Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Monday, October 26th.

Town Council Capital Improvement Program Workshop hosted by the Finance Committee, which is why I'm up here.

I'm Steve Weems, uh District 7 Counselor and Chair of the Finance Committee.

With us tonight are all counselors except for Councillor Anderson, who's not present, and Ramona Themey, who we're still determining where she's going to be this evening on either either in the room or on Zoom.

On Zoom are Corey Peralt, Counselor Peralt, and Counselor Kathy Wilson.

Also at the uh on the dais here is Assistant Town Manager Jay Astill, who will be standing in for our town manager Julia Hansey, who's still on uh vacation, will be back tomorrow.

And Darien Plant, our finance director.

I guess I've got to ask if the notice if the meeting was properly noticed, and I will turn to Assistant Town Manager Astill.

Uh yes, it was properly noticed.

And would you like to say anything about further about that?

Yeah,

I thought you might ask that question.

Um so properly noticed means that we posted it on the town website under the calendar section.

Um that's where all town meetings, uh, committees, task forces, subcommittees, uh it's all listed there.

Um, and it means that we've posted it.

Um try to do it seven days ahead.

Um oftentimes it's uh much more than that, and sometimes it's as close as three days ahead, um, but we try not to let that happen.

I would also add that I I um highlighted the calendar section of the website.

I know some people sometimes go to the agenda center to um to describe agendas for for meetings that are upcoming.

Uh agendas sometimes lag in being posted to the their respective events that are listed on the calendar.

Um your best course of action to figure out what's going on is to go to the calendar section of the website, which is um immediately on the front page.

You can see the upcoming events.

Um you can drill down another uh with another click and see everything that's happening this month, next month, future months.

Uh it's all right there.

And you can access the agendas from the calendar, the calendar postings as

well.

Thank you.

Can I note uh uh just real quick the uh it must be well visited uh as a digital marketing professional?

I'll say if you also Google Town of Brunswick calendar, it's like one of the first pop-ups.

Like it literally uh comes right up to the top.

So very easy to find for anybody who's looking for that.

Thank you.

Can I interrupt and say I'm on Zoom, but I'm not seeing anything.

It just still says CIP workshop.

I

I

don't know whether anybody else on Zoom can see the meeting or not, but I can't see anybody.

We're trying to figure it out.

We're working on it.

They're working.

Thank you, Kathy.

You you we can tell you're here, and we're working on getting you access to the full

full event.

It's it's not me, uh because I don't know.

Okay.

Oh, it's it's being worked on.

Thanks very much.

Are there any thank you?

You're welcome.

Uh, Corey Peralt is also on Zoom, and we can tell she's present because she's got a little circle here with CP in the in the middle of that circle.

Um are there any adjustments to the agenda?

Seeing none, I'll just say our agenda is basically two things this evening.

One is to get an overview of

the

capital improvement program process and what's in this year's first draft plan.

And secondly, to hear in more detail the activities and objectives of the economic development and community development department.

Um we're not actually required to have public comment, but I'm certainly going to entertain anyone who would like to make a public comment, either in the room or on Zoom.

Do we have any takers?

Seeing none in the room, and I don't see any on Zoom.

We will move to a the full agenda item, which is the first draft of the 28 2033 five-year capital improvements program.