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[0:31] The select board rules of procedure adopted annually doing chair productive meeting. The select board meetings are in the public, not of the public, meaning that the members in the public of the tent, and attendance are entitled through the opportunity to combat, but the purpose for the meeting is for the board members.
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[0:52] All questions and comments are to be directed to the chair and the rules of procedure indicate
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[1:00] topic.
[1:01] The rules of procedure and the post that are posted in the town hall are available for everyone
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[1:07] Thank you.
[1:11] Each other and I have no additions or deletions.
[1:18] The minute that you approval from the last regular meeting, which was September 1st, I will second back.
[1:29] Any discussion?
[1:30] On favour?
[1:31] On favour?
[1:32] On favour?
[1:32] On favour?
[1:32] On favour?
[1:33] On favour?
[1:37] That's a good amount of air.
[1:40] Oh yes, we have a geothermal ground breaking ceremony coming up on Friday at 4 p.m.
[1:48] There will be food and a large piece of equipment that some children may want to observe.
[2:01] And some music and yeah, it is celebrating this step that our community is making.
[2:07] That's a lot.
[2:11] In the other announcements,
[2:16] the opening and administrative court.
[2:20] Not a lot of activity.
[2:22] I did update the log and I sent that out.
[2:24] There's just been a few permits that have come in.
[2:29] Mostly for a couple of decks in a garage.
[2:33] Thank you.
[2:33] Anybody have any questions for the zoning method?
[2:37] Thank you.
[2:40] Anything from the planning commission?
[2:42] No.
[2:42] Not that I've received.
[2:44] Okay.
[2:45] vote for him
[2:49] in and then fix in a lot of paul holes
[2:55] grading and we'll start all the winter stoned to mom
[3:00] getting caught up in the sense on Friday's been working on the equipment
[3:06] change in snowpoblades this week this Friday is our work on the
[3:12] and then you put your fingers in.
[3:14] Everything's scented.
[3:16] Anybody have any questions?
[3:19] Any of them don't move.
[3:24] I don't look into that.
[3:25] I gathered in this just past week too.
[3:28] I caught them and I gathered in the bag.
[3:30] And he said he had plans to get in here.
[3:34] They do something for that.
[3:35] And I said we need.
[3:37] We're hoping we're looking out a five year window.
[3:40] You don't even have to pull proper over.
[3:42] If a hot pot was going to do the job to get us a five year window, just do that.
[3:47] You gotta get up there and do something.
[3:49] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[3:50] There is so to use to go over there for a meeting here.
[3:53] One of the moves I have tell us.
[3:55] No.
[3:55] They were a whole man through the dinner.
[3:57] Get us on the schedule because we were just scheduled.
[4:01] I think I encountered him one day last week.
[4:06] So I better do some.
[4:08] Thank you.
[4:09] Thank you.
[4:09] All right.
[4:10] Thank you.
[4:13] I have one thing for the, um, for the highway, there's been.
[4:18] Salt, not for this meeting, but something to start to consider would be salt.
[4:22] Which I know, I believe, that there's been some starting to trickling,
[4:26] but I think that we would traditionally have a couple, some may be, too.
[4:31] Usually, the salt companies will send their annual bids,
[4:37] So it might be something to put on a future agenda, but probably a good idea of the conversation.
[4:44] Yeah, I think about getting that.
[4:44] We got this one.
[4:46] Eastern cell company.
[4:48] That's not what we've been buying from.
[4:52] Yes, we did buy from them last year.
[4:54] We bought from Eastern last year.
[4:57] What was the other one we were going to do this year?
[4:59] Absolutely.
[5:01] That was the one I was in.
[5:02] I feel like this year we're going to have to pay special attention to how far we met the whole stuff.
[5:07] I'm giving the price into this one.
[5:10] Yeah.
[5:10] Actually, it's out.
[5:12] A little bit.
[5:13] Oh yeah.
[5:14] What about this one?
