 six o'clock. First item is to approve the agenda. If I have any additions to the agenda. No, I don't. It seems like it's fairly full. I wanted to add an executive session to talk about legal matters. And that pertains to some of the literature I passed there. You had one already for personnel. So we'll have one for me as well. Yeah, one for personnel. I put that on there. We actually don't really need it at this point. We can strike that out. I would actually incorporate that into my staff report. Okay. Alright, good. So we'll strike the discussion on personnel issues. Executive session. It'll just be a legal matter. So I do have an item to add if you would like to. So I got late last week. I got a request from Green Mountain Power. One of the properties that we got during the FEMA buyout by the bridge out there by Gilead Barak. There's a property that we sprung. Yeah, right there. So it was a spring hollow? You said yeah. Anyway, because the bridge is being realigned out there, Green Mountain Power needs to have an easement across the property. Put their power lines in, their overhead power lines. And this is just an easement that they're asking for on that property. So it does require our signature by, I believe, everybody on the board. So everybody on the board got that on Friday? Actually, no, it doesn't. It would be just me, actually. But I would need to have an emotion about you. So if you would like to add that to the agenda. It's just an easement. Green Mountain Power needs to have a website. Make a motion that we add that item to the agenda. All in favor? Aye. So we'll add the Green Mountain Power easement discussion. We'll put that right behind the board manual discharge. We call it Green Mountain Power easement request. Is that a word for you guys? We will open it up to you. And now I'd make a motion that we'll accept the agenda as written. All in favor? Aye. All right. We'll open up to public comment or inquiry. Anything that's not on the agenda for this evening? Louisville. So just to kind of refresh, I attended a select board meeting back in October with some concern about excessive speed up in Monica the Woods and some bandwidth among my property with somebody who did some wheelies. And there was some, my request would have something posted for speed and there was some discussion about having a survey of town and figure out what's going on with speed limits. And then I attended the meeting in March and I had investigated a little bit and found out that actually that five mile on the verge of the Louisville is in the town of Ordnance, close to the 25 miles an hour. But there are no signs and there's still one of those signs. And in reading the minutes of the select board meeting, I didn't see any reference to any kind of survey having been done. There was some discussion about it. The numbers do a town survey. And I understand there's so much going on. You guys are really busy. But I'm good to just request it. I mean, let's get some 25 miles speed limit signs put up there since the ordinance does define the speed limit as 25 for that five miles road. Summer is approaching. I'm already seeing, you know, they're seeing their traffic. I'm sure very soon they'll start being those carrying hands of land brokers and jeeps that like to go up there on weekends and things like that. And I just really would like to see something designated for that stretch of road. A week ago we had a neighborhood cookie swap. So there were about 20 really little people that kind of got together and one of the things that I'm pretty sure everybody knew was that speed limit is 25. And most of the neighbors who were there were saying, wow, that would be good if we could get people to drive a little slower. So in the absence of a grand town-like study of speed limits, you know, maybe four or five 25-mile speed signs coming into Lilyville. The idea was not a town-wide survey. It was a survey not of speeds, but of where we are missing signs. And that's been ongoing. It has been ongoing. There's also been. We did talk a little bit about a town-wide speed study. I reached out to two rivers and they said we can't do a comprehensive town-wide, but we could definitely pick any number of roads that you'd like to focus on and we could do a speed study. That's a little different from what you're talking about though. It sounds like the ordinance is already established. We can see if we can round up some 25-mile-hours speed limit signs and we'll look at the new TCD book, which is our guiding book for that, and place them where we can. I'll talk to Alan about that, knowing that that speed limit could change if the speed study takes something. And again, maybe it would change in the future, but I just really feel like we need to get something out there. So where you typically see speed signs is where you have roads that come together. So do you see any signs at all as you come on to Lewisville? No. I mean, when I came in October, I handed out a hand-drawn map that I had done. Do you remember? Unfortunately, I didn't keep a copy for myself, but if you're coming up from the river road in turn right to roll out of your pressure in Stockbridge right then, then once you get into Bethel, there's no sign. When Brinkhill intersects with the Louisville Triangle, there's no sign. If you're up at four-quarters coming from either Stockbridge or from Rochester down on the Campbell Road, there's no signs. So there are no signs at all that doesn't make that 25-mile-hours. So I'll talk with Alan and we can dig through the signs that he has. If we have any 25s that don't meet the reflectivity requirements, if not, the budget starts over July 1st. Our signed budget has been exhausted, but if we can find some money, we'll find the money and get it done early. If not, July 1st, we'll definitely order some signs. My guess is that we can probably round up a few signs and get them posted about that. That's one of our challenges, why we wanted Alan to be getting these surveys, because once you start putting up a sign, you have to have one theoretically at every location where the road enters between towns and at every intersection of the road or during some stretch. If the road changes, if the speed limit changes from 35 to 25, you have to have a speed limit sign there. So it gets really complicated and expensive. So as much as your point is valid, we also have administrative bureaucratic requirements on our end. I understand that. It's time, it's money, it's manpower. I just don't want to let the issue die, especially if you're coming into the time of the year when we do see those speeds increasing with a lot of us. Just so you're aware how this is going to work, I've already went through the map. So I have a paper part that tells me where the signs need to be and the minimum. And then Alan, when he gets time, will go out and he'll actually inventory all the signs that we currently have in place and find out whether or not they need the requirements because there's reflectivity and all kinds of other stuff. But that'll be later on in the summertime. It's not going to happen in time soon. But I think if this road is for the ordinance, it's supposed to be posted and it doesn't have any minimum posting, then we'll see what we can do and at least give a few signs up in some key areas. But I remember back to the conversation we had in March, was we were a little unsure of exactly what the speed should be on the road. I remember, we knew what it was or what it had been in the past that there was some discussion about. We posted at a speed that is, say, too low. We were just going to say, I can't click on this window. I passed it anyways. And I know that we were going to do a speed study, which we've asked the two rivers to do the village. The piece that we had been thinking about, hopefully lowering the speed limit in the village, but of course we're going to have a study to do it. And we were going to add that to the piece when it came in to do it. Sure. Yeah, well, I actually spoke and I said, you know, maybe 25. 