 All right, so I'm going to call the meeting to order. First thing on the agenda is public comment. This is the Board of Liquor Control. No, the Board of Liquor Control, yeah, sorry. Board of Liquor Control, first thing. All right. Public comment. May I? For the Board of Liquor Control? Oh, no, no, no, sorry. OK. All right, so no other public comment. So approval of the agenda. What is approved of the agenda? Excuse me, I'm sorry, I'm from Braintree, so I don't quite know what I'm doing. But I wanted to make a public comment. When we get to the regular meeting. When we get to the regular meeting. Right now we're in Board of Liquor Control. Oh, excuse me. You'll be fine. I'll get you. This is very short. So I'll take long. Thank you very much. OK, so we got a second? Yeah. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Board of Liquor Control. Trina's and I? Oh, right, OK. I think I heard it. OK, so new business. We have two 2020 liquor license renewals for Jaws for beer and wine and Summit Stores for malt and beer and wine. So any questions, comments, discussion? I have none. Anything that? No. All right, we'll be in motion at this time. We're both in one. I think we should just do them both. OK, I'll move that we approve both liquor license renewals. Shaws and board. Shaws and Summit Stores. Motion seconded. All those in favor? Aye. OK, carries. I move we adjourn. OK. So all those in favor? Aye. Aye. So moved. OK, we're out of that. And then we'll be close right now. On to the regular meeting. I'll call the regular select board meeting to order. And now, public comment. Thank you. I'm sorry to be so clueless, but I'm a breakthrough resident. That's my only excuse. OK. I just wanted to fill you guys in on a couple things that have happened since we last talked about grants for chamber. OK. Thank you for the support for your grant for the New England Heritage Economy Program. We filed an application on the day that it was due. And we will hear by the middle of February, whether or not we obtain that grant, which did require a match. If that doesn't work, we have our feelers out for other possible places. And there's one spot at Vermont Community Foundation that looks promising. Keep your fingers crossed on both, but again, match. So your support is really, really important. Then just one other grant-related comment. Last year in December, Adolfo wrote a really superb letter supporting Chandler's request for NAP life, Main Street Grant Funding, to get money to reduce ticket prices at Chandler because of the input and what we hear from the community that ticket prices can never get low enough. So we're going to be applying to Wyndham Foundation. We had their first cycle in 2020. Again, to support reductions in ticket prices and also to do more of the buy-donation, live and upstairs shows that people really seem to be enjoying. We've got some of those scheduled in free and scheduled and more coming up later in the year. And we think that it would be really helpful for Wyndham to give us some money to support those two. So again, we'll be asking Adolfo to just reprime his support letter from NAP life last time. And we have our fingers crossed that we'll get that one, too. So thanks for all the good suggestions and ideas and support. And we'll keep keeping you posted. Great. That's a good question. Let me know your name. Sharon Reeves. Sharon Reeves. I'm a resident, but I'm a volunteer. OK, thank you. What effect do you think it's had this year? I'm sorry? What effect do you think it's had this year? Being able to lower prices. We've been able to lower the prices for Neuro Festival, for classical music, and for the Pride Festival. For instance, for the benefit that we're doing on Saturday, the May West Band Play that hasn't been seen since 1927, we're able to offer a $5 ticket price for food stamp participants, three squares, the clients at the food shelf, the clients at Capstone, and so on. And people are starting to take advantage of that, and also of the $10 ticket price that Perry recommended that we post for the back section of the balcony. So keep your fingers crossed, Pat. I think that getting the word out is really important. So I posted at the food shelf and Capstone this week and circled the $5 ticket price option. So do you think you're getting more attendance? Don't know yet. Hard to tell. It's hard to tell, right? But as I said, by donation events live and upstairs, where we have UIOB are doing pretty well, though now that people are used to having free entertainment in their homes, so many people just walk by the donation basket. So having some money from Wyndham Foundation and we're going to keep asking for sponsorship for those events will really be helpful, because we need to at least get enough money in to cover the artist's fees. Right. OK, well, it sounds like we're making progress in here. We're making progress, yeah. Great. Thanks for the good ideas and the support. You're welcome. All right, any other public business here, public comment? No, we're ready. So let's move on to a little agenda. When you get there, Harry, we added slide A for the fire advisory recommendation that changed the agenda. Yeah. Yes. So that's an addition? That's an addition. OK. So is that just a discussion then? There's an action item on that. It's a recommendation for an increase in compensation to the firefighters. OK. And there's an action item changed on that on the package. And so the move will be a quick agenda, OK? Second. All right, moved and seconded. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. All right, consent calendar. I can't hear Trini. Is she voting? Trini, are you voting? You lose, yeah. OK, OK. I'm not hearing her. OK, should I talk louder? That's good, OK. Let me just move it closer for me. Let's just throw this right here. All right, I just moved you a little closer. All right, let's try that. OK, so we're on to consent calendar. We did. Yes, no, yes. We're going to do that. So we need a motion for the consent calendar. I'll move to approve the consent calendar. OK, motion's moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. OK, you got it at that time? OK, that's good. All right, so new business. So we're starting with the fire. The fire advisory board committee met last Wednesday, which was on Tuesday, June 14. They were voted to recommend the select board consider a wage increase of all firefighters by 10%. We had no idea that it was happening. The existing budget that we're going to be approving tonight does not reflect that increase in it. And the recommendation is to decline the increase because it may