[0:02] okay
i'd like to call the february town board
[0:07] meeting to order
[0:12] it's working okay jim you want to leave
us in the pledge of allegiance
[0:18] yes i pledge allegiance to the flag
the united states of america and to the
[0:24] republic for which it stands
nation under god indivisible with
[0:30] liberty
and justice for all all right thanks
[0:36] jenny we had two meetings that we sent
the minutes out for right two meetings
[0:39] in january
yes uh 14th and the 21st
[0:43] hope anybody received those are there
any additions deletions or correction to
[0:47] the minutes of those two meetings
[0:50] yeah what's the 14th
yep on the 14th
[0:59] under highway superintendent report
[1:06] last sentence state department of
transportation in connection with
[1:11] work associated i assume it should be
state highways instead of affection
[1:18] i'll check it but i think you're right
yes thank you
[1:23] affecting the next paragraph
[1:28] go ahead the next paragraph
superintendent town
[1:37] instead of taylor yep when i was right
type over last year's yep
[1:40] thank you
[1:45] that's all
[1:48] as amended okay so
i'll entertain a motion to accept the
[1:54] minutes as amended
i make your motion five seconds
[2:01] i'm sorry who's who's i made the first
motion
[2:04] okay tom and who's second
i just saw something pop up on my screen
[2:10] that said bill's phone
he's bills bill humphreys is joining us
[2:14] okay
can you second thank you
[2:21] all in favor all right all right
all right post carried joel
[2:28] you're probably a little busy this time
of year so we're going to jump right
[2:30] into your report first
two things uh let's discuss 2020 and
[2:34] let's discuss 2021
budget amendments for 2020 to finish off
[2:38] the year right joel
that's correct general's very very minor
[2:44] we just need to cover highway garage
contractual expense by
[2:48] 3.57 we're going to take that out of
our contingency which we're pretty much
[2:54] exhausted this year
and um the other one is
[3:00] highway um town wide
as scott has said before he's he spent a
[3:06] lot of money doing repairs and
things on equipment he also i think he's
[3:11] tried to buy some parts
because there's shortages of parts parts
[3:16] so we need to keep that stuff on hand
so we are short ten thousand five
[3:21] hundred and ten eighty three
um we did have a couple spots and
[3:26] expenditures that we can
take the money from uh it's no
[3:30] contractual he didn't spend
that all of that so there's 45 45
[3:35] 20 we can take out of that account uh
the health insurance we could take
[3:40] 23 10 50 out of that one
and then he sold a piece of equipment
[3:46] so we were able to take some revenue of
36.55
[3:50] so we don't have to touch fund balance
at all
[3:54] um to cover those expenditures
okay so let's start in the general fund
[4:00] uh
3.57 cents um i don't know if ken or
[4:04] matt you want to jump in here but he did
a ton of work between the roof and the
[4:07] doors and the installation
really put a lot of money into the
[4:10] building it was all well spent wasn't it
yeah i wouldn't throw it it looked
[4:14] pretty good you know
okay so let's do them individually i
[4:18] guess entertain a motion to amend
the budget uh by taking 3.57 cents out
[4:23] of the contingency account
to cover the highway garage contractual
[4:26] expense
i think about you matt rashford ken
[4:32] discussion
[4:35] all in favor all right
carried okay and the second one is for
[4:41] highway town wide again this is 2020.
