I meeting as Vice chair of uh eom s board so call the meeting to order at 6:m um first item on the agenda is to vote to approve the minutes of February 18th 2025 those look good to me do a very
great job so move to approve the minutes second all in favor all right okay uh warrants uh accounts payable warrant in the amount of $7,810
72 payroll warrant $147,000 9 $147,900 so I move to approve the um warrants I well second those are really hard to read online it's so much easier person but second
yeah they're fine um meetings intended by select board members Chris uh well we both were at the um public form for the street
lights um I don't believe I had another meeting outside of that yeah and that got a nice write up in the uh recorder too thank you recorder for covering Public public business I always love to see like the town represented in local media um
public comments anyone here for public comments I don't think so unfinished business I don't believe all right so um new business
discuss and vote to sign the caucus warrant uh request to put planning board vacancy on the ballot request concerning early and mail and voting um by Our Town Clerk and board of Bri St us so on the town caucus I just want to
make sure I'm correct on this statement is that previously at the actual caucus you could get enough signatures um to have your name added
now it's not being done at physically at the caucus correct I don't know that that's changed let me go see if Lor's here still yeah yep well I could hear him come answer our question sorry Y
what was so at the caucus yep I believe last year we started it to where um you know before you could get the signatures physically at the caucus but I think now we're asking that the signatures be on signed signed in on on
paper correct on the nomination papers for correct um not necessarily I mean nominations are papers are available if somebody wants to go that route there still will be a caucus if we
have a quorum we will continue the way we always do if we don't have a quorum then I will be handing nomination papers to everybody else and saying here you go so would this effectively make my understanding was like like we had to have a town or that was the only way the
only way we can eliminate the caucus is a town meeting vote so so we will still have a caucus but we can still like you can always do nomination papers okay all right even yeah with or without you can always do nomination papers so um is this about
one of my thingies or something totally different um no this is what's on the agenda oh sign the caucus warrant oh yeah yeah yeah the okay that's where the question came in yeah because before I can have a caucus I have to post a warrant and a request concerning early in mail and voting for Town
cler yeah and there was one other and that was to place a um vacancy caused by a failed election last year on the ballot is that for planning board y yeah okay yep so those were my three things but yes Chris we will have a caucus yes nominations papers are available now and
they'll be available then and you can get on the ballot either way oh great thank you Lori okay should I stay while you talk about the other things I think we're good just in case unless there's um okay next is
uh discussing about an MVP oh we we still have to vote yeah you still got oh we do have to vote okay all right but Lori doesn't have to say for that so okay y you don't have to vote on the warrant so I'll make a motion to uh sign the caucus warrant while also requesting to put the planning board vacancy on the
ballot and request or and early in mid mailin voting per town clerk in person registers mail and voting is mandatory iners voting is by vote is by vote of the select board so it's the in early voting I I I put that wrong Chris so
it's early inperson voting three days prior to the election oh I said both early and mail yeah mail's mandatory okay all right so per Lor's memo the board of registers voted to recommend to the select board that we conduct three days of inperson early voting June 9th
10th and 11th during regular business hours of the couns are be held here at Town Hall um so uh so moved
perfect okay I'll second all in favor I I okay so that pass sign okay perfect yeah not a problem Chris feel better everyone have a good night thank
you um okay very neat discuss and vote on MVP FY 26 application and of course I didn't actually print it out for myself um we can move move on to that's okay no so it's
um well everybody got emailed it so I can just look it up on an email but um what this is is the your new authorization form it would be for for roughly $300,000 for the MVP FY 26 Grant
application which would be to get design and permitting for lowering the flood plane north of covered bridge design and permitting for um replacing the Culvert on Main Poland with the streams standard crossing bridge and actually today I
just found out we can add to this application um to get some funding to help the planning board with their River Corridor work um so we'll include that in there um so that's really all was you know what I'm just saying I feel free to
print that's why design I mean um so we are going to reach out to land owners who would be involved with the low of the right and I I think I sent you all a
map those are the two um that Nick Miller put together that shows I think it was in pink on the map I know Chris has seen it before it outlines all the different homeowners and also the flood plane where they're interested in lowering the flood plane so the the
