on all tax bills that the state has deemed that there is a penalty for late filers for the homestead so if they're not piled by april fifteenth they will see a penalty on their tax bills as they come out to them there was also a little bit clarification on nine one one confidential out confidentiality forms so if there's folks in town that are aware that they have that and want to verify with us that that is still the status we would appreciate  that as well sometimes properties exchanged hands and confidentiality for parcels should be released and sometimes they're not so that's another thing we'd like to just have property owners be aware of there was also a couple of tweaks to the current use waiting for written documentation as to which properties in richmond that might affect we're not sure exactly who at this point in time there are a couple of new current use enrollees so our numbers have gone up there as well the last thing i'd like to just put out to the select board because i know you're going to be discussing the town website at some point in time and looking at that is that number it has the ability to allow data to be reviewed on their website and many towns are doing that now in a listers offices being one of the offices that has the ability reste lease certain pieces of information been to the public and while you're looking at that you might want to look at the w w w namor dot info and i pull that up it has the listing i think that's what it is and i can verify that but when you pull that up it has the listing of the different towns participating and you select the town you want and then you have the ability to pull up the module that's allowed to be viewed out there some towns put their planning and zoning some towns put their grand list animal licenses and when they said richmond was one of the towns that had this out there were like wow what are you talking about and so we came back and looked at it at it and animal licenses but it's not current animal licenses so i don't know when that got put out there what it is is we basically upload our files once or twice a year and make those files available to the public who so choose to  ability to really tell our own our own data to be available what it what a lot of towns find is it saves on the traffic in and out of the office of appraisers and things like that if they can go online and verify  y pieces of data some towns like that some towns don't like that i haven't formed an opinion as a lister yet as far as what i think and what i think should be available on the internet versus somebody actually having to come in some towns go as far as putting their whole lister card out there put that it's not an official copy because with software packages out there you can tweak anything you want and make it look like it was something out so that's why official copies come out of the offices  so that's just something i know you guys are looking at website and for me and i think it's important to realize that certain modules possibly could be available right through the existing network system that we currently currently currently use we are moving with our site visits things are going really smoothly there we were able to after our last like board meeting get the additional documents that we were looking for from the planning and zoning office so we have a year's worth of those to go through in  but the dead it actually has a you're allowed to file it late you just have a penalty if you if you do violently makes us have to do a little extra work in our office and is it not true that if you if you go you or your property is considered you're taxed at a higher rate and you are so if you are hired you are taxed at the nonresidential rate because you have a claim to your homestead and you will be be paying a penalty well you will only pay only pay the county if you later at a later date other than april fifteenth to claim it as your homestead ok so you can reverse not being billed as a nonresidential by filing the homestead late but you get hit with a penalty so either way you're paying more interviewee daniel bacon's expressed interest in the playing russian and i invited him last week i never got confirmation they would be here and i don't see him here this evening ok i suggest we we could defer that position but in the meantime that means the planning commission is going to be down to three individuals that i say are planning commission chair here so we're short on number of didn't first for the richmond trails committee we have three members seeking reappointment john hamre slow and stokes and kathleen cavanagh and one new member john flanagan for the economic development committee we have an o'bri stephanie douglas who used in these barnard heidi borman and cousins ellen kane and locke park in the alternate is vacant r c c r p c represented as we've already named as taylor yates and on myself as alternate for housing task force representative we had mel pritchett's name he's no longer with us so fur inspector of lumber shingles and wood jeff forward weier of coal jeff forward tree warden toby buxton the pound keeper remains to town garage civil defense director and emergency management  an open slot but no new applicants saying with recreation committee we have couple slots with no new applicants the richmond trails committee i went through in the economic development committee the police advisory committee we have three open positions plus two members up for reappointment that have not responded i think that board slowly becoming inactive and i believe chris is the new liaison to the board so you might want to get with the police chief decide what you want the future of that board to be and th there any interest or discussion of reducing the size of some of these boards i mean you know i mean i know we had the conversation about the plane reducing the size of the complaining commission boards and i suppose if the if the commissions are coming to us for a reduction in do we vote on that as a slate yes i think you can i first had a motion to approve the reappointment of the following people on the trails committee of the economic development committee as well and