well two years of work are coming to caution or to violate road movie this weekend since the last time i was here i've been informed that the governor is coming on friday night at six thirty to say a few words and on the saturday at one pm senator leahy is coming  to officials that are coming in the plans are pretty much in place we could probably still use a few more parking long tears it's hard to know what kind of traffic we're going to get but i have  talked to the chief of police today talked to rescue them to make sure i had already talked to them two three months ago but to remind them the events going on and particularly that we have you know some high profile politicians they just need to be you know they're always on on alert so to speak but just to sort of emphasize what was going on this morning i in the day for tuna they'll be on first and then the richmond community band will be playing then the governor and then will have fill in the blanks and all the while up till six thirty the farmer's market will be going on a community will come as they do to the farmers market and that more people will come in and support the farmer's market and also maybe buy something there for supper and stay in on you know for the rest of the evening the road will be blocked off and we're very conscious we've been trying to be very respectful of the neighbors on so that you know we don't interfere with their ability to get in there out of their home s highways going to help us on thursday when we're appreciative of that to get chairs and risers for a stage from the elementary and middle school and i actually don't know yet  attention to the fact that there is going to be items like that stored under under the tent so this saturday will be getting going at ten o'clock vendors will be arriving  probably around eight thirty we're not letting any vendors park up on the green they'll be able to unload but we will have no parking up on the green we will let some of the vendors that traditionally park for the farmer's market open the hearing will let them do th selling t shirts or hints the community photo on and off any of you were in the community photo but we had four to five hundred people saturday morning was a beautiful saturday morning and  the spirit that i felt and other people felt from the crowd was just amazing it was really made you feel good about people that showed up and in their community are feeling have special tours of conducted by here at rigs you know or long term historians will also be having tours of our sprinkler room that cost  historical society hundred thousand dollars to put in that will be open i think it while thirty one thirty two thirty three thirty nine of tours of that so the residents can see what the historical society has done without taxpayer money we did have a grant of twenty five thousand dollars that senator leahy helped us get and so that is taxpayer money but the seventy five thousand dollars anyone who wants to record a memory of the round church where they married in or around church and they slide on the hill did they go to town meeting when they were going town meetings were there or do they go to a concert or some sort of presentation or just what goes around church mean to them so for a couple hours you'll be videoing anyone who wants to talk about their around church and then we'll once i also be showing his d v d that he did a kind of a documentary of him on the round church that will be showing continuously on a laptop in the round church we're kind of excited about the richmond post mark i don't know if anyone had seen that on our facebook page but that's pretty exciting and it's was a lot of sort of paperwork to get that and or postmaster i think it's eleven to two will be there and you need a first class an envelope with the first class stamp on it or a postcard and he will stamp it for you so you can either do that and mail it or do it and save it for posterity which a lot of people do their collectors around the country that will be sending him to him to get that that coursework because they collect them so that's kind of exciting and our postmaster here dennis has you know been very helpful in helping us through the process to get that approved and he says you know on his own time this is going to be there and then we'll have our music count from eleven to seven with a number of local musicians playing and everything's free there will be a number of craft vendors and food vendor they can spend a day there on on saturday and we we should be done on probably no waiter than eight or so on saturday again on respecting on our neighbors to join on to one of them into the evening and that will be a long day for us on a sunday i think i mentioned last time i was here months ago that the pilgrimage coordinated by the richmond congregational church where we will have representatives from all of the five different denominations that founded the ground church for the pilgrimage is actually a church service it's conducted by the you know courted by the congregational church but it will really be a sort of an ecumenical service back in one hundred twelve each representative has been picking music that might have been sung by their congregation two hundred years ago and some prayers that they might have used so on on the really exciting to see how that's going to be then sunday afternoon will be your closing ceremony will last about an hour or so i've been trying to get the descendants of the original proprietors of the round church there are a few that live in richmond in our sort of historical society genealogy you know genealog figured out on five of them are and we've invited them to come and represent their families who are the there were a sixty some proprietors of the round original proprietors and so we're you know these descendants to come and they don't have to do anything just be there and be recognised but we think that is kind of neat that there are some in town we will recognise  founding members of the richmond historical