two, three, four, five, uh, members. So that we six, I guess. What am I missing here? Oh, that got eight. Eight. And the meeting is being recorded. Okay. Meeting's being recorded.
Uh, so Jim, Donna, Jeff. Oh, Phil. I'm alternate. So I don't know if that has any. I'm supposed to be the alternate propeller that I needed um to make a quorum. So, I wanted to make sure I was here.
Yeah. Well, we don't I think I'm also not sure what our quorum is now because are we in between uh last year's members and this coming year's members? We still have the same number of members
appointed as we did last year. Um so, yeah. They'll be sworn in. So, um, quorum is 10 and there's no quorum, so you just can't vote on anything. Yeah. Okay. Passover minutes in that case. Yeah. So,
Michael, do you have to count those who haven't been sworn in? I mean, 18 people, but if they sworn in, are they really members? They still Yeah, they they still count. Um, they do have to be sworn in. So that's why it's actually we can move to
agenda item number two. That's why it's really important to make sure you get sworn in um so that this committee can still continue to um take votes on various things. Um and so all you have to do is go to the town clerk's office. they'll swear you in. And if you could
take and when you do that your certificate of open meeting law or receipt of open meeting law materials um and give that to the town clerk. Uh I sent that out in a previous email, but if you need me to resend it, just just reach out to me and I'll I'll resend it.
And then the last thing is that uh the there's an annual ethics training that we all have to do as appointed committee members. So, if you did it last year, it's it's a very quick um it's a like a
15 minute read um of conflict of interest and you just scroll through it and hit the check box at the end saying that you um read it and understand it and uh it'll that you don't have to report to me or the town clerk. They
have a system that's already tracking that. All right. So, uh, we'll continue with the agenda, but I think the only vote we needed was the approval of the minutes. So, we'll put that off to the next meeting whenever that is. I did read
them. I thought they were excellent minutes, but uh we'll put that uh off. Um, so do you have any reports on grants or anything you want to uh do, Michael?
I I don't there are a couple of things that are upcoming um with us closing out the the fiscal year. Some things are in transition like our barrier beach management plans are we're moving into a different phase. Um but with the close
out of our CCM grant at the end of the fiscal year, we're regrouping and trying to um implement the municipal vulnerability program fund. So I don't have a lot of program updates right now. I definitely will in September. Okay. Yeah.
All right. Uh great. Uh so we're at the really the only uh item on the agenda which is the progress of the report and uh as I as I described
um we've got our report and uh we've got the feedback on three chapters from the UMD team and Chad I think primarily um uh and they had set up a scoring
system because it is important I think if we're giving recommendations to the select board to say this is more important than that uh so they have a sense with limited resources both financial and human that uh of of
prioritization and uh and UND said this is just a draft we we want your comments on how we're coming up with scores I don't know. I wanted someone to tell
me what disparity is the middle score. Uh because it wasn't intuitive to me what that was. I think it's an environmental justice. It's envir environmental justice. The disproportionate impact
disproportionate. Yeah. Okay. This is the framework that the uh states um compli climate assessment used in ranking. Got it. So, and and just speaking personally, I think trying to conform this with the state makes a
lot of sense um for all kinds of reasons. Uh but Jeff, do you want to uh kind of report on how you see uh the activity of the committee reports and and UMD coming together and and the
earlier question I asked which is you had given us an outline uh that wasn't uh that was different than just let's repeat the committee reports. it was a different outline how
how that all merges into one. What's your take on it? Um yeah, I mean I think I see the individual reports as they are or as they're becoming Yeah. Um being base material for writing a chapter that will be in a consistent
format voice presentation across each of the chapters. Right? So, we didn't set up a framework for that at the beginning, which is fine, but I think in my head at least, I have an idea of how that can be done. Um, and I have no problem taking that source material if
everybody's happy with what we have and doing that writing, putting it in that format. Yeah. Um, some of the chapters are going to be, you know, condensed, some might be elaborated a little bit based on, you know, need some more details on here and there. Um, but I think in addition to looking at the comments that UMD has
provided, the subcommittees, um, I think we should think of is everything there that we think should be there that we want there. Are there other things they could be helping us with? Um, kind of a wish list of things. Um, so
something that kind of prioritize that is everything there that needs to be there or are there things missing or are there things that we think we can't do but maybe they can help with? Um, just one example in infrastructure. I know everybody's aware of the fragility of
the electric power infrastructure in Westport. Well, I I tried um over the winter interacting with Eversource and National Grid, try and find out what are the resiliency they have any maps of the circuit so we know you know which circuits I got by
all of that. Yeah. Went to their legal and they said yeah need to know basis and we don't give that out. Um, but maybe they have some way of working with that or maybe there's other resources or other reports that we didn't, you know, they could find that would help us with that kind
