 I think the other person was Sheriff Bonyak is that you Sheriff Bonyak? Yes, I'm here. Thank you Sheriff. Okay. I have Kevin Taylor and we have Wayne Warner who just just uh spoke everybody on the phone We also have Melissa's Melissa's Our health and deputy health officers Sorry Trina what was that it broke out a little Can you tell us who? Yes, here is me representing the select board And we have a member from Orca Media Wayne Fisher Wayne Fisher Dave from the Herald was notified, but he's not identified himself and may not be on the call This is anything that's not on the agenda for tonight. Move on to approval of the agenda Take a motion to approve the agenda Those in favor the town response If I could just share with the board, we have several members of talent staff that are involved with various groups in town Both directly and indirectly collecting information disseminating information We have members of the board that are working with groups that are circulating resources that may be necessary or needed in the community So we're we're doing what we can given the The unusual circumstances that we're presented with We are for the most part at 100 staffing. So our Our staff continue to operate Some are working from home Our highway crews have kept the roads open as best they can given the recent storm, but everyone's still on the job Anything that the town needs at this time Not not the town necessarily We have heard from The sheriff's department. We have heard from our first responders about the need for personal protection equipment The same challenges that are being faced by medical professionals and public safety officials nationwide We did circulate a request From the state to our first responders asking if they need any PPEs We have received a response from nearly everyone and we will be submitting that request We know that some of our fire departments have already secured some protective personal equipment from local companies. So we From what I was shared earlier today with one of our chiefs is that we have sufficient to last us for At least a month or two maybe three But otherwise we're still working to have as as much PPE equipment as needed and we're working with the sheriff's department to get them what they need Fire departments what equipment what they're covered for in terms of call numbers Versus a month or two months Only thinking that You know the volume of calls that they might see ebbs and flows Yeah, I have not spoken to them about call volume mostly just um information on Expected length of time, but I could coordinate with them Sure, this is my Michael held the brand with the Randolph Village fire department Oh, there's a new name. You didn't identify yourself You guys were already talking so So what we did what I did for the village is I estimated our average number of calls And with the modification of our response to limiting the number of people who are coming in close contact with the public I then times that out by the number of masks gloves and other disposable items that we would have And we're looking at the deconing safety glasses So we have eye protection But we do have enough masks to to last us If we hit an average number of calls, which is 10 per month About two months time if we are less than that it'll be three months if it's more than that will be close to a month We also have the opportunity with the mobile hospital and the fire station to grab some additional items and and working with the vermont division of emergency management to Restock those items as we use them health department about risk benefit of the Specifically, but I told them what I was doing and they did not subject Okay, Evan Taylor any idea where east brand off stands average calls. We don't get too many calls anyway, but The three stations got together to talk about it because as people get more sick and what have you we're gonna have to adjust our response be it mutual aid or I think we're trying we're doing our best to stay ahead of it Okay, thanks. Um Sheriff boñac we see a request to change Call to change coverage because of call rates and this is one of the pieces that was predicted when the quarantine started coming down, you know the kind of Probably not joke. We did we joked about it that you know what we were going to see as a baby boom in december, but the Alternative to that is we're going to see a higher percentage of domestic violence And things going on it the seen the request to increase patrols I looked at that and the female money that's coming out That guidance just came out on is going to cover those costs if they can be uh tracked separately to be direct results of Quarantines and the coven. Um, not sure if you're are you seeing are you seeing a higher demand for services at this time? Yes, we are we're seeing the uh increase in family disturbances Every it's been mainly uh 15 16 year olds fighting with parents You know, they want the Continular regular routine where parents are trying to You know keep their kids home And uh, you know, we did have one one domestic which police led to an arrest just the other night In the village So we are seeing an uptake And what we were talking about what I mentioned to the adults was Basically from 11 roughly 11 O'clock in the morning till nine at night Having a possibly the second person on Just in the village You know, we we did call the state police for backup the other night What he made the arrest You know, we are using social distancing for You know, we're asking people to you know step out of the house sometimes wherever possible We are in need of the n95 mask and the main reason we need those It's for if we have to transport somebody in a vehicle Because anyone can find space So that's our need for you know, I don't need many masks And hopefully we won't see too many people They're going to go to jail about Right now the courts so everyone knows the courts are basically Emergency hearings only so Our transports are basically The routine transports we normally do have stopped and like I said, it's only going to be for emergencies That's what I have so far I don't know if anybody else has thoughts on this But I think we need to err on the side of having coverage in public safety Being key because I don't think this is going to get any better