kids to continue watching school i worry about obesity and i think it's too easy to drop your kids off when there's so much to be learned physically emotionally from law school so what i'm really interested in is keeping the downtimes piece very walkable for kids going to town in the maritimes and they had all of those very interesting my breasts and they had a series of racing bike racks of like this is what we should be doing and then i said i don't have any questions i am just really excited because they know how seventeen and for those who are familiar if you could just kind of you know i'm guessing you have a lot to say but maybe you could just just give explain what chipset is and do generally what you do sure as eggs chips people are good for the community and there are more likely to come back and be productive members of the community once they leave school m we do a variety of programming that includes afterschool programs for teens and tw tonight we have our above the influence high school group which has grown from about eight to ten people last year during this year and they get together to talk about issues impacting teens are also going to plan out community service projects and projects to educate their peers and adults about issues that are important and we also are operating  a program in the summer called the adventure orientation program for it graders who are graduating international any kid who will see them so backpacking trip for four days of a long trail that helps them gain confidence and be trying to provide support system for the heavenly them to services that they may need we are also running the mentoring program in the school called friendships  and whoever is not yet a bachelor we still need a couple more to finish off our goal for this year which is twenty five mentoring relationships or believe we are just hitting twenty three and we could use a couple more on the station twenty two forty four last year and hopefully will have it this year too one of the newest functions that i've taken on is the writing of a column in the essex reporter called youth for and the goal of that is to highlight youth in the community who the community should be feeling good and out and to provide a way of recognizing you who are doing good things for the community because project and that is what we believe a first time attempt certainly in vermont we believe doing live maybe the country to i'm offer up a certification process for the community similar to there are bicycle friendly communities and there are green communities and now there will be a centrally youth friendly community certification  the quality youth development project which i finally referred to as the quid project sets out ten benchmarks that the community can see to achieve and in doing so the community will become certified as a quick community and that will be a cause for celebration and community awareness and media attention and hopefully other communities will want to do it as well the theory behind it is based on sound practice we're promoting where no one is positive you took all the qualities  need to develop and some of them are external factors external supports the community puts in play there this project the quality until the project is really focusing on encouraging the community supports that help you develop the internal attributes they need to be successful in life and we are excited about the project we believe that this is it and this is not created simply for us  created as a credential that we believe other communities in vermont and beyond will be interested in keeping there is a movement among two different groups in essex for essex to become the first quid community ever country in the world in the some are and so there are leaders within the healthy youth coalition and members of the forces for education who've been talking  help with the quick program anything you can what one of the one of the benchmarks has to do with the mentioned one of the benchmarks is the community businesses downtown demonstrating support for that the community be open to you serving on official boards of the community currently there are two youths i believe syria and school board and that's a wonderful seventeen eighteen year olds highly intelligent dedicated to furthering the health of the community they would love to participate on committees that money originate from from this government bodies so that replicated elsewhere the design of this credential of this certification process actually began ten years ago in massachusetts when i was director of the youth agency in massachusetts and i left that agency before it came to fruition several have picked up on a theme that was going on at the time at the time it was being called the positive view created the benchmarks and the process by which that's all there's a forty page may all that describes it but we didn't do it specifically for asics we did it as a way to promote positive  development in communities in two months our hope will be that six would be the first community to take it on and chivas but there are other communities so also expressed interest so we're we're hoping it goes forward  within the next few months but we believe that this is a credential is valid not just for this community but right linda burlington and i think john kerry but also massachusetts connecticut  which there is no there was no prior institutional body that was offering this certification process we have created a body for that purpose and there are in fact is it credential committee that is comprised of three professionals none of whom are in the mines so that our process in vermont can be objective and have knowing say that essex is has stacked the deck in your favor of something so we have an independent now there is this sense of that being our core communities that we serve however our reach is always corn beyond this these court communities we have to stay contra to training that has been taken