[0:18] Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

[0:21] and he's not this guy.

[0:23] Well, the school, the school is dying for days.

[0:27] No, he's being, it's a good hour to go on that kind of age.

[0:29] And that one is, I'm like, I'm a very,

[0:31] this one re-summary of the family.

[0:33] And I said, well, I cannot feel bad.

[0:34] So that one's self-aware, it looks like that.

[0:38] So yeah, we'll get you down.

[0:40] We'll talk to her in a little while.

[0:41] Yeah, we'll get you a little bit of exclusion

[0:42] and a little bit more of the age.

[0:43] But that is one of my favorite things.

[0:45] Yeah, you know, from, to the whole,

[0:49] I won't be here next month,

[0:50] you—you're not going to need to go through.

[0:52] I got a reply.

[0:53] You have to go through.

[0:54] ELIZABETH LAVAROV Adjustments.

[0:57] LOGAN TAPOVIOT There's a lot of people hit me and I'm not, you're not, a lot of people

[0:58] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[0:59] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[0:59] LOGAN TAPOVIOT That's so much work that's to do, I have to go and

[1:02] wait till the next morning.

[1:03] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[1:08] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[1:09] LoGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[1:17] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[1:18] LOGAN TAPOVIOT Go to his house.

[1:20] and we can definitely do that.

[1:23] Yeah.

[1:24] It's been a very long time.

[1:27] Yeah,

[1:32] I don't agree with anything.

[1:32] They're going to be sending you back.

[1:36] No, no, for all individuals.

[1:38] So we'll talk about our达.

[1:41] In the heat pockets.

[1:43] All I'm going to do is move.

[1:46] Right.

[2:01] I have three news of a month of Zenska who would like to go first if possible.

[2:08] School board member Desmond has a report for us and head start.

[2:29] So we'll throw John in in the beginning and we'll put the other two at the end.

[2:46] Who's the minutes of the February board meeting?

[2:48] I'll make a motion that will improve the minutes of the February board meeting.

[2:53] in a second.

[2:56] All right.

[3:02] John.

[3:05] Thanks, everyone.

[3:05] On the next one.

[3:06] We're going to jump in real quick.

[3:07] I have to go to Mason.

[3:09] You're being here tonight.

[3:11] You there.

[3:13] There's some.

[3:14] Seven.

[3:15] Here.

[3:16] Good to see all of you last time.

[3:18] I saw all of you were.

[3:19] Whether that's down meaning.

[3:20] We're so great turning out there.

[3:22] I was able to sell.

[3:23] I feel the news.

[3:25] I feel the news.

[3:27] I feel the news.

[3:28] I feel the news.

[3:28] I'll take you here on a couple of things.

[3:30] And I have to look at actually,

[3:31] like some homework on, it's not only a small one here,

[3:35] but to take a look at a couple of big ticket items here

[3:39] that are coming up, we're most popular

[3:40] with our public folks in the bathroom.

[3:42] We're about to have 181 here, which is the land use legislation

[3:47] that was passed in 2024, before I was there.

[3:51] And there's three different tiers here,

[3:53] two that's here, one tier, two and two and three.

[3:55] And there's a lot of conversation about that.

[4:00] A lot of people want to repeal the entire act.

[4:03] It doesn't go into effect here, addition to here.

[4:06] I'm at least glad.

[4:07] And so there's been a large group of legislators here who have been not in favor of that.

[4:13] It's going to do quite harm in terms of regulation of current existing property that people have here.

[4:21] The whole intent of that here was to try and provide a little ease.

[4:25] He's on some act 250 kinds of guidelines here,

[4:28] and some of the large population areas

[4:29] to take advantage of infrastructure.

[4:31] So they're already there to build more housing.

[4:34] That's not a bad thing to be doing here,

[4:35] but there are parts of that act.

[4:38] You're entering one and two of them.

[4:39] You're very detrimental here for 97% of Vermont here,

[4:46] here quite frankly,

[4:47] because it's gonna put some big restrictions on people

[4:49] wanting to do common things that you might want to do

[4:51] if you get a large piece of property here.

[4:53] If you wanted to add on to a building, you would automatically potentially trigger a two-packed

[4:58] 250 to kind of hang one down, and that's not a good thing.

[5:02] We're trying to make the construction of things here, you know, development of things here

[5:07] a little bit, I should say a little bit, a lot easier here, so there's a take a ton of money

[5:12] on the other side of the sign here, just to get permits for things, through your towns,

[5:16] and you have to abide by your own bylaws here as well.

[5:19] So I would encourage you to take a look at that where that is here currently.

[5:26] There is a bill working with our senators here and some house representatives here to put a delay on that for at least a year.

[5:34] So towns have more time to kind of absorb what that's all about.

[5:37] Well, we know the problem in VGA being to hand maps to you folks about your town or if you're one tier two and two or three places might be, have they come to Lunarburg yet?

[5:49] Yes.

[5:51] I got some maps from you.

[5:54] Yes.

[5:55] Are those the maps?

[5:56] No, Gary.

[5:57] We have the maps from that.

[6:00] Okay, they show the whole time and they're wearing those different areas in the area.

[6:05] Yeah, take a look at those.

[6:06] You've got those in the telephones on there and there are some lights in there.

[6:10] I'll send some couple of links here to you with what I know here, especially the legislation

[6:15] coming up, trying to lay that here.

[6:17] We need to get the sound for time and they're still kind of working on defining the mass

[6:24] anyway right now.

[6:25] They gave those to the town to look at here.

[6:27] see if things look right, correct, as accurate as you know, your knowledge of your town,

[6:34] here for sure, where those areas might be. You know, no one's opposed, and no one's opposed to

[6:40] stopping someone to go to the next little river or something to wetland and see all of this

[6:44] part of things here. You can't just say it's tiny, you know, environment. Whenever that might

[6:49] be, you get it for winter bird and where you live here in the wider community, you're going to

[6:57] The rancher lots more farm men here as well.

[7:00] There's some big restrictions there as well here,

[7:03] this legislation if it works with fat here.

[7:06] And we just don't wanna, we don't wanna see that happen.

[7:08] We don't wanna come as tiny little people

[7:09] wanna be doing here, especially if they wanna maybe

[7:12] divide it piece of property for part of your family

[7:14] to build a home if you battle large track land.

[7:17] You can't do that.

[7:18] They can't do that.

[7:19] So like to say, you guys have quite a little land.

[7:22] And they take you a little bit.

[7:23] 18 years down the road, you want to put something

[7:27] and buy it off the piece and give it to him, you can't do it.

[7:31] Yeah, the thing is, the challenge with it is that you can't do it if you have enough

[7:38] enough.

[7:39] Right.

[7:40] If you're willing to.

[7:41] You can do it.

[7:42] For acts with it.

[7:43] Nice.

[7:44] Well, you're going to pay tax on it.

[7:46] You're going to pay tax on it all you want, and then you have to pay more tax to give it

[7:51] to your kid.

[7:52] it. It's not tax. It's not tax. And also we don't have zoning in

[7:58] Lunarburg. So you're already under Act 250 for everything over an

[8:03] acre of land. That's not going to change with Act 181. My advice

[8:07] to everybody is wait and see what happens. And then read the

[8:11] read the act. And that's why you're seeking out some more conversation

[8:16] about this legislature meeting where you put on this and figure out

[8:20] it's going to make things better, especially when you're in jail.

[8:24] There's a lot of questions that people have about it.

[8:26] I don't mean to bring it up here instead of going to the long, you know,

[8:30] to date about that.

[8:31] They do take a look at that.

[8:33] And I'll make sure I send it a couple of minutes to Mary.

[8:35] We'll leave here out.

[8:37] People close to you on the people accent to that.

[8:39] He's at the temple.

[8:40] I'm going to tell Kurt's office.

