 Board of slackers meeting for Monday September 30th at 715. I just want to remind everyone that this meeting is being recorded. Kevin cannot be with us tonight. He sends his regrets. If you are here for number eight, the discussion about Irving Street, we intend to postpone that and will not be discussing it tonight. So just in case anyone is here waiting for that, you don't have to wait tonight. All right. With that, we'll move to item number one, which is the consent agenda. We have the minutes of the meeting from September 9th. We have the request for the contractor and drain layer license for McCarty Associates. We have another drain layer license for M. I'm going to mispronounce Quiria of Middleton Mass. We have an approval for the iMobile from the Arlington Lions Club for October 26th. We have a request for a one day beer and wine license for October 5th at the Robbins Library for the International Film Festival. We have a one day beer and wine license for October 18th at the Robbins Memorial Town Hall for the third annual out on the town gala to support the AYCC. And we have an approval for a keynote agent on Mass Ab 152 Dags Deli. Is there anyone who is here to discuss any of those consent items or wants to talk about any of the philanthropic activities in those? All right. Do we have a motion? Yeah, I move to approve. Subject call conditions. It's set forth. Second. Mrs. Mahana. One question on one G. I'm assuming that when it says it's moving it from 148 to 152, it's still inside Dags. But for some reason they have to. Okay. Thank you. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Next up, item number two, introduction, newly appointed animal control officer, Amanda Kennedy. Mr. Chaplain. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Amanda, if you want to come up to that microphone right there. As you may know, a long time animal control officer, Tom Quintale, retired recently, but we were very lucky to find a very capable replacement. Amanda comes to us with a background working at both the MSPCA and the ASPCA. She's been on the job for just about a month now and we're very happy to have her. So I wanted to have an opportunity to introduce her to the board and let her tell you a little bit about herself and then give you an opportunity to ask any questions ever you may have. Welcome. Thank you. First of all, I'll say the town of Arlington has been hugely welcoming. And I think that the form of government that you have in this town is amazing and it really makes for involved citizens. And so it's something that all of them should be proud of. I'm really excited to be here. I have a strong background in working in animal welfare and I do bring a lot of experience to the position. In general, animal control in our communities across the country but also here in Massachusetts is experiencing some changes and some improvements and really becoming more at the forefront. About a year ago, Governor Patrick signed in some new laws for animal control, which I know you guys have been through. And we're moving forward for that and I'm really looking forward to that. Animal control studies show that animal control officers actually have more interaction with the public than police officers. So how we interact with the public becomes really important. Questions? Mr. Carol? I just want to welcome officer Kennedy. I had a chance to bring my daughters by the booth on town day and I appreciated your work and I like what you just said about the public because it was very clear when I walked away from the booth that, you know, animal control function is not just about enforcement. It's not just about animals. It's also about education and about people. You agree with the kids and try to just get them inculcated early with what it means to be responsible pet owners and such. And I think that, you know, I look forward to seeing more of those types of education efforts because I think you know that, you know, like many communities that those are some of the types of issues we struggle with as well as working with owners. Yeah, I will just add I did develop the humane education program at the MSPCA and I am looking forward to hopefully getting in the schools and doing some ongoing education. Fantastic. Thank you. Mrs. Vaughn. Welcome, Darlington. I have to say you're in the top three positions of people that I got phone calls, emails, texts. When are we hiring? Who are we hiring? What's the new person going to be here? And definitely you have been heralded throughout the town now that you're here. Just two things. One, I think I know the answer to. The second, I don't know the answer to the first question is regarding your view on increasing our dog licenses, how you would do that and why you want to do that, as well as I know you're well aware of Officer Hogan, Hogan and Dostie. And I'm wondering is there any interface between you and your office and Office of Dostie and K-9 Hogan? Sure. I mean the other way around. So the first question about licensing is actually a hot button topic for me. So statistics state for a town this size with this level of population that we have 8 to 9,000 dogs. We have 1,700 licensed. That is actually a really low rate of licensing. So most towns don't have all their dogs licensed, but in Erelington we should be higher than we are. So I definitely think there's real importance in licensing. It is foremost for rabies to control. That may not be the most important reason to do it, though. It's actually the fastest ticket home for a stray dog, even with microchips. The dog license is still your fastest ticket home. Oftentimes people don't update their information with the microchip company. And I think more importantly from an animal control perspective and also from a revenue perspective for the town, if I only have 1,700 dogs licensed, then I can only advocate for needing items for 1,700 dogs. And so from my perspective, I need those dogs licensed so that I can be better resourced and do things like go into the schools and do education. So I definitely want to work on that. I'd love to see online licensing. And I've already talked with some people and I know that that is technically a possibility in our system. And with the new website, we should be able to do that. I think that's a huge barrier for people licensing their dogs in such a digital age. People don't want to have to come to town hall to hang into a piece of paper to somebody. They should be able to scan their rabies and pay for it online. In terms of Dasty, very sweet dog. He shed all over me the other day. And my dog at home was very upset. My supervisor, my direct supervisor is Captain Curran, and he is also the supervisor for Officer Hogan and Dasty. And I do hope to work with him more. I certainly want to connect with him on education pieces. I don't know how much will actually have opportunities to work directly in terms of law enforcement. In fact, if there's animals present that I need to address, it would be better not to have Dasty there. So I'm not sure exactly how that will interface, but I look forward to doing education with him. Excellent. I was just envisioning sort of piggyback, you know, Mr. Kuros comments. I know Hogy and Dasty go out to the schools and I was thinking it would be a great opportunity to have both police officers, control officers there. And it sounds like that's the direction you're moving in anyway. So I just wanted to raise it because I love the canine so much. Yeah, I hope so. I might need your support for that at some point. Tell me about your dog. I have two dogs. Actually, we have a four pet limit in our house. My husband put his foot down. We have four people and we can have four pets. So I have two dogs. I have a pit bull who's a rescue dog, and he's a canine good citizen. He's fabulous. And then I have a little Sheetsu Yorkie, who is also a rescue dog. And she is a Tasmanian devil. She starts fights everywhere she goes. So I have to carry her under my arm. And we have a cat and a Russian tortoise that was found stray walking through Newton. Wow. So I have two boys. Welcome to Arlington. We're very excited to have you. Thank you. I'm really happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry, I left some magazines for you guys about animal sheltering just to give you a little peek into my world and what I stand for. Okay. Thank you. All right. Next up, Memorandum of Understanding Battle Road, Scenic Byway, the Road to Revolutions, former selectman, Clarissa Rowe. Clarissa, didn't we do this already? We did this already. Thank you, Dan. It turns out that one of the four towns, not us, wanted some changes at the last minute. The changes are in the new version that you have. They were minor. They were reviewed by Mrs. Rice and Town Manager Adam Chapter Lane. And I'm here again, asking for your approval of the Memorandum. They were very minor changes. They were things like who gets to whether the MAPC is going to be the fiscal agent or not. But they're, it's all basically the same thing that you already approved. So I'm asking for your approval again today. Motion? Second. Second. For discussion. Just Ms. Rowe, you said the basic one that we should probably be highlighted looking at is the MAPC function. What was the before and what did another member tell us? We had said that the MAPC was definitely going to be the fiscal agent. And the town of Lexington wanted to hold that decision until we were actually in operation and then we could make that decision. Depending a lot, the MAPC has been the entity that has moved this whole initiative along, but they've gotten grants to do so. So it hasn't cost us anything yet. And hopefully it won't. But if they don't get a grant to do the next step, then they can't be the fiscal agent. So that's, that's the, that makes sense. My only notice that one of the key things for me, which I was to double check was that any participating town or park may withdraw upon 60 days written notice to the committee, which means I think this is an absolutely wonderful thing. But the it also we've got it. So I'm totally in favor. Any further discussion? Well, I think I had mentioned this the last time that I'm glad to see that we're, we're more closely aligned with Minuteman National Historical Party. I can be naughty and say what happens when they get closed down tomorrow. But that's right. Hopefully they'll be back. We've always been really closely aligned. I mean, Luciferus from that, from the National Park has been part of every single conversation we've ever had. That's excellent. Thank you. Thank you for your work. All those in favor, please say aye. Four zero. Thank you. All right. Next up, Verizon, Bradley Road. Elizabeth Kelly? No. Hi. Hi. How are you? Could you introduce yourself? Yes, I would. My name is Ed Davis, and I'm representing Verizon's on this hearing. Originally, I think Betsy Kelly is the one that petitioned for this. She was either tied up with something I know last week she was sick. So she asked me to fill in for the meeting. Sure. So here I am representing Verizon's and hopefully I can answer all your questions. I did visit the site tonight before I came here to see what it looked like and what was going on there. So I'm sorry, I apologize. No, it's all right. I think I got a pretty good idea what's going on there. I wasn't involved in any initial approach. So I apologize for interrupting. So I just want to note that the memo that we have here from Kurt Kelly or senior engineer says, since this portion of Bradley Road is a private way, we do not recommend issuing nor denying grant of location. We do however recommend notifying the applicant, that's you, that their street opening permit application, which will be required for this work, should include an agreement between the applicant and the direct abutters to the work specifying the requirements for restoration of the road and work site upon completion of the project. I can say that all the butters have been notified. They have a list in the folder here. There's nine of them. I've got the receipts from all nine or certified letters were sent to them. So you understand that this doesn't say tell them, this says agree with them. And I hear what you're saying. Now, whether they've contacted them, that was a question Betsy had. If this is a private way, why are we petitioning? Usually a petition of public way. That is an interesting question. And I can't answer that question, but Betsy brought it to my attention. We both work for the electric company and usually you don't, you don't petition. You deal with the abutters and so on to get that work done. So I'm going to invite the public, but we have any questions before the public. Okay. Is there anyone here in the audience who wanted to talk about the work on Bradley Road? Come on up to, could you come on up to the microphone and introduce yourself and my name is my name is Robert Vartigian. I'm at 38 Bradley Road across from the Sir, I'd like to address it to us and it ends up being a question for him. We'll be happy to pass it back to him. I'm Robert Vartigian at 38 Bradley Road. Welcome. Thank you. First of all, I wanted to double check and make sure what you actually had in mind. Whether you're intended to do what's written verbally or what's diagram because they're two different things. Can you tell me where the diagram and the words disagree? Like confess, I didn't notice that. Well, in the written word, it says starting from the telephone pole, which is in front of number 34, going easterly easterly would be going right across the street. It should say going northerly. I think I know what you have in mind, but it should say going northerly. First of all, Yeah, could you please? Could you why don't we have to step back and forth play tag with the microphone. Thank you. Based on the diagram I have north arrow points towards number 34, that side. And so they're saying running in an easterly direction along the edge of the roadway and then churning and going. It would turn and go subtly. Now, if someone put the north arrow on the drawing incorrectly, then the correction in the language would be made. But it is along that it is along the roadway of 34 and 38. And when it gets opposite 39, then it crosses straight across to 39. That's the intent. And again, if the arrow is incorrect, we can correct that. Okay, so it reads properly. Thank you. Northerly is in this direction. Okay. You should you should know better than you should know better than you have another question or comment for us. Yes. Okay. Another question I have sir is if you if you dig, are you intending to dig where the yellow lines are marked? Yes. Marked across. Okay, that's where the file's line would go in. Right. I would say this. Again, if this is for fiber optics, yes, or is it repairing the copper service? I don't know if they have a problem with that. They didn't tell me, but I'm looking at it based on what I think the age of the homes are. Whatever service goes to that house now is probably direct buried, which is the reason they can't use the existing conduit if they were conduit there. But they are going to put an inch and a quarter conduit, which is probably about this big around from that Paul, because I can see the telephone service