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think the following evening and you can do that online or you can do that at various shops the toll on the M1 just outside Dundalk is now two euro straight for a car I can't say what it is for other vehicles but I know it's two euro straight for a car which to be honest which is something of a relief because when you were trying to struggle to get a euro a 50 and two 20s it's a lot easier just to throw one two euro coin into the basket a friend was referred to letterkenny university hospital at 20 past seven yesterday for a bite she'd received on a walk she is still sitting in the emergency department and has only been in for blood pressure it's a long time to wait what's the hold up for something that's going likely to be treated in a few minutes my understanding is the way things work in the ED is as soon as you arrive you will be triaged and then prioritized based on the severity of your injury and the severity of the emergency but we will certainly look into that now let's go to zoom because we're joined by counselor donal mandy kelly who is the mayor of the letterkenny invisible district donal good morning good morning donal we were speaking earlier this week about cctv cameras in the twin towns area and there's a public consultation on where they should be placed six more cameras now to be based in the wider letterkenny area and again the public are going to have their right to a say yep donal that public consultation was launched yesterday for six few cameras within the letterkenny area the public consultation is can be viewed in the courtyard job and center in letterkenny or feedback can be emailed to cctvleditkenny at gmail.com this was something I suppose was brought up by gardy c corner something that they recommended donal and an application has been smitten by the chamber of commerce for these x the cameras you know and listen as I suppose the cameras we have in place there we have a camera one camera on the station roundabout and we have two at the courthouse junction we have about one on high road and one on my good square and one on a lower main street and you know these cameras have worked in a very positive manner assets have been put in place it has deterred I'm told by a gardy deterred shoplifters from as opposed to carrying out as opposed to be like their trade you know with on the town and you know they've worked wonders and I think you know there's public consultation now for six more cameras two to be placed in the polestar roundabout two at the hospital roundabout one on dolbert plunkett road there at the budu and one on the island at larkins lane I think it'll be a great asset myself now to the town to have these x the cameras put in place and you know it's very important as well now for the public to have their say and that's the reason for a public consultation and all the details that are on the courtyard shaman center show I would urge the public to go and and visit the courtyard shaman center and have a look at the maps of where these cameras are to be designated you know and have their say because there's a say don't it's very important you know the public have their say on this as well obviously cctv plays an important role in as you said their deterrence and also in investigating crimes that have happened and there have been certainly occasions where footage taken from cctv and processed by gar thee has had a crucial role to play in in the outcome of court cases another area in which cctv can help is in the area of traffic management now we know there was a pilot program in letter kenny some time ago whereby some of the cameras were actually switched on live and people could look on webcams and and in fact see what traffic conditions were like around letter kenny in places like the station roundabout places like the poll star and a lot of people say you know can can we not do that again is that something that can form part of this discussion yeah definitely definitely I was wrong and I mean again I want to express again that's that's all part of the public consultation and people come out to and and express their views and their opinions and they'll all be taken on board and and you're you're 100% correct the cameras that have that are in place and have been in place for a number of years you know that they have captured several incidents and they've been a big part of of solving I suppose various crimes if you like as well and different issues are going on within within the town and what you're after skating to but with the traffic control and things like you know these cameras I mean they can be used in different ways in different avenues and that you know as I say I can't express enough for the public to come out now and as the courtyard and have their say on it you know there's no point in down the line maybe even these cameras is on and and coming out then and and expressing your views and opinions when it's too late now's the time to do it in regards to the public to come out because it does very important not only for in the Irish economy the Chamber's commerce for us as councillors as well and for Donningham County Council I want to go very briefly to a call online too and I know you've taken a keen interest in traffic around letter Kenny yourself and in particular on the effective road works in the between the poll star and the dry arch on the fore lane there there's a call to run line two who has a story to tell good morning good morning Donal good morning I think or as I was I don't know that guy's name but he's quite he's Donal too you have two Donals just to confuse us right lovely put traffic lights on the poll star around of it for God's sake that's the only words that I can come up with because it's terrible how people have to every evening for about 45 to 50-55 minutes on traffic waiting to get home whereas if you had traffic lights everybody would get a turn everybody would get home quicker that's it's a fair question and Donal I will put that too you know it goes perhaps slightly beyond the CCTV thing but certainly and I know that the roadworks have had an impact and certainly at the moment this week because of the 12th of July and a high influx of visitors from Northern Ireland we're going to have very heavy traffic on that road too but from the point of view of the poll star and and traffic management there is it time to start considering lights yeah Donal I'll welcome your your callers' opinions there and the number the number called our name there but um I'll welcome your opinions on the vision of everybody um out there all all the constituents out there um that we want to take on board um I can tell you Donal that we recently had had a meeting with with the contractors of the foreing were sales along with the Chamber of Commerce and that's something that that we did bring up as councillors as well um was traffic lights at the poll star so um just for that caller that's something that we have expressed and uh we'll continue expressing a look on to you and um try to get them implemented because um I do believe Michelle I would make a lot of sense there and um as I say we'll keep pushing for this Right well that that's some some positive news uh thanks thanks very much indeed for your call Connor um Donal one final question before I let you go um and and its funding even as particularly in things like the traffic management use of the cameras the reason there was a pilot project is there was funding for a pilot project and then that money was withdrawn if there is to be more use of the cameras for things like that it's going to take more money it's going to take more funding how advanced are you and the JPC and the chamber and others in terms of increasing the funding so the cameras can be utilized to their fullest Yeah Donal that's something we'll have to look down to listen there's a I'm not on the the JPC to my time itself now but there's a there's a number of concerts on out there as well and that'll be expressing the reviews on that and they'll be working hard to have the have the following um made to that's full potential full use as well I'm no doubt about that along with the chamber of cameras so um going forward Donal um I think I think this will be a great asset to let the Kenny um and you know that's what we're up on that down the line here is to help improve the town and and uh listen traffic congestion with what I know as well as that's a big problem with another Kenny and we're pushing harder as county councillors and to address them you know and every opportunity we get and uh number one as well don't allow for these cameras in place as safely the safety of our of our constituents and the people within there the Kenny whether it's Gabon whether it's cycling the roads walking the roads whether it's going out of night you know that's all that's always number one and uh something that um I think these cameras will play a big part in finally and we all know that I mean a lot of people are listening to this at the moment and they're all saying the same thing what about the Bonneckee bridge what about the second link over the Swilly and I mean ultimately if we're going to solve all these traffic congestion problems that we're having