 Okay. Good evening. I'd like to call the Monday, July 18th, 2022, regularly scheduled row and select board meeting to order. I'm Brad Town with us tonight is on my left is Flo Smith and Dave Sawyer. On my right is Joe Staub and on Zoom is Carl Park. With us also is Vince Connie, town administrator and Diane Isabel, town treasurer. Editions are changes to the agenda. Yes, there's one change. I inadvertently forgot to delete the approval of minutes for the previous meetings. Those minutes are already approved. There are no new minutes ready for approval for this meeting. So that will be removed from the agenda. Okay. Anything else? Not update? I mean a public comment hearing none. Update on board up to the board on the town clerk and assistant town clerk positions. Yeah, very quickly. We have two residents that have applied for the town clerk's position. One was interviewed by the staff today with the very positive feedback from the staff on that interview. The second one was scheduled, but had an out of town situation that had to reschedule. They will be interviewed tomorrow. The thoughts are put out to the board are that based on the second interview and how that goes. If one of those two candidates seems qualified in a good selection, let's say, the staff and I will make that decision. I would propose calling a special meeting Thursday to make the appointment, pending the candidates availability to start. Board agrees. Anything else for Vince on this? Okay, update highway crew position? No, we made an offer last Friday that was accepted. The individual will be starting on August 1st for that to fill that. So the highway will be fully staffed as of August 1st. Okay. Final approval of a new town office cleaning contract. Yes, the way that seems like months ago. It wasn't quite that long ago. I was asked to check on the ability of them to be bonded. They've gone through that process. The owner will be the one right now that did pass the background investigation for the bonding. It is is bonded. I think she's been fingerprinted and completed that with the with the police. So we've actually had a trial run with them in here as well. They've done a great job. I think the staff is quite happy with the how they perform. So we're ready to move forward officially and make it official. I do have that in there for our motion on the cost and all that from the original vid documents. So I think I think from that perspective we're we're pretty good shape. You can't emotion. Don't move. Some money. That's what he's looking for. No, we voted on that before didn't I make a motion to accept lamb code clean services LLC. Proposed total for the first year is $14,040. I second that motion. In your discussion. All those in favor. Motion carries approval wholesome payment to axon for police from the ARPA funds. Again, you've got some information in your packet. Work with axon for the body cameras and it's a total cost of $17,406 $825 and 90 cents for those. And he's been corresponding with the passive to the LCT and they lump sum payment they would reimburse almost half $8351 and 55 cents of that $17,000 total. If they pay an installments, there's some risk there because from year to year their grants change. So he would only get a portion this year of I think it's around $2,000 or no $1,670 instead of the full $8,000 if you base it in installments and that difference would be at risk over the installment payments whether or not they offer the grant, how much they offer and so on. I guess so recommendation is obviously pay it full out of the ARPA funds and get that bigger reimbursement guaranteed up front. I have two questions. Chief, I wondered when it says this would also allow you to rework the grant application to include an ergonomic standup desk, which you should be able to purchase for under a thousand. Does the full cost include that now? Are you interested in that or no? I've been looking at a setup like that for Bonnie and so I originally had included like an entire package with this three year installment ergonomic desk. So he said send it back to me every work that he said he does. The money they're offering separate costs a separate check for that desk. And if we went with the route where you would be reimbursed to 8,351, 55, did they give you a timeframe when you would receive the reimbursement approach? I don't know. I mean, we're already kind of able to prove. So I was pleased to hear you were tentatively. Last year, I think when they helped us out with body armor, it was several times before they got the money. Normally the way that works is that once I pay for improved it through the cancel check, they process it and they, you know, they keep me involved and move at that point. And that's usually by a month to six weeks. Excellent. Very good. And we've been doing this for years. So as a total on a 60 month thing, 17,825, 90, you said with the reimbursement the total is 17,000 before the reimbursement. Before the reimbursement. Correct. And the reimbursement is 83,551, 55 of the 17,825, 90. I make the motion to approve the one time payment of 17,825 dollars and 90 cents with the