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to start a couple of minutes early.
You all please rise and face the flag.
I plead you ladies to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, unlawed God, and individual, the liberty, and justice for all.
Bill Paul.
Devin Pendleton.
Beth Downs.
Chipp.
All present in a gallery four.
You in a minute.
I make a motion.
We accept the minutes as written.
Should I make an edit?
Sorry.
That's all right.
We list amounts on several things, but where we discussed the paving contracts,
we didn't list what those amounts were for.
Should we note that?
We can.
I just think if we're going to spend money, we should put what we're spending in here.
So I have it added.
Motion to accept as amended.
Can you get that amended stuff?
I did.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Big announcement for the night.
the community conversation event tomorrow night up at the meeting house.
Hopefully you'll all be there.
If you all don't know what it is,
just ask after the meeting,
it will tell you.
It will be great, and if you show up early,
the fire department is going to be on site
and doing hands-on only CPR demonstrations and AED training.
CPR and AED, like demonstrations.
I think he said probably around like six.
So the event starts.
6.30, so it's something you can pop by,
get a quick demonstration on
while you mingle before you go in and sit.
What's going to be inside?
What's inside?
Yeah, it's going to be inside.
Any more information you want to share
them on the community
for the next morning?
Do you want me to talk more about what it is?
Sure.
It might be helpful.
This is your forum.
It is.
So it's hosted by New Hampshire Humanities.
We got a grant
through them, it is a facilitated discussion focused on community, you know, kind of what it is,
how do we build it, focused on Bradford, just a good discussion to talk about what we want to be as a community
and different topics like that.
After this, we kind of create a project that comes from ideas of this, so it's a two-part grant that we got.
The second part we get a $3,000 stipend to do a community response project, so ideas that are discussed at this, you know, like
if we come up with a good community building event, we then get $3,000 towards funding
to do that event, and they'd like us to do it before the end of the year.
So show up, talk about community, and we'll come up with a fun of it.
Will you have a report prepared for the planning war?
Do I have a report for the planning?
Will you?
I wasn't planning on it, but if you'd like something.
That's what the planning board is for, to plan what we're going to do with the town.
So if you get a bunch of good ideas up there, it would be not.
nice to let the planning board know what they are.
I don't think this is so much like land use ideas, but I'm happy that.
Doesn't matter.
You know, businesses, a small engine garage to get people's lawn doors fixed.
Sure.
Come apart yourself.
Okay, public input to the record.
My name is Jason Allen. I reside at 14 steel road here in town.
I'm here tonight because what started as a simple question
about transparency process has evolved into a much larger concern about accountability, accuracy,
and how residents are treated when they engage with their local government.
My recent involvement began when I became aware of a conservation commission had been discussing my property.
Like many residents, I wanted to understand what had occurred and why.
One of the first challenges I encountered was that the Conservation Commission meetings are not recorded or live streamed.
Like many other boards and committees in town, also the last two months of meeting minutes were not published on the website as they had been in the past.
When I finally obtained the minutes, I found them vague, lacking important contacts, and in some instances, the minutes contained statements and conclusions that I believe were inaccurate, unsupported by facts.
Had the recording existed, residents, commissioners, and town officials would have been able to review the full
discussion and determine exactly what was said and how it was used in context.
What became increasingly concerning was not only that the original complaint itself, but the process that followed.
The minutes reference concerns ranging from filling wetlands, contact in DES for shoreland buffer violations to possible wetland buffer violations.
Yet I, as a property owner, was never contacted before or during these discussions took place.
The anonymous complaint seemed to evolve over time while I was left trying to determine exactly who was trying to raise what concern.
After attending a Conservation Commission meeting and discussing these concerns directly, I felt we had made progress,
yet I still was unable to determine where said complaint came from.
We discussed transparency, communication, and the importance of developing a better process.
While we may not have agreed on every point, the discussion was productive and respectful.
respectful. Unfortunately, a week prior, the conversation was not the same at the
select board meeting on June 8th, 2026. At that meeting, a discussion about whether conservation
commission meetings should be recorded and held within the town live stream system evolved into a discussion
about me personally. That is where my concern shifted from a disagreement over process
to a concern about professionalism, accuracy, and fairness. Throughout that discussion, with
I was not present for, statements were made about me, my communications with the town
that were either inaccurate, unsupported by the available facts, or based on assumptions rather than evidence.
One example involved town administrator Scott Blitzer stating that I was making assumptions regarding the involvement of the code enforcement officer.
That statement is false. It was not making assumptions.
The official conservation commission meetings, minutes that were provided to me, specifically stated that a member of
of the Conservation Commission intended to contact code enforcement officers regarding a possible violation.
That information came directly from the town's own records.
Therefore, my inquiry was based on information contained within the official meeting minutes,
not on speculation of my own creation.
The public records supported that conclusion.
Another example concerning my email regarding my property being posted and the presence of dogs on the property.
on the property.
During the June 8th meeting,
Selectman Meenie characterized my email by stating
his wicked dogs will bite you,
followed by some tough guy grumbles going on my property himself.
The town administrator, Scott Butcher,
then followed by stating,
yes, and honestly, when I read that part,
I took that to be a bit of a threat to our building inspector.
The hounds would be released.
I found those statements deeply troubling.
In fact, I had an email right.
In fact, I have an email right here, and I will read it for the record since my communications were through email only, and all three board members were copied.
Here it is. Subject code enforcement.
Hi, Scott, sorry for being a pain.
I'm sure you can understand my frustration with the situation at hand.
I have a couple of questions.
Has the zoning complaint been filed against my property?
Has code enforcement then deployed to investigate?
It should be known my property has posted no trespassing for the safety of my family and a personal
who may enter. My dogs patrol the property and will do their job if they are approached upon.
Thank you for your time. My email never stated that my dogs would bite anyone.
My email never stated that dogs would be released on anyone.
My email never threatened the building inspector and my email never threatened in town employee,
volunteer, board member, or official.
Those words do not exist anywhere in my correspondence.
What exists is a simple statement that my property is posted and that dogs are present on the property.
on the property. That information was provided as a courtesy and for safety purposes.
My dogs are on my property to protect my family, my children, and my home.
And four-name town officials, their presence, was intended to encourage communication before anyone entered private property.
It was not a threat either explicit or implied.
The difference between what was written and what was described during the June 8th meeting is significant.
The public was led to believe that I had issued some form of threat when no such threat of
appeared anywhere within the actual text of my email.
Facts do matter and words do matter.
