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» No, Zoom. Zoom will You can't see
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>> Okay. All right. I'd like to uh call the

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July meeting to order. We'll start off
with the pledge of allegiance. Pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America, to the republic for

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which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, liberty and justice for

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all.
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I we have no public tonight. Therefore,
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Uh, I'd like to ask the board to accept
the meeting minutes from previous

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meeting to accept the minutes. Get a
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» Second.
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» I.
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Motion to accept the consent agenda.
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» I'll second it.
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» Anybody opposed?
a lot of reports. Um,

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no real update on the low control rate
other than what we've got sent out.

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» Other than what was sent out, although
Shel did say that there was another

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complaint. Yes, we had got one. Yeah.
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uh parks and recrecks. The uh we had the
kids down at the

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Kent sportsman for child unlimited day.
It was a great day. Well attended today.

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They got to go to a zoo south of us. Um
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We questioned uh the weather report, but
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trip in a bus. I felt it was safe to go
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decision at the end of the day.
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» you had the circus.
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three?
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» So far everything's been going great.
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» They swimming. Lots of swimming.

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I did have a uh complaint about um one
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It it was normal normal wear and tear as
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a normal replacement probably at the end
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year at this point unless uh it gets
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there is a tree in that tree line that
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over. We will get that out of the net.
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» It It's still in our property. So,
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the loan guy mentioned it to me and we
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machine got dropped off to take care of
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» Nice.
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taken care of that Monday morning park
reopen. They actually closed on that

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» To the weather.
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questions or comments on our parks?
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senior report.
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pit pickic over the beginning of July,
the Get Sportsman. I'd like to thank

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Craig and Dan for stopping by. They
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handled the grill. It was an awfully hot
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bit, but we probably had about 70
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was cool in there. People brought
salads. I think everyone had a good

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» I think it was a good day. Um, Abby
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provided a bluegrass band for
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of music. There wasn't much dancing
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think it was very successful. So,
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» they had fun. It sounded good
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nice location. Um, yesterday I did go to
the office for the aging meeting. Can I

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go to that right now? Is that okay?
I'd like to share with you all um a

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quarterly magazine that the office for
the agent is putting out the senior

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scoop. Um have a lot of information.
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» I bring them in county.
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We're going to make sure that these are
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meetings. Um there's over 100 members
now. The next meeting will be the

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beginning of August over the Westg
church. Um at the meeting yesterday we

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had a presentation from Luis Marks from
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um about the concept of a village
members pay a small fee to join and then

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they're um kind of in a group that will
help them with different services. You

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know it's it kind of is a spin-off for
the office for the aging. It's it's like

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a it coordinates with them because they
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three-month lead time on transportation
where these folks have volunteers who

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can take you to an appointment if you
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transportation is one of the biggest
issues that they have. They're always

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looking for volunteers. It's mostly the
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that's involved in this. Um the fees
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they have social events and things that
matineese, things like that that they

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get together for. So it's just kind of
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aging. Um,
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the second o oldest population in New
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which is interesting, which is going to
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in the future. They're concerned about
that. Um, office of agents also working

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on an AI interactive program for seniors
where they can either call in or go

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online to for resources. And they're
asking every town to have like a liaison

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that can go over their services and
review it once a month or something like

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that. So, and I think that was it.
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the fairgrounds, right?
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September. Yes. I'm sorry, I forgot
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of different people there discussing
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and next month it's going to be someone
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scams at seniors at the monthly meeting.
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» nice. Any questions or comments for
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Marie, is that they might want to just
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County Human Services.
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» Because they created a resource guide
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online.
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» That uses an AI tool when you type in
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sort.
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and it's just kind of in the beginning
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» yeah, the the one that that they had put
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and and other counties been really
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» you know, and they just kind of wanted
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you know, that everyone can kind of who
Do you know who um who that service is

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provided through?
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helped set it up with John a
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» Thank you, Marie.
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planning and zoning. Any uh questions on
any of the reports that our liaison

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» good reports
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» Yeah.
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active and it's always very thorough,
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» Okay.
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you both of your guys minutes are are
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the me how it went from it. So keep up
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» Climate Smart
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» Um so Climate Smart met with the joint
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this past Tuesday the 14th. um just to
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everybody on the same page and identify
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work on together. And so I think that
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Climate Smart is going to work on uh
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getting set for community day at their
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Um, and at what point in the meeting,
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appointments for the beautifification
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» Um, I haven't Have we Have I been left
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anything yet?
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were interested.
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» maybe we should table it till next month
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the resumes. What do you think? Because
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if we wait another month. It was we
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do it formally that way. People sent us
sent email of interest.

