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Alvarez and mrs. Reynolds now mrs. Reynolds is with great greatest of pride that I present you the members of the class of 2018 I hereby certify that these young men and women have met the requirements for graduation from rampart high school and Academy school district 20 and are recommended to receive their diplomas [Applause] mr. Alvarez what an incredible class on behalf of the Board of Education of Academy district 20 I accept with pride and pleasure the 2018 graduating class of rampart High School mr. 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t now release the button I did finally release the button after crying for a little while and when I got safely back to the ground I asked the kid what does Yolo mean he says he says it means you only live once maybe I'm glad I did not know that before I release the button or I might still be up there today and let's talk about hieroglyphics or what you call emojis there's an old adage that says a picture is worth a thousand words I don't think that means the same for emojis just when I think I might understand one a new one pops up that doesn't mean what I thought it meant here let me show you a couple of examples of when I received from my daughter while this whole emoji thing first came out mind you when she texted me this emoji there were no words no acronyms no initialisms or anything else that included that were included that text message just the emoji I got this one okay which I understood means she's happy and I like that okay and then I received this one which told me that she was sad and then I received this one that I thought meant that she likes chocolate soft swirl ice cream only to be followed up a couple minutes with one of these which I interpreted was fried ice cream obviously the last two emojis were not what I thought they were and apparently there is no emoji for smiling chocolate soft-serve ice cream all I'm saying to you guys is maybe you should text words to your parents so that it clears up a lot of confusion because my thing was when she sent those when she sends me these my response was YUM finally what is with all the messages about selfies I see it all the time in hallways sitting at the lunch table and even at my own house but not by me from the best I can tell taking pictures of yourself with the following expressions means I'm going to a party on Saturday and I need to bring chips and salsa so class of 2018 while I am joking with you a bit my serious message to you is to be clear in your language with those of you that that you will be working with you will work with people from all generations and if you want to be valued and understood please speak the language that all generations can understand now speaking thank you speaking of the effective use of language for the last few years at graduation I have shared a quote from hip-hop artist Drake which I think sums up about everything for leading a happy and productive life his quote states live without pretending love without depending listen without defending and speak without offending class of 2018 I am so proud of you and all that you have accomplished thus far in your lives on behalf of the entire staff of the Lancer nation we wish you nothing but that up at the best mr.
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LaValley I proudly certify the graduates of 2018 and present them to you for your acceptance on behalf of the school board thank you [Applause] on behalf of the Board of Education of Academy school district 20 I accept with pride and pleasure the 2018 graduating class of Liberty High School mr. Tim ik thank you thank you your faculty and your staff for an outstanding job [Applause] Jr attendance we already lists graduate this class [Applause] you Shawna's Hussein a book I dear [Music] Hayley brandi marie hollers he sourah Clarissa Adan Kyle ah da Alexander Devin Anthony L dos Diana larae Anderson Adriana Kennedy a Makonnen Omari Joseph Anderson Megan Lillian Anderson Tristan Gregory Arnold Michaela and and cliff Danielle Nicole Ashton Alexandra Daniele out - so Maya Renee Austin Keegan James Alden John Chambers Ayers v may see Brooke Aves Zachary Thomas balls Felicia K bacon Colin Riley Barbie graduating with honors Seth Alden Baker Ashley Diane beard graduating with honors Trent Russell Barlow Abigail Madison the dead [Applause] graduating with high honors Jake Tyler Becker Amanda Helen be him Emily Marie Biermann Cody Evan Murano Tristan James Barrens Annalise Irene Ben yes mean we did bail and Malia Leal been Brennan Eugene Binford graduating with high honors Cagney Alexandra bird Ryan Christopher Benitez Brogan Robert bishop got you Reagan Elizabeth Mascaro Kyle James Bose Leske graduated with high honors Ryan Metzger block Shawn Thomas Bossert graduating with high honors Valerie Angelina or Ludi Jordan Taylor Bovie graduated with high honors William Thomas Boswell Antonio Nicholas Boing's [Music] Victoria Marie Bowman Justin Peter Paul brianza graduating with high honors Kaitlin Lee rag Mikayla J Browne graduating with honors Blake Jeffrey Clifford Brisbane Noah Ashton Brubaker Troy Roland Brown Abigail grace burns graduating with high honors Abby Shing Shing Bullard [Music] graduating with high honors Emma Suzanne Busby Jacob Douglas burns graduating with high honors Angela Marie Calhoun Emily Danielle Bustos Seth Richard Canfield Jack Jean Calloway the second graduating with high honors Sarah Margaret Carol Mackenzie faith Carroll graduating with honors Mikayla joy Chandan a Ryan Franklin gates fun Alberto Chavez graduating with honors Gillian Abigail Charlton graduating with honors Jae hun gun graduating with honors Morgan Elizabeth child's Cameron Frank Clemente graduating with high honors Reagan Marie Clark McKenna Isabella Cofer graduating with honors Martin Newton Clift graduating with honors McKenzie Alexandra Colby graduated with honors Taylor Matthew coffee graduating with high honors Derek Edward Collins Tristan Robert Collier graduating with honors Jack Jacob Lee cook Sean Michael convoy Jason Jermaine Copeland jr.
Kira Jade Warren Eve Caitlin waters Cole Allen Webster Maxwell Lee Widener Eric Othello Weldon Cole read Wellborn Landon redden whelchel Elise show Luo Whiteside anime Micheli white Kathryn Elaine Rick Berg Tyler David urlan Wilcox Emma Blair Williamson ready ashlynn Elizabeth Wilmot Alex Raymond Wilson Caleb Daniel Woodman Madison Emma reach Jin song Justin yi Galia Lila Yusuf Lana rusty Yusuf at vouloir key der our guru Helen zing Derrick Stephen del Toro Rebecca Maria Costa [Applause] Joshua Armand Fagan grace chu nay hobby joy Kalakaua Nethra this war open [Applause] right let's give these graduates a one last round of applause [Applause] class of 2018 if you would please stand and join me in moving your tassels from the right side of your mortar board to your left [Applause] class of 2018 you are now alumni congratulations [Applause] this concludes our ceremony good night to all and thank you for attending [Music] you
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t so I'll try to keep this short and sweet I was born in Indiana a few short miles from the International Motor Speedway home to the greatest spectacle and racing the Indy 500 which is to be held in just ten days from now since kindergarten we've been racing to graduate especially in these last few months when senioritis really kicked in so I thought it'd be fitting to compare our time to this historic race just like the cars in the race we as students have felt immense pressure crashed and hit the wall and ran low on fuel a couple of times because of these situations it is impossible to finish the Indy 500 without making numerous pit stops along the way your pit crew is made up of those that have given you unwavering support encouragement and guidance along your journey class of 2018 look around you you are surrounded by the biggest and best pit crew in the entire world at this time on behalf of the graduates I would like to once again thank dr.
