good evening and welcome to the july pete meeting of the richmond select board before we begin i just want to give a shout out to all the volunteers who helped on the th of july and made made the town celebration so wonderful we have some of the karen bruce did you want to speak on the road name we could move that up if you're establish the name of the driveway as indicated on the agenda these men away east men away nd any further discussion here in not all of those in favor of the value to meet the budget numbers but now we have a higher grand less that we don't need to raise the two percent taxes right  i just had a question about our ability or authorization to continue to raise the two percent taxes and save for future expenses that we see coming i don't know if that's you know if we would want to consider that consider raising it above the point sixty nine or if we're allowed to do that i don't know i'm not clear in the legal authority but i think  that my perspective of not being an attorney but my perspective is the tax rate is a function of the approved budget so we approve a budget to hit a certain financial target and the tax rate and incentives that are granted less spill out of started generating additional tax revenue you'd have tax revenues above anticipated which would be excess revenues but not set as an r v you know it's somewhat arbitrary and also that i think you know while we set our our financial target as a percentage to be modest what people are really looking at in the town report and budget discussions are high much are we spending on what so that where really gets the attention of the detail of what's going up or down so just to be transparent and accountable to the taxpayer and voter i think they voted on the budget st and the tax rate isn't buying what did it go up getting some policies together and improving the procedures at the fire station and for the fire department so one of the st things he went to look at was the safety of the respirator a firefighter who are going into buildings with rush papers on how to make sure they're  with other departments you know not entirely regionally but more than just by ourselves and i think there are probably some other ones as you suggest some of the same things might be true of police department as well but they novo coming up with the taxing on the cardiovascular system than yeah i was there when they have the equipment their breathing is somewhat restricted with with a respirator over it so they're they're breathing in a different matter they're going into a dangerous situation versus standing on a truck with a hose now there are other yeah thank you the application which really good they really appreciate all the work that both john and kathleen did to get all the letters of support there is a very strong application so thank you guys in a short period of time that kind of took a turn it's a water and sewer project where they're bringing the water while they're here changing the water line crosses the bridge and i think actually changing the oil itself what it put the town needs to be to basically back the well and so will be repaid by the water to our customers  do i think it's important for us to have e mails i'd like to with the keeping our current e mails but moving them over to this the go daddy exchange and i think just doing it for select board now makes sense if the other boards aren't even using them we could test it out for a year and see how it goes but i think we should be using our emails and you know currently i forward my round q to my g mail and sometimes i reply using my g mail and you know the point will come where we have a lawyer request or there is something where we need to get we need to provide those emails and we need to do it in a timely fashion and be complete about that so i think that  important i think i would support us trying it for a year and then convincing the other boards to adopt it as well i don't know if they use the amount i should before you get the  capacity you should have issues in your official email account and that's in the interest of the town as well as their commissions there i believe is court precedent that if you're using your think in she said you can forward emails from some other entity and you can leave them in the other or you can enough revenue for them and you then i think people can start it if we can get it in so it sounds like the consensus is to go ahead with this can we just give josh the authority to proceed so moved so i find the update on the we've met and looked at both the red graph on the south side or the west side of on the north west side of the bridge of bridge street and  last few years behind the band show volunteers green was kind of sobering to be standing where trees were just a few years ago which is now the river the the river has held up well oh with the spring flooding there was some undermining of the fabric that was put in place to hold the soil in place until there's a vegetation now with the vegetation were rowing so that that the different path of the river and it's been said the river hasn't moved since the twenty seven dollars flood the current resident who lives right here told me that it hasn't moved but if you look at the nine hundred and twenty seven photo in this photo from just a few years ago you can see that the river has continued to erode here and now goes up it makes a ninety degree turn to some more acute and so the river water is hitting the  riverbed really hard right here which is why we are seeing accelerated erosion and it's all silt and sand there very soft material which was a really very quickly so the riffraff that was put in place here it's holding up very well  frustration for members of the public that it was taking a long time and that they wanted to start addressing the downtown businesses and celino corp with holding things out of get this one through them keep moving st the the words we serve at your pleasure there is no doubt about this you guys are the the bosses but all in the realm of delegation i would think it was only decision would fall under the  cost for that piece of property is about what it would have been for re with you guys so i think that is why we pushed it in this because you guys are very very that's not a right we're not agreeing with what the plane commission is coming to terms with we want you to just push it through and we will deal with it so i think where we i found myself and i can speak as one member of the select board my edge here and swear allegiance is to the future of the town i'm taking a generation or two generations down the road and i know for this developer right now for new construction cost and forty does not work for them but my allegiances to the future of the town where the from currently don't know i mean that we're relying entirely on their word like that's it they have come and told us it doesn't work i'd like i just keep coming back to i mean i how do we know it doesn't work how do we know because they have said we can do well here maybe they would make more money doing it a different way but like that wasn't what they signed up that was look we signed up for i mean i just at this is like we can have you know we got to be a better way to burlington i'd like i don't buy that i don't think that's what will is best for this town industries that create jobs with a decent wage that are not service based so those so the people are yeah like their community to really drive back here and go have dinner but let's have something where the people who work were  because i'm certainly aware of the housing issue the issue that we have you this is are we going to use the commercial district to solve what should encounter the housing problem and are we going to do it now because if you do it now you will made a decision for the next two or three generations that's how it looks to me and so i'm thoughtful about the next two or three generations it took us roughly twenty years from the closing of the creamery to today why understand the developers have financial pressure to make money and move on in interest of the few current and future residents of richmond i think we need to take a longer and more thoughtful view of what we want our town to look like in twenty five years and here you push those sixty days you'll still be under that word right and then we'll have time to discuss what that police department vacancy savings if you will which is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars fair amount of money in that department and that's what i quickly to go to is just skim through the percentages you going yeah and a lot of are pretty close and i think that's exactly sort of the question where we're not like within a few percent of one hundred percent what's the story behind it and there are a those in favor i do have the card for footage of the incident that happened at uva a medical center yes so i watched what they were showing on television everybody saying the police officer did everything right now according to his training apparently that's so when the citizen starts getting angry and raising its voice to stop the car starts getting angry and you do swear words it is a classic escalation as opposed to the escalation and so i'm not criticizing any officer for doing what they were trained to do but to me it illustrates the benefit of training officers in the escalation of the escalation so it was not broken it was exacerbated you know and so  so kudos to some of us christie for instance i know you were really thoughtful about the deescalation i think it's a really significant tool and a police record and i'm super that and i know when i started on this like board you know there was a lot of concern with you know just different issues happening in town and and police response and i don't know things have calmed down or if we're not hearing not or i just don't know if things have changed or if it's a statewide trial and you know i don't really know what the temperature is so what the recovery began but we thought it kind of seemed  favor i move in on and i have a motion to enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment evaluation of a public officer or employee under the provisions