 Welcome to the board of slackers meeting for may Monday, May 13th, 2013. Our first item is the consent agenda. We've got meeting of minutes for April 22nd, 2013. We have a request for a one day beer and wine license for May 19th at here town hall for rack tie. We have a request one day all alcohol license for May 18th for Fidelity House's annual fundraiser. We have three new election workers to be appointed Donna Agostino, Elizabeth A. McDaniel and Vincent A. Natal. We have two reappointments to the Arlington Community Tourism and Economic Development also known as ATED, Angela Olszewski and Thomas Davison. We have a request for a contract of drain layer license from Lazaro Paving Corporation in Shirley Mass and a permit for the Memorial Day Parade which will be held on May 27th requested by our Director of Veteran Services William McCarthy. We'll approve it. Second. I have one change that I'd like to make to the minutes if the board would agree which is in the very first item, so as Mr. Donna asked the board voted to amend the board of slackment report, I'd like it noted that that was something that wasn't on the agenda that we tackled because we couldn't have anticipated it. This is on the minutes of April 22nd. Is there any objection to that change? No objection. Okay. No objection. All right. So we have a motion. We have an amendment. Any other discussion? Is anyone here who would like to talk about any of those I events or licenses or anything that I just called off? Seeing none. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. All right. Consent agenda is done. I'm going to pull one item out of order. And that is number 12. Selecting liaison to the battle road scenic by way task force. Clarissa. Welcome back. Thank you so much. I'm here and I'll hand out these. As some of you know Arlington is one of four towns that is part of the battle road scenic by way. The work to date has been an inventory and there's a report that I gave to some of you that weren't involved before. There's been a hiatus of two years. They've just gotten another grant. Our group has just gotten another grant through the MAPC to put together an implementation program and that's what we will be working on for the next probably through the summer into the fall. But I'm here tonight to ask you to appoint a Selectman's Liaison from the town of Arlington. Diane and I were both the Selectman that were on the initial report and I would welcome any of you to take my place if you'd like to. Mr. Greeley, much as I want to, I could not possibly do the job that has been done by Clarissa. I'd like to move that Clarissa remain as our liaison. Second. That be appropriate? That would be fine. There are quite a lot of meetings. I will be in the summertime bringing back some memorandums between the town which obviously I can't execute that you would have to execute. I will actually be calling on Mrs. Rice and Mr. Chaptilane to talk about what kind of legal entity we want to create. But I think it's a great step forward. In the next, after this implementation period, there might be money involved. So you'll hear from me. I think it would be great if either, well, probably Angela was appointed in my place as a member because she goes to every meeting. Howard Winkler also, except I think that he may be moving out of Arlington. He's moved to Arlington. So he'll come to every meeting anyway because he's been very involved. Let me suggest as far as that goes, I know that Ms. Raul and I have a meeting with the Tourism and Economic Development Committee on Wednesday, which I think grew out of this initiative. So maybe we can raise it there and find out if there's any other questions. I know she wants to come as we drive out together, but it's up to you. If that's acceptable, we could come back to the board if we need another representative. You'll be at that meeting? Yeah, yeah. And Ms. Raul will also. I would just, I mean, Angela's not here tonight, right? I would just, I mean, Angela's not here tonight, right? She's not here tonight. She's not here tonight. Yeah. And Ms. Raul will also. Adam? I would just, I mean, Angela's not here tonight, right? I would recommend we appoint her as well with the caveat that she accepts. And it seems like that, you know, they're looking for a selectman too. And if a guy's already on ATED, you know, wouldn't it make sense that if he could make some of these meetings as well? I'd like to amend my original motion to Clarissa Raul, Angela Olszewski, and as a selectman, Mr. Joe Currow. I know he's on 28 committees, but don't you think it makes sense for you to be on this one too? I don't know if we have that option. Reading this, I don't know. Don't we? Anybody can come to the meetings. And we do have a planning representative, either Laura Wiener or Ted Fields will be coming. It's a special interest of our community development and planning director as well. It looked like the organizational charter didn't allow that. On page two, it says two representatives from each town and then one board of selectman liaison. But Laura might be one of our representatives. So the two representatives includes a selectman liaison. That would be three. So it would be Laura plus Clarissa plus. Because you want somebody that really does the work. I'm not trying to shirk any duties. I just don't know what time it is. I thought Laura didn't want to do it any longer or something. So those three. With the explicit caveat that if Angela is not interested, then we'll find somebody else to do it. All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate you taking me out of order. Good to see you too. I meant to mention it in the very beginning. Diane Mahon has a family event and she may be joining us late. Depending upon when that event lets out. I meant to say that in the beginning. I apologize. All right. Returning to the order. Item number two. Newly appointed economic development planner. Carol, you've got an introduction for us. Yes, I'm happy to have a chance to introduce to you our new economic development planner, Ted Fields. Ted comes to us from having been the community development planner in Framingham and before that in the city of Waltham. Ted was on the redevelopment board for a couple years and I was almost wistful when he submitted his resume because he did such a great job on the redevelopment board. But once we started interviewing him, I realized that he had a lot of skills and technical experience that I didn't even realize he had. So we are very fortunate to have Ted Fields. He started April 29th and he's already making a difference. But I'm going to let you hear a little bit about it from him. Thank you. Welcome, Mr. Fields. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to serve the town and to help increase the economic activity in the town and make the tax base and the fiscal systems of the town more robust for future years. Do you want to tell us a little bit about your background? Sure. Framingham and whatever else is relevant. Sure. I started working as a planner for the city of New York. Then I moved into the community development area back in the late 90s when I worked for the city of Newton. And then I moved to Waltham where I ran the community development program there. Eventually became the assistant director. And two years ago I moved to Framingham to run their community development program. And then this opportunity to work here in town came up. And here I am. So I have long service in the community development field. Steve, thanks. I have one quick question. Sure. I was reading through the press release the town manager sent out. And it talks about the achieving a designated main streets downtown revitalization effort. That seems like something that might be pertinent. Can you kind of explain that a little bit? Sure. That took advantage of some unique demographics in Framingham's downtown where you have a very large concentration of very low income housing next to the historic downtown which has gone through a number of life cycle changes. The advent of Route 9 and Route 30 in the Golden Triangle really sucked a lot of economic vitality out of the old downtown along with factory closures and whatnot. So we used the plan designation to target block grant funds from the federal government to start a main streets program that has really done a great job in working with immigrant business owners to really revitalize the downtown. Thank you. Mr. Greeley. Yes. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for your excellent service and the redevelopment board. Thank you. What will surely be excellent service here. Will you miss town meeting at all? Well, the Framingham town meeting is renowned for its, the depth of its debate and the length of its debate. I think they went seven weeks last year. So it's nothing new to me. I'm used to robust discussion. I think 14 is our record. Although it's six this year. Okay. So I wondered, you know, let's say if we took a corridor like East Arlington, do you think a, are you familiar with that project? Yes. You think that would be good for the economic development of that region? Reconstructing the mess. Yes. I think it would be. That's one of those. I think I knew that answer before. Look forward to working with you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm very happy that you're on. Oh, thank you. I know we've encountered one another up and on over the years. We've been on redevelopment board. I think you know that a lot of folks are looking at really kind of the inseparability of the arts and economic development in town. There's a lot of interest. You know, we had talked a bit with the last economic development director around this, with the Cultural Commission. Right. And it came up a town meeting about, you know, the interest in promoting bossking and such. And I don't know if you've, you know, put any thought into how that might translate here in Arlington. Yes. I have, as a matter of fact, I've been meeting tomorrow with the Film Festival folks. And I think those type of festivals are an excellent opportunity to increase foot traffic in our commercial corridors, especially in different seasons. And I would look to build upon existing programs to augment them. Also in Framingham, I launched an initiative to use federal funds to try to attract artists and creative professionals to live around the downtown. Kind of as pioneers. Similar to what we saw in the Seaport District where artists moved in and revitalized the Fort Channel, Fort Point Channel area years before there was a Seaport District and eventually they became priced out. The point is they really sowed the seeds for the regeneration we're seeing now. And a lot of artists in Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge are being priced out of those towns by the property market and they're moving west, north, and south. And I think it might be an opportunity to capture some of those folks to set up shop galleries, studios and even residences here and to use their vitality to augment activity in the centers. I like what I'm hearing. Thanks, we look forward to working with you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'd like to add one more point. Thank you. I think it's important to mention that Ted has resigned from the Redevelopment Board so that's created a vacancy. So there is a call for candidates that may be closing very soon but we are looking for great candidates for that vacancy on the Redevelopment Board. Some of the board members have observed that they could use engineering assistance sometimes on special permit reviews but we would also welcome planners because Ted was our only planner on the board but anyone interested if this is live I'd love to make sure that we get their resume and I wanted you to know that he has resigned from the Redevelopment Board. And they send resumes here? And resume to the time manager's office. Time manager, okay. And a letter of interest. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, introduction of the Route 128 Business Council. Adam. Alright, so I want to introduce to the board from the Route 128 Business Council introduce both of you. We have Monica Tibbets who is an Arlington resident, the executive director of Route 128 Business Council. Patrick Sullivan. The director of policy and outreach. Arlington born and raised. That was a mistake. Agreed. But we're lucky to have two people who know Arlington very well. But with that said Route 128 Business Council Transportation Management Association Lexington was the first municipality to join Arlington I believe would be the second and we're looking as part of this membership for some very specific help or work from them and I'll let Patrick talk a little bit about it but we're very interested in seeing how we can better manage or better provide transportation for folks who live in Arlington to get to the 128 corridor where they may work. So we're using CDBG planning money to enter into this membership but they can offer that service but they also have a wide range of planning services they can offer which can really enhance what we can do within our planning department and help us with the master plan. Patrick, do you want to talk a little bit about what you're planning to bring to Arlington? I'd be happy to. Thank you for inviting us this evening. The 128 Business Council is a transportation management association that's been in existence for 25 years. We're located in Waltham and we provide a range of transportation demand management services. Those services range from traditional carpool matching and guaranteed ride home programs to commuter shuttle services. We currently operate 11 different commuter shuttles right now. Six of which originate out of Alewife station and bring commuters from Alewife out to office parks in the Lexington and Waltham area. Myself and Monica we're both trained planners and we have been working as Adam mentioned with the town of Lexington on a number of different initiatives to help address transportation issues they see in the town whether it be with their Lexpress system we work with them from everything from redesigning the logo that you see on the Lexpress vehicle to looking at some of their routing. We're also working with the town's economic development director on providing more public transportation service to the Hartwell Ave area where they have a number of businesses and they're looking to provide more options for commuters in that area. So working with the town manager's office as well as with the planning department we've come up with a work plan of a few very specific projects to help Arlington. The first being we're going to take a look at some zip code data journey to work data and see if we can help Arlington residents, Arlington commuters get to work in a more reasonable manner. So whether they work in the 128 quarter and perhaps there's an opportunity for them to use the existing shuttles that we provide or if there are opportunities for other transit opportunities emanating from Arlington going out anywhere. That's something we're going to examine. We're also going to take a look at or we're going to work with the economic development and tourism to develop a series of maps and these maps are going to highlight the historic sites in Arlington and what we hope to do with these maps is point out not just not just your standard map but we want to show how these sites are connected to or can be connected to from both bike, pedestrian, public transportation so multimodal access points. Thank you very much. I am very excited about this that we've brought you on. My own company is actually a corporate member of the business council out on 128 and I know that I've had occasion to use your shuttle service but it always struck me that in order to do that to go into ale life and it skips right over Arlington and then makes frequent stops along the way in Lexington, Waltham and many other places and we know we have a lot of we just know anecdotally we have a lot of people who are tech workers and workers in financial sectors who are working out there. I know from the other end of my own company that when we did survey data of the communities where people lived I think Arlington was the second or third highest so I think there may be a match. I'm very interested in what we have and I think especially the third point in the planning directors memo to us about possible shuttle service from ale life station to points in Arlington that may be hard to access without a car such as weekend service to the sim site. In our packet this evening I think we saw that the MBTA has agreed to recommence bus service up to that large development which includes a large surrounding area. I'm very interested that this is one of the places that you're going to be examining. Anything we can do to try to support and retain the folks who are living here in Arlington and maybe some of those commuters when they're on their way back to ale life will decide to get off the shuttle and have dinner here in town and I'm very excited about it. Thank you. No, I think it's interesting with our first our first three agenda items tonight they're all kind of intertwined. I think it really shows our commitment and I'd like to thank the town manager for that to you know really improving on the economic development in Arlington. One question I did have is and I am excited about this as Mr. Kira said I know he's brought this up before and especially at our regional meeting with the people from other communities this came up as well with this Arlington you know it talks about our membership fees and then it talks about the study and the analysis of it what comes I guess with being a member of the 128 business council can you kind of give a small overview of that what will you know as opposed to I guess you look at it as the study and analysis and then moving forward do you think it's I guess would it be likely that we can enhance on that and display it? I do the way we calculate that yearly membership fee is pretty simple it's based on the number of residents in the community and what we did during our initial meetings with the town manager and with the planning department was discuss what that fee would be and then within that fee the variety of services we could offer one place where I think there might be opportunity to expand upon the work we're doing right now is that when we're developing the maps that I referenced and we're working with the economic development and tourism committee we hope to work very closely very collaboratively with them and during that work if there's something else that comes out of that we'll be certainly be happy to take the ball and run with it on that as well so if there is a certain part of town where maybe we want to highlight restaurants in East Arlington for example maybe there's an opportunity to build a map around that or a marketing campaign around that that's something we can certainly explore awesome it's very cool I look forward to it thank you thank you very much for being here my office is on Wyman Street but I really don't know much about this but I've seen the shuttle going by and I wonder where could I get that but now I hear it our wife would there be a process to figure out whether it could do multiple stops in Arlington or not would that be based on your survey yes we're going to look at again census data from Arlington residents take some zip code data put some maps together to see where they're called journey to work maps to look at where people are going we also have a lot of data from some of the employers in Waltham and what we can do is look at that data as well and see how many Arlington residents they're reporting are living in those communities and determine if that's something we would want to move forward with and how do you coordinate with MBTA I assume these shuttles are where they're not going right? that's correct for the most part we don't run redundant service with the MBTA because we've been in existence for 25 years we've been operating these shuttles for so long we've developed a collaborative relationship with the MBTA so they're well aware of the routes that we run we share our ridership data with them so they know who's getting on to our vehicles and in the three years I've been with the business council I can't think of any instances where we've ever had any disagreement fights between the drivers no sir thank you have you considered a helicopter service for the roof of alewife I think that would make a lot of sense the monorail running underneath Mass Ave is the first project we're looking at how many lanes will that monorail take Diane we're saying welcome did you have anything else you wanted to have no thank you sorry I was late I apologize thank you both very much for coming did you have anything you want to say alright thank you very much we're looking forward to doing more things thanks again we're looking forward to working with the town not for pep but I would like to point out that Monica is on the master plan advisory committee so it is very cool that this is all going on at the same time that is excellent thank you very much alright next up we have lesliella school request school zone designation foster in tough streets I think that the appropriate thing for this is I wonder if I may I just wanted to introduce Mike Bowden who I believe most of you have met individually but Mike is the new management analyst in the town manager's office and he has duties both in terms of the town manager's office putting together budgetary documents but also managing the town's rental properties such as the department or the Gibbs the Downland library so he prepared a memo in regards to requests for school zone designation for foster in tough street and I wanted him to have an opportunity