given so thank you for doing all this hard work maybe for the viewers at home talk a little bit about you know the overall part of the plan how why we're doing this with our little friend is thousand and two and has moved from the michigan area into canada all the way over to the east coast it's now been found in thirty five states including now all six states in  it was found in vermont february of this year and this is the latest spot in vermont that it was found is in south you're all right on the other side of the sandbar so it's about twelve miles from back to the village in the village and one hundred thirteen twenty fourteen that inventory all all of the palm trees and we have about nine hundred seventy five trees in the public right of way and out of that hundred sixty six are the greenish right so that being said the past is closer than we once thought we didn't around so it's you know it's in thirty five states in all five provinces of canada so it's it's really established so we felt it was important to put a plan together to bring to the trustees to outline what best is how it works what are our options for management of that past before it gets here a proactive approach probably be here before we see it because it's hard to identify and one of the easiest ways to find the best is look for flapping up in the top of the tree so dive back and woodpecker activity fact because they'll go up to the alarm which gets into right into the bark into the canyon layer and as the larva grows it makes a certain teen gallery ten cuts the life support off of the tree and the main thing to understand is about the ash trees once they yet the past and start to decline they fall apart rapidly to the point where they're dangerous for  here and climbing on you has to use equipment so again we're we're thinking ahead in our approach on that and that they're safer to take and remove now so part of this plan  we are representing to the trustees to look at taking maybe fifteen or twenty a year down and then replacing them as you need five or six on the street perhaps to start with removing and then replace them so that you still have the canopy effect you still have a nice approach to that so we have done the stoping the cost the cost that were put into the report were the wholesale cost and then two and a half to three times that for the contractor to secure the plant bring it in planted a guarantee for one growing season and mediated during their growing season once that's done it becomes public property so we need to get better pricing that w be a lot less expensive ok so it can as you go through and we looked at other all the other possibilities in here so we're we're here to answer specific questions that you might have nowhere near big enough to handle one disciple were would be and if we were going to suggest that the public works department by shipper it would certainly be a much larger unit  is that you need to ship all would especially gives it here because that is far as spreading the past is the best way to control it because you're actually shipping of everything w and i've seen the approach the idea is we are not going to de forest an entire block or neighborhood we're going to take a couple and replace a couple go to another neighborhood take a couple replace a couple right and work our way back so that the two inch caliber has a chance to come up a little bit and came to other trees and so it doesn't look like we have the forest to lose one hundred sixty five feet or three hundred  roadway ship i think in chicago when you get all of this will have to just make sure we have the plan and graphics on the website so that people understand the hit we can just refer them to that has all the information they can understand what your plan is and why you're  we don't want to be in a situation where everyone waits and all of a sudden everybody's looking for one that everybody's you know trying to get things done in a hurry and there will be enough of i mean everybody's gonna start you know if you start taking no trees people think great a little cheap firewood that's how it's actually transmitted rays are striking asia then you have to look at the forty nine ers right but that's the other thing you can move it around them into areas that it's not but they figure it's going to get there anyway so the quarantine is statewide so that means you could probably do where we are for ash it's it's ok however as it was said in here to let you know a lot of our ash trees in the village are small diameter he did then we are lucky we're not dealing with monster ash trees like  ok we can either take the wood chips down to me and you'll get burned or we can have something here that people can use around the house burns mulch with so these are all open is coming again come from so we want to be careful that has all these other communities are doing it around the state people don't see cheap would ask what kind of what is it that think it's actually saying oh they w response it's was that they are in the early stages of looking at resistance in the bush you know though there may be the possibility down the road to also say that it might not be a bad idea for us in the coming year who have the conversations with the town to get the equipment because it is a long term commission you know might work might actually not give that idea we've been fortunate to have we're kind of the head of the game percent cap on phantom balance for buildings maintenance it was thirty nine thousand six hundred ninety nine dollars and we're recommending that of that eleven thousand is reallocated it to cover the govern for governance you know governments change project or governments research because we know it might not want to spend it all in the end there may be other costs and i know that we can change the might just just for the record for the minutes it might it might help clarify things going forward if we decide if it doesn't go get all of the embrasures and if we use some of it to do something else with it for some other conference or some other reason information we know that we got  made in the budget documents for budget day and the cost of detail here in the memo is a net decrease of nine thousand dollars changing the overall percentage increase from for twenty two percent four point six three percent you know that we have some other  so having sensed the the direction conversations about a week or so ago we were good staff was getting the sense that the town while supportive of in general some of the ideas stock and highly tax and what its impact was for both communities know we need that any you know there's going to be a tax increase but of what level and how to get it down so staff  mainly sarah grace you myself basically put it be kinder and together and said ok what's on the table what have we heard and so we have put together a list of options for both communities of the sli that we would delay that move for a little bit which saves a couple thousand dollars this year and you need to be replaced in the following years the town  would make a monetary transfer to the village of the sum of money and probably somewhere in the fifty dollars a dollar range  based upon equity what you're trying to do we can do it in many different they can do it in many different ways one of the suggestions was each the town clerk  did call the fifty thousand dollars on you know fifty fifty on the position as we've done with other traditions so we're looking at a son of about fifty thousand dollars you do as another sharing and transfer  very similar to what you've done with the manager's office etc the town would still move forward with the buildings being in supervisor position but not have the village pick up the twenty thousand dollars that was in your budget but still provide that service to the village and then it gets down into smaller smaller and smaller amounts of money a couple  people have some things in their budget so less than two thousand dollars will provide you that lister's the same in the town each town there's a couple of things where people had some contingency next time you have a budget discussion in general it takes the town budget if they accept all those changes somewhere in the neighborhood of two point nine eight two point nine percent rate increase at this particular