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Everybody
>> welcome board meeting for June 24th
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and uh the everybody is welcome to join
in person in by Zoom or on Facebook if
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you would like to join by Zoom. The
instructions are at the beginning of
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each agenda.
And this will be available um online
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tomorrow as well.
So um we're going to start with asking
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counselor
to lead people
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to the flag
of America and to the republic for it
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stands nationy
[clears throat]
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andice for
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proclamation on the occasion of the
250th anniversary of the United States.
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Whereas on July 4th, 206,
the United States would celebrate its
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250th anniversary, marking the signing
of Declaration of Independence and the
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founding of our nation. And whereas our
founders established a nation based on
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equality and alien level rights and the
pursuit of happiness principles that
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have guided America's enduring legacy of
freedom and achievement. And whereas our
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system of representation of government
is based on the wisdom of the shony.
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Whereas local government plays a vital
role in teaching civic values, honoring
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our history and fostering patriotism and
unity among new generations. Now
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therefore be a resolve of time mania has
called on the community to join in this
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celebration reflect on our nation's
journey and recommmit to the founding
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principles that made America strong and
united and be a further resolve town
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families proudly commemorates America's
250th anniversary by raising a semi
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centennial flag at town hall to
celebrate our nation's history and
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future on July 1st 2026 at noon thank
so hopefully you guys not come
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Now it's time for open podium. If
anybody would like to speak at open
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podium, please feel free to come up.
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» It wasn't.
>> Okay.
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» Hello. Uh Tom Bassid uh retired real
estate lawyer, longtime town resident.
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So I I just come before you for uh uh
two purposes. Uh one is to in in both
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cases I wanted to commend the board for
actions that they have taken. uh the uh
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one of the one of the actions was to
contract with uh I don't know if there's
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a contract or not with Maxwell School to
have an analysis made of the options and
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that's going to be presented
[clears throat] momentarily I guess
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options as to what to do about the need
for improved facilities with police
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department and the uh town offices and
uh uh I sort of blew through the very
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lengthy uh reported
uh that that's going to be touched upon
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I guess or described momentarily.
It outlines uh uh several different
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options rehabbing this building. Uh
well, you you you've seen what the
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objects are and and and the uh there are
cost projections
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uh impact on taxes and uh uh and so
there pros and cons to uh each option.
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So you have a difficult task in uh in
deciding ultimately what to do because
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uh there just like I said there pros and
cons to various optics, different costs,
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different impacts on taxpayers,
different uh uh priorities. So I I I
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wish you luck with that. Uh but I'm glad
that you undertook that study because as
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you know there are two prior proposals
as far as acquisition of land on Berdick
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Street and then uh basically in the
northeast medical area. Uh those uh
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plans uh fell through partially as a
result of substantially as a result of
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lack of citizen input and uh careful
analysis of of the factors that are
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outlined in this report.
So the second subject uh oh
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I have two sort of self-deprecating
things to say. One being uh you're here
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for this report, right? So um I was
rejected by the Maxwell School.
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[laughter]
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so long ago when I was trying to get a
dual degree between the law school and
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the national school but but uh the
national school obviously is the number
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one uh uh school in the country for
public administration and other such
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affairs but I don't hold it against you
because my my qualifications were not up
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to up to par but the second item I
wanted to address was the uh regressive
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decision on the part of the board uh to
pick Brett as a a a new counselor. I
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don't know what the process was. What I
know is uh based on resumes uh that uh
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uh he's well qualified, brings uh an
impressive academic record uh to the
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board, is a lawyer, not that there's
anything necessarily inherently good or
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bad about being a lawyer, but he's a
lawyer. [laughter]
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And I uh suppressed the um bias uh that
I might have had as far as having gone
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to Dartmouth College, his having gone to
Yale University, I think, and Yale Law
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School.
All good because the qualifications he
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he brings are are excellent. But the
other aspect of it was that it it shows
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a a welcomeness of of diversity uh of
the sort that you're aware of. uh our
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society is backsliding in certain ways
uh as far in a lot of different areas
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including uh what had originally been
the successful uh gay rights movement.
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Uh and uh as the parent of uh of a
daughter who was in a a same-sex marital
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relationship uh those individuals are
parents of our two granddaughters. I was
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particularly moved when I saw the video
of the swearing in ceremony uh which was
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held here where uh Rat's spouse brought
their children and uh it was quite
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moving but none of that would have
occurred unless you had the willingness
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to be progressive enough to uh set aside
whatever classes you might have had and
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uh embrace the diversity which uh our
society is dependent upon. Thanks so
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much.
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Yeah, I would.
>> So, I'll just realize
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» Pat Allen Manoa. So, I I I had the
chance to read through the Maxwell
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presentation with us.
>> Very good. Very thorough. But I I just
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had a question, right? I was under the
impression that we're still open to
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exploring other options. So what we see
in the Maxwell report is a whole buffet
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of options to consider. Right?
>> But there could be other options that
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are added to the buffet table to make
our choices that much richer.
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» Okay. So we're we're all in agreement
with that, right?
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» There there may be fashion twists. could
be could be 7G. Who who knows? You've
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got a lot of bright people there
participating and and offering up stuff.
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But I was just a little alarmed because
one could draw the conclusion from the
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document that here's your options.
[laughter]
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And I think that if I may, you can add
to this, but there has to be a student
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project with an end piece of project.
They had to put something together for
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this project. That doesn't mean it's
what the study group has to use. They
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have to put it together.
>> Right.
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» Right. Okay. [laughter] Because it would
be very easy to misinterpret that
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presentation of here you go.
>> So, okay. Thank you.
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» Thank you.
>> It's not the end. It's just a start.
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» Yes.
>> Anybody else? All right. Well, speaking
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of presentations,
do you want to say speakers?
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» Sure. Um, so I'll introduce U. Professor
Pete Wilhox. He was the advisor for the
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Capstone Group that did this research.
We they worked with us for about three
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weeks. They went on tours of this
building, our police department,
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uh, Canelis and Dit Police Departments
and town halls and did quite a bit of
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research to come up with this report.
Their capstone period ended yesterday
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and so, Professor Wiloxin is sharing on
their behalf.
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Okay. Yeah. Thank you everyone for being
here and thank you for the opportunity.
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Uh I am a standin for uh a student team
who completed this project as part of
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their master's degree and they graduated
yesterday and got on airplanes this
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morning. And so you are stuck with me.
