WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Do that. You can just press pause in the upper right. Thank you. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah. Okay. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Scam. We can't hear you. Yeah. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Kim Madalinski: Hello! Hello! Hi! How's everybody? 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Good doing all right. Thank you. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Kim Madalinski: Okay. Good. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I think I just made you the co-host. Are you seeing evidence of that? 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Kim Madalinski: Okay, cool. Let's. And. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Did you just ask something. 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.000 Kim Madalinski: Yes. 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Kim is volunteered to. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.000 Kim Madalinski: Yes. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: If you Co. Host a chat with me tonight. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.000 Kim Madalinski: Sure. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And so we're making Kim a co-host. So she's got the admin rights to make. That useful to us, terrific. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.000 Kim Madalinski: Mhm, hmm. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay, yeah. You should be co-host. Kendall. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Kim Madalinski: Oh, got it! Thank you. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay, let me change this. So now go receive it actually. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Testing testing. Maybe it will. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Say again. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, yeah. You know it could be because there's so much noise back there right now. So. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Why? Set up. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Because we know all. Alright! 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yes, either way, you know whether they're here or there. We're just gonna ask. If she's on, she can just forward the slides because. 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah. That's right. 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Goodbye! They set up. 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So wanted to say thank you to them. Um, Karen, can you talk closer to the microphone again? 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I usually have such a big mouth, but. So. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The takeaways tonight. We? What we're hoping to do is give you the. 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 1,000 feet, mute. And not get too much in the weeds, because. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: If we get into the weeds we'll be here till midnight. There's a lot, but if you want to know more you'll know the people to talk to, and you'll know who they are, and you'll see them, and you can follow them. But we're going to give you enough information, and there is a hand out at the back that is kind of summary of what they're talking about tonight that if people aren't here and you want to talk with your neighbors about it, you could share this information. 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Also another takeaway tonight. Is that um? Each project that you're gonna hear about is its own thing with its own process. So there is not one. Brook Road, for example, there are many parks. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You'll hear about that tonight, and we hope that you'll leave with a positive feeling that there's been a lot of progress. And there's a lot of good work to be done. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Okay. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So what we hope to do tonight is share with you what we do know. We will also tell you what we don't know. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And we'll we'll try not to fear too much into speculation, because. We know that we're living in times where there's a lot of unknown. 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And things change day to day. Um. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. I think that's where we are. And did we get that worked out? Does Tim have it, or do we have it? Um Kim's got slides. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay? So can we bring up the slide presentation and just show the agenda. Slide, please. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Next one. We're doing this remotely. So, Kim, can you move it? One slide, please? 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thank you. So here's the agenda for tonight. So we just did welcome and introductions um, and talked about our goals for tonight. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. The project overview. You're gonna hear from Gary about Fema. You're gonna hear from Josh about Federal highway. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And we're going to have a long time to ask questions. So what we're asking you to do is save your questions. You have a handout, or you have hopefully a piece of paper where you are. And jot your questions as we go. 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And save them for the Q. And a. Because. We'll have a lot of time to go into all that. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Okay. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So I think. I think what I want to do now is just quickly say. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That between. It's the July event. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: At the start of this room. We were in and up and through. 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: January, probably November, December, January, we were in what we call the emergency. Repair phase of the work. 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And so that was one part. And we have recently, with the snow melts and site inspections and things. We have entered what we're calling. Recovery and permanent projects, work. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:20:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So you're going to hear about that from Gary. And you're gonna hear about that from Josh. But I just want to set the stage that we're no longer in emergency. We are in recovery. And so, as we enter into that, you'll learn about what's going on here. So I'm going to bring up very snip. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Who is our Fema public assistance has the slides that you just ask her to forward you through, and that should work. Okay. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Welcome Gary. Okay. Again, I'm. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Gary Smith and um. Let's see. Oh, and we did next slide. So this is perfect. You'll see this again. This is a Google Earth project. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And I think that is a perfect. Heading for a thing. Small town, big damage. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um from our July 2024. Uh line. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And next slide. Please. Um. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You're gonna see this again later on in my presentation. But this is a a great. Um. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Map that be probably put together. I was supposed to introduce Keith, wasn't I? I went out of order um, but uh, and that is basically. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. The permanent projects remaining to be done. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. I I wish I had a point. I wish you knew the pointers for these things, but you can kind of just see. 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Uh the line of Brook Road. Those are all the green green spots along Crook Road. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And guess where they all end up. etc. Thank you. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So, anyway. So this is a live map. Gary, I'm sorry. So on your handout. There's a QR. Code, right? 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. So I just want to say, this is a live map. And, Keith, were you prepared to open this map, or do you want to not do that? 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So you wanna I messed up so. Asking you to come up and sorry. Open the map. Sorry about that, guys. 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Sorry about that. Um, Hello. My name is Stephen Coven. I work for Central Regional Planning Commission. I do emergency management transportation planning there with our Gis staff we put together. This map of your community. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It. And then, like uh, like, Karen said, there's a QR. Code on the uh handout that's here, and we can also provide that for anybody we want. As well. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Uh. This shows all the permanent repair volumes. So whether it's from fema, which uh. In the legend with the map. It actually uh breaks it down because there's 3 different Fema type projects. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So the little crosses are for fema projects, so they're broken into CD. And F projects. So C are for roads and bridges. D. Is water. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like water control. So, like the the bachelor band still considered a water control project. There are 10. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Or F. Our utilities. Um. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The Federal Highway Project. So Brook Road is a Federal highway network road, so that process is completely through the Department of Transportation and Federal Highway. And those are in a little while. Can I go on symbols. 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Each one of those is a permanent project. So that that's you know. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: As we had finished that emergency repairs. We'll still go through a completely separate process with engineers to determine what needs to be done in each of those locations. Josh will go into much more depth on those as well, but you can see some of those. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Very closely overwhelmed, you know, because. We go. 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 10 feet out of the wideway of that Federal highway, and that becomes a female problem. So it's very. It's a very convoluted process. You have to know exactly where you're standing, because that makes a difference on who's going to pay. 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, definitely peruse this map. If you have any questions about it, you can reach out to me directly. Um. And my email is just coven, CVOM. At Cv region, dot. 