so the recording started at 4:03 hm are BZ and Elaine supposed to be I know BZ let me know that she's not coming darwin is not coming right and Sam is not coming um so as far as I know Elaine is coming
but we have a quorum Barbara we have a quorum but I don't think we have any votes oh well how do you like that yeah um I'm hoping that Elaine will come because she was going to talk about bikes but let's just first start i'm going to amaze you all um would anyone
uh we're going to um the minutes from last time does anybody want to um actually I have one discussion thing on it i think I must have misspoken i don't know if this is a big deal or not we might be able to just leave it as is but it was the the bog
walk is in April not June and in the minutes it just said June and I probably misspoke and said we'll look for a date in June but what we did was we looked for a date in April so is that something we would need to alter does anyone have strong feelings
about or just switch that it's on I thought I brought the minutes down with me but I don't have them that was on the second page at the top the first paragraph at the top of the second page i think at the end of the paragraph it was just saying that I would find a date in June but I was finding a date in
April i I the one that did those minutes right yeah but I have it up in front of me because I was when we perfect I always send them immediately to Grace so um I was about to that one you I can't vote on approving them because I wasn't
there oh right oh so we may not be able to approve them because we don't have a quorum for that i'm sure I got that wrong but but I'm trying to find it where is it you know what just leave it because it I
don't it's not a it's not a big deal it's in a long paragraph it's the bullet point that starts committee unan unanimously decided to support rocks of the area walk yes okay okay so
uh I don't know why I don't see the word June oh maybe I had it wrong thanks Christie yeah should I Should I change it yeah because I realized we can't um vote on the minutes anyway right now we'll have to wait for our
next meeting and let me make a note to send an email to um to Grace saying that we'll be sent Well actually Christine that's up to you because you could send them and just say we didn't have a quorum and haven't
voted on them yet but here they are and we'll let you know as soon as we do she I don't think she wants them before they're Oh okay then I'll send her an email um no minutes but maybe Elaine if Elaine shows up later we can approve yeah exactly
hopefully hopefully she will confirm a date in May i'm sorry was there two corrections or just No just the one switching the June to April okay well I'll just leave this here and I will send it the next time then or if rain
shows up I guess we could okay so um basically today we'll probably have a very short meeting because we did all the voting that we needed to do based on what we were going to pay everybody and what the projects would be so this was mainly um updates um the stitching group uh and
Christine can talk to this as well has been doing it it's been a lot of fun it's really going well um now Christine are you able to be there this coming Sunday yes i wanted to reiterate that and
it's not just knitting anything that requires stitching and for me it's motivation and um I really like I'm enjoying meeting other people very as well and like I say it's
motivating me to get stuff done so it's cool yeah ditto yeah and we have it's there's quite an age range now too um Netti um actually she she
um she said nobody will know who I am but she's Matteo's she's married to Matteo he's her husband um but she's been a very in good addition to it as well and then there have been a couple of other younger people who have come in
so it's really nice the one thing that we do need to just talk about with the stitching group because it is at this point still being sponsored by us is um what to do once the weather turns nice i know because it may turn out that some
of that it may be hard it will be hard for me to make a commitment every other Sunday morning so someone and I don't remember Christine if it was you or someone else made the suggestion that the meeting move to an outdoor location like the gazebo um the Bill Elliot
gazebo on Lake Wyola because that way people there's nobody has to have a key people can just show up and then once the weather gets cool again we could go back to having it in the town hall that I think that probably makes the most sense
any Okay I think I agree nancy Logan I think is the one that suggested okay great okay yeah that I I think makes a lot of sense and that way people can still get together um at this point
I have not I've been sending information out only to people who have who are on the list and have shown up so because we were kind of unstable and then we had the one meeting at my house and I really didn't want to send out a townwide email saying come to my house so um we will
get something out with the most recent dates though did you have a good turnout at your the one at your house Barbara no no my guess my guess is I mean we had a great turnout because we had a great time christine and Nancy were there and my daughter Emily who got engaged this
