Skutiputi, Chicho, I can't really see at least in this current moment of time being able to find solutions and try to help humanity as I'm just one person. You don't have to help humanity. You have to help your vicinity, right? Help yourself is the first thing you should do. Help your loved ones is the second thing you should do. Help your friends and family is a third thing you should do. Help those you find the need is the fourth thing you should do. Decentralize yourself from this current economic system is one of the main things you should do. Educate yourself is a must that you should do, right? Learn about what's going on and go slow. Don't follow the carrot. Don't chase the carrot.  One little good deed brings a lot of happiness, Matt. Scooty, really. One little good deed does a lot of good to the soul and that empowers you to do more good deeds. That's the way you should look at it.


I'm Brad Town, and I'd like to call the Berlin Select Board meeting to order. To my far left is Pete Kelly, Wayne Lamerton. To my right is Dana Hadley, and Diane Isabella is here as the town treasurer. Additions or changes to the agenda, Dana? I do have a few things I would like to add to the agenda. I would like to ask the board to confirm a few appointments that we had made last year that need confirmation we discovered when we were doing the town report. I need signatures on those appointment documents. I've been presented a letter asking the board to draft a letter of support for an award for the town's master plan that I would like to ask you about. I would like you to reaffirm the certificate of mileage for the state. Adding our addition to a road that we made that I forgot about a 50 feet at the mall road. And I would also like to ask the liquor board to meet. And that is it. Okay, public comment. Hearing none, treasurer's report. Okay. I sent out personal party text once today in the mail and they're due by April 20th. Two people gather in part of that. But they got once a year, this is the time of year to send them so they were sent out on time. And that's really all I got besides bills. David Huber, play the question? Can I go down here? Thanks. David, would you like to pull a chair up? Sure. David Huber is a fairly new resident. And he is interested in being appointed to the planning commission. And we are going to have an opening on the planning commission and I have posted that. So, David, maybe you'd like to just tell the board a little bit about what you said? Yeah, sure. I'm Dave Huber. It's my wife, Katie. Not a chaperone. Not a chaperone. We moved from East Montpelier where we were renting and bought a house on West Hill about six months ago. So we're pretty new to Berlin. But we're really excited to be here. It's a really nice area. We rode up the house. Lots of cool wildlife. Lots of bears and fishers and all sorts of stuff. So we're pretty stoked to be here. And we chose the area because it's really pretty close to where we both were. And it was, you know, it just seems like a nice rural area and we're both pretty drawn to that. I work as an attorney with the Agency of Agriculture. I'm in charge of the enforcement for the agency. For water quality, cannabis, FEDC, fertilizer, pesticides, food safety, consumer protection programs. Katie's a nurse over at the hospital. And you had an interest in planning. Have you done anything before with the planning commission? As far as planning goes, in addition to my work with enforcement, I'm also in charge of making sure that all variances are either approved or denied for agricultural farm structures. So I do have some experience with zoning when it comes to large farm operations, farms that have over 699 head of cows. And because we maintain the zoning for that as opposed to the town. But I also pitch in with any advice other towns have with regards to zoning for small farms, medium farms, so backyard husbandry. I first gain an interest in the Berlin planning when I put a shut up on our property. And just in my nature, I've read the zoning laws that you guys have. And Tom didn't scare your way. No, Tom didn't scare your way and persuaded me to get another permit for putting a garage up. So I now know the rules behind that. You're familiar, the planning commission just had, I think it was a three year project to update our zoning. And they've really worked very hard and did a good job. It's gonna be on the ballot for the town meeting. And they have some, it's a very good committee. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't have said it on television. It's a very good committee. And I think that it would be a nice fit for you, especially with your background. People on that board come from different backgrounds and makes a nice mix. So. Well, thanks for your interest and welcome to town. Thank you. So, I guess what I'm asking is the board to consider appointing David on the planning commission. I'll make a motion to appoint David here to the planning commission. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Aye. You're on. You're in? Yeah. You didn't get away now. Congratulations. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Would you like to be appointed? Yeah. Thank you. Don't go far, Kate. We'll work something for you. Keep chaperoning. Great job. Okay. Who knows? The next item is Janet Clark. Claire. Claire? Yeah. And I have my co-worker, Jessica Sanderson. And maybe we'll just see if we can get closer. There we go. There we go. So we are here from the city of Montpilier, Montpilier Senior Activity Center, which is one of the three divisions of our city's community services department. We're integrated with the recreation parks and trees. And we operate on Berry Street. And when you're been to the center before, not yet. We have a little infographic. I'm sorry we didn't get this to you in advance, but there's a lot of good information here that I thought you might find helpful. And we're here because as you may have noted, we are making another increase to our funding request from your town at this year's town meeting. And we suspected that some of you, some of your residents and voters may have questions about why the request is going up. And we wanted to try to illustrate it to you and answer any questions. And just because I have to say it, Janet, we have a pre-town meeting on March 4th, I guess. Yes. And I hope that you will be there. I'm always there. If I'm not able to be there, one of my representatives will be there and we're always happy to do that. But we wanted to give this slide forward an advanced opportunity to ask questions, maybe help us anticipate any concerns that you may have heard. So you've asked for an increase of about $4,500 somewhere in that range. And the question is going to be, why do you feel that's necessary to ask? Yeah. So in the last couple of years, we took on management of the meals on meals delivery to the residents of your town and Jessica manages the feast program which includes meals served at the center as well as the home deliveries. I'm just gonna ask her to speak a little bit to that. And if you look on the back of the infographic, there are actually also some testimonials from people who receive the meals and a little more information about it. And I have, in my notes here, I'm sorry to get them to you in writing or print it out, but I have some bigger financials that give you a picture of the actual cost that we cover. We fundraise as city employees in Montpelier. We fundraise to do this for the residents of your town. Yes. I have the honor of being a program manager for the feast senioriness. And this can give you all of the quantitative data about what we serve and who we serve and how many we serve. But it doesn't really describe how we operate as a village with our towns around us to provide real whole wellness to our elders who need help. As we age, people who get over into their seventies may be living alone and we want people to live alone in their homes as long as they can. And this is something that does that for them. We, there's three components to delivering home meals. It's, you give a, and we are funded, we get some reimbursement through the state because you follow very, very specific nutritional guidelines that make the medically therapeutic diet. We also use organic and fresh vegetables as much as we can. And our meals cost a little more because they're such high quality. But that's only really one third of what we do for the people. We are only delivering like a third of the calories they need during the day. But it's nutritious. The other things we do are, we provide a little bit of socialization, which as we, because we take a lot of classes, there's a lot of professional development in what we do. So we're learning more and more and more that socialization is a huge part of keeping people vibrant and well into their elder years. And so we provide a little bit of socialization. And the third part is we do a wellness and health assessment. When our drivers go, they usually go once a week and they get to know the people and they can tell if they see somebody, if that person is acting maybe a little sicker than they were last week, or if there's something wrong environmentally like their heat's not on or something like that. And I will tell you, a person in Berlin today, and I have to follow up on it, didn't respond. He didn't come to his door, his door was locked, his car was home, and we couldn't deliver the meal because we couldn't get inside. The driver calls me and lets me know that. I call the Berlin police and I say, can you please do a wellness check for us on this person? I haven't heard back from them, but I will follow up on it again tomorrow because we have done that many, many times where we actually saved somebody who had fallen in their own home or was sick and had to go to our emergency room. So what we do is really, really vital and it's not just the people we serve, but the people who serve them. We have many volunteers who come to the center to help from Berlin. So we're providing this just whole thing. They come and they prep food, they deliver meals, they socialize, and it's for people who are retired and looking for something to do, it's a wonderful service and I'm just really proud of that. And just to clarify something that Jessica said, someone might deliver once a week, but on the other four days, other people are delivering. So there's actually five hot meals delivered in the day, in the weekend, in some cases frozen meals for the weekend. And we're always providing frozen meals ahead, especially in the winter, so that on those icy days when the drivers can't get out, that person at home has a meal, that's a backup meal. Exactly, and we did that today because we had closures last week because we were, and we used the meals, the extras, the meal. And the socialization really, for a lot of the folks who receive the meals, it's the only person they're gonna see and talk to all day, sometimes. So maybe they live with someone, but maybe they don't. So it's really essential. We really try to provide as much inclusiveness to everybody as we can, celebrating holidays. Valentine's Day, they're getting quilts that we've crossed Blue Shield, knitted for them, and we're doing cookies and the Valentine's Day cards are being made by the schools. We try to take as much, we try to