 exactly five o'clock so I'm going to call the meeting to order we have Randy Drewery the select board and Sarah and Paul Seminera welcome one and all so this meeting is going to be a little unusual not unusual but different in that we are going to go immediately into executive session to interview candidates for the road commissioner position so that means everybody but what do we think do we want do we want Sarah and Brenda in the executive session need to be board members no okay so I mean Sarah kind of has to be because she's controlling the meeting so that's true yeah I can just take myself out if somebody would text me and just like Luke text me and say you're out of it now like we're out of it I'll just let me just take everybody out first and then I'll take myself out then Liz if you just okay okay but here's the here's the hook I want to do a little introduction in the executive session before we talk to Gary so to start out with I just want to have it be the select board and then bring Gary into the meeting and then Victor well we need a motion to get into executive session oh I know that I know that I'm just talking about the process so with that I think we need to have you in the executive session to control the zoom meeting that's everybody agrees with that yeah so we're gonna we're gonna give you the boot for a little while we'll what will we do text to render when we're ready to ever come back mine will be on anyways so I have a question if we leave our our thing on will be it will be we'd be automatically readmitted to the meeting or do we have to try to sign back in later no I think I think Sarah can I'm just gonna go to the meeting Randy I'm just gonna put you in the I'm gonna put all of us in the waiting room and then when we're done we'll all come out I'm still confused as to whether or not I'm in the meeting or for part of the meeting or we're gonna make a motion but I believe the motion is gonna be you're gonna be in the meeting Sarah okay okay all right so with somebody willing with that all of that is somebody willing to make a motion to go into executive session and include Sarah in the executive session I'll do that oh sorry I'll second it okay who made it Steve Steve Mary's all those in favor of going into executive session please say hi hi can you post okay we are in the executive session so welcome to the waiting room okay let me just let me just put everybody in just a couple of minutes he's back welcome back everybody so we are we are out of executive session and we are back in our regular meeting and we are ready for a motion coming out of executive session so I moved to appoint Victor Dwyer to the position of road commissioner until the organizational meeting which follows town meeting in March I'll second that any further discussion Peter say something about discussing certain things at the next meeting yeah but let's get let's get the through the vote first oh okay I thought yeah okay no I will I will so Steve and I are recusing ourselves from this vote so it is Phil Liz and Mary who will be who will be voting on this motion and Steve and I will be recusing ourselves so all those in favor of the motion please say aye aye and opposed aye no okay Steve you recuse yourself I do and I recuse myself from the vote so Victor you have been appointed congratulations Gary thank you very much for your your interest we hope you'll stay involved in in town activities and let us know your let us know your thoughts we welcome your input thank you Gary Gary thank you so Victor the way it was pointed out to us the way the way this goes is technically the road commissioner gets appointed every year at the organizational meeting correct so all we can do is appoint you now until then and then theoretically you get reappointed now could be a different board then could be you know who knows who knows what it could be but all we can do all we can do tonight is point you until the organizational meeting in March what we what we'd like to do because I think everybody has had enough fun enough fun for this evening and I know you guys have been waiting a long time I apologize for that but if you could attend our our next meeting which is become your practice anyway we're going to put on the agenda just a general discussion of what the rules of engagement are going to be and how we're going to go so forward in terms of interacting and we we have ideas about that we're also interested in hearing your ideas about how that would work because I'm not a select board member is that what you're saying right like yeah would we ask you to attend at least one select board meeting a month and you know but just think about it okay yeah okay no no problem there okay so again thank you both for your interest and and we look forward to working with you back okay congratulations congratulations and condolences as I said yeah we're both welcome to stay for the rest of our meeting as well oh yeah for the rest of the excitement so no yeah first up for the rest of the excitement is a highway report and as acting road commissioner I guess it's my responsibility to give the highway report right I haven't thought a lot about this other than to to say that Stephen I had a good meeting with the road crew the other day things seem to be going pretty well in terms of in terms of the of the winter maintenance haven't had too many too many phone calls or issues had a little crisis this afternoon where no sooner had the road crew decided that we weren't going to get snow and they went home that we had the mother of all snow squalls and we got about two inches of snow in half an hour but anyway it debated and they're going to come in bright and early in the morning and and and clean it up and I guess with that I'm submitting my resignation as acting road commissioner it was fun it was fun while it lasted what Peter would you receive give me the contact number there so I mean I can go to the town garage but I'd rather set up an appointment with Shane or something like that so you know they're not out working yep I can give you probably the best thing to do is to get I mean you've got have you got the number at the time garage probably