this the last couple of days congratulations yeah um Yeah and I really love the man that she is marrying and so I'm very happy for her and for him and for us to have have him part of our family oh that's great
yeah it's really pretty great so we had a really wonderful time and Emily just couldn't get over her good l luck because Nancy and and Christine both brought all this yarn and Emily's like "Well I'll take that and I'll take that and I'll take that." So so she was she you know after everybody left was that
okay i said that's why people brought it so trust me everyone's glad to get rid of some of their stash well I was going to say too the last one I went to that was at the town hall the first one that Netty showed up at we also found out she's going to be our new town moderator so that was Oh that's
right yeah cool yeah i'd forgotten about that she'll be very good at that i feel quite certain mhm okay so um All right so that again no votes are necessary just that's pretty much just an an update on on what
we're doing um on April 27th starting at 11:00 but it'll still be going on once we're done with the knitting it will be the kite flying um I've I forget what the word is the to describe it event we'll just call the
the event will be going on the commons and Sam went ahead and bought um with after our approval about $60 worth of kites um the next event is going to be this weekend on Saturday which will be the
Brightwater Bog Walk and I was looking at the at the Castrol site and read that they are also sponsoring a walk on Saturday morning but theirs is from 9 to 11:00 so I think we're fine it's an hour
difference so they'll get they'll get there they'll take off before we even get there the only issue and I want feedback on this if this sounds reasonable because the major issue is there are so few parking places there and so initially I was thinking you know
the weather isn't supposed to be that great on Saturday so I'm thinking oh well we can just show up and it'll be fine because there won't be many cars there but there may be a lot of cars there so I'm going to send out an email to everyone who said that they would come um urging people to meet me behind
town hall as I've done in the past to carpool i can't think what else to do i'm not going to cancel it over this um it's a big place and we're an hour apart i mean the only place I could see us kind of crossing would be if they're going counterclockwise and we're going
clockwise there will come a point where we pass each other but that hardly seems to be a big deal so okay um the orchard visit um there are at this point is this the right
folder probably not how many people signed up um so Barbara I'm sorry how many people signed up for the We have 14 people signed up right now yeah plus plus me and and Christine will take us up to 16 christine are are you coming to
the to the bogw walk so I have to work at the town hall from 7 to 5 that's right i know it's voting and Nancy Logan is needs to cancel so there's one Oh you already talked she She let me know but
when she when she and Tim cancelled two other people signed up okay okay so I have them um my inclination at this point is I think we do need to send out or I want to send out another um townwide email just letting people know
about some of the events that are coming up with a reminder about the orchard visit um Brightwater Bog we probably don't need to put that i guess we could if it goes out this week it will the bike repair and tuneup that's going to
be May 18th from 9 to 11:00 and we have a have three people and I'm sorry I can't remember the names sam the reason Sam is not here is it's her son's birthday so they're doing celebratory things for his birthday and uh Elaine is
also um involved with that but she's al obviously not here so I can't really tell you much about it other than it's on track um to be to get all set up at the elementary school um we did we had agreed to buy about $100 worth of just
kind of basic stuff that is needed when doing tuneups so the people who are helping will have whatever I don't know bicycles so I don't know what those things are but um they will have ordered that stuff
um so and then the only other things left for this year that I have on here is the Shootsbury Open Studios which we've already decided to sponsor and then Al Warner and Rocks
i guess the only other thing to possibly talk about is we have um so we have after after looking at what we've already spent looking at what we've committed we have
$220.95 left over which means that we would be able to do um actually I I don't have the rocks down so we $120.95 so yeah christine
when is the orchard visit october 4th from at 2 p.m yeah May 4th may 4th thank you oh God yeah i don't know i can't believe you missed that october um October did anybody May May I'm I'm
just Yeah don't listen to me so May 40 sign up for that uh we've got eight people signed up plus I'm going to be coming um yeah great so yeah so I we'll have a nice number of people i think anything like that can accommodate more
