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that's better uh good evening folks and
welcome to the

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uh thursday october 7th 2021.
i guess you call it a special

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meeting of the board of supervisors if
you please join me in saying the pledge

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of allegiance

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is

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i'm going to dispense with the
attendance i think everybody knows

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everybody
tonight um

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first and foremost does anybody have any
informational items for the board

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tonight this evening's meeting is being
video recorded for rebroadcast

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thank you tommy first item on our agenda
tonight is public comment we do ask that

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you limit your public comment to five
minutes does anybody have public comment

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for the board tonight

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okay saying none we will move along
we've only got a couple of action items

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tonight the first item is going to be a
resolution

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2021-27 that's going to be a motion to
approve financing of apparatus for the

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warchester volunteer fire department as
folks know we authorized a down payment

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for a vehicle
last month we've talked about it for a

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few months and this particular item
pertains specifically to the financing

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and i'm going to ask tommy just to give
us just a quick high-level snapshot of

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what we're
contending with tonight

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uh the fire department is seeking
certain uh tax-exempt financing under

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the irs
code the governing body

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must ratify their status of a non-profit
in order to get that financing

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thank you tommy does any board member
have any questions comments concerns

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with regards to the information
pertaining to this we of course think

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it's a great idea to get any discount
that you can conceivably get so

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certainly i think in general we're
always supportive of that but does

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anybody have any questions or comments
not that we're moving forward on the

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fire apparatus and they're getting their
discount by ordering it early so i think

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we're doing the right thing

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steve any questions comments concerns no
sir i think we've addressed all of it

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before
excellent then i'll entertain a motion

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if someone wants to make one
make a motion for the resolution 2021-27

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will approve financing for the opportune
volunteer fire department

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and i'll second that motion okay it's
been moved and seconded is there any

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public comment regarding the motion on
the floor

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seeing none i'll call the question all
those in favor

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aye motion passes
so the next item is going to be a motion

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that's going to increase the township
contribution to warcester volunteer fire

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department for the purchase of the
apparatus so just the mechanics of it is

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we authorized a percentage um
of 60 on the down payment and because

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they've saved a little bit of money
the conversation is to

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have to adjust our percentage that we're
allocating

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from 60 to 62 so that they can hold on
to

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the money that they're saving and put
that back into the

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fire department i think i said that
correctly i hope i did

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i don't know if anybody has any thoughts
or comments on that

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chairman once again i think the fire
company does a great job the ladies

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auxiliary do a great job and anything
the township can do

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to help them not drain their finances so
they can be physically

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uh viable and have money for other
things they want to do

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i think it's important for the township
to step forward and help them any way we

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can
and i think with this motion it'll do

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that so
i have no problem with it

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okay
lou any comments the only comment is i

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think we're we're uh
fully funding the fire department and we

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uh the taxpayers
pay the taxes and we're fully funding

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the fire department i stand behind it
100 so i think we're

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on on the right track certainly i think
i think we're all in agreement on that

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we've talked a lot about um the asset
that we think that the volunteer fire

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department is and and we have we're
fortunate enough frankly to have some

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opportunities where we can put our money
where our mouth is and and i think um

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just over the last several years we've i
i think the number is around 1.4 million

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uh that we've contributed in various
ways we obviously authorized

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some of the highlights
thanks lou i don't know if you got that

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or not but
pretty informative it is and it talks so

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1.375 so i overstated it i'm a
politician it was 1.375 as opposed to

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1.4 so you have to dock me on that but
um those were the figures in terms of

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straight contributions we've we've
obviously talked about the apparatus

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which we think you know that
those are big dollars but there we're

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frankly you know you talk a lot about
win wins and relationships and this is

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when we still think we're getting a good
deal you know in terms of um what the

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true cost of ownership is for a fire
department and and what we're able to

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contribute um we're proud of those
dollars but there's still i think we're

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still um on the right side of that we've
allocated and i i actually have to thank

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our staff uh it wasn't always the case i
know paul you can you can certainly

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relate to this is that there wasn't
always a smooth relationship with our

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board in the past sometimes with the
fire department and we just this

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particular uh group i know has said many
times we think that's a mistake you know

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that's a mistake just from uh
what the value is to our community

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with the fire department and
tommy and the staff have gotten

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more organized in terms of saying this
is going to be the capital contributions

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you can anticipate and i think we
i'll check my numbers so i won't

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overstate it but a hundred thousand a
year um and then some operating money

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and uh i know we meet with you guys
regularly to make sure that when those

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big expenses we had the issue with the
um

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i'm gonna draw our blank on it but with
the radios at one point was you know

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almost a couple hundred thousand dollars
uh just hey guess what you got to spend

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the money so we want to make sure we're
aware of those things we're allocating

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the money um
i think we've done a good job but i also

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you know the reality is is we want to
set that up as just a recurring thing

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every year the money goes you guys take
care of it and are good stewards with

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the money appropriately and we make sure
that we're we're keeping you know we're

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anticipating expense issues and getting
them out in front we're fortunate as a

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community we have the money to do that
and i think those are good dollars to

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spend always so i would agree and we'll
certainly entertain a motion if somebody

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would like to make it so that we make
sure that the savings you're getting

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goes back into the fire department so
we're going to make a motion to increase

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the chance of contribution to the
worcestershire volunteer fire department

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uh for the purchasing apparatus i guess
say to increase it to 62 percent because

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that was the term yeah i think that's
fine i said i think that's fine as the

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motion all right i'll second that motion
okay

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it's been moved in seconded any public
comment regarding the motion on the

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floor
seeing none i'll call the question all

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those in favor
aye motion passes

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next up is other business does anybody
have any other business they wish to

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bring before the board tonight
i do not

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yes sir excellent we'll move forward to
public comment does anybody have any

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final public comment they'd like to make
tonight

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before the board
paul

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um if you just come so we can get you on
the recording

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as chairman of the board of trustees for
the warchester volunteer fire department

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i just want to thank you for the
continued

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support
of the fire department we recognize that

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we couldn't do the job we do without
your help

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and we hope that you know you understand
that we're here for you this township we

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are the townships fire department and we
intend to stay the fire departments

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the townships fire department and in
good standing we have a uh a growing

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cadre of manpower
and our equipment is uh is is top notch

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and uh we appreciate your support thank
you very much you're very welcome paul

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anybody else have any public comment for
the board tonight

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once again hate to be the dead horse but
paul once again we'll be holding you

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folks we represent the township and the
township residents

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you know this is their money and we're
the stewards of it and

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we're all working together but
volunteers are hard to come by

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anywhere and we really really appreciate
i think rick has said that but i just

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want to reiterate it again that the
whole board feels that way that anything

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we do to help the firehouse we're
willing to do that because you are such

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a big part of the community
and you know it keeps our a safe

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community we thank you for that

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okay seeing no additional public comment
then motion to adjourn

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you