courts in richmond they would provide lifelong recreation and for those in the richmond community and as well is that they would benefit to schools and richmond by activity during physical education classes and on sundays and they can also benefit the camps that are holding those buildings during the summer such as our community there are significant grants available to build tennis courts as was marred general in grants for recreation and especially for kids one of these is the u s tennis association provide up to fifty percent of total project costs twenty thousand dollars minimum for the building maximum sorry for the building of seventy eight courts which is the standard size and they also provide advocacy technical advice and current layouts and the national recreation and parks association grants federal money through the vermont land and water conservation fund for creating recreation opportunities to improve the health of vermont  would create a more a better test program for the school well the preparations are well underway for the fourth of july celebration which we plan on having on the fourth of july august no aug just fourth of july so some of the highlights are that it ten thirty the  rounds going to start of the elementary school and it's mostly downhill so lots of fun book and have fun doing it for your stroller your own children can be in the stroller or running it quite a family run a great theme is i love rock n roll and i have all the forms for the parade entries the vendors anything you want to do we have a right with town center office and we were pleased to announce that the o of the morning teams are going to be the grand marshal of this year odyssey of the mind and they're on there yes they're on their way back from iowa as we speak the community being and from richmond is going to have their annual independence day concert one and we're going to have the auction hopefully at one o'clock in the reason i say hopefully is because we do not have an auctioneer and we do not have any helpers to help the auctioneer so out there somewhere should be a person that would like to man the microphone and you know get a buck or two they don't have to offer passes but we certainly do need some help or that just isn't going to happen to donate items they can call me at the town office for three four two two two one we don't accept closed toilets t v s or large appliances and our little motto is people don't want to buy jocks  up putting in our the mr and then paid to have it tossed one of the new things this year at five thirty the band called a m m p which is a local rock band and  the drummer cool kid he's very good you can go on you tube and put in a and p and watch some of their practices there in their concerts they played for the city marathon ballet quite often they're really quite good and then at seven thirty in the gravel brothers will be back again so it's kind of a whole rock n roll day the fireworks will be at nine thirty and the reason for saying nine thirty is it has to be really dark or just wasting the money if it's not truly dark the coin drop is going to be saturday the fourteenth and we do need help with that right now the three active people on the committee two of them have been there since the beginning and that's like twenty eight years they've been doing this and the one with the shortest is been there twelve years and so as you can tell we kind of get a little bit tired out we don't have the muscles to move all the stuff we really do need some help and if we don't get more help then we just are going to have the fourth of july activities this year we also  people to help cooking the fried dough it's an easy job and give directions person doesn't have to be eighteen you know even if you could just do it for a couple hours and trade off to somebody outs to be at the point drop you have to be eighteen that's a state rule and eighteen for frying the door because of the grease so it is not a whole lot of heavy work to do if people could just give a couple hours it would be great wheels every bit of money that we make after we pay the bills goes for the next year's fireworks and we have to pay for them and have an order shortly after this fourth of july we have to have an order and then they have to be paid for by think about how you're going to address that such as some sort of solicitation to everybody which means that you don't finally existing ones the way they have been funded  's just so they won't be here people people like the smaller ones but like you said that's going to be fairly subjective and i know that i think i think it was actually it was what i would see is these are the criteria that we're looking for do you help in the community to community find that probably so are you directly involved in the community or are you supporting us on a problem bro right you know so that's not really what we're talking about here on the other team and i sort of have a feeling that if it's a perfectly good charitable organization and all the members of the board lly of the one that we talked about for a while last year which was the vienna and so that's you know it's about ten thousand dollars and part of their business model is receiving money from towns i guess the question becomes how much is it worth to the town to continue that support and like you said things like suzy which i think we did we removed could see from this appropriation when we're going to do that it's kind of our discussion we have a contract done that we really are looking at a much smaller amount of money to build  so i don't know how the board wants to proceed i mean i'm willing to work on creating is like oh great two systems