 And I welcome to these slack ones meeting for Monday, April 22, 2013. As everybody I know is awaiting with breathless anticipation, it is town meeting tonight. And I have to give the state of a town in 61 minutes. So I please ask that you all be brief in your comments. And I ask my colleagues to be the same and I'll try to keep the meeting moving along. Obviously we should give every attention, matter of the attention that it deserves, at the same time, if we can do that quickly, that's best. All right, that said, article, or the first item I'm going to take up is not on the agenda. It's something that I could not, we could not reasonably have anticipated that this was going to be coming up, it was only brought up to our attention this afternoon. And that is in our, the selectments report to the special town meeting. There's an error in the comments. The actual vote, I believe, is correct. But the comment is in error. And so I want the board, so I think tomorrow we're going to try to issue through email and then on paper a correction to the comments. And so if the board would, someone would make a motion under the comment under C, remove the, it says currently. During the restriction period, leaf blowers could be used during the daytime Monday through Saturday and on Sunday afternoons. And actually and on Sunday afternoons is incorrect. I move to make the, the change as described. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Five-zero, thank you. Next up, the real number one, consent agenda. We have the meeting minutes of April 1st and April 8th. We have a vote on the sale of wine at Farmers Market, the Kipton-Cummler, Lexington Consul, excuse me, the sale of wine at Farmers Market, which is a Kipton-Cummler of Lexington Consulting Group, which is doing business as Turtle Creek Winery. We have a contractor drain layer license for a PCORA contracting company and request bladder cancer awareness walk for May 4th. Are there anyone here to speak on any of those items? Come on up to the mic and introduce yourself, please. Right here. I'm Linda Magrum. Welcome, thank you. Thank you, and I'm here with Mr. Tracy, and we're requesting permission to have a walk of about 20 to 25 people in memory of our mother who passed away in November to raise awareness for bladder cancer. Sorry to hear about your mother. I've read the note about the walk, and it looks like an excellent event. Thank you. A little approval. Second. Any further discussion? Yeah, I just wanted to note that I forwarded a few administrative changes to the minutes, two spelling corrections, and one change to the name of the board's trivia team. OK. To the administrative secretary. Thank you for clarifying that. Yes. And I'm going to abstain just because I wasn't here for the April 1st, so I'm voting yes in spirit and everything else. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. 4-0 with one abstention. Thank you. Thank you very much. Looking forward to the walk. Next up, request common victual alliance, Joe Meward, doing business as Hills, excuse me, Bills House of Pizza, 1345 Mass Ave. Come on up. You want to come on up to the microphone? You could just tell us a little bit about yourself, what the businesses you're starting, what your experience is, just a few sentences to help us understand. Sure, my name's Joe Meward. Hi, everybody. I'm a civil engineer, but I am doing food business since 1991. I own my two shops, one in Easton, one in Faxbro. We did own more than one shop in one time. We have one in Albro one time. We had one in North Albro. I came to the town because I like Allantum very much, and I had my friend. I tried to help him up, too, because I know he had a little problem in the location. And with my experience, I hope we can make it up. I've been voted number one in my town in Easton for a long time with the food, and we have, hopefully, like the variety we have. All approval subject to our conditions is set forth. Second, and just you're all set. You're good to go, but I'm going to make sure, as Mr. Greerly said, subject to conditions therein, you do have some with the building, the plumbing, and the electrical. But I'll let you take that up with the necessary departments. Thank you. Any further questions or comments? No. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Thank you for choosing Ellington. I hope I have a great night. Thank you very much. OK. Next up, we have a series of public. It is after 7 o'clock, and these are public hearings. We have three different requests for hackney licenses. We're going to start with David M. Lucker, who's doing business as our Luxe Yellow Cab. And I just want to comment as we start these that we have a report from Marianne in our office who says that were we to issue all the licenses that are proposed tonight, is Mr. Lucker here? I'm not seeing Mr. Lucker. All right. I'll move to table. Second. And I do have questions. Any further discussion? No, but Mr. Chair, would you repeat what you're about to say? OK. I'll do it in a minute. Let's remain as we've got the motion. We might as well do it. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Tabled. So what I was about to say is that if we approve all of these, which we have now not done, we would have had 40 licenses with a limit of 42. So we're approaching what we set. I personally consider it as a bit of an experiment. We set 42 as the number. That started effectively the beginning of this year. And so we're coming close to the end of April, and we're going to run out of licenses, presumably, sometime this summer. But I still think that the situation is probably going to continue to change over the next few weeks and months. And so I'm looking forward to seeing how it all rolls out. Is Mr. Schoff and Kay Knapp here? Yes. Come on up to the microphone, please. Good evening, everyone. My name is Schoffon Knapp. I was a transportation business for, I used to live in New York for seven years. I had a car service in Boston around for about eight years. So I think Allington is a great town to work here. So I had a lot of people moving in. That's why I applied here. Thank you. Mrs. Mohan? I had a question on, I'm prepared to move forward on these licenses that my colleagues deemed fit. But I did have a question on all three. And maybe through the chair, the town manager, a town council, this may be something that we address in the future. I know that there has been some talk about the city of Boston and the Hackney licenses and the insurance component in terms of when I look at these three licenses to the previous one. And I'm not sure if the gentleman has just arrived. And the current one for liability insurance has the 2040 on bodily harm and bodily injury. And then I don't quite understand, but the third one has a million dollar combined single limit. And I don't know if that applies to bodily injury or likewise. And the reason I raise this is that I know the city of Boston has been looking at their Hackney licenses. And this has nothing to do with any of the three applicants who are here before us. It's what has been done. But in view of the fact that this is something that the city of Boston is looking at, I feel the town of Allington, we should also do the same. So first, I don't know if the town manager or town council is prepared to sort of address this and or what I would like to do is, A, I have Allington undertake the same exercise that the city of Boston is regarding insurance liability policies. I've dealt with that as a court reporter in terms of medical malpractice, medical liability. If we could, A, what they feel about undertaking that, and B, if after four, six months we come out with some sort of guideline, is it something we can do retroactively or we have to wait until the license are up for renewal in a year? I'm not sure if I explain that adequately enough. So if I understand your theme in general, you're wondering whether we should evaluate whether or not we're requiring enough insurance in our licensing process? Correct, only because it's been pointed out and I've had the experience where sometimes people have more than $20,000 worth of entry. I don't know if. Adam or Juliana, do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, unless Adam wants to jump in, sorry. The 2040 and then five for property damage is set in the board's regulations. I believe that just carried through from the earlier version of the board's regulations and I believe that's the state minimum. If the board wanted to revisit that and increase it, it certainly could. It approved this version of the regulations in March of 2012. It could certainly make this and any other changes it wanted to do in that. So it's something that is in the regulations and it's your staff determines whether each applicant meets the requirements set forth there. If the regulations were changed, those regulations would go into effect or I mean they would go into effect. I think it'd be very difficult to put that change into effect in the middle of a license year. So what I would suggest is that it would go into effect at the next renewal. So how about this, Mr. Han? I had been planning on us taking a look at the taxi regulations late this year before licensing because I wanted to see like how we were doing in our first year of the new plan. And so let's, if it's okay with you, let's agree, like let's talk about putting that in in like October, November. And including that as part of that discussion. That makes perfect sense to me. It's just where the city of Boston is also going through it. I think we should also do the same exercise. That's fine. Let's do it. Come Halloween, Miss Greeley. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. If we're at 40 and we limited it at 42, I'd like to amend this application to say we approve one at this point for this particular licensee. And then we have another one that follows. So you're making a motion for approval that only one, okay. Mr. Curell. I'll second Mr. Greeley's motion, firstly. But I think Ms. Mohan's point is well taken, but I think Mayor Menino would actually ask the legislature to take action on that on a statewide basis, potentially to raise the insurance limit. So we should be watching that as well. I think what he also said was under the police department, they have a half need division. And he asked also that, along with the state, and I agree with Mr. Curell. So what I'm saying is, we agree that the state's also looking at it, but perhaps our town council. But I do have one question on this application. We ask for the color scheme or insignia to designate the vehicle or vehicles. And I know that the last application that we tabled was extremely specific about how it would identify its cabs. And your application, I think it says black or white or silver. I have two vehicles. One is going to be a black Avalon, Toyota Avalon 2011, and the next one, 2011 Toyota Sienna. So you don't actually have a marking or a shield on your, like, you know? No, there's a Liberty plate on it. There's a Lemo plate. I'm talking about on the, is there any paint on the door that says taxi cab? No, no, no, no, no. It's what looks like a regular car. A regular car, yeah. But it's