Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

We could stop eating and find your chairs. We'll call the meeting to order. Ms. Cleary.

Your father, um, There's not a lot going on in this world right now between the wildfires and people evacuated from their homes and just personal fear and concerns. Be with them all. Guide us through a day when it seems like it's difficult. Help it to be easier. Lift us up. In your name, amen.

I rise with a pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In case of fire or other emergency, please go to the nearest exit, which is there, there and there, find the nearest staircase, go down the staircase, and clear the buildings so first responders can do their job. If you need assistance, please contact one of us for help in getting out of the building. Please silence your cell phones during this meeting. Thank you. Okay.

Mr. Hanke. Here. Mrs. Fedler. Here. Mr. Herrick.

Here.

Mr. Hall. Here. Mr. Fisher. Mr. Baker.

Here.

Mr. Mumby. Here. Mr. O'Brien. Here. Mr. Hahn.

Here.

Mr. Campbell. Here. Mr. Skelly. Here. Mr. Hogan. Here. Ms. Kerr. Here. Mrs. Clary. Here. Mr. Wang. Mr. Rozelle.

Here.

We have a public hearing on the community college's 2026-2027 budget.

Public hearing on the community college tentative budget. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of the County of Washington will hold a public hearing in the Supervisors Chambers, Washington County Municipal Center, Building B, 383 Broadway, Fort Edward, New York, On the 17th day of July, 2026, at 10.05 a.m., for the purpose of hearing testimony in favor or opposed to the 2026-2027 Adirondack Community College budget for the academic year beginning September 1, 2026. Further notice is hereby given that copies of said tentative budget are available at the Office of the Clerk of State Board of Supervisors and on the county website. By order of the Board of Supervisors, dated June 26, 2026.

I will call this public hearing to order at 1010. Is there anyone who wishes to be heard on the community college budget? Any member of the public wishes to speak on this matter? Is there any member of the public who wishes to be heard on the ACC budget for 2026-27? Having called for public comment three times and received no further interest, I'll close the public hearing at 1011. Something maybe a little more fun. We have our 2026, 2027 dairy princess, Erin Kearney from Salem. And I believe she wants to talk to you. You'd come up to this.

Good morning, everyone. I would like to thank you all for having me here today. My name is Erin Carney, and I'm incredibly proud to be serving as this year's Washington County Dairy Princess. I am from Jackson, and I am currently entering in my senior year of high school. My time as a dairy princess has been so much fun thus far, and my team and I have been incredibly busy promoting this vital industry across our amazing country. Accounting.

Excuse me.

I want to recognize my teammates, alternate princess Madison Baldwin and Maddie Snow. Together, we have hit the ground running. We have already participated in numerous parades, including the Memorial Day parades and several Independence Day parades, handing out milk in Argyle, Salem, and Granville. Beyond parades, we have helped serve pie and ice cream at the Farm Credit Dinner, and we have many more exciting community activities coming up, including speaking at luncheon and play, attending the Tri-County Cow Shows, and visiting our local senior citizens group in Greenwich. Education is at the heart of what we do. Our team recently visited over five classrooms this past school year. We engage students across multiple school districts with educational trivia, experiments, books, and ear tags to teach them where their food comes from. Our key messages focus on the health benefits of dairy products, how farmers take cow comfort and animal care seriously, and the industry's dedication to sustainability and environmental practices. We plan to attend even more classrooms this fall to reach more youth. Of course, the fair season is upon us. I would like to formally invite all of you to participate in our most popular tradition, the annual milking contest at the Washington County Fair. The contest kicks off at 6 p.m. on Friday the 28th at the Dairy Show tent. Good luck to everyone competing and for the covenant golden stool. I want to take a moment to thank every single one of you here for your incredible work that you do for our county as a whole and your continued support for our program and our local dairy farmers. If you have any upcoming event you would like me or my teammates to attend, please feel free to contact me. Thank you so much for having me and I hope to see you all at the fair.

And I think when I announced that I said Salem, so my apologies.

But all those little towns over there, I don't pay much attention to where the lines are.

I was going to say it don't matter.

I wasn't going to say that.

Be careful.

