 Okay, welcome everyone to the meeting of Monday, April 25th, 2016, first on our agenda is kids sent agenda, number one, minutes of meeting, March 21st, 2016, number two, appointment of new election workers. I'm sorry, I'm on the long one. I'm sorry, I'm not coming out. Oh, that's better, thanks. The new election worker, James Walker, 68 Marathon Street, Democrat Precinct 21, number three for approval, a frame sign at the intersection of Mystic Street and Ridge Street, Sunday, May 15th, and Sunday, May 22nd, for the Bishop School Be'er Fair, Laura Fuller, Bishop School PTO Be'er Fair Coordinator, number four, request one day all alcohol license, May 14th, Robbins Memorial Town Hall, for the Waldorf School of Lexington Spring Benefit, Paula Antonovich, Director of Development, Waldorf School of Lexington, and number five, request one day beer and wine license, May 21st, 2016, at the Robbins Memorial Town Hall for a private request, request, Shira and Adam Blumenstein. Is there anyone here who would like to speak to any one of those items? If not, I'll take a motion from one of my calls. Move approval. Move by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Dunn, any further discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, unanimous vote. Number six, licenses and permits for approval, cafe, outside seating, permit applications. We have three of them. Maurice Moink at 171 Mass Ave, Gail Ann Coffee Shop at 10 Medford Street, and Starbucks at 327 Broadway. Do I hear? I move approval, subject to all conditions. Second. Move by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Greily, any further discussion? Anyone here wants to speak to that? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, unanimous vote. Number seven, for approval, common victual license, JR Foods, LLC, DBA, commune kitchen, 203A Broadway, Justin Demers, and Richard Nid Zuecky, co-owners. I apologize if I didn't get that right. Is there anyone here to speak to that? Do I hear a motion from my colleagues? Move approval, subject to all conditions, set forth. Move by Mr. Curel, seconded by Mr. Greily. Mr. Greily, any further discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Number eight, for approval, common victual and all alcohol licenses. Or it should be licensed, perhaps. Take Sioux Corp, doing business as Trist, 689 Mass Av, Sang Ho Kim, owner. Is anyone here to speak to this? Would you like to come up to the microphone? Just say your name and invite them all up if they want. Hi, good evening. Hi. Nice to see you. If you could just say who you are and if you want to give either one of you or both of you any sort of briefs? Yeah, this is Sang Ho Kim. He's my business. He's real managing, most of all. So that's why I'm introduced to my son, Tech Sioux Kim. Please. Okay. Thank you for coming out and being with us. Is there a motion, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Greily? I'm sorry. I should move approval. Can I ask a question? You may, sir. So will this remain the Trist restaurant or are you going to make changes? It'll remain the same Trist restaurant. Same menu or? Menu, yep. Same menu? Same menu. Could you get the veal chop back on that at some point? I'm not even going to touch that one, folks. Any further insightful questions? Well, just I begged the previous owner of this a number of times. Mr. Dunn. I enjoy Trist a lot, so welcome into town and good luck with the business. Thank you very much. One thing and this is going to be a theme, I think, for the following year of the first of three talking about alcohol licenses, so you're going to get the first round on this. So one of the things that we've been stressing a lot over the recent years is training for servers related to serving alcohol policy. Trist, to my recollection, hasn't had a problem, but several restaurants in town have had a problem and we've found so far that the training has been very powerful. Have you had an experience with training people or maintaining a policy related to alcohol serving? Absolutely. We currently own a restaurant in Maynard as well and we're well aware of the training that needs to take place as well. Every server and bartender needs to be to obtain a tip certification, which everybody's currently in my restaurant currently and I'm sure Trist right now is as well. That's great. Thank you. Any further questions? If not a motion by Mr. Greerly, seconded by Mr. Curell, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Unanimous vote. Thank you so much for coming down, gentlemen. Thank you very much. Thank you for choosing Arlington. But Lamb is good too, by the way. What did she mention that? Item 9 for approval, wine and malt licensed, mashed LLC, DBA Otto, all caps, 202 Mass Ave. Anthony W. Allen and Michael P. Keown, co-owners. Are those gentlemen here? Hi. How are you? Could you say your name? Anthony Allen. Nice to meet you, sir. Watch out for that TVM. I'm short. I never have to worry. Alex Budd. Any questions or Mr. Dunn? I'll move approval, but I've got the same question, which is we've had a number of restaurants that have had... Everyone starts great with serving alcohol, but then they hire somebody new, they're in a rush, they were shorthanded, they put the person on the floor, and then that person doesn't get the training and the alcohol goes on the table. I think I've heard this story six times in the time that I've been on the board. Convince me that this isn't going to happen to you. I'll let Alex because he's managed both 289 and 888.com. Again, all of our servers and bar tenders, we won't have bar tenders at this location, but at our other locations are tip certified. We have an alcohol addendum on to our training, where they're asked to answer a few questions in regards to it, as well as the managers being present on the floor at all times. Second. Thank you. Motion by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Rourn. Any further questions? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Welcome to Arlington. Again. Thank you. Thanks for choosing Arlington. Good luck. Agenda item 10 for approval, change of manager, alcohol license, not your average joe, 645 Mass Ave, Bruno Ferrara, manager. Good evening. My name is Bruno Ferrara. I've been with not your average joes for nearly 10 years now. I was in our Newbury Port location for the past two years, have been transferred to the Arlington location about five months now. So excited to be here. I'll answer any questions you may have. Mr. Grilly. Move approval. Move approval by Mr. Grilly. Second. Bill Chop on the menu. Second. No Bill Chops, unfortunately. Sorry. Someone didn't have their dinner tonight. Okay. Any further questions? Mr. Dunn. You heard the speech twice already. Not your average joes did have a problem earlier, a couple years ago, two years ago. I'm just making sure that you're aware of that. And you know the policy gets pretty spectacularly difficult on the second infraction. Absolutely. I am aware that that happened. And we have all of our managers are actually serve safe certified. It's a requirement of the company. And we also have a five day training period for all of our new hires. And one of the days is completely devoted to alcohol service. We emphasize making sure that everybody gets carted. We go as far as we can. Anybody who looks younger than 40, that's our policy to make sure all of them get carted and all the servers get certified in that policy as well. Are you still doing the written policy, the written agreement where they sign this? Yeah. Excellent. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Dunn. Any further questions? If not an emotion by Mr. Grilly, seconded by Mr. Byrne. All those in favor say aye. Aye. I opposed. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck. Gender item 11 or across one day, one space on street overnight parking at 38 Lombard Terrace, Michelle and Pasquale to Terci. Want to just come up and hi, Michelle. How are you? Good. How are you? I know Mr. Terci. So we rented our unit in order to rent it out. We had to offer a garage space and there's only two garage spaces and there's three cars. So right now we're playing musical cars. So we're asking for one permit parking overnight for one car. Mr. Hero. Yeah, thank you very much. I just just wanted to note that so it sounds like you do have space for the cars. You're trying to avoid the inconvenience of changing them around. I think that unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to support the request. I mean, we we do get a number of these requests over over over the years. We we have actually correspondence from the police and fire department also opposing the request. Generally, the only circumstances where we would issue these would be in a situation where someone is actually on does not have sufficient parking is unable to to build on and not in a situation of a rental situation is known beforehand. So I don't know what my my colleagues stand on this, but I'm sorry. Unfortunately, I'm unable to support it. Is there a second? Is there a motion? Oh, then yes, a second. I mean purposes discussion or whatever you want. Any further questions or comments? Yes. So it's funny when Joe raised his hand first. And I think we kind of get that you don't want to be the bearer in bad news, but someone has to be and yeah, these are really hard to to get and we have very strict guidelines to actually offer to give out these permits. And it's something that we don't take lightly. You know the town voted to against overnight parking. And we feel that you know, at this point, until that changes that whole policy changes, we don't want to give them out on a piece by piece basis very easy. So I'm going to support the motion as well. Any further questions or comments? If not an emotion by Mr. Carol seconded by Mr. Burn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed unanimous votes. Agenda item 12 request one space on street overnight parking at 6 Daniel Street. Kirby Rose Hunter. So we just rented an apartment on it's eight Daniel Street actually I got confused about which one it is. But as you can see in the garage, the space it does allow for three cars and we get one space, but we come with two and we both commute to our jobs. So we were hoping to get another space. Are you I'm in this chair now otherwise I would Mr. Don I'm afraid for the same