scariest thing is within the last week or so and granted i think i escalated it too but my wife and i got into a pretty serious alteration battle for cation just yelling with a group of folks who were back there we were just frustrated and i just i hope the village and the board knows how problematic this is ok i think i think somebody will eventually get her back i don't think it's a safe place either i really just want to stress that  we're not we're not going to back away from i think we're at that appreciate yet and the i did we spoke to the police again after the off occasion i said i i think escalated it just out of frustration i mean they said don't gauge what these individuals which i under your sidewalk policy which would allow and require the plowing of both sides of the street and in addition to that i think i would like to discuss with you just the need to reexamine that policy that was adopted in two thousand that's the process we put on we go on the agenda for a sidewalk puzzle to put that is i'm not really so you know forgive me i'm not completely familiar with how we go about doing it so step is look at the issue on the street to agree to do that right i don't think that's appropriate in this case i think piling both sides is the appropriate thing considering the fishing about a critical connection to school so that's why i'm coming to you it's your policy it would be up to you to make that decision i  v center for media and democracy and we sent a memo to you prior to the meeting i'm not sure if you had time to review it maybe for the viewers i'll just give the highlights and then we can make that we can also  great asset to our organization and very helpful leader so we're very blessed to have her working with us in addition to the trustees that are recommended and appointed by each of the member municipalit wilston receive three meetings a month of coverage and we also allocate votes based on that and then south bronx ten receives five meetings and really can receive six so when we allocate resources or we ask for increases as we are in this case it's based on that framework and distribution of subscribers because five actually six and a half percent of every cable subscriber dollar is put towards that channel seventeen channel sixteen and shellfish so the good news i think is that we've had reading some good success with your live coverage of your meetings as we noted you may not have earthshaking numbers for live viewer for every meeting but when there is an important meeting this resources here for people to tune in and people are also referring to them the meeting coverage in the archives like they always have i also one just under score to make sure that you saw that is that this each of the you tube meeting coverage comes with transcription so you actually can search the meetings based on keywords and that will bring you to parts of the meeting if you want to find things so that might be a good feature to let people know in your newsletter it's and of course we could not do it without my coachman and liz are you able camera person had expected since one nine hundred ninety the cable revenue would decline and it has flattened essentially for the past several years with a very slight decline overall and that's a combination of people cord cutting well that's probably primarily from people cord cutting and watching their programming on the internet which we also provide but in january comcast had a major readjustment because of gap reallocation of revenue we're still not entirely sure of the explanation except that it was a one time event but it resulted in about a fifty thousand dollars decline in the revenue to the channel as you can imagine our biggest cost for providing these meetings to ou labor but also equipment so our capital needs are fairly high and there's no and i put this we're quite economical and how we use our capital resources but it's not like we get cheaper stuff because we're community access right so the cost of maintaining infrastructure is fairly significant so we're here to do our annual how's everything going and also to make a request that the trustees increase the allocation in this year's budget for channel seventeen basically sensually doubling it from six to twelve thousand and if each of the member municipalities agree to do this we can make up that so that's kind of above and beyond that we've got it so i think it's also important factor when we consider what is provided needed when you so let's answer any questions take any feedback on any aspect of our operations and we're always interested to know how we can serve you better do not take this is anything that you would do put your you're asking for twelve thousand from the six word of the village concurrent building of our fund raising strategy room along the lines of a public radio fund raising strategy and we're really in the beginning i mean it's a five year process for us to be getting up to significant amounts of dollars you this year is thirty five you know next year could be seventy you know i mean we're not going to see these massive increases but we need to do that too so our preference is is that if you can provide the full twelve would be fantastic but if think um you could i mean you could pretty easily we don't have the problems of right now we're happy to talk about them more but you could out a phone you're live you know it's not you could have called us in the next ten minutes your question or people could just negotiated with other communities in the country side and the site they need to get on the electronic program guide that they don't want to be told they have to so they've got a good lawyer and argue that it's violates their first amendment rights which the judge doesn't agree with them on that but there is that going to be another year and a half of court cases before we even get a new contract and they've been responsive to questions that we are i have to say but they're not going to budge on giving us much of anything other than we have right now and in fact when we started in one nine hundred ninety eight we were getting three channels there were three channels on a seventy five channel lineup ok we don't even have channel capacity you know we're just served up from the computer so they have hundreds of channels we don't even have a percentage of the territory anymore so there's a lot of ways  and then finally the r c c is going to be looking at a piece and recommendations to women because of how these controls over their rights of way