then the second we understand what those changes are i can do that i can provide you a list with the changes that were being made which may not make a lot of sense for the select board and you're not involved in that level of detail they should be but a minimum there needs to be somebody else in management that is taking a look at what the c p a still doesn't have to be the supervisor of the c p a really it just needs to be somebody  item on the agenda a couple of people have come forward to jeff to say we need to consider moving into an evening or saturdays we'll have that conversation  bit about this and as you know town meeting had very low attendance this year but i did speak to a couple of people who suggested that an alternate time might generate more ballot another time we're i guess it may be possible that you could change everything to a different day in your charter by way of a charter all trying to get more for participation because some of these issues really get decided by less than ten percent of the population and it's difficult for people to come during the day on a because what i'm hearing is it doesn't necessarily affect the attendance and i think before and we were getting this requests from two people before we change anything i think we would want to figure out it is it effective to change it and then put it out to vote i mean i feel like it's the same thing when an off years when we have votes for things in november i mean the turnout is ridiculous imo it's not a presidential election i mean like this year is going to be really low because there's nothing going on so i think it's just a matter of the things interest people and people are not taking an interest in local government like these two are saying are it's if it's it's very few people and i think that voting other bats down as well but i think it's participation and town right where they go hand in hand too they do in these things that were discussed this year just more interesting to people because there really wasn't a lot of stuff for a floor vote i mean as some folks said especially the depots street and the rec tractor why or why are we doing this australian ballet why are we not doing this on the floor so it was a floor vote perhaps there would have been more turnout because the reality was the only thing that was really voted on the floor was the budget and at some statutes a little bit of document writing reading to discuss pros and cons of making a certain change this comes out of motion from the floor a town meeting to exam e making the listers a point in stead of the way it was i also placed him i know there's pending legislation that would allow towns to do that without a charter event  through the enabling legislation that might take place this year but who still need somebody to make a formal recommendation to the select obviously the other way would be for us there's tissue to make that change also being appointed position and not an elected position or not i don't think that can happen can it sure it can happen there are there are a number of positions that were elected that you know a lot of towns got reveal just a little ironic pictures that i'd like to point out the fact that you're requesting more community participation your town meetings and more community participation are on here committees in your words and all of less people are going to participate the more you ask less people to participate if that makes any sense i would like to comment on going from a like to a listers to quite i think in the years gone by there's never been an issue with a listers office and there's never been a discussion of them going from like until point i think this year is the first year its ben looked out into the skies and i think we all know why so i understand you're going to go through the process i just like to know who could actually use it on this governance committee and will you be appointing new or will be the same committee that was to decide to go to town manager i don't know i think you'd have had a charter study committee that recommended language change the charter that first committee would govern its committee it was look what representative was first it was mary and then it was june and  fully aware that this will probably be a piece that we are continuing to keep our office in order realizing that any day we will not be sitting in our seats so the public can understand that we are trying passed we had another year with the tax collector so i don't know that it would be any day i think it could be up to two years before this could even be implemented so i don't think it's  government for yeah i think i think the i don't think we would ignore the boat i think really need to form the governance committee and then see what they come up with which is going to take time and the motion was to have something ready for town meeting next year so we're looking at about a year process anyway so it would not be a recommendation and then from there the select board move probably be some some other town that was in this before we did that really sort of takes the first one but my recollection is that jeff said that there was somebody in town that was interested in that kind of primetime next digital economy project grant richmond website this was the result of the woman who came to speak with us back in january she let it slip that there but got to talk with the woman who is in charge of the digital economy grant and she said yes please richmond is has been designated a target community please apply she's like it's not too late we're doing a second round and you know i talked to her a little bit more about what the woman who came in january said and you know kind of we did have a subsequent conversation about you know do we want to wait for the grant to do the website or do we want to go forward with it and speaking of the women from the digital economy grant she was like if you can get it done for about a thousand bucks to do with she's like because it could be months before we even get to you even though you are a priority system however there are other components to this digital economy grant applications you can see there it is