 So, I do have a statement I need to read at the beginning of each meeting. You've heard it before some of you but here we go. As member of the Rochester select board. I would like to add that due to the state of emergency declared by Scott as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to addendum six to executive order 01-20 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 contemporary. The public has access to this meeting. And the public has access to this meeting. That comes up a couple of times to this meeting. However, in accordance with the temporary amendments to the open meeting law, I confirmed that we are a providing public access to the meeting by zoom. By using zoom for this remote meeting. All members of the board have the ability to communicate time and the public has access to. Contemporary. Listen and if desired participate in this meeting. By contacting the town clerk to request the invitation to the meeting. We previously gave notice to the public of the necessary information for accessing this meeting, including how to access the meeting using electronic means in our posted meeting agenda. We also have a number of public meetings. Instructions have also been provided on our town website. So following that our normal opening for a meeting states that our meeting has been posted at three different sites around town and has been sent to interested parties. Email list that we have. And with that, I think that we can start. The meeting. Okay. So, Okay. Thank you. Open discussion. On the new town plan that we plan on voting on this evening. Whether or not to adopt it. So anybody have any discussion on the town plan. I have a question. Can you hear me? Oh, good. This is Deb. I don't even know where my microphone is on my computer. But this is a new town plan. On which you are voting. Is that the one that says December. 2019. That's on, on the website. Can you help me out with that? Is this, is that the final version that we looked at? You muted Dan. Dan. Turn your. There you go. It should say December 3rd, 2019. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, I have a question. And maybe Dan can answer this. So I looked at that and I looked at the goals. And I did not see the goal that I was promised that would be included. I did not see that there. So I wondered what ever happened with that. Hello, Molly. Hi. Deb, did you tell him what goal that was? Oh yeah. And I was, I was told that it was included. Last meeting that I went to at the planning meeting, I went to and I asked about that. I thought that it was, Deb, your comment was in the, about the, one of the goals in the overarching goals. Yes. About community health. Yes. And in our response to comments, we said that we would add something. And we would add something to it. And you showed it to me. Right. Unfortunately, the copy I have right now. Is not a revised. It's the copy I had at the December 3. Planning commission hearing. I'd have to go onto the town website and look at what. Yeah, I just did. I did look at on the website. And it was, it was, it was the latest draft. It said final draft. I'm, I'm sorry. I didn't go sooner to see it, but I kind of assumed it would be there. Yes, it should have been. In there. We took all the comments from our hearing and, and looked at each one and addressed each one. And developed a response to comments, which I don't think made it onto the. But we did add something. To the overall goals, talking about the health. And I'm sorry, I don't have that right now. I could get on to the town website and. Well, you're telling me it's not there. No, I just, I looked a little while ago today. So will it be included? I mean, even though it's not on, on that final draft, I don't think it's going to be included. I don't think it will. Is it already somewhere so that it will be included? It should be. And my worry is that we made. Several edits or changes. To the, to the document. And I am wondering if they made it into. Or the plan that got loaded up on the website. Has those. Any updates on the latest. Additions. And I have. Tories. February 11th email saying that she had incorporated changes. I'm having a lot of trouble doing everything on the same machine here. Yeah. So what we're adopting Sandy is the one that you, you are saying on February 11th. Yeah. Yeah. And Dan put together a list of the, um, We all talked about the recommendations that were made and Dan put it together and sent it to Tori and she incorporated it. And, and, and it is this, the draft that I'm looking at is dated February, 2020. And that, and that's the one that two rivers has also, is that correct? Yes. Yes. Okay. So what's the date on that document? That. December 3rd. So that's not the right one. It should be the February 11th one. Right. That's the one. Final draft. So it's the one that. I didn't see it. For this hearing. I have a final draft up from the town website. Can you give me a clue as what page I'd be looking at. What's the date on the front of that document. December 3rd. So that's not the right one. It's the one that that pat patty that you and Frank have to look at. Do you have a copy of the one that Dan's speaking about from February? We have the one. That's on the website. So we, we don't have the right one up on the website right now. Really? Can you chime in on that at all? I, I must have, if it says the December 3rd, then I must not have. A February revision. Uploaded. One that says January 2019. Let's see what that one. That's 2019. Yeah. I'm playing report and that's it. That would be a year ago, a year and a half ago almost. That's the one we did to, um, To quickly get the, the village designation re, re, um, reapplied for. Right. And then there's a final draft, but it's the maps. Yeah. Is that, you know, the website says it's the final draft, but this December 3rd one is the, um, planning commission public hearing draft. So we don't have the one with the change that Deb is talking about asking about is in the February, um, addition. And it didn't get uploaded, um, to the website. But your suggestion was one of the changes that was made. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. And that's the one we're adopting tonight. Is that correct? Yes. We're adopting tonight. That's what you folks adopted in two rivers also. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Do you, do you have a copy of that, Dan, that you could send it to the town? I know it takes a bit. I have to get, um, Norm Christiansen to load it because it takes two parts. Cause it's so big. I think it's that one, but I might be wrong. Yeah. I have it. I'll forward it to you. All right. I'm sure it's in my inbox somewhere. I know where it is. So is there any more discussion or questions or. The answers. I got a whole bunch of answers. I just need questions. Well, the town plan is kind of a moving target as well. As soon as you get one set in place, you start working on the next one. So if there are, especially at these times, um, it's, it's, it's going to be ready for revisions, you know, I'm in time again. You know, it seems like every year. It's every five years, I believe they have to. It has to be readopted. So, you know, there is something that's left out in light of all the, uh, the fast moving pace of our community. Uh, it's probably something that we can work with. We have two more people coming in. Um, John is in and somebody that is seven, six, seven, four, four, five, three. So we'll have to see who that person is. Patty is Nancy. Hi. Hi there. I already had you in there. Okay. You're doing. I am because dude is running late. He should be chiming as he hits town, but he was in the car and asked me to start a meeting for him, which this is my first time. So I had to, uh, You're doing great. Well, Oh, am I correct to Patty? Excuse me. That you guys have finished your discussion of the year. And you're going to get ready to vote on this now. The town plan. Or anybody else wants to chime in something now would be the time. Okay. I moved that we accept the town plan as it has been designed in its final final version. Okay. So we are definitely adopting the version that is referred to as February 2020. As the final document. I second that Patty. Okay. All in favor. All right. And we have adopted a new town plan and certainly let's all start taking notes for the next one. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. Thank you. I know that's a long process. Thank you, Sandy. Thank you all. The planning board. For putting all of this heart and soul into it. It's a very long document. It's a lot. But it is the heartbeat of our town. So it is very important. And the work that you do does not go unnoticed. Certainly not by me. And if anybody wants to get involved as watching this in the next round. Come on, step up to the plate. Okay. I think that ends the portion of the planning board special meeting. So we are adjoining from that meeting. And we can now move on to the next round. So we are adjoining from that meeting. And we can now go on to the regular select board meeting. Which. There are a few more people in here than there was before. There is a disclaimer that I said at the beginning of the last meeting. Does anyone want to hear that all over again? Okay. The first two is the fact that we're having this meeting by way of electronic means. But everyone has been invited and everyone with access to any. It can participate in the meeting. And. Opening statement for meetings is that we have posted. The meeting in three places with the agenda. So we have the agenda. The agenda to all parties by email. And so we are so noted and do we want. Now. For an agenda. I don't have an agenda. I got that here on my phone. Thank you so much. We can. Yeah. April 13th in April 22nd, we had a closed meeting, a special meeting there to open the bid. And we should probably approve those. Patty. And. For the special meeting notes. That came. After, so let's approve the meeting notes from the April 13th select meeting. So we have a special meeting. We have a special meeting. We have a special meeting. We have a special meeting. We have a small type of everything's in order. So I so moved that we accept the meeting. I accept the. The what, which, which part did you change that? There was a date that was all. There was an extra zero in there. So the date. Red. Oh, yeah. I didn't see that. Yep. Okay. I second. Your, your motion there. All in favor. So moved. We have that. And then we had the other meeting that was a special meeting. What we did was we opened bids for. Engineering of a new bridge on West Hill road in West. And no particular decision was made. We just opened the bids publicly. We had a meeting. I read the meeting notes on that. And I, I moved to accept them. I second it. We should also note though, Patty, that we did have an executive session in that. Time. We did. We did have executive session for discuss personnel. The work schedule for the guys. The road crew. That's what I meant. No, we had it during that meeting after we closed the. Open the bids. And then we went into executive session to discuss the work, work process for the town crew. That's what I meant. Yep. That's what we did. We also have someone else that's just joined the meeting that their name is Sam song. I'm sure they're on their phone. Okay. Okay. Back to business. We are. Approving those minutes. I second that Patty. All in favor. All right. Okay. We accept the minutes of those meetings. Next on our agenda. Would we be hearing from Joan? Yep. Jones on the. Departmental reports. So Joan. Can you hear me? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very funky on the other side too. So as long as you can understand what I'm saying, I don't have much in the way of an update. The only thing I do have is on the community garden, which was discussed at the last board meeting. I think we had a while to get in touch with the. One of the main questions about. I believe that idea was whether we were going to be allowed to do anything in the flood plain there. And if so, if there were be with there were permits involved. And the information so far that I got that from the state flood plain manager. Was it a little sort of vague? So I have to track down some more information that basically you did say. That community gardens are. And they may need a permit, depending upon what activities would take place in the garden. For instance. And then seeing where we go up, which is probably something you want to do there. There was any field involved. If you want to do some composting there. If you want to add a top soil, anything in that nature may need a permit. According to the flood plain manager, he said the land behind and the north of the school is partially in what he calls the regulatory floodway, which is like zone A under the FEMA maps. And it's mostly within what he called the flood fringe. And I'm not sure what that terminology means. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have to look that up. And so depending on where it's located, we'll have a better sense of what permits might be needed. So, but I thought would help at this point for us to be able to move the idea forward. If we want to try and do it this year would be as whomever is interested in sort of organizing the project. Should. Find a good location for where they would like to put it. And then the other part would be if the organizers of the garden could give me some ideas and parameters of what they do there, what kind of activities might take place. Then I could put them in front of the flood plain manager and get a better idea of what we're going to need in the way of permits. And I stopped the crackdown. There's a different program. So I have a feeling probably would not be a permit. We did for that because I don't think there's going to be that much water taken out. It would probably be, you know, just by pockets when people need to water. But I will crack that down as well and find out just to make sure that's correct. That's really all I have on the way of updates. Okay. Good. Thank you. Next on the. Part mental reports. I've got on the agenda as a library. I'm not sure anybody's here to speak up for that. I don't think we have. Anybody from the library with us today. I don't think we have anyone from the highway department with us. Do we? I don't think we have anybody from the library with us today. I don't think we have anyone from the highway department with us. Do we? Just one thing on the library, the state has opened things up a little bit and there are some work safe additions that the library needs to adhere to. I think probably Vic, you might be able to speak to that. I don't know for sure, but. I know it came through on the Vermont league of cities and towns. Recently, just the other day that, that came up along with farmers markets. And I think that's something that we need to do. And another thing probably that we need to do is, is for all the town employees. They need to go through a training process by May 4th. So that's something that we need to really jump on. Yeah, it's one of the additions to the governor's. Directives. Number 11, I think it is. I don't know if you've heard of it before, but I think that it has some very specific. Parameters for road work and training that has to meet VOSHA requirements. I don't have that in front of me, but you should, if you don't have them, we can certainly get them to you. I think we're going to have to do that. I'm not sure if that includes all our employees as far as our office. Do you know. I believe it does. Yeah. Yeah, but you can have, you have to have a safety officer. Who can serve. All employees of the town that you don't have to have a separate one for the road crew and one for the office. So one person can serve for both. Okay. Right. That includes everybody that is out working in the public. Like, like, like myself, the hardware folks, you know, it's, it's 40 pages long, but it's a very easy read. It's a very easy read. It's a very easy read. It's a very easy read. You can flip right through it and there's lots of diagrams and things. And at the end, you print out your name and you have, I think you just keep that with you. I don't think it goes anywhere. It is. So you've had your employees do the same thing, Pat. With myself just to see what it was. It's really a quick read. It sounds huge because it's 47 pages, but it's lots of, lots of diagrams and pictures and things. But it just says