order in the public hearing today is for application 24 tx02 the application of Tyler Ricker property located at 166 Route 6 the applicant is Seeking a special permit to operating a home op occupation plumbing and heating per section 4.12a of the zoning regulations okay the the notice did talk about another another public hearing to follow this one but that will be deferred we'll talk about that later so this will be the only public hearing for this evening I see five members here tonight and Kevin the rules for a public hearing are that anybody can ask questions and are encouraged to during the public hearing of the applicant the once the the commission gets to deliberation only those members that are actually seated will be allowed to ask questions or comment at that point I think we've got five Commission members here counting Kevin the alternate and so that means everybody that's here now will be able to participate when we get to the regular meeting the deliberations with that I'd like to open the hearing up by hearing from the applicant if you can you know tell us what you're looking to do out there Tyler that appreciate that yeah I've been in air conditioning for a little over eight
years now currently doing mostly commercial we do get involved in a little bit of residential but my background is mostly commercial which does translate very well to the residential World before that I did a lot of facilities maintenance that kind of thing so very familiar with repairs and and taking care of mechanical and that kind of thing so how many employees do you have with the company I'm currently with we're at about 18 right now and those 18 employees that would be working out of your house no no no no that's my day job that's my day job okay yeah what I'm doing now is kind of just a soft start and and just kind of
starting to get out there on my own so okay I understand anything else you want to let us know about about what you're doing and you don't have to I think it was pretty straightforward yeah yeah I I think that's all I can say Okay Jim what have you got for us on on the completeness of his application I know you were working on the checklist for that today yeah I I find it complete with one exception and and that's the site plan is not an A2 it's not drawn to A2 standards and typically that has been handled by way of a waiver there's not there's not much going on there there's no so there's no construction utilizing existing space in a garage and office space in the house as is as is allowed as a use of
right the the parcel if anybody doesn't know it's it's right on Route six past burnap Brook near the field the Post Farm field that's on the on the west side of of Route Six the house itself is is pretty well hidden possibly seasonally it's visible I'm not sure and said the same thing about may be visible from Aspen road but I don't know for a fact it's it's set fairly far back I believe its neighbors are the po Farm in the the firing range and five or six neighbors along Aspen all so there's no no health code issues there's no no water issues no storage was requested we did speak about a sign I did throw a little language in a in a draft motion if the commission chooses to move in that direction okay anything else Jim no so I'll open open the hearing up to the commission members at this point any any of the commission members have any questions for Tyler the parel is almost eight Acres yep going be like six or 700 feet off the road I agree yep sounds good so if if there's no other questions for Tyler and and I don't have any I will ask ask members of the public or others from the town I guess that
would be Eric and Katherine I think are the only other two people on the call tonight if you have any questions or comments at this point this is Katherine and I don't okay thank you Katherine I have no issues with it it seems like a fairly straightforward homebased business application the applicant would have to understand if the business increased to a size that he had employees working there out of there for him he would probably have to go back for a modification of the special permit but if he's just running this as a side business out of existing space and he's not building anything and he's not storing large scale materials on the outside you know the only other thing I would say is just that you have to be aware of that we do have a residential transfer station so if you're starting to produce waste associated with the B building of any significant scale you're going to have to get your own dumpster from the town's perspective that
seems like it's it Jed I have no further comment no thanks Eric so at this point do any of the commission members have any concerns about closing the public hearing at this point I have no concerns yeah thanks Kevin yeah I have nothing okay so at 709 the public hearing is closed next up on the agenda is we'll start the regular meeting and at 7:09 I'll call the regular meeting to rder first up is roll call and seating of alats I see an cre is here Scott Leanne Kevin and myself so Kevin you will be seated for Steve Nelson I guess you'll be seated for the for the V VY Steve Nelson is no longer with us so you're you're seated as a