and they're targeted it kind of reviving the economy of communities that have been hit by one is workshops and consultations for small businesses i don't know what that necessarily entails one on one assistance for farming for forest businesses strategic can schedule titian's for nonprofits new downtown my friends knowns and hot spots internet in terms of public library to help library patrons with digital literacy skills build or upgrade your town website and establish a community based on line form so i thought that a downtown  and potentially even internet internet in terms would be something in addition to the website that the town might be interested in kind of applying for priority well i think we can because in the application you downtown and putting to places could happen and we had to willing businesses were willing to host it or whatever you know all we need is the infrastructure that could happen potentially very quickly i'm making stuff up right now this is this isn't based on anything in reality but i'm just throwing some ideas out whereas the builder of going to town website would be something that could take up a lot longer i think probably because the investment is more substantial and they are actually and i was told that they're going to still work this knowing center which was where this woman had worked with to do essentially the same thing but they have yet to even hire the person to work at the spelling center to apply i absolutely still think we should apply it's a question of how long do we want to wait before we invest and any website and if it's and is the woman said she's like if you can get it done for a thousand dollars then do it there are other opportunities because project aside from building building websites actually i thought about approaching economic development and seeing if any of these other projects interested them if they want to take advantage of the opportunities that are offered back via the us for forests and farmers and non profits and you know i read in the consultation yeah the book looks like we've already missed that one deadline but there there's a second round what's our timeframe here she didn't get indicate when the next when she's like if she's like we want richmond to apply so ok so it was like just a copy ok i wouldn't i wouldn't wait to do a whole lot of like for example i would call the library before you know before putting these are going after nations ok so there it doesn't and we don't have to apply for all six or seven of them if they want their separate applications because they're separate contacts for each project it's not just isn't the contact for everything so like for we can get a domain for free we just have to talk to the person who hosts our website two things have to stop to register with them and i also asked about email if we could get our e mail to change and it would be up to  our host our internet service provider if they are willing to manage i guess for lack of a better term a richmond dropping to our gov email address of town manager at richmond gov if they were could also be are at the email address it because it because it's our domain there was no restriction there but i mean i personally would like to see some consistency  t is great but it would be nice if it was richmond if there was some a sissy ation with the town on the email address it's even more than once the town is its own domain then you have freedom as to your internet service provider  but i think we want to start with say ok so if that's the case then can i say i work with jeff to work on the application and then we send that and yes and then any i'd like to work potentially get the economic development put out there that we want to prioritize that there's only so much money we don't want to be putting in for six things in get our bottom four you are right if our top priority is website we do that for years here well and i guess that the fun isn't it is another question is do we want to pursue a contractor to do our website i think we can do that in and move forward on the screen ok so so i feel like because we've been talking about this for a couple of months now i feel like we're at the point where we should we should put out a contract to do more to redo our state but our and our pay right and i feel like we should because we're we all we all know we want to do it and now that we've got information on this we've got information from the contractor got information on summer i feel like we're at the point now where we can put out and just because we put out an arche and even if we accept one of those right that doesn't mean it prohibits us from getting this grab salute so i think we can move forward with that with both let's restriction on her doing it for whatever amount of money is if she has the rights to that template so so we should do an air fee and send it to her as well as anybody else if she can actually  appropriate doses ok ok let's see two thousand and thirteen on a contract review and approval approved this contract can we start the process six months from now putting out and are fearful we started earlier than that since it will have been five years for the next spec to make the award so you could probably wait until you could you should november think you do plenty of time to decide ok you have five years it's typical any other questions do we need to approve this yes yes motion or second to if i was like to move the people of the  financial statements presented by budget general and who was there any discussion all in favor of any post carter move that line be kerry actually came to talk to me today he's going to come to the next meeting and propose putting in a decorative lighting fixture similar to what we have in the parking lot here they still wanted to have it around church they still want to have the clothes i had my hands were actually child's yeah well that's not what this is talking about this is the star and stop so the ceremony and certain start for things so yes i have a couple of things to know on the highway department work plan this year but most notably the gravel roads that are going to be under construction are going to be sections