okay for the meeting of the educational fund trustees Thursday February 13 2025 at 7 pm in Room 101 709 okay hope be short meeting um you
guys want to reorganize no no you don't have to you don't have to does this come up every year usually every year you want to be the two no he should know the answer by now
usually came out the bu supposed to have a new member every year but the way it's working out it's not that way like you and I are together right yes these guys get together yeah 2026 so they're up next year you and I
are up 2027 oh 27 it should be one every year that's the way years yeah but I don't that messed up the way it is yeah know I don't know you're supposed to have a new person every year well no
you're supposed to reorganize yeah vote to see because we've done that each year oh I nominate him to be the chair nominate nom objected Byer we have we have a nomination for me to be chairman we have a second any
discussion no we okay all those in favor I a Tim yeah again I don't know long I'm doing any I'm gonna retire two years just yeah
what I'll get reected or reappointed yeah I'm I'm I'm running out of time three years 20 years I've been teaching Sunday School L
Church St J this could be my SW on to I'm doing two classes eth and 10th grade and don't mind wait what you teach you English what high school high school I School better Middle School got be worse right
oh yeah I have I have one at my house and when we when we did student teaching everybody had to go to the bridgew middle school student teach did twice junior year went to the middle school
and you had to teach every subject I had math social study science but you whatever you major was you TR for the whole 10 weeks English for but every two week you rotated among each others so there I had seventh grade science sixth grade math eighth grade social study
like that that was only time I ever dealt with Junior High and uh sounds like a lot of extra work yeah oh it's St hey I walked into the social studies class the teacher sitting there I said I'm your a you know student teacher
can't see the book he says they're on chapter eight and leaves there's no way I would I would Cel any of my kids teachers Miss Sur way and they had every week they would have meetings patients with the mentor teaches yeah
and they go around the room talk about each one kind of like give you tips and talk about and when I had a six grade math class and the math instructor said Mr Val runs a type ship that was like old
schol need more of that six grade fun anyways so what's that thing we got look at the minutes we look at the minut you guys look through them okay this is from this is when
we application right meeting that we yeah yeah how did the W go great yeah your no not that night my daugh
was yeah yeah but it was nice a lot of her friends were there and that was just yeah when you first one when you went there when your daughter was there you came with me yeah was that my I think that was my second year you
sure I didn't do it last did that go right yeah oh yeah she's a sen Caroline's daughter Kay Caroline's daughter oh what a nice kid well I'll forget
super every time I go Toof shop I see kids checking up they you in high school and I tell them L heard it you live in kst yeah you did that to my kids because they worked at big and they told me really I tell all young kids if they
look like they're in high school I talk to them about really well I'm a junior but my sister's here something like that they say I'm trying to promote it all the time coach and I told them they
I you wonder why WR with you I don't know it's the best award it's the best it's pretty much the best award that's granted that isn't it besides there's one now that's 10
it's a woman older woman I think there was one even higher than that was like 40,000 a full of a lot because we were both like besides that I think jul got it but as a
but as a total we give out the most money don't we they away that sounds like a one that was a one shot deal yeah that was she was there last year Caroline couldn't believe it her own fund I think it is probably
yeah that's fantastic yeah so anyways uh I move to accept the minutes second okay move to accept the minutes we got a
second see any discuss no okay here another discussion say hi hi do we know when the [Music] is
May May 29th 29th they kind of want to be Thursday pushing pushing us to um have a decision meeting earlier oh yeah yeah well they wanted they wanted us to have
all our information on May 3d we'll get through the dates in a minute so on that this so the next one is a r the number and the amount of scholarships now we can't really do that at this right know the money we don't know the
money y but we can we don't need to be at a meeting to know that you could ask him and you could get that number from him yourself once we know they always yeah yeah so we don't need a meeting for that
any one of us could find out what the number is have him do and then once then you know you can pass on us yeah and uh me they will know yeah Def and U I
can see why they would want to know because it was like the day before I think it's because what because it's usually like in early June this year it's May 29th so it's like they moved it up yeah so maybe they're trying to move everything up they're asking for the applications to be back soon or two she
gave me the dates yeah but they need to do some paperwork too so I can see what they might want some problem whatever true I like the idea of giving the kids a little extra time because I remember and my
daughters were doing it it was all a crunch except for a couple you had some extra time on and I like that I like to have a little extra time on hour can give it to you know that might get more people in yeah if they have to do them all at once they don't necessarily you