played on the Liberty. You can, that's why we have the insurance. Do you have meters in the car? Meters. No. So how would you determine the price? This is like a Liberty. I have the, this means. License livery. Yeah, yeah, for transportation. Yeah, so we don't, unfortunately, I'm afraid then there's been some confusion because we don't license livery. No, I understand. If you give me a permit and I can change it, or I can buy two cars, I can change the plate. Oh, so, all right. So if we are to approve you as a taxi, that, like, so there's the taxi regulations. Say it has to have a meter, it has to have markings on the side of the door of the car. It has to have all that stuff. So, but we, and so we need to, but you haven't set what any of those are going to be yet? No yet, because I have to approve it from you guys. Okay. If you give me the permit, then I can go to the RMB to give me the taxi plate. I know that. Otherwise, how can I get the taxi plate? If you guys give me the approval, then I go to the RMB, change the plate, yeah. I'm unclear what the plate has to do with getting a meter inside of the car. So the people can see what the charge is. You know, we only allow so much per mile and per minute. I don't know how much you got. What does getting the license have to do with you putting a meter to make it a taxi cab versus a livery? Yeah, it depends. I can put in the meter. I need approval from you guys. But you don't yet have the meter. I withdraw my motion. I think we want to wait until he creates a taxi that he wants a license for. Yeah. So generally, what we see when an applicant comes to us is that they say, I have a red car, or I have a red car that I have, and my plan is to paint like red cab on the side. And they've got the meter and they've got all that set up. I understand a little bit about a chicken and egg problem here in terms of like he doesn't want to invest all that until we give some sort of approval. But I share Mr. Greeley's concern that we may not have gotten between the chicken and the egg yet. Mr. Brighton. How long do we, I don't know this. Exactly, how long would you say the process takes at the RMV to go through the application and get the meter set up? I don't know, maybe one day. So maybe one or two days. So maybe we table this until he comes back. Until he goes. So I'm suggesting tabling this until a future meeting until you go to the RMV and go through that process and then come back and I think we can continue this discussion then. The one thing I will say if I remember correctly and it's that we have 90 days. Once we issue the license, the taxi cab license, the person has 90 days to get on the road. And so there is, we definitely don't have an expectation in the regs that you'd be driving the next day or whatever. Yeah, I think following this conversation, I feel like maybe the application is not quite specific enough and maybe it'd be worthwhile for us to pull us back and maybe have another conversation, maybe with the office to go through the application and make sure that we have some of the specifics on the markings and such. I have one which is some other town like in Newton, veteran taxi. They have a taxi, they have the Liberi boat together. Liberi, they have the meter on their tool. I don't know how they work but I don't know the different time. I am confident that having studied this too much for the last two years, that Liberi is done by the state so I can't unfortunately I can't help you on that one. Mrs. Mohan. And that's what I was going to say. For Arlington, there's Liberi and there's taxi and there are different processes. So what you want is taxi. What you came in, what's before us tonight is Liberi. So we can't give you taxi privileges when you're asking for Liberi. Liberi would be the state. So what we're saying is, Mr. Greerly and my colleagues, is you need to follow the taxi rules and then once you do that we're gonna table it to allow you to get the necessary approvals that you need for taxi. And I understand what you're saying like in Newton, taxi and Liberi are the same thing but in Arlington they're separate. So right now it's not that we're saying no, we're saying we want you to get everything you need for Arlington because we treat them separately in order to get taxi. So we're gonna, I think, did someone make a motion? We don't have a motion at the moment. We don't have a motion. So, you can do it if you want. I thought Stephen moved to table. I didn't actually move but I will make that motion. I move too. Is there a second? Okay. So I do have further, does anyone else, I have a comment if I'm lost. So I think that if I'm, if I think about the way I envision the process working when we rewrote those regulations, we would, what our goal is, is to make sure that he's running a good business, that he's someone of character, that he's providing a safe service to our residents. And I think that we can do that without him having already had the meter installed. Among other things, Mr. Carabella, our weights and measures has to test that meter before he actually gives the paper, before it goes to Marianne, before Marianne gives the paper. So I actually, I'm not, the fact that the card is not currently configured appropriately does not give me pause. However, the fact that we don't have a, the fact that we don't have a schema or insignia yet, that one does give me pause. And so for that reason, I'm in support of the tabling it. But at the same time, I don't feel like all the other things are necessary before I'd support something. Okay. Mr. Greeley. Well, with all due respect, excellent