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right, we're gonna call the meeting to
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of allegiance.

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United States of America
for it stands nationy.

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Please remain standing for a moment of
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Thank you.
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Next item on the agenda, we have
resolution and proclamation for our

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valictorian and validatoran. Um, should
I read it down there or up here? Just

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think a microphone would be a little
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here. Um,

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all right. Going to read our resolution.
Um whereas Pier Pierce uh Pierce I'm so

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sorry is valid Victorian of the Char
regional high school class of 2025

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whereas is a student of the highest
caliber and whereas Pier will be

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attending ween college in Northern Mass
where she will be studying biochemistry

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with plans to attend medical school and
whereas has been involved with Girl

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Scouts and whereas was co-president of
the earth club and whereas Kira was a

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varsity soccer player for two years,
then volunteered to coach girls U1 team

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through Ocean State North Kingtown
soccer. And whereas every resident of

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the Cherokee community is extremely
proud of her. Now, therefore, it be

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resolved that the members of the town
council and the town of Richmond hereby

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congratulate Kira Pierce for her
outstanding academic and extracurricular

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achievements and wish her the best of
luck as she continues her education and

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pursues her dreams. Be it further
resolved that this resolution shall

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become a permanent part of the official
record of the town uh council of the

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town of Richmond given under seal of the
town of Richmond the 17th day of June

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2025. Congratulations.

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I'll read the other one then we'll do a
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whereas Maya Iskander, Salatoran of the
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2025, is a student of the highest
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National Honor Society and whereas has
been captain of the girls volleyball

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team her senior year and whereas was
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the vocal athletes advocating against
substance abuse. And whereas Maya was a

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volunteer
uh dosent I don't thank you at the

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Misfit Aquarium. And whereas Maya will
study biochemistry with a Spanish minor

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on prehealth track at the University of
Florida. And whereas every resident of

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the Cherhill community is extremely
proud of her. Now therefore, it be

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resolved
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of the town of Richmond hereby
congratulate Maya Iskander for her

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outstanding academic and extracurricular
achievements and wish her the best of

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luck as she continues her education and
pursues her dreams. Be it further

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resolved that this resolution shall be a
permanent part of the official record of

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the town council of the town of Richmond
given under seal of the town of Richmond

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the 17th day of June 2025.
Congratulations.

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Now, could we please have a motion to
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motion to approve the resolutions
honoring the charo validictorian and

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saludiatory.
Second. All right. Um, any council

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discussion? We'll go for I just want to
say it's been a while since I've been to

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graduation. And I went more than 10
years ago when my older kids were in in

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graduate from Charo and I loved it then
and I went this past year as a member

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council and it's just such a great
ceremony and very uplifting. So I know

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people don't like to go out on Friday
night but if you got nothing better to

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do next year on the night of graduation,
you should definitely go because it's

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it's it's great to see the the energy
and the pride that every student has on

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their face when they go up and and get
their diploma. So it's it is a great

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makes you feel good when you leave. So
awesome. Thank you. Right. So we'll go

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for a roll call vote. Councelor
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yes. And Will Cox, yes. Congratulations
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You just need the white version.
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[Music]

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Yeah, we're stand up picture.
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you want to like present them?

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Oh, I didn't get a script before this.
You only graduate once. Congratulations,

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please.

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What I said, there council I should
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but he's not here. Okay.
We really appreciate it. Congratulations

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again. Have a good night.

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You don't usually get invited to the
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I can't hear.

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I don't want her to sit up. You can have
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All right. Are we ready to continue on?
All right. Um, next we have the public

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hearings.
I have a motion to open a public hearing

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for the Preserve Property Management
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Uh motion to open the public hearing on
the outdoor entertainment uh license of

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Preserve Property Management Company LLC
for the clubhouse range and Hilltop

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Lodge.
Second. Have a motion or a second. Any

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council? Well, we'll just open the
public hearing. Councelor Gins, yes.

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Madnik, yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will
Cox, yes. All right, so we have our

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public hearing open. Any council
discussion before we go to the public?

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Yeah, just so they're we're requesting
waivers. We just had this come up at a

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previous town council meeting. The
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charitable, or civic organizations. So,
I know this is a unique situation.

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Preserve is a very unique business in
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of things?
Past councils have um done a motion to

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approve without waiverss. There's never
been an issue there before, so I don't

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anticipate there being one again. So if
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do it again.
So moved. Well, I meant like after we

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close the public hearing. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. When we get there.

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Getting ahead of myself here.
All right. Any other council discussion?

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Anybody from the public want to speak on
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All right. Um have a motion to close
public hearing. So moved. Second. All

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right. All right, we got our motion, our
second. We'll go for our vote. Councelor

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Dinsour, yes. Madnick, yes. Reynolds,
yes. Will Cox, yes. Um, now we'll go for

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that motion, please. Councelor Maddick.
Yeah. A motion to um

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approve the outdoor entertainment
license for Preserve Property Management

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Company LLC, the Clubhouse Range and
Hilltop Lodge located at 87 Kingtown

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Road between the dates of June 2025 and
June 2026

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with dates varying by event.
I'll second it. Um, any further council

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discussion? All right, we'll go for our
roll call vote. Councelor Dinsmore, yes.

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Radnick, yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will
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Okay, on to our next public hearing. We
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for Richmond Smoke. Can I have a motion
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All right. Go ahead. It's on the
designated uh hearing opener. Uh motion

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to open a public hearing on the outdoor
entertainment license of Richmond Smoke,

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1219 Main Street. Um second. I'll second
it. And we'll go for a roll call vote.

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Councelor Dinsour, yes. Madnick, yes.
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. Our

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public hearing is open. Any council
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Nope. Um I had a note just to mention
that last year there was a noise

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complaint. I'm going to still approve
the license, I think. But, um, I just

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wanted to say to the public, if you have
an an issue with noise, there's a proper

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venue for reporting that. Um, so I'd
encourage you to do so because even if

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we issue these licenses, those
ordinance, noise ordinances are still in

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place. And I guess as a reminder to the
applicant as well, they're in place. Any

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other council discussion?
Council, I see. No, I was I was just

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going to add I was going to you
mentioned alluded to I was going to ask

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the chief if the if there had been noise
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All right. Anyone from the public have
anything they'd like to share? Sure. Go

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ahead, Mr. Benson.

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Uh Dave Benson, Wyoming, Rhode Island.
You've already alluded to this. Um

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I rise, Madam President, to speak
against this application. Uh I live

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about a thousand feet from the venue.
I live in a very quiet neighborhood

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called Canab Park. Many of you know it.
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Uh it's very quiet except at this time
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That's kind of the extent of the noise.
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I and I don't presume to speak for
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I understand that the town ordinance
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200 ft. And looking online, I find that
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the noise from your vacuum cleaner.
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is annoying,
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highway noise and the gunfire from the
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I talked to the last council about noise
in general. Um, and I'll tell you the

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same story now that I told them. Uh, my
son lives in Pucket. He was down for

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dinner one night. It was a summer. Uh
there was quite a loud concert at that

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venue. Gunfire from the preserve, lots
of highway noise. And he said, "It's

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definitely quieter. It It's definitely
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which kind of struck me.
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I think after that one particularly
egregious concert, they managed to tone

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things down a little bit. Uh just
wondering if there's any way you can

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uh mandate some sort of monitoring of
the noise levels uh when these concerts

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take place. Thank you. Thank you.
Anybody else from the public like to

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speak? Go ahead.
Um when you get to the podium, please

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state your name for the record.

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Um, I'm Oriana Kenyon. I'm the general
manager over at Richmond Smoke. Um, I

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recently took over uh at the end of
February. Um, I have a couple of staff

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members here as well. Um, I would just
like to say that I do agree that last

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year it was
too loud for the community, but since I

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have taken over in charge, we have
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like not a lot of metal anymore. It's
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like things here and there. We are
trying to be respectful of the community

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and everything else and trying to, you
know, abide by everybody and try to make

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them happy as well because we do know
that, you know, sound travels and

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everything, but we we respect the
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we just, you know, we keep that in mind
now. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you.

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Anybody else from the public or anybody
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All right. We have a motion to close
public hearing, please. Motion to close

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the public hearing. Second. All right.
Our motion, our second. Uh, councelor

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Jensler, how do you vote? Yes. Madnik,
yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes.

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Um, okay. So, now could we have a motion
on the license? Motion to approve the

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outdoor entertainment license for
Richmond Smoke 1219 Main Street between

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June November Fridays, Saturdays, and
Sundays 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

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Second. All right. So, we have our
motion and our second. We'll go for our

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roll call vote. Counselor, can we just
Oh, further discussion. Yeah, I go

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ahead. I I just want to you did but I I
want to thank Miss Kenyon for for

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stepping up and let letting us know the
change in you know circumstances there

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and I would if you haven't already maybe
encourage you to exchange contact

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information with Mr. Bankston just so if
there is an issue you guys can can talk

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about it and uh you know maybe you could
check in with him just to check in just

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you know I but I appreciate you stepping
up and being here and wanting to make

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things uh you know good for everybody.
So, I appreciate that.

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All right. Any other council discussion?
All right. Um, councelor Dmore, how do

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you vote? Yes. Madnick? Yes. Reynolds?
Yes. And Will Cox? Yes. Um, all right.

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So, it's all for our public hearings.
Now, we have licenses.

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First one is an application from the
preserve Hilltop White Birch um for a

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one-year indoor entertainment license.
Motion to approve the indoor

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entertainment license for Preserve
Property Management LLC, the Hilltop

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White Birch, located at two Bumblebee
Lane for a one-year license.

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Second. All right, we have our motion
and our second. Any council discussion

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on this one?
All right. Um, we'll go for a roll call

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vote. Councelor Dinsmore, yes. Madnick,
yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes.

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Another out uh indoor entertainment
license. Uh, another for the preserve

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clubhouse double barrel. Motion to
approve the indoor entertainment license

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for preserve property management LLC
clubhouse double barrel at 87 Kingtown

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Road for a one-year license.
All right. Second. We got a motion. I

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second. Any council discussion on this
one? Madam Chair. Yes. Sure. So, I just

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want to note to the residents and the
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there's an interesting circumstance here
where the preserve is asking multiple

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licenses here for both outdoor and and
indoor entertainment licenses. And the

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reason they're asking for both is that
some of their indoor events may end up

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being outdoors. So
I know the the preserve it sometimes um

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you know can be polarizing in this town
but I just want to point out that they

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are requesting both licenses
for outdoor indoor indoor entertainment

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which is setting a good example I think
for the rest community case and indoor

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entertainment event does end up outside
they have the proper licenses in hand

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awesome
any further council discussion all right

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we'll go for our roll call vote
councelor Dinsmore yes madnick Yes.

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Reynolds. Yes. And Will Cox. Yes.
Thank you. Um, now we're on to our new

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hires.
We have first discussion and

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consideration of Brian Sheay for summer
camp director.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Assistant summer camp
director. I'm not liking my screen

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today. I'm going to blame everything on
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Um,
I have a motion on this item. I'll make

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a motion to approve the the hiring of
Brian Sheay's assistant summer camp

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director. Second. Sure. We have our
motion, our second. Any council

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discussion on this one? Brian here. No,
he's not.

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All right. Um, so we'll go for a roll
call vote. How do you vote? Councelor

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Dinsmore, yes. Madnick, yes. Reynolds,
yes. And Will Cox, yes. All right. Now,

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we have discussion consideration of
hiring the summer camp counselors. Um,

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we can do this all in one motion, I'm
assuming and hoping. Thank you. Motion

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to hire the following summer camp
counselors.

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Erica Christensen, Julia Al Fontaine,
Amanda Moira, Isabelle Woody, Haley

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Silva, Joe Mcnite, Alexis Dugas,
Joselyn Pazuti,

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Elena.
Tried to practice that one. I apologize.

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Joseph Kuna, Audrey Oscorus,
Daffhne Grim.

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Second. Right. So, we have a motion or a
second. Any council discussion on hiring

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camp counselors
counselors here? No, they don't need to

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come. Kaitlin, do you want do you want
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Question. No, I didn't know if you
wanted to say anything. That's No, I

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don't have any questions. They don't
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ready to say something and then they
didn't ask me. No, no, no. Even if we

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don't ask you, I mean staff always does
just say like raise they raise their

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hand if they're sitting out there and
they want to say something. So, um Okay,

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it's all good. So, we'll go for a roll
call vote. Councelor Densor, yes. Yes.

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Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. All
right. Uh discussion and consideration

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of hiring Arthur Burton as a DPW driver.
labor, truck driver, laborer. I have a

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motion on this item. A motion to
hire author Burton as DPW truck driver

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laborer. Second. Thank you. We got a
motion and our second. Any council

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discussion on this item? Mr. Burton
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How you doing? Good. How are you? How
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opportunity to people we're hiring or
appointing to say anything they want. We

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don't have to. It's not interrogation or
anything. No, I know. I I love Richmond.

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is a great town, beautiful people, and I
look forward to making a positive impact

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here.
Awesome. Great. Thank you.

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All right, so we'll go for a roll call
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yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes.
Welcome to the party. Thank you.

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Appointments and resignations. We have
discussion and uh consideration request

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for a planning board appointment with
one vacancy. We have two applicants for

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this one. Uh Nancy Hess and Christopher
Serpia. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing

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that. Um are applicants online or here?
NH.

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And um Christopher, if you're online,
please raise your hand, let us know

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you're there. Um, what I was thinking we
could do is hear from both applicants

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kind of like we did with other ones when
we have one position and two applicants

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and then we'll put a motion on the floor
for decision making

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here behind us. Nancy, you should have
audio.

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I'm going to face. Good evening.

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Good evening. We can hear you.

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Um, did you want to share a little bit
about why you're interested in the or

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coming back to the position? Um,
anything else you'd want to share with

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us is great as well.
Uh, sure. I've been a town resident for

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about 35 years. And of that time, I
think 20 or more, I have been a previous

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volunteer for the planning board. Uh,
with the recent brief hiatus, um, I

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think that's probably one of the longer
serving members. I am a professional

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planner. I worked for the federal
government, the private sector, three

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municipalities in Washington County, and
currently employed by statewide

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planning. So, I would like to return to
volunteering and helping my own

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community with my planning skills.
Awesome. Thank you so much, Erin. Did we

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find our other applicant on there?

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I don't have a raised hand unless it's
Miss Taylor Swift or resident Richmond

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resident GWP.

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You can chat if you can't raise your
hand. I would love to have Taylor Swift

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on our planning board, but I don't think
she's a Richmond resident.

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Maybe West will take her.

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All right. Um, so with him not being
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we'll go straight into our motions. Um,
did he say anything? Cuz sometimes

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applicants reach out in advance, say,
"Hey, something came up." Okay. Just

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making sure. All right. Motion to
appoint Nancy Hus to the planning board.

