 And so, Dave, if you want to take the floor and walk us through the CR, and then we can move forward. Sure. Thanks very much. So, I promise you all a quick meeting, and I think we can do that with Erin's help. I'm not sure if she shared a packet with you for this meeting or not, but in short, the, and Erin, maybe can you share a screen so folks can see. Is that the, I wondered, I was hoping there would be a more illustrative kind of the, is there a color image that showed, you know, the context for this donation I think in the CR? While you're looking for that, maybe I can. That was the only, that was the only map that I had the stamped plan set, I believe. I think I sent you the baseline report. Is that ringing bell? I sent you like four docs. But anyway, very quickly, while Erin is looking for that, the Kestrel Trust is working to preserve more land up on the Mount Hoyok range in the towns that the range occurs in. And they have been working for over a year with the Allison family and the Allison family owns a house south of Bay Road up on the Mount Hoyok range. And Kestrel has negotiated with them to accept about a seven acre gift of land, which abuts the Sweet Alice conservation area. If you go to the double roundabout and you head east toward Belcher Town, the Sweet Alice conservation area is the big open field. It includes the power lines on the right hand side of Bay Road. And this parcel is about seven acres looking due south. And we can look at a couple of maps here in a minute. So Kestrel is getting this gift from the Allison family. The Allison family will keep up. They already own a house up there. They built a house there many years ago. They're keeping the house, but they're willing to donate seven acres of upland forest and field to Kestrel. And Kestrel would like to donate it to us to add seven acres to the about 90 acre Sweet Alice conservation area. So, let's see. Deed acceptance. That might be it there. Maybe I missed one of them. Let's see if there's a better map. If not, we can go back to the black and white map, but I was hoping we This is the survey. Maybe we'll go to the survey. The survey is a little better. Let's use the survey. I think it's the same one. Okay. So, Erin, can you enlarge that? So, Erin, maybe you can use, I can't use your cursor, right? Or maybe you can point to, if we start on the west, the west side, which is my left hand side of my computer, we have the Epstein, yes, Epstein is there. So, if you move that a year or two ago, and then as you move east, the Allison's will retain the next lot. If you move your cursor just to the east there, and you can see their house on the southern end of that lot or two thirds of the way right there. And then they are donating this flag lot. So, my right is right there to the town, and to the east of that, to my right is all sweet Alice conservation area. So essentially they're donating that flag lot to provide buffer, more buffer for the sweet Alice conservation area. It includes a small ravine, a small stream, and of course a small frontage additional frontage off of Bay Road. So I would like to donate this seven acres to us to be under their care and control of the Amherst Conservation Commission and then be added to sweet Alice conservation area. So, that's the long and short of it. The upfront cost to us is zero. And the long term management are that we added to sweet Alice. I think there's some beautiful upland forest there. I don't think we need to add any trails to it there's already existing trail network out there. So really it's kind of a situation where it's a nice buffer for the house and for us with our conservation land and then let the trees grow and let nature do its thing. Any invasives up there so I don't see a lot of management demand for the seven acres on the town. Are there any questions. Seems pretty straightforward and seems like a win-win to me. I will point out and maybe Erin can show us the line that the cross hatched line is actually an already existing conservation restriction there held by the Commonwealth. A good, I don't know is that a half of the parcel is already preserved through a conservation restriction that was deeded to the Commonwealth many years ago. So, this is kind of a double protection we would now own it in fee, and that first half of the property or close to half of it 40% is already protected. So, Commonwealth will see our over 40% of our parcel. And so Dave. Yeah, go ahead. Dave, is there a little cut out there so that the road remains completely with the current landowner. Yes. So that part is that part stays over. Okay. Yeah. So I have two questions. One is that are you doing any changes to like the parking situation there. I mean there's a two kind of pull offs on the side of the road or is that you think going to suffice for this. Oh, on the sweet Alice property. Yeah, on sweet Alice. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's a really good question on a scale as part of the Epstein project that we did a couple of years ago. There, there, there was clearly an intent and we articulated an intent working through the commission the CPAC and at that time. I guess I was town meeting at that time I can't remember whether we'd switched over I think it was down meeting. Definitely an intent to do a nicer parking area off of Bay Road. And by nicer I just mean, you know, we were trying to move toward a consistent welcoming presence when you get out of your car or get off your bike or are hiking to one of our conservation areas. I don't want there to be kind of an arrival like, like you, you see at the trustees of reservations or Minnesota. So we would do probably, you know, our standard kind of split rail fence, crushed stone parking area. We're trying to revamp. As I've reported to you, we did get some new kiosks through CP using CPA money as well as some COVID, COVID money. We have those in storage and I think that's going to be one of Aaron's projects is he's already begun working on crafting laying out kind of a standard kiosk for the town that would of course get input from you all before it sees the light of day. But we would have a consistent presence on all of our kiosks with map, you know, recent sightings, you know, et cetera, et cetera rules and regulations. But yeah, so that's the long answer. Yes, we want to have a better presence on Bay Road because it's pretty subtle there now. Yeah, that's yeah. I know a lot of people I think run at sweet Alice. There's usually a lot of cars there in the morning. I wasn't sure. Yeah. Yeah. Was there another question, Brett, did you have a question? Nope, I made my comment. Or I had my questions. I'm good Dave. And I will say there is money in the, we still have money in the CPA account for Epstein. And we saw, you know, we, even though we call these different conservation areas, I mean, they're all one block, if you will. So as Aaron and I begin to look at these, you know, we may suggest as of course as part of the management plans that there may be, you know, management blocks. I mean, you're not going to, you're not going to manage Epstein any different than sweet Alice, even though there's a name, you know, there may be areas within them that you focus on early or, or cold water fisheries or whatever you might do, but the management plan will speak to this area of the south. What is this kind of the south, south west corner or, you know, south part of town. So there is money in the CPA account to help pay for signage and welcoming and trails. So I think I'll stop there. It's, it's, I think in the packet, there is an acceptance by conservation commission, somebody could maybe Aaron could punch that up. If you have that last stock I sent you, I think today that Sharon sent with a new acceptance. I mean, somebody could, we could read this and somebody could simply move that as a motion. I just want to make sure Aaron is that, is that the, that doesn't look like the last one I sent you. Is there one I sent you today. I think I overwrote it but I'll double check. I think that was a Sharon changed it because of the e signatures. Sure, whenever it is our town council or town attorney, I'm sorry. My question while Aaron looks for it. I was just wondering, is there any plan to update the town trail map that you can download as a PDF online, because I have a habit of friends getting them printed for people would love them to be updated. Thank you so much Aaron. So yes, that's a great question. Absolutely we are. I think we've been moving so quickly and since making some of these staff changes. I started to make a list for Aaron she hasn't seen it yet because I didn't want to kind of overwhelm her. But that is one of the things that I want her to work on is updating the trail map and the conservation map. I'm going to talk about it a little bit to make our conservation map more interactive, more useful. It's pretty blah right now to be honest. It identifies things but it just, it doesn't pop online or in your hand. That's just my take. I have a lot of ideas. I have a lot of really cool ways we can update it, but also just getting GIS, like he updated in the short term because frankly, I just like having it on my basement door. I need it to be wicked fancy and it's nice to be able to give it to people when they move to town. We're a little behind in terms of our acquisitions getting the new acquisitions on the map. You guys move so quickly. I mean, it's not, there's no fault in it. I was just daring to ask. Aaron, you and I talked about this like a week ago, right? Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of ideas to improve it, including adding parking to it because right now that existing, it's wonderful that it has trails and some properties, but it doesn't show where you can park if you're parking. It does, but it's not updated. So it does have a little key for parking, but it's, it's a little out of date. So like, certainly if you need to know if you can park nearby, it wouldn't be the best. Yeah, as an example, and I think I've raised this before and Aaron and I talked about it briefly. I believe there are seven, six or seven access points to the Mount Holyoke range on Bay Road. And I bet the average Amherst resident does not know that there are six or seven. I don't even know the number, but it's either six or seven. I'd have to, I haven't looked