do two two nine oh eight three yeah so let me give you do you know Shane cell phone number off the top of your head Steve I've got it but I got a search for I don't I don't it's on it's on our town report which is the 2020 town report you're correct I can go there and get it thank you okay Yorker I did see that yes okay so that concludes the the highway report treasurer's report Brenda nothing to report I've got enough signatures for the orders for tonight if you noticed we paid some more of our appropriations we've got we've been trying to space them out we've gotten with taxes coming in this month then we're gonna make the next big payment to the school that's my finance report no and no news on our new position we got one application on the came in the mail over the weekend I haven't reviewed it yet okay I got it when I go to sign the checks tomorrow I'll pick it up okay I I I would like to say that I that I very much appreciate having having squeezed your arm virtually over the phone that you submitted your paperwork to continuous treasure I really appreciate that thank you our offline conversations and promises to be in place yes I hope so okay approving January 19th and 26 select board minutes approval second okay both of them Mary yes 1920 okay second all in favor I wait I wasn't there was he yeah one of one of those I wasn't at I think oh I think it was the second one because you had yeah okay maybe do them separately okay so I am in my motion to be move approval of the 19th minutes Steve you'll accept that yes yep all in all favor of improving the January 19 minutes please say hi hi okay Mary you're up again I move approval of the January 26 minutes I'll second that thank you Steve all those in favor of those minutes I need to mute myself and so any nays or abstentions extension okay what's the next item I'll just go ahead what whatever is it correspondence we just have to get the I'm just going to enter the George Wong an echo letter into the record I don't have it with me but if it is he did submit it to the select board so it's a public record right so it's a January 30th 2021 letter from George Wong an echo is there any others okay Peter go ahead yeah I'm sorry that was that was Shane calling me I missed the call I'll call him back and you've got enough people on the order surrender yes okay perfect any other business that might come before the board tonight well is there any other comments all I want just wanted to remind you is that the next thing that you're gonna have is gonna be the first of your two informational meetings so we're gonna probably keep the agenda pretty short because the start at 5 o'clock then the informational meeting starts at 6 p.m. yeah okay did we get anyone who was willing to facilitate the I think Susan's Susan's been looking for someone so far we haven't we haven't been able to to do that I mean we haven't found anyone yeah her sister was was perhaps that's that's I guess I'm sorry I was thinking from a technical point of view yes her sister's on board that's not the problem the problem is more like do we have who's gonna manage all these screens like you know yeah yeah what about Bennett he doesn't have that skill I guess not but he's a sound guy he was was going to do that she is we're just talking more of a technical aspect Peter it's more like who's gonna control the zoom meeting so you get everybody you know see just handle all the the many screens that might be popping up that type of thing it's more that was her that was her issue she's already got her sister on board no I know that but when I when I talked to her I thought I thought Delia was going to do that we can we need to talk about it but she was gonna do that what we were gonna try and do is identify some people who could help people get on the zoom meeting if they were that's what I'm that's what I'm talking about right so Delia is gonna run she's gonna run the technical part of the meeting and dealing with the screens what we're trying to get is some volunteers who can help people get into the zoom meeting had some of those giant giant zooms having to I have yes I mean do you remember who are you know do you remember who that which ones you attended that were large and if you could contact the person you know the meet the person who no I was always was always the person who was in charge of that organization I think we can find some people in town who are familiar enough with zooms that they can that they can help people I mean Gary was cute tonight when Gary was when Gary was getting on he had his he had his daughter and his granddaughter providing practical support as it should be yeah yeah he's sharp as a tack he's sharp as a tack is right well supplied to say we have a little a little organizational work to do before we're we're ready for that for that meeting but we'll uh we'll get it done we'll get it done hey um Sarah what about reaching out to Sarah Berger why not Sarah Berger does everything else yes oh I think she's done a lot of online meeting stuff she might that's great that's a great idea yeah it would be really nice if we just had somebody like a phone number or something that people could call and say you know i'm having trouble I can't get on it's like you know I can't make the sound I don't have the my camera's not working that type of thing right right no that would be that would be great that would be great okay I'll talk to Sarah okay anything else okay I will uh yes such as they say keep the cards and letters coming okay Sarah yes sir you want my cell phone number why don't you email it to me Vic I will do that you're probably going to email that to the state police too right Steve that's right fortunately you're up fortunately or unfortunately the state police never got my number others others did thank you Liz what I said other people were calling me about road conditions thank you very much yeah I'm sorry that was that's your job so just suck it up suck it up okay everybody all righty I want to know I shall see you next is it next week already no 16 okay five yeah a little break okay cool February's always slow okay thank you very much bye thank you everybody thank you bye bye