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Term expiring January 31st, 2026.
Second. All right. Any council

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discussion on this item?

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Yeah, sure. Go ahead, Mark. I just say
thank Nancy for coming back. I think,

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you know, she'd be a great addition. Her
experience obviously is speaks for

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itself and I think she'll be again a
great addition to the planning board.

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Again,
agreed. Yeah, for sure. Um, all right,

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we'll go for a roll call vote. Councelor
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yes. And Will Cox, yes. All right, on to
our next item. Discussion consideration

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for renewal for senior activities of
Joan Bergus for renewal to the senior

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activities committee. I have a motion to
approve this, please. So moved. Second.

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All right. Any council discussion
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I don't see her here.
All right. So, we'll go for a roll call

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vote. Councelor Dinsmore, yes. Madnick,
yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes.

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All right. On to we have Jacqueline
Lombardo. Request for renewal to the

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Senior Activities Committee with a term
expiring May 31st, 2028. Can I have a

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motion to approve this? So moved.
Second. All right. Uh any council

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discussion?
All right. Okay, we'll go for our vote.

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Councelor Dinsel, yes. Madnick, yes.
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. Now we

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have discussion and consideration of
Jeffrey Noble's request for appointment

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to the finance board. He is here trying
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If you don't mind just stepping up and
sharing a little bit of your interest in

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the finance board.

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Hi, Jeff Noble. Uh Richmond resident for
10 years. Um I already serve on the

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board of uh tax assessment review and uh
given the

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process of the last budget and the
referendum, not just like the results of

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the referendum, but also the process
seeing you guys up here going through

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line by line. You're doing a lot of
work. I thought maybe I could help out

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uh to alleviate that work by
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I also thought maybe um there's an issue
with communication, you know, as we've

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seen some misinformation came out about
the budget and I'd like to try and

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provide more information to the public
because this is truly a unique situation

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in my experience having lived several
different states and different even a

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different country you know a direct
democracy basically of approval of an

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annual budget and so
the executive authority for lack of a

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better term, actually rests with the
voters through the referendum. And it's

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difficult for voters to make informed
decisions unless they have all the

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facts. So, I'm hoping to take the budget
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make a better presentation to the public
so they can make informed decisions

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about what they're voting for and make
the town better. So, that's my spiel.

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That's awesome. Sounds like a good idea.
Any questions? Let's see. Anybody have

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any questions for Mr. Noble. All right.
Um, thank you. So, we'll go for a

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motion, please. Motion to appoint
Jeffrey W. Noble to the finance board

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with term expiring November 30th, 2029.
Second. All right. Any further council

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discussion?
All right. Uh, thank you for stepping up

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for another board. I look forward to
that idea actually have more information

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from the finance board to the public. I
think that'll be really helpful in

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future years just so people can learn
more about the process and get more

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information
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Um, yeah. Thank you. We'll go for a roll
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Madnick, yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will
Cox, yes. Thank you.

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Um, we have a resignation of Christine
Donahghue from the dog park committee. I

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have a motion to accept. With regrets,
please. Motion to accept the uh

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resignation of Christine Donahghue from
the dog park committee with regrets.

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Second. Any council discussion? All
right. Um councelor Dmore, how do you

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vote? Yes. Madnik? Yes. Reynolds? Yes.
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I think we all want to skip this next
one. Say, did we have make a motion? We

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can't leave.
We even have our towns lister voting

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against it. Um all right. Uh motion to
accept Karen Pinch's resignation with

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regret. Second.
Any council discussion

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and with and with great thanks for her
many years and dedication to say our

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silence is sadness.

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Enjoy your retirement. Thank you.
All right. So we'll go for a roll call

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vote. Councelor Densmore. Yes. Madnick.
Yes. Reynold. Yes. And Will Cox. Yes.

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All right. On to our But you're not
leaving yet? No. No. No.

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On to the consent agenda. Do we have
anybody have anything they want to pull?

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Yes. 2C, please. 2C. The finance report.
Okay. Can I have a motion to pull the

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others?
Approve. Sorry. Yeah. Approve. Motion to

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approve the remainder of the consent
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Second. All right. We have a motion or a
second. Any council discussion on these?

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All right. Um, council Moretti vote.
Yes. Madnick. Yes. Reynolds. Yes. And

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Will Cox. Yes. All right. What would you
like to talk about in the um finance

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director's report? All right. Bear with
me, Danielle. I got a couple questions

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coming at you and for the council. All
right. So, let me just uh scroll down

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here because there's a number of pages
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Danielle should know by now. I do read
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All right. So, I was looking at um the
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we just got to find the right page here.

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Revenue. So, in miscellaneous income
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The projection and the budget was
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So, we've doubled the income. And then I
went and I looked down um further on in

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the detail for income and I saw that the
detail pay for police officers was way

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higher than what we expected. So I think
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I'm understanding this, we get paid for
the detail pay and that detail pay then

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gets transferred to the police officers.
Yes, we pay the police officers after

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they do it immediately and then we get
reimbursed from the companies that do

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it. But if you look at the net here
detail revenue and then you look at the

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detail pay, you kind of have to subtract
those two, right? And that will give you

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what's left over. Okay. So there there's
no additional revenue coming into town

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for that. It's one to one. It's just
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the cruisers they do and we put that
aside into the um police

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for the capital purchase. Okay.
Um, just as a reminder, last time I was

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told that you were very quiet in the
meeting, so I can hear you fine. I don't

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know how you're coming across online on
Zoom and I'm all right. I just wanted to

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make sure.
Okay. And then I think we pretty much

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know what's going on here, but I just
want to bring it up. So, our legal

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services has almost doubled the
projections and there's um

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there's been quite a bit of litigation
and it took me a little bit of time to

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find it. Now I'm trying to find it on
the expenses which is we page four. Page

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four. Yeah. Yeah. So, litigation is
$106,000 over our projections. And in

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order to really understand it, you had
to really you had to go down into the

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actual expenses. And there were some
fees in there from attorneys I wasn't

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familiar with. And I know this is coming
at you cold, but do you recall

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um what that litigation was for that
litigation line item is well it's

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honestly so high because of the
preserve.

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Okay. So there we have different um
where is that? Where is it? Is the Is

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there a specific law from your Yeah. No.
Well, there was one in there. I I

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noticed I'm going to find it.

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Was it? I think that was a label. Yeah.
Ah, okay. Police. Yep. Okay. And then it

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looks like
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of
revenue. So summary of activity year to

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date
are we expected to have almost $491,000

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of
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that am I reading that correctly? the
summary of activity are we expecting we

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still have a whole month left and
everybody has to get their bills in by

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the end of okay June so so we won't know
for another month okay I was just

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looking at the projections and wasn't
sure if that number was going to No we

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still have several weeks
okay expenses and then if we scroll down

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into expenses for on page 10
hoping this is just a pass through but

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there is

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there is a charge for $120
for portable toilets for the food truck

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event on May 8th.
It's just a pass through. Yep. Okay. Uh

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we just got the check. We just put it
in. All right. It gives us a check the

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day of the event. Okay. I want to make
sure that we got reimbured because it's

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very clear in that pay it. Yep. Okay.
Thank you for your time. All

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Motion to approve item 2C. Second. Any
further council discussion on this item?

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All right. Councelor Jens, how do you
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Will Cox, yes. All right.
Um, sorry, I'm going back to my agenda.

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We are on public forum. Um, the purpose
of public forum is to give members of

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the public an opportunity to address the
town council about items not on the

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agenda. We ask you to limit your
comments to three minutes. You have one

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opportunity to address the council
during public forum. This is out of

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courtesy uh for others who wish to speak
to ensure we have equal time for all.

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There will be a timer which will go off
when your three minutes are up so you

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know to finish. If you need more time,
we welcome you to submit your comments

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in writing to the town clerk to be
included as part of the record in the

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communication section of the agenda. Um
all comment should be directed to the

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president and not any other person
present. With that, do we have anybody

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who'd like to speak in public forum?
Sure. Go ahead, Mr. Ser.

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I'm just setting your timer.
I'm trying not to go over Bob say

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I just want to I know it's on the agenda
but it's already been voted on but I

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want to welcome Nancy Hess back and I
want to say how much we're going to miss

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this pinch. Um did a great job for the
town of Richmond. Um

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there's been some people that have stood
at this

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00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:54,640
podium that have made condescending
remarks about

410
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:59,760
the way this government is run against
people in this government and everything

411
00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:05,440
else. And it's funny, but they're not
here tonight. But I think that in this

412
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:09,679
day and age with all the stuff that's
happened, this is the elected town

413
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:18,000
council. If you've got a gripe with
them, bring it up. But to grandstand and

414
00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:25,359
make a big point about nothing, which
one in particular has done and then you

415
00:34:21,359 --> 00:34:30,079
go and you read some of the Westerly son
things and complains about them being,

416
00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:33,599
you know, other people being
condescending and everything else. I

417
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:38,800
think all this stuff needs to stop.
Let's treat people with respect like

418
00:34:36,399 --> 00:34:43,760
supposed to you're inelected positions.
I personally think this is the best town

419
00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:47,639
council I've seen a long time. Thank
you. Thank you.

420
00:34:47,839 --> 00:34:56,079
Go ahead. I have to get up there. You
can stay there. Thank you. I just want

421
00:34:53,200 --> 00:35:01,280
to say that I've I'm an old lady and I
have been here since we've had town

422
00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:07,599
administrators. I've known them all and
I am so sad to see Karen leave. She's

423
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:11,920
been an excellent one and I am very
sorry she's leaving. Thank you. You're

424
00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:15,160
very sweet.
Thank you.

425
00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:25,359
Anybody else from public forum? Anybody
online?

426
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:30,680
Nope. All right, we will go on to
reports. Lady of the hour. It's me.

427
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:37,359
All right. So, the first thing I want to
do is just share um some information

428
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:44,000
about the community center that we're
sharing with Hopington. Um Hopington is

429
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:50,000
currently renovating um a building that
was existing. They've gutted it. Um, I

430
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:54,200
did tour it on uh May 23rd and Erin
actually has some photos that

431
00:35:59,359 --> 00:36:07,119
um Sam had just asked me to kind of
answer a few questions while I was there

432
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:12,240
and one of them was like when is it
going to be done? So that'll be October

433
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:18,000
or November of this year um if all stays
on target. Um, as far as what services

434
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:22,560
they're going to provide, um, the state
actually had certain requirements in

435
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:28,960
order to get the grant money. Certain
activities had to take place there. Um,

436
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:34,880
that was, um, education,
uh, workforce readiness and health

437
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:38,400
initiatives. Um, so at a minimum, those
things will take place there. Although I

438
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:45,599
know they're also planning to do some
recreation activities there. Um, I did

439
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:50,960
send you all today the uh memorandum of
agreement with Hopington. Just um I know

440
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:55,520
you I don't think you were all here when
uh we signed to that. So, it's refresher

441
00:36:53,280 --> 00:37:02,320
for some and new information for others.
But we will have equal access to that um

442
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:08,240
at resident prices. So, whatever Hington
residents pay, if anything, for a uh

443
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:12,560
service, we would pay the same rate as
well.

444
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:18,160
um and have equal access so they
wouldn't get priority over Richmond

445
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:21,680
residents. Um
so um that's pretty much it on that

446
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:24,560
unless anyone has any questions on it.
Were you able to I sorry I wasn't paying

447
00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:27,920
attention. Were you scrolling through
all the Okay, thanks. I do have a

448
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:31,200
question. So one thing I read in that
contract is that it's only good for five

449
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:35,200
years. Is there an opportunity you think
to extend that? I'm sure there would be

450
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:39,040
an opportunity to reopen that
conversation. Yeah, that was something

451
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:43,359
that we had questioned as a council. We
did not think it wasn't our favorite

452
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:48,240
part of it. Um, but we were told by the
then solicitor that it was a part it was

453
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:54,240
limited because of the grant. Um,
because I don't know it it made sense

454
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:58,000
that they needed that to say it in order
for the grant process to go through.

455
00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,839
That was the reasoning we were given.
Fiveyear limit. Yeah. I'm hoping that

456
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:06,720
towards the end of the five years we can
extend it. If I remember correctly, the

457
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:10,640
five years is the time during which
those three activities have that are

458
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:16,960
mandated by the state have to take
place. Um, which is, you know, what we

459
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:22,640
gave our money for. So hopefully after
that time period, then we can

460
00:38:19,359 --> 00:38:26,880
renegotiate. I mean, we've lately had a
really good relationship with Hopington.

461
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,880
Um, so I don't see any reason why we
wouldn't.

462
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:35,920
Any other council questions or
discussions?

463
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:39,839
All right. Someone from the public. Oh,
sure. Yes. Just wanted to ask you where

464
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,079
is the building? Can you just um come to
the podium and state your name for the

465
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:49,119
record? I was going to be the same
thing. Location, location, location.

466
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:53,440
Julie, I'm just curious as to where the
building was. Are you familiar with the

467
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:59,520
Crannle House? Yes. It's that building
kind of behind it. Um, so the the old

468
00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:02,960
house is kind of right on the street and
it's like kind of through the parking

469
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:06,560
lot and right behind it. Very good.
Yeah. Thank you. And thank you for all

470
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:12,240
your services. We're wonderful.
Appreciate it. It's a great area over

471
00:39:09,119 --> 00:39:17,040
there with all the basketball courts.
Yeah. Fields fields. Yeah. Right.

472
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:20,800
Definitely.
All right.

473
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:25,760
On to our next one. Second item I have
is uh an approval for an easement with

474
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:30,880
Rhode Island Energy. Um, as you know, we
have the four log chlorination system

475
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:39,359
that's going in on KG Ranch Road and
this is just um for the um for the power

476
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:44,480
lines for that chlorination system.
Awesome. Can I have a motion on that?

477
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:50,000
Uh
motion to approve the easement with

478
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:54,880
Rhode Island Energy Naragans Electric
and Verizon to install utility pole at

479
00:39:53,200 --> 00:40:00,880
AP
uh 3V-2-00001

480
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:04,720
AG Ranch Road. Second. Awesome. Any
council discussion or questions?

481
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:10,640
All right, we'll go for our vote.
Councelor Dinsler, yes. Madnick, yes.

482
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:15,680
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. I
think that covers The next thing follow

483
00:40:13,839 --> 00:40:21,200
because you mentioned pole placement. We
may be able to. So the plan that was

484
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:28,400
attached will be included in a typical
pole placement petition. However, um

485
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:32,560
Verizon and Naragansa Electric who still
installs the poles for Rhode Island

486
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:38,000
Energy hadn't submitted the placement in
time. However, it's understood that that

487
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:41,680
is the location.
So you may be able to approve it

488
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:46,720
conditional
approve it the petition even though we

489
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:51,200
don't have a physical petition because
there is some time element to department

490
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:56,079
of health and a consent. Okay. So if we
made a motion to approve with consent

491
00:40:53,839 --> 00:41:00,160
that you you give a final approval later
just to make sure it's matches what we

492
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:03,839
have. Can we do that? Yeah. All right.
So I'm putting a motion on the floor.

