[0:40] Now, do you have to turn the video on
though or we just using the voice?
[0:46] » No, Zoom. Zoom will You can't see
yourselves.
[0:51] » Oh, yeah.
>> Okay.
[0:52] » Yep.
>> We're good.
[0:54] » Yep.
>> We think we're good.
[0:55] » We think
>> we're being recorded at least, so we're
[0:57] good.
>> Okay. All right. I'd like to uh call the
[1:00] July meeting to order. We'll start off
with the pledge of allegiance. Pledge
[1:04] allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America, to the republic for
[1:09] which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, liberty and justice for
[1:14] all.
>> Yay.
[1:18] I we have no public tonight. Therefore,
there will be no public comment.
[1:24] Uh, I'd like to ask the board to accept
the meeting minutes from previous
[1:29] meeting to accept the minutes. Get a
second.
[1:33] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[1:34] » I.
>> Anybody opposed?
[1:40] Motion to accept the consent agenda.
>> Make a motion to accept a second.
[1:48] » I'll second it.
>> All in favor? I.
[1:50] » Anybody opposed?
a lot of reports. Um,
[2:03] no real update on the low control rate
other than what we've got sent out.
[2:08] » Other than what was sent out, although
Shel did say that there was another
[2:11] complaint. Yes, we had got one. Yeah.
Okay.
[2:16] uh parks and recrecks. The uh we had the
kids down at the
[2:22] Kent sportsman for child unlimited day.
It was a great day. Well attended today.
[2:27] They got to go to a zoo south of us. Um
understand that was a really good day.
[2:34] We questioned uh the weather report, but
uh you know there was a big part of the
[2:39] trip in a bus. I felt it was safe to go
and they were glad that we made that
[2:44] decision at the end of the day.
The um
[2:48] » you had the circus.
>> Had a circus. So what are we in week
[2:53] three?
>> Yeah. Yep.
[2:57] » So far everything's been going great.
>> Bowling cranle. They got a lot this week
[3:02] too.
>> Swimming.
[3:03] » They swimming. Lots of swimming.
[3:08] I did have a uh complaint about um one
of the nets getting a little tattered.
[3:13] It it was normal normal wear and tear as
far as I was concerned and we' look into
[3:19] a normal replacement probably at the end
of the year uh for for the start of next
[3:25] year at this point unless uh it gets
worse. But
[3:30] there is a tree in that tree line that
we were talking about that has fallen
[3:34] over. We will get that out of the net.
>> Pine on the back row.
[3:40] » Yeah, we took
>> Did it fall our way?
[3:42] » It It's still in our property. So,
>> I have not complained about it. One of
[3:47] the loan guy mentioned it to me and we
had not been over there yet. So, the
[3:52] machine got dropped off to take care of
the properly.
[3:54] » Nice.
>> The ones that were near the park were
[3:57] taken care of that Monday morning park
reopen. They actually closed on that
[4:01] day.
>> Yep.
[4:02] » To the weather.
>> Excellent. Thank you, Ben. Any other
[4:06] questions or comments on our parks?
Direct
[4:11] senior report.
>> Um, we had a very successful
[4:16] pit pickic over the beginning of July,
the Get Sportsman. I'd like to thank
[4:20] Craig and Dan for stopping by. They
helped us cook. Um, Wally's dad, Gordy,
[4:27] handled the grill. It was an awfully hot
day. I was worried about him a little
[4:30] bit, but we probably had about 70
members there. It was a very hot day. It
[4:33] was cool in there. People brought
salads. I think everyone had a good
[4:37] time.
>> Yeah,
[4:37] » I think it was a good day. Um, Abby
Music and Denal Collins from Chadam
[4:42] provided a bluegrass band for
entertainment. So, they had a little bit
[4:45] of music. There wasn't much dancing
because it was so warm, [laughter] but I
[4:48] think it was very successful. So,
>> I saw a couple videos and looked
[4:53] » they had fun. It sounded good
>> and it was nice in there. It was a very
[4:56] nice location. Um, yesterday I did go to
the office for the aging meeting. Can I
[4:59] go to that right now? Is that okay?
