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Welcome to the town council regular meeting September 16, 20, 26, 7 p.m., town of Clinton, we're in the town hall, green room, that is what you please lead us in the pledge.

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Our pledge allegiance to the flag of your nice ace of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Thanks, Dennis.

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You're welcome.

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I have number two on the agenda, Visitors,

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do we have any visitors that would like to participate?

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Carol, please, Carol.

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Yeah, please.

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And unfortunately, State your name and...

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Oh, unfortunately, it's not my name.

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Sorry to trouble you.

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All right, this is a totally different time.

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All right, Mike, in front of you.

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Yeah.

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Oh, Mike, Pete Nye.

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Yeah, I have a little thing that I say

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before public speaking, and that is that the council will not interact with you during a regular

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town council meeting.

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Well, listen, we appreciate your contribution, and we'll listen carefully if there's

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action to be taken based on what you submit the town council will put it on agenda for later

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meeting or the town manager, you can reach out to the town manager to take your something.

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With that?

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I like the good old days when there was banter back and forth, when we got things done,

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the same night that they came up. But anyway, Carol Walter, five-year-old court, and I am here

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riding on the co-tails of Doc Dates, which if you were there, it was a great day for Clinton.

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Everybody had a wonderful time and it was just a big wonderful accomplishment for all of us.

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I had two comments afterwards, outside of how much everybody loved it. One was,

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don't ever let anyone throw their dog in the water again.

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So that will be rule number one.

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And number two was people wondered where the beach was.

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And I, before this all came to be, I had talks

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with Todd Hageck and Rob dairy about the condition of the beach.

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And primarily, the fact that the condition of the beach

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being that there's no sand there anymore.

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It's probably 80% grass and 20% sand and the grass that is there is crab grass.

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The same is what grows in my yard if I don't dig it out.

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It's not some protected species of grass.

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It's just something that needs to, you know, if you had a claw down there, you could dig it out.

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So I'm here asking that maybe going forward into next year's budget you could put in

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some funds to create that beach, the way it was meant to be. I looked up the deed for that

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property and it was gifted to the town with the provision that it always remained a beach.

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And that the people from maybe would drive would always be allowed to swim at that beach.

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So I would think that, I mean there is a moral obligation to maintain it with the sandy

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surface that it had when my kids were growing up we were over there would be I mean

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they were families over there all the time playing at the beach with nobody would go

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in the water because it was awful now the water is great but you can't you can't get in

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there because I mean you won't go there because there isn't sand. I also have spoken

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with the Shapiro's at Cedar Island Marina and they say that that area is a half

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step from becoming declared a wetlands because of the condition it's in and if that were

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to happen, that would be the end of any use of that. I mean wetlands are more protected

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than anything we see around town. So I'm the problem that I had with Rob Derry and Todd

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Hitchett was nobody had money in there budget to do, to bring in the sand. This approved

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sand you have to put on a beach. So I'm hoping that, you know, somehow somewhere,

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something can be built in to scrape the craft grass out of the beach and bring some sand

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in and maintain it the way the deed asked that it be maintained. Okay. Thank you.

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I don't know. So what are you talking about is a carrot or

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Yes, we have the position.

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We'll have the time to knock.

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Any other persons?

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Yes, please.

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Please come to the table.

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State your name and address.

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Good evening, my name is Dean Cougan.

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For the past ten years, I've resided at 65 waterside lane.

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I want to start out with a shout out to the Clinton Police Department for the job they did during the fireworks show.

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We're on the front row with everything that's happening down there.

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65 waterside lane, and I can't imagine how that could have been done in a better and more safe.

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For the record, the following narrative used my own, and was not authored by AI.

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Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you about the January 2025,

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flock licensed flight cameras activation in seven locations by the Clinton Police Department.

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I'm not here to be presumptive about the Clinton Police Department's intent nor its use of its

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flock system.

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I defer instead to Connecticut's most watched news organization, WFSB, and very investigative

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report concerning the Clinton Police Department's use of the flock system.

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According to WFSB, the Clinton Police Department had shared its flock immigration-related

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data, with other nearby states and agencies for 11 months.

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The police department acquired the flux system aware that it tracked individuals having

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immigration interest.

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The police department only suspended its flock of immigration data sharing at about the same

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time our state of Connecticut was passing legislation signed into law this past May,

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Outline continued sharing of such immigration flock data.

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When asked, FWFSP was denied access to the Clinton Police Department's raw actual data.

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Thus preventing a closer look at how the Clinton Police Department had been using their flock system since it started.

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I would surmise that my fellow Clinton residents would find such uncooperative behavior.

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By the Clinton Police Department to not be a model of transparency. I quote, the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution seeks to secure the privacy of life against arbitrary power and that a central aim of the framers was to place obstacles in the way of a two-permating police surveillance.

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as an individual maintains the legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements.

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When reviewing the Clinton Police Department's flock policy and procedures section K for prohibited uses,

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It states, quote, any use that violates a person's constitutional rights is prohibited.

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As presently deployed, it's use of the flock's camera is such a violation.

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Our protected privacy is a public safety issue.

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What happens to each of us when our protected privacy rights become further diminished,

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especially with our present democracy teetering and our individual freedoms threatened,

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at the very same time of our 25th to 150th anniversary.

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Flax surveillance cameras degrade our protected privacy as the cameras are always on.

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Continuously track and store everyone's detailed travel histories today.

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Over 250 towns and cities across the nation are suspending.

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We're removing their flax surveillance cameras.

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At least three Connecticut towns have recently suspended or begun to have their flocks surveillance cameras removed.

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Two of our nation's largest bedrock law enforcement states, Florida and Texas,

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have very recently ordered a halt to their state funding, revoked permits,

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and or ordered the flock cameras removal within 30 days.

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I urge our Clinton Town Council in town manager to follow the same course of action to immediately call for independent oversight of the flock cameras in data use.

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Turning off the flock surveillance cameras, not funding the flock surveillance system when the present contract expires.

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And to order the flock surveillance cameras be removed as soon as possible.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I do want to just address that. I just want to let residents and encourage residents to know that

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the police commission would be the proper form to go and bring that concern. They're the ones

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that oversee it. They meet the second Monday at 5 o'clock at the police commission at the Police Department's

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community room. Thanks. Michelle, we don't hear you very well.

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This is more, thank you very much. Any other public comment?

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Supple 20 James Lane. I'll be quick. I told you guys that I'm just gonna file a lawsuit to have her removed

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We're gonna look to do it by mid October anybody who is in town and wants to sign on to it

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You can find me on Facebook and set the wall

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any other public comment here. You might set my turn on off that microphone

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Just a little pick up anything. Thank you

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I am number three on the agenda approval of minutes. So here a motion to approve the minutes for their August

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19th twenty twenty six meeting.

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Second. Second.

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Discussion? All in favor?

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Aye. Opposed? abstain? Motion carries. Thank you. Next is appointments and

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reappointments. Item number four on the agenda. Amity Vs. Human Services Advisory Board

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for Termin til June 30th, 2029.

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Is anybody here?

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Yes, please.

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Thank you.

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I guess we are going to use the microphone, Maria.

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AMIDIVYS, I live at 13 Wildwood Park Road.

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Just looking to be appointed to the Human Services Advisory Board.

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Do you have any questions?

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Yeah, well, if you can tell us a little more about yourself,

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your interest there or your qualification.

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Yeah, I'm naturally drawn to roles where

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I can be helpful to people and I have a lot of work and volunteer experience working with the various populations that human services help support.

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I've worked as in various roles with children and I've been in domestic violence advocate, sexual assault, crisis counselor, and I've worked in a few different roles with senior citizens in the community as well.

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Any questions from the council?

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Do I hear a motion to appoint M.E.V. to the Human Services Advisory Board for

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Tournament till June 30th, 2029?

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Carry out in a second?

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Chris and Escovich?

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Yes.

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I'm sorry.

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Oh, right.

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Discussion?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Post?

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Stain?

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Motion carries.

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Thank you.

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Next is the appointment.

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to get sworn in.

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Oh, yeah.

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If you could go to the town clerk, it's office to be sworn in.

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Thank you.

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Not now.

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Not now.

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Yeah, they're not open to it.

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That's not open tonight.

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John Vassalo for the zoning board of appeals,

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alternate seat for a term until November 20, 27.

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He tells a little about yourself.

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You're interested in your qualifications.

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Well, I've been in the construction industry for about 45 years now, I live in town.

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I deal a lot with the different towns throughout the state, as far as permitting zoning and

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health department.

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My background is mainly in home improvements, residential construction, one point held of building

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official license.

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It's expired now, also a letter of aidment license for the state of Connecticut as a supervisor.

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I thought I could

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be a good addition to this process.

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Thank you.

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Anybody on the council?

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Any questions?

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Do I hear a motion for John Vassalo to be appointed to the Zoning Board of Appeals, alternate

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seat for Termin till November, 2027.

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Ryan Rock, Piori, 2nd.

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Chris Pesanti.

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All in favor.

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Of stain.

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Motion carries.

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Thank you, John.

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Again, go to the town clerk to be sworn in.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next, the appointments is Park and Rec Commission, and we have four candidates for one vacant seat, and we have a process that's a little different for us this time, and that we, with four candidates under Connecticut State Law, the candidates have the option to be interviewed in public or an executive session, and we have one candidate that's opted to be an interviewed in public, and we'll do that, and then later in the meeting, we'll have executive session, and we'll conduct the interviews with the other candidates at that time.

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So, Patrick Shae, if you come up, please.

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Yeah, we passed it.

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So, we have, hey, Patrick, welcome.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Oh, the Board of Park and Recreation Commission.

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And we have four candidates.

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And we have extended questions that we ask or questions that we've often asked.

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And we're going to ask the same questions of all candidates.

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And so we can, I guess I could say I'm on behalf of the Council.

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These are questions from the Council, but I'll say them all out.

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The first question is, what interests you in serving on this Board of Commission?

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What interests you in serving on this Board, our Commission, this Park of Reck?

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Sure.

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What initially interested in me was the quality of the facilities,

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and as I grew interested

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the town and grew to watch town council meetings. I started to get to know council members

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and the town and how it works and operates and that's specific commission.

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Surprisingly, when ARPA funds existed, there was a lot that could have been done.

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And I know Chris is the liaison to the Parks and Rec Commission and I've listened to

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I listen to this council at the end of the day and I see what you need from various

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boards and commissions and I'm a sports lover. I grew up playing sports. I grew up

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watching sports and I don't love the way youth sports is going in terms of

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private equity and the expensive side of things and to me sports should be fun.

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and the kids should have fun and it should be affordable and I think that all starts with the Parks and Rec Commission.

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Do you have any prior experience serving on a broader commission? Any broader commission?

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No, I love this is the beginning for me. I want to get involved and I want to help serve my town.

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Are you able to commit to the regular meeting schedule in any additional responsibilities?

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Yes. I believe so at their Tuesday nights, right, or that might conflict with the, I don't

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know, the EDC that I'm going for, I don't, I don't, the timing, I don't, so maybe not.

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And how do you see the board, a park and wreck contributing to the overall well-being of the town?

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I think, when I look at kids these days and screens, I think it's incredibly important to be outside and playing,

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and I have a one year old myself, and he loves to play, and that's what separates kids from screens, not to say screens are evil,

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but like, playing and competition and that sort of,

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that's something I want to be a part of facilitating.

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And my background is in communications,

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and I think whether that's something that the board needs,

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it's something I'm good at, is outreach and getting people

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to join in and spread the word and participate.

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Thank you, so those are the questions for Park and REC.

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Can I quickly get confirmation, though, on the conflict, because I don't, from the timing

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of the meetings, if it's, I know the EDCs, the second Tuesday of every month.

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When's Park and REC?

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That first?

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Okay, so it's achievable.

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All right, so as I said, the Park and REC, we have three other candidates that are going

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an executive session later, and you're also a candidate for the one-bacon seat on economic

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development commission.

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And again, you've opted to have open session interview.

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There's another candidate for that one, and that person is also up to the executive session.

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So while you're here, why don't we do that one too?

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And the questions are the same.

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So if the town council feels this is the proper way to flow this, we'll ask you the questions

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again now for economic development commission.

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So what did you choose you to serve on the economic development mission?

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Ironically, it all started a little bit with my property taxes and understanding how

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the town works and getting to know various town council members and trying to understand

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procedure and I guess the optics of everything and over time I started to review the

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POCD from early 2000s and then I read the one in 2015 and the again in 2025 and

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I after a lot of the goals as it as it pertains to economic development carry

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across all three POCDs, but for the first time ever, we have an incredible town planter and

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the real capacity to move it forward.

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And there's sometimes there's, I feel like there's various gaps between communication

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between different boards and commissions and I think I could be a great asset to that communication

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crossover. I got very interested when it came to the EDC a lot of it was about and I've gone

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to the meetings as a member of the community since May and I think when I looked at what they were

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doing and business outreach and getting business inventory and I would watch the town council meetings

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and I would see this request going back to, even before our last town manager, this inventory

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has been requested. And although I'm not on the commission, I've made strides to just put

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it together.

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And that took me to another level where I started thinking about, well, if we want

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more businesses downtown and we want more walkability and this is the goal. This is what the

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people want. It's very much clear that the POCD let the people speak and this is what they

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are asking for and everyone signed off on it. So if that's the goal, I realize, well, if we want more

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business is downtown, how are we going to, how can we do that unless we

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Enders.

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Standing, planning, and zoning, and what's possible. We can't do it if we don't know what's possible. We can't have a real fluid conversation if we don't know what's possible.

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So that's where I decided, and it took a lot of work to create sort of a prototype that allowed for the means of understanding what's possible.

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And I had it presented through the EDC to council and whether that's ultimately adopted or not.

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That's in the hands, I guess, of the town manager and the town and really the town planner too.

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But whether it is adopted or not, that's fine.

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I just want to participate and I think I could be a great asset to the EDC.

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I've grown to meet and learn from some of them

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and understand like the group and the people.

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I also understand I'm there's alternate.

