Newry Select Board hears updates on mutual aid, roads, IT, and taxes

[0:00] Speaker A (unidentified): To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. No [0:20] Speaker B (unidentified): executive session today. No warrants all signed. Who's here? Yes. Yeah. We'll have a session of 15 minutes. I'll make a motion to accept them as read. I second that. Those in favor? In favor. In favor. Any adjustments to the agenda? No. Announcements? Don't appear to be anybody. Board comment? Yes. September [1:18] Speaker C (unidentified): 29th I attended in Augusta the newly appointed officials of the select board. It was a four-hour meeting from 4.30 to 8.30. There was a few people that I recognized. Michelle Cole was there, and also the select person from Woodstock, Larry, is it? Oh, yeah. Larry was there. They served us lunch after a couple hours. Just a few things that I wrote down while taking notes. Municipality are legal corporations created by state legislature. I was wondering if we have a home rule charter? [2:29] Speaker D (unidentified): We don't have a charter. [2:30] Speaker C (unidentified): We don't have a charter. [2:32] Speaker D (unidentified): Usually charters are big cities. They're not charters. [2:37] Speaker C (unidentified): And then the General Assistance Program, contact MMA for advice on that. Talk about fee policies and make sure they're in writing. They also mentioned that MMA membership, the advantages of joining, insurance, I guess they give you, can get insurance through them? [3:12] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, all of our insurance is available. Okay. Yeah. [3:22] Speaker C (unidentified): One for the CEO, just wondering if she knew what the ADK consultation was. [3:29] Speaker A (unidentified): Yeah. I've been doing this 15 years. I had to take that help 14 years ago. [3:33] Speaker B (unidentified): Yeah, it's one of them that you have to have the ADK though to do cases that might go to court. Right. Right. [3:40] Speaker C (unidentified): Yeah. Right. Yeah. I thought I could stump you. Nope. And then also just some stuff that I picked up like the training calendar for the year. Also contact people from MMA. And they would like anybody to contact them with any questions that you might have, although I think it's probably more prudent to go through the administrator and go through you to get the answers to what I need. I wouldn't want to go over your head or... Totally transparent. The certificate, I think we've got that in the file. And these are pretty handy things that I picked up that I kind of looked through here. [4:52] Speaker A (unidentified): Yeah, we get those. [4:55] Speaker C (unidentified): And that's, you know, any of these that pass on, I do. We get them in our email. Oh, you get them in your email. Yeah. [5:11] Speaker A (unidentified): At least we did. It has been a while, hasn't it? [5:14] Speaker E (unidentified): I don't think you get that one. [5:16] Speaker D (unidentified): The town city? Yeah. And [5:26] Speaker C (unidentified): Then, not on this topic, but on another topic. I didn't know if any of you watched the Voice of the Voter the other night when they had the candidates debate? [Speaker A (unidentified): No. Know. For] Governor, Anna Pingree, I was surprised to hear that she had mentioned about talks about property tax rate adjustments on second framing homes. So I thought that was interesting because I brought that up a couple of times and I was under the understanding, and am I correct, that Woodstock is trying to is going through that looking into that going through that process they talked about it at [6:19] Speaker D (unidentified): that meeting yes that we had right and we talked to our assessor and i thought the main say it [6:26] Speaker E (unidentified): probably didn't say that to us you'd have to you would have to change the constitution in [6:31] Speaker C (unidentified): order to do it yes they said they did say something about in title nine our [6:47] Speaker E (unidentified): assessor says. It's against the law. It's against the law. Yeah. At this time. Unless they amend the constitution. Yeah. [6:57] Speaker C (unidentified): But I think that they're going to probably hear more and more of this as more towns, especially on the coast, are dealing with these problems. I just kind of want to keep an ear out for it. I hear it as a problem. [7:19] Speaker F (unidentified): I mean it's on everybody's, it affects most towns. Surprisingly. It's just different seasons. I'm [7:30] Speaker C (unidentified): sure we'll hear about it tomorrow. I think we will. Yes. Speaking about that, tomorrow there's going to be a lot of vendors there, and you might get a lot of information on some of these other things for the computer networks. There might be other companies out there that are providing them. It wouldn't hurt to look into it. [8:02] Speaker D (unidentified): Every year we talk to them all. [8:07] Speaker C (unidentified): It's a lot of things yeah that's all I have yeah okay thank you Dave no public hearings [8:19] Speaker B (unidentified): or anything for that nope I didn't think it was I hadn't heard about it anyway okay items for discussion Joe Lynn on the white apartment mutual aid policies you have in your packets [8:32] Speaker A (unidentified): The NOMA, we want to get it in front of all the select boards for the NOMA towns, just to give you all time to digest, Tink is familiar with this already, David, but this is an agreement that came out early 2000s for the northern Oxford mutual aid towns, Dixfield, Mexico, Brumford, Andover, Roxbury, Newry, Gilead, Bethel, Woodstock, Greenwood. Did I miss any, Tink? But we needed to ratify the agreement and this is something that actually got recorded [9:10] Speaker G (unidentified): at the registry deeds back in the day I've offered it's been a while since it's been updating [9:17] Speaker A (unidentified): Yeah, well, Byron no longer has a fire department. Dixfield was left out of the original NOMA, and so they had to have a page added on that got notarized and just tacked on to the rest of the recording. So there's, we've just neatened it up. We're going to get it re-signed. We took out some of the antiquated language. I wanted to make sure that mutual aid towns, like if Peru calls for us, oh, Peru, Canton, if Peru calls for tanker trucks, that Newry isn't going to charge them for sitting over there for six hours running our truck. It's always been there. We just needed to neaten [9:52] Speaker B (unidentified): up the legal language. So and it works in the other way. When you need help, they come and they don't [9:57] Speaker A (unidentified): charge you for that's right yeah there's a trailer with air compression tanks for our scba and if we have a big fire structure fire going on it lives in the mexico fire station and usually one of their guys will bring it over for us we're going to need to recharge all our scba tanks and it's nice that we have that works in these area towns right now noma just bought a new accountability tag machine you'll learn we had software finally said no more no more updates it's too old and the computers didn't like it. So NOMA bought a new accountability tag. It looks like a driver's license. It's something we carry that says, you know, this is our usual BP, this is our emergency contact, I am SCBA certified, I can go interior, exterior, I know how to do traffic control, I've been trained. Does all those little neat little things on a peak, you know, a license-sized document that if I fall down on a fire scene, it's going to say, okay, dwells, you know, type old blood, and does this and does that. All right, they can get me the help I need. So it's nice. It's a good little tool for all of us to have. I've offered to help Dixfield's chief. It's not fair for one guy to print everybody's phenomena. So I said I'll come over on Friday, help you. We're going to work together and get that done. I'm also going to be one of the representatives that goes around to area towns, Woodstock, Greenwood, Gilead, Bethel, and Newery. I'm going to sit in front of their select boards and make sure they get that signed and give it back to Scott. So it's one signature sheet, not eight weeks trying to get everybody to sign these things. We want to try to speed it up a little bit. Yeah, so the driving policy was a question that we had, but I dug, we dug through our research with the bylaws, the standard operating guidelines in our ordinance, and it's no longer a question. It was very clear in the documents that exist, so I don't have a question for the board on that. Roads, Brent Road culvert is done, just needs asphalt. [12:02] Speaker B (unidentified): Do you need a vote from us for the mutual aid? [12:06] Speaker A (unidentified): No, not until I bring it to you to sign. Okay. Just bringing you up to speed on what's been going on over there. Some select boards take longer than one or two or three meetings to... [12:16] Speaker G (unidentified): I understand that. Okay, good, I know who you're talking about. So the