 We have been warned and three places posted and on the website and emailed to interested parties. So we can move forward with this and welcome everybody for the preview of town meeting next week. And does anyone have any questions, comments, suggestions? Well, then I guess I was expecting a couple of trustees and something to say, but I believe they were under the impression of a 615. That's the regular select board meeting. The pre-town meeting took six. Well, we were going by the back of this. It's a 615. It does. It does. Alright. She was warned at six in the paper. And it's more of a round town as six o'clock too. Okay. Well, let's just explain. Let's change that to six o'clock. All right. So do you know what they wanted to talk about? I would hate the words in their mouth, but I think about the library budget not being included with the rest of the town budget. It was explained somewhat in your select board letter in the town report. However, it kind of reads like the library is a separate organization as opposed to a department of the town. And to a certain extent, it is slightly a separate organization. And in that it's run and directed by the trustees. So that's why it'd be handy, I guess, to have the trustees here too. Right. You do your own budget. We have no control over your budget. Therefore, it's outside of our round of control. I mean, this is just a diversion from 50 years. It's been part of the town budget since 1969. We're always striving to improve and be clearer. You just pulled it out with Werba. It was sort of not... What directed that was the size of the chunks of the budget. It seemed like there were big enough pieces of change that it was worth having a separate focus on that. Whereas most of the other appropriations are just... You just had some concern about the differences in the way calculations were made. Which calculations? In your letter, it mentioned a 12.3% increase in our request. Actually, our budget appropriation request this year was actually a little bit less than last year. It may be 12% more than what was appropriated last year. But our budget request this year was actually a little bit less. I think it has to do with the budget ending June 30th. And that's probably where the 12% came from. What was actually spent June 30th. I don't have it in front of me, but I think that could have been it. Spent versus budget. Anyway, just... We felt that it would be easier to talk about it and for people to think about it. If it was a standalone entity and not piled in with everything else. And being as it's 40,000 plus dollars that it was a big enough chunk that it was worthwhile speaking about. It's extremely difficult to discuss the library budget considering the way it goes up and down year by year with what's appropriated, what's not appropriated, just budgeted, what's not budgeted. It's difficult to compare year to year. That's actually a perfect reason why maybe it should be separated so that it doesn't take the regular budget numbers and plate them up and down and up and down where we're looking for a consistent number. And if it does fluctuate, then that's almost a good reason to have it set beside the budget. And I believe the library would love to have a consistent number so that we can adequately budget it. Also in previous town meetings, there have been numbers of people who have questioned keeping those large appropriations within the appropriation line, article line. And there were requests to take those large items out and vote on them separately. And I think that that's listed in the town report in last year's town meeting minutes too. Right, and I think those were the outside organizations that are lumped together. Those specifically were the last year. Right, which is a separate 501C3 or whatever organizations, not the municipal library. It would be strange to include that with separate organizations. Well, again, in the past, didn't people vote on every line in the budget? And that wouldn't allow, so it's not in the past. In the past, when we approved the amount to be raised by tax, it included the library budget. And this year it won't. This way, this year it won't. So that's a difference. So it seems like extra money to the library trustee. It seems like they're being singled out as the kind of money that can be axed from the budget. In the same way that if you decided not to fund, I don't know, safe house or something, because they haven't done a good job. Not that we ever have, but you understand where the library trustees are coming from. It's a matter of interpretation. Putting it in its own entity does give it its own identity so that the taxpayers can look at the library. Does the select board come up with a second number to be raised by taxes, which would include a vote yes on all of the extra appropriations? The budget process, we do that yes. Is it presented at the town meeting? If we vote all of these extra things, the ambulance and the various organizations and the library, that the number to be raised by taxes will be this other number. It's already in the book. It's page 36. That figure is provided all of the appropriations are approved. So that would be generally worst case scenario. Of course the appropriations. Worst or best depending on who you are. Yeah, the appropriations can be voted, can go higher, higher or lower. Or lower. Or lower. Right. Or lower. So it happens. It would go