of stage road west whitehill working quite nicely this year they're going to go and apply more than a foot of new gravel on top which should go a long way to solving the problems if you ever drive canyon road or cemetery road or even dug wa year you'll notice that they've held up a lot better not we have had a mild season but they've made and remain a lot drier and it's for to continue this work there they're going to try to do a lot of drainage work on the swamp in west whit ll they're probably going to spend a lot of time trying to put some piping in to stabilize the base of that room and then also add fabric and gravel to essentially a half mile section between stone fence road and  the fish and game and they'll also work on the railroad for gravel so you'll see them later on in the summer but there is something of interest to the general public we do have a very large culvert project last year we were awarded the state structures korea for over one hundred thousand dollars to replace the culver pond heinsberg road right at the intersection of huntington crossing actually and it will require that section of road be closed for at least five days so the detour for richmond residents are actually everybody will be cemetery so not only there to replace what's there with a larger metal culvert but they have to poor to concrete had walls which is going to take several days to be able to form and pull work so it's a substantial project and the rest of the highway projects are normal it's hauling gravel doing some paving we did put in a program last time for jericho road to get paved not really confident that we're going to get it this year but we have two hundred fifty line to get resurfaced i just had one interesting comment on august one stop roadside knowing for gravel cycle it's interesting they're all of that gravel work gets the other certain memory and power to prep the road but for that amount of gravel it's truck after truck after truck and you get it done faster with more trucks and beads actually past couple of years hired say when it gets busy busy they get overtime they typically done the five day five ten hour days in september and october when they're finishing up the gravel but during the normal of up until that point no it's just forty six so what's the importance of making this change and why is this is something that we just normally do or this is  acting for nothing special to report on lou i'm trying to get the departments into the habit of giving if not a bi weekly report or a monthly monthly report to be able to thing that you knock on the window and say you don't do that anymore but the summer time when they park in the middle of the street to get to the gorge that's when they do the enforce didn't have a local permit overweight permit nor roads were posted were posted at that time for twenty four thousand pounds and he was right or ninety nine thousand pounds the state  the we can work out a way to do this that he's comfortable with but right now i mean there are it's are is a balance of information versus the it doesn't want to broadcast how additional item ok i've received a request today from a gentleman who is holding a model airplane show with schools on april the thirteenth and he wants to have a little sign that's about this big you know by the camels of middle school branded sign at school st there's technically public right  we have three purchase orders the first is a purchase order three zero four seven to j hutchens inc as the low bid to replace the culvert that i just explained for one hundred sixteen thousand and twenty two dollars there were six other bidders and i'll pass this around so you can take a look at the results me for one hundred sixteen thousand five hundred eighty dollars i'm sorry one hundred sixteen thousand and twenty two dollars your second that i have purchased order three zero nine sixty one a pound c p a we awarded this contract previously this is a purchase where for two hundred twenty hours outlined in the contract and finally at the last meeting right now is the bids for the carpet for town center and there is a question of what was included in the labor and lacey's price lease he was low bidder and the seven hundred fifty dollars on the two floors did include all furniture moving except for computers and personal items so the low bid was thirty thousand three hundred seventy four dollars and seventy three cents and i heard a purchase order for the select f these light fixtures here ones on church street they're just of all white joins up and one of the with the new well in the fixtures there's also a limited programming capability where you can adjust the for approval to move forward with  and they're going to go with the town right of way and he'll also need to get clear with the residence on grandchildren first but he wants some sort of confirmation from the select board that they're comfortable  and there's going to be some trees were  our revenue stream is very small right now we're going to pay off the bond this year but the the big thing we have to address is the post office lease which i expect to get renewed or for a new release issued but we don't know how much money we're going to make with that once we get that done i'd like to be able to do a short term borrowing situation to do a number of improvements to this building including redoing the parking lot some concrete work on some stairs plus a number of other items that could get funded by that now ultimately down down the road we have to do something about the windows in this building and that could be one hundred thousand dollars so we are rental income up to this point is funded all types of improvements so we have the school the post office the school is on a three year lease with a three year renewal of the post office hopefully we can get them on a five year plan and combined if we can get to eight hundred hundred fifty thousand i think over five here and it looks like you know we're going to be successful in doing that right now i just don't have the answer to that but it's good but to your earlier point i think what we want to do is make sure that we don't do this parking lot people street l