and the You know, I think we can tie this directly to Torrentines and now the governor's Announcement that came out just as we were coming on this call Is calling for basically anybody that's not essential to Civities outside the home So I think your job is going to get a little bit More dynamic and that it's going to be an expense that is going to be coming under the criteria from up what is going to be covered I've been spending the majority of my days I'm honest. I've been I know not so many conference calls from you know, not just the local but statewide And even on a national level, you know, we're uh it's This is ever it's this is changing so rapidly, you know, just in a few days we went from A few people infected now. We're up to 95 I got And I have one person who we're waiting to hear so I may I need to lose in one deputy We're waiting to hear if his wife was exposed by a doctor So, uh, we're in Dartmouth, so we Wait in here She's positive or not We may go on their 14 day quarantine so It's everybody, you know, just need to be you know, the social distancing. That's a that's the biggest thing right now, you know The basic high-tune stuff We all need to just work together and put our heads together And you know, we could play this by You know, it's just worse than I could see you know, saying yes There's like board members and also yes, it's time to put that second person in place We were looking for the town to approve an additional officer during the day 9 p.m and it'd be Wednesday, Thursday Those seem to be their highest call volume days Okay, can you just put together what it is that you would like? And just a rough cost on that and submit it up to Adolfo and then we can send it out to the board and we can Evaluate We know kind of what we're getting into Everybody on the crew We have everyone except one person uh, and they Chose to accept them They were already on a one-week vacation Asked if they could extend to an additional week because of just issues um That were occurring and just concerns that they had We had allowed staff that if they wanted to use vacation for Precautionary measures that they could so they they agreed to do that and we we waived that part of the personnel policy Other other than that one person everyone else is on board Still on the job Yeah, and water wastewater Water and wastewater everyone is still on the job. We had one person out last week uh unrelated to um, it was due to it was due to An illness, but it was more of a stomach-borne illness and not any of the symptoms that That has been reported. So we're still at 100 percent any other parts of town operations that they have concerns with Past week knows the increase in quals That's why supervisors we discuss this and figure things to your attention now then then wait so like I said, we just You know keep an eye on this and if it's getting overwhelming then let's put it in place Any other questions? So the other item under this that we have is the board asked the motion to waive Uh penalties and fees on taxes that weren't paid by the march 31st deadline allowing people An additional three months Which would get them to the june 30th day Then without incurring penalties and fees Um amount that we needed to also Adolfo and cliff plug into it um working with joy so what you received is um sample motion That not only waives penalties and interests but keeps leans from being filed against the properties that don't pay by March 31st And it also Clarifies you will pay to the school district is only those that are collected or not This has been just to issue the check in the 20 days for the entire amount due because collected at that point Making a change in giving folks this extra three months Is going to put an impact on the amount that's collected um So to keep us from absorbing The hit of paying all of the school payment at once We need to just clarify that we're only paying the school spend conversations with the school about this too So it's not coming as a surprise to them any thoughts on that That talks about with the remaining balance to be paid within 120 days From the two days so that gives them an that gives us an additional 30 days beyond the 90 day extension Is that my reading that correctly? So that's a state statute That the town has a A balanced view within 120 days to the school whether we've collected it or not A little bit because I thought the original intent was to Just delay penalties and interest on fiscal year 2020 taxes And the way I read it here says Interest in penalties that accrue on unpaid property taxes including accounts that are currently delinquent I didn't think the intent was to Um Wave the interest on previous years I think that language change was made pat after you brought it to our attention that the software That calculates this doesn't differentiate between the two you don't have to Forgo the interest on previous ones say if somebody Posed money from a year or two ago. They've already been charged the penalty And they get interested every month. So it seems to me like this should be targeted towards fiscal year 2020 unpaid property taxes Which would mean both payments for 2020, but it wouldn't apply to previous years If they still owed from previous years I thought that's what we were talking about Yeah, where we'd like to make the language change Well, I would say Move to delay for a period of three months from the date of march 31st 2020 All interest in penalties that accrue on unpaid fiscal year 2020 property taxes And then delete including accounts that are currently delinquent And I thought that was in our as our intent to do it for both payments in previous years Everybody good with the change that pat wants? I'm fine with it. Yeah, I'm fine That was my understanding as well All right, any other changes There is uh, if I if I could add one change Uh, just in double checking our citations um On sentence in the second paragraph sentence four at the end That leads into sentence five It cites 32 vsa 133 Uh, the change would be 32 vsa 4793 Vsa 133 is the chapter 47 is within that chapter Yeah, that's right. But the the citation 32 vsa 133 leads us to Something about a very random. So if if Yeah, 32 vsa 133 cites a different section that talks about something else Uh, but you are correct, Trini