 All back to our first physical select board meeting in the last 14 months seems like and 15 months. Here we are. Who's counting? I don't have to read the statement of emergency allowing us to meet electronically but we are accommodating electronic visitation to the meeting with the Zoom platform. So if you don't want to come here you can always still check in with Zoom and we're going to strive to improve that interface. Before we start does anyone have any additions to the posted agenda? Harlan. What's going on with those books anyway? Books. About a year and a half. Year and a half. I cleaned the books out Harlan and I didn't find them. I can tell you that. Yeah. It's down there. Yeah. All right. So any others? No. So we have the minutes from the last select board meeting which I read and they seem to be fine to me so I've moved to approve those unless you guys have any modifications on that. We also it's not on listed here but we also have the minutes for the special meeting that we had to set the water and sewer rates and I would move to approve those minutes. I can second that one as well. All right. Long favor. All right. I'm going to move right to Joan's updates quickly because she said there was perhaps some people joining in that don't need to sit through the whole meeting. Joan do you want to take it away here? Yes. All I need to do is to open the bids we have received for the retaining wall. We've received three. Sorry. The first one is from Mangan Excavation LLC and their bid amount is $56,321. The second one is from Harvey's Plumbing and Excavating and their bid amount total is $49,385.50 and the third one is from ECS Excavating and their bid amount is $28,788. Excuse me Joan the name of the first company the one with the $56,000 I didn't get that. I'm sorry. Yeah. Mangan, M-A-N-G-A-N Excavation. Okay. Thank you. Is everyone out in the room able to hear what she's saying? So we can work on that. What we advise the bidders is that we wouldn't you wouldn't be making a decision today so that we can give these bids to our engineer Cricket for an analysis and we have I think we said we would do it within the next week. So select board you might want to think about whether you want to have a special meeting so we can talk with Cricket about her thoughts because you know the numbers are kind of very different and it'll be something of a job I think to you know make a comparison of these bids and how they came out and then what your next steps what you want to work towards. So do you think that's what you'd like to do? I can let Cricket know that you'd like to meet with her at some point or you could have a phone conversation whatever you want. Yeah we should get this to her and then and see what her schedule is like and have her look at it and then also I think it may be in that conversation or now is the the question of whether we move forward with this now or we put it off in light of the the other funding sources that you had been identifying. Right yeah I think that'll yeah be a good good part of the conversation will be whether you want to move ahead now or or wait. So then you went out there that had trouble hearing this need any clarification about what she just was talking about? I can repeat the numbers. No I think everybody's good. No okay just checking. So is that you said that's basically the gist of what you've got for us tonight? Yeah the rest of it is just the stuff I do all the time that you hear about. Yeah One question I have for you Joan. Have you talked to Cricket about the sign package for the closing of the Bethel Mountain Road at all? What I'm sorry for the sign package for the closing of Bethel Mountain Road? Well we sort of exchanged emails on it the plan that Michelle put forward Cricket had a few comments I think she may have talked to you about it too Frank. She hadn't looked it over when I talked to her that's why I was wondering she said she was going to get in touch with you so that was yeah and I I didn't have anything other than what the two of you had already come up with. Okay. Excuse me the signs that you're talking about for closing of Bethel Mountain Road do you mean closing it to the big trucks that would be a problem? No we're talking about how how long of a time period do you think in Joan? We're estimating up to three weeks it could be less than that. She thinks that actual construction will probably be two weeks but you know whether or you know slowness of materials arriving or some other factor you don't want to say it's going to be two weeks it would be better to just say three. So these were changed to the repeating one. She completes the job when she'll be able to have one lane open though it won't be paved at that point. So that's what that's what we're going to be telling folks is is three expect three weeks. So that pertains to the retaining wall practically? No, no, no. The nascent brook called every place. Oh okay I didn't think so but I'm just confused sometimes. Thank you. So that was clear. The nascent brook project on Bethel Mountain Road we're looking at closing Bethel Mountain Road to traffic to do the project all at once poor Larry lives on the other side of that it's going to be a Bethel residence. Yeah the one thing actually I didn't see me in the traffic plan which will come up but will be how the local folks who need to get to that will be accommodated. Would you say that again Joan? We had some some noise. Oh sorry yeah I was just saying the one thing that I didn't see in the traffic plan which I know Michelle is going to have to deal with so it is exactly how the local folks who need to get to their homes in that stretch of the road will be accommodated. Is there you know Terry on one side? That's been worked out already right there. Of course there's a lot of landowner there but we need to do a free