So this is the first close over the 50-day moving average, which is super duper bold. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, giving everybody, welcome to another edition of the AccessaTrader.com nightly update show. Hope everybody is doing well. So as you can imagine, today's rally was pretty big. There's no point to go through the pivots. This one did that. Let's look at the big picture, right? Again, I also have a basketball game because I don't have a lot of times. I want to get everybody the big picture and kind of give you an idea of what happens next and what needs to happen next. If you've been watching this broadcast, even for the last two weeks, you don't need to even go for 12 years. You kind of know how big this 296.75 area we talked about in pretty much a nausea since the previous Friday when the bulls got rejected at the 50-day moving average. It's literally been the same message every single day. Nothing happens until we reclaim the 50-day moving average. Nothing is bullish until we reclaim the 50-day moving average. There is no risk on until we reclaim the 50-day moving average and nothing happens. You can't put a swing on and have measured potential for the next potential bigger move if it doesn't reclaim the 50-day moving average. Today was a very big, big day for the bulls. Not only did they just kind of reclaim yesterday's whole mess. Again, I apologize. I was fighting kind of a bug here in the last 24 hours. I feel a lot better today. There was no video last night.  No COVID, just some sort of virus, apparently the same one that my kids had a couple of weeks ago, but it is what it is. Sorry about no video yesterday, but more important is exactly what happened today. We finally got above the 29675 area that we've been touting that area for the longest time now, or at least since last Friday. It feels like forever, though. This is the first close over the 50-day moving average, which is super duper bullish. Now the last time, again, I don't want to put on all of a sudden put on the rose-colored glasses and say everything's going to be great, because the last time we reclaimed the 50-day moving average was on January, February, March the 21st, and it lasted for about a week. This is kind of an example of what happens next after the 50-day moving average gets reclaimed. We did have a rally for about a week, week and a half, and then obviously it got rejected at the top of the channel, started going down, and this is what happens when you lose the 50-day moving average, started a really, really nasty cycle, but it did. At least you have, even if you're brand new to trading and brand new to charts and technical analysis and all that stuff, this is your kind of your first taste of technical analysis. Again, the eyeball test is the most important part. Again, when they reclaim this light blue line, that's the 50-day moving average, we start the rally. When they lose this light blue line, Thursday on there, they start the decline, and here we are, right? First close above the 50-day moving average. And again, if everything goes well and everything, unless a meteor hits the planet, and unless something turns to zero tomorrow, the bull should be okay, right? The bull should be absolutely okay. And the most important part now, if you have any swings on, right? Number one, know your measure potential. The next measure potential is the channel all the way up here, and that correlates perfectly to the next supply, which is 313, easier said than done. But again, you have to start somewhere. You have to believe in something on the surface. And the most important part is any close below, right? Any close below the 50-day moving average, that is your exit. Because again, if you didn't exit your swing positions or your long positions below the 50-day moving average, the first time you had about, you know, four and a half months of pretty bad night sleep. So it's very, very important. Again, over 50-day moving average, bullish under 50-day moving average, bearish. You're going to have some days that contradict that, but overall trend is in that direction. So again, very, very good close. This is the highest close in this whole formation. Now the question is, can the bulls hold up, right? And obviously, this is the start of earning season.  Nobody cares about IBM. Today was Netflix. And again, I tweeted this out and I said, unless, look, if you guys remember last quarter, nobody, nobody had any faith in Facebook. You guys remember that? Like everybody was saying they're going to miss. They're going to miss. They're going to miss. Last quarter, Facebook missed. It was such a low bar that the stock rally, right? Same thing with Netflix. Last quarter, this was the first time in 10 years they had a slow and decrease in subscription model. Everybody knew they were going to have, you know, a decrease in subscriptions. The question was how much? And again, it didn't make a difference. I think the estimate was 2 million subscribers to be lost. They only lost a little bit less than a million. Well, they didn't lose as much as they should have lost and yada, yada, yada. Again, it's not a coincidence. The bull market, right? We're above the 50-day moving average. Nobody cares about the surface. Netflix is being rewarded. Really, really big spike there. Most important part is Netflix got above this whole channel here and confirmed the 207 level. So again, you know, it's obviously, as you can imagine, it's lifting everything up after hours. Cues are flying. Amazon is going and Amazon, big breakout. Speaking of Amazon, big breakout today on Amazon. As you can imagine, everything broke out. But big breakout today on Amazon above this 218 level. This is the first close above 17. They were coming for short-term 2021, 22 and a half calls. Really, really good-looking chart there. You got the semiconductors looking really, really good. In Nvidia's one day away from getting above the supply here, you can see this. If Nvidia could just get above this whole supply zone, it looks like, you know, it looks like, it looks like the Q's. It looks like, it looks like, it looks like Amazon looks like any one of these stocks, anything that's NASDAQ 100 related is going to mirror itself. Maybe they won't have the exactly the same looking chart today, but eventually the longer they stay above the 50-day, the higher probability more things are going to get pulled up. And you can see a lot of charts, man. If you go through your chart work today, you're going to see a lot of really good-looking charts coming off the bottom. Amazon, I love. Amazon, I love. I think this thing sees 2022 in the next couple of days where the market doesn't die. Look at Coinbase. You have Bitcoin rallying all over the place. Coinbase, look at this thing for tomorrow. A really nice-looking chart. Again, you're looking for anything that's coming off a bottom that's confirming the 50-day moving average, right? And you can see this is the first close, light blue, right? First close above the 50-day moving average. You know, if the whole crypto thing continues, if the whole strength in the NASDAQ continues, again, they'll go kind of hand-to-hand. Who knows? Maybe get a move to 72. Look at Lulu Lemon, right? Look at Lulu Lemon. Again, first close over the 50 day. Again, that's the theme here. That looks really good as well. Look at Starbucks. Again, one of my favorite companies of all time. I usually visit them a couple of times a day, right? Took out this whole channel here. This thing starts confirming it's going to go higher as well.  Listen, the bulls finally did it. First time in six months, we're having a conversation that the bulls closed over the 50-day moving average, right? And again, there's no more excuses, right?  Okay, that's cool. You got the bull market crowd. Well, we don't want to buy stocks now with things rallying too much. Okay, eventually then you have summer trading, right? Summer trading, everything's so slow. Yeah, I tell you, it was really, really slow, right? Really, really slow. And then you have the other crowds on the days while the market is not tradable in days that end with the letter Y. Look, enough with excuses. It's technical analysis.  Technical analysis is there. When the market's telling you it's a sell signal, it's a sell signal. When the market's telling you it's a buy signal, it's a buy signal. And now the question is, can the bulls continue to build? Is it possible, you know, they rest for a couple of days, maybe get one more day up tomorrow? Yeah, absolutely. But again, keep this in mind, the longer they stay above the 50-day moving average, the higher probability they'll continue to go higher. And now we are starting to be in the midst of earning season. Again, tomorrow we got Tesla that will obviously be the big one. Let me just see what else we got for tomorrow. Tomorrow we got, let's see here, we got ASML, Tesla, Biogen, that's pretty much the big ones going into tomorrow's session. The Super Bowl of earnings for next week, you know, you'll have the apples, the metas, the Googles, the Amazons, the Microsofts, all that in between. And that's it. I mean, that's it. It's a short update. There's nothing really subjective about this close. The one thing, the one thing I will give you a little bit of the tip, the fact that we're above the 50-day moving average, especially for new traders, don't get tricked in any type of weakness throughout the day, right? Just because if we're above the 50-day and you see a little bit of weakness in stocks, it's not a short. It's just stocks resting, kind of backtesting a little bit. The higher probability that they stay above the 50-day moving average, the cavalry will come at any time and squeeze you right back. Don't get involved with those Q-trades. We had six months of selling stock, of sell by stocks, right, in between a little bit of rallies. So don't get confused with any type of weakness after a stock you made a big move. It's not a short. It's not going lower. It's just moving down. And at any point, you could get squeezed back the same way when we were underneath supply. Don't get confused of a stock moving, you know, moving up, then going higher, right? It's a very, very big difference. So just a little bit of a piece of advice. Stay away from the Q-trade. If the market says higher, that means we're going higher, right? If it's a duck, it looks like a duck, it speaks like a duck, it quacks like a duck. I promise you, it's not a rooster. It's a duck, right? And that's it. So guys, have a great night, everybody. Bose, congratulations. Great job. Now, let's see how long they could, you know, they could stay above the 50-day moving average and live with prosperity, some great value, a good value on deck for tomorrow. We got Tesla. We got Schmessler. We got everything in between. The most important thing is health, happiness, and a smile on your face. Guys, God bless, and I will see you all tomorrow.


