Go right. Joe Elli present. Richard Keys present. Frank Scott present. Erica Jacobson present. Steve Kenny present. Tracy Blaze present. Excellent. And we believe that Vanessa will be joining us shortly. But we do have um quorum. So I
will call us to order. Open the meeting at 7:02. Um, first order of business is a review of the last meeting minutes from April 8th. I will point out that yes, the
committee did meet on the 29th at town meeting, but the town meeting is the official minutes. So, there are no independent meeting minutes for that meeting. Um, and for voting on this one is Joe, Richard, Frank, Vanessa, and I
can all vote on the approval of this meeting minutes because you can only vote to approve if you were at the meeting, right? So, so if anyone has any suggested edits, it's like going back in time before town
meeting. I'm good. Good. All right. Entertain a motion to accept the meeting minutes. Move to accept. Second. All those in favor of accepting? I
44. Awesome. Excellent. Um, now this is public comment portion. To receive oral communications from members of the public, members of the public may address the finance committee for up to three minutes. The finance committee
will not engage in discussion on topics raised during public comment, but may choose to add the topic to a future agenda. This agenda segment will be limited to 15 minutes. And I see one person here from the public, but he is our select board
chair. Uh, Bill Deo is here. Do you have anything to say to the finance committee? You are always recognized. Actually, I could. Okay. Jo Street 5. Um, thank you, Steve, for volunteering to join. extending congratulations to Amy if she
were here and and um I respect anyone any citizen taxpayer who volunteers to serve on the committee for this town of Newbury. I mean we're citizens and we're also taxpayers and we're trying to do the right thing to move the town ahead. Thank you all.
Thank you, Bill. Excellent. Excellent. So tonight we have um I also wanted to say that the other part of public comment is the chair will share written and email communications since April 8th since our last meeting. We have not had any written communications.
No one has contacted the only thing is by way of someone else in town government. We got someone was questioning why our meeting minutes weren't up to date. They are completely up to date on the website. It just happens to be that we can't approve them. We don't post them as draft. So we have meeting minutes. they're here and
they now have been um approved so they will be posted tomorrow. Um so we're up to date. That's not we're not behind or tardy on that at all. Um so what I'd like to start with this morning, this afternoon, evening,
whatever time of the day it is. Um um I want to recognize uh two outgoing members of the finance committee for their service. Uh Jean Casease was the one of the two members who approached me
to join finance committee about 14 15 years ago and by that point he had already served for quite a number of years. So I don't know where we can go back in the town clerk records and probably find how many years of service
he gave. But um so thankful for everything he has um given the town of Newberry. His institutional knowledge, his knowledge of how funding decisions were made. He's been a part of every major decision
that this town has made for probably 25 years. Um so there's no way that I can thank him deeply enough and I hope that the town can figure out a way to show him some recognition perhaps maybe at a future town annual town meeting. He deserves it.
He most certainly does. Um, so he is uh but he was also ready and had said that if there was interest he that this was something he was ready for. So it was time he was not ready for another three-year commitment. So um and then I
also want to thank Patrick Hefernon whose time on the committee is he has now been elected into the select board so is no longer serving here because you cannot be on vote. So um very thankful for his service as well. Um being able
to be a part of those sessions and to then basically use the knowledge and experience and wisdom hopefully that he garnered from everybody and the experience um to um serve on the select board. Which brings us to our newest member.
Would you like to introduce yourself? Tell us a little bit about who you are and why you're interested and you've been appointed. Steve uh Steve Kenny has been appointed by the select board as the appropriating as the right body and I'd love to have you say hello. Well, thank you Erica. It's a pleasure to be with everyone and to join this
committee. Thank you for having me. Um Steve Kenny. I am an 11-year uh resident of Newberry. Uh my wife and I live down by the lower green. Uh we have three older kids. Uh we did not raise them in Newberry. Um, I have uh this committee.
I've been looking for an opportunity to get involved. This committee is maybe closest to my background in in finance. I had met a select board member a couple years ago. And he he asked, "Well, are you involved in any town committees?" I said, "Well, I I hope to someday." I
said, "But I feel in Newberry I'm sort of a recent arrival. I've just been here 10 years, not three generations." He said, "You've been paying taxes long enough. Get involved. So here I am. Excellent. Thank you very much. Um I
know that you appreciate what's your background in finance just a little bit. So So primarily as a retirement planning advisor to individuals um but also a background I I'm a I was a lawyer for a number of years as well. So law and finance is my background.
