 All right, welcome everyone in zoom and in the room And we have a posted the agenda in three places and on the website And it looks like we have the zoom access straightened out and so we can move forward legally with this here meeting and We'll start off with the minutes from the prior meeting of September 12th and And I Think that that had everything it that I remember any changes on you guys song. No, sir No, so I've moved to approve second all in favor. Hi. Hey got those It says we might have Vic and Catherine as guests, but they're not here right now I would think that they're oh you have Vic. Okay. I'm sorry. Yeah, sorry Okay Yeah, Vic. Do you want to speak to the letter of select board support for the high school repurposing project grant proposal? Yes, thank you and Catherine had an overwhelming caseload and couldn't be here tonight, but Sends a regards there's a legislation and legislature funded agency called the Vermont housing and conservation board and within that Organization they have a program called a rural economic development initiative and they provide grants to organizations municipalities who are seeking funds to get larger grants basically and so We've been in discussion with Mariah Knoth who's the director of that program explain what we're looking to do and she felt that We would be a good fit for their program and invited us to apply for it This would be an application on behalf of the town for about seven thousand dollars for grant writing assistance to get a Support for the high school project so You know to do that we need to obtain a letter of support from the select board saying that you support Our seeking this grant. It's not saying is support Acquiring the high school Right, I have the letter here. It says this letter is to document that the Rochester select board supports applying for the REDI funds for the Rochester high school repurposing project. So it's not a Commitment to buy the high school. It's just a letter of support letter of support and the ongoing efforts for the grant. Yeah So I have no problem with the select board issuing that letter of support. How about you guys? No, I move to Sign and give them this letter. I second all in favor Okay, Vic, have we had any response from the boy and King yet? Nothing new that I'm aware of That I know that dick and The woman from the the state environmental agency We're gonna try to get together with Du Bois and King and just try to get clarification around the issue of where the floodway In it intersects with the the land around the high school I think there's been some miscommunication around what we're trying to think us the surveyors been talking about the flood plain Which is not really the issue. So they're trying to straighten that out Okay, because we do have the invoice that we haven't released a payment yet until we Hear that we have your approval So that we can give our approval Yeah, that's that's fine. Okay, hang on to it. Thank you Thank you, Vic. You're welcome. All right. Thank you You send it directly to the the woman and the Miranda off I think her address is on there going to do that. Just copy. Yeah Thanks Yeah, I just can you clear something up for me is this is Vicks and Catherine's committee. Is it an official town committee or Is it a group of citizens who are working towards this that you guys are supporting? We formed it as a committee. Yeah, we formed it as a as a committee So it's a it's an official town committee I believe so. Yeah, okay, so here's my question since this committee is pretty much directed at one Objective the the community and cultural center supported by rents Does the town expect to look at other options or examine other is this committee solely responsible or everything having to do with this subject Or not When the committee was first formed we did look into other uses for the building And then it just zeroed down into The community center the hub Being the one the most viable to research further Well, would you say that decision is final it's made Now We can move on from there My impression was that this committee started at what the re with the Envision Rochester group And they had a set of and they had done some surveys and asked them and they had sort of focused on this kind of thing And that was pretty much what they pursued So other options Weren't really examined very deeply as far as I can see and so there are other exact, you know, for instance Other options like affordable housing were were already looked into and dismissed at that time Because of the flood plain so it could be revisited because since then we have heard rumors that It's possible to remediate some of the flood plain and put some affordable housing in there But it sounds rather far-fetched. So we're still pursuing this particular concept until it Feels or deems that it's not viable and then then we will open up to a Revisit old concepts or new concepts Okay, so you're gonna basically run the clock out on this one But although this could go it could take a tremendous amount of time For this project to raise all its money and to you know to keep the thing going You know, I don't remember anybody ever really talking about trying to continue it as a school for instance if you put the elementary school into the high school if the SU or the the district agreed to that and you and you put money into renovating the high school then the high school be available to be a middle school