 Good evening everyone and welcome to the four-to-second meeting for Monday, June 9th 2014 it is 715 and I do call this meeting to order I'd like everyone to know that we are being filled tonight both by ACMI and by members of the audience I'd like to begin By noting that we're meeting tonight with heavy hearts Following the passing of John Greeley a former town employee and brother of our colleague Kevin You know the Greeley's have been assets to our like and for a long time and we certainly mourn with them So, please if you would join me for a moment of silence Thank you We're gonna begin tonight for with a joint meeting of the Board of Selectment in the Board of Assessors were joined by Chairman Kevin Dooley and member Mary with Stanley O'Connor to discuss the Appointment and its process for a new member of the Board of Assessors to begin this I'm gonna ask town council Hime to Discuss kind of where we are in the process and how we've got here Sure, well, good evening everyone The Board of Assessors having properly notified the Board of Selectment in the town clerk of the resignation of mr. Jim Doherty The Board of Selectsmen and the Board of Assessors must convene a joint body to fill the vacancy within the Board of Assessors Pursuant to Massachusetts General Law chapter 41 section 11 and the key things I want to highlight For the members remaining members of the Board of Assessors and the Board of Selectment are as follows Under section 11 this joint body Is to select an interim assessor by a simple majority vote The selected interim assessor will serve until the time of the first regularly scheduled town of Arlington Annual election which should be in April of 2015 And the Board of Selectsmen at their convenience should vote to approve a special election for the elected replacement That person will only serve out the remainder of mr. Doherty's term which I believe by that point in time shall be about a year The only strict requirement for an interim appointee is that they're a registered voter of the town of Arlington The law doesn't require that this specific position be posted But it does require that both boards share any application information that they receive such as a resume or anything else And I believe that's been the case here The joint body and this is an important point that I want to clarify has a reasonable amount of time to appoint an interim assessor Chapter 41 section 11 is written a little ambiguously and so there was some initial confusion about What time frame there was for appointing an interim assessor the point I want to emphasize here after speaking with the state elections division is that The one full week notice that you'll see in the language of chapter 41 section 11 does not reference the amount of time This joint body has to a point after getting a notice of the vacancy It references the amount of time that a meeting must be noticed in advance before such a selection can be made now In this instance this meeting was noticed One week ago so that the Board of Selectsmen and the Board of Assessors joint body may tonight select an interim assessor But you do have more time if you feel it's appropriate to take more time to Discuss debate and ultimately vote on a assessor if there's any questions about the process of the parameters. I'm happy to answer them here Thank you So I think it would be appropriate to perhaps have our two members of the assessors come up to the microphone and Perhaps conduct the meeting in that fashion No, I'm I didn't quite get your question actually No, just if you I think for the purpose of conducting our joint all right, okay I just had one question the town council. Yes my memory is that the The the person that appointed to the next annual Election and and you don't have to call a special election and you were using the chair I think special election. I wasn't sure what that meant. It means that the clerk has to put the vacancy on the ballot I believe yeah, I apologize to just to be clear. It's not that we're holding an election at a special time Yeah, I didn't yeah vacant election position on the Okay, thank you. I Think that if we can open it up to all the members for discussion Mr. Dunn so When we know when this meeting notice came out, I was under the impression I think we all were that we were under a more constrained time frame and I think that within that constrained time frame the amount of Notification, you know, isn't the advocate we did the notice and stuff like that was appropriate now that I understand that we have more time I'd really like to take advantage of that time and so I Apologize for to you know, unusual attendees who I'm asking to come back again, but I'd like to move to postpone To June 23rd and that will give us more time to and I looked to the rest of the board to talk about About when we'd like to see resumes by but I'd also like to do you know reference checks and do some phone calls and all that good stuff So that's my motion. I'll second the motion Although I suspect we'll have to discuss the date with Sure to make sure I mean we have to make sure that our colleagues on the assessor I am going to be out of the country presenting a paper in Beirut June 23rd to the 30th. So those two Mondays. I will not be here So I That I guess I'm going to just say I moved to postpone and then we can set that we can choose another date And it's in a separate motion. We so choose and I still second Further discussion I actually I absolutely agree with my my colleague here I think that now that we've had the clarification on the the actual law It does make a lot of sense to set out exactly You know what our criteria will be what our process will be actually for selection so that candidates coming forward We'll have a good expectation of what what they can expect and actually what the deadlines are also because I think the way that we're right now with our Expectation of coming here tonight to a point My understanding would be that if somebody had walked through the door and wanted to apply right now on the spot They was certainly welcome to do so I think that we could set some some parameters and some deadlines would give the opportunity for some due diligence I guess the example that's closest To my mind is as you all know, I was elected official who resigned a seat over on the school committee And when I resigned I know that the school committee did act with with fairly quick Under a fairly quick timetable, but they did advertise and post for the position and then publicly interviewed all all candidates and gave everyone an equal opportunity to answer questions from from Committee members we could discuss the exact process that we might want to take under this But I think having a little bit more lead time once we settle on a date to meet again Maybe we could work backwards from that with a deadline for applications to be received. There is chairman Yeah, that's it. Yeah, thanks. I Don't object to an extension of time But I think we do need to to have a time firm that we do yeah that we do get to a vote and have replacement because It's a little different with nine-person board or a five-person board when you're operating with third-person board three people board and and your one shot and Unfortunately, I have to go back into the hospital in a few months. So we need I I don't I have no problem with a Short time, but we need to hold ourselves to a schedule on that And that's sort of tied into the I have two questions First two colleagues on the board of assessors. Is there a date by which you know right now? Whether it's doing regular due course business that you need three members We can operate with two because it's a majority, but if Kevin is going to go back in for some more Surgery you need something done in the next 45 days Well, yeah, I think maybe even quicker than that, but I yeah, we couldn't Give you a drop dead date, but The DOI does require certain requirements for for full board And and I believe the purpose of the statue is not to leave a board with a vacancy very long I mean, I'm not I don't know what's very long here But I think the reason the statue is because I think Governments used to leave vacancies on the board to not fill them So now they have a mandatory statue that says you've got a film and if the board doesn't fill them then the Slackman film. Yeah, so I think what I'm hearing that that is say it takes us two weeks Three whatever should you need to have a meeting? It is Appropriate for you all to meet as it as two members Still do And then the only other thing I would put out is When whoever through the chairman I'm certainly open to it doesn't necessarily have to be a Monday night If the schedules are that way that everyone can make it on a Tuesday or Thursday or whatever with the proper notice I agree So it certainly it feels like we have a consensus headed towards postponing Do we want to leave the chairs to set a date or do we want to try to do it right now? I think that both mr. Philly and I can work to set a date. I Do think that we should Before we leave tonight, we should set a date for when resumes will be accepted until I I Like to see perhaps Three weeks from tonight We'll post until then and resumes will be accept resumes will be accepted up until Three Mondays from now if that works for Could I make a suggestion that it be Maybe two weeks from tomorrow because I believe we have a meeting on the 29th correct that schedule the board our board does on the 29th And I know with Novus agenda. You're looking for the previous Tuesday for for submissions of reference materials So that that would put us I think two weeks out from tomorrow No, no, I'm saying that I'm saying even if Even if we make the deadline two weeks from tomorrow and even if our meeting is a little bit after that at least in that that case We would have it in our packets to review by the by the next selectmen's Meeting, I think we have 29 Yeah, you're referring to July or yeah, no July 28th would be our meeting I Know we were going to be here. Mr. Burn. I very much deferred of the chairs Okay Why don't we work out a date I okay, as you know, I think that's a little bit too long So I'd like to know I agree if we can I understand the need for the For you probably I understand the need for a week and a half or two weeks To give people chance to get the resumes in and then I'd like to try to make sure we don't have too long review period So that we can get to it So so if you post at least for two weeks Yeah, so we'll We'll say that we'll post it for at least two weeks and we'll discuss on the date Okay, that so we have a motion to postpone to a date set by the chairs It's a date set by the chairs Do we do it? There's a motion say something about posting or what? What's the reason we haven't had a motion on that Do you want it formally said? How would you what motion would you like to put to the applications are open until at least Monday the 23rd That's two weeks from today that works so moved second We have a motion in a second All those in favor, please or we don't need a roll call vote do we I would conduct all this Yes, yes Yes Yes Yes, so we need a roll call vote on the motion postpone as well. Yeah, I'm sorry my intent was to To withdraw my motion to postpone and make it a postpone and set date in one motion. Okay. I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you Do we have any public comments? Mr. Harrington and please limit the public comments so it was discussed here tonight Stephen Harrington Columbia Road time meeting member. I just have one comment about the Board of Assessors My understanding I asked Mr. Spidell who used to be the director of assessments for some records back in March And I never heard a response from him, which was unusual because it was a pretty simple request He usually does it and so At town meeting all department heads are supposed to be there and know mr. Spidell and Mr. Daugherty who's no longer on the Board of Assessors who were here because of tonight's resignation It was unusual that he wouldn't have mentioned that mr. Spidell's Employment had ended and so That's not a good thing. We still don't know when mr. Spidell sort of laughed as a public We don't