to speak to the board he's the man that I had no idea what his name was during the meeting when I was doing the introductions going around a great job running and whoever that is welcome very much thank you very much I could introduce myself afterwards you did as Adam said I also have responsibilities in addition to the financial aspect in managing the town rental properties and a few weeks ago the school nurse from lesliella's tenant of the Gibbs school requested that we investigate up school zonage signs on toughs and foster street the two streets that are but the Gibbs property specifically she had noted drivers driving over the speed limit down both of those streets and she was hoping that the town could do something as landlord to sort of remedy that situation so before I made the proposal I looked into it a little bit and as you may know the Gibbs school also has another school learn to grow and it also holds the keller her center which counts among its clients some physically and mentally disabled individuals so this idea really made sense and before coming to you I spoke with officer Cory Rato of the traffic traffic enforcement division and found out some interesting things first that their initial request was for slow children designated sign he found that in other communities that never works people actually disregard that because it's not specific enough it's vague they don't know where the children are residential area could be anywhere so he suggested the school zones signage because people associate that with higher fees and things like that and it may deter people even more from speeding so I come to you echoing that recommendation asking that this be brought to the traffic advisory administration advisory committee to designate that area a school zone and to have proper signage put up reflecting that Kevin yeah I'm not sure I believe we're the ones who would make that designation is that correct correct and Michael welcome thank you is there a recommendation as to how many signs should be placed or is there a standard or anything on that already we suggested just two 50 feet from the school from the school property because both streets are one way so you would just need one as you go down Tufts and one as you come down Foster as well I'd like to move that we do that unless people really think we have to pass this through tack for some reason second I don't know yeah I just have one question on it I'm wondering you know looking at the map we also have Andrew and Raleigh coming into that that property also I wonder if through the school zone if we have to mark that on all four approaches I I lean towards myself but I certainly don't feel strongly I'm certainly not opposed to the request I was just curious if they had any other suggestions or additions more than anything else so I mean I'd be inclined to vote the question but also send a request to find out if we need to actually put two more signs I just feel we send them a lot and I don't know but I'm glad if that's if the board would feel more comfortable especially considering Joe's question if you want to what would they recommend I agree that I guess with everyone on the board for I do think that we send a lot of attack but I would be interested to see what else you know they might have to say on this matter as well so I might change my motion to refer to attack and I don't think you know if they are doing quite a lot of they are focusing on many projects right now and I think that with the scale of this they might be able to hopefully run through it a little more quickly I think I feel I understand thank you Mr. Really for your joy I'm on a roll I don't know what Mr. Currow can aid us on this I'm blanking but I'm going over in my head especially on Tufts where the Callagher Center is I think it might correct that all of our public elementary schools have that sign that during school hours 7 to 9 or 7 to 8 30 and then in the afternoon it flashes 20 not all of them some do we have not put it in all places so they're not in all the elementary I don't believe so they're at Brackett, they're at Dallin they're at Pierce they're going to be at Thompson they're at Bishop I can't think of any at Hardy can you comment down on the street I want to say yeah when you come down right by Herbert not Pat Costa maybe in line with Mr. Greeley's motion if we could also ask if they feel is this suitable comparable to all the elementary schools if it is can we get it in the queue understanding that can't happen overnight that's a big thing so just to be clear we're looking at two signs now a school zone sign and then the speed sign the speed during school hours and whether we need them on the side and I'm sure TAC will come up TAC will study it for the next three weeks somebody at every corner they're very thorough any further discussion all those in favor please say aye aye 5-0 next up taste of Arlington from the chamber of commerce who do we have thank you Mr. Chairman Bruce Fitzsimmons speaking tonight as a member of a board of directors of the chamber of commerce the purpose of my being here is to invite the town to serve as a co-host for this year's taste of Arlington which is scheduled for October 22nd at the town hall this event which has proven to be very popular in the past brings together local restaurants and invites the public to come in and enjoy sample menus it's a way of promoting our local restaurant community it gives a great evening out for members of the community and it also helps to fray some of the chamber of commerce's overhead expenses and programming budget for other events designed to support the business community you should have in your materials a letter from Randall Buck who is this year's co-chair of the event it gives a pretty good overview of what the event is all about and what we're asking the town to do aside from being a co-host and having your co-sponsorship on various marketing materials there's really not a lot of heavy lifting involved in this we're not asking for a financial contribution just a little bit of help in terms of marketing the event so if you have other questions I'd be glad to answer them Mr. Greeley I move that we co-host and taste first while I'll go to all the restaurants first Bruce you're going to do a dry run before you go no but I will be co-host I think it's a great idea Mr. Curell I will second and note that the event is scheduled for my birthday so expect a big cake we'll see what we can do Joe further discussion no that's great thanks all those in favor please say aye aye 5-0 thank you very much thank you alright next up we have public hearings these were scheduled for being past 7.15 we've met our legal requirements and first up is a table from 4.22 we have Shafan K. Nath doing business as airport express would you come on up to the microphone please good evening sir how are you pretty good how about you so one of the questions that we had for you was the color scheme or insignia to designate your vehicle and so I see that you've got a Toyota Sienna L.E. minivan that's silver you've got a Toyota Avalon sedan that's black you said full detail attached and I've got like the picture of what the cars look like is there anything on the door like paint on the door that signifies what no that's the livery vehicle but when I got the permit if you give me the permit then I can change it everything but what do you intend to put on the door the logo what logo oh it's this thing oh it's this thank you I now understand I was confused what other question I have a question and I believe you've done everything right it's just sort of a standing question that has come up with the Hackney licenses and I just wanted to ask town council on I think it's the third or fourth page in the declaration sheet from Arbella some of the previous taxi Hackney licenses and re-licenses that we've approved specifically with the globe when they did that story how some taxi companies weren't keeping very high policies of liability if somebody got hurt in the taxi cab the way I read it here I see that he has different 20,000 each person each accident a million each accident is this the kind of insurance policy that I was sort of going toward is this satisfied the previous ones that have come in have only had like a thousand or two thousand or something like that but the way I read this this has the higher limits with the board's regulations require is 20 and 40 so this that's being supplied meets those requirements certainly if the board wished to amend its regulations to apply to renewals going forward I'd be happy to work with them but yeah this application is not a very good one but I think each person 40 each accident which is what's required in the regulations and then the million is something does that still apply to accidents for optional bodily injury right that's I'm not an insurance expert yeah that's an additional combined single limit and what I'm saying is this is great I don't want you highlighting one that's on the higher end but what I have was that the town manager and town council we're going to investigate this see what the city of Boston does and perhaps come back with some recommendations for the future because as a court reporter in medical malpractice this is the kind of liability insurance policy I want to see and the ones we've seen before I mean he's gone over and above what we require because that's what we require right now not putting any other I just would like to as the town manager I believe in town council are doing just go through the exercise see what the city of Boston and other cities and towns are doing and maybe we need to in the future have a little bit higher so liability policies look more like this so I want to thank you your insurance before I was concerned that our requirements were too low but you went on the high end anyways you have everything and then some more so thank you this really this is for town council on the registration the certificate of registration says livery but we're licensing a taxi correct correct so that needs to be changed correct I'm not sure it's registered any differently with the registry okay and I think I asked this before will inside the cab will there be a meter it should be a meter yes yes okay thank you I guess my concern was the same as what Mr. Dunn raised at the beginning I feel like we're getting closer here on the distinctive markings for the cab but we're not quite there yet I mean I do see the logo now that you've pointed it out although the two vehicles are different color schemes I don't see any reference to the contact information for the cab company and I also couldn't help but notice that the email contact information for your cab company is exactly the same as the next applicant that we will be hearing and I don't know are you operating as separate companies we work together he's my co-worker he worked for me he worked for me that's