 Good evening. I'm calling to order the meeting of the Allington Select Board from Monday, September 27, 2021. This is Select Board Chair Steve DeCorsi. Permit me to 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 the affirmative. Diane Mahan? Yes. John Hurd? Yes. Len Diggins? Yes. Eric Hellman? Yes. Yes. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapter Lane? Yes. Doug Heim? Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Maher is participating remotely. Tonight's meeting of the Allington Select Board is being conducted remotely consistent with an act signed into law on June 16, 2021, that extends certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency. The act includes an extension until April 1, 2022 of the remote meeting provisions of Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 executive order, suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. The Governor's order, which is referenced with the gender materials on the town's website for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, is being recorded, and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. All participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment, and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the Novus agenda platform. Finally, each vote tonight will be taken by roll call. We have a full agenda tonight this evening, so let's see how much of the town's business we can get done. I'll now turn to the next agenda item, which is a presentation of the new DP Department of Public Works Facility, Michael Rademacher, Director of Public Works. Mr. Rademacher will be joining us. Here he is. Good evening, Mr. Rademacher. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Select Board. I appreciate your time tonight. I'd like to spend a few minutes to give you an update on the progress of our construction at 51 Grove Street for the DPW and facility project and then answer any questions you might have. You know, there's been a lot of obviously some talk at town meetings, so this project has been discussed for a while, but just to refresh your memories, we're renovating the existing buildings at 51 Grove Street. Some will be renovated for vehicle storage and two will be renovated to allow for other town departments to move in. And then we're also building a new facility, which will be the administration building and the motor equipment repair facility for public work. The project is occurring in two phases. Phase one is renovating one of the buildings at an accelerated rate to be able to accommodate the IT department moving out of the high school. And phase one also is the construction of the new admin and facility building. Once that building is complete, which we expect to be mid to late next summer early fall. An entire public works will move into the new building and the remaining buildings will be renovated on site. Give a little bit update on where we are with schedule and I have some construction photos I can show just to give you an update like a little pictorial of what we've been so far. I mentioned of emphasis right now is on what we're calling building a which is the building that I used to reside and I was kicked out so we can start renovation there. And that has been and going very well we started in earnest in late spring and renovation and and demolition of the interior began fairly immediately we have a tight schedule to meet the IT departments. And that leads from moving their server room out of the high school. So we have got a good jumpstart on that building. And as for the rest of the site, it didn't go quite as fast as you all probably know we have a very constrained site space wise, as well as challenges with soils and soil conditions so there was a lot of due diligence in formulating health and safety as well as well as enlisting license license site professionals which are basically environmental specialists, both the contractor and the design team have an LSP and they provide checks and balances over one another throughout throughout the project. And the project contractor also has enlisted a industrial hygienist to also oversee all the excavations and monitor the site during construction for the presence of contamination and to be sure the workplaces kept safe. So the site work hasn't we've been doing a lot of above grade site work we've been demolishing concrete walls and getting infrastructure down that does not pose a risk per se for environmental concern. And all the while we're still doing some test pits to better delineate the contaminations that we're going to be encountering when we get into excavation in earnest. So if it's, if it's okay I can show some pictures that I can answer some questions or. Yeah, no I think that'd be great. Okay, can we can share the screen with you there for the pictures. I have permissions to share screen. You should now. Yep, let me check here. Is that visible to everybody. So this is a rendering of what the new administration straight of building will be it's just on there my project manager likes to put this picture on everything. So that's a good image of what we're heading for. Mr. right and market before you go on just for the public's benefit as well. This building will be where the current parking lot is at the at the existing site correct. That is correct this will be this building will extend essentially from the curb line the the black surface you see in the in the foreground of that picture is essentially Grove Street. And this building will extend to the back where the salt sheds used to be at the property. Okay. Thank you. And these are photos from July through current September. We started with securing the site and installing staging on this is building be where, as I said we're accelerating the, the renovation for in order to facilitate it and facilities when they're asked to leave the high school. Those were just some preliminary fencing and staging so the roof could be accessible. The interior pictures, there was some lead paint and asbestos demolition that needed to occur within the building. And part of the safety plan was to tape and cover all ventilation and exterior opening so that the air could be filtered and not escape without being properly treated during that remediation and abatement process. There were more images of that pre work for the abatement was a lot of work to do that to prep for those two tasks, either a lot of a lot of the interior walls and ceiling coming down exposing some of the old duck work. Within the building this is actually the in the old engineering department for town of Wellington for past 30 plus years. Those were removed and they were filled with the plywood and plastic to allow the demolition to occur. And this is a little bit more pictorial of what what's exposed in some of the, some of the rooms this will be. This will be an area where the facilities department when they're relocated from the high school this will be a brand new space with state of the art equipment for their trades. This is being fully renovated for that purpose. There's the remnants of our old salt shed. It was a timber and steel structure that came down rather quickly. And the materials are sorted so they can be recycled the building is the site and the building is being constructed with lead certification which is a sustainability and environmentally friendly process so the materials need to be sorted and recycled appropriately when possible. And this is another picture of the interior building be some of the old framing and plumbing exposed the facility is being being completely renovated building be is with new bathrooms, kitchens, meeting space and offices for both it and facility upstairs on building be this actually was where my office used to be. Not recognizable to me any longer. The ceiling down ceiling taken down. It was amazing that there was about four feet three to four feet of space above the ceiling that was in there. I never realized that the floors had to be leveled a bit. Due to the age of plywood was installed throughout the delivery of HVAC we're already to a point in this building where we're installing a lot of the ductwork and HVAC component for the finished product. This is a real delivery on site rooms being framed again for those purposes outside as I mentioned, while we are still buttoning up the, the evaluation of the soil condition and and planning for that activity we started on above grade work so here. So if you all remember there was a concrete wall, which kind of encompassed the entire upper portion of the site from the parking lot as well as the old soccer field behind stop and shop and that wall is, it was demoed and is still in the process of being and that material will be crushed and actually used as fill on site it can be, it can be crushed and graded such that it'll act as gravel and can be used under some of the construction which helps to limit our costs for buying having to buy new material, and also for having to dispose of existing construction to bring. So this is a picture of, like one of the, one of the test pits that I mentioned again we are doing a significant amount of due diligence in testing the soil in random locations, thought out, but random locations throughout the site. So that when we get into the actual excavations, these soils won't need to be further tested at that point they can be loaded directly into a vehicle and trucked from the site and minimizing the time they spent either covered or taking up space on the project site. So it serves two purposes we have limited room on the property for such storage, and it also just gets these materials off the property, as soon as possible limiting any risk or exposure. This was a bit more demolition this was that the town when we handled our own solid waste collection. Maybe years ago, we had a scale and transfer station on site and this was part of that transfer station that allowed us to put those solid waste on the truck to have it trucked out hasn't been used as a transfer station and many years it was storage for us that essentially ends the pictures of where we are today. I believe we, once we get the soils. Well defined and and determine throughout the site and where we plan on excavating we're going to be going pretty earnestly into excavation and the construction of footings for the new building, but kind of wraps up what I have to say and where we're at on the project I'm sure there are questions or maybe I missed overlook something but I'm happy to answer anyone's questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rademacher. I'll now turn to the board for questions and comments. I'll start with Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Mr. Rademacher. Great presentation. I really appreciate the materials. I just want to know where I can get one of those pneumatic foam units. It looks like a pretty interesting device to handle a lot of interesting specs with it. I have some, just some minor stuff that really isn't worth going over all of these just more of me just kind of curiosity stuff so I'm going to pass this time so thank you for your time. And thanks for a great presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins and Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this and for your diligence with the safety plans. I was glad to read through those and to know that that's really been given a lot of thought and in care. How are you experiencing any or anticipating any delays in the construction due to construction materials supply pipeline issues that have been piling up nationally. Thank you. That's a good question. We have unfortunately already received news that the steel for the new building. There may be a delay that building is being the front half is being built conventionally on site with steel framing. Where the pieces is kind of delivered in the contractor puts it together. The rear portion that's a it's called a pre fact pre fabricated manufactured building and that will become an assembled by the by the steel company that pre fab building we're told there's been a delay in the production of the steel and the material so what we want to when we originally started this project we were hoping for an August moving date and that's been pushed to end of October. Yeah. Great. Thank you very much. This is mine. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first question is the GC general contractor on this. Is it Commodore builders or cash in associate is Commodore builders. And the questions that I have are motivated by the job in terms of general contractors, subcontractors and subcontractors. So my first question would be around AHA activity has an analysis and job has an analysis reports on facets of the job. Who has responsibility for those and they done daily and they done weekly. Commodore is ultimately responsible for safety on the site. They have an employee assigned to be the safety monitor. And they have each trade and vendor that comes to the site is required to have a competent person someone trained in the work that they're doing and to train to know that the environment they're going to be working in so the hazards that are present. And these are all spelled out in the, the hazardous materials health and safety plan that was drafted by cashmen, cash ins and associates. So the competent individuals for each vendor are required to understand and work with that document and Commodore safety officer holds toolbox talk meetings daily in order to ensure that they're being followed and people are aware of the work that's going to happen that day and what to expect. Okay, my other question would be from my limited experience in this that's a good process that's been outlined, especially with the toolbox talks AHA, the JHA, but do we have any sub subcontractors on this project? And my follow up question to that would be, are they included in the toolbox talk because most times they're not and that's what the accident happened. Well, they should be and I can verify that that happens. The each contractors. Assigned competent person would need to be responsible that anyone working for them or subbed to them is aware of the work that's occurring in the hazard so I can verify that the subs to subs are included with those talks. I see no reason why they wouldn't be. If you could definitely do that, especially with some some point of reference to that would be consignor was the GC on the movement public library project if you Google 2017 public library. You'll see that a worker for a subcontractor. I was killed on the job and the subcontractor wasn't including anything including the competent person, which I think is a really important thing. And the only reason I raise it is we're talking about hazardous waste, which I know Mr. It has been definitely on top of, but I want to make sure that not only are GC and sub or some subcontractors are protected, but also are current GPW workers also are protected from so my question to that would be in terms of our current GPW employees, as well as police employees that used to go down later gas up. What mitigation or protection or advice have they been given in terms of access to that site as they have been told, don't come down right now don't come down in six months come down in a protected way. So the site, all the work contained for the project is in is being partitioned off with fencing so anyone that goes through that fencing on to the site, the construction work would need to follow the health and safety plan and be trained accordingly. Currently there is no reason for DPW or any town personnel to enter the site. Within that, the confines of that protective fencing. So, if that were to change, we would change the training accordingly but currently the only staff required to be within that construction zone are those of the contractor and the subs. Okay, and then I think my last question is, I know a lot of our school buses are housed on the original DPW parking lot site is that still the case if not, where are they and where will they be in the future. That's a good question the school buses were housed in public works we did not have the space, excuse me, the space to accommodate them during construction and I believe they found space at St. Camillus. I think that's the renting space at St. Camillus parking lot for the duration of this project and even beyond, because we're taking on other town departments at this site, I don't believe we'll have space for them to return, and we'll have to find a long term solution for those buses. Your answers on that and if you could just follow up on the subcontractor question that they're also attending. A, attending the toolbox talks, including their competent person, as well as they're not only aware of the AHA and JHA, but they're not finding some sort of attendance sheet that they have received that information and are aware of it and are implementing that. And I only say that because the terms of, especially with hazardous waste or anything else, in terms of construction, that seems to be the area that is sort of nebulous that the GC and the subcontractor know and follow construction guidelines around AHAs and JHAs but subcontractors, whether by coincidence or I don't want to say design, they kind of slip through the loops. And I'm just concerned as Mr. Rottemacher is in the town manager, especially around the hazardous environmental issues on the site. So just check on that subcontractor to make sure the competent person falls. Make sure they're at toolbox talks when they should be. They shouldn't be there every day, but when they're part of the project, they're taking over that that's all being followed. I don't mean to be super paranoid, but everybody who knows me knows that's who I am. And I do want to thank the chair, Mr. DeCourtsy, for having this on as an agenda item, as well as my colleague, town manager, Mr. Rottemacher, because it's very important to all of us taking not only of all our employees, but all of our temporary employees. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Before I turn to Mr. Herd, I did want to verify again that the school bus fleet is up at San Canemills. If you're traveling route to westbound and you look into the lot, they're all lined up there across on the far end of the lot there. So with that, I will turn to Mr. Herd. I can verify that as well. My boys get a kick out of driving down down. We haven't seen the row of school buses there. Thank you for the presentation, Mr. Rottemacher. I don't know if it's appropriate for a motion to receive the presentation, which I'll do at this time. And I just would just say it's exciting. This has been a few years coming. It's exciting to see the plans again to refresh our memories as to what we're going to see there. There's definitely been a need for it. I remember the presentation showing where our million dollar fleet was sitting outside to the elements before and the reason that we have to have it. Just one question in regards to the fleet of DBW vehicles. Are they during the construction still going to be housed on site? We thank you. That's a good question. We have some of them are on site and we have moved a portion of our operations to Ryder Street where the Lollacata landscaping used to reside. We, that lease ended and they ended their lease with the town. So we were able to take that property. So our natural resources department is there and the fleet associated with the natural resources is at Ryder Street and highway and water are at Grove Street. So we have the same amount of space for those two groups now separated but in different locations. So we're spread out but we have decent facility. Okay, I just want to make sure that they're approximate as I can imagine during a snow emergency when everyone's kind of running around it. Yeah, it's good to hear that they're close by and ready to go. But like I said, it's exciting and I look forward to the finished product and thank you for the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Herd and before I give my comments, could I have a second on Mr. Herd's motion to receive Mr. Radamarka's report. Okay, thank you Mr. Helmut. And I also want to thank Mr. Radamarka for the presentation and for the materials that you've provided to the board with the safety measures and also tonight's presentation. And I know you and I have talked about this that you gave me a tour of the site a few years ago and there are so many challenges because of the history of the site. A long time ago as a manufactured gas plant and with the brook running through the site and the culvert is just all sorts of challenges. But I think at the end of the day, we're going to have a much better facility and a much safer facility for our DPW workers because the conditions were very challenging to say the least in the existing building and structure. So we're looking forward to the project continuing and getting done and hopefully there aren't any further delays. And just one aside, that photo number 16 brought back some memories because I was in high school in the days that the transfer station existed and I actually was in the top floor of the A building. And there was many an afternoon where I'd see the trash trucks come in, dump the trash when there was a slow afternoon, seventh period at Lincoln High. So it's a little tripped out memory lane for me there but I appreciate the presentation. Thank you. Okay, so I want a motion to receive from Mr. Hurd seconded by Mr. Helmut, Attorney Hyme. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmut. Yes. Mr. Diggins, I think we can. Yes. Mr. Gorsi. Yes. Anonymous photo. Great. Thank you, Mr. Radye Marker and I'm happy to say we got you on early tonight. You've been hanging around with us for a while. The past few meetings. So thank you. Thank you for your time and I hope to be back, you know, on a regular basis to build, provide updates as we proceed. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. You too. Item three is a proclamation honoring Dr. Stanley E. Segoff. Dr. Segoff is with us tonight. Mr. Chairman, I don't see him. I'm not positive whether or not we were expecting him, but I don't see him on the list right now. I'd like to read the proclamation and then ask for a confirmatory vote from the board and this is to honor Dr. Stanley Edward Segoff who just retired from his practice in Arlington. I will now read the proclamation. Whereas Dr. Stanley Edward Segoff was born March 11th, 1944 in Cape Town, South Africa, and whereas Dr. Segoff attended Seapoint Boys High School in Cape Town and was a rugby and cricket star athlete, and whereas Dr. Segoff graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1967, and whereas Dr. Segoff graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1973, and is now the leader of the Remembering the Future jazz band, and whereas Dr. Segoff started family practice group in 1974 in Cambridge, and moved the practice to Arlington in 1999, and whereas family practice group changed its name to family practice group, the Segoff Center for Family Medicine, and whereas Dr. Segoff has been a leader and contributor to Mount Auburn Hospital and the surrounding community, and whereas Dr. Segoff has taught and mentored hundreds of medical students and residents, now therefore be it resolved that we, the members of the select board, proclaimed September 19th, 2021 Dr. Stanley E. Segoff Day in the town of Arlington, in celebration of his extraordinary medical career, and his 47 years of service to patients, learners, and colleagues. We are honored to wish him good health, happiness, and prosperity on behalf of the past, present, and future residents of the town in celebration of his service to Arlington and beyond, and if we have an affirmative vote that will be signed by each of the members of the select board. With that, I will turn to the board, Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. Do you require a motion, Mr. Chair? Yes. Yeah, if I could. Is it to move approval? Yes. Thank you. My first one for these. Happy to move approval and I have to say, what a wonderful story of a life and of service to the community. Resonates with me a little extra as a fellow, bivocational person who's also a musician in addition to a day job and mother pursuits. I can appreciate the extra richness of that life, and it's a pleasure to learn about Dr. Sagoff and to thank him in this way for his service to the world, to the community. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan, we just need you to, if you could unmute your microphone. Sorry, I'm doing the phone and the laptop and everything's going out. I would definitely second Mr. Helmuth's motion as well as thank Dr. Sagoff, not only for his 47 years of service to his patients and colleagues, but more importantly to the interns, residents, and other practitioners that he counseled and trained along the way, because that's just a vital importance of his job as anything else. So thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Mr. Hurd. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I also just want to thank Dr. Sagoff. I'm a former patient of the Family Practice Group, which is a really excellent practice group down there, has a great group of doctors, physicians, nurses, and staff, and certainly a well-deserved honor and a life well-lived. So I'm happy to support this motion. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Diggins. Yes, and of course, I'm happy to support it too. Hope to meet the guy. Certainly a clever name for a jazz band, remembering the future, and in doing my research, I found some stuff on YouTube. It's actually pretty good. So take a little search. Nice music, especially for relaxing after one of these like board meetings. Thanks. Great. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. And I'm happy to support this as well. I want to congratulate Dr. Sagoff in his retirement and for his years of service to Wellington residents, the Mount Auburn community, and all his patients. So with a motion by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mrs. Mahan, Attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you, Attorney Heim. Okay. We next move to the consent agenda, which is items four through eight. It's a big night for contractor drain layer licenses. Item four is administrative changes to the minutes of meeting August 9th, 2021. Item five is a request for a contractor drain layer license for Boolean excavation, LLC. Item six is a request for a contractor drain layer license for good hands contractor incorporated. Item seven is a request for a contractor drain layer license for middle sex asphalt services. Item eight is a request for a contractor drain layer license for TDS incorporated. I will now turn to the board. Mrs. Mahan. Let's move to the vote. Thank you. Mr. Hurd. Second. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. No comment. Mr. Helmuth. No comments. Thank you. Okay. On a motion by Mrs. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Hurd, Attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Dacourst. Yes. Janine, let's vote. Okay. Item nine is a public hearing. We're after the start of the public hearing, so we can begin it. For Regis Road, a request to repair private way and a betterment order request from Lisa Gottlieb, I believe is a resident of Regis Road. So if we could promote her. Just did she should be joining us right now. Good evening, Ms. Gottlieb. Hello. How are you? Good. How are you? If you could just tell us a little bit about the request and we saw the materials and I want to congratulate you. It looks like you've got unanimous support for the repairs to the private way. So if you could tell us a little bit about the request and then I will turn it to the board. Sure. I don't know how familiar you are with our street, but it is our road is way beyond its life expectancy. Really and truly, we had hoped we wanted to pay years ago. We were very successful to get that gas mean line repaired. So now that the work is complete, we are really excited to move forward with the repairs and pave the road. So on behalf of the neighbors, we all got together, decided that the betterment plan through the town was the best program, I think, for us to help us fund this. Okay. Great. Thank you. And again, for the public's benefit, Regis Road runs right to Everett Street at the Thompson School. I believe between River Street and Everett Street. Yes. Okay. Great. All right. I will turn to the board, Mr. Herd. I will move approval and the chair touched on this, but I would say we get a lot of these applications. It's always good to see a unanimous 100% approval of the request because it makes us feel like we're not forcing this on anyone. So congratulations on a positive and successful outreach program. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Herd. Mr. Diggins. I'll second that. Congratulations. Good luck. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmut. Thank you very much. Happy to support this and thank you for your good work in your neighborhood. Thank you, Mr. Helmut. Mrs. Mahan. We need you to unmute again. Mrs. Mahan, sorry. I don't know why I keep muted myself. I'm just going to have to leave it open. Thank you to Ms. Scott Lee for working with the neighbors and the neighbors. Thank you for really coming on board with us. I know the Mercedes have been through this on Regis and your university road, so happy to support this motion. Yeah. Great. Thank you, Mr. Mahan. I'm happy to support it as well. I just one comment. We had neighbors of yours in a few weeks ago on Wellesley and Patrick streets every requesting stop signs, which I'm happy to report have been installed. And when I looked at the area, there was not a stop sign at Regis. The road wasn't in very good condition so you really couldn't go down at its speed. But once you complete the road work, think about if you want to come back to us with that type of request, because I think that's going to become a more appealing street to travel down. And there is a potentially dangerous intersection there where it meets with Percell and the other side. Yes, absolutely agreed. I mean, I'm still surprised at the number of people that fly down our street right now with the potholes. And it's very concerning, I think to a lot of us with the school right there that someone just blows right through there. And it just seems to me that there should be a stop sign there. Okay, so we will, through our select board office, maybe reach out to you. I don't know what the timing is for your work, but maybe we can coordinate something as we move forward on that. That's great. Yeah, I appreciate that, thank you. Sure, okay. So on a motion by Mr. Hurd, seconded by Mr. Diggins for approval, attorney Heim. I'm sorry, Mr. Chrissy, we open this for us, public hearing for- Oh, you know, I always do that. This is a public hearing, so I don't know if there's anybody who wishes to be heard on it. Thank you for that reminder. There are no hands being raised. Okay, all right. So that closes the public hearing. And again, we have a motion by Mr. Hurd, seconded by Mr. Diggins, attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Chrissy. Yes. Seeing none, Ms. Phil. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming in this evening, sure. All right, next on the agenda is open forum, except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor a 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 request. With that, I will open it up, Mr. Chapterling, if we have anybody who wishes to be heard on open forum. Yes, there's one hand raised right now. Two hands, the first name is Rebecca Gruber. Okay. Good evening, Ms. Gruber. Good evening. Thank you. Rebecca Gruber, Pleasant Street. Town meeting member precinct date. Thank you select board for this opportunity to speak and please don't hear this as an attack, but rather as a plea, a plea for transparency in the decision-making regarding recreasing thing. I've been engaged in the recreasing thing process ever since town clerk, Ms. Brazil, casually mentioned her proposal to reduce the number of precincts to 16 at the May 20th and Vision Arlington standing committee meeting. Since then, besides taking advantage of the information and opportunity shared on the town's website, I've also attended election modernization committee meetings and select board meetings and have exchange correspondence with both you and the EMC all in an effort to understand the benefits of reducing our number of precincts. One of the two reasons I've most often heard regarding reducing our number of precincts is to improve diversity and equity representation. Yet when I push for specifics, none have been given, nor has there been any evidence given of how our current precincts are lacking in diversity and equity representation. I've heard that one goal is to create precincts in which those who live in larger apartment buildings have more proportional representation. I would be in support of this goal, recognizing that the residents of many of the larger apartment buildings renters older and lower income. But no actual evidence of this goal exists since both of the proposed town draft precinct maps split up the precinct nine voting block of the two Arlington housing authority apartment buildings, Winslow Tower and Chestnut Manor. The other reason I've heard for reducing the number of precincts is to improve the efficiency of running elections. While I appreciate the intricacies of running elections, especially with the coming of no excuses absentee voting and in-person early voting, I don't think reducing the complexity of the town clerk's job is a good reason for the chaos that will ensue by changing everyone's precinct and requiring every town meeting member to run. Select board members, the decisions you make about reprecincting will be ones Arlington will live with for the next 10 years. I therefore implore you to make clear and transparent the benefits of reducing the number of our precincts from 21 to 16, if indeed such benefits exist. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Gruber. The next speaker is Elizabeth Trey. Good evening, Ms. Trey. Good evening. Thank you. Elizabeth Trey, Jason Street. As a resident currently engaged in anti-racist work, I support and applaud the reprecincting working groups for the goal of ensuring fair representation and equity in our precincts. I also support transparent and data-driven decision-making, especially regarding voting and resident engagement. It's therefore crucial that the working groups support their proposal to redraw every precinct boundary for reasons of equity with the most recent accurate data available before asking the select board to vote on a map that would require every town meeting member to run for a seat, even if they just won last year, to permanently reduce the number of voting locations by 20%, to decrease resident representation by reducing the number of town meeting members by 5%, and in general causing complete chaos in April elections with likely over 252 candidates on the ballot. The working group has not done that. In fact, they're knowingly using outdated and incorrect demographic data from 2019, even though the rough 2020 census numbers have been available since August 12th, and the final census data unchanged from August 12th came out September 15th. They've shared no data to support their assertion that the newly drawn precincts, be they 21 or 16, are more fair or equitable than what we currently have, nor have they explained what these concepts even mean. Currently, they're asking the select board to approve a major disruption for every single Arlington resident and town meeting member to fix the problem that there is no data to support even exists. I call on the working group to publicly define what they mean by fair and equitable and what groups they are prioritizing and in what order. I ask them to add the 2020 census demographic information to the current and proposed maps to show us that the new precincts will in fact be more equitable than the current ones. And I ask them to make public all specific instances of inequity and fairness or dilution of minority representation that exists in our current map. Only then will I have the information I need to make an informed decision and only then will you. And if they can't support their claims with data then I urge the select board to vote against their proposal and to adopt a 21 precinct map that disrupts the minimal number of precincts possible. If they can support the claim then I'm happy to reconsider my request. And meanwhile, let's work towards that goal of fair and equitable representation in town elections and government an area that Arlington Fights Racism has been leaning on. Let's form a town group whose focus is to encourage residents from typically underrepresented communities to run for office, to focus on actions that will inform, engage and increase what are turnout in these specific communities. Perhaps the new civic engagement group in coalition with Arlington Fights Racism can lead on efforts to achieve this important goal. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ray. Mr. Chairman, there's one more hand raised. Beth Milovchuk. Okay. Good evening, Ms. Milovchuk. Good evening, Beth Milovchuk, Russell Street. Thank you. I am concerned with chaos. I did attend the League of Women Voters meeting forum the so described public forum. My concerns are that the public was not allowed to ask their questions. The questions were submitted and they were edited and consolidated by a staff member, a planning staff member, I believe. And I asked about this during the breakout session and the person who ran the breakout session didn't understand my question and seemed to think that that was a public meeting. I also asked whether the subgroup working on re-precincting the four members, three of whom I believe are employees reporting to the town manager and one is the town clerk. So those four individuals, I asked whether those meetings were public and the person leading the breakout group was unable to answer that. So I think it's a good idea for transparency as the previous two speakers I believe noted upon. I will be following up my remarks with a letter to the select board. I'm very concerned about transparency, about the integrity of elections and about democracy. Recent elections nationally have shown the indescribable importance of office holders who uphold the integrity of the office in defending integrity of elections. And I think, unfortunately, some of the objectives for re-precincting, redistricting, whatnot, there's just been a lot of confusion, not a lot of transparency. And I think that objectives of efficiency and saving money are, to me, just really confusing. I don't see the merits of that in wanting to defend democracy. I have a background in Russia and Soviet area studies. I studied in the Soviet Union three times. I have firsthand experience with authoritarian regimes. So when I hear the words efficiencies, I take pause, I pay attention. And then with a $187 million yearly budget, the notion of wanting to create chaos across town. I don't see the merit. My buzzer's going off as well. I'll put this in the left check, so if you could just wrap it up, please. Yes, I'll close. Thank you, Mr. Deborsi. I'll close. So efficiency and saving money in that context is inexplicable, but I will follow up with a letter. Thank you for the ability to speak. Thank you very much. I believe that is it this evening for open forum. All right, we will move on to traffic rules and orders of the business. Item 10, Papa Arlington Holiday Market at Visitor Center in Uncle Sam Plaza, Allie Carter, Economic Development Coordinator. Good evening, Ms. Carter. Good evening. Thank you for having me. Allie Carter, Economic Development Coordinator in the Department of Planning and Community Development. So I'm here tonight with a proposal to use a town-owned structure that is during a period when it's not currently in use to do a pop-up holiday market. So at the Visitor Center in Uncle Sam Plaza, I did run this by the ATED committee who manages that property and got their approval, but essentially drafted an RFP we'd like to have small entrepreneurs have week-long pop-ups from the period between Thanksgiving and December 23rd. And the idea is that it was like a business recruitment effort to maybe help fill some of the vacant storefronts in town. I put out an expression of interest form that was just a simplified form hoping to just gauge the interest in this. And I was expecting to get somewhere between five and 10 responses and I would have been happy, but I ended up with 58 people filling out the form and saying they'd love to get a shot at a space to test out the market in Arlington. So I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the memo I provided or the RFP. Great, thank you, Ms. Carter. And I will turn to the board, Mr. Diggins. I will motion to approve this. I mean, if that's the right motion, and I am very excited about this. This is a great idea. And even if you had gotten fewer than five, I mean, I was gonna say, keep at it. I mean, not simply this year, but maybe some other locations. And I love the scoring algorithm that you have. I mean, to help me select amongst them. And I know that we all care about the diversity and inclusion. And I would say this is a really good way to maybe reach out, I mean, to other communities, I mean. And I don't know if me scoring for the diversity is something that you might want to explicitly state, I mean, in the scoring algorithm. But think about it, you know, because I think it might help, you know? And so, but this is a wonderful idea. Okay, and so I'm more powered to you. And 58, you're gonna have a hard problem selecting, but that's a great problem to have, huh? So thank you. Thank you. Thanks for that suggestion. That's really good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins and Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. I'm heartily second the motion. It's a great idea. And, you know, another really creative, fresh out of the box idea which we have become accustomed from Ms. Carter and her colleagues. But thank you for the good thought and for the hard work, the thought that went into the whole application and to the scoring criteria is evident. And I'm excited to go to see what you select. I'm glad I don't have to do the selecting. So good luck with that. And I look forward to seeing what we can go by in our only team center during this month. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you once again, Ms. Carter, Ali, for really diving head first into this an obvious testament is that it looks like the four weeks you'll have 11 of it among people, businesses that can participate. You've gotten 58. So my question is for the visitor center, you're going to be able to pick four vendors for four weeks. Does that mean my first question is, does that mean for the four weeks it's the same four vendors or each week it's four different vendors or a combination there of them? I think we're gonna have to look at the RFP responses. But my intent is to have four different vendors with one week sessions. And what I can do with the other respondents is it sort of creates a bench of people that can be referrals to folks who want a waiver by doing a pop up for the vacant storefront bylaw or just referrals for longer term tenants. So I plan on using that longer list, longer term. Thank you, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. My second question is going over your memorandum, we have the visitor center. And I think what I read is we have other vacant storefronts that are available. You were cooperating in this program with the 58 inquiries who are interested to possibly not just at the visitor center. I know you kind of said this, but I'd like to kind of have you expand on a little bit that it's not just the visitor center, but maybe pop up to some of these vacant storefronts in Allington. Yes, thank you. So the RFP is for the visitor center because it's a town owned property. And I think that will get a smaller number of responses just because it's so much more detailed. However, the timing of this is really nice because the state of emergency ended June 15th. We reinstated the vacant storefront bylaw and the 90 day time limit was up on September 13th. So in the last two weeks, I've been following up with property owners who've had vacancies for over 90 days and way longer than that, right? So I already have some people who are willing to host. It will be a little bit longer of a negotiation process, but the good part about, there's many good parts about that bylaw, if I can tip my hat to attorney Heim for that. But one of the parts about it that I like is that for the lease, the temporary lease agreement, the town, the department of planning and community development sets the terms of it. So we can set it at a discounted rate for the pop up tenant so that they're not, you know, it really is just a short opportunity to give them a step up and it won't be, you know, it gives the landlord an incentive to participate because they'll be making money rather than paying money to the town, but it also gives someone who may not be totally have like a bank loan together or anything like that, just a chance to try something out. Okay, that sounds fantastic. And thank you so much, Allie and attorney Heim and everybody else who's beyond the visitor center, we have some opportunities for the town of Ellingen, you're not making any money on, you know, the vacant business storefronts, but we're doing everything we can for, I know a lot of residents in the town have said, you know, we have a lot of vacant storefronts right in the town doing anything, which is really hard for us to do anything because we don't have much legal standing, but between you and attorney Heim and the town manager and town meeting, we're doing the best we can to do it. So thank you and thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan, Mr. Heard. Thank you, Mr. Chair and thank you, Mrs. Carter for that presentation. This is really an excellent idea and I look forward to it. And I'd call it a pilot program, right? Because it's so much interest, you know, we have a limited set of dates in this proposal, but if it works, we can certainly extend it into the nicer months. I'm thinking of some outdoor legal work, maybe I'll wait for the next summer. But I do know ATED has been really looking to get more foot traffic through the newly renovated visitor center. It's been painted, it has a new floor that I just thought was put in. So they put a lot of work in to make that nice and it'll be a good way to get some residents to flow through there and help some local businesses. So I think this is an excellent idea and happy to support. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Heard. I'm also happy to support it. And I really like the idea with the level of interest here. There may be opportunities to fill some vacant storefronts, as you mentioned, and I had heard you say that to members of the Chamber of Commerce at a recent event. And I think that was well received by the Chamber and hopefully something comes out of that. So thank you for your creativity on this, Ms. Cotter. And thank you to Attorney Heim as well for the creativity on the vacant storefront, the two of you working together because this is now a real potentially positive use of that bylaw. So on a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Helmuth, Attorney Heim. Mr. Heard? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yeah. Mr. Helmuth? Yes. Mrs. Vaughn? Yes. Mr. DeCourse? Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Thank you, Ms. Cotter. Okay, item 11 is a vote for the select board designee to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Affordable Housing Trust Fund is in Title II, Article 14 of our town bylaws. It was created at the special town meeting in November of 2020. We have appointed all of the members of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, except one. And the bylaw says that the composition shall include a member of the select board. So in order to allow the trust to start its business, work on a declaration of trust that they would come back to the select board on, we need to select the members. So I don't know if there's any members who are interested. I'm just going in the order that I went in from the beginning of the meeting. So I will start with Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the junior member of the board, I will defer to any members who would want to do this, but I would be very happy to serve the role. I think that my interest was fired and for Affordable Housing was fired when I was working with the CPA committee. And I know a couple of the people on the trust and respect them a great deal. So I'm happy to do it, but I'm sincerely also very willing to yield to any of my more senior colleagues who also have an interest. Okay, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. If nobody had an interest, which I already hear that my colleague Mr. Helmuth does, I would volunteer myself, but I think I know everybody, my colleagues know that I'm sensitive to balancing family and select board duties. So right now I think I'm here. Mr. Helmuth is willing to take on this. And I agree with the CPA tie-in as well as count. That would be admirable, but I'd like to hear if any of my other colleagues between Mr. Corsi, Herb, Diggins, if they're interested. So I won't make a motion right now. I'd like to hear from my other three remaining colleagues. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan, Mr. Herb. I am happy to serve on this. Affordable Housing has certainly been something that has been talked about and there's been a lot of excitement about this particular, about the trust fund, but I'm also happy to defer to Mr. Helmuth if Mr. Helmuth wants to serve as well. Just time constraints, sometimes it depends on where I am in the roller coaster of my law practice. If Mr. Helmuth is interested in serving and has the ability to commit his time to it, then I'm happy to support his role on the trust fund. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Herb. Mr. Diggins. It is with a big sigh of relief. I hear at least two people wanting to do this because I'm doing the Housing Plan implementation committee and I have my hands and my head full with that one. And I really feel that we be someone with a deeper background in housing with respect to the financing element of it and with more of a legal background would be great at that. And that leaves all four of you in a better position than me for it, you know? So I'm gonna sit back and watch how this evolves, you know, in the voting for somebody other than me and I'm looking forward to it, you know? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. I wanna thank Mr. Herb and Mr. Helmuth for their expressions of interest on this. One thing I will say is that the board, no matter who the designee is, the board does have a significant role here because the trust needs to come back to the select board once the declaration of trust is committed. And there's a lot of activities at the trust that are subject to the approval of the select board. So I think we will, no matter who the designee is, there's an active role for us here and the trust will be coming back. So I don't make motions. So I see Mr. Herb putting his hand up. So I will turn to him. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to appoint Mr. Helmuth to the board designee to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. I'll second that. Okay. All right. The motion has been made by Mr. Herb, seconded by Mr. Diggins. Any other comments? Okay. All right. And thank you, Mr. Helmuth. And thank you, Mr. Herb, for your willingness as well. This is one of those things where the bylaw we need a member from the board and I appreciate you both for your willingness. And so with that, I will turn to Attorney Heim. Mr. Herb. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. This is Mohan. Yes. Mr. Dacorsi. Yes. It's unanimous vote. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. So now that completes, the board of trustees is now complete. So we will get in touch with the trustees and certainly the first meeting can be undertaken and the group can get going. So that's great. Item 12 is discussion and approval, letter to Massport Community Advisory Committee, Christine Bonjono, Director of Health and Human Services. Good evening, Ms. Bonjono. Good evening. Thank you so much for the opportunity to present. So I have with me Pat Martin and Myron Kasarava from Belmont. So Pat Martin is our Lead Health Compliance Officer. He's going to give you a brief, the goal tonight is to be very brief. We understand that. Presentation on his role on the Massport Community Advisory Committee and answer any questions that you may have. And then Myron will also be available to answer questions. And Myron is from Belmont and he's the representative from Belmont. So I'll toss it over to Pat. Pat Martin. Good evening, Mr. Martin. Good evening, everyone. All right, so I'll just give you a brief for the background on this. So back in 2013, the FAA had made changes to the flight path for aircraft departing runway 33L. Prior to this change, departure aircraft work was a controller based, which resulted in aircraft flying over a larger area. Basically it was more dispersed. They weren't concentrated over any one place. Plains are currently using area navigation standard injured instrument departure, also known as RNAV-CID. This departure allows aircraft to use a standard flight path when leaving. The negative to RNAV, well, this RNAV departure is that the flight paths are highly concentrated. So should you happen to live under one of those flight paths or very near it, you're getting all of the air traffic that's flowing through that area. So the FAA has put forth the proposal. And I don't know, am I able to share my screen? You should be able to. Is it showing up at the bottom of your screen? Hold on, let me see here. Yeah, share screen, perfect. Here we go. Okay, so pictures worth a thousand words and an easier explanation. So what we have here, the white tracks are what the current RNAV-CID. So you can see over Arlington, we have a couple of flight paths and it's mostly concentrated over East Arlington. Which is the area that's mostly affected by it. So the 33L communities have long been asking for some sort of dispersion to make it more equitable. So not just our residents, but residents in other communities could share the burden. This is what the FAA has put forward. Unfortunately, as you can see, the green paths are not very different. So in other words, this isn't dispersion, it's really just shifting the burden ever so slightly. And the big negative for Arlington in this case is if you look at the two green tracks, I'm not sure if my curves are showing up, but you see here in Arlington, it shifts them further north. So people who have been affected by it are not likely to see a whole lot of relief, but we would likely see a whole bunch of residents that haven't been affected by it now hearing aircraft noise at a much higher rate than they were previously. So a couple of the community members that do have a lot of interest in this, I've spoken to one of them and I received an email from another and they're very much not in favor of the proposed change, simply because it's not what the communities have been asking for. So that more or less sums it up. October 6th, the Massport Community Advisory Committee will be meeting again. A vote may come up at that time, whether or not to vote in favor or against this proposal. So I was hoping to get some feedback from the select board on this matter. Thank you, Mr. Martin. Is there anything further, Ms. Bungiwana, that you wanted to present or do you want me to open it up to questions and comments on the board? Nothing additional from me. All right, and one question from Mr. Chapter Lane. We saw the memo that was a reference to a letter. Is the letter that wasn't in the pack? I think there's a request for us to sign on to a letter, but I don't know if that can be made available or maybe we can ask what the request is to join with other communities that would like to see further dispersion for those flights that are taking off from runway 33L to summarize what you're looking for. Correct, and the letter is now available on Novus for board members to view. And basically, correct me if I'm wrong, Christine, or Pat or Myron, but the letter would be objecting to this current proposal, which would shift more burden to Arlington. Correct, yes. Okay, all right. I will now turn to the members of the board. Now start with Mrs. Mahan. Move approval. Great, thank you. Mr. Heard. I will move, I will second