know Under what circumstances and it's a little concerning that the resignation that is precipitated this meeting from mr. Daugherty occurred rather suddenly and Well fear in the community is that he's going to be appointed as a director of assessments And I'd like to make sure that the current Board of Assessors knows that that would be something that would be seen as a Very big negative for the Board of Assessors. Thank you very much Yes, please Personnel matters do not get aired in public as the board well knows so that There could be no discussion about what was going on with mr. Spidell and we will not discuss it here because of the agreement That was reached and I'm we're not going to comment on the rest of that soliloquy. Thank you. Thank you Any further discussion Seeing none, so I moved to adjourn the joint meeting We have a motion to adjourn we'll need another all cover Murray Yes Yes Moving on We have to begin a proclamation for Childhood Cancer Awareness Week, which will run from June 8th to June 14th, and I will read that proclamation now Whereas the American Cancer Fund for Children and Kids Cancer Connection report cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among US children between Infancy and age 15 and this tragic disease is detected in nearly 15,000 of our country's young people each and every year and Whereas one in five of our nation's children loses his or her battle of cancer and many Infants children teens will suffer from long-term effect of comprehensive treatment including secondary cancers and Whereas founded 20 years ago by Stephen Firestein a member of the philanthropic max factor family The cancer the American Cancer Fund for Children Inc and Kids Cancer Connection Inc Are dedicated to helping these children and their families and Whereas the American Cancer Fund for Children and Kids Cancer Connection Provide a variety of vital patient cycle psychosocial services to children undergoing cancer treatment at Dana-Faber Cancer Institute Boston Children's Hospital UMass Memorial Medical Center as well as participating hospitals Throat the country thereby enhancing the quality of life for these children and their families and Whereas the American Cancer Fund for Children and Kids Cancer Connection Also sponsored nationwide courageous kid recognition award ceremonies and hospital celebrations in honor of a child's Determination and bravery to fight the battle against childhood cancer Now therefore be it resolved that we as the members of the board of selectmen Designate June 8th to June 14th as childhood cancer awareness week in Arlington So moved second We have a motion to second all those in favor. Please say aye Moving on we have a report on community safety in Arlington chief Ryan Good evening, mr. Chairman ladies and gentlemen of the board. Thank you for taking the time out of your agenda tonight They have my report Just quickly if I may follow up in the chairman's comments about mr. Greeley He he was an employer community safety was a lead dispatcher when he retired I had the unique experience of having been his subordinate when I was working summers as a college and high school student and then returning and and a little Role reversal where he was my subordinate But he he was instrumental at rebuilding a 901 center and our primary public safety answering point as our lead dispatcher and a dedicated Great employee and wonderful human beings. So thank you for recognizing I'm here to talk a little bit about crime in Arlington I know we've had a number of high profile events in the past year and and as we Talk with our partners in the community political leadership You know, there's a lot of feedback where Some folks might be fearing that crime is on the increase and I'm happy to tell you that that's not the case we You know well anything I say is not intended to minimize the seriousness of any of the crimes we've had Nor is it to Offend any of the survivors of victims in any way. Those are serious crimes We continue to represent the survivors and victims and try to prosecute those crimes as Effectively as we possibly can But with that said as I said crime is trending down if we look at the past five-year window overall crime is down about 24 percent and about 10 percent of that Overall crime is made up of violent crime itself and Just from 2012 to 2013 overall crime is down five percent When when talking about Part one crimes the most serious crimes as defined by the FBI Again, we're seeing a decrease Every calendar year from 09 to 2013 We've seen Almost every year we've seen a decrease in part one crimes as well So I just wanted to you know sort of announce that publicly that the data Demonstrate the crime is trending down Arlington as a safe community I wish I could take credit for the fact the crime is trending down, but the fact is We we work in a wonderful community where the community and the neighborhoods are engaged with their police officers I have an incredibly Professional team of police officers that partner with the community and work together to to address Crime and and problems in neighborhoods and and that results You know that the the studies are abundantly clear that those partnerships and addressing of the quality of life issues have a positive effect on on Decreasing crime in the community so Again, I wish I could take credit, but it's it's the great police officers are great dispatchers. It's our entire staff partnering with a great community To make us all safe, so I'm happy to answer any questions I don't know if I missed anything mr. Manager, but I'm happy to answer any questions while I'm here. Thank you Thank you for being in night chief and you're modest We're very lucky to have you here, and I understand that you have a great team below you, and We're very fortunate to be in Arlington with you and all the police officers that are looking out for our safety as well as all our other Public safety employees in the fire department and emergency services That being said do we have any questions from the board? I Just want to publicly thank the chief in a very personal way I think you know I'm a stratton parent and I think you know there's been a lot of concern up and stratton following some media reports That came so now for the second time I think in about six months You've been up in front of some large crowds up at stratton the first time on the turkey Hill incidents and now on the this this latest incident that was school-based and I can just tell you from speaking to the community up there that people really do appreciate you coming out and Communicating and the way that you've listened to the concerns that have have been raised. It's very much appreciated and And it's true community policing and thank you, Mr. Cure And I piggyback on my colleagues comments. I also In part do want to thank all the men and women who do work for you Administrative police officers Dispatch I think it's always been an open and transparent Community safety effort But just sort of echoing what mr. Cure has said I do want to say having traveled in the legal field and going into Boston in Cambridge And I touched on this a little bit earlier I really want to thank you personally chief for the way that you have represented the town of Valentin The way you've gotten information appropriate information out And I haven't heard anybody who has said anything negative except for what a great police chief we have He represents Allington. Well, and I know sometimes we don't say it enough, but I do appreciate The way you have conducted yourself along with all the other men and women Under your employee so it starts from the top and goes down sometimes bottom up But it definitely starts from the top and thank you again But again, it is a professionally mature team and in every one of these critical incidents They rose to the occasion and and put the victims first and foremost, and I'm very proud of their performance My colleague said it better than I thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you for being a chief. Okay. Good night. Thank you Number three mr. Chapter line. Thank you, mr. Chairman So as we know the Massav rebuild project is slowly starting to begin We've seen signage go up and some light work and surveying beginning and at the last board meeting We discussed the communication plan that would be rolled out and I told the board that we would have the public involvement Specialist working for mass dot from the firm Howard stied Hudson here here to meet you So that will happen tonight, but mass dot said we want to do even better than that and really show the commitment to Arlington And the commitment to making this project success So we have representatives from mass dot from Howard stied Hudson from their public involvement team as well as representatives from J. H. Lynch The contractor so from mass dot we have Donnie daily as well as Chris lehi From J. H. Lynch We have Greg Oswit in jimla valley and From Howard stied Hudson. We have Nate Cabral Curtis who's going to be our public involvement specialist on this project as well as Nick Nick gross from the public involvement team So Donnie, I don't if you want to say a few words at the outside of the my name is dawn daily I work in the office of government affairs out of the secretary's office So it's my primary responsibility to interface with state local federal delegation The community so on and so forth As it relates to any concerns any needs any modifications that we need to make adjustments for going forward We have a strong team together Chuck lehi check. You can come up. He's from highway district four I'm sure you folks know you might know that the highway division has broken up to six districts Chuck's out of district four district four happens to be on route to an island and so it's not that far I mean district four goes all the way up to new report So we have it like I said, we have a good team Nate Cabral is from Howard stied Hudson They're a public involvement firm that specializes in transportation outreach Nate works on a lot of projects with us One night can speak that I work with him now as the forer of Ridge down in down in Quincy case you overpass I 90 viaduct so on and so forth. So as you folks are well aware. We have a public information meeting next week. We're Getting we're in preparation for that. We have a PowerPoint presentation That's being better through the highway division through the district that we will be I don't know 12 to 14 16 slides We will have the same team back, but even more folks will have upper management You know Scott Kelleway was the assistant construction air and be there among others in district four So I don't know if Chuck you want to say a word few words on behalf of the district No, just that we're excited by the opportunity to be working in the community of Allenton and we think it's going to be a good job Get a great team together Good evening This is like men Adam. Thank you. I'm Nate or brawl Curtis. I work with Howard Stein Hudson I'm the head of our public involvement practice as Donnie said I work with him on a number of projects including four River Casey Arbor way some of DOTs Top-flight jobs and I'm very happy to be here in Arlington I've done some leafletting with you guys Adam helped to arrange that Have had a nice reception from the community thus far and we're looking forward to the public information meeting So thank you for having us here. Thank you very much. I am I really appreciate you coming out tonight I know I think it really goes to show your dedication to making sure this project goes smoothly and Being here this weekend next week is no easy task. I know you're all quite busy. So it does mean a lot to us Yeah, I really do I just want to echo that I really appreciate you all coming in to talk to us tonight this We've worked in town long and hard on getting this progress started as you well know because we worked with state and federal DOT in particular to get this year So I'm really excited to the project is underway and I really appreciate the effort that you're putting in and I I Look forward to when it's done Comment and three questions and if I'm asking the wrong Individuals and some of