I'd like to share with you all um a
[5:04] quarterly magazine that the office for
the agent is putting out the senior
[5:07] scoop. Um have a lot of information.
We've got
[5:11] » I bring them in county.
>> And the other thing is the newsletter.
[5:14] We're going to make sure that these are
all distributed at the monthly seniors
[5:17] meetings. Um there's over 100 members
now. The next meeting will be the
[5:20] beginning of August over the Westg
church. Um at the meeting yesterday we
[5:25] had a presentation from Luis Marks from
Kinderhook
[5:29] um about the concept of a village
members pay a small fee to join and then
[5:35] they're um kind of in a group that will
help them with different services. You
[5:40] know it's it kind of is a spin-off for
the office for the aging. It's it's like
[5:43] a it coordinates with them because they
find the healthcare consortium has a
[5:46] three-month lead time on transportation
where these folks have volunteers who
[5:50] can take you to an appointment if you
need to go this week. Um but
[5:53] transportation is one of the biggest
issues that they have. They're always
[5:56] looking for volunteers. It's mostly the
northern part of our county right now
[6:00] that's involved in this. Um the fees
$75, $100 a year to join. Um and then
[6:05] they have social events and things that
matineese, things like that that they
[6:08] get together for. So it's just kind of
like a spin-off for the office for the
[6:11] aging. Um,
interesting enough, Columbia County has
[6:16] the second o oldest population in New
York State,
[6:20] which is interesting, which is going to
be a little bit taxing on our resources
[6:24] in the future. They're concerned about
that. Um, office of agents also working
[6:28] on an AI interactive program for seniors
where they can either call in or go
[6:35] online to for resources. And they're
asking every town to have like a liaison
[6:40] that can go over their services and
review it once a month or something like
[6:43] that. So, and I think that was it.
>> And then they're having a big picnic at
[6:48] the fairgrounds, right?
>> Yes. Their senior day. Yep. In
[6:50] September. Yes. I'm sorry, I forgot
about that. Yep. Senior day with a lot
[6:53] of different people there discussing
different issues for seniors. So, um,
[6:57] and next month it's going to be someone
that's going to talk about financial
[7:00] scams at seniors at the monthly meeting.
So,
[7:03] » nice. Any questions or comments for
Marie? The only thing I'll I'll add,
[7:08] Marie, is that they might want to just
uh link up with Dan Amasi, Columbia
[7:14] County Human Services.
>> Okay.
[7:16] » Because they created a resource guide
that the county MIS helps them put
[7:20] online.
>> Okay.
[7:21] » That uses an AI tool when you type in
what you're looking for. It's Dan Masi.
[7:25] » Amazing
[7:28] sort.
>> Okay. There was a guy there.
[7:35] » Yeah.
>> Yeah. He's he's going to lead it. So,
[7:38] and it's just kind of in the beginning
stages, but
[7:41] » yeah, the the one that that they had put
up with mental health addiction services
[7:45] and and other counties been really
helpful,
[7:48] » you know, and they just kind of wanted
you like a wheel with different spokes,
[7:50] you know, that everyone can kind of who
Do you know who um who that service is
[7:56] provided through?
>> Um I think county MIS uh was the one who
[8:02] helped set it up with John a
>> and John was at the meeting yesterday.
[8:06] So
>> Okay.
[8:08] » Yeah.
>> Okay. Thanks.
[8:10] » Yep.
>> Any other questions or comments?
[8:12] » Thank you, Marie.
>> You're welcome.
[8:16] » Um
[8:19] planning and zoning. Any uh questions on
any of the reports that our liaison
[8:28] » good reports
>> signing is just uh busy as usual.
[8:32] » Yeah.
>> Um we got a real good board, very uh
[8:35] active and it's always very thorough,
consistent, and I don't think you can
[8:40] ask for much more. So
>> up top.
[8:44] » Okay.
