Planning Board - Regular Meeting

Thursday, March 19, 2026

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Board
Meeting Type
Planning Board
Location
Canton, MA
Meeting Date
March 19, 2026

Transcript

102 sections (from 526 segments)

0:24 – 0:46Speaker 1

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0:53 – 1:36Speaker 1

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1:34 – 2:04Speaker 1

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2:03 – 3:08Speaker 1

All right, we'll bring the meeting to order. Um, first order of business, a public hearing on the solar and cemetery ordinance. Probably start with the cemetery ordinance. a little shorter. Um, if you have both copies, one copy will have the changes that were made on it and the other one is the finished copy as far as I know. The original one said dogs must be on leashes. Wouldn't that be better than banning dogs completely? Which section is

3:06 – 3:19Speaker 1

it's at the bottom of page six. So we need changes to success.

3:28 – 3:46Speaker 1

If somebody visits with a service animal, they should be allowed. Well, service animals are service animals. I think we could take that out all together because the town already has a regulation that says on town all town dogs must be used on all town properties. Right. Okay.

3:42 – 4:41Speaker 1

You could just take it out. Are you looking at the markup copy? They're both Do we want to make any accommodations for um sustainable burials?

4:40 – 5:25Speaker 1

What? We talked about this before. Green barriers place inside. Yeah. I've talked with a couple people and their thought was if we could if we did that to maybe use one of our older outlying cemeteries. Not I mean out back it might be okay but they weren't enough space left there. Yeah. But you'd be you'd disintegrate no time within 6 months is what they I mean isn't any different than burying a casket. I mean the size size of it would be any different than a casket.

5:22 – 6:06Speaker 1

No it's just like if you're cremated or full you're just if it's full body you just get wrapped in a cotton sheet or a shroud and just dump it around. Yeah. Right. And then you I think that's why we didn't do it, but it's come up in a couple other social conversations recently. So I just can be buried in. Yeah. And I mean really even now if you're cremated, you don't have your ashes don't have to be in a container. They can just be dumped in the hole. Yeah. Okay. I don't I don't think it has to be in here. This is it's been becoming a topic of conversation

6:05 – 6:49Speaker 1

twice in the last couple months it's come up at in a social event. People were talking about sustainable burial. I just make a vertical hole to stand you up in there and then we plant a tree. I read about mushroom caskets. Yeah. I don't really mock it because I know somebody's supposed to be asked about it. I don't know. It's not the thing I went to that discussed it. There was people from a se that not one cemetery that's on a land trust property. Oh yeah. That they put bales of hay or straw over it for a while to deter anything happening

6:47 – 7:18Speaker 1

to deter any disinter. Yeah. Correct. Correct. And then Okay. I don't know that we have to address it at this time. We might keep that in the back of your mind for something in the future. See how much if it gains popularity. Okay. Would it require more maintenance than No. No. Just move over them. Yeah. Cuz most of the time Well, well, most of the time they don't have headstones either. Yeah. So,

7:15 – 8:00Speaker 1

yeah. Like if it's in the one where the land trust was, I'd have to look it up from that 892. They don't even do stones. They will put a metal stake in to mark it and mark the GPS so that if you're up because it's in amongst the trees and all this and that. Yeah. Well, if it was sustainable, you could just put a wooden one. I mean, it's going to disappear anyways eventually. But, you know, some of them do not let you have stones. Okay. Oh, we could put that in the Canton Mountain one because we don't even know if it exists. Oh, it exists. Oh, I had a cousin talk to me yesterday that has been to it many years ago. So, yeah,

7:59 – 8:39Speaker 1

it is there. Yeah. Yeah, we know there's one there. We just need to go and probe and see if there are stones that have fallen and kind of been reclaimed, which happens, but it's landlocked. So, there's no access to it. I think you need to send Rob Marshall up there one day. He's been there. I think him and Elise have been there. But it has a stone wall around it. Yeah. But somebody owns property all the way around it, right? But they can't technically they can't keep you from it, right? No. Yeah. You should just ask for a reason. Oh, exactly.