When a town administrator speaks during a public meeting,
residents should be able to trust that statement,
that those statements are based on facts and evidence,
not personal interpretation presented as reality.
The town administrator is one of the highest ranking administrative officials
in the community.
With that position comes an obligation to be accurate, objective,
and fair when discussing residents in a public form.
form. I believe that obligation was not met on June 8th.
I also take issue with another statement made during that discussion.
At one point, Mr. Butcher suggested that the only reason this issue
regarding recordings and meeting transparency had arrived
was because my property had been discussed.
That statement is also inaccurate.
The Conservation Commission is the only board or committee
that regularly conducts meetings outside town live stream and recording systems.
My concerns regarding recording
transparency, public access are broader than my property and have existed independently of this matter.
The issue is consistency, the issue is accountability.
The issue is ensuring that residents have access to the same level of transparency
regardless of which board or committee is conducting public business.
Had a recording existed, there would have been no dispute regarding what was said,
what was intended or how concerns were raised.
The recording would have protected
the residents, the recording would have protected the Conservation Commission,
a recording would have protected the select board.
Instead, we are left debating interpretations because the town chose not to create a complete public record.
The irony is that the very situation being discussed on June 8th demonstrates
exactly why recordings are necessary.
I have lived in this community for many years.
I have donated my time, services, and resources to local causes.
I have served on boards and committees.
I have children growing up in this town.
growing up in this town, I have neighbors and friends whom I value deeply.
To hear my name discuss publicly in a manner that suggests hostility,
threats, or bad intentions was personally hurtful and entirely inconsistent
with who I am and how I have participated in this community.
Residents should be able to question government's actions,
request records, seek transparency, and express concerns without fear of being
publicly criticized, ridiculed, or having the motives questioned by public officials.
Transparency is not about mistrust. Transparency is about accountability.
Tonight, I'm asking three things.
First, I'd like the Board to acknowledge that the statements made regarding my email
were not supported by actual content of the email.
Second, I'd ask the Board, excuse me, I'm talking.
Second, I would...
Secondly, I ask that the Board established consistent policies
requiring public boards and committees to utilize the town's available recording
and live stream capabilities
whenever possible, and to develop a consistent complaint handling process that ensures property owners
are informed and afforded an opportunity to provide relevant information.
And third, I ask the Board to review the comments made during the June 8th meeting,
determine whether they were appropriate and factually accurate
and provide me with a written response regarding what actions, if any, will be taken
to address the concerns raised tonight.
Our town functions best when facts are placed above assumptions,
when transparency is viewed as a strength rather than an inconvenience,
and when residents and officials treat one another with mutual respect.
That's all I ask for tonight.
I have a copy of that that you can give for Scott.
We're going to give it to all those.
This is a formal complaint.
This is what?
A formal complaint with missed on us.
We will make sure that your comments do get put in the minutes of the meetings
so that the entire village can understand your point of view.
point of view. Secondly,
most of your complaints are against the Conservation Commission.
They have always met over in the library.
There's no way to live stream anything out of there.
If you were listening, I already explained that.
I had a conversation.
And I'm talking.
I'm talking now.
And thirdly, I did take your comment about your dog says as a threat.
And being a dog owner who has three very large dogs
large dogs that love to bark and chase people up and down Massachusetts.
I understand where you're coming from.
But I also understand all of the people that have filed complaints against me,
having done absolutely nothing, that my dogs are threatening them.
I felt that you were threatening us as a community,
that you had your dogs patrolling your grounds so that no one could walk on them.
That's not what the email said.
I never said that.
Now you're putting words in my mouth.
That's the way I read it.
That is my interpretation and you cannot
disagree with my interpretation.
Because I'm the one that's making it.
I would have to...
We're going to put your stuff in the book, have a nice day.
Very good.
Moving along.
Regular and old business.
Conservation Commission.
Discuss the easements.
under page under tab two in your book these information was provided by the Conservation Commission earlier today on this subject.
Oh, yes, please.
I just wanted to see if everyone had gotten a map of what we're talking about here.
We did.
The public may or may not much.
They probably know.
Yes, no mind.
They know.
Okay, so we're talking about property across from Baton Palm.
I'm sorry I can't.
remember the name of what battle time is called?
Now, end of the trail?
Trail town.
I want to try and get myself adjusted there.
So this property has been long on the mind
of the Conversation Commission in its many forms.
Because years ago, we spoke to UNH.
They came out here to work on focus areas to the town.
And the point being to
try and protect properties that are not only identified by the town, but saving the
last of the best stuff in town.
And this, right after that, the Wildlife Action Plan was formed in the state.
I think that was a federal thing that every state has to have.
Is that true?
I'm looking at Andy. He doesn't know.
Never mind.
So it's approximately 156 acres.
and it's currently, how is the phrase?
It's not owned by the town, but there's a lien on it for non-came-in-backed taxes.
No, it is owned by the town.
It is owned by the town.
It is owned to the town.
Okay.
For non-payment of the taxes.
On taxes owed are about $10,000.
So the reasons the Conservation Commission has looked at this property
is, in part because it's connected to a previously conserved property
in the form of trails and Asia.
I just looked at their Instagram page.
It also has, a third of it, is in wetland soils, mostly forested.
It has farmland soils of statewide importance,
and strangely, that's not at the front of the property
which has been used for agriculture for decades,
and it's behind it, inland, so to speak.
The wildlife action plan that I just referred to,
this section on this property is ranked the highest in New Hampshire.
It's the highest in the biological region, meaning the highest in,
compared to other areas similar to this town.
And it has a wildlife character corridor running through the southeast section.
I'm going to look.
We didn't explain this very well.
I'm not sure where I mean.
I want to take...
I'll jump in now.
He can jump in now.
I wanted to introduce Andy Deegan, who is hiding from me behind the column.
He's the land specialist at Osmond Sargent Land Preservation Trust.
And I think he probably should explain what a conservation movement is.
Should you have him?
Can you...
You can do this.
I'm sure you can do this.
So, yeah, my name is.
Andy Deegan, I'm not a resident.
I live in New London, but Bradford's one of our towns.
And we work, we've done a lot of work in the town,
and we're working on other projects in the town.
So, yeah.
So a conservation easement is basically a conservation tool
that allows for private ownership of a property
but still can serve it.
So a landowner can own the property,
but certain rights are owned by my organization.
those are development rights, management, things along those lines.
So the easement, the person who owes the underlying fee can do management on the property.
They could do agriculture, so cows, crops, Christmas trees, maple sugar, things along those lines.
They could do forestry.
So they can do managed timber.