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So if any alternates want to step up

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and have the voting power, I would gladly give them that opportunity

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over me and I would be an alternate.

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And yeah, that's all I.

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Next question, we already know the answer to.

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Do you have any prior experience

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serving on boards and commissions you answered it?

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No, right?

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The item number three, are you able to commit to the regular meeting schedule?

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I think we just determined that, the answer is yes.

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And number four, how do you see this board commission contributing to the overall well-being

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of the town?

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You partially answered that in the first part, but if you have anything to add.

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I think that economic development means different things to a lot of different people and

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in some ways that people think that means we're looking for big box stores as for some

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people, it means we just want economic vitality downtown.

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Well, we don't know in any buildings, so we can't dictate.

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There's that side of it too.

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We can't tell storefronts to update their properties and all that.

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But we can do things like leverage the Andrews Memorial Theatre and see if there's ways to

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bring in, not be the key, but you know, bring in sort of, utilize that facility in such a way

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that it was meant to be utilized, and there's ways to understand what business owners need

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downtown in order to be fruitful and successful.

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There's ways to connect our social presence and our communication system with the businesses

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and give them, where's the live music tonight?

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Nobody can answer that question, and it shouldn't be on one business to promote only their

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live music.

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I think there's ways to get creative leverage, I leverage resources, and really connect with

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our business downtown.

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And the EDC is going back to even John Allen.

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I've watched some of these videos, and where the EDC's have some flows, I know you hang

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on it for a while. And I think, especially with a coordinator now, I think that it's a really

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poised committee to put forward some of these actions within the POCD.

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Thank you. That's the four questions. Just one of their items to know for the Council. I think

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everybody on the Council received a letter from the Chair of the Economic Development Commission

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recommending Patrick Shave for the position. That's all our questions. Thanks, Patrick.

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back to the agenda.

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So, the other candidates will be interviewed in executive session when we get to that item number.

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So, and we're on to item number five, what of education non-lapsing account?

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To use this, sir.

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If you hold it just for like two seconds or three seconds, it goes on.

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So, you want me to use it? There we go, sir.

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Okay. Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to be here tonight at the August 17th Board of Education

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meeting as we close out the here. The Board made a motion to authorize me to come and make a request

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transfer 250,000 to a maximum of the total unexpended amount from the 2526 Board of

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operating budget into the existing board of it non-lapsing account established by the town.

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The board talked a lot about this.

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It does appear as we're closing out our funds that we have approximately $500,000 of unexpected

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funds.

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And there was a lot of discussion.

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The request was put that way out of respect for the town and the need for the council to

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determinations as to best how to allocate that money. As you know, I was here in June. We had an

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unexpected capital project of the Joel Voila replacement, which was granted from the non-lapsing

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fund, which brought our fund balanced down to 321,679. So the board is asking for a minimum of

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50 to bring that back to a reasonable amount that would protect us, hopefully against an unexpected

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capital expenditure or that fluctuation in special ed costs, which is the other policy reason

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for using the non-lapsing. So they worded that motion for the town council's consideration

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and out of respect for the fact that you have many other needs and can make that determination

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of the amount. Any questions? Any council members?

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I just want to make clear if you had a $500 surplus?

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$500,000. I believe it's an honor that $506.

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Okay, roughly. And you're requesting to take care of and put it in the

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Lapsing file. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

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So I have a question related to the same, but I think it's the

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Bob. So there's a second motion here to transfer the final that

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would be the residual. So if it's $500,000 and we're doing

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250 to the non-lapsing fund, that means the rest, the other 250 would go to the roads

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and sidewalks fund, 66, how much it goes there?

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Yes, it would be nice, you know, there would be any available funds in the budget.

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This was approved, there would be another 250 available that we would get permission to transfer

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that 250 to the roads fund.

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So, under your agenda item number five, there's two motions.

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One would be for the request of a minimum transfer of $250,000 to the maximum of the total

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unexpected amount for the 2025-26 Board of Education operating budget into the existing Board

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of Education on Lapsing Account established by the town.

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So the residual from last year, $250,000 into an non-lapsing fund.

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Do I have a motion for that?

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So moved.

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Second.

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This question?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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And obviously.

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And now there's another motion to transfer from the...

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Final B-O-E-2025-26, you're available funds to the road in sidewalk fund, fund 66.

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So, the excess funds that we didn't just put in the non-lapsing fund, whatever is left, that fund that we created for...

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You're trying to say we're going to put it directly into that fund?

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Yes. I believe it has to go through the general fund first, possibly, because it's money coming from the Board of Education.

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All right, it's got to go through probably the general fund before we distribute it out.

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Is that right, Bob?

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General fund is comprised of all the departments, including the education department.

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You should be able to create a line item in the point of being budget,

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or transfer out to other funds.

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On that tonight, when I'm saying is originally, the motion shouldn't be made to go to roads,

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and the motion should be made to go general fund.

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And then if we want to put it into that extra place, whatever we want to land it, we can land it.

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But with their motion should not be to put it into a road, we shouldn't take their money,

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and put it into anything other than general fund.

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That's a proper way to do it.

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Are both those tonight?

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So let's do that.

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We have a motion.

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So do we have a motion to transfer from the final board of education,

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2025, 2025, 26 year-end available funds to the general fund.

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So moved.

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Second.

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Second discussion. All in favor. Aye.

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Motion carries.

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So then in another meeting, we would do the other transfer.

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Okay.

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So that's it for item number five. We're on item number six on the agenda landfill capping update.

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This is an update only. No, no actions.

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So just to bring everybody up to speed on where we are with the landfill, the planning and zoning

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commission held a continued public hearing on Monday night of this week, and we'll be holding

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a special meeting on Monday September 28th, potentially to close the public hearing and potentially

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act on the landfill application.

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So it's the anticipated potential conditional approval could happen on Monday.

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It seems so far that most members are favorable.

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Again, they will vote that will be their decision,

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but I have been asked to start drafting a motion to that effect.

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In that motion, one of the things that would potentially be considered

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would be the question of third party review,

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which we've already discussed with the town council,

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we have received two additional quotes and we're in the process right now.

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We received the last one today.

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They range from, I believe,

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$86, $68,000, $247,000.

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So, the task right now is to make sure that we are comparing apples to apples in terms of the hours because there is such a wide span.

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We want to make sure that we're comparing apples to apples as that final decision of third party review gets made.

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But we do have those quotes and we did, we did go back and get that.

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So we'll keep you posted on what the best potential solution is for that.

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The commission could potentially just add a condition into a potential approval to say that third party review will be required.

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and the decision on that form would be deferred to Michelle and his group.

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So that's under review right now.

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The other piece that is also under review is one of their course request that L'Auro has made

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of the Planning and Zoning Commission is to consider permitting the stoppiling of material

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according to their material acceptability protocol and the permissions that deep has already granted

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to enable up to 50,000 cubic yards of material to be brought on to the site before the individual closure permit.

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the final actual large permit is issued from deep.

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So that's something that is, it's under review,

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Loura has submitted a separate correspondence

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to the town, essentially asking for that permission

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and identifying their assumption of liability.

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So if there's any problem with those individual closure pieces,

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they would remove that material.

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And for some reason, there was a problem in the future,

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which no one anticipates happening,

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but they would certainly take that on.

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That proposal is under review by the town's consulting environmental attorney.

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So I don't have an update from that attorney that memo just came in this Monday afternoon.

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So it's all recent developments.

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All of them moving the project forward, but I just wanted to let you know that there's a potential decision on the horizon.

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And additional attorney review, the third part of you stuff is in.

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And we'll just keep you posted as we go.

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Any questions?

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So do you need to get another permit from deep to bring additional?

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Correct.

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So the permit that's been done by deep there's this.

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Stormwater construction permits for the sediment and erosion controls is in place.

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And the other piece that they've done is they've approved the material

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Acceptability Protocol which says,

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We agree with the standards of testing that you have identified for the material and the thresholds of

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What chemical or what components might be in that fill when it comes on to site.

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So that part is approved.

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And as part of that, deep issued an authorization to say,

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we understand that you're proposing around 132,000 cubic yards of material

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to be graded in place in specific locations.

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According to your grading plan, we're still reviewing that part.

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That's that closure permit, that final ability to place the material

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where they want to place it.

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The given permission for is to say,

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while we're in that review period,

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you could bring on up to 50,000 cubic yards of material.

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That work hasn't started because they haven't gone through

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a full local permitting process yet, so they don't have P&Z approval.

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They do not have wetlands approval, but not P&Z.

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So what there are request is would be for P&Z to essentially

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make a finding that it would be acceptable,

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subject to town attorney review of their proposal for liability

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purposes to say, look, we'll let you bring that material on.

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We all anticipate this is coming in terms of a final closure

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and grading permit.

460
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,720
But until that time comes, the town is a one-of-except material

461
00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,040
that we don't have a final permit for.

462
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,820
So, the question for the attorney is, are we okay in an interim space?

463
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,140
So, we just notify Deep that it's been approved by the town and then Deep's fine.

464
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,560
Like, they don't have to do another review.

465
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:12,780
Deep is in the process of reviewing the actual individual closure, like the grading plan and their order of operations,

466
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,880
where and how they're going to track material on site.

467
00:36:14,980 --> 00:36:16,640
They're doing their final review of this.

468
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600
Deep has been in this process with them for, as you know, multiple years.

469
00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:24,860
And so, Pearl or Arrow, they believe that they will be receiving approval within the next several weeks

470
00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:29,680
for this individual closure permit so that it's not far off, but the planning and zoning

471
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,500
commission is likely to be asked to vote before that permit is in hand. And so I think

472
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:38,120
Laura is trying to say, listen, if that permit from deep is delayed to four weeks, six weeks,

473
00:36:38,260 --> 00:36:42,860
but we know it's coming would the town be okay with material coming on to site, not to exceed

474
00:36:42,860 --> 00:36:47,000
the 50,000 that deep is already permitted, but would we be okay with that? And so that's a question

475
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,360
being asked to be planning and zoning commission.

476
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:53,040
So there's no oversight by deep on that process, so that the field that's coming in prior

477
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,700
to any of the final approvals.

478
00:36:55,060 --> 00:36:56,560
So deep's fine with that.

479
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,000
Deep is fine with that 50,000 cubic yards.

480
00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:00,020
OK.

481
00:37:01,580 --> 00:37:01,860
All right.

482
00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:03,680
Any other questions?

483
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:05,440
Thanks, Abby.

484
00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:09,320
She can stay there because she's going to talk about the ship.

485
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:09,960
OK.

486
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:10,620
Thanks.

487
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:13,700
So we have item 789.

488
00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:16,340
I think, well, those 789 would be used.

489
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:17,340
789, Abby.

490
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,100
OK.

491
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:20,680
So tell us more about the, well, you've told us already

492
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,320
about the ship grant application.

493
00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:29,980
Yep, so this is just a request to formalize authorizing Michelle to apply them to half of the town for the $400,000 ship grant.

494
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:39,480
And for the drudging project at the town Marina Basin with the town's $600,000 match and funds that already exist, and we've given you a line number here.

495
00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:45,880
And essentially, the $400,000 would go to cover two things in the way that we're wrapped in this grant.

496
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:55,800
One is biological testing of the sediment material that's in the basin today to make sure that we understand what the disposal path will be for it, whether that is open water disposal or land-based disposal.

497
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,060
So there's some additional testing that the Army Corps will require for that, which is

498
00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:04,100
an eligible covered cost in this grant, which is lovely because we didn't anticipate

499
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:05,360
that we would have to do that extra testing.

500
00:38:05,620 --> 00:38:09,300
So this is a great opportunity that the ship grant is coming forward when it is, and the

501
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:12,880
rest of it would go to the direct cost of directing the mechanical removal of the sentiment.

502
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:15,280
Any questions?

503
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,760
Do I hear a motion to authorize the Town Manager to apply for the Kinetic Report Authority

504
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,740
for Small Harbor Improvement's Project program,

505
00:38:24,380 --> 00:38:25,800
around six grant to support

506
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,100
pledging of the townwren in the amount of $400,000.

507
00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:32,380
An authorized use of $600,000 committed in line,

508
00:38:34,620 --> 00:38:35,820
604165-59865,

509
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:41,080
pledging to fund the town's matching portion of the project.

510
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,900
So, a motion by Kerry, second by,

511
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:46,880
do I hear a second?

512
00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:47,460
Thank you.

513
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:48,180
Thanks.

514
00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:48,900
Discussion?

515
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:50,760
All in favor?

516
00:38:51,420 --> 00:38:51,640
Hi.

517
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,480
Opposed, abstain, motion carries.

518
00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:57,500
Thank you.

519
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,120
I'd admit, protect grant application.

520
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:11,100
So this is an opportunity that is one of those grants that comes out, and we have a very, very short time to consider responding to it and determine whether or not the town is going to put in a potential application.

521
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:24,160
So the protect the grant is a funding stream through the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration called promoting resilient operations for transformative efficient and cost saving transportation projects.

522
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:38,580
So surface transportation roads and trying to look at the resiliency and a sort of long-term provision of service of those roads relative to things like flooding, excessive rainfall, all of those things that could potentially interrupt.

523
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:46,060
What we've done is we went through our foreshore coastal resiliency plan, the plan of conservation and development and a hazard mitigation plan.

524
00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:51,980
Michelle Todd, Mike Neff and I sat down and said, okay, what potential projects might we have that could be a match for this?

525
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,240
And we should at least have the conversation of whether or not we'd like to apply for funds.

