We made it.

All right, Lauren, we're good.

Okay.

Good evening.

I would like to call the January 14th planning board, Edmunds Planning Board.

Meeting to order.

Um we will start with roll call.

John Milky.

Here.

Isabel Jones.

Here, Steven Lee.

Judy Gladstone, there, Lee Hankins, Nick Maxwell, John Jensen.

Danielle Dakota.

Dick Photo.

Here.

Okay.

Everybody is here.

For our first meeting.

2026.

We will start with the approval of meeting minutes.

Judy, would you like to like to address the meeting minutes?

I get kicked off the board.

Um so in the past few months, we've had the benefit of some pretty good notes.

This last meeting kind of was slipping back to old times of verbative notes versus summary.

And so I made a couple suggestions to change those notes.

And um, but didn't necessarily make all of them, figuring they'd have to go back because the note takers weren't taking our direction.

Right.

Um so I don't know exactly.

I didn't send my names for everybody.

Um, because I wanted to give Brad the opportunity to just send them back and redo them before the meeting, because essentially, I mean, my sense of it was is that we always run this risk of when it's verbatim that it's like yeah.

So I was gonna just add to kind of bring people who haven't been here as long up to speed.

I saw at some point last year we voted to go from a verbatim uh minute report to um more just a condensed summary of topics of discussion rather than so and so said this and so and so said that, because sometimes things would get picked up and other things wouldn't, and then there was this kind of unfair emphasis on certain comments over other comments, and we didn't want there to be that um subjective review.

Um seems that yes, with this most recent notes, we've gone back into kind of more of a verbatim recount of the discussion.

Um, because you mentioned that you know it costs us money when we send these back.

Um are we allowed to make our own edits.

Uh it's to what I could do is well, first I'm gonna have a conversation with Ali, who's our representative of that um e-typist, and I'll have a conversation with her.

The challenge is that I know that's not always assigned to the exact same person, so there might be some slight differences in how the instructions are interpreted for what what we're receiving.

So what I could do in the future is you know, understanding the approach that you guys would like to take.

I could give it an edit before it comes back to you guys, and then you have to make sure that we're achieved getting the right level of detail on that.

So I don't think that sending it around and having everybody at it and oh, I don't mean everybody actually Judy.

Oh, we didn't want to just go and edit it, but I I particularly um, so there are two things.

One, I'll sit down my back.

I need um, but there were two main things.

One was the edits from the November meeting.

The note taker tried to explain everything that I had said, and it's like I gave you a list, just include the list.

It's that simple.

They didn't have to do that, and in the process, I found them quite confusing to read.

But then when it came to the board comments, they were far more extensive what they should be.

And and um, and so to me, it should be like a one sentence that says they commented on this topic.

And if someone really wants to see exactly what you said, they can go back and listen to it.

We have that available to us.

I think it's evident that the same person is not doing it each time, as you said, Brett.

Yes, so perhaps we could give them a something to look at so that when a new person picks it up, they know what good looks like.

Right.

So let's go back a couple of we went a couple of months.

We hit a sweet spot there for a while.

We did.

Yeah.

So if we can go back and find one that we really liked that was light on comments and all the rest, perhaps we could you could then take that to that to the group that's doing this and say, this is what good looks like.

Provide an example.