 And the city council previously had a meeting disrupted by anti-Semitic and racist hate speech. The city council does not tolerate such actions and strongly condemns them. While it may not always be possible to prevent hate speech from occurring during public comments, the council will continue to take measures to make it more difficult to express such views. Any agenda additions or changes? Okay. All right. No need to approve the agenda. All right, the public to be heard. So this is the portion of the meeting where if you have anything you wanna share with the council that's either on the agenda or not on the agenda, please feel free to raise your hand. We don't have anybody here in the room, so we're just looking for hands online. And Regina, I can't see anybody, so I'm gonna... I do not see any hands so far. Okay. Let's just do a test. Jess, can you let us know if you can hear us? I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, great. We can hear you. Thanks. Great. Okay. Then I will move on to business item A, which is discussion and consideration of the FY25 Chitin and Solid Waste District budget. And before we begin with Sarah, I'm gonna ask for any conflicts. I have a conflict. I perceive a conflict. My wife is an employee of the waste district. She will be participating to support Sarah in tonight's presentation. So on those grounds, I'm gonna extricate from the discussion. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Marcus. And Amber, just so folks are aware, Elaine is participating online, so we do still have a forum. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Hi, Sarah. Hi, good evening. Thank you for having me on tonight. I appreciate your time and attention. Regina, actually, if you could allow a lease to screen share, that would be great. We have a brief presentation of our budget. For folks at home, I'm Sarah Reeves. I'm the executive director for the Chitin and Solid Waste District and the Waste District is charged with managing waste generator within Chitin and County and doing so in an economical, environmentally sensitive, efficient and effective manner. We are here to present our fiscal year 2025 budget to you for authorization. And our charter does require that our members of cities and towns approve our budget. So when we get to 10 of our members, our budget is considered approved. And then we can continue with our business as of July 1. So we do appreciate your consideration of that budget. And we just may be having some... I don't see an option to share. So I'm not sure I've been promoted. Okay. I made you close. I made you close. If not, I can do that. I've been having connectivity issues. So the hope was that if a lease is able to be promoted to presenter and be able to share, if my tech issues continue, then a lease can pick up where and where I left off. So that's the main consideration. But if not, have a soldier won't. Oh, I'm seeing it now. Hold on. Let me give it a try. Let me know if you can see it. We can... Okay, awesome. I'm gonna mute myself and I'll just listen to Sarah. Thank you. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. So as a reminder, this is who we are. And I like to, on this slide, because we're talking about our budget, point out the three main buckets of our revenue. And we derive our revenue from three main areas, with our user fees or our tick fees. So those are the fees that our customers pay directly to us to manage the waste on their behalf. I saw those management fee, which is essentially a tax on the trash that is disposed from functioning generators in the Coventry landfills and the material and product sales. So the sale of compost and recyclables and local color paint. Now what we don't receive any revenue from are local income, local sales, or local property taxes. And we also do not assess a per capita fee on any of our member. So these are challenges. Next, please. At least on input and feedback from past presentations, I do also like to present an update to how we're doing. And as usual, we've come to expect the Jydian County residents and businesses are doing a really good job. So of the just over 300,000 tons that are generated, that's all, all solid waste, we are diverting almost 190,000 tons. That's amazing. I do want us to take a look at that column three though, and you'll see of the 120,000 tons that were disposed in the landfill, about half of that could actually have been further diverted. That's really where we focus our attention is on getting that material out of disposal and then back into the correct buckets in column number two. Next please. So this is the breakdown of our fiscal 25 income expectation or hope, just under 16 million. And again, there are those three buckets, the tipping fees, still being the bulk of our revenue, solid waste management fee, having around that 24 to 25%. And that sale of materials, that does fluctuate up and down according to market. Next please. And I thought I would also show a similar chart for our expenses. And I think the city will probably not be surprised to see that payroll expenses are a large component of our expenses. And maybe just like everywhere else have climbed due to mainly due to benefits and those continue to climb especially the health care costs. But materials management continues to be the biggest component of our expenses. And when we say materials management, we're talking about the fees that we pay to city to haulers or to others will manage shares on our behalf. So includes the fees that we pay to Kasella