 Welcome to the select board meeting on Monday, June 1st Before I start with the remote participation executive order, I do want to say To everyone in Arlington a week later after the death of George Floyd a human being black man a son a brother Again a human being Obviously on top of the pandemic has brought a lot of issues that really have been percolating for much too long I was thinking about this issue today, and I remember when I first thought the watershed moment was when I was pregnant with my third child and Rodney King the incident happened Where he was taken out and beaten by police officers and then the acquittal and all the unrest then and I really thought that would be the watershed moment and then as I was going through trying to think about Other people that we've lost like Amadou Diallo and Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and Freddie get gray Eric Gardner Now Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd I Hate that we just keep saying names I Know when everyone watched that video of Mr. Floyd being murdered really struck Myself and everyone in Arlington as well as the state and the nation really to the core and I do want to say I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful that this will be The watershed moment that I thought would have back in 1991 and here we are in 2020 and the reason why I say I'm hopeful is Because of the town of Arlington I am so proud of our residents our employees here in the town I'm so proud and I'm hopeful when I hear about Issa Dre who I believe is an Arlington high school student who started organizing peaceful social distancing protest rallies up and down the app in Arlington from six to seven I'm hopeful when I hear that the father mock from St. Agnes This past Sunday and again next Sunday at 5 p.m Started walking from the St. Agnes school church up to town hall and gave some thoughts and prayers of strength and hope To help Arlington and the rest of the country Get through these tragic times and I'm also hopeful because last fall The select board and town manager and others took this issue head-on when residents came in concerned residents Came in provided testimony to us either personal or their neighbor's testimony about racism in the in the fear not only the fear they live with but the fact they live with racism and since last fall Your town leaders elected and appointed we've been Getting training talking to people one-on-one You know learning about individual into personal institutional structural systemic racism Because it is out there. It's just a matter of what form or forms it is but again, I want to say to Arlington Along with my colleagues on the board Dan don Joe Kuro John heard in steeped of course He and our town manager Adam chaplain and all our town employees We're committed to this very important issue We're hopeful by our Arlington residents how they have risen proudly safely to say this is important and also Work with our Arlington Human Rights Commission a lot of people are saying, you know after the protests or rallies out there anymore Where else can we go? There's always the select board But we also have an Arlington Human Rights Commission to brand new commissioners Mel Goldsype who was fantastic She's still fantastic, but she had to move out of state But we have two new commissioners with a lot of energy as well as the current commissioners on there So I just want to say thank you to Arlington. Thank you for giving us hope. Thank you. Thank you for Exercising your freedom of speech safely and let's just continue to take care of each other. So I Want to thank my colleagues for allowing me to say those remarks. I also want to before I read the Remote participation that I just want to let the Public know that our town manager mr. Chapter Lane also has to do dual duty tonight He needs to virtually be at the finance committee meeting around 730. So If you notice his absence, that's why and when he's no longer needed a finance committee, he'll rejoin a select board meeting so As a preliminary matter, I'm Diane Mahan select for chair permit me to confirm that all members and persons Anticipated on the agenda a present and can hear me members when I call your name. Please respond in the affirmative Dan Dunn. Yes Joe Cureau. Yes, John Hurd. Yes, Steve D'Corsi. Yes And staff when I call your name also, please respond in the affirmative our town manager Adam chapter Lane. Yes, I Know our town council Douglas Hine. Yes Good evening This is an open meeting of the Allenton select board being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12 2020 due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth due to the coronavirus in order to mitigate the transmission of the virus We have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings and as such The governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location Further all members of the public Further all members of Public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely The order which you can find posted with the agenda materials for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely So long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting Ensuring public access does not require ensuring public participation Unless there is a public hearing item on the agenda or other provision for public comment such as tonight's citizens open forum This meeting will feature opportunities for public comment As well as the open forum for resident comments the select board is convening this meeting by zoom is posted on the town's website Identifying how the public may join in the public may join this meeting either through the zoom app or using the telephone Dial-in number. It is also being broadcast on a CMI Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by video conference Accordingly, please be aware that anything broadcasted may be captured by the recording Please also take care to adjust your screen or device name if you would like to speak In order for us to recognize speakers appropriately and develop accurate minutes It is helpful for participants to see your full first and last name when calling upon you rather than a nickname Finally, all participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment And those persons are not required to identify themselves All of the materials for this meeting are available on the novice agenda dashboard in the board's website We recommend the members and the public follow the agenda as posted on novice unless I note otherwise We are now turning to the first item on the agenda Before we do so permit me to cover some ground rules for effective and clear conduct of our business and to ensure accurate meeting minutes I will introduce each speaker on the agenda After they conclude their remarks, I will go down the line of select board members Inviting each by name to provide any comment questions or motions Please hold until your name is called Which is helpful for those persons who are attending the meeting by telephone Further, please remember to mute your phone or computer when you are not speaking Please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps to generate accurate minutes for any response Please wait until the chair yields the floor to you Finally each vote taken in this meeting will be conducted by roll call vote This meeting will feature opportunities for public comment Under citizens open forum After members have spoken, I as the chair will afford public comment opportunities as follow I will first ask members of the public who wish to speak to raise their hand On the zoom app for any persons attending by phone Please note that you can raise your hand during public comment periods by pressing star nine Once I have a list of all public commentators I will call on each name and afford three minutes for any comments Please keep in mind that all participants and members of the public must be recognized by the chair before speaking And for persons participating by phone, you should identify your name and address for the record when called on Citizens open forum will function much the same way I will first ask members of the public who wish to speak for citizens open forum to raise their hands on the zoom app Again, any persons attending by telephone. Please note that you can raise your hand during citizens open forum by pressing star nine Once I have a list of all persons wishing to speak on citizens open forum I will call on each by name and afford three minutes per speaker Please keep in mind that all participants and members of the public must be recognized by the chair before speaking And that the board does not typically engage in colloquy And citizens open forum because such items are not on the agenda for discussion So with that, I will go to our consent agenda We have The minutes of the meeting may 4th 2020 may 18 2020 A date change approval all into public youth art banner initiative Originally approved november 18 2019. It was going to be april 2020 to june 2020 The request is for july 2020 to august 2020 Caitlyn lung mire is the project coordinator approval for the allington international film festival banners April april rank Executive director and alberto guzman aiff request for contractor drain layers license tufts construction ink out of evert mass And then with our gratitude We have the appointment of new election workers jeffrey kendall 16 pelham terrace unenrolled precinct 8 frank foster jr 174 citron street democrat precinct 11 christopher harrington 74 columbia road unenrolled precinct 13 aron lit van 215 mass av unenrolled precinct 2 stacey lauri slobota 38 grafting street democrat precinct 3 charol lwango 43 millett street republican precinct 10 Ann mcclain 39 situate street unenrolled precinct 7 philip malatestas 8 walnut terrace road republican precinct 14 Beth maloft check 20 russia street unenrolled precinct 10 jeffrey smith 61 new york's erode unenrolled precinct 15 and katari wagner noons 129 pleasant street democrat precinct 7 first is there a motion by mr. Don Move approval of all items on the consent agenda And is there a second? second Done mr. Curell. Um, I would ask if um Anyone is here from the allington public art youth banner initiative Or the allington international film festival banners If you are and you would like to speak you can raise your hand now attorney heim Madam chair, we have one person who's raising their hand is What I have is the name is scott arena hawk mullen So, um, I'll try to See if that promote that person to uh Oh, nope that person has since lowered their hand. Okay And scott has notified us. Sorry false alarm. Thank you, sir. Okay, uh With that, um Many comments or questions mr. Dunn No, thank you. Mr. Curell. None Mr. Hurd No comments. Mr. Decorsi. None So on a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Curell Uh roll call attorney heim, please Mr. Decorsi. Yes Mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Curell. Yes, mr. Dunn. Yes, miss mahan. Yes So that is a unanimous vote for agenda items two three four five and six We now will go to citizens open forum as I read the preamble If you do want to speak if you could raise your hand through zoom or through star nine on your phone Except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor a decision made The night at the presentations in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established It should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request um Turning hind So madam chair, I see that john leoni Uh has his ran the hand raised Kate bird has her hand raised james o'connor has his hand raised galen muck has or galen has uh their hand raised and Len diggins Just give it one more minute to see if we've got any other folks looks like we've got five attendees with hands raised Madam chair. What order would you like to take them in? Um, I will first call on our tail moderator john leoni Okay, mr. Leone. I'm gonna promote you to panelists. Hold on a moment Mr. Leone, I think if you unmute yourself Or I'll unmute you You should be set to go Just have to get my video going here we go Good evening, madam chair members of the board mr. Hun I assume you'll always see the letter I sent around this afternoon Trying to detail what I believe the current state is for our town meeting. That's currently scheduled for june 15th I would wanted to bring that to everyone's attention at this time. It's only two weeks away There are a couple of things that I believe we need to Move forward on between now and then Um as detailed in that letter, I've had some discussions with mr. Chapter lane and his bun journal about this And if we're going to do it into 15th, I would like to Sort of get a nod of approval from the various departments and boards in his bun journal that we should finalize our planning Because it is going to take some more planning and coordination between myself The manager or the fire chief the police chief On who is going to be doing what roles I have spoke to miss boat dr. Boney today as well and she does have Chairs that we'd be able to use to set up on the field In that package of stuff. I sent you you will find a diagram of what the proposed setup would look like with Safe seating distances, proper roads, etc Um I spoke in acmi jeff monroe jeff is going to go down as soon as I give him the go ahead to Do some testing to see if the projector that they have will be able to project Onto the screen set up in front of the press box and we may also be able to get Four tvs set up around the perimeter of the seating area So we'd be able to use the clicker. So we'd be able to comply with the bylaws regarding If five people arise and they want to see What their vote was we could comply with that My preference would be to use the clickers because One would eliminate at least one or two people at the check-in table And we would not have to have those town employees even though we could have them with plexiglass So My purpose in writing that and appearing here tonight was to kind of see if there's anything any of you have thinking about Or that you should make me aware of or if you think this is a good or a bad idea in general I'm not sure what else we would do besides wait As you see some other towns are trying to do this virtually. However, most of those towns have a um computer whiz either on the board of selectmen Or some other department in town and they have Basically written nice interfaces. I've seen lexing tins. I've spoken to people in both winchester and brook line and Their it departments or their individuals have Written Programming that will allow them to do a virtual town meeting I've heard today that the senate has passed the bill as well as the house. It just hasn't been signed yet So that's kind of the status of where i'm at right now I have been contacted by at least one high school parents expressing dissatisfaction that we'd hold town meeting And that they could not have graduation and I wrote back to that