reasons as we denied the last one, we're going to say no on this one. It is one of those things. Parking is incredibly tight in town. It's one of the things I tell people when I ran for select and I knew pretty much what I was getting into. The thing that surprised me that I didn't expect was that I spend a third of my time talking about parking. And it's not something that there is an easy solution to. And I do rely on the town vote that we took relatively recently where every single precinct said no to on street parking. And so for that, I move no action. Second by Mr. Byrne. Any further questions or comments? Could I just ask what are you recent renters? We move in May first. You move in. You haven't even moved in yet. We started last week. Were you aware there's an on street parking ban? Were you made aware by? We saw on the website the application, so we figured we'd give it a shot. All right. Very sorry. On a motion by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Byrne. All those in favor say aye. I'll just pose unanimous vote. Agenda Item 13 update Minuteman Building Project, our vice chair and our colleague, Mr. Dunn. Thank you. And I noted that Superintendent Elbukulon is right here if we have any questions for him. I hope that you all had the time to take a look at the two-pager on the Minuteman Build Proposal, where that's a description of where my thoughts are right now. The task force that we created has had an opportunity to meet once and had some robust email conversations. And I would say it is unlikely that we're going to come to unanimous consent. But I think that we're all very respectful of the fact that there are reasonable people can disagree on this, and the reasonable people are disagreeing. So I expect that, you know, subject to our next item, we're going to, the chairman is going to call a meeting for next week on May 4th, and I'm probably going to ask this board to take a position, and I'm probably going to ask you to support the building. But if, you know, I think you should listen to every button on the task force and the recommendation that comes out of the task force. I don't know if there are questions or if other people want to talk on the issue. I do have a question. So the, the disagreement, there's disagreement within the task force itself? Correct. I didn't know if you were different towns or no. I meant entirely, yeah, within Arlington, we are not unanimous at this time. We're used to that. Yeah. Thank you. Mr. Grayley. If I may, thank you, Madam Chair. The, the only thing that surprises me, Dan, other than how well you write and all the work you put into this, the enrollment of Minutemen, Minutemen are on the order of 700 students. Was, was, weren't we talking about 400 or something a little while ago? So I'll, I'll speak for the superintendent who is here if we want to get to his answer. But the, so that 700 number is a combination of in-district students, out-of-district students, and then you know the Minutemen post-grad programs where they have people who are, and so, and I, but the 700 may or may not include some of the middle school, schooling that they do at Lexington. So, yeah, but it comes out to, you know, 700-ish full-time. Okay. Thank you. And could I ask the superintendent, superintendent Bacquell, and if you could just come up to the microphone, if there's anything you wanted to add to that, and I, my question piggybacking on that included in that number, does that also include the higher functioning special needs students who participated in the Minutemen work program? Yes, that 700 number includes high school students post-grads, no middle school students. Thank you. No middle school. Anything you don't have to, but if there's anything you'd like to highlight to the board, or... Well, I, it's been a long road together, almost eight years since we submitted our statement of interest, and it's, you know, one of the prerequisites that Arlington had was a new regional agreement, and thanks to the efforts of Dan Dunn and other selectmen that was achieved after six years of effort that began in 2010 with Al Tosti being on the original regional agreement task force. I think Arlington benefits from the new regional agreement overall. There's concern on all our parts that we're going to hit our enrollment numbers, which is a common thing I heard at the precinct meetings yesterday. But I just want to thank you for sticking with us, and I think it's going to be a great future for Minutemen as we move forward together. Any further questions? I don't know that we need a motion at this point. I don't think so. Just a update from Mr. Dunn. Yeah, unless someone's jumping to make a motion, I'm not. Great update. SNL. We will move on to agenda item 14, vote authorized special election and debt exclusion question to exclude debt related to Thompson elementary expansion, Arlington high school renovation slash rebuild feasibility study, middle school expansion and the Minuteman School building project. First, I would like to call on our town manager and then I'd like to call on our colleague, Mr. Dunn, and then take everybody else in the order they raise their hands. Mr. Chaplain. Thank