 So Good evening First item on the agenda call to order. We've done that minutes From July 11 2023. Is there a motion? Move to approve subject to modification. Is there a second second going through page one Under 11 the second line. It says the town needs to hold a vote On allowing retail sales. I think you should say before allowing retail sales Yeah, the town would need to hold a vote Yeah Actually right above that on the third bullet says under things like the land acknowledgment. I Didn't know that third bullet meant We just strike it. I don't think it The strike third bullet statements are typically made at the conclusion of discussion Yeah All those in favor of adopting the minutes with the modifications say I Public comment This is the portion of the select board meeting where people may Comment on pretty much anything. It can be what's on the agenda. Well, you might want to wait until that agenda Item comes up, but you don't have to But anything at all is there anybody in the room that Is there anybody online Interviews and appointments He's going to join us over zoom I see Tim I'm just going to get you connected here make you a panelist you can share your your audio and video Hi, Tim. You just muted. How's that that? Yeah, we can hear you now Hello, okay. Wonderful. Hi. Sorry. I mean I'm used to going from my computer and my phone It's working just fine So, uh, thanks for your interest and I'm wondering if you could give a little blurb or description about Yourself and why you're interested in the position and then the board may have some questions for you Sure, absolutely. Um, I mean one of the biggest reasons I'm interested is because I live here in Williston I have small children my youngest being four and We partake in a lot of the rec programs. I mean right now we have three school-aged kids four six or four seven and nine And we've been into the rec soccer like basketball And we take advantage a lot of the services. So I've done a lot of volunteering in my time I was with Essex Junction fire department for 10 years Before that I lived up in the Northeast Kingdom and was on their fire department for five years. I've run rescue and Now I just try to spend most of my time doing stuff with the kids between that and my business and So I figured what better way than to get involved in something that They're involved in. Thanks. I'll open it up to members of the board if you have any questions for Tim so I'm obviously you're very familiar with the the recreation and parks programming and things. What would you see? as kind of your biggest Goals or the things you are most interested in in working on as part of the committee. I Think the biggest thing is just taking, you know, the Williston Rec department to the next level. I know that Todd's been doing a good job at Implementing a lot of new stuff and there's a lot of new programs, you know new facilities and You know just playing a part in that and helping guide and steer that part of things as You know, we continue to grow and the community grows and you know looking at more facilities more Opportunities for for the public So I'd love to play a play a part in helping move that forward You say a little bit about Rec opportunities outside of the school-age kid Realm do you have any ideas or thoughts on those? Yeah? Well, I mean, I think there's a there's already a lot of Stuff around here. I mean like we're over at trucking Tuesdays tonight. That's why that's why I'm not there in person Because it's been rained out the last three weeks, so The kids have been wanting to be over here, but yeah, I think You know trying to figure out how that works. I mean it really depends on each person I think it's a great thing to have, you know, the jazz or size the other You know events that it may be difficult for some of us to partake in But I think just in general I mean previously many years ago but I worked with the agency on aging when I lived in the Northeast Kingdom and and did a lot of things with them and You know obviously keeping everybody whether it's young or old moving and engaged and interacting and And getting out and being social with other people in the community One of the question not quite sure how to phrase this but local business owner You don't tell me what business it is. If you don't I'm trying to assess I'm just trying to assess conflict of interest Yeah, no, so we I run a fully electric lawn care service. We do snow plowing And then we're actually acquiring a small local contracting company and so Pretty much in the service industry So you don't see any situation where you could be Advocating for against something from a personal point of view. I don't I don't think so You know, I try not to mix my business and personal anyways, I try to keep things separate, but I mean I'm pretty good at separating the two I mean I own I Own a couple apartment units over in Essex and I'm also on the board at that HOA And I'm also the one that provides the service and when they voted me on the board I told them I said look if there's ever anything that's a conflict of interest. I will step aside because You know, I don't believe that's something that that should be the case, you know, and so I Don't foresee where there would ever be a situation where that would be a matter But if it was I certainly would do my best to make sure that You know, I stepped aside and didn't involve myself in those matters because it really needs to be something that the public makes the decision on that I don't influence Anything that would benefit me personally Unless it's maybe getting a pool for the kids. I'd advocate for that Any other questions from the board Okay, Tim, thank you Yeah, and looks like this is the only applicant so that being the case There would entertain a motion I'd move to appoint Timothy Allard to the recreation and parks committee for an expired term three-year terms through June 30th 2026 there a second For the discussion on the motion All those in favor signify by saying aye. All right, we'll suppose Okay Thank you, Tim. Thank you. Thank you. I look forward to it Next Howard Center community outreach overview Just go to Valley The conversation I'm gonna connect you here You're connected Scott just have to enable your camera in your there. Can you hear me? Yep, we can hear you Okay, I don't know why I can you see me can't see Okay, I'm not sure what My camera just taking a while to Load Just in the context of things the camera is the least important part. I guess you want to wait a little bit more. Do you want to? Start your presentation Scott. No, I can I can I can I can start I mean as long as you guys can hear me That's fine. I'm not sure and by the time I figure it out you guys will probably be ready for me to finish rapid You know stop talking And then I've done a few of these with the within the nine towns And I started off one I had this kind of you know thing set up and I realized that the you know Just like word meetings. You guys got a lot of stuff to get to usually late So for me, I'm grateful I could do it on zoom because I live about an hour away So They would you know go home and have dinner and then then come here so technologies kind of No, it's nice benefit today. So So I basically just have like a little kind of like a quick like out we outreach Elevator kind of presentation just kind of hidden some high points And I guess redefining in the context of you know how we're going to hop you know like moving forward What what that really means what does outreach mean? So like our operational definition is going to be you know, it's outreach it's you know, it's an activity of You know providing services to people who might not otherwise have access to those services You know so when you know the members of our community outreach team are out in the communities You know, they're they're they're far more accessible than You know clinicians sitting in their office that the person that you know would engage in services needs to find their way there You know ultimately our goal is to try and connect them to to you know more long-term services, but Look at outreach as a way to kind of bridge that gap try to take people who are struggling and kind of Make the services a little more accessible so You know, we're kind of looking at is to try and make sure we're as efficient and effective as possible and try to really You know Be you know responsible and respectful with the with the resources we have right so the funding we get from the image the funding We get from the towns You know, we want to really really focus on being as effective and as efficient as possible So when we look at that You know our core elements of of our program we're looking at we want to be you know Systematic you want to have you know a process to how we're operating. We don't want to just be you know Drive around hoping we have contact with someone, right? We want to be coordinated. We want to be comprehensive. So You know anyone we bring on board from a staffing perspective, you know, we're kind of looking for that that multi-tool right that Swiss Army Knife that has You know a little bit of knowledge about a lot of things, you know, social services housing resources food resources You know domestic violence resources, you know trauma-informed resources, you know Not just someone that has a specialty in one specific thing. So it's a it's a challenging team to fill vacancies on because you're really looking for someone that You know, it's got a comfortable You know a lot like you know law enforcement. They don't have control over the situations they're going to And you kind of got to be ready for a little bit of everything So we but we want that we want to be comprehensive so we can be as helpful as possible From our perspective, you know, we want to try and be person-centered, you know, whatever that person's needs are We want to try and you know have as much of a focus on addressing those needs You know in the context of making sure everyone's safe But we want to try and try and help that person solve whatever immediate problem is And we want to be responsible to be informed about the effects trauma has on people and we