only health hazard she raised it was handling p b chickens right now like when they're first to get their first born they're the most dangerous thing in the i guess i don't really understand it but it seems like the chicken expert you know i'm not sure live on unity lane and will stand and i would like to make the select board aware that the construction company that was hired to install the centerline rumble strips on northwest and road has installed them in the wrong location based on all available public information that has created a necessary noise in our residential pocket and i would respectfully request the select board to take immediate action to correct this situation i the proposed traffic calming measures that was proposed in february this would be their final draft and as you notice in yellow the centerline rumble strips starts halfway between peterson lane and  next map we have the staff map this is what the department of public works presented and may may fifteenth two thousand and eighteen and as you see in pink they've highlighted where they expect rumble strips to be installed and again it's roughly partway between peterson lane and wilson woods it ends near the chevron sign marking on their next has included pictures a photograph of peterson lange a rumble strips are clearly seen in the center of the picture and next is a picture of a fire hydrant and a residential home on northwestern road this is going in the southern direction from peterson lane the rumble strips stop about one hundred feet from unity line which means there's about a quarter mile of access center lined rumble strip that was not part of the publicly available information nor part of the information this select board voted upon so you're saying they put this remote strips way up here on that map it would be  backgrounds and why you'd like to be on the justice board so if you'd like to start base to children in burlington and worked in health care for a long time was also an editor and writer at the university of vermont for fifteen years and  i've been interested in this whole idea of community justice for a long time and then reading about it and going over started sounding like a really good thing and so with this came i actually met just interviewed through friends and we were i have also been the homeless liaison for that for the district so i feel like i have a lot of experience of with all ranges of the socioeconomic class in our area i  think and i also feel like the community without community justice i feel like the communities are just going to continue to get worse and i feel like with community justice you have have one question for all three of you but first i'm going to make two comments me i don't mean to count you out but and i loved your comment about being a pretty good team player and cody i'm impressed with your interest in being a police officer in worcester my question is in this fall on my shoulders i ask just about everyone who comes before the board to be appointed it's a conflict of interest question  so how would you recognize a conflict of interest and what would you do about it and i'll let you choose who first simming that means that you are familiar with the responsible party or the victim or you know watching them as observers and processing with and after cases have been heard i think it's really safe to say that it they're very much invested in the process and i'm really good as a result their training never really good understanding of what the process should be and they seem you know they've seen some entanglements in how we were members have to kind of navigate those entanglements to get a good to get a good result for the clients that we see is that i think they're very willing to do what's necessary to keep some of the long hours and you know the case goes an hour and a half two hours even if you be drooling at the end of  every story of justice program started in the country i did here which we know are the restored of justice program started in the country mean yeah actually it started it started didn't it started in new zealand and then spread to canada and they came to us basically from toronto with the whole restored of justice idea came to us it was actually the beginnings were founded in a church group up in toronto i believe and vermont has been a leading state and restored of justice now for the last six or seven years and you know various sites around vermont have taken for lack of a better term my old school background field trips to various parts of the united states and crystalise going to spain very soon to be speaking about restored or are our practices of restored justice here and how so i mean it it total number of cases at the at the top in red down here you see one sixteen that should be one seventeen so then what i didn't match up so it should be one seventeen so the hundred seventeen cases that we saw in the past year nine were from probation and parole directly from the department of corrections seventy five were direct referral cases those cases came directly from mobsters next door and from richmond a couple from vermont state police  direct referrals or directly from the officers they make a decision in the field to send them directly to us we had fifteen major school referrals last year most of those students a couple of faculty referrals that we had to help the school with and we did a good job with those we had ten referrals from rapid intervention community court that's the alternative program that's located in the courthouse on cherry street and their function is to look at a case and if there are extenuating circumstances driven by alcohol drug use substance abuse any of that stuff they can take care of that piece we take care of the criminal piece and helping to make repair so that program has gone by the wayside it's been transferred up to county c j c they're running that program out of there so this next fiscal year i doubt that will have  c stuff at all so that that may lessen the numbers in total there are eight a week eight other cases where that were referred by parents some community