particularly around the Polestar particularly on the four lane it's going to take the Bonneckee link it's going to take that second bridge isn't it no you have been lost nearly every day come on me but it and indeed I've just been handed Donnery's just giving me a piece of paper just says traffic lights on the Polestar round about are the only sensible solution to the traffic congestion pertaining to that location I hope it won't take as long as the bridge over the Swilly and another caller just saying thank you councillor Donal for getting my grandchild's passport so that's an unrelated thing but a caller expressing thanks and we're happy to pass that on and as yeah obviously the Bonneckee I need a bit of help on the mic though well you have to you have to though and I mean I mean and obviously the the Bonneckee link it's a thing we haven't necessarily talked an awful lot about it in the past while but the Bonneckee link remains the as it were the Holy Grail for letter Kenny the the campaign for that Bonneckee link remains and just because we're not talking about it it doesn't mean that the campaign to get it and to get it built isn't continuing in the background definitely not done I mean as you don't have had me this several times on that I'm rightly so and you know I understand the frustration of the people out there coming onto the town like actually went through the town yesterday even myself and out the Polestar but there's diabolical time to get around it but last the Bonneckee link and the bridges in my view it's a that's a major a major priority that that should be implemented sooner or later and listen that's not to say that the bus isn't the long-finger don't necessarily something that that we're pushing hard for you know as well at every opportunity we get as local reps you know and that we will continue the to push hard in this because I do believe that it does the way forward that a bridge over the swally and to take that traffic traffic congestion away for the four four and I do believe that a big game changer for Leithic in a town and from getting on like that to definitely so well listen as I say it's you might inherit been raised all the time on social media or the likes the likes of the radio here don't but be assured this is something that we are pushing hard on in the background and we'll continue to push hard on councillor Donald Mandy Kelly thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning before we read up there can I just wish a fellow a 92nd happiest birthday of the day it wouldn't be Ian McGarvey perchance would it Ian McGarvey the oldest certain councillor and and and the whole of the country has turned 92 the day and I can honestly say I suppose just in the last two years I really got to know Ian very well and an absolute gentleman and a fellow that wears his hardened sleeve and you know I see him in the chamber there every day that runs I mean it works hard for constituents on these as dedication and passion to the job you know it's it's a breathtaking you know it's a breath of fresh air and that I just I want to watch him a happy 92nd birthday of the day and all the best for the future as well and he's a man who is still well able to talk on behalf of the issues he's representing in the people I know he is oh he can he can talk forever and he frequently does Donald thank you very much indeed and we obviously we we all echo that a happy birthday to Councillor Ian McGarvey as well what a man at Creaseless Supermarket we are renowned for offering quality and value for all your convenience needs we have expanded and are now offering a full on-post service pay a bill send a package or lodge into a 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people contacting us with regards to public toilets in Bunkrana and elsewhere as well we heard from Patrick earlier about the public toilets in Bunkrana he was less than happy with the state he found those toilets in on Tuesday of this week when he was visiting Bunkrana joined on the line by Dara who many many years ago had a summer job doing just what Patrick was demanding cleaning those toilets Dara good morning how are you doing Donnie? well very well indeed thank you great great to have you on on on the show you're going right back Dara to at a time when you were a student and your job was those toilets he used to be a there was a town clerk in Bunkrana called Paul Doyle at the time remember him well he was the next door neighbor he was my mommy's next door neighbor so he got me a part summer job in there and my job was to clean those toilets three or four times a day for the whole summer and to be honest all it was a brilliant job because you got to hang around the beach the whole summer and all you had to do was keep doing a bit of cleaning during the day you know so it wouldn't take much to get back to that the problem seems to be that when they get out of hand those toilets the big job to clean them then but if you're there keeping an eye on them and all that there it's not a big job you know so really you know I think this is the second or third time somebody's been on Highland about those toilets in Bunkrana and you know I'm really amazed to hear that the problem hasn't been solved yet and I suppose on the people of on behalf of the people of Bunkrana would like to apologize to Patrick and people like that who have to come and endure something like that you know I think it's it's a bigger problem it's not just Bunkrana it seems to be everywhere but and certainly Bunkrana is not the only area we're getting complaints about we'll have to acknowledge that absolutely um you you made an interesting point there you referenced Paul Doyle I well remember covering meetings of the old Bunkrana Urban District Council and Paul as town clerk back back in the day and you know the point you made was that Paul Doyle the town clerk asked you to do a job and you did the job and it was all done through Bunkrana Urban District Council now we don't have an Urban District Council we have a municipal district which is based in Carindona covers the whole of Ineshaun but it has to report back to the wider council structure in Lyford in order to validate any decisions and maybe the fact that we don't have that local management is part of the issue here definitely I think the attention to detail has gone you know for something to be mentioned on a station as popular as Highland and for the problem still not to be solved you know it's not a big job for somebody to get on the phone and phone Nicholas Crossen or Reena Donahue or Jack Murray and say you know get me two students that can split that work seven days a week I'm going to have it solved in a week you know they go down and pay them a couple hundred or three hundred euro every week for doing it and they'll have the money and then the problem is solved you know but that things like that don't seem to happen because the urban has gone you know it's I don't know maybe it's the attention to detail is not there yeah right well I want to go to line two because on line two is someone you I'm sure will know Dara Gerard Porter is the vice chair of the Bunkrana Tidy Towns committee Gerard good morning hello don't know yeah I'm on now I'm just to support that now after two hello Dara how's it going I raised this issue with Greg last month so a little bit these public toilets and Bunkrana Tidy Towns has been raising this issue about the public toilets for years you know this isn't just an issue this year we raised this issue last year as well the council the council has even mentioned it in one of their meetings last April 2021 and we were just being let down the Bunkrana has been let down by this because people be aware of them they might the work that Bunkrana Tidy Towns is doing our local gardening team with a lovely pollinator areas and all that there and just to get that the people know that we were out on Saturday morning cleaning we were out in Sunday morning cleaning we were out in Monday night cleaning all the laundry works and we can't even get the smallest things the toilets cleaned you're being let down here by the council we are being let down by our local councillors they're well aware of this issue get it out there and get the council to get somebody down there and get them toilets cleaned or close the toilets one or the other but don't be letting the people of Bunkrana have to go through this and visitors and all that we you probably can tell from their voice we are so angry in Bunkrana Tidy Towns with this issue there's no point in asking out and keeping everyone else clean and then people go into the toilets that's twice now last month somebody had to come on a visitor and give out on a highland radio about the toilets in Bunkrana now this month again when is it going to stop and in fairness to Patrick Patrick was very complimentary about the state of everything else he actually specifically referenced the pollinator program because the way he described it was the way they're leaving the area for the bees and he was very complimentary about the way the town was run and you know he described Bunkrana and the way it looked as majestic but the outlier the fly in the ointment the elephant in the room is those toilets yes we've