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okay good evening everyone if you care
to stand we'll have an invitation and

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the Pledge of
Allegiance Lord we ask that you preside

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over this meeting tonight let your
spirit guide our decision so that we

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make the best decisions for our
community instill in US wisdom and

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Sensibility to the needs to see the
needs of our citizens such that our time

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here tonight offers long range Solutions
with the many challenges ahead of us

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Lord we also ask you to watch over our
men and women who are presently deployed

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to areas that are threatened with
instability we ask that your spirit

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inspires our world leaders to seek peace
rather than War to negotiate rather than

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react to settle conflicts peacefully
rather than resort to violence we ask

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this in your Holy Name

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am pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liy and

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justice for all

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thank you I will now call this meeting
to order this is the regular Town

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council meeting
uh for

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September 10th
2024 item number five on the consent

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agenda I need a motion to approve the
council minutes of

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13 we have to adopt agenda first oh I'm
sorry yes move to adopt the agenda

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second all those in

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favor I'm really trying to get
this to adop the consent agenda

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excuse
me I have a second second all those in

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favor item number six citizens

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comments

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than good evening uh i' first like to
thank this for nothing me documentation

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on Seven Devils committees in a timing
matter second I'd like to offer the

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council member an emergency action map
that notes Town facilities as well as

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emergency access points and helicopter
path in addition to the reference guide

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to full town I am following the lead of
Dave Linden suggesting that we create a

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more detailed emergency action M for
both East and West sides of town the

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form allows the map to be printed on 8
by 8 half by 11 sheet of paper for

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indidual to post in their homes for
quick access the beginnings of an East

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Side map and full map have been sent in
attachment to our town clerk this to via

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email for your access and
review although not action emergency

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action plan per se the map can serve as
a starting point to keep our community

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safe in a disaster
situation thirdly I asked the council

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associate boards and committee heads to
to report on the status of the sko

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webcam the club revisions painting and
signage on Alpine speed hunt the donated

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lots and the pictures and bios of
councilmen and members on our

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website I'll in with a couple of
requests

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first uh please host all upcoming
meetings on the Seven Devils Facebook

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page in the Tomy man post agenda packets
and minutes individual boards and

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committees
on their web listing posting formal

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reports from meetings from mayor and
chairpersons soon after events a monthly

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Town balen views from department heads a
quarterly journal from council

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members and lastly it's come to my
attention that those watching on YouTube

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and who attending meetings in person are
having difficult time understanding the

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proceedings due to a non-existent or
less than adequate microphone system so

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until an alternative application system
can be found please please for us older

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folk speak a little louder and address
individuals by their formal names and

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title thank you your time and
understanding thank you for your

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comments Jonathan uh will probably give
you some updates on some of those items

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that you had
mentioned anyone else okay

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I stopped to see what was going on in
Tom me I'm reading this for

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Tom Tom is walking in right

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now a minute SM

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we got it man we got it you're
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on excuse my pry yeah snowcloud I've
been a I got

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it I've been a resident of sou Devils
for 37 years Charter Member active

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member of sou Devils fire department 35
years and as assistant chief had the

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unfortunate announcement of passing Jim
drum Jim drum purchased a house at

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1706 November
1997 and though he was a seasonal

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resident he spent a lot of time in s
Devils I don't remember the exact year

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he joined the Seven Devils fire
department however he'd been an active

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member in the early 2000s for about 10
years on Sunday September 1st he left

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this Life as we know it for at of
place many had noticed that there was a

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morning bre on the Seven Devils fire
truck parked by the state road both

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Sunday and Monday which was in his armor
Jim drum will be

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missed thank you very thoughtful that
mention his name I didn't realize he had

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passed anyone else

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okay move on to Old business which there
is none a new business this is a new

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business this is the uh I let me back up
morett came and gave us proposals for

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Paving the the following items Roman
numeral one and two and in order to get

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on their uh schedule which is very
important time of year because we need

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to put asphalt down in as warm a climate
as we can not saying that you can't put

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it down colder times it's just our it's
been habitual for us to do it when it's