dropping down into the ground. And they'll bury it maybe three feet in the ground. And they'll run the conduit across the street and they're going to put a hand hole on the individual's private property. So they can do the splicing and then run into the house. Okay. Do you have another comment? Question? I spoke to my neighbor who needs the new service. He needs the new service. Because the existing copper line apparently has worn out. But he's not really interested in getting files. He has Comcast. What he needs is a second telephone line with no static. And so it's and so Verizon recommended a Fios line be put in. But he's not interested in getting files. So I think you know, I'm sorry, I'm not keep going. I can answer what he's going to ask. Do you know where the existing copper line is? Is it is it where the red lines are painted sort of near the driveways? The the existing copper line, I don't know where it is. And I don't know that they even look for that. Maybe the person wants the fiber optics. But the service probably comes off of that pole because there's no other poles. Now it probably comes directly a service directly off to each one of those homes underground. Verizon's can find out where it is. They have a piece of equipment that goes over it and they can get the reading on it and find out where that corpus that service is. But no, I don't think they look for all the neighbors and they probably don't all run in the same direction in the same area. Okay. With the existing copper line stay in the ground if the fiber optic. Yes, the answer to that is yes. Is it can we find out where the existing copper line is? I can find out if there's a car into it to where are you trying to are you opposed to what's going on? Are you trying to stop it from happening or are you just trying? No, I don't want to deny my neighbor any service. I just want to have the least amount of digging possible. Got it. So it is a private way and we we're responsible for the condition of the street. We can't call up the town and say here, we've got a problem. So it sounds to me like they can't if you if if this is old construction, they can't just run another line across next to it. And so they would that means they have to put in a conduit as opposed to whether it's going to put copper in it or they're going to put fires in it. They can't run it along the existing place because there's no pipe. There's just a wire. So if for the service to go in, you have to they are going to have to cut the road from what everything I understand. But what the thing is, is that because it is a private way, that means you get to work with them and they are responsible for the cut. And so what we're encouraging these you and Verizon to do is have this conversation and come to an agreement because as a private way, as you just said, we're not the ones who are going to be regulating that. So I think I'm going to continue to the discussion, you know, outside. Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. Beyond tonight. We're not. Why don't we wait for the resolution, but I suspect we're not going to issue a yes or a no on this because it's not our decision to make. Mrs. Mahon was first. First, I'd like to move receipt of this since we're not second. Second, I would ask you the chair. I'm not sure if it's the chair or someone to my left in terms of since this has come before us and normally it doesn't because it's a private way and there are recommendations that do involve the engineering department as well as for the sake of the people on the private way as well as the sake of the town just to know what is the process protocol in terms of when a utility service comes on to a private way that they do they have to and or if they don't is there a way they show the town through the town manager of the board of select men that they have met with majority two thirds whatever it is private way owners they've come up with this everybody is signed off on it and everybody's OK and I'm just wondering how it did get to us. So I believe through what Kirk Kelly has said on this document is that before the engineering division issues a street opening permit they will want to see that agreement between the utility and the butters making sure that the road is going to be restored to a satisfactory level of the butters on that private way. So our engineering department will receive Verizon. They can't open that they can't open the road until the butters all nine is a two thirds or you can tell me the later date. Looks like it's direct the butters should be. Thank you. Mr. I just wanted to share and for the benefit of the resident here I mean I went through this I live in a private way we had another utility opened up the street. All of the butters in that case did sit down and somebody's living my living room and met with with the representative of the utility and discussed the concerns and then we got it in writing and everybody signed off. That was the process we followed to protect our rights. And so I'd recommend that you might want to get your neighbors together in that way. So how do we go about that. OK. So barring an unexpected vote. We're going to we're about to move receipt which means we're not saying yes we're not saying no. Did you have any further questions for Verizon. Is there anyone else here who wanted to speak about Bradley road. Any final thoughts before we take a vote. All right. We have a motion to move receipt from Mrs. Mohan seconded by Mr. Kerro. All those in favor please say aye. All those opposed. For zero. All right. So definitely you all should sit down and keep talking because. And that's what I thought would have. OK. Not as a contractor. I'm a contractor. But having done this work for New England power mass electric for a number of years we both looked at it and said. Why are we tissue. Yes. Well thank you for coming in. Thank you for understanding. And please you want to exchange phone numbers outside that might be a productive thing to do. Next up National Grid Dennis Regan. Mr. Regan I'm going to read the same thing. Since the portion of wind mill Lane is a private way we do not recommend issuing nor denying a grant of location we do have a recommend notifying the applicant that their street opening permanent application which will be required for this work should include an agreement between the applicant and the director butters the work specific requirements for restoration of the road and work site upon completion. So seeing how that last vote when I suspect we're just going to move receipt on this. I just want to deliver my. That went to the immediate about us. Yeah. And I can read the petition I normally present it as a regular petition to you people even it's a private way and I'll try to answer all questions and I have additional maps with me if any of the butters would like to take a look at what the scope of the work is going to look like. Okay. Any questions of the board before we go to any from from the public who wants to talk about windmill Lane. Do I have a motion? Move receipt and second. So I'm about to move receipt and invite and send you back on this one to talk to the to talk to the butters. It's actually get an agreement and bring that to the public works. Okay. So bring the agreement to the public works when we get to get the street opening permanent. Right. Exactly. Yeah. But it's more than just sending a letter to the butters. We have to make sure they're under they get what's going on and they acknowledge. No, I just for my own information, the immediate about us is what what we normally what we normally do on a regular petition. I think that'd be good. I think that'd be appropriate. Eight of them. Okay. I think it'd be appropriate. So I can communicate to the select was office. I engineering. Yeah. The engineering department for the permit to open the street is from the DPW the engineering team. All right. We have a motion is there. We have a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All as opposed for zero. Okay. Next up. Level three communications position Chestnut Street and Medford Street. Welcome. Thank you. You introduce yourself and tell us about the work. Yeah. Mike Weimer from level three communications. I'm the senior outside plan engineer for the New England area. We propose to install a conduit between some existing polls on Bedford Street and Chestnut Street, where there's not existing strand between those polls. The spans are a little bit too long. So we'll be installing conduit so that we bridge the gap with conduit instead of doing a new pole line. Questions from the court. This is behind first move approval on subject to all the additional conditions that are listed from the DPW question I have. Thank you. The chair is. Thank you stated here, but I can't bring it to the front of my brain in terms of when you'll be doing this work. And my bigger question is, I know that particular area that I'm calling Thousand Islands, that national grid is down there, and we have some traffic delays in the light. And I'm wondering if a, your work also coincides in terms of timing with what national grid is doing down there just because that's a major thoroughfare for I think Route 60. A, if you're aware of that and we are aware of that and B, if you do if you are down there at the same time, how are we coordinating that if we don't know that answer right now, if we can get that as a discussion and go from there? I don't know. Yeah, I actually wasn't aware of that work, but we would certainly coordinate with the other contractors working in the area to try and make as little impact to the public as possible. Could I ask maybe the town manager just because that's another additional and I'm not saying that work shouldn't commence, but I really think it needs to be coordinated and I'm here in your willingness to do that. Yeah, the engineering division along with the traffic division of the police department will make sure that the works coordinated and if it is for some reason happening at the same time that traffic delays can be minimized, but hopefully it won't be scheduled at the same time and we can sort of do it periodically or sequentially so that they're not backing people up. I can also think of a specific business that's there that is really going to care if their road is ripped up right there. Yeah. So if I were the gentleman at the microphone, who would I be contacting coordinating? Wayne Schwener. Town engineer. So just because there's a lot of work scheduled for going on down there and that is a major thoroughfare cut through. So I just want you to be aware of that so that your work can proceed safely and as quickly as possible, as well as for the town and sort of minimizing things. I appreciate that. Thank you. Mr. Carol. Yeah, thank you very much. One of the recommended conditions from the engineering department is that there be 48 hour notice given to a butters before the commencement activities and I don't want to enshrine it and break with precedent as far as the conditions, but is it feasible to give a little bit extra notice? 48 hours isn't necessarily that. Yeah, I don't think that would be an issue. Yeah. Yeah. How what kind of lead time do you typically generally we schedule these things a week in advance or so? Yeah. So you know, a week's notice would be if it's possible. I think that would be helpful. In particular, I don't know if you realize there's a funeral home there. And so they do their lineups right in front of there. And so that's going to be, you know, the timing is bad. The timing will be bad. Is there anyone from the public who wanted to talk about this work on Chestnut and Medford Street? Mrs. Maher. And if I could, when you speak with Wayne Shenad through DPWR town engineer or whoever the town manager deans appropriate, if you could, unless you can tell me right now, you don't anticipate a lot of when you're talking about storing equipment, stockpiling, staging. I just want to get on the record that you'll do you anticipate you'll have a lot of that just because it's already a couple of mini construction sites down there. I understand what you're saying. I don't believe we'll have any equipment being stored in the area or spoils or anything of that nature. We use the local vendors, so they'll bring everything back to her yards every night. Great. Thank you. Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of petition, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Four zero. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next up, a request to repair a private way, Madison Avenue. I don't actually know who the right person to start with on this one. It would be the petitioners. Yeah. She's the one that started this. Sure. Sylvia, could you come on up and introduce yourself and walk us through what you want us to do? Hi. My name is Sylva McMillan, and I live on the 144 Madison Ave. We have had that two family houses since 1996, and we've been trying to get all the homeowners to come together and repair the road. The road has been patched so many times by homeowners who ever feel sorry about us and all that. And they tried to patch it, but being a very temporary patch, it will come off. And the road has gotten very bad recently. And we started the petition about two years ago. And finally, recently, we've gotten into two-thirds of their homeowners agree. And we want to start this project as soon as possible because the road being up hill, downhill, uphill, it's very bad for the winter time. The plowers are not able to do a good job. Their plows get stuck. Garbage trucks are getting stuck. Our tires are being blown up. I just recently, one year ago, I had to change my car tires. And I don't see kids playing on the road. I don't see cars driving down the road. So this has affected the homeowners financially and also, we're not able to sell the houses. Some of them, no buyers are coming in because of the bad road conditions. And some of the homeowners are not able to keep up with their tenants. They just don't have any tenants come in because of the bad conditions. And we would like to get the road repaired. So we have started with the help of Marie Krupalka. And I think we have reached quite a point that we can do this. Last year, we had contracted with DNR Paving. And however, there was a ownership change in the DNR Paving Company. And new owner did not know anything about our project. So by the time he found out in his computer, it was too late. So we went with Aggregate Company. And they gave us the estimate. And we have also the estimate on how much it's going to cost per lot. So just a general explanation for people in the audience and also to double check that I'm getting this right. Because I think this is the first time I've seen this since I was on the board. The town bylaws permit a private way to be repaved. If two-thirds of the people on property owners petition the Board of Selectment and the Board of Selectment agree that the need is met. And if once a third of the money is received in deposit, then the work may progress. And the rest of the money is put on the tax bills, essentially. And it can be spread out over five years. So essentially it is a way for a majority of people on a private way to force the road to be