 Good evening and welcome to the September 12th meeting of the town of Arlington redevelopment board. I'd like to call this meeting to order and please note for all of us. We don't have much of a public joining us this evening that this meeting is being recorded by ACMI. So at this point, I'd like to take a roll call and ensure that all of the board members who are here are recognized, starting with Kim Lau. Present. Jean Benson. Present. I'm Rachel Zembery. And Steve Revolac. Good evening, Madam Chair. We also have Acting Director of Planning, Department of Planning and Community Development, Kelly Linema joining us this evening. Present. And Melissa Tentacolas, our fifth board meeting will not be joining us this evening. So we will be for tonight. So at this point, we will go ahead and start with our first agenda item, which is the MBTA communities update and I will turn it over to Kelly Linema. Thank you, Rachel. So in the packet and also available with the board's agenda, it's the presentation for tonight on MBTA communities. I'm just going to walk you through each of those slides. So as many of you know, back in August, DHCB released its updated file guidelines regarding the MBTA communities act, which is master a law to have the 48 section 3, 3A. So tonight I just wanted to share with you the legislation is the reminder of what that law says, what the new DHCB guidelines say and what that means for our LinkedIn. And then how that relates to the climate law pilot program, which is now interrelated with our compliance with MBTA communities. And then just talk a little bit about the timeline and then if you have any questions or comments, I can take those tonight. I can't answer them yet and I'll still follow up with you later. So as a reminder, every MBTA community per section 3A is required to have a district of reasonable size, which multifamily housing is allowed by right. What that means is we have to have a district of reasonable size. We can have age restrictions in the zoning. It has to be suitable for families with children. We have to have a minimum gross density within that district of 15 dwelling units per acre. And in the original law, it said that this district has to be not more than one half mile from a subway station or a bus station. That's changed. So I'm going to talk about that in just a second. In August, as I mentioned, DHCD released the final guidelines and these were revised, reflecting feedback from all of the communities in that are subject to this legislation. So I'm just going to go through what's changed. There's five key areas that have changed, although the last one is not necessarily part of DHCD guidance. So the first one is that MBTA has revised the community categories. So Arlington is now considered an adjacent community. In the prior version, you were a subway community. And that was originally because of our proximity to the Alec subway station. Although we've now been revised as an adjacent community, what the DHCD did was that they've heard comments from a lot of communities that have been categorized as us communities or subway communities, even though there wasn't a subway station within their borders, and they revised the guidelines to reflect what are what you would consider as like fixed transportation assets. So there's categories that would like your sub location of a subway station isn't going to change or location of commuter rail station isn't going to change, but bus stations change all the time. So that's why they eliminated the bus station category and they now have this adjacent network. And so now Arlington is considered an adjacent network. What that means is that our capacity has changed. So instead of having our, instead of our zoning having to have a capacity for 25% of our total housing units, that capacity has now been reduced to 10%. And capacity is a key concept in the DHCD guidelines. And when they talk about capacity, they're not talking about units on top of what's already there. They're talking about units that can be produced by right if there was nothing there to begin with. And so like for an example, if you had your multi-family district and within that district you had 1500 housing units. In Arlington, because of our capacity, that multi-family district would have to have a capacity of 2046 units. So if your current district has 1500 units in it, you don't have to create a zoning that allows for an additional 2000 plus units on top of that. It just has to allow for the creation of 2046 units by right. And so that you may end up having more or less units in your district than what are currently there. It just reflects what has to be allowed by right. DHCD also adjusted the reasonable size criteria. Part of this is based on developable land. So for Arlington, we have been reduced from 50 acres, which was the original minimum. That's been reduced to a reasonable size of 32 acres. Now this is something when we go back and work with the community of the planning for this, it's going to require a little bit of a push and pull. Because if you take that 32 acres, you divide those 2046 units by 32 acres, you still have a density of about 64 dwelling units per acre. And that may not be something that the community is really interested in. If you instead say, okay, well what if we met that DHCD