 Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Board of Selection meeting for Monday, February 6, 2017 First item on the agenda is our consent agenda. Minutes of the meeting of January 23rd, 2007. Is there a motion? Move approval. Moved by Mr. Dunn. Seconded by Mr. Cureau. Any comments? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Unanimous vote. Abstaining. I'm sorry. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. All those abstaining. Aye. 3-0 and 1. Next we go to two public hearings for 7.15 p.m., which we're at 7.16 p.m. Performance update for program year 2016-2017 from our Director of Planning and Community Development as well as a vote for CDBG requests for funding for 2017-2018. Either from the subcommittee or Mr. Chapelling. Mr. Chapelling. Yep. Thank you, Madam Chair. So we actually have our CDBG Administrator Julie Wayman here tonight. Jenny is at the ARB meeting, so she is not able to be here. But Julie is going to walk through a brief performance update on the current state of CDBG as well as then allow the many applicants here tonight to present to the Board if the Board so desires. Thank you. If you can just come, name and position for the record. So thank you, Adam. So as Adam said, I am the new Administrator for the Community Development Block Grant here in Arlington. Prior to my start in November, I worked for Project Bred, an anti-hunger organization in Massachusetts. And my position there really focused on increasing access to federal nutrition programs for low-income residents here in Massachusetts. And as the new Administrator for the Block Grant here, I am passionate about continuing to make important programs, public services, facilities and affordable housing accessible to our residents here in Arlington. So as I'm sure you all know, Arlington has been receiving Community Development Block Grant funding for 42 years since the beginning of the program. Each year, about 15% of the program is allocated to public services and 20% toward planning and administration of the grant itself. So tonight, we would like to submit this year's media reports from the sub-recipients. As you'll see, a lot of great work has been done through the grant. Everything from scholarships for sports, adult day health programs, to creating jobs for teens, rescuing healthy food and redistributing it to our Arlington Housing Authority locations. Sub-recipients are providing academic support, mental health counseling, adding units of affordable housing and providing loans to families to improve the safety of their own homes. So we are, that's just a quick snippet of what you'll see in those media reports. And then the sub-recipients themselves are going to give you a quick snapshot about how they've been doing this year as well. And we would also like tonight to refer to the 2017-2018 CDBG applications to the subcommittee for review and funding recommendations. The subcommittee will then bring them back to you for the March 13th Selectment Hearing. So if this year, we've also just a quick overview. We've received 21 proposals this year, all of whom have applied in the past. So if any of you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them. Otherwise, I'd love to give the floor to the sub-recipients to give you a little bit more detail on their work. In your last time again, Jen. It's Wayman, W-A-Y-M-A-N. Sorry, nice to meet you. It's okay, thank you. I have a question, but I believe my vice chair may be answering Mr. Don. Sure. I doubt it. You said there were no new programs applying so far this year. That's correct. Oh, wow. That's kind of surprising. Okay. Actually, two questions. Sure. First is sort of a procedural one. Am I safe to assume that the previous CDBG subcommittee, which I believe was Mr. Don and Mr. Byrne, are willing to continue to serve in that capacity? Yep. So March 13th, you are all coordinating with that. And then I would ask the town manager, Mr. Chapter Lane, I know, I don't know, at what point is appropriate, and maybe it's a little further down the road, that I know this board has always, and we've gotten a lot better, about looking at year-end or half-year-end or whatever in terms of last year's CDBG requests, how much they requested, how much they spent, and perhaps this is to Mr. Byrne and Mr. Don when they have the March 13th meeting. Just when you think it's appropriate to look at what we approved last year, if for some reason other funding came in and other monies became available, or is that something I'm not remembering in my mind right now, that we do later on in the process. So I just want to put that on the table to Mr. Don and Mr. Byrne, or Mr. Chapter Lane, if you know where I'm going with this. Yeah, no. So what you're describing is exactly what the subcommittee does. We look at what the request was last year, what the budget was last year, what they've spent to date, and then what they're requesting for the upcoming program year, and try to make decisions based on that. Usually, see if, whether it be Julie or Jenny, or even the program recipient has some explanations for why maybe those things don't match up or they do match up, but what we do, we'll work through a spreadsheet that has all of those different figures as you outline them, and then we'll come back to the full board with a rundown of what their request was and what the actual budget that we're recommending to the board is. And again, I would leave it either to my colleagues who serve on the subcommittee or the town manager when we have the February 23rd meeting on other warrant articles. I don't even know what warrant article number it is, but I know people have emailed and contacted us personally or otherwise regarding federal funding, what amount we receive, and what we anticipate in terms of going forward with that. So I'll leave it to Mr. Byrne from our vote at the January 26th meeting that we had to present a warrant article with the Human Rights Commission around Sanctuary Town. People have been saying in terms of federal funding. So I'll leave it to you three gentlemen when we have the meeting on February 23rd, whoever wants to present on that in terms of what the actual, or if it's Jenny Miss Whelan that says, this is what the federal funding is, and if you have any comments to that regard. So just kind of putting that on the table. Any other questions, Mr. Curell? Just quickly. Thank you. Welcome. My understanding reading the materials is the application deadline for next year was January 30th. So we won't see new applications coming in. No, not at this point. This is it. Okay. And with that, I think what Miss Whelan wanted to do was to hear from, I'll turn it back to you and you can. That would be great. Yes. We don't have a particular order, but if there's someone who'd like to come up and speak, Susan, do you want to start? Sure. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, it feels morning. Yes. Yeah, I know. Soon it will be. This is my second trip back to Arlington. That's why I'm confused. So it's Susan Karp, Executive Director of the Council on Aging, and I would like to thank the CDBG Grant Administrator, past and present, as well as the Town Management for supporting the three programs in which we receive CDBG funds. The first one is the Adult Day Health Service. Adult Day Health is providing stimulation for those that are cognitively impaired, as well as providing respite for the families who have 36-hour days as caregivers. In the past, we have received $4,000 a year, which enables us to provide about 12 or 13 Arlington residents up to $300 in a scholarship. So we're very appreciative. You will see for the committee that reviews it for next year, we have asked to double that so that we can reach 26 individuals. I have a very good relationship with Cooperative Elder Services, who is the only adult day health provider in Arlington. We recently have done a couple of different programs on our, when I'm saying our, on the COA cable program called Living Out Loud. We're wanting to raise the awareness and understanding of what adult day care, adult day health is, the benefits of, and the accessibility of the program within Arlington. So may I move to the next, or do you have a question about adult day health? All right, the next one is our volunteer coordinator. Our volunteer coordinator has been fully funded through CDBG for, I think, ever since its inception. Without that funding, we would not be able to do the good work that we do with that. We have at least 130 volunteers in our organization. Those volunteers, in fact, support the 85 plus programs that we run per year. Our volunteers do everything from helping to serve food to basically doing some back burner projects, whether it's investigating other transportation resources that we might avail ourselves to so that we don't have the same reliance on the grant funding. Our volunteers help us administratively. They help us, actually, even with some of the grant administration, believe it or not, some of the record keeping. It's a fine group of people. And when you consider that we serve on a duplicated basis, close to 17,000 a year, that money is well worth it. We're really able to reach out. So I want to say thank you for that. Any questions about that? All right. Our last one is to support our transportation enterprise fund. So for those that may or may not know, so the Council on Aging has a transportation service. It provides rides to and from the senior center. It also provides medical appointments. And last year, to broaden the base as well as to actually try to generate additional revenue locally is to, we call it, everyday living. We started it on Thursdays. It takes our Arlington seniors, errands to the pharmacies, hairdressers, grocery shopping. It became so popular that we actually opened it up on Tuesdays as well. So on Tuesdays and Thursdays, our Arlington residents can do something other, even though I'd like them to come to the senior center every day. They can be a more integral role in a part of Arlington by this particular service. Without that funding, it would be impossible to run a low-cost senior transportation program. And I'm actually imploring you this year to restore some of our funding. Last year, this particular program took a $5,000 hit. What that meant for me in transportation is that I had to basically eliminate our Friday service. That's not really something I think that we would want to do. Now, we do also use funds for the dialer ride taxi. So as a part of that transportation money, we do try to leverage in every area. The dialer ride taxi for our Arlington senior is $5 each way. The van is $1.50 each way. So you can see the additional financial burden just by that $5,000 cut that we had last year. So the transportation department is continually looking at other areas of opportunities. When we talked about the volunteer coordinator, he also gets volunteers to provide medical rides. So that eases the burden and the expenses on the van transfers that to a volunteer driver who is vetted by us, quarried. We take a look at the driving record. We take a look at the insurance to make sure that the both driver as well as the rider are taken care of. So I do want to say thank you very much. I look forward to seeing. Yes? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. I did have a follow-up question on that one, though. So I saw that the state has moved for some of its programs to using some of the rideshare services for some of their... Have you looked at that as an option for some of the services you provide? So as far as the rideshare, more of the... I feel... I think I heard that the MBTA's dialer ride system, a lot of... Like I forget the ride. The ride. The ride has started to use a lot... Part of their load has shifted into rideshare systems. Right. And so what we do is we have a family of... We refer to it as a family of services. So we have the volunteer driver that sometimes actually helps get our seniors to other places besides medical appointments. We educate individuals on the ride. As far as... We use the dialer ride taxi service. We're hosting... At the end of March, we're actually hosting a transportation seminar, if you will. So we're going to be registering those for Senior Charlie Card. We're looking for more volunteer drivers. We encourage people that when they're registering with us to ride, that they also take advantage of the ride. So we educate on every which level. And there are times that you can educate and people make choices. And sometimes their choices are also limiting their transportation options. But it's... Our goal just fundamentally from the Council on Aging is to keep them moving any which way. So to answer... I hope I'm answering your question. That was a good answer, but I'm going to keep pressing on one thing. So I think the ride actually for some of their people who are going to be served when they call up, instead of sending what we've all seen on the street, which is like a taxi that has like the ride logo, like a sedan, they'll call a ride share service for the right segment of people. Like they're actually subcontracting essentially the ride share service to do those rides. Like Uber and Lyft and stuff like that. Okay, well true. Well, Uber and Lyft. So in order for anybody to use Uber and Lyft, you have to have a smartphone. So there are some... There's programs right now being piloted, I think in Brooklyn and Boston, using those services. There are... It's a pilot program. Okay. It's a pilot program. I just see us try a few other things, but it can be difficult. I mean, there is also regional transportation. My problem with regional transportation is that even to get to Belmont, it creates a longer drive. And that means that our seniors are sitting... You might as well have the ride if you're going to have a two-hour block of time where someone's waiting. So we're still... It's a work in progress. And it's not a perfect system. I wish I could wave the magic wand and make it all happen. I guess I'd say, check out a little bit... I think the ride is being a little bit more aggressive at that. And it just might be something that could stretch the dollar further. And you know what? And that's a good goal. And I can tell you that any one of our... So for example, our transportation, just to give you some assurances on how we stretch that dollar, we really utilize volunteers to help us with recording the rides, inputting the rides. So then the paid staff is really evaluating the information that's been given. Like, does this ride make sense? You know, how are we going to squeeze one more ride in? We always give medicals priority. Lunch at the center's our priority. So good point. We'll do some more homework. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Anything else? Mr. Byrne? I do have one question. First, thank you very much for this application in your presentation tonight. So I'm looking at this. What did this program receive in FY17 or last year? The transportation? Yeah. $35,000. And so in... I believe you said you want to... And it was getting $40,000. And it was getting $40,000. And you're requesting $95,000. Just about. And so in... With that additional funding, it would just be to increase services. The... What do you think? The $5,000 that I would like restored is to help us put the Friday schedule back in place. What about the additional $45,000? Well, we've always asked for amounts just about at that. It's very difficult to run... I mean, I realize this is how we do it, but it's very difficult to run a low-cost senior transportation in an enterprise fund because functionally, it doesn't work. You know, we perform magic. We make it work because we're the can-do people. But I do get some grant funding. Last year, I just got hit every which way. I lost money in CDBG. The Sims grant that helps provide to offset some of the medical, it went from $15,000 to $13,000. This year, I've put out some grant requests. I'm not sure if in the mid-year, if it shows versus the new application that I have amounts that are pending that I've requested that I don't know. So there's $8,000 from the Friends of Arlington Council on Aging. That was submitted back in November and I haven't been able... I have not heard yet on the standing of that. Okay. No, thank you very much. I know, and we wish we could fully fund every single request that we receive. Right. And sometimes, you know, that's just not possible, but thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. And if I could sort of piggyback on that, because Mr. Byrne asked most of my question. I see the $35,000 and the request for $94,000, but I'm hearing it's $35,000. It's definitely a status quo and another $5,000. As we go through this process with Mr. Dunn and Mr. Byrne and Ms. Wayland, I understand pie in the sky. If you could get $95,000, that would be great. But what I'm hearing is, please keep the $35,000 plus another $5,000. I would just whatever process you all have in place when you meet with my colleagues who are on the subcommittee to give them the actual bare bones. Because I had the exact same question. I said $35,000 and then I saw the request was for $94,400 or $94,500. So especially where CDBG funding does go down every year. We used to get $8,000, $9,000, $10,000,000, and we'll be lucky to break $2,000,000. So whatever you all can put in the process for my colleagues who serve on the subcommittee, what the actual bare bone number is, and then if there's anything left after that, then my colleagues can go back and revisit. But if we can really sort of hammer down on, really it should be $35,000 is what they got last year. Actual, and then the request for this year, I don't want to just throw in any willy-nilly numbers because everybody would love to have $200,000, $300,000, or $95,000. You wouldn't be doing our jobs if we didn't advocate. I will say, Ms. Chair, it's not the town who puts these requests in. It's the applicants. Right, and what I'm saying to the applicants is, which you all are, cognizant of the fact that these monies are going down. And in order for me, I think, to give my colleagues on the subcommittee the best opportunity to fulfill everything, like me looking at that could say, oh my gosh, they got $35,000. They're asking for $94,000. How do I get them to $50,000 or $60,000, which may get rid of something at Fidelity House, which may get rid of something, what I call the zoo because I grew up there, but it's known as monotomy manner. I didn't know it was called monotomy manner when you lived in the projects. So what I'm saying is, where the pot is going down every year, whatever information that you can glean from all the applicants, recognizing, we'd all love to have everything funded five times over, but to give them the best opportunity sitting in that chair, where they do have to make those cuts. Because what I'm hearing from the microphone is last year's request is $35,000. At the very least, we need at least that, if not another $5,000. You know what I'm saying? If you can get those numbers to my colleagues, and then if there's anything left after that, then we can go back and revisit. But my thing is, I don't want to eliminate a program and look at that request and say, you know what? We need to strive to get it to $60,000 or $70,000, and we're going to cut out two or three other really important programs. Mr. Curell. Madam Chair, I think it just might be helpful for everyone here just to understand exactly what we're looking at in terms of scale overall. Because we all love CDBG. But we have $1.65 million in requests this year, and we're estimating $1.12 million available. So it's probably about a third of what's been requested overall. Somehow, I don't envy the subcommittee. Right, right. So that's... Just trying to make that job a little more... That's not... That's direct to just... So I think everybody understands that, because we face this problem every year. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Name it, end or address or position for the record, whatever. Jenny McGuire, Co-Founder of Operations Success, Menotomy Manor. Beth Arnold is one of the supervisors at Menotomy Manor, and I brought her tonight because you're probably sick of hearing from me. So... But I will tell you, we're going into our 18th year down at Menotomy Manor, servicing middle school and high school kids nightly, Monday through Thursday nights, from 7 to 8.30 to help them with their homework and meeting academic expectations of the school and having them become a part of the Allenton community. This year, we're requesting $6,000, like we did last year. We have approximately spent about $2,000 right now. We have some nice programs coming up with the Allenton police with the boys and girls meetings. In girls night, we offer them a night with pizza or something to eat, and then we have an integral part of the community to talk about how we can make things better for them and their families. I'm going to turn it over to Beth so she can just talk a little bit about the program and how it's going this year. We have quite a few kids this year again. Good evening, everyone. So this is my third year volunteering. You are Beth. I'm Beth Arnold. Thank you. I'm an Allenton resident. I actually am a teacher, but I'm not a teacher in Allenton. So I use this as an opportunity to give back to my own community. So this is my third year volunteering down there, and I have to say that it's probably one of the busiest years that we've had. There's a ton of sixth graders that are just now entering and old enough to be a part of the Operation Success Community. And I think we're off to a great start. They're very motivated. Our goal I think is really for these kids to have access to just opportunities that not everyone is able to kind of gain from. There's lots of volunteers from the Odyssey Middle School. There's myself and there's additional just Allenton residents who are looking to give back and sort of make a difference in these kids lives. And I think one of the main things that I try to tell these kids, these students, is that you have a gift and don't waste this gift. You have such an opportunity that not every student has. And I think they do understand that. They know that they have the opportunity to get help from possibly their own teacher at night after school without having to stay after school to kind of have a break from school during the day and come by and get help with their math homework or to get help with their science project that's coming up. And really our goal at the end of the year is for them to realize that it's not just the volunteers who want to give back. We want to try and create opportunities for them to give back as well. For them to kind of, when it's snowing outside, for them to go out and volunteer in shovel sidewalks and pick up trash at the local parks, that sort of stuff. To hopefully recycle this volunteering of the older people volunteering and then for them to go back and volunteer in their own community as well. So we're off to a great start. Like Janet said, there's lots of kids down there. We try to incorporate fun things and not just the learning all the time and take them to new experiences, bring them to places where they normally might not be able to go and give them something to look forward to. If you come a certain amount of times, if you bring up your grades or maintain a certain grade, you have this opportunity to take part in our mid-year celebration where we sort of recognize those students who have been working really hard and it shows. And I think that they gain confidence as they're working throughout the year. That's so far. I think it's great. Right now there's 28 students enrolled and every night is averaging like eight to 10 students coming in at different nights. There's 16 volunteers besides a supervisor. There's four teachers, our community residents from Allenton that volunteer their nights every night. So again, we would appreciate you considering us and thank you very much for your past support. And just one sort of procedural question. Are you all Monday to Wednesday, Monday to Thursday? Monday through Thursday. And if I'm a brand new family that moved into monotony manner of the projects, how do I contact? Gina Doyle or John Griffin, but Gina Doyle mostly, she will send us a note, send me an email and say this new family is coming in. We have a parent night that they came at the beginning of the night in open house. We also have if a student needs some parental support and they're not getting it, or we see that something's not going right, the parents are invited over. We also always, always send out updates to the parents if there's a new student, a new family moving in. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you forever, Janet. And thank you for coming on with us. Any other questions? No. Thank you. Charlotte. Name and address our position for the record, please. Hi. Hi. Just say your name and... She's not on this, she's on the Parkinson's. Oh. Oh, I thought you were here for CDBG. No. Oh, sorry. I started getting up. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. I apologize. I thought you were... Okay. Then he has extra cash. Anyone else here who would like to just come right up and... I'm Deanne Dupont co-founder of FoodLink and thank you for your past support. What I'd like to do is just tell you a little bit about what we do here in Arlington and then go into what the request is about. So what we do for here in Arlington is we provide fresh nutritious food to over 2,000 Arlington residents and young people attending programs here in Arlington. And we deliver over 200,000 pounds of nutritious food each year through 11 Arlington non-profit agencies and housing facilities. Part of our mission is to remove accessibility barrier to nutritious food for people in need. And, you know, the barriers may be due to transportation, mobility, time, money, or some other reason. And so we deliver food directly to where people live, congregate, attend programs in the case of children where they play. So we do this through several Arlington agencies, some of which are Arlington Food Pantry, Arlington Eats, Boys and Girls Club, the Arlington Senior Center, Fidelity House, and then through four housing facilities in Arlington operated by the Arlington Housing Authority, including Monotomy Manor, Drake Village, Chestnut Manor, and Cusect Terrace. And the grant is about for our deliveries to these four locations. And so during this past year, at Cusect Terrace, we increased our deliveries from once a week to twice at Chestnut Manor. We've added produce to the deliveries, increasing the amount of food by either twice or tripling the amount of food when we make a delivery. And we've added dairy to what we deliver to these four facilities. And we anticipate by the end of this fiscal year we'll have delivered at least 60,000 pounds of food to these four facilities, which equates to about 50,000 meals. We do this for these four facilities. We deliver six days a week, anywhere from one to four facilities receive food in any given day. And we do this by utilizing 120 volunteers, of whom about half of them live outside of Arlington. And we also do this with one full-time person and one part-time staff. And otherwise we do operate seven days a week. It's just that Saturdays doesn't fit into these housing schedules. So we anticipate and what our grant is, we anticipate for the next fiscal year of delivering about 70,000 pounds to these four facilities. And thank you for concerning our request. Thank you, Mr. Dunn. I hear, I get really good reviews about your group's works. Thank you very much. Thank you. Just a couple of clarifying questions. So you serve, in addition to Arlington, how many towns? We serve about 12 other towns, but 60 to 70% of the food stays here in Arlington. Oh, it does, okay. Because most of the other agencies get one delivery a week. Okay. And this grant represents well less than 60% of your budget. Is that correct? Oh, yes. Not even 10% of our budget. Okay. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. You always have great statistics to end. You gave one statistic at the beginning, 200,000 pounds of food. Is that overall in the program? No, that's in Arlington. In Arlington? We collect about 380,000 pounds of food a year. Fresh food. Wow. Yeah. That's 380,000. So, 190 tons? Something like that. It's a lot. That's the official calculation. It's a lot. Yeah, exactly. If you, the average meal they calculate, there's all these standards. It's 1.2 pounds for meals, so that's how I got that number of meals. And it looks like this grant proposal is focused specifically on the housing authority locations. The four. With a target of 70,000 pounds. Exactly. 35 tons. Right, exactly. Only for that. Some of you may see what flows through the senior center. They are four to five days a week at the senior center. Three to five deliveries a day. To the senior center. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good evening, members of the board. My name is John Marshall. I'm the director of the recreation and parks department in Arlington. And I'm here before you tonight with a request of $17,000 for scholarships for the Arlington recreation department. Last year we rewarded $13,000, so I did hear the comment earlier and appreciate anything we can receive. I will let you know we have served two-date 60 families, 43 individuals that have utilized our programs, our year-round programs after school, summer camps, things of those nature. We have, in addition to the money we receive from the community development block grant, we also assist an additional $12,000 in scholarship throughout the year that we absorb in our program. So certainly any money that we can receive through this program is extremely helpful, especially in operating through an enterprise fund. So if there are any questions. Mr. John. Yeah, I think you just answered this, but I'll just say it. So this grant kind of offsets the cost, part of the cost that you already bear? Correct, yes. What we're able to do with the scholarships is we're able to give a certain percentage off to the families that qualify. Unfortunately, we cannot offer families, you know, say 10 programs a season. We might be able to offer them three or four, but the cost would just be too high if we could give them everything that they requested. So we do the best we can because we want these individuals to participate but we can't fund every request. Thank you. Hey, thank you. Good to see you. How long have you been on the job now? Two days? Oh, no, no. It's been five months. So I've seen you all on TV before. So it's actually nice being here in front of you all. We look better in person or on TV? Oh, yeah, no, no, no, no. No, I've spoken to several of the sports user groups who have some really positive things. To say about you as well as a few projects in the pipeline, especially around the Ed Burns Arena, Robolot Field, which has nothing to do with this, but what my practice would be and my colleagues is to speak to the town manager just to pass along the positive words, as well as some projects that I know you're trying to balance which has nothing to do with CDBG. But I just wanted to pass along, including, you know, being up at Dagestinos that everybody, Mrs. Joe, but I'm hearing really good things about you. So I appreciate and welcome to Arlington. Nice to see you. Great. Thank you very much. It's a great community, so I'm very happy to be here. You think? No. No, it is. It is. Thank you. Thanks, John. Hey, stranger. Name and address or position for the like. I'm Pam Hallett. Better. Pam Hallett, executive director of the Housing Corporation of Arlington. We're here asking for a lot of money, but we have a large project that we're in the process of undertaking. So we're talking about 117 Broadway to go ahead and get a lot of the pre-development work done. So that's a lot of the architectural and engineering work, basically, as well as to get started in construction, hopefully, in a couple of years. We are also asking for 100,000 in capital improvements for our existing portfolio, which is what we try to do each year. This year, for instance, we replaced some roofs to roofs. We did some masonry tuck pointing and resetting of stairs at a couple of our buildings. We rehab two units that were very outdated and kind of beaten up. A lot of our inventory is pretty old now, and so it's needing to have a lot of tender loving care taken to it. So porches, stairs, that kind of thing. So that's what we are asking for. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. Dunn? I feel like the question machine tonight, but here we go. So sometimes, I think, in the past, with the Housing Corporation, we've essentially set money aside that didn't get spent in a given year. And we did it knowingly. Like we said, we're going to put some money in this year and we know we're going to put some more money in next year, and then they're going to be able to spend it in the following year. Yes. When you look at this year's requests, how much of it is stuff that you're going to spend in this fiscal year and how much of it is stuff that would be, that you'd be essentially like, in some ways, banking for the future? I would say, well, 100,000 in capital improvements definitely we'll spend. I would say probably 400 of the 117 Broadway we will spend on architectural engineering kind of work. But we wouldn't, and so presumably some of that is coming from other sources than us because we wouldn't be writing the full. Well, actually, the pre-development, probably most of it will be coming from you. We have some other sources that we're talking to, but it might be 100,000 or so from them. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Anyone else here for CDBG? Hello. My name's Lisa Urban. I'm the Youth Program Director at Fidelity House. I want to thank you for the support we've gotten over the years and ask for more. Just the status quo, 16,000 goes a long way. We use it for three different parts of the program. We try to provide as much opportunities, stability for the kids that live down the Minami Manor as possible. So during the summer months, we found transportation was one of the biggest hurdles to get by. So we send the bus down there in the morning. We pick them up. They come to Fidelity House, go to our day camp. Most of them, it's their first experience learning how to swim. And it takes a while, but they come to our day camp. And then really, we go to Minuteman and Lexington, and it really is a day camp setting. They swim lessons in the morning, free swim in the afternoon, the fields out there. And it really is away from everything else, and it's a new world for them. And then when they come back, we drive them back at the end of the day. And we provide at least two weeks. It's usually three weeks, if not more, of day camp during the summer. They would ask for all summer. It goes for eight weeks, but we're lucky if we can get three weeks out of it. Then during the school year, I pick up twice a week down there. Then they come back to Fidelity House to get free memberships. They can choose which programs they'd like to do. Majority of it's usually sports programs for them, but Fidelity House offers a lot of different programs that they can choose to do or not. And then we also do an onsite program to try to get some kids who parents maybe don't want them. They want them to stay close to home. So we do an onsite program once a week also down there. So the money goes a long way and we appreciate it. We also have another one in there that's jobs, jobs, jobs. We collaborate with, it's an application that the kids can choose to either work at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club or our day camp during the summer. And Arlington Rec used to do it. I don't know if they still do it, but the kids fill out applications and we're talking teenagers. And so they're learning, getting a little, giving back to community and learning how to work with kids. Okay. And thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. I'll say thanks. Anyone else? So actually, if people want, as soon as they come right up, if there's anyone else that's right behind, why don't you get right behind the next person just to get a sense. Just name, address, name, address, and or position for the record. Dara Karan. I'm the executive director of the Arlington Boys and Girls Club. And I'm going to talk about our scholarship program. Last year, we received 14,500 in scholarship money. We were able to serve 32, approximately 32 families and 50 children. We used that entire allotment during the busy summer months. We find that parents, you know, working parents have a hard time, you know, finding a fund safe place for their children to come. It's not a completely free scholarship. We do do a percentage off to try to serve as many families as we possibly can. This year, we're asking for 20,000 to hopefully be able to serve a few more families or give a little better percentage off or, you know, and again, we, you know, maybe even potentially stretch it out onto the school year. But, you know, we're able to spend that money pretty easily. During the summer months, we also, you know, do get, you know, about the same amount of money donated through individuals to help give even more scholarships to families in need. That's my part of it. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. If not, Kevin Flood will speak to the jobs program. Sure. Yeah, so when we get a lot of these requests, we end up like kind of looking at them often in groups because of like when they're similar activities and things like that. And your request gets grouped often with the Parks and Rec. And so I'm sure you heard the question I asked about. So I'm curious, is this like an offset or like how do you manage, and you just said, I heard that you get other donations. Can you tell me just a little bit more about like, you know, what gets met, what doesn't get met, what other resources do you use, stuff like that? You know, the need is huge. The need gets bigger and bigger every year. And you know, like I said, we, you know, we count on this. If we did lose, you know, funding, you know, we'd lose, you know, maybe half of the funding that we would normally have for the summer. You know, we do have, and a lot of the, you know, the summer, you know, funding is not just for recreation, not just for a kid to take a swim lesson or things like that. You know, therefore, families that really need the care so they can go to work. Throughout the year, we do have other, you know, we have other programs, after schools and preschools and things like that, that we, you know, we have scholarship money, you know, that's set aside for a lot of the CDBG funding at District A for the summer months where our need is, you know, is the highest. Thank you. Sure. Good evening, everyone. My name is Kevin Flood. I'm the assistant director at the Boys and Girls Club. And I'm here to speak for the Jobs of Jobs program. You know, first off, you know, thank you for all the support that you've given us over the years. You've been able to help, you know, many, many teens go off into the workforce with skills that, you know, allow them to, you know, get through their classes in college while they work a little bit on campus or, you know, graduate from college with the skills that they learned as teens, you know, in high school. You know, it's each year, we, you know, come across a good number of teens that are trying to find themselves in the community. They're, you know, like Lisa spoke about a minute ago, you know, if Adelaide House goes through the same thing. You know, we're trying to reach as many teens as possible. You know, we have, not every teen in town is, you know, participating in, you know, school clubs, town-wide sports. A lot of times our teens are coming to us as a means of just a better place to be after school, a place where they feel, you know, a part of something. And, you know, we've had great collaborations in the past. We've had Whole Foods has taken part in some of our workshops at the club. We've had, you know, professors from Bunker Hill Community College, which is a great resource for us and for many of our teens who are finding their way. We've had a branch manager from Cambridge Savings Bank, Rich Bartolucci come to us and talk to our teens about the importance of budgeting and saving money and paying yourself first and what that does for you down the road. And, you know, we've also had representatives from colleges. Curry College came to us last summer and put on a nice workshop for our teens, which included both our career launch program which is a volunteer program for teenagers as well as our, you know, teen jobs or jobs, junior staff program. And this rep, this admissions officer from Curry was really proud of what we were doing at the club for our teenagers and kind of, you know, you know, setting a good path for them. And that's really what this jobs of jobs program is about. I know that's what, you know, they're doing over at Fidelity House. I know that's what we're trying to accomplish at our facility. And, you know, at our club right now we're seeing a huge increase in teen population, which is why we've designated, you know, more space in that building for our teens and in particular our junior staff to give them the resources, the learning center where they can jump on the computer and work on homework and take advantage of things they may not have at home. And I think that this junior staff program, this jobs of jobs program, the funds that we receive allows, you know, allows our teens and I said last year the ability to provide not just for themselves but for their families. And, you know, a few of which come from single family homes and who, whose parents are, you know, somewhat dependent on their, on their children to help provide. And, you know, our job is to make sure that they're learning those skills, that they're, you know, feeling their, their self-worth and feeling like they're a part of something bigger than themselves. So, I guess, thank you very much for your consideration. Appreciate it. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Kevin, for that explanation, all the work that you do down at the club. One thing that I'm, I'm interested in at the risk of possibly having Lisa, ask Lisa to come back up. I've always understood jobs of jobs is a collaboration between the Boys and Girls Club and, and Fidelity House. How does that collaboration work? Do, do, kids who want, want to participate in it, submit one application, and then you jointly go through and, and, we, we used to, we used to go about it that way. Yeah. And then I think what was happening is within, within our memberships, I mean, I can only speak for the club, but I know within, you know, within our membership base, you know, there was a demand there, as well as, you know, identifying, you know, teens in the community who, you know, are, who may be referred to us as seeking an opportunity to gain employment and if it's something we can do for them, we can, if not, we may say, well, let's, let's talk to Fidelity House and see if there's something we can, we can do. Correct. Correct. And, you know, a couple of years ago we did, there was, there was a coordinated position who would, you know, facilitate this program between the two organizations, but I know in, you know, after talking with the you know, after all of us talking, we thought it was best to, you know, you know, save that money and put that into the program for the kids. So, So I was just trying to clarify, because I guess in the past this used to be a joint application, if I recall correctly, so I was just trying to clarify because we have two applications, the same name on the program, but they're essentially separate programs maybe complementary for, as far as the community is concerned. Correct. Thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, anyone else? I think that might be it. Um, yes. Okay. What I'll do is, I guess I'll take it as two separate motions, but I think they're both motions to receive. First motion to receive the performance update for program year 26-2017 for CDBG moved by, So moved. Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Currow, any further comments or questions? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Next, I have it down as a vote, but I think correct me if I'm wrong is we're going to move to receive the initial CDBG request for FYI 2017-2018 made by So moved. Mr. Dunn, seconded by Seconded. Mr. Byrne, any further questions or comments? Yes. Mr. I'm sorry, Mr. Byrne. So when I do, you know, I just have a comment on, on this whole, you know application process overall. And, you know, I think tonight we heard, you know, many presentations on, you know, admiral programs that all deserve funding. I do want to note that if you are, you know, following along at home and you'll see a pretty large amount under the rehab and housing program, those funds are not interchangeable with the public service programs. So I, I do want to note that while, you know, the housing, say the housing corporation does have a much larger request than, say, some of these public services, we can't just move that funding down and fully fund these public services. And I think it's important that everyone no recognizes that because we, that adds to the difficultness of the decisions that need to be made over the next month or so. And again, I do wish that, I think all of us wish we could fund, you know, every one of these and we see their importance and we look forward to working with all of you moving forward. Thank you. Okay, any further questions and comments, if not on a motion by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Burn, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. And I think I heard from Jenny that the she and the subcommittee will be meeting on March 13th. No? I think that's when we come back with our recommendation. Okay, so I'll let you all work out whatever date. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much. Next, we go to appointments equal opportunity committee, Andrea Haas, termed to expire January 31st, 2020. If you could come up to the microphone and just say your name and address for the record and sort of give us a Bio 101 with people who don't have what we have in our packet. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is Andrea Haas. I live at 164 our summer street here in Arlington. I moved to Arlington three years ago with my young children and the committee put out a request for people to come forward and express interest and it's the area that I work in so I hoped that it would be an area that I could contribute that knowledge. I work in the area of employment law and so the this committee specifically looks at hiring within Arlington to make sure that we are the committee or excuse me the town is meeting its bylaw requirements in terms of minority and female participation in bid projects. There's a dollar value. 200,000 is what's sticking in my mind. I've been attending committee meetings for probably since last winter at this point and it's a very collaborative committee and I look forward to being able to serve it in a greater capacity and I'm happy to answer any specific questions anyone might have. Thank you. Move approval. Move by Mr. Burns seconded by. Second. Mr. Curell was it? Mr. Dunn. Thank you very much. You've got a great resume for it and we really appreciate you putting your time in. Of course. Thank you. Any further questions if not on the motion by Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Curell. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Unanimous vote. Thank you so much. We next have an appointment to the Human Rights Commission. David Swanson termed to expire January 31st 2020. If you could just evening. Good evening. Dave Swanson. I live at 21 Darkness Street in Arlington. My wife and I we moved here a little over a year ago. We absolutely love it and I saw this vacancy online and I thought it was perfect for my skill set and background and so I applied and that's why I'm here today. I think it's I'm interested in it for a handful of reasons first and foremost the mission of the commission. It's hard to disagree with its mission you know about promoting more inclusive and more diverse and more welcoming Arlington. Certainly that's in all of our best interests. It's certainly something that I'm interested in and I saw it as a way to sort of give back and contribute to the community. Secondly, I have a long standing interest and passion for human rights in general. And during undergrad I studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh. I was accepted at their international human rights program. So I studied there for a semester doing that. That sort of culminated my senior year in an advanced independent study with a professor on the child soldier phenomenon in the international community while it's not pertinent obviously to local issues we'll run into here as a member of the commission. It's an example I guess of my long standing interest in the subject matter. I think finally my academic background and my professional background I think uniquely positioned me to be a contributing member of the commission in two ways. One, I went to law school. I am an attorney so I can not a constitutional law expert but I conceptually understand what a protected class is, what the tears of scrutiny get triggered in an equal protection and now this case. So certainly I bring that legal background to the commission and then professionally I work at the state house as general counsel for Senator Ken Donnelly who I'm sure you're all familiar with and on his behalf I take you know take part in and try to contribute to the public policy debate that happens at the statewide level every single day and I am confident and I know that a lot of the issues we're facing statewide are some of the same very same questions that the commission and certainly the local community will be facing this year and years to come so Mr. Curell and then Mr. Dunn Oh thank you very much for stepping up and for volunteering your time I'd say that as a as a flummer member of the commission as well like I think particularly in recent years Human Rights Commission has been particularly active in town advising us on policy matters and trying to do you know outreach I know that one of the commissioners is fond of saying that the good news in Arlington is that they don't receive too many complaints but that the bad news might also be that they don't receive too many complaints and there is a need to outreach that is one of the functions that's written into the bylaw and it is important it's with good reason that the commission falls underneath our health and human services area and it's important that the residents know that that is there as a resource you know no matter what their background their age or whatnot so thank you for stepping up sure happy to yeah excited is there a motion