of stuff. Could you could we ask them to come up with their own resilient resilience plan for Westport? I mean, because then they would Yeah. So then they wouldn't have to give us secret information, which they don't
want to give to terrorists and stuff. Yeah. But at least they could I know from the uh serpent thing we've had a presentation about what they're upgrading based on what they anticipate electrical
demand to be and where these substations will be and where the the new power lines will be. uh we've had that presentation but I don't know this is Eversource um but I think both of them should be able to respond to
that who who would ask ever source for that would they that and when I say who would ask I'm thinking what maximizes our chances of getting response the select board planning board select board yeah that was that was my you know
representing the you know so I think I think That's the only way to get them to respond. You're not going to get get them to give you information. But you can get them to to give you the meat of their resilience plan. You can tell them what we're concerned about like on East
Beach. What are their plans? So, let me I think that's a great idea. And uh to accomplish that, Michael and Dia, would it be possible for you to draft a letter that the select board would send to
Eversource asking for a resilience plan that they either already have for Westport or that they could develop and then uh get it to a select board meeting. I can't see any reason the select board wouldn't okay
that and sign whatever you've written. Send a copy to Senator Rogers. Yeah, that's all you got to do, right? Yeah, absolutely. So, I I you know, Paul Schmidt's former aid was uh Anthony Bill. I don't know if anybody
remembers him, but he now works for Eversource. Oh. and he's the public liaison leazison for Eversource in this area and so I contacted him about five months ago six months ago and asked
him can we have a meeting with you folks about the utilities that come along East Beach and we want to see about how to how to make them more resilient for that area and he said okay I I'll get right back to you and it's been silent
Even though I've tried to contact him, it probably went to the only bureaucracy bigger than the state house that's ever. So I mean, so they're aware that we're asking for that
kind of information, but so far uh it's been silence. But I mean, so I'm just the person. So Michael, can you get a letter drafted for the select board? Yeah, we could that Yeah, we can do that. Um, and I just
want to echo what Jim and and Jeff had said that I think like what when Jeff did I sat in on the meeting um during the winter when when he had set that up and it it was really kind of frustrating because they danced
around a lot of issues that we were trying to bring up with them. So, I I do think that there needs to be someone who's got a little bit more uh political clout who can well as Phil said the letter from the
select board should CC among others Mike Rodri and that's Mike Rodri will get their attention and today Steve because he was also on the select board so he has some connection still with the select board and how the process works and and
I mean maybe they may come back with a counter offer but at least you know it'll get and that's just one example of something I I think we really nearly need to get our hands on if the other comm subcommittees have other high priority items that they just haven't been able to tackle the EMAs or somebody else
could help with. Let's get those identified so that we can put some attention on it. So, uh are are Nefelli and Chad now working on like the AD or and other chapters? I I believe so. Um, the other thing that
they had mentioned at our last meeting here was this concept of having a mapping system and being able to do overlays and I didn't see anything in their progress report about that. So, I'm gonna I'm going to follow up with them. Okay. On that. And do the uh I can't remember. Do we
have the historic structures report? Did Wendy get that in? Yes, she did. So, so that means UMD I know they make reference to it. uh has that one too to work on. And I agree with you as I went through it in the
infrastructure I said well there's no discussion of elevating roads there and in the health one there was no discussion of do we help I did see it somewhere uh work with the council on
aging to help finance the acquisition of air conditioning units for income eligible uh seniors because the council on aging already has a program. So, it's a question of how do you build on that
because the report I think mentions that people are reluctant to go to cooling centers and so you you can't aggressively just cooling centers. You got to be more realistic. So, uh, that gets me and, uh, that if the next thing
is to have the committees that have something to react to, that is where UMD has had a chance to go through this. So, right now that's three committees, but who knows next week it could be four or five uh because they are working pretty
uh quickly on this. Um I if we set a next meeting on originally I was thinking September 25th because that's about two months which is our schedule but if we want all
these committees to meet and it's the middle of summer um does it make sense to put it off a month the third Thursday and October is October 16? I I think it does because you're going to have trouble getting people together during the summer. Yeah. Um,
and people have other priorities. So, so, so why don't we uh put down October 16th? Uh, does anyone have a problem with that one? Fella, do you know if that's a problem
or Michael with the planning October? Is it what day of the week? That's a Thursday. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we've usually Yeah. And somehow or other uh we and and this is my fault because I
missed a meeting didn't um realize that tonight's meeting conflicted with offshore wind. So if we get October 16th out there maybe we'll uh make it less likely that there'll be conflicts.
