 Thank you very much. Good evening everybody and welcome to the Board of Selectments meeting for January 25th. Thank you very much. And unfortunately it seems all too often we've had to open our meeting with a bit of bad news for the town of Arlington. Unexpectedly, on this past Saturday, Rollie Shaput passed away. There's a hundred boards and commissions in the town of Arlington and you'd be hard-pressed to name one that Rollie didn't impact over his many years of service. Currently he's on ATED and what I'd like to do is ask for a few words from our colleague Joe Currow who serves on that committee with Rollie and then we'll have a moment of silence. Joe. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I just saw the manager's notification. I just saw it right before I came to the meeting and I was devastated. As the chair said, Rollie served on many, many committees. He was one of the co-chairs of our 200th anniversary celebration here in town. Driving force for the Visitor Information Center and especially really watched out for Robbins Farm Park. He's been in front of us about efforts to restore some of the historic statues there. He was so involved up there and such a kind man. In addition, even though he long past having children in the schools, he had continued for quite a while serving on the school council up at the Brackett Elementary School because his grandchildren were there. One maybe little known fact, if you knew Rollie, he always wore this hat. It's at 4,000. One of his feet, in addition to all of his volunteering here, is that he actually climbed all 4,000 foot peaks in New Hampshire and was a real inspiration. I was just so blown away to hear that he had gone because he seemed like the kind of guy who would never stop going. As coincidence would have it, some of us have on our desks here this new book that some of you have probably heard of, the Legendary Locals of Arlington, about which picks just a select number of people who've made important contributions to our town. There's a picture of Rollie right here standing at that mic. That's how I think I'd like to remember him. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity. I hope we'll have a moment of silence. Yeah, let's have a moment of silence for Rollie. May God have mercy on his soul. God bless his family and friends at this difficult time. On a happy note, as we lose a long time individual who paid tremendous service to this town, we are pleased tonight to welcome on a much happier note our newest director of planning and community development. And before we grill her for the first time in many, many grillings to come, let me first turn it over to our town manager, her boss, Mr. Chapter Lane. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So as you just mentioned, tonight we have the opportunity to introduce to the board our soon-to-be new director of planning and community development, Jenny Raid. So Jenny most immediately comes to us from the MAPC, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, but also has experience working in the nonprofit housing field as well as having experience in another community, Amesbury as well. So she comes with a great background. She rose to the top of a very talented pool. We had a screening committee that included members of the local business community, a representative of the ARB, folks from the master plan advisory committee now master plan implementation committee, myself, the building inspector, and a former planning director, Kevin O'Brien. So we had a nice, nice rounded out mix of people doing the screening and we're very happy that we were able to be able to bring Jenny on board. So without saying any more, I'd like to give the opportunity for the board to say hello. Well, thank you very much for the welcome. I'm really excited to start in the new position on February 16th and to get to know each of you individually as well as how you work together. I'm, as Adam said, I'm coming to you with years of experience and planning, land use planning, zoning, as well as housing and community development. And I can bring that to the town and have already started to actually work with staff who work in the department for planning and community development and feel that I'm going to be making a very good transition to help oversee and guide a lot of the work. So I'm looking forward to working with you and with Adam and other staff. The Have you first of all noticed how well run this community is Jenny? Have you are you impressed looking at this board up here, for example, just as one example? Arlington impressed me right away. Very well run community, great leadership, lots of vision, and lots of resources and tools right at its fingertips. Yeah, that's fantastic. Colleagues, questions, comments, Mr. Dunn? Oh, Mr. Brian. Thank you, Mr. Grillian. Sorry, I'm late. As I was driving here, I realized that it was a seven o'clock start, not a seven o'clock start. So I apologize. But I will say it's an interesting turn of events. Today was my first day at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. And I met you in this morning. But I can't wait. So you hired her here so you can take that position? I had absolutely no say in that, but I'm very happy for the town. As I was meeting everyone today, everyone just had still things to say about Jen and how fortunate the town of Arlington is. So I'm looking forward to her joining the team. Thank you. Thank you, Steve. Anybody else? Yeah, Mr. Joe Miskiro. How do I top that? I was just impressed that she gave us the benefit of the doubt that we know how to work together. Welcome. Looking forward to, we obviously have a long history of excellent planning here in Arlington. And we have a pretty spectacular park named after one of our spectacular planning directors. And so, you know, 40 years from now, maybe, maybe we should put up a park with your name on it. I say that half in jest, but I would be, you know, let's let's do good things. I would be honored. And thank you. I hope so, too. Yes, Mr. Sorry, I have a nasty quote. Welcome to Arlington. Very excited. Very high accolades from the town manager, the different points in terms of the interview process and the committee he compiled. And as things were going down, and then when you were hired, he had nothing but exemplary things to say about you. Just to put my foot in the water because you're here before us tonight, not looking for any answers on anything, but just one of the things that we most recently, that has kind of revamped itself, that we rely on our planning director is the Mugar issue. I know you're very well versed with that, with MAPC and working throughout the state. And we were fortunate enough with Ms. Kowalski and then years previous when this 10, 15, 20 years ago. So that for me, that's something that certainly will take a portion of your plate or platter. And then just my only only other personal thing that I sort of pitch whenever I can is just when I know, Wellington, we can't rely on bringing in lots of big businesses and, you know, getting to Cambridge or some of all a Burlington number. But one of the things that I've always kind of put forth, sort of as a vision is the industrial park up in the heights, as well as the lesser known thoroughfares of undevelopment on Broadway and some on summer. And I don't know if it's possible if you've had any experience with this. But when I was first involved in town in terms of when I went to Lexington, I was like, you know, how are you getting everybody up here? You know, we're jealous of all the businesses. And they're like, well, how are you getting everybody with the restaurant? So it was a shared thing. And one of them was the tour buses getting them to stop. And so I was told two things. Basically, number one, when you go forward in your planning, there's really nowhere in Allington for two of us to stop, they do schwan mill, oh, schwan mill, when their emergency, they need to fill something. So I'm not, you know, I envision Jefferson Cutter or something like that. But that's how you get the tourists here. And then the other thing is, you know, a lot of people say to all of us, you know, I can't get a T shirt. Well, you can at Walgreens, but, you know, a higher, more of a department department store, like a baby gap. And what I was told was you have to really identify yourself with a flat company. And then when you are doing development or redevelopment, maybe, does that sound right? Right. It does. Okay. So I guess I'll just put those chips. Not that you have to say anything, but if you want. Well, I mean, with the Mugar property, I'm going to be here to guide you through that process. And we will I'm sure I'm sure we will talk again about this when I'm on board. And with other, you know, really, you know, critical stakeholders, and I don't have an opinion or something to say about it right now. And I'm actually not as well versed yet. But I will be very soon, and can provide happy to return to this board and other boards to talk about it more, which I'm adamantly opposed to the project, just so you know, but I'll let the town manager understand. We will, we will talk about it again, I'm sure. And in terms of the other items, you know, economic development and other things that you were talking about, I think engaging Ted Fields and others who've been actively working on those issues would be important for me, as well as for all of us to understand a little bit more about that. And, you know, thinking about the kinds of things that you've said and how they factor into the master plan and the master plan schools would also be important. Thank you. Welcome. You're welcome. And thank you. And this is your official start date is actually when Jenny February 16th, February 16th. So it's quite understandable. You're not caught up on everything yet. So it's pretty impressive how much you've done so far. We started out historically, I think, not doing a good job with our development in Arlington when on April 19, 1775, the largest battle of that day took place at Monotomy with 2,000 patriots and British soldiers fighting here. And the rumor is that Longfellow could not find a way to fit Monotomy into the midnight ride of Paul Revere. But then changing our name twice after that probably didn't help. But I think in the years since we've done quite a bit to help with both the historic and the economic development of this town and really look forward to working with you on all of those things. Likewise. Thank you. Thank you for the welcome. Thank you. Joy, you're all set, right? Also, thank you. Thank you very much. Good luck to you. Thank you. She also has the thrill of she will be joining us for the beginning of town meeting, which that was the initiation I was referencing before Jenny, so. Okay, consent to January, the minutes of the meeting for January 11th. We'll approve. Second. Second discussion. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Licenses and permits, number three, this is a request for common Victuallers license, the scoop and scootering. Austin Crittenden, was that you, sir? Yes. Please. Excuse me. So you've been operating a truck and it's so successful, you're now going to do a storefront as well. Is that the idea, sir? Yes. Operating Somerville for the last year and a half. And we're getting a little bit too much volume to handle in that truck, which is roughly 10 feet long, about a half foot wide some days. So it's really nice to make it into a brick and mortar. Great. Good for you. Thanks for choosing our engine. Appreciate that. Can't wait. Comments, questions, motion. Moved approval, subject of conditions. Second. Moved approval, subject of conditions. Seconded, Mrs. Mahon. I just want to clarify and that's fine that your hours will, you're closed on Monday, but you anticipate staying open the other six days to 2 a.m.? Yes. Okay. And you feel you'll have the client. Do you know what building you're going into that you're replacing? I'm trying to picture one. It was Salvage LTD, antique shop. Okay. So I'm not a restaurant. He's actually creating it himself, but it was Salvage, which was our second-hand deal. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Okay. Good luck and God bless you if you can get him in there at 2 a.m., but that's, it sounds like you probably already have a loyal following. Yeah. That early in the morning is, we deliver our Sundays. Oh, okay. Where we deliver delivery drivers. It's mostly our avenue. We want to take it as much for traffic as possible. That's important to us. But delivery, especially to the Tufts communities and the Harvard communities at 2 a.m. is great. Oh, okay. Oh, so Kevin gets a hankering at 1.45 a.m. for a double Dutch Sunday? I'm going to scoot. I'm going to scoot. So, no, I just wanted to make sure that that's what the intent was. Good luck. That's fine. We're not going to allow foot traffic to come in too late because we do care about the families. That's what I was thinking of. And we are just going to be doing deliveries probably after midnight. That's fine. But just trying to keep it respectful. Good for you. Good answer. Mr. Burns. Thank you very much and I'm glad that a truck from Summerville is now locating in Arlington. And I also just want to say, I've driven by several times and seen you and maybe a co-worker really working pretty hard down there. And I know that that's a lot. So I just want to thank you for everything you're doing down there and I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for having me. Anybody else? Austin, samples? Samples, absolutely. Right now. Right here. Actually, I have a couple of my drivers out back. On the motion by Mr. Cureau, seconded by Mrs. Mahan, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed. Thanks for choosing on. It's your best one. Hope it goes well. Thank you. Next, under licenses and permits, Mr. Heimer, we expecting council here? Should I wait on this? I don't believe so, Mr. Greeley. I'm not certain. I know that Mr. Heimer is aware of it. It's certainly not required that someone is present for the vote on the decision as opposed to the hearing. Okay. So as we're all aware, we did hold a hearing on common ground and alcohol suspension decision and we took a vote that evening and the next step is for Mr. Heimer to write up that decision and so that is before us tonight for final approval from this board. Comments or motion or anything? Mr. Dunn. Move approval. Second. Approval is a second. Discussion. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Just very briefly, and I would reference the remarks that we had at the earlier hearing when Mr. O'Quinn and his council were here. As brief and succinctly as I can, I am still going to be voting no only because I feel from the testimony from Mr. O'Quinn when he appeared before us previously myself personally, I did not feel that he really took the issue, the tragic accident as seriously as he should have. I did ask for, and I really kept an open mind. In my mind, if I saw someone at the microphone, a beloved customer and quasi-family member, a little bit of contrition or some sort of acknowledgement of the seriousness of it, I didn't feel that I was treated that way in terms of documents that I asked for. I understand some of them have come in, but not all of them. So to me, that's also a testament in terms of how serious, in my opinion, the issue is not taken. And I was pushing for, if there were another violation in the future for 30 days, just based solely on the testimony that 70% of his business is food. So a two-week shutdown really wouldn't hurt him that much. I did say I really doubted that figure, sort of having a little bit of a family background in the restaurant business and asked if, and he nodded that he would, so I don't know that's necessary. He said he would. I asked if we could just get his POS point of sale review just for one quarter that shows, because I really doubted the 70%. So for that, I won't belabor the point any longer except for I just, working at the ABCC for close to 20 years and having been in similar situations, I'm not saying a person has to act a certain way and not, but for myself personally, I don't think Mr. O'Quinn really gauged the seriousness of it in representation of the fact that I asked for three or four documents. Mr. Mioni made a representation to four documents and then Mr. O'Quinn said no, something that Mr. Mioni said existed and would be revised, doesn't exist. So we have received some, but not all. So I just wanted to explain, I'm going to be consistent with my vote and that's why. So, town council, it dawns on me, should I have called on you first, sir, on this? I don't have any. I don't think it's necessary as long as the board is satisfied with the draft decision to get comments from you. Okay. So let me then at this point, I mean, there's, I would just like to be clear, Mrs. Mion, you don't feel it was a stiff enough penalty. Is that a fair statement? Yes. Okay. Here is the penalty in what we actually voted on. For the reason stated herein, the above referenced license is suspended for three days, beginning on or after January 25th, set days to be consecutive and beginning on a Wednesday, but otherwise selected by the licensee to be completed before February 29th, 2016 and reported to the office of the Board of Selectment in advance. An additional 14-day suspension shall be held in abeyance for a one-year probationary period in which the licensee shall also be prohibited from being granted extended hours of service for any reason. It is further stipulated and ordered that the licensee shall terminate its shift drink practice as described herein and that all employees shall read and sign for common grounds alcohol service policy on or before February 29th, 2016. In my 27 years, this is the most severe penalty we have ever issued against an alcohol licensee. So, did you make the motion, Mr. Dunn? I did. Okay, and seconded by further discussion. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed? Nay. So, on a four-to-one vote. Anything else we need to do? So, the decision will be, the decision now being finalized, it'll be reported to the ABCC and then a copy will be provided to the license holder. Okay. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Others, the business discussion and approval, the selectments draft handbook, which was given to this board and they had one month in which to study it and send any recommended changes or alterations to this office of which there were none. At this point, would anybody like to make any changes? Amendments. Just an administrative change, I noticed in my last reading. I don't know. I don't know. I just noticed in one place that there's a reference to the Arlington Committee on Arts and Culture. It's actually the commission on arts and culture per the bylaw. What page? I think I've got it. Please. That's important. Thank you. I don't have the page. But I can search it. So, if you would, will you just make sure you get that to Mary Ann? Because we want to have these really nicely bound and finished and everything. Any other changes? Comments? There's just, you know, this was a, I think it's just about a year since we started this, maybe not quite. But Doug Heim, Marion Sullivan, Eve Steven just deserve a tremendous amount of credit for getting this done. And Kevin, of course. I know he wouldn't say it himself. Well, yeah. But no, really, Doug Marion, Eve did the research, the typing. I mean, really, it's amazing that there was so few changes. I mean, even just grammatical or whatever. So, this is it. Can I have a motion, please? Mover, seat and approval. Second. Second. And all of those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Mary Ann, put it to bed. Congratulations, Mr. Chairman. Take that sticky offer desk. I know. And Mary Ann, it's page 18 as printed. It's 19 in the electronic. Okay, excellent. Thanks. Next is a request for a permission to hang a state without stigma banner on the town hall balcony. This has been, oh, this is the one we're trying, excuse me, okay. I believe it's going to be put in the public safety. Yes. Move to table or no? Kevin never should have opened his mouth. Okay. Move to that Kevin never should have opened his mouth. Second. Aye. Not a water. Sorry. You gave it to me. I know. So you're done. So now as we head down to the special town meeting, let me turn this over to, you know, we have all spent a lot of time on Minuteman. But Mr. Dunn has been exceptional. And I know Mr. Dunn is a chapter lane. I don't mean to slight anybody, but Mr. Dunn has been a dog on a sock about this issue which we have fought for years and years and years. And there's just no way to say thank you for all you have done. What do you want us to do on article 7, Dan? So we voted in principle all these articles already. And so this is just the language that's coming up. And so just for the sake of formula, we can approve this final language. And I appreciate the kind words, but it's not done yet. And there are really are many, many people have worked on it. I'm going to have a new experience on Wednesday. I'm going to the Belmont warrant commission. The warrant committee to talk to them about their votes on this. Before they bring it to town meeting. How many towns would you say you've been to? I don't know. Seven. But you've spoken one of them. One at a time. Unless anyone has any, we should adopt the final version of the comments. I just want the record to reflect that these comments are based on the vote that the board already took. Because of the timing of special town meeting this year, it wasn't possible for you to vote on the final version. I don't know if you've ever until now, even though they had to be published in advance, I know that Mr. really, you were not present, which is why they reflected the way they are. But I think a formal vote just is required to adopt what you guys had already previously stated on this. So we'll approve the comments as written, but for article 7 and 8. Second. And correspondence received. Is there a second? Second. Anybody want to do? Yes. I guess I would through the chair. And I'm not sure if Mr. Byrne is our cat rep, but the two pieces of correspondence on Appleton street in light of the, one is from the homeowner saying that there was a vehicular collision and I guess she sustained some property and she wrote and had some concerns about addressing that. She also had, I want to say Sarah, blanking on Sarah, but some high commendation for calling to police fire and other public work services that responded. And then there's another piece of correspondence from 106 Paul Revere wrote. So what I would ask if either Mr. Byrne or Mr. Chapter Lane that we bundle these together, is this something appropriate for TAC or? I wouldn't mind having Officer Ato probably take a look at it first and then seeing what he has to say about it. So if we could refer those two pieces of correspondence to the town manager for our traffic safety division to review. Second. And always love getting letters of commendation and appreciation in this case, one for building inspector Richard Valerelli. Yes. I would just like to note on that. I've been working on this for quite a long time. And I think this letter really reflects who he is. Just one of my, I don't want to, because I know he is in a department that, you know, means a lot to me, but I