 So welcome everyone to the town of Barleton's 215th annual town meeting. Before we begin tonight, I want to acknowledge that the decision to go with a remote town meeting was a difficult one. And I recognize for a lot of folks, a remote meeting isn't their first choice for others. News of a remote meeting has come as a relief for their own safety or the safety of members of their households. It seems that these days, lots of issues deeply divide us and while that creates challenges, it also creates opportunities like the opportunity to find the humanity in each other to give folks the benefit of the doubt, especially those we disagree with, and the opportunity to embrace the better angels of our nature for the sake of the public that we serve together. I want to thank my predecessors, Mr. Warden and Mr. Leonie, who have left large shoes to fill. All of us here tonight, regardless of our role or office, we're all temporary stewards of this town government and we honor and acknowledge those who have served before us, and we welcome those who will come after us. At this time I'd like to like us to remember those time meeting members and their spouses who've passed in the last year. Heyward Nancy Ortwing, Lyman Judd, Brian Rarig, Roger Barnaby, Janet Chepit, wife of the late time meeting member Roland Chepit, Elaine Shea, wife of the late time meeting member Bill Shea, and Beatrice Barber, wife of the late time meeting member, Harry Barber. And I know a lot of us here tonight, like that some of these folks have touched our lives in in some profound ways, either as like a mentor or a friend. And so we honor their memory and Roger Barnaby in particular I know was responsible years ago for an article that allowed for alcohol to be served at restaurants in Arlington. And so any of those, anyone who has a drink a non-alcoholic beverage respectfully, I raise a glass to Mr. Barnaby for his contributions to the town tonight. So let's now take a moment of silence to remember and honor the memory of all these Arlingtonians. Great, thank you. Next I'd like to introduce Reverend Erica Richmond, who will present our invocation tonight. Reverend, let's say, is Reverend able to unmute? Unmute, but I can't, I don't have permission to show my video, if someone wants to. Oh, is someone on the, let's say, is someone able to promote Erica's connection to the panel? There we go, we can see you now. Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm Reverend Erica Richmond. I am one of the ministers at the first parish congregation in Arlington, right in the town center. It is an honor to be with all of you tonight. I thank you for the invitation to give this invocation. I appreciate that our moderator began with looking towards our past, those who have shaped who we are today. It is good and right to remember those who have passed on, just as it is good and right to remember the history of our town. I want to acknowledge that we are on tribal land of the Massachusetts people, even in our history, it's important to remember what is complicated. I also want to name that we are in the middle of Ramadan. If you are observing Ramadan, a happy Ramadan to you. We just finished Passover and Easter and spring. There are many holy and holidays for many folks and many faiths. So whatever you celebrate or whatever you are bringing here tonight, I am glad you are with us. I invite you to take a deep breath, maybe stretch and get comfortable. I know you have a lot ahead of you and I invite us to begin with a moment of invocation and meditation. Whatever a posture of prayer is for you, I invite you into that in this moment. Spirit of life and love. Be with each of us as the sacred work of democracy begins. The task of our elected leaders is not always an easy one. During this third year of pandemic, many of us are short on time, short on patience, short on our capacity to hear one another well. So let us begin this evening with gratitude, thankfulness for each other's willingness to serve, willingness to show up, willingness to create a better, more just, more abundant world. These are the days we have been given. There is so much to fear in our world. So much to shield from our children. Too many of our friends and neighbors can't make ends meet. Can't protect their families from racism or xenophobia. Can't feel safe in their own homes. Tonight, we especially send prayers to the people of Ukraine and to all nations and territories experiencing violence and conflict. There are so many reasons not to trust one another. And yet we know that our better selves can create love. Can dismantle systems of harm and make connections across differences. May we be called forward by hope. May we recognize a hand outstretched. May we witness the currents of love and care underneath bouts of misunderstanding and disagreement. These are the days we have been given. May we trust in goodness and mercy. Believing in the noble and humble intentions of one another. This is a prayer that even in uncertainty knows a path will unfold. Another way is possible. This is not an invocation of Pollyanna sensibilities. No, this is a radical hope born out of hard times. Born out of struggle. May we be emboldened by those who have gone before us. The earth cries out for something new. In our small corner of the globe. May we do all that we can to make that so. These are the days we have been given. Let us be proud of what we can accomplish together. May we be blessed be. And amen. Great. Thank you, Reverend. Thank you for joining us tonight. Next on the agenda, we're going to do the swearing in for any newly elected or newly appointed town meeting members. So can we bring up the oath of office? If you're newly elected or newly appointed and have not been sworn in yet as a town meeting member, please. Well, you can choose to rise or not. So just repeat after me. I state your name. We'll participate fully and will fairly evaluate all matters before town meeting. And vote in the best interests of the town. We will support free speech and will treat others with mutual respect and will conduct myself in a civil manner that is becoming of an elected town meeting member. I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially. Perform the duties incumbent upon me. As a town meeting member of the town of Arlington. As a town meeting member with the bylaws. The town manager act. And the general laws of the Commonwealth. So help me God. Thank you. You are now sworn in as town meeting members. So let's. Let's move on now to the. Video recording from a few years ago of the monotomy minute men who normally if we were at an in person meeting would be presenting this in front of us, all live. But we'll play that video and look forward to hopefully next year when we'll be able to see this performance live at town hall. Please rise. Whenever you're ready. So next we're going to vote to authorize virtual town meeting. And what this means is that town meeting. As a body needs to vote with a majority vote on whether to continue the proceedings of this meeting remotely or not. And I'll just briefly explain what that means, which is that. Time meeting members will now vote on this kind of the last hurdle, like when I decided a couple of weeks ago to kind of start the process of preparing for a remote town meeting. I forwarded that request to the select board they approved it. The majority of a select board members voting. And now it comes before town meeting to vote on this and this is the final procedural step. And so if this both succeeds, then we'll continue with town meeting in this virtual format. And if the vote fails, then we're kind of back to the drawing board. And we have to figure out a different way of proceeding with only being able to do so in person and we'll have to figure out what that means. So I will. So this is a bit unconventional procedurally because this isn't how most of our votes and debate will work. So this is kind of a one off situation that's unique to get to this particular vote. So I'm trying to correct my view here so I could see what everyone else is. Okay, here we go. And let's say can we bring up the Julie after you're done bringing up the opening the vote can you also show the Let's see the text it's a very short piece of text associated with this vote from the annotated warrant basically just like a one liner basically. Yes, it's the one that yes it just says vote yep so right so here's the reference to Massachusetts general laws that that will allow us to proceed with a remote time meeting if this this this vote is successful. And the short version of the story is that if the vote fails. There are a number of ways that we can proceed. One of which is that we would adjourn this meeting immediately, and then a bunch of us would go off and scramble to figure out how to do like one possibility is an abbreviated town meeting. And if you remember, a couple years ago on the high school football field where we would basically address the most urgent and critical articles and we would postpone everything else to like a special time meeting. At some point later in the year. That's that's one way that we could proceed. I prefer that we just approve this vote and then we can continue on remotely for the remainder of this meeting. And so something else that's a bit kind of unconventional about this is that I will open up the we have a open up the speaker queue in a moment for folks to ask questions that either I or town council or others might be able to answer about the implications of voting yes or no on this vote, because it is a bit unconventional because we're voting on how we're going to proceed in the format of this meeting or not. It's not a typical kind of policy article that we would usually take up. And so I do want to give folks an opportunity to ask questions about that. And I do want to be clear that this is not a, this is not a, an opportunity for folks to speak on the merits of meeting in person versus the merits or issues of meeting remotely, but to ask questions about procedurally what it means. If this votes fails because that's kind of a subtle and complicated thing that I want to make sure everyone has an understanding of before we go ahead and vote. And so, can we, let's see. The debate is closed there is there a way for us to open up debate on this so that we can, yeah. And let's see I see that we have a point of order right now so why don't we take that and also before we do take Mr Wagner's point of order, I do want to be clear, not just for for this vote but through the remainder of the meeting that I'm going to be restrictive about what we allow for points of order is points of order really about informing the meeting about things that prevent us from kind of going off the rails procedurally. And it's not an opportunity for folks to weigh in about their their opinions on things, but it's really about keeping the meeting on track from a procedural perspective. So if there is abuse of point of order and we've had we've had that in recent years, then I'll have to take measures to potentially rate limit or restrict the use on an individual basis. If particular, if individual members are, in my view, abusing the point of order mechanism so hopefully it doesn't come to that, and that we're using it just for procedural matters. Thank you Mr Wagner's point of order. Thank you Mr moderator, can you hear me. Yes, I can go ahead. Thank you Carl Wagner precinct 15. We are enjoying seeing you and similar to a point of order or personal privilege, as in the room is too hot. I cannot understand what the person is saying because the microphone is not working. Thank you for all of the town meeting members here that we deserve to see each other regardless of what our positions are. It is not right two years into town meeting to have technical or preference issues to keep us from being seen please make sure that as soon as possible we can be seen this year and definitely next year. Thank you. Thank you Mr Wagner. So, I'll just briefly respond to that that my intention when we when I first started looking into the prospects of a remote time meeting, which was basically going back about two and a half, almost three weeks ago. Having been sworn in, basically three weeks and 11 and a half hours ago. I was really interested in the possibility if we're going to do remote that we would allow time meeting members to show video, and I won't go into the details as to why we decided not to go that route. But there were technical obstacles in how a zoom webinar works and the promotion of individuals from attendees to the panel and I don't want to bore everyone with the details with that I'm happy to take that issue offline and discuss that in another venue. Okay, so we have a second point of order. Mr Warden. And, please state your name and precinct number. Precinct eight. Am I audible. I can hear you go ahead. Point of order is the question. Are you going to allow people to speak to the merits of your proposition. Are you going to allow people to ask questions about the implications of the votes. You're not really going to have a, any, any, any opportunity for people to state their preferences for for against the virtual meeting. Not in this format at this time now. And the reason for that, I feel is that the state does not state and town council can can weigh on when weigh in on this I spoke with town council earlier state law does does does not specify when when this clause is invoked. I'm not attempting to to