[0:04] um good evening or go ahead staff meeting thank you vault appellant first

[0:08] item on the agenda is approving the minutes go from January quality services

[0:46] they're getting and the programs of being offer that you think it's still

[0:49] the review that's going to generate an extra $3,000 to contribute towards the

[0:54] minimum wage increase and it's not going to cover it all this really big bite out

[0:59] of it I don't think this wor pushback on the community by she'll embrace it $35

[1:06] it was nobody said anything about it so we do a lot of us a place

[1:16] questions the area still has a scholarship program that they use this

[1:23] for he does need to join it is used I

[1:30] make a motion that's for the summer rec program some of you saw the run sessions

[1:38] right two sessions in the summertime next time motion is made by Deana second

[1:44] by Bob all in favor thank you next time on your generous

[1:48] senior citizen discussion by Kelly changing color okay um so first of all

[1:57] let me just say I'm very excited about the concept of a Senior Center

[2:02] I for one know that that would be a place that would greatly benefit my

[2:06] parents in town some fast approaching that as my husband my house but I had

[2:18] some concerns after the last council meeting feeling like there wasn't a

[2:23] whole lot of background information about the Senior Center and how it's

[2:29] going to be run and who's running it and who is responsible for safety and

[2:34] different things like that then I understand that it's still in interim

[2:39] stages and most of us said correct terminology with RSU 18 and the town as

[2:44] well I do remember I believe at the last meeting you voted to approve funding it

[2:50] monthly the rent piece of it if I'm correct in stating that once they get up

[2:56] and running I did go to the school board meeting that they had and that was on

[3:01] the agenda and they again just discussed that things were moving forward they had

[3:06] to find any plans yet they still were doing some

[3:08] repairs so what some things they needed to take care of and that they didn't

[3:12] plan to come charge the town until they were physically ready to occupy this

[3:16] space so I myself personally reached out to sherry after reaching out to Gary for

[3:23] his guidance as to who I should talk to so you such a sharing over and asked her

[3:27] a series of questions mostly related to safety I for one don't want my parents

[3:34] attending a place that's not organized and safe that's what I do for a living

[3:42] and I asked about some guidelines about you know who gets to use it would you

[3:48] keep anybody from using it if somebody wanted to come under the age of 16 which

[3:54] was the guideline they had but they may love to come the response I got back was

[3:58] pretty much that they haven't answered any of those questions themselves at

[4:02] this point and that there are several stages or phases that they're trying to

[4:07] go through and they're still in phase one so my concern would be the idea of

[4:15] honoring a third party request for them mostly being the fact that having

[4:22] certain kinda budget community in the past

[4:24] I know third party requests are really scrutinized and my understanding from

[4:32] being on the advisory board in the past was third fighting request had to have

[4:36] some kind of background behind them making a request

[4:41] financial statement or business plan something to that effect so my request

[4:46] to you would be to consider not honoring that third party request for them at

[4:52] budget season until you have such documentation like a business model plan

[4:58] some type of a financial plan for what they're going to be doing with the

[5:02] funding and then once if you do move forward with funding them who owns the

[5:09] things that they buy does the town on it does the Senior Center on there if the

[5:14] Senior Center owns it and decides to go away in five months because it's too

[5:19] much work or something happened and they can't continue what happens to all of

[5:24] that stuff that they purchase so that essentially is it is my request is for

[5:30] you to consider not funding that without some type of financial statement

[5:36] background or business model plan for how things are going to progress over

[5:40] there otherwise actually like you're really opening the door for anybody to

[5:44] ask for a third party request because they have a dream and they want it to be

[5:48] fulfilled and I understand we take consideration of town needs differently

[5:57] than we do third prior question people outside of town much like the food

[6:00] pantry and things like that but I kind of feel like this is different than that

[6:05] because there's there isn't anything to hang your hat on at this point it's

[6:12] it's a wish dream it's a plan but there's no written documentation of a

[6:17] plan and that kind of concerns that as taxpayer and as potentially one of my my

[6:22] family using this facility that's a good question

[6:29] anybody here on the council have any questions are these officer anything you

[6:33] like to right along with them they plan to have any of this information

[6:40] available before we do but Ruby what the last of February we did with the third

[6:45] part of her question a daughter was in a severe she stopped yesterday

[7:02] yeah Kelly you first your first concern and I think our concern about safety

[7:09] what is the and at least the physical safety of the facility is being

[7:15] addressed by our SEO a team that had a inspection done you heard about it them

[7:21] let's go board meeting those are all safety concerns that we had we

[7:27] definitely agree with the risk management's assessment of problem you

[7:33] know potential problems and hopefully the school board seemed to be willing to

[7:39] attack those safety issues now the officers of the building I asked you for

[7:46] your take care the safety concerns that I've had that I expressed to Sherry

[7:51] where will there be somebody CPR first aid certified

[7:54] AED on-site but would be a landline phone available for people who don't

[7:58] know how to use cell phones my mother being one of them put a cell phone in

[8:02] front of her and she wouldn't even begin to know how to turn it on in the kitchen

[8:05] it was bad now one thing is we are going to have someone CPR certified First Aid

[8:13] certified I have looked into the price of and now in the 80s and to fibular yes

[8:19] I've looked into the price of those there's a 1200 to 1500 dollars for basic

[8:25] models so all these concerns are in your mind maybe someone would donate one to

[8:33] us but we will have and one of the parts of the program we intend to have as for

[8:40] example people to come in and have at least one hour a week of some sort of

[8:46] health-related education and CPR would probably to be

[8:52] the first one but yeah it will have some CPR we will have first aid trained

[8:58] people there and also we are in proximity to the fire department and

[9:05] police department so we feel how long would it take to get from a street to

