good morning i'd like to welcome you to the jericho town meeting to begin our affair is the day as you might expect will have the pledge of allegiance of the last the boy scouts come forward in to to remind you that we are in the midst of a revolution in which you are taking part in that we are running our own town meeting and this is your meeting i have and use will attended the moderators workshop believe or not there's a cult of moderators in this state there were one hundred ten of us there which is a if you think about it over two thirds of the moderators from the state it's a pretty energetic group and there's a real strong feeling that we are community as much as possible of a slow democracy that is what we mean by that is the liberation that we get to talk about stuff with only vote about it and finally that the power lies with the people and that it is a direct democracy so i want to extend a welcome to you on behalf of the town's officials to the citizens of this town today this year we will be celebrating the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the march twenty second seven hundred eighty eight louis tape and was elected to be the first town clerk interest really jessica alexander our present town clerk lives hundred years ago at the march nineteenth thirteen town meeting and article was also in the town warning as you will see today and our current twenty twelve when you report the article read to see if the town will take any action regarding the celebration of the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the granting of the charter of the town of  informal small group of citizens who have worked over throughout this past year fiftieth anniversary celebration special in particular i want to thank katherine mcmahon he our carrier our assistant administrator in the town office who works with todd over to our administrator both have been very helpful this past year in my incessant demands  to see that our town report would be a unique effort jean clades of the boy scouts as you can see has corral them they're all lined up ready for this special foreman's and janice shave and also a has students from the dance to union high school so the read of this our town charter will have representatives from the jericho elementary school the middle school i also want to bring to your attention to the broad sheets you may have seen scattered about the school today announcing our grand celebratory occasion which will take place on saturday june first the green center there will also be of them throughout the day exhibitions of the town paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth century walking tours of our historic districts of jericho and jericho center but the highlight of this event will be a concert on the power by the vermont basketball guard forty of armor that they have agreed to come to play for us especially because of the relationship of in the park it will begin at six o'clock but i urge everyone to come early and take your place in the park and bring your own picnics and sam lee's neighbors and friends w also recognize the living descent of the so the early settlers of the town of jericho at that time our first family the brown family and of course others such as the leaves the lanes watchin university company or other corporations these are modern town charters such as ours issued between seven hundred sixty and seventy sixty four by gov of any one worth and  officials were also called proclamations and were meant to be read publicly just as we do we'll do here today with these young promising students and boy scouts i would like to read such as here of here too whereas we're zero for lawyers to argue over for generations to come as we are all too familiar it is also to interesting to point out when you're listing today the three clauses in the charter which as david also spoke earlier have a direct relevance relevance to our gathering here two hundred fifty years later for instance you will know there is  for a weekly market a weekly farmer's market which exist as we are all familiar in riverside today you will note there is also a free clause specifying that that will be an annual town meeting on the second tuesday in march and thirdly there is a court clause again which david touched upon earlier which i will braid and  us here in a few moments as well as being subject to the penalty of any act or acts of parliament that now are or hereafter shall be an active i doubt if king george his ministers or his parliament would have thought that this innocuous clause would also contain the seeds of rebellion in vermont and in the wake of them and the other coastal colonies to their are here and so to the young students and boy scouts you can tell your parents your brothers your sisters and your schoolmates and especially your teachers that today you have participated in a grammar lesson a geography lesson and history lesson and most importantly a civil lesson with your in public engagement with us today and now i shall be in keeping with the mid eighty's century arbitrary rule i will select to read the early bombastic introductory phrases of this proclamation and you to read the more important media or charted text to follow its source would like to all come over and lined up in front of the citizens of jericho and i will begin the performance that we love our special grace certain knowledge and we are motioned for the do encourage one to settling a new plantation within our set providence by and with the advice of our trusty and well belove all that attractive parcel land sits where lying and being without are said province of new hampshire containing by measurement twenty three thousand and forty acres which tractors to contain six miles square and no more  this concludes our splendid performance and again to thank the boy scouts and all the students from our jericho public schools