proceed with the with a remote town meeting does not specify whether a debate is required a town meeting just that a majority vote is required. We debate everything else. Yeah, this is a very important issue. And under the circumstances because this is this is essentially a, a metapolitical issue rather than a traditional political issue metapolitical being that it's it's about how the meeting itself is conducted that it's really standing on different procedural grounds than a typical article, which is debating the merits, or otherwise of of a legislative or policy issue. And this is just about whether to proceed with the meeting. And so it's kind of on untested ground. If I were moderator I'd allow the town meeting to vote on how they're going to meet. I'm just restricting the, the speaking to questions about the procedural aspects of what it would mean if, if this vote fails, because that might not be clear to a lot of folks. So, but I take your point and I appreciate your perspective. So, was there anything else, Mr. Warden. Say, do we still have Mr. Warden there. I think this meeting is, is supposed to vote on, we should be allowed to, to discuss it when we're not the Chinese communist parliament. That's why everyone gets a vote. And, and I'm happy to entertain questions in the regular speaking queue for folks who have questions about what it means to proceed or not proceed. Okay. Great. Thank you. Do we So I will entertain at this point any requests for people to enter the, the speaking queue. If you look over in your portal you'll see a request to speak button. And so if anyone wishes to ask questions about what it means to proceed or not. Feel free to ask your questions now by requesting to speak. We'll see no questions. Let's proceed to voting. And if anyone needs any technical support and voting, you can click the help button in the left hand side of your town meeting portal to access the support request form, or access the help desk from your voters. And if you're having trouble voting through the portal, you can enter your vote into the Q&A or call the town clerk at 7813163071. And I believe you'll see that appear in either in the chat or the yeah, you'll see that in the chat. So if you refresh your portal, if it hasn't refreshed for you, you'll have an option to choose your vote one for yes to for no. There's also an abstain, I recommend you don't use that it's not particularly useful. And so if you want to proceed with us meeting remotely with the virtual town meeting platform that we're using for the remainder of town meeting. You'll press one for yes, if you don't want to proceed virtually, and you want to trigger a process that'll have us rethink how to meet not virtually. Then you'd press two for now. And let's see. And so do we have a timer on the voting that we can see it, Julie on your display I don't see it. You know why there's not a timer I thought there was usually a timer at the top of it was so the minute has passed. Oh, okay. I'm sorry I was having some I don't know if other people are experiencing a couple of connection issues so there was a minute or two where it was going down but it looks like we're okay now. Okay, I'll leave it open for another 30 seconds just to make sure folks early get their vote in. This is Julie Brazil town clerk I just submitted a couple of verbal votes. So yes. Great. Thank you. Do you know if any other I mean because you won't know if there's any on their way, but 231 people have voted for another 10 seconds. I'm entering another vote. Let's just wait a little bit longer than if votes are still coming in. Yeah, I'm seeing 233 votes. Yeah, 235. Okay, let's just go another five seconds and we'll close this up. Okay, so let's close voting now. I'm still taking votes. Oh, okay. Let's see the motion passes with 88.8% of the votes. 207 in the affirmative 26 and the negative. We'll cycle through the precincts here. And if anyone missed in the cycling through the precincts if anyone missed their precinct and didn't see whether their vote registered, you can always check in the portal. The left hand side, there's a view votes button and so you can and that'll be updated real time as the voting is closed on any given article. Okay, so let's now move along to I now recognize the chair of the select board Leonard Diggins. Mr. Diggins either. Len you're muted. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. moderator. It is requested that members of the select board and elected officials of the town, town manager, department heads of the town, and staff superintendent of the schools and staff committees, commissions and boards of the town. Minuteman regional vocational technical school district committee and superintendent members of the electronic voting committee and staff members of the general court representing our Arlington, and also any consultants who have retained have been retained to work for the town relative to the articles to be acted on by this meeting representatives of the news media be permitted to sit within the town meeting enclosure. Madam clerk, do you have reason to believe that this meeting was appropriately called by the select board and that the Constable made a return of service on the warrant in accordance with the laws. Madam clerk, are you there. I, yes, sorry I lost zoom but yes I declare and certify. Thank you. It is moves that if all the business of the meeting has set forth in the warrant, and for the annual town meeting is not disposed of at this session when at the, when the meeting adjourns it adjourns to Wednesday, April 27 2022 at 8pm. Thank you. I will now call for any announcements or resolutions. I don't know if we established how to do that in the portal. I don't know if that was covered in the training or rehearsal sessions but early on each night there'll be an opportunity for announcements and resolutions so given the impossibility that we're going to cover all 77 articles tonight there will be plenty of opportunities for folks to offer announcements and resolutions at future meetings of this town meeting. So, let's see. Seeing no announcements and resolutions. Let's go to article two, the state of the town addressed by the chair of the select board Mr. Diggins again. Sure, you know, just me, I guess a little bit of a point of order ish thingy. It's on this wayman raise your hand is there an issue. I'm sorry, I was just going to offer if you wanted to turn on the raised hand for people to. Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do that now if you don't mind. Mr. Diggins let's, let's open up raise the ability for members to raise hands if they have any announcements or resolutions they'd like to share with the meeting right now. Thank you. Okay so it appears that we at least I'm not seeing any raised hands, at least I think I'm looking in the right place. Can anyone else on the panel confirm that there are no raised hands. I'm not seeing any. Seeing none, let's move back again to article two. Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. moderator, and it is with joy and eager anticipation that I say, thank you again and I have a lot to say so my tempo is going to be a little quick. First, I give thanks and pay my respects to the to our fellow resident residents and especially those who volunteer their time by serving on our nearly 100 boards committee commissions and and task groups. Next, I acknowledge all of my fellow Tom meeting members upon whom our former government rests. I'm especially proud of you and efforts leading up to this Tom meeting but more on that later to my fellow Tom white elected officials. It is impossible to work with you. Or observe you in action and see the results of your at of your labors without having a profound appreciation for all that you do. When it comes to our state delegates entity, Senator Cindy Friedman, representatives shine garbly and representative Dave Rogers, I can only imagine the greater demands on you and your families. Finally, and most importantly, there is our town staff. They are truly an amazing and wonderful bunch of people led by our Tom manager, Adam chapter lane. Chief Julie Flaherty of the police department and chief Kevin Kelly of the fire department. They keep our time running, as well as keep us safe and protected on a daily basis. So after all of that is it any surprise that when I think of the state of our time, I am filled with immense pride and aberration. I'm not the type to claim that we are number one or the best of the greatest. In my humble opinion, those judgments are best made by others. As I said, Arlington is recognized as a leader by the examples that we set case in point, doing this roller coaster of a pandemic, our border health led by Christine born journal has served us well and by example has led the region and the Commonwealth towards the goal of keeping residents informed and providing us, especially our elderly and our use with easily accessible vaccines, once they were approved. In a couple of minutes recalling more the last 12 months. Arlington celebrated its first Juneteenth day, Juneteenth day. It was the beginning of a new tradition. And in a sense, it compliments a much older tradition of celebrating Patriots Day with the recreation with the recreation of the rise of Paul Revere and William Dawes. We also welcome our new superintendent, Dr. Liz Holman, who has already launched an ambitious strategic planning and vision process for our schools. About two months ago, the first wing of the new Arlington High School opened. It's an elegant space, and it shows our dedication to our youth, and that we value giving out to children our community, a good education. Our town clerk, Julie was so are the director, Jillian Harvey and Kelly line of the planning department guided us through the re precinct in practice process, with the goal of helping us to make it more possible for time being to become a body that more closely reflects and represents the community in our community. Now, even with the challenges posed by the reprocessing process. For the first time, I'm very pleased to say that all 21 precincts, either work individually or combined with other precincts to conduct spring meetings. And that's despite having less time to organize. And I might add that other than sending out a notice and helping with zoom accounts here and there, all, and I mean, all the organizing was done by town meeting members. And I hope that the effort was worth it. And I hope that it provides more evidence of the benefits of connecting with each other and listening to each other. This year, late last year, the housing corporation Arlington cut the ribbon on his Downing Square and Broadway initiative, which offers 48 units of affordable housing for low to middle income residents, combined this news with the seating of the board of our affordable Housing Trust Fund, and it shows that we are moving forward towards our goal of making Arlington more affordable for more people. And without the development of a sustainable transportation plan known as connect Arlington, along with the development of a fair housing action plan, and that your action plan, and the next iteration of the housing production plan. Of course, any recounting of last year must acknowledge the contributions of the Arlington Commission for arts and culture to products projects that come to mind, or one, the time traveling climate crisis messages from students in the future. And to neighborhood haikus, who sparked my poetic great creativity, and apparently that of many others here in town. And I have to say, I feel haiku coming on. Let's turn future look opportunities about try till we succeed. So with that we look ahead in three days. The City Center, formerly known as the Senior Center opens. Since I'm anticipating that it will be my favorite hangout spot in 10 to 15 years I'm excited about it. This complements the continued rebuilding of a high school and shows our commitment to our senior population, as well as our use in the category challenges we have begun the process of searching for a new town manager. No one will replace Mr. Chaplain, who in his 10 years as town manager and nearly two years as a deputy town manager before that has helped Arlington not only become a better place for his residents but it's also made Arlington a leader in the region. You have our deepest gratitude Adam, and we wish you and your family well. The challenge of different sort will be pulling off our annual town party known as town day. If the pandemic in the weather doesn't conspire against us, your select board, along with the guidance of our office staff and a contingent of volunteers, and that includes some of you. So you don't know it yet. He will host town day on September 17. We know that many residents look forward to town day and putting smiles on those residents faces will be worth the effort. Now what doesn't put a smile on anyone's face is the compound word override. Probably most residents see it as two four letter words. Indeed it is, but let us also try to approach this inevitability with a notion of it being an opportunity for our community to reassess our values and to act accordingly. We conclude that the earlier and the greater the amount that we invest in our future, the greater the payoff we will see, and the less it will cost us in the long run. Perhaps we may conclude that we need to hunker down and deeply cut spending. As we have our community conversation, let us do so in good faith and respect the thoughts and feelings of others, especially those with whom we disagree. Again, and in closing, when I think about the state of our town, I am filled with a sense of pride and admiration, because the state of our town is good, and it continues to improve. As I work with and get to know more people in our town, I'm increasingly confident that we have a great future ahead of us. And it is our firm and hope that our affection for our town and for each other will also grow and motivate us to contribute more to success and well being. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dickens. So it's been brought to my attention, there are actually two things I've done out of order and so we're going to skip back to do this properly. When Mr. Dickens requested that members of the select board and elected officials of the town and then enumerated a set of individuals to allow them to. To sit within the town meeting enclosure this virtual enclosure that we have. I do need a second on that. And actually, Julie, can you clear the seconds that we have just to make sure that we're, we're getting seconds for this motion. Are these new seconds or these lingering from before. I'm seeing four in there now. Okay. I was about to clear them. Okay, well I see new names in there so it's clear that there were additional seconds that were just added. So, yeah. Okay, so, so we have a second. And for this, because it's a pretty kind of predictable basic formula thing, we're not going to go through having a full vote for this. Do we have any, can we enable the raise hands feature and zoom to allow anyone to object to all of these individuals being allowed in the town meeting enclosure and I'll just repeat it now since I missed this earlier as requested this is this was moved by Mr. Diggins to request that members of the select board and elected officials of the town town manager department heads of town superintendent staff committees commissions and boards of town. Minutemen regional vocational technical school district committee and superintendent members of electronic voting committee and staff members of the general court representing Arlington and also any consultants who have been retained to work for the town relatives articles to be active upon by the meeting and representatives of the news media to be permitted to sit within the town meeting enclosure. And so that's been said, do we have any now that raising hands is enabled and zoom. Do we have any objections to allowing those folks in the enclosure. Okay, so we have one objection by Susan Weber. Or has that been cleared now. Okay, it appears that we have no objections. And we might as well leave raise hands open because we need to do this again for another second that that I missed apologies for that. And this was Mr. Diggins motion that if he moved that if all business of the meeting is set forth in the warrant for the annual time meeting is not disposed of at the session. When the meeting adjourns adjourns to Wednesday April 27 2022 at 8pm so do, can you clear the seconds. I did a second on that and apologies to everyone for missing this earlier. Okay, we have new seconds. And if we still have raised hands enabled and zoom. Do we have any, any objections if anyone has an objection to an unanimous vote, you can raise your hand now and zoom for journey until 8pm this Wednesday, when this meeting ends tonight. We have raised hands and therefore no objections. A vote is unanimous. I declare it, and let's see. And so now we are back to. Let's take up article three reports of committees. I call for all reports that are ready to be received. Mr. Fosca did you have anything to add to this, or shall we just head straight into a vote. The recommended votes contained in the respective reports of the finance committee select board redevelopment board and other committees before the meeting without further motion. Second. Okay. And let's move that article three be laid upon the table. Okay, second. Okay. And do we have any objections is the raise hand feature enabled right now. Okay, so if anyone has any objections to receiving all the reports and laying article three upon the table, you can raise your hand now seeing no objections. All the reports are received. And now we take up article for the appointment of the measure of wood and bark. Okay, so do we have any. Do we have any nominations for the measure of wooden bark, Mr. moderator. Yes, Mr. Fosca. Charles Fosca precinct 10 I move that Mr. John board and be appointed measure of wooden bark. And second. Okay, very good. And do we have any objections through use of raised hands in zoom. Okay, so seeing none it is a unanimous vote and Mr. Warden is again the measure of wooden bark. Thank you. Any new members have questions about that I'll happily take those questions offline. Thank you. Let's see. And, okay, so now, let's take up article five the election of the assistant town moderator. Let's say we have a point of order. Let's actually take that now, Mr. Wagner. Thank you, Mr. moderate can you hear me okay. Yes, I can go ahead. Thank you Carl Wagner precinct 15. I'm surprised that we're doing election Soviet style without votes, even though obviously the measure of wooden bark is a ceremonial post. Can you explain again why I'm sorry if I missed that. I mean, in this particular case, there was only. There was one only one candidate that was appointed. And so, using my discretion I figured it wasn't worth the meeting's time to have a full vote consuming a couple of minutes of time to determine the winner when we could just do a. They just just do a call for objections with the assistant time moderator if there are more than one candidate for instance then then we can put that to a vote and we'd actually have to vote on that. So, thank you, Mr. moderator. Of course. Okay, so, so I'd like to open the floor for any. We can open the article open. We can open the speaking queue for any nominations for assistant town moderator. So let's use the speaking queue for nominations and if you have any nomination and endorsement that you'd like to share. I'm going to use the speaking queue to click on the request to speak button in the portal to do so. And to start things off we have Mr. Helmuth. Let's, let's, let's give him an opportunity to speak. Thank you Mr. moderator Eric helmet precinct 12. I nominate Adam ouster. And I believe the assistant town moderator doesn't need to be a town meeting member. And I believe Mr. ouster is a town meeting member so. Let's say do we have a second. We have several seconds. Okay. So, Mr. ouster is our, our first candidate for assistant town moderator. Anything else Mr. Helmuth hearing nothing. Do we have any other nominations that anyone would like to offer, which you can do so by requesting to speak in your town meeting portal. None, since we only have one candidate again so I'll also defer to the raised hand in the zoom to register any objections so feel free to object and then we can. If there are any objections I'll call for a full vote of the committee of the of the meeting. Let's see do we have raised hands opened in zoom right now. Okay, well seeing none. Mr. ouster congratulations on your reelection as assistant town moderator. So let's move on now before we get to the other articles. There's a couple of things that we're going to do first. So we're going to present some administrative corrections that were identified kind of late breaking just in the last day or so. So we want to make sure that all time being members have the opportunity to mark up your pages or take notes on these corrections, which is a little bit of a clerk. Can you speak to whether these corrections are already posted on the annotated warrant online or is that still in progress. Julie Brazil town clerk. Yes, all of these corrections are shown in shown a novice agenda so if you're looking at novice agenda you're seeing the correct version the printed things are the only ones that are wrong. Thank you so anyone who has their printed material at home, or just wants to take notes otherwise. I mean if you if you're strict if you're strictly following through the annotated warrant online then as, as Miss Brazil mentioned like that's already been updated, but if you're working from the paper binder which I have a copy of somewhere here, then you might want to take note of these corrections. So, Julie are the other Julie our display controller can. Slowly scroll through this so folks can make note of these changes that that might not be reflected in their printed copies if they have them. Yes, and also Mr. moderator town full Doug Heim is raising his hand. Oh, Mr. Heim, go ahead. Good evening members of town meeting Doug Heim town council. Thank you very much for your time it's a pleasure to be with you tonight. I just want to walk through these quickly so they're straightforward as they can be. The first administrative correction you'll see you actually got a handout on this earlier last week. Essentially, it's not so much an error in the actual vote that was approved by the select board or typo it's sections of Article 12 that were inadvertently cut off in the select board report that basically went to print. These are essentially sections five six seven, they provide for exemptions to the water bottle. Pro prohibition under emergencies and effective date and a severability clause. The second fix, if you will, article 16 on page 32, there should be redundant sub paragraph that should be eliminated. You should see that there's sub paragraphs ABCD, and then it goes a restatement of another a that a should be stricken. So you should see go from ABCD to a keen of sight town meeting member also spotted a different error under article 16 that I'll just read on page 32 subsection D resident users phase out. It should read as of March 15 2025, not as of March 15 2026 all use of gas power leaf blowers by residents shall be collected. And the town clerk was generous enough to update these votes in the annotated town weren't online but if you're keeping track by paper on page 32 in addition to the portion that gets stricken that unnecessary secondary a. So it should also read under section D right proceeding it immediately as of March 15 2025, not March 15 2026 article 18 also has a small number of what are essentially typos. The word victor for those of you who know what a common victor license is was spelled incorrectly. Recommend should have been recommended. That's on page 37. And then finally, I'm sorry. And the last two or there's a auto numbering fiasco where subsection C should be sub paragraph sub paragraph C should be a sub paragraph be it's fairly obvious to anybody looking at the document that it's just numbered, but that C should read E. And then finally, there were some confusion about what the amount of the fine was that the select board approved. It should be $100 across the board should not be $50 for the first offense. This is on page 38 section six fees and penalties for non compliance with the road genocide article that is going to be discussed later. There's also a minor correction section six severability should be section seven I apologize for these. These typos and a couple of different renumberings that that unfortunately got a little bit mixed up during some iterations of these votes. But again, if anybody has any questions I'm happy to go over them, but all of them except for the one that I noted about the date have been listed in this document. The town clerk has been kind enough to make sure that they're correct. With respect to all of these administrative changes on the annotated time. Thank you, Mr. moderator thank you members of time. Thank you, Mr. Heim. Let's see. Brief, I don't want to take too much time doing this but if anyone I do want to take at least a couple of minutes given opportunity for folks who have any questions about those corrections. A chance to speak. So feel free to use the request to speak. But I guess this is under. Well, do we need to change the, because we're currently still an article five which was less article we had. Or is it easier for just a lot of people to raise hands, since we don't actually have an article before us. I think the portal is not really synchronized to to where we're at. We could, I guess we can still use the request to speak button if anyone wants has any questions that they'd like to ask about these corrections. Mr. Jameson. Okay, why don't we take Mr. Jameson and then we can take the point of order. We're in Jameson precinct 12 all we're doing corrections I just want to reiterate the message that you sound earlier that I made a huge error in my annotated consent agenda on article 18. And that's been changed from encouraged the use of rotor sides to phase out the road sides and I apologize to Miss Crowder and her associates who work so hard on getting that article placed before us. I apologize. Thank you. Thanks for having that that summary of the consent agenda and thanks for making that correction that Miss Crowder noticed and apologies that I didn't catch that either. Thank you Mr. Jameson. Let's take Ms. Muzina's point of order. Yeah. Hello Mr. moderator, can you hear me okay. Yes, name and precinct place. Ms. Muzina precinct 15. Just wanted to confirm. First word discussing article, all five or article six, the screen I think is still referring back to the assistant town moderator election. Yeah, that's right so that's just an oddity of the fact that what we're discussing right now is not actually