 Welcome everyone to the regular Board of Selections meeting for Monday, December 16th, 2013. It is a six o'clock meeting start. I just want to remind everyone that this show, this meeting is being cable cast through ACMI.tv and may be recorded by other individuals or reporters who are here. That said, Mr. Greeley, could you? Yep. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We wanted to start tonight to ask everybody for a moment of silence for Dr. Michael Foley, who passed away unexpectedly as being waked as we speak. Mike and I went to grammar school and high school together. In high school, Michael was captain of the football, the baseball, the basketball teams. He was president of the class and he was the number one student in the class in terms of intelligence. At Arlington Catholic, you sat in the order of intelligence. I was in the gymnasium in the back. But Mike, tremendous accomplishments, became the director of internal medicine, I think, if that's the correct title, at St. Elizabeth's, was also associated with Mount Auburn and very involved in this town, volunteer, provided volunteer services as a doctor for the football team and others. When we tried to save Sims Hospital, Mike was right on the front line with all of us. His personal loss for me and a tremendous loss for the town. So with your permission, Mr. Chairman, a moment of silence, please, for Dr. Michael Foley. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also, before we get really started, I wanted to welcome our town council, Doug Byme, who is with us today for his first day in his first meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ann? You know everything? I told him to expect to know everything. All right. Welcome. Thank you. Our first item is the consent agenda. We have the minutes of the meeting of December 2nd. We have an appointment of new election workers, John Crowley of Ridge Street, Nancy Ott of Glenburn Road, Paul Shaw of Inverness Road, and four approval keynote ago at the right spot on 1389 Mass Ave. Move approval. Second. Mr. Rupakira. Yeah, I just have a question. Is the keynote ago an approval or a receipt? I read it. It looked like we were just being notified. Yeah. We had the opportunity to register. Yeah. The State Lottery Commission actually is the one that would approve. Yeah. I think that it would be appropriate under either. I have no. Okay. That's fine. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Next up, request from Monotomy Grill & Tavern for a late night on New Year's Eve of this year. Is anyone here from? All right. So Monotomy, they have furnished us with a written request for a one-time event for the end of the year that they would stay open until 1 a.m. and that they would sell liquor until that time. This is Mohan. I'm not sure if this has been called earlier in the week. I asked the stipulation be that alcohol stop a half hour before they close. Was that something you were able to speak to them about? I talked to Billy about thinking that you usually do that even before the 30th event. So at least a half hour before closing time. Is that okay? So it's fine with me. So can I, if I can suggest perhaps, so then saying 130 with, but whatever it is, they have to stop a half an hour before they actually close. That's fine. So that would actually permit them to sell to one. And the reason I say that is simply because if I remember correctly, that's what we said for the other applicants. I'll make that motion if it's okay with my colleagues. Is there a second? I thought you did make the motion. Yes. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Next up, Whitamore Park signage, Ted Fields. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. It's my pleasure to be here. I'm before you at the request of the town manager to briefly summarize a request for sponsorship for a new sign on Whitamore Park. Advertising the shopping, small shopping district on Mystic Street between the Russell Common parking lot and Mass Avenue. It's a very narrow, rather dark right of way. It's rather hard to see from Mass Avenue or the parking garage or Mystic Street itself or Medford Street, I'm sorry. And the merchants in that section overwhelmingly asked me and support a sign indicating where their shops are in that section. In your packet, I included a mock-up of the proposed sign. And I also have a larger, nearly to scale one here. I will unfurl in a second. And I apologize. The filigree at the bottom did not come out. Correct. That will be white. It's not the rather off-grade that you see. I've also shown a copy of the email from the local representative of the merchants in that area. And as well a photo of a two-scale version of the sign and not the exact colors but a mock-up of it at the proposed location at the head of Mystic Street, the intersection of Mystic Street and Massachusetts Avenue. And as I say in my packet to you, I've gotten two price quotes for manufacturing the sign with manufacturing and professional installation by a sign company. The cost range from $506 to $530. That would come down if DPW were able to install the sign. And here is a nearly full-scale mock-up. And again, in consultation with the businesses and town staff, we feel that if we mount it about six inches or a foot off the ground, it will elevate it away from the elements enough but still keep it fairly unobtrusive to all the shoppers and folks who it's meant to serve. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to try to answer them. Mr. Greeley. Yeah. So, thank you, Chad. Is this the approximate location you recommend? That is the approximate location. In the field, we'll make it exact with consultation with DPW and the sign company or whoever installs it will adjust it on site. Thank you. And I just like to know I've received quite a few compliments about the job you have done so far as economic development. Oh, I appreciate that. Thank you. A number of business owners. Oh, good. Thank you for that excellent work. It's my pleasure. Mr. Fields, do you have any thoughts on how first lights went? I was there all five hours of first lights and I was in all three sections. I strolled by around 11.45 just to make sure preparations were all set. And to my eye, things went very, very well, better than I had hoped, especially in the heights and capital square. And the foot traffic in the center really coalesced at the end of the festivities with the lighting ceremony by the Central Fire Station. And there must have been several hundred people in the center that from what I could see subsequently went out and shopped and dined and whatnot. So I think for all three sections it was very successful. So to what degree do you attribute the commercial song by the Selectones for creating excitement about this event? Well, I think it was a crucial factor. Continue to do excellent work. Thank you. Thank you. I hope Attorney Heim is taking the sin. I move approval of the request. Second. Sorry, Joe. I thought we should have done that. I got Joe and Steve on moving the second. Any further discussion? I would just echo that I was at the Chamber of Commerce the other night and the merchants are very excited about this. This has been an ongoing concern, I think that that stretch of, it's actually addressed from Mystic Street, but it gets lost to a lot of the traffic. So glad to see Mr. Fields taking this on. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Five-zero. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I will say that when Mr. Fields started talking, which was, I suddenly noticed, we have amplification in this room. I know. I broke in at the very end. Yeah. Yes. Did you hear that? Yeah. So ACMI was in last meeting, and we were talking about it, and all of a sudden his voice was much louder. Thank you. How excited must this audience be that you have every word that we say? You mean we don't have to hire the sign language interpreter? No. So we should thank ACMI. Yes. I don't know what the right vehicle for that is, but I'm really glad that they got that done. So next up is our licenses and permits. So it is the end of the year, and we're looking of course at the start of 2014, and most, or at least many licenses in town, especially the ones issued by the Slackman, our annual and our renewed at this time. And so we have a series of memos from different departments within the town with recommendations to renew. There's a few that are actually, we're not renewing because they haven't actually been granted yet, even though they're in the records, but other than that, we have a set of memo, a set of licenses for contractors and drain layers, various alcohols, including all alcohol restaurant, all alcohol club, package stores, wine and malt, food, including common vitriol or food vendor. We have lodging houses, public entertainment, second hand dealer, and I think that that's the set we've got. Move approval on all subject to all conditions and set forth. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Second. Second. Joe. Well, I just have a question because we did receive some fairly, you know, a list of comments from the Board of Health, and it looks like most of these have been settled. Is that my understanding? Once it's added, it will not be given a license until it has been applied. Okay. So, would our subject to all conditions clause cover those? Yeah. Is there, so I looked at this and like, so there's two that haven't yet opened. Mm-hmm. There's one that's also, the only one that's like, that isn't okay is the savory plate. And that's because, and it's closed. Yeah. So I mean, we wouldn't issue that because it's closed. Is there another one? So I think everything else. I think we're all set. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't know, it looks like we can't really act on the ones that have not reopened yet, can we? I don't think so. Yeah. We just haven't issued them yet. So, yeah, I think it's a good point. Diane. Just one question, and no one knows the answer right now. I wouldn't expect you to, you can let me know tomorrow. Okay. Okay. Thank you. The other ones, self-explanatory, carrotism, Salvation Army. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And I should, I should also mention that, as a part of this, that we should extend what, I'm sure that Mr. Greeley intended in his motion to extend the hackney licenses past a year, because then we're going to renew them in January. Yes, I did. Sorry. Okay. Good. Sorry. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. Licenses were done. Next up, presentation for the family of John F. McHacker. Is there members of the family who are here? Comma on up. So, should I, Mr. I'll give a quick, please Adam. So members of the board, I was contacted by William J. Riley, who's a managing partner of Forward Capital Partners. Mr. Riley? Yes. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. In regards to the estate of John McHacker, who's a longtime Arlington resident, and in his estate in his will, has left some very generous gifts to the town of Arlington. So, part of, part of that was wanting to be able to come before the board, talk about Mr. McHacker's love for Arlington, about the gifts, and also have his family have an opportunity to come before the board. Well, welcome all of you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for having us. We just wanted to say a few words about our Uncle Mack. We have with us today, myself, Bill Riley, who I sit myself, John's best friend, grew up with him in East Arlington, went to school together, elementary school, high school, and all. And we have a couple of his God children here, my son, Jack, Riley. We have Bill, Tapscott, Harry Tapscott, and Bob Tapscott, the father. We all have a relationship to Arlington. All of us have lived one time or another in Arlington. John's parents both lived in Arlington throughout their lives. John was an only child, but he had a lot of people that loved him very much. He loved everything that was about Arlington. He defended it to the nine. And he was just a great guy, but glad that he was able to give some of his estate to the town, so that the town could enjoy some beautiful trees. And he's also given about, I think, $50,000 to Robbins Library as well. He has a couple of wishes that he'd like to see that the town do with that money. And we'd appreciate it if you would consider that. So I will say that I was absolutely delighted to learn the gift, I know that we are all, and other people in town are very grateful for the donation. For people who watch, it's $146,000 to be donated for the purposes of using for trees, including a memorial bench for him and $50,000 for the Robbins Library, which is a very, very generous gift. And we definitely thank him, and it's a good, I'm sure his memory is well served by that gift. Kevin? Yeah. Was he a hockey player? No, he was. I know that. I know that we're thinking of, no. Different one. No, but he had a connection to Mattenon high school. Did they go to Mattenon? Yeah, no. He was, he went to Mattenon before years as well. So I think you may have known those folks, but they were not related. Well, this is, you know, obviously his life is a tremendous gift to the town of Allington. And this is certainly a wonderful gift. And I move that we receive with pleasure and great thanks and we refer to the public memorial committee with our strongest recommendation that his wishes be fulfilled of a tree and a bench in Waldo park. Do I need to say anything else? Is there a second? Second. Diane? I just want to say first of all, not only what a great gift this is from Mr. McGeckern but also from his family and friends. And I applaud you for coming out and honoring his wishes by this very generous portion of his estate. And as you have said and others, he obviously cared a lot about the town and I think it's just amazing that he's continuing to give back. And I think it will be such a great solace down at Waldo park where we have something commemorating Mr. McGeckern and where people can go and people who know him can sit there and remember. And people who don't will say, who was that Mr. McGeckern? And they'll find out about him. And so I think that's a great tribute from him, from his family and from his friends. And thank you so much for coming here tonight and giving us such good news. Thank you. Joe? I just want to say that oftentimes when we go through our agendas and you get to traffic rules and orders and other business, which is the segment of the agenda this was under. A lot of times it's not fun things that we deal with. It's not happy things. It disputes. So, you know, first of all, I want to say sorry for your loss of your friend and your relative. He obviously did understand that the town, though, you know, we suffered losses in street trees in that end of town just a couple of years ago, very horrendous losses. And this certainly helps greatly to help with the rebuilding that we'll be doing and we are doing around that. And he obviously also had a good sense of where we have to go in moving the libraries into the 21st century as we try to build up the new digital collection. So it's very much appreciated. And thank you. I mean, were these, had he discussed these with you, his thoughts about where the greatest good could be accomplished? Well, John was somewhat of a man of his own desires, his