property. Joanne and Joanne's parents are in the house on the other side so those will be the most affected in terms of you know access but in any case you know of course they're going to be able to get it out as they need to it's just there needs to be a plan so we can let them know what that is. So what specific stretch of Bethel mountain road will be closed from the village on up or from what? All of it all of it for a period of time okay. Yeah because Bethel is taking this opportunity to do some work on the other side on their part of the road too so yeah all right but that's going to make things go a lot quicker and you have a time less expensive. I didn't catch if there was a time frame for this days or anything. We don't have them set yet a lot of it depends on when some of the materials can arrive of course that's these days that's very difficult to predict. If I just said later this summer sorry if I just said later this summer it's going to be the summer where we're aiming for construction start of August 1st but that still has to be confirmed okay thank you sorry to interrupt you I think that's okay. All right do you have anything else for Joanne? Not right now I don't think so. Thank you. We had Kirk White and Aaron Lamperty as guests are you guys zooming in tonight? Yeah I'm Aaron I'm here. Yep did you have something in particular that you you want to talk about? Yeah yes this is Jeff Gephardt. Aaron and James Harrington are with energy efficiency investments we've been talking with them about auditing our municipal assets which is on the agenda underneath this. All right I think there's a tentative date set up for that I think. Yeah well I um you want to talk about that now since where you already started your introduction do you have a date set for these audits? A tentative date of the 13th of this month but we'd like to have Aaron walk through with the board what services they propose and how it functions with with their company. We did get a very good recommendation for them from Jeff Martin who's now with two rivers on a Quiche Regional Commission. Jeff was energy coordinator at Hartford when they did work for them. So with that I guess I I'm assuming Aaron you're going to be laying things out for the board here tonight. Go for it. Yeah so I'm here with also James Harrington engineer with the EI phone and call as well. I'm not sure whether how you want to start. How much Jeff how much introduction is there any introduction to the select board of what the project would be or is this so brand new? I don't think it's brand new but I have to admit to being a little bit lost here I've just gotten back from Indiana dealing with a very aging stepfather and his wife and so my brain in terms of what I have done and what I wanted to maybe kind of alluded there but I think that I did provide the board essentially with the memo that you developed June 9th after our conversation there that might be a good starting point if that's available to me. Yeah I'd have to dig up that memo right the second. I can do that if that's a if you've seen that that might be a good place to start see if I can just grab that. Do I have permission to share the screen? Share my screen? Whoever's hosting? Probably won't be very visible to the whole room. Okay so then I'll just so the PEI is a performance contractor um contacting a performance contracting company and the process just to get right into it the process that we would undertake would be to to assuming you selected us as your energy company for this project would be to audit all your buildings and initial level put together a menu of options for things that we would propose doing for the buildings based up both on your input and on what we see in the audit and that that menu would range could range as deeply as you want or as light as you want depending on what your goals are and then we would work with you to select from that menu what things you actually want to go forward with and then we would sign a contract and the contract would specify the scope of the work and the projected performance of the buildings under the new systems and that performance would be guaranteed financially guaranteed if the buildings were run as we specified and they did not perform then then we would either as I understand it either pay you back financially or fix of course fix the buildings and make them perform correctly um and that contract could run for whatever time period uh and um you want and we could be renewed uh as you see fit so one of the um performance contracting I know is not completely familiar to everyone but the idea of performance contracting at its most basic level is that the improvements that are are made to the buildings we would ideally you look for improvements that are made to the buildings that save enough energy to pay for the project and then that that performance is guaranteed so that the project is essentially can be revenue neutral um of course you can look for deeper improvements as well that cost more and those improvements might have a longer payback and therefore not necessarily be revenue neutral so that would be what we might call investment grade improvement and that's also completely an option so all of that comes out of that first part of the process uh that first part of the process is that no obligation or cost to you um the initial audit and the uh and the whole back and forth of deciding on what it is that you want to do is is all a preliminary step step that EEI doesn't charge for but once a contract of course is signed then you're getting into the money and um you know how you finance there's there's options on how to finance obviously as you know you can if you if the project is is essentially revenue neutral you might be able to work it into your budget um there's can be leasing arrangements of course you