>> Thanks. Uh
[8:48] you both of your guys minutes are are
are very good and I can visualize the
[8:53] the me how it went from it. So keep up
the good work.
[8:59] » Climate Smart
Carl.
[9:01] » Um so Climate Smart met with the joint
meeting of beautifification committee on
[9:06] this past Tuesday the 14th. um just to
kind of introduce everybody, get
[9:11] everybody on the same page and identify
areas where we're uh what we want to
[9:16] work on together. And so I think that
was that was good meeting. And uh
[9:21] Climate Smart is going to work on uh
some of their long range plans and uh
[9:27] getting set for community day at their
August meeting.
[9:31] Um, and at what point in the meeting,
Craig, do you want to do the
[9:35] appointments for the beautifification
committee?
[9:40] » Um, I haven't Have we Have I been left
out of something? Did we get resumes or
[9:47] anything yet?
>> I met I met with people individually who
[9:50] were interested.
>> Um, and then
[9:53] » maybe we should table it till next month
when Dan's here so we can all look at
[9:56] the resumes. What do you think? Because
I don't think anyone's going to be upset
[9:58] if we wait another month. It was we
didn't after talking with Dan, we didn't
[10:03] do it formally that way. People sent us
sent email of interest.
[10:08] » Okay.
>> And that's and that's
[10:09] » and sometimes that's good enough too if
they do a little description, but I
[10:12] didn't see anything. So, I'm not
prepared to I don't even know who you
[10:17] would be talking about.
>> Okay.
[10:18] » Yeah. I make a motion that we table it
till next month when Dan's here to give
[10:22] us just a letters of interest is all we
need. We don't need anything more than
[10:25] that. I don't think they need to do
formal resumes or anything. So,
[10:28] » just a little something about him and
some
[10:31] » and it would be probably good to have
Dan
[10:34] » back too. Not that we couldn't do it
without him, but I'm sorry.
[10:37] » He had me nervous there and I thought I
missed a
[10:42] » Okay.
>> You know, an email or something, but
[10:44] » And one thing, Carl, I wanted to
mention,
[10:46] » I've heard some names. Yeah.
>> From you, I didn't actually
[10:50] » And then in the you know, in the the
report that I emailed, it had people who
[10:54] were uh who were at the meeting and then
there were two people uh who were
[10:59] interested who were who were not at the
meeting, and that was uh Brenda GS and
[11:04] Jen's donor, right?
>> They were out of country for a month.
[11:07] » Yeah, Jen's been out of country, so he
just haven't been able to touch.
[11:10] » It would just be typically our
committees and our things. We have a
[11:13] paper record a little bit still today
>> and we have we put a a folder of letters
[11:18] of interest. Okay. What happens is a lot
of times that'll be over. It'll be more
[11:22] than we're looking for, but they're
great resources afterwards to pull if
[11:27] somebody wants to step down or can't
make meetings, they can pull go to
[11:31] another
>> or other committees,
[11:34] » right? And we and in the past, we've
used that resource for other committees,
[11:37] too. Okay.
>> Because they've already showed an
[11:39] interest to try to help out and
volunteer want to be part of it.
[11:43] » So, I'd rather not skip over that.
>> Okay.
[11:46] » It's a good tool.
>> And I'm happy to say both Climate Smart
[11:49] and Beautifification are going to be a
community day. We're not sure if they're
[11:52] going to share a table yet. It's going
to depend on space. But I think that's
[11:55] also a good way to see if there's anyone
else that we've missed that might be
[11:57] interested also.
>> Yeah. And that's that's a lot of what
[12:01] committee was hoping for was that people
would see that there is this new
[12:05] committee, there is interest and you
know recognize people and have a
[12:09] conversation.
>> That's great. Good. Thanks. Thank you.
[12:14] Um,
I was going to talk about it in my
[12:17] county report, the EMC, and I didn't
get, once again, I'm going to follow the
[12:22] same thing. I want some letters of
interest, and I thought I'd start with
[12:26] uh, you know, our climate smart folks to
advertise amongst them
[12:31] » since they're close to it, but we don't
need to. and um I can send them the same
[12:37] offer as we maybe post and we'll see
letters come in and maybe we can uh
[12:45] nominate somebody next meeting.
