summarize where we are and i think give us an opportunity also to have chris before we finalize the review talk through the goals we could only just a porter human resources director for the town so last time we met with the board they conducted the performance evaluation for general manager christopher roy the final piece of that was to be concluded this evening with both goal setting for the upcoming year as well as  compensation rate of pay for mr bori he is currently at one hundred and seventy five thousand only so he would be looking for increase for the next cycle which would for him would be going on may st of this year wish to add or amend any of these goals and then hopefully we can get these finalized this evening but i thought it might be good if chris were to walk through it a very high level the five goals just so that the community can hear them and we can comment  so really that was the promise of number one is to get this to teacher plan finalized get the process underway and establish those focus areas to set the foundation for goal number two th campaign highland belmont like customer centric activities that's a long winded way of basically saying we're going out and increasing our marketing efforts to build awareness of our energy programming we're looking to we have a number of programs such as the you know the traditional ones the e v a s the fish and sea comps so those are some of the core marketing activities but also get it as part of that you know to build the more we're out there in front of folks that we can build participation and they're there by hopefully achieve greater success but also in in that same mechanism explain to folks what we're doing on on behalf of the community you know moaners developing the budget and monitoring the energy committee's activities with the roadmap in the resolutions a town meeting in the climate action plan internally we thought this fifty percent renewal doable target would be a good souce this is this target is more aggressive than that power supply policy so you could bring it to be compliant with the power supply policy or vice versa we could set this goal and then adjust the power supply policy accordingly but i don't want to point out there is that disconnect between our policy in this goal so where are we now and where was the power supply policy set at so we're at seventeen and the policy coming up full for this year is right around we're on track so seventeen and that and then i believe it's i was member twenty dollars twenty cents so i forget what the exact what percentage is for nineteen but there are budgeting process in our  sets the foundation for electrification right and some don't do it you know related to longer term goal setting so the point the the idea would be to go into this credit market financially to get these high level percentages and then gradually transition those to concrete contrasts that are tied to actual generation facilities so if we were to get to fifty how much of that would be actual interrogation of renewables versus those that we have cheap through x got it so that is  a wind contract goes into effect this month adds another percent so i'd say pushing twenty percent would be actual contracts and then the other thirty is the real credit so you could probably go higher i mean you're trying to adjust this coming  be useful tool to have that shows what do we spend on overhead maintenance what do we spend on underground mean it's what do we spend on renewable energy credits and so be in accordance with the work accounting standards that all  that was so long these lines with the budget one of the big things is they were changing organization so we geez when was that maybe the fall we made some adjustments to our energy positions and we added the energy specialists and so with the system upgrades and supporting strategic electric ation there are other organizational position adjustments i think that are worthy of attention so i didn't list them out here but you know we're facing i went through the capital projects we're facing this year and into next year and so we're just trying to align you know what do we do with outs you know with our current work and you know internal work force do you know where do we need consulting help or outside contractor will help this is now or into not necessarily energy stuff as much because we have any with this is back to the town wide system upgrade we're facing i mean that's a substantial amount of work and you know we have i forget the exact count ten or twelve folks that have to go in touch every poll a manhole in the town so there is that there's been a substantial amount of development so there's that quite a bit of engineering burden that we're facing and so that's where i think it's worthy of discussing you know not substantial i know the resources i've been involved with in the past so some of that comparisons to what our needs are and then with this ties  me with some of the historical forms into one that i actually just started it today to look at rolling that out of the overall he knew you were always so yes so i think we talked about john meeting and i think you want to let you want to get input before we adopted although i don't know really really done before anything as long as the board i think we should stress janet i mean this is all good new stuff that we're talking about tonight we should present that we are run by counsel and make sure that we're right on this but not sure don't have to redo all the polls and you could put in that pending approval you know that you know pending approval for solar array to be installed in town it doesn't have to be the center of your story you could put it or storage or somewhere else right there pending you know installation or or and or management of a solar or storage facility in town that you would as a goal working on that we sure the executive session we we discussed appropriate salary adjustment yes you want to summarize where we are sure so essentially mr roy is at one hundred and seventy five thousand received any increases since he's been with us he did not have a standard cola increase at this point so whatever compensation is voted on by the board counts as well so the  recommendation coming out of the discussion was to bear in mind a typical two percent cola that we often see for light as well as ten employees two percent cola as a cost