own wishes, and had strong opinions about a lot of things. And I think the things he cared most about, this is not just saying it because when we're here, he's Arlington. He used to give me a hard time because I moved to Winchester. And he never stopped giving me a hard time about that. But the things about the old radio shows and all that, he was, he loved that type of thing. He was very nostalgic about life. And he used to tell me that I forgot everything about our childhood because he had these stories that he used to tell about our childhood. And I couldn't remember half of them, but he's very nostalgic guy and he loved old radio shows and he wanted to see those preserved. And he's had, he has all of those, you know, terabytes, whatever you want to call them, old radio shows that he wants us to preserve. We've been preserving it. We can give those over to the town as well so that they have that in their collection. That's fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. So we have a motion by Mr. Greeley, seconded by the blue Mr. Currow. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Five, zero. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next up, vote to authorize renewal and municipal agreement with Bedford for regional energy manager, Mr. Tom manager. So as part of the agreement that we have with Bedford to have a regional energy manager is the possibility of up to five two year extensions before we look at the agreement again. And it stipulates in the agreement that we need to have each community vote by January 1st of the expiring year to renew the agreement. So that puts us up against this January 1st because it expires June 30th of next year. So what I'm asking the board to do is authorize me to sign a two year renewal which would commence on July 1st 2014 and run for two years to June 30, 2016. I know I've been very pleased with the results we've seen since hiring an energy manager. I know Bedford has been we've had a series of joint meetings between myself and the facilities director in Bedford to monitor progress. Our work with the energy manager has been focused more on facilities improvements. Bedford's work has been focused more on behavioral improvements and building inhabitants sort of behaviors and how they utilize heating and cooling systems, which I think frankly is more beneficial to us because she's doing the work we need to have done here, but also bringing that expertise that she has in Bedford in terms of eventually trying to change our culture with our, you know, again with our building inhabitants. In the upcoming months leading up to town meeting, we're going to be putting out several documents in regards to some of the recent projects she's been able to implement since coming on board and also a number of other projects that she's been working on. One I'll note tonight is a very exciting one. We have two separate data centers in the high school, one for school data, one for town data. And the cooling system that is in the town's portion of that is on the verge of failing. So David Goode has been looking at options for potentially replacing that. We looped Ruthie Bennett, our energy manager, into that discussion. We've already got a free assessment from the EPA or for the EPA to pay for an assessment by a consultant to come in and look at what we can do and is working on an option of bringing both data centers together and getting one cooling system that might be able to be completely paid for by an EPA grant. So that's just an example of the kind of focus she's been able to bring, you know, to how we look at all of our facilities and how we use energy. So again, I ask the board's approval to authorize me to sign that to your extension. Steve? No, I appreciate the work that this individual is doing. And I was wondering if you could speak to how you got to the two-thirds in Arlington, one-third in Bedford, and how that is the most beneficial to us? So that really came about when the MAPC was seeking people interested in creating a position. And at that point, we had expressed that what we wanted to fund and what we thought we could put to work was two days a week. Bedford had said they could use one day and way back, Wuburn had said that they could use two days. Eventually, Wuburn dropped out of those discussions. But we stayed on with two. Bedford still wanted one, and that's what created this three-day position. But, you know, we sort of generated the two from what we thought we could reasonably budget within the DPW administrative budget. Great, thank you. Joe? Have we approached Wuburn again to see if maybe they've had a change of mind over the last two years? You know, we've not primarily because Ruthie, the current person in the position, is interested in just three days a week. It's sort of a discussion we continue to have whether or not she has an interest in expanding that. And also she's brought to light the reality that adding another community could begin to dilute how effective she is in each community. So that we'd have to look at that too before we would take a step to expanding it to another