elected members here in Bunkrana and I'm going to target them now they are getting paid taxpayers money they're getting voted on get and do your job get the toilets cleaned he's know who the man is responsible for them toilets we in Tidy Towns have contacted them numerous times I'm not going to mention his name on there but he knows who he is and he's not taking his responsibility of these toilets seriously so he's not Dara you want to come back in there I was just going to say Donald at Fompton you see the Tidy Towns people don't want to really command them as well because they watch them day and night out round clean streets and they do do a great job in town but going back to toilets at Fompton that I feel that strongly about and somebody gave me a chance all those years ago I would be well and be co-sponsored part of the wages for somebody for the summer if they wanted to do something like that you know they put it up to the council and see if they would do it and I have to say it's a sad state of affairs if the people of Bunkrana have to come and pay the wages of somebody to clean the toilets that belong to the council but I would be well and to do it because that's how strongly I feel about the tourism in this town and attracting people to the town so if you could put that out there maybe and put it up to the council and see what they're going to do and see if that would help right well Dara and Jared thank you both very much indeed for your contributions there I mean it's a clear challenge and Jared in fairness you haven't pulled punches you've put a clear challenge out there and we'll see if you get a response and Donald can I just say thank you thank you there to Dara for making that offer now and the council is up to you now to get this sorted okay look Dara and Jared thank you very much indeed and thank you to Patrick who spoke to us earlier hopefully that's got a conversation going and hopefully we'll see some progress as a result summer sale now on at florid letter kenny up to 30% of selected lines of engineered and laminate flooring but hurry this summer sale will not last forever call into our showroom today and avail the fantastic offers our viewer stock at florid.ie offers only while stocks last since she got her free hearing aid with her prsi at speck savers roshin is a changed one music has never sounded better and that makes her dance and dance her singing though 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10 t plan but it's part of a wider plan under the at the ireland 2040 program but i don't believe i may be wrong and if i'm wrong as i say i'll hold my hand up but i don't believe the bonnicky link is part of the 10 t specifically caller says don't put traffic lights on the roundabout it causes more congestion the problem with the poll star is the roundabout on remelton road as it causes back up the traffic management in letterkenny is a disgrace it's the worst town in ireland so says a caller in carregart now at last a sensible person looking at lights at the poll star give everyone a chance to move please the world uses them but not the ireish so two very competing views there on that not a caller saying can traffic lights be placed at the roundabout at the old dunes it's so incredibly dangerous and i have to say that's one of the more difficult junctions in town at the moment actually particularly in the evening rush hour and part of the problem is that people sometimes people just don't seem to know there's a roundabout there for a start and it's still very and we have had conversations actually about that specific roundabout and also i think about the roundabout up at the the other junction close to the tin tie and what would have been fpd and there's been discussions about that one too but i mean that roundabout at old dunes absolutely i actually do agree it's actually a lot of people don't realize it's a roundabout and quite know how to handle it um again yes the dunes one another caller saying the bonnigie link is something that won't be up and running until the 2030s the widening of the lec road would solve letterkenny's travel problems literally overnight it possibly would but there are homes on the lec road there are businesses on the lec road and i think if you were to look at widening the lec road and there are elements of that in the tin tee that would be a huge huge program and it would not be easily done because you there are certainly houses and residents on both sides of that road not to mention the fact that you have the graveyard and everything else and the people traveling to the graveyard so the lec road would present its own issues and would open up a whole new debate perhaps it's the debate we need to have but it would open up a whole new debate with with regards to yeah with regards to the m50 caller says i was on it two weeks ago and prepaid for two trips before i left it's now 320 for the m50 and so 320 now for the m50 and as i said i do know it's two euro in cash for the m1 so it's 320 for the m50 now as i've said before i actually have one of those video accounts with e-flow so my car my wife's car my daughter's car are all linked into this one account so the money just gets taken out of our bank account and it's a few euro but not a few euro it's a few cent less because we we pay automatically on this sort of e-flow account now let's go to line one a lot of talk and about people relocating back to donnie gall and that increased over the course of covid and the increased prevalence given to working from home frs recruitment is calling on people in the county to share their home truths and this is for a new campaign aimed at the irish abroad who may be considering moving back home and from frs recruitment good morning colon donnery how you doing greg this this is donal colon greg's taking a well-deserved rest colon the sort of information you're looking for on this campaign i mean people always talk about the big things the scenery the schlieff leagues the donnie gall airports maybe what you're looking for is the small things where do you get a good cup of coffee where do you get a really good value meal where is there a really good bookshop yeah so look we've been attracting trying to attract people home from abroad so irish people home from abroad for for many years but since 2019 we've had a partnership with ga go the streaming service for ga it's partnership with them and rte and we have the advertising the sort of rights in the middle of it so pushing out messages to try and get people home so i suppose you just mentioned before there about covid so what happened is our campaign started 2019 with a lot of people coming back pre-covid covid stopped that happening really i think you just couldn't move it out obviously and then as the restrictions have lifted we're getting an awful lot of inquiries from people looking to come back to Ireland and they're asking us i suppose the usual look we can give them lots of information around sort of the jobs the salaries etc and to a certain degree accommodation we can do a bit of research but they're really trying to tap into local communities and as you mentioned like a lot of people normally what used to happen i suppose the first protocol would have been Dublin even if you were from Dunnegal or or Leetrum or Slido you would you would look at you know Dublin first because there's more jobs there but with the advent of of remote work and we're seeing people really tap into more local you know and and and looking to move into particular region areas and commuting to it to a job job maybe one day week two days a week you know that's that's not too far away so really in terms of the sort of home truths you're looking for you're trying to build up a profile that you can present and and people can say well i was half thinking of moving we'll say for the sake of argument to kill mcrennan but uh are there facilities nearby is there child care available is there somewhere my child can go to a place stuff like that so it's it's it's really they're not small things because you know when you need access to a playground or access to a crush that's not a small thing that's a very big thing but but there's things that will be important on a day-to-day basis we all know about the scenery we all know about the the big things but it's these day-to-day facilities and day-to-day amenities that we really want to gather together yeah so it's like positive and negatives right so you know you mentioned the small things there like it look one of the big the biggest things if you're bringing a family back which what happens it's only the key things that happen when people move to the Middle East or Australia America they you know get into a relationship and maybe have a couple of kids or one child and they're looking going so they bring them up as Australian or you know should they bring them back to Ireland and it's really critical for them you know the sort of school situation one and then you say amenities is there swimming pool close by you know how close are we to the sea beach you know things like playgrounds and what's just the social area and the social fabric like so you know there's only really locals can give you that sort of that sort of insight and that's