parking spaces of my bikes but at any time those bikes can be there could be ten by ten rights on this track right or no bikes on this track it depends where people are taking them because you don't have to return it's where you took it where you started you can return it to any of the seventeen  university college of contributed so it's probably were twenty five different contributions to make it happen yeah so we like all the contributors on the bike share and determine what happens to make sure so there must be some kind of on policies once they're set so you will never see a project other than a project like this you'll never see it as owning a project per se but you as a body sort of write rules of the road your charge of drafting or rewriting the zoning ordinance and the municipal plan and in theory also the capital budget if we had you're charged with if there's any sort of policy or kind of general practices are sort of sort of planning initiatives that the city's engaging in we will typically come to you for their approval or you'll be the clearing house for it for example the planning commission is the current body that reviews and passes on to recommends to council anything to do with the main street revitalization project so there's a whole number of initiatives that would come before you putting something like this useful planning grants would come before you for approval any any sort of thing that is so so again you do the town plan the bylaw and any other studies or capital budgets we would look at so for example this body reviewed the economic development strategic plan you would be in charge of reviewing the energy plan in charge of the current transportation master plan this body also was part of the steering committee for the form for base code that was for the gateways project which was owning will be addressing the bylaws and then actually you will be in very short order amendments to the vial and again by law is the zoning ordinance by which any development that takes place within the city must adhere to the unique document in the state of vermont and largely new england because it's a hybrid between a conventional zoning by law which most communities of right have and we also have a form based code which conventional zoning which will do you have to do some as we get into the zoning ordinance rewrite or amendments to get into some of the training on how that works or how they work so  play has never seen them in action so it is it's it's a it's a different approach designing them could most most communities have it and truly what this state ha projects on east out there's two in construction on main there's three more in the works at least so there's and to give you the short synopsis of the difference between the two level review required which the the applicant must go to the d p r b and meet standards that are set up in the zoning ordinance and by state statute the gateway districts or the four base code if you meet the qualifications or the requirements of the code everything is done administrative leave so the building that notably three forty eight main on main street which is almost complete four stories twenty four they're kind guaranteed a very streamlined process so it makes developing to the standards set up by the form a code in when these people as opposed to some other community very good desirable so that's why we've been seeing so when we get into that which we will i have a list of things that are going to be code amendments for me i'm going to put in front of you to be discussed as central could moments it's all really on your shoulders  officers how you like officers you know all that sort of stuff so you know basically how many members there are with what the general decision making process is we just lost our vice chair we need to jot that was our vice chair yes he's got i wasn't here so i he was asked to resign because of potential conflict of interest because he's  so we have a total complement of seven which is what about the rules of procedure say so it's some point before we move on to the next item we need to select an interim vice chair to act as chair now after two years you can choose to i will i will ask you at the end of your term do you want to be reappointed or not and if you say yes unless you've done something really onerous for you flowing discussion and if nothing else i'm always a little bit entertained by this issue because they never know where it's going to go so i can't i don't come into this saying oh you know we're going to end start here and end up here so and that's i think really appreciated and so i think my treatment to all of you has to think about what's in front of you whether be mears for plan or energy plan or transportation master plan and you know be be forthcoming and not be shy because i think that's what aides to makes the process which we want to have conversations and we want to you know any one of us probably misses something so kind of basically we're taking the plans from the four base code the drawings for the four base code project the the streetscape plans and moving them forward as if they were the kind of what we're going to proceed with and we we had several meetings that involved the public at large with the planning commission and the public works commission and through some pretty serious discussion the plans involved in a way that i don't think the engineers expected i don't think that's really council expected or the steering committee expected and now the plans as they're being moved forward to the final stages of primary engineering hav hill or northbound cycle bike lane and the same time we've managed to accomplish all the things on the other modes are equally supported sidewalks are as wide as the original proposals and so it became a chair typically tears the meeting if there's a conflict of interest with the chair or the chair for whatever reason isn't here if there's any questions i think that would be this would be the time to ask the one thing that i would like to do it possible especially for the new members is just get a little bit more sense of everybody's background and what brought them here for those of us who weren't part of the interview process go been a resident when you ski for two years my husband and i moved here with our now two and a half year old son we are we own a duplex so we live in half the rent of the other half so we have the perspective of homeowners who are also you know actively engaged with the rental scene in the village and here i really was so excited about the new scheme wanted to get involved in the community and i have a background in i'm a real estate agent so i do work in real estate in the area i also have a background