 The first item on our agenda this evening is a food truck license application, but the applicant is not here. So we're going to skip over that and hope that that person shows up. And if they don't, then maybe we'll deal with that next week. So then let's do other things. Untimed items. Mr. Wald has for us a proclamation for the Amherst Historical Society's 110th anniversary. You wanna tell us anything about that or read it or anything? It's interesting, we often think about the historical site that has also long been here, so it's been here 110 years as of this week. And one of the founders, of course, was Mabel Loomis Tau, who's a distinguished writer in her time and also is an acquaintance of Austin Dickinson's, associated with the DAR chapter and so forth. So the Society wanted to, in an effort to increasingly to call attention to itself and its role in the community, thought a proclamation might be appropriate to do that. It's outlawing some of its contributions. They hopefully will honor them. Oh, we got a couple minutes. Would you like to read it? Whereas the Amherst Historical Society was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 110 years ago on May 28th, 1903. And whereas the Society has operated the Simeon Strong House at 70 Amherst Street in Amherst as a museum ever since. And whereas many members of the community have supported the Society with volunteer efforts and contributions over the years. And whereas the Society has benefited the community by collecting, preserving, and interpreting objects from Amherst's past. And whereas the Society has opened the Simeon Strong House to the public to connect people to the town of Amherst, its history and its culture. And whereas the Society speaks for the preservation of the historic features of the town's buildings in the United States. And whereas the Society educates visitors, residents, and school groups about the town's heritage. Now, therefore, we just select four to the town of Amherst, hereby congratulate the Amherst Historical Society upon its 100th and 10th year anniversary. Given that Amherst is 29th, May 25th. Thank you very much. Questions or comments about the proclamation? And Mr. Hayden, how would you like to make the motion? I would like to move our congratulations to the American Historical Society on its 110th birthday and let this proclamation in fact be ours. Thank you. Mr. Wilde, would you like to second that? Second. And for discussion, no favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. That is unanimous, three in favor, two absent. Okay, let's do the change of manager for Bertucci's. Bertucci's restaurant is having a change of manager and as we've mentioned before, liquor licenses are extremely specific and anytime you have a change to the liquor license at all that needs to come before the select board for approval, yet there is a threshold for things that do or do not require a public hearing. This is not one of the things that requires a public hearing and the select board decided not long ago that if it doesn't require a public hearing, we also don't require them to come before us. So this is a technicality of all technicalities. As Ms. Brewer likes to point out, this has already been approved by the police chief. So this is just here for us to make this final approval of the change. So Mr. Hayden would like to make that. I would move to approve the application of Bertucci's restaurant corporation doing business as Bertucci's brick oven restaurant for a change of manager from Robert E. Wombolt, I guess, yeah, I guess Wombolt to Sean C. Jones. They hold the ABCC license number 002400063, contingent on the chief of police review and approval, which we know we have. I thought we already had that. If we don't, we will before it goes out of school. My understanding as of earlier today was that we were waiting on that. So this was just to be safe. Very good. I understand. Thank you. All right. Mr. Walden, would you like to second that motion? All right. And then further discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye, that's unanimous, three in favor, two absent. Do they still do the Thursday night fundraisers? Do you support? Tuesdays. Tuesdays, actually. Yes, gosh, I hope so. All right, we've done that. We've done change of manager. I don't have many motions. So we might as well talk about the upcoming meeting schedule. You have on your desks a calendar, which has in red proposed meeting dates. The most complicated part of this is June, because obviously we don't know when town meeting is gonna end. So I'm predicting that town meeting will end on the 10th, but I don't know if that's true. Mr. President, do you like telling me the 10th? It's conceivable it could end the third. It will all depend on what happens tonight. So we'll know much more. What I'm proposing is that we approve both meetings on the 10th and the 24th. It's conceivable that if we end on the third, that we can get all of the stuff done that we need to get done on the 10th and then not have to meet the 24th, but not necessarily. So we kind of need both of those. We have, so Mr. Wild is gonna miss the 10th, unfortunately. The 17th, Mr. Moussanti believes he would miss. We really can't have much of a meeting without Mr. Moussanti. And both Mr. Stein and Mr. Wild will miss the 24th. So we're in kind of tough shape for June and I will try and accommodate all of that as we deal with, as we kind of distribute the agenda items, hopefully making the big agenda items for July 29th when we expect to have a full compliment of select board members. So 10th and the 24th in June, I'm proposing the 29th of July. That takes into account everybody's vacation schedules as they submitted to me. Last year we met only once in July and once in August plus the evaluation meeting. So this mirrors last year's meeting schedule. Our July meeting last year was kind of more in the middle of the month, but I don't think it necessarily makes a difference when we meet, especially since the 29th, we could have all of us, which would be good. So, and we usually don't do September at the same time we do these, but I particularly wanted to get on folks calendars September 30th because the Kanagasaki mayor is going to be here then. So the Kanagasaki sister city committee has requested that we hold a meeting on that night so that those folks can be there, be part of our meeting. So that was kind of a fixed date that we wanted to help plan around. So the other meeting I propose in September is the 16th. We know that, and we did this last year, but that by having an abbreviated summer schedule, we recognize the fact that that might call for quickie meetings we call to deal with a parking request or a special liquor license that might come in between meetings. But summer is kind of a blessedly quiet time and we have been doing this together as a group for several years and we do kind of have down what our summer looks like. So, and the main thing that we're doing during that time is the town manager evaluation process, plus of course everything else that comes up in the meantime, but typically that's not too much. So the dates are as proposed June 10th, June 24th, July 29th, August 19th and 26th and September 16th and 30th. Anybody have any issues, questions about this? No. Mr. Hayden, would you like to make a motion? Can I just move to approve those dates? You can. Mr. Wilde, would you second that? All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye, and that is unanimous three to zero to absent. All right, let's see. Recent