[0:10] All right. Well, let's begin then. So, this is the select board meeting for the town of Facedon on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026. It's 6 p.m. at the Robert Vester town hall. I'm Chuck Martell, for the select board.

[0:28] We're on degrees support and that's our town park and it's like board assisted and we have on zoom me so women is with us and Michael Miller also our guest on zoom.

[0:42] So let's begin first item on the agenda is to prove the select board meeting minutes of September 8, 2026 have chest read that.

[0:51] It didn't, all right, no questions, no.

[0:55] Motion to vote, make motion to group.

[0:57] I will second that.

[0:58] So we're all in favor.

[1:00] OK.

[1:02] I will sign those.

[1:08] Thank you, Maddie.

[1:10] Our next item is to approve the select board meeting minutes

[1:13] of September 15, 2026, which was a joint meeting

[1:17] with the town of Wakesfield to go over the fire department's budget.

[1:23] And that question, so this is just a minute, right?

[1:27] Yes.

[1:27] So how does the budget actually get approved?

[1:32] We vote on that.

[1:33] At the end of the year, we were, well, I was done at a joint meeting with...

[1:36] Yes.

[1:37] So I think we're going to do another meeting.

[1:42] Because that was a kind of what York was talking about at the end.

[1:44] It's like, well, we're meeting to...

[1:48] The reason I asked is because when they talk about buying those,

[1:53] blockers. Yeah, but yeah, so which were all four. And I'm just curious if that was something else that

[1:59] so uh, Witzfield was budgeting for June to July or whatever they're just players. So what

[2:08] what part of the the part of the grandma's have the same budgetary year, right? Yeah, I've thought

[2:16] of with Witzfield. I'm a soon. You know, I'm not sure. What do we fund? I mean, what?

[2:21] And I don't know when we fund it, but what are we funding?

[2:26] What is it June 30th or June 1 to July 1?

[2:33] Or is it January 1 to December 31st?

[2:37] Well, what we've done in the past is when we get the numbers from the fire department,

[2:43] and we'll waste your two with more from the fire department,

[2:46] then we decide how much we need to put in our budget for that following year,

[2:51] whether it's capital, it's fence, or operating in fence.

[2:56] So we just decided where we were.

[2:58] So one of those wonders, they grabbed that up at the meeting at the budget meeting,

[3:02] but they were going to buy this year on the wraps.

[3:06] Yes, and then they asked us to grant so we're going to do

[3:08] many good to get the seats to everybody's equipment is there,

[3:14] and they show up at the fire because they're getting out on the truck.

[3:17] It's kind of like, yeah, I was kind of thinking that when they're saying this year,

[3:20] like, yeah, I guess I don't know if they're trying to do in 2020.

[3:23] So I'm just saying, it's not in their budget, right?

[3:26] So this is a comma of a reserve correct.

[3:30] Yeah, because we didn't budget for that item naturally.

[3:33] Yeah, because the board that I know who's is correct.

[3:36] Yeah, so we will, yes, in a rear.

[3:38] So then yeah, with this point, as we tried not to do that, we're doing it again.

[3:44] Yeah, but I think after we have our budget meeting with them later in the

[3:49] there. It should not happen again like that. I mean, there's been more to season that'll come up,

[3:55] but yeah, but these were two items we hadn't budgeted for. I think we've got enough money

[4:00] and our cap holders work. We don't have to fund it because it's all that's a very good

[4:06] amount of pickup truck in the world. Yeah, so we may have to bump up our reserve next year to

[4:12] compensate for what we gave them this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[4:18] Okay. So we've already covered the next slide.

[4:21] I don't know.

[4:22] Yeah.

[4:23] No, so I'll make a motion to move on this one. Oh,

[4:26] Seth.

[4:27] All in favor. I.

[4:28] Okay.

[4:29] I will sign for us.

[4:31] I don't know how they do this. I guess we should

[4:33] approve it as well.

[4:36] Yeah.