in local governance i was a school board member in now maryland where i village previously  in urban planning so sorry my planner and i also like your green building consultant so i've always been really interested in how people move around and how places are bell and how it affects people's quality of life and i served on the ward five and a neighborhood planning assembly when i lived in burlington and have been bogged down with what it means to have a two year old interest in like family surfacing and it just seemed like a great and going to city council meetings and paying attention but i don't think the background case of women artists and i was just interested in doing something to give back to the community and sorry satisfactions our way to community members and in the languages i speak you know on the language my first language because there are a lot of people here that you know that developer who both works from home works for an office in colchester and i'm always interested in social geography and kind of what place means for things like community origin you're coming together and  one of the reasons that we love it when you scheme want to live here was because we enjoyed the public spaces so much the green area before you had cast of and the way the circles transformed waking windows and i look forward to being a part of that in terms of expertise i bring nothing really and the specific arena of planning or development review except that i spend my day reviewing documents and look forward to doing that tonight  one to talk to them about what our vision is will we'd like them to give us and get on and then they're going to go off on their own and brainstorm and write down some you know bullet points and ideas and come back to us so we have a few more patients that we need to meet with that we have it has a commission as one of the commissions that will be on the schedule if not next time soon within a couple of meetings the planning commission have reviewed the existing aster plan documents we're working on  has a really good plan has a good online presence and a good physical presence there are some other online plans i think are really good which i can send you links to and this document i just wan and this is the kind of thinking we're going to be applying in this the stock missed chock full of this kind of both really practical information like this but then also the statutory requirements and  government well it's you know it's big and it's sort of got a lot of stuff in it it's it's i find it to be really useful to get to work with what we're trying to do here  what's aspirational about what he says he want or what the goals are of the community at large and how those goals have been reflected in a number of planning efforts to date including transportation master plan the housing commission work the energy plan the four basic ok we districts there's a whole bunch of work and including the behind you on the the wall the strategic vision statement which if you look at with just backing out you know the city an entry into the papers or if there's anything that the planning commission members will you know plan a commission already know and the new what are some of our you know big visions for the city and how we want what do we want this document to do we talked about that we talked about all of the different areas that we wanted the that many of these areas and we felt that it was critical to get their input and say which is how we develop the model that we're going down now which is that we have you know we've talked about things like it would be great to have we envision that happening we know that different commissions are talking about similar things and so we're asking them to do is to go sit down during a meeting and talk about these ideas and come back to us with those specific ideas for us to filter through talk about our own ideas and kind of like mash them together into an actual plan which hasn't been written yet worst this is like a coll one up one by one having meetings with the commission and think please bring us your big ideas and then let you know well we'll work through them and probably make them act we've talked about first that get round to talk to the manager and you know i'm certain topics example you know we want to involve the people that are actively involved in that project to tell us what their vision is and discuss it with us and that will in one way or another work into our plan because  as a pool when we seek funding for that pool or seek any kind of support from and here to the other them within ourselves the first question always asked his does your municipal plan support that  support the activities that we might think about asking for craft funds for presenting all the main street project will well i think you can argue that it is currently supported by the national current plan but w try to enhance the support for things like them a few projects things like the pool things like if there are community gardens there are discussions with the services about how we can read language and that further supports community garden activity or it or a kind of food sovereignty or a food insecurity issues within the community so that's all stuff that is should be if it's if it's important to this community and important that you know no no hard drive backup it was like this bag this something awful was always sits right next to me in this meeting it takes up put it in there and i was like the next morning i got home and i was like something's missing from my car and i just left it in there because i was going to goals for say economic development and at the end i put a stake my goals section and that that was because we we this plan to the municipal plan needs to align with the regional plan which meets or align with the state wide documents of the state my goals our goals should be reflective of something in some ways of the state wide goals that's that's not the sort of unspoken requirement of the plan that we can but say why goals are so generic and so inclusive that it's not going to be hard to do it i kind of think we're already doing it but it just of i put that in there is a kind of footnote to ourselves to say ok we need to be thinking about this as well there is one more i remember from last time which was parks you know we said we have natural areas but i think we decided that not all parts necessarily would qualify him for natural areas so and you know like how do you say for somebody that unfamiliar with the master plan that you want them to contribute we're giving them enough guidance so that they understand the level of the master plan is versus detail and so what we did before him or i think this will