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Click open up. Yeah. Can we open up the map? Ashley? Kim, can you click on one of those any one of the icons. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, just open it. Yeah. Let me get sad. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:58.000 Kim Madalinski: Everyone can see that. 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It didn't open. No. 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Bear with me. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, as you can see on the left hand side, it shows the different categories. And if you click on any one of those points on the map. 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It'll bring up information about that location. So it tells you who who's funding that project. So whether it's Fema or uh Federal highway uh. Includes some information you can actually drop down or pull down. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Tells you whether it's over bridge, basically, what type of structure and what that project. Is. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, if- if you just pull down on the on the right hand, tab that forward. It actually. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Sort, through what? Kim, can you just pull down on the. 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well, I'm like, Okay. Yeah, but it it's pretty easy. It's great to work through. If anybody runs in any problems definitely reach out and we can help you. 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thank you. Keith. Yeah, thank you. All right. Next slide. 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So if we can go back to the presentation. There we go, perfect. Next slide. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So um. My goal is to tell you the theme of story as I see it. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Stand in front of the microphone. Think we've got to add. 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Anyway. So this is basically disaster. Federal disaster, VR. 48, 10. Oh! 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: As a result of severe the storm and flooding on July 9, th through 11. Um. 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In 2023. Plainfield had a a flood. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: This one. Was order of magnitude, difference. 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um my perspective the way I would say it was a f 4 f. 5. Um. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Cyclone or a hurricane of that magnitude. It's just it was. Playing. Field, was. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One of the most heavily damaged. Communities. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In the Save. Um. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The recovery, rebuilding. And resiliency efforts that are going on, at least from, and I. 00:27:53.000 --> 00:28:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I've been awed by this all through. The process is really impressive. Um. It is drawing a lot of attention locally. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Regionally. Statewide and nationally. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And um. I have. 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Put that all into. Due to the magnitude and complexity of the damages that the town is dealing with, and we already. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Small micro town. Problem. Recovery is being addressed. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Through a lot of very capable employees. But big volunteer effort and a host of. What I call team Plainfield players that I'll talk about later later. 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then. Even though it seems like it's watching paint dry. 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The progress is actually moving along. Pretty darn quick. Um. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Not quick enough to me, but from folks from away who do this stuff. They say it's moving along quite quickly. So let's see what else. 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. The one thing I would mention, and for me. 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is. Playing fields. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Got some momentum right now with respect to this recovery. There's a lot of attention. 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There's a lot of folks from away. There's a lot of folks right here that are very involved. And my 2 cents. That's why I'm involved. 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We've got to take advantage of this moment, because. Some other disasters. Something else is gonna happen, and we'll lose our moment in society. 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So we need to take advantage of this moment. Now. Next slide, please. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. And while you can. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Great big into this whole team thing, and I just impressed. By. 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The leadership that's been put together on this and. I'll say it's. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Folks at the town, but. I gave mine. Take my hat off to Karen for pulling together this group, and. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Providing us with wonderful treats every week. But uh. The team that I see. It is the town office. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Count of how employees. You have some unbelievably skilled folks that you don't see in the town office every day that are doing their jobs, and they're impressive. 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We have the top. Tom Grant's team. Mostly volunteers. 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We have a big volunteer group. We have a consulting team or a group of 2 people. Primarily the the integrity group. 00:30:53.000 --> 00:31:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The Governor's staff and team are very much involved with the work here. I can't say enough about the Vermont emergency management, and how they have come to the table to help us. 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One thing that I'm really excited about. Um. That. 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Oh, it was from our emergency management that got destroyed, but a funders roundtable where we meet once a month. To, to, address. 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Funding sources and making progress on getting funding for Plainfield. And then set that we want regional planning. 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Cities and towns. And many, many more locally. 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Regionally, nationally. Commute groups. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Religious organizations nonprofits. It's just impressive. And every time I think that we. We've. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Same. All of them. Another one shows up. 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's happens. This is about. 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well, I'm gonna say now, maybe once a month. Um. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Anyway, so. Next slide. 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Probably if I'm honest, if I saw this before I started. I might have hesitated a little bit, stepping forward. But this is a long. 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Uh. Pathway. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We are in the middle, the middle row. We have just completed site inspections in April for the damages. 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The theme of the image. We're moving into this. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: From there we go to a thing of providing information on what they call essential elements of information, and manages descriptions and details of. Yeah. 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: EDE. And that's where we are right now, and we are um. 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: With the help of our own emergency management. Um. 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Working actually very well with Fema. But it is not easy. And we are learning to stand our ground, and I'll share a couple of examples. 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. We expect in the next couple of months. 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We'll move through, scoping and costing. And yeah, okay. 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Start thinking about getting. Permanent Projects. Sorry. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. One thing that I'll mention. 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We are the applicant to fema. Many States have a county government structure in place. 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So they act as the recipient of the funds, and then the funds come from me. But you're not. 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It's the same. So it's through emergency management. That we do that. So we work very closely with the State, who want emergency management for the. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Reimbursement for our expenses. Hey, Gary, I'm wondering if you take the mic out of the stand and use it. 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Don't sit. You want to move your head. That might be easier. So. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. And. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Think we're ready for the next slide. So this is the work. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That we have on the. Address things with Fema, and so. 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Karen mentioned earlier. The emergency work period for Fema is a 6 month period from the date of the declaration of the disaster which was. August 20.th So. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Our emergency period for Fema ended February 20.th Um. 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And that basically was. Covers areas like debris, removal and emergency protect protective measures. 00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Getting things. Yeah. Okay. 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Roads, bridges, Alberts. Um safe. 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But maybe not the final weekend. Permanent Work. 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hopefully begins late earlier this summer, maybe later. But it's on road road and bridge bridge system. Water control facilities that we have water and wastewater issues. 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We didn't have public buildings and equipment damage. But and and public utilities like we don't run an electric. 