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Good evening, everyone.

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Thank

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you. Mike is in the audience, but I don't think he's at his desk.

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Now he's doing it, he's coming on now.

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And then when you're all set, I will start the recording.

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Okay.

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Mike, in the show, Bill, Bill, I'm correct. You are possibly going through security in the airport right now?

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Yes, just stepping up to the piano right now.

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Okay.

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So we expect you may drop off for a sec and come back.

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So in Bill's absence, we may need someone to read the motions that are in the

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Well, he's going through.

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All right.

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Good evening.

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Everyone.

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Welcome to the Monday August 10th.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Sorry, Patty.

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Sorry, I've been ahead of myself recording my progress.

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Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Monday. I guess time select board meeting.

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I'm Chair and the Afraidy. We're joined by Vice Chair Bill Muthanigalain members.

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My Patent Court, Michelle Prior, and our town manager, Christina.

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So we will roll right into the agenda. We'll start with our consent agenda.

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move to approve the consent agenda for Monday August 10th.

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Roll call Michelle.

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Yes.

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Nice.

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Bill.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Next up we have several donations and grants that has been received by the Tom for us to accept.

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Would you like the one big motion, Anthony?

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Yeah, what we've done is done it as one large motion and then just do a single vote on it.

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Just catch up.

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Move to be approve a grant in the amount of, well, six, six, five thousand eight hundred twenty six dollars from the state nine one one support incentive grant to the police department.

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A grant of $10,299 and $36 from the State 911 training grant for the police department.

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A independence formula of $86,368 to the Council on Aging from the State Office of Aging and the Dependence.

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A donation of $1200 from Sunny Hamansu to the Recreation Department gift fund for supplies at Pack Rail's Tennis Courts.

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A donation of $750 from the Winchester Cooperative Bank to support the Recreation Department's concert on the common series.

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A donation of $600 from the Winchester Savings Bank to the Recreation Department gift fund for supplies at Packrell's Ten Scorts or any other purpose.

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A donation of $600 from Melinda, Google Yeta on behalf of Beesfolk Woodwright's LLC, the purposes of supplies at Packrell's Ten Scorts,

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used any of the purpose from the recreation gift account. We'll be

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accepting all those donations as red.

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Well, call that Michelle. Yes.

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Hi.

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Can I go in?

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I just need to make one correction on that.

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The donation from be spoke with rights with actually $600, not $60.

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amended to, let's see, $600,

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okay? On behalf of Beespoke Woodrise LLC. Thank you.

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Do we need to reveal that, Antia?

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I don't know, but we can. So I'm on the second second.

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Second. Okay. Michelle? Yes.

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like. Yes. Bill. All right. Thank you. Patty. We have some time for public comment.

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If there's anyone on, if we'd like to make public comment, please go ahead and raise

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our hand and Patty can elevate you.

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There is none. Let's give it generous pause. So we can move

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to the time manager's report, and so we'll turn it over to Chris for that.

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I actually have three appointments tonight, two are new.

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Higher spelling baking positions, and one is a promotion.

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Linda Fradis is coming on board as our new HR benefits coordinator.

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And Michael Mac and his joining us at school to study, and they're both

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spelling positions that we're vacant and budgeted.

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And Richard Longo is going to be a promoted to a supervisory

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the government, he's been with the public arms for 19 years, that's the promotion of

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explainability.

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See, it was created by recent retirement.

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And I've asked the board to weigh the 15 day waiting period on all three of those.

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Move that we wave the 15 day appointment period for town manager appointments of

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catch them again.

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Yeah, I'm going to spell them out of four of them in the

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greatest Michael Mac and then.

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you for 15 a.m. for Richard Longo, Michael Maclin and Linda

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Welcome about Michelle.

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I have some breaking news tonight on the Saturday on there was a

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of being break and winch us to place the ceiling. That's the street that's right. I'll

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use your bank and the police department. The public works has been at that all afternoon.

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It's a 1915 cast I may in right now on the implicit fire department, so without water,

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it's your bank. There's set of homes in the back there and then eight winch us to place, which is

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the building kind of be back there. So the public works will be working probably to the

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on this one because they have to process fairly extensive piece of pipe at least when I saw

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Bob and his team was seen about an hour and a half ago they weren't. So investigating the

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entire length of pipe that had to be placed as a crack in the pipe that had to be a pressure change that

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happened. I don't expected pressure change there so but it's been walled off so it's only

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affecting that area. So because I'll be the working on that I can hopefully have one of that

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and then things, the Crest Street Bridge continue, the work continues there, it's on target.

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So hopefully that will continue and be done, fingers crossed maybe early, but we do expect

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that it wants the traffic patterns change in the fall that we'll have to bump up the police details.

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It's a traditional strapping that's me down the roads to a crazy moment of love.

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Public comment bid.

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acquired those should be installed, hopefully in the next week or so, which will help guide people through

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the proper way.

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And I mean, the Marko Covert project is ongoing. It has to be in the sixth

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at staying on target. They've had to do a couple of Saturday, early or hours. And the student

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in the second conference, supposed to be happening this week. And that's been dry so they should be

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okay. And that will keep them going so that they're on a target for when they have to

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the major work which we'll take place until later in the year.

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That's where I want to end just quickly.

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So my office and I know it's August and I hate to say the full time it is coming.

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The full time it is coming.

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Perhaps I already done Saturday.

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I notice that I'm not going to tend to be asked.

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All departments, all committees.

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If they have something going more, I would like to have about August 28.

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Just so we stay ahead of the game.

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the actual deadline is not till September, but we want to stay a little bit ahead of that.

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We've already gotten a number of things back, which is great.

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So I'll be playing that together and sharing a preliminary draft probably on September 14th.

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But we're working internally just to make sure we have everything together.

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There's always possible.

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And there is a potential, well, it's going to be a tree area where scheduling for the 24th, which is next to meeting scheduled

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before a tree at 6, 12, 18, that's right by the tight-chain restaurant. So it was posted,

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D.B.W.A. here I knew it was opposition to that here at that module. So, and now the

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falsehoods like we're gathering information as all in packaging information together. And

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that made me with a display access condition because we're the primary issues here is access

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to any disabled parking space in maneuvering around that tree. So, they're getting

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to us as well, perhaps that's a test of them for the 24th meeting.

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Thank you, sir.

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I mean, shall I see a couple of questions for Chris?

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Thank you.

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So, Chris, on the, I'll go on a reverse order for the town meeting,

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notice of intent is that it's not binding.

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I imagine the warrant closes when it closes is just a volume type.

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Trying to get a level of effort estimate.

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terms early and to think about it. So we're getting stuff at the last minute. And again,

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this routine articles that I was on the warrant, like, spaces on the first paper

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were small, which is great. And like, don't worry those days all in the poll that weren't

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anybody, all the question are in a capital articles that are not there. This is more for,

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just, it's not that it's just things that are unusual or not regular and I want to get as much

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or the access to those as possible.

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So if you have a pretty good feedback slide.

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OK, OK, and next question is related to the Morocco culvert.

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So it sounds like things are on schedule.

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Any concerns on cost at this point are we sort of within budget?

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since I'm budget at the moment, I mean, the project would

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go up because of the delays of the changes of the T-force

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on the project, but everything so far,

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is to be working with him but it's still okay. And then the other part to that is the sort of,

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you know, serious digging and transporting the dirt along the right of way through the soccer

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parking lot is that timed to only begin after all the work at the Cross Street Bridges completed

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because currently I think the T is using some of that space as their own laid-out space, which is the path

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we have to use to move the dirt off site. Yes, in fact. So we weren't scheduled to do that

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once in November. So the T, so as they stay on their schedule should be done weeks ahead of

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one need to get access to it. So there's a, there's a, there's a ton of one or issue,

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one of their radio and third issues for us to get in there and the government. So it's right now

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that the schedule should sink. That's one of the coordination issues we have with the T and the

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our project was not going to be impacted by the right now at the chewy thing.

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Thank you.

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Mike, any questions?

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And Bill, welcome back.

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Chris just went through his report.

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I know you miss that.

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So if you had any questions in reading it,

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feel free to jump in.

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Otherwise, one with a long end,

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we can capture that.

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No questions, let's move along.

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So, the next thing we have on the agenda is a presentation of a Wayfinding

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presentation from Taylor Hermann, who is our top planner,

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so if we have Taylor coming in,

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can bring him up and I don't know is there anyone else on who's presenting with him?

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Did he make a room?

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Taylor, I also made it so that you can share.

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All right, good evening, everyone.

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Thank you for your patience and me getting set up.

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I'm also sorry to take up so many pages in your packet.

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A lot of it is mostly just in informative.

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Attached were two presentations.

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The first being, the downtown, which is the way finding guide

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and the second being, the branding guide.

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The Miranda Guy was included as just as a informative reminder, that was done last year as a part of the economic development study.

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It hasn't been implemented in any way, and what hasn't really been discussed.

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But it's really just there as a reminder that that is there on a shelf somewhere if it's something that we want to proceed with.

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But the main purpose of the, of the presentation tonight is just bring you up to speed

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on the downtown Winchester, way of finding guide, which was conducted by the planning

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department, see I, all my good, good, cloud stuff, you can, so this was conducted by the Winchester

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planning department in the works with Dana Garmin from the Chamber of Commerce, and

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he'll do one from Winchester Arts. This was a...

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A grant funded project from the Mass Downtown Initiative. I'm not going to go through everything here. I'm going to just take a few minutes through time. You can ask in the questions if you have them.

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So the purpose of this was to really try to look at all the signs that we have, particularly downtown, but also around town, with a specific eye of supporting downtowns,

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interest, the Winchester downtown's unique identity, provide consistent municipal signage

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to the public realm, contribute to the historic style of downtown and identify municipal

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buildings and amenities. There are many other goals and purposes here, but the primary,

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those were the primary goals of this project. As you can see, some of the existing conditions

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you maybe familiar with with the signs, the one outside Winchester town hall today is faded,

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that day, that one time used to be read, I believe. It's kind of now a pinkish perp, a pinkish

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perpillish. The welcome to Winchester sign is in the rotary. We actually question a lot of people

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on this. A lot of people didn't even know that was there. And we don't know if those phone numbers

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are even active.

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So just kind of an interesting thing

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of some of the signage in town, now.

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Hilda and Winchester Arts has been doing

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a lot of work, creating an artistic walkway downtown

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and the signs are supposed to kind of keep in line with that.

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There are also future opportunities

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for adding more signs, but really for tonight,

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let's focus on the main signs, the existing ones,

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and what it means for a potential replacement.

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We did look at other examples,

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other more modern examples, historic examples,

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but really with the work from the Winchester,

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from the Design Review Committee, Chamber of Commerce,

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Historical Commission, Winchester Planning Board,

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and Arts Winchester.

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These are the signs that we landed on.

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There were two separate options.

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Blue was the primary color and many different signs type from directional parking, kiosk,

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notification of buildings, and welcome to downtown.

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There were a bunch of different sign types that were included.

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Here is the final design suite.

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It's it's it's it's in your packet. This was really the overwhelming choice. There were some suggestions by by by by some by some people, but this was really the the overwhelming choice by most people in the community.

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We have proposed additional signage, but really the focus is just the the the existing signage.

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These next slides go to each sign one by one, but really I want to skip through this and really tell you what the goal of this is.

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We're not requesting any action from you. We're not asking for anything. We're not even asking for any money.

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What we're telling you is what we have here is a plan for when signs need to be replaced.

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For example, the sign in front of GIN field, I believe, is still been knocked down and not replaced.

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We have a plan that we can use to replace the signs if, if we needed.

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The main reason I added the brand guideline is because some of this was done with the new branding.

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But that's interchangeable.

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We can use the existing branding, the existing seal, there's no reason not to.

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I will just go down to the bottom here, one of the last page.

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If we were to redo all of the signs as put into this plan, at one time, the cost would

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be $116,000.

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Again, not really proposing that we do that, or that that happens, we will continue to seek

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grant opportunities for this, for installing them, maybe that will be easier for one off.

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But the goal here was really to create cohesion with future signage, improve them, make

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them accessible, and kind of match the character of downtown. So that is what we attempted to do

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with with this plan. And if anything, it was a good study to get people together and start thinking

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about design and way of finding downtown.

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I quite enjoyed this one.

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So whenever we got out of it, I at least had fun.

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So open up to any questions we have.

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Mike, I just want to say thank you Taylor.

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This is excellent.

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I know that there's been a lot of hard work here.

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And I think that the final design is great.

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And I think that the existing ones have been there probably

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for 10 years or so, and we last did this, and so, yeah, they are in pretty rough shape,

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particularly the town hall one, which looks, I don't know if it's just paint peeling,

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or it was like, they analyze or something, so it looks great. I mean, certainly if there's anything

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that you, from us, I think, that it's important that we get this done as soon as possible.

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The question I had was around lighting of the signs, do we need to upgrade any electrical or lighting

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fruit leaves as well. When we did our search around, we didn't find that many

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science that had lighting. There were a few, and I don't know, call exactly

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which ones they were, but they weren't that many. Because the town hall one, if

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it doesn't have the lead, the town that does it, does it? I think the library

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had no idea. I think the library one does. Okay.

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But it's a good question. That

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would add costs that we did not think of.

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Yeah, I think it would be only worth it to address that now.

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Thank you very much.

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Yeah, hey Taylor.

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So the mix of signs that you have kind of the prices for

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and town hall, obviously is a candidate.

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Do you have a sense of how many of those need to be replaced soon?

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I understand it sort of as they fall down, knock down, get vandalized.

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But do you have any that you think need to be replaced in that sort of $3,000 sign, $6,000 or $1,000?

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You have the count. But what would you think is kind of like the rate at which you need to identify

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funding? Is it to re-replace in a year? Because you may not want to place them all. Because you might want

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to people get used to the new font and things. But do you have a sense of what that is?

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Yeah. So right now we did look at, we did do an audit of all of them. None of them need to be replaced

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are right now. They're all structurally sound if they're not going to fall down on anyone.

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I actually don't quote me on that. We don't believe that there's any issue. Again, field is

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the only one that should be replaced now. However, the ones like the ones at the library,

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the ones at Town Hall, the ones in front of the public safety building, those three are kind of

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the most central and most important ones in the study. So we may elect to replace those more.

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Those are the... these...

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One's down here, these larger ones.

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And those would be kind of if we want to get the most out

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of this right now, we replace those. And then I really do believe that there are grant opportunities

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if we want to say let's do all the parking signs this year. And then we'll focus on the downtown

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way of finding signs next year. I think that that would probably be a reasonable approach from a financial

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situation.

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Thanks, Taylor. We're all set, Michelle. Yeah, that's helpful. Thanks, Taylor.

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You know, I know that there are a lot of state grants for these kinds of things,

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but it can take a little while. I don't know if it helps if we match it or contribute towards

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All of these signs to get it done, like from our hospital gift account or from, you know, one of the select board accounts where we have funds.

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I don't know that we've got all of it in there, but certainly, I think some of the state grants like to see that the

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the municipality is contributing as well.

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That's good enough.

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Thank you Taylor. I had a quick question just about, but then make up on the size that my talk about lighting got me thinking are they reflective or they kind of like our street signs where if you drive past them.

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That will eliminate where are they.

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I'm just thinking they're pretty dark so like would you be able to see them?

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we don't have backlighting on them. So there's no backlighting involved. So any lighting would have to be

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just have to be illuminated from the front or above. One thing that we did have to consider when

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we're getting the quote is that they did have to be compliant with roadway signage because they're

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going to be on the roads or you know if it's going to be on the road or if it's going to be on

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quote roadway or I don't want to make sure people see it and don't run into it. So so they were at least

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to the reflective nature of that, but any additional lighting would have to come from a different source.

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Yeah, no, that was just my question about the reflective, it'd kind of be like a street sign

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where you would see that parking sign if you're coming in in the evening. Yeah, the lettering show is

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as white, but it's kind of more silvery, not like silvery, silver, silver, but kind of that

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reflective silvery.

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Thank you.

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Bill, any questions from you?

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You're the.

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No questions.

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The packet was very thorough.

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Thank you, Taylor.

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Thank you, Bill.

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So sounds like Taylor there is just a request or an interest in knowing if there's pursuing

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grant money,

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any collaboration there, and then as well as timing. If I can feel

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sign, it's going to be replaced for things like that to be aware of that, but

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appreciate through the detail information that you shared on the way of finding

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as well as the branding information, and we'll look forward to kind of seeing

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where this is next.

