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dollar sign. Hi, Jessica. Hi. >> Um, you know, I just happened to go to COA and they've it's expired again and when I put in the password, it didn't like it. So, I forgotten. Did we have a

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new password? Um, nothing recent. >> Well, do is it still PVH 298 at6 dollar sign PGC?

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>> I that sounds right. >> Well, I wonder why I didn't like it. Maybe um I capitalized something that should have been lowercase. You never know. Sorry, I'm trying to fix my thing here.

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>> Oh, no problem. I just get I mean is I was on Council on Aging this morning. I just get so annoying annoyed with this frequency in which they they you know cancel they say we're not active

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whatever tell us. It's very annoying. They So you don't just stay signed in? >> No, I suppose I should. Well, let's see. Rich is I need to admit Rich. >> I'm not I don't know that I consciously

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sign out though. >> Okay. >> But I double need to double check about that. >> So, how are you today? >> I'm good. How are you? >> I'm hanging in. I just spent an hour in my garden, so I feel as though I really accomplished something today.

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>> Oh, wow. >> Yeah. >> Did you see me? No. There we go. >> I just I have an awful lot of weeding to do. Beds didn't properly prepared winter. >> Hi, Rich. >> Nice. >> Thank you. It was a fun day today.

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>> Was it? >> I think your son had a good time. >> He came home soaking wet. >> Well, that he had a good time. >> Yep. >> And How was your New York trip? >> Oh, it was very good. We got we got to

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see Six Trolls at Sarin Lake right by uh Tyonderoga. Then we went up to Lake Placid on the last day and spent the day up there >> at the Olympic at the Olympic stuff and all the exhibits and everything. And it was a long day Wednesday coming back.

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>> I bet. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, um, shall we wait for Mary Joe before starting or shall we just go ahead and do the roll call and let Mary because we've got a quorum. We'll let Mary Joe come in when she wants when

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she's here. What do you think? >> That's fine with me. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I I didn't um print out the agenda. I wasn't really thinking. >> Okay. Well, it's the agenda is pretty

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straightforward. It's um well, call to order and roll call, lock boxes, puzzle book, nads, purchases, if time, brief reports on other programs on on our programs. But I'm wondering

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whether we should say something about um the most recent request from Ron. >> All right. Well, let's log in and do what we're supposed to do. >> You didn't see the most recent request. >> Um

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>> he sent he communicates via Council on Aging, but I think I also sent it. >> I believe I believe you sent it to me. It's my my mind's a blank today. It's been a long >> big week. >> Long couple of days. Yeah.

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>> Oh, Jessica, if you want to run the meeting, I will. Or um take notes. >> Okay. I just need help because I don't have the agenda. So, um if you want to go real quick to um my town government,

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you can find the agenda. Well, I hold on. I think I can plug. The problem is is my phone doesn't like to stay up here. >> Um, >> all right. I'll just keep it. Okay. I I have it on the email. So,

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>> Oh, good. >> Oh, yeah. I moved everything the makeup meeting. >> Are we ready? >> Yep. >> Yep. >> Calling uh tonight's special meeting on um June 15

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>> uh 15th at 5:04 p.m. with a roll call of Jessica make peace here. >> Millinger here. >> Uh Strangman here >> and hopefully Mary Joe at some point. >> Yes.

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>> I forgot to You don't text her. She does not tend to get the message. >> All right. So, first up is lockbox status. >> Yes. >> So, the lock boxes have been purchased, which is very exciting. We have

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approximately 20 people who have already um turned in their signin forms and I know that there's people that are interested that um have yet to turn in their signin forms or they might have actually I have to go and look at the

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mailbox because if they put them in the black box >> and it said COA on them, they might be sitting in our in our in our mailbox. >> Okay. >> Um without Devon even knowing, >> right? So, um there there may even be

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more. Um because of the year- end reports and everything for the fiscal year, um Devon said that they would start uh scheduling installations uh for July. >> Mhm. >> And that's it about that.

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>> Would you like me to send out an email every week of the email that I sent out for COA? Well, I don't want to bombard people with it >> or once a month or something. >> Um, so Haley just put it on her her Friday

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fives. >> Okay. Yes, I saw that. Yeah, >> but she used our old email address. >> All right. >> So, >> yes, which was a bummer. >> Yes, we have to make sure she knows that so she can have a correction next

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Friday. I know she I she's emailed us more than once, so I know that, you know, but so so I I'm I want to wait um since that just went out >> and probably wait another week.

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>> Okay. >> Yeah. Um, I also want to print out forms for for lunchon and um foot clinic and I I'm not sure what else.

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>> Forms. Huh? What' you say? >> What do you mean by time we do something? >> I didn't hear what you said still. I'm not sure what kind of forms you're printing out for >> sign up forms for the lock boxes.

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>> Oh, >> yes. >> But then you also said foot clinic and lunchon. Yes. >> Right. Right. >> You know, you want us to take them to those events >> at least. At least have them available. >> Oh, okay. >> If somebody wants to fill them out,

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>> so foot clinic is Wednesday. This Wednesday. >> Okay. >> Okay. I know there's some in that room because I saw them from the last tech talk we had. Um, so there I know there's some in

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there already. >> All right. So that's it about the lock boxes. >> Um, and then can we something on our >> Could you remind me how many total you bought? you never. >> We bought 50.

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>> 50. >> Yep. And we still have um I think it was like 1,200 left. $1,200 left um to buy more. So

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that's good. I mean, really, if you've got a minimum of 20 already spoken, that's great. >> Yeah. That's 20 more than we had before. >> That is. >> Yeah, >> that is. So,

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word of mouth though, if you know anybody that that that um would be interested or >> whatever, please please mention it. >> You know, I've I've started going to the um Thursday evening LOL's ladies who

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laugh and I would be take some there. There were a dozen people there. Yes. Last week. That's this week. >> Is that still a wine and cheese thing on Thursday? >> It's actually the supper. >> Oh, okay.

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>> Yeah. Any anywhere. And I want to put some We haven't um put theformational flyer up anywhere either. um I haven't got to do it and and it's just you know

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one other thing that I have have to do that I just haven't done >> but um like at the post office the library >> um >> hey it's a challenge to get everything done >> it is even though you go there you know you go buy them every day you know just

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>> just that extra time So, so yeah. Um, >> I don't I don't know if this is off topic, but what would you like me to do with the sheets of emails that we picked up at the town meeting? Um, Martha

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turned around and gave me per listings. So, I have five full pages and I have three ext uh three on another page. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We need to decide and I think we might

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need to consult with Gail um um the um yeah >> yeah I know who you're talking about >> the committee um broad you know the web committee chair because probably the best thing to do would be to put them on

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Google and I'm so resistant to using Google. >> Yeah. But I think that would be the best >> because we got we got like 40 43 people >> that never signed up for anything for

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Council of Aging that day. >> Okay. And I've got a bunch that were sent in to me that are still sitting on >> just want just letting you know that I had all those. That's all.