can go to your town with a warrant article and and fund that way um and so on um do you know kind of covered it yeah that that you made some good points here Aaron um really good um especially with the finance portion of that um EEI does help the client figure out what kinds of grants are available or work with the efficiency Vermont and the federal government so um for an example we do a lot of schools in the area and some of this stuff uh especially the last year we've been under grants for COVID and stuff so we help the client figure out a structure of how the project is being economically funded being through a bond or grants or some kind of um a lease to own so there's a varied uh opportunities to look at paying projects and I think I've been working with EEI for the last six years and um I think we've covered just about every payment plan option available and it depends on the situation it depends on the status of the town and where they're at with their bonds so there's a lot of variables involved to make that decision process and one of the things that Aaron did talk about is the process of how we provide services and what those services entail um EEI does performance contracting for a project um and what it entails is looking at the the buildings through a energy and a code compliance um path meaning not necessary as Aaron mentioned that your project would be uh cost neutral uh because there could be some ADA requirements or fire requirements so we looked at the building entire um the the status of the building if it's up the fire code the plumbing code safety um we look at the fenstration of the buildings give you ideas of the status like windows and doors and what those would mean to invest in replacing them upgrading them and we look at the feasibility study what the payback would be for that um so we get really in the details of the entire envelope of the building the building energy use is not just solely your lights and your mechanical equipment it involves the doors the gasketing how tight the building is um a lot of times you work with efficiency Vermont we do board or testing um we work with Aaron over in Norwich on their facility and you know through efficiency Vermont we could determine how tight the building is and if it's not we look how how we could figure in tightening these buildings up because obviously it's energy loss um currently we're doing a lot of code and um recommended ventilation requirements because of COVID so a lot of schools right now have hired our services throughout New England uh I'll pass choose it's New New Hampshire and Vermont so there's been a lot of activity in analyzing ventilation systems filtration um and we're looking at dehumidification in schools now that's one of the big things that really has been popular lately in southern New Hampshire so EI does provide a no-cost analytics uh for a project meaning we prescribe and we look at your buildings and we come up with a plan and not necessarily is it just one plan for a building or a group of buildings we look at like an A, B, or C option and A being if no money was not if money wasn't an option this is what we could do for the building and then down from there more economically we address things that are more serious with the building to um like the C option was just get things to code or address things that you the the tenant of the buildings would recommend that would be focused on um and if this was a project that you chose like a B option and then we had a contract and went through that some of the steps we needed is look at the time frame and how we'd access these these buildings and look at the construction process and then through that process we do the select contractors put it out the bed like we would if it was a plan spec we do have partners that we work with um electrical mechanical engineers and one of the things that our performance contracting at EEI that's unique um we do an energy audit for seven years so what we do for your facilities is we participate in analyzing and running like analytics on the building and how they function and compare that to the energy model that we have designed it around and through that process we can make improvements for you and have added energy benefits as time goes on so we've done this with a series of schools in Vermont and New Hampshire Virgins is one that we've been very active with uh Virgins High School uh Ken Sullivan over there so they've had a pretty good success on energy savings and you know for new equipment new boilers natural gas built up solar panels and LED lighting so those are some of the things that we look at as a building package so for EEI that's what we provide and if you have any questions be happy to answer those. Question about the airtightness testing is the lower door testing in the initial audit or is that uh later after that's later yeah that would be and the lower door testing uh um that would uh be something Jeff that we would do regardless of what path you pick um because that is a record that you can have for your your project or your building and it helps you determine what you can focus on so biggest bangs for the buck yeah like LED lighting and or solar panels or some of the ones that give you the better payback especially LED lighting not necessarily you're going to get a huge energy savings by replacing all your equipment you know you get up to 20 savings but it obviously it's not going to match with the savings you get for LED lighting so the audit is primarily done via a walkthrough and then an examination of our fuel and electric records is that am I correct there yep that's correct um Erin is part of that we we're working on other schools right now so that's some of the critical stuff um the things that we like to start with is going through record drawings of your facilities getting