all of you were here the last time you did this probably a better way for me to say that but that was the fact but so the last couple times we've been talking to the select ford been two major issues what was the merger of the thing one of the things that we were also talking about is just started up at that point was talking about also our planning processes of the products so the regional planning commission was required every five years to the regional plan o talk about merger and things happened to be changing where it allowed us and we found some federal funds that we could do one planning process and get to we didn't know the time but that we're all getting to the place of having everything in one happen a long time ago and who knows but different federal and state rules and schedules and some things weren't on the same timeline so that it would have the advantage to get everything on the same timeline we're doing that we've had this large steering committee organizations including all eighteen municipalities in the county participated in this process and i've done a lot of work if you're looking for mation housing market development or energy natural resources are a lot of analysis reports ever done last winter and then we've been spending really this most of this last year's last six nine months trying to get to a place of kind of a draft plan so we're at that kind of skim through this document and it truly is a discussion stage we've kind of oil down the conversations and the dark thing with any binding document is ok so you look at the world out there what's happening and you're really trying to develop a plan what to do next and so we ended up looking at all nineteen minutes or plants plus about forty other planning documents apart so we're not trying to recreate we're really trying to have some kind of general actions on each of those strategies and then ultimately we'll what we want to get to later this spring and we'll touch on some of them right now but it's kind of look at what specific projects what real things are going to be done either by the city or by an individual town or maybe it's some other agency or organization so we kind of get to what activities are we actually going to undertake the next few years that we think are going to further the collective goals and so that's kind of the structure of i'm on page three here was up in the couple themes that i've been underlining this kind of talk the in the big picture in the county you know how are we doing in terms of clean water or jobs or affordable housing and also what which of the things the people said they were going to do got done so kind of the performance was looking at finding a lot more new money to do anything so why do we care about this so much it's really we need to become more efficient and effective in how we do things and we've been that come back to that alignment and knowing if we're not making progress let's shift directions and we can talk about the circle of prosperity which is at the bottom of page three there and really about the investments at the top of it that we make in our place in our people that make us an attractive place and so that people want to come and work here and live here and then our incomes go up and then that gives us more revenue to make investments in our people in place initiatives and saw another direction or something that's missing or really disagree with something that's here would love to hear that so the first tragedy is around approving the economy the first action is really a lot of the g b i see does in terms of the relationships that they build with high income high wage employers the second action is something that came up through a process which was identifying the fact that kind of running out of industrial sites in chittenden county so kind of a focus on making sure we take advantage of whatever remaining sites are mostly probably run i b m as kind of a first target where they have land that they're not really using b m and so that's one action then the work force education i think you start to see some some news about that in the media this this week entrepreneurial development  investments in these areas plan for growth the waste water think of redevelopment activities you might be taking a look on the cheese factory site back here and  planning and zoning this is where we have things like affordable housing and energy investments renewable energy is under there obviously some of that is you know could be urban if it's like solar on roofs some of that may be also rural the fifth one is state local permitting coordination and improvement so there's seems like constantly conversations going on there around that to fifty minutes of all relationships with state this year  heads up us all you have village center designation on your agenda later they're looking at legislative change around the designations including village center so there will be some legislation proposed this year so it will keep you in touch with what's happening there  i don't think anything bad they're trying to actually get more incentives for village centers so and then number six there is the transportation of assets michel a question that in a couple minutes the third strategies around water two parts of that one is about hazard protection flood plains and erosion hazard areas i think we're doing pretty well in this county but we just wanted to double check on that in terms of the zoning aspect of it the infrastructure aspect you know the culverts and bridges and things probably we need to do some more work on that so that's going to be what those items on our agenda particularly to se them but in general the water quality issues the four strategy is the kind of the rural lands strategy again two parts here one on habitat it where are important resources and habitat areas within the county working with and are things like that to protect those and then the second part is on the working lands and what we can do to support operations plan in place and we work with every five years i have your has mitigation plan in place so that you remain eligible for federal funding if something bad happens or the other things that are under here are more health department related i don't really came more from the health department so i'm not going to spend any time in those six is a target big one again not a thing that the municipalities are directly involved with around education  most of what's in here is interesting kind of came out of conversations with the nonprofits and business community around the ecos table about how they could better help the public school system and become more productive so  start here the the governor talking about more about that as well so