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[6:24] - Meeting is called.

[6:25] The order we have is the Town.

[6:27] I'm Darius Thompson, vice Chair pulling for Jonathan Ring,

[6:30] who's traveling and making memories wherever he is.

[6:33] That's great. I'd like everyone to introduce themselves.

[6:37] It's a little warm today for me,

[6:39] but everyone introduce yourself

[6:40] to my, I'll start to the right.

[6:43] - Okay. I'm the regional Representative

[6:47] - Barry.

[6:48] Member Anna Razer. Member Don Bristol. Member.

[6:52] And Darren, what I, we'll be back

[6:58] Jen on Jen on Zoom.

[7:00] Yeah, Jen. And then the room with us.

[7:01] We have Peter Finch, Amtrak retired. Excellent.

[7:06] That makes two of us Amtrak retired. Awesome.

[7:09] And I, my lovely wife Kathy. Hi, Kathy.

[7:14] Gonna try to do it. Alright, super.

[7:17] Do you have any comments from the public?

[7:21] See that there are none. We'll go with the

[7:25] second agenda item, which we will review the minutes

[7:28] of the previous meeting.

[7:30] The budget was submitted.

[7:31] And is there any questions, updates, corrections,

[7:35] errors, omissions?

[7:38] None here? Nope. Okay.

[7:40] Seeing none, I would accept a motion to approve the minutes.

[7:44] I motion that second motion has been seconded.

[7:50] Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Say aye. Aye. Aye.

[7:55] Aye. State, you abstain because I wasn't here one abstain.

[7:59] And we have some motion

[8:01] passes to accept the minutes.

[8:05] Aye. Welcome. How are you? Very much.

[8:07] Would you like to introduce yourself?

[8:09] I'm Scott Bogle with Rockham Fund. Excellent. Welcome.

[8:12] Glad you're here. The next agenda item is the plan,

[8:16] New Hampshire drawing ette design rep

[8:19] program August 7th, eighth.

[8:20] Celebrate success. I believe

[8:22] the thank you letter has finally been out and posted.

[8:26] Yes. Thank you, Jen. Yes, Jen, thank you so much.

[8:30] - My pleasure. - We appreciate you. Thank you.

[8:34] I know a lot of work went into that.

[8:35] And if we've forgotten anybody,

[8:37] please accept our thanks in advance

[8:40] and please let us know if we did forget you, we'd like

[8:42] to acknowledge your participation.

[8:46] - I just wanna comment on that.

[8:48] I, I'm just wondering if Natalie Bogot,

[8:50] the Nepro representative was Thanks. Was she the

[8:54] - List?

[8:55] Natalie Bogart. Okay.

[8:58] - I can, I can check - Was

[9:03] - In there.

[9:04] Okay. So, okay, Alice, I'll,

[9:07] - I can check while, while we're talking.

[9:08] - Okay. Thank you. Okay. Super.

[9:12] Any other discussion questions regarding that? No.

[9:16] To, okay. Hi Doug. How are you? Hey, good, Doug.

[9:20] Good morning everybody. Everybody, you're here.

[9:25] Yes sir. You're here. Safe's, some matters. Okay.

[9:30] So Wanda, the big topic of the day is rail safety awareness.

[9:34] This week, which is coming up next week,

[9:37] I think Anna, you will see on the table.

[9:39] I wanna say a quick thank you

[9:40] and shout out to our absolutely OOI state rep Jay Rhonda

[9:45] for meeting me on Saturday.

[9:47] And he provided all this materials

[9:49] and things that we can hand out, put together bags.

[9:52] It's not, it's not enough for everybody,

[9:57] for every kid, but it's enough to get some information out

[9:59] so that we can utilize whatever's here.

[10:03] We'll put together bags and we can hand 'em out

[10:05] or put them in different stores and give them out as kids.

[10:07] You know, join next week. Thank you. Thank you.

[10:10] So without further ado, Anna, the floor is your,

[10:13] - It's great.

[10:14] Well, I'm excited to keep pressing on this topic

[10:19] with all the discussion we've had around safety.

[10:21] It's a very grave topic. We've been very somber.

[10:25] But I also wanna acknowledge

[10:26] that the training brings a lot of people, a lot of joy.

[10:29] We, we see that every day with the passengers

[10:33] and people who go out

[10:34] and hunt down certain engines they wanna follow

[10:37] and learn about or document.

[10:39] So I just want to give a shout out to all the real fans

[10:42] and others who take

[10:46] such joy, pride in the tracks.

[10:49] So I sent out a couple of things

[10:52] and I'll just go through them.

[10:54] First, I sent out kind of a list of kind

[10:56] of little hanging fruit things we could do next week

[10:59] for Rail Safety Week.

[11:03] First on that was asking the select board

[11:06] to proclaim next week the Town's Rail Safety Awareness Week.

[11:11] And Dan sent me a message,

[11:14] they're gonna make the proclamation on Monday.

[11:16] So they did it Monday. Did they read it in?

[11:17] Yeah, Dan gave a nice dramatic oration of,

[11:22] of the proclamation, which I thought was lovely.

[11:25] I have it here if you guys haven't had a chance to read,

[11:28] we'll look at it on the town's website too.

[11:31] So that's exciting.

[11:35] The next thing I have, we discussed a letter

[11:37] that we can send to educators.

[11:43] It might be something we can adapt to be relevant for,

[11:47] to send to other organizers.

[11:50] Not so we don't have to have separate drafted letters

[11:52] that go out in short, reminding folks to

[11:58] be safe around tracks.

[11:59] But in particular, drawing attention to art projects,

[12:03] essays, any or sort of projects

[12:08] that might seem attractive to do on the tracks,

[12:10] but are actually not safe.

[12:12] So I drafted a letter for that.

[12:15] It's a, it's a, a letter with one of the Operation

[12:20] Lifesaver flyers.

[12:22] So essentially a two page PDF. I'll pass that around.

[12:27] It would be nice to get some edits on it either here

[12:30] or in our by email.

[12:34] It could be nice to just get that.

[12:37] - Could you explain talking about like what they did on the,

[12:42] the building there with the, I don't understand what,

[12:47] - This is a letter from the

[12:54] train station committee.

[12:55] Okay. Advocating for safe behavior

[12:59] and practices around tracks.

[13:01] Specifically going to educators, teachers, organizations

[13:05] that might encounter students who are gonna say, go out

[13:09] and do a photo project on perspective.

[13:11] A rail track is a classic example

[13:13] of a perspective study in, in art. It's an east

[13:17] - Oh, I see what you're saying.

[13:18] Okay.

[13:20] - So a reminder to the, to them

[13:22] to share with their students.

[13:24] That's a good idea. In, in light of this,

[13:27] this week's safety awareness motives.

[13:31] Don't do that. Yeah. So maybe my letter's wordy.

[13:35] I only took one stab at it.

[13:37] I'd like to refine it

[13:38] and I think it'd be nice if we could send it out.

