may third twenty well at seven o four and the first thing we usually do is public to be heard is there anybody here who is an item that is not on the agenda ok well the first thing on the agenda then which makes us pretty actually is planning commission interviews and we have samantha done which i take it you and then so we've just been in jericho for about two and a half years and i have a background i have a love for my height first of all and i have a master's of architecture and i'm a lead accredited professional that i did through while i was working as an architect and when i moved back to vermont i decided i didn't want to work in an architecture firm it was not a good fit for me and the day to day just was too narrow and so i joined a it just wasn't enough wasn't enough i you know would get really excited about the projects that were more planning or visioning or things like that so i just really wasn't what i wanted to pursue so i'm working at yellow wood associates which is a think i know it's great i think yes so i'm really loving that and i you know i'm as i've settled in jericho and sort of figured out where i am and you know got the house under control i you know really wanted to figure out a way to participate in the community and to help maintain jericho's character and figure out the best way to move forward you know i think there for mine as a very special place and there you can't just say stop here we want to be just like this forever that's not realistic and it wouldn't you know it's not really what we want so i'm really interested in how you take the value of the character and move it into the twenty first century and i think there are a lot of tools now for doing that and so what my thought was that the planning commission was a good opportunity for me to participate in those kinds of discussions before we go appoint one of you but not both of you i'm exhorting you which ever one of you isn't well first of all with either one of you be more interested in doing that the r b that as a very senior official in the federal government to the congress i know which one i'd rather be even a contest and i've been on both of these bodies and i personally prefer the rb because your the supreme court you know so that's i'm making a pitch and i understand it may not be your first choice or your first choice if you're willing to consider it then that makes our life which makes it really difficult for them sometimes if people are missing then they can't make a decision as to say we can live without the planning commission for a while i mean that's not good but it's a high commission for six months coming in when you want to do something or a citizen wants to do something progressive they can do it so i made my pitch i'll stop you heard it i don't have to belabor it so anyway i am back to  think are some of the issues facing the town i mean what are you concerned about there's a there's a young as young i think i'm concerned about i'm concerned about developed of the development of undeveloped land in open space like i'm concerned about development of farmland and so i i am very interested i'm not against development but i'm interested in figure out the right places for development to businesses but there's also that land is being developed because people need the income or it or they're struggling as for whatever reason so i'm interested in both in both sides of that and i would say that i mean i chose to live in jericho as i wanted to live in a rural area and so but not so world i had to drive and you know i think has a really special place because of that has so much real character but it's you know it's very convenient to a lot of other things and so i'm here in preserving that and figuring out you know what trying to figure out how you do that really from a regional where i grew up in hanks oh  just sort of proviso here but if you were playing commission meeting and you observed or you suspected that somebody another member another commissioner was pushing really hard for an issue that might be a conflict of interest let's say they were advocating for some type of might just be an experience i haven't served on time board before but i think when you're addressing all these issues a certain amount of conflict of interests as i just said i want to live and you're to keep it keep a certain character you know i think we all the values that we bring so that this is there some of those values that's different than monetary but i think i would just continue to engage that person around the greater good you know talking about all the i have cancer as well but i'm willing to learn and i realize that i'm not completely familiar with all of the machinations that go on what's involved until i get a chance to actually see a builder for the last twenty years but i haven't given much back when i heard about the job or the position i thought it might be an opportunity to do something interested willing to learn and willing to work people in response to your interocular if someone was that disingenuous or something then somebody has to say something flexible your position that i was unaware of this at least gives me another opportunity to do something to get back you asking questions about concerns i don't have a specific i don't have a lot of specificity about concern i think the town's doing relatively good job i would encourage growth in a way that would provide a tax base to the town without overburdening the school district in other words invite a little bit of light industry you know we understand that that way you know overburdened the already overtaxed homeowners but you provide some jobs and you provide a tax base which is important because if you don't have the food come from a can of we have it is a kind of wrestle with and wrestle but i think that that would be an area that i would encourage regardless of what position i'm on if you have stagnant growth you have a stagnant economy i'm not encouraging sprawl you know i don't i don't believe in that my wife and i came here and i've lived comfortably for twenty four years without sprawl but i wouldn't mind seeing some economic advancement that when it has the town coffe to talk to my wife well needless to say it never went through there was a sudden