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From YouTube: Groton Long Term Recovery Committee - 10/6/21
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Groton, Connecticut municipal meeting: Long Term Recovery Committee October 6, 2021. Click on the link below to view the agenda.
https://www.agendasuite.org/iip/groton/file/getfile/57625
A
All
right,
thank
you
good
evening.
It
is
wednesday
october
6
2021..
This
is
the
long
groton
town
of
groton
long-term
recovery
committee
meeting
and
we
have
quite
a
number
of
attendees.
This
evening
we
have
mr
burt
miss
harkin,
mr
braun
moderator,
evan,
mayor
hedrick,
director
fond
du
lis,
counselors
borderline
bumgarner
and
myself
mayor
granatoski.
We
have
another
attendee.
Let
me
see
who's
here.
Superintendent
austin
is
with
us
as
well.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
superintendent.
Austin.
A
A
A
Covid
needs
discussion
with
business
representatives,
and
I
want
to
thank
mr
bird
and
mr
bronk
for
reaching
out
ms
harkin
as
well
for
reaching
out
to
the
members
of
our
community
to
come
and
speak
with
us
this
evening,
and
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
at
this
time
to
mr
bronk
to
kind
of
run
the
discussion
since
he
knows
where
we
want
to
go
with
this.
You
have
the
floor,
mr
bronk.
Thank
you.
C
C
We
explained
that
we
weren't
necessarily
interested
in
a
specific
businesses,
request
or
ask,
but
that
we
were
looking
for
a
broader
business
understanding
as
to
what
their
issues
were
related
to
covid
and
that
this
effort
tonight
was
part
of
a
larger
needs
assessment
effort.
There
will
be
a
number
of
other
opportunities,
whether
it's
bang
the
table
or
coming
to
an
in-person
meeting
or
or
other
traditional
means
email.
C
Whatever
people
needed
to
do.
As
I
mentioned,
I
have
an
email
from
dan
mizer
I'll,
do
my
best
to
explain
his
concern
so
we're
open
to
any
of
those
means
in
order
to
get
the
information,
but
I
did
explain
to
those
who
were
invited
that
the
purpose
of
gaining
that
input
is
to
best
understand
what
their
needs
are.
So
we
can
program
our
funding
and
select
priorities
to
address
their
needs.
I
gave
some
examples
in
the
email
to
the
invite.
C
Possibly
they
would
discuss
labor
shortages,
supply,
chain
issues,
regulatory
barriers
or
other
financial
hurdles,
but
those
are
just
some,
I'm
sure
there
are
more
and
invited
them
to
this
evening's
meeting.
I
didn't
necessarily
put
any
time
limits,
although
I
did
explain
that
they
were
among
the
select
few
and
that
they
would
be
asked
to
explain
their
experience.
So
I
think
mayor
we're
open
to
starting
the
the
input
that
part
of
this
at
this
point
and
I'm
not
sure
who's
gonna
go
first.
C
A
D
Sure
hi
everybody
thanks
for
having
us-
and
I
appreciate
paige
reaching
out
to
us
and
we
we
have
since
since
kobe
you
know
kobe
hit
us,
we've
been
navigating
much
like
everybody
else
has
but
holding
the
hands
of
some
of
the
businesses
alongside
us.
We
did.
I
think
that
there's
a
there's
a
couple
of
things,
I'm
sorry.
I
wasn't
prepared
to
talk
right
away,
but
let
me
just
get
my
my
thoughts
together
here
for
a
second,
so
the
there
was
a.
D
D
We
took
a
look
at
how
we
were
doing
business.
We
took
a
look
at
you
know
how
we
could
best
help
business.
We
are
not
only
a
business
driven
tour
chamber,
but
a
tourism
driven
chamber
as
well,
and
so
you
know
the
the
lack
of
tourism
at
the
beginning
and
the
increase
in
tourism
that
we
saw
this
past
summer
had
impacts
on
us.
D
I've
been
involved
with
the
stonington
side
of
things,
and
we
did
the
chamber
made
a
request
on
the
stonington
side.
One
thing
that
we
saw
there
was
that
we
wanted
to
make
the
offer
that
another
chamber
had
made
on
the
stonington
side
of
things
where
I
think,
there's
a
there's,
a
there's,
a
need
on
the
fed,
because
it's
federal
money
that
it
has
to
be.
You
know
the
the
records
that
are
kept
have
to
be
kept.
D
You
know
well,
and
the
money
that's
spent
has
to
be
told
how
it
was
spent
and
there
needs
to
be
reports
given,
but
the
amount
of
money
that
the
that
the
town
of
groton
has
to
in
their
coffers,
for
this
particular
is
a
lot
of
money.
And
so
we
wanted
to
suggest
that
possibly
the
chamber
could
carve
out
a
a
you
know
small
envelope
of
money
that
we
could
set
parameters
around.
D
The
we,
I
think,
there's
an
important
you
know
area
that
should
be
looked
at
around
health
and
human
services,
and
you
know
as
an
example,
there
are
people
who
you
know
who
took
a
hit
during
this
time
and
and
like
their
access
to
exercise
programs
and
things
like
that.
They
may
have
been
compromised,
and
maybe
it's
possible
that
some,
some
of
the
programs
or
money
that
could
be
spent
could
be
to
to
support.
D
You
know
health
programs
for
for
people
who
are
hit
hard
by
covid,
and
that
would
include
you
know,
students
as
well,
maybe
even
like
providing
healthy
food.
That
kind
of
thing
which
I'm
sure
marge
will
speak
to
as
well.
Why
don't
I?
Why
don't
I
I
stop
there
and
maybe
mayor
afterwards.
I
can.
I
can
probably
put
a
few
more
thoughts
together
and
after
everyone's
spoken.
If
there's
enough
time,
I
could,
I
could
go
back
around.
A
E
Oh
hi,
I'm
I'm
also
representing
the
economic
development
commission
with
the
dual
hats
on
it,
because
we
have
been
doing
outreach.
I
know
the
vice
chair
has
been
working
with
the
mystic
chamber.
To
do
another
forum
do
after
they
did
a
survey
and
a
lot
of
the
responses,
especially
the
heavy
ones.
Didn't
surprise
me
just
from
from
what
I
do
in
banking
and
also
what
I
do
from
outreach
myself.
E
I
talked
with
a
gal
from
hr
at
eb
because
we've
been
coordinating
with
them
also
and
they
find
very
difficult
to
attract
people
from
outside
the
area
to
come
in
for
employment
purposes.
Part
of
the
reasoning
is
housing
quality
of
life
that
they
look
for
from
that
younger
group.