493
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:08,319
Motion to approve uh the pole placement
petition um with the condition of a

494
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:13,359
final approval from our town
administrator. Second. Any council

495
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:16,640
discussion?
All right, we'll go for a roll vote.

496
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:21,520
Councelor Densler, yes. Adnick, yes.
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. All

497
00:41:19,839 --> 00:41:25,040
right, one more item. Thank you. Yeah,
the last thing I have actually, we were

498
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:31,680
going to have someone from GZA on the
call and I don't know if he's on. He

499
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:35,520
sent an email um a little before 4 today
saying he had his daughter's dance

500
00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:40,720
recital, but he sent me a whole update
that I can read if he's not here yet.

501
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:47,839
Okay.
Um so this is again an update for the

502
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:52,640
environmental study that's going on at
for Richmond Townhouse Road. Um, so we

503
00:41:50,319 --> 00:41:56,560
said GZA environmental consultant was
contacted by the town to assist with the

504
00:41:54,560 --> 00:42:00,800
four Richmond townhouse road
redevelopment projects

505
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:05,440
being funded by the US Department of
Housing and urban urban development. HUD

506
00:42:03,359 --> 00:42:09,440
requires an environmental review for all
funded projects. The environmental

507
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:13,280
review is conducted to assess the
potential environmental impacts of a

508
00:42:11,119 --> 00:42:17,040
project that is funded by HUD. The
environmental review is a mandatory

509
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:20,560
process before any funds can be spent on
the project.

510
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:25,599
site is located directly across from the
town hall adjacent to Cherhaho

511
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:30,560
furniture. Approximately 5.0
acre currently vacant property is mostly

512
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:34,400
underdevelop undeveloped woodland with a
portion previously cleared and used as a

513
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:39,119
staging area for the recent Ry dot
roadway improvement project. Propos

514
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:44,079
proposed project is the development of a
community recreation space consisting of

515
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:48,000
a pre-fabricated pavilion with ADA
compliant restrooms and accessible

516
00:42:45,839 --> 00:42:52,800
parking and associated septic and
utilities. The ER takes into account

517
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:58,000
many factors including the surrounding
environment, natural resources, air,

518
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:03,040
water, soil quality, and human health
among others. The ER is completed in

519
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:08,000
sections for review by the HUD assigned
project manager. Once sections have gone

520
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:11,920
through the pre-review process, they are
compiled and submitted to HUD for

521
00:43:09,599 --> 00:43:16,319
official approval. The pre-review
process is designed to streamline the

522
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:21,040
approval process once officials
submitted officially submitted. We are

523
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:25,440
currently in the pre-review process with
many sections with the HUD product

524
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:30,240
project manager. Several community
notifications take place as part of the

525
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:35,119
review. required notifications have been
sent to aerial uh area tribal

526
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:39,760
communities, historic preservation
society, etc. So they are made aware of

527
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:45,280
the project and for their comment. These
letters were sent on May 25th to various

528
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:50,800
entities. They have 30 days to respond.
If no response, then we may proceed. As

529
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:55,040
of 61725, we have not received any
responses.

530
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:58,480
Currently waiting on HUD's pre-review of
several sections. They've expressed

531
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,440
their apologies for the delay in review,
but they are currently severely

532
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,960
understaffed with this project being
passed along to a West Coast

533
00:44:03,359 --> 00:44:08,640
representative.
Lastly, although the ER has not been

534
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,960
finalized, the results of our review
find that we do not anticipate any

535
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:18,079
adverse impacts that would require an
alteration the proposed project or

536
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:22,880
standard away.
Sounds all good. Awesome. Anybody have a

537
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:27,440
question on that?
All right. Thank you, Karen. Sure. All

538
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:33,920
right. So, we'll go on to the chief's
report.

539
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:41,280
Everybody, good evening. How are you
folks? How are you chief?

540
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:46,640
I have to comment like everybody else.
To serve with Karen Pence for the last

541
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:51,119
10 years has been you really you are
somebody to be proud of and truly have

542
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:55,200
integrity. I don't know how you keep
track of all the things that you juggle

543
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:59,920
on a daily basis, but it's impressive.
You'll be missed and I wish you very

544
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:03,920
happy retirement.
Uh, I just wanted to update you on Derek

545
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:07,920
Adams. He's the patrol officer that we
hired back in January to fill one of two

546
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:14,240
vacant positions. One of those was
tragically caused by the death of Sy

547
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:18,800
back in October. He is everything that
we hoped he was going to be. He

548
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:23,200
graduated high in his class. He was six
out of 44 when they add up all the

549
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:28,480
points as to academics, athletic
performance. Um the director of the

550
00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:33,200
academy actually called me. We had a
conversation. He said, "You got a really

551
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:37,920
good guy there. Good luck keeping him."
He said, "He's he's the kind of person

552
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:42,079
he'll fit in any." And he he's very
attentive and he's been in FTO. So what

553
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:46,480
happens is the academy goes on for about
five months. And when you graduate from

554
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:50,160
that, you have about 14 weeks of field
training. senior officer who's been

555
00:45:48,319 --> 00:45:54,240
trained in observations of all the
requisite skill sets that you need. I

556
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,680
mean, the most important thing is hiring
the right person that has the right

557
00:45:55,359 --> 00:46:01,760
personality, has integrity, cares about
the public, they're going to succeed

558
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:06,480
because that's what the public wants and
they create less problems because in in

559
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:12,960
his instance, he really treats people
respectfully professionally. But the FTO

560
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:18,560
uh trainers are so impressed with him at
his level of attention to detail, taking

561
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:22,160
notes while he's learning, trying to get
the best performance he can on himself.

562
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:27,520
Just really impressive. So he's in a
position, probably has about 10 weeks to

563
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:31,760
go depending on where he's at at that
time, but right now he's right on track.

564
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:37,599
I'd like to thank the field training
officers behalf

565
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:42,400
Taylor and Andy Bry filled in.
Awesome. Thank you so much. Thanks,

566
00:46:39,359 --> 00:46:47,280
Chief. All right.
Um, we're not in a public forum. We're

567
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:50,800
adding to the town clerk's report. We're
on I wanted to follow the chief if you

568
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:55,920
didn't mind. It has something to do with
the police department. Um, sure. Bravo.

569
00:46:54,079 --> 00:47:00,480
Um, I've been at the high school for
quite a while now. And the chief sent

570
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:05,440
overman
Mike Ellis who just Today's the last day

571
00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:12,480
of school at Cherokee.
Patrolman Ellis was the SRO did a

572
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:16,880
remarkable job for the high school. Not
only did he take care of the kids, but

573
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:22,240
you found out that the kids approached
him and had conversations with him

574
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:28,240
initiated by students. That's
unbelievably wonderful. That goes to the

575
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:32,560
professionalism of him and also of our
chief for giving him to us. And I want

576
00:47:30,319 --> 00:47:36,880
to shout out to him. Perhaps the town
council in the future might want to have

577
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:41,760
a commendation for this for this
gentleman. Thank you. Thank you. I

578
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:49,440
agree. He's amazing. Excuse me. Do you
mind if we grab your name, sir? Your

579
00:47:43,839 --> 00:47:56,960
name for the record. Oh, Cardos of C do
River Junction. Robert, thank you.

580
00:47:53,200 --> 00:48:04,560
All right. On to our clerk's report.
Okay. So, um, based on last week's

581
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:10,000
vote. I confirmed with Danielle in her
timelines and the board of elections and

582
00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:14,000
um I think we alluded that we could
probably have it July 1st. However,

583
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:19,520
that's Fourth of July and I have
concerns of having enough pole workers.

584
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:26,000
Um plus having a popular holiday
vacation might not be ideal for a vote.

585
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:30,400
So, Tuesday, July 8th is what is
proposed and the voting hours the same.

586
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:34,079
will be here at town hall from 8 am to
8.

587
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:40,079
All right, that sounds good to me. Do we
have a motion to approve this date?

588
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:46,880
A motion to uh set the date for the uh
Richmond budget referendum on July 8th,

589
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:50,960
2025, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Second. All
right, so we got our motion, our second.

590
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:55,200
Any council discussion?
All right, roll call vote. Council

591
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:59,520
Dinsour, yes. Fick, yes. Reynolds, yes.
And Will Cox, yes. I see you need us to

592
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:04,079
approve the ballot question as well.
Yes. So I don't know if it's the

593
00:49:01,119 --> 00:49:09,599
preference of the council to have the
previous question

594
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:16,079
which was um shall the Richmond
municipal budget for fiscal year 2526 as

595
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:23,359
adopted by the town council
or should you want a new one that has to

596
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:28,559
let the printer know. Okay.
I like it as is. Um anyway, my only

597
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:31,440
thought was to add the word revised
since it was revised. So people

598
00:49:30,079 --> 00:49:36,400
understand it's different than it was
before. But that's six of one half does.

599
00:49:34,559 --> 00:49:43,040
I think at least it's clear that this is
a revised from the pre previous.

600
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,880
I support that.
You want to put it into a motion? Sure.

601
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:51,119
I make a motion to approve the ballot
question just to add the word revise to

602
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:55,359
what
Erin just stated. Where would you want

603
00:49:54,079 --> 00:49:59,839
you to say the question like where do
you want it to say revised as revised by

604
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:04,720
the Richmond Town the revised budget
adopted by Richmond Town Council?

605
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:10,240
Perfect. The Richmond municipal budget
for fiscal year 2526 as revised and

606
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:14,480
adopted by the town council be approved.
Sure. Second.

607
00:50:12,319 --> 00:50:20,079
Any council discussion on that? All
right. Council vote. Yes. Madnick. Yes.

608
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:25,520
Reynolds. Yes. And Will Cox? Yes. All
right. Thank you, Aaron. on to our EMA

609
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:31,680
director's report. Um, Nicholas, you are
here. Tried to hide, but we called you

610
00:50:28,559 --> 00:50:34,559
anyway. Um, thank you so much for
getting this to us. Yeah, I'll turn it

611
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:40,960
over to you to share what you'd like to
share. Um, so just I met with uh Talia

612
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:46,079
and Gary. Talia is our town planner.
Gary, our DPW director, reviewed the

613
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:52,800
items that were presented as uh hazards.
There were 29 in total first in 2022.

614
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:57,599
Um, I went through basically kind of sat
down with them to try to guess and I

615
00:50:55,680 --> 00:51:02,880
shouldn't say guess decide where we're
at on those items and move forward if we

616
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:09,680
need to move forward on them. Um, I sent
the memo to Karen. I believe she

617
00:51:05,599 --> 00:51:13,760
forwarded on to all of you as well. Um,
basically we just I laid out every

618
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:18,400
question um in reference back to the
hazardification plan to try to get um

619
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,920
you guys as much information as
possible.

620
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:26,079
Uh most of the items are either in
progress, have been completed, or have

621
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:33,200
been addressed based on where they're
going to be in their progress. So for

622
00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:38,559
that much, it's pretty much up to date
now. Awesome. Appreciate it. Any council

623
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:41,359
questions? Yes. Sure. Go ahead,
councelor Madnick. Bear with me. This is

624
00:51:40,319 --> 00:51:45,200
going to be a while because I read
through this whole thing. It was very

625
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:48,720
important that um we went through this.
So, I'm basically going to go down the

626
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:52,880
same numbering scheme that you provided
us based on the actions in the hazard

627
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:56,880
mitigation plan. I don't expect you to
know the answers to these questions, but

628
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:01,760
perhaps you can look into them and get
back to the council so we can decide um

629
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:06,640
how to take action. Very similar process
to how we went through the comprehensive

630
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:10,559
community plan. Um it's important that
we go through these and understand what

631
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:14,880
needs to get done and how the council
can help facilitate this because this is

632
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:18,720
really important to town residents. make
sure that we can um protect our town and

633
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:26,000
protect the safety of everyone that
lives here. Um okay, so um number one

634
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:29,839
which is the
uh implement the mitigation strategies

635
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:35,040
identified to reduce flood vulnerability
and routine damages in the lodge

636
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:40,319
neighborhood. So there is a grant um
through the natural resources

637
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:44,319
conservation district that was um
implemented to and awarded to study the

638
00:52:42,319 --> 00:52:49,920
flooding in Valley Lodge. Do we know
what the status of that study is? Do we

639
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:54,400
have any results on that? I do not. Um I
can try to get answers on that. U

640
00:52:52,319 --> 00:52:58,720
respectfully though with the with the
agenda item like listed as a hazard

641
00:52:56,319 --> 00:53:02,559
mitigation update, right? Should we be
getting into specifics of specific areas

642
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:06,319
in particular? I know people from Valley
Lodge get very upset and not upset like

643
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:11,280
passionate about their area. I would
just want to just proceed with caution

644
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:17,119
with getting too far into it. I don't
know. That could just be me because the

645
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:20,720
agenda item does just say um I'll go to
it because I have my notes up and it's

646
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:23,839
not fair that I can ask questions that
we ask. No, no, no. I'm not saying it's

647
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:26,640
not fair you can't ask questions.
Nobody's saying you can't ask questions.

648
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:30,720
It just says EMA director's report
annual hazard mitigation plan review. I

649
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:33,760
just with um the first question being
about Valley Lodge, it just gives me a

650
00:53:32,319 --> 00:53:37,839
little bit of pause just because I know
that a lot of people would want to be a

651
00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:41,280
part of that conversation um and be
notified of it. That's my concern. But I

652
00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:45,839
think that would be a concern I guess
for the solicitor to I think help us out

653
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:50,079
on
Sure. Go ahead. No, I I think the the

654
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:54,160
question is what's the status of the
study? That's

655
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:57,359
not what are we going to it's not a what
are we going to do about it. It's what's

656
00:53:55,599 --> 00:54:02,720
the status of this study. And I think
that's that's fair. Exactly. Why I'm

657
00:54:00,319 --> 00:54:06,640
saying when we go forward proceed with
caution and just give what we know, what

658
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:09,680
we don't know, and we'll come back later
with it actually being noticed on the

659
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:14,000
agenda.
Um, sure. Go ahead, Karen. I have some.

660
00:54:11,359 --> 00:54:20,319
She might have an answer. Actually, just
this week got uh an announcement from

661
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:30,079
NRCS about a stakeholders meeting
related to this PL 566 um project. And

662
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:35,960
that meeting is July 1st at 10:00 a.m.
at our community center in the second

663
00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:35,960
floor of the police station.

664
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:44,000
I can share that. with you all. That'll
be good to share everywhere. Yeah. I

665
00:54:42,559 --> 00:54:48,839
mean, I think we should put it on the
website and Facebook page as well.