the questions. I think I probably know the answer In terms of this project initially I was not supportive of it with its initial Proposal, but then there was a compromise as well as Commitment now by the current town manager in mass DOT to do exactly what we're doing here tonight You know the public outreach to the businesses and residents So just in case you're wondering, you know originally I was not in support of and why I change The way that way back original I'm in support of the design right now Which was a compromise from way back when four or five years ago? I have three just to sort of ask you and if Neither you three gentlemen are appropriate. I can just follow up and I have had conversations with the town manager One of the question centers around mass DOT recently did a project in concert with the town on Forest Street Which was projected 13 to 15 months and it took close to four years I know in this current contract that we received it said upon commencement of awarding of the successful bid Which I believe is J. R. Lynch J. P. Lynch. I apologize for not saying that right that The job is bid out at 610 days. My first question would be Is the clock or when will the clock start ticking as well as are there any incentives and or penalties in terms of Barring extenuating circumstances, you know DEP had to get involved I'm trying not to recreate what happened up on Forest Street Are any of you three gentlemen the appropriate person to ask I can speak I'm not familiar with Forest Street if you Check from the district. I've not been actively involved in Forest Street other than I am aware that is taken longer than that was originally estimated The project itself doesn't have incentive or disincentive penalties associated with it If it is 610 days as issued from the notice to proceed We're looking at finishing up. I don't have the exact date Greg April 20th 2016 So I guess I would just leave on the table and maybe you came in the tail end of Forest Street And I'm not saying I'm going to be out there on day 611 or 815 or anything like that But where we went from Forest Street at 13 to 15 months to almost five years Just to put it because I see some new players here Just that that's a concern and I know it's something you're already concerned about the second question. I have Is Mastio T some of the businesses may ask you this you may have already anticipated in your PowerPoint presentation The town has a streetscape program. It's a very small program The Department of Community Planning through Carol Kowalski and Ted Fields has been going out to East Allington businesses I'm wondering if Mastio T has anything similar to that or no, that's beyond your scope It's basically businesses want to take advantage of You're in there and they want to upgrade redesign. I think what our program is more Aesthetics in terms of who select see a store for a storefront improvement. Is that the program you're talking about? Yes, so I'm just wondering is there anything that Mastio T or the contractor or is there any some any kind of programs out there? That can be offered to businesses and if there's not that's fine That Mastio T partners up with private business to improve their property Yeah, or the streetscape in front of it on the streetscape in front or I can certainly get you an answer on that tomorrow I'm not aware. I mean I could speak to a lot of things and planning I'm sure you folks are familiar with safe routes to school and right and then one of the things I just thought of as you was is just an adopter program and adopt an island adopt a roadway, but this is more This concept I gather is much more in tune to an individual business being upgraded to a partnership with the OT Yeah, okay, I can get you a Anything through the states sort of a grant opportunity or something like that. I'm not looking for something Yeah, okay, but I can certainly look in into other My colleagues and the other secretariats I don't know if in fact that would be under secretary by like East Committee rather folks and so on and so forth I'm at you know mass works stuff like that so I can certainly get your response Okay, and then my last would be again coming off of I mean we did summer Street Mastio T It was fantastic Forestry, so I've seen both sides of the coin my question would be and I know you've anticipated this for the public meeting Similar to forestry where we had some bumps in the road. I won't say the contractor, but it started with an M That and you know who I'm talking about but anyways, I know you don't know who I'm talking about Okay, I'll let you gentlemen know afterwards, but there was some property damage that took you know close to two years even with that contractor agreeing that His workers did go in and do that and what some of the businesses especially and there are some residents down there that if there is some sort of unfortunate Activity that does do something unplanned and causes any kind of property damage where forestry Really wasn't the best case scenario. I'd like to know any of you gentlemen the appropriate of Authorities to answer that where do I tell those business people besides contacting the town manager and anyone else? He does that would be me as far as a claim or over issue. You just bring that to my attention I'm just getting to the point one when they filed the claim and if they it's the same situation as we had on forestry We needed someone from Mastio T which we did get along with our DPW director to sort of even though it wasn't Your umbrella or your hat. We really needed you to sort of you know send the message and make sure Mediate so to speak so my understanding is the contractor within their construction Inadvertently cause damage to a property and what was the experience on forestry? There were six or seven properties And they were mocked out a couple of them had heated driveways that just no one of them had a heated driveway that got Taken up and and the rest would just and if you know Everybody agreed it came in under the bond or the liability insurance waiver and there was a grievance by the contractor but Good two years went by and we did have to ask Mastio T in the town of Wellington, which really doesn't have Purview over that but yeah where that contractor does Probably want to continue to do business with Mastio T. That's the reason I prefer we don't get to that point But if we get to that point in East Allington, I would only suggest that if anything that occurs You spring into our attention as soon as possible. I mean it's construction those things You know wouldn't it's not isolated. So what I would do is contact the town manager This is really Mastio T Working in concert with the manager And not saying it's gonna happen as we all understand it's a it's a town design But it's a mass start project and and certainly we advertise and water the contract And so we oversee that contract in in in partnership with the town So I don't know if you want to speak to your experience with that My name is Greg Osford. I'll be the project manager for JH Lynch and Typical day I will get claims some projects we do with property damage and we handle that in-house with our own insurance And we fixed many things that you know we have broken and we take responsibility for those things We've already gone out and done a pre-construction video of the project We've walked up and down just a document on record if you'd like a copy of the video I'd be happy to to give you one and you make it accessible to Anyone that would like to view it if they don't think their property was portrayed or they have a Crack an offense or a wall or something that you know, we really want to Not cause any problems and get in and get out and we come up from a family run contracting organization and this project is Looked upon on our company as a great project and a great opportunity to showcase what we're about and Paying attention to the needs of the people in the businesses We did a project in downtown Westfield about 14 million dollars same thing downtown business districts worked around the businesses and Beautifying that we took their town common out for two years and no one's happy with that But we were able to restore it and get it back on time So that's our goal here and I'm available as well as the team if any issues come up Well, if it's not too cumbersome if you could provide that To mrs. Kruppelka, and I see everybody else is already doing it as long as we all Mrs. Kruppelka has one of your cards, but again, I'll work through the tail manager. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming out Thank you very much for coming out to this kind of the pregame show and next week is the the big kickoff I'm glad to see you have your public involvement folks here. I'm glad to see the project manager here, too Because you're gonna be very vital To this I mean we'll have As you all know this project's had a lot of controversy But this this board is really we're on record is really being supportive of the end goals of this But I don't think any of us are fooling ourselves about, you know, some of the The difficulties and conveniences are gonna be experienced as we go forward in this this next these next two years It's gonna be very important to keep residents up-to-date with what kind of inconveniences they can see But even more so I'm glad that project manager that you mentioned this that the need for business continuity is Absolutely vital, you know a small business if it gets knocked out out of commission even for a week That could be you know a matter of life of death For them so so working closely with those small businesses important I think you'll find a lot of positive energy down in East Arlington if you haven't already that the Capital Square business group is already Brainstorming very actively on how to really look at this as a transformational Project and harness kind of the positive energy, but we're gonna really rely on on Very clear lines of communication and where people can go to escalate Problems because we know that if that's not there. It'll be our phones. It'll be ringing and So we take that very seriously. We've been looking forward to this with a lot of Mr. Chairman I just like to mention that we anticipate, you know sending out if not tomorrow by the closer business that on Wednesday a bulletin to all the stakeholder groups and the list that we've been able to You know compiled thus far Like I said, there's a there's a draft PowerPoint going around. We're gonna do a draft press release On Friday in anticipation to the advocate and into the other local papers so on and so forth So I'm sure Adam you'll post that on the web page and we you know, we do a lot with there's a lot of jobs going on I mean there were 30 The island than mass av project We're speaking if not was one of 38 notice of proceeds that went out on the same day Because of the evolution of the transportation bond bill so on and so forth So we like to see a full room, you know There's nothing like, you know, the worst thing is driving to a meeting on it on what will be an invasive You know road project in having you know driving to a Springfield or a Plymouth or wherever, you know and having seven people I mean, so I mean just urge as many people to get there will answer any questions We anticipate follow-up meetings whether they're in small groups or business groups So on and so forth that will certainly willing to have that conversation We've fielded one inquiry so far on a restaurant and we Got a satisfactory answer in the in the the owner was happy So we're back in a thousand and we'll just you know go from there, you know, no know where to go but down, Mr. Thank you. Thank you very much. I don't think you have to worry about a packed house next week I have a quick just one question. Yes. Is the project at all? Vulnerable to the negotiations in Washington right now over the transportation bond No, it's not it's a fully funded project 80% federal 20% Thank you. Thank you very much guys. We'll see you next week. Thank you. Thank you much Moving on for approval number four consent agenda meeting of minutes May 19th 2014 request contractor drain layer license Bond brothers Inc. Request