All right. Um, and so, uh, uh, Michael or Jeff, you've already sent out to the committee chairs, please do this. So, um,
we can say we discussed it and we still feel the same thing, but you got till October 16th, so they have a deadline. Yeah, me too. I want to sit in on all of them. and uh you want to sit in on all of them and like I don't know the last
time the water committee the water committee was very active early on but I don't think they've had a meeting in a long long time so it' be good to get all the committees together you need to talk to all all your members you know improve communication flow
that's what AI is for you ought to just create an AI persona for your committee and you can really have a dialogue the question. I just I asked um Phil the other day um about our and I'm so glad Michael that you were able to tell clarify something
for me the difference between the hazardous mitigation purpose and the emergency response plan and its purpose because I had said to Phil do we have a plan in town that if this happens the
board of health does this fire does this that each department has a role to fill during that time because I haven't seen that plan. So, I just wondered if we have that in place. The fire department, I forget, they were working on something recently and I'll
I'll follow up with the fire chief to get it for you. I forget what the title of it was. It's kind of like an emergency response plan. Um, I'll follow what wasn't it? Mima. Mima. No. No,
it might have been something they submitted to MIMA, but I I don't remember what it was. But anyway, I'll follow up and I'll once I get it from the fire chief, I'll I'll send it out to you because I think it's important like who's the communication hub, you know, where all communication I know I know state will come in if there's some major
disaster, but Texas is really on my mind, right? And who who could have planned and prepared for what happened in Texas? I mean maybe they could have um in in a different way or alert people but I just think in our area that um I on the board of health don't know if
something happens as as a board of health member what's my role and responsibility in a disaster. Well, I think that's really important. Critical issue is the communication. Is there some coordinating standard or something happens that can manage communication between the various agencies and
departments? That's been the critical fault line in Texas. And every department should of that plant that in the event of a disaster, this is who we communicate with. That's where communications are coming from. the board of health is responsible for
any health related issues working with the Red Cross or whoever. Like that's the the um that that's just something I'm throwing out there. But I I would be very helpful to I just had a caregiver support group and we talked about anticipating when the bad thing happens and it it's
it's less stressful if you have a plan in place before the bad things happen even though you don't want it to. Um and and for me being in the board of health, I'd like to know what what would we be doing? Yeah. During one of the things you would be doing is
having the select board or the town administrator declare an emergency and then you'd be convening a number of people at an emergency operating center. So figuring out where is the emergency operating center, it's got to have uh
resilience against hurricanes, etc. floods, it's got to be located in power and it's got to have really good communications and might be a fire station. Uh but you you have to know where it is so that you say it's an
emergency and a whole bunch of town people come to the one place and they're sitting around a table. So you're dealing with what you talk about, Mike, which is, you know, good communications and it's got to be directly connected to
MIMA by FEMA. Who knows? It probably going to be a FEMA, but it definitely means it's going to be connected to MIMA. Yeah. So I may be proved wrong, but I have a high level of confidence that there is a plan there that the fire chief is the incident commander.
Yeah. And uh in fact I even think there's a loose leaf notebook up in the which I have looked at uh quite a while ago. So I think it's there and I and but we should satisfy ourselves that
it's you know it is what a little we need to do a little trill. Well that's the incident commander's decision about how to implement it. Okay. because it becomes a like a military operation with command,
you know, with with command, you know, with command structure as to as to who's doing what. Got to call something out. What what are you doing? Yeah. Yeah. So, he's communication. He's in charge. If there is a plan, then that would be
great because it means that you throw that plan into the mix in terms of how these things work. As Michael said, hazard mitigation is what you do before and emergency response what you do after. You know, that's a good way of thinking
of it. And so, uh, but all these things have to be basically saying the same stuff. And so if we have the draft of that, we fold that into Jeff and and UMD
then we're increasing the fact that all these are connected. So something like this has happened within the past 12 14 years. We had a big big blizzard
um back then and uh parts of town had no power for five or six days, maybe seven and uh there was no communication. There was no way to get information because all the power lines and the
communication lines were down. Yeah. Nobody was going around checking on old people. Uh, and my mother-in-law was in her house. We moved into her house with her. She wouldn't move. She wouldn't
leave. So, she sat in a chair uh in the middle of the living room with about five blankets on her all day. And then went to bed with five, six, seven
blankets on top of her. Uh because there was no heat. Yeah. She wouldn't let us put a fire in the fireplace cuz she thought we'd burn the house down. So, and there was no way to know where to go. Was there some place?