>> Okay. So, I'll follow that same thing.
[12:49] The other big thing down at county that
folks will be hearing about is I talked
[12:54] about in workshop to more detail is our
uh rates have changed on our senior tax
[13:00] exemption which we currently already
provide. Uh so we'll have a discussion
[13:05] as the uh information becomes more
available uh on the impact and poss you
[13:12] know that it may have on this town.
So
[13:16] » well it comes out of GB any
>> [laughter]
[13:22] » rail trail. I have no report.
>> One question on that. I saw some states
[13:28] down the bar house where we were talking
about y is anything going on there or
[13:33] » just um there's a couple
Well, I missed the grant. I didn't we
[13:40] weren't approved for the grant to
crossing but blue uh uh greenway.
[13:47] Uh, I was told not to try, but I tried
everything I can get. It It fit their
[13:52] description. We were second runners up,
but they only handed out money to one
[13:58] project this year out of the whole
state.
[14:02] Okay.
>> So, they asked me to reapply,
[14:08] but since then we've had some things
change with our uh with DOT
[14:13] and I have to renew some of my markings.
That's why you see those stakes still
[14:19] existing
because some rules have changed. One
[14:24] thing I've learned in uh this side of
things in the government thing, you got
[14:28] to move as fast as you can because all
the time things are changing and you put
[14:33] a year or two into a project and all a
sudden it's different. You saw it. They
[14:39] can't build again. They had a u another
section of their master plan that was
[14:46] once approved already,
>> but when they went to go do it, DC had
[14:49] changed their rules. So, this was
already drawn out. This is sort of what
[14:53] we're kind of running into a little bit
with some of these u
[14:58] rail trail permits and applications.
It's taking [clears throat]
[15:02] their reason it takes us so long
and then they changed the game the rules
[15:07] on this so you work in one direction
>> keep moving.
[15:11] » Yeah. Yeah. The goal post keep changed
them the other day. So someone now there
[15:17] we're trying a little different
approach. Um, I may send
[15:24] I'm on the fence on sending the greenway
back, but I do know that it's not it was
[15:31] correct when I originally applied.
Things have changed since then and I
[15:34] can't get I am bond to I can't get
everybody to work together to help me
[15:41] represent the corrections.
>> So, it's very frustrating
[15:47] with the positive mark that we're out
there. We we know where our local DOT
[15:53] wants us to be.
>> We know the design. We know what it
[15:56] looks would look like,
>> but there's more players in it. Parks
[16:01] and wreck.
>> Yeah.
[16:02] » Uh DEC, believe it or not, has a role in
that.
[16:07] Parks and Wreck and DHC
don't seem to get along that good for
[16:12] some reason. I don't know if one's got a
better office than the other, but
[16:18] um so that's that's my that's my no rail
trail committee report
[16:26] community engagement. Dan's not here. I
don't know if Marie, you're a part of
[16:30] that. You're co- on
>> Yeah, community day is moving along.
[16:33] Vendors, you know, I forgot to look
today. We were up almost 40 vendors.
[16:37] » We're going to hopefully max out on
space. um anyone that was a sponsor we
[16:41] sent a letter to encouraging them if
they sent us a check if they want to
[16:45] display if they're in the town again
what we're doing and we're talking about
[16:49] next week we're going to meet on Monday
we're going to kind of map out who's
[16:52] going to go where maybe put all the kids
activities together this time because I
[16:56] know that was one of our weak spots last
year they said that the kids were kind
[16:59] of scattered so maybe want put the kids
near the door or something like that but
[17:03] and it looks like the Westg ladies are
going to be doing their bake sale there.
[17:09] They always have good pies and pastries.
We're have grilled cheese sandwiches.
[17:13] The BFW is going to do their food and I
think the Gent Ladies Auxiliary is
[17:17] supposed to be committed also.