we have also on display is a map of the social survey map of the town of jericho made done on july twelfth eight hundred twelve by john johnson the state surveyor general i urge you to look at the map and perhaps you can sign where you were living today it of course identifies county long island in new york hence the name jericho to thank everyone again our students and boy scouts for participating in this splend like to invite representative george hill florida for the communication of a resolution from the legislature town of jericho offered by representative still jericho and frank of under whereas on june seventh seven hundred sixty three oriel new hampshire governor benning wentworth granted a charter for the town of jericho with orders described as being at the southerly or south easterly corner of essex at the northerly side of the onion river or french river from that's east of the upset river so far as to make six miles on a straight line family have the misfortune of twice being captured by native americans be taken into canada sold to british officers at eight dollars per person and how prisoner for three years and where is jericho was organized how many which vermont supreme court justice john fasten worn for march twenty second seven hundred eighty six and which lewis cheapen was elected town clerk and where as on nov twenty ninth seventeen eighty six today elaine was selected as the town's first representative to the general assembly and where as in seventeen eighty eight the voters of jericho turn to religious matters electing john russell to the office of hiding them to preserve good order during the vice services and to make sure the sabbath was observed and whereas in seventy ninety five the legislature transferred five thousand acres of jericho along with mansell other surrounding towns to create the new t richmond and whereas at a town meeting this was my favorite the town meeting held on october thirtieth one thousand eight hundred the electorate decided the town this is quote the town do not choose to have an became world renowned whereas his scientific legacy can be viewed at the jericho historical societies snowflake bentley exhibit whereas jericho the citizens of jericho are proud of their town and its history now therefore  club clerk and to the historic site so just alexander would step up fixed end date it's really hard to know what is over but the speaker has had has made it very public that he would like this to be a formal session which means that it will be over hopefully in early may that said there that means that we are very busy this time of the year to make sure that any bills that we would like to be sure that the senate takes up out of our committee by the end of next week a week from friday which is called crossover day so if you are have have strong concerns about a bill that is being considered right now this is the time to make sure that that people know your feelings because they will be coming out of committee and being been taken up on the floor the next week or the following week that said george and i do  thirty eight open form more of a discussion of listening to us people ask questions discuss amongst ourselves is a good time to get your point finally the turnout here is very good it shows a lot of support in jericho for what's going on in the town but as i look at the town report i did notice that there are some a i v representative to the mansfield school board if you live in the ivy district strongly consider whether you have time and energy to devote to helping the school system if you don't live in the id system lifetime to fake it i remember i used to go to tell me and wondered how do people in i thought underhill vote on the doyle survey this week we would get results from senator doyle on the state wide so george and i collect those surveys and we actually count them and record them by jericho's underhill post on our website so so if you're interested this is one one of the things that we do this week and so as you might be aware are we are going to begin our town meeting in a few minutes and we will be done in time for lunch period and town is this feeling that it's a annual party so we have lunch we have refreshments and we have childcare and i just want to make sure you're up to speed on all of the refreshments which you may well have already taken  you've brought children finally just say a little bit about launch the launch is sponsored by the mansfield lodge and they'll be assistance from the boy ok and then there are a couple of other just out in the i want to bring to your attention the rasa library is looking to an expansion and they have decided that what they will do is have a quilt raffle winners of the school contest and we all have to heat our homes and a lot of us know that weather is a should be a good thing for us but we feel that we can't afford it and we have a lot of information at the table and at the bulletin board across the  so if all of us got weatherized within our town save over a million dollars a million eight hundred thousand according to my calculations we have a two hundred homes right now there are only less than one hundred that have been weatherized and they're saving ninety eight thousand dollars a out there and or hear anything else that good time ok last thing before we actually do business that's how to do business so i just want to say that the way we do business in this town is according to robert's rules of order and was influenced by vermont state statutes and the customs that have developed in this community over the last two hundred twenty five years whatever it was i want to remind you that only registered voters may speak to the assembly and we have one of the slackest systems for identifying registered voters of all the town meetings i've heard of we have an honor system so we're tracing out you cannot speak if you're not a