 Good evening everyone. I'm calling Arlington's annual town meeting session five to order on Monday, May 9th. Let's go ahead and close voting on the attendance check in. Again, this is only a test vote really so don't worry if you didn't get your attendance check and vote in. And while those scenes screens are cycling through I'll hold off my remarks until after the Star Spangled Banner so let's just sit tight and watch these screens go by. Okay, so we bring up the. Great. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. So just some brief opening remarks. Tonight is minute man night, meaning that will temporarily skip ahead to article 55 for the appropriation for the minute man regional vocational technical high school. The meeting will continue. We'll jump back to article 16, where we left off last Wednesday to debate regulations on leaf blowers on Wednesday of this week, May 11 will open the special town meeting, which has six articles, special time meeting if you're not familiar is embedded within annual town meeting for reasons I'm not going to explain here, but it's essentially a mini town meeting inside a regular town meeting. So I wanted to discuss the pace of our meetings so far. I added a table to the town meeting progress dashboard to help us understand how debate time translates into the length of town meeting. Can we bring that up briefly please. And so if we just scroll down under the chart. And so we have a table there has some yellow rows and some red rose, and let's say. So this table shows an approximation modeled on actual timings from our recent meetings of our projected completion date for town meeting, given various scenarios of average speaking time for the remaining articles that are ahead of us. And that's that if we spend, this is approximate of course a ticket with with a grain of salt. But if we according to these projections if we spend 27 minutes debating each of the remaining articles on average, then we're going to run into our hard deadline and for the fiscal year, which would be very bad. Our pace from the last two meetings puts us over the deadline and into this red zone. So I have several ideas I want to try, and I'll share those ideas ahead of our next meeting on Wednesday. In the meantime, please be mindful of how you're using your speaking time that you're keeping your remarks tight and and on point, and not repeating points that have already been made by previous speakers. I have more to share, you know, after tonight's meeting as we go into Wednesday's meeting world, what we'll try something that's a bit new and see if I can kind of help us be more informed about where we're at, like the a sense of the room of where it's at as far as the debates. And so that's it for my opening remarks. Let's move on to let's see. All right, so let's move on to swearing in. So we're going to skip the swearing in again if, if you're a new town meeting member who has not been sworn in yet. Please contact the town clerk and and she'll be able to help you take your oath of office. I now recognize the chair of the select board, Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Miss moderator. It is moves that if all visits of the meeting as set forth in a warrant for the annual time meeting is not disposed of at this session, when the time when the meeting adjourns it adjourns on Wednesday, May 11 2022 at 8pm. Thank you. We have a second. We have a second second, Mr. Foskett and enable raise hands and zoom any objections. Seeing none, we will reconvene if we do not finish tonight and we will not finish tonight we will reconvene on Wednesday, May 11 at 8pm. If you have a call for reports that are ready to be received, please note that we'll accept the reports for the special town meeting during the special town meeting this Wednesday. So, I'm going to remove that article three D remove from the table. Okay, do we have any seconds. Second. We have seconds from this time. Thank you. And so any objections. We have a hand raised it is now down so it is no objection so article three is now before us we may now receive reports do we have any reports from committees. So, we have a hand raised from Ms. Xston. Good evening Elizabeth Xston freezing 13 chair of the Arlington school committee. I move acceptance of the school committee report to town meeting. Second. Here we have a second from Mr. Foskett. And any objections and raise hands and zoom seeing none. It's unanimous vote. Ms. Xston, please proceed with your report. We're going to hold our report until the budget discussion. Okay, very good. Anything else miss Xston. That's it. Thank you, Mr. moderator. Any raise hands and zoom any other reports to be received. Okay, seeing none. moderator. article three be laid upon the table. Do we have a second. Second. We have a second raise hands if you object to laying article three upon the table. Seeing none article three is now laid upon the table. Just a moderator. Yes, Mr. Foskett. Just a moderator with your permission. Both Michael Runa and myself would like to make a couple of introductory comments before Dr. Quillen speaks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, both. Michael Runa and myself would like to make a couple of introductory comments before rectives will enjoy and speaks. May I proceed on that? You may proceed. They have the right to speak. This is Dr. Quillins last appearance before the area town meeting. A superintendent of the Minuteman regional vocational technical high school. Since he came to minimum in 2007. a few. He revised the academic architecture at Minuteman greatly improving its quality, its qualitative environment, and its quantitative educational results. From our town meetings perspective, he introduced a new era of financial transparency and accountability that ended many years of conflict between the town of Arlington and the Minuteman District. About seven years ago, he organized a group that rewrote the Minuteman Charter Agreement updating the agreement that was at that time about 30 or 40 years old, eliminating many residual defects that have been holding the institution back for several decades. This multi-year effort was fully presented to 16 member towns and unanimously accepted and resulted in a more streamlined and efficient regional district. I think you all know that Dr. McQuillan led the charge to build a new Minuteman Regional High School facility and campus that was built on time and within budget. In this modern Minuteman, combined with the innovative academic programs he's he has put in place, he has attracted strong faculty, spurred enrollment, and leaves a vibrant and thriving institution for his successor and all the member communities. Dr. McQuillan is leaving Arlington and the other member towns much better Minuteman School than he was given when he joined the district 15 years ago. For all this, Dr. McQuillan, we thank you. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Thank you, Mr. Foskett. Thank you. I think Mr. Ruderman might want to speak. Mr. Ruderman, I could bring up Mr. Ruderman on to the, allow him to speak. Michael Ruderman, okay. Thank you, Moderator. Michael Ruderman, Precinct 9 and Arlington's representative to the Minuteman School Committee. I too add my thanks and my congratulations to Dr. McQuillan. The new school is a landmark in an administrator's career and he can take just satisfaction and accolades for completing the project, but it's also something which we can share in the congratulations for because we, the member towns, according to our participation and our voting for the budget and our paying for the municipal components, we made it a reality. I think I stood in front of this meeting, I think it was six years ago, basically telling you, trust me, vote the money for the new school. It will become not only a reality, but it will so popularize Minuteman's reputation that enrollments will soar and they have. It has come true. Minuteman enrollments are at an all-time high and this is something we can all share in some small part of the glory for. The other point that I'd like to make is a personal one for these last two years being a member of the school committee. I've gotten to see one other aspect of the Minuteman Superintendent Director's success and that is in the administrative team he has assembled. Every one of them to an individual is masterful and dedicated and a pleasure to work with, whether it's in budget, facilities, security, student services, guidance, counseling, all the aspects that typically go unseen, at least they were unseen to me as a parent, as a volunteer, as a member of the General Advisory Board, but having worked with these folks for the last two years now, I wish to commend them and I commend Ed for the team that he has assembled. They are the living part of the legacy along with the brick and mortar that he leads to the Minuteman School District. I thank him for that and I wish him all success in his retirement. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Mr. Ruderman. And we should already have Dr. Bequillin on the panel. Dr. Bequillin, do you want to begin your remarks? I just wanted to thank Charlie and Michael and all of Arlington Town meeting for those kind words. Arlington is by far the most consistent member of the Regional District, the most supportive and sometimes the most challenging for a superintendent who's trying to explain what we need to do and how we need to do it and I've always appreciated the questions, the support and the consistency that Arlington has supported Minuteman and our students and I'm just grateful, absolutely grateful for your support and I look forward to helping the new superintendent acclimate and one of the things I'll be telling her is the proud history that Arlington has as really the strongest supporter of the Minuteman Regional School District. And I think I have a presentation, Mr. Moderator. So here it is, okay. There we are. Am I in control of this? Let's just see. I think you'll have to tell us to advance it. Okay, next please. So folks from Arlington are texting me but so overall the budget for FY23 is up a little less than 5% including operating in capital. Next please. Our objectives are obviously to continue to protect the health and safety of all of our staff and students, continue to advance the Minuteman Academy model. We're trying to increase the enrollment capacity of the facility. Our athletic fields are coming online and we're managing the rental revenue and the facilities and in this fiscal year coming up we will close out the MSBA project. Next please. Enrollment growth next. The story of Minuteman is that enrollment has fundamentally shifted. As many of you know, the out-of-district enrollment for Minuteman for decades has been significant. We are seeing a fundamental shift away from out-of-district enrollment and an increase in in-district enrollment. Our out-of-district tuition revenues decreasing, capital fee is decreasing and that is resulting in an increase in assessments to member towns. Next please. This gives you a little picture of what we've seen over the last five years, the member town enrollment increasing, non-member town enrollment decreasing. Next. Our application enrollment trend as predicted. This past enrollment admission cycle we saw over 400 applications, over 300 from our nine member towns and we still have out-of-district students applying although we have no room for them. Over 100% increase from the nine member towns since FY 19. Next please. There's a lot going on in this slide but I'm trying to show the story. That blue line across the top is the millions of dollars that we've had available to us to offset member town assessments and the line across the bottom is the capital fee revenue and you can see that line is dipping quite drastically. Next. We tried to tell the story of how the four-year rolling average in the new regional agreement is helping some towns in regards to its assessment increases or decreases. For instance in this slide Bolton had a 60% increase in enrollment but the four-year rolling average kept its assessment down to 35%. Although saying only in 35% in the same sentence is not a good long-term strategy. Next. We see this is where we are at as of last Monday. We've had in Arlington 97 qualified applicants. We offered admission to over 80. So far 57 have accepted and there are about 17 on a waiting list. Over 39 students from all of our member towns are on a waiting list as of this point. We've had to cap the enrollment at this point at 175 for the freshman class because the total enrollment design for the new building is 628 and we're probably going to be around 710, 715 this fall. I'm hoping that we can address that as the state revenue becomes clearer but at this point in time we have a waiting list from our member towns. Next. Arlington enrollment has nearly doubled in the last five years. Next. This is a breakdown of the assessment of almost 7.9 million. You can see the operating assessments are about 5.8 million. Operating debt and capital is about 400,000. The MSBA debt service which has been excluded is about 1.7 million in FY23. That's hitting its peak years over the next couple of years. Next. A little bit further breakdown. You'll see the increase in the actual enrollment is about 14, 15%. It pretty much mirrors the four-year rolling in average for Arlington but the assessment is up about 17%. The largest increase in the assessment components is the minimum local required contribution which is set by the state is up almost 32% next year. Next. Per pupil assessments obviously as our operating budgets are modestly increasing but enrollment is increasing. The per pupil assessment is trending down. Next. Some more specifics in the budget. Next. We are in the third year of a three-year contract with the teachers. About