##VIDEO ID:GO6bv1-e2UY## I'd entertain a motion to open the meeting motion roll call of voting members you get to start today Kathy John Damon jerson and we also have a guest from the coun agent who's not a voting member so uh do we have an update on the Matrix okay for us Cindy said that she uh didn't have that um she doesn't have much to report because we been to busy on Aging for Christmas yeah so we have not done a lot with ours to when I sat with her last week she said I'm going to get it done and I thought I don't think you're going to be able to get it done oh my gosh I we've been like on stet but but things things will settle down now so January and February is always kind of nice CU we can kind of catch up on some things that we were too busy to do from November and December yes how about you John not U not much to to donate at this point I spent two weeks on the west coast and up been away from Council on anything matters other than uh just a connection with trying to help out as I mentioned in I seea Robin efforts get some exposure to you cind begin to Tor communication might be a good way to broadcast COA with a younger population as well which I continue to consider as a major part of our our undertaking because there are an emerging Q population they're going to be here some 60 50 40 30 or their parents are going to be here right away right um and I've met with Kristen grubs and the um principal assessor whose name is not coming to me right now uh to try and identify potential Parcels that we already own um so we can evaluate different sites so we can make a recommendation to the select board um but again the holidays were busy for everybody and that is going to take some time there's a lot of sites in town that simply don't work CU they're either Marsh or they're undoable for other reasons um you know the town is as uh large as it is and expansive we built on a lot of the spots that you can build um so it's going to be I think finding a good house for the count on Aging will take some time um and it's proximity location to it can't be isolated correct that's that goes into the Matrix is it so that would have to be question and the Cathy an he put down his syy with other members of the yes Village leadership right that definitely has a huge part of it because for the first for the first year of my life in in the town we were at the school and I'll tell you being away from everybody else hardly anybody would come over to that school unless they needed something from us like you know needed something um since we've been here just people going up to the town hall Tuesday nights are great people will just stop in and say oh I've never been in here before come on in we'll give you a tour and stuff so it definitely definitely helps us yeah we've never had anything like that in school FR door on the right right so you know that's important and I keep coming back to my favorite spot if it's appropriate for me to even mention it which we we know where you want to be and I think you know it it has some of the synergies and it has distinct possibilities and you know easements and things like that are are things that we'll look at to see how viable it is and also the I mean I've met with members of the rec committee about that site because competition well not even if there competition about what the actual rules when the town accepted that piece of property under what conditions was it actually accepted because sometimes people say after the fact it was accepted to do this and uh they may not have all of the details exactly right and so uh there will be questions for uh Lisa me to sort through as far as usability to make sure that we don't pursue something that we can't do you know that's that's always why we we want to know if there's a sewer or the ability to perk a piece before we even consider because if we can't if you can't put in a septic system you certainly can't have a building there yeah so you know there are Baseline requirements that have to be met before any site can be seriously considered so um so we're still working through those with a number of the the properties that are under consideration and you know should anyone wish to donate a large piece of property to the town where we can do things I [Music] can Advocate heavily that the selectman will accept the property and I will work tirelessly to make it happen just in case um so I guess having a pass through the holidays and recognizing that we have all been very busy I would encourage us to bring a little more Focus back to this I know that I'm as guilty as anyone for not getting everything done and uh if there are ideas from the general public please reach out to the Council on Aging and or me and uh I think for right now that is all we need to accomplish today besides having the next meeting date as I said I am unavailable on Mondays next month uh John what is your general availability um I'm relatively relatively free okay Monday's but Monday's not we slide it to another day of the week then that's fine with me as well okay I know that for next month my Mondays are not good um what about for you guys generally speaking um we can we can be F to do what you need okay we can be f um I am imagining then that I at Tuesday Morning might work with me for me the best but I will meet the Cindy later in the week and we can set a date knowing that you're flexible you can be pretty flexible and then we will post the uh the meeting but I think we can tentatively set it for the 11th and I would say we can do it at 9: because there won't be a accounts on meeting right before so you said the 11th yeah the other aspect too is I mean I spoke briefly of this with Christen grub Before Christmas just the idea of trying to put together a sit down discussion just a round table discussion and I wanted B Conor Eric span who spent so much time with me exploring Point 0.5 rather L stre and the idea somebody of if if we can get b to devote some time to it and get a sense of cap campaign if there's any viability and and it but I wanted Christian to sit in uh and maybe deal with Tracy as to whether it's viable it can be done it's permitted to be done are towns allowed to take measures and and create property out of capital campaign funds as opposed to tax base and revenue now you say create property I don't well other words to build a building with capital private funds capital I mean I mean somebody donations donations but a capital campaign where uh my judgment would be not asking for giant contributions but find some people of means who are willing to put a matching quotient into the program and literally go out for $100 ,000 $55,000 and know that it's going to be matched and see if we can at least get a down payment through a building and the rest of it ends up on the town's CER yeah but it gives some relief it's a down payment if nothing more [Music] than the the infrastructure costs and then the building cost would be on the town budget any level of that is so much work is done on uh I've I've spent 40 years on two different boards as a primarily because of my background in in Foundation management uh in capital campaigns govern's Academy Italian home for children in jamaic plane and the con Society uh we raised millions of dollars and no bonding had to be done for any of the three projects I think but this town doesn't have that level of of notice for position these these were these were opportunities to get in front of people of enormous names who then Le you to 10 more people of enormous remarkable Mees and this town is full of normal regular folks um my understanding from my work on the police station and as a selectman the town cannot operate something like that and that's part of why we have groups like The friends where there's a group that is separated uh and has a legally distinct existence from the towns boards and committees 501 C yes usually a 501c3 yeah um and so I can double check but I think that would be the way we would have to go um and I have met with both Bob and Eric essentially give them an update of the program needs in the past and we were supposed to meet again and uh and things got away from everybody so getting once we have the Matrix put together I'll ask to meet with them again and go over it because I think that will be the easiest and best source of uh professional review for the work that we are doing okay um we have a guest here today so do you have any questions concerns thoughts or just no I was curious about where we were so yeah so nothing really you know it's a question yet very good all right yeah sounds good well then I think I we can have a motion to adjourn motion okay all those in favor I