 electronic means. In accordance to Act 99, there's no physical location to observe and listen contemporaneously to this meeting. However, in accordance to the temporary amendments to the open meeting box, I confirm that providing public access to the meeting by telephone video or other electronic means is in the Zoom platform. And all members of the board have the ability to communicate contemporaneously during this meeting through this platform. And the public has access to contemporaneously listen and if desired participate in this meeting by contacting the town clerk to request an invitation to the meeting or looking at the public notices that show the link to the meeting. So, which we've previously given notice to the public and on the website and then publicly posted in people that have requested emails. So, therefore move forward as long as Zoom lets us communicate properly. Does anyone have any additions to the agenda at this time? John, why is it going twice? Yeah. Oh, Catherine. I just want to do an update from the Envision Rochester School Building Committee, we attended on February 24th. So, take your time on this little brief update. All right. I think I'm on the agenda with the players for the park application. Yes, go on. All right. Cool. All right, so I'll start with the prior minutes of June 8th, 2020. And I read to them they look properly representative of what we did on June 8th. So, I move we adopt those minutes as important. All right. John, you're on the top of the list here, if you've got any updates for us. Well, I know there are some items on the agenda already having to do with Town Garage, Cook Up, and the NRCS program for Dean Mendel's property. So, when we get to those points, I have a couple things to add. Otherwise, no updates. Okay. We don't have anyone from the library. I was talking with Cooter this afternoon. They're excited for the Silver Hook Up and the Town Garage there. And they've been, when that work is done, excavating is done for that. They're also going to use that to remove the remainder of the putters for the old sifters and sand sifting unit, which they're going to replace this summer. So, I think it's up to reports in a way. Terry is not here, but it seems like we're all ready to drink clean water again from the taps, which is nice. Thank you, Terry. On the new business, we've got a parking use application approval for Pierce Hall and the barbecue takeout on the 4th of July, which is kind of neat the way they presented it is, of course, that's a takeout, like everyone else is doing. And it's a way to still hold on some of the celebratory aspect that we're used to without the normal gathering on the park. What do you guys think about that? I just don't want them to encourage picnicking on the park, that's all. Right. I think she's making a point of telling people to go. Maybe we should move the picnic tables back a little away from the front so it's not so convenient. It's probably a good idea. Just to make it a little bit more socially acceptable, I guess. But if you do that, would you have the couch room in the back where they are now after the course is over? Because I know that if they're moved in too far, they'll be in the way of the farmer's market. And I know I've seen a lot of people using them, you know, fairly close to the sidewalk. They can have their lunch there. So. Right. I just, at an event like that, I just don't want to encourage people to hang out. I see. And maybe they could move them back after their barbecue. I see your point. We'll make sure that they're moved away and then move back. Yeah. Thank you, Bruce. After the takeout. Robert just joined and we're talking about the park use application from to do the takeout for the barbecue to benefit your salt. So, yeah. And yeah, so I moved to grant that application. I'll second that. Yeah, one favor. All right. All right. Also with, on the same day, we've got an application from the Waybrook Valley players who, for display of mannequins for the Fourth of July, in conjunction with the whole concept of a reverse rage up and down the valley. And I think that, um, yeah, all the mannequins occupy the picnic tables. That would keep people from being drunk. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm here. I'm here. You're in the benches too. I had ideas to have them along 100, but out of the way of the barbecues. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. Yeah. And they'll, they'll be costumed and they'll have flags and one vacant and they'll be assigned somewhere, saying, every Fourth of July from the players. And they might also be along 100 on private property too. We don't know how many are going to be made at this point. Sue, am I correct that we were, that they were just keeping them up for the end of it? But yes. And that was the other thing to tell you. Yeah. It's for the whole weekend. And that's the idea being that this reverse parade can be spread out and there won't be any traffic jams. That sounds like a fun idea. I, I move to approve that. I'll second that. Yeah. All in favor? All right. Okay. Holding on to some festivities on the Fourth. Um, we also have a request for less festive activity, but important nonetheless, a request from a balance permission for a household hazardous waste collection on August 15th. They usually set up in the town of Clark Sparkylot and do that. And they, um, they've maintained that they're, they're totally up with the COVID distancing safety and not interacting with the public. I, I think it's a great, great service. I think she's publicized a little more than it is a lot of people. I know personally, I don't, luckily I can see the parking lots in my house and I see what's happening, but it's, um, it's really handy to have time to get rid of paint and what other miscellaneous things. And if Julie or someone else could send me the basics, right? You know, I put it in a week before and two with paper as well. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. And I have a question. Does that include things like like health, like batteries, like from your store and batteries? Good question. I don't know that. Because someone asked me that the other day. I guess they'd seen a sign or something and I, I didn't see that. And I said, I don't know, but I have a full bag full of batteries. I left it. That's a good question. I'm not sure. I guess it would be worth the call to find out. Maybe if you do write an article, you could contact the folks and ask that question. I'd be happy to, but I can't be the only person who's got to use batteries. No, you're not. I think when you go down to the, to the Bepple, uh, Royalton Landville there, where they have the recyclable and the trash delivery, there's a, there is, you know, places to do all that too. So I would say the hazardous thing probably works that same way. And usually when they have a press release, they usually list those items that they will accept. Okay. Maybe they'll do that. I could call them down and ask that information on them. Oh, Julie, thank you. If you wouldn't, I'd be willing to send it to you to be better than I'd appreciate it. Sure. So, um, I'd move to approved. Not requested. So second that. You know, in favor? All right, all right, all right. And now we have a, um, a request to renew the mask on the loan note. Um, do you want to give us a little, um, background on this, John? I know that, that's, that's Julie, uh, Julie, John. Okay. So we have, we have the outstanding loan for, um, all the work from the April storm, uh, that loan, um, that loan ends on July 8th. So I spoke with Beth at the bank and she suggested that we, uh, extend it for a year, with the anticipation that more, I mean, we're still working on a project. Uh, we have a, we have an amount of money that we could give them. Um, but we're, uh, the money that we have spent and the money that we're going to receive from federal highways, the Purple Mountain Project, reimbursing the town for the town expenses. So that's all money that the county's already laid out. So we thought Becky and I, uh, we're talking with the bank. That if we hold off paying that large amount until August, when tax money starts coming in, it kind of gives us a little bit of a cushion. And then, uh, at that point, John had mentioned that FEMA money and the rest of the Bethel Mountain money will be coming in. And that will, that, that went after today and spattens that all up. Uh, that gives us a larger, a really large amount of money to be paying them in August and then we should be in pretty good shape. But, um, we also have, I think Jones has seven more sites that, uh, seven or so sites from FEMA that still need to be done. So that still gives us money to use for that. So if you sign the, by signing the loan, it just gives us another year to, um, you know, finish up this project. More elbow room. That makes sense to me. Thank you. You know, Frank, do you have any comments about that? I don't really have any comments. I think it's a good idea to keep the money on hand and now until we know what tax revenue is going to be in August to give us some idea. I talked with John this morning. I know, uh, you did also do, and he gave me a list of the FEMA jobs that he wants to do and the priority that he wants to do them in and some numbers with the cost. And he wants a copy of this to give him back to us. But this is the only, I have the only copy right now. And I'll be taking a couple copies of this and I'll give one to Joe and we can go over it. And he's got them listed by priority, what he wants to do and how he wants to deal with them. So, um, I can be in touch with Joe on that and get these out so we can get moving on it. Thank you. Yep. So I think it's a good idea. I'd move to, uh, prove the, um, renewing that, that mask on low note. I'll second that. Yep. All in favor? All right. All right. There is a slight increase in the, in the interest on that note though. Yeah. It should be noted, not a, not a great significant amount. Yeah. Half a percentage point I believe is not again. Thank you for that for the elbow room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. A hundred percent. All right. Hooking up the town garage to the town water system. In question, is it just the water or is it water and sewer? Well, it's already hooked up to water. This would be hooking up the sewer. Terry gave me a list of the son-of-fathers of that he needs to do. And, uh, in five months, he's looking at one and a half to two days. He needs two different excavators, a small one and a large one. And they'll need to run a drill to drill through the frost wall with a foreign pipe. The reasoning for the two excavators is around back to dig into the building. They're going to do this small in the scene. And it's well concerned that the cement, there's a cement pipe that they have to dig near and you can't get that around. You know, you're kind of in need to do it over there. And the town's going to haul 14 to 15 yards of heat stone that they'll need. And he's getting the fight going. So that was what he wrote down on the same morning the other day. Excuse me, did I miss when this is taking place? John told me they're going to do it on Monday. Okay, so Monday evening, we'll have 29. Who's doing the digging? I'm not sure, but I left that up to them. It sounds like Charles Smith is the one that's going to be doing the digging. And also, to a large extent, because he is willing also to do some of the concrete work, which Cooter was failing to find any concrete contractors who were going to, you know, look at the job. Not that big of a job. If I could add a couple things to that. Yep. The timing of starting the work is good because we just got the permit from DCC today. We couldn't have started without that. So that's in here now. And then Frank had asked me this afternoon to see if it was correct that the state would not be charging connection fees since it's a municipal building. And the answer is that's right. I come from DCC, but they don't charge it for that. It's a town building. That's about $1,200. We don't have to pay. All right, Frank, you're all warmed up. You want to explain to us more about the break next week meeting with the NRCS? What's going to happen on Friday? That'll happen Friday at 10. I think I asked John to attend with me just so that there's another person with eyes and ears. And I ran into a dean today and we had a slight conversation about it. And, you know, this is really on his dime. It's not ours. We're the only thing we're doing is paperwork and John's doing that. That's about the only cost of