requirement of 15 dwelling units per acre in order to have 15 dwelling units per acre and reach the capacity of 2046 units. I believe our district size would then have to be about 130 acres or 135 acres or something like that. So it's going to be a little bit of a push and pull. We also can do more than one district. We can have sub-districts where there's a higher density in one part of the district and a lower density in the next district. So if we wanted to do something like a transit, that would be an opportunity for us to consider. It doesn't have to be a uniform density, but we do have to have that average density of at least 15 dwelling units per acre. I think one of the most interesting things about the way the county lines have been revised from Arlington is that we have been released from the requirement to have our district within a half mile of the open. One of the things that DHCD referred from a number of adjacent communities was that the area that's within a half mile distance of their transit station doesn't have a lot of developable land. And we have that situation in Arlington too. So DHCD set up a sliding scale and basically less than 100 developable land acres within a half mile of your transit station. They're not required to locate your district within that half mile radius. Arlington has only 58 relevant four acres according to DHCD within a half mile of Alewife. Part of that's because so much of it, so much of that half mile radius of Alewife is actually in Cambridge. And part of it is because some of that is considered wetlands. And so we just don't have that much papers within proximity to Alewife. And so we can locate our district anywhere in Arlington that we want to. The recommendation is that your districts be located along transit corridors or within close proximity to commercial corridors and that sort of thing. So we'll be working on that as we go back to the community. And then finally, regarding incentives, we know that if you comply with MDTA communities, everyone, you have the incentive of being able to apply for master's grants and a number of other grant programs. What we suspected when this original legislation came out was that over time additional things were going to be tied to compliance. And we're already seeing that because Governor Baker signed into law the climate bill. And whether or not we can participate in a fossil fuel ban pilot program is going to depend on whether or not we can apply with MDTA communities. I'll talk about that in just a second. So again, what this means for Arlington is that we have to have a district that's at least 32 acres where multi-family housing, which is three or more dwelling units, is allowed by right without age restrictions or bedroom limits where it has a capacity for 2046 units. And then that district has to be at least, each district has to be at least five contiguous acres and recommended to be located along transit corridors and commercial centers. A few other things that are notable in the DHCB update is that we can require site plan review. Arlington currently does not have site plan, which is something we can have as part of the multi-family zoning, so long as it doesn't impose any reasonable delays. We also can have an affordability requirement. In the DHCB guidance, it says that it can be a maximum of 10%. However, because Arlington had an inclusionary zoning bylaw before Section 3A was enacted, we can have our inclusionary requirement be 15%. We can't increase that, and it also has to be set in a cap of 80% AMI, which I believe is a higher AMI than what our inclusionary zoning is. That said, we can still require that 15% of units be de-restricted affordable. The 2022 housing production plan did recommend that we take a look at our inclusionary zoning and kind of re-calibrate it. This is going to be a recommendation of the Affordable Housing Trust as well, that we start to look at payments in lieu of affordable housing or how we find to do that. This is something that's going to be wound up into this discussion around MDT and communities. How can we incentivize the development of affordable housing? If we can't incentivize that production, how can we then fund the Affordable Housing Trust so that they can then go on to create affordable housing? And then finally, just among local requirements, we can't require a multi-family housing to have a higher efficiency standards than other. So if you don't require it of your single-family homes, you can't require it of your multi-family homes that are within this multi-family district. We also can't require that it be combined with commercial or other uses. So you can't require mixed use. Mixed use is a lot. This may come into play as well when we start to think about if we're creating an overlay district, or we may want to exempt certain zoning districts from that overlay district. So it's to continue to incentivize commercial development and make sure that we're balancing commercial development with residential development. This is all going to be part of the community conversation. So again, by complying, we remain eligible for a certain grant programs. We also can participate in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Law pilot program. So a little bit on that. Back at Special Town Meeting 2020, this is