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warm we have a we seem to have a much
better product when we do that so I

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phoned all of the council members and
informed them and sent them the

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information but uh tonight is a is a
rubber stamp on our approval and so I

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will unless there's further discussion
I'll accept a motion to approve uh Ru

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one and two for our Paving proposals and
Jonathan you might where this money is

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com okay so each year we set aside money
for Capital

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Improvement uh we we have built that
fund up and we have some unassigned and

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unobligated money in the capital
Improvement plan and uh that's that's

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where all the money for these two
projects will come from so we're trying

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to eliminate gravel roads in town
they're just they're so expensive to

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maintain they have trouble in the winter
time so this will uh eliminate three of

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the gravel roads in town so uh now is a
really good time you know the quote was

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reasonable and we have some unassigned
and unspoken for money in our Capital

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Improvement plan and that that was the
Public Works committee's

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recommendation Jonathan some of that
money is from the pow pow Bill too no

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we're using the pow
bill for other Road repairs okay uh

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that's separate we budgeted for that
these are two uh two proposals that were

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not in the original we found uh some of
the pricing that uh morett G gave us was

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significantly lower than what we
anticipated and I don't I don't know why

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it
follows price of crude oil and gas

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prices are down I don't know I don't
know the reason well if you'll read

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number four under their
uh proposal it's uh due to the

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volatility of the petroleum Market rep
saving reserves right to adjust this

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quote based on increased cost pass Asal
Mi so it is uh tied very closely to the

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gas
market the other the other reason why we

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uh work with morett is because even
though they're just a number if they

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come in under the number that's all we
pay so that been very very good to work

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with so I need a motion to
approve

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second all those in

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favor K Jonathan
okay here give us the update okay so uh

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the chestnut Bridge Water Project is
nearing completion uh we only have to uh

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switch over the service lines from the
main line that they just replaced so we

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should be wrapping that up within the
next month uh our town auditor will be

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here at the October meeting to present
our findings we've received the PX

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scolls from both Avery and W counties
town clerk drop attended the cler Summer

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Conference in charl
Charlotte we had 31 participants uh

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attend our history lecture we talk about
alcohol and people think they're getting

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some show
up we'll talk about alcohol at

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our at our community Forum that we're
getting ready to have you guys will show

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up for that one uh the High Country
Council of government hold their annual

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banquet on Friday October
4th uh members of the council ended

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Willa Mayors and managers meeting in
boom this month and Seven Devils will

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host the next meeting in November Seven
Devils will also be hosting Thea

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economic development committee's meeting
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November uh we hosted a successful blood
drive here at Town Hall uh they've

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already scheduled another drive for
November 8th they were they were very

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happy with the turnout uh this webcam on
skev view it was working at one point

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when they we tried we got them to try to
adjust it to go up Ski View and it's not

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been working since we're aware of it we
don't have the stuff to fix it we're

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waiting on the IT company to fix it uh
painting and strapping on the Alpine

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speed bumps we're not going to do that
until we get them lower and because if

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we painted them now it would just come
off when we lowered them so when po USA

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comes up to lower the speed they will
pay when when they say they're coming

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they said they're
coming we don't have a date we don't

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have a date
no uh the parts direct meeting is

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scheduled for September 12th at 900 a.m.
with a tree board meeting to follow the

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TDA meeting is scheduled for September
24th at 9:00 a.m. and we have our last

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debris pickup of the Year deadline to
have it out is October

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6 the fourth annual turn rat will take
place on the 29th and we have a date of

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December 13th for

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black Le is there any information
we need to know about the ABC Board

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they're still s
selling doing well very successful

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yes John uh can you give uh an update on
the uh the

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park okay yes so as you all probably no
by now the is up I don't know if they've

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been able to fix the gate on the uh
small dog side we know that's an issue

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that we're having the small dogs can get
under the gate oh it's the it's the gate

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where you come into the the area before
you go into those you get out there

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that's okay well J's on I'm just I'm
just going off what she said so I may be

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incorrect on that uh our playground is
very very popular uh

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we we have our par scores that there's
one guy that uses it every morning about