to approve by so moved Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Cureau thanks any further questions or comments if not all those in favor say aye aye I suppose unanimous vote thank you very much thank you thank you next stranger to us all appointment to redevelopment board Jean Benz Jean Benson term to expire January 31st 2020 I don't see him here tonight but so Jean was not able to be here tonight he's traveling for business I know the board doesn't like to do this but because of meetings of the ARB and needs for quorum I'd ask that they consider approving his appointment tonight and have him come to the meeting on the 27th to officially stand before the board motion Mr. Dunn he's definitely he's familiar to me I think he's a great choice I'm happy for to move approval second moved by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Burn any questions comments if not a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Burn all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote thank you we now get to traffic rules and orders another business first is a request for on street overnight parking at 55 Brentwood Road we do have the request if we can ask Charlotte just come up name and address for the record as well as we have a report from the Allington Police Department Officer Rochelle excellent I just want to say your name address and brief I'm Charlotte Charlotte Pierce live at 55 Brentwood Road with my husband David Wilcox and our two well one and a half children one is returned from college but he we all share two cars we have a garage built for a Model T in 1921 which is a considerably tight squeeze for our two cars so we have a a mini Cooper and a Volvo XC60 and I think you have the the photograph that I sent and and they extend to the street across the the sidewalk and that's about all we can do to avoid parking on the street as you may know the sidewalk is paved in that location and and I've done some research on why it was paved and I think it stems from the fact that in the 20s or after the after the 20s when the house was built people started getting two cars and they paved the sidewalk to allow that especially the houses where on our side of the street or you know you all know where it is so before the curbs and the reconstruction on Brantwood were put in there was a sloped curb which allowed you to drive up on the sidewalk and in park so we do that or we've been doing that when we have a lot of traffic coming in and other garage people coming in late at night and so and the advice of some of the members of the police department they didn't guarantee that we would not get tickets but they thought it would less than the likelihood and kind of comply with the spirit of the no overnight parking so the word brought this on was that we got they generally don't ticket us unless there's a complaint so there were complaints for four nights in a row and that's a hundred dollars worth of traffic tickets and so we just thought we would try and get a waiver of this I think parking up on the sidewalk or the paved sidewalk is probably a better alternative than end to end in the garage because then it it allows some passage of passenger of you know pedestrian passage along the sidewalk instead of having to go people having to go around our cars out into the street so that's kind of the reason for this request and I appreciate you're considering it I know it's kind of a humble request in light of the the more you know the CDBG things and all that but we would appreciate some consideration on it and I definitely agree it's better than blocking the sidewalk because you definitely don't want to do that and we do have a report Mr. Dunn yeah we have a positive recommendation from the police department they do with a the highlighted statement no objection to the issuance of one space we would have reservations about granting more than one space at this time or any other time in the future it sounds like you've you've made your case successfully for that space yes but uh it's it sounds like that's probably the limit but hopefully that's that means that's totally fine yeah I think expanding the garage I don't think is an option so so I'm happy to move approval subject to the conditions including noting things like this doesn't count for during snow emergencies and parking bans and that you you know continue use good judgment yeah who by Mr. Dunn seconded by I'll second but I will also add one of those stipulations is not parking on the sidewalk oh so just right on the street yes so right in front of your house so they don't want us to crawl up on the sidewalk no not at all okay and and definitely in front of your house just so okay if it's a successful motion on motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Byrne any further questions not all those in favor say aye aye as opposed unanimous vote thank you thank you now we have vote regarding opening of the special town meeting warrant for February 15th 2017 one of my colleagues would like to make the motion and read the preamble or just want to I don't see a preamble I actually didn't get the I didn't either I assumed the actual wording would be we're opening the warrant for February 15th 2017 on on what day on February 15th for eight in the morning for April 26th so April 26th is that what we're saying special town meeting and it's 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. okay so who would like to be moved by Mr. Byrne seconded by second Mr. Kiro any further discussion if not Mr. Dunn sorry what Adam what's thank you if I want to understand what the I'm sure this is driven by some specific business reason I'm curious what it is yep if I may hear one requesting an appropriation for the construction phase of the Gibbs renovation to have the funds available before July 1st we'll most likely be asking for two tranches of Gibbs funding one at the special one in the annual because of the construction manager at risk method that we're using for the Gibbs project and also to transfer funds out of the school's special ed stabilization fund to backfill their FY17 budget okay and additionally Murray what's the I'm assuming that the part of the goal of doing at this particular date is such that we can have it printed and given notice given with the regular town meeting is that correct it would be yeah it would be the regular town meetings the 24th and the special would be the 26th so it would be combined with the same order and what's the printer deadline much second it has to be at the printer much second is there any merit to waiting a week then like doing the warrant on like February 22nd just in case I think legally we tomorrow we have to notify of but the ACMI the advocate and all the legal notices John Jones and what have you when I think the state war is five days they have to be notified so you can open it that next so we get the letters tomorrow we'll go up Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday and then Tuesday we can open it I'm just wondering if we should wait till the 22nd just because I always wonder if there's going to be you know something else that comes in later do you know what I mean is there a reason to not wait to do it the 22nd that's fine with me I have no problem with that because it would just be the one day and you could is there any I just it's a week later it's all the same and it saves us from having the risk of having another special so was the original motion by Mr. Cairo second about who made the original motion I didn't oh Mr. motion by Mr. Burns seconded by second I'm not sure Mr. Dunn to open the special town meeting warrant on February 22nd 2017 at 8 a.m. closing the same day at 4 p.m. for a special town meeting for April 26th 2017 correct any further questions or comments Mr. Dunn I apologize but just so there's no reason not to delay this it's perfect it's all the same right it's completely fine by me then let's okay thank you okay all those in favor say aye aye those opposed unanimous vote we now go to warrant article review hearings first we have article 21 vote for surveillance study group you can just come up and say your name in the address for the record hello Steve Revolac 111 Sundayside Avenue and if you just want to you're here for article 21 which is asking the board for positive motion for your surveillance study group if you could just give a very brief sure the privacy civil liberties and surveillance have been topics I've been interested in for a long time and I've followed for a long time now the article I've proposed does not ask the town to make any policy or regulatory changes it's simply asking the town to look at some of the issues involved and consider where if such policies might be appropriate in the future it's an interesting idea and I just I guess have you consider what are your thoughts about like what its scope should be like is it are you thinking that you should be looking at like surveillance done by public entities surveillance done by companies surveillance done by individuals and if you're thinking and what membership are you thinking or how do you got any thoughts about that like can you tell me fill in a lot like so the warrant article as you know is you know one sentence right and it doesn't give us all a lot of meat so I believe actually I believe the warrant article mentions surveillance by town agencies so I was specifically thinking of limiting the scope to town agencies not to diminish the importance of the others but I think town agencies is a good place to start I don't like membership and other thoughts like who should be on the committee so in terms of who should be on the committee um I would like to to see now again this is something I left open because I intentionally wanted to defer to the board but I would like to see someone from the Human Rights Commission I would also like to see someone with a legal background because the laws in this in this area are somewhat complex I would hope to see someone from the IT department or the information technology advisory committee because these are essentially IT projects and finally I would hope the board would consider having someone from the police department also serve on the study group um and if I could piggyback on that since this is a Warren not a warrant article request which means it's going to town meeting which means you're asking for town meeting approval and it would be a town meeting committee possibly could be a town meeting committee because you're going this route who else would you suggest it's only because it's your proposal I'm not I'm not trying to tell you what to do but no when you say it's the board's proposal where you're asking us to support your proposal that's going to go to town meeting which will be a town meeting committee or subcommittee so um how do you envision that so that basically I'm assuming there would also be some other member or members that the moderator and or the moderator and somebody else that you designate I'm not trying to you know what I'm saying so no I this is your it's not for us to you know what I mean no no I no and I just want to make sure we send something so that you know no um okay I named a few a few specific people but in addition to uh some number of appointees by say the town manager his designate or the and the town moderator Mr. Chaffelin yeah I if I if I may I would I would suggest um adding a representative of the facilities department because I think the majority of the types of technology we're talking about would be around town facilities and then maybe um I guess I would say from what Mr. Revilax laid out I would have plenty of departmental representation on the committee so having maybe two town meeting members appointed by the town moderator since it's a town meeting committee might be a wise wise choice six seven so that's it not Mr. Barr um so have you been um you know talking to any town officials yet on on this subject and have tried to acquire any information or the so the my most direct contact has been with the housing authority who put up recently 15 cameras in my neighborhood I in I went to one of their December board meeting I've spoken a number of times with Richard Murray their president their board president and with the fellow whose name is escaping me but the executive director Mr. Griffin yes Mr. Griffin and I mean they were they were they were very receptive and willing to talk but you know to the extent that they did put up cameras outside their property attached to utility bowls and light bowls and there was no notice given you know I've that's one of the things that inspired me to do this so aside from the housing authority of I've also had a number of conversation a number of discussions with Mr. Hyme in terms of with town council regarding what might be