I wasn't going to say that. Okay. Our next presentation is also one that I'm pretty happy with. Ken Wintle, Veteran Services Director, is going to present the Veterans Coins, or at least one. You guys want to come up to the front? Yeah. And Lisa, I'm sorry. I'm not firing on all cylinders today. Okay.

Good morning. I'm Lisa Boyce, the Washington County Clerk. In May at the New York State Association of County Clerks, I was provided five veteran thank you tokens for Washington County. Tasks with deciding out of the thousands of deserving veterans that have served in the military and have a Washington County connection was a difficult task. Along with Supervisor Hall and Veterans Director Winchell, we wanted to show our appreciation, gratitude, and reverence to five local veterans. These special tokens carry a tremendous meaning as they pay homage for brave soldiers who have gone above and beyond in their service, sacrifice, and achievement. Each coin commemorates the armed forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and POW MIA. The first coin was presented to Sergeant Major Waite, Sam, as you all know. after the proclamation last month. Today we are honoring four individuals. And now I'm introducing Veterans Director Ken Winchell.

Thank you, Lisa, and thank you, everyone, for having us today. I'm going to read small details for each one of our veterans. We have two of them with us today. First, Mr. Wiley. And next to him, Mr. Temple, two of the other veterans couldn't be with us today. Mr. Wiley is an Air Force veteran who proudly and honorably served from February 1969 to January 1973. His service includes a combat tour in Vietnam as an aircraft mechanic in which he earned the Vietnam Service Medal with a Bronze Service Star. Mr. Robin Temple is an Air Force veteran who proudly and honorably served starting in 1966. His service includes a combat tour in Vietnam as an aircraft electrical repairman, in which he earned his Vietnam Service Medal with a Bronze Service Star and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. After serving our country, Mr. Temple served our county as Director of Veteran Services from 1986 to 1995, and as Deputy Director from 1995 to November of 2000. After his service to our country and to our county, His service to veterans continued as member of the board of directors of the Adirondack Veterans House. The local nonprofit that this local nonprofit provides housing and assistance for homeless veterans. Two of our veterans that cannot be with us today are first Mr. Louis Leone. Lou Leone is an Army veteran who proudly and honorably served for over 24 years, at which time he retired as a lieutenant colonel. Beginning his journey at West Point, he served several tours in Vietnam and spent a total of more than six years overseas. By the time he retired, he was a highly decorated soldier, earning the Army Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm, and numerous other awards. In 1984, Lou became the mayor of Greenwich and also in 1994, Lou received an official Congress salute in the House of Representatives for his outstanding service to his country and community. Lastly, Mr. Darrell Wilson is an Army veteran who proudly and honorably served for over 30 years. Beginning his journey at West Point, he qualified as an infantry officer and ranger. Darrell went on to retire as a colonel after a decorated and diverse career, during which he earned a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, and Legion of Merit, and numerous other awards. Upon returning to Washington County, he continued to serve others in the community and as the Putnam Town Supervisor until the end of 2025. These veterans' dedication to our community and to serving others, in addition to their honorable service, is why they are nominated for these coins.

Nobody wants to speak? Come on, you guys. A lot of people in Washington County with a lot of sand. Okay. In your packet is the condensed minutes from June 18th, 2026. Are there any additions or corrections to those? Being none, I'll consider them accepted as male. Communications.

Communications from Warren County. We are in receipt of their resolution number 231, introducing tentative operating budget for Red Rundack Community College fiscal year 2026-27 and providing for public hearing. That's all I have for communications.

Committee reports. Audit committee. Mr. Chairman, the Auditing Committee respectfully reports that we have carefully examined the accounts submitted to us for audit and recommend the payment of the items set forth in the reports below in the amount of $4,538,816.80, please. Mr. Hogan, second. Fidler, Hall, Baker, Munby, O'Brien, Hahn, Kerr, Larry,

Wang and Eric.

Did I miss anybody?

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Very good. You've got a proclamation in your package recognizing this as pre-trial probation and parole supervision week. We've got a lot of people doing an awful lot of really hard, difficult stuff behind the scenes. I really appreciate these guys. It's one of the proclamations I'm happy to do. Supervisor's privilege. Anyone want privilege? Yeah.

This past week in Putnam, we've had a rough week, and we lost one of our residents to a farming accident. So I'm going to make it brief that I just want to thank all of the first responders, the sheriff's department, and I really appreciate the folks that deal with the things that we can't.

