 I'd like to call the order of the Board of Selectments meeting for Monday, April 3rd, 2017. First order of business is a reorganizational meeting, so I will turn it over to the Chairman Pro Temp, Mrs. Kruppelka. I'm sorry, I should have brought that over to you. I apologize. The first order of business tonight is to have an organizational meeting for the purpose of electing a chair and a vice chair. So now I'm going to ask for a nomination from the Board for chair. Mr. Grilly. I'd like to nominate Mr. Joseph Currow for chair of the Board of Selectments. Second. Second by Mr. Byrne. I'd like to move to closed nominations. Second. All in favor? Okay. Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye, Mr. Okay. So here in a unanimous vote we'll go on to. No, that was to close nominations. Now we take the vote on the chair. Are you new here, Madam? I am, I am. I just said to talk, this is going to be good. Okay, all right, so now we're taking the vote for the chair. Okay, Mr. Currow. I abstain. Aye. Aye. Mr. Grinne. Aye. Mr. Grinne. Aye. Okay, so it's a four to a zero, one. Okay, all right, so now we can move on to vice chair. Do I hear any nomination? I'd like to nominate Mr. Stephen Byrne. Second. I'd like to move to closed nominations. Second. Okay, Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. Aye. Abstain. Aye. That's to close nominations. Now to vote. Now we're going to vote on the new vice chair. Mr. Stephen Byrne. So we're ready to take a vote, Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. This is behind. Mr. Grilly. I know it's hide. Aye. You have to call Mr. Byrne to say. Okay, Mr. Byrne would do it except the nomination. Thank you. Okay, so all in favor, we do have now Mrs. Mahan. As I am stepping down, we have Mr. Currow as the new chair and Mr. Byrne as the vice chair. So I'm going to turn over the gavel for you. Here's your Benny Hill music. Exactly. Never been on this side. Oh, really? Oh, thank you so much. Excellent radio. So I'm glad summer's coming in. Hang on. All right. Glad to be back. I didn't play it up. Oh, geez. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Everyone set? Well, first of all, thank you very much to my colleagues for the vote of confidence and me and Mr. Byrne. Certainly work to earn that through the next year. And I do also want to welcome Mr. Dunn and Ms. Mahan back to the board who will look forward to working with you over these coming years. Those of you who know me from similar roles elsewhere know that I often like to open our meetings with an inspirational quote or lesson from history or from literature that either relates to leadership or Arlington or the business before us. And with the bittersweet moment that we have this evening, it was a little difficult. And I had to really think about it. I reached back to is actually ancient Rome and was the error of the Emperor Diocletian in the fourth century. Diocletian was undertaking a persecution of the early Christians at the time. And he became very upset that one of his district military commanders was refusing to take part in these persecutions with him. So he sent an envoy. And they found that this was true. And they sentenced the military commander to be burned at the stake. When the commander was on the pyre and the soldiers came to light it, the commander said, if you do this, I'll climb the flames to heaven. They relented. They backed off. Ultimately, the commander was martyred. But he's come down to us and has been known as St. Florian, who's the patron saint of firefighters. Because he had a reputation of organizing his military units into fire brigades. And if you look at our firefighters' uniforms and equipment today, you'll see that they all carry all over the world the Florian cross. So tonight, we're remembering another great Arlingtonian, who also stood up against persecution and to give voice to those who could not find it. And who devoted his entire life really to helping others first as a lifetime career firefighter. And then for the last eight years as our state senator. And of course, I'm talking about Ken Donnelly. And we all heard the news last night of his passing. I know it's shaken a lot of us. I first met Ken almost 30 years ago when I was working for the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Service in the state Senate, dealing with public employee issues. And at that time, Ken was a legislative agent representing the professional firefighters in Massachusetts and representing them very well. And during that time, I think one of the biggest achievements that he put through was to win passage of a cancer presumption for firefighters, which acknowledged the fact that our firefighters are often exposed to carcinogens and hazardous materials and such. So I can't help but be shaken by the sat irony that he himself lost his struggle to cancer last night. I think we in Arlington owe Ken a great debt. He was very committed. He was committed to the young and the old. He was committed to the little guy. And he was committed to one thing that he was particularly committed to was to battling the scourge of mental illness. He won for this town several years over in conjunction with his legislative colleagues, six-figure support for the Arlington Youth Counseling Center. And he was honored for that a few years ago by the Board of Youth Services. I spent many hours with him at various events around town. I know this is something that I think all my colleagues can relate to. We would talk a lot about the tension of balancing public service with family life and how you do that and the efforts that each of us make. And I think we can relate to this, too, to try to protect our spouses and significant others from the limelight. And he did that well. He would always light up when he talked about bringing his grandchildren ice fishing up north. He always made an effort to make their special events like First Communions and such. Arlington, I think, is greatly diminished without Senator Donnelly. He was a gentle soul, but also a real fighter. So I would like to ask if the board and the members here could please join in a moment of silence. Certainly ask that Ken rest in peace. And our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Judy, and all of his family. I don't know if my colleagues want to thank you all. I know that some of you are maybe new here or maybe new watching at home. And maybe you wonder who the cast of characters up front here is. And I'd just like to let you all know who all is at the front table now, especially since we shuffled around a bit. So my name is Joe Curault. To my right, of course, is our new vice chair, Stephen Byrne. I left Mr. Kevin Greeley, Diane Mahon, as I said, newly re-elected, and Dan Dunn, board of selectmen. Assisting us in our business this evening is our staff, our deputy town manager, Sandy Poole, our town council, Doug Heim, and our board administrator, Marie Kruppelka. And I would like to explain why, ordinarily in Mr. Poole's seat, we see Mr. Chapter Lane. And I'd like to share the happy news that the reason Mr. Chapter Lane is not here is that just after 11 o'clock this morning, his wife gave birth to an 8.2-pound baby son, Roger Philip Chapter Lane. And I know that our good wishes go out to the entire Chapter Lane family, Adam and Rita and now Big Sister Pearl. So we wish them well. And we look forward to Adam's return after he has some time with his family. So without further ado, I'd like to move on to item number two on the selectman's agenda. Proclamation, April is Autism Awareness Month, and I'd like to turn it over to Ms. Mahon. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for opening the meeting with some very solemn news, some explanatory news, and some celebratory news. That's a difficult balance. And it's your first meeting. You stepped right up to the plate. I also would like to thank my colleagues in terms of April is Autism Awareness Month. Pretty much as long as I've been on this board, I believe Mr. Greerly was the first chairman. When I was elected back in 99, my first act the following year was to recognize Autism Awareness, and that's when they were citing figures that one in 162 and now we're down to one in 80 and some say one in 60 are diagnosed with autism. And one of the things before I read the proclamation is that autism, they say it's a broad spectrum or autism spectrum, it really is. You have some higher functioning autism children and young adults, and then you have some lower functioning, more severely affected by autism, but one is no more, no less than in terms of the diagnosis. But I think that from when I first got on the board when people heard autism, it pretty much was straightforward explanation versus now where people sort of recognize the extremely broad spectrum as well as dealing myself personally as well as other members on the board with family members that if you talked when I first got on the board back in 1999, there was next to nothing in terms of education, in terms of opportunities for individuals on the autism spectrum and part of the initiative by Autism Speaks and other groups, I mentioned Autism Speaks because that's to whom the proclamation requests usually comes from and to whom I'm a member and deliver to is feeling that one of the things they can feel confident about is the fact that education is out there and that just beginning research in terms of looking at the broad range of autism spectrum and what possibly could be offered. And I really think similar to developmentally normal spectrum kids, same common denominator as early intervention is key. And I think we've really seen that, certainly here on the town side, but definitely on the school side for all forms of children entering the educational system. With that, I want to thank my colleagues for once again doing this, for really giving their support, some of us walking the walk, whether it's family members, whether it's coworkers who have done this. I want to thank Mr. Chaplain through the Acting Town Manager, Mr. Poole for lighting up Town Hall blue because the first week in April, that's the campaign lighted up blue to get the awareness out. So the proclamation reads as follows, whereas autism is a pervasive developmental disorder affecting the social learning and behavioral skills of those affected by it. And whereas autism was once thought to be a relatively rare disorder, affecting only one in 10,000 people. And whereas more and more health professionals become proficient in diagnosing autism, more children are being diagnosed on the autism spectrum, resulting in rates as high as one in 50 children. And whereas unfortunately, while there is no cure for autism, it is well documented that if individuals with autism receive treatment early in their lives, it is often possible for those individuals to lead significantly improved lives. And whereas autism speaks and others are spearheading an awareness effort in order to educate parents, elected officials, professionals, and the general public about autism and its effects. Now therefore be it resolved that we, the members of the Board of Selectment, and do hereby proclaim April as Autism Awareness Month in the town of Allington and observe the town hall displayed in blue lights for lighted up blue, the week of April 3rd, in order to increase awareness of the autism spectrum disorders. And it's signed by my colleague, the Chairman, Mr. Curell, Vice Chairman, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Greeley, Mr. Dunn and myself and our Board Administrator, Mrs. Kropalka. Thank you so much. I hear a second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? Thank you very much, Ms. Mahan. And we thank the town hall staff also for enabling the lighting of the town hall and recognition of this. Appreciate your keeping this in front of us each year. Next we go on to the consent agenda. All items will be taken on a single vote unless otherwise noted or moved by my colleagues. First, we have the minutes of meetings, March 27th, 2017. We have a request for a contractor drain layer license, premier pavers and hardscape, Company 8 Oak Meadow Road, Lincoln Mass. Request for a contractor drain layer license, Terra Landscape and Construction, Cooperated 138 Fisher Street, Westboro Mass. Request for a special one-day all-alcohol license, 422-17 at Whitmore-Robbins House for a private event, Amanda Sagelsky and Christopher Allen. For approval, sidewalk cafe permits, Common Ground 319 Broadway, Gwynne. And Capitol Theater 204 Mass Ave, Richard Freeman. And appointments of new election workers, Darring Curley for Winslow Street, Democrat Precinct 10, Florence DeFelice, 109 North Union Street, Democrat Precinct 5, Whitney DeVito, 25 Central Street, Unenrolled Precinct 21, and Susan Lawler 163 Woodside Lane, Unenrolled Precinct 1. Do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? Move of approval, subject to all conditions? Second. It's moved by Mr. Byrne and seconded by Mr. Grilly. Do we have any discussion? Is there anyone here wishing to speak on any of the matters on the consent agenda? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next, we move on to open forum. There was a sign-in sheet as it came in. Open forum, except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established. It should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request. Do we have anyone signed up for open forum? Is there anyone here for open forum, citizens open forum? Hearing none, we'll close citizens open forum and we move on to the next item on the agenda. The next item on the agenda under traffic rules and orders and other business is the announcement and endorsement of Treasurer's Office personnel change by our brand new treasurer, Mr. Karman. And before you start speaking, Mr. Karman, I want to congratulate you on your election on Saturday. I see Mr. Hainer in the audience and I congratulate him and his school committee colleagues as well as our clerk, Ms. Winstain Leoconna from the board of assessors as well as everyone who ran for town meeting those some very hotly contested races. It was really horrible weather and so everyone who got out and voted, everyone who ran, everyone who won or competed, thank you very much. So we're very pleased to welcome you on the very first night, Mr. Karman. Thank you. You have the floor. So a few things I came for you tonight for. The first one is the, I think the most important one which you had given the lead in on the headline which is I've come to seek an endorsement from the Board of Selectment on a personnel change in the treasurer's office. Now, just to be clear, more to the people who are probably watching this on TV than all of us who understand the, you know, legal and statutory logistics is the Office of the Treasurer in Arlington is an independent authority. So there are bylaws and statutes that says the treasurer can effectively make personnel changes as they see fit. When I had campaigned, I was campaigning for the Office of the Treasurer. One of the things I said right away and I said early on that was if I were to win that I am not going to be the day-to-day department head of this office because of my belief the day-to-day department head of treasurer's office should be a treasurer professional. And I had further said that in carrying out this objective, I would work with the town manager, I'd work with the director of human resources to identify a treasurer professional that they were comfortable with and they could recommend to me to make that as the day-to-day appointment. So the nice part about being unopposed is you can start working on these things right away. So the town manager was gracious enough to agree that we would start working on this right away on the caveat that if someone came as a writing candidate or materialized a challenge that we would stop and through the process. I mean, I think as you guys probably watched in the newspaper and whatnot, I was pretty open about doing this. It wasn't like it was a big secret. I think first wrote it, I pulled papers on January 5th, which I think was a Thursday. And I put it on my website on January 7th. So that was a long time people knew this was out there. So Mr. Chapterland and I endeavored on this. After some discussion, he had recommended to me that the current deputy treasurer Michael Morse would be to be elevated to a department head level position within the parameters that we can do in an independent authority. He's very confident in Michael. He's very confident in his ability to run the office of the day-to-day. We then went to Karen Malloy, director of personnel. Well, I know she's director of HR, but actually the bylaw caused the director of personnel when dealing with the treasurer. So I went to Karen and in accordance with the bylaw, I talked to her about the changes. She had gone through some different things. We had sort of worked on a paying compensation package for that. We then went to the union. We met with union representation from Michael who is an SEIU. Their initial feedback so far has been good. As you would expect, they have some questions, some concerns, and things they want addressed. I don't see anything. I'm not speaking for Karen. I don't see anything to be insurmountable. Now I should also caveat that by, that's from a 40,000 foot view. I'm not a union negotiator. So this is that Karen Malloy and Sandy Pooler show in order to get this one finished. But I don't know if you, it's gone well so far, right? Very well, yes. It's gone very well so far. So that's what I would like. So what I would like is for the board of select men to endorse the recommendation of its town manager. So I don't need you to endorse me. I don't need you to think that I have any types of good thoughts anywhere. But I do want you to endorse the town managers recommendation on this matter. Thank you very much, Mr. Karmann. Do any of my colleagues have any questions or comments? Mr. Dunn. I'm really happy to see Dean here. I'm really happy to have the, I wasn't a part of any of the conversations with Adam and Dean, I certainly talked to both of them separately at various points during this process and it is absolutely delightful to see everybody working together towards a common goal. And I think that they are working on sound principles. I think they've got the right goals in mind. I think the steps make sense. I absolutely move that we endorse these changes as the treasurer and the town manager are proposing. Do I hear a second? Second. And I just, I will, you know, I agree with everything Dan said. I think Michael is a great choice for the office. I, through working with them on different committees, I've really enjoyed it. I think he's knowledgeable and I think he's the right person to it. I particularly like the continuity, that I know hard times can come sometimes when there's change like this. And I think that the steps you've taken have allowed, have allowed the town to be better off at this time. So thank you. Ms. Mohan? Oh, no, no, Ms. Mohan. If I could, through the chairman to the acting town manager, Mr. Poehler, or perhaps our current treasurer, whoever you deem appropriately. I was looking at the timeline and listening also to the remarks by our treasurer, Mr. Carmen. Where are we in terms of discussions with SEIU? From what I understand, from what I've received that everybody is saying positive things, but they're, we're not at the end of the road with that. So my, my two pot question would be, where are we with that? And what, if any, that you can discuss are things that need to be finalized and agreed upon. And is our vote contingent, which I know Mr. Dunn will read the full thing that we've been given in terms of what the actual motion should be? Oh, yeah, didn't get that. Or if we can pass that, oh, Mr. Burden. Thank you. Am I correct to assume that the motion that Mr. Burden, Mr. Dunn will make will be contingent upon agree with SEIU? Because I'm just saying from what I've heard, I'm hearing that's still being discussed and not ironed out. I