you, Madam Chair. So I am listed as the name of the agenda item, but I will immediately defer it to Selectman Dunn, who I think has some remarks prepared. So I am more nervous about this motion than I was giving the state of the town three years ago. This is one of the bigger decisions that I think this board ever has to make. And it was with a lot of work and a lot of preparation over several years that got us to this place. And I think the thing that got us to this specific motion tonight is because of an unexpected increase in enrollment. But really it is the first of three steps for large financial steps that will secure our future going forward. And so I know that the board hasn't had the time to review this in full, so I'm going to go into it in some detail, despite the fact that it's in front of us. So first, I'm just going to read the full language of the motion. We rely on our town's past successes and careful financial management. We also rely on our multi-year plan to guide our decisions. With the foundation of our past successes, with careful analysis of the present situation, and with our future plans in mind, we hereby set the date of Tuesday, June 14, for a town-wide vote on a proposition two and a half debt exclusion. The debt so raised shall be used to manage our growth in elementary and middle school enrollment and to prepare our high schools for the future. Specifically, we will, one, pay for an addition to the Thompson School, approximately $4 million, expand our capacity to educate middle school students, which is not predisposing the answer as to whether it's Gibbs or Audison, but $30 to $40 million with more insight that we expect to be available on May 2 from the School Enrollment Task Force. We'll pay third, we'll pay for the planning of a new or renovated Arlington High School with cooperation from and assistance from the Mass School Building Authority through a feasibility study at a cost of $2 million, and prepare for capital expenses at the Minuteman Vocational High School, either through the currently proposed new building project or the repair projects will be necessary if the new project is not approved by member towns. And that at a cost of $32 million. So that's your motion, is there a second? Second. Seconded by Mr. Kerro, just a friendly amendment. I'm just, after June 14, can we just put in 2016? Yes. It's not big, just. Yeah, sure, I think it's important that we know what year to show up. I just wanted to make sure that's the end of the motion. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, I'm gonna go back just a little bit to talk about what those specific numbers represent. So the $4 million on Thompson is an addition on Thompson School and some of the expenses related to expanding the Thompson School. Gibbs or Audison, we definitely, I would say that the Gibbs is currently leading the bets on what is gonna be the appropriate choice and the number of, to be set aside, we expect to be informed significantly by the architectural report we're gonna get later this week. The feasibility study is based on other towns with similar experiences in recent history. And the Minuteman number is based on our analysis of the debt provided that Arlington remains roughly a third of the students and it does not include contributions from out-of-district students. And so Minuteman has provided us with a set of expectations on what they think the out-of-district number will be and it actually drives the 32 million down to 22 million. But frankly, because of the, it's not a hard number. It's that I chose to put the more difficult number in there but I'm hopeful that it will be closer to 22 than it actually is to 32. So before I keep going, is there any questions about those four items or those numbers? All right. Yes, actually. So with the capacity to educate middle school students. Yes. You said the later this week we'll have a better idea of this through the architectural study. I'm gonna defer to Adam for this one. So the School Enrollment Task Force is meeting on April 28th in a joint meeting with the school committee to hear the first report back or actually the second report back from the architectural firm on that. So it'll be presented on the 28th, there'll be a Q and A and then the Enrollment Task Force will convene again on May 2nd to deliberate on the recommendation to make to the community as a whole. And so these numbers are based off past studies? Yeah, these numbers are based on the earlier figures that the same architectural firm put forward before doing the more in-depth architectural analysis. Thank you. Could I just add something to that? I think it's important as we consider the motion that we recognize what we're doing here. This is a preliminary motion of our intent to place the question on the ballot. And this is the reasonable expectation of what the costs are as Doug's memo outlined. We won't be putting actual numbers in a debt exclusion question itself. So we will, presuming that we move forward on this and come back next week to pass the final language. We wouldn't have the numbers embedded here but it's important in the way that we communicate with the community about