group had asked that the select board be the um uh the authority to ask the land owners if they were interested in participating in supporting that project and then there was a second Grant authorization which came up really
quickly which I can do now or I can do it on my ta update let's do it on the TA since this one's a vote yeah um so I'll make a motion to vote for the MVP fiscal year 26 Grand application uh
second all favor I I and I guess uh Erica you and I live closest to those residents so we'll probably be making some door calls yeah we're on the Flor plane
okay um okay votes to appoint John peler P prob I not saying that right right John peler P here P here as Frankton County Technical School rep for a term ending um June 30th 2026 so I I do need to let you know this
was a mistake on my part but we did the appointment in 2023 um it was supposed to be for a three-year term and I had it down for a one-year term so this is really John's happy to keep serving he's been serving and the Franklin school has him down is
being appointed through 2026 so we're just making it official okay all right so I move to um appoint John peler as our Franklin County Technical School rep for the term ending uh June 30th 2026
second all in favor I okay so joint meeting with the finance committee in 20 minutes are we able to are we allowed to yeah yeah yeah yes I call the finance committee Comm order with the honorable select
board I make a motion to approve the meeting minutes of the February 18th finance committee meeting second all in favor I thank you all right so we're reviewing highway highway um yeah Highway departments actually it's up to you which ones you
start with there's public buildings the highway and then snow and ice but there's also a request from the sustainability committee that they actually get a line item budget this year which they you know they're very new committee so they don't have one you
know like open space and conomon planning board and all that oh okay yeah request for new budget I see that yeah okay yeah I couldn't put a number down because we don't have one it would be something in the 170s I think yeah okay they requested $400 that's
yeah yeah yeah so if you guys want to um all right let's start with 192 because it's the first the agenda go love [Music]
it good evening every uh 192 Building Maintenance building and grounds um it's the same budget as last year no reason to up anything at this way this year's
been going um barque FY 24 that can't be accurate expended of 19367 she shouldn't have expended on them okay well it is actually accurate because I went through them yeah as 24
did not get only $199,000 SP I mean that's like only 19 oh that one's wrong I'm sorry I thought you meant the ti by 25 no yep you know what I didn't go back through all these spreadsheets and fix what I didn't do last year so I
apologize I will fix [Music] that so there's no same as last year there's no change to the budget okay we're not expecting electrical rates to go with the grounds maintenance
were we kind of able to offset the higher cost by not having it mode as often uh actually what happened was we ended up with a different contractor um that came in a lot cheaper
than the last one but unfortunately I've had concerns of um how things were I've had complaints from residents about how it was done and so we're trying to work that out for
this year's budget um this year's coming year see unfortunately the mowing season is part in two the year the yearly is in two different budgets so it's difficult to um plan but
we was able to work through it last year with the c that we did um hopefully we can get that issue straightened out and hopefully it's not going to be a big impact on the budget
but I don't you know all this stuff is so hard because it's all like electric right now this last month's electric bill had a huge increase from what last month was or what it had been um at this
point I'm still confident that we're okay with what we have budgeted same with um fuel um propane we're we're adding more stuff all the time to the propane and
um once that new building goes in gets finished and we start heating that with propane it's going to make probably a considerable difference in my budget but I don't know how to account for it so hopefully we can just if we get in
trouble towards the end of the next fiscal year we can hope so this doesn't take into account anticipated costs from heating the new highway or the new public safety building no okay uh cuz for one I don't
know when that's going to go online right um do we think it might be in the next fiscal like before the next fiscal year like can't answer that we just okay all I we're too far out right now to make that
call um I mean we are still heating it with oil right now so I mean there is that difference between Oil and Propane that um are right now propane's more expensive than oil no is the is this is the heating oil
that would heat the the the old older facility yes so okay and so you're going to switch the whole thing Bo buildings over to we propane the garage and the and the office yes so the only building that the
town will be heating with oil would be the association building and they're talking of maybe converting to propane on that too further questions no thank you let's hope your
forecast for energy price is exactly you have a new career if you are have a new career as an energy work I don't know things are tough I'm certain any any questions on that no no