8:38 – 9:23Speaker 1

You get home. It's not necessarily the best neighborhood. When a cop tells you to turn around and leave before you get to any changes to data storage, didn't we? of keeping track of the stones. Well, no, but I do think creating a digital database that's on a website so people could look up a name and find

9:22 – 10:05Speaker 1

Oh, nice. the map and all that kind of stuff. I think that'd be great. Is that information on find a grave? Exactly. Yes, cuz we have GPS marked most all put a link to find a grave on the website just so people know where to get that. That'd be a good idea. I don't Does it have to be in the ordinance or No, that could just be in the town office. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because we anytime anybody's new new moves in we data it's to the population.

10:02 – 10:41Speaker 1

My mom adds a lot to that database. She does a lot of work contest to see who can add. That's the only reason I know her. I just did it in January at Rangeline. So to the town website and matter of fact the town office got a complaint today that someone drove by and thought a stone had been painted green and was very very upset.

10:38 – 11:14Speaker 1

I can imagine. So Aaron left and went up there and it wasn't it was the pens were copper so it had really and it's in the front is showing up now with that but it has a patina. Huh? As a patina. Yes. And it's so to get rid of Why do you think the Statue of Liberty is green? Yeah. But it's like but at least you know people as fast as they drive at least they are paying well it's because it's free. Yeah. most of it.

11:13 – 11:57Speaker 1

Any other recommended changes other than taking out the pet clause fibers we made goes to the ATV portion of it and that looks fine now. Well, I think the right people are here that tell us what we're losing. Yeah, we'll say that too loud.

12:02 – 12:43Speaker 1

I believe E is also state law. Well, you got big print because you have the old one. I have the new one. I have both, but yes. E section 6E I believe is also state law. So whether that needs to be redundant in in ours as well. I think it does only people don't necessarily know what the state laws are. Yeah. And it doesn't hurt to have it in there. Yeah. Yeah. I hope people wouldn't do that without checking first. Anyways, what?

12:42 – 12:57Speaker 1

There's an old cemetery in Dicksville which has a bullet hole through one of the headstones. Yeah. Jeez. Thought it was probably quote unquote misfire.

12:53 – 13:40Speaker 1

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it looks good. Amen.

14:01 – 14:45Speaker 1

That's interesting. There's three cemeteries on Middle View. Five. Five. Simmons, Alen, Alden Hill, Kage, and Met View. Oh, those aren't all listed as being on Met View. Yeah. Well, well, Tessier Road is one is the far end of View. Yeah. Oh, okay. Alen Hill is one side of Met View, too. won't be a resting place. It was a town. They had a school and post office over there. Really? I didn't know that.

14:45 – 15:21Speaker 1

You ever wander out in through any of that woods? Be careful. There's a lot of open wells. Well, it's an old cemetery hills. Yeah. We should do a cemetery tour. That'll be fun. There's not home to visit. I know. Look, it's that adorment step and flow. Which one are you talking about now? She's asking about trees. Oh, okay.

15:18 – 15:42Speaker 1

No removes as not playing. But it's not in here now that

15:40 – 16:25Speaker 1

there should be something I don't know whether you want it in 12 or whatever about uh planting of trees is a no no I' shrouds I thought it was what? That's Yeah. Unless I've read right over it, I'm not seeing it. Oh, something saying that planting trees is prohibited. Yeah. Yeah. And alism hostas because their roots go pop the soda and the trees get big and old and their limbs fall. Well, we did talk about how we're going to take them out,

16:22 – 17:03Speaker 1

right? You really shouldn't have planned it out in the first place. We go into great length about how we're going to take him out. We can take that. So is there any type of adornment that's a plant that is allowed like a perennial or anything like your daisies something along those lines the fine but it's usually the ones that clump because their roots create such a like iris hostas and like that yeah you're here now to take care of something but think about in later on

17:01 – 17:18Speaker 1

40 years yeah It just gets so out of hand. No. So if we said no trees. Yeah. Trees are shroes

17:21 – 17:50Speaker 1

or clusters viruses. Baby, I think we had something here that said about annuals are fine. Yes. Yeah. The plants are encouraged.

