 I'm sorry 745 will be the last drink we serve 1245 1245 I try to get a little extra 1245 will be the last drink in and everybody we try to get them out no later than 115 separate people just clean it up and everybody should be out of the building by 130 thank you we have a motion a second all those in favor please say aye thank you thank you excuse me yes so Tom the Fidelity House it's it's a dance well Nikki Metropolis is putting his arm with his wife and we're certainly gonna give them a hand doing it and it costs nothing to get in we're gonna have they're gonna have a DJ and food and just a donation and the proceeds will go to the Fidelity House thank you thank you moving on request from monotomy grill and tavern for a late night of an as well on December 31st Billy yes same thing yeah just to try to keep it in Arlington you know food will be served right until the end will probably give last call at the tables around 1230 you know so quarter one for the bar and that'll be it you know live show entertainment Tony Lynn Washington so it should be a fun night great well subject all conditions is set for a second we have a motion and a second for the discussion seeing none all those in favor please say aye aye thank you appreciate it thank you we're gonna move the request for the common ground Arlington above the license renewals Rodney thank you happy holidays to everybody see you basically the scenario is easy it's our first year we're not really looking to do any entertainment not looking to do a big party my original plan my hope was to sign someone up for a black tie affair in the back room I really don't think that's gonna happen in the last week but basically we just want to have the feeling that people can come there enjoy we're always open late for food so it would be nice to just know that I can encourage people that at 12 o'clock when the ball drops you don't have to really move out last call would definitely be quarter of one and it would be an expedited people leaving very quickly so I think that I think that night once once everything happens I think it's not gonna really be that hard I think it's just gonna be nice and smooth to be able to let people know that they don't have to immediately leave right at 12 move approval subject to our conditions is set for second motion a second for the discussion so I'm just curious how do you think with the experience you've been having with your business so far and neighbors and because you live in a neighborhood that has been more sensitive about the noise and then some other ones I'm curious how's that been going I think it's getting better I think people are starting to realize that we did do a lot of soundproofing whenever I have an event in the back I'm always on site to make sure that we we keep within bounds I will tell you right now that I'll be much more mindful if ever I decide to have a band back there again I need to know who the band is first I need to I need to actually see them play somewhere else before they play with us we had a phenomenal band in there within the first month I regularly went outside to make sure what the what the noise level was it wasn't wasn't bad but I would still like to err on the side of caution so I definitely moving forward I want to make sure I definitely talked to them first before I randomly see a band come in that's you know eventually got just a little too much equipment so but otherwise the neighbors I I'm trying very hard to to make sure that the neighbors realized that everything with deliveries we were not the only one that were getting deliveries right in front of them fusion tastes I know the ocean from the owner from fusion tastes is a nice gentleman but they regularly were getting deliveries that the semis were parked right in front of their homes as well I think since we were the new place they automatically assume that okay new businesses coming in and they're taking over our streets that's really not the case I've been in contact with the owners of each of my vendors and slowly but surely I think they're noticing that that's no longer an issue thank you for the questions so we asked for the name of the neighbors that complain the most no we can't right I hope is it things going well yes yes and they're very they're very nice people and I understand I understand their concern and I just I I try to put it out there as much as I can that you know it's not falling on deaf ears it's something that we're definitely very we want to be part of the community we want to help make the center of real nice place to go for each and every person would no matter what your like is you know it's just it's an ongoing process but I think we're I think we're getting there thanks for that attitude good luck thank you very much thank you very much we have a motion a second seeing no further discussion all those in favor please say aye I post you moving on to license renewals for contractor drain layer wine and malt beverages only restaurant all alcohol restaurant all alcohol club all alcohol package store theater license common victual or food vendor class 1 class 2 class 2 non-premise in auctioneer lodging houses and in keepers public entertainment automatic amusement and secondhand dealers so move approval on all of them all subject to all conditions that have been set forth I will second it I will know what I think we should note that we did receive a letter from the secretary of the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee advising us that they have run