know they might cut [Music] down must so there must be a budget issue we because um they cut our extra person in the planning office she's only working like 10 hours a week but they whatever
whatever or 20,000 I heard yeah the school with the school budget know so was the problem with school want to put school all right so um pred dominant um you know recipient
of our tax base the schools they don't value education guess um we have a so what she's saying is March 1st April 11th is the open scholarship time they want everybody to have 11 we've been usually
heing them so right yeah like usually that that we get to like the Thursday or Wednesday of that vacation week yeah let's go to the end that we can go to it's the 11 and let's go to the 11 I don't see why we
have to go why we have to abide by the 11 they want I well she would like to have the decision by May 2nd now look at the calendar U so vaction is going to be the 2th to the 25th I think right
April Vally yeah so may you know May 3rd is like May 3 is a Saturday May 1 May 1 and May 3d it's usually Thursday May 2nd so Friday she
want to Remember by Friday of May Friday so we might have to meet like in April 30th or something this year mhm to uh talk to Caroline see much she's the one who does all the
Computing well we should we should probably need 17 so may if we may at May 30 make the decision then all we all we're doing at that point is sending an email to Judy saying these are the these are the people so I think do you do that is
Caroline I usually well I think she'll put the email together and then I I send it out or something like that Char kept the list name and I send over sure or she asked me my approval we both
go back for make sure mistakes and then we send it off Caroline might send it to Judy so J will have it on on May 1 May 2nd at the latest so we can meet the deadline if we we we had an hour meeting on the 29th and 30th of April which is
like I said just a little bit earlier doing like May second May third the way the week fall work you think Thursday the 29th Tuesday we gonna meet on a Thursday is that our meet night no
usually usually the meeting on Wednesday I think I think Wednesday at the latest if you wanted Tuesday be looking for that too um Wednesday work so I put down April 30th at 7 hopefully in this room to make the
decision okay so June April 3 so we want to have are you locking down these dates right now we want to have you proposing dates I'm proposing dates I'm going to say like um
that all the applications should be in by those of on Thursday April 24th that will give car and I 1 2 3 four 5 six days to make copies and make a
spreadsheet what need to do I think that's pretty fair really her she she runs them to us you got right she ran them to my house I that was you yeah I can come to you
yeah yeah yeah I can April 24th submitted they have to be by 5 o' whatever it is to close bus into close the
school town hall Town Hall don't go to the clerk's office they turn them in right I'm pretty sure the yeah I think the CL that's where they turn them in they close 43 I have no
idea when do they close I think they close at 4:30 probably 8:30 4:30 4:30 so if we get them if they turn them in on the 24th we're gonna meet on the 30th yeah when so when do you think would we get
them on like by Monday to we're GNA read them all over yeah yeah okay I mean you can if you want how much work you guys do in advance well usually all read them ahead of time because I try to if we have one
person sit there and read them all after we all them we'll have to kill that person yeah okay yeah all right so um so April
24th it still rul even no and we'll try to get this copies to you a couple days before the meeting April 30th side so same that time
and uh yeah so that should work out fine and when when does the high school want to know the answers May yeah so that's fine a few days May we'll we'll be telling the next day
so tell first yeah right so that's all the dates I don't think we make any changes to the application right Happ we know the next dating date is going to be April 30th 7 P.M y I'll set
that all up the to and you you'll find out that from the treasure how much you have spent before and you let us know right because that way when we can have to decide how many awards we're going to give so we need to know that number you
know and but that always depends on how many applications there are I think what if we keep um advertising and get more and more applications we're going to have to probably decide it's going to be 10 kids
or 15 kids which who' been Lu we have hand to do so we might be able to do bigger Awards too if we that depending on what he says the number is because that number is really out for much we
don't know 90,000 or 30,000 we don't know and it has it varied that much well we thought we had 90,000 right my year that was the year when they I found out
the night of the thing we've over spent and no one seems to know but I I know the way it was whoever the treasurer was what was his name before
was and I met with him and what he did was um he had two he had the fund which was the principal and the interest was a separate entity and we never we never spend all
the interest so that carries over and builds and so that particular year he said that there was 90 like $93,000 in interest but then the the new Treasurer
said no that's not right and we couldn't spend because we about 93,000 that's getting more money and plenty of money we didn't even come close spending it probably third out0 and we thought we're sitting
fat and happy we sense because he was the new Treasurer said he just took that year interest and he said that's the Expendable amount not the am the so that's so they have to decide
