castle some of terri located under fifteen jericho reasons for this request one to the best of our knowledge the cemetery is abandoned and there is no committee  organization responsible for its current or long term upkeep and maintenance the history historic access to the cemetery will be denied and future access to the property is in question due to the recent decision of jericho d r p to permit installation of the dollar store in front of the cemetery the cemetery is it is a town of jericho historic property as members of the original jericho founders the brown family and other early settlers are buried at this location as such it is should be preserved and profile provided for by the town of jericho under state statutes title ten b s a paragraph fifty three twenty one the law specifies that a request of this nature shall be addressed by the select board and they shall proceed to acquire the cemetery and maintain such as a public area of ground zero with us this is our twenty eight signatures the state law all requires which i've attached to them back that if you are petition by three voting residence you are required to take over the cemetery and maintain it and read and run it as a public grounds  the concern here is we address this at the d r p we brought up the question of how it how do you maintain access to that site cemetery we original access was and the surge is an aerial photograph from nineteen forty two which shows that access directly from route fifty when we brought this we didn't have the maps unfortunately we did bring it to the d or b and they took no action they didn't note it in their findings of fact but there was no condition to maintain access to the cemetery if the building is built as presently designed there are there is a dirt driveway going into the church then it could be made into a driveway to the cemetery but nobody is working on doing at the moment and as such as i said my my concern is that as such the cemetery at this point could end up being totally landlocked you wouldn't get the steep bank on the sun on the church property you can barely drive a truck up that bank it's certainly not handicapped access and as such it is as i say going to be a land line there is discussion going  which is where we turn where there currently is access to provided to the cemetery there's restrictions if you don't really want to call it for the good shepherd church that requires that that they provide tell it might be that they enjoy chickens so much that with the local farmers populating with so many vulnerable animals that that's brought them down out of the range but i far better witness to several sudden heart attacks the two of them have you know they are for roche animals their job their teeth intersect like this so they can clip a deer's leg right off while running and the young ones which i've now seen twice i'm vulgar hell road are very very brazen you know seventy five feet from me and so they one of them got into it with either a groundhog or of go for something in my daughter's horse barn the other night sounded like it was riot after a soccer game or something and the coyote one had no clue that whatever it was the guy already took it home for dinner and so on but i don't know in effect who within the town should be focusing on this but i've seen a full size coyote on barber farm before nine o'clock at night no fear fifteen twenty feet from my car so i've got no idea whether there's a wasting disease or whether there's rabies to worry about or whether this is just a natural evolution of having chicken stuff available but they can leve can't even keep track of how many they might get but i talk to fish and game a there's no season you can shoot them with or without a license they have some pretty nasty methods of getting them which i consider to be very dangerous for domestic animals and it's just been coincidental that i was able to get two of them but they were all with less than one hundred yards from the house  i'm i just think that people are underestimating you know how potentially dangerous these animals are both for their domestic animals and it would be horrible if they grabbed a kid a small see in the wintertime you know when the ground was pretty well frozen up barreling around higher speeds but they're thirty five to forty perceptible and they historically the coyotes are going low hunters but a timber wolf is a pack or so it's possible that there may be some collaboration but it's not documented but they analyzed that the albany that very place for the state of vermont almost seven hundred animals and they only found one with domestic dog d n a but they did document you know the the wolf today so we are talking about a full blown wild animal yeah there's you know their you know life i went and got a license anyway but they just figured it would be better but i offered them the carcasses and they said no we know what we're dealing with but once they get something they will not stop coming back you know that ate my daughter's chickens and that was what put them on our property so they're going to be there they're pretty formidable and they're strong and i can't believe how fast they can run now there are that the small ones i would say are in the thirty five to forty range they're bigger than a fox but very similar in features to the fox but the full sized ones the two that i got the thing that is the thing that's the deal i made with my wife was that i wouldn't touch them so they got they got the graves fairly quickly but that the ball of the jaws are just i've never seen anything like that you know that they couldn't and that's how they can cleef because our teeth come flush so you know try to bite through all the way through a tough steak but when your teeth go like this it's just like two s are very powerful wow but the only reason i got one of them was because it had a mature rabbit and it was distracted by the rabbit the other one had a big mole or weasel they  with wow but they're they're out in broad daylight i mean that's pretty scary so and if they're coming in close and somebody leaves a little kid around that would not be good we have for the last few years to put this up to bid in the low bid was craig cowles a house excavating who did it the work last year did this year is actually lower than it was last year twelve thousand four hundred  at this point the board wants to proceed with actually repealing the school impact fees you mean to approve that and then it's publishing just like a an ordinance unless people petition for  it it becomes the repeal becomes affected i'm sixty days from today and we get this is based on the study that the separate commission to look at the impact fees which hadn't been looked at in almost twenty uses certain districts and on other districts and then as far as governing well the for repairs of that use is you have to go through series of cumbersome hearings and d m v to try a little of the details and