roads, we have a bunch [12:22] Speaker A (unidentified): of summer work that, of course, here we are at the end of the year, we're still pushing to get it done. There's only so many rubber track excavators in the state for rent, and unfortunately the contractor we use for our road maintenance struggled, huh, to get moved up in that line. Wasn't their struggle, it was a rental company that kept saying, well, you know, this guy over here is keeping it for another two weeks. So we finally get the machine, they're working on it, we still have some work on Valley View to do. We have four driveways on an inside corner up there that just love to wash out every year, so we're looking at possibly doing an asphalt apron so it's sloped a certain way, and I expect the contractor to do everything right over there, but they need to get on it because we're running out of warm days to put down asphalt. So they're hoping to be in there next week, and an update on our junkyard, we met with the owner's reps and one of the owners of the property and had a really good conversation about what it takes, the time it takes to clean up a property like that. They really wanted something like, you know, 30 days, and I said more realistically it's six months. Took time to make it look like it, like it does. Realistically, a six month with our snowfall, because that's what we're looking at, is more practical for that cleanup. They agreed, we gave them time to go home and talk, and they called me later and said, yeah, you're right, it's going to take more than 30 days, let's do six months. So our Attorney is drafting that up. They're aware of the fees. They're aware of what happens after six months if the property isn't cleaned up. So we're working with, they're working with the tenant. We're working with the owners legally. That's where the town has to go. But yeah, so it's progressing, but in the right direction. Hopefully the consent agreement takes care of it and there's no court and no court costs and keep the attorney's fees low. That's the goal. Okay, code enforcement stuff, code enforcement stuff. We've been busy and everybody's rushing at the end of the year to get their subject systems in the ground and foundations in. So I've been a little whirlwind of permits issued, but not like in the last four years. It's been a little slower. [14:45] Speaker B (unidentified): Well, banking, banks have increased their interest rates as well last week. I don't, I don't know if [14:51] Speaker A (unidentified): that affects most of the properties over on the other side. It may not, but it's going up a couple. So that's the app, Road Report, Code Enforcement, I think that's it for me, unless you guys have questions for me. I like that. I have to finish out my day still. [15:17] Speaker B (unidentified): NYT Company Exp. Exponent. Exponent, yep. [15:21] Speaker D (unidentified): Yep. We had gone to our, one of our trainings and we talked to the ladies from another town and they recommended this one. So we called them and the guy came up last week. I called and she goes, well, he can come up next week. He actually lives in Rumford. They do the town of Rumford. They do Farmington. They do Wilton. They do Rumford's Water District. I can't think of the other towns. They've picked up quite a few. You called, they call you right back, and he's coming actually Thursday to clean our computers, go through our stuff. I told him what we had for issues, and he's going to recommend what they think we might need or not. Because our other IT guy, I've been trying to get a hold of him since July. [16:06] Speaker B (unidentified): I was going to say, I was trying to refresh me on what the problems were. I knew there was a problem. [16:12] Speaker D (unidentified): Right, we bought a new computer, a new laptop for our plan what would be assessor and stuff. He recommended what to get, you know, Chris, he's always great about that. He's never come set it up. We needed some Microsoft Office stuff. He's gonna kind of set it up. When we had email issues, if I got it before 7 in the morning, he used to answer me, but then I'm gonna get him since July, end of June technically. He doesn't answer the emails or the phone calls or the text messages. So I said, if you're not going to get, and I told him, if you're not going to answer me, I'll get somebody else. I mean, I'm not playing a game. Bethel's having the same issue. I mean, everybody's having the same issue. Of course, he does Freiburg Fair now, so he's, he started doing the fair probably