where we're asking them to go to frshometruths.com the website and put in there and then we're going to gather the information for each area and then send it back to people you know so right well I mean for instance I know I'm going to get in contact and I know what I'm going to say I'm going to point out that there's two really good music a really great musical society and a great drama society in letter Kenny so if people are interested in things like amateur dramatics you know stuff like that which is what I would be interested in to let them know yeah there are absolutely opportunities available in several areas around the county to get involved and things like that and you know that that could be the sort of thing that proves to be a deal breaker in terms of people making their decision oh totally and I think look we all know the stuff about you know accommodation it's expensive it's hard to get you know and what people tend to do we can we help them move this into the frsh with that sort of stuff in terms of research but really good points you know sort of hobbies and that type of thing you know what can they get into okay if they've been in Australia and been sort of and obviously it's only got to become one of the sort of capitals of Europe nearly at this stage you know up and you know around Bondoran and and those sort of areas you know are really are attractive you know so it's like people's work-life balance has just come so important to people now you know and what you're going to do outside of work is as important as the job itself now Colm it's been great speaking to you and it's a very important initiative and if people want to make contact with you how can they get their home truths to you yeah so as they go to the website www.frshometruths.com or our own website frshrecruitment.com they can see they can see vacancies there up and done you go on and they can go in and do the home truth things like that Colm thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning thanks a million that's Colm from frshrecruitment and frshometruths.com is the website if you have any advice that you wish to offer if someone is looking to move to your area where can they get a good cup of coffee what amenities are there in the area what might you know make your area attractive to someone with a family very interesting questions a few comments before we go tell the minister we spoke to Simon Coveney the minister earlier about the new action plan for the defense forces tell the minister we will never join NATO it would be the light end of the wedge they don't want a civil war on Ireland don't try to put up a case for it in fairness the minister didn't when I asked him was this a precursor to potentially joining NATO he said the answer to that is no a number of more toilet I rang the tourist council about the state of toilets in Dunfanahe there's a rusted dryer that doesn't work the one at the beach in Fannett had a portal that was totally blocked with no flushing facility I thought it was a local number it turned out to be a central number I was directed to call the local council surely the tourism authorities would want these facilities to be up to scratch another caller on the issue of portals which are in some areas those portals are awful I got locked in one last week couldn't get the door open had to break out through the roof with a crutch someone had left behind in the toilet I'm going to say that again I had to break through the roof with a crutch somebody had left in the toilet right another caller says and an important thing to say here good morning Donald a mention of congratulations pleased to Connor Rogers of convoy who last night was chosen as the new lord of the dance Connor is only the third lord of the dance chosen since Michael Flatley first took that show out 25 years ago and that's congratulations to Connor from all his family and friends and on that positive note let's leave it for today back tomorrow and really looking forward to it because it means I get to do the Friday panel and it means even more interestingly I get to do the entertainment slot 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t i understood the city council had asked for um and this is what we notified the property owners and businesses that we would be doing but they would be both the same and that it would be generic um no matter what store business so i have a hypothesis which is that we should maybe change that ending time to at least not nine p.m maybe eight at the early uh i'm sorry at the latest and um if we can have a third public hearing on this and notify them again with a different language what do you think about that team i guess i'm just gonna i'm gonna ask that pragmatic question which is what would enforcement look like after five p.m i believe um is the chief still here i yeah i i i kind of figured that sorry gv and i know he'll answer this but my my hunch is that there's not going to be any active enforcement but when someone is parked in front of the store you know someone's complaining i think we're gonna end up referring again that there's no place for me to park when i'm trying to go to the store well i'm not saying i'm saying if we were to leave it as is and let's say that someone's getting their taxes done or someone has you know walked down to buddy's burgers or whatever and they're parked there for more than 15 minutes what would enforcement look like after five p.m pretty much what samir said it's um we get a complaint and then what we will do just to make sure to alleviate problems we will time time it ourselves and come back you know if the vehicle is still there so they can get bonus time if you if you will but we found um for the the business further up the street years ago when it was uh kind of an issue and if we get tied up on a call so be it you know we're just not going to come back an issue with you know if we see the car is still there after the officers deal with a call it's not a priority for us that said i don't think that we should have ordinances on our books that we don't plan to enforce and so if it's just like if this is here and we're not going to i want to be clear we're not i'm not saying that we want to force i understand that but i think that was kind of the implication that well it just i mean it just seems and i i appreciate why the bakery i think it was the bakery that raised this right is that that was the original um bohemian yeah sure and so you know further down buddy's patrons who want to park on berry street there have to pay for parking then the tax preparation service that was my old neighbor rated what is that 71 berry street yeah and also that office building although it's i'm not sure if it's still an office building on the corner of uh hubbard and berry street um you know they don't get 15 minute parking and and so i i guess if the issue is uh you know well 15 minute parking has to happen in front of these two businesses on berry street why isn't every business on berry street getting 15 minute parking you know in front of them um and then you know sort of the other piece to this is if they're only open till two and you know so would you prefer i'm trying to like hey you know what what is your suggestion so what i'm correct me if i'm wrong it sounds like you would actually like this to be a separate sentence so that it it might not it might actually not be consistent like if the if berry street market is open later then they get the later time and this other space for now not open that late maybe has a different time and uh businesses may change and we might revisit it yes i mean and i i appreciate that that might not be the most desirable thing it just seems like you know there are other businesses there who who also have people to drive to them and i don't have strong feelings about this what do other people think yeah i'm on the fence uh like on one hand yeah i i do feel it's a bit ridiculous to the 15 minute parking for a seven hour period you know while we're waiting for the business to where it's already been shut down at the same time i don't want to be coming back like if the business changes it to like a three o'clock closure and we have to reopen this any time i don't know if there's a way to just like delegate the authority on this type of stuff we spent a lot of time talking about like uh one's parking spot you know we have these smart meters cannot we set it to be 15 minutes for no it's a non-metered area yeah there's no meters there oh we don't go that far down on the street stops just before the senior center um can i uh do you think we should re-worn if we change it do you think we should change it we should re-worn it i mean you can't you don't have to but it would be good to know if i just in case you don't i i feel like so team my inclinent i'm sorry i just it's it's an equity thing for me it's like balancing all of the interests of business needs and parking accessibility for sure but also like residents that don't have parking there you know like so uh okay here's what i'm gonna recommend uh let's separate out these two spaces and uh let's make the the end time for the spot in front of bear sheet market to end at 8 p.m and the spot in front of um bakery to end it i guess i