526
00:39:57,340 --> 00:40:01,680
So when we went through the most potentially competitive project,

527
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,900
would be to assess the condition and vulnerability of

528
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:10,100
caus way, sure road, and hammock roads,

529
00:40:10,140 --> 00:40:13,700
so looking at that coastal stretch from a perspective

530
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:18,720
of neighborhood access, viability of evacuation routes,

531
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,720
making sure that we understand sort of what the modeling

532
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,380
and threats to those facilities are in greater detail,

533
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,380
and talk about pre-planning, pre-engineering,

534
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,460
and cost benefit analysis for potential

535
00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:36,560
future construction projects. So I want to make it clear this is a planning grant. It is a 100%

536
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:42,180
reimbursable grant that we would be going for. To go through activities like the existing

537
00:40:42,180 --> 00:40:46,160
conditions assessment, climate modeling and vulnerability analysis that takes us beyond what the

538
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,940
four shore plan did, 3D visualization models to help people understand where the flooding might be

539
00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:55,620
and how it may affect into the future, engineering feasibility, conceptual designs,

540
00:40:55,620 --> 00:41:01,020
It's been environmental review, preliminary cost estimates, cost benefit analysis, stakeholder engagement

541
00:41:01,020 --> 00:41:01,880
and final reporting.

542
00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:07,960
And the goal here is to move some of the projects out of this adopted forest floor plan and

543
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,460
hazard mitigation and POCD to shuttle ready because we talk about this a lot where we need

544
00:41:13,460 --> 00:41:15,260
to be able to find ways to advance projects.

545
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:21,080
This is not committing the town to any one particular fix, we're not saying we're elevating

546
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,600
caused way by 10 feet. That is not what this is for. This is to say, what are the most reasonable

547
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,460
cost-effective methods that in now and into the future looking at the next 50 years of anticipated

548
00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:37,200
impacts might we want to plan for fund look for construction dollars and prioritize our projects

549
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:43,060
going forward? We are not currently eligible for the actual construction funds anyway because we don't

550
00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:47,340
have these pieces in place and also we need some regional planning around this as well. But this would

551
00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:53,760
position us for this future funding from other protect money or other grant sources that may

552
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:54,400
become available.

553
00:41:55,180 --> 00:41:59,560
So the ask would be up to $600,000 for that sort of scope of work again.

554
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,880
It's a pretty decent stretch of our coastline to sort of say how does this function and what

555
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:09,120
can we do to whether it's through, you know, nature-based solutions, drainage improvements,

556
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,180
limited road-raising, those kinds of things would be the types of things we would be analyzing.

557
00:42:14,060 --> 00:42:15,160
So, it's an opportunity.

558
00:42:15,860 --> 00:42:19,900
We wanted to run it by you and see whether or not there are questions, concerns, if there's

559
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:25,060
interest, it's due October 9th, so it's a really fast turnaround, which is why you're

560
00:42:25,060 --> 00:42:28,180
being asked to think about something the same night we're bringing it up for the first

561
00:42:28,180 --> 00:42:28,480
time.

562
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,200
And a lot of times these grants just they move that quickly, and so we just didn't want to miss

563
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,260
an opportunity if you were a medical.

564
00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:39,320
So, you said it was 100% reimbursable, so we would have to put the money up front.

565
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,560
We would put the money out and get the money reimbursed.

566
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,680
And how quickly is that reimbursement happen, maybe?

567
00:42:44,820 --> 00:42:47,460
So for federal dollars coming back in,

568
00:42:47,540 --> 00:42:50,680
I mean, the ones that the state federal partnership programs have been very quick.

569
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:52,720
I don't have familiarity.

570
00:42:53,060 --> 00:42:55,240
I've not done a protect grant before, so I'm not sure how.

571
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,820
You know, if we're talking weeks or a month or what that looks like.

572
00:43:00,060 --> 00:43:01,440
Any other questions from the council?

573
00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:04,620
I mean, to look into something like that, where would we be coming up with the money?

574
00:43:07,330 --> 00:43:08,630
You mean, other than from this grant?

575
00:43:08,890 --> 00:43:10,970
Well, I mean, you have to put the money out in order to get the grant.

576
00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:12,830
So I mean, we're coming up with 400,000.

577
00:43:14,070 --> 00:43:16,490
$600,000, and that's the biggest question.

578
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,740
Pents on the amount of the grant.

579
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,260
Are we talking about a million dollars, two million dollars,

580
00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:27,100
are we talking about 10 million dollars, up to 600, I guess?

581
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,120
Yeah, so the preliminary budget that I started putting together,

582
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,960
and I'm working with the town engineer, if we were going to go forward,

583
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,680
is around 585, but there could be other costs associated with that.

584
00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:41,060
These aren't inexpensive things to do, and we could certainly scale back a scope,

585
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,000
but we wanted it if we were going to put something out

586
00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:48,440
So the question is, our budget is fixed until June 30th, 2027,

587
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:54,120
if we were going to get this money, would it happen before then or could we

588
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,960
then go put it in our budget and our next we would do.

589
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:03,960
So $500,000 grant, it would be funded by borrowing from fund bounce.

590
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,920
When grant comes in, it goes right back into fund bounce.

591
00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:10,200
So we're not using fund bounce, we're borrowing from fund bounce.

592
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:18,840
$500,000 would be so interesting if so when you have the receivable if you are awarded the grant from the federal government and you have a contractual obligation from them to pay us

593
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,550
Then would you count that money in your fund balance so you wouldn't fall below the 20 percent?

594
00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:31,200
No, no, because the fund balance isn't actually decreased. It's the catch that's being used and yeah, you're just barring it

595
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:37,900
You wouldn't put a question with that following that designated or undesignated

596
00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:46,300
It doesn't need to be designated outside of unassigned fund values in order to be eligible to for our shovel ready project if awarded

597
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:54,140
I mean shovel ready project means shovel ready we're ready to go with that money with the money is authorized it's assigned not unassigned fund values

598
00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:59,960
So I've trained understand how we wouldn't count it against the 20% or you know wherever we're gonna get

599
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:11,860
But it's just, it's an accounting entry. We use it every day. It's basically due to due from its borrowing from a grant fund, borrowing from the general fund.

600
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:17,440
Fund balance itself in the accounting entry is not reduced. It's just borrowing.

601
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,600
So fund balance is not debited or credit.

602
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,580
But in order to apply for the grant, you don't need authorization or

603
00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:29,260
us appropriating the money in order to apply for it.

604
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,280
That's how much it's awarded.

605
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,900
Right, but we have to come back to you to accept it anyway.

606
00:45:34,740 --> 00:45:37,020
So we are going to, we don't know if we're even going to get it.

607
00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:40,620
So to approve us to release go for it, then it has to come back to you

608
00:45:40,620 --> 00:45:41,440
if we get approved.

609
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:45,660
And then the conversation can be, is it, are we comfortable doing it the way that

610
00:45:45,660 --> 00:45:47,000
Bob's explaining to do it?

611
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,800
The problem is that if we don't do it this way,

612
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,260
We're never going to be applying for grants because we're always going to need to put something out.

613
00:45:55,420 --> 00:46:06,180
And we don't have a fund established where every year you're putting a set amount of money away to build it up that we can use on a rotation to apply for opportunities like that.

614
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:17,920
Well, that's this this question. Then if we do get the grant if it's awarded to us and then we find ourselves in a pickle that we're not going to get reimbursed for two years and we have to come up 500,000 and we decide we don't want to do that.

615
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:19,420
can we reject the grant?

616
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,040
After it's been awarded to us.

617
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,920
You can not have to accept it, though.

618
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,160
I mean, right, you have to have the conversation

619
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,920
about once it's, once, if we get approved for it,

620
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,880
then it comes back and we have a conversation

621
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,040
and Bob identifies a plan for this as a pool of money

622
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,260
that we could use that is not going to be used for a few years

623
00:46:41,260 --> 00:46:45,340
or if we can sit there and we can re-reverse it.

624
00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:46,280
Here's a question.

625
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:54,140
What percentage are we above in on a sign fun balance 21% and that 1% what does that give us to our

626
00:46:54,140 --> 00:46:55,420
Get them, obviously our policy

627
00:46:56,060 --> 00:47:03,160
So if we're there in that piece that ultimately we could reallocate that and assign that towards this grant that amount

628
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,880
I don't know what's in the 20 dollars is that one percent

629
00:47:08,500 --> 00:47:13,380
Million oh is it that much we should probably have exactly numbers if we're going to I mean yeah, yeah, but

630
00:47:13,380 --> 00:47:16,600
Welcome, we can authorize base on that because we're not going below the 20th.

631
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:23,380
I submitted it showing at 1.260 on a signed 14221, 21% but I mean, there's no, you know.

632
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,580
I mean, I think, I mean, at some point we got to realize we in a position to go for these grants.

633
00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:30,340
I understand it if we don't get them, we'll never get them.

634
00:47:30,340 --> 00:47:32,380
I'm all about it because the money's there.

635
00:47:32,540 --> 00:47:37,280
But I mean, we also have to be in a strong position financially as a town to make sure that the money's there.

636
00:47:37,460 --> 00:47:41,200
So, let's just say we take money out of the undescendated fund balance, okay?

637
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,500
And then, I don't know, something happens in town, right?

638
00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:47,900
Whether something happens in the town has to pay for that.

639
00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:50,560
Then we're dead because we're going well under 20%

640
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:51,760
because we have to pay for that up front

641
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,120
before we get refunded from FEMA.

642
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,020
So I mean, I understand the concept of doing this

643
00:47:57,020 --> 00:47:58,560
and getting this, but the fact is,

644
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,760
is you still have to be in a financial position

645
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,660
in order to make sure that if something else

646
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:06,380
does happen in town that we're still covering ourselves.

647
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:08,820
And the closer we get to that 20 threshold,

648
00:48:08,820 --> 00:48:12,140
And we have a policy, I mean, what do we do?

649
00:48:12,940 --> 00:48:18,160
And the other thing to think about is,

650
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:22,160
this is a large grant that we have to put money out

651
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,360
for 100% reimbursement.

652
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,820
Are there better grants or grants

653
00:48:26,820 --> 00:48:31,840
that are more worthwhile for this town

654
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,440
to meet a greater need than that?

655
00:48:34,860 --> 00:48:37,480
And I'm not trying to put down what you said,

656
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:44,180
from what you described to me, sounds like a nice to have rather than some of the other stuff

657
00:48:44,180 --> 00:48:49,320
that I've heard come down the pike. So just something else to think about.

658
00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:53,380
Another way we could look at it is that is a tremendous part of our grandma's set area.

659
00:48:55,740 --> 00:48:59,000
It's a very important part of the state to our town.

660
00:49:00,660 --> 00:49:08,960
They pay a lot of our taxes and we need to probably work on sustainability in that area

661
00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:16,860
water rise. We don't want to lose that. We have to think about it. We got a grant with

662
00:49:16,860 --> 00:49:21,140
old Sabrook and Westbrook and spent a year and a half working on how it is that we're

663
00:49:21,140 --> 00:49:27,520
going to save ourselves from the water and then we don't try. That doesn't look good. It's

664
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:33,940
fully reimbursable. I don't think nobody's arguing. The biggest piece to me, you know,

665
00:49:33,940 --> 00:49:39,460
And we do a ton of federal grant work is, once you apply, and if you get it, if you ever

666
00:49:39,460 --> 00:49:41,380
give it back, that's bad for a grant.

667
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:42,120
That's bad for a grant.

668
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,020
That's good for that too.

669
00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:46,060
So my point is, and it comes right back to money, right?

670
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,620
If we don't have the match or our cost to put up front, assigned and saying, hey, we're comfortable

671
00:49:51,620 --> 00:49:55,720
with this in an existing funding, then I agree.

672
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,780
This is the first time we've ever heard about this grant, is this the right grant, right?

673
00:49:59,780 --> 00:50:02,020
Or is maybe we should look at grants as a whole?

674
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:03,260
What are we setting aside?

675
00:50:03,260 --> 00:50:08,100
Because there's a ton of grants out there, but which grants are the ones that were most interested in.

676
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:11,760
And I think, you know, having a limited time to look at this,

677
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,100
it'd be tough to make a decision to commit funding behind those things.

678
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,640
I'm just, that's me, but we just don't have a lot of time.

679
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:19,560
So I guess.

680
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,160
Well, that's always a good one.

681
00:50:21,300 --> 00:50:21,460
Go ahead.

682
00:50:21,460 --> 00:50:21,640
I don't know.

683
00:50:21,740 --> 00:50:23,120
Go ahead.

684
00:50:24,260 --> 00:50:25,720
I mean, that's not a good one.

685
00:50:26,060 --> 00:50:26,440
I always have problems.

686
00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:29,600
Or always given these things at the deadlines.

687
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,360
We don't get a chance to think about it.

688
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,660
So when do you have to send the invite?

689
00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:40,380
So October 9th, that goes by our next meeting

690
00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:43,640
because I was going to suggest at least we table it

691
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,040
to the next meeting and we think about it.

692
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,100
We can't talk about it for a week or two

693
00:50:48,100 --> 00:50:50,620
and then come back, but we don't have that time.

694
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,520
We're always, I don't know why we're always on the gun.

695
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:54,720
Well, when do we get the weekend, the weekend?

696
00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:56,240
That's been a single time.

697
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,180
Last week, it came in the email.

698
00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:58,960
We got to understand.

699
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,040
No, I mean, it's not that we're not looking at it.

700
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:16,060
And it just seems he seems drop out of the sky and we have to make a decision like Mike says right now, you don't know all the facts, you know, you're not prepared with your mind mentally to.

701
00:51:16,260 --> 00:51:16,760
But okay.

702
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:17,560
No, it's a lot.

703
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:24,040
I do not like coming before this body without plenty of time to give you a chance to think about it at one meeting and ask again at the next.

704
00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:28,380
But we didn't want the opportunity to pass by without you having the chance to talk about it.

705
00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:33,580
The question I would have is, if there is a more limited scope, or if there is a budget

706
00:51:33,580 --> 00:51:39,460
number in your minds, that would be more palatable that we build a scope around, or is

707
00:51:39,460 --> 00:51:41,900
this just too much of an ask without the financial.

708
00:51:42,260 --> 00:51:46,320
So that's another dimension that you said, it doesn't have to be 600,000, it can be 100,000.

709
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:50,520
Yeah, that's sort of the saying, look, this is what's in the plans, this whole sort of stretch

710
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:51,020
of road.

