 Thursday, January 2nd, Berlin Select Board meeting to order with us tonight as Flo Smith, Angelina Capron is on the phone and Brad Town with us also as Dana Hadley Town Administrator and Diane Isabel Town Treasurer. And we will start off with having a public hearing data. Yes, this is a public hearing to hear, gather input on the proposed ordinance for the wastewater. That's the ordinance that I've given you last time. Municipal wastewater collection system ordinance or sewer. And basically this is an update of the existing ordinance that we have. The existing ordinance was approved July of 2003 and that had been after a lot of revision since it was originally done in the 1980s. Much of it is to recognize that rather than a sewer, pollutioners, you have a public wastewater that oversees. They have added a few things as far as the descriptions of things, how they explain them, and it's the same as we had in the other ordinance. I have read through it basically. It's talking a little bit more about the control of the public works board over the decisions of the sewer workings. So I don't see anything other than that. That's a lot different but it does make it, I suppose, from a legal standpoint easier to handle the allocations and the cost to connect onto the sewer. That was something that's been added into it as well as updating it to a public works board. That's the way we are now. So this is a public hearing to gather input. If anyone has any input, maybe that'd be great. If not, the public works board is looking for you to approve the ordinance. The ordinance takes 60 days to take effect. There's a 60-day period that people can have a referendum petition. That's basically as much as I can tell you about it. That's interesting. So basically we need a motion on this. Yes. I make a motion to approve the ordinance on the public works as presented. I need a second. Any further discussion? Anything from the viewing public? Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying aye. Motion passes. And we will now close the public hearing and open and convene the select board. Additions or changes to the agenda, Dana? I have a few things I'd like to add. I'd like we received the letter from the state for the 2019 equalization results. I'd like to add that so we can discuss that. I would also like to, Rosemary has given me a draft warrant, warning for the town meeting that I would like to go over with you. I'd like to add that. And I need more signatures on the error and omissions paperwork than just the chairman. So I'd like to add that and basically I can just ask Flo to sign it and whoever comes in tomorrow. I was going to say everybody was here for that vote. Yes. They were. And that's all I had. Public comment? Hearing none, treasurer's report made. I'll let you know that a lot of our residents do pay their taxes through the credit card. And for 2019 we had 261 transactions. Now half of those were for reciprocates, which were like $10. However, we did have $109,450 that we collected through using the credit cards. So I think that's a really good thing to have and people are making good use of it at this point in time. What do they pay for that, Diane? We don't pay anything. What is the courtesy fee? It really depends on what you have. It goes by the dollar amount? No, not the dollar amount. It actually goes, if you're using e-checks at a certain amount, if you use a debit card at a certain amount, and then usually I think it's like maybe 1.5% to 2% if you're using a credit card. But a debit card, I think, might be like 295. And the e-check I think is 295. There's nothing below 295. So that's just a straight fee of 295 to use. If you're doing like a debit card, but if you're using a credit card and it's it's a good thing. Okay, thank you. And that's what I want to talk about. Okay, thank you, Dr. approvals of licenses, permits, vouchers, and applications. I make a motion to approve the general fund accounts payable warrant number 20G12 with checks 19.861 to 19.889 in the amount of $48,233.07. Also pay roll warrant number 20-13 for payroll from December 8th, 2019 to December 21st, 2019 in the amount of $43,155.14. Year's second? Yep. Year's second, sir. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries and we move on to the hazard mitigation plan. That's where Mr. Paul comes in here. Yes, hello Paul. Thank you. Paul had sent me there with me one moment. I'm gonna find it. This is the plan, the draft plan, and I think you can sit up here. Both of you have seen that. It can even come right here. He also had some rocking points. So the purpose of this, this is a required meeting to review the selected hazards for the town and the named mitigation actions that the town will venture forth in the next five years. So they're back in 2011. A lot of towns were including some hazards that really there's no reason to include those. So this fire and earthquake, you know, the risk is too low. It doesn't substantiate any effort to be put into it. So for the update, the proposed updated hazards would be flooding to include fluvial erosion and ice jams. Ice jams, thank you. Severe winter storm, extreme cold events. Based on data, the number, the impact of extreme cold is on the rise. And high winds. High winds is kind of the, you know, that's kind of the if and when for towns. But I did include it because since 2011, the town has sustained significant amount of damage, the financial. So with the mitigation actions, all