would say 5 p.m just to make it consistent with the rest of the the metered spaces and if we can re-worn uh the property owners a budding there and then we can revisit it would that be okay that's totally cool i just have like a practical question like how far so the the meter folks they do it on foot right yeah i mean did they walk down or is it usually mpd they have a well they have a car it's one of the things we're kind of challenged with at the moment um right now they're using the the detective vehicle um that has to change down the road so they'll be getting one of the old cars so they'll have a vehicle to them we actually you know so but generally most of their work is done by foot and it's in and it's pretty much in made of downtown correct and the officers also will augment though if there's a call you know hydrogen violation up off of west street uh you know we're probably gonna set an officer we'll deal with that too okay any further comments okay i'm not clear what you've asked uh do we need a motion to change this uh okay it'll be helpful for clarity since okay you had a motion last week yes i don't know if people liked my suggestion okay it's consistent it adds consistency with the rest of the parking enforcement so what's good by me okay it's good by so i think we need a motion who's making it i will move that to be clear that we do this 75 in front of the bakery and seven to nine in front of this 78 in front of the store yes the store um till five so can we use the addresses i just yeah 78 so it's 207 to 209 is further down i think three to 205 is 78 berry street are the two front oh i'm sorry you're right in front of 78 berry so that we designate the parking hours for the two spots in front of 207 to 209 berry street be from 7 a.m to 9 p.m and at the two spots 8 p.m sorry yes eight and then the two spots in front of 78 berry street um from 7 a.m to 5 p.m does the start time for the rest of the parking downtown is that that's at eight isn't it not seven so oh for the meters for paying it's eight o'clock yes eight to five um sorry do that that's fine should we change it to eight um a.m yes can i add something yes the original complaint request was that all day parkers are using the spaces in front of 78 to 80 82 don't know what time they arrive so is that a concern that was what we're trying to do is respond to that request from a business that that uh chief fakers his officers investigated and there's been a long-standing issue about a very number a few number of spaces and it's been going on going on for years um quite literally so um i think the seven changing it to eight may be problematic if somebody misses the sign they're parking there for the day they're doing that for a long time okay sounds fair so we're gonna keep keep it at seven okay i support that as well okay um did we uh so ashley moved that did we have a second second for the discussion all in favor please say i i i opposed okay um yes can i ask a clarifying question yeah i think i heard somebody say it's a separate section am i supposed to separate these two retain them and i think it just leave them the two sentences as they are currently written just change the time all right to reflect yeah but on the second tuesday of the week it's really only the second half of the second year and that's a lot of work actually so onto a budget discussion and the next thank you tom hearing is not going to be on january second because that's strictly a budget meeting it's going to be on january ninth january ninth okay i think we do well so i'm going to close the public hearing in case we didn't note that um jack you want to make a motion to that effect yes i will we set the next public hearing for this uh for the regular meeting on january ninth 2019 second for the discussion all in favor please say i i i opposed okay there was there was one's on fire with them to me i can second them looking over those district three interests yeah okay i had such high hopes for early night to me i will i will note however that the veteran department heads who know never miss any budget discussion no matter how late or how uh overviewing it was supposed to be they learned so i think i said out to you earlier my goals for tonight you may have different goals but one is to go through this presentation you have the budget books on your desks which are your holiday reading but it's just all the detail backing up what we're talking about um to have obviously question and answer and maybe some feedback from the overview last week and the little play sheet you guys have had to work with and then as we gear up for the second which i think can be a really productive night make sure we're focused on the things you want to be focused on for for that meeting something specific information that you want or you know a question you want to answer for that night we can identify that or you know we're already planning to have the chief here and he's here and tonight two people wanted to chief of police um fire chief will be here because he always comes and uh and jeff buyers here too those are those are the two areas where we had the biggest staffing changes so i'm pretty except that people want to talk about that so this is just the overview of the budget our our goal with the budget is to implement the strategic plan that you adopted earlier this year continue our capital equipment funding plan and and deliver responsible services just as a reminder and i like i won't talk through this but we did adopt a strategic plan which included values you know staff mission and values as well as strategic outcomes and then activities under that and we do use that as a guide a lot and so just walk through this budget a little bit now i'll say before i go into these individual items that i'm not addressing everything that we put in the strategic plan only showing how those items that are in the budget reflected so there were many other activities such as the plastic bag ban that we've already adopted uh something you did there's no budget effects so community prosperity um the tax rate at least for the base budget is at approximate cpi 2.3 uh we did include a hundred thousand dollars in funding for economic development that we just talked about it's keeping our planning and zoning staff as we implement our new zoning and master plan they're doing a lot of things and implements our tiff district through it's going to be some extra work for our finance department and those kind of things uh our environmental stewardship we've included the five thousand dollars from meak we've talked about a new facilities and energy position to begin in april we talked last night at c our last money night at cip at length we are including stormwater projects in some discussion the gmt circulator bus is included although it sounds like there may be changes coming to that uh and the energy planning grant is something we're hoping to accomplish through actually current funding um to seek to to develop an energy plan with funding sources i'll talk about that mark our inclusive equitable and welcoming community we funded the community and arts fund uh at a slightly higher number than last year the feast program at the senior center remains in place my pillar alive and our community enhancements programs are all things that contribute to our livability i guess you'd say sustainable infrastructure we funded our cip and equipment plan has scheduled with another fifty thousand dollar increase from last year the water sewer plan is being followed as well that's also an under infrastructure plan we're including again a facilities it's not a different one it's the same one and our complete streets is included in the cip as well as in the parking fund those on the cip know will be looking at maybe the way that's structured in the future but for now that's the way it's set up for this year thoughtfully built uh planned planned thoughtfully planned built environment we've included the downtown improvement district again in our funding for downtown projects and of course we have a lot of projects on the books that are going to be spending a lot of time on so we don't have a lot new for that more housing we've included seventy five thousand dollars for the housing trust fund and of course with the tif implemented that is a can support housing projects public health and safety we're adding an additional police officer we've included funding that would cover public events our flood gauges are included again although we are looking at maybe alternatives for measuring flood flood things our paramedic program continues to expand basically the chief has implemented a paramedic program in the fire department and as we replace people we try to bring in new paramedics we haven't you know required everybody to change so it grows slightly every time we have a staff change and project safe catch and either drug related drug prevention related activities are continuing in the responsive and responsible government we've continuing our communications efforts that we've tried to rip up over the last couple years our employee wellness program is included all of our service levels are maintained at current levels our bridge articles included this year we implemented the