[4:36] I was going to send it over to your,

[4:37] because I think it was technically

[4:38] our year at the host meeting.

[4:40] Yes.

[4:40] So, I think us approving them actually, it's last year we just took theirs.

[4:46] It would be good if we did with that.

[4:50] Additions or deletions.

[4:54] I've got one sort of two items actually.

[4:56] Some specific in the mail that we need to designate somebody.

[5:02] And I think the person who we mad is representing the

[5:06] the sweatboard of representing the town on this particular boat, but I'll get into it when we get to that, so I'll add it to other business and then it shouldn't take us long to

[5:18] to go through that.

[5:20] I know public comments, I don't think if anybody on Zoom wants to jump in and I'll see any hands raised, so we'll move on.

[5:30] I'm out fell in sign and tree cutting.

[5:33] Yeah, I was just giving, so Josh had said, we had gone back and forth on this of if

[5:40] sure George was helping with the sign or not.

[5:42] We all really found out that they're not, but then there were some trees that were getting

[5:46] marked.

[5:47] I just didn't know is our road cruise was to cut them or is sure to rush cutting.

[5:52] Well I think we were.

[5:53] Okay.

[5:53] And I get the push, Josh flagged a lot to your foot and Jim was still looking at him as

[5:58] was okay. I just, yeah, I don't think they're going to come. Okay, I just wanted to double check on that

[6:04] because I need a refined person with that was off. And he has Josh has the sign. Josh has the

[6:11] signs. Yeah, Josh told me he was, they finished just online and they're doing a little bit of

[6:16] ditching on marble hell, but then they're going to put signs up. Oh yeah, they might, they might

[6:21] soon they were not going to do with the cracks, they'll lose you. Well, I don't know. I think they're

[6:25] trying to do pop holes or coaxialing.

[6:28] I don't know that they have both stuff,

[6:30] but I'm assuming it's probably going to work.

[6:31] That son didn't have to go in.

[6:34] I mean, media, yeah, I have to do a lot.

[6:37] Before they brought his as well,

[6:38] I was going to stop seeing Josh, but I've been too busy

[6:40] and I don't even know if he did that.

[6:42] I was talking about that.

[6:42] Yeah, they've been on top of that.

[6:44] I mean, he's like, I'm getting better than every day.

[6:46] No, it's special.

[6:47] I mean, German process.

[6:49] Well, German, fun, so much.

[6:50] I mean, he's got to come out doing North-based,

[6:53] It's a very, very kill, very kills, you know.

[6:56] We've just been getting a lot of calls on

[6:58] on pop holes on during the time.

[6:59] Those are all pop holes, yeah.

[7:00] And how they got, they got pop holes next as well.

[7:03] You haven't been getting calls on it.

[7:06] Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[7:07] Yeah, fair.

[7:08] And just for the folks back home, so they know that the signage

[7:13] we're talking about has been a B&D.

[7:16] And of this, the Mount Ellen access row,

[7:20] because we've had so many people that fly down that

[7:23] rodents go out past onto German flats road and wind up in the gargerel on the edge.

[7:30] On the other side of the road, so we're hoping this will get the retention and slow them down so that we can cut back on those number of accidents. So that's the sign that we're talking about here.

[7:42] All right. All right. Next item is to recap or summarize the fire department budget meeting. I think we probably just did that with your questions.

[7:54] I think that was good, I think they put it together.

[7:59] I think I actually thought I think Mike thought the same thing.

[8:03] That we were, York said down with the chief for putting that budget together.

[8:07] I think Mike was thinking that he was going to be part of that discussion too.

[8:14] Maybe we could just, like, it's better, it's improving, right?

[8:19] Yeah.

[8:19] I think that's what my thoughts were going to be happening.

[8:24] And you know, if Mike is willing,

[8:27] so as we were gathering after the meeting was over,

[8:31] I'm adding was there in Sarah,

[8:33] York and myself and we were talking about the next budget meeting

[8:36] that we're going to have.

[8:38] And they were talking about a select board member being there,

[8:43] Tom Clark's being there, right?