possible in the appropriate way to go about looking at this thank you um Mr. Barr are you yeah no I am um no I'm thinking it I'm happy to hear that you have had a few you know beginning conversations I'm wondering if we if this is something we do support if it has to go to town meeting or if it's you know something that we could pull together here without a warrant going before you know kind of moving this process forward it might be a way to streamline these conversations and save some time at town meeting as well if I'd be happy to hear what my colleagues think about it but that's kind of where I'm going right now or even if it's you know a subcommittee of some other or you know a working group of some other board that's already you know in place so we don't have to continue to you know stretch out our our volunteers across you know too many different endeavors but that's kind of where I'm thinking right now Mr. Kiro and then Mr. Dunne thank you yeah I hear you on that and I'm I'm just I'm rolling that over my head I have a couple of questions so first are you concerned primarily with you know a lot of your letter concentrated on outside surveillance and picking up people you know incidentally is this intended to also cover interior surveillance and public buildings my my initial concern was surveillance in public in outdoor public spaces outdoor public spaces okay my next question and I this might actually be for council you know as we've laid out here it's actually nine I've got by my count right now I've got police legal Human Rights Commission IT manager moderator maybe I'll double counting facilities and two town meeting members but the Arlington Housing Authority anything on their property I mean they're an independent authority so I don't believe that we we have the ability to to regulate them even if we were to make some finding do we so that's correct the Arlington Housing Authority is not an agency of the town for this purpose it's not an agency for the town in terms of organizationally we don't control a direct housing authority I'm not personally familiar with where they've located cameras the select men certainly have in terms of what happens in terms of public streets you know just like you have control over you know light poles and things like that you have some saying that I'm not familiar with where they've placed them whether these are totally on public property or private property or whether they've contacted the utility poll operators about them things like that so in theory there are certain things that laws and ordinances that could be passed in terms of regulating private surveillance of public spaces those are obviously very complicated questions it's even more complicated than public surveillance of public spaces and that's the reason why I would think that any action would have to be you know examined very very carefully I think you'd have to come up with some idea of what you want to do and what's take an inventory of what the issues really are in Arlington before you can really start to parse them out in terms of are they legally viable to do XYZ about them because you're just talking about a very very broad and complicated area of the law you need to have some idea of this is what we think are the issues and these are the things that we're thinking about doing about it so I know that's a little bit of a of an open-ended answer but it's very hard for me to with absent some very specific details it's hard for me to tell you what's legal and what's not legal in terms of the town's powers and I'm wondering I don't know if this is inappropriate to answer but that's fine but how extensive is our use of exterior security cameras I know for example I know the school department uses them inside the high school but I don't know how extensively it's used outside and if we use these on a lot of buildings the only exterior cameras that I'm aware of are on the fire stations so they're outside looking at the exterior entrances to the fire department I don't believe they face public areas other than the access and egress of the buildings I'm not immediately aware of any others okay the public safety building has I believe eight but outside outside do they okay and lastly I mean I think the mulling this over I think that Mr. Byrne's suggestion that we try to formulate a committee in a lot of ways it is cleaner I think when we when we do that we always have such difficulty putting together the composition of a of an advisory committee like this just with the five of us and it's always a very difficult conversation a town meeting when you have 252 people trying to compose a committee it makes the it can be done but I think it might be more streamlined for us us to do that I mean I think one consideration I would hope that any such committee might consider though would also be the retention laws I'm sure there's a lot of law on this already as far as retention of security tapes but I I know from past experience that the school department this was at a point of contention how long security tapes were retained as well so I can see that being a policy matter Mr. Dunn I'm definitely persuaded that it's worth talking about and worth looking more into the venue is definitely something I'm thinking a little bit more about whether it be a town meeting committee and kind of playing that out a little bit further for instance really many years ago as put on the as volunteered for the power municipalization committee which was evaluating whether or not Arlington should try to by eminent domain to take our power lines from MSTAR because they kept we kept losing like electricity and it felt like we're living in a third world country and that committee I think it served a good purpose at the time but the mistake I think we made was making it indefinite committee and it really was something that we just existed to look at this question for a year or two and then we could go away and so I would think thinking about like what the work product of this committee would be and I can imagine it putting forward a report or a set of suggestions it's hard for me to imagine doing that year after year for you know five or 10 years so I think if you felt passionately that it should be a town meeting committee I'd really and that's the right venue for it to be I'd really like to hear that case and other than that I'd be leaning towards making into the select ones committee or referring it to the town manager and asking and putting it listing it as one of his goals and I'm but I've definitely I'm personally curious no I I I think having it be a selectmen's committee or a committee organized through that by the town manager would be completely fine so is there on the Warren article a motion of no action with the who wants with the caveat that we direct the town somebody tell me what their motion is with the caveat that we direct the town manager may I help you I why don't I work with Mr. Revolak town council and perhaps the chief of police to come back to you at a future meeting soon with the proposed membership that you can then adopt we can post and fill the committee and get things started is that amenable to you that is completely amenable yes is that a motion by so moved by Mr. second done seconded by madam chair yes perhaps there's anyone else the audience who wishes to speak is yes but the original motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Bern is to move no action on the warrant article to town meeting and refer to the town manager is there anyone else who would like to speak to this you don't have to but if you'd like to you can't and Marla Markham 117 sunny side avenue and I'm I'm grateful that you are going to take on trying to figure out how to constitute this committee once we started noticing these cameras go up in our neighborhood all at once we were a little alarmed and so we had done some research and Steve has done most of the work too and to communicate I think all of the work to communicate with the with the housing authority and several of us have also just done some other reading and I just wanted to to say that all of the research I can find says that security cameras of this nature actually do very little to decrease crime and they're very easy to abuse and it's very much more likely that people of color and low income people are going to be heavily surveilled in their own communities and I don't think that's fair and I think that if we're that money is coming from somewhere we don't we don't know the source we haven't got we hadn't gotten to the bottom of that before we came here but this is an expensive proposition and I found it really interesting to sit here tonight and listen to to people stand before you and talk to you about some really important work that's going on a monotony manner with the children and I I would love to know I would love for this committee to be charged at some point or to think about is there has there been any cost benefit analysis by the housing authority or anybody else using money that comes from some kind of public source to fund this kind of surveillance of citizens and has there been any attempt to determine whether those funds could be used more effectively and more humanely to accomplish the same goals thanks thank you and I think we'll have conversations Mr. Everlach and and the town manager on that but we also need to be cognizant of or have it further defined Allington housing authority this board of select men is really limited if really has nothing over in terms of the funding that they received is it anything that we control or oversee as far as I know in in terms of you know how they have spent their funds whether it's on cameras what I am sort of gleaning from the conversation that we're having and voting no action for a town meeting committee have it be a committee of the board of select men through the town manager is the board of select men does oversee you know public ways and public streets and we could look at that and I believe your request is it just limited to Allington housing authority down by a monotony manner or it's townwide so we need to understand that but I also want to say with the caveat that I understand and I'm very aware of you know the meetings and communications with the housing authority through secondhand information but I just want to make sure everybody knows where we're starting from when it comes to Allington housing authority that's a separate entity if it bears out that whether it's it's the public way public street area then this board certainly and through the town manager I can see us having oversight on that if for some reason these cameras were provided by funding that this board of selectmen overseas which I can probably tell you 99.9 percent that's not the case we you know there's not so much we can do about that about that so I just want to make sure we're all starting from the same jump off point but we certainly will look into townwide in terms of you know public security cameras that focus on public ways that may go sometimes into private residences in terms of front yard backyard et cetera um and again Mr. Everliac and others working with the town manager will probably give me a better way to sort of redefine and craft what it is I'm exactly trying to say do you know where I'm going with this because I think I saw your hand up so you might say it better than I am yeah no I I think you're right on and I would say the chair is absolutely correct that this board the town in general can't compel via any governance structure that housing authority to really do anything but I do think that this committee could meet come up with a key set of questions as the speaker just outlined and perhaps pen a letter to the housing authorities management and to the board either from the committee or even potentially through the board of selectmen to at least inquire about some of the questions that that were raised will they answer can they answer I don't know but I think we can't pursue the line of questioning it's a good starting point yeah is that good that's cool okay on a motion by Mr. Dunne seconded by Mr. Burnany for the discussion anyone else here would like to speak to this sorry just name an address for the record I'm Christina Hildebeidle I live at 123 Sunnyside I'm also a small business owner in Arlington I fully understand your points about jurisdictional issues I bring somewhat unique perspective to this as someone who has many decades of experience in public policy including in civil liberty as I worked at the like the local the state and the federal level and I understand your points about the jurisdictional challenges but having worked in more than just Massachusetts and understanding the concept of very deeply how public housing works and recognizing that