I think the vice chair is going to have to run the meeting there. Just. Trini won't be able to join us. Okay. It's a personal. Issue. I believe the vice chair, Larry. Right. Yes. Yeah. So let's call the meeting to order at 540pm. I'm sorry, Larry. Yeah, one second. Let me just hit record so that we could start. Sure. Okay. Now we're recording. All right. We will begin the meeting at 540pm. We'll call the meeting to order. And the first time our agenda is a public comment. We have public to be heard. Yeah. Hi, this is Brendan Malley. Hello everyone. I'm, uh, I'm new to the town. I bought some property over on route 14. As well. I work for a solar company in white river junction called Norwich technologies. And so I'm just here tonight. To introduce a solar project that will come before the select board. Most likely in the next meeting in a, under the regular agenda. So I'm just going to show you what it looks like. If you like, I can, uh, Just share a quick screen so everybody can see just generally where it's going to be. Let me see if I can do that. Oh, it's disabled. So it's on the Gifford farm. Over on 14. And it's, uh, on a, on an open field that's, uh, not visible from the road. Um, it's what's called a, uh, Avermont 500 kilowatt net metered solar array. So, um, happy to take any questions now, but it will be something that'll likely be, uh, Up at the next meeting. Okay. Um, If, if no one has any pressing questions, um, seems like that would be the appropriate time to discuss it further at the, at the next meeting. Um, so, um, Um, Sure. Yeah.  And, um, and that it's, uh, A pretty straightforward, um, Vermont net metered project. Yeah. Larry, it's back. Can I ask a quick question? Yeah, please do. Just curious, which Gifford farm is it the one with a constant hunt or the one across the road? Um, It's on the west side of 14. Um, And, uh, It's, um, So as you go, as you go north, it's on the west. And it's a field that's just north of the houses.  And, and, and into the field. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? No, Brandon. Sounds like we're good for now. I appreciate you joining us and giving us a heads up. And we'll hopefully see you next month. Definitely. Thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. I have something to say if I may. Yeah, Sally. Yes, I'm here for the representing the library. To give you our monthly report and tell you that the library is closed. We're not ready to reopen the building. But curbside seems to have been working quite well. Um, on Monday at noon, having been postponed from, I don't remember when because of the virus, there will be that mandatory site visit for contractors who are interested in bidding on that on the ADA. Renovation of the downstairs bathroom. There will be no more than 10 people or people. They'll be Amy. There'll be the architect and up to eight. Contractors. I think if they're wind up being more, I don't think there are. But those could be phased in a different. Separate walkthrough. Anyway, everybody will be 10 feet apart masks and all of that kind of stuff. So we're, it looks like we're going to be able to go ahead with that. And that's pretty exciting. We got an extension on the grant. So I think we're covered. And then I wanted to let you know, if any of you haven't. Don't know that the second library podcast was dropped last week or posted or whatever they do. And I've heard it. I heard the first one as well. They're both really wonderful. If you haven't heard them go to the library website. And, and click on the link to the podcast that's Kate Branstetter. And the one, this most recent one was an interview with Dylan Kelly. About being in Randolph and about working at the newspaper. And it's, it's pretty good. So I highly recommend it. So things are moving still at the library. And looks good. And that's about it. Nice. Thank you, Sally. I'm going to mute me again. Okay. Any other public comment. Okay. Just to confirm Sally's last name. And Rod. Thank you. So move on to approval of the agenda. I'll move the approval of the agenda. I'm sorry if I, if I may, uh, was in muting myself, if I may, uh, request a change from the board. Uh, we received a request from the East Valley community group. Um, that they, they had initially asked us to place the Wyndham foundation grant under grants. Uh, and recently asked us to change that name for the lamps and howl foundation. Grant. Um, and if the, the board would approve, I could make that change. I don't see why not. Okay. I'll move that we approve the agenda with the change of Wyndham to lens and howl. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second on favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes. Move on to the consent calendar. Did we get minutes. Um, minutes should have been in your pocket. They should have been, um, I may have inadvertently. Uh, Um, I don't know. It looks like I inadvertently left. I left off the minutes from your pocket. Can we do those next time? We can. Yep. Yeah, we can, uh, the board can choose to not approve them today and then just approve both today's minutes and last month's minutes at the next meeting. Okay. I need to make an emotion and amendment to your motion for the consent calendar. Uh, yeah, the motion would be there to approve the, the consent calendar without. The, um, the minutes from April 9th. I'd like to make, make a motion. I'll make the motion or second either one. I'll take that as a motion a second. I'll second it. Okay. All in favor. Hi. Hi. Motion passes. Move on to new business. Okay. We can hear you, Cliff with the finance department briefing. Okay. Yeah, we can hear you, Cliff. All right. First time I've used the microphone. So, um, I just wanted to come and brief you with the update based on what's happening with COVID-19. Um, like to start with tax collections. Um, back on May, March 31st. Um, we ended the collection year with $602,000 outstanding. That was about 200,000 above where we normally are at that point in time. Um, since then we have collected about $260,000, leaving about 340 outstanding as of today. Um, I'm still hoping that we can collect another 200,000 by August 29th. Um, which allows us to take all of that into revenue during, um, fiscal year 20. Um, we still have about 150 outstanding accounts. And I have 11 payment agreements on, um, officially recorded. And my thought is there, everyone will have, um, end up with a payment agreement or most people will pay. And then the balance will go off to tax sale with our attorneys for a September tax sale probably. Um, I'm hoping that, um, is your estimate that we'll have more than normal. Outstanding. Within a couple of months. I'm, I'm hopeful that, um, we're going to be about in the same place that we normally are at June 30th. I think that there's a number. I have heard from a number of community members as they paid their taxes, um, and I know that we have heard from a number of taxpayers with sizable outstanding balances. Um, there's probably all four or five of them in total, just over a hundred thousand, um, that indicated that they will be paying in full by June 30th, taking advantage of the additional cash flow for their businesses. Um, my anticipation is that if we end up, end up at August 29th at the same place, um, as last year, um, which means that that amount would be get deferred for the future. Um, we'll miss our revenue targets by about a month. Um, I'm hoping that, um, we're going to be able to, um, we're going to be able to do that. Um, I'm hoping that that amount would be get deferred for the future. Um, we'll miss our revenue targets by about 110,000. Um, most of that, a lot of that is, um, the penalties, um, that we four were foregone as, as a result of the board's action for about 21,000.  They were included in our tax collections and as a separate line of state homestead payments. Um, a lot of that got made up, um, my current use in pilot being over budget. And we ended up missing a revenue, um, net net net by about 81,000. I'm sorry. The current use in the pilot was over budget by about 81,000. And we'll miss the revenue target by about 110. Um, we'll miss the revenue target by about 81,000. Um, to offset that our expenditures are down by 190,000. Um, a lot of that due to the personnel departures of Marty Sanchez, our zoning administrator. Um, Ed loose our full-time quasi full-time, um, Lister. And also Wendy Tucker from the finance department. Um, between salaries and benefits. Um, it was about 190,000. Um, and that was, um, being said and still very early and we've got a lot of moving parts between now and June 30th. Um, in the general fund. I'm projecting a step, uh, surplus of about 90 to $100,000. Um, included in that is, um, an estimate for, um, a number of different additional expenditures between what's actually recorded. And what we'll actually end up at, um, is the amount of revenue that we've got. Um, and that includes updating the climate, climate control interface in town hall. We've been having trouble with that for the last several years. Um, Delta, you want to talk a little bit more about that? Uh, about the, I'm sorry. Uh, Clifford was that the climate control interface for town hall. Yes. Um, one of the, um, One of the many items that has plagued us for, for some time is our aging equipment. We have found that the, uh, The decision makers years ago that established the system that we have now, um, Authorize the system that was based on what may have been the best available computer program at that time. Um, we are now finding that the computer program that we, that manages the, uh, The heating system at town hall is now operating on old software versions that, um, We have to maintain on two computers that, um, Essentially are the designated managers of the system. Uh, the fear is that if we do not update the, the heating system, The program that it operates on will at some point become completely, Um, Non usable with any current or modern computer, Thereby rendering us unable to use a heating system. So, um, we'd like to ask the board. Um, you know, if there are any issues, We could bring it back to the future select board meeting and talk a little bit More about it, but, um, The company that installed the heating system is willing to work with us. We can use some of the anticipated surplus. Um, So, um, Um, We need to upgrade the software of this heating system and their, Therefore making it easier to operate. Adelpho. Well, Would that include upgrading the ventilating and, uh, Air exchange part two? Cause I know that never has worked well. Yeah. That's one of the, one of the challenges that we have is, Is just the circulation of air. I know that, um, The clerk's office has reported to us that, um, It's a different issue. We do have our grounds crew working with the air, um, The air circulation system and the, The company that manages that is coming in so that we can learn more About the filter systems and then we can manage it more by either Cleaning filters. Or ordering filters on a regular basis. So it, the, the amount of money that we could potentially spend on the Heating system is different than the money that we could spend to Figure out what's causing the, the issue with the filters or not filters. But yes, the entire system is being looked at both the air circulation And the heating component. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So on to the highway fund, uh, Revenues are going to be slightly up for the year, um, Modestly about $5,000. Um, Some of that is due to the sales of supplies that we do with the, Um, School district. And the expenditure that we're going to spend on the air circulation Is going to be, um, Um, School district. And the expenditures for a number of several items, Um, workers comp. Um, Including an audit that we had health insurance for our personnel. And spring road maintenance. Um, Were all of those expenditures were pretty significantly over budget. Um, some that's due to, um, Our budgeting process, which I think we've improved quite a bit, um, Since I arrived. Um, And some of it's just additional expenses. Um, those are offset by, um, Reimbursable costs from the FEMA event last April. Um, That was about the FEMA reimbursable for the current year was about $80,000. And so we end up where I'm projecting a deficit of about $10,000 in the Highway fund. Like, like the general fund, it's early. Um, And there's still a lot of things moving around. And we won't actually go until June 30 comes and goes. Um, The total reimbursable from the FEMA event last spring. Um, Currently is projected at about $315,000. Um, All of that paperwork has been filed and we're just waiting to hear back from FEMA for their review and for them to commit funds to us. Any questions about highway before I move on to water and wastewater? No. Okay. Um, Water and wastewater. Um, the board also, um, Approved a delay in the imposition of penalties and interest on, on current bills for April, May and June. Um, The. Collections still seem to be going pretty well. I haven't seen a review today looking back over the last, um, 10 months of the fiscal year. And it seems that our 30 to 120 day aging is consistently 10 to $14,000 depending on the month. And right now today we're at about 14,000. Um, so it doesn't seem like COVID-19 is hurting our collections at this point. Um, I do expect, um, to see revenue hits. Um, With the college being closed and people are in other businesses in town just aren't using water. Um, and if the water isn't being used, um, It doesn't hit the wastewater system. And so we fall back to a minimum billing rather than a usage billing. Um, and so we could see our user fee revenue missed targets by about 10%. Our wastewater and water superintendent is doing a great job and holding the line on expenses as much as he can. Um, and so those budgets still seem to be in the break even area, which is where we projected them when we set the budgets. Um, And moving on to the police fund. Um, we've got a few minor things, a few things in the police fund. Um, There's a line item in the prior year, uh, in this year's budget based on prior years when we actually had a police department. Um, our police personnel would attend, um, duty for different events around town and the town would bill out for those events. And that was budgeted at $15,000 and because we're contracting with the sheriff's department. Um, we don't see that revenue on the expenditure side. We've got two fairly sizable ones that are, um, weren't budgeted for. Um, one we hope to get reimbursed from FEMA. That's the extra shift for Orange County sheriff. Um, That's projected to be $18,000 for the current fiscal year. And the other piece of it is the interest on the loan on the, um, Singer building that was destined to be the police station. Um, one of us purchased. Uh, that'll be about $8,000. If I could add one thing just to, um, One thing to the, the comment about the singer building. Um, As the board knows, um, we've had ongoing conversations with, um, Um, A private, uh, President or private business owner in town that is interested in acquiring the building. Um, The board's decision to allow the childcare, uh, Exploratory group to consider the building. Um, Uh, Remains in effect because of again the COVID issue and the, the initial planning grant. I was funding a full review of our different sites. Um, although the report has not yet been drafted. Um, The consensus is that, um, The singer building is not the appropriate place for the childcare facility. Um, and therefore we've, we've had conversations with the private party interested in the building and, uh, With a little luck, um, The building could potentially drop off of our. Viability sheets. I agree. That would be good. I agree. Can I ask? Ask a question. The, You talked about the extra shift for Orange County, Sheriff. You said FEMA funds. Would that be FEMA or over there? That really be. Over the funds. Why would it matter? It would be a FEMA reimbursable. Um, It would be reimbursable as a federal disaster declaration that was issued. And so we, when that is, uh, when, When those funds are made available by the federal government, they're typically at a, uh, at a percentage reimbursement. So, Um, that's why it would be federal FEMA reimbursement money. It would be for the FEMA though, right? I mean, Because of the over 19 crisis. That's correct. Yes. That must be been declared an emergency. Okay. Thank you. I just want to understand. Thank you. That shift was added, um, as a result of the, um, To provide greater backup for the shifts that were on duty due to, Um, domestic calls. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. And that's all I have. Thank you for listening. Thank you, Cliff. Thanks, Cliff. Thanks, Cliff. I'm good. Pat. It says nice to have good news. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's nice. Nice to hear that things are. Relatively stable. Um, next on our agenda is the letter to the VSC and board of trustees where we have already emailed ratified this. We just need to have a formal vote. Is that right? That's right, Larry. Yep. That's right. I'd like to move the formal approval of the letter. I'll second it. I have a motion and second all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. No nays. Motion passes. We are also going to ratify a previously emailed, um, agreement with the stock board made about the local emergency management plan for 2020. Is there anything else we need to know about this? Is there anything else we need to know about this? Are we all set? No, everything's, uh, everything set. Uh, it was sent over to our regional planning commission. They have received, um, all of the, uh, emergency plans from their member towns. Um, it's the same plan that had been reviewed by the board. Uh, this is John Pematal. I have a question. Yeah, go ahead, John. Um, is that, uh, plan somewhere that can be reviewed by the public? Uh, after, after this meeting, John, I'm going to post it on the website. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. I get filed in the records. Town records. The, the plan, uh, it is included in the, I, it'll be included in the select board meeting records. Uh, and then it is also included in the regional planning commission records because they have to collect them yearly. Okay. Uh, just, just to, for everyone's, uh, information, uh, everything that the select board receives in its packet. It's compiled and, um, uh, into one record and stored in the clerk's office. So, so yes. Okay. There's no other comments or questions. I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to ratify the, uh, local emergency management plan. I'll second that. Okay. We got a motion and a second. And the favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Nay. I have it. Motion passes. We get to move on to the review for requests for bids for the Chandler musical. Uh, for the roof repair. Uh, yes. Um, in your packets, um, you have a draft, um, a final draft request for bids that, uh, was reviewed by the town reviewed by, uh, representatives of, uh, uh, Chandler. Uh, and the draft is essentially for approval of the select board and if approved, uh, we can send it out so we could, uh, perform much needed repairs at the Chandler musical building. We have here, if there are any questions, uh, Sharon and Karen, um, have a very direct knowledge of, of the issue. So they, they could answer questions. I believe, uh, Michael's on here as well. He could probably answer questions. Great. Yeah. I have one question. Um, as I was reading that report, it's, um, the RFP that they're, um, that it calls for an additional one inch of poly ISO rigid installation. Um, is that to increase the efficiency of the building? Is that what that's about that while the roof is being taken apart, is that it's going to take it as an opportunity to make it a little more heating efficient? Yes. That usually is helpful, Larry. We might as well take the opportunity. I think though that it was under insulated to begin with. So when it was looked at, um, contractors notice that it doesn't have the, you know, what would be standard now if you were replacing the roof. So this is apparently the standard kind of what would be recommended for a new vinyl roof, um, which might have been different 15 years ago when that went on, or 20 years. We're not sure how long ago that part of it was replaced. Yeah.  