what's before us. And I think also I think with Dan's book before us, it makes sense to do it this way. We have a clock that's ticking if we're going to move towards that June 14th date. And I think I'm sure that we can both answer questions about the reasoning behind the June 14th date but that's why we kind of are up against that clock and it would require us really to take the formal vote next week. And I probably, I apologize, should have said this at the outset. Just recognizing how the magnitude and scope of the proposed projects and trying to get the timeline and get everybody who needs to get running a good start as well as getting all the information we need to gather. I see tonight as Mr. Dunn's cited tonight, we're going to, there's a motion on the table for June 14th, 2016. At the end of all these discussions, going to respectfully request for my colleagues that we meet on Monday, May 4th, which lets all those groups that are meeting April 28th, May 2nd, School Enrollment Task Force, Long Range Planning, et cetera, where we will have the details. We don't have, you know, we have Mr. Dunn has provided the framework and the town manager has provided, you know, preliminary back information, but we'll be getting final reports out of everybody, including consultants. So that's why I really see tonight as Mr. Dunn will continue on with some further explanation, but I anticipate once everyone on the board receives everybody's best and final by May 2nd, May 3rd, we'll have a meeting on May 4th, and that's where we'll really get into the nitty gritty details and we'll be able to answer questions back. So thank you, Mr. Dunn. So I would actually say, respectfully suggested, we're actually ready to answer, I mean, just about everything right now, so I don't view this as preliminary, I would view this as, this is it, we're making a decision. No, I just mean like previously when we said we don't have the answer right now, because we don't know. Some of them we don't. I just want people to know, it's not that we're not prepared. Mr. Grayley? Yeah, so thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to be clear. So there would actually be three questions on the ballot. So, yeah, let me keep, so I'll keep going down, alright, I'll skip straight to that. So yes, we'll need to meet on May 4th to set the actual language. The Mass School Building Authority says if you want to put a debt exclusion related to a project that they are funding, that they want that unbundled, which of course is different from the practice that we followed in the past when we did the elementary schools in bundles and all the recent projects we've done have been under all those, because those questions were passed under the previous building authority. And so I don't know if Doug or Adam has any late-breaking news. Just a follow-up on Mr. Dunn's point. It's in the MSBA's regulations that they require in order for a project to be eligible for reimbursement that the vote on that debt exclusion not be bundled. So it's not, in the case of at least one of these projects, we could bundle Thompson and Gibbs together because we're not seeking MSBA reimbursement for it, but functionally what it ends up meaning is you've got three questions because the other two are MSBA eligible. So yeah, so that's good, I think the first. So Thompson and Middle School go together, Minuteman and Arlington High are separate. Let me, Madam Chair, with your indulgence, I'm gonna keep going through it because I think that these, the next few points are just as important in related to them because they support the actual main motion. I just wanna note that we have a track record. So talking about the past, we've got a track record of good financial management in the town. In 2005, we did an operating override and at the time we committed, two of the members here were part of that commitment and we said that we would ask for no other increases for five years and we made that last for six. And in 2011, we approved an operating override that we committed to increase, no more tax increases for at least three years and we have made that last for five already and we expect it to last for another two to four. So we were able to do that because of the cooperation of our employees and getting to GIC because of our trash disposal, because of some unexpected revenues but it is good management is what I wanna talk about which I think is important as part of this is to say we've done this right before. This is why the town should trust us to do it right again going forward. Talking about the present, our school enrollments have grown larger and faster than expected. Our school enrollment has grown from 4,200 students in 1999 to 2,000 to 5,300 students this year, an increase of more than 25%. In the next five years, we're projected to add another 532 students. Our elementary schools in East Arlington need more space. Our middle school is already over capacity. The current enrollment is 1130 on a designated capacity of 1050 and as the student in our large elementary classes get older, Audison will not be large enough to accommodate them. Another element that I should have included in the present but