 Good evening. I'm calling to order this meeting of the Arlington Select Board on Wednesday, October 11th. I am Select Board Chair Eric Helmuth. Tonight's meeting is being conducted in a hybrid format consistent with provisioned by the Massachusetts Legislature. 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 and simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Second, persons listening to join the meeting by Zoom can find information on how to do so on the town's website. If you're participating by Zoom, you're reminded that you may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, we ask you to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. The same goes for anybody who is participating in person and wishes to speak. We ask you to provide your 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 asked to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and people watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials found on the town's website, specifically the Select Board Agendas and Minutes page. So tonight we have a relatively brief agenda and I want to just point out as is my custom the opportunities for public comment tonight and some instructions about how we will do that. So tonight none of the agenda items in my judgment require a specific public comment period. However, we do have the open forum following item eight in which any person can appear and speak for three minutes on a topic of their choice. At that time, anyone in the room, I'll take my raise of hand. Anyone on Zoom who wishes to comment just needs to raise your hand in Zoom. If you do not know how to raise your hand in Zoom, now would be an excellent time to Google how to do that. Let's see how much the town's business we can get done tonight. Before we begin, I just want to note to my Select Board colleagues and the public that prior to the meeting I removed one of the agenda items that had been posted. It was a resolution offered by Laura Wiener with the consent and advice of the proponents to be considered at a later time. So what moves us to now what is now item two, which is the review of the Select Board position on the MuGuard development. I'll just set the table for this just briefly. At a very recent meeting we had I think a very spirited and informative and very welcomed session in which residents in that neighborhood spoke very passionately and very lucidly about their views of the continued development at MuGuard. My colleague, Mrs. Mohan at the time requested that the chair have an agenda item in a future meeting in which the Select Board would have the opportunity to reestablish and revisit and restate in this Select Board's current consolation its view on the MuGuard development. And so I'm glad to provide that opportunity tonight for all our members. And I will turn to Mrs. Mohan, my colleague, for further comment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Mr. DeCorsi is sort of the lead liaison for the MuGuard development. And I know we're all aware and have been following the other boards and commissions along with department heads that have been interfacing with this project, but also recognizing that the board also has its own sort of piece of the pie defined role. But since we have done this previously, the current development I think is about eight or nine years before us going through different iterations in terms of what it is. And what the board has done in the past, and I wanted to put forth before my colleagues, is just a vote which would be that the Select Board is opposed to development of the MuGuard wetlands. And I'm happy if anyone wants to expand on that, but when we first did this in discussions with previous town councils the more you get into more language, the more you could go down the road you don't want to. So it's always just been a vote just on behalf of the Select Board. So I would make that motion unless, and I would ask maybe all my colleagues and Mr. DeCorsi if there's something that they're more comfortable with, but traditionally the vote in the past has been that first it was the board of Select, but now it would be the Select Board is opposed to any development of the MuGuard wetlands. Mr. DeCorsi? Yeah, I'll second Mrs. Mahan's motion and thank you, Mr. Chairman. And yeah, that's what we discussed last time and since my time on the board and going back before then. We have taken several votes to reaffirm our position from the initial letter that the Board of Selectman wrote to Mass Housing on August 18th, 2015, opposing the site. Mr. Hurd wrote a letter on behalf of the Select Board on July 7th, 2020, before that vote we reaffirmed our position. We also had a detailed discussion on October 28th, 2019, where we presented our position. We've been consistent to my knowledge. We have been unanimous throughout this process in terms of our opposition to the proposed development there all the while respecting the fact that there is a comprehensive permit in place now and we covered that at the last meeting, but I support Mrs. Mahan's motion and certainly support reaffirming our position on this. Thank you, Mr. DeCorsi. Mr. Hurd? Yeah, I think we've all, first of all, sorry for running in late. A lot of moving parts on Wednesdays. I don't want to go in depth things that we've said, you know, many times, but I'm happy to support the motion and just continue to join this board as we've done since I've been on the board. And for many years before that, to just say that it's not the right site for development of this kind is, you know, for years has been a great push, and I like to integrate more housing units, but it has to be placed correctly or else just efforts in general to create more housing will stall if the housing that is created causes major issues in town, and that's what will likely happen at this site. So again, happy to continue to restart the board's opposition to the project. Anything I would say has already been said, so I support it. Thank you. And the only thing I will say is that I welcome the opportunity and the first time opportunity I have as a member of this body to take this vote and to reaffirm that. So any further discussion? On a motion by Mrs. Mahon to reaffirm the select board's opposition to development of the Mugar property. Mugar wetlands. Wetlands. Thank you. Sorry, thank you. No, Mugar wetlands. We have the motion by Mrs. Mahon, a second by Mr. Decorsi. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? As unanimous, five nothing vote. Thank you very much. I missed something important at the beginning. I want to welcome a new person at the table. And with the colleagues, indulgence, Mr. Townman, perhaps you would like to introduce the individual to your left. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, a familiar face, but worth recognizing this evening. And that is Attorney Mike Cunningham now serving in the position of acting town council following the departure of Doug Hyme. So please join me in welcoming Mike to the meeting. Welcome, Attorney Cunningham. Thank you for your commitment to the town. Thank you. I know you will serve us well. Thank you. Item three, we have an end of the year budget report by Eda Cody controller. An important question I have, Ms. Cody, is are you of the School of Controller or Comptroller in pronunciation? Comptroller. And I stand corrected. Comptroller. Thank you for inviting me tonight to present and discuss the end of the year report, budget report. This is the report for the fiscal year 23, which ended on 6 30 2023. It's a little late, but we pushed it in hopes to get the free cash certified. And we did. This is my favorite report because it's packed as you've probably seen with good news and a good start for Jim. I hope you read it and enjoyed all the details. So I'm just going to cover the highlights. DOR has certified free cash, 8 million, 032, 011. This is an increase of 2.1 million over last year and the highest in history. Water sewer, we have certified retained earnings, 6 million, 962, 689. AYCC 122, 846. Council on Aging 44802. RINC 82042 and the RAC department recreation, 1 million 342, 423. I'm just going to briefly discuss the expenses and revenue on the general fund. On the expense side, we had a net increase in the undesignated fund balance of $3.3 million. And the appropriation turnbacks are a