so call this thursday february twenty eighth two thousand and thirteen meeting or six pm six pm is designated for public comment period for five minutes  if anyone has any public comment on with the exception of the australian ballot questions which will be gone next can speak now no one here for public comment so i'll see no comment will move along to the public hearing for the australian ballot questions for town meeting in march fifth two thousand and thirteen the official war name is on page two of the town report and will be going over the australian ballot questions only  and i'll just i'll just go down through the list here article six a select all town officers as required by law to have any questions on that i could give a little explanation on that  some it was the view of the slut board that we thought since this property recently come up for sale is contiguous to a property that we already own that the that the residents taxpayers may be interested in purchasing power property so before engaging anyone in any conversation we want to get a handle on whether the taxpayers were interested in doing bad or not so that's what that question simply means doesn't mean we're gonna buy it it means should we consider buying it and consider having a conversation about buying so does anybody have any questions regarding  you know most likely if you know it's it's not inhabited at the present time the floors are caving in and you know our thoughts were with us you know our post office sits on a very small  sure information how large our lobby is but it's not very big it's just so you know the possibly the building could be torn down and it could be made just what more common questions the next one is show the voters approved a transfer thirty five thousand previously appropriated for the town hall roof there to be use for town hall storage preservation and renovation so basically what happened was in the last year we were very specific in the wording of articles shelley found spend up to thirty sufficient so and we also felt that that was making it as routine made it so odd didn't really fall into the thirty five thousand dollars figure that we asked for last year so we're asking the voters now as you can see there's you know their summer off there's a painting that needs to be done some of the windows need to be attended to so we'd like on the voters to transfer that money separate from the capital improvement program government program has been laid out it's just a plan so we have if you've seen the we had hearings on the capital improvement program and we've we project five years out so we've got some things listed on there this year we have a composting toilet for the town pond we have a culvert project would like to do we've moved paving rehabilitation for the pavement we've moved that into capital offset because we felt like that really is a capital asset when you put pavement down the road and it lengthens the life of the road then that is a capital improvement so  so that those monies are reserved in that reserve fund for the program but obviously every year as things happen if we do get a major truck breakdown or something and we have to spend a lot of money well we may have to put some of these things off that we have in the plan and if you look at the plan is quite aggressive you know but there's a lot of stuff all bunched in and obviously you know if you look at the numbers projected in future years they're going to go on greatly depend on grants but they're also going to depend on us funding this this whole idea so you know we don't accrue debt we can try to pay as we go plan ahead so that's kind of   on page seventeen of the no use highway for example we have capital expenditures there but we have a five year plan we've looked out five years and we've got input from the planning commission it's really there  you know they're failing and we've got the input from the up the road crew and the town staff so general general expenditures and her general fund projects and highway fund projects are in this plan so it's it's it's all laid out in the ideas you know we need to replace a truck three four years from now or so we're saving for that too to make that purchase at that time so that's all laid out and answer questions all laid out in the plan but the plan has to be flexible obviously you know it depends on you know we can implement some things in the plan if we don't have the funding we need to start somewhere to start to fund this use so there's no fun now we are we get back to what it will be in the future but yes and that hundred eighty five thousand is based on our depreciating assets so that's kind of how we came to that number but you will see that in the future so this gets set aside as you're saying for the future it sits there and then when that new budget comes you'll see it in that line item and then vote on it and we are already using two hundred thousand dollars worth of highway surplus to help slightly i much rather see a composting toilet so i'd serve body else feel the same way it's not a large welt seventy five hundred dollars it's a fairly large amount of money but yeah that would be wise i think to maybe just speak to that if it if it comes up  store preservation fifty thousand dollars wind i don't so on so that twenty five thousand will help fund of the general fund surplus will help fund those expenditures and that's where the composting toilet is any money right so we you know the voters could say no we don't want to use that we want to take that off the budget and then you'll see this percentage go down and i know what you're trying to say i don't know of you know you've got to face the truth and the truth is going to be is in the following year you know this year it's pretty easy the following years it's going to get more difficult and i don't know if you read my my report of the town report but it's you know we look at the state and we've already gotten word that they're going to be cutting the percentage of grants trickle down grants that we get for structures and pavement so that's not a very good you know my my hopes were that  you know possibly we'd see some more grants we could take full advantage of that try to squirrel our money away into the capital reserve and take advantage of the state money when we can and we're