yes we're just opening um so we're opening our meeting at 6 o'cl uh we are recorded and we are um starting with a joint um shared meeting with chester all righty we've got our full board is here uh obviously you guys as
well so how you doing in blanford not bad I feel so far away you guys are so close to your camera I I know we have to we can hardly see you guys to zoom in that's probably for the best yeah right so um obviously it's
time to renew our shared Police Services contract um I think um we have reviewed what we have here and I know we spent a lot of time when we originally did this going over and agreeing to everything and as far as as
I'm concerned and I I think the other board members have reviewed it as well I think really the only thing that needs to change is is the dates and the term on it I don't think I don't see anything that's an issue for us do you guys have any issues with the agreement I just have a question about go ahead um I had just found this I
don't and I only see it in draft form so I'm going to have you guys look was this ever made part of the agreement because it's an amendment I don't know if it was ever adopted or if it belongs in the new agreement so this is an amendment to um
for provision of services to Blandford um vehicle property used for provision of police services regardless of which town owns uh shall be treated as property Town of Chester yeah this was part of it yeah yeah when do we sign that one I don't
have a signed version of it I just have a draft version of it that I had found in a folder on the shared file so I don't know that it was necessarily ever Incorporated but I I'm not sure okay yeah I'm looking at the original here
and and I think we did clarify that yeah it says the date on it is um the effective for amendment is July 1st 2022 yeah that that's I think that's when we went through the animal control thing so yeah you're probably right that should be added on as an addendum to the
the agreement yeah perfect um I don't think that there was anything else that we were concerned with no so far it's been working beautifully um yeah I we haven't had any complaints at all I think uh citizens are happy people are happy I think we're getting good service
out of this absolutely we have um Chief dubio here with us Chief do you have anything um that you want to add any concerns with the way things are working 15 years I'd be up for that no I'm I'm good
with it okay okay um you didn't have any concerns or anything what is our term for the next uh is are we doing another three years that you want to do three years I'm fine with that if that's what you want to do I think that makes sense yeah yeah absolutely I think that was
this one was for five okay so let's do let's do five then John that five five you guys okay with that fine okay y um still we'll meet um once or twice a year I think or were we doing quarterly
supposed to be quarterly supposed to be quarterly why don't we do twice a year let's do twice a year because I don't think we've met and we haven't really needed to need no yeah no twice a year okay so twice a year unless we see need to to meet again or
earlier okay okay all right good um do you guys do you guys have this digitally because I can't find it digitally Christina does yes all right then can you would you mind sending that to Don and incorporate that the uh page with
the addendum yeah of course and then uh we'll change it and we can we can sign it as well at our next meeting sounds good perfect hey question for you guys um It's s topic here a little bit but um we've got a new fire chief here Nate
balock who's doing a great job for us and uh I think he's looking to do some type of compensation for um officers and firefighters that show up on call and he said you guys have a program in place how's that working for you and what is
it so we at one point I think we had set something up but no one had taken the stipend I correct me wrong I don't know um but we had also we did through a town meeting was um do a tax um uh what what
did we do a tax so they were going to get a tax break for volunteers it's stalled in the Senate most recently but they're picking it back up and hoping to move forward with it in the next few months uh you know there's a cap of $250 on Real Property Tax and and
another uh decrease in your um excise tax did you hear all that y I did okay I did we're just we're looking at uh at options here what we can do because I'm sure at the same boat as you we're having a hard time getting people to
commit and and to volunteer and volunteering today is difficult yeah so yeah um we're we're just looking at options and Ned said that you guys had tried something and I figured I'd see if I get some information about it what what was it uh something about this is
it the legislature the Senate that tossing this around or yeah it just stalled in the Senate on the floor so they're going to pick it back up this next session okay so we're waiting on the Massachusetts to get their act
together okay okay I know I know some local uh cities and towns have passed some uh local bylaw was regarding paid call or whatever we're whatever we're calling it here so um didn't know what
you guys had done so we'll just I'll get some information about that and we'll take a look at that as well yeah if you need the wording for um what we use for the town meeting Christina can get that for you um but I would check Adam because I know that a few years ago we had tried to do something and it wasn't
it wasn't accepted or picked up by the guys and girls okay all right yeah if you could if you could send us that language so we could just at least look at it that would be awesome okay I think we need a motion for the um fire for the Police contract yeah I think you're
right um Chester I'll make a motion that we accept the um shared service Police contract renewal for the next five years second that all in favor I I um so I I right we need we made a motion Joan we