is it the ACR amount or is it the year amount and when they fig out and that's what he would have come to S us today but so tell me like before I've I've been on this Bo now 10 years before
it was my dad okay back you know before I was on the board how do they look at it like why was it always 10 $1,000 I don't know and then all of a sudden the money started to be the grad went up we had
more money said well let's make it 12 12 and we started I was we just started cre it up my my opinion is that our job isn't to hold on to this money and build and building into this you know what you
call like an endowment we're not creating an endowment we here to disperse as much of as money as we can yeah but we also have I mean I also think you know we might be some mean times MH you talking about the next 10 years really need you know we
don't want to get a situation where we can't get on any either I think if we have all this INE interest sitting there yeah to me that's money that could be spent in me times right you know we don't want to I think we're oig tou the
principle right we never have and why shouldn't be pring in a down I don't know how you guys feel about it yeah um that's why we've been increasing it every year it would be good to know
the in the annual interest from year to year how much it's changed so how consistent it's been because the principles don't change right they stay the same not adding are they
yeah well I think that that a interest then a interest right but my question is if like are we seeing 30 30 32 3 31 or we that annual interest and then a
50 no people donate $20,000 Highway superintendent Cen heads since I've been on it donated $20,000 for the fun building anybody in memory well the
head 20,000 that was yeah they've been gone a while yeah and um and high superintend talking about know went that long ago 20 or 30 years
ago no no I haven't been on this thing when H died that's when she gave the thing in his name while not I the for 10 years he's been dead long before
that so maybe I never know stuff like that time kind of like SS away from you know I had some shingles I was to shingle and I said I've got something I've had for have for five or six years
then my daughter came in with a picture of my youngest grandson sitting on the pile of sing I guess I've had aot I never know because I live by today but St G I forget it you know B so I
don't think she did she died in 2014 years she was 11 years 11 she came to the first one I remember
when I made the presentation and kie K's thing was there she was there see how it went and everything I've been on it for a long time too I can't believe I've been for 10 years I know I don't know the first year
I was out it was the Year Jenny got right Jenny was class 15 so that was my in my 11th yeah yeah I don't know when I die I how long do it take him to figure out
how much is it it sounds like it's just a problem for him to figure out how much money don't understand it's not just him hike yeah that's I don't know who was it before him I any good numbers the last person I
really felt confident Le was the one guy I felt knew fir he was an account actually he wasn't an elected person didn't have any accounting it shouldn't be a problem I
mean he's got the books he should be able to look and say this is the fund it's around 650,000 somewhere in there and this is the interest two different accounts and that should be easy to say well you got this but then it's is it just the
shees or is it the that's the r right here so when they figure that out then we'll know and the other thing I wanted to ask is is is it being advertised anywhere else is it on all things Kingston we have a we have a town
website right nobody ever does anything on social media we've never done why isn't it on Facebook why kids don't go on Facebook some parents are but so is it just Word of Mouth then other than high other than Silver Lake it's on the
website at Silver Lake we get kids from outside you know BC whatever Cardinal Spellman used to be Sacred Heart yeah so how do they find out wonder they po I'm should
be lot I mean we we could send out an email to all guidance Department I me or did I mean I don't how know
because given they yeah that's right adver I don't do social media IDE you put it on the website to website and uh I don't know because they haven't
it's like all things up people go on there and at that like different Facebook pages with various you want to stay you want to stay off that the website well yeah the town has a the
town has a Facebook page who who puts stuff on I believe it's the then maybe and see Tucker that I'll send an email to tuck yeah
okay and yeah yeah refresh that a little bit and because then we get some free I mean this guy king living I he's GI us half price ads if we want he
mad to IDI did I say I had a couple of Falls this year said I T you in April I had a fall sep I went down set upstairs in my
head first oh inside I got what happen I'm heing up good did you slip well it was a stuff and Shop I had coat bags which I usually to
get but I brought and they filled one too heavy was all the cans they put it in one think the was trying to save me a dime for the bag was probably try to me a thing but he made it real heavy I had two hands so and when I go my house it's a
split level I have chil lifts to go up and down so I I used it to bring the grocery so standing in the doorway and I swung that to put it on the chair left to go up and it was so heavy and I'm so weak now I didn't quite make it half on
and half off and it slipped off and it put my momentum this way and I went right down the stairway head right down the bement there and I had luckily I had my phone with me and I called 911 the came
right both they had to come get me and I couldn't move and so they took me to CAT [Music] scans I'm not really it was mostly because I kept my head out I did have a little scrape on my nose on the last one