stuff that we helped deal with so in total that if you add it up it gets a hundred seventeen cases you see that i have outlined the cases how many of each type of case that we had so there were thirty three retail thefts out was twenty eight percent of our caseload when we started ten years ago or so more longer than that ninety five percent of the cases that we heard were retail theft cases wal mart and everybody else just sen t droves so this makes up about twenty eight percent of our caseload there were thirty four cases that i would classify as mid level felonies or serious  misdemeanors and that made up twenty nine percent average cases fifty cases or forty three percent of the cases were misdemeanors mid to low level misdemeanors it could be retail theft less than three thousand dollars it could be any number than you can you can see that and as you go through the numbers you know and on the last page and in the right hand column i guess going back to the top are completion rate is ninety percent when we when we are able to hear a case when we can get a case in and that includes the intake hearing the case and completion we complete ninety percent it's been a little bit higher in some years maybe it's never been so after the intake we assign a night a client will come a responsible party will come before the members of the board h k each panel is about three members sometimes four members if we have a specialty case that's going on and the members will hear the case they will listen to all the facts they will determine if the candidate is walk through for gays can they talk about their incident without making excuses or alibis can they identify the people that have been affected can they suggest ways they can make repair and then following through to make repairs so that's done and that little meeting one month later after establishing a collaborative contract and i do mean collaborative we want them to drive the bus so we in the intake we really look at work very hard trying to determine what their interests are what they can contribute to the process for example if somebody is really good work woodworking we had a fella who made a beautiful coat rack for us up in the thing as because they involve a great deal of time for us so he wanted to make the pair of baking and there's a really interesting story how you pull the barn and you know so he did something that we had a another gentleman who was good in woodworking he built a card table for the task corners senior resident  the task corners what is that across from right a cornerstone of cornerstone so he built a card table for the game because that's where he committed his offense and he wanted to do that to get back so we try to use the interests of our clients to make repairs and so this time span generally speaking we get a men within three weeks we try to see everybody that we do an intake within three weeks sometimes that's a little difficult because we have you know a progression of cases that either are open or close and in various stages and then from the contract we try to assign a thirty day period to get that done our job is to help people be successful not jam people up and most of the time those contracts run really true for thirty days but there are cases where we go sixty and we never exceed sixty for a pro probation parole case they don't want to go beyond sixty so that candidate hasn't done a good job they want to go back there and they'll deal with the conditions of probation as they deal with them as a not not a successful completion but the run of the mill client generally speaking as thirty days to complete a contract and they and they do most of the time that wasn't too that wasn't too quick was a no it was a very and i think one and i'm sorry government school here in town we do an awful lot of budgeting and financial management stuff how to live on two dollars a day most of the most of the crimes are committed because people are hungry you know their crimes of can't crimes of necessity they just don't know what to do so we provide them with navigational services ok one part of the contract might be visit these three food shelf find out what would days are up and what time you can get there and come back  develop a personal safety plan when you go in a store into a store that kind of thing so there's out i mean the contracts are pretty creative and so i mean i think we've had a great year i think that with the reduction of our i c c cases we might not have as many cases we had this year but this was a kind of a banner year we had eighty four chases the prior year and so we had one hundred seventeen this year's it you know so we average about ten cases a month or so over the month of and now we've got seven on the board with a week to go and there are three cases still in waiting and stuff to be processed so we'll have another ten or eleven which will match the total of last and last and not least i'd like to thank all of you for your continued support and crystal we were here she'd be saying the same thing we we know how lucky we are you know being associated with the town and having our ties here we had it better we have it better than any other c of the state of mind and i think you know i think our work shows that i think i work really does and so thank you very much i would be much appreciate it to the list of people so i would be looking for motion to replace both james and bruce to the clean water advisory committee for a two year term starting july first two zero second the fund balance for the stormwater looking for an f one thousand nine hundred there's adequate funds to make that loan now sas supports approval of this i checked with james today and this should be the last one that we're going to look to fund this year and it's in the  related and related documents for a loan in the amount of one hundred eighty thousand dollars with the old stages states homeowners association after approval to proceed from the town to me or second i'll second budget this project was proposed and actually approved by the select board as part of the capital budget and the plan