17:52 – 18:35Speaker 1

Okay. So should we every place we say trees are shrubs should we say trees plants or shrubs because I don't consider iris a shrub or dilly a shrub if you say plants and you're taking all plants it says plants or shrubs that in the I say which impact the operation of a town cemetery tree or perennial plants or perennial plants.

18:34 – 19:07Speaker 1

Okay. Annual plants are encouraged cuz it should look pretty there. Yeah, because there's number of spread the flops. Yeah. Good. All right. Any other changes or? No, I just happened to catch that one. So, okay. No, that's fine.

19:09 – 19:27Speaker 1

So, we say we're finished with that. I'm move on to the solar ordinance. really smile.

19:31 – 20:02Speaker 1

So, just to recap, the changes in the solar ordinance uh took out or took out the word or and made everything and so applicants must meet both the size and wattage requirements. We made it clear that the name plate capacity was in either DC or AC whichever one we chose. It's now outlined the detail that

19:59 – 20:50Speaker 1

uh we took out all the fees and just referred people into town fees. I think those are the only changes that you keep straight. Okay. Any comments from the public?

20:57 – 21:12Speaker 1

I'm happy to see the orca. That's confusing and unnecessary. This is much clearer. Yeah, there's no gray area.

21:10 – 22:23Speaker 1

There is no gray. There shouldn't be. We can't be in all this. There could very easily be a type of

22:20 – 22:51Speaker 1

that. She's got a question about the definition for solar or solar energy system ground. Which section? the definition which guess I'm what's different there versus what is being put into these I refuse to call them farms or raise

22:48 – 23:33Speaker 1

this is just it is defining ground mounted versus roof mounted Watch out. doesn't like that either. When you see solar farm, it says see solar energy system. It's not a farm.

23:32Speaker 1

No, they're not. It's

23:33 – 24:26Speaker 1

not a farm. Well, speaking from a farm. No, they're not. They're not carrots and corn. So, did I hear there was a change to the driveway then to the site?

24:25 – 25:03Speaker 1

They're requesting one for K appointment. Yeah. Anybody know how much of a change they're looking at? I do not. I got a call from Mr. Barrett um right before right literally right as I was walking out the door to come to this meeting and what he said was um uh so I'd asked for more information because we we had not heard anything and he said he would be sending out a note but he met with Jason they discussed it Jason wrote him back a note saying it was all acceptable and then we have a note from Christine saying it's not acceptable so we don't know what happened in so

25:01 – 25:41Speaker 1

my understanding is that Jason got thinking about it it's like wait a minute the permit was granted for this. Maybe I should not have granted the permission for them to change it. Jason, he notified. Sorry about that. Yeah, he notified if it was just Christine. I think but anyways, there was some communication between Jason and and the board member to Yeah. She says a note. He just has to check with code enforcement officer. Yes. Yeah. I'm small scale. Yeah, you just have to check with the code enforcement officer and make sure

25:41 – 26:22Speaker 1

if there's any modifications to a small scale ground mounted solar energy system made after the issuance of the required town permits shall require approval by the code enforcement officer. So that's who we asked to check with. Yeah, I'm not sure why he went to Jason. I don't even know. I think it was a fire issue. There was a concern about moving the road further whole array a tiny bit further away from the trees or cutting back the trees. So there was a discussion. It was a fire issue was what that my understanding is why yeah I took it that they weren't sure if the fire truck could make it in there with the new change compared to how it was compared to there's an email here. Yeah.

26:20Speaker 1

Yeah. But I mean he can check with the code enforcement officer first. Yeah. Code enforcement officer checks with the fire department. Yeah.

26:35Speaker 1

Just because it's a small scale and you don't really have to go. Well, they're not. They're medium. They're medium.

26:39 – 27:21Speaker 1

They're mediums. Yeah. But yes, small is the other medium. type a question on 5D. It says once the permit fee is collected in the office, it can be the permit will be issued and where it can start, but they submit and I I know Diane will tell me for sure, but they submit the permit fee with their check or with their application, but then we go through the whole application if it's right or wrong. So,

27:19 – 27:48Speaker 1

so that's what's permit on six. Oh, 5D, I'm sorry. So, and it says once a permit fee is collected, they can start. So, once they office gets it check, they can start. I think we had a application fee and then we had at one point a separate permit fee, which all that's been taken out. So, that's a good catch. We can fix that. Where is I don't even see that.

