gather to come together and try to make decisions about what is right about what is wrong so this educate our positions but not at the expense of others let's remember that there is an immense god between saying right right and really is a different era for politics today as if every an aspect of our lives are touched by the applications of technology but sometimes drive to work fruitless efficiency liberation even him up to your representative government works only as long as the participants can remember the names and faces of the reporters and that's no less true for the government in washington as well so  so we really recommit ourselves to day when we come to meetings such as this well the town meeting is crucial for the business of the town itself it also remains essential as a complement to the nation that we see that we feel up close and face to face what happens to each other when we do each other we are required to allow ourselves no escape from our common humanity we are required to make together the renderings of our collective thousand two hundred fifty nine dollars of which one million thirty two thousand five hundred eighty nine dollars should raise great taxes four hundred fifty six days and six hundred seventy dollars when not tax revenues pursuant to twenty four  inspection of schools and disclose the following diseases over the course of the year to berkeley loss typhoid polio hooping cough bumps and chicken is a long list of those  public welfare was handled through the overseer of the poor recorded however startling the expenditures of a character this is for the size care for one night one dollar ticking of gra will fund one hundred thirty one dogs for richard at a dollar and three dogs at six dollars each i've no idea what the difference is between a one dollar and a six dollars the school superintendent places his report with it his hour of the year was four hundred sixty three of salary for the thirteen teachers combined was two thousand seven hundred dollars three individuals assessments of teachers in the report work it was very small the school was very small being only four pupils and the percent attendance for the first two terms was ninety five percent the pupils were taken to number five school for the spring  and early consolidation the superintendent spent some time talking about the importance of education and welcoming the increased role of the state he said today we have state requirements we go up to which are arranged by men who have the child's welfare apart and were conversing with their actual needs we now have to look for the child's physical welfare as well as his intellectual betterment the state you know where there are certain objects that have subjects that have to be a choice every term which is a change from former times the school problems being brought to our attention as a more important issue that it was formally considered is now as important it now has an important place in our town affairs and a large portion of our state and national legislatures are devoted to improvement of educational facilities in their domains fifty years ago of the rulebook was my friend and neighbor for many years and i am thankful we never met as moderator  hundred twenty one high school students thirty seven this was the year where the federal funds are made available for additional programs use for school nurse initiating a remedial reading program and the materials science and tail two programs there and made a central school students provide a sign for the school that was purchased by fundraising and permission was obtained to work in the first floor long range planes are recognized  that their circulation had increased thirty two percent over the previous here and twenty percent increase in paper so those are some glimpses of the past to take us to the present  we can approve four for dexter's meeting my job is moderator is a direct traffic and essentially it is to make sure the will of the body is done the will of the body rolls but of course we d with robert's rules as a guideline that stable as it refers to a process as well if there is something that it is not clear you can call for point of order at any time in the meeting we will work  do with it or how you might amended but it is easier for everyone to remember what the motion is and how we do forward with it with the baby the motions i have runners who are here who are here i think hel and they will have a microphone and walk around if you wouldn't wait to be recognize direct or your comments to the chair and it should work pretty well with two runners that we can keep track of  is in the minds of someone they have the right to call the question which immediately would call for food whether we would move directly to a vote a question of as as required by law or there  nations are now in order for the office of moderator for a term of one year if there are no further nominations to remove the meeting sorry the second clerk be directed to cast a single ballot in favor for two thousand and thirteen fourteen we had one hundred eleven call that's a comparison to the previous year of four hundred forty six the biggest difference there this last year we only had one storm that was like twenty calls in the couple of years we've had storms that the protection fast rate is done by ice so was improved last year took effect in july of last year we went from a six nine to a four six described at last year's record or if you have not seen are seeing a significant difference in their homeowner's insurance on the order of more savings here insurance than what you pay in taxes to have the fire department moving on to our budget request the budget choice quite a bit of detail that point and both show at boards voted to approve our budget request at that time some areas of note in the budget we are at in line and this year for accounting services also increasing our vehicle maintenance like we are putting each of our apparatus out and as we do that are experiencing more repairs there's a fine line to be have to manage repair cost  elation tube replacement because we don't want to get to a point spend so much in maintaining the truck that it actually cheaper to replace it so we're not there yet but that is something that we keep in mind we are increasing our firefighter and questions of the mean budget emotion to accept the reports which is not anything more than making sure we mentioned in my letter there tell the group of folks and made my job a lot easier and a lot more fun most of the time i'm going to go through these guys no no particular order but i think it's home for a lot of you when you're familiar telling you when you're going astray which is really helpful i know as a board we greatly appreciated her her attention to detail and that's what she's all about and the way the talent is being run in the last year since she's been here is night and day financially you should all sleep well at night that you're your funds are being very very well taken care of very well watched over you know we have a very significant audit going on every year that really is a check and balance for a loan and what she does so it's people like seeing a lister show up so but without being without work so it's really important to recognize the importance of that job and how hard parents