[13:40] I'm not sure if it is signed by the train station committee

[13:44] or Jonathan or

[13:46] - Cohort.

[13:47] I think it would be best if we,

[13:48] if we just put a generic for train

[13:50] - Station committee, the committee.

[13:51] That's kind of what I was leaning towards.

[13:54] Feel free to mark that up.

[13:55] Circulate it around. Especially with

[13:57] - The school being as close to the track. So,

[13:59] - Yeah.

[14:00] Yeah. And we have a list in my notes, probably in our,

[14:04] our notes too of possible recipients, our teachers,

[14:09] the academy, maybe other departments.

[14:14] SAU,

[14:17] - This is great. Below it,

[14:19] - Get the word out and then,

[14:24] oh, to driving school educators.

[14:26] We'll send the same letter to them too.

[14:29] And that's where I, my request

[14:32] for advice on consolidating it.

[14:34] So it's kind of a single letter that's adaptable

[14:36] for these different purposes.

[14:41] I think we should send a press release

[14:43] about the town's proclamation.

[14:45] Okay. I don't have the capacity to write a press release,

[14:49] so I'll ask for help on that.

[14:52] Or a volunteer. And then the other,

[14:58] well there's a couple small smaller things.

[15:00] One is the fire department offers a monthly

[15:08] CPR and a EP training.

[15:11] So they can schedule us a special

[15:13] session just for our group.

[15:14] It wouldn't be until January.

[15:16] And we can do it on a Thursday. Maybe on a Thursday.

[15:18] That's not our meeting. We've discussed that here.

[15:22] But I'm also gonna just get the monthly schedule in case

[15:25] those of you who want to get

[15:26] that training can do it on your own time in any month.

[15:30] It doesn't have to be a coordinated

[15:33] training just for this group.

[15:35] It can be, but it doesn't have to be.

[15:40] And along with that, Darius, we are gonna check on

[15:45] Operation Lifesaver training. What

[15:48] - Does that, yes.

[15:49] So in order to become a volunteer for Operation Lifesaver,

[15:51] you have to fill an application that gets submitted

[15:54] and then you would actually get scheduled

[15:56] to take an online course to do that.

[15:59] So if you're interested in wanting to become a volunteer,

[16:01] you have to go through the process, submit like it's a

[16:04] answer, questions, un fill the application,

[16:07] answer questions, submit it,

[16:08] and then you would be scheduled

[16:09] for an online training or interactive training.

[16:12] And then you could become a volunteer

[16:15] adhering to the principles.

[16:16] So I also put in a request for our next meeting,

[16:19] which is on the third Thursday of October, the day

[16:22] before one of the greatest days of my life.

[16:25] So our birth, my birthday's on the 16th,

[16:27] we're having a meeting on this 15th, 15.

[16:29] So I put a request to have a presentation either virtually

[16:33] for all of us and attendance so

[16:35] that we can see what that is.

[16:37] So we start to prepare for next year.

[16:39] And then if anyone's interested, well become a volunteer.

[16:42] It's on the, I can get you the link,

[16:44] but it's on their website.

[16:45] You fill out the application

[16:46] and go through that process to take it.

[16:48] Course. Also, if anyone is interested in

[16:53] becoming a state rep for New Hampshire,

[16:56] that's also a potential,

[16:57] but it does require a lot of volunteer work.

[16:59] It's doesn't pay anything.

[17:02] But if you ever really have a further interest in wanting

[17:04] to get more involved with Operation Lifesaver,

[17:06] they are looking potentially for someone to take over

[17:10] as a current person that's looking to step away.

[17:13] So just for awareness, if anyone out there this is wrong,

[17:17] wants to, if wanted wanted

[17:20] to interest an Operation Lifesaver, wanted

[17:21] to become a trainer in that part, then you know, reach out

[17:26] to us and we'll get you connected.

[17:30] - Is that online training something?

[17:31] We, we would watch the presentation next month if it,

[17:35] if we schedule, if we, yeah.

[17:36] And then we would do it online on our own

[17:38] time. Is that how that works,

[17:40] - Ibel?

[17:41] I'm not quite certain of that,

[17:41] but I believe it's a A specific course

[17:43] that they walk you through.

[17:44] Yeah. Whether it's instructor led

[17:46] or if it's virtually virtual.

[17:49] Right. Recorded. But the, the biggest part is you have

[17:51] to fill out the application, submit that in,

[17:54] and then it gets reviewed.

[17:55] If it's approved, then you'll be

[17:57] able to schedule take the course.

[17:59] - Yes. One, one correction on this,

[18:02] this year we'll have our 2000000th writer.

[18:04] Thank you. Yes. No, did you write that?

[18:07] And this is the 25th year.

[18:09] See, this is why I brought this to you. Yeah. Okay.

[18:12] - You wanna make the notes on that? Yeah.

[18:13] - Okay. I'll be write it up. Thank you. Yeah, sure.

[18:16] - Your letter looks good. Yes,

[18:18] I think it's indeed it's concise enough.

[18:20] You know, I would, with the small edits here,

[18:25] I think it's good to go.

[18:27] Okay. As far as the press release goes,

[18:29] I think we could borrow from the town.

[18:30] Yeah. Regarding the proclamation. Yeah.

[18:33] Just, you know, can we share that on the Chamber website

[18:37] or can we borrow from the town

[18:38] and then we can post it on our website as well. Yeah,

[18:41] - I, there's any problem there. Yes.

[18:44] - Yeah, we can definitely - See

[18:47] - As far as getting something out into the

[18:51] - Right - There.

[18:52] Wonder if that's too long to go, like letter it

[18:53] to the editor to put out for next week or we're too late.

[18:55] - That's a good idea. I,

[18:58] - I mean, I can send it to the same folks I

[19:00] sent the thank you note too.

[19:02] - Yeah, that would be helpful if we,

[19:04] I think we're in agreeance letter looks great.

[19:06] If we can get that out later today, get that to Jen

[19:09] and then we can get that out.

[19:11] That'd be wonderful. We can add the Brian's colleague to

[19:15] - Thank you.

[19:16] List note to her too. Yeah,

[19:19] - Well that, what that, so the, the letter that the letter

[19:24] about the Charette already went out.

[19:28] I can change it on our website,

[19:30] which will change it in our weekly chamber happenings.

[19:33] And that'll go out on Monday.

[19:36] But, so, so I can change it there. Perfect.

[19:41] I I I wouldn't wanna send it a second time

[19:44] 'cause I don't wanna get, I don't want it to get lost

[19:46] and can, you know, with, with two

[19:48] letters coming in from folks

[19:49] - Fully understand.

[19:50] - Perfect. - Okay.

[19:53] Anna, I wanna say a awesome thank you for

[19:57] putting this all together.

[19:58] Yeah. And continue this along because it's important to me

[20:01] and to you and to everybody.

[20:04] I just, we can't do enough to help educate everybody.

