 It looks like John, I think you can get started. There's five attendees and it seems to be steady. All right, calling to order the Arlington Select Board meeting of Tuesday, July 7th, 2020. As a preliminary matter, this is John Hurd, Select Board Chair, permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Joseph Carle, here. Diane Mahan, affirmative. Steve DeCorsi, yes. Len Diggins, yes. And staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chaptilane, here. Douglas Hyme, here. And Ashley Maher, Board of Administrators, participating remotely. Good evening. This open meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12, 2020 due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth, given the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In order to mitigate the transmission of the virus and reduce risk of COVID-19 illness, we have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings. And as such, the governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely. The order, which you can find posted with agenda materials for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Ensuring public access does not ensure public participation, unless such participation is required by law. This meeting will feature public comment. Even if members of the public do not provide comment, participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. For this meeting, the Select Board is convening via Zoom as posted on the town's website, identifying how the public may join. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by video conference. Accordingly, please be aware that other folks may be able to see you and that and take care not to screen share your computer. Anything that you broadcast may be captured by the recording. Please also take care to adjust your screen or device name if you would like to speak in order for us to recognize speakers appropriately and develop accurate minutes. It is helpful for participants to see your full first and last name when calling upon you rather than a nickname. All of the meeting materials for this meeting, except any executive session materials are available on Novus Agenda dashboard. We recommend the members in the public follow the agenda as posted on Novus unless the chair notes otherwise. We now turn to the first item on the agenda. Before we do so, permit me to cover some ground rules for effective and clear conduct of our business into a chair accurate meeting minutes. I will introduce each speaker on the agenda after they conclude their remarks. The chair will go down the line of members inviting each by name to provide any comment, questions, or motions. Please hold until your name is called. Further, please remember to mute your phone or computer when you're not speaking. Please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. For any response, please wait until the chair yields a floor to you and state your name before speaking. If members wish to engage in colloquially with other members, please do so through the chair, taking care to identify yourself. This meeting will feature opportunities for public comment on certain agenda items. For comments on items after members have spoken, I as the chair will afford the public comment opportunities as follows. I will first ask members of the public who wish to speak to identify their names and addresses only. Once the chair has a list of all public commentators, I will call on each by name and for three minutes for any comments. Please keep in mind that all participants and members of the public must be recognized by the chair before speaking. Finally, each vote for this meeting will be taken by roll call vote. All right, so the next item on our agenda under appointments is an appointment to the Board of Registrar of Voters, a term to expire on March 31st, 2022. And for this, I'll first turn to Attorney Hyme for a brief introduction. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As folks may be aware, we have a vacancy on the Board of Registrar's. We also have a recount happening on July 9th, which is presided over by the Board of Registrar's. The Board of Registrar's cannot have more than two members of any given of the two main political parties on it. And at present, there are two Democrats on the Board of Registrar's and one Republican. Accordingly, this Board solicited a list as required by law of nominees from the Town Republican Committee or Republican Town Committee. I'm grateful to the Republican Town Committee for responding so quickly, developing a list of names. And I know that we have two of the potential nominees, Lucia Catano and Joseph Manju with us tonight. I'm particularly grateful to Sean Harrington for being responsive and helping us get contact information for folks to let them know about tonight's meeting. With that, I know that there are some other Board members who have some preliminary matters that they want to address the Chair. Yep. So I will recognize Ms. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to recuse myself from the code since I'm not yet certified as a member of the Select Board. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Diggins? Yeah, same here. We're in for the same reasons. I like to recuse myself for the same reasons. It's going to be by Select behind. All right. Thank you. And if you guys can just both mute yourselves and then turn off your video as well on the Zoom. Okay, we'll do it. Thank you. Or walk away. That's fine. All right. And so as noted, we have Ms. Catano, Mr. Manju, present. The third name on the list was Judith Quimby as submitted by the Republican Town Committee. So I will ask the Town Manager to promote Ms. Catano first to give a little brief introduction. Ms. Catano, can you hear us? Yes, I can. Hi, welcome. Thank you for your willingness to serve. If you could just give us a brief introduction, introduce yourself and tell us why you'd like to serve on the Board of Registrar. The main reason is that I was born in a dictatorship in Europe and voting is important to me. That was when I was invited, I could just couldn't say no. Sure. Great. Thank you. And now I will turn to the two remaining members to see if they have any questions or comments for you. Mr. Carl? No, no further questions. Thank you very much for your willingness to serve. And Mr. DeCorsi? No questions either. Thank you for your willingness to serve. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Catano. Now we can promote Mr. Manju. Hi, Ms. Manju. Can you hear us? I'm speaking. Yep. We can hear you now. If you can just give us a brief introduction. Just let us know why you'd like to serve on the Board of Registrar. Well, I'm a member of the Arlington Republican Town Committee and I'm just interested in having local Republicans receive proper representation. Just that simple. Okay. Thank you. And then I'll turn to Mr. DeCorsi. Any questions or comments? No questions. Thank you also for your willingness to serve. Thank you. And Mr. Carl, any questions or comments? No, no further questions. Thank you. Thank you for bringing your name forward. Thank you, Joe. Mr. Hurd, I think you're muted. Okay. Sorry about that. I just want to confirm that Ms. Quimby is not present in the meeting. I believe that's correct. Yep. All right. So what now we'll take a motion to open nominations. Mr. DeCorsi? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to nominate Ms. Ketano to the Board of Registras. Should I be making the motion first for nominations and then make the... So the motion to start is to open the nominations. Fair enough. I will move to open the nominations. Second. Second. All right. So we have a motion by Mr. DeCorsi, seconded by Mr. Carl. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Curell. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. So an unanimous vote or 3-0 vote, I should say. Yep. Thank you. And now Mr. Corsi. Yeah, I'm sorry. I got ahead of myself. And I want to thank both of the... Ms. Ketano, Mr. Manjoo for stepping forward in the Republican Committee for submitting the list as we said earlier so quickly. We only have one spot here, so I'm going to nominate Ms. Ketano for the Board of Registrar position. Thank you. I'll second the nomination. All right. So we have a motion to appoint Ms. Ketano by Mr. DeCorsi, seconded by Mr. Curell. Turn to your hand. Well, do we have any other nominations, Mr. Hurd? Being silly, but I just want to make sure we have no other nominations. Nope, no other nominations. Okay. Yep. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Curell. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. So 3-0 vote, I should declare. All right. And now do we need a motion to close nominations? If there's only one nomination, I think you're fine. Okay. Thank you. All right. So we can invite our two colleagues back to the meeting. If Ms. Mahan and Mr. Diggins can hear us. I'll send a message to Mr. Diggins. Yep. I'm here. I'm here. There he is. Thanks. All right. So we'll let the minutes confirm that all five members have returned to the meeting. All right. So our next item is citizen's 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. So right now, if anyone's present for a citizen's open forum, you can use the raise hand feature on your Zoom application. We have one raised hand from Crystal already. All right. All right. And give a few more seconds. That it so far? That's it. Yep. All right. So we have one person for citizens open forum tonight. Mr. Loretty, you can promote Mr. Loretty. It should be, yep, here he is. Mr. Loretty, can you hear us? He's showing up as a panelist, but I can't unmute him. Mr. Loretty, are you able to unmute yourself on your Zoom app? Let me just, I'll change him back to an attendee and bring him back and just maybe something happened in the transfer. Okay. Yeah, it does not seem to be showing video or video or sound being associated with his account. Is he, I noticed there was one phone individual logged in. So I can, I can, I'll let me allow that individual to speak and we'll see if it's him. Does that end with 4338? Because if it does, that's me. No. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Currow. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you now. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chris Loretty, 56 Adams Street. And Ms. Chairman, I'm calling in tonight because I participated in the ARB hearing last night for 1207, 1211 Math App, and this is Hotel Lexington, and I'm calling to suggest to the board that it's really time to pull the plug on that project. And by that, I mean it's time for the board to cancel the sale of the property, 1207 Math App, which is owned by the town, which is part of this project. And I say that because it's clear that this proposal has insurmountable zoning issues that the ARB itself is unable to satisfy and really does not have the power to deal with. The applicant is looking for relief that the ARB simply doesn't have the authority to grant. And I've spoken to a number of butters. I believe if the ARB approves the permit for that development as it is proposed, they will be in appeal. And what that means is you're going to cause more cost to the developer, you're going to cause more delay, and you're going to prevent the sale of the property at 1207 Math App by the town. Now, last night, the developer was complaining that he was being jerked around by the ARB because he thought he was going to get an approval that has yet to be given. I would suggest that he's being misled and jerked around by town officials who are really over promising and setting false expectations about what can be delivered by the town through the special permitting process. And as I said, it's really not something that ARB can do because of the zoning problems that it has, not least of which is the fact that hotels are not allowed on that 1207 Math App site. And if the ARB approves a permit to do that, among other problems, it provides an excellent opportunity for the butters to appeal. And I suspect they very much that they will do that. So I ask you to