All of the hotels were were chaka block full because you couldn't everybody was leaving the house and going there. Uh, and there was nothing. Yeah. I do. No, sorry. I just want to share some of
the things I've learned through um some um researching for an MVP grant. Basically, for that emergency response plan that's been drafted, there's no communications element. So, when I talked with John Rosendi's, I think that's how you say his last name. And
Valerie Bain, they were saying that they don't have um direction from the fire chief, who is the commander-in-chief or whatever for these emergency. they don't have a an a verified plan with him on where will they post the bulletin if they have access what information are
they displaying and also their backup generator is in the new high school. So when I was talking to Lieutenant Nunes on a separate conversation he said oh the high school could be a great center for like heating or cooling. Then when we talked to the cable people it was like okay we might also be there needing to use that generator. So there's
already kind of gaps and mistakes and an important piece that Lieutenant Nun shared with me is like in the event in of a disaster while people do need to be checking in on their neighbors etc. it's actually police and fire who are going to be coordinating off places and you know acting with uh I don't know
whatever they need to do. So even amongst nonfire and emergency people, we have to we have to follow what they're saying and also I don't know it's like we can't create an effort of checking in on your elderly elderly elderly neighbors. It
might go it might go against what the fire chief says basically. Sorry. I think our our CRC report ought to reflect what we know about what's in these plans. Yeah, if there are things we don't know, those become, you know, to-dos, investigate. I don't want to
just kick things down the road, but yeah, you know, we are applying for grants for further work on this and maybe some of that money could be put to answering some of your questions or filling in some of these gaps. So if we can get our hands on those plans and and review them in whatever committee they think is
appropriate for um know what's in them, make sure our report or subcommittee reports reflect what's in them and if we have questions and there's seem to be gaps those become action items and then part of the communication of how do we communicate with the community.
Right. Right. You know especially if power is down. So then how so again if we if we have something where we every home has this is the disaster plan that if we can invest some money in something that's um that says A B C and D is what will
happen if this happens that they will know what to do because one of the things is decreasing people's anxiety because that's when things really get bad when people get anxious and then they get aggressive and or they right so anything we do allay any kind of anxiety
when a disaster happens is in everyone's best interest. That's a good point. I I want to emphasize in this report that this is about community resilience, you know, at the town level, but then also individual resilience, right? Because everybody is has vulnerabilities in the case of some
of these climate and there are things that you can do and that we can help them do to prepare. Um the MDP is doing that with you know the lower income in the environmental justice community. um probably talk about that next meeting. But um I think
that's got to be an important part of the messaging is this is just whether it's not a department you can do individually and raise an awareness of you know how you're impacted and what you can do to prepare because there aren't a lot of resources available and there's unlikely to be so people need it even more self-sufficient.
I just want to add one postcript to this how the particularly the hazardous resilience plan and our plan are moving along which is that um so the hazard uh
mitigation plan has its own set of priorities. So they're prioritizing what needs to be done and just and I'm going to send you the most recent draft of it. Um and you know there's definitely
overlap there in the things that people are worried about particularly around flooding and extreme heat and um you know fires and those kinds of things forest fires and uh so they're on a
timetable to issue their report in the late fall Michael sometime like that in 2025 I And uh and we're not even we're not close to that
timetable. And I I don't well maybe we are but I think it's worth it just that you know you as you know the uh ring leader just be a aware of that and uh
and from what you've read just see how those two align because part of from the beginning I thought that what we're looking for maybe I'm not sure timing before or
after you go to the select board is the public information like to go out with the draft to the public, right? Yeah. You know, and so that that's a whole process. Yeah. Um and I and uh and a lot of the comments in the hazard mitigation report
came from that meeting at the library where I think a bunch of us were there and went around and started pointing these things out. That's why twothirds of this is around flooding because everyone was recognizing flooding's a big problem whether it's storms or sea
level rise or whatever it is. Um, so, uh, I just didn't want to be, you know, my, not that I wake up at the night and worry about this, but it's like, okay, they'll come out with a final report that has all these things prioritized and we're going to come out
in sync with it, not quite in sync with it and just figure out how we want to, you know, come out as a coordinated set of townwide approaches and prioritization. Maybe maybe there should be some
communication between the hazard mitigation committee and this committee. Yeah. So that uh this committee can flag those hazards which are pointed out which are part of what we're doing or vice versa. I sent it I sent this to
Mike uh Sullivan because I thought there was so much overlap with uh um you know with with his topic and the fact that he was ga you know hopefully gathering his subcommittee together to look at that
and and I'm going to send it I'm going to send it to you Jeff just so you get the picture and uh you know possibly I'm overreacting not not that I mean that they're off the ranch but just so that uh we don't feel locked in by them when
we're doing our thing and they understand. Phil, to answer your question, um the hazard mitigation plan will def it will hopefully be done by the end of the year, but as you said, probably sometime in the fall. Um we're anticipating a
draft to be available probably within the next couple of months. Um, and as far as the coordination of work goes, I did send over the hazard mitigation plan matrices to the UMD team for their comment. Okay, that's right.