made the same motion motion to accept the um plan for years there we go five all right great sounds good that wasy that was quick yeah we like we do too perfect Hey listen when it only takes five minutes to do something like this you know things are
working well exactly absolutely thank you have a good night thank you you guys take care now bye too bye all right Joanne are you oh perfect never mind they hung up all right um Doris I promised you that we would um get you out of here so I would make a motion to
go to where are we in new business is it new business D yeah town of blanford caucus March 3rd 2025 is there a second second any discussion all in favor
I well you need me to sign stuff right okay you need a motion no just just just fine do that all right um we have meeting
minutes so select for minutes from December 9th 2024 motion to approve motion motion to approve December 9th 2024 minutes I'll second um discussion all in favor
I motion to improve um meeting minutes from December 18th 2024 there second that's tax rate say yeah that was the meeting where we just did the tax rate is there a second second any
discussion all in favor I all right um audience participation public comment no yes what do you got I have a couple questions uh Steve harchester Ro I just a couple quick questions to catch up
from every how was your uh the pre- commmittee that da was on how was that formed I I the highway superintendent yes the highway superintendent's position um how was that committee formed how did we form that committee I'm trying to remember volte it was a volunteer committee volunteer committee
so it would have been we discussed at the um at a select board meeting would have gone out in the minutes and everything and on the channel yeah okay um I I want to know why Mr Allen who is
is he the highway Leo on we don't have no okay I I wonder why he wasn't on it I I just think that uh oh so we didn't do select board members on the the search committee meetings because then they um put together they choose the candidates
and put it together for the select board and then we do this the second round interview I think they made a great mistake uh passing on Mr panaya just an opinion okay he's very overqualified um and I had one more comment um and this
is no slight to either uh gentleman they're R tonight okay um I I hope that they aren't sponsored by Mr senle uh either of these candidates because we know what happened the last time that he brought somebody forward to us okay thank you Steve I appreciate it all
right um Highway superintendent Rainey what do you got for [Laughter] us actually I really don't have anything other than I think you guys did a great job in the storm uh we finally got the
other Mac back and we're doing maintenance okay just a quick thing for you I got calls from taxpayers said it roads were one of the best around and you did an excellent job so you guys in the highway department thumbs up is
yes nothing like westv where Steve works I don't go the I'm serious just as the guys yeah I know I'm just saying you could pass that down to them or whatever but so goad I had four different comments about how
good the roads work awesome and just personally I was everywhere that weekend cuz I had a lot to do I was on 23 on I was in Westfield Springfield pooke you name it I was there and I kept looking at the other roads and said if I hear one more complaint about blanford Road
I'm gonna blow up yeah Springfield is bad thank you that's excellent okay all right Town Administrator Christina what do you have for us so not too too much uh tomorrow we have I have a meeting with the finance committee to sort of firm up all of the budget hearing stuff
that we have been accomplishing over the last couple of weeks um Kelly ponon our accountant will be coming March 13th so that we can all meet her and go over some things we she's actually in my experience she's
been doing pretty good okay I think um I did get a trading quote for the truck so uh both dealerships had given the in the same area so one was uh 177,000 the other one was 169 it's a
difference of $100 yeah um so we're moving forward with that great and as I mentioned earlier I spoke with uh Joel Doo from Nick bala's off Senator Nick bala's office Y and he just reiterated that the tax break uh for the volunteer
firefighters stalled in the Senate but will'll be picked back back up this session he asked if we were still in favor and I said yes good um and I think that's kind of really it me good um oh actually we had a meeting
with um Mr reichart and he is oh yeah volunteered graciously to be our community liaison for the uh dirt roads project perfect so thank you George my pleasure all right um
Jennifer good to see you you okay so recapping on Main Street the 106 Main Street um so that house is going to be listed in the spring they're waiting for the title five to get done
and we're not doing Title Five here sorry George is having a hard time hearing what I okay teacher voice so so they're waiting for a Title Five from us okay so you're talking about 106 Main Street um listed
in the spring you said y it'll be y they're waiting for a Title Five and we're not doing title fives right now for obvious reasons um and the 83 um we're working on was that the one 83 Main Street we're talking about
George is the one um next to the library next to the library yep and I'm just had a couple questions for Sarah on that one okay before we move forward on that because everything comes back addressed on that one she does not own that property okay that one is bank owned we
that is separate that yeah that's separate from 103 and I wasn't aware of that yeah before so um I'm GNA hold off on 106 and no longer pursue 106 um being listed yep okay and and they're taking
care of that okay um 16 and 18 Brookman drive both have been sent out registered letter final registered letters and after that we're just going to drop it and um unless they do what they're supposed to do okay and then we'll be