one where one where that i think is objective jericho road cell tower that was received by them the department of public service concurred with our conclusion that we'd raised a significant issue so they have recommended that a hearing take place we haven't heard anything from public service board on whether they're granting that or not or if a hearing was held it's probably going to be in august or later similarly for the s tower scheduling a hearing is nearly impossible and we're into the first and second weeks of july now trying to schedule a hearing so there's really nothing more news to report on that one and the sure the planning commission has been working on very large over all of our floodplain regulations which we refer to as section six point eight they haven't quite finished the fema has reviewed our current regulations also and they've found a couple deficiencies that we need to correct so we have a deadline of august fourth because the new flood plain maps are going to go into effect that we have to have these corrections  made and adopted they're taking care of the new rigs but the new regs aren't going to be ready in time so the planning commission asked us to make a couple small changes to be in effect at the time  different sections in section six point eight point sixteen point eight are adding a new section that reads for the pose development which has been approved by the to your beat per section six point eight point eleven eight or six point eight point eleven b remind agency of national natural resources project review sheet and the identified permits or letters indicating that such permits are not required shelby attached any up occasion for a zoning permit and also in that same section they changed the wording in item seven of adding in the new section three item seven talking against the project review sheet for the proposal shall identify the agency permits which permit approval is required this helps clean up when a perp is needed and that's a federal standard and the second or third change under six point eight point fifteen the reading  hit what we have not yet done selection of an audit firm for fiscal twenty three fourteen cycles that was later confirmed a few months later and i had issued an audi r f p and we sent out to the moon two three four five six seven eight nine auditors that  checks or c p a s work with and actually currently works with soap and empowers on got good references from a couple of other clients of their ears they have extensive recommendations solve and empowers they quoted fifty thousand dollars for the audit put understand that that's about ten thousand dollars less than what we spent this year i think that's probably said they didn't they preferred not to put it or submission this time i we didn't rule them out when we did the r p and i'd spoken to john much about that he said that doesn't mean that we have any think that they've got some pretty good experience out there good i will also know that they are if he was for one year but we would entertain multi year proposal if they were made both father built and sold in power said they would do one year but they would also be willing to do with three year if the board wanted to do with three year that would not mandate to use them all three years but they like to see a more permanent multi year contract it's completely at the preference of the board is there any incentives built into the bid to pick them up for an additional two years not for some while not right we proceed with negotiations with sold in powers for the auditing pretty of coming fiscal year ok so the motion is to negotiate with solvent powers week which from from the the buzz i hear it's likely to appear to be appealed to the environmental court so unfortunately the there wasn't damage however some of the plantings did not survive and we've contacted the contractor in they are going to replace them ok highway construction up take the highway department replace the or the large covert blow billets pond am just before memorial day i think that was an awesome job to be able to get that roof open in time to put in to twenty five foot sections of  large diameter plastic culvert and since that time they've been grappling they've made it all the way up to about the swampy area with the new road fabric and the initial gravel layer it will come back and put more of rubble down support for people though there's going to be quite a bit of gravel going down what they've done is just enough to hold the fabric in place and now they'll just go quickly through and the additional gravel following that they'll move to stage road and in again for the july and august they'll be doing the same kind of stick so do you think this plan the se ambitious is basically to wrap up plans and do you think they're on track to finish they are on track to finish in september barring any weather emergencies again like last year we lost the summer because of repairing who repeatedly what will happen when you've got a kind of honest one right so the extra trucking they brought in has made all the difference and i think they're on track to do the second part of my question is they're on track to finish within budget right now the question the old colbert is leaving the side of the road that was go leaves next week she'll be gone need to be able to try to get somebody on for august or july and it was the planning commission where the question about numbers coming came up but the d m d s said five people opposed thank you again for your service if you want to hold them out no i don't list somebody else as i don't think it's necessary looking looking at these that does appear to be what it is excess