the drawings the layouts of the buildings so we could start doing energy loads electrical data is all very crucial that way we can we have a baseline to start from so we could do our model and then we can implement recommendations to improve lighting upgrading windows or doors in your facility and we can model that and review that with you so all these um the initial analysis and then the recommendations that's that's um at no cost did the cost it starts for the town when we start actually taking action on performing some of these upgrades is that correct yes that's correct okay that um Mike Davy one of our project managers said to me but in reference to this meeting remind them to think about a request for qualifications process which you are not as Jeff researched you're not obliged to do but depending on the politics of your town it may it may make it easier to get funding it should you determine that you want to do a larger project if you've got done the sort of due diligence of going through a process like that it's entirely voluntary and um and it's not in any way change the um you know the the new grants or or you know things from efficiency ground or anything like that but it it just may be something that you can point to to say well we you know we sought out the best company through this through this state recognized process and here's the binder that they sent us and here's the other companies that replied and this is why we didn't choose them and um you know we're we regularly do that rfq the difference with an rfq versus an rfp is with an rfq you're you're selecting a company that you're going to work with and that company is going to drive the process with an rfp you're looking for the lowest bidder us to do a particular job with performance contracting we're in the game for the long haul and and sometimes even our pay based on the performance of essentially a pay based on the performance of the building so so we're in we're you're picking the company and you're going to they're going to you're going to work with them it's not a not a i'm picking this company for that part of the job and this company for that part of the job so so that's why it's called qualifications or you're picking a most qualified company that's going to work with you the best that suits your project best and then you go and then you go with them throughout the process yep yep yeah jeff do you have any um more questions is that um pretty much um what you wanted to i would say i would say that i do have um the contract for the rfq from jeff martin so i have a good start there if that is something that the board wanted to pursue first um my interest in this in particular is that scope of work in the estimate of you know where we are um in time and in advance so that we are ready should infrastructure money become available as well as uh you know some of the projects that are underway right at this moment um high school comes to mind you know so as i've expressed frustration in the past that um as a community we shouldn't be making all of our decisions based on one building that is vexing us at the moment we should be looking at all of our assets to see what they need and what we need to do to bring them into um into compliance with our town plan our town energy plan that frankly uh unless the board you know that creates a different plan that's really the marching orders that i have to try to work with community assets uh as we go forward and that's that is a long-term plan as well um you know i do have the ability to get uh e i the uh energy data done this week we have a tentative date of the board so approved so july 13th july 13th i wanted to walk through yep so there uh one other question about e i you all you mentioned buildings but what about uh sewer and water services is that something that the books are experienced with do you want them to also look at that yeah um definitely we work with people that do uh civil work whether it be sewer water utilities parking lot grating around buildings for drainage flood control stuff so it it's all encompassing um like a design build process that we can cover everything that's on your site even you know power pole entry transformer upgrade so it's kind of it's not just limited to the interior of the building it's encompasses everything that the site utilizes for a function for the building great so um so we're talking about july 13th then yes yep sound good to you guys yeah yeah we need that we would meet with uh hopefully meet with some of the staff of the buildings as many buildings as we can do in one day of course we might have to come back for depending on how many buildings you have and ideally we can meet with some of the staff hear what their their gripes are about the building what their dreams are and you know it's really important to hear um what how the actual work daily working of the building uh is what what they do to to manage the building so we do what some of some of the stuff that's hard to um also yes as uh as James mentioned floor plans are good um energy data yeah firehouse too yeah we're going to be a little hampered on some of the floor plans for some of our buildings during their age i understand and we do actually uh when i see terry sevry in the audience we don't i have not had a chance to talk with him we just got back an analysis from efficiency from on our well and pumping charges there and i i have to pour into that uh get him a copy but to see as well uh so we do have some you know we have data on consumption we have some information uh from analysis already done um but uh we do not have a clear scope of project at this point uh or you know a real idea as to what uh savings potential is i think the savings potential is pretty big you know than the age of our most of our buildings yeah so some so numbers that get