points, Mr. Chairman. Are we going to disagree? Yes. All right, moving back. I wanted to say it's the first time you've been wrong, but I allow three in a year. So that's, No, no, I mean, your point is very well taken, but I would rather give a license to an experienced taxi driver. And so, I mean, your points are well taken, but I would rather see him come to us, not just seeking to be a livery in Arlington, because all these cabs want the Logan Airport runs. Yeah. You know, so we need to be fair about, you know, he's got to be in a stand and take his turn with others that would be called whatever the case will be. So, we only minorly disagree. So we have a motion to table. Is there any further discussion or questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Five, zero. Thank you. So we will contact. You want to talk to the office and talk to Marianne a little bit. I'm, Marie and I will talk to Marianne tomorrow and they'll be able to help you out. Thank you. My colleague is my roommate. So you walk all together. Okay. Oh, you have the same situation, same case, same thing. So, is that... Mohammed Shahzani. Mohammed. I'm sorry to say that. Do you want to come on up to the microphone and say hi? He's the next one. Good evening. Thank you. Good to meet you. Good to meet you. So, do you want to tell us, so are you, it sounds like, I guess he's your roommate. So you guys are doing the same business? Yes, yes. And so you own one car, is that right? I have one car and I play for the one. Sorry? I have one that, Liberi, one car. Okay. One livery car. Yeah. And again, the livery versus taxi. But so he has livery right now. Yes. And so do I understand, I'm going to put some words into your mouth. Do you wish to become a taxi cab driver? Like as in, do you wish to move from livery to, or add taxi to what you're doing? Yeah. Okay. Is that, okay. Do I have questions, motion? Yeah, I would just point out that I think we have the same issue here with the, with the insignia and the markings, although this is a little bit more specific, it's just black, but it doesn't, it's not really, you know, we need to have some sense of the, the name and the insignia and such. I don't know, is it appropriate to read from the other application as an example? Yeah. So for example, we had another application on the agenda this evening and, you know, for this question, you know, what is the color scheme or insignia to be used to designate your vehicle or vehicles? Yellow in color with a pocket watch type clock on both front doors and telephone numbers on rear doors, small sign on roof, lighted taxi or yellow words on it, just to give a sense of how you identify your company, how to contact your company, how people can get in touch or report the company if there is any issue with that. That's, those are the types of things that we look for in that. So. Okay. Mr. Really? I, is this car licensed in any other community currently? Are you driving in any other? Yeah, I don't, yeah. In other communities. He's livery. Which ones? The Honda or the C? Do you drive in another city or town, like Newton, Boston, Cambridge? No, I work the Allenton, Cambridge, Medford. Allenton, Cambridge, Medford. So you are currently working in Allenton? Yeah. Livery. Livery, okay. All right, thank you. This is Mohan. If I could, in the same with Chaffan, who you know, what we're saying is you have livery right now. Yeah. You want taxi. And there are steps in order to be taxi in the same with Chaffan. Yeah. You could let him know. Yeah. So what we wanna do is make sure you and Chaffan can also do taxi in Allenton. And this woman right here, Mrs. Cropelka. If you call her tomorrow, Town Hall, she will tell you the steps that you need because my colleagues are saying we need to know that you have the taxi meter that says how much you owe. And it takes, along with, you know, what your cab, not your livery, but your taxi cab is going to look like. So if you and Chaffan could speak to Mrs. Cropelka, we can, she can help you get everything done together. And then we can vote this at another meeting when we have everything done. We need like two, three things. As soon as we get those done, you're all set. Thank you. Thank you. Do I have a motion? Move to table. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. We'll talk, we'll see you again, I'm sure. Mr. Lucker? Yeah. All right. I would like to take item three from the table. So moved. All those in favor, take them from the table. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Mr. Lucker, talk to us about your application. I just want to, I would like to speak to the insurance regulations. I already carry a lot higher insurance than the state requires. I'm pretty sure I'm carrying a 4080 and 100,000 property damage. 2040. 