le and that's a reason to wait but I think it's absolutely in our purview to go ahead if we had those resources say we had give us a million dollar grant we could just hire someone who just works on licensing and then we'd have it in two months or whatever I think it is appropriate during the transition because to me necessary and essential means better government and making sure that we're doing things properly and I think that the licensing is part of doing this properly and so I think it's our obligation to proceed but there's some practical reasons why it's going to have to be backburnered a little bit but I don't just disagree with that to clarifying questions it sounds like there was a policy recommendation to have a community outreach meeting before coming to talk to the town manager about a host community agreement that's not required by the state regulations no if I could answer yeah if they've done it which at least one place says two places have done before they've come and asked for the hca then if they do it in that order then it makes sense which is something that's easy for them to schedule in comparison to all the other pieces of the application process so in that case but no absolutely we couldn't mandate that happen in that order for whatever reason they choose not to do it in that order but then the town manager could still say so you're going to tell me about the what you're doing with the host and then a second question for mr. sunberg about the police enforcement specifically is that you know allowing underage you you want local police officers to be able to enforce if there's underage people who are being um sold to or if they're violating the their odor plan or um i'm just trying to think of examples of of police enforcement or or the violation of a host community agreement or a special permit condition or i think you've given the most obvious examples in underage sales or inappropriate screening in any event would be the kinds of violations that we would want to have a assurance that we have some ability to enforce and i'm not sure that i want to try tonight and when it's becoming too too long a discussion probably already to have that discussion i do appreciate however us having this because there are some businesses including the medical marijuana establishments that have an interest in talking about the host community agreements and i don't know that it's helpful to the community in any way to unduly delay that process and so i which is why i don't want to push the licensing thing too fast don't lose it but i don't want to put it before letting businesses go forward and get to the ccc and get in line and get moving so i think um what i would suggest at this point because we've spent about an hour on this which is fine i think it's appropriate for us to do that and i think we're doing it properly by doing it in public session so it requires us to sort of think about things and discuss them and rethink about things on the fly which is as our last meeting had the same sort of process we're going to probably do this another time in some ways but my takeaways from tonight relative to this is that there are a number of things that you've articulated relative to host community agreements and things that should be included that we've you know i think been affirmative about i think there's some the the idea of a you know request for proposal is is got some traction whether it's one or more than one that you would potentially sign out of that i think we probably have some more thinking about and some and and it may depend on what what you get it may be that uh there's only one that rises or there may be three that rise to a particular location uh that's allowable by zoning so we may have to visit that when we get to that point i'm not sure um but i think you've gotten some feedback from us on on you know uh things that we value in the community values around the social justice issue and and other things of that sort that that want to be factors as well as you know you know some business viability questions that we want to at least on some surface level have an understanding of um but not completely have that be the only factor and it gets we don't ask some of those questions like uh has been brought up for other kinds of business we don't ask some of those viability questions um when we do it around affordable housing it often has to do with you know the complexity of the financing that goes into those kind of things so we do ask those questions but i think in this case it's harder to do that but but um but there are things we do want to try to encourage uh that may not have in the in the list here of of economic development or location or uh those kind of things that that that could be part and parcel of that um are there other things we've mentioned that we should sort of articulate as some up points that yes well i mean following up on both the enforcement piece and the local licensing piece in terms of whether or not those can reasonably you know we're charting new ground but um be included in the hca and if and if so or if not that might influence the length of the hca given that um and to be clear when we're talking about the economic viability i mean this is a really gray area and there are clearly differences of opinion between us i was frustrated previously when one of us was concerned about whether or not someone was legally a non-profit which i felt was really not our purview i can see restaurantiers come before us who clearly are just as we say going to be closed in six months and in fact although there's not the kind of limitation that there is on this one spot for a retail location there are a limited number of places you can open a restaurant in amherst and yeah so if we waste a common vic and waste the permitting process on someone who clearly doesn't know what they're doing that's too bad but you know it's sorts i appreciate though on the other hand if we're trying really hard to be sensitive to the social equity issues particularly if we get some guidance i mean hopefully they say they're gonna do it soon to municipalities about how they think we might include it um i think that would be really helpful rather than necessarily expecting it to look like some of the really well put together packages that we've seen from people who are much more experienced in this area because i think we have made clear that we are not just interested in who's going to give us the most money we are interested in the social equity provision as well and i believe that's part of our community value associated with that and i would also just want to make sure before we end this conversation that we give some direction to the town manager associated with all the things that aren't retail in terms of really moving forward on that as well because if we have one of the few testing lab applications in the pipeline in amherst versus the entire rest of the state i'd love us to be early on in that that'd be something that would be a great thing for us to be or there's uh some i don't think the co-ops are ready yet but something else like that i think that we we'd be doing a service to the entire commonwealth if we could suggest making progress on the non-retail right and my opinion about that is that you know given the area in which those businesses operate you know they're not direct to the public at large they're a business to business business um re-businesses that's right um i think there are some things about benefits and economic development and location and a little bit of public education but since they aren't dealing with the public at large i think there's there's somebody because they may want to articulate well this you know we're bringing this near your neighborhood by the way this is what's going to happen and here's what's going on the public education aspect of that's a much different animal but i do think we should move forward on on those things um if if you know available and so that might come to us first because there may be something there that we can really move ahead with on that but but i i think the retail is such a delicate one to to continue with i think it's why we spent so much time on it i'm aware that we have some senior staff here who sat through our meanderings of this conversation and i wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to hear their wisdom i think they're they were here as part of this issue so since they are here he's this restaurant would you like to share some thoughts with us about this as well good evening chris breast strip planning director i just have a few technical things i wanted to point out one is that the map that was included with the planning board report to town meeting is not a surveyed map this is a map of the downtown area where we in the planning department made an effort to show some of the buffer zones around various uses particularly residential uses but also the high school but we