frankly I just didn't get it in time is to talk about the condition at the current high school which is something that this board has studied much more closely as we ate it in the submissions to the school building authority. So at least that one I think we've been more educated about. Finally just wanna mention, it's very important that we look at this in the future. This debt exclusion is one of three requests we need to make of the taxpayers of Arlington over the coming years. Step one is the one I've described tonight, Thompson, Minuteman, Arlington Middle School, Arlington High School. Step two, which we'd estimate in 2018 but it depends upon the feasibility study is to rebuild the Arlington High School. We're going to, out of the feasibility study we're gonna get things like cost estimates, building scenarios and recommendations. We won't get actual final architectural plans but we're gonna get enough to make a decision and that decision will be we're gonna need to fund whatever the result of that is. And step three is somewhere between 2018 and 2020 it's estimated and that's our next operating override. So we did a five year plan that lasted six. We did a three year plan that's gonna last for five to seven. We're gonna have to come to grips with either a new three year plan or a five year plan or something like that and that is going to come with as opposed to those previous two steps I described we're talking about doing those debt exclusions that last one would be an operating override. Thank you. Anything, any further questions or comments from my colleagues? Mr. Byrne? Yeah, I'd like to focus on the date of the override on June 14th, 2016. And so I understand kind of the need to do this quickly in terms of getting students into classrooms in 2018, I believe. So one, what is that, a month and a half? No, that's pretty fast. And a Tuesday in June is tough to get people, could be tough to get people to turn out. School might be getting ready to get out. Maybe there's vacation plans, right? I think that's when school gets out. No, not yet, they're still in. 24th, fourth. You go through everything, fifth grade graduations. Okay, so that makes feel a little bit better about it. But what would be the outcome if we did put this off, a couple more months like we talked about at our last meeting? And is there not enough, I know that we're tight with space currently, but when 2018 comes, what would happen? Well, actually, and then I'll call on Mr. Carrell, especially around when we get to May 4th, the middle school issue, whether it's Gibbs, leaning that way, and Thompson, we've pretty much done all the work and pretty much what I would say shovel ready in the farm. We delayed the June 14th vote, especially on that aspect of it. John Cole, who's Permanent Town Building Committee and School Enrollment Task Force came up with a matrix in terms of guideline. It would not only disrupt the projects up to four to six months, push everything out, it also, the way the dates were crafted for when construction would begin, when summer vacations for Thompson, not so much, Gibbs would be considered, as well as the effort to A, give advanced notification to current Gibbs tenants sooner rather than later, so that they have more time to prepare. And I know that the town manager has been working with the ACA and I believe maybe the Kelleher Center. But if my colleagues could add to that, Mr. Carrell? Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I think that is a lot of the key on the middle school and the elementary school projects is a delay of just that number of months could mean a delay of a half a year to a year, of an academic year, which not only leaves the students in a lurch and with an overcrowded situation, having worsened over that period of time, it also leaves quite honestly a cost in portable modular units potentially that would be unneeded if we can accelerate it by just that much. I think that the chair did articulate issues around the tenants if the Gibbs solution is chosen. I don't think that's an overwhelmingly driving factor, but it is one that fits into the timetables as well. It provides clarity because remember, the school committee will be faced with a vote as to whether or not to extend a period of surplus or requests that be surplused further if we don't act by June. There are deadlines in the leases that come up at that point. And so frankly, I mean, as moving forward this way, we can actually start some of the feasibility study and get a better handle on some of the costs and get a jump on it. It gains us time. We went back and forth on this. So as this board had asked the Long Range Planning Committee discuss it, we discussed scenarios around the fall, we discussed scenarios around June, earlier scenarios, pairing up with other existing elections and such. There's actually a recognition too that because the school enrollment task force has been working steadily, there's a lot of engagement right now amongst parents who have been involved in this, who will actually be very important to helping to educate the voters. We really rely on the citizenry to help educate the voters. So there is momentum and a lot