to move forward thank you thank you I would say it would be help expain yeah as you can see the fy2 24 is wrong on this too obviously so yeah we've no fig that we've had this problem repeatedly now yeah over the
last few weeks where we don't have reliable numbers for 202 for 24 yeah and that makes it really difficult for us to view this in context okay I I'm sorry I was going through all the 25s because I didn't have the 25s up to date so I
forgot to go back and do all the think Mike Cella just sent out the expenditures right earlier today or yesterday was yes through February 28th I wasn't going to go through and update all again and again and again the 24s are done right they're completely done
24s are no problem for me to get in there and get yeah it's just a matter of well as far as my budgets go for fiscal year 24 they were relatively right on the money okay I mean it was a few dollars but pretty close to
[Music] being for all my budgets except for um what was the reason even s so You' gone down where's the $10,000 saing well if you all right first off
let's start with payroll yeah there's a huge increase in my payroll request2 422 because you have more employees now because we the SEL select
board raised the hour rate of the CDL Drivers right with the anticipation of being able to hire the fourth person for next fiscal year MH okay so
that raised that um up and actually that number is wrong no she corrected it okay 320 320 320 because we had
also another increase because of a mechanic position they got increased so when I originally did my budget that wasn't in there um so yes my salary budget is up
considerable as far as my operating budget uh I raised my rentals 10 grand so up to 25,000 CU of the equipment were anticipating having to rent to take
up some of this slack of some of the equipment if like what specific pieces do you think you're going to have to rent loaders loaders my loaders are aging um the greater I know we're probably
going to end up having to rent more I have the last couple years rented when I can find it um but we got a lot of work to do with storm damage that we're trying to we do have a
chunk of money in there which if you look uh contracted Services that's staying the same that's for things like um when we do any kind of Paving or reclaiming that we do outside of chapter
90 um line painting guard repairs and stuff like that comes out of Contracting Services now materials last year this year it's 150,000 I've downed it to 75,000 only because we still are working
off the flood money MH and so a lot of that money is being used for what we would you know for repairing our roads mhm um so I was able to um confidently be able to lower that dollar
amount not having a effect on our budget I mean on our what we get done um plus we also have like um we have been a mass Works Grant so
there's a lot of work that we're going to be doing with that money which would have come out of my operating budget if we had M um so I lowered that down to what I feel is a comfortable number but that's
number is going to go back up in coming years yeah yeah are we are we tracking now everything that's against the uh the blood money yes are there any materials that we've like pre purchased that we just kind of like stockpiled with that money or
you're just like because that's such a significant decrease is that just because 90% of what gets spent is on gravel M and because of the flood money being that we
have to rebuild our dirt roads that's right significant there but the also materials covers like catch basins and things like that repairs that would get to do to them kind of things and other kind of materials on so not
that we've like stockpiled materials we just know that like we can pay for materials out of another source corre yes is the U I'm going to go back to the flood money is that something that Mike reports to us on
monthly get spent yes does it show up under the expense is there is is there separate account so it wouldn't be part of the operating budget so no it's not part of No it's it's a special account so the special revenue account or something that in those series of reports which Michael sends out yes
every okay all right okay and we're this is not just materials it's also payroll some salary payroll um rentals all kind of stuff that we yeah fuel staying the
same office supplies same other supplies which is like tooling tools and uh supplies for the shop that stay in the same maintenance and repairs stay in the
same uniforms stay in the same you know other increase was um in new equipment and that's only because cost of stuff it just keeps going up you know for small items well your bottom line has gone
down but it would be really helpful barque to see like the actual FY 25 which I guess we we don't know yet because we're not done but but I don't know like that is that is accurate as of December 31st fy2 it's the FY
24 um that I have oops sorry it's awkward move these things a lot this is the one that isn't up to date yeah it would just be that would be helpful I think to see a closer approximation so so r on under the the
salary the 85,000 the increase 79 to 85 what what is that that's my salary that I included 100 hours of overtime into my salary to cover for winter
time um oh I see okay so the that's for obviously for next winter yes so um stop I mean this has been going round and round this Winter's been a little little long so your overtime is part of