thrown around is the super roughly are a few i think james already said mentioned 20 percent for um sort of the the certain kinds of projects that aren't necessarily um you know the deepest uh energy retrofits and then you can you can get up into 40 or even 50 percent with a true deep energy retrofit um also you yeah if you mostly from a fossil fuel to you know say heat pumps you not only gain uh a lot of efficiency and other benefits you potentially gain cooling and i see there's some fans running back the room there yeah it just comes with the package so you know there's some real opportunities if you're to make not only to uh reduce your energy use but to uh you know improve the features of the buildings as we do um excuse me doing this meeting on june 13th is um for eai people to meet with some town staff people for the stress energy issues people regarding buildings and stuff yeah it's a it's a walk through to inspect and see exactly what we're talking about here yeah walk the facility actually walking through the facilities looking at the energy systems that exist um and gathering some data in terms of floor plans and and such and and utility records i suppose so there's a lot of prep that can go into into effect before the 13th if their themes is just a physical visit right yeah okay thank you so um we need a formal um request an approval of the select board to to um engage you for this um this analysis might as well yeah you make a motion somebody i make a motion that we proceed allowing the building walkthrough and the analysis from eai associates yeah i'd second that yeah all in favor all right all right so um jeff i guess we'll be coordinating uh you'll be coordinating with them and in terms of specific time on the on the 13th yep yep i'll get the energy data out and i did do a floor plan of the town office the other day so i'll get that sketched together and i think we have some of the high school um we probably have plans for the fire station probably probably larry you got a question here there are actually there was just done on the library floor so we can utilize that we have a we have a question from the physical audience here yeah it's it's none of my business but i don't know if you're being charged on a building by building basis but the library was completely renovated six years ago and had a complete that's what jeff was just saying that they just they haven't audit on the yeah you know you might want to just eliminate the library from uh you know i don't know how this is being charged out but you might want to eliminate the library from consideration of energy there's um insulating upgrades it's i mean it's just totally recently you know been refitted so not that it couldn't be looked at i mean yeah there's some window issues over there larry that probably need attention well the windows but the structure the structure probably has been looked at pretty heavily i think in the past anyway but there is some issues over there but whether or not we're charged we don't have to do these projects we just get a kind of a handle on what it is that's a bit available to us out there if there is extra fun you look up what they blew into that yeah because you don't want to physically go up there right we just got to fix the roof are you hearing that comments from the floor on zoom not a word on the board larry strouse was pointing out that the library building has gone through a significant renovations what didn't within the last 10 years and and um there was um there might be some redundancy here but then again if there's um if the analysis this is not um not costing us anything to get the analysis done you know if there's improvement that can be made you know all i would stress is don't physically try to go up in the oh he says don't go in the attic just go look up the volume of stuff that was blown up in there yeah just go look up on the invoice what i have the records uh from uh jenette on what happened yeah okay it was an efficiency we're not uh audit um i mean independent contractors yeah it was the efficiency we're not just going to fix the system what was done what was not done um all right so i'm certainly be sharing that yeah excuse me in addition to the town office in the library it'd be the school buildings and the fire station and the town garage and what else would there be anything probably not the school building that's a separate entity owning that but the um yeah probably the town garage and town garage is probably the worst of them all yeah in the town office in the town office all right um jeff do you have anything else that you want to add to that or i think we covered it pretty thoroughly i think uh yeah you voted move ahead uh see what we uh just got over all these rocks yeah well thank you for your time everything that i have to the only thing i have to add is that i have been asked by pitfield and handcock to restart the tri-town municipal energy committee so that we don't crash the way we did the last time i'm defining everybody's responsibilities across the three towns and one of the things that it seems to require is a legal notice in the harrow which is which comes at a cost which i have no budget to to cover and actually it should be a cost split by the three towns that we go for so i could use some guidance on that and that's not a huge expense but it's another ten dollars and some ten to fifteen dollars um per meeting to do the legal warning um through the harrow and you said handcock in pitfield is tri-town energy committee right right municipal energy committee all right um can't just be one like so uh my need the board to think about how we handle that expense well like i said it's we're not talking um big bucks here so i don't think that'll be a problem who's you know um basically what we um need can we get the um the text from you