relevant to the four hazards, as with any town in Vermont, you know, making sure your infrastructure is solid to flood damage. And it's, you know, to plowing and things to some extent, but mostly flood damage. And really, when you look at the benchmark is where the town was prior to 2011 in terms of how much money they received to repair infrastructure, had to spend to repair infrastructure, and then the two events in 2011 and where the town is now. And basically, you have two roads to go down. One, 2000, the mitigation efforts after the 2011 events worked, seemingly worked for the town. You've been very insulated since then. So I worked with the road foreman. There's a couple of projects that he mentioned that's included in the plan. You can add or delete at will, okay. And that's not committing anything. It's just suggested. Also, the second action is to improve rezoning, see the severe winter storms with action items given in the plan that the plan is available for review, for community review for the next month and a half or so, okay. And the third, reducing impact of extreme cold, which would be a lot of that is basically just educational outreach and trying to make people with community-based resources. The fourth is to raise public awareness. One great example is opportunities for our mobile home resident to take advantage of the UVM program. The mitigation efforts state has shown that mobile homes are disproportionately impacted during disasters and that there are specific mitigation actions that park owners and mobile home residents can do to help limit that. But I think Weston has, again, Weston's a lot better now than it was in 2000. Sure. So the fifth, you will receive your, they're calling it, I call it the road erosion kind of site inventory that's happening next year. Right, right. The road permit. Yes. So that will help identify some areas in need and then to continue any study of fluvial geomorphology. I love that word. Isn't it great? Yeah. And then as a way to make educated decisions about any future mitigation actions. And the sixth is to improve resiliency to high wind events. And a lot of that is just coordinating with your power companies and doing some outreach to residents and community organizations such as the hospital and the airport, obviously. So we have done a lot of, I know you've spoken with Tim Davis, so I know you've spoken with Mr. Richards and I know you spoke with Tom about the FEMA aspect because we've done a lot of things in the past since Irene. And I think we're in a better place than we were then. And as part of the road permit, we have done a lot of work in the, and I can't say the word, geomorphology. I'm sure you can. However, what, is there anything that you can think of that we should, that we should think about going forward? I'm going to go forward. Yes. One thing to make life easier to the next plan cycle the next time you do an update is, and it's written in here, FEMA is really wanting you to incorporate mitigation planning into daily operations, monthly operations, keeping it on your radar. And, you know, having a formalized structure where, and I'm not dictating how often it should happen, but there should be time reserved during select board meetings to give a mitigation update. And then annually to track, and I gave you that spreadsheet at the end that every year for maybe prior to a town meeting, you just run through and you say, hey, we did this, we did that, and really have it trackable. And number one, it has to be reported on now. So I had to basically give an update on everything you said you do in 2011, which didn't take a lot of time. But when you look at what the approved plans were prior to 2011, basically a town could get away with a 20 page plan to get away with. But that was the standard. Right. Now that's unheard of. So we have these comprehensive data driven documents that FEMA is requiring to have an approved plan. And in five years that may increase even more. So it's best just to practice due diligence and incorporating and track better documentation. Ideally, in the next five year planning cycle, whoever's going to do that update for you, you'd say these are our annual updates for our defined mitigation strategies. And if there's nothing to report, there's nothing to report. But it would make life a bit easier. Potential. I would like to thank Bruce and the emergency management team. It's been very helpful. So thank you. So logistics again. We're going to go forward and if the board is, you're looking for the board to have a motion to accept this plan? Not yet. Not yet. You're not ready. You're going to finish the draft plan and we're going to send it off to the, you'll send it to the state. I'll send it to the neighboring communities. I'd like requesting after I make those changes that you suggested. I'd like you to provide it. You provide copies. Allow the neighboring towns to review if they should choose to send it to them. But let them know that it is available for review and comment. And then after we do that, while it's in state review, I'll just let them know that it's currently in time review process. Okay. And it's potential that a town could have a suggestion that could alter the document. Of course. So once the state has it for review, they will do the check boxes. They'll send a review tool that they have any issues, which they normally have a few. I'll make the corrections and then send it back. And once it's ready for submission, the