 All right, if Veronica doesn't come back, one thing I forgot on the quarterly, or the agenda is an EMS update. But if she doesn't come back, we'll forego that part. All right, so I guess we're gonna start with the budget reviews, and we can go with the fire department, have most of you had a chance to look at the fire department budget? I mean, we seem to be on pace with where we should be, and I don't see any glaring. Some lines are over budget, some lines are under budget, but it appears to be balancing out well. I don't know if I have an extra on me here. One, because we break out the repairs now per vehicle, used to be just in a general category, but on our rescue truck, that's abnormally high, and that's more of an anomaly than a norm. We had to have some work done on it, had to go back to basically the manufacturer, and in the process of trying to get the seat repaired, and the light tower repaired, which we thought was just a light bulb replacement and a bad shock, it turned out that the light tower had the motherboard and the base unit go bad, and the light head was discontinued, and we could not get a replacement light head, and so then the option was to go to LED, but then you can't mix and match LED and non-LED. So basically it was a light head upgrade and a brand new scene. And so those two items alone were close to 10 grand at repair, and then there was also the bodywork, which was caused by tire chain failure. So that's not normal, but it's at 17,000 right now. Yeah, just. So any questions on the fire? See anything? Issues? All right, I'm gonna look at the ambulance one real quick. I know all the bills have gone out, but I think here I see that at least as of March, it could have came in. These are all these numbers are through March. Callis still has a chunk of money and Marshfield has a chunk of money, and whether it came in yet, I don't know, because we present numbers that the board has reviewed and we stopped at the end of March. About three quarters of the way down, the two transfers from capital to operating and from ambulance to operating? Those are, we do that every month. All of our ambulance income comes in and then we split it 25, 75. So 25 goes to pay ambulance billing, paramedic intercepts, and what's the other one? I've drawn a blank and then the rest goes to capital. All contingency, I take that back. Contingency, that's right. We pay all the other stuff first, then what's left gets split 25, 75. Once contingency hits its max, then we no longer can contribute to contingency and it all goes to capital. No, actually both of those are contingency. No, actually both of those are transferred to operating. Right, because we pay for paramedics. So that's a 25%? Yes. But that money comes out over the top, but we have to transfer it from ambulance savings to our checking account to pay for paramedic intercepts, ambulance billing, and that's it. Yeah, right? Yeah, make sure our contingency's up. Yeah, paramedic intercepts and ambulance billing get paid off the top and then what's left gets split 25, 75. So I think what you're looking at is the transfer. You're saying they're from ambulance revenue to checking? I'm looking at 4980 and 4990 and they are labeled transfer from capital to operating and transfer from am to opera. Right, so the transfer from capital to operating is when we make a motion to purchase whatever it is, new computer printer, $4,000 and we make that a capital expense, all of our checks get written out of operations checking. We don't have a checkbook for capital or any other thing. So we then have to move the money over to cover those expenses. Okay. And so like as an example, one of them that we picked up on last month that we noticed we didn't make the transfers, we made them on paper but we physically didn't move the money from one account to the other. And so like donations as an example, that number is high right now but there are things we paid for with the holiday gift drive we do and that kind of stuff that was paid for out of operations checking and now the money has to move over to take its place. So moving along I guess, to date this year, the ambulance has brought in 145,655 dollars, I should say since last July, not calendar, fiscal. Through March 31st, early into March. Or technically March 26th. Then on the capital plan, I was waiting to get one last price to be able to close out what it was that I got. And I know I'm cutting it close to that 25,000 that we're allowed to spend for capital every year. And it might be a little bit over that but I don't have that number. And it's really because of the radios. I purchased two radios last May or even before May thinking they would be in for last year's budget. Well, they didn't come in until this year's budget. So that, you know, it's when we get the bills is when we got to account for it, unfortunately. So that, I know I'm getting close exactly where it's gonna fall, I don't know but I know I gotta technically come and see you folks if I exceed 25,000. And then on the call review, I did something different. I tried to go back to fiscal year and present two years because I know they wanted to see like historically last year to this year. So I tried to do the same time period, July 22 to March of 23 and then July of 23 to March of 24. And so you can see the side by side comparisons of where we are with going to Calis, East Montpelier, Woodbury, Cabot, wherever. And then I also broke it down separately just for the first three months of this year which I think Veronica was gonna kind of just mention it. So you could see where we are this year today. And for this calendar year, we've had 132 medical calls and 63 fire calls. And some of the fire calls, there's an increase between Calis and East Montpelier and it's primarily driven by us helping them more with lifting and just being there to support them and get stuff and help them where we're doing that more often and they're also gonna reciprocate by coming with us more to fire calls because we all recognize that fire fighting is a very dangerous occupation. And usually when the fire department goes out, the ambulance doesn't always come along. And I'm looking to try and change that and have them come out because I hate to say accidents can happen and it would be nice to have an ambulance there to be ready in case one of us gets hurt. Any questions on the call logs? Okay, next item, new truck update. I'll let you talk about that one, Paul. Well, okay, we have good news and bad news. Bad