[0:01] I don't really start. I don't believe this is going to be a real long meeting, but who knows?

[0:10] So, changes to the public agenda. Does anybody have any?

[0:16] No, I have a good to go.

[0:19] minutes of the August 13th, 2026, white board meeting.

[0:24] I hope you all have a copy of it.

[0:27] I have read them. I do not have a copy right in front of me, but I saw. Oh, I thank you. Wow, I had to

[0:49] Okay, to accept as written all second

[0:55] Okay, very accepted as written. Hi, Brian

[1:00] We started two or three minutes early. All right, I'm going to go back

[1:09] Thank you. We've got all all the way to minutes of the meeting, so I shall number two.

[1:15] Treasures report.

[1:40] And I think it's actually a 20-year-old working part that has a 35,000-year-old

[1:48] 54 dollars in 60,000 cents.

[1:51] Which includes the penalty of 22,000 dollars.

[1:58] So about 33,000, even.

[2:02] Any questions?

[2:05] Any questions?

[2:06] No.

[2:12] motion to accept as given to us.

[2:19] President.

[2:20] All right.

[2:21] Number one, action item is highways status.

[2:25] And I don't see Mr. Kalon there.

[2:29] So I will welcome our newest addition to the highway full time addition to highway crew.

[2:40] We're excited to have you in the board.

[2:42] It's been on board about a week in the day of their melt.

[2:46] Oh, can we want to stand up and wave for the crowd?

[2:50] Yeah.

[2:54] Yeah.

[2:56] Do you want to give us a steps?

[2:58] I mean, even on board a week, Simone.

[3:03] Yes, please.

[3:04] Oh, yeah.

[3:04] Yeah.

[3:04] Just didn't work on that with our circle of their institution in the size.

[3:08] And did a couple of homeworks over there.

[3:10] We're going to go back to the model.

[3:12] Do the same thing over there if they will be I don't know what more needs to be done that way we've got it pretty far there

[3:20] So we're going to wait back down to that intersection there. So

[3:26] So you're on with more road and I'll put my circle actually.

[3:33] Okay

[3:34] Okay

[3:35] I don't know if going to go to the line but when you see even the morning, if I know that

[3:40] The oldest man role will come over from Mark, a week from this coming Thursday to write the role,

[3:49] see where we're at, and hopefully by then we'll be able to further along with the grants

[3:56] that are due to be completed by September 30th.

[4:00] But he's just here, he'll take pictures and maybe ask some questions.

[4:05] I ought to be with him, but who knows what's on there.

[4:08] I, he didn't set up time. It would be in the afternoon. That's how he said.

[4:19] Any questions on the community?

[4:25] Oh, I'll add. Sorry, Brian.

[4:27] I'm trying to understand.

[4:28] I'm trying to understand.

[4:30] I'm trying to understand.

[4:32] I'm trying to understand.

[4:36] I too would like to welcome Ben.

[4:38] We're very excited to meet with us.

[4:39] I also want to mention that in our continuing discussion

[4:45] towards working for a new town garage,

[4:49] we are going to have the first meeting of the working group

[4:51] this coming Sunday,

[4:55] either 4 or 4 30 p.m.

[4:57] to be determined based on the Patriots game.

[5:01] So there's no one.

[5:02] The Patriots game, of course.

[5:04] Why not?

[5:05] Why not?

[5:06] Yes.

[5:07] So, it's just basically going to be for us all to get to know each other personally and start kind of not alone and I going over everything that we've done up to this point.

[5:20] And then we'd like to be involved so he's going to join. We also have Paul and Aaron and they're going to be working with us as well. So we're excited to get started on that.

[5:35] Okay,

[5:39] something you wanted me to give an update on, I'll set the mix up.

[5:43] I think it's the next subject.

[5:45] All right.

[5:50] Good enough, and not seeing Glenn on there, we'll move on to the update of Brown Schoolhouse.

[5:56] Road call.

[6:00] We went out for bits on the call, but we were extremely, like,

[6:04] do the getting all of them engineering done, and get that approved and stuff like that.

[6:11] So we went out for visits, anyway, and gave the bitters of time line, went to five different companies right here in the local area.

[6:21] While Iris, for any brothers, Daniels, John and Murphy.

[6:35] No, the water is destroyed.

[6:36] Anyway, there was one other that was historical as those people just lost the name.

