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Console meeting from May 5, 2015. The evening we started the tonight off with the Executive Session

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at 6pm, and it was specifically discussed as a parcel located on May very road

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or, sort

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off, the roll call, counsel calendar. Councillor Golger. Councilor Gang.

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Console the deleting.

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Councillor Jellerson, Tomerati, Tom Mangerabakubene, Council Chairman, Nathie Stresgers, welcome.

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Would you please join us with a pledge of allegiance?

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We'll

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ask Matt on April 21, 2015, and we have minutes from that meeting that we received.

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Surely, you just received a minutes today.

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Nancy has a new computer over there.

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the uncrashed and raised.

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I am just so like places on next slide.

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Next slide?

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That's OK.

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So will we hold up on reviewing those and we'll talk about these in two weeks.

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Thanks Nancy.

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That happens.

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This is the bad issue.

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Thank you.

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Look forward to reading you.

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Second, the first order of business is,

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is, probably comments about the agenda.

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If you have something to say, we'd like to come up.

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It'd be great.

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I would just like to keep it within about three minutes or so, and just identify who are the good folks at home and the record keeping here we have.

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Chairman Mofon, great.

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Welcome.

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And we're at 100, and seeing the same thing about the executive session, the action was taken, action was taken, you didn't say.

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No, we'll have an action item, presumably probably in two weeks for the agenda to act on in the public.

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So you took action to have something to put on the agenda in two weeks?

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Yes.

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So we'll have at that point down, but some homework needs to be done before it's for public

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doing.

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The issue that I want to discuss is what you had taken taking care of last week.

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I mean, last council meeting.

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And that was taken some funds from the TIP account.

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and shuffle it to take care of what tax pay is raised in taxes for that road.

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I'm 100 up for 100.

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I'm going to write by me.

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Oh, yeah, for the $35,000 for the road improvement margin of our work.

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I'm going to apply the way.

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Okay, thanks.

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So anyway, the tax pay is your total tax pay.

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You need some money for that road.

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and taxpayers gave them money for it, they proved it and etc.

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So, I would think that you would be spending the money for that.

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However, I don't think it's morally right to take that money

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that the attack you told the taxi is going to use for railroad,

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turn around and use a shuffle of the money from a tip,

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a count, to take care that because you need a new item.

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That's not covered under the tip.

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If you're serious about economic development,

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which I'm not sure you are,

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because your actions don't seem to indicate

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by taking what I consider a savings account, which is tip money.

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So that if some major thing comes in,

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we're sitting pretty good to be able to work

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and take action immediately.

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If we had some funds, but it seems like every time I turn around,

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the citizens turn around. This money is being sucked out of there out of the

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tip of town. So, you know, what are you going to have when something

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should come up? If something should come up, maybe you don't believe anything's

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going to come up. Maybe you feel that, you know, but what your actions

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are saying is that we don't really care what we told you we're going to use the

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money for. We're going to do what we want, when we want to do it anyway. And

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that's my impression, which will pace at the last meeting. And I think you should

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really look into that because this is not the first time you went into that typical, this is,

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you know, you kind of wanted to do that with 100-chip account.

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And, you know, this was a great tool for future growth down in that area, that was the purpose

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of it.

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And, you know, you're not going to have any money, so we're going to do bond again, you know,

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that seems to be, you know, use the credit card to go and take care of the immediate needs.

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You really have to think about this. That's totally, that's all I have to talk about right now.

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Good. Thank you. Any other public comments?

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Seeing that, we'll move on to the second order of business.

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Accounts of business is evening. We have two items on there.

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First is public water ordinance options.

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And this is approximately a month ago or so.

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of the Council, and this is a Council business discussion relative to some water, but at

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the time, we didn't have the luxury of being able to talk with our fine chief and the

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fire department, and it was, and we honestly volunteered to come out this evening to help us

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understand that what their concepts or what their thoughts were on the subject directly about

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specifically about water and public safety.

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And the discussion at that time was about fire funds for one.

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If Owen is right now, it says you have to show sufficient water for some division as far

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as public safety either, you know, fire upon sprinklers or a system or something along those

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lines or high grants.

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And we received a report from the planning side of it that fireponds, you know, apply

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fine to the art, you know, preferred.

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But we reached up to the chief as far as that to hear what the death of us would be on that

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relative to public safety.

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And that's why the chief came up tonight.

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So again, if you could come up and address that some,

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thanks to coming out to see the

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chief.

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The whole subject, as I watched it, that this last meeting did have some input that specifically

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wanted to talk about, you know, I think in Doug's letter did mention that the public safety

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department has been working on what I would call a fire ordinance, not a water ordinance for

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couple years now, and that's was something that the Council has approached in 2008, I believe,

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around that time with a fire ordinance that covered things like mandatory water hookup,

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residential sprinklers, and such.

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At that time it was rejected, and honestly I don't, I wasn't involved, I don't really know

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the ins and outs of what happened or why it wasn't accepted.

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So I tested it off and started working on it in the last couple years, but honestly, it hasn't been on the top of the pile.

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So after your discussion last month, I rushed it off and talked to Doug and said, you know, look, I don't know how,

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which way the council wants to go with this, or they want to go from the code of the zoning side to address some of these issues,

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or they want it in an ordinance, fire ordinance, and I think it could be done either way.

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My preference would be that it would be in an inclusive fire ordinance, which would cover

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a lot of other things that current fire ordinance, so we have this from 1950.

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So you can imagine that it really is pretty well useless, cover things like incinerators,

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driving over firewoods. It really doesn't cover the issues of today. So my preference

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would be for public safety that we work on this ordinance and it's going to take a while and

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get the input from both Council and Planning Board as to what issues need to be addressed and

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covered and then we go that route. You can choose to cover these things under the subdivision rules

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And right now, that's where it's being done.

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It's subdivision rule whether it's minor or major says.

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You either need to pick from a sister or a sprinkler system,

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or extend the water main, or a fire pond.

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And so the whole thing kind of started, I think,

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when in the fire pond, like my comments,

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we don't really think that's the best method anymore.

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And the reason for that is,

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they're not as effective in a wintertime, they're not accessible, they, you know, like this one,

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we had three feet of ice, so we don't even use them. And so I said to be the code office, you know,

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the next time you examine your subdivision rules, let's not make that an option. Because,

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honestly, it's very expensive to subdivision people to do. Anyway, has to be certified by

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hydrologist in order to pass, and then they're not affected. So that's kind of where

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this all started, I think, from the planning board, and some of these things address

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so. What I would need to hear from you, folks, times what direction you want to go in.

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If that's the direction you want to go in, we'll hit the box, we'll get this developed,

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we'll get it back to you. If you want it to come from the planning board, then you have

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address it that way.

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That it's really that that's simple. But if you go the planning board

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rude, they want to address some of the fire protection rules that we need. It'll only

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address new development in such, you know, for instance, we just have a store across some

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put up, it's not sprinkled. That should never happen. But right now they don't

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buy the state of Stages, which is 12,000 square feet. I'd like to see it

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2000 square feet. So every commercial building that is put next, right next to a

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water line should not have any excuse not to hook to that water line and sprinkle

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the building. So those are the types of things that are not being addressed, that I

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think should come from a fire ordinance.

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The damage we're looking at from a commercial, a commercial side in a residential application.

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You'd be able to address those differences.

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Those differences.

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They would go to the included.

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And they would have verbiage in there for either or.

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Some of the rules would be the same.

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Others would be different.

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It would certainly be more strategic for commercial.

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Not to discourage commercial growth.

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But in quite honestly, most commercial people for insurance purposes want to

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And it's a little beyond me that the ones who don't, I don't quite understand it, but I think it needs to be covered in that type of an ordinance.

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Council to us, Pete.

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I think we should give it to the fire department to roll over you.

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I mean, again, this obvious, the fire department needs to go.

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So there's need for change and I think who better than I could fire the fire department to do it.

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I know you've been working with the Planning Board as well and seen this in conflict in action,

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I guess, specifically, especially with firepower in questions too.

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Yeah, and I would agree that the fire on issue is something that needs to be dealt with,

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and I don't have a problem with that.

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I do think that it should be a standalone ordinance enforced by the fire department, because I think all it does is complicated things for the plan board and there's too much that it's left open to individual interpretation.

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I think myself and I think the majority of the council have been very outspoken about as far

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as the residential, making water hook up mandatory for subdivision, sprinklers,

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requirements, stuff like that.

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I think it's pretty plain that at least this council is something that they're not going

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to support.

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I am amazed that that building is not sprinkled.

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I can't believe why they wouldn't do it.

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I agree with you. I think any commercial building should be required to be sprinkled.

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And that, you know, then again, that's one of those things that's needed to be taken care of for a long time, that's just haven't dealt with again. So it's really a shame to see that I don't know why they would not want to sprinkle that bill in that boggles in my mind.

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or let me retrace that we were never presented with a plan.

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So, honestly, don't know.

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I could only assume it was not.

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We were never given a plan to approve.

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Well, I guess that might be another question for the other question for all I got by, though.

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But if you need to put a little flavor into the pot and hold it at least.

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Because the audience doesn't support it, and they don't have to do it, and that's all that

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reason to get this, what we so call the ordinance that we have straightened out, because it has

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a lot of holes like that in it. But I would agree with you with the fireballons, I think that's,

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you know, I think that's something that needs to be changed. I don't have a problem with that.

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I don't think that puts on any unnecessary financial burden on the developer

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are reduces their choices, so to speak, like a mandatory hook-up to public water and

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a mandatory sprinkling of homes does, though those two things I would not support, but I

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would definitely support the getting rid of the fireponds and having subdo-requires

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of divisions to go to systems, and I do like the idea of staying alone on its own ordinance.

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I think that's realistically the only way to go in my mind and to leave it up with you guys,

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because the ones that steal with it, the ones that know about it, so the ones that should be dealing with it.

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I don't have anything to add without drawing this out, so I'm going to agree with what's

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in just set so far.

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Thanks, sir.

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I believe with Louis Shubby's den alone, I believe in the expertise of fire department to carry out

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what is needed.

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Can you speak to the rating?

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Like if we change our ordinance for how fire ordinance is there, how does that affect your reading?

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Isn't that better for the town?

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It would not necessarily by itself affect the rating.

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But that is another subject that we're in the middle of applying for a rate change.

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In other words, there are many steps you have to go through for ISO 2 to get a better rating.

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rating right now is a split rating, which is a four in the hydro district and eight B in

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the rural district. So if you're outside the hydro district, you're in a rural setting. And

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we are applying to have that improved right now. We're in the middle of our paperwork and it's

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been a, like a year-long process. So that's, that's what's been on the top of the bottom of this,

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but so no, it would not necessarily improve your rating. However, in the long term, by instituting

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some of these rules or ordinances for commercial business, essentially would improve how

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you get to a better rate if that's clear. In other words, you know, you can prove that 90%

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of your commercial buildings are sprinkled and, you know, so on and so forth are on the

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water, but on the water, hydrogen system. And yes, that does help your improvement. For instance,

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the water tower that was just installed will help already potentially, but it all has to be

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added up, everything from dispatch to your building, your apparatus, that all those in the

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forms are so. So it's not a reality.

