 Good evening, I'm calling to order the meeting of the Allenton Select Board for Wednesday, June 9th, 2021. As a preliminary matter, this is Select Board Chair, Steve DeCorsi. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Dan Mohan, I'm gonna go back. There may be an issue there. John Hurd. Yes. Lynn Diggins. Yes. Eric Helmet. Yes. Diane Mohan. Okay, we'll go back to her. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapter Lane. Yes. Doug Heim. Yes. And Lauren Costa from the Select Board Office is participating remotely. Tonight's meeting of the Allenton Select Board is being conducted remotely, consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12th, 2020, which encourages and allows open meetings of state agencies and local governments to be conducted remotely in order to mitigate transmission of COVID-19 virus. The governor's order, which you can find posted with agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, is being recorded, and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others, and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. All participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment, and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the Novus agenda platform. And finally, each vote will be taken by roll call. Before we continue to the agenda, I just want to make sure Mrs. Mahan, can you hear us? Yes, Mr. Chair, I'm sorry. John didn't get home in time, so I'm using my crappy laptop and phone, so I'll do my best to stay in the meeting. If I don't, I'll text you. Actually, I won't text you, but we can text during the meeting, so thank you. Okay, I'll just signal me. Thank you very much. Okay, so we'll now continue to the next item on the agenda, which is item two, letter of appreciation for Howard Muse, Chair of the Transportation Advisory Committee, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we postpone the meeting, the letter of appreciation with Mr. Muse because he is attending his last TAC meeting today. Okay, Mr. Diggins, do we have a second? Okay, thank you, Mr. Heard. So we have a motion to postpone. Unfortunately with the meeting being canceled the other night, we're not up against the conflict, so we will schedule Mr. Muse for a future select board meeting. We have a motion for Mr. Diggins, second for Mr. Heard. Mr. Helmuth, any questions or comments? Thank you. Mrs. Mohan, any questions or comments? No, thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, okay, Attorney Heim, we have a motion and a second to boast phone. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helm. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Diggins, of course. Yes. unanimous vote. Thank you. Item three, request for a pride event at Uncle Sam Plaza on June 13th, 2021 from the LGBTQIA plus in rainbow commission. I'm gonna go to Mr. Diggins again on this one. Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. So as the liaison to the rainbow collision and because they are out kind of painting the town or at least trying to, I am here on their behalf to request that we give access to Uncle Sam Park at Mass Ave and Mystic Street in Arlington Center on June 13th from 12, 30 p.m. until 4, 30 p.m. for an event that will take place from 1, 33, 30 p.m. Essentially, it's a meet and greet, meet, they're expecting. It's small scale just to let people know that we're out and about trying to have fun in June, our usual month for fun. We can't do anything large scale because we weren't able to plan anything for in advance because January, we didn't know what's gonna happen about now. So that's the request. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmeth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. No comments, questions. Thank you. And, oh, you second for that, right? Thank you very much. Yes, I second that. Thank you very much. Sure. Still learning the ropes. No, no problem. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I look forward to all the events that take place during Pride Month. And I just wanna say real quick because I have the form of the opportunity, especially around transgender gender with some of my former cheerleaders one of them posted a very, I think, revealing, coordinate Facebook posting regarding transgender and people who have questions about it. And they really equated it to that, when you're born and you start to write, you automatically know if you're a lefty or a righty. And that's similar to transgender youth. It's not what you're born with. What you know is you're a lefty or a righty. And I thought that was a really good explanation of, and I've used it a lot since five years ago that I heard about that because I know information is power and knowledge as well as, I know, especially around LGBTQ, TIA, Rainbow Plus, especially around transgender youth. And I have had a couple of cheerleaders in their families in their friends that have been dealing with that. So I just kind of wanted to get that out. If you kind of equated it to, you were born as a male or female, but you're in a instinct determined if you were a lefty or righty in writing, not to equate that with, but it's the same thing. What you know when your body is telling you is the way to go. So thank you, Mr. Chair. I just kind of wanted to use the opportunity to relay that story that really helped me a lot. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Heard. Happy to support it. Look forward to it. No more comments. Thank you very much. And I support it as well. And also do want to add that the Pride Month banners will be going up along Mass Ave tomorrow morning. And we thank the Rainbow Commission for working with us with the high school graduates as well. So on a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Helmuth, Attorney Heim. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Digg, of course. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you. Items four and five are within the consent agenda. Item four is acceptance of donations, gifts and grants, HHS COVID testing since Memorial Fund Community Resiliency Grant from the National League of Cities Election Grant from the Grant Center for Tech and Civil Life. Item five is a request for a contractor drain layer license given to Mauro Denner Line Service in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. I am on item four going to turn it over to Attorney Heim for a brief explanation and description. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the board may recall from a relatively recent meeting where we accepted a donation of similar nature, these donations are actually funds that were given to the town some time ago. The comptroller has been sort of tightening up practice with respect to how we process grants and donations. And so my sort of recommendation, my merit recommendation, given the fact that I think you'll actually be seeing a lot more of these on your agenda, is to have a straightforward vote to accept all these monies, even if it's not strictly necessary in every case, just to sort of dot eyes and cross tees. And then if we wanna invite folks back to speak a little bit more substantively on the donations, these are really, this process of accepting them is really here to try to make sure that we can engage in proper accounting and expenditure of funds quickly. So these particular donations have already been received. In some cases, the funds have already been expended, but technically speaking, they should have been accepted by the select board and that's why they sort of put on your agenda in a group. Thank you. Thank you, Attorney Hunt. Turning to the board, Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair, move approval. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. I'll second that. And I have a question that does not need to be answered tonight. I know in front of the contractor drain layer license it says Massachusetts name and the corporation, but it's out of Pennsylvania. So I was wondering if I could ask Attorney Helm, Attorney Hunt, Attorney Helm, oh my gosh. Sorry, Attorney Hunt, not that I would expect him to know and it's only because I recently was on a case regarding Crico and medical malpractice insurance companies that they're kind of getting down to, when I see a Pennsylvania address, can we verify that that's like legit? And the reason I say that is one of the cases I've been a court reporter on that we're in the midst of is Crico is trying to transfer responsibility to a different healthcare organization in Chicago, Illinois. And when you research that address, there's about 50 businesses that have the same address and none of them exist there. I'm just concerned about the Pennsylvania address. If you know already, which I don't expect you to, Attorney Heim or the town manager that that's legit. But this is the first contractor license I've seen that has a Pennsylvania address. And I just wanna make sure it's a legitimate corporation operating under the Autism Corporation in Massachusetts, even though they're based in Pennsylvania. So not to make extra work, but that kind of gives me cause I'm willing to vote for it tonight, but I definitely have questions on that. And I don't know if the town manager or town council who the chair could either comment on that or say, yeah, I'll look into it. Attorney Heim. I can comment on it. I will also look into it. It's a very good question of a valid concern. My understanding is that with respect to a lot of these specific types of contractor, dream air licenses, a lot of folks are being brought in from out of state to help meet the demand for certain types of work and services. And as long as they're qualified to do the work and provide basically the right certificates, business certificates organization, we can grant them licenses, but I would be happy to follow through on it and make sure that we're not missing anything and that everything is appropriate for an out of state contractor or perform work in Massachusetts. I think it's a valid thing for us to just make sure that we're not missing anything. Absolutely. Okay, and thank you, Mr. Chair. I would just say to my colleagues and attorney Heim, this is with the exception of going by my memory, some New Hampshire and Rhode Island. This is the first Pennsylvania contractor dream license I've seen. So I just want to make sure. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. And I think we can also follow up after the meeting later this week with the Mr. Copperthorne because he did send us a memo I think he did check references. So between attorney Heim and Mr. Copperthorne, I think we can follow up on that. Okay, Mr. Heard. I could say with my speeding quickness of the Secretary of State's website, I just checked it. They're registered, they're validly registered as a foreign corporation in Massachusetts. So it's a Pennsylvania corporation that's then gets registered in Massachusetts. So it is valid Massachusetts for registered foreign corporation. Anyways, other than that, no further comments. Thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins. My goodness, the things Mr. Heard can do when he's not chair, I'm impressed. No comments for me. Okay, I have no comments. Thank you. So in a motion by Mr. Helmut, the second by Mrs. Mohan, attorney Heim. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Yes, this is Mohan. I will say yes and reiterate my request that attorney Heim and or the chair look into the address that's given in Pennsylvania for Massachusetts business that actually exists and it's not a, they're using the address and nobody's there. Thank you. Julie noted. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Thank you. It's unanimous vote. Thank you. Next item, item six, appointments to disability commission, Grace Carpenter for a term to expire 1.31, 2024. Is Ms. Carpenter with us this evening? Yes, I see that she is. Good evening, Ms. Carpenter. Hi, everyone. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you're interested in joining the Disability Commission. Yeah. So I'm Grace Carpenter. I live at 14 Coolidge Road. I started attending meetings at the Disability Commission about three years ago, partly to know, to get to know other people with disabilities. I used to work as a programmer and I also did some freelance writing but about 11 years ago, I had a severe stroke and became disabled in many ways. I've had some recovery. So now that I have a little more energy, I'm eager to help out. I also started attending meetings because I had a few problems with accessibility and I, in Arlington, I was curious to learn if the town had some plans to address some of the things that I had encountered. I've been very pleased to see some of the improvements like the Broadway Plaza renovations and other things. But I know that there are a lot of things to do to expand access beyond just ramps and sidewalks. I've been following the discussions about remote participation even after when it's safe to meet in person. I know that there are some technical issues to make it to result, to be resolved but I think it's very exciting to have this discussion about how to lower barriers for people to participate in civic life. And I'm very interested in working on communications and making it easier for the public to know what kinds of services and programs are available for people with disabilities. I've been working on a resource list of a resource list that would make it easier for people to know what kinds of services are available and hopefully that will be on the town website. So that's it, I guess. Thank you very much. I will turn it to the board for questions or comments. Mrs. Mohan. I would like to move approval. I thank Ms. Carpenter for volunteering her time and basically we're getting her expertise for free. We probably couldn't afford you. If we hired you, maybe we should. And I understand your sort of expertise in the background of stroke as well as your desire to get information out. One thing I think the town does a very good job of is getting information out to our senior housing, facilities, our senior center, but for those with disabilities who live or rent in private homes, I think we can do a better job reaching them. I don't know if it's having more postings on the town disability website, if it's partnering with primary care physicians that treat the majority like Leahy of Allenton residents with disabilities, if it's going through, I know in my family, the Lori Center, which is also in partnership with Spalding, and I know Ms. Carpenter has a relationship with them. The Lori Center is fantastic, as well as kind of have a nursing home. Two of my other relatives, Park and School for the Blind, but the thing that I see in my family dynamics is if I wasn't a member of the select board, I wouldn't be aware of what services are available for the disabled. And like you said, it's not just ramps and MBTA buses that accommodate it, it's services. So whatever you can do to kind of get that word out that if your daughter or mother is not a member of the select board, and you live or rent in Allenton, I don't know where you go to get that information. So I'm taking advantage of the opportunity that we have Ms. Carpenter Grace here with us tonight. I know you already say that's something you want to do, and I just want to A, make a motion to approve you and B, second your motion to get some more information out. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Heard. I just second the motion and just thank you for your willingness to step up and serve. We have many, many, many committees in town and they're all important, but this one is really in particularly important for the time to make sure that the town is doing what we can to make ourselves accessible for people with disabilities, both residents and people that come here to visit. So thank you for your willing to serve and spend your time doing this important work. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins. Yes, and of course, again, I am happy to have you and your evidence to me, the fact that any of us can find ourselves in a position where we are challenged physically in a blink of an eye and also the benefits that we as society create to help people with mobility challenges and other challenges generally affects benefits all the rest of us, the curb cuts are an example. And so, look, when it comes to the access of meetings, they are with you completely. And so I'm going to be pushing as hard as you are for this, but if you want to push me more, feel free and I won't object at all. So welcome aboard me, your resume, your CV is impressive in its variety. So you're definitely a positive asset. So thank you once again. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. I'm so pleased to support this and I have the privilege of knowing Ms. Carpenter as a neighbor a couple of streets away as a friend. And you know, it's always amazing to me that people want to donate their time to the town, but I think that your desire to contribute and to get back and to help us do better is really, really touching and admirable. So thank you for that. And just reinforcing something that Mr. Diggins said about remote access. I'm glad that you mentioned that. I think the select board particularly will and all the town bodies that meet will really need to rely on the disability commission, particularly to help us prioritize and, and understand, make sure that we're getting this right because we do have a commitment to, to doing better. You know, once the state no longer lets us meet entirely remotely, we still, I think there's a commitment in the town to, to continue a long remote participation for exactly that reason. So yeah, there's technology, there's staffing, maybe some budget, but I think Delta's take the opportunity to say that select board is working now and I'm working with Mr. D'Corsi and some town officials to, to try to pioneer this so that we, we hope to be the first body doing hybrid meetings this summer so that the rest of the town bodies can learn from that. So welcome your input at any time, walk over to my house or see you out in the walk, give me a call and, and thank you once again. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Helmut. And I also want to echo the comments of my colleagues. Thank you for your volunteer service to the town to date between the audits and the historical society and your willingness to serve on the disability commission. And as Mr. Helmut said, we really would like to, to hear input from you as we go through this process of getting back to the chamber, but working remotely. So thank you so much. So on a motion by Mrs. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Hurd, attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmut. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. And I just want to note, I had to step away for like four seconds. I may have to do that two or three more times because my husband had to work late tonight and I'm juggling here. I apologize. It's not that I'm not listening. I'm definitely listening and I'll be right back. It'll be like three, four seconds. So thank you. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Thank you, Ms. Carpenter. Okay. Next item is open forum. Except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board, she'll neither be acted upon nor decision made. The night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established. Excuse me. It should be noted that there is a three minute time limit to present a concern or request. So I'll ask Mr. chapter lead. If there's anybody who, excuse me, who's raised a hand. I believe the gentleman from that for the next agenda item has raised his hand. And someone who I believe is interested in agenda item number nine has raised their hand. Okay. So I should point out it's so on number. Number nine. Okay. So both seven and nine. We, if that's the applicant on number seven, we will be hearing from him. And on number nine. We will take comments from the public on that. So if it's, if it's anything in addition to those two. We'll have open forum now. Otherwise we'll move on. And it sounds like that's it. Is that it, Mr. Yeah, they're, they're, they're keeping their hands up. I know it's a little tough to navigate. Here. All right. One of them has put their hands down. I, it's up to you. I. Okay. Do we want to, do we want to, we can directly tell the. The residents raising their hand that they will be heard under number nine. That's right. Okay. Yeah. Okay. They're. They're keeping their hand up, I think. Okay. Well, why don't we promote them. And just clarify that that's what they want to talk about. And then if something else will allow them. They just put their hands down. Okay, good. Okay. All right. So no open forum tonight. Or we had open forum, but no speakers. Item seven under traffic rules and orders. Other business. I have a request for on street overnight parking permit waiver. Mark Leppler seven. Watch use it as. Good evening, Mr. Leppler. If you can hear me. Right now you're muted. Okay, great. I apologize. I'm very young to the zoom. I see my name. I don't see my picture. So I apologize. Okay. No problem. If you want to start the video, I don't know if you. Oh, here it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. As you can see, my entire family has taken over my laptop. So I don't know how to work it anymore. No, thank you for joining us tonight. So if you could let us know about the, the application and the, the request for the parking permit waiver. Sure. We live at seven watch use it. Avenue. My wife and I, we have five boys. One car garage. One car. We got married about eight or nine years ago. And we have been parking one car on the street. Cause three of our boys have started driving. One of them just graduated college and has moved back home. So until I can figure out a way to get him on his own. We have more cars than we can fit in our driveway. We've been driving for about 12 years easily since I've been here, we have been able to park one car on the street overnight and have not received any tickets. There was last month when we received two tickets over the weekend. And I spoke with Lauren about how to handle that. And she said that I should apply to the town, join one of the meetings and see if there was a possibility of getting a waiver. So that we could have one car on the street. And then we had sent in a picture. Of our driveway full of cars. I don't know if you have it, because I wouldn't know how to show it to you, but I sent it in with my application. I can tell you that the side of the street that we park on is directly in front of our house. Our neighbor next to us does not have their front door, nor do they have their driveway there at all. So we are not, if you look to the right of the Jeep. There is a house there, but they are on actual Walliston Avenue. For their driveway and their house. So we are not blocking anybody across the street. And all I'm trying to ask is until my son actually moves out of the house, if we're able to keep one of our cars on the street overnight, we just have nowhere to put it. And I would leave it and try to put it off site in another lot, but they work. So that's where we are. I think my other son is at Arlington High and he plays football and he's a lifeguard. These guys are coming and going all the time. So that is my small request. That's where we are. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to turn it to the board for questions or comments. And we'll start with Mr. Thank you, Mr. Well, I certainly sympathize. We've tried to really boil it down to a check, what we call a check the box system for an overnight parking request. And the first one is always do you have parking and we've denied many requests for houses that have just one spot. So based on that and that alone, you know, I, my motion on this would, we move no action on the request. Just because there's a four car garage as it is right now. I'm sorry, four car garage, four car, four car driveway. And thank you, Mr. Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I mean, I'm going to second that motion. He asked pretty much for the reasons that Mr. Heard said, but I do have a question for you, Mr. Chair for the Mr. So has there been a delay in your sense ability to find his next step in life being due to the pandemic? He is working remotely for New York life and we'll be moving to Long Island, which is where the offices are located. They haven't opened up the offices yet. He was trying to get out by August of this year. We're still in limbo. Yeah. As a father, I'm not going to tell him to leave, but his mother and I would love him to leave only because we don't have the room, but it's until he just leaves and goes to New York. He's driving out there every week, probably one week a month. Just to connect with everybody out there, but they have yet to open up their offices for him to be able to move there. Right. I understand me and being the position that we're in is that we have heard requests as on Mr. Heard has indicated, you know, from, from applicants that have very, very difficult stories. I mean, for lack of a better word, and we go by what APD recommends in this case, they recommended no action on this, but I'm a problem. At least I try to problem solve sometimes to people's to grant a, but would it be possible maybe for a neighbor to maybe help? We have actually approached it. We're very close obviously with all our neighbors. We've approached the woman across the street. Unfortunately, her husband passed away and we've been helping her with snow and everything and we did approach her. And she just felt uncomfortable to have another car in the driveway, which we completely understand. Right. So, you know, I understand that my hardship is unique and it's not really a hardship compared to the hardships you have. So there would be no hard feelings. We could park a car on the side of our house, which is not really a driveway, which I wouldn't mind doing, which we could do temporarily as long as we don't get other complaints from the neighbors. Because if you look at the picture on the left, we have two cars. We could have put a third. We could have put a third. We could have put a third. We could have put a third. We could have put a third all the way in front, but just so the, the board would know it's not really a driveway, but hopefully nobody would complain about that. Again, I understand that my hardship is not unique. And it's not really a hardship. It's more of a inconvenience for having that many children. Well, no. And look at these. Yeah. That's a way of phrasing it. And I appreciate that. I just think that this is a, a, a fourth straightforwardness. Right. And in the request to meet on, and in one of the things that made me ask about the, the pandemic is that the, the tone from the report by PD just made me think that this was me, something that was just the kind of normal course of action. It did seem to me as a pandemic matter had something to do with it. So my suggestion would be. Hmm. I'm, I'm pausing because I don't know if I should offer this kind of advice. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. I hear people say, I shouldn't say this. I wish that they wouldn't say it. So I'm not this time. But does that mean it wasn't good advice or it just meant that you're better off not saying it. Well, I just want to be cautious. It's just that me. Should I tell someone to do something that might you have a, you have a course of action in mind. You know, and let me just say that it would probably be my course of action. And where I, a neighbor. And you told me why the, I pray be hard pressed to complain. Yeah. Thank you very much. No, it's my pleasure. And again, I realized I'm reaching for an excuse that is not really a hardship. So at least for hearing me, I really appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. Yeah. I also need to feel like I should support the, the sense of the board and, and vote to decline this. But I, but I just want to emphasize that. I'm not, and I don't think that my colleagues are making about a judgment on, on the hardship. I think everyone's situation is, is important. And, and, you know, if it's hard, it's hard. And, and these are unusual times. And, you know, and I think even without a pandemic with younger people out of college, those transitions are just tough. So I get that our problem is this is. We have to be consistent in the rules that we, that we make for, for exceptions. And I think that the, for me that the period of time that he's been back home, completely understandable, but so not a judgment on your situation. Just, just evaluating against what we've, what the board has done in the past to say this is where we, what our policy says we can make an exception. I think that is too much of a stretch, too much of a stretch for me. So regretfully I would, I would also go the same way, but, but wish you well and your creative problem solving. I thank you very much. I really do. And again, I appreciate just being heard and. Of course. Maybe I can get rid of him sooner. I don't know. Maybe. I'll start charging him parking and we'll see how quickly he moves out. But I understand the precedent setting. So that I'm completely aware of that God forbid I should get an acceptance, then you could have the entire town using this as precedent. And before you know it, it gets out of control. So I do understand. Thank you. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I want to say to. Mr. Lechler Mach. Thank you for being so understanding. I can't tell you how many times we've gotten requests from residents of the town that they now have a brand new driver. And they don't have any possible area to put that car in. And we've consistently because of overnight parking ban has gone to town meeting. It's gone to the town twice. And it's been resoundingly voted down. That we need to be guided by that. And I will say just for people out there listening, there's a very small minority that are so focused on the police. And I think the police do not take it overnight parking. Unless a neighbor complaints. Or unless they see a flagrant violation. Your, your pocket and emergency vehicle lane in front of a. Fire hydrants. So. I just want to let you know that this was not the town or the police department taking it upon themselves. They were. You know, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. But actually, they're the ones that suggested I come to you because the first one was a complaint, which was throwing us off because we've been here for so long. And I know our neighbors have not complained in 12 years. And he did explain to me that it's possible. There was a complaint at the other end of the street. Cause why choose it is long. And they could have just gotten the complaint and swept by the house. Or we really do have a neighbor that just doesn't appreciate our five boys in the backyard. I just wanted to get the point across the police do not go look to give. Somebody on this. Has made a complaint. Cause people have been really hyper focused on the police. For whatever reason. And I like to defend them where I can. I know I see that you have a garage there. I don't know if you can clean that out. I don't know if you can clean that out. I don't know if you can clean that out. Do you believe that our cars do not fit in the garage? Cause the owners previous to us put a structural beam underneath the ceiling of the garage. So I cannot even walk from one end of my garage to the other without hitting my head. And that's what I felt bad about it is actually showing you a picture of a garage that. We can't fit any of the cars that you see in there. They're either too long or too high. It's just. It is what it is. I'm just going to finish my remarks. Usually it's not a back and forth. Okay. Sorry about that. I would say. If your son's going to be there long term or any other children. I have three myself. Two that can drive. Perhaps you want to. Make the garage so that, but looking at your driveway, I see where you can fit a third vehicle in there, but if you need to get a fourth or God's a bit of fifth. And the garage is not a viable option because of the way. It's been constructed, you know, if you want to accommodate a fourth or fifth car, maybe look into that as well as if you can check with the office about being able to pocket down overnight. I think it's a dollar a day. And it's not that far away from your house. I'm just trying to give options and things like that. So, but my thing is, like my colleagues have said, you know, if we grant to this first, we have a recommendation from the police department as well as, you know, we've got other people come in that have said, you know, my son, daughter, daughters are now going to drive. We'd probably get five to 800. And I'm not exaggerating. Other people saying where you gave that guy a place on the street for his. Child. They're going to come in again. So it's the pin doors box. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. And Mr. Lepo, thank, thank you for your understanding of the, the dilemma we find ourselves in. And I am going to support Mr. Hurd's motion. I did see that you do have room next to the house there. And hopefully on a temporary basis before your son is able to go back to New York, you're able to utilize that or maybe expand the search a little bit beyond what you said about that. Top of Wall Street or even West street. If you know anybody there, but it's, it's, it's an unfortunate situation, but given our precedent, I'm going to go along with that vote as well. But I thank you for coming before us and for your understanding, as I said. So on a motion by. Mr. Hurd seconded by Mr. Diggins, attorney. Sir. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. This is mom. Yes. Thank you. This is your course. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Have a good evening. Thank you. You as well. Item number eight. For approval. Three designated ride share parking spots at 23 Broadway. Escar LLC. Represented by attorney Mary win Stanley O'Connor. Is I believe attorney O'Connor is with us this evening. Good evening attorney O'Connor. Good evening. Thank you. I was just going to suggest that you moved your camera, but you did that. So we have the reference request, but if you could give us a little background on this, because I think this is related to the approval through the, the redevelopment boards for this request for the, the ride share spots. That is correct. Mr. Chairman. There was a discussion about parking and traffic. If any of you go by day or night, there's no cars parked on either side of Broadway at that end. And it was actually my client's suggestion that three spaces in front of that building, 21 23 Broadway be designated exclusively for ride share services so that it would encourage ride share services. There are a number, I believe 17 parking spaces in the lot, but we wanted to encourage the use of ride share, because we wanted to add the feeling of being at the service center. So that way I can get our passengers on the lifts, taxis and the like. Great. Thank you. I will start with on this one on Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I will be happy to make a motion to approve this request. And now I want to say that I am delighted to read that. supported it, but I think this is really a good way to handle parking. And I think there will, there are going to be possibilities to apply this in other places where parking is limited. And so I'm 100% behind this. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. No questions or comments. I'm happy to support it and to second the motion. Thank you very much. Mrs. Mohan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, I have to keep unmuting my phone. I definitely support this, but I just have one question that I'd like to ask through the chair, to Attorney O'Connor, only because of where I live on Howard Street between Robin and Quincy, when I come down Robin's Road. More times than not, there's a very large grade of Boston Motorsports sort of motorcycle carrier. And I have no vision on the left-hand side. It's always bothered me and I've never done anything on it because I don't want them to say because of my position when I'm a private citizen in the future, I will. But in the correspondence from the Chief through Officer Roteau, it cites the town bylaw about vehicles not parking within 20 feet of an intersection. I'm not really tight on that, but I just want to know in terms of rideshare, do you anticipate or can you state that it will be an average size automobile versus something larger than that or can your client commit to not being within 20 feet of an intersection? I actually went by there myself to look at the area. They can be 20 feet away from the intersection. That's a non-issue regular sized automobiles. You can actually put more than three there. So the three spaces do not present a problem. Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mrs. Mahon. Thank you. Thank you, Attorney O'Connor and Mr. Chair, Attorney Deportee. Thank you, Mrs. Mahon. Mr. Hurd, Attorney Hurd. Not today. No, I'm happy to support this and I like to see us go in this direction. My question is, A, do we have any specifically designated rideshare locations now? And would it be enforced with like a 10, 5, 15 minute parking limit? And we mentioned taxis or taxis also, I guess, considered ride chairs. If I may, Mr. Chairman, I think taxis are kind of a ride chair. It's not someone coming with their own vehicle and parking it in the lot. Yeah. I don't know that it could be 10 or 15 minutes because, you know, there is a check-in process when you go to these places and then you have to stand in line. So there was not going to be any specific time period. We were just going to put up erect signs that designate them as rideshare-only spaces when the business is in operation. Yeah. I can't imagine that I don't think that people are going to want the taxi meter to be running while they're dawdling in the... Sure, sure, sure, sure. My only concern, which I'm sure in practical reality might not happen, is that we think of like a taxi stand where taxis don't have anywhere on the meter who are sitting there just kind of waiting. And I mean, there's a million places that whether it's a taxi driver or a driver could sit. I don't know if it is just some sort of 30-minute designation or it might not be necessary and I'm certainly open to the board's consideration. I just wanted to make sure that we are actually seeing turnover in these spots as it is intended as opposed to a place where either a taxi and Uber driver or a Lyft driver kind of sits for an extended period of time and waits for a fare. We could put on the side rideshare for Escar customers only, you know, that type of thing. Sure. Any other questions, Mr. Hurd? No. Okay. And I think the experience, we'll learn by the experience once this takes place as to whether further signage is needed. But to follow up on your question, Mr. Hurd, I just for Mr. Chapellein, are you aware of any other ridesharing parking spots in town? You know, I can't say with 100% certainty, but I cannot recall the board approving any similar spots to date. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Diggins, I see your hand up. Yes. I'm glad Mr. Hurd asked what he did because I was making an assumption based on just my understanding of how I defined rideshare is that they would drop them off and there we go. So I was kind of tempted to ask me, do we really need three? But I was like, okay, well, hopefully those are such good business that you have like three cars show up, drop off people and then go. We then come back when they're requested to come back. So I had no thoughts to me that anyone would be like lingering there for any amount of time, which is why I then said, I think that this model has applicability in places where we may find that the parking just really is not desirable for other reasons. So so so I'm not going to say no. At this point, I'm just going to say that was under the assumption that that it would be just drop off and go. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. And I don't have any further questions. So on a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Helmuth, attorney Heim. To her. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. This is behind. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Of course. Yes. Yes. Thank you, attorney O'Connor. Thank you all very much. Okay. Item nine for discussion and approval, relocation of bus stops on Pleasant Street, Daniel Amstutz senior transportation planner. Good evening, Mr. Amstutz. Good evening. Thank you for sending along the materials. And so if you could provide us with an overview of what is being proposed here and the locations of the various stops and the steps that that you have taken since the MBTA notified the town back in December. Sure, thank you. Again, my name is Daniel Amstutz. I'm a senior transportation planner for the town with the Department of Planning and Community Development. A couple of other people are here. If you need to ask questions of them, we have, I believe they're here, Natasha Vance from the MBTA and Sandra Clary from McMahon Associates, which is the MBTA's consultant. So they could also, if they're here, could answer other questions that may be more specific to the T or to the work that the consultant has done. But if you're able to bring up the presentation I sent around, that would be helpful for guiding the discussion. I believe Mr. Chapterline is able to share that with us. Dan, is that under the document that's labeled as your memorandum? No, it was sent around before, I believe, the May 25th or May 26 Select Board meeting. So I was hoping it would be available again for this meeting. For the meeting that was where it was postponed. And this may be the materials that were attached to our agenda. I have a planning memo. It doesn't appear as though it is, but I think I found the PowerPoint. Oh, thank you. Is this the right one, Dan? Yes, thank you. All right. So I'll just jump in here. So the yes, this is a proposal to whoops, if we can go back one. Thank you. This is a proposal to relocate three bus stops on Pleasant Street. This proposed by the MBTA as part of their bus topics, accessibility and safety improvement program. These bus stops serve Route 67, which goes the only bus route that goes down Pleasant Street, goes Turkey Hill to Alive Station. And the three stops that are being proposed for the relocation are to move to Pleasant Street at Oak Mill Stop to Pleasant Street at Wellington adjacent to 93 Pleasant Street and a little bit adjacent to 87 Pleasant Street. Pleasant Street at Addison Street, which would be also move up to Wellington, basically next to 94 Pleasant Street, and then Pleasant Street at Irving Street, excuse me, that would be relocated to the far side of that intersection at 145 Pleasant Street. So on the next slide, there's a bit more information on helping to display where that would actually happen. So this shows the first two they're proposed for relocation. The Oak Mill Stop would move about 350 feet north or northeast to Pleasant and Wellington, and then Addison Street would move again, 225 feet approximately north to Wellington Street as well. And on the next slide, there is a zoom in of what this looks like approximately. So as I said, the the one on the west side going out or inbounds to Alewife would approximately straddle 87 and 93 Pleasant Street there. And then the outbound to Turkey Hill would be next to 94 Pleasant Street at Wellington. An important feature here that is missing from the current locations is that there's a crosswalk across Pleasant Street here that is signed and marked and has curb ramps. And so very important for accessibility ease of transit users to get from both get to both stops. On the next slide shows Irving Street. This would move from its current location about 141 143 Pleasant Street just before the signalized intersection here and would move to the other side of the street at 145 Pleasant. So after the intersection. On the next slide, a little more information about this. The purpose of this program and why there are what benefits are for moving these bus stops. So the purpose of the program is to remove a couple of purposes to remove accessibility barriers to bus stops, which are prioritized based on major access barriers, ridership proximity to adjacent stops, title six considerations and proximity to facilities, the sort of vulnerable users. The other piece of this, you know, I think accessibility drives this program, but the other piece of this is the T and their consultant have analyzed the bus stops to determine if the relocation can improve service and also safety. And the first benefit I have here really goes to the Irving and Pleasant Street one where when you place it after a signalized intersection, it eliminates, I think, I think what is called a triple stop problem where a bus may stop behind, you know, a row of cars that are waiting for a light to turn yellow or turn green, excuse me, and then it will need to stop. If there's somebody there waiting for the bus or somebody that needs to get off, they will stop at the bus stop. If the light turns red while they're sitting, you know, at the bus stop, letting somebody off or somebody coming on, they will need to wait again so they will basically stop for a third time before they can continue. So this will improve service by eliminating that issue. Better bus stops spacing. I don't believe I provided in the memo, but the bus stops, I think the one at Oak Knoll and Irving are currently about 600 feet apart. And this would change the stop spacing to be about 1000 feet apart. So the bus stops that are at Oak Knoll and Addison