this meeting properly on the website three physical places and email Harlan you got the email you're looking for good so we can do it before we do that does anyone have any additions to the agenda they would like to make yes Bruce I while it's still in my mind I'd like to talk about next year's warning and also next year's town report some additions that I'd like to see the missing book and doing I'm here to volunteer on the budget committee so to start off with we've got some minutes from from the February 25th meeting that was the pre-town meeting the last select board meeting that these were covered it so Bruce I just wanted to say I I think it's a good idea to have the library budget listed as a separate item gives folks a chance to look it it isn't under the control of the select board and it's a you know it's a substantial item and as it showed the other night it it's good discussion and people express their opinions and and I think that's a good thing and I'd rather see it left that way rather than wrapped into the bigger budget and the other two items just for my own information I'd like to see it when you're listing all the positions and everything I'd like to see the library and the assistant library and the child's library and if those positions are filled and after that long discussion at the end of the meeting I think it'd be a good idea to list the members of the board of civil authority I'd forget all that stuff by next time you want to talk about that book I don't think that anyone has found it yet that I have heard I don't know if any significant attempts have been made yet there was a book of select forward minutes I also had interested in the book because I was interested in making a National Historic Register nomination for the CCC bridges on bingo road and bingo road was for the bridges of their artifacts of a larger project within the bingo drainage by the CCC but all that information would be in that book because that covers the time period of the CCC's operation in the area so it'd be nice to look for that and now I have time I can come by and look if that's possible definitely coordinate efforts so it doesn't end up just being I think that might have been what happened now is that in all that digging through the book it got shuffled somewhere before any hasty judgments are made on anything out there I think it would be so far hasty doesn't seem to be that's not make any hasty decisions so we have all the facts not just the ones that were frowned thank you first quick one is we've got a letter from a check brown at the solid waste district just asking for a couple of dates for them to do a few dates in the summertime that'd be great if they publicized it better this time okay if you want to if you're okay with those states I'd be glad to get back to them say it's okay or not and then suggest okay this is a hazardous please pick up yeah he doesn't say it there but I know but it looks like this one is for yeah yeah that's going to be that's twice a year yeah he's got two dates he's asking for right June something on June 29th and August 3rd yeah so this is for solid waste district to have these two dates yeah he wants permission he wants permission to be able to hold it in the parking lot okay and you said the other one was that's what he's proposed okay this is like house so do you want to get back to me on the dates so they're being held within two months of each other okay I can ask him if well why don't you just you know figure out what what all the issues are that you want to ask about first and this to my understanding you pay when you bring your stuff no charge we're paying for that residential no picks up here no charge no charge are those dates any would they conflict with with our recycling dates I'm just wondering about space and that's what that's why we're looking to it okay so I wouldn't I wouldn't publicize those days it's just a request at this point okay the left just one second the last time I spoke with clean harbors I think I think they told me that if you're a business they'll also take it but they'll with a charging and it's they'll take it if they have room to pay a little appendage charge right but rest initialization right okay got it I'm meeting today with Brett Rostrom White River partnership and cricket about the Mount Christian Colvert you know we have the finished engineering drawings for them now and so we're starting to talk about how we might work together to actually get that project underway first question was but cricket thinks the total cost is going to be because of the trans structures grant application round coming up in April and we do want to apply for that you know how much it's going to be in there for what the town match requirement would be and so her estimate she said it's safe to say that would not be more than 175,000 which happens to be the maximum branch you can get from the structures grant it might be less but it's a challenging site there because of all the bedrock that's present you know I have to work around that which means you have to work concrete in places and so she thinks that's a good number to work off of which in which case the town's responsibility for match would be 10% we qualify for the 90% funding so 17-5 and why the partnership would very much like to be a part of the project with the loss of US Forest Service funding it's you know it's not as easy for them to come up with money the way it was when we have the cooperative agreement but they think they may be able to come up with some portion of that match so the if the town wants to go ahead the maximum exposure basically would be so my question is whether that's something we think we can swing this year and actually it might be in the next fiscal year and the reason for that is cricket has some good points about the right timing to go out to bid on projects like this and she suggested doing it either like January December January or in