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Go where you're saying there is some on-term, and I believe in implementing it.

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I believe so, yes.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Lynn.

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Chief, I'm also an agreement with my fellow councillors as far as

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having it as a standalone document, especially updating it over since it's about 60 plus

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years old.

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So now we're seeing like a good time to get in that business, but I look forward to

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here what your recommendations work, because with all your experience, within the science,

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if you will, and updating it and knowing that how technology has changed and also knowing

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what our availability of apparatus is and what we can respond to and how we can best use

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that in the relationship to the last time that it was written would be huge upgrade.

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I have in my office probably six to eight other ordinances from the county that I'm using and looking at it to draw up our own.

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So obviously you look, see what other towns are doing, what's the best of both worlds and put it all together.

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So I don't know if you may want to have a workshop where you can give me more input after we have a draft, maybe.

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And then I'll get input from Code Office, Planning Board, if need be to put all this together, but it will not happen tomorrow.

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Is there any need, or does I have to get the public safety involved as a assistance as well?

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I know they have been meeting very much at all.

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No, I've not heard anything from them.

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They actually developed one in 2008.

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I think they were involved as well as the chief.

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I'm okay with doing it.

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And I will put it, maybe not on top of the pile, but very close and hopefully within maybe a month or so have something of a draft.

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Oh, that's great.

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Because I'm sure once I get a draft, everyone will dissect it and add and cross out and all that.

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But that's a process that we'll have to go through.

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As well as working with the planning department, you know, update those questions because, you know, if you do, if it changes on one side of it,

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and all of a sudden the downstream effects would be in the subdivision ordinance where there

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would be changes that then would have to be integrated so that's about to get that consistency

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that I would like which I would welcome their input and what they would like to see

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what they've had for experiences and as well as Doug and his team so we'll start that process

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that's what your wishes are. Yeah I'd say so and then secondly you know the

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to go through that in kind of informal context and then and then get it moving forward and then have something formally to act on later in the year. So I think that'd be great.

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Okay. I have a completely unrelated question.

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But it seemed like every piece of rolling stock was moving towards North Raymond Saturday afternoon at one point.

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It was, you know, this is like mutual aid in action.

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Was there a major part of the year or Sunday?

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Was a Saturday or was a Sunday?

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I know, might have been a Sunday.

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Sunday, we had,

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when we were trying to do this, it was happening to people.

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OK, it's like, it sounded like West Cumberland had just

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about everything going up one hundred out of that point.

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Covered the station, we had Northeastern covering,

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and we had, I don't know, how many guys I'm seeing.

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I wasn't there.

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You know, there's Dr. Fierd?

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No, sure, drive.

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Almost.

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With fire.

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I understand it, not permitted.

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And we went to Raymond yesterday for a fairly large wood fire.

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I didn't notice it in fairly large font today on the public safety.

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Marquita said, there's no wedding.

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I didn't get that on dry.

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I just need to make it clear.

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I don't even think about burning.

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That's a great place for that sign with the way the traffic stacks up there early in the morning.

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So I can't chance to read it.

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That was great.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Second, I know we had was a discussion on meeting decorum.

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And the reason why I asked every to put that on for our, for council businesses,

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I did receive the council, I think, all of us to receive an email from Mr.

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Mr. Barter, but not Richard Barter, different Mr. Barter.

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David, David, and it was related to watching a recent planning board meeting and it was

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in happy with the way the discussion unfolded in there and I felt it was a good opportunity

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for us to actually for the Council to take a look at it and kind of re-correct our own

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compass.

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If you, as well as, you know, recommend to our boards that we're all, and commissions that

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Well, liaison, too, to just remind folks that our discourse should be respectful and

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doesn't have to have to always be agreeable.

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But I think we can all improve as far as I go, as in trying to work in the business of

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the town as far as trying to have conversations and work with volunteers as well as others.

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Then a polite, not always reable, but polite and professional fashion.

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So, we did receive the email that I responded to it for us, but I did think that was an important point that he brought up and one that we can always try to remember.

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That was about the full extent of what we had.

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I don't know if anybody had any thoughts or if not we can move on.

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I will say that since I've been attending school board, CIP meeting, they have a cool thing on the bottom of the agenda where they sort of have meeting and get a few.

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Which sort of rules to follow, which I thought is, it's a nice reminder.

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Sometimes in the heat of the argument or heat of the discussion, you know something comes up, but you can see it.

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I'm going to sort of set the tone for the, for the meetings as well.

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Yeah, I think that's great.

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If you want to bring that along, maybe we can.

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I'll forward it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Third order of business to report me, Council Chair.

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I'll be, I'll be brief to see you.

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We have a few, few different items.

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John, Reverend, we did receive John's resignation from the Planning Board after, after many, many years.

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I'm going to share exactly how many of the work, but I did send in the thank you note for

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his service.

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I thought he did a great job, was very dedicated to that board for many a year provided.

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Always was willing to work, as well as brings perspective.

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So I thank him for his service, but I know he'll be missed.

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So that does also identify that there is an opening on that committee as well, now that

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take in place. And then a couple of things I had was Patriot 5K. This is going to be on May 16th,

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9 a.m. So if you are in the greater crystal lake area, on that day, be prepared for some

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closures and fast and slow people running. And maybe some intermediate speed people. But that'll

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on May 16th, and that's a huge event, brings roughly, you know, 750 to 1,000 people to

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the town at that morning for a huge fundraiser, which would raise roughly 50 grand for

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paid-your-pads, which is a huge shop here. I'm probably the most successful event of that

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size in that time period. Second, the third thing is that summer day camp openings, or

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it's open for registration now, so if you want to find a place that's fun and engaging

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if you're a kid. In the summertime, they do have opening still. But please move quickly because

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they will fill up. And then finally on May 28th, we will have a finance committee meeting

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finally. We're just looking for May 21st, but there is a conflict that evening because the

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school will be having their district meeting that evening at 630. And that will be all that

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the middle school. That's high school, that's the cafeteria. So that's why we won't

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meeting on that night. So we're meeting on the 28th. And that is what I have for Council,

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Jerry Port. Yep.

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Thank you. I have a few things to report on. I have been trying to send blurb's out

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to issue you counsel. So hopefully you are fairly familiar with some of these items. But the

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first is that the town of New Gloucester is interested in partnering with the town of Grey

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regarding the letter that we want to send to the MTA regarding the tolls.

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And actually when I spoke with Paul Ferris, he was quite excited about both towns doing it together.

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And having each of the council or sign on that.

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So we're working together on that, and I'll be bringing that back to you.

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Kathy Tomberley indicated to me today that she has been talking with Mr. Mayberry regarding the impact fees.

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If you remember planning decisions and Mr. Mayberry with the two entities, there was someone else

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who had contacted her and then they retired, consulted and pretty much she has determined

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that one of them was not interested and the other one really doesn't have the skills set.

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So our two candidates still appear to be either Mr. Mayberry or planning decisions.

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And she's still waiting for a cost estimate from Mr. Mayberry that we should have within a couple of weeks.

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This Friday is very important meeting, we're quite excited about it because the commissioner of the Department of Transportation is going to be meeting with staff.

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And some of you counselors as a matter of fact, I need to get a head count because we'll be having lunch after we take a ride of Route 26.

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and I would like to thank Senator Breing for facilitating that meeting for us.

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And hopefully we will be able to move forward or at least begin to start planning on how we're going to take care of root 26 and the integrity of that road.

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The firefighters had their annual banquet, April 24, Councilor Mancini and Gallagher attended that.

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but it's off

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Police, it's very heartfelt and Lewin and Lynn may comment on that as well. It's very rewarding each

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year when I go and it's just kudos to the department and their dedication and hard work.

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And there's always stories that bring it all home for us. So, I want to thank them again

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for the banquet.

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The Memorial Day Parade is going to be May 25th.

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There is information on our website, Jason Hall from the Legion

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is the contact person, but we had a really successful

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interesting meeting with staff and folks

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from the Historical Society, and we also

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were visited by the main living history association.

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And these folks are attempting to change legislation that Memorial Day will now, in the future,

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be celebrated on May 30th.

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Instead of the Monday that's convenient to make a long weekend, they're very passionate about

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celebrating Memorial Day for the initial reason that it was established.

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Anyway, these folks came to our meeting and they would press completely in cost of the civil

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war era and they are going to be conducting an event or a demonstration on May 30th

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of this year. At our cemetery, it's going to be at 1 o'clock. We are going to videotape it.

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We'll also be providing it on our website and cable TV.

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But you might want to be watching for these folks because they are very excited about next year.

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May 30th.

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We're already planning for it.

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Memorial Day is May 30th.

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And they've asked us to consider having our parade that day at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

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So that we can have a huge statewide gathering.

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Everyone else will have finished with their parade.

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And we will have folks and costumes.

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There's going to be war equipment that will be part of the parade and they told us hundreds could be attending this.

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So we're hoping that we do see that and we're already starting to plan for next year.

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The video that we had produced in conjunction with New Blaster in the school,

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about two, three years ago, has now on the website of

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Cumberland County and it's hosted under community videos.

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So I'm really excited about also having that showcase at the

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county level because it's hard for me to believe but some people

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even in the town of Greg have yet to see that very well done

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production.

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Last year, last week, last month, the town of Gray hosted a state motor vehicle training

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here at town hall. And I think I'm forwarded the compliments on to you council. But the staff

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was really excited about being able to use this very room to host a statewide training. And

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the state was really excited about being able to use this room and how easily accessible it

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is off from the turnpike, so we're just so proud of this building, and it's just another

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way for us to showcase that. And given the building and how proud we are of it, we will

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be hosting the monthly Chamber of Commerce meeting on June 2, upstairs as we did a few years

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ago in the morning. And once I find all the particulars about, I will get that information

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to you and acting that's it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Committee reports.

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Sorry, this is very, very nice.

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I'm going to go have a forum for the Finance Committee which I'm pretty excited about.

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The school's the IP budget meeting that moved from this yesterday to next Monday, 630 at high school.

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So I look forward to continuing discussions about that.

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And then, the only other thing I have is a continuation on what Deb said that Councilor

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Messini and I attended the Fire Department meeting.

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She even had me in tears with his stories about what they've done and what they've

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accomplished.

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And I just want to say Kudos to all of them, because even though certain ones were recognized

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for their contributions, I know it takes a team, so thank you, and thank you for the advice.

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Thanks, Lynn.

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I'll say it.

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I think that's it.

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Thank you, sir.

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Hold on.

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Thank you.

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Lou?

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Listen for me tonight.

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Peter?

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Library trustee's met.

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Gene Humphrey's a new member.

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Join this.

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She'll be a good member, I think.

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It's going to be interesting going forward.

