 So, we're obviously holding the Republican Town Caucus tonight for Williston. And I'm Cindy Royas, I know all of you, the town chair. So we're going to go ahead and open this, but then we need to pick a chair, the secretary just for the caucus portion. So and the caucus is to establish the town committee. That's all it really does. And once the committee is established, and I assume everybody here, plus a couple of us, people who are not here are going to want to be on the committee and vote on that. And then vote on the officers. And then the caucus chairman will start things going at the town meeting by getting the chair of the town party elected. So we'll go ahead, why don't, Bruce, why don't you open the meeting? Will you open the meeting? Do you want me to? Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. Then would be to elect the chair for the, and open to nominations. I would nominate Cindy Roy. Okay. You can. I will. You can. We'll second that. Okay. Okay. Any further nominations? I wish I brought my flag, so we could have said the flag. Oh, yeah. We can say it's one right there. No, right there. We'll say it before the town meeting. Yes, we could. We'll say it before the second meeting. Good, good call. Yes. Okay. Any further nominations? All right. Nominations closed. All in favor of Cindy Roy being the caucus chairman? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. And we need the secretary. Now you do the secretary. Okay. That's right. Because now that I'm the chairman, we're going to take nominations for the secretary of the caucus. So who would like to be secretary? It's for just the caucus portion. Anyone? Who would like to sign off on the documents? I don't know. Okay. Peggy. Okay. Now, Peggy to do that. Any seconds? I second. All right. Okay. Figuring out these. All in favor? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. So Peggy. Aye. Did I vote on it? Did we vote on it? Did I skip that part? Yeah, we just, we did. Okay. It would naming us. Naming us? All right. Okay. So the next thing. Yeah, that's right. So the next thing is that we, we close the caucus, right? We have to elect the town committee now. Oh, we like, that's right. We like the town committee. Okay. So for the town committee, I have a group of names. Can I nominate those things? Well, just list them. Then we'll see if there are any other folks. Okay. So for the town committee, I have Joanne Simmendinger. She is on our email list. And she asked if I could please include her. And she can be included even if she's absent. So Joanne. And then Zach, let me get it. Would you like to be here on the town committee? Because you're here. So let me just get your name down. Okay. So then I've got Zachary Bennett, John Markott, Cindy Markott, Sharon Ray Quinn, Pat Boyden. He said he'd be very happy to be involved even though he's not here. He can be voted on Peggy Wittmeyer, of course, Bruce and Cindy Roy for the town committee. Does anybody have anyone else that has been identified to you that would want to be on the committee? They had to have said they would like to be. Did Fran want to be on it? Even though she's not here? She hasn't said, but we can always add her in a later meeting. We won't put somebody on the committee without their permission. Exactly. That's the problem. Yeah. And I don't have France. I'm sure she would, but I don't have her input. That's fine. And I think it helps when people attend too. Yeah. So is there anyone else that you guys know of? Okay. So how do we do this? I would just read the list and then sit tall to vote. Okay. So here's the list. And then we're going to go ahead and vote. And this is the town committee. Joanne Semidinger, Zachary Bennett, John Markott, Cindy Markott, Sharon Ray Quinn, Pat Boyden, Peggy Wittmeyer, Bruce Roy, and Cindy Roy. So I move we accept those names as representatives on the town committee. I second all those nominations. So. It's vote. Vote. Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. It's unanimous. Unanimous without the two that aren't here. Yes. Exactly. Okay. So the town committee is formed. Yeah. So that is what we needed to accomplish. And now you close this meeting and open the meeting. Yeah. I'm going to close the caucus. And I guess I need, does anybody move to close it? Yep. And will we close the caucus? I second that motion. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay. The caucus is closed. Now the chair of the caucus. Yes. You open the town meeting in the first order of business to elect the chair of the town committee. And do we want to do the pledge of allegiance in between? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Good call. Yeah. Very good. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Thank you for reminding us. Thank you, Ms. Sharon. Yeah. Okay. So now I can open the town meeting, right? Yep. So I'm opening up the town meeting. And what we're going to do is elect the officers. And that's... Well, you elect... We have to... This is kind of a formality, but... Yeah, I have to be elected. You have to be elected. Then you as the chair run the meeting, not as the caucus chair. Yes. As a town chair. Yeah. So how do you vote on me? The open nominations. Well, actually, yeah. You were voted in. Right. Right. I think we have to do it again. Yeah. Because she was the interim... Yeah. ...what we got to hear. Right. Um... I nominate Cindy. Okay. Thank you, Zach. And I second. I guess all in favor. No, I'm not. Hi again. Hi again. Hi. Hi. Okay. I'm back. Didn't go anywhere. Here I am. Okay. So now we are going to vote on... And there's a sheet that I have to kind of guide me here. Is we're going to vote on the town vice chair. We're placing... We're placing... Yes. Sharon, thank you for your service. Yes. Thank you so much, Sharon. And... Can I make a nomination? Yes, you can. Sure. So I would like to nominate John Marcotte for vice chair. So would you be willing to accept that nomination, John? Yes. It's one vice I don't have yet, so... And I second. Sounds nice. Okay. And all in favor. Hi. Hi. Okay. We have a vice chair. We have a vice chair. Okay. So the next would be the secretary. And I have another nomination. Peggy, would you be willing to be secretary? It's both jobs the same. Your... Your first job is over. Your first job is over? You're done. Yeah. Your first job is over. You're done with the caucus work. And you did a mix one. We'll see you in two years when we do another caucus. Right. So... So you're now a retired caucus secretary. So are you willing to do the... Yeah. Okay. The town committee secretary. And take minutes at every meeting. I'll have to. We'll get some help. Yeah. We'll pass it around. So... It's a team thing. Yes. It is. Yeah. Unless Sharon's doing it, then she does it all by herself. So... So I'm nominating... Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm nominating Peggy Woodmire for secretary of our town committee. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. All right. Peggy, it's official. Okay. Thank you. Okay. And then we have Treasurer. So, for Treasurer, is anybody interested? And I mean, I think it's... Cindy can actually be the Treasurer. I can be the backup. And she is actually on the checkbook now. She met with Brett and Brett officially transferred the checkbook over to her. And certainly somebody else could be Treasurer as well. And added to it. But I don't think it's necessary. The rules say that out of the four positions, three have to be different people in the vice chair and the chair can't be the same person. Yeah. So I think legally, if there's no interest in being the Treasurer... But if somebody would like to be Treasurer, that'd be fantastic. No, but I'm already on the checkbook. So I'll continue. So you're the Treasurer then? No. No Treasurer. So, Sharon, we are going to have to re-add you. And the reason is because they had to close out that phase of the account. And then to be able to get it done, we had to just do it on the spot. But I'd love to add you to just have a backup. Okay. We don't have a Treasurer. Is there anyone who wants to be Treasurer? Otherwise I'll do it. I nominate Cindy to be our Treasurer. I would second that. It's in Roy. It's in Roy. All in favor? Yeah. All in favor? Yeah. Okay. So we've got that done. Done. So I think, were those the main things, Bruce? Well, that's then now the start. Now it's the... Let me see. So we did the town committee. Mm-hmm. I think now... Oh, the delegates. Yeah. Who of the town committee would like to be a delegate to the county committee? And I actually started a list. And I think it's everybody. Zach, would you like to also? Okay. So let me just put your name here. Now the only person... We don't know if Joanne wants to, but Pat has expressed interest to be a delegate. You pat did. So I did not... Joanne is just on the town committee, but if she wants to be added to the delegates, we would have to ask her. So why don't you... Let me read the names. Yes. He's not here, but he said he would be very willing to do that. Sharon, I have you. Peggy Widenmeyer, myself, Bruce, John Marcotte, Cindy Marcotte, and Zach Reuben. So... We can... So I nominate... We can nominate all the names together, right? Right. We can always add more as the committee grows and they get to... How many do we have? There's a lot of slots. I... It's like more than we can fill. Like 15 or 20, is there a lot? Maybe more. It might even be 30-something. So we're fine on that. Yeah. I've been nominated