So
there's
a
lot
of
issues
that
go
into
it
that
we
do
discuss
from
time
to
time,
and
I
just
think
we
have
to
keep
that
conversation
going
because
it,
as
I
said
it
is
across
the
board
from
most
people
I
speak
with.
E
Some
are
luckier
than
others
myself.
I've
had
full
employment
in
my
office,
but
I
am
also
forced
to
go
up
and
cover
offices
in
newport
and
westerly
and
such
so.
It's
not
just
specific
to
our
our
area,
but
of
course
groton
is
is
my
main
concern
as
it
should
be,
so
anything
we
can
address
and
and
I'm
interested
when
we
have
the
forum,
if,
if
we
can
get
input
from
some
of
the
other
employers,
that
put
this
as
a
major
concern
is,
is
ideas,
ideas
that
there
are
others?
E
What
can
we
do
to
induce
to
bring
and
employees
from
the
outside
into
our
area
because
we
just
don't
have
a
large
pool
and
and
that's
not
just
the
short
term?
I
think
that's
a
long
term
thing
and
I
think
we
we've
seen
this
across
the
board
as
what
they're
looking
for
and
we're
trying
to
address
that
with
some
of
the
development
and
it's
a
step-by-step
process
and
it's
not
going
to
be
solved
overnight
so
happy
to
answer
anything
or
give
feedback
at
the
end.
F
Hi,
thank
you
so
much
for
having
me
here
tonight.
So
one
of
the
things
that
I
definitely
found
was
supply,
chain
issues
and
being
able
to
get
raw
materials
and
getting
them
for
an
affordable
price,
so
kobe
definitely
affected
the
supply
chain.
This
is
not
news
to
anyone,
but
for
business
owners
to
have
to
put
out
a
product
consistently
and
have
such
difficulty
in
getting
raw
materials.
F
It
was
very,
very
impactful
and
to
not
only
have
the
shortages
but
to
if
they
were
available
to
have
to
pay
a
lot
more
for
these
raw
materials
and
it
would.
It
would
change
from
one
one
moment
to
the
next.
There
might
be
a
shortage
on
one
thing
at
one
point
and
then
the
next
month
would
be
something
else,
so
that
I'm
seeing
quite
a
bit
and
it's
it's,
making
it
very
difficult
for
businesses
to
keep
their
costs.
F
That's
definitely
what
I
would
like
to
report
in
as
the
most
significant.
Of
course,
the
employee
shortages
is
is
most
definitely
just
as
important,
but
I
think
that
that
was
covered
pretty
well
already
tonight,
but
I
would
definitely
those
two
items
are.
I
I
believe
the
most
impactful
from
this.
Thank.
A
H
H
J
Hi
I've
been
very
blessed
with
very
solid
staff,
so
the
employment
issue
has
not
been
an
issue
for
me,
but
it
recently
had,
as
in
restaurant,
employees
talk
to
each
other
and
when
other
restaurants
start
paying
dishwashers
19
an
hour
which
that's
a
minimum
wage
job
and
they're
getting
paid
19
an
hour
because
they're
so
desperate
for
someone,
and
then
my
employees
hear
about
that
they're
like.
Why
aren't
we
getting
more
and
we're
like
a
very
family-friendly,
affordable
restaurant?
G
E
G
K
Right,
I'm
from
the
steamboat
in
yeah.
I
I'm
echoing
a
lot
of
thoughts
like
what
justin
said
and
also
bruce
earlier
and
as
far
as
this
money
that
you
have
and
you
you
know
I'm
I
was
thinking
as
far
as
employees
go.
It
would
be
really
nice
if
we
could
have
some
kind
of
incentive
for
interns
to
come
in
even
in
restaurants,
as
you
know,
for
the
hospitality
business,
maybe
some
kind
of
pathway
like
loan.
K
You
know
like
a
pp
ppp
loan,
but
more
for
on
an
educational
basis,
so
that
they
will
actually
get
something
out
of
it
and
the
business
will
get
something
out
of
it
too.
So
some
kind
of
program
to
be
set
up
to
you
know
with
local
schools
and
things
like
that
to
get
kids
in
in
the
summers
and
things
like
that,
and
I
also
think
that
we
we
have
noticed
that
we
have
had
a
clientele
change
and
we
are
getting
a
lot
of
visitors
from
connecticut
our
you
know.
L
K
But
to
travel
again
we
we
might
start
to
lose
these
new,
this
new
wave
of
people
coming
to
the
mystic
area,
and
that
said,
I
think
we
do
have
to
always
be.
You
know,
on
our
toes
about
keeping
money
in
the
tourism
budget
and
making
sure
that
we're
always
you
know,
keeping
mystic
on
the
map
and
that
and
that
kind
of
thing
well,
the
whole
southeastern
area
of
connecticut
just
continue
to
support.
K
K
I
just
had
a
staff
meeting
and
said
you
know
we
can
never
get
complacent
about
that,
because
it
could
all
just
change
again
and
it's
just
it's
really
important
to
just
always
have
a
drive
as
far
as
you
know,
any
extra
programs
for
tourism
or
anything
like
that.
If
anyone
has
any
ideas,
it's
always
good
to
send
people
to
this
area
try
to
get
them
to
come
back,
and
that
means
making
it
easier
for
them
to
get
here
be
here.
K
You
know
park
here,
eat
here
and
there's
all
those
things
come
into
that
and
mystic
is
a
busy
little
town
and
you
know
we
are
there's
all
kinds
of
people
working
on
parking
programs
and
things
like
that
at
the
moment.
So
there
is
a
really
active
scene
going
on
in
mystic
we're
trying
to
obtain
more
parking
spots
off
the
side
streets.
Things
like
that.
K
J
K
J
K
A
A
M
I'm
sorry
about
that.
That's,
okay!
We
we've
been
fortunate
in
that
we've.
Pretty
much
stayed
busy
with
our
shipping
stores,
both
in
jewish
city
and
groton,
but
one
of
the
issues
that
we're
finding
just
like
with
what
justin
said
is
you
know
for
a
job
jobs
that
typically
were
on
minimum
wage
and
a
little
bit
above
now
we
have
to
compete
with
the
you
know:
16
17,
an
hour
which
is
kind
of
forcing
us
to
raise
our
prices,
and
obviously
customers
aren't
happy
with
it.
M
So
I
don't
know
you
know
we
don't
know
where
we're
gonna
land
with
with
our
our
salaries
and
and
our
pricing-
and
I
don't
know-
that's
that's
all
still
up
in
the
air
with
us
right
now
and
and
we're
hoping
to
kind
of
figure
it
out
as
the
what's
kind
of,
but
we're
again
we're
we're.