[20:08] So anyone that is,

[20:11] and we're gonna put some of these in the various bags,

[20:14] hopefully put in some of the different locations in stores.

[20:17] Just a little, it's a little ruler has

[20:18] information that, this is a reminder.

[20:21] Again, I can't thank enough Jay for kind of raiding the,

[20:24] the closet that he had.

[20:26] 'cause typically the stuff he would pay for,

[20:27] but he was able to give this to us.

[20:29] So please,

[20:31] there's some key chains, there's some whistles and other stuff.

[20:34] I like the members to take some with you

[20:37] and hand them out if you have an establishment

[20:40] or if you'd like to have a bag,

[20:41] we can drop 'em off this like a little litter bag

[20:43] and put the card just as a reminder.

[20:46] And this is another bag our kids

[20:47] and there's some coloring books and there crowns, pens

[20:50] and also in the lobby there

[20:54] and these little things here.

[20:56] I think it's nice for anybody that's riding the train.

[20:58] Oh, that's cool. We can give them out.

[21:01] If no one takes anything today, then I will gather things up

[21:04] and then I'll plan on being there on Thursday or Friday.

[21:08] I won't wear red, I'll be wearing black.

[21:09] But to be at the train station

[21:12] with a table and hand things out.

[21:14] - I know that Brian's put plenty on coming on the

[21:16] 25th, so he'll be here.

[21:19] And his goal, he's right there. Oh. Oh, Brian. Hi Brian.

[21:22] Hi Brian. Say Brian and Okay, I'll let him speak

[21:26] for himself since I see he's out there.

[21:29] - Hi. Thank you all. Karen Appreci you for this link.

[21:33] So just while we're talking on this Yeah, it is RA's

[21:38] desire to be there Friday, next Friday

[21:41] for red out the readout day.

[21:45] We also have materials

[21:46] and I think to really amplify the message,

[21:49] if we could coordinate to both the train committee

[21:54] with your materials as well as Nera, myself

[21:57] and Natalie will be there to, to find a great location.

[22:01] Yeah. Preferably a little bit more visible

[22:04] than just a train station.

[22:06] I, I don't know, I thrown out some ideas of maybe could we

[22:10] table up by Jerry's in that little plaza, that little tree?

[22:14] Yes. Park area.

[22:16] - Yes. We own that. We own that. So yes, you can,

[22:20] - That that would be a great place to have a table.

[22:22] Plus you're getting potentially, if we're there late enough,

[22:26] maybe you get some of the school children coming through

[22:30] because we also have the little bags

[22:32] with the, the information in it.

[22:34] So that, that's kind of our thought is

[22:37] that if we could look at Friday to kind

[22:40] of be a bigger push than,

[22:41] than sprinkled throughout the week.

[22:43] Well I do know Josh Roberts from Amtrak Police is planning

[22:47] on touching base with each of the police

[22:51] departments along the corridor.

[22:53] He's got some information that he's gonna be handing out.

[22:56] 'cause their day is,

[22:58] Tuesday is law enforcement is first responders day.

[23:02] And so I know he's canvassing all of that.

[23:05] So yeah, if, if that's something we could do, Darren,

[23:08] I can shoot you the times that

[23:09] we're thinking of being down there.

[23:11] We really were looking at some train time,

[23:14] but also there's some downtown there

[23:16] that maybe we'll just get regular walk calls.

[23:20] We're definitely locked in for next Friday.

[23:23] - So what, what time?

[23:26] - So let's see, looking at my schedule here,

[23:33] Probably what we're thinking is covering a time

[23:36] for basically

[23:37] 11 33 3

[23:44] because we have a, a train that comes through

[23:47] at 1 0 9, 12 59, 1 0 9,

[23:51] and then three o'clock.

[23:54] So we could technically get three train times as well

[23:59] as just some, some general time.

[24:01] So I believe, and I'll,

[24:03] and I'll confirm this with an email from Jared,

[24:06] I believe Natalie and I are planning to eight down in

[24:08] that area for 1130.

[24:11] And then if we can canvas between 1130

[24:13] and three o'clock, you kind

[24:15] of spread ourselves around that timeframe.

[24:17] That, that might be a good mix of times. Then people,

[24:21] - Do you need anything from us,

[24:22] like a table chairs, things like that?

[24:25] - I think we'll be all set with tables.

[24:27] So I, I don't believe so at this point Darren,

[24:30] just permission to stand where

[24:33] we would be is probably the best thing.

[24:34] We need to make sure that nobody yells at us

[24:36] and scoot just away. But

[24:38] - I, I'll handle that.

[24:40] I'll have it. All right. So look forward to seeing you at

[24:44] - 11 15 4, 11 30, - Not 11.

[24:49] I say 1115 for me to be there early on time, so, yeah.

[24:52] Alright. So

[24:53] - I appreciate, I really appreciate the effort everyone

[24:55] coming in and the real focus

[24:59] on talking about real safety.

[25:02] We do this all the time,

[25:04] but we are always amazed at the lack of awareness.

[25:07] And I really do think it takes individuals like yourselves

[25:11] to, to make it real and to actually have people listen.

[25:16] Sometimes they say, oh yeah, you're just betrayed.

[25:18] But when you have folks that are really impacted

[25:21] and knowledgeable about it, I,

[25:24] I think it makes a lot more sense.

[25:25] Your peers are better than someone talking at. Right?

[25:29] - Yes. Thank you. Well thank, thank you Brian.

[25:31] You're always such a big help. We really appreciate it.

[25:34] I connection and I don't know if you were on earlier, Brian,

[25:37] but I just wanted to acknowledge

[25:38] that Jay was very helpful in providing this information.

[25:41] Our state, the state rep, all that stuff. Yeah,

[25:44] - That's awesome. That's great.

[25:45] - Yep. - Did did NRA get a copy of the proclamation?

[25:50] - Oh, we can make certain we, we give it to him. Okay.

[25:53] So Brian, where is that one? Around? Yeah,

[25:59] - It's on the town's website for the select board meeting

[26:01] - On, right.

[26:02] I don't know if you could see this or not, Brian.

[26:04] I, I'll send it to him too, but we'll send this to you.

[26:06] The town of New Hampshire, town of Ter, New Hampshire

[26:10] C Tracks think train week.

[26:11] So they made a proclamation that the town also supports

[26:15] September 21st, 27th, 2026 of,

[26:20] you know, sea track state training week.

[26:22] So the whole town is behind.

[26:24] This is like, we'll make sure you get a copy Darren,

[26:27] I'll send it to you, but just wanted to show it with you.

[26:33] - And the other thing on, on, on the list of contacts along

[26:36] with the schools, I always want to include first student,

[26:39] the bus company goes oh, crosses. Right. So,

[26:43] - So first can be on that list.

[26:45] Good idea. Yeah. Anna, where is that on?

[26:48] What about LC Anna, where's the website

[26:53] - On the select board packet? For

[26:56] - The packet agenda?