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>> So you have you have collected all those? I have I have eight nine pages of stuff. >> Um, so does that include foot clinic? >> No, this is just for an email sign up

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for the council of aging at the town meeting. >> Okay, that's you got a lot. That's great. >> Yes, we had quite a bit. >> Yeah. Um, and probably some of those are going to be duplicates, which I have. >> Yep. And that's why we need to see what

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they are and then cross them off and >> log them in >> to put them on the listing >> because they're willing to get emails from us. So, >> yeah. So, did we figure out why I can't log? Well, I mean, I the last couple times

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I've been able to log in with your help, Jess, without the two-step verification. Has that been addressed or >> we've completely discontinued the two-step verification? >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> perfect. Yeah, because there was there

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was no way to do it to where you somebody would always have when you're logging in, it would always do that. >> Mhm. >> And there was no way to turn that off. >> Okay. >> That they could figure out that would be easy enough for us.

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>> Right. And it didn't have like your phone or Susan's phone. I think it had someone else's phone. >> Jessica's phone. >> Yeah. So >> yeah, >> there was no way I could do that's why I reached out to you and you you you took care of it so I could send out that >> I don't know why it has my phone.

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>> I either >> Yeah, >> but it's had your phone from time to time, remember? Cuz I gotused. I thought you were person the hacker. >> Yeah. So >> I don't know. But yeah, that's been fixed.

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>> Perfect. Well, let's um let's put that on a future agenda, Rich, to just focus on what to do to compile all those >> okay >> email addresses and and find out what to do with them and who's going to do >> we'll cross reference them with what

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they have >> because we uh foot clinic really needs to make I started to make a list of um our clients and their emails and phone numbers, but we need to um complete that. We need and we need to do that

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online. >> So, can we add that put on agenda at a future meeting? >> Yep. >> Yeah. And we have all the ones that are in the email, too, from the last newsletter. >> Okay. Yeah. thought.

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>> Okay. >> Okay. So, the next item on the agenda, are we ready for the puzzle book? >> Yep. >> Okay. So, um I went online to find out more information about the creation of

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the puzzle book and whoever is in charge of the puzzle book. um because of some questions that were asked me when I talked about it at the LOL's and they really psyched about it, but they just had a lot of questions. So, I went back to the website to look

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and see what I could find and and um I could not find any links that worked to puzzle books at her website, but there were. And as Jessica pointed out, she's um created a lot of books, mostly for

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children, I think, which are accessible. You can purchase them on Amazon, >> but she doesn't have anything um available for um town the for the town puzzle books. So, I finally emailed her with a bunch of questions and she got

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right back to me and I sent it to Jessica. I did Jessica on the correspondence. I don't think I sent it to anybody else, but I feel um a lot better about it. She's um she's had 18 towns sign up to want to do it, but

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nobody has finished it yet, which is why she doesn't have anything a vis a available to look at. But I also found a lot more out a lot more about the books themselves and the puzzles themselves. She is going to put out little books 6

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by9. So, they're not terribly big, right? Six by 9 in >> with um 30 puzzles and basically 60 pages because one page is the uh questions, the clues, and the other puzzle.

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>> Okay. And there are 20 words per puzzle. So, it's not very puzzle. >> Mhm. >> And um and I guess we can do up to 30. I suppose we could do less. And I asked

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her because the LOL's asked me this, could some of the puzzles be for children? And she said, "Yeah, sure." And she talked about how she could identify them as being for children. So, in addition, the booklets will have um if anybody who

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contributes who wants to have their name in the book um she's figuring another possibly 15 pages with names of contributors, which is a lot. >> Mhm.

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So, um, it's all beginning and she and she's really well organized and she's good about getting back to you and she's good about answering specific questions. So, I'm feeling a lot better about it. Um, and people I mention it to seem

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psyched about it. I did run into one problem when I mentioned it to Linda Ava Scott, the former chair in my weekly conversation with her. She said that in her opinion, I should

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doublech check with the town that it's okay for us to do this and I should go to I should contact the town manager and ask her to contact um Donna, our lawyer. Now, I personally do not think that's

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necessary because in the old days, EEOA insisted that we only deal that COAs only deal with nonprofits, but they don't do that anymore. I got a very clear I asked that question to the head guy, Adam Frank Adams or Adam

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Frank, I think he's Adam Frank. Um, and he said, "No, no, no. Now you can you can purchase you can work with anybody you want to." >> Okay. So, what do you all what do you all think about that? >> I don't see a problem with running it by

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the select board or the town administrator. >> Oh, I don't see any problem either. Okay. >> Right. >> Yeah. No problem. >> And that's as far as you should do it. I don't think you should take it any further than that. >> Okay. Okay. That does sound good.

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Yeah. So, I'll just email everybody with um I will email the select board and town administrator with a description of what it is in the the puddle the puzzle books involve >> and um information about the fact that

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as far as aging and independence is concerned, we can certainly deal with profitm organizations. So, okay. So my other big question is I I think this would be more fun if people

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did this in a group rather than just sitting at home and sending answers and and clues in um because you could you generate ideas among yourself in a group which you wouldn't if

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>> individually. Yeah. >> Much better than if you're just sitting at home and it becomes a fun activity. So, what do you think? I mean, I I can think of um you know, I can think of LOL's would be a group and and I think I

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would ask the former friends of the historical commission and the historical commission if there'd be some interest there in just getting together on Zoom as a group and doing it. And maybe they would and maybe there wouldn't, but it's worth asking. >> Oh, okay. on Zoom cuz I was thinking

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we've talked in the past about game night. >> Oh, >> remember we did that? >> Oh, >> would that be that would fall in the category? >> It would it would um

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how I was thinking of getting started on it this this summer and I think it was going to be challenging to organize something like that in the summer. So, we could do the we could do the Zoom version of that. >> Yeah, we could.

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What do you think? You want to You want to wait and and and make it a part of a game night? >> We've been trying. We've been kicking that around for a couple of months. >> Game some game thing to do. Um,

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and it just came up that that that sounds like a good thing, but I think we'd have to find the interest first. So, if we did a Zoom with it to see how it took off, if it took off at all. Um, and it can just be

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a Zoom game night. This doesn't have to be in person. I mean, this is in I see Jess. I see you. This is in person kind of. >> We did think about it as um something that would be good to do in the senior lounge to get people to the senior

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lounge. >> Yeah. >> Although frankly if we did it at the library right now that's because it's new and different. That's a big draw. >> Yeah. But I, you know, I did think that if we are seriously going to have some

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children's puzzles, would be nice to give it to the school classes to the teachers and let them decide what they want to do about it if some classes would like to do it. So that would be next fall, >> right? Correct. >> Yeah, because they're done as of Thursday.

