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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11_11_2020 Transcript Regular Meeting11-11-2020.mp3 Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:00:09] ​I'm going to call this meeting to order this is a regular Town Board meeting for the Town of Enfield on Wednesday, November 11th, at 6:30 pm via Zoom, just as a reminder, the meeting is being recorded. [00:00:20] ​We will start with privilege of the floor. If you would like to speak for privilege of the floor, please use the raise your hand button. If you are calling in on a cell phone, you can do this by pressing the Star nine button. I will unmute everybody at the end. To be sure, everyone who wishes has gotten a chance to speak for Prvilege of the floor. Please be sure to address your Town Board as a whole. You will have three minutes to speak, so please wrap up your comments in that time. [00:00:46] ​All right, let's see. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:00:49] ​You have Ann Rider here first. I'm going to go ahead and unmute you and ask you to start your video. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:01:02] ​Can you hear us Ann? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:01:06] ​Evening. Ann Rider ​[00:01:09] ​I was so amazed at the good fortune of the Town of Enfield to have an experienced person volunteer to fill the Town Councilperson spot that the Town has opened. Uh, it almost makes me believe in a higher power and I want to urge the board to take advantage of this great opportunity to. Appoint, please appoint, Michael Miles, for this interim spot, he has some experience and was a great addition to the Board during the time that he served in the past. And I urge you to appoint him to this.spot until the next election. Thank you,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:02:23] ​Thank you,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:02:24] ​Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:02:30] ​All right, next, we have Beverly Rollins, I'll unmute you and ask you to start your video. Beverly Rollins ​[00:02:36] ​No, thanks, I'll just talk I just want to say the Pledge of Allegiance. OK, Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:02:59] ​Thank you, Bev, did you want to speak more? Beverly Rollins ​[00:03:01] ​No I'm done thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:03:03] ​Thanks. All right, let's see. [00:03:13] ​Nancy Spero, I'm going to go ahead unmute you and ask you to start your video. Nancy Spero ​[00:03:24] ​All right. Hi, I just wanted to say that I was really happy to see that there were two candidates who are interested in running for the seat and and they both have different amounts of experience. And I definitely agree with Ann that Mike Miles was a good person to have on the board when he was there. Nancy Spero ​[00:03:54] ​And I just think both people would be great additions. They have different strengths, different experience, and primary season is soon. And what I would really like to see is this. There's some way that they could both join the board, that we could have a full board and that. Nancy Spero ​[00:04:15] ​And that they could both get a chance to see whether they want to run for the next election in a year by having experience on the board and learn a lot. So what I would like to see, as far as I can tell, they're both good at teamwork and team players and will really listen to everybody's point of view. So what I'd like to see is a way to have them both on the Board. Nancy Spero ​[00:04:42] ​The only way I know of that is to change the status of Stephanie's position. Nancy Spero ​[00:04:50] ​I don't know the word Acting Supervisor anyway, but if there's some other way, there's a lot of work to be done. Nancy Spero ​[00:04:58] ​Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:05:00] ​Thank you, Nancy. [00:05:07] ​All right, next, we have Ed Hetherington going to unseat you and ask you to start your video. [00:05:23] ​Oh, your muted. There you go. OK. Ed Hetherington ​[00:05:27] ​OK. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ed Hetherington ​[00:05:45] ​And Stephanie, I would like to get an idea of the background of these two people that are looking to get a position on the board. And would we be able to have. Either way, where we can have some interaction before you vote on them? Ed Hetherington ​[00:06:13] ​That's it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:06:14] ​Certainly uh great during during the candidate appointments in then that part of the agenda, we can have the reintroduce themselves. They did that at the last meeting, but we can do it again. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:06:26] ​Thank you, Ed. Ed Hetherington ​[00:06:28] ​Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:06:33] ​OK, next, we have Cassandra and start your video or ask you to start your video. Cassandra Hinkle ​[00:06:43] ​Good evening, everybody. Hello. So I wanted to bring up to everybody I know there's been some questions, but the big red door, the library, the public drive, that's why I so I know there's been some questions of what it is. And actually, my husband had a conversation with Buddy about potentially just for ease of getting to it and for the sake of making it easy for the plow trucks, moving it to the bus stop. So I'm not sure if that's something to have to vote on by the highway department, to be clear. Cassandra Hinkle ​[00:07:19] ​And Buddy had even mentioned maintaining it in the winter. So that way people could get to it. And I think it would be good for anybody going and waiting for the bus, maybe Kappel something to read. So it's a Little Free Library. It's affiliated with the American Library Association, has it in the Library of Congress. There's more than one hundred thousand of them throughout the country. That particular one is registered and is on the map of the Little Free Library. So just kind of put Enfield on the map for it. So, yeah, that's pretty much it is kind of wondering about input if anybody has a problem with it going by the highway department, bookstore or bus stop, I mean. Yeah, but it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:08:04] ​So just to let you know, I did put that on our agenda. It's kind of toward the end. So I'm sorry to make you wait through a really long meeting to get to that point, but you seem to have introduced it really well so we can have the discussion without you if you feel like you have to leave by then. But it'd be great if you could stick around so we can really stick around, talk it through and make sure we have the best place. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:08:21] ​And great. Thank you. Go. All right, next we have Julie, we have Julie here you. And I'm going to ask you to start your video. Julie Schroeder ​[00:08:39] ​OK, later on the video, I would like to express my disappointment in the current members of the board who have refused to appoint Stephanie as the Enfield Supervisor, to keep her in an acting position and not have a fully functional Ssupervisor with a Deputy is crippling to the business of our Town. And I'm very concerned about the strategy in not making that appointment. Stephanie's got experience. She's willing to do it and the Board should move as soon as possible to appoint her to a supervisory position. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:09:21] ​Thank you, Julie. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:09:27] ​All right, let's see, I have Ellen, you have your hand up. I didn't even see that there. I don't know how long it's been up, but you already started with your video unmuted you. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:09:39] ​Hi, I would just like to say to the board and to Enfield, thanks, everyone who voted. We had an amazing turnout. There were thirteen hundred people that voted in during from early voting to Election Day. And I was very proud of us as a community for coming out and voting. So that's what I'd like to share. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:10:04] ​Thanks its a good message. [00:10:07] ​All right. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:10:09] ​All right, I don't see any other hands raised, so I'm going to go ahead and unmute everyone, and if you didn't have a chance to speak for privilege of the floor, this will be your opportunity to do that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:10:19] ​Everybody should be unmuted at this point. [00:10:30] ​All right, I'm going to go ahead and take that as a no. And I'm going to mute everyone again. And I will oh, I think I muted everybody again. [00:10:47] ​Oh, there we go. [00:10:52] ​All right, I'm going to honor you, Virginia and Robert and Alan. There we go. [00:10:58] ​OK, so moving on. [00:11:03] ​Do we have any additions and changes to the agenda? The only thing that I have to add is after the part TCAT seeking input with Jean McPheters giving a brief update with that. I do have a library update from Annette Birdsall. So she'll be here to speak with us just to give us an update on the status of that. Is there anything else? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:11:28] ​I would suggest that we add a discussion item regarding the fire contract to which there are new developments on. And we may want to take action tonight to set a public hearing date for the new fire contract. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:11:44] ​That sounds great. Can I add it to the end of our agenda? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:11:48] ​Certainly. [00:11:49] ​OK, I'll put it in a new business right at the end. [00:11:54] ​OK, so next, we have sorry, go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:11:58] ​I have one addition in the course of adopting this cyber security resolution. Right. Which I think is a great idea in the course of adopting that we have to discuss implementation a little bit. So I just like I like sort of amend brief discussion on that, on securing some tech support. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:12:18] ​OK, you know, I will move that actually off the agenda and then we can do that right after the NYMIR review because they're really the ones that came through with our cyber security plan and move that off a consent agenda. [00:12:34] ​So otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and move a consent agenda and I get a Second. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[00:12:40] ​Second. [00:12:41] ​OK, and then Ellen, can you please read the audit claims? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:12:47] ​Sure. The Town Board authorizes the supervisor to pay general fund vouchers. 236 to 262 dated November 11, 2020 in the amount of 13,664 dollars. And that's even. And highway fund vouchers 161 to 176 dated November 11th, 2020 in the amount of 54,491.01. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:13:28] ​Great. Is there any discussion on that? [00:13:32] ​OK, Ellen, can you go ahead and call the vote for the consent agenda,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:13:37] ​Councilperson Bryant? Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[00:13:38] ​Aye. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:13:40] ​Councilperson Lynch? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:13:42] ​Aye. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:13:43] ​Acting Supervisor Redmond? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:13:46] ​Aye [00:13:47] ​Thank you. [00:13:48] ​OK,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:13:48] ​OK, so next we have monthly reports and we're going to go ahead and unmuted you and ask you to start your video. I don't see Dave McKenna on here, let me just check and I don't see him, so it looks like it's just you can take it away,. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:14:05] ​Just me, OK? [00:14:06] ​I hope everybody is doing OK today. The some of the major stuff I have has to do with the county budget. So let me pull that up here. As folks know that, or at least some of you know, we've been having a huge decrease in some of our sales tax revenue, also room tax revenue and also reimbursement for many of our programs from the state has been reduced 20 percent for the foreseeable future. [00:14:49] ​So we have a we have our tentative budget. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:14:56] ​Is has an overall increase of 2.1 percent and but the rate of taxation is actually reduced by 1.61 Percent. And why the difference is, is because of the median income or the median price of houses keeps going up. So for the median and median price home of two hundred thousand, the increase would be $42.77 cents next year. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:15:30] ​And we tried to keep that as low as we could, including taking out several million dollars from our contingency funds because we know folks are having a hard time also. And we also are hoping to have enough for the next couple of years and hopefully by then we'll have an economic recovery or mostly be recovered. And hopefully by then the state will be recovered and also be able to keep our levels back up to what they were. So, again, we're. We tried to keep it down. We hated to have to raise tax as it was, but we tried to keep it as minimal as possible. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:16:17] ​The COVID tests are still free for anybody that if your insurance doesn't pay for it and you don't have symptoms or your your place of employment doesn't cover tests. The County is still covering those who are hoping to get reimbursement through FEMA and possibly or at least some most of the reimbursement from the state or from FEMA and then a little bit from the state. And so those are available at the mall. [00:16:49] ​Just to remind folks, since you have many people from the community here on the call, if you need a ride to go get a test, too, you can call 2-1-1 and you can get a ride and you can go to our health department and you can sign up. You can't you're not supposed to just show up. I don't know if they're taking you anymore, if people are showing up, but they're recommending everybody sign up online to get a test. And let's see if we can see what our daily numbers are, active cases have been going up. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:17:26] ​We're up to 73 active cases of COVID right now, unfortunately, and 9 people in the hospital every day that I've been looking for the past week, it just keeps going up. So reminding people to use the usual precautions, wear masks and wash your hands, stay six feet away. What we're mostly finding out is what we've been seeing all along is that it's when people are getting together, whether it's in a restaurant or a bar. And if people are taking off their masks, if people are having social gatherings inside, it's worse, of course. But even if you're having gatherings outside, please stay six feet away and wear a mask. The Governor just came out with some. I don't have it in front of me, but the Governor came out. What's moving the state to towards more precautions? And that includes gatherings limited to 10 people. So that includes. On private property also, so 10 people is the most you can have gathering in one place, and that's because, of course, it's COVID numbers are going up around the state, the. Let's see what else I have for you. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:18:50] ​A sales tax, so I do have a teeny bit of good news. Sales tax went up a little bit. We find that I have so many windows here on my computer. Let's see for the county, this is for September's numbers and for the county, it actually went down five point eighty seven percent from September of last year, which is so. But bear with me. There's a little bit of better news after this. So but that's better than it had been because it had been down like 30 percent our sales tax. So down to only five point eighty seven percent is good news. And for the year so far, that brings us to only 12 percent down on the sales tax. But municipalities, they actually went up the smaller municipalities, two point four, six percent from last year. Now, that's not across the board. So you're, for instance, Ulisses told me there was was way up from last year. And we're not really sure why. We don't know. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:20:03] ​It's because of the college students were back for a while or we don't know if it was a mistake, but we're hoping we don't know if people are out shopping more. And people kind of had stored up stuff for several months. But we're we're needing to get back out to the stores. We're not sure what exactly it was. But anyway, so that was up a little bit. [00:20:28] ​And municipalities for the year are only down 9.25 percent. [00:20:35] ​So that is relatively good news. [00:20:43] ​Let's see if I had anything else. [00:20:53] ​Quickly here. We also celebrated we had three resolutions or three proclamations. One was for November celebrating Native American Heritage Month. [00:21:11] ​Veterans Day, which is today, so I want to make sure that from the County and from myself, I thank all active servicemen and women and veterans and thank you for your service and the sacrifice you have made. [00:21:26] ​We also have made a proclamation for Home Care Aide Appreciation Week, and I think that's about it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:21:42] ​Thank you, Anne. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:21:45] ​And I got a question I don't want to put you on the spot and make the blame for everybody's action on the County legislature, but I have a question in the County regarding the County Budget, the county budget at the administrators recommendation, they eliminated 47 full time equivalent positions. And 18 of those people had to be reassigned, in some cases probably to demotions. But in any event, they had to be reassigned. It's unfortunate and it's probably because of COVID. At the same time, the County legislature unanimously without any opposition, spent 110,000 dollars for a chief sustainability officer, somebody whose job description really hasn't been defined all that well. It was originally regarded as a Climate Action Coordinator and it's going to be situated in the County Administrator's office. I see a little bit of disconnect there. Do you? County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:22:51] ​No, I, I don't mind being put on the spot, Bob I'm used to you doing that. I mean, I'm used to people doing that to me. So so that's actually a very relevant question. So I actually appreciate that. So what we looked at was what are our priorities for now and and what have been our priorities, what continue to be our priorities and what do we want them to be in the next couple of years? County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[00:23:17] ​And most of us really feel that the environment is extremely important. We didn't want to make a back step on making that a priority. So that person is one of their main functions is going to be to help us to get off of fossil fuels, make our buildings more energy efficient and more comfortable, and also integrate with any new any new regulations that come down because of from the state, because the state has also made that a priority. So that's why we did that. We also in a somewhat of a hiring freeze, we also hired a Chief Equity and Diversity officer about two months ago because of racial and social injustice is very important, very important to us. So those are two things. We did spend money on hiring people. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:24:23] ​Thank you Ann. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[00:24:25] ​Thank you, Ann. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:24:30] ​OK, next, I have the Supervisor report for November this month, I participated in interviews regarding the broadband planning study and age-friendly accessibility within Enfield. I attended means for the Recreational Partnership, the IO and the Health Consortium. I filed theTE-9A for Rockwell Road. [00:24:50] ​I also spoke to AOT on that issue and they said that we should basically wait and make sure that this TE-9A. goes through because there was some confusion. The previous Board that had passed this policy thought that we needed a traffic study for it to move through. The County is saying that we don't need it. So if they we don't actually need it, we might want to amend our speed limit policy. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:25:13] ​But as of yet, we should make sure that this is going through the way that it is. Basically, the speed limit policy that we have is non-statutory anyway. So we can do kind of what we would like with that once we we find out how it passes through the system. I also worked on the resiliency plan, hazard mitigation plan, which we'll touch on tonight as part of our agenda. I attended the Planning Board meeting, met with the Water Protection Committee, and we developed the vision statement and the goals and we're moving forward with that. I met with renewables for the site visit for the new solar installation that's going in at the Highway Barn. [00:25:49] ​I worked with Annette Birdsall of Tickell to discuss curbside pickup for library books and she will give an update on that. Tonight, I met with Debbie Teeter of the ECC to tour the new facility and discuss the future plans for the building. I met with the Fire Company with Robert to negotiate the new contract, and I had some discussions with Cassandra about the free Little Free Library, which we'll get into hopefully later as well, and drafted the cybersecurity password policy on recommendations from NYMIR. And we will hear from Nikki Cervoni tonight about the issues that they have as regarding our cybersecurity ways that we need to move forward. And she'll also go over some of the other insurance reviews. I did a cyber awareness training with NYMIR this month. And then aside from that, the Town Supervisor completes the following tasks each month, reviews all bills, prepares vouchers for boards, review and payment correspondence, payroll, abstract review, budget monitoring and modifications, deposits and transfers. Documentation for all meetings resolves legal issues, trainings, attends county-level meetings, communication with employees and department heads regarding daily operations in the Town and budget concerns building maintenance and upgrades purchases. Resident Complaints and concerns. Employment and benefits. Administration all actions dedicated to the Town Board for the supervisor. All other tasks that arise daily. We are still looking for people to represent the Town of Enfield in the Recreational Partnership, the Health Consortium and on the New York Stretch Committee with the New York Strike Committee in particular, we're looking for someone that is employed full-time within real estate. [00:27:28] ​We would like to flesh out that committee and move forward with it. So if anyone is interested in participating, it's a very little commitment to that committee. [00:27:38] ​Additionally, IT committee appointments will be renewed at the beginning of the year. So if you have any interest in serving your community in some way in twenty twenty one, please reach out and let us know your interest. There are many very tasks from youth concerns to beautification, Town finances, renewable energy, environmental concerns, insurance and much more. There may be other opportunities to share your talents, aside from committee appointments for short term projects and gathering. So please let us know if you have any energy to give to that. And additionally, the County is asking for input on their hazard mitigation plan. So there is a survey that's posted on our website, Anne. [00:28:13] ​Please, if you have a moment, go to the website and fill out that survey for the County. That's it for me. Next, we have Elin Woods with the Town Clerk Report. [00:28:26] ​Sorry I muted you by accident. I didn't have to on unmute you. There you go. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:28:32] ​So I'll start with the business portion. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:28:36] ​This month in the Clerk's Office, we sold two certified copies. Those are ten dollars each. We sold 35 dog licenses. We sold eight. We processed 8 building permits and then 2 culvert permits. So the total revenue that will go to the supervisor is $3080 dollars and so some achievements this month we met with AlarmTech and we got the alarm system put in place. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:29:14] ​That was a very high priority for our office because Tax Season is fast approaching. So we've been working with the Department of Assessment, preparing for a tax season. So we did election public information, really happy about how that when answering residents' questions and making sure all the information was on the website for residents to vote, we did the public information about the vacancy. So the most exciting part of that public information was that we did get the vacancy on our Town Board broadcast on WHCU the morning report. So that was very exciting. We,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:29:56] ​Patricia and I connected with an organization called A4TD to pursue another internship for our office.A4TD has a little bit of a different focus than the Youth Workforce. New York's youth program. A4TD is for adults reentering the workforce after a vacancy from an absence from the workforce. [00:30:21] ​And Patricia actually came through that program at work for us. So it's an amazing program and we're just in the beginning steps of talking with them about creating an internship for the Town Clerk's office where an adult who's older could work in modern administrative skills and then move on to another opportunity. And so we also worked with the Town Historian on we are trying to establish a photo wall of past Clerks and maybe also past Town employees in other capacities, but definitely all the Clerks that have served in this office before. [00:31:04] ​That's about it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:31:05] ​It sounds really sweet. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:31:07] ​Nice touch. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[00:31:09] ​Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:31:10] ​I do have a couple of questions. Was the Workday filed with the OSC? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:31:16] ​I'm sorry the Office of the State Comptroller you're saying. Yes, yeah. Yes. It's on the way there. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:31:25] ​OK, great. [00:31:26] ​And then the other one is I sent you information about the tax exempt form for NAPA. Do you want to go ahead and handle that? Are you going to send the form to me and I can send it on to NAPA? [00:31:35] ​Just trying to clear NAPA Auto Parts. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:31:39] ​Yeah, OK. The one downtown. I can I can go ahead and fax that over to them. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:31:44] ​OK, that'll be great. Thank you. I can get you that. The information about that too. Great. [00:31:50] ​OK, next up, we have Buddy Rollins. [00:31:54] ​I'm going to unmute you and ask you to start your video. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:31:58] ​Oh I'm sorry Stephanie. Just one more thing about the Standard Workday Resolution that is posted was on the website and it's posted on the Town window. There's a 30 day posting requirement for that. So that is being met. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:32:13] ​Thank you. Buddy, did you get unmuted? There you go. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:32:24] ​Starting out with cleanup as cleanup days went very well, the residents did very well coming in and keeping space and what we asked in what we asked to do and how we run it, we ended up with pretty much average 330 yard dumpsters. Well, that's pretty much what we have almost every year and pay half a. Half a dumpster full of scrap metal, which was 40 yards scrap metal. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:33:02] ​Pick up the old Supervisor's truck has been sold. It sold for 27,300. And depending on which way you want to figure it, if you take it off the truck, initial truck that we bought when we bought it, that cost us twelve thousand dollars for four years use. If you take it off the Second truck, the Second truck replacement truck ended up costing us 18,000 dollars. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:33:35] ​This is why we tried to get in this every two year exchange, but this truck went four years. And we came out really well, I believe, for having a dependable vehicle, and if we had sold it in two years, I believe we would have got at least a low 30s out of it because it's still been under warranty and stuff. And that's what a lot of other towns are doing and how they're turning them over and why because of that initial thing. [00:34:07] ​The sickle bar sold for $360 dollars, that was just a sickle bar by itself. [00:34:14] ​Now, we had a truck, fuel tank that went for $140 dollars, and then we had some used tires that went for $10 dollars, all these have been paid. And I got paid receipts for. The truck and sickle bar have been picked up, but we're still we haven't received a check for it yet. That will probably take about 20 days to get the check. [00:34:38] ​From them, from Auction Internationals. [00:34:45] ​We lost a small dump truck. The engine went out on it and I'm trying going to see where we're going to go with that. But now we're down one small dump truck. [00:34:56] ​It's the older 2001. [00:34:59] ​The box is pretty rusty on it, and it's a two wheel drive and stuff, and we've been using it as a chipper truck. [00:35:06] ​So I'm not sure where we're going to go with that yet. And if we do anything, it probably won't be till next year. So. [00:35:17] ​And. [00:35:20] ​We pretty much wrapped up our summer work. We are starting to do change over. [00:35:26] ​And that's about it. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:35:31] ​Buddy I presume that the dump truck wasn't used for snow removal or anything in the winter time. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:35:37] ​What was that? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:35:38] ​That that that dump truck that failed you isn't used in winter time for snow removal, is it? No, it isn't. That is not going to bother that. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:35:48] ​So Buddy, I did have a question from a couple of residents now asking about Roundup being used on Town property. I went through the last vouchers for the past year and I saw that you got about a gallon and a half of Roundup. Is that all that you have and where is it being applied? [00:36:05] ​And what sort of protocol is being used to be sure that that the applicator isn't being exposed to Roundup, knowing that it's a carcinogen that's been known to cause lymphoma. [00:36:19] ​So there is some level of concern there,. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:36:22] ​Tell me the names of residents and I'll talk to him myself about it, OK? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:36:27] ​Can you talk to the rest of the Town at this point about it, about where it's being used and how it's being applied and things like that? Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:36:36] ​Now at this time. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:36:38] ​OK, because that's something that I really feel like we need to know as a Town so that we can just be safe as far as reentry periods and things like that. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:36:47] ​OK. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:36:51] ​So can I ask as a resident then, you know, I I definitely have been frequenting Town property lately and so I would like to know where it's being applied. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:37:03] ​Yeah, he can. Just at the department, it was the first time I used I used it myself where we can't mow. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:37:13] ​OK, and. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:37:16] ​It's all store bough, but and it's not the stuff that the farmers use that you mix yourself and stuff. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:37:23] ​So it's only being used at the highway department. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:37:26] ​Yes, where we have rocks and stuff and we can't mow. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:37:33] ​OK, but it's a concern to residents, I know a lot of people are concerned about water quality and things like that here, so maybe that's something that we can look into, potentially tarping that area or something like that to kill weeds. [00:37:46] ​But maybe that's something we should talk to soil and water about. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:37:49] ​I don't there's much to talk about but whatever. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[00:37:53] ​Well, I think we should talk about it and find out what's going on. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:37:58] ​The creek there is only 600 feet away from the building, so I do have concerns about that area being contaminated. [00:38:09] ​So and then the other question that I guess I had was just to note to you that we haven't gotten our CHIPS funding yet. So many of your line items within the Highway Department are, you know, tens of thousands in the negative. And so if you could just shoot me an email, letting me know where you would like me to take that money from to balance your budget, that would be great. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:38:31] ​Well, you recall a few meetings back. I think it was September. You took the money out of my equipment fund, the money supposed to been already transferred, and your Bookkeeper or whoever was taking care of the business. And that's not up to date with stuff. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:38:48] ​So he was supposed to it was taken out. Oh, yes, I remember. So it was part of our resolution at that Mimi passed that night to take it out of the equipment line. Ellen, could you forward that to Brian to make sure that he knows that that's supposed to come out of there? [00:39:06] ​OK, great. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:39:08] ​Is there a reason that you have your hand up, do you want me to you're OK? There was who? Ellen. I think she had a question about this. Go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:39:17] ​No, that's fine. I can make sure we have a shared document with budget resolutions, but I can make sure of that. [00:39:23] ​But I did I do have to know as a procedural issue that the EPA is not currently defining glyphosate as a carcinogen. So it's not like we do have to follow with the FDA and the EPA, say, on, you know, and just. You know, the guys of the highway are exposed to a lot of things like diesel fumes and asphalt, that could be a health issue for them. It's part of highway work, but currently the EPA is not defining glyphosphate is a carcinogen. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:39:52] ​Yes, but we can still determine as a Town what our residents would like to be applied to their soil and water. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[00:39:57] ​Sure. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:39:57] ​So that's maybe a discussion that w. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[00:39:59] ​Should have not used anywhere in the Town except for the highway department. And it's only been used this year. A gallon and a half a diluted. [00:40:08] ​Stuff of you being real, way over-reacting on this,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:40:14] ​I'm just trying to have a discussion about it, I'm not trying to implement any sort of policy, but I know that there's a residents that are concerned. So I think that we should address their concerns. Thank you. [00:40:22] ​Thank you, Alan Teeter. [00:40:25] ​You're up next for giving the report for the code enforcement. Let's see, where are you? [00:40:34] ​There you are, unmuted and asked to start. Code Enforcement Officer Alan Teeter ​[00:40:43] ​All right, I think they think here, for whatever reason, my camera is not working, I can't seem to figure that out, but anyway, I'm here anyway. [00:40:53] ​So for the month of October, I issued a total of 8 building permits, which brings us to 47 for the year total. Four of those were from or four new homes which are all under way or partially completed at this point. And there's a couple more that are going to be turned in this next month. I think I've been continuing working with assessment on keeping them up to date with the new permits as they come in. We've also have managed to schedule our annual code enforcement officers' meeting, which we didn't think we're going to be able to do this year. But we set up with a zoom meeting, which I think is the middle of next week. So I'm pleased to be able to get together with the other code officers and talk about what's going on. As probably most people know, the Fish Road Tower is finally up and working. We seem to have pretty good Verizon signal in Town hopefully at some point soon they'll add other antennas on it. So we'll have AT&T perhaps, but that's working for now anyway. And lastly, I just want to say, I've been meeting with Agape church. They've got some serious foundation repairs on the building there, and they're going to be applying for a permit for that to do some major foundation work this spring. That was never right when they when they built the place. And they're trying to correct that now. That's what I have. Was any questions? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:42:18] ​The Fish road situation was a real surprise to me the day I voted, and I actually afterwards could telephone somebody and say, hey, I just voted. I was surprised I could get my signal out. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:42:30] ​I agree. I was surprised too. It was great service. Code Enforcement Officer Alan Teeter ​[00:42:33] ​And I actually have several bars there and downtown now. So that's a big plus. It's been a long time coming. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:42:41] ​Certainly has. All right. You want to give you Enfield Fire Company report as well? EFC 1st Assistant Chief Alan Teeter ​[00:42:47] ​Sure. I can do that. For the month of October, we had a total of 21 calls. There were four or five calls, 12 EMS calls, 4 service calls and 1 motor vehicle accident. [00:43:02] ​The trainings for November. On the 5, we had our general meeting. And the 12th, which is tomorrow, we're doing our annual back flushing of the dry hydrants around Town and also doing truck checks, on the 19th are doing an online training for roadway safety, flaggers, and traffic control. 26 is of course Thanksgiving. A couple of things on the 17th, which I believe is next Tuesday, there's a blood drive. And the next officers meeting will be on the 1st of December. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:43:38] ​Thank you, Alan. All right, and next up, we have Dan Walker. [00:43:45] ​I'm going to I'm unmute you and. Let's see, there you are. You already have your video up here. Planning Board Chairperson Daniel Walker ​[00:43:57] ​OK, we had a planning board meeting last week, we had a little discussion about the Norbut Solar Project, they are a little behind in preparing their design documents. So we will be actually looking at the preliminary site plan in the DEC meeting, which didn't surprise me at all with the amount of work they had to do to get it ready. And then we also had some discussion of the resiliency plan, the emergency action plans, which is on the agenda tonight also, I guess here. So that's that's basically it. What happened was enough of a lot of activity today, this week, the I'm encouraging the planning board members to take advantage of some of the Association of Towns webinars and recorded trading sessions so they can get their training time in also. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:45:08] ​All right, thank you. Regarding them taking longer, Norbut Solar taking longer to implement their site, plan, review and whatnot, I am wondering, I'm supposed to send them a letter from the Supervisor informing them that we've opted out of the forty seven. Am I supposed to do that now or am I supposed to do that later? [00:45:28] ​Is there something we're supposed to file? Planning Board Chairperson Daniel Walker ​[00:45:30] ​You could do that at any time now? Yes, that way they have it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:45:35] ​OK. I didn't know if I had to wait until a certain point. Planning Board Chairperson Daniel Walker ​[00:45:37] ​No, you don't have to. I mean. [00:45:41] ​I think, you know, we're going to be proceeding with reviewing it, and I anticipate it'll be get approval in some form and they just need that documentation so that they can get there of their other. Financial Information square. So they need to have any time you can send that out. It doesn't it's not dependent if for some reason we deny the project it doesn't hurt anything. I mean, you had a little extra work to do, so you may not have it to do, but. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:46:13] ​That's OK. Planning Board Chairperson Daniel Walker ​[00:46:14] ​I would go ahead and just give them that documentation so they know exactly what they're dealing with. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:46:19] ​OK, great. Thank you. All right, Robert, you are up with the TCCOG report. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:46:31] ​Yes, good evening, I submitted the Town Board members written TCCOG report earlier today, since there people on this meeting who don't receive that, I'll give you an abbreviated version of it. The what I submitted is 15 paragraphs. I'm not going to take that much time to read it. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:46:49] ​The Tompkins County Council of Governments met October 22nd. Matt Yarrow, assistant general manager for System Development and planning for Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, or otherwise known as TCAT, provided the principal presentation regarding the TCAT transit development plan now underway once a decade TCAT assesses its service, engages a consultant to ascertain how service can be improved, and then determines how to accomplish those improvements. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:47:20] ​A public engagement initiative now underway, it's called the visioning stage, and I guess we're going to hear more about it tonight, will be followed by another one next year called the feedback stage with finalization of improvement recommendations planned for next summer. Yarrow said the consultants were open to receive even what he described as crazy ideas, quote unquote, as to what the service should be or what TCAT should work on. [00:47:47] ​The transit development plan calls for impaneling various focus groups, including three rural rider groups apportioned throughout the county by route, participants will be drawn from those who primarily use those rural routes. Lansing's representative on TCCOG raised the potential circular logic of this transit plan, particularly regarding the focus groups that the study would empanel. Focus group participants would most frequently be drawn from the ranks of existing TCAT riders. [00:48:18] ​Therefore, those who may now find TCAT inaccessible or who might benefit most from the improvements may be the least likely to participate quote, We want to have them in the focus group, said Yarrow of non riders but quote, We have we haven't figured out how to do it yet. As for the Enfield commuter run, that is Route 20, statistics Yarrow presented showed that ridership on that line is a little bit low for TCAT overall, yet comparable to that of other rural commuter routes. The service's heaviest usage, to no one's surprise, involved routes serving the campuses. [00:49:01] ​One idea TCAT will pursue, said Yarrow, to establish multiple hubs for route transfers, not just relying exclusively on the downtown Ithaca hub. And though tickets current facility off Willow Avenue is, he termed it, working at overcapacity. TCAT has, in his words, paused during COVID its ambitious plan to construct a new facility, particularly near the airport, because of decreased ridership during the pandemic. Yarrow said the pain points caused by the services earlier strained capacity have eased a bit. Asked about the prospect of all electric buses, Yarrow acknowledged that it's a work in progress. [00:49:42] ​TCAT is set to receive its first fleet of seven electric busses in March 2021. But the chargers for those electric busses are large, portions of those chargers must be kept outdoors and the Chargers could themselves host space problems. [00:49:58] ​One other thing. As a holdover from the previous meeting county legislator Anna Kellus updated members on the rural broadband study that the Enfield Town Board helped fund with a $5000 commitment in October and whose total cost $80,000 has been placed within the 2021 Tompkins County Budget set for adoption next week, municipal contributions will reduce the County's financial liability. And as of the meeting we had on the 22 six municipalities, including Enfield, of course, had contributed $5,000 each. [00:50:33] ​So that's $30,00 dollars in total. So and there's an effort to get the city of Ithaca to chip in some money, too. So that's a work in progress. At least it was at the 22 meeting. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[00:50:51] ​Thank you, Robert. OK, next. Yes. Next, we're going to have the NYMIR review with Nicole Cervoni [00:51:02] ​I'm going to go ahead and find you on here. I hope you are going to unmuted you and ask you to start your video. [00:51:16] ​Let's say that go through? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[00:51:19] ​I can say I hear you, too,. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[00:51:25] ​Thank you. [00:51:27] ​All right, so did everybody get a proposal? [00:51:37] ​If you go to the third page, says NYMIR coverage summary, what we're going to do is we're going to start with your building and contents coverage. [00:51:50] ​Is everybody there? No. OK, perfect. [00:51:54] ​So you both have two point four million dollars worth of building coverage that what NYMIR does is offer that on a blanket coverage. So you guys have 2.4 Million dollars worth of coverage and then each building is specified, a building coverage and a contents coverage, which we'll discuss in a couple of pages. You have general liability coverage at one million dollars. If I was to go to the Town Hall and I would just slip and fall due to an ice claim that would protect the Town of Enfield up to 1 million dollars, they'll pay to 1 million dollar claims within your term, which goes from January to January. Products and completed options, if the highway [00:52:33] ​guys are out there repairing roads and they do something negligent and the Town gets sued. We have a million dollars worth of coverage for that. [00:52:41] ​We have cyber coverage at the $250,000. [00:52:45] ​What that does is that if in the event that the Town of Enfield was to be hacked, what they would do is they would provide $250,000 worth of coverage to figure out how that had set up protocols on how to prevent it from happening again. [00:52:59] ​And then they also provide credit monitoring for anybody who could have been compromised by the hack. So when we well, we're talking about that. Let's talk about those cyber coverages you guys were talking about. So what happened is you guys automatically get the 250 with your NYMIR program. [00:53:17] ​And then what happened is a few months ago, they sent out a cyber survey and asked all the protocols that you had, many municipalities came back with multiple cyber recommendations. Thankfully, the Town of Enfield only came back with one, which is the strong password. So what they want you to do is they just want all municipal computers to have a strong password with at least 15 characters, uppercase, lowercase, numbers and a symbol. And then what they'd like you to do is set up a protocol so that every 90 days or 120 days, whatever procedures you guys want to set up, that is updated per municipal computer. [00:53:59] ​Does anybody have any questions about that? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:54:04] ​OK, hope we can remember the password, right? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[00:54:08] ​I know that's the hardest part is remembering them and coming up with a new word, Teets uppercase, lowercase numbers, symbols. It's difficult. I understand. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[00:54:18] ​OK, so never tell anybody who your mother's maiden name is or your your first pet or your first girlfriend or if you have your right. [00:54:34] ​That's right. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[00:54:37] ​So as we go down, we're going to talk about staff coverage of IDA Clerk for the Town of Enfield and I'm stealing money. NYMIR will protect the Town of Enfield for up to $500,000 dollars. So I know that seems like a lot of money, but when we think about it, by the time that I steal the money and then we figure out that I stole the money, and then by the time we can prosecute that person, a lot of funds have usually accumulated. [00:55:00] ​So these numbers were probably set in your bylaws a long time before any of us were even affiliated with the Town. So if you ever want to look at these numbers or you think they're too low or too high or whatever you want to do, these numbers are always negotiable. Forgery and alteration, if a check comes in or goes out and we forge it say we send a check to the electrical department for one hundred dollars and then they forge it to be a thousand dollars worth of coverage for that, that's the money inside the premise, robbery or safe, computer fraud funds transfer. That's if I'm the bookkeeper and I'm transferring money back and forth between my account and the Town of Enfield's account. And then if we have counterfeit money come in, does anybody have any questions on any of those coverages? [00:55:46] ​OK. All right, if we flip the page now, what we're going to talk about is our auto coverage. You guys have a lot of vehicles on your policy. [00:55:53] ​And in the event that I'm driving them and I'm going to fix a road and I get in a car accident and I hurt somebody and the Town of Enfield get sued in a suit, the NYMIR program will protect you for up to 1 million dollars. Anybody, non employee related, so let's say I got in the truck with Buddy and we went to go look at a building in the event that we were in a car accident, this personal injury protection, this next section would pay for any medical bills that acquired while I was in the truck with Buddy. Uninsured motorist, if somebody hits one of the Town trucks and they don't have any insurance, that's what that's for non ownership liability. So let's say I'm the Clerk and I take my vehicle and I run to Wal-Mart to get supplies for the Town of Enfield in the event, while I'm in my vehicle, insurance will always follow the vehicle. But whoever I hit finds out that I was working on behalf of the Town of Enfield. You'll get named and sue and this will provide legal defense and settlement of the claim. [00:56:50] ​If somehow they find the Town of Enfield negligent. Hired auto liability, let's say the Board decides they're going to go to a training class up in Buffalo when all this covid stuff is over and you guys rent a van and you guys go up to Buffalo for training class, this will provide liability in the event that you were to get in a car accident in that rental car. And then obviously mutual aid coverage. [00:57:16] ​The other thing I want to talk about is when you guys can go back to regular meetings again, you have deductible reimbursement for directors and officers. So let's say tonight you're on your way to the board meeting and you hit a deer, insurance, like I said, always follows the vehicle. But in the event you submitted that to your insurance company, whatever your deductible is, NYMIR will reimburse you up to a $1000 dollars. So if you hit a deer, you have a $500 deductible. You need to do is give me that bill and I'll get you reimbursed up to whatever your deductible is. [00:57:48] ​Public officials liability, this protects you, the Board, again, in the event that you made a decision on the behalf of the Town of the Enfield and I as a member, as a Councilperson of the Town of Enfield, thought that it wasn't good for the Town. And I decided to sue you NYMIR will protect you for 1 million dollars. [00:58:07] ​You can have two 1 million dollar claims per per year lead term, which is the January to January. [00:58:14] ​The next section is our equipment coverage. When I came down and met with Stephanie and Beth, I also met with Buddy pre just to review all the schedules to make sure that we had everything correct and values. And I'll break down how we came to these totals here in a few minutes. Excess liabilities. [00:58:33] ​So I talked about your general liability, I talked about your auto liability and I talked to your public officials liability. So you have all of those on the minimum. And then what you guys have purchased on top of that is an umbrella. So in the event that I fell at the Town Hall and I got a judgment of, let's say, 2 million dollars, the underlying policy will only pay me one million. And then what would happen is that the umbrella would kick in for the other two million. And you guys have a two four on that. [00:59:01] ​If we flip to the next page page here, just tell us about the s.. NYMIR contract with a third party to come out and do appraisals of all of your buildings. Your last one was done in 2014. So as long as COVID subsides, I anticipate they'll come out and do an inspection of all of your buildings next year. [00:59:23] ​The next one is just how we place value on all of our vehicles. And then if you look to the next page, this is our first page of coverages. So in the beginning of this conversation, I told you had 2.3 3 million dollars with the building coverage, just this next page is how that's broken out. [00:59:40] ​So as you can see, we have each building labeled and then we have the building value in the first column, in the contents value in the second column. But we do raise your building values 4 percent every year for inflation. That's just because the cost of a 2x4 last year is obviously a different cost this year for a two by four. So it's going to cost us more to replace your buildings than what it did last year. So that's how these buildings are done when we have our appraisal next year we"ll make these buildings whole again. So if they say that the office building at 168 Enfield main road should only be insured, a 750 we'll go ahead and back it to 750 and then we'll adjust your premiums. [01:00:23] ​We go to the next page. This is our schedule of vehicles. I have to enter all of your vehicles on this page because I need to let the Department of Motor Vehicles know that you have them and their registered motor vehicles. Comp and collision coverage, is picked up on this schedule. [01:00:37] ​You will see it in the very there's three columns at the very end premium and then comp and collision at the very top. If it says SLTR that that physical damage is going to be picked up on that floater that we talked about a few pages ago, if there's a number there, then that's the deductible associated with it. So comp is going to be like deer, flood, fire, your full glass, collision is going to be if you collide with another object or vehicle, if you flip to the next page. These are the values that I talked about earlier that I discussed was with Buddy. Buddy did just call me earlier in the week and remove that 2006 Dodge Ram that you guys that he mentioned earlier during his presentation that did give you an 85 dollar credit on your current term. Unfortunately, I couldn't turn it around quick enough to get a revised renewal quote. So as soon as I get that, I'll send it over to Stephanie to share. And as always, NYMIR provides one hundred thousand dollars with lease rented equipment. [01:01:42] ​So in the event that Buddy had to go run an excavator and he rented it from a local rental place, what would happen is NYMIR would pick up that first hundred thousand dollars and then we would only add the increased value for the amount of time that you had it in your care, custody and control. If you flip to the next page, this is our premium breakdown. We did get a new vehicle in March. Looks like we got a new 2020 Chevy Silverado. So last year for the full term, you paid us $28,745. We are increasing the $29,365, but that doesn't take into account the deletion of the 16th. So that premium's going to be lower once I get this revised proposal. Does anybody have any questions for me? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:02:35] ​I do I'm sorry I don't back, but under the NYMIR coverage summary under policies and coverage, there's two sections for personal injury protection. I don't know if you you mentioned, which is one $150,000one one is. Fifty thousand? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:02:53] ​Because New York state mandates that you have fifty thousand dollars worth of personal injury protection if just in New York state rule rule and then we give you an additional hundred and fifty just because it's better coverage for anybody who could be not employee related, because obviously, if you were in a municipal vehicle and got hurt, you would file a worker's comp claim. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:03:17] ​OK, and then another question I have is we have someone named Jay. that's coming at 10:00 a.m. to go through a NYMIR Risk review with Town clerk and such. [01:03:30] ​So is that going to affect any of this or do you know? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:03:34] ​You know, it's going to be just kind of like that cyber survey that you and Beth's completed. What they'll do is they'll figure out how you how you do business. And then what they'll do is based off their recommendations and how they'd like to see you run your municipality. They'll make recommendations to you. So most of the time, it's done at the highway garage. Is that where he's going or is he just reviewing the offices? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:03:58] ​He's doing both. He's going to the Town clerk and Highway building later. Yeah. So I just want to check these numbers or if they would affect them or. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:04:07] ​No, they will not affect the numbers, but all they'll do is they'll give you a list of recommendations, what they feel. And I really feel that was beneficial to municipalities just because you don't know what you don't know. And, you know, if they've seen Highway Garage blow up due to X, Y, Z or maybe catch on fire and then they give those recommendations as one last claim that they'll either have to pay and you guys will have to experience the loss of that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:04:32] ​OK, thank you. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:04:34] ​I just wanted to touch on one more thing, Stephanie, I spoke to you the other day, but when Beth's was still in office, I messaged her from the comp alliance and the comp alliance offered to year workers comp guaranteed rating at $51,313. The comp alliance is being very profitable this year. And with covid and all the setbacks and the decreases in funding that you guys are experiencing, they'd like to give you another five percent of that. So in the event that Stephanie signed another two year contract with me, which would be 2021 and 2022, they're willing to lower your workers comp rate from $51,313.00 down to $48,747.00. [01:05:22] ​So I did send that participation agreement over. Yeah, definitely, it's a lot of money and I really applaud the alliance for reaching out and giving this back to their members. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:05:35] ​Thank you. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:05:36] ​I given a lot of information tonight. Does anybody have any questions for me? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:05:41] ​I'm just wondering if you can go over the cyber security stuff at all and explain sort of the policy that we're trying to draft here or that we're trying to pass tonight. [01:05:53] ​And, you know, once we put. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:05:57] ​Sorry, what's that? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:05:58] ​I'm sorry about the complex passwords? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:06:01] ​Yes, so and then basically just that you that that was a priority for a NYMIR that we passed that. And then is there another cyber cyber security step that you'd like to see or like to see us take after that? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:06:15] ​Is there any more. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:06:18] ​At this time per year, nine per cyber survey that you guys completed earlier this year? The only recommendation that NYMIR has is this complex password, which I spoke about a little while ago. And the reason why that is, is because they want to make sure that we control and protect the municipal information that we that you have at your municipal computers. They would like this implemented by the end of the year. [01:06:44] ​They said if it's not implemented by the end of the year, we could increase the premium or they may not offer cyber coverage at all. So I did speak to Stephanie about it earlier in the week, and she said that she asked me to speak on it tonight. I did send over that complex password how they would like you to create your password. [01:07:03] ​So, like, I'm 15 characters, uppercase, lowercase numbers and then symbols. And like Robert said, they don't want you to use your username, your friend's name or family members name, date of birth, you know, those types of things. So. It would be very appreciative from NYMIR and myself, if you guys could just implement something so that we could get these passwords updated and then after so long, you update them again like one hundred and twenty days or ninety days, whatever protocol you'd like to make. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:07:36] ​Thank you,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:07:37] ​Ellen, I'm going to unmuted of your question for Nicky. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:07:43] ​Yeah, I was just wondering about enforcement of that, who is usually the point person to enforce that policy. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:07:52] ​Usually most of our municipalities have an I.T. department, I'm not sure what you guys have or software in your passwords for like your computers and stuff, you can the administrator can set up, you know, that they have to be so many characters and they have to be updated. So, you know, after so many days, I'm not really sure I can find out more for you. If you want me to call in to find out how other municipalities do that, my IT department takes care of it. [01:08:20] ​And I go in the morning, I'm like, oh, no, what am I going to use this time? But if you need some help with that, I can definitely reach out and see what I can do. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:08:28] ​Thank you. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:08:30] ​You're welcome. [01:08:31] ​I. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:08:34] ​We actually have to change over our entire Web platform, an e-mail platform, anyway, and we will need to hire some help for that. [01:08:42] ​So maybe we can document that at the same time. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:08:45] ​That'll be good. Be doing that. Yeah. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:08:51] ​All right, Buddy had his hand up. I'm going to go ahead unmute you. [01:08:57] ​You don't usually want your video started, so,. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:09:00] ​Yeah. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:09:02] ​Nicki, Could you tell them about the 10 year replacement that we're not getting any more with the equipment? NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:09:06] ​Oh, yes, absolutely. Buddy I'll talk about that. So up until. [01:09:12] ​Can you guys hear me? Yes, ma'am. [01:09:15] ​OK, I thought I got booted. I'm sorry. I'm so up until January. [01:09:22] ​Oh, no. I'm not sure how. [01:09:29] ​I think you may be muted yourself somehow or so. [01:09:32] ​OK. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:09:33] ​All right. Can you see me now? Yep. [01:09:36] ​OK, so up until last year, NYMIR always provided 10 years replacement cost on all of your trucks, starting this year. They are no longer offering that they're going on an agreed value basis. So what that means is when per that schedule that we spoke about on where it was horizontal and it had the yellow highlights on it in the auto physical damage section, we have two thousand twelve international seventy six hundred. [01:10:10] ​So we have it insured for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So in the event that I'm out snow this winter with that and I total it you your agreeing that you're OK with one hundred and fifty thousand and that's what NYMIR will give you. Minus your deductible. Prior to this year, they've always given you replacement cost for it. So if we had those 2020, if we had a 2018 and replaced that was $357,00.00 then that's what they would give you. Unfortunately, that's not the case anymore. [01:10:44] ​So Buddy has reviewed the value. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:10:48] ​Does anybody have any other questions for Niki? [01:10:52] ​And Robert in Virginia, are you both in agreement that we should go ahead and sign another two year contract with them? [01:10:59] ​All right. [01:11:02] ​Yeah, sure, we go ahead with that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:11:07] ​OK, I think that's it, Nikki, thank you so much. If you want to leave you guys work a our cybersecurity password policy if you'd like. NYMIR Nicole Cervoni ​[01:11:18] ​All right, perfect. I'll get that information on how to update that with Ellen. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:11:23] ​OK, great. Have a great night. Thanks. [01:11:27] ​Thank you. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:11:30] ​Stephanie. We need a resolution regarding the extension of insurance coverage? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:11:36] ​That's a good question. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:11:38] ​Let's let's go ahead and write one up right now, let's see where as it is necessary to continue insurance for the Town and whereas we are, being presented with the option of A five percent decrease in our premiums. Therefore, be it resolved that we will sign a new contract with separate Sprauges insurance to continue our insurance coverage. [01:12:12] ​That sounds kind of. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:12:16] ​Ellen, do you want to call that vote? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:12:34] ​There's no more discussion, you're good. All right. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:12:36] ​Councilperson Bryant. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:12:36] ​Aye,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:12:36] ​Councilperson Lynch. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:12:36] ​Aye,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:12:36] ​Acting Town Supervisor Redmond. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:12:36] ​Aye. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:12:48] ​That's ok. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:12:50] ​So the next one is a resolution to adopt the cybersecurity password policy, hopefully you've all had a chance to look over it. Basically, all of the employees of the Town will have to renew their passwords or change their passwords every 90 days. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:13:08] ​And there's a few other instructions on there like, you know, not sharing your password and change it immediately on your first use. Don't ask someone else for your password. Don't write it down and leave in a location where other people can find it or store it somewhere where other people can find it. Don't leave yourself logged on to an application or system where someone can use your computer. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:13:34] ​And if you believe your password has been compromised, please contact the Town supervisor within twenty four hours. And then there's a number of tips that were given to us by NYMIR to create strong passwords. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:13:45] ​And so I would like if we could implement this policy for all employees with their email and any other accounts that they can access, whether it's bank accounts or any forms that they have to fill out with the county, things like that. So did everyone have a chance to look over that and want to discuss? I'm going to go ahead and move this resolution, then, if I can get a Second. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:14:11] ​OK, and do we want to discuss this any further,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:14:14] ​ Would be implemented at the time we change over our email program, is that the intent? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:14:20] ​I think that we should ask employees to start doing this as soon as possible and, you know, it will be really on the individual to make sure that they do that, because I don't think that it's possible for us to get into there that you don't have access to the emails or anything to be able to make sure that's been done. But when we do the changeover and we have an I.T. person will definitely take anything that Nicole has as far as advice for that and try to have them implement that in our new platforms that we're doing. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:14:50] ​And I presume our current I.T. provider does allow 15 characters. Sometimes there's a maximum limit. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:15:00] ​I assume so, I don't actually know that, though, Ellen do you have a question? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:15:04] ​I just have a few technical notes on it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:15:08] ​OK,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:15:09] ​So one thing is I'm wondering if there exists an inventory of every Town computer because I know what is owned by the town hall and the office of the Town clerk. But I don't have a good sense of how do you have that inventory? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:15:28] ​I don't I know there's two over at the community building with the with Alan and myself, and but I'm not really sure what the highway department has as far as that goes, but maybe that's something we should compile. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:15:41] ​Yeah. So maybe we could work together to develop an inventory like what is there. Do you have a laptop that's owned by the Town? I don't know that actually. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:15:50] ​And so yeah. So that is like developing an inventory seems like the first step then. Also some of our programs do have a limitation where it only accepts like a four or five character password. Right. That would be Williamson. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:16:06] ​But I think that the spirit of the policy is just the most complex password change the most often that we can have. And that's good. And then as far as the alarm system passwords, I just wanted to note that they do not need to be known to anyone. Right. So if anyone in the Town like soon we will implement using the alarm system in the town hall. Right. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:16:32] ​So if anyone in the town wants to come in and set their password, that can be set and only they will know that password. So the Town will actually not know that password, only the person. So that is a that's a way to safeguard it so that it's actually not known to the Town. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:16:53] ​Great, thank you. Any more discussion on the resolution? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:17:01] ​OK, do you want to go ahead and call the vote, Ellen,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:17:04] ​Councilperson Bryant. [01:17:06] ​AYE. [01:17:07] ​Councilperson Lynch. [01:17:09] ​AYE. [01:17:10] ​Acting supervisor Redmond. [01:17:11] ​AYE. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:17:14] ​OK. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:17:16] ​Resolution #2020 - 75 carried Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:17:17] ​So thank you. Next, we have a presentation about TCAT from Jean McPheeters. [01:17:28] ​I will go ahead and unmute you and ask you to start your video. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:17:37] ​I'm going to actually share my screen. [01:17:39] ​OK, then I have to make you the host, so I'm going to make you host and then afterwards you can just pass it back to me. [01:17:46] ​OK, let's see. [01:17:49] ​Here we go. [01:17:53] ​OK, so you should be hosed down. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:17:57] ​And I will share my screen. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:18:13] ​Great, and then thank you, Supervisor Redman, for allowing me to speak for this, I'm Jean McPheeters. You live out in the town of Caroline and I am a consultant and work a group of transit consultants out of New York City to work on this project for TCAT transit development plan. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:18:31] ​The development plan, which which the council explained so well, is usually done every 10 years. It's a way of looking at the routes and the frequency and the number of other things and asking people to participate and then trying to plan routes that take into the take into account things like development, places that have that have grown, places where we're not seeing people ride. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:19:00] ​And I will say that I'm actually hosting a. A forum tomorrow evening, Via zoom for non-riders that we're trying to get non-riders to, and we have reached out to a number of people about that, about why don't you use TCAT and what would make you use it. So I want to show you this. This is if you go to TCATbus.com, you'll see this purple band across the top and it will say, check for Portale and you can click that and it will take you to. Extremely slowly, because I live out in Caroline, where are my Internet, it happens to be in cans and a string so things don't show up for best, but it comes up with this page which explains what goes on and the engagement activities. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:19:48] ​There's a short survey at the bottom that we would ask people to participate in, if you can, a way of posting your ideas and this extremely cool thing that I want people to look at and I hope people will participate in. It's called TCAT, my social pinpoint, and it's mapping system where you can draw routes that would be of interest to you or maybe extend throughout in your area. So this is it's saying that my Internet is unstable. I hope this will come up. [01:20:19] ​And it may not, but if it doesn't, you can go back to it's so it shows you. [01:20:35] ​Community and it shows you if you wanted to add a route, for instance, and you were out here in Enfield and you thought that there should be a root down Bostwick road, you could draw that road in and then you could make a comment about it. [01:20:53] ​There's also a way for you to if you look down on the left side add your top three destinations where you travel or would like to travel, maybe you don't shop there now, but but you'd like to be able to get to the hospital easily where you'd like to be able to get to the parks in the summer easily. So this is a way of people adding their opinions to this. [01:21:17] ​And I have to say, if you have anybody in your home who's a teenager and they would absolutely love doing this and and showing you how to do it if you don't know how to do it yourself, the mapping thing is is really quite wonderful. So I just hope that some of you will participate in this. TCAT is very interested in people's opinions and I'm happy to answer questions of anyone has one. [01:21:54] ​That's come on. [01:22:00] ​Oh, do I have to do something, I have to do something I'm going to. [01:22:07] ​Stop my share. And. I am going to. Turn the host. Who would like to be host, Stephanie? Stephanie. OK. [01:22:34] ​She's muted right now. [01:22:37] ​I can unmute her. [01:22:52] ​Stephanie, are you getting that? I'm asking you to unmute. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:22:57] ​There you go. So now if you go up to the three little buttons on my picture and then you click on that, I will make you ought to be able to make it home. [01:23:08] ​Yeah, exactly. OK. [01:23:13] ​All right, thank you, I really appreciate it. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:23:17] ​OK. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:23:19] ​So also, I just wanted to mention again that Ellen had put the post on our website to find that survey link, so that's one of the posts. [01:23:28] ​Ellen, I'm going to, um, you to a question. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:23:33] ​Oh, I did, I did. I thought that was a really cool tool. Thank you so much for explaining it to us. I didn't fully understand that you could draw your own routes. That's amazing. I did have a question about what is the difference for residents between Gadabout and A.D.A paratransit. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:23:55] ​Nothing of get gadabout is our local ADA paratransit, if you, though, if you wanted to take a bus, an actual bus, they will send something else to your house that you can use. So. If you're if you're not on the bus route and generally can use Gadabout, otherwise the bus will come and get you. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:24:24] ​OK, I saw that you guys had recently lowered the age limit for Gadabout about to. Fifty five. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:24:32] ​Yes. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:24:32] ​So that's exciting. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:24:38] ​Any other questions for Jean? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:24:41] ​You go back and I have is that I get from constituents occasionally requests. OK, good enough, but I don't live on Mecklenburg Road or I don't live in Enfield Center. I live over on Bostwick Road or I live on Haytes Road or I live on Iredell Road. And how do I get to a TCAT bus and TCAT bus isn't going to go to every rural road in Tompkins County. I got a problem, they told me. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:25:09] ​Well, one of the things that we are trying to talk about is last mile service so that there might be a way at some point if people think this is important. And that's why taking the survey would be great, is to do things like have at specific times of day, for instance, commuting times or other times of the day when UBER's or vans might be able to pick people up from the bus stops on Mecklenburg Road, for instance, and take people to their homes. [01:25:43] ​That's a goal that the TCAT had. As you can imagine, the expense is formidable. But as we try to move to reducing people's carbon footprints and getting more people to use public transportation, I agree that that's one of the things that's going to be needed, as well as reasonably sized parking lots for people who can do park and ride. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:26:10] ​Jean, I'm glad you explained last mile service, because that was mentioned by Matt Yarrow at TCCOG, but never explained. So I wasn't exactly sure what First Mile / Last Mile was. [01:26:22] ​Matt had said at that meeting that that first mile last mile could be one of the options on the table for discussion. But he was cautious about expansion of such services in areas where they might conflict with existing fixed route service. [01:26:39] ​So that's what he said. Thank you. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:26:42] ​You're welcome. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:26:46] ​Anything else for Jean before we let her go? OK, thank you, Jean, I appreciate it. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:26:54] ​Thank you Jean. TCAT Jean McPheeters ​[01:26:56] ​Good evening. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:26:59] ​Let's see, so next, we have a presentation from Annette Burdsall, I think, to you here. [01:27:10] ​What we know is you have to discuss a library update. Annette Burdsall ​[01:27:16] ​It is me. [01:27:18] ​So good evening, everyone. I'm delighted to join you this evening. [01:27:22] ​I'm the director of Tompkins County Public Library, and I know I am not the first to want to bring library service to Enfield. And Stephanie and I have been in conversation, as had Beth's McGee and I prior to that. And I know there's been a lot of other prior work done to explore this possibility. And what we're finding in CoVid times is that sometimes it's the simplest things that actually allow some bigger idea to move forward. [01:27:55] ​So I wanted to make sure that Enfield residents had the opportunity to get their materials. And we know that getting from Enfield to the downtown library can be challenging and any times. So these conversations started to just talk about how people who already are library card holders or who will become library card holders can simply pick up their books. [01:28:23] ​They'll already be checked out to them and they'll pick them up in Enfield, the question became, where would we able to do that? Who would deliver that and how could we keep it as simple as it is, right, when you're picking up your materials at the library downtown. [01:28:39] ​So through conversations with Jean Owens, she agreed that this was a wonderful idea and is willing to have pickup happen during food pantry hours. I intend to do the delivery of the books, will pick them up on Wednesday evening, deliver them at the same time as Jean is accepting food delivery on Thursdays. And then we'll be ready for patrons to pick up right during the regular food pantry hours on Sunday and Monday will return books. When I'm there delivering, I'll also pick up them. [01:29:18] ​The returns or returns can be made at any Finger Lakes library system library, just as they would have before. So the first step is to get the information out to the patrons. So we'll start next week with our publicity that will have the faq's that will let everyone know that this will be done in the same safe manner as food pick up, mask wearing, social distancing, excellence hand hygiene. [01:29:52] ​All of those requirements will be the same and that the books, like I said, will already be checked out. People will pick up their bag of books with their food, or if they're there just for books, that's fine, too. So I think Jean really got at the heart of the of the of this initiative when she said that people picking up books will be able to make the same trip so that they're using the same gas without having to plan an additional trip to get books. And combining books and food is just a great natural partnership. [01:30:31] ​So I'm excited and I hope all of you are, too. We hope the first holds will be available for people to pick up on December 6th and 7th. [01:30:42] ​That's the first food pantry in December. And what people the only thing people really have to do is either get a library card if they don't have one and if they have one, they can email me or call, which that information will be available on the materials at the food pantry and we'll just change their pick up location to Enfield for when they place their hold. [01:31:07] ​So this is the beginning of what we envision for library services Enfield. And I hope we can continue to work together into the future. And I also have to point out that Tompkins County Public Library put in there recommend I mean, Tompkins County put in there recommended budget for the library, additional funding this year to support materials in the outlying communities of Caroline, Danby and Enfield. So we're really excited that the materials that people will have available will be current. Interesting, exciting. We we just can't wait to start this service. So I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:31:52] ​Thank you and does anybody have any questions for Annette? Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:31:55] ​No, I think it's a great, great service, a great partnership with the food pantry at the same time. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:32:04] ​Excellent. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:32:06] ​And also, I just wanted to let everyone know in my discussions with Debbie Teeter, they are very interested in having a library service, having more library services available in the new ECC building. [01:32:17] ​So that's something we can look forward to in the future. [01:32:21] ​Ellen, I'm going to go ahead and unmute you. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:32:25] ​So we just had two questions. Hi. So we just had two questions. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:32:30] ​One is, if residents don't have access to a computer, how will they place their hold? TCPL Annete Burdsall ​[01:32:36] ​They can call the library and that any one of these service desks will help them place their hold. Another feature that we offer is something called Book Bundles and Binge Bundles. TCPL Annette Birdsall ​[01:32:49] ​So say you have a six year old who's interested in, I don't know, comics, and they would put together a bunch of books with different authors and whatever information the person provides. And so a whole a whole package of books can be put aside for them. So you don't even have to have just to know what title you want or to place your own hold that way. TCPL Annette Birdsall ​[01:33:13] ​And then there's something called binge bundles for adults where you can do the same thing. And you could also receive audio books, DVDs, nonfiction, fiction on a particular theme. And these have proved exceptionally popular during CoVid times because people haven't been allowed back in for browsing. TCPL Annette Birdsall ​[01:33:32] ​The other thing is that we're working with the Ulysses Philimathic Library because we know there are library card holders who whose home library is Trumansburg to work all of that out as well. So it's really just talking to somebody at the library so you can email or call to place those holds. Great question. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[01:33:54] ​OK, thank you. And so, any, publicity if you send it to townhall@townofenfield.org, I can get that up on our Town website. TCPL Annete Burdsall ​[01:34:03] ​Great. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:34:07] ​And if they do anything else, for Annette? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:34:11] ​OK, thank you so much, Annette, I really appreciate it. TCPL Annete Burdsall ​[01:34:15] ​Thank you. Bye bye. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:34:17] ​Have a good night. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:34:17] ​Thank you very much. TCPL Annete Burdsall ​[01:34:19] ​Thank you. Bye bye. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:34:23] ​OK, so next on our agenda, Buddy had some questions from the highway department he would like us to revisit. So I'm going to go ahead on you and ask you to start your video and you can explain what you're asking for, Buddy. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:34:47] ​There we go. [01:34:50] ​I have asked I asked and put it on the agenda to reconsider. [01:34:56] ​Putting funds back into the personell for the one person that I might have to let go if we don't change the budget? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:35:11] ​OK, and does Robert or Virginia do you have any comments you like to make on that? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:35:19] ​Buddy's memo to us indicated we have a fund to balance of $442,725. Is that reasonably accurate? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:35:31] ​That is. [01:35:41] ​And that's from the general fund, not from the highway, the highway is actually getting a little low. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:35:49] ​Actually and. That is, I will ... [01:35:56] ​So I'm thinking I'm not sure the exact amount, but I'm figuring it's around fifty thousand dollars with wages and insurance and other stuff that has to be paid. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:36:10] ​I'm not sure if it's that high or if it's but I'm asking the board to take that money out of the fund balance. Unreserved that A909. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:36:23] ​that's out of the general fund, and my estimate is that the that with everything, it'll cost us about sixty five thousand dollars, maybe even a little bit over with insurance and everything that. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:36:37] ​I don't know, come up with that, but. [01:36:41] ​Anyway, yes, out of general fund to the highway fund. [01:36:49] ​From ... Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:36:50] ​Virginia, I'm Robert, would you like to give input on that? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:36:54] ​Well, you know that based on our budget, I'm generally supportive of bringing back the fifth man. However, I presume there is some reluctance on the part of other board members and presumably in another month we may have I hope we will have a fourth board member who might be able to offer his input on the matter. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:37:15] ​I wonder if we ought to put this off until the December meeting or any special meeting that we have planned between November and December to discuss this, because we kind of got sprung on Sunday and we've only had a few days to think about it. And I suspect that maybe my colleagues on the board are a little hesitant based on the timing of it, maybe the substance of it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:37:40] ​I would be OK with moving it to a future board, meeting, however, I have to say I don't support it coming out of the general fund, the the highway budget went up over eighty seven thousand dollars from twenty eighteen, and it previously had functioned on four members or four person crew there. There is about four hundred thousand dollars left in the general fund. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:38:04] ​, one hundred thousand dollars of that per our capital plan is supposed to go into a fund for the salt barn because we're supposed to have a 50 percent match for that grant and we need to do that by twenty twenty five. So we need to start putting away money for that. And we're supposed to keep two hundred and fifty thousand dollars at least in our for our fund balance policy. So both of those policies, both our capital plan in our and our fund balance policies basically used up. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:38:30] ​The rest of the money will go through the remaining fifty thousand dollars, I predict, by the end of the year. So I don't really feel comfortable doing that. And it will also increase expenditures on the highway side. And we are also barely going to make it through the year on the highway side. And we certainly will have almost nothing to support into the reserve. And they're supposed to also grow their fund balance policy to have over two hundred thousand dollars in their fund balance and they won't have that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:38:57] ​And as I see our budget now, I don't see how we're going to build that, even though it is in the capital plan, because there were over expenditures and we're not getting we likely will not get at least 20 percent of our chips reimbursement and in our extreme weather reimbursement recovery reimbursements. So with that, I don't really feel comfortable taking money out of the general fund to support an extra person. I think that the reason that Beth's put that in the budget is because we need to change the way that we are structuring our budget so that we can accommodate issues within the the general fund, within the Town that are being sort of sidelined because so much money is going toward the highway department. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:39:36] ​Our our community building needs a new roof and it needs it needs the siding redone. The town hall itself needs all sorts of has all sorts of needs as well. And if we continue to spend so much on the highway side, we will continue to waylay these projects that are really important for the general fund as well as we just agreed it will, which we'll get into later with the fire contract to give them an additional thirty five thousand dollars next year because they were not able to get their FEMA grant to replace their turnout gear. That's outdated. And so that's also, I think, really important because that could come back at us if we don't make make sure they're up to full compliance. If someone is to get injured or, God forbid, hurt or killed in the line of volunteering through the well, the Fire Company, due to negligence on keeping the gear up to code or after compliance, then that could cause us to be saddled with a lawsuit that could cost millions of dollars. [01:40:36] ​So I really just don't feel that within our budget we can move that sort of money around Virginia. I don't didn't mean to cut you off. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:40:44] ​You're going to have to work because you have vocalized exactly my my feelings, almost exactly my feelings. And I don't want to say there are plans set aside for building a reserve fund. So that's how I'm feeling about it. I mean, if we want to push yourself to up to the next meeting where you have a new member, that's fine with me, too. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:41:12] ​But I'm not really changing my mind in terms of monkeying around with the budget. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:41:19] ​Well, I can see tonight that if it were proposed by anybody, would not pass, probably wouldn't even get a Second. So I would urge that we put this off until the December meeting and bring it up, at least for discussion at that time. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:41:35] ​OK, just to clarify, I think I misspoke, the salt barn actually we have that that it has to be matched by twenty twenty three. So that's coming right up. And we really need to put money away for that. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:41:47] ​I like to know where you're coming up with. I only had four people before. [01:41:53] ​I've had five people since the day I started that years. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:41:59] ​Before you were in office, there were only four. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:42:02] ​And the number of roads have not changed. There was some contracted work before then for summer health and winter help, but they did not have full coverage from the Town insurance and things like that. [01:42:11] ​So. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:42:11] ​They did. You. 're right. And they had summer help and winter help because at that time they run wingmen to where we don't run wingmen now. [01:42:19] ​So we don't have the winter help that they used to have. But that's 12 years in the making. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:42:27] ​And you also have eighty seven thousand dollars more than you did in twenty eighteen. So that should be enough if you want to. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:42:34] ​That was just that was not for personnel, that was for increases of everything. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:42:41] ​I understand, I just don't really feel that I can support moving that money from the general fund into the highway department. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:42:48] ​Well, then I like the board to let me be able to take the money out of my material money line next year to support this person. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:43:04] ​OK, and how how would you have how would you deal with that, with your material fund then. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:43:13] ​We do more labor and less materials. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:43:17] ​Plus, I feel like I need the materials that I have access to. To make up some materials like I did this year, like I have every year, we have Millings that we we saved over ten thousand dollars in January and February materials by hauling, millings to Seneca Stone and getting Crusher on which. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:43:40] ​I much prefer that idea. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:43:43] ​Look, working within your own budget to move money around to support that decision. If you feel is that important, I mean that's more palatable to me than what was previously suggested. But I think we need to know. Excuse me. I think we need to know the exact figure for supporting that position, which includes the various fringe percentages and so on, which takes it much, much beyond what somebody's salary may show up for. I'm a budget, so and I don't know what percentages were, although I don't know what the percentages without having a calculator for other position. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:44:26] ​So I went through I went through the budget and see everything that she took away in the highway budget, which is like the salary, the insurance and all that. And that's what I added up and come to under fifty thousand dollars. But I didn't know if there might be something else. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:44:44] ​Well, that's a reasonable way to look at it, Buddy. I mean, that's what I would do if I didn't have the direct knowledge or mean figuring out a budget in the past. You know, somebody would say our fringe rate is such and such, so I could plug it right in. But so I think that that's worth discussing. But I think let's discuss this next meeting or between now and then and come up with a figure. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:45:07] ​Well, I sort of figure this out because I need to give if I got to do something, I got to get that in the works. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:45:17] ​So I, for one, would be supportive of you moving funds around within the highway department. However, if it gets to the end of the year and you've overspend it beyond what the highway department can accommodate, I will not support moving any money over from the general fund, even if it means a complete shutdown of the highway department and our need to contract for snowplowing in December. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:45:40] ​No, no problem with that. I haven't went over budget in over 12 years and I've always had money left over. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:45:46] ​OK, but that's true. But we still need. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:45:48] ​To be building your fund balance because it's far below the money in the budget for the fund balance. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:45:55] ​Not this year you won't because it's all going to be just you're not going to get recouped from from the spending. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:46:01] ​That's not true. There is a line for the fund balance. Twenty thousand dollars, I believe it is. That's supposed to go into fund balance. That's in the budget. [01:46:13] ​That's true. [01:46:14] ​E. I just I spent money. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:46:16] ​My equiptment money will take a hit if we don't get all our chips back,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:46:21] ​OK? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:46:24] ​So far it's looking like the budget's going to be real slim. But by the time we hit December for the highway side. So I'll be interested to see if we can sqweak by with that twenty thousand dollars and I'll be very happy if we can start building up the fund balance. [01:46:36] ​But twenty thousand is a far cry from two hundred thousand. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:46:39] ​Buddy can you December meeting for our decision on this? And in the interim, send us your revised proposal to move money around within the highway fund so that we have something to act on it. Or if we make this decision in the Second, we can get that project going to be too late for you. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[01:47:01] ​I just basically need to know from the board if they'll support me doing that, moving in the highway, which sounds like they're more likely will. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:47:12] ​Yes, I think that Robert's right, if you come with come to us with some sort of proposal for that, that I would be willing to. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:47:18] ​I agree if you could present something that shows how your reapportioning money within your own budget. [01:47:27] ​The next meeting,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:47:29] ​And I would like it to be decided by a board with at least four members on it. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:47:34] ​Yeah. [01:47:37] ​What the hell happened? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:47:39] ​Oh, goodness, did we lose you, Virginia? [01:47:41] ​Here, I'll ask follow up. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:47:43] ​I'll get back and get back here. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:47:47] ​All right. I asked you to start your video, so hopefully it'll come through. All right, Buddy Thank you for being willing to come and discuss this with the board. All right. So next, we have the Councilperson appointment. I am going to go ahead and unmuted Michael Miles, sorry and ask you to start your video as well as James Rick's. I will ask you to start your video. And for residents that were not here last time, do you mind both of you giving a little brief update about who you are? Michael, do you want to go first? Michael Miles ​[01:48:30] ​Sure. I am Michael Miles. I live at three twenty six Aiken Road and see, I had previously served on the board in 2016 and a similar situation where I filled in for a seat. I also like to I know I didn't mention this last time and I can go through the whole pull button again, but I probably will run for reelection if appointed because I think it is important that people in that position are elected. But for now, the Town of Enfield needs these positions filled. Michael Miles ​[01:49:08] ​Twenty sixteen. You know, for me it was a difficult year. I think for everyone in the Town it was a difficult year and I regret that I didn't spend enough time another Town business because we were so caught up in the in the wind farm that a lot of things did not get addressed. That needed to be addressed and hoping that we can address some of those things. You know, some of the things that, you know, I'd like to look at is, is our budget. So this is you know, look, this was a good previous discussion listening in on that and that discussion. Michael Miles ​[01:49:45] ​So I would like to look at the budget and how we were. You know, the thing is, Enfield doesn't have a lot of money. It doesn't have a lot of tax base. And and, you know, it's a pretty, pretty thin budget compared to what we're asked to do. So but I would like to get a better understanding of of where the money is coming from, where our balances are at and how we're spending that money. I'd also like to have further discussions with the Town clerk, and, Town, Highway superintendent, because I know some of those relations haven't, you know, have been strained in the past. Michael Miles ​[01:50:19] ​So I'd like to talk to each of them to see where they're at and see whether we can begin to to heal from some of those some of those things that we've had a little bit about. Michael Miles ​[01:50:36] ​Me personally, I've lived in Enfield for about 19 years and raised raised both of my daughters and my wife here. We are currently empty nesters and we operate on Airbnb. Michael Miles ​[01:50:51] ​I'd also like to thank both Beth and Mimi for their service to the Town and and also thank James also for for applying as well as down to two people. So I think that's it for now. So since anybody has any questions. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:51:13] ​All right, James, do you want to go ahead? James Ricks ​[01:51:15] ​Sure. [01:51:16] ​Can you hear me. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:51:19] ​A little bit quiet, but go ahead. James Ricks ​[01:51:21] ​OK, I'll try to speak louder than but yeah, pretty much. I would mirror a lot of what Mike said about the budget and really interested. I mean, I got a little frightened there for a minute. When you started talking about using Roundup and those kind of things. I could feel the emotion, but but like Michael said, and I have to give him credit for that, I feel a bit of animosity or contention maybe. James Ricks ​[01:51:57] ​And it's about money. It seems like there's there's not enough money. It seems like every problem that I'm hearing at the base of it is a lack of funds. And I was thinking about the the solar farm, the wind farm that I heard people speaking about before and other ideas. But, you know, I hesitated a minute to get up to speed because I was hearing about hazard mitigation and diversity coordinator, climate control sustainability coordinator. James Ricks ​[01:52:30] ​I have no idea where all of that is going, but, you know, willing to sit down and and see what's what and try to add my two cents as constructively as I possibly can. That's about it. Except for any questions, I guess. James Ricks ​[01:52:45] ​Oh, and I've been living in Enfield for 14 years. I kind of got environmentally concerned about Enfield when they had a big fracking meeting over at the school. And about that same time my grandson was born. And I've had a couple more grandchildren since then and really concerned about them being in this community and what type of our community is as far as diversity and the environment that they're living in. So I figured instead of standing on the side complaining, I try to get involved. [01:53:18] ​Finished. I'm good. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:53:21] ​Thank you, James. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:53:22] ​Thank you, James. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:53:24] ​So Robert in Virginia, technically, now that they've both presented themselves, we could go into executive session to make our decision. But I'm also open to having this discussion with the public as well. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:53:39] ​So I like to have input from both of you. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:53:43] ​I would prefer to discuss this. I think the public should know our opinions on it. And I don't think that anything is going to be that personal or confidential, that it's going to disparage either person. I would rather have us, for the sake of transparency, discuss this out in the open. My my preference. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:54:08] ​I agree. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:54:10] ​OK, great. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:54:13] ​So myself, I have to say that you're both wonderfully qualified. James, you know, we've really made an effort. I feel like in, Enfield. There's been a lot of residents getting together for the antiracist movement within Enfield. And I feel like it's very important for us to walk the walk if we're going to talk the talk. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:54:32] ​And we've never had a person of African-American descent or really anything but Caucasians on the board. And I think it would be a huge move for inclusiveness to have you on the board. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:54:45] ​And Michael, you have amazing experience and I know you have Ithaca. experience, too, which would be really helpful since we are about to change over our our email and our Web platform. [01:54:56] ​So I would love to get your input on that as well. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[01:54:59] ​And we do have to Councilperson positions opens. [01:55:02] ​And I'd love to have you both, but right now we have to narrow it down to one person as the as the procedures stand. So I'm really open for both of you to be on the board. So I guess I'm having a hard time making a decision. So I'll wait for Robert in Virginia to Weigh in. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:55:21] ​I'm feeling I'm feeling the same way. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:55:26] ​I mean, it's like a mirror of you, Stephanie I'm, feeling the same way, but I served with Mike during the wind farm. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:55:38] ​Business and so on, and his knowledge and the way he conducted himself for our world right now, where we are on our board down to places we can, as I said, if we could fill two places tonight, we get to people. But I really feel like we fit in with what we need right now. And then hopefully we could move quickly to fill out other vacancy. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:56:12] ​Yes, can you hear me if. Are you through Virginia? Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[01:56:18] ​Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm serious,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:56:20] ​OK, I had a few thoughts and I've given us a whole lot of thought since we last met, and we have two good candidates for this position. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:56:29] ​And the question always is, what is what do we have to decide? Who is going to be the preferable person? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:56:36] ​And I put down a few words. So give me a couple of minutes here. First things first, we as a Town board should seek racial, ethnic and gender diversity within our ranks and yes, political diversity as well. We who are white, are wisely counseled that racial prejudice can find its home deep within us, even when we might otherwise believe we've been cleansed of that impurity. Our selection tonight forces us to confront diversity directly, so the first effort I undertook when balancing the qualifications for office of these two aspiring candidates in evaluating their fitness to serve was to recognize my propensity for prejudice. I may not be capable of cleansing my person of that pernicious toxin, but to me, it's recognition serves as the poison's best antidote. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:57:38] ​What we face tonight with candidates presenting equal or close to equal qualifications or municipal service, I would, in the spirit of diversity and affirmative action, elevate a racial minority to our ranks. It would be an honor to nominate and then vote for someone regardless of party, irrespective of politics, who would most likely become the first African-American to serve on the Enfield Town board. James writes, I hope you will join us to participate in making Enfield a better place. You told us last meeting that when you first arrived in Enfield some 16 years ago, you saw, in your words, trucks driving around with Confederate flags on them. And you also saw those flags on houses. Your thought you thought to yourself, "Man, this is going to be a rough place to live" James on behalf of all of us, in Enfield, including the members of this Town board, who I'm certain stand more enlightened than those prejudiced few you saw. I'd like to apologize to both you and your family for the misbehavior of others. You may, for all I know, still call Enfield their home. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:58:59] ​If you ever see that conduct again, please tell us, tell me racial bigotry should find no harbor, no safe harbor in Enfield. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:59:12] ​Meanwhile, I stand fully aware of the challenges our Town board faces in this instance, in our long governing history, our supervisor has resigned, followed only five days later by a Second member of her Town board. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[01:59:29] ​Only one of us who remains holds tenure longer than 12 months. First and foremost, we need experience, we need someone who knows a little bit about Town government who could hit the ground running, who need not be instructed about the rules of basic parliamentary procedure, budget schedules or what it means to sign the monthly vouchers Michael. Miles, you served on this same Town board in twenty sixteen. You've told us one of your top priorities is to take a deep dive, in your words, on the budget to, quote, see the way we could put out more money. Or look at ways to increase our tax base without increasing our tax rates. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:00:18] ​You say, quote, We don't get the benefits of being next to an Ivy League institution. We don't have big box stores or lakeside homes. We can't move a lake next to us. But maybe there's something we can do to look at the budget in ways to figure out how to keep it going. That's a quote from you. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:00:41] ​As for our former supervisor. It hurt to her credit, she knew the workings of the budget and municipal finance in that regard Beth you made the trains run on time. Her departure, Beth's departure to address greater challenges leaves a hole in Enfield government that we who remain stand duty bound to plug. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:01:05] ​Michael Miles, you, like Stephanie and me, may be a governmental novice of sorts. You only served one year yet our town hall is not foreign to you. And Virginia and others on our governing team have worked with you. Virginia, you affirmed that tonight. I'd welcome working with you as well. You come recommended by several I've talked with who governed by your side when you served. You've told us you attended numerous meetings, presumably during your former tenure, quote, when there were shouting matches back and forth, end quote, on this Town board, you didn't like them? I don't blame you. I don't like them either. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:01:49] ​You say you would reach out to Buddy, Ellen and other Town officials to try to get understanding from their point of view, good, because it's been said blessed are the peacemakers. Meanwhile, James, you were brutally honest with yourself last meeting, quote, I don't know much about government and quote you said, adding, I figure that if I get the job, I'll read the pamphlet. But sadly, there is no pamphlet. The only true pamphlet is experience. Two thirds of our current board has held office for less than a year. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:02:29] ​Yes, I covered my first Town board meeting as a reporter exactly 50 years ago, but I'm still learning. And before assuming this office, I attended virtually every Enfield Town board meeting for a full year. It helps. I would recommend you do the same. But moreover, I would urge you to join one of our Town committees on the environment, on community services, whatever suits your interests. And yes, please consider running for the seat on this Town board in twenty twenty one. Petitioning should start little more than three months from now. Whichever candidate a plurality of our Town board prefers tonight to fill the Mimi maybe vacancy I will support. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:03:15] ​We need to fill this vacancy and fill it tonight. But I believe we must place experience and readiness to serve as our first priorities. Therefore, I would endorse Michael Miles as my preferred candidate for Enfield Councilperson and if it's appropriate, I would move that right now. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:03:36] ​I actually wanted to open it up to residents as well for a moment, just to have a little bit of a little bit more openness and discussion, if that's OK with Virginia and you, that's fine. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:03:49] ​OK. Please raise your hand if you have anything you'd like to say or ask of the candidates. Ellen, I'm going to go ahead and unmute you first. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:04:05] ​So this is my comment is a little bit procedural. James, are you a registered Democrat? James Ricks ​[02:04:13] ​Yes, I am. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:04:14] ​OK, so, you know, one consideration is that traditionally the only people who realistically have a good shot at being elected in Enfield are registered Democrats. And so one interesting note is that Michael Miles, what is your political party? Michael Miles ​[02:04:37] ​I don't have any. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:04:39] ​OK, so so we all incumbency is actually one of the most powerful factors in politics. It's really, really very powerful. So I would say that this might be our only opportunity to have an independent on the board, because the likelihood of an independent who is not currently in office running and getting elected is historically pretty small because most people vote a straight down party line in Enfield. That's how the majority votes. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:05:12] ​So that would be one consideration that it would be very hard to get an independent elected in a general, but it would be fairly, especially in twenty, twenty one, when there's going to be as many as four seats open on the board. It would be easier to get a Democrat at a seat. [02:05:31] ​So that's I have to say about. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:05:33] ​Thank you. Is there anyone else from the residence who would like to speak, go ahead and raise your hand, use the raise your hand button or do star on if you're calling in from a cell phone? All right, I don't see any other hands, I'm going to go ahead and on mute everyone, you will be unmuted for a moment. So if you haven't had a chance to ask questions but would like to or comment,. [02:05:59] ​Please, Beth, go ahead. I'm going to meet you and ask you to start your video. Beth MCGee ​[02:06:08] ​I don't need video. Beth McGee ​[02:06:12] ​Thank you. I'm literally sick to my stomach right now listening to this white privilege. Excuse making. [02:06:24] ​I, I honestly, I I'm. Beth McGee ​[02:06:28] ​So upset when given an opportunity to use your white privilege to put an end to white supremacy and local Town government in a town I've lived in for over 40 years before, it is 200 years old next year. Beth McGee ​[02:06:46] ​You decide to use your white privilege to put another white person in office. I'm actually I'm stunned and so ashamed for the sport, if that's the course that you take. Elections are popularity contests and the idea that the Town Clerk would suggest that an independent has a lower shot than a person of color to be elected in a town where one has never been elected or appointed in local office is absurd. It is absolutely absurd. Beth McGee ​[02:07:23] ​And I would contest Robert comments that racial bigotry has no harbor in our Town or should have no Harbor in our town, and I would point to this Town board meeting for ever more. [02:07:39] ​To contrast that. Beth McGee ​[02:07:42] ​And that is all I have to say, except for I do like Mike Miles a great deal, and he actually was appointed to serve a time on the board when to fill my opponent or my elected seat when I moved for a year. And Mike, I think you're fantastic. And I really valued the way that you stood up to the wind farm and and really worked hard at. Looking into those issues, but I know James Ricks and I know his commitment and his passion to the things that are important to him, he has been an activist for a very long time and works really hard to make change in the world. And his qualifications are actually exactly the same as what Mike Miles says are because of the qualifications that are only just to. Beth McGee ​[02:08:43] ​A resident, an 18 or over. So those are the qualifications you should be looking at here and. I'd really like to see some real change in Enfield. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:08:58] ​Thank you, Beth's. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[02:09:00] ​Anne Koreman, I'm going to go ahead and unmute you as well. [02:09:09] ​Oh, no,. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[02:09:09] ​Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:09:11] ​I think I asked you start your video. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[02:09:14] ​There you go. Thank you. So I'm not a Enfield resident, but I appreciate you letting me letting me speak as the county legislator for the northern third of of Enfield. [02:09:33] ​I just wanted to remind folks, in case they don't remember, when I was running for office three years ago, I had never held public office before. And my only experience was as someone who was involved in various projects, various social justice issues, environmental issues. So I was an activist. [02:10:01] ​And I think the one of the biggest things that one of the biggest qualifications is, is passion. And so. I just want as far as people are talking in Aye. to reiterate a little bit what Beth's said, you know, from my point of view. Someone could look at this as I'm looking at it and go, and I know Michael Miles and I think he has very good qualifications and he's a great person. But if you're just looking at the situation, you know, when somebody could look at this and go, well, as a white person, he has more privilege and maybe he had the opportunity to be in office before, but. County Legislator Anne Koreman ​[02:10:55] ​To level the playing field, sometimes you have to give somebody else that opportunity and if they have experience, I don't know James very well. But if he has experience in these type of things, I mean, I think I've done an OK job. We'll see when I'm up for reelection next year. But it really takes a lot of passion and and caring about people and and. Thinking about who else is not sitting at the table, so if you look around the room, who else is not there? And so for me, running as a woman, running as an openly gay woman, you know, that helped put more people at the table to represent them. So just wanted to put that out there. And thank you for letting me speak. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:11:49] ​Thank you and Nancy, I'm going to go ahead and I'm you and ask you to start your video if you like. Nancy Spero ​[02:12:02] ​I just at the risk of sounding like a broken record, you know, and I agree with basically everything everybody has said, the easy way to do this, we have to be very qualified candidates. Nancy Spero ​[02:12:17] ​If Stephanie's position is made acting supervisor or whatever the word is for the rest of the year, we can easily have both these people on the Town board and have five hardworking people doing the job. So that's really all I want to say, that you're creating a situation where we can easily have these two people. And it would be a wonderful thing. And I'm very happy that there are two people who want the position. Thank you. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:12:49] ​Thank you, Nancy. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:12:52] ​Michael Boggs, I'm going to honor you and ask you to start your video. Well, I think I asked the wrong person to start the video. Go ahead. Ulysses Councilperson Michael Boggs ​[02:13:00] ​I'm Michael. I'm I'm not a resident of your town, but I'm your neighbor to the north of. Ulysses Councilperson Michael Boggs ​[02:13:08] ​And I've been following your board for a little while now, but what I would recommend or what I would ask is and Stephanie are highly qualified and you're to me, you're the really, at this point, the only person to lead your Town that somebody. I would Nancy stole my thunder here, but I would recommend that somebody would make a motion to make you the supervisor. And Stephanie, I would urge you to vote for yourself. Ulysses Councilperson Michael Boggs ​[02:13:43] ​Don't be bashful about that. And really, you've got when you've got two passionate people here willing to serve your Town, as Nancy said, bring them in. And that's what you need, is a passion for your Town and to to work through some of the issues that we've heard tonight. There's a lot of good people here, and I like to see you guys pull together and, you know, bring the town back on the right track. So that's that's my two cents worth. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:14:16] ​Thank you, Michael. Ulysses Councilperson Michael Boggs ​[02:14:18] ​Thank you, Stephanie. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:14:23] ​OK, is there anyone else who would like to speak, Ellen, I'm not going to have a back and forth between you and Beth's about this, so we're not going to go any further. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:14:30] ​If it's a procedural thing, I'm willing to, but I don't really want to go back and forth. You've had a moment to discuss this, and so if you'd like, we can go ahead. And if it's a procedural issue, I will on you. But I can't have a back and forth between you and. [02:14:46] ​If there's anyone else who would like to speak for the privilege of the floor or sorry for regarding the candidate, OK, you can speak. But like I said, I'm not going to be up for a back and forth with you. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:15:01] ​So some procedural issues are that if our board intended to fill two seats tonight, they would have had to advertise that to the public. I believe that we would have had more applicants if there were two open seats. I also would suggest that there is no absolute necessity to fill a supervisor's position from someone currently on the board. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:15:22] ​It could be Michael Miles, it could be James Ricks, or it could be a candidate that we have not yet identified. And we could imagine that more people might apply for a position like supervisor than just a Councilperson appointment. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:15:37] ​The other procedural note that I would suggest is that the current acting supervisor enforce the civility resolution and end the campaign of terror from no one who has more white privilege than Beth's McGee that she has waged against me. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:15:54] ​And after we're done, we're not going to go there. This is not not civil discussion. That's not professional. Please don't embarrass yourself like that. Come on. We're going to stop. [02:16:09] ​All right. So moving along. Does anybody else have questions or comments regarding these two candidates from the residence? [02:16:18] ​Please raise your hand. James, did you want to go ahead and say something? James Ricks ​[02:16:22] ​Yea. [02:16:22] ​H, yeah, yeah. We can hear you. James Ricks ​[02:16:27] ​OK, I thought they were really valid arguments on both sides. I know Mike has a lot more experience than me and I didn't mention also I have Native American in my in my family also just want to throw that in there. But the main thing is. Wait a minute, because I lost my point, oh, the main thing is that, like I said, Bob had mentioned that when I came into Enfield, I had a pretty much cemented overview of how the people here are. I saw things that I had. I lived in Providence, Rhode Island, before I came in. I had never seen a Confederate flag in all the 15 years I lived in Providence. James Ricks ​[02:17:12] ​So I did have a negative overview. And because of a lot of things that have been happening recently, I ended up meeting a lot of my neighbors in Enfield and really my opinion changed. It wasn't is like a monolith that was people were different and had different concepts and ideas. James Ricks ​[02:17:32] ​And I'm just wondering when diversity issues come up, you know, before this board, I know who's going to speak out for the majority point of view, the white point of view or the non or the non white people's point of view, who's going to speak for them or anybody that's involved in any type of issue like that? You know, I'm just wondering who will speak for the nonwhite part of that. Not that I'm an expert, but I'm probably more expert than anybody else on the board right now. James Ricks ​[02:18:08] ​And I completely understand, Michael, that he has experience. And this is like a crucial time right now. You need somebody to come in and hit the road running. I do understand that. And I know that I that's not that's not me. I take me a minute to to get up to speed. So regardless and I thought they were great, great comments in Michael's behalf and in my you know, like I said before, if this doesn't work out for me, I wanted to try to get involved and not stand on the sidelines and complain to try to put whatever I can bring to this conversation, to it. James Ricks ​[02:18:48] ​Whatever your decision is, I am completely satisfied. I feel great listening to the conversation and the points people are making going back and forth. I really have a good feeling whether whether it's me and it doesn't look like it will be, I'm not sure. But whatever decision you are made is fine with me. James Ricks ​[02:19:08] ​And I really enjoyed I enjoyed the meeting and I've enjoyed every one that I've listened to. And I put my energy into, you know, trying to actuate some things that are beneficial for Enfield that I can't really be specific because I don't know what issues... Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:19:25] ​..Robert in Virginia. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:19:26] ​Excuse me. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:19:29] ​Sorry, I was just going to clarify for a Robert and Virginia that there actually is no legal requirement to advertise for the for the position or the other Councilperson, if this is the,.. I don't know. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:19:51] ​But Robert, if you don't want to do that, then we can go ahead and move. [02:19:56] ​And just your Councilperson. [02:20:07] ​Recovering. [02:20:17] ​Freeze. I don't know if we lost our signal. [02:20:24] ​Any other hand? [02:20:33] ​And Michael have a stand up. Michael Miles ​[02:20:36] ​Yes, I'll wait for Stephanie to come back. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:20:44] ​Stephanie, if you may not know your freeze framed and we don't hear your audio now, I don't know why. Michael Miles ​[02:21:02] ​I think she's coming back in good some point. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:21:07] ​I do wish we could get back to in-person meetings, but given the fact that the governor has now restricted gatherings to 10 people, I think it's going to be a while before we return to the community building. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:21:21] ​Stephanie, come back on our phone. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:21:31] ​I may have to take over. Being the host, which I have never done before. [02:21:52] ​I'm sure you'll do fine, Bob, it'll be nice to get Stephanie back on board,. [02:21:56] ​OK? [02:21:58] ​Trial by fire, if you will. [02:22:02] ​Says Host me. [02:22:10] ​Oh. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:22:16] ​But of course, without Stephanie's presence, we cannot take any action anyway. [02:22:21] ​Now they have we only have two members. Here, so Stephanie's got to be a participant. That's why I wondered if she'd come back on our phone for. [02:22:34] ​From. [02:22:37] ​She's probably attempting to now. [02:22:42] ​What did you say, Mike? She's probably attempting to now somehow. I hope so. [02:23:31] ​Everyone, please be patient. I'm sure Stephanie will join us again. [02:24:25] ​Stephanie Redman is the host now on my computer, is telling me. [02:24:31] ​Brian. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:24:35] ​Hi, sorry about my wif completely dropped out. Good thing we're getting that broadband study. So let's see, where was I? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:24:45] ​Oh, I was just saying that it is not legally required to have any sort of advertising for the appointment of the supervisor or these other Councilperson positions. We did them as a sort of benefit for residents in the Town so that they would have more openness and transparency. However, it was not necessary or not required for us to even advertise for these positions. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:25:08] ​So, Robert, you could choose to appoint me tonight if you wanted to. I realize you are trying to make a statement of some sort and don't seem to want to, so I'm going to leave it at that. I just wanted to make sure I clarify because it made it sound like we needed to advertise for this. And it is not a legal requirement for us to advertise under any circumstances. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:25:26] ​So just to clarify that for residents,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:25:30] ​So it's not required by law, but neither was what we just have done in terms of encouraging people to apply for the Mahaffey vacancy. So I would urge that if we chose at a later time to elevate someone to a supervisor that we advertised for any subsequent Councilperson position that might open up, just as we have done in this case. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:26:03] ​I agree, but we are out of time on that because we only have one more meeting in December. And I really don't see us getting that through before then. And after that, we have to go to a special election. We are not allowed to appoint a member. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:26:13] ​I'm not sure that's the case. If you elevated someone to supervisor before the end of the year, I'm not sure that Aye. Councilperson would have to be chosen in a special election or the position left vacant. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:26:31] ​I don't know. It's a discussion we don't have on the agenda tonight, and I don't think we should get involved in it. I am not prepared to vote on supervisor tonight. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:26:41] ​I agree. I'm just clarifying that we cannot have the vote for appointing the supervisor. If we do it past December, we only have one more meeting. So it's unlikely that that will move forward. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:26:52] ​I would like to at this point to continue our discussion and have anybody who has not had a chance to question these gentlemen, please raise your hand now or use Star nine. Michael Miles ​[02:27:04] ​Oh, Michael, go ahead. Michael Miles ​[02:27:07] ​I would like to say that I mean, I do echo the concerns, especially given the racial unrest this year, that it is important that we do have people of color and diversity on our board, something that we haven't had. So, you know, I am happy with whatever decision the board makes. I'd be proud to have James be our next Councilperson, too. So. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:27:35] ​Thank you, Michael. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:27:37] ​OK, I'm going to unmute everybody, and you will have a chance to go ahead and ask a question or make a comment at this time if you have not been able to raise your hand. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:27:50] ​All participants are unmuted. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:27:59] ​OK, I'm going to go ahead and mute everyone again since we didn't hear anything. [02:28:04] ​I figured it out. [02:28:09] ​OK, so I don't. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:28:13] ​Is Ellen still on here? Oh, yes, there she is. [02:28:16] ​I had to unmuand her and I'm going to need James to. And Michael and Virginia. They're... Sorry for the disruption getting kicked off there. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:28:34] ​So I guess at this point, we should have Ellen go through and we can each state which person we would like to vote for, it's not really I don't think we should necessarily do it as a motion because we have two candidates available. [02:28:50] ​So if we if we do a motion, then it'd be only for one of them. So I think it'd be better for us to each sort of vote for the person that we feel would best represent our Town. [02:29:02] ​Does that sound agreeable? Yes. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:29:07] ​OK, so Ellen, I think I unmuted you. Let me try again on you and ask to start video. There you are. [02:29:21] ​OK, so do you want to just go through and we'll we'll each vote for the candidate that we feel is best? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:29:29] ​OK, so Councilperson Bryant,. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:29:32] ​I'm casting my vote for Michael Miles, I wish I could appoint both of them. But my vote is for Michael, given the countdown's needs at this point. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:29:44] ​Councilperson Lynch. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:29:46] ​I vote for Michael Miles for the reasons I've stated. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:29:51] ​Acting Town Supervisor Regnant,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:29:53] ​I'm actually going to change it up and I'm going to vote for James because I do feel that one of the issues that we have with white supremacy is that we often have more qualified white people because they've been given more opportunities. So I'm going to go ahead and cast my vote for James because I do feel that we need to create a board of inclusion, even though I do recognize that. Michael, you definitely are a really great candidate and we could really use your help on the board. But that's where my vote goes. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:30:25] ​So it seems as though, Michael, is that the winning vote? So I think at this point we should go ahead and make a motion so that we can. So, Robert, did you want to go ahead and make that motion? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:30:39] ​I will move. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:30:41] ​Michael Miles be named to the interim Councilperson position vacated by Mimi Mahaffey through December 31st of two thousand twenty one. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:30:56] ​Do we have a Second? Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:30:58] ​Second. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:30:59] ​OK, and let's go ahead and call that vote Ellen? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:31:01] ​Councilperson Bryant. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:31:04] ​Aye Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:31:05] ​Councilperson Lynch. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:31:07] ​Aye Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:31:08] ​Acting Supervisor Redmond. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:31:10] ​Aye Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:31:12] ​Thank you, everyone. Michael, Michael, if you could meet up with Ellen and set up a time for you to take your oath of office and sign the car that you need to sign within the next, I guess our remaining will be in the December. So if you could do it before then,. Michael Miles ​[02:31:27] ​I would do that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:31:27] ​And I hope that there's a way that I could also serve alongside James as well. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:31:33] ​I hope so, too. And James, I do hope that you are encouraged to join some of our committees and maybe we will get to a point where we can have another board member or at least have you run in twenty, twenty one. Thank you. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:31:44] ​Encourage both of those things. And I would encourage the James, think about the openings, maybe talk with Stephanie and Stephanie initially supported you, James, for this position and find out what kind of position you mentioned fracking and water in the past. Maybe we have a water advisory committee that recently formed. Maybe that's something that you would like to be a member of. There may be other opportunities and encourage you. I really encourage you to become involved because this was a topic, a really difficult choice. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:32:21] ​I do have two procedural questions. One is Councilperson Lynch had mentioned wanting the new Councilperson to join as a voting member for the remainder of the meeting, is that something that is still desired? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:32:38] ​I think it's going to be real iffy, I'm not sure. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:32:44] ​I actually didn't hear him, but I was unable to hear back from AOT on on that. So so we'll just set up a time to take in the future. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:32:55] ​And then I just did want to suggest to the board that while we're considering twenty, twenty one committees, we could definitely establish a diversity inclusion committee. And I think it would be important that we do do that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:33:10] ​That's a great idea. [02:33:13] ​So I did actually go to AOT as well, and they actually have no protocol for this as well, being new to covid and the online thing. [02:33:21] ​They thought that you could do it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:33:22] ​There's nothing precluding you, especially since you're a notary and have been able to do that virtually. But I see really nothing left on the agenda tonight that is in dire need of Michael's vote. So I feel like this is unnecessary. We might as well just go ahead and do it in person. [02:33:42] ​OK, well, thank you, Michael, and thank you, James. Let's go ahead and move along. The next thing is the hazard mitigation plan. [02:33:52] ​And I am going to go ahead and I unmute some of the folks that I am hoping will be able to give some input if they're still here. Let's see, Alan, I'm going to unmute you, Buddy. [02:34:09] ​I'm going to unmuted you is Dan maybe Dan's not on anymore. Let's see. Looks like Dan Walker is not on is. [02:34:24] ​Denny on it at all, I guess maybe he's not either. OK, well, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen at this point, and we can go ahead and go over the hazard mitigation plan as it is right now. [02:34:39] ​And if anybody would like to give input into it, please speak up. [02:34:45] ​Let's see. Here we go. [02:34:50] ​OK, so we've been going over this now for some months with the with the county, and they have done a large a large amount of work with us on this. [02:35:06] ​So the first thing is that we are not part of NFIP. We have been working with FEMA to become a part of that. [02:35:16] ​And I think that's something that we should continue to work on. [02:35:20] ​And then as far as know, let me find my papers. Oh, goodness, I had him right here and now I can't find him. Oh, here they are. [02:35:32] ​OK, so as far as the severe floods, we are going to eventually have to establish a preexisting facility or develop some sort of facility to provide shelter during extreme weather events that has backup power or also establish agreements with landowners or acquire property that would provide for temporary housing. [02:35:57] ​So this is something that FEMA really needs. If there was some sort of severe storm in the area and people lost housing and things like that, they would like to know, you know, feel that they could set up a place. And so that's something that we are still having a problem area with. And then the next one is severe winter storms. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:36:17] ​And so this is really about conducting a study to assess the roads and then develop an action plan. And so one of the things that we that they talked about were drifts, snowdrifts and and creating some sort of green in your living snow fence or some sort of barrier to prevent snow from drifting across the roads in the worst places. [02:36:41] ​Oh, she said that Denny is on under Hubbell. Thank you, Ellen. Let me find you, Danny. OK, so I'm I'm opening yours as well. It's not letting me ask to start the video, but you're open now so you can comment if you'd like. [02:37:07] ​So that's. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:37:07] ​Really what they're looking for with the severe winter storm is is areas that we have issues with that we could start to work on making those, you know, more secure. The next spot is going to be severe storms in general and then really talking about emergency management and increasing collaborative efforts with regional EMT services and then along with severe storms where we have a question about backup power for our critical facilities. [02:37:38] ​So several aspects of this that we need to talk about or begin to talk about is our sheltering plan and properties that are experiencing severe, repetitive loss and ways that we can work to mitigate those issues. So if we continue onward here, this really gets into what our biggest hazards are. And the county listed are our biggest hazards as severe storm and drought. [02:38:11] ​But they also listed as less issues of disease outbreak, extreme temperature, invasive species, severe winter storms and wildfire. So, I mean, that's something we can change around if we want to. If there's something on there that everybody agrees is really our primary concern, then, you know, we can we can change that. If you want to edit that, if you want. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:38:34] ​The next is about critical facilities and backup power. The highway building. I talked to Buddy and he wanted a seven hundred and fifty two thousand megawatt diesel generator. I did. Do I get a quote on those? And they run about three hundred thousand dollars, which I thought was pretty intense. So Buddy I don't know if you're willing to negotiate on the amount of power that you require, but that's something that we might want to talk about. [02:39:05] ​And then other buildings. All right. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:39:09] ​Seventy five to one hundred kw. [02:39:14] ​75 to 100 kilowatt. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:39:19] ​OK, that makes a lot more sense, because I was talking to people about industrial generators today and they were like, wow, that's a really big generator. Yeah, so that'll change. [02:39:31] ​That'll change a lot. All right. So I'll change that. Number two, so town hall, community building and Fire Company. Does anybody want to give input on what size generators we would need for those facilities? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:39:50] ​Well, I'm just I'm just going to open it. I'm just going to suggest the Fire Company, Weigh in, we have a generator at the Fire Company and I actually recently learned that we are wired for something like. So FEMA did give some funding to establish that as a shelter and it is wired for twenty five phone lines. So that can be used as a mobile incident command system. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:40:15] ​We're mobile incident command location. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:40:18] ​OK, I did not realize the Fire Company had already had a backup generator, so I'm going to take them off of this list. How about the community building in the town hall? Does anybody want to give input the size of a generator that we would need their. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:40:36] ​I think we have to get some professional advice on that, I don't think that any of us are capable here of estimating that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:40:45] ​I thought that maybe Buddy or Alan or Danny might have a good idea of what we need. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:40:50] ​Well, I will say, as far as the power needs in the town hall. Right, some of this could be solved by an I.T. person. Right now, the only thing that we're running in the town hall that requires power is lighting and computing. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:41:04] ​You know, I mean, we might be down a copier, but that's not really a critical need. However, all of our town's financial software is housed on except for like our bank accounts or cloud based. But our financial software is like static. It's just on one computer. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:41:24] ​So if we could not power that like one desktop computer, that would make it difficult to process financial transactions. But I don't imagine a very big generator would be required. And then the mini split is the heat. So again, the generator needs for the town hall could be very small. However, it also houses the sheriff's satellite station. So they might be. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:41:50] ​And with the community building, remember, one of the key needs, especially in an emergency, would be to keep those refrigerators at the food pantry going because you might need the refrigerators and the freezers to preserve food if you had a prolonged period that nobody could get into the Town with food supplies from other sources. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:42:12] ​I think that we should be. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. I think we should be consulting with people. But understand. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:42:22] ​The capacity of different generators and what they can do definitely to run freezers and refrigerators, I mean, you you're talking you're talking to someone who not necessarily sells them, but could provide you with professional advice in terms of the square footage. And the purpose makes more sense than just trying to come up with something out of the air. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:42:48] ​Allen did make good on this. I looked at what you sent us and I didn't see any deadlines on this until. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:42:57] ​13th, actually, so that's why I'm trying to hammer this out. [02:43:00] ​Allan. You had your hand raised. Code Enforcement Officer Alan Teeter ​[02:43:02] ​Oh, I did I pretty much want to say the same thing Bob did at the community, building itself really doesn't need backup power except for, of course, the freezer and refrigeration units for the food pantry. And you really don't know what size it would take. It's not real huge. I don't think they're just a couple. Three freezers are. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:43:30] ​Michael Boggs, did you want to give advice? Ulysses Councilperson Michael Boggs ​[02:43:35] ​Yeah, if you have if you call your key accounts rep and they can give you the demand readings on all your electric meters, and that will give you. [02:43:45] ​A start of the size generator you need for those, and then you would have to round it up a bit for some startup, but they'll put you in the ballpark of what you need for your filling out this form here. And you should be able to get those tomorrow. [02:43:59] ​Yeah, thank you. Good idea. Yeah. One. [02:44:04] ​Why not? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:44:05] ​Anyway, I didn't I didn't see it, so I'm supposed to turn this into the county on the 13th. So I'm really trying to wrap this up this week. I've met with the planning board about it and they've had a chance to look at it. I've sent it to the Fire Company and the highway department as well. So and the. Town board. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:44:20] ​So hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at it. Really. I wanted to get input. I was hoping from Buddy. I know that, you know, they've dealt with flooding issues in the Town and that's really the next few sections is is flooding protection colvert size, critical facility protection and infrastructure protection. So I'd really like to hear from Buddy about areas to the town that he feels are more necessary to do some sort of protective measures with. [02:45:00] ​OK, there you go. I think you're unmuted. There you go. [02:45:11] ​I can't hear you, Buddy. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:45:14] ​So what's your question? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:45:16] ​So the next section on here is talking about flood protection, so they want to know if there's any critical facilities that are in danger of dealing with flooding. [02:45:29] ​So like the highway department building, has that ever had any issues with flooding or do you see any issues? Because I really think that was probably the most severe in the sense that it's kind of a low or area near the creek. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:45:42] ​Yeah, this time with floods that we've had back in 15 and stuff, it nothing, actually. [02:45:50] ​Her any hour came close to the highway department down there and stuff, I mean, it was more of the road damage through that creek and everything. But no. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:46:01] ​OK, so there was. [02:46:03] ​You don't think there's any critical facilities in our in our Town that I should put on this as far as the Hines year flood plan or the 500 year flood? They're basically talking about extreme flooding. Is there any sort of critical facilities in our town that you are concerned with? Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:46:20] ​Well, the highway department, or any, down there might be consideration for sure if there's a real major flooding because there's you know, there's actually Creek's on all three sides. [02:46:35] ​Of that property. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:46:39] ​OK, I'll talk to Scott Doyle, who's our county rep for this, and I'll go over that with him. How about culverts? Can you. Are there any any culverts in our town that need to be revamped to be more prepared for flooding? Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:47:04] ​We're already looking at fixing that or flooding soils and water, and we are working on that, but it's all right. [02:47:13] ​Which one was that, say, Bostwick Road. [02:47:16] ​Bostwick? Yeah. OK, and is there an intersection that that runs close to? Is it Via zoom, Enfield, Main or. [02:47:28] ​Yeah, it could be 327 Enfield,Main and Bostwick Road,. [02:47:34] ​OK [02:47:35] ​How about any others? [02:47:38] ​Nothing that's already I mean, I got some pipes that we needed to do that we have issues with, Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:47:48] ​So nothing else that puts undersized or damaged or anything like that that I should mark on this, that. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:47:55] ​They wouldn't major, you know. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:47:59] ​OK, AOT, the county rebuilt the one on Bostwick that has washed out about five years ago. Remember that? Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:48:09] ​Which when you talk about? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:48:11] ​One down just east of Colegrove on Bostwick. [02:48:15] ​Oh, yeah,. [02:48:16] ​washed out roads closed for a couple of months. [02:48:19] ​That got fixed. [02:48:19] ​Yeah. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:48:26] ​So the next section is about neighborhood homes, things like that that are more at risk, and is there anything that we that would benefit from elevation or even buy out from future flood damage? So basically, we're looking at areas that experienced regular issues with damage for flooding. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:48:46] ​So. I guess I'm looking for severe, repetitive loss sort of properties, so I tapped on mute for you, Alan, because I thought maybe you would have some input into this. But if anybody wants to, you know, give input into houses or neighborhoods even, that we should look into more flood management practices and things like that. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:49:10] ​Enfield Center Road. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:49:11] ​. OK,. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:49:13] ​By the bridge. [02:49:16] ​The Carlile's house, two houses there that have experienced flooding in the basement, but a few times. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:49:31] ​I had been told that Enfield was unique and Tompkins County because there were no flood plains in Enfield, but that's if that's accurate. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:49:42] ​That's true. There is a county wide flood mapping that went on and we were not considered part of the flood plain, but we have experienced flooding. So sorry, Alan, did you want to give the input on that? Code Enforcement Officer Alan Teeter ​[02:49:56] ​Well, first, I just want to say that I think that's correct. There are no mapped flood plains and Enfield, but we do have flood plains. They were just not done in that study many years ago. And there's not too many houses that are actually subject to flooding those Buddy mentioned ones down on, Enfield center road a couple of have flooded. I'm not aware of too many other ones. There was one or the one right at Enfield center that washed up the basement a couple of years ago. [02:50:26] ​But I'm not sure. [02:50:27] ​Enfield Main. [02:50:31] ​OK. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:50:34] ​And then the next section is infrastructure projects, so this is like Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:50:43] ​If he wants it, if we're talking about flooding, are we talking about private culverts and stuff or just I think they're saying, oh, they they'd like us to make a list of both. [02:50:56] ​All right. There's two things. One, we had a private cujlvert private driveway right on Harvey Hill Road just before just right after the bridge was there. Three, four houses back in thre. Well, that washed out almost completely back when we had one flood. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:51:17] ​OK,. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[02:51:17] ​So the house on the corner of Bostwick and Enfield main that flooded because the road flooded and everything there at the time. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:51:32] ​OK. [02:51:40] ​And so the next one is infrastructure protection, so they're talking about more like roadways and hardened infrastructure within our Town that could use elevating or any sort of flood management practices. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:51:58] ​Anybody want to weigh in on that? [02:52:06] ​OK, and then other projects, are there any areas that would benefit? I was thinking maybe from like a community planting, like the there's trees for tribes and different nonprofits that help with erosion control through soil and water. So is there any place in the Town that we feel would be helped or we would benefit? [02:52:32] ​To to have something like that in. [02:52:40] ​All right, moving right along that,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:52:43] ​I will tell you one of the wish lists that we down in Enfield Falls and Gray Road and three twenty seven would like someday. And that's for nice segue to modernize the electric service to us, because right now you've got probably a Roosevelt era electric line that runs across Enfield Creek through the gorge. And every windstorm, every snow storm, every ice storm, it takes down a tree, Enfield Gorge, down goes the power line, which feeds about 80 homes here in southern Enfield. I don't know who's responsible for that. But, boy, I'd like to see the government come in and fund something for NYSEG to refeed that electric line maybe down cold road or something like that. It would feed us from a different point and give us more reliable power. That's a wish list that I have down here. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:53:38] ​That's perfect. That's exactly what I'm looking for. So if anybody else has things like that, they want to add. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:53:44] ​Ellen, you have your hand raised. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:53:47] ​I think. Is that new or. Go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:53:53] ​No, I just I solicited some information from the Fire Company that I was just going to share, so the generator there is 60 kilowatts and it powers everything in the building, including the compressors, refrigerators. It can actually run the fire siren, all the exterior lighting. And it's they feel it is adequate right now. So 60 kilowatts is the size there. As I mentioned, there's twenty five to 30 phone lines that come in there. And at one point, so it's maybe worth looking into whether or not this is current. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:54:28] ​They were designated as the Disaster Relief Center. It was also designated as a central communications center. So it does have a radio room. So an emergency type situation. It can be used by law enforcement. It can be used by other agencies. It is integrated into the county system. Last year, with former Supervisor McGee and the Fire Company leadership,. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:54:55] ​We also did a test of the ham radio system, which the county is working on for a backup communication system. And it was the test went well. It was good reception there for the amateur radio, ham radio. And yes, they can we can talk with anybody in the county, they can cross out of our radio system, we can talk to helicopters, medical helicopters, highway departments. So the highway department does have a channel on the county's radio system. It's called Enfield Guvs. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[02:55:31] ​But that could be used ideally by government leadership as well. And then there is down towards Enfield main road when it comes to the curve. And on Hubbell Drive, there is like there have been severe flooding incidents down past. As you're coming towards Boston, so it seems like that's been an area and then I would just want to add that is the Town clerk I get calls all the time about Enfield Center Road. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:56:06] ​Great, thank you. OK, so the next thing that we have to do is come up with two action plans. The first one that I put in there was a backup generator for the highway department. I'll change the number on that with the estimated cost because I, I was kind of sticker shock. And as an alternative, I put the battery backup system that was originally as part of our solar project but was taken off. So we need to come up with a Second plan or another action plan. So I'm wondering what sort of things we want to make a priority for for our for a development of this project. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:56:55] ​I'm encouraged about what's going to be going on with the E.E.C. buying the old Living Waters Church and setting up an emergency kitchen there that would feed a large number of people in Enfield in the event of a major catastrophe. I wish that either Anne Rider or Courtney Bailey were here to explain the details of that. That might be part of an action plan. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:57:25] ​OK, I don't think that either one of them are still on here. Yeah, I don't see them any longer. So let's see. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[02:57:41] ​So this is incredibly rude to me, but I really have to use the restroom facilities. So Robert, you are the co-host and you can unmuted folks, but if you want to sort of discuss between yourselves quickly a Second action plan and and come up with an idea of what we want to make is a our Second we need we need two of these to turn it on Friday. [02:58:01] ​So I'll be right back. Right. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:58:05] ​We will just talk this over. Anybody have any opinions and would just I will let Stephanie, when she comes back, start filling in the blanks, but does anybody have any ideas? [02:58:20] ​OK, got a mute. [02:58:25] ​Ellen, if you're going to speak, you are muted. [02:58:30] ​I don't know. Do I unmuted? [02:58:35] ​Asked you,unmute. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:58:40] ​All right, lots of hype was that for me? I'll let you speak, Alan. Code Enforcement Officer Alan Teeter ​[02:58:49] ​OK, one thing that was brought up was the new community center, one thing that would need if it's going to be used as a place to shelter, would also need a backup generator with partial kitchen, with a large space for people. [02:59:06] ​Something else to consider why is. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[02:59:09] ​Right. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[02:59:10] ​That sounds like it's a Aye. priority. We're sitting here trying to fill out something on fairly short notice and just thinking of of ideas. [02:59:25] ​I see that. [02:59:31] ​One of the problems here is that I've got a freezer, I've got a frame that does not allow me to see all the participants. Let me see here, Nancy Spero was raised her hand, let me see if I could on mute her. Nancy Spero ​[02:59:54] ​Hi. Yeah, just along with. [03:00:00] ​The. Nancy Spero ​[03:00:04] ​At the new is a place have been talked about as having a community kitchen that needs upgrading and a place that could be a shelter for people also. And also they need a elevator to get up to the second floor, you know, handicapped, accessible elevator, you know, upgrading their bathrooms and things like that. But there had been some talk in the past about possibly that being another good community shelter for Enfield. Nancy Spero ​[03:00:40] ​So now that was before we had the new community building. But it's possible that both would be good because we needed places for families. You know, if you needed a lot of space, then then both those might be helpful to have, and especially since they're right next to each other. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:01:02] ​Stephanie, why you stepped away, it was mentioned that probably if we're going to have the the new Echeck facility used as an emergency kitchen, we might want to have backup generator power for that Echeck building as well. [03:01:21] ​OK,. [03:01:22] ​And I would I would suggest that perhaps Stephanie is the best way to solve this is to get together with either Courtney or with Debbie Teater or with Anne Rider. They may know more about it, especially Courtney, because she seems to be the point person on this to find out what might be needed to put in this action plan that would help that project out. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:01:49] ​Yeah, anything that we put in this will help us to be eligible for grant funding, so the more detailed we can make it, the better. Ellen, did you have something I'm going to tell you? [03:02:02] ​Go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:02:03] ​I got I just got some information that the Fire Company would also I don't know if both of our action plans can be generators, but also suggests that the S.E.C. building have a backup generator and, B, work towards designation as an emergency shelter so that Fire Company operations and sheltering wouldn't have to co-exist in an emergency because it could be hard to adequately shelter people while trying to respond to emergencies. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:02:37] ​That's great. [03:02:40] ​OK, is there any other input that folks want to give? I'm going to stop sharing my screen, but you basically get an idea of what we're doing here. We have a project that we have to come up with and give, you know, sort of the level of protection and how many years it will be a viable source for us and the estimated cost, which I will change that Buddy to be more appropriate to what we have here. [03:03:07] ​And then it just sort of gives a numeric rank to it as to how valuable it is, whether it's valuable or not on these on these certain qualities. OK, so I guess I will go ahead and develop the other worksheet and action plan to talk about the S.E.C. and the need for a generator and kitchen facilities and have it designated as an emergency facility. [03:03:35] ​Then if we're all in agreement with that agreement,. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:03:39] ​I will be available quite a lot in the next couple of days. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:03:43] ​So if you need help in getting this out the door by the deadline, which is, I guess, two days away, I can assist you if you have any questions. [03:03:55] ​OK, yeah, anything that you want to do to to get information about the cost of the kitchen or the generator, and that's really what we need to come up with is just more details as far as that goes. [03:04:06] ​And maybe we can even zoom with with Debbie and and and and. Oh, gosh, Courtney, sorry, we've got an Second. Don't tell her that, Nancy. Spyro raised her hand. Let's see. I'm going to unmuted, Nancy. Nancy Spero ​[03:04:28] ​I don't know if you're back yet. I was just saying that there had been talk at one point, certainly before the community center, the new community center was talked about of helping the Enfield Grange become more handicapped, accessible to be another emergency shelter. And since everything was close by, I don't know how many spaces we would need, but they already have a big kitchen, which they're trying to upgrade. They would need an elevator, the handicapped. [03:04:57] ​Later to get to the second floor, I don't know, you know, but I think that there might be used for two spaces like that. So but I don't know what what how you do that. [03:05:11] ​We are actually not limited in the amount of worksheets that we can do, so I can I can do a couple of these, so I'll do one for the Grainge and one for the S.E.C. But if anybody wants to get help to help me get information about the cost to revamp these buildings and give them what they need, that information would be really helpful. [03:05:32] ​All right. I really stop showing my screen now. There we go. [03:05:38] ​We still have 18 people holding on here, OK? [03:05:42] ​Last thing we have on our list. Oh, no, not the last thing. Little Free Library. She's still on here. Oh, no. Oh, yes, she is. Oh, good. [03:05:53] ​Thank you, Cassandra, for hanging out so long with us and wading through this whole meeting. [03:06:01] ​There you are. So we really I know that I should speak for myself. I really appreciate having this this Little Free Library in our town. It's adorable. You guys did a great job constructing it. And I'm so happy that you're taking initiative with that. [03:06:17] ​And I know that Buddy just had some concerns about, you know, not wanting to get knocked out with the flowers and not wanting to have somebody run into the liabilities to get them information about where to put it. There were some options. One was at the park and rides or the bus station or bus stops or even at the town hall. He had mentioned that maybe we could place it over by the signs that he's willing to keep the snow out of the area, too. So do you have a preference about where you would like it located? Cassandra Hinkle ​[03:06:51] ​I would like actually, we my husband and I talked about having it over by the bus stop, by the highway department building, since there is a lot of foot traffic there of all ages. We thought that would be perhaps the best way to maintain it and also for foot traffic reasons. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:07:12] ​OK. And do you plan on relocating it there yourself, or is it something that you've already coordinated with Buddy about relocating? Cassandra Hinkle ​[03:07:20] ​We were kind of waiting to see what you guys said. We certainly have no problem moving it. We just need to know where. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:07:29] ​OK, Buddy, can you coordinate with Cassandra about, you know, where to locate exactly. [03:07:35] ​And getting it placement and make sure, you know, all liability issues are covered and in such. Highway Superintendent Rollins ​[03:07:41] ​Yes. That's not a problem. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:07:43] ​OK, so I'll leave you two to to communicate, email, whatever with that. But once you have an update about it, let us know when we can put out information. I'm sure Ellen would probably do a post on the website and I'm sure we'll all share it on our various social media and such. Thank you so much. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:08:01] ​I really appreciate your or is, but it's not winter time, so probably should be. Cassandra Hinkle ​[03:08:08] ​Yeah, we did think about with what the plows that might be at risk, but we have no we have no problem. We were open to feedback about it and hope that people feel free to bring their the books to pass on. Well, good luck with it. [03:08:23] ​Thank you so much. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:08:24] ​I have a bunch. I'll bring them on over. Great. Great. Yeah. All right. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:08:31] ​So next up, we have the resolution, which hopefully you all have gotten that basically sends Robert and I virtually this year to the Association of Town annual meeting and approves the funding for our attendance. [03:08:49] ​So I guess I'm going to go ahead and move that resolution now Second it. [03:08:54] ​Is there any discussion? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:08:58] ​OK, Ellen, will you call the vote, I think I have to meet you, OK? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:09:05] ​I just I, I just had a question before I call the vote, which is last year there was a track at the Association of Town for Town Clerks. But because it's during tax time, I wasn't able to go. And the Clerks conference was actually canceled this year because of covid. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:09:23] ​So I don't know what the particulars are of funding to go virtually. But if there was a way for me to attend the Town clerk track, I'd be interested in that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:09:32] ​So yeah, I think I saw that actually I would look because I think I saw that on their website when I was looking up this this one to find out when it was going to be. [03:09:42] ​I think they did have something about a virtual town clerk annual meeting as well. [03:09:47] ​OK, so I'll look into it. All right, go ahead. and. Call the vote. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:09:52] ​Councilperson Bryant. [03:09:55] ​The fact is, the one who came off looking like a Anne. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:09:57] ​Councilperson Bryant,. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[03:09:59] ​Aye Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:10:01] ​Councilperson Lynch. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:10:02] ​Aye. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:10:03] ​Acting supervisor, Redmond,. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:10:06] ​Aye. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:10:07] ​So that is carried. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:10:10] ​OK, and then the last thing is the fire contract, Robert and I had a very productive meeting with the Fire Company and I feel like we've hammered out a really good contract. [03:10:20] ​Robert, would you like to update everyone as to our status with that? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:10:24] ​Yes, we've had a very productive negotiating session on Monday night with both Denny Hubo and Greg Stevenson. And we came up with a plan, a three year proposed contract. I guess we can divulge the details now because it was agreed in the room that we will basically we we already know what twenty twenty one is going to be like because that was set with our budget, which is basically a no increase in the overall amount. That's the basic contractual amount. But a thirty five thousand dollar amount that's allocated to turn out here, that's that's was set in the budget in twenty twenty to the second year of the contract, we would be granting a two percent increase in the overall contract amount, which means it would go from three hundred twenty six thousand four ninety five to three hundred thirty three thousand twenty five dollars, plus another thirty five thousand dollars specifically earmarked for turnout year in the third and final year of the contract. Twenty twenty three, we would have another two percent increase, which would increase the contract amount to three hundred thirty nine thousand six hundred eighty five dollars and we would add ten thousand dollars for those turnout gear. Items are technically known as structural firefighting, personal protective equipment, but everybody calls them turnout gear. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:12:06] ​And it was acceptable to the Fire Company representatives. It was acceptable to Stephanie and me. And I believe it's a fair contract. Stephanie, I believe, believes it's a fair contract. And I think that we're probably to the point isn't all the I's aren't dotted and T's aren't crossed and it hasn't gone to the attorneys yet, but it looks to me like it would be a fair agreement to both parties. We've streamlined some of the contractual language a little bit to make it more Enfield specific and it still protects the Town and I think it's still benefits the Fire Company. And I would hope that we could have a hearing on it in December and perhaps I would hope have the contract adopted and signed before the end of the year. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[03:12:58] ​Well, sorry, go ahead, I said it certainly sounds like you two did have a productive meeting and. Compared to other years, though, I'm glad of that. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:13:13] ​Is it something that you agree we can move forward with and have it add up a public hearing to our December regular meeting? Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:13:21] ​I would think now, again, I don't know at what point legally we have to have the final contractual language set so that it can be available for public view. If the public can look at the contractual terms before attorneys review it. I'm not sure what the law is on that. And I don't know if we have to run that by a guy crow before we have to actually set the hearing date or whether we can set tonight if we can set the hearing date for the December meeting. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:13:55] ​I think that from my understanding, Ellen, please correct me if I'm wrong, from my understanding, is that we can go ahead and set that as our public hearing, but we probably should hold off just as far as the advertize. I think we need 10 days, is that correct, of advertising beforehand? Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:14:10] ​I'm sorry. I'm going to unmute you. [03:14:17] ​You unmuted. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:14:20] ​So I was looking at this a little bit last night, what I imagine I'm going to point to my calendar, see what I imagine. So tonight is the 11. So I imagine that we can't have a meeting the twenty fifth because of Thanksgiving. [03:14:41] ​So I think I think you all would have to vote to adopt it before moving to a public hearing, is that right? You'd have to vote on the final version. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:14:51] ​That's a good question, I don't know if we can call a public hearing before or that or not, something we should clarify with I. I know he needs to look over the contract and a resolution anyway before we can even vote to adopt it. So that's of the. [03:15:07] ​I'm sorry to interrupt. Go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:15:10] ​Oh, so my my just imagining on this was that the earliest we could have a special meeting to discuss that would be the 18th. Right. And then from there, we need to do five, five days is what the law states. I try to do a five business days policy on the legal notice, but then of course it takes a little while for the Journal to publish it so effectively, I think two weeks to get a legal notice published in time because like so let's say we had a special meeting on the 18th, then the legal notice could go out the 19. For the public hearing, and then we could have a look at a public hearing on the Second, that is the same time as the planning board meeting, but we could go with the planning board meeting starts at 7:00. So it's possible you could do a public hearing like before the planning board meeting. [03:16:08] ​What do we have it? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:16:11] ​Sorry, I was just wondering, because the public hearing before our regular and our board meeting on December 9th. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:16:19] ​Yeah. You just you're just working a little bit with time there because the planning board hearing, the planning board meeting starts at 7:00, which a public hearing that starts at 6:00 is not like really a big deal for people, but with meetings and your maybe your public hearing is at five, 30. So that's still like sort of reasonable. But you do have to have a little. Yeah. And then you could that would avoid having to have a short special meeting right after the public hearing. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:16:49] ​Why couldn't we just have the public hearing and the subsequent adoption of the contract at our regular December meeting? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:16:59] ​Sense that I'm suggesting that we. But we will need to really move with the contract then, so that we can get it to Guy Krogh, have it approved, vote on it, and then do the public hearing notice. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:17:15] ​So we really will need to set a special meeting to vote on this before our December one so we can set our public to vote to have our our public hearing. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:17:25] ​I agree. I do think we should have Guy Krogh look at it before we vote. I mean, I don't know that it's necessarily required legally, but it seems like the best procedure is just to really make sure we know what we're voting on. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:17:38] ​None of us are lawyers. You know, when I was working, you were working with the with the with the language. We might have made some legal error that we not being attorneys might not realize. So right. By Guy Krogh, then have a very quick meeting whenever it could be next Wednesday or whenever it's convenient for all the board members. You'd probably be just a 15 minute meeting just to set the set, the hearing date for the contract and then go with it. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:18:13] ​So are we going to try to do this by the 18th then for a special meeting. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:18:16] ​Would work for me if. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[03:18:18] ​It's OK with me? Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:18:20] ​OK, so let's go for a special meeting on the 18th where we're hopefully going to have just a quick meeting to to set this the public hearing. And between now and then, let's make sure we get this to Guy Krogh. [03:18:32] ​Oh, Robert, we're going to have to really step on this and and make sure we finalize this and get as a guy across. So we're going to kind of have to make sure that the fire folks are OK with it to I was yesterday. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:18:45] ​So, I mean, that's that's the best I could come up with and see if the fire folks are in agreement. And they'll probably send it to their attorneys and we'll send it to Guy Krogh and we'll see where it goes. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:18:57] ​OK, that sounds good. All right, so set a special meeting for 6:30, is that OK timing wise, Alan Beth's OK. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:19:09] ​Aye. witnesses are totally reserved for meetings held. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:19:14] ​OK, all right, so special meeting set for the 18th, hopefully to set a public hearing for the regular board meeting. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:19:23] ​I want to say that everybody has worked so well on this. I recall reading from the minutes of the trauma that we had two or three years ago with a contract that got limped along for an entire year because the parties couldn't get along. And in this this situation, we negotiated so well, had such amicable discussions. [03:19:46] ​And it's a credit to the it's a credit to the the the the fire department and a credit to everybody else that we're not up against the wall this time. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:19:58] ​I agree. Let's get this through before the end of the year. OK, so let's go ahead and move to privilege to the floor. [03:20:05] ​We will have a privilege of the floor at the end because this is a public or this is a regular meeting. So if anybody, if any residents would like to speak for privilege of the floor again, go ahead and raise your hand with the raise your hand button or you star nine. [03:20:19] ​If you are calling in, you will have three minutes for your comments. Please address them to the board. [03:20:27] ​And yeah, I think that's it. [03:20:33] ​All right, I don't see any hands raised. I'm going to I'm you everyone everybody is unmuted. If you did not get a chance to speak for privilege on the floor, please do so now. OK, I'm going to mute everyone again, I'm going to on mute board members and Ellen and is there anybody or are there any announcements? Sorry I should have done that before, too. I guess I'm going to go ahead and on you all again, just to make this real quick, since there's not very many people left here. [03:21:11] ​Anybody has any announcements, please go ahead, you're all unmuted, I would just say Michael Miles. [03:21:19] ​Very true, I look forward to working with you. [03:21:22] ​OK, I'm going to go ahead and mute all again. Oh, sorry, go ahead. Town Clerk Ellen Woods ​[03:21:29] ​Oh, I just wanted to reiterate what we discussed earlier than the age for Gadabout is now 55. And I did want to clarify a statement that Representative Koreman had made, which is 2-1-1 is providing transportation to CoVid testing. Yes. But the health department is insisting that in order for that transportation to be free, you have to have symptoms or exposure. And so they're defining exposure is first degree exposure so that you can call 2-1-1 Monday through Friday, nine to five to hook up a transportation line to get CoVid tested. [03:22:07] ​Thank you. Thank you. OK, does anybody want to make a motion to adjourn? I know you're all right. I'll Second it. [03:22:19] ​All right. I think that's it. Have a good night, everyone. Thanks for hanging out to the bitter end. Councilperson Robert Lynch ​[03:22:25] ​Thanks, everybody. Councilperson Virginia Bryant ​[03:22:26] ​Thanks, everybody. Acting Town Supervisor Stephanie Redmond ​[03:22:27] ​See you on the 18th.