want to be responsive in that regard In how we how we deal with people I think that is probably the One of the bigger values we have particularly when we co-respond Trying to slow things down a little bit when it's possible And then we want to be culturally responsive culturally informed And that just doesn't mean like ethnic culture, you know, there's there's different variations of like You know people are struggling with you know Your housing security, you know, there's there's like little pockets of culture that form within those groups And we want to be kind of as informed and responsive to those Like nuances as possible, right? And ultimately we really want to have you know, our emphasis is always going to be on safety and harm reduction Out there interacting with people In the moment that's that's that's ultimately you know, because if we can keep people, you know From you know, keep people safe keep ourselves safe and then hopefully anyone in proximity to situations You know, if they're not, you know, two situations at the time, you know helping kind of enhance people's safety by connecting them to their appropriate resources And then like harm reduction, you know, if we can Limit the the harm that people are doing to themselves or they're doing to the community, right if they're being disruptive or whatever You know, it gives us a kind of a better platform to help them move forward You know, I always look at, you know, in a lot of the conversations I had with the team center around like, you know, people are having a bad day Can we You know, will our intervention Keep that from becoming something that's life altering for someone, right? So, you know, if they're having, you know, they're Disregulated, you know Angry at something upset, you know, whatever the case is Or even, you know, under the influence of something Those situations and I'm sure, you know, chief fully can kind of speak to this is those situations can turn very Very bad very quickly and you know, our hopes are sometimes is if we are intervening appropriately, you know We can take a situation that's bad, you know, the very least keep it from getting worse I think that's a lot of times that's a similar, you know approach that the police officers have Situations already bad. Can we just, you know, keep it from getting any worse? Can we keep it from, you know, altering? People's lives through either someone getting an accident getting hurt someone getting arrested and going to jail You know forbid, you know, anyone gets killed or dies. Those are kind of like the ultimate, you know things that we're looking at to try and Keep keep things back to where they're still manageable or we can still work on things We can still help people because when some of those more severe things happen It's really hard to help people at that point. Their life has really taken a turn. So whether that's, you know An overdose or suicide attempt, you know, a lot of those things we're looking at and You know, that's the higher end acute work that the folks do but You know, we wanted, I guess that's why we talk about that a lot because those are the ones that are really life-altering for some people and and for communities, you know, and I know the the incident cold chest a few months ago with the the murder suicide and you know, that's just tragic and and, you know, not that we can always, you know intervene in those cases, but When we can it's it's it's it's good, right? So we're kind of like I guess hyper-aware of those things right because they make the news, um, but I think a lot of the work that we do It's really hard to conceptualize what it Prevents because if you if you're doing it you used to have no idea of knowing what the impact is sometimes on people. So The other aspect of what we want to try and do a little bit going forward is um promoting public awareness of Not only the program and some of the the ways that we want to To continue to do good work, but also to seek to like Be flexible with the changing needs of communities And ultimately just, you know, kind of keep improving what we do But also whatever is relevant to communities So if they have like initiatives going on that are related to substance abuse or mental health You know, we want to try and make ourselves available and be a resource so for instance one of the towns has a resilience initiative and you know, we we We have a screening of a movie we're going to show and then we'll have a panel discussion. So That's after taking care of it. So if you know they get you know 15 15 people show up or we do it zoom which i'm sure we would we would do it live in and zoom You know and if some people watch we have a little panel discussion We're just kind of trying to put helpful information out there as part of the program to kind of Add to what we're doing to try and to try and benefit, you know, the outreach work And and that's different for each community. So one community was resilience. There's another community. They're really looking at, you know Um The cultural diversity stuff they have a lot of different Cultures within the community and how do we how do we you know meet their needs? Um, so we help Try and put something together and be part of Those outreach programs that are already going on within those communities. Um, So we're looking to do a little more of that Uh and I would say I just want to give an update. Um, if everyone knows like we run quarterly data um And it comes off raw basically from all the documentation that everyone on the team does They'll take that raw data and then I turn it into what we send out. I'm working on that right now Um, I really hope to be done with it this week to get it sent out to all the town managers and chiefs of police um, and then Then I'll start working on the annual data for the fiscal year I think if that's sent out too as of right now a lot of the data I've been pulling and putting together um looks remarkably Close to what it did last quarter enough to the point where I started over because I was worried. I was making a mistake. Um, so I love that that provides enough information, but it's it's very similar to the last quarter. Um, as far as the number of contacts we're having with each town And then I also wanted to kind of just well, I know chief was here I wanted to kind of thank the local police department. They provided a couple trainings Since I've been on board in february and our teams have come out and done like situational awareness trainings um, you know involving like how Just to be aware of what's going on around you how to try and you know just basically You know information to help our help everyone on our team kind of stay safe and be aware of what's going on around them When they're interacting with law enforcement On a scene and when they're just out in the community interacting with people That have that have made referrals or call us themselves. So I really appreciate that Because it just brings it just gives us more information and training to work with because You know, we want everyone on our team to be safe too. So And that's that's what I got. If there's any questions Well before before we get to that actually chief could you weigh in on How the department interacts with the community outreach folks and the impact that they have and Well, it's uh, you know, very well received by the officers of the department The unfortunate thing is everybody believes that mental health is an eight to four or nine to five Problem when it's actually 24 hours a day seven days a week. I know outreach has somebody that does late nights up to eight o'clock But again after eight o'clock we're limited to what we have other than if we take them to the emergency room or You know, uh, hopefully maybe you know, we can reach out to state police if they have one of their Embedded social workers work in that night to help us out But it's it's a constant thing and they've been very receptive. Um, they show up when we need them. Um, it's just that like He was saying is that it's the people that need help have to be willing to want And it's such a a revolving door It's their their program to say the right things at the right time. You know, we had two back-to-back overdoses this afternoon and Both them that want to go to the hospital that want to be seen by ems They said they were all right. They're talking to people and how the door they go and we're limited to what we can do A couple weeks ago. We had a lady that was camped out in front of the state police barracks on wilson row And uh, we did, uh, I think two or three interactions with her Various officers various people we had interpreters because She alleged that she didn't speak english. We found out later on that she'd speak fluent english But she she we offered help. We she didn't want help. She she argued with us trying to get into a hotel It's just it's we're limited what we can do because we can't go hands on unfortunately, uh A few days later the state police ended up dealing with her because she was sweeping the off ramp of exit 12 And we couldn't get out of the roadway. So but I you know When we need them, they're there it works. Uh, we've you know, we've helped them out in training All right, it's like scott was saying is that we get people that Work well with us and then they leave, you know, we lose rachel mount rachel was leaving The the group and you know, she's been there quite a few years and everybody really liked her and she was part of she sat on the criminal justice council and She was embedded in doing the works, but it's just You know, I think down the road we really need to expand the unit to increase more hours For um, but I think it's going to be just not a limited service of you know, the police and the outreach or Police firing outreach and the community is really going to get together and the communities It's not just limited to wilson, but it's the the group that we have Bying into this that we really need to say it or we need to increase the the amount of outreach people we have and look at and maybe adding Clinical people to work with us. Maybe on a on an on call basis You know, but uh, it's just you know, um, we