Perfect. Thank you and welcome welcome to the committee. Um we are not as formal as the select board. Um, so we feel free during this, we don't have to be recognized um by the chair or anything. If you have a topic, if you want to ask a question of Tracy,
of anyone who's here before the committee, you go ahead. Like we all we're all here to be the eyes and ears of all of the towns people and taxpayers and residents between annual town meetings. So there's certain things that
we um come before us, education, capital planning, you know, there's different times where we'll get called into a discussion about things, but um for the most part, our knowledge Tracy and our town accountant keep us in line on financial principles. We'll definitely
point you to a couple of things on the website to read just to give a good background of when we say like the financial principles established and adopted by the select board that guides what we do. So, we're not trying to make policy or anything. We're just trying to be good stewards um for the town as in
general. And we have a second new member, Amy Crouch, who is unable to be here tonight. She will be signed into the book and everything um before our next meeting. She is um out of the country with a family vacation that was last name.
C R O U C H. Okay. and she um I know she has two children at I believe both at still at NES. Uh she came and she had approached me um
after the last town meeting and had uh expressed interest in making sure that there was a way to be involved as uh again little bit more newer to town. I do not know how many years she has lived here but again wanting to get involved. So um I look forward to everybody
meeting Amy. I had a fabulous conversation with her a few weeks ago about the opportunity. So, feel free throughout the night to ask questions, whatever we need to talk about. Um, first up tonight is
uh reserve fund transfers. So, Tracy, why don't we start with the hydrant services? Okay. You want to you can give me the background and then we'll sign this after. Sure. Um, so not too long ago, maybe, oh gosh, probably two months before town meeting,
we received correspondence from Newbury Port um that they were going to double their hydro fees. We had no advanced notice and it was it was too late. The budget document had been printed. We didn't have any levy capacity, as you know, we had to go for an override. So,
we didn't have an opportunity to submit that at the time for for 2025. obviously finding it out long after the meeting was was closed. So, um the DPW in addition to doubling the fee, they also
told us that we had previously been built for 120 hydrants and we actually had 137 hydrants. So, we had the DPW go out and confirm the number of hydrants and it was indeed 137. So, we had kind of the double whammy. We had the
increase in the fees as well as the number of hydrants. So what you're seeing here is um a reserve fund request for $12,700 because it was unanticipated. So extraordinary and unforeseen at the time
that the fiscal year 2025 budget was prepared. We had no knowledge that this was going to occur. So we did address it in the 20 26 has been properly accounted for. Excellent. Um any questions, discussion?
Not to not like a whole, you know, detailed history, but how we we rent the hybrids. So those areas of our community that are on Newbury Port Water. Yeah. So primarily your area in Oldtown and um
Plum Island. Yeah. We they provide the water for those. We have 137 on their system. Correct. Just in Oldtown Plan. Correct. And there's no opportunity to purchase these hydrants.
Not that I've ever been made aware of. No. Will there be a cap on that price? I It's been that rate during my tenure here. So 15 years we paid the same rate. I was just a little surprised that we
didn't receive some. But next year they could come back and say Sure. So maybe yeah, we're definitely at their mercy in terms of um water services, but it's a consistent rate with you know what other
communities pay. following the cell. Double is a bold price. And you know, they're a city council, so they have the ability at any point in time to call a meeting and appropriate additional funds. We're an open town
meeting form of government and have a meeting once a year. So that's why we're coming to you requesting the emergency funding. I don't know that we could get a quorum of residents to come out to a town
meeting to address an issue like this. It's not really that any other questions concern. Would it make sense to try to negotiate a cap fee for the next 3 to 5 years in some kind of documentation?
We could certainly approach the city council and ask them. That seems like a prudent. I mean, I I you know, I understand the lack of basic attitude. 127 is a rounding error and no reward, right? Sadly, here it still isn't,
right? Um, yeah, it's it's worth at least investigating. We can ask. My guess is just much like the user fee rates, they won't but we could certainly
inquire. I'd entertain a motion. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Um standing all set that has passed and
Tracy I will hand that to you so I don't forget thank you and the um second reserve fund transfer is for legal services so do you want to Sure so um
legal fees we have a deficit of uh $15,940 that's a pretty significant um def you know deficit it for us uh to experience. But we had two things happen during the year. Number one was an internal affairs
investigation um that went on for an extended period of time and in addition to that we had a very very long teamsters negotiation with one of our bargaining units, the librarians
and um that was unanticipated. Normally they're two weeks four or five meetings. Um this one went on for two years. So in terms of the legal services agreement
we have already flat fee. Yeah. Is that that flat fee and then this is how come this was so personnel matters personnel issues are outside of the flat fee. The fee um takes into consideration primarily
zoning, land use, um municipal law, um Massachusetts general laws, anything relative to that. Personnel is separate. It's not included in the fee. And I there's no clawback mechanism
from the alternative. It's not And I I did notice I believe at annual town meeting there's a pretty significant increase in FY26 legal services budget line and I wasn't sure if that was in contemplation of this but it sounds like it may not be.
