 Welcome. I'm calling to order this meeting of the Arlington Select Board on Monday, June 13, 2022. I'm Select Board Chair Leonard Diggins and I will now confirm that all members and purses anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Dianma Hahn? Yeah. John Hurd? Yes. Tita Corsi? Yes. Eric Helmuth? Yes. Adam Chapter Lane? Yes. Doug Hyme? Yes. Ashley Meyer? Yes. Great. Thank you. Tonight's meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted in a hybrid format, consistent with an act signed into law on February 15, 2022, that extends certain COVID-19 measures. The act includes an extension until July 15, 2022. Oops. Oh, sorry. I'm going to go back a phrase. I lost my screen. The act includes an extension until July 15, 2022 of the remote meeting provisions of Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 executive order to spend certain provisions of the open meeting law. The governor's order, which is on the town's website and referenced with agenda materials for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely as long as there is reasonable public access that allows the public to follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, please note the following. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom. It is being recorded and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Second, persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participated by Zoom are reminded that you may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. Third, all participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the notice agenda platform. And finally, each vote tonight will be taken by roll call. So let's set forth on tonight's agenda. I'll now turn to the next item on agenda, which is item two, land acknowledgement. I would like to read the land acknowledgement that the board supported last spring at town meeting and town meeting approved through a resolution which is also contained on the town's website. We acknowledge that the town of Arlington is located on the ancestral lands of the Massachusetts tribe, the tribe of indigenous people from whom the colony province and the commonwealth have taken their names. We pay our respects to the ancestral broad line of the Massachusetts tribe and their descendants who still inhabit historic Massachusetts territories today. I will now turn to item three on the agenda. And that is for approval garage ban on Saturday, June 18, 2022 from 6pm to 8pm at Wyman Terrace. We have, do we have Tom? It's Davis? Davidson? We have both Tom. We have both of them. If you'd like me to promote them, Mr. Chair. There's Tom. Oh, looks like Ashley's working on it. All right. Hi, good evening. Hello, Miss Davidson. This was when Mr. Randall. So I want to tell us a little bit about your event. Sure, I think you said my name there. Ed Blondow is my name. I'm Arlington resident just about a year now and getting active in some local events. I'm a volunteer with the ACAC. I might defer for a moment to commissioner from the ACAC, Tom Davidson. I'm actually assisting him and doing some of the logistical work to help recreate this last issue, the last held 2019 event. We're looking forward to a free community music show here at the Arlington Global Service Station. But Tom, in deference to you being a commissioner, do you want to go first? Thanks, Ed. Yeah. So, so briefly, this is an event that we held originally in 2019 garage ban. It's held at Arlington service station next to the Walgreens in East Arlington. And the first year we did it, it was very successful. It was the last event after a full day of porch fest music. We had a great turnout, about a thousand people. The problem with having so many people is that the way it was oriented, people were actually spilling out onto Massachusetts Ave. We were trying to walk along Mass Ave. and keeping people up onto the sidewalk. So for this year's event, we wanted to reorient it towards Simon Terrace. So it's on the side of the gas station and oriented that way. We actually were renting a stage. So they'll be elevated. People will be concerned further back and be able to see them still. So we're asking permission to close off one 75 foot section of Wyman Terrace. It's a circular road. So it wouldn't impact any egress for anyone who lives on the street. The section of the night to block off from Mass Ave to the end of where the gas station is parking lot is doesn't block any driveway. So we're asking permission for that. And then the cones recycling bins and other that would be required as part of that. It did some measurements about the space and as part of the materials, he submitted some drawings. So I'll turn this back over to anything that you'd like to add after that. Thank you for the time. Welcome. Thanks again. Thank you to the board for hearing us tonight. The big thing is a free concert and like Tom said, it's the end party for porch fest was going to be huge and ACAC and myself were trying to make Arlington fun and vibrant to live in. And this is part of it. The band is really interesting. Family oriented and it's going to be a nice mix for all age groups. And but as far as logistics, I do have some experience putting on some shows from where I moved from and like Tom said, we thought it'd be better to reorient it. And we did do some sketches and things. I'm not sure the board had a chance to look at all that, but just to repeat, we're looking just to take 75 feet on the very, very end essentially can take us to the service station. And we did get a comment from the fire chief who said he was fine with it via email. That seemed to be the biggest thing. We did have the station owner and we met some of the local joining property owners and really closest building is a commercial list with a commercial I can see with a vacant downstairs and we intend to be done with the music by eight. So we'll be cleaned up and out of there by 30. And it's, it's not a major rock and roll band. It's more of a Cajun, Zydeco, diverse type of band. And it's not going to be any really, really loud music in the neighborhood. But just to repeat what Tom said, the sketches and stuff that outlined it, but what's great about Lyman Terrace is a loop street. So it doesn't really block any occupant from getting to their house at all. And the way we sketch that doesn't block any driveway, just the way it all lays out. So we're pretty happy with it. The service station supporting it. They're moving. The first one I was looking at the site is like, how does somebody do a show here, but somehow Abe from the service station does get all the cars, waiting repairs out of there somehow. And he's, he's really excited about running it again. He's supporting it in many ways, both with the place and with some funding for the band and so forth. So we feel like we've got good support. It's going to be a great weather day right now. It's always a big issue was running out to our events, but the weather looks great. But we just like to get whatever the formal procedure is tidied up with you folks. And like Tom said, we envision some cones or some barriers, not physical, but visible markers out by the crosswalk on NASA, on the outside of crosswalk. And then again, 75 feet into Wyman, just so cars can't go through. One thing I thought I'd throw into is if we could, I'd like to get some temporary, no parking signs just from say five, 30, 30, so nobody parks in that one 75 foot section. It looks like it's open to parking there from what I can see. And then we'll be taking care of the stage assembly and disassembly and so forth. But the third and last thing for me was, we are renting a stage, which will make it a more professional show for the band. And we did send some vouchers in through ACAC channels. And we're using a Cambridge tail rental cause Arlington tail or didn't have anything in inventory yet. And we just want to be sure that whatever the controller, treasurer processes is that we can assure the rental company that they're going to get their money. I mean, it's within the budget. It's been approved by ACAC, but it's just a technicality because I'm sure they'd like to know for sure they're getting their money. That's it for my side, Tom. Thanks. I just, to that last point, we've already put a purchase order into, into the Cambridge tail rental. So that part sells that. If there's any questions that the board has, we'd be happy to answer them. Thank you. Sure. I'll turn to my colleagues and I'll ask Mrs. behind that when you want to speak, if you could just raise your hand electronically, they'll help. And certainly if you want to go first, I mean, raise it early and I'll turn to you first. I mean, so right now I'll just look, Mr. Herd. Move approval. Thank you. Mr. Herd. Second. Second for Mr. DeCourcy. Any questions, comments? Mr. Happy to support this. I'm sorry I'll be out of town because I would love to go here being called the squeeze box stompers. They are a lot of fun. Sounds like a great case to take mine. Thank you for doing this. And thanks for your excellent work on the commission in general. I think this is just one of the, the many terrific events that you do for the arts in Arlington. And we're always, always happy to see what you think of next. right. Thank you. Appreciate that. So did I hear that you said you wanted no parking signs? If it's an option, yes. Just for that 75 feet on, I guess, the east and the west side of Wyman Terrace. Right. So have you gone about getting those? I mean no, I guess after you vote, I guess I was just a question I have like does your DPW drop off cones? How do we actually get the trash cans and cycling bins and cones? Uh, in my past, we had these temporary police order, no parking, you know, 5 30 p.m. 8 30 p.m. That we would stick in a cone on a stick or something and take them down once we're done. Just do me. Well, if if board assistant, okay, Mr. Hyman in and then Mr. Okay. Well, if board assistant will tell me we're all set, I just had a question. It's a it's a private way, correct? No, I don't believe so. Okay. If it's not, then we can reach out. If the board approves it, I can reach out to the police department and get no parking signs on either side. If that's what you're looking for. Yes, just and just just for that one little section up the entire street just from us out. It's as it says that 75 foot section up to the end of where the parking lot is for the service station. That'd be much, much appreciated. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Just didn't want to prove it and then throw you out there and then we don't know what happens next. We would reach out to the parking department and the police department to get sign set up. Okay, great. And I don't know what the TPW bring cones or barriers to block off the end of the street. Most of the time we would ask that you block off the street, but we would provide the parking. Oh, okay. We can do that. And for the recycle bins and trash bins, I know in the past the DPW has some temporary like plexi plastic ones that are that are foldable. We could probably pick those up ourselves and return those directly from the DPW. I don't know if it was currently available the way the DPW is currently being renovated. With the approval of the board, I will also reach out to DPW and see if they can provide cones and recycle bins. Thank you very much. And I hate to ask this basic question, but APD did sign off on this, right? We got spun off from Kevin Kelly, fire chief. We did not hear anything from the police department. You didn't hear anything from them? No, no. We copied certain folks on that. Maybe Tom, you want to go into that? Yeah, they were listed as CCs on this submission to to the board. I don't believe that the APD was directly contacted. Well, we can't have a situation where APD isn't aware of this. You know, so so we're gonna have to just make sure that APD knows about this. Yeah, Mr. Heard. So I know when we do block party applications, which I just did one recently, that we process them and because those are done through the suckboard office and then they just notify APD when the street shut down. Okay. I think the suckboard office can just notify the APD that we approve this. And it looks as though that they did see the police department. They're probably aware but have not got back. So we'll reach out to them. Fine. Then if everyone's fine with that, you know, let's feel we're being responsible about this means so so on emergency motion for Mr. Heard and a second from Mr. Forsey. I think as I said in the intro, we're doing a roll call vote. So Mr. Heim. Mr. Heard. Yes, Mr. Dacorsi. Yes, Mr. Helmets. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, Mr. Diggins. Yes, it's unanimous vote. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate the time. Thank you. Right. So I don't know for is acceptance of gifts and or grants donations to Arlington Police Department. Mr. Heim. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll be very brief. The Arlington Police Department received roughly $200 and not roughly exactly $200 in a check donation from an Arlington resident. That specific resident wasn't identified for me, but in order to keep up our ongoing practice of trying to make sure that we're bringing all gifts and donations to the select board for approval, both for accounting purposes and to make sure that there's nothing the board's concerned about. It's brought for your attention tonight for your vote to receive it. Okay. Folks, any questions from Mr. Heard? Second. Second from Mr. Mr. Helmets. Questions, comments? Anyone? Just to be clear, there are no conditions on this gift. Okay. All right. Thank you. So on a motion from Mr. Heard and second from Mr. Helmets, Mr. Heim. Mr. Heard. Yes, Mr. Dacorsi. Yes, Mr. Helmets. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah. Mr. Dickens. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Right. So now on to the consent agenda. We have for approval Arlington International Film Festival banners. And that's with April Al-Ranik and Alberto Guzman in reappointments all terms to expire on June 30th, 2025 for the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee. Jack Johnson, Murr's, Kaba's, Lija, Adam McNeil, Doug Myo Wells, Scott Smith, Christopher Tonkin. And a request for a contracted drain layer license. DJ Morris contracting. And a request for one day beer and wine license on June 17th, 2022 at Robbins Memorial Garden for the Friends of the Robbins Town Garden Garden Party with Christine Harris. And number nine request special one day beer and wine license. June 18, 2022 at Robbins Memorial Town Hall for private event. Lauren Duddy. And number 10 request special one day beer and wine license June 19, 2022 at Jason Russell House for private event. Brian Burke. So Mr. Helmets. To move approval for the consent agenda, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Helmets. A second. Thank you, Mr. Corsi's. Questions, comments? All right. So on a motion for Mr. Helmets and a second by Mr. Corsi. Mr. Heim. Mr. Herd. Yes, Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Helmets. Yes, Mrs. Mohan. Yeah, Mr. Deans. Yes, unanimous vote. Thank you. Moving right along. Number 11. For approval, class two license, Summer Street Auto Care, a 34 Dudley Street with Kenneth Walsh. Mr. Walsh, with us. Helmets and Walsh. Good evening. John Leone here with Ken Walsh, the owner of Summer Street Auto, LLC. Ken is unyielding, if he wishes. But Ken's seeking a class two auto use car sales license for location at his shop 3436 Dudley Street for six automobiles. As you can see in the application, he has it detailed out where the cars will be placed. And as Kenneth will speak, these are probably his vehicles that he'll either repair and sell or pick up and then repair and sell. It's going to be a add on to his business, not his total business. So if you have any questions, we'd be glad to hear whoever has it. Thank you, Mr. Launey. So any questions, comments, concerns? Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Second. Second, Mr. Corsi. So all right. So on a motion for approval from Mr. Hurd and a second for Mr. Corsi. Mr. Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes, Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Diggins. I'm sorry, Mr. Helman. Yes, Mr. Mrs. Mahan. Yes, Tony Heim. Mr. Diggins. Yes, it's unanimous thought. I'm thrown off here. It's a hybrid meeting. That's okay. He's so moving on to item number 12. Yes, you're welcome. You have nice. It's a nice evening. So yes, we will. Yeah. So moving on to number 12 may for approval, common, victual, victual or license summer sushi. 474 Mass Ave. Jiang Jing Chen. Oh, I see. All right. Hi. So we see you. Yes, that's me. Can you hear me? I can hear you. Did I pronounce that correctly? No, not what? Did I pronounce that correctly? Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. Great. Well, great. So so you want to tell us a little bit about your business? Yes. Well, actually, I'm not African. I'm an attorney for the applicant. And the applicant is also right there. I think that there's here he is. Mr. Chen, this is basically a common, which is a licensed application pending before the board. And we are purchased and taken over an existing restaurant, so you sushi at the center of 474 Mass Ave. in Allington and the Mr. Mr. Chen is going to be the owner and operator of this restaurant. He has been working with the photo house for the permit for establishing a permit. And I believe we have received some of the sign off from several departments of the town. And we are happy here to answer all the questions that the board might have. OK, well, thank you for doing business with us, Mr. Chen, or doing business in our town, Mr. Chen. So any questions, comments from my colleagues? Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I'll move approval, Mr. Chen, that's when we vote favorable action. I want to wish you best of luck. And it's it's nice to see a restaurant or a new retailer going into that block because it's been a difficult block for the town. So thank you and best of luck. Mr. Herd. Thank you very much. Yeah, also would like to thank you for choosing Arlington. My office is right about a block down and I do love sushi. So I'll be looking forward to your grand opening. Thank you. Anyone else? OK, so so can someone help me here? And what is our sister city? What was the question? I'm sorry. Yeah, because I mean, there are so many sushi places now in that part of town. I just kind of wonder if we have more sushi or greater concentration of sushi restaurants, you know, then then our sister town, you know, you know. So so I mean, it's wonderful. I mean, it's wonderful competition is great. I I tried to read the menu a little bit. You know, do you have anything with black rice? Any sushi with black rice? Mr. Chair, I'm going to respond to this question. What type of sushi menu you have? Well, don't worry. I'm sure it's all good. Look, I'm happy. I'm happy to approve this. I'm looking for trying because I'm probably because I'm trying to place. So. But I agree with you. It's a very competitive with a lot of sushi restaurants opening everywhere. So you're going to have to be good. And I'm sure you will be so. So on. I'm see you looking. Oh, no, no, no. So I asked a question and I kind of forgot the sequence. I know we have a motion from Mr. DeCorsi and the second is for Mr. Heard, you know, I didn't remember before. So so with that, Mr. Heim. Mr. Chairman, I believe it's not your kill, by the way. OK. Mr. Heard. Yes, Mr. DeCorsi. Yes, Mr. Helmut. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Dickens. Yes, unanimous vote. Thank you. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. So now we move to open forum. So except in unusual circumstances, any matter present presented for consideration of the board shall need to be acted upon nor decision being made the night of the presentation. In accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established, it should be noted that there is a three minute time limit to present a concern or request. So Mr. Mr. Chaplin, anyone in the audience for open forum? There are no raised hands right now, Mr. Chairman. Oh, great. I mean, so my first. Oh, I'm sorry, I hand Mr. Carl Wagner just raised his hand. Oh, great. So Mr. Wagner. Thank you, Mr. Chair, can you hear me OK? I can. And if you could just hang on for a little bit while I start up. Stopwatch here. Timing purposes. Great. Thank you. All right. Yes, Mr. Wagner, go ahead. Thank you. I'm Carl Wagner of 30 Edge Hill Road. I wanted to congratulate the board on the choice of Adam Chaplin a long time ago. He's been a great town manager for us. And we are about to see Mr. Chaplin's departure. And I believe we've seen the director of planning already depart. I just wanted to encourage the volunteers that you are to continue to do great work on the select board for us. And please, please, in the process of choosing the future town manager, whether that's one of the existing people in Town Hall, whether it's somebody else and in that person's inevitable choice of a director of planning, please remember that the people who live here already, the existing renters and owners, business people, the residents really need to come first as the most important stakeholder. We're facing, I believe, a five to seven million dollar structural deficit after the ARPA funds go away. And there is a huge need to right size town things, town, town government, school budgets, unfortunately. And in general, we really need to see a planning department working for the people who live here for affordability, for open spaces, for the community that people want to be able to stay in and the community that should be affordable for people of color, people on fixed incomes, middle class people to move to. So there's a huge honor to be select board. I hope you see that you're doing a great thing for us, but also in choosing the unelected leaders that will represent the voters, the taxpayers, the people who are already here. I ask you in the coming days and weeks to please think of us in your choices as you go forward. And again, congratulations to Mr. Chapter Lane and also to Ms. Rake. I hope that we will have as good leaders in our positions of power soon. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wagner. And not see any more hands. We will move past. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Helms, we will move past this part of the agenda and on to item number 13, a discussion of the overnight parking pilot. And so, Mr. Ducorsi and I have met with Chief Flaherty, me and Officer Reteau last week. And we were discussing when to hold a forum and we are aiming for the 22nd. And although I'm going to ask if we could consider maybe doing it on the 23rd when we meet tomorrow, mainly because the MBTA is having a session regarding the best network redesign on the 22nd. So we may move that to the 23rd. One thing that became apparent in the discussion is that this is going to be just a lot of elements to this. And one big element to it is the permit parking aspect of it. And we weren't thinking really about doing permit parking, but it really seems that you can't have the overnight overnight parking pilot without having a permit parking pilot along with it, because it's so susceptible to abuse without a permit parking pilot. And it's going to be a pretty big endeavor. And it's it it seems more and more like we are going to have to decide if this is something that we want to do me. And so so the pilot will more so be in the way we roll it out, as opposed to deciding whether or not we're going to do it. And so I think we as a board, we really have to decide if that is something that we want to do. And I think we will have the forum saying, OK, we are tentatively thinking about doing this. I'm not asking anyone to commit to doing that, but go to residents saying that this is something that is under serious consideration and we want to get a sense of how it is that we do it and so get input on how to do it. For example, I mean, do we do parking only on one side of the street in alternate years and things like that? You know, and so I'm going to turn to Mr. Corsi to ask him if he concurs what I said and certainly add anything and correct anything that I may have said incorrectly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. No, no, I concur with what you said. We had a good meeting and as you said, we're meeting tomorrow again with Chief Flaherty and Officer Rato. There's a lot of information that was discussed and a lot of things that when you think about a pilot or doing something as you talk about it more, you realize that there are more facets to it than you initially realized. And I think the program that's planned, whether it's the 22nd or 23rd of this month, I'm sure we'll learn from that too in terms of what input we receive so that ultimately we can come back to the board as a subcommittee with some sort of recommendation, but I encourage people who are interested, who have concerns or who want to give input to look for the date of the program, that the forum that we have, because we're going to need that input to put something together to bring back before the board. So I'm looking to see if Mrs. Mahai might have her hand up. I mean, not yet, you know, so I turn to my colleagues. That all sounds good to me. No, I think you guys have under control and there's a lot of moving parts. That's why I think sometimes the town just wants to keep the overnight parking in place because of the moving parts. But we've talked about this for years and there's a lot of interest in seeing if the town can go in another direction. So I look forward to what the subcommittee can come up with in conjunction with the comments that you get from the public and seeing where we can move from there with the parking pilot. So we'll stay tuned. Yes, just a question. I'm sure that I missed this. Which month were you talking about doing this? Oh, that that at this point is is not at all decided because I'm sorry for the I'm sorry for the fall. Oh, so that would be this month meeting. So so either next week either on Wednesday or Thursday, you know, and we'll we'll make a decision tomorrow. It'll really depend on whether we initially set the 22nd and if the 23rd is still available, we'll go for that date. And although anyone can chime in now, I mean, if anyone who wants to be there, me prefers one of those two dates, I mean, then then we'll go with that. You know, that sounds good to me. And I appreciate the work that the subcommittee is doing and the thinking. I know what you mean about about, you know, become it starts to become a game of whack-a-mole, you know, where you where you really and that's exactly the process we need to go through is just see what flushes out. I'm glad to hear the thought being given to potentially permitting. I know that that is an operational and even a budgetary consideration. But it's something that's been on my mind for a while. So I'm glad that we need that we I think we should at least give that a careful look and just end to understand the pros and the cons of that because of potential abuses. So just want to reinforce that. Yeah, I mean, one more for that consideration. One thing is apparent is that we'll have to price that and then get, of course, the staff that can handle it. So it becomes a situation where it seems like we will have to do this later. But as I said, with all of that kind of infrastructure for lack of a word, better word put in place, it becomes a change. And so now it's a matter of how do we affect that change in a responsible way? And part of that is means getting input from our residents. I mean, and this is likely to be the first forum. You know, I mean, it's going to be coming fast, you know, and so and as people become more aware of it, I think more people want to say things and we will need to provide a means for people to do that. And then I find most of the time that even if people don't agree with what you decide to do, if