 Our first meeting tonight is the Board of Liquor Control. And item one is a public comment on anything that's not on the Board of Liquor Control. I think that's good enough. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are you the Board of Liquor? We're the Board of Liquor, which will be covered in public time. So next is approval of the agenda. I want to motion to put the agenda. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. New business. 2019 liquor license rules. We have several renewal applications that have been submitted. The first on your list should be for a SAC restaurant, in the Randolph Road. We have not had any issues with this particular restaurant that required law enforcement. So the town recommends, or staff recommends, approval of this permit. In the middle or in the middle? In the middle of the month. I don't think we've got any issues with the law enforcement. No. There is one issue with one license, and that is related to one May. However, that issue is not specifically related to the town. It's mostly internal. There have been some noise complaints by the residents above the restaurant. We, the town, have engaged the residents and have also engaged the property owners. And we've determined that it's not an issue that the town needs to be involved in, because it is an internal, private issue between the property owners. We've had the Sheriff's Department stand outside of the restaurant. They've confirmed that it is not a noise issue. Even if the town had a noise ordinance, it wouldn't violate the town's noise ordinance. So that is really the only issue we've had with this property owner, or with this restaurant owner over the last year. Two of these that are here have outside consumption also? Yes. My Kremlin one May. Whatever reason, the lease agreements with the town or use of the town property have never been put in place on those two. I'd like to see those in place if we're going to approve it. Basically requiring them to hold the town harmless if anything happens and to carry insurance to cover us in case somebody trips over the pain that doesn't get picked up. Something we could bring to the restaurant tours. I know we had a traffic issue this year that resulted in a vehicle being hit and prodcited and knocked into one of the pillars where the seating area is in front of one main. It didn't go too far into where the seating area is, but it is a risk where somebody is prodcited. They could go into that one vehicle area. We have not looked into the documents that we shared with me in terms of establishing this agreement for insurance. If the board would like, an option would be to approve all the licenses pending an agreement for these two particular restaurants to provide insurance for outdoor seating. In this way, I can then be free to work with the property owner or the restaurant owners and say, this is what we need. As soon as you get this put into place, your license is approved. Is this something that they can do relatively quickly, do you think? Yeah, there's a draft out there. I'll look and see if I can find it again. I know I drafted it a few years ago. It's going to be attorneys reviewed. And I think that. Yeah, no, I get it. I hate to pull them up for months. It's going to be something that we can do quickly, and that sounds great. People make it because none of them are going to be doing any seating outside right now, so I can't you approve these. And then once they complete the outside document you need, then you can then they can serve outside. That's more like a reasonable solution. As long as we feel that we can do it in a timely way. Well, they can't complete that, and they can't serve outside. Well, I understand, but if there was something on our side where we're like, well, this is going to take us four months to review and get through. And then they're like, well, we're most the way through the season. OK, well, I think we can be reasonable to figure that out. But if we can get this done in the next couple of weeks, then we're not thinking anybody's business. Right. Sounds good. I mean, nobody's going to be sitting that site for a month or so, can you imagine? Well, hey, we're going to be long talk that way. Might be longer. Never know. Good snow again tomorrow, all right? OK, so is that satisfied you? Yep. Ask a question. Can I follow up on one main? And I want to confess I'm a red lion in board member. Second and third floor. Sure. Are you saying there's absolutely nothing the town can do? Or what are you saying? I'm saying that the town does not have a noise ordinance. And so there would be no way for us to enforce an issue related to noise at this point. But even if we did have a noise ordinance, the issue isn't so much that the noise being created inside one main exits the building, it's that it's going upward. And once we have that scenario where it's not affecting neighbors outside of the building, it becomes a private issue between the condo owners of the building. And so then the owner of the first floor, which is being credited for creating the noise, now has to work with the owners of the second floor where the residents live. And they have to work together to fix the issue. Unless if it was coming outside, then it would be our problem. It would be a town issue. We would have to solve it. Because the noise is going upward, it's internal in the building. And does Shane agree to do that? To work with the owners? Right. That's not something that we could ask them to do, which we have. And the restaurant owner doesn't have to comply because it is a private issue. The only thing we can do is ask that they work together. We can't force them to do it because it's a private issue. And we could be seen as siding with one private resident over another. And in this situation, we have advised both the owner of the second floor, which is already CDC, and then also the restaurant tour. And the first floor is to engage one another. And both have confirmed to me that they haven't worked with each other over the last year and a half since I've been around. Have or haven't? Have not. Have not. Have not. But that's not a topic that's going to impact what we're doing here. This board has no saying on the internal noise within the building. It's only if it's out on the street. We have a confirmation from the Sheriff's Department who stood outside on the nights when a noise complaint has come in. And they have said to me that they don't have a problem with the noise coming out of the building. Hopefully there's no problem between town and next year. Am I pointing out? Sure. Any other questions about the licenses? I'll make the most of the proof impending the subsequent two applications that require some insurance proof. Let's go for the sidewalk. I'll put the sidewalk outside down. So I'll start with that. Close in favor. Motion to adjourn. Excuse me. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Liquor control. Just liquor. And motion carries. We're not all going home yet. Motion carries. We're driving water. Yeah. Yeah, have a seat. We'll be fine. I'm done. Here it is. Call to order the regular slick board meeting. Instead of this public comment, this is public to be heard about anything that's not on your general. Can I comment? I want to bring the slick board up to date on what the library's been up to. Can I pass these around? This is a monetary statement of the value of the services that the library provided for the fiscal year ending June of 18th, and if you take a look at it, you will see that aside from the budget that the town approves for several hundred thousand dollars but less than 300, we provide services valued at almost nine hundred thousand dollars. So I just wanted you to be aware of what you're getting for your money and what the town is getting. And beyond that, right now, this past this current month, this is an investment in community relations. You can't put any money value on this. But this month, the library has provided, aside from all the books and everything else that's borrowed. We've had an adult book discussion, a senior center book discussion. We've had story time three times a week. We've had a Ukrainian egg decorating thing. We've had two films or one more tomorrow, two films including tomorrow, two poem town events. It is currently National Library Week, which is being celebrated in the library. During school vacation week, there will be additional kids programs on poetry. And we've had two story times at daycare centers. So the library's been quite busy in the community. And I just wanted the select board to know that we're not all asking for money. We're giving back an awful lot. So I just wanted you to be up to date. Thank you. If I may add something in support of what Sally's mentioned to the board, Amy and I have had an ongoing positive relationship. We have devised a plan for how to use capital reserve funds set aside for the library in addition to budgeted amounts that the library has available for upgrades. The library's been a great partner to the town. They're using the revenue that they have in conjunction with