 Welcome, everyone, tonight to the Selections meeting, it is Monday, March 24th, 7.15 p.m. for our regular meeting. I just want to remind everybody that this meeting is being cable cast on ACMI and may be recorded by other people in the audience for replay or use later. First up, we have an agenda. It is on the agenda, excuse me, is a proclamation. April is Autism Awareness Month. And Mrs. Mohan has brought this to our attention and we've done it several years in a row so I'd like to read the proclamation. Whereas autism is a pervasive developmental disorder affecting the social, learning, and behavioral skills of those affected by it. And whereas autism was once thought to be a relatively rare disorder, affecting only one in 10,000 people. And whereas as more and more health professions become proficient in diagnosing autism, more children are being diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, resulting in rates as high as one in 50 children. And whereas there is no cure for autism, it is well documented that if individuals with autism receive treatment early in their lives, it is often possible for those individuals to lead significantly improved lives. And whereas autism speaks and others are spearheading an awareness effort in order to educate parents, elected officials, professionals, and the general public about autism and its effects. Now, therefore, be it resolved that we, as the members of the Board of Selectment, do hereby proclaim April as Autism Awareness Month in the town of Arlington, and urge all employees and residents to participate in our municipality's Autism Awareness Month activities, including the lighted up blue night in order to become better educated on the subject of autistic spectrum disorders that is signed by us all. So moved. Second. Second. Further discussion? This is Mohan. I just want to thank my colleagues for doing this for many years, and when we had, Cancer Awareness Month, similar to the road that they were beginning is what autism speaks, and this issue started 10, 15 years ago. We started out, some people say, why read these proclamations? But they really are an important piece. Sometimes they're really important for people who are sitting at home who have just heard about the diagnosis with a 15 month, a 24 month old and don't know what to do. And that's where they might hear, the organization I can tap into is Autism Speak. The town that I live in is aware of this, so I can call these elected officials. I can call the town manager's office, and it's really important. It does help all these proclamations get submitted to the Massachusetts chapter of Autism Speaks, and it really helps them when they're down in Washington because we're just now starting to get money and funding for not only more research, but when these young children become young adults at 22, basically there's next to nothing out there. But because of the awareness and Autism Speaks and grassroots efforts, that's really starting to change. And I'm hoping right now Minuteman does have programs up there, as well as our lab collaboratives, but I'm hoping with whatever new rebuild at Allington High School, I know we'll all keep this as a possibility, knowing that the school committee and the MSBA have to guide it. But I can tell you, any parent of an autistic child would love to have their children stay in the city or town. And I know what we'd all like to make that happen. So thank you very much. Ms. Greeley. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mahan. Thank you both. I am reminded, what's the light detail? The lighted up blue? Yeah, what is that? I think it's April 4th, it's a Friday. What they do all across the world, not just in USA, Australia, everywhere, different buildings, like the prune in Boston. You know how they light up a certain floor for the red socks? They light it up blue, because blue is the color, you've seen the ribbon, but blue is also the color for this particular night. And now we're supposed to do something in our homes, for the blue light in the window? It's a blue light, want to make our shatties. I'm sure Home Depot and others have it. And it's just, again, just a lot of it is, what they're hoping is on the grander scheme that if you see a building, you ask the next day, and it makes people aware as well as your neighbors. Why did you put a blue light outside? Is it easy, less expensive? So it's another way of outreach. All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Five, zero. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Next up, excuse me, is our Consent Agenda. We have the minutes of our meeting from March 10th, and we have a request for a one day beer and wine license for at Robbins Town, excuse me, in the Town Hall Auditorium for the Cambridge Art Association 2014 Gala. Is there a move? We have a motion. Second. Second. Is there anyone from the Gala who wishes to speak? Going once, twice, all right. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. It is approved. Next up, Farmers Market. Patsy. Thank you for having me. So I have my Farmers Market hat on tonight and asking for your approval for the Farmers Market to be held this summer in the Russell Common parking lot. And I'm also asking for your approval for a program that we piloted last year, which was a seasonal parking pass program. And it was very successful. People were very grateful for it. We charged $10 for the season and they were given a certificate that they put in their windshield so that they didn't get a ticket. And people were eternally grateful that they did not have to stand in line at those God awful parking machines. I'm expecting 25 vendors this year. 12 of them are farms and that's one of the really good things about our Farmers Market is that we are anchored by so many farms because it is a Farmers Market. It isn't Crafts Fair and it isn't like a deli place so we're very proud of that. We also have three wine vendors and we have a different vendor each week. Two of them are regular wine vendors and then there's one that sells what's called Apple Ice Wine, which is a wine that's made from frozen apple. And I have to tell you it is delicious. It's great to buy for Thanksgiving. We also have two cheese vendors and this year our new vendor is Smoked Fish. So if you're a fan of smoked blue fish come to the Farmers Market. Does that go with apple wine? Oh yeah. Anything. So I hope you will see fit to approve it. The Farmers Market is very successful. We really have hundreds of people that come every week and I feel like we add to the business community in town. Kevin? Yeah, move approval and thank Patsy for the work that she's done on this and I'm sure everybody, the thousands watching at home recognize Patsy. She's the pianist for these select tones. And when we get standing ovations it's because of her. But another project Patsy has taken on and done an excellent job with. Thank you very much. I'll second the motion. And I'll just say again, thank you very much. Even though we hear sometimes from some of the merchants in the center they get concerned about the parking supply. I think this is one exception to it because they realize that in addition to people coming and visiting the Farmers Market, a lot of them are also going and visiting the shops and restaurants as well. So I think it's a great benefit to the center. So thank you. The only thing I'd notice that next year we're in the middle of this center parking study. So I feel comfortable approving the request to continue what we started as a pilot last year. But I would think that next year we're gonna have to look at it within the scope of the overall, whatever recommendations come down. And I think we're getting those in another month or so. You know, actually I have a question too. And I had understood that the infrastructure work that was being done in front of the police station was eventually gonna go all up and through the parking lot. Is that true? Is that gonna be an issue? I need to be concerned about it in another year or so? It won't be in the parking lot. I've not heard anything going through the parking lot. Okay, good. I will echo exactly what Joe said, that I'm happy to approve the parking change this year, but I'm hopeful that we won't need it next year. And the parking consultants are giving their recommendations to us on April 7th. And so, and I know that the farmer's market was one of the things that they were talking about and considering, so I definitely would encourage you to keep an eye on that and weigh in as that goes along. Okay, we'll do, great. Okay, thank you very much. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Five-zero. Thank you, Patsy. Thanks, Mike. Thank you. Apple wine, I'm there. You had me at Apple wine. Next up, we've got the Arlington Council on Aging approving a race for this coming September, which is the annual friend's Council on Aging 5K Road Race, Art Budnick. Welcome. Talk with us again this year. We're delighted to. I noticed the running contingents over to this side. Oh, oh, oh! You just never see him with us because he's so far ahead. Listen, I drove it. You're not counting that. I went from start to finish, but no. No, but actually I appreciate the participation in the community does and we try and outreach. And there's a word I use in reference to the race and it's becoming more and more true and I'm very happy about it, intergenerational. There is a wide range from younger children running all the way up to our last winner last year, that was the oldest, was 84 years old in his category and stuff. And so it's getting in general. We try and get a lot of community involvement. A lot of the businesses are participating more and more and we get to collect some funds that we then can donate over to the Council on Aging and Susan Karp. And again, last year for our seniors in general, we were able to generate and donate $10,000, over $10,000 actually. There's the little stocking gift holiday program we started to put together and that this year we had put in over $2,500 into that. And again, we've made a donation to many of Susan's programs that she'll be talking to you about. That was in the range of 8,000 or so and so we're able to help and whatnot. And so some of your programs. Some of the programs, I'd just like to clarify that. Do me a favor and step a little closer to the mic because we've been having some audio issues and so if you get closer it'll help us out. Thank you. That way as well. Thank you. The event is actually for the friends of Arlington Council on Aging. Certainly the friends support all the efforts of the Council on Aging, which we're very grateful. As I was talking about, he mentioned the little stocking stepper program. It's not really so little. It reaches about 75 homebound or frail or isolated seniors in Arlington. These stockings are put together with care by different community members so it is also intergenerational. You have families, we have the Arlington Police department as well as a whole host of other volunteers that actually go door to door to deliver these little stocking steppers. So it's actually quite a large program. The other kinds of things that we benefit from directly in the Council on Aging are programs that are health and wellness based. These programs can run anywhere from six to 12 weeks and we can have about 18 people that will sign up for these programs and be there from the beginning to the end. So they're interesting, informative and people are wanting them hand over foot. So we don't have, I think when we first started it, it would take about three months to get maybe eight people registered. Now we get them in our newsletter and within the first month people are registering and the coppers are full day one. We also run some of the emergency financial assistance programs. Minuteman Senior Services that are our right arm in Council on Aging. That's, their income levels are much lower but there are many people that are just above that that still have financial needs. So through the help of all the funds that are generated through these programs, we're able to offer emergency assistance. Most often times it can be fuel assistance, some medical kinds of things. Sometimes even an emergency repair that other services can't come together with. And we're also working on an emergency an emergency disaster plan because we believe that we have to prepare ourselves so that we can be strong community members so that we don't necessarily rely on other services in town. And through a special funding through the Friends of Arlington Council on Aging and through our nurse with his background in emergency preparedness as well as what the town is planning, we're starting to work with those that are 90 and over. So with the nurse interns that we have from UMass Boston as well as Northeastern, we're capitalizing on their experience, their clinical experience as well to get into the houses and to really see what's going on. So the Arlington Council on Aging really benefits as an organization but the end user, the senior of Arlington which as you've heard us say before is about 23% of the total population are beginning to receive more services as a result of the kindness of many and the support of the select men in the town. So I'd like to say thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. One last thing, and this is for Adam's benefits since he likes to run the race as much as he does. We are seriously considering USA TF certification for this year and we want to really build it into a well attended and a very sincere race basically. So we will be pursuing that stuff and we'll improve and any ideas anyone has, get it to us and we'll be pursuing that and try and refine the race as much as we can. Kevin? I just, I wondered whether Adam, did you want to issue any challenges this year? I think if you lose you by the town lunch or something like that. The whole town, yeah. Every employee lunch, I forget what it is. What is it that you challenge on this? The first year I issued the challenge was any town employee who beat me had by lunch. I think he beat me right by lunch. Probably, probably right. But I think, I think he was only beaten by one. He was only beaten by one but he ran up the bill pretty well. If I remember that that was someone from the fire. Who was it? It was Brendan Gormley from the fire department. Yeah, but he brought us whole fire right from the fire department. So we were talking about this year though, anything you wanted to. I think John Waller from the normally the patch has got in from me. You heard it here first, folks. I think it's wonderful you ran in it and supported. Move approval. Second. Motion second. I had two comments. So first off, one is, so the path is on the Minuteman bike path? Most of it. Most of it, yeah. So we actually, since you ran this last, we, the town manager now manages the bike path and the approvals on the bike path. Am I, I do remember correctly. We have actually never finalized that. Oh really? Oh, okay. So we discussed it but we didn't actually pull the trigger on it. There we go, okay. And one thing, what are the hours on it? Because I do worry anytime there's anything on the bike path I worry about because it's obviously very highly used. Yeah, we always, we have been having the race on Sunday in September and it's going to be September 7th. It will start, the race will begin at 10 a.m. and the runners are through within 20, 30 minutes at the most along the path and everything like that. Celebration ends by about one o'clock at the most. Registration begins at town hall in front of town hall at about 9 a.m. So it goes by very quickly in general. Okay. Joe? Just having, I think Adam and Steve have participated in it. The path portion is actually the second half. Yeah. So you run Mass Ave all the way down to East Arlington and then through Thawndyke. So it's really just that it's the section from Thawndyke. Up to the. The spy pond. Down by spy pond. Yes. Down by spy pond. As a result, inevitably people kind of spread out and it's not a big mass that's coming on the folks. Cool. All right. And my second thing was on the emergency preparedness evacuations. Are you coordinating with Chief Jefferson as well on that? It's all, the answer is it's being coordinated on all levels. Okay. Good. It's not an evacuation plan. The front side of it is my personal plan. Yeah. So in essence, if a first responder walks into a home. Kind of like the file of life, the vial of life, all the current information is on the front. On the back, it's teaching the individual items that they need to have in the event that there's an emergency or an evacuation. So it isn't an evacuation route. It's not reinventing the wheel. It's basically taking the two pieces of personal preparedness in case that emergency, this is who you need to call on my behalf. On the other side of it, it's something that these are the things that I need to prepare for in the event I need to leave quickly. And with the friends, we not only designed it, it was designed with FEMA, MIMA. So I just, my only point is, is that when there's an emergency in town, we all take our marching orders from Chief Jefferson. Absolutely. And so I just want to make sure that he's aware of, and it can, you know what I'm trying to get at. I do. I do. Joe? Well I did, and just to support Susan in this, I want to note that she's participated in some of the local emergency planning activities, including about a month ago there was a training for, in the event that the town ever had to establish a sheltering operation with a major disaster, and I know the council on aging was there. Several of your staff were there. Great. So, cool. No, this is always a fun, fun Sunday, and certainly about the, I think it's certainly the first Sunday of the NFL season. So it's important that you, it's important that you run it quickly. And although I will say we're still running a pill at the end, I thought we were going to reverse the order for this year so we could start downhill and just have an easy, simple path home. We refer to it as a fairly flat course. Yeah. No, but this is a great run, and it's a really nice day, and I hope, I urge everyone to get involved. It's really, it's really great, and you obviously support some great programs in town, so thank you. So did you two beat Adam last year? No. What? I hung back in case they had an accident and needed some support. Will you two get into training, please? Is there any further questions or comment? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Five-zero. Thank you both very much. Thank you both. Next up, we have an appointment to the Arlington soon-to-be-renamed cultural commission, Carla M. Dorado. Carl, are you here? Come on up. Welcome. Thank you very much for volunteering. And could you just share with us just a minute about what brings you here and what has you excited about the cultural commission? Well, I was approached by Andrea Arch, and she was looking for someone to sort of be a liaison between the business community and the artistic community in the town. And I think some of you know me. I have the Artful Heart Gallery, and I've been involved with many town things, PTO. I've been heavily involved in a lot of other places like Right Churn, volunteering with them, I, with the Mr. Correll here in Arlington. So I have a lot of affiliations. And as far as the business community, besides my own, I was a manager for Floor Restaurant for quite a while. And so I sort of crossed paths with a lot of ends here. Thank you. Diane? First, I'd like to move approval. Second. Second, I want to make a disclosure that I count Collor as one of my dearest friends. I can attest to the fact that she and the rest of her family or sister and others are very involved in the arts and cultural awareness. And I'm blanking on, I know it's going to be AC, AC, but what that new acronym is going to be for this group. And there's been a lot of events here in Arlington, especially around Right Churn, which I really knew nothing about, and thought that was one of the things. I see Right Churn, I thought it was one thing. Completely different organization that really is unique to Arlington. It's still, I believe, right over here on Mass Ave. To my right, and I'm not sure if you're sitting at home to your right or left, but it is Right Churn, and I've heard about it, not only across the state, but I've also started to hear how the people sort of doing similar functions in the region. So because of that and all your commitment to that, and just knowing you personally, and I've gotten to sing with her sometimes around Christmas time, I've been able to, and I'm thrilled that you're doing this, and I know you're going to give it 150% like you do with everything else. I'm very excited. Thank you, Collor. Thank you. Joe, I've also gotten to know Karla through her active participation in the Center Merchants Group, and she was a strong supporter of the Arlington Live Block Party as well last summer, so I'm very happy to support her nomination to the commission. Thank you. Kevin? So, Collor, I'd like to get to know you better. Sorry that I'm the only one here. You're lucky my boyfriend's in Vegas. She sings good. She sings good. But did I hear Mr. Corral as in you like to sing? Did I hear that? I do like to sing this. Have you ever heard of the Selectors? No, I haven't. Well, they're actually more well-known than the Mr. Corral. I'm just surprised. Are they well-known or are they infamous? They're infamous, yeah. They're famous in their own, no. Thank you for your willingness to serve. Great background. Thank you. Any further? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? 5-0. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up, we have, oh shoot. Thank you. Amy Tabernar. I blew it. Thank you very much, Diane. I apologize. I read the first name. And for some reason, I stopped reading. Amy Tabernar, welcome. Thank you very much. What makes you excited about the Culture Commission? I'm the co-chair of the Cyrus Board, Cyrus Dallan Art Museum, and we've become increasingly more involved in other cultural organizations throughout the town and would like to continue to do so and make sure that the town's historic and cultural and artistic amenities are nurtured and cared for and are part of the, I'm personally an art historian and historian, and I'm very interested in Arlington's history. And I didn't bring one for everyone, but Doreen Stevens previously of the Historic Society and Sarah Berks and I just finished a recent publication. So I thought I'd bring things, Marie, on Arlington's history of 1900 to 1925. So that was a grant from the Cultural Council. Oh, wow. That's great. I appreciate that with you. Cool. Thank you very much. I move approval. Seconds. I'm sorry. No, no. Of course. Seconds. Yeah. Do you want to go, Joe, or yours that Kevin? I'm very happy to support it. So do you sing? I don't, no. Maybe, a little, but not. I need to withdraw my second one. Thank you for your willingness to serve and the service you've already provided the town. Arlington's cultural heights. So are you saying that between 1900 and 1925, that was the height of culture in Arlington? I think that. Yes, correct. I haven't seen it. Any of the cultural amenities that we enjoy today, the friends of the drama, this town hall, the park, stems from the people that were living in the town and their generosity and their civically minded attitude and dedication. We were very interested, obviously, in Victoria, Kelowna, and Cyrus Town, and their involvement in town, which was, Cyrus served on the planning board, and Victoria was involved in many town organizations, but formed the friends of the drama. So we just found out more and more information about their neighbors and the group of artistic people that lived around them. The book is really about what brought such creatively and civically minded, incredible people to the Arlington Heights area, but also to the Crescent Hill area. They have two simultaneous, but very different stories. And if I may, two more. So where can people get this? They can purchase it at the museum but it's also at the Book Rack and Firefly Moon. Thank you so much. Exactly, up in the Heights. Five points. The Book Rack and at the, I think that the Historic Society also has some to sell as well. Good, not to take up too much, but are you now gonna do from 1925 to 1950? Are you gonna do other 25 year periods or? I'm gonna take a break from that. This is an enormous endeavor, but there is a lot more to cover. The town has an amazing legacy and it's not just the revolutionary period, although I feel like that is certainly a period of time that deserves greater attention in our town as well. Thank you for your service. Not at all. I just wanted to say, thank you. You've already been helping us in other capacities and stepping up for this position. I'm really excited in terms of whatever you can bring from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I see that you oversee. One of the things I think the town of Arlington has been really successful with is fostering with some of the teaching institutions, sometimes around stormwater management. Sometimes students or graduate students will say, I need to come out and do stuff like that, as well as I'm really impressed that you've overseen the lecture series, besides being an author of the. Yeah, it's 12 years at Harvard GST, I've done, or 11 years, I've done a little bit of everything and I do a lot of this in the design field that may be useful. I know you're gonna bring a lot to the cultural table that we wouldn't have other ones, so thank you so much. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Thank you. All right, next up, food vendor license, Raymond P. Laum, Leum, Simms Mini Mart, come on up. And please help me pronounce your last name so I don't do that again. Laum, I apologize. So you, I read this and yet I already forgot what it is. You're taking over, you're buying the existing. The business from my uncle's, yes. Excellent. And otherwise, no changes, right? No changes. And you promise not to move because town meeting could not be held. If people can't walk across the street to your place at the break. We'll move approval and thank you for your many years of service already and look forward to many years more. Thank you. Second. Second by Steve, Diane. Although you haven't, excuse me, you haven't yet sold me a winning lottery ticket. I just, okay, that's fine. Since I'm asking everybody, do you sing Raymond? No, I do not. No, I do not. Sorry, Diane. I'm thrilled that this is staying in the family. One of the things, when I was in high school from my freshman senior year, I worked three jobs, the library, waitressing, and at Sims Minimark. I remember getting in there at 6.30 in the morning and I would do the guys' work loading the milk with Jack. With Jack, yes, he still talks about two years. Up in his castle. And I think I would say the money person that kept us online was Donald. So I'm thrilled that it's staying in the family because just, and Jack continues on to this day, not just teenagers when they apply, but sometimes working moms, I've gone back down there over the years. I really missed that job because I loved it a lot. And I would go back to it in a hot beat if I could. And Sims Minimark has been here for so long, done so much. I say thank you for continuing on with your family's tradition. Oh, thank you. All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? None, five, zero. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Raymond. All right, next up, Arlington High School Statement of Interest to the MSBA. So we all had a hearing two weeks ago and we made a motion, we made our intent very clear, but we have some paperwork to go through to actually put it in the form to make sure the MSBA is happy. And I noticed, Marie, that we had a version in our packet. Then I've got another one on my desk. Is there something I need to know? The one that's on the desk is dated submission day 324. So that's gonna be, yeah. Okay, so that's today. All right. Okay. So working on the packet that was on our desk. Kevin. So this is the motion? It's a statement of interest. It is, okay. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I move, resolved having convened in an open meeting on March 24th, the Board of Selectment of the Town of Arlington, Mass, in accordance with its charter, bylaws and ordinances, has voted to authorize the superintendent to submit to the Massachusetts School Building Authority the statement of interest form dated March 26th, 2014 for the Arlington High School located at 869 Massachusetts Avenue Arlington Mass, which describes and explains the following deficiencies and the priority categories for which an application may be submitted to the Massachusetts School Building Authority in the future. Priority three, prevention of the loss of accreditation, priority four, prevention of severe overcrowding expected to result from increased enrollments, priority five, replacement, renovation, or modernization of school facility systems, such as roofs, windows, boilers, heating, to increase energy conservation and decrease energy related costs in a school facility. Priority seven, replacement of or in addition to obsolete buildings in order to provide for a full range of programs consistent with state and approved local requirements. And hereby further specifically acknowledges that by submitting the statement of interest form, the Massachusetts School Building Authority in no way guarantees the acceptance or the approval of an application, the awarding of a grant or any other funding commitment from the Massachusetts School Building Authority or commits the city, town, regional school district to filing an application for funding with the Massachusetts School Building Authority. And I move, sir, that you sign that on behalf of the Board of Selection. Second, I have a question. Joe. So I second it. I'm sorry, but we had to, we had to, we had to. Now, I had been concerned when I saw this in our packets before and I consulted the town council because we're voting on March 24th. Something that's dated March 26th, two days in the future. And I guess the town council had confirmed with the MSBA that that is fine. But now I have the question again, because what we have on the desk now tonight is dated March 24th. Is this still a draft? Or, go ahead. Well, I mean, it's dated today. I'm assuming it's because the system probably generates current day date. It can't be submitted today. My understanding is still that they would be dating the actual submission. Now it's been changed on March 26th. I do see it says draft on it, but okay. I just would add that after consultation with the MSBA authorities as well as my own reading of this, as long as they submitted on dated March 26th or later, it'll be fine. It's your authorization that's basically being, you know, put before you now. In theory they could have drafted it so that it said honor before April 11th, which I believe is the cutoff date. But they drafted it with a specific date and so they've gotta do it on or after that date. Thank you. Go ahead. Could I, too, Mr. Carroll's point? I think what he was saying is the submission date that that will be 326-14 instead of what we have here before us. I'm not sure if that's what you just said or not. We're like, someone will coordinate with Diane Johnson or whomever to change. I know right now it's a simple draft, but just to make sure that we're following up every... We can do that. Okay. Any further discussion? Thank you, Mr. Carroll. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Five-zero. Next stop, re-hearing on article 21. So, a month ago now we all, as a group, we voted to endorse the new, or the draft regional agreement that was proposed by the school committee. The Minuteman District, the school committee in particular got cold feet and worried that they were going, and of course for this to go through, it has to be approved by all 16 towns, and they got scared that some of the smaller towns were not going to approve this, and so they agreed to one of the changes that was being driven. My reading of the tea leaves, it was Lincoln, that was the straw that broke the camel's back, but it wasn't just them, and so they changed the waiting, such that Arlington's vote is, so the voting is no longer, so in today's agreement, the one we're under today, it's 1-16th every time. In the agreement that we voted a month ago, it was waited by a four-year running average of students, and the waited votes don't apply to everything, but they do apply to some things. This version that we're being asked to approve today is between the two. Half of the vote is 1-16th, and half of the vote is waited, which as you saw in our packet, has the practical effect of changing our vote, if this was in place today, we would have roughly 20% of the voting power as opposed to a third, and as a practical matter, what that means is to block a budget. You'd need five towns rather than three towns, it used to be just Lexington, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Belmont could do it. Now you need Lexington, Arlington, Belmont, plus pick two of the next four to block a budget, so in balance, I'm very frustrated with the process, but I still think that this is the better agreement than I think that we should support it on town meeting floor. Adam, what did I forget? I think you hit it right on, and I think it's important to acknowledge that it is frustrating the way the process went, but it certainly gets us still to a much better position than the current agreement does, and that's the balance to consider. And I will actually just make one more addition, because one of the things I know that keeps coming up is that's legitimate, is that the school building that they're currently looking at building would be an 800 person school and Arlington's capital apportionment. If we were to build an 800 person school, it would be more than we could afford, and this does not mean that we're going to pay for that school, and we will still not pay for that school until there's a better financial agreement, and I just wanted, in my mind, that those are distinctly separate issues, and this just gets us closer to building a school that we can afford as opposed to the current proposal. And I do not want anyone to construe this vote as a, yes, we should go build that 800 person school on Arlington's dime, because it ain't. Joe? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, in fact, if we pass this and the other communities pass it, it means that we actually do have an out if there's a capital expenditure that we don't agree with, but I was with the chairman out at Minuteman when this was dropped on us. I think we both fairly well vented our spleens and succeeded in somewhat blowing up the meeting. Because this was quite a surprise. One of the concerns that was expressed by one of the presenters there was that they could be prevented from carrying on business if the three largest communities didn't come, so they're trying to balance that. I did the math going from the bottom up looking at the weighted voting shares, and it looks like they could theoretically do some things without the three largest communities with this. That having been said, when I go back to it, I think when we discussed this last month, I kind of equated the compromise to the compromise of a bicameral legislature. And if I'm honest, this really is more purely derived from that same principle of balancing the small and large interests. I'm not happy with the way it went. We explained, we said very clearly, do you understand that some communities have already heard this and are ready to put this before town meeting as it was presented. But so we were heard, but I think we do have to pass this. It's adopting these changes with exit clauses and the ability to opt out of the capital expenditures is really a much better deal for Arlington than what we're getting right now. Steve. So did your motion was favorable action, Joe? I don't think, I'm sorry, yes. We don't actually have a motion, but I'm gonna call, sorry. I've got an option, Steve was ready to go. How do you, do you have a sense of what the other communities are thinking about this? You know, it's fascinating to watch and Adam probably gets more back channel stuff, and I don't even know, Adam gets more back channel stuff than I do. You can see Lincoln sweating it, but at the same time, no one wants to be the one that says no. Voxboro hates it because it includes the wealth factor and they hate the wealth factor because once Voxboro was listed as the most wealthy town in Massachusetts, which they do not think is true. And so they hate anything that's attached to the wealth factor. Sudbury hates it for other reasons because they want to get out of it. And they think that by voting against the way to get out of it, they can get out, they can't, you know, you know, the way it doesn't make any sense as far as I can tell. So Lincoln is the first vote on Monday. Oh, sorry, Saturday is Lincoln's town meeting. I don't know if we could run the table with 16. Do you have any other thoughts, Adam? No, you know, I'll add that this gets closer to getting those towns that are in question to voting. Consistently, one of the areas that Voxboro and Sudbury had been upset about was this weighted voting. They felt like if Warlington was getting the benefit of the new capital allocation, they didn't understand why we were going so far with weighted voting. So this will curb some of that, but given what the chairman just mentioned, I'm not positive that it will curb all of that. So it is a bit of a wait and see. All right, so we still, we don't have a motion, but Mr. Greeley, he looked like you were ready to make one. Well, I did, it's a pro-joke. No, Joe, make it. No, Joe. I move for favorable action. Second. Second action. Any further? And this is replacing the previous vote. Yes. Okay, yep. Any further discussion? Yeah, Diane? I just want to know that is there any sense that as we vote tonight that there could possibly be another change in the future? I mean, recognizing you can't say it absolutely, but. No, just because all 16 towns have to take the exact same vote, and Lincoln's going to put it in stone on Saturday. So. And that's okay, thank you. Yeah, Joe? I'll also say that there was a lot of discussion when the chair and I were out there about contingent votes and this and that. And that council, they was really trying to dissuade people from going that road. It makes it very messy and so. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Five, zero. All right, final votes and comments. We have before us the draft from town council articles, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 25, special town meeting article two. And we have a revised vote for 17 that came by email today and is on the table. And so we're going to be voting on the language that's on the table as opposed to the one that came into the packet. Move approval. Second. All right. We have a motion, we have a second. I had three questions. First, Doug, on article 13, we used a language about the ACAC before we actually do the ACAC. Are we sweating that or are we just gonna, like, how does that work? I'm not sweating it. What I would like to try to do to resolve the potential procedural concern is see if Mr. Leone and I reached out to John and just haven't been able to talk to him yet about whether we can just move the order of the articles. And that way if the ACAC, it seems extremely unlikely the cultural commission will be denied the opportunity to regain themselves. But were it to happen, then a simple substitute motion would basically resolve that issue. I did weigh several other alternatives, but they'd basically automatically be leaving unnecessary language in the bylaws, which seems that A could be problematic and B would seem just unnecessarily messy. Whoever is the future chair of this committee is going to have to worry about that. And I'm sure that they're listening very closely because they're gonna be the ones who need to make the motion about postponement. My second question was article 17. And my only, so I think the new language gets us a little closer, let's see. The board found that the new, last sentence was the first paragraph. Further, the board found that the new winter usage-based billing developed a response to a previous town meeting vote and second water meter sufficiently addressed equity and billing concerns. My question for the board and for everybody else is do we think that that sentence goes far enough or should we actually include what the proposed rate plan is? Or, you know, this is, so we're changing the way we're doing water billing. This is one of those chances we've got to educate both about what the new plan is and because to me, at least, that's a very integral part of our vote. Now it was the three to two vote, which of course makes it tricky, but at the same time, I'm, what up, Joe? You know, my thought on some of these things, I have the same thought on the CPA article also, is that we might consider in our report having a small section of supplementary material. We've done that in the past. I know we had some supplementary material on, for example, road renaming issues. There was an appendix at the end, just a few pages. Just, so if you wanted to have that type of material that provides that type of data, I think that might make sense. Diane? All right. I'm gonna say, to your question, it doesn't necessarily have to be in the vote, but I think what Mr. Carroll was saying, but I mean, I'll be guided by since, what I was gonna say is the people, the three who voted in favor, but perhaps what you're comfortable with, and the only question I would have to my colleagues into town council, if my colleagues would be amenable to it, is that just what I had for that sentence, that it just mirrors what was stated up above, so that it would say further the majority of the board found that. Right, sure, right. Yep, right. If we could just add that. And it was already repeated up above, so it's sort of implied. But I will be guided by what, since this is the comment by the majority of the board, but I would be happy with what Mr. Carroll suggested. So, Steve, are you comfortable with putting in an appendix about the new rate structure? I think that makes sense, yeah. Any particular strong objections? All right, so Doug, first off, I think we should, we'll definitely accept what Diane's changed, which is where we talk in that, in particular in the last sentence of the first paragraph, where it says further the board, we'll call that majority of the board, because it wasn't the full in that case. I see it right here. Yeah, and then also, let's, Maria, this might end up more with you or Adam, I'm not sure, a combination of the two, I'm sure. Putting in an appendix that describes the proposed rate structure for, with the, that we were asking us to approve. Is that? Yeah, I am. In principle, if not, in, in principle, absolutely. I would want to think about whether or not it should be actually in the report or be supplementary material provided on the chairs prior to the actual debate. I would push for putting it in the report, because to me, it is a, it is a knowing that plan, really drives this idea or not. What I might actually, what we might be able to do is put in what the select man, what the board voted on last year, and highlight the winter proposal. The short answer is yes. Can I just suggest that one possibility is a simple statement at the end of this that says, or in parenthesis it says, see additional reference material. Yeah. And that way we can take some time to select what it is. Okay. But with the understanding, with the clear understanding that it's reference material specifically meant to address that this issue came before town meeting previously, that the board thought that the better way to address it was, or the majority of the board thought that the better way to address it was a change in the billing, and that that billing is now coming to fruition. I think I would actually even trim off the, because the fact that it was related town meeting, I think you've already covered that. I think it should really, we're just talking about what's the plan. Yes, I just mean. Okay. I just meant to say that I understand where the board's coming from, and that we'll just say, see included reference material. Okay. Exhibit A or B or whatever. I've got three people who are nodding on that change, so I'm gonna go forward with that. Maria, are you comfortable? Okay. Sorry? Excellent. All right. I had one more, and that was, I think it was article 18, and I can't remember what it was. Oh yeah. Article 18, Lake Street Signs. We, second to last sentence, we talk about, we've referred it to the proposed change to our LinkedIn building department. Can we add a sentence there also that says that there's a neighborhood meeting schedule, or we're also trying to, that we're encouraging a neighborhood meeting process, because I know it's happening. It will have happened, it hasn't happened yet, but it will have happened by then. Yeah. And I think that that was an important part of what we were contemplating, so I wanted to mention that in the report. Of course. All right. Let's see, did I actually get to the end of my list? Thank you all for, yep, I'm done. Joe. I just had just really clerical changes on article 13. I already brought these to town council's attention. Under section 2D, I think that should say town meeting member rather than town meeting membership. And under section three, there should be a comma between town and school. And- I'm sorry, Joe, Mr. Kerowitz. So it's page two. Under section 2D, it says town meeting membership. I got that. Yeah, there should be town meeting member. And section three, the very last sentence of the proposal. So actually, can I clarify that point? I want to make sure that I have this correct, Mr. Kerowitz. Yes. My understanding based on my review, the comments was that it was specifically public events and then town school and library programs. Because- Town hyphen, town comma school. Well, those have slightly different meanings. What it means, sir, is do we, I can certainly amend it to just say town programs, but I also want to make it clear that we're talking about basically our public schools versus other schools. I believe that was the point that Ms. Mohan had made in the previous meeting that she wanted to make sure it was clear that we were talking about town schools and libraries and not, you know, at least I constricted it as not, you know, parochial private school and library programs. That's why I phrased it that way, but I can certainly say town. I would recommend in that case. Town school and comma public school and library programs. Okay. Yeah. Is that acceptable? Okay. And just lastly, the reason I was thinking about supplementary material was in conjunction with the Community Preservation Act article because I found the manager's memo to be incredibly useful with projections of potential revenue that they could be brought in through the act and mapping some of that against the existing five-year capital plan if the manager feels comfortable with that. So let me propose that we, the CPA advocates are well-organized and I was thinking that they could, they were gonna generate enough paper. If you want to put, I'm not opposed to putting more items in. Yeah. But I think, but some, yeah. I just, I think that analysis was very well done. I do too, but I also think that it will have evolved enough by then, because it's more informed now than it was even a week ago. Yeah. That's it. If you feel strongly, I'll. I feel fairly strongly. Okay. About the CPA specifically, the town manager's memo that prepared, that talked about the capital budget going forward. I guess my comfort jar if he feels it's a document that's ready to hit the big screen. I'm Mr. Cure to talk with me about this earlier today. I would like to, if the board wants to put it in a supplementary material, have an opportunity to further scrutinize it before it goes on the big screen, like you said. I'm just saying where that it was kind of crafted for at least, as I understand it, majority for a Fincom presentation, just for you to go back through with the reading eye towards, okay, now it's town meeting. Yes. If we just afford the town meeting for that. No, absolutely, absolutely. Okay. Kevin, Steve, where are you on this one? Steve, thank you for that one. Yeah, I have no real problem with that one. Okay, Adam. If we're done with CPA. So I think we're gonna put this appendix in. Next, Adam. On article 25, revolving funds. Yes. Last meeting, we had provided sort of the additional revolving fund detail. I don't know if any of the board members had an opportunity to look at that. If you did and you liked it, would you be willing to have that also included as supplementary material? I did and I liked it. Okay. I didn't, I liked it. Okay, I got three nods on that one. People just tuning in right now, Mike. Yeah, I didn't, I liked it. Yeah. All right, who else has a comment, correction, addition, subtraction? How are you, Doug? Mr. Chairman, may I just go through the list before we have a vote? Let's do it. Okay, article 13 with respect to the bylaw amendment for the poet laureate, edit membership to read member, and then edit the last line, I believe, of section two to note that it is town and public school and library programs. We're making a distinction for the town, comma, public school and library programs. Article 14 is okay as is. The article 15 is okay as is. Article 17, we're going to note the majority of the board, and then also add, we're going to note that it's the majority of the board that's acting on with respect to the amended votes and comments on 17, and also include an appendix that attaches the reference material like the rate structure. Then article 18, we're going to mention the neighborhood meeting, which is currently scheduled for April. CPA, article 22, we're going to include an appendix that includes some version of the town manager's report on that matter. And then finally, we're also going to include an appendix with respect to the additional detail from the revolving funds, or do you want that directly in the vote and comment itself? I think that can be supplementary. Supplementary. You want a supplementary? Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. Are you happy? All right. Diane made a motion in the very beginning of this, I think. No. No, you did not. I apologize. Kevin did. I see. Thank you. That slipped off the short-term memory. No worries. I'm in the interim. Any further comments or changes? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Five, zero. Next up, we have correspondence received. Kevin. Move receipt, but I'd also like to make a Mr. Gilligan's request for a vote confirmation of appointment of deputy treasurer. I'd like to move that we table that to the meeting on April 14th. The request is for April 7th, and I'd like to move the table and maybe that night make the appointment on April 14th. You know, my thinking is we do have an election coming up. If there is a new treasurer, that new treasurer should have an opportunity more than just one day from the election to meet with this particular candidate and whether or not she has different thoughts or whatever. We don't know, but I just feel we should at least give the opportunity of a week. Is there a second? Second. Second. Diane. I just have one question. I'm not sure if the town manager knows the answer to it. Since we weren't involved in the interviewing process or anything like that, I know that I believe Andrew Flanagan, is he deputy town manager? Correct. Deputy town manager and Karen Malloy. Have you heard anything from them and from them and or anyone else on the community that pushing it off a week would be? Steve. I have a question as well. Is Mr, or is the candidate, has he been in a loop on this whole process as in, you know, right now that he'll will have to go through it through us to be appointed officially? My understanding is that Karen Malloy, the HR director has informed him to the process. Yes. Okay. I don't want him, you know, sitting in the. I think, so this is one of those rare moments, Kevin, where you and I disagree. And the reason I'm disagreeing is simply just that the treasurer had tried to work with me on the calendar and he had originally tried to do it earlier and I persuaded him to do him later. And I think it would be an appropriate and I want to respect the fact that I really worked with that with him and I would prefer to do it on the seventh. That said, I do not think the 14th is a deal breaker. So I'm, yeah, that's my. Well, part of my reason for, sorry, we've done some part of my reason is we have been excluded from this process. In my opinion, the board of selectmen, I have asked of Mr. Gilligan for a number of years now to distinguish for us, and I'm thinking maybe another week he might actually come up with this, to distinguish between us the roles and responsibilities of a deputy treasurer versus the management analyst position. And as I say, you know, we don't, who knows what's going to happen with the election, but you know, it seems to me that one more week, if there is a new treasurer is a reasonable thing to ask for that person to take over that office and have time to, I'm not, it really looks to me like they have found an excellent candidate. I would have liked to have met him. It would have been nice of Mr. Gilligan to bring this individual before us to give us a chance to meet this person. I'm sure he will in the night that he's appointed. But even this, Mr. Gilligan just sent a letter to us. He's not even here tonight to talk to us about it. So it's part of why I feel I need another week before making this appointment. But I respect you, sir. And if you as chair feel that you've given the commitment of this board or something, I will back down. I would never attempt to make a commitment on behalf of the entire board. I appreciate that. Yeah. So I'll leave it to my colleagues. I move that we table listen until April 14th. So we are gonna come back and talk about the other two correspondents at the moment we are only talking about the treasurer's correspondence. Is there a further, we have a motion? I'm about to vote on you. Sorry, yes. No, it's just being clear so we know what we're talking about. Is there any further comment or discussion on postponing or putting, placing the assistant treasurer's appointment to April 14th? Was there a second? I seconded it. I seconded it. I'm going to support it as well. Joe? I'm on the horns of a dilemma here because I do understand that this has been in process for some time and the candidate's been waiting. But the flip side is it is very true that we do have an election coming up. And if we have a new treasurer, the very first day that that individual is on the job, they would have a deputy, they'd never had a chance to meet or talk to. And as much as none of us here really want to talk about it, it's possible that there'll be a new person at one of these seats as well, that very day coming right in. And it's, so I think I'm going to support Mr. Greely's motion, although I recognize that we have put off this candidate. Yeah, okay. Mr. Greely's motion. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. Three to two? All right, so we place it on the agenda for the 14th. So we have two line move received on the last someone else or something on those. Just on the monotomy of Rox Park, Adam, I forwarded to you, you had as a response. I confess I have, it's still sitting in my inbox. Is that something you want to share now? Yeah, if you're comfortable with that. So this resident issued this email in regards to two issues that were sort of related to one another down near Monotomy Rox Park. One was the need for a crosswalk to be repainted. The paint is completely faded, crossing from Brentwood across Jason over to the park. And also the fact that people are parking in a designated no parking area and around the crosswalk. So we had both DPW and APD take a look at it. DPW, once it warms up, we'll restripe it. However, the area this year was going to be repaved. So it will get fresh tar and fresh paint and probably even thermoplastic treatment, which is that longer lasting treatment later this year. And when APD looked at it, they felt that once the crosswalk was repainted, that the parking would be, it would be much more clear that you're not supposed to be parking on the sidewalk and that they would also increase enforcement in the upcoming weeks and months to make sure that people were not parking inappropriately there. So I think we have a good strategy to somewhat timely address all the concerns raised. So what you're saying is you're not gonna paint it before the snow falls on Tuesday night? No, I hope not. All right, so we have a motion for, really you made a motion to receive, right? Right, right. Did I end it you second it? All right, sorry. Man, I'm super brained tonight. Steve second it? All right. Any further discussion on these two items? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Five, zero. So at this point, actually what I would like to do, so there's two items left on our... Mr. Chairman, I think the gentleman might have been here for one of the pieces of correspondence. Were you... Come on up. I apologize. Yeah, no, and I sometimes I get a little bit of tunnel vision. No, no, no, I appreciate it. Welcome, can you introduce yourself? Yeah, I'm Dr. Don Burst and I live on Hillsdale Road and I walk my dog by the park. We don't go in a lot because there are a lot of dogs running around, unleashed. I think this problem, certainly the crosswalk not being painted fading away has really exacerbated the problem. And so I've been told by the DPW that that is on the schedule, so that's very nice. In terms of the parking, I would appreciate signs there because you're not really supposed to park within 20 feet of an intersection now. And people do it constantly there. But enforcement just irritates people. Where signs, people seem to obey. There's signs on Jason Street actually that say no parking on either side of the entrance of the park. And for the most part, those are pretty much adhered to. I think the problem is partially caused by the fact that the park now is known for a place where people can have their dogs go off leash anytime day or night. And that happens to the point now that if you go by there a lot, you'll notice that many people let their dogs out of the car off leash so they can run across the street into the park. And maybe that's perhaps why their parking so close rather than walking an extra few spots. So really anything you can do, I walk with my dog, I think it's a dangerous situation with all the cars and all the traffic and such like that. I'd rather see prevention than enforcement. Thank you for the letter and thank you for coming. Thank you. Nice to be here. Thank you, Adam, for catching that for me. So we have on the agenda, we have an executive session related to the town manager. And then we're gonna come back to open session. But before we hit those agenda items, I want to do new business if that's okay with the board. So it's gonna be new business, then executive session, then we will come out of executive session and take votes in public after that. Marie, new business. The only thing I have is Tuesday night. So you have to be here at 650 on April 1st and you have to come to the Selectman's office to pick up your ticket beforehand. And it is the Army volunteer band. Excellent. Which day? April 1st. Doug, no new business. Thank you. Adam. Just a few pieces. First, I want to make the board aware that something's happening up with the Sims property, one of the final pieces that's been long in the works but is now coming together to allow final certificates of occupancy to be issued at the Sims project is the Sims conservation restriction. It's a very complex document that lays out the conservation protections for the park land and the summer street woods and other undeveloped pieces of the parcel that will be held by the Conservation Commission and the Arlington Land Trust but to be final and approved, the Board of Selectmen needs to act on it. We weren't able to know that it would be ready to be on tonight's agenda, but it is a very timely matter so we want to ask the Board to call a special meeting this Friday, I believe at 8.15 a.m. to act on it. And I do think there, Brian Rarig is here to talk to the Board a little bit tonight if the Board is interested in the details of that conservation but it's unfortunate the timing of it but still I think important and long talked about, long understood as part of the overall Sims project. Brian, do you want to give us a two minute preview of what we're doing? So just, so we are going to call a meeting of the Board of Selectmen for 8.15 on Friday in the morning, 8.15 a.m. It'll be a business casual meeting and which will enable us to take the votes before, do the hearing, take the vote hopefully before the meeting for the Japanese sister city visit. So that's the timing of that one. Brian. Well, thank you, thank you for the opportunity. Just to recap 15 years worth of work on this project, the conservation restriction that Adam is referring to is the formal document that protects permanently the open spaces of the site. And that includes both the now two public parks and the woods. And by protects, what the document accomplishes is to both extinguish development rights on those portions of the parcel and provide permanent rights to the public of access. So as you know, many of you have been involved in this project for a very, very long time. That one of the things that the town gets out of the project is two public parks operating under the rules of public parks but maintained forever at the expense of the development, not of the town. And that's a real accomplishment. So what has to happen on Friday is the execution of the actual conservation restriction which is the document that gets recorded. And I wanna emphasize that this is a document that's been part of the public record since 2005. The document's been thoroughly vetted both by you and by every other board involved. We are just finally at the point where it gets executed. And so it's a long established document that has only changed during that time to incorporate the second public park. And that happened with the land disposition agreement revision in 2012. It's otherwise the document that's been on public record for all this time. And so we're finally able to execute it. It has to be executed by the grand tours that is the developers, both 360 end shelter by the conservation commission and the land trust who take responsibility for monitoring these things and protecting the rights of the public. And by you on behalf of the town and by the secretary of environmental affairs on behalf of the state. So all of those things have to happen before it can be recorded and be effective. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Kevin? I just would like to bring point out, 15 years ago this board set goals for that particular property, one of which was a maintaining of the same footprint of open space. And it's been a 15 year battle and Brian's been there every single day of that battle with us. Thank you, Brian. And I can sing, Kevin, but right now I have a cold. So. Can he play a piano? No, no. Joe? And I want to publicly thank Brian and the land trust and the conservation commission working on this. I think nobody's been more involved with this, but the possible exception of his row has been right there with you as well. I think very much so. Then possibly you. And possibly, wow. I will admit, as most of you know, I'm a neighbor to this site and this is actually how I got involved in public affairs in Arlington was over some of the issues around this. And despite the burden that has truly been borne by the neighborhood in many respects, this is really a great amenity, even though the deed has not been recorded and the conservation restriction has not been executed. The Vista Park is open. My kids frequently asked me already to bring them over there. We walked the dog over there and the views from that park, dare I say it, I don't think Rolly Chappett's here. Rival Robbins Farm. They really do. You can see most of the landmark buildings in the town from that site. It is absolutely extraordinary. And I think the great fortune that we had through the twists and turns of this project that we were able to add on the lower park provides really an practically unimpeded expanse from the upper Vista Park through the lower down to the Summer Street Woods. So thank you very much for this. This protection was really one of the most important things for the surrounding neighborhood. That ends the, of course the neighborhood protection plan which had a lot of interplay with the conservation restriction as well, the temporary and the permanent. So this neighbor of the project and this town leader is very appreciative for all the work that you've done. All right, so Monday, or sorry, Friday, 8.15 a.m. We will revisit this one. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Brian. What else do you have, Adam? Very quickly, I want to let the board know as I'm sure you're aware, we've not yet had a hearing on the warrant article in regards to Venter Rowe, the 10 registered voter article. I want to let the board know I've been working with the proponents of the article to try to come to an agreement that is mutually agreeable and beneficial to the town and the current property owners. I've looked back and read the transcripts of the debate at town meeting from some seven years ago in regards to that same issue. I'm trying to get an understanding of what the town concerns were. So it's my hope that by the April 7th meeting I'll have a proposal back before the board for action in regards to that warrant article. And then the last piece of new business, I think you've all seen this, but for anybody watching, the Red Sox World Series Trophy will be in town hall this upcoming Saturday night from 7.30 to 9.00 p.m. So people will be able to come down, stand by the trophy, take a picture, and we have to give a big thanks to our state representative, Sean Garbley, for making that happen. He really took the initiative, he reached out to me, he reached out to the Red Sox and he really pushed for us to do this, so I'll owe him a debt of gratitude for making it happen. That gives us the mayor last Saturday night of Boston. Okay, that's cool. That's all I have. All right, Kevin. First, Doug is to show up Saturday evening and I want his picture taken with the Red Sox. Would you please say to that, Mr. Chairman? Please, for me, please. Kissing you. I'll be the David Orr teacher in the arms. Since our vice chair and chair are a candidate for reelection, I want to remind everybody, our meetings Friday morning will be a very brief meeting and probably will not be televised, but remind people about April 5th, will Saturday two weeks, right? Will be election day in Arlington and we do have contested races for the Board of Selected Treasurer in the School Committee and many other excellent candidates up for town meetings, so I want to really encourage people to make sure that you do get out and vote on April 5th. And since this is our last meeting before that election, Mr. Chairman, I really want to congratulate you on the job you did this year. Thank you. As chairman, I really think you did an exceptional job. I think you probably copied the way I ran things prior to this, I'm not sure, but no, sincerely, I think a number of different issues have come up that I think you've dealt with very well and kept us on track the whole time. Thank you very much. And I know your right-hand woman here also is quite helpful as your vice-chair. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Diane? Just two things, we did have a moment of silence for several people that had passed recently, but I just wanted to bring forth because I know that notwithstanding other individuals, there will be things in the future. With the passing of Bill Armstrong, not only did I have the opportunity to work with his school capacity and my elected official position, he also was one of my mentors from McGecko, member of my church at First Baptist Church. It basically saw me from age 12 on up and groomed me for Allington. There was a very fitting service at First Baptist Church. His daughter, Jennifer, gave quite a moving reflection. We call it reflections. And I held it together to the very end until I don't know if it's the Irish prayer or the Irish blessing, and so did she. It says, may the road rise up to meet you. And she kept it together until then. And she told many, many stories of Bill Armstrong, Papa. And there was something I just wanted to, I mean, you really have to have your glasses on to read this because there was so much, but it just cited that one of Bill's favorite sayings was if you throw a pebble into the pond, it still causes many ripples. And one of her sentiments were that he did throw many pebbles and the ripples are still to come. Just on behalf of the town, Bill's donated the money for all the flags year after year, the funding for the holiday lights. He supported our police and fire department with training and specialized medical equipment. We all know he's helped local, public and private schools, St. Agnes, Allington Catholic, as well as there is a scholarship, Armstrong Family Scholarship Fund that has been set up that I've been told that the donations are really pouring in. And I just want to just give one quick reflection on him, something that I really miss a lot. I used to go in and meet with him several times during the year, only twice over, probably the past 20 did I ask for something. But I would go in and show me a new piece of equipment, sometimes walk me through a tour that I've already been through, but he was always so excited about it. And the very last thing he would always say to me, and I heard this from so many other people is now, remember if you hear of anybody that needs help in any way, you know, not just for Armstrong, please let me know. And I can't tell you how many people that have been helped by Bill Armstrong that don't know because he never, he was the kind that wanted to help. And I remember I got a little tis tisk from him when he donated the money when I was coordinating Pierce Field on the scoreboard. But I was determined, it's very small and he looked at it and he said that that was okay. But there are so many people, not just in Allington, in this area, Medford, everywhere, that Bill Armstrong helped and they have no idea and he wanted that way. So I'm gonna miss his guidance and his warmth and sometimes his one liner on the way out. You know, if you get stuck somewhere, let me know. But so I just wanted to note that. And I also say that, you know, down the road in the future, you know, working with the family and others, I'm sure we may be hearing, you know, speaking to the family at the Colation afterwards, but this isn't the time of, you know, I didn't wanna go anything further than that because they're still in the fresh state. And then the second thing, and I love that. Can I just add to that, sorry. Yeah, unfortunately I was in New York on business during both the wake and during the service, but I am gonna bring something before the board. We're talking about renaming Garden Street over here where Armstrong Ambulance Service is located. Bill Armstrong. That's the same, yes. Oh, you were just about to say that, sorry, okay. I noticed I wanted to wait until after the election. Okay, sorry. I funded off here, hopefully. I'm sorry, was it? That's it, I just wanted to bring that. I'm gonna ask to refer that, are you well or something? That's fine, and then the second thing was, I know I saw my colleague, the chair, at the Guns and Hoses, and the town manager was there, I'm not sure. I was walking around so many times who had their annual fundraiser for Autism Awareness. All the proceeds go to that charity. It's a fun event. The only downside of it is if the fire wins, the police loses, if the police win, the fire loses. It was a great event. They raised lots and lots of money. It was six to four. This year, the police department prevailed, and I sat there this year thinking, this is the first year that I'm sitting in the stands and more than the majority of players are not so much friends of mine, but they're my friend's children who would say, see, he got that assist. See, he made that goal. But it's a great event, and it's really grown here in Arlington because it's so packed, and if anybody knows, if you go to that event, the adults are one-sided, front, center. If you go to the left and the right file down there, don't take your life in your own hands, but there's at least a good 40, 50 kids. They're like a swarm, and they're sort of like a dance to get through them, but it's really exciting to see a town event like that, and it gets not only the adults, but the kids to see our police and firefighters and dispatchers and EMS workers in a different light, as well as instilling, here they are doing so much, but they're also giving back to the community, not just the autism community. So bravo to this year's winners, and I can't wait for again next year. Thank you. Joe? Well, Vice Chair, it's a tough back to follow tonight. I was to such moving pieces of new business. I really regret I wasn't able to attend the guns and hoses because that evening I was serving as a master of ceremonies at an event at the Regent Theater. It was the first annual Arlington Teen Video Contest, which was fantastic. The ACMI, one of our local companies, Data Collaborative, and the Regent co-sponsored this. It's going to be broadcast on ACMI. You have to see some of these videos. They are absolutely top notch. One of my fellow judges was Amy Villay, the teen librarian here at the Robbins. We had also some of the musicians from the high school. So having that, having guns and hoses go on the same night, and we talk a lot in the Youth Health and Safety Coalition about trying to have constructive things that the youth can do at night, and these are a couple of great opportunities. It was a very, very busy weekend. Mr. Greeley stole some of my thunder. I want to thank the Chair also for always being so respectful to fellow members and to members of the public, and for his excellent leadership yesterday of our team with himself, myself, Mr. Chaptilane. We represented you all on the team Quizness as usual, and were it not for the Chair and his knowledge of Nikola Tesla, Dr. Hu, and his leadership in the Engineering Design Challenge, I think we would have really been sunk. We didn't advance, but we would have been sunk without. So thank you, Mr. Chair, and good luck. I was coming in second in your flight, may actually be about perfect. You talked about how good you were, how you all participated, you went to the final. Exactly, there you go. You're more aware of it. Absolutely, absolutely. By a quarter inch, we missed advancing to the final. Isn't that terrible? Absolutely. So there's another big family-friendly event that was going on, and there was one other, and I want to give a very heartfelt thank you to the recreation department. On Saturday night, I attended my ninth and final daddy daughter dance. My daughter has put me on notice that when she goes to middle school, it's over. I've gone every single year for nine years. It is a wonderful event. So much of the community comes out. It is a lot like a middle school dance where a lot of the girls go off with their friends and the guys are cooling their heels along the walls. My daughter, I'm happy to say, because she understood the significance of this, she stuck with me to the bitter end. She said some of those dads looked sad, but I want to thank the recreation department for doing this every year. It is just a great bonding experience, I think, for fathers and daughters. I know some of us have daughters, so we understand this. My daughter's now 20, but when I went, she wouldn't dance with me. We did dance once, but she just played on the, there were maps over in the corner that she and I. I want to mention two upcoming events. Our town recycling coordinator, Charlotte Mellon, asked me if I could give a plug for Echo Fest, which is this Saturday. I think it's 10 to two, if I'm not mistaken, here in the town hall. But there was also the trash formations contest, which is to make a piece of art from recyclables. And I think that Thursday is the deadline. The details are on the website, if anybody's still chomping at the bit for that. And that's for youth as well. And on April 3rd, the next master plan working paper on economic development will be presented at 7.30 at the senior center. It was supposed to be last Thursday, but it was moved because of candidates night. And just one last item, I have to say the most amusing thing I've ever gotten in the packet was, believe it or not, Public Works Magazine. So we think we've had difficulties with the Mass Ave project. You know, getting it through and all of this. I was relieved to read this. Environmentalists in Iceland are protesting a proposed road project near the capital of Reykjavik because they fear construction would endanger the habitats of elves. Protesters say the construction would leave elves homeless or killed. It even might destroy an elven church said to be tucked away in the rocky terrain. And that's, you've read it right here in Public Works Magazine. So if you haven't read it, catch the article. I'm trying to figure out if there's another connotation to it, or if there's another connotation. No, no, they actually say that polls show that more than half of Iceland's population believe in the existence of elves, also called hold of folk or hidden folk by the country's citizens. Wow. Half their population. I didn't read the article I wish I had, Steve. Well, I think everyone's coming to cover it tonight. No new business. Yeah, I started with five items, but I definitely, I heard them all get knocked off one by one. I have enjoyed being chair immensely, and thank you all for your support and your help, and that which leads us, of course, to, I do get one last crack at it for 15 minutes on Friday. I just want to remind people that it's 15. And that election day is April 5th, and so I, there's plenty, not just the three contested ballots, but a number of town meeting. I have seen more signs out for town meeting members than I ever have before. I don't know if anyone else has seen that. All right, so we have reached the end of new business, and so we've got an executive session coming up, and so just so people know what the plan is here, we're going into executive session without the town manager to discuss negotiations with the town manager. If necessary, we'll come out for the purposes of getting town manager to negotiate with him, and then barring the unexpected. We will then come out fully and take a number of votes publicly. So don't go too far, as I think the message there. Mrs. Mohan. I'd move to go into executive session to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel and to conduct negotiations with non-union personnel, specifically the town manager. Second. The board will come out of the executive session for purposes of taking public votes. We have a motion, we have a second. Mr. Krupalko, would you pull the board please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We're going into executive session, we're gonna keep Doug and Marie coming back. Definitely. All right, so we are back from executive session. We did not negotiate with the town manager, it was just the board and Doug and Marie, and then we voted and we came out of executive session. Mr. Greeley. In accordance with section two A of the town manager's employment agreement with the town of Arlington, I move that the salary for the town manager, right, am I supposed to say this out loud, that the salary for the town manager for contract year three, covering the period from February 24th, 2014, to February 23rd, 2015, to $164,383. Second. All right, and so that represents a 2% increase over his previous salary, and just to be clear on those dates, that that is retroactive to last month. Any, oh, and I should also just say that, just to remind people, we did the review of the manager, and he did, but like, as in we all did a review of the manager, and we found that he was doing an excellent job, which is why we're giving him a raise. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Five, zero. All right, next up. I move to a point, Adam Chapter Lane, is town manager for successive three-year term, February 24th, 2015, through February 23rd, 2018. Second. The motion is second. So this of course has the effect, our town manager act, very clearly specifies that there shall be three-year terms, and Adam is two years and a bit into one term, and we're appointing him for another term at the end of that. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Five, zero. Who's next? Joe. Sure. Move to approve the attached employment agreement with Adam Chapter Lane, covering the term from February 25th, 2015, through February 23rd, 2018, and to authorize the chair of the board of selectmen to execute this employment agreement on behalf of the town of Violenton. Second. The motion is second. So this board gave me permission to negotiate with Adam a little bit more, just about a month ago, and in the past month, Adam and I with the outside town council have negotiated, and the board has just met in the executive session and reviewed the negotiated position or is about to say that it's happy with it and execute this. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed? Five, zero. Adam, you're on for another three years. Thank you very much. As I said, after the evaluation process, I greatly, greatly enjoy working for Arlington. I greatly enjoy working for the board, and I really appreciate the board's effort in this. They're enacting an approval of this tonight, and I look forward to continued service at the town. Thank you very much. Fantastic. Diane. Just quick thanks, I wanna thank the chairman for taking on this especially in the past, living up to the standards that previous chairs, Mr. Quirley and I have set. I do wanna commend also the town manager in terms of the process and what he brought to the table and what he was willing to make as a suggestion, especially around his compensation and raise. I think it's a good testament to what you're going to do for us and what we have offered our other town employees, and I really think you might have been able to get a little bit more, but you really wanted to set a bar a certain way, and I do appreciate that, and you do do an awful lot for the town of Arlington and all the predictions that everybody had for you in terms of your tenure, despite your youth have certainly come to that and surpassed that, and I know I've certainly enjoyed working with you and look forward to in whatever capacity in the future. And if the chairman could also extend to, I believe it's attorney Valerio, our heartfelt thanks for once again, she's proven and tried legal counsel as well as she sort of brings her added benefit being involved in Brookline politics way back in the day. Each and every time we've had to utilize her services, she's very professional, very succinct, does her job and does everything that she needs to do and sometimes a bit more, and I'm grateful that she has stayed with us for so many years because I think she could have the opportunity to pass perhaps this along to an associate or other, but I think she has an affinity to working with us here in Arlington and I definitely appreciate that. I didn't even tell you, she called me at two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon to do this, so you're absolutely right. Attorney Valerio. Kevin? When I once served with a town manager that would come to us and under new business, he'd recommend new insurance rates and he'd want to vote that night. And I was scared of him, but literally. I can't imagine who that was. But that is so, and he was an excellent town manager, but Adam wouldn't even think of such a thing to behave in such a way. He makes sure that he communicates, I can speak only for myself, but I know from each of you that he's in the same way that he communicates with us what his plans are. He insists, I don't know, the public might not know this, he insists that we review and set goals and measure him and make sure that we can provide evidence to the quality of work that he has done for us. We're just very, very lucky to have you and you've done an excellent job. Thank you. Thank you. Can you imagine the insurance rates on the new business? No. No material, no materials. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much. I really did enjoy it. Say that with hands. You and I should have a conversation. Okay, okay, no, okay, no, all right, okay. I thought you had some information for us. It's on the bill. No, I'm not gonna get that. I have to do that. Thank you very much. And I've been standing up, trying to think of what a follow-up is. I was trying to catch it, but I did too, but you're buying a raffle ticket. I'll be like it. I'll be like it. I'll be like it. I'll be like it. I'll be like it. I'll be like it.