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>> Yeah. Well, this could be a work in progress for the rest of the summer and then seriously hit it September. >> Yep. >> Are you thinking about putting it out on town announce?

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Not the the the the puzzle book idea like to to if there is like somebody that doesn't want to join a group to just send us your question and answer or something. >> Oh yeah. I think I agree. I think definitely there should be an option if

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somebody just wants to sit down and do it. >> Right. >> Right. >> Okay. >> I think I might ask my reading group if they'd like to do it. And that's a small group, but it matters how big the group is. Mhm. Yeah.

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>> Okay. So, um what are your instructions to me at this point to explore different possible groups who might be interested? >> Definitely to check first with um select board of the town administrator,

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>> right? and then go into the groups that you know and see if that would be something that they would do and how how they would how we would do it. I'd like to talk to Leslie Bracebridge about this because she's our f of h

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information about history and she might have ideas about um people who are interested in history getting together and >> Matt too. >> Yeah. >> And Matteo would be a good one too

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because he's been doing a lot with with the history of shoots. >> Yeah. Uh and Lesie might be able to get together if she wanted to some. She was active in the friends of the historical commission. >> She would be a good person to get some

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of those folks together. Any interested Well, you know, I really was just dying for another task. >> I'm sure you were. >> Yeah. >> But I think I think you think that's enough for me to go on at this point for

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us all. Okay. >> Yeah. We need to find the interest. to see if we proceed with >> we might be able to get get a hold of um the shoots for AC club too and um

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maybe even just have a notebook there. People could write in, you know. >> Mhm. >> Uhhuh. it because that could be people that are not even from town but could you know remember things or or you know once

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lived here or whatever. >> Yeah. >> And some contact for Biola people. >> I didn't hear you. What? >> Some contact for the Lake Wyola people. Oh, the the the

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like the um the LWAC you mean for the >> you know or just um I mean I've I've met people at um I've got increasing contacts among Lake Wyola people both from foot care and also from um Lake

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LOL's and I could just ask some of those folks what do you think is it is it would it be fun to get together a group of your friends to work on this and see if if they you know if if they think one of the the association or lack

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Yeah. Okay. So you all can generate ideas about possible people groups and send them to me. Okay. >> Okay. So, thank you. I think that's it for this for now.

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>> All right. Uh, next is NAD's update. >> Oh, the NADS update. >> Yes. Um well, one of the things I found out is that um

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memory cafes are pretty much going to stop over the summer because it's too challenging getting people together and it's and they're having it's challenging anyway to get people to come to memory cafe and we're talking about the need to

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think about it a different way. The thing is there are a lot of people in town who probably have memory issues, but they don't all want to talk about it and they don't all want to acknowledge that they have. >> Mhm. >> And it's been found that for small towns

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especially, people tend to want to go to if they're going to a memory cafe of something like that, they go to a different town >> where where the people in the group don't know them. Mhm. >> So,

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but um Life Path has run out of money to run um a weekly actually I think they were bi-weekly groups for um people with memory issues and their caretakers that were extremely wellreceived.

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So there's a possibility that if we reach out to the those the people that went there, some of them might be interested in coming to Shootsbury to to some sort of me. But theirs was much more elaborate. It was longer bigger chunk of the day and there were

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more activities. You know think they did it life path did it in Greenfield so big had a bigger basis. So I don't I don't know whether we could really anyway we'll see. But that's other than that um NADS is talking about various

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possible topics for I think the fall and and we'll see in terms of presentations and in terms of activities. So I I guess we'll see what what's happening there. So that's my update on NAPS.

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All right. uh Kurig and uh cell phone is next possible purchases. >> Yeah. >> Um we were um Susan and I have been

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talking about wanting to purchase a curig um for the senior center for >> Yes. um for the lunchon, but also for um like if they have tech talk >> or um the foot clinic

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>> or something where people can make a cup of coffee without having to make a pot of coffee. >> Mhm. >> Um you know, and um I thought that was a really good idea. >> And you you said that you could find one,

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didn't you? And the last time we talked about it, instead of purchasing a brand new one, you said that there's you may have a used one or that would work. >> Yeah, I thought that's Yeah. No, >> not me.

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>> Okay. >> Wasn't me. >> It came It came up. I remember I remember hearing it. It wasn't me because I don't drink coffee. >> There was somebody who thought they could maybe get them for one for a good price, >> right? Or something like that. Yeah.

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Okay. Maybe it was um >> I don't think it was Mary Cho. >> No. >> Or maybe it was Janette. >> Janette maybe. Or was Mather on one of these a couple of months ago? Maybe. But be that as I may. I I think it's a

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good idea because they're out. >> They may have said we can get a cheap one off Amazon. >> Okay. Nice. And we can use we can use the town's um >> account >> um account so we wouldn't have to pay taxes. >> Okay. All right. But it is a good idea

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especially for the lunchons. Uh people are at I mean especially in the winter time we have tea and hot chocolate. Um and some people just like coffee when they have lunch. So

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>> Right. Yep. So, have we made a decision to get one? >> Yeah, >> I'm fine with getting one. Do we take a vote? >> Yeah. I mean, I suppose we ought Do we Are we going to have to have a vote on this?

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>> I don't know. Do we need a vote? >> Well, if we're going to use our money, I suppose we need to take a vote. >> Okay. >> All right. So, um I propose that we buy a cure egg for the

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senior center and um stock it with with um K cups and um >> probably some some kind of um styrofoam cups or something, >> right? >> Not styrofoam, please. But not

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styrofoam, but some kind of some kind of a hot cup. Yeah, milk and sugar available. We can of those um shelf safe milks maybe, >> right? We can do we can do creamers of things that don't need refrigeration. >> Okay. >> Yeah, those those little creamers.

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>> Yeah. >> Um so do we have a second? >> Oh, Strang second. >> Okay. >> All right. All in favor make peace. I Milling or I. strying my eye.

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>> Okay. So, now the question is who's going to do this? >> Um, so I don't know exactly how to use the um the website. I know we can use on the Amazon website and I think Brennan

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can help us. >> Okay. >> At least show one of us how to use it. >> Mhm. So, I mean, I hate I hate to say this, but does that mean that that you're going to you're volunteering to do it or you're just pointing out what needs to be done?