[8:42] The other thing here, too, and was on the front page of the paper today,

[8:45] at least a little calibrated a record on the education transformation bill.

[8:49] that came out of the House education committee.

[8:53] There's actually two bills coming out.

[8:55] One of the House and one of the Senate.

[8:57] I have not seen the one from the Senate yet,

[8:59] but the education meeting in the House

[9:02] put together a draft map,

[9:05] which consists of a couple of different layers there.

[9:07] One is 21 districts versus over 100.

[9:11] Here's the districts are larger.

[9:13] Here's for sure,

[9:14] and there's lots of,

[9:15] the overall districts here is a number of currently

[9:18] like notified districts soon and Supervisor News there,

[9:22] they're doing that here in Chicago.

[9:24] There's one barge in this.

[9:26] This is the northeast part, you'll see that.

[9:28] If you will, you'll see the map on the front page

[9:30] of paper, it's about this bit.

[9:32] If you look online, you're under the house,

[9:35] educating committee page, their website.

[9:38] Okay, that's the place to look.

[9:40] I mean, yeah, that's just for the library half here.

[9:43] If you hear as well.

[9:45] and let that show a tier of layers of mapping.

[9:49] One of the 20 main districts, those are drafts,

[9:54] and which was the task of the house

[9:56] to be working along with specific colleagues

[9:59] that are mapped that summer,

[10:00] which never really came to fruition.

[10:03] And then the second part of this, there's seven other areas

[10:08] here laid out here for the state, right?

[10:10] And they're called, because I have to look

[10:11] with the infinitive years, the cooperative education service areas, and the goal for those

[10:18] is to find a group, a lot of the districts together here, to work together through doing pretty

[10:25] good, like contractual transportation, kinds of things, resources they need to operate in

[10:30] virtual schools here to save money. So that's not a bad need to do them. It's already allowed

[10:36] Now there's actually already one CSAT, they call it CESA, already in an operation there.

[10:43] And that's not a bad thing to be taking a look at here, so that individual schools can

[10:48] work in their districts, or other districts here to kind of group together on things that

[10:52] they simply need to be doing to operate.

[10:54] That's a good thing here for sure.

[10:58] What is still in flux right now here, and I say flux, it's still in the discussion phase

[11:04] here. The committee has their bill ready to go here but it has to go to the

[11:09] Ways and Means Committee which is the tax and many here to kind of take a look

[11:14] with that may look like here in terms of the bill here. Then it has to come to

[11:18] might which is appropriations because there will be an appropriation here with

[11:23] that and that appropriation will be for one and personally kind of oversee the

[11:28] seven different ceases and within that will be a representative here to kind of

[11:34] take a look at it from each like school district here to have start

[11:38] having some conversation discussion about what you want to be doing.

[11:43] Now the ceases are in those. So part of the ceases here in the new school

[11:48] districts is that the state of the line is not making murders and end

[11:52] the children. What they want to do is make them volunteer in some areas.

[11:57] The state already kind of worked together to bring and

[11:59] cut the schools together. We're certainly in an

[12:01] It's actually got, you know, 40% of the capacity in one school and 30% in a different school

[12:08] can bring them together here to kind of save on facilities, you know, those are close by,

[12:12] not like 40 or 15 miles apart. So that's part of what's happening here with that. Every current

[12:21] school district and supervise union must be a part of a season. That's mandatory here,

[12:28] but what comes out of that here would be a voluntary piece.

[12:31] All would have to agree to the particular way

[12:34] to maybe four or less time.

[12:36] So that's a very short executive summary here,

[12:39] what we're looking at here in terms of reorganization here,

[12:43] for sure.

[12:44] And if you didn't see the calendar in a record here too,

[12:48] there's actually a really nice summary in the paper

[12:50] about what kind of something there would be.

[12:54] Yes, James?

[12:54] John, with the voters making that decision to figure out

[12:59] like the school districts were not

[13:01] into deciding about the school board.

[13:03] Yeah, well, it's a little bit of a combination of both.

[13:05] You're changed because, you know,

[13:07] you never represented from your school district, right?

[13:10] Look, that's you.

[13:11] That's right, if we met that time,

[13:13] we need that, right?

[13:14] Yeah.

[13:14] So you're a part of that school district here.

[13:19] So you just forecast as a right estimate or representative

[13:21] and to serve within that season that I represent the district.

[13:26] So you're lucky here from the community here, right?

[13:28] To see if you're responsible for people very much.

[13:31] A specifically question in terms of decision-making about it,

[13:34] we're not, it's specifically done in the United States to not be

[13:39] something that the school, people who are at different school districts,

[13:43] again, it's the legislature that are making those decisions.

[13:47] Right, we're defining what, we're defining what the stole, look like here.

[13:52] And your school budget passed, is that correct?

[13:55] It opened now.

[13:55] Oh, that's right.

[13:56] You can say no to any case I said.

[13:59] We have to avoid on that month.

[14:02] So, I see you should decide whether your budget stuff is going to pass right here.

[14:08] And I think a lot of the school board, so we suppose that I talk to here, some school,

[14:13] Some school boards, not all, you're a little bit frustrated.

[14:16] You don't have to allow your participation in the school

[14:18] or the school or the school, the examiner.

[14:21] You want to kind of participate in that.

[14:22] You should do a voice there, for sure.

[14:27] So, but the state's going to have to decide

[14:29] what the structure's going to be.

[14:31] So I had met with the Secretary of Education

[14:33] on several different occasions here, for sure.

[14:38] My responsibilities in terms of the budget piece

[14:41] and the appropriations that I'm on

[14:43] to change since I was last year. I mean I don't have the agency of education in their budget

[14:48] that I've been able to see it but I work with them to kind of represent what that looks like here

[14:52] for sure. And so I had a really really great meeting with the sector of education. She understands

[14:58] the rural nature of

[15:00] First time to stay it over here. They're looking to close the schools on

[15:07] the mat and still working hard to make sure. Remember, it's on the mat. You can't, it's on the map there. So we'll have a lot of schools in the registry and the few that are very important. Then it's because the independence feels as well. That's yet a piece where we're still working on hearing, you can't maintain the school strikes, please. That's important. It works.

[15:31] So those are a couple of things that I might add.

[15:33] And here's what all of you there tonight and appreciate time when you're willing to, you know, take questions.

[15:39] You can email me here for sure.

[15:41] You got a long agenda here. It's nice.

[15:43] I'm going to go to that very stage as you can still jump in here first.

[15:49] Thank you.

[15:50] Thank you, plan.

[15:52] Thank you, John.

[15:53] That's right.

[15:59] So we'll ATV ordinance.

[16:02] So we had no petitions.

[16:03] nothing so that's fully active now. Is that on the website? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, if that's

[16:10] something.

[16:15] I'm needing an else in regards to that.

[16:19] This packster has left the

[16:22] building. You want to cut it down really?

[16:28] Very briefly. I just have some updates.

[16:32] The Blacklight Easter egg hunt was a huge success and Caesar wants to thank everyone

[16:39] one little donated time, and the bags of candy, et cetera.

[16:46] We have kids still though, happening in April 19th,

[16:50] the Senior Center, Tidei, National Tidei,

[16:55] is April 30th and will be at the island.

[17:00] May 15th through the July 15th, we start our fundraiser.

[17:05] You've been loomed.

[17:06] $12 million for $15.20 for $25.20 for an evening for one of three days at another $5.

[17:19] We have a coin drop fundraiser by the library on May 23, 2022, and we're attempting

[17:29] to have sunshine on June 20th, or hello summer, and we want to extend to a big shout-outs

[17:44] to the polar bear and the black bears who are going to do our fabulous grilling, and we're

[17:52] today for accepting vendors to to the event. And I think the antique when you think of anything

[18:02] helps. No, it's just that it was a blast. It really was. I had a good time anyway.

[18:15] So did the Easter

[18:16] funny.