[8:46] And Sarah.

[8:47] So, if Mike wants to, if he can, that then be great to have him at this budget meeting.

[8:55] So, there's a purpose for the next one.

[8:58] Yeah.

[8:58] The next one.

[8:59] So, the purpose of this one is to go in line by line.

[9:03] And go sit in this.

[9:04] Yeah.

[9:05] Yeah.

[9:05] That's what we make sure, Mike.

[9:08] Okay.

[9:08] Yeah.

[9:09] If he can do it, that'd be great.

[9:11] If he could take that on.

[9:13] And if you can't, then I'll do one of us to do it because someone should be there.

[9:18] Yes, we don't want to leave a void when we're best.

[9:21] Right, that's exactly that.

[9:23] Yeah, so I think that should work out.

[9:28] Yeah.

[9:30] All right, next item is an update on the More Town local option tax.

[9:34] And I just wanted to let you guys know and gathers.

[9:39] that more talent had asked Josh Schwartz to do a presentation at their select board meeting

[9:47] last night to talk about LOTs in general, because they're just at the very point of thinking

[9:56] about it.

[9:57] They haven't even got as far as as far as that thing as a little bit of a discussion.

[10:02] So anyway, Josh asked if I would go representing face that in case something came up that

[10:08] related to the zip codes and all those other things that we've talked about, and then David

[10:14] Badapline, who was on their LOT committee at Wastefield, and is also on the steering committee

[10:19] for the planning district. So, anyways, the three of us were at the meeting last night. And just

[10:25] had a general discussion, Josh, did his presentation listing all of the contact information

[10:31] at the Treasury Department and that kind of stuff and what is an LOTC and how it all worked.

[10:39] So that was it. We didn't get into any really great details. They were at the

[10:44] murderer being like a sort of thinking about it. And they're going to be in the same situation

[10:50] that we are. It's going to be hard to get for our members to make a decision on because

[10:56] Australia Department can't give out the information as we know. So there'll be a lot of

[11:03] guest work in coming up with the numbers. So I just wanted to let you know that I was there.

[11:10] It was kind of nice to go to some of the else's like we're meeting and see how the whole thing operates

[11:16] and all and so it was good meaning.

[11:22] You know, I got to tell you, they're pretty quick.

[11:25] We buy a lot of stuff online.

[11:28] You know, tapes and wraps, some kind of stuff.

[11:31] They're all over the 7% already.

[11:33] They know it's coming away from them.

[11:34] Oh, yeah.

[11:35] There's all these companies now.

[11:37] The state has a way where they meet a threshold.

[11:40] These companies have to charge tax if they're shipping them from on.

[11:45] Yes, yeah, and everything is based on, I think they call it the point of delivery, so like if you're good out, yes, exactly.

[11:57] So if you buy it in a store that's physically located in Waysville, you pay it, but if online, your physical location isn't in Waysville.

[12:07] You know, I don't know how companies so for business it's easy and hard to restore you going

[12:12] you buy it.

[12:13] Yeah.

[12:13] But somebody like Hurricane Miles said deliverers, you know, I don't know.

[12:18] Yeah.

[12:19] Because I think if you buy it in Waysville and you deliver it in someplace else, you have to

[12:24] show that that delivery was not in a, well, it's okay.

[12:28] Well, we buy it.

[12:29] We buy it.

[12:29] So a lot of our windows come out of wills.

[12:32] If they deliver them to us, who used to be six percent, if we go there and get it, it was

[12:37] 10% because Wilson has no teeth. So that was true. Yeah, so that was real. So we delivered to us. We have that. Yeah. Yeah.

[12:47] Interesting. Yeah.

[12:50] So you know, that that was it. And I just want to let everybody else anything. Yeah, yeah, it was a good meeting.

[12:55] That was up to eight percent, right?

[12:57] They were strong. I don't know what that did. It goes through. Well, yeah. It's been like this. So they're really a percent. I think.

[13:03] but I know they were trapped, they had to move.