limited resources that are available through the town. And we look forward to having a positive relationship. A lot of good work. I want to address that when you get to the grants. Sure. One added note that I'm not sure if it's related, but the Ukrainian ag decoration, I believe, may be related to kind of Randolph's former participation in the sister cities program. I think we were partnered with a city or a town with the Ukraine. And I don't remember the name, but it was back in the 90s. So I put more of those tables on the table if anybody wants to. So could I make a suggestion? Sure. So I think that this is all good stuff, and I think it should be shared with the rest of the community so that the rest of the community sees what's going on here. So maybe a little something in the paper, an article. That's a good idea. It would be helpful, because I think you need to kind of, I said this to Amy when I was there last year, to market it. And I got criticized for this, but I think I remember it was there when I said it. The library needs to do a little bit of marketing to promote itself so that the community understands what the value of the library is. We did have it tell me. OK, great. Yes, I do remember seeing it there. So but if there was a way to circulate that front porch forum, maybe the newspaper, I think that would be helpful. Thank you. Anybody else under public to be heard? Two minutes, two minutes. We have multiple saying yes, or you guys are all together. We're all together. Yeah, we're all together. Good evening. I'm Betsy Reyes. Thank you for taking time to listen to us. I'm a retired teacher, and we're here to present more information about the East Valley community group as requested. As you can see, most of our membership is here tonight. And I'm going to ask each of them to introduce themselves. Because like two minutes, because this is supposed to be for us to get a briefing and decide if we want to put it on the agenda later. OK, sure. That's not going to get done. Just tell the leader. All right. Well, we have a lot of members with great skills and lots of amazing experience and come from many walks of life. And we can have a web designer who's got a new website. And you're there. Yeah, sure. I'm Josie Carruthers, and our mission statement, right? Our mission statement is, we seek to promote neighbors, meeting neighbors, and to celebrate life in our villages that go from East Brookfield to East Bethel, but encounter three of the Randolphs, as you know. Very well. Our goals include building community vibrancy, building community. Let's get to know each other. Let's have a good time. And completing the renovation, of course, of the East Valley Community Hall, which is historic. So that's a key strategy in our building community effort. So it's not the only reason we exist, but it's a big deal, of course, for us. And we are here today because building the vibrant community that we feel a part of means participating. So we show up. We show up for each other. We show up tonight. We want you to know us. We want to get to know you. We're here, really, to promote a good, knowledgeable, transparent, working relationship with all of you. United we stand. And so people who participate in our group and people who are on our mailing list, it's about 50 people now, and the number are growing all the time, and inquiries, and so on. So we understand that if we're looking at the Community Hall renovation, we understand the town's limited ability to dig into a project of that magnitude. And that's why we're doing it. We need it. We want it. And so we'll work for it. And so that's really it. We want to work closely with the town while meeting our mission. One of the things that we tasked you with last time was to come out with what the actual formal structure of your group is versus a, like, well, we don't have that much time, because we're through the two minutes at this point, but what type of structure is your organization, and what's your roles and responsibilities, and how you're going to interact with the town? So that is in the document that we hand it out. Yeah, but it doesn't say are you going to be a private nonprofit? Are you looking to be a committee that is subset of the town? We're not looking to be a community subset of the town. We're a private group at this point where nonprofit is probably in our future. In the immediate future, we've come to an agreement to work with RECDC if we do take one funding from an individual. So it can run through RECDC and get the 501C status. But at this moment, we are not a 501C3, but it is perhaps on our time mark. So roles and responsibilities, here, you just list the people who are in contact with the committee that are on. We're looking for, like, what do you want to do? Do you want to design the new stuff? Do you want to research the historical requirements of the structure and how to do it? Are you going out to actually apply for grants, and the funding that are you going to put out is for contractors and whatnot, which you can for the town to do that. But, you know, that's what we need to do is actually Is it possible to get somebody from either the select board or the town manager to provide us exactly what you need in writing rather than verbally? When's your next meeting? Our next meeting is... First Tuesday in May. First Tuesday in May. And one of the things we wanted to do was to invite any and all of you to come to any and all of our meetings. We've got to warn them that we're going to have more than two there. Our meetings are hosted and on... So May 14th? No, first Tuesday of May, I think. First Tuesday is the 7th. And where do you meet? On Thursday, we meet at John's house right now. Where do you host this chat? The East, or the Second Branch. Second Branch, right. The meetings are hosted in two places in town and on the website. And sometimes it gets on far worse for them. Okay, what we'll do is we'll discuss it later during appointments and see about getting a select board member to go over and sit down with you and help you define what those pieces are. Great, one final point would be where we need to access as much money as we can through grants. Of course, when we had a meeting on March 6th with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, World Development, the Vermont Arts Council and four other organizations. And we need to, what we're looking for is to fulfill your requirements as fast as possible and have you give us your, you know, your, we're hoping that you'll commit to, yeah, to endorse our efforts so that you will sign off on the grants, you know, as, you know, the town owns the building. We're the people who will go out for the grants. We're the people who will go out and do fundraising. We're the people who are taking this project on. And so of course we can't do it without you and I think you can't do it without us. So we're looking for action as fast as possible so we can start writing grants. Yeah. That's a one more thing, Trini. I'm wondering if this meeting that you talked about with someone from the board or don't know, maybe should happen before or maybe. Do you want to meet up Betsy? I'll come over. We'll sit down and figure this out. Sure. All right. My spirit down. Can I come over? Yes. Because it won't be in the same building. I know spirit down. I'm just saying if it's more efficient that way, that's a good idea. We'll just let us know. We'll have the conversation when we get down to old business under appointments and then I'll reach out to you. Okay. Maybe stronger than why now. Just saying. I never thought I'd want to talk about meeting. Anything else under public leader? Anybody else? I'm Bill Chifley. I've been recommended to join your energy committee and I just came by this evening in case you had any questions for me. We will get to you under appointments then. I may not be able to stay that long. I wasn't sure I was on the agenda or not. You are. No worries. No, no, if you can, sure. Otherwise we have the energy committee's approval of your candidacy, so. Yep. As I have a number of organizations I'll be meeting. How much time are you here till? Till 6.30. Okay. We will have to give you another. Yeah, quite soon. Okay, we got one. I think so the agenda is approval of the agenda. If the board would entertain a few possible options for change under the other business, the items being requested to change or inclusion is one is an assembly permit for a town event and then also coincides with a private entity event which is a 5K run. The second item is what's referred to as the local emergency management plan, an item that was inadvertently left off of the agenda. It's our annual plan that would be required by the state of Vermont and then also our regional planning commission. And the other two items are just the board certification of items that we already follow. The town is looking to apply for a grant that the select board has previously authorized us to apply for. And these are just two documents that confirm that the select board or that the town does what it needs to do to comply with road standards and then also receive more than $300 per mile for our roads within the town, which we do. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda in the addition but I'll put it up for the sub-wrestling. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Stage. Motion carries. Oh, sorry, the second was back. Okay, sorry. So next we have our consent calendar, which are the minutes and warrants. I had a question on one of the warrants. So do I bring it up now? Okay. I just wanted a further explanation on the 11,000 something to the state for retirement and I know the background of it but I'm wondering why that's coming up now. The issue, so we no longer are taking the credit we have the credit expired, believe it was last. Earlier this year it expired, one of our previous payments and what happened was the state inadvertently maintained the credit on their side so when they sent us the initial bill we paid the bill, he were sent and they subsequently said, we apologize, we sent you the wrong amount. You underpaid because you took the credit that we had issued that you no longer are eligible for at which point we then had to pay the remaining balance that was supposed to have come to us in that payment. So we took the credit from the operatives, right? Exactly, yeah, the operatives the credit, we took it, then they said, sorry, we were kidding. And that's all done now. And that's all done now, yeah. You take them to court. So no, I was a lot of money, what, $300,000? It was, yeah. It's sad to see it go, but. Mm-hmm. Do you have any questions on the warrants? The motions? Motion to approve the consent counter consisting of the meeting minutes on the warrants. Sure. Hi. Hi, jumping down to old business, which is the appointments, the fire warden position, Daniel Boone is being recommended by the fire advisory committee. Any concerns on that one? It's a thankless job. Mm-hmm. As soon as we've allowed the fire warden to select their backup, you could express interest in going on the capital planning and budget committee. If that works for them. The rep. Yeah, if that works for them. You wanna fail on that one, Matt? That's fine. That was which committee? I'm sorry, capital. Capital planning. That's a letter from Bill here. Anybody have any questions for me? So are you actually living in Newport? No. I'm living in Berlin. I rent half a house. So you're from Berlin, Vermont? Yes. My goal is to move to this town during the spring and early summer. I thought I would move and volunteer for the committee, but there was a motion made at the last meeting that I attended to recommend me. And I stated it was pretty quick when I would be willing to serve. Bill has been coming to a lot of the energy committees recently. Help him. What's your connection to the Randolph community? I like the community as my long-term residence because of the college and the high school where I feel I can contribute as a volunteer to help young people learn some of the trade skills that I developed over my lifetime. And I believe that the market for my services here let me continue to work and be productive by time. I'm a small business man, and I love farming. This community seems perfect for me. I'm the vegetable type. We're the maple syrup type. No. That's what we're doing today. We need everybody. That's why we're calling. We need everybody. The fire was starting from the left town and from the other side of town. Sergeant, you can come back to the first page. Dan is going to also express interest in the health officer position. So I did talk to him at our last meeting, and I asked him to reach out to Lori to get more information. Is he maybe a candidate? Might be a couple. I'm looking for two that we're interested in. So I'm going to do a little poking around just like you did. That's our job, so we may have a few. But we need two people. We need an alternate, right? Oh, definitely. We're a deputy, right? We could have a deputy. Yeah, so that could be a good thing. Are we going to look at the two rivers? We only need two, right? We do. We've had some trouble communicating with one of our former representatives. We serve as an alternate. He's not confirmed whether or not he wants to continue, and this is Winston's to do. We have two individuals that are currently, one that was recently appointed, which is Gary Durr, and the other is one of our former, or most recent reps, Ramsey Papp. She's willing to serve as the alternate if Gary's interested in serving as the primary. She left that up for the Board to decide. I would recommend that Ramsey be the regular, because I noticed her letter. She would do either one, and I think she was the regular one last year, right? She was. She'd be the regular person, and Gary would be the alternate. Apparently if there are two there, they have to come up with one vote, so. I think that changed, I want to talk with her. We were looking, we were very specific in the questions we asked Gary intentionally because of the challenges we have with two rivers right now. I'm sure you asked her the same thing. Yeah. And if she's been there a lot for the last couple of years, what has she seen and what actions has she taken? Because we haven't seen a change in behavior there. It's actually gotten worse. I mean, you hold off on that, tell them to chat with each other, Ramsey. I'll give her a motion for Bill here. Don't want to do it that way, I don't want to do this. Okay, I'll make a motion for Bill over to the left. Who's the other one? John Watts, they're six, so they can put both of them on. We can put them both on. I'm sorry, I didn't hear that. I think we can put both of them on here. So we have John Watts. Which committee? The Energy Committee. The two positions. Is he applied for it? He was interested, right? He hasn't actually submitted, but he says he's interested in it. He's verbally committed to it. I talked to him a couple of days ago. We also have Jerry Ward, interested in the energy. I talked to John Watts a couple of days ago. He said he would just assume he'd volunteer. He would rather have the other people on as what he told me when I asked him last week. I think he's gonna be involved to some extent no matter what. I believe Jerry Ward's interest is more on a subcommittee for the Planning Commission on Energy as opposed to the actual Energy Committee. Yeah, I think you're an energy check. I think you have a, let's see. I have had communications with Jerry and I believe that has stood out. And one of the tasks that I asked him to perform was to speak with Marty because of the Planning Commission portion of it. So I believe that's his interest. I think I saw that same thing Jerry. It's not on the Planning Commission though, right? It's Jerry on the planning commission, but I got an email from... You got some from Shannon too, I think. Some from Shannon, yeah. So that's what I was looking for here. It's on the email list on the first page, the very bottom. It's attached to that. Because I had an email that talked to that pretty much. But he says it's willingness to serve on the subcommittee being appointed to assist the Planning Commission. We're not forming a subcommittee to assist the Planning Commission. That's going to be out of the desire to move the town plan without an enhanced energy chapter. Which is what the Planning Commission voted to do last week. So in that... He's looking to join the group that's going to work on the Planning Commission to develop the enhanced energy piece. But we're not appointing that to the heat. So there is going to be a subcommittee right here. Well, that was what, that was my suggestion of the Planning Commission was that in order to move the town plan forward. Again, that we... Because Planning Commission had worked on this now for well over nine months. It seems like we were moving forward. And then we got to that forum. It didn't seem like we were going anywhere because what we were hearing is what we didn't. But apparently we didn't get it right. So my intention here was to get us to a point. And Tori told us in that meeting that the current energy chapter was acceptable to rivers. And that wasn't a problem. So my feeling was that if the members of the public felt strongly enough to want to help draft that, again, because the problem is, now they show up the 11th hour and they railroad the process. And so I felt that if the town plan, we could move the town plan forward, fixing the things that we needed to fix. So we wouldn't be dragging this on for another year. We would be beneficial for us to do that. And then at the Planning Commission we wanted to set up a subcommittee of folks who were interested in participating in that process. And they could do that, come back to the Planning Commission, make a recommendation to the Planning Commission on how we get an energy plan. So that was my goal. And I made the motion in the Planning Commission accepted and we moved that forward so that we were going to only include the chapter on energy that is currently in there that was accepted. So the Enhanced Energy piece needs to be hammered out and addressed and I felt that, you know, the