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The library has since reopened after the renovation has been running about 25% ahead of

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previous usage, and this past month of April will be the first month that is kind of

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in compared against when it reopened last April. So, be interesting to see if that trend

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of heavy or usage continues, Josh's keeping his sharp pencil on his feet is there so we'll

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find out next month.

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It's an example, it should be strong.

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I was there before the meeting in the place was parking lot of staff also.

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That's great.

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Thanks, Peter.

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What committee meeting will be meeting this Thursday at 6.30 p.m.

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Here in that kind of office, and that's what I have for any report.

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Council force funds.

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I just think about one email that we did receive from David Barter,

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and we did also receive a letter from the Laura Stagel

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who was talking about, she had, unfortunately, she had a bad accident up at the intersection

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of Shaker Road in Route 26, this past winter, and it was frankly due to, you know, the snow

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being there and being an unsafe intersection, and I think this would be an important letter

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obviously to the meeting on Friday with the DOT chairman, but thank goodness, you know, nobody

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He was hurt, but also the car was sustained about $10,000 worth of damage, but her thoughts

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and triadies to have at least a light and try to find some way to at least make that intersection

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safer because it is so dangerous.

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But she was encouraging us to try to keep pushing that a lot.

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We'll be gone to the fourth order of business.

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I'm sure sorry we make a police and I don't have to tell the finance money for the CDC.

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I'm sure.

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I'm sure you have a couple of agencies.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, well planning board.

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I believe we're still thinking.

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The two now.

445
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,100
So please jump in early and often.

446
00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:19,740
Fourth row of business.

447
00:37:19,740 --> 00:37:23,820
We do have a presentation that folks have been looking forward to quite a while.

448
00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:28,740
We have a preview of coming attractions roughly a month ago, and this evening we have

449
00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:35,460
Superintendent Beesley and School Board Chairman Martel here to bring us an updated

450
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,740
information packet and tell us all about the good work they've been doing at the schools.

451
00:37:42,620 --> 00:37:45,660
Thanks Bruce. We can distribute that for you. Thank you sir.

452
00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:57,300
Thank you for having me.

453
00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:06,560
Okay, so this evening, I'd like to share with you the budget update that it owe you that the

454
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,520
school board will be taking on Wednesday. That is the finalized day of war in the article.

455
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,000
We've had straw poles, we've made some decision to pay some decisions at the board level.

456
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,160
And we should be signing those warrants, the article questions Wednesday evening and be able

457
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,840
to provide those heat to the two towns following that meeting.

458
00:38:26,660 --> 00:38:28,020
So, here we are.

459
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:32,820
So, the proposed budget, for 2015-16, and I'm going to jump right in.

460
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:42,240
If you look at the expenses, you'll see that the expenses are up about $116,907, which equates

461
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:47,140
to about 4.49% increase on the expense side of the budget.

462
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:54,560
Subsidy from the state, we have an increase of about 18,154 dollars

463
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,120
as of today that we're counting on.

464
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,000
And we do not expect that we will have the same carry forward

465
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,660
in our fund balance that we've had in years past.

466
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,060
So in the years past, we've been able to carry forward

467
00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:11,480
of our 650,000, or just being able to carry forward.

468
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:17,840
$550,000 from the $1450,000 to the $50,000,000 to the $50,000,000,000.

469
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:25,460
So the estimated tax impact for the two towns that that increase will have, gray share is

470
00:39:25,460 --> 00:39:26,320
$9,000.

471
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:37,440
I'm just going to estimate here, $9.2 million, which equates to about 0.14 cents, and that $14,000

472
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:45,220
There are $100,000 of valuation on property in New Blaster, it's about $5 million, which

473
00:39:45,220 --> 00:39:49,460
is equates to $7 per $100,000 of valuation.

474
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:56,440
And you'll see the gray share of 64.7% in New Blaster shares, $35.3%.

475
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,180
And that's going to be important in another slide that I show you in a little bit.

476
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:06,000
And these numbers do include the $53,000 that we extend on the belt education.

477
00:40:08,250 --> 00:40:13,750
So, the major impact that we've worked through, and I do want to commend the board.

478
00:40:14,010 --> 00:40:20,030
I want to commend members of the community to come to the budget hearings, the budget workshops that we've had.

479
00:40:20,570 --> 00:40:25,130
And the discussions that we've had with representatives at the state level as well,

480
00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:30,570
because we really have tried to reach out to them and make our boys heard and regards to things that are going on.

481
00:40:30,710 --> 00:40:35,210
The things they're taking place at the state level that have an impact on the local budgets.

482
00:40:35,210 --> 00:40:43,350
So charter school tuition, we're going to see a reduction of 384,862 dollars in charter school tuition.

483
00:40:43,350 --> 00:40:47,090
That is passed at the House and Senate level at the state.

484
00:40:47,270 --> 00:40:54,550
It's a weighing the governor's signature and it's expected based on an email that we received today from main school management.

485
00:40:55,110 --> 00:41:04,210
But the governor will sign that bill that basically creates revenue for each charter school without the local locals.

486
00:41:04,210 --> 00:41:08,510
local being responsible for a portion of that tuition.

487
00:41:09,570 --> 00:41:16,310
Health insurance, health insurance, we have been budgeting 8% 5% we were really hoping that

488
00:41:16,310 --> 00:41:24,170
we could get in around 5% and we had a 1.8% reduction on our premiums for this year over the cost

489
00:41:24,170 --> 00:41:25,490
of our premiums last year.

490
00:41:26,230 --> 00:41:33,230
It equates to about a savings of $130,000 in health insurance that were able to build

491
00:41:33,230 --> 00:41:36,510
than to the budget for this coming year, which is really good, I mean.

492
00:41:36,970 --> 00:41:43,950
But that being said, we still pay 20% more than districts that have had 0% increases for

493
00:41:43,950 --> 00:41:44,950
the last couple of years.

494
00:41:45,070 --> 00:41:51,490
Our increases were 13% and 9.5% and now we're going to get a 2% reduction, so we're still

495
00:41:51,490 --> 00:41:55,430
out about 20% and more than other some of the districts around that.

496
00:41:56,130 --> 00:42:01,970
Death service, we've read the debt, the bonds, some bonds have been retired, some bonds

497
00:42:01,970 --> 00:42:09,970
been reworked and it equates to about 78, 79,000, 70,000, $652 savings to the district.

498
00:42:11,190 --> 00:42:18,110
Also he infules, we were working very closely with our providers and we're able to save

499
00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:24,930
about $95,000 in the budget and the price that we're able to lock in for oil, gas,

500
00:42:25,130 --> 00:42:26,230
diesel, those things.

501
00:42:26,230 --> 00:42:32,830
So those are some significant savings, special education costs, do so in increase of about

502
00:42:32,830 --> 00:42:42,930
438, 439,000,000,000, and that's really IMP driven costs that are associated with special

503
00:42:42,930 --> 00:42:43,830
education students.

504
00:42:44,690 --> 00:42:49,490
And additional, I don't even go into too much detail on how special education is funded in

505
00:42:49,490 --> 00:42:56,370
who's 79, but your initial increases, a dollar of a dollar in your budget is a two-year average,

506
00:42:56,550 --> 00:43:01,870
so you're going to wait a year or two and get some reductions, and then you see some savings,

507
00:43:02,050 --> 00:43:08,130
but initially it's dollar of a dollar. So there's no additional money from the 279 offset.

508
00:43:09,570 --> 00:43:15,330
Our past tuition, which is a Portland-Ply Technical High School, is $70,000 increase,

509
00:43:15,330 --> 00:43:21,750
And I teach a retirement. This is from the state. We contribute now. This is the second

510
00:43:21,750 --> 00:43:27,670
authority that we've had to contribute to main purpose in terms of anyone that eligible,

511
00:43:28,170 --> 00:43:32,350
I say a teacher retirement, but it's also administrators. There are a lot of people that are

512
00:43:32,350 --> 00:43:37,570
eligible for a main state retirement. And our contributions increased by $8,000 this year.

513
00:43:37,610 --> 00:43:43,570
So those are major impacts that we've been able to secure in terms of savings. So we've

514
00:43:43,570 --> 00:43:46,750
will come up, we've had to come up with in terms of expense.

515
00:43:48,470 --> 00:43:52,510
So there are some additions to the budget, and I want to share a few of those with you

516
00:43:52,510 --> 00:43:53,310
these are the big ones.

517
00:43:53,510 --> 00:44:00,050
Our resource room teacher at the high school, 2x tax that are in special education, we have

518
00:44:00,050 --> 00:44:04,130
two outside placements, those are students that are high needs, special education students

519
00:44:04,130 --> 00:44:09,170
that we need to place outside of the district, we do not have the services that meet their

520
00:44:09,170 --> 00:44:20,210
IP needs. We are increasing by 0.4 guidance at the Cated 2 level and that's going to allow us to have a school counselor at Russell school four days a week and a school counselor at Memorial School three days a week.

521
00:44:20,950 --> 00:44:26,430
increased by 0.6 social worker at the K-2 level and that basically provides social work

522
00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:33,010
service that's specific to our self-contained populations at the K-2-4 level.

523
00:44:33,990 --> 00:44:38,070
We've added JV across in the spring of 2016.

524
00:44:38,370 --> 00:44:41,110
We have a lot of students participating in the K-3 across right now.

525
00:44:41,250 --> 00:44:44,610
The board has been through the process of recognizing that as a program.

526
00:44:44,610 --> 00:44:49,710
And we're also increasing field hockey system, a lot of our programs have paid assistance

527
00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:54,510
that work with a field hockey being one of the last in that cycle to fill that assistance

528
00:44:54,510 --> 00:44:55,190
position.

529
00:44:55,730 --> 00:44:59,810
And then we have state events for teacher evaluation, a new teacher evaluation system at the

530
00:44:59,810 --> 00:44:59,970
state level.

531
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:13,060
And I want an app to school program. We have a large increase in the number of students that are participating in app to school activities in the district, and we've offered statements to support the number of those.

532
00:45:13,940 --> 00:45:18,480
We do have some staff reductions. K to two teachers. We've reduced by two teachers.

533
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:25,580
The last couple of years your first talk about the bubble, the population bubble that's been going through at Russell's school in particular.

534
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,260
That group is now moving on to done school.

535
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:34,020
We had a lot of long-compensational principal, Rob and Zeth done school about does he have enough staff to meet the needs?

536
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,420
And it's a one year piece at done school in terms of that really lives population.

537
00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:48,440
And instead of shifting his whole team, you structure up there, they've agreed that they would just take on an extra student or two on each of the five teams to offset the population increase.

538
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:54,960
coming their way. So that's by that's by their work at at the school. And then we've also

539
00:45:54,960 --> 00:46:02,460
reduced by a system principal position at a great loss for a high school. So we'll have

540
00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:10,140
a principal and one a system principal as opposed to two. So what's out there, Kenning, as I mentioned,

541
00:46:10,340 --> 00:46:15,640
the charter school funding, we're waiting the governor signature on that and it's important to note

542
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:22,180
that we have not included the cost, the local share, for child schools, which should if the

543
00:46:22,180 --> 00:46:28,840
governor does not sign that legislation will have to find the resources to cover those costs.