repaved, even if there isn't a unanimous opinion that it should be approved. So that said, I was going to invite the public. But do we have any, Mr. Cure? I think there's another piece to this also that the upfront costs are expended out of the private way. Fund, correct. So I just wanted to double check that the fund balance is sufficient to cover this if we're. I believe there's still an existing appropriation having there been nothing done of this sort in quite some time. And Mrs. Mohan? And just to sort of expand upon what you just said, when you said that the tax payers bear the cost of this, it's the tax payers on the private way, that they agree to. And some of them, if not all of them, work out an arrangement with their tax bill through the treasure. So when you hear tax payers, it's unfortunately the tax payers of Madison Ave. Got it. OK. So is there anyone else who is here to discuss Madison Avenue? Come on up to the microphone. All right, sir, could you please come up to the microphone and introduce? Actually, do you know what? The woman behind you got her hand up first. So I'm going to invite her up. But you can come on up and just stand underneath the monitor. Come on up and just stand up underneath the monitor, and we'll get you up next. Welcome. Could you introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Elizabeth Orange. I live at 35 Evergreen, which is at the corner of Evergreen and Madison. And so I'm not very up to snuff on any of what goes on with the street and everything. But my concerns would be, number one, when the work is going to be done to make sure it's either done before winter starts or after, because I would be concerned that the work would be all for naught if winter comes and the road hasn't set. Yeah. Could you hang on? Can we do those one at a time, maybe? Sylvia, do you know when, if this is approved now, do you know when the work will be done? When the work will be done? When will the road be rebuilt if this is approved at this meeting? As soon as you guys approve, all we have to do is start collecting the first third of the whole entire cost. So the start date depends upon when you get the first third? Correct. OK. Thank you. So I think the answer to your question is we don't know yet when it'll start. But I'm sure everyone agrees that it would be better to be sooner than later. Right. OK. And then the other concern that I have is, and we talked a little bit about it outside, but to make sure that the work is done at a quality level, because as she said, the road has been patched and somewhat paved by, you know, we've had people who've owned companies before in the neighborhood and they've done a somewhat decent job in paving. I've been there since 1990. And the problem is that once winter hits and the plows come, the plows, no matter how good of a job they've done paving, the plows tear it up. And so we have an issue with the plows tearing it and then also with the water coming down the hill. The water goes into my yard and it also goes into my brother in Law's yard. He's not on Madison, but he's on the other side of Evergreen. So he's right at the bottom of the hill. The water goes right into his yard. So those are our concerns on the end of the street. Thank you. Yeah, go for it quickly. When Aggregate Company came up, they assessed the street how far it goes down exactly which houses are going to be affected by the water draining and they're going to be building an edge to those who are going to be affected. So the water drainage will go down the street, not to the people's yards, houses. So that's exactly why it's going to be costing $66,000 something. OK. That's all in consideration. Thank you. All right. Next to Simon Roy, 148 Madison Avenue. Very happy with what is going on in the neighborhood. Everything is changing so fast. I've been living there for almost 12, 14 years. And we're excited because even the fire department gets stuck in that street. And a military car cannot get inside because in winter, impossible. So only where we need this use of port, please help us. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You can come up together. It's OK. We live in 145 Madison Avenue. Come on up to the mic and introduce yourselves. Thank you. Michelle Sullivan. I live at 145 Madison Avenue. And I'm Patricia Sullivan. And we have Epistias Burmer. Welcome. Thank you. We've been in the house since 1970. Mike, I was wondering if I was under the impression the town paid for half of the road? No. No. This one. This one. All right. And were we allowed to use your company, the town company, and get a discount? No. Yeah. Is there any town? Mr. Chapley, is there any repurchase? Yeah. Unfortunately, this is something you, as the private way, you guys need to negotiate the deal yourself, unfortunately. Yeah. All right. I was just curious about it. And how long would the work take? I'm going to defer that to your contractor. We're not the right people to answer that for you. I'm just here in support of it. It's probably long overdue. It was semi-repeated by the town when there was some pipe repairs. But either end of it is very, very terrible. It's, what can I say, this is long overdue. So I'm here for support. OK. Welcome. Good evening. Brian McCaffrey. I represent the owners for 128 and 130 Madison and also 153 and 155 Madison. And I just wanted to speak in support of it tonight. Thank you. Was there anyone else who wanted to speak on this? Mrs. Mohan? I'd like to move approval and just on the issue that was raised by one of the speakers at the microphone. I know when, and it's been cited that previously different people have done patchwork. And then the snowplow trucks come by. The reason why, unfortunately, the road sometimes does get eaten up is because it's not an even surface. It's because we do, you all do have the patchwork. We see this down Regis Road and University Ave. We do the patchwork. Then winter comes. We get the snow. Then we get a freeze. And that kind of raises everything that's been patched. Everything that's paved is on one level. And a patch kind of rises. And that's why when the snow plow trucks come through, whether it's a snowfighter, someone correct me if I'm wrong, or one of the smaller vehicles. So in answer to, I think that's correct, Adam? Yep. Generally, yes, absolutely. So what I'm seeing is when this street gets paved over completely and everything's even, that hopefully you will not see that kind of damage after the snow plows go down. And I'm going to leave it to Sylvia and the rest of the neighbors. You all have contracted with aggregate that you have some sort of caveat in there that whatever they install, it is even recited the drainage issues. But also, I think that will solve that problem that once the snow plows come through, my gosh, it's a different road. So we have a motion. Is there a second? Yeah, a second. Well, sorry, Mr. Do you want to say it? So there will be one other final action before the construction can start. And that's the board adopting a formal betterment order per the bylaw. And that's what basically cements all of the butters on the private way to pay their portion share and then allow engineering to place that as a lien on the property. So the board can move forward with approving and concept. And then we can have a formal betterment order prepared in Brapa for the board the week next Monday. That's good to know. Thank you. I did not know that. Can I have one more question? Sure. Was it about that very specific thing? I'm going to come back for another. Let me finish up here. Sorry. One at a time. Do we have a second? Second. Yeah. I second it as well. But and now that I just found out that they'll be coming back to us. I do think that we should look into the timing of when they do come back to it is in the middle of December. Then perhaps we can make it conditional on starting in the spring or whether it's even at the end of November and it's approaching winter that we don't they don't get done the way of the project and then to kind of appease everyone a little bit of a compromise. But on that is something we can take up when they come back. Stephen, can I just interrupt for a second? When I spoke to the gentleman that he said that if I collect the money and have it and hopefully within two weeks from everyone, they could start right away before November 1st to have it finished before the winter sets in. Well then if they pay me the third down, they can start and then anyone that wants to pay before December 31st, the balance should not go to us anymore. But if it's still open January 1st, then you would have to put it up at the end of the time. But that's what the last I spoke to the contractor has planned. What, as soon as we get the money, the third down, we can go ahead and bill staff. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Mr. Carrell? No, I have nothing. I just had two comments. One is I just wanted, we were talking about the stormwater briefly earlier and I just want to point out number seven. The street does not have a stormwater collection system. Owners should be aware of any grading runoff problems that could be encountered or caused by this work. So yes, putting an edge makes the water run down the yards, but that water ends up somewhere. And so people just have to understand like this, there is no stormwater collection that's on this road. And so now, having gone through this, now did you have a, do you want to come on up to ask another question? She answered my first question, but the other question that I was going to point out is that even with these edges that water is going to end up on Summer Street. Because right now, even in the best of storms right now, it ends up at the end of Evergreen on Summer Street and you have a big puddle. By paving the road, yes, that road is going to be beautiful, but we're going to have a huge big water issue at the end of Evergreen and onto Summer Street. I did take a drive down the road today and I thought it was a well-named collection of potholes. And just briefly to that point, I do want to say, I think it was October 96. We had that big, huge storm and Fezda and Summer Street and Wright and Dotham and all that flooded like crazy. And one of the things that a lot of the neighbors up there, friends of Fezda neighborhoods did, was work with the town. I know the Cajanos live right there, the Denapolites on Summer Street and Mike Malone who's right on the corner of Evergreen in Summer. And what the town did back in, it was 96, we did it in 97, if it was 97, we did it in 98. I want to say the flood of October 96 helped redesign Summer Street by putting in higher curbs, by installing some more storm water drain runoffs for that very reason. God bless you. As well as we had water coming down from Winchester. So I think and I hope and I anticipate because we also anticipated future water runoffs that we have prepared for that. And if we haven't, we'll have to go ahead in the future. So hopefully the concern you raise is a valid one and I'm thinking that we have the infrastructure from that 96, God bless you, 97 event that that will be mitigated. If not, we'll go forward from there. Any further discussion from the board? All right. We have a motion and a second motion by Mrs. Mohan, second by Mr. Brown. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? 4-0. OK. So we'll go forward and but we still have to come back to do the formal betterment order. But we'll do it. OK. That is the end of talking about number 7 Madison Avenue, number 8 Irving Street. Second. We have a motion to table. It is tentatively scheduled for November 4th. But I keep an eye out for future agendas to see what exact date that is. All those in favor of tabling, please say aye. Aye. Aye. That is 4-0. Number 9, appointment to the Arlington Cultural Council, Elizabeth Taylor. Welcome. Could you tell us a little bit? Thank you for volunteering. Thank you for helping us out on the Cultural Council Can you tell us a little bit about why this is interesting to you? It's interesting to me because my whole life and my career has been dedicated to the arts as healing practice. I was trained in opera, theater, and dance. And I have a small soul proprietorship that presents young people usually in concert to give them the experience of performing to get their career up and running because I didn't have that opportunity when I graduated several decades ago. So it's very interesting to me to use all my skills and my training to improve the town of Arlington's arts, of which there are a great deal. So I'm very interested in helping that along. Thank you. Do we have a motion? Question. Will we approve it? Second. Mrs. Mahan? And I just say I'm really excited that you're joining Arlington in this way, just going through your resume curriculum vitae. I see you have quite a bit. I'm not sure if it's with the Boston Museum or Boston Baroque, but in terms of grant writing and identifying grants, as well as writing them and obtaining them. I think that's a great addition along with some other people that also have that skill. But I think the more eyes and more familiarity with that, so I'm really excited about that facet of it. I'm sure there's probably five or six other areas that I have no idea about that you're bringing to the table. But I really want to thank you. And this is a commission committee. Mr. Cure also interacts with often and has really gotten sort of a rejuvenation within the past year or two, including your addition to it. So thank you so much for doing to do this and volunteer your expertise. I appreciate it. Another thing that I'm very interested in is making connections between the cultural events and organizations in the past. They've tried to do that and hasn't gotten very far. So I'm hoping that with the corridor project, we will also be able to move forward in that direction. I think that's really important. Fantastic. All right. Thank you very much for your volunteer. We're delighted to have you aboard. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. 4-0. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, appointment to the Arlington Preservation Fund, Diane Schaefer. Welcome. Can you introduce yourself? I'm Diane Schaefer. I've been on the historical commission since, I believe, it was 2006. And I was an associate on the commission before that, just because I've always been really interested in historic buildings. And we renovated a big house here a number of years ago. And I wish then that there had been a preservation loan fund because we had to sort of figure it out by ourselves. And I think it's really exciting that this money is there for people. I mean, it's not for renovating your house, but for restoring certain historic features about your house that a lot of people probably wouldn't do if they weren't encouraged or had a way to get money for. And I'm a real estate agent. Thank you. Is there a motion? I move approval. Move approval. Second. Second. This is Mohan. And I just want to say to Ms. Schaefer, Diane, I really appreciate you seem to have an awful lot of design, photo ed, and photography experience besides your regular nine to five. 12 to nine, whatever job. Those are previous careers. Now it's, I always say it's a buyer's agent. But I think that's a nice facet that you have, sort of niche that you've grooved out. And I'd be interested to see your service on the preservation fund, perhaps if somehow that can be tied in, where we're getting so quick hands-on. I know in terms of the Sims Development 360, they're going to have, you can go through the community park areas and you can use your iPhone and tag onto something to get something back. So I just saw all that photography and photo ed experience and I really encourage you, and I know you will, whatever you can bring from that of your expertise to this committee, commission will be great. Thank you. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. 4-0. Thank you very much. Welcome. Next up, we have a request for a food vendor license. Kevin Forman, Senior Blind Man Management, Inc., doing business as the right spot, 1389 Mass Ave, which is, of course, the MBTA bus stop up across from what used to be Panera. Welcome. Welcome. Back at you. Can you tell me a little bit about your application and what you're doing up there? I began three and a half years ago, where I approached, as an independent business person, to the MBTA under what we, a flagship program with the Mass Commission for the Blind that I drew up, called the Small Business Enterprise Program, to bring more independence and opportunities to the blind and the disabled community to become business people. Took me three and a half years. The MBTA, right off, gave me a 10-year lease on the place on the grounds that they could have all the thunder that I didn't need any of it, but they were helping the blind veteran get into business. We opened August 5th. I'm very excited about it. I'll be the first independent full-purpose MBTA Charlie Card Agent to be able to do all the bus fares, train fares right here in Arlington. You haven't had that. I have the lottery. We serve New England coffee. Everything's filtered. Everything's clean. You can eat off the floors in my store. I run it like a Marine barracks because I'm a former senior Marine drill instructor. And I bring a lot to the table. I'm looking forward to being a student of the University of Washington. I came to Massachusetts to learn how to be an independent blind person. And what I learned was just that there's a lot of areas that we could approve on in helping the disabled. I've always been a leader. I'm special K of the world, kickboxing champion and the Hall of Famer. I bring a lot to the table and I have friends. That wasn't on the food application. The look is because I have fans and I'm growing old with my fans. I'm normally not nervous when I do public speaking because I was with special K for so long. But since I lost my sight, I only have right peripheral vision. This is new to me again. But I've had to learn how to talk and walk and many things to just be able to come in front of you wonderful people and be a part of this town. The support's been fantastic. My door's open. I do volunteer work. I'm looking forward to being a part of your community. Thank you for letting me come. Thank you. Your bus station is open. Do we have a motion? I'll move approval. I'll second. Thank you for being here. It's great to see the bus station with something in it. This is excellent. I'm very impressed by you and your background. I look forward to being a part of this community. Thank you. Thank you so very much. Mr. Carols. I'd like to thank you. It's a great partnership. I'm glad we can partner with the team. I want to thank you for your service as well. We have a law called the Rand off shepherd act. When you become blind, you understand what it is. It was written for the World War II. When Rand off shepherd were two senators, they formed a law that stated that any state and federal property entity which had retail space available must first offer it to a qualified blind person. The law has been pushed aside and pushed aside because people don't like to give up properties. What I'm hoping and what I'm proving here is that given the right person, you know, they should abide by the law. They're going to take them and fail. This is not a failure. This is going to be a great success. But I do believe that the law should be invoked and that's basically what I've done here is I've just went to the MBTA, used the mass commission for the blind and brought those two agencies which are like oil and water to come together on this. There's a whole lot of things going on. There's a POS system in there that I've developed and you should come down and see it because it's allowing a completely blind person to manage a business. It's the only one in the world. There's a lot of things happening in this little store that are way more important than the fact that Kevin got a store. Once again, thank you for letting me come to your wonderful town. I'm looking forward to being a part of this. I definitely am familiar with that law. My family, siblings, parent, grandparent, retinata pigmentosa grew up on perking talking books coming every week and listening to them myself as well as also working with special needs, severely autistic kids. I do know Arlington through their collaborative sends severely autistic kids to the Perkins school for the blind because it's not just someone who is sight impaired or completely blind. I'm definitely familiar with a lot of what you say and what you do. Thank you so much for your service. I made the mistake two years into my marriage introducing my husband as an ex-marine to another marine. I learned my lesson. It's former marine. It is. One of the things you had in your application is that you will be or you are selling products by local disabled. If you come in the store the first thing you see to the left is our craft corner. I built a glass case with shelves in it. I now have five different people from local areas. They're hand crafting jewelry and bird houses. I'm promoting that type of activity for sure. The mass commission and the department of health and human health. There will be a lot more educated literature at the store so people can come. My website is now being redeveloped from the special care serial website to blind man management website which will be a clearing house for people. Should you need a need for special needs in your family? Someone becomes blind or disabled or whatever. I want them to think of what they want to say. We will have the literature on our website to help educate people on how to deal with these problems and direct them in the right path. It was difficult for me when I came here to find the right path. When you can't see you have to count on other people. In those areas I'm trying to be as good as I can to try and help as many people to find the agencies that they need to find and get those agencies to perform. Without leadership leading the agencies don't have to perform. The mass commission for blind has performed and the MBTA has performed in this. They've had to because I'm a profiled person. Had I not lost my site I wouldn't know how to deal with a blind person either. I don't know how to lead. Thank you for the opportunity which I know we're going to avail ourselves of. I'm familiar with POS systems through restaurant businesses but I'm excited to come up and I'll call first and see how you have adapted that for my family connection to that. Thank you. Thank you for choosing Arlington. All those in favor please say aye. Thank you. Next up we have transfer of common victory license. I pronounced that correctly blue October doing business as kick stand cafe the former jam in Java. Hi. Hi. Tell us about your application. Our application is to move into the space currently occupied by jam in Java and continue on the little cafe in Porter Square located in the Porter Square bookstore called Cafe Zing. We will have lots of similar things to that and add food options. The main changes we're going to make is to change the coffee service. Jam in Java right now it's simple brewed coffee. We'll bring in an espresso machine and up the coffee game and we have to close down for a little while to take care of some of the changes the Board of Health wants. Dual painting. Motion question. First I'll move to approve. Second. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming in. I enjoyed reading your application. I shared this with my wife and she was very excited that her spring rolls are coming to Arlington. We'll take advance orders tonight. I'm also excited that you're going to change the signs in the parking lot and update them to the store name. I was wondering is it your intention to keep I'm sure you know that Joe Burns runs the open mic series that does get funding from the Arlington Cultural Council. I haven't spoken to him but it's our intention to keep that going. That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for keeping it going and inserting some new creativity in it. It's one of my choice spots when I have an impromptu meeting. We'll be looking for you. Did Mr. Burns second that? Just two or three things. First I want to disclose that question came up on the Arlington list. I don't know if you saw that. I did. I've been a member of the list for years. I like to stay back though. I'm not representing your business so I wanted to let you know in case you weren't aware of that. Thank you very much. The second thing is a question through the chair and then a question through the chair to you directly. The first one is do we have to have an applicant like this? Do we have to have Corey or Sory? If we do. Can we just get that taken care of? Sometimes when we see these applications and I know we got something from the police that says pending Corey and Sory checks. Yeah. Okay. So there's no Corey. No sorry. I'm going to start on the application and if I read it incorrectly, I apologize, but one of the features amenities that I think you're proposing that you would like to do, I'm not committing you to this, is that you really wanted to tie into the Minuteman Bikeway and install some bike racks and I guess my question would be through the chair, would it be advantageous, would it be something that we suggest that these business owners avail themselves of TAC in terms of installing some of these applications? Actually there's a presentation that will be before the board at next Monday's meeting, specifically in regards to the layout and the connection of the two bikeways as part of the larger bikeway connection project that TAC and DPW have been working on for some time. So staying in touch with actually the planning department and or the director of public works will be able to talk about what is going on in that little plaza area in front and in any case we're planning to use maybe one of our parking spots to just install bike racks. Great, I just want to make sure you're all sort of in concert with each other. Important to us. I'm not saying I'm requiring you to do that, I'm just saying something, I just want to make sure everything's coordinated. We're even going to give a little discount to people with our sticker on their helmets. Thank you. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be very cozy. I didn't think it could get better, but it looks like you've taken steps to make it better. The first place I met Selectman Kerro actually was at Jam and Dropison. No, thank you very much for your willingness to do this. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you. So I was curious how long you're going to close and what are the changes you need to make? Well, I'm going to do a little bit of detail. I'm going to do a little bit of detail items, just some patching of plaster, some removal of some old vents, some ceiling tile replacements, and then we have a little bit of plumbing work that obviously be in touch with the plumbing inspector around to get this new espresso machine put in. Painting, a little bit of reconfiguring of the seating area, so we're hoping two weeks maximum. I'm six foot one. Figure it out. I actually I've hit them, but I actually saw one guy break one of them with his head. The blue glass, you know, they're very pretty, but they're low hanging. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say I. Thank you very much. Best of success. Next up is the citizens open forum except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established. It should be noted there's a three minute time limit to present a concern or request. Is there anyone here who's here for the citizens open forum? Come on up. Welcome. What do you have for us tonight? We have a member precinct 16 and a member of Park Avenue Congregational Church. Tonight I have given to Marie several copies of a petition requesting handicapped in or limited parking near Park Avenue Congregational Church on both Walston Avenue and Paul Revere Road adjacent to the church. A request is being made of selectmen of the town of Allington set an order enforcement of a two hour parking on Paul Revere Road from Park Avenue to a distance of 200 feet from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays only and to provide for handicapped parking in front of the door of the sanctuary and also in front of the door to the parish hall on Paul Revere Road. Parishion is attending meetings at the church finding it difficult to park in the area of the church while a two hour limit does apply on Park Avenue it's only good for about two to three cars being enforced and no such limit exists on Walston or Paul Revere Road and we've noticed that cars are presently parking there all day while their drivers hop the MBTA and go into Boston for the day. Many of our members and friends who need to go to the church have physical disabilities. Some require wheelchairs, walkers, canes you name it. It's very difficult for many of them to walk even seemingly short distances. Park Avenue Church is in the process of making our church handicapped accessible. We have just put in over $350,000 to make it accessible. In addition to we are adding ramps, we're adding a lift and a railing extending around the corner of Park Avenue where there are streets slant so much that people cannot even walk around there without falling. In addition Park Avenue also serves as the home to replace and numerous other civic groups use our church on a weekly basis. It's also the home to Precinct 20 voting. With parking being usurped all day by parkers who are going into Boston the youth is finding themselves parking across Park Avenue from the church and then crossing a very busy and very wide section of the road and for the daycare parents you see them in the morning crossing with a bag and a lunch, a baby in one arm and a toddler being held in the other arm and trying to dodge cars flying up Park Avenue in a hurry to get wherever they are going. For these reasons we are asking for the designation of a handicapped parking space near the church's main entrance on Wallaston and near the door of the parish hall on Paul Revere Road as well as two hour limited 200 feet on the west side of Paul Revere Avenue from 6 to 6 p.m. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and in front of the church on the property on Wallaston Avenue. We also feel that it would be nice to have a designated drop off loan on Paul Revere Avenue as a benefit for the parents trying to get their children in and out of the daycare as well as drivers trying to get our handicapped people in and out of the church. The petition Marie has and we'll be giving to you and we're hoping that you will grant our request as it would be very, very convenient for our members. Thank you very much. Thank you. Would it be appropriate to refer that to the parking subcommittee or you want to make a motion to move receipt and refer to attack or attack or parking is that a receipt and second for parking. Any further discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Thank you. So the parking subcommittee will schedule a meeting and take a look at the meeting. I'm sure officer Rato who is the regular is the member of that committee among others will weigh in. So we'll definitely that subgroup will look at it, make a recommendation and come back to the full board. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there anyone else who's here for the citizens open forum? Seeing none. Next up traffic rules and orders other business presentation Mass Ave bike accommodation striping plan . Thank you. It was probably about this time last year when we had paved a decent stretch of Mass Ave and we had all that nice black canvas there and discussion started to happen started to take place on how could we stripe that section better or could we include bicycle lanes or some kind of accommodations and at the time I felt we would probably be better looked at Mass Ave more as a whole rather than in segments. So we did not stripe that section for bike accommodations but instead we spent the winter the engineering department as well as members of some of the members of TAC and some of the members of the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee got together and worked on a guideline for not just Mass Ave but many of the major routes in town as we reworked them and guidelines we could apply so that we could have bicycle accommodations made sense or should be accommodated. So that took place over the winter and in the spring the engineering department went out and took measurements across Mass Ave from the Tlaxington Town Line to Mass to Mill and Jason Street took measurements about every 100 feet or 50 feet across so we could determine how we could apply these guidelines and what you have before you is where we decided what the guidelines show we could put either true bike lanes or paint what is called a shower. I think the board is familiar with the shower but just in case I have . Excuse me. So this is actually one page out of the draft guidelines that we have there is still a little work to finalize them but in general there is an indication on the lower portion of the page over on the right hand side is a shallow bicycle symbol with the sergeant stripes on top that indicate a lane is to be shared with cyclists and then there are some stretches of Mass Ave where we had room to actually place a full bike lane without taking away from the single lane of traffic that exists. I can quickly run through the stretch of Mass Ave that we're proposing to strike within the next few weeks. It's approximately two miles from the Lexington line to Mill and Jason street of that two miles close to one third of it will receive bike lanes under this proposal and the other two thirds would get a shallow treatment and the reason for the one treatment of the other essentially is how much width there was to Mass Ave to accommodate a separate bike lane and leave enough room for a proper travel lane and again that was essentially the basic credentials for how we chose the striping plan but essentially from the Lexington town line to the bus barn the MBTA bus barn we would be proposing the Cheryl markings and then from the bus barn to essentially the Duncan on the height I think it's Richardson Avenue there we're proposing actual separated bicycle lanes from that point to Brattle street would be shallows and then from Brattle street to essentially Grove street we had room for bike lanes and then shallow markings from Grove street to Jason and Mill street and again like I said we're prepared to create to start that striping within the next few weeks but one point I'd like to make is we were very comfortable in assigning this striping plan through the section of the corridor with the exception of the stretcher road from Laughland to Mill and Jason there's a lot going on there we have the CVS, the high school the new Whole Foods and there's a lot of room there there's a lot of cross section to that road and there are several ways you could treat it but we felt that it would be wise for us to hire a consultant to do some traffic counts and to make some recommendations that we could work with on how that section of road should finally be dealt with so what we're proposing here is just to basically leave it as it is today the center line was before we paved it we would paint shadows on the side of the road just again to bring some sort of accommodation to cyclists but moving forward we are looking to hire a traffic consultant to help us with some recommendations how to finalize the striping for that area there's a lot of demand for left turn lanes through that section it's pretty wide so we just felt a better level of comfort and some outside help so you're asking us to just move your seat tonight yeah we're not what we're proposing will not change any lane configuration or any changes required to the traffic rules and orders essentially wanted to bring this to the attention of the board I know it was discussed a year ago and I at that time said that we would go and go through this process and try to come up with some kind of policy guidelines and apply it to MSF and I just wanted to present it to the board for the second discussion Mr. Keara thank you very much thank you for the presentation and the hard work I see in what you handed us that there are three different choices on the bike lane markings which one of these I believe it would be the I believe it's the first one I was also wondering I know that I guess part of this stretch was just repaved in the last week or two so presumably this is part of the overall striping that you'll be doing on the road we're going to strike this whole section from Lexington to to Mill Street regardless if it's been recently paved or not so this isn't just going to be bike lanes you're going to redo all of the striping the crosswalks the whole stretch it will be because I know that there had been I don't know if it was intentional but there had been some issues with the striping done last year with some of the work I think around Brattle Square to the stop and shop it seemed to fade pretty quickly it was paint and I think it got in late in the year again what we're going to be putting down now is paint but we will look next spring to apply thermal plastic or epoxy at certain locations where it seems to wear more quickly especially the crosswalks it's great to hear Mr. Behar sort of piggybacking on that definitely had many conversations as my colleagues have here at the Selectman's meeting as well as with the town manager on the thermal plastic treatment it's sort of my understanding and one of the points I had raised with Mr. Chapelle and Adam was that it seems we've adopted the international crosswalk design itself but then just in terms of the Heights project and Highland Ave I know I don't know if you want to expound upon that but I was concerned that we were we had the international design crosswalk out there but we just had regular paint on high volume usage and I believe you said that similar to what Mr. Rademacher said I'm just trying to get a quasi commitment to the Highland Ave because quite a few parents up by bracket school and residents not just parents as well as Paul Marinelli for the Heights we're asking if that could be revisited Mr. Rademacher correct me if I'm wrong that DPW receives a list from TAC that they apply thermal plastic offhand I don't know if that particular crosswalk is on the list if it is and it wasn't done this year the intention would be in the spring to go back and do that application I believe correct Highland and Mass Ave that intersection you're referring to there's three or four across Mass Ave and I want to say Eastern was it in Mass Ave and Eastern also done over in the spring the residents have asked me about that so I think what I'm hearing is that I should through the town manager and the chairman refer that back to TAC if they think any of the crosswalks on the Highland Ave unless you already do think should be treated in the spring as well as two, three or all five in the Heights should be retreated in the spring we'll coordinate with TAC we have a list that should be thermal plastic based on their recommendations and I know that the Highland Ave has a chance to acclimate you sometimes you don't want to put it right on the fresh as well but we will go back and revisit that list and be sure that those locations are made thermal plastic or epoxy and any additional that need to be so I know you have the heights if I can I'm not going to think about it again just put Highland Ave if appropriate just because people have asked me and I just want since I'm going to actually I'm going to talk about it now so I don't have to talk about a new business is I know we recently had a resignation on the for tree warden tree warden committee I've had conversations with various individuals and I guess what I would do on a new business but I'm doing now is that I would ask the town manager to coordinate with you and talk about that position and talk about whether that needs to be a quarter time half time actual so I'm going to talk about that because it's an awful lot of work and I was looking at sort of like exit interviews when you see someone leave or whatever you know why that happened so I won't bring that up into new business that would have been what I'm Mr. Rademacher and I am more than actively engaged in trying to find a solution to that okay so you like my forward thinking very forward thinking all right I just wanted to put that on okay so that's one less new business thank you so when you're headed west and you go past Lachlan towards Highland which is say you've just gone past the high school and you're about to go past the stop and shop so we have the turn lanes there and so a lot of Mass Ave obviously behaves as a two lane road but there because the turn lanes it does not behave as a two lane road that to me is like a particularly tricky location for because cars are trying to do the merge and so I'm afraid that maybe that should be part of the consultants are like because managing that necking down to me is one of those really tricky places last year we when we did pave the new section of road that was paved it was the section in front of the high school so heading westbound there's the left turn to Lachlan yeah so we made a left turn only lane right there sure and that helped channel folks into one lane so when they got to the stretch road that you're talking about we had we observed less of a problem we felt that was a step in the right direction obviously if we can find even better improvements we will do so other than that I think it's great that was my only comment nothing really to add just thanks for making our roads even safer Mike thank you for the discussion Mr. Tom we have a motion to receive please say aye 4-0 thank you next up we have a request for a residential handicap parking sign at 9 Milton street Mamoud Arshad Arshad approval we have a motion to move approval second we have a second for Mr. Carroll any discussion as very unique circumstances and I certainly can understand why they're asking for it and why there's no objection I have no objection either Mr. Kripalka when he comes in for the permit he just reminded him still no overnight parking in that it's not only his any further discussion all those please say aye approve 4-0 next grey street Richard Turco chair transportation advisory committee our favorite people that means we're going to pass something off to you to do I came very close to it good evening my name is Rich Turcott I'm the co-chair of the transportation advisory committee Jeff Max Tutus who's the vice chairs with me and Elizabeth Carr Jones Elizabeth was the working group leader of the grey street project and Jeff assisted her as a member of that working group so I thought we thought it made more sense to let Elizabeth make the presentation and Jeff and I will be available for answer questions as well welcome Elizabeth hi there so tonight we're we have a set of recommendations on grey street like many of the towns urban collectors grey street has a fair amount of traffic pedestrian traffic and crossing so over the years we've heard complaints in two specific areas came to our attention through the safe routes to schools and through the town that we thought we should take a look at the entire roadway in terms of pedestrian crossing issues and see if we could come up with something that a plan that made sense in terms of specific problems essentially if you divide the road in half look at it on the west side of Highland Ave and the east side of Highland Ave you know there are two areas where people cross that don't have any crosswalks currently so we looked into several of the streets that are crossing grey in those areas Churchill was a specific request and now the we did data collection on all these roads and the number of pedestrians crossing at Churchill was rather low not really high enough to warrant a crosswalk but we did notice that there was a visibility line of sight issue for the cars coming up from the east going away from Pleasant Street going towards Highland so if anyone tried to cross there very often a car wouldn't see them in enough time given the roadways speed so our recommendation wasn't to install a crosswalk at that location however we saw an opportunity in a speed advisory sign to essentially reduce the speed just before the intersection with Churchill on the approach to that intersection so that people wouldn't come up to that intersection unaware that there were possibly people trying to cross there we also looked at Valley Road which is the next intersection and the reason we looked at that one was that the Bishop School has a bus stop there and we checked with the school department and we're considering that as a reasonable location for another crosswalk because the bus stop but also the visibility there is very good and the spacing of the crosswalks on this urban collector seem to work out however right now we're not in a situation where many students are using that bus stop so there's no immediate need to put one in but we're working with the schools to monitor the use of that bus stop so that if in the future one is warranted we'd be glad to recommend one in on the other side of the west side of Gray Street we've got another sort of set of school issues of the Otterson students as well as the Brackett students tend to walk along Gray Street as well as crossing so there's a cluster of crossings in the area of Mount Vernon Situate and Coolidge Road it's there and observations and it really seems like a great idea to install a crosswalk at Mount Vernon