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>> Um, I can do it. >> You sure you've been a lot lately? >> No, I can do it. I have to stop up and see Devon anyway. Um, so it's just knowing just figuring out how to log into the to the website. I'm

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the treasurer, so I can do it. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> And then then I'll teach someone else to do it. Rich. >> Okay. So that's the curig. And the thing about the cell phone is um the phone

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service we have now is the phone is in the senior lounge and the town pays for it. >> Mhm. >> And it's has a number that you can um you know you you dial the number from your own phone and you can access it for

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calls. The problem is I'm the one right now who's been responsible for checking calls and I am really really bad >> about going into it on a regular basis. If we had a cell phone at home that would ring.

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>> Okay. >> I would answer the calls >> in a reasonable I mean I would answer the calls period. >> Mhm. Um, and and unless somebody else who's good about phones would be willing to take it over, it makes more sense to

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me to get a cell phone that can get passed on from one person to the other. And Jessica knows all about track phones. >> Well, that's what I was thinking as you're talking about this. We need something like that. Uh, we don't need long distance. We don't need, you know.

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>> Yeah. We don't need a monthly plan. It's easier just to buy the track with the minutes >> and purchase 45 minutes or whatever for >> Well, if you if you buy it for a year, I I looked up um the prices. If you do a

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year at a time, you get a discount. >> Okay. >> And it's $144. >> That's a bucks a month. Yeah. That Yeah. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> I I'm not sure how many minutes that entails. I I I looked at it, but I don't

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remember what it said. >> Well, any calls that was >> I don't we don't So, like Susan said, sometimes we don't get any calls. >> Sometimes we get two or three. So, it's using limited numbers of minutes anyway.

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>> So, you know, even if you talk to somebody for 15 minutes, it's not going to drain like 200 minutes a month. >> Yeah. Um, >> so I think that >> for five minutes. >> Yeah.

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>> What did you say? >> I said you're more likely to talk to somebody for five minutes. >> Right. >> And then that be added to all the things that we do, all the tech talk, all the lunchons and just that would be the number to get a hold of to do all these

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things to register to do this and do that for us. >> Yes. and and I'm supposed to and I haven't yet um contact shed and see if they would transfer the existing number to the phone and I don't know whether they'll do that but I can I'm going to call and ask.

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>> Okay. >> Do you need to vote on that? >> Yeah, I think we probably should. Might >> as well. We did the coffee. Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, I propose that we buy the COA a cell phone for

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um a track phone with minutes so that it's easy to keep track of phone calls and messages that can be easily passed around to members um that are willing to answer the phone.

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>> Strongman seconds the motion. All in favor make these I >> millinger I strying on I. >> So um I'm assuming that you you would buy it online, right? The track phone. >> Yeah, we can buy that right through

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Amazon as well. >> Right. So once you figure out the copy thing, you can just go and >> Right. So unless somebody else wants to volunteer, I would be willing to to buy the track phone once um we find out from shed whether they would transfer the number.

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>> Well, we can do it using the website. >> Okay. Which you know how to do and or can find out. >> Find out. >> She will know. That way we make two purchases on that same thing. So >> yeah, >> we have two things to purchase. Cell

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phone and the coffee maker. >> Yes. No. And what else? Whatever else we can figure out right now. >> Creamers, sugars. >> Yes. >> Pops. >> Some supplies. Yes. I'm sure they have everything on Amazon. They have everything for everything,

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>> right? Yeah. God, I hate to use Amazon. >> I'm really leftover from an earlier generation. >> No, that's that's I get you. I know. Amazon saves me so much time.

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>> If you need something at the store and you go to Walmart and they don't have it and you go to Target and they don't have it, >> like all you have to do is look it up on your phone, push a button, >> and the next day it's here. >> My son and daughter do that all the time. It's like I get packages. What did

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you buy now? Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. I just go to the I just go online and look around and try to find out, you know, who's the cheapest and who and um or who makes it if possible. >> Get it from who makes it. And it doesn't take a lot longer than getting it from Amazon, but

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>> no, but a lot of stores, they don't have stock. You you may know that this thing is at we'll say Walmart or Target, and the stock's out, so they're going to send it to you anyway. So, >> they get to coming and going.

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and Amazon. Um, I don't know. I probably So, the Amazon has business accounts >> and you can buy in bulk and it's cheaper. >> Um, because that's what I do with my business. I can buy cleaning stuff in bulk and it's so much cheaper, >> right,

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>> from Amazon. So, one of the problems with is my tenants buy stuff like every day somebody comes to make a delivery of something they bought. >> And when Prime comes, they are really

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annoying about where they put it. In the winter, they insist on putting it on my deck, which is surrounded by snow and which I don't go out on, and it's going to the tenant anyway, which that's not their deck. So, I get really pissed. Excuse my lang.

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Plus, they if you live in the country, they block your road all the time because they're outside of a >> they're Yes, they do everything. Yeah. >> Okay. So, do we have time to um just run through our brief reports on our on um

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community lunch clinic, block boxes, and tech? Oh, we've already done left boxes tech talk or should we deal briefly with Ron's letter? >> Whatever works for you guys. >> Do we do we know what happened at that town meeting on the 9th?

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>> Yes, just there. >> Okay. >> Yep. They um they didn't really respond to Ron personally, but they did um so they want to change the um Lake Wyola

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committee um to being different members um from select board and planning board and and some community members. They went from like 11 to 12. But then they also said that they so um Rita was

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saying that every year when Tim Hunting was here like they would go around to the private roads and say you need to do this this and that to safely plow and maintain your road in winter, >> right? >> Well, they haven't done that since Tim Tim Hunting left.

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>> And now this opened up a huge kit of worms and they're going to assess all the roads. >> Oh. hold the private drives and the roads at the lake >> and then get back to the L El Lwok

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people, Elwac people and let them know which roads need to be maintained better or fixed and the private roads that are are done as well like Carver Road and Briggs Road um where they have to fix

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a certain amount of of of the road or whatever for them to to plow. It might be opening up a huge can of worms where they may not they may say at the end we we're not going to plow any of your roads.