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Powers created, or anything like that. And then we had minimal damage to the Parks and Rec. Fields. 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Next slide. This is really just a high level overview of. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Where we've been, and it's. Um. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I wasn't really gonna cover. Go over all of those. But these have been the major points along our journey this this last. 8 or 9 months. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. The one thing that I will. 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Note is signed. On complex disasters. 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Folks at Fema say that this can take a long time up to 4 or 5 years. Um. I think you'll find that true. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. It'd probably be that kind of a timeframe, for ultimately, when playing field is. 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Back to its new, normal. Next slide. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Oh, actually one. One of the. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One side, back. So. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:08.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One of the things that. Our team is gonna focus on in in addition to the rebuilding. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And resume and see. And Recovery Board. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is getting. Focused on getting more money for the Plainfield. 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And I think this, you'll see the little gold star at the end. But Plainfield's emergency, relief and assistance. Funding rate is 17 and a half percent that's as high as it can be. So. 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The funding for the cost. A fema. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Damages. 75% comes from the Federal government. 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 17.5%. This sort of era program which comes from the State of Vermont. 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then remaining 7.5. Is from the town of Plainfield. 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Although and I would add that. The top of it, fresh in. 00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is working on ways to. To Mother Grant. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:08.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That we can help reduce that 7.5%. Ultimately. Um. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So one thing I would. I just have to take my. 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hats off, hat off, or. Is. 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In to get to that 7 and 17.5%. It required a lot of work. 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Upfront. And I'm sure Michael had a lot to do with that. But a lot of folks in our town made sure those items um were in place. Um. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The guest is 5%. And now we'll move to the next slide. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I don't. A little bit about the challenges that we have. Um. 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One. Face as we walked through this. 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Process. The damage, complexity. 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. I learned. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: This is an easy side. We talked to Michael Van. We talked to people who've done this. Um. You know. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The Bill Street bridge charges, which is gonna talk to you about. But it is amazing the amount of. Oh! 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Complexity. In um. 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Involved. The. 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. The next complexity, and I. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Continue to be amazed by this, but the funding maze. It's just impressive. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The multiple funding sources. The. 00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Complex Requirements. 11 day. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There are many brands out there. Programs that are actually talking to us now, saying. 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You need to have a consultant. Help put together. 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: An application. Because it is just. 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: A very competitive process. And there's a lot of people out there working for these funds. We wanna get them coming to Plainfield. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Think about it. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: When we started working on. Figuring out what the damages were for. 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Plainfield. We. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: They said, Let's do a town wide survey, which included Berkeley. And we were. 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well long in the fema process. Identifying managers all over the town. 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In addition to Brook Road. Only to find out a couple of months ago. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That you know. Because. 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Brook Road is a Federal. 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Rural highway, Connector Route 2 and Route 3 0. 2. Is not eligible for fema funds. 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I wish you knew that earlier, because we spent a lot of time. Collecting data on that. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Sorry. That was one of our. 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Challenges. Another. One of the challenges that we face. 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And Fema is right up front. You're gonna probably see staff changes. Oh, okay. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And they- they kind of set up that. Well, every year we try to rotate people in in. They- they move on to new assignments. But we've had in a fairly short period of time, because. 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We might just be hitting the 6 month mark of working directly with Fema. We have had 5 different um. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Program Development. Project development managers. 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 4. In a 4 week period. 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. Yeah, we got through that. But the challenge was. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Almost etiquette. Almost every single one of them. 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Gave us a different direction. Restructured, however. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: All these images you've organized in your projects. And all that does is. 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: For us who are trying to make this work. It just. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:38.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And there's a lot of redoing. The same old work we've we've done. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. The good news is. 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We've got a great. Fema person. Now that we're working with. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And uh. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. We are. 00:42:53.000 --> 00:43:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That too. How we wanted to organize our damages into projects way back in January. 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It was a long run around the bottom. So. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then um. What I would say. 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is, as I've learned is because. I'm gonna I'm gonna start. When we had. 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: All the town damages in fema inventory. That was probably it for us. Probably about 100 3,040 damage. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Various items identified. And I think of that from an 80, 20. 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 80% of them were. Small. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Fairly low cost projects. 20% of them. 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's where you can spend money. And um. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Go back to the slide or the map that Keith showed. Most of those. 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Right down Brook Road. Right. I finish from the village. I'll show Room 2. 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One thing I wanted to mention, and this is. A very current. There's emails flying in right now about this. 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is. Damages to Complements. 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We've had a lot of it. Lot of. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Culverts didn't washed out. Um. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And we are having a there's actually a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Where. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:38.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is it culvert? A culvert. Or it's a caller, assistant. 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: On a slide system. It's the roadway. It's the head wall. I won't use all the perfect terms, but. 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Our position from our emergency management's position. From, as I believe I understand it is. It is a system. But the science sector. 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: When they were here in April. There's nothing wrong with the culture. 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So we're working through that. And we have a consulting team that has this knowledge. And we're we're making progress on that. 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. Um. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The thing I would say is. We are working through these challenges, we're really starting to. 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Make some progress. But at the end of the day people are saying, Well. 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is covered, still damaged. I can't drive down that road. All this kind of stuff. 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But I want to. I'm a big visual learner. 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And I have a couple the next couple of slides. I think. Really will show. 