envisio dashboard and the monthly reporting as well as the tool for ourselves and that's happening we have a program which you will hear more about is the year unfolds that you don't know anything about now called access Montpelier this is using our GIS program and other programs we looked at what well for lack of better words are a couple of brand name programs like c-click fix and q-alert we actually discovered that we have the ability to create that on our own without spending the money and some of it had to do with the grant that we got through stone environmental that that so dpw zack and cori and ryan in particular under Tom's leadership are really taking this on and so they're they're taking the given we've sort of given them a six month window to see if they can pull it off and if they can't and we think they can they're confident they can and i've seen their demos and i think they can as well so we're hopeful to do that so there is no money in the budget for those kinds of services but we're we're hopeful we're going to do it and basically we've got three areas that we need to use reserve funds for i just rounded it to 50 000 but i'd like to do a citizen survey this year that when you've seen the funding in the bud the potential budget options that's really to start setting aside for future years i think we said we'd like to do our strategic planning effort again this year and this would be either funding or providing match funds for a grant for an energy plan so it may not be as much as 50 000 for those three but uh that would be the highest it would look like so those aren't in your line budgets but those are our activities that are on the radar looking at our strategic plan because we do actually use these these are items that uh you said we said in the spring that we wanted to look at come budget time so one and these are just in the order they're written in the plan i don't know if they're in a priority order upgrade the streetlights to led we have spent some time on that we talked about it with the the cip committee we're looking at the costs and benefits and tax credits and repayments and all that we are dpw's committed to a proposal for next year's budget and or earlier if we find that it has a positive payback and maybe could be done in a way that doesn't require bonding consider net zero fund benefit charge again i think we'd like to seek a planning grant to actually write our energy independence plan for us and including how we might fund that so that would be part of the plan seeking funding to expand our cosa that's circle of support and accountability thank you to work with dcf families uh actually we have some an active proposal before the state right now for a couple pilots on that that would be a new service area and presumably mostly state funded um prioritized non-fossil fuel-based vehicles and equipment plan and these are actually two separate things that combine them into one um we had a long robust conversation about this the other night um and we are looking at alternatives there is a fuel option which could might not require significant fleet changes and we're and then there's one that might and so we're weighing those those differences um one Taylor street just developing funding maintenance plan as you said we don't expect this to be open until october um the the initial operations of the the transit center will be the maintenance will be done by gmt who will be the tenant although we can't charge them rent the housing portion will be managed by downstreet in terms of long-term funding and maintenance again we get to show the facilities position identifying those needs and putting them into the building capital plan so there's no specific funding right now police staffing and training uh we've looked at that and we're proposing a new position replace aging fire vehicles i think that was put out there as just a heads up that those things aren't cheap and we've got a big million dollar one coming up in the next few years um there is nothing in in this year's budget other than funding for the bonding for that vehicle is planned for in our equipment plan and the next i think once the bonding for the present one runs out we'll start the next facility management as i feel like i'm saying this a lot but we do have a position to consider in the budget and funding to increase to address some facility needs in our cip finally it was community services and integration and staffing we do have an additional tree position in the budget additional parks position on the options list we did take a hard look at what we could do for integration we were pretty satisfied that um that if we were going to add positions that ought to be in these service areas and not at the top we may have a retirement this year which you give us an opportunity to look at the administrative functions but most of the actual on the you sort of hands-on positions are already working across all three divisions if you will parks seniors and rec and so we see that as working fairly well right now and uh the pressing needs are really in the trees and the actual parks so those were the list we said we were going to look at that's where we came out on these obviously you've we've talked about this last week but you have i just consolidated down to make it even easier to read but these are the what's sort of in play that you've identified and we've had requests for that presumably we'll be talking about over the next couple weeks what's the difference of this citizen's service it's the difference of this citizen's survey and the one you had tucked in the 50 000 the difference is that the the survey is about $15 000 so what i'd like to do is do one this year i get a baseline and then set $5 000 a year for the next three years and do another one in three years so that we can the last one we did was in 2009 so i know you listed it under the reserve yes so so right i what i'm saying is i'd like ideally we would pay for one now from reserve and do it this year okay and then set 5000 next year 5000 the year after 5000 year after that and do another one in three years so we can compare the data and do that on a every three year cycle so this this would be setting up for the next one so yes there are two separate things so good question um these these are all in your um in your books so i'm not going to spend a lot of time on these this shows you where our money comes from to fund the budget this shows you how we're spending it this shows you another way of how we're spending it's a rather than by department it cuts it apart by your personnel equipment capital in that way so you can see again i've mentioned this many years but we are a personnel driven operation which is one reason why those costs i mean we can automate we can do all these things but it's still people that drive plows still people that answer fire and ambulance calls is still people that are in police cruisers and still people that wait on folks so we're always going to have people and doing these jobs are people that are fixing trees and all those other things um this is if we took the budget as it's laid out and this is what the average person will be paying per service it shows up better in your book than it does on the screen but just it's just interesting to see that you know you know people paying five hundred dollars for police services it seems pretty reasonable to me and some of these other things so it's a good way to when you look at it in aggregate what what you're getting for each individual service so basically the impact the property tax rate is would be by 2.6 cents or 2.3 percent the average sort for an average tax bill of fifty seven dollars uh district heat rates you recently approved those the water and sewer our our long-term plan calls for inflation plus one percent so that would put it at around three point five percent this year and that is to fund the long-term capital needs and then we don't see any change required this year for sewer benefit or the cso sewer water sewer or cso benefits um we have talked a little bit about the cso and whether that should be restructured for funding stormwater differently but for now we're getting what we need so we have our meeting tonight we have a workshop on january 2nd public hearings on january 9th and january 24th thursday you can still just because you hold a public hearing we can still make discussions discussions and changes although there are other items on agendas that night such as barry street parking i care about barry street and i was just noting that that was on the agenda and might impact our budget discussion um and then of course the voting um on march 5th with the early voting to start in mid i guess i never got a chance to finish the typing out thank you so uh must have got interrupted so that's my presentation as i said happy to go back and review any of it with you or take general questions we do have some staff here to answer specific questions and then whatever you want to structure a discussion about uh so just to frame this up a little bit yeah this so this time would be time for questions about the budget and but then any so and if we can answer them tonight we will if there are specific pieces of information you'd like