They would have been notified. uh but I
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want to emphasize from the outset that
our task I'm going to go through this in
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the slice but our task was not to make
any decisions of any kind or limit the
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community in any way. I should also say
by the way since we're doing
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introductions that I am a resident of
man uh and my wife teaches in the FM
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schools. Um so anyway our our mission
was merely to coate the facts as inputs
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to the community engagement process and
we were tasked with dreaming up some
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possible options but but not an
exhaustive list. and Scott, the way that
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we think about it is we put together a
menu. Uh, and so
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uh since a lot of you have uh already
read u the presentation, I'll go through
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this pretty quickly, but uh there have
been longstanding issues at the town
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hall and at the police station. Uh as
probably everyone knows, the town hall
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is owned by the town. The police station
is east from the village.
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um board uh started a community
engagement process um including study
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group uh participants probably many of
you are in the study group
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» several are
>> yeah so
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» professor
that microphone there will let the
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people that are watching you just be
mindful when you turn
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» oh
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» um thank you uh and so so our our task
was to pull together information.
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Uh and the key questions that we were
trying to address are what are the key
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issues uh at those locations? What are
some ways to prioritize those? What are
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some options for addressing them? And
how can this information be communicated
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transparently and accessibly to the
community? And so our overall process,
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this again is a slightly condensed
version of what you've seen on the web
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if you've uh looked at the web is as
Ingred mentioned uh there was a
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community listening session. The team
did tours uh of both the manlas
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facilities and similar facilities in Dit
and Camilis. Um we looked into legal
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requirements uh categorized
uh the issues by uh type and prairie
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developed a preliminary set of options
and did a preliminary cost benefit
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analysis of addressing those options and
we put everything on the web. So uh
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again I think this is uh available to
you but uh this um
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the students put together a website
which includes uh information from this
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presentation. what we set out to do, uh
how how we thought about the project,
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the options,
uh how they compare, and then uh a whole
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menu of what the problems are and which
options fix which problems. Uh and then
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at the bottom is all of the documents
and analysis that we did. So, there's a
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costbenefit analysis spreadsheet.
There's a PDF guide uh to it. There's
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information about what we learned about
uh ADA requirements uh and what we
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learned about nonADA
uh issues,
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a full slate of uh options to address
all the issues, communication
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strategies, all this is available. And
then at the bottom is a list of all the
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sources we use. So if anybody really
wants to go in a deep dive, uh they can
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look at the spreadsheet which shows how
all of this uh fits together or go
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through the original documents.
Uh okay. Uh so uh whoa whoa whoa. Um
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okay. So one of the things we learned a
bunch of things from the community
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listening session. uh it was super
useful. One of the things that came
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through very clearly was that people
wanted a list, a clear list of what the
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problems were. Uh they wanted
transparency. Safety was a priority. ADA
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accessibility was a priority. Decision
should be data driven. So we should
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provide as much data as we could. People
were wary I think is a fair word to say
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about tax increases. Uh and
uh the priority, sorry there's a zoom
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thing in my way here.
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Uh the priority was making everything
functional but not necessarily
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impressive or attractive. And there was
a question about how does maners compare
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with other towns. Uh so uh if you
haven't seen the uh handout, I'll go
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through uh go through this quickly, but
we did some comparison uh of adjacent
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towns. The orange bars are Manliest. Uh
the blue bars are Dwit, Camilis, and
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Cicero. And of the four towns, Manliest
has the largest population.
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Uh it also has the largest area which is
uh relevant for among other things
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policing.
Uh we looked at some financial variables
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as well. Household income and the size
of the tax base of the four communities.
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The median household income in Manas is
highest. Although to be sure, manus is
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very heterogeneous, right? So that's the
median income. Uh but there certainly
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are people at other ends of the
spectrum. and it has uh the second
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highest tax base.
Uh we looked at the town's budget
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compared to others uh and Mammoth's town
budget is about the same as Milis and
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Cicero, considerably lower in DIT. Uh
and the property tax revenue uh is
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lowest uh of all four towns.
The team did some additional comparisons
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by visiting facilities and they just for
reference new has a larger town staff.
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It has considerably higher security has
bulletproof glass and doors,
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interconnected private workspaces so
that people can move back and forth
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without having to go into a public
space. Uh it's fully ADA compliant.
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Camilis has what the team found to be a
super important thing. They have a
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full-time building and maintenance
supervisor whose job is to fix stuff and
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and they they just went through like a
whole list of things that this person
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had fixed
uh around the buildings that saved a ton
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of money, right? So, that's just a thing
to put in the back of mind. Uh Primos
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has higher security. They have
electronic blocks and badging systems
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and they are committed to becoming ADA
compliant including uh an elevator
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retrofit.
Okay, so that's the town comparison. We
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then uh tried to make a comprehensive
list of all the issues that we could
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find from either talking to staff,
talking to the community, reading the
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previous documents that had evaluated
problems. We grouped everything into
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four categories. accessibility, safety
and security, operational issues and
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electrical system issues. And then we
put rank them into three priorities. Uh
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the highest priority are things that we
believe are legally required. Uh the
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second pri uh category are things that
we think are high priority to fix, but
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of course it's up to the community uh to
do. And then the lowest are things that
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uh one might ideally fix uh if resources
uh were not a problem.
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Here is a quick review of some of the
issues. So for accessibility
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uh legally required for ADA compliance
would be improved door handles, uh signs
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with rail. Uh things which are not
strictly required uh include uh some
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additional automatic doors and an
elevator or lift to help people uh who
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have challenges to get from one floor
with their lane to another. As probably
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everyone knows that's not legally
required because it's possible for a
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person to go outside and go around to
the other entrance. So that's why it's
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on it should fix, but it certainly is uh
inconvenient
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uh for people who have any kind of
mobility issues. Um also adjusting
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counter heights so that they're
wheelchair accessible
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is on that list. Uh for safety and
security uh in town hall, uh improved
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security uh like batch door scanners,
doors that lock from the inside. Uh this
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if you're not familiar with it in our
modern world is an essential thing like
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at SU we've had u swatting incidents
where people called and said there were
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active shooters in the building and it
we discovered that people couldn't lock
[47:15]
themselves in their office, right? They
could only they could be locked into the
[47:20]
office but you couldn't lock the office
to prevent someone else from coming in.
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That's a serious security concern. And
so one of the things that we think
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should be fixed is door should be
lockable on the inside uh just in case
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of that kind of an incident. Also,
another thing that uh should be ideally
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fixed is this. This picture will either
be really familiar to you if you know
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town hall or it be kind of opaque. But
this is showing downstairs and it's uh
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when court is in session, uh people who
have to go to the restroom have to walk
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behind the security officer, which is
clearly uh not uh a great uh security
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situation. So, that's uh another item to
consider.
