scare that it was going to flood thankfully the fire department put sandbags at the bank a boring broke presumably that prevented a tremendous amount of damage and we're really interested in finding out how we can help us and i went door to door to see if our neighbors would be interested in helping as well and we have eleven families who would like to help and we'd love to know what the town's plans are for that area so we can be of service we'd also like to know what involvement with i probably just or some other person who might know the landscape so we can fathers or grandfathers had lived on that property or they themselves had lived in that property for a very long time and they would say that this is not likely current it's hasn't happened in recent times except for recently that we want to be of service and we also want to be connected so when there is something presented to you about the area we would like to know who's it if you can form we can we do ahead of the committees you're a leader of this thing of this and i think  thinking and pondering and hopefully we can push them along i think it legrand safe and want to move things through proper etiquette ok but you want to be in the loop i think one thought we could think about  but i think that could easily be done but there's no long term hope yet something should be done could be done all those things as long as the state goes along with that it's the next four months that are if you feel i've had some short term when you're trying to figure out if in the future things come up that need to be financed how that process works in the in the recent past as part of our town meeting billing i said well let's just kind of figure out what this is going to mean because in the future there might be other expenses that the task force feels the need to deal with what do we go to the slip or see a conjunction with that one of the things that we've come across is that the somebody on that there's a complete assessment of the building this much as we all know the building it's work it seems to be looking for it starting to have sort of the section and historic preservation trust people sort of sanction any drawbacks this is for the work for this particular branch it's it doesn't attach anything to it it's just an assessment basically they send somebody task force hasn't been deputized select for the time but are built to go about doing anything other than gather information yeah i think some of that information down the road may come with expenses and i'm here number one to try and make sure that you know the historical society doesn't have to pay for tim gerberas photograph if you decide to do this we don't have to then scramble for funds to do that after the fact but primarily to figure out let's just say for the sake of argument we get to the point where we've got to hire an engineer or a surveyor something like that ok do we have to put out things you know say out the terrible thing which again i think was fast tracked unnecessarily i think under some assumptions is it does it complicate matters if for example let's just say whether it's printing or anything else to explain the sense of these pictures and now you know these pictures were put together by tim because you've done a lot of work with the historical society they're going to be on display as part of our informational stuff and meeting ok out it wasn't interested you know they have other things in there already they had their thing there could this be added to that collection if it could be added that collection then i don't see why not i mean i'd like to think that at some point it should be a separation of town figuring out what the mechanism is for future stuff you know the grid we've already resolved this i think is kind of whether it's put out the collection plate and who owns it and all that stuff i really don't think is a big deal you know it's like seems like if this is going to be displayed in the building it would be property of the store side right on the night i realize that but it's more but where did the photos come from whose property were these photos that were and yes tim has basically sold them to the task force his personal cigarette to do with the task force we can hang them in the old schoolhouse just right in the back and probably kind of wondering set the ownership they can stay there i'd rather not yeah i mean how that works out i really with the two fifty party celebration you know there was so much going on back and forth historical society does have some fun sort of a lot of assumptions were made and the funding got kind of squirrelly after a while that people just made presumptions think that's what happened here so i think unfortunately i don't at this time see the funding spot for what you're talking about and so it's awfully hard to run a task force that is going to have expenses if it funding direct that's right of curiosity that is part of the snow white capital fund where you have unexpected expenses with a given building or property but the towers for example let's just say we get to a point where should have had this discussion before budget time in the fall and we could have easily put a line item in there and then it you know probably could've been done through that but but it definitely can work if you got a bill from doing it in the form of something very interesting to think about regularly i want to bring up  for right here having been it's such a neat thing that we offer the public to rent this out and do things unfortunately though as you well know it's an old building  floors and i'm not convinced people dancing up there and having a good time it's a great use of this space and this is just generally speaking so as you move forward on the task force thing i think it becomes more and more glaring to me at least as  man as a citizen that there's a need for community space separate than above sherry's off base and the rest the people that work here so i'm sure this is already in your plans already is the right step but i applicants consultants and made in after go through the process right so the application process so we turned said we will ask our legal counsel and get an opinion from that so we have an opinion from our legal counsel here and our legal counsel is saying the bottom line is an access permit is required for the proposed upgrade of the road our next step will be the take this letter and send it to the consultant and the march thirteenth meeting in fact i got to first of all see how and i might ask earlier counsel how that fits into this whole process you see i'm saying like how are you some of that information then how do we that right off about i know what i'm looking at you know yes i know exactly what i'm looking out on the lam for bear i saw the plan was extremely incomplete the right of way of a range rover was incorrect so that's when we said we'd like to see a plan a profile like we normally always see you put a profile of the show the grade of the road because that's what we you know so we sent that they came with i still think of income police set of plans but that was the time they said no you know what we in my opinion i think you could hold to the temper side if that's the road policy right we're looking at the road policy there's no the fellow there's no subdivision being proposed so but i also don't want to yeah i know i know i was wondering and left it in brian's hand about if we were going to take on the painter you know the one bid that we get and you give him up up or down you know he's willing to work side by side you know yeah