 Calling to order the meeting of the Allenton select board for Monday July 19th 2021 good evening. This is Steve D'Corsi select board chair with me this evening our other board members I was going to introduce themselves beginning with mr. Diggins my name is John Her In staff Adam chapterling town manager Doug Hyme town council Lauren Costa select board office Tonight's meeting of the Allenton select board is being conducted in person in the select board chambers in town hall The meeting is also being simulcast online in interest of providing additional access and piloting hybrid meeting technologies See I have three additional notes before we begin the meeting first We have reduced the seating capacity for the select board chamber to provide Greater social distancing for persons who are required to be physically present or wish to Observe the proceedings in person We respectfully request that those in person attendees waiting for their business item on the agenda Wait in the larger higher capacity Alliance hearing room where this meeting will be simulcast When it's your turn or if you'd like to comment on an agenda item Please enter the chamber for your business and exit when you have finished Furthermore, we respectfully ask that all non-vaccinated persons wear a mask while they are in town hall second Board member Len Diggins is participating remotely this evening consistent with remote participation guidelines for board members as such All business will be conducted by roll call vote Similar to the manner in which we would conduct our meetings via zoom Third while this meeting is being conducted in person It is also available via zoom is being recorded and is being simultaneously 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 Further all participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves and During public hearings in the open forum period I will call first upon persons physically present in town hall and then afford public comment or open forum To persons joining the meeting by zoom we will promote zoom participants one at a time and We'll be able to see and hear them on screens Set up in the select board chamber as mr. Diggins and other members of the public observe online Finally both Zoom participants and people watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials Also found on the town's website using the novice agenda platform With that I note that other than mr. Diggins all members of the board are present as well as town manager Adam chapter lane town council Douglas Hine and board administrator tonight Lauren Costa Before I turn to the first item on the agenda I'd like to ask the board members of the public here if we could have a moment of silence for Kevin Feeley Kevin Feeley was on the board of selectmen between 1964 and 1970 he was on the board of assessors between 1986 and 2021 he passed away on June 24th 2021 so if we could have a moment of silence for mr. Feeley Thank you I'll now turn to the next First item on the agenda this evening Which is item 2 on the agenda an update on the housing production plan Jenny rate director of planning and community development. Good evening. Sorry. Good evening. I'm great to see everybody in person Tonight I'm just giving you an overview of where we're at with the housing production plan and hopefully answer any questions that you might have So the housing production plan is a plan that positions the town to better meet local housing needs and Demand and in doing so work towards the chapter 40 b 10 percent statutory minimum As you know, that is a requirement statewide under state law The town's current subsidized housing inventory, which is monitored by my department is at 5.66 percent So we're just shy of we're but we're depending upon the addition of new units were about 5.7 percent But you don't add units to the inventory until you have a certificate of occupancy So you have to wait until that happens The current five-year plan which was adopted by the redevelopment board and select board and approved by DHCD in 2016 Now expires in November So that's why we're updating the plan and the plan consists of three components a housing needs and demand assessment and analysis of development constraints our capacity to meet those Issues and demands and the opportunities that exist in town for new development as well as preservation And then it will be followed by an implementation plan that consists of outlining the housing goals and strategies that we can use to achieve them Again, it's a five-year plan So it has some level of ambition, but of course there's many practical Non-regulatory and regulatory items that go into the plan the six member housing plan Implementation committee is charged with implementing the actions identified in the housing production plan The implementation of the plan has been carried out mostly by my department as well as the HPIC as well as the ARB The plan can help achieve multiple goals Including creating multiple pathways to opportunity through the creation and preservation of housing Intersecting with other planning efforts that my department and other departments are engaged in Including our transportation plan, which we will hear about later this evening the net zero action plan Which you'll hear about at your next meeting and the recently completed fair housing action plan as well as serving as a springboard for the Arlington affordable housing trust fund action plan and Also to inform the eventual update of the community preservation plan which the CPA committee uses when considering future CPA investments Earlier this year the HPIC and department engaged in a process to hire a consultant to help craft the next five-year housing plan We hired Barrett planning group with Horsley Whitten group in April to begin working on that plan The plan update has been funded by the Arlington community development block grant program Today, we've established and begun implementing the community engagement strategy as well as holding interviews Forum in June, which was attended by 50 people We learned about and discussed housing needs and challenges and opportunities for housing in Arlington and the needs assessment That is now in progress is nearing completion We've reached out to town boards and committees local organizations and multiple entities in Arlington to engage in the plan creation process And we hope that more people will continue to engage Attending the farmers market weekly has been an interesting Opportunity to engage people of course while they're shopping and when they're not And talking about their housing ideas and issues And then lastly we've created something called a meeting in a box Which is available through my department to assist people who might want to host their own discussions about housing So with that I'll say according to a recent report published by the Lincoln Institute for land policy Which is called through the roof? There are several guiding principles for local governments playing a role and taking action to address the housing affordability crisis This includes the adoption of a formal local housing strategy with clearly articulated goals policy tools and Metrics to measure success. I am proud that Arlington will be guided by this new plan and look forward to working with the board Of course and others in the community to implement that plan and have it take shape. I would be glad to answer any of your questions Thank you I'll turn it to the board for questions. I'm mr. Diggins Thank You mr. Chair, and I move receipt of this rates report Thank you Any questions comments? So The way you said interesting about the former's market makes me one of them more and if there's anything you want to share about that I'm all ears The the market Oh, you said mom that you were meeting folks at the farmers market with the farmers market Yes, we've we've set up a table at the front of the farmers market and we basically have Flyers that outline sort of the plan process what to anticipate from the plan what we can achieve using housing plan And then ways for people to engage so currently as a follow-up to the housing forum We actually had an open Google forum Which is still open online for people to contribute to essentially a mini survey So anybody can do that and then we're also just talking with people about housing issues A lot of people have had many many questions and ideas to share So it's really just an opportunity to engage with people tell them about the housing plan and then invite them to participate And further engagement opportunities and try to get people to do the meeting in a box by the way, so If you know anybody Yes, thanks. Well, it says I'm involved me with the group is a liaison me with a housing plaintiff notation committee I'm as a liaison from select board. He most of my questions and concerns have been addressed there So I will just pass along to my colleagues Thank You mr. Diggins and mr. Helen Thank you. I will second the motion by my colleague mr. Diggins And no questions, but just appreciation for the good work of the committee to date and the good work That's going to happen in the creativity of you and your staff in outreach. I love it Thank you. Thank you, mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahon. Thank you for doing this Just a quick answer is fine with me and something may preclude this sort of Interface but I'm just wondering where you're talking with groups if there's anything officially sort of working with the housing authority as well as Have you or do you have plans if it's appropriate to get that information to the ford different the monotony manner Association is just getting formed, but the other three also or is are you precluded by that because it's separate No, we have actively been trying to engage with the housing authority through board members as well as tenant leaders Through the associations so we have distributed that information Of course if anybody is listening right now and still wants that information We encourage you to contact our department directly But we have been actively trying to engage and there's nothing that would preclude them from participating anybody tenants or Board members or anybody simply interested in public housing great And I should have known you're already on top of it. Appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you. Mrs. Mahon. Mr. Heard thank you. No questions. Just as Mr. Helmuth said thank you for your continued efforts Me and Mr. Helmuth just went through an election cycle and when you go through an election cycle You learn what issues are really the hot-potting issues in the minds of Arlington residents and housing was top of the list So I am proud of the efforts that Arlington has done to be a leader in this field. So, thank you Thank you, Mr. And I just want to echo my colleagues comments and also commend you for the Information that's on the website and through the planning department. There's a number of links To the forum that was conducted on June 9th the press release from a 11th and other Activities coming up. So thank you for that Okay, so an emotion to accept the report from this rate from made by mr. Diggins seconded by mr. Helmuth attorney. Hi Mr. Mr. Helmuth. Yes Mr. Her. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, this is mahan. Yes, Mr. DeCorson. Yes, it's unanimous vote Item number three town clerk presentation regarding Precincting requirements and proposed reduction and number of precincts Julie Brazil town clerk. Good evening, miss Brazil. Good evening Mr. Chapter Lane, are you able to run the slides? I believe so All right, so Good evening. I want to just quickly run through the basic process and then we'll look at a few maps and Talk a little bit about the next steps so the basic Requirement is that every ten years we have to Look at the population and look at the map and whether we need to redraw it If the population has not changed substantially or has changed in proportion, you don't have to move the lines but you have to go through the exercise of Studying the population numbers and if the map still works the select board approves the final map and then we submit it to the There's a review commission that the state sets up to approve precincting maps The draft maps that we got from the state are very preliminary their numbers are Estimates only but it gives us a starting place The state does think that a lot of our precincts would have to move so it's worth Taking the time this summer to do a little bit of our homework and I'll talk a little bit more about how I'm envisioning that happening When a precinct line moves Even just over by a block all of the town meeting members in that precinct have to run again and It's it's this is sort of set up in state law where everybody goes on the ballot The top four vote-getters are seated for the three-year seats and then the next four for the two-year seats and on down This may sound familiar because town meeting passed homeroom legislation and the special town meeting last year For all of our if assuming it's approved all of our town meeting elections will follow a similar model in Any given year anybody who wants to run for town meeting will get on the ballot And we'll do the vote order thing and we'll seat the four-year seats first And if there are vacancies for two year or one year continue filling them that way So there won't be separate races for town meeting which will be less confusing for everyone So and so we'll all be getting used to that basic model So let's talk a little bit about the requirements for actually drawing the precincts They're fairly standard. They're fairly straightforward spelled out clearly in the law The Secretary of State's office will help us Tweak our maps and and lines and experiment with what happens as we shift things around And I think it's important to look at some variations things. We should consider are Where are where they're a line change could affect a community of interest and whether that has a negative impact Which we would not want to do We can project forward where we think we might have polling locations You know in a couple of years we might be able to use the high school as a polling location And so the map we draw can take that into account if we think that that's a likelihood and then we would want to flag residential development that we think is likely to happen over the next 10 years and Keep those precincts at the lower end of the population range so that as the growth happens They don't become sort of wildly out of balance with the rest of the precincts So I won't read everything on the slide. Oh So yeah, the let's yeah, let's just look quickly at the requirements slide But it's it's pretty straightforward the state caps it at 4,000 residents And then asks that they be fairly compact geographically and that we Consider all you know sort of all of the basics around elections. All right, so then let's move on to some statistics Elections are They're fun. They're fascinating Hopefully engaging for lots of people. That's that's what we all want And they're of course evolving as Massachusetts considers changing its laws after we learned a Lot from going through the experience of holding big elections during a pandemic so we don't know what the new rules for elections are going to be and That makes it a little tricky to plan But at this point it looks like we should be planning for all three possible modes of voting in person at the polls on election day in person early voting at town hall Which will probably be available as a as an option for even local town elections going forward and then vote by mail And of course the the details for each of those kind of matter, but we won't know for a bit We have right now more precincts than are required under the law and so that creates some additional costs in terms of Actual costs paying workers and then just the logistics and the complexities of having so many precincts and Since all of our polling locations double or even triple up We're really We're really the the effect for people voting is it's a much larger geographical area Because they're not voting in their actual precinct. They're voting by sort of these larger geographical groupings And so, you know where you actually vote becomes the thing that sticks in your head for a lot of people more than the actual number of their precinct I Think for me one positive of the pandemic was it caused everyone to try some new stuff and to work really hard and you know, and we learned a lot doing the elections And I think we were very successful at having very high turnout during very awkward circumstances where Turnout in person was a concern and vote by mail was a very successful experiment I'm cognizant of the fact that the federal government helped pay a lot of the overtime For staff that that's probably not going to be true in the future Vote by mail is fabulous, but it's a lot of work for my staff and we successfully pulled that off by Borrowing the parking control officers because they didn't have any parking laws to enforce So I'm kind of constantly reminded of you know We got we had this sort of the special circumstance, but going forward. I'm really trying to think about what's what's sustainable And practical and efficient for running elections So with that in mind, let's dig in just a little more on elections The complexity of vote by mail does increase When you have more precincts because you have to keep 21 different ballots organized and separate For both in person early voting and vote by mail The big impact on election day is that the state sets minimum standards for staffing each precinct But those minimums assume We're written at a time and it may change when everybody came to vote in person for the most part So we're sort of tied to staffing levels that may not be I may need the same bodies, but I'd like to be able to spread them out the way The voting patterns are actually telling us And there are other efficiencies that I want to try we can certainly do more with volunteers We had some very successful volunteer time Creating ballot kits for them in March for the town election And and and that you know again that speeds things up for processing the mailing screen so as we get to So yeah, we can go to slide six now and this is The announcement that everyone's been waiting for I think that we should take advantage of this opportunity To Look at the maps and I think we should consider redrawing the map to give us 16 precincts instead of 21 It will make our polling locations and voter experience more uniform We'd have to meaning we'd have two precincts in each of the eight polling locations that we currently use And if we have two precincts in a location It becomes more feasible to consider having one warden supervise two precincts and then I can you know then I can Repurpose election staffing somewhat and have more people actually handling the ballots So I mean there's a bunch of stuff we can try but I would have that would be difficult if we had some precincts Some warden supervising two and some three precincts We have 21 tabulators now However, the spare tabulators Can be repurposed. There's some some ways to do central tabulation that we could explore that would enable us to handle Vote by mail ballots separately and not send all of them to the precincts And that again could be very helpful in being able to respond to very high turnout elections. I Also want to note that our total number of precincts is Very out of line with what other towns do Brookline the largest town by population Has 16 precincts and that's one more than they would be required to have Plymouth has 15 precincts. Bill Ricca has the same 11 precincts that we would be required to have now based on our population and so There are a number of towns that have one extra precinct over what they're required as a cushion so that they're not forced with Having to add a precinct because their population tipped over a threshold But we're not we're not we're not at that cushion stage. We've just decided we want a lot of small precincts So let's talk about the impact of the change A I think it would make for a very exciting town election There would be there would be a lot of there would be a lot of interest I do understand that it is stressful for town meeting members who would all have to run again if we are drawing all the lines over But yeah, we have certainly have time to make all the plans to support that kind of election and that kind of voter engagement We would be able to set up systems where we can gather and publish candidate statements. I would want to make sure that we had town meeting vote histories In an easily accessible Format on the web page and help people understand how to evaluate the voting records of town meeting members. I Do understand that this would also impact the number of people on the finance committee And that that could be A concern and certainly worth the conversation about those impacts but again, I think the goal of being able to better respond to the next decades of Changes in elections. It makes it worth the conversation and and the discomfort that would come with the change like this Just there are a lot of things that go into something like this when you change precinct lines you Notify voters by mail that their precinct has changed all of this is Another way to another way of you know voter engagement every time you Communicate with voters about elections it helps remind them that we have them and the town elections Definitely could use some attention some years So finally, let's talk about the timeline The preliminary numbers are as I said very preliminary Adam Kraske says he's talked to GIS counterparts who think the numbers are potentially pretty inflated so we won't really know until August or September when we start getting The the more real numbers However, there's plenty that we can do over the summer Of course, we have to have the discussion about how many precincts we want and I think it's prudent to you know have that conversation Not first but definitely put make that decision so that we put more effort into perfecting The real map with the real number of precincts that we're aiming for Because we definitely want to