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test. Hello.

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Mic 10.

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Yeah, I think I think this one works.
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Test, test, test. Is it loud enough?

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the

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the EV charger in town.

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Who
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City actions

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nights.

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Hey, I think the link would be best if
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you're going to need to write down the
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Enter your access code.

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What's that?
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The um join by phone is area code 2
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Okay.
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Click that now. Or five. Five of us.

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Good day, John.

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Okay,
got

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meeting up. Stephanie
and Chris Kelly just confirming you guys

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can hear us. About to get the meeting
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apologies.

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Stephanie, can you acknowledge you can
hear us online?

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Get the

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Are you talking, Stephanie? Is your
computer muted?

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Can't
I can't hear her.

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Well, that's I guess. Yeah. Can you
unmute yourself, Stephanie, and see if

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that's a possibility? No, you can't
unmute. Okay. Chris Kelly, can you

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unmute?

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You guys hear me? You guys hear me?
There he is. Here it is.

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I have two mics on.
I am unmuted now. If you can hear me,

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maybe that's good news.

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Well, if you are all talking, I can't
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just so you know what the public
experience is now.

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Can you hear me now?
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» Through that microphone, you can. Okay.
For some reason, my computer mic's not

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cooperating.
>> Probably shouldn't use this use the

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use the computer mics.
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» Th This one does work. So, this I'll use
the town mic, but the the monitor.

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Got it. Okay.
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All right. Let me just

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Well, I really want to call the meeting
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since it's 6:15.
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so I think I'm going to um call the
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Der, the chair of the NDA, and it is
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and I'm gonna ask John if he wants to
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Just go around the room.

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That's okay. I mean, we had the name
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Dwight.
Um, Dwight is not here. Dwight's not in

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tonight.
Richard.

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» John Thompson.
>> John Thompson here.

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» Yes. Andrew Dert is here.
>> And Meg Fox,

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» I'm here.
>> Great. Looks like Chris Larson is not in

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tonight
and Ron should be joining momentarily.

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So, let me just Sorry, guys. Give us a

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minute for Ron to call in.

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» Yeah, that's weird.

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Says he's dialing now. So, one second.
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quorum.

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for your patience, guys. Ron's trying to
dial in. Almost there.

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to get one of like the Snoopy phones or
the Garfield phones. Yeah.

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Oh,
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» calling the roll. Okay, Ron Mitchell
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thank you for your patience everyone
while we work through our um trying to

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get quorum and work through some of the
technical things. Um are there any

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questions or comments on the consent
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And if not, I would ask for a motion to
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A motion to approve the consent agenda.
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» Great. So I will call the role. Um Magg.
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» And Ron
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» Motion to approve the consent agenda.
That's a it's a yes or a no for you.

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» Yes.
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Um and Richard.
>> Yes. and John.

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» Yes.
>> Okay. And And Andrew Dart? Yes. Motion

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passes.
And then is there any public comment on

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non-aggenda items?

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» Uh I can't really cycle through and see
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me to see if there's any hands up
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» But is this the time, Andrew, that I
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to bring it up and it will be an item
for approval in a future date?

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» Um,
you know, I think I guess this is a good

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opportunity to to touch on that. you
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have a there's um
you know what, Steph, Stephanie, do you

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want to just go go ahead now and kind of
use this and the meeting before we get

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kind of down a lot of different paths
that have to do with governance and

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transitions and I think this would be a
good time for you to to bring up um Ned

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to go.
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» you got three minutes. You don't need to
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three minutes.
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talk about nettogo.com
and the value that it has for our

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community in keeping people up to date
for eating, drinking establishments,

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their hours, their menus, how to order
online and all the special events that

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can be public health to music to
gatherings of people that are public.

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Uh, and it goes, as you know, from
Netherland down to Cole Creek Canyon

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down to Rollinsville or over to
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not all Netherland. However, 80 I think
my analysis was 88% of the businesses

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and events are Netherland. uh and it is
a passion project uh that came out of

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COVID and I keep it updated uh regularly
and the business owners all call me,

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text me, email me when there are
updates. So it is nice to collect that

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information and be a pass through to get
it out to the community and then I also

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market it on Facebook groups and through
postering to let people and people who

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live here and visitors know about it. So
come this time of year, the leaf peepers

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use it as a big resource. And then when
it's holiday time, we open up our gift

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card tab and it's people who used to
live here who want to support businesses

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how they can buy uh a gift card for $200
from the rock shop, etc. And so I have

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asked in the past for actually the DDA
or town to buy this website and we would

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customize it for the town and only have
it be Nutterland. But the last time I

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said, "Can we just help with uh defay
some of my out-ofpocket costs?" So a

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fraction of those out-of- pocket costs
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and I would like it to continue through
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Awesome.

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Thank you, Stephanie. I appreciate you
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Um,
okay. Any other public comment on

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non-aggenda items.

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Okay. Um then we are going to go into
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annual board um officer elections. But
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kind of my second um
public comment on non-aggenda items. So

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you know tonight there's a lot of kind
of transition that we're working

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through. Um, and I think all of the the
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related in one way or another to the
bigger picture. Um, we've got a recent

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resignation of the executive director.
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happening and then there's also kind of
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that are working together. So, um, we're
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one another, but the intention that I
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is to leave with like a sound financial
and governance controls where we've got

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one owner and one next date for every
transition item, an agreement on the

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information we need before the next
budget and project decisions.

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Um, so
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through the consent agenda and now we're
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governance and then we're going to get
into program decisions and then some

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transition reports. So, I also want to
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move um formally into the next action
item which is the annual board officer

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elections.
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so the
one thing that um our bylaws talk about

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is annual elections but they specify the
chair and the vice chair and they don't

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necess necessarily specify the
treasurer. Um, I just want to make that

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clear tonight that um,
we we don't necessarily, my

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understanding, and John Kane, you can
correct me if I'm wrong, but with the

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bylaws that we're not necessarily voting
on a treasurer. The treasurer needs to

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be named, but it's not something that is
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every year.
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» Okay,
>> that sounds right.

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» Okay. And currently, our treasurer is
John Thompson. Okay. Um so with that in

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mind, um annual officer elections were
delayed from July to August due to

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recent board appointments. Um we've got
still vacancies. Um I intended at the

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time that I wouldn't seek re-election as
chair, but I I want to remain on the

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chair at at this time. Um I wanted to
kind of put put that mentally out there

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so that the door was open for people. Um
but being that at the last election no

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board members at all expressed interest
in serving as chair or vice chair. Um

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but John Thompson graciously continued
expressed willingness to continue

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serving as treasure. So I think tonight
just because of knowing that there's

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some financial things that we need to
talk talk about later. Um, I'd like to,

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um, revisit the elections and I'd like
to throw it out there that I would, um,

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be happy to continue serving as the
chair of the DDA until, you know, we've

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got some more members and a more stable
footing of governance.

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I'd like to nominate Richard um for vice
chair um to he and I were able to have

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some conversations earlier u in the in
the day and week to go over that. Um but

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I wanted to throw it out there to the
rest of the board on their thoughts and

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feelings.

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» Ron, were you saying something?
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chair.
>> Okay.

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Um, Meg, how are you doing on elections?
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member.
>> Okay, got it. And um, well, I think that

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kind of makes it um, simple. I guess I
would like to um, make a motion to vote

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for Richard um, Brandon as the vice
chair. Can I get a second?

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» I second a motion.
>> Okay. And can I call roll? So Meg,

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» yes.
>> Ron, this is a motion for Richard to be

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the vice chair.
>> Yes.

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» Okay. And John, I approve. And it's this
is Andrew Dart. And it's a yes from me.

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And Richard,
>> uh, that's a yes from me also.

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» Okay. Awesome. Thank you.
>> Is there a motion for the chair?

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I would like to make a motion for Andrew
Andrew Dwart as the chair.

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» Right. And a second.
>> Second.

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» Okay.
>> Second.

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» Um Richard on the vote.
>> Yes.

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» And John on the vote.
>> Yes.

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» Egg on the vote.
>> Yes.

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» And Andrew, I'll say yes. Okay. Motion
passes. Um, and given the the bylaws

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about the treasure, we're it's noted
that the treasur isn't necessarily an

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annual vote and the board has agreed for
John Thompson to remain treasur. So,

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that is um I think that's it for the
officer elections, which is great.

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» Sweet. Um the next

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action item.
So I recently just had some a

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conversation with UNMB bank because um
there's more to do with this than just

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um
Kate resigning and other governance

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cleanup that that we've got to do. But I
would like to read the resignation

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letter from Kate for the minutes
so that we can all basically UNMB bank

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said you know just having a resignation
letter from the executive director is

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not enough. That what they what they
really need from us is in the meeting

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minutes to say we as a board want soand
so removed and other people added.

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Currently,
the signers on the account include a

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former treasurer, Steve Roundtree, Kate
Massingale, Ron Mitchell, and myself.

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So, it's going to be after we go through
the reading Kate's resignation letter.

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Um, it's going to be my recommendation
that we remove Steve Roundtree and Ron

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Mitchell as signers on the account. keep
the basically are always keeping the

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chair, vice chair and treasurer on the
account would be my um

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my recommendation. Furthermore, UNMB
also said they are not really interested

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in managing
uh you know access to the account. In

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other words, if you're a serer on the
account, you have access to the account

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and you can make changes and do things.
Um, now there may be other banks that

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would be willing to do some type of you
need two out of three signatures in

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order to do something, but UNMB made it
clear that they have no interest in

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doing that just as a as a heads up. Um,
so I think you know internally we want

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to have some discussion about that and
what what that means. Um, I was able to

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verify
the funds in both accounts and

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they we we still need we're working on
some um outside accountant Mandy Near

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verifying what is currently in the
NDA laptop when she is given access to

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it, which is kind of another point of
discussion that we can we can talk

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about. But for the meantime, let's um
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recognize
um Kate's service and then I can read

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her
resignation letter. So the motion

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let me just find that

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Sorry, I had to um kind of work on
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because in the proposed packet, it had
language that the bank if we took it to

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the bank and the language that it's in
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» how it is saying, you know, need two out
of three, they're they're going to send

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it back to us. So
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however we can
read the resignation letter.

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the action item is going to be um I want
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resignation letter. Dear NDDA board
members, please accept this as a formal

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notification that I am resigning from my
position as executive director of the

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NDDDA. My last day with the organization
will be moved or will be Monday, August

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31st, 2026.
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» Um,
so I think the the mo the board we need

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to make a motion that um I move to
accept Kate's resignation effective

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August
31st, 2026.

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» I second the motion.
>> Is that does that work, John? Anything?

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Okay. All right. Um, take a vote. John
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Um, yeah. I mean, I think without
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then discussion if that works or no
other way around. Okay. So, yeah, the

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discussion I mean I think you know Kate
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there is a lot of organizational
transition that we're in the midst of

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that if you've been um I think John
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aware of some of this and certainly town
staff is aware but there are there are

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some things that have become clear that
going forward we need to have better um

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systems in place because now currently
we don't have access and I know town

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staff is working on this to the DDA a
laptop where there is a bunch of

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information um passwords and accounts
and other things that in order for our

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third party accountant to verify and
help with a um a a reconciliation,

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it's it's kind of put the DDA in a tough
spot to be honest. And um not that we

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can't get through it, but it's just kind
of it was a you know basically a week a

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week or so before the meeting and maybe
five business days and working through

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um a lot of this transition really
without any systems in place. That's the

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one, you know, one example that Steve
Roundtree is still a signer on an

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account and, you know, and he hasn't
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you know, over a year, well over a year.
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so there's there's certainly some
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housekeeping that I think this brings up
with going forward whatever the

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organizational structure is that the DDA
continues and maintains where you know

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we basically have a a you know systems
and procedures of this is what happens

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when a new board member is elected or a
treasurer changes. is and these steps

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need to be followed and it shouldn't be
something where if um for whatever

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reason they aren't done then we're kind
of and and a resignation happens that

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everyone's scrambling right so um I
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you know part of the um discussion
that's going to be a common thread

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throughout the night is you know the
transition right like Um the the the

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we've got you know what what failure
looks like for the DDA is urgent

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packing, urgent packet and bookkeeping
work displaces project management.

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Projects receive updates but not
documented closure. Minutes, files, and

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system ownership depend on one person.
The board receives incomplete

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information and town staff cannot tell
what is actually moving. a vacancy

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becomes an organizational emergency
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think we check every single box of
failure in that sense tonight, you know,

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of um that one one vacancy
um makes it clear that really there was

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no systems in place to you know another
thing is like there there haven't been

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minutes uploaded to um the town website
in many many months and it's there's you

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know a bit of um like
discussion about that where okay if

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really it's been kind of working
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deals with the YouTube uploads and maybe
posting of things however it's up to the

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executive director to go back and make
sure the minutes are recorded like

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there's just things that have kind of
maybe happened sometimes better than

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others in the past but certainly they
they stopped happening ing quite some

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time ago. Um, so it's a really good
honestly I'm it's a really good and

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exciting opportunity to look at all of
the things that none of it is rocket

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science. It's just a matter of, you
know, turning over the rocks, looking at

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things clearly and saying it out loud
like what um what what's the issue and

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you know what's just the proper
procedural

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way to deal with this so that
everybody's on the same page and we're

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supporting town staff and town town
staff feels like they're supported. Um,

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so again, like tonight, um, a lot of
what we're talking about is who who

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carries this transition. Um, so we've
got kind of some budget stuff to carry

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in transition. We've got our basic
organizational like minutes, agenda

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intake, civic web, the recording of the
meetings, the action minutes.

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Incidentally, John, one question. Do you
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recorded?
It should be. And where can we get the

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can I access the actual transcript of
this meeting so that I can make minutes

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and then get the minutes back into Civic
Web.

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What's I'm sorry I didn't hear you.
>> You need a town account in order to

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access it on Teams is what I've been
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» Yeah, we're going to have to take care
of that for now. We're going to be

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changing the system to be a live stream
to YouTube very soon. Okay. And then

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that transcript will just be the YouTube
transcript. Okay.

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» And then this one we can get this one
uploaded pretty I think we can try to

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get this one uploaded right away and
it'll transcript anyway. But the same

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security issue exists for the
>> Okay. Cuz just there's like a couple

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there's the organ, you know, the the
bylaws and requirements where we have to

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post the minutes, meaning I got to be
able to get the minutes, right?

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» We can we can help in this transitional
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system. But I'm I'm trying to go back
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meeting minutes are also posted.
>> I understand.

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» Yeah,
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system to make it happen.
>> Sure.

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» The if there are wait um I will check
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what we've got stored and how that needs
to be, but we can probably get

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transcripts figured out pretty quickly
so we can get that work done. And I

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would be happy to like take those all
and because another thing that I think

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would be helpful for our partners and
town and residents is to be able to look

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at a summary of the meetings and you
know even if it's not the full

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transcript to go back and say okay this
is what the DDA was doing at this month.

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Um so I think that's for me and you know
of any town meeting and any town board.

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I'd love if all of the, you know, the
website was kind of the same where I

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could look at ProSAB and see what
they're talking about or BOT or someone

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could look at a DDA meeting, you know,
click on the month, see the the the high

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level, um, or see the granular
transcript. So, um, I think that helps

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with communication. It's certainly by I
think by law and statute what we need to

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do.
>> Well, I don't know about bylaw and

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statute, but I agree we want to improve
communication as much as possible. It's

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not a statutory requirement to do
something like that. It's statutory to

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post those minutes. Okay. We also don't
have the capacity right now to do that,

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but I think that we're right in the
middle of our strategic planning effort.