you do not control the housing authority you do carry a fair amount of weight with the state and when the housing authority has a camera technically on their property pointed at my front door that's Arlington property that's not Arlington housing authority property and I and you absolutely have the ability to make statements on that and to understand what that means and so I understand we're all here seems to be we all seem to be agreeing that this should exist or there should be a greater conversation but I do want to because I have this opportunity caution you to take very seriously the responsibility you have to make those statements and the state absolutely takes those very seriously and the governor absolutely takes those very seriously and I want to contextualize that within the other side of Sunnyside app where DCR which is also state property is continually ignored by the state and not monitored very effectively cameras or otherwise and you and I actually had a conversation on the phone three years ago about this when I first bought my house and we've had countless conversations with the police department at one point it got to the point where we were assigned a detective I've become a little bit too familiar with some of the officers who patrol you know I have two little kids and a dog and I take civil liberties and civil rights very seriously and my career absolutely shows that but I think there's a very serious conversation here to be had and I just really want to caution you not to ignore that while you do not control the housing authority the state has a responsibility to hear all of us including you and you have a very key role in making that statement to the state whether or not you can control the money they spend no I totally agree and I also as you know have a background in the legal system being a court reporter and also unfortunately a background with DCR which has been woefully inept and ignores the town and have really beat my head against when a previous speaker was in here and referenced you he worked for the senator I was thinking maybe I could kind of play some questions in there but then I thought that's unfair because he wasn't coming in that capacity even though he cited it but that has just been no relief whatsoever from that so I totally understand where you're coming from anybody even if you when the parameters are outlined with the town manager in terms of you know what the not machinations what the makeup is of this committee if you can't commit to being a full-fledged committee member and or anyone else who's here on this warrant article if you can definitely come to you know maybe you can say you know what I can't make all the meetings all the time but I can make one or two of them so we can get the expertise and the input that you have it certainly would be valuable because I agree with my colleagues and and Mr. Dunn in terms of you know this is a committee that you know we're going to craft it's not going to go through town meetings going to go through the board of selectmen and hopefully if we do things right it won't be a committee that meets you know two four six years out continuously you know four six times a year maybe it's something that the committee is set up and we set parameters and sort of a doctrine and then we kind of put it there until we need to revisit it again so I'm just trying to encourage you and anyone else in whatever capacity that don't be defined by you know when we come up with a finite number that you shouldn't be coming to the meetings especially where I think we're going to do all the work in the beginning and then perhaps with within the year will pretty much be 90 95% in terms of what we're trying to accomplish is our goal so thank you good to see you okay um anybody else if not on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote so we'll leave it that Mr. Revillac will Steve will contact the town manager and step this steps in place to move forward on this and if I may I would just like to um you know express some gratitude to town council for you know having a fairly extensive dialogue on this and I just wanted to acknowledge that and say thanks thank you Steve I appreciate it as well thank you thank you thank you thanks everybody next we have Warren article hearing article 22 acceptance of legislation senior property tax workoff program first is there a motion will favorable action will by Mr. Carroll seconded by Mr. Byrne anyone here to speak to Warren article 22 any questions or comments that's a no any questions or comments from my colleagues if not on a motion by Mr. Carroll seconded by Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote article 23 acceptance of legislate legislation veteran property tax workoff program is there a motion by will favorable action Mr. Carroll seconded by Mr. Dunn is there anyone here who would like to speak to article 23 any questions if not on a motion by Mr. Carroll seconded by Mr. Dunn all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote article 24 acceptance of legislation elderly and disabled taxation fund moved by Mr. Byrne seconded by Mr. Carroll is there anyone here who would like to speak to article 24 if not on a motion by Mr. Byrne seconded by Mr. Carroll all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote we now have article 25 acceptance of legislation CPI adjustment for elderly residents is there a motion by so moved Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Byrne is there anyone here who would like to speak to article 25 and I'll just say to everybody sitting out there this board has had previous discussions about this so it's not that we're just rushing right through this this is just sort of a culmination of a meeting that you didn't have to listen to before so if not on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote we now go to correspondence received is there a motion to receive by so moved Mr. Byrne seconded by second Mr. Curell yes definitely just name an address for the record please I was out gardening well Rebecca Portia's 14 uses street and we've lived there 12 and a half years and we hope to live there a long long time I was out gardening over the summer and thought there was a detour on Park Ave because about 200 cars came by while I was weeding the verge and as we talked among our neighbors we noticed that this flow of traffic continued in the evening rush hour northbound various neighbors checked various apps and found that our street was the main artery recommended when you didn't want to be stuck on Park Ave and so as we talked among ourselves we have 15 children of elementary and middle school age I live closer to the corner that people come around from Glenburn we have a child with Down syndrome and we're scared every evening when we pull into our driveway for his getting out of the car we don't know that he might make a move towards the street he tries to help move the trash cans in at the end of the evening we like to encourage him to help with chores there's a child with severe Aspergers he's older but across the street who does very strange things some elderly couples we are worried by the volume of traffic coming up our street we recognize they're mostly within the speed limit they tend to text a lot as soon as they get off the highway so we see about a third of them texting as they go up our street so we're requesting that our street be closed except to a butters between four and six thirty going northbound which would be running parallel to Park Ave in the evening rush hour and during about five months of the year it's dark during those hours which makes it much more dangerous for our children and then when it's not dark they're playing outside they're running around and as the lady expressed before because our houses are old and the driveways are short and our van we only have one car but it's long they tend to extend into goblash excuse me sorry sorry bless you they tend to extend into the sidewalk and when our children are our three children getting out of the car someone has to go around the back if we're getting out groceries doing normal things we tend to be close to the road and we're finding that very frightening for us and the residents so we're requesting that the road be closed for northbound traffic except the butters between four and six thirty p.m. okay um um if I may I'm gonna butter to okay and I I you you definitely can but I just want to explain the protocol we're gonna receive the correspondence we're not gonna we can't we're not gonna vote or anything on this tonight except for what the next step should be which would be to refer so you're welcome to come up but it's basically this is the beginning of the process we receive the letter and we'll have a very brief discussion about who we refer this to and then I'll come back in the future so and I totally understand what you say because I live on Howard street which is the Audison School is right there and I have Quincy Robin Quincy and Robbins and I'm your family circumstance I'm sort of tenfold what you have but I don't want to go into the particulars with a particular family you know and ideally I would love to stop traffic on that street because I have a severe flight risk in terms of my family situation so definitely we're gonna accept this into the process referred on but you just so anything you'd like to say name and address for the record which is so Sandra Mene I live at 30 Glenburn Road around the corner from the courteous and I've lived there for 18 years and in fact I moved to Glenburn road right when they changed Wellington Street from a two way to a one way coming off of Concord Turnpike because people were going down Bellington to avoid the light at Park Avenue so right when they moved is when they changed it to a one way to stop them so the problem we found is I have four of the neighbors from Glenburn Road that are there and I happened to live between Eustice Street and Bellington we found that the Waze app is directing people off of Park Avenue down Glenburn Road and Eustice is the first street so people will cut up Eustice to get to Park App or to get to Eastern Ab and continue down to Highland but they'll also continue down Glenburn to Bellington and blow through the stop sign that's at Bellington and that's a concern we have because our kids ride their bikes in that area and they come around the corner and I know we have to when we're all out there as parents watching them there's supervision and these people are looking at their phones going through the stop signs and they also continue down to Fayette to cut through so I understand Rebecca's position we just asked that if you close Park Ave the Glenburn entrance off of Park Ave it stops the Eustice it stops the Glenburn it stops the Fayette it stops the Bellington push you sit over right and has them go directly up to Park Circle which is designed to carry that amount of traffic okay thank you so I'm not objecting to what she's asking for I'm just asking if you close Glenburn because if you close Eustice and make Eustice residents happy Glenburn Road's going to be unhappy because we're going to be at the brunt of that and we also have about eight kids in that short block between Bellington and Eustice so we're concerned about that as well and I did contact the police department and asked them to put a patrol and they told us you have to watch your kids I understand that but I think they needed to monitor that that stop sign situation and we never saw a patrol car come up to monitor that after we've asked for it okay so that was our concern is if you're going to do something about it if you could look at the whole neighborhood as opposed to just the one street right and you know what we hear this East Bellington Lake Street and I grew up on Lake Street and I moved to the heights to get away from the street all right and I now have the similar situation all right but do you understand the process right now a letter has come in and I know what Mary Street went through to get their their one ways okay but the process right now is piece of correspondence has been set in we're just receiving it that's it for now and I sent a rebuttal to all of us luckman just so that you'd have our point of view too we had hoped to do this as a neighborhood and we kind of had been talking we didn't know that someone else was was sort of approaching it we've been talking amongst ourselves to try to come as a group effort and be collaborative about it as an entire neighborhood we didn't want done just singly all right but let me just explain it we have a piece of correspondence correspondence received this is an agenda item correspondence received is from the individual on use of street we're going to receive that and refer it on if you all want to send a