27:44 – 28:27Speaker 1

On page four. Yeah. 5D. I meant D. What? Oh, DD D is Yeah, sorry. Dove section D subd. Okay. Yeah, that could that could just be perfect cuz that can be a loophole. Yeah. So, yeah. to a medium one. It's supposed to be run through the planning board and the CEO. Yeah, cuz they do it for them. It's in section 9. Yeah.

28:37 – 29:20Speaker 1

So, since they wanted I don't know since they want to change the I'm going to say driveway entrance. Do they need to submit a new blueprint showing that? No. It would probably just be a change order. Is that something we should put in here? Um, well, it already has in section 9. It has to go through the planning board and CEO if they make changes after they get the permit. Doesn't look like they're asking for the entrance. No, it's just I don't Yeah, I was going to say entrance is something new.

29:19 – 30:03Speaker 1

They wanted they wanted to put some turnarounds in for fire trucks. So they could get out more easily based on this email string. They came in front of them. Really? Why would the fire chief have a problem with that? I think he was more there was a whole back and forth with this that starts. I think Jason was more afraid of a change to the permit what that might entail. Yeah. All they'd have to do is bring it to the planning board and CEO. Well, but yeah, it takes more time. Yeah. Yeah. But it's already in there question number four instead of like we dealt with the andor. Yep. Correct. Yep.

30:08 – 30:38Speaker 1

That'll be set to be followup edition. Sure. This email makes things more clear. We just got literally just got copied on it. I heard your ding ding. 541. Okay.

30:48 – 31:08Speaker 1

Oh, because it says site access shall be maintained to a level acceptable to the fire chief for response. Yeah, they there's a whole bunch of back and forth between Stephen Barrett and Jason about, you know, different things that Jason wanted. So, okay. It's in big print,

31:12 – 31:53Speaker 1

but I'd rather document all of these changes for the fire department cuz that way down the road it can't be a he said, she said. And it's also, you know, you have the distinct possibility saw the same faces in play. Yeah. Five years from now. Yeah. So, have they contacted the tombstone offer at all? I don't think it comes back to us. I think we'll give that I think we'll give them that direction coming out of here according to the ordinance also an updated drawing as a change order request. Yeah. Yeah.

31:49 – 32:28Speaker 1

And with this email, he sent a new map, I'd say, or a picture of how the change would be, which to me would be my side. Huh. Is that on my side of the lot? It's by the existing driveway, right? Yeah. Yeah. West side. Yeah. He's just making a different turn around. But yeah, that way. He's putting turnarounds here. This is the road

32:26 – 33:09Speaker 1

up here. That's where you come in. He's putting turn around turn so they can flip it around. Keep. Now, this says keep turn. So, it looks like this one's already here. Yeah. And he's adding a turn around down on this side. So, if you can't drive all the way around, right? If you could get all the way around, we need to be able to flip it. So, fire can't get over here. Fire truck be able to go all the way around. No, you know. Yeah. That from Did you send a picture? Did you? Yeah, I've got it on. That might be the fire chief's concern that he can't get around that he can't get around. So, he's got to flip it down here.

33:07 – 33:51Speaker 1

Better plan this. Oh, here's where that turn around here. Originally, I thought they were supposed to be able to drive. Yeah, that would make sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if money invested in something, I'd want it accessible from home. I mean there's plenty of gravel and everything there to do whatever for a road. Yeah. It's a bank. Yeah. Any more comment on the solar catch anything else? You know sometimes you look at a document so much you can't look you just can't look at one more time. Right.

33:47 – 34:00Speaker 1

And you don't see anything different. buy anything. Okay.

34:03 – 34:43Speaker 1

So, if it's any more questions or comments on them by the road, I thought that's all I know. But they started up there. I never was gonna by there today. I could first meeting at the show that I want you more for dear crossing that field.