Planning Commission thought we had done a good job. And then we heard differently. So that's why I did what I did. Because we cannot continue to move along without a town plan here. That's approved by two rivers if we're going to expect to be able to track grants. That's what I understand from the meeting in U.S. the Energy Committee to go listen to you. The Energy Commission, Planning Commission and the Energy Committee needed to talk. Apparently there's something going on. I've got an email to the effect and I think they have people who would love to serve as part of that process to be able to come back and make a recommendation in the Planning Commission as to how we should do the Enhanced Energy piece. Right, that's what I heard. So I mean, Jerry could be a part of that but I don't necessarily, we have to appoint a sub, we have to let them appoint a subcommittee, right? We don't appoint that subcommittee. They can do that themselves. So that's what needs to happen. So Jerry can then be part of that if you'd like to be part of that if they so desire. Sure. So, going back to the Energy Committee, I think so. We have the ability to un-appoint them. That's a good idea. Okay, well, I think it's a good idea. I'd love to see more people involved in the Energy Committee to work through this Enhanced Energy Plan. So. And who are we appointing? John Lutz. Phil and John Lutz. Phil. Nobody understepped up to the plate yet. Yeah. They probably ran right over it. I'm sure. So putting those two on. Planning Commission, we had Sonny and Mike, the expressed interest. Bill McGrath was interested in the DRV or the Planning Commission, Sonny and Mike were both interested in Planning Commission. We have the ability to take Sonny and Mike on cleaning commission and put Bill on DRV. I think that would be a good idea. This is the only one that's expressed interest in the DRV. I don't know where I'm. Sounds good. Okay. Did we get a raster or a hub person, is it Valerie? Well, no, the board had expressed an interest in reserving that for the hub or the RASA group. We've asked the RASA group to provide us with a candidate. I think they're very busy in working on the hub itself. We had some loose interest from Paul Ray, one of our community members who has remained very active. He was not fully committed mostly because he has a lot of work that he's performing already with the RASA group and the properties. So I'm not sure how much time he would be able to devote to this, but he expressed some loose interest. We did receive an email message from Valerie Schoolcraft who's remained very involved with planning events and committees, so. Which is why we include her on the list. Well, given my experience with Valerie and her ability to do things, I would certainly. Doesn't she hurt at the hub? I think she's involved in that some. So we'll have to ask them if they think, I mean, if that was okay, then if they thought that that would be, I guess that would be the question for them, but that was why we were holding that and if she's involved in that, I think it'd be a great way to fill that space. She's done a really awesome job working with Heidi on things like the Christmas life for her age. She don't mean to hurt herself. So I know she's working with Heidi right now on this community Easter egg thing. Very strong community supporter. Very diligent person. No, she's on top of everything. So no concern as long as the hub and the RASA are fine? Yeah, and if they're fine, are you utilizing her for that? I think she would be an excellent choice. For DRV, we have two members up for reading. Adam would like to go to alternate and John would like to go. Can we have that? Can we have a built-in seat that we can fill with? Build a new graph? We do. Now we're definitely looking for a few more. Looks like we're looking for a couple of altruists. Yeah, we'll do some more for this. We have some feedback that's come back on a couple of these members of it. We ought to probably sit them down and have a conversation. We can turn that first. Couldn't be a bonus to giving them a one-year tour. I just wanted that out versus a three-year. Let's just have a conversation as to what happens. Not one year? Just, that's what I think would be appropriate to have a chat first. It's nice that two people want to switch. Yeah, so Adam wants the switch to be an alternate and John wants the switch to be permanent. So then you'd have Bill filling the vacancy and you'd have to find two more to be alternates. You've got two alternate spaces to be vacant. There is some concern from the town engineer and that there's no scenario in our appointment policy that discusses a non-renewal of appointment. It doesn't say that the term ends at the end of the year. It doesn't say if it will continue until the appointment continues. But it also doesn't say that the position terminates and there is no one filling that position so there's no vacancy. So there is that given take between my point of view, which gives us a like board more time to consider their options and what the town engineer is considering, which is she feels that if an appointment isn't made, the position isn't occupied. So I haven't spoken with the attorney yet because I don't think we need to have that conversation and spend resources on that conversation. There's a concern about that. Economic Development Council, we had one vacancy there. I was asked to be here to be here because you wanted to speak to me. So maybe I could hear what you were going to say. So some of the concerns that I'm sure people have seen in the paper and whatnot is that the cost of the envelope service is continuing to rise. We're trying to figure out ways to control that cost. We're looking at the service and we've thrown some ideas back and forth with the management of what we're looking for. And I think you heard it some also on the two rivers and some of the challenges we have with them is to make sure that the folks that are representing the town that are appointed by the select board are representing what we need to do and what our views are on those committees versus this. We have some people that don't like that conflict or don't like to be in the position of raising their hand and saying, hey, wait a minute. Can we look at how we're doing this or can we look at other ways to help a new generation? The last two years, actually, that the per capita has been stable. It was stable for five years before that. And I expect it'll go down next year because we are expanding the work that we do and we're taking more transfers. And that's generating more revenue. I've spoken to the board twice about the possibility that in June we might be able to reduce the June payment because I know Randolph didn't appropriate enough money to complete this year, year fiscal year, which is half of our overlaps with half of our year. So I'm a board member of a nonprofit corporation. I'm not a member of two rivers. And a nonprofit board member is supposed to promote the best interest of the corporation of which he is a board member. So I can communicate your concerns. I have done that, but I cannot tear up Wurva from the inside. If the town of Randolph wants to withdraw from Wurva, which I think would be a disaster for the hospital and for Randolph as a whole, you have the power to do that. I don't recommend it. And I don't see how you're going to be able to do it a lot less expensively than we do and have the same kind of coverage. I'm going to ask a question for just for the minute's sake. So was the comment that you made that you represent that you were appointed to the board and your job is to represent the agency as opposed to the town? Or was your comment that you are to represent the town to the board? We're supposed to act in a manner that the director reasonably believes to be in the best interest of the corporation. In this case, it's White River Valley Ambulance. I did that document from where? Vermont Statutes. I have copies if you'd like one. But usually you balance the two. I'm sorry? Usually you balance the two if you try to figure out what the town is trying to achieve as much as the questions and the concern that we have. And you balance them with the ongoing something you know is in this case. So that you're looking out for what your role is on that board for the non-profit. But at the same time, you've been appointed by the town to represent the town on the Werba board. Right. But my goal there is to make Werba function as best it can. And I have been doing that for seven years. I don't think I've missed any meetings. I've been the treasurer for seven years now. And I work on that function every day. I follow the cash. I'm now monitoring every payroll. And that has cut the payroll back. We have the best manager we've had in all the seven years that have been there. We have Matt Parrish, who grew up in Granville. Has Vermont Roots and Vermont Ethics. And we have a retreat coming up on Saturday. And some of the comments that have been made through some sort of questionnaire program, some of the answers were that he's the best, the ones who made the