happy to assist um we have more dumpsters in town than ever before and we're going to have to start um enforcing those permits yes um especially when spring comes up with the lids too right yeah yep yep we have
the whole policy but the um PE the H we need the haulers permits and we need the residential permits okay what was first one Jennifer residential and what hollers ha right yes um so how do we go about doing that
are we going to be are we looking for someone to I mean how do we communicate with people who have dumpsters that they need to be getting permit so basically there's only three around so we just send letters out to those three one yes
um one of them we do have the hollers permit um the other two we do not okay um let's see the swap sha shop Shack thing there so we've got the lumber purchased we've
got the roof purchased um or the materials I should say for that and it will be done by July it'll probably be done within the next month and a half that's awes yeah and um we're also applying for another Grant in
April I gone over it with uh Christina and um if we get anything then we are looking at getting a compactor looking at getting a compactor nice um Brett says we need a new compactor whatever Brett whatever you
want um let's see we also are going to have an opening for burial agent we hear right TJ so if anyone's interested in the position they should come to the board um our next board meeting is March 3rd if maybe he
could if could you have him come will you be posting it or no it's not really a job where we post it because it's a volunteer position so it's whoever wants to come and be a burial agent look at all the money TJ made off independently
wealthy um and that's it that's really all I I have so thank you I appreciate yep all right um we have a warrant a payroll and no payroll no
payroll okay put K on that I sent the wrong stuff in for me this is what the small one $17 and then this one you're looking at the look at water right so water's coming out
of no that's not water water maintenance is water mixed in no it's in the back right but so there's only two things coming out for water yes possible okay all right so motion to approve um
warrant 18 town of blord accounts payable and the wired accounts any discussion all in favor hi all right we already did new business a thank
you um we have a temporary Li liquor license did we decide to not would we encourage to not do that no it's not that they were encouraged to not do it it's that as long as there is somebody signing for it taking responsibility for the liability on the liquor license then
we can give it to them I spoke to her about it they've had it at Stanton Hall in the past and that's how they've done it they've taken the responsibility and she said there is a school full of teachers that are going to be there and they're not going to let anything happen so there's never been a problem where is
this going to be held I don't see a um they have insurance I don't know yeah they need they're not saying it's necessary they're not saying is necessary are they chrisa they didn't say that insurance
was necessary they said it was uh as long as we don't have a bylaw specifically not allowing it to take place here and as long as there is a signer who is taking resp liability okay then that's fine I guess um do we need a motion for that I don't know I did speak
with our attorney that's where I'm getting that from yeah because I know like uh whenever we have something up at the fair they have to have a Certificate of Insurance someone they selling it though that's different we're not they're not selling
it they're just providing it it's Bob actually no they're not providing it either people bring in people bring in a bottle of all right uh I don't know if you need a so motion to approve a temporary liquor license for a
fundraiser um contingent upon uh the person responsible signing for liability should we do a letter for them to sign yes for that just before their event and have them sign in yeah that's a good idea is there a second for discussion second uh did you have I just
got a question is this a one time thing or is it like three oh it's just once oh okay I didn't know anything about it that's what I said no that's okay it's the Gateway Education Association okay is there fundraiser okay all in favor are we going to have to get a dump for an empty wine box
well they are teachers recyle them all right um so we have the we have two um interviews now for Highway super attendant so Ray do you want to come on down first yeah I'll come
down all right so should now touchreen um I just sent them to you so that they would be at the top of your thank you I appreciate that you're welcome all right so welcome thank you um the way that we typically do
interviews we have two questions each that we will ask and we'll just sort of go around um I usually have to poke them to remind them to ask this guy over here anyways um but that's how it will go and then we will score on a rating I think we don't have the score sheet but we
typically do between I think it's one through five is that sound familiar I think I still have Christina's in here um yeah we did one through five um so if you guys can score one through five for each question and then we'll revisit at the
end yeah yeah okay yeah all right so sound good all right so our first question is I'm going to take I'll take the first one um how would you handle communication with
blanford residents regarding road closures construction projects or other Highway related issues well the big thing would be here on Monday nights making people aware of situations that are up coming prior to
them happening I understand that emergencies do happen so definitely having the right proper signage out you know even Word of Mouth even um a lot of people are on social media now you know honestly and I know we don't really have a connect to
