##VIDEO ID:1fP-PtLlHb8## I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I emphasize the of God because the Democrats you know that they passed the bill secretly they passed the bill okay uh first order of business is uh approval of the minutes I think I gave everybody a copy right well I'll make a motion to accept the minutes say accept the minutes with corrections motion by Leon y second by Mr suvan all in favor I okay I can actually good enough uh town clerk report I had the final tally for last year's uh Beach passes of the beach passes we sold 2354 regular Beach passes 1558 senior Beach passes and there were 89 replacements for a total of 4,01 but actually 3912 our full price so we did better our Revenue but we're down we were 500 less than we did the year before that's a lot I I think a lot of it uh well we jumped up during the pandemic before the pandemic we were like 2700 2800 and then during the pandemic cuz nobody could go anywhere except to the beach it jumped up to 4,000 and now I think that that's over and people you know take their two we vacation and go to Maine or New Hampshire or wherever they go that they're going back to whever they used to go that's what I think some of it I think some of it is I don't think it's the pricing thing I think people just realize CU my wife's one of them I buy a beach pass but I go to the beach once yeah you know you know and and they don't go that much but so anyway that's that's the grand total of those uh we have no head lifeguard but I can tell you the head lifeguard they did receive all their bonuses and we can we have enough money coming in to give them a raise we'll have to see the quantity of the raise uh cuz we're going to have to fund the assistant lifeguard position this year which is going to be somewhere between the head and the regular lifeguards I guess uh complaints email I did get one email this this month from a woman who's interested in joining the committee I invited her to come tonight to introduce herself I don't know who she is I just have her name uh there seems to be a lot of interest I'm not sure why uh we had problem getting people to be on the beach committee so uh I don't know what's going to happen there uh landscaping ideas anybody have any landscaping ideas any ideas what to do any things any ideas what to do with the lot the beach to put forward so we can put it in our budget item if we need to I would think repairing the gates there that to the entrance we need to replace those the gates are pretty yeah you know uh the gates need help M they do need help around the sign yeah but the problem with that is because it's a beach who's going to water them you know unless you want to volunteer to run down there my wife yeah the problem with that's the problem with the Landscaping at the beach you can only plant stuff that's going to grow at the beach and not have to like heavy maintenance the only thing that grows at the beach is beach grass and the rosero [Music] goest gardening club used to I was going to contact them and I don't even know how to contact them I'm not sure how you meet at they used to years ago meet at Le Supermarket or something I'm not I don't know if they meet at the gr I don't know who or where to go for that uh I can look I imagine if you Google them something come well they used to do the plant things in front of the what this fire department before and they used to do a couple other places uh they used to take care of the uh at the top of Adil road that giant Stone turn brings road to right yeah and but I don't know if they still I don't even know if they still do it watered just got permits to applied for hearing for Beach grft planting I don't know the workers are um I think they planning on having the students do it yeah they get I don't know 10,000 I think yeah you think they get 10,000 I know uh George CW was telling me that they're getting 10,000 shoots for elephant rock what was that group that we used to get it free and every year they planted well the Watershed used to do it all the time Shel used to do it with the uh the programs the intern program stuff yeah but I thought they were somebody else like um like the county or something every year we had we had uh I mean most of the time it takes so it's a good thing the dunes are actually in pretty good shape they've gotten some sand back and they look pretty good yeah I don't know if any I haven't seen much effect from the dredging I know the barge is there CU I see it all lit up you I don't know if anything's going lit uptime some night they work I've seen them late at night out there there I can't believe I can't believe they not done already but maybe it's just taken longer not they're maybe halfway yeah and where are they put taking time dumping it off in front of horse neck I've seen them dump it out in front of horse neck but it's not in front of horse neck per se but in front but off quite a way well when they open the they open the bottom of the bar yeah yeah they is and when they and they need at least 8 ft of water yeah yeah they're off they're off shore quite a bit we could have used that yeah it would have been nice could have been in a perfect world yep uh so if nobody has anything I mean we still got time to think of it if you think of anything I think the sign is good but I don't I don't know what you plant I'm not sure and I think we're going to get the ropes instead of having the poles go across just because it's