comments, the best that we've had. So I don't know what has been offered to the Werba board that Randolph get a special rate. I just I don't think that works particularly well for the other towns in this area. I don't think it works well for Randolph to have Randolph think they're entitled to a special consideration. What you've seen happen is we've looked at some of these larger ticket items that the town has, and Werba's one of them, and said, what is the service the town needs versus saying this is the service, and you're going to keep paying for it. But what do we need for service, and how best do we meet that need? Great, so that question? Well, no, that's where we're coming into. That's why we're trying to figure out when we're going through that process, if you're going to be comfortable sitting at the table knowing that we're going to be exploring what the definition of need is, we'll set up a group similar to what we did when we looked at the police district where we have people that are for it, people that are against it, and people from all different parts of town, and try to get a balanced group around the table and define what we need and how that needs being met and what looks best for the town going forward. And what we're just trying to make sure is, if you're sitting there at that table, that we're not putting you in a position that you are comfortable being in versus, I mean, I have no doubt you can handle it with your years in the legislature, and I'm sure you've done it much worse, but what we don't want to do is put you there and have you be in a comfortable position as we start poking and prodding at what this looks like and do a comparison. You've been doing that for the last six or seven months because we've been getting emails from Adolfo. That pushing and prodding has been very helpful in getting Urfa to be more challenged to look for other revenue sources to cut back payroll costs. Our payroll costs are probably $2,000 or $3,000 less every two weeks than they were nine months ago. And that's a result of new management. That's good. So I think that the meeting, so Adolfo and I attended that Urfa meeting, do you think that was a positive step or do you think they felt we were challenging them too much? I mean, we're throwing out ideas and so one of them was, what other revenue streams do they have? And it sounds like we've already explored that and so now doing transfers, I think is actually providing some extra income, correct? So we're just out of curiosity. One of the things that we touched on was who bills for services that go on to the interstate. Is that getting billed, not getting billed? Not yet. Not yet, but you're working on it. But we're working on it. So I'm happy to hear that you're working on it because I think that we've been giving them a free ride up there. I was working on the diesel tax three weeks ago. I went to Montpelier and spoke with the chair of the transportation committee and the vice chair of the House of Transportation Committee, the chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. I now understand that everybody's going to be paying the tax, towns, cities. So probably trying to get Urfa exempt from that is... Is it going to be... Is it going to happen? Right. The legislature is raising a lot of taxes and that's one of them. And that's one of them. But when I was there, I was given forms for applying for refunds. You can go back three years if you can get them to say, yes, you were exempt or should have been. And so we will apply for that. But I do this as a volunteer. I know. I usually work 20 hours a week for Urfa. It's fun to some extent when I'm not... That's why we're all kind of here because I can tell you the stipend isn't coming close to what we're doing. So... Randolph's not going to be able to pull out of Urfa for at least 12 months. So you need a board representative who can help make Urfa function and not be somebody who's going to be a spoiler on the board. You need to do your due diligence. I would say outside of the board. I provide the town manager every month with comprehensive files. Same as I give the board. I'd be happy to give them to any of you if you'd give me your email address. My email is just swebster at sovereign.net. So you can email me, give me your email address, and I'll copy you on those emails to the board. I'm good with you. I think the best person we have there is the treasurer. So I'm glad to hear that some of the suggestions that we offer are being considered because I think there's some things that just think that we've been providing. Urfa's been providing and the fire departments have been providing services to that interstate up there. And we don't own that interstate. We shouldn't be responsible for having to take care of everything that happens on the interstate without any compensation. And I know other communities get compensated in other areas. So however that happens, we need to find out how we get that done. I'm sure there are insurance companies involved here. And so. There are board members who think that at some point we're going to have to expand. It's becoming harder and harder to find staff. We've been fairly lucky that way ourselves. And maybe it's not luck. Maybe it's because of some things that we're just doing, but all EMS organizations are stressed right now. Everybody's struggling. I'm excited to hear it. And as the waters grow older and older and young people don't step up as the way people did 50 years ago. Well, the young people aren't here. That's the problem. But there are some. We're some, but this is an ongoing problem, not just from a stand point or a fire stand point. It's a business problem. I mean, we're all losing that segment of the population that does that kind of stuff. I do see myself as a little different from the president of the United States in NATO. Right. I'm unhappy. Okay. Sure. Thank you, Steve. We have an alternate seat too. Does the alternate go to the meetings also or? We haven't had an alternate for quite a while, I think. I was the alternate. When you came on this board, I remained an alternate temporarily and then was appointed and nobody else was. So. You've never filled that. But if you make all the meetings, we don't need to, right? I do make all the meetings. I would anyway, even if I had that backup. Okay. Because it's important to stay on top. So I've actually got some more work to do on that tonight. So. Great. Thank you very much for coming, Steve. Thank you. Thanks, Steve. Thanks, Steve. The ones we have. Present time. Mountain Alliance. Pat was the select board liaison. It's a question here of whether we need one. We don't need one. Okay. How much is there? You are no better than I am. We discuss a lot of trash. If that means anything. Yeah. It's interesting. Like trash talk. Yeah. Pressure. Hopeful season. What's that? Okay. I'm coming for you. That's great. There you have yours. It's only one, which is for somebody to sit with Betsy over something more than water. More than willing to do that. You get that one? I'll take that one. Okay. You have my email. I have it on your handout. And so just imagine the time that you're available. Yeah. Preferably before nine o'clock in the morning. That's with you. Look at that. New business for my community development program, municipal policies and codes. This item is a house cleaning staff that is required by the community development program for one of our partners, Claire Martin Center. It is just acknowledging that we have policies in place and that we practice legal, that we have legal steps and procedures in place to use some state funding. The document is included in your packet. It's a form that has been approved in the past, just confirming that we have certain policies in place. In order to approve, what we would do is sign the form, submit it online, and it would make us eligible for that funding to manage it. We already have one, right? Does that have a different investment? We have to do it for every project, every grant, unfortunately. It doubles up on the work and the paperwork. One and a double. And then the state says we want to be in green and environmentally friendly. That works. Okay. So if the board is okay with it, if we could just have a motion to approve the municipal policies and codes sheet. What is the changes, I mean, because it says it's revised. I don't know what the changes are with regard to some of the other forms, but as I was going through the document, everything that is being asked for in this document, we have in place. I'll move the replacement. I'll second that. Hi. Precision allocation request. We received a request from New England Precision to increase their wastewater allocation. This particular request made its way through the wastewater committee. What they want to do is they want to discharge more of their processed liquid. Right now, what they have in place is a dehydration system. Essentially the water just evaporates and they then dispose of the remaining metals. What we've been working on with New England Precision is a way to be able to safely capture that material