 It is 12 o'clock. We should do our thing and we've got a quorum. Connor texted me to say that he would be a little bit late. All right, so I'm going to call this meeting to order. I think one of the things that we need to do is not on the agenda actually, but since we're all remote, we need to introduce ourselves. So. And Watson may are joining us remotely here. Donna, you want to go next? Sure. Donna Bate for district one. Jack. Jack McCullough for district two. Jennifer. More district three. Lauren. Yeah. And then we have Lauren Hurl. District one. And I don't think we have anybody. Any other counselors on. So, all right. Think our agenda is probably fine. Anyone want to change the agenda? Yes, Donna. I'd like to add a discussion about the public safety authority That's the only thing that's important for the organization equipment. Okay. And that's not in conjunction with the consent agenda. No, it's separate from the console. This is the grant for the $3.2 million for towers infrastructure. We can do that after. Yes. That'd be fine. Thank you. Yep. So with that, any other information about changing the agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. With that, we'll consider the agenda. General business and appearances. Any comments, folks would like to make. To just to the group. Okay. Seeing anyone. So we'll move on then to the consent agenda. I think it would be helpful to have. A bit of an explanation about. Item A, the base radio. Approval, but I'm not suggesting we take it out of the consent agenda. Yeah. That seems. There's there a second. I'll second. A motion and a second. Chief, if you want to make a motion on the consent agenda, I think it would be helpful to have a bit of an explanation on that. Chief, you want to address the. Item A there, the replacement base. Radio. Good afternoon, Madam Mayor, members of the council, members of the public, assistant city manager, need a minor. I'm Brian Pete, the chief of police with the Montpelio police department. In regards to the radio base station, this is the, the base station, I believe back in 2000 and shortly after I got here, I believe it's 2020. So we had a little bit of a presentation to the council regarding the base station that we did have. It's, we, we, this particular base stations over 20 years old. The one we had had went out on us. So we borrowed one from the Milton police department. It's the still the same age as the one that, that, that previously went out. And so what we, we need this, this radio base station to four channels on channel two, which is the Washington County station. And then we also have the Montpelio police department for Mont State police. So at this particular point in time, we were looking for to, to use the funding that has been authorized for the, the dispatch consoles. So initially what we thought the, when we were initially looking at Motorola consoles, those costs came up to close to a 460,000, and going through the RFP product or going through our research process and everything to that effect, we're actually going to go with the Avtech consoles, which are significantly less expensive. So when we first let counsel know how much money it was to have money allocated set aside for the dispatch consoles, which was authorized and approved. We were basing a longevity purchase agreement of four years. So we were looking at, and this is if I recall correctly, we were looking at it roughly about 125 to $135,000 for four years to pay for the dispatch consoles. With the consoles being significantly less, there's an opportunity for us to use some of those, that funding to pay for the radio base station. So once we purchase the, the Avtech consoles, the only amount that will be due for this year will be a little over $29,000. Next year it will be roughly 96 or $98,000, then 96, $98,000, then one more year, $96,000, $98,000, and then the consoles will be paid off. So we just thought this was, so since there's already $135,000 that we did not use for last year, that slated for the consoles, we're looking for the opportunity to use some of that funding to purchase the base station going forward on that one. So actually in the other part about that is I am working with Kelly. So this is more of a, a backup to the issue. I'm trying not to purchase the system yet because we still have the ability to see if we can fold this base station into the grant for the communications infrastructure that we're applying for right now through the state. So I don't want to, even if the council gives me the authority or the permission to purchase the base station, I kind of want to hold off on doing that to see if I can fold that into the full grant amount. And if we are successful in winning that grant, and if I can fold that into the grant amount, I should be able to purchase that by the end of the year. So I'm hoping that the systems can hold on by then. Super. Thank you so much. That's really helpful. Any other questions folks have about that? Yeah, go ahead, Jack. Sorry, I have a question about the, the FW web did too. When we, when we're done with this, I apologize for that. Oh, item C. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Any other questions about item A though? Okay. Great. Well, go ahead with your question about item C. Okay. Thanks. This, there's probably an easy. Answer for this, but going through the, the bid from FW web, I noticed that some of the items are being quoted for, for a ductile iron. And it seems like, wasn't that the kind of pipe under Elm street that we had a problem with because it had a bad interaction with the, with the soil. And are we in danger of the same problem here? Yeah, I can answer that. Kurt Modica, deputy director of public works. So this particular water project has a river crossing associated with it. And that river crossing and the piping will be set directly on ledge. So in order to have a well protected pipe through the river crossing, the ductile iron is really the only suitable material for that. You're right. We have had a lot of issues with corrosion with ductile iron pipe, but in this case, it really makes sense to use that material. So it'll just be used directly for that crossing. Thanks. Super. Any other questions. About that. Okay. All right. So there's been a motion and seconds. Okay. Connor, you want to introduce yourself? We just all did like the, you know, virtual introductions. Oh, hi, everybody. I'm Connor from district two. Good to see you. Great. All right. So. There's been a motion and a second on the consent agenda. Any further discussion. Okay. All in favor, please say aye. Hi. And opposed. Okay. So it is unanimous. I'm going to turn it over to you. For discussion of CBPS. Thank you. What's happened as you all are used to, when you get a grant announcement, you all jump on it. And the public safety department of Vermont has announced the grants. That would allow us to apply for that $3.2 million. That we had very focused on the legislative session. I hope you sort of remember that. It's about towers and radios and such. It's infrastructure money. And this opportunity has come up. And the capital region