Well, some of it is. We will have another team's negotiation beginning uh probably in December. I don't anticipate um that we'll see anything like we did this past two years. U but there is a little bit in there for that. should it
happen and they also raise their fees. Thank you. And for our legal services, do we go out for bid for that every That's not subject to we we did
last time we went out was probably uh I want to say five years ago, but time goes by quickly. It could have even been longer. um we did a full um request for qualifications and that was how we
switched to meet Telman and Costa at any point in time we can go out again um if that's something that the board wishes to do. Okay. That that decision lies those those purchasing decisions lies with the
select board. Yes. So not with this committee. So we can but you know like any things we always look at our expenses what can we do what is the value we're getting for it. So all righty and the the personnel issue
that's not transferring into this year that that has been resolved resolved. Okay. All parties done. Any other questions or comments? Entertain a motion to approve.
Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. None. And madam chair, just um for the committee's knowledge. So we we had an original budget of 150,000. We earlier
in the season you um approved uh reserve fun on transfer for Whittier Tech school assessment and that was for 8,215. So there's still a present available balance of a little over $113,000. Okay. So we're in we're in good shape.
Excellent. I will take the form back to sign it before I forget. Sorry. Because I know me I will other one. I don't. No, this is the signed one. I already Oh, you have it. Do I have Oh, I think so. No, I know.
Just No, this was the um Sorry. Here it is. There we go. There you go. Now we got it. Perfect. Now we got it. Good. That's the one I always like shoot. When there was one night you weren't here and I had it printed and
then I was like, "Oh my god, I forgot to leave it." I was like back and forth. So um so no other end of year transfers, anything else that we should be um looped into? Not yet. So, um the fiscal year ended
yesterday. All the bills um are required to be submitted by July 15th or the department manager has to send in a notification to the town accountant notifying her that these funds need to be encumbered. We have something ordered. We haven't been invoiced yet.
So, that'll all be be occurring throughout the month. Um probably it looks like everything's in relatively good shape. We've, you know, analyzed the the last warrants. Um, we had a slight I think there was a $400
um overrun in the Medicare account and we'll make a transfer to cover that. Um, that wasn't extraordinary or unforeseen. It just was a small adjustment that needed to be made. So, I'll we'll be monitoring those. The last warrant will
be July 10th. And at that point, if there's anything that comes up that is a surprise, which I again, I don't anticipate it, we'll let you know. But I I think you're off probably off the hook for another meeting. Okay, good thing. So that's that kind of gave
us our into the closing timeline for FY25 is that we're literally today is the first day of the fiscal of the new fiscal year. We have through the 15th to complete our processing of invoices and then we'll start closing. We'll start our reconciliation, start
closing. That usually comes um takes us through the end of September. We have to complete um our combined balance sheets. We send them into the Department of Revenue who was our regulatory authority. Um and they will evaluate,
review, um audit and uh notify us of our certified free cash. Okay. By the end of October generally. Awesome. And it's too soon to have any any any um expenditures out of 2026 yet. So not yet.
Uh I think we are good. Um I think what we'd love to do is get a quick update from uh Richard on DCC. Yes. And what we're doing there. So So I'm going to go over D. So, the
last meeting was uh May 22nd and uh two two items I want to go over. The first one is as you know Triton was accepted into the MSBA process and so there's a nice chart that they
have on the on their web page and I'll pass this around so you can see it. So there's eight modules. They're in module one right now and module one they're going to push to get all their information in and then attend the meeting get it in in August and attend
that meeting and hopefully get triggered into module two so early because because at the same time we have Whittier is in the same boat there in module one also. So again, so um get into module two and
then that's approximately 6 months. So they're hoping that they'll approve it and then they'll start in October. If not, if they have to wait, then they they'll start December. So a lot of these dates are if we get get everything done. So the work that they did last year with that sub building committee
really paid off. So So they've met they met April 1st. They're going to meet again is it next week? July 9th. So that'll be their second meeting but module one get into module two and uh so that's basically the project team together about six months then there's
the feasibility assessment then schematic design and then the main one we're interested in is the town votes on the funding either if they get in the early spring of 2028 or the fall of 2028
and then they start the detailed design and construction construction, which would be 2 to 3 years, so 2028 to 2031. But I'll pass this around. But if you go to the Triton Regional School District website, and you look under quick links, you'll
see uh MS for middle school/ high school building project, and that'll bring you to this. You can get to this and the other documents that they have. So, I'll pass this around just so you can see it. Is this also going to be Is this also
available on the Newberry Town website? So there you have to go to the Triton Regional. I think there's a link. It says school public schools and then it takes you Okay. So it takes you to a link. So yeah. So So if you go to that and that way you can keep up to date on Exactly.