why you applied together he had his own vehicle so when I had an extra job I give it to him he helped me out okay when we when we are getting in touch with you via email and who is the email going to is it going to you it's going to you so you're actually applying for three licenses not two because he had his own car he said I can do my apply myself but today he said he's not coming he's not feeling well the Mohammed is not coming tonight because he cannot make it yet he's not feeling well so Steve so if he's not here he won't be getting a license tonight it's up to us or yeah that's strange I would like to see maybe a little bit more on the on the actual you know detail but I think I'm going to go down to it I am comfortable with this license with this application and I think that we have to look at at least for me I look at it as two separate ones and I'd be less comfortable with how this next one is filled out as opposed to this one so I would are you ready to make a motion I move can I stop you Mr. Chairman we have five to give out we have seven applicants could I recommend sir we listen to all of them and then come back and actually decide you know I mean if we give out five before we even reach number nine how fair was that just because he's listed as number nine we only have five to go well I think that's appropriate I think we could do that and I'm okay with it if the rest of the board is comfortable with us earlier and we tabled it and I think that should count in our decision in some way when we get to play but that's that said alright is there any question is the rest of the board comfortable with hearing everybody and then yes okay so why don't you have a seat we're going to come back to a motion after we listen to everybody else okay thank you Mohamed Shah Shah excuse me Shah Jahan move to table oh did Mr. Bern do that sorry so depending on how many licenses we give out I guess next up Hackney license Limilex Daniel Calantar Daniel so you came to us earlier this year you got two licenses and you've been operating them both yes this is good I guess this is good that's why it's called the DBA good taxi but I'm very grateful for the licenses that I've been granted so far and currently operate three taxi cabs in Arlington because I had a license prior to the last request and receiving the last two and I think that this is a case of supply creating demand I think that the town in the past might have been somewhat and people were going for an option that is different from a taxi cab for transportation or whatever other needs they may have and I think now I know that earlier there were concerns that there may be too many cabs in Arlington I don't think that is articulated itself so far so in short I'm happy with how the business is progressing we're receiving a lot of positive feedback from our customers in Arlington and we have those reviews online and just verbally and otherwise so just one thing I want to mention is that I haven't really started very aggressively advertising in Arlington I mean we have an ad running in the advocate but there may be more advertising and I'm concerned that if I start doing that which obviously I would like to as a business owner to promote the company a little better I may not be able to handle that demand unless I get a couple more vehicles and so I come to you with that request and hoping that you know we'll be able to get more cabs and do good to the people of Arlington as we have so far Questions from the board? So do you own the cars now or you're saying if you get these I have one and I'm planning to buy another one if I get the license I know there's a 90-day limitation window in which I have to put those cars on the road but one is already available and the other one I'm just trying to find because I'd like I have one minivan to sedans right now and I think there is demand for minivan so I would like to find a suitable vehicle that would be able to transport more people than just you know, maximum four Thank you. And again you've done everything right so my questions aren't in any way a criticism but on this particular liability insurance policy this is what you see is the requirement that we have set for so say take a combined single limit CSL per accident the previous number six he had a million dollar combined single limit and right there we're not requiring anything and all those other boxes were filled out with and that's not, this is not your fault you're going by what we require and that's why I'd best the town manager my colleagues for their indulgence to you know go down that road because that was one of the things that the city of Boston picked up on that people were getting in accidents and especially if somebody was uninsured or whatever we don't even require that the previous application did that just because he's been working in Boston in some other cities or maybe not so that's just an example of thank you. So just Mrs. Mohan Mike's plan is to revisit the Hackney licenses in say roughly September if you think we should feel hit it sooner than that let me know. Actually if the town manager and town council in their conversations, whomever they think it should be sooner otherwise September is fine we talked about looping it in with the thank you. Any other questions? No more questions we're going to go through the list then we're going to vote. May I just contribute something as far as the insurance limits because I know a couple things of different town's requirements I think the city of Boston itself does not require insurance limits that are higher than what the town of Arlington requires I think the entity that does require a very high insurance liability limit is Massport however it does not require taxicabs it requires it of livery vehicles. And the city of Boston right now has what we have which is the minimum 2040 but they're going through the exercise and it's been in the globe, the globe did a globe spotlight the mayor said I agree this is too low they had three or four case points where people had you know they lived but they had $150,000, $200,000 worth of injuries and there was no insurance I just want to comment on the million dollars totally great that's exactly it thank you Abdullah McGahn welcome can you tell us a little bit about your application and your experience thank you again and once again I'm coming to you about a few months ago I applied and I got it five licenses and we have been set up everything we have a one handicap van we have a shortcut system install all our caps and we've been contacted by MBTA who is also planning to have a Charliecott system be used at caps after hours I think through the city hall they have contact and we've been get called and we are one of the caps that they have want to do with the pilot program and we're anticipating expanding service and that's why I'm coming back to have more stories are all of your licenses currently on the road yes questions the current cars could also do the Charliecard or you need to have two new cars to do that no they can't accept but I'll be adding two new cars in fact I was trying to get three as the system the people who are providing the data mobile data system I have eight of them I get a five just because of the not the service up to that limit I don't want to have the car sitting there until I get that limit so I'm just going to apply in the two of them but yes they can accept the Charliecard but that's a pilot program that they are going specific communities and Arlington one of them right so you see an increase in your business and that's why you're looking for two no I'm expecting as the Charlie this is not something that they have already this is something that they are anticipating to do and they've contacted me and it is in the work and I'm anticipating that I might have additional services that's why I'm applying it to Ms. Reyes I just wanted to note I don't know if something's missing but I don't see any insurance information in connection with this application I didn't see anything this application no I don't have it if I get approved I will have the insurance standard to provide that with the application oh we need to see that you have at least the 2040 which we do know he has I've been thinking he's thinking I have the basic coverage of other five so I will be getting the insurance cover anyway once I register it has to be I should have asked this question earlier how long have those five been on the road and how are you seeing your business so far it's a couple of months and I'm receiving you know it's been we've been approved in January and I think it's a three month as we set up we're receiving alright as a start-up company but our hope is we will be getting more further questions from the board I sort of have a global one and I guess if I say something that's wrong if you could just let me know sure but I just want to look at this that right now this request by Mr. Magan requesting to you have five already in Ellington the request by Mr. Kalentar you're requesting to and you've been driving in Ellington for four years so you already have so you have three currently and then from Mr. Kalentar he's not here he's not feeling well and then the request from Mr. Nath is a new request you don't have any in Ellington yet I just wanted to put that as a point that's correct inventory any other questions for Mr. Magan okay thank you so now we have discussed under item 6789 we've talked with four different businesses we have requests for two and two licenses we currently have five available we could tackle this as a single motion or separate motions depending upon what people are thinking sorry everyone chomping at the bit Mrs. Magan just to put something on the table we only have five left pointed out to already have some calves on the road two do not I'm just thinking as a starting point right now if we give the three applicants who are here one each so we don't give out all five that's just a starting I'm not saying we shouldn't give out all five but I'm just trying to think where do we start from here we have three people here and I think they're all asking for two two and two so either we maybe give them all one each and have two so we don't totally drain the reserve or the supply or somebody comes up with something else I'm just going to start with one I think it's a great motion thank you a second the motion but I just want to so that's along the lines I was thinking my only concern was on this last application where it doesn't have the insurance information here but I guess we have that on file because of the other I feel like we could also issue the license contingent upon providing of the insurance that I feel if we could amend your motion I feel comfortable with that okay I would amend in the granting with Mr. Magan and if I'm saying your name wrong I apologize that he reissues providing of the copy of the insurance I just want to