advantage of by the parties outside of the immediate region so we see our role as we are deepening a broadening our impact on you and so that means that some of our work is no because it's wonderful space and we continue to be in off of town village its commitment that it be available to us just a great deal right here other bay other questions david thank you very much you keep up the good studio where we have five artist studio spaces and people showing up saying we would really like to come together and figure out how to use this wealth of space for more arts engagement for young people and older people in the community it becomes very so and as part of the national our strategies creative communities fellows program the conversation was frequently around what other communities are doing in terms of creating arts and culture councils  are doing their sort of due diligence and making arts and culture part of master plan for communities and so given that i'm not really one hundred percent sure whether or not you have an arts and culture or plan for the master  plan i thought it may be good to at least start at a certain point which would be to gather people of it from the community who are interested in creating an arts and culture conversation and also considering that the village itself seems to be for architecture or structures that can support more culture in the community and as a downtown space it really feels like that's where people want to go for arts and culture they want to kind of go to the  quirkier spaces for those for those things which is a little different than you might find you know in the built up in town center so which is also another place where great article she could have been but in terms of opportunities for artists  you know when you have buildings that are not populated yet you could potentially you know have a slightly more economical factor for being able to put them into  use and then also some really interesting things that i've been observing down and growing ten right off of power behind st there used to be an old basically storage area there that is recently been knocked down and they're building a regeneration and being scooted out to another community that it has to sort of like figure out how to make who an interesting that people want to go to and i think essex has some really fascinating opportunities and i was just really like to see some effort and you know some consideration around how that would be possible because the village seems like it's a prime prime spot for that so one of the things that i noticed about two years ago or more was the six heart and soul  work that was done through ordinary only foundation and i looked at that community asset now and just realized immediately that there's a gaping hole in arts and culture and it's not because they're that population or people who are interested in that are not here it's just that they haven't been resource to they haven't sort of really been accessed or talked to we're pulled together in a way that allows for that conversation to come to the table so i think that if the  town really thought about arts and culture being part of the future and they want to see what you're building out now would be a kind of prime time to do a community asset now for arts and culture school to to query what are the kinds of things that they would like to see available in the community what we kids like to see in terms of development for arts and music and cultural because it does that essex high school is a remarkably interesting place they've mazing really professional people working in their theatre department and music departments it's phenomenal and and certainly be able to pull those students out or to pull those people into the community a little bit more maybe even by utilizing that upstairs the teen center for you know a slam poetry for high schoolers or a regular ongoing music series which we're which we hear all the time we would love to be able to have music in the community without having to go to a bar and so i'm hearing all of these kinds of things that are very suggestive that this community is right and would prefer really not to go into burlington although there are great things in burlington if there were things here that they would definitely be coming out to participate in arts and cultural opportunities here and i'd like to even think about expanding the idea of arts and culture to sort of becoming more familiar and aware of what the new american population means in terms of  kind of like situated in this really interesting way and place and just because of the geography of it it just and because of that the history and you know as being a sort of innovative center that there's an opportunity to really bolster install a first world problem guard in the community really exciting i'm wondering if that committee could be the start of something like this you know if we have a committee that's already invested in thinking about our for our public spaces that once the grant process is over or possibly contain easily then begin to explore some of the suggestions that kristen has some of the ideas of what we could do with village and i would love to expand it to the thing that we have guess so i mean it would certainly have to gauge their interest but since you already have heard some people who are willing to talk about an art project in a village if they be willing to continue as a more really you have to do some research of what our capabilities are and what our resources are yes and he said well there are other people who live life i'm talking to as well just to say hey if this were to come about would you be interested and i mean they're you know people who are their work into the community they would they would really like to be able to do it right now to sleeping out into the communities because there's no home for that here and so it's i think in a sense and from if my understanding is correct  about it potential opportunity