make them feel like they've got people who care about them, because we do. So we're serving about 80 different people from your town. Not all of them are receiving meals on wheels, but many of them are. There's others that are coming to the center, age 15 up, taking classes. We have about 75 different classes a week. Half of those are in wellness related movement classes, and they're very affordable, and we give financial aid to anyone who needs it, including from your town. So they might take yoga, 30 bucks for 12 weeks, that you get two classes out in the public in the private market for that. We also have about 40 hours a week of free drop-in activities that includes games, trips, reading aloud groups, playing music together, all kinds of things. We send out all kinds of publications to help people understand what's going on if they're on our mailing list, social media, and over the course of the year we're serving about 1,500 people. Our annual budget's about 600,000, and about 5% of who are serving are Berlin residents. The cost is about 30,000. The cost of the feast at home portion that Jessica was describing is about 13,500. We're asking less than the cost of only the meals that we're delivering to your residents. So that's kind of gonna be a little background about why the request has gone up. And in the past, the different organization was responsible for the meals on meals. That was just basics, who still manage the food pantry.  Their, the way they were doing the meals was different. We're doing them now, our cost is different. The demand for meals has gone up. The proportion of your older residents is going up, so we anticipate that trend to continue. And we're happy to do it, but we need, we would like to have more support from your town. My only, I'm sorry, I'll say no, go ahead. My only question is, do you serve the whole town for meals only? We don't serve the whole town. We serve Western Berlin and the galley in Berry. Also serves some of the residents of the town. But we serve residents of all parts of your town with all the other services. So, you know, the classes and the drop-ins and pasts. Basically from Berlin, Holland, to Montpelier, and then north, you know, Berlin towards east Montpelier to, you know, out 12, sorry, they're both long-amples. Yeah. So, and about of the approximately 12,000 home deliveries that we do each year, about a fifth of those, between 15 and 20% are for Berlin. And many of the people that we serve are people who, I get calls from the hospital, from the Council on Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice, the Council on Aging, who people have had to go into the hospital for an illness or an injury.  We're sending someone home, can you start their meals? And we say, yes, we can. We can start them. Now, the hospital, when they provide the meals in the hospital, they're getting reimbursed through the insurance companies. But we aren't allowed to do that. So what we have to do is fundraise. And many of the people, many of the people that we serve do donate towards the meals. We're not allowed, we're not allowed to charge for them. So we ask that they can donate that they do. So many do. And you have people who send you a check for $300 a month. And then you have somebody, a little lady, who has a list on social security. And every month, you get a check for $10 per person. And that's the population you're dealing with. There's some who aren't able to contribute. So the donations are voluntary? Yes, absolutely. We aren't allowed, because we follow the Council on Aging, the Older Americans Act, which dispenses meals, money to provide the meals, as very strict. What age is someone eligible to use your program? 60 and older. For the home providers, and for the other programming at the center, most of the programming is 15-up, and some is some is younger. If these meals should must be 60. If anybody comes to one of the companies, we call it Feast Together, Tuesdays and Fridays. If anyone comes to that, and they're not 60, they have to pay $7 for the meal. And we're still supplementing it. If they're over 60, if they fell it in an nutritional survey, they're allowed to donate any amount that they want. And those have been going up, actually. People are being very generous, you know? You know, the people in Berlin, I think are very generous with when this is on the ballot. And I know you asked for an increase last year. He did. Was it? That was the first year. Is that the first year of your food preparation? That was the first year. Our site has been producing the meals since 2015-13. Our site has been producing them. But at that time, we had a partnership with JustBasics and the caterer, who actually cooks the meal. It was kind of complex. We've simplified it a little bit. Still produce at our site, but we're actually putting the fundraising burden now. So you have a kitchen in Montpellier. We have a commercial kitchen. It's licensed as a restaurant. It's very well-managed. And we welcome any of you if you'd like to come and see the kitchen. Come have a meal. Come have a meal. Do you stay and party? Come eat a driver who delivers to town. It's really a vibrant place, too. I have wonderful drivers who live in Berlin. And wonderful. And if you need a testimonial from them, I think they'd be happy to get it to you. I think, as you know, I would encourage you to come and march. Yes. Yes, we will be at pre-town meeting. We're also going to have some representatives outside the polls with our infographic in case voters have questions. And certainly, if anyone calls the town offices or speaks with any of you and have questions you don't feel you can answer, I would welcome