 Good evening. I'm calling to order this meeting of the Arlington Select Board on Monday, April 10th, 2023. I am Select Board Chair Eric Helmuth. Tonight's meeting is being conducted in a hybrid format consistent with chapter two of the Acts of 2023 signed into law on March 29th, 2023, which further extends certain COVID-19 measures regarding remote participation in public meetings until March 31st, 2025. Before we begin, please note the following. First, this meeting is being conducted in the Select Board chambers and over Zoom. It is being recorded in simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Second, persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that you may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, we ask that you provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. Third, 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 found on the town's website, specifically the Select Board Agendas and Minutes page. Let's see how much of the town's business we can get done tonight. Our first order of business is an executive session. And for the public's information, we, I will in a moment entertain a motion to go into executive session. We will adjourn to executive session. The public access to the meeting and to Zoom will be disabled. When we conclude that session, we will adjourn back to this public session to conduct the rest of the meeting. At this time, I will entertain a motion from a member to go to executive session. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Attorney Hyde. Before we do that, I just want to clarify, we're on hybrid but everybody is here in person. Yes. So it's not necessary for us to take the roll call about who's present, correct? Correct. That is my understanding. Is that your understanding? Yes, it's my understanding. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure it was the same agent. Yes, thank you. Do I have a motion to adjourn to executive session? So moved. Do I have a second? This is the motion. I guess I'll, do I need to say the whole preamble or can I just say move to executive session? I think we want to say the purpose of going to the executive session is for, to my understanding, contract negotiations with James Feeney, respect the town manager, as you know, it would be detrimental to the board to have these discussions in open session. Is that correct, Mr. Chairman? Yes, thank you, Attorney Hyde. Well said. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Did someone second that? I did, I did a second. All right, this requires a roll call vote on the motion by Mrs. Mohan and second by Mr. D'Corsi, Attorney Hyde. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. Mr. D'Corsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Allen. Yes, we are in executive session. Welcome back. I'm Eric Helmuth, Chair of the Town of Wellington Select Board, returning from executive session. I'm very pleased to inform the town that Select Board has just taken a unanimous vote to appoint James Feeney as our next town manager to succeed Sandy Poole upon his retirement. Mr. Feeney's tenure will begin August 1st, 2023. And to our delight, he has accepted the appointment in executive session. At this time, however, I'd like to take a public vote for the approval of his contract and invite Mr. Feeney to make remarks. I will now entertain a motion to approve Mr. Feeney's contract and appoint him as our next town manager. I'd like to make a motion to appoint James Arfeeney as our next town manager contract starting August 1st, 2023. Sesson, Mr. Diggins. Second. Any further discussion? On a motion by Mrs. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Diggins. Jordan Allen, would you please take the roll? Sure. Do you want me to take a roll call just to have it sort of commemorated? Yes. Okay. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. DeCourcy. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Allen. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Thank you. Congratulations, Mr. Feeney. Congratulations, Mr. Feeney. At this time, I would invite you to make any remarks you wish to the Board of Town. Sure. First off, thank you to each and every member. I'll be brief, but I'll just say that when I first started working for the town nearly 14 years ago, I had no idea what a town manager was or what they did. But today I can think of no better line of work. So I'm grateful to each and every one of you for your continued support, your trust and your confidence in me. Look forward to continuing to serve this community, this wonderful community, hopefully for many years to come as its next town manager. It's truly the professional honor of a lifetime. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. This is Mohan. And just very briefly, I'd like to say not only to Mr. Fini, but also to Arlington as a whole, that having gone through the town manager search process for many years since 1999, as a senior member on the board, I'm very pleased with, from both sides of the table, during the negotiations that, of course, each side of the table has a vested interest, but also both sides of the table also took into account what's best for the town, moving forward, what's best for any future select board members. And one of the things that I'm really heartened by having Mr. Fini coming in in August as our next town manager is not only the fact the 14 years tenure with the town, that you've worked board of health facilities. I shouldn't stop just naming everything, but moving forward with all of our employees, I'm scheduled, but also especially our union employees, quite a few of them also had really glowing remarks about having worked with you to date in various capacities. And one of the things that we stressed and got with Mr. Chapter Lane, and also will with you is just the core basis of any sort of issue, whether it's union negotiations, whether it's a public works issue is going in with respect and willingness to listen. And we're certainly gonna get that with you, so I'm very appreciative. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Any further remarks? Thank you again. Congratulations, Mr. Fini. And we'll be seeing you sooner and later. Very good. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Next on the agenda is the consent agenda. We have the minutes of meetings from March 27th and April 3rd, 2023. For approval of the Memorial Day Ceremony on May 29th by Mr. Chandler, Director of Veteran Services, a request for a special one-day alcohol license at Fidelity House by Frank Disturbed. A request for a special one-day beer and wine license on April 29th at the Arlington Community Center for the Spotlight Fundraiser by Tom from Cola of the Arlington Center for the Arts. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. A motion to approve by Mr. Diggins and a second by Mr. Hurd. Is there any discussion? Mrs. Mohan. Just very briefly, I want to thank our Director of Veteran Services, Mr. Chandler, for having our keynote speaker in Arlington resident. Is it Admiral Rapp, I'm trying to find, so I don't, Major General Rapp, who also has volunteered and given talks here in the town of Arlington on a whole array of different issues, and I'm very pleased to see he'll be the keynote speaker, so thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing none, on a motion to approve by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Hurd, and this is what I get for not writing it down. All in favor, please say yes. Yes. Opposed? Unanimous. Excuse me. Next item in the agenda is open forum. Accepted in unusual circumstances, in the manner presented for consideration of the Board, shall neither be acted upon nor a decision made the night of the presentation, in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established. It should be noted that there is a three minute time limit to present a concern or request. At this time, I'm seeing no one in the select board chamber. If you are participating on Zoom and you wish to address the board for three minutes, please raise your hand in Zoom at this time. I'll have a few seconds for people to do that. Ms. Maher, do you, maha, maher. Seeing none. Ms. Maher, do you agree that there are none? Seeing none. Thank you. I agree too. Thank you, Ms. Maher, just in case. It's when the names start the same line. So I'm just waiting for the dig in the Corsi thing. All right. I'll work on that. Item seven on the agenda under the Trafficals and Orders of the Business. We have an update about long range planning from Mr. DeCorsi and Mr. Poole. Thank you, Mr. Chair, thank you members. I think the back and forth among various people, thank you. At the Long Range Planning Committee, I think the consensus has come around to the idea that it would be best to have an override during FY24, but not as early as this June. I think people are looking at an override vote sometime in October. That would still affect the FY24 tax base. So putting it off over the summer doesn't change anything in terms of the ability to raise money. It also allows the proponents of the override to put together a campaign trying to do so between now and June seemed a much too short period of time. And I know that in addition that the school committee itself has been working on a strategic plan and it wants to articulate more clearly the elements of that plan so that we hear, the finance committee and the voters in town understand what the school committee is trying to achieve through this override. So I think that is where things stand now. We will have continued Long Range Planning Committee meetings in this spring. And then I think probably the proper timing for a vote from the board would be a vote sometime in June to set a date for a vote by the public in October. At that time, I would just happen to mention that we would also ask for a vote on the circuit breaker that town meeting passed a few years ago got through the legislature to allow special tax relief for some of our low income residents so they get a break on their property taxes. It has to be voted in by the town voters. We have been watching the state house, there's been some back and forth about maybe the state decided to change circuit breaker itself. That seems evident now that that's not gonna happen so it seems like the appropriate time to move forward with that vote here in town. So we would be looking for both those things to go on the