I don't, Michael, do you have any sense of it? I, I don't have an idea, but we could certainly find out. I think I believe that when they did the renovation, uh, they blew insulation into the attic. So it's, it's, it's not up on the, on the roof, but it's on the floor joist. And it's a loose, loose inch of insulation, you know, that's blown in insulation. Okay. So there's, so there's the, so are those like joists that hold up the roof or, so are they really, is, or is that like, yeah, is that basically rafters in there? They're, they're the ceiling joists that hold that are the, are the roof, um, in the, in the room. So between the ceiling and the, the roof joist, there's probably four or five feet of dead airspace in there. Oh, and I, I can't tell you what the, what the insulation situation is in the roof itself. All I know is what's on top of the ceiling. Okay. So on top of the ceiling, is that a heated space? No, it's not heated up there. Okay. I'm just not sure what you would gain by adding insulation above, above that unheated space in that case. Yeah. I actually think it was the engineers who added it because they thought it should have some level of insulation, but we could, you know, we could look into that if it seems like that needs to be altered in the bid. Okay. I don't know if this is worth it, but they, the situation over the main hall is basically the same situation. I do not believe that there is insulation up in the, up in the roof and it's not a heated area. As a matter of fact, it's ventilated, but there's about, I don't know, 12 to 15 inches of cellulose blown in insulation on the ceiling of the main hall. So I look at these two areas as being very similar to each other. And I would question why spend money on rigid insulation to insulate it, an unheated space. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with you Michael. It doesn't seem like it would be a, unless there's some other information that we're missing, it doesn't, it, at its face doesn't sound like it makes a lot of sense. Who was the engineer doing that? Should we go back to the engineers and ask them to clarify why they thought that would be necessary. Yeah, that'd be great. I'd love to, to love to, because if we're missing something that, then we will learn something new, but without it, if there's nothing else to know about this, it's hard to see why we would need it. Has the engine, did the engineer go up there? Well, they were familiar from all of the records that they had from the renovation. Okay. But I'm, I'm speaking specifically about the damage that there is to some of this roof joist. No one, no one has been inside. Except for Seth took pictures that he shared with the damage that was done on the, that rafter space, but no engineer has looked at it. It would seem to me that before you could put a. RFP together, you would have to know basically what needs to be done. And in my mind, it's not just putting a new roof on, they may have to repair a lot of roof rafters due to the damage that's already occurred. And I think that's important when you go out to ask for bids, that they know what needs to be done. I think the first step in the RFP, Michael, is to take off what's there to see what has to be done. Right. Yeah. If I could make a comment here, a part of the bid request is for perspective contractors or roofers to inspect. So, well, even though we list specifications in the, in the request for bids, the contractors are going to or being asked to submit their, their best available proposal for the project. And if they and their proposal say, you don't need this insulation for this reason, then that will be a part of the decision making process of betting through all the bids that come in and then bringing those bids to the select board for their final review and selecting a contractor. So, you know, as far as the actual insulation, you know, that could have come from the engineer, but it could change the language to say, you know, we recommend or include a paragraph in the bids form that say, deviating from this is not going to eliminate someone, but deviating from what's on the requested scope list, you know, should be substantiated some way. So if someone says, we're not going to put insulation, this is, you know, we're not putting in insulation in the bids. So, but, but Michael, your point, you're right. Unless, unless someone actually cracks the roof open, they won't really know the extent of the damage. And, and that's something that we run into regularly when we repair roads is we go into it with a project. And then when they crack a road open, they find that the sub bases, not what it should be. And then that, that causes a change order, which then the contractor comes to us and say, look, we didn't know that your support beams are completely rotted and the building is going to collapse. So you have to approve this new part of the project. But Adolfo, you can, you can examine the inside of that bay. It is, you can get up there. There's a hatch in the upper gallery that you can go in and actually walk around and see what the damage is in there. I don't think you need to tear the roof out to find out what's going on inside that gallery. Oh, and I agree. Yeah. We definitely not going to encourage anyone to do that. We do have two specific dates on the bid sheet where we encourage perspective bidders to schedule a time so that they could come in and inspect. Seth is a contact so that he can walk them through the location that contractors could see what, what the potential damage is. And any bidder that submits a bid that didn't come to inspect, you know, we probably won't consider seriously because they didn't take the time to come and look at it. But yes, there are two dates specifically where we will ask contractors to schedule a site visit to allow them to inspect the site and still respect the COVID restrictions that are in place. Could that be an addendum to the bid? Depending on what they find in the inspection. It could be a part of their bid. You know, they could turn around and tell us, this is what we notice. So part of their bid is, is going to include everything that they physically saw. You know, in a perfect world, every bid would be the same because everyone saw the same thing, but you're right, Pat, that there are, there are, there is a likelihood that bids may be different because some contractors are better than others. Some see something more than others. And it would be left to representatives from Chandler in the town when we sort through the bids to pick the best one that, or the one that we feel fits what we are looking for and fixes the problem. And then we will present that to the select board for final approval. I would think on the installation, a quick call to the engineer would answer that question. We'd know that ahead of time. To follow up and just see the thinking behind the installation question. And then the other, we can attach to the bid so that when they look at the beams, they have, you know, knowledge of what's actually up there. Adolfo, is there anything to be gained? I'm looking at the language in the RFP and it says all parties interested in submitting a bid may visit the work site to perform an inspection. Is there anything to be gained by mandating that so that when they do submit their bid, they know exactly what they're likely to be dealing with? I mean, we can take it, we can change it to like short, short, but, you know, I think that's part of the weeding out is if we make it optional and we get, I don't anticipate us getting a bid from anyone that didn't visit. It's not unlikely, you know, it could happen, but. Yeah, that, you know, Karen, Sharon and the town staff can just look at it and be like, they don't know what the project is. They're not going to be a final. Right. All right. So maybe we get a chance to find out what the, the rationale behind the installation is. And if we find out that we really don't need it, we can take it out. Okay. Yeah. That was my only question. All right. So are we going to make a motion to. Do this with that little addendum. I would, I certainly would, would definitely recommend the board to approve at least conditionally approve the, the, the quest for bids now pending us, you know, collecting that information and sharing it with everyone through email. And then if there are any objections, we could, we could hold off. But in addition to approval of the, you know, the request for bids draft, I would like to ask the board to also authorize the expenditure of, of the $25,000 that are earmarked for this project and the facility reserve fund. The board already knows, I think that we were able to secure it $25,000 in matching funds from the Vermont community foundation. And that's already in the town account. Yeah, that's great. Thank you, Sharon. Thank you, Karen. I would like to move because I think we really need to keep this moving forward. I'd like to move the approval of this with the, the commission. I think we need to get this into a little more detail and, I think we need to make the, the addendum that we're going to look into the insulation question and approve the $25,000 allocation from our special fund as well. And approve the request for bids, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I meant to say. I'll second that now. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor. Say, I. Hi. We can move on to the swimming pool project. Can I ask a Chandler question while people are still there? Sure. My question is, was there any damage inside the building from the leaking roof? Superficial only so far. I mean, we have buckets where all the leaks are coming in, but it's every rain now that it's leaking. It was just some heavy rains. Now it's a sprinkle and we get water in the bucket. So I'm so grateful that you guys are approving this. We really need to have it done or we're going to have some major damage coming up. As the person who treats the monkey, before and before, I'm really glad we're doing this. Are you emptying those buckets regularly? Yeah, we are. I'm sure. Since we're still coming to the building. Would it make sense to have, I know that this process isn't going to happen. They're not going to fix the leak short-term. I'm sure that we're talking months here. Would it make sense to contact someone and do a fix in that corner or wherever it's coming in, a bandaid repair that will alleviate additional damage inside? I don't know. Does that make sense? Now, I mean, as we know, the last patch which did fix more or less the leak that we were having near the front of the upper gallery, that patch cost us $2,000. It's not cheap to have one spot patched, but I guess it's up to you guys how we feel about should we have a company come and put a patch. We believe it's leaking this time most around near the chimney. There's also a very dark piece of the roofing there, which the other spot was a very dark. You can see that water been seeping through for a long time. There are many dark spots across the whole roof, but in this near the bell tower, there's a big spot and it might very well be that if we got a patch just for that area, it would hold us for a couple of months the way the other one has held for a couple months. Yeah. I think with just as quickly as we can move, and I don't anticipate this now that the bids are proposed, it's probably going to take a month for us to be able to select the contractor and then just say to them, start ASAP. I don't anticipate this process taking more than two or