uh the adjustments that joel
[4:47] laid out ten thousand five hundred and
ten dollars and 83 cents
[4:54] i think tom made the motion and matt
seconded it
[4:57] any discussion on that
[5:03] okay all in favor
[5:06] opposed carried joel anything you want
to talk about
[5:10] 2021 at this point we're only one month
into it
[5:13] no we're good right now january is not a
bad month
[5:17] i'm not aware of any issues okay
and we ended up 20 looks pretty good
[5:24] okay uh
does anybody have any questions for joel
[5:29] either regarding 2021 or
2020 yeah in general
[5:35] aside from the amendments anybody
[5:43] well joel unless you're ready for some
thursday night entertainment you know
[5:46] you can stick around if you like but if
you got things to do we can probably let
[5:48] you go
okay i will do that then you know how to
[5:52] get a hold of me if something comes up
okay thank you you're next door right
[5:58] yes yeah okay all right no problem all
right
[6:01] thank you okay next on the giant
uh the agenda is the assessor's report i
[6:07] sent it out i want to go over a little
bit because there's a couple things in
[6:09] there we need to discuss
i'll read it because this is going to be
[6:13] on video the assessor's office has been
very busy the last month we have been
[6:16] receiving the renewal applications for
the agricultural exemptions we have been
[6:19] answering many phone
calls regarding senior exemptions
[6:22] seniors and disability exemptions do not
have to renew their exemption due to
[6:24] recent action by the governor's office
this is very confusing to our seniors
[6:28] who are taking renewals if they insist
or we are informing them they don't have
[6:32] they do not have to renew this year
if they telephone in and are concerned
[6:35] about potential exposure
it is quite time consuming but our goal
[6:39] is to always serve the public and we are
doing the best we can
[6:42] in regard to our level of assessment
numbers as you may recall we were going
[6:45] to do an update to 100 last year would
be pulled out of doing that because of
[6:49] covid
however i believe we do need to do an
[6:51] update for 2021 assessment rule because
the new york state numbers have come out
[6:54] and we have lost substantial ground on
our
[6:56] level of assessment we have a four
percent trend in our residential
[6:59] properties for 2020 which according to
new york state says our level of
[7:02] assessment
for our residential properties is 86
[7:04] percent we were already at 90
level but now have been using a 5 level
[7:09] that we can adjust our numbers to and
i've been using every ounce that my
[7:12] allowance in order to keep us at 95
over the last two years consequently my
[7:17] plan is to adjust the values for our 200
class properties
[7:20] which are residential properties in both
the village and town by 14
[7:24] i would like to send out impact notices
which will help property owners
[7:26] understand the real potential
consequences of their new assessment an
[7:30] impact statement shows a real change in
the assessment and what we would change
[7:33] would have meant to your taxes using the
tax rates we currently know
[7:36] it is a more transparent view of what
the change in assessment really means
[7:39] if you have any questions or concerns
please feel free to contact me vicki
[7:43] hayner
what she explained to me was over 2020
[7:48] uh in the last year year and a half
there's been about a 14
[7:51] increase in the value of residential
properties not commercial properties
[7:57] we need to make that adjustment to get
us back up to 100 percent
[8:00] what she's asking for when she would
normally send out adjustment letters
[8:05] and it would say your assessment now has
gone from a hundred thousand dollars to
[8:08] 114 000
you can imagine what that might say to a
[8:12] few people they could get a little upset
what she has now done is contracted with
[8:16] the county to provide her the
information on all those changes and
[8:18] assessments
that would tell what the change in taxes
[8:22] would be
so we all know that if assessments go up
[8:25] 14
that means our tax rate would come down
[8:28] 14 assuming the levy stays flat
so even though your assessment went up
[8:32] the rate comes down your taxes are the
same
[8:34] some people will see a 15 increase in
their tax at their assessment some will
[8:38] see a 10 some will see an
18. with this
[8:43] letter that she's going to send out it
will actually show the calculations and
[8:46] say
based upon the fact that your taxes your
[8:49] assessment went up 14
your taxes will be going up six dollars
[8:54] or 19 or 83 or whatever it's going to be
so that's her intention is to send that
[9:00] information out in the letter so
it actually will show the change in what
[9:04] you would pay in taxes
along with what your change in
[9:07] assessment would be
now to do that she has to contract with
[9:10] the county to get all that information
it's going to cost her a few dollars but
[9:14] she has money in her
contractual expense to do that so