for the second and people that you'd like there we can so i'm wondering if it's useful to do any um like you know talking through what are um of the other options that we might want um if we if we get to that still going for 10 o'clock okay um rosie and then ashley so i want to read my budget book before we have that discussion okay i would like to push that one off okay um two questions that you can answer now or later um i'm curious about how we're doing on our reserve funds i know you're talking about drawing from them and i just don't have a good sense of where we're at right and we're still looking at that too we did spend a lot of them this year so that that would impact you know we might have to not do some of those things but they are they're all priority things i mean probably i would say the survey would be the one we wouldn't do out of those even though i think it's important um but we did buy the conif property and we've you know we put money out for tiff which we will get back but that still comes from the reserves so so i you know on the other hand we are seeing some building fees above and beyond what was budgeted in fact ironically we're going to be one of the biggest contributors between one tailor and the parking structure those are both like hundred thousand dollar fees and the hotel so we will see some surplus in the general fund as well but yeah that's a great question it's we're definitely keeping our eye on it okay um and the other one is i'm sure we heard this earlier but i can't remember what the five thousand dollars for meac was for what they specifically wanted to do with it i don't if somebody can just forward me the email again i'm sure there was one we can have kate maybe come yeah talk about we can see if we can find out they've had that funding for the last couple years i think it was oh i thought you were saying it was a new no it was just continued they put it out as a loan and get it back no that's something else something else something else so no they've had that in their budget for the last couple years and they use it from miscellaneous you know studies or i guess i just want to know what it's used for it could be used as the grant match for the plan for example uh actually um so i have a couple of questions although i think that they are pretty straightforward so if my math is correct it looks like over for so we've granted three tax stabilizations over the last year in essence um and so if my math is right it comes out to a little over sixty four thousand dollars in tax abatements for this tax year assuming that that you know the property would have they would have paid you know whatever those taxes were in full this year um so again my math brings it down so the the difference between last year's budget and this year's budget so if those full taxes that sixty four thousand one hundred and fifty four dollars had been paid that would have brought the difference um to if i read that's right it would have been like 205 205 369 dollars okay um and so i guess what i'm asking is how like could you give us the numbers for the difference between what what the tax rate would have looked like if we hadn't done those stabilization projects versus what it looks like um i can give you a rough estimate okay so assuming the sixty four thousand and i'm not sure they're all completed so they wouldn't necessarily be taxed at the full amount for this year yep i figured that was the case but i'm just sort of running the numbers on that so that would be about 0.7 cents one cent is about eighty seven thousand dollars so we about 0.73 cents that that's worth so if it was 2.6 cents then it would be 1.9 okay so and that on bill you're getting softer or i'm sorry what was the what was the amount it was about 2.7 cents so so it's probably about 16 dollars for the average per average resident okay the 228 thousand median home price okay so six sixteen roughly roughly uh okay and thank you for that i sorry thank you for understanding what i was saying because i'm not sure i understood what i was saying the whole time um the other question that i had in terms of there are like special lines in the budget for you know certain events and things like that um if there were a proposal to leave the funding the same but to allocate that differently what's the best way to put that request um in writing so it wouldn't be a dollar amount change it would just be you know instead of using it for this i'd like to propose that we use it for this other purpose that's related to that but serves a wider group of people rather than a so you could simply make a motion to that if you wanted to send it around and advance so people had it but i mean that is right your job is to allocate funds you can so the council can add to the budget you can subtract from the budget you can move money around in the budget as you see fit um i mean within i mean obviously you can't change debt amounts and things like that right no it's it's a small it's like related to yeah no i know but i just want to be clear the the process is you know i've recommended a budget to you and you've laid out your options and then what goes to the voters that you'll approve on january 24 is the city council's budget so you work from this you can some years it's gone exactly as proposed other years it's been changed drastically other years it's been changed suddenly so i mean that is what you then layer your policy priorities over the staff recommendation other questions connor just in the category of no surprises you know for the january second meeting i've spoken to you bill i just spoke to bob till i think i it's a good thing there's seven of us because i probably had staff in every department um but the one i can't get out of my head is um you know maybe the need we're putting so much on ems and fire there uh i'm looking at the budget line items there and i see a hundred ninety two thousand dollars in overtime i think i just like a little more going to into depth in those numbers knowing that you know it can be time and a half it can be double time depending on what hour people are called in if you added another position for i think the first steps under 40 000 dollars probably with benny's 70 some thousand dollars how much would it eat into that hundred ninety two thousand dollar number so i just asked for an analysis on that yeah and we can do that a little closer look we can we can certainly do that and i don't think it would actually make i mean given the way that the call-ins work for calls and number of people on on calls and a lot some of that is backfilling for people when they're out on vacations so if we're gonna add a new person are we gonna backfill for them when they're gone and so i you know we have certainly spent a lot of time looking at that i will tell you uh and and we will do more of this i'm sure but um when i started here in 95 our overtime budget was about what it is right now and i'm higher and we actually took about till about two years ago when it finally caught up with the way we rearrange staff with the help of the fire department was me but putting people at key times we didn't have to call in as much so we've actually reduced our overtime considerably and i think what we have to understand is that in our emergent actually not only in our emergency departments but in dpw overtime is a necessary evil i mean it it's not even an evil it's actually an efficient way to staff um people because you don't have the benefit cost you don't have all those things and um and it is replacing it is responding to to calls and things so we can shortly look at that and um i'm not sure we would i don't think we would save dollar for dollar but i could i could be wrong about that yeah i'd just like to think about it sure other comments jack i've uh the number one thing that i've heard about i mentioned this to you to you and to the chief in an email the number one comment i've heard from constituents is a question about the additional police officer um so i think that's a topic of discussion that we should be having and we assume that we you know chief i think it prepared to make a presentation i'm sure you can answer general questions now but i know he's planning to present on that on the second and we assume similar with the you know the tree position but you know anything else but yeah and there are very good logical explanations the other thing i would say is that the people i talk to also agree that the chief comes with tremendous amount of credibility based on the experience the city has with him over many years yeah i would say you know simply and and i agree with all of that about the chief um all all of our department units um but you know in some regards to we had 17 and it was cut two or three four years ago and one was cut and i think they've been struggling ever since and we've been able to support with a basically a grant funded position working with the state drug task force so we've been kept a city officer but not paid for so so we actually have had the 17th doing investigative work on that program is ending so to actually go to 16 would be in a reduction to not fill it would be a reduction in the type of service that we've been seeing and i think he can explain that