three months, especially with the COVID shutdown, I think there will be a lot of people looking for work. I don't anticipate us being put in line fourth or fifth. I think people are just going to start looking for work, and this will be a very, very easy thing. I think the other big fear is if the board and the Chandler group authorize a patch that the patch ends up being taken off because the repair has to be made to the roof, and now it's an extra $1,000, $2,000 that we didn't have to spend because it was torn out to replace that section. I mean, I do think if it goes on too many months, right, if there's a snag anywhere along the line, then Michael's right, we probably save money over the long term by keeping the water out of the building. But if it's a couple months, we're already into this a year. It was one of the very first meetings I had when I came to Chandler a year ago today. And so we've been emptying those buckets for a year. We'll empty them for a couple more months. I think we're now ready to move on. Swimming pool, Adolfo? Yes. Well, thanks, Karen. Thanks, Sharon. Yeah, thanks so much. Thank you guys. Thank you very, very much. Nice to see you both. Same here. See you all. So moving on to the swimming pool project bid, this is an ongoing project to complete repairs to our aged municipal pool. The board had previously authorized us to send out a request for bids for painting and the sanding and the repairing of the pool. We are now at the point where we have received one bid. It's not surprising that it was just one bid because of just the size of the pool that we have and the type of work that is necessary. So if the board were to approve the one bid that is in your packet, we would ask that you authorize the expenditure of $42,000 from two different sources. The first source being from the 20,000 from the Recreation Facilities Reserve Fund and 22,000 from the anticipated surplus that we will have that we're expecting to have in the general fund this fiscal year. Okay, so I'll make the motion that we accept the bid submitted by Vermont protective coatings for the two and use the two sources of funding that Adelpo just suggested. And I will second that. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Nays? Nays, the motion passes. Thank you. We can move on to the East Randolph Village designation application. Yes, Josh has been working with representatives from the East Valley Community Group on pulling together an application to reinstate the East Randolph Village designation John Pimental who's on the call on this meeting did a lot of the legwork. So we wanted to say thank you for his contribution. And at this point we are hoping to have the select board vote to approve the application so that we could submit it to the Department of Housing and Community Development so that they can subsequently authorize us to become a village designated area in the East Randolph. Okay, I'll make the motion to authorize the town of Randolph to submit an application to Vermont Housing and Community Development Program for designation of the village designation in East Randolph. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Nays? No Nays, the motion passes. Great, thank you. Next on our agenda is the Harmony Park Project. Yes, we have a representative here from the Sunrise Rotary Club. And then also actually, you know, both representatives from the Sunrise Rotary Club and they have both chosen to make both, both the Sunrise Club and the Afternoon Rotary Club have chosen to make the Harmony Park Project a part of their service project. And here we have both Sunny and David to talk a little bit more about their efforts. Adolfo, John Holmes, who is the current president of the Noon Rotary Club couldn't be here this evening. He's a bit of a zoomophobic. And so he asked me to speak on behalf of the Noon Rotary Club. And I can also speak on behalf of the Arts and Culture Committee, which has vetted this project as well. So when the time is appropriate, after Sunny and David have spoken, I'm happy to address the issue as well. Thank you, Tom. Well, thanks for the intro, Adolfo. Let me lead off. And also joining in as a participant this evening is Ken Van Der Mark, the president of the Sunrise Rotary Club. Sunny's joining us as the president-elect coming in to office the first of July. And as has been mentioned, this is a combined community service project involving the Sunrise Club and the Randolph Noon Club with the intent to bring an ensemble of outdoor percussion instruments to the playground area at the recreation field. This is well within the Rotary tradition of taking on local service projects that we seek and be a benefit to the community. And this idea of the outdoor percussion instruments was just not a new dimension of involvement, a community involvement down at the playground area, not only for kids, but for teenagers and adults. Just a fun, we see it as a really fun community building enhancement to that area. It's a project that has been underway for really coming on just about a year now since we first identified this and started to work on it. And that effort really has kind of been like a three-fold. One, first when I use the term Harmony Park, that kind of has two references to what Harmony Park actually is a company that manufactures and creates outdoor percussion instruments for outdoor venues. And I'm also using the term Harmony Park because I like the term and it's kind of the project title here for what the two clubs are working on. But our effort has involved then with the Harmony Park Company trying to identify what would be an ensemble of instruments that would work really well down at the playground and be within a cost range that we'd be able to raise the money for, which has been a second part of our effort to this point. And I'll speak a little more about that in a moment. And then a third part of the process has been community outreach, trying to connect with the significant town committees that would have an interest in this, as well as other community organizations. All along, we felt that we wanted to do some really solid groundwork on this before bringing it to the select board. But here we are tonight. And this is a good time to bring the project to the select board. The ultimate conclusion of this community service project by late in the summer, that'd be late August, maybe in the September, would be the hope for a result of gifting the installed Harmony Park project to the town. And we'd be interested in an action item tonight on the select board's part, expressing its interest or willingness to accept this gift. And I would say contingent upon or continuing to work with the recreation committee through to the completion of the project and also contingent upon our ability to raise all the funds necessary for the project. To those two points, the recreation committee has been involved with this since October. That was the first opportunity that I had to bring this project to their attention. It's been on their agenda every month since then. And the project has been well vetted with the recreation committee. One of the key issues was the location. And finally, five different sites were considered for location. The committee in March convened the first part of their March meeting down at the playground area and it did come to a unanimous opinion as to the site that these instruments should be located. And I would agree it is a good site for it. In that area is between the current playground equipment and the parking area that comes in off of a park street. There's a fence that separates that parking area from the playground. But there's also a very usable swath of land on the playground side of that fence before you actually get to the playground equipment. That's beneficial. I think in terms of the committee's view as to future plans they have for a playground equipment, this doesn't interfere with that. But it's also very beneficial. Again, getting back to the idea of community. You want this kind of an installation at a point where people are already assembled. And certainly that is the case down at the playground. So this would get a lot of attention. And again, it would bring a whole other element to that area. Other issues or questions with the recreation committee have included sound levels, instrument maintenance, warranty, the actual installation of this. And on that point, the intent at this point for the entire installation of these instruments is to work with Colby helped of built up construction to do the site preparation. A couple of the instruments require cement footing. Others require posts that they're mounted to. Colby has seen the specs and all of that, understands the work, and indicates he thinks actually he probably could accomplish it in about a day. But it is something that wants to be handled by a professional. And then in terms of that site preparation and mounting, there are some things that the Rotary Clubs can do going forward with instrument maintenance, which is fairly simple. And I think that's something we could commit to. And then I guess finally, just to kind of conclude my overview, in terms of the funding for this, the cost of the purchase of the instruments and then the installation by hilltop construction is pretty much right at $25,000. I would also like to see the project include some benches in that area and a sign explaining what these harmony park instruments are by inviting participation and then also indicating who the funding sponsors for the project are. And then to this point, we've raised $18,000 and this has involved commitments from eight different funding sources. We have in front of us still several pending grants that we'll know about during the first part of July. And most significant in terms of those remaining pending grants is a $4,000 grant that the Sunrise Club has submitted to Rotary District 7850 for funding on this and likewise a $4,000 grant request from the Noontime Club also to Rotary District 7850. In support of the project. Potentially it could be $8,000 in support of the project. The other significant grants still out there that we'll know about early in July is a AARP community challenge grant for the amount of $7,500. The fundraising has gone well. I think we're positioned well with the remaining grants that we're looking for. So look kind of the low range we need to get to is 25. We'd like to get to 30 so we can do the benches and the sign as well. That's the, there's an overview. I had sent out, Adolf provided anyway, Adolf was request a one page information piece on this project that probably you saw with your board