[5:15] Yeah.
[5:15] And then they all don't be, but it's just whoever.
[5:19] We need to come.
[5:21] Come down and see who...
[5:25] We'll give us a dose of dose.
[5:26] Okay.
[5:27] So we'll keep that.
[5:29] And they down there for...
[5:30] Mm-hmm.
[5:31] Continue discussion.
[5:34] Anything from the assessors?
[5:38] Tom Clarke's memo.
[5:40] So Deb is not here receiving but she left a memo.
[5:43] The conference last week that she went to was intense but very beneficial.
[5:48] A poppin by SOS Hanzis.
[5:52] I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that.
[5:54] Secretary of State.
[5:56] It is Hanzis.
[5:57] I'm going to hurt her.
[5:58] She's right.
[5:59] She's right.
[6:00] She's Hanzis.
[6:01] Perfect.
[6:01] So poppin by Secretary of State Hanzis and D&D commissioner
[6:04] to get feedback from the clerk's regarding license renewals.
[6:08] Double be out next Tuesday and there's a reminder that there are reconvenes and two hearings
[6:13] next week, Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with the BCA.
[6:18] Addresses were pulled from the voter registration and the state is preparing to mail out
[6:22] ballots to all voters who were registered as of 95 and any new registrations will automatically
[6:27] recently sent about it from my office.
[6:31] Julie will not, all right, whoa.
[6:32] Dev will not be at the meeting tonight.
[6:34] If we can get ahold of Dev, if there are any questions,
[6:38] and it may only be Tuesday, but it has felt like a 10 day week.
[6:42] Have a wonderful evening from then.
[6:45] Okay, so that's all I've got for you.
[6:46] Yeah, that's all.
[6:48] So that's all.
[6:49] You know, we're discussion on the townkirts.
[6:51] She's been busy.
[6:52] Thank you, Dev, for being very busy this week.
[6:56] One day that you were here?
[7:03] Tom Treasurer?
[7:06] No.
[7:08] Oh, I already didn't want to.
[7:16] I did it for an MMO for you today.
[7:19] I forgot about it, and then when I came in to do it,
[7:21] I realized that I didn't really have much to say,
[7:23] because I haven't done like levy calculations for tax collection.
[7:30] So all I have is two warrants, two seven zero one eight, which is payroll, 96, 3573, two seven zero one nine, which is accounts payable, and that's one million five hundred four thousand four ninety eight ninety three, which includes the first half of school payments, but it doesn't include any of the other appropriations that will be on the next one.
[7:54] Anybody else have any questions for Julie?
[7:58] Um, I hope that we approve payroll warrant two seven zero or eight and the count
[8:04] stable warrant two seven zero or one there.
[8:07] That's a good book.
[8:09] Any discussion?
[8:10] Um, favor?
[8:11] All right.
[8:11] Oh, carried.
[8:27] There's one other.
[8:29] Favorite amount standard grant agreement?
[8:35] That's the grants in aid for this year.
[8:43] So basically I just need to sign it. We don't have to act on it.
[8:52] I'll do that. There are more questions for the treasurer.
[8:57] Thank you for doing this to us.
[9:02] And the grant administrator.
[9:04] I don't have much to report on that.
[9:06] Jessica did a nice job.
[9:07] I'm reminding everyone of our groundbreaking ceremony.
[9:11] I hope everyone can come. We should be fine.
[9:14] Just to be able to celebrate something good and positive put we're going.
[9:17] And the capital planning, where we're at with that,
[9:27] is everything that Tavern I have gone through has gone on to the LCT who was kind of putting everything together into like one lump thing for us to have at the end in the fall.
[9:37] and Sean and Jim, and I met today,
[9:42] to he's helping with the transportation.
[9:45] He's so covert assessments and identifying
[9:50] specific areas that are either in need
[9:55] of at least three or more culverts needing to be repaired,
[9:59] or are areas that are known to be prone to flooding,
[10:03] and therefore are highlighted areas that we should just be
[10:09] Building up funds for in case something would happen in those specific areas, and he's going to put together a rather long report.
