Open up the meeting.

Um so pursuant to mass general law 7C 30A section 20 F after notifying the chair of a public body, any person may make a video or audio recording of an open session of a meeting of the public body or may transmit the meeting through any medium.

Now I do know that this um meeting is being recorded by the town, and I do not know if there is anyone else recording this.

Eileen is here and Talia from the Eagle is here as well.

Um so let's just assume that they are recording.

Okay.

Um at the beginning of the meeting, the chair, which is me right now, uh, shall inform other attendees of such recordings, which I did.

Any member of the public wishing to speak at the meeting must receive permission from the chair, which we will um appoint very soon.

The listing of the agenda items are those reasonably anticipated by the chair, which may be discussed at the meeting.

Not all items listed may be in fact be discussed, and other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.

So it is uh officially 612.

Um, and I call the finance committee meeting to order.

Um the first order of business is the organization or reorganization.

And we have um, is there a motion for uh a chair?

Madonna.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I I just want to

make my hand.

Okay.

Did you want to make a motion or um did you want to make a margin?

Yeah, let me start if I could.

I I'd like to make a motion uh to nominate Madonna as our chair.

Do I have a second on the motion?

A second.

Right, thank you.

And actually, before we do that, I know there's a motion, but I just want to take attendance for the record also because we're on Zoom.

Um Michelle Luber.

Here Madonna Meager here, Jeffrey Rothenberg.

Here

and I'm sorry, Rayo.

I have not pronounced or proper um practice your last name.

So um Rayo Madzu Mazu guy,

it's

uh Rayo Matsaki here.

Matsuzaki, thank you.

Okay, I'm gonna phonetically practice that.

Matsuzaki.

Okay, so we are all here.

We have a quorum and we have a motion by Jeff and a second by Rayo.

So um do we have discussion?

Yes, you can have discussion.

Okay.

Um, I just want to, especially for our new members.

Um keeping in mind when you look at the ethics law, if you work for another public entity, whether it's state or local, um, as far as conducting business for another public entity.

For example, I work for the town of Lennox, but I'm on the board here in the town of Great Barrington while I'm at work.

I can't conduct town of Great Barrington business.

So keeping that in mind, it could be restricted to some people.

Um, there are some people who aren't involved in the public sector as far as their employment goes, and they have freedom.

Um you can go to your employer.

Oh, I'm going to take an hour break and talk to Liz Artsgrove or whatever, like

that.

But so I just wanted to point that out because I know we have two members, one of whom does work for a public entity

and

a Madonna, I think you do as well.

Yes.

Um, in housing.

So I just wanted to bring that up because of the demands of a chair are so extensive.

Thank

you.

Thank you.