gather be able to gather input. We know the maps the 21 Precinct map puts a line right through an apartment complex, which we would not do but the computer generated Maps just sort of toss it out based on Sheer numbers of people so we want to we definitely want to look at all of those things And and be getting input from people Course I stand ready to help in any way I can working with Adam Kraske On GIS and Kelly line them up in planning the election modernization committee has also indicated They would be willing to organize some virtual sessions just to help with gathering feedback as we get sort of More realistic maps or sort of start looking at scenarios Just sort of where where we're more comfortable with the lines So I think we can at this point just go through the maps The we have two versions of each map So we can start with just the 16 precincts map Just to see what that looks like And you know if you sort of stop and think about where things are now It represents a pretty big change More precincts are crossing Mass Ave, which we traditionally haven't done But it's sort of you can sort of see Dense and and less dense neighborhoods and And sort of start to wrap your head around it. Let's for fun look at the 21 precinct map with the lines Because that's the next most the thing but people are curious about which is if we stuck with 21 precincts, you know How are the lines moving? And the answer is They move a lot Almost every precinct The lines would move and I understand it's a little difficult to see At this scale, but There there's some major changes Projected in sort of in population and so I think there was a lot for us to look at So I wanted certainly leave time for questions and be respectful of your Agenda tonight, so I'll stop Okay Thank You mr. President before I turn it over to board members for questions or comments I want to ask a turning heim for a little bit more information just in terms of Timelines and in the statutory requirements for the repressing thing Thank You mr. Chair. Thank You mr. Brazil The couple things that I want to emphasize just for everybody's clarity, especially the public is that this is a compulsory process and under ordinary times what we would be required to do is by June 15th approve official description of precincts using the new census data estimate the number of people in each precinct using the new census data and Provide a map showing New precincts now that might mean you keep exactly the same number of precincts and there's only slight changes to a few It might mean something more comprehensive like the town clerk is discussing But that would ordinarily be done by June 15th in a census year Of course the problem is is that we're nearly would be get census data by January or February of this year So since we haven't received that information. It's a factual impossibility to comply with chapter 54 section 6 Right now there are two bills Being discussed in the legislature both of which basically proposed a similar idea To address this issue and the Secretary of State is proposing a slightly I don't want to say it's a different timeline. It may well be harmonious, but the bills are essentially proposing to do Redistricting first and then Represinct ordinarily you would Represinct first because your precincts are your basic building blocks of our local democracy Each precinct and then they basically build districts based on those precincts I'm not exactly sure how it would work for the redistricting to go before increasing thing but the I'm sorry It's children like that. Hold off for a second. Are we having a problem with zoom or we're having a broad Sure, yeah, we can we'll just pause for a minute until we get that back That this is the laboratory we're talking we talked about earlier this year for Hybrid meetings, so So we knocked off a CMI as well or just zoom Recording in progress Sean we're having a problem with zoom, so we're just trying to get that resolved before we restart We should be back on now, you know, Mr. Hurd, okay, sirs Okay, we'll just wait for Mr. Hurd to come back. So again We wanted to be back in the chambers. I think it's a good idea to be back in the chambers However, there's going to be glitches with technology and As we've said with live TV, that's what happens sometimes. So we're back and Mr. Hurd is back. So with that to any time I don't know if you remember exactly where you were but If you'll indulge me, Mr. Chair would it be okay if I start it over? Sure So I just want to sort of set the table so that everybody is very clear Especially members of the public on what's happening every ten years the town is required It's not discretionary to engage in quote-unquote re-precincting based on Census data that's developed basically every decade that Requirement is set forth in state law and it would ordinarily require the select board to vote on official descriptions of precincts using the most recent census data an estimate of the number of people in each precinct using census data and maps showing Quote-unquote new precincts using census data when I say new I just mean that the Presby the census data is very precise. It presents Things down to a block level detail So it's likely that some precincts are going to have some kind of redrawing involved based on changes in population That doesn't mean that you have to change from 21 precincts. It doesn't mean that you have to keep 21 It's merely that you may end up reaffirming almost exactly the same thing we have now or you may end up making small changes big changes It's ultimately up to the board But it's supposed to be using census data that ordinarily we would receive in January or February Because of the pandemic we don't even have of it as of this juncture So we can't factually comply with the laws June 15th deadline. There are two bills in the state legislature Both essentially proposed to do something that would be a little bit unorthodox ordinarily we used the precinct data that's established by Cities in towns and then take those precincts and build districts out of them The legislature's current proposals would essentially establish new district lines before municipalities finalized the precinct lines precinct areas to my understanding What's really important about that aside from a larger sort of political discussion that I'm not qualified to get into is that most of these bills are giving some sort of timeframe for Establishing precincts after that redistricting and the census is currently reporting that their official data won't be available to the end of September Because it's not available to this end of September Even though the legislature will likely move very very swiftly to do any redistricting if that's ultimately the route they go They choose to go on We may not have a tremendous amount of time to have a more comprehensive discussion with the finalized census data Before we have to start thinking about our nomination papers, which we people typically start pulling in December and June I mean January So it's important to have these conversations now all this data is highly preliminary and we will have to use Will be required to use the official census data as it is finalized and completed in September The Secretary of State reports that he believes that we will have at least somewhat adequate data I believe sometime in the end of August mid August a few other quick notes And this again is mostly just for the public's sort of edification when this board ultimately approves whatever Precinct description descriptions and maps and get submitted to the local election district review Commission And that commission will make sure that it essentially complies with the law that miss Brazil sort of outlined And there are some very distinct things that they always look for these have not traditionally been issues at all in Arlington I'm not aware of this ever being a problem in Arlington But for example in other municipalities that might be concerned They want to make sure that there's nothing called packing or fragmentation, which is either Concentration or Dissolution of minority voter interests as miss Brazil sort of referenced so It's important for us to have this discussion now because it may be that we have a very short time window once the official data is released and At the same time we can't make any final pronouncements until we have that final thank you Thank you, attorney. Hi and and just for for clarification before I turn to my colleagues Miss Brazil made the presentation tonight. She said no matter what we do if we have 20 continue 21 precincts The precincts have to be redrawn the 16 precinct proposal that you brought before She're not looking for a vote for us this evening to go to 16 It's to receive that information and see do we want to have start a process where we hear from the public? About changing the number of precincts. I just wanted to clarify that in case it was And for the public's benefit as well that this isn't a vote that we're gonna take tonight But I think it's important as miss Brazil and attorney Heim said to start a dialogue and think about what is before us over The next few months. So with that I will start with mr. Herd Move receipt Thank you for the presentation. I do note on both maps. I'm no longer going to be in precinct 18 So I look forward to maybe being mr. Helmholtz new home I Look forward to the discussion and input With you know from residents and town meeting members About where they want to go in what direction with the precincts, you know, I do have concerns about the we have so much participation at all levels including town meeting to see how that will impact our meeting members and the reactions we get from town meeting members and just You know residents who like the way that their precinct is currently set up So I look forward to the discussions and you know, we'll see where it goes from there. Thank you, mr. Herd. Mrs. Mahan. I'd like to second mr. Herd's motion and I definitely like everyone with the town clerk initiating this conversation definitely have a community conversation Also While Lee where cognizant of the fact that Our chairman who also chairs the long-range planning committee There's been some, you know, really big numbers talked about in terms of what our budget could look like In 2023 2024, you know putting aside the I think it's afra whatever they're calling the funding from the federal What is it? Okay? So and I think I'm hearing this from mom the town clerk is that That when we do engage with the community or when the community engages with us one of the things I'm always looking for Sort of what the chair and the chair of finance committee mr. Foskett has said to we really need to look at you know What we do for business what the cost of doing that business is and so I really would be interested in I think I heard from your remarks that sort of get a census a feeling From people not only the 16 versus 21 versus maybe 18 or whatever I'd really like to get a sense of if we at some point I'm trying to think of cost savings and the select board office is doing it We're down a full-time person and a pot time person so Also get gained people's interest in doing like Burlington having in one place they have it at their high school Something that I've been hearing from people Everybody wants to stay and vote where they vote and I've also pointed out well the cost of voting It's triple gone triple fold between vote by mail vote a week early So I'd also like to put out there if we had three central polling locations throughout the town whether regardless of the number of precincts that we have but I'd really like to get a handle on sort of consolidating a lot of those costs because I know doing business during the pandemic was really slow People are just starting to come back online and I Know the select board office is going through this exercise and it really has to lead by example has to trickle over Into other departments. So if you could also explore the one central or three Central to East center Heights. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Mrs. Mahon. Mr. Helmuth Thank you. Thank you madam clerk for your hard work on this and we've been thinking about this for a long time and You know, I'm cognizant that we get to do this every 10 years that we have to try to Predict the future for those next 10 years and that is hard. I appreciate the thought that you've given to how elections may be changing and Yet we don't know how it's all going to shake out, you know with vote by mail and I'm not sure the legislature knows Yet either But it's important that we we approach this I think with that kind of foresight in mind. I Also agree with my colleagues to heard that this process particularly if we do contemplate Reducing the number of precincts needs to be a public process with a lot of public input a lot of listening to do I'm open to it, but I have a lot of listening to do and a lot to learn about that and I'm Having said that We don't have a lot of time to do this and I think there and there's the rub, you know in and Another we can't establish that tonight, but I think for me those that's how I see the guard reels, you know that that Do this we need to have a public process, but we don't a lot of time to do it I did have a couple of questions about And I don't know if this is Don council or the clerk, but with the bills in the legislature did I understand that it's possible we might Be granted time after October 31st to do this if they decided to redistrict and first I don't I mean so The memos I've been getting Spell out one process because that's what we're trying what I was set in place. So I don't really know if we know Sure, man. Sure to my understanding one of the bills essentially gives us 30 days to Engage in the repressing thing after the redistricting is finalized and then another one would offer a little bit more Flexibility than that essentially is the best summary I can give of it. These things aren't finalized. I know that Legislature is taking this very seriously, and they've gotten a lot of feedback and So it's hard to say the only sort of deadlines that we only dates it can really be certain of Is the date the US census is saying that they're going to finalize their data and And the current deadline to submit our maps by October 30th And that I suppose change if they write a new law so that can be moved up even potentially I think what would happen is they would It's more likely that if they pass a new law, they would be doing the redistricting first If that happens Things get a little more creative for us because of what's what's what's real on the ground in terms of our population we might end up having to Draw one of our precincts through You know awkwardly in relationship and so some people in precinct to would vote for one state rep and and another and and I mean it would be chaos There would be two different ballots in precinct to and keeping track of that would be Nightmarish not a fan of the concept Finally I just wanted to revisit the maps, and I think you know they're loose online Which is a very good thing, but I think that most people in the public look at those maps And they thought we were gonna vote on it tonight, you know, and they think it's final and I think I'm hearing language like Very preliminary Could you speak to just how preliminary either map is and what how much of that could be subject to change? It could change anything we want the maps were computer generated It was there was no thought put into You know whether moving it over a block would Make more sense because of a a school line or you know Like I said one of the maps draws it draws the line right through an apartment complex, which we would never do So and that's the problem when the with the computer generates the those census blocks, you know, it makes sense to the computer So Thank you, Mr. Allen. Mr. Diggins Thank you, Mr. Chair. So a couple of short questions What's the history behind We'd like me to answer If you have any I'll comment too, but if you have a so I've been trying to understand I can't read the microfiche at the library. The scan isn't legible, but I found the article I went through the I went through the Records of the minutes of 1970 town meeting Told the select board in October to definitely redraw the lines to rebalance the precincts At the time the population in each precinct was highly variable and some precincts had 18 Representatives in town meeting and some precincts had 12 or 15 Which the League of Women Voters Thought was unfair and so they'd been lobbying for a couple of years and then the Supreme Court had passed a law saying, you know one man one vote Some where between October and December when the select board approved it the maps it went from Let's redraw our 14 precincts to let's have 21 precincts and I wish I knew more about that conversation Yeah, I don't want to take a ton of time on a history lesson tonight, but it I have a little bit more context on that So it was a special town meeting October 19th 1970 They asked the select board to redraw the precincts the select board board of selectmen at that time on December 21st 1970 after hearing from the public Selected the 21 precincts and at that time they recognized that Fincom would be increased from 15 to 21 members now We have a member in the audience here tonight. It was a town meeting member in 1970 Mr. Warden who was in precinct 6. I think who was probably redistricted to precinct 8 as a result of that exercise What it came down from was just as you said the one person one vote there's a Supreme Court Decision that came down in 1968 that said local districts cities of towns Have their precincts have to have this roughly the same or approximately the same Population that's what drove it and it's so the town went from 14 to 21. Sorry, mr. Diggins It took some of your time there. So you have another question. Oh, no, no, it's fine It's all about the information. So any time you didn't answer a question So did I hear you say that that there were some precincts that had any community members Interesting, you know, that's my second question kind of inches on that number 18. So, so I Hope the moderator isn't on because he might have a little bit of heart attack, you know But there was any consideration to instead of going up to 15 town meeting members going to 18 so that instead of going down to 40 town meeting members we go up to 288 So I'll take that for a second. So mr. Diggins you have to have Town meeting members the same number of town meeting members elected every year and once you select the number of precincts You come to a whole number that an equal number are elected each year And that total number gets you as close to 240 as possible and that's why if you do 16 15 members that gets you exactly the 240 if you did 17 precincts It would get you to 255 but you have to have whole numbers You can't have different numbers of town meeting members elected in each cycle Right, so the number so I thought the minimum was 240 I didn't realize that you had to get as close to 240. It's it's the total elected membership is nearly to 240 as maybe I Got it. I got it because me because because 18 would give you six each each cycle So that's why I settled on 18, but if the the target is 240 I get it and that explains why proclaim which is bigger than us. We have 15 town meeting members five per cycle got it. Thank you Thank you, Mr. Diggins and I just have a couple of comments. I appreciate the presentation this evening I think this is something that we need to hear from the public here from town meeting members here I think the finance committee might be the only committee that has one member per precinct So that really does affect them like to hear from them, but I think it's it's we should continue to have this discussion and Hear from the public and we encourage town meeting members and member of the public to get in touch with us But I think for tonight's purposes, that's probably as much as we can we can do and again Thank you for the time that you put into this miss Brazil. Absolutely. Thank you Okay, so on a motion to receive that was made by mr. Herd seconded by mrs. Mahan Is it oh, did you oh, did you have a con? I'm sorry. Thank you, mr. Chairman There's members of the public watching on zoom asking Should speak on this matter under open forum tonight or at a future meeting Whatever the slept with preference might be so if we go for what we are going to have open forum tonight Okay And as we go forward with this we will have a public care at least one public hearing maybe more So I think this is more of a receipt this evening and if people want to say something during open forum They can go right ahead. We weren't planning on having public comment during this agenda item Again open forum is coming up later in this in the meeting this evening, and there will be an opportunity as we go forward Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So with a motion to receive from mr. Herd seconded by mrs. Mahan turning high Mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins Mr. Diggins Yes Mr. Helmeth. Yes, this is my heart. Yes, mr. Decorsi. Yes, thank you very much Next item on the agenda item number four is a go outdoors request Agenda Laurie Bogdan project coordinator. Is she with us this evening? Yes Just to throw it out there if for some reason, you know We had a miscommunication and nobody is here if we could table this since it's They're looking for approval for November. I Know it's they've included some pictures, but I don't want to revisit go down another road again, right? There was more time sensitive maybe yeah, I think the ask is actually to exhibit it Until November nuts. Oh until yeah. Yeah. Is she here? Okay. Is Bogdan? Yeah, great. Good evening Yeah, if you could tell us a little bit about the request in the in the program. Yes, sorry The connection is not that great on our end. I'm Laurie Bogdan and I am the project coordinator for the go outdoors neighbors project in town it started last year and Artists have been participating by painting or decorating some regular interior doors from houses And the objection I mean the The reason they're doing that is to get people to go outside walk around go to places. They haven't normally seen and have something nice to look at and I'm here tonight to ask if we can place the door in the center of town Which is on that small? Park the Memorial Park near the fire station But the opposite end far away from the memorial Because we Recognize that we need to respect that memorial. Okay, and just just for clarification What's the time frame that you're looking for because we see that? There's the end date, but what what would be the time frame that you're looking to do this Well, that door is painted and ready to go. We'd love to install it this coming Friday And it would end at the end of November with that I will turn to the board for questions or comments. Mr. Helmeth Thank you, I move approval I'm wondering mr. Chair if this needs to be have a specific start and end date on the motion Yeah, I I think I want to hear from other members too on the end date because that seems like a very open-ended time period so Certainly a start date Would be fine and you'll see what okay. Yeah, yeah So I think in the original now I'll make a motion to start date as requested and then I'd like to hear board discussion as well about the end date I think I don't have a strong feeling about it either way. I do appreciate the initiative I love the cleverness of the of the concept in the title And I think that something intention-getting and thought-provoking is really what public art is about so I appreciate that impulse Great. Thank you. Mr. Helmeth. I'm Mrs. Mahan is I'd like to ask miss Bogdan Do we have a picture of the door that's already been painted? Is that what we see in the materials you supplied? Do you see a picture of I don't see what you're looking at but the door has a guitar on it. Yes, and the actual door Is I wrote the dimensions in the proposal half of that guitar will be on the front And the other half will be on the rear. The reason we chose that particular door for that area Is that we see that part of town? As a gathering spot where people might play music doing busking There's also a couple of establishments that are musically oriented There's a music store there and we thought it would was a good placement for that particular door Okay, thank you And I will second mr. Helmeth's motion and I'll put it out for the chair in my colleagues discussion. I would anticipate perhaps putting an end date of October 31st or the first Monday in November because When we have served at Veterans Day down there There are a lot of people there and I'd hate to see somebody accidentally You know someone took the time some artists artists and you know So I would propose an end date of you know, perhaps October 31st And then that gives the DPW crew the time they need to get ready for I think it's the first Monday Whatever the Monday is, but they have a couple of weeks work beforehand. So Thank you, Mrs. Mahon and mr. Helmeth will you accept that as a friendly amendment? Yes. Yes. It's very sensible to thank you Great. Thank you. Mr. Diggins Thank you, Mr. Chair and for the record, I think on Veterans Day is on the 11th But maybe we celebrate something on the first Monday. I'm all for it. So I'm fine with the 31st or whatever I mean, so it's a great idea clever Thank you That's it. Mr. Chair. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Hurd Yeah, I'm Happy to support the motion. I look forward to it I was going to suggest September 30th, but I think the 31st is fine The only reason I was gonna say September 30th is because I feel like we've had two-month locks of public art But this is pretty non-invasive and you know, I think the idea is Correct and hopefully the weather will cooperate with us where we'll still want people outside in October So I'm happy to support October 31st And I do very much love the concept. I always say I'd love to see more More musical performances and out in Arlington Center and of course It's one of the people with the authority to push that always forget to you know move forward with that But maybe this will be a reminder that we have to organize some more events in Arlington Center So look forward to seeing it every day as I walked to get my coffee Thank You mr. Hurd, and I also support the motion as amended and that thank you for bringing this forward to us So we have a motion by mr. Helmuth seconded by mrs. Mahan for approval for the period from July 23rd Through October 31st Attorney Hyde Mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helmuth. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yes, mr D'Corsi. Yes, unanimous vote. Thank you very much. Thank you Thank you Hey item five is a request for a poker peddler selling Richie slush And Joan Goodrich Okay, okay Good evening, Mr. Goodrich. Yeah, if you could just tell us a little bit about the application and We have your letter Seeking approval here We can hear you So my name is in Joanie Goodrich, and I'm at the request of the Arlington Health and Human Services Petitioning and requesting that the select board please grant me permission to as a Massachusetts hawker peddler to operate a Slushie our car On this side there and on the corner of Massath and Pleasant Street as well as some other locations down By spypon as and on both sides of spypon at the access roads The idea is to just rent a richie slushie cart about three or four days out of the summer permitting to be able to sell richie slushies and That's pretty much it Okay, thank you. I'll turn to the board mrs. Mahan And if I just could just for the record and I know We have redactions if I could just ask Ms. Goodrich, what's just what city or town you live in other than Cambridge Okay But I have family that live in Arlington And am I correct to understand you want the license in but you plan to operate three or four days a year Is that what I know this? Sorry, just three or four weekends in the summer. So that would be possibly July 25th August 7th and August 21st Okay, I'd like to hear from my colleagues because I'm not really Not really getting a sense on this because I always try to think of you know what we currently have in town Where you can get richie slushies which are about a dozen establishments and And this may be something we want to start to do but you know once we open it up We could see more requests like that. I don't know if this is something maybe working with The economic development with the planning departments to do a little more homework on this But so I'd like to hear from my colleagues. I Could move receipt, but I don't know if anyone feels strongly about this either way. Okay, Mr. Herd I'm happy to move approval. I think you know certainly there are businesses in town that would Same products, but I think in a limited number of opportunities that Miss Goodridge is going to be in town and the targeted nature of it It seems like people that wouldn't otherwise be getting the slushes and then we'll see how it goes on a test basis So I Wish you luck. I think I mean we're at this point in the summer I don't think anyone else would be asking for a similar request and if it works and people like it then we can Look at more applications I was interested to learn what a hawker was so Now we know So I'll move approval and I would just know what we want to look at, you know I assume this is a mobile cart where you can walk around pretty easily, right? Yes, and I would just note that one of the proposed locations with which is mass and pleasant is Pretty busy and it gets congested there during peak hours day on Saturdays and Sundays. So Just make sure that use your best judgment to make that you're not in the way and you're not Causing traffic concerns or safety concerns because that's certainly something that I think would cause us to not want to Approve such applications going forward Yes, sir, and it would be on the side by the Unitarian Church on that side not on the side of the bank Yep. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Hurd. Mr. Diggins. I Have to say I love the entrepreneurial spirit of this. Yeah, I understand my colleagues This is behind Concerned me me we have to think me big picture mean and how mean this will apply in any more situations than this but Most people know I like trying things mean and I like this idea being my question though Is are you limited to the locations that you select it because I'm thinking so and I feel You could probably like sell out the car In 10 minutes because especially when you know people they're playing soccer and parents are watching kids play soccer and people come with their dogs The dog park. So is that not an option for you? So in talking to the director, Mr. Conley of the fields you have to be on the access road and given my nieces and nephews I was kind of thinking of them because when the ice cream truck goes away, they're not fast enough to run after it So I just figured to be in a central location where especially younger kids, but that is a good idea Yeah, but it's not possible me because this field you can't do that you can't do it So it was just an idea, but here you've you've done your homework for me So go for it. Good luck being on and I guess at this point we're looking for a second I'll be happy to give that second. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Diggins Mr. Helmeth Thank you. I'm happy to support this And just a question on hours for the for the weekend you said you You'd like a approval for weekends, but is there a Time frame that I don't know if you put that in an application or anything else that you sent to the board office I'm just concerned about early starting time on a Sunday for example So it would be from 12 p.m. Until 6 p.m. And that's just a half an hour We wait for Ricky especially to come pick up. Okay. All right. So from 12 to 6 so Um, yeah with that I will support this as well And if if it's okay With mr. Herd if we can put those hours in for the for the 12 to 6 on the approval So amended. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. So on a motion by mr. Herd seconded by mr. Diggins attorney heimed Mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helmeth. Yes, mrs. Mahan. Yes, mr Of course. Yes, it's unanimous vote. Thank you. Thank you. Okay All right, the consent agenda is next item six through nine on our agenda tonight Item six minutes of meetings june 9th 2021 item seven reappointments All terms to expire 6 30 2024 commission for arts and culture thomas davison lilia kennig chair human resource board schilakiti Park and recreation commission sarah carrier item eight request for a contractor drain layer license Arlington asphalt eric ohms item nine request for a contractor drain layer license terra landscape and construction Daniel ribero On the consent agenda mr. Helmeth Move approval Thank you. Uh, mrs. Mahan second Thank you. Mr. Herd any comments questions mr. Diggins any comments or questions? No comments Okay, none from me. So on a motion by mr. Helmeth seconded by mrs Mahan Attorney heim mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helmeth. Yes, mrs. Mahan. Yes, mr. Decorsi. Yes, it's unanimous vote Thank you very much Okay, so now we have public hearings to request to repair private ways Item 10 is elmhurst road Alex And i'm sorry i'm going to get the last name wrong. I don't know if this is a question if you know the You're a keemoth Okay, is he here? Okay. Thank you. Yeah, if you can come up to the microphone and tell us About the request and uh, good evening questions. Um, so the request is pretty straightforward. Um, I am We purchased 73 freeman street in 2019 and uh had renovated it and moved in March of this year and when we purchased it one of the things that was Striking was the condition of elmhurst road, which Looks like it's been bombed And so when we moved in I reached out to The town to ask sort of the status of repairs was I was told that the road was private And then the town did not did not have any responsibility or plans to maintain it and that I did have Sort of one option of petitioning my fellow butters Um, and that there were some mechanisms in place that if we had two-thirds consent We could petition the town to get um for for a betterment Um, I was told that there was no option to petition the town to take over custody of said road and Being a private road. I was kind of surprised there was no HOA or any other mechanism in place for For maintaining it. I actually had lived a few blocks away And so I sort of pulled some of the neighbors and asked them about the road and I was told that apparently that's been the condition for For the past 25 years at least and so I Petitioned I sent letters to the residents and received two-thirds Consent from a number of enough residents to Have to submit petition for approximately the two blocks from mass av to Randolph street. And so that's why we're here today Happy to answer any questions the board has. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. I'll turn to the board mr. Diggins Uh, I will move the approval of the request Great. Thank you. No questions. Okay. Um, this is mohan. Um, I will second that and um, I want to say to Mr. You're a You're a come off. You're a come off. Is that I say name right so I can get him up. Okay close. Um Kudos to you on really in a very concise way Describing our betterment program with your first pass at it. So um, and thank you for taking us on Mr. Herd Happy to support it This is a question for attorney. Hi, I'm which I'm sure this has already been vetted, but So under the betterment law we can essentially approve half a street Or like approve only so much of a portion as they Pitches out the neighbors That's correct. So the one of the purposes of the hearing is to discuss the I'm sorry. May I mr. Chairman? Yes, go ahead Thank you, mr. Herd One of the purposes of the hearing is to basically talk about the advisability of doing the project and to set boundaries In fact, I think remember correctly. There have been rare occasions Where a betterment has basically been trimmed by the select board because There was objection to some specific Butter didn't feel like it was necessary or whatever. So yeah, you could set the dimensions of the betterment In in this manner for this type of road There might be some private ways where it would be difficult to like excise some specific portion of it But in this case, I think you can proceed. All right. Thank you. Happy to support it. Okay. Thank you And mr. Helmuth, thank you. Welcome to Arlington. I live on our private way. So uh, I know the feeling But but kudos to you not only for your articulate presentation as my colleague mentioned, but also for organizing your neighbors That speaks to your your skill and being a good neighbor. So I hope it goes well for you. It was certainly an adventure And just one point of clarification on the Area that that you're seeking to repair. Now my understanding was One block in from mass af to the end or where was it? Yeah, I said mass effort Yeah, so basically my property 73 firman street starts It looks like the apartment the condo complex had Paved from mass af proper to their own driveway So it's in fairly good condition there and then the private that the disrepair starts basically there And then it goes all the way to the street, but uh to school Okay, good. No, thank you for that clarification because we didn't see the condominium association On the petition and you've explained why they're not so I I support this as well and and uh I also want to commend you for for working with your neighbors because it's not easy to to go out and Follow the bylaw and and get this done. So We have a motion To approve by mr. Diggins Seconded by mrs. Mahan before I do that. Mr. Chapterland. There is a resident with the hand raised Yeah, I did this before too. This is a public hearing So, uh, if there are members of the public who wish to be heard on this, um, they're entitled to do so We have one person In the in the chambers here tonight. So it's because I If you'd like to speak, um, what you can come up and speak at the mic if you'd like on this issue And then we'll go to whoever is um wishing to participate remotely Um, yes, my name is lily stole and I would just like to urge you may already be planning to do this That there would be um speed bumps included here because there are lots and lots of children especially on the side streets and this has been one of the One of the reasons for mixed opinions about this. So I would just advocate him. He's right. The street is in terrible condition um, but there is a huge problem of traffic which has escalated even in the last few months People bending around brooks avenue and speeding down elmhurst Um, and so we just really want to take into account The existence of these kids who play in the street and cars coming through the side streets Onto elmhurst, right? So I would just strongly like to advocate for a series of speed bumps and even posted signs about When traffic can enter and exit at certain heavily traffic times a day Okay. Yeah, I actually I'd like to ask you the returning home. I missed a chapter line on that issue one traffic coming through this betterment situation what the process would be So I would Go ahead. Mr. Chair. Thank you We've as a town never allowed speed bumps from a snow plowing or snow removal point of view So I would advise against The installation of asphalt speed bumps Should the abutters want to talk with the town about some type of removable speed bump that actually might be Is part of the larger plan that will be discussed later tonight connect Arlington I think that's the type of thing we could engage With the abutters with but the actual installation of permanent speed bumps At least at this point would run against or run a counter to our snow removal operations All right. Thank you, mr. Chair. So I I attorney hind One other piece, mr. Chair. Um, so private way abutters can as long as they comply with Street signage regulations can place street signs. They can't change the flow of traffic or hours without A wider discussion with town authorities But for example, you could put, you know, children at play slow signs and things of that nature as long as they comply with I want to say it's the mutcd So that's something else you could talk to the town engineer about if you wanted to Make it clear that, you know, they're children in this neighborhood I think we all understand and appreciate that that's been a persistent concern in many streets. That has been tried That's difficult to enforce Okay Yeah, so I I think And we'll notify the planning department as well that transportation planner But I think maybe that's that's an avenue to go about but I think you're absolutely right Elmhurst road because it connects to brooks if it's in better condition More people may want to use it and that's no question about that Okay, all right. Thank you for that and we'll see if we can follow up and then work with you on that Okay, okay. Thank you All right, um, and there's someone who wishes to be heard through zoom Her name is pan wilson pan wilson. Okay Miss wilson you with us Oh wilson, I'm sorry Can you hear me? Yes, we can Okay, I don't know why I don't have an image of but um, I also live on the road. I'm farther down I'm not on the area the two blocks that will be Excuse me. Just can you speak a little louder? We are having trouble hearing you Let me see if I can turn up the volume And if you can get a little closer to the mic if possible Can you hear this? That's better I live on the street as well. I'm not on the two blocks that may be paved But I want to say that to reinforce what the last speaker said But there are many hot holes and a present we have people speeding down during rush hours swerving around the hot holes frustrated by the lights on Lake street and driving irresponsibly. So I want to second the Request that for the safety of all the people on the street that some kind of speed bumps be included And um, I think the last speaker that children at play, although it's a nice sign We'll not stop people who are impatient and have one objective which is to cut through our neighborhood As quickly as possible to get to Mass Ave So I really do feel that it's a safety issue for the whole neighborhood Thank you Any other people wish to be heard? Okay Any other comments from board members? Mr. Herd. I would just say I don't think we would take up anything Now but it could be if this is persistent and the residents can let us know if the paving of this road Increases the amount of traffic flow There's plenty of streets down there on the other side Of lake street and on all the side streets where we have no Don't no entry from x to x And you know the residents will have to comply with the two So you'd have to go around to get into your house, but if it's a problem we could certainly Do a do not enter from 4 to 6 p.m To alleviate people coming through if it's becoming a problem So I think that's just something that as the road gets paved The residents can take a look at and just alert us if it's becoming an issue Thank you, mr. Herd If you're gonna come up to the microphone just so people can hear you I appreciate you're saying that and that has been suggested In the neighborhood even before this request was made to have those restrictions. What is the procedure for Putting that in place We can In the process of this just refer This matter either to the sound manager or the traffic advisory committee just to take a look at whether that's appropriate in that location I mean you may I miss sure I think you could start with me I'll ask Mr. Amstutz who will be with us later tonight to take a look at it and maybe escalated from there And that that sounds like a great suggestion. Thank you, mr. Chapterland mrs. Mahan What we've done in the past on these particular Request and we may do in the future with some sort of trial basis is we've kind of stuck to the bediment rules If whoever is organizing Or going out and speaking to the residents on that part of the affected street Generally the then board of selectmen now select board falls the betterment rule of two-thirds of the neighbors I'd just like to put that out there. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Mrs. Mahan. Okay So with that we have a motion for approval by mr. Diggins seconded by mrs. Mahan Along with that approval. We have a referral to the town manager To look into the traffic issues During I think well all traffic issues, let's say Attorney hind. Yeah, thank you, mr. Chair. I just want to note that the way I will sort of receive this is There's a motion to approve the betterment, which is a very specific thing. It's basically a financing arrangement to Resurface the roadway according to the way it was laid out And then there's a sort of ancillary motion alongside of it to have this traffic calming discussion or No term, you know discussion referred to the town manager. Yeah, thank thank you for clarifying that. Thank you, uh, mr. heard Yes, and I would note that Once you have it paved you can come back to the select board's office to shut down the street to have a nice block party to celebrate your new street Mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helman. Yes, this is mahan. Yes, mr. Decorsi. Yes Thank you very much Item 11 is also a public hearing the mount gilboa neighborhood association request to repair private way This is a much bigger area. Laurel came a resident in that neighborhood And she's with us. Okay, great Mr. Chairman, I know it's something while we're waiting for miss sure Just want to note that this is under section five alternate petition Just for folks who might be watching and sort of wondering why this is Very slightly different than our than our more typical betterment application. Sure Hi, good evening. Okay. Good evening, miss k Did before I turned did you want to elaborate on that at the attorney hammer? Yeah, just for me. Yeah, just before we start. I just wanted a little clarification So attorney high and so our previous applicant Basically noted that there wasn't an hoa. Well, what is happening essentially here is that The mount gilboa neighborhood association kind of is an hoa. They've all banded together for the common interests of raising and maintaining funds to help make sure that The neighborhood is essentially Kept in good working order. So you have a mass petition for several roads and the Butters aren't a butters to one private way. They're butters that are basically pulled together in common to try to make sure that they Maintain and improve the private waste in there in the area So I just wanted to note that that arlingtonians do have that option. That's a private Matter for residents of private way to organize themselves to do that But it is one strategy that these folks have utilized to help manage their private ways. Thank you. Thank you, attorney. I'm Good evening, miss k Good evening. Yeah, if you could tell us a little bit about the project and and the request Sure I would like to start by saying that for those of you who have been in town government for some time you may remember a gentleman by the name of harry mccabe And uh, he was instrumental in getting this association founded in 1949 So we are carrying on The business of the association which is to maintain the roads and I will borrow the phrase of the previous gentleman who said they His roads look like they've been bombed. Our roads are pretty bad. And so we have followed the betterment's process. We have Done extensive communications with the 72 butters and we've received the two-thirds vote necessary to proceed All right. Thank you. Um, and I'll turn it to the board now for any questions or motions. Uh, mr. Herd I'll move approval and attorney hymn Already answered my one question Mrs. Mahan second Mr. Helmut No questions. Happy to support and mr. Diggins No questions. Thank you. I'm happy to support this as well. Um, this is a public hearing So if there is any members of the public who wish to be heard No one. Okay. All right. So on a motion for approval by mr. Herd Seconded by mrs. Mahan attorney hymn And if I may on a personal it's been a it's been a pleasure to work with this resident Who's been in contact with my office quite a bit trying to help get this sorted out I really appreciate her persistence and dedication to this association Mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helmut. Yes. This is mahan. Yes, mr. Dacorsi. Yes, unanimous vote Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it Mr. Chair. Yes, sorry for the multiple breaks. Can I confer with attorney hymn before we take up the next matter for just a few seconds? Yeah, that's fine I want to take a break for a couple minutes. Okay. Thank you for that Item 12 appointments constables for the town of ronlington all terms to expire june 30th 2024 Three people shon galvin steven kelly wane So as the board likely recalls it authorized may believe it the last meeting or the meeting prior to review applications that had been received for the position of constable Come back and recommend up to three constables to be appointed And then ask for the board's approval We had already Had several applications on file at that time and then received a few more applications after that board meeting The three names that are before you tonight were Those that were received in order and recommended a good standing by the police department Up to three. There were some additional applications That came in after the fact and in the future we can continue to consider those but at this point Again, these are the three names that were both timely As well as given a certification of good standing by the police department to be appointed So I would recommend the board's consideration of the appointment of these three individuals to serve as constable in ronlington Thank you, mr. Chapter. I'll turn to the board And again, I'll take the second and third names. Mr. Kelly and this to parsey again. Parsey again Mrs. Mahan I move approval Thank you. Mr. Herd second Mr. Diggins um I just have a couple of curiosity questions, you know about um, mr. Parsey again You know, so I noticed that this the the date on the Criminal history is from the from september 24th 2019 Like if you look at the bottom of any of those pages, I mean there's a 24 2019. I'm just wondering why um I'm gonna approve it. I'm just kind of curious as to why it's so um Nearly two years ago. Oh, mr. Diggins. Are you asking why it was performed in 2019? Or or why yeah, I guess not so much why it was performed in 2019, but why it is that we are getting uh report That is from 2019 as opposed to a report that is more recent So that that is based on the fact that this application had been received Then and reviewed by the police department at that time If the board's uncomfortable, we could certainly ask for an updated review to cover the past two years Well, baby, are you comfortable? I'm the meeting through you, mr. Chair. I mean, are you comfortable, uh, mr. Catholic If you are it's fine with that I would be but I would understand if the the board wanted a deeper review I'm okay My colleagues are okay. That's fine. And and um, and this is also a I haven't read one of these If um, if you can go down to page three of that, um Report, you know, I'm just trying to understand what I'm looking at, you know, there's like alias names, you know Um, there's a section on there with aliases, you know I mean, what am I looking at? You know It's like it's got like a list of them in the last one. It's like wild bill Yeah, I'm not sure what you're referring to mr. Diggins Okay, so you so Let's see So You see the one that has the the date 9 24 19 2019, right? We're referring to that. It's like towards the bottom of um The the pdf we got on this section Okay Did you see that mr. Chapter 1? It's criminal history page one of two Page 10 of 12 of the of the attachment Right, mr. Chair is place 12 10 of 12 for the attachment Okay, I see that. Yeah, okay. Now. I I don't know if you have a you will have a question about that mr. Diggins Is it I just I'm just wondering what am I looking at me? So it's got aliases I mean, is that like all the the names this person goes by? Attorney hi Mr. Chair without confusing it myself for a member of arlington pd These types of background checks are usually run through the national criminal information center So they pull up a lot of information that is meant to basically Identify whether someone's ever used or had another name at any different point in time It's hard to say just from this information the different reasons that might be the case But the main reason that you're engaging in a quarry check is to make sure that you don't have any significant criminal convictions within the last You know 10 15 20 years So I'm not quite sure why all this information has been included For the board's review. I'm sorry. I see mr. Hurd is is trying to raise a point but The Reality is is that it's going to be hard to say based on this print out What exactly The context is for these other names You know having been registered in different places for official information It's like if I did a lexus nexus person search I might find someone's married name maiden name A name that they had used in some context For military services or something like that or something like that. I I can't say for sure based on this That's usually where these types of things are generated Anything further mr. Diggins. Well because like under that. Okay. Hey, I'm just so confused me, but it's like I said If the town manager doesn't do it's just as fine with it And I'm gonna go with it, you know, you know, we have a long meeting. I'm going to not ask another question on this I'm fine. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Hurd. Did you well? I just know We see this a lot as part of my professional business in real estate closings when you do a closing you'll sign a document that has aka's or here they call them aliases And people generally sit there and like well, this isn't my name. This isn't my name And it's usually it's associated with your social hearing number When they run your credit report It could be as simple as you apply for a credit card one time and somebody put your name in wrong Your name to register somewhere and they misspelled your name And then all these name these name variations stick with you And people have to sign saying that that is them who has this similar name associated with your social security number and date of birth So it's not uncommon to have Name variations out there. It might not even be A name that someone goes by. It just is out there Thank you, Mr. Hurd. That was a very satisfactory answer. I appreciate it Okay, thank you. Mr. Diggins. Um, Mr. Helm I think you do we have a motion yet for this? We do have a motion by mrs. Mahan seconded by Mr. Hurd. Great. No questions Thank you. Okay, and I have no questions either. So on Mr. Kelly and mr. Parsigin So Appointments we have a motion by mrs. Mahan seconded by mr. Hurd attorney. Hi mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helm. Yes, this is mahan. Yes, mr. De Corsi. Yes, it's a five-zero vote. Okay, and now we will take up mr. Galvin Uh, mr. Chair at this point. I'm going to recuse myself. Um, mr. Galvin is a client of mine and I just realized I actually signed this application. So I'm gonna Step out while you discuss mr. Galvin's application Okay Thank you, mr. Hurd Mr. Chair, um, the board of mill administrator will note time he exited it and time he returned. Yes. Thank you. Mrs. Mahan Let me see. Miss Costa writing down the time now Okay, so on mr. Galvin's appointment. Uh, mr. Helmuth Thank you move approval You mr. Diggins Second Thank you. Mrs. Mahan Um, no questions. Happy to support this. I have no questions. Happy to support it as well So on a motion by mr. Helmuth seconded by mr. Diggins for appointment of mr. Galvin attorney hind Mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helmuth. Yes, this is mahan. Yes. Thank you mr. De Corsi. Yes Mr. Anonymous, uh, well, it's a four zero one. Thank you Thank you, attorney hind. Um, Miss Costa, if you wouldn't mind letting mr. Hurd know Ready to roll Okay, mr. Hurd is now back with us Um item 13 licenses and permits for approval food vendor license Ginger exchange express master pies 1181 mass av christine chan Uh, is she with us? She has been promoted. She should okay. Oh Oh, oh there she is. Okay. Good evening, miss champ Good evening If you could just tell us about The application and in the business you'd like to open a town here Yes, um, I'm looking to open a um ginger ginger exchange express, which is a take on delivery only Play location. This is my fourth location I have three other Existing operations right now in different towns, but I'd be interested in opening at 1181 massachusetts avenue Thank you. Uh, I will turn it to the board for questions comments, mr. Diggins I will happily move approval of his request. It's a interesting place. I mean, um, I mean, I um, the symphony See the symphony had time Hey, you know, so so I have to get that to try, you know, I walked past there, you know I don't have to work out. So I will stop in, you know, I'm gonna try that out And you know, you also have pizzas Yes, we're doing two concepts under one roof Nice always want Try that out Yeah, without using the word fuses What about me? It uh, so so, yeah, welcome aboard, you know, assuming my colleagues we go along with this And we vote for you. Uh, but yeah, thank you for joining our town Um Thank you, mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. Great. Now. I'm hungry No, thank you very much for choosing to do business in Arlington. Uh, I wish you the best of success and I look forward to Disassembling the menu Thank you, mr. Helmuth. We're excited to be part of the Arlington community. Excellent. Wonderful. Thank you. And this is mahan um Happy to support this. Uh, welcome to Arlington. I just told my colleague mr. Helmuth as we were kind of Salivating of looking at the duo menus. I'm really close. I can just roll right down the hill and uh I could take a little bit of each so I'm really excited and I wish you good luck and success Oh, thank you. Thank you, mr. Ron. I'm mr. Hurd Again, happy to support this. Um, thank you for choosing Arlington We've approved a few bit uh restaurants I think right in that little spot so that could be the new hot spot for Arlington dining and just Generally, you know, we've had a tough year But particularly on our restaurant businesses and we've lost a few sort of staples in town So it is good to see new businesses and new life and we're excited to get back out and try your your menu Okay, great. Thank you so much. We're so excited. It's gonna tough year for everyone. So excited to you and cue some some energy and New place here for everyone locally to try Thank you, mr. And I also support the Application I just want to clarify something mr. Helmuth. Did you second the motion? I heard a motion for mr. Diggins If you haven't if you wouldn't mind Second motion. Okay. Just in case great. Thank you very much. I wish you the best of luck with the uh with your new business here in Arlington Thank you so much a motion by mr. Diggins seconded by mr. Helmuth Mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helmuth. Yes, mrs. Mahan. Yes, mr. Dacorsi. Yes, the animate spoke Thank you. Okay next item 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 current a concern Or request does anybody in the chambers who wishes to be heard on open forum? Mr. Worden Thank you, mr. Chairman John Worden Jason street Was one of your appointees to the board of registrars of the town of valentine. I thought The board would be At least interested in my perceptions on miss Julie brazil's proposal about redistricting and I in fact, I'm the chairman of the board of registrars. We don't meet Electro officers very often I the only way I even knew this was coming up Well, the board of registrars as you I'm sure are aware of do play a not insignificant role in the elect conduct of the elections Of town state and federal offices in this in this community and and There are four of us including the town clerk and three appointees by the board and But we were not consulted or even told about this The only way I know is that the chair chairman of the finance committee called me up and said, what do you think of this and said well striking me with a Very sudden a sudden idea. I thank the chairman of the select board for For looking up that you're much too young to remember that I was in first grade at the time Well, I do remember it and it was 1970 the first year. I was in town meeting. It was a year. It was an interesting year because One thing we were battling the mu gars who wanted to put some 24 hours down and what was then just a swamp now it's a precious wetland, but then it was just a swamp and That they got well anyway, they don't have to get into that but the mu gars are still trying to put something in this in the wetland And so there was but there's a special town meeting that fall in october as you pointed out And the league women voters had brought a warrant article to To redistrict the town that the town you didn't have to redistrict every 10 years like you do now They could do it whenever we wanted to and and the districts that were established had been in there for God knows how long and as it was pointed out some precincts had 12 members some had 18 some had some other number There were some precincts were divided into part a and part b and it was And who knows how the populations Related to the the precinct lines But the old precinct six Which I had just been elected to serve that precinct, which is now mostly precinct eight Was people looked at and they said well, you've got your fairly compact area went from Wyman terrace up to about academy street and You've got 12 members so People know their town meeting members and then town meeting members know each other. In fact, we used to have meetings of town meeting members And that sounds like a pretty good size And that was one of the our arguments brought before the selectmen as they were then Back in 1970 And so so they decided on the 21 precincts each would have 12 members and that is We've brought them approximately to the 240 that's in the standard town I interrupted you so I gave you some extra time, but if you could wrap it up because you're all right I will wrap it. Okay. I'm sorry. I mean, I mean all these other people waiting to speak so I don't want to take too much of your time Thank you But the the main thing I I want to say is that the idea of Reducing the precincts is is a very poor one We're we're we're into Talking about voter participation and make it easier for voters, etc Cutting the people's representatives in town meeting by Five percent. It's not very represented Cutting the number of places where you go to vote by 20 percent Not very handy for voters who was done during the pandemic because most people were voting indirectly I mean by mail or something And and also the the time frames Mr. Heim pointed out When we have to do this on an accelerated basis, it's going to be enough struggle You may have to move a few precinct lines here and there To get the more even None of them is at the five percent level where you have to do it You could keep them exactly where they are based on the preliminary figures If I correctly read the micro type in this copy of the report Thank you. Thank you, mr. Wood. I'm going to have to cut you off here four and a half Well, thank you for giving me this This this moment, uh, mr. Chairman, but but I'm just saying If you if you want to change precinct, this isn't a time to do it We can just stick with the 21 you'll maybe may be able to Meet the statutory deadlines and have an election on time next year. Okay. Thank you very much Anybody else in the chambers? I don't think so. Wish is to be heard Is there anybody through zoom? Yes Okay Okay, uh, it's mr. Schlickman. Okay Good evening, mr. Schlickman Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you to the board Paul Schlickman precinct nine First, I want to thank you for your unanimous vote four weeks ago to implement traffic calming and pedestrian safety measures on chestnut street However, five hundred sixty six days after and the roasters was killed in the chestnut terrace crosswalk And 28 days after the select board approved tack recommendations for traffic calming Along chestnut street absolutely nothing has been done to implement any of these common sense fixes I understand many of the changes require engineering and planning This is not the case for the no turn on red sign on chestnut street As it approaches mystic street not only is it a relatively simple to install one or two no turn on red signs There's compelling reason for immediate action Four weeks ago you learned of a 1987 agreement with the mass department of transportation And a warning that if we change anything in this agreement, we could lose state funding Uh for transportation in chapter 90 funds The agreement required the town of Arlington to maintain the no turn on red sign on chestnut at mystic I haven't seen the sign in the past 20 years If there's a significant concern for losing state funding as spoken for Weeks ago the signs should have been replaced a day or two after being directed by the select board Please get a crew out there in the next day or two to install these signs On another note last week. I was awakened at 4 55 a.m. By a huge sucking sound That sounded like my room bow was stuck under my bed having a nervous breakdown I checked my phone in the room bow was asleep. I looked out my bedroom window to find the dpw crew clearing a storm drink This was not an emergency. This was scheduled planned over time to address prior complaints This isn't the first time the dpw was decided to schedule a 4 a.m. Over time for non-emergency work A couple of years ago. They brought out jackhammers to dig out and reinstall a manhole cover I can understand noisy work in cases of an emergency such as a water main break But we need to stop scheduling dpw over time to conduct noisy work during pre dawn hours. Thank you for listening Thank you. Mr. Schuchman Miss hankin is next Good evening miss hankin. Hello, um, and I think he thinks that Um, I also wanted to speak about the redistricting um I looked into the redistricting plans earlier today and Because there wasn't a whole lot of