and if we continue the same way tim would take over the rest of this evening and then run you would be june through august i would be september through november and then can move on right moving on time to committee interviews and what we've opted to do this year because in the past we have interviewed those who have been on the committee but we've also opened it up to anybody else who is interested  see what happens this year and what we are going to do is ask everyone who is interested in their particular position the same questions and then make their decisions probably next week after we've interviewed everybody who is  questions one through five you want to do three exception ok so david what has motivated you to serve on the planning commission town by living here all my life and see in the what's transpired in the past and what the future might look like by the shore rounding towns for example essex has grown i've regulations but i said way back then when i was very simple and i said to myself and to him i tried to say well you know people got a right to live over here and housing and this should be residential and this over here should be for you the comprehensive plan begins with a community vision statement expressing what the community hopes jericho will look like a decade in the future what are some things that you might expect would be included in the vision statement grow i mean we can't stop seeing a town girl because like i said i've lived here sixty five years and when i first started to get my driver's license i could drive from here to essex and i mean one vehicle to be able to stop this and i don't try to stop it but i think it should be regulated and given guidance and what i'd like to see in that town is that in a way where we can keep and what do you see as some of the challenges that those town faces from a planning perspective i think this down i look at some of the other regulations and i look at some of the other talents and what they've done and and then i say we haven't done enough and fast enough and  to three different water districts and so forth and it should be ironed out so that we can have a commercial district and that the commercial district will handle the things that we want it to and types of businesses for example i also think that we need infrastructure in jericho center of different situations each district is little bit unique and needs something i think roads are very important i think we don't have any plans now where they should be roads but i can think of some where i think they should be i can give those to you or none you want to hear part of the new road for example for well just giving one example in my thought and thinking for the town is that there should be a road between the raceway along from the foothills and it's only has to do with the davis family and connected with silly hill for example to relieve the bridge and to connect the community of haven't instead of coming out where they have to now coming down here that they would might go onto the raceway and go up and go toward cambridge and so forth and be toward the other town centers and so forth but i also look at that from a land mass area where i think the zoning was ten acres and it was very long and narrow strips and didn't accomplish thing and that those areas could be changed and it would develop to more housing and keep it in the general area for example but the main thing is  while i think we're town is very well off i don't know that i would say we're very well off but we seem to have good budgets by this like board so forth and i think that they take into consideration that you have a lot of their issues and of address them and put us in a position where we can work and deal with these situations you know if it comes up with the infrastructure or whatever it is i think it's that we're some extent on the ball so that we can handle our problems and i think you're willing to listen and i think i've seen it in the planning i go to i got to say that when we wanted something or when we address something we're able to work on it so forth and i think that's good where i think some towns are a strain because they don't have the ability to our town next door i think is doing so well planning commission and i was certain more than once thinking of what each of us bring to the board and for example i think stuart very well versed in you know history and all these different things and he brings a great perspective there more than anyone else not that i take away his views i think myself my abilities in working in the temblor business all my life and oh no i think looking back at ourselves and myself my conduct and others i think sometimes and i think more lately then it sometimes we've had discussions name say many more he didn't maybe they should be but no i don't know that they have i don't think anyone's been disrespectful in any of our talking like here tonight but i think we've been a dog's and hard to arrive at some decisions but i think that's because the board is balanced and i think it brings seven different viewpoints someone isn't going to run away with their thoughts of their wills or so forth and i think it's hard but when it comes out it comes out for the good of the down and the best way that it can think there's a couple others we could ask what do you think the planning commission can do to get better public in or that's a hard one this answer i really don't know i don't have an idea with that but i know myself when i come to some of these i mean just like i've been before this like board and i find myself the only person in there to voice an opinion at a public hearing or whatever it is and i think what's it going to take for other people to take an interest and i've tried to talk to people whether it be to come to slike board me planning commission or so forth with the busy life and everything that people have is much talk and so i've tried to do to people to even give a simple ideas or things that are coming up and planning and take part i just can't worked out that if one person to run the country did it fairly it would be better than all the bureaucracy that we have but it don't work out i think if you've got seven you've got three here you know you should have no i understand i know i'm getting to complete the answer well you've got three here in this case could it be better with five my pin maybe yes but after you get past six or seven then it doesn't turn into the same kind of thing as too many opinions i think it could be employed but i think seven is a good number and even on the planning commission it reported back to five but i think seven seems to be in my mind the best number think on this committee against what it is yeah i'm a little bit of a different scenario and i think that sudden and different walks of life people whether they're insurance or schoolteachers or whatever their backgrounds they bring something so the quick first question what do you