community. Okay. Thanks. Diane? Since this is dated October of 2012, you know, it was a different board configuration then. Legally, is it okay that we do that first off, that we, this board, approved the contract starting in October of 2012? There's no issue with that? I'm not sure. The thing, it says a term that this agreement shall commence on October 1st, 2012, and expire on June 30th, 2014. It's okay that we do that. This is an already executed agreement? Okay. All right. To serve as an example of what would be extended from July 1st. Okay. So it'll be different dates? Yes. Okay. That would just kind of go in the other way. And then the only other question I had was in terms of Allenton share, it says shall not exceed and you have a very specific number. Is that the exact number or has been trending a little bit lower? No, so the only number that would change in this document when it is updated are those figures to be updated to FY15 and then potentially FY15 cost amounts. No, we are both, we are, and Bedford is below those total amounts. We put those in there as ceilings for both Allenton and Bedford so that. So those are the ceilings up until, what is it, June of 2014? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions or a motion? I move approval. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Thank you. 5-0. All right. Next up we have correspondence received. Received. Of an item. Thank you from Jeffrey Beck with the MMA about the annual town report award that we received. We have Richard and Turka and Howard Muse with a report on the TAC project list and we have a letter about Bow Street safety concerns. Should we refer to TAC as a suggestion, I believe. Mr. Lockwood might be here. Yeah. Do you want to come on up and talk to us about your, your letter and just say your name. Thank you. My name is David Lockwood. I'm a resident at 24 Bow Street. I've been there for almost 20 years now. Yeah. I'm at the end down as you almost get to the baseball field. Just recently one of my cars was parked outside of my house during the middle of the day and somebody decided to take my driver's side mirror off and it kind of prompted me to bring this forward as an issue. Again, I'd done so in the past. It's probably now the fifth or sixth time that's happened. It's also just recently my neighbor at number 26 had their car totaled right outside of their house. And some years back I had a car totaled out front of my house. And as I was speaking to my neighbor at 26 today, they said the person next to them had had their car crashed into. And whether it was a total loss or near total loss had happened right there. So the concern that we have is obviously during the day there is a need for us to be able to park out in the street. But clearly there's something about that stretch of the road that is causing a lot of damage to our vehicles to occur. So, you know, we were just wondering what the options potentially were. I know some years back when I'd raised the concern, I believe the DPW put out a couple of the markers to count the number of cars traveling up and down the street. And it was a considerable number. Obviously I don't have those numbers to hand. They did follow up, but then nothing else came beyond that. And, you know, at this point, you know, it's yet another $200 I'm paying to replace the mirror on my car, you know. And I know my neighbor, they had to, like I said, it was a total loss on their vehicle. And, you know, just as an example of how much damage occurred when the car was damaged in front of my house, it was a small SUV, maybe the size of, say, a RAV-4 that was struck so hard, the car actually went all the way across the sidewalk and onto my front yard almost hitting my house. So the current posted speed limit is 20 miles an hour. And I'm pretty sure that a car put in park has to be struck pretty hard to move it across the sidewalk there. So obviously any help that you can give us, it would be greatly appreciated and obviously still maintaining our ability to park out in the street during daytime hours. Kevin? Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I will move that we do refer this to TAC. May I ask, do you have a driveway, sir? Yeah, I can accommodate $2,000. So sometimes there's a third one that you have to have out there? Well, like, for example, this time my fiance had just a letter. She teaches at the Belmont High School there. She had just run home, parked out there for two minutes as she ran into the house. And at that time someone had clipped off, you know, off the mirror there. So it is our practice to typically park in my driveway. But, you know, as you can imagine, time to time you do want to park in front of your own house. Well, of course you do. I don't blame you for that. And people breaking the speed limit are breaking the speed limit. But TAC is pretty clever, I think, and maybe, you know, they'll take a look at it. What you don't know, sir, is that we also have a report from TAC. They're currently working on 23 projects. Yeah. But they are very thorough. But we will refer to them. I also wonder if, through you, Mr. Chairman, if we might