>> Yeah, they're doing some
[17:20] » Yeah, lots of good food. So
>> nice.
[17:23] » It's moving along. Um
>> should be a good day.
[17:25] » I think we're a little bit above last
year for sponsorship money now.
[17:28] » And I got some more in this one.
>> Okay, good. Good. And Dave Romanuk's
[17:33] going to do the bag pipes. And
>> do you know Dave Romanuk? Nice guy. He's
[17:37] gonna play the bag pipes with the G band
gonna play and I think Marilyn and I
[17:42] can't remember who partner is gonna do
the music. Marilyn and
[17:44] » Rick Warren.
>> Yes.
[17:45] » Yeah, they're good.
>> Yep. So, everything's moving along.
[17:49] » Good.
[17:53] » Any questions or comments for Marie?
>> Affordable housing. Every I don't think
[17:58] I don't even know if Dan submitted
anything on that. So, um and I don't
[18:01] think anything's been really moving. So,
>> Oh, I think he did submit that they had
[18:05] a meeting.
>> Okay. Okay.
[18:06] » I think he did submit somewhere for
>> affordable housing.
[18:10] » He said they uh
>> they did meet
[18:12] » they did a they're expected spend the
next three months to
[18:17] » Yeah, they've had one meeting. Yeah.
>> Carl, you Carl, you kind of went over
[18:23] the uh beautifification, but is there
anything more you'd like because we do
[18:28] have a slot for you now.
>> Um no, you know, it was it was nice to
[18:33] have have a young young
people's interest in and being part of
[18:38] the group as well as some of the people
like Tracy who's been part of Planet
[18:43] Smart before to have uh you know her
feedback on the beautifification
[18:48] committee and you know I think we have
some really talented people in our
[18:52] community who are you know stepping up
to to offer their help with us. I think
[18:57] it'll it'll be a good community to get
up and get going.
[19:00] » All right, sounds good. Um, I went over
and workshop because I don't believe we
[19:05] were recording. We may have been, but we
don't know. We'll never know.
[19:10] » You don't know if we're recording now.
But
[19:12] » I was I I proposed to have our new
accounting firm, Bob Patterson, come out
[19:18] and speak. Uh, he's put off till the
20th of August. he will come out to our
[19:24] workshop then and introduce and go over
things and help set me up for hopefully
[19:29] a uh uh update where we're at. Um I also
met with a company called Switch.
[19:38] They're the outfit that owns our level
three charger or produced our level
[19:42] three charger to try to come up with
some remedies to uh get that up and
[19:47] going again.
We've been discussing uh upgrading our
[19:52] phone services here and our broadband in
this town hall.
[19:58] I'll have more to follow on that as I
get some more reporting.
[20:02] » That'd be a possibility at the garage.
>> It's they've been at the garage with
[20:05] Matt
>> with Wendy already.
[20:08] » We can get that click out of your lens.
>> Bad. Yeah,
[20:11] » it's bad.
>> We're dropping. We're dropping.
[20:13] Normally, if you call out, you don't
have as much problem. You have the
[20:15] clicking in your ear. But when they call
in the phone,
[20:18] » I lost her like three times
>> off on us completely. Like hung up.
[20:22] » Yeah.
>> You hit answer and they're still talking
[20:25] like nothing on their end.
>> I'm looking I'm looking to try to get a
[20:28] company to bundle and improve our
services that we have in a package. We
[20:34] have four out buildings that are
included. I think what I say 10 or 11
[20:38] phone systems. Uh broadband should be
improved and uh everything about it.
[20:45] We're getting pretty outdated here and
it shows up at planning board
[20:51] » zoning uh court
>> court's number one complaint that I get
[20:57] um
you know right to our own very own
[21:00] meetings uh when we can't cast from this
laptop sitting here to the TV on certain
[21:06] nights.
>> So we got to update it. Uh, a bundle
[21:11] would be nice where with currently with
two outfits that Bill's you guys sign
[21:15] them, it's very confusing to keep track
of and I think there's a little waste in
[21:20] some of them. So hopefully it works out
and I can bring something next meeting
[21:26] that we can improve and get moving on
sooner than later.
