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Okay, I'd like to call this meeting of the select board to order. It's August 4th at 602 and we're in the town hall. And I will make a motion that we approved the minutes from 21 July, 2026.

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So moved on favor and I would make motion that we review and approve the

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manifest which which we all got to look at on favor say hi there's

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a minute

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there's five pieces of this manifest mostly because I send her things on Thursday

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then I send her more things on Monday so luckily it's a new pen and it has a lot

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Where it goes, so yeah, there's five of them, but there's always at least two because

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one of the things we already paid in the debit card or ACH and the others are checks.

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Yeah, it's nice getting these in advance.

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Yeah.

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So if these were all one document that you sent us, it was 13 pages like that.

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Yeah.

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Doesn't really matter.

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No.

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No, but it was, I like the way these come to us now, very easily, yeah, much easier than

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we're quick focusing.

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Well, and I love the plot, as I did through it, the plot, yes.

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How to spend money plot?

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Well,

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it is a lot on this round because all the school rooms are also transferred all of what was going on for the capital reserves for the trustees as well.

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Yeah, but I like having that already done. That's, you know, turning interest like it's good.

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Well, we usually do it in the summer or begin a fall, so I just want to hand it about on thoroughly just so that we could do a better job.

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can find a work.

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There's

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a water sign-up after a while.

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Sorry.

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I bring a signature everywhere I go.

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So we don't have any guests to have anything to say.

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Do we?

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We don't have any guests.

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Okay.

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Old business.

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Real trail update.

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So I guess I can talk to that.

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Good.

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Yeah.

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So the Westside Central Health is putting for a couple of grants

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to improvements on the rail trail. One of almost because there was a washout just a little bit in the work of the Crusher Road and it was getting worse and of course as you know we're trying to improve that rail trail so that everybody can use it and have a good time and have it be safe.

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So I was awarded a grant and it was a 60-40 match and we had white scrouse keeping bring

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out some rip wrap and fill in where it was going to wash out, repair the area, resurface

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the area.

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So that job is complete and it came out very nicely.

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We're very happy with the work that was done.

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But the money that I asked for is $9,250, and so the club got $6,750.

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And the recreational committee had worked out, I guess, we have $10,000 that may be appropriated

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for this rail track improvement.

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So the recreation committee was going to make sure that this vessel, it's no doubt it's

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got that $2,500.

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Then there's another project between Wonder Road and Gilbo Road that I wrote a grant for.

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And the grant that I wrote in for was for Sherpat to resurface the area, starting at Wonder

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Road.

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Have you all gone up there?

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No.

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All the real trail?

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No.

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I've been on the real trail over the years.

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Okay.

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Well, the real trail used to be a mess.

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It was.

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And now you can actually ride your bicycle all the way from the sick home wall pole all the way to King easily.

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Not only in the King, the west spots, any mud, anything terrible, but there are areas that are rough

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and they have roots in them and so on.

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And one of those areas is between London Road and Gilmore Road.

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So I put in 420 yards of shirtpack

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And it was awarded to the club and then what the Recreation Committee would like to do.

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The snow belters.

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The snow belters, that's the great, but the Recreation Committee would like to get that material

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over the snow belters guy and have white's landscape people, white people, what's the name

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of his business?

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Zayn White, anyway, Zayn White, truck it there, and spread it, and then the Recreation Committee

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will have volunteers pack it, and the area that they'll actually put the new shirt

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hat will be from London Road, and then if you go London Road, it starts off not

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actually being where the rail trail used to be, it's kind of to the side of it, and that's

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all the knots I don't even know, all the loops I don't even think. Then you get onto

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the rail trail, and it's kind of rough getting down to where it washed out years ago when

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we had the floods. And then it starts to level out again. So we don't even do from where

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it starts to level out back to one end of the road. And we got an estimate from Watt's.

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He said $1,500 a day for his guy, the trucking, the whole nine yards, and we figured he would probably take about $1,000 by this.

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So our plan was to use most of the other $7,500 to do that project.

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I thought you'd leave $100 in the account.

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I thought you had a grant for it. You said you got a grant for the materials.

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but not for the labor. So Bruce Clement and I have talked about a lot and he was

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under the impression that we had you know $10,000 to spend. I agree that's a false

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impression. It was. Well, yeah. So anyways, what really needs to happen for the

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Westland snow balkers is snow balkers to be re-impressed because we don't have

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money. The club would be extended. So the $2,500 really liked to see the club get reimbursed

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because that was been done and James being paid. So, yeah.

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When the club came in, the potential

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committee came in to speak with us. It was, I don't remember if you were there, but there's a

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gentleman from the consortium, the rail trailer for Michael, Allen Bruce,

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and the presenters

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with a proposal. The last words of that proposal, second to last paragraph, say, importantly, this

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this year will not add to the town's bottom line. All funding will come from grants, gifts,

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and private donations, not from the town's operating budget. Every dollar received and spent

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to the rail through the Trail Trust Fund will represent outside financial support, contributing

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to the town's assets and infrastructure at no cost to the taxpayers. So that $10,000 that was put

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into the parts of our creation fund is not money that they raised that was

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money that 20 some odd years ago was misappropriated and we tried to do it in

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2024 and found that that was that we couldn't do it at that point either so it

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went back into the

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surplus and then to make it so that we could

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didn't use that money, we voted on it again in 2025 and brought that into that fund. During

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that town hall meeting, it was mentioned that that is a possible use for, the rail

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shows a possible use of that money, but not the sole use of that money. As far,

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no, now

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the fact that you, as the snowmeltors, came up with a grant and were able to do the work.

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Yeah, I think you should have reversed that.

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Ideally, we should have known that that was going to happen.

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Yes, I thought everybody knew all about the whole thing, A to Z.

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This was the first I heard about it.

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I was glad to believe was that the money was there,

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there was for the recreation committee

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or the Snowbelches project on the rail trail.

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That's not.

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And that it was a goal.

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No matter what happens with a cap of reserve,

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it has to come to the select committee for.

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Which is good thing, it's a good thing

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that Christians did not have any shirt pack

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as we were going to start that Monday.

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That would have been really bad.

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That would have been really bad.

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So everything happens for a reason.

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So I'm glad it is,

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That's a good timing, huh?

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This is good timing.

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It's great timing, because if we can still get the material,

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I have to just show that the material was bought.

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And the material could be put on the railbed near that area.