[10:23] I think like maybe 10 pages or so, highlighting these areas and the reasoning behind highlighting them and then some tables with numbers to calculate so that we can plan the capital
[10:37] budget and then he will send that again on to Kathleen at VLCT and she'll finish compiling
[10:45] and I think that once though that part is done everything is what we've done and we'll
[10:50] all just be able to sort of bring it together in one thing and then the board will be able
[10:54] to hold a discussion and a decision on that around the time that we budget.
[10:59] Thank you.
[11:03] Anybody have any other questions?
[11:05] Julia, regarding any of the three hats?
[11:09] Okay.
[11:11] Emergency management director?
[11:13] No report at this meeting.
[11:15] Health officer?
[11:16] Same.
[11:18] Facilities.
[11:23] We're still working on getting information for the
[11:27] change of the field tank over at the library and then the update we already talked about was
[11:35] your report to the Tongue Ratch so you can help me and thank you that's all I
[11:41] can think of unless you're something else someone would like to hear in my attention
[11:46] or if you get something that you need to know or okay nothing at the wastewater that I
[11:54] How are you able to steal a tank of anybody's interest in me?
[11:58] What do you say?
[11:59] He has a huge fuel tank.
[12:01] Is he going to say cool?
[12:02] We're going to have two of your pre-foot.
[12:04] That's a part of that.
[12:05] One versus four.
[12:06] I'll just turn it out at that time.
[12:08] You're good.
[12:10] Just choose that.
[12:11] I'm okay.
[12:13] Do you really?
[12:13] Well, it's a quick question.
[12:14] I'm just more of a comment.
[12:15] I just wanted to say that we continue to receive compliments on the way that the building looks.
[12:22] Now that we are freshly painted.
[12:25] That's what they painted in ports, ports, and all that.
[12:28] So, Jeff,
[12:32] waste water, treatment, facility, I've heard nothing on the reports come in and
[12:37] they seem to have actually seen any red flags and go from there.
[12:43] Do you have anything from the MetaWaste School Board?
[12:46] No.
[12:48] And the Paul Public Library.
[12:50] Yes.
[12:53] Hi, I'm Kevin.
[12:54] Good evening.
[12:55] Good evening.
[12:56] So I wrote it down and so I won't forget the extravagance, the visiting artist series is something I wanted to start off with because I always forget it
[13:07] that we have this month and next month is Roscoe Stark and he has some great things at the library in our sort of display area if anybody wants to come look.
[13:17] He's also facilitating our Creativity, just hard to say, but it is a weekly drop-in art sketch
[13:27] Kind of hang out from five to seven on Wednesdays and with that we also are open Wednesdays when I'll remind everybody of that
[13:36] we
[13:37] Have our normal group meeting at the library our
[13:42] Charyoga, which is my favorite, yoga, bone builders, the story hour, and some classes
[13:48] with Anne-Ray mit, which have started up again this fall. They've been really popular
[13:54] with, we're getting students to stop at the library on the bus stop, and that's been
[13:59] really helpful and good for everybody. We've voted to pause on the book sale for a year.
[14:07] We wanted to take some time to re-evaluate, reimagine it, and make sure that it is a sustainable fundraiser for the library.
[14:17] It's any project like that is a lot of work, and we know that with the amount of time it takes, we wanted to get a head start on making sure that it is planned out well.
[14:27] So that is the big news that is paused, we've officially just paused for one year and again
[14:34] we're meeting to work out how to reimagine that, maybe tie along with the barbecue that was held
[14:42] in Poland, we thought some possibilities have been already started out but we would like to work together
[14:50] to make something happen. And our last is the grant update so we have which the work
[14:57] I'm just, yeah, we're very excited about that.