higher? Yeah, yeah. I think that a couple years ago the council on aging was increased by 500 bucks from 2500 to 3000. Right? And you know it's kind of people feel that there's something they care about and they want to increase it. That's you can from the floor. And that's one thing it allows a something to be voted on when it's isolated versus like a whole budget. And there is one more question. Yeah, sure. Are there any of the funds that are under possibly the control of the trustees for public funds or some other or maybe the library trustees funds that were donated to the library not to be just spent but to be either invested or allowed to grow as an endowment so to speak. There are both from the town and the trustees of public funds and I believe the library also has. The library also has a fund. And also the cemetery has some funds that have been donated to that where the proceeds from interest can be applied. Now that's part of what made this such a challenging budget year this year is that the trustees of public funds were not able to contribute anything to the budget whereas in past years they have been able to you know dozens of thousands of dollars in significant amounts. And this year in the way that it's working that was a zero. Did they explain to you why they could give zero this year when they did tens of thousands last year? Nancy, I have a response. It's in the town report that you're not getting the kind of interest. The trustees of public funds have a... Yes, but you went from $70,000 to zero. That's right. Why didn't you go from $70,000 to $4,000? I'm not a trustee of public funds. It was basically reported to us that the fluctuations in the market and under the leadership of our federal government that everything's better now but the small people don't get any money. But to have it zeroed out. In the past my impression was that they gave the town some of the increase in the value of the investments. Right. Not more than they had earned in that year usually. Right. But maybe almost all. That they allowed their funds to grow on a regular basis. Now are we to understand that they lost money this year? I think that when they got together and I'm speaking myself and I'm speaking for the trustees. I think that when... I think that when they put their report together when they met with the management of People's United Bank they felt that it was not prudent with our funds to distribute anything this year. They operate under the trust agreements that the donors... Am I saying it correctly? Yes you are. Donors. Hey Justin, time. Any questions for you? Here she is. Thank you. Not so fast. I'm reading your report in the town report and there's a question. Did the funds under your care, did they grow at all this year? Here. I had to check. I'm talking about here. The report is what we got her off guard here. I mean based on the June 30th statement as of 2018. They did grow. Barely. They did grow. They did grow a little. But none of that money is going to be given to the town because it's so small. Basically trying to keep a conservative amount of principal in the funds that we have money to continue to go forward. Right. So you don't... Then you make one money this year but you don't want to spend all this year because you did not make anybody next year. Let me ask you a different question. Do we ever... Do you ever distribute funds to the town in excess of the money earned in that year? Oh yeah. You do sometimes. But it's based on... So the fact that you... It's based on... We only broke even wouldn't necessarily mean that you wouldn't give the town... Not necessarily because you're doing... You can look at that three years or five years and kind of take it... Okay. Let me ask you just one more question. Am I on the road? That's just joking. Can she get her coat off? Yeah. Go ahead. I'll let you get your coat off. Okay. Do you need the... I don't think so. You can see as much as I can. While she's taking the coat off. It's broadly based such things are under which known as a spending rule. The endowers... Yeah. Set a way that the money can be spent. Yeah. So if they're not making a substantial amount the endowers rules may say you don't disperse in a given year. Yeah. So you really have to go back to the endowments themselves. Thank you. Correct. You're saying that the trustees were forced not to... They're bound by the endowments. They're bound in such a way that they couldn't give the town any money. They're bound now. Several times. But you... But... But she's already explained that there are years in which the trustees give the town more money than they earned that year. That would seem to reduce the endowment. But you're not doing it that one single year. I think that's for the point is that you're doing over a three to five year average. Okay. One more question. My last question is... You want to let her finish her explanation. Sure. So that in some cases you may not have make money in that particular year but the other two or three years you might have as long as the principle... What our carry is our philosophy and goal is to maintain the principle of those endowments in addition to the cost of living adjustment of those endowments. So basically that's your guiding principle and then what you distribute is based on that guidance. So you're never invading your principle and you're never invading your principle if there's a three