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That, even though Plainfield has had some. Tremendous damages. Progress is being made. 00:45:55.000 --> 00:46:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So if we go to the next slide. And. 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. You saw them. 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: This. Google, earth. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Image on the right of this slide. And the. 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Green, rectangle. Is basically brook road. 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And the yellow. Rectangle. 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is basically the Plainfield village. And you can almost see the flooding. 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Of. 2024. 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Let's start it. At the beginning of. 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Almost at our timeline. And. 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Went it down. Brook Road into the village. 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And those are basically. 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The damage in. That's our damage inventory. By you. 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Bunch of different parties. Um. 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I did. I was involved in a road survey. 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Vermont transportation was involved. Some of the. 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Broke through, identified. Some of our. Some of the damages were identified by our consulting team. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But it's it was a big. Work, and you can probably see. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 8, maybe even 90% of those damages are along that that area. And then you get out into the roads, feeding down into Brook Road or. 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Where there's still some dirt roads. Um. 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You basically see a much smaller number of. Advantageous. 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. I kind of going back to my 80 20 rule. 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The tip of the iceberg are those large. Permanent, projects. 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And what you don't see, and I hope you'll see when we go to the next slide. Is, that. 00:47:55.000 --> 00:48:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The emergency protective measures which were a majority of the damages, but they are small. Are now pretty much taken care of in the system. 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Me. That's very impressive. Given that we have a small road crew. Who had a lot of help with all it from. 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Contracting folks, but they have made a lot of progress this past. Here, even with that. 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Early winter. So so we go to the next slide. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And here we are today. So. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I don't know what that number is, but it's a lot smaller than 130. So I think there's a. 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: My hat goes off to the Plainfield Road crew, and those who help help them. Keep keep those rooms open so. 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Anyway, I. Hmm. 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I think that's it, and. Right oh, yes. 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:08.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And then finally, the next thing, where do we go from? Here? Um, at least from a fema perspective, is. 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Now that um. Well, hopefully, we'll get through our culture issue and we can move on to real work. 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But. We're working on getting funding reimbursement for our emergency protective measures. That's that's basically volunteer time. That's debris removal. 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And um emergency work to get roadways open and um safe for people. Um, we're gonna complete the. 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Scoping and costing phase of the Fema. Like uh. 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Cycle. We're gonna and they're probably already underway. 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, I just don't know it, but. There's. 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Getting ready to do the permanent repairs, planning and implementation. And then. 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: This is one thing that I just worry about, but I know that. The time. They're all pretty busy with their day jobs. 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It's not always. Big projects going on in town. 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then we wanna add fema to that as well. So. Let's kind of what's next for the world of Fema. 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Introduce Josh. 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's cool. And now. 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Treasurer. Federal Highway Port a Federal. 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Highway coordinator. Whatever title, waste, water. Yeah. 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You've done a lot of jobs, Josh. Who doesn't need another company right? 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Next slide, so you can go to the next slide. So. 00:50:56.000 --> 00:51:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: From Rose, talked a little bit about that. Like with Aaron. What care? Said. 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The main reason that Rook Road is different is that it's Federal highway connector. It's under the jurisdiction of the Federal Highway Works administration. This picture. Here is one of the lost house that is just below, just downstream of. 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And this location will likely be one of the partner projects where. You know there's a. 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:38.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There's gonna be many permanent projects, probably about. And then go to the next slide. We'll talk about the Federal Highway Administration. 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. Instead of highway. 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know we have a. 100% coverage of the funding that is. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Required for emergency relief and um. You know, restore the highway facilities, pre disaster, conditions. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. When we were 1st setting out, and in discussions with Federal Highway, one of the things that. 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Was emphasized is that some of these locations are going to require a significant amount of engineering, and that it may not be practical to initiate emergency work application. And that 1st picture represents one of those one of those situations. And putting together a large washout. 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And so the. The reestablishment of like connections, even though they're incomplete. 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Was largely due to the fact that we were. Constraints, for from putting in um. 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, complex workaround, and likely wouldn't have had the time and resources to. To do the engineering required within that timeframe. 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. So the the permanent projects. 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Are 90% federally funded, which is a little less than. Than what we currently have with. 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. But. 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The Grants team is also working to address like that. The town shared what we can. You'll see to fill in that 10%. 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And the thing about. Federal highway is that. 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That is, that is also like the way that municipalities get funding for their. For their own projects. 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So it's an established pathway for funding that makes it in some ways. Uh. 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Easier to navigate than having, like a lot of staffing, change over. And certainly, like we have with Fema. And you know it brings up the that route into smaller projects. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And Number one being Mil Street, and then the last one, number 12 being Bridget and Orange Town lines. In our case this time won't be a permanent product, so we can go to the next slide. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So in those like 12 locations. You know the. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: One of the other areas that likely won't have permanent component would be some of the scour wash house. Between 0 and. 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Right here. And a lot of that is just that's where the the brook kind of levels out there a bit straight. It's a little bit straighter. So there wasn't like a lot of. 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Crossings of the roadway there. So it. It didn't have a lot of. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Previous. Or uh. 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Structures that require. That would cross the road if I'm locked out. 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. But. 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The uh the 2 large washouts, and any damage bridges which. Some of this is still kind of up in the air about. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, is this is this rich? And it costs to be the permanent project or not depending on which we're talking about. But. Right now Mill Street and then. 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. Bridge over the broken road between Mill and Uh Cranberry Street are currently those will be permanent projects, including the Uh. 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: A 3rd project will extend to Canada. And. 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And so. 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Each of those. Location will have. 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know we'll we'll follow the simplifying process. And. 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Each project will have the opportunity for public involvement. So. 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It really like the zoom in the location. And what's needed at that location for, like public feedback and public information. And I'd love to find the processes on the next slide. 