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» and sometimes that's good enough too if
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didn't see anything. So, I'm not
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would be talking about.
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» Yeah. I make a motion that we table it
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us just a letters of interest is all we
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that. I don't think they need to do
formal resumes or anything. So,

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» just a little something about him and
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» and it would be probably good to have
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» back too. Not that we couldn't do it
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» He had me nervous there and I thought I
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» Okay.
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» And one thing, Carl, I wanted to
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» I've heard some names. Yeah.
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» And then in the you know, in the the
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were uh who were at the meeting and then
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interested who were who were not at the
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Jen's donor, right?
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» Yeah, Jen's been out of country, so he
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» It would just be typically our
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paper record a little bit still today
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of interest. Okay. What happens is a lot
of times that'll be over. It'll be more

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than we're looking for, but they're
great resources afterwards to pull if

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somebody wants to step down or can't
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another
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» right? And we and in the past, we've
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too. Okay.
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interest to try to help out and
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» So, I'd rather not skip over that.
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» It's a good tool.
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and Beautifification are going to be a
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going to share a table yet. It's going
to depend on space. But I think that's

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also a good way to see if there's anyone
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interested also.
>> Yeah. And that's that's a lot of what

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committee was hoping for was that people
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committee, there is interest and you
know recognize people and have a

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conversation.
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county report, the EMC, and I didn't
get, once again, I'm going to follow the

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same thing. I want some letters of
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uh, you know, our climate smart folks to
advertise amongst them

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» since they're close to it, but we don't
need to. and um I can send them the same

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offer as we maybe post and we'll see
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nominate somebody next meeting.
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The other big thing down at county that
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about in workshop to more detail is our
uh rates have changed on our senior tax

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exemption which we currently already
provide. Uh so we'll have a discussion

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as the uh information becomes more
available uh on the impact and poss you

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know that it may have on this town.
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» well it comes out of GB any
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» rail trail. I have no report.
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down the bar house where we were talking
about y is anything going on there or

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» just um there's a couple
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weren't approved for the grant to
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Uh, I was told not to try, but I tried
everything I can get. It It fit their

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description. We were second runners up,
but they only handed out money to one

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project this year out of the whole
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but since then we've had some things
change with our uh with DOT

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and I have to renew some of my markings.
That's why you see those stakes still

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existing
because some rules have changed. One

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thing I've learned in uh this side of
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to move as fast as you can because all
the time things are changing and you put

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a year or two into a project and all a
sudden it's different. You saw it. They

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can't build again. They had a u another
section of their master plan that was

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once approved already,
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changed their rules. So, this was
already drawn out. This is sort of what

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we're kind of running into a little bit
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rail trail permits and applications.
It's taking [clears throat]

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their reason it takes us so long
and then they changed the game the rules

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on this so you work in one direction
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» Yeah. Yeah. The goal post keep changed
them the other day. So someone now there

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we're trying a little different
approach. Um, I may send

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I'm on the fence on sending the greenway
back, but I do know that it's not it was

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correct when I originally applied.
Things have changed since then and I

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can't get I am bond to I can't get
everybody to work together to help me

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represent the corrections.
>> So, it's very frustrating

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with the positive mark that we're out
there. We we know where our local DOT

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wants us to be.
>> We know the design. We know what it

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looks would look like,
>> but there's more players in it. Parks

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and wreck.
>> Yeah.

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» Uh DEC, believe it or not, has a role in
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Parks and Wreck and DHC
don't seem to get along that good for

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some reason. I don't know if one's got a
better office than the other, but

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um so that's that's my that's my no rail
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community engagement. Dan's not here. I
don't know if Marie, you're a part of

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that. You're co- on
>> Yeah, community day is moving along.

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Vendors, you know, I forgot to look
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» We're going to hopefully max out on
space. um anyone that was a sponsor we

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sent a letter to encouraging them if
they sent us a check if they want to

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display if they're in the town again
what we're doing and we're talking about

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next week we're going to meet on Monday
we're going to kind of map out who's

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going to go where maybe put all the kids
activities together this time because I

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know that was one of our weak spots last
year they said that the kids were kind

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of scattered so maybe want put the kids
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and it looks like the Westg ladies are
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They always have good pies and pastries.
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The BFW is going to do their food and I
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supposed to be committed also.
>> Yeah, they're doing some

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» Yeah, lots of good food. So
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» It's moving along. Um
>> should be a good day.