listed in our list of articles. So to save us time from we could create an article just for talking about the administrative corrections but this is a late addition to our agenda. And so it's just easier to use the request to speak button in the context of article five which was the last article that we were discussing. And so article five is already done with. So we're just reusing it here to allow folks an opportunity to speak so I apologize for the confusion in the in the user interface about that, which is inconsistent. No I appreciate, I appreciate that Mr. moderator just a follow up question then on articles that will come up later on if they had administrative corrections, if there have been any amendments proposed by me Tommy members although I understand that cannot be the forum to do this way here. But if there are there been amendments proposed will we know about them will we see them or not. Right so amendments I believe that we, someone correct me from I'm pretty sure that we're sending those out through the town meeting member email list and so anyone. So all time you members, hopefully are subscribed to that list already and they should be receiving updates about amendments. There's various amendments that are some that have been kind of approved and are listed on the online annotated warrants, others are still kind of pending where, you know, consulting with town council or I'm still in the midst of making sure that whether it's in scope. And so some of those are still in process. And so those should go when those do when the plan, if or when they those get finalized, those will be announced through the town meeting member email list. And they'll be also attached to the kind of related material in novice agenda for an article within the, the online annotated warrant as well. So be announcing it and also posting it to the annotated warrant. Thank you for clarifying. Right. Thank you. Okay, so let's clear Miss Missina's point of order. And that's all we have with the administrative corrections, there's, and I'm just accepting these corrections administratively so there's nothing for us to move or vote on. So let's move on now to the consent agenda. And as Julie W, our display controller is bringing that up. I'll just summarize what the consent agenda is I sent out some communications ahead of time about this so hopefully it doesn't come as any surprise. The consent agenda is just a way of kind of batching up articles, which through consultation with, you know, committee chairs and other folks and town council. I've decided are not particularly controversial and probably don't warrant any discussion. But, and so it allows us to kind of skip debate on a large swath of articles. I think they're unimportant just means that there's unlikely in my estimation to be any real debate on it. And so, we have an opportunity now for town meeting members to hold, I, which means like to remove to request to remove articles from the consent agenda. So we have a point of order from Mr. Leon. Oh, Mr. Moderator John Leonie PCP. Hi, Mr. Rather. Quite all right. I request that you do not use the procedure of having two people remove an item from the consent agenda. When I initiated the consent agenda several years ago. It was upon the belief that it's one town meeting member wish to discuss an item or an article, you know, had a question about the article that it would be freely available to remove that article and put in a hold on it by requiring a second town meeting member to vote to remove it from the consent agenda here essentially moving the right of that other town meeting member to ask their questions, or perhaps to change people's mind about an article which they feel passionately about. I'm going to ask the moderator who introduced the consent agenda and knowing how the consent agenda is handled in other communities throughout the Commonwealth, I'm going to ask that you reconsider that point of order. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Thank you. And that was an excellent example of a textbook case or usage of point of order so thank you Mr. Leonie. So, where I stand on that and I take your point and I appreciate it where I stand on this is that consent agendas throughout the Commonwealth follow a broad range of principles for holding articles from the consent agenda so that they're debated and voted upon individually, as opposed to part of the bat the batch of articles in the consent agenda. And in some cases, a majority vote is used to remove it from the consent agenda which I feel is onerously high. And I think some folks about like, there was a suggestion that someone offered of like, well maybe five votes because five people standing when we're meeting in person, before we had electronic clickers would be the threshold for doing a standing vote. And so I kind of weighed these different options when I settled on was well, a single voter to hold from the consent agenda felt like it was too low to me and a threshold of majority vote of time meeting seemed just really too high and so I settled on to was like the next increment that we could do. So, so I'm happy to stick with the two votes, which effectively be like a request to hold the request to remove the article from the consent agenda, and then a second vote to kind of confirm that. And I feel like if we're not getting a second vote, then there's really not a whole lot to speak to, and folks can feel free to like even if they don't personally care to remove it from the consent agenda, but feel that someone else should have a right to, they can second that as a confirmation. So people can use their, their, their kind of second, their virtual seconding in whatever manner they see fit. So, so I'm comfortable I appreciate the point. And, and the context that Mr. Leonie has provided, and I'm comfortable moving forward with a threshold of two votes, which is still a very very low bar in the big picture. So, let's see. So we have. So, why don't we go through here. The way that we're going to do this is different from how we did it in the dress rehearsal last night. The approach that we tried last night was kind of riddled with problems. And so we actually got a software change. We did a quick work by the developer of the virtual time meeting portal, to allow us to do this in hopefully a more clear way than that we did last night. That said, this is the first time this is actually being tried. Other than us kind of testing this on a small scale ahead of the meeting. So I asked for everyone's forbearance. And if things don't go perfectly smoothly but my, my belief is that this will go better than it did in the rehearsal due to the software changes that we're going to try out now. So, I asked for everyone's patience and forbearance as we work through this, this new way of doing the consent agenda. Okay, so, can you give like a brief, you did most of like the kind of training in the practice of this. Do you mind giving a brief overview of how this is going to work. I think you understand the details of this better than I do at this point. Sure, but as you said we put this together today. So, basically we're going to be pulling up each of the articles that were on the majority consent agenda and then the two thirds consent agenda. And it just gives us a an opportunity for people to be able to know if they want to take off any of each of the articles that are on either of these agendas. And it also will show the people I know people had concerns about wanting to know who was pulling these articles off. So, you'll be able to see each of the people for each of the articles. So, we were starting right at the top with article six. And we'll take it from there any, any more information needed. I think that's pretty clear so and it'll probably become more obvious as we actually get into the procedure so. Without opening, we're kind of starting, I think when, when, when we click the button here will start the timer, and I'll give. I'll give 30 seconds I think that should be plenty and we can adjust that if that's not working for folks will try with a 30 second timer on anyone who wishes to remove this article from the consent agenda. We'll click the remove from consent agenda button in their portal window. And we'll see those names coming up as we do it and so I will also pull up my copy of the consent agenda were. I don't know if the title, I'll read the titles as well. So folks know what we're voting on so when we go ahead and start that timer. So if you want to hold article six, meaning you want to remove it from the consent agenda so it can be debated and voted on individually, rather than as part of this batch, which will not allow any debate for any articles that remain in the batch. Okay, we're not 15 seconds in. And this is so our this is article six we're talking about by law amendment for updating the Human Rights Commission by law, if you want to have debate on that. Okay, so we have one, if we get a second vote, and so let's close voting now. We only got one. So that will not be held. And so now work to move to article nine. So let's start the timer again. And so actually let's pause the timer. We have a point of order from Dr. Warden. So name and precinct place. Once you get onto the panel. Yeah. Ms. Warden, do you have if you have two computers side by side can that are both dialed into the meeting. Can you mute the computer that you're not speaking into the speakers off on the other. Dr. Warden, are you there. Actually, I see she's Her computer is muted down. Yes, I can hear you. Can you hear me. I hear you now go ahead. Oh, Mr. modulation. Can you hear me. Yeah, yes I can. Can you hear me. Mr. modulation. Can you hear me. Yes. Can you hear me. I'm using. Mr. modulation. Can you hear me. I can hear you. Can you hear me. Is it she, she may have muted. Yes, yes, I can hear you. Can you hear me. So can we hear me. Yes, I can hear you can hear me. You can hear me. Well, I want to ask where the button is to make a second to make to vote to second any removal from the consent agenda. I don't see any button. To remove. That's right. So it's a second. Right. Right. So let me explain. So there's, it's. There's a remove from consent agenda button. And it's, it's. It's not presented as a second in the portal. It's just, if there. Whoever wants to remove. An article from the consent agenda can click the remove from consent agenda button. And if there are at least two people who've requested a removal for a given article. Then it will remove. And if we don't get to, if there's a zero or one request to remove it within the allotted time, then it'll remain on the consent agenda. So there's technically no second. It's just a threshold of two votes. I would like to say that I don't think that really is appropriate since the second is quite different from the original vote. I would like to be able to place seconds. To a particular item. I really miss that opportunity. Well, the, the. Consent agenda button can be used to a second in this context. We just, the software doesn't have the feature of switching automatically to a seconding button. So this is the best we could do given the limitations of the software. Was there anything else that you had, Dr. I don't want to answer questions about the particular item that I want to second. I think that should be the primary person. Who voted to remove it from the consent agenda. Thank you. Okay. So I can clarify there. If I understand your, your question is. I will consider, and I should have clarified this earlier. I apologize that later when the, when the article comes up. If an article is removed from the consent agenda, because there's at least two votes to remove it, then when that article comes up. By default, I will call on the first person who registered. Their request to remove it from the consent agenda. When that article comes up in the natural. Order of articles. And in particular, in the case of a. An article that has a recommended vote of. No action. There's really nothing to discuss on that. And so the, the only. Legitimate. In scope. Action that someone can take after they've removed it from the consent agenda. Is to offer a substitute motion. So if you're the first person. Who. Who votes in to remove something from the consent agenda. All by default. I'll consider that person. The person who's going to be responsible for. Presenting a. The only city. On a. On an article that has a recommended vote of no action. For other articles that have a recommended vote of a favorable action. Then. Well, just when that article comes up later on after having been removed from the consent agenda. We'll just go. To debate about that. And so that's a slightly different situation. Because debate is perfectly. There's plenty of debate that can be in scope for a favorable action article, which is not the case for a no action article. So I asked the folks be. Mindful that if they're removing a. An article from the consent agenda. And it's an article. It has a recommended vote of no action. You really need to be prepared for a substitute. To offer a substitute motion for it. So that there's some action for us to take and. And to debate about. Was. I believe. I believe Dr. Warden is. Is done with her. Point of order. So let's take. Ms. Thank you very much, Mr. Moderator. This is Joe Babiar's precinct 15. And I think you've answered my question. This is my first town meeting. Apologies. If I don't catch on to things, but is no action different than a down vote. Affiliated. And with that. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. So. I think we've got it. Affiliated. And with that, I will just sign off and await your response. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Miss. That'd be ours. No action. Articles that have the recommended vote of no action or very unintuitive. I'll try to. Explain briefly. And we can get into this further offline. But. A recommended vote of no action. Is. to satisfy this article. But we do still have to vote on it as we do have to vote on all articles. And the innovation of the consent agenda is that among the kind of non-controversial, against this subjective determination, but among the non-controversial articles, the no action articles are ones that there's really nothing to do for them other than to vote on them. And whether they're voted up or voted down, it kind of doesn't matter. We just have to vote on them. It's just a weird kind of legal oddity that we need to satisfy as part of our responsibilities at town meeting. And so when we're discussing an article that's recommended voted no action is removed from the consent agenda and it comes up later on in its natural kind of sequential order of articles, there's nothing that anyone can say like from the speaker queue that would be in scope for it because there's nothing to do. But the one action that can be taken is for someone to offer a substitute motion so that there is some action to take relative to that article. So voting a no action article up or down kind of doesn't matter. It just needs to be voted upon. And it requires a substitute motion to turn it into an article that has some actual action to be taken as a result. Again, it's very unintuitive. And we're kind of stuck with the legal requirements of what town meeting has to do relative to all articles, regardless of whether they have a favorable action that actually does something or a no action that does nothing. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Going forward, though, we shouldn't be using the point of order for questions unless it's something that folks feel that if it isn't addressed, has the chance of kind of derailing the meeting procedurally. So if it's just about questions that can be taken up at another time, then that really shouldn't be using the point of order. So I'll try to be somewhat strict about that going forward. OK, so we have another point of order. Mr. Jalkett, can we bring him on? I think I just unmuted myself. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Daniel Jalkett, Precinct Six. I think this rises to the standard of point of order only because I think it will help to facilitate the perception that this is a fair and proper process, especially in light of the new standard you introduced to have two people requesting to pull something. I think it would be useful if it's not already on your mind that if the first request comes close to the end of the 30-second limit that you give a few extra seconds for a second request to come in, especially in light of the fact that you suggested people who are sympathetic with the idea that anybody who wants to remove an item from the consent agenda that they could just chime in and support that idea in the theory of that idea. I might have misperceived it, but I kind of got the impression on the first issue that the first request to pull it came in very close to the 30 seconds and then it was over. So just a bit of feedback in case it helps to both make the process more fair and to make it appear to be more fair. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. I think going forward, what we can do is have maybe 20 seconds for the first vote to be read the first request to be registered. And then if whenever one comes in, like that comes in at 5 seconds or comes in at 19 seconds, whenever it comes in, I can then be looking at my watch for like another 20 seconds for the second. So maybe that'll give the appearance of more fairness. There's always the issue of a vote to come in like a second after some time threshold and that's always going to be awkward and a challenge. But we'll see what we can do going forward. Thank you, Mr. Jelke. Mr. Weinstein has a point of order. Yes, thank you, Mr. Moderator. Mr. Jordan Weinstein, precinct 21, I have maybe a simpler way to do this. I would suggest given the variability of your description and lead in to each of these warrant articles from the consent agenda that you simply start your 32nd voting clock after you finish introducing. We could do that. I mean, I think, because everyone can see some of these names are quite a bit longer than others. So yeah, I'll entertain up that approach. Thank you. Is there anything else, Mr. Weinstein? No, thank you. Great, thank you. And Mr. Warden has a point of order. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Moderator. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Go ahead. No, I've got to, the reason we're having all this feedback when Dr. Warden tries to speak is that my headphones, voices, your voices, everybody's voices come through my computer, not through my headphones and the headphones are plugged in. Is there some way you can activate the headphones from your end? Because all that squawking noises is not very pleasant for anybody, but I don't know what to do about it. It didn't never happen last year. Right, so I don't believe that's something that we can remotely enable, but perhaps we can get someone from tech support on the phone with you to try to work through that from your end. Is that a possibility? Well, yeah, well, yeah. Again, it makes it hard to participate if you're jumping back and forth and turning off the volume and so on. Another downside of the virtual meeting, I might say. But yeah, if somebody wants to call me, yeah, go ahead, I'm glad to get any help I can get. Okay, great, well, I'll see if we can, let's see, can someone, legacy in the Zoom panel kind of give me some indication that we have someone who can follow up with Mr. Warden? Okay, we can. We'll have someone contact you. Anything else, Mr. Warden? Okay, I think. Mr. Warden, do you have anything further? No, it's just, I'd like to be able to fully participate and it's hard to do when both of us can't hear the same thing. Right, so we'll do, I mean, we're already at the 930 mark and following kind of past practice, why don't, I'll take the next point of order that we have from Ms. Hyam and we will take a recess after that for 10 minutes and hopefully that'll give some time for any issues to be resolved and for folks to take a break at the halfway point of the meeting tonight, okay? I will await the call. Great, thank you. Okay, let's take Ms. Hyam's point of order and then we'll go into a 10 minute recess after that. Leba Hyam, whoops, Leba Hyam precinct 15. You addressed my first point of order which was that it was break time but my second point of order is that I believe that you've proposed a good alternative given how inefficient last week's pulled agenda items were when there were no substitute motions or even speaking to put forward and I would like to see our town body actually address the method you've proposed before we try changing it. Thank you. Great, thank you. Okay, so let's take a 10 minute break at this point. We'll come back at 9.45 and we'll resume from there in the end of our intermission. So let's start coming back, give folks a minute to kind of get situated back in. Okay, so I believe we were, yeah, we're on article nine of the consent agenda. Let's see, Ms. Brazil, do you have, do you recall if we had already voted on whether to hold article nine or not or Ms. Wayman as well? I'd have no notes that we finished with article nine. So I think those two names are associated with article nine. Okay, great. So I don't think we opened the voting yet, but I believe like those, yeah, so we already have the two votes required to hold it from the consent agenda and we'll take note of Mr. Warden. And so Mr. Warden, so please be prepared to offer a substitute motion when article nine comes up. And obviously if Mr. Warden and Mr. Wagner want to coordinate on that, feel free to do so. Anyone else can feel free to coordinate with Mr. Warden and Mr. Wagner if they're interested as well in kind of drafting a substitute motion for this no action article. Thank you. So why don't we open up consideration of article 11 on the consent agenda? And this is, and I'll make note going forward. There were some comments about this of whether the article has a recommended vote of favorable action or no action since there's kind of different responsibilities that folks have if they're trying to hold one versus the other. Okay, so this is, before we start the timer, this is a bylaw amendment related to domestic partnerships. So while we haven't even started the timer yet, but we already have two requests to hold it. So it'll be held. So we're done with article 11. Well, we're done removing it from the consent agenda but it'll come up later. Next is article 14. And this would establish, well, it's an article that would establish a committee on insurance costs and issues, but it's recommended vote is no action. So anyone seeking to hold this, you will be called on to offer a substitute motion if this is pulled from the consent agenda. So let's start the timer on this and we'll try, we have 20 seconds for a first request to remove it from the consent agenda. And if there is, so we have one. And so now we'll go to 30 seconds because that's 20 seconds from, and now we have a couple of others. So Mr. Warden, so we can pause the timer here. We have Mr. Warden, Mr. Tremblay and Dr. Warden requesting to hold it. So we've reached the two vote threshold. And so I'll look to Mr. Warden to offer a substitute motion when that comes up in the natural order of articles. Okay, so let's, let's say, I was 14, let's now move on to article 18 on the consent agenda. This is a favorable action article. And before we start the timer, this is a bylaw amendment to phase out certain toxic or densicides on public and private property with reporting requirements and public education. And this is favorable action. And so when we start the timer on this, we'll give 20 seconds for a first request to pull it and then we'll wait another, if there is a first, then we'll wait 20 seconds for a second. So now you have five seconds left to try to pull this from the consent agenda so that it's debated and voted on separately. Okay, so time has expired and so it'll remain on the consent agenda. So now we're moving on to article 19, which is a recommended vote of no action. The original scope of the article was to, I believe to rename a street to, I'm not sure if we're getting this pronunciation right. Someone can correct me. Is it Magliosi Boulevard or Malliozzi Boulevard? And again, this is, so we have Mr. Schlickman has, and we have multiple others. So I'll look to Mr. Schlickman at the time to present a substitute motion when article 19 comes up. It's now hereby removed from the consent agenda. And so when it comes up in the natural order of articles, I'll look for a substitute motion. Thank you. So now we're going to article 20. The description of this is code enforcement, which is not very descriptive. So I'll pull up a little bit more detail before we get started. Actually, that does not come up in the interactive warrant or the annotated warrant for some reason. But in any event, we have two votes to remove it from the consent agenda before we've even started the timer. So it's reached the threshold and it'll be removed. And so this is a no action article. So I'll be looking to Mr. Schlickman for a substitute motion when that article comes up. Article 21 is next. This is also a no action article. The original scope of the article was extension of the youth and young adult advisory board, commission or committee study group. And my understanding is that it's no action because that extension of time was not necessary. So there's nothing to do here currently. And so when we start the timer on this and I give folks 20 seconds to request to remove it from the consent agenda, remember this is a no action. So you would have to offer a substitute motion. In this case, you can offer to keep the extension in place, but I believe no one on that committee nor the select board is interested in an extension. So that 20 seconds is expired. So that is now remaining on the consent agenda. And so next up, we have article 22. This is also a no action article. The original scope of the article was the establishment of the town committee to examine budgetary impact of overnight parking. The recommended vote is no action. And so let's start the timer on that. Anyone who is interested in holding this from the consent agenda or removing it from the consent agenda would have to offer a substitute motion. So we have something to actually debate later. Let's see, you have five seconds left to request that this be removed if you have a substitute motion in mind and seeing none and 20 seconds is expired. So that will remain on the consent agenda. We'll now move to article 23. This is a board of youth services updates which is also recommended vote of no action. So when we start the timer on this and 15 seconds left, 10 seconds, if you want to offer a substitute motion you wanna hold this from the consent agenda. You have five seconds. It is going, it's going and it's gone in that it's staying on the consent agenda. Next up, we have article 