three years ago or so, something like that. So, when it's fair time, he's busy as a one-on-one paper-hanging butt. We all need him. He knows Trio. He's always been great. He was always great. But he took on too much. He's a one man band. And this other company has, I don't know how many they have, but I've talked to two different guys and another girl. And they do websites and they can help with our website, they can help with our domain stuff, because we have everything, we have Bluehost, we have, well, First Light is our internet provider, but Bluehost does our website, and then we have main hostings for our domain, and then we have this, and then we have that. So I would kind of like to get everything on the one roof. We're going to see what he [17:48] Speaker B (unidentified): comes up with after Thursday. Bring back the information. Yes, next meeting. [17:53] Speaker F (unidentified): Yep. But they can do stuff remotely. [17:56] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, they can, yeah. [17:59] Speaker B (unidentified): Sounds like a better deal than what we've got. [18:01] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, and we can do a contract for a month, or quarterly, or yearly, or on call. I'd like to see what we need. [18:10] Speaker B (unidentified): Okay, just what would you suggest? That we go for a year, we go for six months, and then renew it? [18:17] Speaker D (unidentified): Right, I was thinking a six month thing. [18:19] Speaker B (unidentified): Okay, well I was just trying to get a feel for it. You wanted and then we could kind of give you what we feel like. Right now we kind of need like a [18:28] Speaker F (unidentified): catch-up. Yeah, we have like a list. Yeah, but I think eventually it will. Yeah, I mean, we could do it [18:34] Speaker D (unidentified): monthly right now, but I just think let's see what he tells us on Thursday. I, yeah, would suggest we [18:40] Speaker B (unidentified): shoot for six months. Yeah, and that's what I'm gonna give you the feeling. Right, talk with him. [18:46] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see what he comes back with on after he spends the day here, and he's coming when we're not here, which makes it easier. Joelle will be here, she can let him in, and he'll, he said they prefer to do it when you don't have customers, which I understand. Yeah, so we show them [19:01] Speaker C (unidentified): where everything was. We have to get that left. Okay, I would, I'd like you to seek out the next couple of days when you're at the MMA. I'm going to tell you there isn't anybody else there. [19:14] Speaker F (unidentified): Is no, that's why when we went on that working day, we asked everybody where are you from, what do you have, you know, they either have who we already have, or they go with this company because this [19:25] Speaker E (unidentified): is our environment here, which is not, and this guy lives in the ones in Harrison and that way, but [19:32] Speaker D (unidentified): not Naples. They said don't go with them, the guy that they had, they said yeah, so we kind of [19:38] Speaker H (unidentified): went different directions to see well who uses it that way and who goes that way, and here it's [19:44] Speaker C (unidentified): I'm looking at it a little bit more cautiously I guess to, well yeah, make sure that it's going to provide everything that you want to provide. Well, they do Trio, which is our, most people don't know [19:59] Speaker D (unidentified): that most times use Trio, but not all towns use Trio, and when you get an I.T. guy that knows Trio, you take it and that's great, I mean, Christmas, yeah, because you need someone, yeah, so the other one that Jesse said was like, yeah, don't go there. And I don't remember his name. So we'll see what these guys come up with. I mean, we'll look definitely at the convention. [20:24] Speaker E (unidentified): Because we want someone that's very close, too. Yeah. [20:28] Speaker D (unidentified): Yes. That's not going to change us. Well, they have to come. [20:34] Speaker C (unidentified): What do they give you any cost? [20:37] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, it's $95 an hour. Because we're a medium business. [20:43] Speaker C (unidentified): Yeah. And what was the, company? [20:46] Speaker D (unidentified): Well, Chris, he just, I can't remember what we did. Not much. But sometimes he didn't do it like that last time we came. He didn't do it. I paid for the Microsoft Office, and I didn't get anything in. For his