 What so proudly we, and twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave Is corn the most produced crop in the world? One for yes, two for no. Is corn the most produced crop in the world? One for yes, two for no. Do they grow more corn than anything else? One for yes, two for no. Go ahead and vote. These guys work hard on these questions. You got a tally? The answer is yes. Corn is number one, wheat is number two, and rice is third. Now we have geography, geology, and social studies for you guys to study up on. Wheat and then rice. Ms. Mahan. It is moved that if all the business of the meeting is set forth in the warrant for the annual town meeting is not disposed of at this session. When the meeting adjourns, it adjourns to Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 8 p.m. All in favor, please say yes. Opposed? No. Okay, then let's finish up. Announcements and resolutions. Mr. O'Connor. James O'Connor, member of the town meeting procedures committee and precinct 19. I simply had a question that I'd like to ask the moderator to pull the sense of the meeting. We have organizational meetings to elect the clerk and the chair of each precinct. And for some precincts it's on the fourth meeting. Hopefully next year we'll be out of here in four meetings. But who knows when we'll be out. But the thought I had is because many precincts have organizational meetings prior to town meeting where they get together with their precincts and there's members of the quorum fulfilled there, or we could have it on the first night. But I was told that we always did it this way. That's why we always do three nights, seven per group because it might be too many people trying to elect on one night. So, Mr. Moderator, could you ask the meeting whether we'd like to have it earlier or on the first night of town meeting so we could have a chair elected on the first night? All in favor of doing it on the first night from here on out say yes? Yes. Opposed? Good. Madam Clerk, can you make that happen next year? She'll make that happen. And if you haven't organized yet, do so out here. In case you haven't heard, Governor Baker has signed the special legislation put forth last year under Article 15 of our annual town meeting to put the director of assessments and the assessor's office under the supervision of the town manager. These changes are now part of the town manager act. The bill was implemented with the help of Senator Donley, who co-sponsored with Sean Garbly and Dave Rogers. And I understood. Okay, so the governor then approved it. So what we did last year actually passed and now it's all under Adam's capable hands. Good luck. Any other reports of committee? Any other announcements? None. Reports of committees? None. Mr. Tosti? Moves that Article 3 be laid upon the table. All in favor of laying Article 3 upon the table, please say yes? Yes. Opposed? Article 3 is on the table. Last week, we may be, we're not sure. We may have not taken Articles 35 through 42 off the table, so we're just going to do it now. Move that Articles 35 through 42 be taken off the table. All in favor, please say yes? Yes. Opposed? Those are off the table and we're back into the budget's inspections. Someone wanted to talk about inspections. Who was it? Mr. Revelak. Good evening, Steve Revelak. Precinct 111 Sunnyside Avenue. The Inspectional Services has a database of permits that you can examine through the town website. Is this better? Okay. Inspectional Services has a, keeps a database of permits that one can access through the town's website. And looking through the permit database, I noticed that in 2015, the town issued 2008 building permits, 1327 electrical permits, and another 1794 permits for gas and plumbing work. So which, if you break that down into, yeah, those are big numbers and if you break them down into 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that's a building permit every 62 minutes, an electrical permit every 94 minutes, and a gas and plumbing permit every 69 minutes. Mr. Moderator, do you happen to know if 2015 was an unusually busy year for building permits? Mr. Byrne, can you tell me? Actually, Steve, I have the, from 2007 here, but it has been trending up. More and more of this is more complex projects as well, but it is going up, yes. My reason for asking was, you know, I think the role of Inspectional Services is, I think Inspectional Services has an important role to play, and I'm just wondering, do you guys have the resources that, do you feel like you have the resources that you need? I think, yes, we do. Actually, this year we have increased a little bit on the temporary staff to help us with inspections when it gets very busy. Okay. But yes, we do the best we can, yeah. Okay. Okay. That's all I wanted to know. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else on inspections? Seeing none. Education. Mr. Tosti. The Finance Committee has a new recommendation on two articles. The first one is Article 35, the Education Budget. It was produced on a one-page sheet last, actually it might have been a couple of days ago, a couple of meetings ago. What this does is, when the budgets were being put together, the manager through the long-term planning committee and then trying to come to a compromise and agreement through the long-term planning committee with the school department made an agreement, which the Finance Committee has backed, that if there was any additional funds approved over that, that we projected in Chapter 70, that we would give that overage to the school budget. The House Ways and Means Committee came out in mid-April when the Finance Committee was finalizing their budget and they recommended an additional for Arlington $171,110. Now, at the time, of course, we didn't know if this was going to pass the House. We didn't know what the Senate was going to do. So, what we did was, we took that $171,110 and we put it in the Fiscal Stability Stabilization Fund, Article 56. The House, the full House agreed with the House Ways and Means Committee recommendation on Chapter 70 and we have it under very good authority that the Senate will follow that lead. And we're reasonably confident if the House and Senate follow the lead, the Governor will sign it. Therefore, our recommendation is to change the appropriation or to add $171,110 to the Fiscal 2017 school budget, bringing that total to $57,172,443. That's $57,172,443. Now, when we get to Article 56, I'll make that concurrent reduction at that point to balance out the budget. As you can see, my only comments are, as you can see as you go along there, the last three years the town has given the school budget an increase of 6.41% in 2015, 5.61% in 2016 and now recommending 6.72% increase in the school budget. I believe this is fairly, this is generous. It is the most we can afford. It might even be more than we could afford to do. We are trying to help the school budget through their increases in enrollment, which have been substantial over the last several years. If you take a look, though, at what the effect is on the appendix D, the five-year plan, you will see that it puts us under severe strain and that strain keeps getting more and more. So, we're trying to help out the school budget as much as we can and hopefully this will allow them to take into enrollment, count the enrollment and also continue to improve the quality of education in the town of Arlington. Thank you. Mr. Toss, do you have that writing for us up here? We never got one. Oh, there were. Okay, we'll look for them. We don't know if I'll find them. Anyone, Mr. Fuller? Thank you, Peter. Fuller, Precinct 20. Question and a couple of comments. First, in the budget book, the school committee provided us on page 29 in the fourth paragraph. It says, part of the budgeted increase is coming from reducing a prior revolving fund balance held by Arlington Community Education. My question is, is this in a substantial amount of money? And if it's a one-time piece of funding, how do we replace it next year unless it's being used for a one-time expense? Ms. Johnson. Ms. Johnson, Chief Financial Officer for the school department. The 250,000 that we're proposing to reduce from the community education program is a one-time thought. The community ed department has been growing over the years, and we've been reinvesting and allowing them to expand programming, offerings to adults and children. Our summer programs have expanded significantly. And one of the things that's made it possible for these programs to grow in community ed is that we haven't yet established an indirect cost rate. So the school department provides business services for community ed at no charge. And so we see this $250,000 as a way to collect on all the work we've done for them for quite a number of years. Okay, so this is a one-time draw out of that fund? Yes. So are we spending it this year on a one-time expense, or is it something that's spending it on something that's ongoing that we're going to have to fill from somewhere else next year? No, we're planning to use all of these expenditures to boost our purchase of curriculum materials that'll be a one-time expense. Got it. Okay. A couple of comments. In last year's finance community report, we were informed that the plan was to step down the annual allowed increase in the regular education budget from 3.5% a year down to 3% a year, which distressed some of us, including me, because it kind of broke the deal with the voters that we'd made back in 2011 the last time we asked them in an override. So I'm happy to see this year that we're going to stay at 3.5%. I think that'll, you know, hold face with the voters and help us fund the schools to the extent that they need to be. Second comment. I'm happy to see the considerable detail in the school committee's budget book on the funding requests, particularly on the unfunded requests. This is a really good way to keep in front of the community what the school committee's vision for what the school should be. And I hope they'll continue to highlight it going forward so that we know what we are asking for when they ask for more money in the next override. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Nice phone. Miss Hansen. Good evening, Linda Hansen, precinct 7. So I just wanted to spend a minute and build on the analysis that John Deist shared with us the other night about the value of an Arlington Public Schools education. He talked to us about the that we are at the top end of student achievement and at the bottom end of per pupil expenditure. And certainly, you know, some of the good things that he talked about was the role of our good strong fiscal management and oversight and the long term planning and that's certainly all very true. But another factor that I just want you to consider is that we also do that by keeping teacher salaries low. On the slide behind you, what I have is just a recent comparison that came out in the Boston Business Journal in May of this year about teacher salaries in comparison with our town meeting 12 communities. And it's not a perfect way to measure average salaries are not a perfect way to measure teacher salaries because you don't it doesn't necessarily reflect the number of teachers on the different steps on the pay scale. It's certainly a very good rough guide. And what you see here is that Arlington is really at the bottom of this list. In terms of our comparison with our neighbors, we're about 7500 below Winchester, about 18,800 below Belmont, a little over 8000 below the state average and 25,000 less than the top tier system Brookline, which is, you know, again, one of our most comparable communities. So while Arlington teachers are really proud of the work that we do together with the community parents and district leaders with our students in the community, I did just want to point this out and mention that teacher salaries are an important factor to keep in mind when thinking of the long term viability of a quality school system. And that while we're thinking about all these investments to our buildings, we also need to think about the investments to the personnel and the people that staff the classrooms. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Downing. Nope, behind you. Yeah. Gary Tibbetts, Precinct Five. And I intend to vote for the budget the way it is. And I just had a question. The other day I happened to reread an article in one of the local papers about different grants and stuff that are available. And I was wondering how Arlington pursued them. I found one that really interested me. It's called XQ. And it was set up by Steve Jobs' wife. It's a $50 million grant with $10 million sections to each town for towns to put in a proposal and improve their schools, offers professional development opportunities, technology infrastructure, linked up students with college credits and things like that. And I was just wondering, has Arlington looked at some of these alternative financing things? Mr. Johnson. Financial officer for the school department. The school has a grants officer, Ms. Julie Dunn. And she does pursue every grant opportunity she can. Unfortunately, our demographics don't help us in grant seeking. We are not a particularly low income district and we're a high performing district. Poor, poorly performing districts tend to be more attractive to grantors. Okay. We do look. We look. Okay. Do we apply for this one? I'm not sure if we applied for that one. Okay. Thank you. So, yeah. Brendan O'Day, precinct 14. I have a slideshow. Oh. I had a question just about that Mr. Tosti had talked about the difficulties we're going to have in five or six years with the falling off of the budget and the pressure that the transferring these funds, the school department has created. So, as they get the slideshow, it's only five slides. In 2012, we passed an override. It was a three year override. Immediately it became a five year override. The objective was to take money from the funds that came in over the first couple years, build up a stabilization fund, and then over the next few years, draw that down. Right. Nothing yet. So, at the end of the first period of the override, we had a wonderful surprise in that the GIC helped us have fantastic finances. We saved a few million dollars. We're saving millions of dollars ever since. Mr. Gooden, do you have it? Okay. It's good. And that was fantastic. And so, instead of having a five year override that was going to end in 2018, we pushed it out, just with the GIC, we pushed it out to 2019. It was going to be a zero. We're going to have zero funds in the override stabilization fund by 2018. And this is according to the 2012 finance report. In the 2013 report, let's see if it comes up ever. That's okay. In the 2013 report, in 2013, we were supposed to have $10 million in 2014. Here we go. Hey, hey. Oh, hang on. Go back. Okay. So, the happy face. See why I needed the slide? It has a happy face. The happy face is the happy surprise. And the next star, the sun, the green sun, is the goal for the next year. We're hoping that we'll get to that star. Okay. And so, the next slide, please. So, we had another happy face surprise. And the override stabilization fund got up to, it was supposed to be $16 million. But we had a happy face surprise of $2 million. And you'll see that the happy face is around $18 million there. But we saw that it was going to level off to the purple star. And it was going to be empty by 2019. That was a prediction back in 2014 report. Next slide. Oh. So, in 2015, it was supposed to be $18 million in the 2016. But actually, we got to $21 million, which was another positive surprise, the happy face. If you can see the happy face, it's starting to encroach on the words. And we're expected to go down $700,000 in that override stabilization fund going into a severe dive toward an empty fund by 2021. Date's certain. Next slide, please. Boom. Another happy surprise. Instead of going down $700,000, we are going over the words. And we are at $23 million now in the override stabilization fund, which is fantastic. And the question I have is why the steep, steep dive coming up? So we've had this wonderful, all these surprises going up, up, up, happy, happy, happy, happy. And we're still going to end in 2021 with zero. So my question, I guess, is what's causing that severe cliff that we're diving off of? And is this really a severe pressure that we are forecasting? Do you want to go to Al? Al first and Adam, do you want to take it out? This is the last page of the finance report. If you take a look at appendix D, we've been focusing on fiscal 2021, I think for the last two years. We've taken, we've tried to keep spending under control. The town manager's budgets have been reduced from three and a half down to three and a quarter percent the last couple of years. We've taken some of the conservative elements out of our projection and we haven't had a recession. We could still have a recession, but we haven't. And so right now you build up the deficit. So finally we're able to put some more money aside for 17. But then in 18, once that thing starts piling up, you get a two and a half million dollar deficit one year. Now you get it, then it goes to a five and it keeps multiplying to that effect. It's been about the same projection for the last couple of years. And it's fortunate now because we have all of these debt exclusions we need to pass. So we're going to have one set of debt exclusions, which is going to add about $250 if they pass in June to the average household. We're going to have another debt exclusion two years after that probably for the high school, which will probably be at least that amount, maybe more. And then two years after that in 20, we'll have the override. So it's not in structural balance. It's been in structural balance, but then it keeps going up. The pensions keep going up, the health insurance keeps going up. And we've been adding to the school budget considerably. So I'm not quite sure, you know, it's a happy face if you're only looking at it a year or two out. It's not a happy face if you're looking three or four years out. Thank you. Janice Weaver, Precinct 21. I just have a question for someone in the school department about, I feel all the teachers, I was always told the teachers don't make enough money for the surrounding community. But a frequent visitor to our office has mentioned that there are other perks that they get that actually do bring them up to a comparable position for other towns. I just have a question there, but I have another question after. Dr. Bode? Dr. Bode? Kathleen Bode, Superintendent. I thought you were waiting, I was waiting for your next question. I'm not quite certain what you're referring to. Teachers in our district have their salary. They also have health benefits which are available to all employees in the town of Arlington. And one very small benefit is that there is some partial tuition reimbursement when they pursue courses, either in pursuit of a master's, the most of our teachers, the vast majority have a master's, but additional courses. But beyond that, I can't think of any other benefits they would have that would be considered a salary perks. So you're saying that they have a lower pay scale than the surrounding communities? Yes, that's true. Okay, thank you. My other question concerns the $250 that we're paying for the new overrides and everything. Is that per quarter? Mr. Tosti? I didn't think so. A little off the top, but what the heck? No, that's an annual figure, and it's only when all the projects get fully done. So I mean, all the projects don't instantly go like that, like the middle school won't even start until June of 18. So once all the projects are fully impended, I believe it's approximately $250 for an average single family home. Per year? Thank you. Mr. Dunn? Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Dan Dunn, precinct 21. I just wanted to make a, I thought, I think that Mr. O'Day's happy face model is really a very interesting one. And it's one that he's shared with me in the past that I've commented and worked with him. I mean, I gave him my thoughts on it. And I think it is very illustrative of what's been going on. And we have had several good years in a row. And there's a couple of things that I want people that I think are helpful to think about. The thing is, is that when you build a model like that, like a financial model looking forward on finance in several years in a row, you want to think about how your model might fail, because you're never going to be completely right. And when your model fails, you want it to fail in a way that you're prepared for. You don't want it to fail in a way that is unexpected. And so what that means is that the model that we use is inherently a little bit conservative. It's designed such that if several things break against us, that we don't have to do anything traumatic to the budget. And what's happened over the last few years is we've had several things that broke in our favor. So I think the only thing that I disagree with him about is that I would never describe the things that are being talked about as four years in the future as dates certain. They're anything but dates certain. We talk about them as this is our best guess, but it's a model and it's four years ahead. And the other thing, in particular, I want to talk about, just mentioned that the one thing that I think is broken in our favor more than people appreciate is the amount of new building that has happened in town. Because remember, we're limited by proposition two and a half on everything that exists. But every time somebody builds an addition or remodels their kitchen or does anything like that, that's stuff that happens essentially outside of two and a half. And we use a fairly conservative number for the amount of new building and only recently have we begun to put that up. So I really appreciate Mr. Day bringing forward because I do think that that's something that's really helpful for people to understand. Because it shows how our model is good and how our model is bad. Thank you. Mr. Wagner. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Carl Wagner, Precinct 11. I move to terminate debate on the article All Associated Matters. On education budget. Yes. All in favor of terminating debate on education budget, please say yes. Yes. Opposed? It is terminated. I'm going to take the substitute vote right now on the education budget while we're on it instead of doing it at the end. Mr. Jones has presented a written substitute motion on 35 presented by Mr. Tosti. It's seconded. All in favor, please say yes. Yes. Opposed? It's unanimous vote and I so declare it. That budget is so amended. That ends education and brings us to libraries. Who wanted to talk about libraries? Sir? Len Carden, Precinct 20. I understand that last summer for the first time we had weekend hours at the library. I wanted to get a quick report on how those went. Library director here. Andrea Nicolai, director of libraries. Weekend hours last summer were a huge hit. Approximately 400 people through the door each hour and a circulation of a thousand items during those three hours from 9 to 12. So yes, they were successful. Thank you. So I wanted to use this as a point of information about probably what Mr. O'Day was talking about, but also what we face as a town when we're making budgeting decisions. Because right now the way we do budgeting is we have this formula and everything goes against this formula. Are we increasing by 3% or not? And we've been able to squeeze out some really good things like Saturday hour, like weekend hours at the library that are really beneficial for the town. And these are things that I think even if it did push us into an override, we can go to the voters and say, our town really needs this. We need to do this. We need to have an override to do this. So I understand, you know, the concerns about everybody about when the override is going to be, how big it's going to be, but we can't let that totally overshadow all of our decision making. So as we go forward with things, looking at the things in the school budget that weren't funded, and those things all across town that aren't being funded because of these concerns about an override down the road. So I do think we need some balance. I would like us to get a little bit away from the formula budgeting and take a look seriously at what we need to do. And what we want to do as a town. And then we can explain that to the voters on the day that the override does come. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Seuss. Jennifer Seuss, Precinct 3. Last year I stood up and mentioned that the Friends of the Fox Library has a bunch of money that they are dying to spend. And they would like also to have Saturday hours in the east at the Fox Library. And they have the money for it. It would not cost taxpayers a dime. They would like to do some renovations. And I know that there's been negotiations back and forth, but I'd like to encourage the library director and the town to work to spend this money that the Friends of the Fox is dying to spend on the Fox Library. Thank you. Can you guys see the spending that money? Anyone else on libraries? Sir. Daniel Jalkett, Precinct 6. So I'm also served by the Fox Library. And I was just looking over these figures before Jennifer got up. And as far as I can tell, the Fox Library, Friends of Fox is the only like community driven surplus funding wise to the whole library's budget. Is that an accurate understanding? Director of libraries is going to tell us. Director of libraries. No, that's not quite accurate. We get funding from the municipality as well as the Friends of the Robbins Library, the Friends of the Fox Library, and Massachusetts State Aid. And the foundation. Pardon me. Mr. Moderator, while she's up here, if I may ask, is there a reason why the other Friends of the libraries are not included as a line item here or am I missing them? Answer that. So the Friends of Fox offset is for Fridays at the Fox Library. The Friends of Fox fund salaries and services on Fridays at the Fox. And that's why the Fox Library is open on Fridays. Wonderful. So one of the things I've noticed as a resident of East Arlington is I'm so grateful to have the Fox Library in East Arlington. I'm also very grateful to have the Robbins Library, both great libraries. And I guess I just I'm taking this opportunity to say that if we have this passionate, you know, quote unquote customer base for the Fox Library, that's obviously, you know, Jennifer said that there's some money there. One of the things I've noticed as a resident of East Arlington is as glad as I am to have the Fox Library in my neighborhood, it does feel like a missed opportunity that it's not open more often. And often when I go with my kids and I say, what are we going to do today? Oh, can we go to the library? And, you know, sometimes it works out and sometimes it's they're just close that day and it doesn't feel like a totally working positive use of town owned building for that space not to be used as often as it can. So I would encourage anybody who has the power to help make some of those funds go to keeping the library open to do that. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else in libraries? The next budget held was retirement. Who wanted to speak about that? Mr. Jamison. Thank you, Mr. moderator Gordon Jamison, precinct 12. It won't be long once the slides up there. Folks are also providing these slides to them days ago last week. Okay. Thank you. I'll just pause the clock for a second unless you don't need jokes or something. Did you lose it? Yeah, that's it. I'm sorry. I just want that one slide. So I wanted to use. So last meeting, Miss Brazil presented the report on vision 2020. And I co chair the physical resource task group. And I thought this was a particularly appropriate way to introduce my little short discussion on related to the contributory retirement board. And the retirement allocation that we're going to provide both here and also with the open budget that will pass later the total about 12.7 or 12.8 million dollars total for a fund that they that the contributory retirement board manages that's north of with that money north of 140 million dollars. Approximately the same size as the total town budget. That's how much they have one year of town budget. That's how much they have under management. So, but I wanted to first say, first off, I think if you read this, that this is a great reflection of what this town meeting this town has done this year. To it we values Arlington efficient delivery of public services, providing for the common good. The benefit from the services and the responsibility of taxation will be equitably distributed amongst us will be known for sound physical planning. The thoughtful open process by which realistic choices are made by the town and the various committees involved in the school committee expansion and all those things. I think really espoused this town goal, which is part of our bylaws. One of the many each one of the visiting 2020 goals is part of our bylaws put it back in the 1990s. So I think we should have, you know, you should all be applauded in the committees that are responsible for this should all be commended for adhering to these things. As far as the Contributory Timer Board goes, I'll admit that I've been a contentious at a time critical of their actions. But I was greatly enjoyed a nice discussion with a board member, Mr. Viscay, who's the Comptroller and Exeficial Member and Mr. Rich Greco at last meeting on Wednesday. And they agree completely that the open and transparent process, the open process part, which has been increased so dramatically by actions of all the departments, the town manager, the school department. So that compared when I moved here 14 years ago, the amount of information that we have available at our fingertips online is absolutely spectacular. And I only want to have that have it. And I look forward to working with Mr. Viscay, Mr. Greco on the board towards having that be also true for the Contributory Retirement Board and welcome their agreement to that to the same. That's about it. Thank you. Ms. Memmon. Zarene Memmon, pretty soon 21. Granted, what he just said about, Gordon said about all this money in retirement and so forth. I've been involved with mass peace action and we've been dealing with nuclear weapon eradication globally because we feel that that is the greatest threat to humanity will cause global nuclear winters and environmental problems and so forth. So I'd like to see the retirement funds to be invested in responsible ways also to be considered in divestment up into fossil fuels like the colleges are doing. So my two cents. Mr. Deist. I move the question on this budget. All in favor of moving the question on this budget please say yes. Yes. Opposed? That ends debate on 24 retirement. The next one that held was insurance. Who wanted to talk about insurance? Righty, nobody. The next one held was reserve funds. Who wanted to talk about reserve funds? Mr. Gamus, Jameson. Thank you, Ms. Ponderator. Gordon, Jameson, Precinct 12. The comment on this notes two things. The increasing it and I'm all in favor of increasing the reserve fund for those who are not familiar with the function of the reserve fund. This is part of our annual budget, not the stabilization budgets that is under the control of the FinCom. And a number of years ago I put forth an article to try to increase it. And finally we have the wherewithal to increase it to something about 1% of our total budget, which is really a very small fund. And they do an expert job of managing it. They mentioned that they've been increasing this to help play for snow deficits. I note also that the DPW budget was also increased in this regard. Perhaps Mr. Tosti or someone could comment on that. And also answer the question whether the special ed education portion of that is also still an active entity this year. Mr. Tosti, do you have any answers to those couple of questions? So the question about the snow is you're increasing this to cover deficits, but you also increase snow in DPW budget. And is the special education comment there still operative this year? Okay, well we've been increasing the snow in ice budget by as much as can be done within the three and a quarter limit that the manager has each year. I think we're probably up to about 80%, maybe 82% of the ten year average, last ten year average. What we're trying to do here is get off of the constant raising deficits, having to pay for snow and ice with the deficit that we raise on the next year's recap sheet. I understand. And because we didn't have much snow, I'm sure in northern Maine, because we didn't have much snow this year, we didn't have to raise the deficit. So we were able to take that out of the other line item in the five year plan and put it into the reserve fund. So now we'll be able to fund the snow and ice budget from the reserve fund plus the snow and ice without having to raise a deficit. Now of course, you know, we could get killed in the winter. There's always an exception. So I think eliminating operating deficits are always a good thing to do. And that's the reason why we want to raise the reserve fund from the million normal level up to the million 465, which is about 1%. So we have 1% reserve plus it should cover between this and the snow and ice budget. We should be able to cover snow from current year revenues. Thank you. And if you look at C1, Appendix C1, as Mr. Tosti alluded to, I can tell you this is now the second time I've been able to stand up in front of the meeting over 13 years and point to the line in the lower right hand corner about five lines up where it says snow and ice deficit. And this year, like it was a couple years ago, goose egg, as Mr. Tosti alluded to. So that means we had a very light year and we did not. There was only one budget that we can run a deficit on based upon mass general law and that's our snow and ice removal. And I guess the special education stuff is not operative this year. Correct. Oh, thank you. While I'm up here since it's related to the FINCOM to conserve time, many years over the last many years, the concept, and it's usually mentioned in the FINCOM report, although I don't know what it was mentioned this year, concept of our structural deficit, which addresses Mr. O'Day's issue that he was raised earlier, was quoted at being two, two and a half million dollars. I think with all the new growth and other growth of revenues perhaps over the next year that needs to be reexamined. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Anyone else on the reserve fund? Seeing none. Water and soar. We wanted to talk about water and soar. There's no, I had a hold on water and soar. None. Okay, move on. Ed Burns Arena, someone had a hold. And that's it. We've now gone through all the budgets and all the holds. We're going to take one big vote on all of the budgets. All in favor of the recommended vote of the finance committee. As amended, please say yes. Soon as Mr. Lathwood's ready. Old habits die hard. Sir. That's on article 56. We took it on 35 for the school budget increase. The second article I'm looking at his report is article 56. Okay. Very good. So ready as soon as you're ready Mr. Lathwood. All in favor of the recommended vote of the finance committee. As amended, please vote one for yes, two for no. That was real quick 20 seconds. You didn't lose the clickers again, did you? We'll give Tim 20 seconds. Okay, here we go. Let's do it the old-fashioned way while he figures it out. You want to wait? No. All in favor of the recommended vote of the finance committee. As amended, please say yes. Opposed? To unanimous vote and I so declare it. That closes article 35. Brings us to article 36. Sir. Oh, there was. It was a near unanimous vote. And I so declare it. That closes article 35. Did you make that correction, Mr. Clerk? It's a near unanimous vote. Article 36, capital budgets. We have a force of recommended vote of the capital planning committee, the finance committee. Mr. Foskett. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Charlie Foskett, precinct date and chairman of the capital planning committee. The article that's before you is article 36 in the finance committee report. That's the official article that's before you. This is also described in the capital report that was provided to you at the back of the room. How are we doing? Good. Next slide, please. This is just the topics that we're going to discuss briefly tonight. The membership of the capital planning committee. Projects completed in progress. Major projects in the five-year plan. Community preservation act, the debt exclusion vote. And future debt, future debt burdens. And our recommendation on the capital budget. Next slide, please. So this is a list of the members of the capital planning committee. And I'd like to ask them to stand as I read their names. I know that some of them are not here. Steven Andrew, Sandy Pooler, Michael Morris, Richard Viscay, Tony Lionetta, even more gull as I know is not here. Diane Johnson, Brian Rarig and Barbara Thornton. These people start working in September. And normally they finish up in January or February this year. They work almost right up to this town meeting. And I want to express my thanks for their strong efforts. Thank you. The slide behind me here just shows a list of projects completed in progress. Actually, in the report of the permanent town building committee, you heard about some of these and saw some nice pictures of the central fire station. Also the spy pond tennis court reconstruction is complete. We've completed the planning phase of a new voiceover IP system for telephone communications in the town. There are excessive roadway projects underway and we have the ongoing 40 year program replacement of water and sewer. And there are also other projects underway, which you can see on the slide behind me. I'm not going to go through them all, but I will note that the construction and the renovation of the stratum is underway. Next slide, please. The major projects in the fiscal year 2017 to 2021 plan include the stratum school renovation, which you voted at the special town meeting in January. We also plan a major renovation of the DPW facility, which is near the high school. We're looking at planning and improvement of the senior center and other buildings in the specific block area. There will be some improvements in the rolling stock of the fire department. The fire department is working on the new tower unit. That's a unit where there's a little pedestal on the top of a tower that a firefighter can stand in when he's working. We are replacing, this question came up earlier in town meeting, we are replacing the town receivables package both with money that the town meeting previously voted and which is voted in this capital plan. We have a continuing investment on the order of $400,000 a year in educational IT programs and that's planned to continue