Also
a
family
business
like
with
what
justin
said.
So
our
employees
are
very
loyal,
but
that's
only
going
to
go
so
far.
M
You
know
so
at
some
point:
we
have
to
figure
out
like
what
we're
going
to
do
and,
and
it's
probably
going
to
be
where
you
know
I
got
to
start
throwing
some
money.
I've
I've
been
kind
of
taking
money
out
and
you
know
given
just
to
make
people
happy,
but
you
know
it's.
I
can't
keep
doing
that.
It's
it's
gotta,
it's
gotta
start,
you
know
doing
it
the
right
way.
I
guess
is
what
I'm
trying
to
say.
A
N
We've
seen
a
huge
uptick
with
our
clients
who
needed
help
navigating
the
ppp
and
the
idle
loans.
So
we've
spent
a
lot
of
time
and
they've
spent
a
lot
of
time
with
our
business
advisors
figuring
out
how
to
apply.
What
do
I?
How
can
I
apply?
How
can
I
qualify
and
then
all
the
reporting
at
the
back
end,
so
our
numbers
have
grown
exponentially
by
the
amount
of
clients
that
we've
served
through
kovid,
just
because
of
a
big
part
of
that.
N
We've
also
seen
a
lot
of
our
clients,
who've
had
to
pivot
their
businesses
and
have
come
to
us
for
help
in
figuring
out
how
to
do
that
during
covid,
for
example.
I
know
we've
got
some
restaurants
here
and
how
they
haven't
been
able
to.
You
know
open
as
much
and
so
we've
helped
them
pivot,
to
you
know,
add
catering
and
to
add
some
food
truck
to
their
business
and
that
type
of
stuff
we've
also
seen
a
huge
uptick
in
the
number
of
people
starting
businesses,
and
a
lot
of
that
has
come
from.
N
A
lot
of
people
have
gotten
laid
off
they're,
looking
to
be
more
self-independent,
financially,
while
being
able
to
work
around
some
of
their
families
that,
when
kids
had
to
go,
do
remote
schooling
and
there's
been
a
lot
of
challenges
with
that.
So
we've
seen
a
lot
of
people
with
a
larger
interest
in
starting
their
own
businesses
so
that
they
can
make
their
own
schedules.
A
C
C
He
had
four
issues
that
he
identified.
I'm
gonna
do
my
best
to
paraphrase,
but
he
did
provide
a
lot
of
detail.
The
the
first
issue
without
question
staffing
is
our
single
biggest
challenge.
It
was
definitely
the
issue
of
expanded
unemployment
benefits
that
affected
us
this
summer,
but
it's
much
more
than
that.
The
pandemic
caused
all
of
us
to
step
back
and
reassess
many
people
left
the
hospitality
sector
to
pursue
jobs
that
offered
more
consistent
and
normal
hours
for
comparable
pay.
C
The
second
issue
wage
compression
with
the
workforce
that
did
not
come
back.
I'm
sorry
with
the
workforce
that
did
come
back
or
stayed
throughout.
There
was
a
significant
increase
in
hourly
rates
paid
to
retain
those
folks
with
everyone.
That's
helped
with
everyone
desperate
for
help.
The
workforce
has
extraordinary
leverage
to
ask
for
and
receive
pay
increases
well
above
historical
and
in
industry
norms.
C
The
third
issue-
child
care.
I
have
heard
that
before
I
haven't
heard
it
tonight,
but
he
raised
child
care
actually
that
that's
why
he
can't
be
here
tonight
with
many
of
our
positions
filled
by
single
parents
or
two-income
earlier
sorry,
two-income
earner,
households
trying
to
balance
affordable
child
care
with
work
is
a
major
struggle,
so
many
families
depend
on
grandparents
and
parents
to
help
out
and
with
many
of
them
still
living
a
somewhat
distanced
and
isolated
life
due
to
covid
the
free
child
care
has
often
disappeared.
C
The
last
issue
number
four
cost
of
goods
nationally.
The
cost
of
food
and
beverages
have
risen
about
11
this
past
year,
with
cost
of
goods
up
labor
costs
up
and
revenues
down
the
math
of
owning
a
small
business,
particularly
restaurants,
it's
tighter
and
tighter.
So
I
think
that
captures
his
points.
Many
of
those
points
were
mentioned
by
others
as
well.
C
C
I
was
on
a
call
this
morning
with
the
small
business
development
center
and
I'm
really
grateful
that
they
actually
offered
that
and
the
purpose
was
to
bring
on
many
connecticut
towns
and
ask
them.
What
are
you
doing
today
with
your
arpa
money
to
help
the
business
community
and
what
I
found
out
is
that
most
towns
are
pretty
much
where
we're
at
right
now.
C
C
There
are
also
community
they're,
also
concerned
like
we
are
about
making
sure
we
don't
double
dip,
meaning
have
business
entities
receive
ppp
money,
the
economic
injury
disaster,
loan
money,
other
bridge,
financing
from
the
state
and
others,
and
and
if
not,
why
haven't
you
applied
for
that
money?
So
that
is
that's
a
large
discussion.
The
small
business
development
center
said
they're
going
to
try
to
assist
in
providing
some
ideas
to
us
as
well
for
business
programming
and
that
it
had
to
be
done
fairly
quickly.
So
I
just
wanted
to
share
that.
C
C
The
other
point
I
wanted
to
bring
up
I'm
going
to
try
to
be
brief
on
this.
A
week
ago
I
was
on
also
another
spdt
session
and
they
talked
about
the
economic
injury
disaster
loan
program
and
for
the
businesses
that
are
on
the
call
tonight,
it's
quite
clear
that
that
money
is
still
available.
Although
the
ppp
money
has
dried
up
through
the
end
of
this
calendar
year,
small
businesses
and
small
businesses
alone
can
go
after
this
money
and
there's
a
special
program.
That's
been
carved
out
as
a
result
of
covid.
C
It
increased
the
cap,
the
maximum
that
a
small
business
can
get
up
to
two
million
dollars
per
business
and
it's
a
30-year
term
30-year
payback
with
a
two-year
deferment.
They
have
no
payments
for
two
years:
the
interest
rate's
relatively
low
3.75.
Now
I
know
businesses
don't
want
to
take
on
more
debt.
C
I
understand
that,
but
there's
a
lot
of
flexibility
with
this
money
and
I
can
go
on
and
on
I'm
gonna,
I'm
gonna
stop
it's
not
the
purpose
of
tonight's
meeting,
but
I
want
it's
time
sensitive
for
businesses
who
are
interested
in
getting
more
resources.
There
are
a
lot
of
federal
monies
that
are
still
available
and
this
goes
directly
through
the
small
business
administration
portal.