[13:05] Absolutely.

[13:06] Make permission.

[13:06] And make permission.

[13:06] They would have 50, 50 for the road.

[13:10] So the next 1% is for roads in the state keeps half.

[13:17] Oh yeah.

[13:18] So that was a separate LOT that the highway department was trying to be trans was trying to push

[13:24] so they did and it passed.

[13:28] Yeah.

[13:28] And some people are doing it.

[13:30] Yeah.

[13:31] Interesting.

[13:31] I hadn't heard that it passed, no, no, no, no, because I estimate, and I, you know,

[13:37] misoppersent, I go, Jesus, I realized that was an option. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I say.

[13:43] Oh, well, more bad news.

[13:48] Okay. Um, so next item is to review the upcoming budget meetings

[13:53] scheduled, which we haven't fun of us fear. Yeah, just was really like, as long as dates are

[14:01] Okay, but then also, for the municipal building one,

[14:06] why do we want Dave, right to join?

[14:08] That's a good thing.

[14:09] So you know, double check with him to make sure that date works.

[14:13] Oh no, the other thing was payroll.

[14:14] Did you guys want a separate one for payroll?

[14:18] Or did you want to try to do it?

[14:20] And it knows cemetery.

[14:22] I'm assuming someone's gonna come from the cemetery.

[14:24] And then sometimes reserves can take a little bit of time.

[14:27] Let's assume I didn't do cemetery

[14:29] because her payroll would have to be here.

[14:33] I think she probably could go to the show.

[14:35] She's going to come to all of them.

[14:36] I think that she's.

[14:37] We just didn't know if that would be too much,

[14:41] but we can also have an extra one.

[14:44] So it becomes too much, you can always put payroll.

[14:46] I would bump it over.

[14:48] But I wouldn't have stopped the payroll

[14:49] or that may have been a better show to the night.

[14:52] One, yeah.

[14:52] But you know, so I think I already mentioned,

[14:54] Monday to the 23rd, I'll be out of town, Rosu.

[14:58] Okay, I'll be out of the 24th

[15:04] Okay, okay. Okay. Okay.

[15:08] So I don't know. Well, maybe I just go through the days on, so the folks that are watching, no, when I've been here, it's coming up. So we're starting off on October 26th at 6 p.m. November 2nd at 5 p.m. November 16th at 6 p.m. November 23rd at 6 p.m.

[15:31] November 30th at 6 p.m. December 7th at 6 p.m. 12 21 December 21th at 6 p.m.

[15:40] If we need that meeting, that's kind of a little buffer there.

[15:44] And then the final review will take place on Monday, January 4th, 2027.

[15:51] Oh, yeah.

[15:53] So that's the schedule.

[15:57] And we'll try to stick to it again.

[16:02] And might be seeing this as well,

[16:04] so I think he was good with the days.

[16:06] I think we're good to go.

[16:09] Okay, so we're done out of the business.

[16:11] So what happened, Ron,

[16:13] and it is these two valves came in the mail.

[16:16] They're both from VLCT.

[16:18] One of them is to nominate people

[16:21] to the board of directors for a property and casualty.

[16:24] into municipal fund board of directors and the other one is for employment resource and

[16:32] benefit trusts board of directors. The instructions say, please provide these ballot materials

[16:39] to an official within your municipality as soon as possible. This official so, and then it goes on to

[16:48] a select board chair, municipal manager, town administrator, elected mayor, et cetera, et cetera.

[16:54] This official said, does it date a person to complete and submit the ballot on behalf

[17:00] of them as municipality?

[17:02] The designation suddenly authorized by the legislative-related body, which is us.

[17:08] Once a person has been designated to cast the ballot, it's important to the ballot be cast

[17:13] by the due date, by the approved methods,

[17:15] as listed in post-veterios, so this documents

[17:18] to be signed in everything else here.

[17:21] So our mission should we accept it?

[17:24] This is to say, is to designate somebody

[17:28] to will vote on our behalf on these ballots

[17:32] for these boarded to record positions at the LCTI.