later or That subject has come up that subject had come up, but it's very quickly dismissed by the supervisor Well, I guess what I'm saying these are just two ideas or or if you For instance the demolition of the buildings always been described by this committee as creating a vacant lot When actually you could put housing on that if that were but it's all these things are complicated. None of these things are easy They're none of them are easy. They're all very complicated. They involve multiple parties tremendous amounts of money They're all very complicated. So my concern would be that we are setting our sights on one Direction which sounds like we are and then if that doesn't pan out then we'll go after other but you know It could take years for that not to pan out, but I don't I don't want to hijack the whole meeting I'm just I wanted to clarify the nature of this committee, which I think I did so You got you guys can carry on. Thanks Okay. No, it's definitely a complicated Project yeah problem Onward Next on the agenda, we've got the town office hours for the next week of October 3rd through 7th It's going to be closed six six Well, we've got on here it's saying Monday the third will be closed and Tuesday the fourth will be nine to five Wednesday from nine to five, but it will be closed on Thursday and Friday the sixth and the seventh six and seventh Right, so it's for the week of the three through the seventh, but it'll be open Tuesday and Wednesday Basically, it's sorry, and I think that's posted on the door, too But I just wanted to make a public notice and actually we can do this Yeah Monday anyway, but yeah just to clarify and the reason Two different both Kristen has something going on and I have something going on okay. That's not the same But you're already married All right, we also have did receive a letter of support and for Sue Moulton's Request about reducing the speed limit on North Hollow and that was the support from Peter Schneider and Gail Stockwell and Larry Levitsky and George and Lynn Moults and Catherine Stern, Brennan and Fred Stern and the McGraths and Deb Roberts that some It's not surprising that people would offer their support on that, but it's it's easier said than done and Frank has been doing some research on what is exactly involved in and Diving into a project like that and we have I don't know if you want to summarize that It's a I can do something It's also going to be present here in the office for people to come and dig a little deeper into it if they want to And we'd have to address every road differently and because they're dirt roads They don't recommend setting speeds on dirt roads At all, but we've already done that with a blanket 35 mile an hour zone, which is acceptable for most towns But to change that to a different mileage would require a traffic study on every road that you want to drop down and That would be hard to get a good sample because of the limited number of cars that you have So it would take quite a lot to even come up with it and the data would have to Support the lowering of the speed limit. So it's a pretty big endeavor Something that I'm not really I don't really support Honestly, I mean, I like people to drive slow. I personally don't drive that fast on dirt roads There was times when I did but not normally but anyway, I think it'd be best if we just Not do anything with that at this time Well, and that was the advice from VLCT also, isn't it as a vice from two rivers two rivers And there is a setting speed limits a guide to the Vermont towns That's in the office here at town if anybody's interested and they would like to read it They can stop in and see what kind of a problem it would create trying to do that So you're more than welcome to come in and see that now we have Been working on drafting a Request to the state for lowering the speed limit on route 100 through the village. That's correct I wrote a letter and we haven't finalized it yet The Windsor County Sheriff supports that they're going to send a letter of support They feel it's it's pretty It's a pretty good idea to drop that down to 25 and Plus with a new pavement I think it's really going to be a good thing to drop it down Because I think cars are going to fly through town and because it is the village center and it's got a school and There's a lot of pedestrians around especially in the fall and in the summer. It's pretty wild so Be nice to get it done and and two river supports that and Also the sheriff so I will put that out at some point soon and see what we can get I Would support it from the school to the firehouse And have it 30 then 25 then 30 and then back up to 50 Have a progression instead of just well it goes it goes from 30 At mile marker or whatever I wrote there which is right down by the cemetery To that's the speed limit zone that we have now that we can enforce through our ordinance in town So we have to change the ordinance so we'd have to get the biomarker numbers from the school through but I don't recommend Taking it from a 30 to a 40 Whatever it is here now. It should stay right if it's 25 through the village It should stay 25 through the village right to the south it goes 30 to 40 to 50, right? And that's that's fine. That won't change Yeah, and that that curve kind of enforces that And people turn Yeah You were talking about Bethel Mountain Road at one point of lowering the 50 mile an hour limit to 40 to comply with what his Bethel