[6:44] It immediately after sending it out, we got no hopes from three of them saying that there

[6:51] was no way they could get the job done and time to get in and out of the rut by September

[6:57] 30th, which is Johnson's deadline, deadline on the grant was December 31st, so the other

[7:06] had a few questions in the end. We had a bit opening here last week when they had a bit

[7:16] opening here at three o'clock, one day last week. We got one bit. There was from waters

[7:21] excavation as I sort of anticipated. It was extremely high.

[7:30] And what we had anticipated, I asked the guy straight out, I said, is there a lot of money in this bid due to the time frame, and he admitted that it was because getting an extension from Scott is totally dependent upon what we have for water and the stream number one and the contractor and his affiliation with them, that's private.

[7:59] So, with that being said, we decided that we are putting that project on hold for this year.

[8:10] I have applied for an extension of the grant to December 31, 2027, which would give us all the next year to get it done.

[8:29] hopefully award the contract mid-April and a lot of code of work is soon as they could

[8:35] get in a book which is June 1st. So that would give us plenty of time to get to work

[8:40] down next year. I've talked with Mike Langsley of the AOT District 4 and he said in this

[8:48] case he said, I don't see where they're going to hold up their request for extension.

[8:53] But he's not on the committee, so I can't fully confirm that we've got another year.

[9:02] If we don't get the extension, then the issue will be we have to apply for another grant start over again, which is done in the spring.

[9:12] So if I don't get the extension between now and I don't understand where I'll plan on applying for another grant start from there.

[9:21] One issue is we have the COVID. It is in town. Almost. It is 13 feet weighted white

[9:30] at the base. Eight and a half feet tall at the top of the arch and 48 feet tall.

[9:38] And if you want to see it, drive wild waters excavation because it's setting up on a berm over there.

[9:44] He was kind enough to, I called him and asked him the feed off load it for us and he said yes he would and then he was kind enough to offer a spot for us to put it because it was either put it at the site, which none of us thought much about that being the turn around for snowmobileers and all 80 beers and the other site would have been the down garage.

[10:11] Waters had always equipment right there, didn't have to truck them anywhere, so we opted to just put it over there and then we'll deal with it and explain when we find out who's going to do the work.

[10:24] And I told him, Matt, not whatever's meant. I said, Matt, there's no guarantee you're going to get that job.

[10:31] He said, I understand it. He said, but he said, I've got the room and I've got the equipment right here.

[10:38] Everything went well. However, we will have to pay for that.

[10:44] And the bill is going to be somewhere in the vicinity of $72,000.

[10:49] I don't know at this point in time if we can pay the bill, charge the grant and get that amount of money,

[10:57] and just get an extension on the 120,000,000 left over for if they'll say, no, that's on you

[11:06] until such time we reassure you, right? So we'll see, I don't know anything about that.

[11:14] So that's it on the Brown School Health School.

[11:19] Any questions?

[11:23] Road closures driven fall over each. Anybody want to start?

[11:31] Chase, would you like to start?

[11:34] I'm going to put it on the end. I think we had a chicken today.

[11:37] Yeah.

[11:39] So if anybody wants to chime in, I guess I can start.

[11:42] It does a huge out of the ass.

[11:47] for the end, it's work out great last few years. I don't think we all want to make it a permanent thing, but I think we've done it and both lives in an online, saying that this role is close for each and very foolish to

[12:14] do so, but I don't know how the other members feel from the role.

[12:18] Bill and Brian, you want to chime in?

[12:28] Yeah, I usually,

[12:32] there was a pair on a user and I had the Sam around that we were meeting

[12:35] and I just touched this, and so then we decided to see her, or I could do it.

[12:43] Oh, Jane wrote this open, and then it would be like, yeah, so I used to feel like,

[12:47] maybe we even went to the next year, like, it's not an issue, or something like that.

[12:52] Yeah, it really does, it affects chases and much more so than us, but I care about a person,

[13:01] I don't, it has been nuts, and so it seems like a three-year thing just kind of puts

[13:08] a brace on it makes a lot sense of name.

[13:11] We did have an issue with this, with the male character not going along, it goes your side,

[13:17] I talked with the Postmaster, and she says basically it's up to the individual driver,

[13:29] depending

[13:29] on the road situation, and in that particular case she thought that it was an excuse so

[13:38] you would not have to go for a little bit.

[13:40] Get it suited on, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open.

[13:46] I think what we should do, I prefer, but I think what we should do is make sure

[13:52] I get the low-profile, low-profile traffic only, it is right beside the big, low-profile

[13:58] closures.

[14:00] So, there is no question you don't have to go beyond a 10-feet or a 100-feet or whatever

[14:05] see that or put it before the major road closure sign. So the concern is that when they see the

[14:16] road toll signs, they think there may be an issue that would be dangerous. You can understand that.