ballot in the fall. Other than that, I think those are the political facts in the ground, we'll still look at numbers. Some maybe tweaked a little here and there but that's where we stand today. Thank you Mr. Poole, and just a little bit further. Thank you Mr. Poole for that. At the last meeting I had said there were some timing issues that make it challenging to discuss. You have to have an override vote in June and I think as we've had additional discussions and particularly with the school's strategic plan because there will be more information coming out but as to the June date for a potential vote, my understanding is we have to have a vote at least 35 days before the override is put on the municipal ballot and that potentially could put us prior to labor day and it seemed like it would be better to have that vote in June as opposed to a late summer vote. Can you anticipate both votes in June? Yes, both votes are the board, a recommendation to the board. None either, thank you gentlemen. And thank you very much for your work and also Mr. Diggins in the last year on the Long Range Planning Committee. I think that's an important working group. It serves to advise the town manager but I think by effect also to advise this body about these really important decisions of timing and really sizing up the need and what we think the revenues are gonna be and considering the impact on a taxpayer. So it's important work that work will continue and I look forward to having that discussion over the coming weeks. Item eight, discussion and approval of the draft select board report to town meeting. Attorney Hyde. Thank you members of the board, Mr. Chairman. You have before you a sort of more polished and complete version of the select board report that did receive a few minor notes on some common placements and some spacing. There's also in a bit of over-editing, there was one instance where there appeared to be a missing word. That's relative to your comment with respect to the moratorium on turf fields. What that sentence, just one you should read is, poet's corners proximity to wetlands, essentially means that it would get a lot of review before any turf field was approved there. So those are the only things that aren't already included in your revised version of the select board report. The chair of the board will insert the comments but otherwise I think all the votes actively reflect the board's record on it, including Mr. DeCorsese sort of votes on a few different matters, Mr. Helmets recusals. And the language has been double checked especially with respect to the vote language itself. Also I wanna say I'm thankful to Ms. Mar and Ms. Costa, Mr. Mallor for also taking a look at it so we should have a nice clean product. But this is really just something that we started doing, I don't wanna say four or five years ago, Mrs. Mohan is incorrect, just to make sure that everybody was comfortable with the content, nobody wanted to change the quantum of vote based on a change in membership or anything like that. We also got a chance to give you a polished version. You'll also see that there's a list of things for the appendix, appendices. One thing that's been moved out of the appendices purely for publication purposes, we already printed a CDBG report, so it's not gonna be included in the back of your report but it will be available to meeting members. Ms. Mar did you want anything? No, that's all. Thank you. I'll just offer clarification that I won't be writing vote comments but apparently I'm writing the introduction. As I found out about three hours ago, so that's what I'm doing tonight. Good luck. We'll meet back tomorrow morning so we can start printing. Oh, it's your turn. I can't do it. Any further comments from the board? Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, I've been kind of like flipping out of here because this has turned to a brick and this is the one that had my red line version of the draft report. So there is the resolution on the affordable housing overlay. I had changed my mind from stored. F-daying me to a positive vote on that and I need to give you some language meaning to go with my statement. So I will get that to you tomorrow. And I noticed on one of them, I think it's the, there are a couple, I think one for CDBG, the revolving funds. I think the one under that is also one that has funding associated with it. And it seemed like the text meaning was misplaced, like the comment, it referred to the numbers above but that comment was actually above the numbers. So it seemed like that comment should go underneath. Sorry, I don't have my version. So ICE, yeah, on article 25. Yeah. On mine, it's in the right place, but we'll make sure. Okay, I may have pulled, I may have pulled down my draft early because I tend to pull down my drafts on. I hope that the comment is after the vote. It's after, okay. All right, so then, but you see what happens. I do. Okay, all right. But we'll make sure it's. I'll jump, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. So I will redo my version because I don't think this brick's coming back in and then I'll get it to you tomorrow, you know, or tonight. So, okay. So that was it. I mean, so I'll give you my comment on that one now. Very good. Yeah, all right. Any further notes, comments? Before we take a motion to vote, I want to take the opportunity to thank Attorney Hyme, who is a busy town employee and a lot of people don't know and see the work that he does on our select board votes. It is considerable. And not only just the labor of studying and making sure we get these really important votes right, but in understanding what is often a really complex and nuanced board discussion and converting that understanding. And I have to say with astonishing insight and accuracy into the comments of town meeting reads, as usual, I had no suggestions to make it any better, Attorney Hyme, and we are all grateful this in every year for your efforts. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Much appreciate it. Mr. Reagan. And I'll just say, I think you did a great job on Article 14 because it was an odd situation to say the least, because I thought you handled me the comments from the board and my colleagues very well. So I was happy with that. With grace and applause. I believe I need a motion for approval. Mrs. Mahan. I'd like to move approval of the select board report to town meeting with the aforementioned amendments changes to be submitted by the end of tomorrow. Like tomorrow morning. We have to print three hundred copies ourselves and start stopping on looks tomorrow afternoon. Thank you. And I believe I need a second. Second. Mr. Herd. We'll go with that with Mr. Herd. So on a motion to approve by Mrs. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Herd. All in favor say yes. Yes. Opposed? No. It is no. Opposed? Nothing. It is unanimous. What did I do wrong? That's right. Put me down as a yes on that. It's unanimous vote and I so declare. I'm nine. So like board appointment to the 250th American Revolution Anniversary Commission. Turns out there is one and that we need to appoint someone. Mr. Herd. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yep. The State Commission and we are missing a seat which we didn't know about until about a week ago. So good communication there by the state. But so we talked at 25 committee. There was a few names and then there was a couple of names that were prom-gated to us from Senator Friedman. Wonderful, Ms. Rowe. It was one of the names that was brought up by the 2025 committee. But when I texted with Clarissa, the name that they seem most appropriately was Paul Fennelly. He's been interfacing with Senator Friedman already on this and at least is willing to serve. So it would be my recommendation that the board appoint Paul Fennelly as Alex's representative on the commission. Second. One question. Mr. Melan. I saw in the budget if I could ask through the chair to the town manager or whomever appropriate. And I'm just not recalling it 100%. But do we have budgeted, I saw a budget allotment of $25,000. Is it to this committee? Is it to the quintentennial committee or something else? Or is my memory not remembering correctly? That's 25,000 is gonna be for Arlington's 2025. It's not the committee that we're appointing to right now. So as the committee that I sit on with other Arlington residents and we have, I mean, if they wanna have us put it over for session, we can bring an explanation of that. But there is a number of expenditures that we'll have. We have to hire, you know, spend money to make money. They say we hire consultants to help us with the numerous grants opportunities so people that can help us get more money to spend for the 2025 celebration. So that's for our Arlington's committee. I guess I would ask the chair, just going forward, if you could just investigate if there is any financial commitment from the town that we need to consider and or perhaps designate. Sometimes there's, you know, you're not gonna get the state fund unless there's a matching certain amount or something like that. So can I leave that in your... You may indeed, Mrs. Mohan. In my reading of the state session law that established this commission didn't mention any financial obligation on the part of the appointing but does mention Arlington though amongst some other towns but we'll make sure of that. Thank you. And just I think for clarity too that there are, we have the local committee that Mr. Herd serves on and leads and then we found out about the state commission that Arlington needs a representative to. So they will work together at their two different things. Any further discussion? I just wanna say I've worked with Paul Fennelly with Serbs in the article Arlington Historical Society and has a well-earned reputation as a doer. He gets things done, he knows his history and I think it's an excellent choice, Mr. Herd. So further discussion on a motion to appoint Paul Fennelly to the 250th American Revolution anniversary commission by Mr. Herd seconded by Mrs. Mohan. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Opposed? It is unanimous vote. Next item is a discussion of select board nominations to the Arlington Civilian Police Advisory Committee commission. There is a attachment in your board packets of a memo from I believe Mr. Feeney, somebody we might just know about the nomination process. I have a note about acronyms. This is a suggestion I'm going to attempt to make as chair. When I first took on, we created the Community Preservation Act Committee. Most communities call the CPA the CPC, the Community Preservation Committee, but we were asked by Mr. Foskett to please choose another acronym because there was already a CPC in Arlington, the Capitol Planning Committee. Now we already have a CPAC, the Community Preservation Act Committee. So ironically, we are now the ones who don't want squatters. So it may not be Malifluous, but ACPAC is at least separate. So if we have the ACPAC, perhaps that will be an acronym that sticks and prevents confusion with the existing CPAC. I think we should retire any commissions with the sequence CPAC in them from here on out. But Lebedee aside, and I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Poole in a moment to make any remarks about where he is so far. Mr. Poole, the town manager does the appointments to this based on nominations from a whole host of town bodies. And I believe Mr. Poole has informed me that we're in good shape about minimum requirements for qualifications. But before I do that, my suggestion and the reason this discussion is to see what the board wants to do. We need to make our picks by the end of next month. And my suggestion would be that I appoint a subcommittee of the board to do that. And my specific suggestion would be myself and Mr. Herd, who has agreed to serve and to serve as a screening group for applicants and people who've expressed interest in that time, we would bring our recommendations for our two people to back to the board for a full vote. So that's my thought. Have Mr. Poole weigh on anything that you think we should know, and then we'll hear some discussion. So we have put out calls to the various committees that were listed in the bylaw. We have from other committees already the three types of persons that I must appoint to ACPAC. One with a criminal defense or civil rights related to police searches, arrests and detainments. A second, somebody with a background in data analysis. And a third, somebody working with underserved communities such as but not limited to social workers, mental health counselors or civil forums of legal aid. So I do have other appointees that meet those criteria. So it would ask the board to just nominate whoever you think would be most appropriate to serve on the commission. Thank you Mr. Poole. Discussion? I don't think we need a vote. So if everyone's supportive of that then I'll proceed and we'll come back to you with our amendments. Thank you very much. Item 11, future select board meetings. So we do not have any on the books at the moment. Next Monday is a holiday and I think we can afford to take that off. I would suggest the week following or the rest of that week as well. The first night of town meeting I believe is April the 24th. So I would entertain suggestions from the board and from our board administrator about what we should look at for the abbreviated meetings we'll have in April. Of course we'll be the hour when we have the before town meeting on Monday or Wednesday. So we'll be the meeting before every town meeting? That's not, I wouldn't think so. And this is where I think this is my first time as chair to do this but Ms. Mehar, do you have any? We would have to post if the board is going to meet prior. So if the board is planning to meet before everyone, we would have to post it before it's going to meet. Of course, yeah. So if you plan to meet April the 24th, it would be posted as if. I'll note that it should be probably at seven to a lot for time if not earlier. If you would like to meet the night before town meeting other than the usually straight away from meeting the nights of town meeting. That's obviously up to the board. Well, I'm just, I'm sort of cognizant of some of the business that we, in particular with licenses and permits that we want to keep going. Yeah. But, and I, my recollection limited to the past is that we try to avoid big topics and discussions that would take up a lot of time during, during that period. We're telling me to use this session, but. Well, I mean certainly want to work on wrapping up the pilot thing overnight, you know. So, so I am going to do the editing of the regulations means I can have that ready for you all. But I'd like to, if we don't do that on the first night, then maybe the second night of town meeting no later than me, the, the, the third night, that first gets to be May 1st, you know. So it's not April 21st and May 1st. So the potential dates would be first night of town meeting, April 24th and that. I mean, my own thought on that is that just, we don't have a specific role in conducting town meeting, but, but there'll be a lot to organize that night. And it could be, it could be a lot of work out of time. We could do the 26th, which would be a Wednesday or May 1st, which would be a Monday. Is that your submission? So yeah, I guess my inclination would be to do May 1st at Monday, you know, as opposed to the Wednesday, but I'll use my colleagues. Do you have any moment to check the calendars? Should check mine. So are we saying meeting April 24th and May 1st or just our next