has right and I've talked with Rita about that in She's going to review the the traffic study we did this spring and recommend what we should do And I'll be in touch with her in Bethel They have rather large signs that are pretty obvious about the 24,000 pound limit, right? State law says and whatever. Is there any thought about putting that over here on the various Signs leading to Bethel Mountain. I don't want to do any more signage on the on the park Then I have to there's so many signs there now that nobody's going to read them anyway And once the truck makes that turn they're committed They can't back up the only thing they can do is turn around and go around the park And they do and sometimes and I've seen them come from the north and Go by the turn and go down to the park and make the turn there and then make the turn and go up the hill So I don't recommend it. I'm still going to Tackle the state on putting some I-89 signs up in what direction to go and maybe we can deter some of that but I Be in touch with Rita more about changing that to 40 up there and We'll go from there. Well, it's a thought also that that speed limit is 40 that will show up on the DPS is a slower way to go and then right defer some of the traffic that way too It also would reflect the condition of the road not being a 50 mile an hour road Not as big as we 100 but we have to do whatever the traffic study Says so that's what we're following and that sign was placed The the counter was placed right there by Binderman Lane So it's kind of on the end of that route. It certainly wasn't going to be in a dip up there by Can I share a thought? Yeah So my I would only make a caution or a request that we if you're gonna put a Change the speed limit. Don't stop it at the school stop it at the south end of town by the By the cemetery where the other sign Because people just blow through it. Well, you know, they blow through here Well, and that's where it is it drops now currently That's where it goes Rob and that's the mile markers that I am petitioning or we're writing the letter to petition to the state It's mile market It's mile marker Four point seven two to mile marker five point six. Oh, okay. Thanks very much. Yep. All right Still on the topic of roads we've Got a letter From Reuben Sherman who is the trustee of the Sherman family trust and he's been trying to sell parcel H528 on and off for the past 20 years. This is a three-acre landlocked parcel Accessible only by an ancient trail. This is up on Jones Mountain Road off of West Hill There is He's His request is that the select board reclassified the trail crossing the neighbor's property Back to a road suitable and open to vehicle traffic That way you could more possibly market the property Talking with Bruce Welling this afternoon. He's he's under the impression that is that is actually a class four pent road and still needs to do some GPS location verification with the With the state to really determine that for sure, but that's I think Cougar could Help him. He has the the capacity with his phone to take those readings. And so That would If that is indeed a class four road then that that There's there's no legal right to keep him from using that to access that property So I think that that would be the next step is to Identify identify finalize and identify that There's a gate up there. So like legally you can't have that gate there. Well, you know Pent road you can have but you can't have it locked. You know, not that it's holding any wildlife up in there. I don't think that was from back in the day. So so we'll um dig into that little little Deeper and determine exactly what the status of that is Can I ask a quick question? Sure please um So his request was for you to uh for the board to look into reclassifying the trail or whatever that goes in there to Right, but what we're saying here is we're not sure that that's actually what it is a trail that um There's this possibility that that is still a Class four road and was never thrown up that used to continue all the way into bingo and there was That part was thrown up but so if I said that um The the board is going to Look into the classification of the correct classification of the road accessing the property. Would that be right or Yeah We're going to clarify that classification. How about that? Okay Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it We also have a um Operation and maintenance plan agreement for the storm water project at the town garage and um, we gave a copy of that to terry to go and get with cooter to see exactly Um, I didn't pay attention to the structures, but yeah, it's a 10-year thing. You got to maintain Yeah, you got to sign papers on that. You know, it's it's not going to be cheap. Yeah Well, they're asking at all This this act that they're asking us to um The sign now is not asking for any money. It's just asking for energy of I guess that costs money Yeah, it does because it says after it gets a certain height. You got to have it back truck. Yeah sucked out So, I mean you're gonna you put nine We'll have to see them gonna cost probably between two and five grand a year. Yeah, I know Five years about $400. So we we know it's more than double Yeah, that's why I said some of these grants should go after maybe you have you got to read the fine print Does someone have a comment on them? No So anyway, we're going to um You're gonna go down there and look at all right. I'll