woman That there's a few differences between town meeting members in high school. There's one I would expect we're going to have some between 100 and 150. There are 330 town high schoolers Each one of those high schools would bring three to four individuals. You'd have over a thousand people in the crowd Town meeting members are well. We're all adults. We're going to be hyper vigilant about social distancing wearing our masks which i'm going to require And we're not going to be hugging and cheering each other on Among other things plus we're going to get in there and get out of there as instructed and not hang about so Well, I feel bad for the high school kids and my truly in apathetic form I don't really see a parallel between Town meeting which is exempt from the governor's regulations of 10 people or more And town meeting and high school graduation. So I'll take the heat for that If necessary, but I don't really see a parallel The only thing I would ask is that I've spoken to Joan Roman and adam kowalski of the it department And as ask them to conduct a survey of town meeting members See if basically if we run it, will you come? Let me make sure we would be able to get our form of 62 and 85 for bonded votes so I would ask that the manager Instruct his folks to go ahead and do that Being the moderator. I have no authority to do anything So for on town meeting and I'll I'll say to that point Did speak with our town moderator Some length earlier today seems like it was yesterday about it was today and had a conversation with our town manager, mr. chapter lane about Getting a survey out of town meeting members And finding out if we're going to have the requisite forum as well as the 85 number for the bonding articles And he thought that was a good very good idea and If you could work with contact at mr. chapter lane about What the verbiage the wording on there should be? um as well as every day is like a year in ollington for everybody, but also Also, we've had some discussion around um people who Our town meeting members are member members of the public and want to Watch it on a cmi and or possibly my colleagues and I Have been discussing Um Looking into a zoom webinar feature also. So but the first thing is Uh the order of business. I believe that the moderator is outlined. Let's make sure You know, I was saying if we build it will they come that we we do have enough So mr. Chapter lane is willing to do that Um, and we'll get that on right away and I'll leave that to you. Mr Leone to follow up with mr. Chapter lane Call him the morning. Um, there I there is enough Um fiber cable running out to the press box so we can Broadcast cable cast over acmi and provide internet access for the members We just have to get mr. Good to to verify the Fiverr's active and get enough routers out there for everybody Okay, I'm sure he can do it. Okay. Um Uh because we are talking about town meeting and the town moderator is asking if any members of The board would want to relay something For a town meeting on june 15th Mr. Dunn The madam chair. I'm sorry. I shot churning high. Yes. I'm so sorry because I don't I hate to do this. I know that the moderator is trying to keep people looking informed but Because it's not an agenda item. I just don't want to put I know that you're just sharing information the moderators just sharing information It's not a discussion of things that are under the control of the select board jurisdiction I just want to remind folks that That it's not an agenda item. So it's it's it's you know, we should be aware Then I I guess I'll instruct my colleagues to um, either communicate with our town manager and or town moderator And they're free to email or call me. I believe they all have my number. Thank you And thank you attorney. Hi I'm a little scrambled eggs right now. Sorry. Um, next, uh, our Thank you all Thank you, mr. Leone our assistant, um town moderator and I believe he's a co-chair of our election modernization committee Um, mr. O'Connor Yes, attorney. I'm I'll bring on mr. O'Connor. I just want to note that there's also a new hand raised for a mr. Thomas proctor Okay Mr. O'Connor and now I'm sure If mr. O'Connor can hear us if you could Um setting that up. Here we go. Okay Good evening. Just say your name and titles for the record, please James O'Connor assistant moderator and chair of the election modernization committee poll warden from precinct 20 I come before you to request a vote to increase the rate of compensation For the upcoming local election In view of the covet 19 pandemic and the extraordinary measures by the town to provide A safe environment for both arlington voters and the election workers It seems appropriate and fair to compensate the staff Who will work this coming saturday june 6th Although many of the arlington voters have requested a ballot by mail Be the recent mailing of a postcard We must provide sufficient staff to accommodate any eligible voter who prefers to vote in person While processing the mailed in ballots There may be a need for some relief workers and I recommend That we prepare a standby list for precinct or polling location assistance. Should this be necessary? With the present staffing schedule being reduced to a minimum Yet the workload being the same or greater. I submit the following for your review and vote tonight I realize that you cannot vote tonight because this is under citizen open forum But in looking at the state required minimum wage laws I propose inspectors be paid the compensation rate of $15 an hour For their scheduled hours of seven to nine p.m 14 hours at a base rate of $210 Plus 15 out $15 an hour for every hour that they should work After 9 p.m to assist in seeing that all the ballots cast be properly counted And that we get the vote tallies to the clerk's office most efficiently as possible The wardens I propose be paid $18 an hour for their seven a.m to 10 p.m hours of 15 hours At a base rate of $270 plus $18 an hour after 10 p.m should the need arise If additional workers are necessary and available on short notice I would recommend that we have relief workers assigned to precinct locations And polling locations rather than specific precincts so they could assist across the individual Areas of the schools to see that the ballots are brought to the Um machine efficiently new election worker training having been asked by the Both the select board and the clerk's office I will be offering from 4 30 to 5 30 this thursday june 4th And that is uh My recommendation which I hope you all received. I sent you all a copy Does anyone have any questions? And what we'll do on this is mindful of the advice with mr. Leone I will leave it to the incoming chair and the select board office the last time we increased poll worker salary was 2017 or 2018. It's something that's done within The select board office so We'll definitely take action on that but i'll leave it to the incoming chair To place it on either for a vote or if we just continue on doing it as we have done in the past It's something internal and the incoming chair will contact you mr. O'Connor just to make sure we see this process through to the end Well, my proposal was for In effect this election, which is saturday So I did have a discussion of the manager and he's very much in support of this and We've talked about this for a couple of days, but he's been very busy with Other uh responsibilities today. So I didn't get it on your agenda today to vote No, you couldn't get it on today. We have to have 48 hours notice, but just We're going to continue to handle this mr. O'Connor as we've done in the past. Um We haven't voted on it before it's been something that's been done internally, but again, I'll make sure the um incoming chair Is will make sure to follow up on this because I think you'd you'd find if this was an agenda item. Um We thank you Okay, thank you so much. Um next um Miss bird kate bird I'm sure just a moment why uh allow miss bird in Thank you attorney heim We can see you but not hear you yet. Sorry. I don't know how to i'm you okay If you could just say your name and address for the record Yes, my name is kate bird and I'm at 149 braddle street in arlington Um, and I would like to thank you for your time. Um, I sent a correspondence this morning, which Many of you have responded to very quickly and Thoughtfully and I very much appreciate that and um, I would just like to take this opportunity to Read my letter. Um, it's a letter of support for improved cycling conditions on Arlington roadways So as I I mentioned in my letter I've been a resident in arlington for five years and I'm writing this letter in support of miss allison Seki and um mass bikes effort to improve bike safety in arlington So as I mentioned both my husband and I are both avid runners and cyclists And we rented in east arlington for five years and recently purchased our home in The braddle neighborhood in large part because of its proximity to the minuteman trail Uh, I use this trail daily for exercising and commuting However, since moving to arlington five years ago and purchasing a bike I've always had concerns about the safety of riding on town streets I often commute towards lexington on my bike and from the beginning was Upset at the intersection of the minuteman trail and lake street intersection As it is unsafe ambiguous and inefficient for cars walkers runners and cyclists alike And I cross that intersection multiple times a day and all of those capacities Um in 2015 I reached out to the town and was told it was being handled five years later The intersection is nearly identical. Um, I have been tracking that and realized that there has been some progress made but Um, it was still disappointing that five years later Nothing has actually been built or substantially changed at that intersection Furthermore last summer I was commuting home eastward on the minuteman and was crossing mass av from the uncle sam park In arlington center when I was struck by a car I came up behind me and hit me at about eight o'clock and then fled the scene Um, I was very lucky in that I had no injuries or broken bones But I did have an ambulance ride to the hospital many x-rays And about a year later, um, I still cannot lay on my stomach and I'm still going to a chiropractor Following up, um on injuries from that accident More I was very disappointed in the follow-up Trying to identify this this driver who hit and then fled the scene. Uh, there was little to know I'm made to track down the driver beyond one or two social media posts by law enforcement Um, so with this history and these experiences, I I read with sadness and anger about the accident on mass av in appleton Was revealed that that intersection had been identified as alarming as far back as uh, 2012 in a memo from the foster regional mpo Um, and this falls into this pattern of slow response and inaction Um towards bike safety on the arlington streets um I I truly believe that improving biking conditions will help all citizens by reducing pollution traffic um Opening up parking spots for those who truly need them and providing physical and mental well-being through exercise Just naming a few few benefits of this And I really hope that as members of the select board that you continue to prioritize safety for those on bikes I know steps have been made But I would like to see additional steps and further action there And I think that the recent occurrences really highlight the importance and immediacy of this need Um, I would like to again, thank you for your time and consideration in this matter You're very welcome and um, we do have two, um emails under correspondence received that came in under the open meeting law 48 hours in advance and they do appear and I've been um Responding as my colleagues have that as we receive them I've sent them to the select board office so they could at the very least appear on the june 8th correspondence received as well as the incoming chair um, we'll work with um the town manager mr. chapter lane um and Coordinate with our transportation advisory committee tack Um, so we will keep this at the forefront and I thank you for contacting us and joining us tonight um next I have Galen mook And I apologize if I am not saying the name correctly I just want to let my colleagues. I'm being a little lenient with our previous speakers. Um, not really sticking to the three minutes Hi, if you could just say your name and address for the record. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. Can you hear me? Okay Yes, okay great. Yeah, my name is galen galen mook. Uh, so you you got me great madam chair So thank you for that I'm actually a resident of allston, massachusetts But i'm here to represent uh advocacy regarding cycling in arlington I'm the executive director of the massachusetts bicycle coalition. We do statewide advocacy Which means policy work funding legislation and broader picture stuff, but we work with local advocates Of which arlington has many And i'm a big fan of the work that the town has been doing And aback in particular has been doing over the years to make Cycling safer to improve the conditions in the minuteman and the roadway junctions that you've seen some improvements But i'm here directly to talk about one of the specific dangers to kind of follow up on this bird's comment I do also want to thank you madam chair and all the select board and staff for hosting this and allowing Even non arlington residents to Speak out and to address the the board. So thank you very much um The uh, the reason i'm i'm here is to bring to the forefront the uh safety improvements that are so drastically needed particularly at the three intersection junction right there at appleton and massaf It's been identified. Uh, it's been even called out by cptps and the boston MPO for um for many years This has been a problem for the city. So are the town I mean, so I would urge you The point of this talk I guess is to urge As quick action as possible and to activate the tack and to engage with aback and the resources that the town has in um, including some resident planners who Are very active and very wise and care very passionately about fixing this I would ask the select board to really encourage the tack to figure out what could be done in the most immediate terms Because that intersection that whole section of three intersections is just as dangerous today as it was on may fifth When uh, uh crash took the life of charlie proctor mass bike's role here is to help facilitate that conversation We have been in touch with the family and friends of charlie to help navigate the Town structure in terms of advocacy. We attended the aback meeting last week And we received notes from the tack meeting So our intention is to work with the town and through the town procedures to make this as functional and Expedited as possible. Um, I do also want to point out that there is a resident A planner phil goff who's an east arlington