[26:58] Page six. It needs to go on our, on our, yeah. Got it.

[27:02] I'll take that too. Thank you. Yeah.

[27:05] So is there anything else that we

[27:06] - Was more, yeah, I do have, there's one more kind

[27:09] of the final bullet point on my list

[27:10] that I sent out by email.

[27:12] I'll just print it out so I'll pass it around. Number seven.

[27:14] If you guys just wanna scan through, this was my proposal

[27:18] for social media over the next week.

[27:20] It's ambitious 'cause I outlined every,

[27:22] the theme for every day.

[27:23] We don't have to do all that. I know we've got,

[27:26] we're doing kind of at capacity, what we're capable of.

[27:29] That said, I did tell Bob who's been on vacation

[27:32] and I was moving offices,

[27:33] but I would assist with making some social media

[27:36] content on that.

[27:39] Number seven. I kind of highlighted each

[27:41] of the theme themes for those days.

[27:44] I can, I can help write one for the, the initial one

[27:47] and asking the proclamation

[27:49] and the rail safety awareness week

[27:53] and the one for Friday.

[27:57] But if, if others want to take on

[28:00] or collaborate with me to make more so we can have more

[28:03] of a, a blitz style.

[28:06] We don't need to do a a lot of creation.

[28:09] There's a lot of images and logos

[28:11] and stuff from the OLI website.

[28:14] But we can just pass on and write some key words to go with.

[28:20] So I just wanna add, I'm, I'm, I'm able to do a couple

[28:23] of those content things for, for Bob.

[28:27] But if anybody else wants to step up

[28:29] and round that out, we can explore more of those themes.

[28:35] - So does Bob have this or? Yes. Okay.

[28:37] So in other for us to do, is there, are we looking

[28:41] to our own personal capacity

[28:42] or are we looking to do it with a,

[28:44] we we have a social media account.

[28:46] - Well, no, Bob would post it to the town. Okay. Account.

[28:49] We're just helping him fill in to, to get the content

[28:54] because it's a short, short turnaround.

[28:56] - Right. And that's all. And he's,

[28:57] - He probably cannot create all

[28:59] of his content himself over the next couple days

[29:01] - Where it's hard to pre-pack.

[29:02] It's, we're just borrowing from

[29:03] and it's a, I think we don't need to,

[29:06] I don't think we need to add any language to it.

[29:07] Just borrow what the hazards, like throw it out there.

[29:10] So it's, it's like plug and play.

[29:12] So I think that that's excellent.

[29:16] Can you send me the proclamation?

[29:17] 'cause it's, it's in the packet.

[29:18] Yeah, but it's in the whole entire packet.

[29:20] I can't pull that piece out. Okay. Okay.

[29:22] If you that it to me. I'll get it on this.

[29:23] I'll get it to Brian. Sure. I'll get it on on our website.

[29:27] Is there anything else that we should be doing?

[29:29] You can think of?

[29:31] - I want to, I was just looking at

[29:33] and the schedules that Brian coming down,

[29:36] but we have two trains in the morning

[29:38] that are commuter trains

[29:39] and two trains in the evening

[29:41] that come back that are fully loaded.

[29:44] These are commuters.

[29:45] They're probably not the ones we worry about

[29:47] to being out on the tracks,

[29:48] but they could take home messages home

[29:50] to their families as such.

[29:52] So is there an opportunity here

[29:53] that we should be covering on those four trains

[29:58] - And how would we do it?

[29:59] I'll turn that over to you. I,

[30:01] - I cannot, so again, we, yeah, we have material.

[30:03] We have some materials that

[30:04] they're bringing materials as well.

[30:05] I'm sure we have some left over.

[30:06] So if there's some I plan on being there on Friday to help,

[30:11] you know, support the

[30:12] - Way I can.

[30:13] Is Bob, there's myself working, there's you in

[30:15] - Soda?

[30:17] - I can So what, what, what time is it in the morning?

[30:21] - Last quarter? Six 30. - Six 30. Six

[30:23] - 30 and then 30.

[30:24] Yeah. And then 8 39.

[30:26] - 8 39. So, and then five o'clock and then

[30:29] - I could do 6 30, 39.

[30:31] - Yeah, - I can do six 30 and I can do 4 54 too.

[30:35] The one back from Boston. So they

[30:37] - Hit some additional coverage.

[30:39] - Yeah. So six 30 on.

[30:41] Is there anything we can put up in the,

[30:45] in the little glass case

[30:47] - We can find them.

[30:48] What I'd really like to see is a banner.

[30:50] So way we can get a banner real safety week, some kind

[30:53] of across the,

[30:56] - That's short of us making one.

[30:58] So I'm not aware of a banner. Okay.

[31:03] We'd have to make one or get one, you know, from 'em. So

[31:07] - It's pretty short notice.

[31:08] - Yeah, short notice. Yeah. - But anything can be done.

[31:11] - Anything Nepro might have that might,

[31:14] would, is there any kind of,

[31:17] - I we're already using other location.

[31:19] - Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. We're we're

[31:21] - Gonna be up at three court as well that day.

[31:23] - Oh, okay. - I I I would just kind

[31:26] of point out if you're gonna hit the morning two trains,

[31:28] you really don't need that hit the afternoon.

[31:30] Right. The evening trains.

[31:32] 'cause you're hitting the same people. Right.

[31:33] If they're going down on the six 30. That's a good point.

[31:36] Either coming home or 5 45, excuse me.

[31:39] Four,

[31:43] whatever impact there.

[31:45] If you're, you're hitting two in the morning,

[31:47] you don't have need to hit the two in the evening.

[31:50] - Very, very good point.

[31:52] And since my comment

[31:53] before, they're not the

[31:55] ones that are gonna be on the trades.

[31:57] Probably the two afternoon ones they hand out

[31:58] because they could take that material home.

[32:01] Right. Whereas if they go south on it,

[32:03] it's probably gonna end on trash.

[32:05] Yeah. Yeah.

[32:06] So as they come off the train in the afternoon, the,

[32:09] the two trains in the evening probably

[32:11] be better to hand those out.

[32:12] Okay. Okay. Yes. Covered the last two I think.

[32:16] - Scott, question Scott? Yes, go ahead. Yes,

[32:20] - Two thoughts.

[32:21] If there's interest in a banner, you can get a,

[32:23] a good quality two foot by six foot banner at stables

[32:28] for $90 turned around in 24 48 hours.

[32:34] And I don't know if there's been consideration of trying

[32:37] to get something up on the

[32:40] display board in front of town hall.

[32:43] We used to do that for bike to work week

[32:46] - Rock thing.

[32:47] So that we'd have to get something that will fit.

[32:48] We have to get two things printed

[32:51] and if we do anything that, so question Brian on the banner

[32:56] that you have, it doesn't have a date on it, correct?

[33:01] - No, it's just an operation lifesaver band

[33:04] banner for the, for the most part.