the fall with the idea that you'd be a year ahead of when you'd actually be wanting to do the project because that's the point when contractors have not yet figured out what their spring their following springs this the project is going to be they're still looking around for projects they have a fairly large size one like this one lined up on their books you know you like that it works well for them and it means we can possibly attract more contractors and have more competition so it's centered like a good approach to me the typically the V trans grants go for two years so we didn't we wouldn't have to if we got a grant say approved in June of this year we wouldn't have to do it until next fiscal year so that would also be the time of chance to sort of come up with that since it's a V trans project as they have well no it wouldn't have anything to do with helping some of the roads around here that are in bed shape with it like means that that's different okay sorry this is this is for structures are for actual structures extra room in the budget for this but if there is the possibility of white river coming up with part of that and maybe pushing it another year down the line that tick that we should investigate that belongs or to the sidewalk our pilot project here it kind of made sense I was wondering if that would be a good timing for the sidewalk as well I want to try and get something under way this construction season we're getting kind of late to do an RFP which not to say it couldn't happen but it's a complicated thing for us so it would be probably a month or so before we're ready to start soliciting proposals for that so I was thinking we could also put that RFP out later in the summer even into the fall for next year next fiscal year's construction season then again we could also possibly attract more contractors and get a would help us to to get competition of bits going because the town's on the hook for 50% of cost and we really don't know what that thing's going to cost until we get you know estimated yes we put in the application since we don't really have any history doing that kind of thing so just want to make sure that planning it would be going through another winter with what we've got and that came down the road we do we have a plan that particular piece is not that affected by the stormwater runoff it's not which is one of the reasons you know we decided to do those sides because they wouldn't interfere with anything if we doing a stormwater runoff. I think we should move forward with the request for proposals it doesn't mean that we have to at least we'll learn what we're talking about right we don't have to necessarily you know accept it but it's not too long. Are we still having a meeting with Chris from the chance? At some point yeah they contact us it's always after the town meetings because they wait for the highway budgets to be okay it had been mentioned yeah it's been sort of coming for a while we're working on the financial plan now so probably be April they might want to squeeze it in before the April 15th application day everybody here are you here representing the library tonight? Well probably just as I am but I don't really have anything to say in particular. When it comes to the highway department we did get the so we're at full load. At this moment. At this moment yeah. That was still under warranty so to care that Terry is not here we've got under new business we've got the tobacco and liquor license renewal application for the skip mark part or something. Peers Hall. Yes it Peers Hall. Oh it's at Peers Hall. Okay. I didn't see where I was saying Peers Hall. Okay they say it's for the 88 South Main Street so that's a Peers Hall. Mine makes me seem like summer's coming. Yeah. Banning the discharge of firearms within the town limits of Rochester. Was it already banned? Was it already banned? You did some research into this didn't you? A little bit yeah. Well first of all that the request is for town limits. In my mind that's completely unreasonable okay. There is I know if you look I mean somebody out here can correct me from wrong probably Bruce but just in the hunting regulations laws I think it's prohibited but discharged through the three or five hundred feet from any building but actually we're not I don't believe we're discussing anything to do hunting at this time. I have a correction to that. That is true as long as you're not on your own property. Right. You can discharge a firearm in your own backyard. Right. According to hunting laws. Okay good. When you're talking about talent it's getting the village or you're talking about the entire Well it says limits so the wording is the entire town and I know the it's just the town has no authority to dictate who owns a gun and who doesn't. That's a state those are the state statutes govern that okay. A town can generate an ordinance if they so desire to prevent discharges discharged weapons in certain areas of the town they can do that and sometimes have done that okay but I don't know how the rest of the board feels but I don't feel under the circumstances that this is being presented if you understand the background of it I don't believe that it warrants an ordinance of that nature in this town at this time. Can you describe the background of it? I actually don't know a lot I understand it was a maybe one of you can chime in it was a confrontation between two people. Neighbors. Neighbors and there was a weapon discharged how the exact reasons why I'm not clear on but there was a dispute of some sort and a weapon was discharged I believe that the bullet actually penetrated one of the party's hubcaps on your pickup. You have something to add? Okay I'm getting to that point. The police were called the state police were called this is a police report and as far as I'm concerned where I think we're concerned that's where it says this is a criminal matter it's not it has little or nothing to