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Yeah. And I think building that capacity
is something that we could certainly

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talk about, especially using some modern
tools that could help us with that.

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» Okay. Um, so for I think at least
receiving Kate's resignation, we can do

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the vote on that now and then kind of
continue to carry this conversation

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because there's a banking signature
thing. That's a whole another action

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item. So, I think we can probably um
call I can call the role on the Kate

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resignation vote again. Um, so we we
just stated that um we would move to

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receive the resignation of Kate
Massingale, former executive director

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effective August 31st, 2026. And I heard
Ron, you said

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» yes, I second it.
>> Okay. And Richard, that's your vote.

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» Yes.
>> John Thompson?

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» Yes.
>> And I'm Andrew Durart and I say yes.

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Egg Fox,
>> I'm wondering what not approving of it

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would even accomplish.
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that's a good question because I think
it would it would pass. Um, John Kane,

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do you have a thought on what would
happen?

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» Agreed with what you just said.
>> Yeah.

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» Okay, I approve.
>> Okay.

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Okay. Um,
so the bank made it. Now, we're going to

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move into the proposed banking changes,
um, which is the UNMB banking signer

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authorization and access transition. Do
>> you mind if I ask a quick question?

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» Yes.
>> I was just wondering if we're currently

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hiring to fill Kate's position or if
we're trying to like get our feet under

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us a little bit and figure out what that
position entails first.

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» That's that's a great question. So, I
think it we're Yes. And yes, we are not

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presently
advertising a replacement executive

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director. My um this is now Andrew Dart
talking as chair is that I I certainly

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acknowledge that there is a a need for a
lot of administrative

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you know agenda intake posting on civic
web recording reposting these minutes um

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and communicating with town staff and
DDA vendors. I think we need to have a

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bigger conversation amongst ourselves
and and with town staff and the b like

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what is really the best um
you know what is the best outcome right

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because we basically had our model
previously has been what I'll call the

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executive director generalist where it's
one person owns nearly everything so the

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former executive
um director role combined board

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administration, public records,
bookkeeping, bookkeeping, coordination,

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communications, programs, and complex
project delivery. Those are different

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disciplines with competing deadlines.
The current bylaws establish a

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director-led structure, while state law
appears to permit some alternative

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administrative arrangements. Like we
also have to talk about a lawyer

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tonight, our legal engagement. But
there's what I want to acknowledge is

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that we've got kind of four distinct
bodies of work. There's the

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administration of the board which is
notices, agendas, aims, packets,

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correspondence, records, and annual
governance. There's the finance

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administration, invoices, coding,
reconciliations, banking controls,

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payroll support, budget updates,
commitments, grants, and audit records.

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And then there's programs and
communication, business directory,

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website, events, promotions, outreach,
surveys, public art, and community

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partners. And then there's what I'll
call a catalytic project delivery,

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bigger scopes, procurement, consultants,
engineering, town coordination,

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schedules, contract risks, closeout, and
measurable results.

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So when one person was doing all of
those things, now maybe a different

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person was able to execute was would be
able to execute all of those and execute

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all of them well. And I think that's
kind of was our previous model.

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» Um I want to say that that wasn't
working. Um, and you know, maybe there's

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not maybe I'd like to think there's a
different model where we've got we break

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some of those pieces apart and that's a
bigger conversation that we have with

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town staff and the BO.
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» um would a conversation like that be
happening

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» with all of us together in the same
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» I think so. Yeah.
>> Okay. And there there's nothing on the

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agenda for that at the moment. Um
there's not I think what we were what we

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were trying to deal with is an immediate
emer you know kind of plug some gaps but

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this is certainly like what I feel is
the highest thing that we need to be

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focusing on and talking about and it
also involves you know my hope is that

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we have a b work session and we can
bring this up and talk about it because

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I think we have a really great
opportunity to kind of shift how things

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have been being done and move into a
more collaborative approach.

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Um, your thoughts on that either John or
Richard?

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» I agree it's good.
>> I agree it's a good opportunity to

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definitely look at where we are and what
changes can be made. Uh,

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it seemed like there was a lot of
disorganization for the last five months

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that I've been here. And from what I've
learned from history, it's gone back

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further than that. And
you're right that it could be run

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efficiently, that job description, by
another person. Um, but that seems like

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a lot and I'm not sure if that approach
is the best approach and I think it is

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worth the conversation of having uh
another general administrative assistant

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s so to speak sort of thing to and maybe
another person. I'm not sure how that

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those roles or responsibilities would
break out, but I think it's definitely

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worth looking at. But also as a top the
top priority item. Yeah.

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» What what would need to happen for um a
breakout discussion like that to be

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scheduled?
>> Well, I mean, I think we could, you

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know, as far as having a special
meeting, at least amongst ourselves, to

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get consensus on what that looks like. I
think we just need to talk about having

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a special meeting, right?
>> Which I think was probably in order no

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matter what. you know, um we've got a
couple of members who for various

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reasons, all legitimate reasons, haven't
been able to be at the last several

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meetings. And um
with K3 resignation, I think this is an

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opportunity to kind of talk about the
different models and then the risks and

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benefits of each model, right? Mhm.
>> So, I I I definitely would love to, you

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know, propose sometime in this meeting,
if not right now, that we figure out a

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time where we can have a a special
meeting. Um, and it doesn't necessarily

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need to be in the evening. You know, if
that doesn't work for people, it could

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be in the morning. Um, I I don't I know
this is a volunteer position. I'm I'm

428
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:33,920
not trying to make uh people come to
more meetings than they need to, but I

429
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:38,400
think by, you know, putting in some work
and getting on the same page and an

430
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:43,280
agreement and an alignment amongst
ourselves and then with the BO uh and

431
00:54:41,119 --> 00:54:46,280
town staff, we really have a great
opportunity.

432
00:54:48,079 --> 00:54:52,400
» I would like to comment if I may.
>> Yes.

433
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:57,839
» Ron, go ahead.
I uh when the DDA started for the first

434
00:54:55,200 --> 00:55:03,440
seven years uh we had meetings in the
morning every other week, two meetings a

435
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:11,119
month and it really worked well. They
were short, they were at breakfast and

436
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:18,720
they were almost unanimously attended.
So I really feel that we need to try to

437
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:28,000
have a schedule. there's so much to be
done and it 12 meetings a year uh is

438
00:55:23,839 --> 00:55:31,920
just not enough. I feel that's uh my
experience was that when we got started

439
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:37,040
we all volunteered. We didn't have an
executive director because we had no

440
00:55:33,359 --> 00:55:43,040
money. It took 15 years to get money and
uh I don't think that we can afford to

441
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:49,040
waste the money and one way to do it is
to be a little bit more attentive to

442
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:56,000
what we are doing. Thank you.
>> Thanks. Thanks, Ron. Yeah, I mean that's

443
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:59,520
another valid point is that maybe twice
a month meetings where the meetings are

444
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:04,480
a little shorter, they're a little more
focused and um

445
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:08,319
I I don't know, John, do you have any do
you see any thoughts with that or do you

446
00:56:07,119 --> 00:56:11,520
have thoughts about that?
>> I do. This is my last meeting with you

447
00:56:10,079 --> 00:56:18,160
all so I'm going to share yeah
>> some of my just what I think. Um,

448
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:21,920
I would be reluctant to have you guys as
volunteers take on project management.

449
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:25,520
That is really significant. And I think
for the reasons that you said, um,

450
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:30,079
you're a volunteer board. You you all
run businesses or are involved in

451
00:56:27,119 --> 00:56:35,200
business in town and your time is not
your time is not free. You know, you're

452
00:56:32,319 --> 00:56:38,799
you're very well valued by the community
doing this work. And I think that

453
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,000
there's a lot of challenges with how
things are happening now. And it could

454
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:46,079
be streamlined. as an example of
something that doesn't affect you but

455
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:50,240
does affect staff is this setup is three
to four hours to put this together and

456
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:53,119
break it down and it's necessary when
you're when you're taking a really big

457
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:56,079
action but you're not it might be
possible to shrink the room down like

458
00:56:54,559 --> 00:57:00,000
you said and have more of a work session
kind of vibe and those are easier to run

459
00:56:57,839 --> 00:57:03,440
and manage anyway from a working
perspective and I think that'd be really

460
00:57:01,359 --> 00:57:07,839
good in my perspective I think the
biggest problem is that Kate kind of

461
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:11,280
existed in a void I think it's hard for
volunteer staff to manage a professional

462
00:57:10,319 --> 00:57:14,880
employee
And I think it's a position that has to

463
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:18,799
be able to work really well under
general supervision and have really

464
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:22,720
clear priorities and workflows and all
those kinds of things. I think that it's

465
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:26,160
kind of a wicked problem because I think
it's it's you know you're all working

466
00:57:24,319 --> 00:57:30,960
she's trying to do things and I think
from her perspective sometimes it was

467
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:34,000
difficult to to prioritize where things
were going and I think that that's

468
00:57:32,319 --> 00:57:38,000
something that could be addressed
through the system too. I do think an

469
00:57:36,079 --> 00:57:40,960
executive director type role, somebody
who can, you know, the admin pieces here

470
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:45,119
are not significant. It's putting the
packet together, communicating well with

471
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:49,280
folks, making sure that somebody who can
write. Um, you know, Kate, one of the

472
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:52,640
things that she was asked to do was to
be a bookkeeper. And I think we all know

473
00:57:51,119 --> 00:57:55,520
that that job is something, you know,
it's not it's not always the easiest for

474
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:58,720
everyone. So, I think having that skill
set, you know, having either an

475
00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:02,000
accountant or once we have a treasurer
again at the town staff, that's a lot

476
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:06,720
easier to manage. But, I think that was
a challenge. And so I think for me what

477
00:58:04,559 --> 00:58:10,640
it really boils down to is how all this
work happens and how it's coordinated.

478
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:14,960
I'll give you an example. The ADA access
to the bridge that was going on two

479
00:58:12,319 --> 00:58:18,240
years ago. Um Kate was tasked with that
project, but really it's on town land

480
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:21,359
and she has no authority to speak on
behalf of the town. Same thing with the

481
00:58:19,839 --> 00:58:25,520
sign project. She just doesn't have that
authority. And so she's trying to work

482
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:28,960
through systems in with people that
already have like established workloads

483
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:33,040
and that there's just not this capacity
to say, "Hey, let's go figure this

484
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:37,920
project out together." And so I'm not
trying to make excuses for anything

485
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:40,319
here. I think that um execution in this
role is the most critical thing. You

486
00:58:39,119 --> 00:58:44,160
needed somebody who can manage projects
and who can manage workloads and do all

487
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:47,839
those things. You know, also when Kate
when I started, Kate was only part-time.

488
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:50,880
And so making that a full-time position,
I think is helpful. But I think when you

489
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:55,680
guys think about what this position is,
and I think um to Chair Dart's point,

490
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:58,640
the key is is that you need somebody who
can execute. And that means two things.

491
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:02,160
You need somebody who's got that kind of
mindset. You need to make sure that this

492
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:05,920
board is giving clear and distinct
direction that is very clear what their

493
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,400
pri priorities and goals are and that
they're aligned to the plan of

494
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:13,680
development which I think is something
that could be improved upon a little bit

495
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:16,559
and that we're just following process. I
think that's the biggest thing is

496
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:20,000
process first and then just respecting
all y'all's time. You know, you're here

497
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:22,960
right now when you could be I mean you
don't have to watch football but you

498
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:26,799
could be watching football or something
like that or eating s'mores or whatever

499
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:30,720
it is that you want to do. And so I just
think maximizing your time and making

500
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:33,839
sure that in your volunteer capacity
you're giving her good direct or this

501
00:59:32,079 --> 00:59:37,760
new person good direction to execute
whether that's one person or two people.

502
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:40,480
I think what I would prioritize is
making sure you have some kind of

503
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:45,599
bookkeeping function that's really
effective and um and good and then you

504
00:59:43,359 --> 00:59:49,440
have either if it's one person or two
you have like some kind of an admin

505
00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:53,200
person but I really think I think that
role could be put together as long as

506
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:56,559
it's structured in the hierarchy right
and I think one thing that could help

507
00:59:54,319 --> 00:59:59,920
that we have talked about is maybe that
person's a town employee I think that

508
00:59:58,319 --> 01:00:04,799
would that would put that person under
the town manager's authority which has

509
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:07,599
its own challenges but um for instance
Cass

510
01:00:05,839 --> 01:00:10,720
interfaces with SAB in a very similar
way to how Kate does, but she reports

511
01:00:09,359 --> 01:00:15,119
through the town structure, which gives
her access to our resources and

512
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:17,680
different things that they need. So,
that's just my thoughts. I think having

513
01:00:16,319 --> 01:00:21,040
this conversation is a really good idea,
though. And figuring out what works

514
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:25,119
best, what's the most agile, I think, is
really the key here. And making sure

515
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:31,240
that that person isn't like, you know,
locked outside of a door that they need

516
01:00:26,559 --> 01:00:31,240
to be inside would be helpful, too.

517
01:00:31,599 --> 01:00:34,920
» Thanks, Jonathan.

518
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:42,720
Yeah, I think you know that's the right
the risks of one person is that it's

519
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:48,720
somewhat I don't want to say it's rare
but um it's a higher level

520
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:53,280
um it's a lot of skills that you the
four kind of distinct bodies of work

521
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:58,160
which is the board administration
the finance administration all of the

522
01:00:55,599 --> 01:01:03,599
programs and communication and I mean to
your point maybe it's not the project

523
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:10,400
management but um there's still
uh you know what I'll call the town town

524
01:01:07,119 --> 01:01:17,119
coordination piece right um and and
communication on that part so um you

525
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:24,319
know a high single person dependency if
that person um can't you know for

526
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:30,799
whatever reason has a medical issue or
um you know has to go away again then

527
01:01:27,839 --> 01:01:36,400
that's a big risk whereas
you know maybe Maybe there's a hybrid

528
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:42,240
model where I I I personally think that
some type of hybrid where it is the a

529
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:45,839
townman
what I'll call higher level project

530
01:01:44,319 --> 01:01:53,440
manager.
Um, and then the the DDA has more of a

531
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:58,400
kind of the board administration
piece and business communication is kind

532
01:01:55,920 --> 01:02:04,640
of what the the person that's dealing
with the day-to-day administrative

533
01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:09,760
burden of the DDA does. Um, as
personally what I think would be

534
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:12,960
helpful, but I I also think this is a c
a conversation we need to kind of

535
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:17,359
continue after. We could talk about this
forever tonight. So, I want to put a put

536
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:21,200
a pin in it and come back to it later.
Maybe it's a a work session, right? I

537
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:25,440
mean, as John brought up, it takes a lot
of time to do this. Sitting down and,

538
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:31,920
you know, patronizing a local business
and having coffee there or whatever um

539
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:36,960
and having a meeting and supporting the
businesses, I think would be a valuable

540
01:02:33,599 --> 01:02:45,200
way to to get a work session done.
Okay. Well, um I think back to the next

541
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:52,720
action item, which is the UMB signing
sheet. So, basically the um the

542
01:02:49,839 --> 01:02:57,760
conversation that I had with the bank
was that they are not at all interested

543
01:02:54,640 --> 01:03:03,040
in managing any type of access. And we
we basically tell them who is removed in

544
01:03:00,799 --> 01:03:07,599
a in a motion. You know, I move to
remove Kate. I move to remove Steve

545
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:12,160
Roundry. Okay. I move to add or I move
to move Ron Mitchell I move to add like

546
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:15,119
that's all the bank wants and then if
that I think there's another

547
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:19,119
conversation where we need to talk
amongst ourselves are we is that

548
01:03:17,359 --> 01:03:24,160
something that anyone was aware of are
we all comfortable with that you know

549
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:31,440
what type of other checks and balances
do we want in place um so that you know

550
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:37,359
one person doesn't end up um you know
doing doing some damage on behalf of the

551
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:43,680
DDA So, I I was able to confirm, you
know, both checking accounts are at

552
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:50,319
UNMB. We've got a money market ending in
um ending in the numbers 89. That's a

553
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:53,319
10-digit account with currently with
1,395,760.

