for the record everybody's checked it out right yes everyone had ok so some of the second favor so these are the tennis courts you made a very nice fourteenth received six ranging from the highest two hundred ninety three thousand three hundred thirty three two hundred one three thousand three hundred thirty three and a loss to thirty one one hundred century construction company was a little better  so the two thirty one one hundred with construction contingency twenty three thousand and is zein for the city and specifications brings a grand total of two eighty nine one hundred we were approved for three hundred twenty five through c p a this is well under that well under a number of the funds goes back to the source right back to the c p a so we do this we check references and they are credible you know construction company have they done work for us in the past this group has not done work for us in the past but they have done work of similar references yes we required to take a little better now not necessarily always qualify for so we check references for qualification  vocal voting on the war in articles right this is just a vote sign the war for the you know town special tell me correct yes and so we met week ago friday with all of the various individuals so the only decision conform to what carrots and i are here since basically my purpose in this is since we haven't had time to discuss it is just is just to introduce the discussion i met was sue  bass before i put this in place i met with them and who doesn't necessarily agree with a three to five but if i had my preference what i would like to do is to go into this next year with  guy carr boney adam dash sammy baghdadi you and me as a board of five selectman in the reason for that that is one person to be in charge of schools one person could be in charge of finance one person could be in charge of community development d p w and then at least two of us would be able to commiserate you know in between the meetings and i think it's it's one hundred fifty five million dollar corporation that are total expenses my involvement in the school budget was you know i had no involvement in it whatsoever  survey and for us to what we've been notified by the applicant that is to continue the discussion of the waivers as presented to us until may fifteenth two thousand and seventeen so we can either agree to the continuance or not is it just so moved well i mean a discussion on that no i mean i i appears that the applicant has gotten the message that this is you know as you said mr chair and and and you know i reiterated and i think jim agreed that you know this is ripe for some sort of a hopefully it's a better designed road hopefully it's a road that's not as high and dry and maybe it would be a plan that this future board can approach for that to  price and you know i mean i think it's you know i think it's appropriate to at least read one paragraph of the letter which one so i can read the last one i mean either you could read the whole thing or the nearly thirty years although from supporters who work at local governments and professional capacity do so because we have a passion for it we tend to have opinions and that is a concern within our town communities we hire ability to share the knowledge and experience we have acquired through our work with our neighbors in representatives most of us have served on boards of committees in our town who towns or it has been similarly active and done with having served most notably and well of course as a member of the zoning board of appeals for several years that being said we recognize that the ro unique privilege that requires that or occasion we have to give up some of the other privileges of citizenship requires that we meet scrupulously objective about the issues in which we are asked to apply and in that regard to any issue where people are taking sides we avoid align ourselves or even or advocate any position on the matter pending before ten on board or department outside our role as county council is all as always we are grateful for the opportunity to be of service to the please let me know if you have any questions about this or about or ourselves in short of our position and in particular one thing that bothers me is that we we have matters that we can't discuss publicly because because they they affect other other aspects of the government we have to go into executive session right so when you when you talk to someone you know or you talk to somebody who is concerned about an issue you can't say what you know even though it would change their view of the matter so i think i think everyone has to be cognizant of that and i thank you sami for bringing that to his attention and i was not necessarily influenced by anything he of the more recognizable we had one or people from that era that came retired correct and i think that's a concern i mean i'm not saying that the the bitter is not qualified i'm sure they're highly qualified but i organization has a lot of experience or perhaps others when do when do we get a chance to talk about the job description and who's going to do what they didn't want to have a consultant and i think jim that we have a lot more work to do i think one of the other things i'd like to suggest that we have seen or a point of the search  not frequently used for this type of position it's more commonly used for police and fire chiefs prevents obviously some of the pros or again it's a valuable tool that test you know various skill sets and kind of thinking on your feet type exercises versus just a simple straight interview process with questions mean there are candidates out there they're well versed in interview and also the point where they're professional and they are kind of know the anticipated questions things that are typically aston you know if we change our mind about the job description what do we do we as a board can determine that we want to change the type and then we submit another poll well you know i don't think you have to or you don't have now we can we can decide fact in more flexibility if you don't job description to be approved by this board ok so now i think we would look to the war we would look to the search committee and jessica and this the search consultant to provide input of so so i guess my direction would be that it's a good thing to be able to evaluate several beds against each other so so so maybe to  how to solve problems that are that are common to the physician so i think assessment center is a good thing but i also think it's a good thing to have a selection to happen number of beds that that can be compared against each other  actually working with the town mistress so they're not at their staff but even though they're elected they work with the town they should all of these these are all independent communities that are sort of poignant or elected and so for example we're to jam i think think i floyd as a as an individual is an excellent selection ok i agree with you but i think what we need to also think about is how large do you want the committee i think  becomes more difficult to set up meetings and get quorums when you have too many people so if we do include the treasurer that i mean we kept it's happened and decide i mean i like your idea of the board of sources request for quotes based on a scope of services and keep it simpler and just simply do it that i was led to basically people just you know respond to the scope of services and provide the dollar amount that would be  nine regular meeting to twenty third regular meeting every second working session for every second executive session for every six regular meeting every sixty seconds session for every six executive session to be a two that  working with you i find you to be an able servant and i think the town is going to miss your services as you move on to other things i was thinking about the things that we that we because sometimes you don't you know think about different being the best office but in that case i think i think the board did a great job and also i want to mention i didn't go to law school because i didn't want to you know i wanted to do something different but i think your training and laser like focus on the purchase and sale agreement for the substation y free time i would have and now you're making me feel sad that i won't be at the table any more but he but you you will have a very able bodied replacement and and you know i