percent cost of living you're not going to give any money out even though you might have made three percent. So your analysis this year was that you were in the red on that basis? No, we said we were not in the red. We just said we didn't have sufficient funds that would reward making any kind of distributions in particular years. That particular year we made last year significant contributions. This particular year coming up for the town purposes we did not make a contribution. What was the last year that you made no contribution to the town? I don't really know. Probably not in my term that I can recall. There have been years before. You mean you were given varying amounts? But zero. Off the top of my head I don't remember any of zeroes the last five years I'd say so there goes back further than that I just have to look at the records. I think overall we've been fairly consistent with generous donations or not donations but generous return of the money to the town. Yes, but the endowment has grown. Because of the fact that we don't distribute money when it isn't growing and we don't delve into the principle in order to make a distribution. Had we delve into the principle and not follow our rules the endowment may not have ground at all. There was times before we were more actively engaged in managing the funds by the trustees in the town that there was hardly anything for principle growth because the way the investments were going if you have a 2% interest rate or something like that you've had no distributions and for many years I don't believe before we got more active in this there were not very many distributions there was barely anything going anywhere because the income was so low you can't tell me when the last time that happened I can't go back to the town report definitely added to the challenge of working out the budget when we were our first draft we're looking at a 14% increase across the whole they gave you a heads up months and months ago this is not it wasn't dropped on you it was we spent the last couple months working on the budget and it's I don't say months and months ago that we knew but as it became we never teased us that we might get some money and usually they don't usually we work through the budget and try and get it as tight as we can and then afterwards they say well here's the extra bonus you can put it in perspective if it was $70,000 last year that would be a $200 million house that turned down you're not going to get any taxes from it it's one perspective I say I guess you could say that so that among other issues made it a challenging year to keep the budget to a modest increase and with all the department heads scraping and cutting and putting things off that they wanted to do until later then we were able to keep it down to what was the final just under 2% just under 2% increase in the tax rate from 14 so yeah there's things that we cut that we would rather not cut and that's Marta yeah in fact I noticed when I was writing from a pre-town meeting article or a town meeting preview article for this week that the total sum in the budget is a little bit less than you asked for last year but if you look at it the other way the amount to be raised by taxes a little bit more yeah that's the shift of the line that you probably had last year versus this year you guys remember the shift of the budget right put this budget together and to make it all work thanks to all the volunteers that kicked in and helped to do it it was going in the door what kind of question will they have so Tony you came in a little late but we talked some on the library and the issue of separating the library out from the budget which is basically for no one here is very soon okay I don't think we would have been late if the time for this meeting had been set somewhere I saw 6 o'clock and 6.15 and somebody else said 6.30 I got 6.15 I was kind of wondering about that myself it was more than 6 o'clock in the painting 6.15 for the regular 6.15 that's all I'm saying I didn't get sorry my brother let me know but it was 6.15 he forwarded it to me and it said 6.15 and it said pre-towed meeting and 6.15 we're all here now I like to be punchable so that's that comments, questions motivational speeches I mean we'll have hopefully a larger contingency at the full town meeting and have more conversation, yes Harlan speaking at town meeting, you're running? running away or running for meeting, no I'm going to run again, yeah that's it we'll close the pre-towed meeting and open up the regular select board meeting tonight you're looking like you're you're just I just was apologizing because I thought I was only 2 minutes late well don't feel cut off if there's anything that you wanted to say anybody want to talk about something that they think we've already talked about speak up because it's here we are it was a mistaken communication so I don't know how much we've covered about the town library being taken out of the we talked about that straight off and you can of course go back and look at it but recap basically that the we decided to pull it out for just more clarity since it's a big chunk of the budget and make it easier to talk about when aside from being buried in the midst of the other budget just as we had requests at the last town meeting that some of the bigger items be pulled out specifically were those pulled out as a separate item also I was just wondering