the meeting of six eighteen order and that's always the first order of business for the public to be heard on matters that are not  agenda in a more realistic way because of the rivers property it so happens the rivers property has a knicks at least we think on paper an property the fifteen acres that are developer ball actually got developed they would have to build a community septic and at that time it might make sense to see if we couldn't wrap the rest of the of the center into that that's why it became a lie more live topic recently than it has been for decades it's been on the agenda as something to think about since i came to jericho sixteen seventeen years ago but it's expensive and it's difficult it never got very far that's why it suddenly became green that's just kind of conducive to our vision we're just going to have a joint church service and then kind of spill out onto the green barbeque that's what we like and so that the state that we're looking at part of that we have been planning on is july twenty sixth which is a sunday and requesting to use the green from the hours of eleven a m to two p m scientists here to answer your questions that you may have about this and request permission did you  did because you know they need to put the barricades up for the closure of the groups and things and let people know that it's going to be close to the probably not the main road the one you know the circuits like we did for the  so that's good that you decided that you can squeeze into the church for the church service now we're just you know it's good actually don't take think that is what's the only thing that people would object to perhaps having you know if they're not inclined to attend the church have not pushing you to explore other options can vary with special interest curious if you did look over at mil's her side i didn't end up looking being we discussed and just trying to figure out what is it they were wanting to do and i'm just thinking also about something simple especially this time and then if it goes well to make it will explore like another time doing it somewhere else is that is this an owner of the particular event turn your soul just to do it now it's just that we have typically for many years past we've had one joint summer service and in our churches it's grown to the fact that we cannot all fit in our building up in the sanctuary so we're going to have video streaming downstairs and so don't park in front of the store or in front of you know other people's homes  at one point talked about it and explained they asked a lot of questions but during that meeting it was very clear that they did not want to be landowners and and were concerned  about the fact that if they went with one of the development options they would continue to have to be lending is because it takes a while to get your money that way and so based on that came back to you and i came back to the committee and we talked about let us come up with an option so we do our due diligence that is just a loan you know it and develop land numbers to see if they really want to quit being in the land business so we sent that to them for the following monday because monday is their typical nights that the rivers land committee meets and then they went to a full membership meeting at the beginning of june where all four options were discussed and all four were aggregated and they said no and then they came back to the town and said well you know we said no but we're not going to make a decision on or other options until july to give you a chance to do something else and we said well we've done what we can do you have any counter offers that we can talk about and they said no we have no other counteroffers  and we said no thank you very much we're disappointed of course but you know you have to meet your constituency and we have to pay attention to our constituency but we also left the door open that because they had heard that over and over again to protect the gateway that they said they don't know how they're going to do it but they have heard that and the town has said that if they need help in the future protecting the gateway we would certainly offer services to help to them but that's where it is but as you know they have that one development offer on the table and we thought they said at the meeting that there was could be a second  right exactly i mean people i mean when we did the survey that's the area that was the highest priority to keep open for the public i mean granted the public would have liked to see the whole rivers property preserved but you know that was not going to be feasible and  so we focused on what we could do that was minimise the risk to the taxpayers and you know it is what it is so they go back and consider all the options all four options i mean easy for them to protect the gateway but i have randy you know still one says as i understand it you know he talked again about not tying the hands of our new jersey businessman who wants to move here and paid a lot of money and then donate the land on his own  there are three categories there's construction forward order to be eligible to actually design construction need to have a project that's we've been through the scoping process then there's small scale construction projects o it is nice that you can apply for all you can apply for all we've received them in the past actually with the last round is when you receive the grants to do the scoping study for the riverside area the crosswalks and then receive the grant funding to actually constructed so the staff had a discussion my herself with it with karin and i believe michelle went to the trails committee meeting to discuss the projects the desired grant proposals that we would see so those are what we wanted to bring to you today and run by you as todd highlighted the first of the available grants involves a scoping study and the scoping study that we thought would be the most benefit at this point is looking at the jericho corners to riverside cor much would be available for pedestrian use particularly for possibilities for a biking corridor or some sort of enhanced meant to the road as it exists or create the well this is expensive this is this one is expensive because you have the reverse house you have the barn you have the trees and you have never one when we do the right path that you have suggested that you would have to have probably afford a five hundred foot long section of road realignment in order to fit the path in between the road and those structures because of how close they are to the road and that the even the trees they said contribute to this historic setting so you would want to preserve those so it know the estimate for that segment is about four hundred thousand dollars the the bit that we just received that's later on the agenda to do the from the  came house to prout road came in at two hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars so there's those those those challenges and then just that's that time i seem to remember that we we consider act continuing down the other on the barn side of the road and not crossing over and just having a cross will get them across work anyway  you're not it's not like you're adding a double cross or anything like that and why not and i don't remember what happened to that idea whether it was just talked about i think as a result of the report well you can't really look into it without another skeleton applying you know the and then the other question is do you apply right and left and it could be that we somehow through the process of submitting the grant try to paint that you see that what i think what you brought up you can you discuss as a result of the presentation of the study right so it's not included in the study so what do we have to do to get it considered because we really like we could