They need to have a licensed forester write a plan for the property,
so it's done in a sustainable manner.
You know, we basically,
are there to protect, you know, the water, the soils,
so that they can continue to be used for those purposes.
But basically, it's still in private ownership,
and, you know, taxes are still paid.
They're going to be paid at the current use level.
But it's a way of still having private ownership of land,
but also permanently conserving a property.
Are there any questions?
Is there a conservation in practice?
This is a good question.
This is a good question.
Because I was talking to some, I'm on the Warner River Association.
This is a gentleman on the Massachusetts.
He said that no more than 25% of the land should be in conservation.
Now, I looked at DRA.
78% of our land in RAPID is in current use in conservation.
So I know that you say, well, it's not going to be people building there and stuff.
But when we put that much into it, the little person,
is paying the highest price on their taxes.
We're losing a lot of tax money that could be used for something else.
I've, but 78% that's on the DRA.
I want to start it.
Current use is not conservative problem.
Correct.
It's not concerned land.
The conservative land and probably 10%,
but it's still a lot less than what,
somebody that doesn't have that.
doesn't have that property paid.
I mean, if you look at the book,
I was looking at how many acres are in current use.
Conservation is 91.9 in current uses 2024.
Current use is 16,389.96.
And total half of land is 20,315.25.
15 and 23.
So there's so much of where people can't build,
the young people can't come into town anymore,
I think we ought to be looking into that
because now the state is putting in legislature
that they can build on plastic roads
because there's no land available.
That's my own concern.
I hear you.
And I work with people who are having trouble finding
places to live, and I totally understand that aspect of it.
that aspect of it.
Land that's in current use can be taken out of current use.
They just have to pay penalties.
So they, those lands can be developed.
What's permanently conserved with, through either fee ownership
or conservation easements is probably, I don't know,
15 to 20% of the town.
That's about 20% of town?
No, I don't think it's more like nine.
I mean, it's also, I mean, they just...
That's including philosophy forest.
Is that including Spinipsney one down in the Southwest Court?
No.
Okay, so that's...
Okay.
The data that I picked up today off of that was 7.3% in terms of conserved land,
and then there's an additional 4.3% or so town owned.
So you add them together, it's about 12% of Bradford.
If you make the comparison to Merrimack County,
19%.
So we're not...
from permanently considered
and controlled sorts of land,
we are not over the county average.
Just as a friend of...
Because young people can't live here.
They can't live in the hamptures.
It's a whole of New Hampshire.
It's not alone.
Just because you're lucky enough to own enough
land to be able to have it
but to be able to have, what's the word?
I'm looking for so that you can write it off.
write it off. You're lucky enough to have it so that people don't have, doesn't have to be on. It isn't our problem. They just have the land. They're lucky enough to own that much land. That's not their problem that they're lucky enough to have it. But we have to have land in
conservancy so that there is land in conservancy. I can see
conservancy. I just wanted to know the amount, but there's a lot in current use to.
Well, current use, if you're lucky enough to own the land, that's good.
Great.
But if they can own it, but if you put it, the current use, their taxes are a lot less.
So the person with a single house property, their taxes are off the wall.
Look in a book and see.
I just know the question.
We're going to get into it.
That's not to deal with this, I'm a little bit further down.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening.
Good evening.
Doug said it from a beautiful Little Mountain Road.
I'd like to talk a little bit more about the specific thoughts that the conservation
commissions had about this particular piece of property.
Again, there's a handout, and if you don't have a copy, we can get you something out.
Potential benefits of the easement would be to offer protection for sections of quite book
and adjacent wetlands, which are included in the Bradford,
2,025 surface water.
surface water overlay districts are passed an ordinance.
This particularly piece of property has a lot of wetlands on it.
I think it is roughly one-third, as we mentioned before.
It's right next about this farm in this area at the moment as well as the Troy Farm.
It protects public access to this area if we set the easement up.
Certainly it could be continued to be public access.
Potentially expands recreation trails, again.
potentially depends on how the easement is set up.
Conserves farmland, wild light habitats,
particularly as growth of residential and commercial.
It is centered more downtown,
and property remains on the tax rolls,
so it would be at the current use level.
With the exception, if there's an exclusion for residents,
and we are looking at that possibility,
we've had one or two residential exclusions,
and of course that would be taxed differently.
and would be planned use.
The potential cons is in some of the people's perspective
that we could lower taxes if we had a development there.
And there's discussion about that is that more people moving in
with residences that will lower taxes.
That may not be the case.
That's something that needs exploration.
We have some data on that that would suggest otherwise.
There's also the basis.
potential fear of litigation from previous owners, not the current owners.
The town of Bradford owns the property.
But that is something perhaps for town council to give guidance to this board on.
The land, as we see it, under easement, would still be open to the public.
It would be restricted to agricultural, foresters, and other open space uses.
And there would be one or two residential building lots on the map 16 lots.
map 16 lot 17 section.
Think about how to put this package together.
Should we just move forward, we would work with
we being the Conservation Commission,
we've worked with Osmond Sargent,
to bring you a more refined proposal.
And that would be something then for you to respond to.
We would do that in conjunction with the town boards,
the planning board, zoning anyone else who might have
interest in it and the general public try to get input, because there will be a variety of
perspectives as to whether this is a good idea or not.
We think it is, but we want to be sure that the town has a voice in this.
And then in terms of implementation, certainly that would probably go to the select board
for recommendation and then on to probably the town meeting in March is my guesstimate.
I wanted to share one other thing.
We have a number of things.
a number of things that we could add to this,
but there is something else that I think would be helpful for us to hear.
And that is, if I can find it from all my paperwork.
Bradford Master Plan.
One of the things I always tend to come back to is,
what does the Master Plan say?
We had a lot of effort back in 2020
to dig into where are we and where are we going.
And so I wanted to bring some of the comments from the Master Plan
to our project.
attention.
This is partial summary.
There is a list of things that are in there, but this is what is relevant to today's
discussion.
Residents and land owners strongly value and support preservation of Bradford's natural beauty and
resources, including open space, farmland, forested areas, aquifers, surface waters, and
undeveloped tracts of land.
Many frequently utilize the vast recreational opportunities in town, including trails and public
lands and strongly support the addition of more trails or public land in the future.
Like many other New Hampshire communities, Bradford residents express concern that the rural character
often viewed as central to guard its identity may be lost due to additional residential
and commercial growth over the next few decades.
There are many types of rural character images that shape Bradford, and again,
and natural forests, open spaces, etc.
And as often, you know it when you see it, see it, or feel it?