666
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:02,960
Okay, I can uh I can move on. Um so I'm
just going to skip to the ones that have

667
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:06,559
been completed that are in progress. So
number three in the hazard hazard

668
00:55:04,559 --> 00:55:10,559
mitigation plan is elevate the road beds
at Mechanic Street and Switch Road at

669
00:55:08,559 --> 00:55:15,280
Diamond Brook, Pineh Hill at Metobrook,
and Pineh Hill at Whitebrook. So it says

670
00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:20,319
it's in progress. Um do you know which
portions of the road beds have been

671
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:24,319
elevated or um tended to? Uh I don't off
the top of my head. Um I have that

672
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:28,160
conversation with Gary and I honestly
don't remember off the top of my head.

673
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:32,319
Okay. Um if possible, do you think you
can Yeah, I can work with Gary and get

674
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:36,559
you that to the council. Okay.
Um for numbers four, five, and six on a

675
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:43,040
hazard mitigation plan, it had to do
with um potential acquisition of highly

676
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:48,559
floodprone properties, there are federal
um programs that allow for um purchase

677
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:52,400
of homes that keep getting flooded out,
but there's been no parties interested

678
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:57,119
in that. So, I just want to make that
statement. Um number seven is storm

679
00:55:54,880 --> 00:56:03,760
water management improvements and that
address runoff from 195 and three. Um,

680
00:56:02,079 --> 00:56:08,480
and I'm going to tie this in with number
eight, which as well, which is upgrading

681
00:56:06,319 --> 00:56:12,720
Colulberts to manage summer runoff for
one uh route 138. So, I guess the

682
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:17,599
question for you, Nick, is do you think
it's worthwhile to set up a meeting with

683
00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:21,200
Ry dot to talk about this? And if any
action has taken place and how we can

684
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:26,880
work together to try to mitigate it.
Yeah, absolutely. Um, I I don't have any

685
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:31,680
contacts with Ry. I'm still obviously
very new trying to get my feet wet with

686
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:35,920
every department in the state. Um, but
I'm going to This was just to get you

687
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:39,839
guys a report of where we were at from
what the information I was able to

688
00:56:37,119 --> 00:56:43,520
gather in the couple short months.
Absolutely. This, like I said, this is

689
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:49,599
great. Now that we have it, we can start
taking actions to try to move this thing

690
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:53,200
along. Um, that's what we're here for.
So, number nine is interesting. It's

691
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:58,559
update design storm precipion
precipitation amounts to for subdivision

692
00:56:55,520 --> 00:57:04,720
design. I know that Talia's here, so she
might pipe in with this one, but I don't

693
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:09,599
believe that the town manages or
regulates a storm water precipitation

694
00:57:06,319 --> 00:57:14,720
amounts has to do with RIM with the um
Rifties permits. Um does the town have

695
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:18,799
any input or control over how these
storm water management precipitation

696
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,079
calculations are performed? I'm not sure
on that.

697
00:57:20,559 --> 00:57:27,599
All would be the better one to speak on
that for sure. that

698
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:31,799
I'm not prepared to apply on that right
at this moment in time. Okay.

699
00:57:31,839 --> 00:57:39,119
Um, all right. So, number 10 was hire a
grant administrator to be tracking,

700
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:42,880
pursuing, and managing hazard mitigation
plan related grants. So, hazard

701
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:46,079
mitigation is going to be another focus
of the grant writer position that we

702
00:57:44,319 --> 00:57:50,319
just removed from the budget. So this is
going to be delayed until

703
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:54,799
the town is open to hiring a grant
writer to help with hazard mitigation

704
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:59,119
programs. So another reason why a grant
writer would have been important

705
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:05,119
position. Um
okay so moving on to

706
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:09,680
number 11 and kind of number 11 and 12
has to do with stream and river

707
00:58:06,799 --> 00:58:17,680
flooding. So, it's uh coordinating um
with town and local agencies and the DPW

708
00:58:13,839 --> 00:58:23,359
to um determine if there's any blockages
or debris in some of our waterways. So,

709
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:27,520
Nick, do you know if there's a an alert
system or some way that the residents

710
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:32,400
that we can maybe publish that the
residents can reach out to DPW if there

711
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:36,319
is a blockage that's creating flooding?
Uh usually anything that is discovered

712
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:40,799
is usually just called into the DVW
directly and they report it that way.

713
00:58:38,799 --> 00:58:44,480
Okay. Um if it's a major event, we open
the EOC, the emergency operations

714
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:48,240
center. It is staffed. We'll have
somebody there that takes those calls

715
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:52,640
while Gary is on the road helping,
assisting in other ways because we have

716
00:58:50,559 --> 00:58:58,160
a small crew. We have to do with what we
can. Um but we do put somebody from EMA

717
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:02,000
in the EOC to take those calls and try
to help in any way we can. Do do you

718
00:59:00,559 --> 00:59:07,040
think it's worthwhile to consider
putting something on the Richmond

719
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:12,799
website about contacting DPW if there is
some kind of blockage? Uh potentially.

720
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:16,559
Yeah. As as long as it's to it's address
it as major blockages that could

721
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:20,319
potentially cause more flooding and
damage to other properties. I think

722
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:25,359
that's the big thing. If it's a small
drain that's just a little puddle at

723
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:29,680
this point during a major event that
might be end up further down the list

724
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:36,000
than something that's majorly causing a
road to be closed or something like that

725
00:59:31,839 --> 00:59:42,799
where we have to address it right away.
All right. Um so moving on to numbers

726
00:59:38,079 --> 00:59:47,920
14, 15 and 16 in the plan which have to
do with um wetland restoration

727
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:52,799
um pursuing permanent land protection
for various parcels within within

728
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:58,480
Richmond um that happen to have be high
priorities for for flooding. So um has

729
00:59:56,240 --> 01:00:03,119
the conservation commission been engaged
at all about progress on these and if

730
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:08,240
there's any interest in moving forward
with some of these mitigation actions? I

731
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:13,280
haven't heard yet on that. Okay. Um, do
you think you can reach out to them?

732
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:17,040
Yes. And and ask if there's been any
move in and maybe we can have discussion

733
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:21,760
as a council and a conservation
commission on what we can do about

734
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:25,280
those.
Do you want to put that into a motion

735
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:29,760
for coun uh for a direction to town
employee? Yeah, I just gonna kind of

736
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:35,280
wait till the end. That was the first
direction I think I heard. Okay. All

737
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:40,559
right. So, I will make a motion to um
request our EMA director to reach out to

738
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:47,200
the conservation commission to discuss
items 14, 15, and 16 and their status in

739
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:50,640
the hazard migation bud. Second. Any
further council discussion on that one?

740
01:00:49,359 --> 01:00:55,520
All right, we'll go for our vote.
Councelor Dmore, yes. Madnick, yes.

741
01:00:52,880 --> 01:01:01,440
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. All
right, on to your next question. We're

742
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:06,960
almost there. There's 29 of these, so um
just

743
01:01:02,799 --> 01:01:10,799
plus do we know on so number 17 is
implementation of the recommendations

744
01:01:08,319 --> 01:01:14,480
from the PL566 program but since we just
got some information that they're going

745
01:01:12,319 --> 01:01:17,839
to meet with us um I guess that's my
questions move but essentially what I

746
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:22,799
was going to be asking is how any of
that was being implemented some of their

747
01:01:19,359 --> 01:01:28,160
direction but we haven't had anything
um

748
01:01:24,319 --> 01:01:33,839
number 18 is raising the retaining wall
around the pump station at Wood River

749
01:01:29,839 --> 01:01:37,760
Drive um do Do we know if
anything has any action that's been

750
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:42,880
taken for that? If it's how it's being
funded because I don't remember seeing

751
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:49,359
in the capital improvement plan. Um just
in conversations with Gary again, it's

752
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:53,160
been in on the list of projects. Uh it's
not r if you

753
01:01:53,359 --> 01:02:00,000
following with what the hazard
mitigation had laid out. Um it was not

754
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:03,000
labeled as a high priority item.
uh

755
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:11,440
it's labeled as a low priority yet. So
that's why it hasn't been brought

756
01:02:09,119 --> 01:02:17,200
forward as far as that goes yet. Okay.
So that's just something we'll do when

757
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:23,359
we have budget in time. Correct. Got it.
All right. Um

758
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:28,160
Okay. For number 19, which is encourage
private owners to create emergency

759
01:02:25,119 --> 01:02:32,400
action plans. And what you reported to
us for number 19, this has to do with

760
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:37,280
dams. Um, you said the Wood River Dam
has an e EAP emergency action plan that

761
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:43,280
was submitted to Ry dot since it's a Ry
dot dam.

762
01:02:39,119 --> 01:02:47,920
So the the EMA completed an EAP for
uh the the dam Horseshoe Falls, but the

763
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:52,559
owner is currently unknown. So, I
reached out to the state on this because

764
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:56,480
um I did find our EAP that we had
created in

765
01:02:54,480 --> 01:03:01,200
2022.
Um

766
01:02:58,559 --> 01:03:04,079
when I reached out, they do not um
because it's not considered a

767
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:09,200
high-risisk dam, they do not feel that
it needs to be um gone into uh title

768
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:14,720
searching and that because obviously it
has to be funded for for title

769
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:20,319
searching. um in conversations with
other uh departments as well and we have

770
01:03:17,119 --> 01:03:24,160
no idea who the current owner is. Um the
previous owner was redacted I shouldn't

771
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:29,680
say redacted crossed out at the time of
the EAP for the last known that we had

772
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:35,920
and when reached out to he was not the
current owner. So okay so no but they

773
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:41,280
claim it's low risk so it with or
without an owner shouldn't be be an

774
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:46,319
issue for us. It's great. Um okay so
number 20 is assessing opportunities for

775
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:49,680
dry flood proofing of the town hall and
then 21 is implementing dry flood

776
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:55,280
proofing at town hall and this is to
protect um vital records. I know that we

777
01:03:53,039 --> 01:03:59,359
now have an online system. So, this
question is mainly directed probably to

778
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:05,280
our admin and our account clerk. Is do
we still have a concern over protecting

779
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:10,480
paper vital records in our basement? And
is there action that the council needs

780
01:04:07,119 --> 01:04:14,480
to consider protect them
or do anything about it? Who wants to

781
01:04:13,119 --> 01:04:18,079
take this one? You guys are smiling back
and forth at each other. See some eye

782
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:23,280
rolls, too. Be a good one. Yeah, we lost
a lot of records

783
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:32,079
um not land evidence in 2010 that
weren't required to be filmed. The

784
01:04:26,079 --> 01:04:37,440
records there is a um little
I have implemented a process to review

785
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:44,000
the records in the locked area of the
basement to ensure that no more um

786
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:49,520
records go on the floor and they're
raised. However, um we do have a

787
01:04:47,359 --> 01:04:55,039
secondary vault with a locking mechanism
that's raised for that is not currently

788
01:04:52,079 --> 01:05:01,680
being utilized. So, we do have a plan in
place to replace that as historical

789
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:06,480
record funds become available. Um but we
need to go through everything and all

790
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:11,839
departments need to um remove whatever
we can destroy that we don't need to

791
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:16,640
retain. Um that needs to happen before
projected.

792
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:23,760
But we need to retain records that are
permanent but not necessarily are all

793
01:05:19,839 --> 01:05:28,799
filmed. So that is a concern and plus
archive is saying that there's not

794
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:33,520
currently a digital accepted practice to
remove those permanent records from a

795
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:39,440
physical paper form because of the
changes in format like we used to have

796
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:44,799
floppy discs and CDs and even scanning
and converting to PDF. So microfilm is

797
01:05:42,319 --> 01:05:48,160
really truly the only way that that
process is expensive and those are

798
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:54,400
stored offsite. So I don't have concern
of land evidence and probate just that

799
01:05:51,119 --> 01:06:00,079
is filmed and not stored there but um
there's other permanent records that are

800
01:05:56,079 --> 01:06:05,599
not that will need to be addressed. Have
we had any flooding issues since 2010 in

801
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:10,000
the basement? Not yet.
Aaron, is it um Rhode Island Foundation

802
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:15,200
that provides the historical record
fund? There is there's a grant for the

803
01:06:13,119 --> 01:06:20,319
Rhode Island, but also through um
conveyance and taxes. It's state law

804
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:24,720
that um funds be set aside for every
recording and a percentage of that goes

805
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:30,480
towards technology and a percentage goes
toward historical records. And as that

806
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:34,640
builds up, um it's, you know, recorded
in deeds. It's not a budgeted, it's not

807
01:06:32,319 --> 01:06:42,000
a um and it can only be used for those
two purposes. And so that project is um

808
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:47,760
going to be quite expensive. So we're
not there yet, but it will the basement

809
01:06:45,359 --> 01:06:54,880
will be addressed before the upstairs
vault due to the need storage.

810
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:58,880
So um because we have scanned maps and
done other projects, we've used

811
01:06:56,559 --> 01:07:02,960
historical funds and so we just need and
obviously recording is still flow in

812
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:06,319
this economy. It is glad to see the
vault has been very busy the last few

813
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:13,119
weeks. So that was a good sign that
people are um you know looking to

814
01:07:09,839 --> 01:07:17,160
record. So hopefully recording will
increase and we can get that.

815
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:24,319
Right. That's all I got for that one.
All right. So, um, number 22 has to do

816
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:29,440
with repair the perimeter fencing to
secure the Shanik Hill radio

817
01:07:25,599 --> 01:07:34,480
communication tower. Um,
you know, if that's been implemented

818
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:40,079
that part of the Yeah. Yeah. So, that
that uh fencing is repaired if it does

819
01:07:37,599 --> 01:07:44,640
get damaged at all. It's just
unfortunately children get into the area

820
01:07:42,079 --> 01:07:49,280
and break fence sometimes. If it does,
it's discovered that it's fixed. Okay.

821
01:07:47,039 --> 01:07:55,200
Yeah. So that was part of the uh upgrade
and everything. Uh no that's the upgrade

822
01:07:52,319 --> 01:07:58,640
is separate. Okay. The the security is
totally separate from the upgrade of the

823
01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:04,000
town. Okay. Yeah. Didn't we we talked
about this recently that we got a grant

824
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:09,039
for some additional uh cameras systems
for the town. That's part of the

825
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:13,280
security measures. Well um we actually
we applied for one for cameras but I

826
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:20,640
don't think we're going to get it
because we don't have the match.

827
01:08:16,719 --> 01:08:26,880
Um, but we have the
the USDA money for for the tow, right?

828
01:08:24,719 --> 01:08:31,520
That doesn't include any security
measures around it. I can't remember to

829
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:35,920
tell you the truth whether cameras were
included in that specific grant or not,

830
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:40,960
but there was a separate grant that we
had applied to Senator Reid for cameras

831
01:08:38,799 --> 01:08:46,480
here everywhere here. Undisclosed
locations. Yes. Thank you. You're

832
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:53,359
welcome, Chief.
I was like, "Don't say too much."