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Great. Thank you very much. I appreciate the time.

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Thank you.

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You too.

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All right.

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So next up we have a number of committee and commission appointments.

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They see and just looking to see.

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I see a handful in.

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In the room here, I think we're waiting for one more. So I know we start with.

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We'll just go in order. We'll start with the cable advisory reappointment.

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We have one in comment seeking reappointment on the cable advisory committee.

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I move that we appoint incumbent for easy for a term expiring June 30th, 29th, the cable advisory committee.

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So I can. Any discussion?

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We'll call about Mike.

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Yeah. Michelle? Yes.

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So. Ice.

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I don't know. So it's all.

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Next we have three.

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Three positions on the cultural council.

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And these are all incumbent seeking re-appointment for.

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for your turn. I move that we end point incumbents, Cerecola, Patricia Gannon, and

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Janette Kojay for terms expiring July 31st, 29th to the cultural council.

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Second.

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Okay. Roll called out Mike? Yes. Michelle? Yes. Bill? Aye. I will.

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This is

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a patty, have we heard from Akshaya Live?

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Yes, she said she was coming, but I don't fear here.

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See, okay, so we'll hold on that next cultural council.

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A appointment, and we'll go to long range financial planning.

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So we have Jean-Baptiste de la Barth,

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who's a private position on the long range financial planning committee.

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Yeah, let me move on.

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We'll do it up to now.

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We're in our good evening, welcome.

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So if we want to have you first, thank you for applying

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to the Long Range Financial Planning Committee.

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We'd love to have you give an overview of your background

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and your interest in the position.

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And if you could just start off also with just your name

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and your address where our work is.

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help. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm Jean Baptiste de la Barte. I live on 22 years

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straight in Winchester. The reasons why I applied, so I've been a resident of Winchester for

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five years. I'm a homeowner here. I have pockets in the public school systems. Two, I know

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record inventory school, one in Macau, one in high school. So I have a vested interest in knowing

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what's happening in Winchester and making sure the tax, failure, money, and

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I would add to that that I've been looking for a while to give back to the community and I've had a little bit with me.

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I call with different places, but this one felt, especially complaining to me because I built long-range planning for living and I've been working in finance for almost 20 years now.

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When people asked me, in my company to describe myself, I tell them I'm Mr. L.A.P. and that's pretty much what I do. I was here, I've been doing for now almost five years and I was doing the following other places.

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So, I want to keep it short because I'm sure you have questions and I don't know how long we have, but in a nutshell, that's the reason why we're looking to it.

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Thank you.

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Why don't we take questions?

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I just just thought you're on my screen.

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Mike, Michelle, and then Bill.

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I can go last.

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Thanks, Cynthia.

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And thank you.

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Michelle, I'm about to use for applying for this position.

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As you know, we're just starting to put together this committee.

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and it is what it says it is, it's really a long range outlook, and it certainly sounds like you're here qualified.

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My only question really is, do you think you would have any sort of professional conflicts with making recommendations to the town or involved in municipal borrowing recommendations or anything like that?

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Thank you. That's a fair question. No, I don't think so. We are actually working completely different ventures.

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We don't extend any loan. If anything, we work with banks to get loans.

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I'm not in the team that signs the venture debt anyways after we take.

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So I wouldn't have, even if I wanted to, I couldn't negotiate that. I get a benefit for Winchester,

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something attractive of myself. So that's not the case. I'm trying to think it's a really good question

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as to where they could be conflict of interest.

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Naturally, to be honest, I do have several colleagues

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who live in Winchester and they don't know. I don't tell them that we're talking tonight. In that sense,

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maybe that's another word where they could push an agenda. That's the only reason they do really.

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Okay, great. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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I think I go next. So my question would be, within your work at flagship or in your career, have you done a, you know, do you have experience in clients with municipalities, you know, cities, towns in Massachusetts or beyond where you're advising, managing debt packaging up bonds or sales and just curious to anything that's specific to what we, one of the things we do here.

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No, absolutely. Thank you for the question. I do not. And I tried to put it in the application as clearly as possible.

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I do not have experience in municipality finances. What I would say for my defense, you know, is a, I think the structure of the committee itself kind of bridges the gap because there are seven members in the committee and many of them who is this experience.

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The second thing I would put forth is throughout my career, and if you look at my resume, I'm happy to go through the background, but I don't want to bore you, please.

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I love that, but I studied my career in India, then I moved to China, I worked in France for a few years, where I studied and went from.

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I've been in the US now for more than 10 years, I became a US citizen for two years, and I worked in different industries.

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So the idea of getting into something new and learning, and I hope learning quickly is something I've done several times successful in the past, but this is a new territory for me

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I've done a lot of research in the last few days after our application to get to understand better how it works for Winchester

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I'm trying to understand the magnitude of revenues and span and what's up. Thank you, especially since you were right

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votes earlier this year, but it is something that we need to learn from you guys and from other sources

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Thank you.

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Do you have any questions?

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Nope.

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Very strong.

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Mr.

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That piece.

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Thank you very much for applying.

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I look forward to working with you.

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Thank you.

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I just have been one question.

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As you think about sort of this committee and your background.

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Is there an area where you think that you might really like?

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either want to get to know better and sort of dig in and become very familiar with or is there an area where you'd be really comfortable taking something on and running with it.

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So it might be content related, it might be more operational, but just curious what that would be.

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Thank you.

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What I think I bring to that committee, if you decide that I can volunteer and I can help you, is more operational as to how we build the model and how we look at different time horizons, one years, three, as well.

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10 years. The key is really to what I'm aspiring to do at work and I would be

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transposing to Winchester is how do we bring facts? If I look back at the overall

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company for instance, as a citizen who hasn't, I didn't work here, it was difficult to get

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to let us start facts. How much are we talking about? Does it involve with probably three

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two kids in Morocco does it include the renovation of Morocco, does it not like I

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found it? I can't say frustrating is too strong but difficult and challenging to get

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answers to those questions. And even after the vote I could see talking to friends and

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neighbors and the community that many people were still confused at other votes. So what

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did we really vote for and what does it mean for the city? So that's what I would bring. It's

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really, I'm a strong believer that that are wins arguments. And in a community that

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register where people are so proud of getting here and I was told before moving here from

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metaphor to be the full black hole when people come to interest as anybody which is a good thing

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it means people are happy here but we should be able to agree on at least the facts we're discussing

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and that's really what I want to bring as much as possible. It's a transparency. I don't think I would make

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recommendations, at least initially I'm here to learn, I'm here to listen, I'm here to, I need to

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very understand, but to the extent that this committee and the

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friends committee will decide to bring things to the public attention how can we bring

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things in a way that are not debutable when it just like amongst the last

441
00:36:36,190 --> 00:36:43,520
decisions. That's really what I'm working to bring. Thank you. All right. Any further questions

442
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:44,260
from the board?

443
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:55,280
Any questions that you have for us? I've just started asking. Yeah, but keep it

444
00:36:56,940 --> 00:37:02,720
One is, how do you see, so I understand budget 237 has studied and has been related.

445
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:09,760
What kind of, like, how do you see the deliverables short-term in the current fiscal year,

446
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,280
and preparing for the next fiscal exercise?

447
00:37:14,260 --> 00:37:23,740
Michelle, do you want to take out or Chris, are there any very specific pieces that are already in process with the insurance budget?

448
00:37:24,260 --> 00:37:29,980
Yep, so I can talk and then Chris you should chime in so in terms of you know key kind of key work

449
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,460
Where Chris is going through, well, we're looking at all of our capital costs as part of our general capital cycle.

450
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:47,680
We are, um, so life-forward is looking at some long-term health insurance costs and, and, and, and Chris is pursuing some areas to potentially bend that cost curve.

451
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:58,240
There's mother initiatives around revenue. So, where we are right now, um, we don't, we'll have to have the comptroller come in soon, but we haven't closed out the fiscal year June 30.

452
00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:00,400
there's still some text recap and other work.

453
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:04,420
So see where we ended that year, relative to investments,

454
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,420
excess revenue, costs, et cetera.

455
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,020
That will be the foundation of where the manager

456
00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:11,220
will start to build from.

457
00:38:11,620 --> 00:38:13,140
So we know what we can level in the property text,

458
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,620
bill, but is there any sort of patterns on revenue

459
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:17,560
that looks to be favorable and everything

460
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,600
that are just really volatile?

461
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,760
So that work is happening.

462
00:38:22,180 --> 00:38:24,940
And we're some of the folks who are on this committee

463
00:38:24,940 --> 00:38:27,400
that one of the couple of the at-large members

464
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:32,460
who made, like, on the model, we all had a walkthrough of the model on July 29 with Paris.

465
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,680
So the kind of financial model, the manager has his own budget. And certainly, I think it's

466
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,260
the goal is to have this long-term plan be something that the manager's office might own long-term,

467
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,400
but Chris, please chime in with, you know, that kind of the current work that's happening and looking

468
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:52,220
at assumptions for next year. Those are just the highlights that come to mind for me, but please

469
00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:58,520
had to do it if you could. So we're always kind of looking at the year we just finished the

470
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,580
year in and we were going. So you know, when are we finished, where were the signs, where are we

471
00:39:03,580 --> 00:39:09,240
today and where it was, they always looked down on a little bit. It's always hard to project to for

472
00:39:09,940 --> 00:39:15,440
hand. We were kind of a lag, local government's kind of a lag in terms of revenue and even

473
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,100
that, you know, we would get hit with costs like people,

474
00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:21,240
but even when the pandemic came,

475
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:22,160
we kind of, you know,

476
00:39:22,420 --> 00:39:24,520
revenue slowed and then came back,

477
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:27,420
bumping later, and as Michelle Quinn,

478
00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:29,180
and you're always, our progress over

479
00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:31,580
being as cost to our healthcare is part of that.

480
00:39:31,580 --> 00:39:32,900
It's all like, you know, we do everything

481
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,700
we can at the local level, it's hard,

482
00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:36,480
that's really something that has to be bent,

483
00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:38,780
I think at the higher level, what we talk,

484
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,420
I was literally exchanging emails with harm,

485
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,200
our representative of that Medicare,

486
00:39:43,620 --> 00:39:44,900
45 minutes before the meeting.

487
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:48,060
So it's something we're always looking at.

488
00:39:48,140 --> 00:39:51,300
We're looking at ways to find non-tax revenues,

489
00:39:51,620 --> 00:39:55,080
non-public companies, whether it's fees or other things

490
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,280
that we can generate.

491
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,280
We're watching what we can do with the state.

492
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:01,640
Can we leverage grants or other opportunities?

493
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,320
Can we share services or things across the borders?

494
00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:08,620
And we're also looking at cost pressures.

495
00:40:09,980 --> 00:40:11,680
What is the time to mandate?

496
00:40:12,260 --> 00:40:14,120
Are there more, there's our population growing

497
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,940
in a particular area or another area,

498
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,680
or is there any increase in service costs?

499
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:22,380
And one of the things we always look at too

500
00:40:22,380 --> 00:40:24,820
is how could there be other ways we could provide services

501
00:40:24,820 --> 00:40:30,660
differently and more creatively or if you have a CDL license

502
00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:33,440
these days, you can, you were at a mid,

503
00:40:33,740 --> 00:40:36,400
I was just talking to Bob about his Bob,

504
00:40:36,580 --> 00:40:38,280
we'll bus here, pull the rest after this morning

505
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,180
about his inability to find people who can clap,

506
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,260
streets, so things like that,

507
00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:45,200
And, you know, we have the pilot, right?

508
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,040
So, you know, Lexington tripled everyone's price

509
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,420
on a certain element of that.

510
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,680
So they can get what they needed and no one could match that.

511
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,660
And so, you look at those things.

512
00:40:55,860 --> 00:40:57,140
You know, like, well, we have to class snowy.

513
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:57,660
We have to clear snow.

514
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:03,540
So, I think we also have to, you know, be creative about living

515
00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:06,080
with our means of finding ways to be creative amongst the departments.

516
00:41:07,140 --> 00:41:08,380
Government doesn't need to be silent.

517
00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:10,780
I know the schools have their elements that are close schools.

518
00:41:10,780 --> 00:41:15,720
on this misunderstanding, but I think it's weird that we have to do more creative stuff

519
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:21,480
behind the scenes. I think we're trying to have those conversations. And again, it's

520
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,820
important fundamentally what people expect is residents and what they're willing to pay for,

521
00:41:27,140 --> 00:41:31,120
because that's fundamentally what drives this right. We need to present a bunch of this bounced,

522
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,240
and that's going to be the conversation this fall. We have to just agree on whether you

523
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:39,900
numbers are going to come in and we're going to bunch it around or work towards that.

524
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:46,240
And I specialise there were waiting for the 26 numbers to close. My fingers are crossed that

525
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:51,080
they'll be positive. You know, Stacy still doing a lot of work on the ticking time and

526
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:58,320
will the numbers. And we've entered this year, you know, okay. But you know, with with a,

527
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:03,560
I'll pull out a whole little plundin. We want to keep doing that. We've managed to do that. So

528
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:10,200
There's a whole lot of things we're moving on at the same time, but again, I did the input from

529
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,840
folks like you were going to group, and I know there's on this community going to be critical in

530
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,200
setting the communities, expectations,

531
00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:19,920
and in our goals.

532
00:42:23,530 --> 00:42:28,950
Thank you for sharing that. By when do you expect to have all the free advent 26 figures ready?

533
00:42:29,930 --> 00:42:33,670
I think, I think later in the months, they should be for the end of August,

534
00:42:33,670 --> 00:42:38,070
If for the very beginning of September, I think it's a historically, when they come now, I don't,

535
00:42:39,290 --> 00:42:43,650
I know I just don't need not to keep checking, I ask them to check one final thing I'm about to hear.

536
00:42:44,950 --> 00:42:46,570
So, I think it's pretty close.

537
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,660
So, what do you mean, this committee can go get to work pretty quickly?

538
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,600
Well, that's good to hear.

539
00:42:57,940 --> 00:42:58,560
Good to hear.

540
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:00,820
Well, thank you for that.

541
00:43:00,820 --> 00:43:11,080
And you mentioned the models that already exists, that very tough, so of course the idea is not that they bring something from the outside and then we have competing models, anything like that, but I'd be very careful about it.

542
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:19,020
What exists, it exists for a reason, we start from there and then we can build on or corrective your degree to explain how to modify it.

543
00:43:19,020 --> 00:43:25,380
I'd be I commit that if you choose me I'd be very respectful of what exists because again

544
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:29,220
right before and well intending people have thought it together for reasons.

545
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,360
I will have questions and certainly

546
00:43:33,380 --> 00:43:39,020
propositions to address the modified but the idea that you own the model and one more thing

547
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:41,220
you own the assumptions and lines is one of.

548
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:42,960
We work on them together.

549
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:48,760
to be just quite a bit of work in that mono with the state of the town over the past.

550
00:43:50,620 --> 00:43:58,000
All of the last of them are longer than that, but it's pretty well built down.

551
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:00,140
All right.

552
00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:03,000
Thank you.

553
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,520
So the board of summer would like to make a motion.

554
00:44:08,140 --> 00:44:10,080
So, Anthony, I think before we get that, there's-

555
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,480
I wanted to make a board aware that there's so Jean Baptiste, thank you for your application.

556
00:44:14,780 --> 00:44:18,300
There's three other residents who have expressed interest in this committee.

557
00:44:18,820 --> 00:44:20,560
Two of whom have applied via email.

558
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,860
I think the actual application didn't get to the packet in time.

559
00:44:24,460 --> 00:44:31,520
So I'd like to work with Patty to try to get those folks on our next agenda and then take a vote

560
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,020
in two weeks to fill that last seat.

561
00:44:37,670 --> 00:44:53,230
Yeah, so I know that there was one additional application, I was not aware of the other two, but there's one that Patty shared from Pengpeng,

562
00:44:53,230 --> 00:44:59,150
child that came in on Thursday, Pulse, Posing, Garra came in on July 31st, and then Leo Donu

563
00:44:59,150 --> 00:44:59,910
and I work community.

564
00:45:02,340 --> 00:45:12,760
I was out of town until Sunday for Sunday or today. So I wasn't aware that this was going to be on today's agenda. So I was trying to meet with that third candidate to at least discuss interest.

565
00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:18,760
Not that you knew that because I didn't realize that this was going to be on tonight's agenda either.

566
00:45:19,540 --> 00:45:24,480
And just how do you when we posted this, do we have a close date on that posting?