net of 3 million, 704, 704. The turnbacks are a combination of, they're actually mostly salaries because they were underspended because we had some vacancies and some retirements and we didn't fill the positions immediately. We only had one reserve transfer from this year and it was for a legal settlement. On the revenue, the general fund, we had a surplus of $6.2 million. This is a combination of conservative estimates and also a favorable economic environment. The main drivers for this $6 million are the building and wire permits. We extended the projection by $1.5 million. This is mostly because of the building at MIRAC and also we had increased requests for permits for solar panel and car chargers, electrical car chargers. The motor vehicle excise exceeded the projection by $500,000 and this is mostly due to the increase of the cost of the cars. We had an increase in fees of a total of $560,000. This is a combination between the ambulance fees because we increased the rates in the ambulance and also the host community agreement. We didn't estimate any amounts on the balance sheet because we're not allowed to per DLR. Also, Hotel Motel and Marijuana Excise were up $560,000. Finally, the elephant, the interest income, which we've collected this year, $3 million and we've discussed it a few times. We had a conservative estimate but we also had a lot of cash in the bank from the constructions of high school and DPW and the rates were really good. That brought us an extra $3 million, which close to the free cash. The enterprise funds, not much to discuss here. We were on the nose projections versus actuals and we certified healthy retained earnings across the board. You've also requested that we report the balances for several funds, the ARPA and the stabilization funds, and they're included in the report. I think this item would be the most interesting to you if you have any questions. Thank you, Ms. Cody. I will now turn to the board for your remarks, questions. I'll go after Ms. Lawn. First, I'd like to move receipt. Yes. And thank you, Ms. Cody and everyone else behind you, literally and figuratively. I know there's a lot of work that goes into this and it was one of the things when I first got on the board and it didn't happen for more than a decade. And to get quarterly reports and end of the year reports is so beneficial and it's not just something on a piece of paper or on the iPad, it's something that we all watch, look for trends, things like that. I also want to thank that I see with some of the categories when we looked at expenses and revenues and they were perhaps out of range of projections. I had asked about with investments with fire services if perhaps I was always told a good budget gets you as close to, you know, because I'd say, oh, 237% more, that's great. And then someone said, well, that's good as an anomaly, but not every year. And I do see reflected in here that adjustments have been made concerning fire medical services as well as I think fines because the Mass General Law has changed and has increased those fines. And as far as the investment part of it, people tell me not to put myself down, but I will leave it to, you know, the investment minds in terms of, I know we deal with standard and whores or whomever gets chosen every year, but I don't expect to see that reflected in here, but going forward. And one of the things that I'm really happy about that this report allows us to do is, it's so great after COVID to see under Joe Conley and everyone who works over at the Allington Recreation Department, how well they're doing. Not only in terms of the revenue generated, but if you look behind the revenue generated number at the programs that have come back as well as are brand new that really highlight the Allington Recreation Department and its properties in so many different ways. So I definitely appreciate that. And then I just had one sort of technical question and it may be because it's a school question, you get back to me with the answer. But I know somewhere in here, I didn't highlight it, but it had to do with special ed budgeting collections. And I believe, I don't know if it's a town or the schools that hired a consultant like PCG. Can you give me like four or five sentences on that? It looks like it's successful and a good thing to do if you could verify it. So the federal government reimburses us for special ed services. Our school department enters in all the data, all the kids they're servicing. And then this consultant gathers all the data, puts the report together and submits it and we get the reimbursement. Sometimes there's a timing issue. When you deal with the state and government, there's always a delay in getting our money back, but yeah, this is how it works. So they look at the reports, they gather, the nurses enter and whatever stuff that's designated to the special ed education. They enter in the data, gets collected, filtered by the consultant and submitted for reimbursement. And again, I say that is a positive thing. Having gone through that world myself, that was always the three numbers in special educations were so nebulous. And I think sometimes it affects programs if you don't know what it is and how to plan and finance. So that's something that I was really happy to see and that it's working. Thank you. That one's hard to predict because you don't know how much of the expenses they will accept and reimburse. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Mr. Dickens. Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just, we have some time seeing so I'll just ask a bunch of minor curiosity questions and give me really short answers. So the clerk was over by 1% 2K. I know it's a lot of money, but... The clerk what? The clerk expenditures were up. They were over by 2K, 1%. So if you look at the clerk, we voted it together with town clerk election and registers. They voted as a bottom line. So although the clerk is 101%, the election is 95% only. Okay. And the registers is 96. So bottom line, they're still within the appropriation. Yeah. I was just wondering if there was something, maybe over time something going on. I keep one eye on them. Just minor. So the council aging was also up by 21K, 6%. The same thing. The council aging gets voted with the Board of Health. I got you. So they can overspend in one, if they underspend in the other. Okay. Got you. So Airbnb, it brought in 10K. Like how many units were that? Meaning no idea? I don't get that data. Okay. All right. I was just wondering how much Airbnb business was going on. Yeah. And whether we had a sense of whether we're capturing all of it or not, do you have a sense of that? I just get whatever the state sends me. No backup for it. Yeah. So I think that, you know, that might be in the scope of a different employee. Maybe that would be a question would be good for the town manager to handle just for a more complete answer, you know, about sort of the policy and the procedures of that program. Sure. Thank you. I can't say that I think any of us will be able to accurately predict how much of the revenue we're capturing. I would say it's likely not all of it because I know that sometimes returning guests don't go through the Airbnb platform and I would assume that we do still have some units out there that are doing short-term rentals in an unregistered fashion. But I do believe, and I'm not sure if we have the information available, that we could at least notify the board of how many short-term rental units we do have through our own local permitting process that may be generating some of this revenue. Thank you, sir. No, I appreciate that. And also, as I said, these really are just kind of curiosity questions. I never know what I'm going to do with it. And since we have the time, you know, I'm doing it. So this is one where I just don't understand, you know, and so a lot of times I will ask questions, put people on the spot, and I say the reason is I just didn't have time to call beforehand. But at the end of, I forget which paragraph, the balance of 1.5 million was close to free cash. What does that mean? Where are you looking? Okay, let me go find it, you know. So it's just ignorance. Yeah, okay. So I think you're talking about the collective bargaining. So what happens, let's say we, oh, is it reserve fund? It's on the other. So