34:42 – 35:25Speaker 1

Christine's not seem to imply that we knew about it and somehow withheld information from the select board. The note seemed to imply that you knew about all the stuff and was withholding information from the select board which is not true. We heard nothing change. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So 640. Are we closing the meeting? Yeah, we can close the public hearing. Did you guys sign in? Yes. Thank you.

35:41 – 36:24Speaker 1

So review last. Was that what we're doing? We're being meeting minutes now. call a planning board meeting to order to uh review the planning the planning zone meeting minutes of March 5th. Just want to thank Don for taking those minutes and sending them over in my absence that this wasn't going to work. Yeah, I was like, "Sure, I can squeeze away from a giant trade show and find a quiet spot that has decent Wi-Fi." Yeah, it doesn't. That's not happening. Um,

36:21 – 37:05Speaker 1

I've already fixed all the Josh Basso. Yep. Could you change Robin Wade to I instead of Y? I Where is it? She said sometimes sometimes Bon will put R O B I N and sometimes it's RB Y. I changed it in the header and the footer. I didn't change it. I just cut and paste in the middle. I didn't get the voice. Thank you. She had practice. What's why the school secretary say changed my name on the uh that's all I got. Okay. So, they also changed everything else, but they haven't changed it yet. So, accepted those changes. Second. All those in favor?

37:04 – 37:23Speaker 1

I can't go back with I. We have nothing on the permit log review. Um, but I'll ask Erin for an update at the next meeting because people should be starting to put out uh building permits soon if they're planning stuff.

37:35 – 38:19Speaker 1

I'd love to hear from Lyn without the budget committee. uh haven't had any the planning board budget was tabled till this coming Monday and we didn't have one this week. Yeah. So we'll spend hopefully quality of time together Monday. A couple of the um budgets was tabled till this coming Monday. Jason was set. Yes. Yeah. We're not clear on Kathy. Um the the the voting booth thing of the price or something. It was Yes. Several things. Uh the voting machine. Yeah. Yeah.

38:18 – 38:50Speaker 1

Counting machine. Yeah. The counting machine. We're not completely clear on that. Um planning board was tabled for this coming Monday, but everything is going pretty good. Cool. Daniel, are you going to attend this coming Monday? What's that? Are you going to attend a budget committee meeting this coming Monday when they discuss the planning? What time is the meeting? Six. Six. Yes, I can. Yeah.

38:56 – 39:35Speaker 1

If you're going then I will. Sure. Okay. I had a breakfast that morning. Off the off the record, Robin, do you know what happened to the um lake association budget? Do you know what the lake I said I sent in the lake association budget? I think it came in after we did social services, but there's several more come in. I'm not sure how the chairman of the budget committee is going to handle that or if it'll just get held off till the selectman look at it. because I asked several times for a schedule of when the social services were going to be discussed. I never got one. So I don't there was no notice of

39:33 – 40:14Speaker 1

but I know handed it after. So and last year I think they put social services in one category and they put the leg association separately. So I just didn't know because I haven't heard anything yet. So it has a meeting schedule what the subject matter is that's going on. So I just didn't know. Thank you for the update. So in all of business, we have the junkyard and nuisance ordinance. Um,

40:12 – 40:56Speaker 1

so these are listed here in because I like to keep them there so I can remember which are the ones we haven't done yet. Yeah. So it just says they're in the queue, right? So they're not really a priority. We know plan is our priority. Okay. But I just leave it there because it's just a reminder. And the reason for the junkyard even though we're running under the state was what? It was just it's been a long time since it's been updated. That's all. It was just we want to review it. We as committee just want to review it and make sure that it's still up to date. Reflects everything from the state. But I thought it was the state one. Right. But the state makes changes all the time to their requirements. Right. But I mean if we're running under the state then

40:53 – 41:30Speaker 1

that's the one we look at not this one. That's my understanding anyway. But you but still you guys want to learn want to make sure that that reflects well like our housing and minimum lot size. We go by the one that was printed in town even though it was 30 years old and the state had so many updates that we had never incorporated. It's just we want to make sure we're current. That's all. like the half a horsepower officer or that's Yeah, that's right. That's a good example. Yeah.