November of 2020, and it feels like a lifetime ago, 92% of town meeting members voted to approve what was in short called the fossil fuel winner. And this was a home rule petition to allow the town to restrict the fossil fuel infrastructure that really impacts new buildings and major renovations. And because it's a home rule petition, we can't actually apply. We can't actually use it as legislation in Arlington without the state granting us the ability to do so. However, just last month, Governor Baker signed the new energy bill into law. And as part of that energy bill, it would allow Arlington to participate in a pilot program where we could require that fossil fuel ban. If we meet stated inclusionary housing policy by January of 2024. What the law refers to as inclusionary housing policy is either that 10% of our housing is on our subsidized housing inventory. Arlington right now, we have 6.54% of our total housing units are on our de-restricted affordable or on our subsidized housing inventory. So between now and January 2024, given that gap between 6.54% and 10%, we're not going to get to 10%. So what that means for Arlington is that our best avenue, if we want to participate in this pilot program, our best avenue for doing that is making sure that we're in compliance with the MHA communities for January 2024. This does affect our timeline a little bit. So I do a slide in here about the timeline. This month DHCB is releasing a compliance model. So this is an Excel model that connects with GIS and it allows us to sort of test out what our current density is. We can play around with different areas and see, you know, as we go through different scenarios in the community, we can see, like, what would be in compliance and what wouldn't. And that's the model that we're eventually going to have to submit to DHCB in order to verify that we are in compliance. We will also, this month and into October, be applying for technical assistance. So this is going to be more applying for either mass housing partnership or MHAC to assign consultants to help us with the community engagement process and with the technical aspects of creating this selling. By January of next year, we have to submit an action plan to DHCB. And that means we have to tell DHCB either what we're already doing and what the plan is in order to get our MBTA community's zoning approved. Basically laying out milestones by month by month, just to demonstrate that we're selling clients. And then, like, according to the legislation of Section 3A, by December 31 of 2024, that's our deadline for town meeting to approve MBTA community zoning if we want to remain in compliance. However, if we want to participate in this fossil fuel pilot program, we need to actually comply, we need to actually do that by January, which is almost a full year earlier than the DHCB deadline. So this is just going to be part of the conversation as well as how do we make sure that we're, if the community wants to participate in this pilot program, how do we make sure that we have an efficient schedule but also that we're hearing from people and for engaging appropriately in the development of the zoning. So this is something we're going to be talking about a lot in the next couple of months, especially as our new director comes out for it. But I'm happy to answer any questions now that you might have or take notes and get back to you soon. Great. Thank you so much, Kelly, for putting this presentation together. This answers several of my questions. So I appreciate this. Let's go ahead and start with questions for Kelly, starting with Kim. One of the things I had asked her or curious about is if we're going away from fossil fuels, have you done a study or at least looked at the infrastructure from some intellectual point of view? Do we have enough infrastructure in the hand of that going forward? Or are we saying, okay, we want all this, we're going to have all these new buildings, but we don't have any infrastructure to meet that demand? I run that for a lot of projects where you are changing the use of the building, let's say from a regular office building to a life science building. The requirements for power is greatly increased. You're bringing a whole new service. So I'm looking in terms of if we get the talent switch on fossil fuel, does the talent have enough infrastructure to handle that? I'm not answering for an answer. Because I don't have it. But I can tell you, so that was something that also came up during the discussion around timing. I believe that the fossil fuel ban would apply to smaller projects. I believe anything larger than 10,000 square feet, there's a little bit more. I'm going to have to go back into the closer proof and to the more articles to verify this, but I do recall that larger developments had some flexibility. So it's really applying to more like single family, two family, three family developments. Again, I'll have to verify that. And I think the other thing just to keep in mind is that, yes, we're going to make sure, we're going to have to make sure that we have the infrastructure to do it. The rate of how that's actually going to roll out is not such that the demand is going to suddenly be overall. That is your question we're going to have to answer. I also have to say that the source is our electricity supplier. And for any new service, it's a three to four month wait just to get servicing. Do we have ever source firing saying that they will try to step up? Or if you're looking at as a owner or a developer, you're stuck to ever sources of whim and they'll keep you registered when they get around to it. You know, I know several projects around our town that have stopped. One good one was 8-1 on Broadway, the affordable housing. 