through most of the five year fiscal plan. You'll also see a big jump in investment in sidewalk repair. We're trying to get that number up to about $500,000 a year. We've met it in some of the years in the five year plan, but not every year and upgrades to the Ed Burns arena. Next slide, please. We just wanted to say a word about the community preservation act committee. The CPAC invited the capital planning committee to attend the presentation on their project review and recommendations. We found both the CPAC process which is in its first year to be excellent and the recommendations to be of high merit. So the, while this community preservation committee will independently report to town meeting the capital planning committee urges your report of their, your support rather of their recommendations. Next slide, please. So the capital planning committee did not take a vote or take a position on any of the specific projects, the expansion of the Arlington High School or the elementary school programs or Minuteman because the town as provided by the bylaw set up special committees to study and make recommendations on those programs. And some of them have already been voted at this town meeting. But without any, without endorsing any specific authorization, we do recommend that if authorizations are made by town meeting that they should be excluded in the debt exclusion on June 14th because the magnitude of these debt authorizations and the debt burden on the town exceeds the ability of the town to pay for these within Proposition two and a half. Next slide, please. Inside the limits of Proposition two and a half. The slide behind me, just as a little bit of a questionary note, shows the increase that we see coming up in the total debt balances as we go forward towards fiscal year 21. In the past, the balances have been along the lines of less than, less than $100 million a year. And we see this growing to, in excess of $200 million outstanding debt, not per year, but total outstanding debt. And we have to think carefully about how we do this and how we fund it and what our future budget looks like because this could have two effects. One, it can affect our debt rating by the rating agencies, which might affect how much interest we have to pay in servicing the debt. And secondly, you know, every expenditure is only $75 per household, but if you have enough of them, it gets pretty high. And we run the risk of voter fatigue at some point or taxpayer fatigue. Next slide, please. This final slide is just a summary of the five-year plan. And I just want to point out that under the guidance of the Finance Committee, we try to limit our expenditures to within 5% of the adjusted non-exempt budget. And you can see we're at 4.99% in fiscal year 17. And 4.97% over the entire five years. So we respectfully ask for your favorable action on the capital budget as presented in Article 36 of the Finance Committee report 17 seconds ago. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Leonard. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. John Leonard, Precinct 17. Just a quick couple of points, if I may. On page one of Exhibit 5 under Health and Human Services, it's Senior Center Feasibility Study. We appropriated $25,000. My question is, was that study ever done? And where could somebody go to see the results of the study? Mr. Chapter Lane. Adam Chapter Lane, Town Manager. The study was performed. It's in draft format has been provided to me and the Director of Health and Human Services. Final copy should be available to the public and the Feasibility Study Committee, probably within the next week or two. So we'll certainly have that posted on the town website. Thank you. Mr. Moderator, Exhibit 5. Page 3 of 4. On the sidewalks and curb stones, Mr. Foskich has mentioned about the figure of $500,000 going to be appropriated in 2017. I wonder if somebody could answer how that, if it's roughly how that money would be distributed in regard to the town with like, would it be more so for the business, the residential area? Would it be more so for repair? Would it be more so for new? Or would it be just scattered all over the place? Mr. Rademacher. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Mike Rademacher, Director of Public Works. Some of the funds will be used in a different manner. Some will be to assist in paving projects, to repair sidewalk damage in conjunction with those. And other portions of that funding will be used to repair sidewalk as standalone projects in areas of a higher need where we've determined there's a greater population utilizing a particular sidewalk that is in bad condition. So we're going to go through an evaluation process to do best to allocate those funds. So it could be spread around the three main parts of town. Correct. Thank you. And lastly, Mr. Moderator, on that same page with Public Works property division, town hall renovations. If I'm reading this right, it's basically saying $100,000 is appropriated for 2017. I wonder if somebody could tell us what those renovations would be? Mr. Chapter Lane. Adam Chapter Lane, Town Manager. The approach for town hall and the capital budget, a little different than most of our project, has not been one large renovation project, but rather putting a certain funding amount in the capital budget over a number of years. For 2017, our top priority is to go out in design and then hopefully implement a resetting of the stones in front of town hall to make a safer, more accessible entrance to town hall. I wonder, Mr. Moderator, maybe through the town manager or somebody else could, on more than one occasion this past winter, employees of the town hall were forced to work under certain conditions that they had no heat in the building. They had to actually work with their coats on during the course of their eight-hour day. I wonder if some of that $100,000 could possibly go to solve a problem that existed that maybe they will not be forced to work under those conditions in the future? Mr. Chapter Lane. Adam Chapter Lane, Town Manager. I don't remember if we kept people here in a cold building all day, but I know there was a day where the heat didn't work and we had some decisions to make, but we can certainly see if any of these funds are available to allocate the necessary HVAC upgrades. That's a fair recommendation. Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Thank you, sir. Ms. Stamps. Susan Stamps, Precinct 3. I had a question about the, on Exhibit 1, the Page 2 of 3, under Public Works Property Division, it says, facility architectural design, $1 million. And I'm just wondering what the plan is for the DPW facility. Mr. Rodemarker. I've talked to several people at town meeting. Nobody seems to know about this, so. Michael Rodemarker, Director of Public Works. Within the past few years, we had a study conducted of the facility to determine the condition and necessary improvements to bring it up to code. It highlighted a significant amount of repair needed, and this $1 million will be used to do the design to design those repairs. Are there any projections as to how much the project would ultimately cost? Currently, right now, in the capital plan, in the five-year plan, three or four years out is $10 million. But once the design is complete, I imagine that number may change. All right, thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Jameson. Thank you, Ms. Monterey, for recording Jameson, Precinct 12. I have two questions on the components of Table 1. I am sorry to ask Mr. Foske again. What are the antenna funds and the Ed Burns and the, I guess, urban renewal? In my particular, my question is, can any of those funds, are any of those funds required or can they be used for renovation of parks and playgrounds? Mr. Foske. Antenna funds, well, obviously the Ed Burns rank, I don't know where the adjustment comes from, and any of the other items listed there that offsets, can those offsets be used to fund playground or recreational refurbs? So the antenna funds are used for parks and recreation. That's the only use that they're allowed to be used for. Okay. The adjustment for Ed Burns is the Ed Burns arena is a enterprise fund. Okay. And the arrangement that we have in general with the recreation department and the Ed Burns arena enterprise fund is that they pay 50% of the debt service out of their retained earnings and the town pays the other 50%. Okay. It's not retained earnings, but whatever the proper term is for the surplus in an enterprise fund. So that adjustment is their contribution to the debt service that we're carrying in the budget. Okay. Mr. Monterey, if I may, a follow-up question on antenna funds? Yes, sir. At least as new expenditures, I don't see that level of funding be applied to the parks this year. The substantial portion of what we would normally spend on parks and recreation qualify for community preservation act funds. Okay. So you bring up my next question. Can I answer the question? Yes. Okay. So what we have done is identified all the community preservation act qualified requests and have determined to wait and see what the community preservation act committee makes in terms of decisions and recommendations. The funds that you see here are defraining bond costs for recreation department expenses that have been previously incurred. Okay. So you raised the question that I raised last year for me, Mr. Foskin. I thank you. So last year I expressed my discontent with the time that it's taken for some of these parks and recreation areas to be renovated. I am very happy that the CPA Plan proposal does finally after many, many, many years, or maybe as much as 10 years, schedule the Robbins Farm second portion of that to be renovated. However, I am greatly distressed that no, that the capital plan is not seeing fit to allocate in parallel the renovation of a different park or recreation facility. I did not vote personally for the CPA and its recreation component and all the other wonderful components to have it be used as a way for the capital plan to defer costs I believe they should be committing to. I voted for it as a way to augment the capital plan. And so I hope that the capital plan, the town manager and all the people required involved in formulating the capital plan will consider very strongly these comments. Thank you very much, Mr. Moderator. Thank you, sir. Mr. Memmon. Serena Memmon, Precinct 21. I have a question for you Mr. Moderator to the director who you would like. I'm glad to see the fire station was built in 2015 at $6 million. But I had a question about the water heaters that are constructed in there. I was wondering if somebody could address that for me. Do you want me to just ask the question? Can you repeat the question one more time? I had a question about the water heaters. Can somebody tell me the details and what decisions were used, what criteria were used to put in three water heaters for the fire station? I believe there are three when I took a tour. Two tanked and one tankless. Do you know anything about that, chief? I have more objections for you, chief. I'm not exactly sure of your question, but to the best of my knowledge is one water heater in Central Fire Station. When I took the tour, they showed me tanked as well as non-tankless. So do you have a tankless or tanked water heater? We have a tanked water heater, one tanked. And then there are two. What's the term? Adam on the heat is... Condensing boilers, two condensing boilers, redundant. Those are the things that are hanging on the wall that may look like tankless water heaters, but there is one water heater in the building. That's the information I was given by your tour, so I was just going on that. Thank you. Not personally, but somebody at the bar. Mr. Fisher? Andrew Fisher, precinct six. I live on Lombard Road. Again, a couple of neighbors keep asking me when the concrete bleachers along Lombard Terrace for the baseball fields at Spipon Field are going to be renovated. Is that going to be under the capital plan? Is that how that will be financed when it someday happens, and is there any plan for that? Mr. Chapter Lane? Adam Chapter Lane, town manager. Public Works Director, Mr. Rademacher and I have been working and discussing those bleachers and actually that whole area in its entirety. There has been an assessment performed and we're working to have an application ready for the Community Preservation Committee for this upcoming cycle next year. Thank you. Mr. Fuller? Thank you, Mr. Moderator. Peter Fuller, precinct 20. Two questions. First, on page A to the committee's report, it mentions the under-straton financing plan expected asset sale contribution $1 million. I believe this is the former Veterans Hall at 1207 Mass Ave that the town owns. I wonder if through you, Mr. Moderator, someone can explain how that sale is going. Mr. Chapter Lane? Adam Chapter Lane, town manager. The Board of Selectment has authorized the town council and myself to draft an RFP. We hopefully will have that back before them at probably not