resident who's part of the eels Coalition which i'm sure you're all familiar with so I thank you very much for the nodding of the heads there to Take phils considerations very seriously. Um, and especially to think that they're obviously modifiable to Um to implement as fast as possible and we've seen the town work quickly I was impressed with the mbta bus lanes that the town was able to implement. I'm very rapidly Through kind of unknown and uncharted territories, so Again the the dangers of mass av though. There are many this three section chunk is so Obvious that there should and could be very quick implementation And so I urge you to really press tack to think of Short and medium term in the most immediate ways of just getting safer infrastructure out there so that no family Has to bear the tragedy of losing a loved one to unsafe streets I also want to say that I do ride quite a bit through arlington For commuting purposes for recreational purposes and for errant's I'm very appreciative of the work that the town has been doing and the work of the dpw I'm very appreciative of the slow streets and the open streets campaigns that are concurrent right now And I'm very Viewed this very favorably and I hope the town is able to Take this request through the tack and to work with aback and the advocates to Really get something down and to flag that I also want to ask the select board Work with the family to think about what a memorial for charlie might look like in the past And other neighboring towns We've installed a white memorial bikes with the agreement of the town We did this last year with lexington For carrie couvert who has killed in a crash on the men at man This was a first for lexington and I understand that this is not a conversation that the town has had before In particularly this manner. So I want to offer myself my organization of mass bike as resources to help with figuring that out And to fully be communicative with the family throughout this process as well So I thank you for the time and I thank you for your prompt attention here and I appreciate that you're able to give me the platform to see this Thank you gail and and thank you for your commitment to arlington Though you reside in another town almost as good as arlington or city austin is your town And um, thank you for staying involved with this and I know myself and my colleagues I have received over the weekend And up until about 11 o'clock this morning have forwarded and responded Little over 20 emails from different individuals from arlington from some of all from eels And I've been responding to each one. I probably another dozen came in during the course of the day um, and and definitely the last time arlington unfortunately had a Tragedy was when we had a bike race here in nicole reinhardt unfortunately was killed um, and Worked on um getting a memorial with her family and I we tied into kia and subaru. So I definitely want to when we get to that point first We need to address the immediacy of the dangerousness and safety. So thank you. Thank you look forward to seeing you soon Next I have len diggins One moment madam chair. Mm-hmm. Mr. Diggins. You should be all set Thank you. Hey, I have a lot to cover I'm gonna talk quickly because I do want to stay Under three minutes And so the first thing is I wanted I wanted to say that I really appreciate the letter that was set out by the town regarding what happened in minnesota And and it was also very helpful to see the actions that the town has taken Need to try to eliminate Racism and furthermore, I want to point people to an article by barbara goodman. Um, that was in your arlington that talks also about the history of arlington's in um Attempts to to reduce racism And I'm I actually wasn't aware of the fact that arlington had was one of the first six times to participate in the That co-program, but there's a lot of other infiltrate a lot of other good history About what arlington's been working on in their article by barbara goodman. So it was in your arlington I just recommend that people check that out The second thing is We are trying to get what we are making it possible for More easy for people to do um precinct meetings. They have one of the things that the town has offered is one of its zoom Accounts aid and so I along with adam mcneill are Making ourselves available to help with that And right now we have precinct 19 That is going to have their meeting On june the 9th and I really want to emphasize that it's june the 9th right now It's on the town's calendar as june 2nd So it's going to be a zoom meeting from on june night started around 7 30. I think it's 7 30 to 9 o'clock and Most precincts are declining to do it. Um, because it's a really variable time between the election and town meeting this time and also the town meeting agenda is going to be abbreviated but pat handlin town meeting member from A precinct five has suggested that after this town meeting that we have these precinct meetings Maybe sooner rather than later to let people know how What we're thinking about for the fall the potential fall of town meetings and have people ask questions and Process that because things are going to be very different And so it'll give residents and also town meeting members Way to maybe get up to speed of what's going to happen. The third thing is that transportation of massachusetts Transit matters the conservation law of the foundation and the mbt advisory board have come out with a suggestion for The governance of the mbt aid As you may know right now it is governed by what's called the fiscal management control board and that is due to It's life. It's ending. It's at the end of this current fiscal year And so we need a replacement government structure and they've come up with a really good idea for that But more so they want to get people to chime in with their legislatures to make it clear that We really need to have good governors for the mbt aid and that ties in with The letter that you got from the mbt advisory board I was going to put my um my name in the The ring for this one. I know the current executive director and the past executive director as a member of the Actually co-chair for the capital investment and investment Subcommittee of the mbt rider oversight committee. I know these issues But I I see that there's a letter that's gone out to to pack already on this So I'll take that up with them. Hey there. So 20 seconds over. Thank you very much. And I'll just say that I live on eight ways the street Thanks. Thanks Lynn. Um, and yes, we do have that under Correspondence received which I'll just again, let me get to that speak to it briefly and that'll be another thing Incoming chair along with our town manager, mr. Chaplin Um next last person I have is thomas proctor My name is thomas proctor. I'm the brother of traw's proctor who was killed on May 5th At the corner We're very very sorry for your loss and I can tell you on behalf of my colleagues All the letters written by so many of charlie's friends and allison's friends and also a Very hot felt letter from allison herself. We have all received and Um, I never knew charlie, but I'm really sad. I didn't because I've really gotten a sense of What a great man he is he was um, and so many good things he had done I was clenning on he and his family and allison doing in the future. So Like our heartfelt condolences and you have you and your family And allison have been in my prayers. So that's not any of your time. So I'm sorry. I didn't need to jump in Well, well, thank you very much. Uh, I I just wanted to voice my support of And the rest of the family support the recommendations of the apac as well as the the work of gail and mook and mass bike And want to urge urge thick the select board to do everything in your power to Make sure that these changes happen as quickly as possible Definitely and um, we will stay in contact with um, you and your family throughout this whole process. Um, and especially Regarding some sort of memoriam. Um, we we had done this before with nicole rineholz family, but that had to be 20 years ago so unfortunately, unfortunately We're at that crossroads again and again. I just want to Thank you your family your friends for doing your best to celebrate You know the life that your brother charlie porter was and, um The testaments that we've heard from him and Whatever we can do. Um, we're going to stay in touch with charlie's family and allison's um through the addressing the dangerous intersection and the abac attack and all the other acronyms, but also, um, you know the human factor, um, because you're taking such a tragedy and Really funneling i don't know where you're getting the energy from to do this But really trying to funnel and make some good And make sure um that this wasn't just a tragic accident that just happened in vain. So Um, please you know accept our condolences and we will be seeing virtually maybe someday actually Face to face in a room. Um the proctor family and friends For some time to come. So thank you so much Thank you And that will end citizens open forum. Um, I think that's all I had on my list So now I will go to agenda item seven Citizens open forums closed agenda item seven For approval storage and at russell common lot Submitted by our health and human services director christine bonjourno attorney heim Is are you speaking to this or is miss bonjourno here? Hold on one moment. I'm sure Thank you I don't see uh miss bonjourno on the list of attendees right now um I'm missing it. Um Hold on one moment. I'm sure if I'll just folks at home Just want to make sure that i'm not Nope, that's fine. I'm glad you're doing that and i'm not so Madam chair, um, I'm happy to uh to try to speak to the very basics of this item again I don't see miss bonjourno present in the list of Attendees and miss bonjourno is there. I'm sorry if I'm missing her. Oh, that's okay. Um, we have the request for the storage shed Mr. Dunn Uh, I thought the memo was fairly straightforward and I feel like I can move forward I move approval of the request Uh to place the shed for the duration. I mean with with the sunset of it, uh to expire Next year and to revisit the issue then Okay, mr. Dunn has made made a motion to move approval. Do I have a second by mr. Harder? John can have it. Okay. Um, any questions any further questions or comments mr. Dunn Madam chair if I may up charny hind. Sorry Uh, patsy kramer has raised her hand. Uh, I don't know. I'm assuming to maybe speak about this particular issue Sure, if you could invite her in as a participant Thank you madam chair Patsy you're on hi there Um, it's just a part of the oh, can you just I'm sorry patsy just name an Affiliation from the run sure yeah a patsy kramer 85 columbia road and manager of the arlington farmers market So the request for this pod is just part of the special circumstances that we have to put in place So that we can have the farmers market this summer And uh, we're going to have to uh have a lot of extra equipment so that we can create a line For people so because we have to limit the number of people it can be in the market at any one time And so there are a lot of cones that we'll have to have Uh, and christine thought that a pod made the most sense to have that available for the season So that's that's what it's all about And the season kicks off one June 10th and ends october 25th. I think 28 something like that. Yeah Great. Um, we have a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Her Uh, mr. Carroll Yes Yeah, no, no, this is this is very clear. Um, I I I appreciate that we're going to find a way to To uh, continue holding the farmers market in a safe way and um, I'm happy to support this And mr. Herd I no comments And mr. De Corsi no comments Okay on a motion to move a rule will by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Herd a roll call Okay, we'll be right up Mr. De Corsi. Yes, mr. Herd That's not my kids Mr. Herd, that's not a roll call response. Yeah, you have to yes Mr. Curo. Yes, mr. Dunn. Yes It's mohan Yes, that's a unanimous vote agenda items Seven is closed. We go to agenda item eight for approval Arlington farmers market 2020 Patsy Kramer our market manager Um, I don't know if she wanted to add anything else unless attorney hind tells me There's a wave So madam madam chair. I've kept her on since uh, she's on this agenda item as well. This is uh Related vote and support the uh farmers market overall I'll give patsy the opportunity if she wants to actually speak a little more in depth about The Farmers markets, uh, my my two and a half year old granddaughter is visiting so you're in the background And can you just say your name and affiliation? Yes. Patsy Kramer Manager of the Arlington Farmers Market. Thank you Farmers markets are considered an essential business and an important source of food for people And so it was important that we try to work out a way of making it happen But also in a way that's safe for people and so I've been very closely collaborating with uh, christine bonjournal and natasha wadden to Make it work well for us And we're hoping to get it underway next though a week from this wednesday Thank you. Um first is there a motion by Mr. Hart seconded by mr. De Corsi Um, oh sd. Sorry. Um any questions or comments mr. Hurd I'm just excited to see the farmers market come back You know, there's a push right now to do things outside So I think this is a great safe alternative for people That can get what they need at the farmers market to not go to the indoor stores and to reduce congestion there So excited to see it open up again Thank you. Uh, mr. De Corsi. Yeah, I'm also happy to see it open and I appreciate the additional work that was done to include the the new parameters to to Make it run safely this summer Thank you. Um, mr. Curo I said my piece. Thank you very much And mr. Dunn Uh, you know, I often I have a hard time getting to the farmers market because the hours so are Overlapped my work. Um, but now I'm you know working from home. I think I'm gonna be able to make it more And I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, it's it's exciting. Okay So with that we have a motion to move approval by mr. Hurd second by mr. De Corsi attorney heim roll call please Mr. De Corsi. Yes, mr. Hurd. Yes Mr. Curo. Yes, mr. Dunn. Yes This mahan Yes, it's a unanimous vote Agenda item eight is closed. We move to agenda item nine discussion and approval economic recovery task force recommendations from our director of planning community development Jenny rate as well as our economic development coordinator Allie carter Just gonna wait if attorney heim tells me if one or both Are available One moment. I believe I see miss carter and miss rate And I will say as they're Being promoted to participants that the board is in receipt of a memorandum from our director of planning community development That we received I think it was today I know we all have received it. I have