go down with you. So I get an idea too I want to make sure I'm right about stuff too. Can you guys repeat to me exactly? Excuse me exactly what it is You're going to do because I was writing the notes for the other one and I missed the beginning of what you were doing I apologize. We're um Terry is going to um get with cooter and and I guess frank also and down at the town garage to see exactly What is being asked for in the operation and maintenance plan agreement for the storm water Project down at the town garage Okay, so cherry cooter frank will go to the town garage to see what is being asked for in terms of the Maintenance and and monitoring of the operation of the installed storm water project. Yeah Maintenance and monitoring of the newly installed project. Yes That's got it. I remember when I did the presentation on this Which was probably hey, thank you. Sorry Four years ago now. Yeah, they did that presentation. They said that we would need to Vacuum it because it will accumulate cigarette butts and gum wrappers and things so it'll need to be up The more substantial one will be the one that goes in on the the park on the other side of the fire department That one will be even more substantial There's one there. There's going to be that's the third one This was only one of three that they want to do Yeah, we've got some of the cleanest water and There's some of the cleanest water in the white rivers right right here A lot of it because it's a national forest Right So, um, is Tony on zoom from the library? No, um, we can take Jones updates off in this Okay The highway department, I guess we already talked about roads quite a bit tonight Um, they see they're building up the sand pile and that is um perched on top of one of the um The uh intakes for the I think I told them they carried two of them. So that's so we'll have to discuss that Wednesday They're uh John and I have been talking about well The better roads grants and coming up in october and what projects he wants to do and He's thinking of that upper Bethel mountain road Stuff there is probably where he's going to Look at doing stuff. So Covert yeah, there's a couple of cross drains there and the in the big one that rogers brook that one He was thinking about doing That's you know, it's been in the works for a while And then the only other thing that's engineered out there Is a town mine road That big culvert there. Yeah But he's just looking at those that one on nothing out in those two up there Especially the one that had a hole in it a couple years ago Don't think you're wrong, right? He said I don't know how long this immense gonna last So I got a call from the What's his name the guy that bought the property up On south hollow road That had talked to us Previously about the Yes, using The legal trail is Access to how he wants to build up in there and he's Um Not excited about the prospects of building a new road across Well, he still doesn't have any Permission or access from Bethel mountain road and he's he expressed that he's wants to pursue asking the town permission to Improve one of the legal a legal trail for the access I asked him to be more specific about whether he was Talking about coming from above or below Which he could not say at the time, but um You mean coming in from Larry Strauss's or coming in from the bottom. Yes Yeah When you talk about reclassifying roads or improving roads Does the town get to vote on whether to Well, you you can just the town votes as to whether they want to discontinue a road Right. Can they also vote as to whether they want to Build a road they can petition to build one. I think and as I understand it from reading the orange book and they can Um But the select board has jurisdiction over classification As I understand it anyway, but is it still is it possible For the town to vote not I'm not talking about the select board, but the voters to not I don't know for sure. I I don't I'm not sure. I think it's the legislative body thought at Right now except the legislative body body has to take a discontinuance to the voters. Yes Yep But I think we can class reclass I'm pretty sure What if we don't want to yeah, yeah, what if we don't want you to And you don't have to answer it tonight No, I'll look it up for you because it's probably right here in this book That this book has just about everything we can discuss it. Yep. I'll get it. Yeah, I'll get it back to you Maybe I just brought it up as just uh more information on that Coming down the pike But you didn't have the specific To request that he was that one court was there. He's gonna cost him some Well, I could I could tell you I'm back to my original I've been thinking about this and I'm back to my original thought Is if he's going to build a road out through there, you're going to use the trail then Class 3 Because if you don't you're going to create a mess Because there's two other landowners out through there. You got larry as a landowner But then you got the sanice that has a 500 acre chunk And then you got the 700 acres and if we don't We're going to continually address this if we say you can have a driveway Or you can have a class 4 road Then all of a sudden you've got three houses out there And then you've got you're going to create a problem And I know larry's not going to like that but I can't help it. I I think that's the only way we can deal with that if he really wants to go And if he thinks that would be at