were going wireless communications so i'm going to bring that to you because i think that's something you will want to us about so there are a lot of threats to what we're trying to do and i you know i think it's important to know that i you know this is a little bit of a grenade but at the time is going to come when the municipalities are probably going to end up paying what it cost to do the production so you maybe at a time in the future pain thirty fifty thousand dollars for this coverage now we're not you know that's not our secret agenda here but it's important to know that the funding threats are going to be so acute that if the service is deemed to be important you have to come up with some kind of arrangement in addition to the  monopoly in an area but but it's so we'll let you have the government you have that but in return you've got to give something brush you've got to support public access television but comcast no longer has a monopoly so how does this work well they they don't think they have a monopoly but they are using the public rights of way which is actually more of the argument than the monopoly argument and kind of in exchange for using just keep allowing you to stream your cables in our public property for no money this is your gift back so that's kind of the fundamental rationale of the community will communications act but there's just many kind of sideways arguments that it's actually comcast is making which is the fundamental communications act allocates says there can be franchising authorities who determine the terms and conditions for doing business in that state in the case from mine that all of utility commission where i'm going with this is there something that the still in the standard definition chair i mean like these documents were written of what s s d channel was one of seventy five that were available things have changed so much since that was agreed on rightly we are massively of class now because we don't think that the fundamental threat is a funding mechanism is hooked to cable and there isn't comparable regulation that controls internet so they're using essentially the same infrastructure and the same rights of way to do internet and cable their record on the cable side to find a percentage they're not required on the internet side cryptic but a good book with internet internet is not required right wired connection whereas i can get is this get money for this these constraints work what would you be doing more off well i think we would be paying the people that work there are more i think a benefits are good but the wage rate is is low for the work and it's hard to keep people in senior positions i think we would continue to upgrade the infrastructure and then in terms of programming which is what you know that's the back end but what difference would you make i think we view out in the community a lot more and we'd and with his company we would replace every copier in both organizations diligent down on the about sixteen or seventeen of them including the  organization we would have one vendor one me and sick remember one phone call right now it's the wild west and the other organizations and they would be on a schedule to be replaced with this person came the current vendor they're like no we're not going to do anything like that for you called another vendor they wouldn't come in give us a call and some was so he did a bunch of those things and rob to check on that and believe it or not there's that many vendors that one come into this area because they're just not that much of that but he did today thank you for the question over in the libraries different uses different is that is there something lost in sort of little bits and pieces of local control that departments have on their own stuff you know by global the replacing everything at once if you've any thought about that also a very good question before we did this robin that with all the departments i'll talk about their copyright it's all one of the things that's actually occurring over at the library is they have a coin op machine currently the money doesn't go to the library it goes to the company that does the calling up in this news thing all the monies go to the library on so we're looking at the usage we're looking at the needs one of the things that we're looking at is the use of color copies first as black or white copies the cost disparity and a lot of times  l five thousand instead of the x l two thousand paid for the uk charge rob who worked with the departments and with the vendor to size the copier through the stuff that they would use and the rates thank you so now i believe we're on to the electric vehicle charging  station good evening everyone and thank you for having me here so this is a little bit of a repeat of what we did about six months ago for a grant to purchase a charging station across the street from the amtrak station however there are a few key differences this time so just to do recap this would be a charging station across from you can track for people who use like vehicles we do have one currently in the lincoln hall parking lot we've had it for a few years and it's been growing in popularity steadily surely but steadily and that's been a really good thing and we're very happy with that so we were planning on putting in another one in the right across me on track station now the stage is granted that has something to do with the b w settlement and this one is really good it's a ninety percent match which is almost unheard of the matching marine fund and i also wanted to note another change from this new grant is that this grant only funds do little charging stations which would mean that instead of allocating one spot for i'm driving look into the idea of charging her exactly how much electricity you use which would make sense but upon talking to the state if you can believe this it's actually illegal to do so because we are not a utility so that was a couple years ago it's possible that things have changed since then but that would make the most sense as far as charging b every day do you have to have it but let me ask this question do you have to have the location before you can apply for the green yes and when is the deadline for the grant the thirtieth of november yes the reason he chose here you know as it was near the train station you know and it would have to be in there somewhere in the village center i do realize that the two parking spots is is a in go through all the places where she might be might be located but