moment the village with what we've said is going to be somewhere about three point nine nine four point zero after that changes in the village there isn't much in the village budget that is isn't new there are some salaries are sort of that it's all but those are somewhat locked in but there are some other things but if you want to go below fo some other thoughts and i'm sure there's other concerns i mean arise between now and then and i was asked that it seems like a minus all dependent on the sun and ye budget proposal and then those two changes that i just summarized in the memo the removal of eleven thousand dollars for bin richardson and the increase to fully fund the channel seventeen request that's the net decrease of one thousand dollars had left us with the overall general fund expenditure increase of four point six three percent it's about two hundred thirty thousand dollars because that original proposal had the transfer from the town and for the village rolling stock of a hundred and thirty one thousand four hundred dollars they'd increase on the tax rate was anticipated at one point two percent and that's where we were removing the transfer from the town for the rolling stock and that increases the tax rate implication because it isn't doing the change that expenditure budgeted and removing the approximately twenty thousand dollars or the buildings person landed us and overall increase of four point two four percent but increase to the tax rate of four point four five percent and that's primarily a result of bringing that rolling stock back in from there evidence greg and i sat down with look like tips and we started to make some cuts we actually only made could find three on the village budget so this this list was not much of a list first was to cut the cleaning contract that you g r p suggested in half it was a reduction of nine thousand six hundred dollars one of the things that we recently learned is that the farmer's market will not be continuing we had increased that community event this line where we used to fund over last year which had included funding for them and they were continuing to thought we would just leave it there just in case other things for capital outlay in the community development budget and we x that thinking that maybe that could be pushed out another year in light of new equipment that's it for additional shots thinking find fifty thousand dollars of additional revenue right now i'm sorry tax revenue sources such as a transfer from the town if we want to re evaluate position i would be that pull the village the proposed village tax rate increase down to two point eight to five perspective of what we were talking and so when we said that if you reduced the fifty thousand you budgeted the two something range european like the three you're probably six seconds from a three something range without that increase which we so if if we do everything that we've said and it's a two point two five two point five percent tax rate increase what is that a phrase in dollars on average homeowner percent capital funding holding overall expenditure increase down to three point five two percent from that for even as we now change the expense expenditures and it brings the tax rate increase down to two point one four percent  thousand dollars a year so in my opinion the six zero difference to go to the community and save you to fund our capital projects is ok i mean i don't you know disguise the fact that it's the political component to it which at town meeting people could say oh wait a second fifty thousand dollars when you do get in here and tell me today by the time how the meeting goes around village that's committed because we hear there's nothing we can do what i would rather see there's a fifty thousand isn't sort of just being a fifty thousand contributions you look at the allocation of the position one of the other concerns write and name and then your legit officials have to be very careful not to follow those wishes but when you are talking about two communities where good gather and the impact of those two pledges and the changes that will also need to probably be better explained at the town and the village because we've got we are it is very tricky because we've got is in the vein of shared service and cooperation and getting to tax equity got great albeit slower that in previous years but still tax equity and that's what we're trying to achieve and if this year is a step another step in that direction we will all find out at the town meeting where the public stands on that there may be other mechanisms that i'm not thinking of at this moment that if it is reduced either is it total or are we can figure out that difference of of how to deal with it budgetary legal or you i mean you've worn it but we can figure out how to fill the gap time is adding a new position inevitably that's going to turn into a full time is that really what we need at this point in time i think there is can there are communications names throughout her community and i get the impression that i don't know this is the right time or the minutes from the two thousand and sixteen in your meeting and in particular relating to article three when he talked about that one said on the tax rate i think it happens in front of all of us it would be helpful to make sure that what we're talking about is well in line with what the intention this and have staff the proper stuff use in the grant money and economic development because that if some amazing grant comes along that we go for we could potentially use economic development money fund for that but we haven't been using it that the concept was it was going to be for big ticket items it was going to be the trustees want to spend you know hundred thousand dollars on this thing it is going to go to get your meeting people approve the withdrawal of hundred thousand dollars and we and that i have about sort of all these little all of the not little but all the pieces of the suggestions as we can put that what is the what is the best estimated average annual dollar amount of impact of is just we took there are two documents here one is is pat's and i just took the stuff out of it and made it a village center instead of town center of the only thing that i changed questions that were from that evaluation i think i had one to the very end but the others went through all the same the accounts and then i think all of the other questions i had on here were the same evaluation and there i think they are long  little busy this year from the pressure of the government so we didn't want to i don't think we want to have a lot of evaluation about his national development i but i would like you to take a look at somebody because i'm not even sure that some of them or even some of these are necessary or appropriate through performance well we could do a number of different things we could say the we could say the department heads that all of their responses will remain confidential within the and then we just summarize them and let evan know or we could say you the manager we will be showing your response to the manager so you can be as specific as you want but you know i the last time and we just pooled all the answers together and he any language that looked like it you know i didn't we didn't edit it but it was a few things we just took a few things out that might have helped you know might have a specific for the search separate thirty first two thousand and thirteen concluding more than twenty five years of dedicated service and leadership to the entire six community and we're as lauren played a critical role in it consolidating the struggling with drivers and it's an interesting system with the how we work people think that we are going for busing in fact they get the funding from the state it's our cost a couple of different things on from a police perspective we would like to see a school resource officer in each of the schools districts so one for the high school one for the six cools and one for the essex junction schools right now we only have one school resource officer and so we are starting the con things if an officer take just a person to the mental health center they don't get to drop them at the front door and leave they have to stay until either evaluated and admitted or evaluated and released