[9:12] your ten minutes yeah it would be in minutes because we are in proximity to

[9:19] the president you know the first responders in town so other any other

[9:26] questions the fact is our ICU 18 is also leaving us have a lot of the furniture

[9:34] that was in the building they've been very generous to us so we it's just some

[9:41] tables this is what we're looking for if we can get them without spending any

[9:46] money but basically we want round tables because they're more sociable and that

[9:53] basically what what the third party request was for because the rsuh in has

[9:59] given us Cheers that we need bookshelves etc etc

[10:07] tonight is there a he in the administrative office of I don't have an

[10:16] answer for that I can not some of the buildings if I had to guess I would say

[10:21] that it must be the hours that they're there this would be one right never

[10:25] doorway that's all I don't know if then there is one in that building

[10:31] yeah as I know I'm a IDI trained epic pen turning first aid CPR but you're out

[10:39] there every day no I hope you know one day a week well

[10:44] these are just any when they're creating their business play these things that I

[10:47] met them to address just for safety reasons I mean what they recognize

[10:54] science and sometimes somebody having a stroke that's pertinent to that age

[10:58] group signs of you know early stage dementia where they start becoming

[11:04] violent for no reason I mean those are all things that I have concerns up where

[11:10] seniors are gathering other than you know on a show make social occasion so I

[11:17] have a great suggestion for you your concerns are all valid and very well

[11:22] done thought through so probably what you ought to do is go back to sherry

[11:26] because right now we're just sitting here waiting and watching to see how

[11:30] they're going to run it so don't want to cost the taxpayers any

[11:33] more money so if you go back to Sharia never get it hold on a senior spectrum

[11:38] in Waterville the muskies ever and ever say you know could you fill this wish

[11:42] list for me and I can support it and I can hear it and carry on and help

[11:45] support it and that would help a lot of things other than sitting here telling

[11:48] us what you like and about being mean about you're saying that it just think I

[11:52] think it's a right way to go if seeing a spectrum has done this and they have

[11:55] gatherings of elderly citizens of the town and they have done it to use me as

[12:01] a problem I know all these little ins and outs and all these little things

[12:04] that they can help them yes and on the 20th of February there's a meeting of

[12:10] senior centers from Wiscasset knowledge of the state and we're going to plan to

[12:15] attend that very good idea dawn just to reiterate you know and summarize I guess

[12:21] what we're hearing is there's an awful lot of things that we as a council and

[12:26] the community doesn't have a sense of what's going on and before we give a

[12:31] complete blessing of the project I guess we need to have that I've heard Richmond

[12:36] mentioned and now a senior spectrum and this being you're going to we need to

[12:41] have a concrete this is what our plan of action is this is who's going to be on

[12:46] hand each day or we're rotating one person a week it's going to be open from

[12:50] these hours for those hours there's going to be food there's not going to be

[12:55] food there's gonna be cooking there's not you know all those little details

[12:58] that make a program work we need to have a sense of what that really is going to

[13:02] look like people yeah we put that on the agenda for the next meeting I will have

[13:07] a document it is I don't know if there's a timetable that we need to look at

[13:12] we're looking at third party requests coming up yeah no I'm just

[13:22] as soon as we can I like to have release me a complete plan that is going

[13:30] to spell out to us and the citizens of the town what we're proposing to do

[13:35] because of Hailey's thinking of this how many other people are thinking of this

[13:38] and these how I should tweak an answer but I think that would be the best thing

[13:42] to do I shouldn't say you go back to to Sheree but you would like to share with

[13:46] your group will go back to your group they say look these are things were

[13:49] looking for and put him down and Alomar already decided we have been discussing

[13:53] them so we'll put it in writing and get do you guys watch and don't I spend

[13:57] about an hour and a half with me yesterday and she laid this out with me

[14:01] she you know she explained the hours where they were at it may be the

[14:05] information has been as forthcoming as what I would like to see but I think

[14:09] that's going to change and don't you can get that information to me if you can

[14:13] wait until that meeting Thanks so this will be a town funded Senior Center with

[14:23] no County that has not been blessed yet I have my own personal feelings on them

[14:30] and I think needs one of us to also I hate my entire not being able to use it

[14:35] how's that that's my thought I think one of the thinkers Dallas once these are

[14:42] all valid points you stated it's kind of in its infancy it was it hasn't been I

[14:50] guess we've been I think we started November dienes consciously it's been

[14:56] kind of rolling along and kind of gathering steam I guess some say about

[15:00] its you know there's still a lot of points

[15:03] not answer thank you well at points I appreciate you fight like that any other

[15:09] further questions no further questions do one who manages reports and I just

[15:14] tell you got a copy of the operators report

[15:18] remarkable they also have a kidney cog me to read the skipper it's open to our

[15:25] council members have this in my office

[15:34] that's all I have chief you hidden a and here I'm on your agenda that you need us

[15:42] today to hear oh I know I'm actually here for one of the exact a but just

[15:46] want to make sure I worry how are you nice to see you again thank you for

[15:50] being a me or did you get coming down somebody there that's my job are you

[15:54] here for school yes what can we do for you what God wanted great to tell us why

[15:58] don't you stand up who you are I'm right here how's that put your weight on the

[16:02] clock ha ha my name is Davis Moore it's an Messalonskee high school they're here

[16:12] first verse the ology class just like politics good have any questions for any

[16:19] one of us a there's a sign a paper for you no Johnny here John

[16:31] at this time folks we do have to do to discuss a confidential records in the

[16:37] deputy special so I need a motion

[16:42] 30 section 4 F 5 F 6 at oh thank you

[16:58] yes put you right on the spot date that's different

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