And and I think one thing um you yourself and uh Jim can do as well is talk about some of the when you go back to the hazard mitigation plan committee meetings, talk about the need for coordin coordination with the climate
resilience committee. Um, and perhaps we could have the the PAR team attend a climate resilience committee meeting in the future. Yeah, I probably haven't been jumping up and down quite as hard about that, but I think I've been trying to make that point for a while.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I I think there is a lot of value in trying to make sure that there is by having some consistency between the two plans, we'll have a very clear indication of what is a priority. If both plans are calling out a
particular recommendation, then those are things that we should be making progress towards. You know, sometimes simple is better. And in looking at the Texas issue and care,
people said you guys have been debating since 2016 whether to have air horns, right? and air horns would have helped you and they would have cost 70,000 bucks, but you never decided to do
anything since 2016. Now 150 people are dead. And they then showed a nearby county that has the air horns that put them in for 70,000 bucks. And uh they
tested every day at exactly noon. So if you hear the horn at noon, you know it's just noon. You hear it any other time. And I remember living on a farm uh when I was younger in on Gulf Road up by Gul Hill,
Dartmouth put the horn every day at noon, every single day. And was it a pain in the neck? No, it was Oh, hey, it's I get lunch. Synchronize your watches. Yeah. at that time you say no who had
satellite watches right so uh but it let people know that the system works and there's a reason for the system now Dartmouth had volunteer fire department so that's how they call people that's why I'm saying you'd have to then see if
you have a system like that which is pretty straightforward and if you had them at at both fire stations you might be able to cover the town. Then what's what do you want to say to citizens when you hear this horn and
it's not noon? What do you do? Can we get a partnership with a radio station where someone goes on because everyone can have a transistor radio? But you got to assume that phones are going to be out, right?
So, you're not calling anyone and you don't want to walking out if it's a lightning storm or something. Who has a radio? Well, I do. Well, my car has one. Yes.
In your who has a car is a bigger question and everyone in a with a car has got a radio. I got the radio when the power went out for those five cuz I had power up for four days. I was fortunate that I had a gas fireplace. Yeah. But if you if you UMD doesn't have
a radio station anymore, but if there was some partnership uh where you could get the fire chief or someone to a radio. So, if you hear this horn and it's not noon, tune to this
channel and everyone in Westport knows what this channel is and we're going to get you information of what the emergency is and what you should do about it. So, I grew up in where Massachusetts,
which is a small town in central Massachusetts, small industrial town. They had a volunteer fire department and they had the same kind of set 12:00 there was a horn. Uh there was a sequence of of
horns to tell the volunteers where to go. So, but they also blew the horn at 4:00. So, end of shift end of shift in the factories. But um you could hear that all over town and there was only
one location where it was it was in the center of town. We lived about 2 miles away and you could hear it loud as loud as I mean we don't want to write the emergency response plan here but uh the importance is that um as you said at the
beginning by communication. How do you make sure that you've got good communication when you know in problems it's likely telephones are down cable TV's down there's there's solar anchoring emergency you've got but in our plan that's part
of the individual resilience have one of these on because we don't have alternate means of we also don't have the labor for radio communications I asked when I was talking to cable I was like so why don't we have a radio tower why don't we broadcast or have like a radio channel and they're like a completely different
skill set than cable. They wouldn't be able to no getting our own radio station that's an FCC license and everything else. So I don't I when we were discussing radios it's like okay maybe signal to people tune into this AM
station this national weather report that kind of thing because I'm at this time we don't have the infrastructure for Westport radio right so but I think it's going to be important for communication to have the police the fire maybe the same channels as the coast guard
uh same channel as uh emergency management from Massachusetts uh state amilies that they can communicate together on the same frequencies instead of oh we have ours they have theirs we can't communicate