25. This is a favorable action. So if you want to debate, so this does not require a substitute motion if this gets pulled from the consent agenda. This is home role legislation for early voting for town elections. And so anyone who wishes to debate this and vote on it separately from the consent agenda feel free to push the remove from consent agenda button. Let's start the timer on this. I'll give 20 seconds for the first vote. If there's any 15 seconds left, 10 seconds. If you wanna hold this from the consent agenda to discuss it later, five seconds. Okay, so we'll go to 37 seconds on the timer for anyone who wants to effectively second. I'm sorry, that was a point of order, not a... So let's pause the timer here. Sorry, I misread the point of order as removal from the consent agenda. Apologies for that. So let's take Mr. Dutulio's point of order. Can you hear me, Mr. Rotterator? Yes, I can. Name and precinct. James Dutulio, precinct 12. I raise a point of order simply because although I'm not opposed to this particular item for reasons that I've discussed with town council related to general law chapter 268A chapter 23B3, there are certain reasons why in order to dispel the appearance of a conflict of interest, I would not want to participate in this vote. But it has nothing to do with me submitting a substitute motion. So in order not to have to withdraw or request to be withdrawn from the consent agenda and force everyone to have to go through a vote simply on my account, I would just simply ask that when the vote is recorded on this consent agenda item that for the record I'd be listed as not participating in the vote. So I have discussed this with town council and he can give further detail if necessary. Okay, so Mr. Heim, can you clarify the legal kind of perspective on this? And because let me just say first, my understanding is that the vote that we take on the batch or the tranche of articles that remain on the consent agenda when we finally get through the list, when we take that vote, all those votes basically like if the consent agenda has an affirmative vote at the end, like a single affirmative vote by the body at the end that all of the recommended votes essentially from the reporting boards and committees are recorded for the individual articles, right? So favorable action becomes favorable action and so on and no action is still no action. Mr. Moderator, I might interject. It may be irrelevant, it may be a booth point at this point I guess given that three people have indicated they want to remove it from the consent agenda so I don't want to waste anyone's time if it's being removed from the consent agenda that it's essentially mooted by my issue. Sure, okay, understood. So I will follow up with Mr. Heim just to understand procedurally how that should work. Thank you. So article 25 is removed from the consent agenda with three votes and this is a favorable action so no substitute required. So let's move on to article 27, Revolving Funds and this is a favorable action and we have a point of order by Mr. Tosti. Let's take his point of order. Yes, Mr. Moderator, Alan Tosti from Precinct 17. On the last one, article 25, no one had moved to remove it from the consent agenda at the 22nd point. So it should still be on the consent agenda. Let's see, the one before 27, you're talking about 25? So, but we had three votes to remove it from the consent agenda before we even started the timer. Now, you had only gone through the timer, you hit the 20 seconds, you thought somebody had done it but it was a point of order. Nobody had moved it to take it from the consent agenda at that 22nd time frame. I see what you're saying. So let's... Obviously it's your call but thank you very much, Mr. Moderator. Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Tosti. Let's... Yeah, I was mistaking that the timer was at zero but we already had some time expired, right? And then the point of order interrupted that. Is that right? And so just for clarity, why don't we redo the vote on, or the requests on article 25? Can we bring that back up? In the record, we'll have multiple votes registered for this and so we'll take the later one in this case. Okay, so let's clear the votes out and reset this. Okay, so this is the home rule legislation again, article 25. This is favorable action related to early voting for town elections. So let's start the timer on this. And we have one request at one second to remove from the consent agenda. So that gives us until 21 seconds on the timer for a second and we got that, great. So it is now removed from the consent agenda. And so let's move on to article 27 revolving funds. And this is favorable action, so substitutes not required. And so if you want to discuss revolving funds when this article comes up, you can take it off. Let's see, so let's start the timer now. Okay, so we have Mr. Warden at time zero. So we'll go until 20 seconds on the timer to see if we get a second vote. And we now have a second vote. So revolving funds is now off the consent agenda. Let's move up to article 46. So note that that's 45. So I think what's happening here is maybe they're in order of article number, but there's two batches of consent agenda votes. And I was going to go through the majority ones first. So the next majority vote article that I have on the consent agenda is 46. The appropriation of the PEG access budget. Okay, and so this is a favorable action. So let's start the timer. Anyone who wants to remove this to discuss this and vote on it separately from the consent agenda, feel free to click the remove consent agenda button. We're at 10 seconds left, five seconds left and time has expired. So that remains on the consent agenda. Before we move to 47, there was a request for the, and I know that since we can retake the votes on these, because we had a different, we're following a different procedure really for the first one, the article six. And someone pointed out that Mr. Tremblay had registered his removal request like right before the time expired. And that's not how we handled the other. So the sake of kind of parody in how we're handling these, why don't we, can we circle back to article six and we'll retake that vote so that we have some uniformity here and how we're applying the rules to all these articles. Okay, thank you. And so this is circling back now to article six. This is from the beginning of the consent agenda list. And this is a bylaw amendment updating the Human Rights Commission bylaw. And this is a favorable action. So let's start the timer on this and we'll retake this consideration of this article with respect to the consent agenda. So 15 seconds. I know Mr. Tremblay had registered a request and there he is. So now let's go to 31 seconds, giving him an additional 20 seconds for someone to add a second vote to remove this from the consent agenda. This is a favorable action so no substitute motion is required. And we have a second vote from Carl Weiner. And so very good. So let's pause that and that'll be removed now from the consent agenda. Thank you. And apologies for the inconsistency we initially had, hopefully that corrects things. And okay, so going forward again, I believe the next one that we have after we did the 46 was 47, endorsement of parking benefit district expenditures. And this is also a favorable action. And so let's start the timer on this. And again, since it's a favorable action there's no substitute motion required. Anyone who wants to discuss this and vote on it separately from the consent agenda feel free to click the remove from consent agenda button. You have five seconds left to do so to get that first vote registered. And seeing none, it remains on the consent agenda. So let's move now to article 52. This is amendments to the fiscal year 2022 budgets. And this is a recommended vote of no action. So this, if someone is interested in pulling this from the consent agenda it will require a substitute motion. So let's start the timer on this. Okay, so article 52 amendments to the FY 2022 budgets. It's a no action. If you want a substitute motion it's hard for me to imagine what it would be but people can be creative. You have five seconds left. Two seconds and it remains on the consent agenda. So let's move now to article 56. This is a recommended vote of no action. It's also from the finance committee report. This is appropriations for committees and commissions. Did I say, this is not no action. This is a favorable action. Favorable action on article 56. So we have a point of order from Ms. Bloom. Let's take that. Nancy Bloom precinct 18. Looking at the FNCOM report it looks like the financial committee is going to be discussing article 52 at special town meeting. I believe that Mr. Foskett can weigh on. I believe that the article on the special town meeting will supersede article 52 from the annual town meeting. Mr. Foskett, can you clarify that or confirm that? Yes, Mr. Moderator. Charles Foskett precinct 10, chairman of the finance committee. This action puts money back into the Override Stabilization Fund that the town needs in fiscal year 23. The problem is that the annual town meeting is normally not certified by the Department of Revenue and Attorney General until after June 30th. And if that's the case, this money cannot go back into the Override Stabilization Fund that goes into the cash. It's not available until another year, but by doing it at the special town meeting it's available. So that's why it was moved to the special town meeting. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Great, thank you. And yes, my understanding that basically the original article 56 on the annual town meeting is effectively nullified and superseded by the other article in the special town meeting. So let's go another 10. Since we have the point of order, which kind of, and we didn't pause the timer there, let's just go another 15 seconds for any folks to pull this. And let's say, okay. And so we'll consider that remaining on the Consent Agenda. Let's see, article 57 is next. This is appropriation for town celebrations and events. It's a favorable action. And so no substitute motion is required here. If we just want to discuss this appropriation, it can be removed from the Consent Agenda. Let's start the timer now. So we'll go for 20 seconds, another 15 seconds. Any requests? We have one request at, I believe it was at nine seconds. So we'll go to 29 seconds for any kind of second requests to remove it from the Consent Agenda. Okay, and we have those. So again, this is favorable action. So there's no substitute required. We'll just debate and vote on this separately outside of the Consent Agenda. Let's say that next is article 58. And this is also a favorable action appropriation. This is miscellaneous appropriation. So if anyone wants to discuss, I have a discussion, debate, and vote separately on the miscellaneous appropriations. You can remove it from the Consent Agenda now. Let's start the timer for 20 seconds for the first request. We have 10 seconds left, five seconds, and time's expired. So article 58 will remain on the Consent Agenda. Article 59, appropriation, transportation infrastructure fund. This is also a favorable action. And so no substitute motion is required for this. If you want to debate and vote on this separately, let's start the timer for 20 seconds. We'll wait 20 seconds for the, if there's a first request to remove it from the Consent Agenda, 15 seconds left. 10 seconds left for that first request if there is one, five seconds, and time has expired. So article 59 will remain on the Consent Agenda. Let's say next up is article 60, appropriation for blue bikes. This is also a favorable action. So start the timer here. So this is a favorable action. There's no substitute motion required. If you want to take this off the Consent Agenda and discuss and separately vote on the appropriation for blue bikes. And we already have four. And so that was quick. So that is now removed from the Consent Agenda. Next up is article 61, appropriation for water bodies fund. It's also a favorable action. And so 15 seconds left for anyone who wants to remove this from the Consent Agenda. 10 seconds left, five seconds. And it's remaining on the Consent Agenda. Okay, next up is article 63, appropriation for the Harry Barber Community Service Program. And this is a no action. So if you want to hold this, be prepared for a substitute motion. So let's start the timer with 20 seconds away for anyone who's interested in substituting, or introducing a substitute motion for those 10 seconds left, five seconds. And time has expired. So article 63 will remain on the Consent Agenda. It's moved to article 64, appropriation for pension adjustment for former 25 year accidental disability employees. This is a favorable action. So if you want to remove it from the Consent Agenda, there's no substitute motion required. Greg, I hope I have this on the Consent Agenda. Okay, so, hmm, do you know how long it would take to add that to the Consent Agenda? I mean, would it buy you time if we circled back to it, or is it kind of, I mean, not really going to be helpful because you have to juggle windows anyway? I think I can just write. Yeah. And there's a certain naming convention that were, like it has to start with Consent, I believe, to be considered to trigger that new user interface. Yeah, I think it's Consent Dash and then like the article number. 