833
01:08:50,799 --> 01:08:57,759
All right, almost done. Um, all right.
So, number 23 was um backup uh new

834
01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:02,640
backup generator for town hall. So, we
got that one. So, that's great. And

835
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:06,159
then, so number four, number 24 and 25.
So, the first one is develop a Richmond

836
01:09:04,239 --> 01:09:09,759
debris management plan. The second one
is update the Richmond emergency

837
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:14,159
operations plan and community
emermergency management plan. Um, I know

838
01:09:12,719 --> 01:09:17,600
that some of these emergency management
plans might have some safety issues,

839
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:22,400
security problems, so you wouldn't want
to publish it. But generally for both of

840
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:27,199
those items, are they published? And if
they are published, are they accessible

841
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:32,799
to the public? Um, as far as the
emergency action uh operations plan, I'm

842
01:09:29,679 --> 01:09:37,440
not entirely sure on the two plans
themselves. I know there are certain

843
01:09:35,279 --> 01:09:43,279
parts of it that are supposed to be kept
back because of security reasons, safety

844
01:09:39,759 --> 01:09:50,080
reasons for everybody. Um I'm currently
trying to locate the most recent uh

845
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:54,080
action plan. We're in the process of
obviously getting everything to me for

846
01:09:52,239 --> 01:10:00,080
um EMA.
The last update that I have been able to

847
01:09:56,159 --> 01:10:03,679
find in the EOC has been from 2011. Um
after talking with Josel, there was a

848
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:09,520
more recent plan done. I'm just trying
to locate it. Um so that's in progress.

849
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:17,000
Um, and once I do get the most current
one, it will be updated to today or when

850
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:17,000
it gets done.

851
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:27,120
All right, moving on. All right, so
number 27 28 have to do with um fire

852
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:31,360
protection. So 27 is develop a wildland
urban interface fire plan or community

853
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:37,199
wildfire protection plan and 28 is
improve emergency access to fire gates.

854
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:41,600
So, we had a fairly large fire local to
us a couple years back, the Extorum

855
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:46,960
Wildfire, and there was a new forestry
initiative that was um actually um

856
01:10:44,719 --> 01:10:52,400
chaired by our district representative
um Megan Carter. Do you know if 27 28

857
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:57,679
are being addressed as part of that new
forestry initiative? So, I believe uh

858
01:10:55,199 --> 01:11:01,520
they are in there as well. Um I'm not
entirely sure how much of them is

859
01:10:59,199 --> 01:11:07,440
involved in it, but
from my understanding there's a lot

860
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:10,800
going on uh from Representative Conside
as well as the chief of Richmond and a

861
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:15,920
few other chiefs in the area that are
heavily involved with it.

862
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:22,320
Okay. And then the final one has to do
with um increased public education on

863
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:27,440
tickborne diseases. Um the conservation
commission is the lead on this.

864
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:31,920
Do you know if
there's any um additional information

865
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:36,000
published on our website about about
that. You said it was unknown. Yeah, I'm

866
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:39,120
not I did a little bit of digging. I
couldn't find much. I know Department of

867
01:11:37,679 --> 01:11:44,719
Health has a little bit listed on their
website. Um other than that, I'm not

868
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:48,159
sure on other resources we have, if we
have anything posted here or if we have

869
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:53,280
anything. I didn't really find anything
on our website. So, well, might be worth

870
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:56,800
considering. um URI just right down the
road. Of course, um they have something

871
01:11:54,719 --> 01:12:00,320
called a tick encounter and it's a
fairly straightforward website that you

872
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:03,040
can go and click on. It'll tell you all
kinds of information about ticks, what

873
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:06,719
kind of ticks we have, what kind of
disease they carry, and then how to get

874
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:11,920
them tested. Um it might be worthwhile
to consider putting that a link to that

875
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:17,120
on our website so people can look at
that in case they have any concerns.

876
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:20,159
And that's all I got. So, I really
appreciate your time doing this and

877
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:25,120
thank you for sitting here, everyone,
and listening to me drag on for 20

878
01:12:22,719 --> 01:12:31,840
minutes about it.
You're welcome.

879
01:12:28,159 --> 01:12:36,159
Nick, I I have in my file an emergency
operations plan that's dated 2016. The

880
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:41,600
plan itself doesn't have a date on it,
but the date of the file is 2016. I

881
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:47,520
think that was the that was just Yeah.
Okay. A review from the 2011.

882
01:12:45,440 --> 01:12:53,040
All right. Thank you again. Thank you.
Thanks, Nick. All right. Next, we have

883
01:12:50,159 --> 01:12:57,760
our land trust report. All right. Can
take the podium and share with us what's

884
01:12:54,880 --> 01:13:02,880
going on at Salia Preserve. Yes. All
right. Hi everyone. Suzanne Payton, um,

885
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:06,960
current chair of the Richmond Royal
Preservation Land Trust. Um, yeah, I

886
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:12,080
just wanted to give a quick update
because it's been a really long time

887
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:18,000
coming. Um we have completed the parking
area for the sale of preserve the

888
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:22,000
property just as I did submit the um the
final report from Horsesley Whitten

889
01:13:19,679 --> 01:13:26,719
which was the engineer that we had hired
to do the design for the parking area

890
01:13:24,719 --> 01:13:31,840
and then we went out to bid in the fall.
We hired um a construction firm Celitro

891
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:36,000
Property Solutions. They've done the
construction. It was completed in May.

892
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:39,920
We've submitted the the final
documentation for our our permit from

893
01:13:38,159 --> 01:13:44,880
Rhode Island DEM and so it's all
finalized. We just need to install the

894
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:48,960
sign. We're working on the final sign
and then we're hoping to have like a

895
01:13:46,719 --> 01:13:54,000
groundbreaking or you know ribbon
cutting, I don't know, opening. Um but

896
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:58,960
so just to give you an just everyone
broadly, the property is 112 acres. It

897
01:13:57,440 --> 01:14:02,239
doesn't have frontage on the it didn't
have frontage on the road. We have a

898
01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:05,920
ride of way through the adjacent
property to what's now the parking lot

899
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:10,560
which you can see there which is at the
end of Chelsea Farm Drive. And so we'll

900
01:14:08,480 --> 01:14:16,960
have a trail head there. We had an Eagle
Scout back in uh 2022 construct a kiosk

901
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:22,880
on the actual property which will be
just sort of down the trail a little

902
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:27,920
ways. Um, and then we had another Eagle
Scout just this spring who constructed a

903
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:33,040
beautiful bridge across a stream. And
we've got about a 1.7 mile trail that's

904
01:14:30,239 --> 01:14:36,400
already blazed and ready for the public.
Um, so as soon as we get a sign

905
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:40,480
installed, we'll be ready to open it.
And this was funded through a trail

906
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:44,560
grant from Rhode Island DEM. We
originally applied for the grant in

907
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:49,199
2020. Karen knows that there uh with the
permission of the town council. Um, the

908
01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:55,360
bid, the low bid was way above that. Um
when we finally got to that point um the

909
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:59,840
grant was not awarded until 2022 and
then by the time we got all the design

910
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:03,840
and everything done um so we asked for
another 40,000 and they gave it to us.

911
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:08,960
They amended the grant, added an extra
40,000 and extended us through December

912
01:15:06,159 --> 01:15:14,640
of 2025 to complete all the paperwork.
So, we've been submitting um all of the

913
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:20,000
documentation and they'll be reimbursing
us for I I was worried Dan was gonna

914
01:15:16,719 --> 01:15:24,080
bring that up that we've paid out uh
over $100,000 um but it will be

915
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:30,719
reimbursed uh as soon as I get
everything into ecics um from from Rhode

916
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:36,719
Island. And I think that's it. I just
wanted to it just we're excited. So,

917
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:40,880
it's a beautiful beautiful property.
It's really gorgeous. really hilly.

918
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:45,600
There's some beautiful big rocks with
moss all over them and it's it's just

919
01:15:42,719 --> 01:15:48,800
it's forested and gorgeous and yeah,
that's awesome. Thank you so much for

920
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:52,480
all the work you put into that years and
years. The whole committee um put a lot

921
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:55,199
of work our land trust uh put a lot of
work into it and I really appreciate,

922
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:59,440
you know, you guys volunteering and
putting your time and effort into it. Um

923
01:15:57,199 --> 01:16:01,520
I have one question. Sure. Is it open to
the public? You know, we're here talking

924
01:16:00,480 --> 01:16:04,719
about it. If someone were to go there,
would they get in trouble? No, that's

925
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:10,480
the whole
point is that it's open to anyone,

926
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:13,840
everyone. Absolutely. Um, honestly, if
you drive there now, you can you can

927
01:16:12,239 --> 01:16:19,199
selfn
were we don't have the official sign up

928
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:24,719
yet. So, and we Oh, we also had um Pete
Stson help us to create a trail map. So,

929
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:30,080
he GPS the trail. We've got the map. We
need to have it printed and then posted

930
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:33,199
on the kiosk. Um, so we're just doing a
few final things to make sure that the

931
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:37,120
public sort of knows where they are and
it's well signed and all of that before

932
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:42,320
we officially open it. But I think the
neighbors have figured it out.

933
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:46,159
I see sign that there have been hiding.
People are hiking. The dog that there's

934
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:50,800
the dogs are Yeah, people are walking
their dogs and and enjoying it locally.

935
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:54,400
Good. Um, yeah. Good. Awesome. Thank you
again. Yeah, that's great. Thanks,

936
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:58,480
Suzanne.
All right, on to new business. We're

937
01:16:56,480 --> 01:17:02,800
kicking it off with councelor Dinsmore's
request. Do you want to share a little

938
01:17:00,159 --> 01:17:06,880
bit and then give us a motion a request
or dis for discussion and consideration

939
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:15,840
of approving a resolution opposing Rhode
Island General Assembly Bill H 543625

940
01:17:10,719 --> 01:17:24,679
and S uh 35925.
Um I just want to read the U

941
01:17:19,679 --> 01:17:24,679
resolution. Sure. and

942
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:28,679
it goes

943
01:17:29,679 --> 01:17:36,840
state of Rhode Island, town of Richmond
on the subject of Rhode Island general

944
01:17:32,719 --> 01:17:36,840
assembly bills H5436

945
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:41,719
2025 and S3592025.

946
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:49,600
Whereas the state of Rhode Island has a
written constitution and whereas article

947
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:54,080
14 of the Rhode Island Constitution
provides for a means to amend that

948
01:17:51,520 --> 01:18:02,000
constitution. And whereas House Bill
5436 and Senate Bill 359 seek to curtail

949
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:06,159
the rights afforded by section 22 of the
Rhode Island Constitution such that

950
01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:10,800
their legal effect would be
substantively

951
01:18:08,159 --> 01:18:15,920
equivalent to an amendment of section 22
of the Rhode Island Constitution. And

952
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:20,320
whereas should the general assembly and
the electors of Rhode Island wish to

953
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:25,120
amend the Rhode Island Constitution, the
amendment process shall follow the rules

954
01:18:22,719 --> 01:18:30,480
long established in article 14, section
1 of the Rhode Island Constitution. And

955
01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:36,080
whereas Rhode Island House Bill 5436,
Rhode Island Senate Bill 359 seeks to

956
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:42,880
bypass this amendment process.
We conclude that House Bill 5436 and

957
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:47,040
Senate Bill 359 are extra legal by their
very nature.

958
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:51,040
Therefore, we the town of Richmond
representing the residents of Richmond

959
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:57,840
who seek to abide by the laws of the
state resolve to oppose the two proposed

960
01:18:54,159 --> 01:19:02,320
bills H5436205
and S3592025.

961
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:06,000
We have further resolved that this
resolution be sent to the governor of

962
01:19:04,480 --> 01:19:09,040
Rhode Island, all members of the general
assembly of Rhode Island, Lieutenant

963
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:12,640
Governor of Rhode Island, and the
attorney general of Rhode Island, and

964
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:16,600
the town councils of all cities and
towns in Rhode Island.

965
01:19:17,679 --> 01:19:21,880
Get a motion for us.

966
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:28,320
Um, make a motion to approve this
resolution.

967
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:36,159
Propose the island general assembly bill
H 5436 2205 and S3592025.

968
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,320
I'll second it. All right. So, we have
our motion, our second for discussion.

969
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:41,920
We're going to do council discussion
first, then go to the public. Any

970
01:19:40,239 --> 01:19:45,360
counselors want to add anything? Do you
have anything you want to add? Councelor

971
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:51,360
Dbor
got anything? Sure.

972
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:53,440
Sure. Go ahead. His hand was up first.
Mark, I don't think he raised his hand.

973
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:57,040
I heard your voice first. Go ahead,
Councelor Maddik. Well, I'm gonna

974
01:19:55,920 --> 01:20:00,640
actually I'm gonna let Mark go first.
I'm going to yield my time to him. Mark

975
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:04,239
is an attorney. Like to hear what his
perspective is on this or I say All

976
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:09,040
right. Go ahead, Councelor Reynolds.
Well, I mean, my perspective isn't a

977
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:13,600
legal one. Uh, I I I do not support
either of these bills. I think they're

978
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:20,400
overly broad. I think their definition
of what an assault weapon is is uh is

979
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:26,239
too broad. Um I think it
infringes too too heavily on legitimate

980
01:20:24,239 --> 01:20:31,280
uses of weapons for hunting and and
sport and other reasons. So for that

981
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:35,040
reason, I don't support them. The issue
I have with this the language of the

982
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:40,239
resolution is we're essentially saying
we think it's unconstitutional. I don't

983
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:45,840
know if it is or it isn't. Uh I don't
support it whether it's constitutional

984
01:20:42,159 --> 01:20:52,159
or not. I don't support it. Um them I
should say there's two bills. Um so I

985
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:56,800
mean I again it's six of one half dozen
of another I guess but I would prefer a

986
01:20:54,320 --> 01:21:02,239
resolution that just simply states you
know we don't support these bills. We

987
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:08,480
think they're overly broad and um you
know something that you know kind of my

988
01:21:04,159 --> 01:21:11,600
keep it simple uh mantra. Go ahead,
councelor Mandex. All right. I'm gonna

989
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:15,760
make make two points here. One's going
to be part of what Mark just said. I

990
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:19,120
just want to point out that so far in
the six, seven months we've been here,

991
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:26,320
councelor Dinsmore has brought in front
of this council as the lone Republican

992
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:31,760
two divisive topics, immigration and
firearm legislation.

993
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:36,719
It It's just disappointing that we're
here discussing these things that the

994
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:39,840
council has very little influence in.
And I I would expect that we bring more

995
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:44,000
meaningful ideas to the table that we
can do something about as as a town.