didn't survey anything this is based on the gis map plan that we have online and it's based on very rough calculations as to what the distances are so there may in fact be places in the downtown area aside from the place the specific location that you've been discussing tonight that could actually house a retail facility so i just that was not the first thing i wanted to point out the second thing i wanted to point out is that i think that the reference to blueprints and you know site plans and things like that in the suggested host community agreement requirements is not really as onerous as you might think it is we're not talking about having engineering drawings we're talking about you know perhaps having a gis map and showing you know where is the building located and where the entrances and exits and what exact portion of the building are you thinking of using and is there um access to have people drop things off their deliver things etc so it's really more of a conceptual plan to show that the location that the particular person or business is trying to achieve is doable it's not it's it's kind of a reality check and i think that the town manager would probably want to see some sort of plan to show there is a building there or there isn't is there parking there is it possible to access the site from a roadway just those very practical things and i think those could be done in a conceptual manner so i don't think you should think of this as a requirement for a whole set of engineering drawings perhaps the word blueprints might have thrown you off but at this can possibly be described by 11 i'm exactly it should be large large enough to read but it doesn't have to be done by an engineer so those are the only things i wanted to share with you thank you for that i appreciate that i appreciate you bringing up the the point of the maps that we're at town meeting because i think people use those as a reference and we don't want people to lean too heavily on those because they were uh to give a an idea of not a specific here's the border period kind of thing um mr. moore did you have anything you wanted to offer to us at all about this um yes um i'm reminded by what miss brushup said that i i wanted to make one other thing clear and it reflects something miss creeper brought up a whole hours ago on page three when we were talking about the internal review team i just want to be clear that while yes as always i am saying very clearly as i always have that it's entirely within the town managers purview to do the hca it is entirely within his purview to decide who he's gonna talk to and we're very grateful that he has worked with the select board up to this point i will also say that with this process as it's established you are letting staff decide not appointed officials not elected officials if somebody meets the bar to get in that i find unacceptable and we've had planning staff who did that decades ago that i do not think it's appropriate for staff to tell people whether or not they are going to be able to go through our process i think it's good to give them realistic expectations and i think that's why these guidelines are really helpful whatever format they end up in but i absolutely object to the idea that staff would be able to say no to a business that was considering coming here with out some appointed or elected officials associated with that which is like for example the cba so i just don't want anybody to think that they're gonna get even though we have amazing staff that they're gonna get held up at that point in the process completely separate of that i also just want to make sure that i'm clear i don't believe we're getting anything back about an hca for an independent testing lab or cultivator or product manufacturers at this point i'm believing that we're directing the town manager to move forward with whatever he needs to do that given all the things we've talked about tonight i and he's got this whole separate process with retail that we're talking about but for that i'm not seeing that it's coming back to us except to say yay it happened when it happens that's my sense of the board the consensus of the board is that for those establishments i think we've articulated enough guidance for you hopefully that you can move ahead on that i certainly see that and actually that segways nicely to my next point which is as we move ahead how do we want to from an agenda standpoint and thinking about host me agreements do we want to uh approach this topic do we want uh manager to go and do some work which some length of time it's appropriate and come back to us with something or do we want to uh just go with tonight's guidance and send him off to swim or on his own or you know in the deep end um or do we want to or do we want to come back with sort of one more kind of write a memo with all right so given the conversations we've had the last two meetings here's the sort of bullet points of what i'm looking at and how i'm judging these things i mean it's obviously not going to be a pointed plan and i and i don't want to create work for you in that regard but i also i want to send to the board as far as their comfort level at this point with do we need to discuss this another time or do we want to let the manager move ahead on host me agreements for retail with what we've discussed so far i'm thinking of a sort of hybrid because i don't mean just i'm getting we we're going to rehash and rehash and we're not going we only have so many meetings this summer i'm willing to let the manager and the staff um who participated tonight go ahead and try something and give us updates on how that's going rather than coming back and saying like you know here's my plan what do you think of it implement sort of mush together everything that we've said do your best and then give us updates about where you are in the process which is a little different than us having to have this conversation again i'm perfectly fine with that personally as well and and if there are particular points that come up as you start to sort of make your personal list of to-dos with regard to any host community agreement you know if there's questions for us then obviously we can come back and discuss those if something new arises in the conversations if something you know if something one of the potential uh business this brings up you're like oh wow hadn't thought of that maybe you know if you want our feedback certainly that's the possible to be added to our agenda as well but i would like us to in terms of agenda setting and i know sometimes we just talk about things under town managers report which is totally fine but again not something to bring back to us to say take another cut at this which think which hyphen can you change in at this time is broken um no that's not what i'm looking for but i do think given the urgency of the independent testing lab and given the urgency of the retail location locations possibly downtown i think we'll want to have an update simply that we're being that we're able to make some kind of progress within the next four weeks or so just to say this is how far we got like we're still waiting on town council to tell us this that the other thing or it turns out rfps are complicated for this reason or whatever and the independent testing lab wasn't actually ready or it is ready or but some sort of update i would think within a month would be reasonable but that doesn't mean it has to be in writing it's just telling us what's going on do you have anything to offer it no i um agree that uh town managers should move forward and consult us he feels appropriate i agree with the guidance that's been offered is it not okay time frame given that you know i think i'd give you an update every meeting to see her know where we are okay yeah we'll take more information yeah you know that about us all right so i think fortunately we've kind of gotten ourselves to a place where i think we've got some understanding of each other's point of view and and tried to articulate some things for the manager and so hopefully that'll be helpful to him he's not further flummoxed by our wandering all right so we'll move on to our next agenda item which is intermunicipal agreements and renewals and we also have we have memo from you on that so if you want to yeah so uh it's a requirement that the select board approve intermunicipal agreements by far that most of these are things are agreements that are held between the town and neighboring communities um for instance mutual aid we have mutual aid agreements with practically every community in hampshire county um if you just so i'd like to thank the staff that have come jeff and and rottmora and chris i'm sorry you guys are out the door but thank you for coming and staying and being patient with us sorry it's fine so um we provide ambulance services to the towns of leverett pelham and shootsberry we have intercept paramedic intercept services agreements with the city of north hampton a new one would be a paramedic intercept service with the town of hadley that would mirror what we already have with the town of north hampton because they've gone off on their own paramedic intercept service means that we have an agreement that if a basic life support ambulance is moving and we need to transfer over to paramedics we can have a paramedic get on board things like that there is we as you know we serve our veteran services with multiple communities we utilize services for sealer weights and measures with city of north hampton there's one on there we don't do anymore with just the municipal hearing officer with city of north hampton there's some that we gathered that i found out after the fact that we don't have those agreements anymore we provide our dog kennel services to the city of north hampton on an overflow basis there's a new one that we are just beginning to have conversations with um in the south dearfield water district about our professional