41:34 – 42:11Speaker 1

So, how did the work meeting go with the last one? How would they move? Robin, I got a one done. Oh, good. Yeah. the last meeting I incorporated all the changes on the natural resources chapter um and those are changes we got from the u beginning with habitat mats that died oh Eric was that his name I think it's Eric what's his name I incorporated all of them except for the rare plants

42:07 – 42:33Speaker 1

um and and trees section because I can't validate um the sighting. So just food for thoughts can probably tell you if there are ones and where they can be. He wrote they wrote the original check. They wrote that. Okay. But they didn't have Yeah, we can double check. I can ask the first

42:32 – 43:18Speaker 1

Well, I've already given it to a resource at um main and he'll have it edited and back to me by first. So when is the next coming Wednesday from 4 to 7 the other thing that we need to talk about um well I added a note in here I'm concerned about the PFA testing is we have a soil soil section in this in this document I'm concerned about it for the agricultural section I don't know that we're going to find out the answer to that testing before because it said 2026 2027 was when I saw

43:16Speaker 1

the letter to the top. Yeah, you can make a note in there that that testing is ongoing and

43:22 – 44:28Speaker 1

I just put a note on it for now so when we're going through the sections we can talk about what we want to say about that and and which sections. Um, and then there was something that he wanted us to do sessions, but I made a note about it. So when we're going through that as well, but that's% the housing data we're catching up because what the state has on their website is very um variable and because we're so small, right? It could be the answer to some question could be 300 plus or minus 85 or 150, right? So you could be off by huge amounts. So we we're kind of correlating two sources of data to see if we can get something that makes sense.

44:27 – 45:08Speaker 1

Yeah. But I was looking at our checklist. So Erica is still working on transportation. He said should be done by the end of this time. Okay. Okay. That was the key. Yeah. and natural resources is ready for us altering agriculture. I feel like that's only about 50% complete. You know, there's a draft out there. There's a lot of heft behind it. So, why don't we spend some time doing that? I would say

45:05 – 45:49Speaker 1

yeah. And there's nothing in there about forests really. There's a little bit about Amanda's worst that we have the lot you mean or just tree farms the main farmland and trust information about forest. Oh no it's not that tree growth. Yeah. So that needs to be worked on. Housing you said is what? I've got it at 50%. And I'll have it I'll 75 by about by Wednesday.

45:47 – 46:25Speaker 1

So that's ready for Yeah. I can anything that's at 75 I can print out and have available for us to look at as one cohesive packet for Wednesday because we got all these disjointed sections and when you look at it kind of read them back to back I start to go oh like this is too long or this is you know once we get a good one of the things that's bugging me is that this doesn't all look and feel the same right but right now I just want them meet and I'll be I'll work to make it look pretty because the Google Docs is not great to perform formatting. I mean I can it's not

46:20 – 47:04Speaker 1

I can download all formatting nice into PowerPoint or something but right now it's just like get me on paper that historic and archaeological resources. You were going to talk to Bob Marshall about Yeah. I what I've got is um all the data that or some interesting visual stuff that kind of talks more about the context and the history of the town. Uh and we're and it's really was to taken from the bsentennial presentation that they did. So that one's not um what's today? I can have that by soon.

47:01 – 47:43Speaker 1

Okay. Should I put it ready for you? Yeah, because I started on it. Uh it's just it's it's I can pick a night that wants to watch something on TV. I don't care about it. Just sit there and do it because it's just it's kind of cut paste and format kind of stuff. about facilities and services. Still need to get with Jason. I haven't gotten feedback from I talked to Sean at the last town meeting. I also sent him an email today. He sounded like maybe he'll show up on Wednesday. He did sound interested in giving input into this.