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And then funds can be appropriated somehow

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out from somewhere, donations, or volunteer work to get the work done in a later time.

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But right now we don't always aim at any money.

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Except for what we've already done north of the pressure work.

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So personally, I'll make a motion that we take $2,525, $2,500 from the Park and Recreation

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capital reserve fund to reimburse the snow belters for the work they have done

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repairing the culvert and that portion of the rail tool.

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I'll take that.

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All in favor?

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All right.

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Yeah, and if I had known that money wasn't already there and wasn't appropriate for

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that, I wouldn't be here actually.

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But that's a good way we would have done it because we don't have the money.

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So, to me, before the rail trail committee decides what work they're going to do, they

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need to come to us and let us know exactly what they're going to do.

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And then we will discuss it, like we are right now, and decide, okay, is that good use

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of that fun?

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It was never intended in my mind, and I don't know about anybody else's here at the

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town meeting, that this was all going to go to the rail trail.

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We were also talking about a tennis court.

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We've been talking about various other potential areas in town, where we might do something like the,

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there's a lot of, what's the, what's the, the state, the state park we just found out that we have.

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It's not a new state park. We just didn't know that it was.

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It's probably related to the bridge we're paying for also.

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So everybody gave us a lot of gifts.

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Yeah, so that's good.

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So if I could add also.

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To me, and again, I assume that you or someone from the organization goes to the

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Recreation Committee meetings, because they're kind of, I mean, you're a subcommittee within.

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Right. Well, what happened was, I guess what, what I'd like

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happen is there is now a capital reserve and the committee has that and minus

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two thousand five hundred dollars now and it'd be very hopeful if that

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committee gets together and develops a plan like what do we want to do this

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next five years yeah and and then have a plan for how this that way we don't get

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surprised. And this stuff can happen in a kind of a logical, easy manner. Because, again,

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I just don't understand how anybody can think, well let's just go spend this money. Because

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guess who's going to answer the mail on that? Not the recreation committee. And as a wise

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person said today, we got people upset that we're not paving roads. And then we turn around and

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and spend money to, you know, make a...

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That would be problematic and quite honestly, you know, for the total impact on the town. It's, you know, it's minimal.

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But, well, what we've done so far, you have to see the issue. So it's actually a good thing that that was taken care of.

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The rest of it is passables, just not nice. And it would be great to have that all be nice someday. I think that's in the plans.

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For the future, they are talking about a recreational trails program later on, and that's also an 80-20 match, I think, is what that is.

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So it would be nice eventually to have a rail trail from, say, the dump and keying all the way into Graves' pit.

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Nice enough for a six-year-old, right, a bicycle on.

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Yeah, please don't take this in any way that we are against you. I know you guys want it. We want this.

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This has to be done. But there's a way to do it that we can actually make sure it eventually happens.

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It's just not going to be tomorrow.

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But it's not going to say that the next meeting directly, they could get together and say,

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It's a quick 500 months to get some of it done or some way to have it done.

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Right.

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So, you know, I'm here.

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I heard a group of downward park, you know, if there was money needed there, it wasn't

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up to the SPAC, so whatever.

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It's going to be, I would guess, relatively substantial, but work needs to get done to

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even find the fence, I think.

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So, you what?

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To find the fence.

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Oh.

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areas because it's over on the brush and stuff so there's there's yeah I know there's a hole in it

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because there's a hole in it for years we used to use it to get to the snowmobile.

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Well there's like I played ball there is a kid that's what we did all day when I was growing up

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like grew up right on the corner of south. So that so that that area is traditionally used to get

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to the trail then by the snowmobile. Not anymore. Oh because I was going to say if we're

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We're going to put a fence up, we need to put a gate there.

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No, not anymore.

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That's all.

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Help people either go up and down the press room.

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And I have a trail that goes through the church yard.

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It comes out on the rail trail which is shy of one to go.

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Okay.

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All right.

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On Robbie King's Barrier's property and John Williams's property.

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Which I have written permission for.

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Nice.

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I have an idea.

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Yeah, that may help with this, but since I just sort of found out about this today, or actually I guess yesterday, it's not completely vetted yet.

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So let's see what happens in the future, but for the committee needs to come to us.

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Right.

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you know as Mark said with a plan here's what we want to do year one year two you

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know however you know y'all want to break it out yeah we're considering writing a

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grant we've got to get you guys in bed with us first right before we even bother

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writing a grant yeah because to start work without knowing if the grant's coming

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Internet is not going to happen and the fact that you've got a grant how much

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was the grant for the shirt pack? Well I got $7,560 with the shirt pack but it has to buy

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a shirt pack. Yeah we can't do anything else and buy anything else. Right. That's all that's good for us.

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And how far is that kind of? That would be hilarious. What it would do is it would allow us to do it's

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about 2,000 feet and we'd be six inches deep all the way from Monday road to where the

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slope ends before it flatens out before we get more of it.

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How easy is it to get equipment there?

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We can get it up front of it, okay.

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And in fact, Zayn was willing to actually bring it in and spread that whole distance for

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us.

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And we thought, well, we thought we had five days with money, that, you know, that was the idea.

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So we would have him go in and get as much time as he could get done in five days, which I think he'd get it all done.

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And then somebody was going to do, somebody around here has a pattern, you know, a roller then, actually vibrates.

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And that's the best one to have to have that set in nicely.

228
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So that was, had been an excuse for some of those.

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So how were you going to get the shirt back at this point?

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Zayn.

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Zayn, we go get it, I set up an account for the Stoke Outters with pushers.

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OK, so now-

233
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But right now I don't have trucking.

234
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There you go.

235
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Trucking was part of what the town was going to do.

236
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What Zayn was going to do?

237
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So, you having purchased the Sure Pack from Cushing, they're willing to let it sit there for a bit?

238
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Yeah, I guess they have somebody coming this week to produce it from, I guess, material they have since then.

239
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So basically, make Sure Pack if you can't get a truck.

240
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Yeah, the shirt actually is going to sit here at this point, right?

241
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You're not probably calling Ezra tomorrow to tell him.

242
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You haven't, you know, it's too much of a pain in the butt to make the shirt back.

243
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We'll bother right now. Things are ugly.

244
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Yeah, how many hairs are in this?

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420.

246
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Quite a few double trunks, so that's about 40.

247
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Double trunks.

248
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I mean, if you think about Zayn doing that for 1,500 bucks a day,

249
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That's a lot of gas. That's a lot of prison. He does get good price. He's done all the work at my house. He's very good.