[33:06] It's not a specific to

[33:10] train week or anything like that.

[33:12] I do know that the Operation Lifesaver website does

[33:15] have graphics, right.

[33:17] That you could either print just the print posters

[33:21] or have posters printed

[33:23] that could be put up in your various locations

[33:26] or I mean obviously could go to safety,

[33:28] buy a banner if you wanted to do that.

[33:31] - Okay. Alright.

[33:32] We just buy a banner

[33:34] and it's not like it's going to waste,

[33:36] I mean we can use it every year during this Correct.

[33:39] This train safety week. Right.

[33:41] So, so that's what I was thinking was getting something

[33:43] with the official, so I'll take that action

[33:46] to get a banner made.

[33:47] I'll get it made and it'll be generic

[33:49] so we can use it every year after year after year.

[33:52] Yeah, I can pay for it. Okay. I, I can pay outta my budget.

[33:54] I can pay for it. Well, thank you very much.

[33:56] Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I got a big banner then. Get what?

[33:59] You get 12. Oh, perfect. That's,

[34:04] - I think on Friday's post we ought to mention

[34:06] that Brian's gonna be there with the table.

[34:07] Explain what that table's all

[34:09] - About.

[34:10] Right. And I, I think, you know, you're sitting over there,

[34:14] but I I think you're part of the committee.

[34:17] I do. I think you're rockingham's. He is now.

[34:20] He's rocking him. Okay. I've never

[34:22] planning commissions are just sitting.

[34:23] But you can always sit at the table. It's fine.

[34:25] You we're, we're here have a, I know if you're,

[34:28] that's we're, we're an open, it's like it is like,

[34:32] it is like Jen Representative Chamber.

[34:34] Right. He's representing Rockingham Planning.

[34:36] Always sit at the table. I come up here.

[34:37] If you're there, it's fine. Thank you. We have one.

[34:43] So just thinking ahead for next year, we do this kind

[34:47] of here, let's start thinking ahead of

[34:50] what we're gonna do for next year.

[34:51] Like an event, maybe an event.

[34:53] Let's put a little more planning behind it.

[34:54] Let's, let's look at that.

[34:56] And I think what we have, it's a good way

[34:59] to, to carry it forward.

[35:00] But maybe there's something we can do not just once a year,

[35:04] but maybe once a quarter.

[35:07] So the other thing that I wanna share as far

[35:10] as rail safety awareness is the blue sign

[35:14] that is critical for not only first respondent,

[35:17] but for anybody that's listening.

[35:19] If you're sitting at the tracks

[35:21] and you're waiting for the trains, man, what's the train?

[35:23] Just look around and see if you can find the blue sign

[35:26] and read what it says.

[35:30] That if in the event that something happens,

[35:32] you can actually call the number on that sign

[35:36] and then you give the information what's under that sign

[35:38] and that will go to dispatch

[35:40] and they can take immediate action.

[35:42] So if nothing else,

[35:47] whenever you go across a grade crossing

[35:49] or coming upon one look to see if you're stopped at it.

[35:51] I want everyone in the public to see,

[35:53] can you find the blue sign?

[35:55] If you find the blue sign, take a picture

[35:57] and then email it to, to the committee.

[35:59] We'd love to see your pictures. Are they there? Oh yes.

[36:03] Every crossing. Every crossing has a blue sign. Yeah.

[36:06] Every crossing. The challenge I put out to the public is

[36:09] to find the blue sign, take a picture,

[36:11] post it on social media, post on Instagram with the hashtag

[36:15] of operation lifesaver

[36:18] or hashtag train station committee.

[36:21] I found the blue sign. Great. Great.

[36:26] Is there anything else, Anna, that we missed?

[36:28] Okay, you get that message to like teachers and educators.

[36:32] That's a good idea. Yeah, that's good marketing.

[36:35] We can add that to the Yeah. Letter.

[36:39] Brian, have you ever heard of that before?

[36:41] Like find the blue sign.

[36:44] - I I mean I time,

[36:47] but I heard a kind of a

[36:51] game. I think it's a great idea.

[36:53] - Alright, cool. - Just what,

[36:56] what does it say on the blue sign?

[36:57] I know it has the phone number. What does it all say?

[37:00] - Well, I don't know from memory.

[37:02] I just, the signs emergency and emergency.

[37:05] That's a crossing number.

[37:07] As a crossing number. Yeah. And the

[37:10] - Dispatch number call. So

[37:11] - In the name of the street.

[37:12] - Yeah. So here's a thought.

[37:13] Perhaps this is in CS x's baggage somewhere,

[37:18] but how about a second sign below that that is in red

[37:21] and the colors we want that says stay off the track.

[37:27] Just a real eye catcher that says stay off the track.

[37:30] Hazard danger, whatever it is

[37:34] that they could post right below,

[37:35] - You know.

[37:37] So this, so that blue sign is FRA regulation that

[37:41] - Required? Yeah,

[37:41] - I don't think it allow any, no, nothing else post.

[37:43] But what it says, it says report problem

[37:46] or emergency 1, 8, 0, 0 and it has x, x, x

[37:50] and then crossing number is usually it's

[37:54] whatever the ditch they, you know,

[37:55] 8 3, 6 5, 9, 7 H whatever, and X, y, z railroad.

[37:57] So it tells you the railroad, the CS, X, you know, so

[38:00] that specific location, we'll go to dispatch

[38:03] and they will be able to Yeah, got it.

[38:04] Take care of that. So, but

[38:06] - I just, I just throw this thought out.

[38:07] - I think the identity is pretty good.

[38:09] I I find the sign a little small.

[38:16] Do you have a dimensional thing?

[38:18] It doesn't say what the dimensions of it are,

[38:20] but I, it says I find it very, I mean,

[38:21] it's like this big Right?

[38:23] Third or fourth car back's not gonna be able to read it.

[38:26] Yeah, that's right. Not gonna be able to read it. Right.

[38:28] Third or fourth car back. Yeah.

[38:29] Somebody who bikes all the time. I,

[38:31] I am always at a railroad crossing coming back into town

[38:34] and it's amazing when the, when the train has stopped

[38:37] and loading or unloading, it's sitting there

[38:42] and people on main, we'll use Main Street for an example

[38:46] that they know the train's not moving.

[38:49] And these kids on these, an electric bikes

[38:52] and stuff like that, they're like looking up the truck

[38:55] with trains sitting there.

[38:56] They just go right across here. It's like, dude,

[38:59] - And that's trespassing

[39:00] and you can arrest them if you happen to be in

[39:02] that position, they won't do it.

[39:04] They will do it for buses or fuel trucks.

[39:06] They will stop you and they will arrest the driver.

[39:09] - Right. So not - Necessarily here, but other

[39:12] - Location.

[39:13] But I mean it's, I I, you know, it's, I don't, I don't know

[39:16] how you, how you add anymore.

[39:19] I mean, we're all, you know, intelligent people and

[39:23] - As pure socialization. Exactly.