that salary line not rather than getting paid an hourly rate you've asked for a salary increase to to this is yeah well the idea was a stien correct for winter over overtime hours oh is that what
this oh it's over here in it says stip into of 6,000 for winter that yeah that's what I put in it it's completely but then then down on line 25 you have a 79,000 current salary plus
100 so here's what the difference is yeah so it's a $6,000 no well I put that in my budget oh yeah she put the stien in on the side so it's her verus yeah I mean I honestly I don't really okay
we're just trying to you know understand everything that's on understand I understand there not here oh yeah it kind of made more sense to me since it was for winter work that it would actually go on the snow and ice budget rather than but that's completely up
to however board and finance yeah okay but you put it on this budget for now no I did not I did okay she suggested doing a stien for the winter and Ice okay so you don't have that extra 6,000 on the no we do no it's not you don't have it
on the snow and ice no not in the snow and ice we're on Highway yeah right no yeah no so we would be like one place or the other it's not going to Great okay all right right but that's a discussion for you Al right
sorry does this you have a contract right you don't you you do Straight Sal that's it okay so stipend would mean you don't take out withholdings as opposed to payroll does no they take out with Holdings so so it's somewhat semantics then in terms of
it's overtime pay or a stien correct um semantics not really because our Town Council has said we can't pay overtime for exam positions yes yeah that makes sense but but you could have a contract with Ron that said his salary
included his aund you know up to 100 hours of yeah you know time Beyond his normal hour there is a contract right now that's what I'm saying you could have a contract because otherwise if you just throw it on the salary it's it's the
base pay of of of Ron and then the next person that comes after Ron and all that right so it just becomes part it's it's not codified anywhere that this is that this is also to include this this extra time for for snow removal or winter
plowing M yeah and that's why I had suggested a start Bend instead because we don't have a contract yeah and a lot of towns don't have a contract with their Highway supervisors and typically they don't more the exception in the rule
mhm also say true yeah yeah okay thank you are there any further questions comments on the uh operating budget number two 422 Highway okay I didn't understand the
materials is cut 50% for 26 yeah because of a grant there was a grant that from Storm mediation D you still have access to that okay that's a statement so John just to let you know I just went through the
ones that Mike just sent us today the 22 and it's special Revenue fund 475 2023 flood emergency expenses okay where he has everything laid out yeah I'm not getting those I don't think oh I used to get them but um okay I have I'm not
getting them from Mike anymore Mike sent them out that out was sent out last week today Mike sent out the regular expenditures no it has the special Revenue oh it does today yeah that he sent out today so I'll make sure that Mike has add me to the distribution list
again yes yes sorry about that it's fun reading yeah but when you have a question should they have oh yeah all the details of there I just like some clarification on the
equipment so what's the EXP the line line for new equipment what does that entail that is we do um attachments uh chainsaws any of our small
equipment um anything like that it's and then the the the rent the rentals because I'm asking cuz you know I'm on the capital Improvement also but
you know we've done a lot of purchases recently um one being a loader I know a loader is needed a tractor's needed excavator needed I would assume that it's just the frequency of use because like you said the repairs all the immens of amount of repairs that are being done
because of the damage is that correct the damage um just the from the all the flooding and you know still still working all that yeah well a lot of that because the
equipment has been used a lot more than what we would have been I mean plus once we get a full staff things are actually going to be um used more too so but the rental part of it is
like two our big the new loading you're just talking about is just the small loader that the compact loader that took the place of our skid steer loader but we still have two large loaders that
are very important to our what we do and we having issues with we have this winter and if we go down with the if one of them goes down then we have
to have some way of continuing our operation so um yeah I just want to make sure that the replacements we're looking at on any warrant um are those let me first say I
know the grer is an issue obviously the greater it needs to be rented for now but outside of that I just want to make sure the equipment that we're having to rent if there's that that equipment we that's inhouse and the reason we need to
rent it is are are one of the four pieces we're asking for coming up one of them yes the okay I'm not anticipating well I shouldn't say cuz like our little Kabota
tractor which is one of the items that we're looking to replace this year it's a 2019 that's 1,200 hours on it which doesn't seem like a lot to probably a lot of people but the way we use it how it's
used is used very hard all the time um and right now this last snowstorm with a snowblower trying to it has an issue with the Hydraulics which is one of the reasons why I'd like to replace sooner than