would get closer to Arlington Center. And this is new guidelines that the T has for bus stop spacing so that it can serve a greater number of people by and also reduce the incidence of the bus having to stop, you know, it stops once and then 500 feet later, it stops again. And so it gets it closer. And getting it closer to Arlington Center also moves it closer to transit generating land uses, including the church, the two churches actually. And also the couple of businesses there, I believe there's also high density housing, I believe that's not far from from that location as well. So and also improving pedestrian safety, I think is a really critical one. Again, moving these closer to the ones on the Wellington Street, specifically move it closer to marked crosswalk so that easier for transit users to cross and accessible and it was accessible crosswalk as well. As I think it currently has curb ramps, but the T would would upgrade those as part of this program if needed. On the next slide. We'll talk a little bit about the public outreach. The MBTA will send direct notifications to direct butters of the proposed locations and discussions with them. You know, myself and the planning department decided that it would be a good idea to send out a wider list of notifications. And so we sent a little over 250 notification letters to nearby residents and properties. And we also had our economic development coordinator have direct communication with the adjacent businesses there and churches. And so we've got a comment back from there. We didn't actually hear anything from the churches, but we received five comments in total. And the general themes of those was concerns about the noise of the bus. I guess dust coming from it's stopping and if we'd be stopping frequently for dropping off or picking up passengers issues of snow clearance, having just clear the sidewalk for the bus stop questions of whether the accessibility could be improved at existing locations. There's some drainage issues identified at Irving and Pleasant Street. A question about his and so there's drainage issues there. There's concern whether people would be stepping through water essentially to cross the street to get to the new stop location. Question about historic properties and impacts to them and then existing transit users if it would be more difficult for them to get to these new locations or if they would have to walk a little bit further to get to them. On the next slide. These are responses to these these comments. So for the first one about the this is the schedule for the 67, which is I think the COVID forging ahead schedule, but the pre pandemic schedule, which I think it will be getting back to, if not already, then soon. It's twice per hour, but it would still run only on the weekdays and only from 6am to 8pm. So the number of times it would stop would be really no more than twice at each stop per hour. But if nobody is waiting or if nobody wants to need to get off at that stop, it would not stop. So it simply pass by as it would otherwise. Again, there's improved pedestrian safety at Wellington Street with the existing crosswalk. All of the I should note that that these improvements, you know, whether they're at the new stops or old stops would improve accessibility, prove curb ramps, make other changes to to make sure that it's accessible for people with disabilities or wheelchairs, add landing pads and so on. This picture here on the right shows the Oak Knoll bus stop at Pleasant Street. And as you can see, there's a tree essentially in the middle of, well, not in the middle of the sidewalk, but sort of right in the middle between the curb and the fence there. I believe getting around that it's maybe three or three and a half feet. So I'm not sure that that the sidewalk there even meets accessibility guidelines. So in order for the T to make this stop accessible, it might end up with impacts to the street tree, which would require a more complicated process with the tree committee. The proposed stop for this for Oak Knoll at 93 Pleasant does not have any trees that would be affected. I believe the other locations don't have any significant tree impacts that are known at this point. The MBTA will upgrade the curb ramps at Pleasant Street and Irving Street to try to address some of the water issues that are that were identified and that are there. And then it's, you know, there was a question about snow clearance. The T would not would not clear these stops. I believe they only commit to clear key bus route stops. The route 77 in Arlington is one of them. But like any sidewalk, it would need to be cleared per town ordinance, whether there's a bus stop there or not by the by the abutter. So the requested action is to approve these proposed locations. I believe that the, you know, moving these is in the public interest and would be benefit to transit users and to transit service along this route. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Amstutz. And just to let people know what what I'm going to do is open it up to questions from the board for Mr. Amstutz. I know there is at least one abutter who wants to be heard following the questions to Mr. Amstutz. I will open it up to any butters who want to provide comments to the board and then we will take a take a vote at that point. So I will start with Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I think my question or question is probably to at least one of the abutters that is waiting to be heard. So I'm not going to make a motion at this time until we do that. But I just wanted to ask Mr. Amstutz regarding the I think it's 93 Pleasant Street. I think it's Amber and John McMahon. If I say that wrong, my last name is Mahan, which is not correct. When you the slide of the PowerPoint presentation slide when you put up because I know there's concerns on their behalf regarding certain areas of their home. When I was viewing and when I drove by, but when I was viewing what you put up before us, there is some sort of frontage before the actual homes in their house here. I don't know if you can pull that slide up again, but I just wanted to ask, you know, is that the case? Because one of their that I interpreted, sorry, one of their main concerns was the bus stopping and people sitting in the bus being able to have direct view into the house. So I think this is the PowerPoint slide that you presented. I just wanted to check with Mr. Amstutz, is that 93 Pleasant Street that has the grass in the bush foliage and then the house? So I think I understand what you're asking. I believe in this picture. So on the left side, I believe that would be the property at 93 Pleasant Street. The bus stop is the proposed bus stop would be not, you know, not from Pelham Terrace, which is the next side street all the way back to here, but would be the back end of it would be sort of at 87 Pleasant Street. Couldn't be all the way to the crosswalk because there's a conflict with a fire hydrant there. And if you could, I know you have the cursor or the arrow where this particular bus stop is being proposed. Is there any way you could put the cursor or the arrow approximately where 93 Pleasant Street is? Yes, that would be it. Okay, so if you went forward, the bus stop is not in front of there. Well, it's in front of the back of the home, but they have the front. Okay, thank you. And thank you, Mr. Chair. You're welcome. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Diggins. I have no questions for Mr. Ampsets. I mean, I'm also on TAC, I mean, representing the Chamber of Commerce, so I've been through this. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Hurd. Mr. Ampsets answered the question I, the one question I had about frequency. I certainly am interested in hearing from the board and any residents that have comment on this. I am, if appropriate, going to move approval and we can hear for the comment before we vote. But I certainly understand some of the concerns that we've received, but as Pleasant Street is all residential properties, the bus stops do have to go in front of a property. And I do think that this would be relatively less frequent stopping bus as I've been the bus before, but I will put a motion for it to approve out there. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. I will second that motion for the purposes of discussion. I do want to, before I decide how I want to go on this, you know, I do want to hear from the residents and other thoughts from my colleagues. I do, I do want to ask Mr. Ampsets, the chair, if I could, one of the residents has suggested just going down a little bit further and putting the bus stops in front of the two churches. And my question is, does the feasibility of that, what, you know, what, why not? And, and I'm sure there are reasons, but I'd like to have those laid out so we could consider those. Okay. And Mr. Ampsets. Yeah. I would think I, if Sandra Clary from McMahon, I don't know if she may have more information about this, as they did more of the analysis for deciding to propose it here, but I would say that as you get towards, I think it's Mabel Street and the churches, there are a couple of curb cuts and for the church that may make it difficult for the, for the bus to be able to, for the bus stop to be able to get the appropriate length that is in the MBTA guidelines for bus stops. So I think that, that might be an issue, but I'm not 100 percent sure. Mr. Chair, I'm happy to hear from Ms. Clary if that's your pleasure. Yeah, that, I was just going to do that. Thank you, Mr. Helm. Ms. Clary, if you want to add anything to what Mr. Ampsets said. Sure. Can you hear me? Yes, thank you. Okay. It looks like it's muted on the iPhone, but it's good. And technically, I think the bus stop would fit in front of the churches, but based on our experience in doing this in many communities throughout the bus system, typically it's very difficult for the churches to give up the parking, needing it for funerals specifically as well as mouses and kind of having that kind of constant demand on a day to day basis as well for, for regular mouses and other events. So just in our experience, it's tough to real okay to stop in front of a church. Even though some of the church goers themselves may use the bus. Mr. Chair, I believe my colleagues, Mr. Diggins is raised his hand would be okay to accommodate his question in the middle. Well, if you can respond to your question, Mr. Helm, otherwise why don't you finish and then we can go around again. All right. So yeah, so thank you. Did you, did you actually approach the churches in question to ask them about this, about the frontage issue? We have not, not yet. We were hoping with the 10 support for the current proposals, we were hoping that it would pass tonight. If it doesn't, then we would go back to the drawing board so to speak and we could have a conversation with the church either directly or through the with the assistance of the planning department to see if that would be feasible. Would the, would moving it there create problems with distance between stops or other traffic flow? I don't know if this is a question for you, Ms. Clare, or for Mr. Amstutz, but you know, are there any other considerations besides potential frontage issues on the churches that we should be thinking about? I would say the primary thing would be the existing crosswalk. So Daniel already indicated the safety of a bus stopping ahead of a crosswalk, so nobody steps in front of a bus without that good visibility. So moving in front of the church is moving it a little bit further away from the crosswalk. There's also a driveway. I just have the street view pulled up behind the zoom here. There is a driveway, so the bus would be stopping directly in front of the driveway and there is activity. It looks like pickup drop off directly in front of the church that wouldn't actually be on the street itself. Mr. Amstutz, do you want to comment on that? Yes, just to add to what Ms. Clare is saying, right, the concern that I would have with moving it sliding it towards Maple Street is that it would present a situation where the bus would stop before the crosswalk and present a visibility problem for somebody attempting to cross the street. It's something that we have run up against in other crosswalks in town and actually it was, I believe, two months ago that there was or one month ago that was brought to the board a request from the police department to put up no parking sign I think just before this crosswalk on the west side of the street. I believe the board approved that, but that's that's just a general safety visibility issue that by eliminating cross, by eliminating the parking or vehicles that would be very difficult to see around you try to eliminate some of the risk associated with that crosswalk. Thank you. I think that's it for now, Mr. Chair, if you want to move on. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hill. Mr. Diggins, did you want to add something to that point? Yes, I mean, and so it's been my experience being that when it comes to parking and churches, it can be hard to keep the bus stops clear when like before the service and after service when there are lots of people dropping off and picking up people. So that would be one of the reasons I would think that putting in front of a church would not be a good idea. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. I have a couple of questions and then as I said, I will open it up to a butters. Two things. First, on the size of the bus stop, I believe it's 85 feet now. Is that a new standard of the MBTA or if you could just maybe clarify what the length of each one of the proposed bus stops is and what it had been previously because I think there was no nothing really laid out at a couple of those stops. Yeah, the bus stop length does vary depending on where it is relative to the intersection. Generally, if it's a far side stop ahead of a crosswalk, if there's no driveways or anything but there is a parking lane, it would be 60 feet long. If it's at the near side of an intersection before the crosswalk, it needs 90 and if it's at mid block, it's 100 and they are all minimums. Ideally, the T would like another 20 feet on top of all that. But if we have driveways hydrants, you know, depending on the actual site conditions, there's a little bit of flexibility and variation with those lengths. Okay, all right. I thought I saw 85 somewhere, but there's four different numbers that we have out there now. And just a question maybe for Mr. Amstutz, I don't know. The question of bus shelters right now, the T is not proposing any bus shelters. Can the approval be conditioned that there be no bus shelters at these stops or once we approve it, the T has discretion to add a shelter? So, I'm sorry. The question is to condition that there would be no bus shelters proposed here. Yeah, that's one of the concerns and we'll hear from the butters in a second. But I mean, I'm just wondering if there are other than approving the bus stop, if there are any conditions that can be put on the use of the stop, namely whether or not a shelter can be put there. I would say that for bus shelters, I know that there isn't one that's being proposed here right now. But I believe that I'm not sure that at this point that this stop would sort of meet. I mean, I'm not sure if the shelters sort of need to meet specials in terms of the number of borders and I mean, number of users at that stop. But I think, sorry, I think either Sandra, I think Sandra or not, is that Natasha there? Yeah, I should go ahead. I was just going to call Alexander again because you must be using her computer. But go go right ahead. Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure what happened there. I'm sorry. I'm Natasha Vance. I'm with the MBTA. I'm the transit project manager for the Patti project. So to respond to your question about the shelters. No, we would not install shelters without Arlington's express approval. And typically we put shelters in places with much higher ridership than these stops. So certainly if that was a condition, I don't the team would not have any issue with that. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, so at this point, I'm going to open it up to any butters who want to speak. I believe Mr. Mrs. McMahon around around the list to speak. I don't think there's anybody else. So if they can join us now, be happy to hear from them. Good evening. Good evening. Yeah. Can you hear us and see us? Yes, we can. Yeah. So you can give us your name and address and we did receive written materials from you. But if you want to just lay out your concerns for the board. I'm Amber McMahon from 93 Pleasant Street. And I'm John McMahon. I know you've received our personal concerns and our concern for public safety. And thank you for allowing us the time to voice those concerns this evening. You know, beyond our personal concerns and our front of the house is actually right on Pleasant Street. The back of our house is Pell and Terrace. The bushes that you saw have been pruned back. So we are constantly outside in our kitchen and bedrooms face Pleasant Street. So we have the ability to observe daily what goes on. I think we all share the same concern for public safety of pedestrians, children and that everyone get the access that they need. My main concern is how dangerous the traffic is right in front of our home with Wellington directly across the street almost daily. There are accidents that take place. We actually have video footage from our ring that records out front of cars that come up Wellington Street and they go to take that left and where I believe this bus stop is being proposed to stop. And this is, it's hugely dangerous. I can't express how dangerous this is for cars, the bus riders, civilians, pedestrians with the cars that come up Wellington during, you know, it's not only just rush hour, but it's all day long. And we have video footage from Monday evening with this near accidents occurring. That I could share, but I don't have to, but could do that with you. I can't hate you, Mr. McMahon. With the church parking, they park up and down our street, they park all over. And on Pleasant, they park, even like there's a no parking sign right before you go out onto Pleasant Street from Callum and they park before that, which makes it even impossible for us to pull out. To pull out taking a left or a right. And pick up and jump off for the churches on Maple Street. For the preschool. So, you know, I know that we want this to be safe and we all care about the safety and accessibility. I'm just really concerned that this is a potential dangerous or deadly situation during these times for bus riders, pedestrians, cars involved, children. Also, the sidewalk, there have been that's right in front of our house. We witness people who are walking and running have injuries. There's been cones placed out there from quite some time due to someone who tripped because of the trees and the sidewalk is very uneven. So, you know, I know we voiced and wrote our personal concerns. I just, safety is the main concern here and I do not want to see someone get hurt, injured, killed. I mean, we see Pleasant Street all day long. Our kitchen is right there. So, and we're outside all the time. So, our concern is the well-being safety of the citizens and public safety of Arlington. I've been a citizen for my entire life. So, thank you for your comments. I am going to now turn it back to the board for any further questions or comments, you know, go in the same order that I went previously. Mrs. Mohan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I understand there's a motion by Mr. Herd. Seconded by Mr. Helmets, originally for discussion only. I do support that. I honestly pay attention to accident reports everywhere in Arlington just by my memory and I don't know and I don't expect Ms. Amstutz would have it. But at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Wellington, I can't think of in the past year where there's been an accident. I know that it was said it's almost daily. There's daily close encounters every day. Mr. McHaine, excuse me for one second. If you could mute your microphone while Mrs. Mohan is speaking and then we'll work questions through me. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just making my case to my colleague and asking who the Chair, Mr. Amstutz, has that information but I honestly can't think of in the past year an accident as Pleasant and Wellington Street that resulted in a pedestrian death versus many years before that. And in terms of unprepared to vote on the recommendation from the planning department and I would agree with Mr. Hardin's motion seconded by Mr. Helmut. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Diggins, any further questions or comments? No, not really. All I'll say is that should we go through with this, I mean we can certainly keep a close eye on the situation to pay attention to safety concerns. Yeah, I know that if there were problems, unexpected problems or expected problems were to materialize and the MBTA would listen to our concerns. I happen to take a look at some of the bus stop data through the data portal in the MBTA website yesterday because I don't know if you know this, Natasha, but I'm on the MBTA writer of the committee and I was in marketing communications operation committee, some committee meeting yesterday and we were talking about bus stops feed and looking at this one, I mean the it's very to me the people getting on or off or it's very low, I mean it's almost enough to make me think that the bus doesn't stop there all the time. And so given that I know how much effort the MBTA puts into this, we tacked, looked at it, and we can look at this after it's implemented and advocate for change, if necessary, I'm going to support it too, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins, Mr. Hurd. Yeah, I sort of reiterate what I said before, I actually because of the way my office is oriented, I go take Wellington every day when I come home and I take a left onto Pleasant Street. So it certainly is, it's not the safest intersection in Arlington, but I don't think that putting a bus there particularly makes it more dangerous, if anything, will slow the traffic down coming from the Mass Ave direction on Pleasant Street. And I do have, it just in regards to putting the bus stop closer to the church, the Maple Crosswalk is one that I think is really concerning if you put a bus there straddling two crosswalks in this recipe for disaster. So like I said, I mean it's not an ideal situation and I don't think anybody wants a bus stop in front of their house, but we have to put the bus stops on Pleasant Street and I don't think that this will be a high stopping area on Pleasant Street for the one bus that goes down. So I will support my motion. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. I have a question which is referring to Ms. Vance Memo to us. I appreciate that work the way into that. It referred to final approvals after the 100% design. So this is just a question for you, Mr. Chair. So what we're doing tonight are we, is this the final approval from the select board and that for these sets to be moved or would we be approving this, would we be doing the final approvals after the design is complete? Mr. Helmuth, I'd like to refer that to Mr. Amps. That's my understanding. Tonight is our final approval and there would be further oversight of the plans. But if Mr. Amps that's or anybody else could confirm that for me. I mean the motion or the action here is actually relocating the bus stops. I believe that the well essentially the T and their consultant would they've created 30% design plans. So not fully designed yet but needed to have confirmation from the town in order to move ahead with the making 100% construction plans for these locations. So they didn't want to get too far ahead. So this is the actual relocation so that the T can continue on with their design. And then I believe that once they finish that they would actually work with the public works department to get authorization for the construction. Work with construction management and so on. But if Natasha or Sandra can add anything to that, add your discretion. Sure. Anything else to add on that? No Daniel is exactly correct. We're at 30% plans. If you all approve the relocation we'll finalize the design. And we'll certainly return that to the town of Arlington to confirm everything looks good. And then of course our contractor would get a construction permit and would notify about ours two weeks before construction would start. And just for everyone's information, it typically takes somewhere between five to 10 days to construct one of these stops. It's a very simple construction process, curb ramp sidewalks, repainting the crosswalk, that kind of thing. So it's a very quick and not tremendously disruptive construction process. Thank you. That's helpful. So yeah, I just wanted clarity on what we're actually voting on tonight. You know, on this I think I will defer to my more experienced colleagues both in terms of transportation and service on the board. But I did, you know, carefully read all the materials that were sent to us carefully read the concerns of the butters. And, you know, I really feel for them for those concerns. And I think for me it comes down to making a judgment about safety. And I personally find just to speak to my colleagues that the Mr. Amstotz case for, you know, no perfect solutions here. But the alternatives that I don't see alternatives that are safer or better than what's being proposed. So I think, you know, understanding that it has the impacts that it has on on butters and just the reality of being on Pleasant Street. I am prepared to support the motion. So thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. And just a couple of comments. And originally when and I appreciate the materials that were prepared by Mr. Amstotz and by the MBTA and the comments that we received from Mr. Amstotz, McMahon. I did, it first thought that the proposed relocation was actually to the corner of Palm Terrace in Pleasant Street right in front of the McMahon's house. It actually is closer to the crosswalk. And a part of this bus stop is actually in front of 87 Pleasant Street. And as Mr. Helmuth said there's no perfect answers here, but I do think that one of the goals here is to move these stops closer to crosswalks where you're encouraging pedestrians to leave a bus and exit behind the bus if you're going across. And one thing I would say from the comments that the McMahon's made tonight, there may be issues here that have to do with things other than the bus stop and that turn from Wellington on the Pleasant Street. At that hour at the end of the day the bus is heading into Alewife. There's not a lot of ridership on those. That issue on the left turn might be a traffic issue. I don't see it so much as a bus stop issue across the street and the parking with the church too. That might be an issue between the church and enforcement of what we do for parking. And maybe that's something that we look into apart from this, not so much select board, but the town if there are issues where people are parking. So I'm inclined to go along with the motion as well. I appreciate the comments and I think we will watch this as it progresses and if there are concerns we would like to hear from you on that. So with a motion from Mr. Hurd, seconded by Mr. Helmuth for approval, Attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. This is Mohan. Yes. Mr. Diggins, of course. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you for coming this evening. Next item. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Next item, item number 10, discussion and approval, constable appointment process. Mr. Chastelain. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As some board members might be aware, we once had a number of constables approved in the town and we're now down to, I believe, one approved constable, which puts some pressure on the workload for attorneys across town. The board is the official appointing authority for constables. I have received a number of applications over the past several months and I simply wanted to offer to the board tonight, offer slash ask for approval to review those applications and come back to the board, hopefully at its next meeting with a recommendation for approval of up to three new constables. I say up to because if, you know, if there's not enough qualified applicants, I might not come back with three, but I was looking for the board's authorization to review, interview and come back and propose the approval or appointment of up to three constables. Thank you, Mr. Chastelain. Turn it to the board. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. So for the benefit of those watching and if I'm really honest, for my benefit, what do constables do in Arlington? So my limited understanding and I'm guessing Mr. Hurd could answer this better than I could is they deliver legal service to people at their homes or businesses in Arlington on behalf of attorneys and the courts as well. Mr. Hurd, is that accurate? Yeah. So I mean the main thing that you used for in Arlington was delivery of process and summary process and eviction actions, but they can also in certain instances constables are bonded and in rare cases a constable can actually be used to remove somebody from a property. So it does take some sort of a selection process to make sure that you have the right person, but you know, I'll wait for my turn to speak on this, but yeah the 99% of what they do is just serve legal documents on residence. Great. Thank you. Mr. Chair, just for my clarity, is this an action before us right now is this that you need a motion for or is this informational? It's both informational and a motion. Mr. Chapter-Lane's looking for authorization to conduct an interview process and come back to us for approval of constables. Oh, sure. Yeah, I'm very happy to make that motion. Thank you for the questions. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will second that and I will ask the chair, the town manager or colleague, Attorney Hart. I don't want to get like a school committee where everyone's called attorney something because I certainly can't be called attorney, but am I correct in terms of the constable that they do play a role in elections in some way in terms of appointing or having a vote in Democrat or Republican? I'm thinking of a gentleman who's last name is Boyk. I understand they're delivery, legal delivery job duties, but am I correct that they're also somehow involved in elections or town appointments regarding Republican and or Democratic appointees to the border of the straws? Attorney Heim, do you know the answer to that? So a couple of things. One, constables do can be used to secure ballots, although I think in most cases we use a police officer stationed at polling stations, but they have the ability to be involved in elections that way. I apologize. I'm not familiar with their role with respect to the board of registrars. Apologize. I'm not I'm not familiar with that specific. He's just here. Just add something. Sure, Mr. Heard. So Joe Boyk was on the board of registrars. I don't think he was ever constable. That's right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry. So I didn't need to confuse people. I just headed my head. I'm thinking of Bill Forrest all and things that, yeah, from previous. So I'm sorry. I'm misremembering. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, may I add one thing? Sure. Our constables also traditionally help us with our time-eating warrants. It's another way that we oftentimes see them all over time. Okay. Thank you, Attorney Heard. Mr. Heard. Yeah, I would just say I don't use consoles much anymore, but when I did, I griped a little bit about the lack of constable. There's nothing against the consoles that we had. And Mr. Boyle was certainly had long service to this town. And may he rest in peace. So I was sad to hear of his passing. And then we had a few that moved out. So even before I was on the Select Board, I was on the Select Board's office to try to get more constables in town. One thing I just note, and if we, I certainly would keep the recommendation to see who Mr. Chaplain can receive in town. I know I've had connections with certain constable services that serve in 25 cities and towns, but our only term requires that the constables be residents. I don't know if that's a by-law, Attorney Heim, but we certainly would like to open this up to town residents first. And if we get qualified applicants from town residents, but that would be something to look at if we don't have sufficient applicants for constables as to whether or not we want to open that up beyond the restrictions of residents in town, because there are a few services that are very reliable and provide professional constable services. And they're more suited than just town residents to, if it's not simply a service of process, if it's a more hands-on task, some of the professional constable services are better situated to handle those situations. So I'm not asking for any action now. I just want to put that out there if in fact we do not receive a sufficient number of applicants, that's something that we may want to look at. Thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I guess it's kind of one of the lines of what Mr. Helmas asked. So what's not being done now because we don't have enough constables? I guess it's a query. No, I think it's a shortage, but Mr. Chappell, if you want to comment on that. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so yeah, my understanding is that because of the shortage when attorneys are looking to have legal service or legal documents delivered, they might not be as readily available as if we had a few more named. Okay. And how much should we pay them? Approximately? We do not pay them. They're paid by the private attorneys. Oh, okay. So it doesn't cost a ton of anything. That's good. So all right. So all right, I'm getting a better handle on this. All right. Hey, I was going to prove it anyways. I was just kind of curious. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. And I think Mr. Heard, thank you for going into some additional detail on the constables. But I always look at it as a due process type situation with the constable that they provide proof of service and notice of pending legal action. And so it's the party that uses the constable that is paying for it. So we have a motion by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mrs. Mahan for the procedure that the town manager laid out. Attorney Heim. Mr. Heard? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Helmuth? Yes. Mrs. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you. Next item, item 11 for approval, short-term rental application for board office use. Attorney Heim. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be really brief. The town passed a short-term bylaw short-term rental bylaw regulation. Obviously, the past 14 or 18 months or whatever it's been, short-term rentals have not been at the forefront of most people's minds. But the reason I'm putting this before you is not necessarily even because it's strictly necessary. Our bylaw basically allows us to ask for some additional information over and above the provisions of the bylaw that I transmitted to you. I'm really just looking for the board's approval for this application process, which I'd like to have posted on the town's website along with some links to the state's requirements. So it's a little bit clearer what exactly folks should be doing when they want to submit a when they want to operate a short-term rental in Arlington. Obviously, this discussion came up a lot in the ADU context. I want to make it very clear that one of the things that's very explicit in this is that short-term rentals may not be placed in accessory dwelling units. There's also a bunch of other restrictions and an attempt to sort of bring together in one place the things that folks would need to affirm they're in compliance with the Arlington health code, food-safe certification if they're serving meals, the state sanitary code, building code, the Arlington zoning bylaw, all that kind of stuff that they haven't had any violations in the last oh, I'm sorry, I forget the period of time but they haven't had any violations within the period of time that would prohibit them from opening a short-term rental as per the town bylaw. So I really just wanted to make sure that the board felt like this was a good sort of way of processing our short-term rental applications which are going to be administered by your office. They're not going to come to you unless there's a problem in a short-term rental needs to be suspended or have their short-term rental sort of license revoked based on violations. With that, if there's any questions I'm happy to answer. Thank you, Attorney Hunt. Mr. Hurrid. Hey, I guess I'm just going to ask Attorney Hunt just for sorry, to wrap my head around the term short-term rental. Is this for lack of a better word the Airbnb type of rental situation? That's right. Airbnb, VRVO, HomeAway, they're basically rentals that are primarily oriented around vacations and they have to be less than 31 days under state law. They also have to be registered with the State Department of Revenue if they're being used for more than a certain number of days a year and they need to carry certain type of insurance by state law for sort of general liability. Our own bylaws put some additional requirements on them as well as a bunch of other common-sense thing that we sort of cultivated from different departments like there should be fire extinguishers available things like that recommendations to fire department. Peter Buckley from my office helped to collect a lot of this information and I'm really grateful for this. Thank you. With that, I will move approval of the application as presented by Attorney Hunt. Thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins. I will second it, and I'll question through you to Mr. Heim. Maybe just a general kind of question or comment. I'm always curious when people have to verify that they're having or they have to state that there hasn't been any violations or anything like that. I'm just kind of curious as to why we don't just check that ourselves because we if whatever number they say, I mean, whether they say zero or whatever. I mean, we'll have to confirm that, no? Attorney Hunt. Frankly, I think that sometimes it's easier to check certain databases than it is others. So, for example, it's probably a little bit easier to check with the Arlington Police Department about noise complaints than it might be about certain other types of violations for you know, disposal of trash or something like that. I also think it's important sometimes to put the affirmative duty upon an applicant to sort of do their homework and understand that they're being asked to attest to something and if they're found to be in violation of that, I think it's probative, maybe not determinative for the board that someone's made a representation that they couldn't ultimately back up. Thank you. That's it, Mr. Chair, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, no questions. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to mess everything that's up. But since it is short-term rental, my question to the Chair and or Attorney Hine is the same. The Center's around Section 5B, the review of complaints. It says within 30 days of receipt, it goes to the select board, we refer it to somewhere else. I'm thinking of my own streets that we have two families that have been turned into condos and, you know, when someone plays a lot of music or smokes weed and the other apartment doesn't like it, that's a nightmare the police and the town is as it is. What I'd like to ask Attorney Hine, is there any way we can expedite under the review of complaint process? Right now it says within 30 days the select board reviews the complaint and refers it to the appropriate town department and then makes a determination and so on and so forth. Is there any way we can expedite that that says within something like five business days after receipt of the complaint the appropriate town department official board of commission will review for findings and after that it's kind of vague about what the language says but it says I guess after those entities find a potential finding the select board or it says that me will see if it's a violation of a short-term rental so if I had my druthers it would be within five business days of a complaint the appropriate town department official board of commission will review the complaint and the select board or it says it me will serve notice upon the operator of the short-term rental I'm kind of I'm wandering here a little so I guess I'm going to have to turn it high if you can help me on that sure so thank you this is behind I certainly think that we can that sort of timeline is in there to in the bylaws to sort of reflect that there are going to be times in which the board say in the summer session can't necessarily easily meet things might not coincide with your regularly scheduled activities but I don't think that that means that the town boards and commission town boards and official town officials or other boards can't meet before then and make a recommendation to the board or make their findings before the board meets in other words let's say it's a noise violation the police can kind of report that to you right away they don't necessarily need somebody else to do that but if there's a board of health violation I think that the board of health could meet before you do to expedite that process sure I mean this is in the bylaw but we can we can figure out ways to expedite reviews of the complaints so that when it's getting to the select board it's at its sort of final stage not just again I hear that yeah okay and you definitely get it what I'm saying is it right now says within 30 days of the select board receiving the complaint that it could be up to 30 days for us to receive it and I kind of want once the complaint comes in because it's saying within 30 days we refer to the appropriate town department for to help police chief fire chief fire department and then it comes back to us I'd like to you know get rid of that 30 days that once we receive it it goes to the appropriate town department and then it comes back to the board it doesn't have to wait 30 days to come to the board to begin the clock ticking yeah Mr. Chairman sure yes Mr. Spahn it does make sense I mean this is we could amend the bylaw to change that time frame but I think that the bylaw leaves us in a leeway that we could operate in a much faster response time so that what the board is really doing within 30 days is taking an action the only thing that the board can't do is make a determination that's under somebody else's jurisdiction about whether or not something is a violation of the state standard for example but if you're armed with the information you need you could take action much quicker than than the timeline that would seem to be suggested yes so I guess I would ask who the chair if I think there was a motion by Mr. Helmuth or was it Mr. Heard whoever made the motion and seconded it if they could take that as a friendly amendment yeah and just the one thing on that Mrs. Mohan is that we can't change the bylaw I think we can and I'm not sure there's anything in the application process that addresses 30 days we certainly can do something administratively within the select board office that if we receive a complaint it could be our policy that we forward it to the appropriate department upon receipt but the bylaw that attorney hind referenced is what Tom meeting approved back in 2019 so we're that is what it is for now it does give us time but I think administratively we can try to accomplish what what you're saying in terms of doing things in notifying other departments and taking action quicker is that attorney Haim I don't know if you have anything further on that I think that's what I'm receiving this Mohan's amendment to be is that she'd like there to be some sort of reflection in the what we're going to put together when we sort of advertise this that you know the select board will essentially you know hear complaints as soon as possible you know and that that 30 days is the sort of maximum timeline that has to you know have a hearing on some does that does that make sense Mr. DeCourson I think yeah actually so I think that's something we can do out of our office or out of the select board we can come back on that I don't think it's anything that has to change on the application and again I think the bylaw having that period gives us an outside date in case there's something that comes up but we certainly can act quicker and get noticed out on that as well and I could if I could Mr. Chair I just want to ask you to make sure that my interpretation is it says within 30 days after the receipt of a complaint the board to take whatever action and I think what you're guiding me on and I agree with is yes it's within 30 days but I don't feel it need to take 30 days and the select board office we can set up a process that hopefully it can get done perhaps within five business days to begin the referral process to have the appropriate town departments look at it and then it comes back to the select board for us to make an adjudication on it so do you think that's okay under the town bylaw the town meeting bylaw that was passed that we can have 30 days but we're choosing not to take 30 days and my thing is it's a beginning process it shouldn't take 30 days can we get