can accommodate less i think we cut it off at 15 and what's the time again on May 4th 2 p.m thank you that's amazing eight people i do too yeah and Netty had expressed an interest and also somebody else had expressed an interest from the
knitting group so I'm going to bring it up at the knitting group um I think Christy did but Christy was one of the people who had signed up christy Payne so um yeah we've got two for Carolyn Platt yeah Chrissy and Greg uh two for Jean
Meister and two for Laura Stoyto i don't know those last two people that's awesome yeah it's really nice that new people come to these um it's a nice way for people to meet each other mhm okay so that's
really that's it um I debated cancing this meeting and then I thought I will likely cancel the meeting in May because I don't think anything unless something like exciting happens we've got our plans through the end of this fiscal year um and then if
at our meeting in June which will be the last one of the FY25 we can brainstorm ideas for the next year and be ready to get going with those so Barbara remind me the the Rockw
Walk is this fiscal year yeah yes it Yes yes i need to get the phone number from Elaine um and that's the one that will likely be just because I'm assuming that I'm going to be going and organizing it so I can't do anything in May but I can
do it in June okay well that would make sense in June too because it's May's looking pretty stocked yeah yeah and unlike plants rocks don't have a seed of them they might They might beg to just We'll
find out from our rock expert that's right so I'll get the number from him in fact I can do that today well that's great does anyone remember when the Shootsbury Open Studio event is uh I had it written down end of the month right
yeah I end this month oh sorry no of May is that Sorry end of June june it's at the end of June yeah is it I think it's the 29th or the 30th i think you're right it's It's I don't remember exactly when it is i'll try to look it up
Christine see if it's on the website give me a second okay if we have just as a We can't vote on it right now because we don't have the have a Oh or no we do have a quorum it's half of the people a quorum that was the problem with having
an even number um but we can wait on this but one one suggestion for the extra money would be to just increase the honor the amount that we give to the open studios because they use it for making their maps and for their um
marketing and things like that so oh here's Sam wow we can make a vote on this hey Sam hi i didn't expect to see you today i'm
I've got kids around and company but I will listen okay well actually your timing is really great we're having a relatively short meeting but there were two things so uh so one the bike um event that's all set up ready to go and
here's the lane oh my god look at that i haven't advertised yet but I can do that starting tomorrow okay well I'm going to see you tomorrow anyway so I was going to ask you about townwide email stuff so we could maybe talk about
that that'll be perfect and just quick quickly Barbara before you move on the open studios is Sunday June 29th Christine great okay thank you my apologies my apologies uh today got
screwed up across the board but uh I'm back well we have a very lightweight agenda we won't be meeting much further ba mainly it was just to go over the events that we have all agreed that we will do for
this fiscal year and in the last meeting we had already made the votes on how much we were going to pay people which left us with um one need just needing an update on what's going on with the bicycles but it sounds like that's moving ahead i do
have to say about the bikes that Andy can't be paid because it was my idea to do the event so it's like not moral oh okay that we pay him or something all right and I doubt that Cliff and Marle want payment well we what I do for
paying people is I ask if they want to donate it to the library and that's what people have been doing okay don't ask Andy though but that's okay i won't ask Andy yeah no okay i mean basically at this point we don't have like a line item budget so we've budgeted $400 for
the bike repair and what we had talked about is $100 for you know the stuff that you need in order to fix a bike or get a a bike tuned up and then $100 per person but it was the four I think it was the $400 that we voted on so we
could just keep that and give the other people an additional $50 or purchase more things that are helpful when for tuning up bicycles um do we do we have any idea um
how many people what kind of bikes and what kind of repairs people are going to be needing we do not I haven't even advertised heavily yet yeah i'm I'm wondering if we should if we should restrict it to maybe
even just the elementary school kids i mean I don't know i mean how I think Andy's Andy's pretty fairly handy he's planning on getting like um bike cables doing uh redoing people's like brake cables and shifting cables I think um
Wow yeah I think my thought is that if it's free you can't get too mad you know if you do that's kind of on you i don't know
okay okay yeah i I just I didn't want people to um I know that that Cliff and Mark were like well you know what kind of repairs are they going to be wanting and you know how technical and what tools