and the vermont created network which is a group of people who are it's actually sort of like creatives moving up to government to say these are the kinds of things that that there may be some granting opportunities that are coming that way  possible you know for essex as i you know get more information we get more connected into the bigger picture but there are communities all over the place that are really great models that are demonstrating these things are and also gets that just goes to show you that you know when you're when you're starting to think about infrastructure and building new buildings considering what you want to put in those buildings that actually keeps a community engaged versus just living in your community this year last year people were excited about it it was a granny thing we got more coverage for it last year and this year we didn't get quite the coverage for and we kind i think i think we kind of feel the felt that but we weren't really sure because the other  people who did show up again were just like singing the praises of it and how you know this is exactly what we need more of in the community and more for the kids and more for everything and with things that we were really proud of that we were able to do this year works part time and last six to do some social media marketing for us we were able to we were actually we were able to rent equipment that ultimately we're going to being you to use because of weather but we were able to changes this year instead of doing a friday night and saturday we may just do all day saturday and sunday night just so that it's a little bit more compact because one of the things that we recognize is that people don't necessarily understand that it's one o them but also we realize this year is that people came on friday night and then expected to go back to those same places on saturday and those were those and so i think if we if we're a little bit smarter about the way we plan that's an ask sound and i and i just tell you that i mean we had big sponsors this year remarkably we had dealer dot com sponsored the whole  the whole artist market which was amazing earth i just again mamma sponsored we got money from the vermont academy from arts and sciences and more a conversation with them about next year using this is the same opportunity that we used last year for the vermont arts teachers association to do their their conference and so they were interested this year but the timing wasn't quite right so on being conversation about with them and we had every business on that little chunk of main street participating this year so that i feel pretty good so well every month in one way or another everybody was with holding it's not so well done thank you very  honest this is a two fold things and actually my master's final presentation that we're witnessing right now clearly so that is where it came from he suggested the capricorn addition because it's something of the department has been seeking for the last couple of years or frankly in a position where we have enough staff and we have a budget and resources to kind of make this happen we'll talk about a little bit more what it involves they will see that it's quite expensive and that could place finally so for my project i really just looked at the initial steps of what to creat accreditation process will continue throughout the next couple of years so it doesn't end there but that is whether what i looked at so we're presenting the state as an initial informational session because we will have to come and get some things approved we go through the process there are a couple of different processes that we have with the standards that we need for approval so you will see us again this will be the initial overview of what to expect so what is capra that's the first question leverage can see this as an example of some standards so the standards are pretty varied in how they are presented so some of them are going to be pretty simple for us to come up with we have a mission statements of this is one of them is the mission  itself so just the standard movie there's an established mission suggested evidence they give the examples of what you should provide provide the mission statement very obvious some of them are really easy but in general they are kind of buried and how they present of for example this is another one is a little bit more complicated outreach to just under deserved populations and diverse populations so in that case as you can see in the suggested evidence writers that you identify those  populations describe the barriers what kind of participation limits might exist and then what you're doing to overcome some of those barriers and how you're going to serve people in a better way really these these dinners are designed to create practices within an organization so nothing is out there to make us miserable in the process but they will hopefully help us determine how we can be better overall as a system of standards a little bit more difficult to meet than others which is why i created that timeline so that we can look at some of these we need to address right away because they're going to take the most amount of time and some of them we can hold off on and wait for a little while as well  overall for our presenting everything her wise to our teacher is to our community for our employees this really should be something that's seen across the board less so in the community will really feel it as employees having to adhere to these standards but the long and short should be that the community sees a great deal of benefit from the processes that are creating and we have an opportunity to be a leader in the from our community so interesting leave there are one hundred seventy four credit agencies right now in the nation and only one of those is in vermont so we have an opportunity to be pretty close to the top of the there are a couple other departments in the state with the other credit issue right now