be clear so it's one one one one correct are we tabling the number seven request correct yeah yes and then it's good okay I will support the motion I would also support an amendment that put the other two out there if anyone else was in the wanted to join me in that I don't I don't worry about the licenses in the bank I'd rather have them out on the road and seeing how it goes but I'm happy to support the motion but if there's some other interest in putting more out I'll join it I was thinking along the same lines as you Mr. Dunn and I like for the Hackney taxi business operator license for a limo Lex and the Hackney taxi business for Boston ride I think that those two applicants have come here for you know they see business on the up and up and they are anticipating you know a growth in that business and I think I would support doing a two for each of them emotions is there a second I second I am I can't I believe we could do this procedurally if Mr. Burn do you submit that as an amendment to Mrs. Mohan's is there anyone second Mr. Burns amendment I'm not seeing it so we've got discussions for one one one sorry well sorry let me just get clarification why do we have five left Julian because given a 10 a week other than that why do we only have five left because in the board's regulations that it adopted or amended last March it decided that it would give out no more than 42 that were termed as medallions but either way sort of vehicle specific license and with the renewals for the existing companies and then the ones that have come in since then I haven't done the math myself but I know your staff keeps close close watch on it yeah yeah thank you Mrs. Mohan and could I add to along Mr. Burns point perhaps when you're reviewing and we're going to talk about different things in September and we'll have the history and we may have given out the name to by then anyways that may be part of maybe we can get some sort of requirement under whatever is allowed in the business protocols and legally in terms of I don't know if we can get sort of a report of how much service have you provided to Arlington you know how busy have you been you know if everybody's really really busy all the time that's a very interesting idea that can be changed by the board that's not anything but I think but what Mrs. Mohan suggested there would be interesting is the state of the business from the businesses that that would be some interesting information if they're if they're interested in sharing that just a Mr. Burner Mr. Currow's point where you want to get as many taxis out there have any licenses available so that people you know have opportunity and things like that and it occurs to me that I made I haven't yet it's a public hearing and I've yet called for any public participation this is a public hearing is there anyone else who's here who wishes to speak on any of these licenses I'm not seeing a lot of excitement from the crowd is there any further discussion from the board we have a motion yeah I would just say to Mr. Burns point that on the limo Lex application I would feel comfortable in the near future if the applicant were able to come back to us and tell us that the vehicle was in hand okay all right but as it stands I'm going to support Ms. Mohan's motion any further discussion so we're about to vote we're about to vote on awarding one to the chiffon Nath doing businesses of Boston Airport Express one to Daniel Calantar doing businesses limo Lex one to Abdullah McGon doing business as Boston ride any further discussion seeing none all those in favor please say aye all those opposed is five zero could we take a formal could someone make a motion to table the table second all those in favor please say aye aye okay so six seven eight nine done ten we have a note from council saying that they are not going forward tonight because there's some issues motion to table all those in favor please say aye next up citizens open forum except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration to the board shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established there should be noted there's a three minute time limit to present a concern or request is there anyone here who's under open forum Mary how can I speak good evening Mr. Chairman members of the board Mr. Towne manager my name is Mary when Stanley O'Connor I'm here this evening as a member of the town of Arlington a past member the zoning board of appeals to speak to the reappointment of Joseph Tulmary I want to first say to you that Joe is not a friend he is an acquaintance I served with him for ten years on the board of appeals I've appeared in front of the board only twice so I don't want you to think that I have a vested interest in his reappointment I'm here because I served with him and I saw how critical and important his services to this town Joe is a wealth of knowledge as far as being a member of the board of appeals and given what this town is going forward with the master plan with economic development and other things I think continuity is incredibly important to this town you know I can tell you because I served on that board for 12 years that not everyone is delighted with the decisions of the zoning board of appeals and you're not going to be because variances are difficult things to judge special permits involve some subjectivity but I can tell you at all times that he acted professionally he's knowledgeable and I think that his continued appointment is essential to this town I see the planning director here I don't know if she has an opinion one way or the other but both boards work hand in hand the planning department, the zoning board the building department and the planning board so I would say to you and I ask you to give serious consideration to his reappointment and I thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak thank you very much for coming Mr. Luccarelli I know it was a pleasure being with you the other night Mr. Luccarelli was the emcee of the event and it was a lot of fun I enjoyed it quite a bit I sat next to Tim Murphy who is the guest of honor and he was an interesting guy to talk to Harvard football coach Harvard football I don't know if you gave his title it was an excellent time I'm speaking at this portion of tonight's hearings because I understand that article 16 which apparently is not on the consent agenda regarding discussions, regarding the appointment I believe of two individuals or the reappointment to the zoning board is this the appropriate time for me to speak to those articles because it's good so just so you know my when we get to section 16 what I plan on doing is discussing a process for appointment I don't plan on actually making any appointments or appointments during that section but now it would be very appropriate okay thank you and I really only can introduce myself as Eugene Luccarelli I'm a private attorney and I'm the attorney member of the zoning board and like Mary Wynne Stanley O'Connor I'm speaking here on behalf of both people who are up for reappointment Paul Malloy and the distinguished and long time board Joe Tula Mary. I like Mary do not have a personal relationship with Joe but having appeared before him for many years on the client side of the table I was always and my clients were always treated with respect and fairness and now that I've become a member of the board I have seen that same treatment by him uniformly to everyone who comes before us as Mary indicated Joe Tula Mary is a unique individual he is an incredible asset and has been to the town of Allenton for many many years his knowledge his ability in community planning it is not replaceable and I am really to be blunt shocked that there is any possible consideration and I don't know this to be true and I apologize in advance if it is any possible consideration of not appointing one of the great volunteers of my life in this town Joe Tula Mary so as Mary indicated we need him more than ever as we go forward the master plan is coming up I believe that will involve zoning I don't know anybody who lives in this town and in the immediate area who could better serve the town with his breath of experience and only in the zoning board for many years but since the 70s on the ARB chairman of both his service and his qualifications are second to none I will be shocked if in this board's wisdom that he is not reappointed obviously Paul Maloy is on the board he is here tonight Paul Maloy Junior he is an engineer and he is a credit to the board as well and I know he is up for another term as well so I have greatest respect for all of these all of you on this board I know several of you personally and I would be shocked if you take anything into consideration other than Joe Tula Mary's performance as chairman and his service to this community then you'll be doing us and him a good not a good service so I urge you to look carefully at his reappointment it is imperative that he remain during this crucial period when we're going into planning thank you for your time thank you Mr. Gorelli is there anyone else who wishes to speak under citizens open forum Carol thank you I'm Carol Kowalski director of planning community development I would like to speak in support of Joe Tula Mary's reappointment as well I would guess I'd say it's a little bit of occupational selfishness in a way particularly because of the master plan as some of the other speakers mentioned Joe was critical to writing our zoning in 1974 he knows it better than anyone he also knows its flaws so he'd be really helpful to me in the master plan process and implementing zoning improvements and zoning changes I also want to be sure I'm not sure if it's clear the degree to which we recognize that Joe is an expert across the Commonwealth and even outside of Massachusetts in redevelopment and to be able to tap that through the master plan process is a real asset if we could if we could continue to make use of his services and I don't know if you this may be widely known but there would probably be no Kendall Square as we know it today if it weren't for for Joe's work on the Cambridge redevelopment authority and I'd really like to tap that for Arlington so I'm hoping we can keep Joe that's on the master plan side on the ZBA side as far as I'm aware we haven't had any lawsuits in a long time and as far as I'm aware we haven't had any constructive approvals and those are two good signs that things are going pretty well on the ZBA so I just wanted to have an opportunity to tell you that I would very much support his reappointment thank you thank you very much is there any other speakers for Citizens Open Forum seeing none Citizens Open Forum is closed we already disposed of number 12 Diane we took that one out of order 13 for approval Arlington sorry Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee bike safety checks at the Linnwood Circle area on June 8 Christopher