it's on page one? Is it the reserve fund? Is it the last step from the other? Oh, the reserve fund. Okay. So we appropriate 1.5 million dollars in the reserve fund, just in case some departments run out of money and we need to transfer it. If we don't transfer it, everything turns into free cash. It's a turn back, and it goes towards the calculation of free cash, meaning we raise the money, but we didn't need them, because we didn't have any emergencies, like the legal settlement. So if we don't use it, usually we come here for snow and ice, but DPW had enough money to cover the snow and ice. So it's just usually for emergencies. So then close to free cash means it stays in free cash, it goes to general fund. It's general fund. It stays with the general fund, yes. Yeah. I just think you're right on my part. I had a chance to ask. So we're going to earn these on investments. So it says that it means some of it was due to higher interest rates. So we got a little higher return, well, quite a bit higher return. Are you anticipating that costing is more and borrowing? It's up coming here? We don't know where the rates are going to go. I enjoyed them, even my personal bank account. But definitely the balance has gone down. We had a large amount of cash to build the high school and DPW. We started the year with $100 million and we ended with like $50 million. This money collect interest in the bank. So that's why the interest rates were high. Some of the banks, MMDT, had 5%. So that adds up. But now we're not going to have so much cash on the books. Yeah, right. Right. Because we've been building. And that's in terms of me, what we're getting from savings. But my question is, are we anticipating an increase in the cost of borrowing? Mr. Diggins, I think that that's a broader question, maybe, that's how many of you would like to speak to? Sure, Len. Without getting into specific, like, percentage basis points, I think to answer your question, we are making more in interest to be in paying on our borrowings. So we're still getting, we're projecting to receive favorable rates when we go out next for borrowing. As compared to what we're receiving in interest, but that's just, again, due to our strong bond rating and being a community who has an attractive issuance when we offer it. Right. So I get that. It's just that there's been, I mean, some people weren't expecting rates to go up as much as they did, and they've gotten a little caught in that. And I'm not, like, saying that we're in trouble or anything. I'm just asking if me, we're anticipating the higher rates, maybe a little higher than we were expecting, which I know is a little contradictory to the word, anticipating. So that was the basis of the question. I would agree, like, the next time we borrow, the rate will be higher than the last time we borrowed, for sure. So on blue bikes, I mean, there's 100K, I see there's no spending. Actually, the planning director is working on it. I don't know what is the holdup. I've touched base with her, and she said that she does have, the project is on her table, but she hasn't started yet. All right. A little bit of a scrappy, a little scrappy in town meeting on that. So it's like, it's all, that was just curious to me. It's good that we got the money, and I was just kind of wondering what was going on. And the last one, a little humorous, you know. So I see that the revenue on cemeteries was a little low. Is that because fewer people, maybe a little longer? Well, I mean, we charge, I believe, $2,000 for opening and $100 for foundation. So I don't, I think, I guess it depends on how many customers we have. I think Miss Cody is an outstanding accountant, but the expertise for that probably falls on the Cemetery Commission. So I'm hoping that we have less reason. So thank you. That's it. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. I can think safe to say that you always keep us on our toes. Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Miss Cody, for the report. The quarterly reports are very informative. The year end report is especially so, because we can see the results of what's happened throughout the year, what's being turned back, where we met expectations. And here it's all good news in terms of where expenses came in and where we came in on our revenue estimates. And I would say to Mr. Diggins' question on the reserve fund, the reserve fund is there for unforeseen circumstances. The fact that we didn't have to tap into that much is actually good news. It weren't unforeseen events during the year that required those funds. So I wanted to thank you. I had a couple of questions. Just one of them was related to what Mr. Diggins said on, just in warrant articles in general. In warrant articles, once they're voted, if you can just clarify this by town meeting, that money is set aside until the warrant, whatever purpose the funds are spent, unless there's a subsequent vote to return the funds. Is that my right on that? So usually the regular appropriation journal fund, they're one year. If you didn't spend it by the end of the fiscal year, you didn't encumber it, you lose it. With the articles, we give you two years to spend it. So I always check on them. I see when was the last appropriation. I trace the money and then I touch base with them if the departments don't have encumbrances or invoices for it, then I'll just take it away. And close it to free cash. Okay, great. Thank you very much. And thank you to Mr. McGee as well. I know he worked with you on the report and the finance director and deputy town manager. So thank you very much. Yep. Thank you, sir. Mr. Hurd. Thank you for the presentation. I always, I think I say this every time, but I enjoy these. It's good to get an update on, you know, we deal with so many issues in town, but luckily I'm able to rely on the finance gurus to run the town financing. So it's never been an area that I immersed myself in, but just to see the top sheet and to see how well our town is run by the people that are responsible for the finances is really impressive every time we get to see this, especially as we go through, you know, we have an upcoming vote to add money to the Oberize stabilization fund and it shows we can go to the town, some of the town's people who say, you know, manage your money better and say, look, you know, we're under budget. We're very well run compared to other season towns. And this report kind of gives us the fuel to hit back against that. So again, very impressive, no questions. And thank you for the report. Thank you, sir. I will add my appreciation to that. Every time that we do this, I'm amazed how much our team understands this really complex and diverse budget and particularly Ms. Cody as the guardian of a lot of this. I sleep better at night knowing that your eyes are on this at all times. Thank you. Thank you. And actually second that, Mr. Chair. I second the receipt of the report. Oh, thank you. I was going to say earlier. Yeah, so we did not have one. Help the girl out. That's right. All right. So to that end, we have a motion to receive from Mrs. Mahana seconded by Mr. Diggins. It's sort of a bookends of motion in a second here. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? It is a unanimous five nothing vote. Thank you again. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you. And following the string of our outstanding town employees and leaders, we have a health and humor services update from Christine Bongino, deputy town manager. If you'd like to come up and face the music. And by way of explanation, I think most people know, but for the public's information until very recently Ms. Bongino was the department head for health and humor services. So this made the most sense to give us an update and whatever we think we should know. Great. Thank you. I don't know, Steve, Do you want to start or do it? It's up to you. No, I want you to go ahead. Sure. Sure. So there were conversations that were happening earlier in this year, just around AEDs, which are basically used when somebody has a medical event in a building, a public place. And those are the boxes that are placed in various locations, entrances of buildings. And, you know, we were noticing in town was that not every building, not every town building had one. And where they were placed was different in every location. Who was in charge of the upkeep was, a lot of people were unsure. So what we did was we looked at developing a systematic program across all the buildings in partnership between the health department and the fire department. What we did was we had our teams go out and do an assessment, a basic assessment of what we have, where they're located, what the device model number is, the battery, how often they have to be changed, and really who's responsible in each location. So we did a basic assessment. We determined locations that didn't have AEDs. And we developed a plan to, you know, over the course of the next several years, basically install new ones in locations that didn't have them. And then in locations where they may not be visible, we're planning to move them. Town Hall is a great example of that. The current AED is located right outside the elevator. It may not be as visible or as obvious to people. So the plan will be to move that to a more visible location while also providing training to building occupants so that they know where the AED is and how to use it. Basically, you know, they may be located on the wall and people in various offices may not know where it is or even what to do or when to use it. So the plan will be to take the training to building occupants. So starting in Town Hall and then moving out to the other buildings. In addition to the AEDs, we also found that there are these SAM boxes, S-A-M. And these are boxes where they're being placed in various public locations all across the state. They contain Narcan, which is used in the event of an overdose. And so our goal is to have those in some of our more public locations, such as the library, the ice skating rink, as well as Town Hall, and most likely the Department of Public Works because of its location to some sensitive areas, including the park across the street. So we have this plan between the Health Department and the Fire Department, and we will be starting to install and move these devices and also provide training to building occupants likely within the next six months. Thank you very much. Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ms. Bongiorno. I'll provide a little context now on the AEDs. And I want to thank Ms. Bongiorno. First, I congratulate you again on your promotion to Deputy Town Manager. But we've had discussions since the spring. And this resulted from an experience I had in March. I was at Boston City Hall and a person behind me going through security collapsed. And luckily, there was a defibrillator that was in the lobby and that the security personnel at City Hall had been trained on the emergency medical intervention. And not only did the person who took over starting CPR and actually using the defibrillator is absolutely amazing, but just keeping everybody else calm, because she knew exactly what to do, that calmed everybody else down, but also saved this man's life. There's no question about it. And until the EMTs arrived and it really looking back as March 7th, a really emotional day when I think about it now, but a remarkable, remarkable act by the employees and the whole team they recognized by Mayor Wu after that happened. As a result of that, and seeing that Ms. Bonjono and I have been talking throughout the spring and summer about one, making sure that employees know where the AEDs are, because that was one issue at first, finding it. But two, knowing what to do in the first minutes of a medical emergency, and that's what I think this training will happen going forward so critical until the Fire Department or the EMTs can arrive. Those first few minutes are critical, and I saw it in the person who is alive and doing well, that that happened that day because of that experience and the calmness and just having that equipment nearby and available. So thank you for bringing this along, and I encourage people who work for the town, people in the community, the hospitals have that type of training in addition to what the town's doing. It's so important because you never know if you're going to be there, and thank God this person was there that day because it was a dire situation. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Corsi. Mr. Feeney. Yes, thank you, Christina. I just wanted to be opportunistic and add while we're on the topic of AEDs that Recreation Director Joe Connolly recently shared with me that following the rollout of the outdoor AEDs that we had installed at Thorndike Field in Hills Hill, there has been significant interest in rolling out and expanding that program in the community. And the resident who started that program has already made an additional significant donation to the town, and they're already looking at purchasing three more climate-controlled units for, I believe, they're going to be designated for McClendon Field, Herd Field, and probably over at the spy pond tennis courts. So again, great public interest in these devices and what they can do in the event of emergency, and we're looking not only to expand them in our buildings, but also at our athletic facilities. So thank you for letting me share. Yeah, no, thank you. Mrs. Mann. I have a quick question. And if we don't have an answer tonight, that's fine. But are all the AEDs pretty much universal in the sense that I know for the sports groups that we belong to, we go through BLS, ALS, AED every two years. And the ones that we're trained on, and if you know, I'm assuming there's just one type of AED, and the ones that we're trained on in class is first you're trained on how to apply it, and then the AED first tells you if this is an appropriate situation to continue to step two, to apply the device. And I was just wondering, are all AEDs like that? The ones that are in public locations are. They're made by different companies, so they may have different paths, or they may look a little different, but for the most part, they're all similar that we were trained on, the ones in public locations. The ones that are used by fire and police are the professional versions that are used also by hospitals, and so they're obviously different. But the ones that are in public locations will be doing the universal training, and they're generally the same. So it's verbal clearance. Voice clearance versus if you are on EMS with ALS, they just look at the read-out. Okay, I was just thinking of that one, Mr. DeCorsi, because raising that, and I was thinking when we get trained, and I'm like, is it just the ones we're getting trained on? But they all do that, so. And I encourage anyone, definitely, all my children, two of my three children, once they became parents, with the exception of my daughter, Rebecca, because she's a coach, but my son-in-law, daughter-in-law and son all got CPR training right away, which is different for infants and then for children, and AEDs included, even though I have no AEDs in my home. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. DeCorsi. Thank you, Ms. Majano. Mr. Herd, thank you, Ms. Mohado. I think I know the answer to the question, but of the AED boxes that are either in, say, in this building or at the rink, are they open? It doesn't require a special key or anything so anyone can get into the box. Correct. I know you mentioned there was training at hospital. Would the town, has someone ever considered kind of sponsoring training locally? Because I mean, I coach every day of my life, and I've never been trained, I've done training to run drills for hockey, but I've never been trained with AEDs, and a lot of the training we do now is remote anyways. So it's certainly something, as a coach at a baseball field, would look like, this discussion opens and it is almost scary to me, as someone saying, well, I don't know if it's appropriate, like how am I going to go and use these things to revive? I mean, I'm not a medical professional. So I assume they are somewhat user-friendly once you have the training, but I mean, it would be interesting, at least publicizing when the training is available and when people can do it. If there was, you know, a couple times a year that we could do it at Town Hall or somewhere where we would bring people in and keep it open to the public, I think that would be really beneficial. We had talked about doing the building occupants, so the town staff, and then taking that a step