2040? We have before us bodily injury 20, bodily injury 40, and damage 100. But that wouldn't apply to you right now. I'm just saying I want to look at it in the future. So you'd. No, I was mistaken then because in the past years they must have made a mistake because in the past years I was paying that premium for a higher. Well, if you want to check, because if you're paying that and you're not getting credit for it, then you should. Yeah, I think there's a mistake there. So if you can double check that. Double check that. I know I had the same agent. Okay. Well, they must have made a mistake. And thank you for pointing that out. So you currently hold two licenses? Yes. And they're on the road? Yes. Do you want to tell us a little bit about your business and why you're looking to expand? I've been in business since 93. And I heard there was some kind of confusion about the name. The reason the name I put that there is because I rent radio rights. So I didn't want, I can't drive around. You know, you call yellow cab. I can't have Dave's automotive show up at your door because then there'll be that confusion you called. It's, I maybe I worded it wrong. And that's a good possibility. It, you know, I mean, it says yellow cab association on the door. It does not say Alex, actually, I made a mistake there. So what does it say on the door? It says yellow cab association, like my other two do. And I figured that, you know, I rent radio rights. So what does radio rights mean? I'm afraid I don't know what that is. You call a dispatcher. And I pay a fee for you. Got it. For him to answer the phone. And you did dispatch my taxi to whatever address. And I was just trying to give you the, what company that it would say on the door. That's, I could put like every other city owned and operated by Dave's automotive. I thought of that after, and I discussed that with Mary Ann. And she said to bring that as a point to you so that you know that it's mine. Yeah. It's not an issue. So if Mr. Greeley feel permitted me to, I know it's unusual for the chair to go first, but I'm going to try to, he's raised, he's talking about the question that I raised through Mary Ann. I follow your lead, sir. And so I just tell you, let me tell you what my, the confusion was. We have, so we have someone in town obviously who operates as Arlington veterans taxi. And we had someone who came in earlier this year late last year, I forget which, who wanted to do Veterans Taxi of Arlington or something like that. And we said no, because the name was too similar and we didn't want to create confusion. Yeah. And so what we have now in the town of course, and these are both, both companies exist already, is Arlex Taxi Corp and Arlex Yellow Cab. Or even if it's Arlex Taxi Corp and Yellow Cab Association, sorry, Arlex Taxi Corp is doing business as Yellow Cab. So Yellow Cab versus Arlex Yellow Cab versus Yellow Cab Association, no one can tell them apart. So that said, since you're already existing and the confusion exists, we're not making it any worse. And so I personally am not opposed to this on that ground, but I would say that I encourage you and Mr. Bonnie to have a conversation and figure out a way to differentiate yourselves such that people can tell the two different companies apart. Do you think it's a good idea to put owned and operated underneath that insignia? I mean, because that's... I would actually, I mean, this is up to you. Yeah, it's up to you, but I would actually even say choose a different color or like, you know what I mean? Or, oh, but you want the same color number. Yeah, I would say that now would be an issue when I pulled up in front of your house, you called and now it's a different company to show up at your house. It looks like I'm trying to steal work or... I understand what you're saying. That's the issue that I was... Got it, okay. That's why I put that there, you know. Yeah, I don't have... I don't want to, you know, get out on the river water or any place, you dive in there your place. I understand. If you say that's mine. I understand what you're saying now. Okay, thank you. Mr. Greeley. So you currently own three taxes? Two. You own two, so you intend on purchasing two more? Yes, from you. But you don't, no, no, I understand, but you're gonna buy two more cars? I already own two more cars. I have presently have the power outside now. I only have all the equipment to set it up. I could set it up tomorrow morning. Oh, okay. I thought you currently had two already licensed buyers. I do have two already licensed on the road right now. So you're asking... At a level that are working every day. So you're asking for two more, that's what I... So you will be purchasing two more taxis? I have two more cars already purchased. Oh, and then they're just not on the road. They're just not inspected and so forth. It's taxis. Okay. Because I was waiting for the okay. So with this approval, you'll have four on the road in Arlington. Correct. Okay, thank you. I could have them set up, the other two set up by the end of the month. Okay, thank you. Mrs. Mohan? First, I'd like to move approval for the additional two. I take the chairman's comments that if you have a conversation with Mr. Bonnie in terms of eliminating any sort of confusion that you have, let it work it out amongst yourselves. But I also very tertiary understand the dispatch agreement between cab companies that you already have. So I understand the need for the retention of the name. So I think what the chairman was saying is if you have a conversation with Mr. Bonnie in terms of do we have different identifying factors with our cabs in terms of color? Or as you said, putting owned and operated by... That's why I like the off. Like Boston, you see it underneath. Exactly. And then if you could just follow up with your insurance company because... Yeah, I will. If we have trouble. And the only reason I say that exactly, if you're paying for it and there's more coverage, we want to know that and give you credit as well as if you're being charged for it, you should be able to do that. I'll drop it off to Mary Ann tomorrow. Or within the next week. That is incorrect. Okay. Thank you. I'm always like they're terrible. No, you're paying for it. You should get credit. Thank you. Mrs. Mohana's motion. Is there a second? I'll second that. And I just to follow up, I think that the ordered operated is sufficient to differentiate both companies. Is there any place you would like it underneath the insignia? Wherever you think it's visible enough. Is that? Yep. You can use your own discretion. Three inch ledges. Yeah. Okay. Ms. Rice, you look like you had something to say earlier. Oh no. Was I misreading it right? Okay, sorry. No, it's just a little matter with Mrs. Kruppelko. She's going to clear it out. Okay, we're good. Okay. All right, so we have a motion and we have a second. Is there any further discussion? No. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. That's approved. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Next up for approval, a letter to MassDOT. Mr. Greeley, did you have some comments you wanted to? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I have one editorial change on page two. Want to remove the word flawed and that title should just read the question. But I do believe we should move forward with this. I think it's time for us to finalize the plans and to move forward with the bidding. I mean, I would just say, you know, I know there was, you know, the 50-50 on the question and I understand, but I believe four lanes have been considered at every step of this design process. The first design said we only needed one lane each way as is the majority of Mass Avenue in Arlington, only one lane on each side. We compromised on the second design to go to three lanes. Two heading east, the same way that it is and one coming this way. Based on the fact that question wasn't about the project but a preference, whether you'd like four lanes or three. But when we did have an actual hearing on the full project, there was no question. Three quarters of the people there spoke in favor of this. We're ready. We need to do this. If we don't, we lose all of this money. I don't know why people think we can just change the design at 99% when it's already been considered before. So I think it's time we wanna win the most strongest terms for English necessary. We need to encourage Mass DOT and Federal Highway. Let's move forward. It's important to Arlington. It's needed in Arlington and I believe the majority of the voters, all of you know that I ran recently very strongly on this question and won 17 out of the 21 precincts. So I think there's ample evidence that the town of Arlington wants this project. Let us unanimously vote to support this letter and send it. Thank you. Is there a motion in there even? Yes, that's my motion. Second, Mrs. Mahon. I agree with Mr. Greeley's revision to the memo as well as the remarks that he made that I won't repeat. I do wanna say as the selectman who initially did not vote at the 25% design review and the reason why was because the plan as proposed was four lanes to two lanes. We then had public hearings at 50 and 75%. We came up with four lanes which is two lanes vehicular traffic going into what I call Cambridge, one lane vehicular traffic and bicycle, I mean bicycle on both sides coming into Arlington. And one of the things that I've been very comfortable with and I've said to a lot of people, especially in East Arlington, is that the original plan was put out, a compromise was agreed to as adults and people in public office and residents in the town. I think I know everybody agrees that that portion of Mass Ave needs to be redesigned. It was pointed out that there are several areas in Arlington alone where Mass Ave has been redesigned for one lane starting by CVS going up as well as when you get into the Heights as well as you get into Lexington and there hasn't been any catastrophic events from that. And one of the things that I felt very comfortable about was that when the compromise was reached to go from two lanes to the four lanes and meaning two vehicular into Cambridge and one vehicular coming from Cambridge into Arlington, Mass DOT and the town manager and others have said to me that what we're going to put in place and the funding that we're going to receive, if for some reason there are some instances that this proves that this wasn't the correct formula, the correct way to go, the correct design, we're not doing anything that precludes a future board of selectmen in 10, 20 years or whomever else, a planning department to say, you know what, we need to once again redesign it again. Now I know some of the opponents or proponents of the current question of four lanes have said, we can apply again, we can get money and funding for this. Yes we can, but it might be 10, 15 years out and we're not guaranteed it. We're guaranteed this funding right now. We're not doing anything that precludes us from testing it and see something that we need to adjust in the future. If we don't do this, I truly feel the residents of East Allington in terms of pedestrian safety, I think that's the number one thing, pedestrian safety, they're going to say to this board of selectmen and this town manager and planning department when we don't get that funding and we drop back on a list to seven to 10 years, we can't wait that long and then we're going to have to pay for it and we already have gone to the taxpayers enough in terms of school, infrastructure, fire station, Sims development up there. We can't afford to do this and we can't afford to pass this on to the taxpayers. So as someone who initially did not approve of the project, I am extremely comfortable with doing this and I think in the end, people will be satisfied with what happened and if they're not, we're going to be able to fix it. Mr. Burn. One to address Kevin, we're very happy to have you back and I will support Kevin's motion, although I think that