citizen of the town and a registered voter most of you are used to me but i'm going to be belligerent about the microphone was a little shy of our representative but i probably should hear him up to i need to be on a microphone and you identify yourself by name if you're not i will get you there one way or another my job as moderator is to help you articulate what it is you are trying to say so do not be shocked if you have something to say and it's only half formed just stand up and start talking and i'll say excuse me perhaps i could help you a bit here and help you develop what you are trying to do this is your meeting this meeting belongs to the  jericho i am your facilitator and these people are your willing slaves that there be a balance of pros and cons in a discussion in this town i am a fanatic debra tate of the deal the idea that deliberation is gets us to the end point and i don't want to hear anybody say that things are inappropriate to talk about because what you want to talk about is what we will talk about in this i will however discourage repeating and rambling and there are in fact statutory limits to how long you could talk and how often you could talk you may only talk twice on a given motion you can't talk the second time until everybody else who wanted to has already and you can only talk for a total of ten minutes during draw your attention to the warnings of the tao which is in the end all report you'll note that the original charter is on the cover of the report and over here on page two is essential warning and we will conduct business for discussion and parent directly it would have been if i had not just read it again is there any discussion or comment on this article pro the motion article one passes unanimously suk june seventh put on the calendar twenty four thousand dollars at this point as you would expect i enjoyed it as the select board to present the details of the budget and i want to remind you that it's within the bounds of civility you may interrupt at any time with questions or comments about the details of the budget seeking information remember that this is your budget that they have there advising you on how the money of the town should be spent and that you have the ability to alter up to a point the way this budget gets approved and up to a point is actually rather a kind of fuzzy boundary which it's my job to the decide on so fine a young invite whoever goes first cast in this first ok i'll make sure we have a good microphone hook up and so will be again you'll want to certainly want to be following along on the budget page right you're going to achieve so i think you need to get close hundred sixty three which is fifty years ago many items were still the same the warning was on the back cover no monetary figures were mentioned in the morning the town will still be asked to authorize the appointment of the road commissioner the official fire department is separate question was for appropriations of the money for the fire department in one thousand nine hundred sixty three another question was whether the town of jericho with a tone of underhill would buy a new fire truck to be turned over to the department again the slick court and the road commissioners account covered road expenses which again were a large part of the budget road equipment though it was rented out to bring in some income however you know it doesn't seem reasonable that in sixty three poll taxes were still being collected as well and now for the actual money terry issues of the day we are looking at a budget with the increase of sixty four thousand seven hundred sixty five  question in answer sheet and that is that was mentioned earlier the chart in the back shows that the increases we have have to a minimum over the last few years it's been very minor tried to be cognizant of the time as we can fourteen we have already received that so that money is there in the budget that takes care of the major interest and then to give it intergovernmental in licenses and fin many complaints about speeding throughout the town which is why we have increased the coverage this year so it's what the town one i mean lots and lots of people complain about speeding and all the roads and the since anticipated fun and are covered under those such as so i think a motion but i think it's actually an amendment to the budget last somebody wants to correct help us out with your n raised by taxes so depending on what the grammar is does it mean the tax rate would either stay the same or possibly go down slightly it's about fourteen dollars a person other discussion go ahead i'm sorry i didn't hear your name or  just just for the regular we only just for the record we only learned for certain that we were going to get this money at the last soit board meeting which was just the other day and we only got it last night we had not this was money we actually spent on traffic control and speed reduction that in the spirit of the last budget and the spirit of the last town meeting the right thing to do would be to use or a significant amount of that on speed reduction in the future but that was just our opinion it's yours to decide j science because studies have shown that even in the permanent position people do slow down when they see the flashing speed on their in those those signs cost ten thousand dollars  again the money that you receive simply give it back to the people first if you want to spend it on other stuff to do is speak that's another amendment or whatever you want to bring up later but let the people have the choice before you decide had done the job and we had the money when we were supposed to get the money on what would have been spent the money that we were receiving for the hours that he claimed he worked in jericho not necessarily for the what we would have done has been the money on him and we would have received a certain