Limerick Select Board Holds Hearings on Budget Committee Size and Live Streaming

[2:53] Brian Austin, public commenter: Hey, one two one two testing one two one two testing. [3:00] Nutting, ZBA member: One two, hey one two one two. [3:02] Select Board chair/presiding officer: That sounds good to me. Good evening, welcome to the Glimmer Board of Selectmen's meeting, September 29th. We will dispense with the flag salute tonight, I guess. And first of all, we're to have a public hearing on the town ballot that's going to be on the November 3rd ballot for the articles. And if Courtney, if you could read those for us, I'll get them shut off. Okay, a little quiet in here now. Okay, as I said a few minutes ago, we're going to have Courtney is going to read the what's the articles are going to be on the warrant and we'll do them one at a time so we can discuss any questions you may have. Hear [14:14] Select Board member reading warrant articles: me, there we go. So article two reads, to see if the town will vote to amend section two of the town of Liberate Budget Committee ordinance by reducing the number of members from five to three and authorize the select board to make any necessary adjustments to terms to implement this change and to adopt the amended ordinance as follows. Section 2, composition, election, qualifications, terms, vacancies. The committee shall consist of three members who shall be elected and who shall be registered voters in the town of Limerick. Any [Select Board chair/presiding officer: questions? Yes.] I'm [15:15] Public commenter (budget committee question): on the budget committee, I have a question about this. Why we would want to change it to three when we actually now have five members? I understand that there was difficulties in recruiting people for the budget committee, but now that we do have five, I don't think we should go down to three members. The problem would be that if there's three members, the quorum is two, and if there is any dissension, then there's not going to be a recommendation from the Budget committee. Also I think that the townspeople would be more interested in taking the recommendation from the budget committee if there are five members, so that's the way I feel. [16:26] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Why [16:41] Speaker F (unidentified): is it being changed if we have five members? Why is it being changed to three? Historically it's very difficult to get [16:50] Select Board member: a full board at the five people, and so we had looked at this and decided to put this on the ballot just to make it so that we don't go into budget season worried about not having enough people on a budget committee to conduct the business that they need to do, and it's just it's been really hard to get people, five people. [17:23] Speaker F (unidentified): Keep, but we have five people now. We do currently, yes. So even if we had three of the five that show up, that's still a quorum. It is around a meeting, it is. So what's, and I will say at the time of [17:36] Select Board member: Us placing this on the ballot, because we have to do it 60 days prior to, we, I think we only had two members on the budget committee, and then thankfully a bunch of community members volunteered to be on it. So at the time we had been saying Wade's been reading for a year that we're looking for volunteers, and we added this to the warrant because at the time we only had two members. That being said, we do have a full five member board at the time or as of current, because it was submitted, we can't take it off. So at this point it could be voted to go, you're gonna remove two of them. Nope, it would be at the expiration of their terms, so it would be phased out in that way. We wouldn't, we wouldn't kick two members off the [18:23] Speaker F (unidentified): budget. Yeah, this is the new law. No, okay, thank you. [18:30] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Anyone else? Okay. [18:34] Select Board member reading warrant articles: We'll go on to article three. All right, article three reads, to see if the town will vote to amend section three, section one of the town of Limerick live streaming and cablecast of public meetings ordinance to read, all public meetings conducted by elected officials of the town of Limerick shall be live streamed and or cablecast via platforms and or channels maintained by the town, excluding select board workshops, that would be made accessible to the public, and to authorize those like board to make the necessary changes and adopt the amended ordinance. Any [19:13] Select Board chair/presiding officer: questions? I'm [19:22] Select Board member: kind of feeling like since this is recorded live streamed and people that are at home can't necessarily ask questions, part of the reason for, or the biggest reason for doing this is because every time the select boards holds a workshop it costs us a minimum of $100 in videotaping. With the number of workshops that we need to have to conduct business to get things done, the numbers are