staff providing support on a contracted basis to their um water district you might have read some things in the paper that's there's nothing in writing nothing but i just want to give you a heads up on that so then that's a renewal of all of the um uh municipal uh intermunicipal agreements except for the paramedic intercept service with the town of hadley in the mutual aid agreement with the town of hadley so i move to authorize the town manager to enter into the intermunicipal agreements is outlined on the memorandum from the town manager to the select board as amended by his report for the authorization of intermunicipal agreements dated in july actually put that additional after at the end for the authorization of intermunicipal agreement stated in july 6 2018 so that um the one change you did note gets picked up into the motion is there a second i i will second but i want to ask to amend so i know we'll follow our rules so however um so a couple of things i want to include the mass general law reference that i don't care where it is but it needs to be in there it's as shown very helpfully on the memio it's chapter 40 section 4a this is not a nice to do this is a required to do and it's an authorization not an approval and that word is in their authorization but to to authorize town manager under or whatever wherever you want to put it my other concern is i want it to be perfectly clear in the minutes it doesn't have to be part of the motion that i think should be part of the motion does not be perfect the minutes need to reflect the fact that we are authorizing something we haven't seen i do not believe that's what mass general law is asking us to do i am willing to do that but i don't believe mass general laws asking us to authorize agreements we haven't seen i don't believe that's a plain english reading of the authorization i also am not saying i want to read all of these and i know that some of them are rollovers and they're just like da da da da we do it over and over again it's authorized to sign but why would i authorize someone to sign something i mean okay let's be practical why would i authorize someone to sign something if i didn't want to sign here's your blank check thank you um no that's so i want to make sure that the minutes reflect that we are authorizing documents we have not reviewed so you can think of a clever way to put that but i don't want anybody to think we know what those things say i don't want to read them but would it be adequate to say they were publicly available for review or we we could i don't know but wouldn't they be under yeah and you know transfer but what is up we're should they're they're available and i hear your point and i'm not disagreeing with it but as part of that to just say they having the minister that these are available on the town website for review by us and by the public i know we're already authorizing them to do it so what's the point but um so to follow up to be clear normally the list of documents includes documents we've seen it does the list of documents isn't going to include this they're not all in one place on the website so they're all something that people would have to go and request and i really hope that for staff's sake they don't go and request them all but um i just want to be clear that we're authorizing documents we have not read we are assuming that it they're entirely appropriate to sign and yes public please go read them at your leisure um but i would normally not vote to authorize an agreement that i haven't read if it was the strategic partnership agreement would we feel the same way i don't think so so that's still an authorization as well so let's just have the minutes say something helpful is it for the discussion is inter municipal hyphenated or not because it is on the agenda but not in the motion and i believe it's inter municipal agreement capital a so we just to be consistent right motion in the minute in the in the agenda don't match i don't think it's hyphenated in the law i don't think it is either but it is on our is on four c so we know and i think it would be i another just yes are we talking about authorizing the signing of inter municipal agreements that are renewals where if something is new that we has never come to us before we're also authorizing that or is this just the ones we've always done and allowing you to renew them without having to bring each one in i think as i report when you're out of the room these are all renewals except for the inter municipal agreement for paramedic intercept services with the town of Hadley and the mutual aid agreement with the town of Hadley so Hadley's new but that type of agreement we potentially could have seen before because so i'm comfortable with this because they're renewals or adding another town to agreements we've had previously with different municipalities this is not a carte blanche go enter into any municipal inter municipal agreement you want it's those that we've already had plus adding Hadley to the same form we've used for the other communities if we're gonna say just because the renewals doesn't mean the renewals on the same terms the terms could be completely different that may be true but i'm but i'm just saying that's different than saying any inter municipal agreement you want don't show it to us fine we're talking about once we have and yes it could change but there's sort of in a defined universe of things that we usually do so is there for the discussion hearing none all those in favor please say aye aye opposed opposed and we have one absent as well so that's three to one with one absent next is a charter transition update topics for future council consideration do we have anything that area of so as you know that governor has signed the legislation that allows for the um election to go forward on september fourth and november sixth that's the last action that needed to be taken for the transition to complete itself and for the election to be held accordingly so everything's in place for that the i think that's that's the major thing that that has happened the you have later in your agenda the by-law review committee one other thing i did want to mention is that i've invited all council candidates to a information session on wednesday night to to meet with department heads and we would make the department has will be making a presentation to all the council candidates in an effort to make everybody make sure everyone who's a council candidate has a base level of information about the town and also to open the door for for some communication between me and the council candidates but also to sort of set some expectations for what council candidates should expect from town staff we've already had some council candidates reaching out directly to town staff coming to meetings or inviting them to meetings in town staff are asking what should i do i want to sort of communicate what our expectations are that we want to communicate we want to be um willing to um work with anybody who is a council candidate but if our dpw director has spent an hour with every council candidate that's a 35 for 34 hours of work a week then we lose a week of his time so we want to sort of manage that and share information in as efficient a way as possible on that it also is it gives us an opportunity to talk to the council candidates about what the campaign finance and reporting requirements are so the town clerk and our future town clerk will be here as well will be able to convey some key points to them and also just i know it's been an issue for us in the past we're starting to see a proliferation of signs in the public way communicate to all the council candidates at the same time about what the expectations are so there are no surprises to the council candidates as they start to put their signs out um but otherwise it's kind of like the town hall road show which we've done in the past um but and probably it's nothing you would probably not learn anything but i also i felt it was important for the council candidates to put a name with a face for some of our department heads so that was the the goal of it it's a time limited um evening uh but also just a an attempt to say you are out of this 34 there's going to be 13 people who are going to be the leaders of the town in terms of the council so we want to sort of recognize that up front that this is a very important election for the town if i just follow up on that i was hoping you were going to bring that under charter transition because that totally qualifies under that topic but i also want to emphasize to the public that select board members don't get an hour of the dpw's time have not gotten an hour of the dpw director's time except when he's sitting out there in the audience for everyone to see ever so it is entirely inappropriate for candidates or previously town meeting members to expect that from staff so i really appreciate that you've been able to figure out a roadshow approach to it that should work for people and then if people do want to ask then i'm sure you'll tell them that they can go to you and they can say can i please please talk to the assessor for 50 minutes about some other thing and then you can deal with that but our staff is so generous with their time that i feel like they're sometimes taken advantage of and so i appreciate that that you're going to set the ground rules for that and yet at the same time give everybody a really good introduction that they may have never had especially if they've not been town meeting members so that sounds great are there any other updates topics that you know of or that my colleagues know of or need to inform us of relative to charter transition with the nomination papers closed last well on the june 29th june 29th that all went yes all went went really well there's a list that's the other thing you should say you made a list staff made a list that's readily available right there you can just find