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uh on operational which is kind of a
catch-all category. Uh state law
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requires towns to have secure record
holding facilities that can ensure that
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records are not damaged and are
protected from the elements. Uh and uh
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town hall could certainly use an upgrade
in that. Uh also there's uh
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space uh shortages uh heating uh
problems in some of the offices uh that
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are on the ideal fixed. Uh there were
also concerns raised uh which is this is
[48:44]
a little out of our uh daily work really
but there were concerns raised about the
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age and uh integrity of the heating and
ventilating and air conditioning system
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uh and some of the electrical wiring
where there were um breakers tripped
[49:02]
from seemingly innocuous uh loads being
plugged in.
[49:08]
So to come back to the real point, what
we did is we took all of these things
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together and we made a menu. So the
analogy with a buffet was perfect. So we
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made a menu and so this is all the items
uh that we identified at town hall as
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concerns.
um they're colorcoded by things that uh
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we think are required by law to be
fixed, things that um would be desirable
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to fix, and then things that could be
fixed uh if there were resources
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available uh and uh and and their
categories, safety, security,
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operational and so on. So these are all
the items uh at town hall.
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Uh at the police station uh the ADA
doors and uh at the police station
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restrooms uh are required. Uh there are
some hallways which are not ADA
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accessible
and then uh ideally
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the students regard this as ideal. I
think it probably should rank higher
[50:18]
than that, but there are places there
are stairs where if a disabled person
[50:23]
arrives at the police station, someone
has to get the person out and carry them
[50:28]
up the stairs, right? And sometimes it
could be a person who is uh under
[50:34]
arrest. And so that clearly uh seems to
be a priority. Uh
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uh there are also uh worn asbestous
tiles uh in the floor uh which should be
[50:48]
fixed to prevent people from being
exposed to asbestosis.
[50:52]
Uh there are limited holding cells. So
it's quite common for there to be more
[50:57]
people who need to be held in the police
station than there are cells. Uh if
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you're unfamiliar with the police
station, this uh line uh marks how far
[51:08]
somebody who is in one of the cells uh
can reach. Uh and uh for officers to be
[51:15]
able to get past the cells when they're
full safely, they have to turn sideways
[51:20]
and squeeze through that narrow uh
opening. Um, also another issue that as
[51:26]
you probably all know, the police
station, which is leased from the town,
[51:31]
was once an elementary school and it has
huge windows. Uh, and through the
[51:36]
windows, anybody in the public, if the
windows are not if the shapes are not
[51:40]
drawn, can see everything that's going
on uh in the police station. So
[51:44]
improving the privacy of the windows
even something as simple as glass lock
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um would be uh a big step forward.
>> Uh the secure record holding uh rule
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applies to police records which are
currently stored in shipping containers.
[52:02]
So that's uh a thing that we consider to
be a legally required uh upgrade. Uh the
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police station has a severe lack of
space. They have um
[52:16]
things stored in places where like like
in the roof of the garage where really
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it'd be better not to have things
stored. They have child-siz bathrooms
[52:26]
because it was an elementary school,
right? Uh child size means both both low
[52:32]
and small. Okay. Uh the ceiling in the
garage is not high enough to lift the
[52:39]
car high high enough for a mechanic to
go fully underneath. So there's an
[52:43]
injury risk uh when somebody is working
on a car. Uh there's no designated space
[52:49]
for securing evidence. Um
if the police station was able to raise
[52:55]
the lift higher, they would be able to
do more of the maintenance work on
[52:59]
patrol cars. Right now they have to send
it out for maintenance. the cars out for
[53:03]
maintenance and anything that's serious
in the undercarriage. Um,
[53:08]
there's not very much space in the
parking lot for the officers cars, the
[53:13]
patrol cars, and the undercover cars
plus uh visitors.
[53:19]
Um,
so here is the police station name. Uh,
[53:23]
so again, there's the list uh of things
that uh larger space from pounded
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vehicles. There's a little more detail
in here. same color scheme. The thing
[53:33]
that I took away from this when we did
the study is the police station has way
[53:37]
more issues, right, of the two
buildings, it's it it's just clear in
[53:43]
almost every dimension that it has um
more needs. Um
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okay, so we were tasked with coming up
with some ideas, but not a complete set
[53:57]
of options. These are just ideas. And so
uh we put together five. Uh the first
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one is to do the minimum uh just fix the
urgent problems with ADA compliance in
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both buildings.
Option B is to shoot for the moon, do a
[54:16]
full rebuild, bring both facilities into
one integrated building with town hall,
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police, and the court all in one
building. And then we had uh three
[54:26]
options uh that differed from that. Uh,
option C is rebuild the police station
[54:33]
and to renovate town hall but keep the
building. Option D is to purchase a new
[54:40]
building for the police station and
renovate town hall. And option E is to
[54:45]
purchase a new building for the police
station and do the minimum renovations
[54:49]
on town hall. So it's essentially D for
the police and A for town hall.
[54:56]
Uh so these will be hard to read at a
distance but in the presentation that's
[55:01]
online there are space diagrams. These
aren't for plans but they're diagrams of
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how much space is available in each of
the buildings uh now and how much there
[55:12]
would be under each of the plans. And so
uh this is option A which is do the
[55:17]
minimum and the buildings here and the
approximate uh square footage devoted to
[55:23]
each function are are the current
layout. Uh and in a minute I'll show you
[55:30]
exactly what's addressed in option A.
But option A is to do the minimum. uh it
[55:36]
would provide immediate compliance and
safety fixes and it would avoid it's
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it's it would avoid having to issue new
debt. It's not it's not cheap, but it's
[55:47]
um it's an inexpensive road, but there
would be a bunch of remaining uh
[55:53]
challenges. The police would be in an
undersized building. The lease on the
[55:57]
police station would continue. The
police and the court remain separate,
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which is not ideal uh in different
buildings.
[56:05]
uh each of the buildings has many
persistent problems and a thing that's
[56:08]
really important is that this kicks the
can down the road.
[56:13]
Option A doesn't fix a lot of problems
which will ultimately need to be fixed,
[56:19]
right? It just means we don't do it now.
We have to keep maintaining the
[56:23]
buildings uh along the way and
eventually uh rebuild them.
[56:28]
Option D is a full rebuild. It solves
all of the problems on the list. It's
[56:33]
one modern building. It ends the police
station lease. The police facility is
[56:39]
properly sized according to
international standards. Police and the
[56:43]
court are coll-located which is an
improvement in security.
[56:47]
Town hall can be sold and put back on
the tax role. Um but it's expensive. It
[56:54]
has the largest upfront cost. It would
need a large site about seven acres we
[56:58]
think and obviously would require bond.