544
00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:34,200
State subsidy subsidy, you've been hearing a couple of different times that they're really

545
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:42,620
this conversation between the Democrats at the State House to increase the 279 pool, which is our

546
00:46:42,620 --> 00:46:57,480
of the school revenue pool. They were looking at $25 million to that pool of money. And I'm sorry, the Republicans looking to add 25 million Democrats are looking to add 50 million, which will make that pool whole.

547
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:12,440
And as a result of no increase in there, I will know rate has gone from 8.41, 8.48, which is really in the money that I have to raise before we can spend that to 79.

548
00:47:12,620 --> 00:47:19,740
So that's a substantial amount of money when you talk about 30.38 mill rate increase.

549
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,060
That's a lot of that's a substantial amount of money.

550
00:47:22,180 --> 00:47:25,880
So if they add money to that pool, that reduces that even more.

551
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,340
But we don't have that information right now.

552
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,140
We can't count on it, but we'll really have our fingers crossed.

553
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:35,100
That I would choose to be nice when they really get finalized.

554
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,880
They're we're going to have more subsidy from the state than even what we're showing.

555
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:49,220
So we're really hoping that we'll be able to carry that and the board will have discussions about how we deal with that with the two communities going forward.

556
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:54,100
We do think in the monitor our kindergarten enrollment that's always a moving target.

557
00:47:54,660 --> 00:47:57,100
We try to get our registrations in as quickly as we can.

558
00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:02,220
So if anyone's out there and hasn't registered their kindergarten student, please do so.

559
00:48:02,420 --> 00:48:06,220
Since we've added pre-case, we're a lot better at it than we used to be.

560
00:48:06,220 --> 00:48:11,180
because we have a lot of so many of those students are already in the school, so we can account for them.

561
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:20,400
And we're still going to go, we're still in negotiations with the teachers and we're in negotiations with the support staff currently.

562
00:48:21,220 --> 00:48:22,800
So those are all pending.

563
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:30,540
I want to share this slide with you because this is a separate article question that will be on the warrant,

564
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,480
and it is to support a school resource officer,

565
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:38,380
And it's really a partnership that we're trying to, that's being developed with a town of Greg.

566
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:46,960
And this article is written, so that it's contingent on the funds being passed by the town of, by the borders for the town of Greg.

567
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:56,360
And then if the borders pass it within the school budget, then we would be able to put a school resource officer in district next year.

568
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:02,900
So if we look at this, the district is 38 weeks of service, and the town of Gray would

569
00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:08,760
gain 14 weeks of service, and we take the estimates from the County Sheriff's Department.

570
00:49:09,340 --> 00:49:14,340
And so for the district, that would be 99,544 dollars, and that's what we're really focused

571
00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:15,960
on tonight is the district budget.

572
00:49:16,460 --> 00:49:23,620
So the estimated tax impact, if that additional article passes from the school side, would

573
00:49:23,620 --> 00:49:33,020
for APA 64.7% that would have a $9 per $100,000 valuation impact on the town of Gray and

574
00:49:33,020 --> 00:49:38,940
have an $8 per $100,000 valuation on the taxpayers of New Gloucester.

575
00:49:40,260 --> 00:49:44,380
Now, the questions on that component law have that slide up there?

576
00:49:45,580 --> 00:49:54,760
Just we just take the opportunity to sort of just discuss the need for a school resource office for maybe just one year.

577
00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,680
The principal of the back and principal Klein have requested that position for a few years now.

578
00:50:00,980 --> 00:50:09,460
Just in regard and it really has to do with, you know, the legal challenges that they face, whether it's, you know,

579
00:50:09,460 --> 00:50:18,280
incidents as we've got in students and as we've got in families just yesterday I was up at I was at one of the schools working on a custody case

580
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:26,260
You know and and legal we had to have the sheriff's office come in and and go through the whole court documents with us around that and so

581
00:50:26,260 --> 00:50:31,080
Well, there were a lot of different reasons that that would come in in principle of back in principle

582
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:38,080
applying shared the number of incidences that the sheriffs have been at the school providing

583
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:43,100
service to the district for, and they had all of the incidents targeted.

584
00:50:44,140 --> 00:50:48,800
So I have said it included, including in the budget, the Board of Directors for the

585
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:54,800
SAD chose to create a separate article that doesn't impact the other programs that are

586
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:55,980
in the budget.

587
00:50:55,980 --> 00:51:01,600
So it's really about the peacefulness of the school, the safety of the school, and creating

588
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:12,920
relationships with students and being able to support students through some challenges

589
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,880
that they face, that I'll leave in nature.

590
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:45,180
I appreciate the reason I brought it up is because we've had our own discussions about, you know, the sheriff that we fund through the town, 40 hours, and there's some shared resources here, and there is an extra demand that takes away from, is it, we scrapped me from the statement by, did, I guess there's a concern that this position drew from the hours that the sheriff was serving.

591
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:46,800
That's where I'm going to tell it.

592
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:48,160
And you need for this position?

593
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,420
I'm trying to highlight that there is to be legitimacy.

594
00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:54,200
We need for this, in addition to, right?

595
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,090
If we place it all to the Sheriff's Office a lot of time, it's Lucas Hallet.

596
00:51:58,500 --> 00:51:58,820
Yes.

597
00:51:58,820 --> 00:52:02,000
That comes to the school to provide a service to the school.

598
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:07,760
And I think the, the, the, the, the conversation is that that's funding that,

599
00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:11,700
not the Sheriff's Office is a Nestle of Payne for its funding at the town of Grant

600
00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:15,160
of Payne for because they are paying for it for Sheriff Hallet.

601
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,320
Thank you, I was just trying to get a commit that morning.

602
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,760
There was a meeting and that's the relationship, right?

603
00:52:21,140 --> 00:52:22,340
As it pertains to you.

604
00:52:22,420 --> 00:52:23,860
Are you, thank you.

605
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,780
And we have tried, I mean, we have tried a number of years

606
00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:29,600
to fund this to federal funding.

607
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:32,240
There's always a request for grant money.

608
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,340
And you have tried that, but the three, four years.

609
00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:37,320
And we haven't been unsuccessful.

610
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,920
So a little bit different than communities that have their own police force,

611
00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:43,640
because they can partner with the police force.

612
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:48,180
We are not in that position, we have to look to the couple of kind of sheriffs to be that partner.

613
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:56,460
The other side of this is these are a first year cost, because the cost do go down significantly in the second year, because they're a stock cost,

614
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:06,460
related to cruisers, and setting up the cruisers with all of the, you know, sirens and radios and all those pieces are in those stock costs.

615
00:53:06,460 --> 00:53:12,200
So, every five years, I mean, you have to re-incure, you know, you have to look at those

616
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:12,600
costs.

617
00:53:13,220 --> 00:53:18,260
But, that this is a model that the sheriff's office has shared with us, that's very productive

618
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:24,820
because it gives the sheriff's department the first of all, you have the same sheriff working

619
00:53:24,820 --> 00:53:30,620
with the school in the community and so it's more of a position that they want, because

620
00:53:30,620 --> 00:53:35,260
they aren't working with the school and then they're in the summer there on the midnight shift

621
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:41,340
enrichment may, you know, not that that's a company count, but, you know, nobody wants to be up there, you know.

622
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:48,040
But it's something that they think they may get more, more applicants that want this position,

623
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:53,780
because they maintain that connection with those struggling students and those struggling families through the summer as well.

624
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,240
And there's always that connection that takes place.

625
00:53:56,380 --> 00:54:00,060
And so it is a program that they, that they're very supportive of.

626
00:54:00,060 --> 00:54:10,760
So we do have it as a part of one of the articles that is a stand-alone kind of article that doesn't impact the rest of the budget if it's not passed at the town level or at the district.

627
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:40,740
The district has had school resource officers in the past. They were through federal funds and they were not they did not they we did not continue to fund the school resources resources and a lot of that had to do

628
00:54:40,740 --> 00:54:46,680
with the personality of a person, if you will, and the success of the person, you know.

629
00:54:47,460 --> 00:54:56,100
And so the funding for this kind of drive-up in it went away, and I think, you know,

630
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:01,760
it's about, we want our administrators to really be focusing on student learning and educating

631
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:09,520
students in less time on the legal issues that they may have to face within the schools over

632
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:16,580
time. Okay. Thank you. So I do have a couple of upcoming important dates on May 6, the Board

633
00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:21,600
of Directors. This will be working on improving the warrant for posting. And I will get

634
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:28,600
to the two towns after the Board meeting tomorrow evening. On May 18, we chair my talent.

635
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:33,980
I will be at the New Gloucester town council to present a very similar information to them.

636
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,720
On May 21st is the district budget meeting. And as was mentioned earlier, that's as

637
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:41,240
and Green Gloucester High School in the cafeteria.

638
00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:43,940
Thanks for registration, stocks at six o'clock.

639
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:48,100
And then June 9th is the budget validation vote.

640
00:55:50,510 --> 00:55:53,430
So in summary, after two years of top budgets,

641
00:55:54,170 --> 00:55:57,590
and I am pleased to present to the taxpayers

642
00:55:57,590 --> 00:56:01,270
of the two towns, the 1516 budget.

643
00:56:01,350 --> 00:56:03,890
This budget supports existing programs,

644
00:56:04,930 --> 00:56:06,170
as well as new initiatives.

645
00:56:06,370 --> 00:56:07,930
And I do have a few of those.

646
00:56:07,930 --> 00:56:13,290
It supports the performance evaluation and professional growth model for teachers and

647
00:56:13,290 --> 00:56:19,390
principals, which is a state initiative where we redo our evaluation system.

648
00:56:19,810 --> 00:56:23,890
It increases our co-curricular and after school programming and students something that

649
00:56:23,890 --> 00:56:27,650
we really have seen a lot of growth in over the last couple of years.

650
00:56:28,550 --> 00:56:36,030
And it supports a district wide wellness initiative, which includes the pet

651
00:56:36,910 --> 00:56:43,930
opportunities and it increases the physical education and health opportunities, continues to support

652
00:56:43,930 --> 00:56:51,030
pre-K, pre-K, and all day kindergarten, strong response intervention program, for struggling

653
00:56:51,030 --> 00:56:57,330
learning, K-12 Spanish instruction, and the international baccalaureate program is seeing a huge

654
00:56:57,330 --> 00:57:01,650
increase in the number of students. It's been a real benefit to the district that the

655
00:57:01,650 --> 00:57:08,750
that the opportunity that our graduates students have in their post-secondary work, that we

656
00:57:08,750 --> 00:57:14,030
have the district-wide technology integration is a component of this, as well as the

657
00:57:14,030 --> 00:57:19,390
proficiency-based diplomas that were required by state law to have in place by for

658
00:57:19,390 --> 00:57:21,330
graduate students graduating in 2020.