their meeting this next Monday, but the meeting following that in early June. We'll put an RFP on the street and hopefully be able to have some competitive offers back in July. It'll take us a little while to actually finalize the transaction, but we're hopefully within striking distance now. Okay, thank you. Is the $1 million figure a reasonable amount to expect for the sale of that building in Lant? So based on past appraisals and then some conversations with some realtors in the area, we set a bottom line price, the Board of Selectment set a bottom or minimum price to put in the RFP of $750,000, but based on the fact that one of the adjoining parcels is also either currently or soon to be for sale, I think the redevelopment opportunity could make it an attractive parcel for someone. Good, I'll cross my fingers and hope it happens soon. Thank you. Second question on part one of the actual recommended vote, line 40, it remarks $120,000 for photocopiers in the schools. There's also I think $75,000 in the school budget for copiers. I wonder if it could be explained how these two things relate to each other, why it's not all in one budget or the other. Ms. Johnson. Diane Johnson, Chief Financial Officer for the School Department. I would love to have the capital budget pay for all of it, but that was a battle I gave up several years ago. Never give up. We presently have about 41 photocopiers throughout the building. We're about to go into a new contract cycle and we're doing a pretty intensive analysis to figure out exactly what we need and where we need it. Photocopying is a much larger part of education in the past because of so much open source material available on the web. Many teachers take advantage of that rather than go with a workbook presented by one publisher. Teachers can surf around and find the exact stuff they want and print it out, which puts a much greater strain on the photocopiers than in the past. So instead of our need for photocopying going down, it's increased. Our photocopiers also scan and they allow us to print, so rather than using inkjet printers or photocopiers are much less expensive, and the teachers have secure printing where they can send a print job to the printer to the photocopying machine and it doesn't print out until they go and enter a code into it so somebody else doesn't pick up their print job. So they're very essential pieces of equipment for the schools and we do spend a lot of money on them, but we use them every day. Yes, well I hang around Dallin a lot and I do see people waiting in line for the copiers so I agree we need more and more better copiers. Thank you. Thank you. And thanks to the committee for all this good work. Thank you Mr. Fuller. This woman weigh in the back, second row? Yep. Danuta Forbes, precinct 10. Thanks to Susan. She answered most of my questions, but then I heard in addition to the one million for the DPW, there's another ten million coming. Is that correct? Mr. Foskett. Oh. I've exhibit five, public works, property division and I see the one million dollars, DPW facility architectural design and then Mr. Rademacher mentioned that later there's going to be another ten million. Adam. Charlie, I think Adam has an answer for us. Adam, chapter lane town manager. So on exhibit two, page five of seven at the top of the sheet, you can see that in FY 17 there's one million dollars proposed for the DPW facility architectural design. Then right below that you can see DPW facility site improvements and follow that across and you'll see the ten million dollar figure in what would be FY, there's no labels here, but FY 20 I believe. So what you see as Mr. Rademacher described earlier is a million dollars funded for the actual architectural design this year and then a budgeted amount of ten million dollars for the actual construction project in FY 20. Okay. That actually gives me a little pause because as you know soon we're going to be going through the high school feasibility study and we're going to be deciding do we want to renovate the high school or is it possible to do a tear down which tends to be cheaper and it just struck me and maybe you can answer this for me. The TPW site is a really great location and we have other parts of town that also could be renovated and fixed up. So have you thought about moving the DPW to maybe a different part of town and saving that site for a possible rebuild for the high school? We've had I'd say light discussions about that but we've been unable to identify any viable site for DPW in town. We're five and a half square miles as dense as they come. To some degree, I'm sure those in the neighborhood might not agree with me, but there is a DPW facility there. Today it's sort of a known quantity. Locating it in another neighborhood that's not had a DPW facility would be a heavy lift and even saying that, I'm not sure where exactly we find that site. Well, would it be possible to swap the site so while the high school is being rebuilt you could rebuild on that right across from the tennis court. It seems like a great location or partially and you could split up some of the high school property for the DPW so you could maybe stay in that area but you could utilize that space instead of renovating it once and then you're kind of stuck with the high school where it is. Yes, the best I can say to that is when we go through the high school feasibility study, if reusing that space is viable and there is another place where DPW could still operate from, the feasibility study for the high school would allow us to consider that, but I don't think we can discount the critical nature of DPW being to operate throughout and any disruption to DPW service, especially in the winter, can be a town shut down type situation pretty quickly so we need to make sure that in any project there is a DPW facility that's up and operating. I'd love to see online maybe some of the plans because a lot of us haven't been in there so we don't really know what it looks like inside. That's fair. Mr. Foske, did you have something to add to Mr. Chapter Lane's answer? I just wanted to mention that the DPW site has been a location where there's been a lot of truck and vehicle traffic over the last 40 years and as a result there's some contamination that makes some of your proposals more complicated. Would that mean we couldn't rebuild or build on that site of high school or... Thank you. Gentleman over here in the blue shirt. Pass. Paul Schlichman precinct nine motion to terminate debate on all items under the article. Motion to terminate debate on all items under article 36. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Opposed? Debate is terminated. We have a force of recommended vote of the capital planning committee. The town manager has three separate votes. We're going to take each one serially because one of them involves bonding. Are you ready over there? Yeah, we're going to vote each one separate. I'll tell you what, I'll take the first two voice vote because they're not bonded yet. The third one is bonded. Are you okay? Are you ready on all three? Okay, so get ready for the third vote. That's going to be with the clickers. We have force of recommended vote on the vote number one for 11,192,533 dollars. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Opposed? That's the affirmative vote and I so declare it. That ends up vote one. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Opposed? That's a unanimous vote and I so declare it. Okay, this one's now for bonding. For 4,830,794 dollars. Y'all set there, Mr. Lathwood? Okay, all in favor of the recommended vote of 4,830,794 dollars, please press one for yes and two for no. This is bonding, so it has to be a two-third vote. It's an affirmative vote 193 in the affirmative. Four in the negative. Pass it to two-thirds. And let's see. We have the recommended vote number number five. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Opposed? Unanimous vote on number five and number six. All in favor please say yes. That is also a unanimous vote. That closes article 36. Brings us to article 37. We're sin borrowing authorizations for previous years. Found here by we're sins 192,000 some odd dollars. This requires a two-thirds vote. Mr. Lathwood, are you ready? Does anyone wish to discuss this? No. All in favor please say yes. Opposed? Now we're going to take our vote number four. Oh, number four. I did not see number four. We're going to go back into article number 35. I'm sorry, everybody. Good catch. Back under article number 36. Number four. Authorized and directed to apply for blah, blah, blah. All in favor please say yes. Opposed? That is also unanimous vote and so declare it. I said on number four that is also unanimous vote and I so declare it. That now actually does close article 36. We just did article 37. Let's take our five, seven-minute break. And then we're going to come back and we're going to pick up with article 38. Article 38, appropriation passed. Someone does want to discuss it, sir. I've had several neighbors ask me what the current status is of the Mugar property and I was wondering if anyone from the town could give us an update. Mr. chapter lane. Adam chapter lane town manager. I suppose the best update is that as I think most would know that Oak tree was granted their project eligibility letter by the state by the county. So what I think the expectation is is that they would next be filing with the zoning board of appeals for their 40p or 40 b or comprehensive permit application. It was reported. I just think this past week and the advocate that they are stating that they will be contesting the town's calculation that we are at the one and a half percent land mass criteria that would exempt them from the application. So what they would do is file with the zoning board of appeals. The zoning board of appeals could choose to then declare that we were at one and a half percent and either choose to deny or make alterations to their requested permit. They could then challenge that to the state to DHCD and then to the housing appeals committee but to date they have not officially filed with the ZBA. Doug Heim, town council. No, the in terms of their actually filing application there's not some sort of pressing time limit on them. All the relevant timelines trigger once they file that application. Thank you. Anyone else under this article? Mr. Fuller. Thank you Peter Fuller, precinct 20. Usually spending articles like this have language saying something like said some to be raised by the general tax and expended under the direction of the town manager or whatever. So where's the money come from and who controls it? Mr. Tosti. Good catch. We could just give me a sec. If I could add the word some to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the town manager as a correction to the addition to the Fincom vote. Mr. moderator. Do you need that in writing Madam Clerk? Yes. Just have someone write that out please. So Stephanie can have it. But we'll take that and you can hand it up afterwards. So all in favor of that motion please say yes. Yes. Mr. Tosti. He's going to write it out for us. Okay, so anyone else in this article? So we've just amended the article. So all in favor of the article as amended Mr. Lapwood. Quick clock this time. All in favor please press 1. Opposed press 2. It's an affirmative vote 173 to 6 and a negative. And I so declare it that closes article 38 as amended. And I so declare it that closes article 39. Recommend the vote of the finance committee of no action. All in favor please say yes. Opposed. It's an affirmative vote of no action. I so declare it. That brings us to article 40. Mr. Tosti. There were two articles basically the same one in the annual town meeting and one in the special town meeting on the expenditure. Three of the special town meeting therefore the finance committee recommends no action on article 40. I have a second. All in favor of no action under article 40 please say yes. Opposed. It's an affirmative vote of no action. I so declare it that brings us to article 41. Appropriation financing water and source. $800,000 for water and source. Mr. Warden. John Warden precinct date. I just wanted to clear the air because there has been some concern about if we have any of those lead pipes transmitting water into houses and if that's if there is any and if so it would be taken care of under this article. Thank you. Was there a question there? Michael Rademacher. Andy O'Brien. Thank you Michael Rademacher, director of public works. We have been reviewing records in public works to determine the extent of potential lead services. It's fairly inconclusive but from our work in the field as we have replaced water lines in the past we find very few if no actual lead services occasionally there will be a connector here or there but we have not come across any or a significant amount of lead services. That being said the town is soon to undertake a water meter replacement program where we will be entering homes to replace meters. At that