it's a better location than Situate which is much closer to the Highland intersection which is traffic controlled with a signal and Coolidge Road is a private way so it doesn't have crosswalks for people to use on the other side and so Mount Vernon seems like an excellent location gets a fair amount of use by Brackett parents and students it's about equidistance between the other existing crosswalks and visibility is very good so I think that's the that's a set of recommendations that we're looking at here glad to answer any questions just to recap you want us to to install a crosswalk on Gray Street at the intersection with Mount Vernon to replace an existing 30 miles speed limit sign with a 25 at Gray Street westbound in advance of Churchill and to take a pass at the moment on the crosswalks at Churchill and Valley correct thank you very much for this it's always very detailed are we actually changing the speed limit or are we just recommending that people go a little slower it would be a speed advisory sign that is already one speed advisory sign on Gray Street it's the 20 mile an hour on the approach to Jason Street and a speed advisory is not a it's not a legal speed limit what it is is a way of essentially giving people advance warning that there is a reason that they should keep their speed down see the situation we're in is that the speed limit even though it's 30 at the intersection of Churchill we're getting speeds that are in excess of that on the roadway so what we're trying to do is essentially bring the speeds of the traveling cars down to the speed limit and in order to encourage that sort of behavior a speed advisory sign is often a good way to do it a friendly recommendation seems fine to me further discussion and our emotion move approval second any further discussion I would just say that this whole mistake and this whole issue of the speed limit our hands are tied by the state and I've talked to other officials from other communities very frustrated by this who are similarly dense communities as ours but the inability of local communities to make that lower at certain places so seems like a creative solution to get the point across Jeff you're whispering at us yeah I'm just going to add you're absolutely right the state controls control of two things absolutely on all roads regardless of jurisdiction one is truck prohibitions and the other is speed limit and the only thing that we can do is a town well you can petition the state but you may not like the results if you petition based on the state study but we can where it's warranted put a speed advisory in this case there's a vertical curve crest which limits the sight distance to about 170 feet so 170 feet 25 miles an hour is more appropriate so we can put as acting as a traffic engineer for the town a speed advisory plate but we can't change the posted speed so it's confusing but that's what we have to work on it's crystal clear just one more question I'm looking at the map on back is it going to be a four way intersection or just across Mount Vernon just across Gray or it will go will there be four crosswalks I guess oh you're asking will it be on both sides of Mount Vernon no we did not recommend the specific side of the street because it really could be either side and we'd like to leave it to engineering judgment which is better given drainage and other issues so it would be one crosswalk on Gray at Mount Vernon on either the west or the east side of the intersection thank you I have a question from the audience for you come on up introduce yourself I'm Sarah Hugenberger I live at 33 Walnut Street and we've just been in correspondence about the crosswalk at Mount Vernon and Gar Jones suggested that come and support it I'm a bracket parent and I'm one of the safe routes to school coordinators for Brackett as well and my extensive email is on page 5 of that report if you want to read that but in some there are a number of families from my neighborhood who do a walking school bus and even more families that kind of informally hop onto that walking school bus as we go up and right now when we cross at Mount Vernon we might have a group of 10 people two adults and you know 8 to 10 kids and cars you know go through like they can't see us I understand they don't have a legal obligation to stop for us but it's a little bit amazing how many people don't just want to stop for a group of kids trying to cross the street we're really looking forward to the idea of a crosswalk there and we hope that it was approved and it would be the only crosswalk between Highland and Quincy that leads to a street that has a sidewalk the whole way up so that's an issue in the winter where there's no sidewalk people obviously are not shoveling their front lawns out for us so we're in the street so this is a great combination of sidewalk the whole way and ideally a crosswalk as well so thank you thank you all those in favor please say aye aye 4-0 thank you very much very helpful next up approval day Hill family memorial is there anyone here who wishes to speak on that memorial committee yep come on up introduce yourself I'm Claudia day Hill Hughes from 20 Webster Street and this is my uncle Tom day Hill from 223 Broadway thank you and we request the intersection of Allen Broadway intersection that my great great grandfather built a house on that street be named the day Hill corner in recognition of my uncle my dad my other uncle and my sons and my cousins who have often served in the US services and we kind of we could name that section of area day Hill corner so we received your correspondence we sent it to the public memorials committee they gave you a ringing endorsement that they thought it was very appropriate so is there a motion and comment second by Mr. Carroll comments disclosure I've known Mrs. Hughes Claudia for many many years I don't know if either one of you just want to speak briefly I'm sorry I decided many relatives starting from World War two all the way up to was it does it storm or Persian Gulf Persian Gulf actually Civil War two Civil War just want to give a minute we believe that our my great grandfather served we hope served on the union side of the Civil War that's a story that was sticking by but we thank him for having a son and his son his oldest son oldest child was my father Thomas stay who who served in the first World War as a sergeant major and in the second World War we have a whole slew of people my sister Helen she served in the waves in Bethesda Maryland in the hospital Naval Hospital my brother Charlie got in at the last moment and he was in the Navy and he actually went overseas he went to Cuba we we charred him about that all the time and I spent a little time in the South Pacific as an aerial navigator for the 13th Air Force and then my youngest brother finally he was too young for the Second World War so he served in the Navy during the Korean conflict and today we're very proud to have my name's sake Claude my son Thomas this is the fourth Thomas to serve and he's in the US Marines but the first Thomas served in the Union we hope and then the second Thomas served in the First World War I served in the second and now we have another Thomas serving today we want to thank you very much for the day I want to thank you and my dad's bone contention he served in the Korean conflict in the DMZ zone and he told me he calls it the Korean War because there were bullets going over but it was Korean conflict I think it's a wonderful thing that we can honor your family for their service with this I'm delighted to be able to do it we had a family get together on Saturday and we were shocked and elated when Claude presented us with this they were all in tears and very happy that they were recognized and tell me a story about your thoughts of people moving into the house at 223 hanging in the corner those are family stories yeah that's Thanksgiving time they told them what they moved in he didn't expect to see them hanging in the corner here we named thank you all those in favor please say aye thank you very much alright it is 855 but we're getting towards the end so I think we're going to plow on through next up is the discussion of the board designee for the EPAC assignment all four of us put your finger to your nose Mr. Greeley Mr. Greeley I'll make that motion Mr. Greeley Adam would you like to talk us through this one just very briefly as the board knows it set one of its goals to move towards an EPAC for the board's agenda and for the staff so I was asking for a designee to work with member of the IT department our new systems analyst as well as a designee from the school committee so we could devise a system that both includes staff from the board's office but we thought it was very important to have someone from the board and I think Mr. Greeley would be a perfect fit for that role so all the kidding aside is that second any further discussion all those in favor please say aye thank you for moving forward I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes out of this next up Mrs. Mahan on approval no parking signs on that street yes I'd like to move approval we have received correspondence from Officer Corrie Ratau we have Richard Gobe from DCR the signs have been made they just need to coordinate with the town and I've given that information name, number, contact to the town manager so I'd like to A make a motion to let this particular part of the DCR dilemma down on the Greenway Commence and then I would have so what's the motion you're making the motion to as recommended by Officer Ratau to make the following permanent changes to traffic rules and orders article 5, section 2, schedule 1 and he has outlined in our board information exactly what it is it's basically to put the no parking signs back up that were there before the Greenway I'll second the discussion thank you so I do have a couple questions I want to know what you look like Mr. Ratau is endorsing this throughout this statement right here and when we spoke about it briefly last week it sounded like there were signs they were taken down we were simply putting them back up but now we're getting into what is essentially a bylaw change and I guess something got lost in translation with that for me between signs came down we're putting them back up to changing bylaws and if we are going to start changing bylaws and making it so people can't park on streets I think a larger discussion needs to take place because we're going to start hearing from commuters on Mary Street, Margaret Street, Birch and about how they don't want people parking on their streets either so I am a little concerned about making this bylaw change if you'd like to explain maybe something that I'm not understanding here but otherwise I probably won't be supporting this originally the signs were up because there's mass state law and if anybody wants to have this meeting tonight about unless voted by the legislature and I'm sure Mr. Burn will probably be able to cite this better than I having worked at the state house you cannot park on a budding DCR land unless the legislature votes that you can do that that's why the signs were originally up so then when we started with the Greenway discussion on Boulevard Lafayette and Sunnyside there were 10 or 12 items that Mr. Grierly and Mr. Chaplain and I met with the then commissioner DCR Commissioner Lambert about getting those signs back up because residents down there we have no parking on both sides of Herbert Road we have two-hour parking on all the feeder streets down there and that was becoming an issue especially in the winter where it kind of balled next down there so DCR took them about a year but they said we have the signs we're ready to put them back up and then what happened was I happened to be in the Selectman's office with Officer told Mrs. Cropalcarona totally unrelated matter and he said I know there's that state law but to make it sort of being constant with that traffic rules and orders we should really have it in there too just to make sure that working sort of crossing the T dot in the I's so that's sort of the evolution of it the neighbors you know now that those no parking signs didn't go back up it's really become an issue down there it's not in concert with other traffic rules and orders in terms of no parking completely on each side of Herbert Road two-hour parking on Magnolia Fairmont and the neighbors just said can you put the signs back up and Officer Rato said why don't we make our traffic rules in order sort of piggyback bicycle with the mass state law regarding parking adjacent to DCR we used to be MDC but now DCR Lambert I mean I think in principle I don't have a problem with this but I wonder if we shouldn't post it as a public hearing just just to let the butters come in we talked about it the last and then we said we're going to post this okay I mean if you all want to do I'm just trying to follow up on you know what we got from the residents down there just to get the signs back up and Officer Rato said you know we can just to be sort of uniform have it on our traffic rules of orders rules and order and so when I'm just curious so this conversation yeah that's fine so when so the sunny side discussions of the DCR stuff started before I was on the board and you've been a lot more involved with it than I have can you just tell me a little bit like so I can understand when we when were the resident conversations and what was the context of that about the signs the Greenway project took five years then we anticipated public hearings and then MDC now DCR even had a joint meeting with the board of select when several meetings many meetings over five years and the culmination of that was last year after the microburst when Mr. Grilly and Mr. Rademacher and Wayne and the town manager met on various issues including getting reimbursed for the microburst also brought up the Greenway issues the five year headache from all of the neighbors residents Christine Sipcansky I'm saying her name wrong she's on our redevelopment board on sunny side and Richard Becker and other residents down Boulevard Lafayette and I have sent to my colleagues through the selectman's office when the town manager and I and Kevin met with various officials at the state house when we came to the Greenway conversation there were ten, no there were 13 items that were listed that we spoke to the commissioner about and there was an agreement upon moving forward on them only one of the 13 to date I know I've been very frustrated the town manager has and I know the chairman by a vote of the board is crafting and drafting a letter to go to the new DCR commissioner of the 13 issues that we had agreement on one was getting the signs back up from DCR and that request came through in the hearings with citizens past five years hearings I'm prepared to support the motion and it was my understanding that DCR actually has and will supply the signs I mean they're just waiting for I just wanted to have a formal vote the signs are done Richard Gold was the engineer from DCR he's ready to work with whoever Mr. Chapellein designates to get those back up thank you for the discussion all those in favor please say aye aye opposed sorry sorry just wanted to be 3-1 