250
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Well, I certainly have no dog in this fight.

251
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Well, as you guys know what the draft committee wants to do.

252
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Right. So now we know the plan.

253
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Well, that's the first paragraph of the five year plan.

254
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So that's the first paragraph of the five year plan.

255
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Yeah. And I mean, the five-year plan is to make it sort of that whole section. Like I said,

256
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six-year-old could ride a bicycle from one end to another. It's kind of interesting because

257
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the only thing I've heard about from the recreation committee in the last couple of years was they've

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concerned for the tennis court and the fence. I'd like to go over that apparently. Well, it's

259
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There's a lot of things to be just ripped out, it's pretty much a lot, so they either need to replace it or whatever.

260
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Yeah, I mean, good at being part of it.

261
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There was a lot of things.

262
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I'm sorry.

263
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There's a lot of things on that rail trail.

264
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And there actually started to monitor it.

265
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There's a monitor from some sort at the summit.

266
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Yeah, I saw some dead off of that.

267
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How it's changed from three years ago to today.

268
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Yeah, and it's getting good use, it doesn't necessarily get getting good use from

269
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watch line residents, but it's getting good use, but a lot of people do use it, including

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people from town.

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I feel like this is sort of like, it's almost like you've got a 50-50 grant that is what

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I'm looking for.

273
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Right, so it's a medium, it's a two-to-one return on one, which is good.

274
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different than what we're kind of thinking it was like in place of getting a

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grant but it's really a grant match. Yeah, it's a match.

276
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So I think we need which

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I can say that Susie did put in an email that said that the recreation committee

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as a whole wasn't support of the real trail work being done so. Okay so that just

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I just want to feed you the pieces and make a decision from there.

280
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Yeah, because the rail trail project, if you think of it from the snowmobiles point of view, doesn't matter.

281
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Yes, it's covered in snow.

282
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Right, so if there's snow on it, you're right.

283
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So six-year-old kids, right?

284
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But, you know, as far as walking and riding bicycles and horses and all that, there in the summer time it's wonderful to see people out there.

285
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Because I go out from time to time like before with my chainsaw and cut things out of the way or trying to throw big stuff out of the ditches.

286
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You know, just to keep those ditches open because we've established the ditch system all the way down through that old rail trail.

287
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So now the water is all steaming off the trail, so now I'm washing the trail out in the

288
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cut that I've already said nothing to do with what's the name of that.

289
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We've surried where it goes through the ledges towards the dump.

290
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That's all above grade now.

291
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The ditches are established on both sides and years ago you couldn't even get through

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this area.

293
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That's a class five room.

294
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You know, another good thing about having this trail open is like if we ever had a washout

295
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on loop 12s, like say where the iron can used to be, we have a way down into two.

296
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You could drive all the way down through and get to key, come out through the water tower

297
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is.

298
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And you know, it would be a way to get around if there was several washouts as well.

299
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May I make a suggestion? Let's bring the Rail Trail Committee into your next meeting.

300
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Sure.

301
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Next meeting is going to be Thursday, not two days, but nine days.

302
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Because we have to move that being because many of us are not around.

303
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Yep.

304
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And it's going to be a Tate Park in the morning.

305
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It's

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only agenda 13th.

307
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13th right now?

308
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Yes.

309
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So that

310
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gives us a little bit of time to think about this.

311
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And you know, the fact that you already have the shirt pack brand is different from what

312
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I was aware of yesterday.

313
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Yeah, because we were told that there was a grant they didn't know if they had yet.

314
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Oh no, we had it.

315
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And so spending money now when you think you're getting a grant?

316
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No.

317
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You know, spending money when you have a grant, that's difficult.

318
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We can commit the money if you get the grant but you don't want to spend it prior to it.

319
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But you don't want to do it right here.

320
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So, I mean, we have a material that would just have to get it there.

321
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Okay, so now that we have all the information properly, just give us, you know, a week to, you know.

322
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You guys better try to figure something out if there is anything you can do.

323
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If we can, because we're on favorite, you know, it's a great project for a number of reasons including the fact that if something washes out, that's something I hadn't even thought about.

324
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so that you can drive down there at this point.

325
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Oh, sure.

326
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It'd be interesting.

327
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Yeah, I was trying to think if there's any way

328
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to be tight.

329
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I mean, it would be tight through the ledges,

330
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but you certainly could do it.

331
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That's a good way.

332
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Yeah, the ledges would want to go.

333
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What's my way?

334
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But we have a line.

335
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We have a line.

336
00:27:00,030 --> 00:27:01,310
Yeah, we have a line.

337
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We have a nice white drag that we pulled behind the Tucker 2000.

338
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So, cars are at 90 wide.

339
00:27:11,150 --> 00:27:19,910
Yeah, so that would you told us tonight is more information of what we had previously.

340
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So if we could do that in nine days, whatever it is, that would be really helpful.

341
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Cool.

342
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Thank you.

343
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Thank you. Thanks for the consideration. Well, thank you.

344
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And also, thanks for going and getting the grants.

345
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Yeah.

346
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That's it.

347
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We've done it for ages.

348
00:27:42,430 --> 00:27:44,310
I mean, everyone will be able to walk into the trails.

349
00:27:44,550 --> 00:27:45,410
But there's bridges.

350
00:27:46,110 --> 00:27:49,290
There's, you know, a lot of things that we do a lot of cutting.

351
00:27:49,630 --> 00:27:51,070
We throw a lot of brush out of the way.

352
00:27:51,470 --> 00:27:54,270
And trying to keep snowmobiling alive

353
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in the southwest corner of New Hampshire.

354
00:27:57,550 --> 00:27:58,650
What can you do about the snow?

355
00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:00,870
I'm going to wear a last one.

356
00:28:04,110 --> 00:28:14,010
I mean we all miss a good win, but I guess there was a decent one here last year, right?

357
00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:14,910
It was gone.

358
00:28:15,390 --> 00:28:15,950
You weren't here?

359
00:28:16,330 --> 00:28:16,870
I don't know.

360
00:28:17,130 --> 00:28:17,430
Yeah, what?

361
00:28:18,010 --> 00:28:23,150
Well, I came back and I went to Pittsburgh and I went to boost that late and believe it or

362
00:28:23,150 --> 00:28:26,070
not, boost that late didn't happen as much as though I was sleeping down there.

363
00:28:28,310 --> 00:28:29,710
But there was nothing for it.

