jim will be chair from june july august september october november and then i will take over again december and then the chair for town meeting and and then it will shift again with other neighbors skiing the property among the kids because valley farm and over through and into the barber farm which you feel as a ski back there and the neighbors and i generally talk every fall or every winter that we should clean up some of the trails so that we have better skiing and it's not on a jericho a lot it's on the jericho underhill land trust so it's fine so i took it upon myself this year to clear a lot of that just by hand  and then i thought well i don't want to infringe upon our boundaries or step into anyone's boundary so i contacted livestrong just to let her know i was doing this and she said great and she said you should get in touch with the trails committee which i didn't know existed they invited me to their trail as they have their charge with trying to promote trails throughout our communities that are non motorized healthy type of walking mountain biking running trails i love the town i want to be here for a long time and i felt like it was an opportunity to help do the work of keeping the town and the parts about the town that we love and helping the town  what my background is kind of from a marketing strategic planning background so when i think about the town i think about the assets that we have the advantages that we have things we have that are different from other towns and then challenges that we can resources that we have and how to leverage that so when i think about the vision i go to i go to all the assets that we have so i i think the vision my vision or our vision would include a close knit community feel taking advantage of our geographic location for convenient commuters but also convenient recreation access where like rate in the sweet spot on my background is also related to how care so i think it would be great if the town encouraged locating health care professionals here as the state tries to bring health care services out into communities with alternatives to regular physician care like nurses and physicians assistants things like that so professional i think professional services that contribute to the health of the community would benefit and i'm a big walker so i'm listening to him talk about the trials how many my vision again similar to like kelly came he said of the town meeting if my kids my kids are grown up with just about to graduate and so would have been great if they could walk to the high school i'd like to walk everywhere in town personally and i think i live on barber farm road it's a beautiful road other side of the story and what do you bring to that debate or no discourse i'm a middle kid so my life is as a mediator i tend to be in that role like in my family and then i've tended to have that rule in work so i've negotiated a lot of contracts and a lot of agreements and to me the key is more like where's the common ground and maybe with more information or more  or not being hard headed i think there is more opportunity for common ground than people realize and most of my interactions so far have been a pretty narrow slice because i was trying to accomplish a very specific goal and i think i don't think that's a very representative good representation of actually my approach in the world and in work you know i got a lot of work done and been in business for a long time and i don't have burned bridges and i have lots of people that you might not always see eye to eye but i'm actually really more open minded probably than you might otherwise see and i've been to a playing commission meetings and i've heard people express an opinion that was a different that i hadn't thought of before and my the first to say like i never thought of it that way before that wrapped up in being right  and also for the planning commission we have jason jenn industry and almost twenty of it in the executive level so i spent a lot of time in various towns around the england you know talking to you know herman cain and you know various documentation process and i feel like i probably can you know there's a lot of people in this town there's a lot of vision and i think part of the my goal in being in protecting the commission is trying to understand what the town needs are and try to help direct that in the appropriate manner personally speaking i at history and i love the you know the the older buildings and some of the older layout of the town and i would love to find a way to preserve or enhance that or add to it as you need to be certainly we need to keep tax dollars in there so we have to be open to new business and try to find a way to delicately put that in the community so that everyone sees it right so what are you know i feel like this is the best course of action is to be open and to be frank and to listen to you actually hear hear the case you and your you may hear the story whatever the case may be in and just try to apply it in a factual funny a couple years ago i said to group i said you know there's a funny i think one of the mistakes of the committee is that everybody thinks everyone else attending the meetings and so they feel like there's an excuse where they don't need to go and it's not it works that we all need to be there we need to focus and so i put my head  chichi nice basically why are you interested in serving in the d r p my kids are moving on to college and i have time and i thought that i was looking for ways to be involved in the community and help  out so i thought the developing review board would be a good place to know how i know perry personally so i talked to him about how you know the roles of developing view board versus the planning commission and felt that the developers viewport be a better zogby commission the planning planning commission so i felt that that was you know something i probably be more you know interested in for being involved with what is your professional background if you don't mind my asking actually are you planning for i b m you know i do capitol hill you know and purchases and long range planning smile again you have a set of rules that you're trying to imagine you're in the near vienna hearing has been scheduled on a controversial project a few days before the hearing another dear be member because you don't want to talk to you about the proposal what would you do under those circumstances i guess i called barry first before i had a conversation find out how do you know what we're allowed to talk about i don't really know what the rules are for the review board so i checked hers that's right that that's a good you know you need to check because you're not supposed yoko you go t and so let's say you're at that hearing that's a controversial project and there's a lot of members like this is a full house and there's a lot of members public and it becomes kind of heated and  there's it's it's there's a lot of opposition and the question is how do you how do you manage that situation how do you how do you feel about that kind of situation where you have a large number of people vehemently opposed and you're being asked to judge the project totally within the guidelines of the regulations what what would you do  was and then trying to talk strictly about you know the let's stop the you know the written requirements and what the process was and trying to keep you know trying to keep all that you know in motion out of it so and then making sure that everybody gets her people who want to get her  interested in the moms you're fairly due to the area my family my wife and kids and i moved back to vermont from steamboat springs colorado has past july and we've actually fallen in love with the area was able to go so the psych ward was on record as participating it in the hearing at at this point you have been provided with the pulmonary decision if you've had some discussions so really the issue is putting this on the public gender if you want to participate so that that decision is made in public because as far as we know now the next hearing is scheduled for next thursday i think we decided we do want to participate we have not fully decided exactly what we're going to say at that time we do want to be there you know stablish on equivocally our presence our position on the record with wayne it's actually a yes because he had a conversation with him since he started the market proposal review i thought it was best that he continue do i have a second and did all those in favor