47:39 – 48:13Speaker 1

So, it was that. And then I think sewer we need to get we need to get information from Josh to see how we want to update that section. So it's those three people still so new I think this section originally was just a lot of data like how many around the system how many like miles of pip feet of pipeline you have that type of stuff

48:09 – 48:53Speaker 1

probably should still have both so we can look at it if we want but I just I feel like we need key resources we won't keep Let me try that down. Physical capacity 75% that was ready. We're only at 50% on recreation. I've drafted it. I put some stuff in there. I feel like we need some maps, you know, some trail maps, some the map of what land does the town own, that stuff. I didn't even call them again because I sent him that email asking just a source of information. Uh, and I haven't heard that, but I'll

48:52 – 49:31Speaker 1

put it ready for review because I think we can all look at it and talk about it and see what else should be in there. Have you seen the brochure that goes with the trail system? I'd like ATV and snowmobile. Just got to get it in. Is that in That's in the office though, is it? I also want to talk to the because like I have a section for snowmobile and ATV club and it's utterly empty. So, I like the clubs to help me fill in words. Oh, I'm sure you're about to talk to you. Right. Right. So, did you Oh, you said you're not coming for a minute. Probably.

49:33 – 49:58Speaker 1

But Dan is So, Dan could ask him. Yeah. Who was it? Brian Jordan. Brian. Yeah. He's ATV. Yeah. um economy. Also, you go to Kind Writers website and see if they have anything on the website that you know like about us, you know, and you pull some stuff.

49:57 – 50:32Speaker 1

Well, some of the things like I've got a lot of ideas on how they can raise money just being a pass, right? Simple things that you do. We talked about it last time. Put a QR code by the parking ride. That's a direct link to your Venmo, right? Hey, did you have fun at our trails? Donate to our club, you know? That's no idea. So, there's a lot of ways they could be getting some money. Yep. Yeah. You know, but we could I want to talk to some of the club members and see what they're doing right now.

50:33 – 51:18Speaker 1

Um, existing and future. Like I've said, until we get through these other chapters, kind of get our minds around what we want to do, it's hard to, right? make those good chapters, but they're at least they're started. So that's all ex ready for team review except for one, two, three, four. Everything's ready for review except for chapter. So let me print that out to look a little bit cohesive and have those. I liked that we had that one resource who was able to review our chapter.

51:15 – 51:45Speaker 1

I'm hoping we can find other resources you can do the same. Well, that was really nice feedback that that they gave us. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the main farmland trust said they'd be happy to take a look at chapter, right? Erica said she could look at the thing in its totality. Um, but she look she's just checking for completeness with the state requirements, right? We could do that on the checklist though, too, right? We got a checklist for what the state wants. So,

51:47 – 53:08Speaker 1

so we're getting there. Check. We're good. Just a reminder to keep keep your eyes open for a new alternate. Do we have to talk about talk about what workshe I'll be gone for a while in April. Not going to make the meeting succeed.

53:07 – 53:44Speaker 1

Okay. Okay. I do have to say it was 85 in sunny in California two weeks ago. So sorry I missed the meeting here. I actually Are you really sorry? I actually sat out by the pool one day on a Sunday. I I wouldn't be sorry. I just I didn't go swimming and I put my legs like over my knees. I I was only there maybe an hour. Maybe an hour and flying out. I got lines.

53:45 – 54:23Speaker 1

All right, April. Flexibility, if our first meeting is on the 2nd. Yeah. Uh, do you want to do anything before that? Like on March 3. Oh, I I made to do something because you don't have school at night. Sorry. Um, we could do April 1st, we could do the sixth, we could do the 8th. Well, is budget committee going to continue into April, do you think?

54:18 – 55:02Speaker 1

It depends on if we get the salaries. No, we won't have the salaries done for Monday. So, we'll have to have at least one more because we worked on salaries when we did emails, but we have to vote on that. And that has to be at a regular scheduled meeting, executive session. So those won't be done until the end of next week. Yeah. So certainly April 8th is open. It's wide open. February 8th. It's my birthday. You can or cannot be there. Give me the Okay. When speak up if any of these dates aren't good for you.

54:59 – 55:44Speaker 1

Oh, good. Yeah. Is that a work session? Yeah. Well, also I'll spend my birthday celebrating. That's the plan. I'll bake you cupcakes if you come. I can bribe you with the grooming. Chocolate, peanut butter, frosted, and M&M's on top. You might talk. There we go. We found the weakness. What would the time be? Seven is our four concession because you need wanted a little bit more time and it was getting too late like we said later. And also because we were connecting to some of these other departments like we want to catch them before their workday.