explanation alongside them as to the fact that they were computer generated and not human decided and The plans that were actually actively proposed I actually started to get really upset because particularly the 16 precinct plan Looks a little bit like gerrymandering. All of the really dense neighborhoods are split up And attached to much less dense and often much higher income neighborhoods so that their votes are diluted Um, and I understand that absolutely no human malice was intended here. It was a computer generated map and That is fine But I want to really caution everyone to be really really clear and communicating this to the public Always have that kind of explanation attached because otherwise distrust In the town clerk or the select board can really grow Voter suppression has been a major issue over the last The history of our entire country but It's it's really been a publicly spoken about issue, especially in the last couple years um And I really urge you guys to do anything can get a lot of public comment and make it really clear What's happening when decisions are being made when comments can be made take out a ad in the paper put Signs up at the park get a guy with a Bugle in the middle of the center of town Send out a message along the snow phone tree for the high school Just get the word out as best you can I'm going to work as a town meeting member to talk to my precinct and let everyone know That the district thing is happening and that they need to make public comment But this is such a big decision. It's impact so many people's lives. I really just Be so clear Describing it and thoughtful decisions about it. Um, thank you Thank you very much Is there anybody else? Okay Good evening. Ms. Milovchuk Good evening. Beth Milovchuk, russell street. Um, thank you for this opportunity to address this select board um quickly, I'd like to Support everything that paul schlickman said I attended some of those TAC meetings related to the Unfortunate and untimely death of andorosha. So I um, I hope that the concerns that he expressed will be addressed in a timely manner I um speak Also, uh about the uh repressing thing plan I'm very concerned at the notion of reducing representation Town meeting for uh, the residents of arlington. That's a concern as well as when we see across the nation Voter suppression and um, well, yeah, it's voter suppression Um So I hope that the select board as I know they do on the different issues that come before them Take a lot of time in uh, looking at the proposals that come before them. I am alarmed that the notion of saving money Uh, was raised that cost efficiencies have been raised uh, regarding elections with less than a 20 turn out of Registered voters from municipal elections I I find it um I just don't understand the pittance that would be saved in Comparison to the fast approaching potentially 40 million dollar override It I just don't understand I don't think that should be a consideration. I think we should be trying to make voting easier and I'd like to see a get out the vote campaign Uh, and I'm open to suggestions of who Does that actually if it would uh, if it's not a municipal activity In any case, I think I I meet my points I'll be following this closely and I I look forward to outreach on the part of the municipal offices to the public These issues are so seriously. We see that across the nation people are Informed about them many people in Arlington worked on the get out the vote effort in Georgia I'm happy they did I just think these issues and the unintended consequences Are too serious and momentous to have a cost Consideration on these issues. Thank you. Beth will love to thank you very much Is there anybody else who wishes to Good evening, Mr. Allen here and see me. Yes awesome So I wanted to echo Mr. Schleckman's point Being a resident in Massav. I live near Massav and Appleton. So I wanted to just Echo that that we have a very recurring and active intersection here. So I just want to Keep in mind that and other than that regarding everything else on the item I'm just still going to research and take everything in good faith and I yield my time. Thank you Thank you. That closes open forum for this evening Onto traffic rules and orders and other business Item 14 request on street overnight parking waiver Paul Palais 64 mountain Vernon street I see believe he's with us tonight Hello Good evening. If you could state your name address in the uh, the request I'm not sure if you can see me or not something's happening with my camera. Um, my name's Paul play and I live at the 64 modern on street Yeah, and we can hear you but we can't see you. Uh, oh, there we are. Yep. Now we can see you Ah, sorry. Yes. It's just a button uh 64 modern on hollington and having very difficult situation with parking uh, plus my disabled father who is um um Getting treatments at mass in a hospital using a car a lot I've been ticketed multiple times already overnight um And have no ability to currently get a paid parking so Plus it's a multiple unit situation All right, I'll turn it to the board for for questions or comments. Mr. Herd I You know with these situations we usually have with any request for overnight parking We generally have a memorandum from the police department, which we don't have here, which I think So, I mean my inclination Is that I just don't have enough information to vote on this tonight Which would be so I don't necessarily want to deny it, but I I don't Think that we have the information to take a vote on this tonight Um, I'm not sure. I mean the contacted police But hang on a second. Mr. Excuse me, Mr. No, excuse me. Yeah, I That was mr. Hurts coming. It wasn't a question for you right now um So I don't know if you have anything further So I would have I would have a motion to table um But also, you know, I I do know we set up a specific guideline in situations for where people have medical Reasons that they have that they're requesting overnight parking for reasons of disability or medical Reasons that we there's a process to do this Administratively attorney hymen if and if I'm saying this incorrectly, please correct me So Essentially, we have a process where you don't have to come before us in public forum and Talk about your medical conditions And I think that that is something that you could Contact us the suckboard's office as well to see if if that's the right avenue for this Yeah, did you want to add anything attorney hymen? Thank you, mr. Chair. Yes, mr. Heard you do have a specific process for an application for an overnight parking waiver on the exemption. I'm sorry Both the waiver and an exemption based on uh an identifiable disability So that process was moved to an administrative review In the interest of not having folks as you said I have to identify and discuss their disabilities before the select board So um That is a possibility. I don't know Whether it was vetted or not Okay, so do you want to bring the motion to table pending? So I would move to table the overnight parking request is before us and advise the applicant to speak to the Select board's office about whether or not his situation Can be The overnight parking exemption can be issued under our medical exemption Okay All right. Thank you, mr. Mr. Diggins Thank you, mr. Chair. I I'm in quite a second You know, I was trying to recall from when I read it. He read the The pdf associated with this mean it seemed like part of that process had been engaged I know there's been some communication with officer Rito about this means and Officer Rito was was was was really sending me the applicant or the Mr. Policy play play. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about mr. Nelson. You name a to the select board Eight of but maybe that was missed in there. So I hope that's the case mean so which case made I do support second Mr. Herd's Contabling motion and I'll support it Okay, thank you. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth no questions. Thank you. This is my Yeah, I think I know What mr. Diggins is speaking about with officer Rito What it is is this individual has contacted the police department And he said well, you can only get that permission from the select board You need to start the select board process, which is what the email is from The resident then normally what we do Maybe in concert with him exploring the Disability medical issue But also at the same time if for some reason that's he's not applicable for that If I could ask mr. Herd along with his motion that if those avenues are exhausted that then we then since he's initiated the process of contacting the select board Then refer to our Overnight parking which also handles daytime parking requests subcommittee Yes, absolutely and just to clarify I wasn't And I probably misspoke. I wasn't saying that officer Rito or anyone the police department failed to give us a memo It just we it wasn't attached Okay, all right Yeah, and I don't have anything Further so at this point and I may need a little clarification attorney. Hi Just an interest of being Direct so you don't have to ask question Basically an applicant claiming the exemption based on a disability should provide written proof Of qualification based on registration of a handicap plate or placard enrollment and social security disability benefits I'm sorry. So security or other disability benefits or a letter identifying the resident as disabled on the physicians or medical professionals letterhead stationary You can submit that to the board office And they can help Process the application Okay, if that if the basis on disability if there are other reasons As I think mr. Mahan is suggesting There's an application and then I think that sort of Get things going with the supporting Materials, okay. Thank you. Thank you attorney. Hi So on the motion by mr. Hurd seconded by mrs. Mahan To table to start the administrative process And depending on where that goes, maybe it will come back before us So mr. Pillay. Yeah, I'm sorry. Is it play? Yes. It's our mr If mr. Pillay can contact the select board's office They can help walk through the information that he needs to submit for an exemption From the overnight parking prohibition on the basis of disability and if that exemption can't be met Then he would submit a different type of application that would be a more public application before the board before the board Okay, great. Thank you and Because it is a different procedure. That's why we're making that motion. It can be done at minute Perhaps can be done administratively without having the issues Discussed during the public meeting. So On a motion by mr. Hurd seconded by mrs. Mahan Attorney hang mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helmuth. Yes, mrs. Mahan. Yes, mr. DeCorsi. Yes And mr. Pillay, I'm gonna suggest that you get in touch with the board office tomorrow They can walk you through that administrative procedure I'm sorry, which office the select board office Yes Can you hear me? Yes Okay, which office the select board office. I'll select board office. Sorry. Yeah, new to this procedure Okay, thank you and best of luck. Thank you. Okay item 15 request for handicap parking space on allen street John Hurd select board mr. Hurd Yep, this is we discussed this at the last meeting. This is just I'm looking to have the board approve a handicap parking space. So it's just a general parking space. It's not specific to any one Handicap placard or license plate. It's on allen street I was I was contacted by a business that has a handicap ramp that runs into the street My understanding is they've already contacted engineering got approval and Possibly even installed the curb cut ramp So right next to that they're looking for a handicap spot We've had some back and forth and miscommunications. I think amongst departments. So We still don't have the specific location But what I would propose to the board tonight since the this business has been waiting In you know, it's anybody's parking spot. But is that I spoke with the town manager putting a So I move to Have the town manager confer with the police department on a temporary basis to designate A place on allen street to put a temporary ballard with a handicap designation While And I anticipate by the next meeting in august we can have a full report Where an appropriate place for a handicap spot on allen street would be so my motion tonight would be for a temper to Authorize the town manager to work with the police department to identify an appropriate place Which I would guess would be the ultimate place but to install a temporary handicap designation on a orange ballard on the side of the road Okay, thank you. Mr. Hurd. Uh, mr. Diggins I'll be happy to second that one Thank you. Mr. Helmuth Thank you. Happy to support Also Happy to support this. I just have a process question Because I have a memory and I may be misremembering When um, we did the designation and increasing the handicap Designated spaces in town And I believe the cons of it conservation I have conservation on my mind. Oh, mr. Galvin The disability commission When through my only thing is I just don't I want to make sure everybody that when we come back We're voting this temporarily when we vote at final We have the information from engineering We have the information from the police department and if there's any other stakeholder That should be part of the process And maybe there isn't on the disability commission, but I know when they went through all that and I just don't want You know similar to earlier tonight. Sometimes people misunderstand, you know The board was not voting to go to 16 or 18 or anything like that. We're beginning to so if you could just make sure And if that's okay, mr. Hurd. Yep, absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Mahan So in a motion, I have no further comments. I support that the motion by mr. Hurd So in a motion by mr. Hurd seconded by mr. Diggins For authorization to the town manager to work with the allington police department to install A temporary handicap parking installation attorney hymn Mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helmuth. Yes, mr. Mahan. Yes, mr. Dacorsi. Yes unanimous vote Okay, item 16 For approval connect allington sustainable transportation plan Daniel amstatz the senior transportation planner And miss rate is still with us tonight as well for this item as well Dan should be on Well, good evening again, it's jenny rate director of planning and community development I'm joined by dan amstatz shortly the senior transportation planner both part of the department of planning and community development and i'm going to just walk through Um Some of these slides so if you could start please This is really the conclusion of a year plus effort to develop a sustainable transportation plan I think at one point we were calling it a sustainable mobility plan That was we scrapped the word mobility for some reason And we were able to utilize An a town appropriation coupled with community development block grant funds again um in order to craft a plan that Sort of transforms the way that we look at transportation in arlington to and from arlington as well and The plan of course was guided by an advisory committee, which was quite comprehensive and did actually meet in person briefly So that was that was great when it happened in the police department meeting room And you know a lot of engagement with this committee particularly guiding And helping us to think about the plan process Also overseeing some of the components of working with the consultant team. Nelson neigard was hired And uh people across town not just town departments, but also representing east arlington arlington heights in the center People from different industries were also participating and of course different advocacy groups So we tried to make a really representative group of people who would be guiding this process next slide, please And as I mentioned the project funding came from a town appropriation in cdbg I mentioned cdbg earlier for the housing production plan And i'll just note for both of these plans We can use cdbg because it has an equity focus and is also focused on low to moderate income households So we were able to kick off in january of 2020 Quickly, of course thereafter. We had to scrap a lot of the initial Thought process around engagement But actually we learned a lot of things during this engagement planning process and Really did some sort of I would say unique things during the pandemic in order to try To reach as many people including You can see on the screen the sort of door hangers that were put in arlington housing authority properties and other senior housing Buildings in town in order to reach basically as many people as possible. Of course, we also utilized the same types of Town outreach that we typically do for most plans and other educational initiatives through online surveys feedback map Various meetings. We conducted focus groups. We had stakeholder interviews And a lot of presentations to over the course of many committee committee meetings So all of that took place despite the fact that we were of course in a pandemic As well as two online forums, which had a great range of participation and also a great number of viewers When people couldn't actually attend the presentation next slide, please So what is connect arlington? So the the arlington master plan has a transportation section Which of course has a number of goals and strategies The master plan implementation committee has been tracking the implementation of the master plan and remarkably we actually have been Accomplishing quite a bit as part of the entire master plan process But what we've we observed at one point in time is that The way that we were addressing transportation through the arlington master plan was not Was not responsive to some future mobility issues that we Started we've been starting to see and experience Certainly in the last five years and even perhaps prior to that while we were developing the master plan We wanted to do things that would create sort of reach goals for the town But also were realistic and practical For the various neighborhoods and places that are part of that comprise arlington So the 20-year strategy is intending to provide a safe reliable multimodal transportation network That meets the needs of all ages and abilities of people across arlington people who are coming to town And people who are utilizing various systems in town And it it also of course sets priorities and recommendations And it covers all aspects of transportation walking biking public transit driving And something called micro mobility which is basically taking people to and from places in between Sort of that first mile last mile that we often talk about here in arlington Due to the fact that we don't have real fixed rail transit systems here Um, so it's it's very ambitious and i'm going to just if you go to the next slide Um So ambitious that we're calling it a paradigm shift Which might sound bold, but I think if you look at the sort of graphic here You'll note that the top is about pedestrian accessibility Um, and the second one is about bicycles scooters rideables ride ride Uh rideables That is the word I'm not going to say it one more time With public transportation as the focus and on down to vehicle traffic And of course we we do talk about electric vehicles We tried to make this a line a bit with the net zero action plan But again putting pedestrians and people first in our transportation planning was very important And also responsive to a number of the things that we heard during this Transportation the whole entire planning process So, you know when thinking about this and looking forward with the plan and you're going to hear about the goals From dan who's going to speak next I think you'll be very intrigued about the various things that are in the plan. Um, we've also Got a lot to share about the implementation parts and then we'll be happy to answer your questions So i'm going to turn it over to dan next Thank you, jenny. Um, can everyone hear me? Yes Wonderful. Uh, good evening. Um, thank you board members and jenny again So i'll just talk for a couple of minutes to wrap things up here But as jenny was saying this is an ambitious plan And we are these are the vision and goals sort of break down into these eight different strategies that are Mr. Very briefly highlighted here prioritizing safety Making sure everybody is represented in mobility That we really focus on pedestrians and bicycles and people Vulnerable users you might say as well, but also enhanced transit so that people that You can you know walking and biking can get you some distances But sometimes full of transportation is necessary to get you further and we do have a very robust You know transportation network and public transportation in town. We want to enhance that make that better um focusing on uh sustainability too is as You know these other modes. This is a sustainable transportation plan So environmentally sustainable, but also i would say resilient so that people have many different options and ways to get around infrastructure and priorities and policies excuse me to Um enhance the economic environment and curbside management is part of that and then responsiveness and transparency. So i'll get to A couple of those things in the next slides Just briefly the plan if you've seen it on the website it's split into four different parts There is an executive summary that's a short 20 pages or so and strategies and implementation Is the most recent piece of it that has come together over the last several months Which really gives gets into and dives into what are we actually going to do The fact book was released last year in the fall to Give a really solid picture of the existing conditions of the transportation network within the town And then for both the fact book and the strategies and implementation There was as jenny mentioned a lot of public engagement that took place And so we've got a summary from both of those periods talking about surveys focus groups maps committee meetings and presentations that we That we presented at so just you know everything that are wrapped