You
don't
have
to
go
through
a
bank.
You
go
directly
through
the
program
it
takes
about
three
to
six
weeks,
go
through
the
process.
I
C
Have
other
resources
if
people
are
interested,
I
want
websites
phone
numbers
whatever
they
can
contact
me
after
this
meeting,
I'm
more
than
happy
to
provide
the
information.
I'm
well
aware
that
the
sbdc
wendy
here
and
small
business
and
sbdc
will
also
help
out
with
judith
who
is
located
at
sector
at
least
part
of
the
week.
I
believe
so.
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
that
was
on
people's
radar.
O
O
There's
two
we're
gonna
be
doing
two
drop-ins
one
in
the
city.
Sierra
patrick's
gonna
help
out
with
that
one
where
it'll
be
in
the
foyer,
and
you
can
have
three
stations
where
you
can
give
some
feedback
about
how
groton
should
spend
the
money
and
categorize
the
money
and
then
also
in
the
evening,
we'll
we'll
be
having
one
at
the
senior
center.
So
that's
october,
19th
at
1pm
in
in
gratin
city
and
at
6
30
at
the
senior
center.
O
So
that's
one
thing
and
we're
also
launching
what
paige
referred
to
already
as
being
the
table,
we're
actually
calling
it
greater
gratin,
which
is
going
to
be
a
site
to
this.
This
engagement
platform,
that's
email,
not
just
emails,
but
surveys,
interactive,
posting,
commenting
liking,
sharing.
That
kind
of
thing
is
going
to
be
launching
around
the
same
time.
O
Hopefully,
on
the
same
day
as
the
open
houses,
and
then
we're
also
going
to
be
doing
some
mailing
mailers
that
will
be
going
out
and
a
gratin
tv
scroll
so
really
trying
to
get
the
word
out
that
we're
looking
for
feedback
and
gathering
as
much
community
ideas
before
we
have
that
discussion
and
put
things
in
buckets.
Like
we've
discussed.
A
B
Thank
you
first.
I
just
wanted
to
thank
everyone
who
took
the
time
to
come
out
and
share
their
perspective
or
experience
based
on
areas
in
which
they're
seeing
the
needs.
I
think
it's
really
interesting.
As
in
last
night's
meeting
at
the
town
council,
we
were
talking
about
how
groton
is
falling
out
of
169
towns
in
the
top
25
towns
that
are
considered
in
distress
per
nine
categories.
B
I
think
this
is
really
interesting
segway
into
a
lot
of
things.
I
think
that
that
should
be
considered
when
looking
at
our
decision
making
and
the
coveted
response,
I
did
a
little
bit
of
research
and
work
with
legend
like
health
district
looking
at
needs
assessments
and
the
first
thing
on
there
were
women,
minorities
and
child
care
were
the
three
things,
and
I
heard
a
few
things
tonight
on
a
15
wage,
a
single
mother
or
even
a
joint
income
family.
B
They
had
to
give
up
jobs
to
be
able
to
help
educate
their
children
and
then
in
the
evenings,
to
return
back
to
work
when
you're
paying
eight
to
nine
bucks
an
hour
you're
forced
to
pick,
you
don't
want
to
pick
the
cheapest
child
care
to
send
your
child
to
and
if
you're
only
making
under
you
know,
making
somewhere
between
fifteen
twenty
dollars
is
going
to
child
care.
Families
found
that
it
was
better
just
to
stay
home
to
be
safe,
not
bring
the
covered
virus
in
and
to
be
present
and
help
educate
their
children.
B
I
think
that's
a
shift
that
I'm
seeing
as
a
need
from
the
studies
that
I
saw
working
with
ledge
light
health
district
and
then
seeing
that
come
to
fruition.
When,
when
speaking
last
night
at
the
council,
we
scored
one
of
the
reasons,
nine
reasons
for
scoring
so
low
and
being
a
distressed
town
in
gra
as
out
of
169
town
was
high
school
degree,
folks
that
have
not
achieved
their
high
school
diplomas
and
income
per
capita.
B
Child
care
and
a
lot
of
these
jobs
historically
have
been
filled
by
a
lot
of
folks
that
maybe
don't
have
higher
degrees
or
are
are
people
of
color
or
identify
as
a
form
of
minority.
Looking
at
covid
with
this
money
and
looking
at
the
ep
the
pandemic,
the
other
thing
that
led
light
health
district
did
was
look
at
a
unique
way
and
the
fact
that
they
were
all
first
responders
working
as
bus
drivers,
working
cleaning
house,
child
care-
and
you
know
the
need
is
changing.
B
And
so
I
think
it's
important
to
look
at
that
and
I
think
there's
an
important
way
that
we
should,
when,
when
the
town
manager
gives
us
some
more
data
from
the
state
to
see
exactly
how
we
scored
in
ranking
these
top
nine
things,
I
think
really.
Looking
I
heard
workforce
readiness
night,
that's
something
that
I'm
really
passionate
about
at
the
high
school
level.
You
know
we
all
want
our
kids
to
be
college.
B
So
these
are
the
things
that
I
think
of,
but
I
do
think
there
is
a
need-
and
I
I
would
love
to
figure
out
ways
to
support
our
businesses,
our
small
businesses,
and
make
sure
that
they're
getting
qualified.
You
know
workers,
but
also
addressing
that
child
care
need,
and
that
is
extremely
important.
So
that's
an
area
that
I
would
like
to
help
with
is
looking
at
child
care.
A
Thank
you,
mr
groves.
I
think.
Oh,
I
think
he
left
mr
groves
put
in
a
note
that
he
had
to
take
a
business
call,
so
he
was
concurring
with
people
on
the
staffing
issue.
So
thank
you.
If
there's
anybody
else
that
needs
to
to
take
off
you're.
Welcome
to
add
your
last
comments.
Otherwise
I
will
go
to
counselor
all
right.
Let's,
let's
go
back
to
mr
flax.
Please
counsel!
Glenn,
gordon!
If
you
don't
mind.
D
I
think
that
that
would
be
for
my
stanford.
That
would
be
very
helpful.
I
think
that
the
another
challenge
is
going
to
be
to
monetize
some
of
the
issues
that
you're
bringing
up,
and
I
think
some
of
the
things
that,
like
concert,
borderline
brought
up
about
the
top
nine
things
and
what
ledge
light
health
district
has
brought
up
is
how
to
monetize.
D
That
and
how
to
how
to
break
it
out
and
and
do
something
that's
effective
for
the
community
and
do
it
in
an
effective
way
when
stonington
did
theirs
a
couple
weeks
ago.