[9:18] it's my recommendation that we do
contract with the county to get that
[9:21] information
and put it in those letters i think
[9:23] it'll probably smooth the
the the shock to some people but i think
[9:28] we all know that residential properties
even in granville have seen quite an
[9:31] increase over the last couple years
so the county is going to come up with a
[9:35] new rate based on their new assessment
yes
[9:38] a new rate and calculate the tax dollars
on that
[9:42] for the new assessment per the new
assessments right and save
[9:45] a lot of save a lot of grief yeah i
think it'll be at save a lot of
[9:49] questions
and people will know um exactly what the
[9:53] situation is and if she just sends it
out
[9:55] blank people will assume that their
taxes are going to go up 14
[9:58] 15 16 17 when in fact when the rate
comes down it pretty much evens out but
[10:02] let's be honest
because the commercials aren't going any
[10:06] place true true but
also everyone's different an average of
[10:11] 14
so somebody may see 20 somebody may see
[10:14] 10 but that's what she's doing assessing
all these different properties
[10:18] is everybody okay with that if they have
any go ahead matt if she went through
[10:22] and raised everybody
14 the taxes would stay the same right
[10:27] assuming that assuming that we don't
raise the levy at all
[10:30] and of course we only raise the levy one
one and a half anyway so there will be a
[10:33] slight adjustment there
right so that's what they tend to be
[10:37] working on and
certainly if you've got anything for me
[10:40] to pass along to vicki i'd be glad to do
it
[10:42] or if you want to talk to her on monday
she'll be in um
[10:46] and you can talk to her about it too any
questions on the assessor's report
[10:51] just one thing i want to bring up shoot
i know last meeting you said that
[10:57] because of the covet
the renew you didn't have to do the
[11:00] renewals i think you still have to do
the angry noodles don't you
[11:05] yeah aggressive seniors that was just
the seniors and the stars
[11:09] yeah you don't have to do you absolutely
in the ag renewals they sent a letter
[11:16] and said their office is open mondays
and tuesdays
[11:19] that's not the case anymore i believe
jenny can tell you but they're open
[11:24] they're there monday monday wednesday
and pam's here i think on wednesday it's
[11:30] all true jenny
on wednesday you said that he said they
[11:33] sent out letters that said monday and
tuesday
[11:35] with the egg exemption yes i will talk
to her monday about that
[11:41] i guess it just changed recently as a
jenny i think so yeah
[11:45] not too long ago yes i think when pam
started
[11:49] i'll talk it was bouncing it was
bouncing around a couple a couple of
[11:53] times
and then a few weeks ago it went to
[11:56] monday wednesday
okay yeah because i went in tuesday
[12:01] nobody was around so i just want to make
sure nobody else is doing that
[12:05] i will talk to her about that
[12:08] hey matt i got one question
[12:12] and if you do this uh
uh increase uh typically
[12:18] 14 for residential how are they going to
notify
[12:23] the taxpayers they're going to be in the
form of a letter yes
[12:26] it's a letter with with no no
everybody whose assessment is changing
[12:32] will get a letter
that'll say their assessment changes
[12:35] from x to y
and the letter will also say based upon
[12:40] the tax rate which will be coming down
your the taxes you pay last year was
[12:44] this the taxes that
would be for next year will be that so
[12:48] you can see the actual change in the
dollars out of your pocket that's what
[12:51] we're putting in the letter
[12:54] all right i just wanted to clarify that
it'd be a letter that we get
[12:58] yes okay yes
okay next is the local ordinance
[13:06] officers report
so i think i sent you all a copy of this
[13:10] bill
you've gotten some information to uh to
[13:13] gretchen and she put a report together
that we sent out
[13:16] uh building permits for january 2020
application for a solar from michael
[13:20] berber 41 sheen street sheen road
extension in granville that was a
[13:25] home roof solar panels application for a
new home for
[13:29] daniel martell on gillespie road no code
enforcement appearance tickets
[13:34] and the only complaint was regarding
cider valley donuts operating without a
[13:37] site plan approval
any questions for bill on the code
[13:42] enforcement report
[13:47] i think it was nice to get one
i think there would there have been
[13:53] there have been a couple of things that
transpired between our previous one and
[13:58] bill
minor things that i've got here that i
[14:01] will get the gretchen
that will be in next month's report so
[14:04] next month's report will cover a little
bit of the stuff
[14:07] sort of before bill came but i think
there's just a couple lrcc ones nothing
[14:11] major
[14:14] anything you want to add bill since
you've joined us for our first meeting
[14:17] i just want to thank you for the