into some issues with cleanliness and the condition of the exterior of one of the buildings at 94 Summer Street that's Arlington liquors which is applying for renewal and there have been some issues with trash and such unfortunately we have for anybody who's watching that we have extended hours this week for for the the holidays before the holidays but in speaking with our staff I know that our staff was in touch with the liquor store and they have indicated that they understand the situation and they will take steps to address it so I'm okay moving ahead with that one right now but I think that we should monitor it as we go forward you agree further discussion seeing none we had a motion in second all those in favor please say aye moving on traffic rules and orders for approval a solar power letter of support for Mr. Chaplin thank you mr. Chairman this is a letter that was forwarded to me by a member of sustainable Arlington that we apparently missed we missed the first cut of signing on but they will be sending this letter to Governor-elect or probably at that point then Governor Baker and you could see from the provided document the number of communities from across the state either members of the select board the select board as a whole city managers time managers mayors signed on so given Arlington's status as green community participation in Solarize Arlington the fact that we're going to be trying to get solar panels on our own school roof soon I thought this would be something that I'd like to ask the board to consider signing on to the board signed on as a whole I'd sign on as a whole as well and we could add our signatures to this letter that would be sent so moved I'll second it yes so I actually I actually have some concerns about signing on to this one I I support the I support alternative energy and the increase in using alternative energy I support conservation I've been delighted to support the Green Communities Act because it talks about general about goals in terms of reducing those fossil fuels and and increasing sustainability my problem with this document as we're being asked to endorse a very particular solution and it's a financial bet on solar that frankly I just don't think that I'm equipped to make and I'm not sure the governor should be entitled to make that either I think about things like hydro and you know the first title is coming on site on online in Massachusetts I think about the wind and the offshore wind and I also think about future innovation and I'm just if this was more written more broadly the things that the Arlington Green or excuse me the Green Communities Act did right I'm delighted about this one is a technology argument and I'm less enthused about supporting that I'll follow that up it's okay and I I agree with you and when we first when I first spoke with Adam about this I brought up similar concerns that I think solar is an important part of a larger issue that like you said hydro onshore offshore wind and I think that solar should be an important part of a you know more diverse portfolio and in talking with Adam I came to think that as a municipality I think that perhaps solar is one of the largest parts that a town can control as so I was my thoughts was that I was okay signing on with this as you know a member of the board because I think that town should move forward with it but with that being said it should be a should be part of a large portfolio that does have you know other ulterior resources clean energy so that's a little rebuttal but that's how what I'm thinking on it but either way yes Kevin are you timing us to three minutes or something like that so with due respect to my colleagues I'm still willing to sign it at least as an individual select man it nothing in the letter to me I'm assuming you're referring to the letter we have here in the packet is excluding other forms and the goal is 20% solar by 2025 so anyhow I'm just willing to do it as an individual select I don't want to speak to that I'm willing to have a tour my motion obviously the board as we hold I want to do it yeah I mean I I think that's reasonable I mean I think if we look through this a lot of selectmen and counselors actually most of these are actually individuals who have signed on and I know that we we have taken that route with some of the resolutions that have gone before town meeting as well so I'm happy with that I don't think with a resolution along these lines I think we should be a unified board if we're writing to the governor on an issue of important and hearing that there are some concerns with the board signing on I think I'm happy with that course I will be signing on individually I do like the spirit and I think that it's consistent with a lot of what we've we've tried to do here in town but I don't I think that we should be a unified board for pushing putting something like this forward you do think that we should be I think we should be unified and whereas some members don't feel don't feel comfortable with the board taking a vote per se I feel completely comfortable just doing it as individuals if we so choose okay what are you saying are you signing on I will be signing on so that's the two of us yes I certainly I don't want to say that I think that it's inappropriate for this board to consider I absolutely do and I mean I so if that's the I'm not objecting to us talking about this I think it's a wonderful thing first okay so I want love and comfort and agreement you'll get love comfort agreement comfort