news is we wanted the truck here for tonight's meeting but it didn't get here. The truck is coming Tuesday at two o'clock. It's coming Tuesday, two o'clock and it will be delivered and we'll be practicing with it Tuesday afternoon. But if anybody, any of the members want to come in when it arrives, you're certainly are welcome to come down. But at two o'clock, around two o'clock, he's driving it up from the Albany way because it'll be up here in the afternoon. It's coming Tuesday. There's two parts. There's two little brackets that they're waiting for. I told them today, we gotta get it up here. We're gonna be tracking it on Google Maps or something so we can see what it shows over the border. They're all asking, they're all asking, yeah. I'm sure it won't get a good response. Yeah, but anyway, that's the update because it's a nice looking truck. I can show pictures of it, actually, if you're interested in seeing it. The eclipse tied it up, the eclipse tied it up. Yeah, right, yeah. They tried to get out, yeah, that's right. They tried to get out on Monday, but the roads didn't allow it. So that's all I got for that. Okay. And the other thing, and I know we, and I bring it up again because I know we might have another repair coming up. And we paid for several things to fix on this building that we found out later should have been brought to East Montpellier's detention and that there's funding to support some of these repairs with this building in particular and how that works with Calis East Montpellier and Fire Department. I've never seen anything that says 60, 20, 20 or 100% East Montpellier and we're 80. I don't know how the breakdown works, but we do have a, I think it's a decent wood pallet repair coming up where the firebox is totally burned out. And it's the estimates we got are $4,000 to $5,000. And we just want to know how to proceed. I mean, we're gonna make arrangements to have it fixed, but then who's funding what share and how that's gonna take place. If we can figure that out even moving forward for future projects along those lines. Why isn't it the 1-3-2-3? Doesn't it fall into the 1-3-2-3? Exactly, okay, all right. I mean, as far as I know. Right, but do we help, what do we contribute a portion of that to? And I don't know, that's, so I bring it up as more of a question. So we know. Tell you about the firebox. What's that? Yeah. Holy Calis is involved. Well, they own the building. So you own part of the building? Yeah, yeah, that's why I thought we paid a third of the expenses for the upheaval. So you're, you're not quite. I'm not sure. Okay. That's why I was on the show. I've been here for two years, I've been here, it hasn't come up, so I'm not sure. Pretty sure. That is my, that's my hot take on it. And we've seen from recent events that it's a good idea to go back and look at the documents and see what they say. And since we are moving right along and I know EMS is not going to be here to give any kind of update that quick. I know there's been discussion about the interlocal and possibly revisiting that again. And I don't know if there's still talk about doing that. Yeah, I do think that thing needs to be fixed, but we seem to be getting along. Could we put, just put it off to the next meeting. I'll try to pay attention. I'm trying to remember what the issue was. It seems to me we need to have one process for if somebody wants to get out of the agreement and another process for if somebody wants to change the agreement. But I didn't think much beyond that. When's our next meeting? August. So, would it help if I wrote something up and made a proposal for that meeting? For a few, I don't even remember the details of the interlocal in my head. I'd have to go look it up. But there's that window that you have to make your claim that you want to open it, count backwards whatever it is, two months, three months, I forget. I'm sorry. I could be wrong, but I think I remember from the last meeting was that this was going to be something that each slug board worked on independently, independent slug board meetings, and then brought to each other. You made your memories much better than mine. I think that's as familiar. I don't think that's familiar. No. And my memory is that what you were wanting to modify and was to change back, I think, a modification that Callis had asked for some years ago to originate the agreement just continued unless somebody said we want to change it. And now it's worded so that it has to be approved by the slug boards to continue in force every once in a while. And then the question is, well, what if we forget to do it? So you wanted to just go back to having it in effect until somebody says, hey, we want to come back. My concern was that when they changed the line, which I wasn't there, so I don't know, but it looks like they mush together two processes that should be separate. One is we'd like to propose a change to the agreement. Let's talk about it. The other is we quit. In that case, you want a process where we give you several years noted or at least a year's notice if not more and how that works. And I think those are two different processes. But somehow when this got written, they pushed them together. And I think we had a regular part saying, let's go back to the old process for how if you want to leave the agreement, that I thought worked well. And come up with a different process for how if we want to make a change to you. Okay. And in terms of the timing of the discussion, yeah, you're absolutely right that there's a window for making the modifications. And I don't think there's anything to keep us from discussing how we want to modify it well ahead of that window opening up so that we're prepared when that window opens up to go forward with something that we're real. Okay, well, I'll make a commitment to put it on an agenda and we'll work on it. Will you please do the same? Does it make sense with the way I told you that? I'm happy to try to write something up for you guys to react to. That would be better. So why don't we take the ball then? Thank you. And we'll give it to you. Thank you. Anything else to come before us? Nothing? Just a clarification, asking to open up the contract. What I just heard, if you guys have come up together and come up with some kind of a plan that you wanna implement as a change, I don't think it's the intent of the contract is that you guys would get that together. You ask to have the contract open and then throw that at us that moment. That