659
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:25,520
Questions?

660
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,200
This is Bruce Lennon.

661
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:27,980
A lot of questions.

662
00:57:29,500 --> 00:57:32,240
We talked about the decrease in the fund balance carryover,

663
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,680
whether any specific incidents that cause that decrease.

664
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:37,460
I do.

665
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,620
Yeah, those that generally comes from teacher retirement.

666
00:57:41,980 --> 00:57:46,440
So we have a live number of teacher retirement slim from year to year.

667
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,040
And we will re-hier sometimes that it's not expensive.

668
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,840
Sometimes it might be a less experienced teacher,

669
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,100
which would be at the beginning of the scale versus the top of the scale.

670
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:07,840
It could come from just costs that we anticipated in terms of health insurance costs,

671
00:58:08,620 --> 00:58:12,600
or something that we didn't have finalized where we put the budget together last year,

672
00:58:12,620 --> 00:58:16,180
and there are similar things that happen here to year.

673
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,220
thing proper capital maintenance projects that we expected would cost us

674
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:25,200
ax amount of dollars that don't cost us quite a much so there are a number of

675
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:29,620
reasons why that would that why that would take place and this year we just

676
00:58:29,620 --> 00:58:33,260
don't have that we didn't have that many retirements so we didn't have that many

677
00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:39,890
projects that cost less than we anticipated snow removal was a huge one this year

678
00:58:39,890 --> 00:58:44,330
year we had we had to put a lot of money into snow removal that we weren't expecting

679
00:58:45,710 --> 00:58:46,990
Only you had that.

680
00:58:46,990 --> 00:58:47,590
Yes, that's right.

681
00:58:47,790 --> 00:58:48,230
You did that.

682
00:58:50,930 --> 00:58:51,410
Okay.

683
00:58:51,890 --> 00:58:52,590
Other questions?

684
00:58:54,410 --> 00:58:54,830
No, no.

685
00:58:55,330 --> 00:58:58,250
I know the pre-K is the program's pretty new.

686
00:58:58,350 --> 00:58:59,830
Is that been successful?

687
00:59:00,630 --> 00:59:07,990
We have 84 registrations for pre-K already, and we basically have every student that's registered

688
00:59:07,990 --> 00:59:09,530
for pre-K is in pre-K.

689
00:59:09,630 --> 00:59:13,170
We have six slots left, and those are on a first come first,

690
00:59:13,170 --> 00:59:20,370
or based the so-if it does a family out there that has a four-year-old they would like to have that four-year-old involved in our pre-K program,

691
00:59:20,870 --> 00:59:28,290
they should get that student registered as soon as possible because it is on a first come first or basis that is point-and-see.

692
00:59:28,430 --> 00:59:28,890
I can tell you.

693
00:59:28,950 --> 00:59:34,390
EGA, EGA, we run about 85-86 students in the pre-K program.

694
00:59:34,730 --> 00:59:40,930
We have families outside of the district that have tuition in their students, into our pre-K program.

695
00:59:40,930 --> 00:59:42,590
That's been very successful.

696
00:59:43,250 --> 00:59:44,110
That's good to hear.

697
00:59:44,730 --> 00:59:46,530
Thanks for putting everything together.

698
00:59:46,550 --> 00:59:48,430
There's a lot of work because into this.

699
00:59:49,430 --> 00:59:53,070
I can test that the time is of all it's here for everyone on the school board.

700
00:59:54,890 --> 00:59:57,150
It's a time drain and it takes a lot of effort.

701
00:59:57,610 --> 00:59:59,510
I appreciate what everybody did.

702
01:00:01,330 --> 01:00:15,490
It was, it was, the, the, the mill rate increase in, in, we're not really unsure where that's going to settle because of the really depends on how much money gets put into that 2.79 pool when everything comes out.

703
01:00:15,830 --> 01:00:23,790
And that can have a huge impact on the district, you know, a month from now when the state budget is settled in terms of actual savings in the school budget.

704
01:00:23,790 --> 01:00:29,390
I'm going to stand here and promise anything, but if that no rate comes down from 8.48,

705
01:00:29,590 --> 01:00:36,610
that could really provide an opportunity for the board to have discussion about what they

706
01:00:36,610 --> 01:00:37,670
do next with that.

707
01:00:38,170 --> 01:00:42,470
So we're really watching that closely, but nothing will be finalized until the governor's

708
01:00:42,470 --> 01:00:47,190
budget, until the state budget is actually acted on.

709
01:00:47,630 --> 01:00:48,410
I appreciate it.

710
01:00:48,410 --> 01:00:54,810
last point is, you know, you have a school board has always done a great job putting these

711
01:00:54,810 --> 01:00:58,670
budgets together and very money conscious and we appreciate it.

712
01:00:58,890 --> 01:01:02,490
You know, I'm looking forward to the results of the Capital Prudent Committee.

713
01:01:03,590 --> 01:01:03,950
Yes.

714
01:01:05,390 --> 01:01:06,130
Schools here.

715
01:01:06,430 --> 01:01:12,130
Just to see how that can ductail into this and we can get some, what I think are some

716
01:01:12,130 --> 01:01:17,970
overdue improvements to be co-curricular, and what exactly is on that real quick map.

717
01:01:17,970 --> 01:01:26,490
They basically have at this point visited all of the buildings and look at all of the components of the Stephen Black report.

718
01:01:27,010 --> 01:01:46,670
So the CIC has met at the Middle School of the High School of Russell School done the school and they've talked about all of the building and infrastructure components on next Monday and they reschedule from last night as Lynn mentioned because of the new gloss to come meeting was last night and we wanted to make sure we had it all of our representatives.

719
01:01:46,670 --> 01:01:49,250
as much of our representation there as we could.

720
01:01:49,990 --> 01:01:55,190
And so the next agenda is really to start to talk about the field space and the field

721
01:01:55,190 --> 01:02:00,010
use and what should that field design look like going forward.

722
01:02:00,190 --> 01:02:04,310
So the thoughts that build into a recommendation and some possible...

723
01:02:04,310 --> 01:02:07,970
The committee will make our recommendation to the Board of Directors and then the

724
01:02:07,970 --> 01:02:13,690
Board of Directors will be responsible for what's developing the next Board of Directors.

725
01:02:17,210 --> 01:02:23,130
It's a very thorough meeting, it's very efficient, and it we touch on every thing.

726
01:02:23,970 --> 01:02:29,370
And I feel it's very healthy discussion, not everyone agrees, and we dissect everything.

727
01:02:29,750 --> 01:02:33,410
So I'm really encouraged to see the outcome from that, so it'll be exciting.

728
01:02:34,610 --> 01:02:35,270
Thank you.

729
01:02:35,610 --> 01:02:36,710
That's great.

730
01:02:37,310 --> 01:02:37,990
Great.

731
01:02:38,930 --> 01:02:43,150
I don't have any questions, I do have a couple of comments.

732
01:02:44,850 --> 01:02:49,870
I was pleasantly surprised at the numbers.

733
01:02:50,790 --> 01:02:59,930
I think it shows that there was a conscious effort on everybody's part to be as conservative

734
01:02:59,930 --> 01:03:02,190
as you possibly can be.

735
01:03:02,190 --> 01:03:07,190
And I think we all know that the important thing is to work to

736
01:03:08,170 --> 01:03:09,590
to fiscal sustainability.

737
01:03:10,930 --> 01:03:14,330
It's not going to do any of us any good to build the

738
01:03:14,330 --> 01:03:17,090
municipal system or a school system that we can't simply

739
01:03:17,090 --> 01:03:19,110
can't afford to maintain.

740
01:03:20,410 --> 01:03:23,850
And so I'm happy with that.

741
01:03:23,870 --> 01:03:26,510
I mean, it's obviously a lot of work when into it.

742
01:03:26,650 --> 01:03:32,970
And obviously good news about the charter schools.

743
01:03:32,970 --> 01:03:41,710
It was a pleasant email to get leaked, that's the new name, because that's going to obviously make a world a different sort of law.

744
01:03:42,050 --> 01:03:47,130
Well, for us, it just solidified what we built, how we had built the budget.

745
01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:52,710
You know, we anticipated that that was going to happen, but there was really wasn't a lot of action taking place at the state level.

746
01:03:52,890 --> 01:03:58,670
So to have the House and the Senate both passed that legislation and now get the news that it's anticipated.

747
01:03:58,670 --> 01:04:04,590
anticipate that the government will sign that legislation. That's what we hope in what we put

748
01:04:04,590 --> 01:04:05,490
the budget together.

749
01:04:06,270 --> 01:04:09,190
I mean, you know, and I think there's a different applause, because I think, I mean,

750
01:04:09,310 --> 01:04:15,370
it's a level where I think we're looking at not too long from now to the point where we're

751
01:04:15,370 --> 01:04:21,810
looking at squat from the state. We're going to figure out how to make up for that last

752
01:04:21,810 --> 01:04:25,050
funds somewhat, and you can get out of them.

753
01:04:26,030 --> 01:04:26,050
Okay.

754
01:04:27,310 --> 01:04:32,830
And it really does speak to the fact that, you know, to the taxpayers of gray in the

755
01:04:32,830 --> 01:04:36,650
New Gloucester and the support that the two councils have given to this budgeting process

756
01:04:36,650 --> 01:04:41,490
because we understand that the last two years were pretty tough.

757
01:04:42,030 --> 01:04:46,650
And the fact that we, you know, that we were supported, and then we didn't have to look

758
01:04:46,650 --> 01:04:51,790
at program impact and big program cuts and things like that, really speak to them.

759
01:04:51,790 --> 01:04:57,650
to the value and understanding of what the education and the school system the impact that

760
01:04:57,650 --> 01:05:02,430
that has on the two communities because it is significant and if we started to have to take

761
01:05:02,430 --> 01:05:09,950
away it would be very difficult. It would create a lot of challenge. So thanks to everyone

762
01:05:09,950 --> 01:05:15,770
that has supported over the last couple of years the learning and the school system.

763
01:05:15,770 --> 01:05:16,970
That's a good question.

764
01:05:16,970 --> 01:05:17,210
Thanks a little.

765
01:05:18,630 --> 01:05:25,950
Health insurance Bruce could you elaborate a little further on the decrease this year and why

766
01:05:25,950 --> 01:05:33,370
we are so much higher than perhaps the other schools in the immediate area?

767
01:05:33,890 --> 01:05:40,730
This is the third year of the year that we're going into where three years ago we each

768
01:05:40,730 --> 01:05:43,310
school district became their own pool.

769
01:05:43,530 --> 01:05:47,650
Prior to that, the entire state was one pool.

770
01:05:47,870 --> 01:05:51,630
So if you are a district that had some tough lock in terms

771
01:05:52,930 --> 01:05:58,850
of some staff members, then it is significant medical coverage,

772
01:05:59,570 --> 01:06:03,510
then your rates were impacted by that as opposed

773
01:06:03,510 --> 01:06:06,290
to having spread out over the entire state.