should they bring and everything and it's like I don't know i don't know and I didn't want him to have people to come and have high expectations and then them feeling bad that they couldn't do it and
why don't I write advertise it as simple bike repairs that would be good that's okay that's See that's why I didn't advertise perfect i'll just advertise it as simple bike repairs and maybe I'll even um have Andy come up with a list of what he's comfortable with and put it
right on there yeah it would be great emails i would actually recommend making that a separate one like really highlighting it because it is it's I mean the all everything is an important event but there's something about that kind of bicycle repair that just seems to be kind of bigger in scale than the
others okay so okay yeah I'm gonna ask we have a tent too i I think maybe Maryanne has it so I'll ask her for the tent for that day yeah yeah maryannne has our tent i'll ask her since we have a forum now can we approve
the minutes oh you you beat me to it i actually remembered so uh is there a move to um approve the minutes so moved all right and that's uh unanimous uh me too oh so Oh yeah and
then um to vote we just voted and it's unanimous so yes we have approved the minutes thank you we earlier did not have a a quorum so sorry weren't No that's fine you you were not alone you were not alone um in being in in being
late we're the Baker Road outcasts yeah you could have blamed horrible traffic on on it was the internet on our street I think there you go let's see so I can take off i don't have to write about no minutes because that's
going to go through um we were just doing updates on some of the things that are uh planned everything is moving along quite smoothly so uh I don't have Let's see we'll want to set up the
rocks of the area so I'm going to need to get his um telephone number from you Elaine because we had we were Al's telephone because or we had pro pl we had planned on having that this fiscal year so it would be in
June and um and then the early morning bird walk we were waiting until the migration in the fall again so okay let me see um okay you want it right now i have I've got my pen right here but you can
also give it to me later um looking um All right oh here this is how I do it all right his number is 413 Mhm 687 Mhm 8046
80046 fantastic what is his last name again warner warner wer ne oh okay and it's L okay thank you very much i will take care of that and get that going great so I think that's it so Barbara if
we have money left over does it just go back in the pot general coffers yeah it's And we won't have enough left over for it to affect our getting the $3,000 so we're basically spending I think we've always been like about $100 short of spending every every cent of it um
but this way if we have $220.95 left if we pay Al $100 which is what we're paying other people this time and if we um use whatever extra oh this is a votable thing and that is if there
is money left over do we want to um use it as part of our sponsorship of the O open studios and what they would be able to use it for is um any kind of copying things marketing that they're doing last year we um they asked if we could give
money to the individual artists to purchase food but we cannot do that um well I happened when I was trying to look up their date I went to it took me to the um the Mass you know cultural council
website and Open Studios got $400 from them for marketing oh okay i'm wondering do we ever give the leftover money to the library well that would be another idea would be to do that i think that Maryanne would be grateful for that
that's a good idea okay you want to take a Someone want to make a movement and then we can vote on that i move that we can we give give any leftover funds to the library well and it would be for
their programs because support the library to support the library programming yeah and it's been specifically the program programming what yeah fitness programming the fitness program we had given to Right okay yeah cool okay so that's the
movement is there a second all those in favor raise your hand and that was unanimous so that's where the money will go that's great okay and I don't think we need a meeting in May i don't know what might
change but I know you all have you know in case you have other exciting things to do on a Tuesday afternoon go for it it's all yours oh I have a question when is game night is that part of
recreation committee no there won't I'm I'm not going to be doing another game night until next fall that's a that's an insight and then you will hear about it yeah but that was it's got a long and convoluted history
wow who knew who knew exactly exactly exactly well I'm I'm determined to get a game night going among people who think that sounds like a nice idea but I think right now it's going to have to wait until the fall when it's a little when
it's more indoor weather so sounds good idea okay good good all right anything else so the next meeting is Tuesday June 24th is that Yes that's correct write that down i know doing it right
now too so is the meeting adjourning at 4:30 move to adjourn okay so moved we all agree i'm turning the recording off at 4:30