a while. Yeah. I attended many meetings and had... Yeah. Yeah. So we'll go ahead and... So I'll nominate all the names that I just read. Yeah. Any second? Second. Second. And all in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Awesome. Now, another point to make now. These names will go into Janimets at the county level. Is there any... How many Janet will pick from Williston to represent at the state committee? So if anybody's willing to do that, when Cindy gives Janet the Delegate's name, she can also indicate to Janet who would be, you know, offering their ability to be on the state. Like, I personally want to. Yeah. So what I will do is I'll ask Janet how many we get for the state, and then I can send to this group here, our committee, and just see who's interested. Okay. Or it could be pretty limited. Who knows? Sure. So we'll do that. Okay. Great. Does that cover everything? Yeah. So the bottom line is we've got the checkbook all straightened with Brett moving on. Yeah. And then me being treasurer and so on. So, yeah. Perfect. So it's the new business? Yeah. And is there any other new business or anything else anybody wanted to bring up? I have a couple little things for after the meeting. But anything anybody wants to bring up is new business or something of interest or just anything to questions? I don't have anything. Okay. So we can adjourn and then we can just chat. Yeah, Zach. I was just saying I actually talked to the Racial Equity Commission at Williston yesterday about their Abadacki land acknowledgement. Yeah. And yeah, that was very interesting. I think a lot of the, if you look at the land acknowledgement, they're trying to pass. It has a lot of post-colonial and like, Marxist language in it. And I raised, I actually wrote them a letter. And they actually, I met with them yesterday and they talked about it. And I basically told them why it was, for a variety of reasons, a very bad idea. And they deliberated on this. They will see how that goes. So. Do you, did a sense they're going to make some modifications? I think so. They seem perceptive. And I'm like, I teach early American history. It's like what I studied. So it's a thing of just good intentions, but also kind of a lot of the kind of current moment that we're in. And I think with a lot of the political statements that the town has been making, which I just think are unwise. So I met with them recently. I'm trying to. Who knows how much they'll live. Just being involved. Yeah. And just showing up and giving feedback. That's great. That's the more that we do, the better, right? And with your expertise. Yeah. Exactly. For the facts. Rather than me just pounding on the table. Exactly. Coming out with facts. And where do you teach? Norwich University. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's great. It's very good that we can have... What? It's very good that you can have a civilized conversation, you know, talking about facts and stuff like this, you know. And, you know, having an exchange of ideas is very important. Exactly. You know, but it can't always be one-sided, and it needs to be done in a very respectful manner, like it sounds like you did. Yeah. I think that's kind of what we try to do when we approach issues in town. I think so, with facts. You know. Versus always, you know, I'm going to bring the facts. Right. I mean, one of the things I've done with Facebook as I've become a candidate and just, you know, kind of mouthy on Facebook about stuff is when somebody gets personal, I'm done. I shut down. Actually, there's a fella, and I will mention his name, where I had an interesting Facebook debate with him about, and at one point he got personal, and I said, you've lost all credibility, and so I'm done with you. Coming to find out the other day, he has now blocked me, which is good, because I don't see his stuff and he doesn't see my stuff. I'm quite happy. Yeah. So... Yeah. Good way to filter him out. Yeah, we don't try to be exclusionary, but sometimes it's the best course of action. Yeah. Inclusionary works much, much better. Totally. Yeah, fine. Well, good. Keep us posted on that. Do you want to change the dress code? I mean, let sweatshirts and shorts be okay? Oh, yeah. Okay. I guess that's it. I'm around, Roger. Cut that out. Actually, I had one other thing that just hit me, is how often do we want to meet? Yeah. I know we put a really long hiatus on the meetings because we had had elections and everything last year and it was crazy. I did know. I know. But, you know, it was a tough time. I wouldn't cry if he was anymore. Do we want to do once a quarter or, you know? I would think to start with once a quarter would be good. Yeah. We don't want to overdo it. And when we get closer to the