contractor drain layer license J. H. Lynch and sons Request contractor drain layer license Charles contracting co Request one day beer and wine license for six 2014 at Robbins Memorial Town Hall Auditorium for ACMI annual event and awards night request one day beer and wine license six seventeen fourteen at kickstand cafe for Arlington Center for the arts private fundraiser a Vote use of Jefferson Cutter house Lawner library story walks vote sale of wine at farmers market 2014 applicant Reappointments as well. Yeah, that's No, that's all that is that is And reappointments board of library trustees Catherine Fennelly board of youth services Lauren Boyle Gina Murphy Milwaukee Shaw-Jones Building maintenance committee Vincent Sabrone Cemetery Commission Gloria Turkle Open Space Committee Joey Gluszko Parks and Recreations Committee James Robillard personnel board Cynthia Gallagher Move the parole subject all conditions are set forth second with one possible housekeeping Didn't it's a very small thing, but I wanted to make sure it's something that I can annotate or amend on 4h, which is the application for Farmers market farmer winery It's really just a small thing, but Where they have the date and times of the event is there any way just For my sake under to event information Where it says Wednesday 2 to 6 30 p.m. Can we just administratively just after 2 o'clock p.m. So it's 2 p.m. To 6 30 p.m Can I is that okay? Can I do that attorney? Hey? Yeah? Yes? I mean, I know we're not using military time But all the other applications always say 6 p.m. To 10 p.m. Just so we're in concert with that And I don't mean to be picky on that. It's just the understanding of the board of slackman's office. I think that's fine So just that Yes Yeah, no, we're gonna have Do we have any further discussion of the board? Any discussion from the crowd No further discussion Kelly you don't want to come up and advertise Sorry, mr. Chairman We're here on behalf of the Arlington Center for the arts I'm Carol Banda from Bartlett Avenue. I'm a member of the board of directors and this is what a shoemaker who's our new executive director and Every year the Arlington Center for the arts sponsors Shakespeare in the park to do it It costs a little bit of money and this year. We're having our annual fundraiser at the kickstand cafe Thank you to the folks at the kickstand cafe. They're going to close an hour early so that we can get in there and have a little Little bash. We're gonna have Okay, so so I don't we don't have a lot of time but just so you know, we're just gonna have a gathering of Supporters of Shakespeare in the park. There's two performances this summer and we're gonna have some special guests and I hope maybe we can extend an invitation to all these folks to come This is the 14th year that we've had Shakespeare in the park in Arlington and the arts center is committed to making it a free Public art event for the community and that's why the need for the fundraiser and thanks so much for your support Carol congratulations on your tip certification We had a motion and a second all those in favor, please say aye opposed for nothing Moving on we have reappointments to the transportation advisory committee and These appointments are You know, they're kind of administrative. I guess to Bring the current tack members to bring their terms and align them with their committee's charter and so for that we have a Scott Smith whose term to expire on 1213 2015 Jeff Matixas Jeff sorry term to expire 1231 2016 Howard News and Rich Turcott with their terms to expire on 1231 2018 Would anyone like to discuss this further? Any comments from the crowd? No, we have a motion and a second all those in favor, please say aye. Aye opposed Moving on appointment Arlington preservation fund. Mr. Gilligan. Mr. Chairman members of the board. Good evening My understanding is you've received a nomination For an appointment for myself to serve as the finance officer on the Arlington preservation fund As you all know the Arlington preservation fund is a 501 see three corporation under the IRS rules part of its Charter and corporation articles of corporation Require the board of selectmen to have certain appointing authority to certain representatives on that board of directors My understanding is you received a letter from mr. John Warden Relative to that nomination the finance officer that was currently serving as stepped down and moved out of town I was asked if I'd be interested and I said I would serve at the pleasure of that board in this board We certainly appreciate that mr. Gilligan Move approval and thank you very much mr. Gilligan for helping us in this. Thank you second We have motion to second any further discussion Seeing all those in favor, please say aye. I oppose. I thank the board for time and its consideration Thank you. Thank you for anyone who is not aware the Arlington preservation fund Provides loans to property owners of historically significant properties, and they can go online and check that whole thing out Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you moving on appointment to transportation advisory committee mr. John Hurd Hey, John, please tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is John Hurd. I lived in precinct 18 Sorry, I just moved I am a local business owner lifelong Arlington resident I live there with my wife who also is an Arlington resident and I thought when I joined the chamber of commerce a Spot opened up. Paul Kent preceded me as the chamber of commerce rent Representative on the tack so when they opened up the spot. I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me my office I'm an attorney at my office is right in the center right in the heart of some of the The main tack projects, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to get involved and represent the chamber of commerce Second any further discussion. I was curious, so I know have you been to any tack meetings? Have you worked with them before? I've been to four tack meetings. Nice. I wasn't told that I needed approval I So we as a board rely really heavily on tech because there are some really detailed and Like they require a lot of technical attention and technical detail That's difficult for us to do frankly in front of a camera. And so it's really we really rely on the tack And I really appreciate You joining them, and I really appreciate the work that they do. Thank you. I'm still getting used to the transportation lingo Layman on the tack board right now, but I'm Learning every day. I'm sure you'll pick it up quick. Thanks John. Thank you We had a motion in a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I Thanks Long past so Moving on we have a rise in petition or mass juices Avenue. It's got burns right away agent Does not appear that mr. Burns Is with us tonight? Second we have a motion table and a second all those in favor. Please say aye Sorry, you will wait on that. I'll wait. Okay, so we have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye Yes, so I will follow up with mr. Burns Seeing Verizon on the agenda We've been the utility poll working group has been exchanging some emails about our lists and of like the poll status and the difficulties we're having in getting the poll status database updated and so I'm gonna reach out. I think to mr. Burns beforehand and give him a advanced warning that I intend to Quiz him about that database When we actually do hear that So you didn't scam away tonight. Just I have yeah, only if he's a mind-reader Number eight will be postponed moving on license in permits Request common vitriol license Pizza Mia formerly bills house of pizza 1345 Mass Ave. Mr. Passion Come on up to the microphone, please No, please just I tell us a little bit about yourself in your plan a restaurant Coupache it's hard to say to call me Z. I bought the bills house of pizza Month and a half ago It's an look like it's nice place for a nice spot. I reckon it's a beautiful town. I have some background Since 2001 I Mean you're gonna be a pizza some some European food some Mediterranean raps. I'll try something different, but it's gonna be most Move approval subject to all conditions and I just want to thank you for choosing Arlington and good luck We're definitely glad that you're here. Thank you very much. I got a question though I heard that they're starting a big project on a mass Avenue. Are they starting from Cambridge up or from? Lexington down Other end yeah other end of town from Cambridge. Yeah, it doesn't go as far as like two years Projects only in East Arlington. It doesn't go it doesn't go up the center Thank you very much. Well, you don't go anywhere yet I'll second your motion Further questions Are you planning to do delivery also? Yeah, yeah, we'll do delivery here. Okay, thank you And just on that maybe in future applications, we can just put that as an option delivery. Yes. No just and the only Project planned for Arlington Heights is not a construction project one of our residents of the town who works in Lexington with the Lexxpress program Which is Lexington's bus service. They are now doing I believe it's on their route six of this board of Selectman voted for it and Lexington board of Selectman, I believe on May 9th that starting in June one of the buses they go all throughout Lexington It's free to the residents. There aren't any bus stops. You flag them down They will be coming through Arlington Heights So that's the only project We have a motion in a second all those in favor, please say aye. I pose For nothing vote. Good luck. Thank you very much. Thank you number 10 requests common victor a license Andres Topanian or So great My name is Andres Topanian and I'm taking over the Lukumaki bakery in 916 mess Avenue And I will do with the same bakery but with the Armenian traditions salted pastries like cheese and the mini pizzas like this This is my project Move approval subject all conditions and again, thank you for choosing Arlington. We're really good luck. It's a good location Thank you so much. I'll stop by on my way to Blue Ribbon I want to congratulate you on your new job your new venture. Thank you. I do see that You listed information relevant relevant to your ownership in this that you are taking the serve safe class Yes, you haven't done that already and if there's anything else Maybe through the board of health, but I think they would have mentioned something in here and they have it So you you've gone out and done the appropriate steps to get yourself adequately trained as well as you Sighted that you've been mentoring working with the previous owner. Yeah, or pie Baker I don't mean to say pie Baker, but yeah, so I commend you for doing that and I really truly wish you all great success Thank you so much I'd just like to echo miss Mahan's comments that um, I do appreciate that you've been working with the previous owner I know this is a big step for you and we do appreciate you You know following through with a fine bakery in Arlington. Thank you. Do we have a do we have a second? Great I'm just happy to see that I can come back. It was a luck my John. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that We had we had a motion in a second all those in favor, please say aye. I oppose So nothing vote best of luck. Thank you so much moving on citizens open forum Except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon Nor a decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established It should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request Do we have anyone here for citizens open forum? Seeing none moving on Traffic rules and orders other business 12 update from the Arlington committee on tourism and economic development Angela And I see that we'll be taking two votes So if we could talk to the first one and then I will take a vote and then talk to the second Okay, we'll start with Arlington alive and I'm gonna ask committee member Tom Davison to speak on that Thank you Good evening So the Arlington alive some arts black party. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this is the second year that we're doing this event Last year's event was a very big success It really drew attention to the cultural economy of Arlington and our vibrate business community We had over 1,500 people attend from the greater Boston area. We get good press the Boston globe We've got other good pickup. So we're looking to build on that success this year There are a couple of items that we would like to ask the Board of Selecting to give us approval for We did submit a memo with those those details of what was we're asking you to be Approved so that would be required to have this this event occur Partial closure of Broadway and Alton Street to have the event happen on Broadway We did this last year we really kind of took the machete and cut away through all of the details to make this occur So really doing the same event again this year with the same types of approvals I think the only wrinkle this year is because of the Firehouse renovation that when we get to the day of the event which was Saturday July 12th in advance of that We'll see what the actual layout is on on the use of Broadway But we are planning to be proactive about that and limit our Access on the street down to stop prior to getting to to the firehouse and we're in negotiations with our friends and American alarm to use their front Parking lot as an alternate space Questions from the board Yes, and if you touched on this I apologize I'm a little hard of hearing in my left ear. I just want to follow up on The temporary bus stop. Do you have all the arrangements for that? It says in there that you're requesting Advice regarding any arrangement with the MBTA. Is that already been resolved or is that still a request? We'd be doing the same as we did last year I believe the I'm not sure if it was either the police department or the DPW that took care of that And we had a space that was arranged just on the other side of Massab. There were two parking spaces where the Monument is the monument park that was cordoned off for the temporary bus stop and the Hanging of the banners similar to last year and then last year did we waive the Central parking fees at the Russell? Yes We did ask for that too for for two purposes one because we're taking all the parking spaces at Broadway Plaza for the day It did cause some concern for some of the local business owners We wanted to resolve that by offering free parking and also as a Attraction for people with the greater Boston area to be able to come and attend the event and have a free parking And I did see it. I'm just doing a lot of this for anybody paying attention home Um, you did employ a police detail last year and do plan on doing that again this year because it seemed to work out Well, absolutely. Yes. We had one police detail that worked very well Managed the flow of traffic. We'd like to do the same thing again this year Look for all the write-ups about this event in the future like you had last year Thank you. I'd like to move approval if I can of course Second one thing I do want to note before is a follow-up to the parking in the lot I am I hope that people will get quite used to that and Continue to park in that lot when they visit the center Any further discussion from the board? No any from the public Seeing none We have a motion and a second all those in favor. Please say aye Opposed for nothing vote. Thank you. Thank you very much now moving on for approval the visitor information booth Angel So if you haven't noticed, but you probably have the visitor booth is up And we're working on getting it finished right now and we want to thank the town Thank Adam and and also Mike Rademacher for helping Get that the last piece is done so that we can open it So we wanted to bring to this plan to use this is where we're getting ready To open it one of the components in here is that since it is going to take a little while to do the rest of The work we'd like permission to be able to put our tent on the lawn like we did last year Just it you know and if we if it takes a while to get everything else done And then we also have you've had the chance to read through it some plans on how to raise some funds And we'd like to use the performance terrace So I don't know if you have specific questions or you want me to review the plan It might be easy if we just ask questions. I think we've all been ahead the opportunity to read the plan Mr. Cure, yeah, I just wanted to give a little bit of context as I was liaison to a Ted I know that Angela and Ted Palusa standing with her and he's been Really a driving force on on seeing this this booth to fruition I think just to expand that there are some ADA issues that have to be worked out on the the booth but rather than losing a significant part of the the summer I Think the thought is to be able to put up the tent Has been done in the past and I know that last week a number of a Ted representatives were down at the booth with the manager And with mr. Rodamarka just looking through some of the last things that have to be done for the lighting inside and Some of the ramp layouts and making some of those decisions, but you know just talking to some of the merchants They're very excited. They've been asking when this will be up and running and I think they understand that if we give This approval that there will be an interim Operational plan that will allow us to start some of the activities and initially store Materials in the booth and then operate directly out of it as soon as that additional Coppentry and utility work is done Mr. Chatlin, do you have want to speak to that your recent visit? Yeah, just that the work that the committee done is impressive the booth is in place I think it's a good spot And I'm glad it was at the suggestion of selectman cure that we pulled that meeting together to make sure that We're all in the same page and I felt that after the meeting we were in good position We'd be able to get the electricity run Again as selectman cure mentioned the last bigger detail is making sure that we adequately make the visitors booth ADA accessible But I think we're on the right track and we I don't have a definitive timeline today But we should have something in that in that realm shortly. Thank you very much. Mr. Dunn My only question was about the sponsorships. Can you tell me a little bit more about like how that would What would go to sponsor get Well, what we're looking at when coming up with we have to come up with a schedule for the price But we would be able to they might be able to use the performance terrace It might be promotional material on site and also provide some volunteers So we don't have we're just in a you know discussion phase for right now for what we want to do for that But you know, we were we were asked when we went for the money for this to try to raise some funds Are on our own and so this is what we thought would be a good way to do it Could expand on that just having been involved in these discussions one thing that we've discussed within ATED potentially as a sponsor, you know could get rights for a day. So today's operation of the booth is brought to you by XYZ Maybe a small placard. Okay at the counter or something like that. That's one idea Okay, the way that that could work. We've also talked about making that possible also through to open to non-profit organizations as well If they wanted to come in and provide some staffing for a day This is brought to you by such-and-such an organization as well if they wanted to provide volunteers So I think when we talk in terms of sponsorship, it's not strictly Monetary it's it's also volunteer assistance. So I definitely like that I I like them what you're trying to do and it sounds like I like the way you do like these ideas are doing It's definitely one that if we let it if it went too far it could I could see where it be It would become a really like a tacky problem. I think but it sounds like you're totally on the right place So it sounds good Sort of a similar venue, but more perhaps a process or a procedural question. I know the initial Approval from town meeting for twenty five thousand dollars. It was to a Ted to be overseen by the town manager Talking about sponsorships and some of the revenue generating ideas when you all are wildly successful on that end I know you cite continuing to work with the Comptroller, but I think that's more around statistical tracking I Guess I would ask through the chair Hopefully when this is really successful Who's going to oversee? I know who's overseen the initial twenty five thousand, but where does it go from there? At the at the moment I think it's going to go into the general fund because we don't have a revolving fund for this So, you know for the time being we'll do that We're gonna have to probably talk to the finance committee in the town I I would want to confirm this actually with the Comptroller, but I'd be pretty certain that any donations or gifts made To a Ted for the operation is booth could go into a special gift and donation account That could be spent at the authority of the committee Okay I and only raised that because I didn't remember in my memory that we because we didn't do a revolving fund for the visitor center and I'm not saying that the Suggestion you have isn't the one that should be done from here and now on in but I just wanted to make sure in terms of that money in that that's been tied up and it Tied up neatly in a bow. I would just note that the mechanism that the manager Outlines is the same mechanism that's used now for Sponsorships for the block party as well, and I see mr. Chappatt is there He kind of serves as a treasurer on a Ted and kind of liaises with the Comptroller's office on our behalf I don't know mr. I'm I just want to echo what the town manager said There's a number of means by which we can set up the appropriate types of accounts for this type of dough for that type of donation Thank you And the only other thing I wanted to applaud is that besides as my colleague mr. Kuro Joe cited that you're taking the extra steps to make ADA compliance Happen over there. I particularly impressed with your outreach with our two high schools Allington high school in Allington Catholic as well as the council on aging I think that's a really good marriage. You know covers all the spectrums there and I really think you'll get it anything on the Allington high end you can certainly that mr. Kuro. No, he's sort of our in over there on the school side And he's also on the committee So I won't volunteer to help on that but I did want to say I think that's a very good idea to reach out to those two different groups Thank You mr. Chairman to answer This mountain to answer your question about where do we go here on the money guy? so that we do we do have some funds in the ATAT account and So if we see some activity Related to the visitor center, but not directly in terms of construction And we use up all the twenty five thousand dollars Well, there will be some money in there in our account. We've already done that in a couple of cases for some level relatively minor Expenses, it's just easy to get them paid and I work with the controller and it works out very well Secondly just to pique your interest Because I didn't see it in the report There are a couple of items that we want to have in the visitor center And we'll have to watch our money one of them is a bike rack And so given that it's next to the bike way and folks will be coming down from Lexington or coming up from Cambridge We felt that there's an ideal spot for that water break. And so we're looking right now for maybe a 10 Spot bicycle rack to go there and we're working with Mike Rattermaker I think we'll probably have opportunity to get one of those relatively soon not immediately But certainly one of the things that we definitely think would be necessary at the visitor center and finally Again to pique your interest Ted has done a really nice job of working with somebody to create a four-and-a-half minute video about things places to see in the town and It's on a rolling arrangement. So it goes up on a TV one of those smart TVs You know that's on the wall and you turn it on in a place and it just keeps playing So as people come in they can four-and-a-half minutes about all you can handle which is great And we think it's going to