this habit attached so And it's about the task force recommendations And so I will miss rate could just I unmute herself or we unmute her and name and title for the record, please Thank you. It's jennifer rate the director of planning and community development And I am going to give a brief introduction And then hand it over to alley carter to Wrap up and I think we also may have a few individuals who might want to speak to this agenda item as well So we'll go from there when we get to that point But just to give you a quick overview The task force has been meeting for we've had four meetings as well as a number of subgroup meetings by business sector Mr. Herd is a member of the task force which has been very very helpful And so alley and myself have been organizing the meetings And the task force reps are from nonprofit organizations The members of the small business community the chambers other town departments The small business community is represented by all different business sectors as well as across the business districts in Arlington and the goal is to ensure a safe reopening and healthy economic recovery in arlington The meeting minutes and agendas have been well the meeting agenda is actually working on the minutes The agendas have been been posted and the materials that we've shared with The recovery task force have also been posted online if people are curious But also if people have questions they can contact myself or alley directly We've had these meetings and we've also conducted a number of surveys With both the town as well as the chamber With the business community and also with these conversations we've Determined sort of a number of different issues and also Items that would be helpful with the reopening efforts And so what we're sharing this evening is really those recommendations And also a framework that would allow Temporary ways to accommodate those reopenings by business sector And sort of in the immediate what we're looking at tonight Is really and what alley is going to review are a few of the key recommendations that we think would be helpful to do right now and also provide us with a staff with and some boards with a framework in order to really Allow us ourselves to really Enact these temporary measures to accommodate a reopening as soon as possible as you mentioned in your previous item About the farmers market. It's more important than ever to provide for outdoor options And that'll become very important in particular With the restaurants in our community So I think with that that's just a brief overview I'm going to hand it over to ali who is going to talk about the recommendations that we've outlined in the memo As well as our framework Including the dining at the temporary outdoor dining rules and regulations and then we'll take any questions Thank you. Thank you. And miss carter if you could just say your name and title please for the record Yes, I am ali carter. I am economic development coordinator for the town Um, so thank you all for your time tonight. So I'm just to briefly summarize Um, so I've been really, um, pleased with the impressive level of engagement with this task force It's really everyone has been Very involved in every meeting Um, and some things came through messages pretty loud and clear. Um, so I don't want to belabor what was already in the memo, but um Suspending parking fee collections for the duration of phase one would just provide some consistency for the business owners and for Consumers as well. Um, and that perhaps that could be reconsidered For extension for, you know, each subsequent phase of reopening um Secondly to suspend temporary signage permit review Um and to relax the sign the storefront window signage requirements For the remainder of the state of emergency one message we heard really loud and clear was that the the business owners themselves really needed to set expectations for people clearly Before they came into their place of business and that signage was a really inexpensive and effective way of getting that done um, and then there's the we talked about this briefly the last time I was um here before you but It's an unfortunate reality that there are going to be a lot of businesses that Don't make it through this. Um, and there will be some businesses that close and We it is wonderful that we have a vacant storefront Um registration requirement in this town Um, however, we want to provide relief for landlords too who are also feeling the pinch not, you know For folks who have had long-term issues, but for people who can demonstrate that their difficulty finding a tenant is directly related to covet 19 impacts. Um, we'd like to um Offer that as a recommendation Um just A little bit more, um About the seasonal outdoor dining and shopping opportunities We wanted, you know, this is really an unprecedented era of takeout and delivery and curbside Business and so curbside management is really more important than ever and it needs to be responsive to these new demands So we wanted to um set criteria um for Finding ways to expand outdoor dining and shopping And I created a separate um set of draft regulations that speak specifically to dining that are Really largely based on some regulations that have already been passed in norwood And there are other communities in the area that are doing this as well um, and then we also wanted to Create some guidelines for how we could evaluate the creation of 15 minute parking zones to Facilitate again that major increase in pickup and drop-off so far. We've been getting by fine With just suspending the parking but now as retailers open up as well and more people are going out and doing Things um, we think we might need more intensive curbside management, so that is Uh, the summary happy to take any Questions or hear your comments Okay, um, I think uh, miss rate said there were some other individuals also giving some information on this out Miss rate. Is that correct? Um, I actually alley. I don't know those individuals. I don't I don't know who they are to in order to be called on Um and then to tell Doug Okay, if um, if you are involved in the economic task force Committee and we're planning on speak tonight if you could either raise your hand through zoom or press stars Nine on your phone And I'll wait a little bit So madam chair so far we have, uh, brian ristutia I apologize brian if I got that wrong Beth lock and emily sherry Beth lock and emily They wish to speak. I'm not sure about brian Related to this agenda item. Is that what you're saying? All three of those folks have their hand up. Okay. Okay. Um I'll start with, um But brian's put his hand down. Sorry. Okay So then I will go to miss lock. Um when you're on and we can hear you if you can just say your name and affiliation for the record, please Even though we all know you Hey, am I on Yes Hey, hi, everybody. I'm back lock executive director of the arlington chamber of commerce um, and I just want to simply speak in support of um These issues that ali and jenny are bringing before the board this evening. I am a member of the task force um, and have also participated in so far one of the Focus groups that are um aspects of this task force um, and um You know, I believe these are all things that are very important For the business community. I think there'll be other things that are coming down the pipe. You'll probably See more requests from this group. Um, but I really urge you to um To take these to heart and um, and I just again want to speak in support of it the task group Um is is doing a great job so far and I think as as we get further into the phases um, it's going to become more and more There's going to be more and more work being done by this group. So thank you for letting me speak and um That is it from me Thank you, beth and uh, I really want to thank um beth lock as well as kathleen darcy From the chamber of commerce and many others. Um, you really have gone above and beyond Not only for members of the chamber of commerce, but um Other businesses who perhaps weren't aware or for financial reasons. You've um, really extended offering services to them. Um Recognizing that they're just barely keeping the float and surviving and sort of waving the fact that they Don't have the membership status. So it's one of the things again that I really love We all love about allington is you know, when we take care of each other and um Treat everybody the same so Um, miss shea if you could say your name and affiliation or address for the record when we get you Joined and I see our town manager. Mr. Chapter Lane has returned from the finance committee. Thank you, sir And we are on agenda item nine Hi Am I up now? This is the owner of kickstand resident of draper avenue and really just a quick Agreement with everything beth said and a big thanks to her and the chamber They've done great things and just to offer myself as one of the business owners who's on the task force If you guys have any questions about some of these recommendations I'm happy to answer them and also just reiterate how important things like the signage relaxation are For us trying to manage crowds and think about ways that we can reopen and get things going again So really that's all i'm here to say thanks to everyone and offer myself If you have any questions about the specifics and how they affect us business owners And thank you for really putting in the extra work to staying in allington and having a presence and um I don't know how you keep in a float but um kickstand is a very beloved institution, especially not in allington center, but an entirety of allington Um, so I thank you. So what I will do first is uh first is there a motion mr. Herd? Are we moving approval of the all the recommendations in the Memo, yeah, if you want to put that on as the motion and then if someone wants to modify it or amend it along the way Okay, so moved moved by mr. Herd is there a second? Second by mr. Curo um questions or comments mr. Herd Um, just as memory the task force. I think one of the things that certainly I've Discussed and there's been An issue for a lot of the building of the business owners is the parking. I think It's sort of one of the main ways that we support these businesses. I know the ask was For phase one I would almost Just amend it and say to suspend the meter revenue Indefinitely while the meters are there we're put in place to create Turnover and to create parking spaces, you know, I think it's going to be a while before the parking spaces are Take all taken up that would require you know us to To re-implement the meters and I'm happy to you know hear my colleagues concerns on this but I'm I think we could leave it to the town manager and the You know people from time that are observing The parking spaces to let us know when it's time to re-institute the the meter collection But you know, I do agree with all the recommendations that came forth from From that economic development task force And if I could since it was referenced to ask our town manager, mr. Chaplain any comments or I'd be fine with the vote of indefinite suspension with the board's Understanding that we might be back soon to ask you to start it back up again depending on how busy things become Uh, and also just with the the public statement that Without the revenue some of the nice things we've been able to do the past couple years with flowers In the in the center we we will have to peel back on right because we won't have Revenues so i'm not um, i'm not suggesting that that trump's Needing to give as much flexibility as possible, but I think an indefinite suspension Is a is a good idea But you know if we're back a month from now saying let's get it back up and running I I would ask you to not be surprised is all I'd say Okay, so is that amenable mr. Heard to amend your Motion to indefinite suspension of the meters So that will be reflected in the vote and um, mr. Kiro, you're okay with seconding that with the amendment. Yes. Yes Mr. Heard did you have any other questions or comments? I know Mr. Kiro Yeah, I had three and I guess I'll start with the one that has that refers to the Meters like I say, I'm fine with the indefinite suspension. I realize one of the reasons we've done this is to avoid people having to touch The meters and having contact surfaces. So I'll One of my Favorite topics pay by phone. How close are we to with that because it feels like even when we bring them back up That that now more than ever that would be an effective way to To minimize the amount of touching of those those contact surfaces Okay, whoever answers if you can just say your name and title Mr. Chapter Lane, is that you I think ali can best answer, but I know I Gave the go ahead to the zones that they had designated for pay by phone just a couple days ago So I think it's right on the doorstep, but ali might know more Yeah, we're very close. Um, we uh, we created the zones. Um, we have to do some final details That require the the treasurer's office Um, we have a meeting with them on thursday. We're really just tying up the final loose ends on that Okay, and ms. Raida ms. Raida you in agreement with that? Mr. Carol, I think you said you had a couple Yeah, I did I did no that that's that's great. I mean I've been eager for that anyways But I think now more than ever I think it's very important that we that we Institute that On parking I I agree very much with the the idea of designating the the 15 minute drop-off pick-up zones I was I was down in the center last night at the Um, demonstration for a while right in front of trader, um, not your average joes and um There was a continuous flow of people pulling in and getting out for their pickup And I so I think it's that's also an important part the only other piece I I Just wanted to highlight is um under the draft outdoor dining regulations It does reference that the serving of alcohol and that the issuance of one of these licenses should not be construed as as the ability to Um serve alcohol outdoors to even to license facilities without coming to us For a license it was that the thinking around that that that businesses that wanted to avail themselves of that Would have to come and go through the full full process that we would typically follow for The licensing of outdoor serving of alcohol Would like to answer that Ms. Carter or ms. Right I'm I'm happy to um The idea was a lot of that is controlled. Um by the state And we didn't want to You know Cross any lines we were when we drafted this there were still, you know The the news that came on friday. We didn't have that yet. So um, yeah, we thought we would be conservative on that score Okay, um attorney. I'm anything you wanted to Either add or revise us when we move along And to get to that point No, I I I think it will be a manager dugheim town council. I think it will be valuable for us to try to Coordinate and understand fully how the abcc How the abcc is treating this type of activity