later is so because it makes it difficult to get things done I've already spent 3 days this last weekend trying to get the sidewalks clean but some of it it's because the machine's not doing exactly what it's supposed to do
um so I have to work with that to I mean it's not like I could stop and take and have the machine sent to the repair shop to figure out what's wrong with it because nothing's getting done in the meantime um that's some of the reason
why replacing them in a timely manner here makes all kinds of sense and it's actually probably cheaper because of what we get back in return for you know CU it's not that old of a machine but it
does it's valuable for us to have something that functions the way it's supposed to all the time but yes the loader the big loader one of them is I've asked to replace it is 10 years old has 5,000 hours on it um
and I'm anticipating having trouble more trouble with it than we've already had this winter and if that happens then I'm going to have to rent one to take its place so I figured that into my budget I I don't know what's going to
happen with replacements do we have a a replacement schedule for all of the Capital Equipment I did I don't know what how that's been going I'm sorry was that question for me yes well you you're the rep for the you
know Capital committee so Roy's there too oh yeah Roy's here too Roy you're right next to me do we have a schedule for Capital Equipment replacement yeah but not so much for this little stuff yeah I was going to say like like chainsaws like small I don't think
that's I don't think that he was talking about the the sidewalk yeah like one thing I threshold for and he's talking about the big loader which is 10 years old yeah it hasn't been follow followed because uh
whenever the budget is deemed to be potentially uh mhm too too great it's an easy thing to reduce the budget and just push it down Kick the Can down the road if you will of course it may up the uh
repair line item uh you know of an actual expenditure uh John this is a a this is not a problem that has gone unnoticed or there have been many attempts to try and deal with it but
it's one of those items that I think in in retrospect it's always going to be like that you're never going to be following this thing to the letter because things come up State advises that uh the money's just not coming in
we have to make adjustments and that's just how it is but uh there is you know there's yeah I mean we have year to replace dates based on you know what Ron divided mhm
um but you know it it's whatever passes a warrant at the same time you know that's what's the the town votes going to dictate um if a replacement can happen we do have dates um after this
year the next thing I see needing replaced is the John dear tractor in 2028 so we would have at least one year long all [Music] maybe
but yeah in that uh tracker I filled out there are dates on there there's a column saying year to replace and it has dates in there well also this budget has decreased by $110,000 from previous years
so but it won't be this way next year right but be honest with you right now this is only because of the money that we have gotten from the state that is allowing this to happen so ver what do this line This
underne equipment that's got nothing attached to it sorry it's total expenses so it's you know it's broken out salaries expenses and then the total yeah [Music] sorry any further questions
[Music] rough year for snow and ice I'm just submitting a level funders budget for that um I guess it some would depend a little bit on whether theing is included in
this mhm so refresh my memory how this works we're supposed to the stable reimburse us for anything that we spent over our budget no no no no no this I'm sorry we still have to pay for it yeah but this
is the only budget that we are actually allowed to go into a deficit because it's so un predictable what so we can overspend but we have to make up the differ we can overspend um and the the other thing that I've been told is that you you really don't want to put in too
big a budget because you can't go backwards right you can't you're obligated for the following year to put the same amount at least if you go backwards then you can't overend but if you overspend does that affect the budget
for next year it doesn't so yeah so that's not what you budget your incentivized to keep the budget as small as possible and then overspend so you're not Force to budget more than you need to and it's better off not to over budget I mean it's
better off not to overspend your budget because that makes a hardship for the town yeah right because now You' allocated These funds that may or may not be used has to come from then they go into free cash if they don't get used no it's the other way though Reserve if
we overspend then we got to find where the town's going to find the money to make well that's also true right yeah you try to do as much as close the balance yeah would you would have to come from leev appropriate no but okay it's already
done for the current here good F so if it's overspent and how is it uh balanced out at the end of the fiscal year we haven't done it yet but my guess would be you're going to know by town meeting yeah whether you expended unless we have a
June snowstorm but you could do a line item right to you could do yes a warrant a lot of towns like when they overspend they do a special town meeting yeah to um pay for that over but it