25 does seem kind of slow to me. It was funny though that the gospel was here at that meeting and spoke and said that, you know, he thought it was not a bad idea to have it posted at 25. It might keep people down to 35 miles an hour. So again, you know, I'm here just to kind of make sure that it doesn't get kind of lost. I'll look at the ordinance and see what it's posted at and we'll see if we can't round up some minimum signage. Because I don't want to go through and sign it exactly like it should be because it could all come out. And we're probably struggling to find the sign. But we'll get something done for you. And then maybe that's one of the roads that we look at a speed. The speed study takes into account a lot of different things. I read, I don't know where I read it. I don't know if it was statute or somewhere, orange book or something, but the state has actually made recommendations to not put speed limits on their roads because they can create safety hazards because people go too slow or people are going too fast or whatever. They get a kind of a sense of comfort. If they see a speed limit, they think, oh, I can do this. No problem. But I don't think that's what we want to do. Well, I just have an interesting, before I got here, I just was doing some research online and if I'm reading this correctly, if you want a poster road at less than 35 miles an hour, you have to have something to back it up. So when that road was assigned to 25 miles an hour in 1989, it was on the basis of the study by Mr. Frazier. Right. But a town can, a poster road at 35, and not have to have a study done. Correct. You're right. But if they want to move from that either way, there has to be some data to support there. Yes. Yeah. But for right now, we'll see what we can do. Great. I'm happy. Thank you. Thanks. We have been doing some things a little bit out of order this year with Public Works and in the past, one of our main targets this year was to get you downtown with the crosswalk painted and those types of things. Because it's been, in the last couple of years, the crosswalk hasn't been painted until August. So we kind of switched some of the priorities and the signage, being that we were pretty tight on the budget, pushed that to kind of get into the budget here. One other comment, I'm sorry, just really quite, love the bumpouts down the town. Okay, I'll note it. I'll note that. We've been accumulating comments both good and bad, so I'll add that to your question. I'll add it to your comment. Both good and bad. Any more positive and positive comments? All right. That's seven. Yeah. That's a bit of a kind of a mix of bad. Yeah. We'll add it to your comment. We won't forget about that. Okay. Any other comments? Any other comments? Yeah. You're next up. Good. All right. One minute. Okay. Great. We'll go to the floor. Okay. My name is Richard. I serve at the World War I. The Catholic School of Society wishes to donate a minor week to the town of Bethlehem. I'm in Bethlehem residence that serves at the World War II. We would like to place this monument on the site of 442 for the blessing of the select committee. It will be at least a year before we are ready to go ahead with this project. And we will keep the select board in place of our progress and present the select board with the final design. We're going to donate a minor week to the town. And we'd like to put it over there back on 442. We're a tournament guy here at the United Fairness Building. We're going to run into a historical... I don't know how to start with this stuff. That's the historical... Be sure to sign over there to get that. The clock is working. It's going to take a lot of money to do this stuff. But we'd like to walk... There was a monument parked out here. All the way out of the park. Oh, that's cool. You thinking a stone monument? Well, we have a... In a slag, we're going to mount it on a stone. That's the general idea. We don't know if it's going to be marble or if it's going to be... That's the grandest thing to do. So, we're still... We're pretty much still in the process of doing it. We've been raising money for about a year. And we're almost halfway there. The clock itself is going to be in the case of $3,000 to $5,000. And that's the end of the day of the stone. What do we know about the process of putting up a monument on our municipal properties like that? That would be the only thing I would wonder. Well, it would... Whether or not we have a blanket authority... I mean, it would be... We can kind of create a... We can treat it as like an outdoor sign. And it would have to meet some of those requirements possibly, but I don't really foresee it being a large issue. I don't... I just don't want to say, yeah, go ahead and then find out that all you guys should have done... It would be an administrative permit anyway. So, if you just put me on it, we can get... Yeah. Yeah. It's just the legality part of it. Yeah. But it would be an administrative thing anyway. So, we'll be fine. Just you and me. Yeah, the board approves the location. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Well, I think Fort Fortitude is an appropriate place, particularly, you know, you think that the idea might be to recognize other veterans events and services. So, I don't know whether it needs to be a motion at this point in time, or whether we just need agreement from the board, or I mean, it's all in sort of in preliminary planning stages. I mean, it would definitely have to be something that we... that the board saw the plan to the design. I mean, I think we're all on board, you know, and I don't want to speak for everybody, but it seems like a lot of heads are nodding. So, I mean, usually, typically, on this is we, kind of like what we've done with the RI and groups like that is, you know, get behind and encourage and then when the final or right before the final piece is ready, then maybe come back that way and make sure that Yeah, when you get a final design location, just bring it back. That's why I was mentioning about the administrative part, just to make absolutely sure that it's something that can be... From a zoning perspective, I'll look at it, but they'll look at it from a aesthetic perspective, I guess. I think I'd like to...this is more to the board and Greg than anybody, I love the idea and I think that I sort of see for fortitude as this underutilized piece of our downtown and