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>> Yeah, but at least they knowing about all the roads and how they are. I I think it's a good idea what they're trying to do. I mean, we could just specifically go, let's deal with Ron's problem, but it's not really Ron's problem. It's the town's problem. So,

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let's let them do their thing. And when they come back with whatever it is, then we can move forward with it. As far as >> I agree, but also they did not treat Ron well. And they deserve Ron deserves some

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explanations and I think frankly an apology because in the middle of the winter without any warning and without any explanation, they just quit plowing him. And that was not right. And you would think that in this meeting they that would have been the first thing that

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they said this is what's what happened and this what this is what's leading us to do this and then proceed to do what they were doing. They needed to do that step first which you would think that's

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what should have happened >> and that's what our letter um our really excellent letter that Jessica wrote um >> that's what our letter asked them to do. Yeah. And it would have been what a paragraph worth of thing for them to talk like two or three minutes and you

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know this has happened to one of our residents and this is what we need to do moving forward and then proceed with what they're going to do moving forward which would have satisfied Ron >> if they had said something like that. So

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two minutes of their time. What did >> the only thing they mentioned was that um Haley did mention that um the road should be reme-measured because there was um snow banks and and ice >> the day that they did it. So that could

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be that it's a little bit wider than >> um they originally had had said. >> Mhm. Did um did Haley say that or did you say that? >> I'm pretty sure Haley said that. >> Okay. Because somebody said that to me

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um before the meeting. Maybe it was Mary Joe. >> I don't know. Anyway, I had forgotten that. Well, I can't really I can't really understand conversations if I go to live to to um

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select board meeting because of the way they talk to one another and the Zoom people. They don't talk to the people in the back. So, I am um going to quit trying to go in person and just go on Zoom >> hear what's happening. It's really

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frustrating >> and it isn't me. Petty Kim was down there sitting down there and she couldn't hear anything either. So if you're deaf, you get discriminated against. >> Um Dave also was not at that meeting. The highway boss

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>> really >> he was not there. >> He wasn't there. And um and Ron's neighbor spoke up to for him. >> Okay. >> But that was pretty much it.

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Yeah. So, um, should we send a brief note to the select board and the town administrators saying that we are disappointed that our concerns were not and runs were not addressed and we we would hope that at the next select board

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meeting, they would ex just answer those simple questions. Um, >> I mean it's really not right for them totally ignore something that the COA sends to them. >> Right. >> Right.

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>> But I think then moving forward with what's been going on in the past for them to actually look at all the roads and figure out how they are going to move in the future. That's a big step for them. >> Yes. It's opening up a big can of worms.

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And I I know the way that they treated Ron at the beginning of this was not if it happened to Jess or if it happened to you, we feel would all feel the same way. But I don't think they think of it like that. They think of it as a a concern

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that someone had. All right, we're going to do A, B, and C now to do that. And you know, I'm sorry, Susan, that it bothered you that you didn't get your thing plowed, but I I think that's their mindset. >> Well, okay. So, if we send them I think

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we should send them something and it certainly we could acknowledge that they're trying to solve the problem or looking again at their whole problem, which we think is a good idea, >> but also we specifically ask them for >> to address.

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>> Yeah. And we think it's still deserved. I mean, you know, off the record, I know, and I'd be happy to say this to Haley, Ron can be extremely annoying, but that's no excuse for treating a senior citizen or any citizen,

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>> right, >> so rudely >> and the rude one probably was the department of high the highway department guy. >> It still would be nice if interesting if you went and talked to him, Ron.

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>> Yeah. Ron card. One more. Rich. >> I'll see if he's around tomorrow and see. >> But it didn't even sound like it was his choice. It it sounded more it was the the the Boron guy >> that plows.

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>> Yeah. >> It didn't sound like that it came from the town to the plow driver. I think it came from the plow driver to the town. I'm not doing it anymore is what it sounds like to me.

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>> Mhm. >> Yeah. Impression that it was more the plow guy came to Gier and said, "I don't want to do this any longer." And the Gier said, "Okay, okay." >> Yeah. >> That that's some responsibility that he has. And he also

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Ron called him five times and he never answered. >> Yeah. But I think that's the difference between him and Tim. Tim would have Tim did secure the situation because he knew it was going to be going on. >> Yeah.

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>> Um and I don't think that Dave has that understanding of the town. Does that make sense? >> Yeah, it does. That he sense that I don't think he has a sense that he has responsibility for the residents of the town. >> Yeah. I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

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see if I can stop in and see them and see what's going on. >> Thank you. >> I just figured I was going to do that, but then they had the town meeting. It was like, well, why? Let's find out what they decided to do and um they did and

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I'm happy to do that. Just get an idea. >> Yeah. >> Now, whether he ever plows the front of my house again, who knows? But he's got to. >> Guess you live on Lever Road. >> Yeah. And I'm I've got a driveway that's

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privately proud plowed. I hope. Yeah. So, what's the sentiment on me writing a brief note saying, "Thank you for what you did, but we still want you to answer Ron's concerns if and briefly would be fine."

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And by letter would be fine. >> Yeah. Um, and how could you put that? The end result is what we wanted for them to look at all the to look at the roads. >> Yes. But we also >> but to get that to get that they needed

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to acknowledge that there was a problem. >> Yeah. >> To address that to Ron. >> Yeah. >> That they were going to do something. >> Yeah. >> But I don't know how you would say that. >> I don't think it'd be hard.

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>> Okay. So, you want me to um draft something for our next meeting, which isn't going to be all that far away. >> I'll sort I'll base it on what Jessica said.

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>> Yeah. >> Just to remind them what what they said, you know, to to thank them for rethinking how they're handling the road situation at Lake Wyola. Are they really rethinking it or were

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they just giving smoke and mirrors? >> Well, yeah. That >> that's a pretty big order for them to go around and check all the I mean, we have a new auditor in town uh as assessor or whatever for real estate stuff.

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>> No, >> I have no idea. >> Okay. I believe we do. Um, so I mean, >> well, that that they said that a member of the select board um would travel with Dave while they inspected the roads as well. >> Oh, okay.

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>> Yeah. >> So, presumably that that might be Eric because that's his responsibility. Road. >> Melissa said it was she was going to do it. >> Oh, >> she volunteered to do it. >> Oh, good. Oh, good.

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I guess um the majority of the the plowing what is spent on the plowing comes from the lake roads from what they were saying at the meeting. >> Okay.

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>> It's it's a big it's a big big bill >> undertaken. Yeah. >> There were a lot of boats down there. You know, it's a big bill, but they committed to it number of years ago. >> Mhm.

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>> And I don't see how you can just totally uncommit. >> Yeah. In the middle of the winter, that's not If you want to do it in the spring and bring it to people's attention, so be it. But don't cut them off at the knees

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at the beginning of the winter or the middle of the winter. All right. So, if you do that, Susan, and send it out, then we can look at it and see how it looks. >> Yeah, you can get that. Rich, say again, please.

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>> If you do that and send it to us, then we can look at it for the next meeting and >> Okay. >> That'd be good. Sorry if you can hear my dog breathing. That's >> I just >> She's a bulldog, so she has that that

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loud panting and breathing. >> Oh, >> and she's sitting here on me. So, can we do tech talk now? >> Yeah, sure. >> Okay, that went really well. Um, I was the only one that had an Android.

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Everybody else has an iPhone or whatever. So, um, that's okay because I understand my phone, but a lot of people in town don't understand their phone whatsoever. And it's very very helpful

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for Barbara to do that. >> I'm I'm an Android lover. >> Okay. >> I'm I'm not an iPhone. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I have it. And it's like I have a a laptop that's a Mac. So

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that's if I want anything done, I can do it quickly. But my phone is a phone. It's not I don't want to do everything on it. So, >> how many people came to the last one? >> I believe it was five, including me. >> Yeah.