amount of fines had he been doing his job that wouldn't be near that much money this was really for his time and  money that fine money where with that it would have gone into the general revenue budget you know it would have been launched and we would have seen that in line eighteen law enforcement fines thank you feel like we've ground to a halt and i would like to call the question the question has been there but you want to speak within five thousand dollars so i think it kind of we've already allocated that and give it back to the taxpayers really makes its side ok i'm about to respond to pieterse motion to call the question i wanted to tell you about one of my habits as moderator in case you're new here and that is what i'm about to say if there is no objection and what that means is i'm looking for unanimous consent and if you're if there's no objection then we'll proceed to vote on the amendment the way called the question works is that idea for a third of the people plus one if more than a third of people want to keep talking we keep talking but if two thirds of the people are done we're done then we cannot debate the motion to call the question so that's how it works well already understand all his works is there any objection to handing debate on this question i e calling course yes right and ok so two thirds of you say i were done a third of you say yes means we're going to stop talking and no means we're going to keep talking and two thirds of you must say yes i'm sick two thirds of you must say yes  that means you can argue with me and say you want a count at this point i still have it so we're done talking about the amendment and we means that we're about to bridges this year but sidewalks and pass line forty three buildings and property line forty four and road improvements on forty five we're taking money from those reserve funds and using them as revenue this year because those are projects that will be worked on and then tim will start the expenditures there's no other  ok the first thing i'd like to mention is that throughout the remainder of the budget you'll see figures of the top of each section on the salaries of benefits and rather than go through that for each percent sorry ten percent increase overall in the whole benefits benefits consist of health care fica payments the federal government retirement dental benefits that we anticipate taken all together benefits are expected to go up by ten percent now i'll start with the individual departments the town treasure very little difference except for the changes in salary benefits the benefits change quite the salaries are pretty much the same change for every department but benefits change quite a bit differently from the part of the department depending on in small and each department there's a small number of people so if one person decides as their title do so i'll go over to a family plan or to step out of the program or something like that you can have a fairly large change in the benefits for that part but for the overall town the change is ten percent that's what average a professional consultants by fifteen dollars the other rather small change town clerk reduction because we're not having a big election this year which always cost quite a bit and  listing we've increased the number of hours of of the listers and that's the reason for the increase in salary and benefits  somewhat of our vehicles so we are now right now so we don't have a lease payment and we're not buying another one this year so there's a substantial reduction there there's a substantial increase in the road improvements because w undertaking a major improvement on skunk hollow which we'll talk about when we come to the capital budget and the reduction in bricks we're not doing bridges this year increase in gas oil and diesel we don't know what's happening with your costs number of other small production so overall the road and bridge bridge budget covering everything is going up by one hundred seventy six thousand dollars that is approximately equal to the hundred seventy five thousand dollars grant federal grant that we expect to get for the  know but i think we need to do more of that this time i ask a question that the there's several ways to get you there but there are several ways you could do that one you could simply demand blind one nineteen signage and striping and then ask for specific money to be put into that for a specific task you could also ask for a song to be designated to generic activities of that sort and then it would be up to us to assign it to the proper to the proper line and it's a question of whether you want to confine it to the specifically size but that's that's what i propose ok so what i'm hearing is that there is an amendment to increase the budget place forty thousand dollars to spend on me on movements at the route fifteen and river road intersection not in the budget because it's was actually applied for was going to stay project is the improvement the cross walk on river asking you to spend eleven percent more on police services which will obviously the goal is to reduce speed in town so it's kind of all over the budget the planning activity is already done i think it's in the budget we already have that money we don't need forty thousand more dollars just for planning i think what she said was that she'd like forty thousand amendment is to direct the forty thousand dollars to the activities recommended by the consultant from the regional planning commission correct and you are great and is there a second to this city understand the situation we are considering an amendment to add forty thousand dollars to the budget related to safety on town roads and we have an amendment to that amendment that is pointing that money at a mover of the motion would accept the amendment as a friendly  d let me interrupt briefly to say that is it it's recommended