55:42 – 56:27Speaker 1

Yeah. Even though he's like I'll come to you but that's the one the one day we had that it's like an icy day or something. Yeah. Okay. Whatever you got the heat now I know it did crank up but you give it five minutes. You know this is going to be bad cuz that's bad. Do you want to stick with uh Wednesdays like maybe do the 15th or the 13th? I don't know what budget committee is doing. So maybe the 13th. The 15th it would be another Wednesday. 15th time in here. Yeah.

56:27 – 57:06Speaker 1

So you want to keep that one on the 15th? Yeah. Okay. uh the 8th and the 15th. Yeah. Do you want to maybe say the 29th? Are you going to be back by the 29th? If maybe to the 8th and the 29th, what do you think? I'll skip the 15th. Yeah. Okay. You good with that? Okay. Uh no, I'm not good with that. That's John's birthday. Okay. Well, Stick on the That's scratchy.

57:06 – 57:18Speaker 1

Stick to the 15th. Either I'll just do the one in April. We could do I can't do the 22nd either.

57:23 – 58:08Speaker 1

I'm a sad. Well, I'd like to think that we could if by April because the Wi-Fi here is very bad. I'm hoping we're going to so the I'm not beyond for a while in May. So, I'll have a good Wi-Fi and a good amount of time where I could sit and just format things into a nice working document. So, if we think we're close by, in the middle of May when I go do that trip, then I could I could Do you also have um and we have several older subversions from other towns that we liked because I think the next key thing is going to be how do you not want it to look?

58:07Speaker 1

Yeah. And grab people. I really like it.

58:18 – 59:02Speaker 1

I can send a couple other links to ones that I've seen. Uh yeah, we should look at those together and kind of decide how do we want this on look and feel and grab people because I've seen some that are almost all PowerPoint. Yeah, but you can still put an appendix that has all these like data driven chapters, but you still have to figure out how to turn that into something that's more usable and even like how you want to pres how you want to present at the end of the day. This is just all the inventory, right? The background, the history, the inventory. Then there's we haven't got to the plant yet, right? But what we're finding is

58:59 – 59:44Speaker 1

needs are rising to the surface. need in the plant, but this is really inventory of the sort of Yeah, you said you saw some Yeah, I submit proposals to different government projects and every once in a while they'll say, well, this is going to this project that you're bidding on is consistent with such and such a plan. So, I click on the plan, I read the plan, so I make sure that I'm doing the right thing, right? And then I some couple of them I looked at like these are really cool looking, right? Yeah. Like I would like to use these for our company. Yeah. So I bookmark those. Okay, cool. Yeah, I'd love to look at those.

59:41 – 1:00:11Speaker 1

How far back you will because I'm have a bunch of the arrow heads and various Indian tools that that history and archaeology. we took was the bicesentennial presentation basically and kind of just adapted that. Well, I said you could get pictures and those that was a big part of the

1:00:08 – 1:00:50Speaker 1

world before we got in. What was interesting though to me was when we uh when they went to do the development where the solar field is now behind the nursing home um uh UF I think came and did all kinds of soil testing out there looking for things like airplanes and evidence of like Native American right and they didn't find it there. That's all over our way it's all by the water. Yeah. But I just thought that's not really that far from the water. But yet I think it was more on our side of the river than it was on this side. I'm not sure why, but yeah, I just found it odd. I was expecting to find stuff. Yeah. So that's

1:00:51 – 1:01:02Speaker 1

Was it two or three years ago? Yeah. something like that.

1:01:09 – 1:01:31Speaker 1

So she said that Josh Basso was at the last meeting, but he didn't sign in. Is that correct? No, he was he was mentioned. Yeah. At our Oh, okay. So that's So that was Steve Sil that's not John. Okay. All right. I'll fix her nose.

1:01:34 – 1:01:55Speaker 1

So after we just have to do time parts. Oh, we do. Okay. All right. Any other public comment? No. Uh mot all in favor we

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