and I also just note that Ms. Rape ms. Carter took a lot of care to make sure I just want to add a little piece that We're not talking about increasing folks capacity We're talking about giving opportunities that are being basically taken away from them by The current conditions Thank you attorney hind. Uh, mr. Curo That's all I had. Just thank thank you very much to ms. Rape ms. Carter and all the members of the task force For all your work on this. It's important work. Appreciate it. Thank you. Mr. Dacorsi Thank thank you, madam chair and thank you for all the work. Uh, ms. Carter in this rate and mr. Herd uh for being our desig be in the on the task force um on on the um Just just one thing on the on the regulations and some minor Potential change article two section four refers to Approval by the general manager and I think that maybe it's more appropriate to call that approval by the select board office um and so if we're going to vote the regulations they just want to offer that as a Just a friendly amendment to the to the proposed regulations um And then the other just point on the temporary or or shorter 15 minutes zones what I What I've seen in in boston in the past month is um Just signs being put up on meters That basically override the meter and say five it's actually five minutes in boston some areas five minute retail zone So that may be something to think about and then the third um thing I just had a question on the Once the um remote pay or mobile pay is is instituted. What what platform is being used for that? Any other passport is in cambridge boston has its own system. I don't know if if that um It's also through the passport system okay, um Whoever answers that miss rate or miss miss codder and miss codder Um, sure. I'm sorry. Should I say my name again? Yes, please anyone on the phone? That's okay. Um ali carter economic development coordinator. I just um It wanted to make sure I had the rule straight. Um The company is called pay by phone um, which is also what the service is usually Referred to but that's the company we're going with Okay, all right. Are they in any other communities? Are around us they're in conquered um, but I think one of the things that was attractive about working with them, um, is that they're They've partnered with the t and so because we rely so heavily on bus service. There's a potential that someday That could be a platform for Pay payments as well Thank you Hey, um, mr. Decorsi, um Uh Mr. Herd, do would you like to take mr. Decorsi's friendly amendment under article two section four to change Uh the designation identifying the general manager and change that to the select board I yes, so i'm in And um Mr. Kiro, do you exist still second that? Yes Um, and I just want everyone at home to know my colleagues are aware of this. I try to go in a different order Somebody's not always the last to talk. Well, they actually I'm the last shock Oh, I'm sorry, um, mr. Chapter lane So I I've not pulled it up in front of him, but I know the general manager in Norwood without refers to their equivalent of the town manager I just wanted to make sure ali and jenny weren't Proposing something that would have streamlined the process to be able to give quicker approval To these businesses such that maybe the select board office or the board administrator or some other Administrative staff was what you were aiming at with that section. Could I call on the planning director ms. Right? Jenny raised the director planning and community development. Yeah, I think that the appropriate Um, amendment might be town manager or if you wish for it to be the select board it would be the select board's office Or administrator, I suppose would be the other term But we were intending for it to be a more streamlined expedited process That was the intention Okay, um So, uh, mr. Ducorsi, do you want to change general manager to select board office? Or something else. Well, no, I think select board office is appropriate here because the text to the section refers to the select board office Okay Okay, um Who was I just on mr. Dunn Uh, no questions. Um, I think that these are all good steps for and I really appreciate the the work that people are doing And I think that the we're putting together a lot of flexibility to manage these, you know These things that we certainly didn't anticipate when we wrote all this. So, uh, thank you very much Thank you. And um, I want to take advantage of the opportunity to thank The planning department. Thank our colleague mr. Herd who's our liaison, but um, our director miss raiden economic developer, uh, miss carter, um, it's a little bit off the agenda item, but um I've been so impressed in terms of You know how much I email you all And when I email you all and I try to say don't answer me on the weekend But you still do. Um, but I've really been impressed with the effort. Um, when we've come to businesses where the owner English isn't necessarily their first language And imagine me walking through your business establishment and I start to tell you all the great things the town of valentine can do for you and it just It usually um, it's been a daughter or son or niece or nephew that makes the call with that business owner and um Miss carter and miss rate um have been Not only feeling those sorts of calls, but whenever I Throw something their way they've usually already thought about it and have a protocol set in place And if they don't they make one So I'm really appreciative of that because I like everybody in allington want to do whatever we can to keep our businesses here to help them survive For the whole circle from the landlord all the way down to the business So I I want to take advantage of that opportunity because I know I have and my colleagues have been throwing a lot of stuff your way Whether it's through cdbg cares to act and And this initiative here, so I I'm definitely appreciative of that so with those amendments on um indefinite, uh with With the meters to be determined by recommendation by the town manager to change article two section four from general manager to select board office If there's no further questions or comments, I will call On a motion by mr. Heard second and by mr. Curell journeyheim Madam chair, we do have uh one person who has raised their hand if you'd like to take public comment No, we don't do that Okay, um, oh because it's an agenda item. Um, it's if it was a public hearing then we would so um Thank you, um journeyheim roll call Mr. Decorsi. Yes. Mr. Heard. Yes Mr. Curell. Yes. Mr. Dunn. Yes. It's mohan Yes, that's a unanimous Uh vote on a gender item nine and I just want to state because zoom is kind of new to people We're conducting the select board meeting as if we were in pre corona And when it comes to doing the business of the town and taking votes on individual, um Items that are on the agenda before us. It's the five members of the board that um Are charged with uh conducting that business Um as well as any staff that we need to have questions answered from so, um I apologize if that's confusing to whoever wanted to Speak so with that we go agenda item nine is closed We go to agenda item 10 an update on our shared streets one week pilot shared streets shared streets Oh, that's a hot thing to say First I'll turn to our town manager. Mr. Chapter Lane and you can lay out who will speak Sure, so I'm I'm going to ask dan amstets our senior transportation planner to walk through Uh what we've learned and what we've gathered from this one week pilot But I I do want to say I want to commend the board uh for their leadership and I want to commend dan And jessica from neighborways design Um, I think we we know arlington's been a leader in sustainable transportation with bike bicycle improvements pedestrian improvements Bus improvements over the past several years But this one in particular we were able to roll out our pilot Safely and efficiently before summerville before cambridge before boston And I think that's a huge credit to dan the planning department and their efforts and into your leadership and your vision So I want to turn it over to dan, but I did want to lead by saying that And you know what? I'm glad you said that because when I saw cambridge just announced that they're starting in the middle of june on harvard gardener And magazine street a little competition Cheerleader in me was like, huh, so I'm glad you noted that so it's not just me Um, so if we could turn it over if you could just say your name and title for the record Sure. Thank you. My name is daniel amstets. I'm the senior transportation planner with the planning and community development department um thank you, uh adam dunn manager um for that introduction I did have a presentation that was sent to you in advance and I'll Want to briefly go through it. Um, should I just share it from my screen? If you're able to that would be great Your permission. Yeah Yeah Okay Wow, I'm impressed. Look at this So all right, I'm making it full screen um So thank you very much. I do want to um Thank the board of course for um supporting this at the last meeting a couple of weeks ago and um, we ran with the pilot for that uh one week and I'm going to go through that I'm going to try to quickly go through the Evaluation piece of it so we can get a bit more towards the end and to the next steps. Um I also want to start by um giving compliments to um the police department and the public works department um and also the planning department staff and the town manager for all Being very helpful and supportive throughout this on neighbor ways design and also the lorenzen lily and salomon foundation that helped actually fund The assistance from neighbor ways. Um, they did a considerable amount of work on this and I I really appreciate that so as let's see Okay, so Um, again, like I said, I'll go through this fairly quickly. Um, this is one of the images from what the street looked like We also shared some on social media And I'm going to touch on these goals that we talked about at the the previous meeting Um as we go through here So the demonstration It was really we talked about it as a demonstration project So it was in place for a week so that we could have a little bit of time for people to get used to it to collect some data um and test the proof of concept as How how could shared streets work because we haven't really done this kind of thing in our linkedin before It was active from about midday on wednesday the 20th to midday on wednesday the 27th So over the memorial day weekend And overall we had Substantial public support for it. I'll I'll talk a bit more about that later And in the news item that we had about this We also had a link to for people from around arlington to nominate another street Um that they wanted to have some shared street intervention on we have as of um, I just looked at about 123 nominations for other streets, so Considerable interest not just from the residents where we did the pilot, but also all around arlington Here's some images from the street Um So there were definitely people I went there a few times so definitely people walking in the street Or jogging with their kids You know, it wasn't like there was people everywhere all the time, but these are some nice images of I think from jessica mortel from neighbor ways who who was out there several times and got some really good images of this Of just people enjoying the street Whether they're walk-ear biking or jogging. Um, this was I sent you a little video if you were able to look at it That was great. There's a testimonial from resident of east arlington One of my favorite parts of this actually was that um as As she's talking that there's a family that comes up behind her and then goes into the hearty elementary parking lot I thought that was a nice sort of happenstance um So where are we now we've so again, this is a timeline. We um did some initial or neighbor ways kind of Let us know about their their opportunity with the salomon foundation And we we have spoke with the town manager and public works and the police department Figure out materials that we needed we've spoke with a variety of residents in the area or some residents who were very interested and then We emailed local groups. We did lots of flyers, which I'll talk about in a moment And just generally tried to do as much public outreach as possible And jessica was was on the street. She would talk to people often That she managed to sort of ask them how how they liked it what they thought about it We also had as part of the evaluation The police department was collecting speed and volume data for us on brooks avenue at 52 brooks Which I believe is between chandler street and eggerton road And we have simple foreign after data for that too. So we are now at um june 1st so we We did about 400 flyers There's so we about basically 200 before The pilot uh the the week before we had the select board meeting last time And then last week we did another 200 where um, they were put up on residences Doorways, you know, just just outside their door to tell them about the pilot and then last week it was we Was telling people that it was you know, it was over and we had a survey that they could take And so I'll have the survey results in a moment We had emails sent out to People we knew in the neighborhood who could send them out to their Whether it was their facebook groups or other places where they could put the information social media We did some posts from the town Again, the survey to nominate streets the installation video testimonial And then we were looked at public comments the speed and volume data There were some there's some Hand counts that were done by um neighbor ways as well And Our general observations what there really wasn't there wasn't crowding that was I think a concern at the beginning We sort of talked about this as being possibly a Alternate to the bikeway, but we realized quickly that is very very short. We didn't You know being overly or or concerned about the crowding piece that we didn't put any signage on the bike way to say Hey, come on to brooks avenue. We didn't want you know to end up with a bad situation And in general it's just not long enough You know, it's only for about a quarter mile the brooks runs from lake street to varnum streets So you can't really go very far and most people if they are Exercising and want to stay on the same, you know the same direction or on the same path for a certain amount of time That's familiar to them. Um, there were lots of families and young children in the street We knew that this area of east harlington does have a lot of families We did we so this again was a learning experience some of the signs We put up were a little confusing on the herbert road approaches To say milton street. We had a road closed sign as opposed to one that would say like road closed to through traffic And so those were some decisions We sort of had to make on the fly that