adding up, and it cost the town a lot of money to record meetings that no decisions are made at. Since we can't vote, we can't make any formal decisions at the, at the workshops, it's just taken care of or, you know, reviewing policies, which for an example, which we started to do, we've had four hours of meeting on policies and we're still not done, you know, we still have to do doing our budgets for the year it would also alleviate if you've been watching you 've heard of the gully issue i'd say on foss road we could do a site visit as a five-member board to that and have it open to the public kind of similar to what the planning board does has site visits if needed on certain issues currently we can't do that we all have to go individually at separate times because that's how the ordinance reads and no more than three of us can be together at a time too yeah so it would alleviate some of those issues to where if we need to go outside of either the fire department or the municipal building as a select board, we can go and look and whether that's, I mean, I've done it four winters now where we all have a call to each other and we're playing the game of telephone of certain complaints in town. We all go at separate times to drive and check roads in the winter if needed, and like I said, that issue going on I think on Foss Road, it would be, it would alleviate that to allow us to go as a full board instead of just one-on-one, and we can all understand what each other is talking about [21:46] Select Board chair/presiding officer: out, it would run a lot more efficient. Yep, we also have an enormous amount of paperwork that we have to deal with, more so than before. It's increasing all the time, and you just can't get it all done in the selectmen's meeting every week, so [22:07] Select Board member reading warrant articles: public [22:22] Speaker F (unidentified): are open to your workshops, so correct, so people can come if they're absolutely interested, so it's not like you're behind closed doors per se. Absolutely, they would still be posted on the [22:34] Select Board member: calendar on the website. Public is still welcome to come and be there when we're in the workshop, so and we won't be taking any votes, and you summarize it at [22:47] Speaker F (unidentified): your next meeting and then you do your voting, correct. Anyone [22:55] Select Board chair/presiding officer: else, Joanne, the [23:12] Speaker I (unidentified): budget, the budget committee does go to sidewalks, but someone has to record it. Do you mean the planning board, a paper recording of what you discuss at the workshop? That's what they have to do, so you just can't go to the workshop and then not have any record of, you have to have a paper record of what you do at the workshop, so somebody would have to be in charge of that. And I should have got up for the other one but I didn't. When you were doing this, we probably should have changed the ordinance about the secretary for the Planning Board for the Budget Committee rather the Planning Board we need to address that secretary for the Planning board there I got it right has to come from the membership we need to change that if you're not going to abide by it has to be changed because that's the way the ordinance reads now anyone [24:28] Select Board chair/presiding officer: else you don't have any other questions we'll close the public hearing at 613 [24:56] Select Board member: Was this advertised as public hearing, select board meeting to follow, or public hearing then a select board meeting time? Like, can we go right into our select board meeting, or do we have to wait till seven? On the town website calendar it has select board meeting at seven, but I don't know if it's worded differently on there. Yes, no, because that's not changing [26:25] Select Board member reading warrant articles: this like board meeting was advertised at seven o'clock. Okay, well, Linda, [26:35] Select Board member: that was for the original ordinance that was put in place. It's been since revised and amended. It was amended on November 5th, 2019. Since [26:57] Select Board chair/presiding officer: this was advertised for 7 o'clock, we're gonna have to go into a recess till 7. [27:10] Select Board member reading warrant articles: Hey. [1:11:32] Select Board member or town official (tree removal discussion): Good [1:11:37] Select Board chair/presiding officer: evening. Welcome to the Board of Selectors meeting for September 29th. As far as the warrants concerned, you know, I have a motion to accept warrants. All in favor? Okay. Minutes. Motion to approve the Match 30th meeting minutes. I know that's that had to be redone, I guess. So all those in favor? Okay. In motion approve September 22nd meeting minutes. Moving the second. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Next announcements. The select board will meet on Tuesday, October 6th at 7 p.m. The Planning Board will meet on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m. The Budget Committee will meet every Thursday at 7 p.m. starting on September 24th, 2026, and absentee ballots for the November 3rd vote will be available on October 5th at the town clerk's office. Voting day is November 3rd at the Municipal Building, 55 Washington Street, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The select board is looking for one individual to join the appeals board. If interested, please contact the select board admin. The select board asks that you silence your cell phones during meetings in order to limit interference with microphones or discussion of agenda topics. The select board asks that you go to the podium and speak into the microphone if you would like to comment or bring an issue up to the board during the meeting. As part of the hearing of citizens policy, no personal attacks on any individual or firm, including town employees, town officials, and members of the public will be tolerated during any meetings. Please direct concerns about individual employees or town officials to the chairman of the Board of Select Persons. Outside the public meeting, for your convenience, complaint forms are readily available on the sign-in table. [1:13:51] Select Board member: Can I, can I make a quick correction? The budget committee is meeting at 6 p.m. on October 1st, okay. [1:14:12] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Going on the final reports, Lisa LePage, historical site, just [1:14:34] Speaker F (unidentified): want to give updates of some coming activities. October 31st, three to five, the historical witches will be back with the haunted house at the church. Come if you dare, three to five. November 3rd, during voting, Limerick Historical Society will be holding their annual bake sale. So bake something, fudge, and buy a couple of things. Then November 7th is the Fall Craft Fair, 9 to 3, at the church, the Congregational Church on Main Street. We have five tables left. They're eight-foot tables with two chairs for $25. dollars. New this year, we're taking two of those tables, putting a divide in, line four feet each, having four children, minors who want to do a craft that they want to sell something, free for them, to give them an opportunity to start. So we're doing two tables, four foot each. Adult does have to be, they are not babysitting, but we just want to be able to encourage the children. Next [1:16:01] Select Board chair/presiding officer: hearing of citizens, Scott [1:16:16] Nutting, ZBA member: Nutting, ZBA. No announcements for the ZBA. I'm assuming that all of our future meetings have been cancelled. We still haven't gotten together and discuss the merits of the appeal itself, which you can't do until [1:16:40] Select Board member: without the appellant there or until after the hearing. Well, I was, it on the [1:16:47] Nutting, ZBA member: assumption that the, how do I will put this, the how the conditions were presented and not the personnel or personalities, we could also talk about the additional conditions that [1:17:10] Select Board member: would be something that the abortive or the zoning board of appeals needs to discuss with their council once they're appointed before you have those discussions any further on air. Okay, I [1:17:21] Nutting, ZBA member: just curious about that. We haven't, like to be updated on occasions on a lot [1:17:28] Select Board member: of this stuff. Didn't, did they left in the dark? Courtney, did they reach out to schedule that with you to put that on the calendar as [1:17:40] Select Board member reading warrant articles: far as I know, there were [1:17:42] Select Board member: No other meetings scheduled. I mean, I know they had discussed having the hearing on the first, but that never got advertised. It got delayed. Yeah, because we ended up getting written for the [1:17:59] Select Board member reading warrant articles: 30-day waiver. So as far as I know, nobody's told me that there are any other meetings scheduled. Schedule. As far as I know, the ones who are scheduled, it's the Select Board, the Planning Board, and the Budget Committee. If I have missed something, I do apologize, but I have not been told differently. Do [1:18:22] Select Board member: you guys, hang on, Scott, do you guys need to be put on the schedule? [1:18:39] Nutting, ZBA member: I guess at this point, you know, your next, one of the next things on the agenda is the Council for the ZBA, so I'm assuming that after that discussion has been made, then we could probably move forward. It [1:18:54] Select Board member: will probably be another week, which is because just because we have to actually vote on and right. Yeah, you are going to [1:19:05] Nutting, ZBA member: discuss the council for the ZBA tonight. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Anyone [1:19:15] Select Board chair/presiding officer: else, just bear in mind that we have to close this meeting, the Slutman's meeting, at 8 o'clock sharp because we have, we have another public hearing that has to be started at 8 o'clock. [1:19:48] Public commenter: One, I know that years ago when they had the felt just Connor, they had cut the trees and they had gone out to bid, and I was just curious why they didn't do that this time, because I did notice on the warrant that the black bear got the four thousand dollars and it wasn't out to bid. Just curious why it was before when they cut the trees, but it wasn't this time. If [1:20:16] Select Board member or town official (tree removal discussion): you want to elaborate on that. Sure. Absolutely. We hired Rick Richardson. We hired Black Bear. He gives us a daily rate for his crew, bucket truck, all his equipment, and we try to find this most serious trees to take down, and that just happened to be one of them on the schedule that was hanging out over the power line, so we incorporated that with our routine. Yeah, [Public commenter: those are different] hazardous trees. That's a different account. This right here came out of the repair highways. So what we did was we designated two days a month and we went around and tried to get as many trees on different roads taken down. That was in the repair highways budget. The trees that Howard reached out to the tree companies and got bids on were some of the more intense trees that either need a crane or climbers, and they're more intense than what we did. So yep. Thank you. Okay. [1:21:28] Public commenter: Let's see what the other one was. I noticed that they are still having trouble getting paramedics for the rescue there. I noticed it was another four intercepts this time, and I assumed that the warrants that I read, it was like four in a week. So I didn't know whether there was maybe hiring new ones in the future or what's the status on that. I don't speak on behalf [1:21:55] Select Board member: of the chief, but I know as a department member, if the town would be willing to pay for more people to go to paramedic school, I know that we probably have a lot more interest. And as far as the paramedic intercepts go, the quickest and easy way to explain them is that the BLS, so like I'm a basic EMT, a BLS truck is charged, charges the patient $250. If we, and these numbers might be wrong, but if we intercept and we get a Waterboro paramedic or a Leamington paramedic, that patient ends up getting billed and we receive the billing as Limerick rescue. That patient ends up getting billed a higher for an advanced life support of $600, and we pay the paramedic intercept fee of 250. So you know, we're making money, you can say, but we're not losing money when we go on a paramedic intercept. [1:22:52] Public commenter: How many do we have now? How many paramedics? I think we have four that work, three or four. Yeah. [1:23:00] Select Board member: I think we have, we have maybe three. Yeah, three, or I think it was four. And you know, in the winter we get more people that like, we have more on the roster, but they work, you know, summer jobs, so they don't pick up shifts here, but I think if we want paramedics on shift 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which is the ultimate goal for the best life-saving measures, it would be we have to go to a full-time department with full-time employees, or we pay for people to go get their paramedic. It's a long-time commitment, and it's a long-money commitment. If I were to go get my paramedic license, it's two years of four days a week and about $15,000 a year. From the prices that I've seen, so it's a very time investing and costly for to do it while working on a firefighter salary. [1:24:00] Public commenter: No, it's just, you know, yeah, you know the answers to why you look at the thing you say for a while. Why did have four, you explained it? Thank you. It, but don't we have actually a full-time fire department with part-time, we have per diem staff. [1:24:15] Select Board member: That we have a fire department that's staffed 24 7 365 with two, the goal is for two providers on at all times. That being said, the majority of the paramedics work elsewhere. You know, we have a paramedic that works at Goodwin's Mills, we have a paramedic that, a couple that work in Biddeford, in Saco, and so they can only work on their off shifts here, and they also need [1:24:39] Public commenter: time for their families and correct. Okay, thank you. I've been trying to catch up with the chief but he wasn't just here the last time. Okay, and what was that 30 day war waiver you just talked about? What was that? It [1:25:02] Select Board member reading warrant articles: was an email that we received. I was a part of it but don't know like all of the details. So Sean [1:25:17] Select Board member: Gerard waived the 30-day or 35-day hearing requirement to allow for the counsel for the zoning board of appeals and his attorneys to get together to figure out at times when they're available for the hearings. That 30-day [1:25:35] Public commenter: 35 wasn't just for because they had missed the deadline because you didn't have a board no this was to give the lawyers yes okay i can tell you that 's a problem oh yes october 1st picking up where scott left off being part of the budget committee i had