comment period at the beginning but i will also allow public comment later on the rules to say your public comments will be limited to three minutes for the later portion but if you have any general comment you want to make now by all yes right yes and i may go over that again in a bit we have no choice but to appoint essentially immediately we're given ten days from the they can see which occurred on election day so ten days runs out on friday appoint immediately but we didn't want to go through a process but yes we appoint anything that happens after that happens after that but i will go through this is somewhat more detailed ok we all know the unfortunate event to brought us here but on a happier note let me say that i at least i'm sure david is gratified by the number of people who have stepped forward to assist us here which is quite impressive as anybody who has worked as a volunteer in this town knows sometimes you have to go out and recruit mug or otherwise get people i should say that one of the candidates who is in the health care world has professional obligations and he won't be here till seven thirty but i expect it won't be a bar to anything from what i see on the agenda now as to select board vacancies just to go over a bit what i said to leave and to move onwards this statute is quite clear  state says this is what you should do under the law we listen we have consulted with the secretary of state many times on this and the league of cities and towns also discusses this process  file petitions and so on but that's the basic rule in the process that's what it is there are any number of people here tonight i'm sure dave may have some questions and i'm sure candidates would like to introduce themselves and present what they have i know i have some questions i'd like to ask of each candidate and i have them in alphabetical order which is as arbitrary and cleaner way to go talking to people i can think of so gerry adams would you please stand over the way we don't have a camera operator tonight sir jerry as he stands there is about at the edge of the frame so anybody who wants to be completely anonymous can stand at the back of the room but if you want to actually be seen you have to stand in that line you pick up the facts to test it like this young girl is go mentioned in the next two or three months does that affect your willingness to be appointed knowing that it may only be for a short time and i'm sorry  and you could not sign your own paychecks or the warrants for your paycheck so there are inhibitions when your town employee on the select board just for general interest in the remodeling of cities and towns has published  very useful chart for a big chart of what town employees can serve on the select board and who can't basic rule is if you're handling money you can't be on the select board if you're the slick or you can't be the person is also the treasure obvious peter if you don't mind stepping forward and introduce yourself to the camera  them so would you run in the next election that is to say that if it were two months or for a year from now regardless permits having to go out measure roads and spend time with the road crew and stuff like that i spend a little more because  health officer so i get into the rental business and inspections and stuff like that and i'll be out the snow know if we could tell you craig i'm sorry or anything we can tell you that you haven't heard already no thank you very much just make some notes it professional reasons until seven thirty and it's only six twenty why don't i open it up now for anybody who has anything to ask address the board don't talk to each other but good peter i believe that's correct but i am not certain you appoint someone under the statute you appoint someone quote until an election is head and that's all it says  there is only one case that i've been able to find on it by the way people i'm a lawyer but i'm not the town's lawyer i say that i am not ribs in the town legally but i can't help looking for cases and it doesn't address that issue but the secretary of state would advise on the ballot with then say whether it's to next for one year or two of the next town meeting or whether it's to fill out a three year if the town petitions under title seventeen cherry checks the names and then there's a period for people to circulate petitions and then of obed warning period i forget just exactly what it is but i'm sure time the petition is filed until the election figure minimum six weeks more likely to months i don't know that we have a lien under title one section three thirteen sub seven that would be something that we would discuss in executive session we had to have this to executive session but i wanted people to get a chance to know each other we're in a bit of a quandary here for two reasons the one i need to add to the agenda and exert a short executive session on a completely unrelated matter that has risen  and i will make the appropriate motion shortly but that won't take more than five or ten minutes and dan stein bauer said he'll be here seven thirty and i don't want to deny him his opportunity or your opportunity seven ok so if you want coffee or anything you provides for executive session for deliberations the actual us selection is made publicly followed by a statement of the reasons for the selection that's set up the century tonight or thursday night right we have worn two special meetings on this issue one for tonight and one for thursday night we could have a point tonight and cancel there's a night but that's a deliberation that the statute requires five percent of the registered voters i leave it to sherry lauren to do the math she has the checklist and add them up and ok if there's nothing else at this moment i move we go into executive session briefly to discuss confidential attorney client communications made for the purpose of providing professional legal services to the select board and upon a specific finding which is included in the motion their premature public knowledge would place the public body at a substantial disadvantage i'll second that motion all in favor