certainly going to try to do that but it's inevitable you're going to have to face the the the unified land use and development regulations and the redistricting so i'll just a preface this whole thing by saying that this select board held a hearing on january seventeenth two to approve these articles there were hearings on december fifth two thousand and twelve december eleventh two thousand and twelve by the planning commission those were done i would say no because the build out analysis would be a very detailed analysis we have to look at soils you have to look at what ones you would have to basically do a engineering study of the entire area and you would actually need to if you really wanted to see what the potential was you'd actually have to you just can't assume the soils are there you have to actually go and do the testing if you want to carry it to that you know the highest level so could look at the you know we've done some analysis on the existing lot sizes carries on some analysis on potential properties that could be subdivided some of these cannot be subdivided even though they do have more than a quarter of an acre or half an acre so and then of course you have quite a few parcels here i can just speak from my own experience on harvest ron for example if you look at all those lots of five lots in a row there that are all you know one point two acres the house sits right in the center of the lot they're septics are all in the back there are some of them are mounds of them are in the ground systems i don't see any potential for any build out there really were i guess if you want to get to the heart of the matter is is that jacob's parcel jake's parcel is that would be the one that you'd if you wanted to see a max build out but of course you is you know divided into a quarter and then what you what i would i would but i would i would say that you cannot count the cemetery right safely you cannot you could count the post office a lot i  along park street you know it's just not like a wall is up there you know on their own jericho are very much a community in this you know together in this flats area jericho house currently quarter acre zoning on that side where the villain  parcel would sit so on really the ideas you get a lot of these older homes try to make them i was kind of misquoted in the paper i didn't really say what the person had encourage you know this is that this is the area to come to you know encourage development to try and keep our open land you know try to keep her out outlying land open and you know if we just poke about the place will be general flats village center district so currently able to subdivide acreage only this is just considering acreage only no other considerations which is kind of crazy but so thirty four out of one hundred fifty parcels could be subdivided and granted you've got one big one in the middle so so likely to be subdivided considering streams flood plains wetlands current uses twenty three of that thirty four are likely to be subdivided so the possible new watts max build out of a quarter acre lots would be eighty one so the possible new dwelling very so that is that based on any how not no considerations to what ones this is just looking at the the numbers right ok well we opted out like the obvious know no municipal water like there is under all flats so there's no water source here a lot of people have shallow wells well shields are very big development potential  meeting so i'd like to thank him six years substantial study would come in and you know like they were saying with soil testing taken hold you really have to come to that number so one can get there i don't think in bread bread you know what brad sitting here doing i don't think that's fair to put that number were going to move along with thank you thank you were carried out in a way and i hope the order should and we understand i understand why now how that would be carried out and i would actually be a part of doing that health order so this was voluntary compliance and it's that she should contacted you guys and met with you and then address the situation in a very different way and probably just talk about maybe a way to fix the problem or he wouldn't answer something like that  back at that meeting steve i think that these guys were you would say they probably were treated with is much respect at that meeting as it probably could have been and so again i apologize for that  is going to be handing in her resignation tomorrow she is having trouble keeping up with the breadth and depth of this job as we've talked about a complicated job takes a lot of training and time and she's very busy person and i think that's part of what's happened but yeah we can do something like that she's indicated the changes that she looked to make on that page as far as a person is identified to answer questions updating it with the staff changes to have occurred in the existing policy handbook and what piece this revision it will be dated february of two thousand and thirteen the first revision is appendix and again she's giving you how it is right now  the two thousand and eleven and what the new appendix c which has to do with the sexual harassment policy again this is the changes are some of it's grammar and other of it his  my question for this look forward would be there are parties employees with the town that are not being helped and shown they do have these exact same packets of information available to parties for fifteen dollars each it's a pedometer it's the challenge that encourages the parties to participate in the challenge and my question would be would the select board be willing to pay  fifteen dollars for two or three employees that are on health insurance so they can we can encourage them to participate because it's to the benefit of the town if the employees are participating  but there is also wellness work i work for a long as conference being held in burlington this year it's seventy five dollars i do have money in my budget for training and development and it takes  monday at the lake so it's down there right now yeah so you just want to give the update there is a four hour forty dollar one where i know i needed to be addressed and it should be back up and running i did mine on monday we've all given my last ten cents on this before i