to operate the materials recycling facility. It's the tipping fees that we pay at the transfer station. It's fees we pay to other companies to move materials to market for it. Next please. So when we're looking at our bottom line, this year is unusual in that we are, again, if everything in the budget goes according to exactly how it is written, we're looking at a shortfall of just under $300,000. And I'll just point a little bit more about how we're approaching that in a moment. Next please. So a very brief comparison this current year to the next year. Part of the issues that are revenue is only expected to go up about 3.6%, just under 4%. We are looking at static increases to material sales and that's mainly at the recycling facility. So we're looking for some increase in the tip fee. The solid waste management fee is increasing and I'll talk about that in a moment as well. The largest percentage increase to our expenses are on that equipment and fleet line item. Just about half of that is related to the existing materials recycling facility, that aging infrastructure. And I'll read a little more about that in a moment as well. So how we're going to be approaching that shortfall should that occur. Every year we always conservatively under budget and conservatively over budget certain things. So we conservatively under budget income in the areas that are there in front of you. And mainly on that materials recycling line item, the revenue we receive from commodity sales, that is because we do not control that market. We don't control the pricing that we may receive. We also don't necessarily control the inbound times that we process, but we are actively seeking additional times as we are actively seeking additional material coming into our organic recycling facility or a compost facility. We also conservatively over budget on wages and benefits, mostly not on the wages side, but we do over budget on the benefits side. We do have in this budget hiring for new people, need for new positions. And we always will budget for the family plan on the health field. And that is, as you know, the largest, the greatest amount on the benefits. What we're doing to kind of mitigate those costs is we continue to look at ways that we can reduce the impact to the district without overly burdening the impact to our employees. Our employees already do pay 3.5% towards the cost of their health care is part of their salaries. We also moved to a less expensive plan, like a year and a half ago, two years ago to try to reduce the overall costs. But, you know, it doesn't seem to going down it always goes up by double digits. So that's not as a struggle for everyone. Next question. This is a change and this has not changed in 12 years. So we are have increased, our board approved an ordinance change increase our solid waste management fee from the current $27 per ton to $30 per ton. And as you're saying, this is the first increase since fiscal 13. This is the fee that haulers pay when they bring material to Coventry for disposal. So it's only on trash. So this fee is not charged on recycling, it's not charged on food scraps, scrap metal. It's only charged with the material that is being physically disposed. So we kind of ran some numbers to say, well, if haulers do decide to spread this cost out across all of their customers, impacts to households who may have curbside services would be under 30 cents per month. And we calculated that based on the pounds per capita. Drop off center customers, both residential and small businesses can reduce the impact seen by this increase, simply by reducing the waste because the fee is also built into bagpipes, for example, at drop off centers as well as the cubic yard pricing for small businesses. So as they generate less waste, they will reduce their impact of this fee, next fiscal. We are also increasing our tip fee at the materials recycling facility. It currently is $85 per ton. We're going up to $90 per ton. And this is again, due to needing to cover the costs associated with this existing facility. So this is not related to constructing a new facility. This is to keep this one, this old one, going and we ideally would have decommissioned this old gal a couple of years ago, but everything kind of got thrown off course due to pandemic and et cetera. So we are a couple of years behind in what we ideally would have liked to have done for the new Murph. Because of that, this existing facility is at the end of its useful life and things are breaking down and the things that are breaking down are expensive. So there's that $250,000. We're hoping we won't have to spend it, but we have to budget for it because things are at the end of their useful life. And again, we're conservatively budgeting that average commodity revenue at $75 a ton. I do think we will exceed that, but again, it's out of our control. So we want to be sure to not overpromise that. Some good news. We are not increasing the tip fee at the organic recycling facility. So that will remain at $70 a ton. Our inbound tons, our budgets slightly below last year. We're still seeing material going to the Castella facility. We did increase our prices on the compost products and our sales remained strong. So we are closer to the market rates, both for the Murph, the materials recycling facility and for the organic recycling facility. And we're still on the lower end, more affordable range, but we need to be edging closer to that market range. Next piece. For good news, we are not increasing our pricing at