was that we're going to fund it through a lease program rather than buy it outright partly because we we had a lot of other projects that point we didn't want to overburden one year with lot of projects so we set about what spread this cost out by doing a lease purchase and the problem was that we you know all the mo will be a company that specializes in making this kind of equipment so it will be safe for the group we have now but the stuff we have now this is aging it's gosh it's got to be fifteen years old now i think i hear questions just just read just to verify the seventy one thousand dollars remaining in the roster no park fund or whatever the fund is sufficient that's not a concern at all well like i said that project is pretty well the following article nine prohibiting through truck traffic traffic through truck travel on the following roadways unless authorized morse from the road section of software all road walker hill road truck traffic is the major piece here and that comes down to looking at enforcement measures right now if someone gets an overweight permit in town we restrict three truck traffic on the river cove road and north run out as a condition of the permit this would add the other roads listed onto the conditions of the overweight permit and these are all discussion of public works and a lot of the vehicle on one of these roads save some needs to make regular deliveries there what we're trying conditions don't allow through truck travel on say but are not road truckers found to be cutting through butter not wrote it down at that point without it being valid in position the permit they could be issued a ticket for that trying to keep truck travel off these roads and keep them on to the main state routes for example someone was coming up one sixteenth staying on route to a not cutting down south from the road to get the top corner area marshal of an area so this is unable to vehicle to do so from for town roads and state words so the format ace consistent and we noticed of out front here we didn't have those stop signs listed it's on a state route it's in forcible but to have it there at the town can enforce that as well by marital or pants in appendix e we're as i understand it but i have the experience there from from law enforcement while on the stop signs if it's on state highway you can force a bit only using state law and so the town wouldn't get any coming over on another road there are other routes who are going down the one sixteen route to unless they were granted permission to travel not direction but public works department ok ok i see so it's preventing them from going towards town of willis's motor vehicle and traffic ordinance a second is for discussion or all i would say is that the issues on but are not i think it was better not going on that road trips if there is no parking that would actually require an ordinance change to look so it's in force of all but one have to take a look at that start pretty soon next month or so and just give you guys a quick rundown of what we're expecting from the construction site and see if you have any questions concerns or things that we can help clarify for you guys so we'll do some introductions what you know who the  players are give you a quick project overview in terms of what we're actually doing for improvements and talk about specific schedule and terms of what's going to be happening this year and next year and go through some other details and you know talk about any question well because i'm sure you folks will get a lot of phone calls as the project gets going i've had some business cards made up please feel free to take has all my contact information on that if the town gets calls please have them call me directly and i will take care of i don't have the answers i usually don't usually have the answers but i know where to get them and i promise i will get back to you with any concerns or questions that you may have as little or grave as they may be so feel free to reach out to me any time you know if i'm not in my office i have an answering machine usually have my cell phone number on that so you know providing it is at midnight i would probably respond regardless of the time or day so thank you pretty incredible i guess our contact information weekly more about scheduling about what to expect during the construction phases with fall phase and the spring summer fits next years well safety is our biggest thing it's our most important value that we have as a company so the safety of our not only our employees but the traveling public so it's one thing that we're going to be making sure never and never is or any of the risk to the safety of the people around the job whether it be a resident nearby one of our employees one of our subcontractors or in the of public so if anybody does ever see anything there's anything that doesn't look right to all of our people are very approachable and you're more than happy to chat with anybody explain what we're doing maybe there is some reason that we're doing something that may not look as safe as it specifically you know there is a lot more vehicles coming through there's about eighteen thousand one hundred thousand cars a day that drive through today and i'm sure you all know it's pretty backed up now we're looking at increasing the capacity of that style which is you know it was kind of a temporary installation to help mitigate while we were developing this project you know there's just a through lane in both directions onto a worse part of the issue and the shared use along the  easily where it's not just me left turn lane it's going to be a two way left turn lane there's a lot of businesses and residences in this area so accessing them will be a little bit easier to get to be in the middle of the road and let travelling you know that you're travelling vehicles get through whe the new signal actually and ground drive this is one of the biggest improvements so with the new designated left turn lane is going to be a new signal and it's going to be the master style fact that we kind of see popping up more these days out of the