it done in five business days no I agree with you I mean I think we look at the bylaw as an outside date but I think as a practice once we get this underway and we start receiving applications in it can be our practice within our select board office and depending on the timing of our meetings that we can act much quicker than the 30 days and I think that's up to us to do that and we can be in compliance with the the bylaw if we did in one day we're in compliance with bylaw so I think I think internally we can take care of that okay thank you Mr. Chair thank you to my colleagues thank you Mrs. Mahond and I have no further comments on this so an emotion by Mr. Herd seconded by Mr. Diggins for approval attorney time Mr. Herd yes Mr. Diggins yes Mr. Helman yep Mrs. Mahond yes thank you and Mr. DeCourson yes Sam it's over thank you all very much thank you okay next item item 12 for discussion future select board meetings I'm just pulling out the calendar so right now we have a meeting scheduled for June 21st we don't have anything scheduled in July August or September I was thinking we would go out three months here typically we have one meeting in July one meeting in August and then we would be back to two in September I just want to let people know the middle of the month to July 12th might be a candidate I have a I have conflicts on the 12th and 14th of that week so as we look through it if you could take a look at your calendars that's I just wanted to put that out there so if anybody has proposals for dates I'm not going to call on people individually if you want to just propose something I can do that I'm looking in the first instance for the week of July 19th if people are comfortable with that and that doesn't run too far after the end of the fiscal year for Mr. Chaplain in terms of anything that we may need to do at the end of the fiscal year shortly afterwards um if I could chair the for me the 19th looks fine and I'll leave it to you and Mr. Helmeth about what our meeting's going forward look like but the other thing that I would present or pose to you is that usually in July sometimes in August on a Saturday morning from like 9 to 11 sometimes a little bit later than that we have a select board and town manager goals meeting which is separate from our July select board meeting so maybe after you choose the July and August select board meetings that we go back and and pick a dated July and or August depending on what you and my colleagues want to do normally it's in July it's normally on a Saturday um I don't want to do it on a Sunday sometimes it's been on a Thursday but I so I want to do the regular business meeting in July and August and then do our select board and town manager goals meeting so I'm okay with the 19th and thank you okay thank you Mr. Mon and one thing I may suggest if we could select the regular meetings with the understanding that we need to come back and select that the meeting you discussed and maybe we can discuss that at our June 21st meeting to have a date on on that that would I think that would work okay so July 19th works for two of us is July 19th good for the other members on the board okay Mr. Herd I believe so okay all right thank you so let's let's select that date August is there a any particular dates that work for for members and this point they're all open for me saying hey 16th I believe I think we are away on the the week of the 16th okay um all right and maybe the week of the 9th is I think once we get towards the end of the month it's getting a little late there so the 9th of the 11th the 9th should be fine not the 11th you know if it's from Monday night how's the 9th that's fine okay but that good thank you Mr. Chairman okay the 9th is good for you Mrs. Mahan yes thank you okay all right in September Labor Day is the 6th so if we were to do something that first week I think we'd have to do that the Wednesday the 8th and maybe something the week of the 20th but I just want to see if people want to wait another week that's fine with me too the second Wednesday of the month are really bad for me is tacked for one thing but I'm just stacked on the second Wednesday of the month uh okay I mean I did this one because it was you know extenuating circumstances okay but uh this was not a good night for me to do this okay um Mr. Chairman I was going to say yes to the 8th but I think Mr. Diggins say no to that my only concern is Rasha Shana and Yom Kapoor sometimes both of them occur in September sometimes it's September October and the calendar that I have pulled up doesn't say well those dates are if any of my colleagues have those dates or if we want to wait till on our next to set that okay yeah my calendar had I I don't have it either yeah Rasha Shana is on September 7th and Yom Kapoor starts the 15th okay can someone again I heard 7 and 13 but I I just want to hear the dates because sometimes 7 but the night before sundown so what was 7 in 13th or is it 15 7 and 15 15 Rasha Shana starts the evening of the 6th and ends the evening of the 8th okay and the Yom Kapoor begins the evening on the 15th and ends Thursday the 16th okay so so we could do the 13th and the 27th if that works for people okay yeah thanks okay all right so that's what we'll do so just for for Lauren Lauren's benefit July 19th August 9th September 13th and September 27th thank you all right next item item 13 correspondence received report website and communication survey Joan Roman public information officer Mr. Chapelling did you want to I don't know if you want to talk on this people we move Mr. Peter very briefly thank you Mr. Chairman that I wanted to make sure the board had an opportunity to see this and receive it in public session it gives both very positive feedback of the town's recent communication efforts and the refresh of the town website and also guides as in where we can continue to make improvement so I didn't need any action from the board but I thought the board would want to be able to receive it in public session and then we'll share it more broadly with the public as well thank you very much any comments questions or motion from from the board Mr. Helmuth thank you yeah I'd like to move move or see is that the appropriate motion yes yeah thank you and I don't think the the town manager and Ms. Roman for the excellent work I actually read the the entire report and really appreciated the attention to to holding ourselves accountable to metrics and noting where we've seen improvements in use and I think we're asking good questions about real tasks that people need to from their website and also being very open about about improvements that we need and and I also really do appreciate the recent redesign of the website it's it was big improvement for mobile and I think that's really important given given how many people are primarily mobile day to day on the internet the one thing I just wanted to to just mention to the town manager on this particular note is I think the report did did observe that one area that we'd like to see some improvement on is the number of people who are subscribed to town email notices and you know I think it correctly pointed out that we have a lot of households and we have you know lower than you might expect fraction of those people and and this is not a for an answer tonight but I might I think my question would be you know can we think about some strategies to understand why that is and how we might be able to improve those not not just publicity but are the things that we can do on the sign up page itself for that site because I might my suspicion is that it may not be as clear as it could be how you actually do that and I know that there are some technical reason limitations with with the vendor there but but that just something something to look at is maybe already something that that's in progress and and again I you know I point out that one thing because the report did that is I think something that it's such the email notices are so good the content and the frequency is for I think we saw from responses in the survey exactly right so I would love to to get more more people to to take advantage of that and if we can spend a little time figuring out how we can improve the the awareness and the ability of that that might that might be something worth doing at your discretion but but overall just congratulations I think it was just really fine work and and I have to say I look at a lot of municipal websites and I really confident that ours is one of the best out there in the Commonwealth and I appreciate the the time and the attention that goes into it Thank you Mr. Helmuth Mr. Diggins Thank you Mr. Chair and so I I agree with Mr. Helmuth I did note though that that um apparently the mobile usage was low but uh so as much as people may be on their phones from other websites they aren't on ours but uh and and I was that really clear what we can do about that in terms of getting people to sign up more there may be something for the Standing Committee and Vision or the Standing Committee to take up as one other way to get at people and not to say not to do what you suggested and um is would do you think there would be any chance that uh Ms. Roman would like to come in have a little chat with us Mr. Oh Mr. Oh Chapter line through you Mr. Chair Sure Dora, if the board would like to entertain that as an agenda item she'd be happy to come absolutely okay great uh and um and and like Mr. Helm is I spent some time going through municipal websites I was looking for some information for the Rainbow Coalition and I'm going through them again now in preparation for the using an adult study group and ours is very good the one thing I would say is the calendar me I find that those that have the calendar when you land on the page if you see the calendar you don't miss it you know with ours you have to scroll down a little bit in and and the SEO may be such that I mean there are people who just punch calendar into the search space and then expect to find the calendar on our site and and and I don't know what you can do about SEO to make them like then see you know the main calendar but that would be my only suggestion for maybe an improvement to the site just make it such that you see the calendar first thank you thank you Mr. Diggins Mr. Hurd just like to reiterate thanks to all that was involved in the process and no further comments Mr. Hurd Mrs. Mahan thank you Mr. Chair I would echo my colleague Mr. Diggins Diggins are mocked on the community calendar feature which previously when you went on the town's website was like one of the main option features that you could click on now you really have to dig to get it and I did send an email to Ms. Rowan about this who told me it's still just as easy to get but it's not and then whether it's a agenda item with Ms. Rowan when coming in or I'm okay with comments being passed on to her the report we got on the website survey I would say 80 to 90 percent focuses around COVID-19 information which is very important but I have heard and I forwarded the emails to Joan Lohman and CC the town manager about town residents that felt previously they could get information on the town website and now they're having difficulty finding it so I'm not asking that specifically Ms. Rowan come to a slide board meeting but since Mr. Diggins has raised raised the possibility I'd be okay with it but I would ask I know I've sent at least 8 to 11 emails to Ms. Rowan and CC the town manager about people talking about the website that they could find information before and they cannot now that maybe we could kind of look at that and have an answer to that because I know myself even I remember initially I could go right on the community calendar to find all the meetings and now you can't do that anymore you have to go to each individual department whether it's town government whether it's the town department and then you need to go into their particular meeting my thing would be I feel some of the features originally on a town website which included especially around meetings you could just click on that as well as before on the town website you could click on basically new news and you can't do that now you need to click on an individual department or an individual board or government board and then click on I like the feature from before that when you went to the main website you could click on new news you could click on community meetings and I can find it now because I know I need to hunt for it but other people who on a savvy that will hang in there I feel those two features in terms of new news and community calendar has really gotten embedded and I'd like to get it back to where it was before so um and I don't mean to be negative about that I'm just saying because I've gotten the emails and I know I forwarded the monitor Joan and C.P. Adams so whether it's an agenda item where Ms. Roman comes in or report from Ms. Roman at a future select board meeting I personally would like those two areas right there thank you Mr. Chair thank you Mrs. Mohan and just before I talk we Mr. Helmuth made a motion to receive the survey I don't think I got a second for someone I think I think I think I think this is Mohan um I Mr. Diggins if you get had a second I apologize no I think I forgot I'm sorry okay no problem and and I also want to say I I think you know there there have been some comments made today I think the changes to to the website have been excellent there are things here and there on the calendar issue I think if for items that are that night or that week it's right on the first page I think that's very very good but I I do visit a lot of municipal websites and I think this is among among the best and there are things here or there that we may see on other communities websites that maybe we can bring to the attention of Ms. Rubin and to to the town manager and and um to to to continue to make ours even better but uh I appreciate the work that that has been done in improving this and and it is interesting for those people who do receive emails or notifications from the town they're happy with it and and they read everything the town is sending out to according to the to the responses so that's a that that's a good thing so on a motion from Mr. Helmuth seconded by Mrs. Mahan for receipt Attorney Hyam to her yes Mr. Diggins yes Mr. Helmuth yes Mrs. Mahan yes thank you Mr. Diggins yes Mr. Helmuth thank you Mr. Helmuth okay so the next item is new business um and then we will have executive session afterwards but Attorney Hyam the only new business I have is that I don't know if the manager had more updated information on this is that we're all waiting on the status of the bill to extend remote public meetings came out of ways and means and we're still waiting for an update before June 15 thank you thank you Attorney Hyam Mr. Chapterlain thank you Mr. Chair no I don't have anything more up to date than what Mr. Attorney Hyam just shared I did want to briefly share as Mr. DeCorsi and Mrs. Mahan know we did share a brief framework or a framework of the ARPA the American Rescue Plan Act framework for the funding to the long-range planning committee several weeks ago now we're awaiting further guidance on the guidance that was issued by the federal government specifically in regard to how we can classify revenue loss to provide the greatest benefits to the general fund once we get that clarity I look forward to presenting that framework which can hopefully be more firm to the select board in the near term future that's all I have thank you thank you Mr. Chapterlain Mr. Helmuth thank you I do have an item of new business so I would like to to let the the board and the community know of the Arlington High School Scoops Club upcoming fundraiser and I have a personal connection to this so for the second year in a row the Scoops Club is hosting an Arlington's Got Talent live talent show it's a live live stream and it so happens that a select board member that you know who happens to play the piano just might have an entry into this and and I told them I'm doing this because I want Arlington to know that I know other music besides the Star Spangled Banner so if you want to see the proof of that and you want to help raise money for the Jimmy Fund for the Data Farber Cancer Institute which these super group of students are doing you and the community can tune into the ACMI YouTube live stream Friday at 6 p.m. and the repeat broadcast the same time on Saturday I have some infinite information inside information that my segment might be towards the towards the beginning of the program but I encourage you too to watch it all there will be drawings this is a live broadcast will be drawings for some prizes from local Arlington businesses and an opportunity to make contributions to the Jimmy Fund right there during the program and the following Saturday so a week from Saturday the Scoops Club is doing their Scooper Mania event which we issued a permit for a couple of weeks ago and in front of the Darling Museum in Arlington Center so to learn more about these events people can go to a bit.ly address which is bit.ly slash Scoops Week thank you thank you Mr. Helmuth Mr. Diggins thank you Mr. Chair I have three combinations in and in one new business item and they all will be brief and first thanks to the time manager for letting us know about I think is Officer Joe Kniff or he probably had some other detonation now about the either way he handled incident in the Lugarre I could have it could have gone it could have been very badly for the person who essentially attacked him with a BB gun that looked very much like a real assault weapon and I met Officer Kniff me for the first time when I went out to Lugarre I guess it was the end of April to help with the cleanup there and it doesn't surprise me that he would handle the situation well because he's he's he's a really he's a really friendly guy and and it's very clear that he really cares about the homeless out there and so so I think yeah I won't say we're fortunate because me most of APD is are a good folks and so just want to commend them on that the second is virtual town meeting being I know there are a lot of database errors you know but having been involved this the first time I know what heavy lift it was I was not involved at all this time which I say as a way to commend the staff for pulling it off maybe it was easier with me not being involved I don't know but I do want to thank all of the town meeting members that helps with getting out the the various some reports in that the first batch reports and I mean my intention is to write up something for them and get it into the record the third thing is there is this student at Arlington High his name is Robbie Kazan he has founded Kettlebite I saw a news art news story about him on channel five and what he does is he and maybe his organization helps me black boys he learned computer programming and the reason it's boys is because there's a program in at this other I forget the name of the organization that's does the same for girls and and it's just so commendable because I got to tell you it is these kind of programs that really help people a lot and I benefited from programs like this mean that computers of course when I was a kid but it's that kind of direct outreach me that can really make a big difference and in a kid's life and it's really great to see that coming at Arlington High and the last thing in and brace yourself very you know I just want I want to tell you that I'm toyed with the idea of trying to do a parade in and maybe dance party being in lieu of of Town Day I would take it on and you probably tell me any members so if there is any reason for me to not even ponder that let me know but but I'm just like I said I'm just thinking about it thank you thank you Mr. Diggins and Mr. Hurd thank you just the long lines of what Mr. Diggins had mentioned um this happened a few weeks ago but with our abbreviated meetings we I didn't bring up a new visit but I want to thank the APD and Millstack Sheriff's Office for I don't recall if we talked about the shit but if they they brought the mobile training unit to APD and invite us all to observe some of the de-escalation training that our officers receive and it was really an amazing state-of-the-art unit and to see the situations just on screen that the officers have to deal with was nerve-wracking I think I jumped even though I knew it was a simulation so to imagine what it's like in real life and then just a week or so later hear about the amazing work of Officer Kniff over at the Mugar Woods just really shows why they do it and all the training that the town and the APD goes through to make sure that they can make the best decisions in these situations so I want to thank the APD Sheriff Kutuzhin who was there on site as well as Officer Kniff for his amazing work then I just I did want to mention you know as this is the wrap-up of our virtual platform for our slack board officers I for one I'm happy to get back in the chamber but I do want to thank everyone that's in the town that has helped make this a reality particularly in town meeting you know town meeting went through slowly but with the work of many many many people and you know I want to thank everyone that was involved and everyone that helped us with our meetings so you know it certainly was a slow rollout so and then I just would like to say the Bruins just scored their second goal so we're hoping for a quick in rapid turnaround in the third period to try to keep them alive Thank you Mr. Hurd Mrs. Mohan Thank you Mr. Chair I have a lot of things for new business but I'm going to try to condense it regarding the recovery app funds and the long-range planning committee I'm going to leave it to the Chair perhaps in July or August to sort of give a little more details reporting back to the select board regarding the discussions we've been having and or forwarding any PowerPoints or presentations from Mr. Foskett regarding future override that we it seems have pushed out at least one year because of the recovery app but there's some other questions to me it's a big issue and I'd like you know before September my colleagues through Mr. DeCoursey because when both he and I were names of long-range planning Mr. DeCoursey said well I'm assuming you're the senior member you're going to be Chair of it and I said heck no you are Mr. DeCoursey because your final qualified so he's Chair of that committee so I'm going to leave it to him whether it's in the July August meeting because I think we really need to have that information because it's really important I want to thank the Allington Fire Department for prior at 30 Agaton Road that unfortunately there was pretty extensive property loss but there wasn't any residence or firefighter loss there as well as I know Chief Kelly has put out that Allington has had three or four I don't know if Agaton Road was the third or fourth fire here in Allington and he's put something on the town website to people to be a little more vigilant and aware in terms of why these fires are happening um around the Allington Police Department I know that my colleagues have spoken about both of these I do feel there's a very small minority people in Allington that want to speak ill of the Allington Police Department I know I saw several Facebook pages that were complaining about a tractor trailer being parked in front of the police station and they were violating open-eyed parking even though it said right on it middle sex office training so I think my colleagues are bringing that up because that's what it is and I've taken that training before as my previous colleague unfortunately there's a very small group of people in Allington that are so anti-police that have been bashing them and I've been really frustrated by it as well as I know my colleagues have already highlighted this with Officer Kniff and the other officers that responded down to the Mugar site with the weapons that look like rifles and they weren't thankfully I was concerned considering previous a previous incident that someone in that incident might get suspended which happened before which I'm still very irate about but that didn't happen thankfully and then and I apologize for that but I'm like really upset about especially around Allington police department we've been touting them since Fred Ryan was here state of the art national we could put them up against anyone else in the country and I really feel like not the board because we don't have this decision this is a decision making powers but the most recent suspension really irritated me and I wish there was something more I could do for that but I feel like people who made that decision caved to political pressure and then not politicians and then the last two things would be I would ask the chair if we could perhaps at the next meeting because I'm very concerned about this and I know my colleagues are because we've all sort of talked about this at meetings leading up to this if it's possible at the next meeting if we could have Mr. Rodemacher Mr. Chairman perhaps be an agenda item to discuss the work down with the DPW Grove Street location especially in consideration of the hazardous waste I know some of the employee functions have been removed from the site but they still have roll call there and there from what I understand moving into the paint shop into the building but I'd like to hear from Mr. Rodemacher what the plan is down there and when they truly do open and deal with the hazardous waste I want to hear those employees aren't going to be there or if they are how they're going to be protective and it also includes school employees with school buses and then the last thing is maybe this can wait until September but either through the chair and or the town manager if we could get a construction update on the Allenton High School building project which I know Frank Callahan and a whole bunch of other people on the committee have been doing an astounding job but I'd like to if we can do it over the summer it's not if we can get it in September and that's it for my new business thank you so much okay thank you Mrs. Mahan I have a few things I do want to address two things that Mrs. Mahan said on the long-range planning we will have a presentation July I think that the town manager had mentioned that there's going to be more guidance there is looking at the use of the funds and what can be used to apply for lost revenue and I have had conversations with the town manager on that and so I think that's going to be a July item and on the DPW issue we can have a presentation that I have talked to the town manager and he may have talked to some members about what the plan is and so there is a plan and we can we can we can put that on for a discussion item at a future meeting I have a few items the first thing I want to thank my colleagues for bringing up the outstanding work that Officer Keneft did at the Mugar Woods in de-escalation de-escalating was a very dangerous situation he's actually there with Hannah Rohaler and from the Summelville homeless coalition and again that has been a great partnership between our police department and the Summelville homeless coalition and our health and human services department and there'll be more on that I think at our next meeting but I do want to say we've had discussions earlier this year about the issue with the ownership of the Mugar property and the lack of any cooperation on cleanup on responsiveness on just basic respect so I am going to be working with the town manager to have a meeting with the ownership I am going to put an agenda item on June 21st if there is no action I want to discuss action and take action as a as a town this has gone on far too long without any response and following this incident that took place with Officer Kniff we did reach out as a town to the Mugar interest and we didn't get any response and I we got a response okay we had a conversation but we didn't get anything meaningful this will be an agenda item on June 21st and I'm anticipating that there will be action items we will report what if anything happens at the meeting but the lack of any cooperation here is astounding and I'm beyond disappointed about it so that will be coming up later this month a few things I did want to point out again for a discussion item we're going to have a long meeting on June 21st I think we've received some inquiries at the select board office about the package store license and about the remaining marijuana license I want to put something on for our agenda to discuss what if anything we want to do whether reopening that process or where we go over the summer so I just want to alert board members that we will have a discussion about that I want to have a shout out to the political action club at the high school I met with them today for about an hour and had a really good meeting and I appreciate the engagement that our high schoolers have for local state and federal government that was a good meeting and the last thing I do want to say and this is further to what Mr. Hurd said is we are planning on being back in the chamber on June 21st and I want to thank everybody for all the work I think this is a 39th or 40th select board meeting since we've had to go to the remote format so I know speaking for myself I'm really looking forward to going back to the chamber but I appreciate everything that has been done with the town staff with ACMI and with the public to allow us to continue to conduct the town's business over the past year so we will have we're planning on being back in the chambers we are going to have a remote format we're going to have remote participation options and it may be rough but we've got to move ahead and do this so that's all I have for new business we are going to go into executive session now or depending on vote and we will not be returning into public session we will be adjourning so if I could have a motion from one of the members to move into executive session chair if I could make a motion to move it to executive session and that when we adjourn from executive session it will be for the sole purposes to make a motion to adjourn thank you do I have a second second thank you Mr. Diggins so on motion by Mrs. Mohan seconded by Mr. Diggins the executive session is for the approval and release of executive session minutes of January 2nd 2020 Attorney Hime Mr. Herb yes Mr. Diggins yes Mr. Helen yes Ms. Svahn yes Mr. Corsi yes okay we're going to executive session we can cut the ACMI feed and remove any folks