looking at opportunities to and i'm going to change it is to technically correct now that i've done all the research purchased net metering credits for low carbon electricity and what that means under four months net metering law and our only operates in vermont so it would be also a renewable energy project located in the state we we went for from that suggestion to the preparation of a request for information that went out to general even advantages for the town to tag along on that and as it turns out as of about two weeks ago that's not the case and it's not because of anything wrong it's just the amount of power that was available from the developments in question but i think that the fact that this is seen as an attractive opportunity by the but school district in that they were able to enter into a arrangement where they are going to be template for these agreements now to be used by school districts municipalities in vermont that's been developed by a couple law firms and the d l c t so that in a lot of ways makes the job easier should  board decide to pursue this further so what i'm coming to you tonight oh well i guess last thing to mention too is that the whole reason for this is is that  favorable tax regulation but also by the continued dramatic drop in the price of particularly a problem for world electricity electricity from solar panels and that continues to fall and so the credits from a renewable energy project in vermont replace about forty thousand dollars worth of the town's electricity bill and if i was to estimate i think it might s him about two thousand dollars a year and it would mean that all of the electricity used by the town's account would come from clean low carbon sources so the return is about two thousand dollars and reduction in cost the town of richmond reduction in carbon emissions associated with electricity consumption by the demonstrated financial viability of the project and developer and then building a payment terms but those that last one is detail and some in some detail in the in the drug deals and t templi so on and certainly now's a good time to think there are other things that you care about too but but it seemed like price was was first and  mister quest yeah that's it that's a great question and the the short answer is there is but it's it's fairly volatile in that what's happening is that there is a thirty percent federal tax credit that businesses can take advantage of that is that the legislation that created that tax credit expires at the end of one sixteen meaning that that projects have to be complete in generating power by december thirty first one sixteen in order to qualify for that tax credit now let takes credit it may be extended congress has done that in the past but congress is not very predictable these days so you don't really know what's going to happen and as a result developers are working very quickly right now to get projects in the ground and in order for those to be viable projects they have i guess the way to say it is i don't know that it gives you a huge market leverage to have it out there because it is sort of this this window but but there are projects there will be proposals and we'll just wait and see what what kind of deal they offer but that like five percent discount seems to be broken so there's a risk something could really they both speak to essentially the same thing what you will it's going to be taking a look at the problem taking a look at the causes of the problem and designing a slo  repair that not only restores the right of weights or allows for the very detailed used to go back in but also examines how to prevent the same thing from either firm is qualified to do this work we've used both terms in the past top notch work out of both of them it's a tough decision but  laying out by different options that it's good for the town to be able to be flexible going forward but then we can wait and decide how to pay for it because the money's going to be here and just hold off on the i mean that the engineering plan is to have it fit the engineering ready for a bit by the middle of this month and so there's no point in not getting  sunit before deciding how to pay for it just holding off on doing that last half of the gravel plan until we can figure out how it's going to go i just don't know how you know we can't tell you to sacrifice a sniper fire in the road hundred twenty five thousand dollars on snake ireland or the services a lot of people where i don't know how much it's going to cost and if it's reasonable to pay for it out of the gravel this is going to cost some money in dollars or five hundred thousand always ok you know we have this thing for seeing experience we have to read that fine i mean it is what it is i don't like  so it seems to me that the question is a future question here i'm still a little uncomfortable with the the scope and cost of all the repairs and how much it's going to be and here the money's going to come from we've lost that slowed off the sign and that goes down on private property again there also we might be able to get by with just putting stone there and that's probably what people try to do we may have ask for easements from people to further restore them but i don't think we're going to be able to get the same kind of off the road area that we had before because it's a situations where the water washed over the road and some of the slope is given away and the again of the placing stone there there's not really a private lead issue there because the river or the s impact residential areas so i didn't mind circle west of private extension these are areas that don't get the same amount of traffic the treatment plan this year and we in my opinion that's just anecdotal but there let there lower traffic areas from you know my recent time in these areas th the race going to know where they are probably six weeks ok so we have some time do we have supported want the state to take action to look at reducing the speed limit and jones well that's an interesting undertaking i guess the question is what has changed between two