set precedent for other town employee groups to vote their own increases. The follow-up for that, depending on which way this goes, will be the town staff will work with the fire advisory committee and the operations review committee to determine what that will work like going forward. You thought on that? How much of an increase is it? It would start at the bottom of $1.10 an hour and work in 10% increments as we looked at the responsibility ladder of the British Department. So the lowest paid firefighters would see a $1.10 increase? That's correct. Well, I would be in favor of what you just suggested about the fire advisory committee work with the budget committee and staff to do this instead of just, like, I'm agreeing. I don't think it's right for them to just think that they can vote themselves an increase and they're going to accept that. And then the operations review committee is best one of their charges as to what the structure and compensation and other items. Do you see the operations review committee? It's the three-fired cheese and the tank. Yeah, same line. Want me to hear, Trini? Yes. OK, go. The fire advisory says the rate. It presents to us like words, like words always just never been present in a conversation. And so they set it down to look at the rate. So I had a conversation with Mike about it, that the charge of that committee is actually with that policy, how those rates will be determined, and then the rate should come through to follow that policy once it's accepted by the flight court. And he agreed that they probably needed to do a policy. And we had a conversation about maybe that we've got other issues with how we pay the firemen and not triggering employee status versus volunteer status. So we've agreed to take that on as part of the charge of the fire services committee and trying to come out with sorting through all the laws and the rules on when you trigger an employee versus a volunteer, when labor is involved, when worker stop kicks in and come back with another proposal of how we pay the firemen. In the meantime, when they looked at the numbers at fire advisory, they believed that the rate change between now and June 30th is only going to amount to about 1,000. Probably more like five or six, Trini. He says he thinks between five and 6,000. They thought it would be about a $1,000 to pass. But they were working with her numbers. You know, they have a day, I told them you're in the middle of a fiscal year and your budget's already done for the next fiscal year to be proposed, so where you think is the money for them to come out of? Which they pointed out that they always have to carry over money that doesn't end up being spent and it goes into reserve funds. I'd kind of like to know more about what this will really cost before we approve it. I'm wondering if, and it sounds like there may be some other questions, perhaps we put this off till next month. You did that? It would be nice to see what the pay schedule is now and how it would affect that schedule and how it would affect our budget for this year and next. Did you hear that, Trini? Out there, they're quite drastically different. Right, so I think it, you know. But what it's really gonna cost. Right, so I think the consensus is is to wait, grab some more information and then review it again. Thought you just said yeah. She said yeah. Somebody needs to make a motion, I think, right? We need a motion to not act. We're not gonna take any action on that. We're not gonna take any action. We don't have to make a motion, right? We can just table it till the next discussion. Next meeting? Okay. I'm all for that. Okay, we got three nods. All right. Next, draft, tax stabilization agreement policy. Yes, that's under current review. Joshua Jerome is still working on it. Couldn't be with us tonight. Like a deferred discussion on that until the next meeting as well. Okay, do you want to hear that? You good? Yeah, that's it. But we have a copy of that in here. Okay, so we're gonna table that. Don't know. Okay, I will say that I did read that policy and it looks pretty good. I think, yeah, it's getting better. He may have sent it through the mail. Yeah. Yeah, to all the selected members. Yeah, presumably. All right, so Mountain Alliance Inter Municipal Agreement Amendment. Yeah, and we're not there with the amendment, but town of Roxbury has made a request to become a member of the Mountain Alliance. Currently we've got four towns in the Mountain Alliance, Randolph, Braintree, Brookfield and Northfield. The current agreement allows for other towns to be admitted into the Alliance. There's an additional splitting of costs that they were to be allowed into the Alliance as far as spreading the load of the cost of operating against another town. There's a potential for increased costs due to the household hazardous waste event. You've got more people to put more household hazardous waste. They were sharing that cost as well. We might not get an increase in the SWIP grant that pays for part of that household hazardous waste collection. And there's a potential for increased traffic at our transfer station. Potential for more maintenance as a result of the increase in traffic. Town of Braintree has already voted to approve the request and if they are admitted, everybody votes yes, then the agreement will have to be revised. And that's what the amendment was about. So it's getting there. So it's a request before this war to whether or not to admit Roxbury. Have any thoughts on this training? Okay, so this is the Mountain Alliance adding Roxbury or letting Roxbury join in with Braintree, Brookfield and Northfield and Randolph. Any thoughts? I don't see a downside to it. Yeah, I don't either. I think it's fine. For years it was just Braintree, Brookfield and Randolph. We added Northfield. The positive of that is it allows some of the folks of the Northfield to then go Northfield direction. I don't think so much on it. I don't think so. Roxbury is very so tiny. So just smoking into it? Yeah. It's not gonna matter. I can't believe it. So we need a motion to approve this addition. We'll move that we approve the request by the time of Roxbury to become a member of the Mountain Alliance. Oh, second. Do I have a question? Yes. What do we give from the state for the grants? Said it might or might not be increased. That's been averaging around $11,000 a year. Per person? No, that's in total for the program. What do they do? How do they figure it out? I don't know. Based on the per capita, you think? I, like I said, I don't know. Seems like there must be some fair system, you hope. You