Sorry sideways today. I wanted to look at the screen. Thank you, Susan. Um, could I please ask that you just throw that into the attachments so that way you don't have to um for the regular
session going forward and I can just read it off. That would be very helpful. Sure. I should have it tattooed on my arm. It would be so easy. Yeah, no problem at all. I can do that. Sorry we could not connect.
I don't We play a little too much tag. I know. And I'm sorry to haunt you, but it really is, you know, when I just do it on my own, I feel like I'm I'm deciding and I feel like it shouldn't necessarily be me deciding anything. You
know what I'm saying? Not trying to offshoot it. But bring in again if you want to bring in air in there to help you or for or uh Oh, it wasn't so much that. It was just more um it wasn't about it wasn't about
minutes or anything. It was just sort of decisions and packet decisions and stuff like that. I can talk talk to you about it later. But um and more or less what was going to be happening Friday. So we can talk about that when the meeting starts. But yeah, um I had to post that Friday meeting
before this meeting started. So if we change anything, not a big deal. We posted it the way I told you we would and the way you approved. But there may be some considerations for Friday. No worries.
Let me see if I have anyone waiting in here. Where is my I am going to for the uh I'll say this again when we have the meeting on, but I am going to get someone else to help take minutes the day that we interview.
Oh yeah, that's fine. Yep. We'll figure out what to do with that even though it's going to be because those will be after hours. So that might be easier anyway. I sorry to be late. I think Ray's on too.
I'm here. Hi Ray. Yeah, sorry to be late guys. There are so many moduses. meaning is I get lost in which which one is this one. Ray, this your microphone is choppy.
Yeah, I tried to move over to my main computer and I to do that I have to send the link to my other email and to do that I need to send the right message and I can't tell from the message I send which one it is.
And so I have about five meeting messages in my regular email box and none of them are the right one. So would you like to call in by your phone so we can hear you better and just mute your computer?
What? Yeah. Just and just kill your video. Just kill your video. Can Can you kill your video, please? Yeah. I may help you give you a moment back. The your your packet the packet gets
stretched out video. Is that better? No, not at all. Usually it does help but actually that does help. Hold on. Keep talking. All right. I'm still talking. No. No.
All right. I can give you a phone number if you just want to mute and call in on your phone and then you'll be talking through the phone. Yeah, that that might work. I want to but um you know um one thing Ray I don't know
if it's you're you know kind of odd but why don't we get you a headset reading light? One thing we could do if we're writing light, we have a budget, buy a headset, expense it, and put it in. Right. No, but there's a bandwidth issue, Bob.
This a bandwidth issue, right? Yeah. No, no, I don't think I'm trying to get away from using my forward message to my home computer. So, um,
Do you have earbuds? All right. We can we can work on this stuff after. Yeah, we can. Um, okay. Well, Ray's doing that. I've got to I got a hard stop at 1 today. So, I we got to we got to go pretty quick.
Got to call the meeting to order 12:05 on uh September 10th. Um this meeting is being audio recorded and held remotely on recording in progress on RCTV. The RMLD Board of Commissioners recognize the importance of hearing
public comment at the discussion of the chair on items on the official agenda. Once recognized by the chair, all persons addressing the board shall state their name and address prior to speaking. It is the role of chair to maintain order and public comment and certain discussion. Seeing we are participating remotely all
members please state their name and all roll call votes all votes must be by roll call. Bob Coulter present. Vic present Molino present. Susan M present. We Ray is present. Oh, he's got audio
trouble. Okay, he's entering again. Hold on. Hang on a second. Hi Ray, can you hear us now? All right, I can hear you now. Okay, that now you're perfect. Perfect. Can you just I'm on the right platform now.
Okay, so say you're present and we're good. Present. Excellent. Excellent. So, um, first item on the agenda is to review interview questions. Um, Patty did a a fabulous
job, uh, putting together, um, comments from the meetings that we had with the employees at RMLD. Um, I I think those meetings were very productive. Um, I know the one I had was
very informative. I got a great feel for what uh I know I'm going to be focusing on during the uh you know interview process. Um my key will be you know firm
leadership a must. Um, somebody who has union experience is a must and someone who's going to appreciate um, the experience that folks have at RMLD and appreciate the experience and
the people more importantly at RMLD and respect that process. Right? That's something I heard loud and clear. Those are my comments. Um, I I would like to hear everybody else's. I I agree, Bob. Um they were very
helpful. I only got uh one group. Um but definitely uh someone who understands and can make decisions about approaches and going forward. Um
understands the municipal light. Uh there was a lot of concern expressed that we're a customer oriented operation, not a profit organization. And so having a strong municipal u experience is is a positive
um aspect of uh what commissioner needs to bring. Um so I'm I'm definitely looking looking toward that as as a plus. Yeah. No, I and I I I think uh Bob, if you don't mind, what I'd like to do is
um can we finalize the questions at the next meeting uh because I think we formulated the questions uh based on certain logic but I think based from the interviews a lot of what
we came up with is the need for strong leadership and experience in managing people and in managing managing stakeholders and I I I I just I haven't had time to process all the information and
okay so because I'd wanted to do these questions but like yesterday I was very busy with other stuff and I I I I received the information yesterday and then I requested some more last night and so I haven't had time to process all this so I wanted to first
focus on you know the time I had today was to focus on looking at the resumeums So I looked at the resumeumés. I'm sorry I haven't had time to you know I'd asked for this session to talk about the questions. I'm not prepared based on
what I from the time I had to do this. Yep. No, we have Friday. Perfect. Okay, great. Um let's um jump over ju just high level effect. I think we did capture the points in the questions. I think we
it would be beneficial to reward them. We, you know, question three is union based. Um, we we had a question five. How do you influence the culture? You know, maybe we could tweak that more about appreciating the folks that are there and their experience, what you're going to do. Um, yeah. So, perfect.
No, no, no. And yeah, my my sense is, you know, you need management because compared to other munis around in Massachusetts, I think RMLD is like definitely much larger. So we have to look at how the team is managed
and if the team is managed well I think that boards well for any noise in the system. We have noise in the system. Yes. Okay. We will move on then. Um okay. So if we're going to transfer over
to um executive session Bob can I add one thing? I just want to be clear that I am going to make a revision to Friday's posting because originally we had thought that might be an interview time and now we're going to say that we're going to do the
questions. So, I'm going to make it look like this week's. I'll I'll pop that over to you, but I'm going to go ahead and make that revision and repost, which is fine. It's okay to make a revision posting, but I just want to make it make sure we have the question review on there.
Y Okay, great. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Um, and so you're you're going to um you're going to read the script for Oh, hold on a second. You're going to read someone read the motion to transfer over to executive session.
Hold on. Got it. Oh, hang on. Yeah, you see that? Yeah. Yeah. So, somebody um I can barely read it on my screen. It Okay, I can read it. Yeah, I can say move that the RMLD general manager
search committee go into executive session to consider or interview applicants for employment or appointment by a preliminary screening committee. If the chair declares that an open meeting will have a detrimental effect in
obtaining qualified applicants and to return to regular session for the sole purpose of adjournment. Roll call vote required. All those in favor I reporter I. Okay. Thank you everybody. All right. Okay. See you all. Bye.
So see you in the next meeting. Recording stopped.