567
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:31,840
Yes, but they're all the interest had come through before the posting and

568
00:45:34,140 --> 00:45:54,200
one job, Paul had not, he submitted information but he had not submitted his application and so we went into last week so everything just happened after the packet deadlines, because the packet deadline is now Tuesday at 12.

569
00:45:56,780 --> 00:46:11,760
Okay, so is it correct that we have additional applications that came in before the posting was closed, but the materials were not correct for you.

570
00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:12,340
Okay.

571
00:46:15,740 --> 00:46:31,940
Yeah, I think in that case we should consider the applications that we had in before the deadline and happy to interview those other candidates on the on our next meeting.

572
00:46:34,670 --> 00:46:40,470
Thanks for that. I was not aware that there were multiple others that had come through, but I

573
00:46:42,170 --> 00:46:43,830
And that would be fine then if

574
00:46:45,750 --> 00:46:48,470
Everyone is comfortable doing that

575
00:46:53,140 --> 00:46:56,140
That sounds good to me. That's been our practice. I think in the past when

576
00:46:57,260 --> 00:47:02,640
And I actually I didn't even know that Tuesday was a deadline. I thought it was Thursday for the packet. So

577
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,380
That's good that's good to know, but yeah

578
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:08,000
to change Mike and that's why I'm saying it out loud.

579
00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:10,760
Oh, okay, oh no, it's good to know,

580
00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:13,880
for when we send people and tell them,

581
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,100
hey, you've got until Thursday, at least, yeah.

582
00:47:16,740 --> 00:47:20,400
But I think that the committee itself is slowly

583
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,640
moving towards getting off the ground,

584
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,660
so I don't think it'll make a difference

585
00:47:24,660 --> 00:47:26,540
if we wait till the next meeting either.

586
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:28,180
So.

587
00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:29,700
Okay, so let's do that.

588
00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:32,800
So I'm going to give a piece of apologies

589
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:41,340
that we're kind of process got us on this one. So we will meet again on the 24th

590
00:47:41,340 --> 00:47:48,960
we will be in person. You are welcome to attend that meeting or watch it on

591
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:54,880
webcam. But we won't need to interview it. You again because we met with you

592
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:55,420
today,

593
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,860
and so that's a good deal.

594
00:48:00,540 --> 00:48:02,520
It's positive to hear that there is

595
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:03,560
interest for the positions.

596
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:06,860
I see on the website, it's mentioning two or three

597
00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:09,880
individuals attending the model, so if I'm one of them

598
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,200
perfect, I'm sure you make the best decision for Winchester.

599
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:18,580
I will not be in town on the 21st, but I can't

600
00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:19,140
try to remove it.

601
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,900
Well, thank you. Thank you for your time.

602
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:30,900
Thank you for applying and we will move back around to you for meeting in two weeks.

603
00:48:32,340 --> 00:48:33,020
Thank you.

604
00:48:33,020 --> 00:48:33,680
Thank you.

605
00:48:33,740 --> 00:48:35,200
Nice to meet you.

606
00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:44,080
Patty.

607
00:48:45,420 --> 00:48:46,260
Oh, yes.

608
00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:50,660
I think Patty will see Elevate you.

609
00:48:52,860 --> 00:49:00,040
And then Patty, can you elevate extra the lab for the cultural council position, please?

610
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,140
Are we pronouncing your name correctly?

611
00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:23,260
Yes, you pronounce the whole thing correctly.

612
00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:24,120
Oh, okay.

613
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,180
I have some practices holding a name in character.

614
00:49:29,620 --> 00:49:31,040
So, welcome.

615
00:49:32,180 --> 00:49:35,600
Thank you for applying to the cultural council position.

616
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,960
And thanks for joining our meeting.

617
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,540
For the interview, we have your application materials.

618
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,560
And we'd love to hear from you.

619
00:49:45,580 --> 00:49:46,740
I have a couple of questions.

620
00:49:46,740 --> 00:49:49,800
but if you could first just introduce yourself,

621
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:52,760
you're just starting your name and your address

622
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,400
and then tell us a bit about yourself

623
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,140
and why you're interested in a cultural council position.

624
00:49:58,140 --> 00:50:04,920
Sure, so I am Okshtad Aladwa and I am at 1171 Swanton Street

625
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,440
in Winchester and that is located in the community called the Village.

626
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,460
I don't know if anyone is familiar with that area.

627
00:50:14,660 --> 00:50:18,960
And I didn't necessarily know that I was interested in the cultural council.

628
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:26,080
I just found that the electrical boxes, I guess it's called, and the faculty were painted.

629
00:50:26,780 --> 00:50:34,080
And then I saw that on the streets, or on the sidewalks, there were, like, what looked like chalk art.

630
00:50:35,860 --> 00:50:45,700
And so like those two things just I was like really happy to see those and so I just started looking at what

631
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:54,680
like how do those things come to be in the town and that's when I saw that there was this cultural council.

632
00:50:55,900 --> 00:50:57,800
But I looked at some of the other events.

633
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:07,820
and things that the council puts it and I wanted to contribute to that and had ideas

634
00:51:07,820 --> 00:51:20,620
for expanding it and doing more and being able to kind of do more some crew specialty type things.

635
00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:27,880
as I thought there was a Afro Kera type event and I really thought that was interesting.

636
00:51:28,740 --> 00:51:32,800
I didn't get to attend that I was out of town, but that's something that I found really interesting.

637
00:51:33,580 --> 00:51:42,540
So I wanted to be part of the team that puts these things up and make sure that the community

638
00:51:42,540 --> 00:51:46,360
is coming out to these things that is getting value from that.

639
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:54,480
So, background on me, so I have no actual background in the arts or anything like that.

640
00:51:54,860 --> 00:52:02,360
I am a Product Manager in Tech by Profession, and I've been in that field for over a decade now.

641
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,020
And I just moved to Winchester in January,

642
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,620
and moved to Massachusetts just a couple years ago.

643
00:52:12,620 --> 00:52:16,900
I was, you know, had a state and grew up somewhere else for a long time.

644
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,020
So this is my first time in this area for some living in a town like this.

645
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,520
So I wanted to just join and be part of the community.

646
00:52:26,170 --> 00:52:26,890
Thank you.

647
00:52:27,530 --> 00:52:29,850
Glad to, uh, does you tell you about this culture?

648
00:52:31,260 --> 00:52:39,020
There's a very nice, nice future. So we'll start with questions. We'll go, Mike, Bill, Michelle.

649
00:52:40,420 --> 00:52:41,360
Questions for each other?

650
00:52:41,660 --> 00:52:51,080
Thank you, Cynthia, and thank you, Michelle. I really appreciate you moving to town and jumping right into helping out

651
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:56,940
the cultural council. The cultural council has been very, very active and getting a lot of things

652
00:52:56,940 --> 00:53:03,680
on over the past several years, so it will be nice to see you part of it, so thank you very

653
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:08,940
much for showing interest and happy to support you. I don't have any other questions.

654
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:09,880
Thank you.

655
00:53:17,340 --> 00:53:18,080
Will any questions?

656
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:19,400
No questions.

657
00:53:19,860 --> 00:53:20,880
Happy to support her.

658
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:22,500
Michelle?

659
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,880
I think the only question I had is have you had a chance to watch a meeting of the cultural

660
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,640
counselor or contact anybody on that committee?

661
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:31,880
No, I am not.

662
00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:35,080
That's not a problem.

663
00:53:35,540 --> 00:53:36,280
That's not a problem.

664
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,900
She actually begged a diversity.

665
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,900
It actually sent her application and trust to Peter Pulsifer.

666
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:44,920
Okay, also.

667
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,540
So he's aware and he actually has stopped by today to see if we had

668
00:53:49,540 --> 00:53:50,180
appointed hers.

669
00:53:50,500 --> 00:53:51,120
Oh, good.

670
00:53:51,460 --> 00:53:54,060
I will connect her with him.

671
00:53:54,060 --> 00:53:54,480
With him.

672
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:55,300
Okay, great.

673
00:53:55,300 --> 00:53:56,800
I appreciate it too.

674
00:53:57,240 --> 00:53:57,780
I appreciate it.

675
00:53:57,780 --> 00:53:58,800
Thank you.

676
00:53:58,900 --> 00:53:59,160
Yeah.

677
00:53:59,180 --> 00:54:00,200
I appreciate your interest.

678
00:54:00,700 --> 00:54:01,860
Thank you.

679
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:10,640
The only question I have for you is just if there's a particular interest that you

680
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:18,320
have that you could see, you know, sometimes with as a three-year appointment, so sometimes within your

681
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:30,500
I guess it's a one-year appointment, and then you put inside of them looking, but something you could envision that you might try to get off the ground while you're a member of a cultural household.

682
00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:42,140
Yeah, there's one kind of idea that I did have and I don't know how it fits into the context of, you know, the committee and you know what the boundaries are as there right now.

683
00:54:42,140 --> 00:55:09,320
But I come from Indian background and when I was growing up, I didn't have a lot of Indian or other Asian representation in the community that I was growing up despite there being plenty of Indian or other Asian people doing their own little celebrations for different times of the year.

684
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:17,040
I would like to see, and this would be something that I would be happy to take on, but I would

685
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:25,680
like to see something specific to that culture, be something that the town can also be a part

686
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,100
of in and learn.

687
00:55:31,110 --> 00:55:31,590
Thank you.

688
00:55:34,460 --> 00:55:38,340
Any questions that you have for us, but I don't know how many of

689
00:55:38,340 --> 00:55:39,220
we ourselves.

690
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:49,320
I don't. I think I should have done a little bit more research, but I think

691
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:53,080
I will probably have questions after understanding a little bit more on how things work

692
00:55:55,980 --> 00:56:08,000
and just kind of getting to know what's in the pipeline and what the process is to

693
00:56:10,050 --> 00:56:18,010
make a motion. Yeah, so I move that we appoint a new applicant,

694
00:56:18,290 --> 00:56:25,230
Exhada Ladoa for a term expire on July 31, 2027, to the vacant position on the cultural

695
00:56:25,230 --> 00:56:25,530
Councillor.

696
00:56:26,490 --> 00:56:27,110
Second.

697
00:56:28,790 --> 00:56:30,430
So, we'll call the Michelle.

698
00:56:31,350 --> 00:56:31,370
Yes.

699
00:56:32,510 --> 00:56:32,690
Yes.

700
00:56:35,250 --> 00:56:36,770
I will answer so.

701
00:56:37,250 --> 00:56:37,750
Thank you.

702
00:56:38,130 --> 00:56:38,750
Thank you.

703
00:56:39,330 --> 00:56:40,190
Thank you.

704
00:56:40,510 --> 00:56:41,470
Thank you.

705
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:43,260
All right.

706
00:56:43,620 --> 00:56:46,800
So, we will do a review of moving people around.

707
00:56:47,380 --> 00:56:54,320
So, how do you would you be able to then put extra to back the attendees and then bring

708
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,140
We'll do Julia Osborne and Steve Baker.

709
00:56:57,380 --> 00:56:59,120
We can bring them on at the same time.

710
00:57:08,790 --> 00:57:13,820
Two applicants for the permanent street tree committee.

711
00:57:16,290 --> 00:57:18,350
Steve, who is a new applicant,

712
00:57:18,950 --> 00:57:20,650
and then Julia Osborne,

713
00:57:21,390 --> 00:57:22,690
who is a comment,

714
00:57:22,850 --> 00:57:26,940
I believe she was appointed in January of this year.

715
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,800
So we'll start with Julia,

716
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:35,780
Yes, people join you move around in my screens here.

717
00:57:35,980 --> 00:57:37,180
They're talking about screen at the moment.

718
00:57:38,380 --> 00:57:44,500
We'll start with Julia if you want to give us a little bit about your background,

719
00:57:45,340 --> 00:57:49,680
your interest in continuing on the permanent street free committee

720
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,560
and then we just go ahead when you introduce yourself

721
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,980
with your name and your address.

722
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:56,040
Yes.

723
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:01,560
I'm Julia Osborn and I live at 39 Canone Road.

724
00:58:02,860 --> 00:58:18,440
My background is, I have a master's in plant ecology, but most of my life was spent in science, editing, developing science textbooks and periodicals and curricula of various sorts.

725
00:58:19,420 --> 00:58:23,480
I'm retired now, I've lived here 30 years.

726
00:58:24,660 --> 00:58:39,080
and I was delighted to be appointed to the committee because over the years I've seen the loss of canopy cover in the town and really want to be able to participate in changing that and turning it around.

727
00:58:40,080 --> 00:59:05,080
I was at I came on the committee in January I think and we developed as when I came on we developed a five year plan which included things such as doing a full tree inventory and analysis and management plan for where we go in the next few years which species of trees how we would address that.

728
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:11,920
And finally, with a planting plan, working with the town to ensure Jesus planted and maintained.

729
00:59:14,380 --> 00:59:22,080
We thought we could have budget to do some of that. Unfortunately, they over I didn't pass.

730
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:28,120
So there wasn't money to hire an arborist whom we would like to have worked with us.

731
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:32,240
We have applied for some grants to help us.

732
00:59:32,420 --> 00:59:44,460
We certainly applied for grant with the municipal vulnerability, preparedness group, working with the Mystic River watershed association.

733
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:57,280
To use some lovely equipment that would basically take an image of every tree on the street that would allow us to identify species size and it actually,

734
00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,900
It's a vehicle that drives up and down.

735
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:11,140
And we were going to be able to use that data to develop a plan. Unfortunately, we just learned we did not get the grant.

736
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:25,000
So we also wanted to make sure we were planning some trees. We've applied for a grant with the CPA to see if we could get some trees in some of the parks.

737
01:00:26,020 --> 01:00:38,380
And that's ongoing, but I would really like to see us be able to achieve a large net growth in the true canopy.

738
01:00:38,500 --> 01:00:40,500
We really have not been replacing traces.

739
01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:46,160
They're coming down in many of our streets have no street trees anymore.

740
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:53,660
We'd also like to, some of the other towns give out free trees for people to plant in their yards.

741
01:00:55,400 --> 01:01:00,000
We don't do that. I know the state in some states and I don't know if this is true here.

742
01:01:00,620 --> 01:01:05,660
This just came to my attention, but I know some of the states actually will give

743
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:10,900
Trace to towns to distribute to individual people that happens in their hamster.

744
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:19,660
So I think that would be a way without using funds if we could get Trace to actually give to individual people.

745
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:21,960
Thank you.

746
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,820
Any questions from the board?

747
01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:28,400
Actually, I have one.

748
01:01:29,780 --> 01:01:32,000
Thank you for coming in this evening, Ms. Osborn.

749
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,800
You talked about even on the committee's January,

750
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,160
so you've went through the budget cycle,

751
01:01:39,660 --> 01:01:41,100
obviously the arborist piece.

752
01:01:42,020 --> 01:01:45,700
I'm curious within your street tree.

753
01:01:46,380 --> 01:01:48,920
What you know about it and what you know about our current situation.

754
01:01:49,620 --> 01:01:51,600
If you think there's any particular

755
01:01:52,660 --> 01:01:56,800
areas of town that need this attention more or any sense within the

756
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,280
tree committee of where you'd prioritize like if we had suddenly five hundred

757
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:04,020
trees land you know a truck backed up and five hundred trees like we're in

758
01:02:04,020 --> 01:02:07,480
the jinks center parking lot. Do you have a point of view which is the committee

759
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:11,740
at the point of view about where that kind of reforestation of a start in town?

760
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:18,260
The come out state for myself because I think we're thinking we would have more

761
01:02:18,260 --> 01:02:24,080
data. I think we should start with the main large thoroughfares, which have broader

762
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:32,800
verges, where there's more room to plant large trees. And I think my vision is we'd

763
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:39,840
have like allies of uncertain blocks or certain areas for be similar, very similar size trees.

764
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:45,960
What we've been doing in the past, I'm not necessarily like one red maple and one red bud

765
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:51,860
that dies. I mean, we haven't been planning with a sort of a majestic view of what the

766
01:02:51,860 --> 01:02:56,860
main streets in the city could be like like highland Avenue. They're all I live on highland

767
01:02:56,860 --> 01:03:02,680
Avenue. So that is a biased statement. I do know the data show that the eastern part of the town

768
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:08,980
is less treat, has a less canopy now than the western part just because the development and the

769
01:03:08,980 --> 01:03:15,300
things have been planted, but a lot of our sidewalks don't have trees. So, does that answer?