Tonkin members of the Board we'd like to repeat the effort we've had a couple of times before I think our last effort unfortunately it rained out but we've held this event a couple of times and we try and point out to cyclists using the path safety issues with their bicycles help them a bit we're not trying to run a repair shop on the bikeway but sometimes a little bit of help is needed helping them people make sure they're wearing their helmets correctly that is an issue of many people wear them incorrectly or put them on the handlebars which doesn't help anybody and we're also planning to hand out the pamphlet we developed with the police department on the responsibilities and rights of bicyclists and motorists any comment Steve I think this is great and I'd like to thank you Chris for being really proactive in this I think you know especially over the last year we've heard quite a lot especially throughout the Mass Ave corridor conversation that we really have to get along better with all modes of transportation whether you're walking, riding, bike, driving, car etc and I think this is a real proactive step in moving forward and ensuring that I'd really like to thank you for doing so thank you second further discussion please say aye thank you very much next up amend board of survey street names, Jake Upton how are you doing thank you for your time I'm here representing the Arlington 360 project really both components there's a residential component that is on top of the hill and there's a lower component that's a newer approved component that is being built as an assisted living facility with Brightview as the operator brand and shelter is the name of the company that owns that company that operating company I don't know if you all saw on your package maybe I could if you put it there we just have to figure out the microphone I don't know if it's the cable is going to run are you going to put it up if you put it up there can everybody hear me we need the people at home to hear you that's the it isn't the problem it'll lift off Jake can I pick this up and move it forward but you can lift the mic right off the stand Jake how are we doing cable people are you happy still working it's okay so we're here to request a street name change this has happened to this project before but we've been working with the town historian and with Brightview the operated living facility which is here to rename really create a whole hierarchy of names for the site that has some grounding in the history of Arlington we also are looking at some marketing considerations for Brightview and an interest of them to rename what has been called hospital road this section to be renamed Sims Road in honor of Steven Sims and the Sims family who bequest the the financial gift to the town I think over 100 years ago to create the hospital ended by the land so we were proposing to rename this section of hospital road old Sims Road and then to have an honor to the old hospital use of the site we're going to rename this back section of the project that goes out to Woodside Lane the top of the project old hospital way and this had been named Hattie's Way previously and Hattie is a reference to Steven Sims daughter who was a school teacher in Arlington for a long time who became sick and eventually had to be hospitalized in Boston which Steven Sims had to commute to Boston to see so he was really honoring his daughter with his gift to the town we were going to rename the Vista Park here at the top of the site that overlooks the Boston skyline Hattie Sims Park in reference to her and the importance of her role in the whole history of the site we also have a park that's a lower we referred to previously as the lower Vista Park which is the former site of the medical office building those of you with long memories can remember that this is where the nurses building had been for a number of years and Nora Brown was the matron of the nurses operations there for I think over 50 years and so we're going to rename this lower Vista Park Nora Brown Park so we're trying to touch a lot of the historical points have it fit with what the redevelopment of the project is and fit for its use in the future and so there's really two sections of road that we're renaming old hospital road to Sims Road and Hattie's Way to Old Hospital Way any questions we've got to take the motion we've got a motion to move second we've got a second Mr. Greeley do you want to I'm confused but I'm old Jake I thought you wanted to name that old hospital road and then Hattie's Way Old Hospital Way did I misunderstand you now you're saying this is what had been called Old Hospital Road up to that that's what it is called currently I guess we would like to rename that Sims Road leading into Sims Circle yep so it would be Sims Road to Sims Circle and then Old Hospital Way would be the short section here and are there any addresses on Old Hospital Way that it needs a name it's just an entrance isn't it no right it's more of a historical demarcation of the history of the site I don't like not having anything hospital in there I just people we know Sims was a hospital you know what I mean so we're just we're removing hospitals from all the roads I think no it would be Old Hospital Way at the top section that's why we wanted to name that old hospital to maintain that continuity I just want to say that I think Alastair Clarice and I made up there for various different reasons I was really impressed with what the developers are trying to do which is to highlight and maintain the important significance of the donation by the Sims family as well as getting some more women recognized and working with Richard Duffy with is it Nora Brown Nora Brown as well as having the Hatties designation area and what I gleaned from that visit is that not just with the naming of the roads in the areas and the circles and the vistas there also will be some sort of you know the little sign will be out there but also it will keep you know you can go up get more history it's not just reading the sign that we're putting up it's some other things that you're doing and I like that you've really highlighted you can probably say it better than me I appreciate that and just to add to the parks we also have historical signs that celebrate the 100 years of history that Sims Hospital was in place and I think it's 100 years this year and so there's we have a collection of four or five signs memorizing Nora Brown and then the history of the park the history of Sims site in 25 year increments and we've worked with Richard Duffy on some signage and some verbiage and historical references I didn't want that to go without no I appreciate that very important I think we're doing an even better job of sort of keeping the history alive and letting people know and you've done a far better sign design with Richard Duffy than we have the square one that says the guy came out of the tavern and killed five people in the center there I mean nobody wants to take a picture in front of that and I really appreciated that Clarice and I were saying kudos to you all for getting some women in there also and preserving the donations by the Sims family the motivation for him with his daughter having well and I also would like to to thank Richard Duffy for his generous amount of time that in thought and consideration he's put into this it's really been it's really been a gift to the project his commitment to it so I appreciate that I just echo what Diane said and just note that our packet actually has the designs for these signs and they're really impressive both backwards looking and also forward looking QR codes for the folks that get more information and drill down into it so thank you for this I actually have a question I think Adam might answer first Jake thanks for coming in and obviously all the work that you've done on the historical side of this Adam is there any will there be any administrative work added to the employees by making these changes whether throughout the engineering department or you know because if I remember correctly this will be the second time the names of the roads have they changed once before at the beginning of the project I can't speak to whether or not they changed at the beginning of the project officially but the answer is yes there will be administrative work associated with this however it's interesting that you asked that now so last year a town meeting approved some street name standardization at the request of GIS coordinator so I've actually just been working with GIS coordinator to start fully implementing that and we're going to be sitting down it's the clerk's office that really has the greatest degree of administrative work that needs to be done because they have to update a lot of records depending on how big an area is so I can't pinpoint exactly how much work there would be but there will be some administrative work that goes along with updating police database the clerk's database assessor's database and then our GIS database so that everything matches up okay now I am I guess I think that you know I don't well if it was an exorbitant amount I probably wouldn't be supporting this just because I don't think it's the names of everything that will really track people up there as opposed to you know the market value and the actual apartments which I'm sure will be lovely but no that's my only question that work would have to be done no matter what they're being named because of the construction and there's a new street that whole circle going up there that needs a new name so Hattie's Way or whatever it was Hattie's Way you know what I mean Steve this would have to be done anyhow so but you know if it is at greater cost but you know I took quite a few hits during the past campaign about my support of this but I see something like this and I see Jake and the kind of job they've done people it's going to take their breath away when they go up to Hattie Sims Park which I've seen that's dirt at this point I mean well I don't it's probably better than that at this point it's a couple months ago I'm sorry but this is I believe what the town and town meeting and vision when we decided to buy the property and do what we can to control the development and this is an example of a development being well done and you deserve a lot of credit for that Jake thank you I'm fully support I love the signs I will just say it's one of those things you just I bike down the bike path we've got some historical signs sometimes they get hit with graffiti unfortunately and taking the graffiti off takes a lot of the sign with it and so I just hope you choose a design that is robust in the face of what will inevitably come sometime in the next many years we definitely are Richard Duffy he's pointed that out and we may be ordering extra signs just in case so we have to keep the standards up any further discussion we have a motion