his expense, yes, sir And if he thinks That's going to be cheaper than building his own road Now he might think different of that because he's going to have to build that to specs And he's going to have to put in a pretty fair size covert on roger's brook At least equal to the one we have to put up at the top right Be equal to the one that's at my house probably. Yep. Yeah What's that three and a half four footer in the six is that a six? It was a three Right What's the one that crosses uh south halloween? That's that's a foreign Actually, there's two in there. Oh, yeah. Oh, there is four and a two. Yep. I was wondering about that I don't Anyway, now to be continued and yet Nancy look up that and definitely it's worth having input. Yep Anything else on the highway you want to talk about? Can I just make another comment? Yeah Um, I came out of the library last Tuesday night. It was when it had been raining a lot And that when you step off onto route 100, I know it's not a town problem But there was a pretty deep puddle of water sitting there And are we going to keep track of their paving to make sure that that that doesn't continue? I'll I'll talk with tom But there was a deep puddle tom chase about that was wide and we were walking over and in all well, yeah and I'll talk with him and I'm sure they've had some kind of I've had a couple conversations with him recently But he's he thinks that new part of the sidewalk we put in by the parkhouse is going to be okay now He didn't think so at first, but now he thinks it's going to be fine there But this is up at the library and up at the library. I'll I'll mention that to him to see if but the water was like this Right when we came off onto route 100, right? I'll talk with him about that to see if they're going to Make it so that it flows out of there and not towards that storm drain at the pier saw all there They're out starting there shimming them today. Yeah, I saw the manholes and stuff because I had a conversation Yeah done by the bank Yeah Speaking of the utilities, yeah, what um, that was Yeah, we felt that my living room and whatever hit that I don't know I hit it, but it definitely did a lot damage. Yeah, and What happened? He's ripped the whole cover and ringing everything and it off the top the manhole Yeah, there's a big hole there So you've got it patched now, but yeah supposedly that other outfits coming back to fix it Did it damage the the The cone didn't look like it was damaged To me it hit it The guy today said a crane went over and hit it and Which would sound about right would have to be something something heavy really heavy. Yeah I said, I can't believe you guys left it like that start with because it's stuck up so bad It's out on the road too Because I said that the thing's always been a pain in the butt so I told them I was going to be around when they got ready. Yeah. Yeah, it says it's going to be fixed right way. They didn't work today There's no paving today. They they shimmed they shimmed up through the village. I mean down I don't know how far they went to work, but down my way. Oh, yeah, there's some finished product down. Oh, there is Dockbridge way. Yeah, yeah One lane one lane Nice All right, um, is um, jeff kipp part online tonight Nope Anybody go to the bethle energy fair this weekend? No, they had a bunch of posters around. I didn't make it So we um onto the old business with the um master financial policy sections five In seven and you're saying that we have some new information that needs to be Just want to look at the evaluated. Yeah. Yeah for the section five for section five And then we need to do we need to send that to the lawyer to get his take on that? We still will yeah I will talk with um a few people for editing and check with um jim may know because of the new laws To see if that needs to be included in section five All right, so I guess we'll table that until he has a chance to Yeah, we're still we're still revealing. Okay. Okay Plodding through it little by little um Any highlights on the the august treasures report that you want to it would be just our first um treasures report for the fiscal year so There's not a lot to show on it. At least something for you to Nothing that kept you up at night. Nope. No good Yeah, not yet. No, then we're starting budget finance meetings Wednesday. Yep Wednesday what time? Four three three three So Wednesday three Is that um For the budget status do they have to sign off on that? Is that does the auditor want to see that they've reviewed it and signed off on it? Or how does it need to I'll have to ask Nathan? I'm not sure if that's just a review Okay Show that you're reviewing it. Yep this year. You mean yeah Find out We can review it and sign off on it just in case. Yeah Yeah, it's definitely something that he wants to see us doing and Knowing that it's being reviewed Okay, we have um any comment from the public on zoom or in the room It's quite on zoom quite on zoom Well, uh next meeting is um october 10th Oh wait, we have a couple other um items. I would like to um This is kind of nice to have a letter from John Lackard Who just wanted to send a note to express his thanks for including the john Lackard blues band in the summer concert series It's been a really busy summer and I'm just now starting to get caught up with things It's hard to believe that it was july 24th It seems like just last week my thanks to joe shankman and the town of broadchester. It's