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just Okay, let's see. Okay. Okay. Let's see. Okay, >> you're breaking up a little bit, Mary Joe. >> Am I?

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Um I I think I started the recording, so I think it's time for us to start the meeting. Um, Jessica, you're gonna

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>> uh calling the Council on Aging meeting to order on June 10th, 2026 at 5:43 p.m. Um, with um I'm totally blanking.

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>> Um, who's here? We need >> roll call. Roll call. Um so roll call starting with Mary Joe >> Johnson here. >> Make peace here >> and Millinger here. Okay. So we have two

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absent today. Um J Jessica. Yeah. Jessica. Um Janette Stockton and Rich Bangman. >> Correct. Okay. So, how about the

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>> I didn't hear you, Susan. >> How about the agenda, which I have misplaced. I have too many documents sitting here. >> I have the agenda. We need to approve the minutes for April and May. >> Oh, right. >> I did see those two typos of Ron Mech's

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last name in the first and second paragraph of the May the May um minutes. But those were the those were the only typos that I saw. >> Okay, hang on. Which what did I do? >> You wrote meek instead of mech.

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>> Oh, >> in the first it it could have been a It was probably an autocorrect thing. >> That is pretty funny. Okay. Some of that is not being able to read my writing.

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>> Okay. Thank Thank you. Make that correction. Other than that, April looked good and um May looked good. So, I put in a motion for the April and May 2026 minutes to be approved.

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>> Is there a second? >> Oh, sorry. That's your business. >> Is second. >> I'll second them. Second. All in favor? Mary Joe. >> Oh, Johnson. I

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>> Millinger I. Oh, sorry. >> Mickey's eye. >> Okay. Unanimous. Thank you. >> Yep. Um, so not the financials. Since our meeting was um so busy and packed last

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month, we never got to um to go over the financials. Um so we combined them this month with May and June together. Um our grant started out with $6,385. Our revolving account was $1,914.

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and our town account, which I'm almost 100% sure um will be at least dissolved by the by the fiscal year. >> Okay. >> Um she she'll she'll take >> whatever is left and roll it into

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>> probably a foot clinic um thing, but I I don't know the numbers. >> Um it it still shows that we have 200. >> Um but at the end of this month, I'll know more when I have her print out the reports. So, is there anything that we can buy to

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use up any loose money any I'm almost pretty sure that she um used some for the um the townwide birthday we had donated >> I wish she would

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>> I didn't hear you what >> I wish she would not do that because we can use the town movie money for stuff we can't use the grant for like buying stuff like we talked about getting Oh, we talked about getting a curry pot for

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um which there isn't anymore. There used to be one uh for community lunch and and we realized we could also use it for foot clinic which would be nice to be able to offer somebody a cup. >> Well, we also have the revolving account which has no stipulations on it either,

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>> right? So maybe she just figured because it was a town town event that we donated to the money would come out of that. >> Okay. >> So I will get the final numbers from her though um by the by the end of once she closes out the fiscal year.

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>> Okay. So we can talk about spending that some money on the if if we agree as a COA on getting the the curig. I mean, I sort of hate to do it because it's environmentally not sound, but it sure is convenient to be able to just make up

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a person. Let a person make up one cup of whatever they want. >> I think it would be really nice to have. >> Yeah. And we >> we used to have one. I don't know. >> If only it's not like we're we're doing 200 a month. >> Yeah. >> You know.

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>> Yeah. >> It would be a limited amount of people. >> Yes. >> Making coffee. Yes, it would be. >> So, our expenses, the April Foot Clinic was $240 and the May was $260.

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And we got um and we paid out from our lockbox grant, $1,29949 for 50 lock boxes and screws, stainless steel screws for installations. Um those

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right now are safely at the fire station. Um and installations will start in July. >> Okay. It's a lockbox purchase come under our stuff our our finances.

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>> I kept it separate from our grand total of things because it specifically has to be used only for that. >> Okay. So on the on the um finance report, I put the grant the revolving

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account and the town account and added that up into a grand total and left the lock box separate. >> Okay, I see that on the the June ones that I did I printed off. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So are we the only ones? Okay. So that's

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our Okay. So that's a grant that came to us or to us and the and the >> only to us. We are the sole owner of it. >> Okay. >> Yes. Um of course Devon's helping me and um to do it but it's the money is ours.

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>> Okay. So, um, for the receivables for fees paid of April at the foot clinic were 195 and May was 286, which was actually more than what she charged us.

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>> Oh, good. >> So, >> that makes up some of those days that we don't give as much as we pay her. >> Right. Right. Um, and we got the fourth installment of the grant, which was $1,522.97,

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and the lockbox grant was $2,832. So, our grand totals are our grant is $7,551.82, revolving account is 2,395, and our town is the 200 question mark.

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um all totaling $10,146.82 and a lock box remainder is $1,532.51. >> Okay, we really need to think about what we're going to do with that money that is in our revolving account. >> Yes. Thank you very much.

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>> You're welcome. Um, and I I did send that over to you. >> Yep. >> I really I just got involved with trying to do stuff for tonight's meeting and I didn't have time to print it. >> That's okay. Um, Birch Drive update.