work very well Okay, thank you very much sure any further discussion anyone in the crowd I just want do we need to is there a vote to for us to take on the second one Maybe just a vote of support I think well, I think we can vote to I think we're looking to support the operational plan to Permit the temporary placement of the tent on that property by the visitor booth Final renovations and also to permit Some public, you know performances on the terrace during the operation of the visitor center second All those in favor, please say aye For nothing, but thank you very much. Thank you Request sidewalk on Clyde terrace, Mr. Chaplain Thank You, mr. Chairman So I've provided the the board with both the cover memo and an email that I received from a town resident Which expresses concerns about pedestrian safety on Clyde Terrace and Asks the town to consider either the construction of a sidewalk or the implementation of some other pedestrian accommodations on Clyde teres on excuse me on Clyde Terrace, so in Follow up to the email I had a conversation with this resident and explained that in terms of funding on an annual basis The town doesn't have adequate annual funding to maintain either its roadways or current sidewalk inventory So it would be fiscally imprudent to expand our sidewalk inventory And through the conversation that resident did express to me Concern with that and concerns still with safety On Clyde Terrace, so asked if there was any other avenue that could be Taken in regards to addressing this so coming out of that conversation I did tell her that I could put this before the board of select and ask if they would consider referring the matter to the Transportation Advisory Committee or attack for analysis, so This before you tonight is in follow-up to that conversation to ask the board to refer this matter to tack for their review and analysis Move to refer to tack second Thank You mr. Chaplain So throughout the week Adam, and I did go back and forth on this a little bit I at first I didn't know if it was actually in the scope attack seeing that it was a You know sidewalk improvement and we do send mostly road issues to them but After our conversation I did feel comfortable that you know just general safety improvements should go before them and they would Provide the best recommendation that we could possibly use for this and So I am comfortable sending it to tack Did you have a chance to run this by one of the tack chairs to know to tell them that you were talking about this? No, I did not actually so One of the things that I did last year on advice of Communication with tack as I started giving them previews of stuff and gave them an opportunity to signal whether or not they were interested So I will support this motion, but I just want to encourage You and like in future tack issues Just shoot them an email and you generally get a response within a day or two that they'll tell you You know yes or no about that. It's just because we give them so much and I Like being I like letting them filter a little bit Duly noted We have a motion in a second all those in favor. Hi. Hi post Thank you moving on we have a Vote for the Board of Selecting to partner with the Arlington elder abuse task force for Miss Crimmins Who cannot be here tonight, but this is This vote is just to state that this board Supports the work that the Arlington elder abuse task force does and they really are vital They're really vital part of our community and they do some tremendous work, and I'm happy to sign on as co-sponsor I hope you'll join me So moved second. We have any further discussion motion in a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I opposed For nothing Moving on and thank you for bearing with us vote on the Lake Street signs Transportation Advisory Committee report so the Transition Advisory Committee has recommended no action on changing the signs down on Lake Street to allow for residents to turn Off Lake Street at designated times, and I do believe that we have some neighbors that might want to comment on this Please come forward Good evening. My name is Leslie Bennett, and I was the person who originally authored the warrant article relating to the Lake Street signs I Provided a response to the tax recommendation. Unfortunately. I just got the notice on Saturday So I wasn't able to get it to you earlier than today But the office was very helpful and said that they would make a copy if anyone hasn't had a chance to read that I'm happy to read it now so that I can describe a little bit more fully the You know perspective from those of us who have observed this process over the last several months If you just want to hit on some main points, I think okay Well at the first hearing in March the board of selectmen voted no action on this warrant article At the April 7th hearing it again voted no action on the warrant article with a recommendation that it go to tack at the April 7th hearing they were about You know more than a half a dozen people who came up and spoke about this proposal It appeared that there were a lot of there was a lot of concern first of all about the traffic There were a lot of ideas about the traffic speed bumps lower this lower the speed limit You know think about changing the streets Configuration making Mary Street a one-way going the opposite way turned that you know There were so many suggestions and recommendations that came from the public that appeared that the board of selectmen really just wanted to Take a look at this question in a more holistic way rather than focus on the Lake Street signs because it's clear from I think most Obs, you know most who observe that area that the bike path is actually one of the biggest Contributing factors to the traffic flow that if there were a way to actually manage that Intersection of just unfettered pedestrian crossing and you could actually keep the traffic moving You wouldn't have people sitting there for a half an hour in rush hour traffic and residents not being able to get to their houses in a reasonable amount of time I would like to actually refer again to the whole original reason for the signs was to avoid commuters Racing down Mary Street and trying to cut through the traffic and just simply make the point that we're not talking about Commuters when we're talking about residents. I mean the people who live there aren't Going to be entering the traffic again. They're going home and getting out of the traffic But that is you know, that is essentially why I think that there is a difference between those two populations people who are avoiding the traffic and people who are getting out of it, right for good But it was my understanding at the April 7th hearing that you know select men done and select men really were Discussing the broader bigger picture and what tack would be doing with this referral from the board And I laid that out in the letter I mean I basically went back to the transcript of the hearing and it did appear that there was an interest by this body in Actually asking tack to provide it with other information and other advice So it was very disappointing to actually see that the tack went to police chief Ryan's Recommendation that was issued back in March Which was one of the original reasons why the board said no action because they rested it They rested you rested your decision on the police chief's response and okay, that's fine But it was my understanding at the April 7th hearing that it was it had moved to be on that question And it was no longer just a question about the signage the signage is not going to solve the problem on Lake Street But there are other ideas that may and that is what I thought the tack was charged to do and It appears failed to do and so my one question for this body is What did you ask of the tack did they actually respond to you appropriately and if they did not Then what happens next? I do remember the April 7th meeting and I Did hear from some original residents who spoke to the signs and a lot of what I heard of at that meeting were Not so much dealing with the current signs, but people got up and spoke about maybe this street should be a one way Maybe this street should be a stop sign Maybe we should have something similar to the traffic that's feeding in and with the exception of the stop sign Which we'd look to the police department Would look to the chair through the town manager to look at that One of the things that I know I outlined and I apologize if I didn't do it as awfully as I should have is that just sort of follow the same model that was done years ago as well as currently in terms of You know everyone you know for us to come in and just make a certain street a one way We like to get a sense from the neighborhood from the people who actually live on there And I'm not directing this just to you because you certainly have done outreach to get some neighborhood input But we were saying to those other people who came up and you know I'm gonna misquote it somebody said you know you should make Mary a one way and make Margaret a one way this way that way And one of the things I said was if the neighborhood felt that way If somebody could sort of as you have done In yourself take charge of that and get a sense from the neighbors around there before everybody unboxed down that path I didn't anticipate Referring any of that to tack and I I'm not sure in terms of I'm not gonna speak for Mr.. Grayley or mr. Don Dan or Kevin I'm just saying you know where I was coming from that night, and I think one of the things I wouldn't necessarily Officer Rato sits on the transportation advisory committee So he kind of does wear two hats on that and a lot of what I was reading from the police chief and officer Rato is that some of these issues instead of tech should be going through the police department and the one in the issues that we need The neighborhood input in terms of making the street in one way not necessarily putting a stop sign up I think that's handled through the police department and they do traffic counts and accident reports and things like that But on those other suggestions with the exception of speed bumps, um, I don't know if I missed out on anything Mr.. Don So I think that I'm I'm comfortable with the tax Recommendation, but it's not it's definitely not just because of this it's because of other conversations that I have with the members of the tack So I think that they recognize that there is a significant problem I recognize they recognize I think we all Recognize there's a big traffic problem with Lake Street in Massaf the backups that happen there are Really problematic for the quality of life for people who live in town and I think and when I My gut looking at this is that this problem We're talking about with these signs is a symptom of that larger problem And so I sent so when I voted to send this to tack I was sending it to them kind of to look at it and say hey Here's the symptom and you I know you're already aware of the big problem I know you're already looking at the big problem Do you want to tackle this symptom at the same time and I read between the lines of their memo and the answer is no We're focused on the big problem. And so I agree that there isn't anything here about the Bike path, but I know that they are working. That is an active project of theirs And so I and of course obviously we also heard tonight that we're about you know We're about to rip that intersection up with the state DOT, which is going to have some temporarily Painful consequences, but we'll hopefully improve it in the long run and I know that it isn't a very It isn't great news but I guess my I kind of want to watch that happen and watch it settle out and then see what we See if we can get an improvement from the bike path get an improvement in that intersection And maybe the problem that you all are experiencing will dissipate if we solve that larger problem so I understand your frustration and If I and I my commute does not take me down that path and so I would and if it did I so You know there there are parts of things, you know Sometimes people come before us and I say I feel your pain because I do the exact same thing But this is one