it in the banner so that anybody can go and look they don't have to worry about how people's names are spelled or whatever figure it out write it down they made their name a nice list for everybody right so just the staff is working on a lot of different things for instance you know we're having conversations about how to archive the town meeting that stuff still that the actions of town meeting are still legitimate we have to have a place where the people can find the information but we also have to reflect that the new form of government is the council that won't flip over until december 3rd but we are working on that kind of material so it's ready to go on the date of the switch over to the council in the meantime we will keep the town meeting but we have a plan for archiving that information on the website so as people can still I mean we still are looking up actions from town meeting on different on a daily basis so it's it's a really valuable place to have that and there's you know the other thing is you know we're talking about things to do in this room in terms of how to accommodate a 13 member council and other things in town hall so it's a ongoing process many staff members are involved and you know we'll be talking with other folks as well as we move forward on this and if there aren't any others on that item then I think we'll move down to our section under committee boards appointments and reappointments we have some things there so we have the agents of the select board I was thinking about that we they're not secret agents because they're listed here or special agents necessarily they're just agents of the select board and this is a routine item that we do and we have a memo I believe to you from the from the chief relative to this did you want to introduce that at all before we do the motion then you just did okay so it's a list of folks the purpose in chapter 138 section 63 of them being agents of select board is to carry out your function I see I put you on the spot because I didn't look it up either I think it's just that they can execute their their tasks and and we have this every year we should know it right exactly it's probably it's because we only go once a year so I would entertain a motion I move to a point the police officers as recommended by chief of police Scott Livingstone in a memo dated June 29 2018 and approved by the town manager as agents of the select board in accordance with mass general law chapter 138 section 63 for an effective term of July 1 2018 through June 30 2019 is there a second second okay now I know that it goes past the term of the select board and I assume but don't know that the council replaces the select board in this capacity and that they become agents but since we've it that's the only thing that's caused about the wording they wonder if they want to modify it to say or or sooner if law requires because we don't know if under that section of mass general law what what it means if there's a council instead of a select board it may have to be reauthorized because it may be a cause no but that's the exact reason not to do this we need to not do this with every single thing that happens we need to not say oh we're approving a common vic but you know halfway through it actually belongs to the licensing commissioners like we just have to go ahead and do things and these things will sort themselves certainly will be okay to wait out to the bylaw committee though this isn't still kind of so this this is a they enforce as you as the licensing authority they enforce actions under you that's why you have to appoint them to act on your behalf agents because you're the licensing authority they're your agents when things when there's a liquor license violation or something so we'd be wrong to put council because they'll probably be agents of the new licensing commission so that's why we just shouldn't touch it you should just leave it go i'm not disagreeing with you listen but i think it's worth at least considering we don't need agents after we dissolve in december somebody else needs agents and so i don't know if this action going all the way to june 30th makes sense because if there are agents and we don't exist what does that what's the point yes they're agents of the licensing authority they're not agents of the select board you are the you happen to be the licensing authority at this moment in time there will be a new licensing authority come december some point so they're agents of that of the thought well whoever the authority is for that license yeah all right carry over is there further discussion hearing none all those in favor please say aye opposed so that's unanimously one absent next is uh status of extended committee boards terms do you have any update there as far as though the one personally is the bylaw review committee okay that's the only one so in that regard why don't we take that one up as well so if you would like to make a motion relative to that yeah i'm going to move to a point ken hargreeves to the bylaw review committee second and i think that's sufficient because he's going to serve until the committee dissolves if we agree so let me explain what had happened because we've gone through of course quite a process is i think the entire board knows since miss maran indicated that she could not continue to serve and submit it to resignation and mr hargreeves is a former member in the nature of he's still a current member but i know he's been a member a long time member of town meeting from precinct two and the current member of the board of assessors was recommended to us for consideration by our principal assessor and i've had several conversations with mr hargreeves and he then attended last week a meeting of the committee and i've spoken with mr richie who's the chair of the committee both before and after the meeting with the committee and the second of those conversations the report was that we think that he would be an excellent contributor to finish out what we're doing and they actually have taken steps already to adjust their work schedule and meeting schedule to coincide with his vacation plans and if you follow the meeting notices and saw that they canceled some meetings and added some meetings that was as a result of the follow-up to this meeting and the last thing that i wanted to just remind you all of us that in november of 17 we appointed mr hargreeves to the board of assessors after reviewing his citizens activity form he did not night we did not request in this CAF because the information is basically the same as was provided on the prior CAF so that's the background that i wanted to report to you in support of the motion that i've already made i just want to follow up to say that i know a number of us did specifically recruit women to this seat and we appreciate mr hargreeves serving as well as the other two gentlemen who are already serving but we did attempt very very hard to make it not be all men of a relatively similar age but that is just the way it turned out because they need to move forward and make progress and that committee may well go through a transition after the council comes into play they may make it larger they may be bored with it it's just there's future opportunities but right now we just need to move so i'm really glad he was able to attend the meeting and see that it was something he was interested in i just add i really appreciate my colleagues efforts to recruit this was hard as a very kind of particular job and i think we found an excellent person and especially just as mr steinberg explained the number of phone calls and the effort to kind of bring the forces together to make this happen i'm really appreciating this is a very important group in terms of our responsibility and the transition so i just did a great job is there further discussion hearing none all those in favor please say aye so that's unanimous with one member absent and then we move on to our licenses public way and meter parking reservations in section seven and so the first one of those is the first day celebration road closure and parking reservation we have a memo from mr morris to mr bachmann and ourselves regarding this particular event so the one problem that i have with motion on motion sheet and i'm going to therefore make some amendment to it is that it does not specify the parking spaces um which are actually listed in the letter from uh the superintendent morris to mr bachmann and the select board dated july 2 so um and the time i would uh move to um approve the road closures and parking reservations for the first day celebration hosted by the amherst regional public schools in the town common august 28 2018 as follows the spring street parking lot adjacent to the amherst town common and boltwood avenue from spring street root nine from four p.m to seven p.m is there a second yes now that we've added that information we have a second is there further comment or yes we should also add a contact person we should go ahead and put debbie westmoreland down as contact we should always have a contact person we don't always have a manager you know like for a license but we should contact person in the motion yeah at the end of the motion it's like who was in charge of that so go dig in for a memo so it was more assistant to the superintendent so i will uh comment that this well probably not controversial does involve schools and so i will abstain in my vote um it is under their purview and so is there further further discussion if not all those in favor please say aye all right and mr wall is absent and i am abstaining and so that's three to zero three two three zero one one three zero one one so so now we have two items on our consent calendar remaining yes so i would move to approve items b1 and b2 from the consent calendar for july 9 2018 agenda as presented second is there further discussion is for you look like you have a comment oh i'm just making sure that