711
00:51:51,060 --> 00:51:55,020
But do we talk about, you know, the load, you know, sort of saying we're going to limit this

712
00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:58,360
to either the low points of shore or we're going to limit this to cause way or some

713
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:03,440
thing, a smaller scope, and take out, you know, two thirds of the ask, that's one element.

714
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,220
I'm not sure how competitive it would be, but it is an opportunity to think about, but again,

715
00:52:08,420 --> 00:52:11,720
I understand we're asking, we're asking this on the fly, and that's the tough place to put

716
00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:12,200
people.

717
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:17,200
Or do you think that this is, or do you, if sorry, or do you think that, to Chris's point, that

718
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,400
this is not an area that you want, again, we get opportunities for grants.

719
00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:26,280
When we get them, we, we, we huddle, we could try to brainstorm and see what we can do.

720
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,980
This is a quick turnaround and it's a lot.

721
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:39,960
To ask because we also need a consultants to give us ballpark figures on prices. So it's not just us turning it around. We have to wait for our outside help.

722
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:55,020
With that being said, is this an area that the council feels we should be doing? We should be putting some grant money towards or to Chris's point should we not and just be focusing on something else?

723
00:52:55,020 --> 00:53:02,000
I don't know. I would say that we should be pursuing grants and bringing them to the table for us to discuss just like we are now.

724
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:10,000
Okay. The only issue is, the time compressed, the time, the time table. And that's just by the nature of this particular grant.

725
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:19,140
I think this is in line with the town council's strategic objectives that we talked about. It's in line with the P.O.C.D., it's in line with the foreshore plan.

726
00:53:19,140 --> 00:53:24,460
My question was going to be, do you believe that going in at that level makes us the most

727
00:53:24,460 --> 00:53:25,940
competitive going into this group?

728
00:53:26,780 --> 00:53:31,340
I think we will be competing against regional projects that have perhaps higher priorities

729
00:53:31,340 --> 00:53:32,180
for planning dollars.

730
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,980
So I think we are probably in the mid range of competition from the conversations that I've

731
00:53:35,980 --> 00:53:41,140
had with our consulting for the PSUD who deals with these grants routinely.

732
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,960
I have not heard of any other immediately like very hyperlocal regional stuff, so I'm not aware

733
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,140
other town going for similar projects right now or any of the towns that we've been

734
00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:55,040
participating with and other planning efforts I don't believe

735
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:59,020
cog is at this point submitting anything in particular so for our sort of

736
00:53:59,020 --> 00:54:03,080
micro region and the lower Connecticut rally I think that would make us a little bit more

737
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:08,000
competitive but you know but again it's I think that I think it's a hundred thousand

738
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,560
dollars to ten million dollars just sort of the range of planning grant money that

739
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:16,120
where they allocate so we're on the lower end of the things that they allocate

740
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:22,820
But these are also, you know, there's millions and millions of dollars at stake here, and a lot of those projects will take up millions and millions of dollars.

741
00:54:22,940 --> 00:54:33,960
That's how we're asking for. We're on the smaller side anyway. So, you know, if we were to cut it in half or two thirds, they may make it easier to fund because it is smaller, but the reach will not be as far.

742
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,900
So, it's just an annual grant.

743
00:54:37,580 --> 00:54:42,860
It comes right. I don't know if it comes around every single year, but it has, it has been, I don't know if it came out last year.

744
00:54:42,860 --> 00:54:44,940
I think it was the year before, but I will.

745
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,440
So if it's an annual grant and we target October

746
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,960
or it's target data release next year for 26 or 27 money,

747
00:54:51,460 --> 00:54:53,280
it might be a good idea to take that.

748
00:54:53,300 --> 00:54:55,080
Whatever we planned on planning on,

749
00:54:55,180 --> 00:54:58,120
look at the full content of what the grants for

750
00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:59,540
and then need to bridge those gaps

751
00:54:59,540 --> 00:55:02,360
or talk about what gaps it's gonna bridge for us as a town.

752
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,280
I mean, and then that way, it gives us time

753
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,360
in the planning side to make sure that it's in the budget

754
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,020
or the money's there based on what you see as a need.

755
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,040
That sounds good.

756
00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:15,260
We're saying we need you for all grants and sort of have a sort of a rolling list.

757
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:19,920
Chris, I mean that's exactly that's a plan in place that we have going forward.

758
00:55:20,020 --> 00:55:21,200
We have something in place.

759
00:55:21,460 --> 00:55:24,520
I mean anybody's denying that this is an area that needs to be worked on.

760
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,160
I think we all anybody who lives here understands where we have these issues.

761
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,440
And we need to do something to help these issues.

762
00:55:29,700 --> 00:55:35,460
The issue is that we're making a decision without any rhyme or reason to wear the money's coming from.

763
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:37,180
Like we're that's all we have it in here.

764
00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:38,900
We have it at Stairville Bar from here from Bar from there.

765
00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:41,300
For me personally, I want to know exactly where it's coming from

766
00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:42,840
and where the money is coming from to covered.

767
00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:45,200
We have a budget in place right now that we've passed.

768
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,460
And so now it's just like, well, if we go to here and we borrow from here,

769
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,340
we take from there, you know, that's not my kind of thing to agree with.

770
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,200
That's not, I think, physically responsible in order to do those types of things.

771
00:55:56,340 --> 00:55:58,520
I think it needs to be something that there's a plan in place.

772
00:55:58,660 --> 00:56:02,020
And I think this is a, I mean, if it's an annual project that we have these things in place.

773
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,300
I mean, we're sitting at a meeting.

774
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:04,640
We're talking about it, is it a great idea?

775
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,160
But we're not talking about everything else.

776
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,800
there's still $4 to $600,000 that the town needs to come up with.

777
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,700
And if we're going to keep tapping that on designated fund balance without knowing exactly

778
00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:18,760
how much is available to us, and something does happen in this town, well then we're

779
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,340
in a big problem.

780
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:23,320
We go under 20% then we have issues with the auditors because they're going to come back and

781
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,140
they're going to lower our bond grading because that's what Dave agreed to, that's what

782
00:56:26,140 --> 00:56:26,780
we've agreed to.

783
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:27,760
So it's a bigger picture.

784
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,720
I mean, I understand the grants, we talk about it a lot, they're available, and they

785
00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:32,260
always are available.

786
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:37,140
I mean, it's just a matter of, do they come at the right time for us to be able to

787
00:56:37,140 --> 00:56:39,960
So it's not always the opportune time.

788
00:56:40,260 --> 00:56:40,300
Thanks.

789
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:46,540
At the 21% and our designated fund balance right now, we do have a bad amount of money

790
00:56:46,540 --> 00:56:50,580
to be able to still stay above 20% which is a goal that we set for ourselves.

791
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:51,600
Not bad.

792
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:52,580
The bond rate.

793
00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:53,720
That would stay.

794
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:56,160
But that's the reason why we set that because they come.

795
00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:57,460
They came to us and they said.

796
00:56:57,580 --> 00:57:00,080
I started a stronger bond rating if we went to 12.

797
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:01,880
If I have the floor, can I say this?

798
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:12,700
We set that goal for ourselves, because if something happens, then we have that extra 5% to pay for that catastrophic storm that happens because we were afraid

799
00:57:13,340 --> 00:57:19,060
With the current uncertainty in the federal government that it would take a long time to get reimbursed for FEMA if we ever got FEMA resistance

800
00:57:19,060 --> 00:57:22,600
We would still have that there in the 20%

801
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,800
Thank you anybody else have any other

802
00:57:27,220 --> 00:57:27,700
Comments

803
00:57:28,340 --> 00:57:35,580
I have one comment that as Brian mentioned, we've asked specifically through the POCD and now

804
00:57:35,580 --> 00:57:39,540
through our goals in our mission statement and our vision statement to pursue grants and

805
00:57:39,540 --> 00:57:41,540
you guys are doing that, and that's what we ask you to do.

806
00:57:41,940 --> 00:57:45,720
And that's now as before us to decide whether or not we want to take it or not, that's a

807
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:46,120
different issue.

808
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:46,940
You guys did your job.

809
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,600
Thank you for doing what you did.

810
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:54,720
So with that, if there's no other further comments on this, I'll ask, is there a motion

811
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,760
To authorize the Town Manager to apply for a U.S. Department of Transportation slash federal

812
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:03,780
highway administration, promoting resilience operations for transformative, efficient, and

813
00:58:03,780 --> 00:58:08,680
cost-saving transportation, reimbursement planning grant in the amount of $600,000 for

814
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:24,700
planning, vulnerability, assets, and the pre-design activities to increase resiliency for the

815
00:58:25,340 --> 00:58:31,580
I would just make one comment, if you're going to do it, I would have hoped that you would

816
00:58:31,580 --> 00:58:36,440
have reduced it down to about maybe 200,000 or maybe even 100,000.

817
00:58:36,620 --> 00:58:44,680
I agree with Carrie, we have to get started to show good faith with other towns that were involved

818
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:49,860
with, but I can't see going on the whole 600, that's just my two cents.

819
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:59,530
So, the motion is for this 600,000, and I guess we should have had sort of whatever you do.

820
00:59:00,310 --> 00:59:02,490
What got a motion on the floor, Mr. Chairman?

821
00:59:03,970 --> 00:59:04,630
Yes, Mike.

822
00:59:05,290 --> 00:59:11,690
I would ask to potentially amend the motion to also include the funding mechanism of where it's going to be funded within the budget.

823
00:59:12,510 --> 00:59:16,850
And the same thing, considering this is our first year and we first found out about it now.

824
00:59:16,850 --> 00:59:21,830
And we won't have another meeting for us to really do some research and ask some more questions.

825
00:59:22,990 --> 00:59:27,630
I would be a little bit more conservative about off, you know, putting out the whole amount,

826
00:59:27,770 --> 00:59:32,190
and then also to ask that the amount and where it's going to come from within the existing budget.

827
00:59:32,630 --> 00:59:37,650
So we have a motion to amend the motion to a dollar amount different than 600,000.

828
00:59:37,910 --> 00:59:38,910
What dollar amount are you saying?

829
00:59:39,850 --> 00:59:44,030
No, my recommendation is to amend to amend it.

830
00:59:44,030 --> 00:59:44,970
I didn't make the motion.

831
00:59:44,970 --> 00:59:51,770
I'm recommending to amend the discussion for me is that this is the first year that we're applying for

832
00:59:51,770 --> 00:59:56,810
or looking to apply for or seeking it, which is great. We're asking grants, grants, grants, grants.

833
00:59:57,130 --> 00:59:59,970
But I think it needs to be identified in the budget where the money is going to be out.

834
01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:19,640
So let me see if I got you now. You said you want to amend the motion.

835
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,580
I'm making a recommendation to amend the motion.

836
01:00:21,860 --> 01:00:28,700
And that would say to designate where the money is coming from during the period of time that we're not reimbursed yet.

837
01:00:28,860 --> 01:00:29,160
Correct.

838
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:33,660
which we've already allocated that money that we've now taken that money off the table or

839
01:00:33,660 --> 01:00:37,640
saying, hey, we're going to take whatever money we agree to tonight, put it aside, knowing

840
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,760
that that's what you're going to apply for because you're going to need that in the application,

841
01:00:41,340 --> 01:00:45,280
knowing on the scope of the work and the plan and what things you're going to look for in the

842
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:50,540
grant. Instead of you doing 600,000, you're going to do whatever money we would recommend or we

843
01:00:50,540 --> 01:00:57,340
approve to do that, because that's going to be the scope of your project. So you may, so you would like

844
01:00:57,340 --> 01:01:01,880
To amend the motion to designate where the money is coming is going to come from during the

845
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:03,520
period of time that we're not reenversed yet.

846
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,260
And I think it's been stated, but maybe we can ask the finance director, that it's going

847
01:01:07,260 --> 01:01:10,640
to come from the end of the fund balance, or is there some other place that money could come

848
01:01:11,140 --> 01:01:11,500
from?

849
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,600
I mean, Bob is, I mean, Bob would as your opinion, I mean, even though some people don't

850
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,660
agree with it, you're the finance director, what are you?

851
01:01:19,380 --> 01:01:21,940
Yeah, funds are identified in the budget process.

852
01:01:21,940 --> 01:01:24,920
This is a grant fund.

853
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,760
When you're authorized of grant and the grants approved,

854
01:01:29,980 --> 01:01:31,320
I go to the grant fund.

855
01:01:31,380 --> 01:01:33,540
I have a revenue line item called grants.

856
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:35,300
And I put in this made a revenue.

857
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:40,180
I have an exponential line item called whatever grant project is

858
01:01:40,180 --> 01:01:41,100
and I have a budget.

859
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,860
So now we have a balanced budget in the grant fund.

860
01:01:47,540 --> 01:01:49,140
We can start spending that grant

861
01:01:49,140 --> 01:01:55,100
in anticipation of that federal grant coming in one month, two month, three months, and

862
01:01:55,100 --> 01:01:56,640
how are we spending it?

863
01:01:57,020 --> 01:02:05,380
We're using the $15 million we have in the bank in investments, and it's just borrowing from

864
01:02:05,380 --> 01:02:06,180
the general funding.

865
01:02:06,340 --> 01:02:09,640
It doesn't reduce fund-outs on the accounting books.

866
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:11,320
Fund-outs is not reduced.

867
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:13,940
You're replacing cash with a receivable.

868
01:02:14,300 --> 01:02:18,900
So in other words, in the general fund, you're going to have do-funk grants 100,000 because

869
01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:25,140
grants to spend $100,000. One month later, you'll get $100,000 from the feds and goes back

870
01:02:25,140 --> 01:02:28,940
into the general fund cash account. So if I could say back to you what you just said, I think.

871
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:34,660
So our balance is 21%. If we start to spend, and that 21% in an undisited fund balance

872
01:02:34,660 --> 01:02:38,960
is a combination of things. There's some cash, there's some bonds, there's different things.