And that's the sort of response that they found as they talk with people about,
what does it mean to have that rural character?
So I think what we're suggesting is, as we have this piece of property,
we manage to say, let's hold off for a year, give it some thought.
And I think what we're saying right now is that, yes, there are various opinions,
there are various perspectives on this.
We need to have dialogue, but we would like to at least entertain the possibility of having an easement on that,
having still having a residential lot went to.
We would have to go through a process of serving the land,
and the Conservation Commission would work with Osmond Sargent
to bring about the implementation should you so desired.
Good.
Questions?
I'm Michelle Hullsted, and it's not so much a question.
much a question as stated in advocacy for your position from World Heritage Connection.
We at World Heritage Connection of Bradford advocate for conservation easement on the pressing property
to protect vital wetlands and promote agriculture and a working forest for the economic resiliency of our town,
strengthening the vibrant ecosystem.
Products need travel downhill only a few miles to a farm stand.
Anyone who goes outside and sinks a spade into the ground
will find evidence of poor soils and granite and glacial till.
Protecting valuable soils for farming and forestry
invest in our economic future and food supply.
This protection helps the future
farmer and all businesses in town that depend on vibrant agriculture.
Healthy wetlands promote clean water and absorb inundating flood waters
to protect our residents at lower elevations.
We respectfully ask the select board to support a conservation easement on this land.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Doug.
Thanks, Doug.
So I think where we go from here,
is behind you.
Can I just add a comment?
Yeah.
Dr. Troy, I live at 330 pressing loan on them and I'm buttered to a large portion of that problem.
And I just did a, I support conservation easement there for a variety of reasons,
but, you know, the tax thing and income and all that comes out.
I just thought from the financial sense, this is I pulled from some information from UNH.
and just how typically,
conservation require fewer town services, road police.
I mean, we look at our two big expenditures in this town,
our highway department police,
conservation easement generally requires less support from that
versus putting 40 houses over there or something.
Open space and farmland, generally more taxes than they consume.
and they consume the services,
while residential lands tend to consume more in services than pays in taxes.
These are all from UMH.
Potential indirect effects.
Conservation can increase nearby property values, which may raise taxes for adjacent homeowners.
But that can provide income to the town, so it's not necessarily a net loss.
And permanent protection can boosts the value of nearby properties.
increasing other revenues for the town.
So, I don't know, I just pull these out there from UNH if somebody wants to go.
They both the same.
Yeah, they both the same.
We'll make a note in the minutes for that.
Thank you.
I guess what we're looking for is whether the board feels this is a reasonable path to at least move forward on.
As far as I'm concerned, it is,
and remain by consensus.
My only question.
My question is, and I guess I didn't get lost in translation because I truly believe in conservation easements, is if it's town-owned property and it's in conservation easement, the town just writes off the tax revenue. Is that how we do it?
Excuse me. I didn't really make that clear. I think what we were considering is that the easement would go on and it would go up for sale as you had originally intended.
Now, it doesn't mean to have to go that direction.
to go that direction. It could be kept by the town, but if you're concerned about that issue.
Well, I mean...
If the town owns it, you're not paying taxes on it.
If you conserve it and sell it to someone else, they will start paying taxes on it.
We'll be at a lower level. Right.
Most likely at current use level, but you would start to get some income coming in.
So technically, we could vote on putting it on a conservation easement this evening.
Would we still sell it? Would you still do the auction process if it has an easement or would it come?
I think these questions for a lawyer.
Yes.
Oh, so we should check with the attorney first before we vote on it.
Yes.
I think we should write something up.
We can write something up the questions for the legal people.
Okay.
Thank you. Because I'm all for it. I just didn't know what happens.
Yeah, I think you're going on the right direction.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you remember what you were going to say?
No.
So at least consensus-wise, Chip and I, you, we're, consensus-wise, we're all for it.
So.
Well, we were genuine.
Good.
All right.
Thank you very much for your presentation.
All right, Chip, where are we now?
I think that nasty work.
Thank you.
Thank you, Doug.
Have a good evening, everybody.
Oh, wait a minute.
Is there anybody here from the planning board?
Good night.
Oh.
Yeah?
No.
I hear on the half of the school planning for the judge.
Yeah, that's...
On behalf of whom?
The property owner, 232 West Road,
I believe that this is come before the board
many times for my involvement.
So I'm here on Sue's behalf.
Okay.
Well, this is a different issue.
Oh.
So this is about culverts in general.
So the planning board actually has
has the jurisdiction over the culvert and must they choose to designate somebody else,
whether that be the select board of the town administrator
or the road agent to deal with the culvert issues.
In talking with the chair of the planning board,
they certainly might be interested in
having us take on that responsibility to enforce the RSAs around
Elberts.
Okay.
And I'm going to see them tomorrow night just to get them to vote on it as well, but I wanted
to see where this board stood on taking on that responsibility.
What, did the select board take on the RSAs, so I call it?
That select board to an administrator or a road agent.
Well, how do you feel about it?
Are you up to taking on another task or so we have...
Well, I think we end up being involved in any way.
Okay.
So the ones that are dealing with these issues, whether it's...
stays with the planning board or not, ultimately we're the ones that are going to be doing the final crossing.
I believe we took excavation permits away from the planning board and are doing those.
I don't see taking anything more away for the planning board.
But again, back to send it out to legal, see what they think of it.
Yeah.
Well, they're the ones that recommended that we approach the planning board.
Have we talked to?
Has anybody talked to the planning board about their feeling on this or?
Yes, Dr. Carroll.
Yeah.
And she would be more than happy to give it to us.
Because it doesn't make sense of planning boards in charge of culverts.
That doesn't make any sense.
It should be the highway department.
And roads typically come under the select board.
Yeah.
So that doesn't make any sense.
So it sounds like having culverts being in between you and Justin
makes more sense in the planning board.
I mean, we meet once a month.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, that's fine.
Do you want to make a motion for us to?
Yeah, you would support that?
Then I can talk to the planning board tomorrow night with your support or not.
Okay.
I make a motion that we move the culvert, whatever it is,
Calvert designees to Scott and Justin from the planning board.
Actually shouldn't be moved to the select board from the planning board?
You can do it.
it right?
Oh, shit.
Give it to Justin.
Yeah, give it to the highway foreman.
He doesn't have enough jobs now.
And Scott will Scott's help, so.
Word it, however, you need to and we'll vote on it to make it sound legal.
Okay, I'll talk to the plan board and bring them back to you again at our next meeting.
Yes, that sounds good.