Thank you.

I just want to reach out and thank Amy and those on the 250th Committee. It was nice to attend the 250th celebration down at the Washington County Fairgrounds. They did a great job, and thanks to all the supervisors and their town historians. They had some great displays, and it's really nice to get in there in the history of our county. And on a personal note, thank you all for your condolences to the loss of my mom earlier this year, and I appreciate it for me and my family.

This is a privilege to let you guys speak. You get to talk at the end. Okay. Introduction to resolutions. There's no need to set aside the roles or anything, so we will just proceed with them.

Resolution number 172 by Supervisors Hahn, Cleary, Campbell, Hall, Mumby, titled to adopt Adirondack Community College budget.

I move that would be adopted.

Supervisor Hines. Second. Hall. Mumby. O'Brien. Campbell. Cleary. Discussion. Roll call.

Mr. Hankey.

Yes.

Mrs. Fedler. Mr. Herrick.

Yes.

Mr. Hall.

Yes.

Mr. Baker.

Yes.

Mr. Mumby.

Yes.

Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Hahn.

Yes.

Mr. Campbell. Yes. Mr. Skelly. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Ms. Kerr. Yes. Mrs. Clary. Yes. Mr. Wang. Yes. Mr. Ozel.

Yes. Yes.

The resolution is adopted, 2,770 yes, 1,395 no, 526 absent. Resolution number 173 by Supervisors O'Brien, Clary, Campbell, Herrick, titled to authorize acceptance of draft Washington County Local Solid Waste Management Plan in submission to New York State.

Chairman, moving resolution number 173.

I suppose O'Brien second. Fiddler Hall. Very and was weighing up or not. Okay. Very discussion. Under discussion. This is a lot of effort for absolutely no value as far as I can see in Washington County. All those in favor. I do. Opposed? Hearing.

Resolution number 174 by Supervisors Roselle, Hogan, Wang, Herrick, Fedler, titled to authorize Chairman to make commitment for New York State Department of Transportation Highway Work Permit and execute undertaking.

Chairman, I'd like to move Resolution 174.

Moved by Supervisor Roselle, second. Fedler, Hall, O'Brien, Wang, discussion. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Period.

Resolution number 175 by Supervisors Clary, O'Brien, Rozelle, Hahn, Herrick, title authorizing agreement with the Village of Whitehall for sheriff patrols within the village and surrounding area.

Five. Supervisor Clary, second. Fiddler, Hall, O'Brien, Hahn, Kerr, and Clary and Rozelle. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 176 by Supervisors Clary, O'Brien, Roselle, Hahn, Herrick, title, Authorizing Agreement with the Village of Fort Edward for Sheriff Patrols Within the Village and Surrounding Area.

Chairman, moving resolution number 176.

Supervisor Clary, second. Fiddler, Hall, O'Brien, Hahn. You don't need to second your own motion. Settle that one.

Resolution number 177 by Supervisors Rozelle, Hogan, Wang, Herrick, Fedler, titled to support Washington County Sewer District number two, application for grant funding.

Mr. Chairman, I'd like to move resolution 177.

Supervisor Rozelle, second. Fedler, Hall, O'Brien, Campbell, Kerr, Cleary, and Hwang. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 178 by Supervisors Rozelle, Hogan, Hwang, Herrick, Fedler, titled to authorize Chairman to accept Champlain-Hudson Power Express Corridor Management Plan.

Chairman, I move Resolution 178.

By Supervisor Rozelle, second. Fedler, Hall, O'Brien. Kerr, Cleary, and Wang. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Chairman, I did have a comment. No, I apologize. I didn't get my hand up. I just wanted to make people aware that it wouldn't affect this vote on this, but that the Champlain Canal came on like the 1st of July. It's been out ever since. It hasn't been working. The article was on the Empire Report that we get. I just happened to be looking through it there, scrolling through it, and I said, oh, it came on the 1st, went off the 4th of July, it hasn't been back on yet. So, yeah, I saw some of the Key Wick trucks in Fort Van, and I had no idea what it was, and then all of a sudden I saw that the same day, and I said, oh, now I know where to back up in this area. Yep, checking stuff out. I just wanted to pass that on.