They
broke
it
into
four
four
areas:
services,
economy,
infrastructure
facilities
and
ppe,
coveted
expenses,
and
I
think
you
know
there's
going
to
be
a
lot
of.
Obviously
every
community
every
town
is
going
to
be
going
through
the
same
thing
so
to
paige's
point
about.
He
was
talking
to
the
small
business
organization
today
that
you
can
get
some.
D
You
know
some
good
information
from
from
the
communities
that
have
already
started
to
do
this.
Somebody
brought
up
tourism
and
it
is
important-
and
I
think
that
it's
that
there's-
that
the
paperwork
or
the
information
from
the
federal
government
touches
on
tourism
and
from
the
chamber
standpoint.
Obviously
it's
very
important.
D
I
think
that
would
be
very
helpful,
not
only
for
you
guys,
but
for
for
the
for
the
community
as
well.
The
only
other
thing
I
want
to
touch
on
was,
I
didn't
speak
about
it,
but
I
think
the
health
exercise,
the
people
who
don't
have
access
to
that
is
very
important,
and
the
committee
should
look
at
some
of
the
longer
term
things
that
are
paid
for
now.
That
will
have
longer
term
effects.
One.
That's
like
I
like
a
simple
one.
D
But
if
we
did
some
kind
of
like
height,
groton
or
kind
of
follow
that
thing
where
we're
incentivizing
and
encouraging
people
to
to
get
outside
and
exercise,
that's
that
would
be
the
kind
of
a
kind
of
program
again,
not
that
much
money,
but
just
where
you're
you're
encouraging
people
to
get
out.
So
I
appreciate
you
letting
me
speak
again
and
that's
all
I
had
thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
I
just
want
to
assure
everybody
who's
here
that
town
staff
and
this
committee
and
the
council
have
been
working
on
this
process
for
quite
a
while
now
and
we
just
approved
the
process
last
night
and
there
is
opportunity
all
along
the
way
for
feedback.
We
definitely
are
encouraging
feedback,
as
ms
harkin
touched
upon.
Okay,
we
have
mr
bronk.
I
think
he
wanted
to
chime
in
then
we
have
councilor
bumgardner
and
moderator
evan.
So
mr
bronk
did
you
wish
to
speak.
C
C
P
Thank
you,
madam
mayor,
and
thank
you
to
everyone
for
coming
out
this
evening.
Your
input
is
incredibly
valuable.
As
the
mayor
mentioned,
we've
been
deliberating
over
several
months
and
determining
how
the
town
ought
to
spend
about
8.4
million
dollars
of
its
allocation
arpa
allocation
in
the
next
two
years.
In
this
public
engagement
process
will,
you
know,
have
a
huge
bearing
on
what
that
outcome
will
be.
P
P
You
know
several
projects
by
buckets
and
then
prioritizing
those
buckets
according
to
certain
criteria
like
counselor
borderland,
my
focus
throughout
this
process
will
be
on
equity.
You
know,
certainly
you
know
recognizing
that
some
of
our
most
vulnerable
in
our
community
have
been
most
disproportionately
impacted
by
the
pandemic,
and
what
can
we
do
to
ensure
that
you
know
their
futures
are?
Are
bright
and
grunting
that
child
care
isn't
an
issue
that
we,
you
know
bring
up?
You
know
time
and
time
again.
P
I
I
think
one
thing-
and
I've
mentioned
this-
also
time
and
time
again
the
superintendent
has
heard
this,
but
I
think
you
know
the
pandemic
exposed
that
there
were
already
enormous
inequities
that
existed
in
our
community,
such
as
internet
access.
You
know
where
so
many
students
you
know
needed
to
rely
on
internet
service
in
some
cases,
realizing
that
you
know
some
of
these
families
may
not
have
had
internet
service
when
they
really
needed
to
in
order
to
complete
homework
assignments
in
the
past.
P
So
in
in
many
ways
you
know
we,
the
pandemic
also
allowed
for
great
investment
in
those
areas.
On
the
you
know,
in
terms
of
public
dollars,
and
now
we
can
do
so
much
more
with
our
own,
our
ability
to
allocate
funds
directly.
So
my
question,
I
guess
to
the
group-
would
be
what
are
you
hearing
from
your
employees?
P
And
certainly
you
have
you
have
your
needs
and
you
know
we
certainly
will
be
attending
to
those
needs
as
well
to
support
a
small
business
growth
in
in
groton
and
again
my
hat's
off
to
you
during
these
unprecedented
times.
I
I
don't
know
how
you
do
it
and
we
really
do
appreciate
your
investment
in
our
community,
and
you
know
any
anyway.
Our
town
can
be
helpful.
I
know.
Certainly
no
town
staff
will
be
in
the
council
will
be
so
it's.
P
Q
Sorry,
I
rarely
do
that
too.
I
just
wanted
to
tabitha
page
if
you
could,
for
everybody
who
is
signed
up
who's,
not
a
regular
member.
If
you
can
send
a
copy
of
that
process
of
that
flow
chart
to
them,
so
they
can
see
how
it
will
work
and
now
that
it's
approved
by
the
council,
so
that
we
can
get
it
out
on
facebook
and
some
of
that
too
and
explain
the
process
a
little
more
and
the
newspaper
is
doing
an
article
on
some
of
this
right
now
too.
A
L
My
my
thoughts
are,
you
know,
kind
of
probably
duplicative
to
reinforce
some
of
the
things
I've
heard
tonight
and
I
want
to
reach
out
and
thank
everyone
here:
who's
like
share
their
perspectives
and
their
concerns
tonight,
because
it's
been
it's
been
incredibly
useful
and
and
helpful
to
to
hear
this.
But
I
guess
in
terms
of
allocating
this
money,
I
hear
a
few
threads
coming
through
mr
flax
mentioned.
You
know
the
issues
of
health
underlying
a
lot
of
the
insecurity
that
I
think
kovid
has
really
kind
of
highlighted.
L
You
know
he's
a
small
business
owner
and
I
know
that
these
issues
are
just
you
know,
really
ripple
throughout
all
small
business
owners.
You
know
giving
your
your
employees
paying
them
adequately,
but
at
the
same
time
being
able
to
recoup
you
know
your
losses
and
your
you
know
make
a
profit
but
also
giving
them
access
to
health
care
and
the
benefits
that
they
deserve.
So
I
think
that
you
know
to
the
extent
we
could
wrestle
with
some
of
those
bigger
issues,
and
perhaps
you
know,
maybe
lay
a
groundwork
or
or
think
about
them.
L
At
least
in
this
with
this
kind
of
funding,
it
would
be
helpful
and
the
second
is
the
what
counselor
borderline
brought
up,
which
is
education.