Um,
[57:04]
option C, uh, is to just build a
building for the police. Uh, so that's
[57:09]
this new police building over here on
the left and renovate town hall. Uh, so
[57:15]
this would um fix all problems that the
police that we have and it would uh fix
[57:22]
the problems in town hall. It would also
free up the court space in town hall for
[57:28]
other purposes. Um
the downside is it requires two
[57:32]
buildings to maintain rather than one
which is the case in option B
[57:38]
and it's important to remember that ren
a full renovation of town hall has some
[57:42]
risks associated with it like it could
be that there's asbestous discovered in
[57:46]
the building and asbestous remediation
could be very expensive. Um
[57:53]
okay option D [clears throat] would be
to purchase an existing building. uh and
[57:59]
renovate town hall. Uh so that has many
of the advantages uh of the option C
[58:07]
except that the building doesn't have to
be built from scratch. It does have to
[58:11]
be converted and the conversion cost is
a big wild card there. Um, we picked a
[58:18]
uh just a rough size building looking at
at uh commercial buildings uh around
[58:24]
Bameas of 25,000 square ft which is a
little undersized for the police uh
[58:29]
station but it's much better than what
they have now. Um and there would still
[58:34]
be retrofit risks at town hall.
Option E uh is to uh do option D for the
[58:44]
police building uh buy a building and
convert it to a new police station and
[58:49]
then do the minimum renovations here. Um
and uh
[58:58]
uh I'll show you the cost in a second.
Um
[59:03]
that has uh the lowest lifetime cost. Um
but it leaves a lot of things uh
[59:11]
unresolved because it makes only the
minimum changes here.
[59:16]
Okay. So so they go back to the menus.
This is going to be impossible to read
[59:21]
here but remember it's in all the stuff
that's available on the web. Uh and also
[59:28]
you know both where I live and where I
work so [laughter] you can ask me
[59:33]
questions.
Okay. Uh so this is an extended version
[59:38]
of the mat of the menu and it just shows
like under A B C D and E which things
[59:44]
are resolved uh by those options and
those are not only which things are
[59:49]
resolved but they're which things we
tried to factor into the costbenefit
[59:53]
analysis.
Uh here's how the different options uh
[1:00:00]
address issues at the police station. Uh
you can see that A is the minimum, B is
[1:00:05]
all of the options for all of the
issues.
[1:00:10]
Um okay, I'm going to show you the cost
now in just a second, but there are a
[1:00:14]
couple of key things that are important
to know about the cost. Um and the first
[1:00:20]
is that the do minimum options on uh
town hall or town hall in the police
[1:00:26]
station when we scored those we took
into account that eventually an upgrade
[1:00:33]
will need to happen and we put that in
at 30 years. So do minimum does not
[1:00:38]
avoid having to do the major overhauls.
It just postpones it. And so for for
[1:00:45]
option A which was the initial uh do
minimum uh what we factored in is a
[1:00:50]
comprehensive build of the police
station and town hall in year 30 and we
[1:00:56]
use the cost of option B uh for that in
year 30. For option E where the police
[1:01:03]
get a new building up front. We factored
in a full renovation of town hall uh in
[1:01:08]
year 30 uh and used the cost from the
EIP study that was done uh couple years
[1:01:14]
ago. No additional work needed on the
police station.
[1:01:19]
Okay, so this is how things stacked up
and uh this is uh probably a little hard
[1:01:25]
to read on the screen, but the options
are listed in the same order that I just
[1:01:30]
went through them. So A is do minimum.
The left bars that are kind of in a
[1:01:35]
muddy orange color are uh the upfront
cost of that option, what you'd have to
[1:01:41]
pay to carry them out uh immediately.
The blue bars are the lifetime present
[1:01:48]
value cost. So it's it's today's cost
factoring in what you do today, but also
[1:01:53]
all the maintenance that you'd have to
do over time and the eventual rebuild.
[1:01:57]
So, so doing uh option A we think would
cost about a million dollars now, but
[1:02:05]
it's life cycle cost equivalent today is
$24 million, right? Because a lot of
[1:02:12]
this deferred um maintenance would
eventually have to be done.
[1:02:17]
The full bill rebuild is obviously much
more expensive uh right up front, $47
[1:02:24]
million and then in count counting all
life cycle cost 51.
[1:02:29]
Uh the split uh version uh
uh which is a full rebuild of the police
[1:02:37]
station and a full renovation of town
hall uh comes in um slightly cheaper uh
[1:02:44]
but not a lot.
uh D and E come in much cheaper than
[1:02:49]
either of those. So purchasing a new
building for the police department
[1:02:54]
uh comes in with an upfront cost of $20
million $21 million and its life cycle
[1:03:00]
cost is only slightly higher than that.
>> Can I ask you a question?
[1:03:04]
» Yeah.
>> The 21 million indeed is that a new an
[1:03:08]
existing building that has to be
retrofit for the police department?
[1:03:11]
» Yes.
>> Okay. So that's purchase and upgrades.
[1:03:15]
» It's purchase and and in our case of
what the upgrade cost would be, which I
[1:03:20]
think is like $6 million in the
spreadsheet.
[1:03:24]
» Yeah.
>> One of the things that [clears throat]
[1:03:25]
we we just to emphasize that we don't
want to put our thumbs on the scale here
[1:03:31]
even though I live here, right?
>> That the we we provide this a detailed
[1:03:36]
spreadsheet. It has many pages and you
can change clearly labeled assumptions
[1:03:41]
that you can change. Right? So if you
think, well, what happens if the
[1:03:44]
retrofit cost for an existing building
is $7 million? You can just change the
[1:03:49]
six to seven and see how it works,
right? But what if it's only five? Um,
[1:03:55]
and then this thing out here at the end
where uh you purchase a new building
[1:04:01]
for the police and retrofit it uh and
then defer all of the things that are
[1:04:07]
not absolutely necessary for town hall.
That comes in with um a low upfront
[1:04:13]
cost, a higher life cycle cost because
of things just getting deferred. Um,
[1:04:20]
okay. Then we land on this diagram,
which is either awesome or awful
[1:04:26]
depending on your taste in diagrams.
Okay. And it's probably on the awful
[1:04:31]
side because it's not very big uh for
you. But on the horizontal axis is
[1:04:36]
upfront cost. Uh so here is uh option A.
It has a very low upfront cost. Here is
[1:04:43]
E. Here is D. Here are B and C. on the
vertical axis is the life cycle cost is
[1:04:51]
the present value in today's dollars uh
taking into account the eventual cost
[1:04:56]
that will need to be paid. Um in the
dream world you'd be close to the origin
[1:05:02]
in both right you'd have low upfront
cost and low life cycle cost. Okay the
[1:05:09]
size of the circle
shows how many of the issues are
[1:05:13]
addressed right so so A is pretty low
cost it doesn't address very many
[1:05:19]
issues. Okay. Uh B the full rebuild
solves all the problems. It's also the
[1:05:26]
most expensive on both measures.