Pure air conditions running in New York City. Yep, exactly. You had a discussion that I missed. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing.

Resolution number 179 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Han, Wang. Title, authorize the Chairman of the Board to sign amendment to the 2024 through 2029 Municipal Snow and Ice Agreement for 2025-26 season and amend budget.

Motion 179.

Move by Supervisor Campbell. Second. Bedler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Kerr, Clary, and Wang. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 180 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang. Title, Authorized Contract for Licensed Social Worker and Amend Budget. Sherrill.

Move by Supervisor Campbell. Second. Bedler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Clary, and Wang. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 181 by Supervisor Scampel, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang, titled to award mini-bid 2026-G, small SUV for DSS.

So, Vice-Chair Campbell, second. Fiddler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Skelly, Cleary, and Wang. Discussion. Very good price, even though they're off-brand. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 182 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang, title, amend budget DSS for AI-powered caseworker assistant software.

Supervisor Campbell, second. Fedler, Hall, O'Brien, Hahn, Skelly, Kerr, Clary, and Wang, discussion. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 183 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang. Title, Amend Staffing Pattern and Title by Grade Schedule for Highway Worker Summer Season.

Supervisor Campbell, second. Bedler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Clary, and Wang. Discussion. This is a roll call. Mr. Hanke. Yes.

Mrs. Fedler? Mr. Herrick? Mr. Hall? Yes. Mr. Baker?

Yes.

Mr. Mumby? Yes. Mr. O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Hahn?

Yes.

Mr. Campbell? Yes. Mr. Skelly? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Ms. Kerr? Yes. Mrs. Clary? Yes. Mr. Wang? Yes. Mr. Rozelle?

Yes.

The resolution is adopted 4,164 yes, 526 absent. Resolution number 184 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang. Title, Standard Workday and Reporting Resolution.

Supervisor Campbell, second. Settler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Clary, and Wang. Discussion to be an amendment. Amendment moved by Supervisor Campbell. Is there a second? All. Han, O'Brien, Berry, and Wang. Discussion of the amendment. You just hate attorneys? Is that what it is?

There's a couple.

Okay. There's still a couple up there, right? All right. On the amendment, all those in favor? Aye. Returning to the motion as amended in discussion. All those in favor? Aye. Oh, I'm sorry. It's a roll call.

Mr. Henke.

Yes.

Mrs. Fedler. Mr. Herrick.

Aye.

Mr. Hall? Yes. Mr. Baker?

Yes.

Mr. Mumby? Yes. Mr. O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Hahn?

Yes.

Mr. Campbell? Yes. Mr. Skelly? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Ms. Kerr? Yes. Mrs. Clary? Yes. Mr. Wang? Yes. Mr. Ozel?

Yes.

The resolution is adopted 4,164 yes, 526 absent. Resolution number 185 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang, to title authorized sheriff to sign contract to provide nursing services, Washington County Jail.

Aye. Supervisor Campbell, second. Fiddler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Clary, and Wang. Discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried.

Resolution number 186 by Supervisors Campbell, O'Brien, Skelly, Hogan, Clary, Hall, Fisher, Baker, Hahn, Wang. Title, amend title by grade schedule to add caseworker assistant part-time.

Supervisor Campbell, second. Settler, Hall, Baker, O'Brien, Hahn, Clary, and Wang. Discussion. There's also a roll call.

Mr. Henke. Yes. Mrs. Fedler. Mr. Herrick. Yes. Mr. Hall.

Yes.

Mr. Baker. Yes. Mr. Mumby?

Yes.

Mr. O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Hahn?

Yes.

Mr. Campbell? Mr. Skelly? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Ms. Kerr? Mrs. Clary? Yes. Mr. Wang? Mr. Rozelle?

Yes.

The resolution is adopted, 4,164 yes, 526 absent. Resolution number 187 by Supervisor Rozelle, Title, resolution adapting order calling for public hearing for the increase in improvement of the facilities of the Washington County Sewer District number two, Washington County, New York.

Mr. Chairman, I'd like to move resolution number 187.

Supervisor Rodell, second. Fiddler, all. O'Brien, Campbell, Clary, and Herrick. Discussion? This is also a roll call.