996
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:48,640
Can't really do much about this. Even if
we adopt the resolution we all agree

997
01:21:46,159 --> 01:21:51,840
with here, the GA and the Senate are
going to do what they're going to do. I

998
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:57,199
don't know if these resolutions have
much effect at all. Um I just think as a

999
01:21:55,600 --> 01:22:01,520
council we can do more meaningful
things, more constructive things that

1000
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:06,000
help the town. Focus on the stuff that
we all know that that will help.

1001
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:09,679
Economic development was a big one. Um,
but these two things, immigration and

1002
01:22:08,159 --> 01:22:13,920
firearms,
it there's a lot that goes into them and

1003
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:17,360
we can discuss until we fall asleep
tonight and there's going to be people

1004
01:22:15,440 --> 01:22:20,480
on either sides of the discussion and
they get really heated and I I

1005
01:22:19,199 --> 01:22:25,040
personally don't like having those
things because of how emotional we get.

1006
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:29,520
With that said, I agree with what uh
Council Reynolds said. I would suggest a

1007
01:22:27,440 --> 01:22:34,400
resolution that's in in opposition of
the House and Senate bill

1008
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:38,560
very simply um but removes the
constitutional legality and amendment

1009
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:42,320
sections in here because I'm not an
attorney. I'm not a constitutional

1010
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:49,679
attorney. None of us are. And I don't
think it's for this council to discuss

1011
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:54,320
what like extra legal means. So I echo
what um council Reynolds said. I don't

1012
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:59,040
agree with the way that the House and
Senate bills are written as is. Um I

1013
01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:02,639
think they're way too broad. I think
they're virtually uninforcable

1014
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:06,480
and they're going to end up being
challenged in court and they're going to

1015
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:13,600
go nowhere. So
I agree with um Council Reynolds in

1016
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:17,040
pushing, you know, forward with a
different resolution, not this one

1017
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:20,639
specifically.
Okay. Right. Um so you had your chance.

1018
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:24,880
I'm going to go and then we'll go back
to you for a second. Bite of the apple.

1019
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:29,360
Um, so I'm going to say I agree with
both of you. Um,

1020
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:33,679
I
I find I find that our resolutions do

1021
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:37,520
have effect. I like to think they do. I
like to hope they do. Um, when we send

1022
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:41,440
them up to the state, I do think that
there's a good a voice if all the

1023
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:44,000
communities come together and we're all
sending the same resolution up that

1024
01:23:42,639 --> 01:23:47,840
they're looking at it. At the very
least, our representatives is looking at

1025
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:50,719
it. And with this particular bill, we
already know that Rep. Cotter has voted

1026
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:55,679
against the bill. We already know that
Senator Morgan's going to do so soon if

1027
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:58,480
it gets to the Senate floor. So, if we
would be talking to all the other

1028
01:23:56,639 --> 01:24:01,360
senators, which they should be listening
to their community, not necessarily

1029
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:04,400
ours, but I do believe that there's a
strength in numbers where if you're

1030
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:09,280
getting the same resolution from
multiple municipalities, it does have a

1031
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:13,760
lot of weight and it can make them
rethink what they're doing. Um, but this

1032
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:19,520
isn't the same resolution, so it would
be very different. Um, I agree with some

1033
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:23,440
of the amendments, the floor amendments
that some of the the House Republicans

1034
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:28,159
put on the floor. Um, including I didn't
like there was one issue with the bill

1035
01:24:25,679 --> 01:24:31,040
where if you had a certain gun, you
couldn't like it's it's no longer legal.

1036
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:34,400
And I don't know much about guns. I'm
going to throw that out there. I shot a

1037
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:39,679
gun once in my life thanks to a friend
last year. So, I'm not as educated as I

1038
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:42,400
should be on this, but if you had one of
the guns that they're saying you ban,

1039
01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:46,080
but you're allowed to have it because
your grandfathered in. You couldn't

1040
01:24:44,239 --> 01:24:49,600
drive to your friend's house to use it
together. You have to go to one

1041
01:24:47,679 --> 01:24:53,840
location, which the Senate Republicans
are saying that the only location is Big

1042
01:24:51,440 --> 01:24:57,280
River Management Area. Too restrictive
to me. Like, you can't go to your

1043
01:24:55,360 --> 01:25:00,719
friend's house. I just think like in our
community, that's what our constituents

1044
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:03,120
want. They want to go to their friend's
house. if you have a smaller property

1045
01:25:02,159 --> 01:25:06,639
and you have someone who has a bigger
one to be able to shoot recreationally,

1046
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:10,080
you should.
Um, there's a few other floor amendments

1047
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:16,080
that the Republicans made that I did
agree with. Um, so I think I'm a little

1048
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:18,880
bit more moderate as councelor Madnik
said, you know, we're bringing up very

1049
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:22,239
political issues. We're a little more
moderate with this one where I don't

1050
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:26,159
believe we should be just banning things
just for the sake of banning them. You

1051
01:25:23,679 --> 01:25:29,360
know, we should have regulation when
needed, but we shouldn't just be

1052
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:33,360
outright banning something. So, I don't
agree with either bill. I don't agree

1053
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:36,880
with um the amendment because actually
we should be any resolution we have

1054
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:42,480
should have a sub a at this point for a
house bill. Um

1055
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:47,440
and but I also think that this
resolution doesn't really reflect what

1056
01:25:44,159 --> 01:25:51,520
we want it to reflect because
like was already said, we're not

1057
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:54,880
constitutional attorneys. Um, and I do
think it's a little too late in the

1058
01:25:52,639 --> 01:25:59,760
season in the session because now by the
time we amend a resolution and get it to

1059
01:25:58,480 --> 01:26:03,840
the Senate, get it to our
representatives, it's it's almost over.

1060
01:26:01,679 --> 01:26:07,840
Um, this bill is going to be heard in
the Senate on Thursday or tomorrow, I'm

1061
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:10,239
sorry, tomorrow. Yeah. And it's already
passed the House. So, I just feel like

1062
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:13,360
it's a little too late. Um, and
actually, I know this was given to us by

1063
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:15,920
a constituent. I have a lot of respect
for that constituent. And I told him

1064
01:26:14,639 --> 01:26:18,560
this directly, you know, I don't want to
bring this to council because I don't

1065
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:22,480
want it to create a polarizing issue.
we're all getting along so well. Um the

1066
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:25,120
community is getting along way better
than I've seen in the past with

1067
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:29,199
councils. So I wanted to keep that
momentum going. So um I told him

1068
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:34,159
directly I wasn't going to do it. But I
did actually submit written testimony in

1069
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:39,679
opposition to um these bills and sent it
to my senator and my representative. So

1070
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:44,080
I would encourage anybody else to do the
same. I think that's all I have to say

1071
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:46,800
hopefully. Council, you had more you
want to add? Yeah, I just want to say

1072
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:50,960
that I hear your feedback and that uh
that's the reason why I brought it

1073
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:54,199
because I was approached by Gary. So
that's why

1074
01:26:54,560 --> 01:27:00,960
May I speak? Sure. We'll go for a uh
comments from the public. Sorry, I just

1075
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:06,239
had some water. Please state your name
for the record.

1076
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:10,159
Chambers from Richmond.
First, while I'm up here, I want to

1077
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:14,960
thank you, Karen Pinch, um, for your 10
years of honorable service as town

1078
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:20,560
administrative to Richmond, and you've
been supportive and a friend to the

1079
01:27:18,239 --> 01:27:26,800
Richmond Historical Society. Um,
whenever we've had a question or a

1080
01:27:22,480 --> 01:27:32,080
problem, you're go to and you've been a
consistent model of expertise, kindness,

1081
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:38,000
and grace under pressure, which I can't
even imagine. and I aspire to be Karen

1082
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:43,040
Pinch and I wish you all happiness in
your retirement. Thank you. I'm speaking

1083
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:47,679
tonight to ask the Richmond Town Council
to reject the resolution proposed by

1084
01:27:45,440 --> 01:27:51,440
Council Dinsmore.
I don't know if people even know what

1085
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:57,760
these two bills I'm sorry talking to
you. Thank you. Um

1086
01:27:54,159 --> 01:28:03,440
that they're talking about are. It's
called um

1087
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:06,600
the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act
of 2025.

1088
01:28:07,199 --> 01:28:15,920
This bill has
been worked on for over 12 years since

1089
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:23,040
Sandy Hook. So every year it's been
amended, worded, taken um Rhode

1090
01:28:20,639 --> 01:28:30,880
Islanders
um input into account to make it legal.

1091
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:34,560
They know what they're doing up there.
Half of those legislators are lawyers,

1092
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:37,560
right?
Um,

1093
01:28:40,639 --> 01:28:49,280
got to find my place. Okay. Um, and what
the bills do

1094
01:28:46,639 --> 01:28:54,719
is to seek to restrict the manufacturer,
sale, purchase, and possession of

1095
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:59,199
assault weapons. You may say, "Oh, they
don't describe it well." You know,

1096
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:07,440
there's so much gunsplaining that goes
on when these hearings are on.

1097
01:29:04,719 --> 01:29:11,600
in the bills, it tells you what they
consider an assault weapon. So, people

1098
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:16,480
do not just say, "Okay, yeah, this is an
assault weapon." They know what they're

1099
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:21,199
talking about. Um, assault weapons are
exceptionally deadly firearms common

1100
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:27,520
place in mass shootings.
A poll conducted in February 2025

1101
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:31,760
indicated that 64% of Rhode Islanders
support a ban on the sales and

1102
01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:36,000
manufacture of assault weapons. We're
not just talking people in the city, the

1103
01:29:34,239 --> 01:29:41,199
big city.
I live in Richmond

1104
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:45,920
and I'm sure 64% of people in Richmond
may not have as big mouths as the people

1105
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:49,840
who are supporting guns anywhere and
everywhere,

1106
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:54,320
but I'm sure at least 64% would agree
that

1107
01:29:51,840 --> 01:30:00,719
a civilian should not have a weapon
capable of mowing down dozens of people

1108
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:07,040
in a matter of minutes
in their gun safe or laying around their

1109
01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:11,440
house. Assault
weapons are weapons of warfare and do

1110
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:16,159
not belong in the hands of civilians.
And I know the chief probably doesn't

1111
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:22,320
want to comment, but what I have heard
at testimony is police officers do not

1112
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:28,800
want civilians
with easy access to assault weapons.

1113
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:33,040
And they're not for hunting. You can't
use them for hunting. It's illegal to

1114
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:39,040
use them for hunting because you would
end up with this big of a piece of a

1115
01:30:35,199 --> 01:30:44,159
deer once you shot it.
Thankfully, the House bill has passed

1116
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:48,400
already, and we await a vote this week
on the Senate bill. Passage of these

1117
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:53,040
bills into law would protect Rhode
Islanders by reducing the likelihood of

1118
01:30:50,719 --> 01:30:57,440
mass shooting injuries and deaths via
assault weapons.

1119
01:30:55,520 --> 01:31:02,719
The Richmond Town Council needs to focus
on issues that will improve our town's

1120
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:07,360
economic viability and community spirit
and to support common sense gun laws

1121
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:11,760
rather than tear them down with this
harmful, divisive, and meaningless

1122
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:16,480
resolution.
Voting against the assault weapons ban

1123
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:21,040
bill does not demonstrate a concern for
keeping communities and children safe,

1124
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:25,120
promoting safety, or preventing
violence. It indicates the exact

1125
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:30,880
opposite.
And I have to say I'm really

1126
01:31:26,639 --> 01:31:36,960
disappointed that the three Democratic
um town council members are okay with uh

1127
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:42,040
this resolution. Maybe not as how it's
stated about the legality of it, but

1128
01:31:42,480 --> 01:31:49,600
assault weapons should not be in
civilian hands. And I apologize for my

1129
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:53,840
allergies.
If you must pass a resolution, if that's

1130
01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:59,840
that's your goal tonight, I suggest it
be a resolution and recognition. Do you

1131
01:31:57,120 --> 01:32:07,120
know what this month is? June is
National Gun Violence Awareness Month.

1132
01:32:03,920 --> 01:32:11,360
That would be a valuable resolution to
pass or at least to acknowledge the

1133
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:16,480
importance of gun violence awareness and
how it affects every one of us. Thank

1134
01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:21,520
you. Thank you. Anybody else would like
to speak? All right.

1135
01:32:19,199 --> 01:32:24,880
And we have two online. All right. After
Julie will go online, then we'll shift

1136
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:29,440
back to in person. Julie was Richmond.
Uh I'll be very brief. There's a lot of

1137
01:32:27,199 --> 01:32:34,560
arguments on both sides, but the basic
fact is this law as written does not

1138
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:42,800
describe an assault weapon. It describes
a lot of legally carried, legally

1139
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:48,800
purchased guns. And to pass this bill,
the Rhode Island would criminalize a lot

1140
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:54,560
of citizens that have them legally, use
them legally.

1141
01:32:50,960 --> 01:33:00,000
And I think it's it's just bogus.
Um,

1142
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:05,760
if this bill were accurate in what it
says and did include only assault

1143
01:33:02,639 --> 01:33:11,199
weapons, that may be a different story.
But as written, it does not. Thank you.

1144
01:33:08,719 --> 01:33:15,000
Thank you. Anyone want to give questions
to somebody online, please?

1145
01:33:20,639 --> 01:33:25,880
Hello. Can you hear me? People like
sorry

1146
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:38,120
Parker, you should have permission.

1147
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:52,600
will come back to you.

1148
01:33:55,679 --> 01:34:00,520
Gary, we'll come back to you just in
case you didn't hear her.

1149
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:10,080
Buttonwoods Motorcross, you should have
permission. Please state your name for

1150
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:13,080
the record. Jordan Carlson, Richmond
resident.

1151
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:22,480
You can go ahead. All right. I just
wanted to state for the record that uh

1152
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:28,560
you know the Constitution is one of the
most important documents that we have.

1153
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:33,520
And you know, in in light of the I saw a
lot of no kings protests, I just want

1154
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:38,320
people to be reminded that the reason
that we got rid of the king in England

1155
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:44,480
was because of a small tax and because
of the banning of firearms. So if you

1156
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:50,480
really want no kings, I suggest that you
respect and admire, you know, the second

1157
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:55,440
amendment as it was written to never be
infringed. And I would also say it's

1158
01:34:53,440 --> 01:35:00,000
very important to adopt resolutions to
show the general assembly what the true

1159
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:04,560
fabric of Rhode Island is, which is, you
know, the Gatsby was burned here and

1160
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:08,639
this this country was founded in this
state. So to infringe on anybody's

1161
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:13,440
rights because you're afraid of getting
shot means you should probably just, you

1162
01:35:10,639 --> 01:35:18,360
know, not live in America because guns
are one of the most founding things that

1163
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:18,360
we have.

1164
01:35:18,480 --> 01:35:25,159
Thank you. Thank you.
Did we get Mr. Parker back?