of living adjustment base and then a performance that several numbers actually yeah we listen to   this may recall we started a discussion of the strategic plan generally and your roy had that presented to us my understanding is in the ceiling weeks you got some additional feedback  some feedback from from this body this is a revised plan that will take us through with the goal of gathering additional feedback and hopefully some level of alignment with us going forward just in terms of timing you have one other thing on the agenda as well as the approval of changes and then just highlighting the i know we didn't get that far last time so i figured once we hit the goals i'll just dig in a little bit deeper into the each of the goals in the metrics of just of the very brief  anything on slide four with the process but i wanted to stop here for a minute just to highlight how we intended to drill down into my starting at the overall big umbrella vision and drilling down to initiatives that will result in performance indicators to measure how we're doing and so this slide helps just describe that it's in that of that approach consulting firm yes or maybe that's in process you know for a significant amount of work how does that play into what we have on paper here on other words were engaging these people but we've got some fold the strategic play and sets the umbrella for how we make decisions on a daily basis and so that consultant we're hoping will then help us  make those decide how to invest in the different initiatives right so if we have say just energy goals for instance there could be you know water endless debate on what's that  portfolio of solar investment to make versus storage for says rex versus incentives for electrification and so the consultant is develops climate algorithms modeling for a number of institutions that well you know the one we have been looking at you know we could you bid this out by this so it would take the inputs and then help highlight how weeds project and forecast you know numbers on the k p i's and so my thought on that was i in the ideal world the to happen simultaneously and this is adopted soon enough to inform the modeling of my opinion is we have to make those decisions today anyway and so they don't have to be in step but we know when we run you know we have our whole list  what's the resulting reduction in greenhouse gases you know so we'd help quantify and results based on decisions we make today without just assigning random values to rebates and incentives based on what we g pull and they'll create that magic box that tells us what happens when we pull over and so so heat pumps say you know because we have a finite number of funds to create incentives and what we're hoping to do is then say what if we what's the optimum mix of initiatives to generate the greatest greenhouse gas emissions we could throw a scenario in there what  trust frank i miss i heard your question differently but like but i think you said no it doesn't do that anyway so what i want to know is is it sounds like you're saying the consultants would allow to that end a building on that if the consultants were to look at it and say but for another ten thousand dollars you could get that two dollars x your goal for whatever reason of the fish and see i think that would be an interesting insight that we might not have in this process is the process give us enough netflix ability when we have the input from the consultant to perhaps kind of adapt some of our goals well that's and that's where we haven't finalized what we have a core or a piece scope of services and so that's that's the intent and i guess there's also helps add some substance to that sticky argument say comes this is i'm not saying this is  say you shouldn't invest in he pumps at all put all your money reese you know that could come out of the model but you know rather than just someone saying it's here's the data points to support that arc or you know for as much funding when you shift the balance and so if you put your end goal is maximum greenhouse gas reduction you know how you know how do we feed into that you know what does that look like and so that's the intent behind a consultant  but to get there you know the hope is to have a guiding document that says these are principles and beliefs and the goals that we're looking to set for the employees so we might get to our goals in a different way than what we've listed here but i still looking to get to our goals exactly you know i would be difficult for me to tell you you know is it better to go after insulation meeting we talked about some wording for that but it's really to help guide decision making to achieve the goals and see which the goals will get to you in a few slides de beers and chris just i think we talked about  help it's this is not a one and done thing as a model that your staff will do use and tweak and as time goes on and evolve exactly because as we see i mean the industry changes i'm like not that long ago the industry is changing rapidly and so this would be a living model and so that's feasible that goals would have to change but that's also why this is a five year plan to look at again in five years or earlier i mean it's not set in stone but because some of the things internally we'd like to do with the awareness campaign but also for employees is start to you know show a vision you know what's what's our vision when folks you know can we get something on the bill you know and i'm not the billboard but that you know display board that you know this is when you come to work every day this is the vision you're working towards and so this slide you know calling on the engineering background is mathematical equation values plus industry trends gets a vision so you know what polar values which i think are shared across many different industries  also highlighting industry trends things are changing you know wasn't that long ago in two thousand and six ish where it was an all requirements the power supply contract you know rex didn't i mean they kind of exist but you didn't really deal with rex you didn't deal with going out and getting power supply point tries to sign on the line and you bought all your power and and things were a lot simpler but meter you know metering strange ink technologies we're talking about controlling street lights from the office customer you know  social media