that we finalize the minutes. So if if anybody has any changes, we could we could certainly repost them as final minutes.
I move to accept the June minutes as we have. I second it. All in favor? Okay. Oh, thank you. I'll be down dogs. One. One.
Ah, here she comes. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Hello. Sorry I'm late. Well, you just missed the excitement of voting to approve minutes that were already posted. So, that might your one
chance in history to to do that. So, I guess the only formal agenda item was the center school update. Um, I sent you a write up. Well, Ashley and I both sent writeups last time.
I think the you would like us to go through that verbally again, we could do it or we could tell you what's happened since, which I guess is the fact that the survey was posted in the scoop or mailed
in the scoop and is available online. Yeah, this is the survey for the town to give us your feedback. I gather responses have been slow. So if anybody has any ideas about it, it struck me as the same survey that I'd
seen before somehow. You know, similar. It's it's a lot the same. Yeah. We thought that one it had been seven years and there were a lot of new people in people's circles. Oh, really? Had it been that long?
Yeah. It just doesn't seem like it, but it was. No, it can't have been that long. six. Anyway, it was pre- pandemic, which is the other reason we Yeah, it was well pre- pandemic, actually. I That's I'm amazed at that.
I know. I was too. Or maybe I'm thinking of some other reference, you know, where ideas like coffee shops and art spaces were being tossed around. Maybe I'm thinking of that more recently somehow. Yeah. Well, there was the
Yeah, there was a more recent survey not focused on the center school, but what the town needs part of the master planning process. Okay, that was just like maybe that's what I'm remembering. Yeah, probably because there were a lot of same questions in that. So, Judy, you said that it went out in
the scoop and it was posted on the town website. Yeah. Is there a way that we could ask them to put it out? I know the town runs a Facebook page. Uh yeah. Um we're I wrote to Jenny Morrison who's chair of
the committee and said we need more publicity and suggested we needed a poster, more prominence on the town website. Maybe I think the poster would be good once we have it to put on the Facebook page.
Yeah. And I'm also wondering, I don't know if um Whley Elementary sends out regular things to um parents. Do they still do the Friday for folders? Does I don't know. My kids aren't at public
school, so I don't I don't I don't actually know, but I I know that our school always sends out stuff that has like a spot for community like notes or community alerts. And I'm wondering if something like that could go in there. Just a lot of the newer people in town.
You could also ask Derkica uh Smith Judy who does the historical society Facebook page which has quite a bit of following actually. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't bother asking the library. They have zero following. I follow them.
Okay. Well, I see things with one like, zero like, you know. All right. So, so you could ask them. Yep. I think we can get hard copies in town offices in the library. Um in the church so that you get the other
end of the age spectrum. Yeah. Um and a robocall probably. Well, you I mean you sent it out in the scoop. There it is. Yeah. Has the email version of the scoop gone
out? I think so. Yeah, this being away everything I when I'm away I say okay I'll deal with that when I get back when I get back I can't find it or I forget about it or something you know it's vacations
are so the other issue which is big for the committee is that Rusty Plescro the community director administrator community development administrator has
resigned after only a couple months in office. So, oh no, we are once again rudderless, I'm afraid. he um the funding for his old position was
restored. So he was able to go back to back to that which was more in his area of preference. So but but that's too bad for for a lot of
things. But will they back will they fill that role? They're they posted it, right? Or they voted to post it. Let's put it I saw I just saw it on the on the website.
Okay. But you know, there's there's this whole finding somebody period and then breaking somebody in. And uh it was good that he came in the summer because things were kind of slow or were spring summer but they're not
now or the um the new replacement for Keith Garrett Barry is much more hands-on for
things and he has assumed that it's his responsibility to find somebody to patch the roof of the center school, which is great for the committee. And so he said he was going to Hawkins, the
slate guy. That's our slate guy, is it? Yeah, he's great. He's That's um Yeah, Mitch is great. And um I think that's good because
he will have a contractor will have more willingness I think to respond to Garrett because he brings the potential for future contracts which um a mere volunteer committee person doesn't necessarily.