that directly from the department but might be something to look into to actually put out some positives so that people actually see stuff before it happens and doesn't end up uh Tain in the department let's say like it's happened in the
past absolutely what about and so putting that out for construction projects as well yeah good um TJ you're up next yeah how do you PRI prioritize road maintenance
and repair projects in Blandford considering our limited resources well you know two major things have to happen every spring and fall basically dirt roads is a big thing that we have in this town we got to make sure
that we end up uh taking care of those spring and fall so that at least the residents and people that pass through that's no issues so we're not getting complaints on that part uh other
issues basically uh if you're on top of the if you're on top of what needs to be done before it needs to be done like blowing out ditches making sure leaves are taken care of getting having the mower prepped and ready not pulling it out in middle of July and saying oh
let's start cutting brush back you know being ahead of the ball really uh will make the department run better S sorry sorry no no problem describe your leadership style and how to motivate your
team communication is key you know honestly you can't not be on the same uh playing field with the guys if you you don't end up having meetings in the morning if you don't that that's one thing that hasn't
happened in the past 30 minutes you know every day sit down with them see how everyone is life changes every night every day you know something could have happened the night before and someone's distraught about it and you know what it's good to talk and make sure
everyone's on the same page and also taking in ideas for multiple people not just what you want to do and this is how you're going to do it because for ideas is better than one idea there might be some wrongs inside of it but at least as
a team instead of just basically demon projects on them you can end up actually compromising and coming up with the best idea together all
right my next question is um how do you ensure the safety of your team and the public public during Highway operations well going back to signage is a big thing preparing even preparation the night
before getting stuff ready uh having uh good communication with uh with Jen about having toolbox talks it's important to have the right proper PP that's another thing instead of when we
need the PPE or not even have it you know that's an issue um we're going to be getting hurt or something happening it's not good so it's good to be on top of that and make sure we have plenty
of supply of what we need gloves hard hats that's a big thing you know we we need those things to perform our task safely and make sure everyone uh knows what they're doing communication is key on that again
walkie-talkies how would you develop a long-term plan for road maintenance and infrastructural improvements in BL I'd pick out a handful kind of like doing
a a bubble chart and find what issues are in Blandford or even listening to the community too and uh any concerns and putting them into a slot and seeing the importance of
what needs to be completed and what is able to be completed sooner than later and be able to uh complete that project in a timely fashion without having it either failing
or not being able to be completed before winter comes since we do have three seasons up here well four but three seasons mainly what is your vision of the blanford highway department over their next five years over the next five
years to have respect from the town's people that's the big thing after seeing what we went through for the past couple years it's pretty sad because we do work hard we do have a good
crew and everybody puts their best foot forward in the crew and I don't think it was being recognized because it's a team effort it really is and I don't think it was being
seen on the amount of work and how hard we were working even though we were and uh to have that respect is the first thing and to see the department grow if we end up having good
pay good equipment which we have the good equipment we can end up drawing in some good candidates to actually build this department up instead of losing people in the department I'd like to see a full crew basically
and u a strong crew as it is that can work together um so tell us um what questions you have for us I don't think I got any questions for you guys everything's been going pretty smoothly okay honestly do you want to
tell us a little bit about why you want the position I would like the position because working for the highway department for the past you know four years now I seen what flaws were happening and I wish we had better
treatment and I hope that I can perform to the best of my ability and be able to bring that to the crew and to the town of Lanford and not just that I like serving the community you know being on the fire department as it is you know we got a
tight family on there and we got a tight family in the fire in the department too at the highway garage and uh I trust my back to any one of them honestly and I hope that would continue
by drawing in more employees excellent all right thank you Ray oh thank you you guys have any more questions no okay all right well you guys enjoy your night thank you than thank
you all right all right Brad come on down G to mix up the order just [Laughter] to all right good evening how are you
good and you good thank you for coming thank you for having all right um do you want to start this time sure uh I want to start with the uh how you Pro prioritize the road maintenance and
repair of the projects in BL considering the limited resources that we have considering the limited resources the town of landord has well first of all we start looking for some grant money you start working on that work