right right along this is talking about appointing members to the river's property negotiating committee and i'm going to respond to  to press your concerns about the viability of the committee in the survey that i sent out you resigned in the fall and made multiple comments that you wanted nothing more to do with the rivers property the committee was not disbanded continued to exist even though you were chair of the select board for the meeting nov twentieth twenty fourteen i led the section on the meeting discussion of the previous property vote what it meant where do we go next right randy clarke and the r l c also sent an email after the vote saying they respected the wishes of the town and wondered what was next in the center top reminded the board that we had not yet responded to randy because it was still unanswered in early january i started a dialogue based on discussions of that november twentieth meeting which resulted in randy and the r l c attending the select board meeting of february fifth you were copied on those emails at that meeting i started the discussion after much discussion discussion we set a tight timeline bring something for june first at the conclusion of that part of the meeting a list of the issues was requested by the r l c everyone looked at me so i said i would  yes but that was the rivers land committee that was there so everybody looked to me i said i would send them a list you were copied on that email and if there was a problem of my acting in your place with action by the board there was opportunity to speak up new member who is to be officially discussed during our annual appointments meeting tonight because as there was no negotiations and the purpose was to strategize how to move forward and gather as much information for the public receive i call  time and we had to ask in every public we have asked at every single public meeting on the various probably in especially since the vote what are the public's wishes taking advantage a town meeting in a city in a survey seemed to be the best way to maximize this input as to the issues of open meeting laws regarding the rivers property committee you've said yourself when asked questions about the new the and process at the december nineteenth twenty thirteen select board meeting that open meeting laws don't strictly apply since only one select board member is participating your email asserts that any public statements were to be approved by the whole select board u j f t before being released i went through the past minutes and the record of this is lacking what i did find was of the december nineteenth twenty thirteen where you reported that the first meeting was held on that monday and a joint statement was issued following that meeting and was posted we did not vote and that it was not reckon in the records i do not feel i should be held to different rules and you work out i'm not done i you know we've moved we have worked together well in the past and because we both care about the interests of the town i expect to be able to work together that we were going to have a member of the public she seemed like the best and monday's informational and i'm going to go through the process that i think that will answer all the questions and make this a very important position for all public to be involved in monday's informational meeting the r l it's just kegel to be informational if we're going to discuss more open procedures i think each meeting should have a posted agenda and if only it even if it's only public to be heard and executive session there will be draft minutes that circulated to both boards and vetted before posting including front porch for a very few people read the town website the meetings also should be audible recorded expectations are that the negotiating options are developed based on discussions these will be presented by the committee to the whole in solid board in executive session and discuss before be presented to the r l c and as a side you know you're concerned about the survey but we're getting a good response is nine hundred seventy so far and when it closed in their collected  committee intends to present the information at a listening session at the community center this will help the town and the public to understand where we are and help determine the future discussion and negotiation of the select boards actually receiving a lot of think use in looks for doing the survey for asking for input not just on this like board meeting were not everyone can attend so what i intended to do tonight was to differentiate a starting forward again with and we can call it the new new committee has been created you've dispelled there is no new committee on a simply the rivers property negotiating committee renamed renamed thought not so that's fine so then that issue's going away  there's a clear impression that should that should be corrected on the record now there is no new committee it is simply the negotiating committee that was created for just number two with that committee as with all committees nobody on the consulted because the meeting was feb twenty third in her skill set the surveys it's necessary now the survey as you know i think it's improper to initiate a survey without the select for a public survey under the umbrella allegedly apparently under the imprimatur of the entire select board without a select for discussion without a select board decision i have very serious doubts about survey monkey surveys doesn't mean they're useless there's plenty of of literature on the survey monkeys surveys and they're not scientific surveys in any way nobody said this is going to mean going there useless probably not course of course you the happier that but the select board as an organization as an institution does not do this without a discussion and a vote and and in fact a war and hearing so we're meeting this not so i feel that was improper i guess it was unwise was it does that mean it should not have been done in the proper way no but it it was not the proper way in my judgment that i did so that you did it and you done it under catherine your personal name fine you have certain rights under her personal name the clear impression was this was a select board to say i am i would disagree i would say i have an opinion here and i'd like if you would like to ok so i felt that because you were able to post out of your committee without running by this last word and we needed the information i mean it's not it's not scientific but we need information develop for everybody but she has twenty years of its negotiating many federal regional and state agreements regulations settlements on contentious environmental issues these negotiations require agreements that can be implemented and accepted by the various impacted parties typically industry and by politicians and the general public this is very different skill set than those required by typical one in one negotiations senior project manager she's also senior project manager in a not for profit organization with multimillion dollar vantage she manages over three million dollars and contracts herself significant experience not for profit management budgeting and billing and oversight but we all know she knows a fair amount about the fire department's budget and the environmental issues for it surrounding the property and in a very very february fifth meeting we said that we should have one to two public representatives on the committee going forward and i think she's a very good choice because there are people who in the town that if she is comfortable with and can accept a proposal coming out of the negotiations there are a lot of members in the community that are going to be spontaneous and at least to it and we don't great representative of the public and people if she's happy with it they're going to be happy with it and that's really what we want to have come out of this is we want something that everybody can like and if we can bring the public along each step move on to other business  bring another suggestion up as well as a result of jim carroll's comments about you know maybe think about having a town capital but you know you should write i think yeah if there's a yeah there's more people here and we have you haven't we haven't done it is elaborately is it's brighter than it has been but it could certainly be better and you know we have a we have a budget what we don't have is a set of criteria i think we should do it right now right now for good good idea minutes two nineteen i didn't see anything