[18:21] So he has been doing a lot of the labor for the tulips and grants and yeah that's a lot.

[18:30] So we know. Yeah we have brought up at Fibio's meetings that we were going to be applying for

[18:36] the tulips in local grants and we received it. So it's not a huge chunk of money but it's around

[18:45] $20,000 and the grant proposal was to improve the accessibility at Foxfield and Forest,

[18:57] specifically at the athletic field. So, especially where that new parking area overlooking

[19:05] the athletic field is, improving the surfacing there and so that there's pathways to get safely

[19:11] from that to the field and to put in a pad, a gravel pad for a future pavilion and in the meantime it can serve as a picnic space.

[19:24] And we're putting into the proposal, you know, the loop around the field for an accessible fitness pathway.

[19:38] And so we're putting out an RFP or request for proposals describing that work.

[19:49] We've got an introduction, the purpose and the objective.

[19:51] We're going to keep folks a little background about it.

[19:54] Description requirements and minimum scope of work for the project.

[19:59] We're separating the project into two bids that we're requesting.

[20:04] One specifically for the gravel method.

[20:06] And then one specifically for the surfacing and pathways so that we could accept fits from

[20:15] different folks for those different jobs.

[20:19] And they, we have some pretty detailed.

[20:30] I don't think so.

[20:34] But I have a timeline on here that we'd like to get out pretty quickly because the grant

[20:39] is a one-year grant and a lot of folks who do this work already have their schedules

[20:45] out for this season.

[20:48] But we'd like to issue the RFP on April 10th.

[20:53] We'd like to do a smaller version of this RFP in the local newspaper and then I have a list

[20:58] of different contractors from the States, but I will email it out.

[21:04] The RFP and the due date to have those facts, it can be either, and this is up to, you know,

[21:14] if you guys think this is not, if there's a better way of doing it, then feel free to say

[21:20] so, but the idea is to have acceptable versions as both an email submission or a physical

[21:26] copy dated back by May 11th. And then there will be a mandatory pre-bid

[21:36] meeting on site at Foxfield on April 27th. So that whoever is submitting a bid

[21:43] really knows what they're doing. And then there's a period of time for Q&A.

[21:49] They can give any questions to us by May 1st and all those questions will go out

[21:55] to all of the folks who are submitting a bid, and all of the answers will be posted by May 4th,

[22:02] and all of those answers will go out to anyone submitting a bid. And then hopefully we could get it

[22:10] done within 2026.

[22:14] And let's say we won't interrupt Hello Summer, and then we're I think the deadline

[22:21] for having the selections.

[22:26] The idea, I think we were talking about, you know, reviewing the submissions that come in and bringing them to the Select Board meeting in June.

[22:38] So June 1st and having you all, you know, we can, we can give some feedback on what we think about the submissions by having you all be that final say on what bids are selected for those two projects.

[22:52] So if that's not a guy from in until later on, why does FB, that's the first of the month?

[22:59] You want to bitch in by like the first May, but you're not going to bring them into June.

[23:04] We want to bitch in by May 11th.

[23:09] Well, that was the question I had. Is it would be late?

[23:12] My question was, could we schedule a...

[23:18] The reason for that was that's the, you know, this regularly schedules like for meetings are the first of them on and I think the timeline for getting the bids out there and the mandatory meeting through equal gives people a little bit of time, but we could try to push it back so that, you know, we're looking at bids by May 1st.

[23:38] or we could see if it's possible to schedule a special select board meeting.

[23:43] We will need 24 hours.

[23:46] We're posting a special meeting.

[23:48] So if you need a special meeting to approve bids, we can do that.

[23:53] So that's the, these dates are flexible.

[23:55] We can, if you guys look at these and say, you know, that doesn't make sense then, you know,

[24:00] the sooner the better.

[24:04] In my opinion, that works.

[24:06] but we can do a special meeting then I think that would work as well.

[24:12] Greg and then Bob.

[24:14] So you want the bids in by May 1st?

[24:17] We want the bid in by May 11.

[24:19] May 11th.

[24:20] What are you going to have your meeting with contractors to find out exactly what the bid is?

[24:24] 27.

[24:25] April 27th.

[24:25] The RFP has a full description about their bidding on.

[24:29] But there would be a mandatory pre-bid meeting on site on April 27th.

[24:33] That's not a wall of time.

[24:36] It's not a huge amount of time.

[24:37] From when you look at it,

[24:38] to get it all figured out what it's going to cost.

[24:41] Yeah.

[24:42] You're going to get some hot emails.

[24:44] Yeah, we might.

[24:45] We might.

[24:46] That's not.

[24:46] I have it put in here.

[24:48] What, you know, money that we have available.

[24:51] And, you know, hopefully folks will be able to put something together.

[24:56] And we'll, we'll do what we can with what we've got.

[25:00] And we'll see if.

[25:01] There's some larger pockets out there that folks have that might be interested in supporting

[25:07] this project as well.

[25:09] Now that we have $20,000 and we know that we want to do a lot more accessible trails

[25:13] at that site and build a pavilion and improve the tennis courts.

[25:19] So hopefully this can be a catalyst and start those other projects rolling.

[25:24] But I do think that given the timeframe of the grant being up in January of 2026,

[25:36] in January 2027, we do need to, you know, kind of go quick about it.

[25:42] Well, so because I do this sort of thing myself after many years, it's a really good idea

[25:48] if you get it in as soon as you can,

[25:50] just one big reason is so that everything

[25:52] can have a chance to settle in.

[25:54] It's packing your area and talking about

[25:56] if it's done properly, it's done with what it needs.

[26:00] It still needs time to settle in.

[26:02] You know, you can pack it, you can do what you want

[26:04] but as it sets here, things will settle back

[26:07] and go back and go back up a little better.

[26:09] Well, you brought along the last thing that I would wish you.

[26:14] And there is a section in the bid that says, you know, specifically, what does that say?

[26:25] So professional trail builder contractor discretion, the contractor can propose substitution

[26:32] of equivalent standards and materials face upon experience and demonstrated effectiveness

[26:37] on previous jobs of the similar nature and proposed minor deviations, adjustments can be considered

[26:47] on case-by-case basis. And so I think there's room in here for potential contractors to look at the

[26:58] RFP and the detailed in that and come out to the pre-bid meeting and submit a full example of how they

[27:07] would go about doing it.

[27:12] So I just had a quick question. So bids may be electronically

[27:21] significant. So bids don't have to be sealed. I just want to open. I'm just asking do you

[27:32] require? It depends on what we're doing. I mean, we definitely require sealed bids in the

[27:38] asked for stuff. But that's for directed town related.

[27:44] So I asked and consulted with a few

[27:47] different people on the question and for example in trail contracts for the state, they don't accept

[27:56] any paper bids. They will only check that the electronic is a mission. So I had it originally written

[28:04] And as paper only, you know, you know, sealed bids,

[28:07] but the feedback that I got was,

[28:10] that's not silly and unrealistic.

[28:13] But there is the option for both.

[28:16] But, you know, that's also up to you guys to sign.

[28:20] No, I just wanted it without there

[28:23] so that if we need to adjust.

[28:27] Right, where is this probability going?

[28:32] The upper.

[28:35] in the RFE is a, is a map, project map. Um and so,

[28:43] well, I'll follow you.

[28:46] Great, dear.

[28:47] You guys, you

[28:53] guys do have a copy.

[28:54] So I guess my permission, my question is, um, you know, you don't have to give me feedback

[29:04] in this moment but I would love to be able to put out the RFP by the end of the week if possible.

[29:11] Yeah, absolutely, go ahead.

[29:14] Thank you. Thank you.

[29:19] Yeah, let's just comment the follow-up on what Kate said. A lot of folks may not be aware, but the

[29:25] polar bear is groomed down to Foxfield and we made it this season where we turned around. It made a

[29:33] a very nice snowshoe track and gross energy skiing track,

[29:36] I'm not sure if people are aware of that.