next up discussion long-range planning so I have been sitting on the long-range planning committee since I came to sometimes put on the board I'm appointed by I guess Mr. Greeley is that right? No there's less been clarifications to the point and I know periodically I think we've been better and sometimes we've been good and sometimes we have been great coming back to this board and talking about what we're working on we're talking about voting on an override we're very good at coming back every time we had a meeting I don't think I've come back and given you a formal report in probably a year so there were four items that we talked about the most recent long-range planning group one was we reviewed the long-range planning projection which is of course the famous five-year sheet that we all know and love and we went and the deputy manager took us through some of the recent updates to that I guess I would say on a high level I don't think this has changed significantly in the last year I mean there have been a number of minor changes but in the big picture 2019 is the year that we dip to the negative and I know do you plan on going through this in any level of the budget and revenue test? Oh yeah I'll go line by line so we're going to go through it in detail is there anyone on the board wish to go through it in detail at this particular meeting or should we wait until next week? Next week sounds good I just have one comment to leave on the table just because the town manager was very gracious in sitting with me for about 30-45 minutes and this could be part of the presentation I'm very challenged by graphs and sheets and counting in numbers so one of the things that I had was going to get to the I was starting with that first item if that's okay I wasn't clear my only general comment for the board this is something that I said at the state of the town and I've said it in various forums since then and I've saved the long-term planning I'm going to say it again at Budget Revenue Task Force next week but I literally cannot say it enough is that 2019 has as everyone knows we have a structural deficit which is to say our expenses grow faster than our revenues and the last override plus the GIC plus a couple other things including more money from the state have made it such that that plan is going to last longer than we expected that's the good news the bad news is that by the time you get to 2019 that structural deficit is accumulated to a gigantic number it's short what is it 7 million or something like that and I think that we as the only body that can put an override question on the ballot are going to be I strongly suspect that it would be foolish of us to wait until 2019 and I suspect we're going to have to come up with some sort of smart conversation that if we put a question on the ballot and it fails that is definitely a possible thing that's out there it would be a complete train wreck and if we waited until the last minute and played chicken with our budget and so I think that we should be thinking about the fact that in some future year we're going to need to put a question on the ballot such that we can make smart planning without playing chicken with our budget so that's fine I'm not going to get carried by the comment on the bottom that when we do have the budget revenue task force meeting will we have any sort of estimates projected doable in terms of allington high school and or minute invoke those are items three and four I didn't write them down there's absolutely no way that you could know this was entirely in my head item number two OPEB so this was an update on the status that's the other post employment benefits so this is beyond pension this is the health benefits that we owe our retirees I did have good 30 45 minute meeting with the town manager because I had taken the consultants report 2011 actually was proposal in report and presented and there were just two one of my main operating functions is that because I'm so challenged by different graphs and the compilation of numbers is one of the rules I was sort of taught if you're talking about a large group of people or numbers of people you see the same two numbers match that's something that you should kind of look into so I did meet with the town manager and he also said he noticed the same thing in terms of having the same number of actives for 1112 as well as the exact same number for number of retirees for 1111 which are two different subcategory subsets and then the only other thing that but the town manager I think and you can correct me after this that I sort of because I try to match the number I take the report and try to match the number to what's before us is the total unfunded liability the 167454 100 number 167 million was sort of from a proposal and when I looked at the report that we got from the outside consultant group for OPEV the number was 169488 something but I think I forget what you told me that that's okay that that's a different number so the number of the liability is from the report that's as of January 1st 2012 but as of January 1st 2012 there was only a certain amount of assets accumulated so what we put into this chart was the actual amount of assets accumulated to date to offset the liability as of 2012 just to give a more accurate picture of what Arlington taxpayers have put aside to offset the OPEV liability I shouldn't worry about the 169 number that was a projection the 167 is actual well I will I'll say it's very very important in terms of OPEV none of this aside from the accumulated assets is actual they're all snapshots in time on a very large dynamic projection that has a number of variables in it so looking at any of these figures like they are an account that says we absolutely owe or we absolutely have would be too hard and fast an approach if you did the snapshot a month later or six months later those numbers would change and when it's updated again those numbers will change again so what I would say is it's fair to say that as of January 1st 2012 the town's total OPEV liability was 174 million as is highlighted in red on the sheet but if you look at what we have today in accumulated assets and earnings on those assets that's 6.6 million dollars figure that would bring what are the best number we have for projected liability down to that 167 million dollars figure thank you I get my comment on that is that having is that the total unfunded liability number because when the retirement board asked for that report it has fluctuated by you know more than 25 million dollars I think and it isn't because people are making things up so much as the tools to provide estimates that are part of the future are really challenging because they involve things like how long are our employees going to live and stuff like that it's more it's as much art as science and so it's I mean it's a big number that's what we need to remember what the actual number is is going to matter someone else someone else in the future thank you so my next two items under long term were we talked about and I shouldn't say of course that Mr. Carroll is on service on that group as well was the Minuteman High and the Arlington High School Minuteman High is there's been a lot of progress made this summer with a group that Charlie Foskett sits on in terms of coming to the changes that agreement on the changes that we would need in the regional agreement for the town to find things acceptable and I think I've been pleasantly surprised at how much progress that they've made and I know that a lot of their work has been backstopped by informally of the town managers of the various towns and so Adam did you have anything else you wanted to say about this at this time or is it best to I guess I would say very soon there'll be a report that will probably be for the board in terms of considering changes to the regional agreement which as they currently stand do improve Arlington situation specifically in regards to how much capital we pay for any new building and of course we really believe that there's a large cap or personally I really believe there's a large capital need coming at Minuteman but we all know that we think we should pay the fair amount but yes that's going to be big and no I don't have a price tag and no I won't next week and as far as the high school I don't want to speak for the school department yet but they're definitely they've received a negative report on the high school facility and they are contemplating a pro request of the state to do to get into the state of the mass building program and we've scheduled another long-term planning committee with nothing else on the agenda except for the Arlington High because we were able to touch everything else but we just haven't been able to give that the time that it deserves and so our next meeting which will be sometime in October we're going to hear what I would consider to me it's like to be the first dry run of this is the case for building high school and this is how I think we should what we should be looking at so I would call that very early days but it's definitely on the committees radar I'm sure it already is but I just want to throw in besides the actual infrastructure of Arlington High School right now tentatively I think in the FY 15 budget there are monies designated but not committed to also the athletic field is that also that's a separate discussion something that's probably that's in the capital committee's range that hasn't come across a radar and I kind of doubt that it would okay thank you Mr. Kerr did I miss anything no I think you summed it up pretty well it was something that was in my mind and it's just it's been a way I think you're all I was going to say is that I do think that on the previous topic the work that's been done on the regional agreement around Minuteman was the greatest ray of hope I've seen in that conundrum ever however the big caveat there was that we're all going to have to push together for state action legislative action for almost everything that's in that draft agreement it's very excellent point anything else nope is it appropriate to move receipt or should we just move on I can just move on I'll move receipt all those in favor I'm not going to say you can check off meeting one of your goals Mr. Chairman that's right move checking off goals next up correspondence received move receipt second any further discussion or special items for any of these just a moment I'm assuming on the request on the bike path is this something to refer to you Mr. Chaplain or TAC I suppose we could refer to both TAC and ABAC okay I'd like to make that motion and this is the lake street bike path correct any further discussion all I would say it's kind of tangentially related but I know that this past week Ms. Sullivan had actually sent us all out a report that was prepared by Arlington and Lexington and Bedford on the Minuteman bikeway with a number of recommendations for improving some of these crossings and such so I'm glad to get this feedback with a phenomenal report it's a little worth the read-in I can't suppose it's still in my two-read pile it's in my half-read pile has a lot of pictures though that's good alright all those in favor please say aye and then if I could through the chair the next two pieces of correspondence regarding handicapped parking around the senior center I did when I'm on the list I don't refer things as my colleagues also may ask me too can you put this before the Board of Select which I did I sent it for correspondence received but I did have a conversation with the town manager who said I believe he and perhaps the planning director or someone from council on aging or senior did you want to speak to that just very briefly I started some conversations but I think it might be a good idea to formally refer the emails to the Arlington Disabilities Commission but I'll plan on continuing the follow-up there's sort of multi-answers that are raised senior center there are spots they're often taken but in the Broadway Plaza and some other areas we can look at seeing if improvements can be made so you think disability commission is the right place well I guess it could be disability commission or the parking subcommittee ultimate decisions would be made by the parking subcommittee and then this Board Diane do you have a preference disability commission because we did say we're going to foster a relationship with them and when appropriate ask for their expertise so if they can and then they can report back either through the town manager yeah so we're preferred a disability commission with the report back to the town manager who will then put this before the board to go before the parking subcommittee is that what you just said well yeah we'll see what comes back and maybe we can see what I think we can come right to the board I'd rather do that honestly sitting on the parking subcommittee I'd rather not so thank you okay oh so to the parking subcommittee all those in favor please say aye aye and the fourth one to do we I thought we were taking care of all four with the first motion but I guess I was wrong we received shall we move the fourth one is received all those in favor please say aye alright there's no executive session we will do new business this is Kapelka I have a few things very quick this weekend we had a very successful gun buyback program in town that was put together with charitable both efforts and contributions from the Trinity Baptist Church the Calvary Church United Methodist Park Avenue congregational first parish Unitarian Universalist obviously the Arlington Police Department as well as the Middlesex Sheriff's Office helping out and they collected over 80 guns which I frankly was very surprised with that amount it worked out very well and I believe three of them were assault weapons so it was a great success also so the board is aware the medical marijuana dispensary applications have moved on to phase 2 so the locations that applicants have cited are now public so there was 181 initial applicants that's been narrowed down to 158 applicants for the first 35 licenses at this point none of those 158 applicants have listed Arlington as their address so at least for this initial phase there doesn't appear to be an applicant however as phase 2 goes forward some applicants will have an opportunity depending on how the process goes to change their location still trying to find out exactly how that will happen but I wanted the board to know there's nothing imminent in terms of an application for Arlington you have an invitation on your desk to an event called incubation being put on by Arlington's Economic Development Officer and the Planning and Community Development Office it's really to start a discussion about shared workspaces in Arlington as a means of economic development in town so if you can be there that's great if not I'm happy to update the board on how the event goes and finally I just wanted to give an update on the search for a new town council we narrowed over 30 resumes down to 10 interviewees those first round of interviews were performed last week the first round interview panel narrowed that down to 4 applicants who will be interviewed this Thursday and from that round up to 3 will