need to try to you know stem the flow of The illicit narcotics coming into these people because uh, they're robbing everybody through all the businesses. It's it's a daily thing You know, we can predict the day time when it stops some days It's early then we anticipate and then we run the whole day You know some days, uh, something what happened out of her Either they missed the bus coming out here or what but uh, it's a strain on everybody and you know with us being You know four positions down everybody has to really pick up the slack And you're going to case to case to case so it's nice to have them that we Believe that maybe we shouldn't go there, but we should have them go there But we want to make sure they're safe Because you know if you look at every time we go to somebody and we bring their name up in the screen There's questions because they have you know nice. They have needles Now we had we had one last week where It was an overdose and the person had a load of insurances in his pocket You know, so that jeopardizes us ems The employees and all that so that's that's what we're dealing with so Um questions from the board for either scott or the chief They come in their police department for the work that they're doing I think they're over They're overloaded with you know having to react to all these situations They're they're unable to be proactive I think most of the mental health institutions in the state oppose Now you know now it's it's out on the streets you know the difficult situation um Thank you to both to to will listen pd to you chief to scott and and I appreciate um from from both You know parties from howards under and for from the the pd the willingness to To learn and to grow together and to be responsive to you know, just the changing You know needs of the community and really recognizing that You know, maybe different approaches or are called for in different situations and and I really you know That's so valuable and I and I think you know, we're all better as a community because you know You all are willing to do this and because we have power center Also supporting folks And I do I hope you know that that You know, we all take it to heart that what you're saying that that this isn't innate to fourth thing. This is you know mental health Emergencies mental health needs arise all the time. I know we are looking as a town You know in doing a study looking within our police department. And so You know, hopefully this is part of that looking at that and how we can you know What our needs are there and how we can reinforce our police department And support, you know, you all better In this avenue as well. So Yeah to the choose point. Um, yeah, that's one of the things I'm I'm looking at is You know as we move forward, you know, how do we how do we take the program and expand it to you know, seven days Um You know, can we can we cover can we do a seven days? Can we do it in a way that's you know, feasible and sustainable because it's You know, it's it's we have to pay people. So the more people we have the more we have, you know, it's more cost You know, I I think that the The return on the investment I think is there, right? I said, but it's really hard to to demonstrate sometimes to to Get everyone's buy-in. Um, because when you're when you're working when you're trying to work in that world of preventing things, um You know, it's it's really hard to to prove a negative, right? So but looking at our current The current resources we have, you know, I'm trying to figure out if there's ways that we can move to seven days, um, I Probably unlikely we'd be able to get to where we're working overnight But if we could run, you know, like 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. seven days a week You know, that might Be a little more helpful covering some of those times. Um You know, I know there's some changes through there's a mobile rfp That that's supposed to start up They can October and then a hard start in january, which is going to change. Um It's going to change the first call response So they should be more accessible And then, you know, because the outreach team, I mean our focus is supposed to be on uh You know kind of prevention, you know getting out and trying to be more proactive Um, and someone mentioned it earlier too, and I think, you know, long, you know police officers try to do the same thing when possible Um, but it's really hard. You know, the chief said they're down four officers And it's really hard to put the resources into being proactive when You're just trying to keep up And and I think it's safe to say on on both accounts from You know the outreach team and from from police officers. It's it's hard work. Um, you know, I think, you know, I think Rachel's a testament to that You know, she's extremely effective and graded her job. Um, she's been doing it for about six years and and She's like that's bad enough, right? So um and and how do we how do we kind of You know Reduce the impact it has on the individual, you know, I think it's I think police officers feel the same thing there's there's You know towns across the state that are struggling to to keep officers And I think it probably falls in the same line. It's just it's it's a lot, you know, it's it's ongoing it's it's non-stop Um, it's it's, you know, a lot of kind of groundhog days like we're doing a little bit of the same stuff every day It's really hard to to keep up with um and then for you know Well, we'll Rachel and the team and then whoever, you know replaces Rachel or doing that, you know I'm trying to to come up with, you know From a more objective standpoint and trying to help Uh, you know come up with ways to can we can we get better, you know more coverage? Um, can we You know, you know, what are the resources out there? That's that's a lot of things for like any type of crisis work um You see those repeat Same people are similar, you know similar circumstances, you know fairly often and it's either You know, a lot of times it's their unwillingness or their lack of awareness That that they need to make changes in their life to improve And then sometimes it's just simply the the resources aren't available um and then A lot of times one one kind of feeds into the other if the resources aren't available and someone sits on a waitlist for six months um They're like, yeah, I'm not going to bother at this point. Um You know, so it's it's Yeah, it's it's hard work. Um, but I do appreciate, you know, not just Wilson police department I think all the towns, you know, it's chief alluded to is like, you know People that are struggling don't really know boundaries. They'll be in wolston, you know Come out in the bus in the morning and then, you know later on that day they're in burlington. Um, so You know trying to To keep up with everyone. It's it's you know, it's a lot of work. So I appreciate the collaboration because if you know, we were a team of the receptions with the officers and And it just wouldn't work. Um, so that gives us the opportunity to try and be helpful and I guess our our goal is to try and continue to find ways to be more helpful. Um So Great. Um, so thank you. Um, if there are any final quick questions, we do have a public hearing that we have to open up but If appropriate, I might be interested in seeing the presentation if you could just share it with us, you know So I can look at it offline Your notes said that he had a presentation he was going to share if this was just to talk him through it Then i'm fine, but if there was Did you have some slides you wanted to share that you could email me or if um No, I was just I just I'll add some bullet points to keep myself on track. So I didn't go on a tangent Okay, great. All right. Thank you and thank you for everything and please pass our boards. Thanks on to the people who do the work Um, okay. Thank you. Thank you Public hearing so Ordinance or statute I have to read the uh, the first paragraph of the notice, uh, so Um, we'll open the hearing the willison select ward will hold a public hearing to receive comment on proposed amendments to the town's Temporary events ordinance being considered The public hearing will take place on tuesday july 25 2023 at 7 30 p.m In the beckett maguire meeting room of the willison town hall located 7 7 7 900 williston road With remote participation offered using online platform zoom with access information listed at the bottom of this hearing notice Which does in fact list back. So we will open the hearing up Um Eric is there a initial Presentation I can give a general over here, please like um So this ordinance was adopted last year to create a system for events to be permitted Which don't make sense to go through zoning at the time it replaced the town's public vessels ordinance that was put in place In the early 1970s and we found that needed some modernization at the same time We have a system in place for town events through this ordinance for event review That primarily enables a lens of public safety to occur in conditions of approval We've put in place as the event has an effect on on our public infrastructure For example parking in the public right away. I'm making sure good lands in place. So a mercy a mercy vehicle access is not effective Our town goal with this ordinance is to help events occur in a safe and responsible manner In regard to how they are affecting the surrounding area in their neighborhood Um after having this ordinance in place over a year staff identifies the possible amendments for the board to consider The board heard a presentation on those possible amendments through a couple select board meetings We've won hearing for this evening These amendments include and these are these are posted as part of the the hearing packet In a red line version these amendments include exclusion of events associated with a home business from the ordinance Instead referring to the town's zoning bylaw adding celebration to event types Increasing the quantity of attendees on private property requiring a permit to 40 addition to any lease or license agreement on town owned property with organizations or individuals that make specific