[39:26] - You're right. - That's,

[39:27] that's we're trying to get out. I think

[39:28] - That - Brian put it right when he said,

[39:31] just talking about it Yeah.

[39:33] Bringing these conversations. That's all he trying to do.

[39:34] Right. To the forefront. Yeah.

[39:35] - Yeah. Okay.

[39:38] So, so I have something I wanna bring up

[39:41] if you don't mind at some point,

[39:42] because I want you to get through your,

[39:44] is it related to rail safety?

[39:46] Yes. Is it related to rail safety week?

[39:51] It's rail safety. Okay.

[39:53] It's about a crossing that, you know,

[39:56] and this has always bothered me even

[39:58] and you bring up the academy

[40:00] and I know the academy kids love to go

[40:04] to the end of Parkway.

[40:05] The parkway and there's a trail,

[40:08] and it's not just a trail, it's a maintained trail

[40:12] that goes up to the tracks, goes over the tracks

[40:15] and then to the conservation lane.

[40:17] Yes. I think we're all aware of it.

[40:20] I mean we played there as kids, but it's, it's still there.

[40:24] I mean, and I don't know if it, it used to get a lot of, lot

[40:28] of traffic from the academy kids.

[40:31] That was their place to go and, and party, you know,

[40:34] or by the rock out by Fort Rock.

[40:37] And would it make sense to put a sign, something like

[40:42] that there?

[40:44] Or would we, by doing that, would we be saying to people,

[40:48] Hey, doesn't there's a, a trail, let's go try it out?

[40:53] Or do we just not say anything?

[40:55] I mean, it doesn't seem to be as much of a,

[40:58] - It's, it's problem.

[40:59] It is, it is decreased. The use

[41:01] - It has, it is, is decreased. Because I

[41:02] - Think if you don't know where this is at the end

[41:04] of Swayze Parkway, if you go the end of Swayze Parkway,

[41:08] turn left to go back into town, just as you finish the turn,

[41:11] you look up, there's a path that runs.

[41:13] - Right. I think it's an easement.

[41:15] - Yes. Probably, probably not. - No, I

[41:18] - Don't think so. No.

[41:20] - Not over the tracks. All

[41:22] - Over the property. Who owns the property?

[41:24] - Dr. Just walked - By. Probably Dr.

[41:28] - V. Dr. Vaughn. Thank you.

[41:30] - There's where I would start is ask Dr. Vaughn

[41:32] - To put a no trespass sign down there.

[41:35] Close it. Lock it. Okay.

[41:38] Well I guess my thing is, I I'm not so sure that we can do

[41:42] that, but anyways, she could do it.

[41:46] There's another one. There's not legal easement there

[41:48] on the Rose Farm trails.

[41:49] Oh yeah. Goes of the tracks. There's another one.

[41:51] Well there's private gray crossing,

[41:53] but the Rose Farm has theirs.

[41:54] This is not the Rose Farm. No, no.

[41:55] I'm, I'm telling him there's another one he doesn't know

[41:57] about that probably know his room knows about.

[41:59] I probably know every one of 'em out

[42:00] - There.

[42:01] The private grave crossing, you know where that is? One.

[42:03] - So the one at the parking lot is another one that,

[42:07] you know the parking lot after you go into the train bridge.

[42:10] Yes. There's place where people go and hike

[42:12] and I'm not sure, but I think there was a dog hurt there.

[42:15] No, someone was killed. Something person was killed.

[42:17] Person killed

[42:20] - Was - Killed.

[42:21] Her dog got spooked and Right. And the dog. Yes.

[42:23] So let's, so maybe, I mean these places, could we post that?

[42:28] I mean, there's no signage there at all. I mean,

[42:31] - It'd be up to the town

[42:32] and be away from Yeah,

[42:33] the railroad has some signs you'll see

[42:35] from Boston and Maine.

[42:37] Yeah, they're very limited.

[42:40] - Thank you. So here's here's the,

[42:42] the bigger, bigger things.

[42:43] The one Oh no,

[42:46] if you see track tracks think train period, it end the story.

[42:48] Oh yeah, yeah. If anyone is

[42:51] walking along the tracks, there's an no trail.

[42:54] Oh, there's nothing here. Don't do it. Just don't do it.

[42:57] We know that. It's just, we gotta get the word out. Right.

[42:59] So this is what we'll, we'll continue to do.

[43:01] That's why I suggest we start doing something,

[43:03] this committee, just to get once a quarter,

[43:06] get something about rail safety out as a reminder.

[43:09] But do you think by putting a sign there just,

[43:14] and I don't know, I mean I can't read people's minds,

[43:16] but do they, would that

[43:21] create curiosity?

[43:23] I don't think, you know what I'm saying.

[43:24] - Think sign encourages abuse. Okay. If that's what

[43:27] - You're asking.

[43:28] Yes, I did, you put it perfectly.

[43:31] - And I think it's probably - A,

[43:33] - Maybe a question to take to DPW to start.

[43:37] Yeah.

[43:40] - How about first inventorying, any go past?

[43:44] Hey Dan, right here's fine cabin.

[43:49] I, I I didn't want, wanna interrupt the agenda?

[43:52] So let's, let's, I'm trying to button this up real quick.

[43:55] You have an inventory or known locations of where these

[44:00] trails, unofficial trails may exist.

[44:03] And if so, if we don't have it, then we should,

[44:05] and then two, should we bring that to the select board

[44:08] as something to consider

[44:10] and for, you know, further,

[44:13] further signage

[44:15] or, you know, basically we have, I don't want this.

[44:18] Lemme say get, so the point is that we have some, we have,

[44:23] we know where some areas where people cross the tracks.

[44:25] Got it. Right. There are some traditional,

[44:28] not traditional trails that people made.

[44:30] There was an incident where a dog owner, the dog got spooked

[44:34] and you know, she got killed.

[44:35] Dog was not good.

[44:37] So again, what I say is a general rule is

[44:40] that sea tracks think train don't

[44:42] cross the tracks no matter where.

[44:43] Right. But is there's some responsibility upon the town

[44:48] to post signage.

[44:50] That's what Doug is at post signage to say, hey,

[44:53] train tracks don't cross or something of that nature.

[44:56] And does that put us at liability risk for that part?

[44:58] That's for the select board to decide.

[45:00] Well, the, so different locations,

[45:02] the issue is they're on private property

[45:05] and so I don't know that select board

[45:07] to have like any jurisdiction to,

[45:09] to do something like that on private property.

[45:10] Maybe Brian could weigh in on that.

[45:13] I mean, but also the tracks. The CSX has the right of way.

[45:17] Correct. If we could reach out, yeah, they could do that.

[45:19] If we could reach out to CSX

[45:20] and say, Hey, can you place some signs along the way,

[45:22] that might be another option.

[45:23] Yeah. And they could, so for sure.

[45:25] That's, let's see if we can Okay that.