superintendent dr. mark Achille Academy Schools district 20 administration and Board of Education Liberty High School administration and faculty friends family and all of the incredible teachers that we've had these last few years thank you for steering us in the right direction and keeping us on track throughout our high school career we need to always maintain our pit crew because as we all know we will experience numerous obstacles throughout life despite these setbacks and challenges that you may face I hope that you always continue to persevere after all the caution flag and erase signals drivers to slow down not to stop completely apart from the race moving at a slower pace in life allows us to savor some of life's most beautiful treasures making memories learning lessons reaching milestones and of course graduating now once the caution flag is lifted we put the pedal to the metal and race towards our finish line often we equate the finish line with popular ideals of success I have no doubt that everyone in this class will achieve some measure of success but I challenge you to make sure that your own definition of success goes hand-in-hand with significance and not just wealth power prestige Fame or a high number of likes on your Instagram photo be charitable be brave lend a hand make someone smile and always treat others with dignity and respect let's be fast and furious in our pursuit of being good humans finding a cure for cancer creating a peaceful world and ending discrimination I'm proud to say that our own Liberty 500 race is ending today in a 418 person tie regardless of if we zoomed coasted or had to be towed by administration across the finish line at the end we're all headed on different paths in life but our class will always have a special bond so let me close with the most meaningful part of our senior song cuz baby there ain't no mountain high enough there ain't no Valley low enough ain't no River wide enough to keep me from getting to you babe if you need me call me no matter where you are no matter how far and with that ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2018 start your engines because your next race is about to begin congratulations [Applause] at this time I will invite our valiant staff to depart to the tunnels for the seniors final farewell before you depart as graduates I want you to know that I left something in each of your graduation envelopes as a piece of advice that I've been giving out to graduates for the past 26 years and has printed on a business card it was essentially the same piece of advice given to me when I graduated from college the bottom line is to live with no regrets and to make every moment count I also hope that my small token of appreciation will help be a key to your own future with that Lancers please rise turn your tassels from right to left to signify your new status of graduates [Applause] congratulations you are dismissed [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you
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my name is Andrew McMahon I'm Kate me county facilities director I have an architecture background I went to school to study architecture and I previously worked for the FBI Ann Marie McMahon is the one behind the design of the new jail being built on Cape May County New Jersey I've been the project manager since 2008 on this project originally we were going to renovate the current facility but it just wasn't feasible there were many security changes that we made for the project that would help the operations of the facility when an inmate needs medical services even if it's just handing them some medication the nurse has to come to the housing unit and typically in the past facility she would have to be escorted we changed the function of this facility to where she doesn't have to be escorted she basically can come toward the housing unit go through the secure vestibule and go into an interview room and pass medication through a food pass to the inmate so it cut down on a lot of the operational and functional issues that we we ran into in the previous facility there have been a lot of things being taken into consideration when this jail was being designed like the minimum security housing unit that unit is a completely open space with no cell doors so this housing unit and every housing unit in this facility is set up with direct supervision so they have intimate relationship between the officer and each inmate because there they're not behind a solid wall and they're within the housing unit with the inmate our previous facility inmates were able to go outside for their yard this facility is set up with an indoor exercise yard so they they basically don't leave the housing unit so this area has chairs and tables so there their activities are here there are TVs in here for them only the inmate workers are able to leave the housing unit they serve the function of the laundry area and the kitchen as well with a little bit of research we've learned that this is called direct supervision the purpose of direct supervision is to bring the jail together as a community studies show that this method of supervision is more likely to successfully rehabilitate the prisoners this jail is direct supervision which means one officer is housed within the housing unit with approximately 64 inmates it's actually more secure than the linear supervision which was the the past practice of designing jails direct supervision allows the officer to be more involved with the inmates on a direct basis they become more one-on-one rather than just watching them from afar either on camera or you know through a secure room most recently many jails are doing precast construction so all these cells were built off-site and transported here on a truck and set in place the the dorm areas are for the less at risk inmates so the the higher security dorms which you're in here this is the detention unit so these will all have the cell doors which you can see at the end of the day we are happy to hear that our jails are being turned into rehabilitation centers and not just places bad people go the way that our jail is set up is that we have one main corridor that runs the length of the jail all the way down and all the way back inmates will be housed down towards the end of the main corridor with their housing units separated on each side of the main quarter so when any inmate movement is conducted it'd be down this main corridor and out this way which way how they go to court or being released from this facility what's different about our jail now is that here we're going to be not only doing the laundry for all the inmates that are housed here all their personal belongings we're also going to be doing the laundry for the county's nursing home all their bed linens previously the county had a contract with an outside vendor we have taken over that contract and in trying to save the county a significant amount of money
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] all right good evening everybody this is 8 p.m. Monday May 21st 2018 I called this special meeting of the Board of Finance to order at the same time I call the Board of Selectmen meeting to order ok please rise and join me okay thank you everyone for coming and thank you folks who are seated around the room we do have a fair number of folks here tonight as well as it looks like a small agenda however this is one of the biggest agendas this board has had since its longest standing members have been on the board so I do ask that folks do keep their comments to three minutes again there is public comment at the the front right now when I'm done speaking and there's also public comment at the end after the board wraps up discussions and the couple votes that we have okay I will ask that folks do keep their comments relative and relevant to the discussion tonight so this meeting we're calling it in the public comment I will preface this meeting the Board of Finance does need to convene after the let's say a regular operating referendum does get voted down the Board of Finance does need to reconvene to set a new not only a new budget which when some folks did send an e mails today and over the past couple days I did mention that that new budget can be the same or it can be different okay so the board does need to reconvene to set a new budget and also the next referendum date which per our Charter is two weeks from the initial date should the next referendum go the way of the first one then we will set another date and another budget for two weeks after that okay the the capital portion will not be discussed the results will be discussed tonight however that process cannot be begun tonight over again that needs to take place over the next couple of days or weeks or about a month and a half because we do need to kick off another Town Meeting set another referendum date for capital so although that is important that will not be one of our primary focuses tonight okay so with that I invite members of the public who do want to give comment what anyone like to go first sir if you would please approach the podium name and address and I will be there will be a hard stop it's not me wanting to be rude or mean to anyone but again we do have a lot of folks here I want to make sure everyone gets a chance my name is Bob Emrich twelve stillwater circle and the field to begin I would like to call attention to the mailer which was sent out prior to the recent budget vote I take you septic exception to the comment relating to the first elections mortgage situation that has nothing to do with the budget vote and is totally out of order it reminds me of the tweets coming from our so-called president I found it most offensive and unrelated to the current budget vote that being said may I express my opposition to the proposed budget as a senior citizen on FEX fixed retirement and Social Security this current budget proposal is above expectations I am a retired teacher and always look to support public education but I find the increases in special education above and beyond acceptability it is my understanding that the special ed outsourcing costs failed to file correctly for reimbursement through Medicare reimbursement the cost may be minimal but who accepts the responsibility for not applying for reimbursements the reimbursement budgets I'm sorry the recent budget vote indicated the public's disapproval listen to your electric thank you sir okay we do have a sign-up sheet folks if you would like to sign up it's right there next to mrs.
Brooks if not Victor Lupe's 40202 throw it South I'd like to also echo the sickening mailer completely out of line I don't understand why I was ever sent and gets the details of what was wrong outside of the unnecessary is that better just speak loudly I would like to also echo that I completely disagree with the mailer I can't even understand where something like that came from especially a group labeling themselves concerned citizens from Brookfield up is on it's on okay anyway on to the matter at hand I don't know if it was discussed or I don't know what the protocol is I'd love to get a ruling on that from the lawyers I don't understand how the vote could be valid when what what happened happened my wife did not get to vote she was home taking care of my children making sure they were safe as well as two other friends that were visiting our house when I got home my mission excuse me was to get those two children home to their families and that's what we focused on how anyone would be expected to vote and how we would expect to find a vote valid when that's I don't know maybe a third of the town probably votes after work I don't know what the numbers are what the historic precedent is it's just it's appalling to me that we're going to accept that vote outside of that I also seems just perplexed constantly that every year we come to this conversation and where everything else in the world year-over-year prices go up we don't like it it's just the way that it is outside whether I want more or someone else wants more for this community just the general cost of what it takes to run a family to run a school to run a municipality any of these things they all go up we don't like it but it's reality so how we can ever expect the Board of Ed the point of Finance to keep coming up here with these zero costs or minimal cost increases you know I'm trying to be respectful to folks who are on limited incomes I understand that's challenging but the reality is this is the way the world is and the only way for this town to move forward is to keep investing in the town people will not move here if we don't invest in municipal resources and most especially we don't invest in the schools I mean I've said it before I moved here from Danbury I grew up in Danbury I've lived all around the Northeast the physical play of these schools is just I mean I don't even know what to say you know Dave raised the city of sixty something thousand people when I was living there at you know and we were always challenged and stretched as a budget yet somehow those facilities were better than books I mean what's the median income of this town it's embarrassing and I also take sort of you know I I find it very frustrating to know that the generations before me all had great schools for their children everything was new everything was brand-new everything was supported and now for some reason you know the last 10 years or so everyone is all hell-bent on making sure that my kids won't get what they want now to be honest with you I've said this before I've spoken before I'm very happy that the education that my kids have gone on I know I'm probably over time we're close to it the education level if they've got have been great so the teachers the administrators the faculty which is ultimately the most important piece of it awesome but it's so embarrassing to me that we can't keep investing thank you I can address for everyone that wants to know counsel was sought on whether or not the results of the the referendum were valid as it turns out there is no legislation on the books to invalidate and nullify the results due to weather occurrence like that so therefore again there's no current legislation that makes the referendum null and void due to let's say a state of emergency or a certain weather event prohibitive or not so if anyone else wanted to know that that is the answer that we received from Council and there's no there's no more or no less to that answer than what we received in writing so okay next netsy McIlvain 1 to 7 Longmeadow Hill Road I'm here to I disappointed that the referendum was considered legal but that aside I would urge you then simply to say let's take the budget we had and have a new referendum on it because whether it's legal or not it's morally disturbing that people could not vote in in a very tragic incident of weather for this town so I hope that you will consider saying we will vote we will vote on you the same budget we put up before and give everyone in town the right to come out and vote and have their say and let the let their results show them thank you thank you was there anyone else who wanted to go logo 32 great hair and lean while it's not on the agenda I wanted the first expect gratitude and compliments to the people and the emergency responders and all the volunteers that helped out residents that helped neighbors it's been a real joy to see Brookfield working together and their faith to this catastrophe so I just wanted to say nice going with respect to the budget I think the issue of many people voted is a specious argument because if you look at the number of voted over the last four or five years we've had as many people voting this week this year even actually even more this year than in the past years it was basically a 60/40 vote so those people who say well there would have been more people coming out after five o'clock sure and it would have been a 60/40 vote among them as well statistically that's the case so I think that's a real specious argument to say let's put out the the same budget I think as the first speaker said you need to listen to the electorate the electorate made it clear both in the library vote and in this vote that you need to cut spending and there's a lot of ways you can do that without as some people try to frighten the population here that you're going to curtail some needed services that's simply not true and I'll give you one example what a lot of people don't know is the library has a five to six hundred thousand dollar endowment you could cut fifty thousand a hundred thousand dollars from the library budget have them use the endowment that could tell us no services at all because they apparently are not doing anything with the endowment so let them use that I've left before and I offer it again I'll sit with you and go through the board of education budget identify at least a half a million to a million dollars in savings it won't affect class size won't affect a staff member it won't affect a student there's that much there that you can take out this raises that were given to non-contractual raises to town please that you can evaluate and possibly either eliminate or reduce in the face of the vote that was taken so there's a lot of things you can do again it's all about choices and I hope that you follow the electorate and reduce the budget significantly that's what the electorate is calling for thank you thank you Ron javelin white pine Drive thank you again for all your work thank I would also like to thank the the members of the town and members would come to the town to to help us it is heartwarming to see even working together I will note that in terms of what has been called a specious argument the fact of the matter is that registration prior to the presidential election and participation in this state in votes since the presidential election has been astronomical is probably not too too hard a term people have been involved in ways they haven't been before and so to look just at the history and not look at the curve of where we've been most is the point completely we have no idea what the vote would have been but I think it's fair to it would be for to say that it would have been far greater than than before you all know based on my email to you that I am in favor of not decimating the budget moving forward I don't think there's a mandate to do that I will reiterate what I've said many many times going back to the days when I was on the Board of Ed that you know Johnny or Jane only are in third grade once and so while I can't drive on roads that are on you know not particularly well taken care of and I can deal with that the school is a different situation altogether and continuing to put things off year after year after year really becomes a problem no the the previous speaker indicated excuse me indicated that the library endowment could be used to offset operational costs in fact that's not legal in fact the endowment is separate from operational costs and should not be considered at all and so even though there is money there the endowment is there for very specific things there were more restrictions on the school endowment even than the student funds for the schools and say and so I understand it may be look like a pot of gold it really isn't then it really should not be part of the conversation so I encourage you to forward a budget that if not is the same at least represents most of what you know the good work you did before thank you thank you is there anyone else that would like to give a comment before we move into new business once twice we will have to wait for the end yeah okay three times okay great so let's move on to a discussion I'll have the results of the the budget referendum that was last week and we'll go over the advisory questions first um let's let's do that so you didn't see a time constraint five minutes okay do you have it do you have a time that you have to leave yeah let's do that now then so in the context of costs for next year we thought it would be fitting to have mr.