provisions Regarding when a permit is required will apply with administering the ordinance Changes changes to the application requirements Increasing the attendance threshold of events to 200 people for select board review addition of town public safety officials as priorities that can be over permit Those are the more the highlights and there's some other minor changes. I believe as well I can pause there with a chair. Okay, so yeah, let's let's pause there and um Ask if there was uh public input people would like to make a statement and If so, if you could either come up to the table or we have a We have a room microphone now, uh, so you can stand if you want to Um, and if you could just identify yourself and uh, give us your thoughts Come right up here. Is that right? Yeah, don't be he gets really mad. Don't touch that Okay, my hearing is not great. Sorry. It'll pick you up right there. Yeah, the microphone will pick up your oh, okay I don't have to touch it. Yeah. Yeah, sorry Yeah, my name's michael also. I'm a willison resident home I have a concern that the definition of a temporary event As it stands in the proposed article three should not Should not include rgd at all Decent quiet and freedom from usual traffic should clearly be a priority in this zone and I think Basic yard of article three makes it pretty could pretty confusing for me anyway when I read it Uh, this is particularly apparent given the examples itemized in article three parades concerts fairs, etc Are all too large to accommodate On-street parking in in an ours in an rgd This definition should include any event where direct or indirect sales or financial transactions or in-kind trading will occur such as garage or other private sales Um, article five seems to open the door for a series of temporary events to occur In a residential in rgd Where there is no off-street parking available Um, as there are concerns about businesses such as adam's market catamount willson country club They can all be specifically exempted from permitting requirements in article five with the simple addition of an item f And can include future future businesses authorized by an application To the select board, uh, provided off-street parking is sufficient for that for the new business Um, the bottom line is I don't think the residential zone should be should not be encountered encumbered by temporary events Except for private celebrations and garage sales, which could be handled separately That's really the extent of the comment. Thank you. Thank you My name is norman wrappaport and I live at 160 hickory hill road willson Terry knows it I've been a resident for 52 years. So I've seen it all pretty much And what concerns me Is the fact that the noise Is getting worse and worse to the point where It affects the life Of the people that live in these developments Now we have a lot of older developments in the town And I live in one of them We do not have any covenants So This is one thing that may or may not be a problem But what i'm concerned about is the way that the town is going when it comes to noise You're now allowing Chickens to be in a neighborhood. Well, it's not the chickens that make the noise so much But if there's a rooster Then there's a problem because They will Not well, they don't Abay the noise ordinance, which is by belief 6 a.m To 9 p.m. And that's okay to have noise But in the nighttime up till 6 we have garbage trucks Or trash trucks that come before 6 That's a problem We have a lot of People with noisy vehicles that go through the neighborhood I'm sure it's all a neighborhood. It's not just mine And that is another problem that I think should be looked at before you make any of these ordinances And the one that we're talking about today Where I have a concern is the fact that The Thing that it bothered bought potentially bothers me is if you were to have a gathering of people In a neighborhood God forbid there's a house fire Think about trying to get one of our fire engines through those streets. They're narrow And people park wherever they park on both sides of the street and many times cars cannot get through So that's that's a concern that I have But I think that it's time to Just consider the fact that if you're having a large gathering That could be a that could be a problem in that respect And that's pretty much what I happen to say Great Thank you, sir. Yeah No, just staff and the newspaper Would it be helpful if I moved too close to up here? All those in favor signify by saying aye Public hearing is closed Okay, and therefore the next item on the agenda is the temporary events ordinance amendment itself So What is the board's Thoughts what are their thoughts? The order I think a temporary event You know she'd be a temporary Exactly as it is, you know one or two events For someone is having a graduation party or something and not allow 12 events a year I'm still against the 12 events a year Yeah, I mean that's where I'm still uncomfortable with that many events I and and you know, I understand that the town has Things they can handle it and that you know, you have one event and there's too much parking emergency vehicles We have to send the police see I get towed cars or get them to move it. Okay. We don't renew there They can't have a second one I guess it's what we would the town would probably say right there because they would have to come and ask for a second They had one thing that they wanted another one of their 12. They have to come 12 different times It would depend if it where the thresholds were met And I think there's there's triggers built in for whether it's administrative approval or select Right that a series if they were planning on doing it often then they would have to get different Approvals but they'd have to come back and you'd have the opportunity to say now you didn't really You would didn't shut down your party early enough. You didn't You had the partners atrocious whatever you say you feel like we could keep it from happening a second time if it was That inconvenient to the day That you're thinking on why Yeah, that's how we approached it. We I think to date since we've had this in place For the most part we had we've had a couple locations that have had multiple Events for comes of mind like trucking Tuesdays at Adams farm Red Barn Gardens down Wilson road has had some some wedding events there That have multiple then we've had kind of the the block party the wedding at a home Touching truck event that's going to be coming up again But I think those have been just in a brief experience with this Those have been kind of the the ones that have been multiple events that we've seen in the last year So catamount outdoor family center, which we're going to talk about early on the agenda Kind of how this gets into that part of their license accrued right but catamount is not in the residential zone and right No, it's an egg egg. Oh, yeah, um, and you know, I asked matt like how many Nobody wants to shut down trucking Tuesday, right? Um, so but there's it seems like you can count the number of businesses in the residential zone Onto and so you could this gentleman's this gentleman's point you could exempt them pretty easily If they're grandfathered in to have a business in the residential zone, you could easily You know exempt them from the residential zone restrictions on here So I so it's really just comes down to me to me. It kind of comes down to we're saying It's okay to have 12 events in the residential zone because no one's ever going to have that many So, you know, um, that's fine until it happens, right? That's These events are happening every year, you know, this is You know these temporary events are going year after year after year after year Are you talking about like Adams? Are you talking about people like in the residential zone? Like Adams, you know, I've done nothing against what they're doing But like when I wanted to do four events In the fall a fall festival I went to the drb and I got approved that way Because it's a bit, you know, I'm a business And I want to do something every fall four times a year So I went to the drb. You know that was required Like I don't think a temporary a temporary events. I think should be exactly what that is a temporary event somebody wants to have you know a party at their house a graduation party a birthday party or something like that Go out someone every year to continually come back and just get a temporary event 12 events Up to 400 people. That's not a temporary event That's a business event That's plain and that's plain and simple to me you know, I just Yeah, I don't understand how it can be called temporary We we used to handle these through zoning, but the zoning Was not as prescripted to this and we we kind of got in the circle of how do we regulate these? So that's how this the ordinance ordinance came in came to be and how do we define it? How do we regulate it? How do we help? primary for the public safety concerns and aspect there's going to be a review lens and You know discussions like this are are important for the board in the town I think how do you how do you want to define that and ordinance is a living piece of public policy? so You know as as you think about how you want to define it now You know that that could be today We maybe probably a year from now will learn more about this ordinance as well as we Think about our regulations in town What was the thought process behind all the number 12? I'm trying to recall how Staff in the board laid on that number originally This is something going on now, they would not be allowed to go on because so we know Well, I'm aware of um, I know for one Like the for example the trucking Tuesday's event as a series. I believe over the summer they had about Eight or so Some cancellations and But I I'd have to look back on the meeting minutes to see just how that how that number came up with I thought we had at one point in time a year or a couple years ago where a business one or two have A series of special events like every other week every weekend And I think they're it amounted to like 12 and we had some difficulty with trying To make sure that it worked