I think that we as a town can be bringing some more attention to it in a way that will get people into it, get people using it and I think this is kind of a perfect intersection of that, so I think my one request to the board is that sort of as we're looking at this, we're also thinking about what are the alternate uses of that space that we want to see or could see in the future is in with the visioning committee or the planning commission, you know how that works, but I think we should kind of roll it all into the discussion as we're making some decisions about monuments. It is a public space, so what authority does the conservation commission have over things like... I know they had the public for us and things like that, I don't know if they could do it. Yeah, they're all only pertaining to conservation issues, so there were the resources or something like that. The planning commission, no. No, I think we're good. It's another part that I'd like to just say is an educational as well, you know. I mean they can bring the kids to the school. Sure, I think it's a great idea. It has to meet certain requirements like everything else, you have to make sure it's within those parameters. Okay. Yeah, just get it ready. Get the final design stuff ready, and I'll show you the permit and all that, and we'll just let them look at the final design and we'll go from there. Thank you. Just to go over the the physical year, 19 tax rate for approval. This is... I'm not sure if that's what's waiting for. I'm not sure. Okay. Okay. I wonder if you were going to make it. Does that adjust the grade at all? It did over the last time. Yeah, I can look at the one you've had in your packet versus now. Oh, I'm sorry. So it does a little bit. You can see our code on your smart information. It also looks like it's a $7,001 increase from last year's Grand Lesbian Hubway taxes to now. So I think that if I look at the town report, I think that we had come up with a number like what, 0.990 maybe? Yeah. So obviously just a little explanation too is the local agreement rate is when you give like a veterans discount, you can do $40,000 I think a year a year on the veterans bills, off the tax bills, and if you gave another exception, like say, have an American Legion or something, you vote on those every three to five years at the town meeting. So when voters agree to do that, that's great, but we still are liable for the school tax. So that's what makes up your local agreement rate. So that's obviously the school tax I call the state, we're not going to see that number until she's dead. She said, oh, it's not the best for July, which is tough for Bethel because you have to get your tax bills out, you don't have to be at 30 without 30 days prior to the due date. So that's hard for people, so we're certainly waiting on that, but these are the numbers I waited for, that's where I was, where she did help with this, and this is not going to change obviously if anything goes through the state of the process, and you don't base your tax rate on that. Some of the slight change due to the added amount that went to human services that was on top of the warning. I did change. You have to see that the general fund amount 194407 was increased by $500 because they totally added that town meeting to increase the budget that we just put forward by that. So that's increased there as well. Basically, that's all the math, right? It's just the cost of my bioretical list, and there's a number. I'm not sure how you can in the past. Of course, Chris, you're well much more involved in school tax than I am. Are you thinking that Bethel's going to see a significant decrease over last year in the school tax? It started off that way. I think the final version is not going to be nearly as high as we envisioned, but I think I heard somewhere in the still waiting for the state's law to come out. Somewhere in the 6th, 8th census. Yeah, so you will see. Which started off at, well, 14 more than doing it. So you'll see some sort of decrease. Which is nice to the taxpayers so well that the municipal tax is not going to be a little bit of a decrease in the school tax. Which is obviously a large portion of your tax bill. Anyways, this is so the two rates that we have is it's 99 99.87 cents on the homestead tax rate and 99.53 cents on the non. And of course the local agreement rate could change a little bit and that just depends on, you know, if you have maybe a 5, someone moved out of town or moved in, so this is obviously based on last year's budget. So I would entertain a motion to accept the rates which is 99.87 cents on the homestead and 99.53 cents on the non residential tax rate. Okay. Second. All in favor? All right. Who's seconded? Both. Not maybe next year. Moving along, Greg's got a few different policies that we're going to back up. Let Greg take us through these most of, well, I think all these are, they're all financial policies. So this is a follow-up on the plan that Trice talked about moving forward with some of the recommendations from the accounts. So actually, Trice put these policies together. I don't know if you have anything, really just for your review at this point, if there's anything in them that you want to discuss. Actually, there's nothing to discuss and you should adopt. Right. I mean, they're pretty well ready to go. Yeah. We use the, based on the the LZT model financial policies that they put out, obviously a treatment for free time, you know, depending on practices. And of course, if you had any signs of audit, there was a letter obviously of, you know, no real significant deficiencies, but certainly fixing burdening management responses to anything they found and then things going forward that's actually covers a few of them. And we have some others that are gone here. So if you have questions, I'm happy to go with you. I mean, I think the policies, I mean, I don't know if we're ready to adopt policies tonight, if you have to the board, but you know, I just barely had time to go through and read through them all, which I think is a really good step in the right direction. And actually the settlement powers, some of the comments they've had the last couple of years have would mainly be fixed through these policies, which is good. I mean, I just hate to rush through policy acceptance based on not really been through it thoroughly, unless the board members feel that they've had enough time to go through them. I can certainly answer any questions on anything and I can talk a little about them. I think there are trees about getting the representative from the settlement powers to come out and we need to go through the audit with us, which I think would be helpful. He always, you know, comes in and you know, basically will answer any of your questions and come up with outlines and things off and call, right, and if we're able to schedule with him, he will be here for two days, I think next week, next Monday, Tuesday we all, you know, they come for two days before you close the list of the year and just great preliminary work. But I'll talk to Fred, he always is excited to speak to someone. Yeah, sounds like a great idea. I know we've had the settlement powers audit every year. But it wouldn't be