364
00:28:33,930 --> 00:28:37,210
Yeah, I think I'll stay for the not-wing part of it, that's okay.

365
00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:40,350
You can stay for the entire thing, you're more than welcome.

366
00:28:43,190 --> 00:28:44,630
We like companies.

367
00:28:52,890 --> 00:28:53,950
Not with you.

368
00:28:55,370 --> 00:28:59,110
You were saying something about the conservation commission.

369
00:28:59,110 --> 00:28:59,270
Well,

370
00:29:02,130 --> 00:29:06,670
I attended Harrisville's Conservation Commission

371
00:29:06,670 --> 00:29:08,550
against the false demo I had made.

372
00:29:09,010 --> 00:29:12,670
And they basically spent like an hour

373
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after viewing what they've done over the last few years.

374
00:29:16,150 --> 00:29:19,210
And it's really a success over what they've done over that.

375
00:29:19,450 --> 00:29:21,830
They had the guy who actually sprays it.

376
00:29:21,970 --> 00:29:23,590
He runs a company that sprays it.

377
00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:27,150
You know, they hit it last year.

378
00:29:28,410 --> 00:29:35,010
He said about 90 to 95% of it was gone, and what they'll do is still hit it every year for a while.

379
00:29:35,150 --> 00:29:37,130
He had a plan and he'd do it for four years in a row.

380
00:29:37,270 --> 00:29:40,470
When it's set for a year, and then he hit it again.

381
00:29:41,230 --> 00:29:47,130
What happens is when it's almost dead and just comes up a little, you don't want to spray just a little.

382
00:29:47,330 --> 00:29:48,650
You want to come up a little more.

383
00:29:48,650 --> 00:29:55,690
So, he's in that last system and he uses a 2% glyphosate.

384
00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:28,620
You know, forming, like, and he's got some other things he uses, and he puts it out. It's an anti-drift agent. So what it does is it makes it heavy. It makes it heavy. There's some pleasant, you know, blow away, and the way it lands right out my leaves. And then there's another, I can't remember. I haven't read that someplace, but it's another thing that he puts in there. It's like a one-to-one to the right to save this other one, makes it, kills it off you more.

385
00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:33,340
or the other beach in this area, you know, very toxic.

386
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,620
Yeah, I was just reading about some of this stuff

387
00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:40,100
and mostly because of our yard.

388
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120
And a lot of what they're pushing now

389
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,940
is a 45% vinegar solution in salt water.

390
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,400
And what that does now, it won't kill the roots.

391
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,060
But what they say is if you apply it over multiple years,

392
00:30:57,060 --> 00:31:03,100
eventually it will just kill itself off but that's only good like if you've

393
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:07,540
got gravel and then you've got grass and stuff from it that's really what

394
00:31:07,540 --> 00:31:11,580
this for you can't go out into your yard because you'll just end up killing

395
00:31:11,580 --> 00:31:16,180
everything kind of like what I did with my globe torch two weeks ago and I got

396
00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:22,080
trouble with it, it's been in my vinegar, it's got to go as fast as to something

397
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,140
Oh really?

398
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,040
That's too chemical.

399
00:31:24,460 --> 00:31:24,600
Yeah.

400
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,060
And we have to say this is class three.

401
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,560
So vinegar is actually more toxic than poison, say.

402
00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:30,860
Wow.

403
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,900
And these guys all really know what to talk about.

404
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,200
They say the big thing is quite the same.

405
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:40,980
They truly got a bad rapid, you know, bad rap.

406
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,480
Things used to be round up.

407
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,460
People just used to start them in the proper amounts.

408
00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:51,080
And at the right time of year, you have to do it right after it blows.

409
00:31:51,540 --> 00:31:53,200
and before the first frost.

410
00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:57,360
So things of the blooms and bees will be, you know,

411
00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,180
they'll feed on that stuff.

412
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:00,840
But if you knew it at the right time,

413
00:32:01,340 --> 00:32:03,560
it's really, it's one of all the nutrients

414
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,680
are going back down into the roots

415
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,140
and that stuff has to be stuck down on the roots.

416
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:10,800
If you spray it any other time here,

417
00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:13,140
it doesn't get brought down on the roots.

418
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:14,620
And those roots will be like,

419
00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:17,660
I think they're 8, 10, 15 feet deep.

420
00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:25,120
So the issue that I've heard as a beekeeper, the issue that I've heard is that the

421
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:33,420
classified also stays in the soil. So something that grows later, that may have

422
00:32:33,420 --> 00:32:43,020
blossoms, has classified them. So that's something I'd like to talk about that

423
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:56,200
But that's also depending on who you speak with, you will get a bias from their particular

424
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:56,780
point of view.

425
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:06,940
So I heard that in a presentation, but it was a presentation about bees, and so I would

426
00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:11,360
like to know, you know, just how accurate that was.

427
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,220
Yeah, you need an unbiased figure.

428
00:33:13,460 --> 00:33:14,260
Right. These are great.

429
00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:16,960
As you're saying, you're using a couple of points,

430
00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:20,200
like, you know, hundreds of squirt yards.

431
00:33:20,420 --> 00:33:23,620
It's a very minimal amount of you're using.

432
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,460
We actually view, you know,

433
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,740
the transfer depot is down in Cheshire,

434
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,680
Harrisville, you know.

435
00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:31,340
Yeah.

436
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,060
So, they, that was a sponge that they hid last year.

437
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,080
And they took us on a tour of the walk-out,

438
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,840
and you can see all the dead stocks.

439
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:48,660
And then some of the native plants will start to come back there, which is that's one of the reasons why you don't really want to, you know, have this now because it takes overall.

440
00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:58,940
Chokes out the native plants and the native plants support, you know, the native insects, the native rabbits and, you know, so you kind of want to...

441
00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:15,380
That's why I want to know more about shelf life, you know, soil life in this case, to how much of that actually is then passed on to the next generation of plants that populate that area.

442
00:34:15,380 --> 00:34:20,860
I've got the contact information to do so that there's some of them who are in the industry

443
00:34:20,860 --> 00:34:26,840
of chemical stuff, and we're positive with the scientists, you know, and a couple of

444
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:27,680
of the guys over there.

445
00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:30,220
Yeah, if you're in the chemical industry, then you're going to take this as a great thing.

446
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,580
If you're in the bee industry, you don't think it's a terrible thing.