just think he is a really outstanding person and his character really shown through in this incident. So thank you. I'd like to add that I'm really appreciative of every resident that is in good times and in bad. And Jeannie Larry, we all know her. Sometimes she brings forth issues that really need to be addressed and perhaps we could do better on, but she's also the other way in terms of, you know, one of our employees or more does a really good job that she takes out the time to make sure that that is noted. And I did appreciate the detail that she provided because that was a lot of work interface, you know, and she's also the one that she's a part of the inspectional services in Mr. Valarelli. So it's nice to see that when we're doing a good job. Not that I had anything to do with it. So on the motion to receive and then refer to the town manager and to say thank you to Jean Larry and to Richard Valarelli, all those in favor, please signify by signifying. If the town manager could just because a couple people had called me just a 30 second, I understand that was what I call a robocall that went home regarding a meeting tomorrow night from Chief Ryan. I notified the board last week that after a lot of discussion internally based on the suggestion of both health human services, the police department, and the police department, we used the Arlington alert system, the robocall system to notify the entire community everybody contained in the database of an outreach meeting in regards to the opiate addiction tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at the Wittemore-Robbins House, focused on the drug Vivitrol which has proven effectiveness in preventing relapse from opiate addiction. So as you know, the police department has really been trying really hard to get the information to reach out to the community to bring people in. We decided that this phone call would be the next step in bringing the whole community or making the whole community aware of the efforts that are out there. I just want to thank you and the chief. It was a very brief but informative robocall from Chief Ryan also mentioned about I wish I could be there, but I would like to thank you. Thank you. Speaking of robocalls, I would like to thank the police and fire and school departments for their handling of the recent bomb threat. My daughter is a student at high school and she told me that the students and staff seemed to feel very well informed during it and were reassured and she noted that when they brought the students out that the MBTA buses were down here to the town hall and so the students are feeling secure that I can't say my wife was necessarily quite as calm when she first heard the news but I think that ultimately everyone was quite well informed. I would like to commend the response and I think it's a testament to all of the training and preparedness that's gone into getting ready for the unlikely event that something like this might have. I actually was going to talk about the robocall as well and I just wanted to, my comment was specifically that I think that there had been some concern and anticipation that some people would think it was an inappropriate use of the robocall and I wanted to specifically call this out as a health crisis and the fact that we are treating it as a health crisis as we should and if we had something else, you know, whether it was a water problem or a communicable disease or anything that would cause a number of fatalities in our town over the next year, we would do this exact thing and just because it is a, because it isn't like a traditional one of those emergencies doesn't, it still deserves that treatment so I wanted to kind of make that point and kind of get out in front of that criticism just because I think I really am glad that the manager and the chief went forward with this. It's related, I was reading the New York Times last night before I went to bed online and chief Ryan was quoted in an article, it's an article about the efforts that are going on in Gloucester and chief Ryan talking about how he was taking some ideas from that and putting them within Arlington's own project so I really continued to be supportive of the work and innovation that he's doing there. I want to speak about this, my wife teaches at, is the art teacher at St. Agnes and the day before there had been a bomb scare called into St. Agnes. My wife called from, in the situation she called lockdown keep safe and secure or something I don't know but she and that whole staff were also very impressed with the, how well things were handled, how smoothly, the kids were really scared. In this case she had preschool kids in her classroom who were really scared and the police were just awesome in terms of how well they treated the kids and evacuated the building safely so Adam chief Ryan and on Thursday was the high school one and Wednesday was St. Agnes, I forget but the next day I'm watching TV and there's chief Ryan on TV and you've got Kathy Bode as well so we're lucky with the team we have here in Arlington and we have two new ones who are with us here tonight as well so is there a motion to adjourn? I'd like to move that we conclude this portion of the meeting and that we will reconvene down a town meeting floor in open session solely for the purpose of any necessary votes that may arise during the course of the meeting in accordance with the laws set out in terms of it has to be announced by the moderator, we'll meet out in the hall I'll volunteer if that happens to take any minutes and that we adjourn concurrent with adjournment of the special town meeting which hopefully will be tonight but it could be Wednesday night. Second. Second so all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. The meeting of the Board of Select is February 8th. Good night Arlington. See you all at town meeting.