[45:28] - But they're not going to do that

[45:30] - Right - Down you guys,

[45:35] they, they're not likely to add any additional assignments

[45:38] to what they're mandatorily required,

[45:40] federally required to post.

[45:41] So, you know, they have thousands of miles of track

[45:45] that if they agreed to put a sign every, oh yeah.

[45:48] Someone wanted to, they're, they're on the hook.

[45:51] I mean, you gotta talk with your landowner.

[45:53] Landowner should post it.

[45:55] If there's pathways that are crossing

[45:58] or bringing you up to an area you should talk

[45:59] to whoever's the landowner, they should post it

[46:02] and they should identify it as a non, not a place to go.

[46:06] If it's public property, then certainly you want

[46:08] to make sure and, and you can post

[46:12] and say that, you know, pass this sign you're trespassing,

[46:15] you know, and or, or,

[46:16] or what have you, what what you would like there.

[46:19] So I mean, I, I know it's frustrating to understand it,

[46:22] but it's the reality of, of it, you know,

[46:27] I don't know how you can post your own property

[46:30] and if you want to, you can do that, you know,

[46:32] but then you gotta post it every 10 feet

[46:34] before someone actually pays attention.

[46:35] So I think I I agree

[46:38] and appreciate the thought of posting these kind of things.

[46:42] I think you need to work with a particular landowners

[46:44] that are, are incur, are encouraging

[46:47] or experiencing the, the use of that property,

[46:52] then that does go over to the railroad tracks.

[46:58] I know that's not a great answer, but it's the reality of

[47:00] - It.

[47:01] Right. Thank you Brian.

[47:02] That really answers my question about CSX

[47:06] and they're not doing it.

[47:07] So, so the two things real quick,

[47:12] back to rail safety week on the 25th, the location

[47:16] that Darren's trying to show on the screen,

[47:18] I don't know if you can see this in the room.

[47:20] Can, can you see this, Brian? You see us at all? No.

[47:24] So we're not sharing the screen, so Oh, we're not.

[47:26] Oh, I'm sorry Brian. Alright. So if you wanna be,

[47:28] if you're looking at Jerry's

[47:30] and you're standing in the middle of the,

[47:31] of the road on Lincoln Street, you wanna be just

[47:34] to the left on that, on that kind of island that's there.

[47:37] That's where you want be, be set up, correct?

[47:39] - Yeah, exactly. That new nice little plaza area. Yeah. Got

[47:42] - It on the sidewalk.

[47:43] Yeah. Anna,

[47:45] - I just feel like it'd be a great location.

[47:47] I, I like being on the platforms,

[47:49] but then we're not really getting the walk bys, passerby.

[47:52] Got it. And that's who we're really concerned about.

[47:54] - You'll you'll be central so

[47:56] that the kids will see you too.

[47:57] Like you pointed out that the kids coming

[47:59] out of school will see you as well.

[48:01] - That'd be great. - Alright. Say done. Cool.

[48:05] - I, I was gonna suggest to close the loop on this signage

[48:08] and private town, other owner property.

[48:13] Perhaps we push that out to next year.

[48:16] What we're doing this in the next two weeks is really PSA,

[48:20] like public safety announcements communication.

[48:23] So if we approach that same question with that

[48:29] in that way, with that strategy, perhaps

[48:33] there's a flyer

[48:34] that can be available at the town clerk's office along

[48:37] with other flyers like how

[48:38] to promote rail safety on your property, for instance,

[48:43] and take a more, not a,

[48:49] I guess it's a lighter touch than, than going directly

[48:51] to a single property owner

[48:52] and saying, Hey, can you sign this?

[48:55] Correct. Make the information available.

[48:58] - The, the bottom line on all this is the

[49:01] education is the key.

[49:03] I mean, we, we have to reach out.

[49:04] We have a whole generation of young people

[49:07] that have just automatically just seen the train, you know,

[49:10] come to Exeter now and 25 years it's been running

[49:15] and people just take it for granted.

[49:16] I think it's another, another toy like almost

[49:19] it's always gonna be there.

[49:21] And, and, and for example,

[49:25] taking pictures on the rails.

[49:26] I mean that is so asinine to,

[49:30] to have a photographer actually set up

[49:32] and take graduation pictures on the rails.

[49:34] It's done. Yeah. That's an education thing. Pictures, yeah.

[49:37] Kids, parents letting their kids put pennies on the rail.

[49:42] The parent steps down. The kid steps down.

[49:45] That's an education right there that's happening.

[49:47] That's negative. We need to correct that.

[49:49] That's the step that we need to correct at the crossings.

[49:54] I mean, people think that, oh, the gates are down.

[49:58] Oh, there must be something wrong with it. Go around it.

[50:00] That's wrong. The gates are down, stay there

[50:02] and and don't do anything.

[50:04] Go, go up a different way.

[50:06] I mean it's, education is the whole key to this.

[50:09] We just have to keep working at it.

[50:11] - We could set up a, a table during town meeting day.

[50:15] A lot of people go in there then. Yeah.

[50:17] What about just putting a big splash in the exit

[50:20] newsletter on the front page?

[50:22] I mean, you know, some people still do read the paper. Yes.

[50:28] And just that would be a headline.

[50:30] I mean, I, I'm not a, I could talk to Grace person, do it.

[50:34] You know, you have Jen actually is,

[50:36] or somebody has contacts with those people

[50:38] and just, just make it a huge headline

[50:41] that the town has adopted.

[50:42] The rail safety,

[50:47] the proclamation, pro proclamation.

[50:49] I mean that should be a headline.

[50:50] - Yeah, I agree. Good - Job Dan. Right? Yes, Scott.

[50:54] - I was just gonna say, could something go on the variable

[50:56] message board on Portsmouth have at the

[50:58] intersection of Holland Way?

[51:00] - That's exactly, I mean that would be a safety message. So

[51:04] - We have one on the other side of town too. Yeah,

[51:06] - I think we do.

[51:07] - Can we So put a new roundabout. Hold on. So Darren,

[51:12] - Hold on.

[51:13] Hold on, hold on. Bring a chair. Popcorn.

[51:15] - Could you look to see if the sign, the electronic signs

[51:19] that we have in the roundabout and come in

[51:21] and the town from both ways, right?

[51:23] Yeah. If they could put in the method of rail safety week.

[51:28] Can you guys gimme the language you'd like

[51:30] to see while we're here? It has to be short, right?

[51:34] - I like the headings. - Just the heading. What's that?

[51:36] - What Real safety rail safety rail safety

[51:39] and also sea C question

[51:43] mark train.

[51:45] - So real safety rail safety week C tracks

[51:51] - Trains.

[51:52] - Think Trains. Think trains. And

[51:53] - There's a question mark after c tracks.

[51:55] Right. And it might be late to ask the schools to do

[51:57] that on their displays for this year, but next year.

[52:00] True. We should dentist.

[52:05] - So we got a couple other general items to get through.

[52:08] We have less than 15 minutes, so we will go quickly.