piece of correspondence to follow up with that that we'll receive at the next meeting and add on to that we'll be happy to do that but right now it is my email counter I need to do something more formal who did you send I sent it to all five and slept we were so I'll send this tomorrow or we can respond to my email okay I can send it to you yes yes I can do that I got it you got it okay so we'll we'll attach those on thank you very much thank you thank you for listening I actually am christin murdered 12th limburn road I actually emailed you a while ago did you receive my request about this did you send it through the town server I've been having issues I actually sent it through the town server and then it said to go through Moray right I I would that can be anywhere I did not get a response right I did not get it because I have my own personal email that I give out to people Diane Mahan at Verizon.net the town I think I actually sent it to that yeah no I know I definitely know I didn't get it can you send Mike computer crashed because that's not listed when when you contact the town they have you send it to me through town.onlington.ma.us and I'll get your email address I'll forward it to you what's been happening in our IT person Dave Good for me has been working on it I'm not getting anything it's coming through I just sent him another 14 to ask him what are these emails that I didn't get because it just says you have received a spam email from the town of Wellington and I'll forward that to Mrs. Kruppelk and I'll also have to type another one out of your case no no you don't have to Mike I think someone else said they received that Sandy wrote one and she was responding to but the other thing that I'd like to add is that I've lived in that house my entire life and Chester and Zeter were made in one way is that I think in the 70s and so that contributed to the increased traffic on Glenburn so this new Waze app is a nightmare it's a nightmare it's a nightmare and while I can appreciate Rebecca you know coming forth for her cause it really doesn't help the rest of our little village so I don't what's the next step you say that this is a process we haven't said it yet we're gonna I just received it one of my colleagues who will make a motion to receive someone will second it and then we'll discuss do we refer this to the town manager do we refer this to transportation advisory committee do we refer this to something else so we haven't gotten there yet okay but we would don't leave until you hear what I won't okay sorry my name is Ken Murder I also live at 12 Glenburn Road and I was wondering would there be any kind of like traffic survey or anything like that before any of these decisions get made I'm I'm definitely was my dad because I'm sure it'd be surprised to know how many vehicles pass through those through those small streets and and I don't think there's any speed signs posted on the street either right no we'll definitely take that in consideration but right now we're receiving the correspondence now from three streets someone's going to make a motion to receive it someone's going to second it and then we're going to discuss who we refer it to and then the rest of that will kick in with that process we're not discussing it here tonight because it's just on as correspondence received we're just receiving the correspondence is there a motion to receive well there is a motion to receive Mr. Burn seconded by Mr. Carroll okay Mr. Carroll did you I don't know if this is appropriate for the police department or attack Mr. Chapter Lane I would if the board is so inclined if you would if you'd refer it to me I can have the assistant town manager work with the police department figure out what the best step is to perhaps do some traffic counts as an initial step look at that and then come back with any pretending recommendations what he said I mean okay perfect can I say I actually agree with that that it would be better if I have the fine at Park but since I didn't leave there I couldn't say that all right but we're not so I right thank you yeah but we're not what we're voting right now is we receive the correspondence we're referring it to the town manager who will work with the deputy or assistant town manager and contact you all as well as any necessary personnel from Allington police department or accounts or anything else we can't under the open meeting law we can't take a voter anything except for to receive correspondence and say where does it go it's now in the pipeline it's referred from us to the town manager that's the first step it'll be the second so it's I'm interpreting that correctly yeah so on a motion by Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Currow to receive receive correspondence referred to the town manager all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote so we have your contact information and you'll be hearing from us through the town and then and then when you you know when it comes to culmination in the end then it'll come before the board and this the town manager and you all deem otherwise and then we'll have the big discussion in terms of recommendations as well as maybe other residents from your streets may want to come in so I don't mean to quell it I just you know no we weren't sure what was the next step was we just wanted to make sure that you knew it was a broader issue definitely than just that one street and it's way it's ways I can't stand away yeah it hasn't I can't do it at all yeah thank you we now come to new business Mrs. Kruppalka attorney Hyme no new business Mr. Chaplain I actually have no new business Mr. Byrne no new business Mr. Curell she's the pressures on just two things firstly metropolitan area planning council has been working with us on an arts and culture action plan through the community about planning community development department they've been running some focus groups with businesses and cultural organizations and others but there's a larger I don't know if you'd call it a focus group or kind of a feedback session for the public on March 1st in the Town Hall 6 30 p.m. so they're looking for anybody who's interested in this to come out and lend their feedback on that and just the second thing I would just note is we did take an action at the last meeting in response to a constituent that came before us where we had agreed that we would write a letter to our congressional and state legislative delegations as well as the governor just outlining some initiatives that Arlington has taken and some of the values that we hold dear and asking for their partnership and support I did at the board's direction draft a letter which was was voted to the office and it's I guess it's in the office for signature or for feedback to the office for the adjustment and that's all thank you and if everyone's in agreement with that if we could sign it tonight because I believe you emailed the doubt to all of the office the office a couple of days ago or if there's any changes then we can all sign again Mr. Dunn four things I know most of them are pretty quick I think one had the kickoff meeting of the Minuteman bikeway 25th anniversary committee working on a like there's a whole range of ideas but I think basically it's going to be like at least a we can call it a year long celebration we can actually even call it a year of an a half long celebration so it didn't open in Bedford until you know a year and a half after it did in Arlington so that was a very interesting one I did the did the cover the vision 2020 meeting thank you for Steve and they are doing all sorts of brainstorming about like drafting a new set of goals you know as 2020 approaches I think they're working on a new you know you know re revising what that what the definition of the committee is also this morning Joe and Adam and I were at the long-range planning committee meeting to look at the impact of the governor's budget proposed budget on the manager's budget and the answer is basically it ends up as a wash there are good things and there are bad things there are some things that are notably bad that are going to have longer impact and down the road such as we aren't getting the increases in education aid that we thought we're going to because we're a minimum funding town and so one of the requests from the long-range planning committee is for the chair to convene a long-range excuse me a budget revenue task force meeting to talk to the our delegation about the importance not just of education aid in general but specifically the the floor among other topics and so the proposed date is March 13th it's the day it is Monday it would be so it'd be six o'clock before we have a meeting scheduled for that night already and uh it met with you know general approval of the Fincom capital committee planning and school committee and comptroller members who are present so hope that the the chair would convene said meeting you said March 13th yeah and six p.m. is enough time yeah I think so and if we could convince our delegations to come so that Maria is saying it might not be the right date March 13th we would have a stats selectments meeting at six so that we could Ginny could come in to talk about the zoning qualifications and she only can come at six because she feels it will take an hour a little longer she has to be downstairs for the redevelopment board at 7 30 and I missed that up I thought we were on February 27th for that well one and I make a motion through Mr. Dunne for Mr. Chapter Lane to contact Mrs. Kruppelka and iron out on the 13th if we could somehow have budget revenue at six o'clock and if we can get Ginny or her designee at a different time when she's done with I anticipate on March 13th we'll really be in the thick of warrant articles so I think we'll be here to like 9 9 30 so there must be at some point she could slip away and come up here or we could move budget revenue task force to March 27th that's another alternative March 22th yeah oh I thought you needed it on the 13th no well I mean with that's the date that we've talked about at the time of the meeting but I think people will be all right well Adam and Marie why don't you all straighten it out so that though just on the long-range planning continues to you know the our current override and the savings that we've got will run out during fiscal year 20 2021 and there's a lot of merit to doing a talking about doing an override to support FY 19 so no sorry FY 20 which is doing it June of 2019 so we should there's many many steps between now and then but as we all know it's coming are you saying that that will be one of the agenda item for the meeting of the 13th or the 27th or is that just an aside so that was more just general report about the the only yeah it was not about the budget revenue task force it was more about the general statement about the state of our finances we can yeah last item thank you for all your for patience I'm getting a lot of feedback about the sanctuary town resolution and that's am I correct that is on our agenda for 23rd two weeks 27th two weeks from today 27th I'm sorry I suspect this room is not going to handle all of the interested group what does the chair have any thoughts I've been talking with the town manager and board administrator Mrs. Krupalk about booking the town hall auditorium first sanctuary town as well as probably the pride commission warrant article and maybe one other that I anticipate we might need a lodge a rule right now I just anticipate those warrant articles we'd probably need a lodge a rule for if any one of my colleagues thinks there's a third warrant article I don't see it right now but I think just those two so my plan is for 7 to have it down in the town hall auditorium is that all set so but I I would assume you want the whole meeting there right correct yeah right but if anyone right now I just have those two warrant articles as definitely down there because we're going to need the space and then of course I'm not going to have ever ready come in for just two warrant articles I'll add others but if anybody else sees another warrant article that you might say you know what that might need a biggest space in here and then we'll just do the poll that meeting down there correct okay I think I think that's very wise makes a lot of sense and then I'm dealing I think I would say is at that meeting if there's anything whether it's Mrs. Kruppalker or the town manager since we will have the larger room have more people there that you feel should be on the agenda for that night just let I'll just work with you guys and we'll switch it around so if not everybody else up take a motion to adjourn by Mr. Carol seconded by Mr. Burn all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed you didn't in this thank you