 Good afternoon. It is Thursday, May 13th, 2021, and it's 12 o'clock noon. I'm calling the meeting to order Governor Baker's March 12 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law allows us to hold this virtual Town Council meeting. Given that we have a quorum with the Council President I'm calling the May 13 2021 special meeting of the Amherstown Council to order at 12 o'clock to PM. I will call upon each Council by name at that time they should unmute their mic and say present will indicate that they can hear me and we can hear them. Please remember to mute your mic after you say present. I will start with Shawnee Balmain. Alyssa Brewer. Present. Pat DeAngelis. Present. Darcy Dumont. Present. Lynn Griezmer is present. Mandy Johannike. Present. Dorothy Pam. Present. Evan Ross. Present. George Ryan. Present. Kathy Shane. Here. Steve Schreiber is absent because he is at graduate graduation at UMass. Steve Andy Steinberg. Present. And Sarah Schwartz. Present. Okay. We have 12 of us present. This meeting includes audio video and is available live on Amherst media. It is also being recorded. There is no chat room. If you have technical difficulties, please let Athena and I know we are going into executive session in just a moment. And I will make a motion for that, but I want to mention that we will not reconvene an open session. Following the executive session. We have a special town council meeting. And therefore there is no public comment. Counselors will log off of the present session and log onto the link provided for the executive session. And I need a second is to convene in executive session under mass general law. Chapter 30 a paragraph 21 a three to discuss strategy with respect to litigation. Chapter 21 a zero C as in Carol V as in victory zero, zero, zero or three. Carol, comma, gray Kara, comma, at Al versus Susan Odette in the capacity acting town clerk. It is clear that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the body. The town council will not reconvene an open session. Following the executive session. Is there a second seconds Ross. Thank you. I now need to ask. Ask each counselor to log off. And we need to vote. We will not return. We need to vote. I'm sorry, thank you. We have to vote. Okay, all those and they are there any, is there any question or discussion. We have to vote individually roll call vote like normal for executive session. Yes, I do. Okay. Then I'm going to start with Shalini. Yes. Alyssa. Hi. Happy Angeles. Hi. Darcy demand. Yes. Thanks so much. An eye. Dorothy Pam. Hi. Evan Ross. Hi. George Ryan. This. Kathy Shane. Yes. goat's Schreiber. Andy Steinberg. Hi. There are Schwartz. link. Thank you.