447
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:42,420
So maybe what we need to do is talk to an entomologist or a biologist at the state level to

448
00:34:42,420 --> 00:34:48,890
to find out what the, is there a middle ground there

449
00:34:48,890 --> 00:34:50,490
or is one side correct?

450
00:34:50,830 --> 00:34:50,970
Right.

451
00:34:51,530 --> 00:34:53,990
Almost have some of the D.O.T. calls, actually,

452
00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:54,950
right in legislation.

453
00:34:55,390 --> 00:34:57,850
And the D.O.T. you're like, I'll stay right there.

454
00:34:57,950 --> 00:35:00,570
You want the environment to be environment outside of me also.

455
00:35:01,150 --> 00:35:03,130
I mean, that should be there, but again,

456
00:35:03,330 --> 00:35:05,110
for sure we have to, a lot of knowledge, yeah.

457
00:35:05,350 --> 00:35:05,490
Yeah.

458
00:35:06,130 --> 00:35:06,850
Any questions?

459
00:35:07,090 --> 00:35:07,930
I can pump it up.

460
00:35:08,470 --> 00:35:10,050
I mean, and you have to cooperate extensively.

461
00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:10,910
Absolutely.

462
00:35:10,910 --> 00:35:17,550
And that would be the end of my offstate, his car on my offstate.

463
00:35:17,850 --> 00:35:19,810
Yeah, cars would be good, cars would be something else here.

464
00:35:19,810 --> 00:35:22,270
He'd be somebody you might be able to get information from.

465
00:35:23,410 --> 00:35:26,430
Yeah, cars would really grow on the extension agent also.

466
00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:28,810
Yeah, that's what he worked on.

467
00:35:28,890 --> 00:35:29,350
Yeah, that's what he worked on.

468
00:35:29,470 --> 00:35:30,170
That's what he worked on.

469
00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:32,570
Yeah, he has come to do the guys over at Brisbane.

470
00:35:32,670 --> 00:35:33,510
He has a live in town.

471
00:35:33,610 --> 00:35:37,430
Actually, visit an offstate, visit our car in the conservation commission.

472
00:35:38,210 --> 00:35:43,990
The guy who does the spring and one of the guys actually chair of the committee came

473
00:35:43,990 --> 00:35:45,770
to talk to Perry and everybody.

474
00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:55,380
Did you ever speak to the, yes, to the slot board chair and talk to the slot board?

475
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,440
But these guys were all, you know, I actually do want to talk to them.

476
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:07,040
I think we should because there was a, the one conversation that I had with him when Southwest

477
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,200
West had that gathering of select board chairs.

478
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:13,220
Yeah, wouldn't let you go.

479
00:36:16,740 --> 00:36:23,140
He mentioned that he was not as positive about that.

480
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:24,980
And I don't know why.

481
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,160
And he said it's a long story.

482
00:36:28,580 --> 00:36:31,180
And it may not be the fact that he wasn't positive.

483
00:36:31,340 --> 00:36:32,360
Maybe some people weren't.

484
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,480
I don't know where he was going with that.

485
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,400
I did, I was saying the same thing with some people.

486
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:42,320
Thank you.

487
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,060
One of the slow-mo wasn't, but I didn't really get a chance

488
00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:45,660
to talk to

489
00:36:49,310 --> 00:36:49,350
them.

490
00:36:49,450 --> 00:36:49,570
All right.

491
00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:51,350
I think we should keep it open.

492
00:36:51,790 --> 00:36:55,850
I mean, we could establish communication between them

493
00:36:55,850 --> 00:36:57,630
and do some other research on our own.

494
00:36:57,970 --> 00:37:02,680
Well, when you drive through 163,

495
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,700
where I'm sure the state would not necessarily

496
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:09,120
want to spring at this point, but they also

497
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,820
and when you moat that weed, it ends up everywhere, you know, times ten.

498
00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:22,640
Dave's been doing all this mowing now, so he doesn't moat it out of it, so you can see where it is.

499
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,520
You're right on the south of Lillard, you know, my hair is probably going to expand over.

500
00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:31,520
Interesting.

501
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:39,280
Alright, thanks. You're no but not we came, so thanks.

502
00:37:43,260 --> 00:37:49,340
Oh, excuse me one second, I'd like to add one thing to all the business and it's basically

503
00:37:49,340 --> 00:37:58,740
to bring people to our website, so if I can just go to our website, I self here.

504
00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:15,320
Well, you're looking, John, one of the things we apologize about is he's thinking the recycling

505
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:23,880
would be a good place to do an experiment perhaps because there are already test wells there and they test those wells every year.

506
00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:29,620
So that could make this information as to, is this stuff getting into the aqua version?

507
00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:30,600
Yup.

508
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:38,080
Plus, you have that stuff with the recycling center car,

509
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:50,440
I'm looking at what's looking at how the main goal is to use as little as a year as

510
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:56,580
possible, do it in properly at the right time of year, it's pretty minimal stuff you have

511
00:38:56,580 --> 00:38:57,140
to use.

512
00:38:58,780 --> 00:39:05,080
I'm looking at the manifest today, I saw Dave Mezzarov's, you know, they all question

513
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,480
remind me that we should be getting the results of the re-evaluation process.

514
00:39:10,060 --> 00:39:11,460
He's been working on that.

515
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:19,860
Yeah, so what I would like to do is just once again, in the minutes and on this video,

516
00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:31,320
remind people that on our town website, WestMalandNH.gov, on the very front page,

517
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,780
Scroll down and it says 2026 and H. Re-evaluation.

518
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,720
As part of the property re-evaluation process,

519
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,100
randomly selected properties may be visited

520
00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:43,940
by both the Towns' assessing contractor

521
00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:46,480
and representative from the New Hampshire Department

522
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,280
of Revenue Administration, DRA,

523
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,320
as part of the review and verification process.

524
00:39:51,980 --> 00:39:54,060
Currently, the Towns' overall assessed values

525
00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:57,320
are estimated to be approximately 60% of market value.

526
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,240
Residents should expect assessed value that excess,

527
00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:07,320
and you start that out over again, residents should expect assessed property values

528
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,740
to increase as part of the re-evaluation process.

529
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:17,800
However, the tax rate is expected to decrease accordingly to reflect the updated assessments.

530
00:40:18,620 --> 00:40:25,600
Residents should not estimate future tax bills by applying the current 2025 tax rate

531
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,720
to new assessed values.

532
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:28,820
Repeat.