873
01:02:39,020 --> 01:02:44,940
One of them will be a receivable pledge from this grant. So if he spends the $600,000 in cash,

874
01:02:44,940 --> 01:02:48,880
But he also has a receivable line in the books of $600,000.

875
01:02:49,340 --> 01:02:51,180
The fund balance stays at 21%.

876
01:02:51,180 --> 01:02:52,000
It will not go down.

877
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:52,640
Is that what you said?

878
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:57,320
I would never do this for $2,000,000, $3,500,000,000.

879
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:58,760
$1,000 is $1,000.

880
01:02:58,760 --> 01:02:59,140
But fine.

881
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:00,620
By that method of accounting.

882
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:03,340
So that risk is not real.

883
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:09,060
One of the things we didn't know is how long it takes to get a federal grant,

884
01:03:10,140 --> 01:03:10,980
That's a good question.

885
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,540
So the conversion from the receivable to cash,

886
01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:18,540
Because the cash is going to be gone, you'll still have the receivable. How long is short the cash?

887
01:03:18,860 --> 01:03:20,740
Do you have an idea how long that reimbursement takes?

888
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:22,880
No, we'll have to find out about it.

889
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:29,020
I mean, you know, the state takes two and three, four weeks the feds could take the month.

890
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:33,500
But I'd ask the question, who cares on your balance sheet whether it's a receivable from the federal government or cash?

891
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:34,300
It's like a bond.

892
01:03:34,500 --> 01:03:35,200
It's a short time.

893
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:36,660
It's a marketable security.

894
01:03:37,260 --> 01:03:39,540
You could actually factor it or sell it.

895
01:03:41,460 --> 01:03:46,600
If you, if you fund it, then it will come off your own designated fund balance before we get, I mean,

896
01:03:46,980 --> 01:03:52,820
so some point is going to come down because you have to, when you apply for the grant, you're committing that money.

897
01:03:53,340 --> 01:03:57,200
So if they approve the grant, correct? So they have to put the money out.

898
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,740
So it's, there's going to be a period of time where it's reduced.

899
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,840
Well, we give the money for the grant, and when we get the money back, cash.

900
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:06,300
You can, you can call it whatever you'd like.

901
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:10,520
signed versus unassigned, that's the question, right?

902
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,820
And when it's assigned to a grant, tied up,

903
01:04:13,820 --> 01:04:16,440
tied up, meaning it's assigned to tie a get it,

904
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,140
sitting in the account, not such in it,

905
01:04:18,180 --> 01:04:20,740
and when we get the money, but the point is it's assigned.

906
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:22,420
I think that's the question I'm asking.

907
01:04:22,860 --> 01:04:23,320
I see a sign.

908
01:04:23,980 --> 01:04:24,780
So you're not interested in it?

909
01:04:24,860 --> 01:04:27,080
So when you assign something in fun balance,

910
01:04:27,220 --> 01:04:28,940
means you're going to actually use it.

911
01:04:29,140 --> 01:04:31,980
Whenever going to use, it's always going to stay at 21%,

912
01:04:32,700 --> 01:04:33,100
1%.

913
01:04:33,100 --> 01:04:40,100
So if there's a three-year delay, and we have to pay for the cash, yeah, but you're 21% doesn't go down because you ever see

914
01:04:40,100 --> 01:04:42,600
Well, it's like if you went and what's stock with seats?

915
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:48,140
So if we made a decision of the balance in the 21% what what's the dollars at that 20%

916
01:04:49,180 --> 01:04:51,300
$50 million or something like that

917
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:54,060
So we could say I'm gonna buy some IBM stock

918
01:04:54,060 --> 01:04:56,600
I'm gonna buy some treasury bonds at pay five percent

919
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,140
There's a host of

920
01:04:58,140 --> 01:05:02,800
Assets that are in that understanding of fundals one of them will be this pledge and so it's

921
01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:06,940
But it is an asset that counts in the 21%.

922
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,300
So you've won that under accounting rules

923
01:05:09,300 --> 01:05:10,680
with a water's commited city.

924
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,920
You have 21% answers, yes.

925
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:18,180
Are we only voting, giving her the right to apply?

926
01:05:19,180 --> 01:05:20,560
We're not voting.

927
01:05:20,940 --> 01:05:23,480
Except that you're accepting that, and giving the money.

928
01:05:23,980 --> 01:05:26,560
But one ties to the other, because it's accepting.

929
01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:27,480
And that's the problem.

930
01:05:28,340 --> 01:05:31,340
If we got, we were awarded the grant, right?

931
01:05:31,340 --> 01:05:35,720
And if we don't accept it, what are the ramifications for not accepting the federal grant?

932
01:05:36,060 --> 01:05:37,040
It will be real hard to go back.

933
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:37,700
It's yep.

934
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:39,960
So, we don't want to do that.

935
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:40,800
What is that actually?

936
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:41,340
To the other.

937
01:05:42,060 --> 01:05:42,420
Okay.

938
01:05:42,620 --> 01:05:43,460
Good point dropped.

939
01:05:44,340 --> 01:05:44,560
All right.

940
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:45,840
So there's discussion.

941
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:46,740
Any more discussion?

942
01:05:46,980 --> 01:05:47,180
Yeah.

943
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:48,040
I want to ask Mike.

944
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:50,680
Well, you have to do it.

945
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,260
We have to make the most.

946
01:05:52,260 --> 01:05:52,800
How mean?

947
01:05:53,380 --> 01:05:53,420
Okay.

948
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,500
So we have a motion to amend.

949
01:05:57,500 --> 01:05:57,780
No.

950
01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:58,580
I mean in discussion.

951
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:00,540
I made a recommendation to amend.

952
01:06:00,540 --> 01:06:06,320
But it's who made them all grind it right. It's either a friendly amendment or it's not a friendly amendment. Okay

953
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:11,460
So can I ask about the amendment? Did you also mention that you wanted to and think about

954
01:06:11,460 --> 01:06:15,200
Spending less than $10 a month reduced the dollar amount. So we

955
01:06:15,660 --> 01:06:20,540
Is that would that be a real thing Abby to reduce the dollar amount and have anything left?

956
01:06:20,900 --> 01:06:24,540
We could we could build a scope around if you were if you wanted to go for the granted a lower amount

957
01:06:24,540 --> 01:06:30,340
We would build the scope and do as much as we could for that amount and it will involve making decisions about which roads are

958
01:06:30,340 --> 01:06:35,340
included and how much modeling or, you know, how far we can get in that pre-planning process.

959
01:06:36,420 --> 01:06:38,180
That's, we would just modify the scope.

960
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:39,220
Okay.

961
01:06:39,220 --> 01:06:40,280
Let me ask you another question.

962
01:06:40,620 --> 01:06:43,500
How did Mike Neff feel about this?

963
01:06:43,980 --> 01:06:44,660
He was supportive.

964
01:06:45,420 --> 01:06:47,020
That's our emergency manager.

965
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,680
So now, so it's still before the council is the question of whether we're going to amend

966
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:58,060
the motion that we've described for two things, the dollar amount.

967
01:06:58,620 --> 01:07:01,820
And to designate where the money's going to come from, but I think we've just said, it's

968
01:07:01,820 --> 01:07:03,560
to come from the Undisputed Fundance.

969
01:07:06,190 --> 01:07:09,410
Does anybody want to recommend a dollar amount to change it, too?

970
01:07:09,850 --> 01:07:12,090
Or are we going to leave the motion with $600,000?

971
01:07:13,050 --> 01:07:14,810
You'd have to do it, carry it made the motion.

972
01:07:15,010 --> 01:07:15,470
I seconded it.

973
01:07:15,630 --> 01:07:16,050
I don't know.

974
01:07:16,050 --> 01:07:17,230
I'm saying Mike would have to.

975
01:07:17,230 --> 01:07:19,390
If he wants to put a number in there.

976
01:07:19,710 --> 01:07:21,710
Because it would have to put in a number.

977
01:07:21,890 --> 01:07:22,810
It's on the floor at 600.

978
01:07:24,870 --> 01:07:27,570
I mean, I'd feel better if we split it in half for this year.

979
01:07:27,750 --> 01:07:29,710
If that's manageable by you.

980
01:07:29,710 --> 01:07:29,970
if you think.

981
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:38,280
I think that that, you know, because it's our year one, we've limited information tonight to respond to it, 300,000.

982
01:07:39,100 --> 01:07:40,260
I feel better at 200.

983
01:07:41,380 --> 01:07:42,220
Oh, let's not.

984
01:07:43,020 --> 01:07:43,860
We need to read the book.

985
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,980
We can send your group down for one, third.

986
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:47,480
I'm telling anybody else to present it.

987
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:48,880
If you rely on you, I can read it.

988
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:49,760
I feel better at too much.

989
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:51,720
The work is for consulting.

990
01:07:52,380 --> 01:07:53,620
This is your lane, so.

991
01:07:53,700 --> 01:07:58,200
I mean, the things that I would probably take out, so I had $25,000 in for 3D flood

992
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:04,280
So there's there's that off the top we could cut some stakeholder engagement and do more of that in house.

993
01:08:04,620 --> 01:08:10,200
So that you know if we don't do a story map and we said we were going to bring this thing back down from 30,000 to 15,000.

994
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,400
The engineering feasibility and conceptual design.

995
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:20,480
I have a 175 we could potentially knock 50 off of that and just don't go as far, right?

996
01:08:20,740 --> 01:08:22,160
Don't don't go as in depth.

997
01:08:22,940 --> 01:08:33,360
So there are places we could probably cut and simply just don't model to, you know, we may not get every rainfall analysis we want, we may only pick one flood scenario instead of multiples, right?

998
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,040
Those are the kinds of things we would start to pull back.

999
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:47,540
And again, these cost numbers are sort of coming from a best guess right now, they're out with the town engineer for sort of round-truthing and making sure that they make sense with similar projects and those kinds of things.

1000
01:08:47,780 --> 01:08:51,100
I wish I had his answers for you tonight, it's just the turnaround was so fast.

1001
01:08:53,440 --> 01:08:56,060
Okay, so I have a parliamentary process question.

1002
01:08:56,260 --> 01:09:00,140
Now, so I have a motion for the 600,000 as it was read originally.

1003
01:09:00,620 --> 01:09:05,180
And then I have a proposal to a recommendation of an amended motion.

1004
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:09,680
So I could, we can continue with the first motion and then see if it passes

1005
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,880
and then go with the amended motion, or do we just want it?

1006
01:09:14,300 --> 01:09:17,300
Did you actually do an amended motion before you do the-

1007
01:09:17,300 --> 01:09:17,680
Absolutely.

1008
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:18,200
Okay.

1009
01:09:18,740 --> 01:09:19,220
You have to act.

1010
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,280
You have to do the amended motion first.

1011
01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:22,920
Okay.

1012
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:23,980
You'd have to have a second.

1013
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:25,760
So do you have a second on the amendment?

1014
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:27,380
What is the amendment?

1015
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:29,880
So I'll read it now.

1016
01:09:29,980 --> 01:09:31,540
Do you have an amount for us?

1017
01:09:31,900 --> 01:09:32,500
We'll do 300.

1018
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:33,480
Yep, okay.

1019
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,700
So this would be the amended motion.

1020
01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:38,360
To authorize the town manager to apply for a Connecticut

1021
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,820
Port Authority and a small Harvard proven projects program

1022
01:09:40,820 --> 01:09:42,740
around six grant to support

1023
01:09:42,740 --> 01:09:47,980
directing the town ring in the amount of $400,000

1024
01:09:47,980 --> 01:09:51,540
and authorize the use of $300,000

1025
01:09:51,540 --> 01:09:57,420
committed in line 604165, I'm sorry, I'm reading the wrong one.

1026
01:09:57,420 --> 01:09:58,940
Yeah, you are reading the ship, I'm sorry.

1027
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,760
Okay, let's go back to the screen of the document.

1028
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:08,640
Protect grant application to authorize the town manager to reply for a US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,

1029
01:10:09,340 --> 01:10:13,420
promoting resilient operations for terms formative efficiency and cost saving transportation,

1030
01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:20,100
reimbursable planning grant in the amount of $300,000 for planning, vulnerability assessments,

1031
01:10:20,100 --> 01:10:22,620
and pre-design activities to increase resiliency

1032
01:10:22,620 --> 01:10:25,000
for the cause-way shore road and hammock road,

1033
01:10:25,460 --> 01:10:27,520
with the designation that the money is to come

1034
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:28,940
from the undisited fund balance.

1035
01:10:30,540 --> 01:10:32,020
You can do it as a friendly amendment,

1036
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:33,760
and if he would accept it as a friendly amendment,

1037
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:34,580
then we move forward.

1038
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:38,180
If not, we have to vote on, get a second, and vote on it.

1039
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:39,220
Thank you for that.

1040
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:40,020
So there we go.

1041
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:42,860
So who made the motion was a carrier as a friend?

1042
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:43,920
He was a amendment.

1043
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:45,900
So do you take the friendly amendment?

1044
01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:48,040
I will take the friendly amendment.

1045
01:10:48,480 --> 01:10:50,860
Okay, so now we'll vote on the opposite.

1046
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:52,600
So that's now the motion.

1047
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,120
So the amended motion is now the motion that is before the council.

1048
01:10:56,580 --> 01:10:57,040
Do I hear it?

1049
01:10:57,580 --> 01:10:58,360
Do I hear it?

1050
01:10:58,480 --> 01:10:59,860
So, do I hear it a second?

1051
01:11:02,220 --> 01:11:02,580
Discussion.

1052
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,080
What do we need to discuss with you, your friend?

1053
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:05,560
Yes.

1054
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:06,820
You got it?

1055
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:07,700
Let's say it again.

1056
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:08,320
You want to hear it again?

1057
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:10,560
300 grams.

1058
01:11:11,300 --> 01:11:11,900
300 grams.

1059
01:11:12,380 --> 01:11:14,120
And we're clarifying that it's coming from the head

1060
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:15,000
to the front balance.

1061
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,080
Yeah, whatever to get it going.