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>> One of the women came with Barbara. She was there the last time, Susan. >> Oh, right. >> Yes, she came. Um, >> she one of the five. >> Yes, she was one of the five. Those >> five, including you and also the woman

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that came with Barbara. >> So, there was five plus Barbara. So, there was six of us there. Okay. And that's sort of a typical size. >> Yes, >> Ben, wouldn't you say? >> Yes, >> I see. >> But it's always different. It's

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different people. It's not the same, which is good because they're reading. There was a couple of women that responded that said that they were going to go and they never came. But that's okay. >> Yeah, it happens. >> Yeah.

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>> I I sent the invoice in for for Gail >> and I had to write up little snippets of each one for her for the grant. So, I did that. So, that's all taken care of on that side.

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>> Okay. But I told um um Susan that Janice will be proud that we wrapped this up because this is something that Janice started a long time ago with the with with talking about the um the um

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um internet equity or whatever it was with with um Michael Dara. And so that started a long time ago and we're we're it felt good to wrap it up. >> I'm wondering whether we might want to

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do something in the future. >> Rich. >> Yeah. >> Talk about that. Maybe doing something in the future in the fall. >> We can next year. >> Yeah. we can see what ideas that she has or >> we also, you know, there's free help

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from um uh Greenfield Community College. >> Oh, okay. >> I'd really like to see a Google class, series of Google classes. Mhm. >> And um I think they are

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>> You mean like using Google Drives and >> Yes. >> all that? >> Yes. And the spreadsheet, the Google whatever the heck it is. >> Yeah. Because you know, a lot of people nowadays insist on you doing that.

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Yeah, Google kind of owns the world, doesn't it? It does tech. Anything else? Um >> um I do have one thing for unanticipated business that I talked to um Susan about

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is um having a running task list so we know who's doing what. >> Mhm. Um, so I kind of felt and and I I told Susan this, I was kind of pushed on

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to writing that letter for Ron. >> Um, it was kind of just handed to me and and I have a lot on my plate with the lock boxes. I mean, I didn't mind doing it, >> right? But we need to make it make sense

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where with Mary Joe, she was the one that was um um engaged in in most of the Birch Drive stuff, >> right? >> Where I think I think it would have made sense for her to do >> her to do. Yes. >> But if we have like a task list and like

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a like like for you, Rich, you have your website, you had Tik Tok, you had you know whatever you had going off. So now that Tik Tok is done, that drops off and we're able to say, "Rich, you know,

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here's your new task or, >> you know, or or project or whatever it is, >> right?" >> Um, like a lot of projects fall under numerous people like >> like even a tech talk did with you and Susan. Well, and me too cuz I was

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dealing with with the the invoices and stuff. >> Correct. Um, that way we can take a look and see, oh, you're doing a awful lot of work. What do you need help with? You know, >> and it it kind of makes sense to keep track of it, I think.

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>> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And who would put that together, Jess? >> That's a trick question, isn't it? >> Okay. I think it'll be just be generated in the minutes because, you know, basically we could just be at the end of the

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minutes. >> Correct. >> Well, once we once we have it, >> then it's just once we have everything down, then it's just removing something >> and, you know, removing it and then adding something at the end of the month

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after the meeting. you know, Janette's going to um do this and Rich is gonna do that that we we we said at the meeting and then, you know, so so it would only really be touched when we're like one

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one time a month, >> you know. >> So, yes, I offer to put that together. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And I tell you what I do. Um, but I think we need something a little more formal than this. What I'm supposed to

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do for cemetery commission minutes is I, um, pick a different color for each of the three of us and I identify in the minutes what somebody said they were going to do. And then up at the top of the minutes, I just indicate what the colors are. >> Okay. >> Or who gets what color.

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>> Well, I've seen you put in our initials, though. >> Sorry. You've put in initials. >> Yes, I put in initials. >> Well, we can do initials with a block with a color in it. >> Yeah. >> I get orange. I get orange. >> Yeah.

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>> Make me a color. I'm a color. >> I'm orange. >> Your own color. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I seem um so Jessica and I seem to have come out of this meeting with ta new tasks.

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There there was one other thing >> that there was there was one other thing. Um and I was just going to say it and now I lost it. >> Oh, I lost it after you said that. >> Never mind. Never mind.

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>> It'll come to you. >> It might. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, what task would you like? >> To talk about if we're supposed to talk about our ongoing projects, I will just say that um last community lunch went well. It was a little small. I think

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there were maybe um 10 of us. Rich, were you you were you were there? >> Yes, I was. I was at the other table. >> So, do you think because I thought initially we'd all sit around one table, but it was got too big. >> We just had enough for two. We had enough for two. I think we had five and

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six or something like that at each table. >> We had 10 or 11 people. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But, you know, that's not really terribly small, but it was it was a good group and Jonah Hansen came. >> It was a good um talk amongst us of

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what's going on. The communication's always good and engaging. >> Yeah. >> So, >> yeah. So in terms of um the foot clinic, I mean I think foot clinic went along

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well. I don't remember any, you know, Donna and I share it and um I don't I don't we had a pretty normal turnout which is probably 12 and um we're going to have a long day Wednesday

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because uh we just ended up adding people and then two people cancelled it. So there's going to be a space in the middle of the day. So running from 30 to 4:30. Mhm. >> Which is a long day.

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>> Yeah. >> But um it's partly because of the Well, if they Yeah. If they hadn't cancelled, we'd still have had a long day, >> right? But we we addressed the situation where the person wanted to get in every every month. >> Yeah. >> We addressed that.

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>> Yeah, we did. >> And Donna seems very capable of handling whatever comes her way. >> Oh, yeah. She is. So, that's not a a concern that I have. >> We're just having to iron out, especially for this week, um we're just

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having to iron out who does what and making sure that we tell the other person what we've done, >> right? >> Yeah. >> And summertime's different. It's, you know, people are going away, they're doing this, they're doing that. For them to all of a sudden cancel.

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>> Yeah. I mean it's not it's >> you know if we had anybody on the um on the wait list but we didn't have anybody on the wait list so Donna took one of the class one of the vacancies and the other one going to give to Simone for lunch break which she

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>> needs anyway. >> So so that's so that's all I think for the projects. >> Okay. So, Rich, are you interested in taking on anything new? >> Um, sure. What would you

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want me to take on? >> Well, I think it's up to you to take on for something that interests you. >> Oh, >> if you want to plan a computer for the fall, computer a workshop. >> I don't think you probably want to take

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on puzzle book. I've gotten too involved in that. >> Yeah, I guess I can reach out and see who could do it, who would be able to give us a better understanding of what our

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computers do and can't do and so on and so forth like we do with the tech talk with the phones. Um, let me let me see. I'm not sure when's the next meeting. July >> July 8th.

