and as usual start with the public to be heard is there anyone who wished to speak anything that is not on the agenda the rivers negotiating committee is going to come to the presentation of the survey and you know well we'll talk about with the survey revealed and and then you know go from there yeah that survey that was posted from porto yeah yeah all right you know any at a science fair so we're he is at that but anyway the capital budget for this fiscal year and for the one that was approved at the town meeting included the purchase of an excavator if you recall the discussion was we decided to put that in that week each year spent about thirty to thirty five thousand a year painting you know renting an operator and an excavator  and we thought would be a good idea to have our own allow us to do much more ditching on our own on our own schedule and it was actually fortunate that we had the demos last week because they were very helpful in trying to break up ice around culverts and get water flowing so initially we wanted to buy a new a new one but prices have gone up dramatically  a lot of it has to do i guess with emissions stuff as you know aware of and originally they had thought about a track machine but the more dug spoke with other towns and thought about the logistics he  wheeled machine would be better because then we don't have to care yeah exactly exactly so we looked around were able to find one really be able to find one used one locally in which is a two thousand and six of all with about little less than three thousand hours on it and then cat found to use cats one was in batavia and one was over in new hampshire and the one in the bit in batavia seemed to be the most promising so they brought that over and i said they had him last week and demo and going into it they thought they're going to like the cat more of the cats the two thousand and eleven has about the same number of hours but they they and they also had we had an independent mechanic look him over and kind of give an assessment and the overwhelming consensus was that the ball that was the better machine it was more stable and it could actually better machine and cheaper yet better machine and cheever's and the hundred ten two thousand comes with a couple other buckets hundred vehicle replacement plan called for a five year repayment schedule with about with the time i'd put it together and no payments of twenty six thousand five hundred a year five thousand for four years the result is payments in interest of about five thousand dollars i will say i did ask brian the treasure about the fact that since we have a pretty healthy reserve funds we could buy it outright and paid we could keep the same payment schedule and then just pay that reserve fund back and not pay any interest in he said you know given that it was an older used machine he thought that made sense given the potential useful life but you know that i just so i we would make that we would take the twenty five thousand out of this year's budget that was budget to come out of operating and then i would split it between two funds you know the balance of eighty five so you're talking forty two five out of but i was thinking that you know it is not it is a state road and that the cars you know i thought kelly king's e mail to us was really  thoughtful and for the record i really appreciated her taking the time to explain her point of view and i liked how she started by saying at first i was alarmed and ready to come to like burning you know complain which is where i was to like right is this ok but she's right i mean they are well off the road and it does signal to people to slow down and i have no maybe it is a maybe it is appropriate for them to park along with fifteen it just seemed really a compelling reason to do so perhaps perhaps i would you know i feel placated actually you know he really yeah i think we need to put her in jail in the record because it was very well i thought it was really really well explained and you know i just like i said i was just i was just kind of alarmed by the number of cars it was all of a sudden it's always on the same time and you know and and hopefully people won't but how do people know there's no  signage that says anything i mean maybe people seem to be following the rules and staying well off the road but i don't know i mean and there were nights when i noticed that people were in driveways more like sort of encroaching on other you know driveways there were a few houses nearby there i started thinking whether some of it had to do with the winter and whether parking spots were you know covered because of where you put the snow and then when kelly was saying well some of the nights that she thought that there was parking gamble i thought well sometimes people say it's easier just to walk straight yeah and that's right but i did notice people slowing down his when we drove by last friday people were slowing place planners or something strategically to prevent people parking too close to the apron of the driveway yeah or checking with the state about putting up you know no parking between the signs signs so and prove the minutes of three nineteen and i didn't see anything like it or not yeah it's harder for me to you know i like paper and i read it on line so i don't see it the same way