1062
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:18,680
Okay, so

1063
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:22,260
You don't hear that off in front of that. It's

1064
01:11:22,260 --> 01:11:25,060
All the people

1065
01:11:25,060 --> 01:11:31,880
You're going around with sort of stain motion carries as amended for three hundred thousand dollars

1066
01:11:33,780 --> 01:11:35,020
Thank you

1067
01:11:35,020 --> 01:11:36,480
Thank you, Ari

1068
01:11:36,480 --> 01:11:41,310
Oh, you're going much confused in tonight

1069
01:11:42,050 --> 01:11:44,610
Okay, next is a library grant item number nine

1070
01:11:50,190 --> 01:11:54,880
It's a town council to operate and state library construction

1071
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,480
because the town is building in the town.

1072
01:12:03,380 --> 01:12:03,940
It's so moved.

1073
01:12:05,580 --> 01:12:06,020
Discussion?

1074
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,640
I'm talking about all these grants and stuff.

1075
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,580
Do we have to put a million dollars up for this first?

1076
01:12:14,460 --> 01:12:14,820
No.

1077
01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:23,820
It's not a reimbursable grant.

1078
01:12:23,900 --> 01:12:24,700
It's a matching grant.

1079
01:12:25,300 --> 01:12:27,000
You get the money as you spend it?

1080
01:12:30,130 --> 01:12:31,170
There's no delay.

1081
01:12:31,970 --> 01:12:32,150
Okay.

1082
01:12:32,150 --> 01:12:37,250
I just want to do it in the rest of the money.

1083
01:12:37,550 --> 01:12:38,710
Any other discussion?

1084
01:12:43,660 --> 01:12:44,120
Approved.

1085
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:45,260
All favor?

1086
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:46,100
Aye.

1087
01:12:46,860 --> 01:12:47,440
Opposed?

1088
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:49,540
Stayed?

1089
01:12:49,540 --> 01:12:50,120
Motion carries.

1090
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:51,580
Thank you.

1091
01:12:53,970 --> 01:12:54,710
Find that's a report.

1092
01:13:02,790 --> 01:13:05,390
I have the report in front of you.

1093
01:13:05,850 --> 01:13:08,790
It's a report dated September 16th, 2026.

1094
01:13:09,670 --> 01:13:20,770
I decided to include the 2025-26 revenue budget report in expansion of budget report after all those transfers that we did last meeting.

1095
01:13:21,450 --> 01:13:37,190
So if you go on page two, which is the last page of the revenue report the last budget year, you'll see the balance is 2.6 million under, which is fine because we planned 2.6 million out of fund balance.

1096
01:13:37,190 --> 01:13:44,150
So the revenue statement for last year is basically even just as planned.

1097
01:13:45,070 --> 01:13:54,040
If you go to the next page 3, that's the budget for the prior year after all the transfers

1098
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:54,980
that we did.

1099
01:13:55,480 --> 01:14:01,560
And as you can see, the account balances are actually quite nice and obviously no negatives.

1100
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:13,080
If you go to page the last page of that report, you'll see that we had $55,000 left, which

1101
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:17,400
would be fallen into a fund bounce once we close the books.

1102
01:14:19,580 --> 01:14:25,500
The next page 12 starts the new year, we're two months into it, really nothing to report

1103
01:14:25,500 --> 01:14:25,880
there.

1104
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:29,660
I don't see any thing popping out right now.

1105
01:14:29,660 --> 01:14:40,780
I did include on page 14 the current year tax receipts history first two months always

1106
01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:48,760
interesting we collect 54.5% and I've highlighted the fiscal years that match that

1107
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:52,240
So 22, 21, 21, 21, 21, 18, you know.

1108
01:14:52,500 --> 01:14:55,880
All 54.6, 54.5.

1109
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:58,740
We have some years, 55.5.

1110
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:18,820
Typically, September will be a little bit larger. So it's pretty interesting how those percentages are consistent over 10 years. If that started a change and it got reduced, then there will be some concerns. So it's an ice report to look at.

1111
01:15:21,940 --> 01:15:32,520
Then you have the expenditure report really nothing to report there. If you remember we're starting off with a pretty low contingency this year, because although no contracts,

1112
01:15:32,780 --> 01:15:37,660
Basically, that contingency will be for winter maintenance

1113
01:15:37,660 --> 01:15:41,280
expansions and we're hoping they'll load this year.

1114
01:15:46,590 --> 01:15:53,590
And then, investments are staying stable as the last 3, 4, 5 months.

1115
01:15:53,970 --> 01:15:58,970
I expect them now after today's news that they're going to increase slightly

1116
01:15:58,970 --> 01:16:00,930
as the months go by.

1117
01:16:01,670 --> 01:16:10,990
General Fund Fund Bounce forecast to June 30, 20, 27 will still, I'm forecasting will still

1118
01:16:10,990 --> 01:16:22,210
maintain our 21% fund balance to a total budget, which would give us some slight leeway

1119
01:16:22,210 --> 01:16:30,330
when we start the next budget process on using a small amount of fund balance as we did this

1120
01:16:31,910 --> 01:16:37,270
Boarded on, Board of Ed non-Lax and Blacks in Fund that was reported on by the superintendent

1121
01:16:37,270 --> 01:16:44,550
tonight after tonight's transfer from their budget of 250,000 they'll have a little bit

1122
01:16:44,550 --> 01:16:52,230
above 571,000 which provides a question to their budget mainly special education expenses.

1123
01:16:54,050 --> 01:17:00,050
On page 27 I've been including other funds as we move along just to

1124
01:17:01,030 --> 01:17:14,790
Make sure we're off the millier with all those other funds that are out there, all the funds were actually reviewed when I did the financial statements, but we'll look at the current bounces as we move along in the months.

1125
01:17:15,110 --> 01:17:27,010
Page 27 is a fund 69 open space acquisition created to put money in there for any open space acquisitions.

1126
01:17:27,010 --> 01:17:30,690
Currently, we have a fund balance of $34,000.

1127
01:17:31,290 --> 01:17:33,650
You'll see a note down there in the fund 60.

1128
01:17:33,810 --> 01:17:36,910
The CIP fund 60, the town council

1129
01:17:36,910 --> 01:17:37,890
is appropriated.

1130
01:17:37,970 --> 01:17:40,530
Some money is for open spaces, 75,000 there.

1131
01:17:41,610 --> 01:17:42,330
So it's there.

1132
01:17:42,630 --> 01:17:45,870
We may as well transfer it into this open space acquisition fund.

1133
01:17:45,990 --> 01:17:48,890
So we can see all out open space acquisition funds together.

1134
01:17:49,750 --> 01:17:51,730
So it's not in one fund, it's none other funds.

1135
01:17:51,730 --> 01:17:55,830
So I can transfer 75,000 out of fund 60 into this fund

1136
01:17:55,830 --> 01:17:57,390
and we'll have everything together.

1137
01:17:59,070 --> 01:18:03,730
Starting on page 28 is Fund 60, which is our CIP projects,

1138
01:18:04,410 --> 01:18:07,290
which is Plan 4 in the CIP document.

1139
01:18:08,270 --> 01:18:10,670
And it's also budgeted for each year.

1140
01:18:13,370 --> 01:18:13,950
I will be there.

1141
01:18:14,310 --> 01:18:16,530
You'll see some small available balances.

1142
01:18:16,670 --> 01:18:18,510
I'll be reviewing them with the departments.

1143
01:18:18,990 --> 01:18:22,230
Most likely, most of them will be closed

1144
01:18:22,230 --> 01:18:23,170
with smaller balances.

1145
01:18:23,750 --> 01:18:29,910
But I have highlighted some of the larger ones, as you can see, there's a landfill closure

1146
01:18:29,910 --> 01:18:36,490
account there, which the town council approved from that designated fund balance, the last

1147
01:18:36,490 --> 01:18:38,630
meetings, that's 301,000.

1148
01:18:39,530 --> 01:18:46,310
We have a residual amount left in the sidewalk, which is a town match of 275,000.

1149
01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:50,990
The next highlight is land acquisition, the 75,000 they talked to you about, we can transfer

1150
01:18:50,990 --> 01:18:52,950
that to the roof and space fund.

1151
01:18:53,550 --> 01:18:54,790
Below that, you can see the

1152
01:18:54,790 --> 01:18:57,950
dredgering amount that the town council approved,

1153
01:18:58,070 --> 01:19:01,250
a million 35, it was done in two approvals.

1154
01:19:02,090 --> 01:19:05,170
There was a small amount for professional services,

1155
01:19:05,690 --> 01:19:07,850
and then a million for the actual dredgering.

1156
01:19:09,450 --> 01:19:11,550
In the police, I didn't highlight that, but in the police,

1157
01:19:11,630 --> 01:19:14,150
you see some balances, and that's for their

1158
01:19:14,150 --> 01:19:16,770
police vehicle leasing.

1159
01:19:18,170 --> 01:19:20,930
And as run the subject, it will be kind of nice,

1160
01:19:20,930 --> 01:19:25,210
I think in the future to give the town council a report on that, because I remember I think

1161
01:19:25,210 --> 01:19:30,710
it was a year ago that you approved that program, I'll speak to the police chief, it will

1162
01:19:30,710 --> 01:19:36,630
be kind of nice to report on the results of that, number of your police vehicles, balances

1163
01:19:37,270 --> 01:19:42,930
and maybe in the future, because of these reservations that we have here, maybe the amount

1164
01:19:42,930 --> 01:19:44,050
and the budget gets reduced.

1165
01:19:44,630 --> 01:19:49,450
So we'll report on that probably in the next town council night meeting.

1166
01:19:50,050 --> 01:20:00,710
In the fire department line items, most of that is our reservation for future fire apparatus and that's planned in the CIP.

1167
01:20:01,630 --> 01:20:09,990
Don't recall when the next one is, but we've planned that when that time does come that we'll have enough money in here to purchase a fire truck.

1168
01:20:09,990 --> 01:20:14,670
So that's one example where, you know, a five truck is a perfect item to bomb because

1169
01:20:14,670 --> 01:20:20,830
it lasts more than 20 years, but if you can, if you can not bomb, if you have the money

1170
01:20:20,830 --> 01:20:22,990
in the budget, obviously that's what you do.

1171
01:20:23,650 --> 01:20:29,270
There are some items in the CAP when we plan it that we can't put it in the budget because

1172
01:20:30,110 --> 01:20:35,430
we're always thinking about tax increase mill rate, so we don't, that's when you do bond.

1173
01:20:35,430 --> 01:20:44,550
But anyway, this is a nice example of the town planning ahead with tax money putting

1174
01:20:44,550 --> 01:20:47,850
in to this account, where it would buy fire apparatus, which is very expensive.

1175
01:20:49,130 --> 01:20:54,250
Public works, you do see a negative amount, that's only because that's the public work

1176
01:20:54,250 --> 01:20:59,350
storage building, that's going to be offset by a $500,000 grant.

1177
01:21:01,250 --> 01:21:15,570
Transf, there's 281,000 in general roads, that was not spent because Todd has planned for a road project, typically over 500,000, so we're waiting for more funds.

1178
01:21:16,370 --> 01:21:24,250
I think what I'm going to do is transfer that amount to our new roads fund, so again, everything is together, and we know exactly how much we have for roads.

1179
01:21:24,250 --> 01:21:26,170
Where is that new roads fund?

1180
01:21:26,830 --> 01:21:27,750
Fund 66.

1181
01:21:28,410 --> 01:21:34,330
Once these transfers are made, I can report on fund 66 that the next other fund, we put

1182
01:21:34,330 --> 01:21:34,970
100 report.

1183
01:21:35,530 --> 01:21:36,910
Right now there's 100,000.

1184
01:21:36,950 --> 01:21:38,530
This is to anyone would read to 380.

1185
01:21:38,730 --> 01:21:39,270
That's correct.

1186
01:21:40,810 --> 01:21:44,710
If you think about it, if everything is approved, if everything is approved, if everything

1187
01:21:44,710 --> 01:21:48,950
Funds won't be available until next paving season, we've missed a paving season.

1188
01:21:49,610 --> 01:21:52,250
We should have enough funds in that fund

1189
01:21:52,250 --> 01:21:54,490
to catch up.

1190
01:21:57,190 --> 01:21:59,810
Parks and Recreation, they have residual amounts.

1191
01:22:00,950 --> 01:22:04,150
They knew recreation directions, we viewed them.

1192
01:22:04,590 --> 01:22:11,270
He's also reported on items that he's seen going around the Parks and Rec area that

1193
01:22:11,270 --> 01:22:19,930
need paying attention and at a soon date, he'll be coming to you and we'll be reporting

1194
01:22:19,930 --> 01:22:23,670
on those items, you know, transfers from here to another line.

1195
01:22:23,670 --> 01:22:29,970
So we can fix some things like, for instance, playgrounds and then

1196
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:37,640
In education, I will be talking to the business manager on the items that are left over from

1197
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:43,480
later years to see if we can close those out, but there are items from 26. I know they're

1198
01:22:43,480 --> 01:22:47,240
going to spend, and obviously 27, those amounts are still available.

1199
01:22:53,380 --> 01:23:01,740
The last item is just interesting. It's just when we, in the process of an audit,

1200
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:05,320
and we're

1201
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:10,080
We have software program where we have a to-do list, so we keep on tracking.

1202
01:23:10,660 --> 01:23:13,940
I thought it would just be interesting to include that at the back of the report.

1203
01:23:14,140 --> 01:23:18,740
Just to give you an idea of the items that we give the auditors and the timing.

1204
01:23:18,980 --> 01:23:21,140
There's a do date on it.

1205
01:23:22,200 --> 01:23:25,800
When I submit it, they either accept it or deny it.

1206
01:23:25,820 --> 01:23:30,900
We do get some denials and you go back and do what you have to do.

1207
01:23:30,900 --> 01:23:37,300
But if you look at the due dates, they range from may where they do interim samples of our

1208
01:23:37,300 --> 01:23:44,240
expenses and revenues, and then basically it goes up to September 30th and lastly there's some

1209
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:50,200
October items at the very end. But it's a quite extensive list, and it keeps us busy and I thought

1210
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:53,580
I would just present that for informational purposes.

