 Okay, good evening everybody and welcome to the Board of Selectments meeting for Monday night, April 13th. Item number one on the agenda, our minutes of the meeting of March 23rd. How say the board? Second. Second. Second. Second. Any edits? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. And the rest, this is now on the consent agenda and we'll see if anybody's here who would like to speak on any of these items. First of all, the appointments of new election workers, Robert Bluen, Precinct 10, Wu Chong, Precinct 10, Judith Highland, Precinct 9, William Stalcup, Precinct 11. A request to permit for the Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 25th, 2015 by Jeffrey Chung Lowe, Director of Veterans Services. A request for a one day beer and wine license, May 27th at the Regent Theater for the sixth annual Cyclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival. And finally a request for a one day all alcohol license on May 9th at the Robbins Memorial Town Hall for the Waldorf School of Lexington, their spring benefit auction. Is anybody here wishing to speak on any of those matters? Anybody want to give a commercial for any of those events? How say the board? Move approval. Move approval. Is there a second? Second. Second. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, all approved. Appointments to the Conservation Commission. Michael Noni. Michael, come on up to the microphone if you would please, Michael. Welcome. Thank you. Michael, if you wouldn't mind, would you tell us a little bit about yourself please? Yep. My name is Michael Noni. I grew up in Arlington. I currently reside right next to the capital on MSF. I'm currently an associate member of the Conservation Commission. We've had somebody express a voting member express interest in resigning or stepping down to associate. So we'd like to promote my, you know, promote kind of within so I have worked in landscape design and horticulture for 15 years. I have a strong interest in conservation so I feel I'm a pretty good asset to the, to the concom. I'm sure you've been excellent asset as you already have been. Thank you very much for your interest. Move approval. Move approval. Is there a second? Second. Anybody want to grill for Michael? No? Okay. Michael looks good. Oh, oh, someone does. Yeah. Mr. Don. Just want to thank you for volunteering. I've read your resume and obviously you are absolutely qualified and you think you're going to be great at for it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Michael. All those in favor, please stand by by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. Thank you very much. An appointment to the tree committee, Becky Edmondson. Becky, welcome. Hi. Hi. Same thing would you tell us a little bit please about your love of trees, Becky, or anything else? Well, you got my bio. I grew up in a tree, is what I say. I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and there were magnolias across the street from us in what was called the Pink Palace then and I was out there all the time and magnolias are wonderful to climb in branches all the way to the bottom, they sway at the top. I've lived in Arlington 19 years. I recently retired so I have time to devote now to some of my other interests. I love the natural world, trees and native plants and habitat conservation. I serve on the board of Monami Rocks Park as co-chair of the Stewardship Committee and Mary Anna Foskett and I can be seen ripping out invasive plants all summer long. Thank you. I don't know what else to say. Any questions? You did not fall from a tree and injure that rest or anything. No, souvenir of Costa Rica. I'll say the board. Move approval. Move approval. Is there a second? Thanks for Beccy other than to express a great deal of thanks for your willingness to serve, Beccy. Thank you very much. Best of luck to you. You're welcome. All those in favor, please signify by saying nine. Aye. Aye. Are there any magnolias in Arlington? Yes. Some people are starting to grow, some native Southern magnolias that are dwarf and stature and can deal with our climate. Ted Segan has one. I don't know if any of you know him. He's been on the board before. You see them around, but most of our magnolias are Chinese. Oh, there's one, Magnolia, Virginia, and it's native, but it's native to swampy areas. Kevin, did she pass? Yeah. I just want to say you were correct in all that you just said. Thank you very much. Licenses and permits, a request for a food vendor license from Sweet Haven. Please come forward. My name is Shamal Wadani. I moved to the United States in 1984. I live in Cambridge and I was in the food business for 14 years. And I moved to the limo business for almost 11 years, and now I'm in the candy business. Questions? Move approval. Move approval. Second. Second? Yeah. Go ahead and say it for them. Thank you very much, Mr. Really. And thank you. This is really cool. I always like seeing new types of businesses come to town. Thank you very much. I wish you the best of luck, and I can't wait to see your selection. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. And I'll just say that I think that those beautiful lights you have in the front have brought a lot of joy to a number of people who have commented on them. No reason to wonder what it is. So thank you. Well, we're not done with you yet. It's iffy now, from the board or anything else, because you know what I'm going to say. Don't you all? Yes. Any samples? No? No. Yeah. I'll give it to him. He will bring it. Thank you very much for choosing how to do best of luck to you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed. I believe that was Mr. Byrne, who moved to approve. Correct. Yes. Okay. Item number nine, we're going to ask to table that item. Move to table. I've moved to table. Second. Second. Just we need a little bit more work on that. Item number 10, the draft liquor license suspension decisions, Mr. Douglas Hyne. So as the board will recall, at the last lecture meeting, you had a hearing with respect to three Arlington establishments that failed alcohol compliance checks. I drafted a decision that I think reflects the board's overall thinking on this matter. I do want to note that there was an issue that maybe there was some ambiguity about and that was with respect to whether or not the board was going to determine the exact date that the suspensions would be served. In other words, this board voted that the suspensions would be served starting on the day of the week in which the violations were committed. In this case, it was a Thursday for all three. However, the board did not vote to say that they will start on Thursday, May 7th. And so the board could afford these establishments the latitude to decide it will be May 7th or it will do it on the following Thursday as it's been consistent with passport decisions. But I just wanted to let you know that that was an area of some ambiguity and that can certainly be easily adjusted by this board if it so chooses. Okay. Mr. Byrne. Thank you. That's actually what I was thinking about when I was reading through your memo, Councillor. And while I'm completely comfortable giving leeway and not saying that has to be on the seventh, I would be a little bit more comfortable if we put an end date on it. Yeah. Yeah, I just, you know, while I don't think any of these restaurants would actually, you know, do this, but they could essentially just postpone it for eternity and never actually serve the suspension. So perhaps, you know, I'd be happy to, you know, support by the end of the year or something along those lines. So, Mr. Carroll. Yeah, thank you. I had some thought, but I was just wondering, maybe it just makes sense to say by the end of the license period, with the understanding that we would not renew the license if it's not executed at that point. But I think it's the same as the end of the year. I would just ask my colleagues to entertain just in the sense of having so much time and where things can get lost as well as administratively keeping track of it, if we say within perhaps no more than two or three months. But I'm afraid if we wait to the end of the year, we may be adding more work for the Selectman's office and say, did you do it yet, did you do it yet? So, I don't know. Mr. Dunn. I'm definitely along the lines of Mr. Lohan, even shorter. I would say like in the month of May, like something like that. So the only time that I would be hesitant to like force a date is if it was landing on like a major holiday weekend that was a large revenue weekend. I have no particular reason to hit one of those weekends as opposed to another one. But in May, you can find a weekend that's appropriate for you. And so I mean, I'll vote for any of these dates in particular, but I would definitely be pushing for a shorter term. Remind me why we want to give them the sleetway. It just came up in the discussion last time. I'm not saying that we have to give leeway. I'm saying that I'd prefer just to put an end date on it. The reason to do an end date is simply because we not knowing their business may hit a date that is particularly important to them. If you've scheduled an event and you've rented it out for some particular event, I have no particular reason that I would want to cause that type of harm to their business. And it's going to be their responsibility to inform us of when they will not be serving the alcohol. Is that correct? Okay. So who's got a motion? Mr. Chair, I move to approve the decisions as written by council with the proviso that we require that the prescribed suspensions be served by the end of May. 2015. Yes. Is there a second? Second. Discussion? Is this a hearing public voice? Public? Yes. Okay. Anybody wishing to comment on this? No. Nothing? No. Okay. So on the motion by Mr. Kuro, seconded by Ms. Mahan. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. So for clarity, these three restaurants are precluded from serving alcohol. They have a suspended license for three days starting on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And that must be done before the end of May 2015. Okay. And I'll get a revised draft so that each of you can sign the decision. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Adam? No. Citizens open forum. I don't have a sign in, but I know that we have Gordon here who would like to speak. He has your sign in. He comes very good. Thank you, sir. And Angela also is here. Gordon. Yes, sir. Always lovely to see you, sir. Absolutely. I'm Gordon Jamison. I'm co-chair of the Arlington Recycling Committee. And I'm here to make two as brief as possible announcements before I get the hook from Mr. Greeley. So we want to remind the board and the people at home and in the audience here that this Thursday, April 16th from five to nine, right down the hall here, we'll be celebrating an art opening and a reception of that. The art is by one of our members of the Recycling Committee, Ellen Calloway, and it's entitled Recycled Beauty. It's a photographic examination of all things recycling put together by Ms. Calloway in conjunction with the committee and other wonderful supportive entities. You can learn more about, she was actually on Chronicle last week on their show and as part of their wasted program. I think that was Tuesday or Wednesday night last week. You can look there and also there's some information available on the town website. Again, that's Thursday from five to nine and we'll be serving some light refreshments right here on the second floor of town hall. It should be fun. Maybe a few additional polls beyond yourselves will be there. The other thing while I'm up here, Charlotte Milan, the recycling coordinator has organized several different tours that the board and other members at home may find of interest. You can now, in the spring, there'll be three different tours. One will be to the Andover facility where our trash is incinerated as a cogeneration plant. One will be to the new recycling separation facility that JRM has put together. And the third one will be to where some of our other waste goes, Deer Island, which is also an extremely green entity, part of the MWRA. So that information has been posted on the town website. So we'd invite people both to come to the art exhibit and see Recycled Beauty on Thursday as well as sign up for some of these tours. Thank you. Any questions? No. Nobody? Thanks, Kevin. Thank you, Gordon. Thank you. And Angela Olzuski, please. Hello. I just wanted to make you aware of the activities that are going on for Patriots Day weekend coming up. I mean, everyone knows there isn't a parade this year, but we're told that we'll be back bigger and better next year. But we do have on Saturday and Sunday the Jason Russell House, the Historical Society will be opening the Jason Russell House for the season. So there'll be full house tours from one to four each afternoon. That's regular admission, but there's complimentary children's activities. And so that's just a couple crafts. There's a little cardboard model of the Jason Russell House that kids can color and put together. And we're also asking the kids to come and make their posters for our event on Monday when we greet Paul Revere and William Daz. And Sunday afternoon, the Monotomy Minute Men will be out on the lawn at the Jason Russell House. Monday morning, rise and shine early with the Monotomy Minute Men. They'll be doing their usual flag raising ceremonies and burial ground ceremony over at the old burying ground to honor those that passed away that day. And that starts at about 7.45. And then on Monday, we'll be greeting Paul Revere and William Daz when the Lancers recreate the ride downstairs here. And so the riders are expected on time. They tell me again this year, which will be at around noon. They used to come around one, but last year was around noon. So that's what they say they're coming. And so we'll be having refreshments. And we have a fun little trivia quiz. And if you don't know the answers, you can go visit the markers that are right around Town Hall to get the answers. So we're hoping everybody comes for that. And we're having at all the events some pastries refreshments provided by FoodLink. That was the food recovery project, which is, you know, a lot of people in Arlington volunteer for that. So we're looking forward to that. So I just wanted to let you know. And the other thing is ATED will be planning to open the visitor center again soon. Now that the weather is getting warm, we're, you know, getting that all set and ready. And I know a couple of our committee people have been emailing people to get the site cleaned up so that we can get that going too. Questions? Anybody would like to come Monday and help us greet Paul Revere and William Daz too? We would especially appreciate that. I'm going to pass and give him a big monotony welcome because I know Joe can't be here this year. We're trying to figure that out for you. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your great work as always. Anybody else wishing to speak on the Citizens Open Forum? Okay. Thank you. Traffic rules and orders, item, agenda item number 11, a request to cosponsor the taste of Arlington. Jennifer Tripp who I don't think is here. David, are you here for that? David Swanson. I'm David Swanson and I would like to reformally request the town be a cosponsor for Taste of Arlington 2015. It's scheduled this year for Tuesday, October 20th from 5.30 to 8.00 p.m. I know many of you are familiar with the event and it's here at the town hall. Each restaurant will have an opportunity to provide a taste size sample to attendees. There'll be something for everyone. They're also free to showcase their business with small props and literature about their cuisine. And the benefit to the town is that it promotes business, introduces both new and established restaurants to residents, and the workforce of Arlington which in turn adds tax revenue to the town. And because this is a town-wide event, it fosters goodwill between the town and the business community. It's also a social event with a jazz trio and many people look forward to attending. The town would not need to do any work on this event. The chamber would take care of all the details. It's our primary source of fundraising. Admission tickets will be sold and there will be a cash bar and complimentary water. In conclusion, we're hoping that the town will once again sponsor this event and make it a successful pro-business event for Arlington. Thank you. Any questions? Yes. What food comes out of Swanson Jewels? I knew you'd ask that, Kevin. Carrots, of course. I was going to say the ice brings. Thank you, David. Move a pose. Is there a second? Of the application, not the joke. It is worth better than mine. Comments, discussions, you know, glad to do it again. Thank you, David, very much. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Thank you. So next letter to Mugar's legal counsel. I'm going to ask Adam to discuss this and then ask someone from the board to move to approve that I sign the letter. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the board recalls, I believe it was at the last meeting, we had Clarissa Rowe and George Laid here to speak to the board about concerns with the 40B proposal that we've learned of at the Mugar site and one of the immediate steps that they requested we consider sending a letter from the board to the Mugar's requesting basically consideration of the town's long-term desire to preserve that land and their concerns, our concerns about the proposed project. After talking with the town's now retained special legal counsel on this matter, they advised us to not get into any hot water with issues of good faith to write to the Mugar's counsel as opposed to directly the Mugar's. We're still working to confirm through that special counsel who Mugar's counsel is. Once we do that, we'll put it on the letter and once you've approved, we'll ask Chairman Greeley to sign it and send it off to them. Move approval. Move approval. Second discussion. Yes, thank you. I wonder if the board's pleasure. I wonder if in the next to the last paragraph we could just strengthen the language in one of the sentences. It says the board of selectmen believes Arlington has long been supportive of affordable housing initiatives. Well, we have. So I wonder if we could just change that to Arlington and the board of selectmen have long been supportive of affordable housing initiatives. I was going to bring that up and I thought I was being picky on. So I agree with you. Yeah. I hope that's not a bad one. No, that's good. That's good. No problem with me. Anything else, Mr. Dunn? Total strong support and I think I really hope that we can get a constructive engagement on this going. Okay. So with the amendment, Mr. Burn made the motion again, seconded by Mrs. Mahan. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Although now that I've done that, should it be me or should the whole board sign it? Mr. Heiner. I think with the vote of the board authorizing you to sign it, I don't think it's an issue. Yeah. It's really more of an aesthetic thing than anything else. Plus let's face it, my name will bring fear to these lawyers. Thank you. Did you feel them shaking? Absolutely. We've won already. No. All right. Thank you. Item 13 on the agenda and she's in Florida, but at some point we certainly would like to bring Louis before us who has decided to retire as our comptroller and really has done a great job for the town of Arlington, but just feels it's time. So in conversations with Adam, I asked Adam if he would take a look at this and maybe recommend to this board a process that we might follow related to this appointment. Mr. Chapter Lane. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to echo those comments, I know there'll be another time for us all to say nice things about Ruth, but Ruth has been an excellent public servant and we will miss her very much in serving in the role of comptroller. Though I will say I think it's very important that we are moving quickly and getting this on the next available agenda because in her good service, you know, it's apparent just how important the comptroller is and this is not a position that we want to take any over amount of time in making sure that we get a good qualified candidate in the position. So after consulting with Chairman Greeley, I put before the board three distinct items that I would like the board to consider acting on tonight. First, I would like the board to consider approving the proposed recruitment process that has been laid out in the memo provided to the board by HR Director Karen Malloy. Second, I'd like approval of the board of the updated job description and I provided a red line version of that job description so that you'd be able to see what changes were proposed to the job description. And then finally, I'd like your authorization to work with Ruth to identify a number of options for interim accounting services so that once Ruth has retired, we can make sure we get through year-end close out and prepare for the audit quickly and cleanly in Ruth's absence. So those are the three distinct items I'm asking for the board's action on. Okay. Mrs. Mann. And I've spoken to the chairman about this. I'm going to because I have an immediate family member who currently reports to the comptroller going to recuse myself on the second action requested by, as well as any discussion surrounding that. And I did consult town council. I don't know if you can just state something briefly on the record in terms of the appropriateness of me being present and voting for one and three. Absolutely, Ms. Mahan. So while Vice Chairman Mahan has a family member who is a town employee that reports to the comptroller, the votes requested by the managers tonight are not actually to select a comptroller. Rather, they're to one, identify a process for selecting a comptroller. Two, to revise the comptroller's job description and three, to authorize interim accounting services that would not involve supervision of Ms. Mahan's family member. So in my opinion, the first and third approvals or authorization sought present no conflict of interest whatsoever, barring her participation. And the second revision of a job description very likely doesn't as well. But because Ms. Mahan was to proceed in an abundance of caution, she's recused herself from that portion of deliberation. So my suggestion is that the Board first take up items one and three, discuss and deliberate on those. And then after you voted on those two things, whether separately or together, Ms. Mahan can recuse herself, leave the room, and we can retrieve her after that deliberation is done. Thank you. Okay. Right. And again, a very conservative approach, but, you know, smart of you to do it this way. So thank you. So we will take up one and three. So one approval of the proposed recruitment and screening process as provided by Karen Malloy through Adam chapter. And I have a question about it. If I, if I may add so, so this is on the memorandum from Karen, the recommendation. She talks about to a selection panel. All right. And it's led by chairman Greeley or designee town manager, treasurer, school finance officer, right. And Karen would also serve. Under three, the process. I envisioned two rounds with the panel. The first round would be shorter interviews. And then, and followed by an assessment exercise developed under deputy town manager, Andrew Flanagan's financial expertise. Why is he not on the selection panel if he's then doing that in that process? So I think what, what Karen meant in writing that is Andrew has honed a bit of a skill in putting together these financial assessments for a number of positions we've hired over the past few years. So we would ask him to put it together. I think, you know, in considering adding him to the panel, or maybe the first round or the second round, you know, have me and one and him and the other vice versa would be a reasonable approach to take. Okay. I mean, but should that step take place before the selection panel's second meeting with the candidates? Which step? I'm sorry. The process step where it talks about an assessment exercise developed by Andrew's financial expertise. Is that referencing the one position or each candidate for the position? I'm not sure what that means. Sorry. The way we have been doing things in the recent past is for positions such as this, we'll use both a traditional interview style as well as some kind of exercise. And then the panel that day, so if the first cut, let's say is 10. All 10 will sit for the traditional interview. All 10 will take the exercise. And then when the winnowing decision is made, the panelists will think about both the interview session as well as a review after the candidate is left of the assessment that was done. And if that winnow is 10 to 5, so be it. Then you go to the second round with 5. You again do some version of a traditional interview also with some assessment exercises. And then again, the totality of that assessment is made when trying to decide what recommendation to make for a candidate. Other questions, comments? Okay. Mine is just very minor. First of all, I'll move to approve the processes recommended. Second, first? Second? Second? Second. My comment, I don't feel a burning need to have it as part of the vote. Just something that I'd ask the manager to discuss with Ms. Maloy. I noticed the list of recruitment websites that are being targeted. I wonder if the manager might discuss with Ms. Maloy the possibility of LinkedIn, which I've found is an excellent recommendation and matching engine for a number of professional careers. And I think it's come a long way. I have no connection to LinkedIn. I've found a lot of success. Yeah. I think that's a good strategy. Mr. Don? I was just, when I read it, I was struck by the fact that when we interview for the town manager, we interview publicly several of the candidates. I think we said, I think we had two to four. And in the end, we did two in the most recent round, whereas this one, we're choosing to essentially delegate that to the chair or his designee and have that chair designee bring forward one. And I just wanted to talk about that a little bit and make sure that we agree that that's what we really wanted to do. Because, you know, we pick comp trailers all the time, so we've got a lot of practice at this. Are you looking at me in particular? No, I'm really not. This is definitely one where, if I am, it's because of your experience in hiring for this and the other positions. I mean, the only person that we've hired while I've sat on the board is Adam. So, you know, this is relatively new ground for me. Mr. Chairman, may I opine and respond to Mr. Don's comment? You may opine. So, we being me, Karen and Andrew, weighed that very question very heavily. And the reason that the recommendation is worded the way it is, is people who have chosen the career path that I have found myself in grow used to the fact that they will be publicly interviewed for the position and it just starts to come with the territory. Whereas people who are in some of these, you know, they're, you know, I don't know what adjective to use, but I don't think people who are in Comptroller or Town Account auditor positions are necessarily geared up for that public interview process. And I'm not saying in terms of nerves or stress of a public interview, but rather having to put themselves out there and have their current employer know that they're up for another job based on a public process. So, as not to dissuade any potential candidates, that's why we made this recommendation. Fully understanding it's the board's jurisdiction and prerogative of which way to go. But that's the reasoning behind it. If I may, let me just so, Mr. Heim, therefore can we do these interviews in private and executive session? No. Okay. Did you want to think on that? So, I think that the process that you're talking about, so if you're approving this process, you're sort of allowing yourself to have a little bit more flexibility with respect to the layers that you would have sort of be, sort of a more public review. But I really think the process is very similar to the Town Manager interview process. I'm not sure, is there something specific that would give rise to the... Well, the Town Manager process, we agreed that we told finalists that it would be public interviews, right? So, they knew that in advance. Is that why the third one said, no, I don't remember, but you just would drew his name. Yeah, we had one who would drew and one, yeah. And so then we interviewed the two of them. Why didn't we choose that other guy? But we have interviewed in the executive session before, not this past time, but the previous time, remember? Actually, hold on, give me a minute. Sorry, go. I don't recall interviewing in the executive session. I do recall, you know, negotiations, discussions, employee, I don't want to say reprimand, but I just wanted to just to add to the conversation, I spoke to Karen Malloy today in terms of, you know, the Comptroller and the position, and I may not speak with what she told me, but she basically said, because I was kind of having the same question myself, that the Town has sort of classified certain positions as level one, two, and three. And the Comptroller, like I think level one would be like Christine on Journal and Joe Conley and a few others, level two would be Comptroller, police chief, fire chief, things like that. And then I guess you're level three. And it's not by salary, it's by in terms of position as well as process and procedure. So I'm just thinking of the way that we also interviewed other level two employees, which was the town manager and we weren't involved. Am I getting the levels wrong? Because I was asking that question, but my thing is trying to treat everybody like in life, like in the same. So I had the same question, but when she outlined that this is a level two employee and normally this is the select woman being involved at the town manager award and he would conduct the interviews the same way and then announce the final candidate. So I