that, you know, I would understand this is certification at the end saying that you've read it. Patty. My question. So this, if I said that all town employees need to go through a training process by May 4th regarding the work safe restrictions. And this is. Related to reopening businesses in the state or real related to, to what I'm sorry, I want to make sure I know what it's about, but I'm trying to figure out how to say it correctly. I'm trying to figure out how to say it correctly. Everybody that's back out in the workplace, except for healthcare workers, because I think they get different training or something, but it did exempt that, you know, hospital workers and things. But it does, it does cover everybody. Like, like yourself, Martha would probably. Yeah, I don't know when we'll go back to the office, but yeah. Okay. I see what you mean. So relating to people being back out in the workplace. Yeah, I believe so. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Highway utilities. Under new business. It says adopt the town plan. I believe that we just voted on adopting the town plan. Or we voted to accept the town plan is Dan. We did. So now we want to adopt the town plan. Is that correct? I think we just did. We accepted the town plan as it was. And so we adopted it in that process. Okay. I think we're good on that. The thing that we do have on new business on our list is appointment for animal control. I do believe that. Jeff Brown is interested in taking the position of animal control. And even though I spoke into him briefly and, and what his appetite about it. I believe that he has had a conversation with June. And is willing to accept the position. So I move that we appoint Jeff Brown as our animal control officer. On to fill the vacant term, the vacant position that we have until it's term is up. Okay. I second that motion there, Pat. Everyone in favor. I. When is that term up at the next town meeting? Is that, would that be it? Right after the next town meeting. Okay. Thank you. Just to walk back a little bit. I never saw Terry at all this. You know, last couple of weeks. Is he all done with the water testing? Does anybody know. Is he all done with the water testing? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But that doesn't mean that he's done. So I do know it's at least still in process. That I don't know. I sent in the first quarter. Results. So I don't know if that. Includes that. Well, I'll have to, I'll touch base with him to see if. How that's going and just to find out, have an update on it anyway. Just to know what's going on there. And I haven't seen John to talk to him. But as far as I know, he's. He's doing what he can do and what he's supposed to be doing. So he's trying to. Keep his budget under control, which is good. As far as I'm concerned anyway. Yeah. His list, his list of chores that he's allowed to do didn't expand this week. So, um, they're, yeah, they're, they're duly working. Almost. Almost. I would snow up by you today. In Rochester. Wow. I was going to say channel three said something about seven over seven inches somewhere. I was thinking, where was that in Rochester? Top of Bethel Mountain, probably. I assumed it wasn't in the village. Thank goodness. I don't know. I've been heard from anybody at the top of Brandon gap. That probably had a good amount too. Okay. So, um, Does anybody have anything else they want to bring to the table and discuss? Yeah, this is Vic. I'd like to have a request on behalf of the. Pandemic task force of the emergency management committee. And. Okay. Should I go? Okay. Thank you. Just, I have a like two minutes of introduction to this. So, and then happy to take questions. So as your emergency management director and incident commander, I'm leading a task force devoted to taking action to protect the community as best we can from the worst impacts of the pandemic. Part of our job is to look ahead for things that could become more difficult for the community to do. We would like permission to use what was the constables office space in the town office building. To set up a new emergency food distribution center serving Rochester, Hancock and Granville. This emergency food center would work in parallel with the Rochester food shelf, not to duplicate it, but supplementing their work to be able to rapidly respond to the needs of the community. And that would be an area for as long as necessary. And here's why. Rapid and massive unemployment locally and nationally is happening. The likes of which have not been seen since the Great Depression. A White House economic advisor stated yesterday that they expect depression era unemployment this year. Two weeks ago, the Vermont labor commissioner said that unemployment in Vermont reached 20%. And it could rise to 30% as reported today. Things are pretty bad out there and nobody knows how long it will last. There are already indications of large scale food insecurity in Vermont related to the coronavirus pandemic. A contact of the Vermont food bank was told that they are gearing up for major increases in demand for an unknown length of time. I was on the state emergency operations center conference call Friday. We were briefed on the emergency distribution of MREs, meals ready to eat. They gave out 43,000 in Newport on Wednesday, and 112,000 meals in Rutland on Friday. We were also told that some Vermont food shelves are running low and conducting additional food drives to stock up. So we would like to do the planning