a big one is customer expectations that we see where you know that's one of the challenges we face as public power where folks are used to dealing with amazon and google and twitter where you have massive call centers of people ha instantaneous updates and so that all has to factor into how do we maintain a social presence how do we get instantaneous outage information to people you know how do we shift away from the days we actually had to call in an outage where you know in today's world it should just tell us you know so those are what people are starting to expect and those are the industry trends that we want to highlight through this interest and so that forms the vision and so you know that's our general overall statement but although it's a balance so that's back to steve's question about the consultants help and that is what is that balance you know rather than try and navigate you know what we think is the most  beneficial thing you know activities that we engage in on a daily basis let's put some data let's put some modeling behind it you know they can come in with research from other parts of the country and and help us determine what  that effect of balance between off you know because there's a balance right operational reliability community service environmental stewardship and financial stability those are big pillars that we need to balance to be successful is the only new actually not the only  that will dictate goals you know so that was the intent behind some of the goal setting is to pick some of these to focus on as you know targeted goals not just for myself but also this will help goal setting for each of the employees on down the chain so you pulled off all the bullet points from all actions it looks like so much cleaner graph and yes so one of the very consistent points of feedback or water all those intended to help identify why those focus areas were chosen but we thought because there will be as associated report with this that adds detail we could just going through the report that it's a slide show it's not a them helps that balancing act of in the vision statement so moving to two goals as you'll see slide eleven starts goal number one so this is where we hit the operational resilience and some of the ten is not is that also show in some of these areas we're doing well so perhaps we don't have to necessarily make changes or do anything differently but but it is used to emphasize that it's important part of our business so some of the formatting you'll see just how to get there on the left so that those are the targets and these are the initiatives that we've identified and that we need to the initiatives then drive our activities so activities are on here that's what i would consider part of say the budget discussion where the activities are what we assign the crews to so those are listed you know as the strategic plan we try to keep it higher level the activities would be you know if so such that solar project development you know that could be in the goal setting for employees so here it's the targets and the initiatives that will help achieve these targets and then the blue to the right is where we are today so we know where we're starting and this came up at the well back meeting when i was there  hundred numbers and this was just showing through seventeen so the idea was to go back to fifty one way up to eighteen to show that it had that one year pop up and then it went back down to normal yes so i got a little more busy than i was expecting to add those lines in question so that's one of the things that not listed on here are the activities and so i would say the answer to that question and to categorize as an activity and so we have this smart metering system so the to hit the  so that you reliability software platform tracks are outage information and so back to the prior comment i mean we have smart meters and so one of the things activities that i've been talking with are operational folks about  can we get those smart meters now when the power goes out send not only us an alert but send account holder an alert and then it's restored same thing send the alerts back and that's where we are today so those conservatives those are in the scope belmont for your average is like you know we wait a way less than mutant other muni's or investor owned utilities and then you go to our safety the average out of frequency per customer we're like a rd of investor owned utilities like half of correctly yes what you find with katie and this you can see through these new if you're so over had to take two minutes ago this overhead is a lot of fix but breaks a lot more obviously exposed to car accidents lightning weather trees all that stuff so you'd see your your safety is going to be higher right because you can have more outages on an overhead system and therefore your to ration could be higher because you have more frequent outages but your customer duration  lower because your response time can be faster where overhead of graeme's correct solar is interesting if on an underground system which were very heavy underground your durations are going to be higher because it's much harder to troubleshoot the initiatives so the initiatives i love the targets i love the context the initiatives feel a bit like in terms of just description and can i imagine people may want more on that is there a further iteration where you can to flesh flesh these and twenty five what you just stated here we believe that we need to have this type of infrastructure investment over the next five years i think it's important to note this is not the strategic plan this is a slide show presenting it there will be an actual document that goes  think maybe that's what it is maybe you're saying is there's a report there's a document that will flesh out each of these right when you present them you can put color against each of these at a very high levels of you know have more contacts in any one engine going deeper will be able to reference the document promise i was two and half an hours with the vision of the focus areas those ones were the big ones for me because of those dramatically change those would change the goals but the activities for every structure investment again we know we have a circuit satisfaction tying in a little bit about changing customer expectations is a big one and so focus areas see customer experience and so