[14:22] Yeah, we have found other people such as gas deliveries or other deliveries, other people

[14:29] have refused to, we're coming up today, but we can't, as your road's closed. So now I simply,

[14:35] I'm on fall of hate. Ignore that for you, you can come.

[14:39] You know, something on the surface of it.

[14:41] But we had that quite often for a couple of years.

[14:44] Oh, we got there. You wrote those.

[14:45] We couldn't get there in life.

[14:47] So now I said to say hey,

[14:49] So if you're using the same oil problem,

[14:51] these hatching or wherever, maybe that's it.

[14:55] You'll push. That's all.

[14:57] Thank you.

[15:00] All right, sorry, it's just a clarify question. It is the plan that the local traffic only one will stay up all year. I know it has last year.

[15:12] And that's the first thing that I've mastered it.

[15:15] It's state of, yeah.

[15:18] Yeah, it seems ideally that wouldn't be like,

[15:20] I feel a little weird about that.

[15:22] Like it's like, it's not really a normal world.

[15:25] You know, like, they don't think it's been a deterrent.

[15:28] But yeah, I think that's right too.

[15:30] That's right.

[15:31] That's a true power.

[15:32] Yeah.

[15:33] When we're not close, when we're right.

[15:36] What will be the run in six days?

[15:38] Well, I knew something's going to ask for dates, the thing that I have for a problem is it's still pretty green everywhere, and this is what the 15th of September, so I know it changes quickly and it can change quickly, so I think the date to open, we may want to set and post it on the website in front porch form and say, okay, next Monday to go to the close.

[16:08] So, I have no idea what's kind of the weather is going to do.

[16:13] Do you see lots of traffic through certain dates and then see there's off?

[16:21] I mean, yes and the whole book.

[16:24] I mean, it depends on the season.

[16:26] Yes, sure.

[16:27] Are you seeing any foliage around your place, Tris?

[16:31] Yeah.

[16:31] I really like it.

[16:33] Yeah.

[16:33] You don't have to choose.

[16:34] Yeah.

[16:35] Yeah.

[16:37] Yeah.

[16:38] I haven't seen much, except we have our trees, I don't know, they're ever, but I think we'll set it at a later date.

[16:47] Yes, we'll be thinking.

[16:48] Both.

[16:49] Okay, I have any inquiries specifically for our October 14th.

[16:53] Is it safe to say you'll be close at me?

[16:55] I think, for that.

[16:57] Do you call it 26th or 27th or 27th?

[17:00] They don't remember.

[17:03] Our October 14th.

[17:05] It will be most technical calls for that.

[17:08] That is not, that's all three things, three things that it moves.

[17:13] Yeah, it's going to be good.

[17:15] Yeah,

[17:18] better to tell them that it is closed and tell them that won't be closed.

[17:22] That's a couple coming from Germany.

[17:30] So, any money else got a role in how to see anybody else,

[17:35] if they think we'd have a role that they want closed.

[17:38] So, we're talking about the journey road,

[17:42] I'll make a motion to close Jenny Road for the month of October or we're just going to set a date.

[17:54] We're going to set it up.

[17:57] Only 26 is that we just discussed that we've gone to start on September 26.

[18:03] Through October 26 or four weeks from the 26 one.

[18:08] I don't think there will be much foliage in all the way to the 24th of October.

[18:13] I don't know, it seems a little else.

[18:16] It'll still show up.

[18:19] I have a license.

[18:20] Five, thirty, no.

[18:21] So, nine, twenty, six, through ten, twenty, four.

[18:26] Yeah, because we can always pull it up.

[18:28] We can always pull it up.

[18:32] I'll second that motion.

[18:35] And you guys didn't feel that you have a lot of people

[18:38] going, like, go around it.

[18:41] It really does.

[18:43] Oh, no.

[18:44] Okay.

[18:50] I was interviewed by Adam Siller and yesterday, he came and he wanted to discuss this very subject.

[19:01] That's all I wanted to discuss and say, Adam, you're a day or two world.

[19:06] We're not going to discuss that.

[19:07] to my mind. Well, I'm trying to do a article on wrote poems. So he asks me every which way

[19:17] does he take up? Do you think that the board is one of both folks?

[19:25] I answered every way that I could

[19:26] possibly go to. It would be tomorrow night when he made a decision after he heard the input from

[19:32] the residents and talked about it. So, consequently, we happen to see the

[19:40] click last night and it was about 15 seconds long and it showed the

[19:45] Jenny road and road closures. Nothing, nothing about my interview here. So, I

[19:52] didn't make it on D.V., that's okay. But yeah, the problem with those

[19:59] people is they want something that is going to be controversial so that they can keep the

[20:05] story going and I wasn't going to give it to them. Plus I didn't know whether we'd do it or not.