enjoy one gets love comfort in a day I'm of the same opinion of my previous three colleagues I just wondering if the town manager what would be the most benefit if you had you sign it in four of the five select men or would it be better where there are five select men and four signatures that you just sign it on behalf of the town or you don't have an opinion either way I you know I don't know that it matters much I think if based on the way it has been signed as I think selectman Cura pointed out it seems a number of communities selectmen individually signed on it and it was probably a similar situation I don't know that but it was probably a situation where there was an unanimous vote but board member wanted to sign on so I'd be happy with that and I don't want I think Mr. Cura was absolutely right that it probably is inappropriate to sign on the Arlington board of select men if it's a three two or four one vote because it wouldn't really show yeah you know unanimous support from the board okay so we don't have an affirmative you said yes so we'll take a vote and if you want to sign it please feel free and if not that's okay I think Kevin would drew his motion so we actually don't have a motion on the table sign it so you want to make that motion yes I move that if people want to sign on individually that they do so was that close I'll communicate it accordingly to the letter of organizers thank you second we have a motion second further discussion seeing none all those in favor please say aye I post we just took a collective decision the individual conscience still reigns that's okay yes perhaps at another time we should craft a position on all right which one of our goals I guess so we don't need you but you know to find out that everybody here is happy with because we all support it I definitely and I think the model of what we did with the green community stuff is really good yeah I'm really happy with that thank you thank you of course we'll go back to Adam a new library all right so thank you for your your your patience we have our new library director actually started here in Earrington today he is almost an hour early I made him seem 20 minutes late I was in the routine of the 715 meeting times why apologize for that so tonight we have Peter Strasero you did start today right today was day one at the Robbins library so we know we were all sad and Ryan left to go to Illinois and there's some concern about how we would replace someone with the energy and passion for libraries that Ryan brought to Arlington but as we went through the interview process and came down to make our final decision it became very clear that we were very fortunate to find a talented professional who showed equal if not superior passion for library services and also a passion for Arlington based on a family history here as well as just a love for the community so Peter comes here with a great deal of library experience coming up through the ranks and most recently serving as the director of libraries in Winthrop but also having a lot of speaking engagements and notoriety in the library community for innovation and really moving libraries into the 21st century so with that I wanted to introduce Peter to the board and allow the board to you know I guess Peter maybe tell the board a little bit about himself and give the board an opportunity to ask any questions they might have thank you very much welcome good evening thanks guys please forgive my forgive my no we will blame Adam sure I just want to I want to thank our time manager and our board of library trustees and everyone involved in the process I'm very humbled to be here it's been a long time goal of mine I've worked in libraries for just over a decade about 11 years and kind of rode the ranks started as a page putting away books and working in my college library became a librarian worked in teen services for a few years went and worked in reference for a few years and spent the last few years in Winthrop as their library director always kind of focused on the Robbins library my so my grandparents lived here their all their lives and my mother grew up here spent her whole childhood in Arlington so I spent a lot of my childhood in Arlington and I had a lot of a lot of what put me into libraries in the first place was the Robbins library I spent a lot of time there as a child with my grandparents with my mother and I had a lot of a lot of great memories here as a child like chasing Paul Revere down the street on Patriots Day and sledding not so successfully at Robbins Farm and rollerblading on the bricks up to the Arlington Heights and on and on and on but I did spend a lot of time in the library and that's part of the reason that I went this way so for me this is a real a real comfortable circle moment and I don't want to sound too cheesy and I know the town's watching but I feel like Arlington really has given to me a lot in my life and this is a great opportunity to come in and thank Arlington and give back especially in the place that I care about the most the library so I'm very humbled very honored to be here thank you very much and that that's really great to hear I think you know you'll hear a lot of the same we say a lot of the same things that you know that was the 10 cent version yeah and so no I'm very happy to have your questions from the board yes tell me about Star Wars Star Wars so when I started as a librarian I didn't make much money and I had a lot of student loans for my my master's in library science so I