with that knowledge the fact that you were trying to make it clear and the fact that we were trying to show as a town that how much our town library cost to run in that description did it say how much tax is paid of that amount of money and that our budget is paid for nearly 50% by donations and I just thought that would be nice to have that in there too oh by the way this has been pulled out because they're asking for this much money did you know that your town tax is only paid for 50% of your town library and it just wasn't there so it didn't seem as clear as it could have been because I think as a general knowledge most people don't know that their town library is only funded 50% by the town taxes and that's a pretty big piece of information so if they look through the budget in the library that should maybe that's two pages of lots of numbers and because we went to the budget committee went to the effort of pulling it out and making sure that people noticed it was 12% and those that it was a big hunk of money it would have been nice to also notice that it's only 50% of what it costs to run the library and that was just I just felt like maybe a little not as clear as it could have been good thanks for bringing that up and the spirit of the clearness maybe we can put that on can we mention that tell me should have a little spiel ready for the town people might they could put it right in the paper right now I think also the library could have put that in their report we did in our report what's in the town report is what was sent to us well sort of we send a narrative each year and then we're asked for a financial report similar to what we've done in previous years financial report that the trustees approved and that was sent in before the deadline is not what was printed in the town report we had made a much easier to read much easier to understand one page summary of the financials which wasn't printed that a two page we felt that that was it simplified things a little overly much so it ended in the same format as all the other budgets that are in there it just would be nice when the trustees send their financial report perhaps there's some feedback that we'd like to see a little more detail rather than just not print what was sent substitute something I thought there was some back and forth on that and I think YOLA was made aware of it too yeah it's just that I spent an entire day of library time doing this what you want to print is this it's a waste of you know like a day and we'll do a better job of making those narrative moving clear always room for improvement absolutely why not add that one page summary as a handout at the it's just that I would imagine there's a lot of people in town that can't even read the size of it's pretty much the same size as the entire budget is just trying to make it easier we should have a large print town report maybe on special request just to end up we'll be compliant so are we satisfied with the anything else you'd like to say for the pre-town meeting we'll close that and enter into the regular select board meeting which was properly warned even Harlan you're saying you didn't get an email about it no you got the email list she allowed me to I got one about the special meeting they're on the I think they're on the same page anyway anyone have any additions to the agenda tonight that they would like to first I'd like to give you just a quick update on Pierce Hall activities I'd like to talk some on the missing select board meeting minutes the book we'll start by Harlan which missing minutes are you talking about for what meeting when well there's a bunch of select board meeting minutes that span as I understand a few years a book that's gone and it's I'd just like to know you know what it spans the time period what's gone you seem to know more about it than I do do you know what you're talking about go ahead Bruce when I was doing the road research I was looking for various records for discontinuances or changes in mileages and when I couldn't find what I thought was complete information in the roads in miscellaneous records book I went looking for the select board minutes and there seems to be a period from I can't give you the exact dates but let's say the late 30s and through maybe the early 40s that that whole book of that period of select minutes meeting is not with all the rest of the book so it could be that it in the vault some place that we haven't discovered it or it might have gotten taken downstairs with other records for some reason but right now you can say it's not with the other select didn't accidentally go through the crusher did it there, the shredder last summer no nothing like that would ever happen of course not anyway my point is is that if there's no book to prove that Pine Gap Road was thrown up there's no book to prove that it wasn't so and I'd still like to know a little more specifics on this on the dates on that I mean it's only logical you gotta follow my logic you gotta admit it's only logical yeah from from my correspondence with a state the the map record is clear that that road continued to be on the state highway maps and the offices up there have no correspondence saying that there was any discontinuance on that road or any other roads in that early 1940s period there, does that go through there you know keep track of all that well he said that the oldest correspondence