would think, right? You would think there must be something based on population of the towns or something. So, I mean, right now you say it's around 11,000? That's about what we've been getting the last two or three years. That sounds like about a buck a person. I don't know if Roxbury has a significant increase in that. Not a very big community, but I don't see it being a negative. So, are you ready for the question? The little follow-up, the 11,000 goes towards the hazardous waste. Yes, because everybody drops off the hazardous waste and usually a collection that would pay to clean harbors is much higher than the grant. And then everybody kicks in to fund what's left over. So, the risk would be if you got a lot of hazardous waste from Roxbury. What do you think? I don't know, I can't believe we did that before. I don't know if it would be any different than anybody else. I mean, it's household waste, right? Even when we're talking, you know, somebody's got paint, they've got to get rid of it or old oil or antifreeze, something like that, so. Yep. I mean, I can't. We did get, we didn't, maybe we'll get another. Oh, okay. Were they with another town? Yeah, so where was Northfield before training? Do you know? Roxbury. Yeah, they were part of the Central Vermont holiday district. And they gave Northfield $23,000 when they joined us. How about Roxbury? Were they the same Central Vermont? Is Roxbury the Central Vermont now, do you think? I don't know what else. Where else they would be? They're probably part of that. Yeah. They're the same time Northfield did, I don't know. All right. Okay, so we got a motion to. We got a motion and a second. Yep, so vote. Ready? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, four zero, or four zero one, yeah. Okay. Next item up is, Andoff Center Fire Department gear replacement. Last month, the Randolph Center Fire Department responded to an incident up on I-89 and three firefighters had their duty gear damaged by fuels built. So all of that gear cannot be cleaned. It has to be replaced from what the Chief says. The cost of that gear to be replaced is north of just over $8,000. And so the plan is to replace the gear and back charge the insurance company and the at fault accident. And the reason this is on the agenda is to, because that money's gonna come out of reserves and this board needs to approve that expenditure. And then the money would go back to reserves if it's recaptured from the insurance company. That is correct. Okay. And the plan is also to build one. They do have, yeah, they do have a history being paid, right? Okay. And we also plan to build. We have a north Randolph road, truck of batteries rolled over. They replaced the gear for Randolph Center at that one. Okay. Seems reasonable to think that we do reimburse again. And we plan to build them for the firefighter pine and equipment to respond as well. I think we should be doing that. We should. Was there any difference in opinion as to where the money should come from? I thought a dollar four mentioned that last time. For this particular app, out of the reserve fund or from where, so what's, is there a different word? Where would it come from? Where would, where are our other sources? Fire Department budget. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. Money's not in the Department budget. It's not in the budget, right? So, yeah, this is where we got money that we could use. So it's just basically a loan from that account to buy the equipment, replace the money after it comes back in. It's like a reasonable request. Okay, so I need a motion. We don't need to replace the equipment either. Right, we have to replace the equipment. We've got firefighters right now in no fear. Okay, let's do it before any more time goes by. The company doesn't reimburse us that's coming out of that reserve fund. The charge is. Okay. All right, I think Larry's jump in the bit to make a motion. How can you tell? Okay. I move that we approve the expenditure of up to $8,500 from the fire equipment reserve fund for the purchase of this year. Second. That's seconded. Okay, any further discussion? Any none? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay, four, zero, one. All right, next item up. Assembly Department for Winterfest event. Is this the same as last year? It's very much the same. These little minor differences, parking we're trying to, we're actually utilizing the high school, the elementary school and the former carol concrete lot which is now owned by the Demex who granted us permission to use that. So those are the parking areas that we'll be parking at Hargrave's Drive on Paul's face property, which you could probably primarily be for vendors and volunteers and handicapped. So with that, those are the only changes actually to the town issue. And we'll be changes to the layout but as far as the event goes. How many people came last year? Yeah, around a thousand. And we anticipate upwards of that number possibly even more. The response to the Facebook blasts that have been going on seem to be extremely positive. So lots of interest. Sponsorship seems to be gaining ground. We actually have a radio, Broggy has partnered with us. They're sponsoring a cardboard box race. So it'll be fun, a fun event. So yeah, so we've got them on as a sponsor. And so looking forward to having them engaged. So, but yes, pretty much the same as last year. Fireworks at the end of the day. I think that's already been addressed. How will we approve the assembly permit for the winter fest? So it's called? Yes. Second. Okay, motion to approve the assembly permit for winter fest. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. That's out of the way. Next thing, certificate of highway mileage. What's that about, Cliff? Each year the agency of transportation requires every municipality is certified told mileage of the roads and within the boundaries of the town. This year there's no changes to the reports from AOT. That was, the changes made by the select board last year for reclassifications were all incorporated in last year for the search and protection process. So, this information is used to determine the amount of reimbursement we get from the state to support our road maintenance and our roads. I expected to receive $28,000 for first class or at least $60,000 for second class and $110,000 for third class. So on this one there's no changes and the recommendation is to accept and certify and sign the certificate as presented by the AOT. Okay, no question. Do we tell them what roads we have and then they measure them? It just carries to the other