 Welcome, I'm calling the order of this meeting of the Arlington Select Board on Monday, June 27th, 2022. I'm Select Board Chair Leonard Diggins, and I will now confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in an affirmative. I am Han. Yes. John Hurd. Yes. Steve DeCorsi. Yes. Eric Helmez. Yes. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Doug Hyme. Yes. Ashley Myer. Yes. Tonight's meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted in a hybrid format consistent with an act signed into law on February 15th, 2022, that extends certain COVID-19 measures. The act includes an extension until July 15th, 2022 of the remote meeting provisions of Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020, executive order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. 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Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on town's website using those agenda platform. And finally, each vote tonight will be taken by roll call. So let's set forth on tonight's agenda. I'll now turn to the next item in the agenda, which is the endorsement of appropriation of access and deficiency funds for Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District. Mr. Heim. Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the board. This request is a fairly straightforward one. We've received these several times in the last couple of years. So I wouldn't say it's every year, but it's a fairly standard practice. Minuteman has an excess after closing out the fiscal year and they like to roll that into their capital stabilization fund, which is largely a benefit to all communities because as a member of the Minuteman Agreement, we all are responsible. The member communities are responsible for capital expenditures. This is basically taking, operating, putting into capital. I think Superintendent Wakuhun was just so folks at home know, happy to come talk about it, but it's again a fairly straightforward practice unless the board has any questions. Would be a space for a motion to approve the appropriation of the excess and deficiency funds into the capital stabilization fund. Thank you. Move approval. Second with a question. Yeah, Ms. Ohan. Am I correct? Either Jenny Heimer, Mr. D'Corsi of the 1.4, about 500,000 is from Arlington's pot or... The 1.4 is what the excess is declared to be. That's from all the members, that's 1.4 is a compilation of all the member communities. And my question is, is Arlington's contribution or share of that approximately 500,000? So my understanding from, again, Mr. Poole or the manager's memo is that the endorsement recommendation before us is for the $500,000, the excess and efficiency. I'm not quite familiar enough to know exactly where the other funds referenced by Minuteman are coming from. I'm assuming that's correct, Mrs. Ohan, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm not sure Mr. D'Corsi has better information on that. Mr. Chair, yeah. So the 1.4, if this was the operating budget and you were making an appropriation, we would be between like 30 and 33% of the annual budget. I'm not sure because of over time, the excess and efficiency is a historical amount that goes back many years. So they don't necessarily trace it to each individual community. But the 500,000 that is coming out, again, if it was an appropriation we'd be about a third of it. Okay, and does anyone remember historically when the last time this particular scenario played itself out? The reason I say that is we're gonna have to start to, in 23 or 24, demonstrate to the voters regardless of how they feel about an override. And we're gonna have to explain that we've looked under every mattress, every pillow, every everything. I'm fine with this appropriation, but I know it said it's been done before, but this is the first time I can recall having an overage or this particular designation of money which is being asked to go into capital planning projects which is fine this one time, I guess. But as we move forward, we're gonna have to start to buckle down. So when was, I don't remember, do you remember the last time this happened? I don't ever remember doing this before and where they have a brand new school and I understand, and I don't wanna rock the boat. I'm fine with, I guess, actually I'd be guided by Mr. DeCorsi, but I guess I would say if this came up again next year, I think I would like to look at it a little more studiously in terms of whether it's something that we need to do again. You know, I'm fine with this initial. Do you have any thoughts on that? If I may, Mr. Chair. This is like taking money out of free cash from the town. So in theory, by taking the amount out of the excess and deficiency fund, that is lessening our burden because otherwise it would come out as part of our annual assessment. So I'm not sure they did this that much in the past because I'm not sure how robust the excess and deficiency fund was over the years, but I think it's appropriate to ask if it does come again. The other question would be, could they be using the funds for a different purpose that you might be more appropriate? But I think for this year, knowing that they wanna improve the playing fields there, knowing that they have this amount certified and they'll lose that certification on June 30th, I'm comfortable with it, but I agree with the follow up. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I think I seconded. Yeah, I'm sorry. Thank you. Yes, just a follow on question to that. Does this, are they not able to use this surplus for operating expenses in a way that would also reduce our obligation? Okay, so technically what they're doing here is they're amending their fiscal 22 budget to take $500,000 and increase the contribution to their capital stabilization fund. So everything else is already paid for through the approval of the budget. And again, because it happened in this fiscal year, they just voted this a week ago and they have to go to the member communities and have them endorse this within seven days. So it's, there's no need within their budget for fiscal 22 for any other purpose. Thank you. And it just so happened that we conveniently had a meeting within that amount of time. So, so, so, so yes, Mr. Heim. Mr. Chair, I mean, I just want to clarify and correct one thing. So one reason that there may be a slight difference here is that, and I'm sorry I didn't raise this earlier, is that as folks will recall, members will recall, we did amend the agreement. So I don't recall how excess was handled before we amended the minimum regional agreement. Part of what the purpose of that amendment was, was to provide communities with greater voice in terms of how certain expenditures and responsibilities were handled. So I think that's germane to your point, Mrs. Mohan. And then I'm sorry, I think Mr. D'Corsese said this, but I did want to clarify that I do believe that 500,000 is a total of what they're seeking, not $500,000 from Arlington. Are we on the same page with Mr. Corsese? So I'm sorry, I misspoke about that, that's my fault. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So I think we're all set here. So on motion into endorse our appropriation of excess and efficiency funds for Minutemen Regional Vocational Technical School District by Mr. Hurd and a second by Mrs. Mohan, Mr. Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. D'Corsese. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. Mr. Diggs. Yes. Mr. unanimous vote. Thank you. So on to the third item on the agenda, reopening a Native American gallery event at Woodamore Park. And do we have Jerry Trimley here? Am I visible? Nope. You have to start your video. I know, I pressed it and it didn't click on for me. How's that? Yeah, great. Great. Okay. Thank you. So thanks for joining us, Ms. Trimley. And do you want to tell us more about the event? Yes. My request is to reserve Woodamore Park. And what I should have told you is I'm one of the directors of the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. And we're having a reopening of one of our galleries, the Native American Gallery, because we were very fortunate and we received grant money to give that gallery a facelift. And we want to have a reopening and we're planning it for Sunday, August 7th. And we're requesting the time 12 to eight for use of the park because we'd like to set up, we won't need to have the event, we want to clean up. We intend to invite about 60 people. Of course, we don't know how many will accept that, but probably 30 to 40 people. And we'll have, the museum's gonna be open for its regular hours, which are 12 to four, but we'll have remarks at 1 p.m. And I anticipate we will have two to three tables for refreshments, for maybe cookies, cupcakes, beverages. There'll be no alcoholic drinks provided. And we may have a few chairs around the outside of, well, outside, around the park for our guests. But we can't get 60 people into the museum at one time. So we anticipated the remarks would be on the steps and then people could go in and out at their leisure. And as I said, they can have some refreshments. All right, great. It sounds like it's gonna be a fun event. So good luck with everything, Ian. And so on a motion to approve by Mrs. Mohan and second by Mr. Helmut, Mr. Heim. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Dacorsi. Yes. Mr. Helmut. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. Mr. Dickens. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Good night. Good night. So on to the consent agenda. So for the number four is for approval, four to July banners by Beth Blocker, the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. Number five is a request, the contractor drain layer license by Premo Paving. Six is reappointments. All terms expired on June 30th, 2025, Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds, Augusta Hadak, Arif Padaria of the Cemetery Commission, Michelle Hosler, the Conservation Commission, Nathaniel Stevens, Council on Aging, Patricia, Belville, and for the Equal Opportunity Advisor Committee, Samantha Dutra, Human Rights Commission, Rajiv Suneja, Library Board of Trustees, Jonathan Gates, and Open Space Committee, Anne LaRoya, and David White. And the seventh item is a minutes of the May 26th, 2022 meeting. Move approval. Second. Comments, questions? All right. So on move to approve the consent agenda by Mr. Corsi, a second by Mr. Herd. Mr. Heim. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Jean-Anne Misfoe. Great. Thank you. Moving along on appointments, item number eight, Arlington Historic District Commission, architect at large, Brian LaBalle. Hello, Mrs. LaBalle. Good evening. How are you? Fine. Thanks for joining us. And so I want to tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I've lived in Arlington for 18 years. I live in Arlington Heights on Aberdeen Road. And I'm an architect, obviously, and I've always been interested in historic structures and preserving them and town planning. And just, I'm very excited to be given the opportunity to serve on the historic commission. And I look forward to fulfilling that role. I should add that I don't live in a historic district, but the house I live in on Aberdeen Road is listed on the town roster of historic houses that were selected, I think, in 1976. So it's an older house that is an example of the shingle style that was deemed noteworthy back then. I'll take it from his behind. So any comments, questions? So, is it a requirement? I don't think it's a requirement. Is it that you have to live in a historic district? I need to be, all right. I didn't think so either. So I was just kind of curious as to why you mentioned that. And I do want to point out that I am impressed with me that you worked on Memorial Hall. And that was a big project, you know? So congratulations on that. Yes, thank you. Well, in fact, the part that I worked on included the lower level, which we called Locker Commons back then, which was sort of a student space with study space and they had a food court down there. And unfortunately, that's all been now renovated. It doesn't look the way it did anymore, but it was a very, very interesting project. And it was a lot of fun going through the whole building and seeing in its original state where we started to work on it. Yeah, yeah, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. I mean, just did some impressive things. So we're very fortunate to have you with us here in Arlington, I mean, not only on the commission, but also a resident. So did you want to say something, Thomas? Yes, thank you. Thank you very much for Arlington is very fortunate to have your talents and your time. So we appreciate you stepping up to serve. The one thing I just wanted to offer for your consideration as you joined the commission as a new member is that some residents, and I think there was a resolution to tell meeting not long ago, asked the commission to try to do what they could when it came to being flexible with things like solar panels and other energy efficient installations with that with regard to historic standards. I think that there's obviously some competing needs that need to be balanced with the standards, but also with energy efficiency in the town. And I think certainly the government is very committed to energy efficiency. So that would be something that I would urge you to look into and to think about in your role. Of course. Thank you very much. Yes, Mr. Hyde. Just Mr. Chair, just for everyone's information, part of the reason Mr. LeBeau described the fact that he's not a resident of historic district is just for people's edification. Every historic district is technically a separate commission and they preside over a particular application in the historic district. One member of a commission has to be a resident of a district where they're hearing an application. So we have at large members like Mr. LeBeau who can serve in any district, but just so people know, anytime there's an application in a historic district, at least one member has to be a resident or a property owner of that district. Great. Thank you. Because I mean, I just had a sense that that comment wasn't just a throwaway of me as well. So I appreciate that. So it's in that large membership, Mr. Chair. Great, great. Thanks. So on a vote to approve the appointment, I'm sorry, on a motion to approve the appointment by Mr. Heard and a second by Mr. Mahan and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Heard. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Dickens. Yes. Mr. unanimous vote. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So moving on to number nine on the licenses and permits, we have for approval, wine and malt license for a prep neighborhood kitchen, 1367 Mass Ave. Mr. Daniel Laparfido. I have to accept my apologies. I've been technically unable to fix my video here even though I'm looking at a little camera, but it doesn't want to show my face. That's okay. That's okay. And there are so many ways I could have messed up your name. So what's the proper way to pronounce your last name? Oh, my goodness. It's Daniel Laparfido. Okay. Yeah, that was the last one I thought of me and it was like, okay, good, good. So it was perfect though. Thank you. Thank you for wanting to do business with us. I mean, you want to tell us a little bit about your place? Yeah. So we've been open for about six months now. We got officially going in November, and with the pandemic and everything else, it's been a little crazy as a small business, but we've been getting some great feedback from the community and we're working hard to make everyone happy around us. And we're trying to grow organically and when we started, we didn't really know if beer and wine was a direction we needed to go in, but we've had really a lot of demand from our guests and I think for the long-term health of the business, the ability to bring that on and would just help us fill our little bit of seating that we have in here. It's just 19 seats. It's a couple of tables, but for our regular revenue, having people come in and use us as a destination instead of just takeout would really change the dynamic for us in the long-term. Great, thank you. And so I turn to my colleagues, Mr. Helmuth. I'd like to move approval. And second. I'm Mr. Corsi. Any other questions, comments? Yeah, Mr. Helmuth. I just want to vouch for the quality of the establishment. I'm one of this, perhaps, frequent customers and have been delighted at the quality of the food and the service and I'm very happy that it's going well and very happy to support this motion. Ms. Mohan. I would echo Mr. Helmuth's remarks. I've also read some really good reviews on your establishment, Prep Neighborhood Kitchen, since you opened. And since this is a wine and malt license request, who are you designating to oversee and serve the alcohol beverages when appropriate? On a day-to-day basis, it'll be myself who's in charge as well as it continues to be owner-operated business or my main business partner, John Casino, who's, we're both tips certified and it'll be served from the counter where we'll take the order, we can ID there and we'll bring it over to the table for service. Awesome, you answered my second question. It may have been in your application, I didn't see it, but you both are tips certified, which is great. And as one of my previous colleagues, Mr. Dunn, would always speak up at this particular moment and say, just remind everybody that Arlington is very vigorous in terms of going into the establishments and just doing random spot checks to make sure it's in compliance and pretty much close to 100% of the time when there's been a violation. It's when the owner-operator, manager's plan has deviated and it's somebody called in, short staffed, you did something out of the norm and that's when the violation occurs. So I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I've managed liquor licenses for hotels and fine dining for many years and we have absolutely no intention of turning this into a bar atmosphere. So we'll make sure to keep it nice and tidy and with our limited service. It's really hoping to drive the food sales here. No, and I know you'll do a great job carrying it with their offerings because everything else you've done has certainly been superb. So thank you for answering those questions and thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I appreciate you doing that, Mrs. Mohan. So anything else? Great, I mean, so on motion to approve the license by Mr. Helmets and a second by Mrs. DeCorsi, Mr. Hyme. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Helmets. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. unanimous vote. Congratulations, thank you. And good luck with the license and the continued business. Thank you so much. So moving on, number 10, for approval, class two license, Eli Service Center, 125 Broadway, Elias Al-Kahouli. Unvisible? Elias? No, you're not. Just a moment, please. Okay, no problem. How about now? Yeah, great. Thank you so much. Hi, everyone. Hi. Thank you. Can you help me out with your last name? Al-Kahouli. Okay, thank you. Al-Kahouli, Mr. Al-Kahouli. Thank you. So we want to tell us a bit about the business and the desire for the license. Well, the business is existing on 125 Broadway, Arlington. It is a service station with gasoline pumps and we've been operating that business and owned the property for almost like 15 years. We bought it from the old owner, Tom Porter, which he used to have the class two license, dealer license. So the reason we ask him for it, because we have a lot of customers that come in and also neighbors, they ask us if we have used cars to sell. I said, no, but there's something we can look into. And it is existing license there. I said, why not? Let me go try it, see if we can get it approved so we can proceed with that procedure, selling cars on a lot with all the legal documents instead of doing it on the side with the legally. And here we are, this is why I went to the town hall and I found out Tom Porter, the old owner is still applying for it and is still using it. I said, surprise, he shouldn't be done, he should be doing that. So I asked to stop Tom Porter from using the license and I applied for it last week. Great, all right. And that's it, thank you. Hopefully we're moving fast enough, so Mr. Heard. I would just say, I agree, it's always better to do things legally than illegally. Thanks for that. With that, I'll move approval. Thank you. To approve by Mr. Heard. Second by Ms. Mohan and a question for Ms. Mohan? Yes, and I see for the class two license that you'll be open six days a week, but closed on Sundays, but the gas station is open seven days a week? The gas office is open seven days a week. The repair is open six days a week and yes, exactly. Okay, no, that's fine. I just wanted to make sure that that was your intention. So Monday to Saturday closed on Sunday for the class two, but not for the gas? No, the gas seven days, the shop is six days and whoever's gonna sell the cars or we have to be there, the gas attendant has no business or is not qualified to do those kind of paperwork and run this kind of business. So it will be only six days a week. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sure, no problem. Anything else? Okay, so on a motion to approve by Mr. Heard and second by Ms. Mohan, Mr. Heim. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. DeCoursey. Yes. Mr. Helmeth. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. Mr. Deeds. Yes. Mr. Adams. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome. Have a good night. Thank you. Take care. Moving on. Item 11 for approval, outdoor restaurant and retail permit application. It's huge in taste. 303 Broadway, Su-Ying Zeng. But I would just ask if you are representing them, if you could just raise your hand and zoom. I don't see anyone. I don't see anyone with their hands raised. Yeah, I've lost my connection so I can't see what's going on in there. I feel kind of isolated, interestingly enough. Okay, well, you know, we will put it on the agenda for the next time, right? Or Mr. Heim, you can give some guidance. Or you're going to say Ms. Mohan? If I could, they're just a standard outside annual permit for April 3rd, November. All of the paperwork's attached. If the board is inclined, that would be. Move, I'm sad. Move approval. Second. Okay, well, we're going to zip right through this unless someone has comment, you know? I will say, I mean, they have some good roles there. I mean, it's the same setup as last year too. Yeah, okay, all right. I'm very familiar with fusion taste, so I can vouch for them as well. Yeah, the Arlington role is fine. Next dinner on Mr. Heard, fusion taste. Woo! So, in my yacking there, so the motion was by Mr. Heard? In the second by Mr. Mohan? That's fine. Second by Mr. Mohan. I'll second Mr. Heard's motion. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Heim? Mr. Heard? Yep. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Mr. Helmuth? Yes. Mr. Deeds? Yes. Okay, so moving on to open forum, accepting unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be act upon nor decision made the night of the presentation. In accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established, it should be noted that there is a three minute time limit to present a concern or a request. Oh, I can't see what's going on. So do we have any hands raised? No. Okay. Not at this time, no. Okay, great. So moving on, traffic rules and order of the business, number 12, discussion, Alewife Brooke with Mrs. Mohan, Hanna and Gwen Spieth and Kristen Anderson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's actually two agenda items under Alewife Brooke, which I had emailed the DCR component of it about two weeks ago to my colleagues and spoke with then town manager, Mr. Chapter Lane, and then the second part, and Ms. Spieth will speak to the DCR grant and Ms. Anderson will speak to the CSO meeting on Wednesday night, which I have had two conversations with the town manager, Mr. Pooler, as well as I know Attorney Hyne is also prepared to speak to this. So instead of stealing their thunder, because they all are the ones who have been doing the work on it, what I'd like to do is have Gwen Spieth speak to the DCR grant, then Kristen Anderson speak to Wednesday night's meeting, and then if I could through you, Mr. Chair, ask Attorney Hyne to give sort of the town manager, town council update on that, and then we can wrap it up in any questions, if that's okay. Great, yes. If we could promote Ms. Spieth and Ms. Anderson and start off with Ms. Spieth. Hello, hi. Sorry, this is my first time at the select board. So pardon me if I'm a bit nervous, I'm just gonna read my three minute presentation and then you can ask me questions if necessary. My name is Gwendolyn Spieth. I live just over the L. Y. Brook in North Cambridge. I lived in East Arlington for many years and have recently been working with, say, the L. Y. Brook to try to stop the discharging of sewage into the Brook. I care about the L. Y. because I walk there most evenings, but also as an issue of justice, given the danger of flooding, particularly for residents of my old neighborhood in East Arlington. Thank you, Chair Diggins, select board members, town manager and town council for giving me a chance to tell you about an opportunity that has arisen to work with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation through their matching grants program. The program, as you may know, allows local groups and communities to request that DCR make improvements in DCR managed properties in those local communities. I submitted an application on behalf of Save the L. Y. Brook to work with DCR to address issues of water quality, storm water management and flood prevention along the L. Y. Brook. And we were excited to hear that DCR had chosen our application to move forward to the final stage during which DCR representatives will help us lay out the specifics of the project, including budgeting, acquiring permits, et cetera. The part of our application that DCR selected was our request to update the 2003 A. Y. Master Plan, which you may also know is an ambitious description of many projects to address issues facing the Brook. With renewed community interest in this area, from a butters, commuters and neighbors like me enjoying this lovely urban green space, it's a perfect time to work with DCR to push for actual implementation of the improvements that have been envisioned since 2003, DCR has offered to provide a two-to-one match if we can find $25,000 in seed money. That means if we can find $25,000, it would become $75,000, with which DCR believed that they can complete a survey of the entire area along the Brook. Performing an up-to-date survey would be an essential first step toward actual implementation of these sorely needed improvements. Some of the projects we hope to see completed, which having a new survey would facilitate are revitalization of Arlington's Cattail Marsh, improving its capacity as a protective stormwater wetland and habitat for the myriad bird species, repairing the crumbling walls by the cemetery between Henderson Bridge and Broadway, as well as the cantilevered sidewalk there, dredging the Brook to remove sediment and other materials that prevent the Brook from flowing and increase the risk of flooding, bank stabilization using native species to decrease flood risk and help manage stormwater and many more ideas, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done. So I'm here in the hopes that you might have some guidance as to where or whether this $25,000 seed money might be found. Thank you. Thanks, Ms. Meese. Thank you, and I did have the same conversation with town manager, chapter lane and pooler. There was a suggestion about the designated funds from Congresswoman Clark, the federal funds, but those are specifically earmarked. And I don't know if attorney Heim, I don't want him to speak. Is there anything you want to add to that in terms of the Congresswoman Clark funds, as well as the finding the 25? Thank you, Ms. Meese. I don't think I want to speak to the Congresswoman Clark funds. I'm not familiar enough with the specific restrictions but what I do want to say is that to my understanding and if Gwen's still on, the last time the Air Wife Master Plan was developed was I think in 2003 by the Metropolitan District Commission. So there may be some sources of funds that we might be able to identify either within town or sources that we may be able to identify outside of town that could help with a specific kind of project, but I think a little bit in further digging has to be done to figure out whether or not the, and I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with exactly what you and the manager talked about, but what it would have to be done in order to use those types of funds for this purpose. So I'm not ruling that out. I'm just saying that I'm not familiar enough with the parameters of that to speak intelligently on a Ms. Maan, but I would be prepared at the board's direction to investigate further alongside, of course, the manager in terms of what we could do to either support an application for funds or to identify funds ourselves. So I mean, these are, I'm not, I'm also not 100% sure if Gwen wants to speak to who they were thinking about performing this study, has that been made clear at all? The way these matching grants work is DCR work. So they manage the funds and they do the contracting and so forth. So it would be DCR work with input from the community partner that the organization, the town, whoever is partnering with them. Okay, and I would add to that. We can't apply the federal funds that the Congresswoman has secured because those are specifically delineated for the Emilia-Dearhart study in remediation, which also will help the brook as well as the waterway further on down. But when I spoke with Mr. Chaptilane regarding the idea came up 25,000 coming from planning or he had one or two other ideas that I don't wanna go on the record with and I passed that on to Mr. Pooler because it's really, to me, 25,000 is a lot of money but it's really short change for a really good investment for something that has to be done and we'll go on concept with everything else that we're doing. So I'll stop there in case my colleagues have questions on this part. Sure, and I'll have Mr. Gorsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ms. Feith, for joining us tonight and for your work and working to secure the grant. It's a great job and I appreciate the update here. Just a question on the timing for identifying the funds. When do the funds need to be identified or secured to your knowledge? Well, yes, to my knowledge. There is an application deadline so we went through the first part of the process where our grant was chosen and the next step is for us to meet with representatives from DCR in July. There is a July 14th deadline but the woman who deals with external partnerships explained as you may know that DCR is going through some changes and that it's her deadline so it may not be super firm but she has not yet stated such a date as to when the funds need to be filed. Obviously it's the sooner the better but we have not yet been given a specific date. After July one, certainly probably before the end of the year, I'm just thinking this isn't something that could wait till next town meeting for an appropriation. This is something that we would need to identify at the start of next fiscal year, it sounds like so. That just informs us in terms of the sources, potential sources of funds so that's more for us to see where we look. Sure, yeah, I mean I'm sorry if that wasn't unclear. We are planning, we will be meeting with them in July. At some point they have yet to give us a date and this is for FY23 obviously matching grants