start that process take a look at ourselves so we can move forward that day and say that we know there's no other troopers involved this is not a conspiracy theory like that we now have at the beginning of the end of each shift of the needle the result of each is generated by a state trooper is sent to the commanders across the state so every command of knows the night before what activity took place that led to an arrest and lead to a press release so from a situational ways it gives us a better idea of the activities that are going on the governor himself  the end of the process was technology took that over to mean all the all the time with all the codes that you have to live in to headquarters electronically you know really you could press a few buttons and come up with the overtime to break it right down traffic months out july fifth we are very interested and we're going to serve the public better than we have could have and we're more accountable to ourselves that we've ever had it change the culture of the state police for the better we have a three week leadership and i heard earlier we told you david that we had talked to the task force that they will never do that again and we'd also talk to the secretary of state in the sense that at times a decision can be made by email if you cannot get together a meeting so that i mean we have done that we let you know that in a discussion like this before and then the materials that they brought forward with help was heard in a p itself not holding public meetings even to this day the energy task force isn't following the laws and the virus state and what's appropriate for a public decide to do is your business now if you don't want to do that in executive session i can schedule it for over here and i'm glad to and if you don't want to go over that i will take steps according few people won't even set down with me and listen to these complaints i want to do something different to accomplish  it's fine no problem either or any other not issues for the public to be heard not on the agenda all right hearing none we reserve fund balance to two hundred seventy one thousand nine hundred seventy one which is about nine percent of the town's operating budget which is what the intent was of the board to get down to around that figure so if you have any twelve there was a change made to develop it into the different departments which was definitely great because now you're seeing the total cost of the departments including the benefits for the staffing but all of the retirement payroll taxes health insurance was being charged  spends about one hundred dollars on doing what you do for us so i just like to point that out to the board if you think there's some place that needs to be looked at god if we do this you know four or five years ago we would just mark it down i talk to them about that they don't see anything and say anything and i don't see anything to rise up in this town i mean that that's just an observation of the audience to see that it wasn't getting done and that could it trigger something well maybe you would like to spend a little money on augustine that and her firm but don't say it they don't know how to do it they would say whether they could do it or not and if they could tell you that if they said yes we could look for embezzling and fraud in that particular area then they would do it and then you would have those i seventy years looking at what we got rid of you know if this was not explosives were adjustment screw up on that money we actually started to discover it talked about it for ourselves at board level for so over the last couple of years and had come in a couple of times because we noticed the falloff in in state police is basically well it was actually investment it's no different from over billing in business where you don't see the other side of it and you just say ways it's just we're not getting what we're paying for and so you switch to someone else that richmond rescue has responded to and for confidentiality reasons i will give you minimum identification the first was a fifty six year old man with a stroke we are called to the house  got him to the hospital in time for him to have five good olympic treatment crocus a blood clot emission that timeline is running on it and you have to get him to the emergency room quickly and we got in there  we got her into the emergency room she was on the table and she rested on the table they were able to save her life she walked at a hospital is a very rare event that these four calls are al in the past two and a half months third call us to a house in jericho where two people are alone better leaders the power went out and we we've gotten call there before we get there generally before of jericho until the fire department we give do manual resuscitation the fire department arrives they set up the generators and we go from there says a third call the fourth call did not work at as well because part is that he didn't believe that at home i mention this because i think it speaks to our availability it is fixed to our response time distorted our the graph if you look a call in the station twenty four hours of drift day three hundred sixty five days a year and a back group think yeah there's a big change and we've been able to do it because our squad has grown the other graphs that you see here  like all ambulance services we only get paid when we actually carry a patient to the hospital so this graph that says cost per year richard rescued total  he said we are we can give advanced cardiac life support i just i finished the course in the spring there were six of us who took the course in i think proportionately we have or advanced  have all of our people who already have keys will have advanced empties and that really undercuts the need for paramedics because there we can do much of what the paramedics can do and it it's not only cost saving that is a more efficient use of man to the hope that hopefully in the officers did have decided that we were you know we have to behave a little bit differently than we have been and hopefully this is this represents that we are also moving forward in questions and then i want to take change hats for a moment and just mention one other thing you know i have a question in in your budget the town contributions that you received you have to have the on the the full number and i was wondering if you could tell me sort of how that breakdown as compared to these percentages oh i'm going to have to do a pull that out f from the minute my memory because i don't  we know where the trucks are we know where they're dispatched from and we know where they're dispatched to and what if you track them you find out that the majority of call from the underhill station are going out of jericho so  it jericho citizen i'm a little concerned why are we paying this service other towns with our ambulances and what are we getting for the extra seventeen thousand dollars because we're not getting twenty four seven convinced that you know for the purposes of signing an agreement that we had an agreement that would give us what we needed but that we should go back and see what we got out of it is it working yes absolutely   be in a situation where every year is sort of this sort of would probably have a brother that you sent to something we cut it down just to make this to cut it down we'd like to work out some kind of reasonably orderly  touched on this last time and i and i don't know if it's within the purview of this committee would be a may not be and that is one way to increase our revenue that would make sense i think to the citizenry this decrease increase the percentage of people who are serving because then we're building a bigger population and our yield is bigger what's the possibility of  increasing our territory so that it makes more sense in terms of mileage and response times and then you can say to the people ok we're giving richmond rescue more because they're resolve boundaries it is there a way