Um the one
[1:05:33]
so so our thumbs are not on the scale,
but the thing that stood out to us is D.
[1:05:39]
D addresses almost everything, right?
That's uh buying and renovating uh a
[1:05:46]
building for the police and then
renovating town hall.
[1:05:51]
Um, it does not have by any means the
lowest upfront cost, but it does have
[1:05:56]
among the lowest life cycle cost because
it avoids the kicking the can down the
[1:06:01]
road problem. Okay. Um, what I mean by
kicking the can down the road, just to
[1:06:06]
be super clear about this, is I have my
my so my car suffers from rust and salt,
[1:06:18]
right? And I keep getting hammered by I
I I need a new catalytic converter like
[1:06:24]
some some of you have had this
experience, right? I need a new this and
[1:06:29]
that and the other thing. Uh and so the
question is do I hang out of the car and
[1:06:34]
keep paying all that stuff and then
eventually buy a new car? At what point
[1:06:39]
do I buy a new car? And so the um the
the life cycle cost is important because
[1:06:48]
you know there's a bunch of stuff that
is eventually going to have to be fixed.
[1:06:53]
So our key takeaways there are 32 issues
of varying urgency. The police station
[1:06:59]
has the largest number of needs. Um we
have five options but um there can be
[1:07:06]
many many more. You can mix and match
things from the menu. um the low upfront
[1:07:12]
cost. You should remember that there
will be higher lifetime cost down the
[1:07:17]
road and then we put everything on the
web.
[1:07:21]
So uh thank you for listening and are
there any questions I can answer?
[1:07:27]
» So are we is it open meeting to the
public or there questions for the board?
[1:07:32]
» Questions first.
[1:07:36]
We um
I know that a couple of us were at the
[1:07:41]
presentation
last week, so we did get quite a few of
[1:07:45]
our questions answered already.
>> Um
[1:07:49]
and
but for those of you that weren't there,
[1:07:54]
we we already asked we asked many
questions, but so not that we don't have
[1:07:58]
questions that they were already.
[clears throat]
[1:08:07]
I would set a time on that
maybe for the benefit
[1:08:14]
as that you guys asked the presentation
helpful and help me to remember what I
[1:08:19]
asked. I just I had a couple clarifying
questions. Um I think I asked if
[1:08:26]
tax says value included commercial
buildings
[1:08:29]
» which is yes
>> it did was my guess. Sure.
[1:08:34]
» Um, and I asked a question. I thought it
was interesting that the tax assess
[1:08:39]
value and then the resources that we
have for our facilities were so
[1:08:46]
different from each other compared to
the other communities.
[1:08:50]
» Could you identify actual properties
that were 25 to 31,000 square feet that
[1:08:55]
were for sale currently in the Dallas?
>> We did not. We we we looked at a sort of
[1:09:00]
quick inventory of buildings, but um
didn't do that,
[1:09:06]
» but they weren't necessarily
>> right.
[1:09:10]
» Yeah.
>> Right. That wasn't their role in the
[1:09:13]
time frame.
>> Yeah. disappointed.
[1:09:16]
» I think we actually said we didn't
include that on purpose because we
[1:09:20]
didn't want to but that's where the
study group and toward the end of our
[1:09:26]
process. We we could pick up with that
if we chose to.
[1:09:30]
» Just one additional question. You heard
you you also included your heard cost
[1:09:35]
analysis estimated tax increases from
household.
[1:09:38]
» Yes. And option A when we do the
absolute bare minimum says Z tax
[1:09:43]
increases for everyone although
eventually I assume that would actually
[1:09:48]
change because there' be a $23 million
hit over the long term. So I'm curious
[1:09:53]
how you got these estimates because it
doesn't seem to drive where eventually a
[1:09:58]
bill will come due to nothing. And then
on the option D and E, on D, for
[1:10:05]
instance, there's an $86 a year tax
increase for every median household. I'm
[1:10:09]
curious where you got that number and
how long that $86 increase happens. Is
[1:10:14]
that over 30 years? Does it eventually
go away?
[1:10:16]
» Yeah.
>> Or does that $86 cover the upfront cost
[1:10:20]
over the course of two years? Yeah. So,
so the um so those numbers are all all
[1:10:25]
as as it sounds I inferred they're all
based on um paying for the upfront cost
[1:10:33]
uh over um I think 30 years. I I have to
look at the spreadsheet. Uh and the
[1:10:39]
reason that a comes in with zero is
because we assumed that that it wouldn't
[1:10:46]
require a bond issue to pay for that.
That they wouldn't actually it was it's
[1:10:51]
a million dollars and that that could be
covered some other way. All the other
[1:10:55]
ones is basically
>> other four options.
[1:11:00]
» Yeah. Yeah. There's borrowing for the
other four options and you look at what
[1:11:03]
the um what the tax burden would be for
household.
[1:11:14]
» Yeah. I just had a quick question. I
noticed in the you guys discussed the
[1:11:18]
storage issue for the records of both
the town hall and police station. This
[1:11:21]
might be a question the court as well.
Um, is it an option for that um to be
[1:11:26]
outsourced entirely to a private entity
so that wouldn't have to be included in
[1:11:30]
the
>> be outsourced
[1:11:33]
» and the record storage like it looked
like there was a lot of like long-term
[1:11:36]
record storage and there are private
companies contract with just
[1:11:40]
» I think you have a payment in perpetuity
like with a police station they leasing
[1:11:44]
from the village and I don't think we
would favor that.
[1:11:47]
» Yeah, I'm I'm just curious that as an
option that was examined because I know
[1:11:50]
that there are towns that do that. They
don't haveite. They don't have that
[1:11:53]
offside.
>> It can also be superior for security
[1:11:56]
purposes such as like a fire,
>> right?
[1:12:00]
» We we did not understand that. The other
thing that maybe people on the board
[1:12:05]
know, but that I was curious about is
what if you digitize the records, do you
[1:12:11]
escape from this problem?
[1:12:15]
» We've had a large undertaking as far as
digitizing everything. Um they're almost
[1:12:22]
complete with that whole process, but
there's still a little that must
[1:12:30]
» and some things like our police records
can't be digitized,
[1:12:34]
» right? The police records are obvious a
little different than the town. I was
[1:12:37]
just curious as an option.
>> We are digitizing a lot of record.
[1:12:51]
Did anybody else
[1:12:56]
» a question on financing? Uh are there
any available uh state or federal uh
[1:13:03]
grants sourcing for this type of work
particularly as far as the police
[1:13:08]
station or or the uh outfitting of the
police station. something to reduce the
[1:13:16]
need to bond the whole.