state will send it to FEMA. FEMA will then review. Send it back. Maybe a couple revisions here and there. And then at the time FEMA then approves it, it's approved pending adoption. And that's when it comes back. You guys would have a select board meeting to adopt the plan. Okay. Thanks. This must be why we pay you. It's an excellent thank you very much. So I will hear from you, Paul. Yes. Okay. Center Vermont Medical Center. Yeah. I haven't seen Ron yet. So there we are. I didn't know if he was trying to, you know, you know, we are, we have two members here. You know, Bradtown is the chair. Hi. Flo Smith is a board member. And Angelina Capron is on the telephone. And the other two are unfortunately not here. So thanks for bearing with us. I'm so starting to start out. I'm Jim Albert. I'm the Vice President of Support Services for Central Vermont Medical Center. Thank you for allowing me to sign on your agenda this evening. Appreciate you being here. The genesis for the project you're about to see came from a request from the Greenmont Care Board back in the spring of 2018 that UBM Medical Center spent 20 million dollars on, let me get the quote here, a measurably increasing inpatient mental health capacity in Vermont. So from that request, the network planning team started about a year running analytics and working with stakeholders about what that would look like. The focus really became by increasing access to inpatient care, you get a two-fold impact. First being the patients that need psychiatric inpatient care are the important EDs waiting for a bed to open in the last few days. And so you address that issue of the boarding and the ED, which for the patient it's not a sexual scan of care. If it was a medical patient to wait for days to get to an inpatient bed, I mean you would be unheard of. And so the origin is ED emergency. So the goal is we want to get them out of the emergency department into a place they get the proper care. The second benefit you get by addressing this is that it deals with the flow of the ED because when you're boarding patients waiting for beds you're taking exam rooms out of service you actually need for daily flow of seeing other patients. And so when you have an ED like center of Vermont that has 21 exam rooms and you've got three of them taken by mental health patients are waiting for a bed, you've taken a percentage of your capacity to see all patients. And so that became the focus is increasing the send patient capacity on clogs not just central Vermont's ED but how does it affect EDs across the state. So that's the analytics that really the the network had ran over the past year. And so the magic number that it came up with was 25 beds. So if we add 25 beds to the system then that allows for patients to wait no more than eight hours in an ED 80 percent of the time. You're certainly going to have peaks because you can't you know build everything and so but at least we're dealing with the majority of it. It does not address geriatrics that care or child psych care really so under 12. Those are so ambitious for the state to deal with. Central Vermont was chosen for this expansion because it's central in the state and there's capacity on the campus to build. So the goal is then to if we add 25 beds to central Vermont and we have 15 there really look at a 40 bed psychiatric solution on the campus. In that we had to work that into what is the master plan for the hospital in the long term and how would it affect that. So the the the concept that you're seeing tonight is deals with the 40 inpatient site beds plus the replacement ED. And because of the building replacement we're now looking at what is the main interest of the hospital house parking happening on the campus and and what's the traffic pattern through some of the stuff still being worked through with us. Basically the scope of the project. So what if you guys want to start getting into the the fun part. Sure I mean I can give you an overview of where we are. I'm Eileen T. I'm the project and property manager at CVMC and I don't know where the best place to put this is. Okay so this is the entrance you all probably utilize to access CVMC over here is the access to the emergence the existing emergency department. So we studied a number probably five sites on the campus to see where we could fit this and this is where we ended up right here is the current main entrance to the building. So what we have here is a ground floor with the emergency department and then two stories of inpatient psychiatry above that with a shelled floor above that for mechanical and so that rest right here we're right now where we are in the design we're partway through the schematic design phase which is the first real phase of work and this would be a new access point and a new primary entry from this rear parking lot because the what happened when when this building went here in theory we lost a lot of our patient and visitor parking and also there's no real way to access the main lobby from here. So the concept is to have the primary patient parking in the rear a potential parking structure here and we've been working Ron's been working on a variety of parking studies and parking counts for us to really determine what we need and if it is a two-story structure there would be a pedestrian bridge that goes across to access the main hospital. Is the access still at the same intersection you just drive around the corner? Exactly yeah and then