It is 32 vsa chapter 133 But the citation of it 32 vsa 133 leads to something unrelated to to this entirely So if we were specific and said 32 vsa 4793 It talks about the specific subsection that Is related to this particular item That would work. It wouldn't be a it wouldn't be the exact citation. It would just say 32 vsa chapter 133 And then it would apply for the entire chapter And you do 32 that's your title vsa of vermont statutes annotated 133 would be your Your first section would be so it's probably in chapter one And what we're saying is the part we want the part that deals with all this is chapter 133 That that has all the laws but then there is is little subsections that deal with you know the definition of stuff and You know leans filing process Notification all that But it's also saying is within that We either need to add chapter to it. So it is the entire chapter dealing with this that we're addressing or we need to add The actual subsection in there, which is 4793 You have to define it as the chapter Before 133 move 133 and put 4793 or we add the word chapter after vsa Trini, this is a doll for it doesn't sound like there's a a preference Uh with anyone in the board. So if if you prefer we can just do 32 vsa chapter 133 Chapter 133 takes you to all those other sub subsections or 133 4793 is actually the warrant that gets drawn up And this is where we get into the kind of you know, where is the lean authorization? My preference is to go with the whole chapter. So we've covered it Yeah, any other comments on the motion one other I would like to add in the previous motion we had We encouraged those Randolph taxpayers are able to pay their taxes or a portion of their taxes On time to do so as that helps the town as a whole to help others needing that at this time I'd like to add that at the end because I think it's important that we let people know that Don't wait 30 days to pay Uh, if you can pay now I wonder what other people think I'm fine. I'm fine with that. We've done a good job messaging that. Thanks Larry It's part of a Proposed language for that front porch forum post, but I did not actually include that after Joyce's comments, but I can I think it's important to message that Yeah, I think so too Okay, well after for tomorrow's post I'll gonna um Include the language about the the lean not you know also being included In our motion and and when I do that I'll include this additional Message Was that a motion time asking if that was the next That is the next for the comments. I'll make the motion that we move the Uh, we move the motion as or the resolution has amended Have a motion in a second all those in favor All right Shannon I missed your second did that It was pat Trini just before we go just just wanted to confirm that there were there were a lot of eyes some overlap, but Uh, I wrote down five Yeses, um, is that it sounds accurate just wanted to confirm Okay, I think five. Yep. Perfect. Thank you. Also. May I interrupt? This is Melissa the town health officer Bob and I are here to answer any health related questions. Um, are we done with the health portion of the program? We are Does anybody have any questions or concerns for us? No, just good luck Okay, um, we're available and I know that everybody has our numbers if need be we're very happy to help in any way Great. Thank you. Melissa. Thank you, Bob. I'm welcome You're welcome. Bye. Bye. Have a good night everybody Me too Thank you. Bye. Is that something else for me about all I'm going to sign off. This is Wayne Thank you. Wayne Thanks folks Thanks, Wayne. You're welcome. Say for any of the firemen that are on we're just going to talk about a tax anticipation note and then Other business old business Which I don't think we have anything under so Next up is the tax anticipation note This is to authorize choice to go out and seek rates on get a note in place in case we need it for day-to-day operations We are hoping that the board would make a motion to authorize staff to To seek a tax anticipation note A board vote and then there is like a resolution that we have to vote in after you select who you're gonna Have the note with I think all we can do tonight is authorize you to go out and Get rates And who's interested and then most of them have a very specific resolution that we have to adopt That is correct Trini. We we did plan if the board authorized us today to seek out a tan To bring all necessary paperwork To the april select board meeting Comments on that I don't but we have the opportunity I believe Through the voters at town meeting to seek up to the total amount that we could That we are anticipating through tax I don't expect for us to to seek that high of a tax anticipation note Typically, it's in the vicinity of of a one million dollars, but even then We only draw from it if necessary Um, but we don't have an amount yet That's something I I would uh speak with cliff and joys about when we when we seek the rates And what's out there? Yeah, for the most part it is it's it's if we need we need to draw money For instances where we don't think people are going to pay taxes or Something in this scenario, right? It is almost like a line of credit But not exactly a line of credit Not exactly, but so you'd have a better picture of this probably sooner than that I think by the end of this whether the next few days We're going to know if people continue to pay their taxes or not if You know for all we know everyone decides to pay and then we may not need a tan Or we don't have anyone paying from this point going forward and then we you know We're left with a potential deficit. So we'll know within the next few days How much we will need for a tan for you to go out to the bank For a line up to a million dollars And then we can It can be narrowed in if need be You know, you can have a million dollars and not borrow against it at all. Yeah See with A tax participation note to discuss to determine what the rates might be In the second all those in favor Thank you Any old business No old business no Other business None No executive sessions No executive session a little hard. Yeah. Yeah And the next motion I think pat beat you All those in favor are done. Thank you everyone. Great. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Bye. Bye