774
01:06:06,290 --> 01:06:12,750
So being our own pool, we had a high, you know, three or four high, you know,

775
01:06:12,970 --> 01:06:20,230
incidences and that meant that we, our rating was high and so as a rate of as a result

776
01:06:20,230 --> 01:06:25,390
of our rating being high, then our rates were higher than maybe a neighboring district.

777
01:06:26,030 --> 01:06:27,770
So this year,

778
01:06:29,910 --> 01:06:35,370
our rating is not as significant and so we're starting to see some reduction

779
01:06:35,370 --> 01:06:38,590
in two of those last two years of having those high incidents.

780
01:06:39,330 --> 01:06:42,450
And so we hope that we continue to work backwards now

781
01:06:42,450 --> 01:06:44,590
in terms of how our impact is.

782
01:06:44,910 --> 01:06:47,710
But the bottom line is, instead of being one big pool,

783
01:06:47,830 --> 01:06:50,950
state of Maine, now we're just a pool of SAD 15.

784
01:06:51,230 --> 01:06:55,530
So if we have some significant situations in district

785
01:06:55,530 --> 01:06:57,470
than it impacts our rating.

786
01:06:57,990 --> 01:07:00,490
Why was the big pool done away with, you know?

787
01:07:00,930 --> 01:07:03,550
Because, well, that's an interesting conversation.

788
01:07:03,550 --> 01:07:08,790
And it was, people were looking, there were districts that wanted their own rating, their districts

789
01:07:08,790 --> 01:07:12,590
are really like what they, you know, like the zero percent increase.

790
01:07:12,830 --> 01:07:18,310
And so they petitioned the state and there was legislation that passed that created that

791
01:07:18,310 --> 01:07:20,690
opportunity to have your own rating.

792
01:07:21,070 --> 01:07:26,070
And so the MEA benefits trust and played into how they, you know, they get, you know,

793
01:07:26,070 --> 01:07:29,350
because people were going to want it to go off and shop their insurance rates.

794
01:07:29,350 --> 01:07:35,970
And so, I mean, if it's trust, you know, how they can let no one fall with it, it was really through state law.

795
01:07:36,210 --> 01:07:39,930
There were districts that, you know, realize that they would be charged 8% increases,

796
01:07:39,930 --> 01:07:46,530
and they had no, no big exposure, so they were looking to save money within their own communities around that.

797
01:07:46,850 --> 01:07:47,370
Understandably.

798
01:07:48,530 --> 01:07:56,310
I just wanted to say to you, Intina, that as a taxpayer, I appreciate all your efforts to, as Lou said,

799
01:07:56,310 --> 01:08:00,750
keep the budget conservative and it's a good break after three years of

800
01:08:00,750 --> 01:08:04,530
family significant to the tax increases so thanks very much.

801
01:08:05,610 --> 01:08:08,750
And I will say that not that we need to compare to how the district's

802
01:08:08,750 --> 01:08:12,710
runs because it's our education system is supporting our students and our

803
01:08:12,710 --> 01:08:15,490
learning but there are a lot of districts that are really struggling because they

804
01:08:15,490 --> 01:08:20,370
lost money into seven national, our increase in 279 is pretty minimal at this point.

805
01:08:20,690 --> 01:08:24,670
But there are districts that lost half a million dollars in 279 and it makes the

806
01:08:24,670 --> 01:08:27,550
significant changes today, but it has a result for that.

807
01:08:28,130 --> 01:08:29,190
So we're in pretty good shape.

808
01:08:29,210 --> 01:08:30,590
We feel a bit about where we're at.

809
01:08:30,710 --> 01:08:31,970
We appreciate this support.

810
01:08:32,290 --> 01:08:32,530
Thanks again.

811
01:08:32,930 --> 01:08:35,670
We're saying you said a couple of quick points as well.

812
01:08:36,970 --> 01:08:43,530
You know, I'm amazed frequently when I get to look at the different schools, the way the kids are advancing,

813
01:08:43,610 --> 01:08:49,670
what they seem to be doing in all levels from the lower schools, through the middle school, through the high school.

814
01:08:50,390 --> 01:08:53,150
You know, I'm looking at such things as the science fair, which is upcoming.

815
01:08:53,150 --> 01:08:56,550
You know, at the different school levels, we're going to throw a wide

816
01:08:56,550 --> 01:09:00,750
X-Team, which is going up and being very well received and highly regarded

817
01:09:00,750 --> 01:09:03,770
at this on the state of recent champions at a competition.

818
01:09:04,770 --> 01:09:09,530
You know, the kids with the Verizon app challenge winning that, you know, you

819
01:09:09,530 --> 01:09:12,950
think about all this emphasis that folks place on these, you know, the science

820
01:09:12,950 --> 01:09:17,470
technology, engineering and mathematics approaches, and the kids are really

821
01:09:17,470 --> 01:09:17,810
succeed.

822
01:09:18,190 --> 01:09:22,410
Well, it's great to see it district wide, and obviously they're not just developing

823
01:09:22,410 --> 01:09:26,790
that skill and the tense grade, you know, they're starting at the K level and working all the

824
01:09:26,790 --> 01:09:27,050
way through.

825
01:09:27,170 --> 01:09:31,370
We just to see that move and I think that's a huge advancement in there.

826
01:09:31,510 --> 01:09:35,530
I think part of that is that whole, you know, scanner space, the approach that you've been

827
01:09:35,530 --> 01:09:40,770
doing to allow kids to work and advance when instead of being stuck to the same old

828
01:09:40,770 --> 01:09:45,210
paradigm that, you know, many of us all grew up with in the educational field, kind of, I

829
01:09:45,210 --> 01:09:47,090
just think that's a huge accomplishment.

830
01:09:47,650 --> 01:09:52,170
I have the opportunity to talk with some folks just about the IV program and their kids are

831
01:09:52,170 --> 01:09:55,890
and they're talking about how high these kids are working.

832
01:09:57,690 --> 01:10:01,630
But I can't say this to you, but I'm not sympathetic.

833
01:10:02,490 --> 01:10:03,730
That's what they're there for.

834
01:10:04,170 --> 01:10:07,410
And it's because of that, that you're challenging them

835
01:10:07,410 --> 01:10:10,130
to make them better and more prepared when they do,

836
01:10:10,210 --> 01:10:12,990
eventually move on to where they go to from here.

837
01:10:13,130 --> 01:10:15,390
But I think that's huge, that's a challenging

838
01:10:15,390 --> 01:10:16,830
students to do that.

839
01:10:17,470 --> 01:10:20,490
But I also had the opportunity in the joint leaders meeting

840
01:10:20,490 --> 01:10:23,970
on Friday to hear, you know, all the accomplices from the while the site and the

841
01:10:23,970 --> 01:10:28,470
pep grant and where that has been going forward and looking at the summer programming

842
01:10:28,470 --> 01:10:33,050
and seeing that in action, you know, with, you know, with, you know, with, you know,

843
01:10:33,470 --> 01:10:37,370
with, you know, with Calvin and with Paula and the work they do with the middle school

844
01:10:37,370 --> 01:10:40,390
and going through the high school and the successes that they're having.

845
01:10:40,970 --> 01:10:44,670
You know, so you see really looking, and I think the district is hugely,

846
01:10:46,170 --> 01:10:51,410
exceeding and looking at the student and his entirety, you know, from the classroom as well as

847
01:10:51,410 --> 01:10:57,910
outside of the classroom to try to help them be, you know, well educated, but also healthy

848
01:10:58,890 --> 01:11:04,410
folks and you're succeeding. So I can ask you that and to see the fact that you're actually

849
01:11:04,410 --> 01:11:09,750
doing it in a cost effective manner is to you, you know, you said it greatly. I mean,

850
01:11:09,930 --> 01:11:13,930
the past two years have been incredible challenges. Most of those challenges have been

851
01:11:13,930 --> 01:11:17,470
external to the district, where someone else has handed you the bill.

852
01:11:18,630 --> 01:11:21,750
So I think, you know, it's a celebration that she had to do with nothing.

853
01:11:22,250 --> 01:11:23,290
I mean, I've watched some of your meetings,

854
01:11:24,070 --> 01:11:25,710
and I know that you haven't received a lot of public input,

855
01:11:26,170 --> 01:11:29,850
but that's generally because I think folks are quite satisfied with,

856
01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:31,590
you know, your work as well as the board.

857
01:11:31,850 --> 01:11:34,510
I just want to talk about just a couple of highlights.

858
01:11:34,770 --> 01:11:35,890
I don't mean take all of your evening.

859
01:11:36,030 --> 01:11:37,530
But some of those prep-grained opportunities.

860
01:11:37,790 --> 01:11:42,350
I mean, we just had a group of high school kids that did some back

861
01:11:42,350 --> 01:11:46,590
country hiking and skiing up at a

862
01:11:46,590 --> 01:11:49,410
attack of Mr. Reen, our model, Washington, and they come back and you

863
01:11:49,410 --> 01:11:52,150
you know, I pull those kids aside when I see him at the

864
01:11:52,150 --> 01:11:55,610
high school, and I said, it was the best opportunity

865
01:11:56,230 --> 01:11:59,110
that we've really had to go up there. They absolutely

866
01:11:59,610 --> 01:12:01,870
loved it. They wanted to be right in the middle of it

867
01:12:01,870 --> 01:12:04,830
when the ambulance watched was at the highest point.

868
01:12:05,530 --> 01:12:08,830
You know, Paul and Calvin kept, you know, she probably got the

869
01:12:08,830 --> 01:12:15,710
the precautionary fall. She was very, you know, she was not really, but group of middle school kids

870
01:12:15,710 --> 01:12:24,310
going down to bike on a cage coming up and just opportunities that the pet grand is offering.

871
01:12:24,870 --> 01:12:31,370
And we are working in joint leaders with the local rectipyments to make the resources available

872
01:12:31,370 --> 01:12:37,730
to the rectipyments so that they can offer opportunities in terms of kayaking or biking or whatever

873
01:12:37,730 --> 01:12:42,330
the resources that we have through that background, which is the intent that there's a community

874
01:12:42,330 --> 01:12:43,390
component to it.

875
01:12:44,030 --> 01:12:46,430
So that's some of the work that we're taking on through jointly.

876
01:12:46,770 --> 01:12:51,210
So a lot of exciting stuff happening, a lot of great opportunities, stuff that we're very

877
01:12:51,210 --> 01:12:52,170
proud of.

878
01:12:52,270 --> 01:12:55,690
And so I think we're pleased with the budget that we're able to present, because we do

879
01:12:55,690 --> 01:12:58,690
know the impact that this whole budget has had for the last couple of years.

880
01:12:59,250 --> 01:13:05,010
We're looking forward to coming out on the 21st and extra vote, everybody else.

881
01:13:05,150 --> 01:13:05,910
So thank you very much.

882
01:13:05,910 --> 01:13:06,230
Thank you.