Dombrowski come and give us an update on where those costs sit in consideration of the new budget that we need to set forth and up Steve would you be able to give a couple words about why mr. Dombrowski is prime Zulu something so very early on we declared an emergency last Tuesday night at 7:10 p.m.
it became very clear that we were going to have some very large expenses in managing the cleanup of this disaster so we were talking to the various state officials and the people who are down and they said one of the things we could do if possible once we declare a disaster is to get them Malloy to declare a disaster which we got them to do on Wednesday and then president term would also have to declare a disaster in order to receive FEMA funding to help clean up to fix things to repair things to get the town back there are a lot of requirements I won't go into all the detail on that but the net-net is we realized immediately once we started looking at these FEMA funds and how to do it incredibly complicated incredibly detailed literally you were going to be collecting hundreds and hundreds of pages of data and greg has agreed to be the coordinator for that because it is so complex and he's done a great job on another project so I asked the Thursday morning to step up and he's been working nonstop since then perfect thank you thanks Greg okay so with that authorization from the governor there were a lot of emergency declarations that were approved by various agencies across the state and we've been assigned and a person from Homeland Security the Division of Emergency Management on the header' you can see that title his name is Tom Venini and we wish we spent all day Thursday with him and he's a great resource and there's other resources from the governor's office that we're talking to all the time and where we are now is at a point where and it's the most important point are the next two lines on your handout we are required it is not negotiable if we want to be considered for FEMA to complete all the required documents no later than midnight May 30th so that's nine days from now so to do that we've spent a lot of time learning what FEMA requires and we have all that information and in front of you are a list of 20 departments in town that one way or another are impacted of cost wise cost we would have not spent if the storm hasn't happened so we and the next column is over you can see the FEMA forms that they are all filling out and working with me on so we've had training sessions starting Saturday Sunday and this morning for every one of the names you see on this sheet to complete the forms and get them into the state by that date so here's what here's how its explained to us so before week before the governor can go to the president to request FEMA authorization or approval there's three levels of there's three steps that have to be taken the first is at the county level we have to reach the county has to reach a certain dollar level before it'll go to the next level the next level is a district level we're in district five in Homeland Security that's a higher donnell level and then after that there's a state level and that level has to reach a certain dollar level before the governor can take it to Washington so that's kind of the big picture at the county level in our county level is four there's four counties now doing what we're doing Fairfield New Haven Litchfield in Middlesex and I'm working with my counterparts and those counties to make sure we all do this the same way and get it to the homeland security folks by the 30th again a lot of emergency authorizations have been granted it's allowing Ralph Tedesco and the Public Works people to do some things that otherwise couldn't do so those are all important documents to keep us legal and all the things we do to clean up our town we're also working we met this afternoon with our insurance carrier and we are working with them and FEMA to make sure that we understand the damage what's covered what's not covered what's deductible and that work started today and there's meetings tomorrow on that so we're going to work together with insurance the state folks in our outer parts to meet this May 30th deadline so we can go to the district level and then the state level I don't know I could talk about I can go on for hours but I won't what are your questions you have any questions yep Greg do you have any idea as far as the requirements at the three levels the state the district in the county where we are and what the requirements are is this something that you feel that we are going to be able to meet I am I have something to say I know Steve goes to Steve you want to start yeah we did this once before with town-wide cleanup where we went around to each Street and help people clean up they brought their stuff to the street that costs the last time we did at one point almost 1.7 million dollars to do we are gonna have some we already have some significant expense now I don't know where we'll end up on this but one comment I did want to make is there have been I've gotten like 10 calls today people wanting to know where they could fill out their FEMA forms and get money from FEMA there is no forum right now for residents to fill out what we are asking people to do is to document all the damage to their property to their house I hope sheds whatever it is documented picture it and send it we set up an email address at Town Hall storm 2018 at Brookfield CT gov send your name your address the description of the damage and pictures if you have it that will make a much stronger argument when we go to FEMA's and we can start to show them some of the damage that's occurred so let me add a few things just some closer comments I get those emails those are those like emails come to me we're matching it up with what we're doing with the building department you can see there are name listed here three times to match up the forms the information the pictures as best we can to complete the required information you may have noticed a lot of helicopters flying around I think Saturday and Friday a lot of those were state and federal helicopters and they were taking high-resolution pictures of our roads so when we supply all this information with all the damaged home addresses they're going to match it up against this these camera these video pictures and it's all at once assuming we get FEMA funding this is all we're gonna have a female person assigned to us and this is all going to be reconciled and audited as we go forward one important comment I'd like to make is the FEMA match is only 75 percent so let's just say let's pick a number of two million dollars 25 percent of that still going to be on the town but in that 25 percent we get to include volunteer hours at a current market rate so we know that our fire departments volunteer we know that some departments in town have volunteer workers the HR department is creating hourly rates that FEMA we know will approve for even volunteer hours so the fire department as you can imagine we spent tons of hours and that those hours will be part of our 25% match even the use of our equipment there's a FEMA rate sheet every piece of equipment every piece of equipment equipment bigger than a hand tool is reimbursable and for every size air compressor there's a certain hourly rate so every department that's one of the things they're doing is not only reporting to us the hours that they've worked outside of their normal job but every hour every piece of equipment was used that's one of five forms there's another one for anything they had to buy that the otherwise wouldn't have there's another one for any contracts that they have a sign within the first 72 hours fully reimbursable those kind of things that's all being compiled now that's what's due on May 30th so anything else the public's asking I don't know if you want to take a public question Shawn I'll leave it up to you is it a quick one yeah but is it very quick what about individual homeowners very good question so one of the one of the obvious one the first obvious questions was well what's covered what's not by FEMA we asked very specific questions and I'll give you the one I'll give you almost a verbatim we asked the question how about businesses and homes they have uninsured losses either with a deductible or something may not be covered by your home policy and the question is when we file this FEMA paperwork should we include all home owner damage and what will the homeowners be reimbursed for and the answer I got back is and I'll quote it depends so I do not have a firm answer what they did here's what they did say though the best thing you can do now Brookfield is report everything take pictures save receipts record and save everything so what we're going to do that's exactly what we're doing we're collecting everything we can we're going to throw it up on the wall and we'll see what sticks that's that's the attitude we're taking so that's why we created that email address for people to send pictures of their house damage the building department has been through hundreds of homes since Thursday with hundreds of more to go we brought back retired employees and other contractors that help do this and we meet we need to get to every house that we can by that deadline for those that we can't we are going to make an estimate if you look on this form you'll see the acronym PDA preliminary damage assessment this is preliminary if we get through the FEMA hurdle we're going to go do this again before reimbursement dollars come in so we've been told to include everything be comprehensive I there's no guarantees on what will and won't be covered but we are doing our best to be comprehensive and include all twenty departments any dollar they spend even a salary person if it's over forty hours in their regular job there's probably compensation for that so that's the attitude we're taking and just if we can everyone can help us by asking your neighbors to send that information in it will really help us in our application FEMA because people say no you don't have big bad storms in the Northeast people don't believe it but it is true this is 110 mile an hour winds alright great you need that information by well the the email that went out said just get it to as soon as you can I don't want to give a deadline well I'll take it as long as you give it to us but we have to be we have to have our four-hour forms in by midnight May 30th the department heads as you look on your sheet the third line down the department heads have all been asked to give me what they have by Friday at noon that gives me my world a weekend to compile it and we have to do an overlay report and I've been told today that if I get them a preliminary preliminary Sunday or Monday they'll look at it and they'll have to give us a couple more days to get our final preliminary in so we're kind of taking this in steps and I got to tell you you all have said it but I I gotta tell you everybody at townhall police fire staff they were out here