the consent calendar doesn't include the thing we already did so it stops no he took it out he was very careful and he took it out yes all those in favor please say aye and one absent mr wall so now i believe we're to that how matters report thank you mr chair first um alert you that you will start to be inundated with minutes and the coming meetings because we're trying to get them all sequentially through the poor clerk who has to read them all uh and now we have uh miss mills who's keeping us up to date um and this purple who's catching us up so um in the coming your future meetings will always have most likely have minutes on the agenda so i apologize for that but it's be good to get it done when i mentioned that there is another cup of joe happening on friday uh july 13th at kelly's restaurant and i'll be joined by principal sister david burgess and just as a note this is the 15th cup of joe that we've had so far and they've all been really good uh along the same lines i've been continuing to have uh meetups with town employees so far we've had i've had 11 meetups which have met for an hour with 54 different employees in small groups and those have all been really productive and i think they go a long way in terms of building camaraderie among the staff as well uh a major um july 1 was a really major day in that it was the end of our fiscal year beginning of our new fiscal year but most importantly it marked the termination of our um participation in the in the self-insured health trust we are now in a fully insured product through maya um as you all know the claims from prior months will still be filtered through the trust uh there is a surcharge that's placed on employees pay checks to pay for those claims um but as of july 1 um the uh everybody has a new card it's through blue cross uh through through the maya health benefits trust and the just a tremendous number of people did a great amount of work um to make this transition because it was it's not just the current employees it's also retirees and a lot of education went into it and just uh really um and and with very few complaints honestly um people don't like it but they understand what why we had to do it and i just i think people uh that's a real um um credit to the staff who spent all the time with everybody and one-on-one conversations um because the staff sort of got it and then they were able to uh disseminate that information out on a one-to-one basis without fellow staff members and with retirees so a major step forward on that and that gives us predictability for the coming year controlling our costs for health insurance for the coming to three years um and i think it it puts us in a good shape in good shape for a very for a few years going forward i think i mentioned last time that the uh representatives from Penn State had come in the Penn State jet uh to visit UMass and they had their our borough manager and we and um we had uh in their public safety officials and we had our um municipal officials as well so this is an interesting conversation that we had with them the um way finding signs by time we meet next they should be installed they're trying to have them in um hopefully within well maybe it won't be before we meet next but by mid august is their goal to have the signs the sign signs are physically in town i have not seen them yet to make sure that it's what we expected to see we are scheduled to go see them at some point uh this week and so those signs will be installed at the um roundabout at triangle in east pleasant street uh you probably have seen the uh sculptures that are in kentrick park there's four of them in there the official opening was on july 5th last thursday um they didn't have a ceremony they said were open for business and there were six other on UMass property and uh we've had one complaint when they first went in there's a chimes on um what is that that's not triangle street at that point that's north pleasant street whatever it is there and on the corner of kentrick park it's on the north and so a person across the way emailed me and said this is not so good because there are people playing at all times like a little wind chime right but uh the sponsors of it got right on it met with the property owner made some adjustments they had a backup plan for if those adjustments didn't work they were they had some other plans in place and so that worked out really really nicely so i was happy that they were on it right away um um oh we talked about uh previously about uh the problem of having um a polling station at crocker farm especially for the preliminary election the prime the state primary on september fourth which happens to be the first day of pre-k i think it is um as bills used to be at crocker farm she's well aware of this um so we looked at alternate sites and uh with the now retired town clerk and we're hesitant to relocate a polling location for this election for two reasons one we couldn't find a suitable location that was near um the crocker farm school and the only suitable location would have been uh the months in library and that's not on a bus route and it just seemed like it would not be equitable to relocate something on that date we have had conversations with the principal and the police department will have additional no we will have a police officer on site but we will also um the concern of the principal was traffic enforcement so we will dedicate a police officer there for as long as the principal would like to help manage the traffic flow in and out at that busy time in the morning especially so we're going to sort of manage that through as best we can and the principal and the superintendent have been very cooperative on this um another momentous day was at the end of the fiscal year is when our contract with um with hadley for ambulance services expired that happened on june 30th they switched over on june 29th at nine oh five um so that has actually made it's quite a significant difference in that they account for 20 percent of our ambulance runs and 20 percent of the calls into our dispatch center both have been pretty you know as you found out from the fire staffing study report and has been evidenced to me from the dispatch center been have created uh the level of calls have been pretty high and creating concern with our staff hopefully this will relieve some of that pressure um and well it's got to relieve us 20 percent fewer so that's that's a good thing um the um water supply you may have read in the paper about um east hampton north hampton south hampton all issuing water restrictions um these restrictions are consistent with their water management permit it's not necessarily to the scarcity in their water supply they have in their permits when a the mill river in north hampton gets to a certain point if it's below a certain point they have to issue mandatory water restrictions it doesn't even look at the fact how much water they have we are in a different we have a different permit and we are in much better conditions so our average condition for cumulative rainfall is 22.1 inches during that 2016 drought year at the same moment in time on july 1 we had 15.1 inches today on july 1 we had 24 inches of rain so we have higher than average rainfall the daily water demand is an average about 2.5 million gallons per day uh in that 2016 drought conditions is 3.4 million gallons per day and in today on july 1 we were still we went we're back to 2.5 million gallons per day so there was a giant uptick in water usage during that 2016 drought conditions and as we look at Atkins reservoir its average condition is 1.1 feet below its maximum level during the drought conditions it was 3.4 feet below its maximum level and today it's overflowing it's at 0.0 we're not even pulling water from Atkins reservoir at this point so we have plenty of water at this point we'll continue to monitor it the driving force is always rain and water usage and as if we see any change in water usage we note it one way we've identified that is is is water being drawn down at UMass that they notice there's a water break in one of their dormitories that somebody had had installed something that in the water line burst and our tank started going down it didn't get to dangerous levels but it didn't so it's in set off alarm so people noticed that sudden drop in the tank so it was really people or the staff are paying close attention to those things you should be expecting to see a lot of paving coming forward the Amherst Woods work continues the major roads that will be paved this year are East Pleasant Street between Clark Hill Road in Eastman Lane Southeast Street between Colonial Village and Middle Street Main Street between Boltwood Avenue in Dickinson Street North Pleasant Street between North Village Drive and Fisher Street West Bay Road between Goldway and Spencer Drive Webster Street between Main Street and Spring Street Churchill Street between Main Street and Spring Street those are two little streets Colt Coles Lane which is the one downtown between North Pleasant Street and North Prospect Street and then South Prospect Street between Amity Street and Gaylord Street so those are the major road projects that we're funding through our pavement money that we have this year those are all being contracted out when they get paved they'd also include sidewalk work and affiliated sidewalk work along as as the engineers have designed it so we're already into July it's a big list and are we going to are we going to get them I mean I'm a little concerned because none of them have really started yet so we've got a real backlog and what always happens is we go right into school starts and we're scrambling before the asphalt plants close and it sounds like we're going to be right up against right we couldn't sign any contracts till July 1 this is all f y 19 money but we're probably going to be on the same boat because there's a lot of paving demand out there and