so we'll start this meeting of the jericho select board at seven p m and we always start with public to be heard and that is for anything or anyone who had something to say that is not on the agenda do we have any  tenth of one percent but there's been some research which is that we tax structure about twenty seven percent of our revenue and what we tax is disappearing we're doing our job to go on from seven or eight years ago hundred forty six thousand tons of trash driving that we have one time expenses this year that account for two hundred forty three thousand dollars one of them is i'm retiring and there's going to be a overlap of eight weeks between the new general manager and mine so is to see if we can get our trash down to troops except we're two point seven pounds per person per day you currently we're at three we've never been below three since we've done the calculation and so one of the things that we decided really leslie was sitting on a committee with the holders and saying how do we get more recycle one way of saying that is we capture the l seventy percent if you if you if there was a hundred percent real that we could capture from magazines does think it is the bottles and things like that we're capturing seventy percent and i wondered was should we do more regulations to get the other thirty percent or should we try something else in dollars in the morning to really really want to advertise a lot off of they just did not want to go there we had many struggle of heart meetings over that in the board decided to compromise and saying to ok what is it you think we'll get to the recycling bin they said advertising in force i will do that in as part of this year we're going to have to people have time contract only employees no benefits just contract love for twenty hours per week in just go out and try to go to businesses expression for food waste because now the expensive we're going to work every other year we publish the truck a guy who are away from this well this is the on your for that extra thirty five thousand dollars our drop off centers are facing two very major expenses  i think it's going to be really difficult because with a nuclear war right coming out of the state legislature i don't think people will think kindly of ok to treat the plants are going to go down to very very low phosphorus concentrations you know why bother putting that in  is we're not reading newspapers like we were taken years ago in the mills are those are the real hands so you can sell it you're just not selling it for that much same with plastics you know a year ago we were getting seven or eight hundred dollars for milk jugs now we're a close down and we had to ship all the glass to buffalo well cost more in transportation to get it to buffalo than we were getting paid for it just doesn't pack it doesn't work in radio we generate seven thousand tonnes of quasi year and it has a negative fifteen dollars which means we pay somebody to take it off for its own in this budget and capital budget we're looking to invest four hundred thousand dollars to clean up our glass so clearly that's just like saying we can so we're going to move on to interviews with folks who have expressed an interest in a fire protection services tax force and to people who were  is out of town he's not able to be here tonight so we and then lisa rector was going to come in by phone but her unfortunately her stepfather's had a stroke and so she's not available right now either so we probably will not we will not be making a decision tonight because we want to give everybody wanted to interview a chance to interview and even though the first person is not going to have the advantage the last person that to ask of all candidates two basic questions and then it'll be individualized as appropriate but the first question is why do you want to serve on this committee and what skills are you going to bring to this committee because you're going to be able to need  financial to value a financials across different fire departments the need to evaluate the pros and cons of various forms of the not for profit departments as well as a fire district as well as  need some kind of skill set rather just to just a passion to serve so there will be some homework even though there is some money for a consultant to help where it really is necessary  i hope that i could bring some of that understanding here you know and i feel very strongly about the fire company or a party partner which ever  stop what was voted on town meeting is that it was to evaluate the sustainability of the fire department here in and to determine if this is the best mechanism going forward in terms of you said looking at the financials of other departments the cost benefit and to evaluate whether you know you stay is because there's various forms of profit there's also fire districts and there's also this and so you know need to look at the committee is going to be have to look at those different forms and you know what makes sense for the town going forward you meeting and there is a a consultant style plan that would not kick in and in till july first because that's the fiscal year we do not have a timeline but you know the money starts  one and i would imagine because it was coded in a town meeting people are going to want to have something by next time the exactly what is really up to the committee this really came from the public and it's public driven and that's you know i found good in grew and managed little company to about eighty two people we did business nationwide and canada and we lasted for about seventeen years before we sold it  and our process was really what kept us afloat anyway really was very similar to what i've observed just by judging process with the town and that is we always had to make decisions with our of their limited resources between managing risk compensating good works and investing in growth and when i look at what the town does with its own budgeting process it looks very much the