good to have, you know, get a time slot for the next meeting. I'll talk to Fred then. That's the fourth. Yeah, it's his time when you're, you know, he doesn't know what his schedule is. He's just coming out, I can ask him. Yeah, it'd be nice to have him, if you can ask me some questions. Yeah, I went through the whole thing. I don't understand most of it, but I've seen a lot of figures with parentheses around which is negative stuff. Wait till you see next year. Once you're done throughout the video, I found coffee again. It's nice to have it on. If you have any questions about the audit, if you want to come in and sit down with me, I'm happy to sit down and talk to you about it. And certainly, Fred can answer questions, but I'm always happy to answer questions. I wasn't happy when I saw it, but lost another 90,000. That was it. I was hoping for better, obviously, but this budget current year is tight, but same. But can somebody just talk briefly about these? I had a question about the fraud prevention just at the very beginning. It clearly is a mechanism for employees and officers of the town. I'm curious why there wouldn't be a mechanism for voters or residents to exercise the same kind of concern to bring reports of regularity to even though they typically may not have the same kind of exposure, but if one or was to get that kind of exposure to see irregularities, what kind of mechanism would be in this policy to provide for a voter or a resident to bring this concern? I think that and the resident has always had the opportunity to bring this. They're not listed in here. No, but I think obviously anyone would bring that. I think this is more in line with pulling the whistleblower thing so that somebody couldn't get in trouble down the road if they brought something in a regular area. But it also controls the way we respond if someone blows a whistle then the chair of the select board or the town manager, whoever is the person who's been reported to has to follow the protocol. If we don't include voters in that they can be told thank you very much we'll take that into consideration. And they don't have any recourse to say I brought this report and nobody took action on it. I think it would be worth thinking about it. We could add something for voters or for residents. I think it was more to protect employees as well as public officials. It's more of an internal policy. We'll look at another policy for I just see why it wouldn't I don't care if it does or not I'm just curious why it wouldn't but particularly in this case I do know like in the past we've had you know people can bring concerns to an officer or an employee of the town in that place that you can create the report. It's just the veracity in something like that so it's not necessarily backed up by a land to command. It could be that the policy was not inclusive because it was triggers what could be a costly investigation so maybe there was something else to it as far as my name was designed since it was more of an internal but let me look and see I can certainly reach out to BLCT or Fred and ask what do you see other towns do as far as including past payers recourse so I can happily I think you know obviously I mean you need to say that mostly there are recourses they hope that when they come to report to someone else that someone will follow it up but unfortunately I guess the history is not much longer but it says shall investigate and that is I think really important and it's part of this basically the teeth of this there are reports of the regulatory there's going to be there's going to be an investigation and in the past we haven't had this policy but we have taken action on similar issues and because we know that we need to do but in the case of a of a policy I just want to make sure unless there's some reason why we cannot I can see the statute about that case and that report so let me ask because I agree that I think it was obviously I think the assumption is that officers and employees are going to have the exposure that's going to allow them to the observation of these kinds of regularities and the public generally isn't absolutely I can look into that particularly somebody notices a lot of piece of I I I think it's other than that I get it just basically outlines what people get for financial authority which is what you get now what the department has to get you know cash receipts I took out a conversation with Tim because he does the you know a water sewer it's about having you know non accepting payments and money for the cash receipts the other thing we wanted was to return to that one check the transfer station wanted because you know we will be depositing the check but then it's you know collecting it it costs you money but then it starts to come down so that was something he wanted as well so he was happy to see that but yeah I'm happy to look into the other person and have any questions certainly and I think it's really pretty good I mean some of these policies you would think would kind of go along with the whole common sense of business but you know just like looking at the debt the debt management policy I mean you know you always want to move your debt to a long term debt and however one of the big issues that we just had in this town was we didn't do that and we kept it on the short term and now we're paying for that I mean some of these do seem you know a little petty but in the long term will be beneficial for the town I think that's why BLCT I mean at one point Saddus is the one was the investment capital of the United States and so that's shortly after all of that was coming out that's when BLCT started updating and creating these these model financial policies and sent them out to the town common in town so especially if the treasurer is going to have an axiary relationship or you know with the recommendations that are made in here for some of the things that we noticed exactly it's no different than you know annual audits which again would think that you would do that annually but there was a three year period where we didn't do that so I have to say I thought the management letter would be a lot more painful but when I saw it I was like okay I just figured we'd take to the workshop which was fine but it wasn't as bad as I thought so other than the concern that I raised about voters or town townspeople or the fraud prevention I don't see any I think it would be I'm fine with at least making a motion to accept the other three policies or even that one as long as there isn't some something we're overlooking on that you know I think I can go along with the other and look into that amazed that we didn't have this place are we we've talked about it for three or four years it could be amazed by a lot of townspeople in Vermont I had said this before we were in another town a couple weeks ago and they only had a purchasing policy you know no guidelines to I mean I think to say that we're further headed in most of the smaller towns you know anyway there's still a lot of smaller towns that are split up here doing things in the whole pipeline but you know at some point they'll probably be in a situation that we were in I think the policies are great I think they keep our