770
01:03:15,460 --> 01:03:20,740
I mean, maybe Washington, don't be silent. No, just I appreciate the point of view. Thank you.

771
01:03:24,050 --> 01:03:28,050
Well, I find myself very lucky to have six trees on my very short-street,

772
01:03:28,590 --> 01:03:34,550
because I hear me speak. I planted one. It turns out you're not supposed to. It's doing

773
01:03:34,550 --> 01:03:36,910
I don't like to like over none.

774
01:03:38,990 --> 01:03:39,910
I'm trying to get the post.

775
01:03:40,450 --> 01:03:42,030
This was before I could make a minute.

776
01:03:44,610 --> 01:03:46,070
I'm like our bell any questions?

777
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:49,800
No.

778
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:50,480
I'm all set.

779
01:03:50,780 --> 01:03:55,740
Thank you Julia for again applying to shit.

780
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:56,240
Yeah.

781
01:03:56,580 --> 01:03:57,080
Thank you Julia.

782
01:03:57,380 --> 01:04:04,640
I remember our interview from Virginia, and I said I don't have any additional questions,

783
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:05,040
thank you.

784
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:08,660
your background of your time on your committee is very helpful.

785
01:04:08,900 --> 01:04:14,580
Okay, thank you. It's been an honor to serve however, I'm productive so far.

786
01:04:16,300 --> 01:04:17,260
Changed each time.

787
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,280
Ari, I think you're Julia and then see you all turn it to you.

788
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:30,160
So, introduce yourself your name, your address, a little bit about your background and why you're

789
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:34,100
interested in serving on the Permanent Street Street community. Sure, thanks a lot.

790
01:04:34,100 --> 01:04:41,180
good evening. Steve Baker, 10 Wildwood Street, an 11-year resident of the town, a geographer

791
01:04:41,180 --> 01:04:46,940
by training bachelor's and master, so I have some applicable, you know, coursework studies

792
01:04:46,940 --> 01:04:52,200
related to this topic. My professional background is commercial real estate and I suspect that

793
01:04:53,140 --> 01:04:57,440
there could be some applicability there as well, so over two decades in the commercial real estate

794
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:01,760
world, I'm currently staying in play with the Executive Office of Economic Development

795
01:05:02,820 --> 01:05:08,320
and I'm a passionate outdoorsman from my Eagle Scout days through current leadership with

796
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:13,780
that place in Mountain Club and a number of capacities. Why I'm interested is a care

797
01:05:13,780 --> 01:05:18,800
about our community and I think this is a way where I can have a unique skill set as a background

798
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:25,220
as I just described and I think that can add value to the committee. I will say that I was

799
01:05:25,220 --> 01:05:29,760
previously serving just for your awareness on the cable advisory committee. I did have to

800
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:38,380
Remove myself from that role just to professional conflicts in my new state and my state capacity from a couple of years back.

801
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:44,400
So eager to step back into serving the town in a capacity where I can evaluate.

802
01:05:46,580 --> 01:05:46,900
Thank you.

803
01:05:47,940 --> 01:05:49,120
Questions from the board?

804
01:05:52,950 --> 01:05:54,650
So I'll ask what I asked.

805
01:05:55,470 --> 01:06:01,830
Our cultural council applicant. If you had a chance to attend any tree committees or meet with a chair or meet with members.

806
01:06:02,570 --> 01:06:07,270
I'm just to get a sense of how, you know, how they roll and what they're focused on.

807
01:06:08,190 --> 01:06:12,450
I have not attended a formal meeting. Michelle, I do know a couple of the folks on the

808
01:06:12,450 --> 01:06:18,810
committee. I did have a chance to talk to one of those folks, Tom Moore. He and I run

809
01:06:18,810 --> 01:06:22,130
together and I did have a chance to catch up with him about going on with the committee

810
01:06:22,130 --> 01:06:25,590
and his perspectives. So that was helpful. Okay.

811
01:06:32,710 --> 01:06:33,630
Make a bell any questions?

812
01:06:35,290 --> 01:06:40,230
No, I'm good. Thank you very much for applying safe. Appreciate it. Thank you.

813
01:06:40,890 --> 01:06:42,050
Any questions here?

814
01:06:43,370 --> 01:06:52,270
So, Sioux, is there anything that you can think of as a new applicant that would

815
01:06:52,270 --> 01:06:55,230
be something that you would bring to the Permanent Street Creek Creek

816
01:06:55,230 --> 01:06:59,870
community either or something interested in or something that you've seen

817
01:06:59,870 --> 01:07:05,690
and other related work that you've done that you think could be valuable to the community?

818
01:07:06,790 --> 01:07:17,590
I think myself as a collaborator, I don't know all the members on the committee now, but my style is highly collaborative, and I think I've got a unique background as I described.

819
01:07:18,810 --> 01:07:29,970
I think as also, you know, I have a unique perspective on state government, certainly one of what conflicts, but I think I can open doors through my network profession.

820
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:35,200
Finally, and drop on that experience professionally and personally, in this way.

821
01:07:37,420 --> 01:07:37,820
Thank you.

822
01:07:43,310 --> 01:07:47,970
Okay, so we will go ahead and go ahead and deliver it. So, Patty, baby, we can.

823
01:07:49,810 --> 01:07:51,530
What is the RTS grade?

824
01:07:54,370 --> 01:07:59,870
It's to just move them back into the, yeah, attendees. Yes.

825
01:07:59,870 --> 01:08:05,330
I don't have it for everything, we're going to thank you very much for applying.

826
01:08:07,150 --> 01:08:10,970
Check, read, attend to them.

827
01:08:13,010 --> 01:08:21,510
Alright, so if there is discussion where we can take a motion from members of the board.

828
01:08:23,340 --> 01:08:50,660
So I'll move that we appoint and come in Julia Osborne to a term expiring July 31, 29, to the permanent street committee for open position and just to kind of add my perspective on this, you know, I think we just appointed her to this committee very recently and so.

829
01:08:50,660 --> 01:09:07,640
I think I'd like to see Steve on there as well both would be great assets, but I think we give Julie a chance to kind of get get to get something moving on the committee.

830
01:09:07,980 --> 01:09:11,860
So she's kind of already acclimated herself and has jumped in.

831
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:17,300
And so it makes sense to continue her and then when an opening comes up to reach out to Steve again.

832
01:09:17,300 --> 01:09:22,160
so that's my reasoning for the motion for Julia.

833
01:09:23,780 --> 01:09:26,820
So as a follow up to your response mic,

834
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:32,240
is I actually asked Austin because we had to choose,

835
01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:33,800
we could only choose one candidate.

836
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,980
And the other person can actually

837
01:09:37,980 --> 01:09:41,460
join the Permit Street Committee as an associate

838
01:09:41,460 --> 01:09:43,280
as a non-boding member.

839
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:45,900
He needs a lot of volunteers.

840
01:09:45,900 --> 01:09:51,400
And they would be a spot for Steve as a ex, as an onboarding member.

841
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:59,600
Okay. Um, well, we can take that up as a separate motion and see if that if there's interest there.

842
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:05,420
Um, it's not, it, it's also not on the agenda that way.

843
01:10:05,500 --> 01:10:08,980
I don't know if that we, you know, no, it would, this is no voting by the board.

844
01:10:09,020 --> 01:10:12,560
He can just, it's, um, he can just, oh, okay.

845
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:18,640
this is helping with the committee. He doesn't have to, he just can't vote. So it's it'd be

846
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:25,980
you know, a non voting member. Yeah. And I think that that's really a great solution here. And,

847
01:10:25,980 --> 01:10:31,320
you know, just kind of anecdotally, a lot of these committees, you know, there's not a, you know,

848
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:42,540
votes swinging back and forth by one vote. Like, I think for the work they do, they're all kind of

849
01:10:42,540 --> 01:10:48,080
unanimous most of the time. So I don't think that by not being an official member but participating,

850
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:54,360
you know, there's really that much of a substantive difference. So that's just my two cents.

851
01:10:54,900 --> 01:11:00,240
So certainly that we can connect Steve with Austin if that's turns out to be the case.

852
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:06,600
Okay. And we have non-goating members who do work on this work.

853
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:11,480
I was just not good enough.

854
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:17,000
I was like, wait, I had to pause what you were just saying there. I was going to second that motion.

855
01:11:18,020 --> 01:11:26,840
Then you threw me for a curveball there. So I appreciate Patty the potential opportunity for

856
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:31,400
Steve Baker. We should circle back with him if that's a interest realizing us on our vote.

857
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:41,020
But to Mike's point, Julia Osborne has been there. And there's no reason to think she can't

858
01:11:41,020 --> 01:11:47,840
continue to fulfill that role and be available for those meetings. So I would support extending

859
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:55,700
that reappointment to her. So I'll second my motion. Yeah. Great. Any further discussion?

860
01:12:00,530 --> 01:12:13,010
And we can take a vote. So we'll call vote, Mike. Yes. Michelle? Yes. I will answer as well. So thank you

861
01:12:13,010 --> 01:12:18,770
both Julia and Steve, so Julia, see you continue as a member of the Primary History Community

862
01:12:18,770 --> 01:12:27,890
and Steve, we can connect you with Austin if you would like to be engaged with that.

863
01:12:28,130 --> 01:12:32,790
We'll have some great backgrounds that would be great to be engaged.

864
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:43,380
So we will move on to the old, sort of, but we have as old business and just,

865
01:12:44,100 --> 01:12:58,500
As we've been updating our agendas, you'll see somethings our old business, somethings our new business and it's just kind of things that we've heard before versus things that are new to the agenda for the first time.

866
01:12:59,140 --> 01:13:13,360
So Chris, can we turn it over to you for sort of a quick summary of your memo of the retiree health insurance and sure we've all had a chance to read it and I'm sure we all remember our work.

867
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:22,520
extensive meeting and collaborative extended motion that got us to where we are.

868
01:13:24,750 --> 01:13:32,990
Okay, so summarizing the nonetheless in the packet after a number of conversations with staff,

869
01:13:32,990 --> 01:13:42,370
from an ads and several of the unions and unit leaders and doing some research into the

870
01:13:42,370 --> 01:13:47,230
potential retiree pool and who is more likely than others to potentially retire.

871
01:13:48,470 --> 01:13:55,210
I'm recommending that the board take the latest date that you set in your vote,

872
01:13:55,210 --> 01:14:05,290
just June 30th, 2027 as the date for file vesting for the point of the benefit, I think that'll

873
01:14:05,290 --> 01:14:15,450
give people plenty of time to have these conversations out. I think a lot for what we hope to

874
01:14:15,450 --> 01:14:21,810
have are a tax policy session, just so good that I understand how all the raised benefits work together.

875
01:14:22,350 --> 01:14:26,550
I'd like to recommend a bit more time and not retire, just to bring to neutral folks

876
01:14:26,550 --> 01:14:27,450
and to help do that.

877
01:14:27,690 --> 01:14:32,150
It did something like that in New York and we have an early retirement session, and so

878
01:14:32,150 --> 01:14:36,310
we can understand how the timing on things and how things worked.

879
01:14:38,910 --> 01:14:45,150
And based on the conversations, I think it would also last a mission time for the partners

880
01:14:45,150 --> 01:14:45,570
to play.

881
01:14:46,770 --> 01:14:54,750
I'm also asking that people giving notice to us, and that day would be February 1.

882
01:14:55,290 --> 01:14:59,710
Like if people point of time, it also allows the budget to be tweaked as necessary.

883
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:08,260
necessary to address potential returns. Obviously if things change, people can always, you know,

884
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:14,000
there's some of these circumstances change. You have to reverse this out retiring. And for some reason,

885
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:19,360
they can't, for some reason, those things happen. It's okay. It's a work without. But we'd like to

886
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:27,780
know, with some degree of certainty, a story about this we can, so that we can play. If someone,

887
01:15:27,780 --> 01:15:37,040
whether someone say to DPW supervisor or a clerk in an apartment, it does take time to

888
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:40,220
make sure we're transitioning and then we're getting the right skills that's covered.

889
01:15:43,300 --> 01:15:47,640
And that's the recommendation if people have questions will be free to ask.

890
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:53,300
I do think that this is spurred conversation for sure amongst staff.

891
01:15:54,000 --> 01:16:00,400
And there will be obviously also ongoing conversation with retirees that I'll continue as well.

892
01:16:02,060 --> 01:16:03,620
But that's the recommendation.

893
01:16:07,530 --> 01:16:09,290
So I've got a couple of questions.

894
01:16:10,990 --> 01:16:15,070
Met a couple of weeks ago, we had a preliminary meeting of retiree health insurance.

895
01:16:15,970 --> 01:16:18,450
I'd asked it to get us on like a monthly cadence for that.

896
01:16:18,990 --> 01:16:22,710
So do you envision, I don't know what the status is that is,

897
01:16:22,710 --> 01:16:31,870
Do you envision having these meetings on a monthly basis with retirees until February or March?

898
01:16:32,290 --> 01:16:34,810
We've only had one, but I think we need to have more.

899
01:16:35,290 --> 01:16:37,250
And would that regard this and where this vote goes this evening?

900
01:16:37,690 --> 01:16:40,050
That's kind of a, maybe that's all business of really old business.

901
01:16:41,090 --> 01:16:41,770
That's a good question.

902
01:16:42,250 --> 01:16:45,450
I don't think it's anything clowned by having, I think we're good and things are good.

903
01:16:45,570 --> 01:16:48,030
I think it was helpful in getting information to me.

904
01:16:48,170 --> 01:16:51,650
In fact, folks, I also have getting information back out.

905
01:16:51,650 --> 01:16:54,930
I actually had a unit active unit leader there, right?

906
01:16:54,970 --> 01:16:56,750
And myself, I mean, I think it's

907
01:16:56,750 --> 01:16:57,870
it's bird and additional conversations.

908
01:16:58,730 --> 01:17:01,610
So yeah, I think getting on a regular cycle.

909
01:17:02,370 --> 01:17:04,650
And having the continued online accessibility

910
01:17:04,650 --> 01:17:08,430
is good and I think more members are getting appointed too.

911
01:17:08,950 --> 01:17:10,190
So that'll just be beneficial.

912
01:17:10,810 --> 01:17:13,370
So we get to you as well as the necessary.

913
01:17:14,970 --> 01:17:19,050
OK, so this is the same question as Kaboie's ghost.

914
01:17:19,070 --> 01:17:20,950
Should I be working with you or Kim

915
01:17:20,950 --> 01:17:25,850
as the Slipboard Rep to that committee, to get that cadence nailed down.

916
01:17:29,390 --> 01:17:36,290
Yes, both of us, and I'm trying to figure out who will be the point that my staff here

917
01:17:36,290 --> 01:17:41,830
and how logistics just setting up the regular meetings and all, Kim's only here a couple days a week.

918
01:17:44,090 --> 01:17:48,470
But we know what we get to set up, I think we get to set up a monthly, regular monthly,

919
01:17:48,470 --> 01:17:54,890
Zoom and have a through software in these like what's off us as well.

920
01:17:55,150 --> 01:17:56,630
Well, Frank, okay.

921
01:17:56,690 --> 01:18:06,930
Okay, thank you for that. And my second question is relative to February versus February to

922
01:18:06,930 --> 01:18:15,450
notice a shift from January 1 to June 30. So all current retirees will roll over January 1.

923
01:18:15,450 --> 01:18:17,310
That's where a lot of the Medicare plans.

924
01:18:17,950 --> 01:18:26,810
Is there any implementation concern from Stacey or carriers or anything else for a mid-year

925
01:18:26,810 --> 01:18:28,450
implementation or change?

926
01:18:29,270 --> 01:18:37,490
We would just add a certain cohort of employees to the retiree roles in May, June, July, and

927
01:18:38,900 --> 01:18:41,520
so the plans change on January 1.

928
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:42,960
And again, we hit the new rates.

929
01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:45,740
In fact, we still have a down the shift for what January was Rachel B.

930
01:18:45,740 --> 01:18:50,700
But people were a terrible time. So they people had to plan on other retire. So when you retire,

931
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,580
that's a, that, that, that, that let you in, that, that's, that's, you know, you're, you're

932
01:18:56,580 --> 01:19:01,620
automatically in current retirees in this role of planning a role of January 1. So, that, that, the, the

933
01:19:01,620 --> 01:19:06,940
deadline for letting us study retirees really just for us to know. And by giving a deal of June

934
01:19:07,380 --> 01:19:11,780
30th, and some people want to first, physically, for some reason, or, expect, there'll be people that

935
01:19:11,780 --> 01:19:17,400
entire, we've very handsome people right in my office, so it's okay to tell her, and I expect

936
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:23,380
there are some who will go sometime in the spring. I think people also speak time to look at

937
01:19:23,380 --> 01:19:30,250
their circumstances, you know, when their spouse or family are, where they are, you know,

938
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:37,080
that they have a few more years, you know, everyone takes this very individually and I just think

939
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:44,720
It has been a lot of conversations, but it doesn't change anything when people join a plan when

940
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:45,440
they were tired.