preparation work now so that we could implement by June. That means clear out the space, clean it up, create an operational plan, recruit volunteers, figure out how to raise money, how best to get the word out to potential clients, and many other tasks. You can't stand up something like this overnight. So with that, I hope you will support this request and be happy to take any questions. Vic, I have a question. Julie. How long are you, like, is this going to be just a temporary thing? Or is this like a permanent food bank? It's hard to say, Julie. We're thinking this summer and then see, you know, how long the pandemic effect on food security lasts. You know, it's just hard to tell. I wasn't thinking of it being forever, but, you know, get into the summer, see what it looks like. And, you know, get into the summer. And then see what the need is as we get further into the summer. Excuse me. I couldn't write nearly as fast as your statement went. And I was wondering if you have it written down, would you be willing to email that statement to me? Certainly. I will do that. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'd like to include it in the article. Okay. Thank you. I got a question, a couple of things. Julie, that space has kind of been promised to you partially. Is that correct? Yeah. We were hoping to use it for record. Stories. Is it a large portion that you need to use for records? Or is it a small. Avenue? Or is it a small. I haven't been down there since I graduated high school. I remember what it used to look like, but I don't know what it looks like now. I think that we, if we could, if we could organize it in some way, we might be able to share, you know, a small area to, to organize the, the, the, the, what's the, what the problem is right now is there's a small, a small area where I have records and it's just, we're outgrowing it. So I'm, I've got things piled in the middle of the floor right now until I can figure out what to do. Is that in the back portion of the building? Say underneath the, where we have the voting. Is that where that is? Yeah. In that little room there on the, in the back. Right. And the window that's in there is just a single pain. So I'm worried that, you know, if it were to get damaged, those records are not safe where they're at right now. They would be damaged also, but we'll have to look into that. Yeah. I mean, it depends on what kind of records we're storing down there too. There might be a privacy issue if you're sharing, you know, an open room. There is, there is that little holding room down there. I thought maybe a good spot for record storage. It has a door on it and you can lock it. That belongs to the American Legion. No, I'm not on that side. I'm talking about under the, the current office space, not under the voting conference room. Well, one of the, one of the rooms there is the furnace room. And then the other room is already chakra block full of all of Julie's records. I think he's talking about the holding style. Yeah. Oh, there's a small office. There's a small office off of, off of the large office that has a door. I'm guessing it's what do you think, but maybe eight by 10, something like that. Yeah. Where the sink is. I think if you, if you either had shelves in there or just file stuff and there would be a good store, Jerry be secure. Yeah. People couldn't get in there. And, uh, you know, you could put a lot of documents. I, thinking that you're going to need the whole spaces down there or. We don't, what's your, what's your thoughts on, Frank? We haven't gotten in. Well, we get in and got a quick look. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like it certainly would be big enough. And, you know, Mike, well, be more than what's needed. We just don't know yet. Yeah. Lay it out. How, how did the food. The, the food service go this weekend. Was that, did they see an increase in that? You know, ironically, they did not went over and. Lolly and I went over and talked with Ruth and Kevin. And actually it was slower than it usually is, and they weren't sure why they were in founding. We don't know why. And they weren't sure why either. I got the thinking about that. And, um, I was wondering if maybe some of it might be that people have, are embarrassed to some degree, maybe for, not. For that. I don't, I don't know. I'm just. Well, if we were over at the, uh, the Randolph food shelf last Tuesday. And they've also noticed that it's a few as slower than they were. And so, I think it's a good thing that they have a lot of requests for people. Uh, to be, to have food delivered to their home. People were just afraid of coming out of their house. Uh, to come to the food shelf and Randolph. And so Randolph, they have lots and lots of volunteers. They were able to. Gear up and make deliveries to people's homes. We're also kind of speculating that, um, the, the, the, the, um, the things might have, you know, kind of come through in that time period between last month and this month and the records. Right. Right. Now, are you thinking of, of having, is this going to be open to like Granville Hancock, uh, maybe even Stockbridge. I don't, I don't think Stockbridge has anything like that either. Stockbridge is served by the Bethel. official service area. And ours has traditionally been the three towns, Rochester, Hancock and Grandville. And we've been talking with the select board chairs of both those towns and they're very interested. And this is going to be all through. What are