group, which is basically Montpelier and Barry staff. I got a call from Barry. Joe's also worth has been following this very intensely. That indeed the department has announced this grant. It's going to be due September 2nd. It's quite detailed. And he feels like they need, they're asking the public safety authority to authorize $3,000 to pay, to do the application. Now they would work with both Montpelier bill, particularly and Brian, as well as Doug and Joe and Barry to make sure that the application has what it wants. But also getting just all the information that it's asking for. Now, so we call a special meeting tonight. And unfortunately your representative, Justin, is not in the country. He's vacationing in Canada. And he's going to, he's not sure he can connect. And we don't want Montpelier not to be represented. So I was hoping maybe to have a letter or an endorsement. Even as an email from the mayor, we've already got one from bill that says, yes, we support Montpelier. We would appreciate it because no one has the staff to apply the time this application meets. So that's what I'm seeking is that a nod to some way of saying, yes, we should move forward and, and assist Montpelier and Barry with this capital grant so that we can get this infrastructure updated. Are there any questions? I'll be glad to answer them. Yes. And you, you already got one from Bill that says, yes, we support this. Yes. And you, you already have a letter from bill. Email you. We're already working with them. We support this very short, but it was in the affirmative. And there's a, like a, I assume, since you called a special meeting, there's a, there's basically like a time crunch on this or some kind of time, time limitation on it. Yes. Even though we fortunately have a lot of information already together from our previous study, there's a lot more that has to be done and. Televate really feels it's going to be a crunch if they start now. And so we didn't want to wait till our regular board meeting next week. We wanted to say yes and move forward. So that's our attention tonight is to approve a contract with them. An extension of the previous one for $3,000 to do this work. Jack, go ahead. Thanks, Donna. How should we think about the. Email from Kim Cheney about this. Well, I sent that to you and Ann and Bill. I didn't send it to the whole council. Because it's a one-sided opinion. Kim Cheney doesn't feel telebates qualified. And he quotes me and Bill Frazier is wanting to dissolve the public safety authority. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I mean, other points in his letter that you want to make comments about, please do. I mean, Kim is an at-large. Board member at the public safety authority. So he's acting on his own. And I guess what I'm looking for is. Where is, is there interest from the Montpey or city council to have. The public safety authority spent its money on a consultant to help bury Montpey or gain this capital money. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. This is why we did the study was to get capital money. To get this infrastructure in place. So I. I don't know where Kim's coming from. Okay. Thanks. Any other thoughts or questions. About this. So what might be useful to you, Donna, it would be like a motion from the council. That is that. I mean, Montpey or it is a member of the public safety authority. So as a member of it. And it, and it's city who would benefit from it, this particular grant, I would, I mean, I would hope the council would support a motion to support advancing this grant application with the assistance of members of the public safety authority. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point to move forward with the city staff. Okay. So, so moved. All right. We got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Motion and a second. John, is that clear enough? Yeah. Okay. John, John Odom, sorry. Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Also just want to check in with the. Yeah. Yeah. Any comments you'd like to make? If not, that's fine. I can. Thank you. Again, man for the opportunity. I, I, I whole Harley agree with council member bait. I think that. Televate is, is more than qualified to, to do this for us. And they are deeply embedded in knowing what it is that we need what to do. So I think that is the best answer that we need to make. And I think that's the best way to, to, to, to be the best chance to, to get this funding. It's a very competitive grant. It's statewide for regional dispatch centers and their infrastructure needs. Yeah. And if, if I may. I'm also part of another committee to. The legislation. what the next steps should be as far as communication and infrastructure, how the state will move forward in looking at the allocation of these funds, and how to make sure that we don't find ourselves in the situation again regarding not having enough regionalized dispatch locations. So I'm part of that working group to develop that policy and those recommendations to the state. A lot of the things that we're saying, in fact, all of the things we're saying, Televate has already touched on for us throughout this entire process. So we are way ahead of the curve and with Televate writing this, it will probably end up being the model in my humble opinion as to what other organizations or counties will need to do. Wow, that is exciting. Okay, well, thank you. That's very helpful. All right, any further discussion on this? Okay, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, and opposed. Okay, so it unanimously passes. So again, no need to do individual votes. And I think that is it. So thank you everybody without objection. Oh yeah. I noticed we don't have council support. I'm sorry to add time on this, but I just wanted to tell everybody at once, some of you already know that I've submitted the paperwork to run for the Montpiguer representative for the Ramon House as an independent. So Connor is way ahead of me. I'd love to serve with you. But anyway, I had my 75th birthday last week and I decided if I didn't do it now, when would I do it? I'm out there to compete. Thank you. I only need to be second place, Connor. You can have first. There you go. All right, well, thank you. That's very exciting. And yeah, so, yeah. We'll best elect you and we will be, any other comments? Oh, yes, Jennifer. You know, I think I'm probably still in the ceremony frame, but I showed up to city hall last night again. Oh, we had council and I had gifts for everybody. So Chief Pete and many of your staff were like wondering who the weird lady was wandering around city hall last night. It was me. Fair enough. I'm a week early. Sorry, but you look very blissful. All right. So to make sure that doesn't happen again, your next scheduled council meeting is on the 24th of August. Of August. Thank you because I would have showed up next week. Yeah. No. Wait, so it's not exactly, we have two more weeks before council. Okay. All right. Well, thank you everybody. And so without objection, we will adjourn. Thanks everybody. Have a great rest of your day. Thanks. So long folks. Thank you. Bye.