elections, we can get a little closer together. But I think, you know, kind of once the year turns over, it'll be the election year. It'll be kind of a different feeling then. So, thinking once a quarter, how does that sound to me? And we can just try to... I'll try to book here. And then as the election gets closer, we can definitely get more often. Yeah. Right. You know, we're going to want to do some level of recruitment, you know, so we don't have... Absolutely. So we have everybody running for a spot. We don't want to have to fall through the cracks like it has with a lot of conservatives running in Vermont. So... Yeah. Started addressing things early. Right. The whole plan and, you know, as we know, the whole ramp up takes time. So... Speaking of that, we read it to Greg Thayer yesterday at... I see you read it. I mean, look at it. He's all that. He read for Lieutenant Governor. So he's a great guy. He's a great guy. He didn't get the nomination. Joe Benning got the Republican nomination. Yeah. Oh, that's right. But Greg Reed was after... was one of the guys running for the Lieutenant Governor. But it was fun to see him. Good guy. Yeah. So... Do we want to have a tentative meeting for like January? Yeah. So let's see... December just seems like a busy month. But maybe... I mean, I don't care. I am available December, January. Just... We probably ought to put a tentative date. I think that's a great idea. Yeah. What's everybody thinking for... You know, we could do early December. It's before the holidays hit. Just as a... Kind of a touch base. But nothing, you know, to evolve. Right. Just to get together. Yeah. Maybe we'll bring... Is there any political activity that are happening of no between now and then? Nothing. I know of... I can keep my eyes open. But maybe, you know, it could be the first or second week of December. We'll pick a day. I mean, it's a fairly small committee. We can always call a meeting if there seems to be a need. Correct. Yeah. If we have a tentative early December might make sense. And then we could shoot for maybe March. Yeah. Early December is going to be more of a touch base. And then we'll kind of get more into it after the year turns. Well, if you look at March of next year, that's when the discussions will start about who's going to be on the primary ballot. Right? Yeah. It's going to come really fast. Yeah. So... Okay, that's good. Let's do that. Is that work for you, Zach? Early December. Okay. Early December, yeah. Yeah. So it'll just be an evening like this. You're probably the library. Yeah. Same idea. Okay. All right. So the week of the 11th, the week of the... Probably the 11th. We don't do it too close to the 11th. Yeah, the 11th. We could be 11th. Got a Tuesday or Wednesday. So that'd be the... And I'll send an email to our committee so that you guys can all... Yeah, Tuesday works for me. Wednesday's don't... Oh, that's right. Church night. Yeah. So we'll do a Tuesday. How about that week? And I will send an email out to everybody to see if that works. So Zach, you'll see in a minute. Yep. Ten? Yep. Okay. Okay, great. All right. So I think... Is there anything else anybody wanted to bring up? Yeah. Did anybody see the autumn news about what CVU is going to do? No, I didn't see it. Just like Westford. Oh, what? We'll have to discuss that in the future. Yeah. That's an important issue. Yeah. Well, no. I'm going to tell it right now because I'm so ticked off. Well, I'm just... Yeah, your identity. In the restrooms and sports. Do you want to wait until we adjourn the meeting? Because then you won't... Well, let's just... Get too long. ...get to know what's going on is that there is the Samplain Valley School District is trying to establish a policy for transgender rights at the schools as far as bathrooms and locker rooms and that sort of stuff. So it's in policy right now. So we all have a chance as citizens to influence it at school board meetings. I've been active on Facebook a little bit. I'm more in the fact that I, from a perspective of parents have a right to be heard in this whole situation and an article I read from Vermont Digger didn't really highlight the fact that parents were involved. So it's something for us to think about and get comfortable with what we think that policy should look like as individuals. For sure. I don't know if we want to make a statement as a county committee but as individuals. Let's... Next meeting we'll get into it. How about so we can close out the caucus and the town meeting for this time and then in December we'll have another opportunity. So... Okay, so how do I turn this person up? I move to turn the meeting in. Okay, I second. Second. Okay, all in favor? All in favor? All in favor. All in favor. Short and sweet.