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43 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 2031 Beth Bronson: But they can identify it and then bring it back to the planning department and then reach out to the <br /> 2032 planning board. <br /> 2033 <br /> 2034 Chris Johnston: But we are already here. <br /> 2035 <br /> 2036 Bet Bronson: And send public comment. <br /> 2037 <br /> 2038 Chris Johnston: Is that not the thing though. <br /> 2039 <br /> 2040 Beth Bronson: Because of how much this costs and how much time and resources go into this where we have as <br /> 2041 much effect on change as those neighborhood information meetings. <br /> 2042 <br /> 2043 Chris Johnston: Okay. <br /> 2044 <br /> 2045 Charity Kirk: Well,we cannot,we have not,we cannot change it. <br /> 2046 <br /> 2047 Beth Bronson: Does that make sense though? <br /> 2048 <br /> 2049 Chris Johnston: Yeah. If, if the cost is the issue, that I totally understand too, right, Cy,you know, everyone else, <br /> 2050 takes time and effort to be here and that sort of thing and, and there are lots of these meetings, <br /> 2051 and, and,and if that is the concern,that is fine. <br /> 2052 <br /> 2053 Beth Bronson: Applicant too. Applicant spends money preparing this. <br /> 2054 <br /> 2055 Charity Kirk: But I think it is, I think what has been presented is we cannot do anything anyway. <br /> 2056 <br /> 2057 Chris Johnston: Yes. <br /> 2058 <br /> 2059 Charity Kirk: But I mean, it is the question of how much is just talking with someone helpful to get change, and <br /> 2060 where can we provide influence even though we cannot do anything. <br /> 2061 <br /> 2062 Chris Johnston: But we are determining, oh, I am sorry, go ahead. <br /> 2063 <br /> 2064 Cy Stober: I would just say what we have heard at conferences,what I know from the professional kind of <br /> 2065 scuttle bud about all of this is the less formal that setting is the better. <br /> 2066 <br /> 2067 Chris Johnston: Interesting. <br /> 2068 <br /> 2069 Cy Stober: The more productive it is. <br /> 2070 <br /> 2071 Chris Johnston: Okay. <br /> 2072 <br /> 2073 Cy Stober: And that is also what Randall Arendt shared with the board when he came and spoke to them is <br /> 2074 like, he likes to do it on site,and that raises all sorts of liability issues, like, twist your ankle on a <br /> 2075 tree ridge and then he is responsible and all that stuff. So we prefer to keep it at fire stations or, 1 <br /> 2076 mean, shoot, even this room, but not at a formal board meeting, and I think that there is a policy <br /> 2077 there about making sure that we alert the planning board to NIMs that are being scheduled for <br /> 2078 major subdivisions certainly, and we can make sure that you,you are in the loop on those so you <br /> 2079 can attend, and you can have a, an, kind of informal, not kind of, an informal conversation that is <br /> 2080 not, does not again have this veneer of a formal meeting,and you are not in a position where <br /> 2081 your, Charity Kirk, planning board member sitting up here and some,with an appearance of a <br /> 2082 negotiation as opposed to a conversation. <br /> 2083 <br /> 2084 Chris Johnston: That did it. I got it. That clicked, so what you are saying is because we are sitting here at the <br /> 2085 dais, because we are the planning board, the air of we can make changes in a way that sitting <br />