about um what you want announced what needs to be announced yeah i'll i'll put something okay before you through ruminate on it and again we're going to need to talk with the other two select boards as well right okay all right um um we were just talking about the library building tony do you have any updates from the library itself activities yeah i think uh the library is pretty much open for um browsing all you need to do is call or email and uh you can get in there pretty easily so that says those even though they're doing it in my appointment or it sounds like my appointment uh rarely does someone have to wait i couldn't hear a word okay i was just getting ready to um repeat that um tony is just reported that the library is open for business open for browsing but they do request that you call ahead first so um to avoid any unnecessary congestion that open open by appointment yeah well it doesn't want people to meet us with new people may i suggest we thank uh erin and jim oh yeah i thought i did they can thank you yeah yeah you guys are welcome to stay and and and expend your energy at our meeting here but um thank you well we'll learn a lot about your library very soon yes all right thank you we're all about it yeah thank you thank you yeah thank you all right all right and the library is hosting a free johnson and johnson vaccine uh an oculation thing on july 9th there are posters up around town from three to six on that day and uh anyone may go there as long as they're 18 or older so um on the july 9th from um three three to six the library is hosting a free johnson and johnson vaccine clinic and anyone over 18 is is welcome to come if they haven't already taken without an appointment yes all right um thank you that that's it that's it all right um cooter dropped me off his research that he'd done uh moving on to the highway here um we've got um in terms of uh of a new truck we've got a quote from mac for 123,967 dollars and 78 cents and um they can't order that until december which means we would not have that truck this winter no um western star they're looking at 132,314 dollars and we can have that for this year in fact they have a truck ordered which um has our name tentatively penciled on it not in pen but in pencil and the um of course the uh the body from tenco is is just a little over seventy thousand dollars which is um the wing in the in the plow hitch um so his um well one factor is the timing of when it's going to be available he says the warranty on the western star is um um significantly better and the service is closer and that that's his preference is to go towards a western star even though it's um another ten thousand dollars and we're not trading any trucks and he's prefer not to trade in a truck because of the the situation with the lack of spare parts right now that when trucks go down it's no guarantee that we can get them put back on the road very quickly and he's thinking it would be behoove us to to have a spare did he give us another idea of outfitting that truck with a plow sander um no no another grand oh what when you made the new truck yeah no yeah i did that's that's um um that's seventy thousand for the body so that probably does include a wing and in plow hitch but not a plow yeah yeah okay so it'd be just a two hundred grand should cover yeah yeah and the um and i'm i'm curious if with some of the arpa money if um the fact that we are choosing not to trade in the truck he said it was they're saying forty forty five thousand dollars of trade-in value for the truck um the arpa money has to be spent on covid related expenses and i'm wondering if we can make the case that because of covid and the lack of availability of repair parts we've made the decision not to trade in a vehicle to offset the stresses put upon the road crew by the covid induced parts shortage maybe we can offset that that trade-in money from the covid you like that it's a stretch it's a stretch you like that one there i drilled them out of the room with that one but anyway we've got yeah well it's uh i'm not into that no i think that i think that a arpa money or ap r money whatever you want however you want to deal with it i think we need to go slow with that oh yeah absolutely we have three years to figure it out but i'm not well martha you have a question there no i just wondered if the um i didn't see it on here but i was wondering if you the board was going to make um a decision about a truck are you just discussing we're talking about that right now okay sorry talking about that right now i think we should talk to budget and finance about this too before we make a new decision on that what do you guys what do you think where are you going to keep the truck i mean it's going to turn into a bucket and ross and be worth nothing we don't have a bay we're going to keep it in the old fire station i don't know that's full of stuff that's full of stuff too well that's going to work worse than that old fire station we don't know i think we got it you want it to need you're talking 200 thousand the order really needs to be put in pen rather than pencil next week yeah probably sooner than later i don't know what if we uh mull this over and put it off the agenda for next meeting for a decision for a decision and then have some conversation just one meeting down the road all right did you hear that on zoomland i i just heard something about mall something we're going to um we're going to mull this over and and and hope to make a decision on the next meeting so basically we're going to table this decision and um confer with the um the budget and confer with um other aspects of question okay thank you yeah all right so that's on cooters report terry you got anything and um you tell these you want to talk about well i just got the report today and i read it sack noon and they act