the moderator community your discourage applause because it's sort of like adding fuel to a point of view rather than i think i need a second to end discussion on the amendment to them ok so we have to vote there's no debate on this oh thank you  so the amendment to the amendment is to direct this forty thousand dollars as advised by the external consultant who was working on a plan for vehicular transportation now we're on the main amendment right there is no restriction on the forty thousand dollars we're now talking about spending of forty thousand dollars all with nancy that it is there are a lot of places in jericho that are not safe to go on the town highways and motorised transport and that has got to change but we've been working on this question now for a long time and have made some detailed proposals that are already in the budget to get that process and to try to make things better and i think that we don't need to additionally do something else so i would encourage you to vote no anybody would like to speak in favor of when they go out to their driveway and not get in their car and feel like they walk or ride their bike to someplace that you're that's not the case right now so i think that the more we can do it there are some good measures along that line to make plans but there is no money available for actually making a bike or a way for kids to get to school  in the netherlands a big majority of kids ride their bikes to school fifteen kilometers so i think that's what we're aiming at and anything we can do with extra money would be well spent you ready to vote i will read your once again the man of this is an amendment to the general budget the town article two to commit forty thousand dollars on methods to make it safer for not in motorized vehicle travel on town rose you understand them right i'll ask you to vote all those in favor please say  everyone awake some recreation you were at the bottom of the page eighteen out people some recreation our summer camp there's not much to say about that actually salaries are right up a little bit as they are crossed all the other departments but just a matter of what's up so is a good time so is it time or appropriate to talk about line one twelve not related to the killer transportation yes we are but we're going to just correct that light of this correct that's where this come powerful thing is but we just think it's more more appropriate to talk about that when we cover the capital budget because it's a big capital thing with the single biggest one we're go that that that would be the state's responsibility but they can't what the town can do though is request of the state do a study to see if a crosswalk is in fact warranted or to be examined to go through the test and look at a bunch of things to see if it's something that they will put in so it doesn't cost any money on the for the town to do that but it's not our responsibility or ability to do it so we have to ask the state to look into that and looking back to the street project i believe that was discussed at that time found that it didn't meet the standards to actually put one and i think the big issue is the curve so it's kind of blind spot but we can ask the state again so will once again we'll do that we're satisfied just for background route route fifty and route one one seven our state roads we do not have the authority to prove we can only request that they be approved currently you know it we know everybody wants it is right now though we can't do anything because we are working on the right of way negotiations if that goes very well the state will be constructing it in twenty the team this summer but it is up to the the neighbors who are affected by the construction to give the construction easements and if that negotiation takes longer in the construction season then it will happen in twenty fourteen but the dollars are already allocated that's what the tip is meeting decisively told us to do so the only way we had forward was to petition the state looks like we're going to be successful but an alternative bridge was voted down by this  expenditures there so that we have forty hours a week by the county sheriff which has been really visible and affected and i think a lot of people would agree that they've done a good job and you see them around a sorry worked really hard to with the power company to replace our boats and i think that was from a grant from the yeah it was a really good deal for the town so we hope in the next budget season it's a grant money twenty twenty percent local eighty federal so we don't spend it we can spend it and we didn't receive the reimburs control over the budget is approved separately and prior to this meeting the budget is going up just slightly and line one fifty eight the park district that's the mills riverside time the other agencies these are a lot of these are nonprofits that ask us for some help because they help our citizens every year and in the town report there are reports from each of these and we're really excited because we're going to bus service they'll be a commuter every day they'll be two buses running in the morning into burlington starting in jefferson and running along route fifteen and they won't make stops in six so it's not exactly an express but i think this bus was supposed to anyway pick up until it gets to jericho and then go straight to burlington and then in the evening they'll be to bus they'll be to returns and just a little plug for this bus or is this supposed to start this summer and there's wildfire on the pumps and it's going to be really affordable way to get get it to every day so we've been asked to set aside some funds because right now we're not paying for anything there's a three year grant that covers the cost of this route because your tickets don't cover the cost of this route but for the first three years they expect ridership