Can I ask the question for clarification just because I know the issue that would affect to my client.
I'm going to the impression that my client was asked,
should I come up to the podium and say my name for the record or anything?
Go ahead.
Okay, thank you.
All right on the board, I'll call on the wall,
I'm Gilder's leave.
I wouldn't the impression that the town administrator
and board of board of selectmen at some point
asked my client to appear tonight
with a proposed roadway construction plan for the West Road Paving.
So is that not on the agenda tonight?
We directly have discussions about that this morning.
Mr. Bush?
I'm not sure.
You asked me if I had any materials for the planning board,
so it's a fair to say this is going to be continued for another date for discussion,
and at that point we can present anything that we wish, sure.
So, yeah, all that was on our agenda fight was the culvert issues.
You said you were coming to talk about her property in particular,
which I'm sure the board would give you an opportunity to do that.
Okay.
But her property in particular.
Okay.
we weren't having any particular discussions tonight about that.
Okay.
Yeah, I think there might have been some miscommunication.
It was indicated that she should appear.
Somebody, three people from the town, I believe you may have gone to her site visit at
two.
So it was...
Somebody told her to appear at this meeting to discuss this issue.
But, so it sounds like it's going to be a continued issue at some point for discussion
as it relates to her property specifically,
in my understanding that.
Well, it is going to be something that's going to need to be addressed at some point, yes.
Okay.
Yeah, so I would just respectfully ask that you keep me in the loop communication-wise when that happens.
Sounds like Bradford is a little bit behind.
Most people do already have the jurisdiction from the highway department
of the Board of Selectmen with these culvert issues.
So, yeah, I guess that would be the first step.
Then if we could be in contact and let me know when that plans to be on the agenda.
I appreciate that.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
How much money are we accepting from the scholarship fund?
Okay.
So as of this afternoon, we have $7 million for the scholarship fund,
$640 for the independent state committee fund and $1,425 for the road rates to accept.
All righty.
I make a motion that we accept $700.
$700 for the Bradford Town Scholarship Fund.
Can we put these all together? Do we have to vote on them individually?
They're going to all all of them together?
No, no, individually.
Okay.
So the first one is for the Town Scholarship Fund.
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
I make a motion that we accept $640 for the Independence Day celebration.
Day celebration. Fund?
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
And I make a motion that we accept $1,425 for the 5K road race.
Second.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
All right.
Oh, sorry, Chip, you're in charge.
Final Independence Day events.
New road closures.
No.
If Brian was going to try to join us.
going to try to join us but unfortunately he got called up for medical call so he may be linked or
fire fire oh what way did I see that all right I guess Nikki you can come up and do your
da-da-da-da-da-da well really the road shift right yeah I think one of we met I
attended the final meeting for the Independence Day celebration and
And there was a traffic, kind of a traffic safety plan that was presented.
I had a follow-up meeting with Scott and Brian to discuss it further.
And I guess the big thing was just getting some clarification on which route the board wants to go.
Last meeting, the board voted and approved the closure of East Main Street from two
o'clock to the end of the fireworks so that the vendors can get in they can set up and that
closure was going to be in the area of the telephone pole with by the access road to the old
not in property up to route 114 and we had discussed at that time of preparing some letters
just to advise people on East Main Street of the closure that was approved there were other
closures mentioned or that had come up in discussion with the traffic safety
plan and the conversations that we had in the meeting were just just kind of that.
And if those road closures were approved or not.
And to my knowledge, the only road closure that came before the board was pre-parade to get the vendors set up.
So to be able to properly plan for that day's event, I think we all need to kind of get that question answered.
starting with, if you want, I can just kind of, I did look over the road race route,
and I think we were all in agreement that there needs to be a closure on center road from Route 103 to Jones Road.
Reason being the road race that goes up West Main to High Street, to the rail trail,
to Gillingham, to West Maine, to 103, then turns right onto the center road.
And between the bridge and Jones Road,
there's a cone that the runners will loop around and come back.
So pretty much throughout the length of that road race, there's likely to be two-way pedestrian traffic on that covered bridge.
And even if it's just one way, that covered bridge is not wide enough for any vehicle to be traveling on and a runner to be on and it be safe.
So my recommendation would be that we do close or discuss closing.
that center road from 103 to Jones Road for the duration of that road race.
I don't see any other way to keep it safe, especially when there's going to be two-way pedestrian traffic.
So we're talking to road races at 9 o'clock and probably roughly ends about 10.30.
Do you and the fire chief gotten together on this?
We did.
I think we have a consensus on that.
Okay.
I'm willing to accept your plan.
Yeah, well, that's what I want to discuss and just kind of figure out with the board.
I mean, there's a couple different ways we can go about it.
I think that one's a no-brainer, and I think that one should be done.
So if that's something that the board sees fit, I would just ask that,
because part of the RSA is that the Select Board is the only one that can authorize the road closure is that we do that.
Motion to accept Chief Chaunce's plan for road closures.
Independence Day celebration day.
And that's center road from 103 to Jones Road will be blocked at both sides of that.
From approximately 9 to 10.30?
Yeah, I think the road race starts at 9 to 3 and a half, so I think an hour and a half is, is that, I mean, is that last word about, about the last person finishing at 10.30?
I think I can do it a little faster, a little hour and a half.
So, I would say nine.
to 1030 and if it pushes a couple minutes late so be it we'll make that work so good
on that one there was original discussion of a possible closure on old Warner Road for
the parade lining up but that is since then squared away they're all going to line up
on one side of the road correct well I'm just trying to go through
through each one so old Warner Road my
The original part was that they were going to line up on both sides of Old Warner Road from 114 to about Ring Hill Road.
And then the last thing you stated was they were going to be on one side of the road.
So I don't think we need to close it.
It'll just be a one lane road at that point.
You don't think from Ring Hill to the flashing yellow should still be closed?
I mean, it's, it can be closed for them lining up for it.
In the past, we've always lined up on one side of it and one side of 114 and we have not closed it.
It's just, if we close it, there's nothing going going up or down.
It's just the lining up of the people in the parade.
And I think the one complication becomes anyone trying to leave that house camp because the road is closed.
So there's nobody driving on the road.
So it just kind of found.
whoever lives in that section of closure to not being able to leave.
They can't just use the other end of the road.
They can't drive. Well, anyone that lives in that closure, whether it's from 114 to Ring Hill,
isn't going to be allowed to drive on it.
Because if the town authorizes a closure and someone's driving on it and something happens,
then we have the liability of a vehicle driving on a closed road.