the ambulance access comes in right through to its own little zone back here with first responder parking. I think it's been interesting about the site that you don't realize until you get this keep into is that the hospital drive is actually nine feet lower than the entrance of the building so as you push the building out you got to deal with that nine feet and so that's been interesting. Ron's been playing with that. Actually doing some some improvements to this roadway adding a lane right turn lane now it's really cut off by the viewing traffic flickering really closely in a traffic study to be sure that we got good circulation good access and good functioning of the intersection so this will be improved somewhat to make it more of the major entry as opposed to well since you're coming down what's going behind the hospital at this point. And then there's a relocation of the helipad which is currently down here in this area and we get around I think we get 150 we had 150 helicopter visits this past year so having that close enough to the emergency department where you can wheel a stretcher over as opposed to moving patients into a ambulance and driving them around. Well it's part of the grading here Tim just to be sure that we have a two or three percent grade or not a 10 percent grade down. So that crossing is on the driveway. In general the the overall project from an engineering standpoint side engineering works really well but basically putting putting an addition on the existing building we're eliminating some parking obviously in the main entry here but saving quite a bit for the emergency room and emergency ambulances over here and so we save quite a bit of little parking down here on existing helipad is and this new helipad up here still can have most of the parking for the link seat so it really balances out pretty well. That's where we really are staying at closely and CBMC has looked very closely at parking on this site just to be sure it works. I mean it looks to me like the parking lot where it is now is always busy. It's always busy. And so I'm just I know you're aware of that. Yeah. How do you utilize that lower parking lot in the back of the building? This 95 percent full on pretty much all day. This is the primary staff parking area. And how many parking lots are you giving up on the upper part? About a hundred. About a hundred in this area. And how many parking spots in the lower one all together? Let's see. Without the parking garage or what it looks like now is we're actually going to gain on the site somewhere around a hundred total. If you had this in the parking garage and then this area here and then there's potential for some re-scribing in areas to pick up part of the plan is that the lower parking lot is going to be a garage or two floor or three floor. Back here, yeah. I mean what we're really we're getting into right now is seeing who parks where and how many of those people do we have and need spaces for and what that proximity is to where. Because when the emergency department's not over here anymore, who are these people parking here? You know we don't know yet. We have to that's part of the ongoing conversation. Do you know what's going to be with the emergency room is now? Well so that's a couple things. One short term we'll probably use it for physician offices, specifically for specialists that are on the campus themselves that have some relationship to the bill in patient care. Long term we need to have a plan that tears the old building down because it's it's past this useful life right now doing a study about what it's going to take to seal the building back up and get a few more years on it but it really is built in late 60s and you know it's got 50 years on it and it's at that point so the long-term mass facility plan was okay as we build people and we will tear down the old ones and then we basically end up with a new modern medical center. This is kind of that first floor plate because it's extremely expensive to go to hospitals and we've got to buy it off of those chunks and so short term we'll probably repurpose it for some kind of outpatient offices but long term it's going to start coming down and so to make room for whether the next phase is. And my selfish question is will it impact a change in the intersection? We're doing a traffic study or a done a traffic study and the implication on this is pretty minimal compared to. Okay you know when you did the work one was a two or three years ago and the line was put far back there was a lot of problems with getting that when the shift changes getting people out of the hospital driveway. We have replaced those traffic lights which I think helps. So I'm just you know I'd like to work with you on that if you can think of. I think you get rid of that artificial constraint because the right turn lane helps too because the thing bumps out so you can only get so many cars queued up there. You'll be able to get people by that way. Yeah that's something we looked at very closely because the worst case scenarios have ended up in the form of traffic coming to from the facility. And the roads the good news is the road system is really good in this area. It's got the interstate lots of work down in the 62 Fisher Road intersection by the state two years ago and this intersection was last year last year we replaced that yeah. So all together it's money amongst friends yeah. When this building was built it's going to be the net increase