[21:32] » Highway Ben. All right. Uh we have been
quite busy with uh heavy rain and uh
[21:39] wind storms. Uh believe was classified
as a micro burst which is a lot of
[21:44] different direction winds, a lot of
straight winds. Uh I was on vacation
[21:48] when this happened. Uh it was a very
long night for me on the phone. Um this
[21:55] is uh not the worst we've had here in
the 19 years that I've been here. Um,
[21:59] but uh the the crew definitely uh had
their challenges on some roads. Uh first
[22:05] phone call came in to me just before
10:00 and by 4:00 a.m. in the morning
[22:10] they had every road opened up except for
three that had power lines down. Uh by
[22:15] 6:00 the next morning, I had a few of
the guys come in
[22:19] » and they were here till 4:00 that
afternoon making sure everything else
[22:22] was tended to pushing everything out
farther away from the road so the guys
[22:26] couldn't get that far in the dark.
uh until Saturday afternoon, everything
[22:30] was clear except for the three roads. Uh
I think it was around 4:00 Saturday
[22:34] afternoon, but I got the final call that
my last road was open and those were due
[22:38] to power lines
>> and we do not touch anything with power
[22:42] lines for our safety.
>> Um with requests from me, I reached out
[22:46] to other towns for shared service on
this uh matter. Um, Clive, Stockport,
[22:53] Kim Hook, and New Lebanon all came in
with chippers and crews to give us a
[22:56] hand. And within four days, we had 99%
of all the damages cleaned up and tended
[23:01] to, which is pretty good for the amount
that we had. Uh, and then we actually
[23:06] went to the village of Chadam on Monday
to give them a hand, which they were
[23:10] very elated to have us come over. The
crew has been uh, working diligently in
[23:16] the shop on uh, rebuilding a 2014
utility body. The subtrain was shot from
[23:22] those initial northeast salt. Uh they're
in the middle of putting that all back
[23:27] together right now. It's moving quite
well amongst all the other repairs that
[23:31] are going on.
The uh repairs throughout the town for
[23:36] upgrades on roads uh such as Arch
Bridge. We had a tree break the road
[23:42] that uprooted through the creek bed base
and the crew actually uh that was the
[23:48] very first project they used the new
excavator on and that was a uh
[23:52] definitely a learning curve with the
machine with all the abilities it has
[23:56] but they were very pleased to have it
and it made the project that much easier
[24:00] to be able to manipulate u laying of the
stone in different directions and
[24:05] orientations. Um, I wasn't there when
they did this particular project, but
[24:09] when I came back for the uh the end of
the trees and um firsthand watched what
[24:16] I bought this machine for, it did
exactly what I wanted to do. I was
[24:19] hoping to show video. It's not working.
Uh I don't know if it's a server or
[24:23] what, but um we were picking up uh 20
foot logs uh 3 foot in diameter like
[24:29] they were pickup sticks and the machine
was able to set them in the back of the
[24:33] truck without the truck rocking and us
dropping them in or using chains, which
[24:37] is a safety hazard for the crew.
>> Um we picked up uh one road in less than
[24:43] eight hours that was absolutely
devastated with uh probably about 18
[24:47] trees down. We were actually able to
grab one tree right out of the earth and
[24:51] move it out of our way for safety
reason. So I was very happy with it and
[24:55] they actually just finished up some
ditch work um on the up side of letter.
[25:00] So if you cover out and about take a
ride and see what the machine did, it's
[25:04] pretty impressive. So um
we have uh
[25:13] we've been uh getting ready to do some
paving and some chip sealing. Uh we
[25:17] intend on doing that the end of July,
beginning of August. All depends on what
[25:21] those crews schedules are with the
weather and uh other towns that have
[25:26] gotten some storm damage as well. I had
to push them off a little bit. So, a lot
[25:30] of jumping around doing other towns, but
uh I haven't gotten the dates yet for
[25:33] our systems be done yet, but we will be
moving forward on sealing and uh paving
[25:40] some roads. So,
with that said, it's been awful warm and
[25:44] smoky outside.