easier a little more we don't have to worry about people running into them all the time it'll look nautical yeah it'll look nautical with heavy rope I guess uh and everything but I think new gates is probably a need couple of the gates are in good shape couple of them are really you know duct tape literally uh who do we move to get that done well we just put it in the budget and then we just buy them okay that's how we you know so if we put them in the January budget we can buy them for next year and get it all in so we should do them all though even though well the gate on the kitty beach side is okay that's brand new uh the one there's one they've just fixed down at the fourth Bay yeah uh that's in pretty good shape they need to do that with all the Bays though that needs to be fixed and what not it needs to be gred there some potholes forming because it's been so dry um we can only imagine what the puddles look like tonight uh okay this is going by very fast member issues or member concerns or member ideas I usually start left to right so I'll look at you Joel I just started I mean come in slowly yeah I mean is there anything you're expecting or anything you want or anything we can do I mean that's the when number numbers for if if I knew that I wouldn't be sitting here right now uh so are we satisfied with what we got from Mr CES or should I get us I like the other Port Johns better you like I like Mr Fred's better I think they were nicer pter John I don't know what the cost differential is well I'll get quotes from both of them and we can they were just a little nicer they were gray and they seemed to be a little sturdier than the other ones seemed to be it's like the I don't want to say cheap it's bad word inexpensive construction type mhm but they did come down and clean them regular basis yeah they seem to lose the keys all the time but oh did they oh God yeah I was down there every I get a phone call uh I don't have the key I don't have the key okay so uh I'm trying to think that's it for you that's it I don't have anything uh the list of equipment that was provided to me by uh the head lifeguard I started looking into that but I don't have anything he gave sourc we can start ordering if we need to and I think we can ask Nicole uh like Amazon we don't need to ask the Amazon items stuff like that M I know the place isn't even open yet the one in Middletown where we had all the pi up they open like in the spring it's like a seasonal thing yeah it seems like it's a I don't know if there's any other place I don't know lifeguard lifeguards or us or whatever uh I just Googled it but uh I'll put something together with I mean then we can just get purchase orders and order these things up you don't have to pay anything when they can just pay them when it comes in the bill comes in great uh is there any new other new equipment no not uh just what was provided to us last month so okay I don't think the hum is going to be available for us next year okay but uh not that I even want that thing on the beach cuz looks like it seems to be Hazard yeah but I know he I I talked to Mike to see what he wants to do but I think essentially he's going to get the gator only and that's about it I think they were uh they liked it uh sit in in the shape yeah when they had a break or had lunch you know they were able to get out of the sun I think that's where we're going to put the three posts in and put the sail I like that yeah those popup tents you know they don't blow away I they only $50 you a 10 foot yeah but they tend to like but you got Anor you got a anchor I'm thinking if we put Three 8ot Wooden posts in and we get one of those TR Corner sails just that it can hook on when they get down there and unhook it when they leave I'll look in the sail bags upstairs yeah you know I think that would be I think that would be a better only because you can leave it the post there and you take when the boys our CL their clim bake at our house yeah exactly so I think that's because the popups as cleany as they are and everything like that when you get the sand in them and everything like that they start turning into uh they don't work so sonag got if you have a sale somewhere that would be great I'm sure you do no you don't want to spin it here you want a a general yeah yeah you want something little that you can stretch pretty flat because it's FL yeah we so I think we put that solve the problem yeah you know some eyes on the top of they can just hook them up it seems like with the uh with the vehicle I mean you can't lock it with the keys in it it seems like it's a liability it's more of an issue of it's leaking all the time yeah it's always leaking something and Chris said it's really leaking and he goes I can get it going but it's like yeah if the vehicle's going to like break down halfway down the beach I don't know if it's going to be worth having at the beach you know uh it's a tough shape uh Woody do you have something no beach been pretty clean check do we want to do anything at Beach Avenue no I think the main thing is just make sure the handicap signs are there they are they still there okay in place how how about the mat is it is the mat G it's is it buried or is it gone no they took away okay yeah but that's that's that's it in pretty good shap okay no storms yet Ian there was I last week but yeah full moon there was no no no sir uh hopefully hopefully we get through this winter without having four