black you know single mass times and there's going to be allow people to come through with kind of a maximum efficiency so it'll it'll be smart in that sense and also have the radar detection on james brown drive to little sense when these vehicles they're in be able to let them go and also have preemption for emergency you know outside of that you going to have five directional traffic allowed in there morgan parkway and everybody who are doing these do not block the box pavement markings and you know metal that sort of indicates that you folks are not supposed to block the box in the future back so in terms of construction details you know these are all the improvements and we're going to be starting in her early september to really hit the ground running on this project before winter here we're going to be starting with the improvements at bittersweet circle so at that location where essentially just installing a little bit of a new sidewalk connection and to a new crossing on route to a thing you know there's no question crossing on route to a until you have james brown drive so in order to accommodate that you know there's a bus stop there that's the big neighborhood substantially and then we're looking at some drainage work this week this fall as well you've probably noticed utility companies are out there relocating utility poles there's there's quite a few pulls out there now and they're still working on relocating those they can remove the old pools so they're hoping to wrap up around october but that doesn't necessarily impede the work that the cia is going to be doing in the meantime so we'll be working with the utility crews and d c i out there throughout september so then we're going to shut down for the winter break and we're going to come back in april at twenty one thousand in the spring and you know that's kind of dependent on what sort of winter we we all know it's kind of unpredictable maybe we'll get out there earlier maybe it'll be a little bit later but coming back it seems we can in the spring and then just really gearing up for the whitening of the roadways so that's going to be a lot of you know relatively deep box cutting and what we can expect is you know concrete jersey barriers along side of the road and it will talk about this more but in order to do that wiping  then looking at you know the drains are proven one way and then by the end you know we're thinking maybe june july timeframe we're going to have the final paving the new signs we do have a contract completion date of august mid august so it will be you know  periods so during the day we're going to be requiring d c i to maintain to a free flowing traffic so the names will likely be eleven feet wide but because we have those concrete jersey barriers we're going to be able to be doing a lot of the roadway wi off you know off line and then keeping traffic moving during the day because there's some work that we need to do that will impact traffic and we don't want to have to impacts that really busy time of day we will have to do some night work through here so  you know some noise restriction that we can implement and there's there's things that we can do to try to mitigate any impacts of that but we really are trying to focus on minimizing impacts to those you know eight hundred thousand people that are driving through there every day and and just trying to get the worked on efficiently to get it completed by august and that's so you can also expect to know that the construction vehicles that we have a little bit more truck traffic during the day and night when they're working you can expect to see more trucks coming through the area and there's always going to be traffic or traffic control you know sliders or uniformed officers there so you know to get people physically out of the team driveways residences businesses you know i know there's a lot of guys in the area so we're always going to make sure that somehow your property is accessible you know there is going to be times when we're working to break in front of your properties likely but we'll make sure that we have a plan with you you know if you're going to be gone for the day we can probably work around that to meet our schedules coincide that somehow you'll have access to your property and we'll be able to you know work together on that kind of as we go in and asking for see those and then just the existing intersection of james brown drive with the signal that's going to be maintained until the point when we get the new signal installed and up and running so you know it'll be a little shift period in there with her when we're actually making the changeover but there will be a functional intersection there the entire time starting in the fall is going to be great if we can get some of it or the ground work accomplished but then really getting our heart in the spring is going to be a big benefit to just getting the work done and getting us out of there by august so you know like like joey said and  ie said we're all totally chris we're all totally here to work with you guys and be collaborative and we all have stephanie's phone number so you know just let us know if things come up if you have concerns or questions or anything we're here to help i guess without open it concern about that in terms of our you know we're doing that crossing at better speed circle but in terms of our widening in our major road improvements we're extending still a little bit further past river road probably to here so we're really not doing much for expanding the roadway or altering the roadway in that area so if that's an existing issue unfortunately we're not going to do anything to fix it you know there is another project or not i think i've mentioned sharon back there's no question that future that i'll space and you know i know i as a driver tend to if i don't have a tough time getting out kind of cut into that space and wait for the next gaps you're you're moving across one kind of traffic at a time and again it's not ideal but without having a signal there terms of mobility you know behind the scenes taking traffic off