[20:12] I just add that if I could like, I think the language does matter, especially with some of those people

[20:16] who are trying to get that reaction out of the town and I think saying things like close to local

[20:23] only is better than like the road's closed or another thing that I like to see is like

[20:28] it's just that it's with this type of interaction you want is that you know there are tons of

[20:37] farms that are open to tourists in Vermont that want tourists to come that are set up and have

[20:43] infrastructure and they really want you come and you know this is not that place so I

[20:48] But if you have messing with that and you hold them to that direction, it kind of sucks down the hole, right?

[20:54] There is, you know, a building is far away and go to a path and experience and they want you to come.

[21:03] So, just trying to head off some of those people really want to walk you in the comments.

[21:08] If I remember correctly, that was a big issue up in Pomphrick.

[21:11] The first year, the closed roads up there was a couple of people that were some upset about

[21:18] people not coming during foliage because they sold maple syrup and cheese and whatever,

[21:25] but I haven't heard any of that recently, so I don't know if it wasn't an issue or they've done

[21:31] something different.

[21:34] All right, we will get the road posting signs up.

[21:37] What was the dates for you?

[21:41] 926 through 1024 and the end of dates may be changed or shortings.

[21:53] All right.

[21:54] I'm done with that.

[21:58] So we have a wastewater committee resignation,

[22:03] who was asked to put on.

[22:05] Yep.

[22:06] Shall I read that?

[22:08] So Tyler Dallas, on September 4th, with kids back in school, when you're quickly approaching and plenty of work that needs to be done, I need to shift my focus back to work and family.

[22:21] Because of that, I've decided to step away from the wastewater community. I've enjoyed being involved over the last year and a half, getting to work with everyone on the project.

[22:29] I'm glad I was able to help out.

[22:30] Now, particularly with the mapping side of things, and I appreciate all the time in effort. Everyone has put into moving the project forward.

[22:39] He is sharing all of the digital files that he created and the maps for the road and the properties and he says he's still happy to help out.

[22:49] We're specific mapping needs from time to time if something comes up. Thank you again. I've enjoyed working with you and I wish you all the best of luck as things move forward.

[22:59] So it was Tyler that was, I didn't know what it was.

[23:06] So, we have nothing we can do but accept the reservation.

[23:12] Do you have a thought or a replacement yet?

[23:15] Well, I'm with my share.

[23:18] So, I don't have anything to say.

[23:20] Okay.

[23:22] I'm going to talk about it beforehand.

[23:24] but I don't know how to do that and I think that's a bit of a hard day.

[23:29] I don't know if you need to find out what I need to do.

[23:35] The chair or is that Mark?

[23:36] We'll discuss that then at the meeting on the next Monday.

[23:40] That's within your own committee.

[23:43] Okay.

[23:43] That's what I thought.

[23:45] Okay.

[23:47] But I've got to give them a bit more of an update

[23:49] and kind of where things are at.

[23:51] And I think you guys third last time and talked about the survey that he had done.

[23:57] to the residents who were in the area and the country and area and we've got really good

[24:04] response, particularly from people on Route 1 of 6, but we also wanted to try and reach out to the

[24:10] people who we hadn't heard from. So we did a mailing to I think it was 28 people that it went out

[24:16] to people who are both residents and non-residents that don't property here because they may

[24:23] may not have heard what was going on. Again, just to get a little bit more information out there,

[24:30] see if we can get a little more response just to show up the numbers. But in general, the

[24:38] people on 106 are, I remember the percentage now. But it was about two thirds to three quarters.

[24:45] We're interested or feeling positive towards the project. The people on Tyson a little bit less,

[24:52] So I can't remember what the actual numbers were.

[24:55] But again, we wanted to just reach out one more time

[24:57] to see if we could get a little bit more response.

[25:00] So we asked people to respond either.

[25:03] There was a QR code that we had used initially

[25:05] to an online survey, and we also

[25:07] mailed with a paper survey that we'll come back

[25:10] to the town office, should they choose to mail it

[25:13] or deliver it, I guess, as well.

[25:16] So we're giving them until the end of September to do that.