opportunity to serve the community
[14:20] okay
[14:26] jenny i didn't see a dog control report
was anything no dog control
[14:30] no dog i don't think there were any dog
complaints that i'm aware of for january
[14:36] i will then read
[14:41] the highway superintense report
uh scott taylor january report during
[14:46] the month of january
called out six times for snowstorms
[14:50] during the month of january
[14:54] he says tractor use the tractor on
browns lane taylor hill
[14:57] lee big lily pond road and dodge hill
and they also cut tractor
[15:01] rebuilt the number six truck box frame
mainframe to put new cross beams in
[15:06] inside supports
service number five truck the number six
[15:10] truck power cable burned through on the
number six
[15:13] truck replaced and put solenoid on
batteries going to do
[15:16] this on all the trucks could have burned
all the trucks in the barn down
[15:21] jim you you were did you talk to him
about that are you a little more
[15:24] adept about that than i am
[15:28] yeah we're uh we're adding solenoids in
the battery boxes
[15:34] to so that the operator can control it
from the cab
[15:39] so when he exits the truck he's going to
shut everything down inside the truck
[15:44] from the battery going to the truck
it's pretty simple job not all that much
[15:51] cost to it
but there'll be a toggle switch on the
[15:56] dash with a
with a lamp indicating that the
[16:00] batteries are on
so when they exit the truck they'll turn
[16:04] that switch off
and then the batteries will be
[16:07] disconnected from the entire truck
okay i thought they already had that on
[16:12] the trucks
[16:15] is it the newer trucks have that i
understand
[16:19] one of the older ones had it he showed
it to me on one of the trucks that were
[16:22] there they had it
[16:26] maybe it's not on all of them but he did
have have it on there but he
[16:29] shut all the power down right from the
switch by the on the floor
[16:33] you think for 180
[16:42] is the battery cable goes from
the battery into the cab we're shutting
[16:50] it off
long before it even gets into the cab so
[16:53] the possibility okay
the old one is the righteous floor of
[16:56] the cab
all right that's right
[17:01] okay okay uh greater repairing working
on hydraulic leaks
[17:06] rebuilding the side doors for the cabin
engine doors rebuilt light brackets
[17:09] re-primed and painted the doors clean
carbide blade and replaced with new ones
[17:13] last year we used old carbide blades it
lasted us all year we put new ones on
[17:17] for this year
water report total gallons pumped 930
[17:23] 000 gallons daily average of 30
000 gallons did the new water test
[17:28] on the 10th of january took it down and
dropped it off and latham and
[17:32] we passed uh matt or
jim anything else you guys want to add
[17:36] regarding highway or water
i know you talked to scott once in a
[17:41] while what
the only thing that's got me back water
[17:56] the water uh sprinkler caps i mean
is rescheduled for the 17th next
[18:03] wednesday
at 8 am uh it was cancelled by uh
[18:09] northeast i believe and uh it was
rescheduled for the 17th
[18:14] of february
[18:18] okay thanks jim and i'll contact the
county and get that robocall sign out on
[18:21] tuesday
[18:24] go ahead matt okay thank you the only
thing i want to back up is
[18:28] i've been thinking here maybe i'm doing
something wrong but
[18:31] on the uh minutes of the january 14th
meeting
[18:35] on the water district report on the
bottom it says we use
[18:40] the average of 33 806 per day
or 1 million 480 for the month
[18:50] uh don't you divide 1 million 480 by 31
because in 31 days in december
[18:58] and that comes out to 47 000.
not 33 000.
[19:06] one of those numbers is wrong i don't
know if it's a total
[19:10] or the average what's the total amount
on that
[19:13] one million four hundred and eighty i'll
bet you're supposed to be one million
[19:19] 04080 because that would make more sense
because we're usually right around a
[19:24] million well it could be
something that i just heard wrong when i
[19:28] wrote it down from scott
from scott i'll have to check with him
[19:32] to see if that those figures are correct
a few times 33 806 average
[19:38] times 31 it comes out to a million
47.98 if you take a million
[19:44] 04080 and divide it by 31 it comes out
the 30
[19:47] 35. yeah so i think you need a zero in
between there it's not a million four
[19:52] yeah
it's a main pull for all yep i see that
[19:56] yep
[20:00] that's what matt's good at
[20:03] good catch he's
[20:10] i have spell check but you know if i
type in a figure that's all that
[20:14] i can do but you know sometimes when i'm
listening to the numbers i'm putting
[20:18] them down wrong too so that could be it
thank you but if we can keep the average
[20:23] between 30 and 35 thousand gallons
that's really going to help us out
[20:26] okay highway superintendents report
north granville water district report
[20:34] jenny we have any old business i
couldn't think of any