figure out well ok you've got frontage but tons of businesses want to be there because they know the business looks at the code and knows what they can and cannot build and there their data there is no gamble it's just we can move in there we can do five years ago we're supposed to be able to walk from the center to joes and to be able to ride a bike to the high school and there's a lot of things that have been engineered and planned and we're just don't seem to be getting them done i think we start what thirty some odd thousand dollars to figure out how to go from jericho severed to the high school i get the feeling certain lands might be up for sale and i haven't seen any specifications for easements or you know there's can't seem to get across one but the real thing is mobility for multiply mobile so that you don't have to have transportation in the comparability of jericho to newport itself burlington or burlington there are virtually nothing in common other they're all very well but they already have large established infrastructures of sidewalks sewers and we don't have any of that issue this is just a concept it doesn't necessarily have to go anywhere but it but it's an idea the general idea is one is that you would create a change the  that why intersection to a t intersection that allows us to do so curbing and drainage and we'd also would pave to the top of that first kno mainly to keep the gravel from washing all the way down into the road we would create a asphalt curb and the north side and then on the south side would put in a ditch and to catch basins with drain that would go through the green and connect down to the drain that actually exits south of the circle down by know i don't have a design the way possible but i know that was what that was designed to do to be right what happened was when they tried to fix that over the fourth of july thing that all occurred just before that they sort of caught r already been done for the same area but if i can encourage two things one we have a traffic speed problem a bulge a whole row of them we've all document the written to everybody about and as we deal with the storm water issues we don't want to end up with an increased hazard for the pedestrians and people so the pavement which is probably necessary due to the shortness in the having three stop signs so you basically bring it to the t stop everybody but as you're going up bolger hill road if you bend the road away from officers this is what i watch for looks like this is a lo you bend the road away from woful airs so that it's not a straight shot from our driveway all the way to the center because it seems as though the i q in the common sense is inversely proportional to the size of the  that's being driven so the larger the vehicle the faster they go out on trucks i mean that actually i wasn't i was thinking of ones that don't smell as good as down trucks that we seem to have to have four or or if you go back three years you'll find tape by all the trees where i tried them up the road go away from the big bump and go around the block which would allow you to not have a straight shot straight up the hill and it would also flatten it because part of the reason why you're having the problem is because the ledge bylaw flourish forces you instead of having a better average grade from our driveway down to the center you have this peak in the middle and that peak is very unsafe because you can't see when you're coming up or down in a vehicle a pedestrian or a kid on a bike on either side of that peak and that is very dangerous and the law for said these wonderful children and i would love not to see one of them become a road pizza so i think if we could do this to solve the stormwater problem and also adjusted to deal with the traffic problem the speed issues and there's several concepts talking to the issue that you have brought up to me is that you don't just throw all that water into a pipe try to bring the water into a settlement containment facility which might be a giant concrete structure becomes a swirl chamber precipitates out the gravels and so forth that have gotten in there and allows the somewhat cleansed water to flow out but it also the first thirty percent of the water flow in a storm event is what contains all the pollution that last seventy percent chance to run pretty clear until it hits a point of the road so if we design this with something like that with how to treat the water and how to absorb it and do it it would be a wonderful demonstration that there's some funny stuff that we call dynamite that instead of dancing around the ledge we blast some of it we can actually create a very positive result and then reuse the blasted material to help build a solid road base  that there are some much better practices that we're following up there and we're filling everything with gravel you cannot turn the side of the road with  and if you go all the way up older hill road you're trying to carry the water a half a mile with a gravel berm and guess what happens it erodes it plugs up the culvert like the twenty four inch closer to him was talking about probably couldn't handle the water if it wasn't fifty or sixty percent full of gravel so it's a combination of bad practice and storm peak of violence and there are some very simple things that we're not doing like using geotextile so when we build a death if you throw large rock into a ditch and you haven't either vegetate  drains because once they get broken loose they actually for a while and then they become an obstacle so i think there's some opportunity for some better practices than what the practicing it will last a lot longer but i also wrote you if you remember about a recreational lane give up trying to have two for wayne's and places like boulder hill road have had turnouts and stuff so i think we've got a real good opportunity because an awful lot of worksman done up there but if we don't get in there and vegetate it and i'll give you an example if you drive up there and you look at all the heavy ditching that was done multiple times and how many how much it's cost and how much it's a road and then you go over and floor which does the opposite of the way you're designing your ditches where you're concentrating your water flow at the bottom of the triangle so that increases the rate of speed that the water is travelling and it reduces the surface area of the water is flowing over mr loffler is front lawn is like of this and it's vegetative so if you increase the depth of the water the water goes over a wire area so they actually wanted to go in and convert his front in to this when in fact his was the only part of trickle road that actually made it through all sto so it's hard to do with all the trees but that vegetated swell that flattens has a wider area is much better than the steep ditch one like this and the only way this is going to work is if you put some type of a permeable product in there away and if