ask Adam to have the police look at certain enforcement measures there. But, you know, whether there's a permanent solution or not, I don't know. But I hope we can find one for you. Okay. The Transportation Advisory Committee. Any matters like this related to us about the roads and traffic in particular. We sent to this committee who, and believe me, they will do time and motion studies and everything else to determine. And they, as I say, I think they're very clever in terms of recommendations they come up with, which will come back to us. But as I should make sure, the mayor of Allenton over there on your right, Marie Kropelka, just be in touch with her and she'll let you know when they're back to us with a recommendation. But they're so thorough, I'm sure they'll also contact you about it as well. Okay. And just as a point of context, there is a painted pedestrian crossing right in front of my neighbor's house at number 20. So, you know, there is already whatever measures are in place to try and slow people down to protect just regular pedestrians crossing there. Fortunately, so far, it's only been a car and some mirrors, but you know, you have kids in the neighborhood, particularly as they go down towards either accessing the bike path or the baseball field and ice rink there. Yes, Steve. I was thinking, maybe we should, after reading text, yeah, list that they provide us tonight, maybe we could wait to send it to them until we hear what the police department has to say on the matter. Maybe there might be some sort of, you know, enforcement tools that can be used, that can be just as effective without, you know, bringing this before attack again. I think that, you know, from what I got at least from their letter to us was that they would like us to tone back what's being sent to them. And I think that looking down another avenue, like the police department and having Officer Ratoan, his team look at this might be a pretty good option prior to sending it to attack. Joe. Oh, I actually had a question. It looks like Kevin actually has something to add to the speech. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to accept Stephen's recommendation. I think it's a good one. So if you want to make that motion, Steve, or a change mind to, we refer first to the police, ask them to report back. Yeah. And then we'll go from there. Yeah, maybe move, asking Officer Ratoan to look at the situation and acting on it on sending it to attack at a later date, potentially. That works because I believe Officer Ratoan sits on attack. Yeah, he does, yes. So if he takes a look at it and he says, you know what, we can just take care of this as Mr. Burns suggested through the police department right now, or if he feels no, it really should go to attack. The police do come out and monitor from time to time because I think you get a lot of cars coming down Park Ave and just cut straight through to get down to Summer Street. So periodically we do have the, I don't know the name of it, but the speed detector that shows you how fast you're going. And I know I've seen people being with the speed gun being captured. So I definitely appreciate that the police department are already there on some kind of schedule. But obviously, you know, people come down there every day. Joe. Yeah, I actually come down there every day to myself. So just so I can get it straight in my head. Are you actually on the bike path side of the road? Or are you on that? My property butts right up onto the bike path. I can't access it right there, but it's right on it. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Tom manager, any comment or? No, I think the recommendation that the board has made is a good one. All right. So we have three items, one of which to refer to attack and two that we're receiving. Is there any further comment? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming down. Sorry about your memories. I've lost twice, but I know what it's a business with a big truck. So we are going to do new business reasonably quickly. And then we're going to go into executive session. Marie attorney by. Hi. I'm going to, you'll have to forgive me. But I'm going to, I read it wrong the first time and it's like locked into my head until I know how that happened. So I'm just going to say, Doug, what do you got for us? Yeah. So my understanding is that the, the board would like to go into executive session for the purposes of reviewing a complaint and taking and determining what necessary action should be made upon that. Can I pause you right now? I actually not quite at that point yet. So what we actually welcomed, we go around and we do new business with each person. Oh. And then after that, then we're going to go into executive session and I will ask you to, I'll ask to hear that at that time. I have no new business. All right. Adam. I just very quickly, I included in the board's packet this week, very proud of the work a number of folks in Arlington have done to win the annual report, second place in the annual report award as the board received notice from the MMA Arlington visual budget, won the innovation