so it's not like it will be close to that so that's really a need and it's a huge rightful thing for community to get that accreditation so we're looking forward to that but it is not just about documenting these things we really have to live up to the standards that we set so that's going to be the tough part is and we're in the process of right now which is looking at each standard and say how are we going to meet that is of that's what they need when they say self assessment so we don't have to provide documentation on every single standard that they're putting forward obviously that's going to be a little bit  time consuming so this is a process that takes over a year in a lot of cases so you know we just started that we're looking to hopefully wrap it up by the fall of next year and get into the actual which is the next step hopefully in january to may twenty twenty sometime within that window and then accreditation and delete will follow will see so that's where we're headed with that and once you are in  to cover which is not too bad so i talked a little bout the timeline but right now we have not actually submitted our application yet because once you do that the box starts again so we're trying to be a little bit strategic about getting some of the standards and some of the review where under our belt before we go ahead and do not like he said we're supportive working on the standards and that can happen any time there's a small committee of us meeting roughly every two weeks to specifically work on certain standards that it is going to be not only community when i have a project that will go in a lot of different pieces but certainly within our and that's what we'll see the most amount of work in creating policies and forms and all different kinds of things so it will be a lot of work for us but we're excited about it and looking for there's a teaching january through may twenty twenty some time around there will be three people that come in for about three days to actually make sure that we're doing the standards that we said that we met and then again after that will hopefully get a grade and should be pretty quick things so twenty twenty some or at the latest so that's our timeline and we'll be working hard until  kind of up to all of us yeah so both brad and i are pretty on board with that we're trying to rally the troops everybody is really open to that but i think it's just a matter of all being on  that happens on a day to day basis which is really in the hardest part on how both departments are governed and what kind of rules and regulations there are so that it might require additional alignment in certain areas just because there are things the village does that the town doesn't do impacts versa so we'd i'm sure somewhere you know but not so good i know so sorry itself this korean is pretty exciting because this is a pilot period this is the first year that they've ever offered this great opportunity  it's an outdoor recreation grant for communities to enhanced their outdoor recreation assets so we decided i met with harley kiersten as well as some pickle ball players and can we do to make this place better adding in indoor restrooms which is obviously we all have to go it's definitely a good thing for a park to have done just some general things as far as the fencing in the storage sheds three thousand days pending a moment due to whether or not the branches are approved whether or not we're able to apply for another round of it if it's not approved this year deal with the project we feel is sound for the whole community for this is great i love that you're trying to get this grant and i apologize it's going to be a question for arlen is this ok is there any possibility request seen an additional money to and then you would also try to see if the school district come while bright really did want to be here tonight is the same night as the transportation committee and he felt that might be a better place that he needed the real push if you want to change which side you're doing you want to change the policy and then for other things i would say that tonight is not a night to view your entire policy on but any future date you may want to look at it but with the language that we're proposing from a staff perspective we're we're comfortable with that language as being on for the future and i'll answer any  language and you have the village board as the body that makes good determination you don't really need the term key connector in the policy at  all we did provide the map that shows what streets are put on both sides one question for the school district is is there a map that directs kids how to get to school brian is not aware of any map on however his comment to me was the elf generally where ever the village plows and there is a crossing guard becomes the fact we cannot determine it is if we have to snow blow it and that's for the largest no tolls we don't oh one other question you hood of the board asked are there any other policies that require either one hundred percent of the neighbors approval or something less the block party request does require a one hundred percent but that there are generally kids that will walk on either side depending upon which side they live on and it's not uncommon for the kids who live on this side that's not flat across the street to get to the side that is so then you walk to the crosswalk cross back over to the crosswalk exists to then go walking routes to all the schools by seven o'clock and so six and a half minutes seven minutes may not seem like a long time but i'm guessing that's critical time five o'clock in the morning when they're running all over the place so i think we have to keep that in mind adding adding any time to what they're doing might be difficult on the other hand there's nothing and i've noticed that i think maybe of this is an illusion but it seems to me that after we have snowstorms it seems that sometimes the public works department goes back