would be different from what we would do now And we learned we heard from the residents that those some of those signs were confusing We did try to do some sort of mid block traffic calming with just some traffic cones But it was interesting. Um, jessica from neighbor ways has a small kind of speed gun And she was clocking some Uh, some drivers that were coming down the road and speaking to somebody and you know, even What we learned is sort of even a 25 mile an hour speed limit is sort of is high for Trying to share a street with cars Um, I think in in other places where you have such situations more like 15 to 20 miles an hour is is a lot Closer to what you'd want to have in that kind of situation Um, we definitely observed that like at lake in brooks where we put some Some signs out in barricades traffic went slow as they went through there But overall very supportive and curious neighbors Um, this is the speed and volume data We took about two days worth of data before and then just about one day of data afterwards You know very um Very interesting to learn. So the average daily traffic, you know, is about the average between the two days from the first From the before data and then the after data was one day, but definitely This is really interesting. It showed such a A very uh substantial decrease in traffic But also substantial decrease in the number of vehicles going over 25 miles an hour and over 30 miles an hour And that is the kind of thing that you really want to see when you're implementing this type of Strategy or treatment is to really see those speeds go down And that was, you know, overall been a concern here a lot about traffic speeds being too fast And so the fact that it that slowed people down for that substantially. I think it's really impressive. Whoops, excuse me Um, and then we took some active transportation counts. Um You know just looking at things like were people on the sidewalk where they in the street Were they wearing masks? Just to kind of see how things were going. I would say that You know during the pilot there was a market increase in people actually Being in the street. I'd say observationally just anecdotally I think most people still kept to the sidewalks if they were walking and that might be due to the Due to the speed factor of cars Um, just briefly the public comments before the pilot that you saw we had about 50 responses. Um The vast majority in support of that they you know wanting Need for safe space lots of kids in the street um wantless cars cutting through and We did I will mention that we did receive some comments during the pilot. It was about 13 or 14 They were they were all majority supportive, but it was generally very quiet during the pilot itself Um, but when you put up the post pilot survey, we received quite a lot of responses actually as of today Or this evening. I've got 200 responses on our post pilot survey This is what we put on the flyer that we put on everybody's residence. Everybody's door and um You know three quarters of people that um responded say they wanted to stay on brooks. They want to expand it around town Just a breakdown of that showing here what the question was You know, would you support keeping the shared pilot shared streets on place? Excuse me in place on brooks av beyond the week-long pilot. Would you like to see expanded to other locations? And then some changes that people suggested You know, I think the highest Gitter for this was expanded the pilot to other locations Extending the length of the pilot Improving the signage and messaging again We we saw that at first and then the one at the top is reduced automobile speeds so You know these these things. Um, we definitely noticed when we were doing the pilot as well. And then here's a few quotes that um, I collected from the survey and We've seen great improvements in brooks avenue. It was a great pilot project resulted in fewer cars um You know, this is really doable it can exist. Um, some of this I pulled this out sort of purposefully to You know highlight that some of this dovetails with what's going on or what the um, the previous agenda item related to the economic recovery um is in need to You know, I think I think there are Needs to do this kind of Um implementation not a shared streets But for sort of something similar might you might have seen in brook line that um on mass av and other places where people are also There's more people walking but also still people trying to social distance and that's that's part of the next steps as well um, so again some lessons learned we need to improve the signage bit and some of the You know public outreach, I think we did a lot of public outreach, but you know, we can always do a little bit more um doing some midwalk traffic coming and then volunteers we did leverage some volunteers for pointing up the flyers the second time so Some of this is kind of goes to the next steps, which I'll just get to now So this this was sort of the meat of the memo that I wrote Is that there are sort of two primary directions that this could go in the future seeing that it is very very Very well supported and popular What we did on brooks was more of a neighborhood based strategy We consider a localized intervention where you close off certain or you make Certain areas sort of shared streets within a neighborhood perhaps around a park or other sort of localized area Something that we talked about is kind of a phase two would be the kind of connected street network Where you actually do provide something that might be an alternative to the minute man To try to take some of the traffic off of that but provide you know provide some safe street space for people to be able to Not just exercise or recreate but also to get to places Get to sometimes you know en masse av or get to The mr. River for example Providing a connection from the bikeway to the mr. River You can take the alife for a pathway, but that is you know all the way on the cambridge line And then the other side of this is a commercial area strategies where You know we may end up with hot spots where there are a cluster of Businesses that want to open with a cluster of restaurants for example and people need to wait outside or we might have situations where there are You know a number of them want to have outdoor dining and need to have that for their Businesses to survive, but it's difficult because of the Because they are clustered like that. So sort of thinking about how to do that Within the main commercial area is not just arlington center But whether it's east arlington or arlington heights and then streetscape corridors again is is a bit more of a corridor type approach I mentioned medford street Between the section between mass av and chestnut street might be one other A place where you do have a number of restaurants or businesses clustered together where you might just Sort of slice out a place where you have some either outdoor dining or or places where people can More easily move around one another So what we're what we're looking for what we're seeking is an approval to develop a framework to Create some criteria for these these different these two different directions essentially We don't have any I don't have a specific Location for these at the moment But the idea is to actually create some criteria to Because we have received so many nominations as well for shared streets and kind of understand what Would actually work so that is That is what we're looking forward to kind of move into a similar direction with the economic development recovery is to Again move forward create some criteria so that we can start moving on this Thank you very much Thank you. Thank you for all the effort you and many others and I'm obtaining the was it Lilliam and Solomon Grant am I saying that right Lawrence and Lillian Solomon foundation. Yes, that was really Piecing piecing everything together First is their motion to receive as well as to approve And or request the development of a criteria framework by So done Is there a second Seconded by Mr. Cairo Mr. Chaplain anything before I caught saw calling on my colleagues No, just another thank you to Dan and again, we're we're not looking for any adoption of a Another neighborhood tonight, but rather just the you know the go ahead to to keep working on it and come back with some proposals very soon Okay, um, mr. Dunn any questions or comments I got good feedback From some email and I think it was a good program and I was I supported continuing in the future Do you have any comments about the fact that allington beat cambridge and something else? Mr. Cairo Um, yeah, thank you for the work I I actually went down to take a look at it But I went down, you know relatively early in the morning on the memorial day weekend So, uh, I guess a lot of people hadn't rolled out of bed yet, but um It i'm glad to hear um that it that it was such a success But just to clarify I mean you you are only looking for approval to develop the framework You're you're not looking for specific extension of this pilot this time or are you Mr. Amstutz Thank you. I'm daniel amstutz senior transportation planner Um, not at this time. We have some ideas of How it might be extended or how we might move in a direction for east arlington and arlington heights but we aren't at a point of sort of having that idea fleshed out and You know before moving forward we we do want to um Be able to start Thinking you know thinking about how we will do our public outreach to the residents and sort of what streets it might take Doing a longer sort of connected street one of the options would be You know one way of doing it and would require some good public outreach for that Mr. Kiro Well through you madam chair, so I understand that brooks is not coming back up But with with this until we have that framework Mr. Amstutz I mean there was a lot of support for it, but that's That is not what we are asking for right at this time. Okay. Thank you. Thank you No further questions Mr. Dacorsi Thank you, madam chair and thank you. Mr. Amstutz for Putting this in place with with the team. I looked near there. So I visited it Walked down at a couple of times and and um, I think the pilot was very successful and I also want to Commend you on the the nominate another street because I think that's a great idea. There's so many different areas in town whether you look at it for Commercial activity or just connecting whether it's to the bike path whether it's over to it's in the St. River I think there's a lot of opportunities there just one comment on some of the feedback you got and and this is partly based on personal observation Driving on lake street And that did have to do with signage and if you do continue using Brooks for for for the chaired street um, I think you you may want to consider having more signage on lake street. So cars really know what they're getting into or We discussed last meaning possibly moving it down The start of it down to its Chandler and that's particularly if One school is back in session if you're if you're going to use that program because I saw two near misses on on lake street one car Was heading down towards route two took a left realized that it was a shared street and stopped and almost oncoming traffic It wasn't a near miss, but it was it was close enough to be a concern And another instance was a car heading up towards mass av Again wanted to take the right realized it couldn't and the car behind it stopped short. So it's it's uh, I think it was a great idea I think I think the pilot was great I think there are tweaks here or there, but I know you are taking that into account. So, uh, thank you And um, mr. Hardt I just want to thank mr. Amstaff for his work on this. Um, I'm excited to see the project continue to development I think there's a there's a need for it around town And I'll have to check the list of nominated streets to make sure that my streets on the I'm excited to bring it up to the heights So Thank you, mr. Hardt. Um, my question, um I think to mr. Amstaff's or perhaps our town manager is when we're developing the, um criteria framework Am I correct to understand that There will be a business criteria as well as a residential. Uh, do you see Both frameworks. I mean to me it seems like there needs to be some kind of deviation on that But is it so are we authorizing one overall criteria framework for business and residential or two parallel? Um, mr. Chapter Lane, no, I think if you vote if the board votes affirmative tonight You're asking us to come back with um a framework or frameworks that look at both residential and connections to commercial corridors as well okay, and um I Definitely want to move forward on this with all the energy that you all have that um, you know You got the outreach out got the pilot program up and running You know got the feedback, um But I know that lots of um Residences I did go down twice during the uh pilot program to uh pay homage to mizro At the corner of hervard and chandler. Um, socially distancing as a chair She set up right in the front lawn And I did observe it. Um was on a saturday and I could see you know, lots of families out I tried not to engage them because I didn't want them to say i'm trying to go on a walk and lehan's Coming over but if they came over I did speak to them. So I definitely would love to see this more. Um In mr. Herds neighborhood other neighborhoods, but also a parallel one. Um for the businesses Because um as miss codderm is right pointed out previously Unfortunately, we are going to probably lose some permanently Um, whatever we can do just to let them survive and keep afloat. Um, this is one way that I think that will really help Um, mr. Amstead, did you add anything you wanted to add to that or something you can tell me that's coming down on the business side Um, it's good to be daniel. I'm such a senior transportation planner. Um, I think the um The purpose of the the business side or the sort of commercial area was to Make sure that that was included and not this this didn't end up sort of being just a residential sort of program um one of the I think You know one of the ideas that we started with was sort of something the similar to what is being done in brookline on I think a long way to have and a few other Uh, a few other streets where they kind of extend the sidewalk and it's it's very it's kind of similar to What is being looked at for the restaurants and in terms of um, You know having outdoor seating and and so on or it's a it's a similar concept using similar type of um interventions Um, but at the same time, there's uh, you know, there's more people Sort of anecdotally you can see more people that are bicycling people that are walking on mass av are You know from my own I live in arlington and not very far from mass av So I end up on mass av and I see people walking Into the parking lane into the street pretty commonly just to social distance from one another