you to refer them to us. We're going to be having some letters on Front Forge Forum from residents and let us do that in the paper to help get the word out and in the world advance of the vote. And if any of you are retired and would like to drive? We're looking for more drivers. It's a lot of fun. About an hour a week. It's about an hour a week. Because it's just one day, maybe an hour and a half. You can be a sub even. You don't have to go every day. So how many houses does one drive? Do you do that an hour and a half? We have five routes because we don't want anybody spending too much time. It's all volunteer. Nobody gets paid, they use their car, they're fast. And I try to keep the deliveries under 10 stops. But that can be if they're going to a certain building they can deliver three or four deliveries in like three prospect or something like that. And so the commitment is that they come and do their job in about an hour and a half. That's picking stuff up, sending it out, socializing a little bit. I have drivers who leave at 10.30 and don't get back until 1.  You know? It's community. Yeah, it's community. And the people that do it love it. They really care so much about the people that they're serving. Yeah. And the testimonials are we. Yeah, so if you have a chance, you have to have a look at those testimonials. There's a lot more in there. Do you have some extras you can leave with us? I can leave them all, thanks. OK, that would be wonderful. Thank you. Feel free to put them in a town clerk's office. I will do that. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for the interview. Don't be afraid to come and take your classes. Yeah, and we appreciate your voter support and all my previous years, including all these years that we've been gradually going up as our costs in the man have gone. The gentleman that was here earlier said he lived on West Hill. What's West Hill? It's a road that's off of Chandler Road in West Berlin. You know where Chandler Road is? I guess I don't. You come a little while before you get into Riverton where the old school. Oh, way over. Oh, OK. Straight up through here. See, I drove inside Berry, so West Hill to me is Bridge Street towards the airport. Yeah. Yeah. Every town has a West Hill. All right, thank you very much. OK, tell them the same policy. Angelina asked me to put that on. And since she's not here, I guess I'll just say about it. As you know, we did come to a resolution on the sand. I think it's working very well. And once we get through ice storms every 10 minutes, maybe we can talk about sand policy over the summer months and come up with some definitive thing. Because I think that in a way, the exercise, if I were to do it again, I think I'd do it another way. But the exercise is a good one. It's got people aware of the issue. So thank you for allowing us to do that. OK, and the 2018 Equalization Review. I have spoken to you about the Equalization Review before. Again, the CLA is 10214, which is pretty good. The coefficient of dispersion, 49, which is getting up there. We are, the assessors, are in the middle of a project on mobile homes. That's the one that was the worst out of whack. And at that time, I did not have the report, which is why I brought it back on the agenda for tonight, which I've sent to you, if you're interested in seeing what made up the speakers. It's a mathematical exercise. Basically, we were about the same as last year as far as the we did come down a little bit on the coefficient of dispersion, which was good. The common level of appraisal was 10245 last year. It was 10214 this year. Anything over one is good. So I think it's, we don't have to have a revaluation. That's the goodness. OK, thank you, Dana. Option agreement for the easement on the well site? Back in September, I came to you and advised you that the Public Works Board has been working on an option agreement for two well sites. And they had chosen a property on the Dodge farm for two sites. The agreement was $30,000 for well site E and $20,000 for well site F. And it was discovered that Vermont Land Trust had an easement on the property, and that had to be worked out. So it just has been worked out. And so what I need the board to do now, this has been ratified by the Public Works Board. I don't know if you want to add anything to it that I'm missing. We've gone through multiple changes to get the Land Trust to be on board with the agreement. And Rob Allen and I, the Executive Committee for the Public Works Board, we've approved this along with Rob Elford. So what we need, I need a vote from you to go forward with the option agreement. And I need the vote to authorize the chairman to sign on behalf of the town. I'll move to approve the option agreement being to authorize the chair to sign on behalf of the town. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. See the authorised. OK, sign up. Yes. I will notarize it and give it to Tom to process. And Tom worked really hard on this. I mean, he was through a lot of hours into that. And the letter of understanding with Father Gil Sagallian Valley? This is the normal management understanding letter that they send every year as far as doing our audit. You remember you chose Father Gil Sagallian Valley to be our auditors for another year with an option of two more years. I have reviewed this. It's the same letter that we have approved many times before. And so I'd be asking the board to approve the signing of this letter and authorizing the chairman to sign on behalf of the town. So moved. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? No opposed? Motion carries. And I'll give it to Brett because we'll have one for the final. Today is February 7th. Bid openings for the escalator data? We have received three bids for the excavator. We have put a request out for a use excavator. Yes, we have met with a few vendors on this. A few of them in here. So let me get myself organized here to score. OK, Caterpillar has a 37.5 excavator. Bid price is $95,000. It's a new machine, no hours. You say it was a 37.5? 307.5. Oh, 307.5. Steve here. They are also offering a lease purchase payment program. Five year at $20,983. Six years at $17,902. And seven years at $15,707. Do you administer the lease through any dealer? You didn't ask for that, but yeah, you can get it through any one of them. You want to go back? Sure. So this quote is from North Tracks. It's for a John Deere hydraulic model 75G. It's a 2017, excuse me, with 658 hours on it. It has a 6 foot 11 inch dipper stick, a cab with heat and air, 24 inch triple browser shoes, grading blade, Craig hydraulic coupler. Craig is 28 inch digger bucket. Craig hydraulic thumb power train and hydraulic warranty expires $529,002. Additional warranty may be purchased. It says V-Trans, a town of Washington in Berlin, put 515 hours out of the 658 hours that are on it. And it is $89,500. Is this the same machine you rented? Yes. What was the warranty? It said, I heard $2002. Yep, 529, May 29th, June 20th, 2020. Yeah, thank you. What was it, 89.5? Yes. And I have two vids from Vorygaard Equipment for a case. A 2019 case CX75C with a dozer blade. Most of the same functions with a note that the Vorygaard will set up the town's hydraulic tilt bucket with special spin-on quick connects. That excavator, after the municipal discount, is $97,400. Does it have hours running? That one's a new one. It was new. Brand new one. That machine has two sets of factory-agular hydraulics. So you can run your tilt bucket and your thumb at your same time without having to disconnect any holes or just flip any valves or anything. It's got two complete sets of plumbing. The second quote is for a leftover 2017 with 51 hours on it. That's an SK75SR cabalco. Same options and the same offer to hook up our tilt bucket for a price of $97,100. We received $36,000 from the insurance on the other machine. We could hit the equipment fund, although we hadn't planned for this purchase, so we'd be robbing Peter and Paypal, but we couldn't do that. Or we could discuss the financing of our insurance. So it was totaled and the insurance took it for $36,000. There's nothing else. That's it. The only thing that we have is a sewage company bought it out of West Rhode Island. We still have our cleanup bucket. And I just dumped about $2,000 into that last summer. I had it all refaced and all re-bushed and went through the whole mechanism of it, which will fit on both everything. Caterpillar never came to see me, so he has no clue of what were you in any of this or what we wanted for options. I definitely want it so that we can use our cleanup bucket in our thumb at the same time, because there's a lot of times when you're cleaning ditches that you need to be able to grab onto something with the cleanup bucket on. And our old one, we couldn't do that. You had levers out on the boom that you had to switch to use the cleanup bucket or the thumb. So you couldn't use them both at the same time. You have the auxiliaries to do the cleanup bucket and the thumb boat. What we do is have the solenoid valve in the cab. That changes from one to the other. Yeah. Because we rented the machine at the same time. Because when you're running a dealing bucket, which most people, a lot of people use, it doesn't twist. Right. So you don't want it. As far as how we're going to pay for an excavator, I think we need to have that discussion. I personally feel like that's what we put the funds for. Yeah.  I mean, because as you know, I'm going to rate it. Right. As far as the money. I like it or not, but yeah. As far as the, I mean, probably Tim should review the goals to make sure. Yeah. Well, I was going to ask is if we did a lease purchase for this year and use the money that we have for the insurance for the first year's payment. And then then you haven't got to go into your equipment account this year, which you didn't expect to have to. And then next year, go into the equipment account and either finance it the way you want to finance it, because you can change it at any point with no penalties. The equipment, as you know, is an equipment and structures. Riches and row of money is in that account. And that's going to come out. Well, even if we do a lease purchase agreement, according to Caterpillar, it'd be somewhere around about 17,000 or 18,000. So that would leave about half of what the. Well, that was that was another thing I was going to suggest to you that if you did a lease purchase, I don't know what these two guys for the first year's payment. You can do it a lot of different ways. You can make an irregular first payment or you can divide it up over. Well, I mean, how much does it have to be? You have to at least have. Well, if you do, you have to have the first payment up front. So if you do it for five payments, it has to be one fifth of the payment. If you do it for six payments, you can do it one sixth of the payment up front. Or if you do it for seven years, one seventh of the payment has to be up front. Because then between the money that we're getting for our trailer and the insurance company, because that was told. And what was. Is that part of the 36 or is that on top of it? I would leave the trailer money out of it for now. Well, what I'm saying is you're going to get that money from the trailer. So if you've got money left over after your first