much more detail than i can great thanks donna i definitely want to talk to the park department and last night attending the park commission meeting there's more and more demands from the bike group they did another petition to the parks to expand to fat bikes you know that fat bikes um and so i think we may have some staff changing there but the staff need and some of the infrastructure need is really i think worth hearing so i i'd like them to come forward yeah and as i said we were planning to have them here further comments okay uh i'm gonna assume that we are running out of time so so parks police and fire parks police and fire um one note there was a question um from the energy committee as to whether or not it would be useful to have an energy coordinator from a different city come tell us about what his job is like and i thought that might be useful seeing as we might be hiring someone to do that work what do you think team would that be of value okay great so i just want to put that on the on the on the list well we can we can talk about that more too but um yes donna as part of our budget discussion are you thinking or i guess we have so much to do within our budget i would love to have that afterwards but i feel there's a solid support for facility energy well so one question is are we going to support it at point two five fds basically or at a full time position well so that's that to me assumption at the point two five is just that it's starting part way through the year not that it's a quarter time position it's a full time position that we are planning to fully fund in future years so do we start it now or later that's part of those options yeah okay bring him okay um jack did you have a comment about that okay okay um so thank you great very helpful thank all of you yes thank you thank you okay so we are moving on to council reports well let's uh let's start with Ashley go oh come back yeah okay i don't have a thing okay um just want to mention that i um was chatting with bill today about um making sure that we are clear to the public that we accept comments for public hearings in writing so we often say that when somebody is being a little bit long-winded in their comment but i think we should also promote that on our agendas um as a you know for people who aren't going to show up um a way to contribute to the conversation um and it sounded like that was doable and we could maybe make that happen but i just wanted to highlight that for other folks great uh go ahead uh donna you go ahead um i wanted to bring everyone's attention one of the slides bill brought up reminded me of his reminder that we have a mission statement and values that all incorporated into the draft for our evaluations i used someone else's and so i'll just incorporate that and i haven't gotten any feedback but what questions you i know maybe after the budget gets done but you know what questions you like i mean what questions you want to add a perspective that would be really helpful uh but this week with the cip on monday parks on tuesday and mtac last week i just want to say we have a lot of good feelings out there for the things that we're looking at for options hearing very clearly about some staff needs and lighting needs and other things and more discussion with gmt so i think i'm really pleased that the direction we're moving and appreciate all the time you're all putting in thank you uh not much just a little inspiration um i think it shows that even though we're a small city we can cast a long shadow and that's an outreach from a group in warthington massachusetts uh who would like to ban plastic bags in their town so is reaching out to citizens against plastic pollution in town here to help them set up a process for that so yeah feels good to make a difference other places um i uh want to register that uh we're right in the middle of a pretty busy season for downtown businesses and so i am only about a quarter here and i really have been appreciating all of the work that i'm seeing everyone else doing and i wish that i had more specific comments on a lot of these things and they're coming but uh longer hours than usual and and more intense work at uh at at the day job recently so um it's all fun and i just feel really sleepy tomorrow morning i'll be uh back to full power and up in alert uh and join me at baggitos at 8 30 to 9 30 to talk about this and everything else thank you actually yes um so one of the things that i've spent a lot of time thinking about i've worked with uh youth in in my prosecutorial career but also in my other life before becoming a lawyer um and i just want to underscore how impressed i was with the young people who showed up tonight um and one of the things that i am interested in doing as a city is actually engaging more young people in the work uh that we are doing and i i i have some ideas for what that could look like including maybe like a listening tour that uh really sits down with uh young people and sort of listens to them about what they want for their city because we do that you know we we do that with lots of groups about transportation and infrastructure and things like that and um you know looking at at the the data that laura showed us tonight we're losing people and if we want to get people to stay i think we have to really cultivate that so i'm i'm interested in hearing ideas from the community and from other people about how we can best get that input and and what that sort of looks like i'm sorry but i just wanted to jump on that because there was one other thing in laura's presentation not in the slides but in her um in the part that she she sent to us about the breakdown of the ages of people in Montpelier and it was interesting to me to look at that and kind of see uh i i think that there's a perception that that we're an an older and aging city and it looked to me from that chart uh like that perception may be mistaken uh there are a lot of younger people here i was kind of breaking it down and it looked like we are something like 60 percent under 50 so just i have no update everybody looks a little tired i'll let bill go in ahead i'm trying to work on the mayor's 10 o'clock deadline okay then uh then without objection we'll consider the meeting adjourned thank you


Hello and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. It says a tent is in the shape of a cylinder some surmounted by a conical top if the height and the diameter of the cylindrical parts are 2.1 meter and 4 meter respectively and This length height of the top is 2.8 meter find the area of the canvas used for making the tent Also find the cost of the canvas of the tent at the rate of rupees 500 per meter square Note that the base of the tent will not be covered with canvas So let's move on to the solution We are given a tent which is in the shape of a cylinder surmounted by a cone and we are given that the height of the Cylindrical part is 2.1 meter and the diameter is 4 meter and we are given that the slant height of the conical top is 2.8 meter and we have to find the area of the canvas used for making the tent that is we have to find the Some of the surface area of the conical part and the cylindrical part to find the area of the Canvas used for making the tent, right? So let's move on to the solution now. We are given that height of cylindrical part is 2.1 meter let it be H and the diameter of Cylindrical part 4 meter Therefore radius of Cylindrical part will be 2 meter and let it be R Now we are given that the slant height of The conical part is 2.8 meter now We have to find the area of the Canvas used for making the tent So we need to find the surface area of the conical part and the surface area of the Cylindrical part and let the slant height be L now the surface area of the tent or we can say area of Canvas used for making let us denote it by a is equal to the surface area of conical part plus surface area of cylindrical part now surface area of cone is given by the formula pi R L Where R is the radius of the cone L is the slant height Pi is 22 by 7 and the surface area of the cone is given by the formula to pi R H Where R is the radius H is the height now here in this case radius of this Cylindrical part is same as radius of the conical part so here we substitute the values of Pi R L and H in the formula we take pi common Now R The radius is 2 meter slant height is 2.8 meter plus 2 into Radius that is 2 meter into H That is the height of the cylinder which is 2.1 meter Which is again equal to pi into 2 into 2.8 is 5.6 plus 4 into 2.1 is 8.4 Now pi is 22 by 7 and 5.6 plus 8.4 is 14 meter square the unit of the surface area And it is 44 meter square So area of the tent used for making the tent area of the canvas Used for making the tent is 44 meter square Now we have to find the cost of the canvas Used for making the tent and we are given that the cost of the tent per meter square is rupees 500 so the cost of 1 meter square of canvas is rupees 500 Therefore cost of 44 meter square of canvas would be 500 into 44 that is rupees 22,000 so the area of the canvas used for making tent is 44 meter square and the cost of the canvas is rupees 22,000 so this completes the question and the session bye for now take care have a good day