554
01:03:55,039 --> 01:04:03,000
And then there's a checking account, the
last two digits in 62 with $358,92454.

555
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:09,880
So there's a total bank balance of
1.754,68460.

556
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:23,200
and um that doesn't account for what
financial commitments are kind of

557
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:28,240
factored into this budget, previous
approved budget and any upcoming budget.

558
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:36,559
So, um to try to make the proposed
banking changes as simple as they need

559
01:04:30,319 --> 01:04:41,359
to be, um I move to remove
Kate Massingale as a signer on the

560
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:45,839
account.
I I wonder if the best thing to do is to

561
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:51,839
remove the three people that maybe I'll
do it that way. Like that's the best way

562
01:04:48,079 --> 01:04:57,680
to do. Okay. So, I motion to rem I move
to remove Steve Roundtree,

563
01:04:54,960 --> 01:05:00,960
Kate Massingale, and Ron Mitchell as
signers on the MB bank account.

564
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:06,000
» I second.
>> I second.

565
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:12,160
» Okay. Let the record show that um John
Thompson seconded first, but Ron, you

566
01:05:08,319 --> 01:05:15,680
can be the first vote on that.
Yes.

567
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:18,240
» Is yes. And Meg.
>> Yes.

568
01:05:17,039 --> 01:05:21,520
» And Richard.
>> Yes.

569
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:23,039
» And I'm Andrew Dart. And I say yes. And
John Thompson.

570
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:30,000
» Yes.
>> Yes. Okay. And then I

571
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:33,000
authorize or I would I would move to
authorize

572
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:41,680
John Thompson the treasurer,
Richard Brandon, the vice chair, and

573
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:46,480
Andrew Dur, the chair, as signers on the
account.

574
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:51,440
» I second that.
>> And I will call the role. Richard,

575
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:55,920
» yes.
>> And John,

576
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:58,000
» yes. I'm Andrew Durart and I say yes.
And Meg Fox.

577
01:05:57,119 --> 01:06:01,760
» Yes.
>> And Ron Mitchell.

578
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:05,200
» Yes.
>> I heard a yes. It was faint, but I heard

579
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:12,240
it.
>> Okay, Ron, you got a little quiet, but

580
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:18,640
okay. So, for right now, that's all we
need to do with respect to UMB and

581
01:06:15,599 --> 01:06:23,359
dealing with the signing authority. Now
there is another factor kind of a part

582
01:06:21,119 --> 01:06:29,839
of this John Kaine that we need to talk
through which is so town staff currently

583
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:34,960
has the NDA's laptop and you are to my
knowledge working on being able to get

584
01:06:32,079 --> 01:06:38,440
us access to that so we can work on
online banking.

585
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:43,520
» Yeah, I don't know. You're going to need
to reset up the two-factor

586
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:48,079
authentication through UNMB. Okay. But
you'll have it as soon as they remove

587
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:51,440
the town
like the town network.

588
01:06:49,599 --> 01:06:55,839
» So maybe the easiest thing honestly for
us to do since we need to do the

589
01:06:52,880 --> 01:07:00,799
signature cards anyway is that for us to
deal with the signatures the three of us

590
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:06,480
in person need to go down at the same
time and do this. So I don't know if you

591
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:10,000
guys know when a time, you know, rather
sooner than later would be where we

592
01:07:08,319 --> 01:07:15,119
could shoot down to the bank and deal
with the removing. And then at that same

593
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:20,240
time, I could also probably deal with a
re we could reddo the online banking

594
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:25,280
down there at the bank and kind of take
it so that we're not waiting for town to

595
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:30,480
to do that because I think anything we
could, you know, if we were there in

596
01:07:27,599 --> 01:07:34,720
person and we updated this, we could get
back into online banking down there, I

597
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:39,039
believe.
Um,

598
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:42,720
so
just not sure if you know off the top of

599
01:07:40,559 --> 01:07:46,720
your head your schedule.
>> I'm available Monday through Thursday.

600
01:07:45,839 --> 01:07:51,200
» Okay.
>> Is when I'm in town primarily.

601
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:55,680
» What works for me is first thing in the
morning, like be there at 9

602
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:58,079
» and that way I can open the store a
little late and not have to leave in the

603
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,880
middle of the day.
>> I can work around

604
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:04,680
» any day of the week is fine for me. I
can do that in the mornings.

605
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:11,680
» I don't know about tomorrow.
>> Oh, we can't. I got

606
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:16,239
» uh I know.
>> Yeah, I was thinking I I could do that

607
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:19,199
first thing Monday if we wanted to do it
first thing Monday the 14th.

608
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:24,319
» Monday.
>> I'm down Monday at 9:00 am.

609
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:28,120
» Tomorrow came a little too quick.
>> Thank you. Thank you.

610
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:37,759
» So, Can I add just a little bit to this?
It's something that you were what you

611
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:42,400
were talking about before and I never um
I totally agree with what Ron said

612
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:47,199
earlier about maybe having meetings
twice a month and I think that's one

613
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:52,480
part that we've had a high turnover with
board members but I think due to the

614
01:08:50,159 --> 01:08:57,199
lack of involvement I think it's like
when I was in college and one semester I

615
01:08:55,279 --> 01:09:00,400
made all my classes on Tuesday Thursday
but then I realized if I missed either

616
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:06,080
one of those days I hadn't been to
school in a week and I flunked out that

617
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:09,600
semester just because of my lack of
>> I think it would be a really good idea.

618
01:09:07,679 --> 01:09:13,440
I think we should do a work meeting and
try to plan that tonight. We'll have to

619
01:09:12,239 --> 01:09:17,920
get the approval of the people that
aren't here. But I mean, just to throw

620
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:22,400
something out there at least
to have us all meet to get past this

621
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:24,799
kind of
>> Yeah.

622
01:09:22,799 --> 01:09:28,319
» big lump that we're swallowing.
>> Yeah.

623
01:09:25,279 --> 01:09:31,839
» I'm happy also to be more involved in
this. I, you know, showing up one month

624
01:09:30,239 --> 01:09:36,000
once a month and just kind of commenting
on what's going on. I'm more than happy

625
01:09:33,679 --> 01:09:40,960
to be hands-on with something like
you're saying, getting the medics

626
01:09:38,159 --> 01:09:45,040
together or, you know, give give
different people different jobs and it

627
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:49,520
gets them more involved. I think that
might help keep the members more.

628
01:09:47,199 --> 01:09:54,320
» Yeah, I I agree.
Um, I mean, I I think having a work

629
01:09:52,319 --> 01:10:00,880
session,
you know, in on the times between, you

630
01:09:57,679 --> 01:10:04,640
know, may if it's we're talking
maybe not every week or every other

631
01:10:02,480 --> 01:10:09,679
week, just a lunch or a, you know,
because I honestly I'm in town most of

632
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:15,760
the time. Um, and especially, you know,
that Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am

633
01:10:13,199 --> 01:10:20,239
till 2 pm. I mean, I'm generally around
working in my office and it's super easy

634
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:24,560
to, you know, go out and meet for for
coffee or for for lunch and have a work

635
01:10:22,719 --> 01:10:29,920
session. Um, I don't know if there's
days or times that work better. I mean,

636
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:33,840
I think collectively if the the four of
us or five of us with Ron on the phone

637
01:10:32,239 --> 01:10:37,600
said, you know what, yeah, you know,
Tuesdays or Thursdays or whatever the

638
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:40,320
days are, Wednesday, I don't know, Meg,
what what is kind of what's your

639
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:48,480
schedule?
>> Um, I could do mornings uh or most

640
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:54,320
afternoons other than Thursdays.
>> Okay. Um, so Thursday's not good for

641
01:10:51,440 --> 01:10:58,080
you. So,
um, and I know Mondays are kind of can

642
01:10:56,480 --> 01:11:02,480
always be a Monday. So, it looks like
maybe Tuesdays are Yeah,

643
01:11:00,159 --> 01:11:05,840
» this is not I'm I'm just noting this is
not really the agenda item that we're

644
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,400
on. And this conversation wasn't
noticed, right?

645
01:11:06,719 --> 01:11:10,080
» And you're talking about further
meetings of this board that are

646
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,400
official.
>> Yeah,

647
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:15,840
» I might stick a pin in this and bring it
back for another conversation. And you

648
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:18,000
can also um
>> I just think it might be better from a

649
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,239
transparency perspective.
>> That's that's fair. Totally totally get

650
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:24,239
it. Um,
>> thank you, John.

651
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:28,640
» Yeah, thank you, John. I think it's yeah
this is uh because there's so much to go

652
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:36,239
over it's sometimes it's hard not to
dive into it right so okay well back to

653
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:42,719
the real agenda
tonight um so we dealt with the signing

654
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:46,960
and then the next is going to be um I
think that was all of the action items

655
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:51,520
and now we're on the discussion item
which the I guess I'm going to let Cass

656
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:55,120
I'll stop talking Cass do you want want
to introduce the pilot commercial

657
01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:58,080
composting program grant match.
>> Yeah, definitely.

658
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:02,320
» Thank you.
>> Um, hi everyone. My name is Cass. I'm

659
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:08,640
the sustainability coordinator for the
town. Um, thank you for letting me bring

660
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:14,239
this to you tonight. Uh, so I have been
preparing an application for um the

661
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:20,159
circular economy fund, which is a grant
that is run by Boulder County each year.

662
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:26,880
And so the grant application that I've
been preparing is an eight-month pilot

663
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:32,239
program um for commercial composting. So
that's for Netherland uh restaurants or

664
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:37,440
food establishments and organizations. I
include organizations just um because of

665
01:12:34,719 --> 01:12:41,199
the food pantry and their their um
possible participation in this. Um so

666
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:45,040
this is something that has come up
before with the board of trustees with

667
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:48,640
the zero waste subcommittee. This is
actually born out of the zero waste

668
01:12:46,719 --> 01:12:52,960
subcommittee which is a subcommittee of
the sustainability advisory board. Um

669
01:12:51,120 --> 01:13:01,040
and so we've been working on this kind
of in the background for a bit and I

670
01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:07,600
have done a lot of uh work to contact uh
business owners who might be interested

671
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:13,520
in participating in this um program. But
really this comes about now because we

672
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:17,679
have an in vessel composting unit um at
the transfer station that you might know

673
01:13:15,199 --> 01:13:26,320
about if you've been up there. Um and
that in vessel unit can take up to 600

674
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:30,960
lb of food waste per day. And it creates
compost in about 21 days and then

675
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:34,719
there's a 30-day curing period. But it's
been pretty regularly creating compost

676
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:41,920
and they haven't had many issues for the
last few months. Um, and this has been

677
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:46,000
around for about a year now. Um, so this
unit is really great. It's working

678
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:52,560
great. Um, and we just want to take
advantage of the fact that restaurants

679
01:13:48,719 --> 01:14:00,159
create most of the food waste um, in the
town. And it would be um, a lot of

680
01:13:56,239 --> 01:14:03,760
contribution to the vessel compared to,
you know, individual households

681
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:11,600
collecting com collecting food waste for
compost. Um and so with that, this uh

682
01:14:08,159 --> 01:14:17,280
AIM has a lot of information um project
descriptions um such that I will include

683
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:22,719
in the grant application and I'm happy
to answer any questions on that. Um but

684
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:31,520
really the reason I'm bringing it to you
um is because we are hoping uh to ask

685
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:37,760
for a match um for this project. So, the
grant itself does not require a match,

686
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:44,000
but they do um encourage matching funds.
They also uh only have $50,000 each year

687
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:48,480
to give out, which is not that much. Um
if you have five projects each asking

688
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:53,280
for $10,000, that's only five that you
can fund. And so, they usually choose

689
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:59,520
one larger project, one that's, you
know, between 15 to $20,000 to fund. Um,

690
01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:06,159
if you look at the bottom of the AIM, I
have a table that kind of outlines some

691
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:10,400
of the materials. Um, the table has
since changed slightly. Uh, just in

692
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:15,199
terms of we're not going to do stickers
anymore. We're going to do stencils cuz

693
01:15:12,159 --> 01:15:20,480
we can get spray paint for free. Um, and
then the buckets that we're going to use

694
01:15:17,679 --> 01:15:24,719
are actually need to have a screw lid,
so they're going to be slightly more

695
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:32,640
expensive. Um, so this budget has
changed a bit. Um, but the ask for you

696
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:38,400
all is still um a $4,000 match or up to
a $4,000 match. Um, and that again

697
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:45,920
depending on the total project expenses
would be between a 15 to 20% um match

698
01:15:42,239 --> 01:15:53,440
for this uh for the overall um expenses
for this pro project. Um

699
01:15:49,199 --> 01:15:58,080
so with that I just want to say um the
businesses that I've talked to that um

700
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:05,679
are very interested in participating um
are Net General uh the food pantry and

701
01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:09,679
the Caribou Room. And then I'm also
talking with Mountain People's Co-op and

702
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:13,840
Buucy Brews. And we're not excluding
anyone else. I just haven't really been

703
01:16:11,199 --> 01:16:18,400
able to get in touch with like other um
business owners. Um, I've tried going by

704
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:21,760
and emailing and that sort of thing, but
you know, people are very busy,

705
01:16:19,679 --> 01:16:25,360
especially in the summer. Um, we also
can't take all of the businesses right

706
01:16:23,679 --> 01:16:29,840
away. That's why it's a pilot program
because it can only accept 600 pounds of

707
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:35,679
food, and I don't know how much food
waste each restaurant is creating. So, a

708
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:41,840
lot. Exactly. So we want to start
smaller um with like three to four

709
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:48,800
restaurants, serve food establishments
um and then kind of go from there. So um

710
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:53,520
after the pilot program, we would try
and institute some kind of subscription

711
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:58,080
model where um businesses could pay
money to have us collect their food

712
01:16:56,320 --> 01:17:03,360
waste um or have a contractor collect
their food waste and bring it up to the

713
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:08,239
transfer station. Um however that you
know financial component has been worked

714
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:13,280
out. Um yet we want to make sure that
it's cheaper than you know paying for

715
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:17,360
trash uh for for these businesses. We
don't want to create like we don't want

716
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:22,320
to create more of a financial strain on
them. Um so we want to make it easier in

717
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:28,080
that sense. Um but that's why this is a
pilot. So after the pilot it would not

718
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:36,159
uh necessarily keep going unless we
worked out some kind of model there. Um,

719
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:42,560
yeah. So, I will stop now and just see
if there's any questions, discussion.

720
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:47,760
» Um, so you I think I heard you say, "Oh,
yeah, go ahead, Ron."