there's definitely some momentum building up around that prudence in that area the seventh strategy i'm down at the bottom of page thirteen now these last two are kind of just broad ones one the seventh one is around financing and governance of course the financing its side is kind of recognizing just the challenges that municipalities face and the need for more tools stay level i think it's a challenge that we talk about tift districts i'm sure the session and then and then on the next page a kind of gets into more of the challenge is how do we kind of get more money targeted into affordable housing into energy into transportation clean water certainly transportation funding is definitely going to be a legislative discussion that from what i'm hearing there definitely talk about raising the gas tax to try county level or amongst towns where the opportunities and of course a lot of these things are already happening there one level or another multi jurisdictional services and then the last strategy is really about engagement federally and so this is kind of trying to address this in equities that we have in our community but also try to work out ways not only to reach out more but also try to figure out how to develop leadership within those communities so that they could actually serve on boards and commissions and and really become involved directly gauged not just separated from minas or government in  on page nineteen there's a couple projects from richmond the water tower and the village subsurface project i think that's water and sewer lines though there are those done  yeah i mean if there was something like this some of this has potential to seek economic development administration funds if there was some pork park that the town could think of that they could pay for that might help with the you know like so so in terms of the transportation elements of this plan our federal requirements indicate that we have to develop a fiscally constrained long range transportation clients we're looking at twenty years you know all of the existing system needs that are required to maintain the system we've already built and then we're looking at what additional projects we are anticipating will be needed to advance the implementation of our transportation system in the coming twenty years and this is only federal projects not state projects and so you will not also see like bridge projects listed here and bridges are a big thing in this community because they are part of systems maintenance and so unless it's anticipate all revenues available to fund transportation system improvements in the next twenty year horizon will be about one point one billion dollars in revenues and that's under the existing revenue system that we have including the fact that map twenty one which was just recently authorized extended the small state minimum formula of funds to this current operation in terms of the funding allocation but it did not extend the formula itself ok so the formula is gone although the money the formula would have given us is still here so what will happen is when the next transportation  bill if the small state minimum is not reinstated in some manner we will go from receiving about two dollars ninety five cents for every dollar that we send to washington for transportation revenues back to probably about ninety five cents on the dollar we send so let's kaviak this whole conversation where martin talk about short falls outside the potential for fall one point one billion dollars needed in the next twenty years to end revenues available excuse me maintenance and preservation of the system we already have bill is about seven hundred fifty million dollars in are committed projects that we are ready have under way which are the transportation improvement projects sort of the for your capital program that's already in place as well as the alternatives to the circuit away projects that are into spaded to be program there's another hundred thirteen million dollars in projects and that leaves about three hundred ten million dollars available for new projects in the twenty years of all the projects we received suggested projects that came out of planning studies or from communities the need is identified about eight hundred fifty million so about five hundred fifty million only short in terms of revenues to implement every project that's been identified as a need as a result we had to come up with a way to prioritize projects we've never had to do this before we've always anticipated there would be more revenue available than the projects that have ever been identified that's not the case this time so if you go to the next page on table two you'll see the distribution of funds by project category road way i can head to transit exciter a what the historical obligations have been and then what the target funding levels on going forward under eco's we would like to see employment and to meet the eco subjectives and so in essence what you're saying is that the roadway category is going to be declining five percent every five years and then all of the other project category areas will be increasing and this is to really address the fact that we would like to see if you are single occupancy vehicles using the system less need for building brand new lanes and intersections accent or a more use of public transit more user carpooling more use of bicycle pedestrian facilities which are going to be lower cost intensity lower energy utilization efforts in terms of long term transportation system investment and when you take that allocation you'll see that table three gives you how that allocation would split out in terms of the projected utilization and then the chart gives you an idea of how we use the money now and then how the new money would be programmed and then if you go on to the next two page and file and start to look at the excel spreadsheet on page twenty four these lists are by modal category the first group is your bicycle and session handsome and projects so at the top it gives you the percent of the overall program and to pay for this area in the next twenty years and what the total dollar value is and then the list of all the projects which are ranked according to eco's criteria which are not in your package but we can provide those criteria for you but they address all the objectives and that are sort of outlined in our strategies and there's a dash line the ill see about a third of the way down the page there that's where the money runs out and then below that line are sort of the rest of the project needs of a pen and then a five in this category and so this gives you an idea of sort of the expectation levels that we need to me in addition and we're not saying that projects