that. That is the letter. It's just essentially saying that we object to the new flight patterns. And I would just say with this, I defer to the experts who interpret the patterns better than I can. So if the experts who have looked at it have seen that it's worse off for the town than I certainly would be in favor of sending this letter. Okay, thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins. Yes, thank you. I have some questions. So what was the pattern before they did the new dispersion pattern? Not before they did the change that you're objecting to now, but before they did the more narrow flight pattern. Like what was the dispersion rate over Arlington at that point? So in terms of like a specific rate, it would be difficult to say. Unfortunately, there are certain slides that could kind of show it, basically when looking at the map, I mean, you could clearly see the concentrated flight paths that are currently present. And if you could look at a map from prior to 2013, it's just dispersed over a much greater area. So all the areas that are kind of in between those flight paths would be filled in by aircraft as well, not just for lack of a better way of saying it, but for the highways in the sky. Got you. So what's the rationale that the F8 has for doing this pattern? So the rationale is that it improves safety and efficiency at the airport. Safety, huh? So what level of safety? I mean, I want to understand more about that. Because that's important. So that might be a little difficult for me to say. As Myron, I think he unmuted and it might be able to say a little bit more about that if he doesn't mind. Sure, hi everyone. So if you can see my screen, let me see if I can zoom this in a little bit. But basically prior to 2013, you can see the blue tracks here. The reality is that all of the flights were being managed by air traffic control. So depending on what the utilization was in the airspace, depending on what the destination was, basically they would spread the planes out pretty randomly. And you can see that they turned a lot earlier over Somerville and parts of Cambridge. And actually Arlington and Belmont got very little traffic. The advantage of doing what they did in 2013 which is putting in these yellow flight tracks was it's all done by computer. So basically the pilot is given one of these four branches based on the waypoint. They plug it into their flight computer and basically the plane flies by wire over these tracks. And again, what it did was for Belmont, we ended up with three of the concentrated flight paths directly over our town. Arlington got two of them. Medford got all of the flight paths going over the single waypoint. And in their defense, the moving to satellite based GPS navigation is more predictable. And there's less variability. There's less opportunity for human error. And so therefore from a safety and efficiency standpoint, they have a justification. The problem is that the way they achieve that is by concentrating and putting all of the airplanes on these concentrated tracks. All right, thanks. So I heard maybe a while ago that there is like a plan for next generation of flight management where the planes will be able to, the pilots will be able to kind of navigate in on their own path. Me, once again, it'll be integrated in. Am I right about that or completely off base? Yeah, I actually asked Dr. Hansman from MIT that question on Thursday night, it was a public information session. And I think theoretically you could, you should be able to use the technology to say, well, why not have 50 flight tracks? Because they're all being run by a computer using artificial intelligence. And the reality is I think that that could be decades away. I think this is sort of the first step down an automation path. But the real limitation is that a lot of the airplanes that are still currently flying are 20 or 25 years old. And if you can remember how much memory your computer had 25 years ago, compared to what you're carrying in your pocket today, there's a big difference. And so I think that they have to use systems that basically can adapt or can be used by the current fleet. So I think there is a future scenario. Got companies like MITRE and Raytheon that are working on these types of navigation systems just right here in Massachusetts. But I think it's a ways off. All right. Well, I live in East Darlington. I hear the planes. And every time I go to Logan by subway, I am happy that the airport is close by. But the consequence of having an airport close by is that I get to hear the planes be taken off. They're not as close as if I were in Medford, or East Boston. But safety is a big deal. Unless someone tells me that the safety claims are bogus, then I think me, the more concentrated flight pass or a way to go. And to the extent that a little bit more dispersion makes it a little louder for some more people in Arlington by definition makes it less loud for some people. So they're trying. But I just can't, in good faith, be argue against it. So I will not be voting for it. I'll probably be annoying already. That's okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. I'm Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. I think I will support this mainly because it's in sense to me from what we've been told that this proposal doesn't really solve the problem that the communities have asked for. And I think that it's not a real question or just not in my backyard, not in my airspace. It's not just, it's not that. I think you make a good point that we all share the burden. But if it's just gonna make things worse for more people in our community and it's not providing relief elsewhere to other communities in a significant way, that I think that it's worth asking them to try again. So I would support that, I support the letter. Yeah, Adam, just to clarify for Mr. Diggins, the, I think what we're doing the same thing in Delmont is the vote is really asked to, whether it's to support alternative tracks. It's not to go back to what was before. So what is, are the concentrated flight tracks? There's just a proposal that's been put forward to try to, MIT tried to address the requests that we made about dispersion. And we don't think that the alternative that they came up with was what we were asking for. So I think that's, and Belmont, I'm recommending as well that we reject this new proposal. Mr. Chair, can I ask one more question? One second, Mr. Diggins, are you all set, Mr. Helmuth? Oh, yes, thank you. Okay, okay, Mr. Diggins. Yeah, thank you. So is there a possible plan that you think will make people happy or less unhappy? I'm not sure if there is. Myron, I just noticed you unmuted. So any thoughts on that? I mean, currently, no, this was the best plan that they were able to come up with. That doesn't mean that further plans can't be investigated, but I think Myron might have a better sense on that. Yeah, as you know, Frank Siano and I, we've been working on this for eight years. And there were several rotational plans that were proposed where again, ideally you would move, you would have more tracks that were used less frequently. So I do think that telling the FAA, thanks for trying for the last four years, actually for MIT trying for the last four years, but I think they need to be pushed to continue to try to use the technology to create more variations. So, you know, I'm not a flight path designer, but I would think that there should be a way that they could, you know, come up with something that's more fair and equitable than what they've got today. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Yeah, so I have a few comments. I'm actually, the wind was blowing out of the Northwest tonight. My house is directly under one of the flight paths. And I agree with Mr. Diggins to the extent when you live close to the airport, that is a benefit, right? You're able to get there quickly, not a benefit to have the planes overhead a lot, but you're close and it's understandable that that's going to happen. I do see from, if you look when planes are taking off, I think they head up right to the intersection, Route 93 and Route 16, and that's when they start veering into the various communities and you see it coming over Arlington quite a bit. And while personally, I accept that as part of living close to the airport, I do see that there may be some merit to trying to disperse that area a little bit further with other communities. But I do want to ask, what is the status of other communities that are in the flight path of 33L? What they have done to date, as far as signing on to a letter to the FAA, if we know. So, Mattford sent a letter to legislators basically expressing their disappointment in the proposal and encouraging them to push the FAA to continue to work on this and try to develop a plan that is more equitable. Outside of that, I'm not sure what other communities have done. A lot of the other CAC members still have to meet with their select boards and get feedback. So as far as where things are at this exact moment, it's hard to say. The sense is many of the communities are not in favor of this current proposal. And Myron, I don't know if you want to chime in on this a bit. You might have your finger a little bit. Well, actually you definitely have your finger a little bit more on the pulse than I do with the other communities and where they might be at. Yeah, we've had a working group with Medford, Watertown, Cambridge, Somerville, and Arlington. And we've been coordinating closely. There was a Massport and MIT and the FAA had a public information session last Thursday. So I think everybody was waiting for that information session. I'm scheduled to meet with our select board on the fourth. So next Monday. And I know that as Pat mentioned, Medford has already sent a letter, I think about a month ago from their mayor. So in general, I believe that the sentiment is, it's not what we were hoping for. Okay. Yeah. Now I can go along with supporting this letter. One thing I also want to add and one thing that I find here, and I don't know if this has been addressed at any of the meetings, but often what happens, particularly if there are weather events, you get flights leaving between midnight and 1 30 in the morning. And a lot of times it's FedEx and UPS lights that are, that have left late over the area. And it seems to me that when the traffic is not that great, there should be a way to disperse it so that it is not constantly over certain areas. Cause that's, that's the time where I really seem to notice it. And just to the point on the dispersion, there are some days where it is one flight right after another that goes overhead, notwithstanding what the modeling says. And I think that's the type of spreading the, the, the noise out that I'd like to see, but I understand that on those percent of days that the, that the winds out of the Northwest, we're going to get some flights overhead and I accept that, but I can go along with this letter to the extent of asking the FAA and, and Massport to, to look into further alternatives to maybe spread the pain. So unless there's any other questions from board members, I'll go to a vote now. I don't see any hands. So, um, so on a motion by Mrs. Mahan, a seconded by Mr. Hurd, attorney. Hi. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. No. Mr. Helen. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Corsi. Yes. It's a four one vote. Mr. Diggins voted in the negative. Thank you very much. Thank you for the presentation tonight. Thank you. Okay. Item 13 is a discussion and vote creation of 2025 celebration committee. And I will turn it over to Mr. Hurd. Thank you. This has been a long time coming to put this on the 20, 25 celebration is approaching seems far away, but we have to start getting our plans into the federal government. This got rolling prior to COVID and then kind of slowed down. And I think all the other season towns have slowed down a little bit, but seem to be ahead of us at most of the towns that are involved like Concord, Lexington, Bedford, Carlisle have all created their committees to specifically deal with what events we're going to run in Arlington during this 2025 April, 2025 celebration during our pictures day weekend. And I think at this point it would be good for us to do so. I put this on and then realize that probably should have a proposal as to what the committee would look like. So I'm happy to hear input from the board, but I know there's at least a few members of ATED that would like to be involved. There's been some interest from a few individuals that came to ATED meetings that had talked express an interest to be involved in the process. So whether it be I a few members of ATED and then whoever submits letters of interest to the select board to do so, how many members is certainly up to discussion. I just think we need an entity to that's tasked with putting together the plan that we have to submit to the federal government because it will fast approach. We do have a very specific set of guidelines as to what that event will look like. But it is an opportunity for Allington. Who is sort of the forgotten neighbor to Lexington and Bedford and Concord to show some pretty incredible historic places that we have. And we've, how much knows, use a lot of CPA funding to put a lot of work into that. And I think it will be a really great event. So that is what I'm asking for. Okay. Thank you, Mr. So I just, and I will turn to Mr. Diggins in just a moment, but just, do you see this as a committee to be created by the select board? This isn't. Once we determine what it is, is it? Okay. All right. Mr. Diggins. I'll make a motion to create the committee, but only if Mr. Heard is the select board rep for it. Okay. Okay. Okay. No way out of that one. All right. That's it for me. Thank you. Okay. I missed it. Yes. I, I second all of that. So I think it's a great idea. Do we need to, Mr. Chair, do we need to define the members of the committee right now? I think maybe what we do tonight is vote for the creation of the committee. I think it's a great idea. I think it's a great idea. I think that the position should be just in the interest of time. Great. Good. Yes. I second second that. And one suggestion that just that you probably have thought of is, is a participation by a designate from the historical society or the historic commission, whichever would be appropriate. You know, certainly inform. Well, the history. So. But it's great, great bunch of people. I think you won't have any trouble trouble getting. Participation, both from the, from the perspective of the public. And the historical. And historic angle. I think it's a really good idea to bring those two together and to try to get us on the map in a way that more than the way that we deserve. So thank you for, for this. Thank you, Mr. applying for any either federal designation, recognition, or funding, is that something that Allington would stand alone in applying for that, or is that something once this committee is created, we would anticipate joining with the Lexington Concord, et cetera, on doing that. So, again, if the answer is not readily at hand tonight, we can get it at some other time. Yeah. And Mr. Hurdy, do you have any comments on that? Don't know. I know we have the battle road destination, but I don't know how that affects the ability to find funding, but I can certainly find out. We I think we do have some meetings coming up with the other towns that I can gauge how they're funding their their events, but it's also part of the reason for getting ahead of this and creating the committee is that if we're going to have to set aside funds to have a couple years lead time to to save up, so, but I'll come back with a try to get an answer for that. Mrs. Ma. Thank you, Mr. Hurdy. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very, very happy to support. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Ma. I'm also happy to support this. And so just to frame the motion, so we have a motion to support the creation of the committee with a request for Mr. Hurd to come back with more specifics to the board at a future meeting. Is that okay? If you had to say so, that is a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Helmeth, Attorney Hime. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmeth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. DeCoursey. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Right. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. All right. Item 14 is a discussion and vote timeline for requesting expressions of interest, marijuana, and all alcohol package store licenses that goes Hime Town Council. Before I turn it over to Attorney Hime, we did vote this earlier in the year. There were a few administrative issues, so we need to set some new dates. So with that, I will turn it to Attorney Hime. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll keep this relatively short. We originally had a date for package store licenses to sort of open to be available for application on or about August 1st and to close that period in August 27th. And then to have a hearing on September 13th. Obviously that didn't really happen. There may not have been as acute interest in package store licenses. We had personally perceived, but the long and short of it is, is that what it proposed to do is to amend that date so that we open a receipt of package store license immediately. And then we basically close receipt of those by October 29th and schedule any competition for that license at your next select board meeting. If we don't receive any applications by that October deadline, there's no reason that we have to proceed as if it's closed, but we'll leave it open basically if we don't have applications by that point in time. Similarly, the host community agreement process for retail licenses, our original plan had a date that was essentially that they would open on September 15th and close on October 15th. That's not quite as delayed, but instead I think what I propose is to open October 1st for those. There's not a lot more legwork that needs to be done there. And close on October 29th. We're fairly clear that there are already a couple of interested parties or essentially waiting. So just don't want to put it out for too much longer. And then hear those applications either on the November 8th or November 22nd meeting of the select board, depending on what the board thinks, essentially just making sure that we give enough time for the marijuana study group to provide comment to the board. Again, I think while we anticipate some interest, I don't think we anticipate a lot of new applicants. I think we'll probably be seeing some applicants we've seen before, and that cuts down on the administrative time that we'll need once we receive them. And then finally, host community agreements for delivery. I'd be looking to essentially come back to the board with a date to open sometime in December. I don't think the board currently has a December meeting scheduled. And then we would be considering applications for those HCA's sometime in late January, early February, depending on, again, the marijuana study group's availability within that time period. So just to recap, I think we'd be looking to open alcohol licenses immediately and essentially close those at the end of October and have the board take up any applications that are submitted to it at its next earliest meeting. The HCA for retail marijuana, which I think is probably takes a little bit more time and energy of both the board and the marijuana study group, for example, would be open to October 1st, closed October 29th, and that the board would either be prepared to hear those at the earliest on its meeting on November 8th, at the latest, it's November 22nd. Okay, thank you, Turingheim. And just for clarification, October 29th is a Friday, so that's the, I'd be the last business day in October. And my recollection is we did not vote on the delivery license and we won't be taking a vote on that this evening either. It's just the all alcohol package store license and the HCA for retail. Is that correct? Yes, I'm sorry. Recommendation. Yes. Okay. All right, great. All right, I will turn it to the board, Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, I will move to approve those dates and so I have no further comment. Okay, thank you, Mr. Holmuth. Thank you. I'll second that. Just a quick question to Mr. Heim, if I could. So did we receive any applications for package store at all during the period? Not yet. Okay. Yeah. So I think it's fairly that open. And if we don't get any this time, would it stay open or would we just have the option to reopen it? It always stays open. It's not that someone can apply for it. It's that originally we thought there might be a little bit more of a competition for the package store license. The board has traditionally wanted to try to make sure these are equitably distributed and competitively given. So we're hoping to have a competitive processes and look like that. If we don't get applicants, you know, in advance of those dates, then I think we would just obviously leave it open and and let folks come to the board as they roll in. Got it. Yeah. Great. Thank you. No more questions. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. I'm no question. Thank you. Hey, Mr. Herd. No comments or questions. OK, and I don't either support the dates as outlined. So on a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Helmuth, attorney. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Of course. Yes. So yeah, so thank you, folks, for for bearing with me on this. Thank you, attorney. Next is correspondence received item 15, crosswalk across Summer Street at Newland. It says Newland Street at Newland Road, Paul Easton, 133 Sunset Road, item 16, errors in draft housing plan, Patricia Warden, 27 Jason Street and item 17, prioritization for restoration of Cook's Hollow, Beth Milothchuk, 20 Russell Street. Mr. Helmuth. Move receipt. Mrs. Mahan. Second. Mr. Herd. No comments. OK, and Mr. Diggins. So quick question. Quick question after my microphone was off. Quick question. So what's the plan to, are we planning to address the crosswalk issue in some way? Now we have a motion for receipt. If you'd like to amend that for a referral, Mr. Chapter, I don't know if a referral to attack would be appropriate or. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And given that the residents also wrote to attack the board formally referring to attack, it seemed to make good sense. OK, so if we could take that as a friendly amendment, Mr. Helmuth, or. Yes, yeah, that's a good idea. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Problem. You're welcome. OK. And I believe that's everybody with me. I have no further questions or comments. So on a motion on number 15 to receive and refer to attack and on 16 and 17 to receive motion made by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mrs. Mahan, returning hounds. Mr. Herd. Yes, Mr. Diggins. Yes, Mr. Helmuth. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yes, Mr. Diggins. Yes, it's unanimous vote. OK, I am going to take new business out of order because we're going to have a request to go into executive session after that, and we won't be returning for that. So for new business, attorney Heim. No new business. Thank you. OK, Mr. Chapter Lane. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just two brief pieces of new business. One this Saturday, I was able to attend an event in front of Town Hall. At noon, Mr. Diggins also joined. And this event was put together by mothers out front in Sustainable Arlington to advocate for the repair of gas leaks and the eventual and but hopefully soon transition off natural gas altogether. This really was a culmination of a lot of work by the Gas Leaks Task Force over the years to raise awareness about gas leaks in town. But good event. They get a lot of foot traffic walking by to sign postcards to send to National Grid to ask for or to advocate for fixing the gas leaks. So it was a very positive event being put on. And then the second one I would share, and I think some of you have shared this with me, but I continue to hear from residents overwhelming support or approval of the beer garden that's been held at the Jason Russell House lawn. So good job to the board for seeing the wisdom of supporting at this year. Thank you, Mr. Chapter Lane. Mr. Helman. Well, the town manager stole my thunder. I was going to also praise the beer garden. That is always all right, Mr. Chapter Lane. It was a good idea. And I have to say, my husband and I enjoyed the very first one of these. And it was terrific to see what a family-focused, family-friendly event it was. There were kids running around, adults. The Outlaw Service was really well done with perfect, responsible posting. The food was good from Anonymy Tavern. It was a great day out. It was really, really rewarding to see the community enjoying themselves. So nice to thank us. But it wasn't our idea. We just said yes. So thanks to you, Mr. Chapter Lane, and your team and the others who came up with the idea. Thank you, Mr. Helmets. Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And as the town manager mentioned to me, I was at that event on Saturday. And it was a really nice event. But I'm a bit of a mama's boy. So being around a bunch of others, me who are fighting and working hard to make the world better of me for their kids and grandkids was a pleasant thing to do. And there was even one person who was, used to be the chair of Sustainable Arlington, who had a grandmother's out front shirt on. It was really very nice. And I'll also mention that on October 11th, Mr. Helmets and I are going to be doing an event with the Rainbow Coalition on National Coming Out Day. And so the details haven't been worked out, but we'll make it interesting. Otherwise it'll just turn into another brainstorming session. So come over, hang out, whatever, thanks. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Herd. Thank you. I also wanted to talk about the beer guy. So I'll be brief, I guess. But no, it was a great event. We went with the boys and that was just such a perfect location for it. The open, expansive grass in front of the Jason Russell House was really well-suited for that type of event, as opposed to what we dealt with before with the train tracks and whatnot. So it was really well attended. I know I talked to Billy over at Minotv Tavern and said that they had a successful stint there as well. So I think it's a roadmap for things to come at the Jason Russell House and it was a really good event. And then I just, since I have a platform, I'd like to wish happy anniversary, 46th anniversary to my mother and father, 46 years strong. So usually they watch the meetings, but I think they're out to dinner. So they'll have to watch it on the ACMI. Great, great. Well, I hope they're out to dinner today. Yeah, and congratulations to Jack and Dale. And this is Mahan. Well, I kind of feel handicapped as I'm not, I kind of speak about severe guns. Although I did share it on my Facebook list. My new business is full business. It has to do with the compensation for essential employees. I just want to stress again that I feel the town should give the maximum, which is five million, not five, seven million. And I'm also hoping that, although I haven't heard anything different beyond the one union, that the town manager will please me with the other unions to negotiate as he stated he would do, as well as I know for non-union employees, we've pretty much failed through working at home, hybrid remote working, which I'm a supporter of, because I've done it as a court reporter, but today the one highly relevant union that it would apply to, which would not be police fire, has reached out to the town, reached out to human resources, and there has been no meeting scheduled. Whereas non-union employees, it's a done deal as of March 31st. And once again, I feel my personal feeling and if any of my colleagues agree on a giving essential workers the max, which would be five million, which means between the years of 2019 to 2024, all town employees would receive $3,000 to $4,000 each year for their active COVID service that our non-union employees, thankfully don't have to expose themselves to, as well as it should, I don't understand the hold up for hybrid remote working with the unions when we've sailed it through with non-union. And I'd really like to see, A, those meetings that I've been told will happen, actually happened as well as B, the manager reached out to all the unions, as he said he would do, starting back in end of June, July to negotiate, and I'd like it to be for the MET. Sorry to be Diane Downer, but I'm still very not happy about that, thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Mahan. So I just have a couple pieces of new business. We did have a smaller group of the long range planning committee meet last week. The full long range planning committee will be meeting on October 15th, and then we've got some within the five year plan, the significant deficits in the future to start talking about, I did get asked before the meeting tonight about the re-precincting. There was some earlier on there was some discussion that we would be talking about the proposed number of precincts tonight, as you know, it was not on the agenda. I believe that is going to be on our agenda for our next meeting on October. That's my intention right now. I need to just clear through a few things. And I also wanna tell people that we will have the upper discussion on at our next meeting, which correct me on the day, I believe it's October 13th for our next meeting. So that will be an agenda item just like we talked about last time. And we wanna get information on the table for that meeting. The last thing I wanna talk about is, it's just sometimes you look at local government and send things move slower than how people would like them to move. And then sometimes it works. And we had a hearing at our, I believe it was our last meeting or two meetings ago because last meeting was a makeup session for the installation of stop signs at Wellesley Road in Patrick Street. I wanna recognize Mr. Feeney and Mr. Rademacher and Officer Roteau and the town manager. That was a concern that neighbors raised to us. We got it on our agenda on September 20th. Officer Roteau took a look from the time the request came in, agreed that there should be a stop sign. We voted it on Monday, September 20th. On Wednesday, September 22nd, the stop signs were installed. And that was one of those instances we heard from neighbors. The request was, it made perfect sense. And everybody seemed to work together to get that down. It's one of those instances where I look back on it, that's really makes you feel good about getting some things done in a timely fashion. So thank you to Mr. Feeney and Mr. Rademacher for going out the day after the meeting to check on things and reporting back through the town manager that the installation was going to occur that week, which was actually the next day. So with that, that will close our new business. We do have two executive session items on the agenda. I will read those items and ask for a vote. We will not be coming back as part of the vote. I'll ask that we don't, we will adjourn from the executive session. So item A is to conduct a strategy session in preparation for contract negotiations with non-union personnel, the town manager, and or conduct contract negotiations with same. Item B, to comply with or act under the authority of any general special law or federal grant in aid requirements, which is the approval of executive session meetings, executive session minute, excuse me, executive session meeting minutes of August 9th, 2021. Sorry, is a tongue twister. So if I could have a motion to go into executive session. Mr. Chair, may I just interject something really quickly? Sure, I'm sorry, Tony Hine. I apologize. I just want to clarify that it's correct to say that the negotiation component of things in preparation for strategy in negotiation with the manager would be detrimentally impacted by having it in an open session, correct? Correct. Yeah, that's right. Thank you for that clarification. Mr. Chairman, if I could move that we go into executive session for items A and B, as you have previously stated, and then when we come out of executive session, it's solely for the purposes of a motion to adjourn. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Moran. Do I have a second? Tony Hine. I'm sorry, this is my fault. I should have said this. If you want to adjourn from executive session, you may. You don't have to come back out if you don't want to. I just want to make that clear. If you want to adjourn from executive session, you may state so now. And I apologize, Ms. Moran. I should have raised that, I apologize. Okay, if you want to do it that way, it's a pass, we've always gone into executive session, come out of executive session to the meeting. We either take a vote or we adjourn. So I kind of prefer to do that because that's what we've done in the past. It doesn't mean ACMI, you know, hang around and wait for that. But I'd like to say with what we've done traditionally is we go into executive session, we come out, we're back in session, we either take a vote, which we're not going to, or we adjourn. We can't let that go. Of course. Okay, all right, there's a motion by Mrs. Mohan. Do I have a second? Seconded by Mr. Herd. Any comments from Mr. Diggins or Mr. Helmut? Just a question. So if we do it the way that Ms. Mohan recommended, does ACMI, does that require you to wait for us to finish and then put our adjournment back on broadcast? No, it does not. That's what I just said. They don't have to hang over. Okay, thank you. Hey, Mr. Diggins? I have no comment. Okay, okay. I have no comment either. Attorney Hyme. Mr. Herd? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Helmut? Yes. Mrs. Mohan? Yes. Mr. Jacorsi? Yes. Motion carries. We're now in executive session. Great. Thank you.