a 2% increase. Health insurance is we had predicted it was going to be increasing. We're getting some pretty good signals that it's not going to increase as much as we anticipated. And other increases that you would expect in supply and materials. We're increasing our contribution to the OPEB liability of Minuteman and maintaining a solid contribution to our capital stabilization fund. Next. These are just some pictures of the facility. You know I wish sometime we could have them Arlington town meeting in the facility but next slide please. Our CTE programs, our animal science program is begun. We'll be in the second year next year. We're expanding engineering and robotics into logistics engineering. We're also providing workplace lab clothing and safety gear for all students and student credentialing costs will be supported by the district budget. We were finding that some students were unable to pay for the costs of credentialing. We really believe it's an equity issue that we make sure that every student who's eligible for an industry recognized credential is able to complete, participate and achieve that credential. Next. There you see some of our programs, animal science. Next slide please. Our robotics engineering. We've gotten some great grants for some pretty heavy duty industrial robotics equipment. Next. Staffing additions for FY23. Additional support for students in the form of adjustment counselors, school psychologists. We still have about 47 percent of our students are on IEPs. We're adding back a programming and web teacher that has been a one teacher department for several years. Robotics and automation, HR support and slowly bringing back the library reading aid. Next slide please. We haven't had any active reductions, but these are some positions that are not being refilled. So our net increase at this point in time is only 1.5 FTE. Next. Some pictures. Next. So we're trying to expand the enrollment beyond our design enrollment. We're basically doing that without increasing any debt. We're using our capital stabilization fund account and we're also leveraging some strategic business partnerships and our ability to enter into long-term ground leases. These projects are underway now. We're expanding the metal fab shop on the north end of the building. This will allow us to increase another 32 students over four years. And we're in the design phase now of an animal health and wellness center, which we are partnering with the Boston veterinary clinic, who would be opening a live available public vet clinic that our students will be working in, in a building that already exists on campus, which was utilized years ago for a daycare center by MIT, and most recently was home for an independent day school. That will increase our capacity by at least 60 students, if not more. Next. OPEB liability. The good news is it's decreased from two years ago from 32 million to 26 million. Next. The school committee has adopted an OPEB study group recommendations where we're increasing significantly our funding of our OPEB trust fund as our ESCO lease comes off of the balance sheet. We're also adding $10,000 per year in the budget for every new position created to fund our OPEB liability. Next. That concludes my presentation. Great. Thank you, Dr. Bacqueline. And I also want to thank you for your years of service. I've actually never known a time meeting without your presentation. So let's open it now to the speaking queue. And I'm actually going to go out of order this time. We haven't heard much from Ms. Hayam this time meeting. So let's pull her up first. Hello. Leba Hayam precinct 15. And first I want to I want to point out some accolades, Dr. McCullum. It is nice to see Minuteman returning to the vocational mission by having the industry credentialing in the vet clinic. I did want to ask what is the breakdown of the number of students that are entering vocational programs with the intent of going directly into industry after high school versus the percent that are going towards colleges? That's a great question. When they enter Minuteman, I think probably more than half of the students feel like they're going to go directly to work and not go to college. But what ends up happening over four years is they begin to see what it is they do well and love to do and they get more awareness of particular occupational opportunities and what additional education might provide them in terms of a career. So overall the last five years or so about 60 to 65 percent of our graduates have gone on the post-secondary training of some sort. Between 30 and 35 percent go directly into work from Minuteman. And of the students who are waitlisted, is that breakdown similar in terms of their area of interest or is there any disproportion among the programs offered? Well, a student goes on a wait list based upon where they fall in the process. It doesn't have anything to do with what their choices may be. I don't know, but it's pretty much across the board. I don't have any data from the last couple of weeks around the wait list itself. And I think this will be an issue for your successor because I'm not sure if you remember me from last year, but I did have concerns that the students that are most interested in a vocational pathway might be the ones that are least successful in a traditional learning environment at the middle school level and therefore do not rank as high on the Minuteman entrance criteria. And so I really would encourage you to start doing some program-specific analysis for students entering Minuteman. And that certainly would help me as a town meeting member in terms of recognizing the needs for increases in the budget. So like the need for industry credentialing, that is a really, really clear reason for us to be giving Minuteman more money because that will help our vocational students with their careers. Other things, it's not as clear a direction. And I want to thank you for your time and wish you luck in the next phase of your life. Thank you. Thank you. Let's take Mr. Foskett next. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Charles Foskett, precinct 10. Dr. Boquillin, in the past, you have told us about a program you had to reclaim the sports fields at Minuteman and with the lighting and some other attributes there. Could you explain the status of that where we are? Is it completed? And how much did it cost? Yeah, thanks. We use some of the remaining funds in our MSBA project to put towards new athletic fields. The athletic fields are located where the old building was. We expect that all the fields will be fully open to the public, if you will, in the next three weeks or so. We have enjoyed an opening day on all three fields this spring. We did use the field, the major field last fall for a few football games. So in the next few weeks, it will be fully operational and available for Minuteman use as well as the use by some of our member communities. In addition, Charlie, we also had the Arlington Youth Theater Group was using our new theater this last weekend or weekend before last. So the facilities are coming online and are available. Thank you. Let's take Mr. Jamison next. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Gordon Jamison, precinct 12. I, too, would like to echo the wonderful job that the superintendent has done. And I'm saddened that we are not in town hall so we could get them an expected standing elevation as he goes into retirement. I would just echo Ms. Hyam's comments about the wait list. And that was a concern last year by the meeting. And again, I see that we are high up there. Obviously, we have a large number of students. Could you elaborate a bit more on the state required minimum contribution? Was it the same percentage last year or has that changed? I think that, well, the percentage changes every year when it comes to how the state makes that calculation that each of our member towns are required to contribute to Minuteman. It's part of the cherry sheet that you may have heard of that comes out in the spring. It's based upon the valuation of property around your ability to pay and your historical contribution to education. So is that percentage up from last year for Arlington? It's up slightly as a percentage of the total because of the enrollment changes over the last few years. Okay. Thank you. And one more quick question on the career technical programs where you mentioned that it says here that credentialing costs are off of grants and two district budget. Does that mean previously to try to interpret what your presentation that you provided on a selective basis grants to students that needed their credentialing costs covered but now you're just making sure that the district budget covers that? Is that what you said? Yeah. What we're trying to do, grants can change from year to year. And so we may not have as many resources available to make sure that all students are being supported in their request for credentials. So by putting it into the district budget, it makes it more consistent. Is that a large number? No. It's probably, I would say, total $25,000 total. Okay. Thank you very much. And congratulations in the retirement. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Let's take Ms. Phalan next. Hi. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Michelle Phalan precinct four. And thank you, Mr. Cohen, for all you've done on behalf of Minuteman and adding programming and student enrollment. It's all pretty wonderful. I had a chance to see the campus when it first opened and I was so amazingly impressed. The one thing I wanted to ask about was the difference between qualified applicants and those offered admission. And I know in some cases the number, the qualified applicant number matches that of those offered admission. For example, I think Bolton was one example of qualified applicants was 12 and those offered admission was 12. But in others, you know, for Lexington, for example, 37 were qualified and 30 were offered admission. And obviously Arlington fell into the 97 qualified 80 offered admission. I remember a conversation happening at last town meeting where there was some discussion about the process with which applicants were offered admission. And I wanted to know if the process has changed at all, if there have been any updates to that process. And if you could just give us a quick update on that procedure. Thank you. Sure. You may recall last year was kind of a strange year because the Department of Education was requiring admissions policies change. And we were in the but they didn't ask us to do that until we had already started our admissions process for last year. So one of the things that has changed in the terms of the what the word qualified means, all that really means is that the students application was complete. In other words, they'd filled out the form of parents had signed it. And all of the information that we needed from the sending school was received. That's what the word qualified means. So and the differences the deltas between qualified and offered really has to do with the slot allocation formula, which has really not changed. And that's based upon the formula that's in the regional agreement that allocates capital costs across the nine member towns. So in the in the case of Arlington where there had many more applicants than we had slots in other towns, there were fewer applicants from that particular town. So we were able to offer more students in Arlington admissions based upon just to give and take the up and down of enrollment and applications from each of them nine member towns. Does that help? That helps a little bit, but it sounds like the process is not scientific or not mathematical. And it might be a little bit sort of as you mentioned, give and take. And I just want to be sure that as a as a town that has provided funding and and supported from day one, the school that as many applicants as possible, that qualified and were offered admission are also given the opportunity to accept an offer. Yeah, I don't know what you mean by mathematical and stuff with the Department of Ed had our process, if I was to describe it in one phrase or from previous years to this year that we're in is it's much more open. In other words, more students have the opportunity to become qualified applicants than ever before. And that's a good thing. And that's going to continue. What we are experiencing as you see from the chart that I gave you over 400 applications 175 spots, 100% increase from our nine member towns. This is unprecedented. And I'm hopeful we're able to accommodate all of the kids who want to come from our nine member towns. But at this point, it's just it's a process. Well, thank you very much for I appreciate your addressing. Thank you for your kind words. Thank you. Let's take Mr. Ruderman next. Thank you, Mr. Moderator Michael Ruderman, precinct nine. One of the things that the Minuteman School Committee has been working on throughout this year is putting into effect a plan to increase overall enrollment with a target number of 800 students annually. A lot of that depends upon what the Commonwealth comes through with with the budget as Dr. B alluded to the previously. That'll have a lot to do with our final capability of hiring faculty. We are putting more bricks and mortar together to expand the classroom space, because that's the that's the pinch point right now in our capacity. We have we almost have enough shop space for for what we would estimate to be the shop requirements for an 800 student school. We're adding classrooms. The program in veterinary science is brand new and Boston veterinary clinic will be our partner in that. If you've ever adopted an animal from the animal rescue league of Boston, Boston veterinary clinic is just on the other side of the building. So they are the in-house and public facing clinic of ARL. They are on the front lines of veterinary science in in America. So we're headed there and we hope to get to 800 students annually in a few years. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Let's see. I see some looks like ghosts of past speakers on the speaker queue. So we've exhausted this speaker queue. So I believe we are ready for a vote. So let us enable voting. And while we bring that up, vote yes. If you are in favor of appropriating roughly $7.9 million to pay the town's share of costs of the Minuteman regional vocational technical high school district budget, if you're in favor of appropriating $7.9 million roughly for that, you want to vote yes. If you are not in favor of appropriating roughly $7.9 million for that budget, then you would vote no. Let's try to get our votes in as quickly as we can. We should have the automated wave voting enabled. Remember it said it'll cycle through. If you are in one of the later waves now, you'll be cycled through to the earlier waves of the middle wave in the subsequent votes that we take on future articles. So everyone gets a fair shot of voting early versus voting in the middle versus voting late. And votes are coming in pretty quickly. It's good to see. So vote yes. Again, if you are in favor of appropriating roughly $7.9 million to pay the town's share of costs of the Minuteman regional vocational technical high school district budget, vote no if you're not in favor of that appropriation. And again, if you're having trouble voting through the portal, you can vote in the Q&A and you can also ask for technical support with the get help button on the left side of your portal window. You can also call Julie Brazil Town Clerk. Can we have those instructions up in the chat? It sounds like we're getting calls coming in, so we'll hold off on. We won't close voting quite yet. Folks can also vote in the Q&A. So let's just wait another 10 seconds. Almost all votes are in. So just five seconds and then we'll close voting. That's nearly everybody. Okay, let's go ahead and close voting. This is a majority vote that we need and it passes. It is unanimous vote. 235 in the affirmative, zero in the negative and two abstentions. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. And thank you, Arlington. Love you all. Take care. Thank you, Dr. Bukwan. And congratulations, 10 meeting members. You spent nearly $8 million just now. Moderator. Yes, Mr. Foske. I moved that Article 16 through 54 be removed from the table. Do we have a second? Second. And we have a second. With raised hands in Zoom, are there any objections to removing Articles 16 through 54 from the table? Seeing none, Article 16 is now once again before us. I should have mentioned this earlier. I will call for announcements and resolutions after we take our break, roughly around 9.30, roughly the halfway point of the meeting. In case you were wondering about when we would have announcements and resolutions, that will be just after the break. We decided to do that so that we can get the Minuteman vote done as early as possible for scheduling reasons. Okay, so let's now go back to Article 16. We have the speaker queue here, which has been brought back up. And let's see. So before we get into debate, because where we left off last Wednesday was we had quickly run through the amendments. And there were several of them. We actually have one more amendment. So let us discuss that first. And then we'll have an overview so we can see all in one picture, all of the amendments before us, because this is a pretty confusing article given the number of amendments we have. And some of them do interact in subtle ways. So we will step through all that. And so Mr. Diggins, do you want to introduce your amendment and offer a motion? Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Moderator. So I am making a motion to amend Article 16. And it's really just a little technical fix to make explicit what I think to some of us was a little bit unclear. And that is what happens after the transition period. So essentially after the transition period, when we are only using electric leaf blowers, the hours of operation, period of operation will be Monday through Friday, 7.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. And Saturday, Sundays and legal holidays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. And that will be for all users. So that's it, Mr. Moderator. Thank you. Okay. So do you care to move to amend Article 16 with your submitted amendment? Yes, Mr. Moderator. That's what I'd like to do. Okay. Do we have a second? We have a second by Mr. Foskett. Okay. So we now have a fifth amendment on Article 16. Any objections with raised hands in Zoom before we actually take that? Seeing no objections, we now have our fifth amendment. So can we now bring up on the display the unified view that we've cobbled together of all of the amendments superimposed over the main motion of Article 16? So I'll read through these instructions. This is attached to the annotated warrant online if you want to read through the instructions. I'll just very briefly say because it's hard to do strike through with colored lines on different colored text, we're just using the special syntax of these angle brackets around text that's to be stricken. And then any colored text like the plus new text here would be added. Usually that would be underlined, but we're just using colors here because we have multiple different amendments that we're trying to show in the same view for context. And then if there's any renumbering of items, we're just going to call that out in the comments because it gets really messy if you try to fix that up with multiple amendments changing different things in the same view. Okay, so the color coding here is we have the Goodwin amendment one in red, Goodwin amendment two in green, Friedman amendment in blue, the Brown amendment in orange, and the Diggins amendment in purple. So let's just slowly scroll through this and we'll just so you can see everything in context in one place. So we can skip through any of the text that's just the straight up black text. So we can get to the colored text like the, so the red text here we're seeing is the Goodwin one amendment. And that makes a number of changes throughout. That's probably the most complex of the amendments. It changes the data top that strikes out June 15th and inserts May 31st. It brings the transition period up into two subsection a like into the title of that section out from the body of that section. And then also as Goodwin one also as the only between the calendar dates of March 15th to May 31st and September 15th to December 30th. Then we have in orange, we have the Brown amendment, I guess I should have made that color brown that would have been easier, but and so the Brown amendment in orange strikes the Saturday the Saturday's allowance so that leaf blowers are during the transition period for commercial municipal users Saturdays are disallowed implicitly because they will not be in the allow list of this section. And then you can see in Roman numeral lowercase three in under two a use is prohibited on Saturdays Sundays and legal holidays so it's adding Saturdays to the list of prohibitions on commercial leaf blower usage and municipal leaf blower usage. And similarly for electric powered leaf blowers there's the the Brown amendment in orange also strikes Saturdays from that set of a loud time so it affects would be prohibited on Saturdays as well. And then we'll go down and see like in green of an acre or more is the Goodwin two amendment and I believe that's all there is to the Goodwin two amendment or Goodwin amendment two and then we have more of the red text which is back to the Goodwin one where it's making similar changes that were made up above but this now is the section for resident users transition period as opposed to up above it was the let's see it was the commercial and municipal users. And then we see this is probably where the interaction between the amendments is the most nuanced. You'll see that the red the red edits overlap with the blue edits and the blue edits are the Friedman amendment. So these actually if you see if you can highlight the Roman numeral eye there that has the red and blue strike throughs around it the virtual strike throughs yeah so both Goodwin one and the Friedman amendment both strike this line but they strike it with different intentions and it's and you can see that based on the context because in the in the red Goodwin one that strike out that stricken out text ends up being hoisted up to the previous paragraph so it's just moving it around whereas in Friedman amendment that Roman numeral eye is stricken and not placed back in so it's just wiped out and so that's the difference even though they're striking out the same line contextually there's some they're doing semantically different things with that strike out and that's kind of confusing and so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it procedurally because we have to we have to vote on these amendments in a particular order in the order in which we vote on them can change the interaction between them so we'll step through that at the time and then if you scroll down even further you'll get to some purple text and this is the diggins amendment it just adds a an item g which makes explicit the post transition regulation on electric leaf blowers because I was left implicit in the main motion and this just makes it explicit what happens after the transition period is over so I was just a really fast overview of all the different amendments in context hopefully that was useful this document again you might want to view this and kind of pour over it and use it for reference as we're having these this debate you can pull this off of the the annotated warrant online and we have two points of order so let's take those first before we dive into debate let's take a miss Friedman first name and precinct and tell us your point of order that then Friedman precinct 15 in the past the speaking list was always carried over from the previous meeting and I see I was six on the speaking list as of last Wednesday I'm no longer on it is that a change in policy on your part it's not a change in policy it sounds like it may be an error I don't last week we had an issue with folks who dropped off the speaker queue but then there was confusion about what to do about that and I want to avoid going forward modifying the speaker queue like beyond what the system has set up so I'm not sure what happened there we'll see if we can find like maybe someone let's see someone has a screenshot that they mentioned in the q&a can someone from maybe it or someone on the panel see if you can get a that's a screenshot to see it what the state was and how it might differ from what we have here and if anyone on the panel has any ideas of what might have happened I'm all ears so why don't we proceed with debate while hopefully folks can try to investigate what may have happened there and if we if we do have a screenshot that someone took of the speaking queue see if we can try to reconstruct if it if it doesn't match what we see here and I don't know if it's possible that if if buttons were accidentally pushed that might have removed a request to speak I'm not sure so but we'll do the best that we can especially if we have some like a screenshot evidence well what we'll try to respect that if we can okay now we have someone on the panel who does have a screenshot and so they're gonna they're gonna just check that out and see what's happening okay thank you uh let's take uh miss blooms point of order next nc bloom precinct 18 um just a question uh mr diggins is um amendment which was just put in recently uh includes saturday sundays and holidays and I believe the brown amendment wish to discontinue saturdays and of course that was put in before the diggins amendment so I was wondering how that into place with the position stuff yeah so that would be a question for debate that we can bring up um but it doesn't really rise to a point of work because it's not really procedural about I mean if there is an error or an inconsistency in the text of the amendments um that that's uh something we could address during debate thank you okay thank you okay also before we get to the speaking to you actually did want to um uh mr heim can you speak to there was a discrepancy about dates that a number of folks had noticed um can you tell us what we had discussed earlier about the dates and the um the intention of the select board thank you mr moderator dug heim town council um this is all born of the best intentions early on we had a discussion about an administrative correction uh that was not actually a necessary administrative correction I'm going to try to keep this as simple as I can the select boards vote clearly evidenced an intent for resident users during the transition period to have an extra year than commercial uh or municipal uh users of leaf blowers so any place under the sub paragraph uh c to c in the vote resident users transition period should read may 31st 2022 through march 15th 2026 and the same thing um should be in resident user phase out paragraph 2d as of march 15th 2026 is what it should say so um the timeline just to be very clear for resident users is supposed to be an additional year to make the transition from gas powered to electric so it should be 2026 in all places relative to resident user transition thank you mr moderator great thank you mr heim so I've made those corrections already in my unified doc because I talked to mr heim ahead of time about this um uh mr so can you confirm that that's also updated on the uh I believe that's can can you confirm the status of