that are below the dash line would not be funded there's a variety of reasons that projects are funded that are beyond our control and so this is just sort of a suggested ranking based on the eco script area as what we believe the highest value projects for  region would be and projects could advance for instance the enhancement grant program any community can apply projects are ranked outside of our program and scored and awarded and so you c board and have more formal public hearings probably the whole time frame so you'll get official notice about it or any other issues that we should address will be a full plan document that includes the eco script area and indicators and a lot of the and speaking of which is mr foster joining us tonight i just wanted to write a brief report about the planning commission's efforts to date with respect to the village center designation renewal and in november the select board received notification from the state that richmond's village center designation doesn't need to be renewed and that the village center program is a state program to encourage the revitalization of traditional village centers that focus more heavily on the village core of with respect comer commercial and civic renewal the question before the plane commission and the select board is whether to request a renewal of our village center disc designation and the planning commission has recommended that board proceed requesting the renewal without any changes to the boundary map and in two thousand and eight we did make some changes that was the second time we we went through the program and we did make some changes since that time the state has tightened up their criteria they really do focus on on the commercial and civic areas and talk state from the vermont department of economic housing the community affairs there their sense is that that does really represent a village center area approve our renewal if we make changes to the map and the board may potentially make other changes that we may or may not have wanted to see happen so that's that that's the balance that this like for these to make we do have to make some some changes that are more technical in nature to the map but wouldn't affect the boundaries so we know we have to do that mitchell plan commissions going to assist us with that part of the really need to anything we would want to add would have to be contiguous to our current boundaries so i know that each time we've done the renewal we've looked at for instance the far complex area or the  church and there simply isn't a way to do that because of all the residential area between the two parts of the village so if to answer your question i guess if we if we felt that there were some particular properties immediately adjacent to our our map boundary that we felt should be included then that would be a reason to  approved and then we've opened the door and we actually do have a fair amount of residential included in the mix seems to me and then do we know how many people are taking advantage of the fact that i do know there haven't been there have not been any and so one of the things that we want to do is you actually review that really quickly because some of the benefits associated with that just for the b there there are federal and state taxes i'm sorry tax credits available to individual private property owners the the buildings so it's just like twenty percent in the state because in addition right fifty percent for code improvements fifty percent tax credit twenty five percent for soft sought improvements and ten percent for substantial rehabilitation of certifying historic buildings and there was one workshop held for owners which was really well tended no one has taken advantage of and i think separate right by having the center the village center designation we've indicated to the state that we do want to revitalize our village area so that for things like the municipal planning we've got an extra point when we've applied for th and villages do a certain amount of improvements to maintain that designation because it would seem like you don't seems like everybody could get it if it's just as easy as putting a good good thanks for coming in current seven members to five so facilitate even quorums for me and we missed the last meeting we had to cancel out because there is only four members currently on the seven member board and again seven as a it's a workable number six you know when you have one or two people out doesn't completely hamstring you but right now under operations for us it's had i think the amount we maintained was sex it's nice to have that many opinions and and thoughts to share and discuss things over but obviously we don't have the participants commission made up a memorandum or sort of something about the capital budget let everyone into i'm looking at the planning commission comments regarding the twenty fourteen capital budget and program first and we can introduce it in the view the comments from the planning commission that we can open the public hearing close the public hearing design there are any changes if you don't mind know that i don't at all great associated with it that's going to be a really tough conversation as i'm sure you're aware there's there's a pressing need for a new water storage tank that's our storage tank because it's it's not guaranteed to last much longer so i doubt it has a much higher priority than bumpy roads so we need to over the next couple months we're going to have some serious conversations about where to spend our money so far short of ever gets here we do our capital plan which lays out major infrastructure and vehicles and equipment needs that down  fourteen ideally those items that we agree upon that will stay in those in that fiscal year will be funded in the fiscal budget that we're also talking about and then we also present the costs of those snead for instance that the administration next year we have one big item for the well to a couple of items for the town center to have windows me inside like to get windows replaced some of these are probably going to be dependent on renewal of the post office lease rather severe g upgrades in the parking lot in two years  we have a number of other items that are further off in the future we have the when you ski riverbank stabilization fiscal year two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and fifteen where i had planned that we would  start getting the paperwork ready for two thousand and fourteen but not do full funding in two thousand until two thousand and fifteen mike wise was already drafted some sketches of what he feels needs to be done and these areas are just upstream of the well house and along the volunteers