meeting will be May 1st? We're talking next May 1st, right? Yeah, I think that's the proposal if we can, which would be Wednesday. That's fine, that's fine. Do we need to? That would be three weeks from tonight, but Ms. Mark? I would just note that if we wanted to do the 24th, typically in May, we'd get back to the second and fourth Tuesday, so it would be like May 8th and May 22nd. If that's second or fourth Monday. Sorry, what did I say? Tuesdays. Tuesdays, yeah. You said Taco Tuesday. Yeah, hang on a second. So if we wanted to do the 24th and then got back on every other Monday, we'd have to be. I'm hopeful that the 22nd, we wouldn't still be in town meeting. Yeah, Mr. Harden. Don't we have to meet on the first night of town meeting? I thought we did too. I don't think we have to. So we can be in session in town meeting? Actually, I don't know. I don't ever remember any first night of town meeting that we did. Yeah, certainly. Historically, what you have done is you have convened here in the chambers and then said that you are basically continuing to be in session for the limited purposes of town meeting throughout the length of town meeting. You basically adjourn with town meeting as a select board because in the event that you guys want to convene to discuss something that's within your purview, both it's sort of like a prophylactic measure on view of the meeting law and also just to give you the opportunity to discuss something as a select board rather than as town meeting. So that's the story going down. I think Ms. Mahana, you've traditionally. That was my trade to fame that we did when I first did. It was a great pleasure. Me and the 24th, but I know that we'd be the only thing on. And we may briefly have just some consent agendas. There are a lot of restaurants that have outside seating that would be consent agenda that need a vote and able to put their outside seating on so it would just be a vote of consent agenda. So there are little things in the office that we would have. Right. So 24? So yeah, I think, so it seems clear that we need to have a brief meeting at least on the 24th to have that utility opening for us for the purpose of town meeting. At that time, there could be some consent items, but I think the question is, do we attempt to do anything more substantive of that? I have my, I'm hesitant to tackle the parking that night because I don't know how, when I'll need to get called down the time I need to get ready to help initiate it. Sure. So we can do that on the first then. So yeah, so the question is then, how do we feel about also meeting on the first but that maybe the only agenda item would be the parking, changing the parking regulations? I mean, both of those Mondays are tough for me. I can kind of manipulate one. How about, is it not the one that's going to miss, do both of them Monday? Is it the Mondays that are tough for you? Would Wednesdays work better for you, Mr. Heard? No. All right, all right. I just. Well, what about eight and 22? Eight will give you enough, certainly enough time or is that, does that not work for the parking? When's the parking set to start? We'd like to start in July. That was already pushing back from June, you know? So I mean, I think, essentially what I'm trying to put in it is the material that I handed out at the last meeting that we discussed. It's really a matter of integrating that into the regulations for us to sign off on those changes. So I don't think, there's nothing in substance. There's going to be no substance that's changed me to the parameters that I listed three or four meetings ago. So you're thinking, so I guess, Mr. Heard, I mean, is it the first and the eighth that are tough for you? Is it with the 15th or the 22nd work for you? I mean, I can miss some of this stuff but just to throw them on, just to throw them on. I don't know. Go around your schedules, I guess. What's that? I just don't want to. I mean, we definitely have not met a lot during town meeting and we try to, like it's been said, not do anything of substance. It's just, I mean, licenses and stuff that we have to do fine but everything else just has to wait, so. Mr. Corsi, do you have any views on this? You've been involved in some of the work on the part of it as well. Yeah, well, I definitely think if, we're going to be meeting on the 24th, so I don't think May 1, I think. And if Ms. Marz is saying that we go back to the two meetings in May, maybe we put it on for May 8th and May 22th. It's a limited meeting but that, it sounds like either one of those dates is going to work with the time frame you're thinking about. Yeah, yeah, and we can start putting some wheels in motion with the town, in anticipation that we may have to tweak things a little bit but that we're going to move forward. That was a general sense from my last meeting was that you all, we approved of all the measures that were listed, now it's just a matter of writing the text and changing the parking regulations, you know? I understand. And I mean, we can get started and we can always like bail out me so just because we get started doesn't mean that we're locked in but at least if we get started on the details made then at least we won't have missed