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That made any sense. Right in the Municipal assistant section. 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Which I think was the best consistency here, and they changed its section to save all of our. All of us for sellers. 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. And that process the the 1st part of the process in emergency relief is, we. 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Submitted detailed damage inventory report for each location. So we submitted all 12 of those, as of this morning. And. 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. And then we've selected. Uh municipal project management for about half of the projects. And we're. 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I'm currently working with this municipal assistance section of aot to. To sort of establish, like. 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Who we can hire, and the reason that we kind of negotiate that with. Municipal assistance is. 00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We're using what's called the active, ready process. So there's a roster of already, like pre vetted firms that can help do fiscal project management, design and engineering of these locations and inspection. And so that. 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That at the ready list allows us to kind of accelerate some of the selection and get things moving quickly, and um. To get the projects initiated and designed. 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In a fluid way. And so that flows on the next slide. 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Which. Is. 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Think layout at least a little better than the graphic. They gave. Gary. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And it's not that much less complex, but. Um. 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know we. This is the path that we have to follow for all of these projects on programs. If you go to the next slide you'll see that. 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We're here. Project initiation, and we're here for at least uh. 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 3 locations in terms of what's current. And so we're we're in. We're in the process of kind of moving everything up to this point. And then, as we move on, though. 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You'll have a little consent meeting. Develop purposes, needs. 00:57:53.000 --> 00:58:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then accept those, and those are all done between um municipal assistance and. And uh. 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: In the local municipality. And as we go through. 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um the steps. Going to the next slide, you'll see. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like uh. But it sounds like I didn't show you like the. 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, when we are. Thinking about, who is participating in the process. 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um, it's either a process that is done with the local municipality and the agency of transportation. Or federal, uh, local, state or just local. So if we go back, one slide. 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. As you can see, like in the beginning of the process, the municipalities is handling a lot of that. And so. 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's why you are. Required to kind of select a municipal project manager from an engineering firm, so that. 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You don't get in over your head with all this stuff. And then, as you move forward, um! 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. You know you have even more at a local. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Input into this process. Think it's great. And. 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So if we go forward, 2 slides. So. 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know. You. You will have to go ahead. 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Into each of these locations. And. 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. Design firms who are managing and doing the design work. 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: They are. They're all well coordinated. 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And so you cannot select the the same firm to manage their project as design. A project. So you always have a set of eyes looking at. Uh! What your your design. 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Your design engineer is doing. So it's. It's very like. 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well thought out, processed a lot of verification. And so. 00:59:56.000 --> 01:00:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You go on to the next slide. The. 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I wanna talk about. Project alternative investigation. So at each of these like finish, these projects. 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know they will investigate, you know. Is this. Gonna be. 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Restore things as they were. What happens if we do nothing? 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know what if we do something completely different than what was done before. And so we're able to kind of develop these alternatives. 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then have, you know, out of. The phone. And first.st 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: From. The input from the public around. What the purpose need of that is. 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then um. You know, another tab can come up with a preferred. 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: A preferred plan, or, as they say, alternative endorsement. So let's go to the next one. 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. Like. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The. Like public information. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, around like these projects. You know, it does seem like they have a bigger plan. But in fact, there's a lot of the problems that are on one end of the brook. 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Are not necessarily like. Relative to issues in terms of the roadway, and like what the road requirements are so. 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The um. So at that public information meeting, you know they do revisions to the conceptual plan, so that, you know, you can kind of see what's coming out of these concepts. 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, we have like. A preferred alternative, and then the public gets a large amount of feedback here to be able to talk to that attorney. So, even after, like the preferred alternative is selected, you'll be able to get plenty of feedback, and then we can do provisions. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Go to the next one. You know. So just to kind of recap. 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, like. The field process and the change process is listed by the client. But. 01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:08.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You get a lot of evaluation of like the damages prior to defining a project. Like they go through pretty well, and they're talking about. 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: What is. You know, cost to replace this type of damage, this type of. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Alright! Material. 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: etc, etc. And um. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then, once the funds are obligated, there's. It's it follows less exactly the path, like municipalities. Here. 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Sometimes we can. You know, get into situations where they're trying to do design in some ways that. 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The process for the Federal highway is being more constrained. Um. 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Gives you some. Uh. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, give you some assurances, but it may not let you kind of. Uh. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:03:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Just do something that is the most efficient. But the um. But Ohio has a tight timeline for getting through. That may. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like steps that we have to complete. Um, because we have to get things obligated before the end of the fiscal year. Federal fiscal year, September 31, 26. So. 01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We have to kind of take on accelerated process getting a lot of calls from the key coming. Let's see. Um, and uh. 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I think that's fine. I've heard. The next slide. 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's question today. Perfect. 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thanks. Jess. So. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So I think Gary and Keith, Gary and Josh, you guys are probably gonna handle most of the questions. Are there any questions. Online. 01:03:51.000 --> 01:04:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Creditors do we see? Give me a moment. Okay, and there are questions in the room. I think this is our moment to invite questions. This is my, the moment to invite questions. So if anyone has questions for the presenters. 01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You'll use the mic. So everyone. Online from here. 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Person asking the question. The person asking the question comes. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yes, the person asking the question must come to the mic. Well, I mean, I suppose we could forward Lauren's question, which is already asked, yes. So you want to use the mic that's behind you on the. It's behind your computer. Sorry. 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It's not. No, it's not okay. That's it, son. 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yes, yes. Great for Lauren Guy here. 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. Garrett is speaking of debris removal, but we still have a ton of debris near Hudson Avenue. When will this be removed. 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: To the best of your ability. Well um. 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I guess I'm gonna have to just. Follow up because not a doer. I'm kind of. So I'm gonna. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I don't. I know that the. 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Time, for. Where the. 