with with upgrades happening and unplanned outages planned outages you know just lots of activity going on you know racks the rate changes you know how customers are plugged in now more than ever so we had to make a goal around customer satisfaction because we want to make sure everyone's happy and so unfortunately we've been quite good over the years and so again this is another one of those targets where the cape ninety three to ninety five is where we a pretty comfortable niche for high performing municipal utilities and so we receive this information through our customer surveys that we do every other  year and so we'd like to see it make sure to maintain the ninety three to ninety five that ebbs and flows as we you know when we change out well bad weather is a big one but when we change out platforms you know to make  we endorse that belmont lights or the town move toward one hundred percent renewable i believe it does have a year maybe or maybe it references as in the road map which does every year could we just say here consistent with the road map we've i don't think it's two thousand and twenty two but that this really just requires us by rex it doesn't require us entering into any put foleo contracts or anything so it's just a question of what the market price of rocks are and how fast you want to get to one hundred percent down if the pool if the market goes out of whack or if it looks more favorable or increase of it i'm not suggesting we slow down i'm just trying to maintain flexibility should outside forces require right pleasure has to be somewhat of a balance because we can't i mean you know  green supplier a green energy entity and so it that to me begs the question a little bit about how much you want to engage in how quickly and how rapidly you want to engage in the de carbonation of your actual power supply portfolio so i don't know if there's any i just wanted to raise that i don't know if anybody has any comment about that but i do think that you are considered to be you know but there may be a tension there between the cost of doing that when you're already meeting your green obligations otherwise effect in one thousand that is  hypothetically if we're doing one hundred percent because we purchased a lot of rocks there's now the fiscal calculus about evaluating our new renewable direct renewable contract would be evaluate contracts that could just be you know what's the final purchase price of you know of buying grid power plus or rock versus i when contract you could just relatively easily when you look at it from that perspective i mean i mean when we is it better to be in the field that is bigger even in the field and i would suggest you need be flexible in the future because this is still coming out all getting worked out i'm not saying we should be i'm just asking the question generally you know what what's what's better to be i personally i feel if there's actually longer term contracts that's also known or she gives you for ten years and you can lock in a price at a reasonable book energy and directs it to me right then you know your future is like what's my price in five years why i know what exactly i don't want to worry this since we just talked of the road map this was intentional we've polled from that document again to show the coordination between the two and so should you know those policies be adopted in the spring and then we present on this in the fall there should be a very noticeable consistency between the two and so from the well back to scrushy and i think perhaps the board discussion last time we change street light that would be nice there i mean i would say we st put them in you hardly ever saw them and now that i try to plug in over there they're frequently fall i mean it is good to see you drive anybody if  short point tells you right where they are and you get to park like a almost by the handicapped spaces where you go it's great but this isn't and this is where the incentives in the rebates come into play how can we use our personal decision be made by the community at large so how can we provide rebates for them to purchase and even yeah right got to drive people to behave in accordance with that and those lines are almost identical and this is what ties in most directly to the road map yes which is not the months like to main but moving into electricity which we can clean up more easily and the energy committee is really excited that all my life has been so supportive of past campaigns and we're looking forward and and very active on a variety of probably a little more than aspirational but it's not something that's really been written it's etched in stone yet and it's doing the right maps one of the purposes or a map is doing what we're having here which is really getting the community to discuss with the same thought process of balancing all these things right because there are goals come with great impact well go five addresses the bill business resilience and so there are other  at adopting more distributed generation and more obscure resources demand side management team driving factor for how our business is doing is you know all reaction in the right area from the from the seems you know in my opinion it's been a pretty sound place to be while not having rates too high that what are you going to do with the extra say five percent in there so it's that balance between keeping money in people's pockets versus making sure the business is stable and that is higher than we've seen in the last five years or life for four out of the five years says the expectation is that you'll have to make some changes in order to get there exactly it's it's and so we added in the nd k b r for governance structure that is because there's so much going on the other survey showed people were really that to me says where do we go if we want to talk about rates you know what is a rate hearing mem customer survey so that's where we have an indicator that shows we have some work to do you know noteworthy we didn't put in here only twelve responded to that i mean customer survey do surveys of what's here so we do surveys every other year and then me i believe is also the same schedule every other year the governance one is the one here that i understand the motivation given where we are now and where you aspire to be that could be a lot of work sure to educate and i just wonder whether or not that is