>> That is an excellent question. Uh the
[1:13:23]
the team talked with people in the town
who have been writing grants on
[1:13:28]
different things, but we did not do a
comprehensive search to see if there
[1:13:32]
were uh grant agencies that we could use
to cover some of that. That's a good
[1:13:37]
question. Not answered by us.
[1:13:43]
that wasn't part of their project that
can still
[1:13:46]
» identify that right. I
>> mean the assumption is that would all be
[1:13:50]
explored.
>> Yeah.
[1:13:52]
» Yeah. We we just to be super clear we
did not find that there aren't we didn't
[1:13:57]
look
>> right.
[1:14:00]
» So first let me introduce myself. I'm a
former colleague of yours from you albe
[1:14:05]
it in a lesser program. Oh, I don't know
about that. But uh the program I was in
[1:14:13]
is one that is focused on communication
and I'm channeling a little bit of what
[1:14:20]
Pat was asking in the open forum and
that is it seems that your framing of
[1:14:28]
the questions and the issues itself is
[1:14:35]
influencing what we want us to perceive
as the choices.
[1:14:40]
And let me give you an example. For
example, you said the first option is do
[1:14:45]
minimum as opposed to saying something
like address the immediate problems. And
[1:14:50]
and the reason that's important is
because the way you ask the question
[1:14:55]
influences the way you answer it.
>> You know who Franks is, the Republican
[1:15:00]
focus group guru. You know, he got us to
understand that the estate tax became
[1:15:06]
the death tax. And there's a big
difference in how we understand that
[1:15:10]
kind of text. So my concern is partially
the way the framing occurs in the asking
[1:15:17]
of questions.
>> That's a very valid point. I I um I
[1:15:22]
think you're absolutely right that that
should have been named differently. Uh
[1:15:27]
because the intent was
>> the intent was address the stuff that
[1:15:33]
seems to be legally required. Uh, and it
does sound pjorative to say do the
[1:15:38]
minimum. That that was a mistake on our
part in how we phrased it.
[1:15:43]
» By the way, I do applaud the work. I I
have a question, but I'm part of the
[1:15:48]
study group, so I can post.
>> No, you can. Well,
[1:15:53]
» two quick questions. Um, the data around
the needs of the police department. Is
[1:15:57]
that around using the current
recommendations for the size of police
[1:16:01]
based on staff or how does that come to?
Was it having to do with the actual
[1:16:05]
functionality of the police guard house
or is it more of just here's general
[1:16:09]
guidelines that
>> for the size for the for the sort of
[1:16:14]
desirable size of the police department
that came from uh an a recommendation
[1:16:20]
from an international organization on on
how many square feet there should be per
[1:16:25]
employee uh in a typical police station.
So that's where that came from. So think
[1:16:30]
of it as a as a rough guideline. uh but
not a hard number.
[1:16:35]
» Then my my second question is is cost
versus issue solved. The percent solved
[1:16:40]
is just percent of the checklist but
when I'm looking at the thing the you
[1:16:44]
know 10% solved
>> is all the critical items have been
[1:16:48]
solved. So so this I found this very
confusing because it's not qualitative.
[1:16:53]
It's more of just
>> x% versus and it's x% now versus x% over
[1:16:58]
the 30 years running 30 years.
So I found this very confusing but they
[1:17:04]
didn't highlight that actually critical
issues will be all solved under these
[1:17:08]
issues. It's it's what we do now to
understand what we need to do over the
[1:17:12]
world instead of years. So it's
>> that's an excellent point that they're
[1:17:16]
not in in my field I'm an environmental
economist and in my field I would say
[1:17:21]
that we failed to weight the problems by
their severity.
[1:17:27]
» Right. And so we we could use a
different
[1:17:30]
» uh icon. No. Yeah, the spreadsheets and
everything. I'm looking forward to all
[1:17:35]
the data use. It's called out there
right. I just
[1:17:38]
» Yeah,
>> by this like it looks like based on the
[1:17:41]
answer there's not
[1:17:52]
» anybody.
uh you know I'm curious when we talk
[1:17:56]
about those issues that are vigorally
required mandated to face uh what's the
[1:18:00]
kind of consequence for kicking the can
on that it's a two-part question that's
[1:18:05]
the first part of the question second
part is um when you do your analysis on
[1:18:09]
what these costs are going to look like
in 30 years if there is a cost
[1:18:12]
associated with that whether it's
opportunity or whether it's actually you
[1:18:16]
know we're getting hit by actual fines
is that included in that analysis
[1:18:20]
» yeah so um
So there's there's two ways to think
[1:18:24]
about what the costs are of not
addressing those. So one of them is that
[1:18:28]
there's a risk of a lawsuit and we have
some numbers in the spreadsheet that
[1:18:34]
include an estimate of the risk of a
lawsuit for not addressing some of these
[1:18:40]
things. The more important thing I think
this is just me not the team is that
[1:18:46]
some of these things that are not
addressed are becoming increasingly
[1:18:49]
important to a community that's aging.
uh like the accessibility needs, right?
[1:18:55]
There may not ever be a lawsuit, but
there'll be people who can't come to
[1:18:58]
town hall because they have mobility
issues. Um and you know, we can I I
[1:19:06]
won't go through the litany of like my
neighbor this and my neighbor that, but
[1:19:09]
that that would be my concern is is that
it would be
[1:19:14]
the record storage thing. I think I
think the record storage thing I'm not
[1:19:19]
quite sure what the consequences are,
but that is a state law and the ADA
[1:19:24]
thing is it's mostly
that you run a risk of a lawsuit or you
[1:19:30]
just don't serve everybody in the
community. So,
[1:19:37]
» and
[1:19:40]
um real quick, so in in the when you
were doing the comparison, I didn't see
[1:19:44]
clay listed here.
>> Yeah, they didn't choose every time. So
[1:19:49]
many do it and closest to us. Clay is
bigger.
[1:19:54]
» Okay. So, this was a a size comparison.
>> Yes. So, so we didn't do like
[1:20:02]
these are the ones that are like our
[1:20:07]
and then I saw here so 30 years seems
[1:20:14]
» obvious
[1:20:18]
but I'm more used to forecast flow now
no greater than 10 years is is there a
[1:20:24]
specific reason you chose 30 years.
>> We
[1:20:30]
need a new roof in 30 years.
>> You need a new roof.
[1:20:33]
» Yeah. I mean, it's partly based on how
long this building has been in
[1:20:36]
operation. And the team did factor in
new roofs and boilers and things like
[1:20:41]
that along the way. And actually, I I I
forgot I didn't answer one of your
[1:20:45]
questions about So, what we assume in
the the spreadsheet at the moment
[1:20:50]
assumes no relative cost inflation in
the cost of addressing this. So
[1:20:56]
essentially what we did is we treated
all of the future costs as though they
[1:21:01]
were in 2026.