escalation in value about thirty three percent  it's kind of a a hole in the middle of that donut hole pragmatically that's exactly what yeah exactly and if we if it could be developed and i don't like the way that would create the totality the first been expressed an interest in are both willing to consider the alternate we're very fortunate more and more people are willing to spend time in our town committees we appreciate or find jobs some might actually when you see the gross domestic product for the whole nation sugaring out to about seventy three percent in the money markets the worth of money in the financial sector as any of the discussion any public comment well all those in there i so i will say right now i know that there's there's disadvantages and i know there's issues with turning left every fifteen but you know if you build it there i think people come and people use it will get some cars off yeah whatever we can do seems like better thank you standard answers and that's why they are f p to get a vice sense of do you think mice and this is my set suspicion which i'm perfectly willing to be told is wrong can't exactly you can't see we don't park in that we're trying to make because we want to locate we want to move the crosswalk south a little bit so it's a lot of the front of the store but we want to make sure there were no  roads there for commerce and if you really need europe especially in germany there are distinctions among those regions which means that traffic flows very smoothly could we get there we have more land theoretically it would be easier for us to do this and yet as the years go by our lack of this and are not having this distinction know controversy surrounds all of these i'd really like to see something get done in the center because i think it might be a model for what we could do i think you guys have some really good candidates there missing the lord is there like a this isn't out of balance at all if you want to do it if you could now do you like better but just if you if you can say what's missing what would be the best thing in terms of making you know cohesive commission discussion all those in favor then what they're doing there is just phenomenal terms of trying to reduce that waste stream because it's a pretty complicated o we're we're still the compared to see the best so seeing something like what we're building ten years later in its evolution and a successful in other words will be lucky if am one two three four lines down it talks about skin color or national road are two of the most heavily traveled and it should be gravel roads and gravel roads yes that's the wor there that's the only thing i really wan felt you know we tried to say that it wasn't personal stuff and his comment they heard i hope so i mean because we are really trying very only thing that i say because i don't know anything about trucks i mean if if are there the question isn't whether depending on how it is we could be out of attainment and that would really be significant to any small business including theirs and you know so it gets a significant  talked about the the letters in the energy committee doing the ones to effective homeowners with the trial of the ages the one i have a question on is the homeowner an apple tree lane because that one is not going to be a trial  from this like border in the town and you have something you wanted in the business yet no this is just a matter of interest i'm one of the people who stayed with the very french to live by twenty five thirty miles outside of   in many ways it's got a lot of similarities in other words there outside the big there actually outside of a smaller big town and they have a longstanding ancient you know the old tradition and so we went down to meet the mayor i said i'd like to you know be introduced just to talk about you know what it's like what are their you know what just they're nuts and bolts yeah what's there how much is their budget what do they amazing and their budgets about the same as ours and they do some of the school it has not started you know that well they do not i mean they have a lot this year but they don't have the same press him on the subject so i didn't get nearly as much information as i would love to i would have loved appearing in for an hour and a half how do you do this that they're fine i was under the impression that the european countries in general and france in particular town so far less flexibility to manage their money tax bases of borrow money and so forth we do and from what i understood what he was saying there wasn't that a lot of difference they can issue bonds without state authority but they can go to the bank and borrow and they go to the bank am borrow quite large sums i guess  as it tends to be honest and well run whether they're good at the national levels another question but and clearly he's been elected over and over in an area that's not and doesn't support the congress party so it's not like him because people like thing but i just want to let you know i did get some information bring it back it was interesting it raises many questions as a dancer i was unable to really probe and say well presence of mind to ask but i thought you'd be interested i'll show i did you are probably wrong sure that's fascinating yes was it seemed like polishing how much they they do and it's it's a completely different continuity that you know these things work best when somebody actually takes it by the scruff of the neck and follows through and gets to know the personalities and the issues and so what if you rotated that won't happen so that would  because they were looking to see what we would like to see in this like your process so i would imagine that they would want to interview to see the people's interest what they can bring to the table things like that yeah what we'd like to see is representation proposed by us maybe makes you know sort of goes back in their direction a little bit right away because somebody because of the way we won't necessarily pick somebody you know squat and they're acting in good faith which i think the fact of his letter suggests they are then they're more likely to pick a person from a slate of who they think is most likely reproductive theories or yes forbes you know