promise to the taxpayers which is to make sure that these types of issues in the past don't reoccur and policy usually is the way to go to put the information out before employees to follow so Carl's got a motion out there yeah I made a motion okay what was the language of the motion? to accept these policies the three policies which were to implement the accounting, auditing, financial reporting policy and the cash receipts and return checks policies okay and and then the fraud one we were going to the fraud one based on some research on to make sure we weren't overlooking something you did those? yep okay okay okay I have one here what's the cash receipts one? verify the debt management one, the accounting one and the cash receipts policies as written and then the fourth one there's a fraud policy based on evaluating whether or not we're overlooking something okay I answered my own question well done and the next step is the policies the next step is the FY19 municipal roads grant application which we talked about last year and this conforms with the municipal roads general permit so the state came up with this general permit a stormwater permit that basically has mandates that that all the next few years we have escalated requirements for our hydraulically connected dirt roads. And to help with some of these mandates, they've two rivers in the state have come out with this, the roads. It's the Granite aid program we did this last year. The work actually is going to be completed this probably next week for last year's grant. But this is just a funding mechanism which kind of helps with some of those mandates. It allows us to install best management practices which include things like knocking down berms or rock lining ditches, all sorts of different things. Cutting ditches, things like that. Things that we would do anyway, sort of routine maintenance that we would do anyway. But it's a funding, it's funding through them to do this additional work on these hydrologically connected roads. So we have to by the end, or by June 22nd, we have to return the letter here saying that we are interested in the program that will automatically be enrolled into it. We'll get, I think we got, last year I want to say we've got like $18,000 I think, I don't know if you remember. I think it's about $18,000 in funding that we got. And it's an 80-20 deal and what we do is we basically do majority of the work anyway. We have our end kind is covered, no problem. Then we get reimbursed for anything over that 20%. So a really good program allows us to kind of keep up with some of the mandates and to move forward with our roads that need work done to them. So what I'm asking for is a motion to sign this letter. To let our ventures to participate in the Municipal Roads grant aid program. This is that same thing we did last year. Well, from the looks of it, the schedule will get the maximum payout, which is $19,500. We're eligible for that, depending on how much we spend. Yes. And our end kind would be 4,800 records. And that's what we did. Same thing, we were eligible for the max last year too or this year, I guess, whatever you want to call it. It all just depends on how much we spend, right? Yep. And this is for roadway maintenance and so forth. This is not the grant that we would apply for for the bridge. No, this is not. That's a structure's grant. Yeah, this is just to do road, just to do maintenance under roadways that are hydrologically- It's my block. Yep. So I make a motion that we sign the letter of intent to participate in the Municipal Roads grant aid program. Excellent. Any other favor? All right. Is that just for your design or? There's three blocks, but everybody's free. I left them. You guys can fit on the line with me. We can all hang out. Hold on, I have to take up a whole line. I'll leave you the whole time. I'll leave you the whole line. You gotta get out of my quilt hand. It's automatic. Maybe I should just send it anyway. Yeah, she'll just email me and say, Rita, will you email me and say what project do you want to do? Let me know. We'll take a look and move forward on. So the next item is the boardroom loan discharge. Great for you to take us through that, right? Just a loan that was paid. But looking at my audit, I was doing some work and realized that she's the boardroom and paid off the loan. So when it was really paid off, we had to discharge the loan. So obviously that needs to be taken care of. So she's paid, you know, paid the note of the audit and she's gonna keep it just to make a motion to authorize the town manager to sign the contract. So moved. Sure. All in favor? All right. Unfortunately, this is the burned out diner, isn't it? Mm-hmm. It's open for... Are you gonna pay off? No, no, I just mean it. Unfortunately, it's nothing for her to celebrate if she's home. No, so then write us on it and we'll put it in the land right. Unbelievable. I'm not a big boarder to say one simple thing. I'm glad I got it electronically. Yeah, plus a lot. Well, your left right shoulder not to photocopy the audit. I'm like, just send them the link. Yeah, that was great. I'm just fine. If the other one's the final copy of the audit. That's really good. I was like, don't do that to them. Pages. Keep the letter part down or do you want to have it too? All right, great. Take us through here. Sure. So my packet, yeah. Where are you? Report is in your packet. So just a couple. You're in Green Mountain, Eastman? I'm sorry, we have to... Oh, we have to get that. Yes, yes, yes. We have to get the Green Mountain Power, Eastman. So again, this is just an Eastman's for some overhead lines for the Gilliambrook Bridge with the realignment of the bridge coming next summer, I believe. Green Mountain's gonna be required to move their lines. And so we have a piece of property from the FEMA Bioproperty there that they need to use in front of us. And this is just a paperwork for that Eastman so they can do their... All around the west side of the road now and they're gonna move east side of the road. Right, right. So they're just asking for a Eastman for those overhead lines. So I just need a motion to allow me to sign this. Yep, so it would be just for sign. Make a motion to authorize Greg to sign for the Eastman. Sir? Hallitator. All right. So yeah, staff report. Just a couple highlights on this real quick. So Theresa and I have been looking over some of the job descriptions of some of the people in town and kind of analyzing where the rad and how valid they are and putting together what we think is a more valid job description. And one of the positions that kind of shook out is was to bookkeeper position. So we went through and really, and she did the majority of this but did a lot of research into what is that position really doing at this point? What are the tasks that make up that job description? And when we got done looking at it, there was a revised job description that was put together and it ended up being after we quantified the tasks that were in that it looked like we were looking at about 15 hours per week. So we really feel that that's a valid number. The person that's doing it is gonna look and see if there's maybe other things that we missed possibly. But we think