If you think the construction costs are
[1:21:05]
going to go up relative to other things,
you can put that into the spreadsheet
[1:21:10]
and take that into account. But um
>> and then you have one.
[1:21:14]
» Yeah, sorry. I was going to say one
other thing. The the other reason that
[1:21:19]
we put it 30 years out is that if we put
if we put the full retrofit closer in,
[1:21:26]
right, it it it makes the the cost of
even option A, which is the minimal
[1:21:35]
compliant, sorry, address the immediate
needs. It it starts making that look
[1:21:42]
almost as big as a full retrofit, which
um
[1:21:49]
which we felt would look like we were
putting our thumb on the scale in a way
[1:21:55]
that we didn't want to. We wanted to be
optimistic about how long the uh
[1:22:01]
renovation could be delayed.
[1:22:06]
» Okay. And then in the spreadsheet I
haven't taken a look at but you have
[1:22:10]
30-year net present value cost after
benefits. Do you have the quantitative
[1:22:16]
data on the benefits? Yeah, there there
are estimates in the spreadsheet uh of
[1:22:23]
of a range of benefits which is
reduction in lawsuit risk, improvement
[1:22:27]
in uh productivity of people who have
more space uh to work uh a bunch of
[1:22:35]
those benefits or in the spreadsheet.
>> Get that spreadsheet.
[1:22:39]
» Yeah, it's online. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. Thanks everybody. Thank you for
[1:22:43]
participating. Thank you very much.
[1:22:52]
Please extend our appreciation as well.
[1:22:58]
» Yeah,
>> I told them he should they should get
[1:23:02]
ace. [laughter]
[1:23:07]
» Okay. Well, let's move on to some of our
regular business now. So, I guess I
[1:23:12]
would.
So, it's time to head our summer staff
[1:23:17]
to the recreation department's programs,
the playground, and the swim and all the
[1:23:21]
other things that they do. So, with
that, I'd like to make a motion to
[1:23:26]
approve the 2026 recreation staff as
presented.
[1:23:31]
I love you
any
[1:23:39]
direction. So, we have, as I believe
people know, the town contracts for the
[1:23:46]
trash vendor to take care of our trash
brush and that the members of the
[1:23:51]
community groups choose to participate
with that um pay a fee that always is
[1:23:56]
cut their annual tax bill, but it is not
a tax. It is a fee to cash. Um, and so
[1:24:03]
there is a agreement we have. it's
expiring again this year and we have to
[1:24:08]
put it out bid again for another period
of time to get that vendor or a
[1:24:13]
different vendor to come forward. So we
have um built a
[1:24:19]
um bidding process in compliance with
procurement rules and that would we want
[1:24:26]
to [clears throat]
um put that out now the bids would be
[1:24:29]
due in August we would then evaluate
them be able to put them in the budget
[1:24:34]
for 2027. So that is the cycle
that's
[1:24:42]
» only our green right
>> for only our green waist
[1:24:47]
» yeah just brush
>> our trash okay so
[1:24:54]
» this is regular people's trash
>> when the last time we did this
[1:24:59]
» five years
>> five years ago and how many people
[1:25:01]
return
>> last year last time
[1:25:04]
» last
just one.
[1:25:07]
» And we all see that problem in there.
>> Yeah.
[1:25:10]
» And so are we going to instruct anybody
to reach out to companies and advise
[1:25:15]
them that we have?
>> Yeah. So we have to but
[1:25:23]
the documents are publicly available to
anybody who access
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authoriz
to publish the bid information for
[1:25:35]
collection and disposal of brush and
collection and disposal of refues
[1:25:39]
rubbish garbage and recyclables and
publish the bid openings for August 5th
[1:25:43]
at 10 a.m.
All in favor
[1:25:53]
um I can also speak out of parking signs
and I want to clarify that it's actually
[1:25:58]
a little bit expanding from that. So for
any of you who have driven by sweet road
[1:26:03]
on a nice day the three halls woods has
become very popular and there have been
[1:26:08]
some problems with the days of and um
traffic safety and damage. So, um, we
[1:26:14]
have talked to Sweet Road is county
road. I spoke to Dave N this afternoon
[1:26:20]
and, um, he had previously talked with
the highway superintendent county for
[1:26:27]
permission to put road parking this
side. So, people will be allowed on the
[1:26:32]
street on one side, but not on the other
side so that the traffic is clearer and
[1:26:37]
there's a better access to the driveway.
And the neighbors requested signs and I
[1:26:43]
would have highway guidance if it's 200
feet or 500 feet, you know, saying
[1:26:47]
entrance
sooner coming off of this way or
[1:26:50]
something on both ways so that people
would know there's way they might be
[1:26:54]
exiting traffic.
So um and we previously lowered speed
[1:26:59]
there 45
trying to enhance the safety of that
[1:27:03]
side. So Mr. app was fine with both the
park sign and the no parking sign and
[1:27:09]
our highway department will have felt
such signs um and then our police
[1:27:14]
department will enforce no parking um
once we have those signs there. So that
[1:27:19]
is our guideline for that. Um and I
would like to so I'd like to modify the
[1:27:24]
motion to say no parts are this side and
um it's really not part
[1:27:32]
or something like that on both sides. So
people could
[1:27:41]
preserve
preserve ahead.
[1:27:56]
So, I'll make a motion to authorize the
town's highway department to install the
[1:28:01]
no parking this side signs and preserve
ahead on Sweet Road by Three Falls.
[1:28:12]
All
[1:28:15]
» very sign up. We'll give a few tickets
and
[1:28:29]
This is the employee assistance program
for all time employees. It's like a
[1:28:34]
one-year renewal for 71
to 63027.
[1:28:42]
Your costs are
[1:28:49]
$50 per employee based on 119 employees
at this point and we do if we have
[1:28:56]
turnoverly
they get removed new employees they get
[1:29:00]
added um emails go out there's plenty of
trainings for employees um is a
[1:29:06]
confidential
um program and the only thing that they
[1:29:10]
tell us is how many uh employees use the
uh service we do not know what types of
[1:29:17]
service and it is also available to uh
members of the employees household.
[1:29:23]
[clears throat]
>> Dan, how does that compare to last
[1:29:27]
year's per employee fee?
>> Good question.
[1:29:33]
» I looked that up, but I have it right in
front of me.
[1:29:37]
» Decrease.
>> Yeah, it actually is. Yes, because I I
[1:29:41]
had a phone consult with our
representative and it was a decrease
[1:29:45]
because we have more wings on
>> Yeah. Thanks.