533
00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:34,240
Residents should not estimate future tax bills

534
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,100
by applying the current 2025 tax rate

535
00:40:37,420 --> 00:40:38,900
to new assessed values.

536
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,040
As a tax rate would be recalculated

537
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,120
following completion of the evaluation.

538
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:46,320
If you have more questions about that,

539
00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:49,340
there's a box right below it, find out more

540
00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:54,780
that will take you to a frequently asked questions page

541
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:58,640
where you can go ahead and read more about the re-evaluation process.

542
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:04,820
The real key again is do not try to calculate your own tax rate.

543
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,940
The tax rate will not be determined until November by DRA.

544
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:14,920
So when you re-evaluation, if your property went up,

545
00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:19,520
X number of dollars, it does not necessarily,

546
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,000
you cannot currently determine your new tax rate.

547
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,320
40% increase in your property value doesn't mean a 40% increase in your tax.

548
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:30,480
Absolutely not.

549
00:41:31,060 --> 00:41:41,040
So because of the way things events in COVID, there will be a good chance that your property's more valuable today than it was two years ago.

550
00:41:43,180 --> 00:41:46,800
But do not panic at that point.

551
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,520
We will not have the tax rate until November.

552
00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:53,000
And when we have that, we will share it.

553
00:41:56,370 --> 00:41:57,370
That's all I got.

554
00:41:57,630 --> 00:41:59,250
That's a good public service now.

555
00:41:59,510 --> 00:42:03,510
But I figured that was something that was probably going to take some people off today.

556
00:42:04,630 --> 00:42:06,730
So prepare for phone calls, Julie.

557
00:42:08,390 --> 00:42:14,610
Well, that's what I'm trying to get rid of, is the fact that not everybody knows this

558
00:42:14,610 --> 00:42:18,250
and there's no really good way except the West Mallander to get it out.

559
00:42:18,750 --> 00:42:22,690
I believe we've spoken about this now probably four times, at least.

560
00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:29,790
We spoke about it at town meeting. We've spoken about it a bunch of committee meetings. We've spoken about it with a lot of board meetings.

561
00:42:30,650 --> 00:42:33,350
This is the last time before this is going to continue.

562
00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:37,970
I need me to make some recordings like, no, you cannot build a long class.

563
00:42:37,970 --> 00:42:43,290
It's your own recording and why, and no, your tax rate will not go up to 40% and why.

564
00:42:43,830 --> 00:42:45,210
There you go. Two good ones.

565
00:42:45,450 --> 00:42:46,450
Which one would you like?

566
00:42:50,070 --> 00:42:50,630
Okay,

567
00:42:52,850 --> 00:42:59,170
thank you. I just wanted to remind folks that that's happening and you really cannot

568
00:43:00,970 --> 00:43:02,910
determine your tax rate at this point.

569
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:12,360
All right, so we got a bunch of signing to do. This limited power of attorney, this is so

570
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,480
So they can do the closing for these properties that they are auctioned that day.

571
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,320
So that just needs to get assigned.

572
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:40,480
There we have a deed waiver and a payment plan.

573
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,660
I made two copies of the payment plan so that an original can also be given to the person that's going to.

574
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:48,440
That's just an idea.

575
00:44:03,170 --> 00:44:09,730
We hope we've made plans with all the people that are having an issue with getting taxes paid.

576
00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:12,910
They don't have to do any of these places.

577
00:44:15,170 --> 00:44:16,290
It's the same property.

578
00:44:16,730 --> 00:44:18,330
That's a waiver and these are paid for.

579
00:44:18,830 --> 00:44:21,230
For the person in original for us.

580
00:44:21,550 --> 00:44:22,750
It has

581
00:44:32,580 --> 00:44:34,800
taken a lot of effort.

582
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:36,880
Those made many calls.

583
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,040
Most has made many calls.

584
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:38,780
There have been letters.

585
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,480
Finally, we're getting to the point of everybody has a plan.

586
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,940
Because Deeding was supposed to happen next week.

587
00:44:44,940 --> 00:44:49,980
Okay, so we don't want their places, we want them to have them.

588
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:40,260
So ten to fourteen days ago, we got a letter, the town got a letter from a Polish and made

589
00:46:40,260 --> 00:46:45,120
up of the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights, the League of Women Voters, New Hampshire,

590
00:46:45,820 --> 00:46:48,400
and Open Democracy, New Hampshire.

591
00:46:49,060 --> 00:46:56,820
And what this organization has done if they've gone out and reviewed all the town web

592
00:46:56,820 --> 00:47:00,780
pages and what they have as far as voting information.

593
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,900
And they looked at several different areas.

594
00:47:06,580 --> 00:47:12,360
and then, better yet, they just didn't point out what the problem was, they actually gave

595
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:21,500
us a solution, which is unusual and greatly appreciated, and it covers how to register

596
00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:27,220
to vote, how to vote elections, and then information on election officials in the town.

597
00:47:28,260 --> 00:47:34,560
And so the rest of this document, I think it's four pages, I wrote them back and said, can

598
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:41,160
you send me an electronic copy of it. And with that electronic copy, I produced this document

599
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:49,740
that I gave you all and tailored it for our town. And I think it's pretty good. I mean,

600
00:47:50,060 --> 00:47:56,420
there's nothing dramatic in here. And I think what's really helpful is that they've actually

601
00:47:56,420 --> 00:48:03,620
included several state web pages that people have further information. And so really all

602
00:48:03,620 --> 00:48:10,260
have to do is click on the link and it'll take you to a state site that tells you a bunch of

603
00:48:10,260 --> 00:48:15,060
stuff of those reminds me. I have a link on there that goes right to the state site.

604
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:23,220
Yeah well I think the beauty of this is they take each phase of it and how to register how to vote

605
00:48:23,220 --> 00:48:27,840
when the elections are and that's where it thinks. So I think it simplifies it quite frankly.

606
00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:32,460
And I went to each one of these sites just to make sure they were still working links.

607
00:48:32,460 --> 00:48:39,720
So, they do. And, quite frankly, I had Ellis look at it today and I deleted a couple of things.

608
00:48:42,180 --> 00:48:52,040
And so, I don't think it changed anything here. But the question I had, I've already talked

609
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:59,100
to Nancy Zeller and asked her to get me a copy or when their next meetings are because

610
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:05,900
those should be posted. So she's working on that. And I talked to her about that last week.