you looking at for town money? Or are you looking that way? No, just looking for space and heat and electricity. Yeah. And then we would fundraise to buy the food and whatever other supplies or equipment would be needed. Well, the emergency management committee would be doing the fundraising. Is that what you're saying? Well, we haven't figured out exactly how that would be sponsored. You know, it might just be a group of interested volunteers to figure that, you know, how to, how to frame that. It's, you know, the impetus is coming from the emergency management committee, but in terms of taking ownership of a fundraising drive, that kind of thing, we, you know, I'm not sure how that would be sponsored, exactly. Have you seen an increase in your shopping network there? Home shopping network or whatever you want to know. I don't know. Have you had a lot more people? Have you been doing a lot more shopping for people at max? Not, you know, it's been surprisingly slow. We had about 18 people, I think, through last week. There are a couple more Friday and today and that's been it. We've got a couple from Hancock and mostly from Rochester. A couple of people have repeated. They really appreciate it. They're mostly older people, but, you know, we're hopeful that more people will choose to use this versus coming down to the store, particularly if they're older or if they've come in from out of town, you know, for their weekend house. But that's where we are right now. David, question about the Federated Church food shelf. Could you not just pile on to that or what's the reason you can't do that? Well, we've had several conversations with Kevin and Ruth. They have a system set up now that works very well and we asked them about expanding and that's not something that they, first of all, they didn't see the need and that it was, it could be disruptive to their operation. It's like, if somebody come in and mess up your kitchen and your pantry in your house and when you've got it set up the way it works really well, it could be disruptive to their monthly operation. So we did explore that and that was not an option they wanted to pursue. Okay, thank you. Do you know if there's any requirements like state requirements for the actual space itself? Yeah, well, if we are able to participate in the food bank program or the commodities program which is not known yet, there are certain sanitary requirements and training requirements that would have to be followed which what little of we know of them right now seem pretty common sense we'd wanna do anyway, keep the hot things hot and cold things cold and we don't have any hot things but keep the cold things cold, keep things clean, pest control and of course in today's world with additional requirements for sanitation and masks and sanitizing surfaces, nobody would be allowed into the facility itself would be delivery at the curb just like the other food banks or food shelves are doing and other retail places. Vick and I have a question, I was just thinking, when I was thinking of food shelf I was originally thinking of just non-perishables but I believe the church food shelf has a fridge and everything too. So would you be having like a refrigerator and all that? There is a refrigerator there. Oh, there is one in the- A refrigerator freezer, you know. And we might be able to pick up another one or two with something used just for that purpose somewhere. Vick, do you know if fresh produce is able to be given away in this COVID days? I would hope so. I don't know a reason not to but that's something we can check on. You know, it would be our wish that we could have arrangements with some of the local farms either sign up for CSAs or take food that maybe didn't get sold to the farmer's market or what have you, but it's our desire to have the farmers work directly with us. And we had one conversation with Kevin Daugherty about helping out and there are others will be contacting as well. Vick, this is Nancy. I have just a little concern about the historical society corner that we have down there that we are working in there. And I think I heard you say that there are controls about who can go into these into the price. I didn't say that, but there should be. Which would mean us probably. Yeah, so, you know, we just work it out whatever it needs to be. We're trying to, we're just trying to get our records and things organized. Yeah. Nancy, how much space do you require down there at this time? You have one corner. Oh, yeah. When you go into the room, it's on the right and down sort of to the left of the room facing the parking lot. We have a window. Bay. It's nice to have a window in natural light. Window and a couple of desks. Well, I certainly think that it's probably a good idea down the road. I don't know if we should put a time limit on to see how it goes, maybe. What do you think, Pat? I mean, I- My thoughts are basically, I would like to consider a stand beside a sister operation to our current food bank. If we were to our food shelf, if we were to have something like produce, something that complements what the church also does, not just an overlay on what they do, not just mull them over, but stands beside it and complements them with what we provide in addition to what they provide rather than trying to provide the same thing twice. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, I hear what you're saying. The food shelf operates for one and a half hours a month and Saturday mornings, once a month. And we're talking about maybe one to two times a week. So, you know, it's a different schedule. And again, it depends on what the need looks like. It could be that much, it may not need to be that much, but, you know, so- Would you need to, if you were to do this, would you need to move the other people that are in there at present or what? Are you thinking that the space is adequate that's left there for what you need or what? I think so. You know, we haven't really laid it out, but there's a lot of desks that could be used for surface to put things down on. And as I said, we wouldn't allow people to come into the facility to pick food. We would have volunteers pick it for them and put it in a bag or a box and hand it to them at the door. Just for, that's what you have to do these days. And so, you know, I saw the boxes of the historical society were marked where Nancy had indicated. And, you know, I think between that and the, you know, storage for the town clerk's files, you know, I think we'd be fine to, you know, all share the space. It's possible there could be a petition that goes up too. There is Nancy. I think a petition could go up. Okay. I'd like to review the site really. It's been so long, I can't picture what the heck is down there. I think Julie can show you. Yeah, I'd like to review it. I mean, I'm all for it really. I think it's a need that we got to fulfill and, you know, it's just would be good thinking for emergencies. I'm not opposed to it at all. I just want to make sure we don't shorten the people that we have there already. That would be my biggest fear, I think. But I'm not opposed to doing this. I mean, even if we reveal it in six months or a year or whatever, to set it up in case it does get really bad, it's not a foolhardy plan. It certainly is, might be warranted. And then in a year, if it doesn't, you know, if it's something that's not being utilized very much, then we can review it, I think. Yeah, and I think we'd know, certainly before years up, too. Yeah, yeah. So is what you're thinking, Frank, that you guys could vote to give it like provisional approval or something to see how it goes? Well, that's what I'm kind of thinking about. I don't want to mix it all together because I think it could be a very, well, it could be a worthy project. I mean, if something really, you know, rears, if this thing really rears its head, it would be in our valley. I mean, it would be certainly advantageous and if people aren't able to get back to work as they have been in the past and the financial strains on families gets worse, I certainly think a good food venue is going to be a plus, you know, for everyone, really. I mean... Vic, this is the possibility of going back to the church and talking further with them. I don't want to put you on the spot. It's okay. I mean, we've had those conversations. I don't know if anything's different. I had a conversation with Kevin also and they have a limited budget and I think that might be some of it, but they're pretty much set in the way they do things, in the way they want to do things. Gotcha. Yeah, and it's a fine operation. Lolly and I have been there and Catherine Shankman and I went there one day a couple of weeks ago and it's set up, it's very well organized. They follow all the sanitation rules. They know the people coming and I think one of their concerns and it's a legitimate concern was, you know, here come additional people in who would have to move things around and, you know, they made, it's a pretty small space there. It's about eight feet by 24 in terms of the shelf and refrigerator area, which if we get into a, you know, a true food emergency, it's not going to be nearly enough space I don't think to work from. So what do you think, Pat? I think it's worthy of exploring further. So we would support the cause of doing some further investigation. So I don't want to slow your wheels down, but I don't want to give you the green lights right now. We do have to know what is required of the space that other people are already using. Sure. I think that there's even more requirements like having a lead pain inspection, things like that. I'm not sure if it's open to the public what it does. I mean, there was a question about the old firehouse, but I don't think that space would be worthy of storing food. I don't think that space would be worthy of storing food. So this is probably the space that we have. So I think that let's take a look at it and we'll speak again in a couple of weeks. Great. See what space requirements you have, what are the requirements of this, what you need to do to put that stuff in there. It's food, so, and it's basement. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't mind setting up a time to meet with you down there or something just to go through it. Sure. I mean, we can see, would that be okay with you, Julie? Yeah, I'd like to put them on that too. I think what's pretty clear when you go down there, Frank, is that it's kind of messy. Like the historical boxes are, you know, if things were organized, I think it's pretty clear that there's a tremendous amount of space down there. Right now, there's all kinds of junk just kind of sitting around. So if it were cleaned out and organized, there's more space actually than would appear when you walk in there. It's a big room. It's a big room. Yeah, I know. I spent some time in there. Not all of the good times either. There's a grudge attached to it as well. I mean, I don't know if space is