was looking for a way to supplement income I'm a lifelong learner and a lifelong lover of Star Wars so I started a Star Wars club at the library that I worked at and it was a big hit and the town next door said hey would you ever come here and do the Star Wars club at their library I said if you pay me I will so I so I did and and then that was a big hit and then the town next to them asked me to come and now it's been five years and I've been to 175 libraries in Massachusetts and seen like 7,000 children's and children and families in the Commonwealth and in Rhode Island and in New Hampshire teaching kids about Star Wars and connecting it back to the lifelong learning at the library and all the all the books there's the six Star Wars movies but there's like a thousand Star Wars books and the library is usually a big proponent of those books so I am that was it so I kind of gave me a an opportunity to travel around in the state to learn a lot about libraries and different libraries and to see how different libraries worked the different forms of government that existed there and how the friends worked how the library directors work in teen services and children's services and it gave me this this great opportunity to learn faster I think than I would have so so I've been doing that for five years and I think I think I did it here I think I did it in Arlington a few years ago and I've done it in Lexington I've done it all over the area thank you very much you're welcome yes Joe thank you I can't escape it I just accepted the best job I've ever been offered in my whole life and the first question is about it's going to get better because I noted you know I noted when I saw it kind of the summary of your experience when Adam first let us know about your appointment I first thought that went through my head I said this is a real millennial guy and this is great to get the current generation interested in reading and such then I went to your resume and and you've presented at the American Library Association doing the library association the title of your of your talk was stand up and shout the millennial leader right changing direction so I'm excited by that but I went further down the resume and my heart was filled with horror because you may or may not know that your predecessor somehow managed to work me into a Clifford the big red dog suit and I see that one of your previous internships was as a cast member at Walt Disney World which fills me with fear about what you might have up can't escape Star Wars and I can't escape yeah I learned I so when I graduated high school I went to college for about five minutes and decided I didn't need to go to college I was gonna you know remember being 18 and conquering the world so I ran away to Florida and got a job at Disney World and after about a year I realized how much I did need to go to college and it didn't need to go to grad school but but it was the beginning of my customer service experience so that's that's what I don't people have differences of opinion but I say that working in a library is very customer service you have a product and you have a customer and we're here for them for the people of Arlington and that's where I learned it at Disney World so I didn't I didn't I didn't dress up as anything special but I learned a lot there just one last last thing I mean you have an impressive resume someone so young you have a lot of experience here and one thing that also jumped out to me is that the Winthrop Tom manager had appointed you as the co-chair of the town's cultural community yes and you may or may not know that our Commission on Arts and Cultures along with members of our tourism Economic Development Committee have been meeting recently talking about the possibility of applying for a cultural district designation here in Arlington so I did notice that we may come knocking on your door sure to to talk to you about your experience we didn't get to the in Winthrop or there I mean I didn't get to I've cashed it in for Arlington but we didn't get to the point where we actually put in for the application but it's as you probably know it's a long process to get to that point you're supposed to spend you know 12 to 18 months developing and getting things prepared so that your application goes through so I was a proponent of that work we may come knocking at your door I know there's a meeting on February 4th at the library as coincidence would have it so okay thank you thank you very much thank you very much I just want to say first of all I'm thrilled to have you here thank you three jobs in high school one of my first was a page over the Robbins library for five years and back then in the ancient days there wasn't anything online and all the reference materials there were three to five copies of everything and I can't tell you how many high school kids got jobs as pages because they saw I was getting all these reference materials first so it's a vastly different world now so I'm really excited to hear about your experience with dealing with kids all the way to our elders in terms of getting involved but especially the younger group one of the things when I was over at the Robbins library is a page that I noticed and I don't think it exists now but they're in terms of staff sort of gathering with each other outside of work I was in the day of we had a new library director who came in and Jim fish he threw away all the books which was very painful so I used to organize monthly restaurant meetings started a