hope to achieve by serving on the planning commission you know first one is what motivated you now what do you hope to achieve by continue to serve in the planning commission while by serving on it that i can complement some of the things that i spoke to you about that i can get a better infrastructure in this town that we can vision you know all the safe routes to school for example these you know we had a system a trail system in the town and so forth where we can accommodate bikes and pedestrians and so forth those are just a couple but like to follow through and i see that in other towns where there are other things and i like to see that stuff happen i like to see the sidewalks be extended and i like to see what the town is doing this like board and the others put it together so that we can have a safe system so forth so those are some of the things i just like to see follow through and be welcom idea to be able to serve and help accomplish those  all right obviously we know the answer to this one are you familiar with the congregants of plane and land use and development to get that but i will ask then from your perspective how important are zoning regulations for shaping the future of the town oh i think they are the most important see only way to bring about you're the reason we put this question on because there are people who would be interested in serving but aren't really don't want to have zoning regulations that's why they be interested i mean just we're trying to make sure that people who do want to serve actually understand that area ye expect would be included in this vision statement a review that before it came there wipe it out actually transcribe it but one of the most important the vision i think is the separation of village centers by rural landscape i think that's as i say one of the most important parts of the vision statement another is to lessen the dominance of the automobile and to accentuate pedestrian bicycle and other modes of transportation stubbornness i think as i heard john schnberg ashame once it sort of a life sentence you know after a time you don't dare leave for fear what the others might do in your abs maybe to have as the school district has done it at times anyway i know they always do have sort of informational meetings before hearings so the public whether to come or not many i have no of ill informed opinion and people should be hearing ready to argue about something that they don't understand so maybe if they knew beforehand what we had in mind they could  things like that the trade off is that i mean that works is through the process i mean that we saw that with just presenting the history of gonzalo as you said people were all different stages of where they understood the process was there is one last question and that is what do you hope to achieve by serving on the planning commission that again these three villages that are separated by the countryside can be protected it's been a struggle all this time we aren't there yet th last summer i was up in alaska and i'm going back up the summer again and during the ten other months of the year i'm here in jericho and working on the card and conservation commission and i've been really enjoying my experience thus face and yet so it's it's a remote watershed and it's so i don't know if you ever heard of hover broke but it's it's and it's and new hampshire that's more of an experimental watershed where they cut away trees and see what that there are other towns that are very envious of our conservation commission because we have such skilled people on it so yeah we're very lucky that you know  and very we do have questions n i went to high school here i am i'm one of those i b m brats who came here in the i b m diaspora so i've lived here for a long time now been away for school and so on but back in we decide and my wife and i decided to raise our kids here so we're very strongly invested i guess i would say in what happens around town and my wife is also a native was you know not born here but lived here grew up here as well so anyway because of that we're we're concerned about how the town operates and in the land use planning thing is certainly an important part of it so this is a part of the land use planning process that i felt i was best qualified to work on and i wanted to do so in wanting to be to find some way to do community involvement this was the one this was the sort of the opportunity came along it seemed like the best fit for my skill we go on through as you know formal training and several of the aspects do because workwise i do should use a board as you know we have some real strong procedural recall right requirements and statutory requirements in the way we do business and so we've gotten staff some some good formal training from the my league of cities and towns it's a different times different sets of the members so i'm fortunate to to now i have that experience beyond that  i have some experience in my engineering training on reading the prints and that look and diagrams and so on and so that's been very helpful and just being able to understand when we get a well this is you know i asked this when and then came obviously you answered the question already but we'll you know just be formal about it and this is are you familiar with the right word but the the the process that this last amendment went through so they're really sort of following along and wondering what was going to come out so yes but the answer certainly is yes and  so what we're going back to one of these we have to do as a board is retrain because there's changes in the way we do make sure you understand the changes so we're always when there's an amendment we go through this process as a board of going through the changes in a sure we understand them and what changed and that's so we're in that we're just at the beginning of that now with snowmen but that's great so that's a different think the answer for that i guess the answer for the amenities is not yet yeah you want to jump in number four whatever oh sure imagine that you're even with another member of the board it it's so it's not it's not it we just basically don't discuss it we wait until we have we do our process is we have the open part of the meeting and we take testimony and then we go to a deliberative session after that so we have time as a board to discuss things and deliberative section so that's our process we would cover that and deliver session after you know after we've heard the evidence  and so if you have a hearing with members of the public who are vehemently opposed to the project a project that's under consideration how how would you deal with that situation what are some of the some of your tools they use so we have very strong rules of procedure for running the hearings and as chair on the one who sort of executes on that process so we have a defined process for public comment and we get all kinds of public comment from you know from