[17:36] So I would nominate Matty to be our person to do that.

[17:41] So, okay, I guess we're all in favor.

[17:45] So Matty, the names are listed on here,

[17:49] and one case is one candidate, and one ballot to be cast.

[17:55] And then the other situation, this four candidates,

[17:57] and four ballots, can be cast.

[18:00] So, folks, it's great.

[18:05] I think your name was one of the ones on that.

[18:07] So, like you didn't have anything else to do.

[18:13] First, thanks.

[18:14] All right, congratulations, Maddie.

[18:15] Thank you.

[18:18] So I think we've officially done that in the appropriate manner.

[18:23] And there was no other business.

[18:25] So we are down to reading the mail and it's not in the warrant.

[18:29] Yes, for some reason, they came in Sarah's name.

[18:32] Yeah.

[18:32] And so that's why it happened.

[18:33] Yeah, for that was the only mail.

[18:36] The same thing.

[18:38] It's like a new dream on the other side.

[18:40] Yeah.

[18:40] It's like a little bit.

[18:49] Oh, my God.

[18:52] What size is that?

[18:56] I don't know if I could travel with anything.

[18:58] So, I know.

[19:08] I was thinking the TV was a person.

[19:12] Oh, you know, I just got it because it was the TV that it was.

[19:20] Yeah.

[19:20] You got it.

[19:21] That's my husband.

[19:22] Yeah.

[19:26] So it's just, it's carving the TV.

[19:31] Well, you know, I'm adding if that check went to set,

[19:36] 335,000, 605.

[19:39] Was that combination of the two invoices they sent us?

[19:42] Sorry, I don't remember what there was a total swar in East. Yes, that was a festive effect.

[19:58] Oh, yeah, there we go. 140 and something like that with you.

[20:02] Yeah.

[20:03] Cosmos? Well, see.

[20:08] 43.

[20:10] Yeah, we're completing five and a minute.

[20:13] almost halfway there, yeah. Have you been down there recently? No, I used to go look

[20:21] every couple weeks. Yeah, then, so like my son and log is down there this weekend.

[20:27] I wanted to go for a hike and see if we can get a cross to the roof, you know, which he did,

[20:33] but he said the bridge of buttons are in place and so his thinking was not going to take a lot to

[20:41] for getting the steel girders and stuff, and then it's a wood debt, right?

[20:46] Yeah. Oh, well, not quite sure if it's concrete wood. This wood, yeah.

[20:52] I think it put them that way.

[20:53] Thank you so much.

[20:54] Oh, that would be a very female effort in that.

[20:57] Well, no, I think they would look like that.

[20:58] Well, so I'm going to make it.

[21:01] I want to answer. I saw Randall for the first time yesterday.

[21:04] I drew up down. I hadn't seen it.

[21:06] Oh, yeah.

[21:07] Yeah. So what was your take on that?

[21:08] Yes.

[21:09] Yeah.

[21:11] And a picture.

[21:12] Oh, OK.

[21:13] Yeah.

[21:14] Yeah.

[21:15] We're

[21:23] coming back tomorrow morning for the O.A. meeting.

[21:27] OK.

[21:28] 10.

[21:29] 10.

[21:34] 10.

[21:39] 10.

[21:49] 10.

[21:49] like crazy, and so I guess that's yeah. That must have been when it was.

[21:56] Is it my color for the sand?

[21:59] Yes.

[22:02] Oh, well, and also stone for the project's first Smith and Charter.

[22:09] They finished both of them. Smith and Charter.

[22:15] He said that they, I think they might have to give a little bit of that.

[22:19] See you then in one slot.

[22:21] I will turn it.

[22:22] Okay.

[22:22] It's so nice, huh?

[22:26] All right.

[22:31] So I guess we can adjourn, I'll make a motion to adjourn if 623, we're all in favor. So we are adjourning. Thank you everybody.

Fayston Selectboard 9-22-26

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