there aren't and many companies out there who do it at the level that we want it to be done so whatever you want I do want to notify you that we received a notice of non-compliance for violation of our air quality permit for the landfill uh apparently the landfill gas had been rooted to the gas flare um and but the flare didn't ignite and so uh when that came to and we had to report that to DEP they have penalized us in the sense that they I will be signing a administrative consent order there is not a penalty of financial penalty involved we do we're going to make an improvements to the flare and the flare can't be operated without someone there watching it our system is not is one that we're the gas builds up relatively slowly so we can do it on a manual basis um so there if there were to be fines if we fail to comply with the new system then we'll be subject to fines managers out there with one of those barbecue layers um just an interesting note uh when we were talking at one point we um economic development director sort of counted up how many residential development units we have been permanent minutes since 2015 and the town has built 500 residential dwelling units these include Olympia Place, One East Pleasant Street, Spring Street which is going forward North Square at the mill district if you count in a university drive that's coming forward presidential apartments in Kendrick Place and then there's 162 that are still in the permitting stage which includes a relatively new proposal on southeast street and at the Amherst Motel site one other thing I went to alert you to is that there is a proposal coming forward to the design review board I think it's a design review board this month probably for the Bertucci site which would encompass a new construction the way I understand it I haven't seen anything but a building of significant similar height to what its neighboring buildings are and then it'd be a two-stage thing one for the Bertucci site and one for the where the spoke is so there'll be some development down at that area where people are looking to uh leverage the um low density of that property and so we will see more about that when they come to design review in a couple weeks um we had tagged this Berkshire gas rate change as something to pay attention to and last time I thought it was June 11th but it wasn't July 11th and Greenfield is their public hearing we have written to some people about this um wondering why they're getting a rate increase hike when they're not providing more gas and we it's the lack of gas is the moratorium on gas is really hurting our businesses um let's see I'm not sure we had a debrief meeting with Craig's Doors um interesting that uh we've instituted a meeting with the staff and the trustees of Craig's Doors which has been really beneficial I think um staff has been pretty stable over the last two years which has really helped according to our public safety officials they had 172 guests stay at the shelter 131 were men and 41 women uh 18% were under 25 years of age and 47% were older than 50 and 22% were reported to be of Latino descent and this is information that they typically gather on their guests um the issue for them is always funding and going forward they're looking at securing more stable funding and also next year they will need to renew their permit through the state building commission um I'm not sure I know some board members went to the Independence Day fireworks um held at McGurk's outside McGurk Stadium tremendous organizational effort and it's it's gotten bigger over over time by our LSSC staff they put a lot of effort in and we really want to thank the University of Massachusetts um for being so cooperative they provide all kinds of physical plant support and public safety support um it's one of those things that they do for the town and for the whole region that doesn't get recognized very often but we always recognize it um ourselves but um it is a nice gesture on their part um for our communities because people really like the fireworks we have to get lots of people there even if you wind up coughing your way out of it as some people did um the uh the chair spoke at two valley bike launches on June 29th uh one in Northampton and one here we had one in here which was really incredible because uh Ms. Brewer and Mr. Slaughter met with some middle school students who had come up with the idea of having a bike share and then not a month later they were cutting the ribbon to announce the the valley bike share it was really a terrific event um we are in terms of the dog park where we are expecting positive news on a grant application to the Stanton Foundation for design money and if we get that design money uh then once we get the design completed which we sort of have a rendering of it already we will be seeking additional funds uh for construction so that's all going according to the we the plan we had hoped and so that's it's really um a really good thing and I'd really do have to give you tribute to Dave Zomek our assistant town manager who um when they read the proposal and reviewed it said it was one of the best proposals they'd ever seen come in for in most developed most thought out most comprehensive most community involvement very impressed by the whole process so Mr. Pistrang and Mr. Zomek does deserve a lot of credit for that let's see I would want to mention that uh credit to the finance department for we and they closed out they're closing out the FY 18 fiscal year and launching FY 19 where that's where in that one period where you have to decide where you're going to pay your bills which is coming still with the FY 18 bill or FY 19 bill uh they're moving forward the finance committee had its final meeting last Thursday I think it was um they voted for the FY 18 budget they voted to transfer funds out to cover the snow and ice deficit which is typically what happens we they hold on to it until they know they don't use it they also transferred funds um to cover any kind of expenses we're going to have without fitting this room they saw that they understood purposely that we did not budget for that this year because not knowing what the outcome of the election was going to be uh so they've transferred funds uh into the town hall budget in order for us to take the steps necessary to create a space for the council to meet and they were comfortable with that um and so and then the last thing is just we on June 20th we had our employee town employee picnic um and it was the biggest turnout we've ever had and at least that's what people tell me I only gone twice but um but it was really a terrific event we had our new wellness people from Maya there giving back massages and chair massages um and there is a um so the people it's all organized by employees it's funds donated by employees to put it on it's one one day where everybody comes together we had a great turnout from DPW and from uh we had good representation from fire and police and all town hall and LSSE and even in library employees all are able to come together and sort of circulate with each other um Carol Hepburn is the master chef um cooking up the the things in the uh the grill and this year um next year the DPW they figured out that they have enough people who played musical instruments where they can have a band coming out of DPW so they're gonna practice so they can perform next next year's picnic and they quickly came up with their their name of their band it's going to be called municipal waste so it was a really terrific thing um on your desks are some of the cross town contemporary art thing so this is their their handout that they're they're putting together with that and um that's all I have to report tonight any questions for the manager any additional questions yes yes so way back on page four um as you had mentioned to us before the building commissioner issued a notice of dangerous structure to the owner of 159 north pleasant street which instructed the owner to demolish the structure the owner has blah blah blah I know you know what you wrote I'm just reading it for everyone else's benefit is that so many pages um has been in touch it's been in communication building commissioner secured saying is actively seeking options for the site I just want to put it out there that he the owner didn't put up the fence as quickly as the building commissioner asked and the owner hasn't done the demolition yet which was requested to be done months ago and I'm trying to understand how this sets a precedent for other property owners in town when it was really difficult to get in touch with this person in the first place and now they're not following the rules and there could be fine $1,000 a day for this and I appreciate that our building I do appreciate their building commissioners working with them but it gets to a point where it's like everybody else says so why do I follow the rules um I just I'm trying to understand so I can check into that that'd be great other questions for the manager if not then we'll go to select board member reports does anyone have a report anyone been in any meetings I have housing trust meeting later this week but not yet I wasn't at any meetings last week because it was out of town so that rules out me anyone else have any other user notes to share I'm gonna I'll put it on hold to see if you talk about during your report it's about the town manager evaluation oh yes thank you for reminding me um so the uh town manager town manager evaluation is uh currently in the phase where we're soliciting comment from the public town meeting words committees as well as town staff town staff have until I want to say this six to the 13th 13th I think says the six six for staff and 13th for the public at large I believe is what it is and then right and then on the 13th I will then make sure that all of the hard copy of those gets you guys by before Monday so so this is the timeout we so as you can see we