and they will do some sidewalks and they didn't they didn't necessarily have to know maybe i'm guessing that's wrong i'm looking at a couple of the sidewalks in my neighborhood and back and do sidewalks that are not on our sidewalk plan ok and we are straining to get done what you need to get done right which is soon is that both pieces of our women are up and running right which is not we don't we don't tend to do that and certainly we were appreciative people did jobs are so good we need if we stick with all your recommendations the deal is right now that that they're still plowing on their own rebel would stay as it is but in the spring time there would be a crosswalk put across the street at the intersection of woods and in river indel right and then and then from that point forward up to mabel street it would be a lot of the other or do we keep it loose and have just the cost to created the policy in the first place is you maybe in a knowledge man there we are a walkable community but you don't have the resources to plow every sidewalk and that time frame when people probably need it most people need to get to school the children need to get to school people need to get into downtown or get to public transportation to get to the library at certain points at some point i'm assuming this village borders on prior board said these are the kinds of resources we can put into this on an annual basis and provide all of the services that you're comfortable with and if you on those pieces of equipment are about one hundred forty five thousand dollars plus annual maintenance and blades and as i mentioned this was rick's coming to me he's like look we do the best we can every storm is different you don't know if it's going to be the wind you know it's currently snowing we get done with our route and by the time we get done with our route it looks like we have humid out there and then the phone calls start we do then then we've got it and we also grew the student streets so that's kind of we're changing into a cow it's not that and we felt that this was a good mixture of getting them on to the west we also put a line in that says if todd and others in his community come back with more people then just why we would be willing to take it up again that we are in a different position in the community and if we don't have the six and a half minutes i think i've really struggled to see how he don't and i can see that this sets a precedent for bring your own and frankly i understand the village doesn't want to do in the time that would take the same time community that has to sidewalks that promotes walkability should and so maybe we do need to do something different to put our fine that's that's a friendly and then whatever it's exactly the same thing i'm saying no no no that we make the record we follow the recommendations of the staff with the understanding that as is already written in the street plan that sidewalk plan residents of plas extra manpower infrastructure i think as well as a stretch because you're only talking about another fifteen percent currently of two routes that are probably sixteen miles you're just guessing you have a few miles and it's not necessarily another criteria and you're saying that any street that has two sidewalks can be found on both sides if it's up to the trustees with no criteria so i think it's more ambiguous in your world after to have more of these requests if you revise the policy as presented by staff whereas you know i just put some words together to kind of close in and justify why some of the street is plowed because that's not a arts i don't get to serve the number of students there but it's sort of the new between really and you know i came here asking for the request under the policy as written ok so i would like to make a motion we the recommendations of staff and such and such recommendations a and e and should there be a petition of all residents we will reassess the situation consistent with current policy and practices but if if we receive fifty percent or more of the homes on on the east side of ribbon dell come back to us we ok so three to one that that's that's a decision we've made that decision now we are looking at b c g eat away here any motion or any interest in trying to make a motion on d c step recommendations  so so when you're saying you don't want to take any action on this into you see the rest of the unknown i don't trust the stats assessment but i remember receiving seeing bits from other processes before and it's just helpful to know what's being that on you especially since about this because you just we just saw recently a capital projects list that we again once again we're running into just in paving streets a sidewalk stealing basic fundamental crucial infrastructure work we're falling behind i can only see that everywhere like this is going to come through with a recommendation that we build a new public unified public works department as a capital cost and part of the monies that of the village are to money's going from the going to come from the general and i'm saying in my mind that would go i was all that there could be that you need a certain amount of space to do to facility reserve different amount of space to do want it and that's going to be up to the boards to some extent to decide how do you want to plan for that and how do you want to pleasure to that he's part of it is just the public works building in the village there's a restriction on the putting you can buy it is not big enough it's not tall enough they don't have the proper the ideal ventilation when they're working on people there's no service pay  advocate you know i sure don't doubt the value of this study and i think in the spirit of the consolidation efforts that we're making it's a good idea to explore our future needs it's not binding and i realize  cost to it it's going to be that expensive or even more expensive if we kick that can down the road i would not recommend this board