few years and it's already been voted on yeah right and so that basically is voted on by the electorate so that that does okay um so anyway to move forward for this year I mean if it doesn't happen this year it doesn't but we haven't been able to offer these scholarships in the last last year either um and I think it would be nice if we could get get this ball rolling on getting you know even though they are a little bit symbolic but um Amy yes I have a question in a related matter um since we haven't had our high school the last couple years I've been putting together an article the last two years um get contacting all the seniors and putting like a paragraph about each about what they're going to be doing the following year just to let people know because I always wrote about the seniors when we graduate they graduated so uh if you haven't you know um a list of the kids who will who are from our town who would have graduated you know here who are elsewhere um you know their names I would appreciate it so that I could contact them for that if you have it and you could email it to me that would be really helpful okay I will get you in touch with the person who could provide you with that okay thank you I appreciate that sorry to interrupt but I thought this was a good time to ask I just want to make sure I do that so the kids get some recognition yeah good work Amy is that something that we need to vote on or do we just reassuring the school board that we are standing behind the figures um I believe that if you're going to change the criteria of your scholarship application you probably need to have something official but we're not we're not what are we making as a change the well my recommendation was I made three recommendations to change in the compatriot fund scholarship but if you don't want to then we don't have to that's that's up to you the just in the criteria because the the monetary part the voters are put it in but um stepping away from it being required to be a four-year institution to to open it up to people that are doing a an accredited educational system that's um I think that's that's reasonable what do you what do you guys think I think that um how fast do you have to know about this yeah it was another question um I think that you know where are we very so that's the may right now so may um right I mean obviously the the sooner we can have this the better but I guess if um just because we need to get the applications to the students on right I'm just wondering and to what extent we can just change the original stipulations of the of the um you know the fund the original criteria you might yeah perhaps Amy could just write out what she said and give it to you yeah well that's what I was thinking she could she could make the changes she wants and leave it in the town office and then we we can review it and we can also look at if there's any uh legal ramifications of us re-adopting it I would think it wouldn't be too late to vote at the next meeting would it or would it no that's what I'm thinking the next meeting would be a time to do that yeah and that one gives a chance to review the document and find out if there's any legal ramifications with altering it right right and if it's you know and if it doesn't happen this year like I said that's that's okay we but you know if we can it's nice to get these things um finalized so do you guys have another meeting in May or yes yes the fourth Monday the fourth Monday okay so if I did what I was the suggestions I made sound reasonable to you yeah yeah they sound reasonable it'd be nice to just have them write it out in a form and then we can look at it and read it and then okay I will do that and I will leave it in the office then the town office to be reviewed all right thank you can put it on the next agenda for next meeting yep thank you thank you anything else anyone would like to speak about tonight we had agenda for we rebuild Rochester foundation report is there one there for them I kind of felt like that kind of happened already with um Catherine just want to make it um public knowledge and reiterate that the fund is out there and um encourage people who need to um to you know applications are available at the town clerks or I guess you can get them on mine now too but um there's you know there's help out there for people that are um coming up against it and um just I guess that's what the what the report was about to that people know everything on the agenda has been covered here we go this this is Deb I have a couple little questions okay um so does the select board keep meeting all summer long wait couldn't say that again does does the select board keep having its meetings all summer long oh all year long unless you want to vote unless you want us to take six months off yeah and then the other one is there a way that we can find out right away about the decision about the coronation of the water um Terry I talked with Terry today and in hope one of the reasons why that they have to do it is because it's under uh we're under the COVID yeah I know that thing so this Friday if is the May 15 right right so so he's hoping that if they open it up and don't renew the the COVID issue um that we will be able to stop but he's that's what he's hoping but he doesn't know he called them today to find out about it and he talked with the state rep about the coronation you find out more about it on Friday so okay well so my question was how how will we find out uh uh it'll taste different yeah Rob and of course will let us know I'll say it again uh Rob and Vic from the oh right okay yeah okay that'll be good thank you all right um well there you have it thanks all that was um not quite two hours but um some of our longer meetings yeah one of a longer one for a while but um and thanks all you out there in orca media land thanks for coming and making it available to everyone else and um don't be shy you can always be part of the the faces on the screen if you want to be part of it next time all right thank you everybody thanks guys good meeting good night