where I don't I I'm the one on the bike path, so I I I very much sympathize with the difficulties that you're in but I am but I am comfortable with the tax recommendation and I Hope that the problem will be resolved by these other actions that we're taking in the next couple of years Thank you very much just Piggybacking on what you said about tack looking at the bike back path. It's not just tack You all remember at the last meeting you had all designated me to go over to Lexington Department of Public Works the three Bedford Lexington and Arlington have been working together on a full a plan for a full overhaul of a number of issues Around the bike path trying to unify the way that the signage is approached. That's one one is aspect but a big piece of the The plan that has been put together by the three communities concentrates on crossings And where there need to be better controls of crossings where they're maybe don't need to be better controls of crossings how? ballards impact Traffic a lot of issues like like that and it impacts the entire length of the bike path through the three communities the state of that was that The three communities that were representatives from you know planning and public works and political representation and bike advisor committee representation From the three communities looking over some of the final public comments that have been submitted on that plan I know that I think it's this week the three Bike committees are meeting jointly again to try to now take what's what's there and try to lay out what a phased approach to implementing that plan might be We gotta be realistic. I mean it's a large plan. It's a large path It's a large problem. It could take some time to actually make those those those changes It takes money to make those changes and that has to be budgeted over a number of years But that is something else that's in the works and that's not just on tack shoulders That that's actually something that the three communities have been working on together Thank you Yes, please Yes Hi, it's Joanne Kelly-Avis, and I'm on Mary Street I just want you folks just to keep in mind for the next few years that the only through street is Lake Street Those people who come speeding down Mary Street And who are fortunate enough not to get stopped by a policeman although my nephew's visiting He said there was someone down there close to route two last week But Mary Street is really a dead end when they come speeding down It's not like they can go over the bicycle path and continue which I think mr. Really was not quite clear on that. It's a dead end So you can only go right which is a dead end finally into the field Or take a left and get on to Lake Street, and it's surprising how polite people are They've been sitting in that line, but yet they let those people who cut through get in line So I just want you to keep in mind when talking with tack that Mary Street is a dead end and So they shouldn't be even using their streets and the bicycle path just the other day They don't stop. I think they put up signs They may have put up signs, but they just think they have the right of the road Okay, thank you. Thank you very much any further discussion. Yes, please I'm Jen Smola, and I live on White Street in the East Arlington neighborhood. My concern of your comment, mr. Kuro about the bike path is I Understand that it's Lexington Bedford and Arlington working on the bike path remedy As I've traveled through those other two towns they taken Paths to make sure you can't just blaze out of the bike path into the road like you can on to Lake Street My concern is if it's a collective effort, which I think is good because it's all one long bike path We're still going to be forced to wait until any kind of resolution comes out And yet we as residents are sitting on Lake Street waiting to get into our own neighborhoods While the bike path is really Result holding up things now I know the Massav work is going to take us at least another 610 days or two years around it around it up To be realistic and it's going to be a nightmare on Lake Street, and there really is no other way I can't get into my house I could probably try to make a new road off of route too, but you know, I don't have an aeronautic vehicle Just a quick comment, so I appreciate your concern, but I'm very disappointed that Tack wasn't charged with what we understood from the April 7th meeting With a broader spectrum of the needs of of the business not just signage off of Lake Street Thank you And could I do that since mr. Tequero is our designee as well as the town manager. I do know the bike path in Lexington on Bow Street Which is as you come up you go past Bermans and then there's a little store a convenient store And then you take a right that's Bow Street right before like booze or liquors in a Dunkin Donuts They were having that similar issue and I want to make sure everyone is clear on we're not talking about one pedestrians Are trying to cross the bike path we're talking about bicyclists people I know I travel down there a lot and you have to stop because you're going to hit somebody And they had a similar situation up on Bow Street in Lexington and what they did and I you know I sometimes pull in that back pocket a lot to make phone calls So I've observed it a lot especially on a Saturday and Sunday They put up sort of a fancy fence thing. They have the ballers there But they put it up so that it slows down the bike Traffic and it's a natural sort of Momentum for them to stop and it is very busy And but it works very well because the residents in Lexington were having the same concerns because so many people go up and down Bow Street because it's a cut through to get to low and It's also a cut through from Lowell to get back up to Mass Ave So maybe as we're moving forward and I understand in the mass DOT plan They're talking about synchronization of the lights and perhaps having something down there on the bike path But as an added step, I think what I'm hearing is Maybe beyond just the ballers the big Lumps of concrete there perhaps something similar to what they have in Lexington on Bow Street Or something you get from the committee that you know from your colleagues in Lexington our bed There's a couple places on the bike path that I like at 4 to 25 that it's actually light control too Oh, yeah, so that may be the answer to okay. Maybe that's Thank you, thank you. Thank you. So we have a Recommended vote of no action. Did we have a motion? I move no action second? Second we have a motion in a second all those in favor, please say aye. I oppose for nothing votes Moving on for approval memorial for Johnny Kelly and It was for from our public memorials committee and they have accepted mr. Kelly's Mr.. Mr. Kelly's Excuse me our request for mr. Kelly to be memorialized one one I did have perhaps for Doug is Are we that are we now tasked with selecting a location? More or less It's something we have to look at if we want to figure out how we want to Examine these types of requests in the future. We can sort of look at that a little bit more comprehensively, but I think for now it's sort of I personally don't have an answer for this I was kind of hoping the public memorials committee would have a suggestion, but seeing it, but is there isn't one coming Perhaps we could refer it is like could perhaps we could ask the chair to find a suitable person to make a recommendation Perhaps mr. Duffy is interested. Perhaps we should find out where he lived in Arlington and see if there's an intersection That lives nearby or if there's a running path that he enjoyed or you know something that's particularly I personally have no idea Mm-hmm From reading the materials here it looks like his primary connect. Oh, Mr. Crippelka knows I was gonna say I thought we really won't I have never talked to this gentleman, but there was another friend of Mr. Kelly who sent me the other Resume that's very much was very much involved with John and Kelly So I was with your permission to call Bill Walsh to find out and ask them maybe to tell us We lived in what would you like to do and what have you but he Whoever mr. Walsh and whoever he gets responses my understanding is going to have to pay for whatever we do For um, perhaps you can inform mr. Walsh that in your conversation. Hopefully he may be back here back in contact him He'll be back at the 23rd. Thank you We can ask for a more detailed recommendation from the public memorials committee with respect to their own ideas Yes, I'm scared. I think This is a little bit Unusual because I think typically when we've had requests like well not that I've been here that long for but the requests I've seen come through Usually the request is associated with a specific area that they'd like us to to to designate And I read all this material is very interesting about mr. Kelly. It looks like his Primary connection the town was through island in high school Which means we would have to get So Perhaps we'll you should take a vote tonight saying that we will we are happy to support a memorial for mr. Kelly and We'll then put it on a later Agenda at a later date after we come up with The proper way to do so That's how anyone want to so We have a second. Sorry. We have a motion and a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Hi opposed Um for moving on for approval abandonment of easement 55 venner road per town meeting vote mr. Heim So what you have before you in your packets is basically the legal instrument that the owners of the property 55 venner road need in order to be in order to Basically have this easement released The board will recall that it previously signed an agreement which set forth terms of how this easement would be Released or these exterior lines is there more specifically called and then that matter had to go to town meeting for ultimate approval To release the easement and town meeting did approve It's subject to the conditions in terms that we had set forth and the Selectment had previously agreed to the final step in this process is actually proving the actual abandonment of easement You'll note that this particular document doesn't contain all the details that the previous vote does But all it's doing is referencing that vote It doesn't mean that all the other parts of the deal that was worked out between the town manager and mr. Leone and I with respect to The transactional piece of it isn't there. It's just this is what's getting filed with the registry of deeds to actually extinguish the exterior lines on that property The board needs to take a vote to approve this There might be we might need to do some administrative changes to this Specific document because mr. Greeley isn't president. I don't believe we have a notary president But as long as the vote The board votes to approve it it can then be signed by each one of you at your You know convenience and things like that. Mr. Greeley obviously isn't present So we'll just need to make a few minor administrative changes for the substance of it You can vote on now for approval and we can make sure we get signed by everybody by and notarized Do you have any questions about it? Questions So I guess um So since we're signing this without the attached agreement or we're talking about approving this without the attached agreement like how does um Just like how does that play out like the agreement is still in force and this But like you know if the if the other parties don't fulfill their part of the deal How does this how does this not happen? We essentially have a contract. Yeah, um, and then we just have to I mean I certainly trust that these individuals are going to make good on their promises But we would have a very basic contract where we'd sue for damages. I I don't think that's thank very likely scenario I'm I'd like to remove approval to abandon and release sedacement to the lawful owners Second we have a motion to second any further discussion. I just want to make sure attorney hind. Is that appropriate motion? It's a move for uh, yeah to approve this this abandonment of you Okay, thank you All those in favor, please say aye. Aye For nothing We're getting along very well Should we move