society most of which are deceased you know forty years ago around the historical society was also founded and we have our speaker from when andris  history professor um from a middlebury college who will give a talk on on creating a sense of place which is what really there church is done in my mind on to richmond and after that  we will have refreshments on the green for anyone who's there and we are having a cake baked in the shape of the round church and as i found out today it's actually going to be a three dimensional cake not just so i thought it was going to be you know like a flat sheet cake so that's kind of neat you know what other things so you know we're hoping that the community to which this event has been planned for who come out and show their support i had a wonderful committee on this one working for two years on this and i appreciate the support of the sponsors m m c t v has been filming all  november depending as you probably have to be somewhere other than the run the church has a star so they get called and will probably end the year with another concert in new year's eve so this is at the impetus of our you know the boat boy scouts had been given the job of thinking about what might go in a time capsule anything our committee as we've been through would have an idea of what we might want to go in the time capsule so then we'll have time to figure out what we want to go on a time capsule should probably then close on december thirty first so i hope to see as many of  a powerhouse of the crew very psyched so discussing exactly what the next step is to just start moving on one of the things that  are what we're looking at he really that sorry i tried to make sure that no matter the spreadsheet so this is to be used as a draft not for public distribution just so you are aware that from the johnson something respectable they talked about how the kudo cheese factory went through the same thing with the brownfield kinds for so we were thinking of asking them with their expertise of what they did and how they succeeded over there so we didn't have to reinvent the wheel over to split the biggest thing that was discussed with the community involvement and start building we have a little bit different scenario with a ball late stage with that piece of property so we want to definitely work on getting rid of that and making it a community effort and to build on the community itself to make it a better area exceptionally being in the downtown area and the other thing was working with the him along with frank shopping they are conference call and that you know are really so and definitely recommending that and is involved in those communications with craig because they do have a good money the other one is for profit and you can receive a two percent loan according to trista connie from vermont natural resources  you who is a delight i will have to say and she's going to be our new new best friend ok i did ask lark park to talk to deron when he m which was suggested by the town planner from the city of barr e who also worked with their cleanup and is now working for for waterbury on their cleanup of how they form that l l c so we can get the information potentially if we need to do that it would be a last resort i think to do that but that way if we do have to go that route we have the expertise and know how of exactly how to implement that right away ok and i did speak to deron and when he comes back he's going to inform all of us on the economic development committee exactly how that works he is in chicago right now but as soon as he comes back he will be  meeting with us in regards to that i also asked locke part two who is also planning commission to talk to alex why hang him from the town of heinz bird planner and zoning about the interim zoning because he would be the one also for planning to multitask on our economic development committee of how exactly that worked with them and it was interesting because he said that after he talked to to alex that charlie baker from the new county regional planning commission just even said hey look we want to me we want richmond to meet with you and so we're we're all working on the same thing and so charlie baker at this time is going to be heading up the meeting for that with heinsberg town planner alex and joe the hinds for ten minutes straight or of what steps they took to make all of that happen along with the folks from the chicken canning regional planning commission the greater brillant industrial corp we will all be at that meeting i did ask charlie baker if if he thought it was wise to have all the richmond chairs and vice chair of the select board richmond economic development committee planning commission and dear be along with the town manager in town planner to be at that meeting so we are all on the same page and can move along simultaneously making it more efficient and everyone is on the same page charlie thought that was an excellent plan of action i did talk to you june and in regards to that so charlie just it's in his ball right now as far as setting up that meeting he was going to do it right away but everyone has been on vacation expression when hines for so he talks to we're definitely moving forward on it ok one other thing i'm going to bring up the depot street parking lot if you don't mind on a night and july nineteenth we talked  d regards and we had our meeting and we talked about wayne davis from their vermont transportation about the park and right grant we because we had two members that were questioning and we always listen to everything that everyone brings to the table and so we did look at that and we did decide that we're sticking with the your original objective there of what the voters voted for which was to be used as a parking lot for the businesses people in their i also wanted to say that i did have a businessman tell me it was a delight to that he had to go and work permit and work with me only here and it was a delight and so i did recommend to june and perhaps it would