he's not writing this up for the pumps because they stayed the same they're a little old so you know might buy another year so we got a report about what i'm sorry um you know and i think you want to um y'all that little louder for the zoom folks out there i got the report a tentative report today on our spring walk around and the sewer pumps at the tennis courts are weak but they're just as good as they were last year so he didn't write us up saying we need to replace them immediately but there's it's coming coming that's there was a conversation we had at and meeting last week i to order them now i bet it'd be could be six months yet so when do we pay when we order them or when we get them when we get them so i'd rather wait and see have prices least even out a little bit right because anybody have talked to said they figured by fall things would even come back down a little bit well there's a lot of arp of money floating around so you may have a lot of people ordering pumps it's all infrastructure improvement it's a gamble yeah which way does it roll you know because it was two years ago when i bought the other one that was twenty thousand dollars or close to it so no one's going to be that close and that doesn't count for getting them in and we're going to have to change the wiring to them it's got to come out of the hole the hole is nasty i mean it's just sure yeah you guys you know it can't be that way it's all right so you got that terry's talking about the report and the pump set the tennis what he's talking about yeah let me make some phone calls to see what it takes to get them the rest of the report was fine yeah you know just no other surprises yeah why don't you do that and then we can figure it out yeah yeah i'll give i'll give them a call and see what it what they think and find out how because i'm what i'm thinking right now probably next time with that change right find out just how available they might be down the road to what their thoughts are on that because they aren't making a lot of stuff so i mean right now right as far as availability goes improvement down the road maybe who knows all right thank you yeah dig into that so in the new business we've already talked about the approval for the energy audit we've got a renewing the maskoma loan note here but it doesn't reflect latest it doesn't reflect the latest payment because that's going to be tomorrow oh you haven't made it oh yeah that's right because we just signed it so but that gives you a due that gives you a due date too on that paper i just hand it to you we could publicly agree to renew the line of credit but we'll sign the sign the disbursement request when it's updated with this new payment i would like to sign this one we'll get another one after this payment's made well i think this is this is the one that she's finalizing but that is if we make a payment it's going to change and then they'll update after that so we'll get to sign this again yes so we'll have to go through this again so it doesn't do us any good to sign this one now july 8th is the mature maturity right right well we do have to sign today because i have to have the minutes and the signatures to proceed because of the due date yeah and then if there are any changes that can come after yeah so i'd move to execute that all in favor all right okay you want to keep this yeah but we're not by the sounds i don't think it's going to happen i just signed it okay you're in trouble so um speaking of money the arpa funds on our last meeting we signed larry as the our arpa representative but as more information became apparent it looks like one of the select board needs to be that representative in terms of the authority to sign papers and such and and pat has offered to take that position so i would move to take that badge away from larry and stick it on pat yeah so my first act will be to resign i don't know what i was thinking we tried not a weak moment stands for um american rescue plan act american rescue plan act yeah it's more um basically more covid relief money okay thank you yeah yeah so i knew it was american something i'd second that yeah i'll second that okay all in favor all right thank you pat thank you larry for your um your sterling service for the last two weeks you're still going to be involved you're just not going to be a did i miss you are being appointed that's what we just we just voted different are you going to use the official language of the motions we did that i forwarded to you oh we've got all sorts of things going on there don't we i didn't see that these are required these are required for us to meet this coming week to start the process to sign up for it so i've got my phone on here do you have it larry well yes would you like me to read it read it loud so that i don't have to repeat it to the zoom folks please well i can't move it not being a member of the select board but you why don't you give it a one give it the dune and let em read it or do it the path did you fill in the blanks no you'll have to do that part and so i can act as the contact person in this second half of the motion so you just want to start there no both both pieces all right the first part says and i should move for this i i moved that the town the town of rochester accepts its allocation of corona local fiscal recovery funding from the u.s treasury along with the award terms and conditions and assurances of compliance with the civil rights requirements that are requirements of accepting these funds second that i second it yeah all in favor all right i moved that we appoint pat harvey to serve as the town of rochester's authorized representative as required by the corona virus local fiscal recovery funding from the u.s treasury to sign the awards terms and conditions and assurances of compliance with the civil rights requirements