941
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:51,080
Okay, so then my last question, I have something else that we do adopt this recommendation,

942
01:19:51,420 --> 01:19:57,500
but my last question for now is, if with February to inform your budget, right, and do you

943
01:19:57,500 --> 01:20:00,640
have it like February 9th or something, are you about just do February 15th?

944
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:02,060
Yes, this is from the first.

945
01:20:02,100 --> 01:20:02,980
February 1st.

946
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:18,160
So as part of that financial impact, and maybe this is where the Fincom people on the retiree health insurance committee can help, we're going to need to calculate

947
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:23,680
potentially sickly by-back for a significant portion of this staff, right? So

948
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:32,760
Is that anywhere in the modeling in terms of or have we had to pay out any sickly by-back and unused vacation for folks of our retired like what's the

949
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:35,640
What's the burn rate because that's gonna be?

950
01:20:35,820 --> 01:20:42,200
That's gonna hit current year budget and I think we need to understand if there's a a need to adjust budgets. It's spring town meeting based on

951
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:44,640
sort of these you know

952
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:54,760
We have, you know, we have credits and we have, you know, unrealized liabilities, depending on where the volume of folks and what they've occurred.

953
01:20:55,940 --> 01:21:00,920
I think that letting, if people let us know my favorite, they'll allow us to do those kinds of things.

954
01:21:01,780 --> 01:21:04,200
Often, you know, you don't replace somebody right away anyway.

955
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:06,920
But it really depends on the entire thing.

956
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:11,200
of retiring in 30th, but you're right, and everybody's kind of hitting us in this fiscal year,

957
01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:14,820
and then any of the saves we would have found would have been for the next year.

958
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:20,600
And if we had to add more money, it's good to know that earlier, so we can make any adjustments in the

959
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:26,320
budget. There's there's perhaps on what people could carry, and I get an old depends on what

960
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:32,060
you that you're in and how long you've been here. So there are our upper bounds on those things.

961
01:21:33,060 --> 01:21:36,300
Some of the bigger hits we've had involved more unusual circumstances,

962
01:21:36,300 --> 01:21:40,740
we're somebody's been out on leave for a medical or something like that and there are

963
01:21:40,740 --> 01:21:46,860
growing things. Those are pretty rare. Most people that there's a fine amount of time they

964
01:21:46,860 --> 01:21:51,960
have, we're going to really depends on what they're, you know, along the bidding and what they're

965
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:56,060
units, but what they have, most people are allowed to roll a lot of vacation. I work usually

966
01:21:56,060 --> 01:22:01,180
only a week or two. And the six time by bag is also dependent on what their contract says.

967
01:22:02,580 --> 01:22:08,380
I don't think it's a place of wool for everyone, but again, it's best by the time I

968
01:22:08,380 --> 01:22:11,780
shall. I should point out to it. So, do you do those calculations? So, if you have to make a

969
01:22:11,780 --> 01:22:17,860
tweaked man, you can. I see a Stacey, do I know? I don't know. Stacey, you haven't read it yet.

970
01:22:17,860 --> 01:22:21,320
Can't read it yet, just so I'll pack her in. Yeah.

971
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:29,800
Stacey, I'm good morning yet. Good evening. I couldn't hear what Chris was saying, but I don't know what's

972
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:29,980
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.

973
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:51,100
My audio. But as long as we're just going by the retirement date, the implementation of the Medicare Part B is basically, we take everyone, we get an export from our insurance company, whoever was on our plan and had retirement dates up to before that date, we would then process the Medicare Part B payment set the end of June.

974
01:22:51,780 --> 01:22:57,040
If we then say, well, they have to give us notice in order to get the benefit and that gets a little bit tricky.

975
01:22:57,300 --> 01:23:01,220
So hopefully we're just going with the retirement date and calling it a day.

976
01:23:02,020 --> 01:23:04,220
But Michelle, you're right, they will be not so much.

977
01:23:04,300 --> 01:23:08,120
I had raised my hand because you mentioned sickly by that, but then you continue it on with vacation.

978
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,220
That's usually the bigger it is the vacation by back.

979
01:23:11,300 --> 01:23:15,200
And if someone's been here for years, they're at five weeks vacation.

980
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:21,560
And they may not have taken all their vacation, come January, they've earned five weeks.

981
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:24,660
So they can paid out that five weeks depending on when they were hired.

982
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:26,760
So it's a little tricky in some of the union.

983
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:27,360
They're all different.

984
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:30,920
So yeah, they will come with a budget impact for sure.

985
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:33,840
Thank you, CC.

986
01:23:36,060 --> 01:23:36,500
Oh.

987
01:23:41,510 --> 01:23:41,670
Okay.

988
01:23:41,750 --> 01:23:43,230
Any other questions on this?

989
01:23:49,230 --> 01:23:55,310
So it sounds like we're comfortable with the memo and the update that Chris provided.

990
01:23:55,310 --> 01:24:05,930
and moving towards having a June 30th date for the Retari Health Insurance benefits.

991
01:24:06,950 --> 01:24:16,490
So, so much could just make a motion that articulates that and then we'll start with that.

992
01:24:16,490 --> 01:24:18,810
Sure, so I can make that motion.

993
01:24:18,810 --> 01:24:22,730
That slipboard adopted the recommendation of the time manager to formally established June 30,

994
01:24:22,970 --> 01:24:25,170
2027 is the deadline for vesting

995
01:24:25,170 --> 01:24:29,690
Townsmetic or a parpy reimbursement and any employee who retired on a before,

996
01:24:30,030 --> 01:24:31,710
that date will receive the parpy reimbursement.

997
01:24:31,910 --> 01:24:34,630
Those are retired after that date when along received that reimbursement.

998
01:24:43,550 --> 01:24:43,690
Okay.

999
01:24:45,290 --> 01:24:46,450
Any further discussion?

1000
01:24:49,730 --> 01:24:53,950
No, the only thing I would say is I'd like to get a little bit more information.

1001
01:24:54,390 --> 01:24:57,010
I think I asked for this last time kind of on like impacts

1002
01:24:57,530 --> 01:25:04,710
you know, so I know that we have 80 eligible retirees but you know, which departments

1003
01:25:04,710 --> 01:25:10,790
are they from and, you know, I think it just makes a difference when we're, you know,

1004
01:25:10,970 --> 01:25:20,490
kind of looking at the change to retirees, their financial planning for the future so that's

1005
01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:25,650
my only thing, you know, I, I, I, I, I'm glad that we're pushing it out that far because

1006
01:25:25,650 --> 01:25:29,410
I think we need some time here to socialize this.

1007
01:25:29,570 --> 01:25:32,350
And I think that was part of the reason

1008
01:25:32,350 --> 01:25:38,770
for us to get the retiree health committee back together.

1009
01:25:39,510 --> 01:25:45,090
So I'm glad that at least we won't be before July 30, 20, 20,

1010
01:25:45,410 --> 01:25:46,350
so I'll say that much.

1011
01:25:49,940 --> 01:25:52,300
And then after we vote this, I'd like to make another motion,

1012
01:25:52,500 --> 01:25:55,620
but let's just take this out first, please.

1013
01:25:56,060 --> 01:25:57,680
OK, so do you a roll call about Michelle?

1014
01:25:57,680 --> 01:25:58,740
Yes.

1015
01:25:58,920 --> 01:25:59,400
Bill?

1016
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:00,100
I.

1017
01:26:01,100 --> 01:26:01,300
Mike?

1018
01:26:01,740 --> 01:26:01,900
Yep.

1019
01:26:02,740 --> 01:26:03,080
Right.

1020
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:04,720
I bow yes as well.

1021
01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:07,400
I'll take a go ahead if you have a second motion.

1022
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:15,280
My second motion is to ask the chair and the manager to communicate with their counterparts

1023
01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:20,360
in the school department and school committee to socialize and make and share this update.

1024
01:26:20,980 --> 01:26:24,000
I know back in July, right?

1025
01:26:24,020 --> 01:26:24,720
No, I guess it was June.

1026
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:29,320
I got a note from a school employee who was concerned about having to make that decision

1027
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:29,920
in July.

1028
01:26:30,140 --> 01:26:34,940
So if we can get ahead of that tonight or tomorrow, I think that will help us.

1029
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:38,180
So I just want to say that I love that sounds great.

1030
01:26:38,420 --> 01:26:39,060
We can.

1031
01:26:41,580 --> 01:26:44,500
I will further discuss with that sounds great weekend.

1032
01:26:44,860 --> 01:26:51,700
We can certainly work with communicating that through school committee and making sure

1033
01:26:51,700 --> 01:26:56,140
and superintendent in the future that information gets out there.

1034
01:26:57,970 --> 01:26:59,850
So we'll take a roll call vote on that, Michelle.

1035
01:27:01,250 --> 01:27:01,530
Mike.

1036
01:27:03,010 --> 01:27:03,230
Bill.

1037
01:27:10,370 --> 01:27:14,250
Anything further with us, are we going to move on to WCCC?

1038
01:27:17,730 --> 01:27:24,750
So Chris, we also have a memo from Chris on WCCP going back to our earlier discussion about

1039
01:27:24,750 --> 01:27:32,270
care custody and control of the different projects that I'd come up both in speaking with

1040
01:27:32,270 --> 01:27:37,950
Christina Marshall, the chair of the WCCP and as well as getting an understanding of what some

1041
01:27:37,950 --> 01:27:44,470
of the projects were and how they were developed. So in Chris's memo, there was discussion of

1042
01:27:46,630 --> 01:27:56,850
You know, his recommendation on providing care custody and control for all of the projects.

1043
01:27:57,190 --> 01:28:07,770
Excuse me, as presented with an update around the new adult field project and how that has been shifted to a study.

1044
01:28:07,770 --> 01:28:13,930
And it's coming in with support from the record director as well.

1045
01:28:14,510 --> 01:28:16,770
Of course, is there anything to add to that?

1046
01:28:17,610 --> 01:28:18,730
We've had some good conversations.

1047
01:28:19,110 --> 01:28:21,350
I'm one thing that I'm upon on a list.

1048
01:28:21,650 --> 01:28:24,270
This conversation is happening much, much, much earlier next year.

1049
01:28:25,550 --> 01:28:26,550
So they've been good.

1050
01:28:27,110 --> 01:28:27,770
They've been productive.

1051
01:28:28,630 --> 01:28:31,110
They need to come much earlier in the process next year.

1052
01:28:33,250 --> 01:28:35,950
So I'm fully honest with my staff as two.

1053
01:28:35,950 --> 01:28:38,930
And I said we've had some really good conversations in the Utah field as a great example.

1054
01:28:39,830 --> 01:28:44,990
Anthony and my office were not met with President of, I think he's the president of the WBSA.

1055
01:28:45,130 --> 01:28:48,450
At Newtownfield, they had a good conversation and I changed the scope of the project.

1056
01:28:49,030 --> 01:28:53,510
For the good, and I became a joint project with the town to do a master play.

1057
01:28:53,610 --> 01:28:55,490
I think that was, they had to accomplish things.

1058
01:28:55,610 --> 01:28:57,610
That was like really, really good to happen out there.

1059
01:28:59,130 --> 01:29:02,850
And I also had a really nice meeting with Austin and the chair of the Permanente Community of the day.

1060
01:29:03,410 --> 01:29:05,810
So he was actually excited that I like trees.

1061
01:29:05,810 --> 01:29:12,230
and that I want to help them develop plans. So that was a really good conversation. So

1062
01:29:12,230 --> 01:29:15,750
and again, as you heard earlier, unfortunately, they did not win or the grants they were seeking.

1063
01:29:16,010 --> 01:29:21,850
So I think the WCCP funding for their actions is really critical. And I'm going to

1064
01:29:21,850 --> 01:29:26,550
even though I don't have a vote, WCCP, I'm certainly advocate for funding for all of some

1065
01:29:26,550 --> 01:29:30,990
projects. So my recommendation is the board giveaway. Green line to all the seven of these.

1066
01:29:30,990 --> 01:29:33,870
and the care tests that control me all the way through.

1067
01:29:33,950 --> 01:29:38,130
So if they think that the CC, those CCV votes, yes, the fund on that.

1068
01:29:38,290 --> 01:29:40,630
But the word, you know, gives them a green light at town meeting.

1069
01:29:40,910 --> 01:29:42,990
That's what the Canadians are looking for.

1070
01:29:43,070 --> 01:29:43,890
That's what I would recommend.

1071
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:48,120
Any questions for Chris?

1072
01:29:49,900 --> 01:29:50,620
So yeah.

1073
01:29:52,500 --> 01:29:56,520
So care testing control, I think I understand that.

1074
01:29:56,540 --> 01:29:57,260
And that was the next step.

1075
01:29:57,280 --> 01:29:58,600
That was the open item for this.

1076
01:29:58,600 --> 01:29:59,580
but two

1077
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,940
Support this all day to the town meeting. I mean, I'm not suggesting things will change, but it's possible that from August 10 to November, something could come up. So for the select board to commit on August 10th, that we support it when we have invoked positions on the war and articles and we haven't seen the motion language and we haven't seen any potential concerns or risks or cost changes that fills a bit premature to me to vote that tonight. But that's the language and your recommendation is to go all the way through to fall town meeting.

1078
01:30:28,940 --> 01:30:32,960
And it's like we're normally both positions closer to town meeting,

1079
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:35,180
sometimes the evenings of town meeting.

1080
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:37,960
Yeah, that I've experienced.

1081
01:30:38,660 --> 01:30:43,860
I think that the real, again, we're kind of working online, which right?

1082
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:47,820
So I think this is more than just the advocate.

1083
01:30:48,140 --> 01:30:50,940
This is an endorsement of the applications and the board supports the application.

1084
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,380
Not just the right to apply, which is for the application.

1085
01:30:53,380 --> 01:30:56,340
And obviously, this could happen, as you said, for sure, but to now,

1086
01:30:58,380 --> 01:31:00,220
and November, this

1087
01:31:00,220 --> 01:31:01,800
could change in the world, right?

1088
01:31:02,780 --> 01:31:08,600
So, or in the Mississippi funding process, or perhaps tennis is the whole of the story.

1089
01:31:08,780 --> 01:31:11,780
I mean, I don't think it's like that happened, but, you know, if it's going to happen between

1090
01:31:11,780 --> 01:31:16,500
now and now, I understand that I think what the VVCCP wants to know is that I understand that

1091
01:31:16,500 --> 01:31:20,220
the board is supportive of the applications as applications.

1092
01:31:21,940 --> 01:31:27,880
And I understand that I haven't completely came back that the board is hearing that, but

1093
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:32,100
reserves the right to, you know, something happens, the world can change, you still have to

1094
01:31:32,100 --> 01:31:35,080
vote these in the context of the work.

1095
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:42,380
They do want more than just application, you know, not just, you're saying, smile, the application.

1096
01:31:42,700 --> 01:31:45,580
You score the applications, the content of the applications.

1097
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:51,500
I don't know if I'm, this is all due. We're kind of making that possible. We go along.

1098
01:31:52,120 --> 01:31:57,740
So I'm trying to split the thread and needle here, I guess.

1099
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:03,300
Maybe my guess, I'm just dying to. I hope anything.

1100
01:32:11,670 --> 01:32:12,710
I go ahead.

1101
01:32:13,190 --> 01:32:16,210
Thanks, Cynthia. Yeah. Thanks, Chris.

1102
01:32:16,210 --> 01:32:28,210
I know part of the CPA process, we were kind of building the plane while we were flying it and I think that's going to really happen for the next few years.

1103
01:32:29,990 --> 01:32:42,930
And so I think it makes sense that we spent some time really kind of digging into these projects even though it wasn't necessarily on the timeline that we wanted, but I think it makes sense for us to

1104
01:32:43,830 --> 01:32:51,910
in support of all of the care custody and control for all of the applications that have been

1105
01:32:51,910 --> 01:32:57,770
submitted because management has reviewed them at this point, right? And to your point, if something

1106
01:32:57,770 --> 01:33:04,830
crazy happens or something that we didn't know about, then it won't happen, right? So even if

1107
01:33:04,830 --> 01:33:10,230
town meeting approves it and all that, right? So, but I think that we have dug in and management

1108
01:33:10,230 --> 01:33:14,970
is research these enough to I feel confident kind of moving forward at this point without too much

1109
01:33:14,970 --> 01:33:15,790
more discussion.