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» I think we're a little bit above last
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» And I got some more in this one.
>> Okay, good. Good. And Dave Romanuk's

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going to do the bag pipes. And
>> do you know Dave Romanuk? Nice guy. He's

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gonna play the bag pipes with the G band
gonna play and I think Marilyn and I

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can't remember who partner is gonna do
the music. Marilyn and

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» Rick Warren.
>> Yes.

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» Yeah, they're good.
>> Yep. So, everything's moving along.

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» Good.

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» Any questions or comments for Marie?
>> Affordable housing. Every I don't think

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I don't even know if Dan submitted
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think anything's been really moving. So,
>> Oh, I think he did submit that they had

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a meeting.
>> Okay. Okay.

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» I think he did submit somewhere for
>> affordable housing.

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» He said they uh
>> they did meet

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» they did a they're expected spend the
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» Yeah, they've had one meeting. Yeah.
>> Carl, you Carl, you kind of went over

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the uh beautifification, but is there
anything more you'd like because we do

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have a slot for you now.
>> Um no, you know, it was it was nice to

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have have a young young
people's interest in and being part of

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the group as well as some of the people
like Tracy who's been part of Planet

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Smart before to have uh you know her
feedback on the beautifification

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committee and you know I think we have
some really talented people in our

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community who are you know stepping up
to to offer their help with us. I think

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it'll it'll be a good community to get
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» All right, sounds good. Um, I went over
and workshop because I don't believe we

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were recording. We may have been, but we
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» You don't know if we're recording now.
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» I was I I proposed to have our new
accounting firm, Bob Patterson, come out

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and speak. Uh, he's put off till the
20th of August. he will come out to our

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workshop then and introduce and go over
things and help set me up for hopefully

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a uh uh update where we're at. Um I also
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They're the outfit that owns our level
three charger or produced our level

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three charger to try to come up with
some remedies to uh get that up and

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going again.
We've been discussing uh upgrading our

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phone services here and our broadband in
this town hall.

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I'll have more to follow on that as I
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» That'd be a possibility at the garage.
>> It's they've been at the garage with

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Matt
>> with Wendy already.

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» We can get that click out of your lens.
>> Bad. Yeah,

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» it's bad.
>> We're dropping. We're dropping.

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Normally, if you call out, you don't
have as much problem. You have the

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clicking in your ear. But when they call
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» I lost her like three times
>> off on us completely. Like hung up.

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» Yeah.
>> You hit answer and they're still talking

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like nothing on their end.
>> I'm looking I'm looking to try to get a

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company to bundle and improve our
services that we have in a package. We

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have four out buildings that are
included. I think what I say 10 or 11

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phone systems. Uh broadband should be
improved and uh everything about it.

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We're getting pretty outdated here and
it shows up at planning board

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» zoning uh court
>> court's number one complaint that I get

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um
you know right to our own very own

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meetings uh when we can't cast from this
laptop sitting here to the TV on certain

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nights.
>> So we got to update it. Uh, a bundle

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would be nice where with currently with
two outfits that Bill's you guys sign

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them, it's very confusing to keep track
of and I think there's a little waste in

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some of them. So hopefully it works out
and I can bring something next meeting

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that we can improve and get moving on
sooner than later.

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» Highway Ben. All right. Uh we have been
quite busy with uh heavy rain and uh

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wind storms. Uh believe was classified
as a micro burst which is a lot of

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different direction winds, a lot of
straight winds. Uh I was on vacation

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when this happened. Uh it was a very
long night for me on the phone. Um this

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is uh not the worst we've had here in
the 19 years that I've been here. Um,

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but uh the the crew definitely uh had
their challenges on some roads. Uh first

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phone call came in to me just before
10:00 and by 4:00 a.m. in the morning

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they had every road opened up except for
three that had power lines down. Uh by

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6:00 the next morning, I had a few of
the guys come in

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» and they were here till 4:00 that
afternoon making sure everything else

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was tended to pushing everything out
farther away from the road so the guys

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couldn't get that far in the dark.
uh until Saturday afternoon, everything

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was clear except for the three roads. Uh
I think it was around 4:00 Saturday

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afternoon, but I got the final call that
my last road was open and those were due

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to power lines
>> and we do not touch anything with power

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lines for our safety.
>> Um with requests from me, I reached out