up there into And put into a whole plan as well. So on to the next slide This is where we get into more of the meat of things the the implementation so Current implementation. These are things that are we have started doing or are doing that were came up as priorities for the plan as well And so these are so abcd refer to these different Strategy areas and the yellow are meant to be sort of the priority ones or the ones that have been put into priority for the For the plan and trying to get things done first. So addressing safety of roadway intersections Um, you know, we're talking about some many of these are sort of overlap with one another So thinking about connect or excuse me, chestnut street or mass avan appleton has very ugly angles that we are trying to firm up and deal with working with the design review committee Um, this minnow and biking planning project is one that is upcoming very shortly We're using cpa funds to conduct a study of the bikeway for safety and access and better mobility basically for that really important connector Cherries path and non-motorized transportation spine for the entire town And so we'll be selecting a consultant very shortly and starting that project this year Again, sort of the one about enhancing pedestrian safety Minimizing pedestrian crossing distances again different projects that are going on But i'll refer back to the chestnut street project again as as one trying to reduce distances along that street So that pedestrians don't have to cross quite as far And so limits their exposure as their industry and then bicycle facilities this Again trying to connect up pieces along mass av of the bike lanes bike facilities that we have to make it complete And so the mass av appleton project is is trying to get us in that direction Um with what we we've been looking at so on the next There's a couple of other pieces here that uh, but i'll go on to the next slide to the priority ones Again things that we'd like to to do Sort of in the first the first ones Adopting vision zero policy because we you know, we think that that safety should be really the highest priority And that's what the policy helps us focus on a complete streets policy and guidelines Prioritization plan we can update that now and if there's new guidance from the state For the complete streets plan and the funding that we can get through the state for those projects Traffic calming always comes up as a question and an issue And I think having a program is something we need to work towards to to deal with neighborhood traffic Issues and slowing speeds Because that can really increase safety as well safe route to school projects One that we working with the dallas school on one project, but also the strat Um infrastructure project for sidewalks going up hemlock street to strat school Um, you know, that is going to be a few years away of implementation, but that is currently under design So I consider that upcoming And then again enhancing pedestrian safety and intersections We've talked about looking at the some of the signalized crossings along mass av as Areas that are still of concern that we need to look further at um onto the next slide There's a couple of other things this is a lot of things that are going on but um I wanted to just very quickly bus priority. This is and and um Bus transit, you know, but there's something called the bus network redesign Which is coming up soon, which is going to look a lot more bus priority, but also the whole network in general Um, you know continuing to work with the abta on bus stops that need Accessibility improvements like we talked about a few meetings ago with regards to pleasant street Um implementing the mobility piece of the net zero action plan And then this other big important piece is this local transportation improvement program Where we can really plan for Funding and plan for implementing Important transportation projects within town to increase safety and mobility for everyone On the next slide This last slide on metrics we want to you know, it's very important that we Make sure that we are over this 20 years and beyond Really meeting our goals and and using data that can help us to understand that we're meeting our goals Data that is that is also easily accessible But can sort of give us a snapshot into where we're going. So this talks about crashes, mo chair travel time bike lane miles and also sidewalk investments as these these five main metrics to start with to Understand tracking over the years That we're making progress and that this plan is being successful. So that's something that we'll definitely start in earnest Moving ahead with the plan implementation. So on to the next slide Which I think is the end. So thank you everyone very much for Listening and happy to ask answer any questions Before we do that, I just want to say A tremendous thank you to dan for all of the work he's done on this plan Leading and managing the entire project During a very challenging time. I would say that he's done an exceptional job. So I just want to appreciate his effort Thank you so much Thank you. Ms. Ray. Thank you. Mr. Amstatz. Yeah, this is an incredible amount of time That has been put in and you've met with Members of the board as you've gone along to this process and we've seen the amount of work that you've done So it's uh, it's very impressive. I'm going to Turn it over to members for for comments and questions Um, and I'll start with mr. Diggins Well, thank you, mr. Chair. You know, so well, I'm very biased about this because I was a member of the Start off as the sustainable transportation plan advisory committee. I was representing tac and I'm on tac as a representative of the Chamber of Commerce representing ACMI and and also first off, I do want to give a lot of gratitude to Mr. Amstatz because uh, not only did he Guide us through the entire process, but also he did a lot of work at the end because because the the consultants being there, um Their role in this ended before we were quite finished And so it's he did a wonderful job of wrapping up and also talking with Members of this light board so that we had a chance to think about this before this part Before this meeting And what excites me most about this the is that local transportation improvement plan That is what's going to keep this plan Connected all the plan alive and vibrant mean and relevant a for 20 plus years in and and and not only can we Make plans based on that but also is a way for us to really get the community involved and engaged in it and to the extent anyone feels that they're what were shortcomings in the outreach in development of what you see now Of you'll be able to contribute In the future, we'll work to make sure that happens We I hope that we will model this on what is done at the boston MPO that's a Metropolitan planning organization And mr. Amstatz and I are in that he represents Arlington and I represent the regional transportation advisory council And through that you really get to understand what's involved Being in getting a project mean from idea mean to reality mean and I really hope that We are able to help people appreciate how we can say we're ready to do a project But there are so many steps that go into getting that project being implemented. And so I'm excited I'm gonna motion to approve it if it's not to By someone or to do it Thank you Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Uh, mr. Helen Thank you happily Second the motion to Endorse, are we? Yeah, thank you for making that point. Yeah, if you wouldn't mind mr. Diggins if you could clarify I think they're looking for a motion of endorsement this evening I happily endorse the plan And I second the motion Thank you. Just just some brief comments. Uh, this really is an exceptional plan I I read it as much of it as I could this weekend. I enjoyed it thoroughly And you can't say that about a lot of planning documents that you read there this long, but it's so well thought out It's so well presented. It's so well argued And it's so clear about what actions the town can take It's clear about the metrics, you know that If you don't measure it, it may as well not have happened and I think it's very clearheaded about that So so kudos to all With danes leadership and your department and all the people who worked on it I think it's gonna be a very useful guide I could not agree more about the paradigm shift Flipping the triangle. I think that it is in step with the residents of the town Echoing mr. Herds earlier comments about having both of us banged through campaign cycle Uh, no, I heard in addition to housing. I heard a lot about transportation about Pedestrian priority about bicycle safety about traffic safety for cars and and I will say my first Three to four months on the board the thing I have heard the most about as a select board member from residents Is traffic safety in neighborhoods and in our streets And it all hangs together. There are safety concerns. There are critical climate change Concerns and and and even if all you care about is traffic congestion We cannot solve this problem If we just keep digging in on car priority All of those things will get worse. We have to be transformative I think this is a guide that will help us do that But to be clearheaded to to the max This these projects need funding and the town has very limited funds I I want to call on all of us our state delegation Our state house delegation and our residents that your representatives This mass legislature the governor and your federal representatives need to hear from you that there is not Not nearly enough funding committed to transportation Uh projects improvement projects And that needs to change and that's in order for us to meet the goals that are in this Document the climate goals that we've set and and I think that that you should this this document provides really clear Examples of what is possible And we the town I think we have a town manager who is extremely supportive of this this transformative change We're playing department that is we have a board that is We will do what we can with with a little bit of money that we that we have available It would be amazing to do a lot more a lot faster. Should we do that? So I just want to take that as inspiration to the whole community That that this plan is a starting place and and it needs to be followed through with the kind of Priority that we see at the federal and the state level that that we used to have and that we can have again Thank you. Mr. Helmets. This is mine Yes, um ditto everything that's been said before Um, and and this is an awful lot of Information and I've been going through it Um, I will say I don't want the answer to the question tonight, but I will let um Mr. Rader or mr. Amstitz know that one of the ones I'm really interested in because I'm on the Clean Energy Futures Committee is um net zero And I know people say I shouldn't be thinking about money and if we have enough to do everything but whatever Um, the um F2 where it talks about, you know, uh, implementing Allington's net zero action plan and then it speaks about Expanding and having more charging stations and things that in the like And then there's a reference to the sub strategy f2 1 if I can't find it tomorrow I know it's in here somewhere. Um, I haven't been able to get through that. I'm I'm just only on c One so but I'll cross reference that but if I have any further questions about that I know I'm gonna find it. I'll contact. Um, either one of you, but um similar to what mr. Helmut said, um I mean as our planning director said, you know, there has to be a paradigm shift There also has to do do that not just with this select board, but um With our legislative delegation in the state house as well as um, uh, the federal government now having said that Everybody wants that that doesn't mean it's going to happen. So Um, again again in light of what is over the financial horizon for us I mean just on serving on the clean energy's future committee and I know there'll be some cross Transportation pollinization between these two, um committees I think we really need to because I think the estimate for um The cost just of that one thing alone, which I think is tan amount and should be Sown into every core of all school and town departments is moving forward with clean energy Especially around electric vehicles That we go through Because right now if you look at all this stuff, it's like, oh None of this costs anything. No, that's not true You know if you look at the little arrows and I think that's where like what mr. Foskett is saying Where we're getting in trouble is we need to take it one step out further And then when we really have a handle around that and and and who are the people who oversee that um, then that will help guide us in um Going out and seeing if we can get uh additional or supplemental um and continuing funding And then if not then we really need to have conversations to say not stop anything but Reprioritize and maybe parse it out More. I mean, I know Ms. Malofchuk, I apologize if I said things wrong. I was pointing out with um voting Traditionally, we just did it one way you showed up to vote And a few people could get absentee and the town clerk pointed it out We have early voting the week before we have uh people who can anyone can vote by mail But we only have one time funding from the federal government and that's where I think um Because that's where my head's at because the chairman and the chairman of the finance committee Especially when he put in my husband's plug to tell the town of allington. I'm not their personal atm You know, I think we really need to get in that mindset because I want to do for go forward and do as much as we can but um So I'll add further conversations or email Maybe that's even better with the two of you tomorrow And I'm not trying to be a wet blanket or anything like that But I just see you know, you start to go down the road. I think anything going forward If we could just have that next step out, which is the financial part. Thank you, mr. Okay. Thank you. This is my mr. Heard Thank you Thank you for the presentation and thank you to mr. Amstitz for all the work to put in this uh Very detailed presentation for us You know, there's issues in our allington that Divide some of the rest and there's issues that unite residents and I think sustainability is certainly one of those issues that everyone can get behind the the critical need is Written on the wall and I think everyone agrees on that and our allington has in many with housing and many other forums has Taking the lead and fighting that issue And this plan is a big step forward and this really embodies a lot of what we've heard From residents over the past couple years. I want residents prioritized and you know, I know I've spoken to a number of people that were really excited just about the fact of connecting the bikeways and having more being able to Safely, you know Bring bike bicycle traffic through the town and there's many many many parts of this plan that are Goals to move forward some of them are large goals and some are them are easy to To implement and I look forward to What that will look like And just for anyone who's looking who might be skeptical about what we're voting on or what this planning Composers if they don't want to read it We're not approving a plan to go and take all the parking spaces up and down mass av and All of a sudden say all right if you have a car you're out of luck It's a it's a long-term plan And it just is going to be a goal oriented plan to make sure that we're balancing the needs of the community versus What we currently have So I do look forward to future conversations about this and I think we can do a lot of good based on what we have in front of us Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Heard. Yeah, and I also want to echo the comment to the other members. This is a very impressive plan and one thing that And I encourage people to to look through the documents that are attached to our agenda or do it through the links through the planning department because beyond transportation or as part of transportation It touches on so many issues that that we've been dealing with here and just as one example one of the recommendations is Study parking in neighborhoods adjacent to commercial concentrations and or transit areas And consider additional regulations. We're warranted. Well, we've heard from a lot of people On that that's in here and to to think about it and to to mr. Heard's point on implementation because I think there's some people in the community thought we were voting on a specific proposal tonight that That that we're not but I just want to read what you what was put in the implementation section endorsement of this plan by the sustainable transportation plan Advising advisory committee and select board does not automatically approve all elements of this plan And specific changes and proposals may need to be brought to the board town meeting or other bodies for approval The plan recognizes that and and it's here We're endorsing the plan. We're really excited about the plan But the plan spells out Specific things are going to have to come back for discussion is going to have to be public outreach and I also Like that the realization here, although this is a 20-year plan It's going to have to be updated regularly. There's a five every five year recommendation here. So I think it's an excellent job I think there's a lot of things in there that people will look at And just give us one example what what is being proposed up at valentine road and and dowav in terms of traffic coming That's been an issue for decades. And this is We'll see how the neighborhood reacts to it but it's It's it's real thought going into this and you see it in other aspects of the plan and other areas Whether it's bikeway connection and and recognition that you're working with the state and That you have to work with others and the one last thing I want to say it's not a huge thing But it has to do with bus travel and and one of the goals is to enhance the bus Stop experience and I think the best way to enhance the bus stop experience is not to have to wait too long for the bus And I you know that leads to other conversations that we're having with the 77 bus and not losing routes But um, I want to commend miss raydon. I want to commend mr. Amstutz for the uh for the outstanding work So I didn't miss chapter. I don't know if you want to add anything or I mean Well deserved piling on I'd also thank mr. Amstutz and miss ray for the excellent work along with the entire committee for Spending the better part of the last year and more putting together this plan and and thank you very much to the board for their Consideration and comments tonight. Sure. Thank you. Okay. So on a motion to endorse by mr. Diggins seconded by mr. Helmeth Uh attorney heim Mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins Yes, mr. Helmeth. Yes, this is mahan. Yes, mr. Dacorsi. Yes unanimous vote Great. Thank you very much Item number 17 Discussion on linkedin housing authority tenant member Appointment I put this on by I may turn to attorney heim We're at a stage now where we have received the expressions of interest From individuals who would like to be appointed to the tenant member. So attorney heim if you could just lay out the timetable and I think what we're looking to discuss is To have this on our next agenda To select the individual Thank you, mr. Chairman as the board will recall Following the reforms to the tenant appointment process This board now has the duty and responsibility and authority To appoint a member of a tenant organization or a tenant of the housing authority to serve on the authority's Chief body Unfortunately the way the timing of things worked out Uh following the statutory timeline Applications to the town clerk from either tenant organizations Or tenants directly because they didn't have a tenant organization a local tenant organization were due on Friday and It was a tight turnaround. I know that members of this board wanted to think about Having it on the agenda for this uh this meeting However On the positive side our current Appointee miss pedia is able to continue to serve until this appointment is made So the short version is there's not a lot of very specific criteria Or requirements in terms of who you appoint and what your process is I basically have to be a registered voter and a resident of the housing authority or Nominated by a local tenant organization. My understanding is that you received eight total letters of interest either Someone nominated directly by a local tenant organization Or a tenant of the housing authority who expressed interest in the position Some of them submitted more detailed written statements Some of them just basically filled out the form they were required to filled out and sent into the clerk What I would suggest is that you Schedule the actual appointment hearing for your august meeting and that Well, it's certainly up to the board. You can Uh allow but not require written statements of interest so that you have some additional information Since not everybody submitted one within the time frame to just say I want to be considered And allow for whatever Presentation folks want to make within a reasonable time frame. Of course, since there's eight folks who are interested Um Also, I would note that there's no reason that you have to if someone doesn't want to submit a written statement They just want to basically say i'm interested and I want to save my piece at the board meeting That's that's fine And finally I am sensitive to the fact that I did discuss this with the chair a little bit that it's an august meeting and As I think as mohan has pointed out a few other board members august is the best time to do everything It might be nice if the board allowed if anybody couldn't for some reason be here in person to Send an agent or representative to basically say a few comments on their behalf That'd be particularly appropriate for example for a local tenant organization made a nomination So I think the board has wide latitude to conduct an efficient process. You don't have to