you've given them ample time and ability, opportunity to make their input, I mean, they respect the process, I mean, I respect what you're doing, you know, so even if they don't agree, sure. Yeah, I mean, all that sounds exactly right. And one further suggestion to consider, and I leave the decision in your able hands is following on the forum. I think you're right that we'll get attention and people will think of questions they didn't know they had, perhaps a public comment mechanism through a web forum or an email might be a good way to continue some of that input. Yeah, like an email address other than five email addresses. Yeah, just a way to centralize it so that it's all in one place and then we can be sure that when we want to get the body of public comment, we can have that. That's a great idea. It's a great idea. I had not thought of that and it'll be easy enough to create. I'm sure, right? So we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. That's a great idea. So I see Mr. Chapter Lane's hand up. Thank you, Mr. Dickens. Just on that point that Mr. Helmeth just made, we we've used Google Forms or other tools a number of times, especially over the course of the pandemic to solicit public feedback. I think most recently on the compilation of the ARPA plan. So if it is something that you and the board would like to use, we could work with the public information officer to put something together like that and then push it out to the residents. All right, great. Thank you, Mr. Chapter Lane. And so so this is just a discussion thing. You know, so this is my hand. Anything you want to say, ask? No, OK, all right. Well, we're just discussing it. So no need for anything else at this point. So we'll move to item number 14 for discussion, the draft letter to mass housing concerning regarding 1021, 1025, Massachusetts Avenue. Mr. Heim. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just as a quick refresher, primarily for the public, not really for this board, since you've seen higher than you've seen your fair share of 40 B applications in project eligibility or site approval processes in the last couple of years. What's before the board right now is an invitation for the board to provide some comment with respect to the Missouri Company's application for site approval and project eligibility for 40 B project for approximately 50 units on a one acre site located at 1021, 1020 through 1025 Mass Ave. This is not the same thing as the 40 B hearing process, which is a lengthy process involving lots of testimony and evidence and expert analysis and back and forth through different reviews, inviting departments to provide formal comment, the public, all that kind of stuff. This is a more narrow scope of responsibility with respect to deciding whether the board wants to respond to mass housing's invitation to comment on whether or not this project should be eligible for essentially mass housing funding. The scope of the inquiry is really oriented towards is the site appropriate for residential development? Is the conceptual design appropriate? So it's not the fine details yet. They've essentially put together a conceptual project, but it's probably going to change quite a bit even before they submit the actual comprehensive permit to the zoning board of appeals. Is it financially feasible? Do they have site control? It's a much more narrow set of things. So you had already received a presentation from this group who is good enough to come before the board in advance of asking for site approval and project eligibility for mass housing. These folks also went to the Conservation Commission for a number of working sessions, which is a positive sign that they're want to solicit feedback from different potential stakeholders before they get too far along in the process and commit to a specific design or something that wouldn't be feasible from the CONCOM's perspective. The Conservation Commission also holds independent regulatory authority with respect to administration of the Wetlands Protection Act, which is separate from the 40B process. It usually takes place afterwards and theory could take place in parallel or before. And they also obviously solicited some feedback from town staff, like the Department of Planning and Community Development, our town engineer. So you received a little while ago from Kelly Lyonema and Jenny Rait, the former Planning Director, some memorandum and other information. What I've tried to do here is essentially based on those prior meetings understanding of the board's general sort of posture towards development of this nature, what was presented that evening by the actual potential 40B applicants. A letter that primarily comments without necessarily saying the board wholeheartedly endorses this or the board opposes project eligibility here because the nature of the project seems to be and I don't want to put words in the board's mouth. One of those ones where it's more like the board would be interested in the applicants considering these things and having certain things be especially vetted before the Zoning Board of Appeals, rather than something that says there's no way you could ever have a residential development at this site, it's already a residential use, at least in part, or saying that we're concerned about the conservation elements of the site. They've taken the proactive steps of going before the Conservation Commission. There's a lot of discussion about this urban park idea. They've already started talking about tree removal. So I think a lot of the potential concerns that the board have are reflected in this. There's a lot of things that are gleaned from the Planning Department, the Town Engineer and the Conservation Commission's letter. The Conservation Commission's letter was particularly helpful, I think, in terms of providing a sort of table setting for the board and how it wants to treat what's probably one of the more sensitive issues in this project. That's the removal of a fair number of trees. I don't know if the board speak to all those issues, but again, this is about project eligibility. It's not an actual weighing in on the permit itself. This board has always had great respect for the jurisdiction of the Zoning Board of Appeals to hear and make decisions about 40 B cases. And this board has always been supportive and encouraged that Zoning Board of Appeals by saying that if there's any resources that are necessary to do testing to thoroughly scrutinize them, but these projects that this board will be supportive in terms of making sure the funding is available and the resources available from town staff to do that. So if there are any questions about the letter itself, the process, I'm happy to answer them, but I've tried to craft a letter here that basically outlines what is positive about the project, as far as most of the feedback that was garnered at your request. And also what is concerning about the project and they might want to fine tune before they submit comprehensive permit application to this EPA. Thank you. Thank you, Zaheim. So so you're asked. So the ask from us tonight is a vote of approval of the letter for you to send. That's correct, Mr. Chairman. You don't have to send a letter in, but if you want to have the select board put together official comments on the record with respect to project eligibility before mass housing, this is the time to do it and it can be supported by these more detailed memorandum and I'm sorry, I don't see it in Nova's agenda. I apologize if there was a letter from the town engineer addressing some stormwater concerns that I would also attach to your letter just so it's as comprehensive as possible. All right, thank you, Zaheim. So I turn to my colleagues. Mr. Hurd. Mr. Helmets. Thank you, Mr. Chair, I would move approval. I appreciate the care that went into this letter. Thank you, Mr. Heim and and to all the people who generated the source material of the Conservation Commission, the Planning Department and town engineer and I'm sure many others. I'm really happy with the comments, particularly in the areas of environmental impact, environmental sustainability. I was really glad to see at the very end the strong suggestion that applicants consider pursuing lead approval and using air source heat pumps and solar panels because Arlington is committed to a net zero future and the only way we get there is to be very careful with new development and do everything we can to strongly encourage and incentivize that. So, you know, I'm sure that the ZBA, if this lands with them, you know, well, we'll take a similar thing, but certainly I want them to know that's our values for the town. So I think there's a lot of there's a lot of merit in kind of putting this these points on the public record to frame the discussion that may move forward. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm happy to second that. I think we had a good conversation with the applicants and expressed some of our concerns at that time. And I think attorney Heimstern a great job, as always, summarizing what we said and making us sound better than we actually did at the meeting. But my I think it's a good project. I do like how proactive the applicants are being to work with us. I think it's a good sign of how the applicant will be as they go through the 40 B process. I do have self concerns about traffic. But again, I think given that the applicant has been relatively easy to work with at this point, I think if concerns do come up, we'll be able to address that with them. So I do think this letter completely and thoroughly summarizes our position that we had on the night of the meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, and I also support approval of the letter. I want to thank attorney Heim for the work that that he put in and again, I'm repeating myself a little what others have said. But Planning Department Conservation Commission in particular gets an excellent comments from Ms. Chapnick on behalf of the Conservation Commission. It's really helpful and I think consistent with our practice of sending in a comment letter at the project eligibility stage, it makes sense to do so in this case as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You're welcome. Is it the Han? I'll set. OK, great. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a great letter to me and I'm fully supportive of sending, sending it, you know, there's only I understand that the town very much supports this and so it should be in the letter, you know, I'll just say for my own sake, you know, I just think there's too much retail, you know, and so I think retail has a hard time because there's too much retail. And so when we understand that we want to have more business in town, I mean, I think maybe we should look into different kinds of businesses, you know, but like I said, I understand that's the posture of the town and the letter reflects that and by no means asking to have removed. It's just my way of going on the record about my concern about retail in general. So with that, an odd emotion from Mr. Helmeth and a second by Mr. Herd. Descend the letter, Mr. Han. Mr. Herd. Yes, Mr. Dacorsi. Yes, Mr. Helmeth. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, Mr. Diggins. Yes, Surname's vote. Great. Mr. Diggins, Mr. Dacorsi just sent me a few, he caught a few typos. I appreciate that. I'll make sure to get you a letter for your signature on behalf of the Board first thing tomorrow morning. OK, great. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. So future select board meetings number 15. So we have our next meeting on the 27th, but we have nothing programmed for July and August. So I know on the 15th, I mean, we should get some ruling from the state about remote meetings, you know, but, but chance. Yeah, who knows? Who knows what happened by the 15th, you know, just in case that impacts me how you think about things. I mean, so Mr. Chair, may I just make it clear to everybody? So the legislation providing the allowance to basically have meetings virtually expires on July 15th. So for public who may be curious about what's happening, that could affect the board's use of schedule. Right. So so the following Monday after the 27th is a fourth. So of course, we won't do that, you know. Now, I know that in general, we do one meeting a month in July and August eight out. And my suggestion is going to be that we do that one meeting a month, but that we also entertain the notion of doing a supplemental meeting where we just deal with minor things, mostly like things that are on the consent agenda and approvals that don't really require all of us to deliberate on it. I think it might take the pressure off of that main meeting and we could then devote that meeting to more substantive matters. And if we are allowed to meet virtually for that in that supplemental meeting, we'll do so. You know, so I put that out there as a possibility, you know. And so when we think about scheduling and certainly if there isn't enough material to warrant doing that, we can just scrap that meeting. So it would be more like a safety meeting. So so I put that out there as we think about scheduling. I mean, understood, but I think quite the reason that we we go to get in who knows, maybe none of us going away, but generally we'll throw out dates and every almost every week that somebody has a vacation. I think that's why we do the one meeting week. I mean, my in the summer meetings, we never really had much on. Anyways, there's not too much going on in the summer around here. So I mean, my preference would be to try to stick with the two meetings and if we need another one, we can add it. But yeah, I mean, yeah, and the whole purpose of that. And I guess part of the thinking about that supplemental meeting is that it wouldn't require that everyone be here. In fact, we would schedule me and things that just really don't require everyone to deliberate. So but I hear you, I hear you. And so so but but as we also think about the well, I guess should we do that less more easily? Think about adding a meeting. So like if I see the agenda really building up me and those agenda, you know, so that we're looking at perhaps a three hour, three and a half hour meeting. And I see that I can pull off a lot of stuff that doesn't require the liberation into another meeting where we're all not there. Just three or four, you know, then I'll ask me and it won't be a surprise. You know, then maybe we'll do it. Maybe we won't. You know, I see Ms. Mahan hand up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Traditionally, what we do is as Mr. Heard said in everyone else, but I understand that you're the chair. It's your purview to add another meeting, but it's mostly just common victual or any unforeseen circumstances. So how about if we throw out July? I mean, traditionally we can do the third week of each month that really works ideally for the select board office on July 18th and August 22nd. OK, well, and that would open up the eighth if we really wanted it in August 8th. Yeah, all right, you know, so the 18th of July and the 22nd of August. Just just a note for the board. I will be in Wyoming from the 11th to the 20th to the 21st. So I'll be hard to reach for that period of time. There's no reason not to have a board meeting because of the town council. A deputy town council, Mike Cunningham, can be available to respond to anything. So if there's anything that comes up in that period, I'll just make sure to give a reminder at the July meeting that Attorney Cunningham will probably have to make sure that he leads the prep for the meeting. So even if he did the 11th, we wouldn't have your company. OK, because that's those things that I'll be back on the 22nd. I just won't know what I'm talking about. All right, yes. I think this plan sounds fine to me. And, you know, I think I think your idea of of holding open the possibility of adding a utility meeting is appealing if for no other reason that it might help an applicant if there's a time consideration for that. Because, you know, one of the downsides of going monthly is that they have to wait longer for approval and that may not make a difference in many cases. But in cases where our special permit for, you know, a one day event like we do, you know, I would be open to being one of the members available for such things. You know, if you decide to do that, thank you, thank you. And just to be transparent about my overall agenda, it's just to maybe do some of these utility meetings, even when we get back into our fall schedule and or and we're doing two meetings a month because because I'll tell you, once we go beyond 10 o'clock for me, it's just it's it's more challenging than than than usual. And so I'm thinking if maybe we could bleed off means some of these utility items mean into a meeting where just three of us are present to go through them and then it can save me and our main meetings for more deliberation. So that's where I'm thinking. But once again, I mean, I want people to want to do it. Yes, it's here again for stuff, but that's not my style by any stretch. And so if there's some resistance, then we won't do it. But at least think about it. And maybe, you know, what may not appeal now may appeal with me and some sleep cycles, you know, so, Ms. Mahad. Sorry, I get on my phone. If we could, Mr. Chairman, could we set at least the first meeting in September and I don't have a calendar in front of me. I'll leave it to you all. But closer to the first two weeks of September, recognize the primary day and all that. So it has to be the third. But I think we can set one right now just to have it. That makes sense to me. So so the first available date in September, the first Monday would be the 12th, because the fifth is the first Monday in September. That'll be Labor Day. So the first available for us would be the 12th. And and and I mean, if you want to set the second one, I'm fine with that too. I get a little antsy sometimes with September because of which juice holiday is it? I think it's a Jewish holiday. Sixth is Russia shot. OK, so that would be the 26th. So so we need to work around that. I mean, you want to work around it now, you know? Hey, Wednesday meeting that week. Yeah, that would work. And you go for it. All right. So 28th. OK. All right. Yeah, 28th. All right. I have to thank our former colleague, Mr. Dunn, for introducing the notion of a Wednesday meeting. I think right at Mr. Dunn, no such thing existed. What did you do then? I think we were scheduling one time and he was like, why don't we just do a Wednesday? And you had never done Wednesday before then? No, I think it was always Mondays. I believe he was also a strong advocate for summer casual. Yes. And we thank him for that. Great. Thank you. Thanks, folks. I mean, so we have three months of meetings planned and makes me excited, you know, because I kind of look forward to these. You know, so but then I like Tom meeting too. So anyways, you know, we're on to correspondence received. Oh, we have trucking concerns on Appleton Street. I am from Terry Proctor and Tom, managing position from Beth Malopchick comments regarding parking study analysis. Bill goth Ealesville chair and crosswalk on Summer Street at Victoria Road, Daniel Amstutz, senior transportation planner. Receipt of 16 and refer to the manager. Mover receipt of 17. Move receipt of 18 and move receipt of 19 and refer to the manager. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, Adam. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just one requested change to that would be Mr. Amstutz specifically was asking the board to refer number 19 to TAC. They're they're anticipating it and they'd like to work on it. If you don't mind doing so. So amending. Thank you. So 19 to TAC is that correct? OK, thank you. So what I'd like to do is send 18 to TAC and ABAC. All right. So OK. Yes, just kind of an ancillary comment. So many of these are referrals to TAC. I'd like to suggest we had talked about earlier in the year following up with TAC to get a sense for their bandwidth and turnaround time and we throw a lot of things at them. They work really hard and we are really fortunate to have them. But I think a number of the contents of the board at the time seem to be that we need to find a way to work with them to get a better information loop. Right. And report back to where they were. And I think that we communicate that request. So if I could ask the chair or some of you to designate to follow up with that as we keep adding more referrals to them, it just comes to mind. Yeah, to mention that. Yeah, I appreciate that. And I definitely tend to follow through on that. I mean, that's meeting. We're going to talk about assignments, you know. So with motion mean to handle correspondence received as described by Mr. Heard and amended by me and second by Mr. Helmuth, you know, Mr. Heim, Mr. Heard. Yes, Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Helmuth. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, Mr. Heads. Yes, it's unanimous vote. And so now we move to item number 20 and some is that time, you know, and this is one case where I don't have anything written out, you know, I will on Friday, you know, it's a it's a hard one, you know, because you've done so much, Mr. Chapter Lane, I tried not to make these things about me, you know, but in this case, I mean, as a member of select board, you know, and your impact on my ability to understand and and learn and and just enjoy the role more, you know, I mean, as I said, the reason when I was asked to run for this, and then I thought about why I would is that I like learning things. I mean, I like working on hard problems and I like collaborating with people. And through you, I've learned a lot, you know, and it's been really wonderful collaborating with you and figuring stuff out. And ultimately, you know, I won't say you were a therapist, you know, but I certainly felt that I could ask you anything, you know, without the least amount of embarrassment about the level of sophistication or simplicity of the question, you know, and then I could ask you again sometimes if I couldn't quite remember the answer from from a few months ago, and that's that's been invaluable. And I know how much you care about the town and I'll save other stuff for me regarding the town in general for Friday, but I really want to express my deep appreciation for all that you have done for me as a member of the board. And I I I know that you have done a lot of things for the board in general, because I know how much you really care about the town. And and from my discussions with you. And because I had such frequent discussions with you, we really get to kind of know a person through those discussions and and you know when someone's being sincere, I mean, they're just patterns of behavior and patterns of language. And so so thank you very much. You know, I'm really happy for you and what I see you're about to do. And so it's going to be a good buy with respect to you're being a part of these meetings. But by no means is it going to be a good buy from me with respect to keeping in touch, because I generally keep in touch. I mean, and and I have a lot of respect for you as I tend to do when I perceive someone who knows a lot more than I do. I'm really drawn to that. So so so I'm going to be in touch looking for help on various things regarding Arlington and the region. So thank you very much. And no one else has to speak, you know, but if you want to. Here's a chance for Mr. Holmes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be out of town at the end of the week. So unable to attend the the party Friday morning. So but I will not try to make up for all of that with a long speech now. I rely on my colleagues to fill in fill in the gaps. But Adam, you know, residents of Arlington are grateful to you for 12 fantastic years. 10 of them is town manager. I have no doubt that you leave the town a better place than it was before. And I also know that that's because not only of your efforts, but the efforts of the tremendous team that you have built, that you have proven yourself to be an outstanding manager of people who are loyal to the town and to its residents and care about that. And I think that is an outstanding legacy. The many, many people that you have worked with, the community volunteers and the residents, your availability, your honesty, your transparency, your willingness to engage anybody who wants to contribute or has a fair criticism. I think is also another credit and a legacy that will live on. And I think your vision in so many areas has been a real such a benefit to the town, two areas that really speak to me personally. I care about it. And I know that you do is the area of sustainability and efficiency. You have worked really hard and made Arlington a leader in environmental sustainability and in a way that is the envy of the Commonwealth. And I think it's another legacy that we will treasure. And the areas of diversity, diversity, equity and inclusion, I think that you have, along with those of us in the government, have really led the way and engaged residents, honestly, to walk the talk and have taken action, having made specific investments that will make us accountable and always listening and never resting on our laurels in those areas because there's a lot we can do. And I think that that is a value of yours that will also endure. There are many other and I'm not going to indulge in a catalog, but I just wanted to call out a couple of things that I often think about and then we'll look back upon for what you have done with your team here. So thank you. Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, Adam, I want to thank you for your 12 years of service to the town and 10 as town manager. And we've had a relationship. We've known each other for a long time through my years on finance committee. And I will say when you first got the job as town manager, you're only 32 years old and people say, OK, how's he going to grow into this job or how's he going to do in this job? And right from day one, you knocked it out of the park. And whether it was coming to finance committee meetings and demonstrating your breadth of knowledge, more particularly the first couple of years, how you represented the board and the town manager's office and town departments at town meeting. And that's one thing we've missed these past couple of years because those first few years, that's where you really shown your knowledge and just the breadth of and depth of experience that you had gained in a really short period of time. And it was something that is how meeting members, we really looked forward to the answers and to learning during that time period. And for me, this past year as chair, you and I worked very closely. And it was one of the best experiences I had as a as a member of the board because we would challenge each other. I would challenge you to be a better manager. You challenge me to be a better select board member. But the other thing was a collaboration because there would be meetings that we would be going to and we talk about should we do it this way or that way? And getting through that process, we often got to what I think was that the right order and we didn't always agree on everything. But when we disagreed, we talked it out and we got to a place. And that's the part I'm really going to miss. And they really appreciated with the experience with you. And we're going to learn shortly what your next step is. And I think at this point in your life, I think it's a really good, positive step for you. And I wish you all the best in the future. Heard. Well, those are a couple of tough follow ups, but I do just want to thank you for your years of service to the town. I think Mr. Helmuth just touched on this, Mr. Cossie as well. But I think when I look back at your tenure as town manager, what strikes me most is the thought of regional leader. The town of Arlington is a regional leader in climate resilience. Town of