the ability or ruined the ability to start on the first. July, let me get into July. Does that make sense? I'll just add that May 8th and May 22nd both worked fine for me. Okay. Do you want to do the 24th and the 8th of 7th with the interest of the commission? Let me, I had a comment, let me just get the comment from Mrs. Mohan. Just for efficiency's sake that regarding, cause I'm still back and forth on the pilot program, honestly, because we're still discussing it but it would be my preference that we, when everything's down written and available for all of us to review that's just one night versus discussing it one night and then discussing it another night and if that's the 22nd, that's fine but that would just be my preference for that. Well, and I think what's useful, I mean, what we really decided tonight is setting the dates of our meeting so that we have them scheduled and I think I'll work with Mr. Diggins for the timing of when to put that one night. I think my personal preference would also be to really just get this done in one night because we've had a number of discussions and number of meetings and so, fighting the balance between having that ready to roll and being able to do that in a little under an hour or we can meet earlier if we need to. Yeah, and thank you Mr. Chairman and I also think, depending on what's happening at our meeting, we don't know what's gonna be happening on May 8th so if it's a schedule you know when you're gonna be busy or the board is gonna have a number of articles then you may wanna do it on the 22nd but we don't know that until we get there. All right, so I think we've set our meetings and Ms. Martins, that's on right to you. You understand April 24th, May 8th and May 22nd. And the first seven? Yes. Yeah, it's probably likely we'll be done by the 27th. Yeah, I think there's a good chance for this year. Yeah, I'll be surprised. Can we do June? June, yes, let's do June. And then also Mr. Chair, it's up to you to get a census of the board or a sense of the board in terms of our board goal setting meeting concurrent with the town manager, which means more times than not, we've met in July but I'm thinking just the terms of the contract, it may be in August but I'll leave that for you to work out which neither of those things are in June. Yeah, no, but thank you for that. If we could do June. All right, so let's take a look at June. So we'll have met, currently scheduled for May 22nd. I'm in next week in Memorial Day weekend, which is convenient. Would we want to do June 5th? Yes. Okay. That works. June 5th. And then we do two, do we do meetings in June typically? Yes, yeah. And then the second on the 19th, is that okay? Do you want to meet on June? June 2nd. And that is a holiday for Arlington now, yep. Okay. So instead of that, how's the 21st? Which is a Wednesday? I'm okay. I'm supposed to be following Monday? Sorry. I'm supposed to be following Monday. What's your, do you have a purpose? I prefer to stick with Mondays but if people prefer the 21st instead and if you think that's too long, you know, or any one thing. Any other, from the board? And then we've had, I don't remember when the first meeting was but we've had a few years where our second meeting in June was like June 28th, so I think that's fine. Yeah. I have no objection. 26th. Okay. So the 26th then, all right. And Ms. Marwood, you send those out to the board but you notice them. Yeah, I'll send them to you all after. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you all. That's good to, thank you Ms. Mohan, Ms. Mohan for getting us through June. Okay, next item is correspondence received, item 12. We have a resolution in favor of universal meals for all that's comes to us from the chair, the most recent chair of the Arlington School Committee, requests from Memorial for Mary W. and John B. Byrne by, from Rob Marschott. A response from National Grid regarding gas links from Amy Smith of National Grid, crossing concerns on Dow Avenue from Jen Sullivan and a retirement announcement from the Veteran Services Director. Do I have a motion? So I would like to move receipt, you know, directed one on Dow Avenue to TAC, the one from the school committee I found was interesting, you know, and I would, I mean, it's a resolution, but in order to just do more than just receive it and be done with it, I thought the first thing that the school committee was doing was pretty interesting. It was connecting with the just kids or something and joining forces with them in order to help get the legislation passed. I would like to somehow connect more with the school committee, you know, to just follow along with that, see what maybe more could be done. You know, and so I know we were supposed to have a joint meeting with the school committee in January or something, that didn't work out of me, but we certainly had indicated a desire to work more with the school committee. I think this would be an opportunity for us to do that and I would be happy to be the person to make that connection with them and see what more we can do to advance it other than just kind of saying we receive this because that's one of my issues with these sort of things is that it just gets