you know there's a busy one a business is going to complain that we're taking a spot away from now and yeah i think that's is that why you've chosen this it's across from the c c t v station so we know they're not going to complain  the access to the power and did the did ok i'm assuming i know the i know the answer but that the plane is good so the planning commission and robin looked at this and they thought that's the this is the best place for this oh rob i asked or as a senior in this building before she said yeah i just bought an electric car i didn't realize you knew the special cord into your house to be able to do this hea souls the expense of putting in the electrical plug in your holes it's better for me to just come over here do my business at the down few students records checks and i can do that in the hour of my car's re charging i don't go very lawyerly so that's kind of a nice use it's coming along it's just not here yet it is very hard to find an electrical vehicle station although there are apps that tell you you go there are these two spots i don't leave you on this decision these two spots are in our downtown area and getting a parking spots are very difficult robust a on most of the people who have ease have to download the apps to find over and we've relied on i don't need hard and on different things about the space and that seems pretty as irene said it's not for today it's for the future no i get a gasoline prices are what they are and if not they're not going down if i'm nothing like i do you know and to say to the community if you are coming here whether you live here or not you have electric vehicle you're going to go visit one of our restaurants one of our shops you know place a park or be our charter vehicle and go see it as a forward thinking kid you i agree i agree i guess i'm just a little just trying to just see if we can't do now if you see if we put it on rort avenue can you we can you say evy charging station ninety five or nine to eight so that at the peak hour when people are trying to get in may be have you instead of us going all over essex junction of forty seven miles and thinking where else we might with the us could we possibly have it just you just give it maybe you and robin and  evan get get just see if maybe there's another spot somewhere because it's just making us at such a tight tight area going to we're going to be losing spaces there too  you know i know ivy lane is getting that's filled up soon as we now strike that that's filled right up you know it's soon as we create a parking area it feels right so it's a little tight that area  where we want to keep it going to you we want to keep it in the center and make it accessible and villepin and he we understand it can't just be a completely inaccessible area in the snow no value anybody i get it but you know maybe there's something we're some obvious weave the purchasing policy and specifications warrants with in that person's policy the reason for this request is that it's a specialty item yet the motor is available through through multiple service sources but at the same time  wow i'm so here's here's what the second piece reads like it says staff is also further authorized to install the secondary power protection circuit with the unified managers approval in order to prevent this type of failure from happening and that's deca to what you're saying that yes but and for the board and the people home jim has really been the bird dogging this through the insurance and lawyers process as you can imagine not many people are jumping up and down to was to fill the position and to look at ways to work was done bring now no nothing at that point both agreed that we would get back together in a couple weeks on right now caitlin corliss has library so that's where we've been out and so on we'll be working with them a little bit more on the line and where they want to go with that position is my have one on everybody's got a dog you never caused any problems until they do i knew usually this is dog on dog violence there are laws on the books if a dog attacks a human there is very little on the take care of money transactions and other things and issues to persons in the in the building at all times absolutely to try to figure out how to do that all of it and one of the other these that we said was death is whether we are here or if you need us here where you specifically say on terror the house is going to go in the field or she has a conference or something can somebody be here between the hours of eleven and one cover lunch period we would be here for that and how to do that so that's kind of ongoing but as well as you know that we've been doing office hours and breaking in as she is breaking us in t him they have that position but there's a much broader position they supervise staff they employ a bunch of staff throughout the your district but they have a lot of experience with this position and need and why they do it and get some direction and how to get up and running with a new position so that's where my meeting comes then also in the future lives said wallace early on we c ation subcommittee of governance they are meeting tomorrow night yes six thirty here here you all did hire him richard says he is diligently working on producing the answers he asher is he even is posing questions to the board members not just the subcommittee that the board members think she should be thinking about as well as you go through this process i thought they were  possibility of using village funds in talking with allie from the top right she has impact the funds from the town many of the seniors are town residents as well so basis i'll just take a moment and that the subcommittee of the government subcommittee meeting it is absolutely appropriate if one of the trustees or selectman wants to come and sit in the audience they're not sitting at the table that they any any member of the public can come and sit in the audience and ask a question in the audience to be heard if their presence does not violate open meeting so case you're just got nothing to do with probably you and i there's no football think in regards to the retaining wall on the multi use have i think it's time to be you know we tried to locate the low impact thing would be the bush's and i went over there and looked at them and it was a great idea but clearly some folks are determined to not to have their way and i think we really do urge staff to maybe think of a physical barrier i don't think that we're going to less it's