 Good evening and welcome to the select board meeting of Monday, August 12th 2019 at 715 p.m First we're going to continue on with introductions. I am the chair of the select board Diane I'm a hon and to my right your left John Herd Joe Cureau Dan Dunn Steve DeCorsi Adam chaptering town manager Doug Heim town council Administrator Thank you our first agenda item Is the approval of a bond MWRA and we have our treasurer and collector of taxes miss Phyllis Marshall? Ms. Marshall for you just say your name again I'm Phyllis Marshall. I'm the treasurer collector of the town. I Wanted to Speak to you this evening about 1.3 million dollar Water main Interest-free loan that was approved by town meeting in April of 2018 and It's the the project that was approved by the MWRA was for improvements to the water system for Blossom Street Brattle Street Newland Street I think it's Newland Drive and oak ledge street That work will be done in the fall of 2019 through the fall of 2020 Is there a motion Move approval by mr. Cureau actually does this vote need a particular form? Second moved by mr. Cureau seconded by mr. Herd any comments or questions If not, oh mr. Cureau. I'm sorry. I'll just say this is an interest-free loan, correct? Yes. That's correct Right. It's a 10-year loan. Yep. Thank you very much On a motion by mr. Cureau seconded by mr. Herd all those in favor say aye I will oppose unanimous vote Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome to stay, but I know you have a lot of work to do Okay consent agenda minutes of meetings July 22nd 2019. We have reappointments to the public memorial committee Eugene O'Neill Dennis Corbett Alexander Celeponte and William Copperthorne request October fest at the old Schwann Mill October 5th 2019 noon to 4 p.m We have a request one day beer and wine license September 7 2019 at Robbins Memorial Town Hall for a private event We have another request one day beer and wine license September 28th 2019 At Robbins Memorial Town Hall for a private event first is their motion to approve It's a move by mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. D'Corsi Um first is there anyone here to speak to any of these? Uh, yes. Uh, my name is Ed Gordon I'm the director of museum programs for the old Schwann Mill and I Want to thank you for issuing us a beer and wine one day license permit For the mill's third annual october fest event To be held on saturday october 5th of this year And I hope you will all join us for what Is a really great event This year we have a new feature a pop-up arts and crafts silent auction of work donated by past artists and crafts people who have Exhibited at the mill and then we'll have two bands and Aeronaut beer under the tent and kids activities So it's a really really fun and exciting day. Thank you Mr. Dunn if someone wants to learn more about it, where can they go online? So, uh, you can go at www.info at old Schwann mill dot org to Find out about it. We issue A monthly e-news letter. It'll be in our hard copy newsletter that's coming out In early september And it'll be advertised on the Arlington list, etc. Thank you Thank you Anyone else here for items under consent agenda any further questions or comments by my colleagues? If not on a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Ducorsi all those in favor say aye those opposed unanimous vote Sorry, excuse me Court reporter. I've been talking in the mask all day Agenda item seven uh under appointments. We have the poet laureate of Arlington. Mr. Stephen Rattener Mr. Curell, would you like to introduce who's coming up or? Okay, did you want to yeah, I think I'll I'd like to suggest madam chair that we recognize Lizza Halley who's the chair of the poet laureate committee, which is Conducted the search for our third poet laureate and is putting forward mr. Rattener's name for approval Thank you Hi, I just want to thank you all for your support of the poet laureate program And this is our third person that we've selected and Suggest that you approve for appointment of the poet laureate position Steve Rattener brings many many many years of experience and beautiful poetry And he has wonderful plans for what he would like to do to share the magic of The written word with the town of Arlington. So I hope that you will approve him tonight and Enjoy the words that he's come to share with you Do we have Steve come up and Say something so everyone watching will now know who Steve is First of all, I want to thank you all for this honor My wife and I've been Arlington residents for about 35 years So it's a doubly sweet thing when you feel some recognition from the place you call home I'll say this that I'm also aware that this is the honor that you're doing You're using the honor symbolically for me to honor the fact that Arlington has become a Wonderful place for not just poetry, but all the arts and this is a way I think for the select Select men and women to be saying We know this is an important thing for shaping our community For sharing our voices and so I think the idea of being a poet laureate is a way of both Sharing the poetry and perhaps even finding Surprising ways of doing that Many of you perhaps have only run into poetry in schools And if so, if you were lucky enough to have a good teacher, that's great Many did not so some people get very nervous around poetry. They remember being graded in poetry So for me the idea of sharing poetry in the town is about discovering pleasure The pleasure and the insight of having your own language your own words carries some peace of your life My goals are sort of threefold and I won't go into here, but one is about education I've worked for the