 All right I am Christine Deschler and as chair of the Office of Finance Committee I'm calling the April 26, 2023 meeting of the committee to order. First I want to confirm attendance of members of the committee and that they can all hear me. When I call your name please answer on the affirmative and if you are remote please say that you're attending remotely starting with Jordan. Shane. I'm here remote. Jennifer. Here. Sophie. Not here Brian. Here. Carolyn. Rebecca. Here. Josh. Here. Grant. I am here remotely. Shirley. Here. John Griffin. Darrell. I'm here remotely. Annie. Here. Ellen Jones. Here. Topher. Here remotely. Peggy. Altosti. Here remotely. Dean. Dave. Here. Tara. Here. All right. All right let me read the script real quick. Here comes Peggy. I will continue on on March 29, 2023 Governor Healey signed his law Supplemental Budget Bill which among other things extends to temporary provisions of the open meeting law to March 31st 2025. Specifically this further extension allows public bodies to continue to hold meetings remotely without a quorum of the body physically present at a meeting location so long as adequate alternative access to the deliberations of the meeting is provided to the public. Adequate alternative access includes providing public access through Zoom video conferencing which we are doing tonight. Ensuring public access does not ensure public comment or participation. This meeting will not feature public comment those wishing to provide. Comments may do so by emailing our executive secretary Tara Bradley at tbradley at panel.parlington.na.us. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by video conference. Accordingly be aware that other folks may be able to see you and take care not to screen share your computer. Anything that you broadcast may be captured by the recording. Also supporting materials that have been provided by members of this body are available on the town's website. Unless otherwise noted the public is encouraged to follow along using the posted agenda unless sharing those otherwise share will introduce each speaker and then we'll recognize members wishing to provide any comment questions or motions. Please hold until your name is called. For those attending remotely please remember to mute your phone or computer when you are not speaking and all please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. Each vote taken in this meeting will be conducted by roll call vote. And our first order of business is to approve the minutes of April 12th and April 24th. So let's start with April 12th. Move approval. Second. I have a revision. Okay. Under paragraph one, paragraph 1a. It says house budget is same as governor's budget. The house budget is the same as the governor's budget for chapter 70 but UGGA money is less. UGAA. UGGA. UGGA is less. Okay. And that's the only correction I have. Does anyone have anything? So I heard a motion to approve it. Second. Second. All right. So let's take a vote on the minutes of April 12th. Jordan. Shane. Yes. Jennifer. Yes. Sophie. Brian. Yes. Caroline. Rebecca. Yes. Josh. Yes. Green. Yes. Charlie. Yes. John. Darrell. Epstein. I wasn't there. Annie. Yes. Al. Jones. Yes. Topher. Yes. Peggy. Yes. Al. Tosti. Yes. Dave McKenna. Yes. 13 in favor is zero against and one extension. All right. The minutes of April 24. Move approval. Second. Any corrections or changes? Just on the bottom where it says the next meeting should be April 26th. Okay. That's what I'm saying. All right. So any other changes, corrections? All right. Let's take a vote. Jordan. Shane. Yes. Jennifer. Yes. Sophie. Brian. Yes. Caroline. Rebecca. Yes. Josh. Yes. Grant. Epstein. Charlie. Yes. John Griffin. Isn't here. Darrell. Yes. Annie. Yes. Al. Jones. Yes. Topher. Epstein. Peggy. Yes. Al. Tosti. Yes. Dean. Isn't here. Dave. Yes. Yes is zero noes and two abstentions. So those minutes have been removed. I want to talk quickly about the special town meeting on Wednesday, May 3rd, which is the weekend today. Have everyone seen the warrant? I don't think there's anything that we need to report on. Does anyone disagree with that? Nope. I was comfortable with that. All right. So that is that. For those who aren't town meeting members, we got up to what? Article 12. And unfortunately, I don't think any of the finance articles got on the agenda. So just the no action. Yeah, even some no action ones can get on. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You heard that on tour and all that. Did you hear the reason? So what I heard is that the report was issued late according to the person who pulled them off. One way to actually solve that problem is to send it to you on the second night. So the first, that gives a little more leeway. That's a great question. Yeah. Oh no. And that's, that group is thinking about that for next time. There's really no deadline other than before the votes and before Tommy starts, which did have a balance of problem that they were going to be voted on that night into the feeling. Well, they were electronic. They were posted like days before. Yeah. This is not my position. Not my position. I'm just reporting what I heard. I think there was only one time when I remember you had a problem. Yes. Overframing her personal comments. On record. Yes. All right. I'll shut up here. I, yeah, we did the report as quickly as we could and probably, probably looking back, I might have worn an extra day to, to, to look over on things, but I don't know if that's gonna really change in future years. But you can, if anyone has a direct line to that member, they can be noted that Al and Christine were working on Easter on this report. This person is not. Yeah. Sometimes we just hold for Houseways and Means, which is partly what we were doing. There's a reason to, we don't hold to the Senate. And, you know, we're not crazy kooky people are articles we report on pretty much the same articles year after year. Some are the same number year after year. There are no shaking things. I can certainly see people upset. So that is that hopefully when we finally get to the finance articles, uh, without people get tired and want to go home. So, um, that is that depending on how far we get tonight and whether anything comes up, I may cancel our Monday meeting, but I'll probably know after tonight's town meeting and terror work. Yeah. Because there's really not much at this point to do. And that's pretty much all I have. There's a long range planning committee meeting on Friday and update for next week. If anything is worth updating. And other than that, does anyone have anything else they want to bring up or talk about tonight? Anything? All right.