same to me and as we sort of explore this topic came up and i started doing reading more and more i realized that this is a lot of what we're doing and the tools in our tool belt at the time were cash and dad and  planning both annual and monthly planning process and budgeting both capital and operating budgets and that's how we survived and we figured out where were the areas where we were vulnerable which we represented risk we needed to invest there where did we need to take care of people because they had done good work so where do we need to invest for the future and for growth and i was it's a financial conversation but it's really much more material it's what you guys are doing every day so that's sort of my background as the founder of back company here and it was sort of pseudo financial but it really my responsibility crossed legal  technology financial human resources a full spectrum of things like that and that's my basso that's my experience and i think it's very similar to the process that you guys under undertaking with management of the town my interest comes out of i found myself reading on this subject i found myself digging in and i looked at some of the spreadsheets i looked at the power points and did a lot of thinking about it and i realized that if i'm going to have been living here since ninety seven and i've gone to a lot of town meetings i did the five the fiberoptic working group i did the committee to create the trails committee have done small things along the way but this one is interesting to me because you know you've got a group of guys that are really committed to doing good work there because the ratings demonstrate that but there's clearly something that it's out of  wanting to get involved in this as i think you're probably aware i'm fairly new in town and since moving here you know my family is committed to being here for quite some time and you know since we got here been looking for opportunities to try to contribute to the town to the process most of these opportunities most of it most of the ways that you're committees are formed because my work schedule and travel schedule i'm not able to to participate there's too much stuff happening setting meetings in the middle of the week we don't usually get to be off somewhere else but this particular one looked like you know a place where you know fairly short commitment nine months you know depending on the disposition of whoever you choose we may be able to arrange a time that works at any rate i saw i saw an opportunity to get in and you know that having arrived at the tender age of forty you having watched this issue develop i've seen a lot of emotion and you're into the conversation and i'm hoping that i can offer kind of a rational viewpoint rational approach i'm quite analytical in nature and as a transition skills i can tell you a little bit about that but again look at looking at the process the committee that was going to be formed i wanted to offer myself up to somebody who can come in and you know hopefully not get too emotional invested but you know really look at what we're you know look at the numbers look at we're dealing with you know kind of wrestle  with the governance issue which i think is at the heart you know something that a lot of people are interested in and you know overall i think there's a very interesting challenge in front of us so i think i will conclude the white portion command structure or even the ex command system in which you know organizations arrange themselves so they could properly interact with each other so that you know the fire department three of them have been board members for fire departments and rescue squads and two of them have been active firefighters and firefighters and the strikers to rescue squad members for quite a bit so i found you know as you know in the last year or so as things have developed when i've had a question i can always go to them and get some get some good information can now within my firm my specialty is the analytics so when i saw that you needed to do some different backgrounds and you know as a consultant certainly facilitation skills come into the mix as well so anyhow i'd like to say i see an opportunity to contribute and i see a good fit for her the skills that i have and you know hopefully i can been as labor union president i also when i'm not working i teach both at the state level and college level in the fire service so it is essentially what i do  this this committee is a great way to get back to jericho we moved here five years ago we really like it we don't see ourselves leaving and it's a good way for me to be yeah i know you're on your letter i like to hear you're sure thoughts and your ability to be there all open minded about governance and you know the operation and all i have i've spoken to two people once and honestly it was today when i stopped by the fire station and said hey guys can give a little background on what's going on here you know i watched the presentation with the fire chief i read some equipped response and however if humanity chooses or is able to do that that's the bottom line and that's what matters i'm i'm not a year and we're not in a major  even though it is a fire department i mean you know you have your basic operations and how things work and how to how you're going to cross compare with other their departments across the county and you know a skill so just something that was brought up a town meeting i thought was going to be somewhat contentious and i thought that i could offer unbiased opinion on it that's important  thought so started a home home business prospect environmental services but it's a slow start so i think in the next year i expect i would have would have the time to do we are here for tom morrow's presentation extensive taxpayer support but there was some there was some problems of the governance structure and i think are something that you know i think that the fire department we have this is a fact of the media people are