time we will be doing a survey to determine if we have lead services in homes that we are now not currently aware of. If that is the case we will continue to provide those services. Does that answer your question sir? Thank you. Mr. O'Brien. Andy O'Brien precinct 16 just to kind of extend the question is also in the news Boston schools recently they found lead in the schools. I was wondering if we have tested in our schools. Dr. Brody. We are in the process right now of testing. We are working with the director of health services on this project as well as the director of facilities. There has been some testing over the years and we are looking at exactly which buildings we need to test at this point. But yes we are moving forward with that expeditiously. Thank you. Anecdotally a couple of years ago I worked for a large water filtration company and before every installation we would test the water before the installation and after and Arlington was probably in terms of you would test for total dissolved solids and for total dissolved solids Arlington was amongst the lowest in the state roughly about 85. We never tested for any individual element compound or chemical and lead typically you would test in parts per billion could be dangerous in those levels. So I would be pretty confident that we are probably pretty good but you never can tell because Boston is an MWRA town and their water tends to be very clean. Thank you. Thank you sir. Mr. Wagner. Thank you Mr. Moderator. Carl Wagner precinct 11. To extend Mr. O'Brien's extension of the warrant article I just wanted to very briefly say I lived in East Arlington 10 years ago we had our water service tested both at the start of the morning and after some time had gone by water had run and we found that there was quite a bit of lead water when we started in the morning. That means that if anybody is listening to this on TV or in the notes later on while I think water supply in Arlington is fine those of us with old pipes which is most of us in old houses should be concerned about the first water in the morning. Thank you. We got talking about the source but all these water questions will apply to the next one. We have to go over them again. Mr. Jamison. Thank you Mr. Moderator. Thank you. Thank you for listening on the extensions. This, to my mind, as far as the schools is concerned would be an excellent use of some reserve funds appropriated by the finance committee I think it fits the need which is an unrecognized needs at the time of budgeting and I would hope that Fincom would see their way to approving those funds And if the school committee and superintendent was so lucky to get funding to support it They could be reimbursed through those funds. Thank you very much again I hope that could be completed one way or the other by the start of school in the fall. Thank you Thank you. Mr. Schlickman Paul Schlickman precognize motion to terminate debate on all matters under this article Motion to terminate debate on all matters under the article. Please say yes post Debate is terminated. It's a two-thirds vote. So we have the recommended vote of the finance committee for $800,000. Mr. Lathwood, you ready? All in favor, please press one when the green light goes on pose press two 188 and affirmative one of the negative it's an affirmative vote and I so declare it that ends article 41 brings us to article 42 Water and soar mains now we just had all those questions about water We'll assume we're all set anyone else wants to talk about water and soar mains on anything else Seeing none. Mr. Lathwood, you ready on this vote all in favor of 1.1 million dollars for water mains Please press one when we get the light two for no affirmative votes unanimous vote of 188 to zero So declare it that ends article 42 the next article we have is Article 47 appropriations water bodies We have $50,000 for water bodies someone took it off the consent agenda who wanted to talk about water bodies No one it's the Lathwood All in favor $50,000 for water bodies, please press one when the light goes on pose press two Okay, press one for yes two for no on water bodies It's the affirmative vote 182 in the negative in the positive two in the negative And I so declare it and that ends article 47 brings us to article 40 Let's see 48 and 49 would done 50 the next one 50 Appropriation OPEB Does anyone want to present on this have any questions? Mr. Billifers here if anyone has any questions Seeing none of the peers were ready for a vote. Mr. Lathwood. Are you ready? All in favor, please press one for yes two for no It's affirmative votes unanimous vote 180 Affirmative zero in the negative deposit vote and I so declare it that ends article 50 and brings us to article 51 Appropriation long-term stabilization fund $100,000 into the long-term stabilization fund anyone want to talk about it Seeing none. Mr. Lathwood. Are you ready? I'm going to fast-form Okay, all in favor of $100,000. Please press one for yes two for no The two-thirds vote required because we're going into a stabilization fund 190 in the affirmative zero in the negative that unanimous vote and I so declare it that ends article 51 the next article up is 53 Mr. Tosti has arisen These are funds which the will be coming from this year's School budget to be set aside in the special education stabilization fund The number that has been given to me by the school department is 135,000 135,000 so that will be set aside in the special education stabilization fund together with the 200,000 from last year's school budget that you've already Appropriated that money can only be appropriated by this town meeting by a two-thirds vote for special education So recommend to you the hundred and thirty-five thousand under article 53. Okay. We'll administratively add 135,000 into the recommended vote that was blank any questions about this Seeing none. Mr. Lathwood. Are you ready all in favor of putting 135,000 dollars into the special education stabilization fund Please press one when the light goes on. Okay. Here we go One for yes two for no It's an affirmative vote one unanimous for 186 in the positive zero in the negative that ends article 53 and brings us to article 55 Use a free cash. I love free cash 4,537,299 dollars anybody want to talk about free cash Mr. Lathwood, yep All in favor of free cash, please press one for yes two for no Here's to figure out what it was 185 in the affirmative one in the negative It's a positive vote and I so declare at that ends article 55 brings us to article 56. Mr. Tosti has arisen As I mentioned before you under the school budget We added 171,110 dollars to the school budget We now doing to reduce the money going into the stabilization fund the fiscal stability fund to the figure of 2,000,000 349 926 2,000,349 926 Okay, do you have a second? Anyone else want to talk about the stabilization fund? fiscal stability stabilization fund seeing none we have the Motion to amend made by mr. Tosti all in favor of the motion to amend please say yes Opposed it is so amended. We now have a force recommend a vote of the Finance Committee as so amended all in favor mr. Lathwood Please press one for yes to for no It's an affirmative unanimous vote 191 of the positive zero in the negative and ends article 56 and so declare brings us to article 57 Appropriations community preservation fund miss Hello, and mr. Helmeth Chair of the community preservation Committee and my vice chair Eric helmet chair vice chair of the community preservation committee Mr. Moderator first we I move that we consider each paragraph By denoted by the numbered votes in the recommended vote of article 57 separately Just a brief note of explanation Let me get a vote on that so we have a motion to Divide the question hit vote on each one of the paragraphs separately all in favor. Please say yes post We will vote on each one separately. Thank you very much Go ahead Thank you. Thank you very much mr. Moderator. We're going to be quite Fast tonight because you've had a report for a long time. We also had the projects out in the hallway There are five of us here from the committee. Oh, there's six of us here from the people involved in the the projects and As you know next slide, please There's three areas of concern open space and recreation Historic preservation and affordable house Next slide, please You will also notice that our projects are Throughout the town and we're very pleased with that Next slide, please We have carefully vetted Each project and all the projects that came to us and we've consulted with the people we were supposed to consult with The finance committee the board of selectmen in the capital planning Committee, we're very thankful for Charlie Foskets kind words and now we'll go right into the five projects Eric has given me another minute for this We have Robbins farm park the field and ADA renovations These are right near Gordon Jameson's house. So he should be really pleased no questions Gordon The Second project is the spy pond edge and erosion control project The third project is the one of more Robbins carriage house Rehabilitation the fourth project is the Drake Village window replacement. As you know, this is a combined project with CBTG funds and our last project is the Kimball farmer house We're all here to answer your questions But I'm now going to turn it over to Eric to explain the somewhat complicated vote and budget Thank You miss row Eric helmet precinct 12 and vice chair of the community preservation committee If you need a copy of the report I think most of you have it there are a few copies on the back table and that contains the recommended vote and also the detail about What we're going to hit very very light at a very high level with respect to the the finances the budget and the votes so Every year by state law we are required to spend or reserve at least 10 percent of CPA revenues in each of the areas as you can see in the pie chart and We've got that included in our vote tonight the red area is flexible those can be spent or reserved and then Up to 5% can be used for administrative expenses as is detailed in the second vote in your report next slide This is in your report. I know that you can't really read it on the screen, but I want to just hit the high points The we are voting tonight on the fiscal year 17 CPA Revenues similar to how the other major budgets in town we vote in it based on those anticipated revenues. We estimated them conservatively The revenues come from two sources the local one and a half percent surcharge on the net property tax after the What's the word after the exclusions and abatements abatements? Thank you Plus a partial state match on the amount that we take in and this year. It's estimated by the DOR to be 19% So that's free cash as it were the moderator's favorite word the page 8 of the report explains the special situation about where the current revenues being collected on the surcharge Where those are going and when we can spend those we welcome your questions if you if you have them And I think the next slide then The budget also by the way does show the bottom of it the cumulative percentages So if you think about that pie chart it shows What percentage by project area historic preservation? Housing and and recreation it shows where the committee is recommending that with respect to the percentages So about these about the votes you'll notice that we have three of them and again the details All these are on pages 10 to 12 of your report Each of the subvotes is explained in the comments and we'd be happy to answer questions So we'll take each of those separately the first vote our appropriations town meeting makes appropriations that the committee Can only recommend so that's how meeting signs the checks And those are appropriations for the five projects that Clarissa just mentioned and are described in detail in your reports the second vote are Consist of two items and that funds a reserve for future CPA projects the town meeting can appropriate from and It also funds an administrative CPA expenses account as well the third vote is a contingency only so if The vote on the first vote is affirmative I need and I will move as a town meeting member to change to amend the vote that you see in the third vote to no action for Reasons that are explained Underneath that but the reason for that is that because of that 10% requirement that I mentioned at the very beginning of my remarks We have to make sure that we do that So if any project wouldn't be funded and we fall beneath their 10% threshold for any of the three areas We need to fix that by at least reserving Dedicated funds in that amount so that we don't have to come back for a special town meeting later That's it We're here to answer your questions We have Mike care Leslie mayor Andrew Benxton and Kathy Garnett is here from the Conservation Commission. If you have any questions whatsoever Eric, where'd you go? Please ask them Yes, no, it's my mother. Yes, mr. Moderator I get to call him and ask he asked questions that I call you