agree. So let me, with the caveat that I'm not a union negotiator. And I'm union, by the way. Yes. I will say that we had a preliminary meeting with SEIU. We went, it went very well. We gave them our offer. They came back and gave us their concerns and their feedback and things like that. There was nothing I saw that was very concerning. What I will say without getting into union negotiations is I think if you don't endorse this, it becomes a problem. I think it's the opposite. It's not going to be something that becomes a problem if you do endorse it. It's a problem if you don't endorse it. Because, and you know, just step back for a second and you know, put on your union hat for a sec and think to yourself, we have a political body. Okay, we have a political body. We have a political treasurer. We have an article 19 out there. And so if I was a union negotiator, I would be very concerned that my person is now going to be caught in the crosshairs in line of fire between me and the five of you in town meeting. And so what I think endorsing it does is it does the opposite. It provides a clear and unified message from the treasurer, from the board of select men that this is our guy. This is where we're endorsing the recommendation of Mr. Chapter Lane. And I think it goes a long way to easing concerns that they may have. That was at least my reading of it. Does Mr. Poole have anything? Mr. Poole? Yeah. I agree with everything Dean Carman just said. We did get some feedback from the union. We then internally discussed some of the things I asked for. I think most of them aren't really a problem at all. Karen Malloy has been dealing day to day with the communication back and forth with the union. From where I sit, I would say it's just a matter of a few days before things are finally put to bed. Nothing that they've raised was a major obstacle. I think we'll have a deal very soon. And I do think it is important that we have their acquiescence and support. And they were very enthusiastic when we first met, just a few questions that they had. Again, I think we can get those who aren't out. Anything more, Ms. Mohan? If I could, if it's appropriate. And I'm balancing the line here. Being a union member, not anything associated with the town that when I have wanted to get involved, we certainly can't. So my concern here is taking a vote before that those issues have been resolved. Is there any way, including in the motion, that Mr. Dunbull state, as we have before us, that we can have some sort of three or four phrasing that says, perhaps after day-to-day operational manager of the Treasury and Collection Division of the Treasurer's Office, some language there upon successful discussions with SEIU? My thing is, we're approving this, but one part of the pie that needs to be resolved is, and it sounds like we're there from hearing from the treasurer and the acting town manager that SEIU has presented some issues. It seems as though those will be agreed upon. So I'd like to amend that just to include that this motion also includes sort of signing off SEIU's suggestions and then the town manager and town treasurer's agreement to that. So if attorney Han, is that something that can be included and if it can, what's the briefest way to say that? I think if you want to insert at the end of the motion that I've proposed upon successful, I think that the endorsement is the endorsement of a plan. So I think you can either, at the end of the proposed motion, assert something to the effect of as also recommended by the town manager and contingent upon SEIU's approval. I think that that would be approval of the position change. I think that would be fine. But one of the things I would note is that this is not synonymous with the agreement to appoint Mr. Morse as the assistant town treasurer. He's already the assistant town treasurer. We call him the deputy town treasurer. That's his position under state law in the town bylaws. So this particular motion does not have to have a specific form. I just wanted to try to make it as descriptive as possible about what was going on. So I don't see a reason why it can't be done. Well, I would ask you if possible. Mr. Dunn, you take that as a family item. So was I hearing the motion, Mr. Dunn? Yes, definitely. I have reading now from the suggested motion, which I definitely captures what I was looking for. I move that the Board of Selectment endorses the treasurer's plan to make deputy treasurer Michael Morse, our assistant treasurer under Title I, Article 4, Section 5 of the town bylaws and state law, the day-to-day operational manager of the Treasury and collections division of the treasurer's office, as also recommended by the town manager and contingent upon the reaching agreement with the SEIU. This is Mohan. I think Mr. Byrne. I will second, but I do have a question now. Because when we first took the motion and I still do agree with it, we were endorsing this plan at this current moment. And now with that stipulation, does our endorsement change depending on future negotiations? My personal answer is I would cross that bridge when we get to it. I think Mr. Hymes has some input. I think the end, thank you, Mr. Chair. I think Mr. Byrne, that the endorsement is what it is. You are essentially doing something that I don't even know is strictly necessary, as we're all sort of talking about it, as Mr. Carmen has sort of presented it. But it's something that the elected treasure is seeking from the Board of Selectment. And the Board of Selectment is just saying, yes, we like this and we want this, so long as this can be successfully negotiated with SEIU. And I don't think that should impact what we're hoping to achieve here. So I don't think it becomes anything other than what it would have been, which is that if SEIU negotiations had not worked out, then I think we would have had a practical impasse anyway. OK. That makes your question. Mr. Grilly? Yes, so thank you. Congratulations, Dean. And I really feel you're brilliant in the way you've handled this. And I thank you for being here in front of us, because you don't need to be. You're going to see a lot of me. Careful now. But where Mr. Morse is our appointment, but this doesn't impact it at all. You're saying the title doesn't change. Is that the idea he's still deputy town manager? So his responsibilities on day to day are going to change when we get through this process. Obviously his compensation will change. He's actually going to sit in that gigantic office. In the treasurer's office, he's going to get the treasurer's parking spot, and all of those fun things that come along with it. But yes, his title will remain deputy town treasurer, or at least how the bylaw calls it assistant town treasurer. But thank you for the respect you showed us by being here and asking. My pleasure. And I would also like to echo that. I think you've also been excellent in reaching out to a lot of people during this process. And I know some of the drafts you've shown me of some of the processes that you'd like to approach do include more frequent check-ins with the board of selectmen also, which I think will be much appreciated by all of us in interests of transparency and moving ahead. So is there any further discussion on the motion that's on the table? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? All right. Is unanimous? I cover a couple more things while I'm here. Certainly. All right. So also in your packet is an S&P credit rating document for the town of Arlington. That is a document that S&P gives us every year and explains why our rating is what it is. Arlington has a AAA rating, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I'm going to say this jokingly, but I'm kind of serious about it. So I encourage you to read the document. Something you're going to notice is that nowhere in it does it say that we have a AAA rating because the treasurer does a good or a bad job. So never thank me for any of those ratings. It's good, bad, or indifferent. With that being said, though, it does, and I don't know if you've seen it before, it does give a good analysis of why we have a AAA rating. It talks about community wealth. It talks about balanced budgets. It talks about cash reserves. It talks about debt load. And so if you have time to read it, I mean, it's a really good document to get your head around on why our credit rating is what it is. In addition to that, and I didn't send it out because I didn't want to overwhelm you, S&P also, and I'll send it out to you in a future packet, S&P also has a document that shows exactly how they weight each of the criteria that's in there. So if you want to score how our LinkedIn gets a AAA, they actually have a sheet. And so I'll send that out to you. I think it's a really good document to understand when we talk about having low borrowing costs and a high credit rating and things like that, how we get to it. And so I thought that was really important. And if you could, I'm sure you'll just receive that report, but that's fine. Yes, sir. But while you're saying you don't deserve credit, you are the one that interfaces with them, though. Absolutely. And makes the presentation. And so that's still very important. It is. And you'll do it well. Ms. Mohan? I don't know if I'm reading this correctly or misreading this incorrectly. But when we get what you've given to us for Allenton's general obligation, and then they sort of give rationale and description, one of the things I was confused about is, the way I'm reading this is it talks about the debt service and the percentages applied there, too. And then it talks about 73%, 74% of the debt to be retired within the next 10 years. But then it also says something about it speaks to our pension and OPEB obligation, and it cites a lack of a plan to sufficiently address. I always thought that that is a deficiency versus I always thought it was something that we were doing. And we're sort of we're not. It is something we're not doing. So we currently have a plan to fund our pensions by, I believe, 2035. It's regulated under law. It's by statute. We don't have a choice. Everybody does. And I think the absolute latest we can do it is 2040. There is no legal requirement to fund OPEB. And so right now, I think we put about a million dollars to it each year from various sources. And we go from there. I think as I look today, the OPEB fund has about $11 million in it. But it's a very serious issue. Every community is facing it. And unfortunately, I think every community is in the same position we are where they're not really addressing it. There was an article in the Boston Global a couple of years ago, if you remember, that said Arlington with it, then $7 or $8 million of OPEB funding had the most funded OPEB account in the state. I mean, if that tells you where everyone is. And so yeah, it's a big issue. And the rating agencies are picking up on it. If you ask Mr. Viscay and our audited financials, they've changed the accounting standards to really highlight that on our balance sheet as just a full liability today. So yeah, it's a big issue. I think that Mr. Byrn had actually highlighted that issue when we were discussing the audit, recent audit report, the change. Oh, was it Mr. Dunn? Mr. Dunn. Same seat, different person. You missed me. So I would anticipate my memory in terms of organization and the retirement commission, you have or will have a seat on that as a voting member or do you need to be- Mr. Billifer remains on the- Mr. Billifer, so you won't, okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from Mr. Cameron? One last thing, I should point this out because it is kind of important. It's a couple of things just looking forward because when I said I'd come back, there's a couple of reasons I'll be coming back. So I guess I'll say the town manager and I, I think it's more Sandy and I have been working on a working memorandum of understanding between the office of the town treasurer in the town manager's office. And what we're trying to endeavor to do is when we talk about an integrated finance department, a lot of people stop and say well we can't do it right now because we have an elected treasurer and we have the town's professional management. I think there's a logic to the flaw in that logic. And the flaw is that the treasurer's office can't integrate with the town manager's office because the treasurer's office by statute is an independent authority. And so there's no actual requirement to work together. And personally I can speak, as the treasurer I can say that I think that's kind of ridiculous. I mean we're all on one team, we're all on the same side. So Sandy and I have been working on is to memorandum of understanding that says that even though we have this statutory independent authority that is the treasurer's office that we really want to work as more of an integrated department and we want to collaborate on things and we want to have a deputy town manager who's reporting, I keep saying that. A deputy town treasurer who's reporting to the treasurer but is also accountable to the deputy town manager and that the staff within the treasurer's office are following the same hiring processes, review processes and everything else that everybody else in the town is following. So we should have that, I believe we have an agreement, I'll call it an agreement