green where there's a significant bank or ocean that's occurring it seems to get a little bit worse with each  flood some some things need to be done the police department they have a video upgrade for current can't for video cameras in the police recruit service and also the of giving people an idea of the level of review that's going on in the select board where people who are interested in and looking at this you know over the next couple months can can do that and where they document is online on the website under the documents section under the fiscal year fourteen capital plan i can give somebody a hard copy if they would like the select board has reviewed the items on here  which are not substantially different from the prior year the planning committee has planned commission has reviewed this to make sure that it's appropriate for the town plan and it meets the objectives or is not contrary to the objectives of the town plan and this discussion will happen every year and i plan to start it earlier for next fiscal year i believe we started in late september looking at this it really needs to start a couple of months earlier than that  but a lot of money is spent on these plans highway trucks hundred fifty thousand each big highway equipment paving plans gravel plans which add up to several hundred thousand dollars highway budget  are run through the capital plan first any kind of major building repairs vehicles maintenance items that are over five thousand dollars happen here including  streetscapes and the water sewer infrastructure projects and this is we're talking several million dollars worth of projects that are projected that the select board votes on and ultimately forwards to the voters for approval in each budget at town meetings so it is important in this rather than looking at one period of time with your fiscal year budget that you voted on in march the camp of playing gives you a six year snapshot of what we're looking at what we what we expect to spend money and is the capital plan draft that we're looking at now fully sinked up with that budget so the items that appear in the capital plan of  and fourteen are right or else in the budget yes ok so they're completely can grow documents and pay any or any questions from the slip board on a further ones just if something doesn't happen like i mean i know there's still some time left in f y thirteen but if something doesn't happen in four thirteen like the furnace is for example does it just get rolled reason that you know ahead of time you agree that this is the course you should take it doesn't mean that you're bound to do it like you're force the absolutely do everything that's in there or you might do something that's not if the if there's an opportunity that arises so for instance if we didn't accomplish the gas furnace installation before june thirtieth we could either make a decision that will do it was soon as should be done at town meeting the voters may reduce the budget with the understanding that there their opinion was they didn't want a particular item and so that when we w more in contact upgrade is now i think i like seventy five thousand because there was an item that we decided that we said we could do this without doing the korean contract they could upgrade the road they could bury the comfortable with you approving it with these amendments the the other ones were discussed by the water commissioners the back o the don't seem to be any major funding them and see so i think we would be under the water items the tractor with a backhoe will come out that will bend the project dollar amount for the real house whoring contact upgrade and make those changes now be posted to the web this budget changes from the last meeting have been made which were primarily due to the whiskers budget i did get an updated grand list value from the listers late last week and the the grand list dropped slightly to one thousand three hundred eighty six dollars difference on the grant list which have minimal effect on the tax rate by increasing it slightly i can give an overview just of numbers by the public if that's ok right now our total spending is estimated is proposed to be three one hundred eighty eight thousand and thirty nine dollars which is an increase over last year or the current fiscal year i'm sorries fiscal year thirteen which is two million nine hundred ninety five thousand seven hundred forty six dollars at the tax rate is proposed to increase from point six zero seven seven two point six three one zero which is two point three three cents or three point eight four percent the major areas of change the change where it changed it ministration operations increased by sixteen thousand and ninety four dollars we established zoning is and also a new cost center and that is going up one thousand five hundred fifty dollars police operations are going up thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars library operations are going up eight thousand seven hundred eighteen dollars fire operations are going up seven thousand and eighty five dollars our annual appropriations are dropping by two thousand six hundred eighty four dollars which are i believe primarily due to the  joint police unit on special investigations highway operations are going up sixty five thousand four hundred dollars bulk of that is over time in fuel costs and recreation operations are going up twenty two thousand nine hundred dollars which are the two groups that we're proposing to replace and we're offset those are being paid for by surplus funds are not hitting the tax rate  fire capital debt is decreasing by five thousand seven hundred eighty dollars library capital and debt is decreasing by two thousand five hundred dollars highway capital and debt is increasing by sixty two thousand and sixty dollars and non tax revenues that are being utilized to offset the tax rate are increasing by ninety one thousand four hundred thirty five dollars that takes that in the grandest adjustment  or having alternating facts on the dollars and cents for the tax rate  interest penalties and the state monies that we get the zoning permits you know the rent fund the dog licenses and all the licenses and fees and fines and things like that permits that we issue all of those add up to offset the tax bill if you look at the very bottom of those columns or as of a note on non tax revenue that gives you the total that we're six years yes the difference there was a lot of that is again thirty five thousand dollars for the formants pick up and twenty three thousand dollars for the two roofs and than fifteen thousand dollars for the town center heat so some of that surplus is going to be one time of the and then there have been some