payment, first year on the excavator, we could pay for the trailer. Because you don't have the money to buy that either. You've got to have them both. I mean, I think I would suggest the board let us analyze this a little bit. As far as for finding a way to pay it, obviously we can't. I mean, whether it's some sort of financing agreement, we've only got the equipment on. We would be grading Richardson Road if we get into that. We'd probably have to wait for the FY20 budget to finish Richardson Road. Also, we haven't budgeted for a payment in the FY20 budget. I guess where I was going with that is if we needed to use the equipment budget to buy the excavator so we have it for mud season. And then even if we went to the bank and got a $50,000 equipment note and used the 36 that we got from the insurance company to pay for it for the first 18 months of payments. And I guess when I talk to you about this, I'm talking about the budget. Cash is a different, right, cash is fine. But I mean, our budget would be satisfied by the insurance check. Right, get offsets. That's where I'm going.  That's just residual. But I'm not really selling money. So I always suggest that a town goes to the local bank. And more times than not, they'll save 3 quarters to 1% because of finance mentality and tax exempt people and that kind of thing. So, hey, if you can save a point. We can get the machine quicker. I mean, we get the machine as quick. Yeah, because we're going to have to either hire somebody or we'd have our own. Yeah, and I think what I was saying, I'm just telling you of how it affects the budget. Right, municipal county is quirky. Can we write a check? Yes, but it is. Well, I guess probably the thing would be have Dana and Diane look it over and make a final decision next year. A suggestion that would make the decision. Come on. That way, we're going to go with that.  Oh, there you go. Come on. I don't need to go with there. I don't need to go with there.  Well, I guess then the thing would be to do is to take in. OK. Run your numbers data. OK. That would be great. And I will be in touch, but you know how it gets out. And you've got to be on the agenda. I appreciate your opportunity. If you're interested in coming back. Thank you for coming in. Thanks. Thanks. The money that you spent on rent, was it for naught? Because 80% were depreciated at 80, 20. 80% of the rent that you paid actually went to purchase. That doesn't happen very often. It's typically a machine that's walking somebody else. OK. Well, thank you very much. Thank you so much for your time. Yeah. Let's go to the show. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good seeing you. Thank you. OK. Bit opening for our equipment trailer. OK. We receive two bits for our equipment trailer. You still have a chip in your poop? I know, you just bought one of that. I know. We're not going to ruin that one, are we? No, I'm going to use it for our equipment trailer, man. I got a bed from Clark's Truck Center for a BWS manufacturing tag along the trailer. An easy load, 20 ton, 2019 new for a total price of $20,071. That includes title, tax, and temporary tag. What brand is that? BWS manufacturing. BWS. B is a B. So I have equipment for a 219-eager beaver, a 20xpt trailer, 20 ton with tag air brake trailer, an inch and three quarter oak decking, two feet of extra deck length, 21 total flat deck, eight feet six inches wide, five rotor ring per side, wood wheel pass, lockable two box and a drawbar, ABS system, hutch H9700 axles, steel wheels, two speed jack, eight feet long by 36 foot wide hydraulic wood filled ramps. And we're at 25,300. The trailer have hydraulic ramps in the air. It's going to air ramp. It's got an easy load, I think. Are the air ramps not supposed to exist? No. Yeah. They're 38 inch by 76 inch wood filled air operated ramp. Betcha. You need to review these too. Yeah. I see something there that doesn't look right. So you need to review these, and I think we should revisit this at the same time. Awesome. Now I think you've figured it out. Oh, Tim, do you have any questions, or any of you? You can always give me a call. I'll get my numbers, and I'll wait for your results. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. I don't have 25,000. So I'm saying it's pretty silly. I'll make a copy of this tomorrow. Yeah. The base here, right? What's that? Yeah. Thank you. Very good. There's a whole bunch of big lures. Well, no. This one's got numbers on it, like you need to add numbers. You need to add this price if you want the air ramps. So you need to read these closely. So I explained to him when he called me and wanted to know what I wanted, and I told him I wanted the air ramps. If you read that, it looks like a base trailer for me. And then there's ads for the different things. And when you add it all together, then he might not be the low trailer. Yeah. So I understand. It's worth thinking about it. Well, I told him exactly what I wanted, and I told him exactly what I wanted. And I mean, the trailer that we had, it took two of us to put those ramps up, and you had your hands full with two of it. And I said, we've got to do something different, because somebody's going to get hurt. Right. Especially when you don't get it up in a floss back down. Yeah. What are we getting from the insurance on the trailer? $15.09. And they bought it in 2010. Tate bought it in 2010. They paid $12 for it. Really?  