721
01:17:45,199 --> 01:17:52,480
» Um, okay. Yeah, I want to start by
saying I have two composting machines

722
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:57,440
that have been resting on my property
now for 11 years that belong to the

723
01:17:54,960 --> 01:18:02,000
county that I hope you could uh take a
look at these and incorporate them into

724
01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:07,440
your program. Second thing I like to say
is that I think if rather than hiring a

725
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:13,840
contractor, if you just paid the gas for
the restaurants to uh uh take their uh

726
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:18,400
food waste, uh they would gladly do it.
I would be willing to work with you on

727
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:22,560
that with the restaurants that I own. Uh
because that would save them on their

728
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:26,640
trash bill and a reimbursement for their
gas to take it there. And I think that'd

729
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:34,880
be the quickest and simplest way to do
it. Uh I did this exact thing several

730
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:39,920
years ago. Uh we uh uh raised five pigs
with the garbage from about six

731
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:43,360
restaurants for one year. And I did all
the leg work myself. It was just too

732
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:48,719
much for me, but it was a lot of fun.
And then we had a great big pig roast uh

733
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:53,679
at the end and also we butchered the
pigs and and parcled it out. The meat

734
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:58,400
from uh that kind of thing cannot be
sold but everybody got a share of that

735
01:18:55,920 --> 01:19:03,320
to have at their own home parties. So
those are my two contributions to this

736
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,320
discussion.

737
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:07,000
» Thanks Ron.

738
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,640
Um,

739
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:18,880
so it sounds from what you were saying,
there's no set grant amount at this

740
01:19:17,679 --> 01:19:22,560
point.
>> Um, we have an estimate of how much

741
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:25,440
we're asking for.
>> And how how much was that? Is that's the

742
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:30,239
23 at the bottom?
>> Uh, yes. So, it's a little bit less than

743
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:36,560
that now. It's about um we're so we're
saying the total project budget is

744
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:40,880
20,000 if we provide um incind funds of
my time and then also um matching funds.

745
01:19:40,480 --> 01:19:46,560
Okay.
>> Um we would be asking for about 13,000

746
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:53,400
or about $14,000.
Um and if you don't provide the match

747
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:53,400
then it would be about $18,000.

748
01:19:55,280 --> 01:20:04,560
uh what would become of the eventual
compost? So, right now they're offering

749
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:09,760
it for free to the community and I
believe the uh community gardens that

750
01:20:07,440 --> 01:20:14,800
are run by the food pantry are utilizing
some of that. We'd want to make sure

751
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:19,679
like that um that is being facilitated.
Um but they don't actually test the

752
01:20:17,440 --> 01:20:23,199
compost so they can't sell it for
anything right now. That would involve

753
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:28,640
another conversation with the county.
Um, but yeah, it's it's being taken. Um,

754
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:31,840
and when I go by sometimes there isn't
any because it's all been taken, so I

755
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,679
think it's pretty popular.
>> Is that the pile at the transfer

756
01:20:33,199 --> 01:20:37,120
station?
>> Yes. Yeah.

757
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:41,760
» Okay. I saw another pile of compost um
near the wastewater plant. Is that

758
01:20:39,199 --> 01:20:45,360
» we we bring back compost from A1
Organics. that's also free, but it's a

759
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:49,199
different It's kind of funny that we
have two programs, but what we do is we

760
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:53,360
haul our own bioolids down there to to
A1 and then we bring back that compost

761
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:55,280
as well. So, it's just another source.
>> Yeah. Cool. Love it.

762
01:20:54,239 --> 01:20:58,480
» But also free,
>> but that's not something that we

763
01:20:56,560 --> 01:21:06,199
necessarily offer to the community just
at any time. Um, but it is there's

764
01:21:02,159 --> 01:21:06,199
potential for that as well.

765
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:16,880
» Um, yeah, I think so.
I

766
01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:21,040
I've had some conversations with um some
of the business owners, restaurant

767
01:21:18,239 --> 01:21:26,159
owners on First Street as well. And I
know we've talked about like um a

768
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:31,440
sanitation district and you know knowing
that you like there's overflowing

769
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:35,520
dumpsters and I know we're just talking
about compost right now but I I would

770
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:41,679
like to you know support this with the
hope that there's a better way to deal

771
01:21:39,199 --> 01:21:46,400
with all of the trash throughout town
trash and recycling you know within the

772
01:21:43,679 --> 01:21:52,560
district because you know at various
times you'll see someone blocked the

773
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:56,000
container Or there's a dumpster by
Catmandeue that's overflowing and

774
01:21:54,159 --> 01:22:00,639
there's trash everywhere. Or there's the
one by beauty. Same thing, you know, or

775
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:04,960
covered wagon and it's just like, okay,
there's there's got to be a better way.

776
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:08,560
Um, and in talking with the business
owners, like, you know, everyone's just

777
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:13,600
kind of used to doing what they're
doing. And at night when it's snowing

778
01:22:11,199 --> 01:22:18,000
and you've got, you know, one person
closing or maybe there's two people, but

779
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:22,960
what it's if it's one person, you know,
it's like, well, you got to walk, you

780
01:22:20,239 --> 01:22:26,800
know, now 700 yards over there. So, I
think being able to do something where

781
01:22:24,480 --> 01:22:31,440
you're we're starting like a system of
picking things up, you know, and maybe

782
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:35,120
it's a daily I don't know exactly. I
know I'm kind of like talking bigger now

783
01:22:33,199 --> 01:22:39,600
about the whole sanitation thing beyond
just compost. But if it's like trash,

784
01:22:37,679 --> 01:22:44,800
compost, and recycling where we're
figuring out a way to pick that up from

785
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:51,600
the businesses and make it so that we're
not asking someone to walk, you know, in

786
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:56,560
dangerous conditions or bad weather, I
think people would be all for this. So,

787
01:22:54,320 --> 01:23:01,520
you know, I think that's I guess my some
of the kind of nitty-g gritties is with

788
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:07,040
like who owns and titles ensures the
actual trailer itself.

789
01:23:04,239 --> 01:23:13,040
» Um, I believe it would be the town.
>> That's correct. Okay. And town town

790
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:17,840
truck would pull the said trailer.
>> So, we're um going to hire a contractor

791
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:21,440
if we go through with this grant because
um but they they are required to have

792
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:24,960
insurance. That's part of like um being
a hauler in Boulder County, being a

793
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:30,880
licensed hauler is having insurance and
paying the fee being to be licensed.

794
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:35,040
» Um and that's only because I've tried uh
or I've talked with park the parks

795
01:23:32,639 --> 01:23:39,120
department who did um a composting
program back in during COVID, I was

796
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:44,320
told. Yeah. And um they said that they
were picking up from each individual

797
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:50,239
business and it was a nightmare. um they
she used much other language as well

798
01:23:48,159 --> 01:23:57,360
about the situation and it sounded like
it was really awful for them. Um and so

799
01:23:53,040 --> 01:24:02,080
I am hoping that a hauler who is used to
um hauling trash, not our park staff who

800
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:06,080
have a lot of other things going on um
would you know be able to handle this

801
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:09,840
better. Also, if the restaurants are
having to bring their buckets to one

802
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:12,960
central location rather than trying to
figure out logistics of how do we get it

803
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:16,719
from the back of house from each of
these restaurants, um it might

804
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:20,560
streamline it a bit more. This is just
the program that I came up with after

805
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:24,880
having a lot of conversations with
business owners on how why they stopped

806
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:27,120
composting and like what worked and what
hasn't.

807
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:31,360
» Yeah, I'd love to look into the county
thing because I have like a dumpster

808
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:35,040
hauler and multiple dumpsters and trucks
that haul. So, I would need to get I

809
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:39,280
need to probably get my if there's an
endorsement from Boulder County that I

810
01:24:36,639 --> 01:24:44,000
need um I need to work on that because
I'm not familiar with that, but I am

811
01:24:41,199 --> 01:24:48,639
familiar with, you know, rolloffs and
picking up and moving dumpsters and the

812
01:24:46,159 --> 01:24:52,159
trucks and all the places to take them.
Um

813
01:24:50,239 --> 01:24:59,280
so, would love to would love to learn
more about this and support this. Um any

814
01:24:55,920 --> 01:25:04,000
I guess any other questions for guests?
>> No, I just love composting. I'm really

815
01:25:01,199 --> 01:25:09,360
excited about this.
>> Yeah. So, I think what I would need then

816
01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:15,840
um is just a letter of support um signed
by Andrew indicating that the NDDDA um

817
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:20,800
if you all do um support this uh
indicating that you would be willing to

818
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:25,520
provide matching funds of up to $4,000.
And that's really just to cover the cost

819
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:29,040
of the trailer. Um so if the trailer is
less then it would be less.

820
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:32,880
» I could draft something and send it to
you if you want. And then you could do

821
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:36,320
» I mean I think do we do because I know
we're talking about budgeting and we

822
01:25:34,239 --> 01:25:39,360
this isn't necessarily in the budget yet
so we'd have to defer it but we could at

823
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:45,280
least get on the same page about a
letter tonight. So, I guess would the,

824
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:55,440
you know, if I were to make a motion to
um have the DDA support the letter that

825
01:25:48,560 --> 01:26:01,360
John Kaine would draft for uh the um
pilot commercial composting program of

826
01:25:58,239 --> 01:26:05,760
up to and not to exceed $4,000. Would I
get a second? Is that that motion sound

827
01:26:04,239 --> 01:26:11,120
correct?
I'd go I'd let you go further, Andrew,

828
01:26:07,679 --> 01:26:18,960
and just move to appropriate 4,000.
>> Okay. So, the I have a motion to

829
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:25,040
appropriate 4,000 for the trailer. Um I
know there's some budgeting things that

830
01:26:22,239 --> 01:26:30,320
we need to talk about, I guess. John,
what are your thoughts on the way

831
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:34,320
» because I I'm not exactly sure
>> the guideline.

832
01:26:31,679 --> 01:26:39,920
» Well, Ron, I think there's a guideline.
That's I I understand. Um I just as far

833
01:26:37,199 --> 01:26:45,760
as like where those funds would come out
of right now, if it's the 2026 budget or

834
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:48,560
the 2027 budget, I'm not sure what we're
talking about.

835
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:51,840
» The the grant wouldn't be awarded until
like Yeah, we wouldn't be able to use

836
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:55,840
the funds until March and it probably
wouldn't be awarded till December or

837
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:58,639
January.
>> I think we just are talking about a

838
01:26:57,280 --> 01:27:02,239
letter at this point because really
that's all we can do because we don't

839
01:27:00,239 --> 01:27:05,520
have a budget that's approved by the BO
yet. Yeah, we could structure it. I

840
01:27:04,159 --> 01:27:12,239
guess Cass, tell me what you think about
this. We could structure it to say the

841
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:16,639
DEDA would like to support with X amount
in our like so the language would say we

842
01:27:14,719 --> 01:27:21,679
want to support this project at this
amount in our 2027 budget

843
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:24,000
» and then that's not making a promise.
It's just saying that's what we're

844
01:27:22,719 --> 01:27:26,560
intending to do. Yeah.
>> Is that

845
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:30,400
» I think that works. I have something
drafted um that I can change the

846
01:27:28,719 --> 01:27:34,080
language to match that.
>> Okay. Do you want to do you want to just

847
01:27:32,639 --> 01:27:35,920
work on like get it to where you feel
comfortable with and we can figure that

848
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:39,920
out for
>> Yeah. And I I'll send it to you to

849
01:27:37,440 --> 01:27:45,760
review before we send it over to Andrew.
>> And I think if I basically I make a

850
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:49,760
motion that we're in support of the um
$4,000

851
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:54,000
we're in the support of $4,000 to the
compost program at this meeting and

852
01:27:52,239 --> 01:27:58,480
signing a letter to that effect for the
2027 budget.

853
01:27:56,560 --> 01:28:00,880
» Yeah,
>> I second that.

854
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:07,760
» Okay.
Um, so we have a motion to support 4,000

855
01:28:04,719 --> 01:28:14,880
with $4,000 the pilot commercial
composting program in the 2027 budget.

856
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:16,239
And um, I had a second. So Meg, your
vote.

857
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:19,840
» Heck yes.
>> Okay, Meg is yes. I'm Andrew Durton.

858
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:23,040
Yes.
>> John Thompson, yes.

859
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:26,080
» Right. Richard,
>> yes.

860
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:29,920
» And Ron, I think you voted yes. Do you
want to vote again?

861
01:28:28,480 --> 01:28:33,520
» No, I don't want to vote twice. just
wants in the G.

862
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:36,560
» Okay. Yes. Okay. Got it.
Thank you.

863
01:28:34,239 --> 01:28:39,520
» Thank you.
>> And great.

864
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:43,040
» Yeah.
>> Okay.

865
01:28:41,040 --> 01:28:47,520
Um,
next

866
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:51,760
we've got a,
you know, I realized I might have

867
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:57,920
forgotten to call for public comment on
discussion items. I don't know if um, I

868
01:28:56,480 --> 01:29:00,639
should do that now. I just wanted to
acknowledge that I might have forgot to

869
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:02,960
do that.
>> Maybe just give people an opportunity if

870
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:09,600
they want to
>> raise or if there's any anyone online

871
01:29:05,840 --> 01:29:12,920
that wants to comment on this or or
anything else.

872
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:24,080
» Are we still um going to hear Kate's
resignation letter also or

873
01:29:22,239 --> 01:29:28,000
» I mean I kind of read it. I mean do you
want to did I read it all in its

874
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:35,560
entirety? No, just the top part.
>> Okay, I can read the whole letter.

875
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:35,560
Um,

876
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:56,480
okay. Um, I'm going to read the letter
from Kate that we received. So, dear

877
01:29:54,400 --> 01:30:00,800
NDDA board members, please accept this
as formal notification that I'm

878
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:05,600
resigning from my position as executive
director of the NDDA. My last day with

879
01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:10,719
the organization will be Monday, August
31st, 2026.

880
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:15,679
Then in bold reflection and next steps.
Serving my community with the NDA has

881
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:19,040
been a privilege. I am proud of the work
we did to better situate the

882
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:23,520
organization.
I am ready to move forward and use my

883
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:28,880
skills in a new way in the community.
and embark on a new adventure. I have

884
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:34,320
submitted my application for appointment
to the board of trustees and must resign

885
01:30:31,199 --> 01:30:39,280
so that there is no conflict of interest
and in transition support bold. I will

886
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:44,239
work closely with the town leadership
before I leave. I am fully committed to

887
01:30:42,159 --> 01:30:50,000
squaring away all open tasks and
projects. I want to ensure a smooth

888
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:54,480
handover. Thank you for your work and
time during my tenure as director. I

889
01:30:52,400 --> 01:31:01,880
appreciate your service. I look forward
to continuing to serve our community in

890
01:30:56,560 --> 01:31:01,880
this next chapter. Best, Kate.

891
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:14,480
Was the Kate's resignation in full?
Um,

892
01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:23,040
okay. Seeing no other public comment,
um we've got the next information item

893
01:31:20,239 --> 01:31:32,480
uh or I'm sorry, discussion item is a
legal services transition and engagement

894
01:31:26,480 --> 01:31:39,440
of possibly Bare Peak Law. Um, so there
is an attorney named Nick Larson who has

895
01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:45,920
a firm called Bear Peak Law, but he has
sent a letter of um his bio. So I'm

896
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:50,639
going to Sorry guys, I have a big packet
that I'm trying to get

897
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:54,880
get this to.
Um, so we're kind of discussing whether

898
01:31:52,480 --> 01:31:59,760
the NDDA should engage outside council
to advise the board and review important

899
01:31:57,440 --> 01:32:04,320
legal, governance, financial,
contractual, and project documents. If

900
01:32:02,480 --> 01:32:08,719
the board concludes that the proposed
engagement is ready for approval, this

901
01:32:06,719 --> 01:32:14,480
discussion item may proceed to possible
action. So the background, the NDDA is

902
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:20,320
working through an administrative and
financial transition while continuing

903
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:25,280
projects that may require legal review.
Outside counsel can help the board

904
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:30,639
identify legal risk, confirm statutory
and procedural requirements, and review

905
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:36,960
the documents before the NDDDA signs,
approves, or relies upon them. Nicholas

906
01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:43,199
Larson submitted an NDDA specific
engagement letter proposing Bear Peak

907
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:48,560
Law PLLC as primary counsel with Paul C.
Benadeti serving as co-consel.