softball team started sort of a mezzanine see how fast you could you know get the books back on the shelf shelving contest and that really seemed to bring everybody together especially since in my opinion it was then and still is today that similar to teachers and other professions I think they should be paid a lot more well for all the hard work they do but they don't do it for the money right and so I think on top of all the experience that you're bringing with what my colleagues have cited whatever you can bring in terms of you know combining the staff that the manager agrees would be appropriate I always thought that was a plus and a benefit and I know years after I left you know when I go back in the library they're like we don't do things like that anymore so you know being cognizant of the times that we're in and you know what you can do but whatever way that you see appropriate not anything that I cited that you feel it's sort of a you know a staff kudos I don't know if it's a sort of system to recognize somebody every month of what I'm sure you'll have good ideas on that but where we have such a dedicated staff and they do so much the best ideas are stolen I've always heard exactly so don't worry and welcome thank you so much Kevin Peter welcome to island to have you here you can't tell this by looking but I'm the oldest member the board here who actually went to high school with the the previous library directed a Ryan Mary on the remit loud who I think really did quite a bit to pull us into the electronic age if you will and then Ryan continued doing an excellent job and there's no question you will as well two quick questions what's your favorite book you read this year Frankenstein the original the original 1818 Mary Shelley the in Winthrop it was called the public library and museum yes it's our library and museum it seems like you have a local history room forgive me I spent today is my first day I spent most of it here not but it seems like you have a nice local history collection we had I say arguably one of the best in greater Boston in Winthrop just by chance lots of old documents lots of a huge Abraham Lincoln collection signed letters by Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass and incredible people you can't imagine and there's no reason that it's all in Winthrop I don't know why it is but but so we had it as a like a cold storage archives that was alarmed and treated it very much as a museum as well so we had like glass glass cases and museum space that could be rented and visited whereas you guys have more traditional local history collection thank you very much you're welcome look forward to working with you thank you thank you congratulations again thank you very much thanks guys thanks very much thanks thank you appreciate it moving on correspondence received Arlington recipient of annual town report award again from one Jeffrey Beckwith from the MMA the Boston Logan runway 33 L impacting Arlington from Peter Jones I will say Peter Jones did reach out to us and I have been in contact with him as well as the FAA so we we're going to see what we can do to take care of this issue I don't we'll get to that after but so do we have any motions so you're you're working on it yeah I'm working on I moved that we asked the chairman to work with Belmont is it and and others to help us do what we kind of minimize any impact from the runway from Logan Airport was that well I'm not not so much working with the different communities more so with I've been CAC yeah the there is a the CAC yes the advisory committee the community the community advisory committee which is doing the Logan impact study and as well as the FAA who regularly receives complaints yes Joe I also was in touch with Mr. Siano who's our representative on the CAC Frank Siano and there is currently posted by the state environmental resources offices a large environmental design review document and they have a January 20th deadline for feedback to be given and so Mr. Siano has offered Neil he told me that it would be fine to to mention it that that if we wanted to as a board send correspondence and feedback on that he would be willing to help us draft an appropriate response as he has been Arlington's rep on on this advisory committee and it is familiar with the issues I also spoke to Representative Garbley on it because I understand that the CAC is is going to be expiring and going out of life soon and there was legislation that was passed to create a new version of this advisory committee and Arlington was left off Arlington was left off Belmont was left off Watertown left off and they were all impacted by by this this new thing so I think Mr. Garbley said that he is trying to work on that to remedy that situation but Mr. Siano has offered assistance so yes so perhaps we should work on pairing a memo with Mr. Siano's help to have for the January 20th meeting yeah well January 20th is the deadline for comments to be sent to the state so okay whatever yeah I'll just say that my I thought those the the follow-on presentation to the correspondence was very eye-opening for me because I guess I've always had the you know the basic theory that when you live relatively near an airport there's a certain expectation that you're going to hear airplanes and nice but what this showed me was that what's happening is that it's being very concentrated over specific homes and streets and that we're not all signing on for the airport that like specific streets are signing on to the