the town we're going to have there. I've got some questions to ask as far as, you know, it's got to go out to bid. It's a big job. And dean wants certain things done. And I don't know if they're going to allow that or not. And if all the bids come in higher, I'm not sure how that all works. And I'll be asking you those kind of questions on Friday. I have a question with us. I forgot. What is the NRCS stand for? Natural Resource Conservation Service. Okay, thank you. SDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture. So that would be interesting to hear how that falls out. Yeah, and if dean, you know, feels it's not something he wants, he doesn't get what he wants and they not even do it. So. Are you sure, Frank, that there's no cost to the town? Is it in this program that does involve some town funds to contribute? Well, if we contribute, we'll be getting a return on. And that's a question I'm going to ask. Because in my conversation with Michael Quaker in the week, I talked with him a couple of times and he said it's usually a pass-through cross. And we get reimbursed for any monies that we have except for maybe those. Okay, so yeah, I will attend too because I was at the first meeting that we had about a year ago. So I will attend as well. All right. So could you have a line of this? Would you want that, Julie? So we can do those can meet? Patty, that's at 10 on Friday. Got it. Yep. Is this a meeting? No. Oh, it'd be a birthright. There's a public right. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Problems through. Do you want to know who wanted to give us an update from the school building meeting? That was Catherine. Yes, Catherine. And Robert's here too, I see. Yeah. So we met Robert Mayer and I met with the select board back in February. February 24th to get the blessing of the select board for the Envision Rochester Building Committee to explore options for the town acquiring one of the two buildings on the campus. And we got it. And then we went to the school board on March 3rd with the same presentation. We got their blessing. Then the pandemic hit and all that work got put on the back burner. We could go tonight to that building committee we convene. And a letter has gone out now to all the participants in the February workshop of Envision because we're doing public outreach now to sort of bring storming sessions to try to get a proposal together for public review by August 15th. So we passed the first going to the Envision Room and there's a significant amount of people that that includes, I think it's in the 50s. And they, I think you've got a copy of Vic's letter. I think you sent it to the select board, right? Did you get copied on that letter because it went to the school board too? I think it, yes. I think I did it. And they wasn't in with the packet of information for this meeting. Like if they don't have it, I can send it now. But basically it's just a letter saying where we are that we're reconvening that we're now doing the public outreach to be in the brainstorm session process to end by July 15th for preliminary proposal by in writing by August 15th that will then be submitted to public, wider public comment. So that's sort of where we're at. We just wanted to update you. And there's a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of questions, and it's process. What's that? That's great to me. It's a lot of moving parts in the subject, you know? Yeah. But I think enthusiasm for this complicated thing is coming back and the committee's enthusiastic about it. And we're getting outreach from other people. So it's in motion. The process is good. So we just want to keep you informed as we promise we would. Thank you. But we all ears. Yeah. All righty. We think we will be setting up the polling place this next week or this week, the end of this week. So I'm going to help out doing that. Basically marking up COVID distance and setting up the booths and doing that sort of thing. I'll probably try to get another person. So I thought I'd go through the board of adjustment and get a couple of those people to help out. I think Julie's, I think we're doing it on Friday. Is that correct? Thursday. Thursday? Thursday afternoon. All right. Right. I have a question about voting in the report that came out from the RISUB. The booklet just says it's in person voting will take place on July 30th, June 30th, excuse me, at the high school. But it doesn't say where. And I'm just, I'm wondering if you could, you know, be a little clearer. Well, it's in the two buildings towards the stage. Space. It's K Stringer's room. And then it's the next room beside hers where we have a one way in and one way out. And Julie and Becky have laid out the inside to be safe as possible. And one of the reasons why we're going to use it to start with is so we can get a better handle on, you know, any adjustments we need to make with the primary coming up and also the election and the fall. I think it's a good idea to start with it to try it. I'm going to put down some tape and make some barricades with a flagging and some coals so we can just have it, you know, as safe as possible entryway and so forth. We'll have some signage. We'll have some signage in the parking lot directing people where it is and that kind of thing. Okay, thank you. Great. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, because it didn't say in the booklet just that at the high school in the high school voting, it's like, okay, where? Yeah. To be more subtle, it's on the end by the stage. Right. I know where you're talking about now. I was hoping that you wanted to be a little more specific. I have a quick question. This is Burma. Will there be masks that you can give to people, should they not come prepared with a mask for any reason? We'll have some. It's a neat one. Good. Have people have them. Good idea. Okay, great. I will have all the other hand sanitizer and spray and that kind of stuff. That's great. All right, we're kind of whipping through this tonight. Is there anything else that anyone would like to speak about that we haven't touched on? Going once? Going twice? All right, everybody head to the river. Thank you. Thank you, Pat. Thank you, Pat. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Good night. Good night, Burma. Good night. Bye.