welcome to the july fifteenth select board meeting we will start with a public comment if there is anything that is not on the agenda that you would like to bring up now  november november that the proposed plan and that the changes that were proposed yes i went to a couple of the information sessions for that and i followed it with some interest i could see that it was the level of effort that's going to be needed to be put forward on the commission i understand that there's two meetings a month and there would be some extra readings probably related to the planning process and do  part of the planning commission is reviewing the budget and i've also do a good deal of writing a narrative and some project management  for different types of projects so i think that it wouldn't apply maybe one hundred percent directly but i think you can use those skills in the plane co it's quite interesting about why you're interested in serving that planning so well i guess there was some interest around the time of irene when there were a lot of issues about fema and seeing people in situations where they were prevented from receiving their fema money by perhaps the zoning regulations so i think it would be something that would be hopeful that people it's time to  help clarify the zoning for the floodplain and the streamline it so that if anything like that ever happened again it would be a burden on the people that have already had a problem as a business no no manufacturing facilities where i dealt with government regulations pertaining to the product that was being produced for nuclear power plants and also for defense work so on for miller with  some government regulations and and plowing through them to find out which is really need regulation for electric gas telephone water utilities my job entails both financial economic and engineering work i think i bring a pretty good skill set useful to a planning commission like this a lot of my job entails consensus building and a lot of it deals with the specific regulation and interpretation of statute and standard regulatory practice and accounting practice and energy during practices and economic practices i'm not building a property in town i don't have a commercial interest in any property i do have a rental property  own homestead i used to live in colorado and i was part of a volunteer wreck committee out there for a little while you start looking at building a rank i'm a hockey player and so i volunteered to help it's people accuse me of leaving and they things just because i enjoy it and i actually read through all the zoning laws because i kind of interested in doing regulatory work and a couple people asked me if i was interested and that's why so and we haven't been here before so it's a little bit overwhelming i think for me anyway and i think it's a good position to be in there and you know particularly the d r v but there are a lot of communities that need help so i would encourage you  if you don't get elected to use you figure out a way to get involved because there is definitely a need to get everybody involved so with that is there what is the i mean i believe congratulations mark center appropriate development should pay attention to the health of the town center and that includes the water sewer so i would look at the water sewer if you zoom richmond as related to the ford ability of housing including because i think i have a balanced view i think of understanding of financing planning one of the things i do in my work is reimbursement and dealing with reimbursement rates to some of the providers and and frankly to balance the who for whom the raid increase won't be a big issue and people for whom the rate increase will be a big issue so i guess i look at the need to balance those needs as well as the long term planning for the health only fortunately we're missing now to commit commission members for the rest of the spot so substantial business it might mean you can get done with with only with only a quorum and through reading thinking i can see maybe there are other traits that might be done so i think i think been able to drill into that to do the research i really enjoy doing research find out what other people in the town think wildlife education group so i think through that experience you know i've learned about building consensus and how groups work and division of labor in this type of thing i'm also through thirty years  community patients patients and so i think i did a good on both sides of that eliciting kind of the facts that need to go into a decision and at the same time it could be it could be that involved and it could be less involved based on this legislation is that right with the difference would be exploring their charter  i thank you very much i got an email last week saying that they expected the permit but the state responded back and said there was a one week posting time i'm not sure if that applies for the emergency permit or not but  i think the contractors running into some bureaucratic delays hey i think that the owners been responsible for not trying to blow us off the wings attorneys communicated with me shared th transport the hazardous material i think that the contractor will be ready to strike private investors are scared away from the fact that they may not see a return on their investment for many years or or even worse that it'll take several years before they can even start construction because they'd spend their time cleaning spending spree and start buying properties you know and i don't necessarily i mean if if that's what we're proposing to feeling we need to take the bull by the woods and just do something i do feel like that if from my perspective if we don't own the property there's not a whole lot we can do with the property and if it's cost headed to invest in it why would we as a town do that get into the real estate developer just going to school right but i think that there would be ways of structuring deal where there's clearly you know obviously there's a seller but there would be a private sector owner at the end where maybe they did to get the movie out they would you know solicit beds and people would bet on the same process if they were going to go and redevelop the site but you know basic level we have an understanding that's there and a general idea of what the cleanup costs are think if and when we would get a better sense of right now you know what's there and and so that's a good first step you know fortunately it wasn't a try cleaning facility it wasn't energy into it and i didn't want to acknowledge them too but i think that the reason why this opportunity has come from center and has captured people's attentions is because of the  benefits that would prove both in terms of taxes and things of that particularly the advantage of putting more customers on the water system and in the context of the of the rates going up we can increase the uses of the of the of the water system but i think with the sort of bottom line is if it's a bad investment for everybody else it's a bad investment for us here when i say i i also feel like you know we have this developable property in the village we don't want to sprawl or whatever you want to call it down the gateway so that's the case and then we need to make a commitment as a community to do something about it instead of just ignoring the problem and hope somebody else will take care of it while the ball the whole someone's going to facilitate a deal for investor who is willing to sink the money into that so we can either wait or we can as an order commit to making it happen now i'm unwilling to wait because it's been sitting there as long as a woman living in way if if not we have to make that cost so we're looking at a minimum time frame of pushing the annual gravel point plan off until the spring time because it's probably going to take for the rest of the summer to get the gravel roads back to where they need to be even though the major damage is fixed there are still shoulder problems collapse traders that you know you still have the lanes there travel that shoulders collapsing rock that has to be thrown in to stabilize it so we're not going to get to the gravel plains until next spring and also if ema doesn't come through the disaster declaration will have to cover that seventy five thousand fund the last financial report i had showed charges twenty five thousand dollars to the positive we had finalized that yet and i'm trying to move as many costs i came into this surplus last year we can't use that towards the next fiscal year because the budget is already approved in march so if we wanted to appropriate some of that savings we would have to go into the fiscal year fifteen budget and go through its own budget cycle to do that we can decide to utilize that and because the budgets already been  been using fund balance as revenue it's just been accumulating we did a little bit this year if you remember we're doing some for the part b and c and also to offset the final cost of the highway me pickup truck but we have a little bit of fear for saving money it's there but it has to go through a budget cycle to be able to use that as revenue because you can't just in the year take it because it's not might get approved by the so we can get going on that so if there is another rain band it can probably go there and other people's basements is right we all talk to be ok because it's not something we can take care of so it's not like we're going to be spending over time  afternoon i will not be able to attend the select board meeting tomorrow night and amy is a vacation so here is the r t c report on june twenty eighth a few members had a meeting with greater burlington industrial corporation regardless of the  cleanup in the best use for the property after a cleanup was performed on july tenth she attended a d r p meeting as liaison from the richmond economic development committee john shoe shop west on west main street was asking for a change use from a retail store to indoor recreation for dance studio that was approved that evening and andy standees in bridge street had a change of use to add a retail shop to the wholesale business that also was a town engineer mike wise it presented to the d r be the depot speak parking lot for approval is waiting for the railroads approval for the engineering thing because we all have to some of our plan infringes on but we do have to wait for the railroad and mike wise is preparing to submit engineering documents sort of the the big specs late next week and items coming up understands that depending on the end use of the property will depend on how much cleanup is required to have housing goes there may be more extensive of commercial grows there will be less extensive they're exploring all options at this time on august fourteenth the contractor for both the water line and the parking lot at the second select border of that water line would have to be awarded by the water commissioners also which would meet prior to