Sunday morning Saturday Friday and everybody's all in on this and I got to tell you it's really really I'm proud to be in this town I got to tell you you talk to the eversource guys emergency response guys they're phenomenal they're here from Canada from New Hampshire there's 57 eversource crews out there today we're putting over put up 350 poles it's a phenomenal effort in we're we're damn lucky Davina stone is this information on the town website Stephanie yes it is we're sending it out to both our mailing lists and the school's mailing list and we're sending out a daily update right good field matters but if we can at least put on our Facebook pages are spread yeah you can take it right off of Brooklyn matters I put on Facebook today okay okay so so great first of all you know edit to the list of people who are just jumping right in and thank you so much first of all in the context of the discussion we're having today a question that and an assumption the assumption is that it's way too early to even begin to think about numbers and how much it's going to cost how much we might get so it's in terms of you know figuring out in a budget assumption it seems like it's too early that's what that's an assumption if you were to ask me that for a number if I can give you one see if we've talked about a number I don't know okay so but I'm going to qualify the number yeah you want the number first or the qualifications you go for I'm gonna give you the qualification here now the person that has done this more than anybody in town is Ralph Tedesco Ralph Tedesco did this for sanity and every other storm he knows the number of cubic yards that of debris that were removed he based on what he sees after driving around town for four days has a gut feeling well he knows it's going to be more and he has a gut feeling on what that number may be if you take a three to four percent inflation factor on just what Ralph did assuming he assuming this board approves what Steve's going to be getting to on what we would like to do for this storm I could talk about that if you not want or Steven talk about it and you give that the the factor up for the the perceived increase in debris and a few years of inflation you add what we think the police and fire are going to come in answer if rough numbers now know that because we don't have one piece of paper yet that we have gone to contract by the way with one refuse company if you were to ask me to pick a number two and a half million nights that does not include now let me talk about what that doesn't doesn't include okay that does not that does not include mutual aid well mutual aid means our National Guard was here Red Cross was here there were utility crews from the Northeast and Canada none of that's in our number that's in the state number now this is just town of grid field out-of-pocket cost from the storm okay thank you yeah and then the FEMA match assuming we get or the FEMA of the FEMA portion of that the 75% whose discretion is that under in in terms of allocation allocation by who by those we get if it's 75% at 2.5 million dollars we get you know a couple of cup of 120 million dollars who decides how dispersed that maybe just don't a are expensive someone know what those expenses are it's all either by Department so whatever we submit there it's gonna be audited so you know we're doing the best we can so say yeah I think that's it but if you have a total bill and we're gonna get a check for one and they're also gonna try to get FEMA to help pay for the cleanup and then we'll just suit by the whole town got I personally think that is the right thing to do about 70 percent of our residents have been affected by this a lot of them don't have a way to get brush to the brush yard some of the older retired you know this is a massive problem across the entire town and we need to clean this up but we're applying for that for FEMA to whatever the qualifier that this number does not include it does not include any personal property we may be eligible for some reimbursement on that so that is just town cost for town property and town roads it does include doesn't include state roads it doesn't include any private property restoration about 1.7 million there was a snowstorm remember the snowstorm where we used to sell new trees that cleanup was about 1.7 million in total what we reimbursed yeah we did get all of it I don't think we got all of it I can I think it was like 75% and then how to towards the money come out of I don't know to pay for we'd have to find a general fund obviously yeah probably had a general fund so we're looking at a possible general fund hit of $800,000 right here could be great we have one quick question but the question that most people are asking me are is about the debris left on on the roads if we do is is there any timeframe as to when it would start to play the take place now I know that there's no definite answers but I would like something to be able to say to people we are just I don't know we hired under my emergency powers we hired a company to come in and they're going to clean the town right away of town debris if and I've already seen as people are dragging brush to the street we ask that you not do that until the utility companies are completely finished we don't want to block them from doing work but we are clearing a town right away right now the second effort would be if we get the FEMA money or as a town decide let's have a cleanup for all the residential properties that's a decision we still have to make and with that but can I jump in so that was that second thing Steve said what that means is everybody would have to drag their debris to the curb you're not going to go into everybody's property they're gone prosper oh that don't want you to do it right now you're talking to residents police don't do it until we're finished with right the utility hookups any other questions or comments from another yes keep a list of it and if you can send it a text or 2018 we don't know if we're gonna get that aid but we'd like to have the records absolutely tell everyone else to do the same thing okay good all right thank you Greg yep thanks Thank You Craig all right I'd like to review the results just the flat-out results of the referendum before we get into a discussion of them okay I know we have board members that do want to share prepared thoughts on that thank you new computer assisted barely any connections okay okay I know one second so what this is is I just took the numbers from the official results provided by the town clerk and put them on a spreadsheet for easier discussion that that PDF the certified PDF isn't the most fun thing to read that's all handwritten so the first question was shall the town appropriate the 43 million for the school portions board that portion of the town budget I'll go with the majority's first 1458 no votes to 895 yes votes now for those of you keeping track or tabulating at home there's really no check here throughout the questions they don't add up to the same thing per that sheet in any one of these so my guess is folks took the liberty of choosing which questions to answer okay now the advisory question on the school operating budget was the 43 million too high adequate or too low 1374 voters said it was too high coming in second adequate 579 and too low of 339 question 3 this has to do with the town government portion right which covers the town expenses and debt service and capital unbonded capital costs okay 1390 votes against and 952 votes for the majority for the advisory question on the town port an operating budget was 1297 voters felt it was too high while 820 voters felt it was adequate and then we had 149 voters voting too low okay and the last question has to do with the bonded projects or the capital improvements project for the coming year there were 1307 votes against the capital improvements project and 1020 votes for the capital improvements project okay so given these results again this is why we are having this discussion because the results of the referendum were that all three questions of the majority voted no okay so that's that's that and now we can move into a discussion of the results Glenn you had a presentation that you wanted to go through on the memory stick there's two files on there is anything else you know this one okay so vice chair of the Board of Finance Glenn rune had prepared this presentation for us to go over tonight yes and we can't really tilt that over so I apologize if things fall off this was put together by me and only me just so the town knows and mr. Jaffee spoke proper and we don't know what the outcome was is what it would have been but we do know what we know so let's take a walk you can click go ahead so first of all obviously to all of our neighbors and friends heartfelt and prayers we went through a powerful storm and we came through it we're gonna come through it better so wishes to everyone who I doesn't have power still and hope you get it soon so what do we know I've heard so many numbers five hundred voters missed out seven hundred voters missed out a thousand voters are missed out in one of the letters analysis let's look at the analysis in 2015 2190 people came out to vote on a referendum in 2016 23:51 came out in 2017 1846 came out if you use those three years as a baseline average you come out with twenty one twenty nine votes as a referendum vote for the town historical we've had twenty this year we had twenty two hundred and fifty nine voters come out that's a good-sized majority to come out and to vote then I keep hearing the hours what hours were down what hours you know the last three hours were gonna yield if you take the averages across yes the last three hours yielded an average less above the baseline of 785 votes nobody talked about the first eleven hours when we had a thousand more voters come out to the polls of the first eleven hours people knew the storm was coming yes some people didn't come out to vote but we do know if you look at our or just pick our twelve to one a hundred more people came out to vote if you look at hours two to three one hundred and fifty one more people or I mean a two hundred twenty one that's 117 in less time I apologize 117 110 their hourly rate was much heavier during the normal voting hours so yes some people didn't get the vote but the voting lines are well within the bands of the averages are well within the lows so the next so if you look a turned out over the previous three years 21 29 the voter range range from the previous three votes from 1846 to 23 51 and in 2018 we produced 2259 votes well within the range of an acceptable vote process if you take the the hourly turnouts I discussed in the last three hours only produced 24 votes historically they produced 809 the first eleven hours produced 2195 votes which historically only produced 1294 so people came out earlier so now take away some of the voters did it make it to the polls but it seems like the majority came out early if this was not the case and what mr.