years ago and now are you ready to jump into tax rates jeff yes me when we passed the budget to project a tax increase was supposed to be one point two six cents on the rate due to the higher rent listed will now be twenty seven seventh's so people will see a little  show their calculation this year they only show off one number and i don't know if that's the pre nup creek calculation number or the post calculation number because it's based on our  it which is ninety nine so there's either it's either going to be multiplying we're not so i've gone through multiply and come up with the  good news it's a very rare situation but still  makes jeff early to vote ok the motion which has been seconded is to set the tax rate for the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget zero point six four five four cents of those in favor private hall so the question is who's responsible for its replacement who is responsible for the damage that it's s of water resources department that was present when there was an excavation done where the water line that the current had collapsed because of improper installation led to a request for a water water her inspection by a new school entity these kinds of infrastructure even though they may or may not become public but they may affect public infrastructure it's my belief very yes so i think kelly does have a good point though this is a pretty simple solution is to say you know you want to be private if you want to be public and if you want to create an ordinance that requires an independent inspection for a while for all the public works specs that have been updated since two thousand and whatever that we've been trying to update for three years you know so but i think just as i understood the reply it was to deal with the engineering for structure specific to the waste water and storm water so that in neither case is this a water sewer connection per se but a failure of the engineering stormwater treatment both at greystone and so either in properly designed or thing i'll say is that it seemed like an emergency to get this done because we're in the middle of the construction season so should probably happen quicker if we're going to you know enforce good infrastructure  water rescue for one point six six hundred people flowing down a river and if someone goes under there we're just going to have to stand inside and wait for some of the boat to come it is dangerous for people are going to show i just i'm at a loss for what to do in terms of what happens when someone goes under and with that many people for him down the river something weird could happen pretty easily and you one thousand four hundred seventy five dollars the others ten thousand five hundred ninety dollars there's a couple of things that i'm still not clear on i think there are some software or license or maintenance agreements that might be ongoing costs in there might be some other installation costs so i think we're looking at ten to fifteen thousand dollars to to do this i think it is a worthwhile investment we have on file  trucks were for four large dump trucks to pick ups an excavator of a loader grader tractors fire trucks ambulances a diesel tank in writing now writing down written receipts as to what they what they use and you know couple years ago we didn't even do that much so the auditors want us to track fuel real quick i think it's like boards concerns were first we were burdening you with hearing requirements for frivolous complaints to the ordinance may deviate too much from state three the question of enforcement of the only time you're going to have a hearing is are somebody requested in writing after dark by requiring medical attention so that should significantly live it the around here is if you're going to hear in fact i what are we being asked to decide because nothing's been decided i don't think the support privately interest i've asked i mean essentially they're trying to get us to rescue them from the cemetery trustees instead of just the select board has partnered status in this case if you do do you want me to attend in requests for the stairs and if you do was there anything in particular you want me to say my belief that this request was designed to keep the cemetery committee from objecting to this one which is why i don't want to except party says to be honest i don't think this board will object to the rich is best for the center which they did this by the way is really quite important piece of history in this town and i'm not quite sure what what is so difficult like i was  under the impression that there would be access operative but i was under the impression that it would not be joining with the cemetery rather it was a pretty simple request and so i a respectful peaceful quiet clean professional area to live rest citizens of this town and allowing the cemetery commissioners to represent that should be without our interference should be our priority here we can on the land whatever but this the commissioners have the best knowledge and understanding of that land to  mean what the question at hand is do we want to be involved in supporting or not or like the secretary commission but this takes me as a major alteration to that so yeah we have some more information that i think it should i mean there's a lot to think about rightly someone mentions the price going up next year right boil is that a pretty good price for a right but you know you also consider the cost of not  this is the thing you talked about yes yes ye c tries to drive policy and with buying not advertising the vacancies you cannot even run into a situation i'm not saying this is happening but you can run into a situation where you have one view that continues to appoint people on that policy driver committee etc that continues to appoint people who believe what they believe and so the  needs to do a better job of being transparent and they need to do a better job than to to do that they need to advertise the openings that they have now the fifth grade virus to me it's just a good group of good people who work really hard few months here