that we could assess what the voters would like in terms of their coverage if we presented them with mileage response time is too complicated why i know people aren't necessarily feel like the point is that we haven't been paying our share and that it's been harder and harder for you to service jericho because the cost that you're reimbursed for by the individuals is going down think i think that your letter is very persuasive actually and i i am inclined to reconsider the request that they're asking it is going to be a hard sell it's hard because a lot of people just go down to the percentages every really you know our budget right so you have a percentage increase and decrease and you don't look closely at anything that's like two percent or zero or you know defend you see that three hundred twenty percent threat but you're not getting rescue coverage which is which is motivated by public interest that's why we should be counting seventy entirely of the rescue budget because that what it's going to do it we could have this discussion either over by a very is or over three hundred twenty percent and we don't want to have the fight every year so let's say that we could incrementally look things up say you know without people to crank it i think that's  what staff is recommending that you consider for the preferred alternative and i don't know if but we run through all the past the original alternatives with potential for traffic calming amenities of potential street lighting or mail street lighting in the future not insignificant issue of having the area for snow storage are a number of places where we currently have sidewalk where there is no where there is no green strips so the what happens is we end up with basically a plow battle where the town or more and yet then the plow truck and it's all the complaints we've received so far this year were in those trouble spots through didn't have appropriate snow storage and it also provides to have the free space provides a town with opportunities in the future should you want to do a curve or possibly do on the improved bike lanes on the road so the main difference is that keeping the the sidewalk word is in front of the kim afros events and starting the transition back to the sidewalk further away i drive by the house all the day you know you drive up and down and i looked at the map and went that's kind of sad that the house itself was built within the four rides if you have and we have some other thing right very i mean there were there were comments some expressed that they thought the sidewalks use close to the hospital because of it step back bryan and it's wider again curd people just to speed but that's i don't believe that to be the case and as i said  some of those things and show it well the that's an extra cost you know we can do that outside of this project yeah ok right but yes and it and that was the steps biggest things are going in is is we thought of was best if you provide the green sidewalk specially if you get snow bank and then it becomes icy so three provides better drainage mormon well drainage and also allows you then in the future if you did want to put in a curve you know you could do so it may not be something you put all the traffic calming it's all visual and it's what i strain from my it's really amazing forces taking the me you're probably cost them what ten million or something it's huge it's a huge project and i'm but that's good you know yeah i right you know i've even been talking with mike wise owl about you know how much of this work that we might actually be able to do actually we can't do the paving but if we can get the road base and everything ready that's what that's that's the deal for getting a paper yeah yeah and i don't agree i don't think it's extreme i think yes it's going to prevent it from being a highway but i don't think it's going to keep prevent it from being drivable you know it's not going to make you feel like you're trying  yes this is the one we have related to this we were meeting with p c staff last week and just reviewed today a draft scope to have our transportation plan updated excellent  significantly updated one of the things we had asked them to fund last year which they said they couldn't was an update to work public works projects and coming up with standards that you've been talking about for a couple years now for existing  on the part that they are p c can find we're going to have some of our maybe doing to be interested in doing a supplemental scope of work that would be the updated public works projects and the road standards that something done to them we really need to have come to some kind of organized system in dealing with these things right and i don't really ever want to do it others come kahlo without you know  so forth plan so over right and that was part of him part of what we'd like to do possible in the standard just it's come up with a list of acceptable traffic calming measures that you know are sort of the blessed by the town i mean in a modest way but they work right so it's part of that discussion of updating the transportation plan this year they have a black pad component in it so i think we do so we may not actually need the separate project but i think we should that the senior planners thought was very good is that you know since we've had these issues about roads and if we ever getting more development they have a policy that they accept new as public only if it's in the the growth district the village center areas and that way you know that's an incentive to keep the development there and anything else side that is study we stress that we don't want it to be another encyclopedia we want to be essentially like a guidebook and we really wanted to tie the transportation system in our land use planning right together so often times are there not and this kind of jumps ahead and feels like because we need structure and policy of how because you have roads they have something in another road that is a different but they want to have the same thing you know where you know how what are our guidelines to determine what's going on but what really makes sense right particular that i mean so that's another thing that works into those guidelines great so now speaking of there is actually twenty five to actual speed limit is twenty five and you know something i was thinking about today is you know there have been requests for other roads or concerns about the roads and something the board might want to think about since the last  studies were done in the town the night before of grouping getting four different groups of of roads together and you know over the next four years doing doing a group each year so we have updated in eyes they might be able to do it i mean really when you're setting a speed them you're doing more than speed study you're doing is you're staying you're looking at the characteristics of the road i can check but you know we had it it was the so i put that on because it was hoping we'd have the d v d perceive they did last friday from war and i sent it off to greg wilson he had a few changes including adding the words that by right i would like to move the article eleven up higher if there is a rule that all the money ones have to come first then you know you know i have a different spot for it but otherwise because of the deal of the two hundred fifty s and i look at last years where the placement of the elmos which came after the you know the boilerplate stuff i thought you know the police rose to the same level of the those are all bubbly that's why i said if there's a reason that you know they can't be for the money but you know because we didn't have those last year it was because of article you haven't either yet but all of this stuff is five through this is up to eight years old  pretty it's more appropriate to the political yes this is a little more so i think it's well that's what i thought i mean you get to go you know in terms of placement on the warning compared to where the