[29:39] And it worked out really well.

[29:41] I just don't know if we've got more running in the unit.

[29:43] Oh really?

[29:44] Yeah, they were running on it.

[29:47] Anyway, there was a little bit that I noticed

[29:49] that the beginning of the fuse and the worship competing,

[29:52] sometimes the recreational snow will be linked in that area.

[29:57] The ground is too hard, we couldn't put up signs.

[30:00] By the last time I went in there, the entire field was trashed by snowmills. It's my assessment that the type of recreation that Kate's talking about and snowmills on the field surface cannot exist. One, it's, it's not safe. And two, it's just a strong, the word that we're doing. The pollers, we've glad to put out snowmilling, no snowmilling signs at the entry pool. And so it's pretty much like for work. But for the notes, just what your position is on that is otherwise it would need to be enforced.

[30:29] course that we consider trespassing for the one vehicle.

[30:32] Yep.

[30:33] Yeah.

[30:34] Okay.

[30:35] Let me show that takes place on the end.

[30:37] Yep.

[30:38] Just to make sure that everything goes well with all the work that the task force.

[30:41] Yeah.

[30:42] Yeah.

[30:42] Everybody's going to call this.

[30:44] Yeah.

[30:44] No, I don't know.

[30:45] Yeah.

[30:47] So I don't know if you're waiting time for me, but I haven't been for two minutes.

[30:52] And I spoke something about boynets for ATV.

[30:56] Yeah.

[31:02] It's on the website, the ordinance. It's pretty much, I think, the big change is there's a post

[31:08] and speed limit for the ATV use on town roads. That's the biggest change to what is already happening.

[31:14] 25 miles an hour on town road. Okay, so in the local shares,

[31:19] and force that, is that the deal?

[31:23] Yeah, okay.

[31:24] It's known.

[31:27] Better connections, Grant.

[31:31] We have worth.

[31:33] Um, I can't remember what the last update was,

[31:35] but we have chosen a consulting firm.

[31:39] Du Bois in King that's going to do the,

[31:42] the work in gelman.

[31:44] Um,

[31:45] and we're going to have a kickoff meeting with them.

[31:48] some time in April with the steering committee and representatives from

[31:53] Dubois came to actually have an in-gelman so they'll walk through the community so

[31:59] we can talk about all the all the sort of things that we're hoping the grant

[32:05] that I need to address in a gallon village revitalization plan. Did I miss anything

[32:13] I actually

[32:17] have something to add to highway.

[32:23] So, I want to do redo on street box church.

[32:29] We've paid them, but there's enough room

[32:33] but part is thought on what the inside is,

[32:35] you're going up it.

[32:38] We paid that ourselves,

[32:40] but we can make it so cars could pull off the road

[32:42] and so they're passable.

[32:43] because when they have an event there, it's all the way around the quad. So he's out and get him off the

[32:50] road.

[32:57] Anything else with a better connection to Rick?

[33:04] Okay, again, NVIDIA.

[33:07] This one, I'm wondering if I can do it. I wouldn't make it to the last NVIDIA meeting.

[33:17] They didn't talk about anything new, they did a lot of boats on in-house stuff, and pretty much it was all in different areas, including bird wasn't even far left or anything like that, so nothing new, just some officers were elected in some folks to do stuff or getting out to other tangies.

[33:38] Yeah, it was pretty simple.

[33:41] Well, I was my wife, I'll never get mad at them.

[33:47] Dog licenses are now overdue.

[33:50] They are and we will.

[33:53] There is a late fee, which we're going to wait until the 15th of April.

[33:59] So if you come in and register your dogs, it's $11 if they're spayed or neutered or $13 if they're not an after the 15 that goes to.

[34:09] I think 13 and 15 dollars.

[34:15] And the extra money does not go to the town?

[34:18] Most of the money goes to the city.

[34:20] We do get some money from it.

[34:27] We're two welcome signs, the design selection.

[34:35] At town reading, we put out a bunch of,

[34:38] I don't know if you saw them, if you land.

[34:39] We put out some moon designs and the moon

[34:42] or mural design and we asked people to wait in on those.

[34:47] The most votes by far were for the Bloomberg mural to be the sign, the welcome sign, but the signs will be double-sided because there's a welcome to and then thanks for coming to Bloomberg.

[35:01] And so one of the loom designs was overwhelmed and he selected amongst the loom designs.

[35:07] And so we thought that the back of the sign will be the loom logo and he'll probably say thanks for visiting with your burger. Thanks for coming or something like that.

[35:20] So if no one objects to that, we'll order those signs this week.

[35:29] And where will they be there?

[35:30] We haven't exactly figured out yet, we have to get land on a permission, obviously.

[35:41] There's the question of, do you put them at what's considered the town line?

[35:46] Like, if you go to St. John's River, Lunimer, you see the sign welcome to Concord at Oregon Road,

[35:52] which is technically Concord, but it's not really Concord.

[35:56] So, um, and we need to talk and escape. There may be rules and regulations about where they have to go, but we'll figure that out.

[36:09] So I'm going to clean up in the mowing RFP. That's going to go out.

[36:13] It was in the paper twice last week.

[36:16] Okay.

[36:17] It's posted on the website.

[36:19] And I think people have until the 24th of April at three o'clock to submit seal bits to the town clerk's office.

[36:31] the RFP notes all the areas and the one difference this year is that RFP asks to

[36:38] include spring cleanup as part of the bid in the past that's been done

[36:42] separately and so this year we're asking people to bid on the mowate and the

[36:47] spring cleanup and people have questions about what that entails, feel free to

[36:53] contact the clerk's office and someone who's stopping today and I just so to

[36:56] explain what has happened in the past. So,

[37:02] um, delinquent property tax sale could

[37:09] be very good.

[37:10] So, I'm going to be glad to see you copy of this. Please, um, I'm a really bad delinquent people,

[37:19] because ladies, thank you. Here you go. Yeah. So, a lot of these people that we have on the list is

[37:29] the scenes.

[37:32] And a lot of people we can't contact. We have no way of getting hold of them

[37:36] but somehow our other will figure it out. But we want to know if it's all right if we

[37:41] can move this axial while all these.

[37:48] We know there's one person on hand that we probably

[37:51] think that that will hold up. But you got to do something.

[38:02] The motion. I like the

[38:07] in motion for the motion.

[38:13] Any further discussion on the motion?

[38:16] Yeah, I have a question. These are going to go up for sale.

[38:22] These will go up for auction. So has anyone looked at the properties to see if any of

[38:29] these were things that the town that we wanted to potentially intervene?

[38:35] Gary remember we said we needed to, we was really only two on the list which would be the

[38:40] Grugnell property which is at 37 or 13. It's a very key property. I'm sorry it's a very key

[38:47] property and we've talked about several times. That's the one that's falling in. The problem with

[38:51] that property is the owners are willing to negotiate something with the town but the at some point

[39:00] the house has to come down and that's could be a $30,000.

[39:04] We talked about this, right?

[39:05] That if you hadn't developed early, they'd be-

[39:07] You could get a developer and so ideally to avoid a tax sale,

[39:13] you would get the landowner to say, I'll give the property to the developer,

[39:19] but the town would have to agree to weigh $20,000 worth of property

[39:24] and to link and fire district taxes.

[39:27] So the one thing, I just wanted to say that we made this comment multiple times, especially

[39:33] in Gilman, Gilman cannot afford to lose any more properties on water or septic.

[39:40] They literally cannot afford to lose any.

[39:42] The Grugnail property is one of those that could be very key for this, I mean, it's the

[39:49] It's a falling down house that's right across from the senior center.

[39:55] There's a chance that the two adjoining properties would very much like to see that property divided up, which would mean once again that another key crucial water,

[40:06] their second pair into the system would be lost to Gilman, to the fire district.