[20:37] anybody think of anything old in their
old business
[20:41] is the uh inspection on the town hall is
that
[20:45] old business or new business whatever
you and matt want to report
[20:49] let's put it in let's put it under new
business how's about that
[20:53] okay that's good
[20:58] you guys have the floor
i just want to say
[21:07] go ahead jim i think jim's still late
no go ahead mine's longer mine's longer
[21:14] than yours
um i just i sent you guys all the
[21:20] paperwork we got in the building so far
and
[21:22] we're gonna have a meeting saturday
morning to look over the building
[21:26] we're talking about the manchester
building now uh good look over that
[21:29] building
and just go from there
[21:34] do you ever get an environmental report
okay nothing yet they're still working
[21:38] on it
they assure me there was one but
[21:42] of course we can't do nothing until we
see it in writing so right
[21:45] we need that right all right jim
you got something to add
[21:53] okay up on 42 main street
uh yourself uh
[21:59] harrison steves and and myself inspected
the two priority issues
[22:05] uh with the town of granville uh
office building the support beam under
[22:11] the assessor's office and kitchen
and the electrical replacement to meet
[22:16] code
after inspecting the beams and supports
[22:22] among the three of us we felt that the
beams and supports were sufficient
[22:28] and they're very sound and the job was
done
[22:32] pretty darn well we don't really see any
reason to
[22:36] install adjustable steel posts or to
improve anything in that
[22:41] area seems to be very good at this time
on the electrical though however needs a
[22:48] complete overhaul as we've been
told by our supervisor many times
[22:53] starting
with uh these are only suggestions
[22:57] uh starting with the outside one large
outside meter
[23:02] to supply the entire building like
instead of three or four
[23:08] meters down there that you have to go
inside and uh
[23:11] nice it has to read them inside
uh the size of the entrance is you know
[23:16] be determined by the amp usage
uh like size make uh breaker panel
[23:21] inside
uh this would eliminate uh
[23:26] having multi many meters and
just get us down to one and possibly
[23:33] you know running trunks speeds to sub
breaker panels
[23:37] the basement first floor second floor
but you could do
[23:40] that layout as you go you wouldn't have
to do it all at once
[23:45] uh the map parked that cost at 55
000 it's i believe it's in our
[23:51] belief that it may cost more than that
easy now maybe someone's called
[23:59] easy though what you have is it easy now
at some point we maybe
[24:03] i'm just giving up
[Applause]
[24:07] i i just no i know but i'm just giving
you the raw details of what we discussed
[24:12] yep uh questions but the building would
be safe
[24:16] i got a question yeah that 55 000 i
missed what was that
[24:20] for that was the electrical issue
electrical estimate from vermont foreign
[24:42] anyway uh beyond that we went one step
further
[24:48] uh those are the two items we were asked
to address last meeting
[24:51] but one step further was the cellar
stairs that go from the map room to the
[24:56] basement
uh it was suggested by harrison that
[25:01] those stairs should be replaced
and a metal fire door placed at the
[25:04] bottom of the stairs
and then a emergency shutoff switch for
[25:10] the boilers
at the top of the stairs
[25:15] and then for egress for anybody that
wanted to get out of there
[25:19] they would go down those stairs and then
out the back door
[25:22] but the grade needs to be brought up out
at that back door the grade there's a
[25:29] you'd have to jump down it would require
either a set of steps or
[25:34] bring the grade up or the other but that
was just another observation
[25:40] that's not what we were there to do but
uh
[25:44] so that's kind of in a nutshell unless
matt has something to add
[25:49] yeah i just want to clarify i think when
we talk
[25:52] we're gonna put two meters in that way
one
[25:55] supplies the downstairs and one for
upstairs that way if somebody
[26:01] else buys a building they could have
retail downstairs with one meter
[26:05] and if they lived upstairs or whatever
they would have a separate meter for
[26:09] that level
[26:12] i think that's okay yeah and just let
you know
[26:16] you're right the uh the village
was in here a few days ago checking on
[26:22] the water line because our water line
goes into the building next door because
[26:26] they were
all tied together at one point when they
[26:28] were in checking that water line
they found that our boilers leaking i
[26:33] got the plumber here we took a look at
it it's still leaking
[26:36] because it's 1957. he has to custom
order the parts that he needs to fix it
[26:40] because it's
not exactly something people keep in
[26:43] stock so
every day i'm dumping a bucket of water
[26:46] out of there that's still that's leaking
but they assure us they can get the
[26:49] right part they'll come they'll put it