Mr. Hankey. Yes. Mrs. Fedler. Mr. Herrick. Mr. Hall.

Yes.

Mr. Baker.

Yes.

Mr. Mumby. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Hahn. Yes. Mr. Campbell. Yes. Mr. Skelly. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Ms. Kerr. Yes. Mrs. Clary. Yes. Mr. Wang. Yes. Mr. Rozelle.

Yes.

Resolution is adopted 4,164 yes, 526 absent. Thank you.

The provisor's comments. Mr. Hall.

Yes, Chairman. I would just like to comment on Robin Temple, who was presented a coin earlier on today. Robin was Director of Veteran Services back in the day when they first originated transportation that we had for the veterans to give back and forth to Albany Medical Center and to the VA Albany Center down in Albany. He was very instrumental in that program. He did go on, as he indicated, he served here for many years as director. After that, he went on and became a deputy director for New York State Division of Veterans Affairs. He was on the board of directors for the Adirondack Vet House in the town of Fort Ann specifically. He served on the Fort Ann School Board for many years. And like many of the Vietnam veterans that went away, they all came back and led very productive lives in their local governments and in the township. One of the things I didn't mention here was that he had also worked for many years in social services for Washington County before he became a director of veteran services. And I just wanted to mention all of those things. He's helped for many years and he still does work on some veterans claims. And yeah, he's a real veterans advocate, not only for himself, but for all of those other veterans that are out there within Washington County and Warren County as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I have three things. First of all, I don't know the history of Ulioni. I just know he was very instrumental in the reason that I'm here. I'll never forget his words in a meeting one night, and they followed me for the 19 years I've been here and just know he was a great man. So I wanted to mention that. I wish he could have been here today. Number two, we lost our planning board chairman. He passed away after an extremely courageous and suffering battle with cancer, and so he'll be badly missed. He was not born in Hebron. He was, I don't know if he was ever accepted as being a member of Hebron, and all the time he was there for the last 50 years is kind of the way it works in our industry. he'll be missed in what he brought to our area. And last of all, kind of sobering news on the budget finances last week. And now I've gone forward with 28 because you guys want to see how it's looking the following year. So in the same thing in personnel, if 44 million was raised by taxes last year, If we were up 6 million this year, I don't know if we will be, but that would be 50 million. And looking at just the same things that we looked at on that list on last Thursday, the health insurance and the retirement and the increases in salaries would give you a 10% increase in 2028 with what we don't know today. So somehow we have to break out of the cycle. Mr. Mumby mentioned the 8% sales tax. That's one way you could break out of the cycle. The only thing I caution on that is When the 2% cap came, we said we always have to go to the highest number under the cap for us to survive. We didn't do that. Therefore, we've paid the price. Not that we wouldn't have eventually paid the price because the mandates are now excruciating. We just might not have paid the price quite as bad or near as quickly. So I'm afraid that even if you went to 8% after all the changes we're making or going to make, the new number probably will not be under the cap. It's probably going to be in the 4% to 5% range from what I can see. So just to give everybody an idea of how I look at the things going forward, what we did yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and how that's going to affect us in the next 5 to 10 years.

That was two things. That was three. Good.

Mr. O'Brien. We were scheduled on an LDC meeting this morning, but it got preempted by another meeting. So it's been rescheduled for Tuesday at 9 o'clock. It's been a while since we've had a meeting. We've got a lot to cover, so I'd encourage everyone to make every effort to make it to the LDC meeting on Tuesday at 9 o'clock before Oh. Before Ag Planning. For your own committee.

For your own committee, the one you forgot.

Yes. Secondly, someone asked me about some differences Oh, there is no delay because you're out of operation. The agreement starts, says six months from the day they go operational, the payments start. So that would be November. And according to the agreement, 30 days after res- Thank you, Dave.

Okay, I had Mr. Wang. Somebody over here. Mr. Roselle.

It seems Brian brought the budget up a minute. I got to brainstorm. I'd just like to get some figures if we close down one day, either one day a week for five weeks or one day a month for five months, how much that would save the county. If we shut everything down except the main essentials. There's something to think about.

Hey, Dave, real quick. Okay. Do I have the floor again? You do. Okay. Dave, those final numbers that were sent, were those the final concluded numbers of the contract or the construction cost itself, or those were the agreement final numbers back two or three years ago? Okay.