last 40 years as a poet in residence through the mass issues at cultural council. So for me When I was in high school about 10 centuries ago I was in the very first poets in the school's program in new york city And that was a sense of confirmation when a living poet came to your school and spoke about his or her life And you suddenly realize this is real in the world It's not just something in the dusty books that you were reading And I think there was a reason that made me want to pay back some of the poets who brought that to me And that made me want to teach in the schools The second thing I wanted to be able to do is to Collaborate with other artists too one of the joys for me has been not just working alone Most poets work in solitary situations, but for me working with other artists is really exciting I work with dance companies and musicians and visual artists of all sorts So Arlington as I said has such a rich artistic resource So one of my goals is to see if I can uh make new new bridges between some of the art forms too And then the third thing I want to do is to have poetry appear in surprising places So that if you did feel a nervousness about poetry If it if it came to you in a place you didn't expect and suddenly you found a poem that was pleasing to you You might realize oh, this is something I could have in my life Poetry is an art form where The stuff of poetry is what we all have We all use language. We all use memory and images So the idea of finding that in a very strong empowered way and realizing it has to do with your life as well That's wonderful both for the maker of poems or the audience for poems too So they said I should bring a poem to to read to you So yeah, there are three little ones Three poems that sort of give you a little arc for what I think poets try to do So the first one is an elegy the second one is a love poem and the third one is about passing things on My sister Elaine passed away about five six seven years ago of a brain tumor And when I first heard about this I began writing about this This is my way of sort of keeping company with what was happening inside her life So I I'm working on three full books recently and one is about Elaine It's called black quilt because she was a quilter and in a sense the poems accompany her and then after her passing Make me stop to realize where I am in the world how the world is different because of that So he has a poem using some of the quilters language and it's called the material the material The june air thread bear with rain Cloud cover the unquilted cotton batting My eyes stitch this red brick beach green sea pearl sky design Because your eyes your blighted hands can no longer work the material This mortal longing this piecemeal delight And the poem in a sense is doing what she's doing taking random bits stitching together and granting you a new scene a new vision This poem is called a soul. It's for it's written in honor of another poet named Jane Hirschfield Because she had a series of little poems called little souls although the poem was written really about my wife It's one long stream of language a soul They call it a soul. It's not a soul. It's the feeling in the hand Just so much cardamom so much time how the tongue knows to strike one syllable bend another Song an instrument one and the same How the current surges when she almost casually makes music of my name Makes urgency of the ordinary her lips touching here or mind caressing there The tide turning rocks below us in the cove Turning the craggy heart smooth as a stone the soul lifts in its hands had a soul a hand And torces far out into the raveling unraveling blue. They call it a sea. It's not a sea. It's a soul And the last one is my grandson My grandson is now three has become my my best teacher From you know zero on he's teaching me how to become a human being How to first discover language again how to know how to find your place in the world So he's my greatest teacher and this poem is a little portrait of him in one little day And it's called supermoon and you'll remember super moons and the things the uh the newsmen love to talk about You know the time when the moon is largest on the horizon closer to the earth Supermoon Not the fat mandala the meteorologists were touting on the news, but a dime sized jewel Floating beneath us in the ponds black skies, which my grandson nearly two Snatches up in his small fist Opening it slowly Convinced of what he possesses And by what he's possessed He offers me his wet palm I kiss the moon there And the lines that grab me is convinced of what he possesses And that's not just true for the two-year-old that's true for all of us that we sort of function in our daily life Convinced of what we possess Maybe a little less so but we like to believe we're we're convinced of what possesses us of by what we are possessed But really this mystery Really, we barely know for moment to moment So for me the poem was a chance to suddenly be agog at that mystery and maybe be surprised enough to find the moon Right there in the palm of a two-year-old So thank you very much for Thank you So thank you for sharing those poems those missives in that I have a six in a three-year-old grandson I know what you're talking about how they teach you because Maybe it's cyclical We're teachable again. So, uh, mr. Cure Thank you, madam chair my honor to move to A point Steven Ratner as the Third poet laureate of the town of Arlington. Is there a second second my mr. Herd mr. Curel I would just like to say thank you very much For for sharing with us this evening. I can see with your energy and your creativity and And your ambitions that that