in principle right now. I think Adam's gonna sign it so when he comes back we'll sign that and then we'll have that before you at a future meeting. I'll also, I have it on my computer right now I was gonna wait. There are a couple other documents I'll send to you and we'll come back and talk about it in another meeting. We have an, the treasurer's office has an investment policy that they've had in place since 2007, 2008, last updated in December, 2016. So I was reading it today and it says there's all these steps that occur with the investment policy and then it shared with the independent auditors, the comptroller and the trust fund commissioners and there's one group that was missing. You guys. And so it was funny because Michael Morris pointed that out to me right away and he said, look, look who's not on it. And so I have that on my computer. I was gonna send it in with some of the memorandum and some other things. I'm gonna send that to you. I'm gonna ask you to come, I'm gonna come back. I don't need you to endorse it because I haven't read it and so I don't want you to endorse it. But I think it's something you guys can read, you can look at, you can agree with it if you don't agree with it, well let's talk about it and let's figure out what the right way to go forward on an investment policy is. There are also some, there's this big debt schedule finder that our investment bankers from First Southwest give us. It's really kind of cool. It shows where our debt's gonna be on June 30, 2017. I don't know if you've ever seen it. It's 330 pages, whether or not you've seen it, you're about to get it. So that is, it'll be heading your way as well. So the next time I come back, we'll just sort of tick off those three items and have some good talk. Mr. Freely, look, he's a happy hedgehog. He's a happy hedgehog, yes. Well, he's still brilliant, but do you tutor idiots on reading financial information? Schedule appointment. You know, I would say this in all seriousness. Some of you may know, my dad's actually the treasurer in Belmont and he said to me when it came to investment management when we were talking this weekend, he said, always remember, no one will ever thank you if you gain the town 10% in a small trust fund, but they will crucify you if you lose 1%. So invest based on that advice. So I don't know how much, I don't know how much financial intellect you need to have versus common sense that you're, it's the public's money and do right by the public. Thank you. All right. I think that's a fine closing statement. All right, thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Cameron. Thank you very much. And now we move on to, can we take the vote? Oh, did we take them? We did not take the vote, I'm sorry. Hey, I'm still learning. Yes, okay. Okay, we have a motion on the table. I'm Mr. Jones second. I'm Mr. Byrne. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? Actually, yeah. We could tell Dean that we voted it down. We actually did. We actually did. Didn't we? We did a vote. Oh, good. So now we've done it twice. Let's do it again. Let's do it again. Let's say it's to receive. Yeah, we are super sure. We're trying to punk me on the first night. I'll pay better attention. Okay, so the next item on the agenda is final votes and comments, articles for review, article 19, vote appointment town treasurer, which was tabled from 313 and 327, article 29, endorsement of CDBG application, tabled from 327, article 30, bylaw amendment, departmental revolving fund bylaw, tabled from 327, and article 31, revolving funds, tabled from 327. Mr. Heim, you have given us a memo. Would you like to speak to this? Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you members of the board for your patience on this. One of the things that was, I hoped would inform, article 19 in particular, was just having the town election and getting a chance to work out a few of the details of the memorandum of agreement. Mr. Carmen was nice enough to mention. The articles in front of you, two are essentially pro forma articles, your CDBG and revolving funds. The first is rearticulation of some of the issues regarding the vote on the appointment of town treasurer. Just to be clear again, we're not talking about anything would take place tomorrow. We're talking about putting something in front of the voters to decide whether or not they want to continue to have an elected town treasurer or have an appointed town treasurer. And then with respect to the revolving funds bylaw, just a quick note, we talked about it a few weeks ago. It's essentially the municipal modernization act is pushing everybody to put your revolving funds in your town bylaws, which is what this does. There is a small piece that for the slackens report will be inserted, which is essentially taking the revolving funds and smashing them into a table that was not ready. So you'll see at the end of article, the vote on article 30, it says insert revolving fund table. There will be a table that has all the revolving funds and who administers them that gets smushed in there. But we need to have that be finalized. But other than that, this is that that one's also relatively pro forma. Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Heim. Do I have a motion? Move approval. And a second? Second. Okay. Mr. Dunn. So thank you, Doug, for your patience with me on article 19. I'm really happy with where it got to, and Doug did a lot of work, and I appreciate getting that done. Article 29 had occurred to me just now. Do we want to put a sentence in here talking about our concerns about the federal budget? So there are two options for that, Mr. Dunn. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Yes. There are two options for that, Mr. Dunn. One is to put it in the selectman's comment. The other is to put it in the CDBG report. We've done that a couple of different ways. There have been times when there's been a reference to the CDBG report within the selectman's report, but more often than not, the CDBG report has just been a separate document. Good enough. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry, I believe Ms. Wayman is on top of that. Okay. Do we have any other comments on the comments? Just, I would request that we hold hearings and then we do final votes. A couple of these show that I was absent maybe for the hearing, but I am here for the final vote on the Warren Articles. And to be honest, I almost wish the report would just show 4-0 on a vote, not Mr. Greeley was absent. I mean, I was, I'm not trying to, but there's been a time like when I missed this vote, which was 12 articles or something. And since I wasn't here for the final votes, it shows was absent or something. I mean, it's just sometimes you're hearing, sometimes you're not, and sometimes you're after the hearing, sometimes you're not for the final hearing. So I have to by law or something, right? If I may, it is your report. Our report, what is the feeling of the board? If we get to 5-0 right now, I'm happy to say 5-0. Yeah, that's my, thank you. Yeah. So this vote, this vote's the real one. Right, that's what we're saying. We should look into the policy handbook and try to, no, put the paragraph in here on that. I'm only half choking. If that's a hind, you know. I agree. I mean, it's up to the board, but if that's the board's policy, is the direction for me to work with Selectman's office to move backwards on the previous votes and comments? Perhaps from this night forward. Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with this night forward. You don't have to go back. No. Okay. Okay. Anything more? Hearing nothing. Who made the motion? I'm sorry. Was there a motion? Kevin. Kevin made it. Mr. Dunn seconded. Okay, I'll motion by Mr. Greeley, seconded by Mr. Dunn. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? unanimous. And now we move on to correspondence received. Request parking restrictions on Henderson Street, Nikki DePisquale 19 Henderson Street via request answer center and request resident sticker parking only on Cleveland Street. Cheryl Marceau, Cleveland Street resident. Do I hear a motion? We'll receipt. Here a second? Second. It's moved by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Byrne. Do I have any discussion on this? Is anybody here on this? Yeah. Mr. Gentleman, I don't know. Anyone here on this matter? Nope. There's no one here on this matter. I just wanted to say that I think on the first one, it came in through the request answer center. And I thought that Ms. Reedy of our staff gave an excellent explanation of what our current bylaws regarding parking restrictions near driveways and across from driveways so that the resident was, should be very well prized what their rights are under our bylaws. And actually the second one is a very similar type of request. So perhaps we might consider sending a similar answer to the same response that Ms. Reedy. We actually gave the second one to Corey to look at. Oh, you did? You did? Okay. Any further discussion on this? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It's unanimous. We now move on to new business. Ms. Kruppelka. Nothing other than we just had an exciting day on Saturday election. Congratulations to all of you and all our new town meeting members. Quite a few new ones. Thank you very much. Mr. Hine. I'd just like to echo that congratulations to the members of the board who are up for election and to say it's a pleasure working with this board. As a town manager pointy, I feel like you can credibly say that I have the great pleasure of working with this board and I'm glad to see it continue as it's compromised as well as the other folks who continued their seats or were nuclear elected at the election. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hine. Cooler. I'd like to echo and re-echo sentiments expressed. I don't get to work with you as directly as these others, but whenever I have, it's always been a pleasure and I look forward to doing it in a stint as acting while Adam is out with his new sleepless nights. The only one thing I would add is if this is an appropriate time, Mr. Chairman, is just a bit of news about our posting, our budget on the town website. That'd be appropriate this time. So if I could borrow Mr. Greeley's copy here. Ignore all the notes I've written in there. Yeah, the extensive thank you, Mr. Greeley. Every year the town publishes a financial plan which is an extensive description of the town's budget, the numbers that will be considered within the finance committee report going to town meeting and extensive descriptions of the department's activities, their goals and objectives for the coming year and their accomplishments for the past year. We then submit this to the Government Finance Officers Association and for the last four years have been awarded their Distinguished Budget Award for this document and this document will go to them again after town meeting. So it is now posted on the town website for anybody in the town to see and I encourage people to look because it really is an attempt by the departments to tell the public a lot about the work that those departments do. Absolutely, absolutely, I was looking through it today and thank you and thank all of the staff. It's a huge amount of work that goes into this document. What was that again? I'm sorry, my knee, my elbow hit cereal, what was that again and said? Would you like to repeat your statement, Mr. Poole? I can't say it often enough, this is a great document and thank you very much for this work. Thank you and we hope to keep it a pleasure for you. So Mr. Greeley, tell Diane to turn off her phone. I don't know what I did. But no, just, you know, it's so sad about Senator Ken Donnelly, but there's so much to celebrate as well, you know, Marie Kruppelka, I don't know how many surgeries this woman has been through. It's such a thrill to see her here tonight. She's out in the snow and the rain on Saturday against doctors' orders running the election across the whole town of Arlington and stuff, but God love you and you are an inspiration to all of us. And the joy of having Diane and Dan back on the board and you as chairman at Mr. Currow. And I love Steve, did I leave you out again? You did, I'm sensing a theme here, Mr. Greeley. That's it, sir. Ms. Mahon? Just briefly to piggyback on what Mr. Greeley said, I'm happy with my colleague, Mr. Dunn-Dan, to come back to the board of select men. Definitely appreciate everybody who came out and you know, in spite of the weather and others and you know, I've spoken to people since the election and one of the things I wanna say that this board, I think in terms of what we've accomplished over the past year, if not years, that we think all the voters who came out, whether they voted for myself and or my colleague, Mr. Dunn or not, one of the things I know, all of us remain committed to, I think, sort of the tan amount, tenant that we hold ourselves to is that, number one, we're respectful and civil. Two people who come before us who have questions that we come across respectfully and civilly, as well as, as we move forward, we certainly recognize that there's, you know, differing of opinions, but I think we've been really successful in the sense that whether we all agree or not, I think we certainly have gotten to the point that nobody really feels that they came