1110
01:33:19,980 --> 01:33:28,420
And that's a good point as well. Like is that if something changes so if

1111
01:33:28,420 --> 01:33:36,100
if cost change you know something changes that changes the nature of the application you know that

1112
01:33:36,100 --> 01:33:44,680
very well-known change where we're at but given what's presented as it is and what will be

1113
01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:51,840
what will be put for to the WCCP for a vote I think this is our

1114
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:57,660
acknowledgement of the projects in their current form.

1115
01:34:05,340 --> 01:34:06,680
So I'm happy to make that motion.

1116
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:16,380
Um, if you'd like a motion at this point and the, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. Okay, and thank you, Mike for, um, for that as well. So,

1117
01:34:16,660 --> 01:34:22,780
move to the slide for accept the recommendation of the top manager to support the following community preservation projects of the BCCP.

1118
01:34:22,780 --> 01:34:34,080
Friends of Winchester Recreation, Thunderfield Pavilion, Winchester Recreation Packer Ellis tennis McDonald basketball tennis resurfacing DPW town hall auditorium permanent seating restoration.

1119
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:40,040
permanent street, street community, public tree, canopy improvement, walk and roll Winchester,

1120
01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:45,520
track community, greenway improvements, Winchester Youth Baseball, softball, new tile field

1121
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:46,600
master plan.

1122
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:48,260
Thank you.

1123
01:34:50,420 --> 01:34:51,320
Any further discussion?

1124
01:34:55,630 --> 01:34:56,490
Roll call vote, Michelle?

1125
01:34:57,250 --> 01:34:57,550
Yes.

1126
01:34:58,010 --> 01:34:58,370
Like.

1127
01:34:59,750 --> 01:35:00,030
Bell.

1128
01:35:00,510 --> 01:35:01,790
All right.

1129
01:35:01,790 --> 01:35:02,230
I vote.

1130
01:35:02,410 --> 01:35:02,670
Yes, yes.

1131
01:35:03,470 --> 01:35:04,510
All right.

1132
01:35:04,790 --> 01:35:08,670
Chris, thank you for getting this back to us.

1133
01:35:08,670 --> 01:35:13,550
and thank you as well to Anthony for meeting with

1134
01:35:14,110 --> 01:35:19,650
just a space law sample on that project and getting that to the current state.

1135
01:35:21,770 --> 01:35:29,990
All right. So the next thing that we have in our old business is reviewing the summary of

1136
01:35:29,990 --> 01:35:38,350
time managers evaluation and talking about the next steps here. So in our packet we have a summary

1137
01:35:38,350 --> 01:35:41,550
of the scores across each of the

1138
01:35:44,150 --> 01:35:46,050
subsections of the evaluation

1139
01:35:47,970 --> 01:35:54,220
in looking at that both in from our contract with Chris

1140
01:35:54,220 --> 01:35:57,160
that when we kicked off was that in this review,

1141
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:02,900
needed to have a score of at least three,

1142
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:07,760
as well as a vote at sort of a affirmative vote

1143
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:20,500
each member to continue the contracts through December 31, 2027. We do have that in the

1144
01:36:20,500 --> 01:36:26,160
evaluation, so across all of the subsections for squared or three or higher, as

1145
01:36:26,160 --> 01:36:33,980
well as received affirmative affirmation, I have some funny, but that the affirmation

1146
01:36:33,980 --> 01:36:38,880
from the board members to continue the contract.

1147
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:45,420
So I believe Chris has offered the opportunity

1148
01:36:45,420 --> 01:36:51,200
and I think that with many of us already, I'm just to get some feedback about their review,

1149
01:36:51,920 --> 01:37:01,840
talk through any areas, any questions or anything like that. If you have not yet done that,

1150
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:05,500
Certainly, you know, connect with Christine's available.

1151
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:10,660
He's put like a two, how those are one of my conversations.

1152
01:37:11,440 --> 01:37:12,200
And here, feedback.

1153
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:18,840
And I think, you know, it's a testament to,

1154
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:24,040
I came into a hard situation and did good work

1155
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:29,980
and getting us through our override vote and our,

1156
01:37:30,110 --> 01:37:42,050
Our budgeting in the spring coming in after a period when we had my thorough several commentators

1157
01:37:42,050 --> 01:37:43,830
of the course of the few months.

1158
01:37:45,230 --> 01:38:11,870
So what I will say is just to add to that sorry but just to add to that is it was discussed among among us at some point do we want to consider the contract whether we extend it beyond kind of what that next.

1159
01:38:13,830 --> 01:38:20,030
just sort of 18 months and that's something that we people would like to discuss. We can do that in

1160
01:38:20,030 --> 01:38:25,190
executive session and talk through contract for the town manager.

1161
01:38:28,420 --> 01:38:29,360
I will pause there.

1162
01:38:37,900 --> 01:38:37,900
So,

1163
01:38:38,700 --> 01:38:43,080
is the executive session that you're thinking to discuss a different term?

1164
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:46,540
Okay. Yep,

1165
01:38:46,540 --> 01:38:56,440
if we wanted to extend that term, we could discuss that in exact. So, people would like to do that. We

1166
01:38:56,440 --> 01:38:58,800
and put that on the agenda.

1167
01:39:00,100 --> 01:39:02,160
Or you can put that on the agenda and talk through it.

1168
01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:05,020
Because that is something that we can do in this section.

1169
01:39:06,260 --> 01:39:13,400
And I'm also wondering if in the after Chris was onboarded,

1170
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:15,060
and we had negotiated the contract,

1171
01:39:15,180 --> 01:39:18,040
then we had to deliver goals for the manager.

1172
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:20,220
And we did that over, I think, two meetings,

1173
01:39:20,460 --> 01:39:22,620
and then Chris went back and took them up and came back to us.

1174
01:39:22,620 --> 01:39:30,140
What's the plan for finalizing manager goals since the evaluation format self drives very much off of goals?

1175
01:39:31,020 --> 01:39:35,340
There's a summary of goals, but I'm wonder if we shouldn't agree on those as a board.

1176
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:39,020
I'm still in favor of extending Chris's contract, but I wonder if we shouldn't have those goals

1177
01:39:39,580 --> 01:39:45,620
to find ourselves. There's a paragraph. Certainly, I think we had six or seven for Chris,

1178
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:50,180
and we did that over a couple of meetings. So it seems like those potentially should go together

1179
01:39:50,180 --> 01:39:56,440
that here's the renewal, maybe that term pieces, exact session, here are the goals on which we

1180
01:39:56,440 --> 01:40:03,680
like you do execute in the next term of your contract. I didn't see that the goals, maybe the

1181
01:40:03,680 --> 01:40:07,920
goals is the next step, but I didn't see where that, where this summary performance would then

1182
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:14,220
turn into select more goals for the manager. And out of that was anticipated to be like the next

1183
01:40:14,220 --> 01:40:18,060
meeting or not, so maybe you can just help me understand that.

1184
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:25,440
Um, we all, I'm sorry, but you need to go to.

1185
01:40:27,780 --> 01:40:28,960
Um, we're about to start reading.

1186
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:30,220
If you give me lots of cookie here.

1187
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:31,220
So I had to.

1188
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:38,300
Um, so we will, um, we can do that in the next meeting and talk about goals.

1189
01:40:38,780 --> 01:40:41,000
Um, that's one of the things that you're right.

1190
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,520
We had talked about beforehand of just how do we.

1191
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:48,440
because you usually also when you're evaluating the town manager, you have like,

1192
01:40:48,900 --> 01:40:52,780
or evaluating anyone, you kind of also want to be collaborative and how they develop those goals.

1193
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:57,420
And so we had worked with Chris on goals that kind of go to the end of this year,

1194
01:40:57,520 --> 01:40:59,520
so we would want to update those.

1195
01:41:01,060 --> 01:41:06,420
We can talk about that in the next meeting and then I guess the question would be,

1196
01:41:06,460 --> 01:41:12,460
is if we wanted to discuss which order we want to do that in,

1197
01:41:12,460 --> 01:41:18,820
the exact session and goals but that's something that I can work out for our agenda, how that

1198
01:41:18,820 --> 01:41:19,280
fits.

1199
01:41:26,930 --> 01:41:32,210
Chris, as you just came up with you too. I don't want to stop on the conversation. I

1200
01:41:32,210 --> 01:41:41,150
just want to say I appreciate the word bringing me on board the first place. I do appreciate

1201
01:41:41,150 --> 01:41:49,470
that it has been a very active rock, which is a full and place which has been great. I've had a

1202
01:41:49,470 --> 01:41:54,070
and we would lots of people across the spectrum, I do that every day, and that with employees,

1203
01:41:54,950 --> 01:42:00,110
I just remember folks that officially gave the 15-day wave before the last week,

1204
01:42:00,330 --> 01:42:07,450
and that with another fire care in it today, and it's been great. It's been great to work with staff,

1205
01:42:07,610 --> 01:42:14,170
to develop staff, and to continue to develop programs and move forward on the goals,

1206
01:42:14,170 --> 01:42:18,010
The board sets, the time meeting sets, and all the board's committee set.

1207
01:42:18,610 --> 01:42:23,570
There's a lot to do here. It's exciting. There's a lot of great things ahead.

1208
01:42:24,730 --> 01:42:29,890
I appreciate the feedback I've gotten so far. I know there's always things to improve on. I am far from perfect.

1209
01:42:31,170 --> 01:42:37,530
And I appreciate the support I've been given. The partnership, the collaboration, which is how local government works.

1210
01:42:38,210 --> 01:42:47,310
It's been an exciting opportunity and I look forward to continuing that work with all of you and with the community large.

1211
01:42:48,700 --> 01:42:49,500
Thank you, Chris.

1212
01:42:55,510 --> 01:43:06,650
So I will work with Chris and I'm just signing up at the agenda so that we add discussion of the goals and then we can add in any contract discussion and the next accession as well.

1213
01:43:12,250 --> 01:43:37,270
I think, um, thank you for that, Antia. And I think, as, and maybe in the packet, I know Anthony and in a previous packet, we'd had Chris sort of self, self assessment of how he achieved in the goals. If we could line that all up together, right? This is the old set. This is his progress. This is the evaluation. And we can talk about the new goals. It'd be nice to see sort of some, the longitudinal kind of view of progress.

1214
01:43:38,430 --> 01:43:45,310
And kind of like our select bar goals, do we tweak some, do we extend some, do we consider some as completed, going into the next year?

1215
01:43:45,890 --> 01:43:50,690
If we could just look at that as the story and the journey, I think that would be helpful.

1216
01:43:50,930 --> 01:43:58,470
Because we're not going to start the goals from scratch, but we also can I think give credit where goal, what's a progress is made, and there's still some things to be done.

1217
01:43:58,610 --> 01:44:02,090
So if that can be part of the planning piece, I think that would help me.

1218
01:44:02,090 --> 01:44:06,010
I'm not going to have a different answer about Chris's contract, but we nice to have a different

1219
01:44:06,010 --> 01:44:11,610
perspective on goals, because not a ton of shifted from maybe February to today, but maybe for Chris,

1220
01:44:11,890 --> 01:44:16,270
his interest is slightly different, or maybe our need of for his focus is slightly different.

1221
01:44:16,610 --> 01:44:17,870
So thank you for that.

1222
01:44:21,960 --> 01:44:22,440
Thank you, Cecil.

1223
01:44:25,260 --> 01:44:28,020
Okay, so we've all transitioned over

1224
01:44:28,020 --> 01:44:34,300
then to what we have for new business. Bill, as we're here, I just want to check in with you

1225
01:44:35,020 --> 01:44:39,060
So, on timing are you good for another 15 to 20 more minutes?

1226
01:44:39,900 --> 01:44:45,800
Yeah, but we need a motion to renew Chris's contract to exercise the option for another year.

1227
01:44:46,020 --> 01:44:46,660
So I'll do that.

1228
01:44:46,660 --> 01:44:47,280
Thank you.

1229
01:44:47,340 --> 01:44:52,620
I'll move it to select board exercise the option to renew the time manager Chris senior through December 31,

1230
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:57,160
2027 having reached his score of over 3.0 and his reviews.

1231
01:44:58,640 --> 01:44:59,440
Um...

1232
01:44:59,440 --> 01:44:59,560
Okay.

1233
01:45:06,930 --> 01:45:24,080
Second, second, second. I prefer to wait to see the court set up. I appreciate and I appreciate the contract and the fact that he needed to score above the three and we have to have review by September 30. I would like to wait and do all that at once.

1234
01:45:27,870 --> 01:45:39,870
That's not a requirement of the contract. So if you're asking for something that's outside the contract, you're putting us up for not adhering to what we agreed to or me.

1235
01:45:42,330 --> 01:45:48,770
And we in the contract have to make this decision by September 30 as well.

1236
01:45:49,030 --> 01:45:53,630
Yes, but if you're making your vote dependent upon something that is not contractually required,

1237
01:45:54,290 --> 01:45:56,750
that becomes a different sort of issue.

1238
01:45:58,210 --> 01:46:07,690
So this is just to as was stated in the contract to extend the contract through December 20,

1239
01:46:07,690 --> 01:46:12,790
27, it is not to stand the contract any further than that.

1240
01:46:12,870 --> 01:46:16,090
This is what we agreed to in December, January.

1241
01:46:21,250 --> 01:46:22,510
I appreciate that.

1242
01:46:35,550 --> 01:46:37,370
So we're not getting a second to those options.

1243
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:52,220
So we will hold on to that for the next meeting.

1244
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:54,820
Then we'll put the goals on for the next meeting.

1245
01:46:56,540 --> 01:46:57,740
Well, did I have a question, then?

1246
01:46:57,840 --> 01:46:58,140
Yeah.

1247
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:00,760
What if we don't have consensus on goals?

1248
01:47:01,700 --> 01:47:05,340
What if the goals don't adhere to everybody's desire

1249
01:47:05,340 --> 01:47:09,000
for what they want across to do next year.

1250
01:47:09,780 --> 01:47:11,300
It's a, wait, wait, wait.

1251
01:47:11,300 --> 01:47:12,220
We have a process bill.

1252
01:47:12,840 --> 01:47:14,760
So, one is not the shellfish shellfish,

1253
01:47:14,940 --> 01:47:15,840
but it's not an independent product.

1254
01:47:16,380 --> 01:47:20,800
We had a contractual obligation based upon past performance.

1255
01:47:21,460 --> 01:47:26,000
And now you're saying that you want to base a vote upon future expectations.

1256
01:47:26,660 --> 01:47:29,480
That's shift in its outside the contract.

1257
01:47:29,800 --> 01:47:33,940
And so if we are going to start considering these extra contractual requirements

1258
01:47:33,940 --> 01:47:39,800
like you're now bringing up the very first time, I want to know whatever those going to be,

1259
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:46,920
how are they factoring in, because that's not what his contract says, and I need to know that as I

1260
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:48,860
consider what's coming into this next meeting.

1261
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:56,660
One thing I specifically asked is to see

1262
01:47:56,660 --> 01:48:06,080
Chris's goals and his own self-assessment in the next packet. We can put period the end, right? Then

1263
01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:10,680
We could potentially take a vote on his contract, then we could talk about next year's goals.

1264
01:48:11,020 --> 01:48:16,120
They can be three distinct things, but I asked to see where we were in February, Chris's

1265
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:20,300
self-assessment of achievement of those goals next to the feedback that we all prepared.

1266
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:25,380
That is past performance. I'd like to close that loop in one packet with one story.

1267
01:48:27,020 --> 01:48:32,580
To be aware in the contract is as Chris's self-evaluated part of the one-year renewal set forth

1268
01:48:32,580 --> 01:48:36,280
because contract as voted upon by this select board last January?

1269
01:48:39,350 --> 01:48:39,950
It's not there.

1270
01:48:40,690 --> 01:48:40,850
Okay.

1271
01:48:41,150 --> 01:48:42,910
So why are we creating additional hurdles?

1272
01:48:44,270 --> 01:48:46,790
We should be adhering to the contracts that we signed.

1273
01:48:47,490 --> 01:48:50,750
That's the whole point of contracts that have expectation and finality.