with Town Administrator work with other entities work with senators and uh any of the representatives that we can come into to try to pick up some more money than what we already have coming in um as far as actually prioritizing we want to look at where we're at with our roads at right now what our worst roads are
where we're having the most problems at what we can do about fixing them and finding the correct fix for for the job that makes it last longer instead of a part-time fix or a partial fix sorry George is having a hard time
hearing you not just George George is raising his hand that's my signal that George is having a hard time it is I can hear yeah I can hear that cold to George sorry okay so anyhow
yes do you want me to reiterate that or we good there just go from there you can go from there all right but anyhow getting back to uh where I was at um we have to prioritize of what roads are the worst okay uh and then we have to also find out what the best fix for that
problem is yeah that is cost efficient to the town and or is cost savings if possible um not all of them will fit all locations there are different fixes that will work in different areas and we have to find a proper one that fits for that
particular area okay good okay um I'm going to go next uh how would you handle communication with blanford residents regarding road closures construction projects or other Highway related
issues well um anything that's planned anything that we're looking to plan we need to get that out ahead of time we need to get out to the residents um in any way of any kind of communication that we have as far as any uh public service announcements any scheduling
announcements or I know in the past years ago we had a Facebook page in the highway department and it got abused by a lot of people as it does yeah and uh so we had to do away with that it was a
pretty good tool um it worked well in some cases um other things that I've done in the past on this particular item is I put something into a superintendent's blog on the town website so that we can say
okay this month we're going to have this coming up this construction uh we're going to be looking to D ditches and that gets back into your planning and your communication with the board with the TA and everybody involved um and as far as handling the residents um
residents are going to come at you uh I don't care what you do you're going to get residents to come at you because you got to look at where they're coming from when a resident comes at you a lot of times they're very up distraught they're very upset you got to understand where they're coming from you got to
understand what got them to that situation and hopefully at some point after talking to them you can deescalate that and get that to a manageable position to where you can understand what needs to be done and how it needs to be done to make them happy and working for the residents because you do
work for for the residents so you want to work for them and not against them what are your initial thoughts on how to improve the highway Department's operations in blord I think the crew that's there now is a great crew and they're starting
to work together very well um and they're making a lot of imp improvements that I've seen I hope that I can bring stuff to the table for that crew to help as a cohesive team um not
to use the same term as the other person but like a family to make sure that the team works well together and you have to listen to your team players you have to listen to your your team people because let's face it not everybody knows
everything there might actually be something that they might have to picked up one that maybe you missed and it's good to hear from them it's good to hear from your team to find out how that would work and and as we go along I'd like to see some more training and help
them to as to uh become better employees to become better at whatever they're doing um anything we can do to help them get to that point I think would be great um because it would be an asset to the town at that point what kind of training are you talking about that you want any
kind of uh any kind of grater training any kind of loader training any kind of yeah any kind of proper equipment training any kind of uh Public Safety Training um I mean anything to do with that uh confined space training anything to do which I'm sure several of them
already have I haven't looked at any of their records I don't know but anything that they don't have I'd love to be able to improve upon how how would you handle conflict Within a team or between department and the the
public as I said before I have to look at where the conflicts coming from uh and at that point we need to deescalate it we need to find out why it's happening we need to look at the individuals that are involved and talk to them individually and find out what the
problems are and see what we can do to alleviate these problems because without having a cohesive Team without having you can't have that friction within the team because you don't get the best end result there's always a loose end there's always something that's not
being taken care of and it's all well it's not me it's him it's not me it's him well you know what we need to stop that we need to put pointing fingers we need to work as a team so we need to look at where we're going with that we need to find out and we need to end that all right um how do you stay
current with best practices and new technology and Highway Maintenance as as the president of the highway Association I'm involved with a lot of different things um I'm Berkshire hybrid Association that is um so we're
constantly looking at new Innovations either in equipment or new things that are coming down the pike I get a lot of firstand knowledge of a lot of the stuff that comes down before it really gets out there A lot of times because we meet with a lot of the vendors we meet with a lot of the different uh companies that