received and nothing happens, so I'd like to see if we're going to take this to something with it. Thank you, Mr. Higgins. So that's a motion. That is a motion and I wrote it down and I'm glad that I did. Do I have a second? Second. By way of further discussion, I would just note that my putting this in a correspondence receipt was just the resolution itself from the school committee. Requested it to be delivered to the select board, so I thought that it would be important to have in the public record that we've received it. On a motion from Mr. Higgins. Yes, Mrs. Mahon. Two things, the request for the burn memorial. I'll leave that to the chair to discuss with the town manager if that's something that goes to the public memorial committee and or if we should contact a representative of St. Agnes because I just have a memory at that island that there is something there, but it may be the landscape company. So can I leave that to you, Mr. Chair, whether that's a town manager and chair or whether that should go to the public memorial committee and then the retirement announcement for our veteran services director. It's a heavy heart. Jeff and his wife, Diane, every time they would, you know, the dignitaries would give extra thanks to Diane. It was Diane Changuo, not me, Diane Mahon. And I'll look forward to Mr. Pooler, the town manager providing the board with appropriate steps to commemorate Mr. Changuo and Diane's service 10 years to the town as well as, I don't know if it's appropriate, but moving forward, whatever role Mr. Changuo could have in terms of not just turnover of current projects pending, but I don't know, whatever the town manager thinks appropriate in terms of either parameters for posting or parameters for recruiting or whatever. Am I saying that appropriately, Mr. Pooler? Very appropriately. He has expressed an interest to continue to be involved with the Veterans Memorial Park. And so we'll see how that goes. Of course, have to get a replacement for him and then integrate the two of them in the way that works best, but he has expressed a strong interest and I think that would be great for the project. Did you? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. And I did want to say that I look forward to working with the town manager and me and my colleagues to find an appropriate moment to publicly recognize and thank Mr. Changuo for his service to the Veteran community and to this community. So on a motion to receive and refer by Mr. Diggins and seconded by Mr. Herd, all in favor of please say yes. Yes. Opposed? It is unanimous. All right, we have reached the new business portion of our meeting and we'll do our round the horn style starting with Board Administrator, Ms. Mohan. No new business tonight, thank you. Mr. Hi. You've got a portrait, so no new business. That's fair. Ms. Bruehler. 850, no new business. Mrs. Mohan. If I could, my new business will be either to the chair or to the chair in terms of the meeting we had scheduled for May regarding Poets Connor Park and Rec Commission. I believe that's been rescheduled. Could someone speak to that just very briefly? Yes, I would be glad to. It has been rescheduled. It was originally April 11th. It was going to be tomorrow. It is now, I believe May 15th, but I will confirm that with you. Did you say May 15th? Yes. But you confirm. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure just from memory that's when it is. And if you could just, does that come to Town Hall hybrid? What kind of meeting? Or should it be determined? I think it would be hybrid, but we would have it live so that people could come. It would be people presenting information from multiple sides of the issue, trying to get better understanding of what the facts are. And so I think it would be a good information session. And I'm going to leave it to you, Mr. Chair. I don't know if it's appropriate that notice of that meeting go to the town meeting member mailing list. Just where, I'll leave that for you. Thank you. Which means not me. Thank you. That's my new business. It is officially offered please. Thank you. Mr. Herb. None of this. Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very briefly. I just wanted to wish a regular viewer of our slot board meetings in Belmont. My mother, a happy birthday, April 10th is her birthday. And I want to wish her happy birthday. Yay. And what was her, what's, Mrs. Corsi, right? Mrs. Corsi. And the Corsi. Yeah, the happy birthday. And my new business, I don't know if everyone else received the letter from a town meeting member regarding Madly Axie Way, but I did. And so I think we need to let people know what is not going to happen and why. And so just maybe try to wrap that up in that future meeting, you know? Okay. So yeah, maybe even the 24th if we have time. I can work that out with you, but yeah, you know. Okay, remind me of that. Thank you. I have no new business of my own, but I would say to Mrs. Corsi, based on the experience I've got so far, you raised him right. No, Mr. Jern. That's good. On a motion to adjourn by Mrs. Mott, seconded by Mr. Diggins. And Mr. Hurd. And Mr. Diggins. Yeah, well, whoever you have. All faders say yes. Yes. Opposed? We are adjourned. Yes.