back. Thank you. Okay, I guess I'm in a hurry to leave Sir in the blue shirt, you're you're up Clarissa. He's up Daniel Jalka precinct six and I want to say first of all, I'm really happy that our town adopted the CPA It seems like a good way for us to continue to improve things that are very important to us in the town with the help of state funding that My view is we would be foolish to say no to I am here representing precinct six and at the Community meetup. I had the opportunity to meet Karen Grossman who is the Executive director or something. She's the head honcho and and friends of spy pond park. I believe And I'm a member of that group. I think it's a great group. It Represents, I think a lot of Arlington not only from precinct six but throughout the town who recognizes that spy pond is kind of a special Treasure for the town It's Kind of special. I think based on where it's located It's something that many people from the town are aware of and pass through they're going on the bike path into town into alewife Also people who are coming to our town from outside from Cambridge if they just barely even dip into Arlington One of the first things they see is spy pond something that I think warrants Among many other treasures of the town warrants being protected and so I'm really glad to see that one of the Things that the CPA has chosen to invest or to try to invest in is the erosion control and if you go to spy pond park It's so beautiful, but if you go there, you can't help but notice There are fences around the shore in the park where Beautiful charming little signs made by children and designed by children have implored people not to pass the fences and not to Step on the shore not to erode the shoreline And that's not really working. I see people over there all the time who are passing those fences and Seeming to not be concerned or not educated about the fact that that might be damaging this town treasure So I think that this is you know one of the most modest expenditures as part of this article But I just wanted to get up as a member of precinct 6 as a representative of the people who live there But also for the whole town. I think we all recognize, you know, it's the it's the high school mascot think and Our spy ponders, right? Yeah. Yeah, so I'm kind of new here. I've only been here for five years I don't know anything except my kids will be going to Arlington High School unless they go to Miniam Man, which would also be great and One of the things I learned actually in the Q&A at this neighborhood meetup was that This modest investment this 50,000 give or take investment in the erosion control feasibility study Will not only give guidance to the town to understand what it can do to help protect this Resource, but as you know, the vast majority of the shore on spy pond is not owned by the town It's owned by private property owners many of whom would jump at the chance to take common sense measures I think to protect this valuable part of their property and one of the At least alluded to advantages of funding this is that the information we get from the professionals who conduct this study Will be shared with property owners So for example if there's advice to put a certain material at the shore or to plant a certain kind of plant that maybe will I don't know. I don't know how this works, but you know things happen process enzymes happen whatever Filter out the filter out the contaminants that are coming into the water. It will be an opportunity for the town to give The information to all the people who own that valuable shorefront on spy pond so in closing I would just like to say again, I'm really happy that we as a community chose to Take advantage of the CPA because it seems like it's just a great opportunity for us to get more value then we put then we have to pay for and This and the other parts of the CPA seem like reasonable way to spend that money So I encourage you all to vote to approve all of the CPA Budget, thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Ruderman Thank You mr. Moderator Michael Ruderman precinct nine mr. Moderator. What were the administrative expenses? for the Community Preservation Committee for the year just concluded miss Roe there were none We Couldn't we didn't have any money. We won't have any money until you vote on this article and the money will start in July 1st 2016 this is the way the law is written. It's very complicated, but we didn't have any money we had Thank You mr. Moderator that answers my question. Thank you The projects are excellent. I think they're all worthy. They're all you know more than qualified for support of these funds Mr. Moderator if the committee had no expenses for the past year Why is the committee asking for the maximum amount allowed under the enabling legislation that being five percent or more than $77,000 for administrative expenses going forward when they had no administrative expenses in the last year and still produced this list of very well qualified and and Detailed projects. I got you Paul. Mr. Roe Thank You We are hoping that this expenditure will keep the kinds of expenses that we actually had this year to a minimum because we've had someone from the town manager's office Doing all the administrative workforce Not paid out of this budget because it can't be the idea that we could have somebody in the town manager's office overseeing these Hopefully these five projects in the next year is something that we haven't had to go through yet The idea for the expenses budget is really to take The time and expense away from the other town budgets and personnel so that it can be Devoted to just the Community Preservation Act I believe the answer to my first question. This moderator was in the last year zero Is that correct? Mr. Tosti? Yes, Mr. Tosti is going to tell you sir the CPA committee did not have any expenses because they didn't have any money all the Expenses were absorbed by the town So one of the town manager's personnel had to be there at all the meetings and handling all the administrative work And the manager's office had to handle that I believe in addition the IT department and the treasurer's department had to absorb all of the Software expenses because of the new one and a half percent. So there were expenses They didn't get paid by the CPA committee. They got absorbed by the town and the town can't keep doing that So this situation shall not prevail in the future am I correct in presuming that? I would just the situation of other town town budgets covering the administrative expenses Mr. Helmeth Thank You mr. moderator Eric Helmeth vice chair the CPAC. Yeah as explained in the comment to vote to the intent of the expenses account is to protect the town budget from Expenses that are that come from CPA wherever is allowable by law To prevent many of the situations that that mr. Tosti just said The law also says and I think this was relevant to your to your question mr. Roonman the law also says that any unspent Appropriated expenses account roll back to the general CPA fund So it will be treated as a reserve fund to be only you only to be used as much as necessary But to be used as much as possible to offset Unavoidable expenses that come from CPA and those are some of the possible ones are enumerated into the comment under that vote Thank you. Mr. Robert that answers my questions. Thank you, sir Mr. Trembly Ed It's rumbly pracing 19. I see those two hundred thousand dollars to given to To restore the Kimball house I'm curious if the 1.4 something or other million dollars Includes the purchase price of the house Miss Roe No, it cannot and does not like many affordable housing projects the small amount that the Community Preservation Act funds are going to is one of the many pieces that the Arlington Housing Corporation has used to acquire the house to do the the building of the house, this is actually the last piece of their construction project and It actually qualifies both as affordable housing and historic preservation, but we're putting it down as affordable housing So the 1.4 million dollars was to renovate the house that didn't include the purchase price That did I hear you right? Do you want to could? Mr. Moderator could Pam Hallett come up and answer that question. Yes Someone has more information for us. That's great Pam Hallett from precinct 21 also executive director of the housing corporation of Arlington the 1.5 does include the purchase price as well Okay, 1.4. So So that 400 and something or other thousand dollars per unit is the finished total cost total development cost. Yes Thank you very much. Thank you very much Mr. Klein Thank You mr. Moderator Christian Klein precinct 10 and the past president of the Friends of Robbins Farm Park It was 2002 when we first started getting ready for the community built for the playground which happened in 2003 with Gordon Jamison was kind enough to To work with myself on organizing that I carried my one-year-old son in a backpack that weekend Well, we did the community build he's entering the high school next year and the second phase still hasn't happened So I'm very excited that the funds are being expanded or are being proposed for this project And I strongly encourage everyone to vote in favor. Thank you This gentleman right here in this blue shirt, sir Phil goff precinct 7 I moved to a term to terminate debate on this and all matters before It's motion to terminate debate in the article all in favor, please say yes opposed It is a major it's a two-third vote and I so declare it that brings us through Recommended votes. We have three separate and individual votes under this article a vote number one first all in favor of the recommended vote of the finance committee Please press one Community preservation committee. I'm sorry all in favor of the recommended vote of the community preservation committee Please press one free yes to for no It's an affirmative vote 171 the positive 12 in the negative Now we have the second part of the vote all in favor of the recommended vote as printed in our reports Please press one for yes to for no that is affirmative vote as well 171 in the positive 15 and negative mr. Helmeth you want to amend your third vote Thank You mr. Moderator Eric Helmeth vice chair of the CPAC. I moved to amend the third vote Recommended by the community preservation committee to no action Okay, anyone wish to discuss that we have a force first the motion to amend the third vote From that printed in our report to no action all in favor of that amendment, please say yes All opposed it is so amended Mr.. Lathwood are you ready and recommended vote of no action? All in favor of no action on the third vote please press one for yes to for no As a hundred and eighty five in the affirmative on no action one in the negative that ends article 58 I wish to personally thank the CPA committee miss row and mr. Helmeth for their hard work over the past year That brings us to article 59 this Darcy I Got you under this mr. Oh, are you gonna introduce her? Okay, mr. Schlickman Paul Schlickman precinct nine. I'd like to introduce Darcy Devaney a resident of the town to speak on this resolution Miss Devaney. Hi Darcy Devaney precinct four. I'm here on behalf of the Arlington Disability Commission I'm sorry that my partner who's worked very hard on this proposal Cynthia DeAngelis is not able to be with us tonight She's ill so what is article 59? It's all about an adequate number of handicapped parking spaces in the optimal places Why is the disability Commission sponsoring this article three reasons statistics surveys and complaints? So first First statistics As you can see The Massachusetts Disability Commission recommends a minimum of five percent handicapped parking spaces in business areas of the street parking and we looked at various other statistics In Massachusetts the number of handicapped parking places placards is at about ten percent of the number of cars that are registered in Arlington It's at about six point three percent We also looked at ambulatory difficulties reported to the Census Bureau and in 2013 again in Massachusetts as a whole that's six point two percent and In Arlington for people over the age of 65. It is at sixteen percent for ambulatory disabilities So that's statistics Surveys you may remember last year's vision 2020 survey had a page of questions about disability access One of them was about handicapped parking in the ease of finding it in the various business districts as you can see The answer is it was kind of difficult especially in East Arlington and you could also if you looked at this year's 2020 survey the one with the purple cover and back You can see that Increasing the handicapped parking at the senior center was one of the top three priorities for 38% of the visitors to the senior center So we looked at the on-street parking in business districts to count it to see what kind of percent we had here in Arlington Basically when we talk about on-street parking in business districts We're talking from the