the text in the annotated uh warrant online yes the annotated warrant currently mirrors in sections c and d um of the resident uh periods the uh select board text because goodwin amendment one um fixes the confusion in c and brings them makes it consistent right so yeah so correct me if i'm wrong my understanding is that we will rely on we will attempt to correct that with goodwin amendment one if it should have passed and if good but if goodwin goodwin amendment one fails then we'll go ahead and uh make an administrative change to correct it what it should be um correct yes I believe that's the plan otherwise because the wrinkle there procedural is that we if we correct it administratively now before we vote on the goodwin one amendment then um it interferes with the baseline in the diff for goodwin one and then we have to amend the amendment and I'd rather we just kind of not do that and so we'll see if goodwin one amendment can fix this and if it if it doesn't if it fails then we'll take an administrative change um and that should reduce the complexity of um getting us to where we need to be with these corrections okay so let's um let me just check back in on the status of the speaking queue um okay so if someone who's investing the investigators can tell me where uh miss miss freedman or others oh they're still working on it okay so they'll report back to me at some point so hopefully we get that corrected by the time we get to the positions in the speaking queue that uh we get to the affected folks and since we have screenshots uh from last week um hopefully it reconstructed not just from miss freedman but anyone else who had inadvertently dropped off the queue and apologies for any kind of technical um malfunctions there um um okay so let's now uh without further ado go to the speaking queue let's take uh mr white the number one position name and precinct please okay i was from before i just discontinued this because i was out of motion okay yep oh okay yes so we're still okay um and did you finish uh i think you had completed your introduction is that correct yes i can finish just i'm done okay thank you um okay let's um let's take uh mr trembling next name and precinct place so mr trembling are you able to unmute if you can hear me there's the button here it is yep we can hear you all right um name and precinct at trembling precinct 19 you know way back in the dark ages in the last century i used to work for an electric car company and at the time there was a move of what to require the use of electric cars um thankfully i will give you some latitude on this but we are talking about leaf blowers but i understand it yeah let's try to keep it tight go ahead thankfully that didn't go anywhere because uh electric cars back then were not ready for prime time in the uh you know i've been doing a little looking at leaf blowers and uh i would say that right now leaf blowers are further along that timeline but they still aren't really quite there yet uh the commercial leaf blowers that i've i've been able to commercial battery powered leaf blowers that i've been able to scare up specifically of the backpack version which is what landscapers tend to use seem to be able to move uh do about half the air that the gas engine ones do and they're they cost more money right now and the batteries don't last all that long and the patterns are very expensive so where where a good commercial red max leaf blower i think could be had for uh around $1,100 a i think it was a husk of honor i looked up today we'll do about half of what i of what the red max will do and it costs a couple $300 more and that's not including the batteries that if you want to make it through the day you'll need several of which i understand costs six seven hundred bucks so we're actually now looking at doubling or tripling the cost of equipment for commercial landscapers and and this you know homeowners this is uh homeowners you're asking them to to stop using their leaf blowers and i think it was four years well somebody takes halfway decent care of their leaf blower they could last a lot longer than that so i i i get rather uncomfortable about about government and we are a government town meeting requiring people to stop using something that they have networks just fine and there's nothing wrong with it in in the case of electric cars as we as we now see here uh 20 uh 22 25 years later electric cars have progressed quite a bit so that they are now a practical means of transportation although they are still expensive and the batteries are still expensive and but they have they are a lot more practical now than they were when i was working on electric cars and i presume the same thing will happen with leaf blowers so if you anytime you stand on mass out you'll see that electric cars are becoming more and more prevalent and i think that would be the case with leaf blowers i think this this regulation is completely unnecessary because when electric leaf blowers are able to hold their own and actually become better than the gas engine ones then everybody will adopt them they'll go out and get electric ones if they're are and use them instead of the gas engine leaf blowers so i would suggest that we vote no on this let um progress take take its uh let progress take its uh its natural course and don't try to force something on the public that's not quite ready for prime time now i understand that there people are very concerned about global warming and all that so if i may suggest uh they could contact their their uh as i was just calling us because we're not i mean the main thrust here is not about the uh this is not under the uh environmental regulation this is about noise abatement that's the context of the warrant article ah okay um so uh i would then modify that's what i was about to say just a little bit and for those people who are really concerned about the noise you could ask your landscaper to sweep your sidewalk or use rakes and and just let him know that you would be more than happy to spend the extra money that it will cost you to get your wand done in order to uh to have a little more peace and quiet around your house um so i would suggest that we not vote for this and like i said let let uh progress proceed in in its natural pace thank you very much miss moderate thank you i think miss moldoon next thank you mr moderator patty moldoon precinct 20 i'm speaking in support you miss moldoon you just muted it looks like okay try again i can hear you now yeah thank you patty moldoon precinct 20 i am speaking in support of both the article well and the goodwin one and goodwin two amendments the other amendments um i'm confused by but i'm very clear on these issues as a homeowner who has used an electric leaf blower for years and also as a neighbor uh of those who are not using electric so i have no control over the very loud leaf blowers that um one of my neighbors uses so i happen to pick up when i went to miss moldoon i just hold on one second i apologize for the interruption because i wasn't getting a response in the chat here can we just start the uh the timer because we don't have the place i don't see the timer going great thank you sorry miss moldoon started to interrupt go ahead so i happen to be going to the gym and and this issue of 50 plus advocate i picked up noise pollution is more than an inconvenience the may issue just addressing the dangers to our health of the noise pollution of gas leaf blowers and the level the decibel level is so high that the world health organization has come out against it so it's a challenge for residents using them it's a challenge for neighbors and even more intensely it's a challenge for the workers who are doing this for commercial landscapers and spend hours uh with the potential and likely damage to their hearing but this article points out that it caused the noise levels caused distress and stress and headaches it can affect our ability to fall asleep and um it can even cause an increase in depression or anxiety that noise allowance annoyance is a psychological condition i'm reading this from this article which is got lots of references i'm not going to go into so i will say that on the health issues the the danger from gas powered leaf blowers is pretty intense and i also wanted to speak to the environmental issues that uh the climate crisis that we are in right now is directly affected by our purchases as well as that of the commercial um landscapers that are all around us because it's worse than our gas powered cars right so i just want to say i mean as i told them in the trembling i do want to keep this focused on the noise abatement aspect since i mean i can give a little bit of latitude but uh i do want to keep it focused on the the scope of the article which is about the noise abatement thank you well as speaking as a homeowner who's used an electrically flower for years the equipment's even better now so i feel very appreciative of this version with its uh at least its first two amendments um with the gradual time transitions that are offered not requiring people to buy new equipment and i would also like to note that we have heard from um the owner of eco quiet long care in conquered who has noted that he's been using electric leaf blowers for eight years out in conquered and um Lincoln where they have up to six acres of lawn and has been very successful not had any problems with using their electric equipment we've heard from other commercial landscapers who've had the same experience and i would also like to point out that more than 100 u.s cities and towns have banned or limited the use of gas powered leaf blowers including our neighbors lexington cambridge brookline marblehead and right now bell mount and winchester in the same process that we are on of banning or limiting youth so it's viable right now the equipment is not uh more expensive as presented by the original uh presentation that we heard at the last town meeting and now is the time we forgive me but we must address not only our health but the health of the world thank you so much great thank you uh let's take mr kerbal next can you hear me now yes name and precinct place thank you mr moderate this is joe kerbal precinct 13 i'd like to give my time to gary tidbritz he's a former town meeting member in a long time ralentine resident he's purchased these electric blowers for his business and you can speak to that gary's also uh mr kerbal your your microphone appears to be muted now hello yeah just shut off on its own i'm sorry there you are yeah not sure how much you got so gary's actually purchased these electric blowers for his business so he can speak to that gary's also just recently moved from ralentine so i guess i have to ask town meeting to vote to vote to let him speak permission is that correct that's correct uh so um let's say so mr tidbritz is not is no longer a resident of of ralentine correct right he just moved out of ralentine yeah okay so and and you have so do we do we have a second we look we have a second from miss brazil um and so um if there are any objections to allowing mr tidbritz to speak raise your hand and zoom any objections is raise hands enabled so i'll give maybe 15 seconds i can see i don't know if attendees can see but i can see the count on raised hands okay 15 seconds is up we have uh four raised one two three five raised hands uh so uh it's not enough objections so i consider that a majority vote uh to allow mr tidbritz to speak thank you right thank you mr tidbritz uh name and uh address i suppose hi can you hear me yes i can hi my name is gary tidbritz um and thanks for letting me talk i was born and raised in eilinton my wife and i raised our kids in eilinton and i've started an operated tidbritz landscape in eilinton for over 40 years and i care about what happens in eilinton i'd like to start out by saying i'm not against changing to electric leaf blowers it's coming it's just not here yet the problem is the research and the development of these machines the the research money follows the dollar so tesla and gm ford and honda are concentrating their efforts on making batteries and charging systems for 55 and 60 thousand dollar cars not 900 all leaf blowers and as far as the small engine manufacturers go like honda dwalt mckita stall their their efforts are going in the homeowner market where they might sell 20 million units instead of a million units to commercial landscapes myself and my company have already switched to electric sanding units on our trucks in the winter time and found it a very good way of doing it we've i've also purchased several units to try out i've used them around my own house and some of the more expensive ones do have power and not near what the gas ones do but the biggest issue is the battery and the charging time the battery run time is around 35 to 45 minutes even though it's advertised at higher than that and it takes several hours to recharge them and you know we're working out of trucks we have no way of charging them so we probably have to carry six or seven batteries in a truck for a crew each day and it would still take longer and the batteries tend to go stupid after a short amount of time i'm sure everybody has had a cordless vacuum or cordless drill that they didn't use a lot and they charge when they were getting ready to use it and they found you know the battery after a while instead of holding a charge for you know a half hour or a vacuum in three or four rooms and only vacuum one room so that that makes it a big problem the the other thing i want to bring up is as most everybody knows the labor in this business is predominantly latino and a lot of these companies now are owned by latinos are managed by latinos the other day i was at one of the supply yards that we all go to and a few of the latino guys yelled