you're familiar with tiled roofs you can put like a cement half of but you can't do it throw in six to eight inch rock in without having put the geotextile sand or not following it up with some type of either some type of incredibly  about stormwater home but i'm learning more in this in this position and you know i'm really concerned about just rebuilding the same way because i believe there's no reason for us to think that there we're not going to have more and more laterally certainty interracial rain localized you know downpours and it's not i don't believe it's just a fluke this summer  so i don't know you know which of the poles is the best for us in terms of budget and in terms of you know person power in terms of very minimal you know but i do  i do think that just grading the gravel and just filling up the ditches it really does seem that we need to make sure and i have and i said this in our last couple of meetings whatever we're doing to fix ditch has got to be steeper than the pitch of the road the water cannot run on top of gravel going to it's going to the road every single time you cannot have people's driveways draining onto the road surface so you need some public works standards come to an agreement you don't need to wait for any studies those of us who've been maintaining our driveways are not losing them all the time to already know how to do it but you can't continue to do what you're doing and it doesn't seem as though anybody is listening to get a response to my letters and it's like you know there's ten thousand dollars grant for the better back roads practices and i understand we may or may not have already but we're certainly not fall and you're just not all that work up on boulder hill road you can't carry water that way and expect it not to continue to road i've got a pictorial thing i could bore you to literally listen to the new stuff rolling through the mill coverage they were already there when the storm hit you know i think that is part of it but that's what's happening as each landowners protective of they don't want to storm water on their property you know so they're putting a card into the driveway to keep from even hitting your lawn like the lockers well if you try to carry water on a mile the the natural flow of the water that when it comes down this size the road serves as a dam which concentrates the water instead of allowing it to follow its original course as long as you can keep water really fan spread out diversified and you collect hopefully like we've diverted three days after we moved in thirty eight years ago our driveway was gone so i diverted almost sixty percent of our water into a large pond and it goes out through a six inch  and it can flood eight feet deep you know and so you can you can take an eight foot acres of water and allow it to flow out over a long period of time and ari ancestors who came from other countries did this better two hundred years ago without diesels without big steel pieces of equipment that were doing that where through huge gryphus property but it's and we're talking about real estate so it's actually a waterfall but it's a lot better to have held back eight foot acres of peking water and let it go down through a six inch high no cascade down over the rocks and stuff and you'll go up there there's no road not so it's like you want to take a walk sometime i think you can win a lot but it's not that hard to do what i'm talking about but you can't keep ripping your road base up with your greater you get a nice f compact that road base and then you bring your grader and you rip your road base up and you flatten it out push it all into the ditches there's much better and much less expensive machines that can do a better job more suited to these roads that thing may be fine on planes roads or scholar but it doesn't belong on boulder hill road or any of the other smaller roads it's got a fourteen foot moat way that makes about a twenty four foot hydraulically operated and it would drag all the trailing that fell off to the side and put it back into the center of the road or they'd pull your freight so it's it's not that hard to do something that would be good if we could do something other than what we're doing because we do create pollution problems for filling up the streams of thought of the road beds very recently the intensity of the down slope future flooding because you're filling up all of the areas that store the water with all the eroded material and so it's like i think there's a better way that sounds pattern want to do anything with it until we saw what was going to happen from here forward so washed out again last week and then i watched it again tonight but i'm just not sure where we're going in the short term because i don't want to keep going through this either so we should be assessors out perhaps you know like right now it's in the hospital so it's really not funny but you know we're just trying to not went towards the library or out the front of the library and then that flowed across the paved road by the carbon at a lower rate wider problem is with the road kill to torture you run into the problem however when that happened they actually did straight into our property and i hope they thought that our property was the property above that had the swale or a what was going on there but they created a literal dish that came into our property and then that just turned into rivers and i think that's what caused the church probably a lot of their problems because it just happened so fast so you know we did a temporary fix on that and then they tried to ferment and of course that's now washed out too but when it actually leaned over the little bit more towards the south side of the road at least the water was traveling that direction and not just taking up the whole road down through it's gotten much worse i have to say i mean the lower part of the green where it washes out it's got way more debris on it than it ever has and it's always had someone else but the amount that's going down there now is just unbelievable so i think the purchase a lot of fancy things and they have a lot of like cameras in the strobe and that sort of thing if you purchased the two years of the the program which you're calling the smart traffic suite then you get all the other things that have cost so he's showing is that for the forty three hundred dollars it's cheaper to to to get the all the options it in the in the software and then with the program for two years then to not and then after this two years you want to keep all the other stuff so essentially the forty three hundred is a deal because you gain more expensive one if you buy that right but there's a there's a payment a year right there's but for this you're paying it upfront so the after the two years is when the two years then you would there's an annual the hand if you try if you drop down to just the traffic reporting it's five hundred dollars a year for each side