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the three of us um went to the select board meeting and I don't know what anybody else's views are on it, but I thought it was really um it'll be really productive for them to um look at all the roads and give a

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list of what needs to be fixed for them to be to be um plowed and sanded safely. I don't know what that means for Ron in the end um for Birch Drive. Um

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>> so >> I didn't know. >> So is your assumption that the the implication here is that the the town is going to be responsible for plowing and sanding the roads at the lake? Well, they had said that they were going

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to assess the roads, all the private roads. >> Yeah. >> Including the um the ones up over here that get plowed to make sure um um Rita was saying that every year they would get a list.

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>> This is what you need to do for us to plow the road. And that hasn't happened in two years. >> Yes, I heard her say that. Linda Ava Scott has told me several times that there used to be a list that went out um year annually and that Leslie knew about it.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So that it hasn't taken place. So hopefully and and they were going to have a select board member ride with um the highway department and assess the

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roads for their for their um resource. But I didn't know how anybody else felt about it. >> I guess my feeling is that it it's a good thing moving forward that they um are newly committed to acting according

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to their policy. Um I don't think that they address the concerns that we asked them to address. Um, and I'm not I'm because they didn't say why and because they didn't answer

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um the questions that were asked. Um, I feel a little bit unfinished, but I don't know if we're going to get those answers or not. We've been asking for them for a very long time.

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Yeah, I um I feel the same that Ron needs to Ron needs at the very least to have the question answered. Why did this happen to me? Why didn't the plowing stop in the middle of the winter and I'd not be given any

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explanation of what or any warning or explanation of what was happening? I I think that's um still a really legitimate question for him to be concerned about and for us to pursue. >> Yeah. I um I did speak with Ron today um

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and he's planning to send us an email and make another request that they address his question. sending it just to us or would get >> uh it's probably not just coming to us but he did he did say that he was

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because he he felt that his question was not answered and he's still kind of in limbo which I would agree um that he would just ask to

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be on the agenda again Um, I don't know if I don't know. >> Well, they could yield a result, but >> I don't know who said it. It was either Haley or Melissa had said that they had

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measured the road when there was still snow on the ground and that it should be measured again when there's not snow on the ground. So they they admitted to that being um um a possible issue

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um with with the the um discrepancy with like the the the assessment. >> Yeah. But on on the other hand, they kept talking not about the issue that they in their in writing at least they

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said was the issue, which was it was too narrow. They said that they didn't have a truck that could handle it. Um, which actually kind of contradicts in some ways what what they were ended up saying the problem was.

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Um, I don't know. I'm just I'm just perplexed. I've been perplexed for this whole time. >> I'm um I was confused that these roads are just referred to as private roads because my understanding is they all

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belong to LWA. >> Yes. And technically because LWA is uh not forprofit um their their assets are supposed to be public

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from what I have been told but there are still signs on the roads that say that they are private and the town has never taken responsibility for maintaining them. They are not owned by the town. They are owned by LWA.

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>> Yeah. >> So, in that sense, they are not town roads, >> although they're not quite as private as it might seem. >> Yeah. They're in a kind of funny category in between.

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>> Yeah. Well, I was telling Jessica that I would like to go in and talk to Haley about um in a broader context um about the fact that we sometimes have um citizens who can be quite annoying and

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sometimes we have to bend over backwards and even if we're right and they're not and give them some satisfaction and suggest that this might be a good example of bending over backwards and giving an annoying person who is still a

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citizen of the town some satisfaction for his grievance. I don't know if it'll do any good, but I feel, you know, I I just feel it's so ironic that an admin new administrator who came

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to us from a position, several positions over time as person in charge of senior center should be attacking a senior in this way. And I don't see how she can expect that we're just going to sit down

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and shut our mouths up about the fact that somebody's being wrongly attacked. So I will try not to be angry when I talk with her. So, it looks like we see some

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improvement in the overall situation, but that that there is still some issues with Ron. And we can't hear you, Mary Joe. Cannot hear you, Mary Joe. can't hear you.

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>> She doesn't seem to be muted. >> Yeah, maybe she just not coming through. >> We can't hear you. >> We can't hear you. >> Hello. >> There you go. We can hear you now. >> Okay. Sorry. Um, so just I'm sorry. Long

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and short of it, I am in Greenfield because I took Mel to a medical appointment. She had an emergency and she needed me to drive her. I need to go pick her up now. And um I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to sign off. >> Okay, that's going to end the meeting.

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>> I'm sorry. >> Okay. I think we need to try to reschedu the June meeting, Jessica. You think? >> Yes. Because we got we have stuff to talk about with the puzzle book. So, thanks for coming in as much as you could,

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>> but we'll be in touch with you about rescheduling a meeting. >> Sounds good. Okay. >> Good luck, Mary Joe. >> Thank you. Okay. So, we have to adjourn the meeting. >> Yep. >> But let's Okay. So, let's adjourn the meeting and then we'll talk a little bit

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about how we're going to call a new one. >> Okay. Are we Do we have to stop the recording for that? >> Yeah, we do. Let's see. Uh where's Wait a minute. Let me adjourn the meeting first. >> Um

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due to unanticipated um um emergency issues with our third member, we're adjourning the meeting at 6:00 about 601 on June June 10th, 2026.

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>> Okay. And I will stop the recording. Yes.