in employees. That's being stayed right now just the range is 92 110 would be a guess right now or we won't know for a little longer but we're basically going to part of my department kind of forecasting what that is and we have I just want to have as well affect those intersections yeah. Yeah well that's over the course of 24 hour periods so it's not all at once. Three shifts yeah. So that building is handling potential psychiatric patients. Yeah and here's just another this visual might help fill it in a little from the so this right here is the existing main front entry and so there's the new emergency department with the two stories of psych psychiatric care and the shell space and then here's that connector going through to the back. If you were to park at this side of the building is that what you're saying you haven't really decided how you get in the building that way? Well no we are really they will be the majority of people will be coming in from this time. Yeah unless they're going to the emergency department and what we will maintain this front area it's it's underutilized but it is where bus drop-off is and that will remain. Isn't that also the entrance for the dialysis people? Yes it is. You haven't gone to the DRB yet. That's correct we did we had a meeting with Tom a preliminary meeting and that was we're in the early stages. Yeah I actually I actually see and as much remember me a little more than the only network leader at the scene because you've seen this in the 14th and so I'm sure the board appreciates you coming in to give that from this that's uh I'm just trying to understand where the when is this going to be done. My ball goes well. Well I'll be up to first we got to submit a CON we're hoping to do that late spring early summer. CON. Certificate of need with the condom care board and then they have you know their process to approve it so that that can take you know 90 days to a year so once that once that approval happens assuming does then it's about 36 months of construction. The big hurdle is how pay for it still so it's a very expensive building and so that's that's the challenge of the moment. Right and that's where we're working trying to get an accurate cost so that we can figure then figure out how much money needs to come forward. CON. And it would have to go through that 250 and conditional use of the town site plan approval and actually we'll have to talk about water waste water waste water allocations minimum amount. Well away from the government we're here to help you know that. The hospital does a really good job with community outreach and educational opportunities too and that's something to potentially you know look at in terms of obtaining additional funding and perhaps grants etc for capital funding. And I think about like the change in the parking you know maybe there could be a designated area for you know folks that are there for educational opportunities too. It's a thought. CON. The educational opportunities up at the campus now I know just. CON. Tremendous. CON. Yeah. CON. A lot of things in there you want to know. CON. Sighting garages. CON. It is very exciting. CON. Yeah yeah. CON. Well as you say two in terms of how it relates to the town square which is you know I think exciting the two things come together and so. CON. That's a really good point with the town center zone. CON. It's kind of leaning towards this. CON. I think the parking garage is a really great um not only designed to have it but where you're looking to put it it just makes total sense. CON. Yeah. CON. Oh thank you that does kind of tuck away in the facts right there and come up the hill. CON. I don't know whether there's we're going to just the hospital's plans for the future that the building would be built for the addition if it was reasonable to put on additional stories. CON. Yeah so as this becomes the kind of the main plate of the future hospital for the next 50 years there may it may stack to three floors higher depending on what the needs is and we'll move all of our inpatient medical beds there too and uh basically the community ends up with you know the next hospital for the next 50 years and so. CON. So this application is just for the emergency department and the psychiatric uh but it's really great planning because if you look at a map and look at all we have for development of the land up here it gets pretty minimal unless you start yeah we get 10 years from now maybe those floors have to go up. CON. And we we own those three other lots there and and it's hard to push things that actually has so far people to travel so we're actually looking at how does that play into an ambulatory strategy so that where some of our doctor's offices are basically destination on that side of campus and so let's see kind of the 15-year master plan how does it all play out so. CON. I think a little subway would be nice to see a channel. CON. A tunnel where I'm trying to give us a tunnel. CON. I can notice. CON. We consider the hospital very important in that plan for the downtown designation as we've talked about. CON. That's all. CON. I was at the active 50 meeting for the senior center going in and there's a lot of conversation about the walkability and so that was my interest because as the town center plan develops you want to make sure that there's walkability between the hospital and the town center and so it's. CON. And like you are with your project this project with a lot of unknowns we don't have the answers to. CON. One of the things we want to plan for as we build this is we kind of build in that future walkability. CON. Right. CON. Sure. CON. It's been exciting to talk years and life of the town I think. CON. The town center and the house. CON. Maybe my son can wheel me back. CON. That's my really walkability. CON. Wheel of the Holy. CON. Do you hear the questions? CON. Can you hear them? CON. Thank you very much for coming in. CON. Thank you all very much. CON. Good to see you again. CON. Good to see you again. CON. Yeah. CON. Nice to meet you. CON. I'm sure I will see you. CON. Who will? CON. Thank you all. CON. Thank you Ron. CON. You. CON. You have been saying hello. CON. Nice weather here. CON. I know. CON. I know. CON. Take care. CON. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Linda come on up. CON. Come on up. CON. It's going to be our next contestant. CON. Did you want a question about audit? CON. Yes, please. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Thank you. CON. Um, did you get the word from Brian that he's going to take care of that tomorrow? CON. Nope. Not yet. CON. I just saw the email when I went to check something out about 10 minutes ago. CON. He had an email in there saying, and I think he sent it to you with a copy of me. CON. Maybe it was the other way around, but he said he was going to take care of that. CON. Okay, good. Yeah, I followed up with Yuri. CON. I saw it. CON. I was just saying, you know, the facts would be great. CON. We need it quick. CON. Yeah, facts will save about four days of mail time. CON. Yeah. CON. Yeah. CON. Did anybody have any questions on the audit before I start? CON. Because what I did, I went through it briefly at the last meeting. CON. Oh, okay. CON. And I knew, and I just picked one particular section. I think it was G that I picked. CON. Yeah. And I knew that you would just search on all the other ones just to say what each one actually means. CON. Yep. Okay. CON. G was one of my sections too. CON. Yeah, good. CON. I usually just gloss over exhibit A and B, and that's basically taking a governmental fund statement, which is the reports that you guys look at every month that Diane gives you, and basically converts it to like a for profit business out there, which is getting all the loans on there and getting all the fixed assets on there. But I know that's not what you guys use for budgeting purposes and setting the tax rate and all that. So we'll jump to page 12. And this is basically the balance sheet which shows the general fund separate, because that's really the only major fund you guys have. The rest of the other seven funds are all combined into the non-major funds. But for the general fund, you ended up the year with $1.2 million of fund balance. Some of that isn't spendable because it's prepaid as an inventory and the loan to one of the proprietary funds. And then there's restricted money, committed money, and assigned money. You know, like committed restricted money being maybe appraisal money that comes in and stuff. And those are all noted on page 39. So that equates to about $500,000 between all of those. So what's left is an unassigned fund balance of $603,000. And that's what you can use to decrease the tax rate if you want to, if you want to use it going forward. So that's pretty much where you stood at the end of June for last year. Linda, do you know what they recommend from the state to hold for fund balance? That's a very good question. Something like a percentage of your budget, I thought it was like 5% of the budget? I do not know what the state recommends. I know some places might have a minimum fund balance where they say we want to have 15% of whatever annual budget is. We want to have that as a minimum fund balance just to keep it kind of in our back pocket, so to speak. If we had a major disaster, for example, that we had no choice. I don't know what the state does when you know some non-profits who depend a lot on donation stuff. Sometimes they'll say a year's worth of operating expenses because timing of non-profit grants is so fluctuating, but I don't know what the state has. Okay, good question. Exhibit E is basically your income and expense for the year, showing the general fund as one that showed 140,000, basically a net profit for the year, which gets you down to the total ending of 1.2 million. And the other combined funds had a net loss of about 50,000, but really that's because 62,000 of that was transferred into the general fund. That was the bridge fund, the Rexon Park fund, and the Rhodes Project fund that you closed out and moved in. Those are those reserves that we decided to have, yeah. So, really, of that, you know, 61,000 is part of that, 140,000. So, okay. And then Exhibit G basically takes the general fund, budget to actual for the year. So, your revenue was over budget by 400 and almost $28,000, most of that being from the state, you know, the Mirror Lake Road Culvert and the Fisher Road Paving Grant. And then you also had insurance proceeds from some highway vehicle, 52,000. So, that really comes up with most of your excess revenue. Your expenditures were over budget by $305,000. Under 85 of that had to do with capital outlays, mostly for the highway, those highway projects. And then there was, you know, some of that was highway funds, you know, for like winter roads, other small highway things that tuddled up. Because we had in that, in that figure, we had those two pieces of equipment that we purchased that we hadn't planned. That's in the capital portion. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. And then the police department was over budget by $76,000. A lot of that was due to wages. So, some contributing factors to what that, $305,000. Was for. So, overall, you'd budgeted a deficit of almost $44,000. You ended up with 140 excess. So, you were really better than budget by almost $184,000. So. Thanks for the revenues. Yeah. Yeah, overall. Yeah, yep. Yeah. And then over on page 23, shows your two proprietary funds, your water pollution fund and your water division fund. Both with about ending what they call net position versus net fund balance of $1.7 million. The water pollution fund on the next page ended the year with an excess of $168,000. The water division had a deficit of $100,000. The prior year for the water division fund, there was actually $50,000 of income from that for giving anyone. So, it was quite a shift from the year before. But overall, for both of them, you ended up with almost $18,000 profit. So. And the other non-major funds is way in the back and it shows the detail of each of those little funds but those are minor, minor accounts. It's a military fund. All right. The new asset forfeiture fund that was new this year. Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Again, on page 39, there is the detail of what's, what is the committed, the restricted, and the assigned fund balance so you can see what all of those funds consist of. You know, I know the state gave you some money for I-89 closure that's coming up. You know, so that's part of that because it hasn't been spent. You know, records restoration from the state. And that's pretty much it. We didn't have any findings this year, which is good. There's a couple journal entries but nothing material that was a result of audit procedures. So that was good. Well, that is good. It is good. It's excellent. A lot of attention to detail here. I like that. Well, we're very lucky we have Diane. We are. We commend her. Very much appreciated. So we're looking for the board to accept this? Yes. Or are we looking for something? Yeah. Just whenever you guys are ready. And I did bring another copy of the rep letter that needs to get signed. So whenever you're ready. When is it, when you need that back? Whenever you guys want it. I mean, it's in your hands right now with the draft. So whenever you approve it, we just need a verbal approval or written something. And then this rep letter needs to be signed on the back basically saying, you know, you provide all the information to us and you accept the draft as is, etc. Is that the one, is that signed by Diane and me? Is that the one? We need this by the end of the month of the town report. So we can include it in the town report. Perhaps since we don't have a full contingent of people, maybe you could accept it your next meeting. Or we could do it tonight if you feel confident in what has been presented to us. I don't know if that, I mean. Because we did it at the full board when I went through everything. I'm thinking, you know, I'm willing to make the motion to go ahead and prove it tonight. So I make the motion to approve the FY19 audit, the review that we just did tonight, and presented by Linda Mullen from Father Gil Segali in Valley. Do you hear a second? Any further discussion? All those in favor? Motion carries. So Diane and I will sign that letter. I'll leave it with you and you can just fax it back when you hear it. Okay, all right. Very good. And so we'll do that tomorrow. And you'll, you should be getting the other item that you're looking for from the lawyers, the lawyer letter. And after that, you would just let Diane know when it's ready. Right, yep, yep. Yeah, we'll probably upload it to the portal. Yeah. And then you have a copy and do you need hard copies? Or we do, we usually get what, 10? I think we usually get 10, yeah. Okay, yeah, so we do want 10. And we get the, and you probably have this all figured out, the electronic one, so Corinne can put it in the report. Right, yeah. We do need that. Yeah, that's, you need to get that off the portal. Yeah, that's what I, yeah, yeah, get this one. They don't allow me to use the portal, so it's... Let me use it much easier. Okay, thank you. Are you all set? Thank you, Linda. You're welcome. Thank you very much. Good to see you. Thanks for getting to. Okay, approval of 24 minutes. I make a motion that we approve the select board minutes for both December 5th, 2019 and December 19th, 2019 as presented in our packet. Is everybody here? There's two minutes. Last two, yeah. They were, yeah. Yeah. The full board, okay. Full board. Go here a second. All right, any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Thanks. This is a report, Linda. Well, I guess my report is basically, we've talked a little bit about the wall incident with the highway truck. We did get a new highway truck today. They went down and picked it up. The last couple weeks have been kind of odd with the holidays, but we're back on getting back to normal, which is always nice. It's nice to go on holiday. It's nice to come back. So the budget, you've talked about a little bit tonight. That's coming up the warning we're going to talk about. And we have to get the warning ready to post by the end of the month. And if people are running for office, it's July 25. They have to have their petitioning to the clerk. July. January. I'm