do with whether we as a town generate an ordinance to prevent discharge of a weapon within town limits seriously do you think an ordinance that probably these people didn't even know about would have prevented absolutely not that that's exactly right it's just yeah it's just we don't we feel it's a non-issue exactly sounds like a police issue it's a police issue not a town ordinance. As a partial witness to the backing event I wholly agree with your reaction to the proposal. So you witnessed this? It wasn't no I was not involved. Certain legal parties approached me because I heard and saw the aftermath but okay because it was a chase to my property but I think an ordinance is something affecting the town the village proper is completely different town limits would be draconian at best. Thank you for that. I think before it even could become an ordinance the entire town would have to vote on it. Exactly. Yeah so in some respects it's academic. That's the way you feel.  Come on. I hear you. So why? We just don't feel it's a non-issue as far as we're concerned. It's a problem. Thank you. Thank you. I want to make sure after all this I get this correct. Since the police were called it's really a criminal matter. If some event happened in the town that was bad and the police were called you know you don't have to write an ordinance. Exactly. When you were talking about certain ordinances like for example when we have harvest fair or other towns have events like that I've heard of towns that have you have some sort of an ordinance where you're not allowed to carry a firearm in public an event like that which makes sense to me but I you know I agree with you about the other thing. No a lot of a lot of towns do have ordinances like that. I don't think we feel that Rochester is point high. No I'm just saying that I've heard of towns having ordinances about that type of thing in public an event. We don't have money for any more legal fees. We don't have any more money for it. That's what you're getting into with that. Yeah I know. I'm just saying what I heard. Alright so so there's that now for what you've all been waiting for the going to the appointment not election. It says election here but I think it's the appointment of the officers in the town that were not elected at the meeting. And while I was walking over here I got a text from Jim Bowen who offered to he said he would like to stay on the budget finance committee so I would move to keep Jim on that committee and he is also willing to serve as the WERV alternate and recycling coordinator. WERV alternate and recycling coordinator? Yeah and that would be Jim Bowen. See so I just started it off the back. We've got it says Dan McKinley, Sandy Haas, Julia Barton, Eric Bowman, Greg White, Dave Curtis, Joan Pontius, Dune Hendricks. And Eric you still up for it? I think that Dan is the only one that's up. Okay. Only the 2019s. Oh the 2019s. Alright so I would see Dan's not here to disagree so I move to give him another shot. I don't know if he's. I know he'll be grateful I'm sure. Yeah I'm not sure if he wants to continue as we in the chair or not but until he tells us otherwise we'll appoint Dan. And I'll stay on as the ex-officio of that and I'll also stay on as the zoning administrator unless there's somebody else's got it burning urge to take that over. We also have the planning board. Well those who are voted. I think you start with the water commissioners now. Yeah I think the water commissioners where it's going and that is basically been the select board which I think we'll just keep it at that. You guys up for that? Yep. Go on as the road commissioner. The sewer plant operator. Do we appoint that? That's a hired positioner. That's appointed. Well he's listed. So I would suggest it's a hired. That's a hired. I think so. That's a hired positioner. I'm not sure why that's it. Yeah. We don't have to have a date there but we have to have a name there. Well it's Terry Severing. So the sewer commissioner? No that's the sewer plant operator. The sewer and water commissioners are by default the select board. So the sewer plant operator. Yeah. And the assistant is Dana Spalding. And those two folks again fill the roles for the water plant operator and assistant. And surprise I'm the on-site wastewater officer for purposes that is needed. Annie Mackay I think is still willing to stay on as the two river out of Creechee Regional Planning Commission. She's got it. And I'm kind of backing her up with that. Also Joan are you with two river clean water? Oh I think it doesn't exist anymore. It doesn't exist anymore? So that's not a lot of work is it? What's that? Not a lot of work then is it? No it was just one person there who was starting it and she left. So how was that? So should we eliminate that? Yeah. Yeah. So it doesn't exist? No. All right. Thank you very much. I believe that John White is still willing to be appointed as the health officer. He's on there until 21. Okay. 21. All right. I think Paula's done a good job as the town service officer. So Paula Doherty I would recommend reappointing her for that. And Rick Roboto is happy as the emergency management director I believe. And I am the alternate for that position. And Rob you're the coordinator, emergency management coordinator. You're willing to continue on? Sure. Yeah. Especially when there's no emergencies. That's the best. So I'm sorry I'm typing as fast as I can. Emergency management coordinator. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Yes. And Marvin Harvey we head down as the energy coordinator and the Bethel Royalton solid ways to advisory commissioner. And we'll put him in those slots until he gets back to town and tells us otherwise. And as I said Jim Bowen will continue as the recycling coordinator. The park committee. We've got Martha will you continue with that? Sure. Thank you. I think it's just Joanne and myself. Joanne is no longer on. Oh is it just me then? Yeah. Oh good. Good boss. On a charge? Whoa. So the recreation committee is not, doesn't really have dates. That's a flowing thing. But just for the record that right now is comprised of Norm Christensen, Dean Mendel, Joe Shankman, Walt Pruchma is focused on tennis. Martha Slater. You're also in the recreation committee. Carrie McDonald, Rachel Cunningham and Meg Brown. Mark Belial is I think still willing to be our animal control officer. I would presume Tim Crowley would still represent the stage coach for the town. And Vic Roboto is for the White River Valley Ambulance. And the alternate would be James Bowen. Norm Smith will continue on as the tree warden until we hear otherwise. I'm sorry. Like I said, if Tony says like, what was Tim Crowley doing? He's the stage coach representative. Yeah. And for the E911 maintenance, I'm going to reappoint Angus McCusker, our local map maker. And for the Green Update coordinators, we've got Claudia Sherwin and Nick Picciutto. Nick Picciutto, yeah. All right, and then we get down to the budget and finance committee where we've got Lois Bond, Bob DeHart, Vic Roboto, Nancy Bulley, Jim Bowen, Robert Minger, Greg White, the select board members by default. And Rob, you'd like to point it to that? Who do I touch base with to find out what's going on with and how I can provide? Well, basically we'll get you on an email list. Yeah, there won't be anything going on really until next fall. But all of a sudden, the emails will start popping up. It's like, hey, we want to have some meetings. I'm not sure about Robert. He came maybe to two meetings. Yeah. Well, we can touch base and see if he still has it. I don't think we want to get a huge number of people. But if they have interest, they have interest. We've got the website administrator. We've got Norm Christensen and the scenic Byway representative. We've got Larry Pleasant and the EC fiber representative is John White. This is a hired position. And we still, yeah, they still have our official newspaper as the Harold Randolph. We have it. Yes, sir. Is Orca your official media? It appears to be so. Great. But as a different hat as a voter here in town and an observation that the state has been speaking quite highly of the issues around participation of town residents. I would suggest that as leaders of the community that you take advantage of Orca. And as I just witnessed this process of deciding how to appoint back on the 25th, you could have been speaking to the residents about the upcoming appointments and encouraged them to get involved. And so there is a method here that should be looked at. And more promotion of Orca through the website would be great to see. It's got a button logo on the website. Well, it could be more than that. You can actually print out the meeting time and just press that and it'll take you straight there. And also with the town report, we may want to be giving details about the civil authority and what that entails and what that's all about. That would be great to see. And I was just myself. So did I miss a select board meeting where the announcement was made that the grandeur position was no longer involved? I can tell you that the state last summer did away with the requirement. I understand that. But I didn't know that until I actually called them. But I didn't know. But it said in writing. But I didn't know if there was a choice by the town to actually appoint a grandeur. There is a choice. So you had a choice, but it wasn't presented to the voters. Or I don't know if you even had a meeting. You don't have to present it to the voters. The state took care of it. No, you didn't hear me. The state also said the town has a choice to maintain the position as an appointment. So that choice hasn't been presented to the voters. Right. But maybe something like ORCA has to be presented to. Great. I think it's a great idea. I think we should fund it too. So anyhow, I was just sharing that as we march forward into the future, that you guys can actually communicate better with the voters. I think they're anxious to get more. That's what the discussion is around the state, is how do we communicate? Or how do we get more people interested in it? It doesn't often seem that way. Well, talk to them. You can talk to them directly here, and then you can promote that they watch it. And we'll get more people involved. Here we are. I'm receiving a lot of feedback from Rochester citizens that they do watch our meetings. Well, that's good. So you could have been pre-announcing the appointment slots so they have time to think about it. I think the message is out there in the tabs, and it's on YouTube as well. So there's a lot of different avenues you can get to it. I myself watched the meetings. Good. So I think that word is getting out there. Well, we can do more. I mean, that's, you know, I'll take advantage of it. I mean, maybe, like I said, back on the 25th, you could have been announcing what slots are coming up so people can actually have a few weeks to digest it and go, you know, I'm ready. I'm ready. I understand. I understand. I understand. I'm just saying it's another format to use. We have a mis-meaning agenda in different places around town and on our website and e-mail to, what is it, like, 100 different people that e-mail, right, when it goes out to a fair amount of people. So we didn't warn our meeting. Oh, I'm not disagreeing at all. I'm just saying there's some new places to be looked at as ways of communicating to get people involved. For me, it's hardware a lot. We can communicate. Well, for a lot of people, hardware stores close by the time they get back to town after working three jobs. We're open till six. That's it. It's okay. Thank you. You should have been here. I can't. Well, I could have. They got me. You can jump off here and run the camera. The single audit has been submitted. Has been for the federal, but not for the state. Not for the state. So the