it's about the response  card here you know we have seven twenty hours and twenty five dollars an hour for eighteen thousand dollars in labor this is to demo out all the insulation in the foam on the inside and he thinks it's a month that's a big part of our budget but the town roof would basically have phone lead on top of the existing metal and then another new metal membrane on top of that creating a cold roof which would stop the condensation issue also mixed with the air the the reports that you see in the town report article three shell the voters approved total general fund expenditures of one million one hundred seventy three thousand three hundred thirty one dollars of which eight hundred forty eight thousand three hundred thirty nine shall be raised by taxes three hundred twenty four thousand nine hundred ninety two will be raised by non tax revenue funds are always flip as a as they are the only questions there an article for show the voters approved total highway funding expenditures of one  million seventy nine thousand three hundred sixty two dollars of which nine hundred seventy seven thousand three hundred sixty two shall be raised by taxes one hundred two thousand so be raised by nontaxable  revenues pursuant to title twenty four section twenty six sixteen for the only important thing i will know in there that you will notice that the  et that total fund does not include the truck that's been proposed because that will be will be taken out a loan for that truck so that's not one hundred sixty thousand dollars for the truck is not in that in that article clarified that before those are the questions that we can discuss on the floor i found while the voting is going on so a lot belltown officers as required by law and  officers that are running for their position is up on the ballot article seven show the voters show the voter of the town continue to examine the property of underhill jericho the fire department yes the fire department is a separate entity from the town they provide service to underhill in jericho we pay for that service so they have a budget every year they come to us with basically if we did not tax exempt them they would simply roll the taxes into the budget and it would become part of the budget so that's kind of how because it's i think there are the three to five years is up so we revisit it every five years article a chill the voters of the town and revisit the tax exempt status of maple leaf on so this is simply a question whether people would like to entertain a conversation about the town talks exempt status of m struggling operation it once was you'll notice that's not in quotes i did not say that i did however say that lately farms has evolved over the years and that there are a larger facility down there what they  year so that you had time and your organization had time to present itself to explain to the public you know going into to start a conversation now is the only point that we're trying to make here is that this conversation started and the townspeople are informed of the special extremely clear if it does not say as the previous article says shelf shell the town continued to examine the property we had an article just like this last year about the purchase of property tax to the next the post so just to be clear here that you know that yes that we did put some numbers together twenty five thousand dollars course the majority of that goes to the school which we still continue have to pay the school always gets their money so the town the residents of this town have been pain roughly eighteen thousand dollars on behalf of maple leaf farm for all these years that well or for those numbers based on last year  we've done a little research into your yes you and your nonprofit organization and we've seen some numbers and i'm not sure that the sources come from god started out a work of some pretty significant profit surpluses two thousand and eleven we have some data about that did quite well that year i understand that you're and weak and i knew long before talking to this i saw the article on vermont digger i saw that you were laying off some folks i also looked at your website and see that you have four you're looking for four new people  sure i'm sure of that but again that's not your financial status or your status of your business really shouldn't play into this at all it's the fact it's the fact of the matter is here and this is the first time i've met you so i think it would be nice if you if you would contribute to the town before i think we know that i think maybe far over to the taxpayers of the town to just inform them where you are what's going on and then make sure that they know that that benefit is there for them that's just a suggestion but again we could go around and around all kinds of things but i think at the end of the day fairness to you that we would present the question to have the conversation or not they got away i think if people were not interested in having a conversation or they didn't seem to mind that there the makes a big noise about how we have to control the drug and substance abuse problem then i listen to the governor talk about how we have an epidemic here in the city and the state reduces funds for people who are trying to do something about this epidemic it isn't evident and you should know that we're in the middle of you should have this information and this should be made clear to the people under bothers me that all the sudden governments on all levels with foreign support from an outfit that is trying to contain probably the worst have family and friends have suffered we understand them for three human beings up here we're not some crazy government organization slashing funds here i don't know you know this is i want to make it clear to everybody that's  our objective here this is this is a circumstance that literally we're just making clear to the public in your commentary is great here you're a member of this town speak to a town meeting you make a great point maybe people will be very excited about spending that one thousand nine hundred dollars quote unquote into this service and this whole thing so now people are really excited about their nine thousand dollars a month that they're spending instead of maybe not knowing where the one thousand dollars is going to maybe we line is though we have the question at hand you know there are people you can always justifications but the people need to know the hard facts and they need to make their own judgment so good they chose clark's trucks honor as a low bidder and they gave us the opportunity to tag along and get a single axle truck for the same price so with modifications if we choose so  we felt that that the state did all the ground work and it was a good deal so that's that's what we're proposing article ten feel the proposed bylaw the planning commission on december eighteenth two thousand and thirteen and the select board on january eighth two thousand and fourteen the adopt it and just to clarify this is there is no change downstairs all simply get it wrong so the second part of the bylaw amendments say the decision of the planning commission and the slick order nine hundred seventy two is to where the districts came down to the range boundary that's still in force so pay no attention to the bad maps this is what it says basically says notwithstanding anything else the one nine hundred seventy two solution state so there's no change to the district boundaries as you do them before a town meeting twenty eleven thing i would like to clarify here on the park district