uh put the trucks together and I'm always looking for something that would help alleviate some time issues or some money issues always trying to look for that extra thing it doesn't always work I've had some bad situations where some
things that we thought would work that did not work as well as what they were advertised as I'll be the first to tell you that thank you I'm just reading over these a little we just got them a little late Brad sorry about that all right trying to listen
and look at um what do you have for experience for budgeting and financial management including prepping budgets tracking expenses expenses and managing performance I have been through the chapter 30b
classes um and I'm always looking forward to any of the updates that they have I carry a 30b manual with me just about every time I go go into a place I always have one of those so that I can either that or 149 either one cuz one has to do with buildings Z one has to do
with construction um as far as you want to repeat part of that again which part the first part go back over that again I want to make experience you have with the budgeting and financial management as far as the budgeting and financial
management I've been doing budgets PR near 20 years now 17 18 years years um but I have learned a lot on that and due to some individuals who were very very critical of budgets that I've had in the
past they've made me learn to look at the budgets and learn how to get into the budgets and figure out the percentages that we're using per month the percentages that we're using and then look at the percentages of your cost for the year how everything's Rising because you got you know things
are not staying the same things are getting worse so you got to look at what your percentage cost to projected is for the next year um budget wise I really like doing budgets do a point I didn't used to I used to hate it but now that I've learned to embrace the numbers and
figure out how all those numbers work for us um and keep it within a limited amount as long as I know what the baselines are that I'm allowed to go with then we can make that work um as far as the budgets goes
and as far as any other to do with financial parts of that um the capital planning I've been involved in a lot of capital planning I helped start a capital plan in other towns um an actual actively working capital plan and at the end of that time with the help from the
TA we were able to purchased a brand new 12-ton vibratory dirt roller we were able to purchase a brand new grater we were able to purchase two 550s all within a year of getting that Capital plan up and running we managed to do that within a year year and a half
so there is something to be said about having Capital planning and putting money back to do that plus it helps with the residents it helps their tax rates level out once you it's a little rough getting started but once you get started and it levels out and you stretch these
costs out and these Finance costs out it actually levels out in the end so I got one last question it's not on here that's you were here a superintendent left yes sir what makes you want to come back here after two changes I see where the direction that
you guys are headed I see the highway team as coming together to pull together as a team and I would love to be part of that team not to mention I would love to come back and serve my community fair enough all wait
doing your AG okay yes retirement is part of your future it is it is it very much is yeah so uh I don't know if I'm supposed to ask these questions I'm gonna pause you yes I fig it as
much let me let me let me making me sweat over here know let let me let me let me let me let me let me kind of touch upon this a little bit all right I'm not Superman and I don't claim to be and uh I know my time would be limited
but in that time I would like to take that time and take the team that you have train them in all facets of chapter 90 and into the grants areas so that they can help with the TA and take some
of the pressure off of your ta to get some of these things done I've been through ma major parts of these things I've done several of the uh Mass work grants I've done several Bridge grants and I've done a couple of the
uh safy safe Street Grants and I can say that to take that pressure off of the TA gives the TA some breathing M and I would love to be able to train someone from the Department to be able to come into that particular on their own
because the young guys you have in there now are your future they're your future of this highway department and they're starting to pull together they're really starting to make a difference you can see it you can see it by this last storm I noticed a difference myself and i' love to be part of that
team and I'd love to take what knowledge I do have and be able to help them expand upon what they have and become a cohesive team and hopefully as the other gentleman said someone that the town can be proud of and
not look down on you know thank you for volunteering that what questions do you have for us where do you see yourselves as far as the town goes uh as far as as far I know I know me personally I
like I know I know the town anned up for a while and they did do a lot of stuff that we wanted to do in the past and they did a good job getting that started but after the person kind of
left it kind of fell apart so probably one of my first questions to you guys as a board where do you want to start to put this back together I think that I would Echo a little bit of what Ray said I think part of our problem for many years has been a lack of trust of
the highway department yes which is um why we had had people fight so hard not to have a new highway department built because of that sentiment um so I would agree that we need to build that trust back up I think that we started to do