measure. Let me treat and you can explain that question. So, Pat asked the question, do we tell them the mileage and they certify the mileage? We agree with those mileage counts. Okay. So, there's an official roadmap that's kept by me trans and when we have any changes we report it up to them. They send back a change and we confirm which is what we did last year. And they send back what the new mileage is and we are just saying we haven't made any changes until last time we certified these numbers are still there. Okay. So, we go based on their mileage unless we have raisin to believe our mileage. Yeah, we're using their map mileage unless we've altered it and they've accepted the change that we altered and then they've readjusted it and then so now we're back to where this is what they say we have and this is we're agreeing to that. So, do we certify the mileage as indicated on these people? Okay, we've got a motion for that. Second. Second by Larry. All right, any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right, then two, town report and town meeting. Town report and town meeting. What do we need to know about town report and town meeting? Well, we've got a bunch of things to approve tonight. Okay. There's, I have a number of versions of the warning and so I've got a particular order that I'd like to proceed in. Okay. The first one is the budget committee article. That's article 28 on the warning that you have the copy of the warning. The budget committee has submitted it at its January meeting. They voted to recommend changes that will expand the committee membership from three persons to five and also specifying, clarifying the function so that they can better reflect and support the structure of the goals of that committee. And recommendation is to accept and approve the article 28 as presented by the budget committee. It's pretty lengthy. The biggest change in that segment is, like I said, the membership going from three people to five. It would also require a vote at town meeting to populate those new seats. Okay. I think if a reason why they wanted to go to five, we have a hard time getting three. Yeah, you heard this? Did you hear what she said? I did hear that. And I was going to ask Dick Pay to comment because he's in the audience. Dick, did you hear that? Yes, I heard that and it has to do with having somebody around to do the little bit of work that needs to be done. We meet Michael Pemrod, who goes away for three, four months in summertime. We have one committee member who hasn't been able to get to very many meetings or participate very much. It means the committee's in effect one person many times. With a base of five, we have a better probability of having two or three people around to talk about things and to get some little research project done that we're interested in. Well, I don't have a problem with it if I can get you more people. So, you used to have to start lobbying right now. Look for some help. I think we can do it. I think we can find a couple more. I think we can do it. I put a post on Front Forge Forum the other day because we need people for water sewer and I got three responses from people. So that would, you know. And that's gotta be. That's not fun either. I would think the budget committee is gonna be at least as much fun as the water sewer committee. Yeah. I'm optimistic that we can populate this committee and spread the work around a little more. I would say we should try it. So that's my thought. The only question I have is in article 28, it specifies that the terms will be for two years and three years and that's all it says about the terms. The idea is that it'll be staggered the same way the slide board terms are staggered. But to get started, one of those terms will have to be one year to, so I just wanted to make sure that we'll still be able to do that, even though it's not specifically mentioned here in the. Well, that's, if you look down to article 29, which is immediately following this discussion about the changes, that's the elective fill any vacancies on the budget committee. And so we'll have a proposal and we're still sorting out whether we need two one year terms the first year or one year, a one year and a two year term the first year. But that will just be done from the floor at town meeting. And so we'll be able to do that without having it all in writing. That is correct. Okay. Okay, I'm good with it. Any thoughts back there? Okay with that? I think so, so this wouldn't change the structure or the mission of the budget committee just be adding through the two more members. That's the biggest change. And then the other bullet points here are most, are really just about just, just being clear about what the relationship is between the budget committee and the select board and the town and what their sort of responsibilities are, what they're really charged with, which just makes it a little more clear. Yeah, I haven't thought through all those things, but I don't have a problem with the five members if we can find them. I'm gonna take Larry up on his post on the front porch blind. Maybe that's where they come from. Some of it's just a matter of telling them, letting people know what's going on. Yeah. A lot of it's been, can't find people at town meetings, but in a much larger community. But there's a larger group, so there's a motion. I'll move that we accept this proposal from the budget committee to include this article 28 to the town meeting. Okay, any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. I didn't invite the person who's not come into the meeting. It's in here. Okay. Isn't that right, Dick? It's in there, right? It's in there. Well, we've talked about it. We talked about, oh yes, we talked about, yes, I remember now. When the budget committee organizes itself after town meeting, they will be able to come up with their own rules and procedures for how to manage those kinds of situations on a yearly basis. Does that summarize it about right? Yeah, and to underscore that, that one person who rarely seems able to, it just, it cripples you. You don't get a good discussion of issues and so forth. So yes, we badly need a way to just email the person and say thank you for your contribution to the committee so far and we wish you good luck with your future endeavors and then the relationship. But the committee will come up with a way to do that because we all agree it needs to be done. Right. Thank you. Okay. Who's term comes up this year, Dick? CJ Stumpf. Okay. To be ticked, to be voted. Yep, we voted. Yep, we voted. Pretty good, we got that. Okay. We got to five person