packet. But I'm available, I see Tim Schroeder from the Sunrise Club is with us. And Van De Mark is Sonny and Tom is representing the Noontime Club. That's what we'd like to do. It's been a good project for us to work on, the fun project to work on. And then we think it'll be bring a really nice enhancement down to that important resource of the town. Yeah, I've been a part of almost all of those rec committee meetings and it sure has been gone over very thoughtfully. They gave it very good attention. Deservedly so. The arts, well, Tom mentioned the Arts and Culture Committee has also been involved with this. I've had a chance to make regular presentations to the R3 TERS, Economic Development Committee, trying to keep them informed. Also the senior center and had some really good response at the senior center in terms of people there, the seniors there are saying, wow, will this give us an opportunity to do something at the recreation field or down at the playground with our grandkids? Or wouldn't it be great to have some impromptu Sunday evening concerts down there? When I talk about instruments, these are real musical instruments. They're outdoor percussion instruments. The real instruments, they have a sculptural beauty to them and literally anybody can play them. And I can vouch for that from personal experience having visited several Hermony Park sites and being a person of limited musical ability. The first I held back was a little hesitant. Then I realized that people were just coming in and they were just joining in. The whole thing was spontaneous. People would play, some would walk away, somebody else would come in and find I got up the nerve and the gumption to go forward and realize, wow, I could do rhythms on these instruments and be part of kind of what was happening.  I enjoyed playing with the people who a couple of minutes ago I'd never even met. And that's the spontaneity that's possible with this. So just talking about musical instruments, this doesn't involve a lot in the way of musical training but those who have musical training can really also do some more sophisticated rhythms and music with these. So I think it reaches out to a lot of people and just a lot of ways of building communities. I just wanna underscore that the Arts and Culture Committee gave this project its unanimous endorsement at our January meeting right before the whole shutdown kicked into effect. And I've also worked in my role as president-elect of the Noon Rotary Club extensively with Sonny and Ken and David over the course of the last several months on fundraising and grant writing, including the two grants that David referenced to our Rotary District. And I think this is just a really solid opportunity to bring an exciting Arts and Culture element to the playground and recreation area. And I wanna give it my whole hearted support as well. It's a project that Rotary Clubs around the country, going back any number of years, beginning in Moab, Utah, what a decade or more ago now, have been involved with and it's just been extraordinarily successful in other areas of a similar nature to Randolph around the country and I think it'd be a beautiful addition to the recreation area in times ahead. Thanks for mentioning, Tom. Let me just elaborate for a moment. There actually are hundreds of harmony parks sites around the U.S. and around the world. This would be the biggest one in Vermont. It puts Vermont on the Arts and Culture map a little further. Excuse me, Larry, you were gonna say? Oh, I was just saying, I suspect we've all been, you know, more than convinced that this is a great idea and I'm wondering if it's time for us to move on. Do, Adolfo, do we need a motion from the slide board to approve installing this on the town park land? We would, yes, because it is on town property, you know. Okay. No motion, Larry, if you'd like one. I would love it, Pat. I'm aiming for the longest motion tonight. I'll email it to Shannon. Motions to approve the Harmony Park project, to have the Rotary Groups coordinate this project with the rec department and to have expenses for Harmony Park to come from funds raised by Rotary. The town will accept Harmony Park instruments when installation is successfully completed. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, David. Thank you all members on the slide board. Thank you. All right, looking forward to seeing that. Hey, that should be great. And I'm looking forward to having a, you know, get beyond these restrictions and we'll have ourselves a party down there at the end of the summer. Thank you for all the time you put into this. Yeah, it's awesome. Thank you so much, David. All right, let's see where we're at next. Climate change letter. Yes, in your package is a draft letter in response to the article that was passed at last town meeting. The letter was drafted by a member of the board. So it would truly be a letter with the voice of the select board responding to a request by the voters. Tom. Motion. Yeah, what's that Pat? I asked Larry if he was ready for another motion. I hear all over it tonight. When I can hide, I do it more. Okay. If there's no objections, absolutely. I think we should continue with these Zoom meetings if Pat's more active. Yeah. Maybe way better. You can get your cup of coffee when you need it, right? Yeah. Perfect. I thought Tom did a nicely written letter first of all. Yeah, I think it looks good. Thank you. Thank you. It was the intent of what town meeting voted, I think. So I approve, we move, I move we approve this letter and send it to the people signified on it. And I will second that and just a request of Adolfo when the letters actually go out, if you could CC or alert the select board that they have indeed been sent, it would just be helpful to know that all the T's have been crossed and I started, so. Oh, I will. The plan when they do send these letters is typically to send the hard copy, but then also send a PDF version. So what I can do is I will send a PDF version to our three legislators and then also include the select board as CC recipients of the email. Excellent. This is John Pematal. Could I make a request as well? I'm wondering if a copy could also be sent to the local newspaper for inclusion and their addition if they would like to do that. Sounds reasonable. David's right on there. I'm sure he'll get a copy. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. I suspect we still need a motion. I think you just had it, didn't you? I think we just had it. I think we got it. Should we vote? I'll second it. Oh, so we need to vote. We need to call the question. Yeah. All right. Let's all in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Again, by Tom, thanks again for composing that letter. Quite welcome. Pleased to do it. Thanks. Move on to grass. The grant that has been put on the agenda is a grant or requesting assistance from the Lampson Howell Foundation, which is, I believe, a Randolph-based organization. After my search through World Wide Web these days, everything's online, I found that, again, Lampson Howell, I didn't know much about it until we looked up in it, is based here in Randolph. The chair of the East Valley Community Group has shared with me that this group does provide grants and funding to community-based projects within the greater Randolph area. A draft letter was shared this evening with me for the Lampson Howell request. I was not able to share it with the board because it wasn't sent to me with enough time to share with everybody and meet the open meeting requirements, so. If the board approves the town requesting a grant from the Lampson, I would most likely use the letter provided by the East Valley Community Group as a template and then send that request to the Lampson Howell Foundation. What specifically is this grant in support of? The grant is being requested, I believe it's a $12,000 request to help fund architectural needs of the East Randolph Hall. The money would be used to pay for an architect to perform their work on these Randolph Hall. I just wanna say I'm quite familiar with Lampson Howell from having worked with them on a number of grants in the past and that's a pretty sizable request of that particular fund. Their grants are typically in smaller amounts, but I'm just putting that out there. That's not to say that we shouldn't go for the gusto, but thanks, Tom. Yeah. I can share with the board that the amount was not chosen by the town staff, the East Valley Group, so I can go back to the East Valley Group and say that if the final version of our letter to the Lampson Howell Foundation could read something to the effect of, we'd like to request up the total amount of $12,000, but we'll leave it up to Lampson Howell to provide whatever amount they feel comfortable. Yeah, and that's typically the way it works in any event, but it's always good to reach for the golden ring. Right, oh yeah, absolutely. So at this point, if the board were to entertain the request, it would just be to authorize town staff to seek a grant fund through Lampson Howell. Adolfo, does the letter include that East Valley Community Hall Group is working on this project? I just think. Yeah, I haven't had a chance to review the whole letter yet, but any letter that we would send from the town to Lampson Howell wouldn't be verbatim from someone else, we'll craft it to have the town's voice. It would specifically mention that the Grant Wood Service East Valley Community Group and that the town is drafting this letter on their behalf as a town committee through the approval of the Randolph Select Board. I like the way you said that, that's good. Question for John, is he still on here? Yes, I am. So I'm just curious, are you guys planning on applying for the 501C3 program? Adolfo mentioned that to me a couple of weeks ago. Yes, that's in process. Okay, very good. Okay, are we ready for a motion? I know that we approve the request for the grant and the town support therefore. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes. I think we should move on. I do have, this is John Pematalli again. I do have one question. What time frame do we think the town will have prepared this letter? I hate to tell you tomorrow, it's probably not gonna be tomorrow, but as soon as possible. Okay, I'm not looking for tomorrow. It won't be a month, I can tell you that. It may take a week at most as far as I can see, but no more than a week. Okay, thank you. Appointments, and I'll follow. Yes, we, with the departure of our previous highway superintendent several months ago, left the vacancy, vacancy in our representative for two rivers out of Quiche's Transportation Advisory Committee. Morgan, our current highway superintendent has agreed to serve as our representative. So if the board were to appoint Morgan, he would serve as our representative to the Two Rivers TAC Committee. I'll move to appoint Morgan Durie to the Two Rivers Transportation Advisory Committee. Second. Yeah, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Nay. Motion passes. Other business? Do we have another business, Adolfo? No other business, no. I think I've got some information. Manager's report. Yes, we do have the manager's report. I'll be brief. We, as I shared with the board yesterday, we had a break in one of our wastewater lines. The break was capped yesterday, early evening. So it received the utmost attention and we're able to have it capped. We have made arrangements to continue wastewater service to the Randolph Center community that is a part of the wastewater district. So that should not be a problem. At this point, we're just working with the aftermath, working with state agencies that are investigating, monitoring the work. They were out here, representatives of the state agencies were out here today, confirmed that the cap has taken hold and we're not continuously releasing wastewater into the Adams Brook waterway. So no other information to report now other than just we're working to correct the issue and that no wastewater is leaking into the Adams Brook. The vast majority of the last over a week for me, time-wise, has been spent on HR related issues as I'm sure it's the same with my counterparts throughout the state and the country really. We have secured hand sanitizer stations and we posted them throughout town hall. So anyone that visits town hall when the hall reopens will have regular access to hand sanitizers. We've also purchased dividers so that the staff that have contact with the public have at least a barrier between the two so that there's no direct connection between the two with the droplets that are now shared in regular media now. So that's the HR issue. We've completed the VOSHA trainings. There were some mandatory VOSHA trainings. We've purchased face masks for all staff. So we'll keep fine tuning as guidance is issued by the governor's office and his team. We have an ongoing issue with the Department of Environmental Conservation with regard to Omeghanese and Reservoir project. It's gonna continue to be a long running hall. They at this point are reinterpreting the courts ruling in a way that we don't feel is accurate, but they do. We're hoping to avoid future litigation, but in order to avoid an ongoing issue which is the town of Randolph having an interpretation on a federal regulation and the state having an interpretation on the federal regulation, I decided best to write a letter to US EPA to say, how do you interpret this? And then that is the end all because whatever they say is what we hear in the town and the state have to abide by. So I have asked our congressional delegation to help push that letter along just so that we can get some clarification from US EPA and we hope to have it soon. Josh has worked with our Regional Planning Commission to try to have or obtain an extension to our Northern Borders Regional Committee grant our $450,000 grant. We feel we may have an extension that would be COVID related. So that's in the works. Rahman has continued to meet and discuss ways to continue to help our community. There was a call today with some very helpful information that was exchanged by members of Rahman. After the call, I received an email message from the State Emergency Operations Center that is essentially making available 20 cases of MREs which is the food that is issued to the military while they're in deployment to any municipality that is in need. So right now I'm working with the Sheriff's Department and then also with Rahman leadership to determine what our need is, if any. And if we do have a need, we can request these 20 cases of these ready to eat meals. So we'll have more on that. We received a notice that the Better Roads grant program is on hold indefinitely because of the continued expense of dealing with the COVID outbreak. We had applied for a $60,000 grant to help fix the Beanville Road Colvert. We're not gonna know if we get this grant because the state won't award this grant because they don't know if they're gonna have the money to award. So that puts a bit of a damper on that. We do have the funds to repair this Colvert. We were just hoping to obtain some assistance so we can use less Randolph money and more state money, but we'll progress as we can. And then again, just wanted to reiterate some of the changes that and efficiencies that we have found in the finance department. Cliff has really performed Yeoman's work in finding a lot of inefficiencies that exist. And so we're gonna continue to look for those. Some of those are tracking fuel consumption. That's something that we've started to really take a note of. One of the other strategies that we're looking to implement is a year or two years worth of fuel purchase, both diesel fuel and heating fuel because prices are record lows now. And if we could lock in two years worth of fuel at these record low prices, we will spend less money over the next two years on diesel fuel and building heating fuel. So those are just a few of the things that we're looking to do. And as we find these inefficiencies, we'll bring them to the board for your review. And that is all I have for now. Adolfo, could you just clarify a couple of things I didn't really hear? A letter to federal agency. Who was that to, did you say? It was the US EPA, Environmental Protection Agency. Okay. It was sent to them because they are the agency that governs the national secondary water quality standards. Yep, makes sense. I just didn't hear it. And the second one, 20 cases of what were you saying? They're called MREs. They are essentially a pre-packaged, dried food that are made available. They're essentially military food that the National Guard and the federal government have made available for anyone in need of food. Yeah, thank you. And there's one other thing we have. So Josh is working on a way for us to possibly help some of the restaurants downtown. Oh, yes, thanks very much. You want to bring that up? So, yes, so Josh has been working with our economic development committee and they all as a group led by Josh, working with our local business owners, more specifically with our restaurant owners, when they are finally allowed to open, normally they are going to be at a diminished capacity for internal seating. So, Josh has been making a lot of calls on how to potentially expand their seating by being outdoors. One of the strategies would be to close down merchant's row, starting at a certain time, say three, four, five o'clock, whatever it is. And that would allow restaurant owners to make use of the whole road, make it a pedestrian only walkable road, bring tables and chairs out for a designated time. Or close it down permanently for the short period of time in the next three, four, five months until restaurant regulations are eased and business owners can then have 50, 7,500% capacity in their restaurants. This would allow them to continue to serve if their capacity is 50 customers, they can continue to serve 50 customers by not having them inside, but having them sit outside. So, great idea. Well, so the concept behind this is I've been working with the rest of the tent rental vendors and I know what's going on around the country because some of this is occurring in certain places. So what they're doing is basically creating food courts in areas that make sense where you can limit the traffic. And then the goal here is to try to get some of the funding from the CARES Act to pay for this throughout the state. So it'll do two things. It'll help us tent companies and it'll help the restaurants because the restaurants are in dire need. They are looking for anywhere between 140 to 190 million to help them restart. So the big challenge here is, is they don't have the ability in their budgets to fund cover. So as a matter of fact, I've been touring around looking at different locations throughout the state the last couple of days, trying to figure out how we can, these restaurants are calling us and how much is it gonna cost us for a tent? And can you put it here? So we've been working on this concept to try to do something more along the lines of a community effort where we can. That's an excellent idea. Is there anything we can do at the state level, Parry, working with our legislators to encourage support for this kind of initiative, not just here in Randolph, but- Well, I think we can talk with them about it. And they're aware of it because actually Peter was on the economic development meeting that I was on earlier before I got on here. And right now, this is pretty much in the hands of the agency of commerce. And so we all have connections there and so we're chatting with them. I have made the suggestion to them on Tuesday and through one of their committees, one of the taskforce. And so I know I've received a letter back that it's something that's on the docket to be discussed. It was either discussed today or it's going to be on for tomorrow. And so for a future meeting locally here, what we plan to do is bring the issue specifically to the select board because a road closure would require a vote of the board. By that point, we will have a clear plan of the road being closed either permanently or the warmer months that are coming so that the restaurants can stay open or a closure for the summer months. That closure can be eased as restaurants are able to have greater capacity within their specific locations. We are working on finding parking for one of the businesses on Merchant's Road that feels that it has to have parking in front of their location. We're working to find dedicated parking for them that is just as close to their business as the street parking is now. But ultimately the decision would be to select boards and that we will bring for your approval at a future meeting. And the conversation is going on around the state because I got a phone call from Barry. The city of Barry was actually contemplating closing a chunk of Main Street to do exactly the same thing. So Waterbury was looking at something similar but Waterbury's got a lot of construction going on so they're trying to figure out where they can do it. Your proposal would close Merchant's Road. Yes. Part of it. But it would give those restaurants in that vicinity the opportunity to create this food court but not only just them but if there