work. [21:07] Speaker B (unidentified): Well, they're not getting any service either, so. So, yeah. [21:10] Speaker D (unidentified): So, I'm not sure exactly, because he was just an on-call basis. So, and usually when he was here it was like a couple hours an hour, but it wasn't crazy money. [21:31] Speaker B (unidentified): Post state evaluation. Yep. Be the highest in the county again. We did. But [21:42] Speaker F (unidentified): Bethel increased more than we did. [21:44] Speaker G (unidentified): We figured that out, didn't we? Yeah. [21:47] Speaker H (unidentified): The percentage was... We were happy about that. [21:56] Speaker D (unidentified): But, so the second page shows you what we were from 2025 and what we went to 2026. Yeah. So if you look on the second page, the report of the assessment review, and it's line 3, that shows you the percentage that we went up. So in 2025, we went up 32.93%. In 26, we went up 5.42%. And in 27, we went up 6.49%. [22:39] Speaker C (unidentified): So are we at 100% evaluation? Evaluation? No. 89. And how does that work? I mean, do you have to be at 100% at some certain time? [22:59] Speaker D (unidentified): Usually we are at 100%. But right now, where everything is selling for what we haven't assessed at, it's hurtin' us. So now things have slowed down, but we still have these million dollar homes that are still selling. Those are the only thing that's selling right now, those million dollar jobs, not the 300,000 or 500,000 over here. The ones over there for over a million are selling. [23:26] Speaker I (unidentified): There's been two, yeah. [23:31] Speaker D (unidentified): It's like we couldn't afford to buy anything over here either, but those million dollar places are selling, yeah, and not locals buying it. [23:44] Speaker F (unidentified): I always look sometimes like, oh, are they for me? [23:50] Speaker H (unidentified): Are they anything going to be? Nope. It's like a hole. [23:55] Speaker C (unidentified): It's only a hole for me. It's just that we see ourselves getting in the hole every year after year. [24:10] Speaker D (unidentified): Where do you get in the hole? [24:15] Speaker C (unidentified): Well, like you said, you know, what the assessed value versus the... [24:20] Speaker D (unidentified): Well, that's going to change. It'll change, yeah. [24:22] Speaker B (unidentified): Next time you have a green valuation, I'll put that back in the line. [24:26] Speaker H (unidentified): He's had to factor before. [24:27] Speaker D (unidentified): Like out 25 taxes on 26, 25 to 26, he had to do a factor, so a lot of the [24:36] Speaker G (unidentified): taxes went up to make it more in line with all these towns that haven't had [24:44] Speaker B (unidentified): evaluations but 20 years, yeah, everybody complain in all, you know, yeah, no way, right now, yeah, there was no way, yeah, but then Lewiston or Auburn, one of them here a while back was, yeah, and had it done for 20 years, and yeah, and there's no government [25:07] Speaker C (unidentified): oversight on that. Well, you're supposed to have it done, so like when you get your homestead and your [25:13] Speaker D (unidentified): veterans exemption and those, you're supposed to get, you get more money back from the state with those, so if you're not at a hundred percent like this year, your homestead was 23,000 or 24,000 [25:23] Speaker E (unidentified): instead of the 25. Right, it was like 22,000 something, yeah, because they decreased that [25:30] Speaker F (unidentified): homestead. It's at 89, and then like our betty tax, right, we don't get 100, we get 89, the business exempt, yeah, that like Sunday River, all these businesses pay. When we're at 100, we get money back in the state, but now we're getting 89%. So [25:59] Speaker D (unidentified): people are supposed to have their rebails, but it costs you a lot to have a rebail done, so that's why a lot of towns don't do it, because that's why we're saving $50,000 every year to us on rebail. [26:09] Speaker G (unidentified): Because it's the end game. [26:11] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, we're trying, but I don't know. Yeah, it costs you like $200,000, $300,000 to do a rebail. [26:17] Speaker B (unidentified): In a high-sized town. In a high-sized town, right. Going [26:22] Speaker C (unidentified): to a bigger-sized town would be a lot more. [26:24] Speaker D (unidentified): Right, because they go to every single house in that town, yeah, [Speaker A (unidentified): yeah, properties,] yeah, it's