over to me said hey tibet you're from eilington as you are i am he says what's going on with the people from eilington for the last couple years and stayed in their houses nice and safe hey mr tibet let me just interject for a second let's keep this within scope it is within scope because i'm talking about the people that it's going to affect okay but specifically in the context of uh like mainly around the the noise abatement which is what this is uh the article is under um well okay yeah so if you can pull it into that uh yeah well you know the people that are using them don't mind using them and they're using the property of protection and everything and it's not if you're using the right equipment and the right protection they don't present a problem but you know the the other issue you know just to bring up is as far as cost you know a lot of you that have lawn services and i actually when i was on tom meeting i picked up several customers including a couple of select men as customers so you've probably noticed on your lawn bills that over the last eight or ten years we all switched to billing by the hour for the spring and fall cleanups and um um so in east islington the average small yard we usually put three guys on a cleanup crew it takes them a couple hours to clean the house usually you know they'll get four yards done with the current equipment that we're using with this new equipment we've tried it out and i don't see how we could get more than three yards done if that we'd be pushing it we're still going to build three men for eight hours for 24 hours the company's not going to get hurt by it but the bill is going to be split up between three houses instead of four and the other problem comes in where we are right now with help we can't add another crew or two crews you know in my case i run about nine crews a day so miss never do we do have to wrap up we have about about 15 seconds left of mr kerberstein well if they you know the whole the whole thing is we went through this before in the major portion of the town did not want this that we had the largest turnout ever for an election and then that was after a hurricane the night before and you know the the majority of islington people wanted to keep using these and i'm not saying we can't change the electric it's just not right now it's just not doable okay well we're at time we're over time okay thank you mr tibet thanks for your time thank you mr kerbal just just one note about scope i mean so obviously i reiterated a number of times now that we want to focus on the the noise abatement aspect of this article but what is relevant to the scope is any impact that a transition from gas powered leaf blowers to electrically blowers might have so if you're talking about those impacts that that can be within scope it's not just about noise but um yeah the context of the effectiveness the efficacy visibility viability of a transition to electrically blowers is within scope uh so let's take uh miss farrell next name and precinct please miss farrell are you able to unmute on your side hi can you hear me yes i can uh name and precinct please okay sorry for the delay catherine farrell precinct five uh one of the many reasons why i support article 16 is that it will eliminate the air and noise pollution caused by gas powered leaf blowers the air pollution includes high levels of formaldehyde benzene fine particulate matter hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide this air pollution endangers the health of the landscaping workers using the machines and the residents in the area in contrast electric mowers have zero emissions which will be a big improvement for the health of the workers and residents i was going to speak more on the noise i'm sorry miss farrell we are trying to keep it to the scope of the noise abatement and any kind of implications or consequences of a transition to electric i am not going to go into the noise because i think patty moldoon just covered that uh fine and i echo her comments so in conclusion i'm urging all of you to join me and vote in favor of article 16 thank you great thank you we'll take uh actually let's take mr uh kepline's point of order and we're almost at the halfway point in the meeting so let's take mr kepline's point of order first name and precinct place uh mark kepline precinct nine mr moderator you're showing your bias you she was able to ramble on about air pollution you didn't cut her off right away i disagree so and um and that is not a point of order as far as the like the actual procedures of the meeting um so um with that let's go to miss car jones and um and that i think will be our last speaker before we take a break but name and precinct please elizabeth car jones precinct 14 thank you mr moderator i would like to speak in support of war on article 16 first off let me say that i love my neighbors and i really wish i could feel the same way about their landscapers most of us live in neighborhoods where what happens in one person's yard affects many others and many of us want to live in neighborhoods where contractors including landscapers do their work with minimal disturbance sadly at least for the landscapers in my neighborhood that isn't happening and the biggest problem is gas powered leaf blowers i know that the current bylaw has what may seem like reasonable provisions for limiting the use of leaf blowers however these provisions are not universally followed nor are the violations typically reported this could be due to some not so obvious enforcement complications with the bylaw the current bylaw first there are various reasons why people might be uncomfortable contacting the police for something like this especially on their neighbors contractors most of us have had untoward things happen with a contractor and are grateful to resolve them without police assistance second it's surprisingly difficult to know when there's been a violation there are dates days of the week and times of the day to remember there are a lot size thresholds that most people wouldn't have the information to calculate and noise thresholds that most people would have no way to measure this article proposes redirecting the reporting of violations to the board of health which doesn't require catching violations in real time and also recognizes the effects of leaf blowers on air quality and public health and once the gas powered leaf blowers are phased out violations of the bylaw will be so much easier to spot in year 2022 i think it's fair to say that gas powered leaf blowers are noisier and more polluting than they need to be to get the work done phasing them out absolutely needs to happen article 16 is both reserved in its scope and moderate in its timeline i thank the proponents for bringing it before town meeting and for winning the approval of the select board please let's get this done thank you mr moderator thank you miss card drones uh so i just want to make one note before we head into uh the break which is that we located based on forensic evidence which is to say a screenshot uh where miss freedman was in speaking queue we're not sure why she dropped off uh but we will reinsert her based on that screenshot uh after miss hyam and before mr lobel and with that let's take a 10 minute break now and we'll come back at uh 940 i make it one first what's that what was that uh let's come back at 942 all right see everyone then okay and we're back back um let's so just a note before we get back to the speaker queue we have a theory that uh when someone raises a point of order that they're getting removed from the speaker queue that the system is just automatically doing this so we're going to try to confirm that in the meantime we will try to restore people i'll take notes on where people were i suppose let's say and i believe this just happened to kept line as well presumably after raising a point of order so we will try to restore that and also just another quick note and then we'll take speakers again uh if you there's a lot of speakers on this speaker queue so you know if we're hearing the same arguments repeatedly like try to try to rein your remarks in to say things that are new and not just reiterating and again we want to keep the scope to the keep to the scope of the noise abatement which is the kind of context for this warrant article but also in scope is the effectiveness or not or the feasibility viability of a transition to electric leaf blowers from gas powered leaf leaf blowers um so with that um uh oh i'm sorry we did have uh you know mr fosco is reminding me about announcements and resolutions um so why don't we take that now apologies for that and and then we'll get back to the speaker queue and article uh 16 uh do we have any you can raise your hands and zoom if you have any uh announcements or resolutions at this point and we'll try to keep this brief to not interrupt the uh uh debate on article 16 too much um let's say i see one raised hand but where is it oh mr diggins you have your hand raised go ahead um thank you mr moderator and just quickly uh the application for town meeting uh i'm sorry for town day is up it's online if you go to the town's website i'm sure most of you go there like five times a day plug in mean town day 2022 the first thing that pops up mean is the link mean to the town day um webpage and from that you can get to the applications so if you have a business or an organization that wants to have a booth at at town day that's where to fill it out so we're making some progress towards um having town days so that's it thank you right thank you um okay so let's get back seeing seeing no more see do we have any more no that's it and so seeing no more announcements or resolutions let's get back to debate on article 16 and what uh we'll take uh miss mandal next uh name and precinct place mona mendel precinct nine i'm speaking in support of article 16 on regulations for gas powered leaf blowers and i got the highest number of letters of support from my precinct nine neighbors for this article in this whole in the from the list of all the articles we're looking at for this town meeting i'm choosing to highlight one of the moving and eloquent voices from one of my precinct nine senior residents who is asking for a more quiet and healthy arlington due to fear of retaliation from her landlord she has been asked she has asked me to refer to her as the mill street land steward and reading her own words open coat i live in precinct nine in one of arlington's low-income senior disabled handicapped affordable housing apartment buildings many residents here are elderly and in poor health and many are non-english speakers the constant droning noise of multiple gas powered leaf blowers regularly intrudes into the building at great harm to myself and my neighbors who are elderly and vulnerable to a myriad of physical and mental health issues which are exacerbated by gas leaf blowers i gathered over 116 signatures from residents of my building and my neighborhood in support of article 16 many of whom did not think that they had any recourse to change the situation you town meeting members have an opportunity at this town meeting to vote on article 16 to further regulate or prohibit the use of internal combustion powered leaf blowers please vote in favor of this article to protect residents and landscape workers from the disruptive and damaging noise and highly toxic pollution created by gas powered leaf blowers which also harms the natural environment and contribute to global warming electric leaf blowers are now a viable alternative they are quieter just as powerful and the cost the same it's time to phase out these unnecessary and obsolete leaf blowers with regulations that will protect residents give businesses time to adjust and create a healthier quieter community for everyone for myself and those most vulnerable voiceless residents please support article 16 when it comes up now end quote please support this article on behalf of residents who are worried about the public health and climate emergency and help to take a stand as a community of producing our fossil fuel footprint thank you mr moderator great thank you and again let's try to keep this within scope allow like kind of glancing comments about things outside of the noise abatement but let's not dig into the details of them thank you let's take miss hyam next leba hyam precinct 15 i rise to move the article and all matters before it so we have a motion to terminate debate on article 16 and all of its amendments so do we have a second say we have a second from mr moore and let's say so let's bring up a motion to term a vote to terminate debate this is a two-thirds vote to terminate debate if you are in favor of terminating debate and then voting on the amendments and then finally the the main motion you want to vote yes to terminate debate if you want to continue debate then you want to vote no here okay so we're still going to be voting in waves they are the automated waves so if you voted first last time then you will not be first this time if you were voted last wave last time you will not be last this time so please vote as soon as you can on whether to terminate debate on article 16 and all five amendments if this passes then we will proceed to whether if it passes with a two-thirds vote will proceed to vote on articles in a particular order and then finally the main motion itself which may or may not be amended by those are those amendments if this vote fails and we don't reach the two-thirds threshold then we will continue debate and I have 220 votes in we're still missing 31 calling out folks by name at this point was not very popular with folks so I'll refrain from doing that okay we have a number of folks who've been idle for over an hour so maybe they've dropped out of the