[1:29:52]
» How many employees you saying you said?
>> Um I don't have the figures right now. I
[1:29:57]
They'll run um totals for us. I can
forward that information to the board.
[1:30:03]
» Is that a monthly reporting or
>> whatever? I can go quarterly because I
[1:30:07]
do supply it to the police department
for clea accreditation. So get theirs
[1:30:12]
quarterly. They can get them however
you'd like.
[1:30:17]
» Yeah, I did see that they raised the
trauma response
[1:30:21]
if they wanted to come for a second
time. Was there any money that we use it
[1:30:25]
for? that more just
[1:30:41]
motion to authorize supervisor to signal
contract subject to legal review.
[1:30:54]
Thank you.
[1:30:58]
I did want to let people know that the
New York FPCA asked
[1:31:04]
to write a letter of support for some
funding that they receive. Um we had we
[1:31:12]
have had there has been in the public
realm a lot of concern by the FPCA. Uh I
[1:31:17]
want to clarify we do have a contract
with the FPC. So they are available to
[1:31:21]
help us should there be an animal
cruelty case in town. This year we have
[1:31:27]
contract with them currently. Um but we
are thinking that we would need to learn
[1:31:32]
more before we send letter support. So
that was the discussions here is that
[1:31:38]
we're not we're not sure what their
current state I know they haven't been
[1:31:41]
but we're just not sure what their
current status is to be able to um
[1:31:47]
support their expansion in some way when
we're not sure if they fixed their
[1:31:51]
problem. So, um, I wanted people to know
that they are planning some improvements
[1:31:56]
and we may support that, but we're not
going to support it today because we
[1:32:01]
have
>> maybe we can ask them to come to a board
[1:32:04]
meeting through presation update on
their
[1:32:08]
to the board,
>> right?
[1:32:11]
» Help us with our consideration. Want to
also understand
[1:32:16]
for the residents to understand what
they get for the contract that they do.
[1:32:30]
» All right, that's a good idea. So, are
people okay with
[1:32:42]
» and now that they have been
and I'll figure it out.
[1:32:47]
» Okay, good.
>> Um, the next one I guess I need to talk
[1:32:51]
about this the super
um
[1:32:58]
Yeah, sorry. just reading the little
piece.
[1:33:07]
» Um so we had our open house last night
for the uh corridor study and it was to
[1:33:15]
present the draft plan from um our
consultants and it I think based on what
[1:33:22]
I saw was very well received. We had a
great turnout last night. I have got
[1:33:26]
tons of great photos and we discussed
safety
[1:33:33]
uh walkability and transportation. I
know it was a third topic
[1:33:38]
and
so the I was just trying
[1:33:43]
but the it was I thought it went really
well. Um, when will the final draft of
[1:33:49]
the final I think yeah so
we had several members of the committee
[1:33:56]
that joined us last night. Um,
it's all available on our website to
[1:34:03]
review plan.
[1:34:07]
So this is with the Empire Statement and
they have formed.
[1:34:25]
» I'd like to make a motion to authorize
the supervisor to sign the ESD incentive
[1:34:29]
proposal development for the Jon
strategic plan and finally order.
[1:34:35]
» Correct.
[1:34:44]
Okay.
[1:34:47]
Motion to approve the budget.
[1:35:01]
» Motion to approve the project transfers
as presented by the town.
[1:35:07]
All
[1:35:11]
right.
Anything else?
[1:35:26]
I didn't see you doing much
[1:35:38]
meeting. So the pickle ball courts in
the village of M is now open and
[1:35:44]
available for use. We going there's
going to be a grand opening in ribbon
[1:35:48]
cutting on July 4th at 8:45 a.m. and
then it'll be followed up with a
[1:35:53]
football tournament starting at 9.
There's you have sign up for please go
[1:35:57]
to the village assistant recreation
Facebook page for more details on that
[1:36:01]
process please but we're very excited
that those are now available
[1:36:05]
please come support as well
[1:36:11]
police
consolidation study group met today
[1:36:16]
on the second I think of July
and commission today and had been a long
[1:36:24]
day
[1:36:31]
um the study group met last week. We had
our first meeting. I thought that it
[1:36:37]
went a little well. I hope that they
feel the same way for those of you that
[1:36:40]
are were here. We um we discussed
identifying the problem that the study
[1:36:50]
group had already observed. kind of
starting from scratch and they quickly
[1:36:56]
identified that they would like two
orders for both the police department as
[1:37:00]
well as travel. So, we've successfully
scheduled the two hours that will be
[1:37:04]
spending for July 15th at 5:30 that will
also include a presentation that evening
[1:37:10]
and I'll be working to schedule one for
tele
[1:37:16]
uh so that we don't overwhelm July. But
I think it's off to a good start and as
[1:37:22]
promised the summary of the meeting is
on the website already.
[1:37:28]
Thank
the July the calendar shows that there's
[1:37:33]
a commission presentation and know that
be rescheduled to sometime in August.
[1:37:46]
» Oh yes, that's right. I got so excited
about pickle ball first
[1:37:50]
means of the 50th anniversary of our
summer show the top that the recreation
[1:37:55]
department puts on every year for 50
years now.
[1:37:59]
» I know that's why I keep saying 50 is
coming up this year. They are doing
[1:38:05]
beautiful Carol King
[1:38:09]
show is coming up. Um that will be due
July 16th through July 18th.
[1:38:17]
Please come and buy please buy your
tickets and see the show. It's going to
[1:38:20]
be very good. And I said it is their
50th anniversary of it. So just in case
[1:38:24]
you didn't notice 50 it's a big deal. 50
years 1976. So
[1:38:31]
» lot of talented people.
>> Yes. Lot of talented people. A lot of
[1:38:34]
hard work and effort goes into the
production every year.
[1:38:39]
Please produce your tickets.
[1:38:43]
Any others?
[1:38:52]
I'd like to make a motion
[1:38:58]
favor,
[1:39:10]
1476
[1:39:14]
goes up.
[1:39:18]
You want
[1:39:26]
» and trash.
[1:39:40]
» So, uh, want to go in executive session
real property.
[1:39:45]
was substantially affect.
[1:39:59]
Thank you. Thanks for coming.
[2:25:10]
twoour blocks.
>> Okay. wants to be
[2:25:15]
by public
transparency but I think we have
[2:25:22]
questions.
[2:25:30]
» Okay. I would do that. We used to do
this.
[2:25:34]
Okay.
>> Um, so we're back
[2:25:39]
with some great
motion to motion to
[2:25:44]
» favor. All right.
>> Thank you very much.
[2:25:52]
» Question
because