1-17? Yeah. The contractor left three months while they're waiting for ever source to give them power. So it added close to half a year to the whole project. Because ever source wasn't capable of bringing power. And we also were looking to come in for ever source help us here. It's one of the things I think we should also look into. It's just a real hard act. If we do this, it's too bright. So I'll just go on a small break. I mean, if you have other questions. I'll reserve this up so you guys can have the same thing. OK, sounds good. Go ahead, Gene. The problem is not the most good one. You know, building on what Kin said, an interesting thing would be to have our DPW confirm the capacity of water and sewer infrastructure. I believe it has capacity. That issue came up last year. I don't think we'd like to answer about it. So I think that as we roll out the public input process in addition to trying to figure out how to restore some of the state water, the town has to know, you know, how it has to be able to insert infrastructure to do this. Even though it's going to be a slow roll, you understand what it feels like to get raised again. If I can summarize that. So when we did our 2022 housing production plan, I know there were a few residents who didn't agree with this, but we did have Horsley-Witton on board to do our infrastructure study, which is required as part of our housing production plan. So because you're talking about, you know, the recognition of the plan is to do 99 new units a year, which is far more than what our late table currently does, produces in a given year. The housing production plan is required to be that infrastructure study, and Horsley-Witton, in discussions and review of our infrastructure, would not feel that we've had any capacity issues. But I do understand that that's something that's going to be brought up again in this discussion. Horsley-Witton said that, but I'm not sure how officials said it. The other thing, and it's not on here, and maybe we'll talk about this after, after these is what's the public participation process going to be, and what's the role of the redevelopment board, and the members in it, because I would not like to have the situation where there's a public process, and then something's presented to us with how we're having participation through the process. That's it. Great, and I do think that's something that we can also discuss in the mentoring too, is the level of involvement that this board wants to have, either meeting that process, or dictating the working group to advance the process to that group. Because this is going to come back to you, or to not be able to handle it. So that's it. Great. Good questions. Steve. I don't have any questions, but I do have a comment or two. Good question. So thought number one, over the weekend I was looking at our housing production plan and fair housing action plan. Now, goal number two of the housing production plan is compliance with this, but there are a number of other goals in that plan, and then the fair housing action plan that could be ways to implement MBTA community requirements. So I'm hoping that we could treat this, not as a high level goal into itself, but really make this about how do we want to approach multi-family housing in Arlington, but do it in a way that gains its compliance. The other comment is regarding outreach. I'd like to learn a little bit more about how the affordable housing trust fund board did their targeted outreach, because we know that in theory anyone can come to a public meeting and participate, but that's not what happens. So in order to get a broader and more representative set of input, I'd like to understand what strategies that they used and what we might also consider. Thank you, Steve. I think that the work that the trust has done around the action plan is a really good model for how to engage with particular communities that aren't well represented in public forums right now. So I think that's something to look at as we go forward in this planning process. Great. The only two questions I had were a little bit more technical in nature in terms of the ADU by law that we have as of right in both the single family as well as two family districts. Does the ADU, which effectively creates three to four units potentially in a two-family home, is that in any way taken into account as part of the creation of multi-family three-plus units? Because I didn't see anything about ADUs addressed in this, and I know where Arlington's the only town I think right now in Massachusetts unless something has passed this past year that is allowing them as of right particularly in two families. So that would be something, yes. I think the answer is because we limit the size of ADUs and this does not allow you to limit the size of the units that we're not going to be able to count ADUs. I submitted