yeah we have it's getting out of silos and having a central if you want a central silo um but you know it's I think that's part of it it's like you know what we're working on is somebody else working on it when we first started this committee I said you know we're not living in a vacuum here this stuff is
being worked on in other places let's see what other places are doing But, you know, I um I'm very big on um how collaboration and everyone knowing and being on the same page. So, it is critical in times
of high stress. Yeah. Yeah. And when you're talking about disaster, it's a time of high stress. So, to do the planning and have everything in place before we get there is so important. Well, I I know that the fire chief has touched a number of times
about this communication thing and that hazardous mitigation and maybe we should depending on how things develop invite him to the next meeting. And yeah, he's already submitted I don't know if he submitted a report,
but we captured his oral report, right, on fire. Yeah. As a as a separate chapter. I'd asked him, you know, would he and have a Tiger team put a chapter on fire safety based on the fires in LA.
Yeah. And he he went through it. I don't know whether it was the last meeting or two meetings ago. These are the things we have to do and it's all captured in in the minutes and we need to turn that into
uh another chapter like uh historic structures. that's kind of got a real narrow focus, but it's also really important focus. But if he's the incident commander, is that what you said? You know, it' be great to have him here and talk about breaking down the silos. How what's the
communication that could happen? Well, if he's the incident commander, that should be happening now. So, I mean, that's that's part of it. I think maybe putting your feet under the fire and saying, "Look, we're working on this, but this is what we need." And I love the idea Phil of having them come
and speak because it also helps us then give maybe us give a little direction on then what do we need to work on right you're in charge of this that's great so this means that we can do this and this that will help shore up and support what you're doing are you saying we should light a fire
under him well I know I'm so glad you picked up on uh we're having another the hazard mitigation committee is meeting next week right the 15th Yeah. Yeah. So, we can also and the fire chief is very good about
attending and so we could also um raise it raise it for him and just you know just talk. My anxiety gets fire. I can tell that I think everyone can tell. I speak for the every me
that that when I see a disaster happen somewhere else I think about what would have that what would we do if it happened to her? What if that was me? What if I was in that circumstance? How would I help me? How would I help the people around me? And then what if people in charge,
right? And and to let people know this, you know, we're in charge of Westport, find this is what we're going to do. This is what we've set up to keep you safe and help. I can't help but say that it
reminds me of living in Cambridge, you know, where they clean the streets and in the morning there would be someone come around with a soundtrack and tell you to move your tag and your cone street cleaning and maybe that's what we need. You know, someone go around abstract
blood coming. We even have evacuation routes designated. Oh, we need that. We'll get to that. All right. What I uh because I want to see if I can get to this offshore win. Is there other business for us?
We're going to meet October 16th. We're going to get the word out. Jeff and I both uh to the committee subcommittee to meet before October 16th to react to at least the three chapters that UMD has
done and any happened in the meantime. And uh then uh Michael and Jeff and Phil it sounds like are really um thinking about how
our report uh the before hazard mitigation and the after emergency response plans all nest together. Um and uh so
uh having the fire chief come back to us in October to say here's where we where we are on the emergency response plan and he's a key player in hazard mitigation as well, right? Yes, he is.
So he might be able to talk on on both of those, but I think both you guys are also on hazard mitigation. Yeah. Yeah. And and I think there there was a registry splash plan. Oh, there is there there is an existing one.
It's old. I mean 11 or 12 years old. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't have doesn't have the new high school in it. I mean has Right. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't have the internet. Well, I mean really if if we were doing
this in October, it almost like kind of begins the process, right, of developing what the warrants are for the next town meeting and we should start thinking about this because a lot of stuff we is going to cost money. So
it's it's October is getting late late even. So yeah. So, you really need to think about that for that meeting, right? If if you wait till December, yeah, the wheels are really hard to get
it done. Yeah. Right. All right. I think we've done our business and uh we can't have motion. So, I'm just going to declare we're ajourned if that's all right with everyone.