for that when it worked for us And I think that was part of the stimulation for getting stimulus for getting temporary events Organs would all begin with so we've had it in effect for a little over a year now And there were some problems that were identified and staff came up with some solutions for those i'm sure that There'll be more things coming up in the in the future. Mr. Reva or as mentioned some that could happen and And in the future we should be taking a look at at those things to see if we can make sure that We prevent those kind of Things from happening in our ordinance And there is there is a noise ordinance. Yes. Yeah. Yep. It's it's I don't know how that would be Acted upon immediately on weekend or something. Um, but it is there We have authority to essentially shut down an event if it's creating an issue The noise ordinance for regulatory standpoint our our police department could be contacted But you know, it's the challenge for the noise and it has to be kind of cognac, it's it's We're a business starting early for construction or waste Pickup the town was made aware of it. We could we could follow up with that business to make them aware of our of our local regulation But yeah, it's another piece of Of this as well and before we have this ordinance we find our catering permit reminding people of the noise ordinance Say, okay, you're going to have a local liquor license. Here's a reminder of our noise ordinance attack The process became a bit calm a little bit. I'll say trying to look at these different layers and For those types of events this helps package it into one regulation, but To the board's point it's it's a living document. So certainly staff will take feedback direct from the board once And actually I I don't um I'm embarrassed that I'm not completely sure about this, but we we did not allow picking poops. No, uh, right Residences not in the residential areas, right? There's um, I know the planning commission is currently talking about chickens again as part of a bylaw amendment But they haven't finished that I've been considered But I yeah, but they're not they're not supposed to in the residential Um Well, I I encourage you to Okay Oh Very It was a it was a a contentious issue for a while It was First assignment when I start working at the town is speaking to the chicken regulation. Yeah. Yeah No, they're we're very we're a very anti-chicken So if somebody's doing that I'll I'll leave it. I'll leave it to your your common sense on how to react to that, but Uh Yeah Reason why I brought that up was because last week I was here and I mentioned my concern about the fact that uh In the more populated areas of the town and particularly around Taft's corner You have an awful lot of people More so it's much more dense area Than in the rural parts of town if someone Were to have chickens in the rural part of the town that makes more sense because That is more room for the chickens to do their thing And it really wouldn't bother anybody But can you imagine the way this ordinance was written that I read last week That way that was written it says that somebody who lives in Taft's corners Could have chicken coop you could interpret that regulation that way that makes no sense to me And that's where I was coming from then but that was kind of lost over And I think that fact that the town is becoming noisier not uh, you know because of traffic Because of uh car starting in the morning and going through in the morning In 20 minutes to six to have a trash truck come through the neighborhood. It's a bit early So, you know, these things are only getting worse. That's why I came I wanted to make somebody aware That the town is becoming more populated Because it's more populated obviously more noise And uh, it's something that really ought to be Looked at I don't know what could be done I'm not saying that the police need to be more reactive to it But something should be done to make sure that people Are a little more Considerate I'll put it that way. I'll say it that way Uh because people have a lot of cars with very loud engines They start them up to have a neighbor who starts his car at four o'clock in the morning go to work Well, I can't blame them for that but That's just the way it is, but it's just as a general general trip. That's all I wanted to say Okay, yep That's the the um the chicken ordinance that's online actually failed That there is there is an ordinance that you can look up online that says chickens That talks about chickens being allowed in williston, but that that did not get a majority of the vote so that That's not the law I do believe the planning mission is having a conversation with the chickens now, but that hasn't hasn't passed their Come to their committee yet Yeah, there was a surprising amount of passion on that issue So back on this yeah go ahead So chicken got in the highlight of my cruise um I I can't really some I I I really appreciate all the work the staff's done with sort of our continual revisiting this and they've you've been very supportive of of making some changes But I just really can't get over having 12 events allowed in the residential district Outside of the small handful of businesses that we've been exempt. So You know, I I can't I can't support it as it's written because that's I think that's too much I think it's true that our residential districts need to be a little more protected Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean we should allow it to happen Just mine Where it's where it's taken right? I think it's an easy fix if we want to fix it I agree with you further Further questions or comments So it is on the agenda for uh action tonight if there is a motion if there's not that's the board's prerogative as well um But uh, I think I'd call to uh We'll call the question so to speak and ask if there is a motion to be made I'll move to adopt amendments to the temporary events ordinance as presented. No second Is there further discussion? Um I'm also concerned about the 12 times per calendar year inclined to not Um not wait and inclined to support it as is but I do think that's something that we should very seriously revisit in the short term Um, that's my comment. Okay. Is there any other question or comment for the 12? The wasn't and this was not an addition in this revision the 12 has been Consistent through the original version as well, right? That's correct that that language is is as adopted But we did bump it up from 20 people Correct All those in favor signify by saying aye. All those opposed The eyes have it. Okay next on the agenda, uh licensing agreement catamount outdoor family center. Simon, are you going to be making a presentation? Like I could briefly provide an introduction for for the blobs. I probably remember some first time So our license agreement with catamount is it's up our initial agreement with the outdoor family center on the property October of this year work began last summer to review the license agreement Simon new staffs our conservation commission and Forest committee working with their board and the committee's assistance Look at it with with our experience over the last almost five years with a license agreement since the townic part of the property So uh, Simon came to the board last December to give the general update where things were on that license agreement update One of the uh items um the board at the time had consensus behind was a candidate ten year agreement rather five year agreement There were some outstanding issues to resolve at that point where that drafts good primarily the campus idea Prevents as well on the property And they did to the how to regulate events on that property in relation to the temporary So that's a lot of work been taking place With staff and their board and the town attorney and thinking through Some some ways to approach that from a license agreement standpoint over the past several months And a few additional outstanding issues that Simon's worked on as well so for Temporate the night for the boards to get an internal overview of the license agreement proposal Get your feedback on it. Do you have any questions? If this is for further revisions to do this and staff would bring a A virgin back to board With the sequencing here We'd love to probably have that back before the board made this summer early this fall I'll turn it this time into the one who's present to do Thank you, Eric. Um, I think Eric every pretty good, uh, intro as to the background and how we reached Where we were in December and where we are now And I'm just I know that some of you weren't here when we um Talked about this previously. So I'm just going to run through The various changes that have been made since the original license agreement was agreed back in 2019 Uh, I'm sure I'm sure you know was actually signed at the same time the town of wider property Uh, so as Eric already mentioned, uh, the term has been extended from five to ten years Uh, that was something requested by the outdoor family center to provide more more stability Uh, allow them to do better planning Help them attract and retain staff And also make capital improvements in the property That was one of the main issues we discussed with the catamount Management committee, I'm going to be careful of my catamounts here The catamount management committee, uh, and they were very supportive They actually noted they'd heard very few complaints about the way that the family center had been running the property In their five years so that that was good use good news We did include an additional clause in the term Which was the family centers give us one year's notice if they don't intend to renew at the end of this term Uh, and that's to allow the town time to figure out What we want to do with the property, uh, if they're not going to be staying on after 10 years Um, a change that was made in response to concerns about pedestrians checking in Was to clarify and sort of crystallize in the license Uh, the both parties do find it Necessary to encourage people to do that. Um, the main reason is it's helpful for the town Uh, and the family center to understand how many people are using