meeting but there are just a handful of folks who've been active recently in the portal so let's give folks just another 20 seconds because we have almost all of the active voters at this point so just another 15 seconds to get get your votes in please 10 seconds five seconds and let's let's close voting on terminating debate and so we're looking for two-thirds thresholds here then we and it passes 188 in the affirmative to and debate 41 in the negative effectively to continue debate and two extensions so debate it is terminated we'll just wait for these screens after we cycle through the precincts we will just catch you on some of the comments in the Q&A to see if there's any issues here okay so that we've cycled through let's bring up the Goodwin Amendment 1 and that's what we'll vote on first so we'll once we've opened voting we'll bring up the text for Goodwin Amendment 1 so you can see it on the screen and we're going to be looking at the amendments in in isolation one at a time and if there's any interactions with them we'll deal with that as we go since this is the first amendment we're going to consider there's no conflicts to worry about yet so let's see if we can show the the text for Goodwin Amendment 1 take a look at that and so voting is still open and I'll be keeping I have a separate window I'm keeping an eye on how many folks have voted so far so I'll give a warning if we're anywhere close to closing voting so don't worry about that so we're voting on Goodwin Amendment 1 actually I'm sorry I should give a summary on this this is about the let's bring up my summary here seasonal restrictions starting June 15 I'm sorry yeah changing the Goodwin Amendment 1 changes the seasonal restriction uh starting starting time from June 15 to May 31 and the residential transition time from 2025 to 2026 let me just go through the you know I'll get a little bit extra time for this amendment it's fairly complex so yeah actually yeah now that we have it up on screen here so so we're looking for the underscores and strike-throughs the underscores are the added text added by the amendment the strike-through is removed by this amendment relative to the main motion so it's kind of hard to summarize these because there's a number of changes throughout but you can see like if you're in favor of these changes you want to vote yes and these changes include uh uh yeah changing the uh sorry changing the start date for the prohibition period uh of the calendar year from June 15 to May 31 and then further down you can it's um right so we're adding the trend the commercial and municipal trend of transition period adding May 31st 2022 to March 15 2025 sorry it's really hard to summarize these because there's just a lot of detail in this particular amendment the other ones will be a little easier and similarly for the resident users transition time under 3c we're just kind of moving that we're changing that the year on the end date from March 15 2025 that's getting stricken to March 15th 2026 still a number of uh outstanding voters so there's still more time to vote right so in a nutshell we're changing the uh residential transition time to 2026 instead of 2025 and we're clarifying other dates uh for the transition periods and also changing the uh the start date of the prohibition period from June 15th of the calendar year to May 31st so if you're in favor of all of those changes you want to vote yes if you want to keep the main motion as is as it came from the select board report then you would vote no on this amendment okay so we have most votes we still have a number of votes out um oh yeah i'm not going to single people out again but let's go another uh just 15 seconds on this we do have most votes in at this point oh yeah can we we can go back to the voting screens now but leaving voting open for the moment and let's just go another uh 10 seconds five seconds and let's close voting on goodwin amendment one okay and it passes 183 in the affirmative 48 and negative so the main motion is now amended with goodwin amendment one and we'll go through we'll cycle through the precinct screens and so now the next amendment that will take up after we've uh seen all the voting by precinct is goodwin amendment two which will now seek to amend the main motion as amended by goodwin amendment one we're almost done here okay so now we can we'll open voting on goodwin amendment two um the other amendments are much simpler so this this should be more clear so we'll enable voting and then let's switch over to the text of goodwin amendment two which is simply just adding the words of an acre or more uh in reference to the municipal properties uh on which the restriction applies right so right so what are we reading if so vote yes if you want to restrict the application of this clause to the municipal municipal properties of an acre or more so that it doesn't affect municipal properties that are smaller than an acre and if you want to leave it without a size restriction uh or without a size uh criterion then you would vote no and this is about uh whether the town can use wheeled leaf blowers powered by four stroke engines for the purposes of clearing the Minuteman bikeway and other municipal properties if you want it to only apply to municipal properties of an acre or more then you vote yes if you don't want it to use the acreage as a criterion for using the wheeled leaf blowers with the four stroke engines then you would vote no so municipal properties that are less than an acre um municipal properties that are less than an acre would be able to use these wheeled leaf blowers these four stroke engines um if you vote no if you vote yes then uh the wheeled leaf blowers of the four stroke engines um um cannot be used on a municipal property less than an acre okay most of us are let's switch back now to the uh the voting portal we're not going to close it yet uh just so we can see so folks can see whether their vote has been registered most votes in we have we have fewer than 10 votes missing from folks who've been recently active in the portal so we're getting very close um let's just go another 15 seconds or you can also use the q and a uh to enter your vote if you're having trouble number uh 10 seconds five seconds last chance to get your vote in okay let's close voting on goodwin amendment two and this passes as well 178 the affirmative 55 the negative and so now the main motion is amended by goodwin amendment one and goodwin amendment two and so once we're done cycling through these precinct screens we will move on to the freedman amendment this is the third of five amendments and if you missed your screen here uh you can confirm your vote uh by clicking view votes button in the left side of your portal okay so let's bring up the let's open voting now for the freedman amendment to uh article 16 uh it's actually one thing we need to do here first i'm sorry um oh voting is open but um yeah so so now that the main motion is uh amended by both uh goodwin amendment one and goodwin amendment two uh we're now considering freedman amendment which uh yeah which strikes the uh march 15th to may 31st and uh september 15th to december 31st uh item from the transition period so let's just take a look at this um you can hold off in voting uh we'll explain what's going on here um so the the the red text has now been applied which is goodwin amendment one um is now incorporated into the main motion the main motion has been it's been amended by that uh so uh actually i'll take the liberty of actually um correcting this real time um right so goodwin one has already removed this so what we're left with is that to keep the semantics and um i don't want to make a habit of this going forward because this is very complicated but um and we should really figure this out in advance when we're kind of putting the motions forward um but since we're here uh and we're at this point now see these blue angle brackets here are the changes to the freedman so i'm going to make an administrative change here that the freedman amendment to keep its same semantics requires that it strikes this portion from the main motion which is now amended with that red text from the goodwin one amendment so if you are in favor of removing this clause here then you would want to vote yes so that we're not restricting to those calendar dates if you want to keep this restriction which came from goodwin amendment one which is now incorporated into the main motion if you want to keep this this restriction then you'll vote no on the freedman amendment so that so that it stays in place so again voting yes on the freedman amendment will strike this clause so that we no longer have a calendar date restriction as listed here that's if you vote yes on the freedman amendment the that restriction will be removed if you vote no on the freedman amendment which is what we're voting on now then this clause will stay in place and this these date restrictions will continue to apply for the transition period of the gas powered blowers operated by residents on their own property so again i know this is confusing because the the amendments actually interfere with each other we have a couple of points of order we still have a number of votes that we're waiting for so let's take the point of order from mr. Weinstein yes hi uh jordan Weinstein precinct 21 um this problem was actually raised earlier as a point of order and the the town meeting member was asking for clarification and i think she saw the problem uh that we were headed to as i see it uh i don't think that this is being resolved properly because had the freedman amendment gone before the earlier uh amendments i can't remember the name uh of the uh the the one that it's in yeah the good one amendment um then the good one amendment would be the one that would be or the freedman amendment would be modified by the uh freedman amendment so or the freedman amendment would be modified by the good one amendment or vice versa with whichever so the problem here is if you have two um amendments that are would compete with each other or one would negate the other then you're giving some kind of advantage to the one that is brought up last and i think that that's a disadvantage in this case to um the uh the goodman amendment or good wind amendments so i i just am very uncomfortable with the way that this is being decided right now okay uh understood um and yeah i take your point as as a point of order because this is about the like the procedure here and whether it's uh valid and i guess what i would say just briefly is that uh the ordering uh that yeah we had we have to choose a linear ordering of voting right and so whichever order we pick an argument could be made that the later applied amendments uh are getting an unfair either getting an unfair advantage or they're getting uh an unfair disadvantage in that if we leave them as is they would leave kind of a logical inconsistency and then i would have to kind of uh make clear to everyone voting that the freedman amendment at that point like if we if i didn't make this administrative uh change uh that the freedman amendment is logically inconsistent with the main motion at that point um and which makes it which kind of nullifies that amendment entirely as opposed to allowing the semantics of that amendment to actually be voted on by the meeting and so um and i'll definitely i'll study this some more after and kind of consult with folks afterwards to see like like what might have been like the kind of the best way to approach this but but this is how i decided to go forward uh so that the meeting can actually um exercise its will on whether to apply the semantics of the freedman amendment um so but i take your point so we're gonna continue with voting we have most votes in at this point once again if you this is in the context of the transition period for gas powered blowers uh operated by residents on their own property uh if you want there to be a a calendar date calendar date restrictions which is the red text uh on the screen here um so you can see it highlighted here if you want to keep that red text you would vote no on the freedman amendment that's in front of us if you want to strike that calendar date those calendar date ranges uh then you would vote yes on the freedman amendment so just waiting for a number of voter votes to come in let's now go back to the voting screen and so we'll leave voting open for a little time longer and okay we just got a bunch of votes that just came in um so there's just a handful left of folks who were active in the portal who have not voted yet uh so let's just give another 15 seconds to get your votes in and you can get your votes into the q and a if you're having trouble through the portal there's another 10 seconds five seconds and let's close voting on the freedman amendment okay so the freedman amendment fails uh so let a vote of 45 in the affirmative 183 in the negative six abstentions uh so the main motion at this point is amended still by uh good win amendment one and good win amendment two but it is not amended by the freedman amendment yeah so after we're done cycling through these screens um we will go to the fourth of the five amendments which is the brown amendment and once again we'll so we'll open voting on the brown amendment and while voting is open uh we'll also bring up the um the text for the brown amendment so voting is now open and so let's just show it here so everyone can see what it is and summary here is that um it seeks to prohibit uh leafblower usage on saturdays not just on sundays uh so that there's parity in how the weekend days are treated as far as the restrictions um so can you scroll down just a little bit I think that yeah that captures the two places right so if you uh if you are in favor of prohibiting leafblower usage on saturdays just as there already is for sundays and legal holidays if you want to prohibit leafblower usage on saturdays uh you would vote yes um the brown amendment that we're voting on right now and if you don't want to prohibit usage of leaf blowers on saturdays which is the stat which which is the state of the main motion as amended by the good win amendments plural um then you would vote now so if you want to keep allowing leafblower usage on saturdays you'll vote no if you want to prohibit leafblower usage on saturdays you'll vote yes and it would be treated uh similarly to sundays and legal holidays okay we have a uh a point of order from mr gibson let's take that while while voting is still open uh name and precinct please hi chat gibson precinct four i just wanted to know that this was commercial municipal only on this one uh just to be clear you were talking about gas you were talking about leaf blowers in general but this is only commercial and municipal i thought that was important oh thank thank you for that thank you for pointing that that is correct um this applies only to commercial and municipal uh transition period um the residential users transition period is is not effective right so if you are just to to make that clear uh if you are in favor of uh prohibiting leaf blower usage on saturdays um by commercial and municipal users basically businesses and the town effectively um then you'd vote yes to prohibit leaf blower usage by businesses and the town on saturdays um if you want to allow leaf blower usage on saturdays by by businesses and the town uh then you would vote no okay so we have about a dozen uh recently active uh users in the portal who have not yet voted uh let's try to get your votes in let's give folks another 20 seconds and then we'll close voting on the brown amendment yeah thank you for going back to the screen 15 seconds until voting closes on the brown amendment 10 seconds last chance to get your votes in five seconds and let's close voting and the brown amendment passes uh 151 and the affirmative 81 and the negative and three abstentions so the uh main motion is now amended by the goodwin one amendment goodwin two amendment and the brown amendment and we have one more amendment after this to consider uh so let's just cycle through screens so that's now open voting on the diggins amendment okay and while voting is open let's let's bring up the text of the diggins amendment there it is okay so we're adding uh item g under um d2 with the use of gas powered leaf blowers um and the prohibitions thereof and item g is uh so vote yes if you want to add this section or this item for the post transition electric leaf blower regulation to make it explicit that after so vote yes it it's after the uh transition period ends that will have these allowed allowed times Monday through Friday 7 30 to 6 and Saturday Sundays and legal holidays 8 to 4 where electric leaf blowers are are permitted so if you want to make this explicit and item g uh please vote yes and if you want to leave it out then you'd vote no we have a uh point of order by uh mr start with mr three start with mr rosenthal mark rosenthal precinct 14 when you first uh earlier on when you first mentioned the diggins amendment you summarized it as basically filling a uh you're making explicit something that you thought had been implicit but during the break I went through the uh main motion and all the articles and made up a table of what times would be allowed for what and understand that we're talking only about electric leaf blowers here um and what I found was that the main motion plus the two good win amendments plus the brown amendment would mean that the uh the transition uh during the transition electric electric blowers are not allowed during the two Sabbath Saturdays and Sundays um you know based on what you earlier said one would assume that this is just intended to fill in the hole uh that was you know unaddressed um in the main motion uh by saying this will also take you know the same rules will apply uh after the transition is over but what I found is that what it actually says is that um under the diggins amendment electric leaf blowers are allowed not not not disallowed but they are allowed uh on Saturdays and Sundays so that's a rather major change right so yeah just to be clear yeah so uh at least what I intended but I said to make it explicit is is not to imply that um the same effect was implicitly covered by the rest of it but to make explicit what actually happens uh and that to figure out what happens in the absence of this uh like the diggins amendment requires the exercise that that you had gone through uh so uh I didn't mean to imply that the semantics are the same it's just explicit versus implicit and apologies if that's what was conveyed um but that it's making it explicit as opposed to leaving it implicit to what the other uh previous clauses kind of add up to in any case I think it's important that the uh town meeting members voting on this are very clear that uh you know exactly what this does and that this is a change from so this is kind of venturing outside of the territory it's useful what you're saying but it's venturing outside of the territory of a point of order um and so the plain text is here in front of folks uh for them to to consider thank you thank you uh we have another point of order from uh sickness bloom next Nancy bloom precinct 18 you may have already answered this that I may be incorrect but I'm just trying to be clear um the uh Mr the previous speaker spoke about the fact that we had just voted to disallow um Saturdays as well as Sundays and legal holidays and that was just for ghastly ghastly and this is for electric is that the difference am I I'm just trying to clarify sure sure um and so that's an all point of order to ask like what is it that we're actually voting on here right especially in the context of all these amendments it can be confusing um um so the main motion that this vote is seeking to amend or not that it's we're looking it's relative to the main motion as amended by goodwin amendment one goodwin amendment two and the brown amendment and so is your question specifically about given the um given the um the changes due to the brown amendment how does that affect this that's my question yes that's my question yeah um so with the brown amendment that covers the commercial municipal users transition periods only and let's say and then here in the diggins amendment talking about post transition electric leaf blower regulation um it does not it's it does not specify whether it's like specific it's not specific to commercial or municipal uh or residential um let's see uh mr hind do you do you have an answer for for miss bloom um thank you uh mr moderated dug mine town council so the purpose of uh mr uh browns amendment goby brown so amendment was to treat um the transition period the same on saturdays and sundays for reasons that are that go back to the original passage of the leaf blower by-laws with respect to certain commercial and municipal users the sundays were sundays were always saturdays were treated differently than sundays with respect to commercial and municipal leaf blower uses um the way that mr diggins amendment reads it puts basically all users on equal footing after the transition period so the same rules apply for everybody on a list of electrically blowers after the transition periods over mr jacoby brown's um amendment and objection to my understanding to the scheme that was sort of put in front of town meeting before his amendment was that he didn't think that during the transition period um sundays ought to be afforded a different status than saturday so his amendment was very tight in scope uh and uh it was trying to address a very specific issue to my understanding mr diggins uh is also saying that saturdays and sundays ought to be treated equally but after the transition period is over in a way that everybody can use electrically blowers thank you great thank you great thank you um so we have another point of order by mr austin thank you mr moderator um my point of order and i'm i'm naming precincts sorry uh adam austur precinct three um i'm gonna uh this is a question and i hope that you'll be able to find the right person to answer it but my understanding of this issue of what is changing and what is not changing is that uh the diggins amendment doesn't actually change anything it just makes it clearer because you have to refer to the existing bylaw as it stands today where there is this set of when you can use a leaf blower requirements and they are the same i think someone please correct me if i'm wrong as the one that mr diggins is proposing that we codify in this section um you can't just look at all of these amendments and try to figure out what's going on you have to actually look at the bylaw is that right yeah so yeah given the the complexity and nuance of of this amendment being applied to the amended main motion and then all of that's relative to the bylaws that are being amended by all of this um which like this is not technically a point of order but i think it is a very important point because it is kind of the nature of what we're voting on and there is a lot of confusion and complexity to this but mr heim can you answer mr austere's question what is the change relative to the bylaws that are being amended by all of this thank you mr moderator and thank you mr austere that is i want to be to be tight with him anytime that is more or less correct there's a little bit of room for interpretation the way the bylaw currently reads because the bylaw was written at a time before there were a lot of electrically flowers on the market uh so mr diggins amendment i would say is consistent with the bylaw and the way that you're interpreting it but it kind of eliminates all ambiguity and doubt about that thank you great thank you and we have one more point of order um we still have a number of missing votes uh maybe you're just kind of hanging hanging hanging back waiting to see uh how um how do these answers and questions the questions answer is kind of uh shake out let's take miss zhu next hi Emily zhu precinct one i'll be very quick just in case this is not actually a point of order but i think that mr diggins amendment has the unintended effect of allowing commercial use on weekends which was not previously allowed and i don't think that was the intention of the amendment but i think every but i think that is the actual effect uh yeah we're yeah that's yeah i said that's really uh not a point of order but um i think people have the plain text in front of them uh to compare and so but unfortunately because debate is closed um uh yeah i think we just need to leave uh well mr hyman if you have one brief uh clarification to make about that please go ahead thank you mr moderator um domain to mr austers point if you looked at section three daytime only activities the bylaw it would talk about essentially daytime only activities between uh certain hours including saturday sundays and legal holidays it didn't necessarily make a distinction between commercial and residential but for this very distinct issue of leaf blowers and again mr brown's amendment is to try to address uh and iniquity in the and it already has iniquity in the way that the transition period was treated uh whether or not that could have been done differently from from the get-go is is is not really what is before you uh but this is not a radical departure from uh the rules is mr austers sort of outline there thank you great thank you okay so uh see we still have about uh a couple dozen missing uh votes from folks who have been active relatively recently so uh please get your votes in uh can you go back to the the voting screen please so people can see whether their votes been registered or not so we have most folks in at this point uh let's just go another uh 15 seconds last chance to vote you vote in the q and a about 10 seconds five seconds last chance to vote and let's close voting now on the diggins amendment and diggins a moment uh amendment passes with 169 votes the affirmative 62 in the negative three abstentions uh so we now have the main motion uh as amended by the goodwin one amendment goodwin two amendment the brown amendment and the diggins amendment so just cycle through the screens here and after this we'll vote on the main motion as amended so let's uh open article 16 for voting and this is the main amendment uh the main motion of article 16 as amended by goodwin amendment one goodwin amendment two the brown amendment and the diggins amendment and while that vote is open i will just uh quickly edit the doc with the kind of combined changes in it um to leave only the amendments that have passed and maybe take a look at that we bring up the uh the unified view of all the amendments superimposed so all i've done here is i've removed the changes from that were proposed by the fridman amendment so we're seeing just the amendments applied um uh that passed which are the goodwin amendment one goodwin amendment two the brown amendment and the diggins amendment so you can see all of that in context the red is goodwin one which has been applied to the main motion uh the orange is uh the brown amendment which has been applied to the main motion as well if you keep scrolling down there's more from the the orange from the brown amendment and then there's the green of an acre or more and i believe uh two b i which is from goodwin amendment two and then we have more changes in red from goodwin amendment one and then if we scroll down a bit more we'll see the purple from the diggins amendment so we have 211 votes in we're still missing about 40 um we're missing about maybe 25 or so from folks who've been active in just the last couple of minutes uh so uh let's go back now to the uh voting screen so we're voting on the main motion for article 16 as amended by the goodwin amendment one goodwin amendment two the brown amendment and the diggins amendment we're still missing uh about 20 folks let's just go another uh let's go another 20 seconds and you're voting to the q and a if you're if you're unable to vote uh in the voting portal you can also call it into miss brazil so you know the 10 seconds five seconds okay let's close voting on the main motion the motion passes so the main motion as amended by those four amendments passes 187 and the affirmative uh 44 and the negative we'll just cycle through the screens okay so let's bring now bring up uh article 17 and this is from the select board report so let's bring up um mr diggins uh chair of the select board uh mr diggins do you have anything uh uh to speak to about the uh the vote from the select board on this article thank you mr moderator um i do i had actually put it away in light of what i thought was coming up um later so let me um scroll back and get it you know sorry about this you know i'm not going to wing it like i did article six so um just a second you want to blow up the text a little bit sorry okay so the select board voted five oh to remove the prohibition on self-service gas stations often arlington is a leader in the Commonwealth but this is one case where we are on the trailing age edge and that's okay this like board appreciates that gas station owners are finding it difficult to hire employees and we want to provide the ability for gas station owners to allow self-service pumping or to remain full service only as we note in our report concerns about safety and increase the number of pumps and the guarantee of service for those with mobility challenges have been fully addressed thank you mr moderator great thank you so let's um uh let's say let's i know um uh mr revlach uh was going to introduce a proponent of this uh so let's bring up mr revlach hello mr moderator this is steve revlach from precinct one and yes although i did had intended to introduce the proponent and uh another individual who is going to make a presentation on the proponent's behalf i discovered um very shortly ago that the individual who would have been making the presentation um had a medical emergency and needed to go to the hospital i do not know the nature of um this emergency and i i do hope the individual is okay but given the circumstances mr moderator i would ask if we could lay article 17 on the table thank you mr moderator okay so we have a motion to lay article 17 on the table do we have a second thank you we have a second from mr moore in the portal um and so let's actually let's take a full that's what we need for for lengths on table we need a this is not debatable and we need a two-thirds vote normally when we do this for article three we just do raise hands in this case because uh like this is not like a as automatic a sort of thing as article three is for receiving reports uh let's actually take a vote on this so clean bring that up in the in the portal for laying on the table yep uh it says it's a majority vote but the book says um time meeting time says it's a two-thirds vote um what can we do about that yeah is it how quickly can we make a new one that's a two-thirds vote for laying it on the table can we do have a point of order from um actually uh from mr wagner when we before we enable voting on this let's just take that point of order in case that's relevant um are we able to do that let me be on another uh another tab maybe or where um thank you mr moderator can you hear me okay yes i can name this thanks Carl Wagner uh precinct 15 sorry i have COVID so my voice is a bit crappy um point of order here um i think mr moderator you have at least two former moderators on the call who could probably advise you what they did which might help solve the problem of whether this is two-thirds or majority vote thank you very much uh thank you so well i'm comfortable just going about the book um but um i think let's take miss higham next leave behind precinct 15 i was just going to recommend that we start voting and you and town council work it out while we're voting so that the two can happen simultaneously thank you thank you um yeah we might do that because i mean we could look at the the numbers and you know it's a quantum of vote changes but i'm comfortable going with the two-thirds and let's take uh uh miss howards uh i looks at that point of order has been rescinded so we've i believe we've cleared all the point of orders effectively at this point we have another point of order from mr zimmer let's take that one hello can you hear me yes name and precinct please is ethan zimmer precinct four can you tell us whether we are laying on the table till a time certain or indefinitely um well so laying on the table is indeterminate it's it's it's laid on the table until it's uh taken from the table uh there's a separate uh motion that can be made to um uh you postpone to a time certain um and i think if we let's take mr foskett's point of order because i think it'll be related to this um mr foskett yes mr moderator thank you to foskett precinct 10 i think if the proponent made a motion to postpone by a week or 10 days or something like that it would be a simple majority vote that is correct that is the tradeoff effectively between uh postponing to a date certain be a majority vote but you have to pick a particular date um whereas if you lay on the table it's indeterminate until basically it gets removed from the table at a later point um but it's a higher bar with the two-thirds vote um so you kind of you pay for the um flexibility of being able to pull it off the table at any point by uh having a higher uh threshold with the quantum of vote um did mr heim have his hand up thank you mr moderator i don't think that there's a question in your mind about the quantum of vote i think that you're trying to get the platform to recognize the two-thirds vote correct that's correct thank you sir yep thank you yep that's right yeah i'm not questioning what the quantum of vote i'm confident the quantum of vote should be two-thirds for laying it on the table um and since that is what mr rublack i appreciate the suggestion mr foskett since mr rublack has already moved uh to lay it on the table we're we're gonna and we have a second on that we're gonna proceed with that now so all right so apologies for the we're kind of um in um unconventional procedural space uh but you know going by the book we're gonna move forward with a two-thirds vote on laying article 17 on the table so we could take this up another time since the speaker the proponent who is going to speak uh is currently uh in the hospital so if you are in favor of uh delaying article 17 uh until a later date where we'll pull it off this kind of temporary holding place that we call the table vote yes if you want to debate article 17 in the remaining 11 minutes and 10 seconds of the meeting tonight you can vote now and then we'll start debate immediately on article 17 if you vote now i mean if if more than one third of the body votes now it's a two-thirds vote it takes two-thirds in the affirmative to uh lay article 17 on the table so that we can take it up another time okay so we have uh just over 200 votes now um the wave voting should still be in effect so if try to get your votes in still missing about uh 30 votes but only only a handful of those are from folks who've been recently active in the portal so let's just go another uh 10 seconds and then we'll close voting on whether to lay article 17 on the table to take it up another time five seconds this is the two-thirds vote in order to lay it on the table let's close voting okay and it passes uh 192 in the affirmative 25 negative five uh extent uh abstentions um so 88.5 percent so we're well above the two-thirds threshold we'll just cycle through those so article 17 is now on the table which means we could take it up uh at any time in the future uh by a motion uh to take article 17 from the table um which itself is a majority vote two-thirds to get it onto the table one uh and a majority vote to take it off usually we don't run into that with article three for receiving reports because it's usually a unanimous vote either way take putting it on or taking it off um it's not common that we do this for other articles so it is that is 1051 uh and so we're going to go into uh article we've already done article 18 so we're going to go to article 19 which I believe we have a substitute motion for so let's first go to um let me just bring my screen here so we're now on article 19 um this is uh this uh the street name uh magliozzi uh boulevard or is it meliozzi boulevard i'm not sure how that's pronounced um but let's uh let's bring up um mr diggins select board chair to speak to the vote on this article it's a no action article so can you speak to the select board's vote on this article thank you mr moderator so first permit me to start with admitting the obvious no senator carrey but in his words I was for this article before I was against it literally when I changed my vote the select board's recommendation changed from favorable action to no action now I've never owned a car but I've enjoyed listening to many hours of car talk while sorting fruit flies so of course when this idea came up it initially appealed to me but in the course of the deliberation it became clear to me that we have a process in place that could lead to the same outcome that mr slickman proposes but it's a process that also respects that the naming of streets this was in the purview of the select board effectively this article carries the weight of a non-binding resolution thank you mr moderator great thank you mr diggins and let's bring up um uh mr slickman who I believe has a substitute motion um if mr slickman is if you had yourself to speak in queue you actually bring you up but or you can just go ahead um name and precinct please uh paul slickman precinct nine am I muted yeah I hear you okay good um thank you very much uh I want to talk procedurally first and then to um to the heart of the article first of all let me move substituting uh I'm moving my substitute motion okay um do we have a second okay we have a second from mr high um so mr slickman did you want to speak to your substitute motion at this point or should we just jump into the speaking queue um it's uh 10 55 so I don't I would prefer to adjourn and come back first thing uh after the special do you have are you proposing a motion to adjourn I moved will you adjourn do we have a second on mr slickman's motion to adjourn at 10 54 uh we have a second from mr winstein um but before we vote actually we let me ask do we have uh any notices of reconsideration from anything if you were on the prevailing side of an article tonight any do you want to give notice for reconsideration uh I see we have uh let's say mr austere uh yes on article 16 on article 16 okay we have any other uh uh let's say then madame clerk please take that note and uh do we have any other notices of reconsideration for tonight um mr moderator yes mr foskett yes I'd like to move thank you mr moderator charl foskett precinct and I'd like to move reconsideration of article 55 55 okay we voted on the you voted on the prevailing side uh presumably mr officer I mean we can verify mr austere voted on the prevailing side of 16 um do we and um do you have any other uh notices of reconsideration um I see mr slickman you have your hand raised yes I'd like to file notice of reconsideration on 16 I'd like clarification did mr foskett move uh reconsideration or file notice I believe he uh moved notice of reconsideration you say he moved I'm sorry I I mr slickman is correct sir I said move I meant to say file notice of reconsideration okay I'm sorry I I translated what you said into what I thought you meant thank you mr slickman for actually catching what mr foskett actually asked um so so so far we have notices of notices of reconsider not moving reconsideration but notices of reconsideration for articles 16 and articles article 55 uh mr austere moved notice of reconsideration for article 16 and mr foskett moved no or yeah moved notice of reconsideration for article 55 do you have any other notices of reconsideration uh I don't think it's possible because I think those are the only two articles that we actually yes mr moderator I also moved reconsideration on 16 okay so it's a mr slickman as well uh and we have a point of order for mr jalka name and precinct and point of order please thank you mr moderator daniel jalka precinct six having voted in favor of article 16 I file notice of reconsideration okay so noted so we have mr jalka is uh moving notice of reconsideration on article 16 and I'll just say I only use the point of order because the um raise hand feature it doesn't seem to be enabled on my zoom oh okay I think yeah um okay seeing no other uh seeing no other notices of reconsideration tonight we'll go back to we have we had a second we had a motion by mr slickman to adjourn we had a second of that motion by mr winestein uh please use raise hands in zoom if you have any objections to adjourning adjourning it's uh 10 58 p.m I see a couple of objections to adjourning I see three I see four we still that is not enough to stop the adjournment so it's a majority vote to adjourn and so we will reconvene on Wednesday May 11th at which point we will take up the the special town meeting which is six articles I believe it's five that we actually vote on and so we'll we'll do our best to try to finish the special town meeting on Wednesday if possible and then we can get into budgets after that as well all right see everyone Wednesday night everybody good night