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9:00 so that's been used as well we were
hoping to have our quotes by the uh end

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of August that has passed uh the last
update I got from him is he has hired a

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new person to help work on that and he's
hoping to get them to us in September

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our bid pches so once on those come in
we will add concert Pavilion our

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bathrooms and our hi children Jonathan's
putting a lot of pressure on me too I

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mean it's and I'm putting a lot of
pressure on Jonathan uh to call him and

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and to push and I I don't know if I told
you this or not but he did hired an

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additional person try to get that fast
yeah so

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juel one of ju's complaints she felt as
though she was being put off and uh by

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asking for more information about things
and but uh we'll stay on top of that

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because that needs to happen we we need
we have money that we have to spend

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within a Time framework and with the way
things are for for things like uh

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construction of a bathroom a pavilion
and and

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a in the concert in the concert uh
area because of the numbers that they're

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going to cost we we have to allow
certain times and we don't want to be up

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against gets the WW in getting them done
and completed because uh if it's not

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used we lose the

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money we have until 2026 but I'd like to
spend the Mone we need to get it done

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and and use it
so any other comments on any of the

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uh board

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meetings so Misty our CPA will be here
beginning next week no she's finished

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with the audit she's going to present it
Council okay yeah she finished it up on

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Friday and she's coming to meet with me
Friday this Friday morning to go over

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and she'll present it to the council and
the public on our October meeting and

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she does the TDA audit as well yeah
she'll do that at the TDA meeting she

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won't do that one here
okay Council comments

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I do have a couple um he thank you for
the

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M um I wanted to acknowledge at the last
meeting Mr

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alonso's suggestion for the citizen
recognition and but suggest we follow up

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on that in some manner I talked quickly
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juel and um Hillary and and and I was
asking je that was burdensome to do that

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monthly on the website Hillary said
historically it was kind of an annual

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lunch or recognition of everyone so I
can talk make a time and talk to you

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about where we

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go so I'm just acknowledging that
and and letting people know that we with

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that um I think it ought to be a quarter
or semiannual quarterly I think is a

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time frame I mean we have a lot of
people that put in a

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l in town I don't think we'll have we'll
have trouble now I'm loading you

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up because typically when I suggest
things like that I wait for the last

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minute to make a recommendation for
somebody so we we have to I guess we

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have to discuss how are what's the
procedure going to be I mean is it a

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voting thing is it a a suggestion
this person does this that's up to you

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guys you tell us how you want it to
operate and we'll execute would it be

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appropriate for that to be the topic on
the 26 sure the

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for so everybody understands on 26 we're
having our second uh public form

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and Brian and myself will will
be presenting and and besides any

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suggestions we receive uh we're going to
give updates on construction that's a

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big big thing right now good and bad you
know and I know you follow trucks up and

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down there's gravel on the roads the
roads are tore up uh there's a lot of

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stuff happening on the mountain but the
more we can talk about it and and open

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to suggestions for to ease the uh
inconvenience you know we're open to

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that else my third
um item and this is maybe question

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um following up on H request was there
is there update CL from input and

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feedback in the spring so that is under
perview of the planning board and they

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haven't come to a compromise on how they
want it done so that is once they review

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it it'll be sent to you guys real
quickly thank you we we are also in if

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I'm speaking out of turn joh both
Jonathan let me know um we have a lot of

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ordinances that I'm not going to say
we're hand ridden they

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were Ed from other towns our size and
municipalities and and kind of put

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together but we've never had them
totally reviewed by our we staff and and

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that
and that was a budgeted item where we

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increased the uh the legal so we're
trying to get a lot of that before we

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dive into changes that way we do it one
time

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and with the Ever Changing legislation
that's coming out and cases being

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settled we don't want to jump the gun on
a lot of ordinances that are going to be

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shot down and uh that what we pay those
guys and we'll take their advice on how

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they think we should handle things and
that's what we've been doing so far Ry

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just came out with a lot of changes and
and requirements and things that we

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can't do and a lot of those would be
reflected in the club yeah so that's

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where any other
comments I

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have thank you everyone

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part