comes from property taxes pretty much yeah okay or somewhere I mean it it could come from any Source but it would it would be article of some kind private donation yeah C stabilization F could if the town votes
23 I guess it could that's generally frowned upon right CU it's an operating budget you shouldn't use stabilization funds but I guess you could maybe you can borrow against it temporarily and replace it well I just confuse this to how it gets you're in the fiscal year
you overspend in the fiscal year how do you balance it in the fiscal year and not from the F from the next fiscal year yeah well because you could some towns don't like to do it but they attach to
the following fiscal year that expense okay but I'm saying you could have a special town meeting you know in no it has to be done at town meeting to do that right but so it's something we could put on the town meeting warrant just like to correct Pay It Forward
because I was just yeah okay so it's it's the following year I've got zero out yeah soon we our Prett uh yeah I guess we could also temporarily float it we Nots since I've been
because let's say we know by April 20th and somehow it makes it into the warrant as a warrant article we're going to vote on it if it were this year June 7th yes so it would still be in our fiscal year yes that we zero out the books yeah yeah
we have to no that wouldn't work because unless it came from a source that was already the town already had the money cuz you're asking for fiscal year 25 or 26 money to be spent they can't spend it
before the beginning of the fiscal year oh oh I um no but a special warrant article you can use immediately it has to come from somewhere right but if it came from free cash yes yes that's what I'm saying a source that you the The Source yeah in other words that money is
already been expended so is that how we could set up like a special Revenue fund just to put like stock money away for this I mean if like I'd have to ask M I don't know I don't know if any towns that do I it wouldn't be we' since I've
been here we've never over expended could be a significant source of free cash oh well this the find a temporarily but it comes from living it appropriate well but I'm saying if it's not spent right yeah it's going to be in
the journ D saying is that if the snow and ice is not spent yet goes to free cash course free cash yeah it's not free that's it we pay for it yeah it's basically Liv
appropriate for free free watch call a slush one that's a good one uh Ron in terms of the uh hourly wages for this year are you um anticipating since you have you have has really been
fully staffed right correct this year so you should have some overages flowing flowing back in town in that that account line you mean in in fy2 but in Highway in Highway yes sorry
yes on the um on my not not 423 422 you're talking about 422 yes yes okay yeah uh yes and there is probably a good chance that I'll be asking to move them funds
again I'm hoping that after this year we can now with our pay scale and stuff that we can have enough people to use the payroll budget right sir we're budgeted for four and you're at three right now is that
correct well we were budgeted for four at a much lesser rate oh okay and now we've raised the hourly ra mhm and I agreed not to try to find the fourth person until okay until after Tom
meeting oh so we're in the new new fisc when this this budget gets voted in okay then I can move forward with finding the fourth CDL portion okay great y any further questions comments from
finance [Music] committee thank you um did you want to yeah you want to have discussion this involve the highway department but there were supposed to be you wanted to mention something about DLS in your email Department of local services oh
that that was not necessarily from for here but yes so the DLS sent me that 5-year Financial forecast it's supposed to be a 5year look back in five years and and you know I haven't had a chance to go through it all myself but I just thought in terms
of um you know once I get my fy2 24 expended properly in here it will help us with the bigger picture of this year's budget when you're looking at for gas oh is this something which is just we don't have to submit it's just a recommended best practice that the DLS
is this is yeah something that DLS recommended that we do and then they ended up filling in most of the information for me so that huge spreadsheet I said to you that's got like 20 tabs at the bottom and it's you know it's quite involved um but that to me I think
that's really more a finance committee um and accountant and and treasur you know looking at it and kind of trying to say well will this predict at all where things are going in the future will it help us who knows so it's extrapolated
from from historic data that from the finance dashboard of the Department of Revenue division of local Services yes all right so it's based on a bunch of assumptions that life will continue along as it was in the past
gotcha thank you um now you all weren't I'm sorry were was everybody done with the spreadsheet is that um one last question did you want to go into sustainability that's what I was going to ask is if is is is that what you were going to yeah yeah I just wanted to ask if you all um
are willing for me to put that into the Omnibus for next time just to add an end yeah what's is a 400 just sort of general costs right right maybe it's not stiens it's not right no stiens it was just like for maybe training maybe some postage you know just sort of the