significant comments to the HCD on the first guidelines which I felt were terrible. These are okay. The first ones are terrible. So they definitely improved. And I mentioned they should allow ADUs but it didn't happen. Right. Yeah. Okay. All right. That's a good answer for that one. And then you had mentioned the requirement, the limit actually on affordable housing units which are allowed and the fact that we have our inclusionary zoning currently in effect. If we create a new district is my only question. And I would need to go back and look and see how our inclusionary zoning bylaw is written. It's very specific that if a new district is created then it cannot, then it has to be up to 10%. It can't be above that. So I would want us to just take a look and see whether or not our inclusionary zoning bylaw is written in such a way so that it still would apply to new districts or if it's only written to apply to those that are currently on the books. And DHCD, you do have to submit your creative sustaining inclusionary zoning to DHCD for approval. And so that would be part of the discussion for DHCD as well. Because we don't want to assume that something complies when it might not actually be part of it. Great. Well it seems like we have a lot of work ahead of us before the January 31st, 2023 deadline for an action plan. So Gene? Yeah, the only thing I want to mention in terms of time is on the MBTA piece necessary for the fossil free, we would probably have to go to town meeting in spring or fall 2023 if we wanted to move that deadline so we could put it off until 2020. Absolutely. No, we would either need to either do this as part of the annual time meeting or we would need to do a special time meeting at the fall. The other thing that I've sent in on a couple of webinars now and the other thing to note is for DHCD, the Attorney General does not have to have approved our zoning by the deadlines. I don't know if that situation is the same for compliance if we wanted to participate in the fossil fuel program. So we also have to, if that's something that we need to figure out and I'll be working with Tolga Fox, who's our sustainability manager to try to understand if we are going to aim to do this so that we can still participate in that pilot program. I just want to make sure that we're scheduling that special time meeting if it's going to be a special time meeting to make sure that we still have enough time for the Attorney General to review the zoning if that is going to be a requirement. Because that can take 90 days. All right. Any other questions for Kelly before we move on to the second agenda item? Yes. I've been speaking to Matt Harbour, and he's told me that we are trying to get in now because we have a safe harbor. Can you predict what's going to happen? We have safe harbor through the 17th of this month. So I don't think that we're going to end up being able to. So I guess the one other route regarding the 10% in our housing production plan is that if you have a certified housing production plan then you could also participate in the pilot program. But with our, so our 2016 housing production plan was certified in September of last year because of the ZBA's approval of the compliance and permit application for 1165 RMSA which led us to be able to add 124 housing units to our subsidized housing inventory. In order to get our next, in order to get our current HPP certified we would need to have a production or the addition of 99 new units added to our subsidized housing inventory within the 12 month period. And I don't believe that we have enough housing in the pipeline to actually get us to that which is why I'm saying that we essentially would need to comply with MBTA communities in order to participate in the pilot program. That's just one last compliance question. Yeah. So I understand that 10% of the around housing units on the subsidized housing inventory is one way to do it. Adopting MBTA community zoning is another way. My understanding is that the one and a half percent general land area that has been threshold does not come into play here. I just wanted to know. No, it's not an inclusionary housing policy and it's not included as part of the legislation. Okay. Thank you. All right. Well, I think that will lead us directly into our second agenda item which is the ARB retreat planning. We had two weekends identified for potential dates for the retreat and obviously this item will be a major portion of the retreat agenda. So Kelly, I'm not sure if you have had a chance to reach out to Claire yet to see her availability but perhaps we could start there and then talk about both agenda as well as date and time. So Claire's available all four dates being reserved. We asked everyone to hold September 24, September 25 and then I believe October 15 or October 16 and calendars. She's available all four dates for the preference for some days. Yeah. But it's not a limiting factor. One item we should all be aware of is that if we select the 24th or the 25th that would be five days after she starts. So although I'd love to do this sooner rather than later I also want to be mindful of whether or not that makes sense or whether we... I could see it either way being either beneficial that we set an agenda early on in her tenure or allow her to take some time and