the Drop-Off Centers. So there's no increase to the bad prices there. The budget does reflect some additional hours, both in Milton and in Burlington. We're very excited to be bringing Burlington back online, hopefully at the end of this current fiscal year, but definitely for July. And they will also be with the same Tuesday to Saturday schedule. Right now, we accept credit cards at all of our Drop-Off Centers and once Burlington is online, they will also be accepting credit cards. Next piece. Just a very brief highlights of some of the capital projects. Again, we are going to be kicking off the new Murph project. We'll be awarding that contract in the next month or so, hopefully to be breaking ground late this summer or very early fall. We're also reconfiguring our Drop-Off Centers in Burlington, very moderately there, hopefully a little bit more extensively in the middle. And we're looking at all of our stormwater infrastructure, just, again, being prudent in response to all of the heavy rains that we've had over the past several years. And on the fund equity, the one all of our reserves are adequately funded with the exception of the landfill post closure reserve. And that reserve was established 29 years ago to manage the expenses associated with the landfills that we manage in Williston. And it's not unusual that at this point in the 30-year closure plan, you think you would not be needing to be spending more money. Because there are so many unknowns with how we are going to be expected to manage PFAS and our leachate, we know we need more money in that reserve. So we expect to do a look down over the course of the 30 years, but you don't expect to have potentially a major expense coming in at year 28 or 29. And so we're planning for that. And that's a good portion of the increase. So always management fee revenue will be going into this reserve. So we needed a way to boost that reserve and that is one of the uses of the increase. That's been fine. That's boosted. And as I mentioned at the beginning, we do ask our member cities and towns to consider our budget for adoption. And with that, I will ask Lisa to stop sharing and I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. There's a lot of information I'd like to choose. I have one question about the contamination policy for compost, if you just don't mind describing what that impact could be for users. Yes, absolutely. So this is something that we've been working on for many, many years and it actually mirrors the existing contamination policy that we've had in place for the materials recycling facility for quite some time. And it's a tool that we were missing in our toolbox to be able to basically help us to help callers to better address contamination with their customers. And really the goal of the policy is to not be any fine at all. We are not looking at this as a revenue generating line. It's to be able to work with our haulers to identify areas where they're struggling, where they're struggling to have their customers basically fall into line with being mindful of contamination. They can then say, hey, we now have this potential thing that we could be here with fine, which unfortunately I'm going to have to pass on to you. The customer, let's not do that. Let's not go there, let's work on these issues. Most of the time, particularly with commercial accounts, the haulers have really a pretty good idea of where the contamination could be originating. They will certainly know, they'll know which day, which narrows things down. They may even know which school. They're pretty in tune with their customers, but what we'll do is we'll work with the haulers to try to identify those customers, have our outreach team go work with the client if the hauler is not comfortable bringing that message to them. And we will then work on their program. So the goal again is not to, it's really not to fine anybody. But haulers have said that they will, they've indicated that they are appreciative of the steps they're taking and having structure around what the expectation is and what constitutes contamination. There are different levels. There are certain things that are absolutely, if we see a red medical bag, for example, in that, sorry, there's no question that load is being rejected. But our goal is not to reject any loads. It really is to make every load as clean as possible. So it's, we've been working with haulers pretty steadily for the past year on developing this. They've been very well informed. They know it's coming. We've been also for the past several months we're kind of doing like test runs, test drives of the policy with them to say, if the policy were in place now, this is what you could expect. This is what this looks like. Here's what we would do. So again, it's another tool both for us, the CBD, but also for the hauling community to be able to really tackle this problem. And what we're talking about, and we're looking at, you know, it was like cartons, milk cartons, juice cartons. There was a contaminant film. Sometimes a garbage bag is thrown in there by mistake. We know that that's a mistake. So that's an easy one to go and say, oh, hey, ABC school, let's make sure that we don't throw garbage in with the compost. So things of that make sure it's not work. Mostly same. Makes sense. Thank you. I can't see Elaine, but I don't know. Elaine, do you have any questions for Sarah? I do not. Thank you. Thanks. Sarah, did you want to mention the community cleanup fund? Oh, thank you very much. I do want to mention