 Everyone, welcome to this meeting of the Arlington Select Board on Monday, April 25th, 2022. I am Select Board Chair Leonard Dickens. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in affirmative. Is it Mohan? Here, thank you. Mr. Hurd? Yes. Mr. DeCorsi? Yes. And Mr. Helmeth will not be joining us tonight. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in affirmative. Mr. Chapter Lane? Yes. Mr. Heim? Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Mark will participate in this panelist. Excuse me, I'll scroll up. Tonight's meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted remotely consistent with an act signed into law in February 15, 2022, that extends certain COVID-19 measures. The act includes an extension until July 15, 2022, the remote meeting provisions of Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 executive order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. The governor's order, which is referenced with agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting allows public bodies to be entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before you again, permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, it is being recorded, and it's also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join a meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you're asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. All participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment, and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the Novus Agenda platform. And finally, each photo tonight will be taken by roll call. By roll call. With this short agenda, I'm confident we will get all the town's business done tonight. And with that, we turn to the consent agenda, which is a request for a special one day beer and wine license on April 30, 2022 at the Arlington Community Center, formerly Senior Center for Arlington Center for the Arts blue jean ball. And so is Mr. Former Collin here. I do not see him here. He may not have thought to come given that it's on the consent agenda. And that's fine. That's fine. So, so then I open it up to my colleagues. Move approval. Second. Okay, so any, any comments, Mr. Scorsi. No comments. And none for me so on a motion by Mr. Herd and second by Mr. Han, Mr. Heim. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes, Mr. Herd. Yes. This is my home. Yeah, thank you. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Thank you. So moving on to item number three, rainbow commission requests for a cross, excuse me, crosswalk painting. And so do we have either or both of the chairs from the rain commission here. I only have no I don't see any names I recognize. Yeah, I don't recognize either. Well, I know that they were aware of it because it got materials in and know that Ms. Harvey was aware too. It could be that they're thinking the meeting starts at 715. And Mr. Heim any advice on how to handle before or is it really up to me. What I would do, Mr. Chair, thank you. What I would do is if the board wants to table it until the end of the meeting to see if these folks show up, you could certainly do that. But if not, the board could, you know, have whatever discussion and both they like. When is the event taking place and sorry Mike. No problem. You know, let me pull it back up myself. So I think it's, let me just pull it up so I have the exact dates paintings over a few days, you know, scrolling down. So they want to paint crosswalking on the center on Sunday, June 5. East Ireland in the evening of Tuesday, June 7. These are all evenings and in Ireland Heights the evening of Thursday, June 9. It will be a pride event in the town hall garden on June 12 and requested hang banners from the polls, starting right from June 1 to June 30. Mr. Chair, if I may, I'm sorry. Yeah, I should. Let's see Mr. Hurd. I'm sorry, I didn't see that. So Mr. Hurd. I'm just going to say we've approved similar requests in past years. So it's not a new request that I would be happy to move approval and vote on it. And then if they want to come back into promote it and happy to do that too. Thank you. Okay, thank you Mr. Thank you, Mr. Corsi. Mr. Heine. Are you ready to vote. No, I was well you were going to say something now. No, I was I was only going to mention that obviously we have board meetings with the board remains in session during town meetings so it wouldn't. You certainly have a vote but it's it sounds like the board is comfortable it's already out of motion the second so. Yes, yes. And so we'll check in with Mrs. behind and see how she feels if she has any comments. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'm fine with things so with that Mr. Heine. Mr. Hurd. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Corsi. Yes, Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, Mr. Diggins. Yes. I've got that order right do I. Sorry. It's a unanimous vote. Okay. Thank you very much. And so we move on to item number four on there and then that's a discussion of the town manager search process. So I have a couple of updates, you know, and more of a gets an informal request me from my colleagues. I have talked with some. This is a lot by Ms. Malloy, you know, and, and we would like to begin the interim internal candidate search, you know, and so if I can get your support on that, we'll move forward with that. And also we have three beds and I am going to meet with her tomorrow to go with those beds with the intention of presenting in a selection to you as early as our next meeting on the second and certainly no later than the meeting after that on the 16th. And so that's essentially the updates. So I am open to questions, comments, suggestions. Mr. chair just first I'd like to move approval to open up the process for the interim internal candidate and regarding the search firms that you'll be meeting with Ms. Malloy starting tomorrow. I have had a conversation with the chair and with Mr. Corsi as the two reps representative. Excuse me on behalf of the board concerning. Just one sort of point of information point of clarification regarding. The ultimate firm that we do choose, but again, I'll leave it to you going through the process and what name moves forward. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Han. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Any comments, questions, Mr. Corsi. No, no questions. Thank you for the update and I had been updated previously. So I think that timeframe makes sense and you know whatever support you need Mr. Chairman happy to help out. Yeah, so I'm definitely going to take up on that offer made so so thank you and with that, Mr. Hurd. I'm sorry, Mr. Heim. I got to do one of these. I have to do one. I'm sorry, I'm going to get the order of seniority right this time. Mr. Hurd. Yes, Mr. Corsi. Yes, this is mine. Yeah, thank you. Yes. My apologies. So, um, agenda again, I don't think there were any, no, no letters, no new business. I'll start with Mr. Hurd. No, no business. And now I've gotten my order all screwed up me so I'll start, go back to Mr. Chatholaine. No new business tonight. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Mr. Heim. I'm a minor point of new business that we may want to have for future board item. The applicant in the new gar comprehensive permanent appeal withdrew their with drew their appeal with prejudice. So it's was a unexpected development. And I look forward to scheduling some time with the board to discuss what this means for how the matter proceeds with the butter appeal. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Heim. And I am, I will look it up myself like what with prejudice means in this case made kind of curious, but I don't think it's really important maybe not even appropriate to discuss at this point. So, so I'll move along to Mr. Corsi. Yeah, my only thing is best of luck Mr. Chairman with the state of the town address tonight that's my only new business. Oh man, I mean, I am, I am just beyond exhausted. You know, so I'm actually very excited about speech me I have had a blast writing it and thinking about stuff I mean I feel, I feel so enthusiastic and good. I know it's the other time but man, it's going to be something else getting it out of my mouth. I'm just a very brief new business contacted by a couple of neighbors on summer street regarding the rat infestation. One of them indicated that she spoke with Mr. pooler. He said he would who was acting town manager so do the math. I'm not sure how long ago that was. He said he would get back to her. They're still waiting for a response so if I could pass that through you Mr chair to the town manager is their view sort of a guesstimate that Myra Swamil construction. That seems to be something that they point towards. And then they asked if I could make a contact there but I don't know that that's appropriate so if it's okay Mr chair if I could just pass this on to the town manager Mr I'll just follow up on that and and they have contacted the board of health but ended back with Mr cooler and I see Mr chapter and not even said yes so I'll provide more details tomorrow on that. I also want to thank the chair for putting in the yeoman's work on getting town meeting and the thrust rehearsals and the precinct meetings and also digging kitchen, which is beginning to percolate and come up with some new recipes. And this road speaks very highly of being one of the test kitchens, which I'm a little jealous, but that's okay. That's all right. And also I wish you good luck and know you do fine with your state of the town here tonight. And just as an FYI, two things if I could make the motion at the end of the meeting, as well as when I'm at town meeting I will be using my laptop and won't have speakerphone capabilities. So, the chair will be representing us anyway so if for some reason I have to phone in, I will do it but the later in the night it goes to more difficult it's going to be for me to be having the speakerphone on me talking so I will not be responding tonight. And that's I have to call him if I have to thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Thank you very much. And no new business for me, except that I am looking forward to the town meetings I've said to several people already, you know, if my disposition looks bad, it's just because I'm exhausted, but I feel really good about things me and I will get a couple of good night sleep and I'll be up in Adam on Wednesday, you know, but Hey, I felt a lot of support being from everyone here, the board and the town and so it's really easy to feel good being about Arlington so I'm looking forward to town meeting and given the state of the town address so with that I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair, if I could I'd like to make a motion to suspend the select board meeting that we reconvene concurrent with the commencement beginning of the regular town meeting and that this select board will also remain in session. During this and going forward to any other town meetings and that our adjournment will be concurrent with the adjournment of the final night of the regular town meeting. Thank you, Mr. Han. Second. Thank you, Mr. Of course he. I take it no, no comments for any of us on this so I'll just go straight to Mr. Heim. Mr. Her. Yes. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Deans. Yes. It's a four zero vote. And see you guys in a little bit. See you in a little while. All right, take care.