kind of nice to have Our pleasure. Yeah. Thank you john. That's very nice Yep and um We have as she puts it a A funny request from maya That is has a program on the park next saturday for kids in this part of that she'd love to do Some leaf raking Is it possible to let the leaves accumulate this week so that we can do that? You know what happens with the leaf raking they make great big huge piles of lead on there And then they kill it. Yeah. Yeah That somebody else has to pick them up But their kids their kids and to be um, you should encourage it We're sure to ask her to spread them back out after Or write them up and take them home. That's right. Yeah, put the big bags when you're done and leave them Great, I don't know. Um, how much moe is going to get done in the rain this week anyway No, it's pretty pretty wet. Yeah, it's your wednesday, right? It actually held up better and I thought it would This summer what the park? Yeah, yeah, it's good. It's held up better Had enough rain so grass is growing pretty good everywhere. So yeah, it stayed pretty good Well the lime in the fertilizer helps a lot. I'm sure You Nancy you got a tree You got a message back from the natural resources of park and recreation people Proposal, you know, I sent it over to Julie and I have a copy for you Okay, I didn't want to send it to your email. We need to review that before budget season. Anyway, I'd like to maybe I think you and I need to get together and talk about How we want to spend money this coming yet, right? And and also applying for grants. Yeah, I think we need to look at some Some regrowth on the park as far as Secession planning is That's all part of what she sent. Right. I would like to see that to see what they recommend we do That it's going to take a professional. I think to do it anyway. So they have a continual Monitoring of the trees instead of You know just somebody just going up there So everyone else may not realize That we met with a group from the state to women from the state And they came and did an inventory of every tree on the park and the condition of every tree on the park and Then they have just sent back Information on their evaluation of everything And when franks talks about succession planting it's With concern for the ash trees that surround Huntington Place and park row Primarily Um and the fact that the ash bore is coming And what are we going to do about it? So we had a lot of conversation they've made some recommendations and then we'll Come in and make some other recommendations Something to the community when we get it figured out. Yeah So it was a pretty interesting day. They literally spent the entire day Walking around the park with us and then They went and inventoried every single tree We now know what every tree is on the park And how tall it is and how big around it is and what the And what the condition of the roots is and where the splits are That was pretty interesting. They were pretty they they did all that through their phone Also, they take a leaf and they can identify the tree through Pretty funny Well, if there's nothing anyone else wants to talk about Sign some bills and go One more zoom question. Go ahead Rob So, um Am I am I live here? So I sent you guys a list of questions a week or two ago about the high school building and I got a nice message from Dune saying that they needed to do some research on that. So I wondered if it's possible for you to give me a date when Maybe a date when you can tell me a date that you'd be Ready to answer those questions. I'm not trying to put you on the spot or anything I'd just like to know how we can put some official period at the end of that sentence And you know, this is my concern about public information Regarding that project. So I guess my my question is can you tell me let's say in two weeks Can you tell me? Yeah, here's the date or three weeks or whatever you want. Is it possible for you to do that? Robin the the last meeting that you attended For the high school repurposing that that did not answer any of the questions No, it created more questions. So So my my concern from the beginning has been the Providing public information to the voters about this subject And and I had an as I told to add a number of questions about this. I'm not trying to bully you about it now I just I'd like to know And I understand why you'd have to look into some of those questions But if you if you said for us what we can look into it We can tell you in two or three weeks where we stand on that or something like that Just so it doesn't kind of dry up and blow away Can you can you pull up those questions pat? And so we could just read them So even though we can't answer them right now, they're out there and so Members of the public knows What what these concerns are? Can you pull them up? Or Rob do you want to run or read them? Oh, I don't have them in front of me But and and I don't I don't need to make a big spectacle out of this You know, I think these are things that people need to talk about. It's such an important Yeah And you can tell me, you know, we can tell you in two weeks or three weeks or whatever you want Whatever you want, but I think we need to talk about them And I think your discussion tonight and also my having attended that meeting that that pat was talking about Has has made me think maybe the questions should be changed. It's really a conversation that I think should happen Right, but I'm