get her feet under her before we meet. So I'd like to canvass through and see people's opinion on that and to also verify that those dates are still available for everyone else. So Ken, we could start with you. Both dates are available for the very last week on wide open but September just walking into the fold and just talking to her and getting to know her better. I don't think we... get into details of her too much. We didn't just wait so long. So I think it's okay. Come out with me. She has to be guided to make a great share. Okay. Gene? I agree. And also because I'm only 50% sure I can be here in the 15th and 16th. Okay, well then that's that. But I know I can be here in the 24th and 25th this month. Okay. You know in terms of whether five days is enough I think that is really a question from this record and I can't answer that for her. I'm happy to meet in September although I would prefer the 15th to the... the 25th to the 24th. Sunday to Saturday. Can I meet you on Sunday? Great. Super. So it sounds like there's a preference for the... September 25th. What's the preference for the 25th? Well, you know, I think you had a slight preference for the 25th as did Claire. So I... I have a preference for the morning on either date. I do have commitments in the afternoon. Morning is better. Morning is better. Great. So if it would work for the board I can work together with Kelly and see if we can identify a location. And I believe that we did... did we do 9 a.m.? 9 to 12 last time? Was it 8? It seemed like we were pretty early. I think it was pretty early. Was that the community growing up? It was. And the year before that it was in the library in Waltham. Which is a nice space, too. So although I'm not sure of their availability to open that on Sunday morning I'm not sure what their hours are. So... This would be nice. So I will be trans... transporting myself by bicycle. So Waltham is okay, but let's not go too far. Good feedback. We can definitely try and find a place in town and try and look for the morning of the 25th starting at 8 or 9. Great. I'm meeting with Claire tomorrow as well. Oh, perfect. She's starting before she's starting. Of course, that's just the way it works. Steve? Yes? If things are ever going to distance you're right. Okay, thank you. Great. And then in terms of agenda I'd like to see if we could collect a few items that the board members would like to include. I have a few that I've been keeping a list of which I will... which I can send out in a memo format so that we can work through an agenda together with Kelly prior to the 24th. So we need to post that agenda for the 21st. The 21st, okay. So we have a little bit of time to work on that, thank you very much. I thought when we have a retreat we don't need to post an agenda. We just need to post... don't we need to post notices? And that's it. Okay. Well, we need an agenda though for the board. Yes. So we're holding the 25th at 9 o'clock? Yes. So a few items that I currently have on my list and I need to go back and do a more comprehensive review here but we had talked last year about permit application processing and finding a way to simplify and create an electronic version of that and I believe Kelly that's already... there's a group that's in process with that. Fabulous. Great. So we can talk a little bit about that. We talked about a joint meeting with the select board regarding the housing production plan and I think bringing them up to speed as well with the MBTA community so that they understand potential changes that will occur is something I'd like to add to our agenda. And again, I'll email this out. Can I know that you had talked about when Jenny departed wanting to make sure that we look at more robust ways to continue the work of the 3D SketchUp tool and I think especially given this MBTA communities piece that that might be a tool, a visualization tool that will be helpful to the public as well. We had also talked about inviting Beth Locke from the Chamber of Commerce to a future meeting and I think it would be great at the retreat if we talked about what we'd like to accomplish and what we'd like to specifically chat with her about. The town did vote to fund commercial design, the commercial development design standards at town meetings so I think we should chat about that and our goals for those standards. And there were several items coming from our last hearing related to zoning bylaw clarifications that we had identified we wanted to put on our radar for this upcoming town meeting. Things that were less than clear that we had to do it for the first time. And maybe some things that now that we've had a couple of years under a gut, you don't think are right. Sure. Absolutely. So those are the items I'm tracking currently. I was thinking one item in terms of zoning edits I was actually thinking of the stormwater management requirements for the industrial zone because I recall that being an ambiguous stumbling block. Yeah, that's one of the things we need to fix. What storm events particularly? Right, because right now if you request to have the additional square footage or a story you have to retain all the stormwater inside, it's impossible. So we need to revolve. Please, why don't we start with you Ken and then we'll run through. I just want to add one more final