crazy. [26:46] Speaker G (unidentified): Okay, we were going to learn to do the bank. [26:52] Speaker D (unidentified): Recalling we started it, one of them was teaching Amy and I, and it was just like over I head, and then I'm going up surgery issues going on, so she's not sure when she's going to be in and out, so I contracted with RHR like we had before for six months to do the check recall, and it's set up so they're going to come train us after the six months, so I think by six months we should have her, I better be before that, but so they got to train us, the other person that was going to train us through Bethel. She called yesterday and she cannot do it, she says she just doesn't have time and yada, so it was like that's all right, we're all set now, and so where the tax money is coming in, I've done some new CDs, invested some money to get us through to, so I did Androscoggin Bank and Northeast, and I got Androscoggin. [27:59] Speaker I (unidentified): And we've [28:02] Speaker B (unidentified): got some with both, don't we? Yes, with those. [28:09] Speaker D (unidentified): All that stuff's going pretty good. And then we have the escrow accounts for the planning board's escrow accounts for the Pines, Barker Mountain, Timberline. That's the money we save for the engineering and inspections and all that stuff. Those accounts, that has $32,000 in it still. So another one of them is going to bring in a $10,000 check because he's going to have to do something else. So those are ongoing up and downs and not fun to deal with, but it's part of the program, so we did. Anything [Speaker B (unidentified): on the cameras?] I haven't heard back yet from the grant part. Yeah, I'm waiting for that. They said October, so we'll keep our fingers crossed. us. And speaking of October, we're supposed to get, so both of those go back? That big thing in those two boxes. We're supposed to get our new voting machine on Friday, so we're going to come in Friday and take out the old and give us the new stuff. They called me today. Well, we couldn't, we're [29:29] Speaker F (unidentified): closed on Fridays. And one of the deadlines is Thursday. Test that machine you don't have on Thursday. [29:41] Speaker D (unidentified): works well it sounds like the state it does it does they all says what do you been doing nothing you can't test it if you don't know I had a call last Friday from the state want to know it was secretary of state's office when FedEx delivers is it FedEx or is it somebody else or they send it through you know [30:05] Speaker B (unidentified): And most of our stuff here is FedEx, but it's a subcontractor of FedEx that delivers it. [30:14] Speaker G (unidentified): Most of ours, they call it Grounds or something like that. [30:20] Speaker C (unidentified): Oh, there's FedEx Grounds. And there's a budget, I think. Sometimes there's a budget truck that goes up. [30:27] Speaker F (unidentified): But it is usually the FedEx guy. [30:29] Speaker D (unidentified): I thought that was a big question they called and asked me, but I said, well, usually 90% of the time it's FedEx themselves. I couldn't say 100%, but, yeah. [30:39] Speaker E (unidentified): And then those media sticks came to FedEx, so I think that's why. They were checking up on it. [30:45] Speaker D (unidentified): So when they deliver the ballots, it's an independent company that they hire, and that person has to take a picture of the box in your office and get your name. [30:56] Speaker E (unidentified): Vital, what's it called? [30:58] Speaker D (unidentified): Lori had to do it the other day and he asked her, he was a new deputy clerk, and she said yes. He says, okay, it's okay if he was not in trouble. So they don't get in trouble. So they're pretty cautious about it. [31:10] Speaker I (unidentified): So they take the balance? [31:12] Speaker D (unidentified): No,, they deliver the balance. They deliver them. The blank ones. Because they used to send them through the mail. [31:18] Speaker F (unidentified): They used to come through UPS. UPS, sir. Yeah. [31:21] Speaker I (unidentified): So this is just an electronic counter that goes to the state? No. [31:26] Speaker F (unidentified): No? No. That is only like a scanner. Yeah. [31:30] Speaker G (unidentified): and there are memory sticks that go in it and you take the memory skip to the state not unless they [31:36] Speaker F (unidentified): ask for it yeah at the end of the night it prints out a little tally of everything we have to record that on paper and that goes to the state if