883
01:13:06,510 --> 01:13:07,450
Well, that is always.

884
01:13:07,730 --> 01:13:07,790
All right.

885
01:13:08,010 --> 01:13:08,790
Thanks, Bruce.

886
01:13:12,570 --> 01:13:17,530
You know, it reads the order of business on the agenda, and we have three orders this evening.

887
01:13:18,230 --> 01:13:28,050
Of the person's number 92-15, and this is three view and act upon authorizing the town manager to sign the form for establishing it proposed by a fighter's bargaining unit.

888
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:30,920
So, move.

889
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:31,700
Next, Peter.

890
01:13:32,140 --> 01:13:32,820
Second, move.

891
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:33,400
In discussion.

892
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:35,140
Question.

893
01:13:35,140 --> 01:13:36,340
Public Jim.

894
01:13:45,940 --> 01:13:46,520
Well, concern.

895
01:13:46,860 --> 01:13:48,980
We can roll down the grid.

896
01:13:50,380 --> 01:13:53,480
When I saw this article, Coach, I immediately had a hot pot.

897
01:13:55,100 --> 01:13:56,660
Are we talking about a union here?

898
01:13:56,860 --> 01:13:57,880
Yes, sir.

899
01:13:58,420 --> 01:13:59,900
When this all started happening.

900
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,120
It's the first time we came aware of it when I saw this.

901
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:04,400
Yep.

902
01:14:04,980 --> 01:14:05,900
And I said, what's this deal?

903
01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:09,340
How come we have now have to have union in our town?

904
01:14:09,420 --> 01:14:10,800
Are we treating our employees that bad?

905
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:12,800
They have to go get an army union?

906
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:19,520
There may be, you can give general technology a lesson, let us know the number that we have

907
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,140
of folks who are joining the union.

908
01:14:22,180 --> 01:14:28,400
There are three members that have filed a petition, statutory, they have a right to

909
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:42,780
the file, and basically we initially met in an executive session, the council with our

910
01:14:42,780 --> 01:14:50,800
advised by our town attorney as well as his partners that basically they have a right to do this.

911
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:59,620
Where's all the detail? I mean, I have a background in unions. I just have a bodyguard, quite frankly, some of my work.

912
01:15:02,460 --> 01:15:10,880
I'm just bringing that up. I mean, I know the dark side too. But what I saw on the website, certainly, was not a complete agreement.

913
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:17,980
It's very simple to say bargaining unit. There's a lot more in these agreements. I mean, to these people have the right not to go to a fire.

914
01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:28,880
I mean, what else was in the agreement? I think before the town, at least as a citizen, our town is getting into a situation. Now we have union firefighters, my correct.

915
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:34,140
We're going to have Jungian town staff, I mean.

916
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:36,920
Why did we have to have a Jungian in the first place?

917
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:39,600
This is not an agreement.

918
01:15:40,260 --> 01:15:49,300
This is basically signing the form to acknowledge or to authorize them to establish the Jungian.

919
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:50,300
The unit.

920
01:15:50,340 --> 01:15:55,020
There is no bargaining agreement that none of that has happened at all.

921
01:15:55,020 --> 01:15:59,000
Say that carefully, because what this is.

922
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:03,160
They're signing a form to establish a bargaining unit.

923
01:16:03,220 --> 01:16:06,140
Okay, stop right there. You're establishing a bargaining unit.

924
01:16:06,500 --> 01:16:21,420
The three firefighters have petitioned to this state, and there is a form that we sign basically saying that we recognize that they want to establish a union.

925
01:16:21,420 --> 01:16:26,020
They want to establish, but is it established or not establish by executing the stocking?

926
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:31,100
They have the right then from this point they will vote. There's three of them.

927
01:16:31,700 --> 01:16:34,060
They'll be voting in whether they form their own union.

928
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:38,260
And what union will that be? Who will you be dealing with their agent?

929
01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:41,740
Who is their agent?

930
01:16:41,860 --> 01:16:43,520
I look at that signature on that document.

931
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:45,740
And quite frankly, I don't think you will.

932
01:16:45,740 --> 01:16:47,020
I don't know a little bit here, slow down.

933
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:48,380
I'm not going to slow down.

934
01:16:48,740 --> 01:16:49,540
But I'll talk softer.

935
01:16:49,540 --> 01:16:58,680
That we just need 20 or a chance to answer some questions as you bring it forward, so instead of asking like three questions I wanted to just let her

936
01:16:58,680 --> 01:16:59,560
I'm sorry.

937
01:17:00,260 --> 01:17:00,620
I'm sorry.

938
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:01,360
You can't keep up.

939
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:03,600
It's not on that document.

940
01:17:03,900 --> 01:17:04,860
It's on the website.

941
01:17:06,460 --> 01:17:13,700
When you get to the signature page, I say you can't sign that document because there's a bunch of scribbles there.

942
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:18,400
But whoever signed that, we don't know who it is.

943
01:17:19,900 --> 01:17:25,740
Jim, it says on the form, the gentleman's name is Michael J. Krauss. He's the service rep for the International Association of Firefighters.

944
01:17:25,740 --> 01:17:29,180
That's not done by the signature section that I saw on the web. I didn't see.

945
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:34,440
Well, what we have right here is this signed by Michael J. Krauss.

946
01:17:34,740 --> 01:17:38,860
I don't know, maybe we're looking at something different, but I'm just looking at what I saw on the web today, shall.

947
01:17:39,420 --> 01:17:40,640
Well, I don't care if you're telling me Sarah.

948
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:45,840
Yeah, that's the representative for that.

949
01:17:45,940 --> 01:17:46,920
So what's the next step?

950
01:17:49,100 --> 01:18:00,920
The next step is that they will vote the three members whether or not they want to establish a union and then at that point they'll decide whether or not they want to negotiate a contract.

951
01:18:03,330 --> 01:18:15,890
So currently we have the employees we have a budget that we have established but there has been no indication to us that they want any different benefits or a contract with the town.

952
01:18:16,110 --> 01:18:19,390
All they're doing at this time is establishing a unit.

953
01:18:21,570 --> 01:18:31,990
I just would encourage, I'm not comfortable that it's a, I think the situation of a more advanced than must being put forth, otherwise it wouldn't start in the first place.

954
01:18:32,550 --> 01:18:34,130
So I'll go back to my original question.

955
01:18:37,180 --> 01:18:42,900
Why would these people feel motivated or unnecessary to form a union in our town?

956
01:18:43,480 --> 01:18:49,600
Generally unions are formed from dissatisfaction or some negative experience. That's a normal thing.

957
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:56,160
And yes, maybe unions are formed for some other reasons too, but usually it's a matter that there's some dissatisfaction

958
01:18:56,160 --> 01:19:01,640
with current situation and I'm just wondering why did they want to form a union in the first place?

959
01:19:02,140 --> 01:19:05,780
Well, to be honest with you, Jim, that's kind of a question that we can't ask.

960
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:18,960
When they come forward and state that they want to establish a union, as you know, I mean, you've got, you probably have a year as much more experience than the rest of us when it comes to dealing with unions in general.

961
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:24,620
But when they came forward and said that they want to do it, we pretty much don't have the ability to sit down and say,

962
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:29,940
what do you want to do that for? It's more or less they've said they want to do that.

963
01:19:30,180 --> 01:19:37,960
And we have not very much choice in the matter as far as we have based on what attorneys have advised us.

964
01:19:38,580 --> 01:19:44,600
If they decided that that's the truth that they want to take, that's the right to be able to do that.

965
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:53,100
I completely understand what you said, although I will go back to my original comment that

966
01:19:53,100 --> 01:20:00,360
there has to be some reason, maybe you can't ask them to ask yourself, why did these people

967
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:04,240
feel the necessity to organize a union?

968
01:20:05,980 --> 01:20:10,800
So, me, that's a fundamental question, maybe you don't ask them to legally ask them directly.

969
01:20:11,340 --> 01:20:14,900
But there's a lot of ways to find help, much to need to know.

970
01:20:16,780 --> 01:20:21,280
I think it's a sad case when they feel compelled to form a union.

971
01:20:22,180 --> 01:20:26,400
I see when the seed is planted and they start because now they can demand.

972
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:27,820
Now we're in negotiation.

973
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:29,960
Well, it becomes demands from their side.

974
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:31,860
Now you have town staff.

975
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:35,140
I mean, to me, there's just a first step down a very slippery slope.

976
01:20:35,700 --> 01:20:37,200
Where the town will be all union.

977
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,200
Everybody, back to the Department of Old Year.

978
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:41,980
And I think it's a sad commentary on the community

979
01:20:41,980 --> 01:20:44,660
when they feel the need for me to thank you.

980
01:20:44,860 --> 01:20:45,420
Thank you.

981
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:46,600
I appreciate your comments, Jim.

982
01:20:46,820 --> 01:20:47,300
Thank you.

983
01:20:57,900 --> 01:21:00,180
I think you have a signature on the signature line,

984
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:01,680
but I don't think you can read it.

985
01:21:01,700 --> 01:21:02,440
Can you read it?

986
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:03,360
Yeah, we can.

987
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:05,400
Maybe the copy that you have is not there.

988
01:21:05,500 --> 01:21:07,340
Well, what's on the web, would you mind if I see it?

989
01:21:07,340 --> 01:21:07,620
Sure.

990
01:21:08,300 --> 01:21:10,080
Peter, can you show you how you have

991
01:21:12,580 --> 01:21:12,640
it?

992
01:21:13,020 --> 01:21:15,660
So, I'll come and have a different document on the web.

993
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:17,340
Because we can not read that.

994
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:18,120
It was all terrible.

995
01:21:22,660 --> 01:21:25,560
I can't testify as much as you looked at, but I didn't know.

996
01:21:26,220 --> 01:21:29,680
I'm sure we have the same documents because it's very frustrating for the public.

997
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:33,520
If we come in and prepare what one thing, and we have a different document in front of you,

998
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:37,800
that doesn't make it a fair thank you.

999
01:21:41,330 --> 01:21:43,230
So what kind of money have you set aside?

1000
01:21:43,310 --> 01:21:44,610
What is it for?

1001
01:21:44,870 --> 01:21:48,070
You just said that you set aside some money for this situation?

1002
01:21:48,070 --> 01:21:54,010
We did we did not know I thought that's what was just said. What was just said then no, we made it. We

1003
01:21:54,010 --> 01:21:55,670
fabricated this year's budget

1004
01:21:56,610 --> 01:22:03,130
Under the same terms as we had all along. There's no allowances in there for an increase in wages or anything along those lines

1005
01:22:04,070 --> 01:22:05,950
Why if he's written like that?

1006
01:22:06,630 --> 01:22:11,610
Outside of what we've already spent at this year was included in this year's budget. You know, this year's legal fees, but no,

1007
01:22:17,990 --> 01:22:18,050
that's a

1008
01:22:18,050 --> 01:22:22,650
of the spelling of your name in that document? Your name was misspelled in that document.