through the sewage system. We work with them to determine that whatever it is they do discharge does not harm our bacteria that we use to break apart some of the materials. Staff feel that the levels that are being proposed for disposal are appropriate. I was not at the committee meeting where the decision was made. Larry, I wasn't sure if you were at the meeting. Accurate? Yeah, we've gone back and forth with them for quite a long time, getting information, revising the agreement, having them go back and do some research, and they've been extremely helpful, and there's been a lot of great questions asked from them by members of the committee, and this agreement seems to be... Is there anything extra that will have to be done by the town to process? I don't think so. It was really all about making sure that we have the existing capacity to handle their request, and then writing an agreement that works for the town, works for them, and follows appropriate environmental regulations. Or did somebody talk with the state about the... Yeah, we had the, I don't know if I forgot his name, but we had the person from the state who would basically overseas the sort of thing, come through on one of the meetings, and I'll use their help for them. Thanks. There are, I believe, two different charging methods. One is for the simple fluid that's going to be making its way through the actual wastewater system, and then there is a potential additional charge. Should there be more material in the discharge fluid that has been proposed for the, something by the wastewater plant, we would then be able to charge for the excess material. They're not allowed to exceed a certain level of contaminants that would harm the wastewater plant, so they are aware of that cap, but anything below that, we would charge them once for the amount that they're disposing of liquid-wise, and then also for anything above a certain level of bio, I forget the actual term. So there's additional revenue coming into the wastewater system. That's in a contract, we signed with them. That would be with, I think, the ongoing agreement. The proposal, I think they submitted, includes those levels, and I don't know the exact level of amounts, but there are levels in the agreement that they proposed. Yeah, it comes to levels, and then the town has, already has policy about what the rates are. Yeah. So it would just be filled at whatever rate there's. The part on the back, it shows where they took some sample data from that room, and you see the calculation that are on the last page of the agreement. And the monitoring is all part of the agreement as well. Sounds like it's going to be followed. It's a real win-win. It really helps them out. They don't have to put a half a million dollars into a new evaporator, and it generates significant revenue for us. Yeah, revenue for this one. Questions on the reunion? Is it consuming these motions? Move the re-improvement. Disconnection request 102, Thayer Brook. We had a property owner that no longer has a home or a structure on the lot that is requested to be removed from the water system. The property owner was advised that if they continue with this action, and we do remove them from the water system, that if they are to rebuild later on, they would have to apply for a new water application. They acknowledged receiving the information and still would like to disconnect from the system. How come we don't pay somebody when they release their allocation? We just make them buy it again. It seems a little one-sided, doesn't it? The Elts can buy it. Cap and trade? I've got to buy it again. Who would say we trade market for this? Secondary market. Secondary market for which one? Allocation? Transfer like real estate. Yeah, they're real lucrative, right? At the brown market? Brown market, yeah. OK. I guess we're not quite big enough for that, I guess. This is the house that's sort of in the robbery, right? Or used to be? I'm not familiar with it, but yeah, someone told me it was way out there. Uh-huh. Well, I'll make a motion to remove that in the remote water system. Next up is Grant's Campbell Library and the cultural facilities grant. The library has submitted a request to the town and to the select board for approval to apply for Grant. And we have Sally here who wants to speak about that. So this is the third thing that we need to do to come into ADA compliance. We've done the lift. We did the ramp. The bathroom downstairs, I don't know if any of you have seen it, but it's not compliant. The doorway doesn't work. There's a storage area that is not good for air quality or mold and that sort of thing. So Amy hired a, we have hired an architect. And I think that the drawings were provided to you. Is that correct? Yeah. This is the plan that the trustees have selected to go ahead with. And it gives a separate sink, which is, they don't have to change the doorway because that door is removed going from downstairs into the pool area. There's just a new door now that goes into where the toilet is. So we have two sinks, which is great in a children's area anyway. Baby changing and all of that. The architect has estimated, this is not a quote, has estimated a number, it's coming close to $40,000 to do this, applied up to $20,000. So if we can get the $20,000 grant, take $10,000 out of the capital budget allocation for the library, and the trustees will provide the additional $10,000. So it's a matching grant. We're proposing that half of the matching grant come from the capital allocation and half come from the trustees funds. Now the thing is that this grant has to be applied for, the deadline is, I believe it's the end of this month at the 1st of May. So it's May 1st. May 1st, OK. So we only have a few days. And the grant requires quotes, not an estimate. So Amy has a couple of people who are prepared to give quotes. And she'll have two contractors, and she will get that the week of the 22nd. So the applications do the first. And so we can get our end of it done in time. We need the town to go ahead and say, yes, yes, yes. 22 or 3, how does that work? Do you have three for town things? Do you have to put out a request for the people? This isn't for the town, this is for the grant. This is just for the grant for a match. So they're OK, you don't need a third quote. They just check and just want to make sure we get it. You have to admit it. You've got to admit it. According to the town's procurement policy. So if the town requires three, then they have to get three. That's after we get the grant. OK, so you have to just check and make sure we can do all within the legal. So if I want somebody to come back saying, you're supposed to get three and you only got two. No. Just want to be clear about that. This is for the grant. OK. So what we have in our capital plan is the don't leak repair for $25,000. Is that where this is coming from? That's where the money would come from. Just drops that down to $15,000. Drops it down to $15,000. But conversations that Amy and I have circled around, the amount of funding that the library has invested of its own money, especially with the windfall that it recently received, a lot of the work that has been ongoing at the library has been privately funded by their revenues. And so through our conversations, Amy felt very comfortable with taking from that $25,000, understanding that that project is still outstanding. But because of this grant opportunity, it would make better use of the money we have available to use right away. So apply right now. Get this. Exactly. You're going to have to fund the dome later? Yeah. OK. Well, that makes sense to me. Are you pretty sure that the $40,000 will do it? I don't know. This is the architect's estimate. These drawings that you have are just that. They're not plans. They're drawings. His guess was, I think, 37 something. And when I talked with Amy yesterday, she was saying it sounds like it's going to be closer to 40. But I, you know. Nobody knows until you go to bed. But we're proposing that the town release 10,000, up to 10. I mean, if it comes in at less than that, and we have to match the toy, we have to match what the grant is. Anyway, it could be less. It never is, but it could be. But if it goes over, I think the trustees, we haven't formally voted on this, but we have had a consensus of opinion. The trustees, I think, are willing to step up to the plane. Yeah. I was thinking the other way, if it comes in over, should we be applying for more in the beginning? So it's $30,000. No, it's where do you see $30,000? First barrier. That's the maximum board. That's the most they'll give in the grant. Oh, right. But she's Sally said $20,000. But we are applying for $20,000. And that's not my decision. Amy has done that. And I don't have the rationale on that. I'm sorry. I've just been involved in some bidding lately where the actual bids have come in and out twice as much as the architects. Quote. So it's just hoping you want to make sure. $80,000 to do that bathroom all signed up. You can bid? You can bid? If you know anybody that does that kind of work. Well, gee. There