the property helps with planning It also helps getting people sign the family center waiver And it also does reflect, um What we said we should be doing in our forest management plan um As you don't know the the The sort of the use and the goals of the forest to set out in the forest management plan That was something that was drafted by residents of the of the town And to control what can take place And that sits with a Ream of other documents that regulate the the use of the property including the conservation easement their discretionary permit for the property The temporary events ordinance, which you just discussed and so on and this license And the license very much flows from the management plan On that end we did include an additional clause just to provide clarity to everyone involved About the types of uses that are allowed on the property, which are really just educational recreational and sort of competitive and other events That's really just to provide Clarity and make sure we are referring to the correct document when we receive inquiries from people But about the types of things that we may or may not permit On the property and you know if any changes requested to that that would have to go through the Consultive process of updating the forest management plan Which would require public consultation and be reported back to select board Um, we included some additional language on the trails As part of this license, we do delegate maintenance of the trails to the family center They're doing a great job on that for us But there are a few things that the town can go in and do or should do With regard to the trails. So really that was a request From the family center that they have a voice In the standards that we work to And staff felt that it was only fair if we are expecting them to take on the maintenance of the trail Whilst we retain sort of final say of the standard That we do take on board what their comments are And that also has benefits from the town and there's a lot of sort of knowledge and historic Background experience and expertise in trail management that we do benefit from If we do do a trail project down there Um, as Eric mentioned one of the main main changes we've made Is to how the license interacts with the temper event process which Was adopted last year a bit of a unique situation the catamount family center has in that they're Sort of an external body who has a license on town land And a large part of what they do is to hold events They have a discretionary permit that Reflects that but there has been Problems and a sort of lack of clarity over the thresholds that we are applying When they will need a discretionary sorry a temporary event permit And really that's created a lot of work for town staff and outdoor family center staff In sort of figuring out and Getting through that process as to what does and doesn't need a temporary event so where we've landed is We've sought to provide clarity for all involved and to sort of move from The process of sort of managing And commenting on on sort of everything they do to create a framework For them to work within which sets out what the town's expectations are Uh, and also what our safeguards are to protect our Position and this really reflects the fact that unlike say a private business Or someone who owns their land and is asking for a temporary event price Permit, we do have a sort of a landlord relationship with them and they have sort of got Five years track record of working well with the town and managing this property for us Um, so what that does is it provides sort of higher and clearer thresholds Uh than was on the temporary events ordinance um, if they don't breach those um They don't need to apply for a temporary event permit And those thresholds were arrived at sort of through Staff experience of administering the temporary event ordinance with this outdoor family center We also have the uh Criteria that town manager can approve their Temporary event permits for those that do need them or can refer them to the select board um, we've removed the requirement from an annual list and instead Required them to keep an up-to-date Website as a calendar of their events And also provide us with an annual report for the preceding year of everything that happened on the property uh, that's really to sort of recognize that the whole sort of planning of future events was becoming time-consuming and ultimately of limited a value process um dealing with the temporary events so we're moving moving towards them Uh dealing with temporary events through the way I describe what the thresholds Keeping us up-to-date so we know what's going on with their website and also briefing us at the end of the year as to what happened And then lastly on temporary events Um, we do have some guidance in there the request of the fire department on burn permits and campfires Restricting them to their fire pits And then lastly an outstanding action to develop Some additional criteria by which you'll make sure the fire department are aware of events that are happening So they can plan around availability VMS and UTV Availability because I think there are some events that may fall below the threshold Where the fire department want to know that something's happening up there Um, but it might not necessarily necessitate a full temporary event permit Um, I'm getting towards the end. There is um additional Uh allowances for them to close the trails which wasn't in the previous license Um where there's the spring four or they're getting abused Um, they do need to tell us when they've done that and that was a change that was made back in december Since then we've had the ability to road test it through one spring four And they've been very diligent in reporting when those trails are closed to us Um, and then lastly we sort of looked at the parking lot Um, there was a desire expressed at the catamount management committee that it be kept open at all times Uh to allow those people Who might otherwise recreate on the trails to recreate on governorship in the road during the spring four Um, the town doesn't actually have a policy to keep That parking lot open. We also can't resource Sort of prioritizing plowing it And also monitoring it for safety so Where we reached which is a sort of agreement with the um Outdoor family centers, they do have the ability to close it Um, they can't close it unnecessarily. We want to keep it open whenever possible Um, we'll clearly define the criteria by which they can do it if the parking lot is dangerous And if there's potential for widespread trail damage that they can't control Through purely closing the trails Again, they do have to notify us ASAP So that we can go up there If we feel it's necessary and check That it's not been closed unnecessarily Um, so I think that that was it. That's just the main points that I wanted to highlight Um, have to hear your comments. We've got a few things to work through with The outdoor family center We can take on board your permits and then as eric mentioned to report back Later for the decision Questions for simon More of a general question Is there any contention between The number of events that are going on there Events most of them at least that I know where I've been to before Likeers The number of events versus Just somebody wanting to go up there Walk on trails So that is a good question Uh, and you made me realize that I skipped over One element of my presentation, uh, which was to talk about the safeguards. You may remember I talked about establishing a framework Um For them to operate in and the safeguards. So that is actually one of the safeguards we have Uh, so we have a safeguard by which Um, if we feel that events are being managed properly Um, we can change those thresholds when a temporary event permit is required and they're then required to go through the process Uh, to your point, we also have um Where we feel that sort of operate um The quantity or nature of events that are taking place have become So much it's starting to interfere with Um pedestrian use Or the town holding their events We will meet with them to discuss changes to their operational procedure And the town can direct those changes Uh, to make sure that we're not Well, the town can hold its events that it wants to hold Um, but also so that the pedestrian right of access which is actually Um, something that conservation easement protects as well as the forest management plan Uh, I'm not I'm not forgotten about and I made a respected so, um Thanks for pointing that out. I I did mean to address that but I skipped while Looking at the website it looks like you've got events every day Doing a good job. No. Yeah. Well, it's um, yeah Are you looking at doing anything beyond, you know trail running and uh, so the the outdoor family said they're them Those are my majority outdoor family center events and so there's a lot of cycling mountain biking Um, and then also, uh, sort of hiking and running events One thing that the family center recently been doing Um over the last year or so is creating a sort of a more, uh, like a naturalist approach To their, uh, events so as well as doing what you might associate the outdoor family center with which is You know kids on bikes running races mountain biking There's also things like, uh, fungy forries going out and looking at mushrooms and fungy that they're running Uh, and you know tick talks learning how to sort of be aware of ticks Uh, and I know that you know, they run camps every year. So one of the things they're looking to do Um with their camp camp counselors is as well as like making sure they Understand the safety of the kids and getting them on mountain bikes and things like that Is also educating them about the forest And how important it is to manage it I think those are all really great things, you know, like what you're doing. I think that's a real Benefit to the town of wilson and the surrounding area I didn't really understand what you meant about temporary events Uh, so that that was something, um So they are they do have a strong events, um Aspect to what they do. It's something that was allowed for special