further and offering it to committees, so people that are in our buildings at night, and then also to the sports community, I think that would, we had discussed that, and that could be another phase within our program. And I think where you can put it back on the baseball to say, just so you guys know, now there's AEDs at these fields, so as part of your training, you take all your coaches, and the baseball can pay for the training. But just to make sure that all those programs know that they're there, and you could say, you know, put the onus on them to have the coaches train. I just, like I said, I mean, every day I'm somewhere, and I wouldn't know the first thing to do if I even opened up that box. So I'd be interested in getting trained myself and making sure all those that are around the boxes. And so, thank you. Well, I guess we were on the same wavelength. I guess for me, it was learning about that with the T. I mean, when the guy was killed, with his hand stuck in the door, I mean that if someone had pulled the emergency stop, they could have, I mean, presented that. And so, you probably weren't here in the meeting when I kind of brought up the whole AED thing. So I was glad that we have multiple people thinking about this. And beyond the AED training is also just first aid training. And a large component of that is just having someone who is kind of taking charge of the situation and making sure, you know, that 911 is called because there are more than just me, heart events. I mean, they're choking, which is a big one. And so I wouldn't ask the town to take responsibility for that. But as we tell people to get trained for AEDs, it's like if you have it in you to even get first aid training, you know, it's really helpful, you know, and useful. So thank you for doing this. Thank you for doing this, you know. Thank you very much. Just a further question. And this is in the Department of Fun Facts about your select board chair way back in the day and more decades ago than I wanted to care to think, I was actually a Red Cross CPR instructor and in fact an instructor of instructors. But that was long before AEDs were available to the public and since then I'm fully aware of the CPR technique for the public exchange considerably. But that really comes to the point of, with these devices particularly, if someone, remember the public were to find themselves in a situation where someone who has no pulse and is not breathing in AED is available, but they have not had training, can they do harm with those devices? Would you recommend that they, you know, use them or not use them in that circumstance? Well, but the first step is to call 911. Of course, yeah. And then when you open the box, it walks you through the steps. As Diane Mohan had mentioned, it'll tell you to peel off the pads, put them on the body and it'll tell you if it needs, you know, it'll read the heart rhythm and it'll determine whether or not the shock will be given and if it's needed or not. But while that's happening, we hope that the ambulance is on its way. You know, you should have called the ambulance at that point. But yeah, there's, you know, it'll walk you through very simply what to do. Yeah, that's helpful to know. So I mean, if I got this right, my takeaway being that, you know, call 911 first and that is certainly preferable to have the training because you'll be more confident but that the devices are designed for hurting somebody if you follow the instructions. I think it's an important message to have out there for the public so that people don't hesitate to offer aid, you know, if they're in that situation. Mr. DeQuestion. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just coming back. But I don't think that can be repeated enough. That day, the person who actually used the EED and performed the CPR, the first thing she did, she said, okay, somebody call 911. And a person was identified, two people called, but one got through and then she went to work. It's critical. Call 911 first. Yeah, it's a situation where I like a lot of people will assume somebody else did, you know, so exactly just to be point to somebody, you know. So we've all had our alternate public health education now. And helping out a little bit, not that you need it, but I want to thank both of you, Mr. Borgera and Mr. DeCorsi for your leadership and awareness and building the town's capacity for this. Great. Thank you. All right. Moving on to our consent agenda, we have a items five, six, and seven requests for a special one-day beer and one license on October 29th at Buckfield for a fundraiser by Kelly Grealish. Request for a permit for a Veterans Day Parade, Saturday, November 10th, November 11th. Seem to be from the Department of Health and Human Services. Request for a contractor drain layer license, Galway Excavation LLC by Anthony Kerwin. Pardon me, I'll turn to the board for discussion and motions. So motion to approve consent agenda. Second. I can get you some water if you want. Do you want me to get you some water? Yes, I'm sorry. A couple of us could use a glass of water suddenly. Thank you very much. I don't know what it is, dry air. Mrs. Mohan. Just wanted to highlight the event down at Buckfield for the Dan Kelly Foundation, Wellington resident police officer. Foundation has been set up in his memory on the 29th. His wife, Kelly Grealish, Kelly and others have really done a lot of work on this and put it together. But again, I want to highlight Joe Connolly who really has been working with the family and with the event to really expand it. And there will be a beer, not garden, beer truck there, getting all the approvals for that. And it's mostly family events for the free skate, but then there'll also be a large screen TV because it will be a Patriots game or a football game if anybody wants to stay outside and watch that. So anyone who can make it coming down on October 29th, I believe the skate starts at, I think it's one to five, but of course any members of the board that can make it down there. There'll be other things. I don't want to call it a photo booth because it's really a lot more than that. It's Chuck Coughlin who works for several of the news stations and for the Patriots down at Gillette. So it's more advanced, I say photo booth. So it's going to be a great event and anyone who can make it down for a great guy who I miss terribly every day along with so many other people, but people have told me as long as you keep remembering people and talking about them. And they're still there with you, but just in a different way. So that's October 29th. Thank you. Well said, Mrs. Mohan. Thank you. Any further discussion? Motion to approve the consent agenda by Mr. Deggan, the seconded by Mr. Herd. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed? It is unanimous five of nothing vote. I'm using the button. Hey, Bios team, water over. I got one right here. I don't know what it is. Some of us think ahead. Yeah, I was thinking the room's a little dry. All right. We have appointments on item eight, the Arlington Committee on Tourism and Economic Development and the Nicole Gustas. Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you very much for your willingness to serve. If you'd like to just briefly tell the board what your interest is and what you're looking forward to. Sure. I'm happy to discuss. I have over 10 years of experience in tourism and I am experienced at working with every iteration of tourism from the small local level and laddering up to the national level. And I also understand how we can plug into those larger organizations in order to promote what Arlington has to offer. In addition to that, I am just enthusiastic about everything that they're doing. I'd like to help out with all of the things that relate to tourism and history in our region because I'm a huge history buff. And I also studied history in college and worked as a historical documentarian for several years. I think that Arlington has a lot to offer and I recognize currently we only have one hotel and a limited number of other things, but I would like to see us leverage that and then see what we can do to build off of that in order to bring people into the community and have them spend their dollars in our great businesses. Thank you very much indeed. I want to turn to my colleagues for emotions and comments. Mr. Heard. Thank you. And thank you for your willingness to serve. I've been on the representative to ATED for a few years and it's been, we've been on a recruiting kick and it's not always the committee that people jump up to serve on, but it really does serve a really important function especially, I know I'm sure you've had conversations with Angela about the 250 celebration that's coming up in the next few years that we're working towards and your experience really drops right into what we're working on for that celebration to try to tap into national networks to get a little prominence for the town of Arlington, formerly Mononomy during that celebration time because there'll be a great influx of tourists at that time and this committee also in recent years in the wake of COVID really put a lot of efforts towards economic development, piece of it, trying to work with businesses and come up with creative ways to support our local businesses, sometimes in town, the interests of local businesses, take a backseat to some other agendas, but it's good to have at least one committee that's really working to make sure that we can support those people that come into Arlington to start businesses and we transitioned the committee about a year ago to try to put that front and center and to fuse the two ideas of tourism and business development together. So it is a great committee. It's a great group of individuals that you'll get to know very well and run very well by Angela. So thank you for your willingness to serve and happy to move approval. I wonder if that was coming at the tail end of that. Thank you. Mr. Heard, any further comments or questions? Mr. Diggins. I'll be happy to second that and I have a quick question Mr. Heard and then one for our pointy. What's the proper way to say 250? Semi-quincentennial. Thank you. Thank you. And to our pointy, if you get us some tourists from Australia, you get another term, okay? So I'm impressed with your connection to Australia. I will work very hard on that. I will do my darnedest to use my Australian tourism connections to start bringing people from down under up to Arlington to see what we've got to offer. Great. And you're welcome. And thank you for doing this to me. I've done some work with you. So I know what a bundle of great energy you are. So we look forward to what you can do. Thank you. Thank you for the discussion. Excellent. Thank you again for your willingness to serve. You bring an outstanding background and I look forward to your contributions. On a motion to a point by Mr. Heard and seconded by Mr. Diggins. All in favor please say yes. Yes. Oh, wow. I meant to say aye, but you just followed right along. That works. All opposed? It is unanimous. Thank you very much. We see our allegiance to you, Mr. Chairman. I am truly touched. I am truly told. All right. We now arrive at open forum. This is the part where you raise your hand and zoom if you want to participate. Except in unusual circumstances, any matter 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 there is a three-minute time limit to present every concern or request. Do we have any members of the public? There's nobody here in the room. Well, I mean there is, but they're all staff. We should speak at open forum. Mr. Wiki, if the spirit moves. All right. Seeing none, I believe that closes open forum. Thank you very much for moving on to traffic rules and orders and other business. We have a discussion and approval to draft select this board report to special time meeting from Attorney Cunningham. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for an article for the board's consideration as part of the report, this is an article that was discussed and voted upon by the board in September 27th meeting. It's noted that Mr. DeCorsi recused himself from the discussion and vote on this article. I believe that it accurately reflects the changes that the board requested at that hearing. I believe that the terms of the article are correct and the comments were changed in accordance with some of those that were requested. As a reminder, this is the prohibition on new fossil fuel infrastructure and new construction and major renovation that was set forth at the meeting last September 27th by our sustainability manager, Talia Fox, and also sponsored by the Clean Energy Future Committee. Thank you, Attorney Heim. Questions, motions, discussion from the board? Mr. Heard. Move approval. Just say that we're very happy to see that it says recommends and not urges. You've already won up your previous town council. It's been stricken from the computer, Mr. Heard. I did do a control F on that. I'll second. Just kidding, Attorney Heim. We have a second from Mrs. Mahoney. I want to thank Acting Town Council for containing in the comments for the fossil fuel. A special warrant article. Is the tie in? I don't know if maybe you can give two or three sentences because I know I've spoken to people out in the public regarding some who it seems like the special town meeting warrant article on fossil fuels. I haven't found anybody that person in the street that hasn't been supportive of it. But there is sort of a tie in or a partnership with the MBTA Communities Act. And I was just wondering. I'm thankful that you do have it in the comment. And perhaps if you could just speak two to four sentences on that in terms of what the heck is Mahan talking about? This is the fossil fuel. Why is she bringing up MBTA Communities? If I may, Mr. Chair. In the meeting here? Yes. Sure. Absolutely, Ms. Mahan. And thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, so when the town passed its clean heat bylaw back in 2020, the state said, you can't do that. What we're going to do is part of a state program. And so the state passed legislation and invited a very small group of communities. In fact, only 10. Arlington was first to get in to participate in the fossil fuel demonstration project. But as part of the requirement to participate in that project, the town or community has to pass an MBTA Communities bylaw prior to a certain time. So that's why the two are tied together. So a failure to pass an MBTA Communities bylaw by the special town meeting would preclude us from this program. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Mahan. Any further discussion? I'll just add for myself that, and we expressed our views, I think, when Ms. Fox came to present this to us at her last meeting, but I'm really happy. I think this is a really good summary of the discussion. I was tempted to suggest, strongly recommend, but I think I'll just keep my powder dry. But I think that I know that there's a strong sentiment on the board in support of this program and support of the values that it represents for the towns and its priorities. So we have a motion to approve the final vote and comments by Mr. Herd, seconded by Ms. Mahan. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? unanimous 5-0 vote. Thank you very much. Okay, now we have an overnight parking pilot update by Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So did you all get the PDF that I sent? It's okay. If Ms. Mahan, I mean, Ms. Meyer wants to pull it up, that's fine. But I don't think we'll need to. So this is just very preliminary. As you can see, it's kind of evenly split between East Arlington and, well, Arlington Heights, or not East Arlington. And I kind of drew the line at Pleasant Street, Mystic Street. So pre-6-1 through 7, I mean, is East Arlington 8 through 21? Is not East Arlington? And pre-6-3 tends to perform a lot. I mean, it does this time. It has nine of the slots. I say that because pre-6-3 is also having three pre-6 meetings. Yeah, this fall, so. And so, yeah, I mean, there's a little clustering. I mean, nine, three, four, and five. I mean, I think probably have the top. Yeah. They have nine, seven, and eight, respectively, in terms of permits. So we see a little clustering in those precincts. But as I said, overall, I mean, they're pretty evenly split across town. Pre-6-9 and 15 have none. Actually, 9, 11, and 15 have none. Actually, 9, 11, 15, 18, and 19 have none. But it's only 60 out there. So that's where we are. I talked with Chief. And as you all know, we're not really seeing any emails. And she asked for a quick little comparison, complaints before and