food truck issues. I've got that on there just for, because this was an open issue at a meeting a couple of weeks ago when the chamber's request came in for the taste of Amherst. As we were considering the request, Ms. Brewer brought up the fact that the letter asked whether or not food trucks could be prohibited from parking the perimeter of the common during that time. And we were kind of in full town meeting mode and I said, do you know what? Just deal with the parking part of it. We'll put that off for future consideration. In the meantime, we realized that in fact, they did reserve the perimeter of the common anyway. So anybody who reserves that parking, that parking is not open to anyone. So that was, the chamber was looking for clarity on the fact, just confirmation essentially that since they have reserved that parking that it is not open to food trucks during that time. So hence that is true. So just so folks know that is the closure on that issue. We also had an issue last week with a vendor who wanted to move during the fair, a sidewalk vendor, the Hall of Truck wanted to move during the fair to a different location, one of the approved sidewalk locations. And there had initially been some confusion in his discussions with the office. He knew he had to ask, but he thought he got permission from the office. Office staff thought that the regulations allowed him to move to a different place. They don't actually do that. The sidewalk ones all say that the location will be specifically approved by the select board. So if he needed a change of location, then he needs to come and ask us for that. So that was then confirmed with him. I followed up with him when we talked about that. So just so folks know that's kind of the status of things. We were supposed to have tonight our very first food truck license application under the new regulations, but either that applicant is lost or we had a miscommunication. So we'll see if we can reschedule that. Any questions or comments from anybody about food truck issues? Just one quick. I want to note that regarding the food truck and the taste of Amherst, that section three, part A one, that says on street lunch carts may use any of these locations and move freely among them. So it's not that we're prohibiting the lunch truck from operating just from parking in a reserve place. That's correct. And part of the regulations is that no one is guaranteed a spot. I mean, if those spaces are filled with cars on any given day, never mind an event, then you're out of luck. If you want a really permanent location, then you would get a storefront. I mean, that's the way it works. And we may not have understood that now. Right. So we're all kind of working through this. These are new rules for the town, a new food trend for the community. So we're working through the details of this and the interpretations of it. And so I think we're doing okay. Any other questions or comments about food trucks? Okay. Then logistical issues related to town meeting. We have not been formally notified about any motions under the different articles. Mr. Wild had mentioned to me that he's heard of a potential motion to refer article 42, which is the Echo Village article because we don't have a formal request to would we want to prefer, would we want to take a formal position or would we want to just not since we don't have a request at the select board's consideration. Mr. Aten. I'm going to make a suggestion that we not, for two reasons. One is we're not all here. And second that a referral really, it's a kind of a town meeting request. And I think we can go on record saying we'd accept it. Just not recommended or not. Not have a position. Not take a position on it. So how about that? Okay. Mr. Wild. I think I'm not sure if it came to the other committees either it's just that there was some talk about that. And I might say. Okay. That's right. That's correct. I might say that sort of as a follow-on of the comments I made when we first heard that article one was brought to us that I think I'd welcome it as well so we can do some things that I think would help it. Other logistical issues for town meeting. Ms. Stein, as we know is not here. She has sent in two minority reports, asked me to read those. Those are for part C of article 24, the CPA article that will begin our considerations tonight. It will start with part B. But so her minority report is for part C. Additionally, article 43 she has a minority report on. So I will be reading those on her behalf. Just point of information for folks. So we recognize that tonight is the 29th. Monday is the third. We do not have the auditorium reserved for Wednesday. So if town meeting continues, of course, it will continue beyond tonight. That would be on Monday the third. It would then, if it continues again, if, might not, but if it continues again, it would continue to Monday the 10th. Now, we don't even wanna go there, but if it continued beyond that, we also don't have Wednesday the 12th. These are times that the auditorium was previously reserved for end of year school activities. So the next couple of dates as are noted at the bottom of your agenda. It's the third, the 10th, the 17th, and the 19th. So by the 19th, we have a Wednesday reserved again, but so help us if we're still doing this on the 19th. But you never know. So these things take as long as they need to take. Any other questions, comments, or issues regarding town meeting logistics? Mr. President. Just an update. The CPA committee was meeting this afternoon at 5.30. I don't have an update from that meeting yet, but they were going to be informed by Dave Zomac that he will be recommending to the CPA committee to reduce the CPA request for Article 24C, which is the Southeast Street property, from 125,000 down to 60,000. And that's because of expected proceeds from selling a couple of the lots, two of the seven parcels within that property, which has the effect of lowering the CPA match needed to effectuate preserving the property. So he's hopeful that CPA will, committee will endorse that recommendation and then work it into a motion this evening. We'll find out, I don't know. Soon, yeah. Very good. All right, any other town meeting logistics or last minute issues to know about? All right, any key information updates from town manager? No, I just wanted to let you know, town council at my request is continuing to review the Chapter 61 purchase and sale letter of revised version that was submitted at the end of April. Related to the Coles property in North Amherst. We continue to be of the opinion that the revised purchase and sale does not constitute a bonafide offer. And we are in consultation with council for the property owner to see what, if any, resolution there might be. But I just want to give you that kind of big picture. And I think at the appropriate time during the discussion of Article 43, I would relay that information to town meeting members. Okay, questions or comments about that? Anything else, Mr. Vicente, that you want us to know? No, I think we're in control. Okay, key information updates from select board members. Anything? No basis? All right, and since we don't have a lunch cart license applicant and we don't have any other business and we didn't bring our harmonicas. I would move to adjourn. And without objections, meeting adjourns at 6.27 p.m. And we will meet again. We will be meeting on Monday the 3rd. We will have a select board meeting in this room at six o'clock. So six o'clock on the 3rd, see you then. Thank you.