regular member filling in for the vacancy created by Steve next item up is additions or changes to the agenda and I have none anybody have any additions or changes hearing none moving on to public comment issues are concerns not on the current agenda Katherine you have anything for us there at this point no I don't because I understand that the public hearing on the Gravel Pit wasn't held and that Mr Hy is going to just give a report as part of the regular meeting so yep that's correct okay so thank you moving on to new business the new business item is the discussion action application of Tyler Ricket 166 Route 6 applicant seeking a special permit to operate a Plumbing Heating business I think you know from from the size of the lot the location of the house the size of the business all that stuff you seems pretty pretty good fit to me any commission members have any any concerns or anything that you want to discuss or talk about at this point we need a waiver for the fact that there was no way to or that just something Tyler can do well so I I was looking you at that when when I was going through looking at the checklist today Jim said he was you know expecting a waiver for on for the A2 survey and I asked why wouldn't we just put an a for that instead of a waiver and and and the answer was because that requesting a waiver is what we've traditionally done on the commission and I do recall that we've done that in the
past you know I think and my thought was that with e size of the property being big size of the business being small an A2 survey if he doesn't have one apparently he does or else Jim wouldn't have mentioned it is an awful lot of expense for essentially no gain in my mind and so I could have lived with Jim putting na in that box or or the waiver but I think you know with them with going with what we've done before which is We've we've you know acted on a waiver for that kind of a consideration I think that's probably a reasonable approach the end result was it wasn't it drawn on a A2 survey though I'm sorry wasn't it wasn't actually drawn on an A2 survey I I thought I saw that in I don't believe so I'm of the opinion that once you draw on an A2 it's it's it loses its credential so means yeah it was I mean a two survey that he drew on so okay yeah not like he he's just pencil something out on a piece of paper you know no and as you drive by and look at look at the lot out there you
could see that he isn't going to be bothering any of his neighbors no any other questions from the commission at this point okay I have none either Jim you had mentioned that you had a draft motion for us to consider yeah I had sent it out I mean I guess I'll just read off what I have my notes move to approve the application of Tyler Rickard 166 Route 6 applicants seeking special permit to operate home occupation specifically A Plumbing Heating business in accordance with the application and plan on file I threw a couple conditions on there just that the signing should be in accordance with the regulations that the applicant is responsible f for filing the the requisite notice I just like to put that in there just to make the applicant aware of that and that lighting is in compliance with Section 141 and section 23 any any new lighting that's added in accordance with section 421 and 23 Eric had mentioned the trash issue that might be another item for the conditions hey don't we also need a comment in there about this waiver of the A2 survey that was that should be voted on prior to voting on The the application I believe okay now you were you were thinking the applicant was going to put a a sign out on Route Six well you mentioned it and I just there are regulations within the home occupation section limiting to by two by two I believe and
I just wanted to throw that out there I I didn't think my understanding is he wasn't going to put a sign initially but that at some point in the future [Music] yeah if I Jim just answered that if I did you know I'm not plan on putting a sign up at this time but if I did it would be something very similar to the signage that's out there for this meeting that we're having tonight for the special permit nothing nothing crazy big or anything like that just small yard sign okay well I would I would point out that you on you're on a state road out there and so you know the state has probably a say in what what the signs would be but for the purposes of tonight's application you know I did not see anything in there that discussed a sign and so not I was not expecting to see one at this point yep yep okay so I guess with Jim's recommendation I will make a motion that we wave the requirement for the applicant o provide a new A2 survey other than the one that he's already marked up with his business notes a second okay thanks and that was Leanne right right okay any other discussion on that particular motion hearing none I'll call for a vote on approval of the waiver for the A2 survey an i Scott I lean I Kevin I and I vote I as well that
motion passes 500 also we'll make a motion to approve the special permit application as Jim discussed I'll second it thank you Ann any discussion on that application Chad I know that item 51 referring to parking or the plan of parking when you see attached you know it says self-employed no employees but that item is specifically specifically related to the parking and like Eric said I don't know if you want to mention anything about the scaling of the business or I don't I don't at this point I you know one of the things we we need to figure out is you know there is a requirement in this in this regulations on home occupations that we reach out and and review each of the homebased business occupations I think it's annually when the guy pays us what's supposed to be is $50 we don't have a process in place for