they had was I believe is 1947 okay and that's reflected in our roads in miscellaneous records for okay so that's 1947 and that's just about that spans just about the period that yeah those meeting minutes would be handy but as I said before there's no record indicated on the maps that there was any change in that area on that road whereas the pine road it does indicate a change how about you would change on the pine road I was gonna say what this bill said that the state maps probably have some reference to when roads are thrown up because they work differently when it happens and in order for them to change their map they have to have something in their files to say change your map there has also been a lot of research to the pine gap issue for the last year if there were attorneys researching during the 1930s and the 1940s and they found anything that pertained to this lawsuit I'm sure they have copies of it so therefore there wouldn't be documentation to back up what will turn it from it would just be nice to be able to verify that with minutes from the meeting it's just kind of real kind of well we may have secured copies from those books before they went missing is what I'm saying I don't know that for sure but I would imagine an attorney was in here doing some research about it and they found any information that was pertinent to it during the 30s and the 40s from the minutes they would have made copies of those pages yeah but I don't well I'd like to get that information anyway I'd like to know what's missing and what period it spans I think I'm asking too much Carlin were there any land transfers during that period in that region where there might have been a meets and bounds and something on a survey that says you know class 3 road, class 4 road as one of the boundaries of a piece of property that had been transferred from the road used to be across the river from below my place where the abutment is and the piece of land that the roads on now that goes through my property was sold to them right during that period to the national forest service so the national forest service owns the road from the bridge of the old bridge abutment past my place to where Pine Gap Road comes in okay that's all national forest land was sold to the national forest for the purpose of the road have you looked at any of their old maps I've looked at my deed with the date on it where it was taken off my chunk of land and I've spoken with Chris Matrick and we're trying to find out exactly when Bingo Road was built because on my property because I have a feeling that if there was a meeting which probably would have occurred right during the period when the minutes are missing if they were going to throw up roads out there like Bingo Road they might look around and throw up other roads even so there's like Pine Road you say the way things have been screwed up out there with names and stuff that could have been Pine Gap Road for all practical purposes I mean the way facts have been construed in this thing right you know, portrayed everything's been screwed up I'm just saying to go full circle we will probably pull out the troops and the chipmunks and start looking for this book I'd like to hear some more on that next meeting Chris? Yeah, with your approval I just assume start in one corner of the ball and go through and look for that book Absolutely I second it Because I'm interested in that area Somebody probably put it back in the oil I mean Nobody's trying to push it one way or the other it is what it is but let's find out what it is Bruce, Pierce Hall, you had an update on Pierce Hall? Yeah I just wanted to let you know that Pierce Hall has signed a contract with Russell Construction Services out of Rutland for the construction of the Community Fitness Center and we hope to start construction next week Did you say Russell Construction I'm sorry Russell Construction Services out of Rutland Okay, thank you and hopefully we'll have a grand opening in June So the construction the physical space is created, is that correct Is this the construction of the actual the equipment Yeah, well it's the conversion of two spaces in the lower level one will become a gym where the treadmills and the nautilus and all that kind of stuff will be and the other larger room which is basically under the stage area will be for dance instructions aerobic, zumba, that kind of stuff so there'll be two parts of the total fitness center Did you say that would be a grand opening? They have an 84 day schedule right now with if everything goes right which it never does lead time for some of their subcontractors is getting pushed way out and that's what they're hoping to do in the 84 days You shouldn't have to walk through snow to get to the grand opening You never know Give me an idea of what monthly fees will be They'll be reasonable We're working on membership levels right now for some of the activity Yes It's from the January 28th meeting We had to skip a meeting because a properly warned meeting last one so it's been kind of a long spell but these minutes seem good to me as typed up but I moved to accept them All in favor? All right And that brings us to Joan. Got any Facebook? There's another one in there? That's one Hold on there Oh yeah, this was the quick one speaking of the budget on February 2nd to approve the town budget of $1,015,315 for town on highways with $749,315 to be raised by