I
read
in
the
in
the
newspaper
today
and
the
day
you
know
that
I
think
it
was
new
london.
Maybe
it
was
yesterday,
but
you
know
they
had
a
big
allocation
to
ness
and
they
were
wondering
why
fresh
didn't
get
it
fresh
new
london.
We
also
have
project
oceanology
in
our
community.
L
We
have
educational
organizations
that
I
think
are
worthy
of
supporting
and
I
didn't
hear
from
them
in
our
last
meeting
and
I
don't
hear
from
them
tonight,
so
I'm
just
hoping
that,
maybe
I
I
know
the
superintendent
austin
is
here.
We
can
kind
of
think
collaboratively
about
getting
a
pipeline
and
when
I
think
about
a
pipeline,
I'm
not
thinking
about
a
pipeline
to
minimum
wage
jobs.
I
think
we
need
a
pipeline
to
hire
wage
jobs
that
are
going
to
create
a
strong
middle
class,
and
I
think
that's
really
where
we
need
to
go.
L
You
know,
and
our
residents
and
the
folks
that
that
are
living
here-
that
we
hope
will
continue
to
live
here,
as
mr
brooke
will
tell
you
when
they
get
their
job
so
and
that's
where
I
I
really
see.
Maybe
a
way
we
could
work
together
is
educating
for
that
workforce
of
the
future
providing
for
child
care,
which
I
think
is
essential,
but
also
you
know
seeing
if
we
can
alleviate
businesses
kind
of
grappling
with
with
healthcare
issues,
because
I
think
that's
it.
That's
really
the
big
knock
to
crack.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
want
to
just
to
see
the
reason
why
we
convene
this
evening
is
to
hear
from
our
our
business
owners
and
the
representatives
of
the
community,
so
I
want
to
just
see
if
anyone
who's
joining
us
you've
gave
so
much
of
your
time
to
us
already.
If
you
wanted
to
add
anything
before
you
have
to
head
out,
so
did
anyone
wish
to
speak
again
any
of
our
business
owners
or
representatives?
N
Health
care
has
been
an
issue
for
a
lot
of
them,
but
as
small
business
owners,
a
lot
struggle
with
that
to
begin
with
and
child
care,
child
care
is
huge.
Like
I
said,
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
women
have
and
not.
We've
had
some
men
too,
but
come
to
us
because
they've
quit
that
15
an
hour
job
because
they
want
to
start
a
business
because
they've
had
to
be
home
with
their
children.
So
I
just
want
to
reiterate
that
what
everybody's
saying
is
exactly
what
we've
seen
come
to.
K
A
R
R
A
You
for
joining
us,
we
were
just.
I
can
just
bring
you
up
to
speed
on
what
we've
done
every
all
of
the
business
representatives.
We
did
kind
of
a
quick
round
the
table
and
everybody
had
a
chance
to
speak
and
share
their
concerns
with
us,
and
we
were
just
wrapping
up
now,
but
we'd
love
to
hear
your
input,
please,
if
you
don't
mind
sure.
R
Yeah,
I'm
sure
it's
probably
been
echoed
a
number
of
times,
but
staffing
has
been
of
a
major
concern.
Just
making
sure
that
we
have
people
who
are
you
know
up
to
speed
and
willing
and
able
to
be
employed
has
been
a
major
issue
specifically
with
our
front
of
house.
For
those
of
you
who
may
not
know
we
operate
a
tap
room
in
the
groton
location
and-
and
you
know
the
beginning
of
the
pandemic,
everything
before
that
happened.
R
It
was
going
great,
but
we
had
to
close
down
kind
of
pivot,
our
business
kind
of
moved
away
from
front-facing
public
visitation
and
we
opened.
I
believe
it
was
in
june
again
of
this
summer
to
the
public,
and
it's
been
it's
been
difficult
to
make
sure
that
we
have
enough
people
available
and
ready
to
work.
So
that's
been
a
massive
undertaking
of
ours
as
well
as
supply
chain
concerns
we're
in
manufacturing.
So
you
know
cans
raw
goods
as
far
as
grain
and
hops
go
for.
Our
industry
is
troublesome.
R
R
A
R
Sure
we
do
pretty
well
down
there
as
far
as
sewer
and
water
goes.
That
was
one
of
the
things
that
I
sought
out
the
town
of
groton.
For
so
that
hasn't
been
terrible.
The
one
thing
that
we
have
run
into
and
unfortunately
it's
kind
of
a
duopoly
right,
comcast
and
there's
one
other
internet
supplier
in
the
area
just
hasn't
really
well,
they
say
they
can
keep
up.
R
We
often
leonard
drive
run
into
issues
as
far
as
that
goes
other
than
that,
though,
no
major
concerns
I
mean,
I
think
I
see
with
the
the
funds
that
are
being
parked
at
localities
for
infrastructure
upgrades
like
the
the
sewer
department
and
and
making
sure
that
we
can
handle
future
growth
makes
a
lot
of
sense
with
sewer
and
water.
We
see
it
in
on
the
opposite
side
of
the
river
and
mystic
all
the
time.
You
know,
new
development
really
puts
a
strain
on
aquarium.
R
On
the
mystic
side.
I
haven't
really
seen
that
happen
in
the
groton
on
the
groton
side
of
mystic
or
or
in
groton,
but
we
we
haven't
been
there
nearly
as
long.
So
I
definitely
think
that
it's
important
to
look
to
the
future
as
far
as
how
we
can
increase
the
infrastructure
so
that
we
can
plan
on
having
more
development,
more
people
living
and
playing
in
the
groton
groton
area.
C
C
The
federal
government's
ruling
is
a
little
bit
they're
a
little
bit
more
nebulous,
but
but
basically
infrastructure
for
those
items
are
slam
dunk
if
groton
decided
that
they
wanted
to
expend
some
of
the
funding
to
assist
areas,
businesses
or
economic
development
for
water
to
or
broadband
no
questions
asked.
Thank
you.
I,
as
as
we
mentioned
earlier,
this
is
the
beginning
of
our
outreach.
Tabitha
touched
on
future
efforts,
we're
always
open
to
ideas.
C
A
S
When
you
have
to
double
up
runs-
and
you
know
you
have
long
waits,
so
we
have
been
working
tirelessly
to
try
to
resolve
these
issues.
They
are,
they
did
negotiate
a
good
contract,
so
people
are
going
to
be
paid
better
money
to
but
to
drive
buses.
So
you
know
I'm
hopeful
and
I'm
seeing
more
people
come
back
into
the
industry,
which
is
really
good
news.