pulling out right now without talking to the select importances we have a joint meeting on budget next week border to a joint project as you said that the original option a was to do public works combined and then town direct into town fire there's that's money the capital budget for that is forty thousand this is not much more money than that originally and then the few that was to do it jointly and then require land that we didn't currently it would fit on any land that we currently all think about this if we need three acres boring by the village this money  so the town has talked about eliminating the highway right we've been eliminating it in half why sixteen when we consolidated the highway of the oligarchs apartments sort of we added the village but it to the town budget and at that time in order to mitigate the tax increase we  lowered the highway cap ex at that time from eight cents to about two cents and the next year we had it paving into the village budget and that at that seemed like a logical step to at that time address one of the issues that the public works consolidation committee said that but one of the things they wanted to look toward was you can include transfers for equipment so that's like what loft also have the hood of that but we wanted to get the trustees and board with moving that rolling stock transfer into the highway so so my big concern is if something falls apart or something happens it's one more thing how decouple i guess i don't other than the fact that the town because we're sharing public works ultimately it's all over the same in this is saying managerial administrative control that one side or the other isn't necessarily making bad decisions you know we if we said we need to do bucket load or we really need percent because this is going up significantly for this one time change this is like for can't say no you can't buy that super super sucker five hundred thousand or whatever but they can say this is complete this is a six hundred last ok comes up i mean there's no with that and then we'll go back to it because it will already be in the messy and it's temporary and it's uncomfortable but only until you have something more permanent that all of the voters are happy with right then we have to have out everything they do and i would just say well you know when you go back to some of that conversation jointly where we talked about timelines i mean that's really important because we can do this as we have already forever right so i just want to make sure that as we're combining restructure that should be that should be split everybody should be paying more or less the same that that should be something that is primarily you know sounded like before all of this started to really added up the numbers saying that the village was pa fifty more like a fifty fifty split which i think people in the general outside the village i think understand this year we think that's that's the message i've got so i think we're this is going to bring us in the right direction brownell library website because that is really i think that they consider that to be part of their mission they don't sit or that to be just a municipal they consider that to be one of the services that they offer so i just  meetings with the school district we all right and i have matt a couple of times we've decided to have a monthly coffee and i we're going to be talking about how to partner together with school resource officers we're talking we have a big meeting scheduled for early january after religious school bus it does start  some form or fashion we want to get back together with what's going on right what's not going so right and where some adjustments need to be made so we're really starting to talk to one organization to another deciding kind of what's to do for their future and the poor it made it difficult but i think really good decision to dissolve that market was a success for the years that we did it we did it at a time where we had a lot of our funds and no one was coming downtown and it was a crime is it was to revitalize the community as much as it was to offer a farmer's market and we met that village was great about writings of funding for that and we still have money and are checking accounts and so we have a plan i will tell you at some point but we have a plan to donate that money to various charities within a six that have a common mission and what we did so i just want to say from the boards think you for the support of the village give the market from their community it's vendors coming you know an hour sometimes two hours away is the whole day to get here and then and we don't have the people coming because they're off doing other things or places to spend money really difficult to keep it going so that was one and then the other thing i thought we had a good rate but weren't any rate volunteers this year we had a lot of students helping us it's it was just a bit unsustainable going forward so  we i will say though we've loved the space and it will be great and i'm meeting with julie miller johnson who's that was an american manager it's come up maybe with some other ideas and things we can do monthly or something in that space but again we're open to anyone coming forward with ideas as we can do so i'm so disappointed to hear that's really it was a great market and an amazing volunteer effort i mean it was really impressive yeah you guys pulled off  i worry about the access to good nutrition you know that that market provided over the season and how we might replace that well one of the things that we know over the course of the eight years and we did studies as well as know did studies there's a lot more available in the grocery stores local food there is a lot more c s a's one of pluses we've had for many years is that we had a vendor or a farmer who was bringing their c s a to the market and so when people came to get that they shopped for others and their life plans changed so that no longer happens so