to table since we don't have a full board of the future board of selection meetings or do you want to go forward? That might be a good idea, right? I don't I don't see a need to rush that Move to table seconds Motion to second all those in favor, please say aye. All right post Um, correspondence received. We have a very nice. Thank you From uh, mr. Starr and niscar jones From who were formerly members attack who we had a Nicely recognized at town meeting as well as a letter of support of the parking benefit district from uh Catherine vinsky the owner of helen is and from the arlington Business arlington center business association and we also in our packets had a letter from cursey allison ampe regarding a Signage at the foot of the sims property and uh Perhaps if Is there a motion for that one? Uh, so I'm I move receipt of them all in particular for the No turn on red sign at the bottom of sims I'd like to refer that to tack and I don't I think it probably some context for would help with tack because so in the last few months we've seen Sims open up or arlington 360 open up, which means of course we have traffic up there where we didn't used to have traffic We had some Islands put in at grove street that have generated some excitement and I With any project tack will go back and look at it again You know after it's been in action for a while and see what Modifications and I'm not sure that the time is ripe for that and I'm sure that they are wise enough to make that decision But so I guess I'd like to send this to them in that context But I think that the I just want to double check that they really are planning on opening that back up and looking at it again And sending this along Mr. Kiro had a pained look on his face I have a pained look because I'm very familiar with this intersection. I go through it several times a day So, um, you're right. There was a lot of excitement when the islands went in even though that was based on a on a plan that was several years old and was part of the sims approvals and at the time I had actually facilitated a meeting between Michelle barry was the chair of the sims neighborhood advisory committee and The dpw engineering just so that they could explain exactly what was in that plan This whole issue about the right right on red came up at that time and I know that Officer roto had weighed in to that discussion at that time We should probably have that in writing and I can I can get that to us At the time and I don't want to misquote him. He felt that Based on sight lines A no turn on right wasn't Decessitated at that intersection coming down there Based on sight lines because there are good sight lines to the left and I guess typically that's the standard for no turn on right Sign is whether or not you can see the traffic coming from your left The problem At this intersection is that it's not one intersection. There are actually two Distinct intersections there The the lights are somewhat synchronized. They seem to be better over the last month or so And if somebody takes a right on red coming out of sims The stop line for the next intersection is less than half a house length away It's actually one car length away And they can't actually see the signal. So anybody who's not familiar with the intersection is running a risk I'm running right into the middle of braddle And and summer and hemlock There's no warning whatsoever So I actually think that it's a much more urgent need for this particular sign I think that the island's looking at how they're working. I I totally agree that that should be looked at more comprehensively, but I I feel so strongly about this one that I Because I actually come down out of sims a lot of times I'll actually come through the neighborhood and come down down the hill Cut around I cut through Through the project. I feel so strongly about this one that I'm tempted to actually make the recommendation that we That we actually approved that sign Subject to to confirmation that it doesn't violate the the menu uniform of traffic control devices for this this instance without But I mean, it's up to would you be amenable to perhaps for this issue that We definitely have some time sensitivity around that we refer to officer riteau and say, you know Ask to look at from that aspect rather than from the aspect of just to cover Yeah, I'd be happy with that And then I'd be happy with that because I think the concern is I my understanding is that the development up top is about half full right now Um bright view is now starting to to sell so you're going to have a lot more traffic coming down, but I will say to the the manager should note that that The the braddle hemlock summer Intersection there actually is a sign there in front of the the home. There's the Morrison home that says Bike stop on the line. There's no line at all And and I so that that's I think that Exacerbates the problem. That's probably why people are running it. So there are some perhaps through the chair refer to the manager um, and Instead of setting this attack where officer riteau if it was sent attack It would be referred ahead to go look up traffic rules and orders right up the appropriate verbiage Give it back to the board of select correct. That's okay Is that a motion? Second We have a motion second all those in favor, please say aye Now new business Two quick pieces as the board knows tomorrow night is the annual paul harris dinner for rotary And uh, our linkedin police officer mike hogan is being honored as a community person of the year along with patsy kramer and bob tosi And I have the honor of introducing mike hogan for the award. So i'm very honored to do that And also I um was lucky to have the opportunity to attend the mystic valley NAACP breakfast this past saturday Pearl morrison who is an orlington resident who plays a big role in organizing the annual mlk event? Had come in sat down with me asked me to join the chapter which I did And then come to the breakfast so my wife and I attended and it was just an outstanding breakfast And I was very happy to be there and I just wanted to make mention of that and that's all I have Thank you, mr. Trevly. Ms. fine Just one thing just because we asked for it and we get it I just want to thank at the tail manager and thank jone roman through the tail manager for providing us with the Sort of monthly filter request summary. I'm not going to highlight some of the Did you usually at least half a dozen that bring a little smile on my face when I see some of the questions and Departments at the director too, but if you could please On behalf of the board, thank jones. Thank you for all meant for for doing this because I know she has 5002 things to do and this is 5003 But we definitely do look at it and it's some interesting information in there. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Dunn two items one is all in our packet Packard email email there was talking about the progress on electronic documents for meetings and I guess adam k is looking for feedback from us as we're using The I guess we're using it in a meeting coming up in the next couple months So when he was looking for feedback, but and I'm still in an email thread with him I haven't figured out exactly what it is you want from us and what the time frame is Are you following that one or? Yes, so not not so much feedback from us. Okay Because we don't obviously don't have any feedback to give. Yeah But yes over the next few meetings there we will be running or I shouldn't say we the office will be setting up An agenda starting to use the tool as part of a trial and I believe And try it the 23rd the 23rd So so that's an exciting step forward and Marie you might know and then when will we have We'll we'll see the agenda Via novice And so and there will be paper As well at the meeting but um, so after that I will circle back with that. Okay and ask what he really expects out of us. Okay Is that cool? Love it. Great. Yeah Um, my second item is um, mr. Chairman It's after memorial day Can we have business casual until labor day? Yes, we certainly can. Yay No more ties We'd have alternative transportation meeting to wait. Oh, yeah, that was uh, I had that coming up. Yes. We'll uh, we'll talk about that Okay, I'm good. Whatever day you want. Okay New business, mr. Cure. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you done? That was it. Thank you. Okay Um, thank you very much. Um I did want to note that Tomorrow night the master plan committee is having what they're calling a this or that a design preference Public meeting where where a number of images will be shown giving people The opportunity to to choose, you know, this or that or or characteristics Of arlington or of other communities that they find attractive or or not I attended the advisory committee meeting last week. I saw kind of a dry run of it So I regret I won't actually be there because I will be attending the the the uh, paul harris Dinner, but there will be um An online version. I believe that will also go out afterwards. Although. I think that the interactive forum will probably be a little bit nicer I know that they plan to use Technology similar to what we've used at town meeting with audience response system To to try to uh, take the mood of folks So anybody who's uh looking to plug in once more to the master plan committee. That's tomorrow night at seven in the town hall auditorium The only other thing I wanted to mention. Um, I did um, I have been in contact with town council and um, I did um You know let the the chair and and miss kruppelka know that I'd be asking For item item on our agenda that the next agenda request that we Have a hearing on the implementing regulations around the public performance Um, I know I've been talking to town council and please correct me if I'm if I'm misinterpreting this Even though this hasn't been um, the bylaw hasn't been Approved by the attorney general yet. We can hold the hearing on the implementing regulations. Um and policies um contingent upon approval from the ag's office and I've asked that we please consider having that With my colleagues approval. Please consider having that hearing so that we can move forward on that given that summer's coming We would lose the whole the whole season if we're unable to uh to do that I just I just want to note one thing We already have a town bylaw that allows for public music And but we don't have regulations or a process So to start getting going with respect to developing some regulations takes place within that specific context Not just, you know, a general new bylaw or something like that that has no sort of root and obviously We do want to make sure that we have a lot of respect for the state's process and don't Rush the state or make the state feel like we're doing something that would potentially Cause any concerns for that, but I will help make sure that that's navigated properly That's all I have. Thank you Um, I had a couple things one is that um We had a meeting at six Thursday night myself Out of us see the chairman of the finance committee and bill hainer the Chairman of the school committee to appoint Or to reappoint a member of the permanent town building committee and so Miss susanne robinson has been reappointed to a three-year term Second in on july 28th That's our net. That's our july meeting marie. I think that that should be our alternative transportation day So write it down and One day again. Sorry july 28th july meeting So Don't show up in a car by yourself because we will be watching and Finally, I um, I Know that they we have many talented students In public schools, but I do want to recognize My younger cousin uh, julie foreign who was awarded Firstly, she was she's an arlington high sophomore. She was awarded. Uh, she was named the regional winner of the gold Key scholastic Art award in february and last week went down to new york to receive A silver medal on the national level at carnegy hall And so I am uh, you know, I know the whole town's proud of her, but I am particularly proud as is my whole family So, um, thank you Yeah, so we're very happy about that and That being said, no, I have no further new business Second all those in favor