Arlington is regional regional leader in how we think about our streets and traffic concerns. And I think that's that falls right on your doorstep as a leader of the town that and it's how you inspire the people that work for you. I know you have the respect of every town employee, department head all the way down to, you know, I don't want to come up with something to offend somebody, but every town employee loves working for you. I know everyone was sad to hear that you were moving on, but we certainly have, you know, respect your your desire to kind of see what's next town government can wear on you. And I'm sure it's there's not too many town managers that sit in the seat for 30 years anymore because, you know, you can there's a lot of access. And it's you don't always get the praise that you deserve. So I'm excited for you. We are certainly sad to see you go in the town. We'll be worse off without you at the helm, but we certainly will stay in touch and keep a prize of your future plans. So thank you. And is behind. Thank you, Mr. Chair. My colleagues have pretty much summed it up. Yes, I have the honor. Although if you ask the town manager, you might have a different word to describe it of working with the manager the longest. I've always appreciated your honesty, your breadth of knowledge, you know, it was sort of a new thing for me. Serving on the board, then board of selectmen now select board to have that instant access to information literally at every meeting coming from when I first got on the board to that. And in the fact that you also that that wasn't just special treatment for members of the select board, that's certainly how you have represented the town and the town manager's office for the rest of the community, including with the businesses. I know, you know, I'm trying to think of something different than what my colleagues have said and there'll be more on Friday. But I know, especially through covid, the local businesses, you know, mom and pop sometimes just mom or man or woman, they really were able to stick it out now because of the innovation you showed, you know, through your department head and really, you know, doing something that had never been shouted before. So I appreciate that. And also, I know you and I have always had ongoing conversations about none of us could do the job we do without our family and our family support. And I do appreciate and respect that for the job of town manager. And now what you're moving on to in the future, your family plays an important part in that. And so besides, you know, recharging and looking at perhaps a different career path, also keeping your family in mind is very important. So I wish you nothing but success, good health. And I think we all have an idea where you might be. So if you think you're going to get away from us, especially me, you know, I'm going to accidentally bump into you in some hallway in some city close by. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Mahan. That's great. So we are sorry. Yes, of course, I don't think I'll get another opportunity without conflating myself with board members or their wisdom and eloquence. I just love to share something from from perspective of a lot of town staff, which is that from so many of us in our perspective, Adam has been just a sterling example of what the term civil servant is meant to embody. It's a term that is sometimes lost its meaning in a more cynical age than the one in which was born in, but in consensus and in conflict, I think so many of us have valued and respected the leadership and the way in which Adam worked so hard to represent an entire community of almost 45,000 people. The passion and perspective of five board members and 252 town meeting members, as well as the other public servants who have enjoyed so much working with and for you, Adam, it's as Mrs. Mahan put, it's truly been an honor. And from a town council to a town manager, I will miss you very much and very much appreciated your leadership and being able to work for you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You're welcome. Miss Mar. OK, no problem. No problem. I was just thinking about it and we'll miss you. OK, sorry. Yes. Sure. Mr. Mr. Chaplain. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll I'll be very brief as a, you know, it's it's it's always it's awkward to receive praise, appreciate very much, appreciate. But awkward to receive and respond. But I guess I'll start with saying, speaking to Mrs. Mahan's points about family, you might see a seven year old head bouncing around behind me on camera. But, you know, I've been thinking a lot about what what I would say at a meeting tonight and what I might say on Friday, you know, officially leaving. And some of the thoughts that have come to mind are that, you know, when I think about it over a period of time, twelve years is, you know, a little bit more than a quarter of my life. And twelve years is more than half of my professional like adult working life. So it really has been a significant amount of time and in really an incredibly happy time working here in Arlington. The job is, as we all know, incredibly challenging, but it's incredibly fulfilling. And then on that personal side, you know, coming to Arlington, married but without children and as deputy manager and becoming manager and starting a family in Arlington, you know, a lot of great things, part and parcel to this job that happened while I've been here and there are things that it will always be with me and stick with me for the rest of my life. And I think that overall, the thing I keep coming back to is I think about the time that I will have spent working here ties in with what a number of you have said, and that is the team of people, both staff and volunteers that I've had the opportunity to work with have just been absolutely extraordinary. I feel as though I've created bonds with people that I will hopefully carry on for the rest of my life and I hope that is the case. I hope we collectively we can all find the right way to keep in touch. I'm not changing my phone number, so I'll keep you in my contact, so I'll know if it's you looking for me. But, you know, one of the funny things about this job, I guess, or any executive or managerial level job is that transition from being a doer to being a manager and understanding that you don't do things alone. And in fact, if you're doing your job well, you aren't doing things alone. You're enabling other people to do things and enabling other people to excel. So I do I do take a lot of pride or I just really appreciate when I'm when I am complimented in that manner because it's not. I don't know that it's any of our sort of like default mindset of understanding that your goal is not necessarily to do anything but to help others do. And I hope that could be something that my time here is remembered by. The last thing I'll say is they several members alluded to. I haven't talked about it publicly. I've shared it with people one on one and it'll become more public later this week, but I am going to be starting a new role in September. So my my my wish when I made this decision back in March is coming true, that I'll be able to take a little time over the summer. And then in September, I'm going to start as the deputy director of a small nonprofit called Boston Green Ribbon Commission that convenes the city of Boston and large employers, the hospitals, the universities, cultural institutions to meet the city's climate goals by 2050. So I know at the board and I know a lot of the community knows climate related issues are very close to my heart, both personally and professionally. So it'll be a big change, but it's one that I'm excited about. And hope it will marry things that I'm both personally and professionally passionate about. So with that, thank you a thousand times to the board for the opportunity to have worked in this capacity to work with all of you, to work with volunteers, to work with staff and thank you for the opportunity to have achieved all that we have achieved together. So thank you. You're very welcome. So so with that, we'll move on to new business. And as Mark. No new business. Mr. Hyde, no new business. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just one item in new business. And again, I hate to be out of town to miss this, but this coming Saturday, the Arlington Reservoir grand opening from the town calendar at ArlingtonMA.gov at 10 a.m. And I hope that someone or another of my colleagues might be able to go. This is a tremendous accomplishment and celebration of four to five million dollar project over a number of years. I got familiar, well familiar with it in my days with the CPA committee when we contributed to the funding. But I think our recreation to Park and Recreation Commission, our recreation director and partners and contractors have managed this process in an outstanding way. I am frequently hearing comments from residents about how well it turned out, how much vastly improved the path is, how beautiful the playground is, even the parking lot and the beach and just everything. And I have enjoyed, I enjoy it myself. I've taken many, many happy walks there since that was done. So I would encourage residents to go to the party on Saturday and to go to the res. It's it's tremendous. There's a brand new connectors for that project to Lexington Community Farm next door so you can extend your your trip and go back and see some vegetables and alpacas while you're at it. So so enjoy. Of course, no new business. Sir, I do have that on my calendar. And I'm excited for the for the res not to reiterate, but it just driving by compared to what it used to be, the beach and grass. I think it will be great for the kids. And then I'm also looking forward to Port Fest on Saturday too, just because that even had that for a few years. And that's always a good time for town residents to get out and see each other. So that's it. So new business for me means it's not going to be fun stuff. It's going to be more work. But but hey, for some of us, it's more fun. So I just want to say that one thing that I had been thinking about doing even before Tom meeting was I'm working on thinking through how we deal with resolutions, you know, and that actually came up when Mr. Fisher talked to us about surveillance, you know, face surveillance. We recommended that he make that into resolution and at that point, I had a shift in my feelings about resolutions and thought we really need to figure out how it is that we kind of formally me take what comes out of resolutions and try to make it into transparent policy. And so one of the things I wanted to do was not only look at that resolution for this year and other resolutions this year, but maybe go back a number of years. I mean, and so so I'm thinking about doing that. And that kind of ties into one thing we didn't do today, but we'll do tomorrow. I mean, next week, I'm sorry, on the 27th, a set of goals meeting, you know, so we'll think about when we do that in July, August, and this behind had actually suggested maybe reminded me to do that. And I forgot to do it tonight, you know, and I see Mr. behind hand go up. So I'll stop and take her hand and then do my next two items. Is mine. If you're talking, I'm not hearing you. Sorry, the phone thing. I just have to put new business. Do you want to finish yours and then I'll do mine? Yeah, I'm sorry, I skipped you. You go ahead and do yours and then I'll finish up my last two. Sorry about that. Oh, that's OK. I actually want to make the town manager do one more thing before you leave. Actually, two more things. One is the federal funding that Catherine Clark that Mr. Kathleen and, you know, inform the board out that I guess Arlington is sort of the overseer of those funds and I know representative Chicolo, I'm going to say her name right, Michelle, has put in a request for some of those funding to go towards the town of Lexington leaf flow program, which I don't know. It was my understanding that the funding that Congresswoman Hock got was more for wetlands, flooding issues, climate control issues, things like that, although I think representative Chicolo was trying to say it's a climate control request because would go towards the purchase of non gas powered leaf blowers or something. But anyway, if before you go and if you sent this, I apologize, I just have missed it. If you could, I believe it's three hundred fifty thousand. I'm not sure if you could just send the board sort of what the allocation is, what it's designed for, recognizing anybody can put a request in. What oversight role the town of Arlington has and who that is. Is it the town manager or the town manager in the planning department, town manager and something else? And then to that end, I'd like to put a request in, perhaps through that funding, if not, if we could please find it somewhere else. I know we've all been talking about the L. Y. EPA recently brought Department of Conservation and Recreation and the DCR informed the state's L. Y. Brooke group that who submitted a proposal that DCR has selected their proposal, which is to update, which is much needed, the 20 year old master L. Y. Master plan in order to move forward and DCR has indicated that they will deploy to Arlington a two to one matching brand. And I'll send this information to the town manager as well as I'll send it to the select board office to forward to my colleagues as an FYI, if you don't already have it, but DCR presented safety allies with a cost of seventy five thousand and said that if the town possibly from they suggest a federal is just the federal funding, perhaps, which is federal funding, Congresswoman Clark's allocation, if the town can come up with the 25, they'll match it with 50, which would fund what they estimate they need for a seventy five thousand dollar flooding, which would focus on the L. Y. Brooke's blood control and water quality improvements, as well as the construction of a wetland and flood water still over at the Cattail Mosh, which is between the book and the bike path and Thorndyke Street, which is vastly needed. The company's going to have to take that on anyway. I will say that I think the reason the DCR is really moving ahead on this and appearing to be proactive, because people know most of you probably won't, but again, just go and ship us down my back. But I think where they were included with the EPA, not only notifying NWRA, Cambridge, and Sonnell, they also notified DCR. So I think this is a study just to do a study, because that drives me crazy. This is something that they need to do. So what I'd like to do is submit this to you, Mr. Chaplain Adams, I can send this request to you. I think DCR has to do it anyway. And if you think the twenty five thousand is not a viable expense, then I'll be guided by that. But like if you think the EPA is going to tell them you have to do this study anyway, you're going to have to find the whole seventy five. But if you could really look this over and try to find a way, if you think it's feasible, I definitely want to see this twenty year L. Y. master plan study on the points I brought up and the points I want that are contained in the email. But I'd really like to get this done. And I'm going to forward the contact names besides Kristen Anderson is another person from the group. I believe her last name is Greer, who's really been overseeing this with somebody from Hong Kong. So and that's my new business. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I should erase my hands. No problem, in fact, to me, if I'd been sharper, I mean, I had a sequence going on here and you were next to me. So sorry about that. My apologies. So the next two items for me is I am going to do committees in the next meeting. So so I'll ask Miss Meyer to send the list around me if there anything you want to change me or things that you definitely want to keep. You know, by all means, let me know. And the last thing is it really committed to working with ARB more on housing. So I plan to have some conversations with Miss Simsbury, you know, and try and set up something, you know, maybe subcommittee two members from this committee, from this board and two members from that board working together. Yes, Mr. Hurd. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I was just going to say right before COVID, we had our joint meeting with the ARB and we had a whole plan of, I'm sure Mr. Chapterling can provide that for you, but of like an outline of a year and a half that we're going to work together. So it would be good to maybe have another joint meeting and then kind of jump back into that outline now that we're kind of reaching out. Yeah, well, thanks for. Sorry, I didn't mean to jump in on you. No, no, no, that's fine. Just to come in sometimes they go out. Yeah, no, no, it's totally fine, totally fine. And so thanks for making me aware of that outline, you know, and I'll work with Mr. Chapterling to get that and then obviously what Miss Simsbury has in mind. But certainly want to do me try and build some momentum in this summer. Me probably won't have a joint meeting this summer, but maybe plan something before for September, want to really hit the ball the the fall rolling in. Try just have a plan so that we can. Do something more meaningful, you know, in the next town meeting. Not that this time meeting wasn't meaningful, but we could do do more. You know, so, so that's that's my new business. I mean, and so with that, we're going to want to have an executive session. I mean, and so Mr. Helmuth, you practice, you learn here. I might need some help on this. OK, I haven't been free freshly coached by our expert vice chair. So, Mr. Chair, I move that the board adjourn to executive session for the purposes of negotiations with non-union personnel. Can I go over there that I forget? But mainly, Mr. Sandy Poole is in the position of deputy town manager, Mrs. Mahon. How do I do? Thank you. No, I was in a second when you just need to state whether we'll come back into open session. We'll adjourn from executive session. Thank you. And that we adjourn from the executive session. Back. OK, you know, I guess I guess my only concern this time is that I'm wondering if we might want to. Now we're going we're not going to finish up tonight. I was just thinking maybe there might be a chance we fit in and then we come back out, but we want to. OK, great. So on a motion from Mr. Helmuth, we need to go into the section section in a second from from Mrs. Mahon, you know, Mr. Heine, Mr. Heard. Yes, Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Helmuth. Yes, Mrs. Mahon. Yes, Mr. Diggins. Yes. Jan, Ms. Vote, we're now in the executive session.