Jaffe had spoke about earlier is the voters came out in larger than expected volumes to express their displeasure in the of the vote in the budget that we put forth because overwhelmingly the numbers spoke not within a hundred not within 50 now within two hundred five hundred vote differentials so this wasn't a fifty votes this wasn't thirty votes this was a large number that people came but a lot of the letters we got stated in the news times five hundred more voters would have come out I don't know how we can extrapolate these votes I don't know if you take historical vote levels of two thousand votes every year how you can extrapolate out you were gonna get five hundred more voters we could I don't can't see the math behind it statistically I don't see it so again if it was a passionate vote where we had speakers had yes and no signs I could say maybe you could have had a higher turnout we had six speakers at our Town Meeting we didn't have sixty we didn't have six hundred we had six speakers at the Town Meeting if you take we had fewer we had very few yes or no vote signs in our but our lawns this year so that it's not a passionate driven vote from the point of view of we're going to expect three thousand voters instead of two thousand voters the you know in years past when you had people come speak I can I could say maybe you would get three thousand voters you know it's possible if you look we've received today fifty about fifty letters I would say maybe sixty letters to rivo sixty-five but before that we only received about twenty five letters supporting the budget now we've put forth the budget as a group saying we're gonna listen to the people we're gonna put it to the people we're gonna let the people come back to us and tell us what the results are alright next slide so now let's go to historic district votes historically district one up will bury votes down budgets and district two votes in budgets its historical it's been with us forever so let's go to district two votes our district one votes 2015 at 730 2016 yet 791 2017 you had 615 2018 yet 759 those numbers are all in line with the normal referendum vote they're not out of line there's not one clunker in the group it's what we would have expected had we said that it's what we would have drawn out and expected as a group for turnout if you go to district 2 which generally passes the budgets 1460 voted in 2015 1560 voted in 2016 12 31 and 7 2017 1,500 voted in 2018 so the district that carries budgets and carries you know basically cares had the same amount of people come out the same amount of voters came out so where are we going to get these extra votes from that we're talking about the five hundreds the 700s and the letters one person wrote in a thousand votes for us to consider I don't know where your pool of voters you're drawing from to get that number yes there may be 200 yes there may be 300 voters that didn't get out to vote however the data shows you need 700 more voters all to vote YES to pass these referendums failed by 560 so let's go the next one so again Board of Education failed by 563 votes so we're saying we needed 563 more people that come out and vote yes versus 0 people voting no in that same time frame again we keep saying the whole mantra of our Board of Finance was let the people speak and listen to the people we did not take any money out of the the print very little money out of the proposed budgets to this group we put it out said let the voters vote so again Steve had said 500 voters didn't get a chance to vote in the news times that's a lot of the things I'm getting from the people letters that I got people that I'm talk about well we had 500 voters coming out we don't know the number that could have come out histo that they wouldn't our historically that's what we've gotten between 5 and but historically the first 11 hours we didn't get a thousand extra voters no one looked at the first 11 we chose the data we wanted to look at and said the last three hours produce X voters people voting now I agree but to extrapolate out to the point to change this budget this is my thing not to whether it passed failed whatever it's to change the budget or to put it to a revote these numbers are too big to overcome the gap between the two highs and the two lows is too big to overcome by the historical data we would have had to have an historical vote to meet the numbers so yes you have the demography of the times of the votes yeah it was the first slide no no do you actually have like the absolutely demographics age groups things like that because I myself it's not available now look put can ask a question want me real quick yeah who the Board of Finance actually got to vote I walked out while the storm was hitting okay I filed an absolutely no half a half of the Board of Finance couldn't even vote except that and we don't have a thing but Ricky are you telling me that you were gonna get 800 voters out there all I'm saying is I don't know and I can't use the past to say that it was even you said a thousand more voters came out in the beginning hours how do we know that eight hundred nine hundred more could have come out in the last three hours we just don't know I think it's tough to say that we just don't know the next vote we would know I just think right now we wouldn't know we just don't know we can't use historical they said would you use that's sort of that's what we're talking slowly to use historically votes have gone completely different just in other general elections the things if things have changed the tide has changed a lot of people didn't get a chance to vote I don't think using this data yeah I get what you're trying to use this data as a majority and we got letters from 50 people to a hundred people we had 2,200 people vote which is well in line with the average they came out and spoke their minds and we're gonna say we're gonna do a revote votes are done in a day for a reason they're not done over two days they're done over three days they're done for a reason because the vote starts in the morning it ends in the night yes we had catastrophic disaster but the votes stand you can't know the result we didn't produce the results of this vote and nobody knew the numbers then we could say a revote and this is my opinion now we're in my opinion section here right now we know the outcome at a vote mm-hmm now to turn it the other way and say we're gonna revote on the other numbers we had 200 people that couldn't make it due to the storm we might have 200 people that had to relocate out of town they can't come back in two weeks to vote so you could turn the storm the same way on its head you could say hey 200 people are displaced because of power they're living with their children their children are living with their parents they can't come back and vote we have a good enough sampling by a major majority not as majority not fifty votes not one hundred five hundred and thirty books said that these budgets were too high we are out of line with the other towns now I agreed with the budget I was on board with the budget every town around us they had these high votes got voted down as well and what I'm saying is our mantra has been listened to the people we put it to the people we're not gonna cut we're not gonna do this and when we get a vote back that shows 1,500 to set 800 votes that's not a close vote to me and we sort of gotta listen we can't change the results of the votes we are the the score keepers or the umpires the umpire can't change the result I agree with you but you kind of beaten us with to the dead horse the beat we have we see the results here we get the we get the Blood Moon event but we talk about the first 11 hours and everything that's been discussed at all it is maybe and all it is letters but that takes one slide I mean what's I totally get it but this is the third sly now about the numbers of the the vote for what are those though they're numbers I am sorry numbers I understand that and I'm on board with reviewing them do you through no I'm good I need to we need to yeah let's get past the the vote split and get to the meat and potatoes of this presentation please and these potatoes are sorry whether we stand with what we got and we redo the vote or we make the cuts that the people voted for but I don't think this represents the town well enough and we have the kids vote that's advertised for all the schools that starts at four o'clock so parents deliberately wait to vote for four o'clock so their kids can decide their play day event so that's a demographic that's immediately being left out and I I keep going in my head if this flipped in the other direction and the vote had passed I feel like to be fair we should we would still be having this conversation because I'm pretty sure that the peak members of town who would have voted no that couldn't get out to the vote we pretty ticked off that their voice wasn't hurt and I don't think we can ignore that see I would be totally on board with that if it was less than the norms by a lot and a bigger closer difference we try to change the outcome we're trying to change the outcome of the vote it is compared who normally votes in the last election ant-like specifically who and you can see I mean I know lots of people who normally show up to vote that are anomalies and they didn't get their vote in and I don't think I can accept that and I know there's people out there but do we have 600 votes that change the vote plus the every hundred that vote no you need to double it on the back side of that so do you have enough numbers to change the outcome of what we have and listen to the people if you're confident that it will go down that it will fail again though because again are you gonna again this is my thing are you gonna get the same know of odors to come out are they displaced are they gonna be able to get to the polls votes are in a day and they're in a day for a reason they're not over two days you don't get to see the outcome of a vote and then redo a vote if the outcome hadn't been produced to me that's a different thing had the results never been declared worried about the no voters but not the yes voters I'm worried about the no voters were the ones that won if it was reversed at CES voters it's the it's what we what I bought into and this budget was I bought into listening to the people I didn't make cuts that I thought maybe could have been done because I took the the mantra of we're gonna listen to the people and let the people decide that's what we're gonna do and that's what I spoke to this whole board about the whole process now the results came out overwhelmingly in one direction and I'm sticking with the mantra of we're listening to the majority of the piece but now they're saying to all of the few I'm personally and we've discussed this I'm willing to draw any conclusions from a vote that lasted two-thirds to three-quarters of the time it's out there it might be it might be a specious argument it might be a perfectly legitimate argument we don't know and it has nothing to do with the outcome to me III and I look at what is what is fair or more less fair asking people to come out and vote again or telling people who weren't unable to vote you don't get a voice and to me the more fair option is to allow 100 percent of the people who want to vote to be able to vote and then we'll make a decision we don't know what the outcome that perhaps perhaps it does it doesn't change the result but perhaps the margin is smaller that might change our our outcome are our decisions perhaps it's perhaps the the the spread increases that'll change our thought process but to me every its regardless of the Optima I was actually in we talked about I was disappointed that the numbers came out I was hoping it was gonna be thrown out but a process that allows 100 percent of the people who want to be able to vote to be able to vote is the only the only fair way to do it for me can we come in - yeah I don't I also voted yes we had a unanimous vote and there were I had questions about parts of the budget that I did not agree with but is going to saying I agreed to put it out to the voters regardless of what you say this is a legal vote and it got it got hammered okay so that's a fact so if you were to look at the budget and decide that you are going to reduce the budget if you looked at it that way that you weren't going to present the same budget but you are going to make cuts to the budget the yes vote would have the opportunity to speak and and and vote against that so that we would come you would come together and to a third referendum and get them get it hopefully to a budget that would pass if you don't change the budget and you present the same budget and it gets hammered again now you've had it you've not listened to the people and and I'm on the fence here you know I got a brown shaking his head I don't really care because