good evening is december fifteenth two thousand and fourteen time for the water and sewer commissioner meeting run through quickly the agenda welcome a public company comment superintendents report economic value fire protection in the west mean extension uptake water connection complaint and additional water allocation account approval of minutes and approval of warrants questions or comments before g a hearing on any public comment we have a couple of members of the public this evening any comments from the public this evening so far all right thank  we have replaced a fair number of them but they get a lot of use and the technology form is changing so fast that it's going to throw away item what was the longest you were without power  so we have minutes from october twentieth november third of ember seventeenth december first and december fifth those dates are odd because we had an off cycle meeting a seventeen of those working second second a discussion of november seventeen that cell finished product that has significant water content so unlike the rest of the customers on the system you know we were most worried or anything in slow and building sewerage at the same rate but they're going to be able to document the amount of water that's not that that they're buying that's not going to sit in the sewage and you know i think that's up to them to bring forward to us but just to just to note you know that's not the only kind of business where that's going to be a we can't state in huntington for a number of reasons lockups adequate space and water and sewer and small challenges and  feelings about the notion of bringing a small brewery to richmond we're really excited about the idea of being part of that and we'd like to be part of your community and  connection challenge so jeff is still out getting copies in the tears for agenda item b and i think we're trying to wait for  process and we found the line it was a plastic it was translated which is a bigger diameter wall the sleeve stand still sleeve that i had purchased to go on there didn't fit i'd like to move on to the discussion of the economic value of fire protection as a point of order i've noticed that people just are only very polite you know nice big behavior in this room but the reason we have a so the next i appreciate the point the next conversation is about the economic value of fire protection you might want to stay for this one circus this couldn't impact your pocketbook do this has to do with the you guys you know this you dated december first there's a profile of her on there i think three pages in this of the same thing so i don't know how this ended up kind of what can the way it did but anyway if we started on the first page this is the current profile of the and our current annual payments for the fire trucks are about seventy five thousand dollars a year so for those who have been coming to these meetings for a while this is sort of hit that radar and didn't push forward several times over the last year  right now the entire town pays for the fire department and the water sewer users pay for the water sewer use by the fire including the water tank the in fact one of the one of the things it does cost money in terms of meeting ends and plowing the the fire hydrant at one point when we asked the fire chief for a profile of who would actually use the water it looked like somewhere between ninety and one hundred percent of the gallons that came out of the system into a fire truck went somewhere outside of the village in other words that the village water sewer users are paying for water that goes into the fire truck that go somewhere else whether it's on the interstate or for a fire that's outside of the village proper so then i think it was six weeks ago four weeks ago kendall where you had a discussion a specific proposal which kind of worked into this and a proposal of how much we would charge the richmond fire department  and the increase for two hundred thousand our house is a bit under five dollars  tank they're more interested in you know the same thing that the equipment and the water's there for use when needed as opposed to the details  has that same ability would be fired so if we put this in the form of a motion that we might act on this would be a motion to increase the richmond fire department water payments to next year's budget from water sewer charge to the fire department their current two fer perspective the current budget is about five hundred thirty thousand dollars including about four thousand dollars for  me to cover the infrastructure expenses supporting the fire department's usage it's not you know they're not running the meter this wouldn't be having us running the meter on the truck and handing the homeowner a bill for water usage but so the motion is to a reminder it's been moved and seconded to increase the richmond fire department budget next year by eleven thousand five hundred seventy dollars or five percent of the r water budget unanimous that close is their agenda item as well and i think we've come to the end of our discussion  come back again next time for a joint discussion on the fifth between a select board and water sewer commission about related going through the west mean extension meeting next january at six well this is you just shared with water search commission that would not be part of the job good question we'll probably have some minutes to approve the superintendent's report maybe we'll do half an hour just water so