1274
01:48:51,410 --> 01:48:54,050
I think that we do need to do the goals that you're saying.

1275
01:48:54,210 --> 01:48:57,130
And I think that should be part of a long return renewal.

1276
01:48:57,630 --> 01:49:02,610
But I have a very, very big problem if we're veering off of our contractual obligations

1277
01:49:02,610 --> 01:49:09,490
that were heavily deliberated and agreed upon and concerned Mr. Seniorists, right, as well as an

1278
01:49:09,490 --> 01:49:10,710
employee of this town.

1279
01:49:23,570 --> 01:49:28,110
Yeah, Mike, you have your hand raised. I also, if the contract was in our

1280
01:49:28,110 --> 01:49:36,210
packets, I'm happy to get rid of this, bring out that portion of this contract. Yeah, thanks, Anthony.

1281
01:49:37,510 --> 01:49:43,170
I think it makes sense for us to, you know, just wait and kind of get all that information and

1282
01:49:43,170 --> 01:49:48,290
everything, you know, for we're not asking for months just two weeks until our next meeting.

1283
01:49:48,530 --> 01:49:54,390
So we can, you know, have everybody on the same page and move forward and, you know,

1284
01:49:54,410 --> 01:49:58,270
support Chris's plan and our plan, you know, for years to come.

1285
01:49:58,430 --> 01:50:00,750
So I mean, that would be, that would be my sense.

1286
01:50:01,810 --> 01:50:08,850
So I didn't expect us to be voting, I didn't see that vote on the agenda.

1287
01:50:09,390 --> 01:50:09,910
So,

1288
01:50:12,050 --> 01:50:20,270
you know, I think it's fair that we wait and if we want to vote, then we should put that on the agenda, so that's there.

1289
01:50:20,330 --> 01:50:24,150
You know, the vote was on the agenda, Mike, there's a whole big yellow page.

1290
01:50:24,730 --> 01:50:25,250
Sorry, sorry.

1291
01:50:25,410 --> 01:50:25,510
Sorry.

1292
01:50:26,470 --> 01:50:26,510
Sorry.

1293
01:50:26,790 --> 01:50:27,850
I was on you.

1294
01:50:27,890 --> 01:50:29,430
In our packet,

1295
01:50:31,170 --> 01:50:35,690
And the fly sheet for this section, there is a proposed motion that the

1296
01:50:35,690 --> 01:50:38,590
sector exercise the option to renew time and as you're

1297
01:50:38,590 --> 01:50:42,330
cursing your through December 31st, 2027.

1298
01:50:43,890 --> 01:50:48,030
So, and see if I could, I think that that came out Friday, right?

1299
01:50:48,030 --> 01:50:51,330
So, we got the packet Friday and it was the agenda came out Thursday

1300
01:50:51,330 --> 01:50:52,870
to be in time for our Monday meeting.

1301
01:50:53,910 --> 01:50:57,850
So, you know, I don't, I don't, I mean, the packet always comes out Friday

1302
01:50:57,850 --> 01:51:04,010
with the votes that we're taking on that day, that's nothing new to any of us.

1303
01:51:04,090 --> 01:51:08,270
The thing, we have in the packet certain things to vote on that are in the agenda.

1304
01:51:10,670 --> 01:51:16,230
So, you know, then we, but for this it just says discussion and then, you know, the next day,

1305
01:51:16,410 --> 01:51:21,010
it, you know, we got the packet that says in it. So, I would prefer to wait a couple weeks,

1306
01:51:21,110 --> 01:51:26,250
so we can get all of the information and we can all be rolling in the same direction because, you know,

1307
01:51:26,250 --> 01:51:37,670
So it's, that's just my perspective at this point and now certainly be, you know, ready to vote it, you know, within the contractual timeline.

1308
01:51:40,700 --> 01:51:42,020
So I just want to be clear.

1309
01:51:43,540 --> 01:51:50,280
We receive a packet on Friday as we have since I joined the board in March of 2022.

1310
01:51:53,100 --> 01:51:59,820
Generally, we receive a packet which has a town manager's report and often provides guidance on what's happening in the packet.

1311
01:51:59,820 --> 01:52:11,560
For the past few meetings, we have have an updated packet that really clearly lays out a head of each piece of information in the packet.

1312
01:52:14,100 --> 01:52:14,760
What

1313
01:52:16,940 --> 01:52:25,980
the anticipated motion is, which I just read aloud, move it to support access as often to renew time manager for senior through December 31, 2027.

1314
01:52:26,640 --> 01:52:29,980
The additional information I also read about the value.

1315
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:36,480
Operation Project, what's in the contract? And then it says tonight's anticipated discussion is to review the cumulative

1316
01:52:36,480 --> 01:52:44,420
evaluation and comments and exercise to ensure the town manager received at least as far as satisfactory and vote to exercise the option to renew time manager

1317
01:52:44,420 --> 01:53:00,410
Christina through December 31, 2020, 7. So that should not be a surprise to any of the four of us here that that is what one was in the contract and two is as described based on the value, the evaluations that we completed in June.

1318
01:53:01,630 --> 01:53:05,830
or July. So the question is,

1319
01:53:08,550 --> 01:53:08,770
like,

1320
01:53:10,820 --> 01:53:15,940
do we want to second the motion, which is as described,

1321
01:53:16,140 --> 01:53:20,040
which everybody received on Friday and should have been prepared to vote on,

1322
01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:23,140
or are we not

1323
01:53:23,140 --> 01:53:27,100
seconding the motion? We're holding this to the next conversation where we're discussing goals,

1324
01:53:27,280 --> 01:53:34,740
which again is not part of what's in the contract. The contract is very specific to the evaluation itself.

1325
01:53:39,220 --> 01:53:44,580
So if there's not a second, we will postpone it to the next meeting,

1326
01:53:48,820 --> 01:53:53,740
that's also like the town manager at some levels.

1327
01:53:54,300 --> 01:54:01,840
So this is his contract. This is his work needs to agree that we're doing something. This is not within the contract.

1328
01:54:02,940 --> 01:54:08,660
And you know, that may very well be something that we need to kind of really counsel ourselves if we're going to try to do something different.

1329
01:54:09,280 --> 01:54:12,340
It's very much so we're now retraining on the deal.

1330
01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:13,560
Yeah, Chris, go ahead.

1331
01:54:13,600 --> 01:54:15,160
Yeah, if I think that's everything you've done

1332
01:54:15,160 --> 01:54:16,220
a few degrees, please.

1333
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:19,480
I appreciate that I can give you the all of you on this.

1334
01:54:19,860 --> 01:54:21,240
All positive conversations.

1335
01:54:22,820 --> 01:54:25,280
I, if, if, if, if, if, if,

1336
01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:29,140
if a couple of reasons more when I roll a goal is for another couple of weeks,

1337
01:54:29,240 --> 01:54:33,100
I haven't, I can set out the, I guess we send the package that I sent to all of you

1338
01:54:33,100 --> 01:54:34,380
in July. I know it's been a month.

1339
01:54:34,580 --> 01:54:35,260
I appreciate that.

1340
01:54:35,260 --> 01:54:38,300
I'll send the soft assessment that I prepared back

1341
01:54:38,300 --> 01:54:44,440
to all of you, have it have a conversation in two weeks. It's fine with me. All of you have already done

1342
01:54:44,440 --> 01:54:52,720
your evaluations. I've had a conversation with all of you. I'm comfortable with that. That's fine.

1343
01:54:52,980 --> 01:54:57,400
That's what I want to do. Let's go and wrap this in two weeks. I'm not comfortable with

1344
01:54:59,700 --> 01:54:59,700
that.

1345
01:54:59,880 --> 01:55:04,700
I appreciate that, Chris. But I really have problems presenting. It's like the word that

1346
01:55:04,700 --> 01:55:11,520
does not adhere to its contractual obligations and even if it's easy or takes the temperature

1347
01:55:12,100 --> 01:55:17,780
down, you know, contracts or contracts for a reason. And we agree the terms we should live

1348
01:55:17,780 --> 01:55:22,380
and dive by those terms. And right now, we're setting the example that we don't.

1349
01:55:27,750 --> 01:55:35,210
Yep, Bill, I hear you. There's not a second on this motion right now. So I don't think it's going

1350
01:55:35,210 --> 01:55:40,170
go on your work today and we'll put it on for our next meeting on the 24th.

1351
01:55:47,860 --> 01:55:53,040
So we're going to move on to new business.

1352
01:55:56,580 --> 01:55:59,120
We have a couple things here.

1353
01:56:02,130 --> 01:56:10,730
First, I was going to bounce a little bit out of order and go 3-1-2-4 if because Chris mentioned

1354
01:56:10,730 --> 01:56:19,510
already in his time managers report the November 5th fall town meeting deadlines. So there's been

1355
01:56:20,090 --> 01:56:28,730
communicated internally to staff about an August 28th date to kind of raise any

1356
01:56:32,650 --> 01:56:39,530
potential items I think as close as this work can stay to that August 28th date knowing

1357
01:56:39,530 --> 01:56:53,590
You know, we meet on the 24th and we meet on the 14th, it would be great if we could start to get any potential thoughts about where an items in circulation for our 24th meeting, the warrant closes on the 21st.

1358
01:56:53,610 --> 01:57:03,530
It doesn't mean that between the 24th and the 21st things might not change, but, you know, as soon as we can.

1359
01:57:04,990 --> 01:57:19,530
If there's something kind of formatting as soon as we know what that is, let's get that circulated, so we can kind of help that as a item for agenda for the next meeting, and then probably.

1360
01:57:19,530 --> 01:57:32,530
On to our agenda, we'll have time meeting through it starts in November and then just so we have the calendar in there and the packet, the warrant closes on the 21st.

1361
01:57:33,950 --> 01:57:39,790
It goes to Council on September 29th, motions and backgrounds are due October 1st.

1362
01:57:39,790 --> 01:57:44,930
We will meet on October 5th to vote on the warrant and then we'll go to the printer the next day.

1363
01:57:46,950 --> 01:57:52,930
motion book will get to council on the night and those will be mailed out to town meeting members on the 19th.

1364
01:57:56,710 --> 01:58:00,030
The motion was limited to town meeting members on the 19th.

1365
01:58:00,190 --> 01:58:07,010
People should have the warrant in hand in the mail October 22nd and the motion book should show up a week later.

1366
01:58:07,210 --> 01:58:09,150
So that's the overall calendar.

1367
01:58:09,150 --> 01:58:16,250
We are here again with time meeting such as things to be aware of.

1368
01:58:19,690 --> 01:58:25,430
We have a meeting posted on the 21st, which is a Monday, which is when the warrant closes.

1369
01:58:26,210 --> 01:58:28,150
We anticipate a meeting that day.

1370
01:58:30,230 --> 01:58:32,390
I'm just looking at our next schedule.

1371
01:58:32,550 --> 01:58:35,610
We only have the next two, the 24th and the 14th.

1372
01:58:35,610 --> 01:58:57,250
Yes, basically we would be that following week as well to vote it. It's just a labor day in there. So we I'm just looking at the calendar on my phone. So. Okay. Yeah, the next meeting is December 14th. So potentially, you might have to schedule another one because I think you did that point the 14th from the 28th.

1373
01:58:58,750 --> 01:59:05,970
Okay, so we need to be on the first two to about it. We can do that.

1374
01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:10,740
any further questions on?

1375
01:59:18,870 --> 01:59:21,290
So if you do have any potential

1376
01:59:22,150 --> 01:59:27,630
warrant items that we should be thinking of, let's plan to discuss those out our next meeting.

1377
01:59:28,150 --> 01:59:30,830
I have one for now. Oh, I know. If you'd like to hear it. Sure.

1378
01:59:32,370 --> 01:59:37,070
So it was kind of related to my earlier question in the Morocco Colvert, which is tied into one

1379
01:59:37,070 --> 01:59:40,590
dead exclusion. So Chris, hence the question about the funding and the timing.

1380
01:59:41,310 --> 01:59:46,070
and it was Culver and Morocco Life Extension. I wonder if we shouldn't

1381
01:59:46,070 --> 01:59:52,150
recent some borrowing or authority that's been open since 2021 I believe

1382
01:59:52,150 --> 01:59:57,510
or 2022. So if we think the project is close to done or maybe it would be done

1383
01:59:57,510 --> 01:59:59,710
November what we take it up for the spring.

1384
02:00:00,050 --> 02:00:11,590
But there were some questions from bond council, and when we made another, the last amendment at town meeting, I think we went into this now, three times. So maybe we're not ready on the culvert side. Are we ready in Morocco?

1385
02:00:11,590 --> 02:00:28,210
Life extension sites, since that school is in the MSBA cycle process. Just something to consider, and if there's any other borrowings, that we need to close out. Because that's often when we would do it as full town meeting. So maybe the culvert needs to be up, because what I've done yet, but I'd like us to look at that package.

1386
02:00:30,390 --> 02:00:37,510
Yeah, because it, and I see Stacey still I'm, so I suspect that maybe something that even

1387
02:00:37,510 --> 02:00:41,610
already came ahead with her questions to Chris,

1388
02:00:46,280 --> 02:00:48,180
might go ahead.

1389
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:54,080
Thanks, Cynthia, one of, I don't know if it would be an article that would be coming

1390
02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:59,220
fall-time meeting that quickly, but one of the things that we've been discussing over

1391
02:00:59,220 --> 02:01:08,920
years pretty regularly is taking back certain private roads and or or the town adopting those

1392
02:01:08,920 --> 02:01:16,500
private roads as public roads and creating an avenue for people to live on certain streets to

1393
02:01:16,500 --> 02:01:23,640
do that. So I've been hearing I think it was a tough winter and I know all of the private roads

1394
02:01:23,640 --> 02:01:28,760
the DPW still maintains and they fill holes and they do that, but I think a lot of them

1395
02:01:28,760 --> 02:01:38,720
are just beyond repair and there's no mechanism that we have in place for those neighborhoods

1396
02:01:38,720 --> 02:01:47,280
to resolve that. There is a process through the state where the neighborhoods would put in

1397
02:01:47,280 --> 02:01:52,560
some money to bring them up to town standards. We would go to town meeting for that proposal

1398
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:57,860
and then the town would adopt it and then it would become part of our, you know,

1399
02:01:58,120 --> 02:02:05,780
town owned public roads and we would then get chapter 90 money to maintain those in the future.

1400
02:02:06,680 --> 02:02:08,060
So, and I can work with Chris.

1401
02:02:08,260 --> 02:02:11,920
I know I've mentioned it a couple of times it just hasn't hit the ground yet,

1402
02:02:12,220 --> 02:02:16,360
but lately I've been getting a lot of phone calls about this.

1403
02:02:16,940 --> 02:02:22,500
So, certainly we can speak to the TMA and some other members about how to at least

1404
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:28,580
can they a process that we can recommend, which would be the state process?

1405
02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:36,040
Yeah, so Mike and Michelle, I think it's both of those things that are going to be proposed for

1406
02:02:36,040 --> 02:02:42,980
articles if we can have them for the next packet so that we can review and discuss them if you can

1407
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:52,480
either summarize and write them up or work with Chris to make sure that you have everything you need to

1408
02:02:53,200 --> 02:02:56,380
particularly thought to the board for our next meeting. That would be great.

1409
02:02:58,850 --> 02:02:59,190
Thank you.

1410
02:03:03,940 --> 02:03:08,140
All right, so we'll move on. The next thing is the State Primary Election Board.

1411
02:03:09,400 --> 02:03:18,820
So we have that our state primary is September, Tuesday, September 1st. We have the draft or we

1412
02:03:18,820 --> 02:03:25,360
have the election warrant for our signatures. I believe that's going to go out in DocuSign.

1413
02:03:27,080 --> 02:03:32,960
I think it is already in Docky, so check your Docky sign next to the woods.

1414
02:03:34,240 --> 02:03:36,720
Okay, Patty's a dot comes to me earlier today.

1415
02:03:36,820 --> 02:03:37,180
Yes.

1416
02:03:37,700 --> 02:03:38,160
Shoot.

1417
02:03:39,220 --> 02:03:42,400
I might be having a Docky sign issue then again.

1418
02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:43,620
Yes.

1419
02:03:43,740 --> 02:03:43,980
Okay.

1420
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:51,720
As well, I don't know if you want to make it everyone else sign that and I will be last and hopefully

1421
02:03:51,720 --> 02:03:53,440
can figure it out.