64. Yeah, article 64, I can paste this in the- No action or favorable? It is a favorable action. I can chat you the title of the article. You can just take some prefix of that. It's kind of long. And so, yeah, these are all majority vote articles. So this, again, says article 64, appropriation for the pension adjustment for a former 25-year and accidental disability employees. This is a favorable action. Start the timer. So 20 seconds if you want to separately, like debate and vote on this separate from the Consent Agenda. So, you know, 10 seconds for the first request to remove it if there's any. Five seconds and time has expired. So that'll remain on, article 64 will remain on the Consent Agenda. Article 65 is next, appropriation for design standards. This is a favorable action. I don't have that on there either. Oh, that's just the regular. Okay. Yeah, I wonder if some of this got truncated somewhere. I wonder if that's gonna be the case for all of these. Can you spot check if, let's look at it, is like article 70, does that have a consent? It does. 66, 67, 68, 69, 70. Okay. So it was just, it looks like it was just 64 and 65 then. Okay, so do you mind adding one for this 65? And I'll chat you the name of that. And this is a favorable action. Okay, great. So article 65, favorable action, appropriation, design standards, right? And so start the timer on this. And so if anyone is interested in, because it's favorable action does not require a substitute motion and we already got two requests to remove it, okay? So it is so removed from the consent agenda. So let's close that and go to article 66. This is a no action article. The original article scope is local option taxes. And again, this is no action. So we can start the timer. And so if anyone's interested in introducing a substitute motion for this so that we can speak to it, feel free to remove it from the consent agenda. Otherwise, if you don't plan to have a substitute motion, I recommend that you leave it on the consent agenda because there was nothing to discuss about it. And 20 seconds has expired and seeing no requests. It'll remain on the consent agenda, we'll move on to 67. This is an appropriation related to other post-employment benefits, OPEB trust fund. And this is a favorable action. And so let's start the timer on this. Anyone who wants to discuss, debate, separately vote on this article, you can remove it from the consent agenda now. You still have two seconds for the first request to take it off. Now five seconds left and it will remain on the consent agenda with time expiring, okay? So moving on to article 68, we only have three left on the majority consent agenda, the majority portion of the consent agenda. So this is article 68, eight is a favorable action transfer of funds related to cemetery. So let's start the timer on this, 20 seconds for the first vote to be registered to remove it from the consent agenda. 10 seconds left, five seconds, last chance. And time has expired. So that will remain on the consent agenda. So move now to article 69, appropriation related to overlay reserve. And this is also a favorable action. So no substitute motion is required for this. If you wanna remove it, start the timer. We'll go to 20 seconds, waiting for the first request if there is one to remove it from the consent agenda. 10 seconds left for a first request, five seconds and time has expired. So it will remain on the consent agenda. And the last article on the majority portion, majority vote portion of the consent agenda is the article 70 appropriation related to long-term stabilization fund. And that is a favorable action. So no substitute motions required if you wanna discuss this. So start the timer. You have 20 seconds, 15 seconds for the first request if there's gonna be one to remove it from the consent agenda, 10 seconds left, five seconds and time has expired. So article 70 will remain on the consent agenda. So it is 10-22 right now. And so I'm gonna go ahead and let's open voting on the majority portion of the consent agenda. Alternatively, we could have run through the two thirds vote consent agenda, but I'm pretty sure folks probably use a change of pace at this point to do something that feels more actionable. So we'll actually vote on this tranche of articles that remain on the consent agenda. Ms. Brazil, do you have a list of articles? I don't have that in my view of what's actually remaining on the consent agenda. Is it possible to maybe share something with our display controller so folks can actually see what's on there? Yeah, my notes are not that organized. Let me see, yeah, let me see what I can do. Okay. Yeah, sorry, we didn't plan for showing, so I just figured that we probably want to show something so folks can see what we're voting on since we've removed a bunch of articles from the list. Apologies that I didn't have something prepared for us to view. In the meantime, Julie W can maybe bring up the vote on the majority portion of the consent agenda. And this is not debatable. If it were debatable, then it would kind of defeat the purpose of having a consent agenda, which is to avoid debate. And it says so there. So before we enable voting, let's see if there's something we can show here. Actually, if it's easier, maybe if there's Julie B, if there's a list of article numbers that you have that were held or a list of article numbers conversely that remain on the consent agenda, if you're able to give those to me, I can throw something together really quick here unless you already have something in the works. I'm about to send you a list. Okay, great. And we have a point of order. So let's take that from Ms. Friedman. Mr. Moderator, this is Beth Ann Friedman, peace in 15, can you hear me? Yes. Great. I was going to request that you just go by the numbers and tell us which ones either remain on the consent agenda or which ones would take it off because I lost count somewhere along the way. Yeah, yep. Well, I appreciate that you're in the process of doing that. I think to get the actual list of article numbers, right, is what you're referring to. That'd be great. If you can give them orally instead of having us try to read them while we're voting, that would be helpful for me. Yep. All right, thank you very much. All right, thank you. Okay, so I'm going to do this really quick. Let's see. Okay, I have a list here, but I'm trying to figure out if these, the holds or the remaining? What was just... Those are remaining on the consent agenda. Okay, so that list I'm seeing of 18, 21, 22, that remains? Yes, they remain on the consent agenda. Got it. 18, apologies, this is taking this long. 22, 23, 40, I'll read them as I go. So we got 18, these are the ones remaining on the consent agenda. Everything else has been removed from the majority portion of the consent agenda. I see a mistake. I don't think, oh no, yeah, let's just correct. Yep. Okay, great. Yep. And thanks to Mr. Jamison for providing that for us. Okay, so these are the numbers. And Julie W, if you want to, if you're able to present, I know we try to avoid having side-by-side things that you're presenting, the spreadsheet that I have with the majority consent agenda sheet in it, that I'll have the information in there so folks can see that. Adding these in now, apologies for the wait here. So the articles remaining on the consent agenda are 18, 21, 22, 23, 46, 47, 52, 56, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, and 70. So let's see. All right, so Julie W, I just want to kind of slowly kind of scroll through those again. So if you see a Y in column E, that's the remaining on consent agenda column, those are the articles that are remaining on the consent agenda. So that's what we're going to be voting on next is whether to kind of carry forward the recommended votes of those articles. So hopefully that's sufficient. We have a point of order from Mr. Jameson. Yes, Mr. Moderator, Moderator Gordon Jamison, PCI 12 for people who just want to look at the numbers in, I posted those numbers in the Q&A. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Are folks able to see that in the Q&A? Or is there someone from the panel who can post those as well so that they're available to the attendees who are not on the panel? They should be in the Q&A. And so I'm seeing in our chat here that we had, Mr. Harrelson has questioned article 19 still being on the consent agenda. Yeah, but if anyone has any, if anyone thinks that we're in error about these, the articles that are remaining or not remaining on the consent agenda, feel free to raise a point of order so we can clarify. This Brazil, can you confirm whether article 19 should remain on the consent agenda or not? Yes, Julie Brazil Town Clerk. That was held by Mr. Schlickman and seconded by Mr. Cafflein. Okay, thank you. So I think we're all set here with, so let's go to voting now. And this will be the majority portion of the consent agenda. And please let us finish this fucking consent agenda. I'm not sure who that was, but let's keep things civil and polite here. Okay, so voting is now open. So in your portal, press one for yes, two for no. One yes being that you approve of the recommended votes, whether they're favorable action on an article or no action on an article, if you approve of the recommended votes, the articles that remain on the consent agenda, press one. If you don't want that, and you reject the articles in the consent agenda, they're recommended votes. If you reject the recommended votes, you can press no. And that, that'll reject the entirety of them. So no is kind of an awkward thing to do here procedurally. So, okay, so how are we doing? So our time is expired. How are we doing votes cast 191 out of 252? I seem to go pretty, was it just one minute that we had on the timer? Okay, so let's just do another 30 seconds. And this is the first kind of real vote that we're doing of this magnitude of importance. So let's, let's give another 20 seconds here. We have 216 votes cast out of 252 total. Let's say 223 votes are still kind of trickling in. So let's just wait a little bit longer. Okay, let's just give another five seconds. And then we'll close this seems like things that the votes have stabilized. Okay, let's close voting now. Let's look at our results. 99.1%. 227 votes in the affirmative to votes in the negative. And so the majority consent agenda passes, meaning that the individual recommended, the recommended votes of the individual articles that remain on the consent agenda are now carried through as the votes on those articles. So let's just cycle through. We have a point of order from Mr. Foskett. Let's take that now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Having voted in the affirmative. I'd like to serve notice of reconsideration. On articles. Numbered between 46 and 70 that remain on the consent agenda. Great. And Madam clerk hopefully has noted that. Thank you, Mr. Foskett. You're welcome, sir. Thank you. Let's say let's go back to the screens. Let's go back to the screen. Let's go back to the screen. Let's go back to the screen. Of the, of the vote totals as we cycle through the. Yes, let's just run through these. And as these are running through, remember that if you miss your precincts coming up in this rotation. They go by pretty quickly. You can always go to the left hand side of your portal window. And click on. View votes. And you'll be able to see the votes that have been cast for the meeting. And anyone, while we're waiting for this, anyone who's wondering what the notice of reconsideration that Mr. Foskett just requested. That's just a procedural mechanism. That on the. On the night that a meeting occurs before that meeting, before the meeting adjourns. Someone who is voted in favor of an article or in this case, the consent agenda. So that's just, you know, a little bit more of a, sort of notice of reconsideration, which means that they then have the right to have. That article or these articles. Reconsidered at a later time where there might be more. Information available. More context available at that time. That's, that's a right of those who've voted in the, on the prevailing side. Of a given vote. And so Mr. Foskett was exercising that right. And so, you know, there's new information to consider in the future. Like changing some numbers. Okay. So I believe we've cycled all the way through at this point. And so 1037, let's. Switch over now to the two thirds consent agenda, which I'm sure folks feel like they're pretty much done with the consent agenda stuff at this point, but the good news is that the two thirds consent agenda is much shorter. There's only 11 articles initially on the two thirds vote. Consent agenda. Unlike the 29 that were on the majority vote consent agenda. So hopefully we can get through this more quickly. So let's start with article 31. Okay. So those are kind of starting over again, because these are the, these are the articles with a vote quantum of two thirds, which means that the voting threshold is two thirds for it to pass. So looking for article 31, is that on here? Yep. And so this is zoning bylaw amendments. And the description is administrative amendments. And it is a favorable action. So let's start the procedure. Let's start the timer now for 20 seconds for. Any initial requests to remove it from the consent agenda so that it can be. Debated and voted on individually. 10 seconds left. It's a favorable action. Five seconds. And times expired. So article 31 will remain on the two thirds vote consent agenda. So next up is article. 