after the pilot. Not seeing any difference, meaning not seeing anything really relating to the pilot itself. So that's just preliminary. So what I will ask you all to do is think about what questions you would like answered when we do the final analysis. Because the goal is to do that analysis pretty quickly. Mainly because it's like, wait, and things come up. As soon as this thing is over, it's like, let's have the questions ready to go and try and get those questions answered as quickly as possible. If the chair will permit it, maybe in December I'll ask to see if people have questions. Essentially, I'd like to see if there has been any complaints that are directly related to the pilot. People are of course going to have their philosophical positions about it. I don't really expect those to change, but we really want to see are there any complaints or any issues that came up as a result of the pilot. So that's it. It's another way to let people know it is going. Another two months made, so you can sign up. It seems like one person signed up as late as the fifth. So take advantage of it if you can if you want. So that's it. Any questions? Thank you. Any discussion or questions from the board? Good. Thank you for your work on this, Mr. Diggins. This is useful information. Right. We now go to item 11, the Transportation Advisory Committee Downing Square Memo, and Ms. Marr, if you would promote Jeff McStuess to the panel, he's come over from the TAC meeting and is available, but I'll let Mr. Diggins carry this one. Thank you. So I'm just trying to pull up that memo. So I think it's pretty straightforward. I take it you all have seen it and read it. So essentially it's really adding more information to the signs and we have two choices. Whether we put those additions on all six signs or whether we put them on three of them and the three are the ones that have the most traffic. TAC recommends all six. I don't think the cost would be prohibitive. I mean, doing three more signs. And so I asked Mr. McStuess if he could be here because if there were any historical questions based on what's happened there, historically he's been around for a long time and he could answer those questions about maybe other work TAC has done on that intersection and why we think signs are the better way to go as opposed to trying to do a signal there. So with that, I'll ask Mr. McStuess if he wants to add anything. Sure. Mr. McStuess, thank you. Well, thank you for joining us, sir. Yeah, I'm sorry. What through you? Understood. Yes. Thank you, Len. Chairman, members of the board. Yeah. The only thing I'll add is these are advisory plaques. So they would go on the existing stop signs. So they go on five approaches that have the stop signs. Every approach except Park Ave, Northbound, which does not have stop control. So these are MUTC compliant. They're not regulatory signs. They're just advisory information signs. And, you know, we were trying to come up with a method that would give motorists more information at a confusing intersection that would create more confusion at the intersection. You can see similar signs at Dowa Avenue and the Frontage Road where it goes under Route 2 there, where there's advisory signs that say, you know, cross traffic does not stop. It was a similar kind of placard. So, yeah, so there's kind of precedent for these signs. And we think, you know, obviously, if you know this intersection, it is confusing, particularly if people don't know it. So we think it would add some benefit to try to make it clear, which is kind of an unconventional, you know, five-way stop sign at a six-line, six-legged intersection. Thank you very much. And thanks, Jeff, for clarifying and correcting me. You know, in a gentle way. So it is five signs versus three. So they recommend the five, you know. Oh, thank you. Do you have a motion? Or you want to discuss it? I just wanted to ask if I could, through the chair of Mr. Diggins or to our Transportation Advisory Committee member, Mr. Max Tutus, I understand there's the preferred option, which is the five sign option. And then there's an alternative option of three signs, which I was sort of leaning towards that. So I guess I would ask, but I'm fine. My question is how preferred is the preferred option? Or is it really a 50-50? I mean, I want to go with what TAC is there. So you know what I'm trying to ask? Yeah, I think one might say it might be, you know, what is the strength of that preference? And maybe you could provide some rationale for the recommendation. I think the only, the TAC preferred the full, you know, five signs. The only question came up about sign clutter. You know, we don't want to kind of over sign it. And if we're going to provide two legs that were kind of lower volume, it'd be Westminster for sure. And then Beau, it's somewhat less volume, but it still has moderate volume. So the TAC preference is to put all five signs. But there was an option if people saw that there may be too many signs of clutter, you could back off to three signs. But I think our preference at this point is five signs. Was that a motion or a user? It wasn't a motion, but I will say, I understand where you're coming from is behind me. And I was kind of like interested almost in the experiment of it, me like put up three and then add two. But generally I mean, I understand the recommendation. And also I'm thinking while we're at it, we might as well just do it all, you know, and because if it were a significant cost, then I would say, okay, we'll hold off and add the other two later on. But if we get DPW all set to put up the signs, just go ahead and put up all five, you know, so a little more efficient. Yeah, I'll just add that these plaques, there's no more, there's not going to be any new posts, right? So they just go on the same post that the stop sign. So it's just a plaque, you know, underneath the stop sign. I should be more accurate in the way I say things. So right plaques. And just sort of a process question, if I may, if you're not from Arlington, I mean, everyone who's been in Arlington for a few number of years gets to Downing Square, can name off the five streets. But if you're not from Arlington, and I'm not looking for more signs, but I'm blanking right now trying to pull it up as a visual in my head, if you're from out of town and you're coming up Lowell Street and you see a sign that says, POC-AV does not stop, POC-AV extension does. Is there signage there? So people, if they hit that five thing, they'll know what streets are being talked about that does stop and does not stop. Do we have street signs there? Because I don't think we do on all five. We hit Google Street. We do on Bow. So we sometimes on Westminster. But why don't we just leave that and I'll leave it, if I could, Mr. Chair, through you to the town manager. You know, perhaps to ask DPW or someone just to take a peek at that. And they may be, I think with all the construction and stuff we've lost in the detours, we've lost a few, but maybe not. So no need to answer that right now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right, I'm still waiting for a motion. I'd like to move approval of the preferred option of the five signs. I think you just got scooped, Mr. Herd. Happy to second that. Thank you, Mr. Mohan. Yeah, I mean, I prefer the five options too. I mean, I understand sign clutter, but they're all on different roads facing away from the intersection. I think if we're going to do it, we might as well provide the information to everyone. I haven't deja vu from about eight years ago. I think when I was on attack with Mr. Massachusetts, that we were trying to come up with signs for this intersection. I think initially we were trying to see if there was a graphic, some sort of an illustration that would come up with it. And I think at the time someone has suggested just the lettering that just kind of explained where the through traffic comes from. But I think on many occasions this intersection has been referred to as controlled chaos because it's a little crazy, but there's very little crash incidents at the intersections. But that being said, it still is confusing for a lot of people coming through. So I think this is a good idea and I would be happy to support it. Mr. Dacorsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you, Mr. Max, and