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to other towns for shared service on
this uh matter. Um, Clive, Stockport,

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Kim Hook, and New Lebanon all came in
with chippers and crews to give us a

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hand. And within four days, we had 99%
of all the damages cleaned up and tended

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to, which is pretty good for the amount
that we had. Uh, and then we actually

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went to the village of Chadam on Monday
to give them a hand, which they were

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very elated to have us come over. The
crew has been uh, working diligently in

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the shop on uh, rebuilding a 2014
utility body. The subtrain was shot from

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those initial northeast salt. Uh they're
in the middle of putting that all back

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together right now. It's moving quite
well amongst all the other repairs that

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are going on.
The uh repairs throughout the town for

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upgrades on roads uh such as Arch
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that uprooted through the creek bed base
and the crew actually uh that was the

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very first project they used the new
excavator on and that was a uh

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definitely a learning curve with the
machine with all the abilities it has

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but they were very pleased to have it
and it made the project that much easier

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to be able to manipulate u laying of the
stone in different directions and

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orientations. Um, I wasn't there when
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when I came back for the uh the end of
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I bought this machine for, it did
exactly what I wanted to do. I was

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hoping to show video. It's not working.
Uh I don't know if it's a server or

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what, but um we were picking up uh 20
foot logs uh 3 foot in diameter like

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they were pickup sticks and the machine
was able to set them in the back of the

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truck without the truck rocking and us
dropping them in or using chains, which

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is a safety hazard for the crew.
>> Um we picked up uh one road in less than

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eight hours that was absolutely
devastated with uh probably about 18

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trees down. We were actually able to
grab one tree right out of the earth and

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move it out of our way for safety
reason. So I was very happy with it and

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they actually just finished up some
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So if you cover out and about take a
ride and see what the machine did, it's

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pretty impressive. So um
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we've been uh getting ready to do some
paving and some chip sealing. Uh we

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intend on doing that the end of July,
beginning of August. All depends on what

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those crews schedules are with the
weather and uh other towns that have

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gotten some storm damage as well. I had
to push them off a little bit. So, a lot

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of jumping around doing other towns, but
uh I haven't gotten the dates yet for

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our systems be done yet, but we will be
moving forward on sealing and uh paving

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some roads. So,
with that said, it's been awful warm and

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smoky outside.
Uh, but the crew has been doing a good

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job. Well, I'm very pleased. And
>> you know what I was impressed with?

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Because I sat on the porch because they
had no power, which was kind of weird

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because we very rarely use power.
>> The plows.

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» They had the plows on and we're plowing
down getting the debris out of the room.

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I never would have thought of that. I
was like, "Wow."

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» The uh the the certain trucks plows are
set out that they can be put on.

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» Yeah.
thought of it. Yeah.

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» Yeah.
>> That's the easiest way for us to move.

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» It saves a ton of time. But to get
through 138 miles in six hours with only

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five guys running and only four trucks
had files on them. So

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» this the county had them on too, I
think, didn't they?

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» They they very well made.
>> Yeah, I thought so.

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» Yes, they did. We got to thank the uh
firefighters as well.

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» Yeah.
>> And the farmers

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» farmers did they helped out a lot. the
neighbors came out. I thank them as

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well. The ones that I knew did stuff.
So,

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» yep.
>> DJ Trobridge did

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» quite a bit.
>> Quite a bit.

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» Y
>> he made it up with Chattam.

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» Yep.
>> So,

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166 was blocked. So, he opened up every
night to Slate Hill.

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» I would say that
>> that our town cannot operate on just a

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single group of people. is a huge group
effort, especially when uh mother nature

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takes his wrath. Y
>> I'm really sorry to call you at 11:30 at

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night.
>> You know, I got we got to thank um you

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know, Columbia County Emergency
Management,

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Bubba Harrison, he he pulled a group of
us together and we were prepared for the

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worst. We had ice and water coming from
through an ice center. Uh we voted on

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letting uh Chadam fire company be the
central location rather than having it

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spread all over. And if anybody needed
it and couldn't get to us, there was

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people ready to run it. So
>> I I felt that this was probably the most

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organized
event in the 14 years that I've been the

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boss. uh everything came together.
>> I was getting phone calls all throughout

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the night and there was all people that
>> I've been wanting to have me make those

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phone calls to and say, "Hey, what can
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» And uh relaying those messages.
>> Chris called me from a couple fire calls

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and he must he might have called you
too, didn't he?

