call to order the storm waterer task force for Thursday May the 16th um the agenda lists all topics which may be discussed at the meeting and those reasonably anticipated by the chair votes may be taken as a result of these discussions and not all items listed May in fact be discussed and other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by the open meeting law U please note the while an option for remote attendance or participation is provided as a courtesy to the public the meeting or hearing will not be suspended or terminated if technological problems interrupt the virtual broadcast unless otherwise requ required by law members of the public with particular interest in any specific item on this agenda should make plans for inperson vers virtual attendance accordingly all right and here we are um we did uh have somebody in uh who was looking to give a public comment um it's more likely a uh personal resolution they're looking for uh so they uh did not leave a statement for us um I don't have does anybody have any announcements or things they'd like to address or bring up all right uh we'll go to our board discussions um starting with uh update on our Outreach presentation um I wasn't sure John if you had any updates on I know I think we were talking about some changes to be made um yeah i' made the changes and I think I emailed them out out to the team oh okay and um I had created an appendix with um other information which I could send out to the team also okay excellent so you should everybody should have that available in their email then great I will double check for that um and you said you didn't want to go over these in the meeting um it's at your discretion okay I mean if we're just looking at data Trends I didn't see any issue I think we just keep moving um so just a thought on the presentation is there anything any one of us should be uh working on for the [Music] presentation it's been a while since I looked at on I know I I'm on the hook to like do like what What the residents can do kind like in collab in concert with the town if they have water issues so that's kind of like something I'm worried on I did some research and I can I can keep digging on on weather patterns um I think I think you're okay at the moment as long as you're comfortable with or if you have any recommendations on what I can do to add content to it just let me know and I'll fold it in okay all right sounds good um we had I can't remember when this was supposed to happen but there was a CI meeting with the select board um and I didn't put in my notes what that meeting was about for them I think that was to give a highlevel presentation the storm water utility okay kind of what it is what it'll do okay maybe touch on cost a version of the presentation they came and gave us yeah yeah just start the education process absolutely we're going to need the select board and other boards on our side if this is going to actually happen sure okay so did the meeting with the selectboard happen no so I thought the thought was let's wait till the town meeting okay that's now after elections because there will be some new faces um maybe we should wait to see when they uh decide who the representative will be here hopefully it's Renee still U but they might change okay yeah okay so I think once that has settled yeah then we should try to get on their agenda sounds good we'll mark that for after the elections then um or after the select boards at least had one meeting post elections yeah um okay great um has everybody had an opportunity to review the meeting minutes from our previous meeting uh yes okay great uh Jenny yes all right wonderful um if there were no uh additions or alterations anybody wanted to make I'll accept a motion to approve the minutes motion to approve second all right all in favor I I I wonderful minutes are accepted thank you Daniel they were great as usual yes thank you um and last thing we have on the agenda uh was the storm water BMP um question and answers with the high school no sorry for the high school these were these were your questions right yeah so I went to a school committee meeting um I don't know two weeks ago give take and um presented the storm water demonstration BMP to them and they had a bunch of questions so um I reached out to Nick at CI to get some answers and I kind of put it in a Q&A format for us to look at before I send it over to the school um the last few questions actually just came in today or yesterday so if you could uh read them any thoughts that you guys have that well you want me to the first change anything or the first six were legitimate concerns and maybe it's a good idea that the blue flag and the blue the big blue stem yes so those are invas invasive species really that's what somebody on the committee thought they probably not but there's hundreds of species you can there's a couple um I actually just used these for a thing I was doing um they have there's a couple services that will do like here's all of the natives that you can get in your region here's their like uh where they're best situated yeah we've definitely if that needs to be changed we've got the resources to look up exactly what we need yeah so that question I'm not about because we can keep changing until they're happy with whatever sure species comes up is definitely native I just want to throw that in there okay well can you repeat that please I'm sorry I missed it oh big blue St is definitely native oh okay yeah what is it about big blue stem that makes it the ideal candidate for this that's a good question is it drought resistant is it pretty is it not I mean it's an ornamental grass so I wouldn't say it's I I think it's pretty I think that's in the eye of the beholder um but as far I think it's salt tolerant but I don't quote me on that okay that would be my criteria if I were just my property and I had to do this something that's very drug tolerant because we get tolerates clay an alkaline pH drought moderate salt levels and seasonal flooding which is you definitely want some you want something that's good in moist in very moist soil because it's a rain Garden so I have another thing here it's just listed is it's commonly used for storm water management but it doesn't give me any reason why so it's not uncommon I guess so Jenny you can't see it but I got a picture of it up on the screen okay so yeah I think it's pretty um I'm a big fan of ornamental grasses but it's a good filler too it definitely loves water so that's the you want things that love water in a rain Garden yeah because the whole idea is that they're going to drink the water up exactly so what what I have on the screen is the presentation that I gave to the school right so okay you know starts off what is a storm water BMP types of storm water B MPS is all kinds why I think it should go at the middle the High School Middle High School why is it necessary why it should go there yeah was was one of those line items CI recommended it no I could put that though could have added that usually when you get a consult professional Consulting agency though sayone what else I put that the plans I talked about the plans what it does right the type of plants that were recommended I had pictures of the plants um the maintenance which would be needed which isn't all that much you know freshen it up a little bit remove dead plants and you know when it would the work could be done and by whom so they were they were kind of skeptical I guess they had a bunch of questions and that's that's where we're at I got how many questions there 17 17 questions so I got a Q&A um I can email it to you Jenny so you have it that would be great is it on your computer screen right now that you're showing it or is it up on the TV screen on the TV screen yeah I'm not coming from your computer yeah because you can share your screen and then it would be V visible for anybody who's on the meeting true true um but I want to share it right now it's it's okay for us we could talk about it but I don't know if I want to share it okay um where am I going there it is all right you should have it in a second I got it all right great very diplomatic I tried to be quotes did you mention anything about the fines if we don't have a demonstration project it seems they didn't know about that until right at the end yeah and question 17 then being like what yeah yeah I did mention it was part of the permit the potential fines and not too worried about it but I would like to DP comes knocking on my door would like to say yeah it's in progress yeah I don't think they have an issue plans are gorgeous so I guess I understand that yeah maybe somebody just Googled it and got some bad information I don't know well it looks like that's moving along nicely and hopefully the school comes to see the uh the importance of it and everything can move forward um does anybody have anything else they want to address today no all uh then I guess if that's where we are we have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second all right motion and seconded all in favor I I I all right it's been fun everybody yeah all right um uh yeah I'll set up for next third Thursday and we'll have a meeting