you'll bring a lot to this position. Uh, mrs. Levine and and mrs. Desjardins before you Certainly brought a lot through their initiatives with the libraries and and With the arts community and such and we're really looking forward to to your individual imprint on this I I think also we it's uh It's important that we also recognize the poet laureate committee that's done so much work on this I know that uh, lizard is miss hallie is here and mr. Burt also and um, I know there are three others miss howard and uh, miss band and Pamela, of course, and miss powell. Pamela powell All worked hard to uh, uh, Do this this search for us, um Again and to keep the the poet laureate program alive and and well, so thank you for for that As well. I know they'll be supporting mr. Ratner and his endeavors as he goes forward So i'm gonna affirmative vote from the board here On uh, motion by mr. Curell second and by mr. Herd and for the comments or questions if not all those in favor say I All those opposed again our sincere. Thanks to everybody appreciate it Thank you Give me a favor and just swing that door open since the flag is there. Yeah, they keep walking through the flag I shouldn't say There was trying to spare marie from getting up Thank you marie agenda item 8 uh an appointment to the public memorials committee william yorker mccarthy Hello Good to see you If you can just say your name even though we all know it in a little bit about uh, we met mccarthy I'm being appointed to the public memorials committee It's an honor for me to serve in that position I deal with the memorials. I set up a lot of them while I was director of veteran services and uh here in allington I said here in allington here in allington. Yes, where else? but uh, and I'd like to be involved in maintaining them and See them kept up for the future and any Ones that may be approved and to add to the to the town And I want to say um, mr. Mccarthy is filling the recent vacancy by will duke st. Martin Who served for I think 25 24 25 years Amazing individual is given and continue. I'm sure I'm gonna make 25 years But there's something to go a goal for you to go for um And we certainly appreciate his service and look forward to something in the future for duke for mr. St Martin, is there a motion to approve move approval second by mr. Herd seconded by Mr. Dunn Mr. Dunn. Yeah, um, thank you very much for serving yet again and yet another capacity for the town And I just want to make a comment about this committee that I this is one of the ones that um It really makes my life easier Because it and I mean this in a really positive way because it when it comes time to name something or something Being able to hand it to essentially an apolitical body and so Has the memorial committee does and recommend whether or not Something should or shouldn't be named after somebody is a really powerful thing and it makes uh It makes the naming that we do a lot more means it means a lot more because it's not just a You know, it's not a political handshake It comes from a group of people who look at it and say whether that should or shouldn't happen I really appreciate that Thank you And thank you once again first. Thank you for your services a veteran In the vietnam war as well as um Was vietnam, right? I was in vietnam. Yes. Um, as well as you said before you are a veterans director for many many years as well as um Working on many initiatives way back when when we first was starting the school rebuild projects and we both had young kids In the school, so i'm not surprised. You're stepping up once again. I know you do a little break Yeah, you do you'll do a great job as usual Any further questions and comments on a motion by mr. Hard seconded by mr. Dunn if not all those in favor say aye Good to see you. Thank you. Thank you Agenda item nine for approval a common victor license Breadboard bakehouse 203 a and b Broadway and daisy chow is listed. I'm not sure if she's here or Hi, if you could just say your name and explain a little bit about your Okay, i'm daisy chow. I'm the owner of breadboard bakery and it's going to be an artisan bakery in a little cafe with a seating For about 20 people on the side and it's located at 203 a and b Broadway in east ronnington Excellent versus their emotion Move by mr. Dunn seconded by second mr Her cure cure. Sorry Any questions comments? I hear kevin my former colleague from above asking for samples I'm channeling him But no, you don't have to bring samples. I you know what I always I've heard that's a bad thing to do so Wish you great luck. I hear at allington allington's a great community. You're probably aware you certainly will find out and Look forward to Success thank you on a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Cure only for the questions or comments if not all those favors say I Suppose unanimous vote Good to see you Next agenda item 10. We have a doing business as name change all alcohol license shanghai village asian cuisine 434 mass av andy leon. I can't tell you how many calls and emails. I got saying it's shanghai opening soon So, um, i'm not sure if andy leon is here or a representative You if you can just come up say your name and Even i'm present for the shanghai village Restaurant for change the name Okay It first is there a motion to approve so move mr. Curel seconded by second mr. Decorsi Um, any announcement you want to make? Uh, you don't have to no Nope, that's fine. You just gotta you're getting everything in the order in the world. So we appreciate that Um on a motion by mr. Curel seconded by mr. Decorsi any questions or comments if not all those in favor say I unanimous vote Thank you. Thank you. Good luck Is there anyone here for citizens open forum too? Okay, um, then i'll read the preamble Except an unusual circumstance is any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation In accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established It should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern or a request Do you want to just tell us their first name is mrs. Curel? From 104 you could just say your name again and sure. Thank you Don seltzer Irving street Uh resident of arlington for 47 years I sent a letter out to the board late last week Um, I don't know if you all got it. It didn't appear in the official correspondence for this meeting But it was about the meeting you had last time in which you were presented with a planning um department report That report included a resident survey to measure the effectiveness of the good neighbor agreement by law The results were probably disappointing to everybody Not very many households responded and of those that did Only a small minority even remembered being contacted by the developer in their neighborhood There was however a second survey on compliance done in parallel with this This other study was more direct. It looked specifically at the information package That was filed with inspectional services under the bylaw Since I've already written to you about the details. I'll just briefly summarize this evening Almost all the developers did submit a project information letter in which they provided the builder's name and contact information Most of them offered very little more in terms of useful information For instance, the bylaw requires the site plan be included in the package Only five out of the 13th Builders complied with that The bylaw also requires that the building inspector Receive a list of all butters within 200 feet who are to receive the packet by mail Only four developers actually submitted a complete list One submitted a list of about half the butters Another one submitted a list containing just eight out of 14 butters who should have been notified More than half of the developers submitted no address list at all The final report card Only three out of the 13 projects passed by complying with the bylaw Now you're probably wondering why am I bringing this before the select board Shouldn't it go to the residential study group? Yes, it should But the residential study group exists in name only these days They've not had a regular meeting since last winter If you look at the calendar, there are no meetings scheduled in the foreseeable future To use the social media expression, they have been ghosted by town officials At your last meeting it was implied that the residential study group had a major role In preparing the report that you received. They did not They never reviewed that report. They did not contribute to its conclusions They did not even receive a courtesy copy of the report They have simply been ghosted Shed out of the process without any explanation. And that's why I'm speaking to you tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much I've written down the info. Thank you Um, who's the second name? Mrs. Kruppelka? Paul Parise Paul Sorry 106 Hemlock street You can just state your name again Paul Parise 106 Hemlock street I'm a native Arlington and I've lived here for the past 39 years I also have comments tonight about the residential study group And I'll give you a brief background and then there's just a couple of comments I was concerned about the residential Redevelopment tear downs and McMansions and things that were being built three years ago three years ago approximately late 215 early 216 I came before to select board and express these concerns I thought the houses were significantly out of proportion within regards to size and height not all of them But some of them some were of poor quality and design in respect to the materials in the rest of the neighborhood They did not maintain the neighborhood character as stated in the master plan Some had safety issues with severely downward sloping driveways and there were construction impacts on a butters From health and safety issues Irving street, which you may all be aware of was an excellent example of things that kind of were out of control McMansion impacts though on a butters and neighbors I was concerned that the time with loss of sunlight impacts on existing solar arrays Fresh air privacy loss of privacy reduced sight lines visibility and loss of mature healthy trees And particularly Exasperation of these issues on a butters that are non conforming lots We're allowing certain things to be built on conforming lots But a lot of these have non conforming lots next door and it makes some of these issues even more significant and more impactful shade and Things like that Now these things were presented at the town meeting of 2016 Warren articles were proposed most of them were turned down But the town meeting authorized and formed the residential study group Which I thought at the time and I still think is a very good thing I think these issues still remain in town and need to be considered The residential study group did help adopt the driveway slope regulation Get the good neighbor packet out that dawn just talked about Corrected the story definition to be in line with state regulations Past design guidelines appropriations, so they'll be doing some design guidelines in the future But not necessarily regulations and added a notice of tree removal to the demo notice requirements The efficacy of the good neighbor packet dawn talked about I've had construction in my neighborhood where I think I should receive one of these packets And it hasn't happened and I am definitely within 200 feet of some of these projects So as best as I can tell the primary issues for the formation of the residential study group Have still not been addressed So I still have the same concerns that I had three years ago And I would like to see the residential study group Address these and proceed forward So I would like if the select board at some time in their background work Can discuss this and find out what the residential study group plans to do about the issues that were raised three years ago and led to their formation I don't even see them on the agenda and Otherwise it would appear to me I'm speaking only for me that the residential study group would have swept these issues under the rug and prefers to leave them there That's only my opinion if nothing happens going forward And dawn alluded to it. So I didn't know he was going to talk about it But I don't know if there's still a functioning committee I've attended two or three of the meetings because I wanted to see How they function what was being discussed and if I had an opportunity ask about my issues So I haven't been to a meeting since late winter. There's none in the calendar I'd like to know does this group what I'll do is because we can't discuss it tonight That's it. That's no, no, no, but I I want to say to both gentlemen. Thank you for coming here and staying on this with my colleagues Approval what I do is I'll have conversations tomorrow with the town manager and mrs. Kruppelka about What's correct avenues whether we have conversations or the town manager? Building inspector, etc. Whether Myself mrs. Kruppelka or mr. chapter lane needs to call the town moderator mr. Warden and kind of get a status update and if things are the way they are You know, how do we remedy that whether it's a select board agenda item where we think of another way to Get this effectively done or if our initial queries Or something that's successful and hopefully I can get it to a point that it would be on a future Agenda item That's my goal to have somebody come in sort of or even a report from mrs. Kruppelka The town manager mr. Chapter lane to say and that would be an agenda item also So I don't want to think we're ignoring it. Um, definitely will be followed up on it. I really appreciate that I thank you for coming down the middle of summer. Have a go. Thank you Anyone else here for citizens open forum If not, we'll go to traffic rules and orders and other business. First, we have agenda item 11 For approval sumble sum of all 5k detour road race And i'm not going to say anything more because I see we have someone here to speak on it Just your name further. Thank you. My name is mike liby. I'm the executive director of the summerville homeless coalition Also at town of arlington resident born and raised in arlington Each year we have a major fundraiser for the summerville homeless coalition, which is the summerville 5k But if you've traveled into summerville lately, you'll notice that three bridges are missing In the city and one of which was right in one of our road race routes We tried a couple different options In summerville, but nothing really it's only about four and a half square miles. So there's not much room there We couldn't really find a safe alternative route for our road race So I thought maybe we could Come to our neighbor to the the west We do a lot of work despite our name in arlington. We rent 27 different scattered site units Providing housing for formerly homeless disabled families and individuals also working with the health and human services department and the arlington police department on Doing some outreach to the folks over in megar woods and The thorn dyke area So I appreciate you entertaining the The Application is one of our biggest fundraisers and If anybody has any questions Oh moved by mr. Hurd seconded by mr. Curo. Mr. Curo and then mr. Dunn Yeah, I just wanted to thank you very much for coming forward with this as coincidence would have it I I happened to be at Calvary church on sunday when mr. Libby spoke at length About the partnership with Calvary and at length about the work that the summerville housing coalition does And I think that it it really does benefit Our town in this this entire area So i'm very happy and thank you for thinking of us When you run into the jam and in summerville with The route for your your race. I mean, we certainly have a no pun intended a track record of being able to Pull these together here. So thank you Uh, no, thank you. Okay Mr. Hurd, sorry, just want to say some Mike and my kids go to school together. So when mike approached me about this the first thing that came to mind was Oh my god, I'm gonna have to run Planning on doing this. I invite some of my colleagues to any stairs involved in this So I know i'm excited and you know I Again to know mike and get to know the summerville homeless coalition It's really a great organization and i'm excited that we can help You know, I know you work a lot with the housing corp of arlington to place people in arlington And uh, you know, it's just it's great for us as a town to be able to give back to an organization that does so much for residents in summerville, but also in arlington and um, you know, i'm excited to do to To participate and um Just want to echo what my colleagues have stated and um in terms of the Um homeless individuals, especially over at the mu ghar site Which most people they're familiar with that name it really is uh Sort of a mini village of not only homeless Individuals but individuals with many other needs that really don't think they have anywhere to turn and and Thankfully through