[15:00] And I hope this will be at the ground breaking. I will, anyway. And we have an ALA accessibility grant that has been, we have been working toward spending the money.
[15:13] It has was received and Ronda is helping us and Phoebe McChasse has taken that on as the board representative.
[15:22] We have found, they came up with some ideas and we voted to pursue an automatic door entry, some railing work, ramp and railing work and some meeting room acoustics work.
[15:40] We've gotten a lot of feedback that the acoustics are sort of a barrier to understanding things that the meetings or just being comfortable in general.
[15:50] So those are kind of positive, we're looking forward to any of those, but we think that with the grant money we will be able to pursue some of all of that as well as easy rise chairs, that's something also that we found that people were interested in just being able to get in and out comfortably and to have a comfortable place to sit and hang out at the library.
[16:13] And that has prompted us to put a standing line item on our agenda for accessibility issues.
[16:20] We will be talking about that and working toward making the library more accessible to everyone.
[16:27] That's very exciting.
[16:30] At our next meeting is December, December, I'm fast forwarding a little, sorry.
[16:35] October 6th.
[16:37] So that's it.
[16:39] Anybody have any questions for the library?
[16:40] I do on the railing.
[16:43] Where do we look at it in a million, in a back side,
[16:46] in the soul of these, but please clarify.
[16:48] It was a railing reinforcement that was brought up.
[16:52] I know that nothing is set and stone.
[16:55] It's just we identified the areas to pursue,
[16:58] and that also then would involve a lot of research.
[17:02] I don't know if it was just the back or the front and the back as well.
[17:07] Okay.
[17:08] I can follow up on that and get back to you.
[17:11] If you need to go.
[17:14] Yeah, that's again.
[17:15] It's like it comes down to research to find out all the possibilities.
[17:19] And if all of this can work, we had the budget it.
[17:22] A little over what our grant was funded for, but we think that we can either target fundraising
[17:28] for things or would spend out of maybe possibly some access.
[17:34] So.
[17:35] So one of the things that we did encounter is that if the railing is secured to the stairs
[17:42] or whatever, the sidewalk and not to the building, it doesn't fall under the door preservation.
[17:52] So we can't work with it that way.
[17:56] If you could adjust it to the steps going up into the building and not physically to the building,
[18:01] Okay, like that railing out front is is built into the concrete right attached to the post or anything like that. So it was acceptable
[18:11] Okay, and I think that is one of the people Sue has talked about
[18:16] Well, make from that but we would always this strongly recommend asking them way in yes for sure
[18:23] Yeah, definitely not and then we would bring back to if it involves any actual
[18:29] change the building definitely would present to the
[18:32] select board yes and then you would right let us we would like to
[18:37] yes with you every what your decisions are and to see if there's anything
[18:42] any red flags that we could see that it could affect for sure before we you
[18:46] give it the official go ahead please yes okay I mean we yes it's still
[18:54] And then bring to the board.
[18:58] Before the final decision is made.
[19:00] For sure.
[19:03] Thank you.
[19:08] I found a set of steps you want to drill into it or anything like that.
[19:12] That you can take another block of stone and drill into it to attach this railing
[19:17] to the support for railing.
[19:20] I'm sure they don't figure that out, because they're going to the design box system.
[19:24] I have to glue that to the other service, and we're screwed in.
[19:29] Thank you very much for doing this.
[19:30] Tonight,
[19:35] hold our unfinished business,
[19:39] we're rolling out to it.
[19:41] New business.
[19:46] We're going to go to the public comment.
[19:49] Public comment.
[19:50] Thank you.
[19:51] I attended the Real Trail Meeting and Jim from Bank County Regional, who was working with Jessica
[19:59] for quite a bit on spending the grant money as a few weeks to spend the grant money left.
[20:07] And he was looking to get benches. And we found a telescope sells benches. Okay, apparently.
[20:18] And so there's Essex money. And the question is that we'd just look forward to want to get a few extra benches for the location and was called for free.