the attack meeting tonight to join us. I support the five signs as well. I'm familiar with a similar setup in Belmont at the end of Bright Road, Washington Street and the Blanchard Road, and works very well. In that case, it's only three streets. Two out of three have the signage there. And I think as Mr. Hertz said, it's controlled chaos. It seems to work, but I think this will only help make it safer. So thank you. Thank you. With respect to Belmont's three stop sign intersections, Arlington basically says, hold my beer. We got five. Mr. Hertz. One other question, and this doesn't need an answer, I guess, now, but just thinking of other intersections, and I know it's sort of the way it sets up reminds me of Appleton Street as you go towards, where this Appleton and Dow all comes in together. We've had a lot of correspondence about making that safer, and there's only so much we could do just because of the sharp size of the intersection, but wondering if this would be something to think about for that intersection as well, where it's just one street to drive right into the intersection and the others can't, and to let people know if the DPW is creating one set of signs, maybe we look into them creating two sets of signs if it's easy enough. But I'm not putting that into the vote. I'm just kind of throwing that out for food for thought. Thank you. If I'm not mistaken, I think that intersection that Mr. Hertz mentioned is currently in the tank for attack to look at. There's a referral to that. A request I might make is, in general, because we do hear about that with some regularity on other things, that we welcome updates from TAC in general about projects, even if the news is in progress. So we can certainly engage people, but that's a good point, and I think that idea of streamlining and integration is always good to look for those opportunities, those efficiencies. But we very much appreciate the work, and I was very happy to get this myself. I think, soon after I was elected, I heard from a constituent with, actually, I don't think we ended up sending it to TAC, but saying, could we please put some signs here? So I'm just going to pretend that I made that happen. We'll be very happy. Mr. Diggins. Two things. One is I don't see a stop sign, a street sign for Park at that intersection on Google Street View three years ago, and I doubt anything has changed. And other is just to be able to understand why we don't have a light there, but as a pedestrian, I mean, it's just a scary intersection. And especially when cars keep going, which way are they going to turn? And also, I want the lines of the timing on the speed, and this is something that I'll take responsibility for as a member of TAC, but this had actually come, this recommendation had been made a while ago, and it just got hung up. And like I said, I'll take ownership for that, but this could have been before us, made as early as June, or actually as early as May, they kind of came just as I was leaving, my role as chair, and we were going to the town meeting, and so now it's like, I'm going to take ownership of it, which means that I can now solve it. I'll just make sure that anything that comes out of TAC, I mean, I'll make sure that it gets placed before, you know, as soon as possible. So any delay, you know, wasn't on the part of TAC. It took a while to study this, but TAC was on the ball, and so here we are. Thank you, I appreciate it very much. I know we all do. Okay, so we have a motion to adopt the TAC's recommended preferred solution by Mrs. Mohan, seconded by Mr. Herd. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? The unanimous final vote. Thank you very much, Jeff, and tell TAC we said hi, and that we appreciate their work. And that I miss them. And that Mr. Diggins misses them terribly. I will let them know. Thank you. Good night. All right. Wow. We are already at correspondence received. Don't change it. Exactly. We have item 12 request for no parking this side, signs to extend on Wildwood Avenue by Amy Duke at 33 Newman Way and a memo advising the board in the public about the civilian police advisory commission appointments. So I turn to the board for any motions to receive. Motion receipt and direct meeting number 12 to the town manager. That's it. Thank you, sir. Second. Any further discussion? Okay. And a motion to receive both items and to refer item 12 to the town manager by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Decorsi. Item 13, you mean? I'm sorry? You mean item 13? I do, yes. Thank you. Sorry. So all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Unanimous vote. I'm sorry. What just happened with 13? We received both of them. Okay. Yeah. Receive both and then refer to item 12. Okay, great. That's what I thought. Is that your understanding, attorney Cunningham? Yes. The guardian of our legal record here. Thank you. Correct. Correct, Mr. Chair. That's right. That's always the right answer, except when it's not. All right. Now we move on to board and staff announcements and we'll start in the usual order from our valued board administrator, Mrs. Mismar. No board announcements. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay. Attorney Cunningham. No announcements, Mr. Chair. Mr. Feeney. No announcements this evening. Thank you. Mrs. Mahon. Just leave it to the chair's purview, since we're having a special town meeting on and off night. Yes. Usually, when we have a select board meeting, we start at 7. But we can start at 7.15. You set the agenda. But I just wanted to, just traditionally we start at 7. Very rarely have we started at 6.45. And it's usually during select board meetings during annual or special town meetings, the citizens, the open forum usually isn't an agenda item. But I'll leave that to the chair. But I'm just going to leave in my mind that the 7.15 may be a 7. It may not. I'll leave that up to you. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that, for bringing that up. And I'll make sure I get some clarity on that, particularly for our upcoming meeting. Thank you. No, nothing else. Mr. Hearn. No announcements. Mr. Hearn. I am excited to say that I was just reelected for the fifth term being as chair of the advisory council for the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization. And I had just been elected for my first term when people asked me to consider running for select board. My first question to Mr. Heim was, can I still do that? Because I was so excited being about this position. And as I told my colleagues on the advisory board also said, I told this to the town manager. And I hope it didn't scare him when I said, you know, I am more idealistic in my, or I'm just as idealistic in my fifth term there. You know, as I was the first and I told the town manager, I'm as idealistic about, you know, being on this, on a select board as I am, you know, for my first term. Because I really do believe that government can do good things. And if you work at it, you know, you can really make a positive difference. And I feel that even more so on the advisory council. Because another thing you all heard me say a lot is that in any, most other parts of the country, a location that's five miles from a major city would be a neighborhood of that city. And that's the main of that city is because of the nature of politics here in Massachusetts that we have independence, you know, but that means that we all need to work together, you know, in order to make the region work because we sink or swim as a region. And that's what the advisory council to the Boston region metropolitan planning organization is all about. So I'm thrilled, you know, and so on. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Well, thank you for sharing. Okay, nothing for me other than just to note that our next select board meeting is scheduled for October 23rd. Prior currently noticed for 6.30 p.m. Is that right? October 17th. Oh, so the 17th. Okay. So that is the first night of town. That's the first. Yeah. The first night of town meeting just to just in case that we are in session. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So there we go. I think that's it. So adjourn. Second. You have a motion to adjourn. I miss. Huh. And a second by Mr. Heard. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Post unanimous we are adjourned.