that was a few minutes No I know Okay The word for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States submit by Dr Private January
10th Before we do any of that little out of order something that would not include the agenda they'll get out of here Um we we have a little presentation
Um we've been in all going in a uh community solar program Uh we've been doing signups This is a program from the Bel Gables here going to be from the vehicle associates going to give us a little more of a presentation about exactly what this is but we had started
this a few months ago signed up plan Uh it it is we're really happy to say that so far 1,200 people in town residents in town have signed up to have
their eligibility determined Uh that's huge It's like fantastic So I'll turn it over to Bel Gable to talk to us all a little bit about what the community solar program is Thank you I'm Bel Gable Uh I work for
Gabel Associates We're the energy for the burrow Right now we're working on community solar uh wide scale So what community solar is just uh basically allowing people who are
renters but they don't have a solar system they don't have a roof to support solar energy So there would be a solar system on a warehouse somewhere mile outside of camp that are generating
cheaper solar energy For a program like this we can sign up individual pumps to receive that cheaper solar energy It's all done on the back end So there's little water service just your normal build
with minus Right now we're moving towards the next step which would be getting a developer who can tell us how much will be saving and doing a competitive procurement As part of the procurement we're asking that they show us at least
20% saving on the electricity cost which is significant and we see numbers up to 40% So I didn't see what kind of results we get but I'm glad we can bring up this over what I'm asking here today Of
course we always want more more So I want to make sure that anyone who's interested can fill out one of these forms Very important note here that it is income limited Make sure that this can have the highest possible
impact So you'll see here there's a description of a number amount in the lowest number amount in this household and also different programs But if you're on Medicine you can join this group If you are part
of you you can join So I'm going to be leaving for anyone that I'll make sure that you're included in this process
and the link can access this Any questions you can email us call us and we'll try to help you get to the right form and fill that out This is part of the last station after getting people to sign up before because it'll
help us on the procurement process to have a good feel for what that number of people that we have service get from that Right Okay All right questions all of them I guess I guess
the other thing program is it really incentivizes build out of more of these solware Yeah Anybody have any questions
so the way that that works is that it's by household So for example four people in a household with median income is below 91,000 low income If it's just one person income's below 64,000 that would
be low income That's all Your own energy bill You bring that up actually is one of our enrolles So they're higher building Exactly Yeah Yeah Okay Anybody
else okay It's all good Anybody else want to leave all right Go ahead Go ahead Go ahead Okay Yes Yes
[Music] Burlington I would ask principal up to million So let me just take this opportunity just to talk a little bit and give a little school funding update Okay
because things are very fluid changing kind of rapidly Um this is um this is leading one of the steps of the plan that we laid out a few weeks ago Um this is authorizing
$50 million in bonding that we're that we hope to be utilized for school and park um recreation facilities um is we're not borrowing this money This is simply it's authorized and whatever we
need to borrow from it We this was going to be going to be the vehicle that we utilized to get this that first year of money under the plan over to the schools
Um we were advised last week by the district that they would not need the uh 256 budget year contribution of cash from the borrow Um and he thought this was some new new guidelines issued by
the state DO related to the potential raising on behalf Um we had had some conversations today with some state officials We all had a a virtual conference with the governor's office and the DOE this afternoon um going over
some of those parameters Um I can tell you it's all just very fluid right now It's not clear exactly where everything going on it But what is clear is that there probably be a mechanism for the
school to address this budget is in the school So there's two things happening tonight One is there's not this we had specific author for payment of this funding for 25 26 years were not to do that And you'll also see where maybe the
visions in the budget are budgeted for the third time Um and that change is related to the fact that that what the school of the dial can do now is basically raise
taxes higher than what they're doing And in raising taxes more it's it's not clear how much more they're going to raise but whatever that's part of a school board meeting tomorrow night Thursday night What is
clear is that it's going to be more than a usual annual increase with 2% So what we have done on our budget is we have made adjustments to that done
some cuts move some things around so that the budget that we're the event that we're introducing this is later on a little later tonight is we'll be at a zero increase there will be no municipal
increase so to help taxpayers um kind of weather what's Okay Um whatever that might be has not cleared this capital So we adjusted the zero for this year What's going on in the school side
the school funding side of things this is simply authorizing debt for uh for recreation really intended to develop high school complexes and for the authorization the goal here is well we
don't expect this have any impact on taxpayers because it we will slot this so that it comes on permanent finance um in a couple years when we have pretty much $15
million So we can do this in a way that little or developing Okay With all that said this is the public hearing on this ordinance help If anyone has anything they'd like to bring to the commission this is the
opportunity Anybody yep [Music] Um well there's a couple different things One is we we took off a grants writer that we had in the work We t that out Um we have also just simply