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It depends on whether it's on public property or private property. There it is. I'm gonna have to get some more information and get back to you. 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's a fair answer. Thank you. All right. Speaking too soon. 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um where it depends. From Don Flencher. When will the community get a chance to hear about and have input on, or at least hear about the plan and strategy for Brook Road and the brook as a whole. 01:05:56.000 --> 01:06:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Josh. Let's in a for Brook Road. 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Because we're dealing with like these different. You know locations. It may be that. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: What would make sense for like particular grouping locations would have. They can make their public information game. 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But the. But each of the because of the structure of how federal uh works we have to. You know, we have to implement each project is so unit. But a lot of that coordination is gonna be. 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um. We're gonna get a lot of help from. 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Such from our regional planning. And I don't know if you want to elaborate on some of that or. 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Around. Like how you know. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: As part of the process as working through that we have to do what's called a Nepa review. So for each one of those projects. They have to basically look at alternatives. This has to be done even for bridges and town here. So basically, each project has to have at least 2 alternatives. Of 6 eyes. 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well, anyway, it's really 3 h to the account long. So. 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: At least 2 alternatives. Um! And through that equal review, we're hoping to actually look at a couple of these segments together, or possibly looking at a couple of projects together, and. 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Let the engineers kind of look at that overall value. So it might actually be a different alignment than what the current border is. They'll have to look at. See what the slopes can handle. 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Kind of a view of that. And um. 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And it'll still have to be cost effective. So we've just looked at Max, and kind of. 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Look at some areas where that might be available possibility. But we'll have to work through that entire process. Marian's microphone. Thank you, Keith. 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hyper related question type of related question that has to do so if in those possible alternatives. I was. Let's say there's. 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:37.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: How is cost evaluated in that, in the sense of like, let's say, everybody's like, Oh, yeah, this one I can get so much better. But like cost a lot more, I mean, how do we know whether that is we go with that cheaper one? How is that evaluated like? What's the. Of Josh. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. Josh or Keith. 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 7. When you're gonna talk about money. 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, that's through that legal process, that's all. Reviewed. Federal highway actually has the final say, there's a term called veteran. So you can. Wow! 01:08:54.000 --> 01:09:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You can sometimes choose a product that is. More more expensive. Generally it works the other way, and from what we've been looking at due to the uh. 01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Where the switches, if we could possibly remove. A couple of bridge seconds. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Even if you're building only runway. Generally it's cheaper, super expensive. Generally currently ballpark, I mean, even for a small one. You're looking at about 2 million. 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: He works in probably 2 to 4 million for age structure. That is a bridge. Have a question. 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But. I mean, I think if I'm asking, perhaps the same question in a different way. Is there anyone holding the holistic. 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like 12 plus permanent projects altogether like, I'm understanding that each one of the 12 projects have to go through a process. We need to be alternatives. Designs ultimately get chosen and implemented. 01:09:54.000 --> 01:10:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But did he all. Match one another is, do they all fit into some cohesive future whole? Who's holding the largest picture of the entire Brooklyn corridor. 01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: See. Yeah. 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The the process around. You know, looking at work really holistically, is that. 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And the thing to remember is this is a local process. So when we're communicating to our missile project managers, and we're communicating to the design. Purpose and need statement, right. 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: When we kind of get to that very next point. You know which. 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hmm. We have process in this initiate project initiation. But then. 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: After we have public input, which. You know, like many of these questions, you know, questions or concerns will come in like your. 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like we have now. For each of those like. 01:10:53.000 --> 01:11:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Uh public information. We are also like using the same project management firms and the same design firms for many of the like. The adjoining project. So in terms of like coordinating the specifics of the adjacent ones, those would be the same people. Typically and then, in terms of like looking at a larger picture. 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Because we are defining like what's important and our purpose and our need. Like coming out of like our. 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:29.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Global concern. We get to define. Bye. 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: What do we really want to have. You know, as needed. 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And. That goes into. 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know the initiation of the of the desired. So when they look at these alternatives and say. 01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: If everybody in the community comes and says, I don't want to start you on. Right. 01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well. Then, like you, you have more of an emphasis to sort of do that, either. If you say. 01:11:56.000 --> 01:12:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know. We have to establish a connection. It's very important to have a connection to Orange right or. 01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:13.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know. So all of this community input kind of gets comes into how you're defining what your purpose of need is. You know, and I I think, in my opinion, that. 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know we have. Yes, you have these separate projects, but. 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Ultimately. The. 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The roadway. The connection between, like the communities in Orange. And the communities around Plainfield and our shootings not clear. 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Like that Connector road is the one that's actually facilitate that. That. 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Tommy that sorts of connection. And I don't think we should break that. 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Anything on that. That's my mandate is the work, Commissioner. It's like. 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I think we need to maintain those connections. And those connections are really valuable for. 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Our social environment, our economy, and our community in general, like. So. 01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:08.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know. For my part. I'm not gonna be a strong advocate for not doing things and not spending the money because the money is there. A lot of people have eyes on Plainfield helps. 01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So it's a long process of saying. Okay. 01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We have the same community, the same community is learning from. In 7 years. 01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So the community really gets to have the input. In a. 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Project definition, and that is going to go into that. You know. 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know any of those alternatives that everyone loves. Uh. 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:49.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 36. John is asking, When do we hear the guiding principle that guides all these manipulative siblings. 01:13:53.000 --> 01:14:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I think that's. It unfurls with a lot of Canadian planning right. 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There we go! Okay. Yeah. 01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: From Toby Baxon debris continues to build up along the great brook. Anyone who walks along the brook and see landslides, and there's some trees and debris slumping off into the brook. 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Is the town looking to do any protective measures to mitigate further damage or problems caused by high water events. Or are we just focused on reacting to those already happening. 01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's what will be happening in the future. Thank you, Michael. And this is a very important I. This is very important question. 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And is being subjected to a lot of different eyes. I mean, it's not. Simply. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There's just too much. Debris there, because, in fact, the debris plays a very positive role in it. 01:14:54.000 --> 01:15:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: After it's all this happened. It helps provide. Break for the water coming from the top of the brook to the bottom of the brook, it keeps it from accelerating. 