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>> Okay. >> I think we have um we have Lenny coming in July. >> Okay. >> For for the fire truck. >> Yeah, it is the 8th because Wednesday >> it is the ETH because the Monday is um the first is a Wednesday. Okay.

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>> Yeah. >> Um I'm not going to be here. >> Yeah. So, you're not going to be here? >> No. So, um, the community lunch will be the 7th. >> Yeah, I won't be here for that either. >> Are you are you going to be gone that whole week?

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>> I'm going to be gone for a couple of weeks. Yeah. >> So, is this your Europe trip? >> Um, that's a possibility. Yes. >> Oh, that's neat. >> Yeah. >> So, I think I might as well do them while I can. Absolutely.

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>> I doing so. >> Well, we can't ask you to take on community lunch because um Susie and um and Sally and Dave are taking care of community lunch. So, >> yeah, that's good. >> Well, I would I would like I would like

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you to take on um ordering from Amazon once we learn how to do it. >> Okay. I'll be happy to do that, Jess. what once we learn how to do it. >> Okay. >> Um and then at least at least you know and because you're at you're at

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community lunch and if we're low on >> right >> if we're low on sugar >> supplies >> low on coffee pods then you can order it >> and um I'm not quite sure. I think I still have to put the warrant in. >> Mhm.

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>> Um with the invoice that comes from I don't know. I have to learn how to do it. Okay. And you're gonna see Brendan anyway to help you with the ordering process with for Amazon.

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How to use the town account. >> Um if you go there and I'm around, I'm happy to come in and >> watch what you're doing. That's not a problem. >> So, you know, you could also take over the other town announces that we do

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because you know how to do town announcements. >> Sure. Sure. That's I I like that. I mean, Jess asked me to do something and what that evening I went to do it and I couldn't do it. But as soon as I got unlocked, >> I put it out in the morning.

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>> That was >> I'll tell you, we ended up with like eight emails back >> did >> asking about lock boxes. >> Excellent. All right. So, >> yes. Yeah. >> Yeah. I like I can do that. I guess, you know, and even a bigger issue than the

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um town announce is that although you like you're you know what you're doing and they're pretty straightforward putting together deciding what to do about the emails we're collecting for our seniors. >> Okay. So, we'd have to get a hold of Gail to

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find out what the what listings she already has and cross referencing them with these. Okay. and get to the point where we could add emails at our leisure where we pick them up and put them on the list. >> Yes. Yes. And if there's any that want

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to unsubscribe because that day when we were talking to them at the town meeting, we explained to them that, you know, if you if you don't want this, at the bottom it says unsubscribe. Please use that. >> Um, so

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but to get so many that was phenomenal that day, >> I'll say. >> Yeah. So the whole idea is how to get them on somewhere on the computer. So I mean I think they probably with a Google spreadsheet.

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>> Yeah. >> And I will need to get them the ones I have to you. >> Okay. >> But I'm not going to do it right away, Rich. So there's no rush on this. Okay. >> The lockbox program will have emails with that as well.

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and we can cross reference and turn them off of this the email. >> And Deon also said he would share the um the Sanford for Seniors email list. >> Okay. >> He said he doesn't have all of them, but he has some >> because they mostly do it by phone,

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>> right? >> You know, you could also um just send around a a signup sheet at community lunch and get people's emails that way. especially the newer people that come in every now and then for the lunch. The

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the regulars are already they're on the list. That's why they're, you know, one of the reasons why they're there. >> Yeah. >> Um Oh, your idea really took off, Jess. It >> did. Well, it's not my idea. It's been it's

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been a program in the in in in the United States for quite a while. >> Well, it definitely wasn't my idea. >> Well, for our committee, yes, it was. >> Yes, it was. I had actually brought it to our old chief of police.

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>> Yeah. when I learned about it. Um, it was when I first started on Council on Aging and Orange had implemented it and I saw it on Facebook >> and I'm like, "Oh my god, Kristen, look at this great program." And she said to

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me, "It's in the works and I'm like, great." >> Yeah. It's >> But nothing ever happened. >> Yeah. So, so when when Devin came on and I knew I mean he hadn't even been sworn in yet

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when I cornered him about it. >> Yeah. >> And I knew that that there there was a grant out there and you know why not why not try >> right >> the worst they can say >> all they can say is no. Exactly. >> Right.

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>> Mhm. So, >> the one question I had that I totally had that brain malfunction, >> um, are we all set with our our yearly report? Do you need anything with that?

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>> Oh, the annual report. Um, yeah. I mean, I should put that I don't we haven't gotten a notice about that from AG and um and Independence, >> but summer project, right? Oh, yeah. I

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know. And you you mean the town annual for us? >> Lord, I hadn't thought about it. Um, but I guess once we get into July, I'll probably start working on it. >> Okay.

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>> And I will let you know then. >> Well, if you need anything for it. >> Okay. I have to I have to get a hold of the accountant after I submit this last bill and get our reports to make sure that we're on track with with um my

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numbers and her numbers. >> Um I probably I probably will ask you for totals. >> Yeah. >> Financial totals for the year. I would imagine. >> Yeah, I'll get those after right after I

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get um right after the foot clinic. I'll I'll do Simone's um invoice and then add in the the fees that are paid and and then have her run the reports >> and then this summer we can think about

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how we're going to spend this money we have not spent. Mhm. >> Well, the so when she pays the foot clinic, it comes out of the grant. >> Okay. >> And the revolving fund

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um just keeps piling up. >> Yeah. >> So, there's less restrictions on on the ways we can spend the revolving grants or the revolving money. Like we can we can use the revolving money for our our

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coffee pot and our cell phone. >> Mhm. >> Where that might not fall under the grant, you know? >> Right. >> Yeah. >> I don't know. Do we ever have to report on our grant what we use the money for or is that what the annual report is

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for? >> Yeah, that's in that's in the report. They don't really ask. Um, it's more important for us to tell them what we support than how much money we spend on it. You know, we'll see.

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>> So, I mean, we've we've been pretty active this year. >> We have. >> We've been very active this year. >> I agree. >> And to me, it's just normal. I don't You guys have been I came on and watching what you guys have been doing.

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>> Yes. when when when I came on, they just got back into doing uh the lunchons. >> Mhm. >> So, they didn't have hardly anything going >> at that point. >> Yeah. I mean, all we had before that was

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um all during the pandemic was basically just uh foot care >> and the foot care nan mostly went to people Nan went to people's homes, >> right? And they were asked to pay as much as they were comfortable and then COA paid

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>> to buy the rest. Yeah. >> But foot care by nurses was expensive. >> Mhm. >> So I don't think we ended up with a lot of surplus. >> No. >> Yeah. We were in the red the first year I came on. >> Yeah. I know.