our community cleanup fund. That is revenue that also, I mean, I sense that also we don't tend to fully realize, but we want to, we want to fully extend that money. So we're always thankful for our communities that do fully utilize that. And I know, I'm pretty sure that Mike is, Commissioner Florida City has been asking our folks about different ways to utilize that fund. And as a reminder, it no longer carries over and rolls over. You get your full amount every July one. So you could potentially. Strain, you know, kind of two years worth of funding. If you have like a larger project, if you're happy, maybe begins in May and the other half finishes out in July, you could really have some big impacts. And our team is happy, happy, happy to help you talk through some different options and help figure out how to really utilize those funds in your community. So thank you for their reminder. I definitely want to put in a plug for please use that money. Just take our money and for use within the channel. We want you to have it. Thank you. All right. I will open it up to the public for any questions. Regina, you're my eyes. Blind blind here. Okay. Marcus, anything? Okay. All right. So I think we'll entertain the motion. I will make a motion to approve the FY 25 Chittenden Solid Waste District budget as presented. Second. Thanks, Elaine. All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. I think with a remote person to do a little, yeah. Yep. All right. So we have to do a roll call. Elaine. I found that. Andrew. Aye. Elaine. Aye. Amber is aye. All right. Thank you. Thanks very much. Thanks, Sarah. Thanks, Elise. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You can come back to the table. Welcome. All right. We will move to item 5B, which is discussion and consideration of the FY 25 Enterprise Fund Operating, et cetera. Not reading that whole line. Jess. Hello. I'm going to apologize in advance. I'm losing my voice, so I'll try to make this as quick as possible. And Jess, for Amber. Yeah. Since you're flying, you're flying. Yep. We've got Brad, Chelsea, and Ricky on the call, as well, if anybody has any questions for them. Cool. Thank you. All right. All right. Can you guys see the memo that I'm sharing on my screen? Yes. Perfect. All right. So this is our second presentation of enterprise budgets. There's really not a whole lot of change to the budgets themselves outside of wastewater, but we do have some changes to user fees. In a positive direction, the fees have decreased for the most part from our original preliminary presentation. So I'll just kind of start from the top and work down through the original presentation. And I'm going to flip over to the original memo because I didn't put this in this memo. So if you'll recall, our overall user rate increase was estimated to be about 6.5% or around $43 per year for the average household. And as of now with revised budgets and fees, we are at a 2.67% increase, which amounts to $17.52 per year. No change to the enterprise fund admin fee allocation. So that information is the same. So in the water fund, our original estimate was about a 5.8% increase in fees. We are now able to say that the fees in the water fund will remain pretty much the same overall. So a 0.04% increase or 12 cents per year for the average household. No changes to the budget in the water fund. The wastewater fund, we were originally estimating an 11, just under 11.5% rate increase, which would have been about $22.40 per year. We're now showing a 5.75% increase or $11.24 per year. So this budget is the only budget that had changes in the operating expenses. And there's a memo in the reading file of this packet that explains more about what the increases exactly are related to as far as the biosolids land application and subcontractor expenses. And then in the sanitation fund, we originally estimated a 1.94% increase or just about $3 per year. We did increase the capital transfer for this since our last presentation. So originally we had a $95,000 transfer to capital. We've increased that to $150,000. So our rate now is estimated to be about a 3.89% increase or $6.16 per year. And I'll talk a little bit more about the capital transfer. So in the sanitation fund, the capital reserve was significantly underfunded. And if you recall from our last presentation, we were talking about needing to do some upgrades at pump stations and some of that cost being shared with the town of Essex. We had estimated debt service payments and the cost of those projects. And that expense was putting the capital reserve and the sanitation fund in the negative in future years. So what we've done is increased the capital transfer this year, but also increased it year over year beyond FY25 to try and help get that fund back in the positive and able to cover some, hopefully the capital expenses that we'll be seeing. And still exploring other options for funding that reserve. There's a potential that we could have the wastewater fund cover some of the pump station expenses because they are so interconnected, these two funds. So that's one area that we're looking at for future consideration. So the enterprise funds capital, no changes in here except for that sanitation transfer that I spoke about. And then also in the EGRP program fund, no changes here at all. Everything is the same as what was originally presented. So the next steps are, if the budgets are reviewed and approved tonight, we will set our public hearing as if you'll recall, we have to hold one public hearing