say aye you guys stay here we'll just go downstairs to the town moved to come out of the executive session a second that motion all in favor of i and nothing was decided ok that's a useful suggestion brian i think in that case i should feel differently about to recess this until seven thirty this evening same time same place i'll second a motion question is there anybody else here who wants to be considered for a position on the select board and your name is for the camera ok i'm not sure jeff that you are in the sight of the camera you maybe like the property line to the jacob story neither side the camera ok tell us about your background thing why don't we i'm going to move to go back into executive session and then we can decide to help before long ok but i do want to be sure that mr stein has a chance to appear with the difficulty of a candidate who wanted to be here but professional obligations made it impossible for him to be here before seven thirty it is now seven forty five so let me ask you dave do we recess we postpone the whole thing till thursday not sure whether mr steinberg or he will make it then or what are your thoughts i'm in a quandary we do have as a business is cussed in executive session can go into executive session come out of it probably won't take long and see if he's arrived and then reopen this meeting talk to him and does that work k what what when we go into executive session for a while stick around brian if he shows up that's fine but i'm not optimistic and they will come out of withdraw the motion motion is withdrawn to be renewed a few minutes good to see you here here is what we have been doing we had a number about eight of them all together yes as i said at the beginning of the meeting very gratified people have stepped forward  as you can tell by the small population left in the room you're on the list here just in terms of order no other relevance so if you could introduce yourself anybody who doesn't happen to know you already for the camera and then for the sake of the for the sake of the record the cameras rolling and this is an open meeting if you could explain your there's the possibility that there would be a special election the next two or three months if there were a special election would you run for you would not  and if there weren't a special election the seat with then become an open seat for next town meeting you saw the process works would you be running a year from now if you were appointed or would you we are required by statute to make an appointment forthwith which the secretary of state's office tells us within ten days from the date of the vacancy which was town meeting today so we have to make a decision this week  tonight or where we have an a second one meeting if necessary thursday night so that's the process we'll go through i want to if you have anything to add before i thank everybody and we go executive session i preceded everybody that put their name out there and because we thought we're going to be pretty lonely for a while yeah yeah it is very very nice to have so many people stepping forward  five people here and there were others as well who came up i will now move that we go into executive session under title one section three  someone to the select board because of the current vacancy the chair will entertain a motion as to an appointment i like to make up a motion to appoint rick a as our new meant i will second that motion all in favor aye say aye the law requires that we express our reasons for our selection and i would point out that rick a long time twenty nine year resident of underhill has been very active in the town and knows the town well he was on the then zoning board for fourteen years and chaired the zoning board for twelve so as he is intimately familiar with rules and regulations in the town he has been a member of the historical society although he is not currently an officer i point out so there would be no conflict of interest possible he simply a member as so many people in underhill are he chaired the recent underhill two hundred fiftieth anniversary celebration which went off very well  so he knows the town well he has a lot of years of service to the town ultimately it becomes a judgement call but it is the apparent judgment of the select board that ric should be appointed and is appointed to the select board until an election is head on that point we note that there is a petition going around  hold a special election so it is not necessary for the select board to decide on whether the select board should itself call for a special election it is in the hands of the voters who are more people than we are and that resolves that issue since an appointment has been made a to the select board to fill the vacancy it will not be necessary for the select ward to have a special meeting on thursday and of the special meeting warned for thursday shall be cancelled and brian if you could make sure that goes up on front porch for him as soon as you  can so it gets on tomorrow's front page form and on thursdays so that nobody shows up and will put a sign in the window saying the special meeting has been cancelled if anybody does arrive at the town hall at six pm on thursday is there any further business to transact i see i don't see any either i therefore present a could be before you do that let's recess just to be sure we have the name correct on that and then we'll come back up and then also give us a chance to fill in his name on the written appointment will be in recess for just a few minutes to do housekeeping the recess is over we are back on the record and i will sign the written appointment of richard j j a g h to be under bill select board to fill the existing vacancy good and i would like to thank everybody that applied for that position we really appreciate the help and it is the collective volunteer hours that the applicants that we're here tonight have put in is quite impressive how we're very fortunate in underhill to have a dedicated body of citizens who are willing to help run what is essentially a volunteer community in terms of keeping it going and getting it right