908
01:32:46,239 --> 01:32:52,560
Both attorneys are expected to discuss
their experience, proposed roles,

909
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:59,120
availability, and approach with the
board. Potential areas for outside

910
01:32:55,840 --> 01:33:04,560
council review, board governance,
bylaws, statutory compliance, open

911
01:33:02,480 --> 01:33:08,000
meetings, public records, and meeting
procedures,

912
01:33:06,159 --> 01:33:11,920
intergovernmental agreements,
development agreements, contracts,

913
01:33:10,239 --> 01:33:15,920
procurement documents, and other
commitments.

914
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:20,480
Tax increment financing, financial
documents, banking authorities, real

915
01:33:18,159 --> 01:33:25,040
property, infrastructure, parking,
streetscapes, and public improvement

916
01:33:22,239 --> 01:33:29,840
matters. Implementation of the plan of
development, project closeout, document

917
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:34,159
retention, file transfer, and
coordination with town staff or other

918
01:33:32,480 --> 01:33:43,520
council.
That is the background of tonight's um

919
01:33:39,440 --> 01:33:51,280
aim. And so the proposed engagement
terms engagement letter from Nick

920
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:57,199
proposes $500 an hour as primary counsel
and Paul C. Benadetti as co- counsel. Um

921
01:33:55,440 --> 01:34:01,600
there they would each be build at 500
per hour in tenth of an hour increments

922
01:33:59,199 --> 01:34:06,880
through consolidated monthly services.
The proposed scope excludes bond

923
01:34:04,239 --> 01:34:11,760
counsel, disclosure counsel, special tax
counsel, and litigation unless

924
01:34:08,639 --> 01:34:15,760
separately agreed. The engagement letter
should control if this memo and the

925
01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:20,560
letter differ.
Um the discussion questions, does the

926
01:34:18,239 --> 01:34:26,960
proposed scope cover the documents and
matters the NDA expects outside council

927
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:30,639
to review? Are the proposed roles of
Nicholas Larson and Paul Benedetti

928
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:36,520
clear?
Um,

929
01:34:32,560 --> 01:34:36,520
see here, sorry.

930
01:34:37,679 --> 01:34:43,679
Um,
then

931
01:34:42,080 --> 01:34:49,679
does the board want a written spending
cap, prior approval threshold or cost

932
01:34:46,480 --> 01:34:54,000
control direction? Is the board prepared
to act at this meeting or should it give

933
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:58,080
direction and return the engagement for
later action?

934
01:34:55,920 --> 01:35:01,520
So, possible action after discussion and
public comment, the board may approve

935
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:08,320
the engagement, approve it with stated
conditions, direct revisions, or defer

936
01:35:04,159 --> 01:35:13,840
action. And there's a suggested motion,
I think. Um, so that's all kind of on

937
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:19,920
the paper, but what's important, I know
Ron probably has the longest experience

938
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:25,360
with Paul Benadetti. I've met and talked
with Paul a few times. I've talked with

939
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:30,560
Nick, I think once or twice. um some of
the reasons in fact I'm just texting him

940
01:35:28,239 --> 01:35:35,440
because I know they both these guys
wanted to have the opportunity to talk

941
01:35:32,239 --> 01:35:41,600
and answer any questions but I think
what you know if the DDA is is continues

942
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:45,760
to exist which I hope it does I
certainly believe that there have been

943
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:49,600
many times where I've you know had a
conversation with town staff and heard

944
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:55,840
something like well that's really a
question for the DDA attorney so I don't

945
01:35:52,719 --> 01:36:00,480
I don't in my mind. The question isn't
do we need does the DDA need an

946
01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:05,040
attorney? Um I believe there's lots of
reasons some of which we've dealt with

947
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:11,280
recently regarding some advice on
contracts and wayfinding and then

948
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:17,440
questions about governance. Um I think
the question is who who you know why

949
01:36:14,239 --> 01:36:22,000
Nick and Paul um if if we are going to
have an attorney. I talked to the town

950
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:26,639
attorney recently tonight and I asked
her what her opinion was and you know

951
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:35,360
she said she really didn't have any
background. Um she had another uh

952
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:39,679
another attorney um that you know she
was going to kick a name. In fact, it

953
01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:43,840
just came in. I haven't had a chance to
do anything other than look at that.

954
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:48,800
Jennifer Manson sent me the name of
someone that if I John am I able to

955
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:54,560
forward something to the entire board
with open records law or how do I how

956
01:36:51,520 --> 01:37:00,320
can I do that or do I need to send
everybody the bio individually?

957
01:36:57,920 --> 01:37:04,800
» Um you can do that. I it's a good
practice if you do that you want to put

958
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:06,080
we usually typically would say do not
reply all.

959
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:09,280
» Do not reply all
>> because you don't want to have any kind

960
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:15,119
of threaded conversation just between
you and them. I don't know if I know or

961
01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:20,239
have ever sent like a you know the the
email to the entire board because I

962
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:24,719
don't have access you know it's like
Kate would do it and she would send it

963
01:37:22,480 --> 01:37:27,760
to a email address where it would go to
the entire

964
01:37:25,199 --> 01:37:31,679
» there's a distribution an NDDDA
distribution that sends it to that list

965
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:35,840
and I could share that address with you.
It's I think it's just NDDDACO.org

966
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:41,920
but I will double check.
>> Okay. um because I'm happy to share this

967
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:48,239
other bio with um with everyone just
because I I I haven't had a chance to

968
01:37:44,239 --> 01:37:53,440
look at it. Um so just know that this
isn't you know there's other there's

969
01:37:50,320 --> 01:38:00,239
other people out there now Paul Benadeti
is is an older gentleman. Um Ron are you

970
01:37:56,719 --> 01:38:04,480
can you hear me? Yes, I can. Clearly,
>> can you can you give us kind of I you

971
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:09,840
probably have more experience and
knowledge of Paul and his you know his

972
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:16,000
forte and things that he's worked on
over the years and what he kind of some

973
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:19,760
of the things that he can bring to Nick.
Can you share with the board your

974
01:38:17,679 --> 01:38:25,520
experience?
>> Sure. Um I really um admire Paul

975
01:38:24,159 --> 01:38:33,119
Benedetta. He's been a wonderful
attorney. uh he was instrumental in uh

976
01:38:29,440 --> 01:38:39,360
trying to get the DDA law established.
Uh it kind of got hacked up politically

977
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:46,960
from what the um people who were uh
profering it uh wanted. Uh so that left

978
01:38:43,199 --> 01:38:55,280
some gaps between state law and how the
uh DDA should function. So, he's been a

979
01:38:50,719 --> 01:39:02,719
master at getting DDA and town boards to
work together. Uh, I think he's in his

980
01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:09,760
late 80s and he's taking on this other
law firm to replace him and as long as

981
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:15,280
he stays reasonably with the thing, I
think this is probably the uh type of

982
01:39:13,119 --> 01:39:20,880
representation we should continue to
have. Uh there were a couple of things

983
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:26,639
there that bothered me in that uh it uh
a contract with them and their letter of

984
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:31,600
engagement would not include litigation,
which would mean we'd have to have a

985
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:36,639
problem that we might work through and
then be faced with litigation. We never

986
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:40,880
have, but there have been several DDAs
that have been in quite a bit of

987
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:46,800
litigation.
There's only 13 DDAs left out of 33 that

988
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:53,360
started. uh and the reason is they were
too successful. So uh the uh when they

989
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:59,440
ended why the amount of money that they
had was needed desperately by the uh

990
01:39:57,280 --> 01:40:04,639
entities who forego it with the tax
incre incremental financing. I think we

991
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:11,679
only have seven or eight years left in
our life as a DDA and we still can do

992
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:18,320
some projects with it. Uh I'm a little
concerned that the fee has gone up from

993
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:24,960
300 or maybe was 350 to 500, but
everything's gone up. Uh I don't I would

994
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:29,440
prefer to stay with Paul Benedetti
rather than having someone else even

995
01:40:26,639 --> 01:40:35,920
though he's taking a secondary row
because he will be advising the younger

996
01:40:32,719 --> 01:40:39,440
attorney and breaking him into the
knowing the ropes of how DDA should

997
01:40:38,159 --> 01:40:46,239
function.
So I think at this point my only caution

998
01:40:42,719 --> 01:40:51,679
is that uh the limited amount their
scope is a little bit more limited than

999
01:40:48,719 --> 01:40:56,960
I would like to see it based on the
proposal and I didn't it went by quite

1000
01:40:53,679 --> 01:41:01,600
fast but I don't think there's anybody
that could do a better job. That's the

1001
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:08,880
bottom line.
>> Okay. um that and primarily Ron was I

1002
01:41:06,159 --> 01:41:14,320
think talking about Paul and I think
Nick you know one of the things that in

1003
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:20,960
my conversation you know brief
conversations that I've had with Nick is

1004
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:27,679
that he has a lot of experience in kind
of development and projects and how

1005
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:34,960
public and private partnerships can work
and strategies to um

1006
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:40,480
you know I mean in my opinion there's a
lot of work to do in Netherland and I

1007
01:41:37,679 --> 01:41:45,119
don't exactly necessarily have the you
know know exactly how it works with town

1008
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:49,520
and public and private partnerships in
the DDA but I know that's a probably a

1009
01:41:47,840 --> 01:41:55,360
perfect fit for getting some really
sound legal counsel and strategies for

1010
01:41:52,080 --> 01:41:59,760
how to do things. So, I've asked Nick
and Paul to be able to jump on and

1011
01:41:57,840 --> 01:42:04,639
answer if there's specific questions.
And I think bringing up at least Ron,

1012
01:42:01,600 --> 01:42:08,639
your question about um you know, the
litigation, why why are we excluding

1013
01:42:07,119 --> 01:42:13,920
litigation
is is valuable. Um you know, the the

1014
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:18,480
rates, I don't know if there's any room
there, you know, for if there's a

1015
01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:23,760
certain um exceeding
number of hours like we get we get a

1016
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:28,880
break there. Um, I get it if it's just a
few hours a year, which, you know, I I

1017
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:36,560
wouldn't expect to try and beat somebody
up on, you know, four hours a year, but

1018
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:42,480
I think that would be um my question is,
uh, you know, why why have we excluded

1019
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:46,800
litigation? And maybe he's got there's a
great reason for that. Um,

1020
01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:51,760
» Richard or
>> Well, I think the reason is simple. Um,

1021
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:57,440
I don't think either one of these
attorneys are litigators,

1022
01:42:53,600 --> 01:43:00,080
» right? That that and that could be that,
>> Magg.

1023
01:42:57,920 --> 01:43:05,920
» Yeah. So, just for clarity, that means
we don't currently have an attorney.

1024
01:43:02,639 --> 01:43:11,280
» Well, we Paul Benadetti has been our
attorney for the many years. He has

1025
01:43:08,639 --> 01:43:16,080
attempted to get a re-engagement letter
signed for the last, I think, 18 months

1026
01:43:14,239 --> 01:43:22,800
and been sending it to our former
executive director and it never came to

1027
01:43:18,719 --> 01:43:25,600
us and was not resigned.
>> So, he's not been working with us for 18

1028
01:43:25,119 --> 01:43:29,920
months.
>> He Well, when we pick up the phone and

1029
01:43:28,159 --> 01:43:33,920
say, "Hey, we we need your help on
this." He has been there.

1030
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:38,480
» Oh, okay. Um, and he, you know, offered
to help various things, but he made it

1031
01:43:36,080 --> 01:43:43,440
clear like, hey, I've been waiting for
you guys to tell me what's going on.

1032
01:43:41,119 --> 01:43:49,760
» So, I think, you know, tonight we we owe
it at least to make a decision of, you

1033
01:43:46,159 --> 01:43:54,560
know, um, what's going on or you some
some followup there. And there's Nick.

1034
01:43:52,239 --> 01:43:58,159
Hey, Nick. Joining us.
>> Hey, everyone. How are you?

1035
01:43:56,080 --> 01:44:02,320
» Hi there. Um, we were still going
around.

1036
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:06,400
I we can we can hear you fine. Um we
were still just going around the room to

1037
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:11,199
a couple more board members. Um myself
and Ron and Meg have talked, but John

1038
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:15,920
and Richard, I wanted to give you guys a
chance to talk before we give the any

1039
01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:20,480
questions to Nick.
>> Uh I generally Yeah, I totally support

1040
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:24,480
outside
council kind of helping us through these

1041
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:29,520
stages. I certainly don't know enough
about the feasibility and financials of

1042
01:44:27,199 --> 01:44:34,480
larger developments. um at at at a
higher level and

1043
01:44:31,679 --> 01:44:40,639
would love to learn from that experience
to help help us understand

1044
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:45,840
the size of these projects. Um and I
think their advice would be invaluable.

1045
01:44:44,080 --> 01:44:51,920
» Um
I was curious about uh the approval

1046
01:44:48,480 --> 01:44:55,040
threshold or the spending cap. I'm not
imagine there should be something like

1047
01:44:53,040 --> 01:45:00,080
that, but I have no idea what that would
be. I don't know. Jonathan, you might

1048
01:44:57,280 --> 01:45:04,480
know like with the town finance policy,
is there something set up like spending

1049
01:45:01,840 --> 01:45:11,520
caps and uh anything like that that we
need to follow as locally?

1050
01:45:07,760 --> 01:45:15,119
It's uh in uh it's a good question. We
do have a purchase policy. We have an a

1051
01:45:13,679 --> 01:45:20,320
procurement policy that's within that
purchase policy. You are a quasi

1052
01:45:18,159 --> 01:45:25,040
governmental entity, which means that
you have statutory authority outside of

1053
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:29,840
the town. So, you're appointed by the
town, but you're not really the town.

1054
01:45:27,440 --> 01:45:33,280
» Um, I think it's a best practice to
follow procurement policy in a case like

1055
01:45:31,679 --> 01:45:35,840
this and to do those kinds of things.
It's good for transparency. It's good

1056
01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:40,480
for all of that,
>> but I think um that's a decision of this

1057
01:45:39,119 --> 01:45:44,639
board about how you'd want to proceed
with that. We could if you want to take

1058
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:48,800
the time to do it like I could share the
policy um with chair dart or something

1059
01:45:47,119 --> 01:45:53,440
to that effect and we could do it that
way like through a procurement but um it

1060
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:58,440
would just be the time required to do it
is really the trade-off there.

1061
01:45:55,440 --> 01:45:58,440
» Okay,

1062
01:45:58,639 --> 01:46:04,639
good good questions.
>> Well, I'm all for it. Especially if he's

1063
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:08,480
been working with us all this time
anyway. I kind of assume we were using

1064
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:11,840
Musl's
lawyer.