be a good p r for neal to be introduced to the business people in the village community and i will have to say most of them were very surprised like why are you coming by you know stories but it was that we were reaching out to those businesspeople so i think that went over very very well that was done on july twenty second so i think that is pretty much perhaps maybe he was interested in some water and sewer over there coming over from camels so his comment there was well that is something that could be discussed i think we have plenty of water however sewer maybe potential i did suggest to the water and sewer commission to please contact justin the none there person to to look into it and see if that might be something that should be explored identified the vacancy in the town of richmond and we're working our goal is by december having all the vacancies settle in the downtown area the other thing too that came out of the meeting and i'm going to go really over there with what the water allocations are over there we need them we're going to be working now twenty eight saying it's so important to have all the boards on the same page moving along business wise and then some definitions would be updated in that section of the bylaws the planning commission for several months prior to forwarding this to the  knew they needed to do more work on those two sections but wanted to forward the sections of the bylaws that you have in front of you because they realize that people were very interested in those  who are who would be affected by the changes didn't hear back specifically from the mailing but when i've seen people business owners they have all said that they are supporting so chapter seventeen which is the state statute that governs land use regulations does require that this law court order a hearing no less than thirty days work or adopt these without going to public but that's based on the just the feedback in the commentary we've had we really haven't heard anybody say you know you should not be doing appreciate the sentiment and i and i personally don't find anything objectionable this but i think we need to be respectful of the of the will of the pope would be expressed by the democratic process and we had a vote within the commission for the individual that's come before you know whether this is you know something that is the complete consensus of the groups of it everything has to be a consensus proposal but that if  at your public hearing will be a great opportunity to get any feedback in and confirmation if that's what you're looking for from the public you know or we've been talking about this for for seven months  no to director signs or to no parking i'm against that so all of a great opportunity when you hold your hearing do it again reach out to those people but i think these are pretty basic and there's going to be on on a lot of talk about a lot of things are going to commission is looking to the public for a lot of being put on the war heading next with different areas of zoning and i'm sure those go on a lot of these things before and like i said i don't want the public to feel that the political system has been the manipulated in order to get something in place that the public  consideration you got it every everything else read everything you know it was it was it effected every inch of the town and so minor way or so i mean everything was affected by the close and i hear your concern and i heard this from others from my explanation is if you do this in little incremental it's first of all easier for people to grasp rather than  if it's you know a lot of different little pieces i think it's going to be easier for us to put it in front of the public to say ok this is this piece of it which is going to be a whole lot easier to have the kind of changes exactly and this is because this will not develop any forward in what they're trying to accomplish and it's pretty benign changes are not something that we believe there was controversy and we'll and i think it's important to remember now that the clinic commission is doing is thinking that current document and changing that this document that was going to be down is gone and they're now looking at our current document and voting on changes to that  guess some confusion with the owner as to what exactly is going to really hire a company called pharma products and services also and probe to find a way to clean up the ammonia between now and then they've been out to barrels they could have taken they took about three weeks to develop a plan that required state permit which they submitted the application for last friday today i got an e mail saying that there yes they developed a process i guess the state had some comments on the pond and they had to revise it and they resubmitted last week and now they said they really don't think they need is one of the ways of removing ammonia from the fridge ration systems washing around and evidently something was done prior to pre cancer buying it but nobody knows why where they cleaned out the system and they probably flushed the water into the ammonia tank originally it was just been there it's not to say it's not hot have a hazard but it wasn't decommissioned the way it was supposed to be for some amendments to this lease for several months now the lease they originally said then it several renewal periods five year will periods where the price initially tripled for that rental space the post office objected to that they hired a consultant for all of their nationwide lease to go she was called see her it's a real estate group out of washington and we have been negotiating with them on a couple of different terms of primary terms where the lease the rental dollar amount for the space the job renewal periods and also  executive session strategy discussions on this and one of the sticking points was the per annum rental that we made a final offer to the post office about three months ago or two and a half months ago and they said they weren't going to take it they're