[25:20] And then the other thing I want to talk a little bit

[25:22] about because Jonathan's here to back me up with some details, if necessary, but the next step

[25:28] in the process is to dig some test pits in the locations that we are looking at for the

[25:36] leech fields to make sure that they will actually work. And they're both dug test pits as

[25:42] well as boars. And so in order to proceed with that, Jonathan has amended the initial agreement

[25:51] to include that from a King standpoint, I guess, and we don't yet need some signature on that

[26:02] from the select board, but we will once it is reviewed by the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.

[26:10] I'm not sure if I got those all over the right order.

[26:14] It was just a bunch of initials and so they all review sort of the application, the amendment, early agreement, and it'll take about a month, probably for us to get a return from them.

[26:31] And then we can still proceed this fall with the testvets we'd have to date before the snow falls.

[26:37] The boring we probably do in the actual winter.

[26:41] And all of that information kind of goes forward too.

[26:44] Well, yes, can we do it?

[26:46] Can we put the late fields down there or will this soil support it?

[26:50] And then that information also goes into the preliminary engineering report, which is what the

[26:57] feasibility study is part of and so there's a little bit more information

[27:00] that we need to work through in order to kind of get to the point where we're ready to say,

[27:08] all right, this is what it's going to be and this is how we need to go out and get permits and bits and bits.

[27:13] Just a whole recommendation to the tap.

[27:15] Yep.

[27:18] So, sorry, I mean, that's kind of where we're at.

[27:20] I have a bunch more information about kind of timeline, but I'm open to questions and I don't know what you're talking about.

[27:26] Is there a financial obligation from the town to go ahead and do the test pits in the board?

[27:33] It is covered by finding a hundred percent for giveable loan.

[27:40] And so...

[27:41] Yes, there's finding it all, but it's not out of pocket for us. Thanks a lot. Thank you.

[27:46] Thank you. Thank you for taking over.

[27:52] Yeah.

[27:53] do that. I'm sure they will. It's very appreciated. So I don't know. I think I have any questions

[28:00] for Don't hesitate to, since he actually is here. I don't know if you have anything more to say

[28:04] John, to cover what I said. No, it's great. That's a good story. All right. Thank you. I'm sorry.

[28:12] Yeah. I think that my family would be that for most people, it turns out to be when, when to the

[28:23] little further in the process without having to write a check to anybody is about a bit of it.

[28:31] And it's still going to be a very long process, but you know, I feel like we just

[28:35] keep pushing it down the road and see if we can and then see if it works.

[28:42] And that is also assuming then that the two sites are the landowners or a

[28:47] Yes, then the conversation has been out. Yeah, they've been spoken to. I think I went before we actually go and dig. I would reach out to them

[28:55] So let them know if that's what we're planning to do and make sure they're still on board. Great. So yeah, thank you Lisa

[29:07] Thank you

[29:07] Thank you Jonathan

[29:09] Thank you.

[29:14] Thank you.

[29:16] All right.

[29:18] Any comments?

[29:20] Thoughts like this, not really.

[29:23] Tax rails for 2026.

[29:26] Turn it out.

[29:28] Come on.

[29:31] Have you all received?

[29:32] Yeah.

[29:36] So for me.

[29:38] Who do you know?

[29:39] I don't know, Esther assures me one was sad.

[29:46] I was gonna say, I, I've been on get it.

[29:51] Esther, thank you for all the work.

[29:52] Yes, thank you very much, Esther.

[29:55] You guys have gone above the, in the end.

[29:59] Bye.

[30:00] And it tests from comments that it was a struggle to make an understanding of police. So thanks to both of you for getting it done, at least what six weeks, eight weeks, ahead of time.

[30:15] So,

[30:18] well, it's not ahead of it to do date, so any other?

[30:29] Well, there's any more word on the group on the sixth edition of the school.

[30:34] On the sixth edition of the school?

[30:36] I have not heard word theory in the last two or three months.

[30:43] At least nothing more.

[30:45] The last thing that I heard, I think you were at the meeting was scheduled for construction

[30:51] and just bring false or spring and summer of 2007.

[30:57] I haven't heard that that's been pushed back and haven't heard where it stands.

[31:08] Any other other thing,

[31:14] thank you folks all for coming, we will get the closure done between

[31:20] I'm now in the edit of the month and both in there.

[31:27] The only thing I can say, Chase, is if things progress faster than they have been

[31:34] and you start to see some issues prior to that date, it was called, it was

[31:42] a matter of taking

[31:42] a couple of signs up there and just come.

[31:49] Oh, sir?

[31:50] May I?

[31:51] All set.

[31:52] All right.

[31:55] Thank you.

[31:55] Everybody.

[31:56] Thanks, everybody.

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