but the first one went straight over the back some whip lash you know and my neck was sore but um they I couldn't move I really sprained my back St along the Belt Line and I've never had a bad back
even though I've done a lot of heavy lifting but since those Falls I have a I've gone to rehab and do an exercise with and it's it only hurts in transition like I lay down in bed it
hurts for good minute then when I get out I have one of those like ladder things that fits between the mattress to help me get out of bed I grab that and when I do that like crazy so I stand up once I stand up I'm good I can walk a few steps and I'm okay like just sitting
here so you had like that kind of like house where like zero steps would that make your life look so much better yeah you don't even this block right in from the driveway right in I my house and
move to Kentucky or something where you something like Kingston you can't afford to my neighbor sold up like very next door neighbor yeah I never thought he would but he put it on the
mark no not before this is Johns on the other side Y and he put it for 6.99 sold it in two days of 725 you imagine that crazy in this town how long that
recent yeah justmake till people start putting all you just basically they could be popping a ball in pond right too a garage you can are you gonna do some of those or
you think I've been some yeah we've always done in-laws with new houses you know you get we build so we home build yeah do an in right but there rules with the ad rules
more than 900 square feet more than 900 it's 900 you can only get nine it's 50% of the square footage living space in your house or a maximum of 900 so if you have a split that's 1300 squet you
get 650 Max my house is 5500 squ feet it's 92 ft long but it still be 900 square feet Max on it if you were going to do an so my B upstairs is 24 by 4 so in there I could probably put
that I've done an apartment on the first one I that's all legal and everything because the rule on that is it has to be connected to the main house you got to be able to go from the house to the apartment in can be detached
yeah be detached and it has to be on one me like the one I do I pay for that c I pay for everything because I have all it's all on my met so that inla is really just an extension of my house this is separate can it's separate
and it does not have to comply with zoning that's unless they have rules in place unless like a town could put rules in place I don't most towns don't you have them yet because it's a new law one one has to be over occupied that's not
the case they don't have to be don't have to be own or occupied one of them one one of them Cas but I heard but you don't have to be related I heard the state is requiring that in all cases so if we change we could change the B to loosen
that but then wow W West anyway bad never on the planard would never Deni any they all been pretty
reasonable was unreasonable I voted no but she came backi plan improve yeah so all years I've been on Bo for what 17 years never turned down but now I think we're GNA see a lot
more of them because the the housing situation has done so bad it's G to be it's still expensive put 0 cost 150 Grand or more right the price there I know parents put probably cost 140 that
was 15 years ago yeah we're doing one right now it's 300 300 just 600 s foot yeah con ridiculous yeah I don't understand how we got here like
I bought my house like only 13 years ago it was like two 250 yeah and that was like worth like $700,000 yeah could give a house away in 2011 the reason why the reason why we're here is because you know is a planning board
member how long it takes to get any housing approved yeah you want to build a subdivision I go buy a piece of land over here ra land and I want to go to the planning board to get approvals for a subdivision I could be looking at two years before I get approvals so there are too many
regulations you can't get it it's a catch 22 you need the housing but nobody wants the housing in that town everyone wants to behind yes exactly 40 40 it's not it's not L time it's
affordable yeah it's affordable it's 80% of the yeah and that's of the neighborhood so if you're buing a house in IND upon the states put 80% of the house Val that's affable a lot like you know we we actually did the thing with
peterin where we let him buy three older houses in town and we have them those ises to me that's more affordable you're put them in a house that's reasonably sized it doesn't cost as much of that person to maintain it yeah building a
house in tall PS isn't going to be affordable for anybody you know nowadays million million bucks nowadays for de ins house should probably the meeting and take all that
offine I found out about if if they um say that the rep say the replacement cost of your house is over a million dollars because like that I had I was paying like 2,800 bucks
of house insurance and then they said that the replacement Cass what my insurance company that I had at the time was a million to and it went from like 2800 to 45 and so I went to three different
insurance companies one after the other and finally I got one that that actually my thoughts a little bit but um this year I figured we're going to get nailed again because of all the floods and all the different things we're paying for
the South and the West we pay for that so it went up about $500 I just got it days ago and so now um I it was but it still wasn't too bad it went up to like about 2800 from 24 28
wish but then that but then I I got it's 4, 45 still a lot but the town 9,000 that's what yeah 9,000 for a R
Ranch on gr Street that's ridiculous and if you live on on a pension and the town says yeah give me 9,000 Bo well anyways a motion toour
second this is I discuss it [Music]