understanding of a reimbursement up to 8,351 dollars and 55 cents. Second. Any further discussion? Yeah, I was originally going to let Mr. County just provide that information because it's pretty straightforward. But we've had some good news over the last week. And I just wanted to share that with the board. We had two officers graduate from the full-time academy on paper. We're a full staff, which is great because that's not really heard of most of the state. So we're moving in the direction where all our officers will be level three certified, which is a huge shift from last year at this time. So we're in a good place. We'll have an officer be at the academy. So that's going to be a draw on the shift a little bit. We have an officer going out with an injury surgery. So again, we're going to be kind of stretching ourselves in, but we're in the right direction. And I think six months from now, we're going to be in a really, really good place. I'm proud of our guys. I was impressed to see your post on social media. Well done and definitely good. Congratulations. Any other comments? Hearing none. Those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carries. OK, approval licenses, permits, vouchers and applications. I make the motion to approve payroll warrant 23 dash O2 for payroll from July 3rd, 2022 to July 16th, 2022 to be paid on July 20th of this year in the amount of forty six thousand one hundred sixty five dollars and seventy three cents also payable warrant twenty three G02 with checks twenty two one thirty nine to twenty two one seventy two for payables in the amount of thirty three thousand sixty three dollars and eight cents. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Motion carries. Round table. No, not tonight. Thank you, Dave. I just over that last meeting on the partridge firm thing. I did a little bit more looking into that. I don't know if it's coming back up on the agenda, but, you know, we were asked to take the roads over up there, which we did because they were built town specs and looking into that and thinking about it. I don't understand how we how we become a partner in this rain or how to run off thing. I think that's something that I don't know how much where we're looking into it on. But I think legally. I don't think we're responsible to join them in that project. I think that we need to find out to our attorney that's part of what I've got to work on is getting in touch with the guy from the EC that made that statement. Not too far to try and understand, get an understanding to bring back to the board of where that comes from, from that. And why? Yeah, because I pulled up all the stuff when they were making references of Weston's mobile home co-op joined in with the town, too. And I went to all that paperwork and I think that's. We definitely need more because you'd have three acres of impervious. Yes, there's a bunch of them throughout the state that they pinpointed, but, you know, we took the roads on through that HOA to help, to, you know, because they were designed to think that I don't see how that puts us in a position that we need to join in. You know, once we took those paved roads over, yeah, but there's over 300, three acres of previous service without the roads, all the roof surfaces, rideways, stuff like that. So in the old state? No, no, Joe. Yeah, it's a couple of things. Few of us have discussed the dry hydrant and the Marrow Lake Road that has been inoperable since the Culver replacement several years ago. And thinking that maybe the fire department, we have parts that could help, you know, fix that. I was hoping that maybe the town would be willing to donate the equipment and maybe a equipment operator to do the install. And we can, the fire department would give labor and materials. I don't know if that's that's something you're going to want to just look into. Or probably they can see what the what's the Are you digging in the water? If there may be some work within the water, but my understanding in this, this is where I'm going to rely on maybe the town. And that would be Nick Arabachev also who does all the grants that we've used for the dry hydrants. I believe there is no permitting required for repair. But that's something we would have to have some sort of conversation with. Also, Mom Piliar, I'm sure I'm just offering right now material and labor. You have to look into the whole of Jaren Borg and see what it is, take all it is. But second, several years back, we started the conversation of the fire department has outsourced their accounting. And we currently are with batch elders were on the second second contract with batch elders. And that costs the department plus the community quite a bit of money upwards of nine over nine hundred dollars a month for these services. I was kind of wondering if with the hiring of the assistant treasure and unknown how we're going to pay those hourly rate or the salary on that, I can see the fire department subsidizing some of those funds in some way. I don't know if that's something that Vincent Dianne would like to talk about. Yeah. See why it couldn't happen, you know, once