there's a recount something to that effect then they come get the sticks the or if it's the rank choice where it's you know it's close then they come get some please pick up with you and we're here five years and I've had [32:11] Speaker E (unidentified): to happen three times I bought and I'm that I've only had to have much place [32:14] Speaker D (unidentified): no but I come in on a Friday and meet him yeah three times and we had I got the bill for our trash for September and our revenues for the transfer station for September this includes tires metals the scales and we brought in 12,000 our [32:41] Speaker G (unidentified): share was $12,652. What was that, a scale share? [32:47] Speaker D (unidentified): It's been running around $5,000. Well, see it just has the whole scale share. Yeah, it's $16,000, but for all their revenues, we've got $12,000, so yeah. I mean, a lot of people are still complaining about the scales, I see on Facebook and stuff, but [33:01] Speaker G (unidentified): I think it's helped a lot. They're paying the wrong way, that way. [33:05] Speaker F (unidentified): I think you're paying your own. Yeah,. You're more paying your own. [33:08] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, because it was ties, I got revenue from ties, metals, scales, and stickers. [33:16] Speaker B (unidentified): You didn't have a use for getting any revenue out of ties. [33:18] Speaker D (unidentified): No, but we did. That was fun. That was good. That was a plus. [33:24] Speaker B (unidentified): Yeah. Deputy Cook's report. [33:30] Speaker H (unidentified): We've been taking tax payments. That has been the majority of what we've been doing, tax payments. People are starting to ask about absentee building on Monday. [33:41] Speaker B (unidentified): I heard on the news that sometimes in the last couple of days you can get it. [33:48] Speaker H (unidentified): Yeah, so we have had people coming in to vote. [33:53] Speaker F (unidentified): We'll be able to license dogs starting next week, so we'll send out a reminder. Some [34:06] Speaker D (unidentified): registration will be coming in. [34:09] Speaker H (unidentified): Yeah, they said they were mailing the snowmobile stickers soon. I've been going to the LPC meetings. [34:16] Speaker F (unidentified): We had one, it was our last one was online, so that was, that was kind of nice because so many people come from so many different areas, it's really hard to get everybody to come from the county to Augusta, it's quite a ways, so it was nice to have people participate and they put up the polls on your actual Zoom meeting and you all could vote. That's cool. [34:42] Speaker C (unidentified): The meeting I went to, there was 40 people on Zoom at that meeting. Oh wow! And there was probably 10 of us maybe in person. [34:58] Speaker H (unidentified): We had 60 at mine the other day. There's some good things [35:10] Speaker F (unidentified): We're working towards some good things. We're trying, I guess. [35:14] Speaker B (unidentified): Are you done for us? [35:16] Speaker E (unidentified): Yeah, I'm done. Are you adding to what you just said? [35:20] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, okay. Well, I just wanted to tell you we have two thank yous because we had sent out the donation money for all the begging letters I called. We got one from Mahusa Kids and one from Seniors Plus so far. Are so thank us for our support, MKA, she was very excited, she said they're very grateful to have us and stuff, I don't know the lady but I do, they said she's very nice, so yeah, she is, of course, Seniors Plus, you know, they're always out there to help people, so, and we have been getting updates from the wood bank, they changed their application I guess because they had people from other towns, or other areas, I shouldn't say towns, but it's supposed to be Murray, Bethel, Upton, Greenwood, you know, the local area, so we've got the applications here if anybody needs them. [36:10] Speaker C (unidentified): What's the criteria to... I don't know, I didn't really look at it. It must have to be at a certain income level. Yes. Yeah, where would you get that information? We have, yeah, we're looking at possibly getting some, I guess [36:34] Speaker D (unidentified): you have to pick it up yourself unless it's a, unless you make other arrangements, which kind of surprised me [36:40] Speaker B (unidentified): to a point, I think they don't have any way of delivering it, but you could make. Yeah, we'll try. [36:47] Speaker D (unidentified): Join it down the road. But I think he's kind of disappointed in that. [36:51] Speaker H (unidentified): There's just a place for that, right? [36:53] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, because, you know... [36:54] Speaker H (unidentified): Most people don't have that capability either. I don't know. [36:59] Speaker D (unidentified): That was just my thought. [37:00] Speaker E (unidentified): It kind of surprised me. [37:02] Speaker B (unidentified): I heard from somebody that sells wood in this area that it would cut into his business quite a lot. [37:10] Speaker D (unidentified): It has for a lot of the people that sell firewood. Not [37:15] Speaker C (unidentified): much out there for people. Seasonal, I mean, you know, in the winter, snow plowing is an option, you know. Yeah,. [37:33] Speaker B (unidentified): Okay, are you pretty much done? Yeah, I am. I've got a med camp meeting a week from tomorrow, if there's anything anybody wants brought up. Other than that, we'll entertain an adjournment. Hold on. About seven minutes passed by. Brooks has something. Oh, sorry. [37:55] Speaker I (unidentified): Were you going to talk about the security cameras? [38:00] Speaker D (unidentified): I haven't heard back from the grant yet. [38:02] Speaker I (unidentified): Okay. But I just want to tell you that the WISE cameras, they're under $100. [38:09] Speaker D (unidentified): Yeah, I did look them up. [38:11] Speaker I (unidentified): So, I mean, they're pretty slick. Like this is my front door and I can control the camera from here so I can move it change the position and give me a notification it records it so to me it's the most economical and I've had this for over a year all kinds of [38:42] Speaker G (unidentified): weather is it a subscription or no okay I did look them up but I was [38:48] Speaker D (unidentified): wait to hear back on the grant because I can't do anything until I hear in the grant it even will [38:52] Speaker F (unidentified): record with no subscription yes really because a lot of them if you can only see it like in the moment if or if you don't buy a subscription you can't you know yeah so it's like you've got to [39:06] Speaker I (unidentified): look at it right then I've gone no it keeps it for seven days okay and you have the ability to Okay, that incident I want to download. So it goes right to you, wherever you send it. [39:19] Speaker E (unidentified): That sounds good. Sounds like better than mine. [39:26] Speaker D (unidentified): Mine's good. It works for what I did it for. [39:29] Speaker I (unidentified): You know, mine is solar powered, so if it goes out, it still gets over the phone. [39:35] Speaker H (unidentified): But mine, the battery's dying. [39:41] Speaker B (unidentified): Because here we've got power anyway, because the generator runs. [39:44] Speaker F (unidentified): But unless you're hardwiring them, which I don't think we would. [39:49] Speaker G (unidentified): Maybe we would, but I don't know. [39:51] Speaker E (unidentified): A lot of them are battery, but mine died within six months. [39:56] Speaker F (unidentified): You have the lithium batteries. And then you've got to climb up to where it is to get the battery. [40:05] Speaker D (unidentified): I have grandkids that do that. [40:08] Speaker H (unidentified): I kind of like what Bruce has done. [40:11] Speaker D (unidentified): I like his when he said something about putting it up, the faces a bit. So we would have to figure that part out too. [40:19] Speaker F (unidentified): Does it send you a notification every time it goes on? Every time it goes on. So can you disarm it? Because when we're here during the day, she might not want to get 50 notifications every time she comes home. So you can disarm it for a period of time. Constantly. [40:35] Speaker I (unidentified): Well, you could position it like out here. You could position it on the inside of the wall, point it to the doorway, and just have the solar panel around the corner, facing that way. You could have it on every corner of the building. them i [41:02] Speaker D (unidentified): did look them up though by the way but i can't order anything until i hear about the correct and i said october sorry [41:14] Speaker B (unidentified): i missed you sorry you're thinking about getting out of here okay yeah we'll make a motion we adjourn second all those in favor in favor [41:30] Speaker D (unidentified): time to get both of you to vote brooks is going to take care of the camera you didn't trust us good man