because they're even though the sidewalks are fairly wide you The traffic isn't that isn't isn't still isn't quite as high as it used to be and So there's ways to get into there, but it it does still doesn't feel very safe when People are still driving pretty fast. So we wanted to make sure that that was Still that that was also part of this it didn't just end up being more of a residential a program I'll also say that the Chief flairity went down there. Uh, she said a number of times and was very impressed by it You know, we didn't have any dedicated police presence here We didn't we wanted it to be more kind of self-enforcing and we found that that was being um that was working pretty well and um, Mr. Rademacher from the department of public works is very helpful and he was uh, Impressed with the demonstration as well Thank you Um, I'm excited and uh, what I'll do is after we take this vote. I'll leave it to the town manager and the incoming chair to Uh, when it gets to the point and it needs to come back to the board for a vote Um, we look forward to seeing the frameworks. Hopefully so on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Carroll attorney heim roll call, please Let's do the coursey. Yes Mr. Herd. Yes Securo. Yes, mr. Dunn. Yes Ms. Mahon. Yes, and that is an unanimous vote on agenda item 10 Item 10 is closed We now go to correspondence received. We have a piece of correspondence From denise curly of mass ab regarding the extremely dangerous intersection at mass ab in appleton street as well as Um from acting executive director of the mbta advisory board brine cane Um regarding owington's designee to the mbta advisory board um Mr. Chapter lane when you were at the finance committee meeting. We did have um, I believe three or four people who spoke under citizens open forum uh, including um charlie potter's brother and The woman sitting next to him didn't speak it might have been um A sister or a relative somehow. I'm just talking about um Letters that had come in and I noted that members of the board starting from friday afternoon all weekend had been receiving Asking for this to be on the agenda and I um did some personal like to charlie's partner allison I sent a first a personal email, but then I sent the email that says, you know Forwarding it to the select board's office to appear at the next Uh select board meeting at least under correspondence received and again. I'll leave that to the incoming chair Um, because I didn't want to get into an explanation with all that. I'm about open meeting law 48 hours. I just Did that and as well as um under citizens open forum um regarding correspondence from the mbt advisory board um The acting executive director reached out to myself from mr. Chapter lane the town manager Indicating that allington does have a seat on this mbt advisory board Sort of set the parameters of what it would involve in terms of time commitment And My feeling is if we have even if it's an advisory board, uh position, especially on the mbt a We should take advantage of that but um I was talking with our town manager about whether mr. Diggins. Um, mr. Chapter lane Mr. Diggins did volunteer that he'd be willing to serve on this My feeling is that may be the case. It should either be a member of the board and or Uh a designee of the board perhaps out of planning But mr. Chapter lane, have I sort of encapsulated what we've been going back and forth on? Yes Yeah, would you like me to start with um Uh item 11 and talk about 12 or um first if I could have a motion from one someone to move receipt So moved Move by mr. Corsi. Is there a second? Second second and by mr. Dunn. Uh, mr. Chapter lane So on um, I'll take 11 first and then go to 12. I'm sorry that I missed That I missed the citizens open forum in regards to the topic of appleton street, but um, I did want to share that I've been speaking with the chair As well as the chair of tac And what I'd like to propose is that at the next meeting of the board we have two agenda items One specifically in regards to the placement of a memorial at the intersection as has been requested And then a second agenda item to create a special design review committee To look at both short-term and long-term improvements that can be made at that intersection There's been short-term and long-term improvements already recommended by abac That have been forwarded to myself and other staff and and I perhaps the board as well So I think if we put together um Sort of a you know, we won't call it a task force. I think a design review committee is the way to call it We can get representation from tac from abac the planning department The police department engineering as well as residents to take part in that and quickly start to take a look at this So I will be asking the board to create that committee Next week as part of an agenda item and in relation to uh to this matter And the and the chair of tac thinks that's a good idea. I did hear about that That matter today And if I could just let you know that one of the people under and I apologize for interrupting mr. Chapter lane Under citizens open forum, uh, I think he said he was from mass bikes. He lives in austin gaolin mook um that he has been working with abac um and or tac And indicated his willingness to consider doing that and I said we would certainly continue to take him up on that offer So I apologize for interrupting Of course. No, no, please. Please you're you're meeting, right? Well for now On on the second item I did talk about this with uh, miss rate and We both agreed that with mr. Amstutz spending a lot of time at the metro Metropolitan planning organization meetings Where a large amounts of transportation Funding or funneled through that it wouldn't be the best use of his time to also go To the mbt advisory board, but it sounds like given what you shared miss mohan that if we put this on as an agenda item either A um a board member or potentially another designee Maybe from tac or you know, we could request for citizen volunteers depending on whether or not a board member was to serve And and what I'll do is um I'm not sure Um if I did this someone weighed the hand to say yeah, I got it But I did ask mr. Cain from the mbt advisory board exactly what the commitment would be and he emailed back Um That it's about three or four meetings a year and some other particulars So I don't see anyone waving. So I don't think I forwarded that second email Um onto I'll have miss reedy do that in the morning. So my colleagues can look at it and After june 6 the Newest or two newest members of the select board work can also view that and I'll leave it to the incoming chair Um to put that as an agenda item to see who we Put on as our designee um any Okay, first, um Who made the motion? Um any questions or comments mr. Decorsi? Uh, no questions Uh, mr. Dunn also Mr. Hurd nope And Mr. Curell Look, we've a like wise course of action for these Thank you. So on a motion to move received by mr. Decorsi seconded by mr. Dunn attorney hind roll call please Mr. Decorsi. Yes, mr. Hurd. Yes, it's a curell. Yes, what you're done. Yes, it's mom. Yes So unanimous vote we now go to new business starting to my virtual left attorney hind None of it is no chair. Thank you Okay, uh, job manager mr. Chaplin Thank you, madam chair I primarily want to share a quick update and thanks in regards to the upcoming election So the update is that many many residents as we had hoped Have returned their postcards and uh, we are now turning around those ballots and getting those ballots back out to folks um, but thanks comes in that The clerk's office alone Was not able to keep up with the postcards. No surprise and no shame on them at all because of the Share quantity of postcards that returned. I understand there was somewhere between three and four thousand Postcards as of friday afternoon and i'm sure more were collected On saturday and today So we had staff from the select board's office from the town manager's office We had volunteers come in Team or yantar the chair of the capital planning committee Naomi greenfield former co-chair of the early human rights commission volunteered to come in and stuff envelopes And sandy pooler the deputy town manager was Leading the charge with his partner margie on saturday in town hall working with the clerk's office to stuff envelopes so we really have This has become an all hands on deck type type matter to make sure that we You know, we manage and operate this election as safely and effectively as possible for this Saturday, so just a big thanks to everybody to the clerk's office Select board's office town manager's office everybody that's making this happen. I just want to say thank you Thank you That's all your new business. That's all I have Okay, mr. Decorsi. Thank you madam chair. Just two things briefly um First of all, and I know other members may want to do this as well But I want to recognize mr. Dunn first of all this this is his last meeting on the on the board and uh But thank you for the additional time that he spent since since april but also for his nine years of service to the town as a as a member of the select board and I first got to know dian Before his membership on the select board as we both served on the finance committee and and one thing About dian both on the fincom and on the select board and even just the one year that we served together He always found a way to look for ways to to to find consensus and achieve consensus among the group and and that was Evident and all the work dian that you did For minuteman. Um, we have a new minuteman high school Because you led the charge To update and revise the regional agreement and you did it in a way very few people could do so I want to thank you for your service and and and thank you Um We're only a year together on on the select board, but we had a routine after every meeting dian Mrs. Kruppelper and I would always leave the chamber take the elevator and walk out to the parking lot and just review the day's activities and You know those were those were good times. So Um, I know you said that you're going to stay involved and and I'm sure you will so thank you so much Um second thing madam chairs. I want to thank you as a as a new member of the board You're my first chairperson and and thank you for all the Leadership you provided all the tips that you gave me and when I had questions You were there to to answer them to reach out on different things and in the the modern era of the select board You you served the longest term as chair given this this extra time. So so thank you so much for that You want thank you. Mr. Dacorsi um Mr. Hart Mr. Hart All right All right, similarly, I just want to in his Even though we got to have him for a month or so more than anticipated I want to thank dan for his years of service To the town both on the select board and the other the numerous committees that he's been involved with He's always been a voice of reason on the board and whenever I had a point if I looked over and I saw dan Notting up and down I knew that I That I was on the right direction. So I thank you for that as well And even though you're not going to be a panelist at the meeting anymore I do look forward to I know you'll always be involved and I can look forward to continue working with you on issues That are facing in town the next few years Then to our chair Thank you again for your leadership this year. It's been an unprecedented year in the town of Arlington for many reasons And I know I speak on behalf of many many residents that you know with you at the helm We always felt in control And you do very well at keeping the the citizens informed, you know Via facebook or via email or through our meetings. So Thank you for your service. I don't anticipate That this will be your last meeting but it has been a pleasure working with you this week My name is here It's like a year. So I get it. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, then I just didn't want to I'm not generally one to read from my script here, but You know over the past week The country has really been torn apart by the senseless death of George Lloyd By actions of the Minneapolis police department Um, this happened because the officers were used extremely excessive force On a defenceless aren't our man the officer's The officer's reckless disregard for human life was disgusting And the officers must answer for their actions I do I want to thank the town manager Chief flowerty in the newest department heads for immediately condemning the officer's actions This behavior flies in the face of the community policing model that Arlington has developed with the Arlington police department I did I attended the vigil last night with suck my curl And I I really was impressed by the peaceful nature In which the residents of Arlington stood up to injustice and made their voices heard We have a long road ahead of us But I look forward to working with the town staff and residents to do our part to improve race relations And then lastly, I know it's been spoken a few times in this meeting But in relation to the unfortunate death of charlie proctor I just wanted to extend my deepest condolences to the family of charles proctor Who was struck and killed on his bike? Back at the beginning of may it's a true tragedy to lose any life But to lose a life so young is horrific So in we as a town You will take these concerns expressed by residents very seriously And I know in the immediate future we're going to take steps to address All the issues that have been presented by this matter um and then My real last one. Sorry. I had one more but it went somewhat Unnoticed this year because everything going on, but I do want to again. Thank jeffrey junglo for his memorial day celebration that we had me Jeff father bark and adam were up at town hall And you know in the midst of the pandemic it was hard to properly honor Those who are fallen soldiers particularly those from arlington, but jeff did so in a way that really Brought as much respect to the the ceremony as was possible under the circumstances. So I just wanted to thank jeff for that And that's it. Thank you. Mr. Hard. Mr. Carroll Thank you, madam chair I think like my colleagues. I have a lot of my mind, but maybe mix up the order a little bit So first I I'd like to thank you madam chair for your service chairing the board through 14 tumultuous months that included some of the most difficult debates in my tenure year A great victory for arlington high school and our overall finances A crushing public health and economic crisis and a two month extension of your chairmanship that you neither expected nor asked for You've represented the board well, particularly with your constant updates during the covet 19 emergency This weekend arlington high school seniors will officially graduate Congratulations to all of our ahs grads And our other residents who are completing their studies at arlington catholic