other modifications but most of those have stayed the  ok ok so to some example i am just teasing this out we're we're seeing a the effect on the tax rate is been somewhat weren't there last year they won't be there the other side of the ledger yeah ok i got it for him yeah it's nice to see it is in there in your summary table at the bottom only it's a six percent increase but because the highway budget is significant yet when you consider that it's twenty thousand dollars for diesel fuel right well still at the end we had a good right it's two point three three cents so if you had a two hundred thousand dollars one one cent would be twenty dollars a year two cents is forty dollars so if you had a three hundred thousand dollars we're talking about two point three cents to probably be around sixty three cents morris i'm sorry sixty three sits on it sixty three dollars a local the local rate there's one rate for every guest pretty town commercial industrial residential owned rental yes ok just clarifying the bonds that we wanted that we were going to get for jeff it says the minutes fifty thousand reason if you like it was just the five hundred thousand or is that too much it is fifty and what is that for professional definitely bigger towns but where they had economic development locate and expand and kind of guided them through permitting and all that stuff  and obviously we don't have you know a big staff that can do that but we're looking at ways that this economic development committee could serve that role to more of a yeah  welcoming businesses helping him figure out who to go to and just how to go through that process but he has a great story just about how i guess maybe he talked about it some when he was here things our first meeting when ashley and i first started there's a lot that night but you know just how he looked ended up in richmond is this great and we also talked you know they wanted to come to new england and just by  working a little bit senator leahy's office and then driving around and landed here and so he was great and it is a great resource as it is very connected with the community and then we talked about kind of what other businesses complimentary businesses might there be and looking at those types of opportunities lot of talk about the creamery and where the zoning  coming to the planning commission ray yeah i think that but also just the discussion between the owner and the tap it right now it's one hundred percent commercial and the developer wants more residential and  what's what's the best balance or if we find a bunch of commercial investors that would that work so trying to work more with the developer and figure out some solutions  question and a point of conversation about the site back here right absolutely what degree of integration is there or or ordination between the economic development community and in the western slopes trying to bury they had planned a breakfast and i think they've invited us so we'll spread the word about that once it's confirmed to kind of going on with them noon in the library that was discussed at the last meeting we made the arrangements and all i put something in the times each and will do some other promotion of that but that will be a chance for the public to take questions from the public get address any other issues that might come up at the same time we have some other upcoming meetings on the seventeenth which is next thursday we have a public meeting do you do what any of us to be there or would you prefer that we were to her i think it would be fine if you were there i mean i know neil said he if he had time available he would be there it's really just might be able to make there is a wednesday people who want to get me interested get involved on how to develop plans what what the town needs to do to update what has existing there's a couple of other other things involved but it's really were trying as a larger project to get a committee that can write the documents and then give plans to select who are to be on implemented know also participate in emergency management should the need arise post office of a mailbox towards this end of our property line to service somebody across the street that wants to give up the post office box front of the building it would be close to the hughes his property if we would object to somebody putting somebody across the street wants to get rid of the post office box i think that they actually have that option i mean i do know that curb so i go to and if not it would have to be on somebody else's property success well i say that the fact that both sides agreed mediation is good so keeps several meetings ago blueberry farm road remember that resolution we never got that song i just remembered we signed up so before everybody leaves we have to some maybe not on the same night maybe i can just get some information from them and so these are this does it designers and developers and developers so they do go well the the woman already has a been developed and designed it's just applying it would just be applying it to us ok and then the other guy i haven't talked to him but evidently he's the name of this thing is web marketing so that might be just designing and i yes i mean this point there's tons of other people out there too i mean who has group is in town to i think feel like they do our cars currently you know someone say that we should g spent their money in the past couple of years and i noticed that they did give some money to at least one community on for website development so i'm going to contact us to roll development to see if there's any kind of money available because they do world community development and part of tor is you know we could see it's an economic development tool and i do we have a sense when this person comes because i think they're going to want to know what all right do we want similar capability of what we have now just look better or user friendly or do we want more background stuff where there's you know pictures that revolve and well i think with the template that's been developed is  that it is more we can do the develop we can do the changing of the stuff ourselves but it is a lot more interactive is is that there are additional pages could have a document wordpress really drive and from what i understand and i think that the template that was developed by this woman through a grant through the state to do other towns is wordpress and that would be the template that she use and i ira and i mean i'm not going to try to put words in your mouth but but discuss even just the phone i talked to her for about maybe half an hour and the feeling that i got is because she's already developed the template basically the cost for her