year's town meeting is going to be held in the same location that it's normally held in which is the camel's hump middle school gymnasium there are really no changes this year from last year i would like to note that the launch of this  meeting will proceed the same as it has last year in the year before and in other prior years which is the school will be discussed first and then the town business will come afterwards the australian ballot items again will have your public officials being elected as well as the school budgets and also two articles from the town business the article thirteen is the depot street parking lot funding article fourteen is the part time recreation director funding questions those are the ones that i'm most concerned with the town budget will be voted from the floor there is also the property assessed clean energy article pace that we call it that will be discussed from the floor and voted on from by the floor also but the two australian ballot articles are probably what most people are concerned with the depot street parking lot me to be one hundred thousand dollars project i'm proposing to pay for it twenty thousand a year over five years that will increase taxes by a little less than one half cent on the tax rate and that will mean basically another five to seven dollars a year for most homes the parking lot is behind the dentist office on depot street next to the railroad tracks there is parking there already it's essentially just a gravel and mud parking lot and we're proposing to level it off put pavement down and strike but right now about twenty cars parked there and we're thinking that we can get thirty cars perhaps a few more if we finish it off one of the items that goes concurrently with this project that is under a separate budget is the replacement of the depot street water line currently the water line that goes down depot street is small it's old it's leaky we want to replace that water line before we do the depot street parking lot and that would be about sixty seventy thousand dollars although that's being paid for from the water budget and there's not going to be voted on it town meetings so it's a separate issue the second issue the article fourteen is the recreation director that's ten thousand dollars a year was a proposal brought to us by some of the leaders of some of the you sports organizations felt that there is really not enough coordination in the town between sports programs and that the facilities that we have which are the browns court ball field and volunteers green areas are suffering from a lack of coordination or being able to properly manage and repair those facilities that would be an ongoing expense it's proposed that possibly sports programs could be expanded this person could manage many the numerous race events that we have as well as some of the other annual events that we have that could be a point person for people to communicate to somebody who could make sure the fields are in good shape things are repaired open when they need to be closed when they need to be and that would be  about a quarter of a cent on the tax rate were about three to five dollars a year for most people we will be doing a presentation on town meeting day i'll have more specific numbers then  obviously people will be voting on it actually now by absentee and people will be voting on it ebbs australian ballot during the day so it's not something we can amend from the floor but i will be giving more precise budgetary impacts on these items at town meeting the most important issue of the day for myself is the approval of the town budget this year the budget is proposed to increase in that there is an associated tax increase of two point three cents there are a number of reasons why the budget is going up primarily it has to do with highway department road expenses and d expenses to some degree there are some other items that are going up the lister's budget is going up we're also going to repair to roofs and volunteers green i've made a couple of other modifications to the budget that use special revenues so the budget is increasing as far as expenditures go but there are offsetting revenues that do not impact the tax rate again there will be a full budget presentation on at town meeting and i'll go into more detail there but overall the town is asking for three approvals that will raise taxes the first is the budget which will raise it by two point three point two point three cents i'm  sorry the second article thirteen will raise it by point four six cents and the third article fourteen will raise it by point two three cents so overall it's about a three cent increase from the town side that we're asking the voters to approve on monday march fourth we have a regularly scheduled select board meeting this year it will be held at campbell's home middle school gymnasium we will discuss some prieto meeting business as well as whatever regular business comes before the select board at that time and everybody's welcome to attend at the new location