and other high schools and colleges under such unusual circumstances You graduated an extraordinary time in history Marked by moments of great human achievements such as this past weekend's spacex launch But overshadowed by even greater tragedy and challenge Our new sites carry dueling maps Some maps illustrate the deep political divide that grips our nation Others show the spread and contraction of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated death toll The newest maps show the spread of protests and states of emergency As our country burns and cries out in grief and outrage Over yet another despicable act of inhumanity against our black brothers and sisters As the chair referenced Arlington became a dot on that map this past weekend with peaceful protests Over the killing of george floyd and others before him by police officers were violated Not only black bodies and black dignity But also their own oaths to protect and serve Mr. Herd knight as he mentioned attended last night's vigil Which was organized by and drew disproportionately large participation from members of your generation graduates This gives me some measure of hope in a time when hope is in short supply against this backdrop on saturday Arlington will make history As voters elect one Or possibly two leaders of color to this board A first not only for the select board, but for any townwide office This milestone is the culmination of a long path of progress leading from the appointment of amahan powers and election of pegs spengler As the first women on the then board of selectman The subsequent breaking down of barriers of religion and sexual orientation And frankly, I was surprised when someone told me that I am actually the first select board member with an italian surname Mr. Han's Sicilian roots not withstanding I've not concerned confirm this and i'm happy to see the superlatives to others who've overcome tangible challenges in life One week from tonight We will come together as a newly constituted board and we will have no time to lose in uniting to tackle the problems facing our town It won't matter who supported whom or where we landed in the factional divide that has taken root in our community Pushed apart people of goodwill and strained friendship, frankly The voters will render their verdict And our board will continue to benefit either for mismahan's commitment to constituent service And or mr. Diggins community building and solutions oriented focus And or miss heli's great gifts of charisma compassion communication skills and character What we will not have is you mr. Dunn You've brought all of these qualities and more to everything you've done You know when I was first approached about running for the select board one of my first reactions was I am not nearly as smart as dan Um and time has proven this observation to be true time and again Dan I know that tomorrow evening you were supposed to be honored by the rotary club as a paul harris fellow It's an award that's well deserved And I'll look forward to seeing your name on the plaque in our chamber If we ever see our chamber again Now I first encountered you dan as a young libertarian town meeting member blog our candidate for house of representatives and finance committee member And it was quite a road from there to your first board vote in support of the 2011 override Your leadership in advancing subsequent tax measures to meet the needs of our students And your co-chairmanship of last year's successful arlington high school debt exclusion and override campaigns That we remember for these and for many other achievements including representing the case for passing the trust act of the sanctuary town resolution and a newspaper debate with opponents Presenting the case for adoption of the community preservation act to town meeting And indisputably your crowning achievement negotiating a new district agreement for minuteman high school This last achievement built upon the work of others like mr. Tosti, mr. Foskett, mr. Chatlain, mr. Dacorsi And miss Schaeffler But it was you who pushed us across the finish finish line Spending endless hours in complicated multilateral discussions with leaders from other towns In the minuteman district and earning their respect and agreement to a new framework As a result Arlington's voice and the governance of the district has been greatly enhanced We're assessed in a more fair manner The students of minuteman have a new state-of-the-art building And where minuteman once relied significantly on out-of-district enrollments Students from within the district now flock to the school to the point that there's a waiting list This is just but part of your legacy dan you did all this while balancing extremely demanding professional and personal responsibilities Your world view has been palpably inspired by your life experiences including your family's long history and public service and public safety Your identity is a member of Arlington's bicycling community regular user of transportation public transportation And electric vehicle aficionado And of course your undying devotion to our beloved Red Sox And I want to apologize publicly for making you dress up in silly costumes for the Arlington education foundation trivia B And thank you for being a good sport about it As you leave I only I have only have a few requests Please don't be a stranger. Come back and visit us once in a while Please continue to grace us with your advice and counsel And please save me a seat on the floor of town meeting. Good lord willing. I'll be joining you there soon enough So glad speed my friend and thank you Thank you very much And mr. Dunn Um, thank you all for the kind words. Um, I actually have two things first One long-range planning met For my last long-range planning meeting which I chaired And the town manager review and uh sandy reviewed a several budget options for the proposal and And the superintendent also outlined some of the Cuts that they're making for the upcoming budget And then there was a lengthy discussion about what to do for subsequent year budgets on on the paper and I think Overall, it was generally not quite consensus, but it's generally felt that We needed more information before we started planning for fy 22 and fy 23 But I think as I said at our last meeting This is is the time where we have a long-range we have a multi-year plan with a real problem early in the plan which has never happened before And uh, that's going to that has potential to be difficult in ways we've we haven't experienced with our previous multi-year plan My second thought was I wanted to thank sue sheffler for her service on the minivan School committee. She's informed us that she's not looking to be reappointed, but you know talk about you talk about tough jobs and Cross community and you know like the number of different people in different agendas that run around in the in the minivan Group and I really thank her for her service And I look forward to you know, hoping to recruit somebody for do it again in the future um Finally, uh, it has been an honor and a pleasure to serve on the sport. I really, uh, I really am honored that the voters have, you know, put me here and I really have enjoyed doing it I'm uh, and I'm proud of the work that I've done and I'm proud of the work that we've done that we've all done Uh, I want to thank those voters first I've got a lot of people to thank but uh, and I'm not going to name too many because if you name them then you forget them Um, so voters. I really I mean thank you for your trust. Thank you for your hope Um, my campaign volunteers who put me here, you know, you don't get elected by yourself You get there because a lot of people work in ways you just look at them You say why are you doing this and uh, it's very humbling and I really appreciate the effort and air And sweat that they put into it Um, I thank you all my colleagues Uh, you know, I have learned something from absolutely every single one here You know, there's you said there are times you think you know exactly what's going on And then someone says something and you say wow I didn't I did not do it and that I did not get that and there really is a power of uh, There being a committee a board as opposed to any one of us And that thank Extends to Kevin, you know, and also of course to Annie and Clarissa who were on the board when I when I started Um, thank you to the town employees The ones who are here adam who I regularly enjoy our conversations and I'm really gonna miss those Doug, thank you for all your help Uh Marie of of course for you know, Marie keeps uh keeps you protected as a selectman And I really appreciate the work she did But it isn't of course just the employees here. Uh, you we I am regularly Wowed and amazed by what we get from public safety from public works from Uh from libraries from health department for youth and elderly You run up and down what uh the employees of the town and they are making our lives better every day And I really thank them for it Um, finally, thank my family. And so I already mentioned, uh, you know, my mom was a selectman in the town that I grew up in and my grandfather was a town meeting member in deadam And uh, you know, you you why Dan why'd you run for a selectman? I say it was genetic And uh, of course, thank you to my partner g Uh, I met g three months after I got elected So for him, Arlington was kind of part of the package And uh, I can't tell you how excited he is that uh that we've reached the end of that particular road So, um I will see you all at town meeting Uh Thank you, mr. Dunn. Um, I don't know which order to do it. Um I certainly have enjoyed and would have loved to enjoyed both of our 10 year longer on the select board One thing with dan is uh Sometimes I would call him and he would have to take my calls Although he says he still is going to take my calls though. He does not have to um, but a lot of times I would call him when um, I'd be in the middle of Something that just had seven different ways out to be that it could be dealt with and Was sort of just looking for Which might be the best most? rational productive All-round reaching um decision and I could always call dan. Um, and it'd say okay. Wait a minute slow down Now tell me what it is. You're trying to tell me and I he would let me explain and invariably That the road that I took was the road that he um, so why wisely counseled me on And then the other thing I have to say there have been times where um In the beginning of his tenure just because you know, we didn't really know each other I remember calling saying all there's no way he's going to support me on this But I'll give it a shot and by and large it was around town employees. Um, and The weather was recognizing a job they were doing whether it was um more thinking about the the health and well-being of them And each and every time when I knew what it was that I thought was something good to do Dan not only said yes, I'm on board with that a lot of times He came up with some other things that I hadn't thought of and the other thing is his delivery One of my favorite favorite things that you did most recently when we were contacting Discussing an issue. Uh, you said, okay, we're in the middle of this pandemic coronavirus and by my accounting today is March 77 And I could not have said that better because that's exactly how we all felt. So Um, I'm not going to say I'm going to miss you. Oh, and I do want to thank g Uh, I want to thank dan for letting me meet g through you. Um One of the best things I remember is going down mass av and you and g We're in a car that had the top down. So I don't know which one of the car was and I saw him and he was like, hey That was like got to say g man It was like one of the best days of my life because I got to yell out to him But I do want to thank um your family and g partner. Um Because it along with all the campaign volunteers It really is a family effort because you do sacrifice a lot of time and even when you're there physically You sometimes aren't there when you're dealing in the select board roll So I'm still going to call you a lot. I'm still going to bug you a lot I'm still going to make you scratch your head a lot, but you have one of the best top three laughs I've ever heard because it just basically tickles me to the back of my spine So um, and thank you to all my colleagues for their kind remarks During my chairmanship and I do appreciate your uh confidence and trust in me. Um during these and other times and then um the last Two things um sort of three Lots of parents youth sports are um thrilled that gel connelly Has come back home Come back home Um, and I found myself emailing him the first day was back not realizing It was his first day of question of all the domps in sprinkler park And I do want to thank bobby jeff bobby jefferson who was the interim um recreational director As well as an unbelievable exemplary town employee that um When he's worked for us as fire chief Um, it managed the three houses fire stations under budget Um on time if not early, um, I really think um He's Has so many other skills. Um, I'm not it was glad to have him back as a town employee Who knows what the future may hold? Um, but I know he wants he did enjoy his retirement and we keep bringing him back out and then the last thing um, which mr. Heart and john touched upon was um sincere thanks to John I liked hearing about your it was an hot milli or grandmother milli. I was listening and Mr. Chapter Lane and father mock and uh, of course jeff chunglo Who is a fantastic soul? um, I happened to be in the cemetery when he was doing all those flags all by himself and You know, he didn't want anyone else to do it, but I think it was a good time of reflection for him. Um, he and I one of our Missions that were committed to is um trying to Stop quell the suicide rates or amongst our veterans and those suffering with PTSD Um, and to me he's one of the bravest men I I've ever met and and I told him on behalf of the allington that you know The hundreds if not close to thousands of people that he's helped and will continue to help And then I always say the thing that makes him smile at the end because he can't help himself He almost giggles. So if you ever see jeff chunglo a veteran services director when you're about to say goodbye Just look at him and say have a navy day That sends him into giggles. He loves to have a navy day And with that, um Before I take a motion to adjourn our next regularly scheduled meeting and reorganization organizational meeting Is for monday june 8th 2020 is there a motion to adjourn by So moved mr. Dunn seconded by second mr. Er um Emotion to adjourn by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Herd attorney heim roll call, please Mr. Dacorsi yes Mr. Herd. Yes Mr. Kuro. Yes One last time mr. Dunn. Yes Ms. Mahon. No, yes Thank you very much. God bless all Thank you everybody that was very kind Yeah, thank you dim