[20:28] you'll have them, right? And it will come out of the grant money, otherwise the grant money goes back this leftover.
[20:35] So if you want any extra benches, if you want to talk to Jim, I can talk to Jim or whatever,
[20:43] whatever your wishes are, then we can get those and just have them there.
[20:49] And what we do with them from then on, when I say get moved from into the property and
[20:57] given into the town essentially, then that becomes free and extrabencious, which wouldn't
[21:05] hurt greatly.
[21:06] It would make you look at the area, look more like it's a sitting area, because if I was
[21:10] having limited sense, you know, more people could sit there, so somebody might think, well,
[21:14] that's a place to sit.
[21:15] So, it's free to that might be something you want to decide on tonight because the decision
[21:20] has to be prepared to make a face out of it, do you know how much available money is left
[21:26] out of it?
[21:27] I have deferred to our granted minister, I have not had my head, but I want to say there was
[21:34] at least like 10 plus $1,000.
[21:40] in reference to these benches, those benches in West Paul are not really being utilized
[21:46] because they're too heavy for a person to move them because they look like they're capable
[21:51] in the bench. So we have an opportunity to tell them to get a white weight to where we could
[21:57] move it around. I think I have a couple of really nice benches. We would be beneficial for that
[22:04] inside of the town, not saying that the other benches are not nice, but once we put them
[22:12] in the back, because of their happiness and the person that just don't have a really nice
[22:17] down mole in it, are y'all are, you know, they've left them there, but if we get some benches
[22:23] to where they're pretty lightweight, or the person that's mole, they just slide them all away
[22:27] in the other.
[22:27] Thank you.
[22:30] I don't like to stop the move, I can't move, I can't move.
[22:33] It was so difficult.
[22:34] I can't move.
[22:36] Drugs.
[22:37] It was a...
[22:37] I've known that those ventures that are light enough to move, are light enough to steal.
[22:42] They were going to disappear.
[22:44] I think that trouble with a mingramble.
[22:47] I'll be right back.
[22:47] You're just going to try to fake into the ground and put a little chain around the state.
[22:53] It's what you guys are saying?
[22:54] It's unfortunate, but right now at this point,
[22:57] were to scramble to just bend the money because it's there really to me doesn't really make any sense.
[23:03] I know we've we've got some beneficial things for the rail trail but to scramble this
[23:08] bend the money without careful cleaning is it's just not to mean not really a wise decision
[23:15] with any money at any point for you or not. What are the benches like from the telescope's
[23:24] I think they're probably polymer-based benches, but they're still heavy enough.
[23:31] Currently, I really am not that familiar with the product line, I'm not salesmen.
[23:40] I keep the machines running that make the product, but I don't pay attention to the real product.
[23:45] If you also need them heavy enough, so the wind will blow them out.
[23:47] If the some of the benches now are the marine grade polymer they're heavy enough so they're not going to get blown around
[23:53] But still two people could easily grab them and they're probably quite pricey the real trail group
[24:01] Asked me to task you because if they got them if they could put the benches there that's it
[24:08] If you order them up if they wanted to buy the benches and then just put them there and they would handle it all
[24:18] Okay, so that's a little bit different story about.
[24:25] It might feature is like the batch of storage.
[24:29] The water doesn't really retain on, and they are one person can move on.
[24:37] But that does mean that somebody could load on it and they come to it.
[24:42] I do believe that because of the traffic that's coming into West Bologna is the rest of the
[24:48] I think a couple of benches that were more upfront would be utilized on that side of town because there is a lot of activity in there
[24:59] Especially at weekends. I mean, you got even that stock trailer coming over horses.
[25:04] They have been for years, but it just seems like now there's a couple extra of them show it up and park it pretty soon. It's pretty steady pretty steady.