So
each
day
it
gets
a
little
better,
but
it
really
has
caused
a
lot
of
hardship.
S
Also,
our
paraprofessionals
are
just
such
an
incredible
support
to
our
children,
and
you
know:
we've
really
been
looking
for
more
paraprofessionals
tutors
custodians
because
we're
continuing
keeping
everything
really
super
clean,
and
you
know
some
of
those
folks.
You
know
it's
been
really
hard.
I
know
that
grand
public
schools
has
been
doing
job
fairs
every
week
or
going
to
job
fairs
every
week
and
as
soon
as
we
get
people
interested,
you
know
we
kind
of
send
them
to
the
schools,
but
that
has
been
a
real
hardship.
S
I
would
say
this
year
and
then
I'm
hearing
from
the
military
superintendent
liaison
committee
that
I
serve
on
that
the
columbia
class,
of
course,
is
being
built
here
in
graton
and
they
will
be
stationed
here
in
gratton
and
they're
looking.
They
just
did
a
study,
and
you
probably
are
aware
of
this
mayor
of
housing
and
looking
at
the
balfour
baby
for
all
of
our
military
active
duty
and
those
families
always
come
to
our
schools,
which
we're
so
proud
to
serve.
S
S
Those
were
a
couple
things
and
also,
as
you
know,
fitch
high
school
has
their
career
pathways
and
we
actually
collaborate
with
grass,
so
we're
going
to
be
offering
opportunities
after
school
for
some
of
the
fitch
students,
and
I
also
believe
in
the
whole
workforce
readiness,
I
think,
that's
a
great
term
career
readiness,
kids
get
there
in
all
different
ways,
and
we
certainly
want
them
to
excel
and
find
those
jobs
that
they
really
are.
You
know,
bring
out
their
their
passions
and
their
proclivities,
but
they're
good
at
what
they
love
to
do.
S
You
know
our
five
elementaries
are
now
magnet
and
they
we
a
partner
with
this
community,
whether
it's
project
o
ness,
the
museum,
there's
just
a
great
article
about
nea
connecting
with
one
of
the
mystic
museums
and
so
those
partnerships,
and
that
enrichment
that
we're
creating
during
the
day
and
after
school
are
so
important
for
our
kids
because
they
engage
them
and
they
give
them
insight
into
what
those
things
are.
They
love
to
do
so.
I
I
guess
please
thank
you,
mayor
grantowski.
It
is
great
to
have
all
the
people
that
spoke
tonight.
We
have
some
issues
here.
Workforce
development
is
definitely
going
to
be
an
issue.
We
need
to
work
on
that,
but
it
could
also
be
diploma
programs
adult
education
in
addition
to
the
younger
people
that
are
coming
up.
We
also
have
people
that
are
limited
in
the
jobs
that
they
can
seek
and
therefore
the
salaries
that
they
can
maintain.
I
They
can
obtain
based
on
the
education
that
they
currently
have
or
that
they
got
in
the
past,
based
on
either
a
situation
they
were
in
or
a
decision
that
was
made.
So
if
there's
a
way
that
we
can
can
embellish,
gd
programs
diploma
programs,
things
like
that
that'll
help
as
well.
Some
of
the
challenges
that
we
have
you
know
I
heard
child
care
is
an
issue
we'll
have
to
figure
out.
I
B
R
B
But
it's
great,
though
I
think
it's
a
direct
contact
and
it's
gonna
scan
the
most
amount
of
people
the
fastest
the
quickest,
but
I
think
it
should
go
up
on
on
our
our
our
town
school
webpage,
as
well
as
individual
schools
webpage.
It
should
be
posted
in
the
counselors
guidance
counselor's
office.
When
parents
come
in
for
consults,
it
should
be
in
the
waiting
room
at
the
schools.
That's
where
there's
a
lot
of
traffic
and
maybe
a
flyer
or
poster
john
bert
that
we
can
start
putting
around
our
town.
B
I
know
that
we
do
that
big
thing
when
there's
a
run
coming
up,
I've
seen
other
towns
where
we
did.
The
strong
groton
hang
up
a
few
of
those
around
the
fences
or
up
in
the
air
around
town,
letting
people
know
that
this
is
what's
going
on.
There's
ways
in
which
we
can
get
the
word
out
a
little
bit
more
effectively
and
other
ways
about
with
child
care.
One
of
the
things
outside
the
box
that
I
think
of
of
helping
is
having
drop-in
availability
for
people
to
go
to
community
center.
B
One
thing
that
groton
really
doesn't
have
a
strong
holder
on
yet
we
are
working
towards
it
and
funding
hasn't
fully
been
implemented
in
its
infrastructure
at
fitch
middle
school.
But
if
that
facility
was
fully
up
and
operational
and
some
towns
have
something
called
drop
in
daycare
where,
during
the
day,
you
have
to
be
registered
and
vaccinated
and
have
you
know
your
child
with
all
its
physicals,
but
they
actually
have
someone
who
allows
parents
to
drop
in
so
they
can
run
to
a
doctor's
appointment
or
cover
until
their
husband
gets
home
and
having
a
place.
B
Where
is
the
center
of
our
town,
where
our
children
are
outside
of
school
have
a
place
to
go,
and
that
would
be
a
groton
community
center
and
that's
something,
I
think,
that's
a
good
infrastructure
starting
point
that
really
directly
impacts
the
families
and
the
children
in
our
community,
bringing
back
big
brothers
and
big
sister
programs
at
the
high
school
level
and
all
of
the
elementaries
and
also
scholarship
programs.
Where
I
saw
one
community.
I
know
that
we
have
a
great
treehouse
program
here
and
there's
some
based
on
income.
But
let's
take
it
a
step
further.
B
Maybe
that
person
who
has
to
pay
85
a
week
and
that's
based
on
a
scholarship
based
on
income
now
qualifies
for
an
85
scholarship
and
that
85
a
week
now
they
pay
zero
and
that
money
now
is
going
back
into
their
pocket
and
there's
ways
that
we
can.
You
know,
infiltrate
that
money,
because
that's
gonna
allow
that
person
to
be
back
in
the
workforce
and
be
workforce
ready.
B
So
those
are
ways
that
we
can
do
and
and
find
ways
through
our
resource
human
resource
department,
collaboration
with
our
school
programs
and
our
town
to
put
money
and
to
help
defer
child
care
costs.
And
those
are
ways
I
would
love
to
see
things
happen.
So,
but
I
would
love
for
the
robocalls
to
come
out
at
the
school,
because
I
think
that
hits
the
largest
community
in
our
town.
We
do.
S
Have
access
to
the
most
amount
of
families,
so
I'd
be
happy
so
share
that
information.