01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And there are at the same time. Because it was so destabilized in 2,024. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There's lots of places that are just almost hanging on a hair's edge about whether it's going to collapse or not, so we can't. Particularly, say. 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That has reached the end of a stage. It's the river or the book itself that is. Creating the energy to make this change and part of the healthy. 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Solution for the future is to have the world settle into something where its energy is absorbed in the landscape. And then at that point the debris will act as a break. It doesn't create the flood, the reefs, if anything slows the flood. 01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:55.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. We? But at the same time I'm not a river scientist, and so we have as our um helper. 01:15:55.000 --> 01:16:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: River scientists who are working in tandem with the builder contractors, and those people will be helping evaluate the importance of. What a future I mean, there's something called a cost benefit analysis. And when you try to figure out how much. 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Pain we are going to suffer in the future. You can look at the past. And as a consequence, when we go back just a few years, you can see there was a flood in 2023. There was a flood in 2,015. 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: They're just flat. You can go back to the seventies. Simple guys I've seen, and all of these slides which their strengthen is very carefully mapped, one at a time. 01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Are often becoming exactly the same area of the road, or exactly the same region, stands so. When we looked at. 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: A better, safer, and more predictable future will also take the Brooklyn into account. So that's what we're trying to do. Thank you. I also just want to add that one of the grants that is in play. 01:16:54.000 --> 01:17:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Currently is a grant that will study the great brook from the top of the brook to the bottom. And maybe we got a multi town. 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Grant that is being coordinated and funded through the Vermont Emergency Management group. We're not having to do that work. We're not having to put that grant through. They're doing that for us. 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:35.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And it will inform all of the process that we're going to be in. The middle of, as we have these public hearings, and we look at these alternatives that study will help us understand, because it will allow us to put different variables into it, and see how the work responds, how it reacts. 01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And what that means, for how we rebuild or do not. So we're working all of those avenues right now, so that we have all the best information to make good decisions as a community. 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Other questions. Who were the challenge? Um. 01:17:54.000 --> 01:18:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There's 4. It's it's Plainfield, Marshfield, Washington. There was one other I saw today. 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I don't think it's orange. There was one more, and I sent an email today. But I I don't remember it. 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thing, but not on. Don't think so. 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Any other questions from the room. Online. 01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hey! We're good. 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So. Please. 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: There you go! You mentioned the difference of. 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Costs for the town between 23 flood and 24. Which to me is always an astounding change. 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Do we know all the numbers. Roughly. I mean, I've heard rough numbers, but. 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Currently. Or. 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Uh Mike. Yeah. 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:05.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thank you. We're gonna hold you to it. 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:12.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We won't hold you to it. Um. 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Currently we have spent. 1.7 million dollars. Um. 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Or. Flood. Recovery works from. 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:28.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Front of a tab. And. 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:38.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It's any. You know, moving some funds around to accommodate, like early in the process of. 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:45.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Responding to the flood, and then receiving a $100. Uh flow from. 01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Bond Bank. We're able to kind of pay those um. Uh pay those invoices that we need to get reimbursed for. 01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:01.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Reimburse it can take a lot of. Currently we have a. 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Another conversation with the bond day to look at, modeling a little bit more and kind of. Trying to figure some of that out. 01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then we also have funds coming in. That is, finally our reimbursement. Back from 2023 flooding. So that's sort of filling some of that dashboard. 01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:24.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: For us to have. Do the Current Power Board, but. 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You know, the interest on that is a half percent. And. We're obligated to return. Um. 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 50% of you pay it from the from Federal sources of. You know Federal highway to the bombing, and then. 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:50.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The uh. The other half of that can provide some liquidity for us to. To be pursuing some of this recovery work. 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hiring Consultants. etc. 01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah. Did that answer it, Sarah? 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Are you? Was it? Are you looking at magnitude? Is that what you're I was looking for? Magnitude, too? Yeah. 300,525. 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:15.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Think it was via email today. Um. 01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: With the water, and so quite, quite a lot. But not less. 01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Yeah, what is it now? We don't know. 01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: You mean? What's the estimate for what we're gonna spend. What is Gary? Love? 01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And I'd like to clarify is this town cost 300,000 300,000? Was the estimated cost for damages, and what Fema was 160 that came back from Fema 116. No. Well, it went up to. Another fundraising. 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 696,000. We got back for that. And. 01:21:56.000 --> 01:22:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We are already, you know, accepting. Over 800,000 back in repair, emergency repair. 01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:09.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Reimbursement from Federal Highway. And another. 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:20.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: 200 and some 1,000 from Viva. Initially emergency break. That whole process is much longer to figure out what we get back from 3 months. 01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But it's. So we're gonna get a million dollars coming back. 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:31.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then, when you think about Federal. The cost, Federal projects. 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:41.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's all being costed out on the Phoenix side right now. That'll be a while. And the Federal highway costing. Happens, project by project. 01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So we don't really know yet. So. 01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's 1 of those items of what we know, what we don't know. We need. We know the numbers will be coming, but we don't have them yet. 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Yeah. Harry, do you have a question. 01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I just. It's correct. 01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:18.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well, on the damage summary. We have to like. Put a number in there. But how? But maybe that's yeah on the damage summary that's been submitted like estimated cost. Right? I think it's pretty. Rough estimate like back to the mapping kind of thing. But do you know the sum total? Even that number? Just so. 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay, this is a 10 million dollar range. Okay. 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:47.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Anything else? The group. I think we're. 01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We're there! Michael, please. 01:23:53.000 --> 01:24:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Sounds, like. There, there's another piece of choice. 01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: To the bachelor abandoning center of the town in 2023, and what might be done is to be the same event or not. We got a second meeting just specifically address that a week from Thursday. So if you're interested in that part of the story, we're dealing with it separately, then. 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thank you, and I will say, this is not the last time we'll be talking about these issues. Um, this is as you saw that we're still really early. In the process of this recovery. 