work that that for many many years recently alyssa lawson helpful and then he also you know he is in his heart so a farmer and now that something needs to get x to get fixed it figures out a way back to what to do that and it's been great to watch him work and grow into this position  questions on the listers for page twenty four rather than the state statu georgia night truck that i read the library next door on about once a month and our next meeting is going to be large nineteenth the thursday evening six thirty told nine great interested and very interesting and one of the things that i've noticed of friday afternoon as i said it there i looked up on the wall of the bill said her have been assigned to our committee and  thank you very much my name's michael struck in and the last time i was here i think i was in the senate for a total of one week at that point so i was very honored to be elected to the position for the next two years seven served by two committees of party agriculture committee where we're dealing mostly with farmers had their impact on lake champlain in the waters of the state more importantly probably among the finance committee which deals with of there's going to be a lot of revenue questions on the table so i'm very honored to be here and i'm very honored to be one of your successors and the forward to hearing from   especially with less and less farmers and i have to have to ask the question how does this relate to the number of households putting phosphate with their detergent and into the water table i go to class goes and there is an aisle that is like a tractor trailer load of detergents and people are going out of there all the time we have more people than ever pollution play and only so much more expensive to all of us if they do it and we don't do it the way because they don't have jurisdiction over farmers they basically have jurisdiction over  point source pollution storm water waste water and those things that they have suggested putting millions of dollars into upgraded sewage treatment plants which is far more expensive than the solutions that we're going to come up  surprisingly it is coming from farms and it's coming from franklin county chinning county some from madison county in the southern part of the lake but mostly from fica seventy percent of the phosphorous is dropped and there's been a lot of energy and there's a lot of value in a products enterprise going on in the agricultural community we have actually seen an uptick in the number of farms and one of the solutions that we're looking at very closely is we now regulate the large farms and the medium sized parks which are basically farms over five hundred acres but the vast majority of farms are small farms or small farm could be two hundred fifty acres i don't think that's that small it's considered a for have no regulation over the nutrient management or accepted agricultural practices for the small farms and one of the main pieces that will come out of the legislation is those morons will start to get certified educated one thing is it would you know we don't have the experience of work but we certainly did have the experience of the fifty some odd meetings that led up to the vote and the feeling of people and once they're actually completed running the schools and so you know i think it's wise definitely we're getting questions from over the state about the case we do this you know see that come out of the session is educational for cleaning up the waters of the state and getting our fiscal house in order but getting our fiscal house in order is where the vast majority of legislators are focused a lot of the other guess up if there's someone from the play of a commission every year or i could filling out the well survey and i know the planning commission is moving forward with their the development review board report oh and i'm here to speak on behalf of our underhill historical society regards to our school house number five just up the road from town hall a pleasant valley road this is actually the third school house on that site this one having been built at eight hundred sixty one during the civil war year a committee of interested the town folk met to discuss future options for this story though and during that time last year there were a couple of very f so true there is however the building this and serious need of repair there's not going to be made for repair at this building for the past thirty years of dating now faced with some very real questions should we continue to preserve this building for what purpose with what bugs and by home should be handled by the town should be handled by private individuals so we've prepared a survey and handed out to most folks we caught on the way and we very much appreciate if you could share with us your right any ideas or windowsills are very elaborate dated some of the foundation to my course around structural so we're estimating around seventy thousand dollars if it were done by contractors so ramona shepherd i had many nicknames as a slut and many of which i will not repeat here my favorite was one was chicken little i'm sure you all know the story so there are different ways to look at what i write and what i think a on you know why this guy is not following we'll be fine i'll get to ted's house just fine when i want to go there but i do feel there's some sort of imbalance for what we some of us expect and by the way it is not a flatlander issue to complain about the pros it's a locals issue interestingly enough from my unofficial polling but i do that a lot and just i never felt the balance between the two i'd never felt that i felt the pressure of too much taxes on myself and my family i felt i felt those i feel today i feel left out reappraisal houses twice what it used to pay taxes on when i jeffords it's on unfortunately still a legal matter and still in the works so it's hard to move forward with any you know how we can all work together as neighbors or the town of whatever  es being served where people are participating and voting and becoming aware of the extension of the beliefs of its it was never intended to be a pro or against kind of thing with mabel it was just to put it to the public to the public to form just like you're informed about the fire department or anything else your taxes go towards so moving forward whatever that decision is you know it's probably something that the town should always revisit in some way just  it goes to the nature of the nonprofit still others there are exemptions to exemptions to exemptions it really does go down three layers of the so that is rather complicated in this case our view of the relevant statute was of that is up or down vote for this particular type of facility but the tax exempt status i was determined varies depending on the nature of the facility he's going to fill in here what really got me interested when i heard that they guys are probably not top of the box truck which i don't know i guessed about sixteen eighteen it here in order to release the garage doors when the powered out to get their vehicles out on what they did the fuel that easel down there as we know is also be all run up on and sell when we have an hour outage which can last as we all know for days especially our new roads like is there any further business