Uh, but the crew has been doing a good
[25:48] job. Well, I'm very pleased. And
>> you know what I was impressed with?
[25:52] Because I sat on the porch because they
had no power, which was kind of weird
[25:56] because we very rarely use power.
>> The plows.
[26:00] » They had the plows on and we're plowing
down getting the debris out of the room.
[26:04] I never would have thought of that. I
was like, "Wow."
[26:08] » The uh the the certain trucks plows are
set out that they can be put on.
[26:14] » Yeah.
thought of it. Yeah.
[26:16] » Yeah.
>> That's the easiest way for us to move.
[26:20] » It saves a ton of time. But to get
through 138 miles in six hours with only
[26:26] five guys running and only four trucks
had files on them. So
[26:31] » this the county had them on too, I
think, didn't they?
[26:34] » They they very well made.
>> Yeah, I thought so.
[26:36] » Yes, they did. We got to thank the uh
firefighters as well.
[26:40] » Yeah.
>> And the farmers
[26:41] » farmers did they helped out a lot. the
neighbors came out. I thank them as
[26:45] well. The ones that I knew did stuff.
So,
[26:46] » yep.
>> DJ Trobridge did
[26:50] » quite a bit.
>> Quite a bit.
[26:51] » Y
>> he made it up with Chattam.
[26:53] » Yep.
>> So,
[26:56] 166 was blocked. So, he opened up every
night to Slate Hill.
[27:00] » I would say that
>> that our town cannot operate on just a
[27:05] single group of people. is a huge group
effort, especially when uh mother nature
[27:12] takes his wrath. Y
>> I'm really sorry to call you at 11:30 at
[27:15] night.
>> You know, I got we got to thank um you
[27:20] know, Columbia County Emergency
Management,
[27:24] Bubba Harrison, he he pulled a group of
us together and we were prepared for the
[27:28] worst. We had ice and water coming from
through an ice center. Uh we voted on
[27:35] letting uh Chadam fire company be the
central location rather than having it
[27:41] spread all over. And if anybody needed
it and couldn't get to us, there was
[27:45] people ready to run it. So
>> I I felt that this was probably the most
[27:51] organized
event in the 14 years that I've been the
[27:56] boss. uh everything came together.
>> I was getting phone calls all throughout
[28:00] the night and there was all people that
>> I've been wanting to have me make those
[28:05] phone calls to and say, "Hey, what can
we do to help you out?"
[28:08] » And uh relaying those messages.
>> Chris called me from a couple fire calls
[28:12] and he must he might have called you
too, didn't he?
[28:15] » I got you. Yeah, but it was it was it
was good to have like you said, Bubba,
[28:21] you mean we I'm sitting on the emergency
management for me county and we put
[28:25] together a plan of action for when we
have major disasters,
[28:29] you know, things can go on with the
fair. You know, we have a huge influx of
[28:32] people and that's where a lot of this
leads from is the community outreach and
[28:36] having the right people. probably close
to 20 people around the table that all
[28:41] had a role to play and uh it was it was
good to see.
[28:50] » Any other questions or comments for Ben?
>> No, I'd like to say thank you to you
[28:54] folks that handled this. I feel bad
because on my end of town, we did not
[28:57] realize anything was really going on.
Unfortunately, where I was, we had very
[29:01] minimal damage. We just knew that Chadam
and they were telling us to stay out of
[29:05] Chadam. So
>> it was ugly from
[29:09] it was ugly from Kinder Hook Farm.
>> Yep.
[29:11] » Diagonal
>> through our town.
[29:14] » And honestly over the other
bizarre
[29:19] » Megan said nothing her way.
>> It was like a different world.
[29:22] » We had a couple trees down in her
backyard.
[29:25] » But thank you. Especially Craig, Dan,
Ben, your crews, Wall-E, Shelley held
[29:30] the fort down.
>> Yep. and choose dispatch.