in
[26:50] it shouldn't be a big deal or a big
expense it's just going to take a few
[26:53] days
man it's that slight glass that's
[26:56] leaking isn't it yep
yeah remember jim and i mentioned that
[27:00] when we're down there yeah it's it's
now it's much more significant but we'll
[27:04] get through well let me ask you another
question
[27:07] uh jimin matt how about the egress door
did we get a price on what that would
[27:13] cost and is that something
that we need to do for safety purposes
[27:17] right away should that be
the top priority
[27:23] we have nothing it should be done you
have no way out of the building except
[27:26] through the front doors you jump out a
window somewhere right
[27:30] i mean if you the only thing the fire
door is going to do is if there's a fire
[27:34] downstairs that's going to stop it or
slow it up
[27:37] from getting upstairs by me there's you
can still go out that way without the
[27:41] door it
makes it easier to get out that way yeah
[27:44] what i'm saying is we need to make sure
we have a safe way of getting out of our
[27:47] building
other than that it isn't what i'm making
[27:51] the fire door is just
to block the fire right jim i'm assuming
[27:55] slow up the fire for competition
it's just it's it's just to slow it down
[28:00] so that you know it can be easily
handled if uh
[28:04] the fire department is needed gotcha
the question first as far as the grade
[28:10] out back
how do we get out of the building if
[28:12] somewhere yeah
we get out of the building safely
[28:19] which we're all depends on where the
fire is
[28:22] where do you say the fire is well i'm
just saying let's say someone comes in
[28:26] the building and everybody wants to get
out of
[28:29] oh you may the building me a gunman or
something or any any
[28:32] yeah that's that would be uh well if
there's fire by the front door you're
[28:36] going out the downstairs and going out
the bag if there's a fire downstairs
[28:39] you're going out the front door so we
can't get out the back door
[28:41] yes okay i don't know why i didn't but
we have to jump out they got to jump
[28:47] well three foot yeah there's a three
foot drop okay but i mean that should be
[28:51] made so it's safe
right that's what we're saying yeah do
[28:55] we have a price on that
scott scott said he could bring that
[28:59] bring that grade up
scott the highway department could do
[29:03] that take a break
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[29:06] bring that really that wouldn't be an
expensive adventure then
[29:10] no okay couple wheelbarrow
i think that's important to do that okay
[29:16] that's
that just makes common sense you
[29:18] wouldn't want your house for the back
door like that that's for sure
[29:26] i'm gonna move on to the are you done
jim you're good
[29:30] yeah yeah okay uh we received today
um copies of the planning grant from the
[29:38] water district
they came in the mail today jenny has
[29:41] copies for each of you
to look through i sent you an email with
[29:45] it but it's i don't know was it 80
something pages
[29:48] the hard copies are here for you the
engineer suggested that we
[29:53] really try to meet in person to go
through that it'd be very difficult over
[29:56] zoom to go through all the details
um i suggested we're going to be zooming
[30:00] for a few months so
i tentatively talked about may i asked
[30:05] him and he said it might be a couple
three hour discussion
[30:08] and so maybe we have to schedule a
special meeting just to go through that
[30:11] because it's pretty in-depth i don't
think
[30:13] we want to piggyback on a regular
meeting we'll be here all night
[30:16] and he also suggested it's possible if
you'd like to schedule that meeting at a
[30:19] time where we actually start the pump
house and he can show you exactly what's
[30:23] going on
and as we come down route 22 he can stop
[30:26] and show you some of the things that
need to be addressed in that
[30:28] so it's something we'll probably need to
meet in person at some point
[30:31] it's not critical at the moment but we
need to do it probably in the next two
[30:34] three months if we're going to look at
applying for any funding in 2021 just
[30:38] keep that in the back of your mind and
i think there's going to be two or three
[30:43] or four of you they're going to get
vaccinated here in the next couple of
[30:45] months so that's going to get us
down the road and maybe the rest of us
[30:49] can get on that train and once we can
all get vaccinated we can get together
[30:56] i didn't have anything else to report
except well actually i want to go to
[30:59] mike
mike um sent up the copy of
[31:04] the resolution give me the title mike
appointing you and
[31:07] uh william declare as our attorneys and
all the details involved there we have
[31:12] to pass a resolution and it has to be
notarized etc
[31:15] we didn't get it in time we'll do it at
the next meeting but we'll circulate it
[31:19] between now and then mike so that
everyone
[31:21] it's the same boilerplate one we do
