heartfelt appreciation for the villages preparation and submission of the grant application for the electric vehicle charging station on railroad avenue in addition to committing village funds toward the expenditure of the committee and is very very much appreciate learning existing charging station served approximately twenty one monthly plugins and that it generated revenue for the village based on recent data being developed by the chapman county regional planning commission in connection with the new energy sections of the ecos plan fifty the availability of convenient well situated electric charging infrastructure is vital to achieving this goal and we would like to work with the village and tracking usage on revenue as a means of ultimately promoting cleaner more efficient transportation and in our community so thank you again for your forward thinking planning the committee looks forward to working closely with the village to make essex an energy innovative location to work live and play and that is signed by the chair of the committee as well as david it's if you have a chance to check it out it tracks the progress of all vermont municipality has to try to reach the twenty fifty goal of ninety percent renewable energy for the whole state by twenty fifty and there are issues with the dashboard right now it's a beautiful made web portal that allows us to submit our own community initiatives and stories and it's sort of promotes both competition and like camaraderie because it's great it's the demographic issue but also because there isn't a separate energy committee in the village right now that has extension is on the site but it's like doing anything which we just established you are and you can do a lot of stuff which is great  and then also when you like pull up the population for essex it just says you know about ten thousand whatever it's just half of the population of town so since we have a common energy committee covering both municipalities because the committee  consider itself working for both move the town outside the valley we have a unique situation where the biggest power producer in the state is situated in the junction combining town in junction helps to me town resources available to help offset  consumption to apply each municipalities resources together has a greater effect on the whole for example the town benefits for the megawatts produce from the hydro facility and the junction benefits from the fact that there are more areas for solar development and the town outside  ge to municipalities are gradually working more closely together which is amazing combined energy would be consistent with that broader goal and although dense the patterns are different the problems are allergic we are the same for the two committees there is high potential for residential solar and was just that are less energy committee meeting talking about how it affects holes the greatest potential for growth and expansion in the solar industry restricted areas for granted solar lots of housing and businesses that could use whether a z share in roughly the same ratio of electric vehicles to gas powered and it goes on so from the energy action network confirmed that they would like to to merge both but that there is a cost to that just have to rebuild some of the website we also reached out to the a c c r p c just to confirm that we wouldn't be merge those two things on the web portal we wouldn't be cutting either off to any potential resources or funding for anything they agreed that they thought it would be a good idea to combine the two in the way of states so that we could drive all initiatives for all of us six to capture but they estimate that the cost of the fix could cost up to six hundred dollars at this point we they also let us know of a couple other resources we can look into to try to cover their costs but  written and that there is no need for the historical accuracy of having men read male parts and such i feel that relegating the women trust my reading narration although there is much more narration than there are lines for men it's a it's a disservice and and is disrespectful to the women who are currently representing the village so i just wanted to state that for the record i do i did enjoy the comment about whether or not that woman was denied her permit or whatever for being a woman but i do agree that the other comments within the  will read again and sergeant welcome casey of the on it is the most important section the independent on his report is what you're hiring us for to give an opinion on the opinion was unmodified which is the cleanest opinion yet so everything went very well this year's audit also included a single on it which is required when you expend over seven hundred fifty thousand dollars of federal funds this relates to your department of transportation rants and the reporting on that single audit is at the very back of the financial statement report one is a summary of the actual federal expenditures that you received it was nine hundred eighty five thousand this is all related to your highway findings so overall everything very clean very well counted for the next section of the audit is the management discussion analysis which is written by warren and that's it's the financial government financials are comparative so this does an excellent job of comparing year over year significant changes over and under budget items functional engines basically an analysis of what happened there in the year beyond just looking at the numbers in the records on the government why financials are on your pro basis of counting which isn't what you her internal records show monthly shown in the financials in the village are the senior senator so that's showing us a new fund this year and the economic