do anything specifically But if you want to have a lot of information and then laid up you could Or you could essentially just say hey if you want to submit statement of interest Please submit your written statement of your qualifications and interest In advance of our meeting it would have been hard to post them In time for this meeting given the fact that the period closed on friday And we welcome folks to come in and say a few words and we'll make our decision But obviously I yield to the deferred to the superior judgment of the board. Great. Thank you. Thank you You're turning high. I'll turn to the board. Mrs. mohan. Um, I think Definitely would leave it to the chair, but I think the process that you Held the hearing last time when we appointed. Um, miss bedelia. I think that worked out well I'd like to when I understand things are unfortunate and we miss the date and this that and the other But just as we all have been This has been up The sooner we get this decision made and firm and depending on what happens Um with appointments, we could possibly be turning around having to do another Temporary appointment until next spring So I would leave it to my colleagues in the chair, but um, if we could somehow mirror the process the chair outlined Previously so that when we meet in august Get all the information and then if any the chair can dictate what goes from there Okay in Okay, um Mr. Helmuth That sounds fine to me Okay, and I just want to clarify on So we have the names of the individuals and before I turn to mr. Diggins and mr. I just want to clarify your comments with this mohan So we can ask for written statements between now and the ninth and I think what attorney heim Was saying we can ask for that we can have that as part of our agenda package For august ninth, we can have people come in just as we did with the the last temporary Appointment except it will just be the board. It won't be us in the housing authority We can do it that night on august ninth. Is that you're comfortable at that time frame? Yeah, okay And and just to the point of if anybody wants to submit more, I just don't want to make work We'll work for the select board office I Where we just have two people in there and we're trying to That you know, obviously if anybody I shouldn't say it that way, but I'm assuming The person or the persons who nominated will find out this information if they're not watching the meeting tonight And they can say if you want to send more, but I think people send in what they want it to be considered Okay, no, that's okay. And I think One of the concerns was the tenant organizations in a couple of cases just sent names and and that will give the individuals an Opportunity, but I think in other instances there were supplemental materials. I haven't seen it But that's my understanding as far as what the form was. Okay, um, mr. Heard Man, I'm fine with the time frame. I think what we did I should remember since I was chair, but I think we took nominations and If someone was nominated then they came up in front of the board for question and answers So I don't know I don't remember if we I don't think we actually had each individual Come up and speak. It was just if they took a nomination, but I mean it's within the chair's discretion It's only eight people And I think August should be fine because in the the zoom world Just like with emails now you can never say you're away because you can zoom in from anywhere So, I mean, I think anyone that's interested should be able to take a little time out that night to to uh Jump on the meeting if they do get called upon Yeah, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins Thank you. Mr. Chair. And I do recall that we did all of the applicants to speak and three minutes, you know And and so but I'm fine with this, you know, just thinking Maybe you want to start out meeting at six o'clock that night, but anyways, whatever Okay, thank you. Mr. Diggins. Yeah, and I would I'm as well thrown out as my I would be inclined to have everybody who has their name in to be given an opportunity To speak on the ninth if they so choose and same thing on the on the written materials But I think we can work with the clerk's office to notify The eight individuals that this is our plan Fraga's ninth and to invite them to send more materials in if they so choose Okay, so on uh, let me just say didn't usually writing down my motions. No, we didn't really make one yet We did well, I thought did mr. Helmeth make a motion on I didn't I said it sounded good to me Okay That's why I didn't write it down. So if anybody is interested in making a motion I will well actually we asked if the chair could oversee the process Yeah, yeah, be happy to if you need a motion for that. Uh, so moved Second, okay. All right. Yeah, it makes me feel better. I can check off a couple things here So on a motion By mrs. Mahan seconded by mr. Helmeth attorneyheim Mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins. I'll always go to the motion to make the chair feel better. Yes Mr. Helmeth good plan. Yes. This is mahan. Yes, mr. Dequist. I feel better. Yes I said that I apologize That's okay. I didn't write it down until he did there wasn't anything but I was second guessing myself there Okay, that ends item 17 item 18 Discussion for the board of assessors interim appointment Um We've received a memo from attorney heim and I'm going to turn it over to him for the that time frame as well And we can talk about dates I'll keep it very brief. Mr. Chair There's not a window by which you have to have it done. It's more that the process has been you've been notified um The board essentially the select board basically convenes a joint meeting with the board of assessors There's no requirements other than a registered voter of the town We've unfortunately had to do this a couple of times in the last couple years So if anybody has any questions, I'm having to answer them But I would just propose that the next most convenient meeting to the select board and the Board of assessors We engage in the process. I'm unfortunately having to fill uh, mr. Filis See okay, and I just want to add before I turn it over to members of the board I did reach out to mr. Greeley in acquiring about his availability and and Mr. Connors availability To see if we could do this on august 9th. Unfortunately that they have a contract on august 9th um I would like to see if we can maybe get the interim appointment made before Labor day and so two dates that they Proposed was august 11th Or august 16th. So if we did something on august 11th That would be a special meeting Really just for that purpose unless something else came up over the following monday 11th or 16th of august Yeah, and again the night is not it. It's not a good night. So What I can do is if members have any comments I'll I'll start with mr. Diggins On the 60s. We don't I'm booked out on the month right booked out on the 11th. Yes, okay Okay Anybody else with So I could do the 16th. It was presumably isn't evening which it would be so yeah, and it's not a little early I didn't think well. I think that would be the only thing we'd be doing so I can do either But on either I'll be Joining mr. Diggins Okay 16th fine a little bit early is fine That's the only agenda item unless the chairman deems. There's something else that definitely needs to go on and if you could When you're talking to Our colleagues on the board of assessors Where it's just one if it's just one agenda item Well, I'll talk to you about that about who can who's gonna Of course people have to zoom in well, so Okay, all right. Okay. So on this one I I will add a meeting date for the 16th with that as the agenda item attorney hind So the only thing I just want to make sure is that I'll make sure to contact the select board's office is that Just has to be posted a week in advance. That's the only real Special requirement. Thank you. And and We will put out a request. I know we have received one written request that written request will Be deemed received it that the individual doesn't have to resubmit that we will Confirm that that has been received. So in this one, I think it was more of a discussion item I don't think we need a vote and we know we have a plan So I unless people have any much people want to vote I will move on to item 19 Okay, all right. Thank you item 19 Is a discussion Of the proposed timeline for requesting expressions of interest for marijuana license And all alcohol license attorney hind. Mr. Chair. I'm gonna try to be lightning quick here This is basically just building on a discussion last week I'm sorry that I didn't get this timeline in the packet earlier But essentially based on the board's feedback and based on consulting with some of the Some of the stakeholders that are involved with hearing these different types of applications for licenses or host community agreements I'm proposing that we would essentially open up solicitations for A package store license on august 1st and close the period on august 27th So you can hold to hearing on the packet store license applications at your september 13th 2021 meeting if we receive any And none of these deadlines If if the board wanted to expand them or compress them, I think I personally don't think that that's a huge problem Host community agreements open the host community agreement application process on september 15th Close it on october 15th And hold the hearing on the last remaining Retail hca At one of your november meetings, whichever one is more convenient for you. I don't think you have one scheduled right now And then finally, um, I just would come back to the board at your august 9th meeting With a little bit more information about the delivery only And have the aim of opening that process up In at the earliest october Um, and then potentially having hearings on those host community agreements in november or december at the board's discretion So I just wanted to run this general out a timeline by the board trying to Incorporate the feedback that you folks have given me in the last meeting and talking a little bit to A few of the departments that Process these host community agreements and stuff like that. I'm not Deeply wedded to any of these things if I've gotten anything wrong. Please let me know in terms of the timelines Okay, thank you attorney heim. I will turn to the board. Mr. Hurray motion to approve timelines for All the remaining all alcohol license and the remaining community host agreement as outlined in attorney heim's memorandum Thank you. Mr. Hurray. Mrs. Mahan I'll second that and um I'm just saying two things on the um Remaining all alcohol. Is that what it is? Whatever it is packaged all out. I'm sorry. It's back sir. My fault Is it's all alcohol? Is that what you call it? Okay? I'm sorry. Um, I guess depending on the number of the applicants um But even more so towards um the aca for the marijuana delivery of marijuana Cannabis whatever, um, I think all of us has learned in past history First off, I think you Applicants should get it done in 30 minutes because I found when we've done an hour For them to present we come back with like another hour of questions of things. We really want it flushed out. So um, so We got their hour no disrespect fluff and stuff And waiting, you know, you know, I don't mean to be fresh And then Not really touching on the things we wanted to so, um, I'll leave it to the chair But I think especially on hta's 30 minute presentation Knowing that this board reads everything and we're gonna spend at least that much time and then, um If it's going to be on a regular agenda agenda Either do no more than two a night because i'm thinking of the poor people to have to wait around or maybe you Want to think of just a dedicated night, um, and then whatever comes in with the all alcohol I think we're gonna have a lot of interest because we did allow the last applicant Businesses that first came in that we said no to two rounds So again, I'll leave it to you in terms of how you structure that and but again, I don't think You know more than whatever you I'll talk to you off. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Helmuth Thank you. No comments. Mr. Diggins Uh, thank you, mr. Chair. I have to say, I mean, I do agree about the The 30 minute or less me if if if we have the presentation to me, we really don't need to hear it again That's my opinion. You know in that is so I mean it's little as possible We have presentations that we can delve into the questions and my question though is that is for the um, the the the aca um Is the marijuana study group going to get fired up again for that process Attorney hi, thank you, mr. Chair Yes, mr. Diggins We would make sure that the marijuana study group received the applications and was able to make recommendations Or it's not recommendations. They make post questions to the select board for your consideration As the police department does as my office does We basically have that built in time so that they have time to convene Look over the applications providing input or feedback as they did last time Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you, mr. Diggins Yeah, and I also support these these time frames and and We can talk offline, but I would be more inclined to to do it as The only thing we do that night because we've run into situations both of the other two times We we went really late and um one piece of good news is if we do this in november We won't have a 90 degree day like we did for the other two license license hearings for the For the marijuana licenses. So on a motion by mr. Herd Seconded by mrs. Mahan attorney. Hi, I mean if anybody wants to consider limiting it to like 10 minutes I'd be I'd be good Mr. Herd in my defense, I think I gave them 20 minutes So it felt longer Yes, mr. Diggins. Yeah, mr. Helman revved. He's the soul of it. So I'm Hope for that. Yes. This is mine. Yes. Thank you. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Okay item 20 evaluation town manager evaluation and For those in the public with our agenda package. There is a composite evaluation that Ms. Molloy had prepared based on our individual evaluations of mr. Chapter Lane This is a process that was it for a longer period than than usual Usually we've the board has done it through Either at the end of february as of march 1st This evaluation was done through june 30th to allow mr. Helmuth to comment Mr. Diggins had a longer period that he was on the board and what we see here Is there a number of categories That we were asked to evaluate the town manager on there's eight categories In a ninth category that has our overall score. Ms. Molloy compiled that Five would be a perfect score the highest That can be achieved mr. Chapter Lane received a five on professionalism Every other category was over 4.5. This is a scale of 1 to 5 the Evaluations were all excellent. We appreciate the excellent job that mr. Chapter Lane has done for the town There's a number of comments that were put in here Really just a testament to his hard work For the town and the professional job that he has done During this period and really throughout his whole tenure as town manager here in ollington um and I do want to open it up to to to um Board members for any for any comments, but um, you know, certainly this this type of Evaluation shows how much we value the services that you've provided to the community and that we're happy that you're still here and That we'd like to really like to continue working with you. So, um, I will open it up to the board And I'll start with mrs. Mahan Don't you want to start with a happy? Okay. Um, well actually again, uh I I've done this I think with it No, I haven't done this with every town manager. There was one that rhymes with harrington That I didn't do it with but um, and I will uh, I've kind of done it a little bit before but we'll do it again we're um instead of laboring my points and Um and things I'd like to talk about I I like doing that with a manager one on one um I do know um my overall score Because I I take it and god bless carameloid. It's just for my phone company days I do it in increments of 0.25 and and then add them all up and divide and I came out to 4.38 So, um, I'm excited that you're staying here Having stopped you so many times I I will say that um One of the things that um, mrs. Malloy's spoken here about and and you also Your strengths were highlighted around that area. I do feel um, Especially with the ollington police department a very professional agency A lot of things stemming and to me just Maybe a handful and one individuals that I wasn't satisfied with how that Worked out and I'd like to see that worked on more. I think I've made it clear tonight about um Budget impending override And I'm just gonna say two other not so great things because um, you can read all my high scores on everything else in there I hold adam and high esteem I think I know i'm the select board member that's worked within the longest and he's still here Who wants to stay here? God bless you, but um It I'm really kind of getting frustrated um And i'm not i'm just saying for myself, especially when you know, I hear from The chairman and the chairman of the finance committee and then I talked to our town unions And say what's coming up as well as my husband that you know, I know We're only offering the town unions a 1% Which I think is insulting Especially with the federal money coming in but then we're told well, you know, we got this override but then I don't see it on the town side in terms of I know just in the past month. I I believe we're going from Under christine von journal four full time and four pot time to eight full time and four pot time And each one each one of those full times is about 200 000 So if you if you and then we have two more full time being added to planning So that's a And if you the cost of each of those employees is a little bit over those one employees a little bit over 200 000 because we're bringing on benefits Um, do we really need that? I know governor baker hasn't been Uh doing a very good job or any job at all We sort of blocked out local boards of health in terms of covid and issues like that And that's where I you know I talked to our town employees and they say we're told there's no money. We have they didn't get to work from home Or our school from home or babysit from home. They worked all throughout covet and we all said oh, they're great They're our first responders And I'll have further conversations with you about that because I see those I mean, I've been in and out of town hall Like I said the select board we're not filling a full and a pot time position at some point We may have to look at that But i'm looking at the workload coming in and that rarely ticks me off and then the only other thing is I know we're not going to do it at the meeting here tonight And I have had conversations first with the manager several and with um The chair, um, you know The last time you try to get away We did everything we could to keep you one was a housing allowance, you know, plus other things so you could Be here and reside in ollington and since that's not the case now any longer I don't know that we need to have contact negotiations Maybe it's something the manager can do voluntary But when I sit down and talk with him and then I'll follow up with the chair Thank you. Thank you, mrs. Mahan Mr. Hurd Thank you This is certainly a timely time for us to do evaluations as We almost lost you again as mrs. Mahan said But we are certainly glad that you are Staying we're glad to have you here The numbers don't lie the I mean I can't imagine any town manager Anywhere that gets numbers these high from five members of a governing body and If you read through here, I think my only negative comments that I put on the evaluation form Where you work too hard We try to get you to You know Delegate and that's something that you certainly worked on and we've been working up for a couple years to try to not just Delegate but sort of alleviate some of the direct resident Connections with you to keep you Your head where it needs to be and you have some deputies that can be an interim that Are gonna eventually handle some a lot of the requests anyways to take that off your plate And I think that's something that we'll continue to work on But again the numbers don't lie the comments don't lie. We Value your work. We value your expertise And we hope to have you stay here for a long long time And mr. Chair, I know we are now in The town man the last year of town manager's contract and sort of following up on what mrs. Mahan I brought up if appropriate I would motion to As a board instruct the chair to to start the process of renegotiating the the town manager's upcoming contract that that will expire next year Thank you. Thank you, mr. Hurd. Uh, mr. Diggins That was a motion. Mr. Chair. That was a motion by mr. Hurd I'll second it, you know, and and I'll as far as my comments go Sorry about that sometimes my finger covers over the The keyboard the mouse pad, you know connects It makes me needs to be out So I told the the town manager when He was up for the gig, you know made it. I look forward to working you do wherever because you are a really good person which to work and and we we talk every week and your knowledge and your your authentic nature Is is this valuable to me not only the town manager, but as a person, you know, and so I am Yeah, I am my only Only criticism to with maybe the Inability to delegate me. I don't really see that so much as a Personal flaw being as much as it is maybe a situational Issue where you just weren't able to maybe delegate more But you know, it's easy to say that, you know When you're not in the chair It because I know I was in a job once where we needed to hire someone but we needed to deliver data really fast it's like I can't spend the time To train this person if you want the data as fast you're gonna get anything and it's like I'd love to be able to Have someone do this work. I can't do that and deliver the data. So it may be that our demands Are unreasonable, but I didn't have a question for whomever Made this statement The criticism this is on section four