by today is it a date it says a date so by june 28 2021 second i'll second that call in favor all right i moved that we name larry strouse to be the contact person for the rochester town of rochester c l r f r award shortened it now from u.s treasury second i second that all in favor i contact person is your new title yeah until they decide what else to do with us um further to that we will be larry and i will meet on wednesday morning to start the sign up process yeah it's going to come in steps yeah we need to initiate that by the 15th or 15th of july yeah so we're ahead of it anyway yeah yeah as far as we can be anyway so as uh my new role as contact person yeah um you know i don't really want to talk too too much tonight about what this is really old out i've heard some great great well-thought-out ideas but there is a wide wide range of things that this money could potentially be used for and you know that's going to be a process that will play itself out um over the next you know months but there's the i think the only thing i would like to just you know let the board know there's no rush for this matter of fact there's every reason not to rush right because these monies can be put in conjunction with other monies and that would probably leverage them in the best possible way as you know the state allocates their arba funds that these monies could probably join with to you know boost the value of your funds say for a water or sewer project or whatever so you know the money doesn't have to be allocated until December of 2024 and it doesn't have to be spent until December of 2026 so there's just no rush right and that's exactly why they're emphasizing no rush they may have a state program to fund everything we need for the water sewer um we wouldn't want to rush into the storm water projects because the state may kick in 100% of the financing for that so if they do that well then the contributing funding we would have put towards it from arpa funds we could put towards other projects yeah like sidewalks all right or something or whatever we it comes up so it will be a fun process so you did a lot in your two week tenure as the um as the arba represent you got us on the right track thank you all right yeah appreciate that yeah all right okay that's good when just one other thing uh we did get the the grant was awarded for the generator for this building so i'm going to talk with vick and i'll get all the jeff to uh figure out what we're going to do we'll take those three we did receive the three bids and we have to figure out what i i'm going to hear what frank said something about getting a grant we received the um the grant for the emergency generator for the town office building okay thank you yeah just to be really clear i mean looks like we're going to get it but right now it's a conditional approval um because they have to it's a federal agency so they have to go through uh an environmental review and a archaeological review in this case obviously none of that applies but um have to go through the steps to do that they need to submit a survey for that and sometime in july is when they're saying they will you know make the final announcement about the grant and we will have to go back out to bid we will join we'll have to do that again because it's that we got before really close um they're too old now to use so we can go back to those same lines but also open it up to others if they want to uh to bid on it also okay and this falls under the umbrella of emergency this is this is the emergency operations center for the town was designated as such so it did qualify us to apply for a grant for a generator for this building coming in center coming in center yes all right um we have okay this thank you god it looks like that's pretty much that was on our app we have a application for use of the town park but it did not make it onto the agenda okay so um what you you know what's the date the date that it was um the date of the activity is july 4th as for a voter registration drive on the park which i guess that's patriotic on the 4th of july okay and we've already approved a couple other booths we have park yeah yeah yeah we did focusing so yeah i would see we're just adding another booth to the concept of booths on the park on the 4th of july and chicken park cute so i'd move to prove that application i say i'm on favor is that the rochester democratic committee that's doing yes yes and um harlan did you get your your question answered by frank right off the bat basically there's nothing to do yes yeah yeah we did spend it's considerable amount of time cleaning out the basement yeah suggested 65 inch flat screen smart tv yep that hooks up yep yeah because when you're sitting back here and two people are talking about stuff they could have done on the phone and you can't you only half hear it you know yep now that's the we're working on it this is right here well it's just make it that much easier you know if you had it on the wall maybe you could rent the room out for a big zoom meeting well this was a test case so now we've done this and we we see where our weaknesses and strengths are so we're going to work on i think two weeks it's a great idea i think it is you know but i'm just saying you know we can do it oh yeah well definitely yep we knew that just a comment with his flat screen tv the speakers were in the back of the tv or external external speakers yeah okay otherwise you'll still be hearing it but we just spent your money and an augmented microphone so that people on zoom can hear what you're talking about there yeah yeah let's wait that'd be arpa money right so we're going to um um then resign or adjourn this part of the meeting and we're going to move into executive session to talk about some employee issues and thank you all for our first welcome back you