I think we can safely manage it, that we can get cars up and down it,
while keeping it open and then lining up safely,
as long as it's everyone on one side of the road.
I'm happy to do either way.
I just need to know which way.
Are you going to close it when before it stops?
I'll get to that section.
I'll go through that one as we go, because these are,
I'm happy to do either way, I just need to know which way.
You don't think that we need to close it and we keep everybody
on the right-facing.
If you're coming down from this school,
if you're coming from the school,
if everyone's on the right side,
then as the parade starts,
they can just proceed through in that order.
If they were on both sides lining up,
then we'd have to close it
because there's no room for anything to move.
Right, we've switched around a couple times, so.
Correct, and that's why we're thinking is,
is everybody is going to be approaching the lineup.
from one of the three sides, right?
So they're going to be pulling in to that road
on one of the three sides and pulling up.
And as they pull up onto that road,
we're going to be positioning them as they pull up onto that road
and we're going to be feathering them
into that road in the lineup
where we want to put them as they pull up on that road.
So obviously in a perfect world,
if the road was closed, we could be
put them where we want and we would have them a little bit.
Obviously, you know, we don't really need to do that.
So, yeah, that's fine.
And it's great.
He's going to let us maybe use some retired radios,
so the girls that are going to be down there
can communicate with each other, okay,
so we can do that.
So yeah, I think that's,
I think that's fine.
Yeah, I think that's fine.
And again, I'm okay either way.
I just, this is a decision that the board has to make so that we can then act on it.
No, I think it's fine.
I think really the best way to approach it is that we're not going to close the road that we,
and I'm more than that, we just let people know on the road what's happening,
and just to try to be courage.
to try to be courteous and...
Yeah, my plan was if it's a closure to do letters,
if it was in this instance going to be a congested roadway,
just advising them that in that window,
they'll be the lineup for the parade,
and you know, if leaving your property,
just drive with care, which they should be doing it anyway,
but at least making them aware.
If that dump runs, you've got stuff to do.
Yeah, plan around it.
Yep.
Just get your stuff done, you know, before this window.
Yeah.
I mean, we're going to try to get everything done, you know, somewhat quickly.
If you could just go back to the center, the road, you made a motion, you seconded,
we didn't take a vote yet.
Oh.
Oh, I didn't hear a second.
Yeah.
Yeah, I seconded it.
All in favor of the center room closing?
Aye.
Hi.
So we're not to close the vote to the parade.
Just one lane.
It's just.
Just old Warner Road.
Yeah.
That's the only one that we've got to there.
And we are going to close off the road for the road race or the kind of bridge.
There was a road closure from 8 to 1030.
1030. So we could close West Main Street in the length from 103 to high street
intersection from 8 to 1030. There's a kids fund run at 830 and then a road race
kicking off at 9. Obviously last meeting you talked about the road race route. We
discussed it at length when we met. I guess the two things that come up are
if we, my concern is if we close the road,
is the amount of vehicles that are parked in this lot or along the road for the church fair,
runners that show up any of that, we don't have a way of stopping them from leaving.
My suggestion, and it's an option we have, so we can close the road,
that just becomes a tricky spot trying to match.
trying to manage that. And if the road's closed, nobody leaves, nobody drives until it's reopened.
In the past, and while the route was different, we set up barricades, we set up cones,
and we just kind of redirected traffic from coming down West Main Street at the start of the race
and going up East Main Street and nothing from 114 coming down Main Street so that the runners had that road.
And then once the chunk of those runners got through 114, it was all back open.
This one's a little tougher.
With the route going up West Main Street and High Street again, we went through the route.
Either way works. The discussion I had was just somebody at 103 in West Main by the firehouse,
somebody down by the dam, and at the start of the race, we hold all traffic from coming either direction on West Main Street.
When the runners hit that section and they're obviously then going to head down High Street,
that officer who's there can stop any cars in that first couple minutes from going down High Street.
We can hold them on fairgrounds. We can hold them on Water Street because the runners will be on the road.
Just to give them time to get from the dam to the Apple Sea type area and then let them flow.
If it was safe enough based on the amount of people, we can even let them up.
West Main Street because the race is going away from it at that moment.
When they're coming off the rail trail to Gillingham, we would then hold up traffic again
to make sure that West Main Street is as clear as possible within our control.
You know, anyone leaving the parking lots or that.
That's the tough part there.
And holding traffic until they get to 103.
And then again, we'd have the road closure by center road.
Either one works.
I just, my concern is if we close it
and we discuss this, is that nobody can leave
in a vehicle, whether they're parked from the church fair,
if they showed up to be there first and try to leave
five minutes into it,
or by 820 before the kids race, they can't leave
because the road's closed.
And if something were to happen, we're allowing them to drive
on a closed road versus just kind of modifying it
and redirecting the traffic.
flow during those windows that we see are going to be highly traveled.
We want to make it as safe for the runners as possible, but also got to kind of protect the town
and the liability side in the event someone does get into a vehicle and leave.
Because we've only got three officers scheduled that day.
And based on whichever route we go, they're going to be 103 by the firehouse.
They're going to be by the dam and they're going to be by center road.
We don't have anyone to stand.
out here and stop anyone from leaving and having them sit put.
I've been out here a long time. We've never closed this road and the people who go to the church
bazaar and the pancake breakfast and stuff like that, we need the parking that's on the street.
Now, I mean, with that, if this lot's full from runners and early church people and the road's full,
anyone that pulls up to an officer at either direction looking to go to the church fair,
especially at 103, we're just going to wave them around and have them park somewhere else
because we don't want to have someone come down, not find a parking spot,
have to make a 15-point turn in the road when people are running,
because again, we want to keep it safe for them too.
So whichever way the board wants to go, you know, I think Fire Chief Mowel and Nikki put a plan together,
and it would work.
That's my concern on that part. We'll work and we'll make it happen together, however you want to do it.
But if it's a road closure, I just ask that you vote for the liability piece so that we can continue to play.
So you need to know whether we want to close West Main Street or something?
I mean, if Brian is something to add in, I would welcome it if I miss something.
Is this West Maine? I make a motion that...
Okay, I make a motion that we don't close West Maine.
There's plenty of families on this street that have company coming and everything.
else and it's just there's people come to the bazaar, we get the pancake breakfast, we get the
auction going on upstairs. There'll still be barricades up, there'll still be cones up. Right.
You know, and at times, local traffic. Traffic control can be left to the wise purview of the police.
Local traffic can get to it, but local traffic is different than blue traffic. You're not going to use West Main Street to get to
the fairgrounds. You're going to have to go around the longer way. All in favor? All in favor?