Ron and we work together for years but my point is now you're now you've got the course of a third referendum when you haven't listened to the people so that's something that I think this board of finance needs to think about if you were to reduce it and the yes vote was that pop that powerful toward it would have made a difference and it will have a chance to make that difference but I think that that is the prudent action to take and again I have a very strong tie with the Board of Education I am Pro education even though I voted against certain budgets I am very Pro education but I think that is the prudent thing to do that would be my thought to you know to to look at it if you feel that there are cuts that can be made then that makes I'm not saying the win and slash this budget I'm saying make adjustments to the budget don't just pass back the same the same budget along the same lines we know that our grants are $200,000 higher our volunteer firemen were just two weeks ago got the Nam we're gonna be paying them a hundred just over $100,000 there's 49,500 we can remove from the budget without really affecting us and I think that's something you should consider 149 to 49 those types of adjustments I'm completely for but to head into this and assuming that that that the number says we should start slashing nobody knows no I guess they slashed I said we gotta assume we didn't you have any carefully area to use we will get to there was less that we want to make working through a spreadsheet this was simply given Glenn and put the time into this analysis a chance in a voice to walk through it you do have to be careful when you say because when you have people at the table talking and then you come back with what you know things are using words they slash it's it's not fair to the people at the table so please be careful with and this is what my thing was about the amount of voters coming out what we miss we don't know the number and it's being broadcast 500 seven hundred a thousand and it's the same thing with slide I never used the word slash anything out I said we need to listen to the people the people voted we need to look at reducing budgets is there anything else you wanted to go Tom good I just wanted to comment on everyone everyone's statements it says it's a split of 563 votes so that means even if there were another 600 voters to appear in those last final hours and I am very sorry that those individuals that didn't want to vote and had every intention to did not get to the polls it is a hardship and I am very sympathetic today but as I look at it you know from a mathematical perspective I think to myself if it's 563 people that voted against that margin that means that even if I had 600 or 700 voters walk through the door in those final hours that means 5 out of 6 or 6 out of 7 would have had to vote for to pull this over I think that from a statistical perspective is unlikely but does your opinion of what the reactionary change if the spread is 700 against versus 100 against does that change your response we don't like how you would adjust the budget going forward does the fact that it would does a there's a budget vote that is 22,000 for 1,000 against does that would that action be different if it was 1,600 against 1,400 if the spread was smaller would that change how you would then react to what the next budget should be yeah I think so I think if a spread in a specific circumstance I don't know that we ever expect the circumstance quite like this it is unprecedented but I think if the spread was narrower then yes I think this spread of course has to be taken in the context that there are people perhaps right in this audience get a chance to voice their point of view and they would have supported it possibly but I think it's not a mandate for us to take aggressive action we looked over the budget so carefully and made sure that every objective that we had for the town was solid that it was well-intentioned and purposeful and some of those things I know folks in town have been waiting to happen for years so I would not at all if we go and we make adjustments and we do agree as a team to do so I would not at all recommend that we make any radical adjustments I think we do as our Board of Selectmen member mentioned I think we do need to make a good-faith effort to make some adjustments to represent that large number of voters that told us that they expected us to and I think in good faith that's what I would recommend make just one comment following up on yours Glen thank you for doing this analysis the rate of voting was much higher this time for the first 11 hours then it was in the last one so you could probably assume if you had the same rate of growth you would have a significant number of people falling between five and eight how they would vote would they make it pass that's a tough one a call what so this of this budget went down significantly we can all agree to margins they're gonna get a lot smaller yeah I'm not gonna dispute that the margins aren't gonna be 560 margins are gonna be a lot smaller absolutely I can but the dance point if I'm not looking to aggressively cut anything I'm saying the spoke was to reduce the budget not aggressively and if it was lost by a hundred votes or 700 votes that's not changing the percentage I'm looking at as a reduction the the the school can't take the pain of a big reduction okay but in 43 million dollars there could be a little room to do a little reduction at forty two million dollars so whether it failed by a hundred votes or five hundred votes to me it you're not gonna take four percent from the school is a very serious question do you think it was the forty three million dollars that number or was it the five point six four percent increase in Mill rate because I think there are definitely cuts we there's obvious because that we know that we can make right now to reduce that mill rate and you know what's advertised is the mill rate increase is that you know five point six percent increase in mill rate what if the if it was forty three million with no increase that nobody would care that there was an increase to to the school budget obviously been increased to the schools creates an increase in the mill rate but there are things like the government revenue and then the other fifty nine thousand you guys just mentioned right and probably some other areas where we could make cuts and I think that we should look into that right now and see where we can get to from the mill rate perspective before we look at cutting any departments at least at least get those those low hanging fruits first and then query to your point that fourteen hundred and fifty eight that number those folks are definitely reactants are they we have a ninth I answer your question your key please you can't protocol and please you asked I'm answering if you pose the query you have to give you teammates in those fourteen hundred and fifty eight votes you asked I'm answering I believe it's a response to the percentage increase I think folks are concerned that we're taking too big of a bite in one fiscal year that's my thought you ask that every answer and I agree with you and then I'll ask what do you do with that 1549 votes Ricky I mean you're you're sort of on a different path I mean what do you say to those fourteen hundred fifty nine people that said to hi I say we have an opportunity right now to take into consideration new knowledge that we didn't have when the previous budget was proposed to at least adjust down the mill rate based on all the information and from there we can see as a board for comfortable with what that new mill rate ends up becoming what that increase is there's gonna be an increase and go from there to see okay is there more that we could reduce well again I agree with with Dan that we didn't get a hundred percent of the motive but we still should we still should you know I agree we should take into consideration this new knowledge that we have then how do you differentiate between the 1459 on the education vote and the twelve hundred on the telephone how do you differentiate between some people made a conscious decision to say the Board of Ed budget was too high the town budget was not as high how do you make that differential date what the people again they could see I don't know 100% what they're thinking that's what their thought is but again it's a null ray is what's driving that but if the all end mill rate if the mill rate was driving that don't you think 1,450 people would have said to the town side the same thing to the board of that side I want to understand your logic of mill rate because again the three budgets got voted down by different numbers thirteen hundred fifteen hundred and sixty-four what the numbers were okay if your logic was the Miller II I think you would see the same response on the questions of the mill rates too high so I'm gonna vote too high on every question the way the questions were specifically answer was the Board of Ed was the highest budget that was too high and the town was a second in the capital one was the third and the numbers don't work again that close so what is the logic of the mill rate I'm trying to understand I think you're looking at the I think if we can get the overall mill rate down on both the town side and on the school side all in I believe that we can get about that passes but we again we need to see what those numbers become I have some proposals here everybody I'm sure you do and that's what I was hoping we can get to in your presentation I mean we didn't you know it was in another slide but it was going nowhere because I already had what Steve said I knew the fire department had the money I knew that the grants the grants also the grants don't move the needle very much I mean right they move it but they don't move into the what the vote said but do we have did you have more information on this like that that's the more important thing that's what I wanted to get at see my third slide about the votes play didn't you know we knew that you guys ready to actually move on and discuss the budget now I think we've belaboured at this point so I'm gonna flip to another spreadsheet here being that we knew some of those low hanging fruits that ricky mentioned and steve mentioned i incorporated those into the last last iteration of the Board of Finance approved budget that the town voted on last week okay and when you consider what what those changes were and we'll go through them in detail here so everyone's on the same page okay you do get to kind of a reset of a four point nine four point nine one percent or a increase in the Miller rate of one point three four and that is different from what we saw before right that's less than a five percent increase can you walk through we did absolutely can and I will well thanks yeah I wanted to give everyone that high level first so you know we're what we've just been talking about that actually gets us and now we're gonna go through and we're gonna walk through how we actually get there okay so nothing on this front page has been changed I just highlighted those so we know where to look okay so town operations I'll go through that first we'll go through these in order now the expenditures which are the town operations okay we have simply taken into account the fact that the certified numbers from both fire houses yield a volunteer stipend of a hundred thousand five hundred or a reduction from our initial estimate about forty nine thousand five hundred so that's awesome now for any of these I will family disagree if anyone uses the word wrong that we had it wrong because we didn't we went on best estimates and now with the circumstance of the initial referendum not passing we have the benefit of having updated figures and updated estimates okay so that's the change that you saw up here okay and then we get to the contingency now we weren't shy about what two hundred thousand dollars was in that contingency we even added it as a note that got published with with this back on the town website with the town clerk okay so we had reduced estimated funding from the state based on what we've received in the past and based on a lack of the legislation or the actions of the legislature that just went through I think it was last week or the week before well after the Board of Finance had approved the budget and we had pushed it to referendum okay so we had put in two hundred fifty thousand dollars in there okay which was a reduction already of what the Board of Selectmen had approved okay but based on the fact that we now have it written that we will get funded fully and we'll get to that revenue amount for this proposal or this round of discussion right now that's reduced further by 200,000 which leaves a general contingency of 50,000 okay so I'll flip back to that mill rate tab so now you can see there alright so that does I mean