Because I asked I asked Brian after the meeting. He says, "Yeah, we're going to keep that up to date." And that would be the the real source of uh of information. So, um, so like I said, they met they they're going to meet again July 9th in the
Triton Library. Um, the second thing that I think was of interest at that meeting was it Brian brought up they had their school committee meeting the night before and he said their new their interim director of finance
all right found that there was some reporting issues with the in so it was like 550k over spent but it's the way it was being reported and it was all transportation,
special education, and out of district placement. Okay. So, they're going through and he said he was confident that by the end of the school year it would be all resolved. They'd be in the good. They'd be everything would be reclassified. Like they didn't actually
overspend. They just it's the way it was reported. Yes. So, some health so that's Yeah. Yeah. That would be that would be a can of worms. Yes. Yes. Can of worms either way. Yeah.
Doesn't matter. Yeah. Who is doing the accounting over there to Right. Well, that person was there from March of 2024 to March of 2025. Then the interim came in and found it. And I think today the the actual new finance
director was starting. So, so are we talking about mclassification or are we talking about I think it was the way it was reported in their in their system. So, that's the way you put it but and it was reported as
something other than transportation or out of out of district placement or it should have been reported as transportation out of district placement. It was reported as something else. So, those specific details we'd have to ask him. Okay. I he didn't put that out. He just
he just said 550k and then there was some other money in there. It their their report the night before basically showed there was 710k over budget by Yeah, but it was just the way it was
being reported. But he says once they put everything together through yesterday, they should be plus 375. I'm happy to reach out to the super. Please do. Yeah. just say if there's any impact that there
any impact of anything this way that could then come back to look for an additional assessment. I don't even know how we would we wouldn't we wouldn't like we years old. Yeah, we don't have any. But he said all the items that they were
were being misreported are in the 2026 budget. So they were aware that spending it was just the way it was being reported. So So you walked away from there feeling there was no concern of misappropriation
in any way. It's just an accounting error, right? That's okay. Brian said, "I'm confident that we'll be we'll be good." I wonder if he's going to at some point address this publicly. It
has to be addressed. I mean just I mean you know he occasionally like you know addresses rumors in the community um you know head on and this would be a pretty big one to especially if it came up during the
public school committee meeting is when they first yeah I'm guessing that there'll be a subsequent school committee meeting where they're going to have to address it publicly there send out notification to kind of shut to shut
things down before they get and it's important that to to your point it's important that whoever addressed this know exactly what they're talking about right you know they need to know and be
able to answer questions about this y so that cannot be halfbaked it has to come from Brian cannot be a verbose email and it's spelled out what happened, when, why data visualization.
Yes. And what have takes, what steps have we been taken to? Yes. All of the That would have to come with Ryan. Yeah, that would be that's Nissa. Yes. Nissa. Nursa. Data visualization. So, she's got
So, those were the the two big items that I took from from the meeting. So, that's something. Yes. Glad that it wasn't us discovering something that
Yeah. What happened? Yes. Uh reach out. Let us know what you learn and I'm sure we will. Um unrelated or related. I'm asking you, but Tracy, you might have the answers. Green grass and high tides. Everything
perfect. You're not sticking a shovel in the ground till 2033, right? 2032, late 2032. That sounds about right. What is being done in terms of a specific
um capital planning initiative for a building that will not make its till 2032. So they Brian, the last time we had met, they they are working on putting
together a comprehensive capital plan um for the district and then that would be footnoted in our plan with estimates of potential project costs and impact to Newbury versus their plan which would
show the impact to all three communities. Okay. So you be you you're essentially you the only means you have to work off of is their plan. Their plan has to be complete. Yes. And then you have to divide by whatever, right? Um
understanding that we'd be seeking a death exclusion. I think it's going to be difficult to do, right? Because I think everybody's going to be afraid of putting a big boogeyman out there. But that that building is a boogeyman. Um a real one. And 2032 is a long way
away for the state of dad structure. It seems like it's a long way. These things creep up on us relatively quick. But but that's but you've you know still got a super that gets puddles on the floor when it rains. Right. Right. Right.