we go for this construct the over the construction say we might like to do it a little differently from what the scoping study originally yes it which is exactly we did that with the current section because the cure is the current project said that from  road so they say they made us change it from a path to a sidewalk so that seems that was never discussed in the scoping study so so you might do that again the sounds reasonable and yeah furthermore if there's room for a sidewalk in front of that house i mean let's face it you're look at the bicyclists they're not going to come up with a practice they're going to come up the road anyway and it would be a lot better to have a city mostly the people who use it that are not going to who would change their their behavior or people walking especially white no question that's desire what if to do that requires four hundred thousand dollars for a couple hundred feet to change the road maybe we and there's a historic site with the blacksmith so it's got to be offset so i do i don't have an answer but the question is if you can never build a park to get to the high school how much utility does this section have why would we we have all the time in the world why would we why would we say now that we're not going to i mean this is this is the perfect getting in the way of the good you know why would we refuse to improve the situation because some you know this is traditionally been a high priority or first primary what are the other you're right if there's something better to do with the money fine but let's hear it i mean we've always made this a first priority  done i mean this is the only one that calls right now we're walking away from free money i would think you should just apply anyway just to see if you can't build a multi modal from the bridge to the barn down because that is the steepest part of the hill anyway yeah then i have no problem that exact thing applying for free money seeing if we can find a sensible way to use it and if we can't we give it back at doesn't bother me at all and i think that's the part that most forefront for us was trying to come up with some sort of crossing solution in front of the jericho store in the center so whether that would be a flashing light or some sort of  get funding the raised crosser you walk in front of the store because you can't put it beacon there because of the open curb you know that it's going to be run over or you've got to protect it with curving you know it's going to mess up drainage and  beacon up here so we know what the costs are to that to do that as well and that's something that we can do the raised crosswalk you have to have someone do but you know that's all of you river road but now the beacon so it's easy just to include one beacon for there in this grass or looking at three beacons in the cross walk i think asked me to say it's a forty thousand dollars or something  that this scoping study is i would recommend thirty five because it's a it's of long area for study so and then elation then i think for the based we're going to have to ask for probably four hundred thousand dollars for the other part of the i mean that it doesn't are not likely that we'll get all of them last last island here we need to get a kick off meeting scheduled for that the engineer who's chosen for the design is as a save engineer who has done the design for the center and we're just going to construction with that one so it's been a little bit of a delay  if looking to any upcoming conversation or construction or zoning if you could let us know we obviously it's a lot best interest to keep track of select board agendas but we'd love to know so that if there are possibilities of requesting these with builders developers thought we were just able to be part of the conversation or at least one of our biggest it was birt i had raised with them about well you're widening this intersection it's going to require more marking more paving is the town now going to be responsible for maintaining there and so that's the from the he currently works for retraining he's been there three years he graduated on a friday from high school and started the following monday with how long he needs been there ever since  operated apply with a wing and seven so he has experience operating what we do a lot of syria's most experience of the bench that we interviewed we we contacted we schedule for interviews two dropped out at the last minute we held two we had a total of eleven applications which was good considering the fact that the same time we were advertising you had colchester advertising  more opportunities to do more things that he doesn't have now what what certificates and qualifications i mean apart from the c e o just c d o he's on the safety committee which is important other than that received one received the engineers estimate was around three hundred twenty five thousand dollars the bids range from four hundred twelve thousand to the low bid of two hundred eighty seven for fifty nine we started this project off with a tree with enhancement grant and then we applied to two other grants to get additional funding because it looked like there was going to be a short fall so we had a total of three hundred forty seven thousand in federal funds which requires a match of eighty six thousand seven fifty and local phones so once you subtract the design engineering contractor thirty eight thousand five hundred fifteen contingency which sometimes you need more times and in the short of it is we still have a buffer of about forty nine thousand dollars to put the grass fed and you know between what we've committed to and what we have available which is going to be and yeah and of course if it's low or the or twenty percent is lower yeah yeah exactly so we may not have to spend the make sure there's nothing that's materially what's there so they're all a fine bit they're all qualified make sure that there's nothing that's materially unbalanced that committed us in jeopardy and they go through that and said that the next lowest  was only twelve thousand dollars higher than what about i mean concerned about quality of reputation really that's why you have you hire a construction inspector to make sure that they're following all the with us going to big when we did because it's a little they in the season to do so more of us that were me that if you got to bid in these are really high you still have to accept the lowest one but i was confident given the budget in the fact that we had and with this budget we can afford to k v in rock retaining wall is the ease of the waste block right well that's the one we all like yeah so we had a bill inability to they'd already made a few changes yeah but there was no comments on the final thing so after she changed ok yes we're proving it so i will entertain a motion to approve very very nice presentation and talked a lot about the roads and different things that are happening up there she was also a climate action plan is action response phosphorous runoff especially because she was showing the map for expected climate action plan that changes the northeast is expected to continue to have more and more of these high water events which washed off status because the question of taxation because some towns go to the border in terms of that goes to the lake and other towns don't and so they're trying now it's going down on our side of the of the state right and there is another case of new york for tax on the war right well there's another company this going down in new york side too so there's two came i see different companies that are you know running cables and they're both hydro so other business to know that an e mail from gary irish is not the first time that i've heard people concerned about this and i talk to you tighten up this last last fall actually after they it's just the words