taxes That's moved to accept these minutes All in favor? Joan, back to you A few miscellaneous things Mostly questions for you at this point I'm looking ahead towards what grants you might want me to be working on in the next fiscal year including well before the next fiscal year starts The B grants grants series for class 2 roads and structures is in mid-April and wondering if you have any thoughts about doing any projects We of course have things being stacked up the one that's the most shovel ready if you want to call it that is Mount Cushman culvert replacement because we have the engineering drawings for that now But looking at the budget I didn't see anything where you had a line item and maybe you do it differently and it's in a different place for the matching part of grants which is typically anywhere from 10 to 20 percent which program we're looking at We already have a matching requirement for the small sidewalk project which is 2008-2005 and I don't have a number yet for a cost estimate for the Cushman Road culvert I hope to get that next week but just wondering whether you have any thoughts about whether this is just a year that you want to skip budget constraints or if you want to still keep trying to do projects We're going to kind of tug through that because the budget did really constrain a lot of ambitious plans for working We really overshot the budget on paving last year and really have to catch up a little bit So the answer is maybe should I just sort of bring things together? Yeah, definitely We're moving quite a long on the Mount Cushman project so that might be the only thing considered Okay, so I can get back to you with a round number for what we're going to do I'll take a look at it To the point of carrying the line item to your matching grants or whatever they might be what the town will be responsible for what I think with both the office and the select orders working on now we have a different structure for accounting for and preparing for the grant monies that you might be applying for and being sure that we do have an accurate amount of what would be carried forward as an expense to the town The problem has been the differences between when the grants have been authorized and when it has been implemented and when you finally get your full payment So it's become a kind of with all the grants that's going on right now which have been wonderful by the way and so they're working with the accountants to set up a system that will help make this more current and more accurate months to months to month not just on an annual basis That would be great because then it will help you plan and think ahead a year or even more about what your priorities are what you think the expenses would be and then which things you want to be able to do Very often they do go over the cusp of a year one year to another year especially when they're starting to arrive first So it makes it more confusing because different grants have also different terms Each project will have its own entity kind of like the library Each project will be set aside to see where everything stands And the White River Partnership is soliciting monies towards the wastewater product stormwater We're supposed to hear sometime very soon about the second grant which plays into the ongoing need of working on the sidewalks around town Which is a whole Yeah, it's a whole kind of work I don't want to cut that up anymore I was just going to say something about paving and everything I know last year we were told or I believe it was brought up in a meeting was going to be doing some work on Route 100 through town It could really really, really use it It's getting very, very lumpy We're not even on the list No, we're not even on the list Is there any way the town can fill some of the potholes? It would be up to the state and I'm sure they will and do time I've seen them a couple of times come through filling them in this kind of weather Yeah, I know They surveyed that whole thing back in about 2 or 3 years ago 4 years ago It was 15 Yeah, I think they did I thought it was a whole review of it I talked to Chris about that last year the year before and he said that was taken off the list They're doing the other side of Brandon Gatt next year So I have a couple more items I've been researching the EV charging station There are a lot of questions I have to do some more research I'll probably bring them back to you Their state now has an annual funding round It just started this year funding those things and reading some of the paperwork they've put out made me realize that I have a lot to learn Maybe we have a lot to learn about them models and different levels of charging and they require different utility connections and then they also have requirements for how much space is allocated and you're not allowed to take use the space that you allocated for handicapped parking for an EV station unless you can replace the handicapped parking space and we have we're very constrained, as you know, down at the park and ride we only have like 6 spaces So there are a lot of things I need to find out and then put the question to you about whether depending on what those constraints are or whether it may be a work rate, that would be very nice but I'm not sure and so the question is whether there might be other good places in town where you want to put that facility as a fallback Is there a point person