Right. That doesn't that doesn't lend itself to seven years on the wall sled the the material and mitigation facilities. So there are problems that have to be addressed now.
It's it's not like we can even with municipal buildings. We can't just abandon all of our maintenance and repairs in the hopes that we may get an affirmative vote to do it a building at another later date in time. So, we still
have to have those emergency repairs taken care of. Um to build on that too is that in this actually I'm going to look at select board chair Mr. Deo and also just say
about what is our you know is the select board considering the establishment of some sort of municipal building committee not for a specific building but for kind of capital planning and building needs as we are going into I
know there's COA discussions about sites the uh town hall property on high road is sitting unused right now and we know that there's fire station
issues on Morgan Aav there's the lease at by field is there a way to look at all this comprehensively so that the taxpayers or that we have an overall sense of what is a plan and having some meetings around that because quite
honestly all of these things feel like they're going to end up at some point in front of voters as debt exclusions and multiple there's not going to the uh like how do we address this in a way that's sust that's sustainable over the next 10 years
as we know that the Triton piece is part of it wittier is part of it and then there's just our own paying rent here. Yeah. The unfortunate thing is that the buildings are all relatively the same age. So they're all becoming issues at
the same time. In the past, the select board has um activated a municipal building committee when we have an approved project. So, there have been discussions um about I mean, everyone's well aware
of the the issues that you just identified. So, there have been discussions about putting together a comprehensive committee, putting together um some type of a a visioning day. I think we we've talked about definitely needs to be done to be able
to see what's what's in front of us in front of the taxpayers. Mhm. Cuz we've had multiple iterations. You know, first we had public safety complex, police fire. That didn't work. And then we kind of shifted to police town hall and then fire town hall and
just town hall, town hall senior center. And um there have been so many differing opinions. I I I think you know your idea of having that independent committee to say holistic view and right holistic
view of all of the needs because unfortunately we when we get into saying well we'd like to put forth a COA the immediate easy thing is well we need a town hall so why should we do a COA if we need a town hall like and then and
then we don't do either for years and then we say okay Now we need a fire station and a COA and a town hall and how do we deal with all of those pieces? Unfortunately, the timing has, you know, we we started with the town hall more
than 15 years ago. Yes. Really, you know, at this point, we would have been halfway done paying for it. So, we kicked it down the road and that's okay. You know, that's that's what we we did. But now they're all going to come together at once. And and
we've also had discussions about do we look at this as instead of a project, an individual project, do we look at this as a significant capital plan that includes Triton and a town hall and a
fire station and a because the reality is you're probably going to be paying for the majority of them should they be approved within the same or very similar time period. We can we can bond for up
to 30 years. So you'll be paying for a number of them at the same time. So do you propose them at the same time? Do you have a better opportunity of getting them passed if you have a school project that might bring out some of the the younger families in town combined with
the public safety that you know these are these are all you know strategies that maybe marketing people would have better insights into certainly than a finance car sibling but um those I think those conversations have been had recently we've been talking about it so
it just will be up to the board to decide when the right time is to start moving those forward. Yeah, I think that that's I think it I you know I'm only one person but I really think that we need to have that look and I mean look back to Newbury Port when they replaced
the Breahan they did combine that with a C with a senior center and that helped get the coalition they needed to get the support of the to do a very large project that impacted all of their schools and and but has now since their
that's probably 10 years ago now easily. So it's the long-term view in the coalitions to come together that yeah any any kind of polarity I think is is help. I mean, I remember with the
town a few years ago with the town hall, there was a lot of binary thinking about like there were a lot of people who were saying we we're not going to pay for a town hall cuz we want to we want we want to spend this money in schools, which is not quite correct, but that there was a lot of that.
Yes. So, I think, you know, now the time's going to come where we have to pay for the schools. I I think it starts with a full I don't know that it has to look like a proposal, but it has to look like a holistic uh capital planning assessment.