messed up and thought that we weren't going to meet on october 1st but we were and the zoning board was supposed to meet on October 1st so we had our meeting at 6 o'clock and they were going to have it at 7 o'clock but that's been taken off the schedule because they were scheduled two weeks ago. It was on the calendar in this past week. Just curious because I was in the middle of the mess where it was on me that we were supposed to meet at 6 instead of 7 because the zoning board had scheduled for a meeting at 7. When did that change? I mean, that was because [1:26:39] Select Board member: two weeks ago was on the calendar. Once that he waved it, I mean, that came off. Whose decision was that? Is the appellant's decision when he waved that? Oh yeah, no, whose decision to take them [1:26:55] Public commenter: off? You know, maybe they had other things to discuss. I'm just, you know, who took them, they [1:27:00] Select Board member: don't have any other appeals going at the moment, so there wasn't anything else to discuss. When they set that, they set it for a hearing, not a meeting, a hearing. I'd [1:27:16] Public commenter: have to listen to that again but I thought it was a meeting, but anyway, okay, so who took again, did the chairman or the co-chair, or did the board vote, did the appeals board vote to take it off the agenda or off the [1:27:32] Select Board member: Calendar or did the one split bullet once we got the notice that it was on hold and Sean provided the waiver and we have been working at the request of the zoning board of appeals to get them counsel, different counsel, because first ones were not acceptable to them. I may, I made the call to have Courtney take it off the calendar because at that point the hearing wasn't going to go forward. Okay. [1:28:03] Public commenter: Well, Senator, if Scott wasn't aware that it wasn't on the calendar, did the board was notified then? [1:28:08] Select Board member: Well, I did notify the Board of Appeals that the waiver was that Sean had waived the 35- or 30-day hearing period. [1:28:20] Public commenter: And so there was no need for them to meet on October 1st. They were aware that there was no meeting. [1:28:27] Select Board member: I would have to go in and look at the emails. Okay. [1:28:30] Public commenter: All right. And those can be for you, the emails? Okay. Awesome. [1:28:39] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Okay going on old business. Set up is there be a chance to look at all the applications for both the video and the bookkeeper? [1:29:04] Select Board member: The applications, I mean there are, there are a lot that, you know, I've seen a lot that have come in that, I mean, we aren't going to interview because they're either well out of state or out of the country, obviously not, you know, but this will give us a chance to review the applications and I think we need to, we need, my opinion, we need to set a executive session to go through and discuss the applications because we can't do that publicly. It's all confidential information to discuss the applications. To see who we want to hire so that we can start setting up interviews that Would be my suggestion. I mean, I was telling Lori and Wade outside there was a lot of applications for the bookkeeper position, which is amazing, we like to see that, but they all started morphing together with the amount of and looking at on my phone in my free time, so I think if we set up an executive session, I think we've gotten like 30. Yeah, or more, that's a lot. Yeah, how about we do need to act on it fast because [1:30:33] Select Board chair/presiding officer: We all know how jobs are, jobs go, so can we do something next Thursday, Tuesday, I mean Tuesday rather, at five o'clock, I can make that work. Executive session at what time, five o'clock? Yeah, next Tuesday. Yeah. [1:30:55] Speaker I (unidentified): Thank you. I won't be here, no lie. [1:31:00] Select Board chair/presiding officer: That's right, fair time, but if three of us can be here, yeah, and we're just reviewing them, so you have to put together a list because actually we have, when I looked at this morning, of 31. [1:31:18] Select Board member: Yeah, I think as long as the two board members that won't be here okay with that we can meet. Would you be able to print them off so we can? I do better with hard paper, thank you. [1:31:37] Select Board chair/presiding officer: That works for the rest of us. Five o'clock next Tuesday and pause the applications, okay please. [1:31:44] Select Board member reading warrant articles: Also dd the town clerk asked me to ask you guys about thinking about setting up interviews for the deputy town clerk because she does have to work with you guys on that so to figure out a couple of dates for that. She said that she will work around the schedule does. [1:32:07] Select Board member: She want to? Can we reach out to see if she would like to meet with us in executive session to go through the deputy clerk? [1:32:14] Select Board member reading warrant articles: Applications