generic advertising that kind of stuff yeah and it's pretty typical with you know forest and trails and a couple of the others that just have a nominal budget okay so okay thank you I will add that in next time is that it for finance did we do
yeah that's it all right Mo tojn second all right thank you all right thank you thank you financee you're welcome we have a big crowd here tonight a big bug we all passed their
ethic exams too well that's good news yeah okay all right items not anticipated 48 hours in advance I got nothing Chris
all right town okay Town Administrator update Barnie can you sent that to us yes um so just the Highlight just the Highlight right well I kept the grant updates in there just because it seemed to me that once I put them all in there you might want to just keep track every
week of where things are at yeah and there's a 10th one that I need to get your approval for um because I had only just found out about it well it only just came out this
is um through um us rep governs um it's potential for him to put it forward as an earmark for our community they're very highly competitive you can we put forward 15 um but it did occur to me when this and
it's due March 7th it did occur to me when this came up that we could um put in for uh new fire fper truck because that's one of our biggest upcoming so I'm sorry here's
the and hopefully I emailed that to you Chris I can't remember if I got that Emil or not but um so it is highly competitive um I know this is how one of the local towns recently got their fire truck paid for
you have to put in a match and since we already have we have over 300,000 we could easily do a 25% match which is what's required for Rural towns under population under 5,000 and then I asked them um well can we put in for more than one and we can
so I I thought well I'll just throw in for the greater as well because that's our ni second highest there's no guarantee we won't get both of them and there's no guarantee we'll get anything but I figured we should at least give it a shot so I I can have that paperwork
filled out this week get it done so um that sounds great because yeah I mean we know that we need a new pumper and we've been putting the money away but if there's any way that we can offset the cost of that that would be amazing I did sit down and chat with
Chief Baker about this and I actually put in a little bit more than he was I put in 700 instead of 600 only because we only have to do a 25% match so I figured and that builds in a little bit extra just in case so um anyway um you have the oh the other
thing I did want to want to um mention is about the um tax workof program one of our participants would like to switch over to working on I think I forwarded you a number of weeks ago signs that had been put together by
the agricultural commission right to farm community signs with the chicken and all yeah um so this person would like to continue that work and just kind of see that project through to the end because it basically got dropped when the commission disbanded sort of suddenly so
if the select board approves what I'd like to do is have um them come in and just discuss with you there there would be certain things that the board would need to decide the size of the signs where they'd be placed what would actually be on the signs because there's a number of different
possibilities so if that good with you then we could set up um at a future meeting for her to come in and talk to you I'm fine with that I would definitely like to see a scope of work like what exactly that because in my mind that was kind of
already like the sign was designed we just you know didn't decide on what that was going to look like and yeah yeah she like to see a scope of work oh you mean for her for for what this person is going to do that's going to you know provide some value to the town
sure does that work for you Chris I can have her come into a future meeting yes it yes it does okay great thanks okay select board member comments concerns uh on the TA update the waste
management about fixing that fence I mean they've hit that thing how many times yes yes um S I just don't know how I feel about them being all I don't want a wonky fence up there just cu cuz they don't want to pay to replace it I I apologize that that came in I had that
update before Jan then um texted me to say that they're going to do that for now they can Cobble it together for now but she's going to put it through on insurance so I need to get a quote or two for replacement okay great thank you so the
fix are going to do is going to be a temporary fix yeah just to make sure it's and then when the ground is yeah so I have to get um I guess I had to do it I guess I have to get a couple of quotes for um replacing the fence so thank you for bringing that up
Chris that's all I had Erica okay uh mail no mail um announcements anyone announcements okay next meeting March 3rd 2025 here and on Zoom um yes but I
should remind you that the eversource poll hearing is first and then the regular meeting yes so we do have yeah there's a eversource poll hearing um shortly before the March 3rd uh select board meeting and all of that information is
available on the town website um okay so uh no extra business I make a motion to adjourn second all in favor all okay all right thank you Chris I hope
you feel better you yeah feel better get a good night's sleep thanks all right I hope you see you all soon okay bye bye all right