I
think
the
partnership
that
you
speak
of
too
porsha
is
so
important.
I
know
that
our
treehouse
program
will
be
meeting
with
jerry
at
parks
and
rec.
Just
to
maybe-
and
we
had
that
synergy
during
covid,
you
know
we
were
using
those
facilities
and
trying
to
make
it
very
cost
effective
for
families
during
that
whole
covet.
So
we'd
like
to
continue
that,
but
the
partnerships
are
really
essential.
S
I
A
A
A
Unfortunately,
I
was
not
able
to
do
this
before
we
started
losing
people
all
our
business
owners
that
came
out
to
share
their
thoughts
with
us.
We
we
appreciate
what
you're
telling
us,
and
ms
harkin
and
mr
brock
will
continue
the
outreach
and
we
hope
you
will
all
continue
to
participate
with
us
and
offer
your
feedback,
because
it's
vital
that
we
hear
from
you
in
order
to
be
able
to
make
the
best
use
of
the
money
that
the
town
has
been
given.
So
that's
that's
great.
B
Regarding
the
businesses
also
as
far
as
outreach,
if
there's
our
businesses
that
are
willing
to
take
these
flyers
and
post
them,
that's
another
way
to
get
folks
to
see
them.
You
know
I
go
to
mananas
a
lot.
I
I
actually
go
to
the
silo
place
of
the
brewery,
sometimes
here
and
if
they're
willing,
they
have
poster
boards
and
things
with
business
cards,
sometimes
and
maybe
they're
willing
to
put
that
up
in
their
business
to
help
because
it's
going
to
benefit
the
town
abroad,
so
just
another
way
to
outreach.
Thank
you.
A
S
You
so
much
I'd
like
to
add
some
good
news.
We
just
had
probably
our
sixth
covid19
clinic
that
we've
partnered
with
hartford
healthcare,
so
it
was
really
important
to
me
last
spring
that
my
students
were
able
to
go
to
prom
and
dance
and
go
to
graduation,
and
so
we
really
did
a
a
terrific
job.
Getting
you
know
a
lot
of
employees
and
a
lot
of
students
who
are
eligible
in
there.
We've
just
had
two
we're
gonna
have
another
one
november.
First
I
got
my
booster
and
gratton.
S
Public
schools
is
close
to
90,
full
staff
vaccinated
so
and
our
students
have
done
a
great
job
too,
and
I
think
that
we'll
get
closer
to
being
back
to
better
than
normal,
as
the
health
care
you
know
continues,
and
those
folks
who
aren't
vaccinated
or
don't
want
to
be
are
testing
weekly.
So
I
think
just
to
let
you
know
how
that
governor's
challenge
is
working
for
us.
No.
A
So
I'm
not
sure
that
there's
a
need
for
us
to
meet
again
immediately.
I
think
we'd
be
better
off
letting
staff
use
their
time
to
do
the
outreach.
Now
now
that
we
know
what
we're
doing,
let's,
let's
focus
in
on
that
and
then
perhaps
in
november.
Would
that
be
sufficient.
Mr
burt,
since
we're
already
in
october,
just
go
back
to
a
monthly
meeting
in
november.
A
Okay,
very
good,
so
we'll
plan
that
around
we're
gonna
have
to
look
at
the
schedule
because
we
have
our
council
meeting
is
on
a
different
night
because
of
the
election.
So
we
will.
You
will
hear
from
us
as
far
as
the
date
on
when
we
will
be
meeting
in
november
then,
and
then
ms
harkin,
did
you
need
anything
from
this
body
as
far
as
publicizing
your
process
or
the
process
flow
chart.
O
A
P
Yes,
briefly,
one
read,
I
think
it
was
cited
tonight
a
day
paper
editorial
regarding
how
towns
you
know,
process
and
how
towns
are
distributing
our
funds
and
made
mention
of
the
fact
that,
while
you
know
we
are
continuing
deliberations
as
to
how
we
will
spend
our
our
allocation,
you
know
our
fed
federal
government
and
state
are
working
hard
to
kind
of
fill,
fill
certain
gaps.
You
know
working
with
some
of
our
larger
non-profits
providing
direct
relief.
P
P
P
That
way
you
know
we
can
start
advertising
this
and
really,
you
know,
let
folks
know
they
can
get
discounts
on
a
broadband
service
and
I
typed
in
our
zip
code
in
the
fcc
website
and
found
that
most
actually,
all
the
major
service
providers
participate
in
the
program,
including
atlantic
frontier
and
comcast,
so
I'll
send
that
over-
and
you
know
definitely
you
know-
would
encourage
all
those
who
are
struggling
with.
You
know
their
rent
or
you
know
their
internet
bills,
there's
just
so.
B
B
B
So
I
just
wanted
to
touch
base
with
the
superintendent
and
john
burke
to
see
like
what
type
of
thoughts
on
funding
that,
because
I
think
that's
a
strong
message
forward
for
our
town,
because
in
the
event
that
another
rise
in
the
pandemic
or
any
other
type
of
pandemic
or
emergency
issue,
if
we
already
have
free
lunch
for
all
of
our
kids
in
school,
we're
ahead
of
that
game.
You
know
and
that's
where
I'd
like
to
see
us
moving
forward.
I.
S
B
S
Well,
ernie
goes
through
grants
through
the
you
know,
through
the
federal
programs
for
nutrition,
and
so
because
it's
an
enterprise
fund
with
brenton
public
schools.
You
know
it
really
is
self-sustaining,
he
does
all
kinds
of
community
meals
and
I
just
got
my
box
of
farm
to
school,
so
he
does
a
lot
of
fundraisers
too.
S
So
I
would
say
that
right
now,
I
don't
think
it's
going
to
cost
extra
money,
we're
going
to
be
able
to
do
it
through
these
grants
through
these
federal
funds
and
we
have
the
right
numbers.
You
know
we've
got
about
close
to
50
of
children
who
would
qualify
for
free
and
reduced
lunch,
so
I
think
just
having
that
number
will
also
qualify
us
in
all
of
our
schools
right
so
and
we
might
be
partnering
some
of
the
schools
too.
So
we.
S
B
S
Q
A
B
A
B
A
By
borderlands
seconded
by
bumgardner,
all
those
in
favor
of
adjournment,
please
say:
aye
aye
aye
any
opposed
any
abstentions,
so
moved
unanimously.
We
were
adjourned
at
6,
58.
Sorry,
it
was
a
late
one
tonight,
but
we
had
we
had
good
discussion.
Thank
you,
simon
cheney.
Thank
you
for
joining
us.
I
appreciate
you
coming
out.