Oh, Chip seconded the motion not to close Main Street, West Main.
I did, I mean, Justin has, what, three 10-foot barricades, 19 folding ones.
It's more than enough to make either way work.
So are there any other roads in your questionnaire?
I've got to finish the boat.
I seconded it. All in favor?
Aye.
I asked for it.
So let's just modify it as seen fit throughout the duration of the road.
Yes, it's correct.
Are you comfortable?
and have enough people on to do it?
Get a research from last year, and the slowest runner had finished in under an hour for the road rate,
so we're not looking like a half a day of closure.
We're looking for like an hour, hour and a half for restriction for runners.
Currently, there's over 50 runners already pre-registered, and we normally get upwards of 40 plus
the day, so we're looking at over 100 runners that will be running on West Main Street.
So my concern is the traffic coming and going.
You know, I think it's been advertised for quite a while between Facebook, social media,
that there is a road race.
So it's going to be done by 10, 1030.
I don't see the people leaving right away because there is awards that are given out for age groups.
So, and a lot of them will probably stay to go to the pancake breakfast or go to the bazaar.
So, all those are going to be able to.
I don't see a mass exodus, and by looking at the registrations, some are like a family
of four that are coming in one car, and a couple of other families are coming, so we're not looking
at, like, you know, 500 cars that are going to be parked there, but just be aware that, you know,
with the traffic coming, going, and runners.
That's why we leave the discretion of the traffic control up to the traffic professionals.
I'd like to say something.
Okay. First of all, this conversation should have happened a lot earlier.
But it didn't.
But it didn't.
But that is not on us. I'm just saying.
Who would it be on?
Well, Brian and Ed and I will do better next time.
Perfect.
Very good.
That's all on the set.
And second of all, I would like to say this.
Just because there are only three officers on duty does not mean that we cannot bring in civilian volunteers to put on yellow bids to help do things.
Because there are lots of towns in the surrounding area that put on yellow bids to help do things for town races.
So he does it.
So if any needs help directing traffic or doing things for the town races,
we can very easily help get volunteers to help do so.
Yeah, and I think that for next year.
Well, I don't disagree with that.
I mean, I said.
But we are not, no matter what anybody says, we're not going to close West Main Street.
We have people.
It was part of the original plan of there being other helpers out there.
And to be honest, I mean, the difference between us allowing cars down the road or not is going to be pretty close to a closure without a formal closure so that vehicles, if they are maneuvering on the road, are not, or not against that.
We're not to discussing hiring light guards and straight into the time.
Well, I can understand if a closure, but they're like that side.
But Nikki said, we always execute MAMS for all the road races that we've held in the past.
So we'll have rescue two out there.
We'll have the gator out there too.
That will be following and doing the sweep of the vehicles.
Because it's coming on the runners, because that's something that hasn't been done in the past.
Our gator follows up for the last runner to kind of come in.
So there's plenty of volunteers to be able to help.
And it's, like I said, I'm just, I'm just, I'm a little concerned.
because of the runners and just being aware of it.
I totally get people living on the street.
I totally get the people coming and going,
but I just want to err on the side of caution
for the runners, because as much as Ed said,
liability of the closure,
if we have cars coming up and down the street
and a runner gets hit,
doesn't mean the liability goes away.
I think we're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Well, that's what I probably plan.
I thought I brought a plan was first laid out,
or you had a good plan.
So, swim instructors.
Swim instructors and lifeguards.
Yep.
So on Friday,
Devin hired.
Do you lifeguards?
Can I pause for one second?
Just I feel like to watch this.
Do we have any more road closures for the evening that you wanted to discuss?
We were up to the road race.
Was there anything else on your list?
No, I mean, the only other thing on there,
and we had come up in discussion,
was completely closing East and West Main Street for the parade,
or just modifying the traffic flow,
as we have in years past.
Years past, we've never formally closed it,
the parade goes by and then let them go.
Well, we've started at 114, and a couple minutes before the parade.
We've walked down towards the pizza chef
and somebody down at the dam,
and we stopped.
any traffic from traveling on West Main Street as the parade came up to the intersection.
We held traffic and brought them through.
Well, it's a good, I'm glad you said that because the only thing,
we've always done it was the cruiser was at the front of the parade.
In the event someone came out of a driveway, that car,
the police car front can kind of pick it up a little bit, pick that driver up and turn them around
because the road wasn't closed the entire length.
But again, we're not allowing cars up and down from the dam,
from 103, and from 114.
So it's as close to a closure as possible without it being shut down.
We're just managing the flow for the safety of the parade.
And the parade kicks off at 3 o'clock.
So we would stop 114.
We'd let the whole parade continue down.
West Main Street.
we'd have someone by pizza chef to ensure no one came out right as they got closer usually typically when they get about by the bank
the lights are already on flash we step out and hold it we let the entire parade come through
and east main street's already being held from the dam side anyway so the only vehicle that could potentially be on east main street would have come out or west main street
now you got me confused would have come out of a driveway and that lead car just kind of
addresses them and turns them around.
If someone turns out of a driveway into the parade, then they are now part of the parade.
The theory is if this works fine, if it doesn't work, we change it next year.
But it's too late to switch horses now.
As far as the parade, my plan would be we just do it as we always have in years past.
We've never had an issue with it.
That's right.
We just have a lot of people that have events on the road.
road so I know a discussion was like a two o'clock closure pre-parade but I think we can manage through it be as safe for everyone in the parade. Again, it's going to it's going to look like a closure to everyone. The only thing is the barricades aren't going to say road closed. There's not going to be barricades because the parade's on it. There'll be a barricade on Gillingham and there'll be one down by the dam with an officer right there. So no cars are coming down West Main Street once the parade starts.
We're still putting the barricade at the end of Ring Hill so people can not take a right-hand turn out.
Right?
Coming off Ring Hill, making a right onto Old Warner.
Yeah.
We can put a barricade at the very end of wherever the parade lineup is.
I talked to Steph about getting some cones for her.
You talked to Justin about putting a barricade of the end of the right-hand turn so people do not take a right-hand turn.
They can only take a left because that's where they're going to take.
because that's where the condensed part of people are going to be right there.
Yeah, and then we'd still have the other lane for anyone coming up 114 to travel up Old Warner Road.
But we can certainly put a barricade behind the lineup of the parade for their safety.
I think that makes total sense.
The parade now has well exceeded down.
It might go past Ring Hill Road.
Oh, it's down the elementary school.
Okay.
