 Hello, my name is Eric Helmuth and it is my privilege to serve as the current chair of the Arlington Select Board. I am running for re-election to a second three-year term. Although the Select Board election this year is not contested, I respectfully ask for your vote and I hope you will also cast a vote for the other Select Board member on the ballot, John Hurd, who serves the town with great distinction. My husband Jordan and I have called Arlington home for 17 years and I have been a volunteer in our local government since 2010. By day, I work full time in the state senate and before that I had a 33-year career in mental health services, research and policy. Since joining the Select Board three years ago, I have been honored to work alongside my board colleagues, our amazing town employees and dedicated community volunteers to ensure that Arlington is a welcoming, well-run town that takes good care of its people. In the last three years, the town allocated millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funds to invest in public health, infrastructure and assistance for residents and local businesses. We deepened our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion with the townwide equity audit and many other efforts. Arlington remained a statewide climate leader with an expending raft of programs and policies to increase the adoption of clean energy, reduce plastic consumption and promote conservation. We took important steps toward a sustainable transportation policy that serves and protects all road users and pedestrians. The town opened state-of-the-art facilities for residents of all ages from students to senior citizens. And we continued to invest in affordable housing and to thoughtfully do our part to plan for more housing of all kinds and the places that work best for Arlington. Last year, the Select Board was very fortunate to hire a fantastic new town manager who loves our community and leads a great team of hardworking employees who care about the town. This team worked hard every day to maintain a high level of services for residents while keeping the Select Board's financial promises to the taxpayers and while spending less per resident than most of the comparable communities in the area. The next three years will require continued hard work to address all of these priorities and ongoing challenges. We have a lot more work to do, but I believe in our community, our residents, our town employees and our many civic volunteers. I believe in our shared commitment to listen, to collaborate, care for one another and to make Arlington the best possible place to live and work. I would be privileged to help lead the town in a second term on the Select Board and I ask for one of your two votes on or before Saturday, April 6th.