 All right, calling to order the meeting of the audit and select board from Monday, November 11th, 2020. As a preliminary matter, this is John Hurd, select board chair, permission to affirm 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. Diane Mahan. Yes. Joe Curl. Yes. Steve DeCorsi. Yes. Kevin Diggins. Staff, if I call your name, please refer, respond in the affirmative. Adam chapter lane. Yes. Doug Hyme. Yes. And board administrator Ashley Mark, Mark is participating remotely. Good evening. This meeting, this open meeting of the Allenton select board is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12, 2020, due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth. In order to mitigate the transmission of the virus and reduce risk of COVID-19 illness. We have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings and as such the governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of public bodies are encouraged to participate remotely. The order which can find posted with the agenda materials for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Ensuring public access does not ensure public participation unless such participation is required by law. This meeting will not feature public comment. Members of the public do not comment. Participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves for this meeting. The select board is convening by zoom as posted on the town's website identifying how the public may join. Please note that this meeting is being recorded that some attendees are participating by video conference accordingly please be aware that other folks may be able to see you and take care not to screen share your computer anything you broadcast may be captured by the recording. Please also take care to adjust your screen or device name if you would like to speak in order for us to recognize speakers appropriately and develop accurate minutes is helpful for our participants to see your full first and last name when calling upon you rather than nickname. All the meeting materials for this meeting except any executive session materials are available on the novice agenda agenda dashboard. We recommend the members in the public follow the agenda as posted on novice unless the chair notes otherwise. We're now turning to the first item on the agenda before we do so permit me to cover some ground rules for effective and clear contact of our business and to ensure accurate minutes. Please each speaker on the agenda after they conclude the remarks the chair will go down the line of members inviting each by name to provide any comments questions or motions please hold in so your name is called. Further, please remember to mute your phone or computer when you are not speaking please remember to speak clearly in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. Please wait until the chair use for you and state your name before speaking if any members wish to engage in colloquy with other members please do so through the chair taking care to identify yourself. Each vote tonight will be taken by roll call vote. Before we get to our first our next business item. I just want to acknowledge and recognize that Arlington suffered an extremely tragic loss this week. The death of chief warrant officer to Marwan Gabor, an Arlington 2010 Arlington High School graduate, who was killed tragically in a helicopter accident while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Egypt. This past week. So in honor of chief warrant officer to garba. I'd like to have a moment of silence please. Thank you and I know his family is in everyone's thoughts and prayers. And that brings us to our first agenda item, which I actually forgot to bear with me one moment. All right, I'm number two on our agenda is reconsideration of warrant article 13 homeroom legislation rank choice voting. I have attorney Heim. Thank you Mr Chairman. It's my understanding that the opponents of this article have requested reconsideration in light of a number of factors, including the ballot initiative. With respect to rank choice voting on a state level. Basic understanding that they'd like to move no action at this time, so that they can sort of read us to take some time to assess position and reevaluate their options with respect to rank choice voting before forwarding to town. If the discussion, that's the general gist of it. Thank you. And Mr Carl is the board representative on the election modernization committee. Mr Carl, do you have anything to add or any motions. Yeah, just sorry. Let's say yeah, the committee did meet. There have been some debate about actually resubmitting this for the special time meeting due to the complexity of it and there have been some thought that the state ballot initiative would serve as education for town meeting going forward but it's become apparent that there's a need for quite a bit more education, particularly around the multi seat. But the method of voting for offices where there are multiple seats up at once. And so, and there have been a number of competing proposal counter proposal so I think the committee feels that it would be best served if there's an opportunity to go back, take a look at the issues that have been raised and do more education and outreach, but they, they are asking this board to change our recommended vote to town meeting to no action, so that they would be allowed to bring back a version of this article potentially at the annual time meeting so with that I'd like to vote. I'd like to move that the board changes recommended vote on article 13 to no action. Mr. Corsi. Second. Mr. Mahan, any further comments? Just, I pass on to our colleague Joe. One of the things that I found in trying to convince people, largely unsuccessfully, whether it was my elderly parents, or even members of my own family, my kids who really don't get involved in politics. I had the impression that if they didn't do the ranked choice voting, then their vote wouldn't count. When I know there's a different argument that, you know, but, and I explained to them, you know, if it's just too confusing or, you know, a lot of people said well I really don't know much about candidate 234. The message to me didn't get out that you can still vote the traditional way. You don't have to rank them. Your vote still will count so I just wanted to pass that on. Thank you. Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm happy to support this. I wasn't able to attend that last AMC meeting. I am curious though, Mr. Cura. It seems like these issues would have been an issue, even if the ballot had changed, had passed on a state level. And also I'd note that in Arlington, it seems like it passed overwhelmingly the support for ranked choice voting. And so, I guess, I'm wondering if there are other reasons for why we're maybe not moving forward with it. No. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, Mr. Diggins. I mean, I think that there is, you know, fairly broad understanding based based on the outcome of the election in Arlington around single seat votes but that's what the state ballot initiative was. There's some really specific details around situations where you have multiple seats up. So, for example, in a year where the select board might have two seats up or the school committee might have two or three. There's a carryover of the overwrote and such. There are aspects of it that really weren't part of the statewide initiative and it was the feeling of the committee that more time is going to be needed for outreach and education on that and to address some of the counter proposals that have been brought forward as well for handling situations where there are multiple seats. Yeah, I'm all in favor of that. And so I just want us to really focus on the education part because I think there is a lot that we need to understand me about how we would do it if we would have done it the way that was proposed and maybe even some alternatives because I know like in Louisiana there's the open runoff situation type of voting. So, it's a great thing. I don't think we're going to suffer from waiting to discuss this some more. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Yeah, I would only like add in to that that in looking at legislative calendars we probably wouldn't suffer at all, even if this were to be taken up at the annual town meeting there's a very good chance that the legislature would be taking it up at the same time that it would be taking up of its past by the special town meeting. All right, we have a motion for no action on Article 13 by Mr. Currow, seconded by Mr. Dacorsi, Attorney Hyde. Mrs. Mahon. Yes, thank you. Mr. Dacorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Currow. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Giannis Vo. Thank you. And that brings us to item number three on our consent agenda means of meeting minutes October 19, 2020, the emergency venom October 19, 2020. Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Currow. May I request that these be voted on separately whereas I have to recuse myself on the emergency item. Sure. All right, so we will first take meeting of minutes October 19, 2020. And Mrs. Mahon. Move approval. And Mr. Diggins. I second. Any additional comments, Mr. Currow? Mr. Dacorsi. No additional comments. So Attorney Hyde. Mrs. Mahon. Yes. Mr. Dacorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Currow. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Giannis Vo. And separately we have our consent agenda meeting minutes from the emergency venom October 19, 2020. Mr. Diggins. I move approval. Mrs. Mahon. I second. Mr. Corsi. No comments. Mr. Currow. No comment. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. It's a four zero vote with one extension and recuse. Thank you. Yep. That takes us to new business. Attorney Hyde. No comment. No comment. Mr. Currow. Okay. I would like to reflect that Mr. Currow is recusing himself from this vote. Is that correct? Mr. Currow. Yes. I refuse or abstain. I can refuse. Yeah. Mrs. Mahon. Yes. Mr. Diggins. No comment. No comment. Mr. Currow. No comment. Mr. Diggins. No comment. No business. Mr. Chaplin. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. I'll share with the board and those watching, as Mr. Hurd mentioned at the outset of the meeting, the community suffered the loss of chief warrant officer. To go bore. Last week now, just learning of it. Over the weekend and into today. And I wanted to let the board and the community know that our chief warrant officer is working closely with the family to provide whatever support. And comfort he can. And he's also working to organize a procession. For when. When the remains return to the United States and are prepared for burial. It's likely that the services will be held in southeastern Massachusetts at a mosque that the family attends. So there will be a procession. That comes through Arlington. And we'll be working closely with police and fire to provide the necessary escort and. Escort and honor as the procession comes through Arlington. More details about the exact date and time of that will become available the next several days. And when they do, we will issue a town wide notice. So that the town is aware of this happening in town. And that's all I have. Yep. Mr. Carl. No, no business. This is my. No new business. Thank you. Mr. Carlson. No new business. Mr. Diggins. Excuse me. No new business for you either. And this is my. Thank you, Mr. Hart. I'd like to say. Excuse me a motion that the select board meeting is now suspended and it will reconvene. Concurrent with the commencement of our regular town meeting tonight at eight PM. And that the select board will remain. Um, open in session and we'll adjourn. Concurrent with the adjournment of the regular town meeting. Mr. Carl. Second. Mr. Corsi. No further comments. I'm so excited about how many coming up. I can't wait. I'm turning on. This is my motion. Mrs. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Currow. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Yeah. You're all shortly. Take care guys.