development and building maintenance accounts were broken out into their own funds and those are detailed in the back schedules informational statement to see how you did but villages being that you don't have cash it's a little misleading because it just so it's kind of better to look at the change in that do town account which is basically a reflection of your cash but it's not your standard cash flow the footnotes are all great in line with last year i mean the only new but no is just discussing acquisitions in your center but other than that everything is consistent and in line with the prior year standards disclosed during thing that nothing new this year so the on it went very well worn her staff do an excellent job have to have a thirty year career and that high risk low risk is basically just for the testing so if you're high risk are required to test fifty percent of the expenditures to get testing coverage staffs we send was the head of time we're very our auditing techniques are very focused on the balance sheet so we sent a prep list ahead of time i think reconciliations recently the listings calling invoices for fixed asset activity running around for the whole we think they're very happy on friday when you say we're leaving and i just want people to understand how much goes into an audit there is a lot of the just getting the materials together happen and then what happens during the week oh yeah a lot of there's a lot of preparation we appreciate all the preparation that morning the staff do ahead of time because it makes it that much easier for us because even if there are a hundred percent compared we're still there anything that struck you that maybe we should be working on i don't think so i mean everything's great we just had a couple entries for things like depreciation but that's generally expected  i think the public doesn't isn't always aware what's going on good points thank you we will we're still trying to get better in our procedures any day because we know what audit time looks like and you might as well do we're going to fence around the construction so that it's protected and we're also going to provide jersey barriers so that the approaches of the traffic the narrow bridge but there is room for cars to get by but we need to provide it's going to be if you know a good four weeks maybe five weeks to construct this and even with the fencing we need to have a place for the people to cross in the pedestrian to get by so we've laid out a safety plan in there for how we're going to set up  barriers it's also close to the entrance and exit to any one main street so that's another concern to make sure that we don't end up with any traffic collision like that so we've kind of looked at that for really carefully we think we're pretty good we find we have to make changes will make it with the contractor during construction project there were some things that came up on the bridge towards the end of we found that is the second reason i'm here which is to get a small contract commitment for the engineer on the changes that we found that's been bridge was actually attached to the main highway bridge and as a result water had a chance to get in and get in underneath the rebar or the reinforcement to actually underneath is that it's still within the the the grant money that we've talked about so it's not like a huge extra cost but there is some extra cost so we got that into the project and again the states prove that a dish will work so not to go back to that it's ninety percent sta carrying it across their navy that's about the time some of those things go that that bridge gets discussed and usually the chain of these things or the state doesn't get a lot of bridge bridge it would not cover the cost of replacing the bridge but it would cover so table all in favor or thank you very much thank you very much yeah i let me let me eat intro the thing is is that when we saw this just put it into their consent agenda it gets tricky because then we don't look at it we don't deal with that and that sort of invites if you've got a committee just stick it in a good it can set agenda so part of our mission the true committee is to be educating the public for whom partnerships with organizations in the town which we've done with  trees and depending how much time we have and if there are any new developments controlling it we're just not sure yet but our committee was going to try to develop that action plan working with other agencies and work with rick public works and then going to affect in town as well and i know they did in the literary of their trees a while back and i don't i don't know where it is at this point or what their percentage of gnashers are  they'll all be affected and speaking of the village on my initial thoughts is you know what can the river do we fish through what needs to be contracted out you know just to secure the trees  we can remove ok and the problem right away then there's the expense of some grinding and replanting ok so that is something that we hope to be able to put into not really a lot the federal government if this is willing to get involved with at this point they will assist the state force parks and recreation with the quarantine period and once they determine the reaches of the insect they are still looking so as we as we know now it is in theory it's very miles from here now there's and how to treat so treatment wise they're looking they got some work that they've done with other insect species it can be the natural predator to the emerald lash of through into the leaves so there are control measures because now when we are we going to be concerned about the public trees but residents of communities in this state are to want to know what can they do with their trees on there