reallocated um the parts of the money that we were paying over to the board to the district were some pilot monies Uh one that would be the color for recreation some of those funds are now going to go in to offset our budget flat
Um because with this program now we're we're not as likely to need accumulated so far and may well back into that but for right now the money that accumulated there we're using
that offset to pay increase this year Okay All right Any anybody else okay Mayor yes Commissioner yes Okay The first meeting will second meeting
May five meeting May 5 Okay Yes Mr 1905 recreation Well I'm happy to report this adding feeds in for
violence That's like a great intention to all maybe finally maybe um so this is first meeting Second meeting will be de May to see this happen By the way you know when There were issues a while back
with the marching band marching band talking about program but you know I think it's a good Okay
Yes Yes Yes Okay The next up is public comment on the resolution So this is public comment You can limit these comments to any items any questions comments about items that are on the rest of the agenda Um you you'll be able to meeting to talk about whatever it is
that you may want to So anybody comments on questions on the agenda okay I'll go According part time Yes Appointing Patrick Diamond as assistant
Levon Grant as fire inspector from Collinsville Yes Appointing Lane circulation reference for the public library Yes Reappoint members Megan Stern and
Meredith Pal Yes Rejecting all of the project and all to rebate Yes All advertise for the construction
engine Yes All change over one for the state transit construction Yes Yes All change number two for construction of the new home building on the building Yes followed by the change
of the number one final for the change of the number one project as authorizing the performance guarantee acceptance fund for
reservicing avenue Yes Authorizing contract with Earl Asphalt Company for the West Coation project Authorizing contract as
Yes Contract services Yes No budget Okay We we do Yeah And and this is um so so two things One is tonight would have been our public hearing on our second
amendment to the budget which was putting the money into the budget to send to the schools So if anyone wants to comment on that this is the public hearing for that but we're amending the budget to take that out of the budget now So this is our third amendment to
the budget Simply point out is the public hearing made our auditors very happy Um so anyone have any comment they would like to make about what we're not going to do about the budget okay All right Um
and yeah go ahead Yes Yes So I just want to make a point here One is just made a reference to making our auditor happy by having that hearing But our audit's been completed and our
audit's been completed and um you know our auditors happy well and our CFO is even happier because we have um no comments in our audit So for an auditor that is like getting a 100 on
the test plus five Okay So there were no comments at all in the audit We want to thank Betty Joe and congratulate her She not only is keeping us out of jail she is excelling at everything that she's doing with respect to that So he knows
that So congratulations to Ben and all of [Music] our early 195 people So the county had reached out to us some time ago like we agreed to early elections which is that there will be
voting available Saturday and Sunday before there will be days before election day 11 Friday Saturday So so we'll be early voting here Um it's not by district So wherever you are that you want to vote
on that weekend Yes OCRS right so this is related to the the former gas station at Brown Road Uh we're taking steps to acquire that property uh whether by foreclosure or by
purchase Part of the reason for doing that is to get this property um is is with the borrower taking possession of it It will make us eligible for something called a hazardous discharge site remediation fund against the SRF So
we apply to um the state um to the DP to get funding to clean up the site that'll um the the estate that owns it right now does not have to do anything with it It's just going to sit there forever and ever You will be able to go get the
funds for that clean up that site uh work to return it to use Um that's what this will apply for some state Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes we are in um we are in
wellness events weather that um there's a robust schedule of events on the website and uh I encourage everybody everyone There's physical wellness
there's mental wellness there's movement uh a couple things First of all you know our resolution we had four years ago poorly Um you know just to sort of explain change orders happen within
projects Often times when something your original plans change sometimes you find out something about public works about soil quality you have to change the change the work a little bit Um but we have them
actually So I just wanted to kind of um couple of things Congratulations to um they were the verified that Not only 350 score
and they also receive exceptional but we're also hosting studies a lot of And you know that both sides you
know everything changed We're now in the season uh or the credits will uh be doing yard So what that means is collecting on Wednesday um
we ask you to put your yard base that you are into either trash can into a brown paper bag or uh cut it up into small feet and tie it off So then that will be every every
Wednesday So we're switching to uh the spring summer dark collection and that's starting um the last day to the season uh hot and and rain without the potholes So just wanted to ask people and if you
see files sometimes you see them before we do um either email publicology.com call33 or quick update a few different uh businesses the construction is underway
at the president Presbyterian church uh at confirmed um that would really have to see that going may not be the last church that you see redevelop another church that's under contract and um but
that work is is ongoing It'll be like roughly 30 apartments four affordable units Um and we're hopeful probably in a year Um the some things since last month the water is under agreement We're not sure what plans are there yet but