storms like we had last winter uh I had did meet with the sundelin family uh for a location of the bench which will be down towards the end I didn't think it was a good idea but they said if it gets taken out by the sea taking up a see Chris Gonzales has three pieces of stone uh we have to pick one out for them to engrave it and Chris will install it when he goes down to take care of everything he's got to take care of down there so uh that's done deal it'll be down close to the water so I think more people will use it everybody takes their shoes off on the way down on the way back and stuff like that uh you want to discuss the fence what's that do you want to discuss the fence once it goes well the fence uh it was decided by the selectman on Monday night to go with Southeastern fence as the low bidder uh and get it done so they're going to sign or execute a contract and we just have to go to conservation and get the order conditions to do it and whenever they're ready as long as they get it in before next April we're good to go right cuz the other fenes are really tough shape it's really coming down big gaps in it now uh other than that the beach like I said the beach looks pretty good surprisingly you know so hopefully it'll hold out for another year I'm not sure if any anybody has anything else regarding Personnel equipment nothing no pretty quiet so we're going to meet January 16th it's the third Thursday you'll be here 16th okay so that's the third Thursday in January we'll be doing budget primarily so if you have budget items and that would include anything we need to do landscaping wise or any equipment and any other and raises for the put right there for the uh left guards we can discuss that how much we want to give I don't want to overspend uh we will be supporting Daniel will be taking care of the administrative part of the Lifeguard stuff oh great she'll be taking setting that all up I think that was the last time I had a competition with Jim uh so that'll take care of something else we'll just be yeah doing our thing U I'm not sure anything else that needs to be discussed this this a pretty short meeting yeah this what happens in November Joel you know uh I think is there anything else Dolphins washing up you've seen Dolphins yeah I've seen pictures we have the have we met since the whale came up wash no no the whale came up the Dolphins are all over gooseberry really they buried bued no they buried all the doph I went looking for him that that evening like where'd he go I saw the tire tracks there were six on Gooseberry the other morning yeah I walk early earlier in the morning and I didn't realize and then right on right along I Watermark well the tuna they stayed people over they've been catching Big Tuna off Block Island yeah and if the tuna are around then the Dolphins are around but I think what happened was there was that went from 70° to 30° thing but Dolphins usually don't it usually affects the turtles but not the Dolphins but there was they were scattered along Gooseberry now this is this really hasn't happened before I haven't seen that many in my lifetime like the whale that's two that's the second one in two years yeah well it was a ship strike I it was yeah I don't know how well I don't know what they I know they buried the Dolphins cuz I saw the tire marks but I don't know what they decided with the dolphins uh I know there was a bunch of them that washed up down the cave but we usually don't get them here which is kind of strange but they buried them so uh I haven't seen any since last week very sad anybody bother to look into the windmills well you can see you can see the windmills really clear now clear day yeah you can see them bright the you know the the stories about how awful they are how they kill the it's all funded by the oil companies yeah all all of those well it's also and it's also the dredgers who you know throw out the dredge and drag up the bottom because they can't do it as easily now that's the but the but the the propaganda that's coming out Clos to the windmills is all done by the by the Big Oil compies the the the ping ping ping yeah the pinging is what the sound the sound yeah that's how they vibration they're saying I don't that's how whales whales yeah that's how the dolphin navigate and if they're getting cons they're could always offshore though I mean that's lot lot further off shore than I thought they were going to be actually the Dolphins no the the wind turbines off Block Island they're quite away from Block Island I expected them to be closer to Block Island well the ones off that you see from from elephant rock there that wire goes to Island does it or does it go to Block Island but they're right they're supposed to be off Block Island South Fork because you can see them on Aerials now South Fork wind oh is there still cable coming into West nobody seems to have an answer for that question that's interesting I I don't know why you construct interprets if you don't have a plan to get the power on Shore it's kind of it's like you know building the roof and then hey what are we going to do with the foundation now you know it doesn't seem like it's the cart before the horse way before the horse but I'm not an expert I only play one on TV uh stuff well having said all of that if anybody has anything else or anything unexpected or I'll entertain a motion at 7:21 you got one motion she made it I'll take a second from Woody all in favor I I