the use of flawed is an understatement this instance, but I'm happy to continue my support for the project and look forward to getting it going as I think all of us do. So thank you. Mr. Carroll. Thank you very much for bringing this forward. I also very strongly support going forward with this. You know, I spent over six hours this past Saturday attending community meetings and the various precincts and I'm as Mohan was there with me for part of that time. You know, all we hear when we go to the various meetings that different infrastructure needs in the town that people would like to see happen and we're always very cognizant of the constrained resources we have in the town and we have a golden opportunity here where we can do a major improvement to the fastest growing part of our town on someone else's dime. The state and the federal government's dime. I absolutely agree. You know, we were all at the hearing. We heard person after person, resident after resident come up and voice support for this project. Also, contrary to the, I'll say myths that have been circulated that all of the business community in East Arlington is against this, we heard businesses come out and support this recognizing the benefits to this part of the town. For safety, for infrastructure improvement, for really harnessing the energy that we're already seeing unleashed in East Arlington, we have to move forward on this. I have no doubt, I know, I'm sure that every single one of us, the day of the vote or the day after the vote heard people who were confused by the wording of that question. I agree with Mr. Byrne. I mean, flawed is an understatement. People who supported this project and accidentally or almost voted the opposite way from their intention because of the way that this question was worded. We had two candidates for the Board of Selectment. We had other candidates for tau meeting who had very clear positions they articulated on this project. I think, Mr. Grayley, every piece of literature you sent out referenced your position on this project. I think that every piece of literature that was sent out by the other candidate for Selectment referenced this project in the literature. And those positions, I think, were extremely clear to people. And to me, that is the much more accurate barometer of where public sentiment lies on this project. We have to move forward. I'm glad we're taking a strong stand and we're letting the state know where we stand with this letter. Thank you very much for the work in putting this together, and I look forward to voting for it. One more administrative change, which I meant to make at the beginning, which is, I believe, Adam Chapter Lane, as town manager, should sign this and vote with us. He and his team have by far done the Yeoman's work on this. And unless you object, I really think your name should be right on there alongside of ours as well. Representing your whole team, Adam. You okay with that? I think that's good idea. And an administrative change where it says Arlington Board of Selectment, if we could just add in town management. I think it appears three times. All right, sounds good. So we have a limited amount of time left in the meeting, and this is not actually technically a public hearing, but at the same time, if there is someone here who wanted to talk about this, now would be a good time. You don't have to. Come on up. Come on up to the microphone, and I do ask that you keep your marks brief. Thank you. I appreciate your input. My name is Frank Cunningham. I live in East Arlington. I've supported this project as a pedestrian and all the time that we've been involved in it. And I wanted to speak to what Ms. Mahon said about, there has been channelization projects on MassApp and in Arlington and in Cambridge. And in my experience, everywhere it's been done, the traffic has flowed more freely, so. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anyone else feel the need? Good. Oh, I almost closed. Are you okay? I think you could, all right. I did have one comment that I wanted to make, which is, in this letter, we talk about what the goals of the project were. And I am really, and I think it's really important to, I wanted to briefly read them to you, because I think it would improve pedestrian safety and mobility, improve cyclist safety and mobility, improve the environment for transit users, maintain motorist mobility, minimize through traffic on local neighborhood streets, create more orderly traffic flow, improve access to local businesses and enhance the streetscape. And I think that these are all important, and I think that they are all found in this plan, and it's good of a balance as we could possibly hope for. And so I also am voting yes. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. It's five, zero. Six. Six. Six. Adam, I apologize. Six, zero. He didn't vote. He didn't vote. Wait, wait, you didn't vote? I demand to hear his vote. Yeah. All right. You can vote, Adam. Last item, correspondence received. We have a letter from Superintendent Boquillin of Minuteman. What would you say? Is there a second? Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. One note on that is I believe that Adam and I are meeting with Belmont to discuss Minuteman in a week or two for overcoffee. So we'll see where that goes. Does anyone have an appetite for doing new business? No, I'd like to make a motion that this Board of Selectment meeting reconvene with TAIL meeting that our adjournment is concurrent with the adjournment of tonight's TAIL meeting. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye.