 Calling to order the meeting of the Allenton Select Board for Monday, May 3rd, 2021. As a preliminary matter, this is Select Board Chair Steve DeCorsi. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Dan Mohan. Yes, thank you. John Hurd. Yes. Len Diggins. Yes. Eric Helmuth. Yes. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapter Lane. Yes. Doug Heim. Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Maher is participating remotely. Tonight's meeting of the Allenton Select Board is being conducted remotely, consisted with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12, 2020, which encourages and allows open meetings of state agencies and local governments to be conducted remotely in order to mitigate transmission of COVID-19 virus. The governor's order, which you can find posted with agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, is being recorded and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. And further, all participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the Novus agenda platform. Finally, each vote will be taken by roll call. I'll now turn to the first item on the agenda, which is the approval of sale of $1.2 million water bond to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for local water system assistance program. Phyllis Marshall Treasurer is gonna make the presentation. Is Ms. Marshall with us? Yes. Okay, good evening. Good evening. Thank you very much for putting me on your agenda this evening. I am here to talk with you about a bond issue that we have an opportunity for with the MWRA to reconstruct our water mains in various locations in the town. And it's a interest-free loan of $1.2 million with a 10-year schedule for payments. Great, thank you very much. I'll now turn it over to the members for any questions or comments. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move approval and no questions or comments. Thank you. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will second Mr. Helmuth's motion and just I think one question for our treasurer. I understand this will be summer, fall of 2021. Will we be posting the affected areas on the town website will we notify those areas? And I don't know if it's the treasurer or the manager to tell me the answer to that. Mr. Chair, if you're sure. Ms. Mahan, yeah, absolutely the water and sewer division of DPW will both post the proposed work areas and I've muted myself. And then with several weeks notice we'll flyer the neighborhood to let them know that the work will be starting. I'm sorry, can you say again I heard DPW water, something will post. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, hit my mute. Sorry. Yeah, the DPW water sewer division will make sure that the project areas for the year are posted on a map on the website. And then before that work commences with probably a week, maybe I think we'd aim for two weeks notice we'll flyer the neighborhood so they know the work will start whether or not there'll be any water impacts on them. Okay, thank you. To Ms. Marshall, is this a one-time project or is this a continuation of a project or the beginning of one and we'll be coming back for future MWRI work in different areas? This is the second one since I've been here. I don't know the full scope of it. So I would have to get back to you on that information. I don't know if there's an article on this town meeting or not but it has been an opportunity that MWRI has made available to us. And as you all know, the interest fee aspect is notable. Mr. Chair, I can add that the water main replacement itself is a recurring annual project, Ms. Mahan. The manner in which we pay for it is usually through the MWRI. Sometimes it's interest free. Sometimes it's low interest. We sometimes might get lucky and it'll be a grant, although it's usually alone. And so it'll vary exactly how we're doing the borrowing but the work itself is an annual recurring expense for water, sewer, capital investment. Thank you to the treasurer, town manager and thank you, Mr. Chair. No more questions. Okay, thank you, Ms. Mahan. Mr. Herd. No questions. 0% interest sounds good to me all day. Mr. Diggins. Yes, I agree. Other than a grant, 0% is pretty good. So we'll take that. Thank you. Great, thank you very much. Yeah, I feel the same way, 0%. Let's get to the vote. So we have a motion by Mr. Helmeth, seconded by Mrs. Mahan, Attorney Heim. To Herd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmeth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Great, thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Marshall. Thank you very much. Okay, items will now move to the consent agenda. Items three and four. I don't know, is Mason Conway here with us this evening? Yeah, Jimmy Conway. Yeah, I see his phone. So would you like me to promote him now? Yes. I think he's live from the baseball field. I'm gonna take item four out of order ahead of item three because of the circumstances where Mr. Conway and his son Mason are right now. Thank you. Yeah, we're taking an ending off in our baseball game. All right, we'll try to be quick. Is that you there, Mason? Hi. Hi, yeah, no, thank you for joining us tonight. What I wanna do is I wanna turn it over to Mr. Herd and we wanna read something for you and make some comments. But thank you so much for your heroism and I'll turn it over to Mr. Herd for this item. All right, thank you. And good to see you again, Mason. Yeah, so Mason was honored by the Allen to Police Department