really don't talk to each other outside of meetings so yeah this timeline doesn't work because we don't meet on the 16th the trade I will have to get it to you without me and so it's talking about the packet for the 16th it's talking about self-evaluation for the town manager they're they're they're they're stuff so you're gonna want to revise that yes and and basically just push the things that needed to happen to the 23rd and I think it got screwed up because we didn't have this night select board meeting listed and it says very clearly Monday July 16th select board meeting even though we confirmed last week that there isn't one so um it's when that happened that things just kind came apart so as you indicated already staff questioners were already do so that's taken care of and then public comments are due by four o'clock this week on Friday and since we don't have a meeting on the 16th my question at that point is um I can see that the bottom two bullet points here the self-evaluation for the town manager presentation and questions is gonna it's gonna wait till the 23rd and the packet will include the self-evaluation the form and the goals that's for the 23rd so in terms of getting stuff have we been getting much in the way of stuff other than forms from staff and because we back in the day we used to get more paper letters hardly anybody does that anymore I didn't check today so there was nothing to get to us much down to other than the staff items and the staff items could be mailed to us maybe what's easiest way to do that are they did people do it online this year or on paper I've not seen any online but I'm not saying that that hasn't happened but it may have what my plan was was to get those materials collected this Friday and then get them to you on Monday if not before regardless of whether we have a meeting or not you can drive to our house on Monday like how does that even make sense it's not that big a town yeah I would no I would um because I don't want to delay it a week and I think the other thing that's we were going to get from the manager on the 13th which is that Friday his self-evaluation so that in combination with those would all go to you as if it were a packet but not a packet because they're not public so we're so good with that timeline still even even though we're not so we won't have a presentation and questions obviously on the 16th because we're not meeting but you're comfortable doing yourself evaluation in the packet still you're still on schedule for this week more he's like sure yeah okay well the reality is if it's not I mean I don't want to mess up your weekend either anymore than we normally do but the reality is it's not a Friday packet for Monday because like there isn't a meeting no it's so I will be but I know people are like coming and going in terms of vacations and that's why to get them to us right so that we have because we are still on the plan with the forms are due back to you on the 6th of August that's still just speaking of my own self-interest because I'm going to be away from the 19th to the 24th I appreciate that you are going to go through the effort of delivering them or making sure we get them or you know sending them priority so that's yeah so and I won't and I won't be at the meeting of the 23rd is the chair knows right right so that's that was why I think we kept that but we didn't right clean up the the draft so I will perhaps include a revised no longer draft version of that with that might be an idea so yeah take the draft off take the draft off a couple of those orders but we were also going to still talk about those dates in August did we come up with any solution on the Friday August 24th thing or Wednesday September 5th thing this is the part where you say I didn't think about it again that's totally reasonable but that is what we discussed the last time deciding what to do I think we'll may have to as part of the 23rd's conversation we may need to be more kind of over here right that's the problem so we were talking about would we meet on Friday potentially meeting Monday the 20th and then again on Friday August 24th at 8 in the morning because that was theoretically going to work for people otherwise we were going to have to push it off until Wednesday the 5th which was our next select board meeting which would have plenty of other select board things to do on the 24th which is fine yeah so we have that on hold and if you say we're going to do it and I'm away then just tell me it's in my calendar because we know for sure that Mr. Steinberg is going to wait be away on the 27th and possibly you were also going to be away yes we're on the 27th so I'm not even clear if we're meeting at all that day much less doing the town manager evaluation all sorts of stuff we can do all kinds of stuff with that yeah the cheer you're going to do marijuana licensing that night no you have to wait for me to be absent for that sorry I think you'll go back and figure it out yeah I will I will sort through that and sort through my notes from last time but well that's what we said Friday the 24 30 o'clock yeah because that would work for you so that's instead of at this point Monday the 27th in terms of town manager evaluation we may still have a meeting if we have to do a bunch of non-marijuana licenses or something else but we wouldn't we're not gonna do the equivalent of the Monday the 27th meeting would actually take place on Friday the 24th at 8 a.m. well otherwise we're going to be missing two people well I mean maybe in that versus Wednesday the 5th maybe because we we scheduled it but we're waiting to get the final final right which is magically going to change because well because he hasn't taken because he's the chair and he can decide he hasn't taken a draft he hasn't taken a draft let me draft until about the 10th of September uh-huh but yes I will tidy that up more importantly in the short term is that as of Friday afternoon I'll collect a bunch of things you will see them hopefully on Monday I'll photocopy them any hard copy stuff the electronic most of any electronic stuff we've received already you already have but we will there's only been a couple I don't ever get any the the reason the reason I was yeah the reason I was asking about electronic for staff is I don't think those would have come to us I think they would have gone they may have gone directly to me I have I think one or two that I can recall the equivalent of those forms and so because we've gone through different iterations of paper versus electronic it's a new timeline and the 27th then being questionable altogether these are sneaking up on me all right are there any other select board member reports it's just to follow up on something that came up a moment ago in this brewers report um the select board shared calendar I plead guilty to the error and was based upon the fact that I pulled um that from this memo and um then it created confusion um I wonder um if uh we want to see if miss mills would be willing to take over maintenance of the select board shared calendar recognizing that may segue to another elected body at some point in the future no because it's not reliable so we gave up on it and then it'll go in if it were reliable would you use it well yeah in two respects one if our meetings were just uploaded to it because it's that same old argument about open meeting law open meeting law is so great except for the fact that we don't have any of our meetings posted because you know we don't have the list of topics ready yet so we have the list on select board page so if we could preload all those in here accurately that'd be helpful in and of itself but that's like every time we vote every six months or whatever to do that that's just a one-time deal what it was supposed to also be helping us with was things like oh you're going to give this speech at valley bike okay so that'll be slaughter and steinberg and whoever at that particular speech oh nobody can go to the habitat thing or whatever we can't really expect the spells so that we cannot and that that we have not effective but if she would be willing to just accurately we do not we do not exercise that part of it that was the intent was a theory so just have the board meetings on it we either have the board meetings or not but it would be lovely if somebody sat down and loaded in the board meetings but then it would just be done because there's things like four boards right all the dates you already have dates we have that's not hard to do when dates change go in and clean clean up the as long as we know how to get into the calendar if not i can and then i think the other thing that is often there is other events weren't invited to select the valley bike share right is often listed there those are those are really easy to add things that we get invited to as a right like the umass events going there right opening day whatever the breakfast that kind of stuff because it helps remind us that we forgot to put it in the calendar right so i think really we're asking mr bachman to put him in the calendar that's what it comes down to because he knows what kind of things we go to right but it's yeah it would be helpful from his mills to see be able to track that well just for educational part yeah because it should pull our meeting together is there any other member reports hearing none i would take a motion to adjourn unless there's just one other thing and that is i'll just read this to be real quick and that is um i would um we've gone through a long period of time without rotating the vice chair because this group has been kind enough oh mr wall did it for this meeting he did it he came back he came back just long enough to do left again i take that back then i was just inspiring i moved to adjourn is there a second all right thank you for looking out for me but yes he came back just to do that all those in favor please say aye all right and we're adjourned at 10 24