she's on board. Okay. That's all I have. That sounds like a good move to me too, you know, and fair enough that once she's on board and acclimated, et cetera, I think it could be a real win-win. Right. And plus it's a small piece of accounting that gets really good. Obviously I'd be overseeing it, but it's something that she could more easily do and learn. Thank you, Diane. Anything, Vince? I might have one little thing for the board to discuss with the town potential of a new town clerk going through the interview process. And I touched on this a little bit today. Expectations, right, from the board and from the town. I've got three of them listed that I want to make sure the board is okay with, or if they have anything else, they want to make sure that we, the staff, cover during the interview process, right? As we told the candidate today, one of the whole staff there so she can see what she's getting into and ask questions and hear her tour. So she would fully understand and we could fully understand her. So she comes into a wide open and understanding everything, right? But three of the key ones that I think are the office should be open five days a week, 40 hours a week for access, right? I think that's a given that's been going on in discussions for a long time. So we want to be clear. Now, what does that mean and look like? As we told the clerk today, it's really up to their discretion, or whether it's her, whether it's an assistant, how they want to achieve that. It can be flexible, but the bottom line is we need to have that. People need to have access for five days a week, 40 hours during that. So that was one. The other thing that I think I'm going to be looking for as well with the staff is regular communication and participation staff meetings. I haven't done any in a while for a number of reasons. But my intent is to start those up at least monthly to have a full with the chief and everyone that full staff meeting, what's going on, you know, anybody in trouble, can we help? And here's where we are with things and so on, just to keep the communication paths open and everybody working together. So that was another one. And then the willingness to work with the staff overall, right, on the modernization that we've already started doing with the equipment, with digitization of records specifically as well, to get that moving forward and get them on board. But again, I want to put that out to the board. You probably all have some thoughts and ideas on what your expectations of that office is too. I just want to make sure that we cover that right up front with everybody. So there's no surprises. Anything else? Oh, that's it for me. No executive session. No executive session. No executive session does. Can I change the motion to adjourn? There's just one thing I'd like to add. I wondered if you could discuss when I brought up to you that I was contacted by a resident on Chandler Road about the Lovers Lane Bridge and how you're handling that and the follow-up. I have followed up with the resident, but I just wondered if you could speak to that a little. I got an email from someone over there as well. And basically it's almost a canned response at this point. From the town's perspective, we've done pretty much all the weekend. I'm following up on a monthly basis with the Regional Planning Commission to follow up with the state to see where they are. It's on their priority list to be done, but there's no commitment date or time for it to be done. And that's the best information that I can get that I have right now that I'm sharing with people asked. We're hoping this year, but again, we're mid-July. It's not on any schedules, confirmed on any schedules as of yet, but we're still hoping. Very well. Thank you very much. Good. One more thing now that you're saying that. What's the deal with this Muzzy Road sign which just keeps coming up and seeing it? Okay, three out of the last five years, the sign's been stolen. It's an ongoing or three out of the last four, something like that. They've driven over the post to knock it down and taken the sign. They've cut the post to take the sign and they've taken the sign. Tim thinks this one, we probably helped make it easy because it was done during the winter. They don't normally, but they did plow snow up close to the sign so it was easy to walk up and steal it. But for some reason, people like that Muzzy Road sign. This will be the fourth one of the term that I think since I've been in here that we've replaced. He's going to order one. They're not 35 bucks a pot. He's going to order another one. We did check with Fast and All. Brad had made a suggestion about some security type hardware. They don't really have much to offer. And the fact of the matter, like Tim said was if they want it, they're going to take a saw as I'll cut the post again and take it anyway. Then we'll replace the post and a sign, rather than just the sign. How about a name change to the road? Just saying. Motion to adjourn. I make the motion to adjourn tonight. It's a regularly scheduled meeting. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? We're adjourned.