Cambridge line of Massachusetts have all the way up to about Trader Joe's and the Heights And an area around the center That's also considered business that isn't just right on mouse out like Medford Street and so forth And we came up with about a thousand more than a thousand spaces and how many of those were handicapped parking spaces 23 out of more than a thousand so that's two point three percent We looked at the fraction of the HP spaces by neighborhood to see if it got any better neighborhood by neighborhood and the answer was again, no You could see it's still under 3% and it is again in the east the worst at 2% Just quickly We're going to go through the east currently has four handicapped spaces The center currently has 11 remember these are handicapped on-street parking in the business districts We're not talking about residential and in the Heights Which is the best we have a whole eight handicapped parking spaces out of 300 and some odd So again if we look at those statistics We're way below the minimum that we should have according to the Massachusetts office of disability and we are in fact Quite a bit below some of the statistics that apply to Arlington specifically So we went looked at what would it look like if we tried to get up to five percent or more Handicapped parking spaces and we looked at some placement criteria, which is kind of complicated You have to go sort of curb by curb block by block because everything's different in Arlington. No block is alike But We also did a lot of outreach and our outreach consisted of things like two articles in the Arlington advocate Of course, we emailed to the Arlington email list which has more than 5,000 subscribers We talked to businesses. We started in the east talking to businesses And we're going to be talking to and we emailed to businesses The OS said and unanimously approved we have outreach planned for the future which is tables at the Feast of the East and the town day and We're going to do ground level walk shops of the three business districts Which means going block by block again and talking specifically to business owners and so forth And the eventual outcome of this I hope is at least five percent Business district handicapped parking and we're going to have an online parking map Which will include the regular parking spaces and the handicapped parking spaces So anyone who wants to bring the grandmother to Arlington anyone who wants to visit Arlington can look in advance and see Where they can get a handicapped parking space to go visit some of our shops and stores So the goal an adequate number of handicapped parking spaces in the optimal places You can see why I just wanted to say thanks to two a bunch of people, but specifically Our DPW director Mike Radamaker is actually a member of the disability Commission and he's been terrific on logistics and some real practical stuff and Our GIS director Adam Karowski who is the one who worked with the map tools and I figured that all out for us And it's going to help us get it online That was all the thank you so questions If there's questions, I'll get them and ask you Okay, I hope you vote yes Okay, and yeah, but he wished to discuss article 59 Seeing none looks like we're ready for a vote You are all set soon as miss the Lathwoods ready all in favor of recommended Resolution of the Board of Select when it's printed in their report press one for yes and two for no It's an affirmative vote 183 in the positive For in the negative that ends article 59 brings us to article 60 Mr. Leonard Thank You mr. Moderator John Leonard precinct 17 Good evening ladies and gentlemen mr. Moderator when precinct 17 Approach to selectments office in January of 2014 At that particular time We asked about the possibility of going back to the Highland Station We were told at that particular time probably not due to the fact That was not handicap accessible We found that interesting because we were under the impression that mostly all buildings nowadays would be handicapped accessible We then asked about what about the possibility for town hall The answer to that was precinct 8 and 10 we're voting there now and parking might be an issue if another precinct was added We also found that very interesting seeing this how that for so many years we've been crammed up and into the strat in school With 13 and 15 to other precincts and parking up there is very limited Can't hear them. We've then turned around and asked what about the senior center? At that particular time we did get a very nice letter from the director of the planning and community development Outlining why with all the occasions that are going on at the senior center. It would be very doubtful to have a precinct there. I Think at this particular time it's important to mention That when a precinct is moved from one location to the other It is required by the state that everybody who is a registered voter in that precinct is to be notified of such a move We have asked the office of the board of selectmen for a copy of that notice that would have went out in either 2004 or 2005 As of this evening we have not received anything it has been two years Another point of information is that when the pier school which house the precinct 1921 were moved due to the construction for the pier school Those two precincts were moved to the skating rink on summer Street The skating rink by the way is located in precinct 17 Now once again With the stratin school being under construction and being closed Precinct 17 is on the move again We've been notified that precinct 17 is now going to be moved into the pier To be jammed with the 19 and 21 precincts, which is already there and parking should prove to be interesting You ask what about 13 and 15? 13 and 15 by the way are going to be moved to the skating rink on summer Street, which is precinct 17 Mr. Moderator in the master plan The master plan states on page 22 That today the over 55 age group Accounts for 28% the violence and total population and the number of seniors is expected to increase more dramatically Also in the master plan and page 12 It talks about encouraging more walking in the town of Allenton It doesn't include count as far as I can see encouraging climbing up the hill To exercise your right to vote Ladies and gentlemen of town meeting Tonight I Request I urge And I just asked Could you please support the resolution in front of you and let's do whatever we can To bring precinct 17 back into precinct 17 Thank you very much Mr. Lennon's made a substitute motion. We have a second Thank you Jefferson Bob Jefferson fire chief Just would like to quickly state a few points. This issue has been discussed at length over the past Year or so several memos that I addressed the board of select men In regards to voting at the Highland station as well as appearing at a select men's meeting That mr. Lennon presented it to To state the reasons why I feel it's not a good solution to have voting at the Highland fire station At that meeting there was a five-nothing vote against mr. Lennon's Proposal for a town meeting warrant article to which he brought you a resolution tonight I really don't want to be the person standing between you and getting out of here on the last article But just if I could quickly The reasons that I don't feel it's conducive to voting in the Highland station It's for someone who actually works in that station and knows what that station is about and the conditions in there And why it's not a good station to vote in Back when they were voting in the Highland station prior to the remodel I Was a house captain down there. I was stationed down there for about 15 years I worked most of the tours that required us to be there while the voting was going on Firefighters never minded voting going on in that station. I Could sit there though daily and listen to the people there that were there for 14 hours a day complain About being in a garage about the smell of diesel about the smell of oil about the smell of gasoline About the bells going off about the horns going off about the people coming and going About the heat conditions in a garage Which is still the same situation we have today the Highland station although remodeled Is still a garage that houses vehicles. It still has the smell of diesel even though we have a state-of-the-art Plime event system which takes the diesel Exhaust from the trucks out of the building. It still has that smell. It still has oil on the floor It still has it's a cement floor That's porous that absorbs those chemicals and it doesn't go away no matter how often we clean those floors The floors are not level they are concave so that the water from the trucks when they're washed or cleaned Drainage into floor drains that are in the floor We lost over one third of the apparatus flowing we remodeled for both Gear storage and for other storage in the building so now that building that again was a voting precinct in the past is Now a much smaller area We it would be my intention that even if voting was moved back into the Highland station That that that station continued to operate there even if it's just for that one day Response in the districts that they respond to so it would be my intention to leave those those pieces there We could take the pieces out. Hopefully the weather would be Cooperative and we wouldn't have to worry about freezing of the apparatus or anything But the people would still be there. They would still accident in and out of the building The entryway into the building mr. Lennon talks about the handicapped accessibility The entryway into the building although maybe level is not a very wide entryway, and it's not conducive to somebody who may have Restrictions with their mobility and getting into the building. I could go on and on. I'm telling you as the fire chief I've been over this we've researched it. We've met with the board of segment to talk about it I would strongly suggest that you vote no on this resolution Thank you, sir. Mr. Kleinman. Thank you, mr. Moderator Ironically, I stand to support mr. Lennon and what the chief said I'm sorry can hear the problem that we have Oh, I'm sorry Stuart Kleinman prison one The problem we have is and I put sort of writing that this did not really affect Vote a turnout, but we don't have enough people that vote anyway That's the problem and if we make it more difficult they won't and I agree the fire station should not be used so I have a minor change which would be in the Fourth paragraph to take out the Highland fire station to say so it would read return the precinct 17 polling place To a venue located within the precinct boundaries I want to make it easier for people to vote it doesn't have to be the fire station But it should be somewhere in the precinct And thank you very much Very well. I've got a second on that motion Mr. Moore Christopher Moore precinct 14 I move to terminate debate on the article can motion to terminate debate in the article and all matters under it Yes, all in favor, please say yes Opposed Okay, so we debate two-third vote and beta is terminated. We have first mr. Kleinman's motion to amend Mr Leonard substitute motion to eliminate the words To the Highland fire station located at 1007 math salve comma or All in favor of that amendment, please say yes Opposed it is so amended We now have a force mr Leonard substitute motion all in favor mr. Leonard substitute motion, please say yes opposed Chairs in doubt mr. Lathwood All in favor of mr. Leonard substitute motion as amended, please press one for yes to for no on The substitute yes, this is to substitute as amended It's an affirmative vote 108 in the positive 69 In the negative so we now have the substituted vote of the board of selecting mr Leonard's all in favor of the substituted motion, please vote one for yes to for no Recommended vote of the voter select man as is amended by mr Leonard's motion So we just substituted that recommended voted no action with mr. Leonard's Substitute and now we're voting on the final vote. We just voted we voted Kleinman amended it Then we voted Leonard's to substitute Now we're going to wreck vote on the recommended vote of the board of select man as substituted by mr. Leonard's motion So if you want to make this motion to resolve that we want to tell the board of select man They should do this which is Your choice you would vote one or you would vote two for no so mr. Lathwood One for yes to for no on mr. Leonard's substituted motion It's an affirmative vote 109 in the positive 67 in the negative and I so declare it mr. Tosti Who spoke yes, sir? You can make a motion to reconsider Well, you got to get someone who did well I thought I'd explained it I Don't see anybody standing to reconsider mr. Tosti you're up I Move that article three be taken from the table All in favor taking article three from the table. Please say yes all opposed Article three is on table mr. Tosti. I move that the annual town meeting be dissolved All in favor of dissolving the annual town meeting of 2016. Please say yes all opposed