thanks for joining us today i was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about this year's town meeting what are the top issues that have concerned people richmond right now well one of the issues that we talked about a town was funding from richmond rosehill there was a l controversy over that because some people want to have more shrewd organizations finances retirement rescue struggling to remain independent it is felt that they have made a strong case for why they need the additional funding another one of the issues was the humvees of the police department acquired distance ability to have a four wheel drive emergency vehicle so people objected to the way they were acquired with think you know more economic development in town this something that a lot of people are really supportive of we have a great downtown and a huge water capacity and some vacancies  public drinking water systems and so for me that's i feel like that's the foundation and that in viable waste water system is is one of the hallmarks and cornerstones of a of a viable community and i think richmond has got as you can check that box off as as far is as amy said you know like a productive source of water and also a waste water system that has extra capacity so we do have the ability to expand the the villages economic base should we should we see the see the opportunity and not a lot of other communities have that so that's encouraging i think if we could think of some of the types of businesses that could benefit from the type of infrastructure that we have our proximity to the highway you know a relatively quiet you know suburban one could argue a rural town that the types of businesses that we could attract and then think about targeting them directly i mean i know i've talked with amy and i think the richmond area business association is also sort of toyed with the idea of a brewery i mean i know  from my work experience that breweries have you know their output can be sort of challenging for some wastewater systems to manage and because richmond's wastewater system was designed to manage the cheese factory those types of outputs are very similar so i would love to see her burry come in town not only for for economic reasons but of course for personal reasons but i think that if we could think of the type of  biz businesses that we'd like to see we could target them better but that not might not necessarily be the role specifically of this like bill and i think that we could you know work with the richmond business association on that yeah i agree of working with the resources that we have with the independent business owners that we have that are organized and then we also have these great start buildings on the main block on prince street that could there are some possibilities for tax credits out there that can encourage investment in older properties to fix them up and that's maybe part of a the streetscape as well improving some of the parking parking is that perennial issue and there are some areas for that could be improved to just make it more pedestrian friendly business friendly last night we had several items that  generated some comments from the public and will probably generate some sort of action from the select board we're trying to work through a situation with one of our businesses that just moved in and their desire to change the parking pattern at their facility felt that the town's not being very cooperative in their efforts to solve the problem that they have in the town was trying to convince the zoning regulations provide for a certain way that the problems have to be resolved so i think it's primarily a misunderstanding and i don't think there's any situation that can't be resolved we're also doing some hazard mitigation grant work for the post op irene flood program that's really only offered after a disaster like this in what ways do you feel the households of richmond at least a portion of them are still being affected by the flooding from let's start it's difficult to tell  are going to have another outreach meeting monday night the twenty sixth here or at six or six thirty i forgot which but we need to go out and talk to people again really hasn't been much communication in the past four months between victims of the flood in this town we know that some people still have some needs but we really don't know what they are or to what extent the needs have been met or not there are still many organizations or vermont that are working to assist ongoing recovery efforts for residents and we want to be able to make people aware of those organizations and special funds and what have you at this point i think most of the federal funding  gone the federal funding was a bit of ailill immediately afterwards where the town can help is we have staff members that talk to people all over the state and we have  knowledge that the average homeowner may not have and people make phone calls to us or reach out to us and say you are offering services so the town needs to be able to pass that on to the residents and see if you're still having problems there or organizations that are still helping people and for a lot of the people that were affected it was such a monumental pain for them in their lives and they're not sure really were to turn still and we'd like to provide some assurance to them you know even even six months later there are people out there still helping