permit out of the town. There is some events that are large They do require additional scrutiny Either by the town manager or the select force. So they do occasionally They don't have many of them, but they do occasionally have like a three or 400 person event Uh, and that goes beyond, you know, their regular race series or, you know, 150 person Kids ski event. That's something that we need to think about a little bit more carefully Um, it's a big property, but you know, four or 500 people is a lot of people So we want to make sure we Give that the sort of due consideration it needs And then there are also some some other aspects that will, you know, always require A temporary event, you know, if they Supposed them to serve alcohol or they've got sort of overnight camping or something like that That does need to come back for a temporary event about it You just wonder when I hear temporary event permit if you're trying to get it beginning at the weddings and I don't know the different types, you know, party events instead of fighting and fighting So they they would only be allowed to hold events that were allowed for in the forest management plan So the forest management plan does not allow them to hold weddings um, they couldn't hold like A graduation party, uh, they could hold, you know A You know a meet up for people who are Mountain biking that would be a sort of an acceptable thing if they are mountain biking, but they couldn't hold weddings Um Along those lines not without changing the forest management plan Or they're on mountain bikes like what if a girl in beard not be sponsored a mountain bike race with beard? Uh, well that that would need to come back because they're serving alcohol, but I think So what one of the things that we spent quite a lot of time thinking about is that We're sort of built this relationship with them Uh, and they do and we do have these safeguards which allows us to claw back things So the onus is on them to make sure they're adhering to what we View an appropriate use and what the forest management plan says is an appropriate use So, you know, loaning people bikes to have a Burlington beer festival event would not be appropriate. That's that's a workaround. That's not acceptable um, you know Having I think they have one where it's a cyclocross day for three mountain Um cyclocross And so people are going there for the cyclocross event, but I think they do have It be attended as they're as well, which is an accessory to the mountain biking use And for that they got a special event permit or temporary event permit So that's where the temporary event permit comes in that we discussed the last. Yeah and a lot a lot of discussion was What is kind of a day-to-day use of the property with thresholds people and parking impact versus what are these larger events on the property? And where do those thresholds fly? That was a lot of a conversation and come in Simon heard his his work and leading those because it was a a lot of details to Working through and trying to unpack what the what a draft approach would be here in this license agreement And just you know, I think it's a I think it's such a perfect place over there It's such a great resource for the town. I don't want it to become a commercial resource You know, I think it's great. You do mountain bike racing racing and they you know encourage people to ride your bike in height You know even tafford takes people, you know watching birds. I think that's what it's for all of a sudden commercialize this place and have beer tents and parties and everything going on over there, you know We've paved over enough wills and I don't want to see that started down the road to paving that place either I think it's important to keep it wilderness wild Yeah, but that would all go back to the forest management plan and the conservation easements, you know Those core tenants for the property is this public access recreation access Enjoying nature of the property Those are certainly things that we looking to make sure our safeguard protected and how we write this license Safeguards then clawback and feel that that that's pushing too far away from the intent and in the license of or rather the conservation easement and the management plan are Are saying about the property Thank you. Who does get to make that who makes that decision or make that Which what's the authority? Just in the body that makes the decision that like this is going this event is too much is is going to get rejected or this Your trend is going in the wrong direction. How would that what would that look like? Yeah, it would be so we have I mean for someone who would say this looks more like a party that you have a few mountain bikes at as opposed to Mountain biking with a few beers at Yeah, it would be part of the staff review with it And I think Simon as part of this they're keep us surprised kind of what their schedule is so that the intent with that was us to say Okay, what's this event about we need a little more information to understand what what the scope of this event is about and what the intent of this event is about Kind of having that that can back and forth understand what the uses are So it's staffs Staff is tasked with determining if we're following the plan or not Correct, and we'd also be assisted with that with the uh the management committee There people who have Go to catamount regularly in a very aware of what's happening down there You're in that committee, aren't you? Didn't we appoint? Yeah, uh, yeah I Select for the conservation commission and the recreation Have membership on that on that tech committee Thank you Other yeah, I made sure I pay attention. Yeah, I gotta read all those documents Other questions or comments feedback I'll seem like reasonable changes When you said they need to give us a year before before If they choose not to renew the end I assume somewhere in the sorry, I looked through it But I really have trouble reading red line thing. This gives me a headache, but Say in six years they were trying to decide they're not going to do it anymore Uh, will they I mean both sides have At the third day the ability to Terminate, you know, don't make them on the family exactly But you know, I think that would it would be A question for the town, you know, I think in the short term we'd have to dial down what happens up there pretty Significantly because it would fall back on How's that? Come over country park. We may be able to find another No, I just think about like they're going to give us a year before they at 10 years But I kind of like them to give us a year at any point within the 10 years as well But I'm sure you've talked to them enough that we'd find out sooner rather than later Undergoing RFP processes. Yeah, no, I mean it'd be a big thing. It's like, yeah Okay Um, do you have any questions for us? No, I think that's a clear stay. So we'll progress A couple final details to shore up. I think the fire EMS details with the catamount Committee and the and their board so We'll get this back before the select board Probably next month or so in, you know, September timeline to sale things like that Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you Simon Next item bond sale documents Package So this is for the ambulance that the voters approved last town meeting day was delivered in Deliverance past June We're we're looking to close on a bond sale that's going to be going In early August our town attorney or bond councils prepare the necessary documentation for the select board to consider We've been approved to participate in the Vermont missile bond bank summer pool. That's coming up to close in August The first principal payment for this will be due in November of 2024 and first interest payment due in May of 25 So these will be baked into our fiscal year 2025 budget This fall for review On the select board's required to authorize bond sale documents as repaired by the town attorney I had a draft motion to my agenda But I um town attorney added a few more language to it. So I sure that would tear him apart and that if there's any questions from staff I'll probably refer to Shirley as well. She's reviewed these with the town attorney So when you're ready for a motion, I have it Are there uh questions for Eric before we proceed So, uh, if there is a motion, so I'll have the following motion is Having seen and reviewed the resolution certificate and attachments to it related to the issuance of the town's $280,000 general obligation bond and it's sale to the Vermont Missville bond bank But hereby move the adoption and approval of the resolution and certificate as presented Second further discussion on the motion All those in favor say aye. Aye Opposed nay. Yeah Motion carried. I'll circulate a couple documents for the board This first one is the actual resolution and certificates Yep, the last page has places for the for the select board to sign I'll have the choice of a learning test to it and then we have a loan agreement that the town attorney has prepared as well and there's the order here Tabitha Ted the first sign here has a spot just for the chair to sign And then further along here is a page for the board to sign Sure, I don't miss any spots or the board That's the receipts and the treasurer Yep, there's one for just Ted and then the second one's for Oh Who's the clerk, uh, Sarah Mason will sign better A little more tech on that one Exit it's like Okay, let's go down the box. Practice it. It wasn't arm day today. So For riveting television We really love chicken so It's all down The audience Maybe this one's during coven and we had everybody on the board Everybody 412 13 members sign it and like get passed back without we were all set and then the the bank said no, no, no Driver all over the freaking county How do you even I started having people sign in blue ink and yeah, and then scan it perfectly back um in this color scan Yeah, and I um, you know Probably shouldn't say this It was it was to get things filed in court from judges who needed original signatures By the way, the judges are making up their own law and then about I didn't I didn't phrase it that way You just said