that all the tasks have been involved that are all included in that new job description. And it looks like it's a part-time position at this point. So unless something significantly changes between now and then, we're gonna move this to a part-time position in July, I think is our window for that. And I think the public keeper position was a part-time position years ago until we had, we were down one and a half people in the office at one point and then we came forward. Right, right. And now that we're kind of in full staff now, there's just, we just don't see that the job that the workload is there to justify a full-time position. So it would be moving to a 15 to 16 hour a week position. This is July 1st, but that may take a little bit longer than anticipated. How does that tie in with the work with the rec department and the pool and all that? That's to be separately evaluated. I just wanna go back to that today with them. So I'm gonna talk to Greg about that tomorrow is to see if now I've listed those duties which did not exist before. We're not in any of these job description. So now we have a breakdown of that. I got this afternoon and haven't had a chance to sit down with Greg. That's kind of morphed into the. It kind of morphed into that position because somebody left and there was nobody left to pick up. So whether or not that would be the same person or someone else who morphed into the pool director's job is to know something that right. But the bookkeeper job itself has a new job description with the actual tasks that are involved now. Yeah. And the recreation would have its own job description and whether I thought of that, we don't know what the model would look like. Town hall painting, I got the grant agreement back. So we're all good to go on that. That should happen in July. They're scheduled to be here in July to paint the, all the way to the top. All the white will be white again, all the way up. That was a quick thing. It only took three years. It only took me. It only took me one year. Sorry. Water master plan. Tim and I will be meeting with the engineers in the state next week. I believe it is to go over the water master plan. We're about 80% complete on that. We should be at about the point where we're starting to see some of the capital improvement stuff start to kind of show up. So we'll see where we're at. We'll kind of see what shakes up with that. Preliminary, preliminary, I can't say that word, but initially they were saying that, I can't understand that word. That the well, the tank is probably not gonna need to be rebuilt from the ground up. So if that holds true, we think we'll just be, yeah, it could be just as simple as a liner and some work on the outside, some very minimal type stuff. Say this a ton of money. But we'll see what other projects kind of shake out of this too. See what else we have as far as high lights for you. Bridge number 33. This is the bridge out there that we're having, that we have a structures grant for. The final design is, I got a copy of the final design for that and it looks good other than there's an S, an area on the, I believe it's the northeast corner. I'd look at the plans again, but there is an easement acquisition that we have to look at. Part of the project for some of our long-term maintenance and some of the construction itself goes into private property. So I'm gonna have to deal with the adjacent property owner and see if I can't get an easement from them. It's a small piece of property. You're smiling like you probably know the owners. Well, I knew the owners. Okay. But it wouldn't be a... It's just a sliver, but it's just another piece that we have to do before. Yeah, I mean, it's just basically down the bank there. Yeah, exactly. So I'll be working on trying to acquire a little easement for that small piece of property there. We've been working on the pool. I don't know if you've been by there lately, but we've been working diligently on the pool, doing a little bit of maintenance here and there. We were seeing significant water loss. So we've been doing some patching where we can find places we think might be the culprit. We think we've found it. There was a lot of holes around the drain pipes and the return pipes, actually both. So all the plumbing had some surface cracks on it and some rusting areas that we siliconed, all those drain pooled down, siliconed it all back up and we've brought the pool back up. So we're gonna see how she holds. So all the lining, coating and painting that we've done over the last... That's okay. This is not... This is the piping, the actual plumbing we're in. Does the lining meet those? Yeah, it's the penetration through the walls and things like that. It's just weathered. It's probably, you know... So the actual concrete... Yeah, it's the actual piping itself or even the glue or the grout or whatever they've used around it. We siliconed all that up and we siliconed the bubblers or the little things on top and hopefully we've got it. We were losing about 7,000 gallons a day, which we've been doing. And I think over the years they've lost about an inch a day. So we wanna... Nobody qualified. Yeah, sorry, I should have told you the numbers. An inch, just think it's an inch. But over that surface area it's about six to 7,000 gallons. So we think we've solved that though. So typically through evaporation and all that based on some other factors we should be losing about a quarter inch to a half an inch a day. So we're hoping to get to that number real soon. So anyway, we've been working on that real diligently. They've done some painting. We've done some deck work trying to make it smoothed up and kind of make it look really nice. Take away some tripping hazards, things like that. So we'll be working on a dry hydrant. There's an up on Campbell Road. The fire chief has been working with a landowner up there, the pond. And he's gotten a grant for this, like we did last year. It's again, I think it's a 75, 25 grant but it's in kind and we do, we get our bike back easily. We get our in kind work, no problem. So I'll be putting that out a bit. I'm hoping this week to get that installed for the next month or so. Got the truck. I'm sure you've seen it around town. The truck in the trailer has run around town where I'm shopping sanders. We'll probably end up getting a sander just right down the road here. They seem to be the most reasonable. So yeah, that's my report. If there's any questions, I'd be glad to answer them for you. No, it looks like rec center looks like it's okay. Yeah, there's, yeah, you know the girls have done a really good job of coming up with some marketing plans and getting some programming out there. I think it's going to make a big difference. There's a, I don't know if you've seen any of the panelists or anything. I'll just point out that there was a flyer that was posted on social media talking about a yoga class, I think, and it made no mention of where it was going. It was a poster posted on the counterbethyl and referenced the recreation department but the poster itself said nothing about it. This is a work in progress. That's been one of the points I've been trying to work on because a lot of that programming is not necessarily