[52:11] Sorry about bringing that up. That's okay. That's fine.

[52:14] That's, there's nothing more important than

[52:17] safety and rail safety.

[52:18] Yeah. Period. I know. So yeah, it's, it's fine.

[52:23] The one year goal is accept working any

[52:25] accessful working groups.

[52:26] I don't think we have any. So that will go, we'll continue

[52:29] to work on that for our next meeting.

[52:33] Status. State of good repair grant work.

[52:35] I believe we had update last time. Things were good and

[52:38] - Anything No, no change.

[52:40] No change. We, we, we are updating the needs for well

[52:44] - Ahead.

[52:45] One change there is is

[52:46] that the agreement has finally been signed between

[52:49] Deborah and the town.

[52:51] Okay. And we have a commitment from the town to

[52:55] continue on with the, with the items on the platform.

[53:00] - Excellent. Yeah. And so, so for the town, thank you.

[53:03] And to Nepro Thank you. And Bob, thank you. Thanks.

[53:07] Alright. We did receive no correspondence. There's none.

[53:12] Is there any other business, any items,

[53:13] topics for discussion?

[53:17] You went from we have 15 minutes to like done job.

[53:21] No, that was awesome. Wow. So we have 15 minutes to it.

[53:23] No, no, I just, that was awesome.

[53:25] Did we get through that Suzanne?

[53:26] Boom. Perfect. Alright. I like it.

[53:29] Okay, so our next meeting is the 15th of October from

[53:33] 11:00 AM till 12:00 PM One moment if we,

[53:38] if I get confirmation we're having a presentation,

[53:40] that meeting may expand a little bit.

[53:43] So until I get a confirmation

[53:45] that we're gonna have a presentation from OLI, we'll stick

[53:49] with that time, but it could

[53:50] adjust to be a little bit longer. Go ahead.

[53:53] - The, the final report of the charette

[53:57] may be out before our next meeting.

[53:59] Probably be out at least the next one.

[54:02] And so there's, we've very rightfully spent a lot

[54:06] of time talking real safety.

[54:08] But we need to come back to the results

[54:11] of that, when that comes in.

[54:12] The focus being on what, what will happen in the upgrades

[54:16] or whatever eventually for the railroad station.

[54:19] - Okay. - That has to be our, one of our top goals and

[54:23] - Our goals.

[54:24] Absolutely. Okay. And then

[54:29] the other thing, just future agenda items

[54:30] that just tenure.

[54:34] This is some notes. School board link

[54:36] share, overflow parking request.

[54:39] Our budget committee when our budget was submitted. Right?

[54:42] For a thousand? Yes. Okay, cool.

[54:46] And I think that's about it on the 25th.

[54:48] So reminder of the 25th anniversary, that down Easter is

[54:52] - December 15th, - The 15th

[54:54] and December, 2000, 26th, 25th anniversary.

[54:57] Yes. We'll have over 2 million riders.

[55:00] - Well, we're in the ballpark. I can't say exactly when,

[55:02] - But okay.

[55:03] - We are, we're getting close. - Alright, so

[55:05] for the lucky 2 million rider, will they get a prize?

[55:09] - A trip on the train? - Double double

[55:13] prizes in the record.

[55:14] Start Just start Sunday. Sunday. That's a great idea.

[55:19] Actually, you can start this week if you want.

[55:21] Marching. No, I don't think so.

[55:24] - If you wanna do something, I don't know how, how

[55:26] - Specific we, yeah, so just so clarification for

[55:31] our note taker, just talking with Darren, that I'd like

[55:35] to have this message start tomorrow

[55:38] to help promote rail safety week.

[55:39] So sh should I say rail safety week?

[55:41] Like week of or something like that? Or whatever.

[55:44] It's just rail rail safety week. Yeah. 21st. 21st or 27th.

[55:49] Yeah. 9 29 21.

[55:51] 2026 through, you know, 9 27. 9 27.

[55:55] Yeah. Or 9 21. That,

[55:59] - So we're talking about that, that that little

[56:02] - Right? Yeah.

[56:03] - Yeah. I would just, I mean the, the main point is

[56:07] to get the idea, Bob, what you would always say is,

[56:11] or Darius seed tracks thing training.

[56:15] Yes. I would just, I would just leave it simple.

[56:18] - Yeah. So, so just those words. Seed tracks thing. Train.

[56:21] No, don't stay rail safety week. Yeah. Yeah.

[56:23] - I, I mean is that the, I mean the, the point

[56:26] of the message is to, we want people,

[56:28] I mean, that's the takeaway.

[56:29] Yeah. Okay. I think it's less about the

[56:31] time and more about the message.

[56:33] - Is that Yeah, that, that's fine.

[56:35] As long as it just runs from that's,

[56:36] - That's just my suggestion. Yeah.

[56:38] - Yeah. It runs from the, tomorrow through the 27th. Got it.

[56:45] Got it. Cool. Any other topics, questions, suggestions?

[56:53] Bueller? Bueller a big thing to,

[56:58] to Anna bringing this all forward.

[57:01] Yeah. And, and Jen for everything.

[57:07] So Dan, I got some, I know there's more stuff coming,

[57:12] but would you like to take some of these as bookmarks?

[57:14] So the bookstore? Yeah, sure. Question mark.

[57:18] Just take what you want.

[57:19] I'll just take a pen and dish them up. Yeah.

[57:23] Some of this other stuff we'll hand out.

[57:25] But in the box there, there are key chains.

[57:30] And they're little whistles. Yeah. Little tiny whistles.

[57:34] Yeah. Blood. That's yours you bought. There you go.

[57:37] Oh, I want one. I want one. There's two though.

[57:40] There's, yeah, there's a big, that's a bigger one

[57:43] that makes it a, sounds like a train.

[57:44] Makes train. Right.

[57:45] But these are things that I'm sure Brian,

[57:47] you're bringing something similar.

[57:50] Okay. So these are some things

[57:51] that we can hand out or we will hand out.

[57:54] Or if you back to school. Oh, that's a good one.

[57:58] That's the one. So any,

[58:00] you have places you'd like, place some of these out.

[58:04] You can place some of them out.

[58:05] If you wanna take a couple bags, take bags with you.

[58:08] Otherwise I will bundle of them all back up

[58:11] and they'll be out on Friday at 1115.

[58:15] And the location that's been identified, 1103.

[58:18] Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. Thank you. Cool. Brian, anything?

[58:25] - We're good. Looking forward to being down there next time.

[58:28] - Thank you Brad. Jen, anything from you?

[58:33] Thank you for everybody. Good to see you.

[58:35] And thank you for all that you do

[58:36] and appreciate you very much.

[58:38] All right. With that said, I will

[58:40] entertain a motion to adjourn.

[58:42] So who second All those in the discussion?

[58:47] Same. None. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.

[58:51] All neither meeting adjourn. So thank you.

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Train Station Committee - 09/17/26

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