on to additions or deletions to the agenda does anyone have anything that they would like to you and i know that i have a quick question did was it now around the date where we got the information on the grant so i'm not in the next week or two or three i'd like to set some goals for me and then i'll present on to the board you guys can accept  plan which lines are going to replace you know do we have i we doing ok with budget today last week i heard two weeks ago i approved a bunch of i signed workers and thirty thousand dollars i didn't even flinch but how we do it you know when i worked for a construction company we knew month to month how we doing budget it we're going to go over are going to go under so that's where i'm coming from i'd like to know and i think for tell me that your he needs to the part time employee really the full time and then kind of license suggestions about ways to reward people employees for when they get certifications so if we start with the grounds maintenance water and sewer we would start them as a bridge to uncertified which is where they start right now as part timers and this one in the budget is a full time line certified but to give them some incentive to continue on in the wastewater  treatment career path if they get a certification in either water three or waste water one they would pump up a grade and if they get a water three and waste water on the phone another great and controls a whole list of things they have to do if you don't provide some kind incentive because that's all part of the wastewater and water training and a lot of those guys they've gone on to another town so this is this progress through and you'd have a history that  after that life but you do have to tell me energy or myself that determine the raises with the approval of the commission so it's unlikely that somebody would cast agree four and three months later past a grade five and they would have to go through the whole depending on how many grains you're going out there caps like you might go a three person and ten fit into the next step but if it's over a couple of engineers of the new engineer that was there so there was some confusion over the water supply route because the water supply rules specifies that you should leave the plug in for ground water but it's just it's a department's decision and it's based on it they're i'm pretty comfortable where it is but we need to locate that to me we also taught at that same meeting really well i got actually wrote this to town when we were talking about our application she said i'm also going to move some things around which will make this loan eligible for disadvantaged sub dy which is of up to fifty percent percent principal forgiveness and forty year term plus the additional subsidy which is up to thirty percent principal for him so that's a total eighty percent so when we had the meeting with them on the bridge street crossing we also owe them a bit to get us a price and look at the entire link to pledge tree from the intersection down to the bridge read leave the bridge crossing off to get ones but right now i'm hearing that there is money available in projects not available at the state and they have money and richmond is a very good position because their rates are good to get at what other infrastructure is at the same sixty year that the with an eighty percent subsidy what happens is if you look at the price of it even when you dig down and in restore the service to existing you're do this section of bridge street because i know i had advocated for waiting because it seemed like it was going to be a hefty amount put on users so i just want to make sure that we can see the numbers on long term what that would do to rates and stuff yes that's what we're doing right now he's going to relook at it it was about a one million dollars to go from the bridge to the intersection of your perceptions of l four hundred and fifty dollars in the lower asshole and we're still waiting for the state to get to that point so that's kind of the same way that bridge street would work on the town would be in the position of you've got a storm or why don't you get a sidewalk in whatever you want to do and we've got to we're in the place down into the water because we're looking at the eighty percent subsidies are many projects going to cost us two hundred thousand dollars even if we restore the service so if you want to do it at the same time that it be so there's a bit of engineering work that's going in there about just how much service you know you have to plan for your own fault so it's it's become a very challenging town project to get the storm water in so we've been just waiting and waiting waiting and if you're looking at a thirty percent subsidy we may as well wait but if you start talking about eighty to ninety percent do the water don't worry about it that's the last section that's left out on the street right beside it but yes i mean the ideal thing is to do the whole thing at once and not disrupt it but if you can get that kind of money for your water line then you've got you can wait till you have to do your storm as far as the towns concern it's definitely the bridge street has been driving purdy for the water permit for a while and the other thing is for my gas and g and me to they have to get some polls next year if you have green mountain gives us some hard numbers on that line and we get some hard numbers from the state yes we've got the money and you're eligible for up to eighty percent gr all you need is a bond go to town meeting you can do this next summer and that's what states are looking for there they've got some money you need to spend some great thank you he says a word on the street having projects lined up like that with the engineering and that the preliminary and everything is a good place to pay you know i mean that's the big thing is we're just waiting for the number from green mountain because they already done the engineering so then you can put it  for replacement parts there it's been slow in the dryer haven't mentioned the dryer project because it took them a little bit longer to get it shipped here from china and actually new hampshire in brattleboro jumped on the bandwagon ahead of richmond who else around the world rattled around so they're installing dryers as far as we know it should be up and running by the end of august simply so there'll be a trip to one of those places to check it out to look at because if you remember we did a cost analysis and even with the high numbers and everything we had it was like fifteen dollars or twenty year payback which had been a payback on any piece which was undamaged from the work however they did find that the joining services from both houses are in the zone of impact so they're going to coordinate with the homeowners and camera those as well so  that was a good thing to catch people simpy fosse's all over the news everywhere these days it looks like the state's going to ramp up for some testing by the end of the summer to test our water  their state's going to come into the states been getting a lot of feedback from the systems about you have to be very specific the way that you test this you know cross contaminated so they're looking for a firm that would do that for the system you i don't know i don't know i don't know but i would hope to avoid this going forward if you don't have content i would guess that it does oh phone that's been used everywhere that's one of the biggest things al so see also i talked to the town engineer nast him to give us a couple designs on some short sections a line like we did on baker street so we're ready in case you like to do the walk way down till they have reading this last quarter and split it into three pieces and put it on their bill and subtracted out of their fear and waste water and all the stuff that was added onto the bill for them to pay the water that they used for your water for april may and june so a near build two months back so all we did was we took the water that they had used for the water meter reading because that's what this is the and that that information is accurate to certain extent i would just point out that what you pay for with your bill is not necessarily just the water there's also your infrastructure and richmond is way ahead of the curve of pretty much everybody ingenue county as far as infrastructure replacement prepared so it's nothing against my fellow departments it's just we spent a lot of money you look at the money we spent in the past probably twenty years ten million dollars zero a lot of the other towns are just getting to that point so as they start doing their infrastructure of reason stuff their rates will increase as well yeah plane because it's very very very critical that slope is held and stabilized by the growth that you have so that that's been backed up by every engineer that we've had to look at it and i worry about that all the time we did have a washout remember back in may so that that's the main reason we got excellent ground cover up there right yeah it's holding it very well so we've got time to work on a plan and if it is the clarify i just pulled up the minutes from our june th meeting where we discussed the stone corral and in it it says that brett was the one who suggested the way to calculate the bill that one that was being used bard suggested they do a month long trial calculation to see if it really works for everyone and can all agree that the proposal would be simple and works well for its purposes and everyone agreed that rep would reduce month or me her the calculation so what i did was when we read the water meter which gave us his usage for support i split then thirds and then i took his report that he gave me for his next