forth and whether they were successful or not, that they weren't treated with the appropriate amount of respect and cognizant, realization of everything that's going on in Allenten and I think in terms of whatever we have to do in the future, especially I've heard from a lot of people on the campaign trail, concerns about programs that we may lose mostly around human services, social services, as well as education. I think this board along, especially with my colleagues sitting here, have certainly demonstrated that, you know, we're up to the task. We're aware of what could be in jeopardy, but we're certainly aware of the fact I'm willing to that we're gonna roll up our sleeves and address that. It's not something that we're just gonna let happen and fall by the wayside. So I, again, thank you to the voters, everyone who came out and those who returned myself, Mr. Dunn and all the other elected officials and town meeting members to office and I look forward to the coming year and congratulations to Mr. Kuro as chair and Mr. Byrne as vice chair and God bless both of you at town meeting. It's, we certainly have said some warrant article hearings that you two will aptly speak on our behalf. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Dunn. I wanted to thank the voters for bringing me back. I'm really happy to be here. I'm really excited about the challenges we've got and I'm really excited to work on them over the next three years. And I definitely got, as it got closer, I got more and more. I said, you know, what does it mean that no one ran against you? And I said, well, in some ways, I tried to provoke people to run against me because I actually wanted the race, but in other ways, we don't, lately we haven't had that much to fight about and I think that that's a good thing. That may change over the next few years. We've got a couple of big ones coming up. So, but I look forward to, I really do look forward to the challenge. I'm very excited about it. And I'd love, Mr. Kuro, that, you know, if you can get you and Steve under here in 90 seconds, then that'll be the fastest opening chairmanship ever. I don't know if we're gonna quite make that. But, well, boy, that's laying down the gauntlet. Mr. Byrne, no, thank you very much. And I'm honored to be appointed vice chairman tonight. I look forward to working with Chairman Kiarawa. I think it'll be a successful year for the board. I'm very happy to see my colleagues returned to the board. I've enjoyed working with both of you and I know that I will continue and to enjoy working with both of you, both on things that we may agree with and maybe sometimes when we disagree. Ms. Greeley, I will always disagree with you, regardless of your stance on a matter. So, I look forward to that continuing as well. I'm just kidding, of course. But, no, thank you very much. And Marie, I am very happy to have you back. Thank you very much. I'm also, I did neglect to welcome you back publicly also and we're very happy. And you seem to have twice the energy you did before you left, so. Not to set the bar too high there, either, but just a couple of things. Firstly, I just, in transition talks with Ms. Mahan, we did discuss, I will be working the coming weeks with Ms. Malloy on the manager's review. I trust that everybody has gotten their reviews into the office. I have not, I will do that. Get them into the office. I haven't either, I asked even to remind me. We made sure that he was going out on paternity leave so you got a little bit of a grace period, but we're going to want to get on that. Secondly, I think really to Ms. Mahan's point, she was highlighting some of the human services and some of the things that we try to do and some of the fears. Every year, I know that middle sex senior services does invite public officials to go take a ride around on the Meals on Wheels and I did that on Friday. I actually happened to go with a volunteer Meals on Wheels driver. It was a retired island can fire fighter. It couldn't be better because he has a good eye for, Meals on Wheels is really about more than just the meals. It's about the visits and we had people telling us how lonely they are sometimes. And it's about just looking to check in on them and see if there are any other types of problems. And I know that there is fear out there. There's been a lot in the news about potential cuts in Meals on Wheels. I've talked to some of our legislators. I think that in Massachusetts we're going to be okay because we do it differently from some states. A lot of states, I think they rely on the CDBG funding for Meals on Wheels. We've got problems with the CDBG. We know that, but that's one thing I wanted to note. I also wanted to note also as far as seniors go, there is a new transportation outreach group that the Council on Aging has helped to put together and they did a transportation fair this past Thursday. It's a group of volunteers working with Bill Murphy and working with the Council, working with the Arlington Seniors' Associations. They did a transportation fair at the Senior Center. They did two sessions last Thursday. I went into the second session and by the time I got there, almost 70 seniors had been signed up for Charlie Cards. Mr. Muncie was there with a blue curtain and a camera and they had the forms to try to assist the seniors in signing up. As we've heard so many times, transportation is so important. There's currently a proposal that's been floating out with the MBTA, which sounds completely insane, where they're proposing that the ride premium services be discontinued and that Councils on Aging pick up these services between 5 a.m. and midnight. And as we know, we don't operate our transportation services between 5 a.m. and midnight. We struggle to put it together between CDVG funding and some private fundraising and such to keep those transportation dollars flowing. So that's something I think we're gonna wanna look at and follow very closely with the MBTA. I don't know if Mr. Byrne, you're up there. I know you specialize in transportation. I don't know if you're aware of this. I'm very aware of it and it's something that, through my day job, we're paying attention to. Actually, you saying that made me think fondly of a letter that actually Senator Donnelly sent just last week, calling out the cuts to the ride. And it just speaks to the work that he's done and I think it will have a lasting impression. Thank you very much. And that is all the new business that I have here tonight. Move to adjourn. Here a second. All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It is unanimous. Next schedule meeting and Board of Selectment is April 10th, 2017. Thank you, Arlington.