committee, okay, at town meeting. The second thing is to set the location for town meeting. There's two choices this year. Okay. Chandler Music Hall is one choice and Randolph Union High School is the other choice. I throw it open to this board. I don't have a recommendation one way or another. Okay. Historically, we've used Chandler Music Hall, so my vote would be to have it at Chandler unless anybody sees anything that they think we could better ourselves with it at the high school. Parking may be the only situation. I thought about this a little bit. It's like, well, parking's a plus at the high school but people still find a way around to get to Chandler so. I agree. Okay. I think before we're going to change it, the VCA would have to move it to, is there a charge for that? Yeah. Probably after these challenges, though. All right. So do we need a motion to that effect? Something like that. Okay. Second. Second. All right. All those in favor of holding town meeting at Chandler Music Hall? Aye. Aye. Okay. Four, zero. One. Okay. Let's see here. Next thing on your agenda, Cliff. We need to vote to approve a budget. The one you have in your packet includes many of the changes that have been discussed at the budget meetings and also includes support for the recreation department that we talked about at the last budget meeting. That's your plan there on that. And that budget that you have will reflect, assuming a static grand list will result in a two-penny increase in tax rate. So I think we just have one company at the budget. Did you say we should have two? No, you've got one. We just have one. You have one. That includes that. The impact of the additional support for the rec department is about $30,000 on the total budget, which is about six-tenths of a penny on the tax rate. Six to seven-tenths of a cent to give you that impact. That's included in the two cents? That, that, just gave us two cents. It's a two cents. The two cents is with the, So we got a 1.3. We'd be 1.3 or 2.1. Okay. Okay. Okay. And this is the budget with that in it? With that included. With that included. That's correct. Okay. Is that the only change from the last time we've done it? Preparation? Yes. Because we met after the last select board meeting at the budget committee. And so that was the only change. I think including this position is important. I think it's a real investment in recreation and I think it would be foolish not to do it. I was part of the lobby for that the first time around. So yeah. I'm believing that we need to make that investment. The recreation piece I think is becoming a critical component to people thinking about it, considering coming to the area. I think we'll see a return on that investment. Yeah. We have any idea on where the school budget's coming in? I was in terms of a tax rate training or in terms of total numbers? Tax rate? Rate change could be approved. We've come up with an accurate hope for kind of a slowdown. Yeah. You don't get to see what the impact is from the overall rate of what it's really gonna cost. Right. Do you have any sense of that? Have you ever heard anything? I saw something in the paper today and it indicated that our school budget is north of $20 million, but I don't know what the impact is on the tax rate for that. How it compares against last year I just didn't have. So Cliff doesn't have much of an answer there because we don't have information for that. Yeah. So we're going from what to what? So we're going to like what with the 170? Look to the back page on your point of view. So we're just over 77 cents this year and we'd be going to about 79 and a half cents. 79 cents. But the school portion is substantially higher than that, right? Yeah, here's $1.50 something last year, $1.60. Yeah, okay. Okay, well, I mean the requisition, what did you say is a 0.06 is that that's adding? 0.007. No, 0.07, okay. What do you folks think? A budget question, which I probably should know, but what do we have money in here for a look on the East Randolph East Valley building? In terms of the repairs to that building, there's nothing in this budget for that, but that money will come out of reserves if we get there and we'll get to that capital budget, capital plan document in a few minutes. So there's money that could be used things fall in place, is that what you're saying? I didn't understand your question, Pat. You say it would come out of reserves. That's correct. So that could be done this year out of reserves? And we're gonna have to know what will happen this year. It's not in the 21st of this year. 21, the one in the budget, it will be happening in the budget area, we're talking about now. That's after, there's a line I am for the plan in fiscal 22, not the year that we're talking about here. So what makes do? It'll be when we start. It will be one year more out. So that this is next year's budget and it will be the year after that. So nothing in this year's? Next year's, what the year after 22? Correct. What page is that? Five of eight, but? 60,000 for sector 22. Yeah, same for 20,000. Thoughts about that? Headed to the camera for it. Pretty good price that. Put it in there, that's what we're gonna, we're gonna print that. Print the budget. Yeah, I mean that's where it goes. The day before it's gonna go. Yeah, are we good with the assistance? Yeah, I'm fine with it. I'm fine with it. I move that we approve the fiscal year 2021 budget as presented. Okay, all those in favor? Proving the budget, say aye. Aye. Aye. And in here an aye. Oh, okay. Oh, you hit the mute button. All right, that's all right, that's all right. Okay. No, that's fine. All right, so, that's the next thing, Cliff. I think we're actually at the point where you can vote to approve this warning. Okay, we're close to that. Perfect. I had eight copies of this warning, just this, and I'm down to one, and that's why I went through any order that I did. Yeah. It was, because there was various decision trees along the way. Okay. And so as you made the decisions, I can set those copies aside. And now I'm down to one. All right, all right, so. Which is. Quick question, when you made that motion to approve the town budget, that was both this MS budget, the capital budget, and. No, because there's, those are just. No, right, you can explain. Yes, they're separate. Okay. The capital plan is a separate document that will insert in the town report afterwards. Okay. Yeah. So now we're down to one. Down to one. Because the capital plan is not on the one. And that warning is the one that you actually have in your packet. Yeah. It's a small, small type. Small