as well. Yeah, I don't see why not. I can check with her tomorrow, okay. [1:32:23] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Check on it. Give us an email. Hmm check on and give us an email. Okay next item council for the ZBA or you've been dealing with that. [1:32:40] Select Board member: And I have been in contact with Pretty Flaherty and they have requested the file so I forwarded that over to them and that is currently with their conflict check department and I have not been able to get an answer back from them on that but they are they are actively working and they said that if and they and they believe that they it will pass the conflict checked but once they do they will send over a retention letter for the board to review and vote on with hourly rates so we'll have to put. That on hopefully on next week's agenda, okay. [1:33:36] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Great next item the bricktown hall overhang. I sent an email out this morning to the I guess he's the person that handles the insurance claims for carroll materials and I get a call from mike carroll well short time after and they are going to go to their insurance company and get this thing fixed so we don't have to go through all the bidding and everything else. It's their problem they've got to fix it and that's why we can have them come in and. [1:34:16] Select Board member: Do a deep dive on the damage, yep so we make sure that it gets done thoroughly rather than us going. [1:34:24] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Out specking this whole thing out and everything that's is damaged and they've got their probably get their adjusters and everything else so it's the balls in their court at this point. Okay very good okay next set the budget workshop. How about Tuesday at three? I'm kidding. Do we have to bring. [1:34:47] Select Board member: A bed with us now? I'm kidding just joking but we do but we do need to get on this because yes it's we are in actively in budget season now there's still quite a few that you guys have to. Go through, yeah, I know there was, I know there was quite a few that we were waiting on information from another office. Have we got that information yet? We have not. Sorry, I have not sent, I have been crazy busy, so I have not sent the email requesting the specific information yet. I will get that out tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. You know it's going gonna be a good day when I wake up in this three new text messages and 50 emails from Lori already. My alarm goes off at 615. Yeah, there was one time I called her, I was like, it was 440 when you sent me the last text. What's going on? Well, I wanted you guys to be in the loop. I appreciate. Sorry, not sorry. Okay. [1:35:58] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Okay, so budget workshop next Tuesday at three o'clock. [1:36:03] Select Board member: No, I'm kidding. I can't do Tuesday at three o'clock. [1:36:06] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Let's be serious here, come on. [1:36:08] Select Board member: Okay, so budget workshop. Do we wanna do that? Well, no, because we have the select board following the executive session. Can we do maybe Monday at five? Brady, what days are you available? I get out at four, Monday through Thursday. So could you do five o'clock on Monday? I guess. Yes, if we can make sure that Gail's available for videotaping Monday. All [1:36:38] Select Board member reading warrant articles: right, so Monday at 5. [1:36:50] Select Board member: There's lots of phones to record there, okay. Monday at 5. Okay, [1:36:59] Select Board chair/presiding officer: so that's all set. Yeah. Yep. Okay. New business. Six-town letter, we have to vote on that. Wade, you wanna elaborate on that? Yeah, we got a, back the end of August, there was a letter generated by all the, well, I shouldn't say by all the towns, by basically, mostly Waterboro, but it says, on behalf of the communities of Alfred, Shapley, Newfield, Lyman, Limerick, and Waterboro, they are writing to respectfully renew our request to utilize the local elementary schools as polling locations for the November and June elections because we all have the elementary schools and a lot of the towns use those and we pay a hefty amount and yeah we should be able to yeah and we should be able to use it so we got this letter here and I make a motion that we accept this letter and that we vote on it and sign it tonight. I'll second that. Okay. Moved and seconded. We sign the letter. Any... All those in favor? Any questions? Okay. All those in favor? [1:38:27] Select Board member: Opposed? Courtney, do you have a separate one for us to sign or... Nope. [1:38:35] Select Board member reading warrant articles: You can just sign one of the ones that you have on the table. Just one of them. You don't need to sign all five copies. And then I will make sure that gets to Waterboro tomorrow morning. [1:39:05] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Okay, next item. We have the SSC TV contract. I