or an advisor that can come visit us? Yeah, I think so So I'll let you know when I'm ready to do that and we can schedule if you're interested in doing it so you know it's more complicated than I realized Maybe we're the dysfunctional communication facility out here That thing Okay, so that's just an FYI at this point The bus shelter is another sort of conundrum for me I'm filing for reimbursement on the cost of the construction of the park and ride and I'll be going in, that's one of the things you'll have to sign and that wasn't a whole lot of money and we still have $10,000 in that grant budget which the state has said yeah, we'll submit what you've done so far and we'll give you an extension but they're not going to extend it for a whole lot longer maybe they'll give us 6 months of grants that we really need to close out and so I'm still wondering trying to find out whether we can put where we do want to put a bus shelter there and whether it's getting used or would be used I don't really know how much the stagecoach folks actually stop there how many people actually go there to catch the stagecoach and so whether there's actually a need for a bus shelter there maybe again there's another place in town where it would be more appropriate to have a bus shelter and unfortunately the person I was dealing with the stagecoach has left and they've told me whenever it is they hire a new person we'll be able to work with them again but they don't have one yet it's been like 6 months so I have a hard time figuring out what to do with the bus shelters I don't know if anyone has any advice to give me would it be possible to put that money into Pierce Hall if we made the airport co-chair into the bus shelter unfortunately no if it was on Pierce Hall property you mean put it there there is that shelter right there and there is a drive-through sort of I don't know if we had some sort of plans to fancify it a little bit that we needed a little bit of money for maybe that money could be used building a bus shelter from scratch we'd nearly be improving one well we couldn't use the grant for that for a park and ride so the money is for a park and ride so we have to I think a shelter there maybe is a separate question about where that would best be located there's probably some historical restrictions on Pierce Hall too but they had to do a lot of rework on there to comply with historical requirements like the height problem but anyway the shelter is not meant for the bus the shelter is meant for the wait of the bus it's not like you have to drive the bus here do we have any historical perspective on what the ridership of this stagecoach stop is at all? I mean there's a guy driving the vehicle he must know how many people get on off there talking stagecoach and telling us they'd expanded their routes in the last year and they were all very excited about that last year and they're actually doing now a lot of the high schools they come up at the school school suits and they're life safer it's already been discussed and then I it's also a lot of use when Quintown has their meals when they do their noontime meals there's a lot of people that ride the stagecoach to get up to Hancock but they don't get picked up for people to pay for bus and you can see I think the official stagecoach is Vax that's where the sign is stagecoach stops here our original discussion is what we were talking about doing in Park and Ride was would you move that location to the Park and Ride and they said sure they like the idea but I don't know if that's your way they're waiting it is the stagecoach does use in front of the fire station as a turnaround it's on the other night wasn't it determined from the school that the pick up at Max was better because of the access to telephones and so many other things and the school didn't want it changed there were parents that thought it best that the students wait where they would have access to a land line there were more people more cars also because some of them who go to schools far away so early that the school is not open correct that's why with the impression I got from the meeting I was that that's kind of a shifting Patty do you say students using a land line are you sure about I think they go in and the people work at the school do they know what it is okay they know they don't dial anymore they punch the numbers okay well that's another thing that you worked out is there anything else to work on since we have folks from the library here we have an opportunity to have an update from the library do you have anything that you want to share with us tonight and it's gearing up for a very busy march we have scheduled events if anybody hasn't gotten there march library schedule I have some here alright well Thursday a Vermont Humanities Council event we're talking about congressman John Lewis's autobiography walking in the wind as well as the Vermont Reads Book of the Year which is his graphic novel March with Saturday morning we'll be planning your cutting garden with Megan Payne and we'll be giving away free flower seeds on Thursday March 7th free tech support for all your gadgets Jesmyn West will be here again unfortunately we have one unhelpable person last time but we were booked solid for two and a half hours Saturday March 9th perennial garden design and a photo tour with yours truly Sunday March the 10th we're kicking off the feminist book club