we are. In part of my scheduled time outside of this board. So I just wanted to think about it. They should apply for a little more, because they may get less than they apply for more. Is there an option for you to say, go ahead, apply for $20,000. But you can't apply for it. You could say, OK, you could apply for more. Can I ask you for that? That you have to apply for more. Pardon me? We can authorize you to apply for the maximum of $30,000. OK, and then we could apply for what we want. For $30,000? Sure. We could apply up to $30,000. But I'd be curious to know what Amy's rationale was for only applying for $20,000. Does she have some? Well, I was back to her. This is already your manager, Bob. No, it's a one-on-one match. It's a one-on-one match. She says to bidding it's a $40,000 project. I see. OK. So the one-on-one match, if so, if it was $45,000, she'd need a little more. Gotcha. So help me with grants here if you've got a half a minute. If you apply for a $30,000 for a grant and you need $20,000, you just don't take the rest. Is that correct? That's correct. So if we apply for $30,000, which is a matching grant, and so that would mean a $60,000 project. But let's say then the project does in fact come in at $40,000. We only accept $20,000 from the grant. Great. OK? Does the amount you apply for affect the possibility whether you might get it or not? Not with these grants. This one it doesn't. Some of them they do. They look for a higher match. They let the ones that are matching like 70% versus 50% in some of the one-of-these don't. I think your best bet is to go in with a $60,000 proposed budget. And then if you only spend $40,000, when you close the grant out, you release the rest of the money back to the state to do something else. But we need two quotes. So I don't see Amy asking her contractor to pad a quote. No, we wouldn't want that. No. So when maybe you get the quotes, and you guys can make the determination when you apply for $20,000, $20,000, or $30,000. OK. I mean, the quotes are going to get you pretty close to where you need to be. Right. Right? So you're going to know at that point whether your architect's off-basis, like Pat mentioned, maybe he's not up to time. I don't know what the current rates are. Right. So that gives you a little flexibility. I mean, I'd be comfortable with that. You guys get your quotes and see what you are, and up to $30,000, right? Sometimes you bid them to. Pardon me? Sometimes you can actually bid the work out instead of just going for a quote. And then you tie it in with a period of time. Usually you have three months. Right. We don't really have to contract. I don't know how much time we have to go actually get a bid. This has to be in next week, two weeks. We're going to get a bid in two weeks. So not for many reputable contractors. So if you authorize the library to apply for $30,000 or to go for $30,000, then do we also have your assurance that you will release 10 from the capital fund? Yeah, I wouldn't have a problem with that. OK. I think if you pull this off, and I think that would be money well invested at that point. If you were to secure that grant and get the bathroom fixed, and then we can look at the dome situation down the road a little bit here. Dome, da-dome, dome. Yeah, exactly. Do I make a motion to that effect? Sure. I wonder when we said I didn't mean to. Up to $30,000 in the town, we will agree to provide the other 10 from the capital budget provided up to $10,000 on the capital budget. So if we get that word Smith correctly, you got it over there? You got it over here. OK. Somebody needs to. Second. There you go. Matt's on it. Motion to the second. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Can I ask an additional question? The lift, I'm just curious. Was it a totally new lift? Or is it, did you have to rearrange it? Or what was it going to happen? It's in the same spot. It's silent. Come check it out. Just quiet and a new one. I'll deal with it. I was just curious why it had to be changed. Where's Pat? Look at the library. All right. Thank you all. It's a town building, though, so you can't have alcohol there. Good deal. Go get them. Durian. We could change that policy, except on the lift before I break it. Stop in between floors. I don't know. Hope it's broken. I'm ready. Great progress. Thank you. Thank you so much. You're added under other business, right? Yes. All other under business. The easiest of all the items to consider are the two forms from the trans. These are the ones that are confirming. One that the town of Randolph receives more than $300 per mile on any one of its class one, class two, class three roads, which we do. And the other is to confirm that the town is in compliance with the road and bridge standards, which we are in compliance. The board order motion to approve these two forms, we could have them sign and apply for the granted. So moved. Second. Motion to second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. And what's the purpose of the first one? Stained motion carries. Just to confirm that we receive at least $300 per mile of class three, class one from the state. The next item that would be easily, easy to review would be the local emergency management plan. This is the first year that the state is using what's called a local emergency management plan, the previous iterations, where the local emergency operations plan. What we have done is updated all the information from our previous plans, contact information for law enforcement, fire personnel, our emergency management director and coordinator listed on here. It lists the items that we have available in terms of equipment. Also provides a list of all of our sensitive populations, such as Randolph House, local children facilities. Also provides information on where our emergency operations center is located, as well as contact information for the select board. So if the board were to approve this plan, we could then send it to the Regional Planning Commission, which has already reviewed it, and has confirmed that it meets all of their required criteria. So I think that the village fire station as equipment notes may be of value to add to the hazmat room that we have there for contaminants and law capability. Hazmat deco. What I can do is if the board is interested in making the motion to approve the local emergency management plan, I could make it contingent on my adding the hazmat decontamination at the Randolph Village fire station or any other items that may be missing that you can see. To Moot. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. You're? Hi. Yes, sir. Only double duty with minutes today. We had a request to add an assembly permit by staff and also a member of the community that works with the hub for two events today. Although it's on the same assembly permit, they are technically separate events. We thought just to make sure maybe we put it on the one. The first event is a Easter egg, a springtime Easter egg hunt and bunny bunny 5k walk and run. Actually, I'm sorry, those are two events. The first one is a springtime Easter egg hunt at the park. The second event is a bunny bunny 5k walk and run. We have Heidi here from the rec department and she can speak to the springtime Easter egg hunt. Yeah, the actual run is beat first at 8 a.m. Zach Friedman and the roster crew will be organizing that. It's just a small three mile, five, two and a half back. It all depends on the weather. If we stay on the road or hit some trails, it does look like it's going to be kind of rainy. So I think he will stick to the road. And then after that, it's only about a 45 minute run or walk. And then at 10, we'll have our hunt. We have separated different areas for the hunt. So one ball field for the 0's 4, another ball field for 5 to 7, and then a little bit into the disc golf for the 8 and up. So they have to at least hunt a little bit harder. So we had the senior center participated on Wednesday. So they helped us clean all the aids that were donated from the thrift store. They helped us stuff candies from donations from the Shaw's market. So that was a fun morning spent at the senior center. And we have another stuffing party also at the ice rink. And then we'll be ready to go to get people out there again and get people out of their houses after a long winter. Hoping that spring is back here and some new fun for the whole family. And that was just for a little bit. What's your spring is here to you, though? I'm hoping it's here. It's not the first one to be here, right? Yeah. It's all the blizzard today. I'm usually not peeing over there. I'm not peeing, but I'm not going to pee. Well, baseball is eager to get out there. Oh, yeah. We're ready to go up on the sugary hill. I'm not going to pee, so we'll be right back. All right. I don't see any issues with this. We've met all the right criteria I'm assuming. There are some signatures. There were some recommendations made by the Sheriff's Department. So the Sheriff's Department was hoping that if the board were inclined to approve the permit, pending their recommendations and then also