[40:14] So we've been talking about ways that we could prevent this kind of thing from happening

[40:19] so if they don't get into worse debt than they are already, and one of them is that we

[40:23] would see if any properties are in Gilman in particular in the village, whether or not

[40:28] we could find a way to get a developer to buy them or do something with them and maybe get

[40:35] a nice little model senior home to be built on that.

[40:39] Once we get somebody to do one,

[40:41] then it would be easy to do it.

[40:44] I mean, we're not talking mass development here.

[40:47] What we're talking about is small homes

[40:51] that would help the senior citizens in this town,

[40:55] which would help them to,

[40:56] they could then get out of the old big properties

[40:59] that they might not want anymore

[41:01] into a smaller, more affordable home.

[41:03] And would it help save the fire district?

[41:07] So, and there may be other properties on there that are

[41:10] in Lunar Bird Village, which once again would be

[41:13] the same kind of thing.

[41:14] So I'm just asking the select board to be cautious

[41:17] of any properties that could potentially be in areas

[41:21] that we would want to make sure stay

[41:23] as on the systems, so they don't go into further debt.

[41:33] So I know the Cardinal property is key one, and I don't know if there is any other somehow.

[41:39] Actually, they're probably using the white wall, they're selling the list, and that is

[41:46] a very long time. I think that's what's outlawed, you've been here.

[41:50] I think it's a very bad deal.

[41:52] I think it's a very bad deal, but it was dead as late, so if you have it.

[41:59] The very end of commercial advertising.

[42:07] I don't have a solution like kind of wrapped up in a book for you guys to tell you how we're trying to do all of this.

[42:14] I mean, Gary and I are actually going to mock you later next week. We're going to talk to a lot of people at the state level and to also developers who are talking to people within Vermont and maybe we'll learn some ideas from this.

[42:26] We were kind of hoping the Vermont land bank would help us out because they could help

[42:30] in properties like this where the town can't afford to do anything with that.

[42:35] The Vermont land bank would be able to step in and make sure that the property could

[42:39] be used for what the town and the community needs.

[42:44] But I mean, I don't want to tell you if you have to act on this or anything or if this is

[42:48] something you can wait a week or two so we can discuss this.

[42:52] They'll have a while anyway, I mean, once you said no, in the case, it's it's a it's still a process. I mean this this stuff won't auction for well over a month.

[43:01] Well over a month.

[43:03] It's probably a couple of months.

[43:04] If they approve it, it still can be removed from the list.

[43:10] I mean, hopefully we'll have something and the new folks can hear the potential solution

[43:17] and decide if that is right for Lunarburg and the community or not.

[43:20] There's not been, we should go forward, even if this could go to the morning of, if there

[43:27] was a solution bound that met the financial requirements, it would not go to auction.

[43:34] Thanks.

[43:37] I think it's the one of the kind of commercial labor.

[43:40] There's like a satellite that we're at about this side.

[43:44] No, there's a one of it.

[43:46] There's an electron hole.

[43:47] Where's one that burps?

[43:48] The house that's on the ground.

[43:49] The house that's on the ground.

[43:50] Yeah.

[43:51] Right.

[43:52] One of those that is the next house over the house we need to.

[43:55] One of those have a lean too and it's not on there probably.

[43:59] It's on a rightful.

[44:01] It goes out through.

[44:02] I know the guy's one time.

[44:04] he wants the body that helps so he can have it all right because they the other house built in

[44:12] yeah you're

[44:20] still going to send out registered letters and all that stuff here

[44:24] how does that work if you don't have anybody to send it to me but I can't get a hold on

[44:29] this gets posted in the paper as well I think that's how you can get around some of that

[44:37] The town lawyer will also be at ball with every one of them

[44:41] She has ways to search to try to find air was done like that at some point if you can't find anybody

[44:47] Then the town has to decide if they want to spend the money to go to probate for it and start action that way

[44:57] Inevitably probably need that the town is

[45:00] Become the owner of the property and then decide what they want to do, but that's a very expensive property process. So people question whether someone it was $5,000 and it's going to cost $10,000. Try to find them. Is it really worth it with that? Thank you, Cindy.

[45:25] Did we both approve the list? Okay. Nate made the motion. Nancy seconded.

[45:34] I don't know. We were an offer.

[45:36] So all we were for the discussion.

[45:37] All the favor?

[45:38] I have.

[45:40] Now it's approved.

[45:45] Oh, no, sorry, school board.

[45:47] Okay.

[45:50] Hello, I'm Justin Brown.

[45:51] Diplicated to be school board representative.

[45:54] Elected, but I had been served for three months before then.

[45:57] In doing that, I was working on the budget.

[46:00] I was in the finance committee working on the budget,

[46:02] which did not pass.

[46:04] So that's why I wanted to talk today.

[46:06] May thing is just remind everyone and ask everyone to remind everyone they know that the

[46:12] revote for that would be on April 28th. The turnout for that, there's no information

[46:20] about individual towns depending on the revote for what they'll, but the overall turnout

[46:25] was quite low in the 10 to 15 percent range. The budget that was presented, you know,

[46:34] the new budget will be presented, represents about a 5.7% increase over the previous budget.

[46:44] The important thing to note is that that does not mean that your taxes are going up by 1.7%,

[46:49] very much the contrary to that, and I'll give the exact numbers in just a minute.

[46:55] Another thing that people who are voting on the budget, any budget, any school board budget,

[47:01] you should know is that most of the costs that we set at the

[47:06] came to me school district level, we don't have control of it.

[47:11] He's mostly the cost of the budget, we do not have direct

[47:14] control.

[47:15] It's not 10% that we have to control.

[47:19] Things like high school tuition, which we pay is set by the

[47:23] state.

[47:24] Not a fair cost for the employees or in the bush area state

[47:27] level. Special education requirements with our result of federal laws and of course inflation,

[47:35] both general inflation and healthcare inflation. The budget that's been presented does not

[47:41] buy anything new. In fact, there were 25 positions eliminated. And I say eliminated but actually

[47:49] happened is these are positions that had been in the budget for the last few years but we've

[47:53] I am to film. So at this point we decided we're not going to continue to film those positions.

[48:01] I also point out that the Kingdom of East School District has a lower hurt people spending

[48:07] getting the state as a whole. Vermont, as many people know, is pretty high in terms of hurt people's

[48:13] spending for many, many reasons. AESD is actually very much at the low end of that in the state.

[48:22] It's small, the increase of 5% is mostly because of increases in high school tuition,

[48:31] salaries, just renegotiated salaries with teachers, and so we did have to raise salaries

[48:39] for teachers slightly in order to be competitive.

[48:43] It's very difficult to recruit teachers to teach in the Cantonese school, if we had not

[48:48] raise our salaries it would have been even more difficult and we regularly have been losing people

[48:53] to surrounded districts that that favor and then other increases came from special education and

[48:59] transportation. So I guess the last thing I'll just say is that you know schools are important.

[49:08] I think everyone here would agree to that. We've already lost one school in this area and you

[49:14] one will lose another one. We heard the talk about the reforms that are coming down the road. I think

[49:20] it would be very good idea to demonstrate that we support having a school here, we support having a good

[49:27] school here. I do recognize that people are facing challenges and that the types burden is significant for

[49:34] like the, in terms of the increase of from last year, or a home assessed at $350,000 in

[49:43] Northern Bergeria. The increase would be, for a year, would be $36,000. That's the increase

[49:50] for the year, or a house that drives at $150,000. Obviously, less than that, or a house that

[49:56] assessed in 150,000 dollars, it's $12 per year,

[50:00] is the increase of the last year.

[50:03] So, what I would say is I think that

[50:06] people who are on school board with me have worked hard

[50:10] and have tried to be very careful about our spending

[50:15] and we think it's important to improve it,

[50:18] but that proves it by the end to keep our school

[50:22] and provided the part of the education that we marketed.