not trying to beat anybody over the head Well, I have them. Yeah Do you want to read them just further? Yeah, these are the questions number one What do you think the next steps are if the town votes no to purchasing the high school building and please be specific if you can Number two if the town votes no on the purchase of the building Do we know what our legal options are if the school board or su decides to board up the building and stop heating it Rendering it derelict Number three the issue of the actual cost of heating the building seems confusing to me We know that it takes about 18 000 gallons of fuel oil to heat the building based on the energy audit Since my assumption is that we really only need to cover stock bridge share of the heating cost since rochester portion is already I think being paid for in the education budget As long as the school board owns the building Can you make clear exactly how much money we expect it to cost to heat the building for the winter If we do not own the building and how much will it cost if we do own the building Number four, can we assume If we do buy the building that the education budget will be reduced by a number matching rochester's share to heat the building now Number five. Do you believe the town needs a cultural and community life center as described in the fair weather consulting feasibility study Number six has the select board made the decision that one option Examined in the feasibility study A cultural and community life center supported with rentals will be the only Or the preferred option under investigation by the town should the voters decide to buy the building Or will you continue to examine or consider other options prior to the vote in march? I think we answered that one tonight Does the select board expect to continue to use the existing repurposing committee In its current form to guide any further actions or research relating to the building Or are you considering a second phase committee or perhaps just handling the issue yourselves Number eight. Does the select board consider the issue of the high school building one principally Of money or community or would you characterize it in some other way? Number nine. What effect would the towns securing a large bond for the high school building? One to three million dollars have on the town's ability to raise another bond in the future For replacement or repair of for instance water or sewage system Or a major problem with town buildings or roads Or any other fiscal concerns of the town in the future That's it. Okay. So some of these questions actually have been answered in in the course of events, but in my mind It's a conversation that needs to be had in public These these questions and maybe somebody else has other questions. I don't know but I think All of these are fairly important. I'm bringing this to you as a busy body I'm just a guy and lives in the town and I don't want to take up a lot of your time Or be a huge fan in the ass, but I think that this is so important And it's such a such a great financial Acts hanging over the town that it really needs a an open Discussion that I don't I don't feel personally. I don't feel has happened yet. That's That's where I well discussion about what happens if the vote comes back at no is a little preliminary So I don't think that I'd want to speculate on that at this time while we're still in our due diligence phase I don't want you to answer the questions down here if you're not comfortable with it It's a discussion But at some point I think this discussion ought to happen Even if you're just listening to one grumpy guy and you have one grumpy guy that wants to talk about this stuff If that's all it is, but you know, I'm not going to go all Mason wait on you and everything. I'm just Think these things ought to be Can I just mention something? Um, Rob, I don't know if you were at it, but I got minutes from a meeting sent to me that the Rochester Stockridge Unified District Board Recently had with the repurposing committee and they talked about a lot of these issues And it was one of the things that came up was the cost of heating and they had figures and everything and I I put that together as an article that should be in this week's herald too. And maybe that's something that you already knew about Yeah, I did I did. Oh, okay. Sorry, aren't they if it would be helpful to you I can email you these questions if you know if you want Uh, but but this is you know, this is really just a conversation. I think ought to happen And I don't want to keep everybody up late. Okay. Thank you Definitely to be continued Yeah If we're gonna continue it can we put a date on it that's all and you don't have to tell me now You can you can see I will tell you Rob in two weeks or three weeks or 10 years or whatever you want Uh, I think in march of 2023 right after town meeting day would be a good time for some of those answers to come out Well, you know when the people have voted when they have voted a big decision will have been made Are the people of this town fully informed about the risks and possibilities of of this decision I don't think they they have When we have those details in front of us, we'll share them with everybody. Um, I will share the facebook page with you as well All right. Well, thank you very much. I don't want to keep you up all night here All right, anything else tonight? Then I would move to adjourn I second Thank you