So, that's all I can think of on that. Is there a budget set aside for the roof? Well, no. Um, that's a good question. The C CPA has something called the
administrative expense fund that the CPC the committee can vote to distribute without going to town meeting. It's intended for small expenses like appraisals or um
patches. Um there's $12,000 there. Um, it's that has to last us for the fiscal year of the CPC. I I think they might vote up I don't know. I suspect they vote $8,000 without any
trouble. Um, he doesn't Garrett doesn't seem to think it's going to be especially expensive, but he asked he asked for an estimate for for the tarp equivalent estimate of a patch. So,
that sounds reasonable. The right move, but the roofer has his own uh lift. So, so that saves the need to coordinate with the town hall paint job and also
the expense of renting a lift. So, so that's good. And hopefully something will happen soon. So, it's a pretty there's only one spot inside where there's significant
evidence of water. I mean it it's it's there a deadline for that survey, Judy? You're going to wait until X date and then res, you know, factor that your Well, that's I thought, you know, and I approved this the paragraph. I think
Ashley must have too. I thought we'd agreed that this the deadline was the 30th, but I didn't see that in the scoop article. So, I don't or at least it wasn't in the online article. Well, I didn't go read back and reread the scoop.
I don't I don't actually recall anymore what the date was. Although I mean that the 30th makes a lot of sense given the limited time we have for the feasibility study. So anyway, assuming it's the 30th, then
talk it up with your friends and see that everybody in your household fills it out. Okay. The other thing is I suggested to the historical society that they might want to do a a talk on with a panel on center
school on this what it was like to be taught in the center school and there it was functional till 91. So there are a lot of people in town who went there and maybe do there's there's an interesting
page in Ena Kane's book from one of the old teachers that's fascinating to read and um and historical society thought that was more in the center
committees the feasibility committee's purview or the center school committee But they did think that they might be willing to co-sponsor. So, so that might be something to I think that's good marketing if we need community support behind whatever it is we
Yeah. to do. Yeah. Keep remind people of the traditions there and what it was what it was like. So, that's all I can think of on that. Are we going to talk about the um
website link that you sent the um We can do that. I wanted to make sure nobody else had anything urgent unurgent. Well, so I sent a a link to the page on on how
to research your house history that that this group put together. I don't remember 2016 was that it 2018 I think. Um seven years old. Yeah. And I don't know whether
it's worth revisiting doing again. It seems like there might be m putting a scoop article in the scoop to point out that it's there. Um I mean I don't think any of this
information has radically changed. I will say I was going looking at the resource guide which is the the PDF. Yeah. and at least one of the links no longer works. So, it might just need like a
a review to make sure everything is functioning and stuff. Um, but I mean, we always have people moving to town. I think that it's a good resource to point out. I went through the slides and they were clearer than I had remembered them to be
as I made them. But um so they're if you take the time to look that they're really pretty good especially the macros part um you know how to how to deal with that website but
so we should any other thoughts did any did everybody had have a chance to look so maybe we should Yeah I looked at it you know it it looked like uh 60 people had looked at it in seven years, you know, but
uh it's there if someone can find it. Yeah. Well, that's you know, and the basic the basic components of it still seem relevant to me. Macris, maps, finding a grave.
Um Fred plays a major role. So I don't we can certainly check the links maybe included in the letters about when people buy an old house. Um.
Mhm. Do we have the um like an editable version of that PDF anywhere? I can edit it if it's not like it's well it's a PDF so you can't you would need like a the word
the original word document or whatever word processing software was used for. I can edit a PDF on with my Adobe. So, oh, I don't have fancy Adobe, but I'm happy to flag anything that I have to go through and flag stuff.
Well, I have the PowerPoint for the Well, not the resource page. Actually, Donna did that. I think Donna did. Well, I can edit the PDF. eration guide.
Anything else? It's a really exciting committee lately. Maybe no news is good news. I don't know. That's my general attitude these days. Yeah. Um, okay. Well, next meeting.
Next meeting is October 20th. I may not be around then. Is that Columbus Day weekend? No, that's the weekend before. The 20th. Columbus Day is the weekend before. Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. I still may not. Well, if we need to change it, you can meet without me. We have no more cintillating issues. Okay, let's leave it at the 20th. And if we have to close up the Cape Cottage at
some point, and it's usually that week around there. So, October 20th 5:' And if we have to move, we'll move it. Yep. Okay.
Well, thank you all. Get out and enjoy this beautiful day. So pretty out there. Nice to see you guys. Okay. You, too. Take care, everybody.