[50:28] I'm also available now or anytime to answer any questions that people may have.

[50:38] Thank you.

[50:39] Thanks for taking that position.

[50:42] So, how much lower did you guys lower the school budget after it didn't pass?

[50:49] Well, we cut $100,000, which doesn't sound like a lot, however, the greater increase that

[50:58] we got came from the amount of money that's coming from the general fund. At the time, we

[51:02] had to propose the budget for the election, and we didn't have clear information about how

[51:09] much was going to be kind of from the general fund. The figure we had that had been thrown

[51:14] out there by the governor was around $70 million. I think it's $7 million. It ended up being $110 million.

[51:22] That is actually where the main part of the decrease from the original budget comes from,

[51:27] is from having a clearer idea of the amount of money coming from the general fund.

[51:32] I also want us to make one that emphasized that this was a lean budget re-proclaimed. This was

[51:39] not adding anything new. The things we tend to hear about, the things we tend to hear

[51:45] most about are things like the summer camp in the after-school program which are largely funded

[51:51] more than half by grants. We also tend to hear complaints about bloated administration or

[51:58] excessive administration costs. For mine actually has, although we have high-per-few people spending,

[52:04] But we actually have lower than national average in terms of percentage of the budget that goes through administration ours is probably around 4.5% in

[52:16] In the least compared to a national average for about six and a half percent. So there is not a lot of administrative blow.

[52:23] Anybody who sees our school or goes to any of the other schools, anybody who knows teachers know that there's not a lot of luxury going on.

[52:31] This is a, their education is expensive, don't get me wrong, taxes are significant, the

[52:41] facts portion related to education is significant, but it's not because we are somehow spending

[52:47] money in this period.

[52:50] There's an informational meeting next week, correct, as it's a policy, and I'm going to

[52:59] If we want specific information as to what administrative salary increases were from last year to this year, is that information available and where is it available?

[53:13] But in terms of administrative salary, I don't know.

[53:17] Right, that's the information I was thinking of

[53:20] what had to do with the teacher's salaries,

[53:22] which were recently renegotiated.

[53:24] That information, it would be fairly easy to pay.

[53:27] But I don't know the easiest way to get that.

[53:30] I'd be happy to look into it

[53:31] or just think that I'm just going to stick on.

[53:33] If you could, I was looking earlier today

[53:37] at how much Kingdom

[53:45] East administrative staff, the superintendent, make as compared to

[53:52] other school districts in the community.

[53:56] And I think there's a huge discrepancy between how much the Kingdom East administrative staff

[54:05] is making per pupil in their district versus schools like Burlington that have a thousand students

[54:15] in their their school where a principal or a superintendent is making virtually the same

[54:25] amount of money or not a lot more money than the English administrative staff.

[54:30] I would say that there are two different things. There are salaries and there are salaries per

[54:35] people. In places where you have fewer people, you are going to have a higher dollar per

[54:43] people, even if they're making less than someone in the next district. So I don't know that

[54:49] that's an appropriate price for people to judge someone's own.

[54:58] Well, if you need a superintendent, you need one, whether it's a thousand students for 500 students.

[55:07] But shouldn't the superintendent for 500 students make less money than the superintendent for a thousand students?

[55:14] I don't know.

[55:18] Teachers make roughly the same for teaching.

[55:21] and then they do when they have fewer pupils

[55:25] as they do when they have a lot of pupils.

[55:28] One reason, it's difficult to get people

[55:30] if you have a large class.

[55:32] So I'm not sure I do agree with that.

[55:34] Because if you look at, and I don't know what date

[55:39] the data I'm looking at was from,

[55:41] but I think it's barely the reason one this data says

[55:45] we have 65 students at the school of people, which we told.

[55:49] basically it looks at every school district and every school in the state and it

[55:54] says this is how much the principals make the superintendent's the assistant

[55:57] principals and when you look at what we pay compared to our larger districts we're

[56:07] paying what I see as an exorbitant amount of money. Well I would say her

[56:17] people but also for districts. So you're saying that they're super,

[56:21] super strong, but managed to finish him up. If that he makes more than so than most of the other

[56:27] super tech. Um, I know there's two or not. Let's put it this way. So the, the, you know, it's

[56:36] hard to prepare apples and apples, but the principal at Burlington High School that has 930 students

[56:43] students makes $129,000 a year.

[56:47] Again, I'm not exactly sure what the state is from.

[56:53] Sean, that's in a district.

[56:55] And this is a superintendent who's opposed to a principal.

[56:57] But they don't, I don't know how their districts work,

[57:02] but if a principal is making $129,000 for 932 students,

[57:11] then should a superintendent make $175,000 for...

[57:19] Boyle and a thousand in the school district.

[57:22] The little one.

[57:23] 4,000.

[57:24] So yeah, so...

[57:26] Okay, I don't...

[57:27] I also don't think that's an appropriate comparison.

[57:30] I'm principle to a superintendent.

[57:31] How does talent and research for the market...

[57:35] That doesn't seem like the paradigm.

[57:36] I guess one of the things that's frustrating

[57:38] that I have found with Kingdom East

[57:40] is that, as you said, it's very difficult to find out.

[57:46] It's almost like this information is hidden.

[57:49] Why an annual report don't we see Sean salary?

[57:54] We know what these guys make.

[57:56] We know what I make.

[57:57] We know that everybody in our elected officials make.

[58:00] But if you look at Kingdom East documents,

[58:02] it is very, very difficult to figure out

[58:06] How much does it cost to run the district office itself?

[58:10] How many people do they employ?

[58:12] And how much does that cost versus how much does it cost

[58:16] to run the individual schools?

[58:19] That information's just not available.

[58:21] Yeah, I would agree to it.

[58:23] One is it's not easily available,

[58:26] but shouldn't it be public information?

[58:29] Every dollar they spend is public information.

[58:32] Whether they tell you it is or not,

[58:34] there's information they have that's not public

[58:36] But every cent that goes in and out of that is public information.

[58:41] I will make two comments.

[58:42] So before we go any further, we're not going to go too much farther than this.

[58:48] We don't pay our share.

[58:50] We are a receiving district.

[58:53] We get more from the state than we put in the town of the district.

[58:58] The whole each town and the district we receive more from the state, which is our money

[59:05] still but we receive more than what we pay in taxes education wise. And that's been like that

[59:14] since before Kingdom East when it was just the small three three town district before Kingdom East.

[59:22] It was that way as well. And I will also say that some of the magic numbers don't make sense to

[59:31] me and I was on the board for almost six years. I don't, I think some of it's a little

[59:37] bit magicgy. I don't understand how they come up with everything because the state's

[59:43] involved. So like even, even with the proposed budget that you're throwing out a tax dollar

[59:48] amount, I would be very leery of saying this is what it's going to be because they don't

[59:54] know that either. They put a good guess, but the state can say

[1:00:00] No, that's not what it's going to be. We won't know our tax numbers until almost July. Yeah, in the town won't know until, until, yeah, it was July last year. Yeah, the end. Last thing I said, again, is that I do agree that the way they present the financial information in particular is poor. They have a really good finance person, but with all of that, they put this

[1:00:29] just pie chart on there that really give very little information and I have talked to them

[1:00:35] about that and I am on the finance committee so my hope is that by this time next year

[1:00:41] that information will be presented in a way that actually asks what people wanted, that

[1:00:45] part of that.

[1:00:46] She has how much it's spent on this and that.

[1:00:51] Kate and then Chris.

[1:00:53] I think anybody will necessarily be able to answer it but on that very neat and tidy flyer

[1:00:58] that KDSD puts out that they're about to fly a chart and the per-town statistics. I'm just

[1:01:05] wondering, they have, you know, the number of students from Luninburg and Gilman. I'm wondering

[1:01:12] if there's any data anywhere of how many students are in our communities going to other schools,

[1:01:20] as well, like a total list of school age youths, and maybe that's just census records.