pool oriented and everything was about the pool, the pool, the pool. But we're trying to shift that to more of a right facility as opposed to just the pool. So that's good to note that we need to put that location on there. Yeah, all of that. Put that location and that address out there as much as we can, but we're referencing that out there. We're referring to that now as the rec facility, not the pool, necessarily. Because there's a lot more to what we're doing is just the pool. Yeah. Anything else? And I think you have the financial statements there too. Oh, the SNS owner, you were talking to them about the numbers of vehicles that they've got over there? Yes, I haven't really gone too far with that at this point. I know that they're getting, they're more and more and more. Part of that is because we're trying to use them to test our water and don't only want to piss them off. We are required by the state to test the first service after the chlorine. So our chlorine comes out and goes in and they're called a chlorine contact chamber and then we're required to test the first service line. Well, we're not technically, what we're testing now is not the first service line. And I think SNS is gonna be the first one. So we've been trying to get in the door there because that means we have to get keys from them and we have to access our building every day. So that's been part of the hold up with that, not the whole thing, but you're correct. They're in violation of their permit, yes, because they've got too many cars there and they're in the surface water. Right, they've got a lot of protection there. They've got a lot of protection, right? Yes, yes, yes, down. I think Tracy's has faucets. Tracy's plumbing they're there every morning at six o'clock. Damn, damn. We're still not 100% sure that's the first location. I'm trying to figure out how, because things tie in right there, it's a whole lot of engineering going on, but that is potentially the first one. And that's something that in that letter of the state gave us, one of the requirements was to change and verify, even town hall or the town office, that's not. It has to be the first. The first one on the line, the first customer on the line. We may end up having to do like a yard hydrant somewhere because it's the first customer. So, but I'll revisit them and see what we can do about getting them down to the number of cars that they should be at. Just like the potential leakage and arrivals, kinds of things going on so close to the water. Yeah, and we've got, I've got a map that shows that, that ground water protection area, the latest date. Well, I think the other part of it is just the, the degree of emphasis that we've placed on, on bylaws and zoning and development in not only in the town, but in that particular vicinity. Right. And making sure that if we're asking people to accept the decisions of the DRB and accept the limitations of the permits that it's only fair that everybody plays by the same rule. Yeah, I'll put that back on top of the pile, for sure. Anybody have any questions in regards to the budgets? Yeah, I think the only question I had was under the sewer portion. There's some engineering requirements that you had identified. It also goes right to that. So has, are we still waiting on that grant money or is that grant, or is that? It's not in the other above, I think. It doesn't balance within the, well that was, yeah. Yeah, we could be waiting for a. Yeah, there's one reimbursement, I think, left. Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think there's one more, I can't remember myself, but that was for the sewer, the asset management plan that we got to grant for. And it was probably, I'm sure there was a match. There was probably a 20% match for that, too. Oh, that would be if it was a match. Yeah, I bet there was. A sewer. I'll take a look here, so make a note. And now that we are getting very close to the end of the physical year, it's interesting, our bookkeeping is much better for this past physical year than it has been. It's probably not where we want it to be if you guys haven't been in place the whole 12 months, but there are these items that get budgeted for zero or little that end up having 20 grand out of that in the end of the year. So those are things that during the budget process, we're going to have to look at things like other. And so that's a thing. I wouldn't know if it says out there that's a match. Yeah. So that's a whole year, I'm just like, if there's not a bunch of them out, it's going to be something there or not. Could you explain the, in the sewer, the solid waste expenses, there's a provision for bad debt? Sewer transportation. No, solid waste. Okay. There's a provision for bad debt. Yeah, so that's fantastic. And over on the side, it says, we're often collected debt, but I don't know what the rest of it means. P-U-B-E-T-S. Oh, that's a joint board. That's a joint board. That's a board. That's a board. So yeah, they have agreed to write off. I want to make up for a grand worth of debt. And so then we could write it. Well, we took it off the books. Well, we took it off the books. Took it off the bills, though. Yes. So we didn't create a revenue line for that on the fund because then if you see it triple in later, there may be some of it, but we're not collectible. We just collect all the money from here. Yeah. And you'll see a little bit. So I'm going to put a journal which I want to give you a collection of. Good. So, yeah, and there will be revenue points but some of that don't want to see. So here's to the budget. Here's to the good gentlemen. This is not more complicated than I see it here. Here. Absolutely. Well, we tried to write notes. It helps me because I look at them, too. And I don't have to keep looking up on them. That's what that was, you know. All right, come here. So what's in that column? Yeah. I know. I don't know. So then I don't remember to make a note. Trust me. Yeah. I don't know. It'll be nice once we have a full year. Yeah. Next year at this time we'll have, hopefully, everything coded correctly. Well, we'll have some bucks out, too. I mean, you know, we're building, we build a budget out from previous, you know, not great budget. So we do the best so that we can help with some extra to be better but the year after that will be even better because there's stuff now that we've seen that's come up. We should have budgeted for that. And, but you know what you know and then you're trying to look at, basically, we're trying to build a budget about the actuals that weren't correct. So I feel good about the budget but I doubt you will feel better about the one after that. Right. You know, or just like we talked about with like legal and honoring ends, you know, just for so many years, every year we budgeted the same amount, knowing that it was going to run every single year. You know, just, you know, which we finally did for this coming year we did bump it up to 50,000 hole between the two lines. And there's certain things to, you know, certain things you were, generally, in my experience, if you get sued the LCT will cover it, you'll pay a 500-pallet of guffaw on your case. You know, when the water got to a hole other when they were