[25:13] I understand the benches but the benches pretty much limit
[25:16] give us someone who's just looking to
[25:19] set down to take a whether it be take a rest from a bike ride
[25:23] but would it make more sense to get the complete units of the
[25:27] technique tables to
[25:29] so that they could actually set down and
[25:31] keep their lunch or whatever, take a lunch break with a
[25:35] table and
[25:37] this moped watch and they guess what that's.
[25:40] That's a problem that I'm seeing trying to spend the money in the 11th hour, where we made
[25:46] settled for something that may not be well, we really need, because we didn't really need the
[25:52] And they truly need thought that we would be able to get one picnic bench and one bench,
[25:58] which is what we got, and put there, and then it turns out that Rupert didn't end up meeting
[26:02] them when they thought they were going to use for their parking lot, which is why there's
[26:09] I was just going to say, quick Google search, you can order, we can, if there's still
[26:16] grant money, we can order a few of those states that you are talking about that you
[26:20] think screw in the ground and change them. I mean, they can probably unscrew them and take
[26:27] them, but they, is not, is another hindrance.
[26:29] to have to be very easy, things are lazy.
[26:32] Mm-hmm.
[26:33] Yeah.
[26:33] Yeah.
[26:34] That's like, oh, it's sexual.
[26:35] Oh, wow.
[26:36] Yeah.
[26:37] Yeah.
[26:38] I guess the events is really like a table, like I quite is,
[26:42] you're like, if you're like a storage type table,
[26:46] then maybe more beneficial for the city now.
[26:49] I think that's a good point.
[26:52] Because I do believe the families would stop there,
[26:55] say, even if they pick Nick here and they're
[26:58] I guess we're in town and we're in here.
[27:01] At one time, they didn't make button tables,
[27:03] too, and I don't know if it's still in a line or not.
[27:09] If the real trail club wants to put the effort into it,
[27:15] are we okay with putting a bench or a chair at the table
[27:18] of a picnic table there?
[27:20] Something that's mobile, yes.
[27:22] Something that's, that's, that's, that's okay.
[27:24] Yeah, as long as they can put that sink into it,
[27:27] We can come up with some duly said this.
[27:31] Yeah.
[27:31] They can come up with some kind of secure mat.
[27:34] So I think the grand expires at the end of this month.
[27:38] So that was the reason why it becomes...
[27:41] Jim was looking for this, but he couldn't find people.
[27:44] And somebody was out of business and all that sort of stuff.
[27:47] And then Mr. Dago and Rackerman said,
[27:51] But Talisco maybe, and they went online, and it was...
[27:54] would fit perfectly and so that's when they agreed it and so they just wanted
[27:58] your blessing on and potentially doing that.
[28:01] Did anybody want to make a motion?
[28:03] I'll let the rail trail people buy a couple of benches for that area.
[28:07] Any of that motion?
[28:08] I actually encourage people to take it.
[28:11] This is a bet.
[28:12] So if I can make that motion with that little additional area, I appreciate it.
[28:20] I'll second.
[28:26] It's really that way you don't want to go.
[28:28] It is that motion made to authorize the real-trial committee to utilize the excess funds to purchase a bench or picnic table for this area.
[28:35] Ideally the purchase would be made for a picnic table.
[28:39] Okay.
[28:39] Bentches.
[28:40] Bentches or a picnic table.
[28:42] We would prefer a picnic table if they can find it with a bridge.
[28:46] We'll be ready for a picnic table.
[28:49] Stop.
[28:51] All paper?
[28:52] All right.
[28:52] Post.
[28:53] Okay, you'll bring that back to the build real club and then you'll bring real brief us on
[29:01] It's going to go to Jim. Yeah, I'm operating outside the meeting
[29:05] Okay, we're so going snow on our first
[29:09] We're going to show us now. Well you will be in a place
[29:12] We meet every other most of you
[29:14] Is there anything else for a public comment tonight?
[29:21] Okay
[29:21] I make a motion on going to executive session to discuss labor relation agreements with employees.
[29:31] Thank you all for coming.