Have not we just got this I would recommend as much as I hate to see it happen, but that we table this and review it and then come back next week and vote on it I want to be able [1:39:31] Select Board member: to look at and it does involve money so I want to make sure that we're looking at our budget look at everything that's going on before we do this so I would agree to that we should table this until next week and put this on his new business again for next week. [1:39:52] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Okay, all those in favor of the table? Opposed? Okay. Okay, next item, appointments and resignations. We have one person that has replied to be on the Board of Appeals, Brian J. Austin. Anybody have any information on that? I have. He's here [1:40:19] Select Board member: Hi, so do you want to get up and saying anything in particular? Well, I was small-town nosy neighbor So I started doing some checking around and I'm gonna let you talk first before I say what I found out No, [1:40:45] Brian Austin, public commenter: no that is one thing i've heard but okay brian austin owner jay's automotive been a long time since i've ever thought about getting involved with the town so town changes fast i'm getting older i like the town so i like the way the town was when i was a kid and i like the way the town's kind of going so i figured i might as well hang out with the town find out a little more spend some time with everybody and learn something about it and then be a part of it just a little bit more so that's all okay all right so [1:41:20] Select Board member: from everything that I've heard and I've I you're difficult to find on Facebook okay because I did try digging which I respect that was for me that was kind of a bonus the other things that came back to me were that you know he's very grounded doesn't you know and yeah i may have checked into records you know works well with the town has worked with it well with the town in the past you know it just i didn't hear anything negative not one not one negative thing not any of that which is hard to hard to do when you're a business person in a small town because you know typically you're gonna come across somebody who's gonna have a gripe and I didn't so I would I would make motion that we appoint Brian [1:42:30] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Austin to the Board of Appeals moved and second to appoint Brian Austin all those in favor opposed okay you'll have to see dd pays to get the paperwork signed get appointed yep okay correspondence do we have anything i don't see anything here so okay if not then we are done the selectman's meeting we just have to wait till eight o'clock [1:43:22] Select Board member: We did the one time it doesn't. Oh everything is going very quickly tonight I move to adjourn the meeting until 8 p.m. Well we need to figure out how we want to do this because if we adjourn We have to start a new select board meeting to Accept the GA numbers after the public hearing. Okay, so we can go on a recess until 8 p.m. Do you know Yeah, [Speaker F (unidentified): well we should] Know I would move that we take a recess until 8 o'clock [1:44:15] Select Board member reading warrant articles: So I can explain it Courtney yeah so i do general assistance for the town so basically what's coming up this public hearing is for the new limits that i can go by for the state to what i can help people with and the limits on how much money they can make because they have to be under a certain amount for me to actually be able to help them so that's basically all this public hearing is about it's just it's a yearly thing yeah it's just informational we have to do this because the state requires that because it is part of having GA a part of the town which we legally have to have so this is just to answer any questions that people have. I mean, it's pretty straightforward. It's just what the maximums are that I can go by to determine what I can do to help people, basically. [1:45:42] Select Board chair/presiding officer: Nobody's opposed to it. Okay, we're gonna recess till eight o'clock. All set? Okay. We're back for the public hearing for the general assistance maximums. We have to take a vote. First of all, is there any further questions? I think Courtney covered it pretty well before. Okay. All those in favor? [2:11:47] Select Board member: Hold on. So the public hearing was open to eight, and it was closed to eight. And we are now back in a regular select board meeting, and we can vote to accept. accept. Okay. So I make a motion to accept the GA maximums. [2:12:02] Select Board chair/presiding officer: I'll second that. Okay, been moved and seconded to accept GA maximums. Any further discussion? All those in favor? [2:12:12] Select Board member: Okay, to vote. With that being said, I make a motion to [2:12:15] Select Board chair/presiding officer: adjourn. Second. Also at eight. Eight o'clock. All those in favor? Yep. [2:12:21] Select Board member: All right, we're done. Done. Okay guys, don't go anywhere.