1065
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:15,920
» Yeah. But yeah, definitely
>> I do think that that is a con that's an

1066
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:19,920
extenduating factor here that there's
this existing previous

1067
01:46:17,119 --> 01:46:24,639
» there's a relationship. Yeah. Um, so
Nick, I think one thing that would be

1068
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:28,400
helpful for the board to hear, we've
talked about, I guess, a couple of

1069
01:46:26,320 --> 01:46:35,280
things in discussion, which is one maybe
can you speak to in your um engagement

1070
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:41,280
letter the proposed scope excluded
um you know various councils, bond

1071
01:46:38,480 --> 01:46:45,520
council, disclosure council, special tax
council, and litigation unless

1072
01:46:43,199 --> 01:46:49,520
separately agreed. Are those things that
you put as exclusions because you would

1073
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:52,880
say, you know what, those aren't my
those aren't my specialties and I I

1074
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:57,840
really would refer you to someone else
or is that you would try and you know,

1075
01:46:55,760 --> 01:47:02,320
we would look at separate agreements for
those.

1076
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:08,960
» Um, as much as I would love to be a
one-stop shop, um, that is a full breath

1077
01:47:05,440 --> 01:47:15,119
of subject matter expertise, right? Um
so setting aside litigation for um for a

1078
01:47:12,719 --> 01:47:19,840
second, the other expertise that you
just laid out, bond counsel,

1079
01:47:16,480 --> 01:47:26,719
underwriting council, tax council
in the in the uh in the realm of of DDAs

1080
01:47:24,480 --> 01:47:30,960
and bond finance and and you know
raising tax increment finance, those

1081
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:36,320
council would really think they would
all come in in like one specific

1082
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:42,000
circumstance and that would be if the
authority decided that they wanted to

1083
01:47:38,239 --> 01:47:47,760
pledge future tax increment to support a
bond issuance so you can basically make

1084
01:47:44,480 --> 01:47:52,000
dollars available today to fund future
infrastructure. And the way that that

1085
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:57,040
bond process works is you typically have
an investment banker. So it's typically

1086
01:47:54,560 --> 01:48:00,960
DA Davidson or it's Piper Sandler who's
sort of the maestro of the operation. Um

1087
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:05,040
and they're leading the charge and
there's a whole list of vendors that

1088
01:48:02,639 --> 01:48:09,600
support that bond issuance. So there's
kind of a a local mafia in Colorado of

1089
01:48:07,600 --> 01:48:13,199
like the usual suspects that appear on
those settlement statements. So you

1090
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:17,760
typically have bond counsel, you have
underwriter counsel, disclosure counsel,

1091
01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:23,360
you might have PIFF councils. They're
very specific niches. Um and you would

1092
01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:30,960
go to those firms that specialize and do
nothing but like that very finite um

1093
01:48:28,239 --> 01:48:33,440
service if that makes sense. So that's
>> if we went down that road, I would have

1094
01:48:33,119 --> 01:48:37,119
yeah
>> other council doing that.

1095
01:48:35,440 --> 01:48:40,719
» Yeah, you named everything I guess, but
you took the litigation out. So maybe

1096
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:45,840
that question, what about litigation,
right? Is that something that you just

1097
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:49,040
feel like isn't a specialty as well?
>> Yeah, I mean, you know, in full

1098
01:48:47,600 --> 01:48:54,400
disclosure, so I used to be a federal
prosecutor uh before I transitioned into

1099
01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:59,600
real estate. I was I was an Army JAG
officer and I did um um like criminal

1100
01:48:57,920 --> 01:49:03,679
prosecutions
um yeah in the federal government but

1101
01:49:02,080 --> 01:49:07,679
that was sort of a different life ago. I
I don't have any experience doing civil

1102
01:49:05,280 --> 01:49:11,360
litigation. I have a good track record
in most of my real estate transactions.

1103
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:16,159
The, you know, the cheese doesn't slide
off the cracker uh too often. But in the

1104
01:49:14,639 --> 01:49:20,239
in the rare event that you would have a
civil litigation matter or an employment

1105
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:24,480
law litigation matter, yeah, I would
have other council come in and and

1106
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:28,000
advise on those again on those very
specific questions.

1107
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:34,800
» Got it. Okay.
Um, and then you know I think one other

1108
01:49:32,560 --> 01:49:38,800
you had we talked a bit briefly
yesterday and you kind of I wonder if

1109
01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:45,360
you'd be able to give the rest of the
board you know some examples of you know

1110
01:49:42,480 --> 01:49:50,159
how you've been able to work with other
you know towns and jurisdictions and not

1111
01:49:48,560 --> 01:49:56,400
necessarily disclosing anything you
can't disclose and just you know types

1112
01:49:52,400 --> 01:50:01,760
of um situations where you know seeing
kind of where where Netherland is at,

1113
01:49:58,239 --> 01:50:08,080
what um and you know where Netherland
potentially could be going, how you

1114
01:50:03,679 --> 01:50:13,840
might be able to help help with that.
>> Sure. Um

1115
01:50:10,639 --> 01:50:19,280
so I suppose I wear two hats. Um I, you
know, as I shared with with Andrew

1116
01:50:15,679 --> 01:50:22,480
yesterday, um you know, my main job, so
to speak, like during the day, I'm I'm a

1117
01:50:21,040 --> 01:50:26,560
transaction real estate lawyer. I was
with Brownstein High at Farber Shrek as

1118
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:32,239
a shareholder for the last uh almost
seven years and then recently went out

1119
01:50:28,719 --> 01:50:36,719
on my own have you know most of those
clients that I um represented was at

1120
01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:41,119
Brownstein I I continue to represent
them now. So these range from private

1121
01:50:38,800 --> 01:50:47,040
equity firms you know very large public
sort of name brand homebuilders uh very

1122
01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:51,040
large master plan developers that we set
up these master plan communities around

1123
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:56,320
the country. Uh, I'm I'm also a
developer. Um, I ventured into

1124
01:50:54,239 --> 01:51:01,040
development because I had a pretty hefty
case of imposttor syndrome. You know,

1125
01:50:58,320 --> 01:51:06,239
here I am as a quote unquote dirt lawyer
uh representing these big public REITs

1126
01:51:03,440 --> 01:51:09,920
uh and venture funds doing u big master
plan communities. I'm drafting these

1127
01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:13,280
contracts and realizing that some of
these finer points about like cloers,

1128
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:18,159
you know, conditional letter of map
provisions and like the fine nuances of

1129
01:51:16,480 --> 01:51:22,159
um some of the land use provisions, I
was like, man, I don't know if I really

1130
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:26,400
know this. Uh, I certainly don't want to
represent that to the client, but I I

1131
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:31,119
feel like I need to walk the walk of a
developer and experience that deal

1132
01:51:28,719 --> 01:51:34,639
stress to like truly understand and
appreciate

1133
01:51:32,800 --> 01:51:40,560
what goes through the client's mind so
that I can be like of better value as an

1134
01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:46,000
adviser. Uh and so that was you know
five or six years ago and we got into

1135
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:50,400
industrial started doing like you know
pad vertical developments and then

1136
01:51:48,080 --> 01:51:54,000
quickly got into horizontal because you
kind of you know in the word of Samzel

1137
01:51:52,480 --> 01:52:00,080
you control your destiny when you own
the land. Uh and then that got me into

1138
01:51:56,719 --> 01:52:03,920
the world of municipal bond finance. Um
and through that through that

1139
01:52:02,400 --> 01:52:09,920
transformation
I've had this just wonderful

1140
01:52:07,280 --> 01:52:14,880
five to six years of of like first chair
experience working with and against

1141
01:52:12,719 --> 01:52:19,119
municipalities. So these are you know
states, counties, cities uh and

1142
01:52:17,599 --> 01:52:24,719
political subdivisions of the state
including you know title 32 special

1143
01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:29,360
districts to DDAs. And I think the thing
I came away from most is you know

1144
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:33,920
democracy is best expressed on the local
level and it is messy and people come to

1145
01:52:31,920 --> 01:52:36,480
boards like all of you. I mean you were
doing this really out of the goodness of

1146
01:52:35,199 --> 01:52:42,080
your heart because you care about
Netherland. Um and you bring a diverse

1147
01:52:39,440 --> 01:52:47,840
array of experiences and perspectives
but a lot of the times like this is very

1148
01:52:44,239 --> 01:52:54,400
specialized stuff that you may not know
a lot about and you're giving it your

1149
01:52:49,840 --> 01:53:02,000
best shot. Um, and I find that the best
way to advise boards or work with boards

1150
01:52:58,159 --> 01:53:07,280
when I'm a developer is to take complex
concepts and distill it into plain

1151
01:53:04,159 --> 01:53:11,840
speak. I feel like a lot of experts
I I don't know if it's by design or

1152
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:16,800
otherwise, but kind of stay up high in
these like complex notions. And a lot of

1153
01:53:13,679 --> 01:53:21,599
this stuff does kind of boil down to,
you know, dare I say common sense. So,

1154
01:53:19,679 --> 01:53:27,760
as sort of a a roundabout way of
answering your question, um that I think

1155
01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:33,280
my time as a developer has helped me
translate

1156
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:36,679
um very bespoke development terms into
plain speak.

1157
01:53:38,320 --> 01:53:45,199
» No, thank you. That um I think that
helps.

1158
01:53:43,360 --> 01:53:51,199
I appreciate your explanation. I don't
know if um any of the other board has

1159
01:53:47,520 --> 01:53:54,199
any clarifying questions or follow-up
questions.

1160
01:53:54,960 --> 01:54:02,239
No.
Okay.

1161
01:53:58,480 --> 01:54:07,119
Um I think you know there was a Ron
noted he's on the phone call Nick he's

1162
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:11,520
not in this room but he noted that the
rate previous rate had gone up but he

1163
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:17,760
also noted you know everything's gone up
in the last few years. Um is there a

1164
01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:25,280
situation where you know and we haven't
as a board discussed kind of like a a

1165
01:54:20,639 --> 01:54:31,520
ceiling or a cap um and
you know knowing that in the last

1166
01:54:28,880 --> 01:54:38,880
um you know two years that I my to my
knowledge and I guess recently I think

1167
01:54:35,760 --> 01:54:43,360
I' I've talked to Paul and yourself you
know a short amount on um for maybe a

1168
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:47,679
total of an hour and a
you know, combined with Kate uh about

1169
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:54,719
various things. So,
>> I don't know if we know historically if

1170
01:54:50,560 --> 01:54:58,480
we can share, you know, what Paul um or
you know, both you and Paul in the last

1171
01:54:56,639 --> 01:55:04,880
year. I think we're talking, you know,
it's been under five hours total. Um

1172
01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:08,880
» it's it's somewhat dimminimous. Yes,
>> it's Yeah, it's it's small. So, we're

1173
01:55:06,719 --> 01:55:13,760
not we're not talking about, you know,
you spending hours a week uh advising.

1174
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:16,800
You know, hopefully we're just trying to
still get our feet under us. But I think

1175
01:55:16,080 --> 01:55:21,920
» right
>> for me it's important to have a

1176
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:29,119
relationship and have counsel that we
can call if something comes up. Um, and

1177
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:33,840
I think for for right now, um, you know,
I just want to kind of look at this

1178
01:55:31,360 --> 01:55:39,119
engagement letter and just see, you
know, if for whatever reason the board

1179
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:43,760
later decided, what is your per uh, do
you have provision for termination? Is

1180
01:55:41,520 --> 01:55:48,159
there like do we have the ability to
terminate at any time? Not that we

1181
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:52,719
would. I'm just wondering.
>> Yes. Yeah. The answer is yes. I mean, I

1182
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:58,000
I work at your uh at your pleasure,
right? And so at any time you can say,

1183
01:55:54,480 --> 01:56:01,440
you know what, vendor attorney, we uh no
longer need your services. And then

1184
01:55:59,360 --> 01:56:07,199
there's certain ethical obligations that
trigger, you know, from the state uh bar

1185
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:12,400
where I have to return all client files,
um all emails. There's yeah, it's it's a

1186
01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:17,520
pretty
quick exit should you ever want to

1187
01:56:14,800 --> 01:56:20,080
exercise that. And it's a unilateral
decision. I mean, it is the client's

1188
01:56:19,119 --> 01:56:27,280
decision.
>> Yeah. Okay.

1189
01:56:22,800 --> 01:56:35,040
Um, any other questions for Nick or
Paul?

1190
01:56:30,159 --> 01:56:41,040
Well, um, I mean, this is our last
action item and I'd entertain

1191
01:56:38,960 --> 01:56:46,080
a motion.
Um,

1192
01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:51,760
so, in fact, I'm going to move it. I I
move to engage Bear Peak Law PLLC as

1193
01:56:48,800 --> 01:56:56,880
outside counsel to the NDDDA with
Nicholas J. Larson as primary counsel

1194
01:56:53,920 --> 01:57:01,440
and Paul C. Benadetti as co-consel under
the September 9th, 2026 engagement

1195
01:56:59,280 --> 01:57:05,599
letter at the rates and on the terms
stated in that letter and to authorize

1196
01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:10,000
the chair to execute the engagement
letter on behalf of the NDDA.

1197
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:14,960
» I second the motion.
>> Okay, I'll call the role. Richard,

1198
01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:16,560
» yes.
John,

1199
01:57:15,679 --> 01:57:20,800
» yes.
>> And I'm Andrew and I say yes. And Meg,

1200
01:57:20,080 --> 01:57:23,920
» yes.
>> And Ron,

1201
01:57:22,880 --> 01:57:28,560
» yes.
>> Okay, the motion's unanimous.

1202
01:57:26,639 --> 01:57:34,400
Thank you, Nick, for making the time to
jump jump on and we'll get this signed

1203
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:38,719
and um engagement letter back to you.
>> Okay. Well, thank you all. It's such a a

1204
01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:42,159
pleasure and um an honor and I look
forward to working with you. I mean, I'm

1205
01:57:40,159 --> 01:57:47,199
a Boulder County resident and I grew up
here, uh, you know, on the east side of

1206
01:57:44,639 --> 01:57:51,280
of the of the Flat Irons, but I I grew
up here as a kid. I grew up skiing at

1207
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:54,960
Eldora. Um, in fact, my law firm, Bare
Peak Law, is I don't know how many of

1208
01:57:52,719 --> 01:58:00,000
you are familiar with South Boulder, but
the um the second highest um flat iron

1209
01:57:58,239 --> 01:58:02,800
is is Bare Peak, and I grew up at the
base of it. So, that was the name of my

1210
01:58:01,199 --> 01:58:06,239
law firm. You can almost see it from
Barker, but not quite.

1211
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:09,599
» Nice. Awesome.
>> So, it's a real pleasure, but I look

1212
01:58:08,320 --> 01:58:11,360
forward to this. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much.

1213
01:58:10,480 --> 01:58:15,080
» Thank you everyone.
>> Yeah, appreciate it.

1214
01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:21,360
» Okay.
Uh well, I don't I kind of we're we're

1215
01:58:19,199 --> 01:58:26,000
close to the end here. Home stretch. Um
do you guys want to take a two-minute

1216
01:58:23,199 --> 01:58:31,080
bathroom break? Okay, we're going to
take a bathroom break. Thank you.

1217
01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:06,360
Oops.

1218
02:02:43,599 --> 02:02:46,080
It's good for working my knees. knees
though.

1219
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:50,400
» Yeah.
>> Yeah. I sit in that stupid stool and I

1220
02:02:48,239 --> 02:02:58,000
just can't bend my knees enough for my
new I got surgery on both of them.