or second all those in favor please say aye thank you thank you appreciate it I just know this is the easiest sign discussion we've had all week oh jeez I did watch that from all right item 15 Selectman's Awards Mr. Greeley yes my friend so as you know we put together a committee that has now made to us 10 recommendations and we're what we'd like to do is hold the awards ceremony either the third or the fourth Thursday at the end of June coming up next week on Tuesday night we have Town Hall and Character which is a 100th anniversary event on the 7th on June 7th we have the actual celebration of the Town Hall and Gardens I'll talk about that under new business and this would be another the Selectman's Awards which we try and do once every five years so we need to both vote on the recommendations of the committee to us and I would ask that any member here who has another nomination for any of those categories to please bring it in and we need to vote on that slate at the next I've checked with Juliana and hold me to we can't we have to do this in public right the voting so it is my intent that while we do it in public we're not going to say the names out loud right we're going to present a slate right so that we could see and then vote and then if indeed all the slaters voted we will then announce the names correct that slate is still a public record if someone requested that would be a spoil sport so I don't think they will well if anybody wants to vote against any of the nominees we don't want that person to be embarrassed that's okay thank you any I think it's a great plan looking forward to it I'm looking forward to the award ceremony as well it would be great if all of us could be there each of us give out some of the awards we certainly have some of the committee to help us on that I think it's we'll be there every night. Yeah what's the time tentatively I just want to make sure I book far enough ahead so I can be there I don't have the actual day but it'll be Thursday evening yeah Marie starting at do you have a start time yet or no 7.9 Push it out a little further than I didn't realize that so did you talk to Patsy about available times at town hall? Okay, because I've asked Patsy to look at the date, so she doesn't know yet. She'll get back to me Right so I'd say the 20th of the 27th. We'll have that date definitely by next Monday. Okay. Thank you Any further discussion under the awards? Next item zoning board of appeals appointment process so We have terms that are expiring on the zoning or that have expired and they're ripe for reappointment it has been noted that One way that we could tackle this is that we could have put a reappointment up in the Consent agenda however, it's clear to me from some from correspondents received in the that that would not Some of these reappointment the reappointments are controversial in this case unlike others And so I'd like to suggest and we also have collected we've opened the Interest we advertise the advocate and we received some interest from So what I would like to recommend as a process is that the board asked me to interview Each of the candidates and then to make recommendations to the board as to what we should do So moved second Yeah, well, I'm in favor of reappointing both of the candidates. So I don't know where that's appropriate and You're saying that you want us just to appoint you to do interviews That is what I'm saying that is what I'm asking will you interview the two who seek reappointment? Absolutely Could we do it in line as we done with town manager that if somebody at the end of the process and Individuals like me would like to nominate someone. Oh, yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to sorry Thank you. No, you're right. There's some other words that I had meant to say that I forgot There are some boards and committees within the town that have very explicit reappointment reappointing processes that are spelled out a Number are appointed by or recommended by the town manager approved by the board of select others are the board themselves Make recommendations like like as in the subcommittee and then those come to the board of slackman and slackman approve the process the zoning board of appeals None of that is articulated The only thing that is articulated is there is the purview of the board of slackman So at some point we're gonna have to come to a vote where we get at least three people to say yes to the two seats and So I think I mean the process that I'm saying putting forward is that I would put forward a motion Then ask the board to either prove it or disprove it and whatever fails Then I think that would open it wide open to anyone else who wanted to make nominations and go from there And I would just would say similar to I'm sorry I'm sorry all the other tack. There's some form of an interview process It's done by the town manager whether it's done by the chairman of say tack in a member of the board of slackman that gets sent On to the board. I think it's good that we Define a process and then with all the caveats of what you've said before I apologize Sorry, mr. Brunner spoken sure no and Quite frankly, I think it seems like we there has been precedent set for how to do this I think that we you know had three appointments earlier today and we've Never asked or at least my time those people who want to be reappointed to come in and say that's you know This is changing that precedent the reason are sorry So are we now moving forward every single reappointment? We're gonna put it open We're gonna put it in the advocate and say hey Why don't you apply and go through this process through every committee because I think I I don't think that is You know great policy moving forward and I think that under this Circumstances even having this conversation When there are not Seats currently open because there are technically those two seats before we we haven't voted them anyone off the board So is this conversation not premature in that it looks like we are technically You know not taking the public's opinion into you know We're not considering it when we're doing this because we are essentially You know saying that okay We're going to begin this process for seats that in under any other Circumstances would just be complete react immediately and we're just not gonna listen to those concerns Which you know we began to hear tonight, so I am I don't support this quite frankly, and I won't be Voting for it, and I think it is poor policy So I guess I have two comments one is Being specifically response one is it is not my intent to follow this process for all appointments going forward of the board of Selectment I chose this process for this particular reappointment because it has because of controversy of Associated correspondents received and people who have approached me I think it would have it's appropriate to put things in the consent agenda if you have reasonable expectation That under consent that they will sail through and I do not believe that these appointments would sail through consent agenda And that's why I chose not to put it there. So that that was I In the future if I have things that I think will go through without a controversy in this case I'm the path. I'm choosing this path partly because I'm trying to manage Clearly there's a personal reputations and How people feel like there's there's a real risk of bruising ego and bruising friendships within the town and working relationships within the town, and I'm trying to walk a path that Manages those as best we can One of the comment about whether the seats are open or not It is explicit within state law and the town and our town manager act that seats become open At the end of their appointed term They are the people who are in the seats can continue to serve until there's reappointment But there is an explicit window that at the reappointment period the appointment At the end of the appointment a reappointment process is an entirely appropriate thing to do mr. Kira Yeah, I just wanted to also note that there's a There's a big difference between this and most of the appointments that we that we approve Most of the appointments that come to the board of select men are actually town manager appointments subject To the approval of the board of select men So the town manager is already doing the bedding on those ahead of time and while I know that most So so that's but that's happened before it comes to the consent agenda That's different from this where this is actually direct board of select men appointment without getting to specifics. I know of at least one Situations since I've been on the board where there was You know a long-standing member of a committee who wanted reappointment But there were others who were interested and the town manager forwarded, you know another candidate to us But that appeared on a consent agenda because it's actually It's it's approving the town manager recommendation We don't have that luxury here because the the law and state and town bylaws Vest that exclusively in the board of select men So the only way that we can do that vetting is to either Appoint a subcommittee or to designate the chair to do that vetting on our behalf ahead of time. That's great. Yeah I Diane and I have been through a process where a Reappointment was not reappointed on a three to two vote by the board of select and it wasn't fun No, it wasn't fun nor is this one going to be Yeah, I'm going to vote and and I agree with Stephen, but there is President Stephen We have advertised and asked people if they're interested. It is only fair to consider them now. However, I Am only going to go along with your recommendation. Mr. Chairman if on that night I First get a chance to move. I want these two reappointed So I believe the way you said it is you want to make a motion To appoint those rather than if you just I would consider you're going to after your interviews You're making a recommendation to this board, but I want you to know I'm going to make the motion these two are reappointed that night So I just want to I just think that a reappointment vote should come ahead of replacement votes. That's all Just to wrap this up, I think and I agree I was starting to think of two or three or four different Instances I can I'm up to four now, but I don't want to kind of rehash that Yeah, but one was real ugly, but anyway, well, yeah, I'm in well a conservation commission appointment Anyways, what I want to say is first. I want to preface this with I Don't know who you're going to put forth me. I have a sense, but I don't I don't know 100% We may find this some commonality. I mean, I don't know anything yet in terms of that So I understand it's a difficult process and I think what the board is trying to do as we have tried in the past And usually we're successful is to make sure that we treat everybody with respect and dignity You know, we don't want anyone