good to anybody for anything, but. Am I correct that what you're going to do is you're going to get together to look over this and then maybe at the next regular meeting, you'll make a definite decision or is that what you're saying or am I wrong? I think they need to look forward to going forward because if they want to get this set up as soon as possible, but I think we need to review the space a little bit to make sure that there's space enough. And by the sounds there is, and I don't know why we don't use it if that's the case. As long as everybody else has room enough to do what they need to do. Yeah. But I don't want to slow your process down because then that only leaves it for, kicks the can down the road, so to speak. So then you put you in a bind if something does rear its head, you don't have the facilities to work with. If we could get in together this week, that would help move things along. Yeah. Wherever the parties need to be to look the space over. Nancy, you want to get in there, of course, to look at the historical society files, I'm sure. Yeah. I know pretty much what's there. And it's there primarily because we have no other space and it needs to be dry space. I think when you get in there, you'll see that if things were compressed and organized a little better, there's room to accommodate all of this stuff. And the little office that's not used at all, it's completely empty and it's got a door, is a really nice potential space. But I think if you can get in there and kind of wrap your head around the potential of the place, we were pretty excited about it. I think that there's room there to accommodate the other needs and take care of this problem, which can be a pretty severe problem coming at us. So it's certainly worth looking at. Yeah. Oh, I agree with that. So maybe I can't tomorrow, Vic, but I can meet with down there on Wednesday, maybe. If you want to go through it or you, Rob, or somebody. Before it too. Yeah. Yeah. We can't gather too many people, but. Yeah, right. I have to. No, I mean, but. Are you talking about daytime, Frank? Yeah. Yeah, daytime's fine. I mean, any time that works for you, works for me. Okay. How about just looking at some other things? What about like one in the afternoon? After Wednesday? Yeah. That works. Okay. Wednesday is the 29th. Yeah. Lolly, what time? One o'clock? Okay, good. Julie, is it okay for you, Julie? Yeah, that works. Okay. And I'll get together with Julie and show her the historical things. She can represent us. Okay. Good. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate the consideration. Is there anything else from anybody else? Hey, Julie, did you tape that webinar today? Did you, is that correct? Yeah, I did. Was that, did you listen to it during the day or? I listened to parts of it. There were parts that really didn't pertain to us as it is our town, but. Most of, most of what we're looking at for funding, I'm thinking we would just go with the bank. Okay. I didn't attend myself. So I was wondering, I know you said you were gonna tape it to see and anything else? Patty, did Dune say anything about an executive session or anything? It's on the agenda and just don't know. It's always on the agenda. There's, the category's there, but there's nothing in it. Oh, okay. So, no, I'm surprised he's not here already, but I think we did okay without him. And I'd just like to know who Samsung is over here. Right there. It looks like Kinley, gotcha. And I did see Lois Bond, I had dialed in, so. There is just one more thing, Patty. We're gonna have a Zoom meeting sometime next week with a group that has been assembled for looking at the way we do our voting, just in terms of the physical part of it, as far as, I don't wanna go into the fall if this COVID thing is still here and have everybody traipsing in and out of the town office. We're just kinda looking at another way. We're thinking that I think that everybody's kinda thinking that mail-in ballot is the way to go, but not everybody's gonna be able to do that. So we're gonna have to come up with some kind of a physical presence for voting. And so we're gonna, I've assembled a group of people. There's like six of us that's gonna review it, and I'll be updating that as in the future when we come up with something. It shouldn't be anything too drastic, it's just so we can adhere to the physical distancing that we have to live with now with this COVID thing. So I'll be doing that, and I will be updating the board eventually when we get something a little bit more. It's all gonna be under state restrictions, I'm sure, but it's more or less, it's just a physical place to do it and how we assemble to tally the votes in the end, so we can all adhere to the physical social distancing stuff and make it all work out, so. Whatever location you do find has to have internet connection. Okay. I will have to be able to do same day registration, and I also have to get on to the system. Okay, we'll have to see what we can do on that. Because I think one of the only places we're gonna be able to do it's in the gym where we can social distance enough there, and it's got an entrance in an egress, so we'll have to figure something out about that. Yeah. That's just something we need to prepare for just in case, so. Yeah, as long as we keep Julie in the loop. Yep, we will. Okay, that said, I think we have a meeting, we're wrapping it up, thank you everyone, and we look forward to our next meeting, which would be Monday, May 11th at 6 p.m.