don't know if that adds to anything. I think if I may, so I guess maybe I misunderstood your initial question. So under this process, if you're just talking about changing the number of folks that are in the executive session, the executive session piece of interviewing is about preliminary screening. So here you're the process, the town manager's outline, you've basically delegated the preliminary screening process to the chair and basically a group of town staff. If you wanted to go into executive session to interview candidates, what you'd be doing that for is to identify the finalists. Does that really have gone into executive session for interviewing purposes before, but that's a preliminary screening committee and you can only do that if you're then going to have sort of finalists be presented before the full board or a finalist if you will. So you could do that, you'd really be restructuring the process so that you're basically doing the whole thing by having these preliminary sort of screening pieces in one, three, five, whatever finalists that would come before the board for a sort of final interview if you will. In public session. That's right. Yes. But it has to be thinking, I mean what Diane just went through is all to accept this is directly our appointment. So that does differentiate it from that level thing, even though it's level two or whatever that means must have done. So for when we passed around a time manager, we did do the process where we did the preliminary in executive session all of us. So we were in the Woodham or Morehouse and we interviewed a series of candidates and that was how we whittled it down to the three or four. I literally can't remember when we got it to three or four. And we did that privately and then we did the final process publicly. And so that makes sense to me. We do given that any final decision has to be public and given that we don't want to put a bunch of or I am persuaded by Adam's argument that we don't want to put a bunch of potential comptrollers who would, you know, decline to participate because of it. I've enjoyed the conversation and I've learned but I'm ready to go with the original recommendation. What if that committee recommends two to us and we do then we would have to do that and we made that clear to candidates. Right? So I'm not the chair. If I may the sort of executive session piece I think as Mr. Dunn is very concisely stated really only has to do with identifying the finalist and if you want to have that number be two or one or ten all those finalists would basically be subject to the open meeting process. The downside I think is that the more finalists you have, the more I think what Mr. Chapter Lane is saying will be an issue that if folks feel like you know I've got a solid chance of being in a public meeting on a job that I'm not going to get it might be difficult for this particular class. So to that question that you had asked also though I don't think the board adopting this tonight would foreclose the possibility that the assessment panel with chair Greeley taking part in it says you know what this is too close for this panel to call. Let's think about bringing two forward notifying the two not going to put your name publicly until you want it public and then making a decision from there. So it's not saying it's what the goal is but it wouldn't foreclose that possibility. I have Mr. Cura there. I have sympathy for the question asked but I still think that the process has laid forth that makes sense. And we're putting emphasis on the technical assessment which is really that's the bread and butter of what the Comptroller's job is about. I mean the reality of our interaction with the Comptroller unless we're on the audit subcommittees generally sometimes at budget and revenue task force but generally the Comptroller's is not called public figure per se rather to be a technician and a professional and I would be concerned about depressing the pool of candidates by having more than we absolutely need appear before the board for that reason. So I think this is solid. I think that if the screening committee does find as Ms. Chaplain mentioned that there are more than one I would recommend maybe the chair come back to us and let us know that that you tend to bring more than one candidate forward. I actually was thinking about this more for the new job description but now that it's come up under this discussion I guess it's worth throwing out there and I do appreciate the technical aspects being evaluated in this manner what now that we're talking about potentially bringing two candidates up and having a public discussion for a final choice for this role I don't think that's a terrible option. This is the Comptroller plays a really big kind of watchdog role and that's why they're under our board. I think that's what I see as one of their most important roles is playing that and I think that separating that out from and I obviously mean no offense to the manager's office and I'm not implying anything would go wrong but if something was to go wrong I think that the Comptroller needs to be comfortable knowing that we are the hiring authority and that we are play a very large role in that so they don't feel pressured to go around potentially someone in town hall that they're working with on a daily basis so I guess I just wanted to make that point and I am comfortable supporting this but I'm not worried about more than one candidate coming forward and I think I'd be very comfortable having that process play out in front of us for that reason. Can I just ask Mr. Kirow, just because the suggestion was made, is your vote to take action one and two which is to approve the screening process as well as to authorize it? I was only moving the process. We're going to do one then three and then two. I just don't want to keep going back. That's fine. I just wanted to clarify. Thank you. I'm all set. Because if you refuse to yourself, I see why you want to be careful. We don't get into a discussion about item number two. Mr. Kirow, thank you. We're comfortable with the way it is but with that and that may well be that we end up with two candidates that we think should be brought before the board. Mr. Heim? I just want to clarify one thing. You're not actually voting to create a preliminary screening committee which is the board of directors process which I just want to make sure we're all clear upon. Are we all clear? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. So now item number three. Mr. Chapter. Number three is asking the board again based on the board's jurisdiction over comptroller and accounting, auditing functions to provide a series of potential options for interim services while this search process is going on again so we can process year-end close out and get ready for the audit. There are a number of retired town accountants and comptrollers who provide these interim services. There's also some agencies that provide these services. So I'd like to sort of put together either a few options, present them to the board and then have the board approve that before Ruth actually comes in. Second. Discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed. And so next we excuse for recusal purposes. Mrs. Mahan. Okay. So it is now item number two approval of the updated job description and Mr. Chaplain want to just briefly describe what's different in the job description please. So just to quickly go through it, in the first section of the definition we made it explicitly clear that this position would be expected to serve as the municipal expert in the munis accounting system. That's because that is fact and we need the comptroller to be sort of the output side of munis, not the back end database for the town government. Also to address the fact that right now the current comptroller is paid an additional stipend for her munis responsibilities outside of the job description. We thought it important to codify it within the job description to make it all part of what is expected within the paying classification plan. Secondly under supervision in conversation with one of the board members, we thought it was important to make sure that the DOR report puts out that just basically advises at least some codification or clarification on the fact that the comptroller needs to have a working relationship with the town manager's office. And that's why we use the term cooperation with the town manager, deputy town manager, but made it still clear that they work under the administrative direction of the board of select men. A little cleanup language under supervision. Evening meetings that would be frequently have to be attended for the position so that was clear. Moving forward on to the second page of the job description, this was recommended by both Ruth and Andrew, I believe, just making clear the role in the tax recap process on an annual basis. The comptroller plays a very integral part of that process. The next one is where we want to make clear that there's going to be a transition taking place, moving phones and telecommunications out of this position. My goal would be to fully move telecommunications over to IT as the technology transitions from the current phone system that we have now into a technology based voice over IP system. That project's about to get underway. I suspect by the time we hire somebody there will still be telecommunications responsibilities located in the comptroller's office and I don't want it to come as a surprise to someone who reviews the job description that there will be some transitioning there. I say I suspect that will happen because there's currently someone in the comptroller's office that is primarily an accounting role that has some responsibilities for managing the telecom system and also the two telephone operators that are currently managed by some of the telecommunications departments to have with David Good and others to make sure we can do that smoothly before we just rip the bandaid off. So that's what that language is trying to get at. A little cleanup language