criticism in this area. This is on board support relations Criticism in this area revolved around the need to support the board in the development of their own cohesive policy direction Hey, what does that mean? Yeah, I'd understand every word individually, but when I put all the gap There's like, what does that mean? And so whoever wrote it need are implied that you don't have to answer it now But you know how to get in touch with me. I'm interested in what that's about. So other than that, you know, um Looking forward to working with you more Thank you. I can tell you unequivocally. It was not me. I didn't write any comments on anything Because this is a document that stays in history and so I can guarantee you it wasn't me Thank you, mr. Diggins Mr. Helmuth Thank you I appreciate Thank you, mr. To the chair and my colleagues for extending the windows that I would have an opportunity to participate in this It's really important. I think You know when you have somebody who is exceptional as as you are at him I think that it's very easy for all of us to realize to think what you know that, you know, and I think it's really Important that the people who who to whom you report and who with whom you collaborate Have the opportunity to really thoughtfully consider The range of your skill And and and give you constructive feedback whether that's positive or room for improvement So i'm glad that we did this and i'm glad I got to participate in this and although I've only been on the board Um a short period of time. I've had the privilege of working With our town manager Um as in collaboration on many projects over the year. So that certainly helped inform A lot of a lot of my thinking Another really good thing about this process is that it's structured and it goes through the categories that To which we we expect and and need excellence and I think the remarkable thing about our town manager Is just how good you are in all of them and that is exceptionally rare It is a Really difficult job you make decisions every day that someone's not going to be happy with So nice you make decisions that a lot of people aren't happy with and you have to do it because you have to rely on your personal integrity and your Assuredness that you're acting, you know in your own heart for the best interests of the town I believe that you do that and I appreciate that. I think that it's inevitable that people will disagree That's healthy even amongst the board. That's our job is is to represent the community Um, but I think that when it comes to the evaluation, I don't think about policy disagreements I think about your capabilities For doing the job your integrity your professionalism Your skill And to me when I look at these and I really thought about these It was impossible for me to do anything but give you the highest marks across the board and just just about every category Not just because it is real and and I think that The other facts don't lie that your colleagues in the mass municipal association that Represent 351 towns and in cities across the the state Regard you as the best in the business. You wouldn't be the president if you weren't and I I think that we're very fortunate to have you I appreciate some of the constructive Suggestions that others have mentioned about there's always room for growth And I know that you and I've talked and you've been impressed me with your own Insight into into areas where you think that you could be even better. So I won't reiterate those I would just close by something I did write in my evaluation that didn't make it into this To the zagat summary here And and that is I really am very grateful that you chose to stay with us I think that every year that you are adam chaplain as our top manager is a really good year for arlington And I hope there are many more such good years. So thank you Thank you, mr. Helmuth and I I spoke at the beginning mr. Chapter Lane and you and I have spoken about the individual performance review and we talked through the year and In a couple things I do want to add and When you see the composite you see how your other members view different aspects and and one of the things that that really struck me was the You know the board support relations because each one of us has a different mode of communicating with you Some have regular times others call when they can others pop in and the board support relations score was 4.76 so that's having to to work with five different personalities outside of the meeting and You'll be available and I can say for myself And I'm one of the ones that I don't have like a regular time Like I will call it you know during business hours, but it's it's rather unpredictable During the week and if you're not available you get right back to me and I and I think looking at the scores That's been the case with everybody and that's really impressive because we're we're different personalities And we have different schedules yet. We've gotten to the same place there roughly On on on that aspect and so just for the public overall I may have said at the beginning the overall average score was 4.76 Which is outstanding. So I did want to Give you the floor if you wanted to to say anything At this time absolutely I think two main things I want to say one. I'm very thankful to all of you for the time you took to Give so much thought and attention to this I think I've said every year and I've meant it every year that both hearing positive feedback and praise Is something I appreciate right as a human being we all we all we all like positive reinforcement But the constructive criticism is also very helpful as well, right? I would always rather know Where I stand with any one of you. I feel a lot like I'm not looking at Len enough, but You know, I would always rather know where I stand with all of you individually or with all of you as a board Even if it is a point of criticism as opposed to not knowing it because then at least it gives me a chance to work on it. So I appreciate this process. I appreciate that we've we've brought it to conclusion And yeah, thank you. I feel very gratified to have been here for the time I've been here and still be thought of in such High esteem by all of you. So I really appreciate that I think the second thing I would say is in light of The obvious in terms of my consideration of leaving a couple weeks back I am Just in so much thinking and talking with a lot of people and consideration and you know, both personal and professional analysis and I I'm very much sincerely very very happy to be staying here For a lot of reasons One big reason is this board and its support of me and the work that me and other department heads and other town staff do But I also think you saw a highlight tonight of You know one of the one of the many but one of the big reasons that i'm excited to stay and that's things like the sustainable transportation plan Right. We collectively as a town as a community have so much good work ahead of us Really cutting edge innovative work that has made arlington a leader in the commonwealth and will continue to Maintain arlington as a leader in the commonwealth I'm really excited To roll up my sleeves and continue the work with all the folks in town to get this stuff done So thank you. Great. Great. Well, that's great to hear. I didn't know where you were going at first Sorry, I didn't Good, okay, so on a um I'm just kidding on a motion By mr. Herd to authorize the chair to begin negotiations with mr. Chaplin Seconded by mr. Diggins attorney hind Mr. Herd. Yes, mr. Diggins Yeah, mr. Helman. Yes, this is mohan. Yes, mr. Dacorsi. Yes, it's an animus folk Thank you All right, I correspond and it's received item 21 Traffic and pedestrian safety concerns on eastern avenue. Um, mr. Helman. Uh, thank you. Yes, I've been working with the Resident who submitted the letter who's a resident of my neighborhood and uh, she's outlined a process where she's I think done a lot of really good background and worked with mr. Amstutz to do some preliminary work And he suggested actually a referral to attack from this from the select board to this letter We're hoping could conserve as that vehicle. So I'd like to move referral to attack based on the concerns Do we do a second second anybody have any comments? I won't go down the line on this one I will just I will just say that is one of the best letters I've seen that was a spectacular letter. Thank you Can I just be picky housekeeper? Can you just say move receipt and refer the letter to Yes, thank you. I move receipt and we refer the letter to town I'll be fast. Mr. Chrissy. I'm sorry. I can be really fast I can be really fast. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Good. Okay. So an emotion by mr. Helmuth seconded by mr. Hurd attorney. Hi, mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yeah, mr. Helmuth. Yes. Yes, mr. Of course. Yes Thank you item 22 lack of cleanliness on the streets in business districts Um from the eight head chair, um, mr Well, we move receipt on both those I just did the first one because that was a referral. Oh, you want to do something. Yeah, well if we have Um, I think mr. Chapterland wanted to talk to that so it the board can very much feel comfortable referring it to my office Deputy town manager jim finis already been working closely with angela on Developing our response to this in coordination with dpw I think we have a sense of the areas of concern Namely around trash receptacles on the weekends near the new parklets Sort of it's a workflow change where people aren't throwing out their trash inside They're throwing them to barrels outside that need to be picked up more frequently So we're working on a solution to that as well as a couple targeted areas That miss olzowski was concerned about so I think we have it well in hand But if the board wants to refer to to me, I'll take a motion for a referral to the town manager Move receipt in referral Anybody with any comments? No, I would just So I serve as the representative on eight head. I missed the last meeting when This letter I think was formulated Um, but I certainly Look, I know jim's been working on it and tell me I was just going to take care of this I did you know, I I feel like I always say this but my office is right in the center And so I walk in the cereal all the time And there is issues with trash and you know, I think the issues that the town can Work with they're just anticipated. There's no lack of You know oversight or there's no issue in the town. It's just A new way of living that people are outside and there's more trash out there But it's also an issue of personal responsibility. I guess we need maybe we need signage that says Hey Throw your stuff away. Don't throw it on the ground It would sound stupid, but maybe it's enough of an incentive to Because I I actually go I feel like I'm a little trash picker I pick up all the trash and put it away as I walk through the center and maybe other people could do that too But you know, I think this this Work that the town can do and I think there's some work that some of the people that patronize I want to say I can do too to To work together to keep the center clean Thank you. Mr. Heard any other comments from the board? All right On a motion to receive and refer to the town manager made by mr. Heard seconded by mrs. Mahan attorney hind. Mr Heard. Yes, mr. Diggins. Yes, mr. Helman. Yes, mr. Mahan. Yes, of course. Yes, my name is both Thank you. Okay new business. Uh, miss costa Attorney hind one item. I want to let the board know that uh, the town filed suit against itron I want to thank my cunning ham for some terrific work and pulling together that complaint We'll keep the board posted. Thank you. Thank you, attorney. Mr. Chapter one Thank you, mr. Chair two matters one in regards to the mugar property The board Is definitely recalls that it approved the strategy as outlined and drafted by Town council for really stepping up our pursuit enforcement of the mugar's and the cleanliness of the mugar woods and health and safety of the mugar woods that Really quickly started to work in that representatives from the mugar enterprises were Increasingly responsive to myself the chair and town council Two weeks ago now, uh, myself Along with the delegation led by officer knif went into the property with the representative from the mugar's and for cleaning companies to Spec out we were out there for an hour and a half. Um, and then I had to come back to the office and they stayed out there to really Get the lay of the land and see what a cleaning scope would look like The representative of the mugar's then went out again last thursday with two more companies along with officer knif to get further pricing Checked in with her today. She expects that final quote In the next day or so and then to be awarding a bid. So I should have more to report soon But there's been a very positive trajectory with The level of attention the mugar's have been paying to us in our concerns and seemingly a willingness to do some serious Cleaning on the property. So, you know not fingers crossed, but it seems to be on a positive trajectory On a much much lighter note. I just wanted to give the board a positive heads up that I know one of the main things I think several board members have asked me and residents keep asking me Is that we're doing a beer garden again? Is there any way to do a beer garden again? And there is a local south shore brewery that's been working with the errington historical society He used potentially the jason russell house lawn For some short stint through the fall and it could very likely be on the board's next agenda for consideration and approval So I just wanted to give a quick heads up to the board Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. Mr. Mr. No new business, but I just want to suggest that they do that before the jason russell house drills the geothermal wells Mr. Diggins Thank you, mr. Chair, you know, so it's it's interesting about the beer garden thing because I am announcing that I I had mentioned that I was talking with the idea of doing the trying to get the town to put on a dance party and maybe a parade for Or um, uh, Taser Arlington and I decided not to do that about a couple of weeks ago Because my concerns about the Delta variant was such that I just couldn't have I just didn't have the confidence to be That's required to build the level of energy The to pursue something like that because I didn't want us to end up in some kind of a Conflict where we had put a lot of energy into it and then he was pushing forward in a perhaps unwise manner I am hoping that we get to october and wish that we had done that And so so I am supportive of the beer garden thing But I'm just letting you all know that I'm no longer coming with that idea But something else I mentioned that I am moving forward with is uh, uh A meeting It's going to be like a forum brainstorming session workshop a Uh, it's essentially I'm thinking of it as more like a full duplex open forum. Uh, and I'm doing that in conjunction with the See the I'm sorry, it's getting around a lot of the clock and I'm getting to lose it with the Oh the civic engagement Task group. It's a new group formed by uh, in vision garlington And so I'm going to do that on next monday At 7 o'clock till 8 30 is going to be remote But the point the real reason I'm bringing this up to you all is that this is going to be a platform that Any of you can use as you know the we have to Because of open meeting laws No more than two of us can meet um and do something with the public at the same time And so it'll be open to any one of you or any two of you And I'm hoping that the town council will allow me to act as tech support for any of you If you decide to take advantage of it and so We're kind of making it up. We just tried anything to get more civic engagement. So That'll be next monday night. Um 7 o'clock 8 30 to it'll be on the count calendar and go out in the mail So that's about it. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Hurd um, thank you Mr. Chair, uh in thank you For the moment of silence at the beginning of the meeting. I do want to just acknowledge again the Really monumentous loss that the town of allington suffered with mr. Feely A few weeks back tragically and sudden He was a great surfer to the town in many capacities and he will certainly be missed And it there'll be a big hole for residents to Fill in his absence, but I do want to acknowledge his loss again um A few things Kind of we have this theme. I I think early fall that I talked to the town manager about And I don't know if it's a high goal, but I'm just saying it to really Put myself to the fire as we talked about the possibility of in lieu of Where we had generally we had this discussion about the fireworks on town night and Then town day and we can't have town day this year for obvious reasons, but there is my understanding still A small cash of money in the budget that could be designated to a fireworks display on saturday on the normal weekend of town Of when town day would be In my idea what we'd have to do some fundraising, which I'll Take the lead on but my idea is sort of a patronize Arlington type theme Whereas especially if we had the beer garden, which this is news to me today, which I think works well into it Is if that was during the day the the idea is go to patronize a local arlington restaurant business We can reach out to arlington businesses to have specials that night to try to Incentivize people to come in and then enjoy the fireworks from wherever it is that you can You can watch the fireworks. So it's still in the works and it's in the preliminary stages And by preliminary, I mean I mentioned it to adam a couple weeks ago So we'll see where we go from here But I think that's just a good way to kind of to cap off the summer and You know as we have new businesses in town and new restaurants that are opening Kind of have a specific day where we want residents to come in and patronize our businesses And I think that's it. Okay. Thank you. Mr. This is my Very briefly I think I mentioned this to you, but I can't recall but robin's farm has been Befallen to some teenage young kids They see it as pranks and letting off steam and There's been some playground equipment and other things vandalized up there and then the following week the community gardens and the latch the locks broken off and things inside taken Um, and they found the sea sneesnakes or whatever it was a couple blocks away. So I didn't um Send an email over the weekend to adam and jim feney and chief flowery expecting that I talk about it on monday about what's to be done, but the chief flowery Along with the manager I got an email from chief flowery and she'd already increased the patrols on saturday night And one of the things i'm going to continue my conversation with the town manager and the reason why i included jim feney is he did Such a stellar job in terms of when we had to have ballot boxes out there in security and things like that But I don't know that it needs to have that sort of a Steps be put in place. So I figure if I give a week and then touch base With the town manager who will already spoken with julie what's been done may be enough And then the other thing I spoke to the manager about Um, and I just wanted to let the board know as well as let uh, and I know you're all aware of it If anyone's been in diagostinos in the past week, you've gotten it, maybe The proposal mass avamplet apple tin Losing parking I also was contacted by now. I was one business. I was indirectly contacted by and the manager knew well of Doctor, I think it was fell zone or fallow. I'm sorry But then also the husband and wife who owned the Cleaners and I don't know if it's abc or ace, but it's in that block I let my dad go and she came running out very concerned about that Why are you going to do that and I told her I've already spoken in the town manager Also spoke to the town manager about Um Any parent of an odyssey odyssey school student who rides or takes the bus as well as The two traffic supervisor we have to have hit there now Um, still can't understand the rationale for that bus stop getting moved Further so I Because it creates a great visual Disturb, I mean whatever it is. You don't have the queue. You don't have the distance Whereas in front of the bank, which that bank parking lot I'll just say the bank parking lot's there, but I'm just But he said he would look into that and get back to the board. I think it's safer I don't know where we're talking about other things with the t to put it back where it was And then any loss of parking It'll just be transferred over. So that's it. Thank you, mr. Chair. Thank you. Mrs. My I just have a couple brief things I just want to follow up on mr. Chapter Lane's Comments on on you there and I want to thank him for his efforts and really the whole team the past Couple weeks because they're we had a dialogue Turnheim, mr. Chapter Lane, and I but since then there's been a lot of activity Um between officer knif mr. Chapter Lane number of people going down to the site with the Muga our interests and things are Moving along in a positive direction. We will keep Keep on that but that that was good news that you received today And I also wanted to also mention I think all members of the board have probably Received calls about the issues on Mass av and and Appleton Street in the parking and I think people were concerned That it was coming before us tonight for a vote Before anything comes before us there will be plenty of notice and Plenty of opportunity to hear from people so it's not something that's going to go on an agenda on a friday for for that monday, so and my understanding that We will not have anything before us on that Until after Labor Day, maybe not even till October But we will keep the public informed on that and continue to receive input so with that I will Take a motion to adjourn So moved with three minutes to spare Second for anyone second Okay on a motion by mr. Hurd seconded by mr. Helmuth attorney. Hi mr. Hurd. Yes, mr. Jiggins Yeah, mr. Helmuth. Yes, mahan. Yes. Thank you. Yes meeting adjourned. Thank you Yes, good night everybody