that contingency that's 200 grand it does make a difference there so that's good and then we get into the intergovernmental which is part of our revenues okay now I highlighted in yellow where we had made a change before that I had basically reversed the impact of and you could see that over here so the initial proposal which we got from the Board of Selectmen from the governor or the legislature was one point one four four one eight three million okay now being that the legislature has said that there will be no cuts to this I added that back for this presentation okay so now that educational cost sharing is in fully funded okay we had increased the low sip grant however I put that back down to the initial proposal from the governor as it was approved in total funding so the guidance that we got was a total one point nine six six eight eight eight there so I adjusted the low sit back down to where it was just to be consistent with initial budgeting and then the municipal stabilization grant we had reduced it okay based on some estimates but now in an effort to get back again to the total that we got from the state that was increased back that okay so now when I flip back to that mill rate tab you'll notice that instead of about one point seven in intergovernmental revenue we now have the one point nine six seven which is right here and then in order to have a properly balanced budget for those that were following on at home as we're going through our deliberations where we get to balance the budget is in this general property taxes okay so what then I did there was I took away okay so this is I think the cumulative effect which is yes the good guy if you will of all these changes not only in the state my primarily state revenue in the reduction of the contingency okay to get to the level of services that dictate the level of taxes we plug in to this here in this current taxes so we actually reduced the current taxes line by that four hundred four hundred forty eight thousand okay so when I flip back to here you see that this is now generating 63 million in tax revenue in addition to the other funding sources okay and that with that low-hanging fruit gives us then without further consideration which we will have four point nine one percent o the burden of screen sharing yeah four point nine one percent increase or one point three four which optically is a lot different than what we had before okay now again these are changes based on updated information okay that would in essence not have been there had we had the information when we set the budget before okay so now just a quick poll are we okay with those assumptions as a base to have further discussion yes or not good okay then the quick poll says that yes okay we will have this as a basis which does not mean that voices will not be heard at all voices will be heard if there other considerations okay I'm sorry I missed that all right so then I said that all voices will be heard okay so who would like to open discussion on proposals and of course we will do this as a majority okay so if there's anyone who would like to make additional proposals searly can get I'm more than happy to entertain those so we can have a discussion on them Glenn I am interested in our other ones it's don't hold back this is the part that I wanted to hear from him right now I really have nothing to say how's that we we we took low-hanging fruit yes but I don't think we listened at all to the voices we haven't discussed the voices so we haven't gotten to that point yet I wanted to just state that we have things that don't impact that we could possibly put action on now last question is four point nine one percent a number that you think the town will pass I think that people are gonna say five percent increase correct are they getting that's my personal opinion is I'm talking to people in town also people heard was five and a half percent index five and a half percent increase and they don't want to hear why we have a vibrant adversaries site a lot of people just don't want to hear it so it's something we have to address but we have to do it really sensitively beautiful I think the Board of Ed is where it should be right now and the town were only going up one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars on a twenty million dollar budget okay well then I'll open up some things right let's just let's just jump right in I'll go to the capital tab okay we have items of capital which if we really want to consider ways of cutting let's say a current increase there are things that we didn't want to do which I'm not recommending that we do but yet making proposals for discussion okay right now one of the biggest things that's driving our non-bonded capital right right on that front tab is this $850,000 in roads with cash that's one of the things that if we wanted to I'll say because now we're in the op-ed portion inappropriately pass off in bonding pallets right there nope if we took that out of cash that would get it below for we was saying we went through we went through the presentation I want to make sure I want to make sure that we go down all hand-washed yep so if we if we pop out and 850,000 okay and that does go to wait a minute hang on don't move show them before you do that oh yeah sure the agreement that was made between this Board of Selectmen and the Board of Finance was two changes by a hundred thousand each year we even missed it this year we didn't even change it to 950 and down to the 750 lake was proposed and agreed to by the boards before us so that number that 850 really is a hundred thousand behind the times in my opinion is we leave the roads in work our way to that one and a half million you know our streets treat the street sweeper that we have right now works but we were gonna bond that you know if you take that out it's not going to change this budget you know we could put that off to next year and hope that the street sweeper works fine season we probably get it through but it's not gonna change that number drastically Steve Greg mentioned the cash items that are going to change Greg mentioned earlier maybe some equipment that you had to acquire to deal with the storm oh absolutely we spend money so do any of those items appear in the budget that we might consider being reimbursed for no they don't so let's let's just based on Ricky's question right or my my opening salvo there for this discussion you know what happens if we kick that can down the road well yeah we do get and just based on that change because it's a lunker three point five two percent right is that more dismountable hundred thousand less however it doesn't it doesn't address what Glenn I think one of the points he was making where that's on the town side that doesn't address anything with the education budget right but that's the kind of that's the kind of impact that drops it down and that drastically that's not a reduce and expense though that's a push of expense that's exactly what it is but when we're talking about all the range optics that's what it does that's a shell optic moved um all you're doing is moving it down the road so then if you just that's not an expense cut that's that's bad policy in there management in terms of the capital budgets what about the the boys locker members that's something that can be postponed because I know that was part of our capital I took a shower over there I'm sorry is ice-cold only the girls showers work the girl showers are in the horrible condition and the boys are worse I don't think we look to make a point on that those girls showers are brand new so if they're a deplorable I mean when was the school how long is when is the school renovation 8 years now 10 years well 12 years I mean they shouldn't be deplorable so man maybe something take up with school these are really there's there's nothing in this capital budget in my opinion that we don't really really need but here we are so we had the discussion with the apparatus reserve for the fire stations and saying that when they need when they need a new vehicle that we will agree to so we have 75 thousand dollars in each of the fire department reserve apparatus reserves we're I mean if we're agreeing to finance that through the town is that something mean it's it's not a reduction in expenses all your dote is saying we're not paying this year we're gonna pay it three years down the road well look that's true pretty much across the board no no no there's management that can be done that you're not gonna do that we got pay raises in the town above two percent we could say pay raises a two percent flat rate it just two percent across the court there are cuts we can make and I'm sure even in 43 million dollars there's cuts that we can make not drastic that would not affect the service nor the supply said forty three million dollars if we can't find a quarter of a percent that's not a lot of money and the same thing on the town side we could find above and beyond the low-hanging fruit the pay raises the technical support lines that we raise the travel lines that we raise five and six percent there are line items that we can reduce that can get us to true reductions of expenses not taking money and put taking the roads and binding it not taking money out of the capital apparatus that we got to pay the bill down the road we put forth a pretty big budget it was a big number we all knew it was a big number it came back to us and in that just a brookfield other counts came back around us in their voted down referendums of the votes the numbers and wise was the highest now if it had passed you know I'd be okay and we go with it you know if you do the analysis of surrounding towns like Bethel they actually had a little over 5% increase but they did have some massive development come on board so they came out with them too something percent okay that's a fair assessment so you have to really look at all those budgets to see where they were and how they have arrived at them to understand what the true cost increases are I did a study last week that I was gonna share with you guys probably got the disaster with our taxes in Brookfield I know this doesn't help work for residents make it feel more comfortable over the years the town of Brookfield a son of an outstanding job in keeping budgets low every surrounding town taxes are higher than ours New Milford is 2% Denver is 8% Newtown for the same house 21% higher so we have done of I think not just in our administration in our work over the years we've done that but we have done it in ways that have harmed the town because we weren't doing capital maintenance with weren't taking care of our buildings properly they're our equipment we have 21 year old vehicles people are driving around that are dangerous at some point look like when you look at the schools the average age is 60 years at some point you need to bite the bullet and do things now to save money in the future it's really tough three vehicles were coming off of these vehicles that we can use elsewhere yeah absolutely perhaps vehicles we don't yes Sean can you go back to the cover page one or the memory page right here you scroll down yeah please so last year the elderly tax relief was not funded know that four hundred and eighty five thousand dollars now I'm not saying to remove it so don't don't misconstrue what I'm trying to say but what's the impact of just having to include that back in that's about three quarters of one percent exactly yeah that's none of what will increase it so how did we we funded that last year obviously when it wasn't in the budget and we still came out with a general fund increase and just at the end of the year yep that's correct how's that something we even need to budget for them if we can still come out yeah I think I think cases and roses I think it is unless you want to think that's a real expense that we're going to get it might even be a little higher than that but it was a real expense last year - yeah and we came out of them we're not in the results yet we don't know it was the Prairie I'm sorry okay prior to was in it was in 184 wasn't it yes yes we haven't reached this one yet we don't know correct Steve will your expenses due to the storm be under this year's budget are they going to kick over oh they would be this year's expenses and it's going to come out of your general fund at this point in time we're gonna have to come to the board of financing once we know those numbers and get your permission it's the fund that my authority has expired to expend money I can only do that during the first 72 hours so anything we're doing going forward I'm gonna be coming to you guys keep the board Selectmen tend to you to approve that authorization and we don't know what those expenses are but let's hope and pray that FEMA does come through for us so yeah so then we don't want anything else to go against the general fund if