1221
02:02:53,679 --> 02:03:02,119
Slowly but surely they're getting there.
So, how much how much of a

1222
02:03:17,119 --> 02:03:24,760
How big of a grant are we going to have
to give you to keep you? Again, joking.

1223
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:24,760
These are jokes.

1224
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:32,199
» It's a great move.

1225
02:04:36,400 --> 02:04:43,360
Okay, it's 8 o'clock. We're gonna call
the meeting back to order.

1226
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:48,639
John, do I need to turn on any
microphones over there?

1227
02:04:45,840 --> 02:04:53,760
Okay.
Um, so we're moving I guess before was

1228
02:04:52,239 --> 02:05:03,719
there any I don't know if I need to call
for comment again. Um, any other public

1229
02:04:56,800 --> 02:05:03,719
comment on any of the action items?

1230
02:05:05,840 --> 02:05:12,960
We don't see any hands.
So, okay, we're going to move into

1231
02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:21,199
theformational
items. Um, the chair report. I mean, I

1232
02:05:17,119 --> 02:05:24,560
think the chair report really is
um

1233
02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:28,480
the
a lot of the things that we've been

1234
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:32,800
talking about, right? Um the
organizational

1235
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:38,159
governments. Um we got through
our the

1236
02:05:34,880 --> 02:05:43,920
other business. Um,
I

1237
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:49,840
I think that, you know, us reflecting on
the the opportunities we have to look at

1238
02:05:47,119 --> 02:05:56,320
our own organization and how we work
with um the BO. Incidentally, if nobody

1239
02:05:54,159 --> 02:06:02,080
is aware of it in this on this board, I
was I um put my application in and was

1240
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:08,000
elected to the BO. So, I'd like to, you
know, feel like I can be a better

1241
02:06:04,320 --> 02:06:12,320
conduit as a liaison. Not to, you know,
not if Chris Larson is, of course, if he

1242
02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:18,719
loves to do it and wants to do it, I'm
all for him to continue doing it. But,

1243
02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:25,360
um, I I suspect or my thoughts were that
he just kind of stepped in because Tanya

1244
02:06:20,800 --> 02:06:30,000
didn't want to do it. So, um I feel that
one of the things that I've seen in my

1245
02:06:27,679 --> 02:06:34,719
time is that there could be a greater
integration

1246
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:38,000
um of the DDA and the BO. And I know
there's the question of like, well,

1247
02:06:36,159 --> 02:06:42,560
isn't that just duplicate? Isn't, you
know, why do that? Why just have one

1248
02:06:40,560 --> 02:06:47,520
organization? And I think there's, you
know, some that's a that's a valid

1249
02:06:45,040 --> 02:06:53,119
question to to answer. But I I do
believe that there's actually more funds

1250
02:06:49,360 --> 02:06:58,880
available and there is more energy and
more collaboration that can happen with

1251
02:06:55,199 --> 02:07:02,800
having a DDA. Um because I think to like
some of the things that Nick brought up,

1252
02:07:00,639 --> 02:07:08,400
there's a lot of different ways that a
DDA can work to help unlock funds that

1253
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:16,880
town wouldn't otherwise be able to get.
So, um I think you know really we've got

1254
02:07:14,960 --> 02:07:23,280
um an interim structure that we've got
to evaluate over the next coming couple

1255
02:07:20,000 --> 02:07:28,239
of months as we figure out what um you
know whether we have a director and what

1256
02:07:24,800 --> 02:07:32,079
the functions are. We've got um stuff
that we're working on tonight which is

1257
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:37,440
the concerns you know the owners the
missing facts. I'm not trying to force

1258
02:07:34,239 --> 02:07:40,800
any permanent model decision. Um, within
the next 30 days, I think the goal I

1259
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:45,679
would like to see is that we have like a
transition dashboard and I've kind of

1260
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:50,079
been working on that. I shared some of
it with Richard and with John Kaine, but

1261
02:07:48,159 --> 02:07:55,119
I'm happy to share it with the board of
like, hey, there's some concrete like we

1262
02:07:52,159 --> 02:08:00,159
need access to systems to verify, for
example, the former executive director's

1263
02:07:57,920 --> 02:08:05,199
payroll, like financial housekeeping
stuff that that needs to be dealt with.

1264
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:09,679
um systems inventory and then kind of
start building a handbook. Um because if

1265
02:08:07,840 --> 02:08:14,159
there is another if it were to continue
like it was and we hire a new ED to my

1266
02:08:12,480 --> 02:08:18,639
knowledge there's not and there hasn't
ever been really like a handbook or a

1267
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:24,000
manual for this is how you do things and
I think um that's something that that I

1268
02:08:20,560 --> 02:08:28,960
can help work on creating. Um but then
also talking this through amongst

1269
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:32,880
ourselves and with the B. So,
um, I don't want to kind of ramble on

1270
02:08:30,880 --> 02:08:39,520
too long other than it's exciting.
There's a lot of work to do. Um, and

1271
02:08:36,800 --> 02:08:44,000
yeah, that's I think the chair report.
I'm excited and there's a lot of work to

1272
02:08:40,960 --> 02:08:49,599
do. Um, to sum it up as concisely as I
can. And now for the treasure report.

1273
02:08:47,920 --> 02:08:53,599
Um, I don't know, John, if you have
anything in particular.

1274
02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:58,880
» Nothing really. I was just going to say
to the best of my knowledge, Kate tidied

1275
02:08:55,679 --> 02:09:04,400
up pretty well before she her departure.
>> We'll know more after our

1276
02:09:02,159 --> 02:09:06,960
uh we get more direct access to the
accounts.

1277
02:09:05,599 --> 02:09:13,440
» So, that'll be good.
>> Yep. One day. Okay. Um

1278
02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:15,360
» I have a comment for the treasurer.
>> Yes, Ron.

1279
02:09:14,400 --> 02:09:23,119
» Andrew.
>> Yes. um the that we have money on a CD

1280
02:09:18,800 --> 02:09:28,800
at UMB and uh you should look into when
it matures uh and whether or not

1281
02:09:26,239 --> 02:09:34,480
» I can tell you we do not have a CD
anymore. We have a money market.

1282
02:09:32,400 --> 02:09:41,760
We have two accounts at UNMB. There's a
money market and there's an operating

1283
02:09:37,040 --> 02:09:50,599
account. And the um
money market has

1284
02:09:45,199 --> 02:09:50,599
currently as of this afternoon 1,395,760

1285
02:09:53,679 --> 02:09:58,840
and the checking account has
$358,924.554.

1286
02:10:01,040 --> 02:10:09,440
Um, so there's obviously commitments
against those, which is why we're trying

1287
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:17,440
to reconcile what is written on this
treasurer report versus what is actually

1288
02:10:13,520 --> 02:10:20,960
um in the showing in the account. So
that's some work that we've got to do

1289
02:10:18,880 --> 02:10:26,480
over the next month. Um, but I think a
lot of this we can when we have access

1290
02:10:23,599 --> 02:10:31,280
to the laptop and are looking back
through kind of the resolutions and the

1291
02:10:28,960 --> 02:10:36,000
funding and working with Mandy, who is
the the temporary um accountant that

1292
02:10:34,320 --> 02:10:40,480
we've engaged to help do this, although
she hasn't been able to do a lot just

1293
02:10:37,679 --> 02:10:45,199
yet, but that's that's where we're at
with kind of the the purse right now.

1294
02:10:43,840 --> 02:10:50,159
» Okay. Thank you.
>> Yep.

1295
02:10:46,719 --> 02:10:54,719
Um, okay. Town staff report.
Well, everyone, um, this is my last

1296
02:10:52,800 --> 02:10:58,480
meeting with you. Um, I want to
appreciate all the work y'all do. You do

1297
02:10:56,639 --> 02:11:02,560
great things. I'm excited to see what
the future of this work is. I think

1298
02:11:00,719 --> 02:11:04,800
we've come a long way. And I think one
of the things I've been really thinking

1299
02:11:03,440 --> 02:11:08,719
about is how hard is to see the forest
of the trees sometimes. But in the two

1300
02:11:07,119 --> 02:11:13,280
years that I've been here, although
there's new challenges facing my DDA,

1301
02:11:10,639 --> 02:11:17,840
we've we've overcome a lot of things. um
new bylaws, newou for operations,

1302
02:11:16,480 --> 02:11:21,760
thinking through how you work with the
board of trustees. I think a lot of that

1303
02:11:19,840 --> 02:11:25,760
work can continue to grow and be
stronger. But I just am so honored I've

1304
02:11:24,800 --> 02:11:28,880
been a part of the work that you guys
have done. I think it's worth doing.

1305
02:11:27,599 --> 02:11:33,679
You're doing something that's valuable
for Netherland. I just appreciate that.

1306
02:11:30,960 --> 02:11:38,079
In terms of town work, we are just about
to kick off 2027 budget process. That's

1307
02:11:36,320 --> 02:11:41,760
a big one for us and for you. It's
something that we need to get done by

1308
02:11:39,360 --> 02:11:44,639
December 15th. And so there's some work
that needs to be dedicated to that

1309
02:11:43,119 --> 02:11:47,840
moving forward. And one of the things
that I think we're going to need to make

1310
02:11:45,920 --> 02:11:50,960
sure that you guys have some resources
to spend time on just so you can get

1311
02:11:49,199 --> 02:11:55,760
your budget where it needs to be and the
town can do that as well. Um other work

1312
02:11:53,520 --> 02:11:59,760
that's happening right now is really
focused on Big Springs egress and trying

1313
02:11:58,239 --> 02:12:03,599
to get that to a point where it can come
back into the public for a conversation.

1314
02:12:01,840 --> 02:12:07,679
Uh we're relatively close to that which
is really good. And then we're also

1315
02:12:05,679 --> 02:12:11,280
working on the SMS project which is the
initial part of the crosswalks sidewalk

1316
02:12:09,920 --> 02:12:15,119
work. So it basically puts new
crosswalks across the highway at the

1317
02:12:13,280 --> 02:12:18,639
library, the museum and the visitors
center. It installs new sidewalk

1318
02:12:17,199 --> 02:12:22,400
essentially from Tungsten Village
through to the museum. And then some

1319
02:12:21,040 --> 02:12:26,560
little minor improvements like
throughout that that kind of workflow.

1320
02:12:24,800 --> 02:12:30,800
There's another kind of sister project
to that called the TIPS project and that

1321
02:12:28,639 --> 02:12:37,040
builds sidewalks and reds first street
from the highway to the west side over

1322
02:12:34,480 --> 02:12:40,719
towards the RTD lot. And that project
we're just waiting on a couple of things

1323
02:12:38,880 --> 02:12:45,760
to kind of finalize and get that project
out to bid. So those projects are coming

1324
02:12:43,040 --> 02:12:48,719
along. Other projects um that are
happening. I think the big one for the

1325
02:12:47,040 --> 02:12:52,480
board besides the budget is the
strategic plan. That one's been working

1326
02:12:50,880 --> 02:12:56,480
for some time, but they're going to see
a relatively close to final version of

1327
02:12:54,320 --> 02:13:00,719
it at their meeting on Tuesday. That
does include some work planning for the

1328
02:12:58,239 --> 02:13:04,560
DDA kind of based on the sub area plan,
which is your plan of development. That

1329
02:13:02,880 --> 02:13:09,599
is kind of the work, you know, the
document that should be guiding your

1330
02:13:05,840 --> 02:13:13,040
work as a DDA. Um, the board at our last
meeting was going to look at a letter

1331
02:13:11,199 --> 02:13:16,560
that they had asked for that's going to
go out to businesses to ask folks what

1332
02:13:15,040 --> 02:13:20,800
they think of the DDA and how they think
the DDA should act and kind of what it

1333
02:13:18,639 --> 02:13:24,960
should be doing. Um, I think that's an
important part of the conversation that

1334
02:13:22,639 --> 02:13:28,880
trust or that I'm sorry, um, Chair Dart
was alluding to with the BOT, like

1335
02:13:27,280 --> 02:13:33,360
thinking through what the DDA looks like
in the future. Um, we're hoping to get

1336
02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:36,800
direction on that letter on Tuesday.
It's possible,

1337
02:13:35,440 --> 02:13:39,360
excuse me, they'll need to wait till the
first meeting in October for them to be

1338
02:13:38,320 --> 02:13:43,360
able to look at it just because it's a
really packed agenda. But, um, that's

1339
02:13:41,760 --> 02:13:45,840
the goal is to get that feedback so that
they can start working through that

1340
02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:49,280
process. And I think they want to work
with you guys on that, too. One of their

1341
02:13:47,760 --> 02:13:52,960
big goals in the strategic plan is to
tighten the coordination between the

1342
02:13:50,800 --> 02:13:59,760
advisory boards and the other boards. So
that would be um the DDA, PROSAB, SAB uh

1343
02:13:57,840 --> 02:14:03,280
and planning commission most
specifically, although BZA is another

1344
02:14:01,520 --> 02:14:06,400
board that they have and make sure that
that's all aligned and working together.

1345
02:14:05,119 --> 02:14:09,280
So everybody's kind of pulling the same
wagon there. And I think that's a really

1346
02:14:07,920 --> 02:14:13,199
important thing that would help
everybody be more effective in all these

1347
02:14:10,880 --> 02:14:18,239
strategy pieces. So they're working on
that. On the town side, we are going

1348
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:22,480
through a little bit of a administrative
makeover. As you know, my position is

1349
02:14:20,079 --> 02:14:26,800
changing. Miranda Fischer, who was the
town administrator before me, is going

1350
02:14:24,800 --> 02:14:31,679
to come back in an interim role. She'll
be here right when I leave, which is

1351
02:14:28,960 --> 02:14:35,599
I'll be leaving August or October or
we're in September, September 24th. So,

1352
02:14:34,000 --> 02:14:38,960
she'll be here on the 25th, and she'll
kind of take on an interim role. She's

1353
02:14:37,520 --> 02:14:42,400
allowed to stay in that role for up to
nine months. and so she can kind of help

1354
02:14:41,119 --> 02:14:48,000
transition the town and I think it's a
really good thing for staff just because

1355
02:14:44,239 --> 02:14:50,880
she knows them. Um they've developed a
lot in the last two years. So I think

1356
02:14:49,599 --> 02:14:54,000
it's going to be a learning experience
for her and for them. But having

1357
02:14:52,480 --> 02:14:58,239
somebody who knows generally how we do
things and kind of what the policy is is

1358
02:14:56,079 --> 02:15:01,199
a really good thing for us right now. Um
there's a couple other staff positions

1359
02:14:59,760 --> 02:15:04,000
that are likely to change. We've had
some folks retire and we're kind of

1360
02:15:02,639 --> 02:15:08,159
working through some of that. One of the
big ones is Rita 6. She was the town

1361
02:15:06,159 --> 02:15:12,079
treasurer. We went through a recruitment
to fill her position and we were not

1362
02:15:09,920 --> 02:15:15,440
able to find a suitable candidate that
was going to work for the town. So, we

1363
02:15:13,920 --> 02:15:18,079
will be opening that position again.
That's something Miranda will do once

1364
02:15:16,639 --> 02:15:21,119
she gets her feet under her to try to
get that position filled. In the

1365
02:15:19,840 --> 02:15:26,000
meantime, we're working with a group
called Plant Moran, their uh contract

1366
02:15:23,280 --> 02:15:28,960
finance position essentially. And
they'll be helping us with the budget

1367
02:15:27,280 --> 02:15:32,719
and kind of some of the highest and best
uses for their time. And then our staff

1368
02:15:31,360 --> 02:15:37,440
will be kind of handling some of the
day-to-day finance duties as we have.