be the last thing we do today but we did before was each class a commission member was assigned a committee or commission and they those individual members met with the commission  commission chair or the commission staff member depending on how it was worked out and had this sort of broad based discussion with that that liaison and then when the commissions were the commission the volatile cept for the housing commission of all of it in front of have all had a joint meeting with this commission the planning commission and in those joint meetings to the it was described that this is meant to be in the broad products of terms but also kind of aspirational sort of thing but not like we want the sidewalk on russell street and whatever to be fixed and so there was it was sort of described to them that way and whether or not they we have to see whether or not that they will put their public works commission is meeting right now and i once again gave jonathan their staff person this and sort of gave them this  that tone in person like this is these are this is a big vision document we want you to think big we want you to tell us this is your opportunity to tell us those big bold ideas that you have had and talked about in your meetings  without necessarily feeling like you have to justify how everything is going to be accomplished that we want to hear the idea because that's you know what's going to get us to a place where we can't even discuss it or like you know think about it so the first meeting that we have which with each commission we've had i guess with every commission now itself it was a commission that we came into that's going to happen at a future meeting we've had that discussion and they've come without me don't ask them to come here paired that day with anything other than you know knowing that they're going to have a conversation about municipal plan and then we will ask them to come back in a month or two after they've had a chance to meet other than with those ideas but i think we've tried to set a tone that they should you know i think that what some of the questions that we've gotta go do we have to like take up like a paper and we've tried to be like no we just like a bullet point list is fine if we really want to hear just ideas and not have people get caught up in  formality or greater operational us stuff yeah and i understand it only event that other meeting and it seemed like that wasn't communicated to them and they were talking about like that and i don't know just for efficiency for our meeting and everything to have some sort of communication it started it doesn't really matter at this point there's only one more commission that we're meeting with to do it all this way but you know what happened to that particular one was an interesting one because we had prepared so terry and i had met with three and you took jonathan and jesse who was at that point staffing public works and i think that the communication went really smoothly with them so it's all it all depends but it's you know it's a it's a it's a learning curve and so the plan at this point can be an eight year document the state changed it from a five year document to me you so to that end i think it wouldn't be or it wouldn't be harmful to sort of begin to identify who wants i mean you're probably still going to work with community services as we move forward we should probably why i think we probably do neal the eight on with the school district and also with c c r p c i think that th economic development that he was going to do economic development and also work with me for general chapters meaning introduction and things like that so that the first introduction overview stuff he was going to work with me on  grouped with community service was public safety and i actually think that that's a pretty rich topic especially certain thing about clearly policing and or for changing the model policing which i think collection is another topic that we've talked about before activating photos concept train so there's two other pieces there are one of one of the piece that's one that's there but that's also i think going to be we're about to issue an r f the sort of collection of the kind of presentational materials so i think that there is there there will likely needs to be a planning commission member who who it is specific to the whoever the consultant is the sort of the staff or me and some planning commission member who will interface with the consultant on that and that would be looking at graphic imagery photographic imagery  picture and put it in the dropbox if you look at that six plan or a good plan you'll see that it's like seventy percent graphics and you know the rest is references to the  sort of describe some of the some things like the safe healthy connected people seem to have a lot of things going on because that sort of crosses all of all the different territories commitment than the others other than the fact that they have wherever it is and we can talk afterwards for a minute but my house i'm pretty fine dynamic stuff going on and i think they will be being paid to do a all right so any other anything else anyone wants to address the for me to make a motion to adjourn just out of curiosity you know i see a lot of commissions a lot of a lot of other duly so i mean i think the way i do here it is that we're asking for input and they're giving us their input and then it is our job to discuss that input and if we need further clarification to make a decision then we can go back to each of the commissions and ask for further clarification on the i mean where the final that kind of you are the final voice to make recommendations to council draft your plan is a recommendation put into our draft right but in in in recent history again i'll go back to the main street project we knew that there was going to be some actually complete all kind of messages remember thoughts about me and we we put it out to the public have i think a really healthy debate and consensus was right so i think the goal would be to through a public process and of internal process get to consent resolve conflict through discussion through compromise and in the case of the the main three primary i don't think it was any compromise at all i think we the consultant and the community pushed the project to do a better level so yeah i mean i think like a good example like we had been talking about parks and some of the things that you know maybe i had thought of or other people  last meeting with the community services commission and you know they brought up some practical potential of a taishan to that idea that i was not aware of and that doesn't necessarily mean that that's not worth going forward but