to build and build and and so we're not as we're not being asked to pay for anything but ask us to put aside three thousand dollars each year for the next three years toward our match which is expected in the fourth year so that's what we've done is put that's what that line is right seat at the table in terms of how their budget is spent and they changed their charter cordingley so yeah they made it more equitable their vote their budget because we know what their budget request was representing and we didn't have any say in how that money was being spent so after that process which was you know several months long process the allocated amount if you prove year we need to put money aside for future bridge work but you'll see the decrease in red record preservation funds because funds have been used last year for the record preservation so we're going to transfer fifty thousand dollars to the reserve funds for future use and so to recap this budget has an increase of sixty four thousand but is not now because we have based on the earlier amendment of seventy some thousand budget so the budget actually needs to be decreased so it'll be thirty three million four hundred encourage people to come in as we start talking about capital improvement and the capital budget and this is the second year we've included this in the town as you can see what we're talking for now in the future and by line they're all included within that line budget as you can see we're taking ten thousand dollars out of reserves to paint the town home this  we are still going to probably work with planning for a party that will come out of operating costs that's line one forty three now the big one that everybody's asked about is asphalt highway improvement and that's line one twelve and one twelve was a lot larger number than the four if you add it all up it's the five hundred eighty five thousand or whatever but that is not just phone call  the center to make it safer one hundred thousand dollars will be spent on national road and the fifteen river road intersections usability study that is forty thousand dollars grant that has already been received and we're hoping to expanded to include like the great for so many people in the room so i would like to give a background i want while we've got to where we are as you know this issue has been around and generating heat for as long as i've been on the select board that's quite a few years anybody on the road to walk or bike or anything else and and make it a dangerous park place in the town and the only way to slow that down practically has been the terrible state of the road so paving the road would increase the speed and the amount of traffic so there was a substantial point of view that we should pay that for that reason on the other hand there's a substantial point of yours that that's crazy that the road is way over you and it's expensive to maintain and it's dangerous etc for that's true to both points of view were correct and both points of view merit what we tried to do was find a way that we could satisfy the core and legitimate demands of both sides and so what we're trying to do is to pave the road together with substantial traffic calming so that we won't get a huge increase in traffic and or speed the question has come up a number of times is there some other way to reduce speed study after study a study has shown with the country and you knowing yourself from this town the police is simply putting a traffic sign there's thirty five miles an hour doesn't stop people from going fast it just doesn't we know  and furthermore posting policeman on the road also doesn't do it unless you use the policeman they are almost around the clock they give you an idea of how expensive doing it would be the amount of money we're spending on traffic calming or we're proposing to spend on traffic calming in this project is thirty three thousand about seven percent of the total project called not very much really if we were out would be ridiculous skunk out was only a mile and a half long and we have seventy miles two miles long we have seventy miles of roads for patrolling this so allocating twenty five percent discount all along would be an extreme distortion but even if we did that twenty five percent of the time of the police it was twelve and a half hours a week that's all the policing you would get on skunk hollow with twenty five percent of all my money am twenty five percent of one hundred thirty twenty thousand dollars thirty thousand dollars in other words we would be spending as much every single year on leasing as we're spending to build these traffic c money you can't spend enough money we can't afford to spend enough money policing to actually seriously reduce traffic and the only practical way we have to do it is to create self policing and many parts of the world speed tables are called sleeping police because it means you don't have to worry about whether there's a policeman or that they are not if the person is going too fast or they will be  get the bomb and they'll have an unpleasant experience so this is this is self policing it pretty well pretty telling jurors that the speed will actually come down also associated with this  pretty cheap in the big picture as catherine said i know when you look at the diagram this looks like an awful lot of speed but remember the diagrams exaggerate that because a diagram makes a speed table  vastly greater than it is actually on the ground that's the way any diagram we're working with our with the engineers recommendation that if you actually want this to have him this is how many you need spread over that whom has the grant who have you piled the grant with what is the likelihood of your getting yeah and if you get it when will the painting start the hundred seventy five thousand dollars as a class two paving grant  perspective if nothing was done and the