so our role as the tree committee would be to gather as much of this information is next and put it together in some sort of a report or trees on private property were to be done by private entities and they needed to do it and the village had to actually enforce that to be done because of the corn teen and the fact i us as a doctor for a movie just species through fire but out of it and just a natural insect flying yeah it's about three miles from here right and then if you're going to use a chemical to control it needs to be done two years ahead of when that insect would get there and then it has to be done every two years from then on until it can be shown that the is there is no longer the earth however  you know that being said we're looking at now how can you know you're getting ash seedlings going in and catching c and then as it goes through trying to spot and try to get it going again going to replace the ash by you know planting new seedlings because if you haven't heard about oh i think it is around eighty percent sixty eight percent of the wood trees once they start to decline they start to fall apart so as your village tree worden my mother god knows the other thing that concerns me is keeping an eye on things and not time i do go around to the individual websites and grab the bents off of here and stick them in the newsletter but you know think this is vacation this is all that good stuff happens so they can be guaranteed every week you know why we're putting it into a policy form we talked about of course there wasn't really any particular you know impediment for this i was just chatting with evan and he did mention that it's always good to have things in writing say well you do it for this group you do it for that group you know you gotta let me advertise my j m barrie and by policy we can say we don't allow any advertisement of hate groups or things of that nature and i guess at the bottom it says i'm the final say on appropriateness so yeah but we wanted to make sure we have policies and procedures for those things so that we are treating people aqua boy and groups ok well i think i met with steve earlier and we just sort of over the agenda for the annual meeting as you know as we said we're going to have a little reenactment head time extra business or article for other business section one of the question i have or you guys was what do you think in terms of me and evan you to l just get sums feedback is this an opportunity to sort of update people in terms of consolidation efforts you know we don't really discuss it in the budget we're just presenting the vote in persisting you know time of the waste water fund the everything like that  enterprise fund some we're not really doing anything in terms of saying here's where we are in terms of solid asian it's not like we have something some brand new piece of information to present but on the other hand i'm just curious people getting sort of reading bits and pieces of it get a sense of it and if it's appropriate if i should try to do some kind of summary in the tally he will meeting next presented a slide that said here's here a consolidation efforts to date here are the departments that remain to be consolidated or not not consolidated i'm just curious if you think i should try to go there i think the presentation  for a road closure they did not come to us first before they accepted this event and originally they wanted to come down main street and have main street closed for the better part of two hours around five o'clock is a great idea so staff worked with that we have an alternate route that takes them arbor think of the new farm the housing subdivision that's in there so one of the things that we're going to they're going to be here in two weeks asking for permission one of the things we want to work with them on their need to notify all the property owners in this room that the road is good because for two hours and there's the back entrance into one of the subdivisions which is the housing unit at the and what we're trying to work with them they've already invited everybody to come to this event and do this so we got caught in a jam with this i really think rick and both ricks for coming up with something that could work so there's no embarrassment at central our requirement at look at the very least is going to be to notify all these residents that the road is going to close for a see from step prospective no two of the five corners and then we worked with them with an alternative that's all we had and so i just want to give you a heads up that they're coming in two weeks give you a little preview if you have some questions and thoughts chief gary was not available to be here tonight but he will be here in two weeks to be able to answer any staffing questions of how we will be able to make this parked over there out of there all the funny part was i drove by there before and it wasn't crowded put apparently i was also there about an hour by there about an hour and a half before the six o'clock game and by the time you know and so there have been people parking over there public works did put up some temporary barricades it's a no parking on it there on the what would be had previously amended its ordinance to have no parking allowed on that street so we'll just be putting up the signs and enforcing it and the other thing is i'm sorry derby left for the evening you know we we have we are trying to put the word out that there is a large parking lot right behind road rescue there are signs that say park here park here please it is on and so we really want to get the word out that there be a great employee parking lot or owners of the businesses so that it opens up parking spots on their lots and the only restriction is you can't park there overnight