and Allen to Fire Department on Friday for some acts of young heroism that he did on March 5th of this year. And I know Mason from the hockey rink and I said, Mason, in addition to being from what I know Mason, he's a great hockey player, he's a great athlete, but he's also a super nice kid. He always says hi to the other kids when he sees them, parents when he sees them, he goes out of his way to help others. He goes and helps the instructional and the developmental kids and passes on his knowledge of the game. So it's certainly not surprising that Mason did this. So we do have a proclamation here. It was written by me, so I apologize if the pros isn't top notch. Whereas Mason Conway is a third grade student at the Hardy School in Arlington, Massachusetts, living in the East Arlington neighborhood of town. And whereas on March 5th, 2021, Mason was sitting in his dining room on his remote learning Zoom call. And he noticed smoke coming from the porch of his neighbor's house on Waldo Road. And whereas in response, Mason jumped into action realizing the danger to his neighbors. He ran outside and knocked on his neighbor's front door notifying them to call the Arlington Fire Department. And whereas due to Mason's quick thinking and bravery, the Arlington Fire Department was able to extinguish the fire and prevent further damage to his neighbor's home. Now therefore, be it resolved that we, the members of the select board, hereby acknowledge and honor Mason for his bravery and maturity, for his heroic actions on March 5th, 2021. Keep up the great work, Mason, as signed by the five members of the select board. I move to approve this proclamation. Great, thank you, Mr. Heard. Mr. Diggins? Great job, Mason, and I look forward to seeing you on this board or some other important and useful board or committee in Arlington at some point. You get a great start. Thank you. Mr. Helmut? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mason, you know, what makes Arlington such a great town is that so many people are good neighbors. And you, my young friend, have been a very good neighbor. Well done. Thank you. Mrs. Mahan? First, I don't know if there was a second to Mr. Heard, if there wasn't, I'll second it. If not, I'll third, fourth, and fifth it. At first, I'd say to Mason, when I moved to Arlington, my first school was also Hardy School. And I got a lot of my desire, my reason for wanting to get back to the town because the town had been so good to me. So you taking the actions that you did, not only talks about how well your school community has supported you and helped guide you this way, but more importantly, your family. Mom, dad, and I think you have a brother. Oh, good. Cody back there, cool. We'll see him sometimes, I'm sure, in the future. They're certainly doing a great job. So great job, mom and dad. And to Martin, I would say, just keep doing what you're doing. If you live in a town and you love the town or if it's a city, try to do whatever you can like you did. And I wanna tell you just from a personal level, I'm so thankful when Mr. Heard spoke about you helping out kids with special needs and developmental disabilities because I have that personally in my family. And let me tell you, those kids or young adults, the people they respond to are people that they feel the same empathy, the same feelings back to them that they feel comfortable with, that they feel like are genuine. So that says a lot to you and your character. So just keep doing what you're doing. Whatever you do in the future, all your brother, just tell you guys or mom and dad, let me know. And I'd be happy to support it. And thank you for being such a great citizen before you can even vote. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Yeah, and I just wanna echo what the other members said, Mason, but first I wanna ask you, how's the baseball game going tonight? Pretty good, I think that we're winning right now. Good, no way to go. Well, thank you so much for your heroism and your real hero. And I know they do a great job at the Hardy School and as Mrs. Mohan said, you have a great family there with you. So keep doing what you're doing. And thank you so much for joining us tonight. Mr. Chair, if I can just add on the baseball line, both myself and Mason's dad, Jimmy, we're both part of the, in different years, the town champion winning my rack, the legacy that we used to have, lots of success on the MyRack team. How many years ago? Okay, well, thank you, Mr. Harvey. That's twice, I think. Yeah, so thank you for that. So Mr. Chapterland, did you wanna add anything? I just, if you don't mind, Mr. Chair, I used to see Mason and Logan and they both played with Perle at Waldo many, many a day. So I just wanted to say congratulations and hi, and it's really great to see you guys doing well. Right, and Attorney Hyde? Not to vote if you wanna say anything. Well, we'll get to that in a second. I'll just echo everybody you said. Great job, good eagle eyes. You must be a good batter if you can spot trouble coming. So keep it up, nice work. Thank you. Great, thank you. So we have a motion by Mr. Hurd, I believe seconded by Mrs. Mahan. So I will now turn it over to Attorney Hyde for a vote. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Great, thank you very much. And good luck with the game tonight. And again, thank you for joining us this evening and for everything that you've done there, Mason. Thank you. Okay. Thank you to your family as well, your brother and your parents. Thank you for the recognition. And thank you, John, for your support on Friday with the fire department as a special day. And we appreciate that. Yep, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Great. Okay. So we will now, within the consent agenda, we'll move to the item three minutes of meeting, April 26, 2021. So, Mr. Diggins. No approval for the minutes. Mr. Helman. I'll second that motion. Mrs. Mahan. I don't know if you have any questions, comments. No questions, thank you. Okay, Mr. Heard. No comments. Okay. Attorney Heim, we have a motion that's been made in second for approval of the minutes. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helman. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. D'Corsi. Yes. Nanna Foote. Great, thank you very much. And then we'll move on to item number five for approval, council on aging designee appointment to replace Joseph Kerl. I put this on, I think this is probably part of the subcommittee assignment process that will be undergoing probably a little bit later this spring, but we did receive a letter from Ms. Shaw, the executive director of the council on aging, asking, requesting that we name a new liaison now. So I put this ahead of the rest of the process. I did want to just point out to members, I'm hoping within the next week or two to distribute the list of committee assignments from this past year. And then we will have an agenda item to discuss new assignments in that process. But for tonight, we'll just do the council on aging. So what I was going to do is just put it out there. I know people are involved in a number of different assignments on this one. Mr. Kerro informs me that the liaison typically attends the meetings on the council on aging. So just if anybody has any comments, questions, and then I can make a decision on the appointment either tonight or after the meeting. So I'll start with Mr. Hurd. I have no questions or comments. Okay, Mr. Diggins. This is a, I really do want to get to know this group more. Unless we do some reassignments, I just don't have the bandwidth now. But if someone takes it for a while, maybe a year or so, and I'd be happy to pick up on it. And I'll certainly be happy to back anyone up because this is an important group. I've worked with Ms. Shah on the Sustainable Transportation Plan Advisory Committee. And she's a wonderful person. And I've met, of course, a lot of the people who the council or aging serves in important vital parts of the community. Yep, that's fine. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth, any comments? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know I have strong feelings about it. I think I echo Len's thoughts that it's a great group. I will also happily defer to Mr. Diggins or any other member who feels that this is something they'd like to do. And also when if you feel like, if you really, this is really interesting, you want to contemplate maybe, I don't want to say trade, but understanding that maybe one of your commitments would come off the table. Maybe the chair would contemplate that as well. So I would say if you're really interested, I'm happy to help that. Or I'm happy to take just place or not. Okay, all right. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. This is Mohan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I actually had a discussion with the chair today because it's anal OCD that I am as vice chair. I try to check in and make sure we go over things. And I agree. And this is a very important position. You all are aware of my platter in terms of my family and others in the subcommittee assignments, which I've never had so many. I think I have three that I've volunteered for. So this would not be something that I could do. And I guess I would say to the chair, maybe if further polling conversations with the two people that my two colleagues seem willing to sort of be back up. I don't mean to throw this on Mr. DeCorsi, but I would also ask you to, since you had definitely have two people willing to be back up for you. And I'll leave it to the chair to make the decision. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Yeah, I wanted to give everybody an opportunity to talk what I'm gonna do is I'll take the position as liaison to the council on aging. I will distribute the list to the members of other committees. And it may not be the next meeting, but it will probably be by the end of May, then we can revisit it. But I know this was important work that Mr. Kerr was doing. And I may come off a couple of committees that I was on as part of the reassignment process. So I'll go ahead and do that. I don't think we need to vote on this. I think I just wanted to present this to the board, given it's unusual to get a specific request. So I wanted to put that on. So I'll take that and I'll add that to the list that we send out. So with that, I'd like to move on to item number six, which is a discussion of return of meetings to the select board chambers. And this has come out of different discussions that we've had. I actually was in the town hall last week talking with Ms. Maher about looking at the chamber and seeing if there's a way that we can think about trying to come back inside, at least with the members, perhaps with Mr. Chapterland and Attorney Heim and then transition as we go forward to having more public participation, but also gives us a chance to have remote participation within the chamber itself. And I wanted to put it out for discussion. What I'm thinking is we do, this could happen perhaps after town meeting and certainly not in the month of May, maybe the month of June, if we can pull it together, like to do it no later than July, if we could, but that's subject to what the other members feel. So I'd like to start with Mrs. Mahan on this. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have had conversations today with the chair about this and one of the things I don't know that anyone, I'm not trying to get into anyone's medical history or HIPAA or anything like that. I have my first dose, second one by the end of the month, but one of the things that I discussed with the chair since we have the MMA president in one of these picture frames here, as well as I was not volunteering myself to work with the chair, I think one of my other colleagues would definitely bring a lock to it, but I don't know if I mentioned to the chair instead of doing trial by fire, if either the Mass Municipal Association, MMA has sort of boilerplate info in terms of reopening a board council meeting legally in terms of Zoom access, what's required of that and or perhaps, if it's already happened that there's been a MSSA, Mass Selectment Association webinar on Zoom at your board or council meetings, if not maybe that could be an upcoming one and or maybe there's some materials already available that just kind of gives some framework so that the chair and whomever else who's not me, whomever else amongst my colleagues just kind of gives them something to start off from there. So I don't know if the chair or the hell manager, I didn't mean to pull you both in, but I just wanted to say that, thank you. Yeah, I just asked Mr. Chapterlain if you are starting to see that with other communities in terms of getting back into or already back into the chambers, if there's any guidance on that too in terms of how you work with the remote participation aspect of it. I would say there is no sort of comprehensive or formal guidance because we're all learning it at the same time. There is one community that's been back in session and done hybrid for quite a while and that's Franklin. I did get to see a presentation by their town manager about a month ago. And he's willing to let us come down and tour their chambers. They have a town council so that in some ways it's more complicated because they have a bigger body they have to host. So I think there's at least one and there's probably a few others that we could lean upon there, early wisdoms they've gained and try to mimic that to make it work. Okay, great. Thank you, Mr. Chapterlain. Did you have any other questions or comments Mrs. Mahan? No, just Godspeed, Mr. Chair on getting us back to whatever normal is and whenever it is. So thank you so much. Okay, thank you very much. Mr. Heard? Yup. So I'm definitely supporter of it. I think it's starting to be time that we need to start looking at getting back into in-person type of events as we get to where we are with the vaccinations and whatnot. So I mean, I think I don't, I'm not the tech guy on the board but I certainly just would, I think there's ways that we can certainly keep ourselves safe in the chamber and we can figure out how to do that. We all have iPads when we're in there. So I would imagine there's a way, at least initially, just to have this platform in front of us and then for non-public board items, we just talk about them like we usually do and for when it becomes to folk participation, we just all pick up our iPads and we'll be logged in and we can do it. We can, anyone that wants to participate remotely can do so. And I think, I mean, those are the guideline but kind of the certainly details in the detail but I know I think that's kind of a plan that we go off of and then we can work out the kinks and but I think it's just, it is time to start looking at this and start moving towards, back towards in-person meetings. So I'm on board for the board. Thank you, Mr. Heard. And before I turn it, there was Mr. Diggins and Mr. Helmuth-Clearly are the most technically savvy members of the board here and what I was thinking and I'm willing to have for the discussion, but I want to put a smaller group together for a meeting with the town manager, perhaps the facilities, deputy town manager of facilities, Mr. Feeney and a representative from ACMI. And I was thinking where Mr. Helmuth hasn't been assigned to any committees yet, that might be a good first meeting to have and we try to do something over the next couple of weeks, but I did want to call on Mr. Diggins yet next for his comments on, first of all, coming back to the chamber and any additional comments he may have on that. Sure, I guess my feelings are, oops, hold on a second, you can probably see me, but I can't see you, it's a little disturbing. There we go. So I guess what my feelings are, as long as the recommendation is that people wear masks while indoors. I'm a little uneasy about it. I'll do it. I think we should always allow people's option to not be there if they don't want to and to wear a mask if they want to. And so, and I think Mr. Heard is on the right track with the way they come at it with respect to technology. So he knows what he's talking about. So that's my only comment, but I'm game for it ever. Okay, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I like this too. I think not only because it will be easier to be a collaborative body in person, but also I think thinking