every year yeah it's an annual
[31:24] resolution and
i was just swamped at the end of last
[31:27] year and didn't get it out to you in
time for the organizational meeting so
[31:31] i sent it out today and matt and i
discussed uh briefly just
[31:35] you know circulating around all you guys
have a chance to look at it and then we
[31:38] can deal with it in march
okay so we'll i'll get it to you you can
[31:42] read it in march i did mention that to
matt rath and mike and he said that
[31:45] because it's going to be in march we
have to pay you for january february
[31:50] you know
[31:54] that sounds so bad like something matt
would say
[31:58] too well the first time we've seen you
in months
[32:02] i know i know well it's not because i
haven't covered
[32:07] maybe next time maybe this year you'll
get it done in december then
[32:10] listen i i i'm i'm still holding my
breath
[32:14] here you know for that length of absence
i haven't heard
[32:17] too much trouble that you've gotten into
so you must really be
[32:21] uh behaving yourselves no we're saving
enough it's all going to come at once
[32:25] a little apprehensive about this uh all
this about the horizon right here
[32:30] you know um but maybe that'll be okay
maybe go ahead matt spring is coming so
[32:36] you know what spring brings mud and you
know what mud brings
[32:39] i do know that i do know that i thought
i thought spring brings syrup that's
[32:44] what you always say
you know you know mike even though we
[32:49] may go back to meeting in person
we could still set up zoom eating so
[32:53] that you know if there's not a lot going
on you could zoom in instead of having
[32:56] to drive the gravel all the time but
we'll play right here
[32:58] that's pretty violent yeah that's right
i think that there's going to be a lot
[33:04] of that going on in the future
so since mike's up does anybody have any
[33:10] questions or comments for mike while
he's on
[33:15] i have a question for you matt uh
the uh agreement i'm gonna be careful
[33:23] how i choose my
words here the agreement that we
[33:27] was proposed a couple meetings ago
with uh the pember
[33:34] uh are they gonna are we gonna do a an
agreement
[33:38] with them or are we just going to pay
them like we have
[33:41] in the past we have not paid them as of
yet though we need to pay them sometime
[33:46] in 2021 but i did send
a bunch of information to mike that's on
[33:51] mike's agenda just hasn't
come to fruition yet but my intention
[33:54] would be
we'd give the invention to mike he would
[33:57] put together an agreement um
for us he would send it to us we'd go
[34:02] through it we'd
send information back to mike on how we
[34:04] feel about it and then when we're all
comfortable with it we'll
[34:07] pass it at some meeting send it on to
them to be signed and then send him a
[34:11] check does that sound reasonable mike
yeah as i i mentioned to um to matt
[34:17] that it's not a complicated agreement
what i really need um from you guys is
[34:24] is this information the basic exchange
of consideration
[34:29] in this particular kind of agreement is
the town pays x amount of dollars to the
[34:35] library
the library in return makes its services
[34:39] available
to residents of the town so that's the
[34:43] primary exchange
that's what you get that's what you give
[34:48] the question that i have is what in
addition if anything
[34:53] to availability of the library services
to town residents
[34:58] do does the town want to
require as consideration for its payment
[35:07] now you know i know there are issues
regarding
[35:10] financial disclosure and books and
records
[35:14] and you know what you might have a right
to look at
[35:17] um what you might have a right to weigh
in on those
[35:20] those types of things um and in a very
practical sense the question becomes
[35:27] you know what what does ten thousand
dollars entitle you to
[35:31] you know if that's your contribution and
um
[35:34] and and i don't know that's just the
bargain for exchange of
[35:38] of consideration um and i don't think we
should
[35:42] do this now in open session but i have
sent mike my impressions of what i think
[35:46] should be in there
and then if you guys have any strong
[35:48] feelings i think you should email mike
with yours
[35:51] he'll incorporate it then in there and
give us a draft to get started with
[35:54] that sound right mike yep okay
[36:00] anything else we want to talk about
before we head to the bills
[36:08] okay um matt did you get someone to sign
my vouchers because i
[36:14] didn't get a chance to get that i took
care of you i took care of you ken
[36:19] hey thank you you guys down on south
ground we got each other's back
[36:24] sounds good all right matt let's start
with highway and highway
[36:29] in care 528104
woodward equipment 66926 pete's tire
[36:36] barn
380 86 typho industries
[36:41] 15516 chem monk
supply company 505 safety cleans 160 780
[36:48] han 471 56 c wac
126936 delorean sales and service
[36:56] 2638 68.