to ala he said but thinking about a sensor at work in parkway that's not something that i had died down or you know i don't know if that's something that we've done in the state to sense of close proximity intersection but i can look into that a little bit be and in terms of the real property development we actually did quarter meet with them just a small side no we coordinated with them in terms of you know they had a potential development and we couldn't necessarily accommodate them in any major way but we  so they take away looking at morgan parkway and look back at the scoping study in terms of anything that they had already looked at there and thinking about what we may be able to do in that area is there any question or concern at the moment so what do you anticipate the impact during construction on traffic if anything it's going to probably slow down traffic yeah there's not a lot of options but one of the one of the things i would like to know and you may or may not be able to answer is people coming from essex who are using route two way to get to the tax corners area will they choose alternative routes because it just can be so hard to get through and i mean anything if the north will see the road is go be yeah i guess i can't picture real good alternative routes either but you know traffic always kind of find that the path of least resistance so you know definitely we can expect some delays are state standards call for ten minute for safety reasons and curiosity and there's not much you can do about that that you know will have that advanced messaging in the construction signs in the portable message signs and everything so hopefully folks will understand if there's construction ahead and if they want to try to you know it might be warranted i'm sure people will travel slowly anyways but yes i mean you hope so that we can look into that  that it didn't make sense to pursue those little tiny changes until we had a little bit more substance to address so there is a last several years there's been some changes in state law that did not the second one is and section thirteen and in the charter it references the starting time for tell meeting arial to a meeting at seven thirty well i can't remember the last time we started being at seven that we've been using but that's violation of our own charter the next changes section fourteen on page six and this is the position of treasurer and this is probably the most substantive change in this list of changes the tone of the state statutes which changed a year or two ago to allow towns to vote on whether or not the position and frankly as there's been times in the past where i was will nervous because there was one time where our town treasurer who also serves as a town clerk neglected to put in a petition for account treasure once but perhaps a bigger concern is that over the years our finance director has taken more and more of the burden that the town treasurer was handling and it's an integral part of the office although it does make sense i think to have two separate people because the town finance director can't do all the things and one of the functions without treasurer is to take in the money you know of the flight instructor himly that piece of it so that there is a need to keep them a i'm trying to envision so the town treasurer right now is elected every two years is it just all right or will you have for some relatively short amount of time which to me is a reason maybe to get away from the elected concept because you really want a town treasurer to change every three years potentially but if we go to appointed to i think of the town treasurer more like staff yes you know like a public works director or the assistant you know town manager or it's of the it's another employee that the would be under the direction of the manager ok so right now the treasurer what right and would with this person be appointed by the select board over well that's that's to be determined i have a proposal in here that says that it is to be appointed by the manager because it's book the concept is to move from to better words this position to more of a town staff take position then yes i think it would make sense for the town manager to go through years process and way but again the state law has changed allows towns to have their own vote whether that should be elected or appointed and our charter does not allow for that and so all we're doing is creating the opportunity at some point in the future if the town wants to change that and the trend there's more more towns are considering appointing just as them just recently a success and appointed town clerk again we're not recommending that but we are saying that she wouldn't it be acceptable to have the town the townspeople themself to sign that it's some point the future if they want to change it and i'm sorry i'm tired so i can't really i'm not thinking well  do we have are they to the same position or not just filled by the same person rents that are currently filled by the same so doesn't that create and maybe an awkward situation where you have somebody who's town staff appointed to be the town clerk a town treasurer but there are aleck did their role as the town we actually are into syria go without the intent is that they would be split into different positions and filled by two different people  one position for both got ok both positions of one person so that's that's that change and then the next in the it's my item number five page and um yes we have right now three for three what articles or something like that enough full time they're not full time in our assessor is not full time of year and so if we were to choose to go this route in the future we may juggle that you know maybe have like two full time assessors vs four part time or goodwill we don't even need to spend time on i just think in this two hundred i had a little bit and actually at one point in time we did have one full time we're having a discussion on that feedback we received from our constable and what he thought his duties were versus you know the fact that we actually voted those