sorry. Did I say July? January. January. Oh, yeah. Where am I? Yeah. January 25th. You're just going to warm or what? Yeah, I know what. And anything else? No. Your 2019 level of appraisal. Oh, thank you. Yes. We did get the letter from the state on the equalization study. And I am going to find it at any moment here. We have the common level of appraisals this year is 10309, which is... So it's still over 100 percent. You know, we were 10452. That's the common level of appraisal. The coefficient of dispersion, the COD was 13.2. I did have some questions. I haven't had a chance to talk to Clarissa about... I wanted to see, since we just had the mobile homes, the unlanded mobile homes, redone of what that did to our COD. But I wanted to... It hasn't changed very much from what it was last year, which doesn't indicate any need to do any reappraisal or major work, but I will have some answer on some of the individual sections of the total town, the mobile homes that are unlanded, the mobile homes that are landed. Those are our most difficult ones to keep a hold of with the sales and so forth. And a lot of it, and still was from the incident in 2011 from Irene, with homes that people were replacing, home was finally in. They were paying a lot more than what they were able to get. So that is in and nothing of surprise there. Here are the draft of the warning. And the warning, and I'll give you... This is obviously just a draft at this point. It doesn't require you to accept it at this point. Rosemary has typed this up and the special appropriations, everyone that she has received are not bolded. These are the ones that were on last year's, and the ones that are bolded she hasn't heard from yet, although she has until the 16th. And the pre-town meeting is going to be on the previous... Pre-town meeting, instead of the Monday evening, it will be on the Saturday morning. And I noticed she has to change, that's 10 a.m. Saturday morning. And that's really because the school is going to be having theirs on Monday night. It's the district school, it's not our school now, so it's different. So much better. Yes. Again, people have until the 16th to present a petition, either for this or something else for the morning. The articles that are going to be on the floor are the normal articles as far as the date that taxes are due and the penalty and the interest. This year, according to the Vermont State Law entities, such as the Volunteer Fire Department, that do not pay taxes and do not town-owned have to be approved by the town for tax exemption. So that's more or less a housekeeping thing. The Grange would be next year, that's five years. Also, the annual town meeting, it's been suggested that we move that from the first Tuesday, which is voting would still be the Tuesday, but the actual meeting to the Saturday before the first Tuesday. And so I don't know what the board feels about that. That was a suggestion of Rosemary. So we need to talk about that a little more. So this year around, they're talking about moving the, she wants to move the voting part, or not the voting part, but to tell the meeting part to... She can't move the voting. That's because of Vermont State Law. That's always the first Tuesday of the month. She's talking about moving the actual meeting part where you discuss different items. And I think what the theory is in so that people have a chance to discuss what's on the ballot before they, many times now people have already voted by the time it gets discussed. And I think what she's trying to do and what our thought is, is that people would have a chance to discuss it before they can make a decision how they want to vote. It'll be interesting to see what the pre-tell meeting attendance is. This time around, because it's not going to be the Monday before. It's going to be on the Saturday. Yes. I don't know. I've had people say to me, if you had it on a Saturday, we could attempt. But no matter when you have that, unfortunately, we all have times that we can't go. And that's kind of the same idea with the Tuesday meeting. People, even though employers are supposed to let employees go to town meeting, that's not always the case. Right. You know. Is he upstairs? No. That's the only thing for the... So I guess I, you know, we would, after next Thursday, which is not in July, will be... Rosemary will have all the petitions. If there's any potential for more petitions, she'll have them. Yeah. And she can have them on this. So be ready for you to vote on next time. And also as far as the annual meeting, if the board is going to support moving the date. So that's all. And when did we decide that we would switch to the Monday meeting? What date is that happening? That was because the clerk has to be at both meetings. And she can't physically be at the school meeting and at the town meeting at the same time. So we decided, we being Rosemary and I, that we'd go at the Saturday before. Very good. Yeah. Excellent. Did he also date on that? That's all, yeah. That's it. See you here. All I had was, I just needed, since I have flow, if I could have flow signed underneath the ground. Sure. And the other thing will be, so we move on now to round table? Floor? Nothing tonight from me, the round table. Thank you. Angelina? Okay. Stealing tonight is fine? Fine. No executive session. No. I make a motion to conclude and adjourn the meeting for this evening. Very second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Adjourned.