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Well, I think um Martha was not financially skilled. Um she's got a lot of got a lot of good traits as a chair, but that but it was a bit much for her to deal with. Well, they had they had the different um

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um the different way they were charging too when when they came back to started at the the foot the uh town hall where they were charging per hour and per person. >> That was a whole different

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>> ball game. >> Yeah. >> So, >> Oh, yeah. That's >> I just don't that wasn't really expected, I don't think. >> Yeah. That Yes. We really got screwed that way and that was what got us into the financial problem. You're right. >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Changing changing um foot foot person people really really made the difference. >> Yes. And people have been really good about I mean it's not a big sum of money but

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people have been really good about paying more five bucks. >> It depends people pay 20. >> You weren't here rich but last last month we we um she was bu we were build 260

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payment the last time she was in, so she made a double payment. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. And I I also think that having you, Susan, and Donna coordinating when they come out because I can remember coming out and the woman

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all she wanted to do is book my next thing and it was like, well, you know, I need to do this and it it wasn't that wasn't on her agenda. >> And I don't understand why that was not. I mean, but I always paid. I mean,

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that's not a conundrum. >> Yeah. See? >> Yeah. Some people just don't like asking for money. >> Yeah. >> With that person that you were just talking about that didn't pay. Did she not have the money with her or she

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couldn't afford it? >> No, she didn't have she didn't have cash or her checkbook. >> Oh, okay. Okay. because because if if there's a time where somebody can't afford it, remind them that it's suggested only. >> Yeah. You know, >> we can do that.

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>> Have um we have a couple we have at least one person who we have a couple of people who really can't afford it and they they give maybe five, maybe less, sometimes three. >> Yeah. >> So, and I Well, I don't ask them how

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much they're paying. I just say, you know, put your money in the envelope. >> Correct. Yeah. >> And then after they leave, I >> then you figure out who paid what so that I can keep track. >> Yeah. >> But I don't that it's really necessary

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to do that. It's just interesting. >> The system that we have now is very good. >> I don't care who's in I mean who it is that's doing it. We have the right people in place to make it work and that's all that we

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wanted to do. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's working well. >> Mhm. >> I don't know. >> Yeah. It's working so well that we're getting more people all the time, >> right? Yeah. >> That's good.

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>> It is. We'll have to get another person. Yeah. No, that's not on my plate, Jess. No, I can't. >> No, I didn't ask. I see it. Okay. All right. >> No, I didn't ask. >> So, we also talked about another thing we talked about in the past when we

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might want to revisit. You had mentioned about someday having Jen cook a meal instead of having a potluck. Well, not really. Instead of because I think the potluck works well for the younger folks, but and it's fun to have

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a potluck, but I I thought I'd like to see us try something for seen for the older folks who might >> Oh, okay. Something separate. Okay. >> Yeah. >> And then the question is just, you know, how to reach them.

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>> Yeah. You know, New Salem's lunch is primarily, I would say, people 80 and above. >> And what's the usual amount of people?

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>> Yeah. And us, we ours is mostly, I would say, 60s and 70s, >> right? Yeah. But how many do they have in how many people do they have in the other town >> in New Salem? Yeah, >> a lot. >> Okay. And I can see why they would do

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that with I mean, everybody that comes in brings something. >> Um there's a lady that brings spicy walnuts. >> Yeah. >> She makes chili. >> Um all kinds of stuff. But they like they like I mean everybody enjoys doing

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something for that. So you never know when you go there, you know. >> Yeah. Yep. >> Yeah. If we could figure out how to get to the senior population that might not want to bring a dish,

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>> ask at LOL's >> or ask Susie to ask at LOL's if there's anybody there. If people can think of people who might prefer a a made meal, which is what we get at LOL's. It's what Jenna has made for us that we pay. we cough up money for.

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>> Mhm. >> And it's, you know, it's nice not to have to cook a meal. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I think we all know that. >> Would you want to try a a dinner meal or

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still a lunch? >> That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that. What do you think? >> We'd have to find out interest in a dinner meal compared to a lunch

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>> because a lot of people still work, >> right? Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And the ones that go from 12 to 1 don't or I mean they do other things. When we find out the emails from Gail to

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do the town announce for COA, we could always put something out there. Would anybody be interested in lunch dinner or something like that? Just

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>> a feeling that you >> Yeah, I think I think we would need to ask people contact X because before we actually plan something, we need to know how many people we could count on, >> right? >> Hopefully count on. So, let's figure out, let me find out from Gail how what

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the how to get the listing for all the people and add these people and then we'll move on from that. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, you you've got a lot of work ahead of you, Rich. See,

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>> that's why we need that task list. >> See, keep everyone in check. Hm. >> So, I have to go to work. Are we done? >> I hope so. >> Okay. >> It sounds like

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>> I motion put a motion in to adjourn the meeting at um 6:25 p.m. >> Oh my goodness. >> Yeah, I just looked up too. 6:25. I second the motion. >> All in favor? Make peace I >> Milinger Eye

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>> Strangman Eye >> and we won't see you next month but we hope you have a good trip. >> Thank you. >> Yes, >> I'll try to have fun. We'll see. >> Yeah, let us know where you're going when you decide.

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>> Okay. >> So, you don't even know where you're going? >> Yeah, I already have an itinerary. I'm all set. Don't worry about that. >> Why Why is it a big secret? >> No. Well, it's not a big secret, >> but

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I don't know. >> Okay, don't tell us. >> I'm stalking your Facebook page for two weeks in July. >> You don't have to worry about that because I don't I don't get tagged at the beginning because I play Whiz

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Richard at the at the school with the in the office. I send them a picture of where I am, but it doesn't say where I am. and then they figure it out and when they answer then I tag them. So >> I see >> something for me to do, you know. I gotta have fun somehow with you guys

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back here. >> Yeah. Kind of like like the where's where's Waldo? Where where's Rich? >> Yeah. Where's Richard? But we'll see what happens. >> Like where's Waldo? >> Yeah. I don't have that kind of a shirt, so don't worry about it.

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All right, guys. We'll see you. >> Yeah. Thank you much for coming to this special meeting. I'm >> sorry that we didn't get Mary Joe, but again, I probably should have sent her a text. >> We Yeah, we got a lot of things accomplished, so we're good. >> We did.

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>> Yes. >> Right. We did. >> All right. >> Okay. So, I'm going to shut us down. >> All right. Good night, everybody. Good night. >> Good night. >> See that?