type. Yep. Yeah. It's okay. That's, that's, that's okay. It's in his favor. You guys got the letter size. I got the, I don't know what that size is, but I got something. So, that's your pleasure and the warning. So the only thing that is not filled in on your copies of the warning are the article numbers. Articles one through 26 will be voted on via Australian ballot. Correct. That'll happen on Tuesday, March 3rd. And articles 27 through 33 will be voted from the floor of town meeting on February 29th. Thank you. That seems to be almost the sweetest thing is to share it. Feel about that, right? Oh, Pat, need a minute? Okay. It looks like the police rate would actually be down. Is that true? Yes. Police rate will decrease by just over 4%. So that'll sort of balance out if you're in both the police district and the, if you're in the police district, it helps you out, for sure. Change is a long, hard, and the budget. And the warning? Yeah. We have an article to vote on in the Randolph Center. I'm sorry, Pat? And we have an article to vote on tax exemption for the Randolph Center. Article 33? Maybe. There's no 33. Sorry, take this one. Don't do not mark this one up. This is the official copy. What else are you hiding? That's 33 on the back. You have one more page. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, good? Yep, thank you. Great. You're the big vendor, go ahead. Me? Yeah. I moved that we approve the warning for 10 meetings. Warning. The warning. Morning. See, I messed it up. You should have done it. Yeah, okay. I messed it up worse. I second. All right, so motion has been made and seconded to approve the warning for 10 meetings. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. To approve the warning, that was included in your packet. Well mine looks like it matches yours. I got an article 33. And Patrick did have the article 33. It was just on the last page that he didn't flip over. That's your saving paper by printing on both sides. Yeah, it's awesome. Save the trees. Okay, now what have we got? We need, you need to select a select board member to draft the message. To the citizen read from the select board. Well, okay. The chair usually. And usually the chair does that. Must be on mute again. What's that? Yeah, but work that time. That's what I thought. It's a good acting chair tonight. No, I'm sorry. I'm not a drafter. I think that's the thing you can handle that. Can't you? I think you can. Okay. So Trini says she can take care of that. Shannon, when do you need that, Mike? No, the pressure. Well, January 31st is when I submit everything to the printers. Okay. Well, when I would like to have it all submitted. Just send her an email to that effect, okay? Okay. I just thought I'd split that out there. January 31st, she said, I told her I'd like to submit everything to the printers. Okay. All right. Choose person. Now we can go on order here. Pretty much. Okay. So we need to choose a person to dedicate the report to. And a board member to draft that. Okay. So. I think we should dedicate the report to Paul Ray. Okay. Paul Ray. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Paul Ray and submit it. Anybody, good. Any other names they'd like to throw out there? I think that's a great idea. Hearing none. Does that mean trending also rights, though? Did that mean you're going to write that one? It's not there. I'll just use everything to find something. Is that Fordham missing too? Yeah. Fordham is missing too. I'll take you out to hook on that. I can help you with that a little bit. At least it's part of it. So I can help you with some of that. Maybe we can come up with something together. I'll put my wife on that. Okay. I have a picture. Yeah, we'll find a picture. Yeah. So I think maybe we'll give her that. So we need a motion to that effect. You actually need a motion for that? I don't know. Maybe I'll have one. Thank you, official locations. It's another of the action items. Do we need to vote for this? Okay. Yep. You need a motion. I'll make a motion. So she made the motion. You just need a second. I'll second that. Okay. Motion seconded. Trini and Larry. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All right. Location approval. That's just for the dedication. That's for the dedication. Yep. And then I'll see here. So town meetings can decide on a request made by U.S. Census Bureau. You need to select photographs for the town report. Oh, we're going to go select photographs next. We're going to select the last one. All right. You want to pick photographs? How many do we need? Well, we need one for the cover. And I really like the Wales tailors with either the sunset or the sunrise. Sunset. Sunset or sunrise. Okay. I think it's sunset. So it's the one taken by Marjorie Ryerson. I got two. It's the one at the top. The top one. The one on the top of the page by Marjorie. Okay. I think that should, I suggest that that one go on the cover if you approve. Yeah, the other one looks like it's distorted. It is. It's just the way that I put it on where that's not necessarily happening. That's not happening actually. Okay. I'm good with that one. The top one. I like that. That leaves you a little room to be able to bleed some writing over here on the side. Either one is fine with me. So if there's a preference for the first two, the one with the sunshine in it, that's fine. You okay with that? Pat's nodding his head. You're good. Okay. Trini, can you see that? Hold it up to the bottom. Hold it up to the bottom. Hold it up to the bottom. You're going to trust us on that one? All right. All right. So this is the cover photo. And what else do we need? And then there's three, four, five pages, six pages of various other photos that will be used as filling in white space. Filling in white space? Yeah. Okay. And do we don't really have to make any decisions then? We've ever gotten involved in a little photo. Yeah. I think it's just, you just, those are stock photos. We're going to let them figure out what to do with them, right? Yeah. Unless you have some serious objection to one of the photos, any of the photos. No. Nope. That's good. That's good to me. All right. Photos are done. We're crystal clear about that. You get that chin right there. Yes. Okay. All right. Photos are done. Let's see here. All right. All right. Now we go to Census Bureau. Sounds good. Hold there. What are we doing here? Census Bureau has asked us to include a message in account of a report about participating in this year's Census. Yeah. It helps determine how federal money is doled out to us. And so it's important for everybody to be counted. There are, there