that yet but I think that's worth doing just just for those kind of things because at some point you do get too big for a homebased business I think where you where you draw that distinction might be a little different in this case from you would for somebody who the last Homebase business was a landscaping company on you a very small lot on Meritt Valley know it would be different for him than it would be for for Tyler but we've got to come up with a process that lets us keep an eye on those things yeah Jed I am working on a putting together just a list of businesses the intent homebased businesses the idea being that the annual collection of the fee sort of correspond with an inspection of the property to sort of maintain that Creek u a lot of these a lot of businesses tend to just grow incrementally and and can get away can get a little Can exceed What Might Have Been anticipated upon approval I think that's probably true and that's kind of why I like that annual just go out and see what what's going going on there but again that we'll come through that at some point but as far as tonight I'm not concerned about that yet sounds good okay and and thanks for the question Kevin any other comments or discussions hearing none I will call for a vote an hi Scott hi lean hi Kevin hi and I vote I is well the motion passes 500 Tyler your your business is approved
I would ask you to get a hold of gym at some point at your convenience and see what you there's some stuff that you probably need to do to get the special permit on the land record and and that's your responsibility Jim will help you with that but we've had some cases where we go back and look in the followup documentation wasn't in the land record so I'm going to try and make a better point of getting that done okay not a problem any questions for us Tyler nope not at this time okay thank you very much all right thank you next next up is old business and and first is the update for the plan of conservation and development John I'll turn that over to you at this point okay thank you good evening everyone so I after our last meeting and then again last week I believe I forwarded around the consensus hopefully consensus
vision statement which I'm putting on the screen right now hopefully people can see that I'll try to make it a little bit bigger but this reflects the the edits and discussions we had last month I'll just I'll go through just the the the central portion of this the the the we envision statements which we did some some word smithing and clean up on them so we envision an Andover that provides housing educational recreational and Civic opportunities that maintain the community's excellent quality of life we envision an Andover that strives to create more affordable housing to welcome a wider variety of new residents and households ensures opportunity for residents and actually that should be and insures opportunity for residents to thrive throughout their life stages we envision an Andover that safeguards the Integrity of our natural Agricultural and historic resources through sustainable conservation we envision economic development that takes advantage of major transportation and Trail corridors that serves the needs of the commercial needs of the community and is scaled to fit with the spirit and pace of Andover we envision a safe and vibrant Andover that connects the community through a network of complete streets and enhances the town Civic campus on both sides of Route 6 at its heart we envision Civic investment in infrastructure and acknowledges and that that acknowledges and takes measures to address climate change I'll stop there if anyone has any any comments or thoughts on on how this reflects our our discussion last ime no comments I think it looks good okay thank you and so then what I did and hopefully people got a chance to take a look at this is sort of spinning
this forward I think the we envision statements and particularly sort of the highlighted you know kind of bumper sticker version splits up fairly nicely into what I would propose to be essentially a chapter layout for the plan of conservation and development and so these six we envision statements would basically become the six substantive chapters of the plan of conservation and development so the the first chapter being dealing essentially with quality of life matters the second being with affordable housing or housing in general third being conservation fourth being Economic Development fifth complete streets and the sixth is climate change and infrastructure and under each of those I put I'm sorry basically topics that would be covered under each
section because you know again we we are sort of deviating from a traditional you know one housing One Transportation One conservation one Economic Development one you know schools or what have you into these more broad themes and so I would propose the first one the quality of life to talk about the our existing housing the school system recreational opportunities which could also perhaps go under commerci or conservation but I think they fits here government and Civic engagement and Senior Services and so what I would propose sort of going forward and again I'll I'll I'll stop in just a second and get and ask for feedback but what we would propose is basically then to use this framework to start the breakdown of our conversations of the substance so for in if we adopted this in advance of next meeting you know August or September depending on how you wanted to do this we would basically have the conversation about the quality of life elements and would I would send out sort of a worksheet for all of you to to kind of fill in some some blanks between