611
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:11,420
And then really the only thing I have left is on the back page. And what they recommend

612
00:49:11,420 --> 00:49:17,640
and you can see on the last page, I've got Ellis's contact information in here as well

613
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:23,180
as the State Secretary for New Hampshire and the Attorney General's Office. But they also

614
00:49:23,180 --> 00:49:28,280
recommend that the supervisors of the checklist be there, their phone numbers and their emails

615
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:35,200
and what concerns me and also the moderator. I'm not sure that we should do that and my

616
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:41,780
recommendation would be that we just under the supervisors of the checklist, we just put

617
00:49:41,780 --> 00:49:47,740
the town administrator there and if someone's got a very specific question then you can send

618
00:49:47,740 --> 00:49:51,920
and then towards the supervisors of the checklist.

619
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:53,620
I really should just be out of lessons

620
00:49:53,620 --> 00:49:55,960
because I don't, only thing I do for elections

621
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,060
is get ballot books.

622
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:58,420
Okay, well, we can do that.

623
00:49:58,680 --> 00:49:59,540
I have a good out of list.

624
00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:00,140
Okay.

625
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,840
And what about the moderator?

626
00:50:05,340 --> 00:50:07,000
He has nothing to do with that either.

627
00:50:07,220 --> 00:50:13,060
Well, he does, but I think Ellis would probably be the,

628
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:13,740
okay.

629
00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:15,700
I think he's a kind of the point person for that.

630
00:50:16,620 --> 00:50:23,580
All right. Well, I will make it so. Okay. And so this is fine and dandy. And that

631
00:50:23,580 --> 00:50:28,420
leads me to another question. But I think the answer is in the emails because I

632
00:50:28,420 --> 00:50:31,880
noticed an email in there that where we got an update from the company that's

633
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:39,640
doing our web page. I didn't understand all of it. But my idea is when I get this

634
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:44,240
done, I send it off work. I guess you send it off to them because you're the only

635
00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:47,300
that has access. You get that done. I can put on our current website.

636
00:50:47,580 --> 00:50:51,540
Okay. There will just be my graded dance part of it.

637
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:55,500
Awesome email map from them is that they're moving to another phase.

638
00:50:55,980 --> 00:51:01,040
Yeah, that's what I took from it. Yeah. And I got into the minutiae which was the wrong thing

639
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:05,300
because they didn't really understand the minutiae but yeah I understood they were moving on.

640
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,880
So that's what I'll do. I'll make the I'll make the changes and then I'll just send them to you

641
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:17,620
you can you can put them on the webpage. And then I didn't read through the whole thing

642
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:22,600
most because I didn't understand it. But do we have a date when they can get a good hot?

643
00:51:23,740 --> 00:51:24,360
Not yet.

644
00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:32,350
End of year. Yeah. I would say wait here. Okay.

645
00:51:34,070 --> 00:51:39,090
Some of that was our bad in the beginning of the year because we were too busy to work with us.

646
00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:44,610
Well, I mean, that's okay, I mean, we're not going anywhere, as long as we don't do this.

647
00:51:44,610 --> 00:51:49,850
But, I mean, if I get this on the website, it'll be more useful now than if I get it to them, and it's after the fact.

648
00:51:51,590 --> 00:51:57,490
Yeah, so, and the thing that I like about this is the fact this is not political.

649
00:51:57,890 --> 00:52:03,610
Oh, absolutely, that was the very first thing I checked, make sure this didn't come from the left or the right.

650
00:52:03,610 --> 00:52:08,910
Yeah, it's simply here's how you do stuff. It's kind of the way we used to get news

651
00:52:09,370 --> 00:52:13,210
Let me just tell us what's happening and this wouldn't quite typically

652
00:52:16,190 --> 00:52:22,190
So I do remember watching the news and going okay

653
00:52:23,490 --> 00:52:24,410
But anyway

654
00:52:26,030 --> 00:52:27,830
Yeah, I remember Walter

655
00:52:28,790 --> 00:52:30,390
All right, well, that's all I have

656
00:52:33,610 --> 00:52:41,240
good idea, because they made it more complicated and then tried to make it less complicated.

657
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,100
Stay tuned and they'll do it some more, because that's all they do.

658
00:52:45,340 --> 00:52:46,000
That's what they do.

659
00:52:46,180 --> 00:52:49,180
Ellis showed me the book that they got last year that's like this stick.

660
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:49,740
Yeah.

661
00:52:50,020 --> 00:52:53,560
And then the book that there's no more trainings, my new book.

662
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:53,660
Right.

663
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,320
They got this year, this stick.

664
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:56,640
What went away?

665
00:52:57,460 --> 00:52:57,600
Right.

666
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:05,180
But it seems to me there should be more to it because as has been pointed out to me by

667
00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:11,580
some females that I know is actually for a lot of folks makes it harder if they don't

668
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:18,720
walk around with their birth certificate, their change, their legal paperwork for changing

669
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,820
their name out of get married or after they get divorced.

670
00:53:21,820 --> 00:53:30,100
Of course, you know, there's just all kinds of things that, so, um, yeah, anyway, I'm not going to be doing that.

671
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:37,920
Okay, here's the proof of citizenship, but if you don't have it, you can sign up for the affidavit.

672
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:39,940
Those things are crazy.

673
00:53:40,780 --> 00:53:41,360
The affidavit?

674
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:42,920
I'm on my way.

675
00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:48,600
But I mean, it's, yeah, I mean, you know, you're supposed to have to sign the affidavit,

676
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,140
and then get your stuff.

677
00:53:51,220 --> 00:53:53,560
So then they spend time chasing people around.

678
00:53:54,820 --> 00:53:58,040
And now it used to be like in my dad's age,

679
00:53:58,980 --> 00:54:01,760
he proved he gave what he needed to do, registered

680
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,140
to vote, and went to the polls.

681
00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:06,400
Now they're trying to hold their raise hand

682
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,080
and let them do however they need to do.

683
00:54:08,220 --> 00:54:10,200
It's just at some point in time,

684
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,540
people have to take responsibility and get what they need.

685
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,620
If you get a passport, that works for pretty much everything.

686
00:54:15,860 --> 00:54:16,660
So it's like.

687
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:20,780
But passports are expensive now, and it takes a while.

688
00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:25,460
I mean, if you try to get a passports now, you probably wouldn't have it for the September

689
00:54:25,460 --> 00:54:26,040
election.

690
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:26,880
You might not know.