1165
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:34,040
DWP
have permissions

1166
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:54,920
if you're having like connect. Oh.
You should have permissions. Is he

1167
01:35:58,480 --> 01:36:05,520
say if he's having connectivity issues,
he can call in who? Gary, I'll prompt

1168
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:11,400
you to unmute and so just respond to
that.

1169
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:11,400
It come up

1170
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:18,920
um lower. I don't Are you on an iPhone?

1171
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:23,080
Um,

1172
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:40,520
the calling number. Oh, I think it's
nine or on the lower screen, you should

1173
01:36:34,480 --> 01:36:40,520
see a mute microphone button. ask.

1174
01:36:41,440 --> 01:36:44,679
That's ter.

1175
01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:07,159
Put the phone number in the chat box,
but may not get kicked out.

1176
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:16,159
I'm really still glad we allow the
accessibility of this option even when

1177
01:37:12,159 --> 01:37:19,400
it fails. So Gary, you're on an iPad. I
can see you.

1178
01:37:28,159 --> 01:37:37,040
So there should be a microphone icon in
your meeting controls and it has a red

1179
01:37:32,719 --> 01:37:37,040
line through it. Just tap it to unmute.

1180
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:42,520
Now try it.

1181
01:37:56,639 --> 01:38:00,920
Okay. Now tap it one more time.

1182
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:17,679
Yes, it's still Can you
just kidding? I just te You want a chat

1183
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:20,239
and I can read it? Okay,
that that sounds like good. So, he's

1184
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:25,520
going to put his chat into the chat and
we're going to move on to in-person

1185
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:28,239
um people. You can go ahead. Um Mr.
Stoner,

1186
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:31,679
you do. Thank you so much for your
patience, too, everybody.

1187
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:37,360
Garrett Stoner from the town of
Richmond. Um, I appreciate councelor

1188
01:38:34,239 --> 01:38:41,679
Madnik's comments. I too wish that this
agenda item were not on the agenda. I

1189
01:38:39,920 --> 01:38:50,080
don't think this is a town council
appropriate agenda item. Uh, and this

1190
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:55,360
conversation uh reminds me of the
divisiveness of this issue. But, um, you

1191
01:38:53,440 --> 01:39:02,880
got me at the Rhode Island assault
weapons ban 2025. I've worked in public

1192
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:08,560
schools for over 40 years and I can't
count the number of children and

1193
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:14,000
adolescents who would not come to school
for days after school shootings. I can't

1194
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:19,440
count the number of children that I've
had to talk to and help with problems

1195
01:39:16,719 --> 01:39:23,679
related to fears and anxieties.
There's simply no reason for assault

1196
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:27,679
weapons unless we're in some kind of a
war, in which case they'd be in the

1197
01:39:25,679 --> 01:39:33,440
hands of soldiers.
Period. I'm sick of the conversation.

1198
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:37,520
I'm sick of the arguments and there's no
reason for these guns. I I can

1199
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:40,960
appreciate I don't know what the bill
says to be honest with you. I don't know

1200
01:39:39,199 --> 01:39:46,159
which one which ones belong. I
appreciate the comment. I can't speak to

1201
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:53,520
that. But I'm I'm kind of sick and tired
of people being killed by assault

1202
01:39:48,880 --> 01:39:58,960
weapons in this country. And uh and this
issue is too divisive. But at the same

1203
01:39:55,840 --> 01:40:02,560
time, uh, we have to start somewhere and
we're not doing anything. We're just

1204
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:10,560
we're not moving forward. We're we just
continue to, uh, look at look at it and

1205
01:40:06,880 --> 01:40:14,239
kind of with awe. You know, there was a
speaking of no kings, a woman was

1206
01:40:12,480 --> 01:40:19,760
walking around with a sign at the No
Kings protest in Providence on Saturday

1207
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:24,400
and it said, "If you don't like
abortion, look away like you and ignore

1208
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:28,320
it just like you ignore school
shootings." And that's what we're doing.

1209
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:34,639
We ignore school shootings. They largely
take place with assault weapons and

1210
01:40:32,239 --> 01:40:41,600
there's nothing you can say that can
justify them. So, if you approve this,

1211
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:46,639
take my name off the town Richmond uh
town of Richmond residence because

1212
01:40:43,119 --> 01:40:51,600
you're not representing me in doing so.
Thank you. Thank you.

1213
01:40:49,520 --> 01:40:54,600
Did we have anybody else in person or
online?

1214
01:40:58,159 --> 01:41:05,520
Was Mr. Parker?
No, I'm not. Hey, when that happens, um

1215
01:41:02,719 --> 01:41:10,480
is Mr. Parker's testimony like in the
chat. He's going to he's going to try

1216
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:13,600
and call in. Okay.
I feel bad cuz he I know he was the

1217
01:41:12,159 --> 01:41:17,679
resident who asked us to put this on the
agenda. Um and he mentioned last after

1218
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:24,159
last meeting that he may be away and
we'll try to zoom us, but um we may have

1219
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:27,679
to take his written word and put it on
the communication section of the next

1220
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:33,480
agenda because I don't want to tie up
too much time.

1221
01:41:30,480 --> 01:41:33,480
Should

1222
01:41:33,679 --> 01:41:38,360
I Did we lose him again?

1223
01:41:39,440 --> 01:41:47,440
Yeah, he said.
All right, we'll go on to our next uh

1224
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:50,800
new item with my apologies. Thank you
for being understanding and thank you

1225
01:41:48,480 --> 01:41:56,320
everybody for your patience. Um all
right, so on to Oh, I'm sorry. We have

1226
01:41:53,520 --> 01:42:02,080
an action item on this council. Oh, we
have the motion on the floor, right? And

1227
01:41:57,679 --> 01:42:06,400
you seconded it. My apologies. So, any
further council discussion?

1228
01:42:04,480 --> 01:42:10,560
I guess I guess I do. We want to amend
it to be more simple or do it's I don't

1229
01:42:09,440 --> 01:42:14,560
want to spend a lot of time on this
either. I think we have, you know, town

1230
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:20,320
things we should be dealing with, but I
I think we amend it to be very simple. I

1231
01:42:18,239 --> 01:42:23,760
I pulled up and I had looked at um a
bunch of resolutions from other towns.

1232
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:28,960
Some of them are actually way more
detailed than this. I don't think that

1233
01:42:25,440 --> 01:42:31,920
they're useful. Um, but I think and I've
and I've got the bill up and I've read

1234
01:42:30,480 --> 01:42:35,119
the bill a couple times and there are
things in it that I agree with. There

1235
01:42:33,440 --> 01:42:37,600
are things in there I don't agree with.
Um, there are things that people have

1236
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:41,600
said tonight that I agree with. There
are things that people said that I don't

1237
01:42:38,560 --> 01:42:45,360
agree with. Um, it's a very complex
situation.

1238
01:42:43,199 --> 01:42:50,080
I do hear what everyone is saying. I've
got kids in school. Like, I get it. But

1239
01:42:48,480 --> 01:42:54,239
the way that this bill is currently
written and there's a and I will just

1240
01:42:52,080 --> 01:43:00,239
read a a part of it. And again, I'm I am
not um I'm not an attorney, but when I

1241
01:42:58,480 --> 01:43:07,880
read it,
um there is a part in here.

1242
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:07,880
Let me just find it. One second.

1243
01:43:08,880 --> 01:43:15,280
So, it's it's essentially going to um
prohibit a semi-automatic pistol that

1244
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:20,639
has a fixed magazine capacity exceeding
10 rounds.

1245
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:26,719
I've I've handled these pistols. I've
shot these pistols. I know people that

1246
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:33,840
have them, my neighbors. I I don't see
how you can enforce this.

1247
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:40,480
And and I and all the amendments that,
as you stated, that some of the other um

1248
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:43,600
legislators had um submitted got turned
down. They didn't even really have a

1249
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:49,040
discussion about the the merits or
drawbacks of the amendments. So,

1250
01:43:47,119 --> 01:43:54,000
I don't like the way that some of this
is written in here. Um it doesn't mean

1251
01:43:52,080 --> 01:44:00,320
that I'm for assault weapons or against
assault weapons. So to Mark's point, um

1252
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:06,400
I would like to have a simple resolution
that just states that the Richmond Town

1253
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:11,760
Council opposes these two
um bills in the House and Senate as they

1254
01:44:09,520 --> 01:44:15,679
are written.
Meaning I want them to go back and keep

1255
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:19,679
working. Yeah.
Do you want to put that in to a motion

1256
01:44:17,199 --> 01:44:23,679
to amend the motion on the floor
or would you like to withdraw your

1257
01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:27,520
motion so we can make that?
I can I can ask him to I'll make a

1258
01:44:25,920 --> 01:44:33,159
motion to amend it. That's what I'm
saying. All right. So, I'll make a

1259
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:33,159
motion to amend the

1260
01:44:33,280 --> 01:44:42,080
motion to approve the resolution as is
um to simplify what has been presented

1261
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:49,760
to us to state that the Richmond Town
Council um does not support House Bill

1262
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:53,159
5436 and Senate Bill 359
as written.

1263
01:44:53,520 --> 01:45:00,639
I'll second it. Um,
any council discussion on the amendment

1264
01:44:58,719 --> 01:45:05,760
to the motion?
I'm fine. Fine. Awesome. Because I'll

1265
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:11,440
say I I agree as well. I have kids in
the district. I know what it's like to

1266
01:45:06,880 --> 01:45:14,560
have watch your kids grow up in a
in in that area where they they're

1267
01:45:13,119 --> 01:45:18,320
having lockdowns all the time. We want
to stop that. We want to have our

1268
01:45:16,239 --> 01:45:22,880
schools be safe. But I agree that this
bill is overreaching and it's not well

1269
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:25,119
defined. And that example you gave was
perfect. Thank you for giving it because

1270
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:31,840
like I said, I don't know enough about
guns to to know the specifics of which

1271
01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:35,040
are and aren't. But as I'm learning, I'm
um which I think we all should be open

1272
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:39,920
to learning. As I'm learning about it,
I'm like, this is just what

1273
01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:43,520
our neighbors have. This is just what
average citizens have. And I just don't

1274
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:47,040
think that um it should be taken away.
And I think that they should have more

1275
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:52,639
of a conversation up at the state house
and not just not even consider the the

1276
01:45:50,719 --> 01:45:56,719
resolutions this year. you know, um
there wasn't much opposition to like

1277
01:45:54,880 --> 01:46:01,360
stated reasons as to why they opposed
those amendments and nobody stood up

1278
01:45:58,719 --> 01:46:08,639
that I saw on the Senate floor or the um
House floor and said anything. So, um I

1279
01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:13,119
agree. So, anybody else? We'll go for
our roll call vote. Councelor Dinsworm,

1280
01:46:10,480 --> 01:46:17,920
yes. Manick, yes. Reynolds, yes. And
Wilcox, yes. So, now we have our amended

1281
01:46:15,679 --> 01:46:22,480
motion on the floor and we'll go to vote
for that. Um how do you vote? Councelor

1282
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:27,840
Dinsworm, yes. And yes, Reynolds, yes.
And Will Cox, yes.

1283
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:30,480
All right.
So, we will go on to discussion

1284
01:46:29,199 --> 01:46:39,040
consideration of a zone change for
residential from residential zone two to

1285
01:46:35,679 --> 01:46:43,199
public and governmental hub at four
Richmond Townhouse Road and

1286
01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:47,600
authorization for the clerk to advertise
for public hearing. So, can I please

1287
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:51,280
have a motion to authorize the town
clerk to advertise this for a public

1288
01:46:49,119 --> 01:46:55,840
hearing?
So moved. Second. Awesome. Um I believe

1289
01:46:54,639 --> 01:47:00,000
we talked about this in the past. I'm
just going to give a brief update. I

1290
01:46:57,280 --> 01:47:06,159
think it was this council. Um where we
want to change the property across the

1291
01:47:02,639 --> 01:47:09,840
street from residential to governmental
because we own it and we're doing work

1292
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:13,679
to it and there's some other reasons as
I believe as well. Um let us know if you

1293
01:47:12,159 --> 01:47:17,920
have questions and we'll bring it up at
the public hearing.

1294
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:22,480
So we'll go for a roll call vote. If
there's no further council discussion,

1295
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:26,960
councelor Jensen, yes. Madnik, yes.
Reynolds, yes. And Will Cox, yes. All

1296
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:30,320
right. Request of councelor Madnick for
discussion to create and install

1297
01:47:28,639 --> 01:47:35,679
permanent signs at the Richmond Transfer
Station recycling area. I would request

1298
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:41,840
um and make a motion that we move this
to the July meeting. I would like to

1299
01:47:38,639 --> 01:47:46,159
have this discussion while council
Councilman Pomeano is here since he's

1300
01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:51,280
been kind of leading this effort. Um, I
will add that um, this came out of my

1301
01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:58,080
own experience at the transfer station
and I went and I saw a full hose reel,

1302
01:47:55,360 --> 01:48:02,080
like the reel and the hose sitting on
top of one of the recycling bins and I

1303
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:07,520
was like that that's going to get
rejected and that's going to be I don't

1304
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:12,159
know $500 down and the numbers I think
last I knew were $1,500 in the first

1305
01:48:09,440 --> 01:48:16,400
quarter strap like debt out of $6,000
for a year and it's like we're

1306
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:20,159
squabbbling. pulling as a council over
budget items that are way less than

1307
01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:25,920
that. And it's like
I want to I like to have this discussion

1308
01:48:22,239 --> 01:48:29,560
with um with Jim here, but if you guys
will humor me

1309
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:41,360
as a motion to move on new business L3
to the July

1310
01:48:37,199 --> 01:48:44,480
um 15th meeting. Second. All right. Any
council discussion?

1311
01:48:43,199 --> 01:48:48,880
We'll go to vote. Councelor Dinsmore.
Yes. Madnick. Yes. Reynolds. Yes. And

1312
01:48:46,639 --> 01:48:54,080
Will Cox. Yes. All right. Next on the
agenda, we have to form a administrator

1313
01:48:52,159 --> 01:48:57,280
search committee as required by article
4 section 1C of the town charter with an

1314
01:48:56,080 --> 01:49:01,920
appointment of the town council member
to serve pursuant to the charter.

1315
01:49:00,239 --> 01:49:06,719
So we should have a discussion I think
on what we want to do as far as the

1316
01:49:05,280 --> 01:49:12,199
search committee and then make some
motions to put that into action.