sort of constructive minor changes that we say i really think you should do this rather than that to gee you know complaints so poor all sorts of different things all different sorts of things different kinds of input different kinds of concerns all of them get treated the same way we take the testimony and we have a process where the public talks to the board not to the applicant pointing because that would be me as the chair of the african sitting here the the the public talk to the board not to the applicant to avoid getting into any kind of sort of contentious fight you know direct fight we take the two we take the questions we take the concerns we get the questions answered right there if we can leave them open and get an answer if we can't it's all so because we have these strong rules of procedure sort of keeps everything calmed down i don't know if you've ever seen the videos of one of including all those concerns and everything to the deliberative process and then so so that's the complicated answer to your question strong rules of procedure help us hugely in keeping it calm getting everybody's changes to one seventeen came in we had a very strong deadline we had to meet by the state but i think it sounds like it's really improved even better which is nice to hear i mean this is the classic question if an issue comes before the dear be that involves friends can one be impartial and again we're not like the planning commission in that once they've done what they've done we have the records now it's our job to execute on the regs so we have a little bit clearer lines of of responsibility so it are the judgment calls that we make our balance issues between what the plan is trying to do what the regs say and the property rights of the owner of the in question and the neighbors and the rest of the town it's all normally it's not a big balancing act it's more questionable applying the standards to th particular thing sometimes it's a judgment call and that's when that's when we have to be careful that we're looking at the regs and executing on the regs say and we again in my tenure we have not had cases where it looked like somebody was was trying to vote their own personal interests or biases it's a very much more structured grade school curriculum well thank you very much very i love doing all sorts of activities out there so i like to see keep going i like to see that it's kind of as a balance between access and conservation and i'd like to maintain that jennifer arranged a meeting with representatives from the current use program come to town and it was advertised to people who are on the program and the current program i understand there was a good turnout  there there were there were a lot of questions for the kurdish people for the people that in the tell the program there wasn't really much discussion about the phasing out of the town program and it was actually interesting i had a call from the store manager two or three days ago because they had heard that we were facing out the contract and asked him if he heard about that i guess they have a farm similar contract f and so they had contact and they are having a similar discussion is whether to continue it or not and they have learned from the current use folks that with us with the town ending their contracts the only other towns in the state that do something like this are signs bergen and stone so there are not that many towns that actually do this and stows so we're driving that yeah having a similar is right yeah right but you know you give you've given enough time in new york you did say you left open if it turns out there are property you said don't qualify for current use but it's not because they don't want to but for whatever reason they don't that you left up open the affidavit for something else but for the time being that's you know that really hasn't come up so the contract you have here you see this is the majority of the contracts the still liable for the school portion so that's what the cream of the grade is when we set the tax rate so the thirty thousand dollars shows you that's what we need to raise roughly from the rest of the town over the next yeah i mean there is pride think for what the town needs and book we can afford going with the one that we're recommending satisfactory and it's a you know it's the contract to sixteen months you know we have an opportunity after that time to decide if we want to do something else i was kind of we were kind of looking at the tech or prism one that did our server new server install going into it we were thinking that it might be best if we were able to have a different group of it into the managed service to make sure that you know it's sort of a check on the server install but it didn't just money didn't come out that way and they've been fine and they actually offered to essentially start this now and we have the money in the budget to start it that the way this is structured no no this covers everything that we'll need a call during our business hours a little before again after what i was saying is up until this point we many hours it's going to take them to do that task right and they've multiplied that they've divided their fault by that by sixty five or something like that right yeah they think how they get the funds for active monitoring of everything we have if talked about doing that as a separate project and put that in the capital budget for next year and i had also mentioned that and that we think we had originally asked  element of the data transportation plan we felt that it wasn't quite as in death as what we're really in vision which was much more instead of about really for just a non motorized transportation plan and that started the conversation the r p c and said well if they're already doing the updated transportation plan let's wrap that's why not wrapped in a bigger for the non motorized part into the transportation plan so the transportation plan is forty thousand and that's what we recently talked about the r p c can contribute thirty two  that's twenty k and what we've committed to so far i think that's a little beyond what we could commit to at this point but i think if you it was good to get their proposed scope in there in their cost because i think this is something to tell us what to do since i started here that i think we should do it but it may be that we need to be a bit till the next budget and if you if you  mean that's really very specific right is talking about different streets for different settings and in traffic calming techniques of that are appropriate for jericho and appropriate places so i mean that there is some dollars starting to be involved and i never really came up with bob came here of oh no they were just something to play with just one of the permission to post there the board should check into it but t the person to put it there there was never any discussion about money i don't actually chipping in anything so i