law enforcement duties  towns utilize constable and in the unique position where there is no law enforcement duties but still looking to see what their role can be beyond just kind of minimal as it is right now so i'm at biggest opportunities to work with  a little bit on some pieces without reaches wells and i take back i made a mistake in what i just said too because the this proposal does the limit at this position yes and i'm sorry i misspoke a moment ago obviously town consequent i'm sorry i'm drawing a blank on the name i remember going through that process of do we really need this you know why are we going to this and what are you what my fourteen memories recalling is that there was actually a role that this think is that he would like this to be much more of a role than in fact it actually yes taking it out of bigger role that is going to create a problem in that there are not the parameters there for that to do that so in turn i'm looking at my bricks proposing going this is actually their rules and they go all over require this position we actually believe it's a useful position but the reason i'm suggesting it be taken off the required list is and i made another change suggest  service officer give him the if we have someone who's struggling financially or having some other problem maybe they can't pay their fuel bills or some problem like that they can help t but even with that there weren't many cases the day that we end up referring to that individual and there are other resources now that are available i would say though that i would still like to have  flexibility and so i could combine with that flexibility that's why i suggested taking off the top of the service office as required also recommending that we take off the pound keeper i've been twenty years working now i don't recall anyone ever serving in that position and so it kind of doesn't make sense to keep that on this list i've been jumping around a little bit here but  there are two opportunities to put this before the voters coming up one is which i think it's not enough time to get all this done would be a november election the other time which probably isn't enough time w i'm ok with all of the of the changes a good to think a little bit about the treasure but i guess as the tone grows treasure is more like a little small organization kind of position seems like flu town the size of pools and you need more a duties assigned to it as well so i said this on rick i have one quote by question markets where i'm not sure and that actually is the number seven on your memo and i don't think i am not strongly i just at this point have you're just some big stealings but i do think having a an unfilled elected position is awkward and which speaks a bit to it being an appointed position or ice choosing not to appoint somebody because it's nobody's interested or we don't feel the duties for appointing somebody for like a better word so what i'm saying is i'm pretty much behind this i just this is the one area that i just have some mixed feelings about that i would suggest and that is that we sit on this for your next meeting and give you the kind of think about we'll yeah that was a terrible thing and you know if the board is interested then we can start the process of heroes you can always change things after the you know you get a public airing and everyone says no you don't want to do this or that kind of thing then you can start the process over a bit and make changes so there's still room for changes here so moving ahead with the town clerk makes sense to me that i mean so the town treasurer makes sense to me the town clerk is is is there a benefit to having the town clerk appointed also or we right now i would say no no because well because our current town clerk is strongly believes that it years between so it's i mean i mean i'm going to be make this facetious comment but to try to make my what happens if you get a real dug out of somebody who gets elected they have people who vote them out after three years i don't think it's right to have to select for somebody else appointing that position all the time i think that's i would feel as a resident of the town and not having nearly enough say in what's going on in my town i don't i think you're taking more and to see you have your in your pockets the financial report which is probably one of the more important ones you received during the course of the air because it features very preliminary numbers showing the end they have to be worked through a police department and be certified as a police officer but they yes they would be assigned at the school that would be their job to make vacation all days and didn't get into the rationale as much because that's a school decision actually but then with a little bit of the security concerns are certainly part of that but also there are side effects positive side effects of having an officer iceland country place and had twenty years ago had to run this opiate addiction problem worse in europe and right now the best and so they did something in between those twenty years also in your pockets was a quarterly reports i've added a few more data points in there i've added a couple data points for the community justice program i've added a data point for the health report and i'm going to be adding at some point some data points from our community outreach program but it's way too early i saw simpler in numbers but the numbers don't mean a whole lot at this point because they haven't been really it's it's not a simple policy to put together what we're hoping to do is provide some guidelines and some criteria and some methodology and procedures for people who are interested in and then there at the end they were called community notebook where there's you know you can talk about two or three or four for whatever number of things that space gives information i think one of them was the project  the session in accordance with one p s a three thirteen to discuss the labor relations agreement or premature knowledge would put down any substantial disadvantage and to invite rick mcguire air well