word later on. One I want to talk about is a review of the last few years, crew projects, where they stand right now, where they're moving ahead, and how we go about encouraging, I didn't talk to you on my stream line just how the board feels toward supporting future projects because right now we have too few and far behind and I don't know how we can get better at this making more stream line. Right now this seems to be going to talk about doing any development, I don't think this is all it's a headache. There's a lot of things you have to do, a lot of hurdles you have to jump through and there's no stream. Here's what it is. You apply here, here, here, and you get your permit or some of that where it says you may be negative depending on what the wind is or what it is. And it is unforeseen that's not planned. I don't think that helps with development. It's something that's well done. And also trust what we've done and something approved and why they haven't gone ahead or why they are going ahead. This helps us with the side of projects. Great. Gene? I said there are some things that we might want to change in this open wide. I have to give it some thought. Great. Steve? We do have an action pack here ahead of us. If I were to add anything to that, maybe consideration of adopting a process for uses a lot by right of the site plan review. One for MBTA community requirements, but second I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of smaller builders who told me that from their perspective, the ability to do things by right is far more attractive than special permits just because of certainty and it's also easier to get funding when you're doing something that's a by right use. So I'd like to look at ways that we could maybe cater to that. Great. The other thing we should all commit to doing is circulating our goals that came out of our 2021 retreat and review, identify and prioritize some of those as well. There were quite a few on there that I think given what we have on our plate, we may want to de-prioritize at this time, abandon because there is plenty of time to tackle those in the future, but I think we may need to streamline what we focus on this year. Yeah, I would hate to add you to communities to be the only good project. I agree. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, please. One of the things that Jenny did line up for us before leaving was some funding to sort of get the process for answering my update, which is a very large undertaking and I think we would potentially wrap a number of the air base goals together. Yes, absolutely. So that may be something that we want to discuss. I agree. Gina, I completely agree with you. I think that spurring economic development in our business quarters was a very large focus of our last meeting and I definitely would not want that to be completely pushed to the side while we focus on the VTA community, so I definitely agree with you on that. We also have the job hosting going on very soon. It wasn't already posted today, but now it's going to be out soon. Oh, great. Fantastic. Super. Anything else on ARB retreat planning before we move to the next agenda? I know. Yes. Does it include allergies or things that you avoid? You can just let me know in the mail. Okay. We'll do. Thank you. All right. So let's go ahead and move to meeting minutes agenda item number three, which may go quickly because I think a lot of us have already submitted some of these in advance, but we do have quite a few to roll through here. So let's start with the agenda, excuse me, with the meeting minutes from Monday, April 25th, 2022. And in addition to those comments that have already been submitted, are there any additional comments or corrections for this set of emails? I didn't see the comments that were submitted. They are currently posted. I think that Mary compiled them. Yes. Are you on the online? No. Okay. Yeah. If you're able to, I'm not sure if you can connect it online. I can run through what they are. That would be helpful too. I think Mary left them in red. She did. So that was very nice of her. Good, Gina. Second to connect. If you have any problems, then I'll just run through them. So there were three minor corrections here on the April 25th meeting minutes, and I'll just run through and see if there are any other corrections starting with Kim. Nope, my corrections are. Okay, great. Gene? No, no others. Nothing here. And nothing further from me. So is there a motion to approve the April 25th, 2022 meeting minutes as amended? So motion. Second. Take a vote. Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And I'm a yes as well. So the meeting minutes have been approved unanimously for April 25th. We'll now move to the April 27th meeting minutes. Have minor corrections included on page two, three, just two and three. So we'll give everyone a minute to take a look at those. And I'll start with Kim to see if you have any further additions or corrections. No, I'm all set. Gene? None. Steve? No. And I am all set as well. So is there a motion to approve the April 27th, 2022 meeting minutes as amended? So motion. Is there a second? Second. We'll take a vote starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. I'm a yes as well. So the meeting minutes have been approved unanimously. Let's move to May 2nd. And there were no corrections to the May 2nd, excuse me, May 2nd meeting minutes. We'll see if there are any further, starting with Kim? No. Gene? None. Steve? And then from me either. Is there a motion to approve the May 2nd, 2022 meeting minutes as submitted? So motion. Second? Second. We'll take a vote with Kim? Yes. Steve? Yes. And I'm a yes as well. Those have been approved unanimously. Let's move to the May 4th. We have a lot of things. Woo. All right. We'll go to the May 4th meeting minutes, which were one page with no additions or corrections. Kim, did you have any further? No. Gene? No. Steve? No. I did not either. Is there a motion to approve the May 4th, 2022 meeting minutes as submitted? So motion. Second. We'll vote starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And I'm a yes as well. The Monday, May 4th, 2022 meeting minutes have been approved unanimously. Let's move to the May 2nd, excuse me, May 16th, 2022 meeting minutes. And I believe there were, there were not. There were no modifications to this set of meeting minutes. Kim, any additional? No. Gene? Steve? No. I'm no as well. Is there a motion to approve the May 16th, 2022 meeting minutes as submitted? So motion. Second. I will take a vote starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And I'm a yes as well. This has been approved unanimously. Let's move to the May 23rd, 2022 meeting minutes. And those as well have no additions or corrections. Gene? No. Steve? No. I'm no as well. Is there a motion to approve the May 23rd, 2022 meeting minutes as submitted? So motion. Second. We'll take a vote starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And I'm a yes as well. This has been approved unanimously. Since I had too many windows open. Okay. Let's move to the June 27th meeting minutes. Any additions or corrections? We'll start with Kim to see if there are any additional? No. You know, there were, I did make corrections on this. So she didn't highlight these. Okay. Yeah. Let me open the word. Yeah. It was on the 27th. Okay. The 27th. They weren't major. I just identified that Melissa had joined the meeting in progress. Okay. And I have to go back to my email to see if there were any others. Kelly, I don't know if you have the. I have your email. I know I said something about work. I think it was there. There was a spelling mistake here. I don't think there were any others. Yes. I have Melissa to talk with us during the meeting in progress. And then Steve's note. That's right. So there are any additional corrections to the meeting minutes starting with Kim? This was for June 27th. June 27th. Correct. I have none for June 27th. Gene? No. Steve? I know as well. And is there a motion to approve the June 27th, 2022 meeting minutes as amended? So motion. Second. Take a vote. Starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And then yes as well. That was unanimously approved. And now move to July 11th, 2022. And these do have the changes captured in red. You can see on page two, three, two and three. We have a chance to take a look. Ken, do you have any additional corrections? No. Okay. Gene? No. Okay. Steve? No. And I do not either. Is there a motion to approve the July 11th, 2022 meeting minutes as amended? So motion. Second. Take a vote. Starting with Kim? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And then yes as well. Those have been unanimously approved. And our final set of meeting minutes are the July 25th, 2022 meeting minutes. And those have corrections on page one, page six, page seven, page eight. And that is all. I want to check in second to take a look at those. Are there any other additions or corrections starting with Ken? One second. I'm still trying to guess. Sure. Absolutely. Take your time. Good. Thank you. Okay. Gene? No others. Steve? Nothing here. All right. And I'm good as well. Is there a motion to approve the July 25th, 2022 meeting minutes as amended? Take a vote. Starting with Ken? Yes. Gene? Yes. Steve? Yes. And then yes as well. The July 25th meeting minutes have been approved unanimously. And that closes agenda item number three. Thank you, Kelly. And everyone. With all of those minutes. Gene. Thank you. Thank you, Gene. Did you review them? I reviewed them before you got them. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. It's much easier to. Yes, you didn't say anything. Great. Let's see. So that closes agenda item number three. We'll now move to agenda item number four. Open forum that's seeing no members of the public. Joining us this evening. We will go ahead and close. The open forum. Yeah. Can I say something? Yeah, we can, if there's any new business. Now would be the time. I just want to start with you miss and thank Kelly. Thank Kelly for her great job. Here, here. Thank you, Kelly, and Taster. You had quite a bit of work and work on your shoulders, and I think you did very well. Thank you. Absolutely. Three people's work on your shoulders because of that. I just don't want to go unrecognized, that's all. Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you. Any other new business? All right. Is there a motion to adjourn? So much so. I'll second. We'll take a vote, starting with Ken. Yes. Jean. Yes. Steve. Yes. And I'm with yes as well. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you.