capturing the signatures that remain on the permit, I believe this copy that was, this copy in your hands was printed before Fire Chief in the Village came in to sign the actual form. So if I'm not mistaken, he's already signed this form. It's just, it just hasn't, this was printed before. Right? You guys, I mean, you buck, you're dotting your eyes crossing your TZ, right? Yeah, the Sheriff met with Zach and talked about certain intersections on Main Street. And so Zach's crew, Rosta will be on there. There'll be their first signage and all that stuff. That'll be there. Main Street. There's two maps. There's one of them on the back. It is dark. He sent me, yeah. So that one, the dark one, that's the red one that you have right now in front of you. So it's like going with the Gifford and back. And then the back one, that one is the trail ones. Which probably won't happen. So are they going to keep the runners? Totally. It's my first. We're not just going to let some people, yeah, they're going to stagger the times and stuff. And a lot more of the parents that are coming for the A, they're going to have to walk. They're going to be walking. But we're not closing the road for this. No, no, no. We're going to have to somehow keep people. No, no, yeah. It's on the sidewalks. Oh, on the sidewalks? Yeah. Perfect. And then we'll be volunteers on hand to make sure that... All through the ministry, especially at the turnaround and then back. Yeah, no closing, nothing. I'm good with it. I make a motion to approve that assembly permit for both the Easter Egg Hunt and the Bunny Bunny Walk. Does that mean everybody has some decks to get into? No, I was like, I think Zach should dress up. That's what I was wondering. So we're going to dress up, right? So here's my motion. We will have a bunny out then. Is that included in the motion? Exactly. Dressing up as the bunny. No, I'm not going to make any attention to time in dressing up as the bunny. You can tell him that. I'll tell him that. I think he should. I don't know if we're going to tell him that. Seconded it right. Sure. Not so. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. meeting. I'm sorry, we're chandler. I'm scheduling a chandler and wondering if any board member would be welcome. If you're interested in participating, you're welcome to join. What time is it? Is it 3.30 or something? That's too early. That's too early. I thought it was more than 5.30, so that wasn't it? I'd be interested if it's 5.30. Have it down as 5.30. Does that work for you? Or is that too late? So what's the purpose of the meeting? The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the proposed agreement between, or proposed agreement between chandler and the town. The idea is to be able to have a conversation about the existing relationship, past relationship, and the relationship coming forward. But if I believe, Ron, you had a preference of meeting earlier? Yeah, I think early works well for me. You had a conflict. You got something at the high school. I did. It's actually much later now than it was before. I'm flexible because I left, I'm opening all afternoon. I believe they cleanliness available from 4.30 on. Okay. Works for me? I mean, like I said, I'm flexible. Okay. If any board members interested, meetings at 4.30. Okay. I'm sure there's not more than two coming. Yeah, so, yeah, coming? Oh, that's fine. I'm good for that. Okay. Okay. We'll report back to you. Where are we meeting, by the way? Absolutely. Give me here. What's the final time? I'm sorry. 4.30. What else you got? I didn't mean to jump ahead of you there, but it's okay. It wasn't on the agenda, and I saw Ron Feth back there, I'm like, are we gonna get to them? You guys gave me a nice relaxing visit. Shut up. Thank you. A few items. First is discussions with Chandler, which we just talked about. The second item is directive that the voters gave to the town manager and select board at last town meeting. And that was the commencement conversation with the Randolph Center fire department. We've started the conversation. We've had the very first meeting. The meeting went very well. We're hoping to have several more conversations as the year continues and ultimately have a report to the voters next town meeting. There was no decisions made at the most recent meeting other than just to continue to have the conversation, but it sounded like we were moving in the right direction, at the very least one that would be favorable for at some point for the board to consider. We did recently receive an additional almost $100,000 from our insurance provider. We found out that some of their record keeping for reconstruction of the fire department, including materials that were less than what we actually had. So they gave us the difference in the material items. So we will receive an additional $100,000 within the next two to three weeks. Some of their staff members who review these materials are on vacation. So once they return the list was a check. What does that bring us up to for reimbursement? I don't have a total amount. I know they've given us I believe it was I don't want to give you the wrong information, but there's a considerable amount that they've reimbursed us for a loss. But there's also in a considerable amount that we are negotiating for that they feel is different from what we feel. So it's an ongoing conversation. And I don't have the exact total amount. Today we realized that they well we realized it was reported to us and was confirmed by highway that we have a sinkhole on Central Street near heading. The hole is going to be addressed for a sink tomorrow. We couldn't do it today because we require the presence of Steve safe. So they will be there tomorrow morning. We'll try to resolve the issue then. We performed a an internal audit of a water wastewater plant grant received from the USDA. That was a part of an ongoing effort to use as much of the grant as possible. We realized that over the last three years, over $100,000 of project costs have not been credited to the grant. So we set the list of all the things that we had spent. They're going to send us a check. Roughly about $120,000 or so. Thanks for the pump. That's in addition to that pump. So the board approved that we replaced it. I think he was at one of the centrifuges. That's all separate from this. This is other things that we had purchased over the last few years. It's just because of staff transition. Yeah, we just cross track with that. Exactly. So more revenue coming in. This has to do with building the plant or something? With building the plant. Yeah, with some of the items and since then also with items that were eligible for purchase through maintenance at the plant. We had a challenging winter. As you all know, our budget for salt exceeds what we had budgeted. We just it says crap shoot sometimes in this year we spent more than budgeted. It was a challenge. We're hoping to do better next year and we're hoping to not have as much ice thawing and melting and warming and melting and freezing again. We continue our conversation with the state regarding manganese. For the board's suggestion a few weeks ago or a few months ago, we're going to start working on a sheet that we can include in our bills that include the amount of manganese that people consume through their multivitamins of food as opposed to rain of water. I think once people see the comparisons they're going to realize that the state isn't necessarily protecting health as opposed to just regulating for the sake of regulating. So that may create other problems for us but it'll bring some light into the issue for the community. We staff have started a conversation with one of our local residents Tom Ayers. We've explored the possibility. An item that I shared with the board in the past is potentially creating a arts and culture commission so that we could capture the resources or the assistance of a lot of our local artists. Tom Ayers is very interested in if select were to choose to create an arts and culture committee or commission. He would very much like to be a part of the birth process, the building it and try to capture as much strength, funding that there is through the arts as possible so as to bring more arts and culture to the town. Tom plans to be here next meeting during public comment to share more about what his thoughts are on creating this group. And lastly we have two new staff members that started within the last month are director of economic development and also not yet full-time but our new finance director. Both have been plugging away and learning the ropes and Randolph. Our new economic development director is met with all businesses and has started those conversations as well with partners in the state. Our finance director has started to clean up many issues that have existed with our finances over the years and we are very lucky to have a CPA on staff that's able to actually do a lot of things. For many different reasons we were not able to do. So he's doing a good job so far and he will start full-time next week. And that's it for the managers report for now.