[1:01:26] It's just curious if we know.

[1:01:29] No, I'm going to tell you, if you, I don't think

[1:01:32] you'd have to dig super hard because I'm going to,

[1:01:34] there's definitely kids in Littleburg

[1:01:36] that don't go to Littleburg, which is a plus

[1:01:39] of the district, if it works out.

[1:01:43] And there's room in other facilities.

[1:01:46] You can, that's a benefit of being key SD

[1:01:51] and all that for a fact.

[1:01:52] You can, if you were working in Birk

[1:01:55] and want to have your kid at Birk,

[1:01:56] you could, that was a potential option, you would not feel

[1:02:00] polite, but I don't want to step on your toes. Sorry.

[1:02:04] It's a very good question. It's a question I've asked. And the

[1:02:08] true answer is they actually don't know. And they would have to do

[1:02:13] some type of birth or census records or something like that. And

[1:02:17] I think it's important that we do know, because if you have the

[1:02:21] children, if you don't, if you pretend that before you

[1:02:24] something children in the elementary school here are the only kids here and you're in the position

[1:02:30] of having the state district and you're saying, well, they've got next to nothing there. Those

[1:02:35] few kids can drive 30 miles to the school. We need to know how many kids are that are homeschooled,

[1:02:40] how many that go to private schools, Catholic schools, etc. And they actually don't have that

[1:02:47] information as far as I can tell. Which we're easy to get. Well, Chris, go ahead.

[1:02:53] Yes, the first comment concerning the figures that you want.

[1:02:59] If you email Tricia and you ask for the specific information on a particular thing, she

[1:03:05] will tell you.

[1:03:07] And they always answers my questions when I say, how much did this cost and how much did

[1:03:13] this be?

[1:03:14] How many people are in here and how much did they get paid?

[1:03:17] She gave me the answer.

[1:03:23] The

[1:03:26] second thing that you said concerning the number of students, they do, the Department

[1:03:33] of Education has a record of homeschool students because they are considered under Kingdom East.

[1:03:42] So you can get that number and actually last time I checked it was last school year and we

[1:03:47] We had more kids homeschooling than the ones attending the elementary school.

[1:03:52] They will not tell us about the private school, but if you contact private schools and ask

[1:03:57] how many lo and burks students are there, they'll tell you.

[1:04:00] You just got to do a little hunting, but you can get the answers.

[1:04:06] Thank you, Chris.

[1:04:13] It would be kind of nice if that, some of this information were salaries, and it's still

[1:04:17] I'm feeling wrong, it wasn't signed, but I think what comes out of the information comes out of the school district.

[1:04:23] So it's more readily available for people to receive, instead of having a report.

[1:04:27] I highly encourage, and I'm, please don't take this the wrong way, because I'm not trying to make it negative.

[1:04:35] Every one of their meetings is available online.

[1:04:38] It doesn't matter whether it's a full board or a subcommittee.

[1:04:42] Every one of their meetings is online or available online or you can attend them personally.

[1:04:47] and I highly recommend on that was 99% of the reason I joined the board so I had to go.

[1:04:56] I highly recommend attending meetings if you have questions it every every one of them

[1:05:02] is very open to the public they put I feel like their minutes are posted very well.

[1:05:09] I mean I'll I'll be the first to say I want to know on the budget and it's not because

[1:05:13] because of the number it is because of the number it used to be when this district started

[1:05:20] the first budget was $33 million. We're less than 10 years and it's 53. That's my issue

[1:05:27] with the budget. You can blame education. I think that's a crock. It's what you get out

[1:05:34] of it. My kids both were worse in high school.

[1:05:41] We don't have a problem with education.

[1:05:44] It's we have different problems. And I don't think the quality of education is

[1:05:48] important.

[1:05:51] But I highly encourage everybody to attend. I know Chris attends a lot of meetings

[1:05:58] or at least she definitely used to. I highly recommend attending meetings. Go ahead, Kristen.

[1:06:06] And they're all recorded too. So you don't have to be listening to them or watching them

[1:06:10] live when they're being shown. They're all recorded and you can catch the whole thing.

[1:06:16] Yep.

[1:06:19] That's another comment. I mean, I like the thank-segment for filling up out of meeting.

[1:06:25] Yeah, because the town this planning committee had asked for this to happen in a year ago

[1:06:32] Because it'll go on or more support for the schools. Yeah, but everybody knows going on

[1:06:36] So we thank you very much, and we still have an open seat available to us in the district

[1:06:45] Nope

[1:06:46] No, did it with my wife working on the district that doesn't work well for me

[1:06:52] actually they can do it. Actually we're going to do what you all right so

[1:06:55] that we went away some registered their dogs but they are it you learn a lot but

[1:07:09] there's a lot going on and it's and like doesn't say you really financially we're

[1:07:16] We're at the point now, every dime you take is probably taken away from what the kids are doing, because everything is...

[1:07:24] Oh, it's not about kids anymore.

[1:07:26] Everything is regulated, federally, or at the state level. You really don't have a whole lot of control.

[1:07:32] You think you do what you really don't.

[1:07:35] Our school bus drivers are saying about twice a morning, so kids can have breakfast.

[1:07:40] The transportation increases cost.

[1:07:44] One of the main costs is absolutely increased.

[1:07:47] What are the four top costs?

[1:07:49] You can leave the feed their kids like wasn't earned in.

[1:08:01] That was all the additional rate.

[1:08:04] Go head start.

[1:08:06] What do we have about head start?

[1:08:07] Um, just and there's still time to do this.

[1:08:10] So, uh, NECCA, which runs, I think,

[1:08:13] seven or eight head start programs,

[1:08:15] they run the gelman head start program.

[1:08:17] has been notified that they can expect their funding to be reduced soon like as early as this

[1:08:27] year next year. And so they're putting together an yield package related to that decision and

[1:08:36] they're asking people from the community to write letters of support. Of course, the timeline

[1:08:43] line is really close. Letters that support need to go to China by tomorrow.

[1:08:49] Or to you because more people are not going to have money in your own.

[1:08:52] True. And if you write a letter, you can handwritten a letter if you want. If you type a letter, but don't have a means to scan it, they all have to be submitted electronically.

[1:09:00] Just come into the slide boards office. We can scan them. We have a letter from the trust, the board, the planning committee library.

[1:09:12] I'm sorry. 14 letters. So we got letter from John. We got letter from Russ Ingalls. So if you have time, it would be great. If you could just write a letter and say that you support Head Start, you know, community.

[1:09:28] But also keep in mind, this affects all the Head Starts under, well it affects all Head Starts across the country.

[1:09:34] but it affects all the neck and head starts, which are 7 or 8 in our surrounding communities.

[1:09:40] So you can either write, learn it as a board of neck and in general, or you can write a letter

[1:09:45] in support of the government at several.

[1:09:50] But it's by the end of day tomorrow.

[1:09:53] There's no war with time.

[1:09:56] My name is Reina Flod, also. The head start in development is doing a calendar

[1:10:01] raffle to raise money for the program and if anybody is interested in donating a donation

[1:10:09] for an item to be sold or to be raffle, you can connect with me or start and get to on calendar.

[1:10:22] Thank you,

[1:10:25] Chris. I just had a, are we at the place where I can say something of community concern,

[1:10:31] I don't have the schedule from. No, not yet. Oh, okay, I'll

[1:10:42] work that for the school, I agree.

[1:10:44] And here we go.

[1:10:47] I met with James Yaddy last week.

[1:10:51] I got a grant for $86,000.

[1:10:54] He replaced the full bill,

[1:10:55] forwards for the concrete box and eight by 16.

[1:11:02] So you can give me a price on that.

[1:11:05] a couple other things that the solar company met with me. He's giving me a

[1:11:10] quote on the solar panels that are going up on the shop part of that Merck Grant.