from their fiscal year being July. Okay, thank you and I want to thank Mrs. Mahan for the early request in terms of where the funds are coming from but I've got a couple ideas too but we can talk about that with Mr. Pooler and maybe at a future meeting but thanks again, sounds like a great idea to do this a great return on $25,000. So I see two hands up here, I have no idea which one went first. Okay, all right, so then Mr. Mahan. Well, my first question is about timing so thank you Mrs. DeCorsi and thank you for the presentation, the work on this. It's certainly exciting after years of talking about this year to hear some affirmative steps forward towards progress. I guess this question would be for Attorney Heim. As we work through sources of funding, is there some, you have to save El-Wife Broker, is there an entity that exists that can legally fundraise for funds like this? So that's a good question Mr. Heard. My understanding from reviewing the previous master plan if you look at the implementation chapter and when you've probably already done this, you'll see a number of private organizations that appear to have done fundraising on behalf of the plan and some of the projects they're under. Some of these organizations, many of these organizations still exist, some of them look like they may not currently be active. So yes, there are organizations that have a fundraising capacity. As folks know, the town doesn't generally have the ability to raise funds in quite the same way. It's a legal restriction on the town, but there are also resources that we do have at our disposal, folks, particularly in the planning department, who are aware of potential grant funding sources. The real trick of this will be, are there grant sources out there that are gonna match up with this timeline or are they gonna be able to move quickly enough? But we do have a lot of folks who are really well-versed in applying for different types of grants to try to funnel them through. So obviously, like for example, if we had had a little bit more of a lead time on this and that's not a complaint, we might have been able to identify, I'm not sure about CDBG, that might not be appropriate, but something along those lines, but usually those funding cycles start a little bit earlier. So we'll have to see what we can do to, A, help identify grant sources, B, a lot of the funding sources were what you're talking about, nonprofits that were able to engage in fundraising. The town does have a lot of interface, as members of the board know, with different friends, groups from friends of the council on aging, but I'm not currently aware of, I believe there was a friends of the ALY preservation. I'm not sure what their active status is now, and I apologize for that, I can check in on whether friends of the ALY preservation who had been a part of the previous master plan is still an active organization. And I don't mean to try to kick it back, because I think $25,000 would be well spent if we can find it within the town budget, or within the town through grant status, just it seems like such an aggressive timeline that you never know, we do have very generous people in Allington or in the area that if it could be a hybrid approach where we try to see, work with some of these entities to publicize what it is that we're trying to accomplish and then supplement it with town funds if we can, but just an idea to, that's more direct. I mean, a Goal Fund Me, the money comes in day of, so if there is an entity that can legally solicit funds, then it's a good option to take a look at to at least get a portion of this. Yeah, and so I'm sorry, I don't know if we have a turn. In some ways, what we'd be looking for is something along the lines of affordable housing trust, but for conservation type projects, fortunately we don't have a mechanism like that. So, but there are some potential things that we can think about, I'll continue to talk about it with the manager, as well as see what types of grants might be available, especially since we're talking about a relatively small scale. Well, it is an aggressive timeline. So, Mr. Speeds, who's gonna design a study? We'd be determined in the next meeting with DCR. We would be finalizing a description of the project, and at that point we would be, I mean, there are people who, their staff who perform such work, presumably, but in consultation with us and presumably experts in the town. All right, because it's potentially a good study, but it's all in the details. Absolutely, we wanted to explore that it was a survey that served the purpose of preparing us for implementation of these projects. Yeah, so I would hope that we would at least get to see what they're proposed to do before having to decide whether or not we're gonna fund it. So we'll have the ability to see, right? It's not like we put the funds up, and then the study's designed, and we get to see how the study's designed, and then decide whether to fund it. That my understanding is that the point of the matching grant project is that it's not just sort of black box within DCR, but that it's an ongoing conversation with the partner and DCR determining how the funds are going. That's my understanding. You understand me, because it often goes both ways with me. I saw my colleague shaking his head, like no. He's a lot of times, you can't do design until you have the funds, because doing the design is part of the funding. So that's really what I was getting at there. Yeah, I mean, that may well be the case. But my understanding is that the mechanism allows for participation and intervention from the partner. That that's part of what you get for the partner providing matching funds is you get the ability to influence the project. Yeah, and that's ideal. So that's great. That's good to hear. But I don't know about the timing. It's conceivable that they will say, we need the funds to go forward with the creation of the survey. Right, so we'll see where we can get it from. And I do know that David Morgan, our environmental planner, he has been very active on behalf of the planning department, not only with Save the Alwhite, but he's gone down to this particular part of land with DCR all the way down to Arizona Terrace. And he's been very involved and wants to be involved in this in some facet. But we'll see where it goes from there. So if that's okay, and then go segue into the second part. Well, just, I guess maybe one more general question. This is for folks here, everyone here who's been around longer than I have, and Mr. Heim. So, is this the first time we've encountered something like this? I mean, like a need to fund? I mean, something on such a short-term basis. We've done matching grants before with then MDC, now DCR. We've had friends groups that have also subsidized the amount. But unfortunately for East Allington, it's really tapped out with the Mugar effort. And you can only go to the citizens so many times. And where this would be, the town would have a role in it. And I know that David Morgan has been very active and would continue to be active on it. And I don't mean to minimize, or said or maximize it, but for 25,000, we funded master plan studies for the town for six figures. And this really is 25 is a lot of money, but it's, you know, Mr. Chapter length, so I no problem with. Yeah, and I just don't want to keep, you know. And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not questioning the amount. It's more, more matter how do we generalize me? No, we've done this. We've been very creative on all the things before. Yeah, you know, so, I mean, I like to think there's a mechanism for handling this kind of request. And if there isn't, then let's think about how we put a mechanism in place because we're going to get this again, you know? And so, so there'd be some criteria by which we evaluate and then if it's not us, then maybe FNCOM or some other entity, I mean, and that they have a reserve of funds, I mean, to be kind of budget that out, I mean, in town meeting going, well, who knows what's going to happen? I mean, but we have this amount, I mean, and then based on the request that come in and when they come in, we allocate out. And so. Yeah, Mr. Diggins, I mean, from my perspective, I think I concur with Mrs. Mahon that we've certainly had things that don't fit into our grant or budget cycles in the past. The question is just, you know, in the details, how do you get from point A to point B? And that's what we've got to figure out is given the timeline that we have, how do we get from point A to point B? It's not going to be the way we would do a CPA project because the timing doesn't fit up with it. But I think that, as Mr. Mahon is suggesting, I think there are other tools that are disposed of that we'll have to examine. I don't know that it's easy to have like a standing grant application type of situation. I don't, there's not an appropriation for that ordinarily. But as some folks have suggested, there are other financial mechanisms that we should be looking at, especially when we're talking about a matching grant and the state is willing to pony up a certain amount of money to achieve a certain result. So. Yeah, all right. Let's sit for me. So, thank you. So, Ms. Anderson? Oh, Ms. Mays, anything else you want to add? Oh, Mr. Helmets? All right. I'm getting signals here, so, okay. Nope, that's fine. If you want to go to the second part with Ms. Anderson speaking about the CSO meeting June 29th. I've had conversations with the chair forward to my colleagues. The information had conversations with town manager chapter lane, now town manager pooler, as well as attorney hind. But if I could turn it over to Ms. Anderson, that would be great. Sure. Yeah. Have Ms. Anderson. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Diggins, select board town manager and town council from hearing from Save the L.Y. Brooke this evening. Gwen and I are here with Save the L.Y. Brooke co-founder, David White. And we want to invite everyone to a very important public zoom meeting on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. The great cities of Somerville and Cambridge and the Massachusetts water resources authority are starting to plan new sewer improvements that affect the L.Y. Brooke. Wednesday night's meeting is the first of very few public opportunities to weigh in on their new plans to make improvements to the L.Y. Sewage problem. As you know, last year over 50 million gallons of untreated sewage pollution was dumped into our little L.Y. Brooke. That is the same amount of sewage pollution that was discharged in 1994. This is a terrible situation. I want everybody to keep in mind that Cambridge has really done some great work to make improvements over the years. However, Somerville's Tannerie Brooke combined sewer outfall is awful and out of compliance with the law. And we think that the biggest problem in the L.Y. is the MWRA sewer system. It needs major upgrades. The reason that it is so important for folks to come out to this meeting is that the EPA wants to hear from the public. They want to hear from all of us. And the MWRA isn't going to spend the money required unless the public demands it. So please come out to the meeting. I know that people are busy and there's other stuff going on. So if you can't make it, maybe consider writing a letter to the EPA, Cambridge, Somerville and MWRA. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Anderson. Thank you. If I could, at this point, when we've been discussing the CSO issue in L.Y. Brooke with Mr. Chapter Lane and now Mr. Poehler in Attorney Hyme, I will say two previous meetings. Mr. Chapter Lane and Attorney Hyme have been attending and this is another example of one of the meetings where we definitely need somebody from the town. I mean, I'll be zooming in, but I was wondering if I could turn it over to a church. So I'm from the town to make a statement because part of the reason why I think this has been sort of exciting and evolving and happening is because we have saved the L.Y. Brooke, we have Allington's Conservation Commission, but we also have the partnership with the select board and town officials and that's really helped with the EPA as well as getting the attention of definitely Cambridge who's always been a partner and willing to do something and some of them for years, McCarty's own was my opinion, total waste of time, wouldn't listen to it, but we have a new mayor and a new representative who is receptive to that, but I'm assuming that somebody from the town will be able to make a statement on behalf of the town. Thank you, Mr. Mahon, Mr. Chairman. Yes, yes, yes. So I just want to highlight for that. I think we're all talking about the same thing. This is basically a combined sewer overflow control plan update, so it's essentially the involved municipalities in the MWA coming back to sort of provide an update on what they've been, how they're thinking about the long-term control plan. You're on the same page on that, correct, Ms. Anderson? I mean, my understanding is that it's a public meeting and I know the EPA wants to hear from the public and one of the things that we want to get out of this meeting, in fact, is to encourage the sewage polluters to listen to the public and to make the public a partner in the new plan. That's one thing that we're looking for. Another thing that we're looking for is we are hoping that they will incorporate climate change projections in their plan design. Yeah, so we plan on speaking. And I think that- I didn't mean to confuse things. I just meant that this is a joint publicly posted meetings both by both Cambridge and Somerville. It is going to be a public meeting. I just want to be clear on what the scope is. It's been talked a little bit about as like a hearing. It's a public meeting to get an update on a long-term control plan and in those meetings, one of the things that's been very valuable is to hear from people in the public to have some feedback from other folks including some technical folks about whether this plan is satisfactory on. One thing that this board has made very clear is that it's extremely concerned about these overflows and outfalls and the manager and other folks on the government side of things share a lot of the concerns of, say, the Al Whitebrook as well as some of the responses to the proposals that MWRA has sort of started with. So it'll be important to have a continued public presence. My deputy town council, like Cunningham, will be there representing the legal department for this meeting. After this meeting, I think it would be helpful. Mrs. Mohan and other select board members have talked about wanting to develop a written position to provide some feedback even if it's preliminary to the formal hearing stage that codifies some of the perspective that Mrs. Anderson is sharing with us with respect to making sure that the modeling is updated to reflect the impact of climate change with respect to taking a more aggressive posture with respect to the water quality for folks who aren't as familiar with this issue. Essentially what Mrs. Anderson is referencing is that as there are extreme events, the outfalls into the Al Whitebrook affect the water quality. This all ties into both a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection permitting as well as a larger EPA permitting scheme. So the EPA's role is sort of concurrent with Mass DEP to enforce essentially water quality standards and the NIPDs permitting. So I don't want to go into too technical of a sort of analysis of it, but I think one of the things that will be helpful is to both have a presence at that meeting from the legal department standpoint to represent the town and anybody else who obviously wants to join but also to get the sense from the public feedback and the many organizations that are interested in it and providing commentary during these public meetings to distill that into something that might be a written statement from