now and the next meeting as well as getting some ideas about who else should be at the table for that discussion so in this case where if we're talking about the school system or recreational opportunities we might want someone from the school board someone from Parks and Recreation someone from you know the senior services or senior committee to talk through you know sort of what has happened over the last 10 years successes failures and and what are we looking at going forward over the next decade to kind of set the framework for each of those topics and then obviously when we talk about housing we'll have different groups we talk about conservation we'll have different groups but this would be a way to to frame the discussion sort of group by group I'll stop right there and and and Chad if you want to get feedback okay well I'll ask the other commission members if they've got any feedback at this point I guess maybe maybe we'll we'll ask one question at a time so number one how how are people feeling about this framework to basically structure the plan around those six we envision themes is there any any objection or hesitation about that oh it's a good idea I think it's great yeah okay so then given that and I mean we don't have to start in this order that's just how it ended up but if there's if there's a place where we would like to
start you know we could just start at the top and say let's let's talk about the quality of life thing and if that's the case I would want your suggestions on who should be part of our discussion well I guess before we before we get there John and I know we talked about a little bit the other day the you know I'm interested in public Outreach as we create this thing and and I don't want to get to the end and we you hold a public information session and find out there's there's concerns about the way we we've headed and so I was kind of thinking you know we've been working on this for about a year now I I have gotten a couple of questions on you know how's the survey coming you know what what did you get from it and and I
think there's probably a presentation that would be nice to give the public an opportunity to hear from us that that their surveys weren't in vain what we got and and before we head on down the road now as I look at at the the sections that you've got here to me I think the only thing I don't think that we're really working on yet is the affordable housing piece and I think that's probably about the most important thing on there but I think everything else is kind of continuing what we're already working on and and I think that's that's a good news story we you know we the surveys didn't point out anything where we were marching in the wrong direction but I think it would be good for you know the demographic discussion or whatever you know the whatever is current ly in the introduction to us you know we ought to we ought to tell the public we think we have an excellent quality of life here and we want to maintain it and here's a couple of things that we're going to specifically address but we're kind of working on all
those now I mean you know I think the town has is doing a good job on senior services and we're taking the next step to get a senior service coordinator or something I forget what the title is but you know I think we're were marching off on all those things with the exception of maybe the affordable housing that's that's kind of my thought you know what's everybody else think there I think we really have to highlight hat some way yep I mean even even if there wasn't a lot of input from the public and I don't think there will be because I think we' got good stuff here they've had a chance to provide and and hear what you know we asked him to do a survey I thought we got pretty good response from the town on filling it out I'd like to give them some feedback on that and and how it got plugged into cre this so they feel that their input is welcome and important yeah so I I'm I think Jed are you you I do think you know a a check-in with the public that could do a couple of things again sort of presenting facts and input thus far and I would think that we could do a public Outreach that covers kind of our
demographic overview the result of the survey and then probably you know possibly a time to unveil the sort of our shared vision statement and and intent for you know structuring the plan going forward to kind of basically say this is the back the background information we've got in survey and this is where we're headed in over the next you know nine months or so yeah and even even if we just so it that thing and we and you presented this little section that we're looking at right now after after the vision statement and say this is the way we're planning on going forward you're welcome to attend any of these sessions we're going to be doing you about one one a month one every other month something like that but you know we'll we'll put the word out to you so you know yeah so I yeah so if that's if that's how you'd like to do it we you know I I'd leave it up to you guys on how you would want to schedule a public public information session like that either either at at an August meeting or as a separate Standalone session well and and I I will welcome feedback on this thought but my my thought would be that we it may be the August meeting we run through the presentation with the commission get feedback from the commission that there's nothing that we're leaving out on the discussion and then maybe in September we hold that hing that might be too much though you know what do what do the other commission members