be referred to me for a hiring decision so I will continue to keep you up to date on that but we have some very good applicants and we're very excited about the possibilities of course still sad to lose Juliana but it looks very positive and that's all I have thank you I already got two of the four the thermoplastic treatment as well as the tree warden I'll wait for some sort of report back from that the other thing just to leave through the chair with the town manager the never ending GIC comparable salary study committee I'm really getting anxious it seems like this is always on the agenda if you want to get to the unions get real deal with it if you want salary increases you got to join the GIC they've done that I know we have a study committee and I know there was an issue about putting out the bid but just kind of is my father would say trying to light a fire under I'd like to see that some sort of report on that or some movement on that so I can tell you that so it's it's initial and more should be flowing in the next week or two so there should be something more formal that we'll share with that salary study committee that Mr. Kuro sat on with the board as a whole and I only say that because we really came down on the unions that if you want raises and you want your salaries to go up you got to buy into this GIC and now that seems to flicker away the other two items were on the greenway five year that we have down to Sunnyside Boulevard Lafayette we addressed one facet of it but there are 12 other points I've been very frustrated and I believe as a result of the vote that we took at the last elections meaning that the town manager and the chairman are drafting a letter to go to Commissioner Murray as well as once that's done and has gone out I'm going to wait two three days contact the governor again and just let him know that the person he gave his contact is going to call me back but I'm really doing everything I can because I feel it's a town manager who should be working with anyone whether it's the Department of Energy Rick Sullivan where he is I'm not going to say his title right or DCR and unfortunately have not been able to make that happen and I've been very frustrated that that town manager really has been just sort of stymied and blocked and it really hasn't on this one individual project and then I don't know if you wanted to add anything to that and then drafting the letter I am drafting the letter and I'll say I'm still continually frustrated that simple maintenance of the it's a very nice amenity but the simple maintenance is being neglected and then the last thing I would take advantage of the bully pulpit that the Allington High Spawn Spawn ePond football team, the city football team are three and zero last year I think they were three and seven in the year before two and eight Coach Dabinski, Coach Stubbs taken lots of teams to nationals. Our last victory, we went to Reading, which is ranked number four in the State Division. They always go to the Super Bowl. We beat them, 17 to 14, took the lead from the beginning and never looked back. And I can tell you, there were scouts from, usually when you go to games, as you all know, there's a scout from whatever team you're playing next. We had people there from Lexington, which is this Friday night. We had coaches there from Moving, which is two weeks out. And then we had, I think it was from Belmont. So they're really watching Arlington. So if you want to come down this Friday night, down at the high school, seven o'clock under the lights, I think it's going to be nice weather, too. It's really, I mean, lots of people in not only the Division, but also the State are watching Arlington because I think they're going to do really great this year. And that's just a commendation to the coaches and staff, as well as the players. It took two, three years to really rebuild it, to beat at Reading and beat them at home. First time in five years at Reading has not won at home. So it goes by ponders. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Hero. Thank you very much. Just a few things. First of all, I want to thank Ms. Kruppelker and our staff for a very successful town day. It was a wonderful day. And all of the other town staff who were involved in community volunteers and businesses, our lead sponsor of Cambridge Savings Bank. It was very well attended and a great day. We're the Tourism and Economic Development Committee. We're moving forward. Well, Mr. Rademak is here. I want to thank him. I know he's been working closely with reps from the committee on the information, tourism information booth. I believe that's out to bid now or has been received. The vendor has been chosen, actually. So we're moving forward on that as well as some of the designs on the signage that was approved by town meeting. ATED also provided and Ms. Kruppelker provided some logistical support to the Uncle Sam committee as well to unveil some of the historical signage. Again, with Mr. Rademak's department's help at town day, some of the official signage that the town meeting had approved. So we move forward little by little and trying to make some leaves forward. And actually, this report that I mentioned, the bikeway committee actually does mention the fact that Arlington is anticipating this info booth at this point and how that's strategically placed along the bikeway. Lastly, I want to mention that at the last Youth Health and Safety Coalition meeting, I think we were all informed that unfortunately this year we did not receive the Drug Free Communities grant that the coalition has relied upon. The coalition will be trying for that again next year. We'll see what happens. A lot of that is tied up with what's happening in Washington, though. In the interim, some of the work that the coalition has spearheaded, I know, has been distributed. Adam mentioned the gun buyback program the police department did, but the police department has also graciously agreed to pick up and continue the pharmaceutical collection, which is done at the police station. Apparently, those boxes get incredibly filled very quickly with some really nasty stuff that really shouldn't be on the streets. And it's been a very successful program. We have a local volunteer pharmacist who helps us out with that as well with the sorting. One other item that was, I guess, covered under the Drug Free Communities grant, though, that is near and dear to us, the alcohol compliance checks were actually funded through that. And so it's my understanding, just from preliminary discussions at the coalition, that I guess there's some discussion about some proposals that may come back before the board as to how we can continue those because they are a pretty vital part of the licensing that we do. So I thought that you all should be aware of that. I didn't do it. So maybe when we're talking about advising and or drafting, editing our alcohol, my understanding is that the director of Health and Human Services is going to be drafting some proposal for us. Correct. Is what I understand. No, I hate to see those. Thank you. Thank you. Steve. Thanks. I do have a couple of things or a few things I should say. First is that on Saturday night, Joe, Diane, Marie Adam and myself attended the retirement party of three firefighters and a dispatcher. It really was a great night. They'll be sorely missed, but we wish them the best. Two is that I'd like to recognize St. Agnes Elementary School as it's their 125th anniversary of this year. Quite an accomplishment. We're working on a proclamation in the wording for that. So you'll be seeing more about it. And following up on Joe's comment about town day and town night, it was a wildly successful and it just keeps growing and growing. And I do think it's time for a very frank discussion about the delegation of powers and setting it up. I don't think that, I mean, you know, talking to the board staff over, you know, the four or five months leading up to it, they are just swamped. It's essentially another full time job for every one of them. And I do think I don't think that's incredibly fair. And I think it is time that we, you know, at least sit down and have a talk about where we think it's going in our vision for it, because throwing it on our staff is not, you know, not appropriate in my eyes. And, you know, I'd be more than happy to volunteer to, you know, join, maybe start, I don't like starting committees, but maybe we do have, you know, one that for a limited amount of time, and at least we can talk about, you know, ways forward in that topic. So maybe, you know, something we can think about and talk about at the next meeting, too. So I know what you mean about the amount of effort. So is that something that you think we, do you want us to, do you want to do something informal? Do you want us to put something on the next agenda? Do you, what do you think? You know, I, I guess I just wanted to, this, that was more of a conversation center. Um, I don't think it has to be on the next agenda. Perhaps, you know, I'd be willing to volunteer for it, perhaps, uh, Adam and maybe someone from a staff and maybe just have an informal conversation about, you know, getting the ins and outs of really what goes into it. And then maybe we can form a committee. And, um, talk about how to move forward in the future years to make sure it stays as successful and yeah, yeah, I agree 150% with Mr. Burn on that. I know, um, town day when it started back in 1975, Dave McKenna, my mother-in-law and others, it was a purely volunteer committee. And then I sort of backed my way into it and was town day co-chair with, uh, Susanna Forrester Castileo, um, from the Jason Russell house just to set the framework before it got dumped into the Selectman's office. I did it for like 12 years and also worked with, um, Nancy and Chuck Pappas from the chamber of commerce. So it sort of was a volunteer committee. Um, I did it for 12 years and unfortunately what happened was similar to when I was up at BRCA PTO president for five years. I just at some point said I have to walk away from it and because that whole was left, it fell into, um, the Selectman's office and I really don't think that's appropriate because it really, as Mr. Burn stated, is a whole job, you know, for the whole year long. So perhaps in, I don't know if we need a motion to recommend Mr. Burn, um, to, uh, head this, I'd be happy to make that to, you know, stop this exploratory committee to kind of get it back. And I'm only, I'm not trying to toot my horn that I did town day co-chair for 12 years, but one of the things we did was, um, just to pass on to whoever's going to look at it. Mr. Burn, Mr. Chapter Lane and the Selectman's office that there was, um, a really big tie with the chamber of commerce president and their staff, as well as Jason Russell house, historical society. And maybe we can somehow get those people back involved so that we can at least less than the onus on the Selectman's office. It's never going to totally go away because the checks come through there. That always happens. But, um, just, just a point of fact of history of how it got there. Basically, I just walked away from it. Nobody else stepped up. And unfortunately you all had to take it over. So I commend Mr. Burn. I'd like to make that motion that he, um, begin that subcommittee to explore this issue. Do we need a motion to do that or no? So I like the idea. Let me talk about Mr. Burn wants to handle it. He can talk to the chair. Let's start. Cause, um, what if you and Marie and Adam and Kenji, I make a recommendation back to say, this is what I think this is how I think discussion should be structured and maybe it's creating a committee like that involves like, you know, some of the sponsors or maybe involves employees or see what you guys think is the best way forward, like what's the right group of people to both, you know, twist some arms and do it and then bring that forward and then we can put our stamp on that. That sounds like. We'll call it a working group. Oh, yes. Working group. All right. Um, anything else, Mr. Burn? No, thank you very much. I only have my only thing that I had was that the, just to point out that if anyone's curious to budget and revenue task force will be meeting next Monday before the next election meeting is also Monday. We're meeting at six o'clock for the budget and revenue task force. And, um, I know it was talking to some members. The delegation are going to be there. We haven't done one in many months, partly because we do it a lot when things are on fire and things aren't on fire. But I think it's a healthy thing for us to have conversations. If, um, members of the committee have items that they'd like on the agenda, it would be very good to get that to, uh, us in the next, you know, couple of days so that we can circulate them so that people can be prepared to talk about them. Uh, I know I want to put Minuteman on there. And, uh, I think we should talk about state funding to municipalities, just on general principle. So those are the, my two items that I was planning on. And if you have anything else, um, you know, let's talk about it so we can put it out because I'd like to put out an agenda on Thursday. In fact, I guess we, in fact, we must put out a Thursday. So, uh, that's going to be our deadline. Anybody? Yes. Mr. Cura, I forgot one other piece of new business and I apologize. Um, I think since we last met that there've been two events down at Thompson, there's been the ribbon cutting for the school itself. But also this, this past Sunday, um, Mr. Chaplain and I were able to attend the dedication of the library to Bill Shea and, uh, I just wanted to note that because the books for Bill committee raised a hundred thousand dollars for books for that library. And I just, I think we have to note that because I was a lot of community, um, outpouring, uh, for that effort. So I, I'm sorry to jump in and forget. His memory is a very powerful motivator. Indeed. And I just asked, I don't know if it's appropriate for budget and revenue task force. Um, but I know we've all had this conversation with the many, many, many special elections that are costing us $72,000 a pop. So 72 in October, 72 in December and conceivably, we could have another two after that. I don't know if it's appropriate at the budget and revenue task force meeting or perhaps a separate, separate meeting or dealing with it a different way in terms of our legislative delegation to somehow try to find a way just thinking of Allington, but it would affect other cities and towns to get, um, you know, we spend 72. We're lucky if we get 13, $16,000 back and I know, you know, finance committee, you know, tries to have us like other departments in the town and school side really stick to our budget, but this cost has really gotten out of hand and it's not a cost we can look away from. So I don't know if it's appropriate to address it. Leave it in the back and you decide to address it with our legislative delegation at budget revenue, or we do it a different way, different format, but I did want to get it out there. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Second. All those favor aye. We are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.