this body as well as potentially from the Conservation Commission, the town manager about our concurrence and agreement with certain principles with respect to the standard which we want to hold this long-term control plan to. So there's a lot of obviously moving parts to the CSO's issues, but does that satisfy your response? All right, thank you. Yeah, just, I'm fine. Sometimes that, I mean, I will try to attend, and I think, I mean, it's just Zoom, you know, so I'll be able to take that from work, you know, but it seems like you're all set with the talking. And so I'll be happy to have a presence because what I really would like to get out of this is learning more about it. I've read, and there's a, I guess, a draft plan that came out, you know, I read that and that was pretty informative, but I still feel that there's a lot more learning to do on my part before I can really speak in a competent and confident way, you know, so I'm going to do my best, I will do my best to be there, you know, so. So I take it, I mean, this is just a discussion, we don't need a vote or anything out of this. Okay, well thank you, Ms. Anderson, and thank you, Ms. Beath, you know, this has been helpful. Thank you so much for your support, everybody. Yeah, well, and town meeting voted for a resolution too, right, so, following through, following through on that. And all right, well, thank you. All right. So moving on item 13, discussion and vote MBTA, MBTA bus stop consolidation on Park Ave. Mr. Amstitz, I guess we have this answer, so I've seen a transportation planner, Banzoo from MBTA, Olivia Mubayad, MBTA, Natalie Refall, McMahan, associates, and Sandra Clary, McLaren, McMahan, associates. Good evening. Hi. Hi, good evening. Good evening. Do I need to share my screen? So I think your guys already have our presentation, PPT in front of your guys. Sure, I mean, Ms. Meyer would take care of that, he needs it. You should have permission. Okay, let me share my screen, Mark. So everyone's in, so, like this maybe, so Mr. Amstitz, who's going to lead this off? Is it you or? Yeah, myself will do the presentation. Our design consultant will be do some design concept. Okay, so I think your guys can see PPT, right now, right? Okay, so good evening, chairs and the slack board members. My name is Banzoo, a project manager from MBTA. So today, we are very happy to be here with our design consultant, McMahan, associates to introduce our PADI project that we will plan to do in the town of Arlington for the park have and what we say have a bus stop change. Next slide. So the purpose of the plan for the accessible transit infrastructure project is to create the ADA compliant bus stop in system wide for our customer who have a different mobility needed and improve the customer safety. I think seeing the track to the 1990, all municipality and agency are required to improve the upgrade of pedestrian infrastructure to meet the ADA compliance. So that's the disability advocate brought also to MBTA to request the MBTA to comply the mass transit across our whole systems. That's why I improve the bus stop system wide is part of that agreement. The bus stop in Arlington Park have and what to say that has been prioritized for the design in this year due to the one or more major access barrier as well as related needed. So there are some bus stop potentially changed or needed to improve that relate to the bus road, 62, roads 76 and roads 78 in order to make accessible or accessibility improvement on operation improvement. The bus stop improvement scope will be include the improvement to the sidewalk or creation of the crosswalk ADA compliant curb ramps and sign bus signs stops. The MBTA will submit the proposed plans to town of Arlington for review and approval during the design process. When we have final approval from the Arlington and then our uncle contractor will be to the construction work as soon as possible. So we estimate around the $800,000 investment in the town of Arlington for design and the constructions. The MBTA is found by the first state bond and federal transit agency to perform this money. The third slide, I think it's showing the timeline we have a design public outreach process since the 2020. You can see in this chart, our design has always communicated with the butchers and the public and the fully consider the view of comments of the public and town of Arlington. Last year, December, we have a public meeting to do the regarding the archive to introduce our plans and proposals. So we hope our bus stop improvement project can bring the transportation accessibility and safety to our community members and all our customers. The four space I want to take over to Oliver Mobade, our senior transportation planner from MBTA to introduce the service planning related to the service bus route that we plan to make a bus stop improvement. So Oliver, it's your turn. Sure, thank you Ben and have a hello everyone. Good evening. So just an overview of the bus service within the specific area that we're referring to this evening. We have, depending on how you slice it, three to four routes that serve this area. The first of which is route 62, which serves from the Bedford VA to Alewife weekdays during peaks or rush hours, AM and PM. The 76 runs at the same times and from Alewife goes to MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The combined route 62 and 76 runs weekday, midday and evening and Saturday as a combined route that serves Lincoln Laboratory and Bedford VA from Alewife and the route 78 connects Arlmont Village to Harvard Station seven days a week. I will note, I'm sure many of you all have been looped into the bus network redesign process that's going on. In our current draft proposed network, we are not proposing any changes to the way that buses navigate throughout this area. There are changes in terms of service levels. We're proposing route 62 run seven days a week instead of just six days a week. The 76 would be peak only on weekdays and the 62, 76 would not run. Instead they would be the separate routes instead at all times and the 78 would have some potential scheduling changes as well. I'll hand it back over to Ben. Thanks, Olivia. So next one, we want to invite the McLean's Consulting and Consulting directly to give us some more details about the proposed changed, so Natalia, so it's your turn. Hi, hello, everyone. Yeah, I'm going to give an overview of the changes. So you can see all of the changes to the bus stop locations proposed in this area in the image on the left that shows stops that would be improved in green, stops with no change in yellow, new stop locations in dark blue and then removed stops in red. And so the image on the right shows the overall future stop network with only the stops that would remain as part of this plan. And so running through the changes north to south, you can see the stop pair at Park Avenue and Walliston are both improved. The single stop at Park Avenue and Appleton is removed. The Park Avenue and Florence stop pair would both be improved. Park and Oakland are maintained in place with no change and then at Park Circle, there's a few things going on. The Park Ave at Prospect Street stop is being removed where it is today and relocated to further south to Park Ave at Park Circle. The Park Circle and Park Ave stop within the circle is removed and the Park Ave at Park Circle stop that serves the outbound routes on Park Ave is improved. It's in green behind the red stop. And then the Park Circle at Eastern Ave stop is maintained in place. Then we have the stop pairs at Watchuset Ave and Hillside Ave removed the Park Ave and Watchuset Ave stops removed. And then as you go to the southernmost section, Park Ave at Cedar inbound stays in place and is improved. But the outbound stop Park Ave at Cedar is relocated further south to Glenburn and that's ultimately consolidated with the West Service Road and Park Ave stop which is removed where it is today and would be essentially those two stops are combined into one stop at Glenburn. And then lastly, the East Service Road stop is improved where it is today. So overall that total seven improved stops, six removed stops and three stops consolidated into two new stops. So if you go to the next slide. So looking ahead at our schedule and next steps, after today we would proceed into 30% design plans from July to September. And then after that between November and February 2023 we'd be looking at 100% design, looking at 2023 as the construction year for these stops assuming about one to two weeks per location. That's exactly so. I think that's it. So this is our plan proposal. So any questions we would like to answer? Thank you. So I'll turn to my colleague. Ms. Gorsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the presentation tonight. Just a comment before the questions and Mr. Anstutz had made reference to the Pleasant Street project in his memorandum to us. And we approve that on June 9th, 2021. And to my understanding those bus stops have never been changed. So that was done over a year ago. So I'm concerned about the timing of these projects because that was a night that we put it on the agenda. We had some public opinion that we received, some criticism that we received but we were told that that was a project that should be done quickly and it still hasn't happened. So I can ask offline but I am concerned when I see the timing here that was a project that was gonna be done in June of 2021 and completed in the fall of 2021. And it's still not done. This is a longer time period because there's more improvements but I'm concerned when we talk about these changes and you ask us to vote for these changes, could you tell us how solid these estimates are on timing going forward? Yeah, so I think, I'll do also the questions. Sure, I can respond to that. So I was there for the select board vote on it, last go round and the plan was to advance it to 100% and the design unfortunately encouraged some significant design challenges including encroachments that would incur requiring easement, license agreements. So they just got extremely complex as we advanced through the design. So Daniel and Wayne Sheenard and others at the town would test the fact that we have advanced design. Unfortunately, not at the speed we had anticipated but the hope is that they will still make us in this construction season. We're finalizing the design, a revised 100% design currently. So this is the schedule that you see here is contingent upon the board vote tonight. Then it takes a little bit of time for us to mobilize. We need to do some survey and then we'd advance to design. So all going smoothly. This is a realistic schedule that we would expect to advance design. We also rely heavily on the town's review and a timely manner. We know everybody has got a lot going on. So sometimes that the review isn't as timely as we have hoped. So that's another determining factor in the schedule. Thank you, Mr. Sheenard. And just a question on the proposed changes and one in particular on the outbound stop that's being proposed at Park Ave and Park Circle. That looks like it's right across the street from the fire station as opposed to the stop now that is a little bit further up at the edge of the circle. And I'm wondering are there sidewalk improvements being planned there because there's no sidewalk there. There's a bike path there and it just feels like that's gonna be a real challenge for people getting off the bus where they would walk and maybe crossing the street whereas the existing stop there, again, which is on the edge of the circle, the current cutout, what the 78 used to terminate there, that has a sidewalk. And I'm just wondering what specific improvements are being planned for that Park Circle stop because it seems like a tough location. Direct to answer that. So you're referring to the stop, the inbound Park Circle stop that's on Park Ave in dark blue on the map? I think it's both southbound and northbound. So I think you're adding stops or proposing to add stops on both sides of Park Ave. So I'm looking at the future stop network and the new stop location that's right on Park Ave right next to the water tower. Yep. So as part of the stop improvement, there would be sidewalk improvements that connect that stop to the crosswalk that goes directly into Park Circle. All right, because that might require, I don't know if that's even our property there and whether it's that the water tower and what's going to be improved there. But I'd ask, as you go along, I guess we'll have that opportunity to review it, but it's just, in looking at that recently, it looks like a tough spot. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you so much, Steve. No, I was just, I might be reading this wrong, but I see that new stop on the fire station side of Mass Ave. If it's on the fire station. Yeah, to clarify, it is on the same side as the fire station. Okay, I was looking at Mr. Amstutz's memo where I thought on the outbound side too, there was a stop there. The outbound stop is remaining on the little triangular parcel there. That's just kind of to the north of the circle. Okay, all right. Can you clear the stop next to the fire department would be served by Route 76 inbound and outbound since it circles around there. That might be part of the confusion. Okay, all right, thank you. Yeah, Mr. Amstutz. I have all the different routes, current and proposed in front of me. So I'm going to try to be as coherent as possible. And I know an anchor part of this is ADA compliance and pedestrian safety. So I have to say I'm really dismayed and would like to advocate for or find out why. When I look at Route 84 and I look at or bus number 84, bus number 78. If I look at the current configuration and then I look at the proposed configuration, if you're someone who is able-bodied or who is disabled in some way, you under this plan are pretty much abandoned whereas you weren't before by the 84 and the 78 with you have a big gap of no service between Wachuset Ave and Prospect Ave. For the 84, you're eliminating two, four, five stops and you can't get it again until Pac-Av and Cedar Ave. So if you're on the 84 and you're not 100% able-bodied, you either can get on at Wachuset Ave and Prospect or Pac-Av at Cedar Ave. Am I correct for bus number 84? To be clear, we don't currently run Route 84. It's been suspended, I believe due to COVID for at least over 18 months. Okay, all right, so it's included. And that is not part of the proposed bus network redesign network either. Okay, then I'll ignore that since it's in there. Same question for the bus 78, is that still running? And it's the same thing of it's quite a distance between Wachuset, Prospect and Pac-Av, Cedar. So the routing of the 78 is a little tricky because it goes up Park Ave, it goes around the circle and then it back tracks on Park Ave and heads down Wachuset Ave. So it doesn't exactly make a straight shot. It has that service on those stops around the circle as well. But in that proposed plan, you're correct in noticing that there is a gap that is on our larger end of our preferred scale within that area. So why is it not stopping this 78 at Wachuset Hillside and Wachuset Park? So there were several- Consideration, sorry, what was that? And can one or both of those somehow be incorporated or is this, this is it? At this point, this is our proposed plan. There were several considerations that went into identifying the stop improvements or removals, one of the main ones was just configurations of the roadway and safety considerations in terms of the roadway configuration and the intersection of Park Ave and Wachuset is difficult to make those stops accessible and provide a safe crossing across Park Ave. So that was a main reason to move that pair. And then low ridership, you know, these stops, any of the stops removed here are seen less than 10 riders a day. And so it was a combination of factors including roadway safety, pedestrian conditions, ridership, stop spacing, and proximity to land uses that went into identifying the stop plan. Okay, and I guess I have a feeling you all might not have an answer to this question, but I'll probably speak to it under new business, but was it taken into consideration the ginormous amount of assessment that the town of Allenton pays to the T, 3.1 million, whereas, you know, Luxington pays 750,000, Braintree pays 842,000. And the reason I say that is I understand what you're saying about low ridership and it has to be something that makes sense and hits a number, but where our assessment rate is so high and people say to us, why is it that high? What are we getting for that money? Can that play into any of the decisions in terms of it may be low ridership for the T, but where we're paying beyond top dollar under our RMBTA assessment, was that taken into consideration or can that be in order to add a few more stops? And Jensen, assessment was not a determining factor and no, you know, we're really looking to improve service reliability, accessibility, factoring in access to the stop, trying to improve trip times, addressing ADA accessibility. So all the determining factors that Natalie had previously mentioned were really the driving factors. It really doesn't come down to the capital or the funding investment. Okay, no, that's fine. It just seems kind of a contradictory in terms of we're doing this, especially for ADA compliance, but we're telling people the spots where you're going to be able to have a ramp and get to the bus in this particular stretch, you get a long way to travel to get to the two. So I'm just trying to do my best to advocate, but it sounds like nothing's going to change. So I'll leave it at that, I guess. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hurd. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As a resident that lives right there and would be most inconvenienced on this board by the removal of those stops. I'd say, I mean, one thing to consider is that this is, this looks all well and good on a flat map on an iPad, but this is a very hilly area. And I live at Renfrew and Hillside. So about one block down from the removal of the Wachu City and Hillside stops. And on this map, I could just walk down Renfrew to Cedar and Hillside, but that's a pretty steep drop. My street goes straight down. Unfortunately, when the kids drive their bikes down, they disappear over the crest. So, I mean, it is impracticality. If you go out there, it can be a burden on people to remove those stops. I'm on board with Hillside and Wachu City. I mean, I'm sorry, Park Avenue Wachu City because I think that intersection with the island in the middle is a little bit of a nightmare as it is with out in the bus stop creates some confusion. I mean, to the extent that there is any sort of leeway on this, I mean, I see a fair amount of people that use the Wachu City and Hillside stops. A lot of people use, that I see use this bus line. Many people drop the kids off from school and go up to Wachu City and Florence, but I do see in the morning a lot of people at the Wachu City and Hillside. And it's a flat road and it's a pretty easy stretch, there's good visibility. So, if someone's there, you stop. If no one's there, you keep going and it can keep the bus on pace. So, from what I can see and based on just living right here, I would say that if there's any leeway, like Mrs. Mohan said, maybe there's not, I think the Wachu City and Hillside stops are used and if you go up Hillside, this way, I mean, you're going straight up a hill. So, if people live here to get to this, any of the other stops can be difficult. And there are, I know, at least two or three residents I see going up and down this area in wheelchairs. Whether or not they use the bus, I don't know, but certainly won't have the bus accessible for them. So, I would take a look at those stops. The rest of them seem to make sense to me, but yeah. Thanks, Mr. Herd. Anyone else? Mr. Helmuth? I may be respond just to the last comment. Yes, please do. Yes, I'm sorry about that, please do. Would the port consider removing the Oakland ad stops instead of the Hillside stops? Would that be more palatable? Could you repeat that, please? Would the board be receptive to consider removing the Oakland ad stops instead of the Hillside stops on what you said? I think, sorry. Oh, please, please, I mean, I'm deferring to you all who live in the area more. It's hard, I think, because we can't say from Baltimore wax, but it's a straight run from Florence to Hillside. So, I think it's better. And a lot of people actually, I mean, a good amount of people get on, I would think the ridership at Wachosa in Florence is pretty high because people drop their kids off, like I said, and jump on the bus right from there. I guess my thing with that particular street, again, is that it's straight and flat, and if the bus sees people, it stops. If it doesn't, it doesn't have to stop and it can just move along. But I think it's preferable. If it was one of the other, then I would say, leave it at Hillside in Wachosa and take out Oakland. But, I mean, yeah, I guess I'll see what the board has to say. Thank you, Mr. Heard. I have a question. Do you have Mrs. Mahon? Either to the representatives or Mr. Amstutz or Attorney Heim. Can the board just, if a majority agreed, as part of our vote to put, to not eliminate anything and to put the bus stop back at, not at Pockev and Cedar, let that one go away, but can we put it back in? Will the representatives from the consultants, I agree with Mr. Heard on the island there and I think that's, is that Pockev and Cedar? That's Pockev and Wachosa. Pockev and Wachosa, I understand that one. That one is confusing in the morning, especially in the winter and it's a hill, but I'd like to, instead of saying, switch it out for something else, if we can just add that other one back in, which is Wachosa in Hillside. Is that something we can do or is that something the consultants would be willing to do and recommend? So, I think we could go to Wachosa and do so. Was that an answer? We just didn't hear you, clearly? Yeah, I think we can address Wachosa and Hillside. So, we will be doing some, we can back to our, we can do research and back to our, you know, the power of transportation engineer. I think what you're saying is you've certainly heard the feedback from this board and that you're gonna take that into consideration and then come back with the feedback and recommendation on that. Okay, so I would strongly, hopefully anticipate seeing that particular one bus stop be included back in and I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sure. Ms. Hallman. I'd like to add my support to that. I think I trust my local topographical expert. And I also agree that, because I live very near there as well, that Mark Evan watches the avenues of safety nightmare. I've experienced it myself training on the bus and almost gone over trying to race it. So, I'd rather not, I'm glad to remove that enticement to cross the busy traffic during rush hour. I also do want to say, so yeah, so I would make the same request to the team, to the consultants, to consider putting back watches and Hillside before we vote on this. I do want to express my appreciation, however, to the receptivity to public feedback in retaining Park Avenue in Oakland and particularly Park Circle and Eastern Avenue in response to a couple of residents who are both my neighbors who have disabilities and really need that Park Circle and Eastern Avenue stop. So, thank you for your responsiveness to that already. I was looking for that tonight and I'm very pleased to see that those made it back into the plan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hart? I was also going to say thank you. As I read through the comments, it seemed like a lot of the comments were addressed and the plan reflected what the public comments came in. I did notice one said, why were there no town officials there? So I guess we'll have to go to the next, make sure a couple of us are at the next public outreach meeting, but. Huh, that's interesting. I mean, I thought I was at that meeting, you know? So, anyways, you know, anyways, yeah, I mean, I think you did a good job with the, especially with the survey, you know, and I read through a lot of the comments and not all of them. And I will say there was one comment in particular that I liked on question number five. And it was, well, never mind. I mean, I'm scrolling at the wrong place. So a few questions, you know? So the removal of the stops as planned, I mean, how much time would it have reduced the trip time? I can move to that one if you'd like. The standard that we use, again, typically varies based on multitude of factors, including congestion and stop lights versus stop signs and ridership, but the standard assumption is with one bus stop removed, the runtime of the bus is subtracted about 30 seconds. So when you think about everyone on the bus, that can add up to multiple minutes or even hours per day of time savings. Gotcha. Thank you. And so kind of along those same lines, you know? So how much does it increase the reliability of that service? Again, it varies based upon the environment that we're working in. And of course, that's not the only factor when we look at doing something like an elimination or consolidation. But the assumption is typically that reliability would increase. Great. And with respect to, I mean, I understand that a lot of this is driven by Patti. Are there budget considerations that go into how you determine the number of stops you can improve on a given line? There is no established budget for a stop or a line. No, the cost can vary quite substantially from like a small, minor improvement to something much more elaborate that might include modification of the curb. I understand. But there's no pre-determined cost for a stop or a closure for municipality. Well, that's good. It's good to know. So I appreciate that. So all right, well, that's all I have in terms of just general questions. And I'm really going to defer to my colleagues on this because you all know the routes and the stops much better than I do on this. I mean, so I'm going to turn to someone. I'm going to like to. Sorry, I don't know if it's an open meeting to the public, but there have been a few questions if it is open. If not. Was this noticed as a hearing, Mr. Chair? No, no, it's just a discussion. It's not a public hearing. Yes, not a public hearing. Perfect. I'll tell them to follow up. Okay, great. Or they can put it in the Q and A. Yeah, there are a couple of questions. Thank you. I think what, I guess I'll be guided by the chair in town council that we, the board approve the recommendations as presented in this memo with the caveat of also as represented by the consultants to re-examine and possibly re-establish the Wachuza to Hillside Ave stop. So I would put that on as a starting motion. So that it's not, the motion is not contingent that that has to happen. It's a motion, what I understand is they need a motion from this board to accept and approve these changes as recommended by through the planning department, Mr. Amstutz, as well as the consultants, but also a caveat on there as part of the motion that this board also as part of it's motion will avail itself of the opportunity of the consultants having heard the concerns at Park, at Wachuza and Hillside about possible re-establishment of that bus stop and we will receive feedback on that in the future. So the main thrust of the motion is A, to provide the approval they need to move forward and B, just to add the fruits of the conversation we had about possibly adding that back and that the consultants and Mr. Amstutz will get back to us on that question. Yeah. I hope that's not too convoluted. No, it makes sense to me. It will be a little challenging to repeat back, but I got what it means. So, hey, a second from Mr. Heard. So that's the motion and second, more discussion? For Ashley's sake, it's a move approval on the proposed changes applied as well as a will report on the board's recommendation, the board's request for consideration and recommendation on re-establishing the Wachuza and Hillside Ave. Stop. Thank you. So, I guess before we take the vote, I just wanted to ask Mr. Amstutz if he wanted to say anything or any comments. Sure, thank you, Mr. Chair. I think I provided all the materials or as many backup materials as I felt was helpful for the board in looking at this and making a decision. We've been working with the T for many months on this and I think partly because of the complexity of these changes that if they had approved, if the 78 or Park Circle at Eastern Ave Stop was eliminated, that means the 78 would not have gone around the circle, which again came out of the public outreach and input that that was gonna be a hardship for a number of people, especially a few people with certain disabilities. And so I will just agree or restate the appreciation for the T and their consultants McMahon in putting that one back on the table or as a stop, the Park Circle at Eastern Ave and also the one at Oakland Ave and Park Ave. Certainly responding to the concerns from staff and also from the public about the loss of those stops. I think in general, the public didn't want any stops to be removed, but certain stops, as has been mentioned, either have some challenges with simply making accessible or with the pedestrian or traffic safety of where they are, like the one at what you sit at Park Ave. So those are much more difficult to be able to retain. So I think that what the proposal that came back was much improved from what we had originally discussed several months ago. Thank you, Samston. And once again, I mean, I thought the survey was great and I liked the way that you present all the data that you get from it. So very much appreciate that. Excuse me, I'd like to thank Mr. Amstutz for the memo I mentioned a reference he made. That was my misreading of his memo. His memo was right on the 62 and 76. I was reading inbound on the 62, 76 or the outbound map as if it applied to everything. So I don't want anybody to think that there was an error by Mr. Amstutz on the memo. It was my interpretation of it. So thank you for the work that you have done and in keeping us informed on to say very briefly, Mr. Hurd is the current knowledge on these bus routes. I have the institutional knowledge on this, having grown up in the Heights and being a frequent rider of now the old Route 80 for the Allmont bus from Allmont to Harvard Square. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Great, thank you. So I guess you were almost through them under the bus but you threw them there and then you got out there and you stopped the bus. Well, I felt like I didn't want to leave it out there. It's all right here. Great, all right, excellent. So okay, so on a motion to approve of the proposal but to leave ourselves open to the possibility of some change on the watch users in hillside stop by Mr. Mahan and second by Mr. Hurd and Mr. Hyme. Mr. Hurd? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Mr. Helmuth? Yes. Mr. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Davis? Yes. Mr. Nannis-Vote? Thank you very much. Thanks, take care. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item 14, presentation on the age and dementia friendly action plan with Christine Shah, named from the Arlington Council of Aging and Caitlin Coyle named from the UMass Center for Social and Demographic Research in Aging. Good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for having the Council on Aging on the agenda tonight and thank you for your attention to this agenda item. My name is Christine Shah. I know most of you, but I'm the executive director of the Council on Aging and we're here tonight. It's a pretty momentous occasion. We're here to share our age and dementia friendly action plan with you. I wanna thank the Council on Aging board members that are on the Zoom virtually supporting us and also all of the COA staff and everybody that's helped us get to this point with the age and dementia friendly action plan. It's been a labor of love and a long road. It began over five years ago when our board of volunteers began researching and applying to be considered as an AARP age friendly community. In 2017, AARP did designate Arlington as an age friendly community, which was wonderful. In 2018, we had a kickoff luncheon and we began an age friendly survey for the community. Over the years, after that, which included a pandemic as we all know, we really just continued taking more information from the public. And then when we got to the point where we were ready to write our action plan, we hired Caitlin Coyle, who is here tonight. She's the research fellow at the Center for Social and Demographic Research and Aging at UMass Boston. They, I believe, were really the experts and age friendly and in the action plan writing and interpreting the data that we had collected. She recommended at that point that we hold some additional focus groups since it was now post-work during the COVID pandemic. It was different times than when we had originally began getting the information from the Arlington residents for the plan. So I am happy tonight to have Caitlin here with us. She has a brief presentation to outline the age and dementia friendly action plan. And what we're really hoping for is the select board's support in moving forward so that we can file this with the AARP and the dementia friendly in Massachusetts and then just keep pressing forward in all of the age friendly and dementia friendly work in Arlington. Okay, thank you. I believe Caitlin is on. Yes, good evening. For some reason, my camera is not being detected by Zoom so I will not be using my camera but I will share my screen so that I can share with you some highlights from the work that we've been doing in Arlington. Okay, great. So thank you, Christine, for the introduction. Caitlin Coyle, I'm a research faculty at UMass Boston in gerontology. We have been around since 2012 and have worked directly with over 70 cities and towns in Massachusetts doing very similar projects to this in terms of helping communities collect information from their older residents and developing plans for ensuring that their communities are conducive to people aging, not just well, but also actively and engaged. So I wanted to just really thank Christine who's been just a great leader on the town side in terms of supporting the work and engaging her council members, the Arlington Seniors Association and the volunteers. So it was really wonderful to work with her and I'm gonna just sort of remind us all what an age friendly community is and Christine alluded to the AARP process by which a community becomes age friendly. But the whole sort of thing started by the World Health Organization in 2002, recognizing population aging and a desire for people to age in their community, gathered experts from around the world and sort of asked them to put forth recommendations for what would it take for a community to be an age friendly place? And the way they define that is a place that optimizes not just opportunities for health and participation and security, but to also ensure that the ability to achieve quality of life and have dignity as people age as well as what constitutes an age friendly community. And so they came up with these sort of eight different domains of an age friendly community which guides the work that's happening in communities all around the world, including Arlington to sort of take a look at their community as it relates to each of these domains, understand what their strengths are and identify places where they can do better and put together action plans like the one that we developed for the town of Arlington to guide residents, volunteers and stakeholders to take action to move things forward. You'll notice on this flower image that a number of these domains are very broad and they don't, you know, transportation, housing, you know, communication and information. It's not specific, there are all things that are important to all residents I should say. So the rationale for an age friendly community is really about supporting people as they age but it also, there's a lot of value in these kinds of initiatives for the town at large. Christine mentioned, they're also pursuing the dementia friendly designation which goes hand in hand with age friendly and is really as they're making their plans and as they're putting the plans into action it's not just thinking about aging broadly but also recognizing that people who are living with cognitive change and their families may have a very different experience than those without cognitive change happening. And so really wanting to put a focus on their age friendly initiative to also think about how are the changes that we're making also conducive in response to people living with dementia and those who care for them. So this is just a definition of dementia friendly from the dementia friendly Massachusetts. I should say also that in 2018 Governor Baker declared Massachusetts an age friendly state and actually applied for designation for the state encouraging all cities and towns to do this work. And so, and there's also this dementia friendly Massachusetts which is a statewide initiative to support dementia friendly communities. So just another sort of kudos to Arlington and Christine and her group for pursuing this and forgetting this far because it is something that's being recognized statewide as important. I'll go ahead and skip that. So Christine also mentioned the timeline which is that they have been accepted into these networks they conducted the needs assessment and then they reached out to us in 2021 to really sort of take all the information that they had already gathered, engage some additional folks and put together an action plan that will be delivered to AARP which will then kickstart an implementation process which is essentially just sort of a signal to AARP that you've got this plan and that you're also actually taking action on that plan. So we did review the 2019 survey that Christine and her group conducted. We reviewed a number of documents that the town had recently completed that might have intersect with some things like housing transportation outdoor spaces that they conducted a demographic profile using American Community Survey data. And then as Christine alluded to, we did engage in five sort of working planning sessions with stakeholders and residents that was specifically focused on the five areas that you see listed here, wanting to really engage them in this process because in order for this to be successful there needs to be people who take some ownership over it and are involved in coming up with the ideas. And so we were lucky to facilitate these in person. We ended up with about 32 people overall who participated, as I mentioned, residents and stakeholders alike who basically came up with a laundry list of ideas for action that was then refined into the plan that you all received and that we completed. I have a couple of demographic slides that essentially just referencing the fact that adults 60 plus in Arlington outnumber residents under age 18, they make up almost a quarter of your population currently and that projection that we have available to us from MAPC and the UMass Donahue Institute suggests that the trends in terms of the size of the older adult population in Arlington will continue to grow looking out to 2030 and 2035. So these are just four different projections that take into account different assumptions, but the trend overall is an upward trajectory. This is in part because we know people are living longer but also because they'd like to stay in their community as long as they can. And a couple of, I wanted to highlight the fact that there's a lot of diversity within the older adult population that makes it important to recognize about Arlington. So 29% of residents age 65 and older live alone, which sort of signals what kinds of things they might need to have available to them in order to remain living independently and comfortably as they get older, a number of residents age 65 and older reportedly having at least one disability. So here, this is the 65 plus population. You've got about 24% who have at least one disability. Those are physical mobility limitations and things of that nature. And so it's not just about, it's not definitely not a homogeneous group by any stretch of the imagination and that it comes thinking about these kinds of things as important as we think about designing a community that is inclusive to people of all ages and abilities. And then lastly, this is looking at median household income by age. So essentially you've got 6% of residents who are age 45 to 64 living on under $25,000 a year compared to 24% of your older adults in Arlington. Not entirely surprising given that many older adults are living on a fixed income, but as we know costs continue to rise and that puts people at a real risk for economic insecurity as they're wanting to stay in the community as they age. So I wanted to, I'm not gonna go into a lot of the recommendations specifically, but I wanted to just sort of give some highlights and really also just reiterate to the board and to the community that this action plan is by no means prescriptive and it's intended to be a guiding document. Christine is lucky to have, Arlington is lucky to have such a great group of resident volunteers and staff and stakeholders who were involved in these conversations. And it was very clear to us that there's a lot already going on in Arlington and that part of this work is to try to harness some of what's going on, communicate about it, make sure that older adults are part of those conversations. And so I wanted to just sort of iterate that this document will be used by the groups that Christine is leading to think about where can they affect change as it relates to age and dementia friendliness. So it's not like a checklist. They don't have to complete everything that's in the plan. It's really a set of ideas that came directly from community and resident input. And so it's intended to be a guiding document, a living document, something that can be used for planning and generating ideas for the future. So the plan that you received, sort of it goes through each of the domains, highlights sort of what's the overarching goal that we're trying to accomplish and then lays out a number of specific action items that are both, I would say small and large in nature, the idea is that there are some little things that can be done now and there's many larger things that require advocacy and planning. But really it's about rethink, as Arlington plans for the future, having a group like the one that Christine is leading, but also the town more broadly, really understanding that as we plan, we have to think about it from the aging lens. It's important to think about how the changes that we're making impact people who are unfixed incomes, who have mobility challenges, who may be relatively isolated to family, this kind of thing that we know occurs more prevalently in old age. So it is really, as I said, a pretty comprehensive plan, this transportation mobility, again, number of goals, specific action items. And the idea is that the groups of residents and stakeholders who've been involved as well as others that will become involved will help facilitate progress towards some of these goals and actions. You'll also note that any item that has a purple D next to it is for the dementia-friendly piece and it's a specific way to delineate our progress towards dementia-friendliness as well. So this plan in theory will be submitted to ARP, will be sort of on file with them, and then they'll support the town and Christine and her folks as they move through the age-friendly action process. So that is essentially it from me, but I wanted to share this, commend Christine, and just really the wonderful resident. We do this work a lot and we go into communities of all kinds and it was very clear to me that Arlington not only has a lot going on from a town-wide perspective, but the folks who were at the table, who were engaged in this conversations were very dedicated, very thoughtful, very motivated to continue the work. So I think you guys, Christine has set up for success in terms of being able to move this work forward. And lastly, just recognizing that the whole point of age and dementia-friendly work is to engage the community in taking action. And so it's not a measure, success is not measured by how many things you get done. It's really about having the conversation of raising awareness about aging in the community and working together towards more inclusive practices. So thank you for your time this evening and I'm happy to answer any questions or take any comments if there are any. Well, thank you very much. Excellent presentation, Aina. And so, and do you have a preference for how we address you? Ms., Mrs., Doctor? No, you can call me Caitlin. Thank you. Okay, no problem, Caitlin. Thank you. So, I open it up to my colleagues. Mr. Thomas. First, thank you, Mr. Chair. First a question, this might be from Ms. Shaw through you. Would it be a motion for receipt or approval be necessary? Is this, what's the desired action here? I think we need to make a motion to approve the, is it? Action plan. Action plan. Or is it dementia plan? I'm just trying to, you know, try to get the right verb here. Maybe Mr. Heim, do you have one? Thank you, Mr. Chair, ma'am. I think adoption or approval, either one is fine. Because they want to get it to AARP. Yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent. So I would happily move the adoption. And thank you, thank you, Ms. Shaw, for your excellent leadership. By the way, it's been great to see you recently out in a couple of community events. So I appreciate your visibility there and representing the town so very well. And thank you, Caitlin, for this excellent plan, this excellent report. I thought that the demographics were particularly striking in attention to getting, that we need to see where we're headed with the population. And seeing that I'm only three years from what is considered an older adult to my alarm. But you know, that's the reality, that's all of us. And I do want to make my own to my home. And I think that a lot of people do as we age in place. And the income demographics are particularly striking. We have a lot of work to do, particularly with respect to housing, to really grapple with this, because if we don't, I think that it's gonna be much more difficult for many of the people who live here and love living here to stay here. So I think these are some important guideposts. And I hope that as we look at our zoning and we look at our affordable housing and we look at our transportation options that we take this to heart for this population. Thank you. Take this helmet. Anyone else? Mr. Heard? Well, second the motion. I just also want to thank all of you for the participation in this and all the work that's been this document. I mean, the amount of work hours that it takes to put together a document like this. I don't even want to comprehend, but it's seeing the goals in front of us and the action items. It really helps us as we create policy to see areas that we need to work on, the certain action items that we can say, all right, we're already working on this and this, but it looks like we're a little light on these particular items. So this is very helpful for us in a community like Arlington where we've asked often and we'll ask very soon our seniors to help fund some of a lot of programs that are geared towards either youth or our schools and whatnot. And we talk about overrides and debt exclusions. It is important for us to make sure that we are giving back to the same population that has supported certainly my children and the children of Violenton and make sure that they have everything they need in life to be happy and strong and healthy. So this is very encouraging to see this and I look forward to the implementation. Thank you, sir. Mr. Dysworsi. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank Caitlin. I want to thank Ms. Shaw for the excellent presentation tonight and all the work that that has been done to date the attendant number of the council on aging meetings. And this has been a topic that has come up so I also want to thank members of the council on aging who I think have signed on through Zoom and have watched for all their work and the same what they have done through the meetings I've attended is truly impressive. And I do want to say really impressed with the breadth of the action plan between housing and transportation, but just social and communication issues that are so important, whether it's for caregivers, whether it's the need for home safety assessments that have been there because, to Mr. Helm's point, 90% of the survey respondents said that they would like to age in place and I like them. So there is going to be a need for that and the communications and partnerships. And I really like the way this is so well thought out. And just the work you did on the report through the document review, there's four or five plans that we adopt here, whether it's sustainable transportation, master plan, housing production plan, those were all considered. And sometimes we think we're just approving things to put it out there and it's all separate, but it really was incorporated into your review into your recommendation. So thank you for that and for all the great work. Thank you, Mr. Corsi. You all set? Well, I think this is a really great action plan and although you say we don't have to do them all, I like to see us try to do them all because they all really do seem very worthy of pursuing. I like the one on developing a database, I mean of email addresses for everyone. I think it was over 55. I mean, the zoning changes was an interesting one. I mean, especially the affordable housing overlay, I think it'll come down to how we define affordable, but I mean, I think there's a lot of interest in the community doing something along those lines in the snow removal recommendation. I thought it was very good and the resident parking stickers. I mean, that might be something for the folks working on parking on this board to think about it. So yes, thank you for a great list of, I think, actionable action items. So I'm thrilled and I'm looking forward to incorporating this into the catalog of action plans that we have. So with that, I think we'll take a vote. Well, actually on a motion, we need to approve this action plan by Mr. Helmuth and a second by Mr. Herd. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. DeCoursey. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. So thank you. Thank you for the support. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. Alrighty, so nice little segue into the overnight permit parking pilot forum that we had last Thursday. So I'll just start by saying that it was a really good forum and Mr. Helmuth was there. And I think he will agree that there was a nice turnout and I think over 80 people registered for it. And I think I saw maybe mid 50s at any given time there. And it was mostly us listening to the residents. They asked a few questions and we made it very clear to them very soon that this is ground floor. And so we weren't coming to them with a plan. We were really listening to concerns being that we did want to seriously think about changing things, you know, the way we approach parking. And so it wasn't really a matter of whether we do it. It's really a matter of how we do it. And then we were looking to them for input. It was hard. I would say it's kind of evenly balanced. I mean, I wasn't really like doing a survey because the whole point is not really to get a vote. It is really a matter of determining how best to move forward. But it was pretty evenly split, I would say, in terms of people who supported doing it, you know, versus those who, me, were more towards keeping the status quo. And I guess if I had to say it tips one way, probably tip more towards, I mean, us doing something. But there were some strong feelings there that were voiced. I thought just very civilly, you know, so it was a good forum. I mean, it ran along. I think we were there for 105 minutes instead of 90, you know. So got a lot of good ideas, I mean, from the forum itself. And I sent you all the link, I mean, to the comments. I mean, so we got a lot there still. I need to process a whole bunch of it and believe it or not, since I'm not going anywhere for the July 4th weekend, you know, I'm looking forward to catch it up and putting some things together, you know, and coming up with something to present to Mr. Corsi first, you know, and then the rest of you may be in July. That's a little ambitious, may end up being August, you know, but certainly I think we want to go back to the residence with something, I mean, by October at the latest, the only thing that makes me not say September is that we're going to have that tom day thing, you know, and that may start taking up a lot of time and bandwidth, you know, in August and September. So with that, I'll turn to Mr. Corsi to add more. Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for coordinating the forum and Chief Larrity attended, Officer Rato attended and I think the chair, it was exactly right on the description that we're differing views, but it was, I thought it was a great discussion that took place and, you know, whether you agreed or disagreed with what people saying, they provided us a lot to think about and just in terms of the scope of what you and I ultimately will be requesting of the board on a full vote but it was really interesting. Sometimes there was a lot of detail that was provided that there were general concerns but I thought all the comments were helpful and it just, again, the last time we talked about this pilot, we talked about the more you look into it, the more you realize how many facets there are to it and that's what we need to think about, I will confess I will not be processing anything over the July 4th weekend on the pilot program but I will get back to it later in July and I wanna thank the public for attending and feedback that I've received since that night as well which has been helpful. Great, so long questions? Yeah. Just to further comment on the quality of the civic discourse I thought, and thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. D'Corsi for organizing the forum, I thought it was excellent. I noticed that many people there thanked you for listening and for the board, to the board for listening and I think it was a real, that was very much, people felt very much heard, I listened even though I wasn't participating as a board member and I heard a lot. I was just very struck by, it seemed to me that people, even those who disagree with each other were listening to one another and they would reference each other and they were appreciating the nuance and the complexity of another person's point of view. In my mind that is a model of how civic discourse could happen. I personally like to see more of that until meeting. I thought it was a really good example of how it can be done when people just listen to each other's stories and respectfully. So it was a good evening for me and I'm very glad that we had it. Well, thank you, thank you. So with that, we will move on to the next agenda item and I need to pull that one up. It's the liaisons, assignments, you know, so we're just gonna run down this list and I think they're gonna be very few changes but I just want to make sure that people are happy with where they are, if they want to change something then now's the time to say it but it's not the only time. So if you want to say something later on and we can certainly revisit this. So I take it Mr. Helm is gonna want to stay with the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Okay, Mr. Herd with the Committee on Tourism and Economic Development, Mr. Helm is on Youth, Health and Safety, okay, Mr. Herd on Battle Road 2025. All right, and Mrs. Mohan and Mr. Herd on CDBG, okay. Mr. DeCorsi on Councilor Luigi and so my understanding is that Mr. Helm is now doing Clean Energy Future. Is that okay? Yeah, thank you. Yeah, yeah, no, I discussed that one, did you? And HPEC, I'll stay with it, although I don't know if it's staying with me, you know, so now that we have a new housing production plan, there haven't been any meetings scheduled, so I'll keep it, but it may open up a little bit of bandwidth for me and Information Technology Advisory Committee. Health spending active, but you know. Okay, fine, it becomes active, it'll be fine. And Local Emergency Planning Committee, Mr. Helm, Mr. Corsi. Okay. And Long Range Planning, and so I have spoken with Mrs. Mohan about this, and so my burning curiosity about what's going on there, especially when I was running and I could attend the meetings, you know, makes me want to participate, and also there isn't gonna be a big challenge, I mean, and so I think it might want to, to the extent I feel comfortable, meaning I want to input on this, but Mrs. Mohan will back me up, meaning that if it turns out that I just can't handle that meeting at that time. I'm an early riser, you know, but sometimes, I mean, one day leads to another day that doesn't really allow for an o'clock meeting, so we'll see how it goes, but Mr. Corsi will stay. Thank you. And Marijuana Study Committee, I mean, that's me. And once again, I think it might have run its course, I mean, now that we have three licenses, so I've seen more bandwidth opening up for me. Parking Inflation Governance Committee, Mr. Hurd. Yeah, I'll stay on that. I mean, we can just update the name of it to the Parking Advisory Committee. Okay, oh, it's not, it's not a parking advisory, okay. Yeah. All right. I'm not sure what the parking subcommittee is. Mr. Corsi, you might know what I mean. Whatever it is, we don't meet off this. All right, all right. Maybe you should meet over the July 4th meeting. Good question. All right. So, Rainbow Commission, so I talked to Mr. Hurd, I mean, I'm sorry, Mr. Hellman, first time, I mean, I thought I was going to make it to a whole meeting, you know, so, so. I'd be happy to do it too. So, so, and so now that we're going through this again and seeing that I mean, I have less me, you, we had agreed that we kind of tag team on it. We could still do that if you like, but I'm happy to keep it. I'd be happy if you would, or if the member just, I've got my name on a lot of things here, and I just want to be careful not to over commit. Sure. I'd be very happy to stand in if you are not available. Sure, sure, sure, sure, you know, I'll have to, you know, they'll be disappointed because I kind of told them that, but they'll know. I think that you're very well served by your continued liaison and I will be happy to be there for you. Sure. I think it can be. So I'm a school committee liaison, Mr. McCorsie. Okay. And scholarship working program, Mr. Hurd, Mr. Corsie. All right. What was that? I don't know what that is. I don't know. Yeah. Even at the July 4th, the project will be to clean up this list of committees. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's true. For somebody, somebody. Yeah. Yeah, it's all, you know, it's snowing ice. This is my hot, yeah, right? It snows. It's ice. It's ice, you know. That's on my report. Yeah, well, maybe like help out with them on the action plan, like getting businesses to get that stuff out of the way, I mean, so that not only seniors, but just anyone can like walk down sort of sidewalks, sunny side avenue neighbors. That hasn't been in a while. Okay. So we can. It hasn't been acted, but just, you can just leave it there in case DCR heats up again with David Morgan out of planning. Cause I know he's, he's been down there a lot recently. All right. You know, so tech. So Mr. Hurd, you know, I'm on there representing the chamber commerce and you're on there representing the board. Would you like to swap? So I was going to just work by swap. You mean you just take over the select board? Yeah. Well, I was going to record because I said, I mean, I think I've been the tech liaison since I've been on the board and I've never been invited or asked to go to a tech meeting. And I think you are much more involved in tech than me. So I'm happy to give that up to you, Mr. Chair. Okay. All right. And if we did swap, you get a vote because I get to vote as the liaison from the Chamber of Commerce, but I think from the chair, from the select board, you don't get to vote. So think about it. You know, it's okay. So then we'll swap me in and then you will just, yeah, all right. Tree committee, Mr. Helmuth? Tree committee? Yeah, sure. We'll take the tree committee. All right. So Mr. Hurd, we'll take the tree committee. And using an advisory board, that no longer exists, but it's going to be replaced by the young Arlington collaborative thing. And so I would like to do that, you know. And the remote participation study committee. And I think you're going to hate me for this of thinking about even adding one, but I noticed that ABAC doesn't have a liaison. I mean, the bicycle advisory committee, was that intentional or just? Usually there's a liaison from the board when either town meeting or the actual committee creates a position for someone from the board. Right. So then that's probably. I don't think ABAC has some of that. All right. Or you might want to follow up with them and find out if that's something that they'd like to include. Well, I can look. Yeah. And they say, yeah. Yeah. And see, okay, all right. I'm sure you can do whatever you want. Well, what I want to do is check in with folks and make sure that it's okay. Instead of just doing it stuff, you know, like a loose cannon. So, all right. So I think we're all done here. All right. So the last, the next, okay, there are three more items. They're all short. Goal study meeting, you know. So, so I think if we want to have Mr. Poole there, I mean, and I'm going to have a meet, if we want to have an immediate July, and you want Mr. Poole there, it would probably be a Tuesday or Thursday. I mean, at Thursday would work better for me than Tuesdays. You know, I guess Mr. Hunt. I don't know if Mr. Poole already communicated this, but Mr. Poole is out July 21st through 29th. So it would have to be a different. Well, it is important to have Mr. Poole. Right, right. So our next meeting is on the 18th. I mean, we could try to have it before then, or we could do it in August. I just wondered, Mr. Chairman, if maybe we pick a couple of dates, but I mean, there's a fair amount of work Mr. Poole needs to do to update the goals document for us. So, I mean, if that works for him, fine. I don't know if, I know that timeframe towards the end of the month doesn't, but I don't know if we pick a date in July or August and see what he thinks he can produce before that day, unless you know if he feels that either time is fine for him. Yes, I have not spoken with him about it. So with the understanding that he would need to do more work, you know, then maybe we'll aim for early, early August, you know, assuming folks are going to be around because I know August is when people tend to head out, you know, any reservations? It's not going to be the first week of August, that's fine for me. First week of August? I don't know my schedule yet, but I will in a week or so. Okay. I'm doing a fair bit of trouble in August. Okay. So I can tend to put some on. All right, all right, and maybe, so he's through the 29th, so that's pretty much the end of July. Okay, all right. Well, we'll, as soon as you know, please let me know. I'm sorry about that. And then, well, no, no need to apologize to me and maybe I can have a talk with the Tom manager and see if he could pull something off. I mean, before he leaves in July. All right. So, so you may be seeing some emails from Ashley, maybe as we firm this up, you know. So, okay, you know, and item 18, correspondence received, manager and director of planning and community development positions for Mr. Wagner and request for Memorial for Nancy. I'm sorry. Orc Lynn. Orc Lynn. Thank you. By Cali Martin. Move the receipt of 18 and move receipt and referral of 19 to the public morals committee. Second. Okay. Comments, questions. Yes. Since we're making referral for the Morals Committee, I might remind us all that we have a pending referral to follow up on them. The matter of Mr. Stevens original warrant article proposal that was converted to a referral committee about Maliazzi way. So be content to follow up with them just to, you know, make sure that's on there as well. Okay. So we did send it to him. And I don't know if it actually happened, but that was, I believe that was a real. All right. All right. So I was wondering about that too. I was wondering if Mr. Schlickman had to come back to us with it, but. Yeah. He asked me about it recently and I said follow up and I forgot to admit it. So it was at least partially related. Okay. Yeah. No, no. No, no. Since we're making referral. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Yes. Mr. Hahn. In, I heard from town meeting and maybe you can follow up on this. And I just want to make sure we're proceeding appropriately as we all do. Some people were questioning if the suggested memoriam was the ideal one. So would it be, and I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything, but like, like, you know, some people said, oh, it'll be funny that it's a small little thing and both signs bump into each other. But then other people said, no, if you want to do a public memoriam, you know. So do you want to find out or do you know, I got a sense from town meeting that they wanted to refer the matter to the public memorial committee for consideration of some memorial versus the two signs that are going to butt each other in that one way. Or am I, do you want to follow up on that? Yeah, I think it's a good suggestion. There's a lot of, I'll go back and look at the tape. I don't want to not refer it. Yeah, I think we should be clear or asking the committee to consider. Yeah. So let me kind of withdraw that and for some further research because I think it's a really good point. Yeah. Just so we have some clarity. And I have no... Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I think it's... Whatever the phrase is that I'm trying to think of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got you. That's what the folks were saying. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for your time. Oh, no, no, the problem. I left the rails there for a bit. No problem. I haven't quite formulated the thoughts I have about the public memorial committee. My word that I use a lot, I mean, I'm intensely curious about that committee. What it does and we refer a lot of things and then what? So just kind of want to know what happens and when and how. So I lost track. We need to vote. Yeah, I know. So I think Mr. Herd did the motion in seconded by Ms. Mahan, Mr. Herd. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Helman. Ms. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Diggins. Yes. All right. New business. Ms. Mahan. No, no business. Thank you. Just one minor thing for the board's future attention. Myself and deputy town council, Cunningham, we're getting prepared to go to a mediation or a court guided arbitration, not arbitration, I'm sorry. Basically a settlement conference regarding the I try matter that's coming up in mid July. We'll probably have some kind of update in advance of the select board's July meeting, but we may want to post an executive session on that matter if the board is interested in the outcome. The board isn't, well, I'll leave it at that. Thank you. All right, thank you. Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A couple of things. First, a week ago Saturday, the chair and I attended the reopening of the reservoir beach and it was truly impressive. It was a little chilly that day, but there was a good crowd. People are actually swimming, which I was surprised at, but I drove by there this weekend and there was a really good crowd there. So I wanted to thank Joe Connolly for all the work that he's done, Park and Recreation Commission and the Conservation Commission who had a very big role in the improvements there. And it really is impressive between the park and the beach itself. They brought in sand from Cape Cod and they have a picnic area. It's really, I think it's going to get a lot of use to summer. I think that's great. The other thing is, and we didn't have an opportunity to say anything to her because she hasn't been before us in a while, but Andrea Nicolai, this week is her last week with the town, she's a library director and she's going to head up the Albany Library System, which is a much bigger system, but she did a wonderful job as our library director and increased circulation, did a lot of innovative things during the pandemic. I just want to share well. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I just have one new business because I think my other new business, I've spoken one time to one colleague on any one matter. I mean, that has to do with the MBTA. There are quite a few cities and towns that have been taking votes, registering their city council or select boards, just made for the reduction and or elimination of bus service that the T is proposing and that's separate and, you know, Germain to Newton and Lexington and Belmont and that, but I have gotten from quite a few people about Arlington because, you know, there's two bus routes being eliminated, the 80 and I don't have it all in front of me and everything else is getting reduced as well as this has been a longstanding issue and I'd like to put it on the table to maybe actually tackle it, you know, we can discuss it at our goals meeting, but unfortunately from machinations from many, many years ago, Arlington really got, in my opinion, a truly unfair MBTA assessment and it was just politics way back when and again looking at our operating budget and a pending override in 2324 and trying to look at everything we can, I would like to and I've spoken to the town manager, Mr. Poole about this. He's the person who provided me the four or five assessments that I asked, went on each individual community's charity sheet to see what it was and I'd like to, in the spirit of everything that's happening right now, I think we might be able to get some leeway, but Arlington this year, our assessment is 3,093,000 in change and all we have are buses and they're getting eliminated and reduced for that assessment. The town of Lexington's assessment is 750,000, which is where I think we should be in terms of transportation, Arlington and Lexington pretty much have the same. We don't have any rail, we don't have any, you know, electric cars or anything like that. Now if you look at Braintree, which is part of the reason our assessment is so high along with Prensy, and they have, you know, a T in their train service and much more transportation, Braintree's assessment is 842,000 to our 3.1 million and Quincy, which has everything in terms of services, soup to nuts, their assessments at 2.1 million and we're at 3.1, so that's woefully inadequate. So what I'd like to, what I've asked the manager to do is to, and I didn't ask for tonight's meeting because I think it's too ambitious that there was just, you know, it's a lot of information. I did ask for these facts and figures because he told me it wouldn't be a commerce and tax task to do, but to provide the board with, I've gone to two of the hearings and I've seen different routes proposed to be eliminated, reduced, et cetera, but to provide the board exactly what, you know, the town of Arlington is losing, we're definitely not gaining anything and then have the board have a discussion and I'd like to tackle this issue of this unfair assessment that the town of Arlington has for the MBTA. I don't know if we can, I know there's hearings coming up in the state house within the next four weeks, maybe it's something through after discussion from the board if there's an appetite for it, that how can we address our unfair reduction? One thing I was thinking was to propose either through the board, through the town or through our legislative delegation that Arlington actually get a true MBTA assessment for the amount of services that it's getting, which also right now is a decrease percentage of service loss and or we could ask our legislative delegation to file legislation to create a quick study. I'm not into studies just to have a study and it puts something off, but this would be something that would be a comparative study regarding the assessment and formula. A, the initial what Arlington should be and B, what it should be taken into account the loss of service to Arlington customers. So I just wanted to bring that up in the new business just so everybody can start thinking about it and ruminating on it. We really should be down, we should be paying definitely closer to what a Lexington's paying, which is pretty much what a Braintree's paying. For us to be paying $3 million, 3.1 million and Braintree pays $8.42 and Lexington pays $7.50. All we have are buses that are getting reduced and eliminated. So if people can just start to think about that, I'd like to have a conversation. If nothing comes of it, then nothing comes of it, but I think, I know I'd like to have the conversation so we can say to people, because it's been getting thrown a lot of people, I don't even tell them the assessment part of it because then they'll really go, pun the pun off to the third reel. But that's my new business. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to my colleagues. I'm sorry, I know I ramble too much information. We can put that on the agenda for the next meeting. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome, you know. Mr. Helmuth. See, I look at Mr. Heard. I need to see your name. The real Mr. Heard. It's like, yeah. You know what? I think it's Mr. Grayley having some fun with my three colleagues to the right. So thank you, Mr. Grayley. Go ahead. So just a very brief item. As you know, I am the representative, it's like board to the Affordable Housing Board of Trustees, and three days remain for Allington residents to fill out the Affordable Housing Survey. And I would encourage residents to do that. Just visit the town website and just search for Affordable Housing Survey and it'll come right up. This will help the trust fund, which is just getting started, develop our action plan, which really will guide the first five years of how we make decisions about investing those resources. Community engagement's really important, particularly because the point of the survey is we're really hoping and working hard to hear from residents who are most likely to need or benefit from affordable housing and are typically underrepresented in public meetings. So members of the planning staff and of the board trustees have been out pouting the pavement literally on the sidewalk at farmers markets with cards and whatnot, but I was asked and gladly, gladly ascended to giving a plug for it tonight. So once again, please do take the Affordable Housing Survey before this Thursday, June 30th, when the survey closes, and that's at Arlington.ma.gov, Arlington.ma.gov, and then just search for Affordable Housing Survey. And I took the survey because I'm a resident, I encourage all my colleagues to do so as well. I think it's really thoughtful and you'll see kind of the kind of work that the board of trustees is putting into it. It doesn't take long at all. And if you do it before the 30th, they won't have to extend it and then you'd feel guilty about not doing it over the holiday weekend. Mr. Heard. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a couple brief things. I just wanted to give a nod to the organizers both from the town and the vendors at the beer garden because if anyone's gone past there in the past couple of weeks, it is jammed. So it's been a wild success. I think they found a home there at the Jason Russell House on the lawn there. And so if you haven't checked it out, it seems to be a hot spot. I've been busy with baseball, but that's wrapping up so I can check it out. And then at long last, I went to Lita Bank today and did not have to walk around construction fencing in Allyson Center. So if you go through Allyson Center, you can see the updated plaza with the new concrete, nice imprints of the bricks. And it looks like we have a little work to do to put in some of the planters and whatnot. But there's a lot of space now and a lot of ideas in my head for outdoor music, which is always what I wanted to see in Allyson Center was a performance space. And I think we can figure that out with all the space you can see there now. So check it out. Now it makes Allyson Center much more appealing for the businesses there. Yeah, I got, I passed there Saturday and got some pictures. So yeah, I was like, kind of like, wow, I don't have to walk around. And it's kind of cool to figure that pictures, while it's empty, because soon there are going to be tables and whatnot. So yeah, just three quick items for me. So it was on June 12th that we did the rainbow commission hanging in his old Mrs. Mahan and Mr. Helmuth were there. And I didn't mention this last time, because I just forgot. But I partly put a fun of it and partly because he just thought of me listening to myself read 11 clauses of whereas made me bored. I asked people to join in and read it to me. So it's kind of like 11 people to read the wears clauses and select board represented I read to be resolved. And it turned out to be a big head. So I thought it was fun, but people kind of raved at that. They really liked that. And so I just put that out there as something to consider doing next time. And it just made it kind of like fun. It wasn't like I lined up people in advance. Me just like see who's there. Just ask them if they want to do it and people are pretty much paying for it. So it can be as easy as that. The other thing is that we're going to have a forum on community insurance by the civic engagement group. I mean, this is breaking news because it hasn't been posted yet, but the goal is to do it and the strong intent is to do it on the 7th of July to Thursday night. So Mr. Fish is going to be heading that up. And finally, the Broadway Corridor Design Competition may have concluded, we have a winner. If you go to Bob Sprague's site, you can find out who that winner is. But if you don't know, I mean, then you'll see it on ACMI or you can watch it on YouTube and- See you? No, I wasn't, no, it was a team. It was like a very- No, he was doing- Boy, it was a team. If you really want to know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't know now, you know. It makes a good reality TV, though. So, yeah, yeah. The proposals were really quite nice. So there's a high school, the Arlington High Head of Team, a Winslow Associates Architects Head of Team, and MIT Head of Team. I mean, there were some really good ideas that came out of it. Which was the whole point of it was to- Because I mean, the winning, the prize money was very token, you know. But anyways, so that's done. And Mrs. Thornton, me and she persevered, you know. Got it done. And so, that's it. Who to adjourn? All right, so most of you are adjourned by Mrs. Mahai and a second by the H- The H is, second by the H is. Herd and Helmut. Mr. Herd, yes. Mr. Corsi, yes. Mr. Helmut, yes. Mrs. Mahai. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Ms. Thornton.