691
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:27,180
Yeah.

692
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:28,760
But that takes a little plan.

693
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:29,100
Right.

694
00:54:29,420 --> 00:54:29,520
Yeah.

695
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:32,660
And again, no.

696
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:35,080
I'm not going to say it.

697
00:54:35,460 --> 00:54:35,740
Yeah.

698
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,240
I'm not going to say we're solving a problem that doesn't exist.

699
00:54:38,580 --> 00:54:39,920
So, all right.

700
00:54:40,260 --> 00:54:41,920
Let's, uh, would we field sign?

701
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:42,740
Yeah, don't say that.

702
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,040
I've been to Central and South American Africa, really good.

703
00:54:50,180 --> 00:54:58,800
The sign was made by Justin Treeby, and they would like permission to have it home at

704
00:54:58,800 --> 00:54:59,500
Woodwood Field.

705
00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:06,820
My guess is, probably, on the shed, you see, so there's not a lot of places to hang things.

706
00:55:07,460 --> 00:55:08,960
Has that sign been hung up?

707
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:10,980
Yeah, that's got to get up there too.

708
00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:17,240
So he needs to get hung up and not lost because I have to ask for an alarm and I'm going to cry.

709
00:55:17,820 --> 00:55:19,740
But there's a possible way to do so.

710
00:55:19,940 --> 00:55:20,120
Yes.

711
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,560
We actually have money on it, you know?

712
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,720
There's an office for it.

713
00:55:27,780 --> 00:55:29,200
So we're all picking dates.

714
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,460
Anyways, they wanted this to be a truth to be able to hang over there at the field.

715
00:55:37,060 --> 00:55:46,980
I think it's a very nice, all right. Great. All right, so you guys all agree. Thank

716
00:55:46,980 --> 00:55:50,320
Mr. Frievy. He is very talented.

717
00:55:53,390 --> 00:55:54,370
Yeah, that's beautiful.

718
00:55:58,410 --> 00:56:00,690
So, okay, so then the

719
00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:06,190
deeded property auctions is on the 8th and Jody informed me today. She's already

720
00:56:06,190 --> 00:56:11,530
got a squirt away so we all three of us can be there without you know legally. Well you can

721
00:56:11,530 --> 00:56:19,270
anyways because you can attend things right if you happen to speak yeah and how many of us

722
00:56:19,270 --> 00:56:27,990
are not going to speak John I am Mark I am not going to speak any of these though. I have a lot to

723
00:56:27,990 --> 00:56:35,890
talk about there but there is a lot of interest in the properties they've been a great job advertising

724
00:56:36,190 --> 00:56:37,590
and they're going to do it right in here.

725
00:56:38,050 --> 00:56:38,870
Yeah, okay.

726
00:56:39,910 --> 00:56:41,270
We'll see what goes on.

727
00:56:41,710 --> 00:56:47,480
But yeah, it should be kind of an interesting thing.

728
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:54,940
If I had explained more times, then I care to count how you cannot build on a classic.

729
00:56:54,940 --> 00:56:56,120
You cannot build on a classic.

730
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:56,280
You cannot build on a classic.

731
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,260
We'll have five inferior road fronts.

732
00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:03,720
And you still can't build on a classic.

733
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:05,620
And no, you still can't.

734
00:57:05,620 --> 00:57:09,140
because people are convinced that the state made a change and now I can.

735
00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:15,680
That's not entirely true so you still, we saw ordinances that you can't.

736
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,260
Right, the town is the oldest one.

737
00:57:18,860 --> 00:57:27,920
Well, the town has an ordinance the one that is most restrictive is the one that's enforced.

738
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:33,320
So if the state is more restrictive than we are, the state rules.

739
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:40,280
If we're more restrictive than the state is, which in this case we are, our ordinances will.

740
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:50,040
Which I believe that the state legislator, they want to take priority over anything we do down here.

741
00:57:50,220 --> 00:57:54,000
But from what I've read, not sure that's going to happen.

742
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:06,520
And then last but not least, as we mentioned earlier, our next meeting is now going to be

743
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:16,540
on the 13th of August at 10 a.m. right here. And that's due to vacation. So scheduling

744
00:58:16,540 --> 00:58:21,220
kind of issues. I was going to suggest we just didn't have a second one, but now you've

745
00:58:21,220 --> 00:58:21,980
me as half one.

746
00:58:24,380 --> 00:58:26,220
That's okay. You're welcome.

747
00:58:29,580 --> 00:58:31,320
That's okay. Bill, you got anything else?

748
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:37,880
No. Negative. I had one ball thing that we should acknowledge is the fact that Ed Johnson

749
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:47,380
did pass away last week and he was the pirate deputy and he was pirate warden for many years

750
00:58:47,380 --> 00:58:55,020
and a really nice guy, I think it was a lot of it.

751
00:58:59,740 --> 00:59:01,100
That's young in Westmoreland.

752
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:06,880
All right.

753
00:59:07,180 --> 00:59:08,600
Well, we didn't know it was a normal building.

754
00:59:08,780 --> 00:59:10,700
It was putting up all the science for me still.

755
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:11,800
Really?

756
00:59:12,060 --> 00:59:12,340
It was nice.

757
00:59:13,700 --> 00:59:14,980
Yeah, it's still out there.

758
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:16,500
Oh, that's awesome.

759
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:17,600
I didn't even know that piece.

760
00:59:17,940 --> 00:59:19,520
So that's good to know.

761
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:27,280
Yeah, he put up the size, I'm not going to tell you here, he's always nice to stop him

762
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,980
versus him when I went to clear trails up there.

763
00:59:31,380 --> 00:59:35,970
Well, I reckon he used it a little bit, Mark.

764
00:59:37,630 --> 00:59:38,430
You're going to stay.

765
00:59:38,890 --> 00:59:42,130
Ellen donated a quilt once, and we had a radar run.

766
00:59:42,510 --> 00:59:44,050
And she had smoothed it as always.

767
00:59:44,410 --> 00:59:45,010
Oh, that's awesome.

768
00:59:45,130 --> 00:59:46,410
She said it was a wrap.

769
00:59:46,990 --> 00:59:48,510
And I think he got like $400.

770
00:59:53,210 --> 00:59:59,090
All right. I'd like to make motion that we adjourn. All in favor?

771
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:00,640
Okay.

772
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,300
No, did you?

773
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:15,700
Here's the, let's see, so you're down here by the church, right?