So, I mean, that's going to be down to one lane anyway.
If we want to do.
If we want to do kind of, I mean, one lane on it would be going from 114 to 103.
And then we put a barricade at the other end just to protect the backside of that.
You know, it's not a complete road closure. It's just a lane.
Any other questions or can we hire a swimming instructor?
I want to make sure that this is quite patience.
Yes, you can talk about your swimming instructor.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks, thank you.
Thank you.
streaming instructor
Oh, I know what I wanted to tell you.
Hold on.
I knew that was...
Holly.
Very kind that she has opened up a spot in her store
and she is going to let us sell
the sweatshirts and the t-shirts
and the ornaments and the slippers
and we are going to start selling
the saltware pottery that says,
that says Bradford with a logo and the established date on it,
which we're going to be ready to order soon.
And it's going to be stopped a month ago.
I don't know if we saw it.
We posted it on the Facebook page.
And it's still lived there.
And it takes down for the 4th of July,
but it is going to live there for good from here on out
so we can start to push the product
and start to make some good sales
from here on out throughout the year,
which is really great.
really great.
Wonderful.
Just how I let you all.
Very good.
Have you made enough money to cover the cost of the T-shirts yet?
T-shirt sales are doing great.
We're just trying to hold on to a little bit so we have some of the fourth of July and now we're going to fix another order.
Very good.
All right.
Thank you, Nikki.
Thanks, Nicky.
Thanks for your hard work.
Have a good night, Ed.
Okay.
Swim instructor.
Yes.
We have a great swim instructor who's hired,
and we just hired two lifeguards
to cover the day in the evening.
Great.
So we're at capacity.
At capacity.
I don't think we're signed up,
but I'm trying to sort into lessons.
Yeah, the only question I have to the board is
because the lifeguards just came on board on Friday,
we're just sending in their background check.
Now, we may not have it back in time for the July 6th start date.
Correct.
So what's the board's position on allowing them to work without that?
Do you know him or her previously?
I don't personally know them.
They come recommended to me by somebody I trust deeply.
They're both employed by the...
by the Hogan Center.
They like guard up there.
One of them lifeguards for Newberry Rack.
They are both like really well qualified,
really great young adults.
They can start, I think, personally.
If they work at Hogan, they've got to have passed
some sort of security check already.
Parents also stay at lessons.
Like it's not a drop-off type program,
so we're not like taking custody of the kids.
The parents sit there and wait.
My consensus is the he or she should be
to work.
I think it's the consensus of the board that they should be able to work.
If there's a problem when their thing comes back, they're gone.
Okay.
There are up.
Thank you.
I read your management discussion and analysis and it looks fine to me.
You know, we just need to, that's just our blurb that we put into the
auditor's report.
Why does it always look the same year after year after year?
Well, the numbers.
change, but, and some of the recommendations may change from year
depending on what they find.
Yeah.
But it's, you know, standard template.
I was just going to say it seems the same.
And they just change the numbers,
unless they find something unique or an anomaly of some kind
that they need to bring attention to,
it probably wouldn't change.
Justin, are you going to have to?
have the highway trucks in the parade? How come?
No one mentioned it?
What?
No one mentioned it and I'm not going to be around, so.
He's not volunteering.
Concesses with the board on the name of the discussion.
Mine would be.
Yes.
Good.
Thank you.
All right.
Thanks.
Well, we're going back to approve the
Right.
That's the cut.
The question is,
we can table it last time because we were waiting
to find out about bonding on the roads.
The attorney, unfortunately, is a bit swamped right now,
so he's not going to be able to get back to me on this
until the end of the week.
He knew we needed it for tonight.
I was trying to get it from last week, but he just couldn't do it.
We're going on a couple of other things for us, actually.
So do you want to table us until the meeting?
Yeah, I'd like to table until the next meeting.
Just Deer Valley is so iffy with that covert and stuff.
It is.
we can get a tape on it from the countertending,
but somebody's going to have to cover the damage to the road up there.
And they're getting used to damage them.
All right.
So now we have new business resolution to adopt a new FEMA flood insurance rate maps.
Right.
So this, as you recall, we were talking about having a special town meeting
to make some water ordinance changes.
And after map,
on a hand from Central New Hampshire.
The Planning Commission did some research and talked.
Planning Board can do it.
So the select board can sign this.
The Planning Board can sign this.
The Planning Board has a draft of
the new revised ordinance,
and there would be no need for a special time.
Yes.
Sounds terrific.
So, and I would just have to have to have
you sign this document.
Okay, update on sale of town property.
Yeah, so sale of town property is still all set.
We did have a request from the auctioneer to be able to do an open house on 95 West Road.
That's the dilapidated house.
So I told them that it was not suitable for an open house and was likely unsafe.
and we did not want to take the risk of having somebody go through that house to consider it to tear down.
Oh my God.
But other than that, we're on track.
We talked a little bit about the West Main Street.
Since we're not going to close West Main Street, it's not less of an issue,
but they will have people coming around 10, so hopefully most of the race will be wrapped up by then.
And they will be able to
to have people who haven't pre-registered, be able to register between 10 and 11 before they start the auction.
Should we reserve a few packing spaces out here just in case?
Well, I think, you know, everything is close enough.
You know, Ed was saying, you know, they often, when things get busy around here, divert people
to pizza chef and they had already had a discussion with the property owner that would be okay.
We had some overflow parking there.
Okay.
So, you know, I don't think it's necessary.
Chances are some of the runners are going to end up parking here in the morning as well.
So it is going to be a bit of a struggling act with traffic, but we'll manage.
Review of the scholarship, 2006 annual report.
Right.
So that's also your book and I think it's under 11, if I remember correctly.
Oh, right.
That's the .
Under tab 13.
They announced their scholarship
folks that resists.
Sounds like three good candidates.
Yes.
So would you like to read their names for the record, so?
Sure. We have Kinsley Monnet, Sawyer Willett, and Liam.
I'm probably going to butcher this, Zelensky.
Congratulations to them.
Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology.
Holy!
Brains.
Branding business accounts payable?
Have you signed your book?
No.
There is that.
Oh, and the great paper in the $11,000 was,
I already looked it up, but I can't remember what it was now.
Well, we could have beat a couple horses to test tonight.
I'm really not in the mood to beat anybody because then I'd have to clean it up.
When I went, I'd clean it up.
I make a motion we had to clean it up.
I make a motion.
adjourned?
Well, we need to go into non-public.
Okay, I make a motion we adjourn.
Second.
All in favor?
Motion to go into non-public.
Second.