1317
01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:20,080
Yeah. you want to I I have a couple
ideas I'll throw out. I was thinking we

1318
01:49:16,400 --> 01:49:24,320
could um I wanted to actually postpone
the appointment of a town council member

1319
01:49:22,560 --> 01:49:30,239
to the next meeting just because again
council promis not here tonight. Um and

1320
01:49:27,440 --> 01:49:34,239
also just advertise to our next meeting
and members of the public, people who

1321
01:49:32,159 --> 01:49:37,119
are interested can apply. Use the form
online to apply for any board or

1322
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:40,800
commission. just check the other line
and

1323
01:49:38,719 --> 01:49:47,040
uh it doesn't say other the blank line
that you check the box next to and write

1324
01:49:42,719 --> 01:49:50,320
it in. Um and we'll review those
applicants at that time at the next

1325
01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:53,760
meeting.
Anybody have anything they want to add?

1326
01:49:52,080 --> 01:49:59,360
Oh, I think that makes that makes sense.
Put it out there so people who are

1327
01:49:55,600 --> 01:50:06,280
interested can can apply and then we can
look at them and make a decision at the

1328
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:06,280
next the July meeting.

1329
01:50:07,440 --> 01:50:12,400
All right. Do we want to set any
criteria tonight as far as how big we

1330
01:50:10,800 --> 01:50:17,920
want this group to be, anything like
that, or do we want to see what we get

1331
01:50:14,239 --> 01:50:23,280
and go from there?
We want to set any kind of expectations.

1332
01:50:20,080 --> 01:50:29,040
I'd hate So, I' I'd hate to say it's
going to be three or five and then get

1333
01:50:25,679 --> 01:50:34,400
four or six good people, right? Want to
have to exclude somebody. So, I'd rather

1334
01:50:31,679 --> 01:50:37,920
let's leave it open. If we get 10, then
we're going to have to say, "Okay, we

1335
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:42,159
got to we're going to pick five." So, I
think that's going to have to be kind of

1336
01:50:40,480 --> 01:50:47,360
the first decision we make depending
upon how many applications,

1337
01:50:44,719 --> 01:50:52,239
you know, um, you know, whether we're
going to limit the number, um, depending

1338
01:50:49,440 --> 01:50:58,719
upon the number of applications we get.
Um, so, so I', like I said, I'd hate to

1339
01:50:55,440 --> 01:51:03,840
say it's going to be four and then get
five good applications. So, I think we

1340
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:08,880
can I think we can leave it open
unless anyone thinks about I agree.

1341
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:12,400
Makes sense to me. My concern was that
we do get 10 and then, you know, I have

1342
01:51:11,119 --> 01:51:16,880
obviously wouldn't want a group that
big. That's my opinion, but um I can see

1343
01:51:15,440 --> 01:51:20,560
wanting to keep it open so we can be
flexible at the next meeting, right? And

1344
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:26,400
I'd hate to say we're going to have five
and then we only get four applications

1345
01:51:22,159 --> 01:51:30,639
and Right. You know, you know, I but I
agree. You don't want it too big. I

1346
01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:34,560
wouldn't I couldn't see it being
more than five just because of the

1347
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:38,480
number of people. But five's a good
number. Yeah. You know, that's a goal,

1348
01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:43,280
but I don't think we should set it as
the Okay.

1349
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:49,280
You know,
yeah, I think I think three is too

1350
01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:52,320
small. Five is Yeah. is a good goal.
You get some people with different

1351
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:55,520
backgrounds, different demographics.
they have something to bring to the

1352
01:51:53,599 --> 01:52:02,800
table and I think that's that's a
reasonable size, but I'd like to see

1353
01:51:58,639 --> 01:52:08,639
who's who's interested in this. Okay.
Anything else anybody wants to add?

1354
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:15,040
All right. Um, we should do a motion to
ask our town staff to advertise the

1355
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:21,119
position or the openings on the town
administrator searchhiring committee.

1356
01:52:18,639 --> 01:52:26,960
So moved. Thank you. include the
deadline for

1357
01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:31,440
yes whatever it is be very clear about
what the deadline is for applications to

1358
01:52:29,199 --> 01:52:36,639
be in the hands of whoever they need to
be in the hands of July 9th

1359
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:40,000
I don't think I need to amend the motion
you guys just know to do that the

1360
01:52:38,560 --> 01:52:44,560
advertisement do you want to do the 8th
to make sure it's in on time because you

1361
01:52:42,320 --> 01:52:49,000
need it by 4 p.m. July 9th that's a
typical agenda deadline so

1362
01:52:49,679 --> 01:52:56,239
case there's in the last minute. I'm I'm
okay with that. Someone missed deadline.

1363
01:52:52,960 --> 01:52:59,679
What? Not so sad, I guess.
All right. So, I did get a second on

1364
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:03,760
that, right? Council Mandic, you
seconded it. No, I'm I made a motion to

1365
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:07,040
move it.
Oh, okay. I'll second it. And we'll go

1366
01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:14,480
for our roll call vote. Councelor
Dinsmore, yes. Madnick, yes. Reynolds,

1367
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:20,320
yes. And yes. All right. uh request of
Chris Fox, executive director of Wood

1368
01:53:16,400 --> 01:53:25,679
Pocket Tuck Wild Watershed Association.
Thank you for your patience, by the way.

1369
01:53:22,480 --> 01:53:29,840
Thanks for having me. Um you should get
a gold star for for getting that name

1370
01:53:27,599 --> 01:53:35,040
right because not many people do. Your
name? No, the name of the association.

1371
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:39,679
Oh, I I try to work with them sometimes.
They gave me a hat. I know.

1372
01:53:38,080 --> 01:53:42,560
Uh I'm the director of the Wood Pocket
Tuck Waterhed Association. And I can

1373
01:53:41,199 --> 01:53:48,000
only say it that fluently because I have
to say it a thousand times a week. I

1374
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:52,639
appreciate being here. I'm here because
uh the town of Richmond owns a culvert

1375
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:56,080
on Hillsdale Road that is a bit of a
flooding nuisance. I know it's a

1376
01:53:53,920 --> 01:54:00,320
nuisance for Gary at DPW when it over
tops the road. The road has to be closed

1377
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:05,199
causing subsequent damage to the side of
the road. Uh from our organizational

1378
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:10,159
standpoint, it is uh what's called
perched covert pipe pipes which means

1379
01:54:07,599 --> 01:54:15,360
it's a pipe system with water that flows
out which prevents any wildlife that

1380
01:54:13,199 --> 01:54:18,400
reside in the river from moving up or
down from that location. Technically

1381
01:54:17,119 --> 01:54:21,760
they could go down if they go through
the pipes and fall out like a nice water

1382
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:25,840
slide but otherwise they're not getting
back up the river again. So our interest

1383
01:54:23,840 --> 01:54:31,760
in this project was to restore
connectivity to the Beaver River at that

1384
01:54:28,400 --> 01:54:36,159
location. Back in February of 2024, the
previous council here authorized our

1385
01:54:34,480 --> 01:54:41,360
organization to serve as the project
manager to replace the Hillsdale Culver.

1386
01:54:39,119 --> 01:54:45,520
Since then, we retained the engineering
firm of Fuss and O'Neal to develop a

1387
01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:50,400
design and a wetland permit application
for the replacement of the Culver. To

1388
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:54,880
date, we've spent about $200,000 of our
grant funding to develop this design.

1389
01:54:53,440 --> 01:54:59,119
The design's been created in
consultation with the council's

1390
01:54:56,239 --> 01:55:03,119
designated town staff members and the
design is now ready to be packaged into

1391
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:08,320
an application to alter a Rhode Island
freshwater wetland. The design is a

1392
01:55:05,199 --> 01:55:13,440
packet that I supplied to you folks. Um,
as the property owner, only the town can

1393
01:55:11,280 --> 01:55:17,599
sign and submit the application. This is
one of the few places in the project

1394
01:55:14,960 --> 01:55:22,480
where I can't represent you. Um, so I'm
here tonight simply to um secure the

1395
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:26,800
council's approval of the submission of
the wetlands permit application and to

1396
01:55:24,400 --> 01:55:30,560
designate a staffer to sign the
application on the town's behalf. I

1397
01:55:28,480 --> 01:55:36,159
think in my request I had put Karen down
as the person name but that was or

1398
01:55:33,679 --> 01:55:41,280
really
so it might be prudent to either not

1399
01:55:38,560 --> 01:55:45,520
designate a specific person or designate
maybe town administrator because we're

1400
01:55:43,679 --> 01:55:49,920
expecting submission to happen sometime
in the next 30 days. I'm not sure when

1401
01:55:47,520 --> 01:55:54,320
Car's last day is but hopefully we can
get in the door before she goes. I'm not

1402
01:55:51,599 --> 01:55:59,360
exactly sure we'll be able to
Okay. Um,

1403
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:03,840
so when we do a motion, we usually
authorize you to sign. We can just skip

1404
01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:08,960
that part and I can sign, right? That
might be cleaner just because there's a

1405
01:56:05,199 --> 01:56:12,480
lot of moving parts. All right. Um, all
right. Do we have any motions to throw

1406
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:18,480
on the floor?
Uh motion to authorize

1407
01:56:15,679 --> 01:56:22,080
uh the submission of the application to
RIM

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01:56:20,080 --> 01:56:26,719
for the Hillsdale Road Culver
Replacement Project

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01:56:24,400 --> 01:56:32,639
be signed by the council president
second. Right. Any further council

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01:56:29,040 --> 01:56:38,000
discussion or questions on this?
Yeah, just maybe this is out of bounds

1411
01:56:35,440 --> 01:56:41,599
and you can uh correct me, but do we
know the one the timeline and then is

1412
01:56:39,599 --> 01:56:47,199
hill going to be shut down while this
is? Yes. So, we have not secured

1413
01:56:44,719 --> 01:56:51,280
construction funding yet. Anticipation
is construction funding is based on a

1414
01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:55,679
bidding competitive bidding process.
It's probably going to be somewhere

1415
01:56:52,239 --> 01:56:59,440
between 800,000 and a million. If I can
raise a million dollars on behalf of the

1416
01:56:57,280 --> 01:57:05,199
town of Richmond between now and July
1st of 26, we hope to start construction

1417
01:57:01,920 --> 01:57:08,800
in July of 26. It's being carefully
planned such that road closure would not

1418
01:57:07,199 --> 01:57:13,920
occur during the school year so we
wouldn't affect bus routs. Uh road

1419
01:57:11,280 --> 01:57:19,040
closure would be for approximately four
to eight weeks depending on weather and

1420
01:57:17,119 --> 01:57:22,320
it would be posted on the road months in
advance the project is coming. the road

1421
01:57:20,719 --> 01:57:27,840
closure is happening and there will also
be a provision for traffic to U-turn and

1422
01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:32,080
turn around when met with that closure
and obviously we'll be working with

1423
01:57:29,599 --> 01:57:35,360
chief fire chiefs making sure
everybody's aware of the closure and

1424
01:57:33,840 --> 01:57:38,800
alternate routes for responding to
emergencies

1425
01:57:37,280 --> 01:57:42,719
and sometimes when there's closures it
ends up on notify me which I love to

1426
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:47,840
plug when I can and tell people to go
online and sign up for notify me it's

1427
01:57:45,199 --> 01:57:51,280
super easy
um any other questions

1428
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:54,880
All right. So, we'll go for our roll
call vote. Councelor Dinsmore, yes.

1429
01:57:52,800 --> 01:57:58,400
Madnick, yes. Reynolds, yes. And Will
Cox, yes. Thank you again so much for

1430
01:57:56,719 --> 01:58:03,760
your help and securing that for the
town. Thank you.

1431
01:58:02,400 --> 01:58:06,800
All right. So, we have communications,
petitions, proclamations, and

1432
01:58:04,960 --> 01:58:10,080
resolutions. We have a motion file.
Well, does anybody have anything to pull

1433
01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:13,760
first? I'm sorry.
All right. Motion to file. Second. All

1434
01:58:12,560 --> 01:58:19,199
right. Go for a vote. Councelor
Dinsmore, yes. Madnik, yes. Reynolds,

1435
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:24,320
yes. And Will Cox, yes.
All right. Now we're going on to

1436
01:58:20,880 --> 01:58:30,480
executive session.
My turn. Yeah. Motion to move into

1437
01:58:28,159 --> 01:58:37,040
executive session pursuant to RAI
general laws 42-46582

1438
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:43,199
regarding litigation 36 and 37 Woodro
Bounder dispute and pursuant to general

1439
01:58:39,599 --> 01:58:48,719
laws 42465 A5 regarding potential
acquisition of real property. Second.

1440
01:58:46,639 --> 01:58:53,840
All right. We go for a roll call vote.
Councilmore, yes. Madnick, yes.

1441
01:58:50,639 --> 01:58:59,080
Reynolds, yes. And Wilcox, yes.
That was some nice timing on your end.

1442
01:58:55,679 --> 01:58:59,080
That was good.

1443
01:59:13,679 --> 01:59:20,080
You're good. Thank you. Um, can we
please have a motion to exit executive

1444
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:23,840
session? Motion to exit executive
session. Second. Motion in a second. Um,

1445
01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:28,719
how do you vote? Councelor Dinsmore,
yes. Madnik, yes. Reynolds, yes. And

1446
01:59:26,239 --> 01:59:32,560
Will Cox, yes. Motion to Can I please
have a motion to seal the minutes of our

1447
01:59:30,719 --> 01:59:37,199
executive session? Motion to seal the
minutes of executive session.

1448
01:59:35,679 --> 01:59:43,520
Okay. Um, councelor Dmore, how do you
vote? Madnik. Yes. Oh, no. Isn't here. I

1449
01:59:40,560 --> 01:59:49,679
know who else made it. Reynolds.
Yes. And Wilcox. Yes. Um, so we've

1450
01:59:46,960 --> 01:59:53,520
closed, we've sealed, and we made two
votes in executive session. The first

1451
01:59:51,599 --> 01:59:58,480
was made by myself and I believe
seconded by Councelor Reynolds. I didn't

1452
01:59:55,840 --> 02:00:02,639
write down who seconded it. Y. Okay,
good. um to the motion was to authorize

1453
02:00:01,119 --> 02:00:07,760
the town administrator to engage Al
Dioro to draft a legal description to

1454
02:00:04,800 --> 02:00:12,400
effectuate the settlement of the Wood
River I'm sorry Wood Road alleged

1455
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:17,360
encroachments that was unanimously
approved by all council members. We also

1456
02:00:14,719 --> 02:00:21,360
had a motion to approve the signing of
the purchase and sales agreement by the

1457
02:00:18,960 --> 02:00:27,840
trustees of the land trust and other
documents to effectuate the land trans

1458
02:00:23,760 --> 02:00:33,520
the land transfer. Um, we had councelor
Dinsmore abstain, madnick approve, rs

1459
02:00:30,639 --> 02:00:35,840
approve, and myself approve.
Think we got through everything we

1460
02:00:34,400 --> 02:00:43,199
needed to. I think so. We'll do a motion
to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Council

1461
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:48,800
yes. Magnetic. Reynolds. Yes. And
Wilcox. Yes. All right. Right.