that's going to we really don't want to give it to the general fund if we don't have I mean if you have an extraordinary expense like this disaster the rating agencies understand that that's why you have an honest line general fund balance but I would prefer to stay out of that as much as possible although I agree with Sean on his magic on that the general fund if we need to do it we're not going to strangle the taxpayers if Elijah and I know that's been your thought process a lot and I agree with that I mean I don't want to touch a general fund but in a case like this it's not strong but the back so there's if we don't have to okay Shawn I know that we had we had talked about the two command vehicles and we had not questions whether we need them but whether they could fit into this budget and I didn't know if that would be a consideration again you know now that we've had this disaster I don't know how much better oftenly would be if we had those but those were two items that we again we didn't question the need we question whether we can do this well you know we have I just talked to the J Purcell a couple of weeks ago and we will have three police vehicles like explorers coming off police patrol because you know we need those incredibly reliable they're usually three or four years old and we could probably they've already got lights they've already got radio that they got a lot of the stuff give those two of those to the fire departments as incident command vehicles after this disaster there's no doubt in my mind that we need them because many roads were only passable by a car Tuesday night and Wednesday so we absolutely need us they need a but I'm saying we need the two vehicles but we could use two of the police cars that are coming over to the town as we you know researcher them for the fire department no they have been actually out a big short-term our know me there are there are things library computer insulate the second act at Canada with a fire I'm gonna leave in a sham and say that we declare in this is my opinion and where I am that this is mandatory we've yeah I know we clarified and improved the what we're presenting based upon new knowledge and I think that is the right thing to do aside from that I will in any class right now and until you know the results of what I consider to be a valid boat anything at allé vote go Illini line I have some ideas well it could be not because things like that but until there's an article that allows 100% of people wanted you to be able to be voting for that for point I understand not long so that how do we ensure that a hundred percent of the people who had to vote I think if you have this approach to the vote out you said I'm you know two weeks yeah sure it comes out 1,900 people come out though what are we really sure you're where you can never be true at all that everybody wants to vote me evil and how many people are gonna be impacted that way 80% of the number of people who were impacted the past Tuesday maybe talk about this that's why the chance the chance of us getting the absentee ballots actually in people's hands I told Ryan Murphy today is very so they asked tease I guess and again a number could have increased because people play around boats so travel schedules and everything else about 4550 a little machine so I'm gonna pose that we move forward to the town with the budget this I make sure that there are thoughts their feelings on the budget you can cry Karen on the ceilings but just let me know what's going on with with the project your thoughts feelings on where we should end up here before we close the session and call for of updating the numbers well you know our solid numbers and that it does move the needle below 5% and that's gonna be a difference and you know I'm sure it's not what a lot of people wanted the original about it but getting them circumstances and people Allah to people not get any chance to vote I just think that it doesn't the see any better job in it but it's close enough of the Athenian numbers and get an equal chance and come back let me go back and we started looking at and I I would agree I'd be awful putting this budget forward [Music] should what is the expense to the put the boat have we're probably gonna have primaries money all right we're putting that in there $1,000 I think we've got a trend let's look whatever data so bad that it yeah so let's change size 70 mm Allah to eat bones very hey the Benetton variety the toast and applause right so it was put forward in the Mazda process so if there's an update on that as well that's 4,000 of savings times 8 votes 30 draft so we have two primaries another referendum a capital referendum and a regular election right and the schools referendum in November right you're off the six if they are tentative both outs although that number then you're going to be right at the 70 mm so Glen's talking about so then I'll ask the question what looking to be barely cut this is smoke that we got and again you can dispute the numbers whatever we didn't make a cop there's no caught that is whatsoever the contingency was base I need two hundred thousand for the plopping wasn't a cop so again basically we were pulling for the same budget to get a town and we're ignoring the people that did boat that keep got the boat and overwhelmingly chose the questions too high again and I understand I'm arguing with shrink again but we as a group right now we're saying we're dis filing fourteen hundred votes the two highs and we're not taking into account the levels of the two eyes so saying we're saying we're gonna put it out of the boat which changes to the dynamics the boat dynamics change because the numbers may not wear any of us wanting we're changing in a dynamic so vote right now they had enough numbers to be valid say considered valid the question is were overwhelmingly too high and we as a board right now we're saying we're not making any cost any budgets all we did was take think that's low information is four hundred forty nine thousand see because over budget 150,000 firemen we did not make a cut we throw away money that what is it going to be used I agree with everything you said that we get a minute angry we well yeah what I'm suggesting is not now and not not ignoring the people who voted yes no but asking then again that's all this is it is asking them to the boat again the only problem is said this is illegal you are saying no any well because you you're ignoring what you're saying but you know you are telling the people who voted so this might be this might be a little unfair but we started the first you know 15m history and talked with Greg out of town came together with each other and people were need and he need the people who didn't have there's a lot of people who didn't have the ability vote so we're asking the whole town to allow the people who didn't have the opportunity to vote to come together and let us do it again no this is way out there to the poll all the people who didn't vote right so then we're again we're so not getting the same boat you are not getting the same boat we're just changing the results you know we pay for one and a half percent and it's fun and I could be enough to the flips the no bows because it could yes why are the advisory questions even on the ballot Jesus alone hath the fifty percent ninety percent of the residents needs to go but a common the people out there really need something to go after four lakh and you just couldn't make it not only was a sudden in fact over to seven and a half hours I mean there's a lot of Evil's it's just the opportunity okay so we're at three-quarters a 3/4 doesn't use to vote I said I'm gonna keep trying to say I mean it doesn't move the needle on a used point is that you know they're a bit apparent and that's because they do wait till the afternoon I'm not gonna dispute the demographics are they enough to the main for the change where we're ignoring the questions that are on the ballot that's my heart will never know and what we're doing is we're changing to the boat we retained we didn't like the bottle we change it into the hole I would have felt bad for anybody was know that it didn't get in offices you know and I buddy but I think it is actually past we're gonna call it and we would have nailed it sure like my concern at me for people my economy tsunami to direct it for people to hotel mine is that the Board of Finance due to the proper file the proper procedure and listening and making adjustments if they think they are warranted and then letting the ESPO Kathir chana so my my comments are not but against the budget or against education - that the de Board of Finance is responsible and how to handle that that's my own that those were my greatest snap to remote novo not in any way just want to be sure that let's just say they don't know if he did but agree to the Purnima to vote again in this fashion with this calculation you just made if it is voted down again are we pushing up against a deadline if we had a two weeks no any final deadline to get so to dance and then if it does not pass by the start of next fiscal the Board of Finance and levy tax and debates on roll over the budget I'm you just say it's basically the same thing Thank You Glenn that is not adequate I'm sure particularly because we have all these overages with a special and a predicament gonna push it into that to that point so the best my concern if we get at the same outcome giving everyone who didn't get a chance to develop an opportunity to vote and we try to do it in that democratic fashion if we get ever the same outcome then what do we do as a board I just wanted a feel of people saw us about that this hypothetical so we go when we go through I promise you I would probably I want to have your pants today I'm just gonna say to declare 20 you know people maybe any tiny homes gonna be here so there's you know it's the kindness of I mean so regardless what it is it's gonna need a depositor by tomorrow midnight first of all I think I our individual homes right we're the whole sweet guitar but there's something wrong with the power to that house understand there was another boat that a people are actually they have internet [Music] an evaluation of what what they wanted to do but they have them already decide these guys have done a phenomenal job we had a 50 72 totally gross 29 Cruz just put it in balls damn right I don't know the black curve they came from all over all [Music] we gave a lot of careful thought but yeah I think the quarter of a percentage dimension would be $100,000 right now take a formal vote is there any appetite over the work to discuss that just a show of yes is there an appetite of this world to discuss a let us say a quarter percent reduction on town and education services we take a day we haven't taken anything from that just a fatality yeah so we can we can just like that the city we have ages they got they got the hundred fifty thousand from you know cash a rose do we want to see whatever and I was like or not this is not and Walker not gonna be the ruler of the world we can see her alright let's see after doing that I'm just curious into the people who do Oh know where they would like to see the money come out of what reductions would like to see educated but there was something else as well I mean do they how ideas were me you know hey we made of roads well I don't see tonight that he was you know that's why I was sitting a disabled I mean there are certain things we can at a cut and I anything to the one of my heroes you want to listen to the residence but I mean you know to steve's credit and you know others credit you know we were finally starting to make headway with rose you know we didn't upset it back so hey you know i think it would be great to hear comments from some people it's where do you wanna do it the disagrees if you look at a quarter of a percent off of vegetation goes from four point nine four point seven three but that is $100,000 eateries seeing that I think there were items that we could push off and cash on from even if we look at let's say travel edges right for the town and knock that off it is a hard year to get raises a little 2% sorry you know maybe some of those cat items we just can do use the crash to limit at the tennis court is that this is a safe use your trip I know but if I'd say there's a safety issue all right yeah you know make up some of that is letting attic you know the door there are things there are at music next were these are hard students and so I wanted to know control-z and me you know just right on soon absolutely raging either hee hee how serious whether I am interested in knowing that bit of information to see this those are reasonable yeah I mean it would be rather difficult if we would invite Colette to get our thoughts on that cut I mean are you even prepared to discuss refined 100 come on I think it's Alec after you mr.