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Years it will be. Made these decisions together. And so we'll keep you informed. As things develop, we'll be scheduling public meetings for input. 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Um, we have a website, a web page on the town website, and we publish all of our meeting notes and any of our reports. So if you want to dive in. Information there here. 01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:58.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Here we can. Oh! 01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:21.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Had a question about the individual assistance rather than public assistance. I know you did the 2023. My understanding is, we have 10. 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:42.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Approvals. Uh you're talking about buyouts buyouts. There you go, because with the buyouts, what will come to the town ultimately is what to do with the green space once that is created right uh once, once those decisions are made. Last time we had 10. 01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:59.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Then we had the 3 approved in 2023, and we had think it was 10 from 23. Yeah, right? And. To my knowledge, there hasn't been an appraisal for any of those done yet which is a step required before the individual. 01:25:59.000 --> 01:26:07.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Homeowners. Building owners make their decision. And so I'm just wondering if if either of you could both of you could speak to. 01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: When the select board the town may be looking at making decisions about. Um, that green space. Um, for example. Um, you know, if a number of the village. Buildings are moved, and that. 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Brooke is allowed to go where it wants to go rather than where we forced it to go. Prior Bridge. Um, we may be looking at more park space, and which maybe maybe we need a bigger recreation. And Arts Committee, uh, you know, to be doing that or public works. And I'm just wondering, you know, where in the Budget cycle should we be thinking as a select board should be thinking about that. And we build the budget in fall. 01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:54.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Thank you. Uh. 01:26:54.000 --> 01:27:10.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That's an important question, because you need to know what to do with this land once becomes owned by the Town National Park Service was here last Wednesday. We had a tour of them. They're offering free uh consulting to what. 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:17.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We can do what we're allowed to do, what we can build. Very limited, but what we can roll in the area. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:22.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And uh. We also they recommended plantings. 01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:33.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That will help stabilize them. The river. So so that's a funding source, potentially and some resources. The funding might, they might, they can direct us to funding sources. 01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: For sculptures and gazebos, and. Paths, pathways, um. 01:27:40.000 --> 01:27:51.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: But this is gonna take a lot of public input. Is there? Is there a question on the timing of the layouts? Is that what you wanted to know? Yeah. 01:27:53.000 --> 01:28:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I think that seeing. Both because Erin and I are in pretty good communication about this, and I started with my hand recently. 01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:27.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That we have 4 appraisal teams in the city to deal with all of the houses that are damaged in Menonville, and in some cases going back to 2023 like. And it's a very long and exhausting process, and it's kind of backed up. But what we are hoping for is 1st praises to start happening here within the next month and a half, or sooner. 01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:39.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: That the 1st 3 houses to be done are on Sewell Street, which is on the north bank of the Winner street. And then the the later houses that will kick in are a group of 10 that have already been approved, most of which. 01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Are in the lower, those but one or 2 which are higher up on the bill. And then 17. Excuse me, 15 additional houses, which some, including some of the most damaged ones, would would then be also coming in fairly soon. We hope within 3 or 4 weeks we'll have actually worried about that. 01:28:57.000 --> 01:29:11.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And then when. Rejected, but the timeline we were requested was to say that. 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:46.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Then, after the appraisal then closing has to occur, to selling the property to the town, and when that process is over, then the demolition is going to follow in supposedly a ninety-year period of time. We have one biop that I'm looking at as an example in Harshfield. Where the couple has already sold and moved away 90 days ago, and the house is still standing, because you also need practical considerations of availability of contractors, and then, when the house is either way, do you actually say, should a meadow be here, a park be here, a walk be here. 01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So that's another long process. It's just that. 01:29:52.000 --> 01:30:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: They're all like that. Nothing is immediate, and we have to just take it step by step. Alright! There! There's 1 more question online here. I wonder if George speak to it? But I don't know who wants to speak to it. What's the question. 01:30:06.000 --> 01:30:16.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Which question it's from the top of the screen to the bottom. It's connected. So should any decisions or discussions about the repair for the future of the Brook Road. 01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:23.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Just wait until we get to this imaginary state of stability. Um. 01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It works. Yeah. 01:30:35.000 --> 01:30:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay. Thank you, Karen. Yeah, I'll I'll try and address that. Um. 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: The brook the Brooke, if we didn't live here anymore, and we left it alone for a hundred years. It would all eventually work itself out. If that's not the situation we're in. 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:57.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We have. A road system. We have houses. 01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:03.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We're we're living years abroad. You know, and we can't simply. 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:14.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We. We can't wait for it to fix itself. But there are a lot of good actions that we can take. After the scoping study is finished that Karen mentioned. 01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:19.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We'll have a lot more. You know, detailed information about. 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: What Rookie is trying to do. Where are the places where we can get out of the way? Brock. 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:36.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Where can we guide it in some fashion? Um. Some of the slopes can be stabilized. Some have not at all easily. 01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:43.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: And some parts of extreme bad. Can be helped to move to more stable States, but it. 01:31:43.000 --> 01:31:48.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: It takes work, you know. It's. There are 70. 01:31:48.000 --> 01:31:53.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: River engineering work to do. On the book to helmet towards civility. 01:31:53.000 --> 01:32:00.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: This is gonna be an ongoing process for sure. Thank you. There's 1 new message. 01:32:00.000 --> 01:32:04.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Such an American. See how it removed the greeting. 01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:25.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Was the suggestion of what would have helped the brook before the flights. I've listened to the Dead Tree gentleman before, and believe he is wrong with his assumptions. As it currently stands, the road is now a lost cause. The town should be now focused on access to current property owners and proactive mitigation for protective energy. 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:30.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Okay, thank you for that comment. Thank you. 01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:40.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: So thank you for that comment. And and this is an ongoing conversation. So. We will just continue to talk with each other, and. 01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:44.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: We expect that people will have. A variety of opinions. 01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:52.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: As this community process, isn't it? All right? So um. Well, I think we're done, would you? 01:32:52.000 --> 01:32:56.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: I'll turn back to you so you can adjourn the meeting. Thank you. 01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:06.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Well, I just wanna thank you. For posting this like this is the kind of discussion we need to have with the community and get input and. 01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:26.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Make sure people understand. There's someone else. Okay, big, thanks to Karen. Uh. This is an official meeting, so we do have a forum, so can I have a motion to adjourn. Second, all those in favor. 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:32.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Hi hi. We are now officially adjourned at 7 20. Thank you, everybody for coming. 01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:34.000 Plainfield VT Select Board: Right.