going to touch that. So, but a lot of times you don't see those passive legal credits because you would have been covered. Well, plus on the aligning thing, you know, they feel comfortable with us again so that they offered us to reduce, you know, rates for the next three years, which is good. So is that all good savings going on? Yeah, I think it's a pretty significant savings. Yeah. You know, in the things you just don't know. You could go a year in a passive legal issue and then you could have $80,000 you could just don't know and it's hard to plan for that. It is, and it's unusual that you see them that aren't covered by your insurance. So that's unusual. I can figure that out in person. Talk to Brian and talk to Andrew. Yeah, well, we must share it with you. I don't know if you're looking at that, but we had a sizable human resources legal bill that we had no way to judge in what that was going to be. Right. But we're on the constable report. He's, again, I've seen out about the re-opening. He's still getting quite a bit of action down down that Pleasant Street section. 67. So he's, you know, there's some people flying through there. Yeah, we can talk to Mark about putting up a poll or even Alan putting up a poll and they've moved more of the speed signs. You know what I was thinking? We can have speed limit signs if we move around, too. If you can find a 25 mile an hour speed limit sign, we can move it. We can spend a week out in Willysville and then we can move it. Oh, crap. Say, you do a funny double duty with it. But there's balance. Okay. But the radar sign is. Yeah, it's up on North Road and there was, I think it was a hot area for a while but I think it's probably time to move it. I think it's being, you know, combination of a lot of youth pavement in this area, you know, in the town. Plus now that it's nice, you know, the bikes are out and all the tourists are in here. And yeah. People are open. So these work zone signs were they left over just because we had to work the cones out in that spaces? They were. Just as a pre-warning. Yeah, no, it's good. But I just was curious, I didn't see any active work, they were up all weekend and I'm. They were there as well? Yeah, they were. They were working on it. Yeah. But they were left over the weekend just as a kind of a pre-warning. They were just paving the whole line. So yeah, it should be good to go now. Yeah, they're doing both of them. And that was good. But I mean, even, you know, we talked about it, you know, a couple of years ago about how to reduce speed in the town. And you know, of course the common things come up with speed signs and you know, so what was it? Three years? We did a whole lot of work on it. Speed signs to the budget. You know, then it was, you know, we've increased the cost of those presents. And even with all that, you would think that people would slow down, but it doesn't seem like people are going any slower than they were three years ago. Other than, you know, we'll get some revenue off tickets, you know. I didn't. Not like you get anything. People are gonna go what people want to go. Yeah. Whatever they're comfortable driving. Maybe if they have a continual work zone down there. We could. We'll just put, yeah. We'll just put permanent flags up to say, you know. You can put a permanent work zone back over there. I like it. I like it. If they don't let us reduce the speed, we can just have it be a work zone. You can put orange cones, permanent orange cones, and we don't do that all the way. What would you do? What about the cost life of that? Take Mark's cruise or leave it over here on this side of the mountain and just park it out there with nobody in it. It's a very effective sweet to time. You would think, but Paul Feeney used to park his cruiser there at his house and the trucks come blasting across that bridge. It's unbelievable. And the cruiser doesn't seem to make any difference at all. Well, it's like a majority of the people he gets are out of state. You know, one, I'm sure, you know, it's not like you get the same person in town, you know. I don't agree with that people out there. Well, I mean, it's scary because some of those, you know, like we're saying those 67 and the fifties that it's a questionable 50 to begin with where that stretches and he's given that 67, so. Power film, he's been slowing me down. Everybody take a look at the select board minutes for May 23rd. Oh, okay. What was that? What did you do that? May 21. Okay, on the agenda, it says 25. Is it 21st the correct date? Would the 21st be the correct date Okay, so I need to correct the date. No, no, it's correct in yours. It's the correct date, that's 23rd. So I just. Oh, okay. Can't really make a great date. Next, let's meet. I'm going to read this. So we're good. Okay. So I can only show her. She's not here. I haven't seen anything in the minutes that stuck out to me. Motion makes up the news. All in favor? All right. All right. Lisa, the spirit for another two weeks. Take it easy on that. Thank you. I'll have to get Paul to look at it. I'll get to it next time. It's nothing to care about. Oh, yeah. Paul, first. I mean, I disagree, too. I mean, it's, you're never going to get every single word again, you know, it's one of the kind of generically fits into the conversation. Luckily we have this, too. That's great. Yeah, the work is great. As we found out, as we will find out. Yeah. Yeah, so the DRB, the view of the... Eight minutes. The DRB reviewed the restaurant experiment. Seems like they're compromised, I guess. We're working progress with the, with revisiting the issue at the end of the summer season. Yeah. I noticed that it's November 6th, public meeting, public hearing around to reduce the results. Yeah, that's what it was called. It's just gonna follow. Yeah, I think that they are giving them conditional permits to make sure that they follow and that it's success. You know, sometimes these things are theoretical. You can say that it has, the music has to be done by 10, but does it actually get done at 10 and is 10 too late? You know, maybe in practice, they'll have a better idea of whether or not it's legitimate or not. I think it's a great idea, everybody do it. You can see the procedure on the aspects of the DRB. None of us will see it. Also looked like the Ford Festival Committee has been active again. So there's meeting minutes there. Make your hair plans, you know. Does everybody like this? Nice. I think the cue picture there, I can hear people talking. Evidently, there's a bed spot going back into the... I can hear better too. Yeah, I can hear better too. It's funny that I eat so much better. I think it's a, yeah, I think it's so good. I wonder if we pull the curtains down with them. I feel like we're closer to them. Oh yeah, you're right. I think it's much better. It's much better. It doesn't, it doesn't... Yeah, well, we'll keep it this way until... Otherwise, not a thing. So I'm told otherwise. I'm told otherwise. No, I'm told. So October home. All right. Any other business done before the board? I thought I could say. I'm gonna do a little entertaining motion to enter the executive session in regards to legal matters. Sure. Nothing? You don't want to pay for it? All right.