exercise your authority to cancel the sale of 1207 Math App. You'll really be doing a favor to the developer in saving him time and money. And you'll be doing the town a favor by allowing it to proceed with the sale of that property for use and for development that's allowed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lardy. All right. So that closes Citizens Open Forum. So we now go to traffic rules in order in other business. Agenda item number three for discussion and vote extension of local state of emergency. Attorney Himes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be brief. The town's state of emergency ran through June 30th. You've got a renewal of the state of declaration of state of emergency before you. There's essentially one new paragraph and some updated information about the number of cases in the state wide as well as the number of cases in Arlington. It's sort of shocking to see how many of those cases have grown within the last three or four months. The state of emergency renewal is retroactive. The Commonwealth state of emergency has always been in effect, as has the Board of Health, but this is just sort of a measure to sort of make sure that the messaging remains consistent and that we qualify for any appropriate relief, a financial relief under the as a local state of emergency. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. Thank you. Thank you. And so we need to just come up with one date by which to send this to Mr. Carl. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I like to move that we approve the resolution extending the state of emergency. And where the spot has been left blank, we state that this declaration of emergency shall remain in effect until October 1st, 2020, unless earlier notice is given to the select board by the town manager, or the select board votes determine the state of emergency no longer exists before such date. And I don't know if there's a second for purposes of discussion, I'll explain why. Second. Thank you. Yeah, I know that's the last time we had gone for one quarter before we reviewed it in three months. But I want to suggest that we just go to October 1st on this one, especially considering that we're going to be seeing the Labor Day holiday, the summer holidays, the Labor Day holiday, potentially kids going back to school, we've already canceled town day. So I think it probably makes sense for us to revisit it and have the opportunity for discussion of where we are with the crisis at the end of September. If we put it on the agenda for the last meeting in September, because I suspect we could be living in a very different world then. Hopefully. Ms. Mahan? No questions. All right. Mr. Diggins? I agree with that. I agree with Ms. Currow. And I certainly was going to argue for earlier, so I'm totally fine with October 1st as the extension date or the date to which we extend the state of emergency. Thank you. All right. Mr. Diggins? No questions. All right. And I was going to say September 30th, so I guess I can push it one more day to August 1st. All right. So an emotion by Mr. Currow is seconded by Ms. Mahan to adopt the renewed declaration of state of emergency with the insert of October 1st, 2020 for the date in the last paragraph. Attorney Hind? Mr. DeCorsi. I'm sorry. Ms. Mahan. Ms. Mahan, sorry. Yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Currow. Yes. Mr. Herd. Yes. Sorry. Steve is like the Alice on my screen. He's right in the middle. I'm staring right at him. Nobody under like the age of 35 has any idea what that just meant. I was going to say you just really dated yourself. All right. So number in the fourth item on our agenda on traffic rules and order is a vote to endorse a letter to the ZBA regarding the Oak Tree 40B application, which we have attached to the Novus agenda. Attorney Hind? Thank you, Mr. Chair. To be brief, Oak Tree is the same thing as Dorn Dye Place is the same thing as Arlington Land Realty. This is basically an opportunity for the board to provide some initial public further comment on the revised submissions by Arlington Land Realty. Working with Mr. DeCorsi, Mr. Herd, as the board determined last time, this draft essentially encapsulates a sort of recommitment to some of the board's initial comments and would be accompanied by your much lengthier response to the applicant's request for project eligibility to mass housing. So if there are no questions, I just leave it to the board to determine if the letter reflects the board's sentiment. All right. So we have a motion for approval by Ms. Mohan? Second. Second by Mr. Carl. Mr. Niggans, any comments? I'm fine with the letter as it is, so no comments. All right. Mr. DeCorsi? Yeah, I'm fine with the letter as well, and I want to thank Attorney Hind for turning this around on short notice to put before us tonight. Thank you, and I also want to thank Attorney Hind for working on this over the holiday weekend. So all right. So we have a motion to approve the letter as written and posted by Ms. Mohan. Seconded by Mr. Carl. Attorney Hind? Ms. Mohan? Yes. Mr. DeCorsi? Yes. Mr. Diggans? Yes. Mr. Curell? Yes. Mr. Herd? Yes. Madam Ms. Gold. Thank you, and that takes us to New Business. I'm trying to go around. Attorney Hind, any new business? No new business. Thank you. Mr. Chapter Lane? No new business. Thank you. All right, go across. Mr. DeCorsi? No new business. Ms. Mohan? No new business. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Diggans? No new business. Ms. Rhee? Thanks. Mr. Carl? No new business. That's a record. All right, with that, I will extend a motion to adjourn. All right. So we had a motion by Ms. Mohan. Is that a second, Ms. Diggans? Yes, a second. All right, so a motion to adjourn by Ms. Mohan, seconded by Mr. Diggans, Attorney Hind? Ms. Mohan? Yes. Mr. DeCorsi? Yes. Mr. Diggans? Yes. Mr. Curell? Yes. Mr. Herd? Yes. Thank you all. Thanks, everyone. Record long meeting, almost record short meeting, so long. Not a bad average. Yeah, really. Thank you, everybody. All right, thank you.