very committed and i think it's very effective and probably cost effective i think there are some concerns about the governance structure and there may be may be time to look at parallel look at a different government structure and you know think about the future so our experience of the high school that's you know it's a different type of institution but i think you know maybe the committee we got from talking to some people at the f a a got the history they have since transition to a public institution interviewing because it's going to be tough decision we have i think people that you've interviewed for this and you have a least two folks who you need to schedule at another time so once you decide when you will likely do those i can communicate that to these folks  decided to defer to a good understand what we can or cannot do in construction so now we're talking about only some areas on the hillside and that was broken into three three sections and again a one of those actually we met just the other day with josh we'd like to defer that also and do a little research about where maybe we might be a little boy the water drought that's coming down from the parking lot through to the bottom of the swale the trail goes one thing that i keep hearing coming up and as we as we i know this is in the budget anyway but as we talk about spending this money on the trail improvements you know periodically people ask me why we don't try to figure university i said most of the trails are trying to design to the horses but really the bridges are not you know they could be dangerous and somebody said well you have a sign that's not so dangerous because they're not was not strong  completely copied from the highly crimes work because she's brilliant representation of all the different types of repertoire of recreation that we have within the town yes well i'm focused is going to start with because you need to come up with your charter and your you know all the duke and the whole and that's really the focus of a task force right charter and then once we've got a charter to present year we hope that you'll create the committee itself because there are so many ideas that we want a committee to get going as fast as possible so i think it's a great idea though the question i have and be able to communicate would be able to support the efforts of these other committees these other communities the bills riverside park bob's committee and charles committee have much more focussed  and able to support and communicate the efforts of these other more focused committees a different a different looking to create some kind of an oversight or a you know an overarching committee to have those under one house you know the recreation committee undertakes something at another property that's not my job so i mean certainly having that communication and knowing what you know what the consultants and how it how it turned out i mean it would just simply be recreation we have very active community which is which is awesome but the fact is that it's such a shotgun blast on how to keep up with it right a lot of it is to kind of see if we can have some kind of a congealing effect so we all can there is no clearinghouse to see where to get a hold of it i had to find other people that knew about it and then give me a phone number on a piece of pip on a post of no to then call to get into it so you know you could get between soccer and basketball and baseball do the other committees and some of it's too broad and there isn't really an action item but some of it's specific action items that really the committee would need to address at some point and that's good considering they have to just it's just going to help with you know a strong believer that that activity and things like this you know and of course a good health for the town where there's going to be make it accessible for everybody not just for the people that they know they can write the we need a motion to create the task force and enable the task force to create a recreation charter yeah a lot of question do you do you need to interview  couldn't be started until july first and you suggested that it really could be big soon because apparently because of the budget situation in the state the state has pulled some of their know the other river road the one the ghost of under right if you recall we received a safe routes to school grant couple years ago to redo the signage there to redo the pavement markings and you put in the radar speed feedback it they are you know or she likes it i don't have any problems with any of these people but i think the process could be upgraded a little bit because there are you know i have heard you know concerns about some people and i think you know part of charge for the room i know because that's all part of a i don't know anything about any you know his numbers of this effect it's just i mean that's how we how are we getting enough people to apply to read picking the bass and how do we know of other business vermont and we've got enough people come in who submitted work that it's in the main room in the back hallway in the up stairs hallway and it will hang through the end of august and there will be a reception sometime in days in the calendar to artists you know to the essex reporter and the mt gazette and most of these what's nice is a quite a few of these people have never shown in the town hall before some there's the little stained glass that's her first she's been doing stained glass for fifteen years jericho resident and this is her first show which species show us a lot of these are professionals as well as really mr it says you know where it says the slick board thank you and then the whole thing fell off so i assume that the select board thanked mr rochelle out for his interest we're talking about the mosque committ minutes for generous six oh that's because this was just to let it was out of place it was to let us know this is what we did with the we the money from somebody else i