think I think as far as holding it during the meeting I think it would depend on how much is on the agenda for that particular month if there was a lot it could get a little out of hand having this on top of everything else it could and that might be a good point maybe we should do it as a standalone session for the public just you know not not worry about tying up another meeting because we never really know till we get there what the meetings are are gonna I thought meeting was going to be very busy it turns out to not be so so there you go but we could we could run through it in August and then you target I don't have my calendar here but we could find a date in in September that that we could go through that sure I think I yeah I think setting aside setting aside you know an evening for just just a public information session it'll avoid complication with any agenda item that might pop up Y and we could do it in the new senior center community center sounds great be wonderful okay so John I think you know we can we can talk more offline on that but that's kind of what I like to do I
would like to give you know the commission members a chance to weigh in before we're briefing the public to give you feedback on you know that we're all in sy so so then public for great so my marching orders would basically to prepare the the draft presentation that we'd go through next month yep okay I can do that okay I think that's great and the so I know you went there there was one bullet under one of the things and it was Community water in septic or something and I wonder what we would be talking about there because you know we we just have to comply with the health code so why what was that about well that's that's more to satisfy a a state statutory requirement so that one of one of the state statutory must does for a municipal plan of conservation and development is to address what the town intends to do to manage its its Wastewater and it know our answer is probably exceptionally easy we are letting all private Properties Manage it themselves and and follow public health code we have no intent to install sewer lines over the next decade it's as simple as that but the state okay requires that analysis good point and and certainly easy to comply on that okay that answers that well thank you John any other any other comments from anybody on where we are on the planet conservation development this point no but I have a question about the affordable housing and I think that John was gonna he was going to be working with us on what steps we we will or should be taking to
jump start his yes so we've and I and I haven't I I will I'll acknowledge not having worked a ton on this worked a little bit with with Eric on identifying a couple of key Municipal properties that that I think goes a little bit into more depth an analysis of the of the land than Bill Warner had had sort of cursorily done with the affordable housing plan so we're we're we're looking at some you know the potential for for you know potential use of of Municipal property and I am sort of tap tapping my network in the in the home builders Community to look for potential developers and I've had a couple of conversations about that this week potential developers who might be you know interested in something like a public private partnership where you know the town would be you know basically making available some of their land you know with the with the hope that a developer could create enough units and enough density that you know there could be some lower income opportunities or more affordable
you know senior retirement opportunities so it's sort of beating the bushes a little bit about about developers who might be interested in that kind of partnership so that's we're looking into that right now good glad you guys are are I have working on it yeah I have a Post-It of a guy I need to call tomorrow right here on my okay I guess we'll move on to update on the status of the application 241 for the Gravel Pit I'll turn it over to you Jim yes as you know there was public hearing slated for tonight and the applicant backed out wasn't ready for it indicated attorney was away I did have a a conversation with the applicants attorney today he he reached out to me and he was asking for information Peter Bowman is gentleman's name tried to make it clear what the commission's concerns are I directed him to the town's website where where the file is and hopefully I will be hearing back from him and I will be in contact with Bill geneves when he returns from vacation I believe it's next week but my intent obviously is to to re read vertise public hearing for the August meeting is the attorney available for that meeting I mentioned it to him and he he didn't say he wasn't so I'm gonna hope hopefully that's hopefully he will be Tim can you repeat his name it's Peter Bowman chesher Peter Bowen Bowman B I believe it's B Manan thank you okay and Jim is there any status of the property if it's it's still for sale or is it what what's the status as far as that goes I've heard rumors that it's that there's been offers on it or an offer on it
but I don't know anything for a fact and the attorney didn't I did mention to the attorney and I haven't been able to get a hold of bill bill jeny so I don't really know okay so one of the one of the items that's of a concern to me you know is is the timeline for the application goes we have to open the public hearing within 65 days close public hearing within 35 days of opening it and then acting on the application within 65 days of closing the public hearing there is a caveat that we are allowed to extend those dates by a total of 65 days with the agreement of the applicant normally that is time that the town would need to go out and investigate things associated with the application you know we've we've kind of given up half of that allowance if you will by agreeing to hold the public hearing at the August meeting instead of the July meeting I would be reluctant to go any