were other users. So there's just some discussion about the businesses that are in Sam's space that like the yoga place could they use that during the day at some period of time? So it could have some extra benefits by creating some of those that open space which is apparently where the requirements are gonna come from. That's an outstanding idea. I think Fisher's probably the one that you've got to satisfy, right? Yeah. And that's the one. So Josh has been working with them. Good. Hope it works. I have one other thing I'd like to add to Adolfo's comments and it's relative to COVID-19 response. As the select board knows I've been working with as has Adolfo the Ramen Randolph Area Mutual Aid Network group. And I've been part of a sort of a subset of that a task force of that working with Gifford with Ashley Lincoln with Marcus who's former intern a retired intern at Gifford. Maury White who's a surgeon up there. Josh who is the current medical director and Dan Bennett. We are coming up with a program to offer two places of high public contact in the community, specifically employers that are currently open or as they reopen free testing for employees on a rotating basis to identify potential points of outbreak in the community as COVID-19 picks up again upon reopening of the retail base and the economic base. And we're beginning to roll this out over the course of the next week but essentially it entails there are designated people at each employer designated by the state who are supposed to be training employees in COVID-19 protocols and documenting that. Those people would be our points of contact and Gifford is offering free on-site testing at the Gifford site drive-by testing on a rotating basis to any employees who wish to take advantage of it with the intent of identifying people who may be asymptomatic that is carriers without knowing it because they don't have necessarily symptoms. And we're beginning to roll out this program starting Monday. I'm gonna be speaking with Lane Durfee at Bethel Mills and Central Supplies but we're targeting major employers throughout the region and we also wanna offer it to town of Randolph when town hall reopens to make it available to all town employees who may wish to avail themselves of free testing. So there will be information about it in this week's hurled and in next week's hurled and it's consistent with the state's opening up testing to anyone who wants it now as well. I think that's also what I understood on the economic development committee meeting that that was also rolling out on Facebook and front porch forum. Yeah, that's accurate. Would that be solely commercial people or would that include? I think it's anybody from what Dan said this afternoon. And yeah, it's anybody but we happen to be the ramen group happens to be focusing specifically on high contact places Central Supplies, Shaw's, Kinney Drugs, Rite Aid, the Barn, Cumberland Farms. We're really focusing on those entities that are either open now or might be reopening but the larger story is that anyone can now go to Gifford and schedule an appointment for driveup testing per the State Department of Health and the governor's announcements this week. And also there were discussion about inviting people who are coming to the campgrounds transitioning up from South to encourage them to get tested. Anything else? Are you ready for that? There we go. I heard it. Second? Second. All right. All in favor of adjourning. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Nicely done, Larry. Thank you for stepping in. Good job. Thank you, Tom. Thanks, Perry. Have a good week, weekend. See you all round. Hopefully don't warm up. Okay, see you later. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Take care.


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The legacy of Governor Babajde Somalu has tasked the National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APCE, to deploy wisdom and patience to resolve differences and strengthen the party's unity in their assignments. Governor Somalu said this when the committee led by Senator Abdelay-Adomou paid him a curtsy visit at his marina residence. Somalu noted that given the party's popularity, the committee would be meeting people with different ideas and expectations, explaining that the assignment and terms of reference speaks to the real essence of the party's constitution. We are not in Lagos because there is any petition that we are entertaining as a committee, but we cannot come to the western part of this country and not start with Lagos, like I said earlier. Everybody who is a student of current APCE knows exactly what Lagos is to this great country, what history hinges on the makeup of Lagos right from the amalgamation to dates. So we felt the necessity to touch base with you, to solicit for any advice in your official capacity as one of the esteemed stakeholders of this great party, and to see what value you will add to whatever wisdom we may have or may have been thought to have. Senator Abdelay-Adomou noted Lagos APCE for its unity and noted that the committee did not receive any petition from the state chapter. Abdelay-Adomou said the committee's visit was to further strengthen the unity of the ruling party in the state. Indeed we might have differences, but in those differences we should be able to sit together and iron and resolve those differences. And like I've said, given the calibre of eminent Nigerians and members of our party that have been drawn together, I'm certain that the outcomes of these interventions that you've taken up will be very fruitful. The outcomes will further strengthen unity in the party and the outcomes will further deepen democracy in our country.


The Igor Social Cultural Organization, Ojaneze Indigo, South-East Governors and members of the National Assembly from the region have resorted to send a delegation to Preston to enable to intervene in checking the insecurity ravaging the zone. The stakeholders took the decision after an emergency meeting held on Monday evening at the Amos State Governors Lodge in Abuja. Some members of the meeting led by the President-General of Ojaneze Indigo chief Emmanuel Uwaiyawu included the Amos State Governor, Hope Uzo-Dima, his Airboy State counterpart, Francis Wilfuru, from the governor of the Ambrose State, Senator Chris Ingegay and Senator Yifanyi Uba. We have identified insecurity that is the problem of South-East for now and is at the front burner and must be addressed. Over the years, we've been working with the governors of the region to ensure that this matter is resolved. The federal government in the past have supported, but we think that the federal government can do more. One thing good about us today, the whole five governors of South-East are working together, working together with Ares Indigo and as you know, Ares Indigo is a major umbrella of Igbo people. We cannot have a good economy than they can have prosperity for the people. Even if the people are not there, or if we who are in the diaspora are abroad, we don't go home. So that's it. We are tackling it. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Face masks are an essential tool in the fight against coronavirus but for them to work it does require for members of the public, political leaders and indeed pop stars not to be idiots. So we'll have all seen people wear face masks wrong when they're in public. I was on the tube the other day someone was wearing the face masks correctly they take it off to have a very loud phone conversation which is completely you know it would be better actually to not wear it when you're speaking and to put it on when you are speaking because it's when you expel all that air that people catch it not clever. It's also not good if you wear it on your chin Stanley Johnson Boris Johnson's father was pictured on a train station doing just that this morning but what's very important is that your mask is not full of holes. This is what Lana Del Rey wore this weekend so she sported a mesh face mask at her meet and greet with fans to promote her new poetry book so you can see her there. Now I'm not an epidemiologist but that mesh face mask does not look like it's going to be catching many germs in it because it's mainly made of huge holes. We might also have a video lined up of her speaking there. You thought I was rich and I am but not how you think. I live in a tutor house under the freeway and Marvista by the beach and when you call I take my phone outside to the picnic table that I bought from the Rose Bowl. I listen to the rushing cars above and think about the last time you visited me and the last time we made love how the noise got louder and louder during rush hour until it sounded like this. Now I mean she looks great. It looks amazing. I love the face mask. It looks 10 times better than any face mask I've worn during this pandemic.   I mean we don't know if she's wearing some kind of transparent filter underneath because you can't get these clear plastic ones. Do we actually not know that? Could that be the case? Yeah we don't know that. We don't know that. So I'm just saying that there might be a way out for Lana. If she was then I was her manager I would tell her to comment publicly on the fact that there was a...  Exactly. But the thing is...  I mean I kind of think that like with Lana Delrin that the reason why there's this kind of inherent comedy to this whole thing I mean it's so reckless.  But there is this kind of serene quality to her face. She's almost like you know the figure of the holy fool who's kind of you know erratic but untouched by the chaos of the world around them. So just like spraying corona droplets left right in center but with this kind of daisy hazy soporific you know tranquil calm and serenity that I kind of just think oh you know I'm not even mad at you know the decline of the American empire anymore. You do you. We've also got images posted by Pop Crave on their Twitter account of fans at the event having hugs with her. So yeah they are not being protected. I mean the other thing here that's kind of you know bad is that we do know that wearing a face mask is not really for you. It's for other people. So if Lana Del Rey was putting herself at risk here you'd be like okay fine you know she's putting herself at risk for fashion. I rate that but she's putting other people at risk for fashion. That's the real problem here right. That's why you know we're burning our Lana Del Rey CDs here at Navarra Media. I'd let Cardi B give me coronavirus. I'd let Lana Del Rey give me to coronavirus but I don't think the people who attended that signing signed up for that.