1009
01:22:22,950 --> 01:22:25,590
I don't know if you know that. But again, that's the one I saw on the web.

1010
01:22:25,690 --> 01:22:27,090
The capital B in the mail?

1011
01:22:27,830 --> 01:22:27,830
Yep.

1012
01:22:31,740 --> 01:22:34,800
That means she didn't be an accurate document with the correct spelling.

1013
01:22:35,780 --> 01:22:39,060
So, I mean, I don't want to pick it up, but I'm just saying that.

1014
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:49,300
So, what I, there's no other documentation that's behind this at all. There's no, well,

1015
01:22:49,300 --> 01:22:57,560
We have this part of the union, these semis would need to be addressed, or these kinds of wages.

1016
01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:03,300
What happens if we want to wage the man, what happens if and what happens if we decide to strike,

1017
01:23:03,940 --> 01:23:10,180
what happens to sit a town of citizens, you know, in a city of Portland or any place else in the city,

1018
01:23:10,460 --> 01:23:14,460
you have the units that can come in and take care, the unit that is on strike.

1019
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:27,380
We don't have any of that, so, you know, for the last two weeks, I find it very strange that the fire trucks and messier kept them going up at 100 constantly all day long.

1020
01:23:28,100 --> 01:23:30,280
Twice a day on Sundays and once a day.

1021
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,640
So, I found that that was, you know, a lot of activity.

1022
01:23:34,440 --> 01:23:40,920
So, what we do in our work, what we do in some other townswork, it mentioned earlier, Cumlin.

1023
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:46,240
You know, there was a major five in the woods in Raymond, you know, so all of this stuff,

1024
01:23:46,380 --> 01:23:51,200
but thinking about and what happens when these guys run a strike, so what happens

1025
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:57,740
to the town, and that's who she would happen eventually because she can negotiate or, I mean,

1026
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:58,600
we all know that.

1027
01:23:58,700 --> 01:24:01,000
I mean, just about every union strikes at some time or another.

1028
01:24:01,740 --> 01:24:06,380
And so I think that these are kinds of things that there's nothing in writing, huh?

1029
01:24:06,540 --> 01:24:08,160
None says address anything at all.

1030
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:12,820
Can I just offer to provide some info for you?

1031
01:24:13,140 --> 01:24:20,600
All of this item is here, is stating that these folks have the ability that we've identified them as an appropriate unit.

1032
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:29,880
After that point, the gentleman who are eligible to vote for it, need to decide if they want to actually act and establishing it.

1033
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:33,300
That's what this document that we have here this evening is about.

1034
01:24:33,300 --> 01:24:41,660
After they go on that, then from that point forward, then you'd be getting it to some of the other issues that you identified as far as a contract and things going forward.

1035
01:24:42,480 --> 01:24:46,460
As far as striking and not responding to a fire, I don't believe that's actually illegal.

1036
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:56,400
But I mean, if that year's where it worked, Portland firefighters haven't had contracts and they still responded to fires and emergencies as it goes along.

1037
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:58,220
But that's a whole different thing.

1038
01:24:58,220 --> 01:25:08,220
And just as a quick point of clarification, I just called up the agenda packet for this nice meeting and see exact same document that we have here that you that you looked at.

1039
01:25:09,140 --> 01:25:13,340
I'm not sure what I'm not sure the resolution on your TV screen or the computer screen may be better.

1040
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:14,400
I'm looking at the same thing.

1041
01:25:14,420 --> 01:25:16,440
Just let, you know, is that readable on my screen?

1042
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:18,160
You haven't had any problem.

1043
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:19,080
I don't think it is.

1044
01:25:19,440 --> 01:25:23,440
I should have taken it out because I, you know, again, we couldn't have read that signature at all.

1045
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:24,580
And I could read it on paper.

1046
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:28,660
I'll say it's not the need of signature I've ever seen, but

1047
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:31,920
What happens if you don't sign this tonight?

1048
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,280
We really don't have much of a choice, but to

1049
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:37,280
But to go forward with it

1050
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:44,320
You don't have any choice, why is it on the agenda then? Why do you involve them?

1051
01:25:44,500 --> 01:25:48,700
Because people, yes or no, on an action item, you can vote no.

1052
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:52,840
So if you vote no, what's the consequence?

1053
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,760
I mean, what's the situation?

1054
01:25:55,100 --> 01:25:57,220
I mean, I just wanted to know what's the importance of this.

1055
01:25:57,340 --> 01:25:58,820
Can we move the question, please?

1056
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:04,020
I mean, bottom line is if we go in favor or against it,

1057
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:05,980
they still have the right to do it.

1058
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:08,060
But we have to formally act on this.

1059
01:26:08,300 --> 01:26:08,800
What are we the other?

1060
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:10,720
Well, okay.

1061
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:11,860
I don't, okay.

1062
01:26:12,700 --> 01:26:13,400
I don't think so.

1063
01:26:13,700 --> 01:26:14,840
That, thanks for your questions.

1064
01:26:16,380 --> 01:26:18,620
Here has made the motion to move the questions there.

1065
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:20,720
So that's a fine time.

1066
01:26:24,480 --> 01:26:29,040
We have a motion, and we have a second, all in favor.

1067
01:26:30,860 --> 01:26:31,180
Opposed.

1068
01:26:32,100 --> 01:26:32,800
I just want that, Nancy.

1069
01:26:33,100 --> 01:26:33,840
Thank you.

1070
01:26:33,980 --> 01:26:34,100
Thank you.

1071
01:26:36,660 --> 01:26:39,040
You get back to my schedule here.

1072
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:42,200
And number 90, three that took me in.

1073
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:43,960
This is to view an act upon application.

1074
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:46,820
But Patriots are to up to run two fields behind me,

1075
01:26:46,900 --> 01:26:49,520
being regularly occurring basis.

1076
01:26:50,220 --> 01:26:53,520
And this looks like it is striding on Sundays from January.

1077
01:26:53,520 --> 01:27:00,020
on July 21st through August 2nd, is that July 21st at June 21st?

1078
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:11,100
Yeah, sorry, that should take June 21st.

1079
01:27:11,180 --> 01:27:13,200
It didn't even move on there for women days.

1080
01:27:14,220 --> 01:27:17,800
So it should take June 21st on that.

1081
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:24,680
Through August 2nd on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting April 20th, 28th.

1082
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,640
You got two or three different questions here?

1083
01:27:29,780 --> 01:27:30,120
Okay.

1084
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:44,630
That is okay. So I'm going to add this here. So we're looking at starting on June 21st through August 2nd.

1085
01:27:45,490 --> 01:27:50,630
And that is Sunday night 6 a.m.

1086
01:27:50,630 --> 01:27:56,190
Yeah. Yeah. The agenda says, you know, July 21st, but it actually is June 21st. Yeah.

1087
01:27:56,570 --> 01:28:02,630
But I have a position on the second one was starting on April 28th.

1088
01:28:03,970 --> 01:28:11,270
And on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Tuesdays through June 9th. And then on starting June,

1089
01:28:11,650 --> 01:28:17,290
let's see, April 30th through June 11th on Thursdays, both times been from 5.38.

1090
01:28:17,290 --> 01:28:17,670
Thank

1091
01:28:25,830 --> 01:28:27,490
you.

1092
01:28:27,490 --> 01:28:27,770
Thank you.

1093
01:28:28,750 --> 01:28:29,350
Any discussion?

1094
01:28:30,130 --> 01:28:31,950
I think there are another.

1095
01:28:31,950 --> 01:28:32,870
There are another page.

1096
01:28:33,350 --> 01:28:35,050
8, 3, 2, 10, 30.

1097
01:28:35,290 --> 01:28:36,710
No, sorry, did I miss one?

1098
01:28:37,710 --> 01:28:38,150
Thanks.

1099
01:28:39,090 --> 01:28:40,730
And then we have the other one.

1100
01:28:40,950 --> 01:28:43,090
We can be so kind of instrument.

1101
01:28:43,670 --> 01:28:45,790
8, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1.

1102
01:28:45,790 --> 01:28:46,950
I guess third.

1103
01:28:47,650 --> 01:28:48,770
I'll talk to over 30.

1104
01:28:50,250 --> 01:28:50,970
That's enough.

1105
01:28:51,670 --> 01:28:52,210
That's enough.

1106
01:28:52,350 --> 01:28:52,750
That's enough, as well.

1107
01:28:56,150 --> 01:28:57,750
Okay, the first date.

1108
01:28:58,590 --> 01:28:58,670
Okay.

1109
01:29:03,500 --> 01:29:03,740
Okay.

1110
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:04,340
Okay.

1111
01:29:06,220 --> 01:29:07,540
Is there a second on that?

1112
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:08,520
Just on the correct motion.

1113
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:11,340
Can I say anything?

1114
01:29:11,340 --> 01:29:11,500
Good.

1115
01:29:11,580 --> 01:29:12,700
The main theme is.

1116
01:29:12,700 --> 01:29:15,980
And the key there is to have the few waived.

1117
01:29:18,470 --> 01:29:19,010
So any discussion?

1118
01:29:20,890 --> 01:29:21,610
A home favorite.

1119
01:29:22,570 --> 01:29:27,510
Sorry, sir, as easy as we said, or more easily done the setup I guess.

1120
01:29:28,310 --> 01:29:29,930
Thank you.

1121
01:29:30,370 --> 01:29:35,230
And the last there, we have 94-15, and this is tribute and act upon an application by name,

1122
01:29:35,430 --> 01:29:39,590
Junior Volleyball to rent the new beginning Museum on a regularly accruing basis.

1123
01:29:39,990 --> 01:29:44,590
And that would be starting on May 18, going through August 12.

1124
01:29:45,350 --> 01:29:45,890
So moved.

1125
01:29:46,050 --> 01:29:46,310
Thanks.

1126
01:29:46,590 --> 01:29:47,290
Sir, second.

1127
01:29:49,230 --> 01:29:49,730
Any discussion?

1128
01:29:49,730 --> 01:29:59,110
This is a kind of gray organization I assume, because it's a different name.

1129
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:12,060
It's not a great John happens to live in gray, but there are players from all over.

1130
01:30:15,170 --> 01:30:15,650
Okay.

1131
01:30:15,650 --> 01:30:18,730
That was one of my roles.

1132
01:30:19,350 --> 01:30:23,410
If they've been a consistent client, who's here, he's in the space.

1133
01:30:24,810 --> 01:30:25,830
That's why I'm looking for a second.

1134
01:30:25,830 --> 01:30:26,890
any further discussion?

1135
01:30:28,090 --> 01:30:28,450
All in favour?

1136
01:30:29,930 --> 01:30:31,230
Roger on that answer.

1137
01:30:32,510 --> 01:30:35,510
We now release the e-quarter visits,

1138
01:30:38,060 --> 01:30:40,180
and I'd like to act motion at this council adjourn.

1139
01:30:41,020 --> 01:30:42,180
Is there a second?