really start with the two presentations and discussions in the first is the economic development committee discussion on the depot street parking lot jeff why don't you frame this up for the public of the depot street parking lot four years ago we bought that parcel of land which is roughly an acre on depot street behind the donor's office next to the railroad to become a parking lot right now it's just an undeveloped grassy muddy area that people park in and as they see fit with no organization to it i think  we have some sketches that show we planned it right we could double the room available parking there so we could accommodate everybody who's there now and also expand it for more employees or more residents or more visitors to the business district and economic development committee wanted to come this evening and again promote the idea explain their thoughts on where their visions on what the project might look to consider this by australian ballot yes and and this is it for informational purposes because there will be no discussion of the issue during town meeting because it's being voted on by a striking about right we won't be able  it's going to be on the paper we've put in the question is really twenty thousand a year for five years it's a hundred thousand dollar project which would be what the question funds what the town's done in the past there was a report from two thousand and three that a previous incarnation of the economic development committee put together a proposal at the times to buy a different site to create a m and i think something else happened with that site so it's been an issue for a while i think having enough parking downtown and as late as existing businesses to try to grow and running the parking we had to i know one of our meetings we have looked at a drawing that's been done before issue as he stated was the parking it keeps coming up as an issue of the downtown area and there's not enough we all basically  unanimously that it is the number one problem and we can reinvest into richmond if we do not deal with this problem so that's where we need to address and move forward in order to grow richmond so i want to just add that in our vision of all this for instance no fly alone is i think eighteen people who work are parking downtown word visioning growth that we really want to make make sure that that growth is not just something that we can move forward with that we actually provide for this vision with the parking that's needed and welcoming people into this town making it easier and more functional and i wanted to also add that larry but one is also on board he's part of the group at times i'm not sure if he's actually just joined just been enemy forces right above the western slopes business association and he also is part of this vision for parking which i think that was the number one priority that we put on the table right away and this  very accessible this vision i believe the depot street parking affordable and a really good way in good use of space to just make it much more functional  laurie put together the essential functions and i just plugged it into our standard form and there is a draft policy from two thousand and six where select considered what compensation m had some questions for laurie and laurie has a lot of information she'd like to share with you so why don't we start laurie what you fell for a bit about who you are and what your background is and what you've been doing with the position for the past years from march two thousand and twelve to current i collected two hundred forty thousand six hundred forty six dollars and like on taxes and it's you've got to work with the people you just phone calls you've got to work with you've got to understand the situation you set up payment plans and i've met a lot of wonderful people through the time that i've been doing it i would like to continue to do it i have a lot of property owners payment plan which seems to be working very well it's a lot of phone calls sometimes or some pretty harsh conversations and i would just talk to me about that and their spending numerous times when i sent out the first letter that you have to tell the property owner that you know we don't see star see a payment within forty five days or set up some sort of payment agreement that we're going to take the next step fortunately for myself and the property owners i have been able to put these people on payment plans as these people are making payments we cannot put a property in pretax not at all on the first of the month sometimes they call and say they're going to be a little like ok i'll work with you you work with me they're very good opportunities i know you know they're good you know there are some that you had to really follow up with like you're going to have that wherever you are list which chance to look at a bit i think rather than think going through the book just for the public the idea here was that part of going to tell manager form of government was to have certain things that the ministry of level not be brought before the select board in detail but this look we want to have a way of keeping track of things that the that the town had once ability for the just like we're once make sure gets taken care of and so we asked jeff to create a list in a way basically a tracking system some fly tracking system for items as they come up and waited to determine whether they are ongoing completed or closed and he's done it so there's quite a few items on this list so i can go through me one by one b t this is what we've been working with for a few months now i'm sharing with a select board to get some input on presentation any suggestions you might have for improving it  there any reason not to make this public well know it's a public document there is nothing confidential on here there are some may from time to time be personal matters or liberation but we don't want to have the kind of detail the trail had signed whether or not people pay attention to the spring  rear building to manage storm water flow after meeting with the neighbors of town center we determined that the retention pond in the back wasn't going to work it wasn't going wasn't a good idea and residents really didn't believe in the project and i think we we can still go ahead with the rain garden in the front yard it's going to be dry most of the time relatively  small it's not going to hold any water and that's where our storm water discharges from the roof already so we think we can do that project but it's a very small project may only be a thousand dollars if we have a substantial grants over twenty five thousand dollars the thought was after a meeting with jim p s from the state we might be able to improve the outfall of the storm water flow that's near richmond rescue which drains e and we need his permission to be able to do that and it's also on the housing near that as the board in st housing and we'd like to approach the residents in that area before he made any decisions and to modify the grain so in if you agree with that course of action we proceed with some outreach and some plans to to see if that project would work in the area or become back and to the river you know not only make make the water cleaner as it goes through but potentially avoid the damming up of so issues but again it's a lit tle more complicated in that area because of all players streets excuse me the the long answer or the short answer is that our bridge street redesign will deal with that by lowering the on the interim we might have to just well right there right you just have to have more voting in favor than against so if you have to in favor and go against it's still carries that our next select board meeting will be on tuesday the nineteenth the following monday the twenty fifth will be the special meeting for you to australian valid oracles then the money monday following that will be recommendation to the planning commission which will meet tomorrow evening first thing goes the way we expect it to the planning commission will recommend a candidate to hire to the select board and that will be on the agenda for the next until i have put down website updates i know that it is locked likes to talk about our plans so i are really having updates since the last meeting other than a lot of people have been talking to me about it and we understand that we really need to make a reality at this point so i expect that we'll fairly shortly decide on a format and how to host it and how to design it  you know i almost wonder if there's a way that we can get something that says this is one of these through difficult things i know there's some degree of anxiety in town about more of the town's business being conducted on line at same time there are a lot of people i think that would like to see better facilities for the town's website and we could take this sort of get some some feedback on sort of where the town citizens and town are in terms of  what they think is a a good expenditure of funds to to improve that i mean i know that i i think it would be a big help to have a better town website but i also know that people have complained to me  about things being being done on the internet so i'm not quite sure how to go about that other than i suppose we could maybe make it a topic of town meeting  approved as as amended thousand seven hundred i'm sorry seventeen thousand six hundred eighty two dollars instead of the previously approved sixteen thousand six hundred ninety two dollars so this is a revised purchase order for the purchase of those radios which  first one radio here is one hundred twenty three dollars and there was i think the shipping and handling wasn't included the last time so that just adds up to two thousand dollars they their original price quote was seventeen thousand that was widely applied to the seventeen or three of us then they came back and said but the purchase order for sixteen in air but now they're saying no it's seventeen so depends on whether you know you want to punish them the equipment appears to be what has been put into the grid which is what they're saying let's put same number really right but what they did the purchase