Thank you.

The pilot will come again for January. The host benefit packages will come a year from November. So you get two payments a year, the pilot, then the host benefit package in November, because it's a one-year anniversary. So we do get one benefit this November? You'll get host benefit and pilot this year. In January or during your taxing season, the pilot will be paid and distributed. In November of next year, the whole spectrum tax will be paid.

Hey, I've got just a couple of things I want to reiterate. Ms. Kerr said about the first responders. That was an especially horrible accident. That's something that will stay with those people for a while. We have some pretty good support services, but having been on a few really nasties, I know that never goes away. So, you know, kudos to those people for being professional and handling that. That was a terrible loss to the community and just a bad visual and A little happier note. Congrats to the people that worked on the 250th down at the fairgrounds last weekend. That was an amazing event. I think that probably Amy Hoffer deserves a real pat on the back. I didn't realize quite how stretched she was until she was asking me about George Washington, who was and reenact her down there, standing right next to me. And she said, had I seen the email about what George was going to do? I said, George, who? And her hands just started like this. And I said, I'd better shut up and back away. Mumpy got in between us, you know. But poor Amy was doing everything from coordinating that to taking a shovel and cleaning up after the horses out in the runway. She was everywhere. Really, really a yeoman's job from all our staff that were down there. They came off really well. It was a really good presentation.

And the cannon went off when I shot it.

So that's, I was disappointed. There was no, it was a blank that I wanted to shoot it. Janice met over at Wilbur Avenue and take out a barn or something. I thought I could probably hit odd dog from there, but I, you know, I wanted to, announced, I've been wanting to announce for quite a while now. While I was down in New York City here two months ago, I got a call from the governor telling us how wonderful it was she was going to give us this money in return for the close of Prairie Meadow to fund two projects. And we've been kind of waiting and waiting and waiting while we just got notice through the sewer district that FE1A has been awarded $14.5 million and HF1 has been awarded $11.4 million. It doesn't come close to the $200 million we figure we'll lose in a year with Great Meadow being gone, but it still is a very nice thing. It's going to get a couple projects done that are going to help our local economic development quite a lot. So I appreciate that and appreciate the fact that it was done. And I have to say reluctantly, I appreciate the amount of work that Dave O'Brien put in on that. I was a little bit concerned he was going to drive everybody completely nuts and they were going to outlaw Washington County, but he got it through. This came in large measure because of Dave's persistence. So thank you to Dave for that. The pull for a cure is Saturday. For those new supervisors, the ones that don't know what it is, Carl Lufkin was a longtime town supervisor in town highway department, superintendent over in Argyle, died of cancer. His son, Scott, is now a board member, and they host this poll for a cure every year. It's a tractor poll. And all the money is donated to the Cancer Society. So it's a good event. There'll be hundreds of people there, lots of vendors, lots of food trucks. I would appreciate all of you stopping over and... saying hi. And finally, I put in your box a announcement about a presentation out of the Crandall Library. It's called Social Media Minefields. And with the sorts of things that have been happening to us, about us, and for us on social media, this woman does a really great, great presentation on how to recognize what is actual news and what is fake news and what is you know, real and what is not on the internet and on social media and how to utilize it in an accurate and helpful way. I put it in all your boxes and I gave it, copied and listed to give the department heads. Anybody, it's a free thing. It's on an evening, so July 29th. I would recommend anybody go to it. It's going to be a really good presentation. Anybody else? Mr. O'Brien.

put a lot of effort into it too. So I need to recognize her efforts and Al's efforts and the support of everyone else around us. So thank you. Mr. Scali.

It even walked like the inside. I encourage you, if you have not seen it, look it up. Anybody else?

Yeah.

Okay. Hearing no other comments, Mr. Wang. Hear ye, hear ye, et cetera, and so forth.

There remaining no public business for our deliberation at this present hour, I do now, on behalf of the chairman of this honorable board, Robert A. Hanke, command that this assembly be dissolved. We shall, by divine providence, reconvene and resume our consultations at our accustomed chambers on the 21st day of August at the 10th hour of the morning, unless a sudden exigency and crisis of gravity shall compel us to assemble at an earlier date. Sir.