going to move out two weeks ago we heard that you know they are going to take it so it looks like all the outstanding issues have been resolved and we have the lease amendment in front of you for your consideration for the public's benefit there are for renewal for five year renewal terms that are current step the rent would go from fifty thousand one hundred a year to one hundred fifty thousand three hundred a year the second five year you will term that would go to two hundred thousand four hundred dollars per year per term th is two hundred fifty thousand five hundred dollars per term the fourth was three hundred thousand six hundred dollars per ton which history shows just unrealistic the  new rental rates for the next terms or eighty nine thousand two hundred dollars for the first five year term ninety three thousand six hundred sixty six for the second ninety eight thousand three hundred forty three for one hundred thousand one hundred for the first time that were agreed to we are agreeing to the early termination clause and we're also agreeing to pay c b r e a commission of seventeen thousand eight hundred forty dollars which i think is worth it post office higher c b r e wasn't going to go shit without them i think we've come to an agreement that's going to provide us with a substantial amount of rental income the original bought up rental income was structured to pay off the bond which is going to be paid off for final payments in december after that all of our rent told income go directly to the real rehabilitation of the site it's quite a number of projects the parking lot need to be done we have window improvements that need to as well as making sure that there are going to shrink systems or operational build other break attached you'll have a copy of the new bylaws richmond rescue and you'll notice that they've created a class of remember where one where the am actually for full disclosure now a member of the board rescue so the they're still going to have two members at large from the not the pm team membership their living one member yeah and so will you put that on front porch oh yes that's the reports are just for your information i think the economic development committee report was done by heidi or thought she was just going to do the priore the divorce rate parking lot there really isn't much of an update on the since the last meeting the railroad company has copies of our plans opened in september i forget the date actually but we'll have something ready to be awarded at the second meeting in september provided that the railroad approves the plans for the railroad does not approve on june twentieth we have a large meeting of town representatives and feeling state representatives and others regarding trying to wrap up the application keith and he in the states the state historic preservation officer coleman went into the structure and took several pictures examined it keefe was that the historic integrity of the structure was no longer evident and we transmitted that information as well as research on whether or not it was feasible to locate it to an offsite new location provided the difficulties of that land cost and the state forwarded that information to fema with their understanding that section satisfied that there wasn't a clear need to examine alternatives any further and they recommended that the our position demolition part of the b registration register bari in september thirteenth for the early bird breaks otherwise you can you can register at the door and just be  week the project the road will be open permanently it's a bit a long difficult project but it's been made a little complicated by all the rain that we've bad but it looks like the most difficult part of the work is done  it seems that every month or so they do something big and in between they all do very much but it's coming to the end i know they had to put a deadline of sometime this month to get the project wrapped up get started we're also planning on doing the roofing there in the two structures in the park for the banjo and for the bathrooms program bit that later in the years will be late fall projects mean i heard of i have a meeting scheduled pre construction meeting i'm going to go to the trains district five in colchester on friday to get an update on when they intend to proceed to the good news is their projects about complete we have to boilers are mounted on the wall in the boiler room i still have to find a contractor to come in remove the they did pressure testing everything checks out and they've got the exhaust in a p v c pipe that goes up the chimney of where the other one just vented to the chimney and it looks like we're going to have gas heat for the  cops request for funding you have a letter in your packet which is out of sort of an out of procedure request a director of so that for the following year we have money to give we have no budget line to support this request if you want to do it or take a partial payment or i could try to pull it from somewhere but we could open  instead of eight thirty so that will be an extra half hour for the runners to clear out because bridge street will be closed and they've also contacted some neighboring claimed owners for  and graduations to both we did receive a disaster declaration for chipping in county where that came through yesterday so that means our flooding is going to be eligible for federal aid for seventy five percent of it they produce now can vote on their consent agenda feeded put down the quantity for depot street under the regular paving plan and i've noted on there that it's going to be separate and i've increased the total work by that amount because it's going to have  road maintenance forty seven thousand one hundred ninety seven dollars and cents for all states asphalt for calcium chloride a nine cents a gallon fifteen thousand one hundred ninety nine dollars  fifty three cents and then richmond home supplier for road fabric at nine thousand two hundred fifty two dollars state contract price