back to our recent discussion and town meeting on article 20, that I think Suleyport has a real opportunity to take some leadership and just because we meet so often and represent so much of the town, that it'd be a really good thing for us to strike out and find out kind of wait into this and see exactly what the technology and procedural and health issues are gonna be. So, I like that for all those reasons. And I do think that the study will necessarily need to, of course, consult our health department and other guidance about and consider vaccination status and nod and masks and all of that as Mr. Diggins suggests. And I think with respect to this technology, my guess is that we will find it to be a little more complex than we guessed, probably more along the issues of audio. And if you think about some experiences we've had with multiple computers and virtual town meeting you know what I'm talking about. But those are surmountable, you know, and I think I'd be really, I am willing to serve if the colleagues would like to ask me to do that. And I think to Mr. Chaplin's comments, I think it would be really helpful to go out to the municipality and I'm blanking on the name that was mentioned just to- Franklin. Thank you. To see for ourselves kind of what they did and talk it through with their tech people and see what we can learn. And I think that we can not only get ourselves back in the chamber, you know, pending everyone's comfort, pending health sign off, pending technology, but we can also help pave the way for additional hybrid and remote participation for other bodies in the town in the future. Great, thank you very much, Mr. Helmut. Yeah, and I'm reminded of what Mr. Dunn said when we spoke about this, that the select board could be the, he called it the lab for returning to an environment where you're both in person and working remotely. And Tim, Mr. Diggins point absolutely, if we're in a situation where a member isn't comfortable being in the chamber, then we will do it through a hybrid or we'll discuss whether we all go back or none of us go back. But what I'd like to do is I can talk with Mr. Helmut, I'll talk to Mr. Chapter Lane and try to get a meeting together within the next week or so, then come back to the board. Our next meeting is May 10th. It won't be by May 10th, it'll maybe be the one after that where we can hopefully have some more information. And select the target date. So this is another one tonight where there's a discussion. I don't think we need a vote on it, but we will proceed and I'll put it on for a subsequent agenda item for further discussion. And we will vote as a board when we go back into the chamber. So thank you for that. Unless anybody else has any comments, I'll move to the next item. Okay, seeing none. Okay, item seven is an update on the appointment of the tenant seat to the Allington Housing Authority. And Attorney Heim has a presentation on this. Thank you, Mr. DeCorsi. As the board will see in its reference materials, we received some updated guidance regarding the first appointment of a tenant representative on the housing authority in a regular seat. The board may recall that you previously appointed Ms. Fiorella-Vidia as a interim filling in a seat that was left vacant by, I believe, Richard Murray. But following the passage of chapter 358 of the Acts of 2020, there is now going to permanently be a tenant seat for the housing authority. The short version of this is that because there was a vacancy, the first step for the board is to provide a written notice of a vacancy to our local tenant organization. The only thing that within 10-day business days of May 15th, when the revisions of 120B take effect, I think that we can get working on it sooner than that. But basically you wanna provide a notice to all your tenants associations. And there was a point in the memo that I had not yet clarified with DHCD. It's a little bit ambiguous. Four out of our five housing authority properties have a tenant association and one doesn't. My recommendation would be to send the notice, the formal notice to the tenant organizations that do exist for the four properties. And then send a notice to all tenants of the remaining property that doesn't yet have the tenant association. I think the irony of it is if I have this correct, I had cited the monotony manner as an example of a tenant association. But I think my understanding is that that's the only property where there's not a tenant's association. I'll let any member of the board correct me if I'm wrong on that. But so again, I would recommend a hybrid system where you're just sending a notice to the tenants association to nominate folks that they'd like to be considered by this board. There's actually a formal document that folks should fill out and file with the town clerk. That'll be part of the notice. And then I would also send a notice directly to all the households within the housing authority complex that does not have a tenant association, just to make sure that everybody feels like they were given an opportunity to put themselves out as candidates like board. And it's also particularly important because I think your current interim does not reside in a property where there's a local tenants organization if I remember correctly. The local tenants organizations will have up to 60 days to submit a list of two to five eligible tenants for appointment. Any individuals at the property that doesn't have a tenants organization can also