award from the MMA. And the annual budget and financial plan was honored with the distinguished budget service award from the government finance offices association. So an award winning year for the work a lot of folks do in town. I just wanted to mention that and tell you how proud I am of that. Excellent. I'm sorry. I did want to, I'm sorry. I did want to add one thing. I'm sorry. I neglected you before. I just wanted to recognize the terrific work of Ed Marlinga who is serving as acting town council and has made life tremendously easier for me to start out on our first day. There's been a lot of active business, nothing that merits new business attention before the board this evening. But I just wanted to recognize that it's done a terrific job and I very much appreciate all the work that he's put into serving his community as well as to make it an easier transition for me. What? You didn't want to deal with the $7 million lawsuit? Well. Thank you, Attorney Marlinga. Indeed. All right. Kevin. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Adam, I'd like to know what specific steps you plan on taking to pull us out of the cellar of second place in the town annual report and bring us back to first place. You can write a report on that if you want. But congratulations. I mean, it does seem every week that there's more and more awards at this town as one. And in a great part due to your leadership. Thank you. Thank you. Just one other item under new business. Mr. Gilligan, the treasurer has decided to issue an internal posting for a deputy treasurer position. And while that is within his right, I am bothered to say the least that he did not feel it necessary to come speak to this board that must confirm that position. For more than a year, I've asked Mr. Gilligan to please delineate for us his responsibilities versus the position he created for his management analysis. Management analyst. Management analyst and the assistant treasurer. So we can make a decision. Is the assistant treasurer position any longer necessary? Or is that one of the places where we might be able to save money? So I just want to make it clear. I personally will not confirm anybody for this position until Mr. Gilligan discusses it with us and provides that specific information. That's just my position. Thank you. Thank you. Diane. Oh, Merry Christmas, otherwise. Okay, Mr. Potter. Just very quickly, Pop Warner C Squad placed fourth at Nationals. Very proud. Hit everything in their performance. So to all of us, it was first place. But they did fantastic down there. Great opportunity. Thank you ACMI for the amplification when they said, oh, it's really easy. They promised this time to do it quickly. And they certainly came through on that. And just two other things we're going to be addressing from a conversation with the chair. Hackney licenses in language as well as alcohol proposed language. I know I have a proposition about the correct legal language for this board to vote on. If they agree, that's fine. That's fine too. About the date of the, the date the offense is committed is the date that the penalty punishment shall commence. A day of the week, I should say. Whatever the legal is. And then anything else that anybody else has and then put it before the board and, you know, a majority may say, no, we're okay with the way it is. And then the old. Can I just cut it? So if they, if they're caught on a Wednesday, the punishment has to start on a Wednesday. Okay. All right. Sorry. That's just what I'm putting out. Okay. Somebody may say they want it to end or not or something different. And then the only other thing is I saw this. I can't remember where I read it could go over the times or something that I think Boston was one of them cited that they are switching in certain areas, the handicap placard, the nationally recognized placard. And it kind of looks like it's still the handicap. But it's like on a bike or something. I'm not saying it right. It just said the more mobile. Yeah, it looks like it's in motion. Yeah. I just thought that was interesting. I was just wondering if I could put that for you, but it's not a high priority at all. But when I saw it and having, you know, so many handicaps in my family for various reasons. And that said, thank you. Thank you. Oh, oh, sorry. One other concern that we got in our packet on Friday, a question and you can get us this answer later if you want. I was wondering how it was possible for the residents on the private way portion. I think it was Wallace to nav that we now that number one, our fire apparatus cannot approach it certain ways. And we also cannot plow it. I'm wondering a, do we have safeguards in? Was there a plan in the contractor deviated from it? Or can private way owners redesign their road and we, the town doesn't issue any guidelines that this is the steep, this is the grade. And then naturally as you've done, letting us know about this issue, if you could please let us know follow up because I'm just really concerned, you know, snow when someone gets in a bad accident and it's not the town's fault. But I'm just wondering, don't we have safeguards in when people go in and do their private ways that they have to adhere to? My understanding is this, this one individual, a butter who made these changes on their own, which created sort of this drop off situation that wouldn't allow either fire trucks to go over it or plow it. Right. So frankly, we wanted to let folks know about the services that they would or would not receive, but also hopefully put other butters on notice that something amongst the, all the butters needed to happen for those services to come back. So beyond that, we have to sit and wait. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm just saying it's, we've notified them of the problem with the issue is we've notified our town personnel so we don't bottom out any of our apparatus or trucks. And now we just wait and see. We can take a look at it, but I'm not aware of any method we have to deliver them. I'd be curious. Yeah. I'd be curious actually. I hadn't really thought about it in that life, but that actually, because if we're approved, because presumably the board of survey at some point appointed the approved their survey. And if they're not, if the road is no longer within the survey, I wonder what the, what's possible at that point. Yeah. I'm not sure that it is not a survey, but we can take a look at it. Okay. That was it. Thank you. Joe. Thank you very much. Just a couple things. The, as you all know, the manager and the superintendent organized a tour of Arlington High School for a number of officials. It was led by Dr. Janger and Mr. McCarthy. I know the one that the three of us were on went two and a half hours. It was pretty, pretty extensive. I noticed when we went into one of the rooms, there was a poster that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So this seemed to be the first step towards really getting our hands around the situation at the high school, which I know will have long discussions about in the years to come. I did want to say that I found it ironic that the building that seemed to be most problematic was of the same era as our community safety building, which has given us so many headaches. So this, this is going to be a long, long process that a lot of us will be involved in. But I want to thank those. The freshman building, Joe? Downs. Downs. Downs. I think they also called the freshman. Yeah. Well, it used to be. And also I was very, I was negligent when Mr. Fields was here. He's been working on a lot of other initiatives besides the signage and first lights. I just got pulled into a group of folks from different organizations in town, which he is also a part of working on organizing a TEDx conference for Arlington. He's been working on it for a couple of years and a year from January. So that's TEDx. Technology, engineering and design. The TED talks are something that you can find online on a number. But you can have affiliate conferences and if we pull this off, which I know we will, we may well be the first community of our size to really do one of these. So the Arlington Center for the Arts is involved and some other members of the arts community in the film festival and such. But Mr. Fields is really helping to keep things on track with that. I also wanted to say that there's been a lot of buzz this week. His incubation efforts also look like they may be yielding some fruit with some large vacant spaces that we have in town. There's been interest with some incubation outfits partnering with the arts collectives. That's been out I think on some of the lists and such. I don't think I'm telling tales out of school there. So he is definitely earning his keep on this. Thank you very much. Thank you, Joe. No new business. I also have no new business. So let's talk about the next week. So my understanding is that the board would like to go into executive session to discuss an open meeting while complaint and decision and actually needs to be taken in respect to that as well as for a review of executive session minutes. There would need to be a roll call and the majority of the vote approving to go into executive session on that and we need to state whether or not an open meeting will take place or not. So I think that the board would like to share basically agree with the purposes of the executive session. Sorry, do I what? So I believe it in a packet. I agree. That's why we're going. Could someone want to make a motion? Second, Mr. Gurley's motion and I think we have the caveat that when we come out, we may or may not be taken. So let's go into executive session. Thank you. We're now back from executive session in regular open session. We took votes in executive session, which we will now also do in public session. Mr. Chairman, I move that we release the executive session minutes for April 11, 2011 for January . So let's go into executive session minutes for April 11, for January 28, 2013 for March 18, 2013 and for June 3, 2013, sir. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion to second for any discussion. All those in favor, please say aye. 5-0. Thank you. Motion and a second. All those in favor, please say aye.