 Ms. Jarrah, the select board in Rochester I find it due to the state of emergency declared by Governor Scott as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to an end of sixth executive order is 01-20 and act 92 this public body is authorized to meet electronically. And we're using the Zoom platform to do this and anybody that wants access to these meetings and we add this person in here that wants to get in can either find it on the town website or request to be emailed invites or find it on the publicly posted notices and agendas throughout town. So without further ado, I would like start this meeting. Yeah, I had to unhook that computer to hook up this computer. So I don't have the documents at hand. Pat, you wanna guide us through the, through the agenda? I do, I do. I'm quite afraid of that there. The agenda is to approve the education tax rate. That's the only thing that's on the agenda. The non homestead tax rate set by the state for non homestead is $1.48.15 cents. And the homestead tax rate for residents is $1.5155 cents. Interesting. So the homestead tax rate is now higher than the non homestead tax rate. That's a switch, isn't it? It's often the case as I deal with real estate in different towns, it's definitely not unusual. Yeah, yeah. So this is set by the state, Pat? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Know what we're gonna say, Julie? Oh, sorry. We had to change a couple of things on the tax work worksheet. Louis lodged another change on his 411. So we had to put the information into the worksheet. So it changed it just a hair for the municipal rate because it was 0.566 or something. I don't have that one in front of me. What is it now? It's 0.5768, 0.5669. Wait a minute. I'm gonna wait until you guys approve this before I write anything down. I'm getting confused. So do we have to okay that new, we must have to okay the new municipal rate also then, right? No. Yeah, it was like 0.5665. It went up to 0.5669. Louis had to put in another veteran exemption. Bumped it up just a little bit. Just for the municipal tax rate. And then when we put in this 1.4815 for the non-residential education tax rate, the final tax rate went to 0.5768494. Julie has sent you this, right? No, actually I haven't sent this out. What was that again? It was 0.5768494. Again, you're getting confused. That's the municipal rate, correct? The municipal plus the, what is it called? The non-approved state education, non-residential tax rate. Okay, you're gonna say this all out when you make a motion to approve this, right? Yeah, good idea. Because I'm a little confused. Oh my. Slightly. Well, we don't have it on the agenda too. We've already approved the municipal rate. So can we add this to the agenda and approve the new rate without it being duly warned? I think that since we were warned to be setting the education tax, right? And think that it's pretty darn close. It's about getting the final total tax rate done to get the bills out. So I think that we can go ahead and make a statement about what they're both gonna be and what the final combined tax rate is. I think that's, I would hope we don't get in trouble for that. And I would like to think that no one would argue with adding a veterans exemption to the grand list. So I'm fine with it, just need to say it. I am too. I think we have to get it out there. We should make note of it though and just note it in our minutes that we had something come up in an emergency kind of issue and we needed to address it. And we felt that this was a proper way to do it. So who's got the final numbers clearly defined that we can make a motion? I think we should defer to Julie to put that down. We've got it right there. Okay. So the non-residential education rate is 1.4815. Yeah, wait, wait, okay. A non-household tax rate for education tax rate? Okay. And 1.4815, okay. And then the preliminary rate, the final tax rate is 0.5768494. Final tax rate is 0.5768494. 0.58494. So it's just a point and then 0.5768494, that's how I write it. Correct. Okay. And so that's the final tax rate, final education tax rate, final, how do I say that? Municipal. It's the municipal plus the tax rate on the non-approved contracts. It's because we have contracts out there that are not producing tax revenue, we have to kick in the money. And so that's the non-residential education tax rate. Okay, so, okay. Municipal plus. So if I say following discussion, the board made a motion to approve the non-homestead educational tax rate at 1.4815 cents and the point of view. Why don't you just say that the board approved a final tax rate of 0.5768494. Okay, so don't even bother with that first one. Okay. I think, right. Okay, so the final municipal tax rate is 0.5768494. Correct. It's not, for what period of time? Final tax rate, just the final tax rate, it's not the final municipal tax rate, it's the final tax rate. And so that's, and for what's the period of time, should I say for 2021 or for what? For fiscal year 21. This year, FY21. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry to bother you, but I just want to make sure. It's confusing and I want to make sure I get it correct in the paper. Yes. The other thing that we need to also, the select board would need to decide on, and I don't know if it can be done in this meeting, but before we print tax bills, we would ask if you'd like to waive the penalty for the HS-122. Late filing. The late filing. He waived it last year. I think in consideration of the awkwardness around the late bills, we're waiting on the information from the state and that I'd move to waive those penalties again. And that? Yeah. Do you have a final favor? All right. Okay, so the board voted to waive the late filing penalty for the H, the Homestead Declaration. For the Homestead Declaration, okay. So that's how it should be worded. The board also voted to waive the late file penalty for the Homestead Declaration. Yeah. Okay, thank you for the same period, right? Yes. Thank you. Sorry to bother you. No, I'm sorry. Okay. Should you put the payment dates in? They will go on to the, when we do the tax bills, we haven't. So that was my other question, Julie. Do you have an estimated date when you may be sending out the tax bills? You've been mailing them out? It looks like we're gonna be printing on Wednesday. Okay, so Wednesday the 23rd. So if I just said they should go out later this week. That's good, yeah. Yeah, they'll go out by the end of the week, yeah. So we're looking at an end due date for the first installment is when? So the October, no. October, what'd it be, 25? It's the bill. Well, we print them on the 23rd of the month. So probably, probably October 23rd. So if I said tax bills are expected to be mailed out by the end of the week, would the first payment due on October 23rd? Or should we do the 25th? I think the 25th, the tax bills go out in the 25th. I think the 25th is the 25th is the Sunday. Well, the 25th is the Sunday. I'm looking at, we could do the 27th, whether we're closed on Monday. Yeah, okay, it looks like the 27th of October. 27th, okay, thank you. And there will be, there'll be no penalty for any of that. That is the due date. There's usually a penalty on the first one anyway. I mean, the interest. Yeah, well, if they miss that due date. Yeah, if they miss the 27th, yes. If they miss the 27th. Because we've got people pretty confused at this point. Yeah. Including ourselves. Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. I'm scratching my head over here. You know, once you see this spreadsheet, it'll make sense to you. So I'll have a payment due on October 27th and a payment due on November 15th? No. No, no, not, we only are requiring three. Yeah, we split it into thirds. So what is the next payment? That will stay the same, the February and May payments will stay the same. Okay, okay, good enough. So the other two payments are due in February and May? Yeah. Payments, what do we do? And they're the same dates, I think they're the 15th, yeah. Well, no, they won't be the 15th because they fall on the weekend. So we decided on, so we decided on February 16th and May 17th. Okay. Thank you for putting up with all my questions. I appreciate it. Oh, it helps to clarify. You guys have anything else you need to decide or? One thing I guess we did we make about to approve the rates. Now, I guess I would move to approve as so clearly stated. I second that. I'll clearly state them. Okay. All right. Are you clearly stating them now? I don't dare. I think we'll get it. I'm not going to mention that the select board was confused about this. No, I'd say the select board was relieved to finally put it to rest. Right, right. That's the way I would phrase it too. Okay. Should I say the select board was shooting off fireworks because no, we don't want to start any fires. Oh, that's right. God, we've had enough hours. Fires. We had that at the some station yesterday. Yeah. Right. Squirrel. I thought that was, I just talked to Frank about the fried squirrel. So, yeah. Is that what was the reason why the bow was out? Yeah. Well, currently it fried one of the computers at the hardware store too. So I've got crisis on my hands at the hardware. No register. Oh, God. That little squirrel did a lot of problems. It made a lot of problems. But he paid for it. Yeah. All right. I think that's it. Right. Okay. Okay. I'll have this tax report sheet here for you to sign. Yeah. Come in and do that. Okay. I'll be over. And if you'd like, I can send that over to you too. Is that something you'd like in an email? Just so you could see it or just assume, stop in and sign it. Okay. No problem. Okay. I'll stop in. Sign it. Yeah. All right. Thank you all. Okay. Thank you.