state, I don't need to help on that. Okay. So I have everything to give you. Anything else anybody wants to talk about? Well, after the town meeting, I talked to Robert Mayer about what happened to the radio system and the radio microphone system for the town meeting. He said the receiver is gone. So I asked also Northean Dick whether the players might have taken up and they had no idea what's going on. So there's two things here. One is there isn't one anymore. And actually keeping with what Mason said, communication and engagement town is really important. And that radio microphone systems are really Googling for people to be able to be heard at the question. And I think it's very important. The second thing is that I think things have been walking out of the high school. Some of it, I know that some stuff has been distributed by the SU, but I don't think there's any inventory. And it's not my business except until they determine what's going to happen in that building. I don't think anything should be going out of there. And I don't think there should be security in there as an aside. But the point here is that maybe the town ought to buy a radio microphone system which they own and they take care of. And that would be probably several hundred dollars. Or maybe if we ask around we can find out what happened to that. Maybe somebody just used it from a project or maybe Robert just couldn't find it or something innocuous like that. But I think it's really important for the town to have that function in the meetings at least. I found it as a citizen. That's the end of my rant. I agree. You can certainly reach the school board and see if they can account for where that would be. Generally ask the school board. The whole thing is in transition. I talked to Bonnie about another project and the use of the two buildings. There's just a kind of a looseness about the whole thing. Or maybe it's just that it's from my past. I think it's loose. Nancy had a question. I just was going to comment. I think you really should go to the school and talk about if you think things are leaving the building. It's their building. It's not the town's building. I brought that up at one point. Because I think what was happening is people were taking sort of classroom stuff out to be using other classrooms around the. God bless them. But all that stuff was paid for by the town. It's a really kind of a complicated thing. I don't want to take everybody's time up with it here except as an aside. But I think the radio microphone thing ought to be tracked down. And if not, then you ought to buy another one. I've always thought that Robert Mayer had control of those microphones. I think they all just sit in the audio visual room back there. That's where he expected to find them. Yeah, that's where he expected to find them. It may have been under a table or something. But whatever it ought to be, it's important. They actually, it was not good on town meeting. You could not hear anything. I was just going to say that I've belonged to the players since the mid-80s. And we've got a lot of equipment that was used in plays and everything that was used up in the lighting booth. And we had that kind of equipment, microphones, that kind of stuff too. I don't know what I believe our own equipment is to put away somewhere and Robert would know about that. But I don't know. I mean, oftentimes it was shared for town meetings and things like that in the past. So it is kind of a liquid situation, so to speak. It'd be hard to... Well, Nick and Dorothy looked to Robert to take care of him from the players. They looked to Robert and sort of town looked to Robert. And Robert's just one guy and he put the thing there. I don't want to take everyone's life, but I just think you should find out where it is and find out what it is. I would suspect that the last time... Well, there hasn't been that much activity, but there was a school meeting there last May where they did have the microphones. Well, and Valley Idol is coming up. They're having auditions this weekend. So I don't know what kind of system they'll be using. Well, that's probably going to be Amy and Sean will take care of that. Okay. They had me put auditions in the paper, so I know that's coming up. I think I'd go back to Robert again. Well, I asked him and he threw up his hand, so... But I didn't hold a gun to his head or anything. But you can't because it's a camera. It's George. It's George. Please, no. And you'll make him be his witness again. Well, in this science incident, it's obvious we couldn't have heard you the other night. I asked about the fact that we're trying to reduce the cost of WERVA by transports, their explanation, by transports. I believe I understood that there are two actual ambulances. What are they using for transports? Amulances? If we want an ambulance on this side of the mountain that's in the middle of a transport, that was my question. How much longer might we wait for an ambulance? Well, we have Grandville. We have a fast squad. We have a fast squad. That's not a transport. I've been on an ambulance. When you want to get where you need to go, you need an ambulance. But they spawn. They can transport, too. So my question simply is, if they're transporting, it requires less than an ambulance to be used in the transport and they're putting mileage on ambulances, perhaps WERVA needs to invest in a transport. You should go and talk to Roboto about it. That was my question the other night, and as we're saying here, people couldn't hear the question. Yeah. I think Roboto could answer your question. He's a good guy, and he'll know the answer, too. He's the president of WERVA now. Okay, I'm done here. Anyone else has anything to talk about? Because we're all done here. We'll pay some bills and go on. Thank you. Just once again, it's been another lovely meeting. Thank you. We're so glad you're here.


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