1369
02:15:35,440 --> 02:15:40,560
And then I think um there's a couple
other really cool things happening. We

1370
02:15:38,639 --> 02:15:44,239
have a new community center manager. His
name's Armando. If you haven't met him

1371
02:15:42,079 --> 02:15:48,560
yet, he is doing great work over here.
He's been auditing systems and trying

1372
02:15:46,239 --> 02:15:51,360
to, you know, um clean out some spaces
and keep the work that Don was doing

1373
02:15:50,079 --> 02:15:55,760
going. And they're doing a really good
job here. Um kind of doing that work.

1374
02:15:54,239 --> 02:15:59,360
And then across the town, we're just
kind of finishing up our summer

1375
02:15:56,880 --> 02:16:03,840
maintenance plan. That includes covert
work, especially in Oldtown and up in

1376
02:16:01,599 --> 02:16:07,360
Big Springs and off Navajo and those
places just to make sure that they're

1377
02:16:05,199 --> 02:16:11,840
cleared. We are about to do a pilot
project on a couple of roads in town,

1378
02:16:10,000 --> 02:16:16,400
some of our steeper roads. It's with a
product called Permazy. Um, and what it

1379
02:16:14,480 --> 02:16:20,480
is is an environmentally friendly
alternative to salt. A lot of times salt

1380
02:16:18,719 --> 02:16:25,280
has a couple uses in road work. One is
to keep ice from forming on roads, but

1381
02:16:23,280 --> 02:16:29,520
also some communities use it in their
road mixes and the dirt because it glues

1382
02:16:27,360 --> 02:16:33,040
the dirt together. Netherland doesn't do
that, which is great, but our roads fall

1383
02:16:31,199 --> 02:16:36,479
apart every single time they get wet now
because of that. And so this Permazy

1384
02:16:34,880 --> 02:16:40,000
product has been used in Europe and a
couple other places for years, and it's

1385
02:16:38,719 --> 02:16:43,760
environmentally friendly. It doesn't
have the same impacts that salt has on

1386
02:16:41,519 --> 02:16:47,760
the environment. So the board approved a
little pilot project to do three miles

1387
02:16:45,359 --> 02:16:51,120
of road out of our 16 approximately 16
milesi of dirt road to see how it

1388
02:16:49,439 --> 02:16:54,960
performs and in theory it only needs to
be applied every 10 years and it should

1389
02:16:53,120 --> 02:16:58,319
stabilize our our roads a little bit
which will save our budget and make it

1390
02:16:56,559 --> 02:17:02,080
easier for our our road crews to
maintain those roads. So that's going to

1391
02:17:00,559 --> 02:17:05,679
be happening very soon. And then I guess
the other big thing on summer

1392
02:17:03,120 --> 02:17:09,679
maintenance, we we have undertaken a big
job of sewer inspection. So we're

1393
02:17:07,920 --> 02:17:13,599
inspecting a third of our system every
year. It's a pretty big system. Um, so

1394
02:17:12,240 --> 02:17:17,120
we did that work this year. We're
exercising valves, which is another big

1395
02:17:15,200 --> 02:17:20,080
job for water wastewater where they're
just making sure, you know, some of our

1396
02:17:18,639 --> 02:17:22,399
valves are buried under dirt just on
some of our older pipes. They go in

1397
02:17:21,280 --> 02:17:26,240
there, make sure everything's working
good. Um, doing hydrant maintenance. And

1398
02:17:24,880 --> 02:17:29,760
we're about to start transitioning
towards fall activities, which is, you

1399
02:17:28,240 --> 02:17:33,920
know, shop- based maintenance work,
getting the plow trucks ready for

1400
02:17:31,359 --> 02:17:38,240
winter. Um, the water wastewater teams
kind of transitioning to indoor kind of

1401
02:17:35,840 --> 02:17:41,359
activities that they have, and that is
going to be ongoing as we kind of move

1402
02:17:39,760 --> 02:17:45,840
forward. The last thing I want to tell
you is uh our parks crew, you know, they

1403
02:17:44,319 --> 02:17:49,679
do a lot of work with the DDA. They do
some of the the downtown things and

1404
02:17:47,439 --> 02:17:53,120
that's been going on all summer. Um we
have some really good new flower beds

1405
02:17:52,000 --> 02:17:55,920
that they've planted this year. I don't
know if you've seen the sunflowers at

1406
02:17:54,240 --> 02:17:58,880
town hall, but they're beautiful. And
then the flowers that you guys sponsor

1407
02:17:57,599 --> 02:18:02,559
throughout town have been beautiful this
year as well. Um but one of their big

1408
02:18:00,960 --> 02:18:06,080
projects this year that they were just
able to complete is what we're calling

1409
02:18:03,840 --> 02:18:09,280
the Rink Link Trail. It may change its
name over time, but that's just what

1410
02:18:07,359 --> 02:18:13,200
it's been called. And it basically
connects the rink up towards the

1411
02:18:11,519 --> 02:18:17,439
elementary school. So you can kind of
like on Caribou up there. They just

1412
02:18:15,760 --> 02:18:20,399
finished it. It's got a little bit of
edge work to do and they're kind of

1413
02:18:18,800 --> 02:18:24,479
there's some growing as it grows in.
It'll start changing the look of it a

1414
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:28,240
little bit, but it is a fully ADA
accessible trail which is not something

1415
02:18:26,639 --> 02:18:31,920
that we have in Netherland other than
the P basically the trail in Chapita

1416
02:18:30,080 --> 02:18:34,880
Park. Um and it's a really big
accomplishment for them that they were

1417
02:18:33,439 --> 02:18:37,760
able to do that and it's beautiful. So,
if you haven't had a chance to go see

1418
02:18:36,160 --> 02:18:42,080
that, I would highly recommend that you.
It's a pretty short walk, but it's a

1419
02:18:39,599 --> 02:18:45,519
beautiful little hike there. Um, and so
I just want to give them a little props

1420
02:18:43,439 --> 02:18:51,280
on that. They also just recently had an
event and we're going to be looking at

1421
02:18:48,000 --> 02:18:54,559
constructing a green mountain bike space
at the rink. Um, there's some trees

1422
02:18:53,280 --> 02:18:58,080
there in the front of the parking area
if you're familiar with that area where

1423
02:18:56,399 --> 02:19:00,399
we can build. Uh, Netherland doesn't,
while we have a lot of mountain bike

1424
02:18:59,200 --> 02:19:04,240
trails, we don't have any learning
areas, especially for kids. And so this

1425
02:19:02,719 --> 02:19:09,760
would be intended to kind of fit that
need. So just a really easy place to go

1426
02:19:06,319 --> 02:19:13,200
learn how to um ride a bike off trail
and kind of understand, you know, how

1427
02:19:11,599 --> 02:19:17,280
how they work when you're on a trail and
those kinds of things. And um we had an

1428
02:19:15,280 --> 02:19:21,519
engagement event where several kids came
a couple of weeks ago and they were able

1429
02:19:19,679 --> 02:19:24,880
to kind of give the parks team a lot of
ideas about what it could be. So I think

1430
02:19:23,760 --> 02:19:28,559
we're not going to be doing that this
summer, but probably in the near future

1431
02:19:27,200 --> 02:19:33,760
that's a project that'll be coming back
to the BO for review. So that's kind of

1432
02:19:32,080 --> 02:19:37,359
a general snapshot of what we've been
doing. It's been super busy and honestly

1433
02:19:35,920 --> 02:19:40,000
I just am thankful that I've been a part
of it and thankful for the work you guys

1434
02:19:38,800 --> 02:19:43,800
are doing and if you have any questions
for me I'm happy to answer.

1435
02:19:44,399 --> 02:19:52,080
» Thanks Jonathan. Um,
I mean the the nextformational or

1436
02:19:49,359 --> 02:19:56,640
reports we've got accounting transition
status which I think if this I'm not

1437
02:19:54,800 --> 02:20:03,280
sure if this is referring to Rita's
thing or um if that has to do with kind

1438
02:19:59,760 --> 02:20:05,359
of our the Mandy temporary issue. John,
do you know?

1439
02:20:03,680 --> 02:20:08,800
» I think that was what is intended. So
there's a couple things we're working

1440
02:20:06,560 --> 02:20:12,240
through. The biggest issue is is that
she is not a town employee and she's not

1441
02:20:10,800 --> 02:20:16,800
contracted to the town. So there's some
IT considerations we needed to make. So

1442
02:20:14,479 --> 02:20:19,920
the laptop, the DDA laptop, Kate's
relationship with the town's a little

1443
02:20:17,840 --> 02:20:26,319
bit different when she was an employee
of the DDA. So what we're going to do is

1444
02:20:22,399 --> 02:20:29,680
basically clone the data from the DDA
that Kate was using.

1445
02:20:27,760 --> 02:20:33,359
» Put it into an account that doesn't have
the same security risks as the other

1446
02:20:31,760 --> 02:20:36,960
account does. And then you guys will
have that laptop back. And we put it in

1447
02:20:35,120 --> 02:20:41,760
as a P1 ticket. So you should have that
laptop very quickly. I don't know

1448
02:20:39,439 --> 02:20:45,359
exactly when, but very soon. And then
that one that can go to Mandy. And I

1449
02:20:44,000 --> 02:20:48,479
think that the big thing as you
mentioned is like some little audit

1450
02:20:47,040 --> 02:20:50,880
work, make sure everything's caught up
and where it needs to be. Yeah.

1451
02:20:49,760 --> 02:20:54,479
» And then as I mentioned, we have
Plantaran is our our accountant right

1452
02:20:53,120 --> 02:20:57,600
now that we're using on the contract
basis. So it's possible Mandy finds

1453
02:20:56,640 --> 02:21:00,720
things that we just need to kind of
rectify between the two. And so yeah, I

1454
02:20:59,600 --> 02:21:03,359
think there's just a little bit of work
making sure that we're taking care of

1455
02:21:02,000 --> 02:21:09,680
our financial business.
>> Yeah. Um, just so that I don't know if

1456
02:21:07,120 --> 02:21:15,600
anyone had seen, you know, we had an
agreement with um that we reached out to

1457
02:21:12,399 --> 02:21:21,200
Mandy to help basically deal with some
of the um banking review prior to Kate

1458
02:21:19,359 --> 02:21:25,040
announcing her resignation just in
preparation of our budget, having to

1459
02:21:23,120 --> 02:21:29,439
make sure QuickBooks is in order, all of
the payroll accounts and compliance and

1460
02:21:27,840 --> 02:21:33,920
reconciliation
and that the commitments and resolutions

1461
02:21:32,240 --> 02:21:40,080
are in order.
um since Rita had primarily been the one

1462
02:21:36,800 --> 02:21:44,479
doing that. So um as soon as we get that
laptop and it may be even sooner if we

1463
02:21:41,840 --> 02:21:50,000
can get you know physical statements or
online access um for Mandy but I think

1464
02:21:47,439 --> 02:21:54,720
that's something that you know Mandy has
signed an agreement with the DDA that

1465
02:21:52,000 --> 02:21:59,359
she's not to you know use anything's to
be confidential. I realize that doesn't

1466
02:21:56,960 --> 02:22:06,720
help necessarily town's network, but at
least there is um documents to solidify

1467
02:22:03,680 --> 02:22:12,800
and codify Mandy's relationship with the
DDA as kind of a third party um

1468
02:22:10,160 --> 02:22:18,399
accounting review. Uh she's not a formal
legal auditor. I just want to make that

1469
02:22:14,720 --> 02:22:24,000
clear. Um and she's not trying to be a
full-time DDA, you know, accountant. um

1470
02:22:21,520 --> 02:22:28,880
but she's just here for a couple of
months to help with a transition. So

1471
02:22:26,560 --> 02:22:33,359
that's where we're at with that. So
that's the update on the accounting

1472
02:22:30,720 --> 02:22:39,520
transition board of trustees strategic
priorities update. Well, um I think you

1473
02:22:36,720 --> 02:22:46,319
know I'm new to the board of trustees,
but as as I am working through the next

1474
02:22:44,000 --> 02:22:51,760
um BO meeting, certainly one of the
things that I hope to bring is to talk

1475
02:22:48,240 --> 02:23:00,080
about, you know, my view of sitting in
and participating as a BO member, what

1476
02:22:55,359 --> 02:23:06,319
components of that strategic plan um are
like the core things that the town um is

1477
02:23:04,319 --> 02:23:11,040
focused fusing on. So, I don't
necessarily want to get I don't think

1478
02:23:08,240 --> 02:23:17,439
there's anything to do about that
tonight. Um I think there is some some

1479
02:23:14,160 --> 02:23:22,000
things I don't know if I've got I had a
bullet list of a few, but I want to wait

1480
02:23:19,680 --> 02:23:26,560
till after the upcoming BOT meeting to
make sure that I'm aligned with the rest

1481
02:23:24,880 --> 02:23:31,040
of the board before talking about
strategic priorities. So, that's the

1482
02:23:29,040 --> 02:23:36,399
update. The update tonight is that
there'll be be an update in the near

1483
02:23:32,800 --> 02:23:41,520
future after the next BOT meeting. Um I
don't have anything for the

1484
02:23:38,960 --> 02:23:48,319
beautifification report besides what's
in the packet. Um same with the event

1485
02:23:45,280 --> 02:23:52,800
support and public art report. Kate, um
me, do you have something on public art?

1486
02:23:50,880 --> 02:23:57,680
» Uh not much. Just that we're working
really hard on getting net days of art

1487
02:23:54,800 --> 02:24:01,200
up and running. uh if you know anyone or
if you and your families would like to

1488
02:23:59,200 --> 02:24:06,479
participate in the scavenger hunt would
be awesome to have you sign up now. Um

1489
02:24:04,640 --> 02:24:12,080
and that's the main thing we're working
on. I don't have an update on the Marian

1490
02:24:09,040 --> 02:24:14,240
sculpture project, but uh yeah, we're
moving along nicely with everything

1491
02:24:13,520 --> 02:24:17,840
else.
>> Great.

1492
02:24:15,760 --> 02:24:21,840
Thank you. And I don't have anything
beyond what was in the packet for the

1493
02:24:19,920 --> 02:24:24,960
summer concert series report or the
wayfinding report. Those are all in the

1494
02:24:23,600 --> 02:24:31,600
packet.
Um, and the website report, I don't

1495
02:24:28,640 --> 02:24:34,560
necessarily have anything verbally. Um,
John,

1496
02:24:32,319 --> 02:24:38,560
» one really big thing that did happen, we
got the the directory is functional now.

1497
02:24:38,160 --> 02:24:41,439
Okay.
>> And it's working. So, I think, you know,

1498
02:24:40,000 --> 02:24:47,520
that could always be improved, but that
did get done.

1499
02:24:42,560 --> 02:24:52,880
» Great. Um, is there any other business
or comment?

1500
02:24:50,160 --> 02:24:55,600
No. Okay. I entertain a motion to
adjurnn.

1501
02:24:54,319 --> 02:25:01,439
I second the motion.
>> All right. I Yay. Nods all around. Okay.

1502
02:24:59,760 --> 02:25:05,479
Seeing nods. All right. Meeting
adjourned.

1503
02:25:02,479 --> 02:25:05,479
» Excellent.

1504
02:25:25,840 --> 02:25:31,399
bring my kids. Yeah, we used to do