has been some debate about various questions that may or may not be included in these, in the Census. That's not really that. That's not us. That's not us. So there's two. The only thing there is that some of those questions don't have to be answered. And so they can be counted, but not answer the question. So what we have here is exactly what we insert there. So that is, that is not our language, right? No, that's exactly what they sent us. That's what they sent. They would like us to put it in. So we would put both of these paragraphs in? They didn't specify. They wanted one in our report. That's what it says. The bottom was a sort of search. So we would go somewhere and it would go as part of the select board message. That's what they're asking? I think it's definitely important. We ought to help what we can to get to the word out. There's a flyer too, right? There's a flyer. It's included in your packet. That going to town report. We're thinking we could hand it out at town again. Yeah. We can get them to pay for the town report and put it on the back cover. That's a bad idea. It costs me a lot of money to get on the back cover, you know? Well, I don't have a problem with either one of these things. I think it's fine. I encourage that stuff. I'm just not sure we need both of these. They're kind of, I think we should just include the, the standard entry and whatever appropriate spot there happens to be. Yeah, wherever it fits in good. Back page or something, right? Inside back cover. Yeah, because that was another question. Where would we rush it back to next? Where there's space and it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Inside the back cover or inside page, you know, last page maybe? One of those two places, maybe it fits. And then I guess these are, I'd say these are just and out. Make them available, but don't print a lot of them. I would imagine that probably those won't be picked up. Black and white. Was that black and white? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously, man. Seriously, it's a difference of price. Well, the difference of price on top of that. I mean, how many people do you think are going to pick those up? Nobody. Yeah. It's my guess. I can say you did your part. You made them available, right? Okay. And we got to do the census. First time. Fire, rural fire, just across that. Did we ever do that eight? That's a $100 request. Four. From the Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force. And you get a crisp request for coming back next month? You know, I think that money's in our budget. It's already there? It's already there. Okay. And GM, did you see two? GM, I know for a fact that I bumped that up. Okay. So that's in there already. All right. All right. So. So you've already approved that. I already approved them. They're in the budget. Right? But I want to point it out to you because it was a specific request from them. And so you have firsthand knowledge of what's in the budget. All right. So it really didn't take any action on those because it's already there. Right. So we're good with that. Well, just because they're in the budget, does it mean that we're approving this particular use of, is this like, are each of these a specific line item in the budget? This one in particular has a specific line item in the budget. Both of these. The fire protection. The fire protection does not. The Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation is. Okay. So that one we have then really covered. So do we need to then officially say that we can spend the money from the budget on this? Fire one. When it hurt. Okay. Sure. Make a motion. Motion to achieve. Move that we, I want to say this, approve the request for money from the town for the Vermont Rural Fire Protection Program for $100. Okay. Okay. Motion made. Seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Heard it. There's a push the new button off in time. All right. And you wanted the same thing for VMEDC as long as you're there. Might as well, right? It's on here. Make it easy. Make it official. Okay. I move that we approve the request from GMEDC for $5,000 appropriation in fiscal year 2021. That's what it's in the budget for right now. Yes. Yes. Do we know how much they get per town from the state? I don't, but we could probably find out. That would be interesting to know. Now we're comparing? Yeah. Bye. Well, I mean, they get that money. Yeah. Plus they get some from us. Right. Sounded to me like they wanted to charge us more per person. Maybe. Well, their letter says that previous request was $0.50 a resident. So it's a little bit more than double that. Yeah. They're just over a buck. Yeah. And I was questioning whether every town. Yeah. We're getting a lot of help from them. Second. A lot of stuff. Okay. Motion to second. Those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Go to the right there. All right. So you're 4-0. All right. Thanks for that. Right. We're good for those things. Good for those things. Right. Capital Improvement Program. Yeah. This has been approved by the capital budget committee. Okay. And sent down to this board for its blessing. The trucks to put in here. The trucks are on the warning. The trucks are in this document too. So page 4. Page 4. Will this be part of the town before? Yes. And the authorization for borrowing to buy the trucks is included in the town of Lang. All righty. This is still under town report. Okay. All righty. Motion to approve the capital plan. So moved. Second. All righty. Motion to approve the capital plan. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. We're done town meeting and report. I think we're done town meeting and report. Shannon, am I correct about that? Do you have anything else about that? I'll overlook anything. I think I didn't have any. There was a question on the warning. There's article 6. Article 6. That was the one I just alerted him to. The borrowing for the $420,000. That's the one you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. What was the question? Does the $25,000 transfer need to be the highway equipment reserve account or the paving reserve? Article 5. Oh, sorry. Article 5. Sorry. Some years ago, the wastewater department borrowed, there was a bonding issue. Yes. I remember something about this. Yeah. And so the, it's being paid back out of the general fund. And it's being repaid to the general fund by the wastewater fund. And so it goes from the wastewater fund to the general fund. And then this is to, and then it gets transferred over to the highway fund where subsequently this article asks for it to be put into reserves for the capital program. Last year was in the paving reserve. The, and looking at our capital improvement program, it went into paving last year. We could really use it in paving this year or next year. And the, frankly the highway equipment fund is healthier than the paving fund at this particular junction in time. Okay. And so it's worded for that article to transfer that $25,000 to the paving reserve. So the paving fund. Yeah. And this was the sum the sewer department didn't get charged for the potential. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, thanks for putting that up. I don't need to take any action on it though, right? Because that's what we're going to do. I already warned you. Okay. Thank you, Shannon. Thanks. Okay. So we're now officially through town report and town meeting on the grants. We have a grant department. I don't have anything on the grants. Okay. About old business. I do not have any old business. Okay. I've got some other business. Okay. You got some other business. The other business is to make the board aware that the planning commission that was meeting last week voted to approve some changes in the land use regulations. Article two and article five. Regarding a plan unit development. And those changes will be coming before this board at its February meeting. There's a 15 day warning requirement for those changes before this board. The planning commission had the same 50 day, 15 day warning requirement. And with them having approved it just last week, it was too soon to get it on the agenda for this meeting. But if we set a date tonight. So if you set a date tonight to discuss that, it can be worn properly worn. For the February 13th meeting. For the February 13th meeting. That's a hearing. Okay. And we need a motion to set a date for this hearing that we wanted to coincide with our next regular meeting. I think that's the way to handle this. Yes. And you may need to have more than one hearing. Yeah, we may have to, but we can start with one and see what happens. Yeah. Why would we need more than one? Just because of time. Sometimes it can happen. We change something. Change something might have to, you know, if we make an alteration, then this like word makes a change to the what's proposed and we have to have another hearing to address those changes. I see. I don't think this like word would need to make a change. I think, you know, we beat this around since probably back in September, October is when we started working on this. It was based on a request from RSEBC to change in the language so we can address and have, you know, put PUDs in there. And along with that, there was some lot size changes that we looked at. So those are going to be coming forward. But it's pretty much, it was a consensus. It was unanimous in the planning commission so there wasn't any real question. So I think it would be fine. And some things do require two hearings. And I just, I'm not sure if this is one of them. I don't think it is. But we'll see. Check with the Delfel. When he gets back, he can research that for us. All right. I don't think so. I don't think we're good. So we just need to motion that a special hearing to address language regulations. So moved on February 13th at 5.30 before our meeting. Second. Okay. So I'll make a motion in a second to have a special hearing to address language regulations based on that change of recommendation from the planning commission. So all those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay. We're good. Orders are there. All right. Any other old business? Nothing I'm aware of. And since the Delfel is not here, I'm going to kick his manager's report to the next meeting. If anything hurts shattering in his manager's report, is there? No. The only thing I will share with the board is that we had one of our trucks went down on last Friday. And because of the extensive cost of the repairs at this particular time, we're opting not to go with the repair. To get the truck back on the road was going to be $20,000. And with the purchase of two new trucks being imminent, or at least the RFPs being imminent, we felt that $20,000 was going to be an exorbitant cost to put this truck on the road for six to nine months. Because with what happened to this truck, the highway department has decided that that needs to be one of the ones that goes. It wasn't the original one that was going to go, but now it is. Oh, wow. So this has been a brown child since the beginning. Yeah. So that one here, I'm not sure what the intent is. We're going to keep on nursing that one along, right? Which one? We had two targeted, but one of them wasn't so bad. This one that just went down was the problem child we've had since we basically purchased it. That's my understanding. And this one was the one we were going to relegate to a chloride duty in summertime. But since the chloride truck is now better than the one that was just damaged, the one that's damaged is the one that's going. And then the other one is just, that's the tandem, is just a problem child, where the line is wide. And the government has that on its agenda to do the RFP on Monday when he gets back. Okay. I need to reassess on the other drug. I'm sorry. Are we landing to reassess the other truck where that is in the testing statement? Which other truck? The one that we're not replacing that we were going on because it was so bad. That was our backup truck and we used it just mainly for chloride duty. We have pressed it into plowing service this winter, plowing and salting and sanding. And yes, that is a consideration that we do need to look at that. And I think Trini, you're looking at AOT to see if they've got a mothball truck we could borrow or buy. Did you get that? We can go to the auction in the spring. That's right, exactly. We had it back to you by May. Yeah, there you go. We'll ship it back to you by May. Okay. And so hopefully that RFP will go up on Monday. All right. All righty. In our package, what's that? Is that a merger document? That was some support for the Fire Department Advisory Committee's recommendation about wages and what they were in our review as part of that. Okay. All right. Any other business? I have a question on the trucks. What's the wait time for the trucks? I don't know if it will be on that map, but I believe it's six to nine months. So, next follow-up or something. Yeah. The goal would be to have it here before my car. Yeah. Maybe even to hollow a little sand. All right. So, any other business? What's under there? I'll go over there. Second. All those in favor? All right. Meeting adjourned.