trappings doubled or tripled the value of our house and all the houses would go down and the loss of revenue from taxes would be much larger than the thirty two hall bond they have the whitman line one of the three that simply continuing payment on the lease of the trucks that we currently have mobs farm is a small item but it's still considered capital because  be proving some of the trails in the mob's farm process and proving some of the bridges that have collapsed over the last couple years the sidewalks this is the palmer line we're going to use twelve thousand two hundred forty dollars which is our match and the sixty one thousand two hundred dollars is a grant hopefully we'll be able to do the construction this year we've had the consultant come through and w in this budget as well lease the start of the construction and we recently approved the plans which alternate use for the sidewalks and we are appropriate was in using twenty thousand dollars from the reserves for the comprehensive p invitation for other discussion because this is a deliberative body and if there is anybody who wants to talk about it i'm going to recognize them before i bring this mo is however a tipping point at a point where the road damage very large traffic becomes cheaper to pay that tipping point was just for for and so it is now cheaper for the lifecycle it's very expensive when you pay but then you have smaller maintenance costs then ten years down the road you have another great big expenditure when you have to re whereas when you maintain dirt roads you have a higher annual one but you have don't have those big lumbering so as to for the first call it passed the tipping point and it became cheaper to get literally cannot get home from either direction because of the condition plains road and it's not that i feel like that's a more important than other roads other people live on but it also i think was designed to be a cut through between the center and jerk of corners so i'm just wondering is there any money in this budget or any ability to move some money to put some major rise in both sides of the  as i said there are a bunch of roads around the town that are problematic and that's one we try to address them one by one you know as the money becomes available taking the most difficult ones first and  i can't remember the last bit but if we have to we have to any other questions or discussion about these three are you ready to there are some properties that are exempt from taxation by law there are others that are eligible to be exempt if they're sort of by the voters every five years and the ones that are in the order are said to be approved by the any questions or comments about exemption of these properties from the tax  works is that the reports of the ten officers are included as part of the time report and they are included there for your consideration and will be accepted as entered into the  report but this is your opportunity to object to the content of any of those court's order for clarification so i'm going to place our tent on the floor if there is no objection and ask if there's any color or action needed on the records in the report two very exciting it's a display by the historical society to memory the town's two hundred fiftieth and that exhibit will be under splay in the month of may through august so it picks up the actual charter day and this is also a heads up for all you closet painters that we're going to have an open call for artists for the last four months of the year exhibit and everyone is encouraged to participate for those who enjoy painting and  really any medium of painting and we're going to have details and contact information on the town website will also have other postings as time get closer through the spring of the summer but this is a heads up for any  individuals who are currently on one of the state programs have about medicaid doctor dinosaur or not currently insured or cannot afford to purchase their insurance time bearable i'm here to speak against the rush to industrial and power as it relates to our town you know local action plans on local knowledge and at least some kind of discussion over a motion coming from our town governance level that is least moderately supported by the townspeople that whatever decisions are made relating to rich tops are uphill from jericho watersheds somehow subject to a greater sense of scrutiny that the public has some input on specifically millbrook the infrastructure that we all pay for terms of bridges and roads decisions are made at state or regional level that would affect that warship i think without prudence those kind of decisions could easily lead to a catastrophic problems with  with our our own infrastructure here so i'd appreciate the select board taking some kind of an action that allows our townspeople to have more problem within the jericho confines but i can easily see both now becoming a hot point yes  a one hundred year flood last august twenty third if people walked around during the time in jericho they would have noticed as i did that one more fo water at the height of that storm would have blown every bridge on the way down from welton to the new ski river that's a public safety hazard we are not addressing this in whatever regulatory process we hope i would like the town to call upon the legislature to require more stringent regulatory developed the subject to input from affected communities cause of its present adequacy that's fine i think it's just a sense f water infrastructure public safety you oversight on my part touch and i don't agree with that somehow even intentionally flawed but certainly flawed i think that the idea of input from each community is a very good idea along with  vigorous investigation through to fifty and the other opportunities to look at the facts so i would be in favor of the motion as you you put your hand up now