they're under agreement Ocean first the development there plans again last week Um that we're looking at relative redevelopment plan to get that moving along Um couple other businesses on the island just that's all the signs of
today the uh uh they're coming in and private location and that's all the ones I can pick up and the other thing is just get rolling out tonight
program where this to get together meeting we're co-oping with the Collinswood collective um and going to be we've had some work started on the west side just some painting of some things to try to do a
little bit of public art but we're now um going to kind of try to form a partnership with the the civic collective to get them involved really following the model has a active program uh with the
community based that helps I don't want to say regulate help make sure that curly curated right that's a nice way to render it but to get the murals uh to get a program started um so hopefully next month we
have ordinance stuff in place to get that um uh I think that's it uh this is the public session anyone have anything they want to bring before the commission this is your opportunity to call your name Please
return to walk the street the right time and you get a signal for walking You I cannot walk more than three steps
before it starts cleaning Do not walk So so I can tell you this the county has plans which we can probably get up Um the county has a plan that we've just gotten pretty recently to kind of reconfigure the
crosswalks had had in common Okay And part of it would also be recalibration because there's a couple little issues that go on there because it's you know the colleagues has a funky offset Okay And so it makes it a little more
difficult Um but we can get that posted get it over also posted up on the web So it's new It's a new configuration they have I have everybody chime in about what's wrong with it right with it But um
but that's why someone looked at it now and just make sure it's not defective and something's not egregiously wrong And listen I I do the run and comfort a lot over the You
think no more in the short term and long term there is a plan to reconfigure them a little bit Okay thank you Thanks What else anybody else you receive your name and address for
the record They decide that they want to develop Another fourth amendment Yeah We're not we we'd have to get something adopted to May sometime but this would be set scheduled for
public hearing at at our May commission meeting Um so yeah we'll see see the information of where we think things are today was different than where we thought it was on third Okay So it's changed pretty
quick Okay for the test 365 matter Um so this um I have a question so based on your location is is it your understanding that they said they don't think the
money had identified healthare because they plan to just raise the tax raise our taxes to close their gap Yes Okay And do you know are you aware if they are going to put that out on a
referendum or they're just going to put some back into the computer i I I don't expect it to be a referend to allow them to go above the cap without reference Yeah The timeline is they need make they
need to make application relatively quickly by Mon right by next Monday by next Monday and then decisions what what I think we gathered like out of our conversations today were that decisions by the state
department of education would be made I I think it's going to take a while for them to make decisions it's going to be tied into the state's adoption of their fun because this change in the rules is part of the
legislation in that and listen that that doesn't happen sometimes that doesn't happen till a lot but it's perfect then make sure I understand and I I realize you're just sharing your understanding and get from them to be the gospel but
so basically where we had left the last meeting uh was that our operating budget was going to go up a certain uh I thought it was $25 or something a household and the school bud like all
the money we were going to set aside in the school budget to help the school our taxes were going to go up another potentially $75 a year So roughly under $100 a health a year for help and then to secure an arrest they were going to have to go out on
a which Yes So now they don't have to go out on a referendum and they're just going to that is the way that well the email we got that's what it sounds Yes Yep And they're having meetings tomorrow and Thursday about we ask them today I
ask them today email share with us what tomorrow I don't the amount that they can ask for is not yet Yeah There's only what they ask and what they approve for they ask for and so that's
Yes Thank you Yeah Look at things in the way Hope we can continue I was I was excited um when I saw that we you know the theatric collaboration and the problem solving
I'm really disappointed now that they can just pass them and we have no say when I mean I see that they know that a referendum probably wouldn't pass anyway So like now we have no pass Well well for that issue you
know that's that's a change of the path Okay But listen the there's still plenty of room to collaborate The the money be put up like to get fields and stuff done like there's and and we want to get this task force together about facilities you know and long-term planning for the
school itself all that stuff Like still a lot of room for collaboration and like we said who knows what comes tomorrow in all of this like state how this works Okay So you're so your your thinking is
there still an intent to have a board or included uh community reserve that is certainly our plan that plan we rolled out that's still active but even if even you know in the
event right away we still have collaborative Oh yeah So I would hope that that that's all all the buds and stuff to talk about right now are only about keeping operations
It's not facilities that well they said there's a gaparily Yes Well done It won't work really I don't even know who you
want and rolling around or another long term has to do together Um there's no reason why we couldn't say so
try out a while ago we did we did a few town for I think it was when there was talk about like changing relationship with a few town forum we did it's not let's put it this way the the format of
our town forum is a little different than school board So I think that part of it was like kind of making them you know kind of gel out a little bit a little more freewheing on
us a little bit in my opinion All right Anything else anybody else okay that's about right return