coming here and having an unpleasant experience. It is televised You know every single person who's on this side of the table on that side of the table in the mic It's just the same no better. No worse. It's just here's the situation. Here's the process Is there a better best way to define it? And I think we're doing the best we can along with mr. Grayley's caveat of Reserving any selectman Who wants to put forth the name and I guess we'll leave it to the purview of the individual selectmen If they want to have a conversation with the chair or whatever, you know, just within the confines of the open meeting law That would be appropriate. I mean just one-on-one. Yes, not anything not saying anyone should have that conversation So I made a suggestion, but I didn't actually make a motion. Oh, I So I want me to make the motion Okay Any further discussion all those in favor, please say aye aye all those opposed four to one Okay Moving to correspondence received Peter Silva Regarding the second position of bicycle lanes from the Belmont board of slackman regarding the To the school Minuteman school district Letter to the ZBA from Denver Fairbanks request for appeal of violation and and Peterson Victoria Road concerns Move receipt Second second Oh, Mrs. Mahan I'm not sure what action the chair would like the board to take on the Victoria Road concerns Mr. Manager Yeah, so I've already forwarded that to the traffic enforcement unit and they've begun work on it Lieutenant Conroy and the traffic enforcement unit has already made some recommendations to DPW for putting back up some missing no parking signs He's also planning on planning on monitoring the area to make further recommendations for addressing her concerns So if the chairman or whoever you I think someone could get back to okay Whoever you deem appropriate you I'll leave it in your lap to I will I will reply again to her And then if I could just take advantage of the opportunity because it's quite a few people come up to me I before and after the election to talk about East Arlington and Massav and My role as a selectman and my support for the project and one of the things I've pointed out That seems to resonate with a good 80% of the people who kind of question pre and post election votes is that My support I believe along with my colleagues support is because of the state funding improvements and the next to no cost to the town and I pointed out to many people the town of Arlington has already been paying itself To make Massav similar to Lexington one lane one lane when you enter Massav in the Heights As soon as you cross in by Capri pizza where one lane all the way down and we just recently extended it it used to Stop at shop and shop and continue on to there's the two lanes But then it goes back to one and one in front of the high school all the way down We're doing that at the 100% on behalf of the town and maybe some grants in there and other things and the like So this is sort of the trend of what we've been doing with Massav and what you know Lexington and So one of the things I was pointing out is we are looking at Massav as a whole We're not just looking at East Arlington. We're not targeting anything We're looking at the use promoting safer use promoting safer pedestrian and everybody else and The way I see it is something the people in the merchants down there were saying please help us It's a speedway. We can't get across people don't stop to park We have to address that anyways and we had this opportunity of the state funding So that was a further motivation for me along with there was a compromise and I say to people You know, I like to get all ten things when I'm involved in politics But I've learned, you know, you can't be a stumbling block in the way because you didn't get all ten things It's like what did you want? Did you want to win or did you want to get the goal accomplished? So I just wanted to take advantage where we had a piece of correspondence in there. Thank you Any further discussion of correspondence? All those in favor of we've moved to move for receipt. All those favor, please say aye closed 5-0 new business Belka Ms. Rice Thank you, Mr. Manager So I'll start by saying Chairman Dunn mentioned that he was sitting next to Tim Murphy at the touchdown club on his right In case anybody was curious. I was to the chairman's left And who is more athletic Because last week I saw Adam twice in a day And so like it was like, oh, yeah, Adam again That is true And the only other thing I wanted to mention is so we're we're coming close to a year since we met for The goal setting session last June So I just want to put in the board's head. We should start thinking about some dates for June to Reset re-up the goals. It's been a year already. It's been a year. Can we say we're gonna do a buy here? Yeah, so perhaps next Monday we can have a brief agenda item to discuss dates I think we should do that That wasn't late summer that was early we approved it late summer But we had our actual session where we met for a couple hours in June Didn't somebody spoke Not that it's seared in my memory, sorry That's all I have. All right. Thank you. Mrs. Mahon just want to Just highlight and our other correspondents receive a packet that commissioner at Davis said the letter to police chief Ryan Regarding the actions of our officers from Arlington and one of the things we've all had conversations with the chief throughout The ongoing horrific events that went on but as we all personally know the individuals From the town of Arlington who went when the Boston police needed help with the active ongoing investigation when the president came There are quite a few of our officers that did that and nobody really knows about it And maybe they shouldn't but I would like to leave it with Adam and the police chief if they feel there's anything else I mean, I know some some personal stories I know we all sort of had a smattering of we know this individual did this and this individual did that But I really feel from what I know of what I think I know that We had every single outstanding officer over there who did it to keep the public safe and to do their job And not ask for any recognition whatsoever So I do appreciate the Boston police commissioner at Davis sending the letter to our chief and I guess I'll leave it with the chairman and the town manager And they may do this at their awards ceremony next year But there really were some Astonishing and amazing stories of what our officers did and they certainly represented the town of Arlington well as well as Protecting everybody in the Commonwealth especially in this area. So I'll just leave it at that So I we did acknowledge it at the opening of town meeting Okay, two-town meeting and televised. I know the local press covered it as well But I guess we can talk further. I don't know if there's in terms of the some of the stories we've heard I mean, I certainly was proud and fascinated with it But again, I'll leave it to the chairman and besides that know all the new business. Thank you. Thank you That's really yeah, I mean chief Ryan and all of his offices did an outstanding job and Commissioner Davis was so impressive And even to the point of taking the time to write that also there was a nice letter about Jimmy Dodge and his response to a water breakage Yeah, leakage breakage. What's the right word? But anyhow, he talked about being made a phone call and Jimmy was there in 15 minutes and shortly They're after the trucks were there and they made a temporary hookup and blah blah blah Very impressive All of our employees really and just want to remind people okay next Tuesday night the 21st is what's called town hall and character That's one of these 100th events and it's a chance to Meet mr. Mr. Cureau there as one of Robbins brother one of the Nathan Robbins Nathan Robbins and the chair of the school committee will be playing my brother Jed Pierce right is also right and also there's the Robbins sisters I myself will be there is Joseph Patrick Greeley a former member of this board of selectmen Wow, I don't Hold your hold your enthusiasm down But so it but it's very historical and it's people will come in and you'll go in groups around town hall and We'll be talking in character. So and then on June 7th. We are still in really deep into rehearsals for the Centennial celebration of the town hall and gardens which was built in 1913 and That's a combination of a historical lecture in the images by Richard Duffy and then he's the Master of ceremonies on the history side and I'm the master of ceremonies on the music side There'll be a nice reception in the garden first by Trist. There'll be a Adult beverages at a cash bar. Marie. Am I forgetting anything? And nice or durian Waited by tickets. Thank you. Thank you, Dan You can buy you can purchase tickets through Marie Kruppelka in the selectman's office at any one of the three Leader banks in the town of Arlington and we really thank them very much for their sponsorship or online through Patsy Kramer But tickets are going fast. So we encourage people to please purchase your tickets. It's $40 a ticket. Thank you Mr. Cura Oh, I'm next. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Greeley That's I did change my hairstyle to try to get into the more of the 19th century vein for Next week in the case anybody's wondering Nathan Robbins is the one in the selectman's hearing room His painting is there sitting in front of all of the dead animals And So in that spirit Well, no actually the day before I'm going to warm up you'll recall you put me on the spot here Well, Mr. liver good appeared before us regarding Yes regarding the library card challenge and dressing up as Clifford the big red dog and I know that you wanted me to come to a board of selectman's meeting but I Decided that it'll be much more appreciated with the one to half to two and a half year old So I am going to join them for one of their story times the day before so We want picture proof, sorry Yeah, I probably should have kept that under wraps and keep the paparazzi away other puppy ratsy away My only other piece of business I wanted to thank officer Rato and lieutenant Conroy Met me this past week. I think we mentioned a couple times that a Ted is putting together on July 13th the afternoon of July 13th the Arlington live summer arts block party Over in the Broadway Plaza area. It will involve some street Closures in that immediate area. So they were helping to map that out. I'm hoping to come to the board Hopefully next week with a specific proposal and request for board action around that. I know that The organizing committee is working with the Chamber of Commerce I don't consent of the arts is in the process of lining up some sponsors as well But we will need a few actions by this this board to make that possible Thank you As well All those in favor journey, please say aye. We are adjourned