Don't be advertising that. Well, it's too late in the hour. All I'm saying is I think when you add the options together, the way I see it, that first trailer might be $24. Then it becomes pennies between them, and you need to spend some time with that. What brand was Boulder? Hebrew. That's what we had. Do you feel like our chipper is? No, me and him. OK, well, now you got homework to do. I mean, I sat down with him and told him both what I wanted for trailers. And so if it's add on, then it's not right. What I was reading was all above the price, but there was a whole nother page. But I don't think there's any numbers. No, that's all right. We just need to clarify. Yeah. OK, confirm appointments? We, I'd like you to confirm two or three appointments. One for Clara Ayer. I believe we voted for last year. But when we went through the town report, we didn't have the proper record. So I'm not sure what happened. But I thought I just had to confirm her appointment to the Planning Commission, which expires this year, 2019. And the other is for Paul Irons as an alternate to the DVDRB and also as an alternate to the Central Vermont Solid Waste District. Yes, we do remove that. We accept all three as submitted. Sorry. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. And it's more than three. I have, and then I also found something else that you needed to redo. But I need you to sign a new slip because the men didn't have it. So that'd be a problem. Too late for you to be thrown on. Way too early these days. Safe. Yes. The master plan? The consultant who did the work for the master plan asked the board for a letter of support because the town of Berlin's master plan is up for an award for the Vermont Planners Association. She suggested a letter, which I will read to you and see if you want to support her for this. I'm writing to express the town of Berlin's select board support for nomination of the 2018 town of Berlin plan as the Vermont plan of the year. Berlin's recently approved plan pushes the envelope in its approach and design. It showcases our community and photographs and makes information readily understandable through maps and graphs. The plan is unlike any other we have had in Berlin. And we think, unlike many town plans in Vermont, it provides community leaders with tangible policies and recommendations to guide our actions and decisions. Our vision for Berlin is evident, summarized on the cover and referred to consistently throughout the document so that anyone even glancing through the plan would understand what we want for the future of our community. The implementation program clearly communicates the town's next step for moving towards that vision of the residents, property owners, and businesses looking to invest in Berlin. The creation of the town plan was carried out with incredibly limited resources through the dedicated efforts of the Berlin Planning Commission and town staff. The comments made at our select board hearing on the plan and the work of the Planning Commission from community members were overwhelmingly positive. Thank you for considering the 2018 Berlin town plan for what we believe is the recognition it deserves. Very truly yours, Brad Town, select board chair. Sounds like you've brought it yourself. So if those are your words, I'm going to take a grab. So I guess she is asking if you would support that and sign this letter. I see no reason why. Oh, I'll make that one. I'm also going to. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed, motion carried. Good job, Brad. Thank you. And then, the certificate of mileage? Yes. We did the certificate of mileage about a month ago, and I did forget the 0.1 mile that we accepted in the past year. So there are only three lines for select board members, so that really worked out. I need you to accept the certificate of mileage with the correction. So I'll move to approve the certificate of mileage, including the 50 feet of road we took at the Berlin mall tonight. And I'll second that. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carried. You're plowing that 50 feet. Yeah. I'm cleaning up their mess over there. It's going to make a huge difference in our highway study. Right. Maybe dull. Oh, my word. But it's right anyway. I guess I put the fear of God in them the last time I talked to them. They have nothing to do with this. Approval of licenses, permits, vouchers. I'll move to approve general upon accounts payable warrant 19G15 with checks 188401 to 18892 in the amount of $252,107.13, of which $103,357.50 for the mayor of Lake Colbert. Also payroll warrant 19-15 for payroll January 6 to January 19 for $42,770.80. And payroll warrant number 19-16 for January 20 to February 2 in the amount of $49,171.54, as well as the January 2019 reconcile bank statements, general funds, sewer, and water commission, water, division statements. You know, Austin. I'm second. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Approval of slept board minutes from January 3, 2019, January 10, 2019, and January 14, 2019. So it appears. So we want a two there. We can't. That's OK. I don't think you can do the third. You could do the 10th, and I think you could do the 14th. I don't know if it's a. I'm not talking to the town today for something as well. Oh, you're not? Did you want to? Sure. We're almost done. Is your Wi-Fi not working? I don't know. I think we're having trouble with our Wi-Fi. I think it's us, not you. Oh, yeah.   Yeah? Yeah. Thanks. You got Tom Parker and you thought. I'll move to approve January 10, the slept board meeting months as printed, as well as the special meeting on January 14. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, those in favor? Aye. Those opposed, motion carries. And I'll bring back the third at the next meeting. So, all of you won't be here, because we're running out this week. Come in on a special meeting afterwards. Yeah. County Administrator Portnain. Yes. I guess I just have a few things we did. I did fill out this week the annual report for the Municipal Rows General Permit. And the report says that we haven't had our road erosion inventory yet. And that is going to be done by the Planning Commission, Ewan and Dan Ferry will be doing that. And we're hoping to get a grant to pay for them to do it. Again, that is for our hydrologically connected statements. And you've done a lot of work on digits anyway. The town center designation, we have met with the state, as I have told you, they gave us several items that we need to consider. It's not going to be a slam dunk. We will be having some expenses for that to be done. And I have sent Ken Simon, who is at the mall, who has taken over that task for them with that explanation and asking for a donation. So I have not heard back with him yet. We are having the state is doing a parcel data development project, a mapping project for digital data. It's a three-year program on the third in Vermont. And they've had town split for three years. And this is the last year. They will be loading the data from our grant list. What they're trying to do is map the grant list to match the map. I have put out an RFP for the hazard mitigation plan that needs to be updated now that we have that funding. I have given the police chief the police department to us to work on. I have not had very good luck with that. So I'm hoping that he would be able to bring that on home. The stormwater project, which you OK to check for a payment of 90% of that, that is the design plan that is being paid for by a grant that we got. If you recall on those projects, there were five that got this eligibility for a grant. And so they have come up with a plan, which they'll be presenting to you at your next meeting of what the plan is. Traffic signals, we have OK the bench test. And that should be replacing the brains of the traffic signals. And the five-year plan for highways. I did talk with Martin the other day about that. And I think we do have some information that is very helpful. We have the inventory done by the planning commission. And we have the municipal road permit, which will take care of a lot of that. So that's what we've been doing in our spare time this week. I think we're going to do it. Liquor board? Move to recess. Recess this like board being and convene the liquor board. Oh, they work? Hi. This is obviously the time of year that liquor licenses need to be renewed. We have six at the moment. They are Walmart stores, Pizza Hut, Price Chopper, Jolly Associates, Twin City Lanes, and Kinney Drugs. I have no reason to tell you not to approve any of those. I'll move to approve all of those. Second. All favor? All right. Move to recess. I have one more item for that. Thank you. I also have an application for a permit for outside consumption from Twin City Lanes. And they had one last year. Again, I have no reason to. This is a permanent outside consumption? Like a patio or something? It's like a patio next to the bowling alley. Only for the summer or something? They just do it in the summer, yeah. Move to approve the application. So last week, it really wasn't well attended. All those in favor? All right. Very good. And so these need to be on the approved line as well. Move to convene the liquor board and the float. There we are. Move to adjourn the liquor board and reconvene the select board. Second. All in favor? All right. I'll put your name down here a couple times, too. OK. Probably nobody knows. I've written my name about four times. I can't even read it. I just want you to check. That one with the license. No, that one's right. Check those data. Me, I've written in the wrong spot. If you did, I wrote my number. They look good. It's been stopped and everything. Yes. It's a little restaurant down here, but it is. Round table feet? Actually, I do. Tim, while you're here. I'm by the street. And then what's the street that Tom took over just recently? Berlin Heights. Berlin Heights. Can we put a stop sign there for Berlin Heights T-Bones? I just have been floored. Usually, they're utility vehicles. They're not residents. And I see them come in. And now I just start to slow down. And they don't even slow down. They just, right? It's a 90 degree time. And it's happened to me about three times in the past six months. And now with the snow banks being high, I'm even more cautious. But it just seems like it should never meet a stop sign. There's literally a 90 degree. But there was a couple of plumbing trucks that came out of there and even slowed down. I don't know how they made the FedExes bad, too. Yeah. I've seen FedEx come out of there and they don't even stop. So I drove down there and turned around and came back and looked at it, wondering what they think. They don't have to stop. I haven't figured it out. But for some reason, they don't stop sign. So you do have a few people that read the signs. All right, I'm just going to take them out. I mean, it has to do with, is that in ordnance? Yes, but I forgot. I just leave one out by the, can you pick it up for me? Yeah. I'll just go to Pamry to get one. We went through this on a Hershey road, remember? Yeah. Yeah. Stop sign and they had to fit over it. So if we take them to the ordnance change. OK. We'll get that stop sign up. Is that stop sign at Berlin Heights? Yep. Going on to Bollinger Street. Yeah. Put it in Diane's yard. Is it Diane that's running the light? Yeah, it'll have to go on her lawn. Yeah.  In the other floor, I think? Yeah. The executive session? No, not today. We'll see you there, John. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye.


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