of information there now which if we really are committed to this, I think that there is a sentiment not to lose momentum over the summer. At risk of death of course, just a little bit farther. Looking at the specific dates, state primary September 8th, which is the Thursday after Labor Day, which is absolutely terrible and it'd be very, very difficult to educate. Plus there'd be, there's already four ballots and there'd have to be a fifth ballot. November was too late for the reasons that were described. We had serious concerns about trying to do it in the middle of a presidential, while all that was going on. Looking at other, the summer we thought was bad news because of vacations and so on and so forth. June 24th was the last day of school we wanted to do it before then. The two Saturdays, June 11th and June 19th, Town Hall wasn't available, which made it possible but frustrating. And just to drive home, I think Joe's last point about the, I guess specifically, one of the questions you said, can we do it that fast, I think is your question. And I'm gonna point at the audience and I'm gonna say, if you're here because you want to volunteer for this debt exclusion, please raise your hand. And I think that that tells you a little bit about whether or not we're gonna be able to hit a June 14th date. And it was a unanimous choice by long range plan? Of the people who were there. There were a couple notable people who were absent, unfortunately, because of travel and such, but everyone there said, yes, this date, yes, this package. Okay, thank you. Do you think, Mr. Grayler? No. Adam, first, please. No, no, no, I'm... No? Okay, Mr. Grayler. So, ow, but it is what it is. This is exceptionally well written. This is what we should mail to the homes in Huntington. I might leave the future thing out, but not really. I mean, no, we need all three. I know, there's no question. So, 1,000% support, thank you for all the work you've done on this. I'm one who also thought we should go for the fall, but you've convinced me otherwise and we've gotta take care of this problem now. But having worked on overrides and debt exclusions, my hair was dark before we started all of that. It's a lot of work and it's tremendous to see this number of people here willing to help us out. And Clarissa here and that kind of leadership which we all will show as we go forward. However, I won't be here next week. I'm out of town on business all next week in Phoenix. However, I'm gonna definitely call in for this vote. So, Doug and Marie, if you would, we wanna make sure that I can call in remote. So, Madam Chair, I'd ask you to push this a little later on the agenda if possible. I think Phoenix is two hours different. So, I'll be teaching there until five o'clock that time. So, if it could be like on the eight o'clock part of the agenda versus the seven o'clock. Oh, wait, we have town meeting after that. Well, tonight we're calling for the vote for the actual June 14, 2016 debt exclusion. And ideally, if we had a unanimous vote. Oh, so what's May 4th? And the final wording? The May 4th is, we don't have the details. Yes, let's go. No, no, no, that's okay. We're lucky students in Arizona, too, huh? Yes, there are. Everybody else said, any further comments? If not, on a motion by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Currow. Motion read by, with one friendly amendment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Now I would respectfully request, inform my colleagues that there will be a Board of Selected Meeting on May 4th, which I believe is a Wednesday. For the reasons I cited previously, so I won't go over them again. If we could tentatively think about starting at 645 again. But I'm going to, the reason I did 645 was looking at this agenda and getting downstairs. But if I can bump it back up to seven, I will do that. So if I, so I mean, so I won't be able to call in that early, you know, so, but you don't need me to, am I correct? You have my vote, my love, your support. Right, we have a unanimous board right now for June 14, 2016 debt exclusion. All right, I'll await my orders. May 4th will be the details and a report from the school committee on what the Gibbs. Madam Chief, can we hear from the council and just confirm the. So we have a unanimous vote on placing a debt exclusion questions, plural, on the, calling a special election on June 14th to, for three debt exclusion questions. The actual debt exclusion questions themselves must be voted upon as they're exactly written. I understand. And you can email those to me and I can talk to the chair before the meeting. I think, isn't it, the vote is, we're calling for it, for, I don't know if it's three questions. I don't know that we've determined, is it a three? I thought it was going to be two. I thought it was going to be the MSBA questions, which is high school Minuteman and then it was going to be Thompson Gibbs. Am I incorrect? That will be three questions, Madam Chair. That would be three, okay. Thank you. Yeah, so I, Madam Chair, I think, so I've, that the actual language, as I've, town council correct me if I'm wrong, but it's two thirds vote is needed by this board to put those