[1:11:15] We're probably starting that sooner than later.

[1:11:19] So waiting on the furnace guy,

[1:11:21] giving me a quote for bigger furnace. But the policy we've only used on

[1:11:28] shipment,

[1:11:31] which is $2,800. So I don't know how we did it, but we want to

[1:11:34] from a $6,000 to $2,800.

[1:11:39] So all shits down.

[1:11:41] Definitely got to get on pack of that.

[1:11:43] And we've been putting money away for the last three years

[1:11:45] on that.

[1:11:46] I got a guy really get back when we

[1:11:48] want to come look at it.

[1:11:50] It's going to be raised up eight feet and then seal.

[1:11:54] We'll try it on roof.

[1:11:57] So I got with Gary the other day.

[1:12:02] I'd like to post in the paper for a week

[1:12:05] or three ways or whatever and on our website and whatever on Facebook but I

[1:12:11] bet you get a bunch of contractors to give me a letter of intent that would

[1:12:16] like to look good time on the bird so it's not me gross calling people like to

[1:12:20] remember these people that took the time out of it a letter of intent comes in

[1:12:25] file so we'll get it out that would be good I met with Pike for spots of

[1:12:34] the Dreaming of Haven is from Old Town Hall right here all the way up to the top of

[1:12:41] Pond Hill, where it's really bad.

[1:12:44] You'll pass the Y to the left where they started new stuff and that's part of one project.

[1:12:52] All with Southland Burke, which is actually cheaper than the rest of it, but that was 270,000 to

[1:13:01] grind it and we have everything down there. So we're all working on this big

[1:13:06] grant for this. But we still put 50 thousand dollars away for anything. So I'm

[1:13:13] getting a quote from the why up to the top of the hill. If we don't get to

[1:13:17] grant that at least has to be done. We're going to this Bob and Mill just

[1:13:21] absolutely treasure it. And then the section down the building. I don't

[1:13:28] they have you all going because the water and sewer structures are not up to

[1:13:32] par and then just end up tearing it up. There's anything we do at top, and then

[1:13:37] should have top coat which is a bandage but something's got to be done. I have

[1:13:45] five excavators that I will email you guys on and see what you think but our

[1:13:51] My brand is for, we hit 54,000.

[1:13:54] Yep.

[1:13:55] But we can go to 91,000.

[1:13:57] Yep.

[1:13:58] So I found several with less than a thousand hours on it.

[1:14:02] Raining some ties.

[1:14:06] Well, Gary and I said, we need to include a shelter here,

[1:14:08] isn't it?

[1:14:10] So,

[1:14:13] if other than that, I know about over a huge and bad,

[1:14:16] we've got Bob and Meldon and most of that to sell.

[1:14:19] But I couldn't go out today and I couldn't probably

[1:14:22] We're going to go out to the ground and do frozen.

[1:14:25] But we're working and we were a Saturday.

[1:14:28] Then we lost a call.

[1:14:29] We're up on a do-bombs.

[1:14:31] So we were excited.

[1:14:33] John responded pretty good.

[1:14:35] So thank you.

[1:14:38] 15 minutes.

[1:14:42] But there was a lot of frost in that road.

[1:14:46] Yeah, so the roads aren't going like everybody calls it.

[1:14:50] They're still a lot of frost.

[1:14:51] Yeah, that's pretty much it oh we should be getting a new truck

[1:15:01] Bill. Bill. Bill, I got to go through biking. No, I did not go through that. It's a two year away. And we don't mind, we don't need it.

[1:15:15] 10.6. Wow. So when you guys start cutting back and making me do parking lot, so I talked to a room guy and conquered yesterday there. I'm year two waiting for a truck. And it's strictly liking.

[1:15:31] Yeah, yeah, it's not hard to get the truck. It's something else. Yeah.

[1:15:39] So, but that's something we have to look at the minute I smell a grant coming into replace the truck.

[1:15:44] Yep, the blue truck's going down the road because it doesn't have the that's what we get our grants for.

[1:15:58] Just to remind us dog licenses are due at the first, I don't have anything on it.

[1:16:05] Oh my god.

[1:16:06] That whole hour and half conversation we had in your office and you're not going to say anything.

[1:16:10] Nope.

[1:16:11] What would I say?

[1:16:12] Nothing.

[1:16:15] No.

[1:16:15] You know, you're not in the community concerns.

[1:16:19] Yes, hi. My name is Kate Bouch. I'm here to represent the Fox Chapel Museum.

[1:16:27] And we've been fighting the sliders around town and everywhere we possibly can.

[1:16:34] And we've posted on Facebook the museum.

[1:16:37] If you haven't been there, it is absolutely amazing.

[1:16:40] the family spent several months of not a year

[1:16:44] prepared for that, and it's it's gorgeous.

[1:16:48] If you've been in the building before,

[1:16:49] it's the museum is in the area where the classroom used to be,

[1:16:53] and it's really, really moving and it's beautiful.

[1:16:57] And what I'm here today to do is ask for volunteers,

[1:17:01] not from this group specifically necessarily,

[1:17:04] but just the community in general.

[1:17:06] They would like to have the museum open at the very least

[1:17:09] on Saturdays from 10 to 2. So we're looking for folks that, you know, have not every Saturday

[1:17:16] there wouldn't be that kind of commitment but, you know, even once a month or once every

[1:17:19] couple of months if they could spare some time, there's a script that can follow and, you

[1:17:27] know, the owners are very, very nice people, they're very communicative. If anybody was interested

[1:17:33] in doing that, they'd fully support, you know, walking them through the whole thing and then

[1:17:38] and what the old nations would be.

[1:17:40] So, you know, that's it.

[1:17:42] Thank you very much.

[1:17:43] If you could get a few specifics to Gary,

[1:17:45] we could add some stuff in the notes.

[1:17:47] Yeah, and we actually, that's posted on the website.

[1:17:51] So, if you go to news and announcements,

[1:17:53] you'll see a posting of it there.

[1:17:55] And I did, I went to the four chapters of a more

[1:17:59] in February and got to go through the museum

[1:18:01] and it is really amazing.

[1:18:04] Our community to have this museum into the community, it's unbelievable, everybody should go and see this.

[1:18:13] And Anthony, having a thing this month, please.

[1:18:15] That's it.

[1:18:16] That's right.

[1:18:17] Thank you.

[1:18:17] Yeah.

[1:18:18] So this Saturday, April 11th, on 10 to 1, there is going to be an event to want to be on veterans.

[1:18:27] And honestly,

[1:18:29] From what we have heard, a lot of the Vietnam veterans do not like to attend these events. I shouldn't speak for all of them, but so it is open to all veterans.

[1:18:41] It's going to be a wide band and a free meal and a service and it's going to be really nice. So, you know, if people can attend that as well, they need your RSVP as soon as possible because we have come for the food.

[1:18:55] So, that's another thing, thank you.

[1:19:01] Thank you.

[1:19:03] Chris?

[1:19:05] No, I'm good.

[1:19:06] It came up after.

[1:19:08] I stopped talking.

[1:19:09] Thanks.

[1:19:12] Any other, any other concerns comments?

[1:19:17] I'd like to thank everybody for coming and all the volunteer stuff that they do.

[1:19:23] I really appreciate it.

[1:19:33] Oh, you're lucky.

[1:19:34] No, you go first.

[1:19:36] Awesome.

[1:19:39] I like to make a motion for

[1:19:41] Janice me.

[1:19:42] And our second promotion of meeting

[1:19:45] the adjourned to meet open Monday.

[1:19:48] May 4th, but six.

[1:19:49] Yeah.

[1:19:50] All in favor?

[1:19:51] I.

[1:19:52] Nice.

[1:19:53] No.

[1:19:53] all.

[1:19:54] Have a good night everybody.

[1:19:55] Thank you.

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