opening the contract, there's a timeframe from the time you ask us that you ask to have this opened and there's a period of time before that can be opened. And I think those changes I think have to be, I think they just can't be thrown at us or we can't throw stuff at you at tonight's meeting. Hey, we wanna change this. How all of a sudden we... Oh, agree, great. I mean, we're all three of us are partners and if we wanna make a change, yeah. I think it's the ability to open that, the notice that you wanna open that contract is a timeframe that has to be met. That's the key, I think. But right now without that contract, I don't think anybody knows what it is. I'd like to see the three entities form a committee work together on it. Everybody's on the same page, their ideas and so we know what you see each other's time. Can the committee's kind of make board meetings more effective? Yes, that's just my personal opinion. Are you volunteering? I'll volunteer as a select board member. All right, I'll volunteer. Are you asking the fire department to have representation too? Yeah, okay. I'm sure we'll find three people to sit on that. Well, I think the board's gonna decide it. Right, right. They wanna do that. Yeah, our select board needs to decide on that. Yeah, right. So you're taking two people from each select board and two people from the fire department? Can we just take one from each? One, one, that's fine. It doesn't make any difference. That's good to me. One is because they're just representative from all three groups. I just think it's a better dialogue all around. Make it an official at a select board meeting. I'm gonna reach one of those at the board meeting. Fire department, so be it. So we'll put that on our agenda for the next board meeting to bring that up, see if that's possible. But the board accepts that, which I don't know why they wouldn't buy that. You mean it accepts the formation of a committee? Right, right. We can't just form the committee and work on it at the time. I would not commit the fire department to that. No, the board would have to be the one to do that. I would like to see that they would. However, I can't. I don't see us not doing that. Right, that way. But the board's gonna be the one to vote on that. Fire department board. Right. I see. We meet on Wednesday before the first Tuesday. The last Wednesday of the month is your board meeting. Yeah, so it'll be Wednesday. Because that's a big change from what we've done. It'll be the first Wednesday of May. And I don't wanna just jump into this thing. Jay may have some other opinion and other board members may feel they wanna speak at a board level rather than here on something like that. Don't you want something to react to? But the thing that is all we're talking about is bringing an idea. Yeah. Two of the three boards. I don't think there needs to be a motion officially from any of the organizations to do it just unofficially form a committee. We're just talking about creating something that everybody can react to. I think it's good for us. Well, I think, and again, if you do that, you gotta open the contract. I believe that the language that we're talking about changing doesn't change the terms of the length of time for notice that, I don't think it would affect opening the contract or the length of time of notification. I think the languages would not, is that correct? And the prior to the notify, that there would be some sort of individual understanding that this was the thing that we were hoping to do and that we could stretch the whole process. We start the process once we at least have something that we can talk about, something concrete to talk about and that they're proposing just three of us getting together to come up with something that we can just give to everybody and say, what do you think? Let's use this as a starting point for the discussion. If you folks as a select board on your own want to sit there and discuss the interlocal and things that you want to see changed, that can happen in anything. You can have your little discussion. Make up your list. When it's called in a question, you bring your list. We might have changes we want to see at this point. And then East Montpelier has their own changes and we hash them out and come to an agreement. You know, that's when meetings are worn. But yeah, I mean, there's no reason why you can't discuss on your own what things you'd love to see changed with the interlocal and when the time comes we have a meeting and hash it out. The committee of three can probably get it done and then just present it to the main units. It's like one for Calus, one for East Montpelier, one for the party department. Once they get their thing together, go back out, whatever. Well, I mean, I want to stress that it's important that all three groups sit down when decisions are being made. Because one of the things, sometimes we feel like, you know, I hate to say it, but the deck can sometimes be stacked against one group or another based on whether it's separate meetings or private agendas. And all of a sudden two groups get together and say, this is what we're doing. And then it gets force fed on the third group. And you know, we want to make sure that we all agree with the changes and what they are so that we're all happy and not where all of a sudden I'm working with East Montpelier saying, you know, we think Calus should do this. And then we all vote and Calus gets stuck holding what's left, you know, and that's not right either. But I think all you're describing would prevent that. That's exactly what I'm prescribing so it would not happen. Right. So we come up with whoever it is, comes up with some language, disseminates it to everybody, gives everybody lots of time to think about it, talk about it, and then we all come together and talk. It's just easier when you have something in front of you to react to than, you know, kind of a vague idea. Right. I mean, I knew now that inter-local agreement had some language that was kind of confusing. And it's getting more and quite sure, when does the date start? How long, you know, so clarifying a lot of that stuff would be up. I think it's, I guess, we done? Want to make a motion ahead of the meeting? Sure. Well, we don't have the ambulance people here, so I think the lesson could do right now. Yeah. All right, thank you for coming. Okay. I know what the question is. We're preparing all this. Walk us through it. Thanks for preparing all this, and walk us through it. Yeah.