1211
01:23:56,410 --> 01:23:58,430
That's my report if you have.

1212
01:23:58,430 --> 01:24:05,290
So what are you saying here, this is reports that you're doing your trial balance for

1213
01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:09,850
balance sheet, your revenue detail, and it was accepted, and that was the due data it was

1214
01:24:09,850 --> 01:24:11,430
due, accepted by who?

1215
01:24:11,990 --> 01:24:17,630
The others, because sometimes you could submit a report, and I'm not saying it's wrong, but

1216
01:24:17,630 --> 01:24:22,090
it wouldn't be in the same format that they were requesting, and they would deny it, they'll

1217
01:24:22,090 --> 01:24:24,830
tell you why, and you'd resummit it.

1218
01:24:27,190 --> 01:24:27,630
Thank you.

1219
01:24:28,310 --> 01:24:28,810
Any questions?

1220
01:24:34,290 --> 01:24:37,450
Next slide, I'm number 11, Tom Managers report.

1221
01:24:38,050 --> 01:24:39,710
Okay, so everyone got a copy of the report.

1222
01:24:39,970 --> 01:24:41,810
So I'm going to just go through it.

1223
01:24:42,510 --> 01:24:43,910
So I'll send a little more time on.

1224
01:24:43,910 --> 01:24:48,470
The first one is that the town has received formal notification

1225
01:24:48,470 --> 01:24:51,430
from the Connecticut Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

1226
01:24:51,610 --> 01:24:56,270
That Clinton's 206 local emergency operations plan has been received and approved.

1227
01:24:56,270 --> 01:25:05,990
You all have copied the letter, I'd like to thank and recognize Mike Neff, our emergency management director, as well as everyone else who contributed to the preparation in updating this plan.

1228
01:25:07,610 --> 01:25:09,170
So, that's due to that.

1229
01:25:10,430 --> 01:25:13,410
I wanted to give everyone an update on the DPW building.

1230
01:25:14,410 --> 01:25:25,690
That was, there's a breakdown there of this steep funding, which was 543, the town's fund 179, 5, so the total cost to build this structure is 723,100.

1231
01:25:25,690 --> 01:25:30,810
dollars. The footings have been poured and it's continuing and it's anticipated to be completed

1232
01:25:30,810 --> 01:25:31,450
in October.

1233
01:25:35,030 --> 01:25:38,730
Andrews Memorial Theatre I know that we've been talking about the use of that

1234
01:25:38,730 --> 01:25:48,510
and we had an inventory done of the equipment in the theater and a master were in the final stages

1235
01:25:48,510 --> 01:25:53,770
of creating a comprehensive master equipment list so that when people do inquire about theater

1236
01:25:53,770 --> 01:26:00,630
we can send out this list to them with actually the projectors model number, the types of speakers

1237
01:26:00,630 --> 01:26:05,990
we have, everything, the size of the screen so that if people are thinking of utilizing

1238
01:26:05,990 --> 01:26:10,550
our theater for a film festival or something along those lines, they know the equipment we have,

1239
01:26:10,830 --> 01:26:16,810
but with all events, they are welcome to rent and have an outside company come in and set

1240
01:26:16,810 --> 01:26:29,950
So there is a lot of opportunity there, which we are working on, you know, again, making it easier and more accessible for people to utilize a space.

1241
01:26:31,030 --> 01:26:34,930
One other topic is, I'm going to have copies of the emails.

1242
01:26:34,930 --> 01:26:45,850
So, the council has had conversations in the past about using or having liquor in the building.

1243
01:26:46,670 --> 01:26:49,930
And, to the season, we are now starting to get holiday request.

1244
01:26:50,690 --> 01:26:55,330
So, as you're aware, over the summer we went with a new broker for our insurance.

1245
01:26:55,490 --> 01:26:59,330
We did a deep dive into all of our policies.

1246
01:26:59,330 --> 01:27:08,870
and the overall takeaway here is that we do have liability, liquor coverage.

1247
01:27:10,750 --> 01:27:16,770
However, it is still best practice and would increase the town's potential liability

1248
01:27:16,770 --> 01:27:21,750
in exposure if we do offer, allow the liquor and do the waiver.

1249
01:27:22,510 --> 01:27:24,210
So I didn't want to mix words.

1250
01:27:24,210 --> 01:27:30,550
This is a copy of the email thread between myself and the insurance company, our broker,

1251
01:27:30,690 --> 01:27:38,650
explaining the coverage we have, the liability potential, so you obviously can still view

1252
01:27:38,650 --> 01:27:44,570
some waivers if that's something you'd like to do, but this is just summarizing the potential

1253
01:27:44,570 --> 01:27:54,190
liability. And then you had asked about the number of activities we've had in the past, so in

1254
01:27:54,190 --> 01:28:03,190
We had six events that requested a waiver and in 2026 so far we've had two.

1255
01:28:04,530 --> 01:28:17,710
Well Henry exemption was the library which was over at the library it wasn't in this building so I don't know if that really counts because they had their own additional insurance but those are the numbers of events that we had.

1256
01:28:17,710 --> 01:28:27,050
So this is what we thought I we can add it to we can add it to an agenda in the future to have a more thorough discussion or

1257
01:28:27,050 --> 01:28:33,860
You can just have this information and as waivers come in front of you you can make a decision if this

1258
01:28:34,570 --> 01:28:37,290
Is something you want to do what you'll have all the facts

1259
01:28:39,150 --> 01:28:47,760
So I hope that's helpful any questions on that because I know that I just wonder what the applications are of that on our future use of

1260
01:28:51,890 --> 01:28:59,090
because all of these surrounding people who have events, whether it's a cater, what not, they have alcohol.

1261
01:29:00,110 --> 01:29:00,630
Yeah, so...

1262
01:29:00,630 --> 01:29:01,570
No, it's something to...

1263
01:29:02,310 --> 01:29:11,010
My thought on that would be the significance of the amount of degrade it, the extent to the function benefits economically or culture or arts.

1264
01:29:11,170 --> 01:29:14,930
As we have our goals, there's strategic directives that we say, we want to use the under's memorial theater.

1265
01:29:14,930 --> 01:29:19,230
And it's going to be a big show and it's going to raise tens of thousands of dollars.

1266
01:29:19,730 --> 01:29:24,710
You think differently, or you think harder about your requirement on alcohol than you would

1267
01:29:24,710 --> 01:29:29,930
if it was just, you know, donuts on a Saturday morning and somebody wants to have Irish coffee.

1268
01:29:31,730 --> 01:29:34,910
Again, so this is your information, you have a complete female thread.

1269
01:29:35,590 --> 01:29:41,370
The waivers still are required to come to you, so you can refer to this, keep it in your packet

1270
01:29:41,370 --> 01:29:44,170
and as you have to make decisions,

1271
01:29:45,370 --> 01:29:47,770
refer to what the insurance brokers are saying.

1272
01:29:51,990 --> 01:29:55,190
So the last specific plus notification,

1273
01:29:55,590 --> 01:29:58,870
we have been talking about increasing notifications

1274
01:29:59,550 --> 01:29:59,970
with...

1275
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:22,500
And there was, I shared with you a couple of meetings ago that we do have a notification system as part of our website. And we took a deeper dive and had a couple of workshops I want to thank Mary for her efforts on this part. We have had numerous meetings with civic plus who oversees our website.

1276
01:30:22,500 --> 01:30:30,380
And there is a feature that we are paying for that we weren't utilizing to its fullest potential, which is civic send.

1277
01:30:31,140 --> 01:30:40,100
So the town is in the process of working with the vendor to understand exactly how we can utilize this more, get it out to the public.

1278
01:30:40,860 --> 01:30:45,260
And we don't have to start with a new system. We already have it, we're able to pay for it.

1279
01:30:45,260 --> 01:30:51,120
It's just a matter of, on our end, figuring out how to make it more seamless for the residents.

1280
01:30:52,260 --> 01:30:55,200
And because there's like all that back end configuring that has to get done.

1281
01:30:55,400 --> 01:31:00,420
And then we'll do a big push out to our residents to sign up for text notifications.

1282
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:05,460
And then on our end, we'll do more pushing out of stuff via this system.

1283
01:31:05,860 --> 01:31:06,900
So we do have it.

1284
01:31:07,220 --> 01:31:09,600
So that should address those concerns.

1285
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,300
And that is my report for now.

1286
01:31:14,300 --> 01:31:15,220
Any questions?

1287
01:31:17,280 --> 01:31:18,460
I have one.

1288
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,040
And there's just on the Andrews Memorial Theatre.

1289
01:31:22,180 --> 01:31:25,400
Our overall goal is to increase utilization of the theater and attract additional

1290
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:26,300
events and rentals.

1291
01:31:27,420 --> 01:31:30,340
I was hoping that rapport would be a little more specific than that.

1292
01:31:30,820 --> 01:31:30,880
About.

1293
01:31:30,980 --> 01:31:37,220
Like what kinds of ideas, like a utilization of the theater, like in what ways or attract additional events,

1294
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:38,880
like what kind of events and what kind of events.

1295
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,200
Film festivals.

1296
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:48,460
We had the seniors use it for a musical which was greatly received and they're going to be planning on doing more of those

1297
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:52,840
You know, we don't market it

1298
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:57,120
We just at this point don't have the means to actually market it

1299
01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:00,540
But right now it's a it's a good balance of

1300
01:32:01,440 --> 01:32:09,160
global community groups using it and outside vendors. Yeah, so my thought on it is that we've ramped that up

1301
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:14,160
significantly and and we have an opportunity in the year 2027. We'll see what happens

1302
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:18,620
on September 29th in Old Sabre but it looks like they're going to close the cake for a year

1303
01:32:19,480 --> 01:32:24,820
while they're renovating which might be an opportunity for us to have more stuff here.

1304
01:32:25,180 --> 01:32:29,460
If we're going to enter that market or try to do more that's a window of opportunity.

1305
01:32:29,460 --> 01:32:32,260
I have a question for you.

1306
01:32:32,500 --> 01:32:33,060
Yeah, good idea.

1307
01:32:38,580 --> 01:32:40,760
Is it the one day?

1308
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:41,340
Is it the one day?

1309
01:32:41,660 --> 01:32:43,000
Is it the one day?

1310
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:43,020
Is it the one?

1311
01:32:43,300 --> 01:32:43,960
She November?

1312
01:32:45,240 --> 01:32:46,800
Is she the she is with?

1313
01:32:46,860 --> 01:32:48,100
Hi, I am Community Frost.

1314
01:32:48,660 --> 01:32:49,480
Yes, I believe so.

1315
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:51,220
Yes, because that's wild.

1316
01:32:51,380 --> 01:32:53,160
It was a one day film event.

1317
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:54,080
I believe I was.

1318
01:32:55,140 --> 01:32:56,220
Yes, I did something.

1319
01:32:56,260 --> 01:32:57,700
I was involved with them.

1320
01:32:57,840 --> 01:32:57,980
Sierra.

1321
01:32:58,780 --> 01:33:09,940
They would have to, I don't know, I mean, as part of the room rental process, as room, as part of the room rental process and the application, it explains all of that if that's something that they need to be considered for and the timeline.

1322
01:33:10,180 --> 01:33:15,900
There will be someone coming to the council, I believe, at the next meeting asking for a waiver for an event.

1323
01:33:16,300 --> 01:33:20,380
So that's what made me, you know, make sure to get all this to you in time.

1324
01:33:20,580 --> 01:33:21,880
So you have the information. Yes.

1325
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:27,660
comment so you I'm I'm a little I don't get over to the

1326
01:33:27,660 --> 01:33:31,880
Kate all those the functions over the Kate they're allowed to bring

1327
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:35,780
alcohol yeah yeah yeah well the count it's they serve not

1328
01:33:35,780 --> 01:33:39,540
don't bring them sorry they serve it that we can we explicitly cannot

1329
01:33:39,540 --> 01:33:43,840
serve alcohol for our content for our insurance we cannot serve out right the

1330
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:49,300
Kate is a town owned building but it is the inside is physically least

1331
01:33:49,300 --> 01:33:52,140
and operated by an outside organization.

1332
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:53,960
We are very different here.

1333
01:33:54,140 --> 01:33:55,260
We are a shared space.

1334
01:33:55,660 --> 01:33:57,820
Or if we had places to stop here,

1335
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,160
there would be no alcohol involved, right?

1336
01:34:00,300 --> 01:34:01,620
They wouldn't need to come to the council

1337
01:34:01,620 --> 01:34:02,320
and have a waiver.

1338
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:05,340
And then if it's an outside organization running it,

1339
01:34:05,420 --> 01:34:07,520
it's just like when the offer used to do it,

1340
01:34:07,900 --> 01:34:08,920
or, you know, they can sell it.

1341
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:09,580
We can't.

1342
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,140
And I guess when I'm trying to say,

1343
01:34:12,220 --> 01:34:13,880
do we always have to have alcohol now?

1344
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:14,660
No, we have this.

1345
01:34:14,660 --> 01:34:19,280
I'm not a key to all the residents, but I just want

1346
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:21,100
to say that.

1347
01:34:22,460 --> 01:34:27,140
I've written and I'll do and the the other Chester Playhouse.

1348
01:34:27,720 --> 01:34:29,160
They run these plays and everything.

1349
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:31,040
They don't have alcohol there.

1350
01:34:31,620 --> 01:34:32,460
They have a water.

1351
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:33,860
That's the quality of everything.

1352
01:34:33,980 --> 01:34:35,240
I think I'm sorry.

1353
01:34:35,500 --> 01:34:36,780
I have a day of alcohol.

1354
01:34:37,180 --> 01:34:37,660
Where?

1355
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:39,540
Outside, they have that little tent.

1356
01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:41,080
I've written playhouse.

1357
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:42,900
And it's a place I go to.

1358
01:34:43,180 --> 01:34:43,980
But that's okay.