questions forward for a debt exclusion. And so we have in the past as a board adopted dial in rules in which we haven't, to my knowledge, ever exercise, but we can. And so I think it's actually, oh you did, okay. I filed in remote. All right, then Madam Chair, it's up to you to, like, but it's for us to have a fifth vote, we would need to do a dial in on. Okay. What I'll do is I want to. Only if you four are split, only if there's. Well, if we need a fifth vote, then you're, by phone is the only way it's going to work, but I mean, four zero is just as good as five zero on this particular. What I'll do is I'll work with Mrs. Krupp-Helker and the town manager, try to effectuate that. Do as late as possible, considering the two hour time difference, and I'll give everybody, ask Mr. Krupp-Helker to shoot an email if that's going to happen that night or not. So I'll do everything I can to make that happen. Okay, I don't believe we voted yet on a motion by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Carrow. Any further questions? We did. I think we already voted. Okay, sorry. That's why Clarissa's at the door. Agenda item 15, town manager evaluation, former chairman who spent hundreds of hours on this, and Mr. Grilly. And this is a tough guy to do an evaluation for, I'll tell you, but this started while I was chair, and I appreciate that the current chair asked me to continue with this. So as you know, all five of us filled out an evaluation document on the performance of the town manager, as we have done each year. Then Karen Malloy and myself collected those, and Karen put together this document, which you have here, I have a copy of in front of me. And so this is just, I'm assuming you all have had a chance to look this over. I know you each responded to this. This particular evaluation document covers eight broad areas and including an overall evaluation of Adam's job as town manager. Each item has a one to five scale, five being exceptional one needing work, that's not the correct wording, but on his overall, he scored a 5.0. On areas such as planning and organization, financial management, organizational leadership, community leadership, board support relations, personal characteristics, professionalism, public relations and communication, his average is lowest 4.5, and most of them are 4.8, 4.9. So clearly this board thinks that this manager does an exceptional job. So I move Madam Chair that this be accepted and voted on by the board, and at that moment this evaluation document is made public. Second. But first, I think there should be an acceptance speech from the acceptance, yeah. Well right before we say that, Mr. Chaplin, then I will, go ahead. I'll simply say thank you again to the board. I think this is a very beneficial process each year. I really appreciate that you take the time, each of you to fill out the evaluation instrument. And as Mr. Greeley mentioned, there's the ranking, but then there's the narrative where you can provide feedback. And every year I try to use that feedback to correct and improve and continue to get better at my job. So I appreciate this process. I'm glad that we're mutually committed to it, and thank you. Thank you. And you kind of highlighted the comment that I was going to make that the one area and one board member or two perhaps couldn't affect. And I know I bring mine out to the second decimal, but I would just say for number six, the comments incorporated in there as well as, and I know I've had conversations with you and I'm not saying my other colleagues haven't in terms of asking for information around, ask me and what's going on down there. I got a call as recently as tonight and I asked them to let me go to a town meeting tonight and get back. So whatever feedback that you feel is appropriate at whatever juncture, recognizing what we're in the middle of right now, I'll leave to your task. So we have a motion by Mr. Greeley, seconded by Mr. Byrne. I don't want to cut off any discussion. If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. The next scheduled meeting of the Board of Selectment is Wednesday, May 4th, 2016. I'll now take a motion from one of my colleagues that we move during town meeting which commences April 25th, 2016. The Board of Selectment will be in session from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. And is there a motion? So moved. Moved by Mr. Greeley, seconded by Mr. Byrne in discussion, Mr. Dunn. Just want to note that that means that the technically our next meeting is, we're gonna be meeting on the floor of town meeting Monday and Wednesday and then Monday again. And then we're meeting again in this room on Wednesday the 4th. Right, but largely the purpose of that vote is just say an open session. And if they say, you know what, Board of Selectment, we need your opinion on this. We have to go out in the hall. So we won't be meeting out in the hall every Monday and Wednesday. It's just for open meeting lot that if the case arises. So motion by Mr. Greeley, seconded by Mr. Byrne any further discussion? If not all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Good night Arlington, join us to town meeting in about 20 minutes.