with Joy Worling from the State Department of Libraries talking about feminist literature and on Tuesday the 12th both the Diabetes Support Group and the White River Valley players are meeting at the library on Thursday March 14th AARP will be presenting a workshop on identity theft and preventing that and evening the Valley Singers meet at the library Saturday March 16th free tax prep assistance free registration is required we can accommodate up to 12 people and then Thursday March 28th the History Book Club is reading Isaac Storm and the following Saturday we'll have two sessions of yoga and dance for kids three to ten always a busy month at the library it seems like it's been really gets busier and busier and busier we took a kind of siesta over the the wind because people don't get out after dark and in the snow but we're definitely gearing back up I mean in general it just seems like the activities have been expanding we had 62 people in the library Saturday morning this week busy place good job you didn't know the writers group hmm? oh yeah I forgot to mention the writers group first Saturday and every month at one o'clock we have a group we have about six people a month come to that they've been meeting for a couple years now working on their individual writing projects that maybe Ron leads that group see there's plenty to say we also have a lot of books there which that keeps right up to date for and computers and movies and lots of other good things stop in because a lot of people there's a sign behind the check out test of all the people who sponsor specific offers a lot of people in town do that too a lot of people don't realize that although we spend an average of $10,000 a year on materials that in my tenure there in 15 years there's never been a penny of tax money spent on books or movies or any of the content that all comes from donations either past or present you should also plug when you get the chance the fact that people are streaming movies now at home in the canopy system yes, new this year is streaming movies with canopy canopy is not new Hollywood movies they specialize in documentaries foreign films, independent films in the classics but sign up and you can stream them for free enough thank you one here talked about the constable office and the highway crew is out working but I did learn today that the western star is down the bad radiator so they're going to try and get that up north to be dealt with as soon as possible but that's what happens the Terry's not here to update on the utilities so we're on to the new business and you had something about the auditor's findings regarding disbursements with hotels disbursements for any of the reserve accounts so we have developed a select board more specifically for withdrawing these reserve accounts and the select board will assign and whenever either the treasurer assistant treasurer makes this request via an email to the credit union a check is to be drawn from the reserve account and she would sign it and date it but the assistant then would have to deposit this check into the general fund and sign it so it just kind of keeps it separated and then we also have Leslie Strauss who comes in as this interested third party and she periodically reconciles all of our town bank accounts so that was resolution form resolution form is just basically to state that the select board of the town of Rochester hereby authorizes Julie Smith, town treasurer a signatory for all town bank accounts and just sign that happy you got that license for max ballet market property tax mapping and we've already agreed to do this so we can sign it on both pages the fee for a liquor license for max of the matter of public record which 70 is paid to the demolished certificate we took care of filed that I took on I just wanted to explain that it turned out to be more of a project than I anticipated right now they are asking for re-measurement of a class 4 road that we supply the digital file for that survey and that's something that I haven't been able to do yet and I need a little instruction on how to download that and get it up to them the other thing was that I was going to propose to the select board that the first quarter mile of Jones mountain road which is now the Jones mountain road is a class 4 road but it's treated that first quarter mile as if it's a class 3 road in order to make that change on the record you've got to go through the whole process you've got to advertise it you've got to give 30 days notice you have to have a hearing so that's something that the select board will have to figure out whether it's worth that effort to upgrade that section of road and this would be done sometime this coming year how long is that that first quarter of that road quarter mile it's generally out to that first house is that plowed yes it sure is it's plowed up to that first house it's plowed it's graveled it's graded in the summertime thank you for your attention I'm sure it would be a lot easier to do this kind of work in the summer yeah I'll get those digital files up to them as soon as I figure out just how to do it very soon one quick question I was typing away and somehow missed about the highway mileage certificate did you sign that okay thank you we're just talking about some future improvements and modifications thank you alright thank you all for coming and we'll see you next week for a big party