1422
02:03:53,440 --> 02:04:00,040
And that worked the last time when I did make it so that you were last. So, um, it will, I'll read to it.

1423
02:04:01,840 --> 02:04:07,140
Okay. Thank you. Sorry. I didn't realize that that, that, that had already been sent. Sure.

1424
02:04:08,740 --> 02:04:17,580
Then, um, towards me first. Um, that said, uh, I know I believe we've, um, revised, uh,

1425
02:04:17,580 --> 02:04:26,720
the spelling of Bill's name in there so we can make a motion to approve and sign the

1426
02:04:27,900 --> 02:04:36,070
warrant. Move that we approve the warrant for approve and sign the warrant for the

1427
02:04:36,070 --> 02:04:41,830
October 2026 State Primary as presented and authorized its posting in service and accordance with

1428
02:04:41,830 --> 02:04:45,230
national laws and the towns applicable requirements.

1429
02:04:46,190 --> 02:04:46,710
Okay.

1430
02:04:47,670 --> 02:04:47,750
Okay.

1431
02:04:47,750 --> 02:04:47,790
Okay.

1432
02:04:48,650 --> 02:04:50,410
Well, call the bill.

1433
02:04:50,870 --> 02:04:51,570
I'm like.

1434
02:04:52,530 --> 02:04:52,830
Yes.

1435
02:04:53,590 --> 02:04:53,790
Michelle?

1436
02:04:54,470 --> 02:04:54,530
Yes.

1437
02:04:55,130 --> 02:04:55,390
All right.

1438
02:04:55,390 --> 02:04:55,610
I vote.

1439
02:04:55,830 --> 02:04:56,870
Yes, as well.

1440
02:05:00,760 --> 02:05:01,540
Also, thank you.

1441
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:02,300
Thank you, Mary Ellen.

1442
02:05:02,420 --> 02:05:04,700
Because her office is going to be doing a lot of work.

1443
02:05:04,900 --> 02:05:07,720
I'll go between now and September first.

1444
02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:09,440
All right.

1445
02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:11,240
So we have an impact.

1446
02:05:12,040 --> 02:05:18,780
There's just something that Bill had pulled together from a suggestion for kickoff for a

1447
02:05:18,780 --> 02:05:29,040
long range financial planning committee and basically this is just sort of working around

1448
02:05:29,040 --> 02:05:35,920
a kickoff meeting and having kind of a survey for that kickoff meeting for the members

1449
02:05:35,920 --> 02:05:36,400
of that meeting.

1450
02:05:36,500 --> 02:05:39,880
So, Bill, I will turn it over to you on-

1451
02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:45,060
Yeah. There's not much more than that. Um, obviously we need to figure out who else we're

1452
02:05:45,060 --> 02:05:50,120
pointing at or next meeting. Uh, but this is just a way of collecting best times for

1453
02:05:50,120 --> 02:05:57,220
all of our members to meet, so we can find that time and get it going. I also lifted, uh, the same

1454
02:05:57,220 --> 02:06:03,300
survey questions that were recently used by the Affordable Housing Trust to prepare and structure

1455
02:06:03,300 --> 02:06:11,240
there. Recently, we are getting meeting. It was very, very successful. A lot of people walked

1456
02:06:11,240 --> 02:06:16,000
out of it, saying that it helped organize the discussion and pointed in a very productive

1457
02:06:16,560 --> 02:06:20,840
direction. So we actually started talking about what needed to be done and not just where we

1458
02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:28,840
know still. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, I figured it was a good opportunity to use

1459
02:06:28,840 --> 02:06:32,140
that same process here, as we also tried to find times

1460
02:06:32,140 --> 02:06:34,180
for the long-term financial planning committee survey,

1461
02:06:34,640 --> 02:06:36,700
long-term financial planning committee,

1462
02:06:36,700 --> 02:06:37,820
it actually would need.

1463
02:06:43,140 --> 02:06:45,900
So as the other select board member on this committee,

1464
02:06:46,140 --> 02:06:47,800
I hadn't seen the survey, though I appreciate

1465
02:06:48,230 --> 02:06:50,240
we need to get some times.

1466
02:06:50,300 --> 02:06:51,860
We did, as I mentioned earlier,

1467
02:06:52,340 --> 02:06:54,000
we were interviewing Jean-Deptaste.

1468
02:06:54,440 --> 02:06:57,520
We did have a view of the model, the model on July 29th,

1469
02:06:57,620 --> 02:06:59,200
then I went on vacation August 1st.

1470
02:07:01,400 --> 02:07:14,580
The goal would be bill, and I know I did not circle back with you on that either, but that generally, my sense in the model meeting, we had a couple of school committee people, the two at large members, Chris was able to make it Stacy was not.

1471
02:07:15,420 --> 02:07:18,760
I think people that are there have reached their hands and volunteered to be there.

1472
02:07:18,820 --> 02:07:25,760
I think what people's personal contributions could be is a great question, but I think everyone that kind of raised their hand has shown their interest in why.

1473
02:07:25,760 --> 02:07:29,960
So, we can still survey, or we can do whatever, but as...

1474
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:59,880
Is it relates to the pick-off meeting to launch when we get the last at large member? I would like us to sort of, if it's going to be in person versus a high, you know, some in person, some on Zoom. I'd like it to potentially be at the end of a work day, like a Monday, late afternoon or early evening, maybe on a Monday that we don't have a meeting, or a Tuesday or Wednesday, right after town hall closes, so that town staff, like Stacey and Chris and whoever Chris's office may need to attend, and school superintendent and finance director can,

1475
02:07:59,880 --> 02:08:04,920
not have to dial back in or stay in town if we expect to be in person that you know most of the time.

1476
02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:09,220
So I'd like to have that as a consideration like a four or five six o'clock.

1477
02:08:10,700 --> 02:08:14,360
On a Monday or right after you know the day ends.

1478
02:08:14,820 --> 02:08:18,000
So that's I'd said that to the few folks that were there from the model conversation.

1479
02:08:18,760 --> 02:08:22,140
I'd like to sort of see if we can't land in that time frame.

1480
02:08:22,500 --> 02:08:23,660
I'm happy to do that Michelle.

1481
02:08:24,220 --> 02:08:26,000
That's best for my schedule as well.

1482
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:33,460
And when this is finalized and put out, we can limit the options so that we steer people at that direction.

1483
02:08:34,640 --> 02:08:37,520
I think it's best for everybody else and you're right.

1484
02:08:38,260 --> 02:08:52,160
Yeah, so I was going to I was going to share that update tonight that that was that we had the model update that we tried to land on managed expectations on late afternoon kinds of meetings that we likely have one of the large members

1485
02:08:52,760 --> 02:08:58,820
willing to hold the model along with potentially one of the fincon members, and we do want to bring

1486
02:08:58,820 --> 02:09:02,160
Stacy back in as well. She wasn't able to join us. She was on vacation that I went on vacation,

1487
02:09:02,440 --> 02:09:06,720
but we should think about who were the keepers. We don't have too many people and they were at the

1488
02:09:06,720 --> 02:09:10,660
authority. So we can work through some of those details in the first meeting as well.

1489
02:09:13,920 --> 02:09:19,340
So why don't it sounds like the two of you should coordinate with Chris was easy finding those

1490
02:09:19,340 --> 02:09:27,880
in times to kind of nail that piece down and then Michelle if you have any additional feedback

1491
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:36,020
with the bill on kind of the survey I understand from folks who attended that age team meeting

1492
02:09:36,020 --> 02:09:44,540
that they believe appreciated being able to kind of articulate why they why they were there or

1493
02:09:44,540 --> 02:09:48,300
of what kind of lay things out on the table.

1494
02:09:49,380 --> 02:09:52,240
First, so if there's other things,

1495
02:09:52,460 --> 02:09:57,060
maybe they too, do you can look together on just sort of this?

1496
02:09:57,820 --> 02:10:02,380
Kick off agenda survey timing, peace.

1497
02:10:03,440 --> 02:10:04,700
Yep, let's note on the day,

1498
02:10:04,700 --> 02:10:06,380
and I think we can figure out the invite

1499
02:10:06,380 --> 02:10:09,120
and the questions to walk in with the answers too.

1500
02:10:09,480 --> 02:10:10,580
But make sense.

1501
02:10:10,820 --> 02:10:11,480
I'm really great.

1502
02:10:11,480 --> 02:10:12,580
I'll be in touch with you Michelle.

1503
02:10:13,240 --> 02:10:14,320
Give me some time,

1504
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:15,900
because I'm about to go international.

1505
02:10:17,900 --> 02:10:17,920
Yeah.

1506
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:18,820
And I have applications.

1507
02:10:19,560 --> 02:10:19,960
Okay.

1508
02:10:20,700 --> 02:10:20,960
All right.

1509
02:10:21,120 --> 02:10:22,500
Tag your situation.

1510
02:10:22,800 --> 02:10:24,360
What it feels like in every week.

1511
02:10:24,740 --> 02:10:25,300
Someone else.

1512
02:10:25,480 --> 02:10:25,860
All right.

1513
02:10:26,120 --> 02:10:26,980
I can do that.

1514
02:10:32,030 --> 02:10:34,010
So the last thing that we have had

1515
02:10:34,010 --> 02:10:38,730
of me as business ahead of minutes is

1516
02:10:39,730 --> 02:10:42,270
thinking of developing some select board norms.

1517
02:10:44,230 --> 02:10:47,990
Anthony had or Kristen Anthony kind of had some familiarity

1518
02:10:47,990 --> 02:10:54,950
with a couple different examples that they've pulled in from Nidak and from Brookline, something we've

1519
02:10:56,070 --> 02:11:17,970
talked about a little bit, as we talk about select board goals and our kind of long-term things that we're

1520
02:11:19,860 --> 02:11:29,140
thinking that Bill and Mike could work together on taking these documents that we have

1521
02:11:29,140 --> 02:11:32,860
native bookline taking a look at them seeing if there's anything else that might come

1522
02:11:32,860 --> 02:11:41,100
through the MMA and trying to nail down a similar one-pager for us as a select board

1523
02:11:41,100 --> 02:11:46,180
that can be shared back with the board for comments and feedback and consideration.

1524
02:11:48,170 --> 02:11:55,570
Yeah, thanks, Cynthia, for putting this on, you know, I've been asking for a while, you know,

1525
02:11:55,630 --> 02:12:01,570
over the years, and it's just one of those things that was, we would just get so busy, and

1526
02:12:01,570 --> 02:12:06,550
it was kind of like so important that we didn't want to just rush it, and so it does take a

1527
02:12:06,550 --> 02:12:12,450
little bit of intention, and I think focusing on our governance at this point makes sense.

1528
02:12:12,450 --> 02:12:13,970
So happy to work with Bill on it.

1529
02:12:14,090 --> 02:12:20,590
We've already talked a little bit about it and I know Keras sent over some of these examples

1530
02:12:20,590 --> 02:12:27,890
from other communities, but it's kind of, you know, we Bill and I can put some information

1531
02:12:27,890 --> 02:12:33,550
forward, but kind of, I guess, similar to the survey strategy to see what everybody thinks

1532
02:12:33,550 --> 02:12:39,310
first with some ideas of whether communities do and then put together our own, which will

1533
02:12:39,310 --> 02:12:43,650
always change. I know the school committees have the benefit of having theirs established

1534
02:12:43,650 --> 02:12:51,210
and they change those from time to time and but it's good to kind of just kind of set

1535
02:12:51,210 --> 02:12:55,030
up the playing field and get everybody on the same page. So thank you.

1536
02:12:58,010 --> 02:12:58,410
It's like

1537
02:13:04,070 --> 02:13:06,630
anything to add there.

1538
02:13:07,590 --> 02:13:13,410
No, I mean this is this is overdue. I think getting a document that can become a discussion is

1539
02:13:13,410 --> 02:13:19,530
important thing. And I see a lot of good inspiration from the examples that Anthony sent on.

1540
02:13:20,050 --> 02:13:21,850
So I'm glad to get this going.

1541
02:13:25,190 --> 02:13:27,510
Uh, I, since I know you're, um,

1542
02:13:28,290 --> 02:13:31,930
haven't lately been country, uh, this might take more than the next two weeks.

1543
02:13:32,530 --> 02:13:35,870
So I expect this probably not on our packet on the 24th, but maybe come back

1544
02:13:35,870 --> 02:13:41,690
around to us in September. Um, so we'll just stay in touch on on timeline for that.

1545
02:13:41,690 --> 02:13:45,690
but I appreciate the willingness to take this on

1546
02:13:46,410 --> 02:13:48,970
and kind of get us a good document

1547
02:13:48,970 --> 02:13:50,210
that we can start to put with.

1548
02:13:51,490 --> 02:13:52,430
You have my go ahead.

1549
02:13:53,050 --> 02:13:54,590
Yeah, the only thing I would say is maybe

1550
02:13:54,590 --> 02:13:58,230
beven on is a kind of static item for the next several meetings,

1551
02:13:58,510 --> 02:14:01,810
just kind of as like an update just so it's there in case

1552
02:14:01,810 --> 02:14:04,250
we want to put some information there,

1553
02:14:04,430 --> 02:14:06,610
just so the community can have some visibility to it

1554
02:14:06,610 --> 02:14:08,950
because I hear a lot from people say,

1555
02:14:09,230 --> 02:14:11,190
hey, why don't you do this or so and so?

1556
02:14:11,190 --> 02:14:16,770
as long as people see that we're working on it and can weigh in as well and be involved,

1557
02:14:16,910 --> 02:14:23,490
I think that'll be helpful. But to your point, I think, you know, no real significant action items

1558
02:14:23,490 --> 02:14:33,730
at our next meeting. So that's good. Then the last piece that we have is

1559
02:14:36,170 --> 02:14:44,050
minutes, so these are minutes from June 15th, 1829, and then July 27th meetings.

1560
02:14:44,510 --> 02:14:50,410
We're not interested to look at those if there's any edits there or we can approve those.

1561
02:14:54,080 --> 02:14:59,800
I'll move the slide board approves the minutes from June 15th, June 18th, June 29th.

1562
02:15:00,020 --> 02:15:04,140
And July 27, 2026, second.

1563
02:15:06,200 --> 02:15:06,840
Any discussion?

1564
02:15:11,020 --> 02:15:19,280
Roll call, Michelle? Aye. Mike? Yes. Bill? Aye. I vote, yes, as well.

1565
02:15:22,380 --> 02:15:24,780
So we said it at a number of times,

1566
02:15:24,940 --> 02:15:34,880
or meeting on Monday, August 24th, we will plan to be back in person on the 24th and then meeting on Monday, September 14th.

1567
02:15:34,880 --> 02:15:37,600
of their things that come up around town meeting.

1568
02:15:38,900 --> 02:15:41,520
Let's try to get those in the packet for their 24th,

1569
02:15:41,560 --> 02:15:42,820
since I bought the tree meeting,

1570
02:15:43,620 --> 02:15:46,860
the tree hearing for a 612 main street at that time,

1571
02:15:47,060 --> 02:15:48,080
as well.

1572
02:15:51,610 --> 02:15:52,890
And I know for a lot of things.

1573
02:15:54,250 --> 02:15:56,850
No one are unknown, we'll show up.

1574
02:15:57,510 --> 02:15:59,370
So are we gonna take a motion to adjourn?

1575
02:16:01,230 --> 02:16:04,270
Mike, is your hand up for a reason before we adjourn?

1576
02:16:06,660 --> 02:16:07,580
No, sorry.

1577
02:16:07,580 --> 02:16:14,060
more than you should. I was like wow. I lost my picture of me on my screen so I didn't see

1578
02:16:14,060 --> 02:16:15,100
that I still have it up. Sorry.

1579
02:16:17,620 --> 02:16:20,000
Motion to which are. I can't second.

1580
02:16:20,840 --> 02:16:31,040
Okay, roll call. All right, yes. Yes. Yes, as well. All right. Thank you everyone. Have a good night.

1581
02:16:31,680 --> 02:16:36,620
Thank you, Patty, for keeping the Zoom running and thank you again for posting this.

1582
02:16:36,620 --> 02:16:37,680
They found Bill.

1583
02:16:37,900 --> 02:16:38,360
Thank you.

1584
02:16:38,360 --> 02:16:38,940
Thanks Chris.

1585
02:16:39,060 --> 02:16:40,380
Enjoy your trip though.

1586
02:16:41,220 --> 02:16:41,860
Thank you all.

1587
02:16:42,040 --> 02:16:42,400
See you back.