submit their interest to the town clerk in the same period. And then you will have to make an appointment following the 60 day period unless you don't receive a list of candidates. So just a few quick additional notes. Ms. Badia can continue to occupy the seat because the election is ordinarily what would fill vacancy but in this case it hasn't. So she can continue to serve until this seat is occupied through this new process. And secondly, an eligible tenant doesn't necessarily have to be a tenant within the specific local tenant organization. I think that's probably what will logically happen for a lot of these folks but the eligibility to serve in the housing authority is a little bit broader than that. So again, you should be looking for two to five nominations from each one of your local tenant organizations and then anybody who basically wants to be nominated who lives in the one property that doesn't have a tenant organization after that 60 day period from that May 15th date you'll essentially come back and vote on who you'd like to serve as the first tenant member. The terms are for five years. There's a little bit of a quirk right now in terms of how long that seat that's currently occupied by Ms. Badia is set to run. We're seeing two competing records. One record says that it expires next year. There's another record apparently that the state has that says it expires in 2023. I'm not really sure how that happened but we'll sort it out with the state obviously between now and when you take a vote. So if anybody has any questions, again, I don't necessarily think you need to take a vote tonight, but I just wanted to outline and update the process and note that we can go ahead and start getting working on sending out notices so that folks who are interested can either try to apply through their tenant organization or can apply directly. Thank you, Attorney Heim, I'll turn to the board now. Mr. Diggins. I just have some curiosity questions. You know what, Mr. Heim? I'll call and talk with you about them. So thank you. Okay, Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a question for Mr. Heim. So if I understand your comments and your memo correctly, if Ms. Bidea wanted to solicit reappointment, another one of the tenants organizations couldn't nominate her if they so desired and she'd be eligible to serve? That's right. So a local tenants organization could nominate her. She could frankly nominate her herself because I think, and forgive me if I get this wrong but I'm pretty sure she lives in one of the properties that does not have a local tenants organization. So either way, she can be nominated. All right, thank you. No further questions. Okay, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair and thank you, Attorney Heim for providing us the information and the two footnote annotations which still kind of leaves us up in the air in terms of business appointment. You know, it's a five year appointment. Is it 2022? Is it 2023? I will leave it to learn at council to sort of hash that out. And my only comment would be, I do want to say in terms of Ms. Bidea Lizzie Monotomy Manor who has been working a lot as our colleague with our colleague, Nick Metropolis in terms of organizing the Monotomy Manor Association and getting them formally organized. My only comment and actually question through the chair to Attorney Heim would be I understand there's 60 day time increments that kick in in terms of notice, 60 days to get names back. And I understand that once it gets back to the select board, because I'd like to, A, put to rest, the question is, is this till 2022, 2023 or 2026? And you're going to get back to us on that. But when it comes before the select board and that 60 day period kicks in, I'd like to, if my colleagues agree on the select board resolve this in the most expeditious way that we can. So are we bound to 60 days and or understanding we have up to 60 days, what is the most feasible recommendation to do it in the necessary time course, but sooner rather than later? So yeah, first of all, Mrs. Monotomy, I agree with you. It's unusual for me to receive information from the housing authority from the town clerk that has different dates for when the term expires. It will be a full five year term after the expiration of the current vacancy, whether it's in 2022 or 2023. But at any event, I think the only real time period that we need to worry about is if we get all these notices out right away, so that on May 15th, those notices are to those tenants organizations and to those tenants, they need, they're required a lot of 60 days to get you nominations. And then after that, you can proceed as fast as you want. I think the idea is for them to have a little time to sort of develop their process for who they wanna nominate. And it might take a little bit of time that first time around. So that's the only real timeframe that I'm sort of concerned about. If you get your notice out to everybody right away, we have to give them 60 days to get nominations to you. And then after that period, if on the 61st day you've got nominations and you're ready to go or they all confirm, I mean, I can check on this. I'm kind of a little worried. I don't wanna push it too far. But if everybody gets you their nominations, maybe we can move faster than that. But I think that they're supposed to have a 60 day period in which to submit them. And then again, on that 61st day, if this select board is ready to go, it doesn't have to be an overly complicated process and they don't dictate exactly what your process has to be for considering those applicants. Thanks. Okay. Thank you, Attorney Hyman. I guess I would leave it to the chair. I think what I'm hearing is we need the 60 days for applications to be submitted. But then when the next phase kicks in and it's select board, we have up to 60 days, whatever the chair thinks is the most amenable way to get this done. If we need the 60 days, I understand, but I'm hoping it's more towards the other end. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Great. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Mr. Hurd. I'll just say, I want to thank Attorney Hyme for the memo and the simplified version of the process. And I know it, although it sounds nice and concise, I know it took a while to get to that memo because a lot of the regulations that have been coming from the state on this issue have been a little murky and hard to dive through. So it was confusing for a while. So I think we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel, but thank you for your work in trying to dive through the minutiae on those. And this all sounds good. I know Ms. Badia has been doing a great job in the housing authority, so I certainly hope she will put her name in for consideration, but we'll see the full list of candidates that our tenants associations come up with and we'll go from there and it'll be good to finally put this process to bed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Heard. And I just have one or two questions for Attorney Hyme. First one is just on the timing because the act doesn't take effect until May 15th, any notices that we send will, as you say in the memo, will be after that date that if we issue them, is that correct? I think that as long as the notice is made within that period, that is the most conservative reading of it. If we sent them out before, frankly, Mr. Chair, as long as the local tenants organizations were in possession of them, I wouldn't feel too worried about it, but that is the most conservative reading, yes. Okay, and just one question, and we don't control this, but there is a waiver provision for the housing authority and I think we need to move independently because we don't know whether they will be seeking that waiver process or not, but we won't know that until after May 15th, is that right? That's right. I mean, I think that Mr. Chair, if the local housing authority intends if the Arlington Housing Authority intends to seek a waiver, I invite them to notify us so that they're letting us know that they don't want a, or they don't need a tenant appointed person through this process. I have not heard anything. I don't think the board's office has yet to hear anything. So hopefully they would give us a heads up in advance of May 15th. Okay, great. Thank you. All right, so for this, we're probably gonna be meeting every week through time meeting. So I think we can wait until maybe the 17th to have a vote to issue the notices and maybe by that date we'll have a better idea as to the term and whether there is gonna be any waiver from the housing authority as well. Okay. All right, great. Okay, well, thank you very much. That one again, I don't think we need to take a vote at this time. That was more of an update on this. Well, why don't we move receipt of the report from returning home? So if we could have a motion on that, Mr. Diggins. I'll move receipt. And actually I will ask one of my questions. So if Mr. Dia were to go for it and get it, then what would happen to her seat now? So right now, Mr. Chair, if I may. Sure. Thank you Mr. Diggins. But her seat right now is like any other essentially holdover seat. Ordinarily what happens when there's a vacancy on the select board, the housing authority, the board of assessor and any elected body, you would appoint alongside whatever board there was a vacancy on an interim person until that position is filled. In this particular case, there's a slightly unusual circumstance because ordinarily the election is how that seat is filled. But because that seat is designated as the tenant seat and the process takes a long, we have to wait until the revised chapter 121 be goes to effect. She essentially stays in that holdover status until a successor to that vacancy is appointed. So that seat either has one or two years left on it. If it has one year left, by the time a successor, whether that's Ms. Badia or somebody else is appointed, there really won't even be a full year until the process restarts again in April. If there's two years on, then it would be like a seat that would be occupied for a year and nine months. But all the terms are staggered out so that each five year term, only one should be coming up each year. And that's where there's a little bit of disconnect by the way. It's a little bit strange. We're not quite sure how it happened but the housing authority seats don't seem to line up so that one is expiring each year. Okay, I got you. See, I wasn't seeing it as the designated tenant seat. I was just seeing us having replaced that seat with a person that happened to be a tenant. And now we're designating it as a tenant seat. So, okay, now I get it. Thank you very much. So yeah, I've moved it onwards. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. I missed that helmet for a second. Yes, I'll second that. Thank you. Okay, any further questions or comments? No, okay. Mr. Mahan, any further questions or comments? No, thank you, Mr. Jim. Okay, and Mr. Hurd? Nope. Okay. Okay. Well, we have a motion to receive the report of Attorney Heim that's been made in second. Attorney Heim. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmeth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Dacorsi. Yes. Mr. Heim, I spoke. Great, thank you. Okay, last item is new business. Attorney Heim. No, sir. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Chapter Lane. No new business. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Helmeth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have one item. I think most of the many people in the community know that there was a fire at the Taimun restaurant a few days ago. And I just want to share some positive news. It's just one of the things that I love so much about this town is the generosity of our residents. This restaurant was beloved by many, but something I didn't know was that they had donated hundreds of meals to Arlington Eats early on in the pandemic. And in recognition of that, a resident of the town three days ago created a GoFundMe fundraiser for their restaurant to help them get back on their feet. And I'm looking at it right now and they had a $10,000 goal and the community has raised over $17,000 in just three days. And I just think that speaks so well for the caring of the community and how we value our local businesses, especially those businesses which have been such good corporate citizens. So thank you. Great. Thank you, Mr. Helmeth. Mr. Diggins. Yes, one piece of new business is a request that at our next meeting that we assign or consider assigning the select board person that will be on the Youth, Young and Adult Advisory Study Committee. And so that's one reason I wasn't leaping at the Council on the Aging because you know who's gonna be begging for that one. It's so soft. So that's it. So that we can then get the ball rolling because it's kind of nice that this has come up early in town meeting. And so I wanna really get some momentum going on this so that we can make some progress sooner rather than later. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Hurd. I think that should be an easy appointment for the chair. Yeah, I just wanna mention, we talked about the event for Mason Conway on Friday and we talked about Mason's heroism, but I do wanna really thank the Island and Fire Department and the Island and Police Department who were both there on Friday in full force. Chief Kelly had talked about his, about the fire safety programs that they have done in past years that they haven't been able to do for COVID where they go into the schools and they talk to the students about fire safety and certainly worked in this instance. So I do wanna thank the Island and Fire Department and the Island and Police Department for participating in the event. Thank you. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just briefly, if I could through the chair and by the chair, as we all know, and most people probably have forgotten the election was April 6th, the select board, we've done the payroll and it's been out for two or three weeks now and some of the election workers are calling because some people are literally living paycheck to paycheck pending nickel dime quarter. So if I could ask Mr. DeCorsi, our chair, to speak or coordinate with Mrs. Kopalka and whatever venue you feel appropriate in contacting the town clerk's office to see if there's anything else we can do, which I don't think there is. We've prepared the payroll, but sort of get a conversation in terms of where payroll is at right now and what we can tell our workers who are calling when they should anticipate receiving their renumeration. So, and I'll be happy after the chair to make the motion to suspend and reconvene this meeting. But if one of my other colleagues wanna do it, that's fine. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Mahan. I will follow up with Mrs. Kopalka on that tomorrow morning on the payroll issue. Just a quick piece of new business. We, the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was created at the special town meeting back in November. There are trustees to the trust that are appointed by the select board and I spoke with Ms. Meyer in our office earlier this week and she's going to pull together notification, seeking, putting it out there for people who are interested in being trustees and that should be taking place, hopefully over the next week or two. Once the expressions of interest come in, then we will talk about a procedure for the board to select the trustees. But I just wanted to make people aware of that. That's all I have for new business for the motion to adjourn. I'll turn to Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to move that we suspend the select board meeting of May 3rd, 2021 and reconvene concurrently with the opening of the May 3rd, 2021 town meeting and to that end, the select board will remain in session during this and future town meetings and our adjournment will also be concurrent with the adjournment of the 2021 town meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Do we have a second? Okay, thank you, Mr. Heard. Okay, we have a motion that's been made and seconded to adjourn. Attorney Hyde? Mr. Heard? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Helman? Yes. Mrs. Mahan? Yes, see you at town meeting. Mr. Corsi? Yes. Great. Thank you, everyone. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.