here. Yes, sir. Here you go. Okay, uh next item, uh the waiver of the velco notice requirements Yep, we were approached by a vermont electric power company or velco has a project plan the tap corner substation at that's by an old navy in town This works for fee performs limited in scope And it's designed to improve system reliability and load restoration time for emergencies Project does not change the substation Velco is seeking a waiver of the 45 day advanced filing requirement the public utilities commission hearing as it's allowed under The attorney for velco as advised the the select board and planning commission need to grant such a waiver On the town's behalf on the planning commission discussed this last week getting in support of the waiver This is for the select board this evening to consider I have a draft motion Included an email correspondence planning director matt the laundry and pictures the work they're going to do If the board had any additional questions Questions So the 45 days I assume is in case a neighbor has a Concerned about the project. Yeah, and the neighbor is the interstate in the state police barracks. Yeah pretty much it Yeah for public comment So would it Are we shortening the waiver? We just no waiver at all. I believe no waiver at all They're gonna have a hearing still the public utilities commission So this is a waiver of the 45 day advanced filing requirement Proceeding the hearing so the hearing will occur, but I think it's it's making it able to occur And in terms of I mean, you know, it's a the footprint of this doesn't change It's just changing the nature of how things exist on that footprint So I understand you see some of the picture. Yeah, put it My very limited knowledge of any of it what this is So I just send pictures with big arrows. Yes, I know it's helpful I don't know what any of it is Yeah Staff would include Bruce or correct probably You'd be the only one that would have any Um, not directly with public works just because it's a power supply. I don't over oversee that that component But um, I didn't chat with Bruce about this directly, but I don't anticipate you'd have any any attention to it He seems to be a man with some a lot of knowledge. Yeah, what's going on? I respect his You know So Further questions or comments? If not, then is there a motion? I'll move to waive the 45 day advanced filing requirement for the Vermont electric power company taft corners substation project to the public utilities commission And authorize the chair of the select board to sign the waiver. Is there a second? For the discussion All those in favor say aye Yeah, I have it It brings us up to managers Yeah, I have to print out the actual labor. So See I I don't have it in my Written report, but I wanted to provide for supported and updates on damage from July storms Share at the last meeting the flooding that we saw on the Holston road and Governor Chitton road on down onto road two and river cove road as well You know, thanks again to our staff who've been able to reopen those roadways I just you know fails in comparison. We're seeing around the state. I was um visiting family essential for mono to see one very much earlier our heart They're very overwhelming to see but closer to home here we Had another rain events two Sundays ago and it really greatly impacted butternut road in town and also christmas tree lane I'll share a couple of perspectives to work here So we're looking there we are we're looking at butternut road here What occurred? another another version Can be the four wheel drive school bus So we we had to keep this road closed for multiple days We had to have a we had a contractor come in to assist with getting this road reopened with our staff We also had damage Personally, we had a cold road we needed to replace And through all these storm events additional work on south road okill road okill and south road intersection as much river cove road Lincoln hill road and we had to provide assistance to our north wilson road pump station at times being a bit over Overwhelmed with runoff that was coming into it, but to have septic keep on I think we pulled 50 000 gallons of water out of the pump stations We don't want to get overwhelmed with the water there So as we're looking right now in the county, I think in talking with with bruce our public works director The county is very much on the brink of reaching a threshold of damage for fema Eligibility career reimbursement for these So staff is diligently since this first event happened been tracking their time in materials and also other damages Including as a burst of repairs that we needed to do to get these roads reopened So to give the board a ballpark estimate on on these damage costs and including Some staff time and equipment we're looking at close to 200 000 dollars and damage from these events If we do get the fema designation and we apply for that historically fema has reimbursed Communities about 80 percent of that I'm talking with bruce the state has historically also reimbursed another 10 to 12 percent leaving towns You know the eight to 10 remaining just local funding to pick that up Fema is a long road to get that reimbursement that can take multiple years So if we do get that designation and we'll follow and apply for it. We'll lose that cash It will be be a little late So the boards aware that's that's kind of what we're seeing with an impact to get our our infrastructure reopened reestablished And you know as my act goes off for our public work staff and According with our emergency services to keep them updated on what was going on to get these roads reopened maintain our our water wastewater systems as as we tell them So these events that are hundred year storms Realities that receive a climate change The thing how to remind our next select board meeting is one meeting in august on august 15 Coming up in a couple weeks here And we also have the eight pro finance report included in this packet and surely did you have anything So you want to share there any questions from the board on Thanks for the yellow highlight Thanks for the yellow highlight. Yes, I could definitely see them now I will let you know that you will not get made reports. Um I have not been behind as far as I was this year and once I opened the fiscal year 24 And we have a limitation of their system and doesn't matter what day I post something I can't go back and produce financials for anything other than june. So I post entries They still look like june 30th entry. So Other than spending hours and hours trying to get manual balances as of may to do budget in actual I won't be able to to do it So, yeah You had that problem too kind of a moot point. Yeah, yeah We'll be uh, we'll be closing FY 23 next to me officially Right that's we're trying to close ap but we Still look at big invoices that come in and still post those back, but um So we already are working on um month end your end. Um, we've already done some reconciliations But unfortunately a lot depends on ap closing to keep moving forward. So So we are in the process I was trying to keep track of all your this will be a little bit better. This will be a little bit worse. Yeah A little better. I think we're still Okay at your end. Yeah, yeah because of the revenue Yeah Okay More questions for the questions But you know Eric spoke about the storm damage a couple weeks ago on a sunday night I'd just like to thank the williest and fire department Our neighbors on the corner of south road. No kill row. Their basement was four feet and rising very quickly You know a one inch sump pump wasn't unable to keep up with that and if they called the fire department the fire department came over immediately You know the larger holes and they're able to pump their basement out save their basement And everybody was very grateful, you know The williest and fire department Really passed that on if the chair of me they were they're able to um Move the water to an open field nearby I wonder if it was lack of a culvert between, you know south road and south I don't believe there's a culvert here. And I think it just backed up Overflow and they actually had all kill road flows for a while Those break the storm. Yeah But That's it. Okay, uh other business Recatering permits. Okay All at the ice and ice and family barn One is sundim chronological order August the 12th It's a wedding events August or september the 2nd is a wedding events and September the 9th is another wedding events all by The same here we're under the 802 cocktails 802 cocktails for for offering staff has no concerns Given that is there a motion move to approve All three second Further discussion All those in favor say aye. All right. I was opposed nay. All those abstaining One one abstention Okay, is that it? That's it. Okay, uh item last, uh final thoughts on agenda items from this meeting Any follow-up thoughts? I saw chief boley and brought you know, I triggered a memory The sx police department has a citizens academy You know, I've had some friends go to that citizens academy. It's eight weeks long three hours a week And they really gained a lot of insight into the police department, you know They learned, you know about the police what they do Was very interesting they said and it's also used as a recruitment device for the police department to you know, get people interested in the police department to come and uh It's just sounding it's a real successful program I just encourage everyone to look into it Okay, cool. You know, maybe think of that with the Howard Mental Health Center here today and everything But you know, like I said, eight weeks long is three hours a week. It's a real commitment It is but you know something, you know, it just brings a lot of good publicity for the police department People get to see exactly what they're doing Yeah, yeah, okay Any other items Can we um, pencil in maybe on this long list of future policy issues to revisit this Uh, 12 events in the yeah residential zone Yeah Or a prompt for the date that we thought we could maybe Bring it back If you get an update, uh Three three to six months from Okay Anything else during nothing We are adjourned