o'reilly's 824 65. john
[37:02] kowski and son 236.52
allied all the parts 115 69
[37:09] fleet pride 313 19 rouse tire sales
32 montage enterprises three
[37:17] or six 21 74 richard hayward
266 25 north country radiators
[37:24] 571 20 north track 1
489 48 cents
[37:31] fully serviced 350 76
american head raw hardware 7326
[37:38] washington county treasurer 96 for a
total of 17
[37:43] 934 4446 so move
a second second
[37:50] all in favor
[37:54] carried okay jim north granville water
looks like
[38:01] verizon 105 constellations 268.74
williams water 986.10
[38:10] queensbury water department 70
american hardware 215.77
[38:16] mainecare 219 26 lamont engineers 15 000
20.89
[38:23] manchester newspaper 109.91
rusik well drilling 285
[38:31] york state electric gas 203.10
with a total of 17 000 480 451.
[38:40] so
[38:44] all in favor aye
carey tom you got the big one tonight
[38:51] yeah i got the big one uh
this is uh ken's general town ride uh
[38:57] nice egg 3815
nice egg forty eight seventy nine nice
[39:01] seg sixty five ninety nice egg 178
eighty seven
[39:05] spectrum 66707 constellation
one ninety twenty three constellation
[39:11] one twenty four twelve
20403 association account
[39:16] superintendents
200 manchester newspaper 6157
[39:22] nice egg 488-17
constellation 41 think here
[39:29] 1234-74 baker's burner service 301 25
culligans 2165 boyce claire
[39:37] 300 village of greenville 145
foley services 124 64. staples 369.95
[39:46] matt hicks 310 39 middleweight valley
senior association 1500
[39:52] for a total of 675.93 so moved
[39:58] that wasn't all that wasn't for the
water department
[40:02] no that was all general fund general all
right here's your water department all
[40:05] right
or jim did the water department okay
[40:10] all in favor aye carried all right
okay you want to go to the lights and
[40:16] outside i got
middle gravel bites uh i got
[40:20] constellation 180 95 nice egg 432 92
constellation 178 61 for a total of
[40:29] 792.48
north greenville lights constellation
[40:33] 1088 nice egg 259
80 cancellation 107.65 for a total of 4
[40:41] 76 33. um
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[40:47] okay then i've got the milligram of fire
and you want to agree to fire officers
[40:52] here too right
sure okay
[40:57] um lily graham fire department 90
998
[41:05] north korean fire department seventy one
thousand eight hundred and seven dollars
[41:10] and the south carolina fire department
seventy two thousand and forty nine
[41:16] dollars so move
[41:19] okay okay all in favor
all right
[41:26] yes
[41:31] the only two things that i forgot to
mention is uh the planning board meeting
[41:35] is next
tuesday the normal third tuesday
[41:40] todd will not be able to be there in
person but he is zooming in
[41:44] they were gonna meet in person everybody
else so i will
[41:47] be setting up the zoom for them if any
of you want to zoom in and you want the
[41:50] connection to the
zoom meeting let me know and i can send
[41:53] it to you i may have already i don't
know
[41:56] and the second thing is our it guy is
going to be on site
[41:59] next monday jenny's got a couple
problems with her the assessor's got an
[42:03] issue there scott's got to get
his windows 10 taken care of there's a
[42:07] printer not working
we need to increase the wi-fi and he's
[42:11] going to be working
he has a conference call with our meter
[42:14] reader for the water district
uh troubleshooter person on monday so
[42:19] i'll be here monday if you guys want to
come in and talk to the i.t guy for any
[42:22] reason but hopefully we'll get all those
issues taken care of
[42:25] who is that matt his name is uh ryan
uh my lot he works
[42:32] uh he's in hudson falls i think he works
for the
[42:36] washington county i.t department and he
does this on the side so he's available
[42:39] nights and weekends
and but monday's the holidays so he's
[42:41] gonna come over on monday all right
[42:46] boy i haven't got too much else anybody
else got anything they want to bring up
[42:51] um i assume we'll do this again next
month
[42:57] okay so jim jim moved to adjourn
[43:03] got a second all in favor
all right okay so say a prayer that i
[43:09] figured out how to upload this and get
it on our website tomorrow
[43:12] i'm going to give it a shot so fingers
crossed we can always
[43:15] do it if you have any problems good luck
all right
[43:18] redo it all right thanks guys
all right
[43:25] all everybody see ya