[29:34] [laughter]
>> I just stayed away.
[29:37] » Um,
>> unfinished business. I'm going to
[29:41] » to accept Ben's report.
>> Oh, yeah. Motion to accept Ben's report.
[29:46] » I'll make a motion to accept Ben's
report.
[29:48] » You got a second.
>> Second.
[29:50] » All in favor?
>> I.
[29:52] » Anybody opposed?
>> Once again, thank you, Ben. Um,
[29:55] » thank you.
>> Tech update. I'm going to leave for Dan
[29:59] next uh meeting, but as most of us I
think sitting here, we all have our
[30:05] emails up and going
>> and uh pretty happy. Uh I think it went
[30:12] other than them trying to do it during a
storm with many power outages.
[30:16] » No,
>> I can't imagine how they were so
[30:19] successful to be honest. Uh so delay it
one day which was helpful.
[30:24] » Yeah, Mike and Dan, thanks so far when
if you hear this
[30:28] Um, and I think there's some fine
tuning, but overall pretty happy with
[30:33] uh, you know, what we're able to to do
and uh, get done. So, I'm going to leave
[30:40] that for Dan to uh, follow up on.
>> Dan sent a letter and um, this week.
[30:47] » Yeah, I got it. It came out
>> in your packet.
[30:51] He did want us to bring up uh one
deficiency versus the court ban. We
[30:56] identified in the recent storm is that
reliance on the internet to do emergency
[31:00] communication with residents may
insufficient as we know as we discussed
[31:04] in the
um
[31:09] workshop.
>> Y
[31:10] » we've been having a few issues
in inside here.
[31:14] Village of Chattam uses a mass texting
service and when the dust settles from
[31:19] this tech update, we would like the
board's agreement with the board's
[31:24] agreement. We will pursue this enough to
find out the option so we could do such.
[31:28] So
>> yeah, they're still
[31:32] N.
>> Oh, they've been doing it for a while.
[31:34] » Oh, yeah.
>> Yeah.
[31:35] » Oh. um or anything
because they
[31:40] » I'm on it because of
>> course their their water system is is
[31:42] fed through the wells here in Gent the
generator wasn't working
[31:48] » and therefore with no power
>> they were on they were able to put out a
[31:54] ma mass text to those that signed up for
it to
[31:57] » limit their use
and
[32:01] » let everybody know that it's a state of
emergency. So,
[32:05] » good idea.
>> But they're able to keep people up to
[32:08] date
at a schedule. So,
[32:11] » I think it's a great idea.
>> I think so. A lot of times you can't you
[32:15] don't have access to email or whatever,
but you get a text,
[32:18] » right?
>> But explore it
[32:21] » unless you're in the hamlet.
>> I think it's a no-brainer.
[32:25] » Anything for that's public safety. So,
>> yes.
[32:29] » How do you go about gathering all the
names though, Wally? How does
[32:32] » you sign on? They have to sign up.
>> We do advertise. They just sign up.
[32:36] » Okay.
>> Put it in our newsletter.
[32:38] » I was going to say we put our newsletter
senior meetings.
[32:41] » I know we can't do anything with the tax
bills, but you know, start gathering.
[32:48] » All right. Uh have no new business. Um
unless somebody unless I'm missing
[32:52] something, somebody wants to bring
something up.
[32:56] Okay. Then we'll
work through the bills here. Uh, General
[33:00] A, $33,489.76.
[33:04] General B, $2,148.73.
[33:09] Highway $40,64161.
[33:14] Lighting $676.87
for a total of $76,956.98.
[33:23] Can I get a motion to pay the bills?
>> Motion to pay the bills.
[33:26] » Second.
>> I'll second it. All in favor? I
[33:29] » I. Anybody opposed? All right. Uh, no
public still this point. So, I'd like to
[33:36] accept a motion to adjurnn.
>> Motion to adjurnn.
[33:40] » Got a second.
>> All in favor?
[33:44] » I
>> I Thank you.
[33:47] » Thank you.
>> I did have a spare one.