32. And article 32 is zoning bylaw amendment for zoning board of appeals rules and regulations. This is a favorable action. Let's start the timer on this. And we'll go wait for 20 seconds for the first. Request. To be registered to remove it from the consent agenda. If someone wants to debate or vote on it separately from consent agenda. So let's start the procedure. And let's say time is expired. And so article 32 will remain on the consent agenda. Article 33 is next. Article 33 is a lot of these are zoning bylaw amendments because a lot of these are two thirds votes. This is zoning bylaw amendment. About half stories. And so we have a, let's pause before we start the timer, let's start the timer. Let's start the timer. Yes. Mark Rosenthal. Yes, Mark Rosenthal precinct 14. On article. The previous article that was article 32. I. Click the button to say removed from consent agenda. And then click the confirm button. And waited a couple of seconds. And it didn't show up on the main zoom screen. And it didn't show up on the main zoom screen. And it didn't show up on the main zoom screen. That there was no vote to remove it from the consent agenda, which points, which tells me there's a timing issue. Among the servers, but that. In point of fact, I did place the vote. Before you decided that nobody. Got it. Okay. So yeah, that's fair. So let's. Yeah, let's, yeah, that's certainly not the, the outcome that we want. So what, can we go back to, let's see, this was article 32. Mr. Rosenthal. Let's see ZBA to establish some rules that's article 32. 32. Let's read. So. Why don't we'll wait for you to vote in and just a reminder to folks that there is like the two step process. If you're thinking to like. You know, hitting that button, like there is an additional step, which takes additional time, and then there's a delay in the portal as well, which I think is what Mr. Rosenthal was referring to. So yeah, so Mr. Rosenthal has registered his request to remove article 32 from the consent agenda. And so let's, yeah, so start the timer now for 20 seconds for anyone. Remember it's a two step process. So try to get it in as quickly as you can. 10 seconds left for it. So we have a second. Very good. So. So article 32 is now removed from the consent agenda. Thank you. And thank you for pointing that out, Mr. Rosenthal. So next up is article 33. And this is a zoning bylaw amendment about half stories. And this is a favorable action. Two thirds vote. And, and so let's start the timer on this. Let's make clear the point of order as well. I assume that's the previous point of order. Okay. Okay, so let's start the timer. So 20 seconds or anyone who wants to remove article 33 from the two thirds vote consent agenda. We have a first vote. So we'll go until 29 seconds and we have a second. Okay. So let's, so we'll consider that removed from the consent agenda. And so we'll now move to article 34 zoning bylaw amendment about porches. This is also a favorable action. So no substitute motion required. So let's start the timer on this for article 34. If you want to remove it from the consent agenda, feel free to hit the remove from consent agenda button. Okay. So that's seven seconds. So we'll wait until 22nd, 27 seconds on the timer for a second vote or a second request. And we have two and three. So that'll now be removed from the consent agenda. Okay. So next up is article 35 zoning bylaw amendment about yard encroachment. And so anyone who wants to, and this is a favorable action. Let's start the timer. Okay. So let's move on to article 35. So let's remove this from the consent agenda. Feel free to hit the remove from consent agenda button. You have 15 seconds left to do that. Remember, there is also a confirmation page. So make sure you're able to get all the way through. And there's also additional latency. So try to get in as early as you can. Five seconds left. And time has expired. So article 35 is now removed from the consent agenda. Moving on to article 36. So let's start the timer. And so you have 20 seconds for the first request to. Remove from the consent agenda. We have one at eight seconds. So we'll go to 28 seconds. For a second. Request. And we have two and three. So it is removed from the consent agenda. Next up is article 37. So let's start the timer. And so you have 20 seconds for the first request to. Remove from the consent agenda. So we'll go to 28 seconds. Next up is article 37. Zoning by law amendment, but unsafe structures. It's also a favorable action. And let's start the timer on that. So anyone who wants to remove this from the consent agenda, so it could be debated and voted on separately from the two thirds focus. Eight seconds. We have a first request. So we'll go to 28 seconds. I'm sorry. I think. Maybe I, maybe I misread the point of order again. So let's, let's pause this timer. We have three requests here and let's take the point of order. Miss. As we were, you have a point of order. Can you hear me now? Yes. Name a precinct, please. Thank you. Janice. We have a precinct 21. I just have a question on. Article 35. I thought you said it was removed. And I thought it was staying on the agenda. I didn't see any objections. Let's see. Article 35, the yard encroachments. Miss Brazil. Do you have the, do I get that wrong? I probably got it wrong, but. No. Julie Brazil, town clerk. I think you said it wrong, Greg, but in my notes and your notes that I can see it is remaining on the consent agenda. Okay. That's what I thought. I might have misspoke and I apologize for that. Thank you. Yeah, I might have confused remove and remain those mean different things. Okay. So. So we had three requests to remove article 37 from the consent agenda. So that is. Now removed. And next is article 40 zoning map amendment expand business districts. And this is a recommended vote of no action. So there's nothing to do here unless someone wants to suggest a motion. So let's start the timer on this. So if someone is interested in offering, okay, so let's pause the timer. And take a point of order from. Miss. The land. Name and precinct, please. Hi. Can you hear me moderate or Michelle Phelan. Precinct for. I'm sorry. Did I miss you skipping over article 38. And 39 to get to 40. I thought I didn't. Didn't hear 38 and 39. Did I miss it? Oh, so these are the, it's only specific articles that were pre populated onto these, these two batches of consent agendas. One majority vote and one for the two thirds vote. So the numbers kind of jump around sometimes they're sequential, but they often jump around. And so I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. Because they were pre-selected and so this is just giving folks an opportunity to just kind of yank them off the consent agenda. If they disagree with, with, you know, the determination ahead of time to put them on there. Got it. Thank you very much. Thanks for the question. So why don't we reset the timer on this? And so it says, article 40, it's a no action zoning map amendment. So if, if someone is interested in. Proposing a substitute motion, they can remove it from the consent agenda. They could. Yeah. And so someone, so 20 seconds has passed. So that will remain on the consent agenda. And so next up is article 45. This is a zoning by law amendment. Related to appeals. It is also a no action. And so 20 seconds now, anyone who's interested in producing a substitute motion for this no action article. Can request to remove it. Okay. So we have one. So that's at 15 seconds. We'll go until 35 seconds to give an additional. 20 seconds for anyone. And we have a second there. Second request. So article 45 is removed from the consent agenda. And so we have a second. And so we have a second. And so we're going to move forward to Mr. Warden's substitute motion when article 45 comes up in the natural order. Article 53 is next. Okay. And this is appropriation related to financing of construction or of sewers and sewage. Sewerage facilities. This is a favorable action. So let's start the timer. Anyone who. Requests at six seconds. We'll go to 26 seconds and we have two. So it is now removed from the consent agenda. And the last one on the consent agenda for the two thirds. Vote articles is article 54 appropriation related to financing of construction or reconstruction of water mains and water facilities. This is a favorable action. So no substitute motion is required. If you want to discuss this, I'll start the timer. And so we have 20 seconds for an initial request. And so we do it six seconds. We'll go to 26 seconds. For any second. Request and we have one. Great. And so that will be removed. The consent agenda. So if. So it's 1050. I think we have. Just enough time to, to vote on the two thirds vote consent agenda. And then we'll be totally done with consent agendas. For. For the year. I don't think we're going to have one for the special, but. Decided that yet. Okay. So it's open voting now on the two thirds vote consent agenda. And so this will require a two thirds vote to pass. And then that vote, if it passes, we'll carry through to all the other votes. And this is not, this is not debatable. Because that's the nature of consent agendas. Okay. So go to your time meeting portal. And we have a minute timer, but I'll give a little bit more time if necessary. If you're having trouble voting, you can. If you have any technical support, you can get help button in the portal, but for voting in particular, you can enter your vote in the Q and A if you need to, if you're having trouble with the virtual time meeting portal. Or you can, you can call the town clerk, Ms. Brazil at 7813163071 to get your vote in. If you are in favor of the recommended votes on the articles that were on the consent agenda. I realize now that we did not show the articles that were on the consent agenda is actually only three. So it was on the two thirds of a consent agenda. I apologize that I didn't visually show those. I'll just enumerate those now and then we'll take Mr. Foskett's point of order, article 31, article 36. I'm sorry, article 35 and article 40 are the only three are the only three that are on the two thirds vote consent agenda. Let's take Mr. Foskett's point of order. Thank you, Mr. moderator, I think you just answered the question, but nonetheless, can you please confirm that articles 53 and 54 are not on the consent agenda. That is correct. So, so while while voting is open. Ms. women, can you just bring up the two thirds consent agenda. And I just have to highlight these. Tab in the spreadsheet. Right. And so you can. Right. So it's just, it's just those three. I'll just. Thank you, Mr. moderator. Thank you. So I'll just, since there's only three of them, I'll just quickly highlight these. These the only ones remaining on the two thirds vote consent agenda that we're voting on right now. removed from the consent agenda. It's only those three green rows, articles 31, 35, and 40 that we're voting on right now. So a two-thirds vote here would carry through to the recommended votes of those respective articles. Okay, 31, 35, and 40. Apologies for not showing that before the vote. We can switch back now to the voting portal. Let's see how we're doing with voting. We have 226, 227 votes cast. So let's just give another 10 seconds on this. So if you haven't voted yet, please vote. Mr. Moderator, I think several people were having trouble with the portal. So I don't know if the staff might need time to finish answering people's verbal vote. Oh, okay. And so let's give additional time if folks are having trouble voting. Sorry about that. Do we have any update from folks who are working with the customer support? Are there kind of systemic issues? Do we know that we're dealing with or is it just a number of individuals with issues? Do we know yet? It was the portal. I think we might need to ask people to vote in maybe like two or three waves in the future. Yeah, I should have requested to do that. There was somebody mentioned that earlier and I did not follow through on that. Apologies for that. Going forward, like when we meet on Wednesday, we'll probably do like odd precincts, give them maybe 20 or 30 seconds to vote and then allow even precincts to vote. We're all set on the end. Okay, so there's no pending support issues that we're dealing with? No, not at this time. Great, thank you. So let's just take five seconds for any very last-minute votes and then we'll close this up. So let's close voting. Okay, so it passes. 229 votes in the affirmative, one vote in the negative. So the two-thirds vote consent agenda passes. And that was a, yeah, that was a long slog I recognize and apologize for the hiccups we had along the way. We're kind of figuring things out as we go. And so we have a point of order from Mr. Foskett. Mr. Moderator, I move that we adjourn. Okay, do we have a second, Ms. Brazil? Second. Okay, so this meeting is adjourned at 10.57 p.m. And so we at least cleared through the consent agendas. And so we'll, as we suggest, as Mr. Diggins moved earlier in the meeting, we are going to reconvene at 8 p.m. Wednesday night. Folks should, I ask that you please sign in early to make sure that any login issues or any other technical issues are resolved. So logging in 15 to 20 minutes early at least to make sure that's all been working order. So thanks everyone for working through this night. I know it was a slog again with the consent agenda. Thanks for all your forbearance and see you all Wednesday night at 8 p.m. Thank you.