to set the large user rate for the water fund. And basically what we do is we set all of our enterprise rates at that public, after that public hearing as well. Does anybody have any specific questions or? All right, Jess. So even adding the $55,000 transfer to capital and the sanitation fund and increasing that year over year, we're still finding ourselves in the red and I think it's 28, yes, right? Is there a potential to get ourselves out of that to find ourselves in the positive if we were to increase that $55,000 now? Absolutely. So as luck would have it, I have a scenario mocked up that shows exactly what Amber's questioning. So if we were to increase the capital transfer in FY25 by an additional 22,000, so up to 172,000 for FY25 and then also increase $20,000 per year above the 30, so a total of a $50,000 increase per year for the next five years after that, it does put the fund into the positive and you can see growing an actual reserve balance into the future. And what that looks like on the rate side is it would increase our budget by that 22,000 and rates for the water funds then would increase 6.53% or just over $10 per year per household. Jess, is it possible to increase the zoom on this particular? Yeah, yeah, good. Awesome. Yeah, good. I ask about the, when I'm looking at revenues in the wastewater and the note is estimated on FY23 actual flow allocation. Is it because of the fact that we don't have enough FY24 data yet? I'm thinking that in my estimation, I would think we have enough months behind us to kind of project forward in order to come to a closer number or use a more recent number in order to determine this allocation. I mean, help me understand the reason. So we had started our analysis for the first, the preliminary budgets using the most recent FY24 data to date, which at the time I believe was through January. Since then, both of the member communities, Williston and the town of Essex, their flow meters have had issues and malfunctions and needed to be replaced. So our flow data has not been accurate for the last two to going on three months in FY24. So what we did was we kind of looked back rather than trying to guess and project what FY24 would look like because we also have had some significant storm events with possible higher infiltration from stormwater that's a whole separate issue that Tritown is working on sort of troubleshooting and resolving. So those two things tied together, we decided it was best to just look back historically and see kind of what the average has been over the last few years. FY22 and FY23 were both almost exactly the same allocation percentages by community. So we, Chelsea called a kind of an emergency Tritown meeting a few weeks ago. We met, discussed it with the other members and decided to use the FY23 actuals to base our FY25 rate projection on. Again, some of that, the logic is they've got that flow data coming from Williston and from Essex town. And then we basically, whatever the difference is after we have that flow data from those two communities, that's the city's portion. Do we not have meters and flow data on our own lines in order to track that? And if not, why? Yeah, the simple answer is the town of Essex flows through us, so in many different places and actually not all of their locations are metered yet. I actually met with the town today and they're coming up with a plan to get their other major line into us metered. And then that will just leave two other areas that they use water data with very few houses on it. So that's the short answer is that because the town flows through at least two or three of our pump stations. So it's not something that couldn't be done, but then again, that's also what would come out of the sanitation budget, which are capital to fund that. And we know where that is at the given moment. So that's just the method we have set up for now. Like I understand that the budget has been determined, but at the same time, it then brings me to question again, whether or not we can be more accurate, identify problems as well if we are metering our own flow. I get the methodology and how it works, but already if we're identifying the fact that the town is not metering a portion of theirs, then that seems to suggest that our calculations and the sections are already on because we're not metering everything that should be metered. So then I come back to feeling like we should meet our own stuff in order to make sure that everybody is metering their stuff correctly and being able to identify problems. Like here we are having a discussion and I read and we've had this discussion about this infiltration. I don't know if metering would help us to identify that problem or to again, isolate these kinds of things, but I feel like we're missing something here. And I again, recognizing the fact the budget is set. I don't know if this is the appropriate time to have that discussion. I feel like we should have that discussion. The stations, we record the pump run hours for every day. So in theory, we are metering through that, are we doing it, but we're not necessarily utilizing that data for probably how we could at this point in time. Not that it can't get there. We have it, it's just setting up some spreadsheets. So it's not, and I should, so we do have that flow through the pump stations. It's more that we're not metering in the same sense that the town of Essex and Wilson is where they're metering the flow and the pipe. So that's where my initial answer was that we're not metering, but we do have what each pump station is sending out out into the gravity line or force main or gravity line or whatever. So we could do some back calculations to know how much those pump stations are pumping gallons per day, gallons per minute for flow rates. Can I just ask a clarifying question? Chelsea, if I understood correctly, what I thought I heard is that if we wanted to meter those pump stations, that that would come out of our sanitation budget. So if we wanted to better know what the town's flow was, that's on the city to pay for? That's on the town. So the town is doing that. They're going to be installing with our permission flow device in the Susie Wilson jug handle this next year. So we're each, as the tribe town works, we're each in charge of our own collection system. So, and we each pay for our own collection system. So they would bear the cost of that flow meter. But we're essentially requesting it and it's something they already want to do honestly, because they don't want to keep having to read all these water meters every month and doing that calculation. And it's not working in today's storm world. So. Yep. Yeah. Check that. Thank you, Chelsea. Yep. I don't know where, look at me, I don't know. Well, I guess if nothing else, then I come back to if it's some that, if it's some that we wanted to move forward and to try to meter this ourselves. And I understand what you're saying about, you can kind of do that already. But if the town has not had a meter thing, like the one you just identified in Susie Wilson, the calculation has always been based off not including that flow rate off of Susie Wilson. So we're already, again, maybe I'm not getting. It does include it. So they use water usage data to determine the flow to us. So there's a calculation where for that collection area, they get the water usage for each household or whatever property that has a water meter. And there is about a 20% loss. So they're assuming that 20% stays in the house and then 80% flows through. And then there's an infiltration calculation. I think it's an extra 10% or something. I have all the formula. I just don't have their formula memorized, but we actually talked about it today in our meeting. And so the other ideas with this, when this flow device goes in at the Susie Wilson jug handle, it will allow us to know exactly for West Street in particular, how much is the town's flow based on actual flow data versus what's ours because they'll have, they have a meter point also for Ethan Allen. So there are for Ethan Allen and Susie Wilson pump station feed to West Street. And those are for Ethan Allen and Susie Wilson pump street, even though we take care of it, the town pays for that 100%. And they, we only have like four houses on it or something. So it's very minimal. So with that, with those two items, we'll have a really good handle on that part of town. And then the rest, I don't believe go through any of our pump stations on the other side of the town for the town collection getting to us. It's all through gravity. The one that does is 40 meter. So by then we would, it doesn't really, well, we should be metering what's coming in and we could do that by pump run hours, like I said, to know where we have infiltration problems. But that's really the side of town, West Street, Pearl Street area is the side of town where getting that last meter in will really help us get a better idea on the report that they send us month to month versus our own flows. So you feel pretty confident that once they install this and you have that, that this is at this number that we have right now is pretty close. That just verify where we're at, but we're pretty close. Yeah. Okay. And they put it in their capital plan for starting July one, assuming that gets approved when they do their enterprise type funds, but he was pretty confident. So. Okay. Good. Thoughts on the proposed budget amounts, especially the sanitation. My thought on sanitation is I'd like to use Jess's revised numbers, not the numbers that are in the packet. I think it makes sense to be budgeting to be able to pay the debt payments versus worrying about at the time that we have them do where we're getting the money from. While I don't necessarily like to increase the bottom line to residents, I think it's a fiscally responsible thing to do. A lack of a better word. I would agree with your bills. Yeah. So generally, I think I'm okay with everything with making that minor change to sanitation. Elaine, do you have any thoughts? Nope, I agree with what you just expressed. All right. Open it up to public comments. Eyes and ears over there. Anything? No hands. Okay. All right. I will entertain a motion then. I think we have two separate motions in the packet. So I'll move to approve the FY25 Enterprise Fund Operating Capital Budgets for Water, Waste Water Sanitation EJRP Program as presented including the modification presented tonight by Jess for Waste Water. Sanitation. Sanitation. Friendly amendment. I will second that motion. All right. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. No nays. We don't have to do only if there's no. Only if there's no nays. Only if there's no nays. Yeah. I thought that was the rules. And then we need the other motion. Yeah. I will motion to warn a public hearing on May 22nd, 2024 for the FY25 Rate Setting for Water, Waste Water and Sanitation Funds. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. All right. No nays. All right. Thanks Jess. Thanks Chelsea. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Blind. All right. I think we're on a consent agenda. Moving on to the consent agenda. So moved. Or second. Or maybe second. Or whatever it is. I did know. Wow. Sorry I was thinking about something else. Yes. Sorry. All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. All right. Council member comments and city manager for Regina. Okay. So there is an ant track platform project happening. So folks are aware. Essentially what's going on is the project will create a raised train platform about eight inches above the track level. And the edge of the platform will have one of those yellow tactile safety things. So people know to not go too close. The project started on April 3rd. It's expected to take about a year. There will be a pause in the winter time. Half of the length of the platform will be built at a time. There might be some temporary changes to the passenger waiting area. Some parking spaces might be, will be used at different parts of the project. And bus service should not be impacted though that stop might just move a little bit 150 feet to the south when needed. Also, we've got the contractors back this week starting to work on the Crescent connector project. They're just, this week they're laying efforts to really get going next week. What they anticipate happening next week is to get into the Bailey spring and chassis parking lot and that driveway from Maple Street will be closed. The actual new Crescent connector road that is coming off of Park Street that's been closed off with some pretty hefty physical barriers over this last winter by Karen's closet, those barriers will come away from there. And the way that people get into Bailey spring and chassis parking area and the businesses in there will be through that new roadway. There will not be a through way out of there. You've got to go in and out that way. So the intent is not that this is being open for general public for the new use of the road. But that's how that will work while the road is getting built on the existing driveway into Bailey spring and chassis. What kind of signage is going to go up to support that? There will be signage on the Park Street side explaining how you get into those businesses. And I think there'll be road closure signs on the other side but I can take a look at that with Rick further. Yeah, if nothing else, I definitely like to see besides a road closure sign, like again, directing the entrance on Park Street if nothing else to make sure because if anybody's just mentally going to Bailey spring and chassis, we want to make sure that they're being direct. They realize they can still access it in some way. Okay. Our Tree City USA application has been approved again from the Arbor Day Foundation. So that's exciting. And Public Works is starting to fix some of the lawns. So we have two snowstorm events in the springtime. That means the lawns are very soft and there is some damage to lawns. So we're getting out there now to try to get those addressed. Can I ask a clarifying question? Of course. The train platform, can you just confirm that it's not the redesign or rebuilding of the actual train station but it is simply just the platform? That is correct. This project is not the city's project. It's not what we intend to do with the train station. It is a totally separate project for that. Any other comments, Marcus? No. Elaine? I have some, sure. Questions. My first question is the report on the senior center that is in the reading file. Has that been shared with the seniors? I believe it has, I can confirm that but I believe it has been shared with them and Mark, I believe, was meeting with them either this week or next to go over that but I will confirm that and get back to you. Great, thank you, Regina. My other question is I was reminded when reading the tree farm management group materials about their board reconstruction that I was wondering what was going on with the community advisory board for the police department. I believe we interviewed somebody quite some time ago and then we decided to reopen the position to the prior applicants that had been interviewed in the past and I'm not sure what has happened since then. Can we get an update, Regina? Yes, I don't believe any of those folks were interested and I don't think we've had anybody else apply since then. Okay, so go ahead. Trying to continue to keep advertising that as well as a couple of other positions that we've got. At this time of year, we also have a number of, we look at all of the committees and the folks that are up at the end of this term. We will be reaching out to all of those folks, figure out if they want to continue in their positions if they do, we ask them to reapply. We also advertise all of the positions that are open. So we'll be doing that both for the positions that are city appointments on regional organizations as well as looking at our individual committees itself. So there will be a big push to identify and understand all of the vacancies that will be coming up and try to get those built. Okay, thanks. Also just wanted to make a comment. Congratulations, Amber, on your reelection. Thank you. And congratulations to Tim Miller for his election to the board. And Andrew, we'll miss you. I'll see you in a couple of weeks. Yeah. Thanks, Elaine. Anybody else? All right, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Some moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. Thank you all for hanging out. Thank you. Thanks, Elaine. Hope you feel better. Thank you.