further than that because really the the purpose of those is is I said I think the purpose is to allow the time the town to go out and do extra research so that we can come up with the right conclusion so so that's my concern you know we've been in contact with h our attorney a couple of times over the last month as as we work our way through this but but I do want make sure that we don't slip up and and give up all of our safety margin because the guy isn't ready to go you know the applicant was certainly able to come in on zoom and represent himself if if that's what needed for his application it's up to him to get other folks there and so I do think that we'll be discussing this at the August meet any other questions for Jim on on that particular application okay hearing none that completes the old business we'll move on to approval of the minutes from the June 18th meeting and does anybody have any comments on the minutes first I I keep trying to figure out a better way to approve the minutes other than make a motion to approve them discuss them then have to make a new motion and what do you do with the old motion all that stuff I'd like to get the get the comments on the thing and we can say make the motion to approve as amended so that's that's what I'm trying to do here as I go through and I will point out you know the only comment I had on the on the minutes was both in the members present and in the roll call seating of alternates we listed Kevin
England as opposed to arnison and so we need to correct those two but that was the only thing I saw in the minutes anybody else have any comments on the minutes from last meeting hearing none I'll make a motion to approve the minutes has amended to get Kevin's last name correct in the introduction and line item to Second it okay thank you any other discussion hearing none I'll call for a vote an i skot hi Leanne hi Kevin I yeah I vote I as well the minutes as amended are approved 50000 next up is correspondents Jim any correspondents to talk about tonight no correspondents okay administrative reports Jim okay just reporting on the status of what's going on do have's a few houses under construction
well one house under construction three in the review process that to be one on Pine rdge one on Center Street one on shotty Mill and the one under construction is is also on Pine Ridge the one on house on cider mil 12 not cider mil Center Street 12 Center is a the applicant is proposing a an affordable accessory apartment I do not have a site plan application as of yet I did request one and I will be assuming he moves forward with with this I will be working with him on putting together the various the deed restriction Etc Ian I'm not going to me at the wheel here I know there's there's plenty of of samples out there just want to find one that that works works best here other than that there's just a lot of a fair amount of additions sh Barnes going up I am working with New England goo to and to update the town's zoning map
and and that's just really is incorporating some changes that have made over there that were never really made put or put into the to the myar or for instance the when the town adopted the ards they made all the R40 and r80 Ard that was never really done on the on the zoning map few few issues like that I it was recommended that I by Eric that I check with the assessors and see what they're doing for their update possibly save some resources on that and I I did commence that prog process I don't know whether that's going to work or not but I I will find out other than that I have the I did send out a list of violations zoning and blade violations and I'd be happy to answer any questions on Jim okay we'll move on to Inland Wetlands a water course agent I guess that really lay is on that would be me then we we did not have an inland Wetlands water course meeting this month so nothing to report there and next up is John Town planner well I we were just talking about this when we got on the meeting
[Music] Eric and I met along with first selectman the group of Community Development planners from the capitol region Council of governments are Cog and they are in the process of updating the the the their Capital Region plan and are basically making a point to visit all I don't know something like 38 of their communities and so this was just an opportunity to talk about our goals to share with them actually where we are in our planet conservation and development Pro process and then just talk about projects that might need some support and you know we talked about some various Transportation stuff our complete streets initiative some economic development stuff and and then particularly some infrastructure things and I think Eric and the first like one were particularly emphasizing issues of of culverts that are relatively small sort of too small to fit under traditional State Bridge replacement programs but still a hassle and a and a concern of the town for an expense replacement expense standpoint so hopefully we can continue to work with with kog and Dot on on you know possibly some financial support for for Culvert replacement in the next several years and then beyond that I've been in touch basically playing phone tag with the gentleman who owns the Andover Plaza and I just wanted to you know get together with him on you know a zoom call or in person to kind of talk about his his plans and goals for his his commercial property property and if there's you know opportunity to to work with the town and you know facilitate a connection out to the to the hop River Trail and that sort of thing to just introduce ourselves and and some of our