Say, all right, if you do nothing with the fire, if you if you do not build a new fire station, here are the thing. Here's what's going to happen in year three. Here's your here's what we can look at in year five, here's year seven. So, and then we put those in real dollar terms and we put those in potentially
adjusting for interest rate changes and which is all, you know, it is clearly tarot card reading, you know, as far as you don't know, but if you don't I think
I think people who are paying attention realize that there are about eight doors that something can jump out at you from now and if we at least don't have an assessment of a real world assessment of
this this this this out 20 years um I I I'm of the belief that people will just freeze and you won't get multiple overrides you won't get those types of things it's just fatigue I don't think
agree we do have the assessment of the fire station and the newer elementary school. Those have been completed and they both have, you know, over a million dollars worth of y issues that are identified, some more pressing than others, but that need to
be addressed over the next 10 years. So, um, you know, that's that that's kind of the smaller issues change, right? that we have the town offices which you know we're getting to the point where our lease payments
are very close to equaling what you would be paying on a debt service payment and when when those lines cross it doesn't really um necessarily sense for us to be here right we have the operating that's coming out of the operating budget every
year which is hamstringing us in terms of what we can spend on services and education because we can't pay for that out of the operating budget because were. But if it was debt exclusion and we were paying it towards the building we had constructed the investment we had made, it would
then eventually roll off people's taxes once it was paid for. The COA, the senior center that we have, we had the benefit of utilizing the ARPA funds to pay the majority of the the first five years. So that will be
shifting onto our um operating budget as well. So, so all those squeezes, so that's when I know we've sometimes had people say, "Well, don't bring this up at a school meeting because we're talking about school funding." And the the reality is that
the decision to be in this building is impacting our ability to fund schools. Why did COA not go to the old town hall again? What was the what's the what's the two-line reason for that? It really wasn't big enough. It didn't provide them. There was no the combination of the old town hall and
old police station would not uh No, the reason why we we moved out of there would prohibit them from moving into the correct renovated. Yeah, it needed to be mitigated and Right. And then there were issues with
renovations beyond 50% triggers things in the building code and there's all sorts of um So there's nothing going on in that old town hall. Uh storage. Storage. That's it. And we pay insurance because we have to um
cuz it's it's a building. Yeah. It's correct. Yeah. And it's right in the center of town. Yep. So it's Yeah. that that's and and that's part of like I really think that we you
know to be wise and not just think each calendar year each budget cycle is to really kind of start to put on a long-term planning view of it and understanding that things change because I I know that one question that gets asked is like well is our capital plan updated and like in the capital plan it
said we were going to do this with a debt exclusion well we make different decisions boards of selectmen are the ones that put things on the warrant and if we can pay it without a debt exclusion that's sometimes the decision. So even if there's a plan, it doesn't mean that the plan doesn't change based on the annual and the and
that's the perfect example of that was the elementary school roof and HVAC system. We had planned that both of those would be um debt exclusions, but extending it over a number of years, good idea or bad idea, I guess it's
debatable, but we were able to pay for it out of pocket. So use our savings, our free cash to to pay for those expenses. But it took us, you know, over 5 years to finish the roof and we will do the HVAC in two years. But
um, you know, tradeoffs, right? My father's favorite saying is life is a series of trade-offs or self-inflicted wounds. So sometimes life is a series of self-inflicted wounds. So, you know, that's the other side of it. So, um,
but any other questions or thoughts on capital, schools, large expenses, all about the facilities for the next All facilities. Yes.
Um, one of the things that I'd love to do once we have um, a full committee and have Amy here is so I'd like to put off the one item I have here as new business is to discuss the roles of chair, vice chair, noteaker, and representatives to our DCC and CPC. Um, so if we can table
those until the August meeting, that would be great. This is not a vibe for power. It's more I want to know who wants to volunteer and I don't want to volunteer someone who's not here for anything. So, um it would be a time to like if anyone is
interested feel free to share um what they're interested in helping like what we the roles that we do have. There's like obviously a chair and vice chair uh a notetaker because that's what happens or we can go back to the method that I've used which is to use a little chat
GBT on the transcript from our uh YouTube and then re-watching slightly. That's what I did for this one. Um and then we also appoint representatives to two representatives to the capital planning committee and one to two representatives to the district's
communications committee. So those are roles that we have across our organization and I think that is it. We I did put the schedule of upcoming meetings. Um basically first Tuesday of the month every month of the year going
through the end of the year right now is on the calendar as you all I know most um are aware if there's a month where we don't have a significant agenda or it makes sense to like sometimes December is a month that we end up skipping because there's nothing that we can be
doing at that point in time. We're not into the budget season yet. We will address those as we go through, but otherwise plan on 7 PM uh the first Tuesday of the month here. So, entertain a motion to adjurnn.
Second. All those in favor? I There we go. Meeting closed at 7:46.