the most important work of you know sure like versus other things i don't know if it fell back discuss this but that was the one i kind of looked at and said i get it but i don't just i'm not sure that's as important or maybe you would just sit down to be something that is easier to attain without having to come initiate herculean efforts you know is is this just the current governance structure or is this discussion potential future governance structure  one time just said how many people really care about that right that much you know we could i don't know i think it's helpful for them to understand that it's the light or that actually approves rates where the light considering that in the last survey only forty we say that we rather you know if we're going to be in the business of serving clients then we need to ask them why we're doing this or this is kind of the same thing perhaps there could be some kind of like electronic box or some sort of mechanism whereby people could register the complaints of having to call us because some of these people are structure right we asked clients we find that we have clients how we're doing and we have a tendency have my service evaluations that are higher because they appreciate the fact they were actually interested in how we're performing was a little surprised so the current situation the last five years ten non retirements so this was ten folks how many thirty well that's pretty significant that's why this is a bill ok p i because this has  next step so i think actually it was helpful that we talked about consulting services so free to think of the most concise way i looking at next steps is it seems like this is a good document to go with so we'll create a more in i don't think the report be ready but we can discuss when i'd like to review it i guess but i think the next step for me is to get this detail before it adds a lot of substance to what's in here and and finish that document for one final to light poles and the goal is to discuss our town policy for use of our street lights and the right of way for use of intense why over to you chris for some more context on this one sure so signing is it's easier and more cost effective from a wired wireless provider model to attach to wood poles in predominantly overhead areas and then incorporate distributed small cell in ten with decorative streetlights in underground or urban areas and so where that is become a problem from the distributed intended developing world is when they get to me this polite plant territories because to put it in context when you go if you lived in a neighboring community served by ever source they come to an agreement with ever source ever source for it's a distributed town of right outside your living room window and no one can say anything about it and never source makes money in the intent of companies make money you go to an m l p territory where we have a greater connection to the community we know mrs jones isn't going to want to distribute in town outside her bedroom you know we know there are m f concerns and so what they're finding is when they try and build out an m l p territories they're not getting success so they can build anywhere else because there really isn't that public involvement but when you come here there is and so that's created some tension this is been going on for a number several years i'll say several i'm not sure the exact number but a little while started with four g and perhaps even three g but and so what has happened  is they've tried to bring this to the federal level and so they've tried to get the f c c to change rulings to essentially prohibit municipalities from denying developing rights to the internal providers little bit is what you see before us and so we were we've been approached by extant dating back to the fall where they would like to put distribution time as a few of them in in town and i mean part of the problem also with that and i've had several meetings with them is these internal providers are partnered with a company so extant that i believe is eighteen t's partner but then if you want to boost horizon service we going to get another company that says well we want to put into an offer arise and so it's feasible to say if a company allows this or town allows this you could have one pole is eighteen t another would call is verizon another one sprint and so it's really could be a mass without the proper vetting procedure and so and so that answer this where basically i have met or these folks and said would polls are a nonstarter we're looking at upgrading the infrastructure  we have areas that are could be moving to be looking at underground convert you know and that's the other piece with underground versions it's just another item on the pole to have to try and repair put up get them to convert if you want to convert to undergrad and it's a operational mess so long story longer they're really focusing on the leonard street area and so there it's less of a concern from a wood pole standpoint but we have decorative lights and so what they've done is so i said how about if you want to look at duty lies and so what's different from their letter to what was discussed is i said the existing streetlights aren't decorative lights aren't designed to support weights of antennas so you'd have to replace it and so my point with all that long winded explanation the point of that is to say i don't think it would be a valid process to have them just replace a decorative street light with an antenna built into it and not tell anyone and so that's where i had recommended to go through the granta location process throu it's not a it's not the same thing and that's george's put in there guess there's some case law to that effect just a lot of the telecommunications act is that was talking here is that what it's what allows like cell phone tower companies to say you can't say no to putting in a cell phone and six so you can't otherwise you'd have no cell phone network is ever would say not right so that the feds came and said you can't say no you can just regulate how it looks and in this case they're saying because george is saying well this right and they're saying you have to you have to let us put it on their word and we say no you can't put it on ever we just want to be part of the dialogue part of the dialogue and put it to a public process to to vet the e m f concerns