This week's IonMPI by DigiKey and Adafruit. Thank you DigiKey. It's from ST. Lady Edda, what is this week's IonMPI? So normally, you know, we cover ST stuff and we've done their wireless chips and we've done their sensors. Of course, they're a massive company, so they have a lot of chips that they design and come out with. But I saw this pop up on the digikey.com slash new and what's interesting is I didn't know that such a thing existed. It's a GPS unit that has dead reckoning built into it with sensor and wheel tick, you know, a DOM at our capability. So this is part of a family called Tezio and this is the VIC 3DA. The A is for automotive. The 3D, I think, stands for like three-dimensional and VIC, I don't know. But it's part of their, you know, it's automotive but it's also really useful for robotics. So it's like, yes, this stuff is used for cars but we know where stuff is used for cars. I also think it's often used, really good use, often very good for use with art projects or mechatronics or robotics or installations or what have you. I'm sure there's a good reason to use this. And so first up, GPS, you know, we've had GPS stuff on IonMPI and of course at Adafruit. We sell a lot of GPS stuff. There's all these constellations. The original one is called GPS for global positioning service and that's our global positioning system and that's the American. Well, it's actually global navigation system is what you would normally call it. And there's now other global navigation systems available. So, you know, there's Beidu, there's QZSS, that's the Japanese one. There's Glonass, there's the Russian one and there's the Galileo, that's the European one. So there's like five or six systems. Not all of them are up and running but what's cool about this GPS unit or GNSS unit, I'm going to call it GPS, but just it could recognize more than just the American constellations. It works with all of them. So that's kind of good because it means that even if you don't have great visibility for one set of satellites, you'll be able to get the other set of satellites. And that's handy because a lot of times one of the most popular things that GNSS is used for is navigation, whether it's automotive navigation or of course robotic navigation or human navigation. And you want to know where you are and the cool thing about GNSS is that as long as you've got a vision of the sky, you can use it anywhere in the world. It works anywhere as long as you can see the sky, which is of course the thing which is well, what if you can't see the sky? Well, if you can't see the sky, it doesn't work at all. You have to be able to see, you know, I think three or four different satellites at a time in order to triangulate your position on Earth. So what happens if you're in a tunnel or what happens if you're in a canyon like New York City? New York City has some parts of the city where you pretty much can't get GPS or if you could, it's not trustworthy because the signal's bouncing off of these glass buildings and you're getting distorted signals and so you kind of end up sort of jumping around.  It's because the GPS signal is bouncing around and you're not getting it directly so you're not able to triangulate as well. So historically, you know, the way we did, and this is kind of interesting that this GPS module, GNSS module combines, you know, satellite tracking with what's called dead reckoning. So dead reckoning is, you know, an ancient way of measuring where you are and it's exactly, you know, kind of what you would think people would first invent for navigation. If you know where you are and you have a map and you know your compass direction where you're moving, you just, you know, count the number of steps and then, you know where you've ended up. And this is what basically, this is the only thing you could do before GNSS. I mean, you could, of course, use the stars and you could use clocks and stuff to do some sort of navigations. But the problem with dead reckoning is it's very susceptible to error. You know, it's a great idea, right? If you really know exactly how many feet you've stepped in one direction, exactly the direction, then yes, of course, you're going to be able to determine where you are. But in reality, without a reference pointer map to keep you along, you know, even a small, you know, change in an angle, you think you turn 90 degrees, but you really turn 89 degrees, and suddenly the error magnifies the more and more you go.  But with technology, like using tilt compensated compasses and, you know, a more calibrated way of measuring distance, not just using like knots on a rope, like in nautical miles. But using a wheeled tech counter, you can do a much better job of determining where you're at. So, the Live 3F, which is the, we're talking about the three Vic 3D, which I think is like the dev kit, but this family has the GNSS module, right, with multiple constellation supports, so it can get data from anywhere. And it's got like data logging, it's got firmware upgrade, I'm sure there's an ST chip inside of it. It does it such a GNSS, and that's where you get data from a web, you know, you can get data from a website or over cellular to help it get the almanac of data so it can get a fix much faster. But it has that odometer in it. And what's neat is that you can see that you can get a fixed rate of up to 30 Hertz when you use the odometer, like it'll actually get you data quite quickly. If you've got that odometer and built into it is a six DoF tilt compensated compass.  And so there's all going to the automotive industry is one of the one of the things that you haven't been able to get compass sensors for quite a while. So yeah, so the Tessio is is there's a firmware system. It gives you Namiya data, but you could also give it it's got these two pins forward, which is direction and wheel tick, and you tell it, you know, how many you know how how wide your wheels are. And then of course, it can calculate how far you've gone each direction.  And believe me, having had to write dead reckoning software, you don't want to do it. It's much better for the module doesn't for you. So the module is ready to go and it's got you are it's got I squared C. It's got, you know, antenna staff control, PPS wake up IRQs and of course, we'll tick and forward. You can also I saw in the data sheet you can send the media data with the odometer separately. So if you don't use wheel tick and forward back, like let's say you want to like literally count steps for human. Or maybe it's not if you add a wheel maybe there's some other way you're doing maybe a vision system to determine distance. You can send that data over in the media. So it would take that and then you know, merge it into what GPS or GNSS data it's got and then give you that dead reckoning output. And if you want to get started really fast, the did you key also has in stock, this dev kit and the dev kit kind of does everything for you. So you like, don't need to do the power supply in the case and the antenna. It's got panel, it's got SD card for logging. I think it's got some ST chip in it. It's got the module. It's like 200 bucks and he basically has everything you could possibly need. So honestly, you probably couldn't really make this for less than the dev kit costs. So if you're just if you have a robot or if you have a car automotive thing or agricultural electronics, if you wanted to quickly get your dead reckoning stuff going. Add this in I think this I think dead reckoning is a good alternative where you can't use RTK. Yeah, especially if you're out in the middle nowhere, you can't use Wi Fi system GPS. It is completely standalone and that's that's kind of nice. And you know, it's not as expensive as having to manage your own RTK network. And it's also got some software that comes with it for testing. And you can, you know, check the check the this example is for the valve board. But of course, it'll work with just the raw module.  And you can even see the user flags for all the different constellations in the satellite tracker. Available on Digikey. Here's the part number and the short URL. You can have this now. And it's very competitive with other similar GPS module makers. So they're definitely going in pretty strong. Ironically, getting a six DOF sensor is about the same price as this GPS GNSS module. So do check it out. I got some samples coming on the way as well.  Or did you get the all in one of our board? It comes in a nice metal case. And you just mount it, you know, add an external antenna and you're ready to rock. And that's this week's iron MPI.


Section 8A championship, now Warrod taking on East Grand Forks, all tied to zeros halfway through the second period until EGF's Kobe Staus gets the steal, goes top shell for the goal. But Warrod's goalie Parker Orcher doing his best to keep EGF out of the net. Coming up big with a couple stops, but he couldn't keep the east side out of the net. Nick Lund on the breakaway sneaks it past Orcher for the goal. Warrod would end up tacking on one, but it wasn't enough. EGF wins and heads to state five to one. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.