airport and that does not have the that does not have a sense of fairness about it to me so this presentation definitely galvanized me on the issue far more than I had been on based on what I knew before excellent so perhaps we'll work on as prepare a letter that will come from the board to get to the CAC by January 20th and we can all continue to see what we can do to send Frank you know I bet I have his email thank you is that mr. grilly's motion yes it was so I got it right so do we have a second second motion and second all those in favor please say aye and congratulations on the winning the tap on the far the winning the award for the report thank you yes congratulations to the board as well the board's the first report and the board's the leader of the what's that the board is the first report yeah oh wait who is chairman for that would have been you was it our picture that did it Adam it was our picture right you know this is really I'm doing you're proud I hope the congratulations the bulk of the congratulations has to go to Joe Roman she's the you know the all the effort behind it and the departments and commissions and boards and committees that put together the information thank you so before we get to new business I would like to we have so for the crowd at home we do have one individual in the crowd so do you want to come to the microphone and let us know why you're here there was a letter sent believe to you guys can you have your name and address please here Alexander Krasniewski 28 central street but I own Arlington liquors oh okay there was a letter sent I think by the minimum committee that does the cleanups informing us that there's a large amount of trash behind the liquor store and I just wanted to come here to tell you that that issue has been addressed and resolved thank you very much appreciate that we did we did speak to that under the license renewals unfortunately before you got here but I do appreciate you coming and letting us know that and we appreciate you working with us sure there's we hung signs and put up bins and hopefully that will resolve any future thank you very much thank you thank you excellent thank you your license was renewed by the way right okay thank you thanks for coming finally a new business Doug thank you sir one piece of new business just to mention at the meeting I know the board knows but I feel it's important to talk about it we are losing Chief Fred Ryan to the MBTA he has been selected and accepted the position of MBTA police chief I think as we all know big loss for Arlington and big gain for the MBTA so that said I well we can talk about what a proper fitting farewell to Fred is before he goes he'll be here till February 11th so he'll still be here for some time moving forward my plan is for the January 12th meeting of the board to come back with an outliner a proposal of a recruitment and replacement process for the board to discuss I know I told the chairman and I believe maybe some other board members I really want this to be something that though it's a manager appointment the process that the board is on board with in that I'm comfortable as well so that we have community buy into the replacement recruitment process for a new police chief thank you Adam welcome mr. Greeley yeah no new business but I wish Fred the best of luck and thank him for his outstanding service to this community and the select tones did finish the 24th season of holiday that were spectacular no other new business sir thank you mr. Greeley your solos were especially well thankfully no one had to sit through any solos for me this great thank you thank you mr. Dunn long-term planning committee has been meeting in advising Adam on the budget that he's writing and it has not been without some candid and passionate conversations and I think Adam is a bit on the spot in terms of well I wouldn't say that Adam has been given a lot of opinions they don't all agree and he's going to get to make a draft budget out of that I'm there's at least some conversation that the board of cycle should participate and like as a whole and in a future step related to the multi-year plan going forward and I'm personally still I want to talk to a few I want to continue my conversations with the various chair with chairs and members of other committees before I actually come forward and make a recommendation I'll say it's been a very productive and involved process this year thank you mr. Joe no new business thank you I also have no new business other than I would like to wish everyone a happy holidays and thank everyone in the town but particularly all our town employees for the work they've done over the past year and I hope they can get some time to relax with their families so thank you very much I just I want to thank the town manager for a huge gala party that he threw for the town employees that Joe and I stopped by for and it was the best lunch I think I've ever had at something like from from what's it called the ribbon blue ribbon I really wasn't expecting on eating and after my second plate full I was asked to leave but it was jammed I think it's a huge credit to the manager how many employees stopped by I've been to a number of these and that's the biggest crowd I've certainly ever seen at one of these they may have seen the menu in advance I did but that was very well done we felt we had to hold up the end for those of you stuck working in Boston thank you so I'll move to adjourn do we have a second second all those in favor please say aye