1359
01:34:44,480 --> 01:34:45,320
Maybe they do.

1360
01:34:45,480 --> 01:34:46,760
I'm not trying to.

1361
01:34:46,820 --> 01:34:50,060
What I'm trying to say is I would like to push

1362
01:34:50,060 --> 01:34:59,820
for a lot more use maybe for plays and stuff, you know, and as the manager said, you know, film festivals or whatever,

1363
01:35:00,860 --> 01:35:09,180
but we certainly should take advantage of, like you said, to Kate not being around and so I take more plays

1364
01:35:09,180 --> 01:35:16,100
of stairs would be nice. I said to me travel and up to Ivan. So these are these are major strategic

1365
01:35:16,100 --> 01:35:17,300
directives of the council, right?

1366
01:35:17,740 --> 01:35:22,740
We risk management is very high on our priorities and cultural and economic development

1367
01:35:22,740 --> 01:35:25,420
and using the theater to get downtown very high.

1368
01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:30,660
So, both of those are somewhat competing interests and the goal is to navigate that that

1369
01:35:30,660 --> 01:35:32,580
we optimize or maximize both.

1370
01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:33,540
And I think we can.

1371
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:36,020
This is a problem.

1372
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:43,060
I mean, one of the biggest complainers when we first started to quibble over the alcohol was

1373
01:35:43,060 --> 01:35:47,840
struggles society because they would hold their annual meeting here. Well, historical society

1374
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:53,440
ran up against the same well and you did and they can no longer serve alcohol. So in this upcoming

1375
01:35:53,440 --> 01:35:58,640
oyster festival, they're doing a non-alcoholic beer because I guess that's becoming all there.

1376
01:35:58,640 --> 01:36:03,840
That's what it's popular, too, yeah? So that's what they're doing. We have to pivot, right?

1377
01:36:05,260 --> 01:36:06,700
All right. Anything else on the time?

1378
01:36:06,700 --> 01:36:12,580
I have a good news to report, and item number 12, the Chairman has doesn't have anything to

1379
01:36:12,580 --> 01:36:13,120
report.

1380
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:19,000
And now item number 13 on the agenda, Council discussions.

1381
01:36:19,660 --> 01:36:21,680
We've got anything on their mind that they would like to discuss.

1382
01:36:32,730 --> 01:36:33,430
Nothing, though.

1383
01:36:33,490 --> 01:36:33,870
Keep it going.

1384
01:36:34,050 --> 01:36:34,410
Keep it going.

1385
01:36:34,410 --> 01:36:34,790
The discussion.

1386
01:36:35,090 --> 01:36:35,570
We've passed.

1387
01:36:35,790 --> 01:36:36,310
We could.

1388
01:36:37,810 --> 01:36:38,470
All right.

1389
01:36:39,250 --> 01:36:49,830
So then I guess we'll move on to item number 14, which is town council committee liaison reports.

1390
01:36:51,870 --> 01:36:53,330
Well, I'll start off with the police.

1391
01:36:53,570 --> 01:36:55,830
I attended that last Monday night.

1392
01:36:56,110 --> 01:36:58,590
Everything seems to be going very well there.

1393
01:36:59,050 --> 01:37:04,190
I'm happy to report that they have done a lot of interviews and stuff.

1394
01:37:04,450 --> 01:37:09,530
And they think they have a couple of good solid candidates to go to their academy.

1395
01:37:09,530 --> 01:37:16,790
And if I didn't, maybe I misheard the right Friday, but the academy's either starting this Friday this Friday.

1396
01:37:16,790 --> 01:37:17,390
This Friday, this Friday.

1397
01:37:18,390 --> 01:37:24,790
And from what the chief was saying, they're hopeful that they'll have two people getting in free academy Friday.

1398
01:37:25,050 --> 01:37:29,210
So that'll be good news because it's two vacancies that we present we have.

1399
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:31,900
And that's

1400
01:37:33,980 --> 01:37:36,420
it. Parking right?

1401
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:50,040
I was just looking. I didn't go to the meeting because they were prioritizing the projects and I didn't want to influence that at all.

1402
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:57,860
But I did look through it. They did go through and prioritize a bunch of projects.

1403
01:37:57,860 --> 01:38:03,700
hopefully they can bring those talk to Michelle and have dust and come in here and talk

1404
01:38:03,700 --> 01:38:11,140
about that. And that's it. I could look it out of someone else wants to go first.

1405
01:38:13,020 --> 01:38:14,080
All right. Right.

1406
01:38:14,580 --> 01:38:18,600
At the high point with the landfill capping and they're going to continue their work in the

1407
01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:22,380
PECD implementation starting with inviting groups into their meeting, starting with Harbor

1408
01:38:22,380 --> 01:38:28,830
Management and EDC. How the works? I didn't make the meeting last night, but I spoke to Todd today.

1409
01:38:29,330 --> 01:38:31,650
In the meeting last night in the director's report,

1410
01:38:31,850 --> 01:38:33,870
he did a capital needs and infrastructure priorities.

1411
01:38:34,470 --> 01:38:37,330
Talked a lot about the roads and I believe that's going to be in the minutes.

1412
01:38:37,810 --> 01:38:42,270
So I know there's some questions before about road paving, status of road stuff.

1413
01:38:42,570 --> 01:38:45,770
Todd did a nice PowerPoint presentation kind of outlining where things are at.

1414
01:38:46,350 --> 01:38:48,710
So it's in the, it'll be in the minutes for review.

1415
01:38:50,190 --> 01:38:53,170
And the economic development, I went to the meeting.

1416
01:38:54,510 --> 01:38:56,710
The, I'll, the presentation, which was called,

1417
01:38:56,710 --> 01:39:01,210
The process presentation on Connecticut Main Street that we saw, they did that to the EDC.

1418
01:39:01,910 --> 01:39:06,510
Rebecca Mead was there and was introduced to the, and it's began to work with the EDC,

1419
01:39:06,670 --> 01:39:08,430
so that's good that that relationship is developed.

1420
01:39:08,910 --> 01:39:11,910
And the only other thing is, somebody mentioned in the meeting,

1421
01:39:12,230 --> 01:39:15,610
something maybe you could follow up on our kayak rack here at the town hall,

1422
01:39:15,990 --> 01:39:21,370
that it's hard to access when it's low tide and to look at whether or not that's safe,

1423
01:39:21,570 --> 01:39:23,870
where there's something we ought to do to make that safe.

1424
01:39:24,650 --> 01:39:26,350
That's it for EDC.

1425
01:39:28,010 --> 01:39:30,830
There was one of their, I'm going to go backwards to Chairman's report.

1426
01:39:30,950 --> 01:39:37,150
There was news in the, in the Harvard news at Old Sabre, looked at the public comment

1427
01:39:37,150 --> 01:39:41,310
portion of the town council meeting where you can narrow the scope and the minutes.

1428
01:39:42,170 --> 01:39:42,970
We have very long meetings.

1429
01:39:43,170 --> 01:39:49,370
We carry covering a lot of work these days and that visitors, when they speak, we could narrow

1430
01:39:49,370 --> 01:39:51,530
the scope of what they do first at the amount of time.

1431
01:39:51,530 --> 01:39:57,550
I keep the track at the time, and I keep track about four minutes or five minutes, and I try to move along if it's longer than that.

1432
01:39:58,010 --> 01:40:07,190
Board of Education, or Old Saber, made it three minutes, and also narrow the scope of the topics that could be discussed to be what's on the agenda for the evening.

1433
01:40:07,610 --> 01:40:17,170
So you just can't go talk about anything. You have to talk about what's on the agenda. We could adopt a resolution to have the same type of rules on our public comments in the beginning of the meeting.

1434
01:40:17,830 --> 01:40:19,390
So I put it out there for consideration.

1435
01:40:20,830 --> 01:40:23,850
I think it would be a good future agenda item to talk about.

1436
01:40:24,090 --> 01:40:24,230
Sorry.

1437
01:40:24,470 --> 01:40:26,510
I think it would be a good future agenda item to talk about.

1438
01:40:26,630 --> 01:40:27,690
Just hearing about it right now.

1439
01:40:28,610 --> 01:40:28,810
You know.

1440
01:40:28,930 --> 01:40:30,390
Sometime to sit with it for all of us.

1441
01:40:31,790 --> 01:40:32,030
All right.

1442
01:40:32,310 --> 01:40:33,070
And with that.

1443
01:40:33,370 --> 01:40:36,230
Do I hear a motion to go to an item number 15 on the agenda?

1444
01:40:36,410 --> 01:40:38,070
Do I hear a motion to go to an executive session?

1445
01:40:38,190 --> 01:40:38,750
Persona Kinetic.

1446
01:40:38,850 --> 01:40:39,510
General statute.

1447
01:40:40,050 --> 01:40:43,490
Section 1-268 for purposes of interviewing candidates for the Park

1448
01:40:43,490 --> 01:40:46,250
Correct Commission and for the Economic Development Commission.

1449
01:40:46,970 --> 01:40:49,370
And I will invite Mary and

1450
01:40:49,370 --> 01:40:50,750
And the candidates.

1451
01:40:51,210 --> 01:40:51,870
And the candidates.

1452
01:40:52,790 --> 01:40:54,370
So we'll go back to those names.

1453
01:40:56,270 --> 01:40:56,430
Thank you.

1454
01:40:56,430 --> 01:40:57,490
Good to have you, Evercamp.

1455
01:40:58,130 --> 01:41:03,090
Dan Wilson and Ellen Bailey for Park and Reck and Richard Brachler for EDC.

1456
01:41:03,530 --> 01:41:07,930
So this one's second?

1457
01:41:10,010 --> 01:41:10,530
All the favour?

1458
01:41:11,950 --> 01:41:12,350
Opposed?

1459
01:41:12,850 --> 01:41:13,350
I'm staying.

1460
01:41:13,810 --> 01:41:14,370
Motion carries.

1461
01:41:15,050 --> 01:41:15,650
Thank you.

1462
01:41:20,540 --> 01:41:21,140
Welcome back.

1463
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:22,600
Thank you for your patience.

1464
01:41:22,600 --> 01:41:29,700
Thank you for staying for such a long night again. I'll repeat what I said to each one of you that we appreciate very much

1465
01:41:29,700 --> 01:41:35,880
Devontarism and you are what makes this community great. Please keep up doing what you're doing. Do I hear a motion?

1466
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:43,200
To a point Ellen Bailey to the Board of Park and Reck Commission for the vacancy

1467
01:41:46,460 --> 01:41:47,420
Second second

1468
01:41:47,420 --> 01:41:47,800
discussion

1469
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:51,520
All in favor. Hi. Hi. Post

1470
01:41:51,520 --> 01:42:04,060
I'm staying motion carries. Next, do I hear a motion to add Patrick Shea to the open seat or the vacant seat on the economic development commission?

1471
01:42:04,500 --> 01:42:05,080
So moved.

1472
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:07,100
discussion.

1473
01:42:08,180 --> 01:42:08,880
All in favor?

1474
01:42:09,480 --> 01:42:09,560
Aye.

1475
01:42:09,840 --> 01:42:10,240
Opposed.

1476
01:42:10,900 --> 01:42:12,340
Stay motion carries.

1477
01:42:13,120 --> 01:42:13,600
Thank you.

1478
01:42:15,140 --> 01:42:15,820
Come on to get him.

1479
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:17,520
Those go for that microphone.

1480
01:42:18,580 --> 01:42:19,000
What's that?

1481
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:20,560
Oh, you look like you were trying to turn it on.

1482
01:42:20,620 --> 01:42:21,640
This isn't for those speakers.

1483
01:42:21,740 --> 01:42:22,920
No, I know it's for that money.

1484
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:23,940
Oh, okay.

1485
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:25,060
Those are both of the time.

1486
01:42:25,300 --> 01:42:25,680
It's awful.

1487
01:42:25,980 --> 01:42:26,860
I don't know what's horn in it.

1488
01:42:26,860 --> 01:42:27,580
You're earliest convenience.

1489
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:29,700
Thank you, everybody, for your patience.

1490
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:31,940
Don't forget if you get them sworn in, you don't have to.

1491
01:42:31,940 --> 01:42:32,160
Okay.

1492
01:42:33,420 --> 01:42:33,860
Thank you.

1493
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:34,860
Please get sworn in.

1494
01:42:35,140 --> 01:42:35,720
What are you doing?

1495
01:42:36,060 --> 01:42:36,680
It's horn in.

1496
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:37,820
It's horn in.

1497
01:42:39,930 --> 01:42:40,490
Make the motion.

1498
01:42:40,710 --> 01:42:40,830
No.

1499
01:42:41,490 --> 01:42:42,910
We have another executive session.

1500
01:42:43,850 --> 01:42:44,470
Thank you.

1501
01:42:44,970 --> 01:42:45,270
Second.

1502
01:42:47,570 --> 01:42:49,110
motion for a second session.

1503
01:42:49,570 --> 01:42:50,430
Who's first?

1504
01:42:51,130 --> 01:42:52,150
Motion to eat though I hear motion.

1505
01:42:52,930 --> 01:42:53,510
Second.

1506
01:42:55,330 --> 01:42:57,190
All the favor.

1507
01:42:57,770 --> 01:42:58,490
I'm saying.

1508
01:42:59,310 --> 01:42:59,350
I'm saying.

1509
01:42:59,370 --> 01:43:00,830
I'm inviting Amy Jennings.

1510
01:43:02,170 --> 01:43:04,310
And going back into executive set in the area.

1511
01:43:04,330 --> 01:43:05,370
No, not married.

1512
01:43:10,490 --> 01:43:11,690
Your motion to adjourn.

1513
01:43:12,010 --> 01:43:12,570
Second.

1514
01:43:13,430 --> 01:43:13,970
All the favor.

1515
01:43:14,790 --> 01:43:15,170
Second.

1516
01:43:15,910 --> 01:43:16,290
Second.

1517
01:43:17,610 --> 01:43:17,890
Second.

1518
01:43:17,890 --> 01:43:19,090
We need to adjourn.