at it in a couple of weeks, but I've probably only discovered them by getting lost. Yeah, so, so Brett, I think, I think really what we're looking for in terms of emotion is right here on the table right here on the screen. I'm sorry. For an acceptance of this seven acre piece of property. Okay, so somebody could just read through those first two paragraphs table be good. Okay, acceptance by the conservation commission on this 17th day of September 2020 the town of Amherst acting by and through its conservation commission pursuant to the authority granted by GL chapter 40 section eight C Hereby accepts the property located on Bay Road Amherst from Kestrel Land Trust Amherst for open space purposes and the provisions of GL chapter 40 section eight C pursuant to the vote taken by the Amherst conservation commission on May 13 2020 the following signatures are made in compliance with GL chapter 110 G and pursuant to said commissions electronic signature authorization vote recorded on June 17 2020 with the Hampshire registry of deeds in book. 100 and 13,665 page 246. So, looking for a second. Second. Oh, I tried. Okay, so voice vote Laura. Anna. Hi, Larry. Hi, Jen. Hi, Roy. Hi, and I for me as well. So anything else Dave or Aaron that we need to do on this one. I don't think so. Aaron, maybe you and I. Yeah, I'm not that familiar with ease signature. So we'll just have to work with Sharon tomorrow. On whatever she needs for the closing. So, yeah, I've been using them for DEP permits and they've, it's worked out really well so I can do the same process that I do for those and then if Sharon needs something different than Okay, yes, we'll go from there. Good. I think the only other thing Brett that that Aaron had put on this agenda since we were meeting for a few minutes was if we needed to discuss the CPA see liaison role at all. Unfortunately, the one person who we need for that discussion is not here. Um, emailed me asking saying that he would like to not do it for the next term. And so I will reiterate my interest. I'm happy to do it. Dave, thank you for your email. It did make me feel a lot better. I think my, my concern is just, you know, my areas of interest and expertise are not in wetland identification and I kind of got a little caught up in that until I looked into deeper, the deeper aspects of what the CPA does and realize like, that's actually kind of squarely in the part that I am interested in so I'm, I am happy to do it. And also if someone else has a burning passion and desire to do it, I'm happy to step back so either way. Fantastic Anna, thank you. And so as Anna was suggesting, is there anybody else who would like to put their name in the ring. No. Okay, so I am hearing none. And so Dave, I think we need a official vote on this. Yeah, it'd be great if you if somebody nominated Anna and then seconded and then you to be the liaison to CPA C. To be the liaison for the community preservation committee. Community preservation committee with Gusto, I nominate her. Oh my gosh, you guys. Okay, so voice vote so the right. Jen. Hi, Larry. Hi, Laura. Hi, Anna. Hi. That's good. I can't wait to hear about it. And so I, as well, so thank you, Anna, and congratulations. And yet you get to put some cool stuff you get to do and I mean the conservation stuff is cool, but it's all sorts of interesting things. Yeah, can I just say, I mean, thank you so much, Anna, for stepping up and Brett has done a wonderful job all these years. And again, a pleasure. What did I say, Brett? Thank you, but I mean, It's not even that late. Fletcher has done a great job all these years and it really is an opportunity. You are, you're an advocate for the conservation open space side of it. But balance is so important. I mean, all of these historic preservation affordable housing, recreation and conservation, they're all part of what makes a community wonderful. So, you know, I think you'll bring a lot of balance as he did and, and it's not about voting against, you know, some other project. It's about, honestly, looking at the proposals, seeing how well they're put together. Are they're matching funds? Have they been well thought through and it's a really collaborative group. So it's not really adversarial, you know, you're getting so much money, you're not or whatever. It's none of that, but it's a great, you know, there's roughly a million dollars almost every year that can be divvied up between the four, the four areas of focus. So thank you for volunteering. Thanks for all your votes, y'all. Appreciate it. It's good to get us more land. Well, Sam, she's still thanking us in December. And I will one last thing about the library and I was scared. That was what threw me. I will say, Anna, that, you know, our work on the dog park task force will be slowing down. In fact, construction started out there this week. Things are, things are moving. Great. Yeah. Excellent. Any other business for today? No, not for me. Okay. Not hearing any looking for a motion to adjourn. We adjourn. Second. All right, how do you vote? Hi, Jen. Hi, Larry. Hi, Laura. Anna. Hi. And I, for me as well, we are done in 22 minutes. So thank you everyone. Thanks guys. Be safe.