that we had a little bit of a a flaw there for time um but I think that we need to build that backup and then with that we do need to look at um getting something different for our Highway garage I think that's going to be something that happens down the road um
but I would like to do it with support from the town um so I think all of the parts that come with that are maintenance of roads and you know responsibility with the tax funds um being
used um you know as people see fit so that they're you know feeling like more dress would you guys be open to every so often having working sessions with whomever is the highway superintendent
to discuss planning of budget and Roads as far as what you have to spend for a budget for a road or would you be interested in you know I mean this is something that I'm coming from someplace else that I was that we used to do every
so often we would have a work session where it was an open meeting Town's people can come but there's no comment session from it it's just us discussing in front of the town where we want to go to with whatever Road we're going to work on or whatever we're going to put
Financial wise yeah I think that's I mean we' had the highway super on the agenda weekly um for the last few years um so we've been sort of doing that um talking through priorities and why they are priorities and whatnot okay that's pretty much
I'm okay thank you thank you you guys have a good evening thank you you too all right um all right do we Dave I see you here and I think we have executive session but we don't have one thank goodness um all right so do we
um you guys have to put your stuff together some time to think about this um put it together and then we can um talk in Open session next Monday and make a decision okay that sounds good
question Mary um you didn't ask Mr Hal about budgeting I did not no I we did throw in a couple I was feeling a little bit bad because well I guess Brad was here the first few interviews and heard the questions and I felt like we needed to throw a couple questions that he
hadn't heard but I can Ray if you want to talk about budget um you're welcome to address that I can give you an opportunity to talk about I think the question that I asked was um uh not that one no you asked a
question about budget was it me or you Jeff it was me it was Jeff Jeff asked a question about budgeting um do you remember what it was exactly I found it what experience you have with budgeting and financial management including preparing budgets
tracking expenses and managing procurement I don't have too much experience in doing it but I have been dabbing in it a little bit uh been getting support from the proper staff that is educating
me on doing it the the proper ways of doing it honestly doing you working with rainy I know rainy not the best and honestly it's been a big help and it's very nice to be enlightened on the proper way to do it but I don't have
much but I'm willing to put my 110% into it because everything I pretty much do I make sure that it's done right how do you price AG thank you um did you were there was there
anything else that we touched upon that I think other than that I think we're good we're good yeah all right everyone enjoy your evening thank you very much all right um so I think that we can close we're
good oh you you love to throw that there all right all Department expenditure Port mine's sideways so that's GNA confuse not your I'm just gonna do this I don't have a so I can't send it to you that's okay um so it is almost March 1st
so we should be about 60 lat turn your computer side turn your computer sideways I could how I scroll down here listen use this do you have youread and use that no it's kill Tre anyone really recycle they take all
of our that's Mary's though she wants it back all right 67% is what I'm looking for where you just going through so I'm going through I'm looking at the
yeah oh wait a minute percentage these are all 60s we 75% no that's 62 never mind we had to move some money right um
739 45 most things look under Town Council is like right oh no never mind let say zero I can't see anything anymore get old about
um no but we signed warrants why are you concerned about that well no I was just wondering why we didn't talk about here's 83 that's Cemetery elections is at 72 this is single sided why this is why
are we printing single sided who did this I don't know but it's awesome instead of having to slip back in for 78% oh that's the ambulance can you shut the door so we can hear I why they got to stand up talk there you
go 105 where's the snow and ice room oh yeah 112 for yeah we knew that for the other you want I want well mine's 31 31 30 um and then the salaries is high because
of the storm um rainy did tell me that that was coming uh Cemetery dude 78 it's over you
want one I'm looking at the overall Total Line okay but yeah the send I don't know the stien for Board of Health is at 114 so we've over paid so we can't pay
anym to C to Board of Health isn't that just something oh she she explains that every time she um 70 she uses that those accounts because then the I mean the health
secretary is only at 30 and the station the attendance are at 40 so there's room within the account but that one is over you want to find her it could be reclassed maybe it came out of the wrong account and need to be reclassed into
one of the accounts that's lower yeah if we just let let her know so she can take a look at it now we're getting into stuff we don't all right I think it looks good see anything other than a couple
there thanks for that novel all right are we good call it all right meeting's GNA oh did you need something no are you sure oh I just coming back in I thought you guys were going to keep going oh oh you missed the exciting expense report um
all right meeting jours at 656 uh we will be in we're still being recorded a couple times this awesome respons Angelica okay you up okay any