the summerville homeless coalition our arlington board of health In all my tenure on on being the board of select men select board um The past five to ten years I've seen in the past it would be an issue would be raised and basically they would get kicked out But now um individuals from your group from mollentines board of health They go down They're trained to go down and speak with these individuals in a non-threatening manner, you know, whatever other issues Uh, co mo I should say co molded but whatever other issues exist alongside and I'm really grateful for that because thankfully i've never been homeless or In any kind of position like that, but i've been in a position where I have homo over my head and I Have a salary coming in and I face some really dire circumstances and could barely keep it together So considering the elements that that these individuals men women and families are up against I'm glad we don't just kick them out anymore and pass them on make them move on to somebody else's city or town That there is true follow-through. Um, and sometimes it takes two or three contacts But if it takes two or three, then it takes two or three So I really do appreciate all the work that you're doing and through the town manager on board of health Oh, mr. Hurd one more comment. If someone wants to sign up. How do they sign up for the rise of participation? www.shcinc.org Thank you On a motion by mr. Hurd seconded by mr. Carol any further questions or comments if not all those in favor say aye Thanks, thank you look forward to seeing you good weather we pray for good weather Gen item 12 for approval boston woman's market at uncle sam plaza and i'm not going to say anything more because I Name for the record. Hi. My name is carol lefredo. I'm directing organizer of boston women's market We create selling opportunities for women founded businesses throughout the new england area So we hold marketplaces outdoor and indoor. We hold workshops both educational and health and mind well being focused We held our first boston women's market in arlington in july And we were blown away by the response from the community and the support And since we had the market, we've been conducted several times about from women makers and entrepreneurs in the arlington area Wanting to participate so we just thought we kind of keep the fun and momentum going and see if we could Take advantage of the nice weather if we have and Do one more market before it gets too cold outside in arlington Is there a motion of approval by mr. Carol seconded by Mr done Any questions I'll just say my wife and I went through when you were here Oh, I'm so glad to hear that we really enjoyed speaking with all the folks and and And just the array of offerings and you really did manage to fit quite a few folks into that space. We're skilled. Yeah Thank you. Thank you for visiting. Yeah, I couldn't make it down I'm employed by a woman owned business, but which I tell people it means it's woman owned It also employs men too, but I saw so many facebook postings and individual group postings I mean, I really felt bad and that I couldn't make it down there another chance It was such a successful truly. I knew it was going to be a success, but um, you hit all points all guns run All chambers running I mean we were Blown away by the sport of the community to help publicize and we had newspapers and then the local TV station came down and did some interviews with our makers what that was really great and important to us to see So yeah, you're doing it, right? And I'm glad you're taking another shot at it Thank you on a motion by mr. Carol seconded by mr. Dunn any further questions or comments if not all those in favor say I Look forward to seeing you a sad day. September 7th. Thank you. You too. Okay We now go to correspondence receives a motion to receive by mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Decorsi we have one item I've got move received Okay On a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr Decorsi any further questions or comments if not all those in favor say I I will oppose unanimous vote New business and mrs. Cropelko I don't have anything right now Trani high No new business. Thank you. Mr. Chapter Lane. Thank you, madam chair. Just one piece Something nice to highlight for the board To credit Jim Feeney for some great work that he's been doing as well as cooperating with the dpw So you'll see when you walk out tonight outside the entrance to the annex a new pad being laid for a new bike rack And similarly there's a new pad being laid over behind the robbins library in between the robbins library and the Witte more robbins house for a new pad for bike racks that were there So there was a need for these new pads. They were crumbling bricks near the library and there was some Failing pavers right outside here by town hall but what Jim has done and managed here is He's he's managing the front of town hall plaza project where we're trying to resurface and re-level So he's experimented with a concrete mix that he'd like to use out front Where it's taken a granite that the from the same quarry that the granite outside was laid Pulverized it Mixed it in with the concrete and then it's going to have a reveal on it So it'll have like that antique sort of pebble concrete feel, you know, like old sidewalks. You can actually see the stone So we're going to see how it looks here first. It'll be a great new space for bikes But it'll be a test for what we want to do in the front of the building Similarly over near robbins library We laid down dyed red concrete and stamped it with these rubber or plastic molds. So it's going to look