goals so I'm reaching out to John okay next up is commission discussion in miscellaneous anybody have any discussion topics that that they want to talk about onight and I've got one which is you know filling the vacancy on the commission the notice that's out there now says that if you're interested to provide your input by the 5th of August at this point we do have you know two people that have expressed an interest in joining the commission So based on Kevin you being the only alate here tonight I was going to mention that if any of the alets would like to be become a regular member send your interest to h Carol Lee copy to me and we'll get you on that list I'll send that out by email to to the three alternates because you know Kevin's the only one here tonight and so they get those in it already it already creates a
little bit of a problem that you know nice problem to have never experienced before is how do we pick from a couple of good applicants going forward and my thought was that I would ask each of the people that would like to be a commission member to attend the next meeting on I think it's August 20th and just tell us in a minute or two why why they want to join the commission why they think you they're a good fit for the team and that sort of thing after that you know I was thinking that we would go to Executive session just so that we didn't have to you know we would feel a little bit more free to discuss who might be the best candidate and that sort of thing and if if we had an alternate they wanted to be a regular commission member you know we would go through and we'll pick that and then you know if there's a hole then in the alternate slot we'll we'll fill that with one of the people that wanted to join the commission as long as they're willing to be an Alternet I don't know if that's how it goes or not you know it's we've always had a spot to fill and we've been fortunate enough to get somebody that was willing to go fill the spot and and
that was that didn't take a lot of discussion anybody have any thoughts on why that's not a good plan or a better way to do it something else that you have seen done that worked out better okay here and none I guess you know we'll we'll go that way it might not be the smoothest thing in the world but I think it it'll work and so hopefully by the next meeting we'll we'll come up with somebody new to be on the commission but of the people that have applied so far I think they're both pretty good now I can't remember if we sent out to the commission the information we got on on the applicant so far anybody seen anything on our applicants yeah okay and then I'm assuming that got out to everybody good that was the only commission discussion I had for tonight anybody else at this point Jad maybe I missed it but I didn't see anything come through on my end okay do you know when it was sent out no it would it would have been a little bit ago and the reason that I wanted to ask the the applicants to come talk to us is one of the applicants his email of Interest was was fairly brief that he was willing to and and the reason that it was so brief I think has to do with one you know he and I had talked about planning and zoning commission at the senior Christmas party last year two he was on the ballot last year and was elected to the position but we
got into a situation where we could not have three alternates of the same political party and so that he he couldn't he couldn't fill a spot so that's probably why his his input was a little bit brief I think he would do a great job and and want to you know hear in his words whether he's excited to be on the commission willing to be or whatever so that we can address that the other guy not not not much experience on on Planning and Zoning stuff but a very knowledgeable guy seems like a good guy and and wants to be involved more with the town and so you know he was kind of like me when I joined the commission didn't know anything about zoning stuff and but with a little enthusiasm maybe I learned something I don't know but but anyhow I think it would be good to hear from them so I will forward that forward what I can find out to everybody again just to make sure everybody's got it thanks Jed I think the executive session the use of an executive session is pretty commonly done yeah it I I looked through you know the rules on Executive session again today and and certainly for personnel items which this is that's allowed you know the thing the thing that we have to remember is that any votes on actions have to be done back in the regular meeting so when we can discuss all we want but to take action has to be done during the regular meeting and we can do that any other comments thanks Leanne welcome next meeting we're looking at August 20th with a little bit of luck maybe that can be a hybrid meeting from you
know I'm hoping we can use the smaller meeting room in the new community Senior Center for that Eric you think we got a chance well there's always a chance okay not going to give you odds not g give okay well if if not if not we can we can do it like this but I think it would be nice to try it would be a good way to start out that's after the ribbon cutting so we'll see what we can do and I you know I do have to put out a a public notice on a public hearing which would be nice to have that information yeah okay good point if it's
not I I'll I'll try and work something I'll try and figure something that's a good point and we'll we'll see if we can predict out from when you need to put out the the notice okay we'll see how I'll I'll talk to Eric offline and and we'll see we'll see what the odds that and the next item up is adjournment any comments before we move to that thank you all for attending tonight and supporting the meeting thank you John for all the hard work on the plan of conservation and development I think that's coming along nicely and I'll make a motion to adjourn second okay and I heard you I think first all in favor say I I any opposed any abstain motion passes 500 good night everybody