about the retirement board adding a certification of a certified governmental accountant is a credential that we think would be appropriate. Another mention of municipal accounting systems of the county. I'll say the board. We have Mr. Burn. So going back to my comment on the section one, I think I would be and again, no offense to the town manager's office. I would like to see or at least have a discussion about taking out the close cooperation with the town manager and the deputy town manager and I do think of course I think a working relationship there is appropriate but I think in having that stated so clearly does throw off that watchdog role that I was talking about earlier. You know, I see the comptroller needing to at times be in a position to make tough decisions that might go against potentially the town manager's opinion. I think that having that really clear that this is a board of selectmen employee is an important part of this hiring process and the comptroller's role. So, you know, I just like to have that discussion and I'd be comfortable with that removal. And I guess the only other thing I was thinking is where it says up to four employees and I think if would we have to bring back and rearrange this salary expectations and what not if that ever goes above four employees. So I'd be, I think I'd be cautious on that line as well but other than that I think it's a really nice document. Well, if I could just to but on that second point couldn't we therefore just say supervise direct employees in current currently for I'd be happy with that. Yeah, that's fine. Does that take care of that? So, sorry. Thank you. Actually, Mr. Burn I think along some of the lines because that jumped out at me. So I think if we can address that, that's great. As far as making clear the relationship between the comptroller and the board of selectmen I don't actually have a problem with the language that's in there. There's nothing in here that lays out a responsibility of the comptroller to make regular reports to the board of selectmen or to make reports upon request of the board of selectmen on matters and it seems to me that it is reasonable to ask for an annual or a semi-annual report whether it be actuals to budgeted figures or where we stand with reserve balances report to the whole board on the state of the audit and specific findings or what not. There's no requirement in here for the comptroller to actually come before the board so it's I find that it's difficult for us to exercise administrative direction if we don't have that type of interaction listed in the job description itself. But I don't have a problem with the language in there about cooperation. Mr. Dunn. Thank you Mr. Carrow about the we should talk about reporting. I think we should similarly put in annual review as a matter of process. You don't know if it needs to be in the job description but I think we should do just the same way we do the annual review with Adam. I'm very proud of that process and I think we should do it. I don't know if that's appropriate for this description or not. I'm curious about because in general I look at the DOR report and I say I don't agree with everything in the DOR report but there's a lot of it I agree with and this is one of those things that to me was it was something that I agreed with and I have a hard time saying especially if I'm looking to other departments where I frankly am disappointed haven't adopted so much of the DOR report and I feel like this is where we walk the walk about some of the stuff we're doing so I need to be persuaded pretty strongly that we shouldn't Can I respond to multiple fronts? So I do think adding some reporting language and even one line that talks about so required reporting to the Board of Select as well as an annual review performed by the Board of Select. Something along those lines I think is absolutely appropriate and I'll respond to Mr. Burns comments again with equal due respect back. I think it currently works extremely well with Ruth Lewis. I think she is incredibly cooperative with the town manager's office and has also been able to also give us the bad news that she needs to give us sometimes and tell us what we can't or shouldn't be doing. So I don't think that cooperation and a hard conversation are sort of incongruent goals but I do also think that on a day-to-day basis making very clear that it needs to be a cooperative relationship between the town manager's office and the Comptroller is a very important statement for the Board to make. I might even be tempted to expand somewhat that term because I've seen that it's vital that the Comptroller work cooperatively also with the school chief financial officer that the Comptroller work cooperatively also with our finance committee as well. I think that the Comptroller's office has performed an important function in providing information and reports to those bodies as well. I wouldn't put a reporting requirement per se but in close cooperation with town manager, deputy town manager and other school and town financial authorities state that that cooperative business is expected. Steve? I think I see where this is going and I understand the need for a close relationship I guess I would and I guess I'll start this by saying back when we were doing the finance I'm sorry that's my mind that was an important thing that came out of it was the tax recap group that Ruth was on, deputy town manager was on and that was really great work and I think having all those individuals work together was awesome and something that should continue but what I would see it as opposed to having it written in I'd rather that directive from the board upon hiring I'm saying that we would we want you to do this as opposed to having it being so clear in the job description. I think that it's our role as a hiring body to kind of lay that groundwork and say this is what we expect as opposed to having it codified in the job description where perhaps it can be misconstrued and I think that Ruth has done an excellent job at working with everyone but I think that's because she was here for so long having a new individual coming into this role where you know everyone where the manager's office is so involved in the hiring process really it will feel like at least to me how everything will play out is that that is an employee not of the board of selectmen but of the town in general and I guess I just I'd like that line to be clear and I don't know I'm open to finding different ways to make it clear but I just I'd really like to have that kind of drawn in the sand if you will. Can I talk at some point though? Please. Perhaps we could change under supervision the sentence to read works under the administrative direction of the board of selectmen in accordance with applicable MGL town bylaws and established standards the incumbent will be required to provide reports to the board of selectmen on a at request basis or timeline to be established by the board also by the board of selectmen and then instead of under supervision under essential duties and responsibilities at a small paragraph about the need to build cooperative working relationships with the town manager's office the treasurer collector's office the school CFO and other town financial operating departments that would make me feel a lot better. Okay. I'm happy to withdraw and then resubmit my motion to approve that. With the leeway for me to make what I just said work and some with Karen and some. Thank you very much for that. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Okay. So as moved and amended but we'll need final wording but we are in agreement otherwise correct. I had nothing to withdraw. Okay. All right. So but you are now making I am now I am now the new job description of the comptroller and we'll see final wording at the next meeting further discussion. I'm sorry if I didn't say this already it is important to me that I get that the part about here about moving telephones out of and into it. I just earned a technology I need to heartily endorse and talk about it. I'm actually I don't apologize 10 years ago. Before she was on the board and I started on this path to end the data processing committee and actually create information technology and I'm really proud of that but one of the things that we left on done was solving this telephone thing and so this is it's never too late but you know it should have been done and I look forward to doing it in the future. Thank you. Thank you. It was an interesting meeting again. Is it the boys understanding that this will allow us to move forward with advertising with this but providing then the follow-up information to the board on the that's okay with me but it's fine that's fine with me. Yes, thank you. All right. So are we all going to all those in favor please say if I say I don't mean to be fresh. So item number 14, you're back up, Mr. O'Pine Man, Adam. No, that's a word, right? OK, we're done. We're done there. What, Joe, no? Sorry. It's been a long day. It's good. OK. Yeah, so thank you, Mr. Greeley. I thank you, Chairman Greeley. This item is before the board. State ethics law, conflict of interest law requires any non-elected public employee who is receiving any potential benefit for an activity that they're taking part in to file a disclosure with their appointing authority. So I've been asked to serve on the ICMA RC, that's the ICMA Retirement Corporations Client Advisory Board. They are the sole entity that provides deferred compensation plans to town employees. So they, again, have asked me to be part of that board. To do that, they would like me to travel to Washington, DC to take part in a day and a half client advisory board session. I do think it's beneficial to the town in that I'll be able to have direct interactions with the people who administer these plans. I actually do have feedback for improvements they can make in terms of their customer service and some of their plan offerings. So I think having that face-to-face and that opportunity will bring a benefit to the town by participating. And if the board approves, then they would authorize the chairman to sign the document of approval. Second? Second. Discussion? Mr. Dunn? I guess just worth noting that at least I have my $3,000 stipend, a $1.88 or something like that, goes every two weeks into, or every month, into this retirement plan. So my $250, just please look out for it. Send me your feedback. I'm sure other board members here are the same arrangement. Begging you. Discussion? OK. Somebody moved approval? Yes. Mr. Kiro? Seconded by Mr. Byrne? Further discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying no. Aye. All those opposed? Thank you. 15. Board of Selectment Designator, Parking, Implementation, and Governance Committee. Mr. Byrne? I think we were simply asking. This was an arrangement. Mr. Byrne was willing to serve in this committee when he was chairperson. And its first meeting is coming after he was chairperson. And I had asked him if he still had an interest. Yeah, I am definitely still interested in this. I think this is a very important committee, one that is, I wish we could have acted on this sooner, of course. I think many of my colleagues do. But I think this is aligned particularly with what I'm studying at school and just something I'm really interested in. So I'm looking forward to being the first one to take down the payment modules in the parking lot. And I'll let you guys know when that's happening. Move approval. Second? Second. I second it. Further discussion? Excuse me. We want pictures of that, by the way, Mr. Byrne? Such an unfortunate acronym for this committee. But I'm happy that Mr. Byrne will take the honors. All those in favor, please signify by saying nine, aye, all those opposed. Item number 16, which is a discussion and to adopt Selectman's Handbook Licenses and Permits Summary, Parking Summary, Parking Policies and Regulations Handbook Recap. Basically, I think I'm going to actually to hold off on this unless somebody has really strong feelings. The reason I say that is, other than licenses and permits, if you all have had a chance to read that, if you have any changes to that page, but otherwise, on the rest of them, it was originally my idea to have in the handbook a one-page summary, like you now have before you on parking policy. But in thinking about it, why bother with that? If you look at how kind of complete that is, why don't we just include the policy in the Selectman's Handbook? But on something like licenses, there is an individual application for each and every one of those licenses. So that being in the addendum to the handbook, I can see it making sense. So tonight, I think I'd like to ask, although I want Marianne, Doug, and Steve, who have worked very hard on this, to input on this, but our committee's going to get together on Wednesday morning, and we kind of want to see, where are we now with this handbook? We have done a lot, but where are we and what do we need to do to kind of complete it? So there it is. Who has any thoughts? Steve, do you want to go first? Yeah, I actually had a couple of potential changes, if that's okay. On where are we? On the parking policies. Okay. The first that I saw that it said, if I can, where we talked about at present, the parking clerk receives a $20,000 stipend, which I am, I like that that's there and lays it out. Steve, tell us where you are. You're in the policy now, not the summary, correct? Correct, page three in the policy. All right. Okay. And so in the second paragraph, it says any necessary assistant clerk staffing? Yeah. Is that? No, that's not accurate. Yeah, I didn't think that was accurate either. Right, the clerk receives a $20,000 stipend, and that clerk may hire an assistant clerk, but certainly not out of that $20,000. Yeah, and I think that as opposed to any necessary clerk staffing, if perhaps the language has changed to, you know, a staff member, as opposed to, I think when I read it, I thought it sounded like there was, you know, the parking clerk could hire whoever they really wanted, and as many people as they wanted to take on those duties. And I think just having that may be a little more clear. Might say some confusion down the road. Doug, you got in this, you know what is? Yes. Go ahead, Mary. I was just gonna say, could you just say that one more time? Yeah. Because are we striking exactly? Of course, so after on page three, under a select man duties and responsibilities and other parking personnel, it says at present, the parking clerk receives a $20,000 stipend for him or herself and any necessary assistant clerk staffing. So I would, I guess I didn't have the exact language, but I would strike, you know, any necessary assistant clerk staffing and insert the actual staff, you know, number that there is, which I believe is one. And then in, that was the first. And then in the, for the old night parking, as I brought up that when we discussed this originally, it's where on page four, it's actually on page five, where it does mention that you get eight, you know, you get eight free nights. I do think that I would ask if the board would consider pushing that out to 14. I think that's, you know. I thought we had. I thought we talked about it. I don't know if we actually took the vote to do it, but so those are the two changes, other than this, I think Mr. Greeley's done. I know he gives a lot of credit out to everyone else, but Mr. Greeley's really done an excellent job spearheading this and it wouldn't have come to fruition without him. Well, thank you for opining on that. They were worried today, right, Ms. Mohan? And I just wanted to put it back. Just for clarity, are we all in agreement that we want to allow the 14, right? Yes. Okay, all right. And just to review the discussion that we had previously, I had brought up about having this snow emergency in the townwide van and seeing one incident, my hearing about four or five, but seeing one actually myself where the street was literally blocked for four and a half, five hours. Then the town manager indicated that after the snow, winter season was over, he was gonna sit down and assess and evaluate, including that point. So just with the caveat that in the future on page 11 or 12 that there'd be, I had suggested $100. The highest fine is $200, but I can't decapitate it. But if something that, if the town manager agrees, whatever he wants to call that particular violation where there's a snow emergency, a parking ban in effect, and you've totally blocked the street off. So I think that falls under failing to leave an unobstructed 10 foot lane of traffic. Okay. But you're saying you want that to be $100 fine? Well, I wanted to ask the town manager to see if in the case of a, you know, the two times we have a parking ban because of a snow emergency. I can see two different things where, you know, failing to leave an unobstructed 10 foot lane of traffic. I can see someone getting a $25 fine for that in the course of normal, you know, it's regular weather and usually people can get by anyways. But if there should be something separate where there's a snow emergency parking ban and you're totally blocking access to a street, a public way. So that's that. If the board, if it's the board's prerogative to add another penalty, it's something that can be considered, but that's the current area of penalty that the enforcement uses if you're blocking a roadway during a snow emergency. Ms. Greely. Yes. Would that not be as opposed to failing to leave an unobstructed lane? Is that interference with plowing or removal of snow or ice? If you're doing it while plowing is happening? Yes. But if you're just parked on a snow bank and you're blocking the roadway and plowing is done, it wouldn't apply. I guess, I don't think I'd support pushing that out to 100. I think that's a pretty steep fine. And I just, well, and I'm comfortable leaving it at 25. And I think when we discussed this last time, it was noted that it's a towable fence, so there is an additional expense there. It is a serious infraction. What it is, I saw it happen once and heard about it four times. Cars couldn't be towed because the tow truck couldn't get down. I live right near the autist and literally this person parked in the middle of the street, not even across from a double driveway and diagonally across from a hydrant and the tow truck couldn't get down because the way she had blocked it and there were cars parked there, even though there was a van, but everybody understands as long as you, and she was there for four and a half hours. So maybe I can just talk to the tail manager, see if I can come up with something in the future, put it before the full board. To me, a $25 fine for walking a major street like that for four and a half hours just doesn't, you know, in that circumstance. Well, let me have, if it's okay with the chairman out of the conversation with the tail manager. And then if the board decides not to do that, that's fine too. Thank you. Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Daryl. On the, this is not a change so much as a recommendation for a future augmentation. And I think I'm, I suggested this in a relative past thing, but it's to request an on street permit permanent. We've list the bullet points about like what the criteria would be. I really think we could, we would do well to give a few examples of ones that were approved and ones that were rejected, because I think that would help people understand more before they get into the process about what criteria is being applied. Because without examples, it's very hard to understand what happens. But I think it leads to some false hopes that we could frankly, you know, educate people faster in the process if we did that. But I'm happy to, yes, I'm voting yes. This is just for a future improvement. Okay, but what, so we're at page six. Am I to request a non street permit permanent? Yep. What you're saying is you'd like two examples, one example, one we approved, and one example, one we did not approve. I think that it might even be because we might even need more than one each. Because for instance, for medical conditions, we could explain, you know, in this case we said yes, because of this medical condition, in this case we said no, because they had this option. In this case we said yes, because they literally, there is no frontage. In this case we said no, because they could put a driveway in, they're just choosing not to. Like, you know, I think we should talk about each one of those. But we can't put in an address, right? You're not saying we specifically. Right, that's correct. Right, yeah. I think picture, frankly, if you just took some of the pictures and you didn't say what street it was from some of our past cases, I think that would probably be okay, you know. Can I just, just for consideration of what Mr. Dunlop was saying. Oh, you would actually, Oh, after Mr. Carroll, no. But you want to comment on what, that's okay, that's okay, that's okay. I'm just thinking of one of the things in terms of highlighting examples, it might be beneficial to highlight the example because we get it so much that just because your landlord has a driveway and says you can't use it, doesn't mean. That's exactly the type of thing. I think that would help a lot, especially when we got a piece of correspondence today about that, when people are considering renting or owning. So just, I would put that as maybe one of the case scenarios. That's all. Mr. Gurley, thank you. Okay, Mr. Carroll. Thank you, thank you. Great work. Really, really this was great. I just had a couple of comments. The licenses and permits summary, I'm really happy to see a comprehensive list of all the licenses and permits that we're responsible for and to steal your phrase, Mr. Gurley. I tingle with anticipation for the first time we issue a fortune teller license. I think we should appoint them directly to the Long Ridge Planning Committee. We have. We have. I'm sure, I'm sure. The only thing I would say about this page is this is all very, very helpful, but it seems like in some cases here, I guess in all cases we're listing how many licenses are outstanding, but we're not listing what the maximum number is that's available. In some cases, like taxi cabs and all alcohol packaged stores and restaurants, we do have maximums, and it would be helpful to me if we had the maximum allowed and the current number issued here as of whatever date this is printed. It's just as reference. On page eight of the parking. Excuse me. Transferring merchandise, municipal public parking places prohibited. I think I understand the intent of that. Does that not cause a little bit of ambiguity with the farmer's market? It does, but that had been considered at one point in time. I don't have the point when it was, but I was deemed during the farmer's market when you approved that, that that would. This question was raised. Yeah, I'd have to go back and read some minutes, but it had been questioned in the past. Okay, I just wanna make sure we're not putting something in there than, I mean, obviously not banning the farmer's market. Could you say something like with selectment approval or if you'd like, if that, you know. I think I'd feel comfortable with that. Mr. Cohen. So I'm thinking about Mr. Cura's point about the licenses. And I do think that that's helpful information, but do you think it would be, what about adding a line like contact office about, to inquire about the number, as opposed to having it in this, so we don't have- About the number outstanding. Yeah, so we don't have to change it. The number currently issued. I agree, no, I agree. I totally agree. Yeah, because I do think that's helpful information. I totally agree. But maybe if, maybe if we just have a line like that instead of having to- I totally agree. I totally agree, but I think it would be helpful to have the maximum number in here, where there is a maximum. Those few where there's a maximum. Yeah. The only other comment I had is, I really like this last page, which I think was just provided as reference for us, the handbook recap. I like to suggest that we include a page like this with the revision history in the final handbook so that we know exactly when each policy in the handbook has been adopted. I think it's very helpful. Yep. That's it. That's all my comments. I'm sorry, I thought you were all stunned when I chimed in- Oh, that's okay. I'm insecure, sorry. That's okay. Oh, I did too, sorry. Just to get back to your point, just to put something on the table for consideration for licenses and permits, maybe for the four or five licenses and or permits that are maxed out, maybe we just put an asterisk next to those and then on the bottom just put a footnote asterisk. This indicates, you know, this permit or licenses, max out isn't the one where it works. That might be an easier way maybe to accomplish some part of that. So I'm not saying that has to be done. I just wanted to put that out as a suggestion. Yep. That's fine with me too. I think that's easier than going through all of them because it is only four or five where it's a limited number anyhow, so. But this is helpful reference for us, I think, to know this number every once in a while, yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Anybody else? So again, so let me ask someone to move approval on licenses and the permit summary, please. Some more. And seconded? Seconded. And that's gonna be amended with adding an asterisk beside those where we have given out all of the licenses that we have available with an asterisk at the bottom that says, no further licenses available as of whatever date at this time, all right, Marianne? Okay. So then if you go to the parking policies summary, my question to you is do we wanna bother including that in the handbook or just keep going now and you come to table of contents and just include the whole parking summary in the whole parking policy in the handbook itself? You see what I mean? Why bother with the one page summary? I guess is what I'm asking, because I think it's pretty thorough. Why not just include the whole policy? Okay. Mr. Chair. A problem? Sorry. Never mind. Unless, no, go ahead Doug, go, go, yeah. So another option would be that, just to remind the board and the sort of handbook summary prepared by Ms. Sullivan is really helpful. You guys are gonna have a sort of a product that is approved but ultimately is gonna be revisited once it's all together to make sure that the complete version is serviceable for what you need to. So whatever you guys vote, we can move things around once you've got a complete version. The integral piece now is to have updated policy so that we're not just trying to have such a massive enterprise before the board all at once so that we're doing the substantive piece of it but in terms of the aesthetic piece of it and how usable and user-friendly it is, we can revisit all of these issues in terms of organization and whether the one sheets are necessary or not necessary for each things once it's sort of all compiled together. Okay. So then let's do this. Leave the parking policy summary alone. Just forget that page and let me have someone make a motion to approve the final on the parking policy itself with the changes that were brought up here tonight. Some more. It's okay. Is that all right with everything? All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye all those opposed. Marianne and Doug, are you clear? No, seriously, I mean, you know, do we need to review or? No, no, I'm clear on the above. I guess with the summary, the parking policy summary, we're gonna leave that. Leave that out for now. That's not approved or anything. Leave it out, okay, that's what I wasn't. And then we'll leave that. And I think Doug's point is once we have all of this, we'll kind of then go back and say, all right, do we need a one page here or not? Right, Doug? Okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so we did approve the licenses and that summary permits and summary as a one page and we then approved the actual parking policies and regulations. All right? Okay. Which we had done before, but I understand we've made a couple of changes and I would send it in the right. Okay. Thank you all. And as I say, our committee's gonna meet. The, you know, the history of the Board of Selectman is out there. Code of conduct is something that's out there that we need to discuss and see whether or not we want it included. And you see that handbook recap at the very end there. That's what we as a committee will be discussing on Wednesday morning. It's like, where are we and where are we going from here? So thanks for your patience on this project. Thank you. Okay. Final votes and comments, article 14, 15, 18 and 45. We'll approve it. We'll approve it. Second. Yes, Mr. Dunn. You know you can't do these things without me having a comment, right? We love you. Under article 15. This is one of the, it's a challenging one because I think we all reached our conclusions not necessarily through the same reasoning. And the same, and so there's a number of things here that I don't necessarily particularly consider my motivation and I'm not suggesting that we remove them. But I do have something here that I, there's what, the reason that particularly motivated me that I would like to highlight more strongly and I want to talk it over with the rest of the Board to see if the rest of the Board agrees. So top of the third paragraph, it says additionally must be noted that the Board of Assessors has not expressed support for either of these changes in isolation. So I think that, and I don't think anywhere else, I think the Board of Assessors explicitly said they don't want these changes. And I think that we should acknowledge that. I don't think that that's anywhere, I didn't, I don't think we said that boldly or strongly enough that, and separately, and that their choice to say no was one of my strong motivators. And so I would prefer to change that first sentence and break it off from that paragraph and make it a paragraph by itself. I think it is important that it doesn't, I'm not saying that it has to, it doesn't have a word count that it has to have, but the Assessors said they don't want it. We were not inclined to go against their wishes in this particular something, you know. So with the feedback from the Board, I would prefer that that comment be updated that way. I concur, I concur. Doug? Of the Mr. Chair? No, I concur with that. I have another comment, a separate comment. So if you'll indulge me for just a moment, this does have to go to print on this week, ideally. I would be happy to approve it with. It's gonna be mailed by Thursday. I would be happy to approve it with our amendment and to the final judgment of the chair, you know, something like that. Like we approve and we give the power to Kevin to. Of course. Yeah, I think that would work. Okay. I'm okay with that and I think it shouldn't be hard to articulate what Mr. Dunn is saying that needs to be worded more clearly and decisively. It matters to me, that's why I'm here, sorry. So just to be clear, basically the Board followed the recommendation of no action by the Board of Assessors. I mean, I know you want to set differently than that, but that's basically what you wanted clear. We took their input on it, I believe. I want their opinion to be recorded in our report so that no one is questioning what the Board of Assessors said when they talked to us. Okay. And I think it should also say that that was, at least for some of us, a strong reason that we reached the conclusion that we did. It was for me too, I'm glad to say that, so yeah. Okay, Doug, is that it? Yes. All right. Okay, so is yours on a different article or same? Oh, it's this article. All right, so keep going. Yep, go ahead. Just three tight boasts, I notice. I'm sorry. On the first vote, it says from and elected to an appointed Board, it should be, obviously that's and, not and. Thank you, Mr. Kerr. The vote count was actually three to one, well, three, one, zero actually. Mr. Grayley recused himself, I believe. That's correct. I was in the negative on that vote. That's right. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then I also noticed in the first paragraph, it refers to select men, Grayley. He is larger than life, but he is one, so. That's all, thank you. Okay, so those are the two changes to article 15. Anybody have any changes to 14, 18, or 45? Okay, so all those in favor of final approval of these votes and comments, please say the five by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. All right. And then correspondence received. Oversee. Second. Second. Do we need any discussion when it's not to be sent to the attack? Correct. It's coming from the envelope. All right. All those in favor, please say the five. I've received, please say the five by saying aye. Aye. Aye. I suppose. New business. Mary-Anne. No, actually no new business. Mr. Heim. No new business. Mr. Chapter Lane. Got a little bit of a list tonight. He's got a list going on. All good, all good. One, first piece of new business in coming out of this tough winter for businesses in Arlington, the planning department and particularly economic development planner, Ted Fields, is gonna launch this week a shop local program that will include banners, signs and store fronts, and also a punch card game that was actually just copied from something that Cambridge was doing where you'll receive a raffle card. If you shop at a certain number of local businesses, they'll sign the card. Once you've got enough, you'll be entered into a raffle to win gift cards donated by various stores in Arlington. So just trying to put together a little program to try to rally some support for local businesses in Arlington. I think we have 18 businesses so far who have donated a gift card, all in $25 increments to the program, and we expect to have upwards of 24 or 25 participating. So expect to see more coming out this week with details on the program. Moving on from there, Mayor Walsh in Boston is putting together one Boston day on Wednesday to commemorate the two year anniversary of the marathon bombing, but instead of just commemorating the tragedy of that day, using the opportunity to really bring to light the kindness and the collaboration and the great efforts that people all over the region do on a daily basis. So he's asked all cities and towns in the region to take part in that. So we'll also be doing that. We'll be putting out some stuff on social media as well as town notices about our participation. There'll be a moment of silence in the afternoon, but also we're gonna try to find some instances of acts of kindness in town that day and push them out via social media channels. Preview of something that will be coming before the board in the future. We are close to coming to terms with Winchester on a regionalization of veteran services with Jeff Chunglow. So we would need to put together an inter-miniscible agreement for the board to approve. What we're looking at right now would be a six month pilot from July 1st to December 30th with an assessment to begin on December 1st to see how well it's working and see if we wanna continue it. So it's a very small stride, but I think an important stride. So there'll be more to come on that. It is Jeff Chunglow, am I understand? Correct, yeah. We're loaning him to Winchester is what we're doing. Or Bryce. Just as I was walking in here, I saw that the president finally did order FEMA funds for the blizzard from January 26th to 28th. So there'll be certainly money coming from that and it also said there was still a decision being made on the follow-up storms. Wednesday morning, the Chamber of Commerce is holding an event right here in Town Hall where myself and Ted Fields are gonna address attendees from the business community. They're calling it the state of the town, though I hesitate to say that in front of the illustrious chairman who will be giving the real state of the town in just a few weeks of town meeting. Just wanna let you know about that. And then finally, piece of good news, DHCD has given the town a $15,000 housing grant to produce a housing production plan which is actually the first implementation step from the housing element of the master plan. So that's a good sort of kickstart to getting implementation of the master plan started. When you were at Finance Committee the other night, and I was watching it from home, I know there was a question about storm reimbursement and I think you said $118,000 or $188,000. Is this new declaration of the first storm January 26th through 28th as a federal disaster? Does that mean we'll be receiving funds above and on top of that original figure that you gave to FinCom or is that what you were? No, so what we had given to FinCom was what we would claim if FEMA did allow reimbursement. I don't have that data in front of me. My recollection is for all of the storms in February, we would be claiming what would result on a 75% reimbursement of $750,000. I think for just the January storm, it was $150,000. So what this would be saying is now it's official that the federal government is gonna foot that bill and sometime probably in the next 18 months we would be receiving some kind of reimbursement. Thank you. I'm done. Well done. Good stuff, thank you. Mr. Byron. Thank you very much. Just like to comment on the DHCD grant. I think that's coming at a really good time and with all these new guard discussions going on, I'd like to see how perhaps that housing plan can play a role in stopping that, any potential development that comes along there. And other than that, I just have one comment. We have five new firefighters in town, graduated last week. Ed Buchler, Paul Flynn, Richard Gallagher, Chris Mansfield and Brandon Stratton. So I know a few of those guys and very welcome additions to town and I know they'll serve that department well. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Byron. I just have one thing. I just wanna let everybody know here at home on Friday, April 24th at the Sons of Italy starting at seven o'clock. We're having sort of not a fundraiser, but a celebration. It's called an evening of comedy for Bob Jerobo. He's kind of dealt a real, four or five real serious hands in terms of medical issues that he has to deal with. And when we asked him, can we do something for you? Can we have a fundraiser for you? He basically said, no, I'd like to get together, have a celebration. And if there were any monies raised, that'd go towards a scholarship. So I just wanted to let everyone here know about that as well as everyone at home. I mean, typical of Bob, he's really facing some serious battles ahead of him and he doesn't want anything for himself. He wants, if anything, he basically just remember me. So we're having a fundraising night. We're gonna have some comedians there. Lots of businesses have donated items that will raffle off to establish a scholarship in his name. And then the only other thing I would ask is that you just keep him in your prayers and give him strength for what he's about to face. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Carrick? No, no business. Mr. Dunn? None. Well, the only thing I have is we need to make sure that three of you are gonna be able to be there Wednesday night, right, for the cable? Yeah, I'll be there, I'll be there. Yes, yes, and so therefore, Mr. Dunn, we need you to run it, sir. Oh, really? Because I'll be in New York and Mrs. Mahon can't be there. And I believe that makes you the senior member of the three that will be there. Okay. We made those handbook changes. All right, and so, okay, sounds good. Right, well that's how it always would have done. So what you're saying is that this is a meeting I have to wear at time. Am I saying that's a meeting where it has to wear at time? Probably. Yes, well, the mayor is holding that yes in the back of the room. Can we reschedule it to after Memorial Day, so I don't? All right, motion to adjourn, is there a second? The next meeting of the board of select men will be April 27th. All those in favor of adjourning, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? We is adjourned.