like bricks Again, similarly, we're testing that as a potential aesthetic trim for sidewalks in our linkedin center Which would be cheaper and more ADA compliant than putting bricks in that would need more maintenance in the future So, um, I really I want to I think it's good to check out. It's for me as a municipal nerd It's neat stuff to look at but I really want to credit Jim the dpw and microtomographer thinking innovatively to get some good stuff done, but also use it as a test Sort of a test plot for other stuff. We're trying to get done in town Can I confirm that I thought there was a random like just Brick layers that came in and put a perfect like rectangle of bricks on the way over from jarvis house. Oh, no, are they at it again? Yeah, yeah Again Yeah, it was pretty convincing It's a chapter. That's all I have Yeah, one piece. Uh, ma'am. Thank you. Um, so this is our last meeting of the summer in between now and September 9th Our population and I think we'll be going down because of the number of students that will be going back to school and And starting college. So I just wanted to Wish those students Who are starting their college careers all the best. I have some information from anken high. I'm going to share um From the class of 2019 The students are attending 131 colleges in 26 states Closest being toughs furthest in the united states being the university of washington 3200 miles away Um, students are also going to colleges in six different countries Um, as far away as italy and croatia canada the netherlands Um, ireland and scotland. So I wish all the students All the best and we look forward to seeing them either Thanksgiving or over the the holidays and uh, I'm sure They're all looking forward to the next phase of their life and the adventures that they're Going to go on some best of luck Thank you. Mr. Dunn, nothing Mr. Hurd Just want to comment that the past two weeks we've had spectacular weather and attendance at the beer gardens I've been too. You know, and I know that we've had good I haven't seen anybody but I've heard we've had good attendance of the board But it's just it's been great events that's been Lines and the music's been awesome and every everyone that is gone I know people have gone for the first time the past couple weeks and they've just set out Like I can't believe this is here and then Everyone that's there goes and eats at Local restaurants. So, you know, it's been a good Example of what the beer garden does for us. I think we've all been on like, you know Like coffee runs where we have like we feel like three week three mornings a week We're like we're at a coffee shop having like an informal meeting with somebody. Yeah, I now do them at the beer gardens And Just wanted to mention to today the rink opened and I went there to stick in park with my son They just want to come in the record wrecked apartment because it looks great It's in the ice is in good shape and building is very clean and the boat is nice looking as it's been so Mr. Carol Just two things With my colleague's approval I'm going to work with the town manager either the end of september beginning of october have both of our chiefs in Our newly appointed fire chief kevin kelly as well as our acting police chief julie flaherty um Spoken with the vice chair mr. Don as well as informally with the rest of you all Will certainly come up with What we'd like them to speak on but feel free to have any conversations with mr. Chapter lane in case I miss anything Anything of importance and then the second is i'm working with mr. Decorsi and the town manager Again in the fall Probably mid-fall Coordinating probably a budget and revenue task force meeting Along with having our legislators in and if there's no need for the budget and revenue task force meeting After conversations with mr. Decorsi mr. Chapter lane, we'll just have a straight up agenda item Will we ask the legislators to come in? What I'd like to do is And I don't know mr. Decorsi if you wanted to since you were the person who kind of started this State of brief intent I'm sorry. Did any intentions of um What look I think we've had conversations in terms of yes, they give reports to us But we kind of want to flip it the other way around and Yeah, and I think this started as a request for for a legislative update which I think is Appropriate after after labor day, but also to to your point madam chair to to I think they would be Look forward to hearing from us for what our what our concerns are and what our comments are as well right, so To that end I've asked the town manager maybe to come up with three to five Capital projects or something other wise Because it's been a few minutes I know when Previous delegations were in there and you have to go along with What can be done? But um allington along with other cities and towns, but we're just concerned with allington We could usually get a supplemental bond of something in there Not every year, but you know every two to four or five years And I think we're coming up on that time, but we can't really Look to the legislators if we haven't said here's what's on our radar Can you look at it in the venue of the state house and a possible supplemental bond item or something else? Um You know we just present what's out there and they might be able to say you know what of these 11 things We can really focus in on this one and be a partner on it or something else. So that's the way i'm going with that Um, uh, no further new business or motion to adjourn by Mr. Curel seconded by mr. Dunn all those in favor say aye. Aye all those opposed unanimous vote We are adjourned until september 9th 2019. Thank you, acmi