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» I got you. Yeah, but it was it was it
was good to have like you said, Bubba,

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you mean we I'm sitting on the emergency
management for me county and we put

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together a plan of action for when we
have major disasters,

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you know, things can go on with the
fair. You know, we have a huge influx of

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people and that's where a lot of this
leads from is the community outreach and

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having the right people. probably close
to 20 people around the table that all

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had a role to play and uh it was it was
good to see.

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» Any other questions or comments for Ben?
>> No, I'd like to say thank you to you

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folks that handled this. I feel bad
because on my end of town, we did not

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realize anything was really going on.
Unfortunately, where I was, we had very

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minimal damage. We just knew that Chadam
and they were telling us to stay out of

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Chadam. So
>> it was ugly from

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it was ugly from Kinder Hook Farm.
>> Yep.

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» Diagonal
>> through our town.

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» And honestly over the other
bizarre

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» Megan said nothing her way.
>> It was like a different world.

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» We had a couple trees down in her
backyard.

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» But thank you. Especially Craig, Dan,
Ben, your crews, Wall-E, Shelley held

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the fort down.
>> Yep. and choose dispatch.

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[laughter]
>> I just stayed away.

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» Um,
>> unfinished business. I'm going to

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» to accept Ben's report.
>> Oh, yeah. Motion to accept Ben's report.

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» I'll make a motion to accept Ben's
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» You got a second.
>> Second.

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» All in favor?
>> I.

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» Anybody opposed?
>> Once again, thank you, Ben. Um,

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» thank you.
>> Tech update. I'm going to leave for Dan

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next uh meeting, but as most of us I
think sitting here, we all have our

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emails up and going
>> and uh pretty happy. Uh I think it went

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other than them trying to do it during a
storm with many power outages.

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» No,
>> I can't imagine how they were so

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successful to be honest. Uh so delay it
one day which was helpful.

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» Yeah, Mike and Dan, thanks so far when
if you hear this

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Um, and I think there's some fine
tuning, but overall pretty happy with

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uh, you know, what we're able to to do
and uh, get done. So, I'm going to leave

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that for Dan to uh, follow up on.
>> Dan sent a letter and um, this week.

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» Yeah, I got it. It came out
>> in your packet.

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He did want us to bring up uh one
deficiency versus the court ban. We

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identified in the recent storm is that
reliance on the internet to do emergency

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communication with residents may
insufficient as we know as we discussed

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in the
um

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workshop.
>> Y

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» we've been having a few issues
in inside here.

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Village of Chattam uses a mass texting
service and when the dust settles from

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this tech update, we would like the
board's agreement with the board's

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agreement. We will pursue this enough to
find out the option so we could do such.

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So
>> yeah, they're still

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N.
>> Oh, they've been doing it for a while.

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» Oh, yeah.
>> Yeah.

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» Oh. um or anything
because they

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» I'm on it because of
>> course their their water system is is

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fed through the wells here in Gent the
generator wasn't working

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» and therefore with no power
>> they were on they were able to put out a

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ma mass text to those that signed up for
it to

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» limit their use
and

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» let everybody know that it's a state of
emergency. So,

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» good idea.
>> But they're able to keep people up to

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date
at a schedule. So,

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» I think it's a great idea.
>> I think so. A lot of times you can't you

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don't have access to email or whatever,
but you get a text,

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» right?
>> But explore it

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» unless you're in the hamlet.
>> I think it's a no-brainer.

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» Anything for that's public safety. So,
>> yes.

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» How do you go about gathering all the
names though, Wally? How does

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» you sign on? They have to sign up.
>> We do advertise. They just sign up.

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» Okay.
>> Put it in our newsletter.

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» I was going to say we put our newsletter
senior meetings.

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» I know we can't do anything with the tax
bills, but you know, start gathering.

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» All right. Uh have no new business. Um
unless somebody unless I'm missing

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something, somebody wants to bring
something up.

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Okay. Then we'll
work through the bills here. Uh, General

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A, $33,489.76.

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General B, $2,148.73.

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Highway $40,64161.

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Lighting $676.87
for a total of $76,956.98.

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Can I get a motion to pay the bills?
>> Motion to pay the bills.

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» Second.
>> I'll second it. All in favor? I

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» I. Anybody opposed? All right. Uh, no
public still this point. So, I'd like to

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accept a motion to adjurnn.
>> Motion to adjurnn.

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» Got a second.
>> All in favor?

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» I
>> I Thank you.

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» Thank you.
>> I did have a spare one.