 Please come in and take your seats Company awesome the star spangled banner this evening mr. Greeley, please rise face to flag Thank you very much, mr. Greeley good evening welcome for our second night this evening we have some precinct meetings Precinct one these are all going to be well if they weren't already held At 745 they're going to be held at the break. So if you haven't had your precinct meetings precincts one through seven Have them at the break. I know precinct three is going to be out here the other precincts will be One in the corridor outside the clerk's office to also outside the clerk's office Three and four in the parking lot over here in this corridor Six out front and seven over in that corridor Sevens done perfect four is done Wines, no, we need your pieces of paper bring them up at the break. Oh, you got them all Bring them up and give them the Stephanie at the break. Thank you Are there any town meeting members who have yet to be sworn in? Please rise all new and returning town meeting members if you haven't been sworn in please rise Raise your right hand repeat after me. I Will participate fully it will fail you evaluate all matters before town meeting and vote in the best interests of the town I Support free speech and will treat others with mutual respect and will conduct myself In a civil manner that is becoming an elected town meeting member. I Do solemnly swear That I will faithfully and impartially perform the duties and comfort upon me As a town meeting member of the town of Arlington In accordance with the bylaws the town manager act with the general laws of the common will also help me God Okay. Thank you Monday night we did pretty good Considering what our oath of office It ducked myself in a civil manner to becoming of an elected town official Parts of last Monday's debate one of our members in particular in my opinion went beyond the responsibility pledge that we all take I Asked a particular member on three occasions to cease But he didn't That's not the kind of conduct conduct we want to have at our town meeting we want a civil discourse We want to discuss the issues. We don't want to discuss the proponents or the motivations of proponents It's the issues that we hear for the Warren articles and the votes that are in front of us That's what we should be discussing. We should keep it to that. Please. Let's do that. It makes for a more Harmonious meeting we get more done if we're not fighting with each other about mean words I mean my wife's a preschool teacher and she tells the little kids that Can't be mean to each other. I feel that I shouldn't have to say that to her this group We're all adults. Let's act like it And let's keep on scope There's another member Who I know about his cookie eating habits? I really don't need to know about someone's cookie eating habits It's not germane to the issue We have a lot. We have a several articles this time that are Gonna have some debate in them and we can move through them if people keep to scope So please let's try and focus on those two things The other thing I want to mention is we did have some clicker usage issues I'm trying to get better. I'm gonna explain what we're gonna do before each vote I'm gonna say ask if you all understand if you don't let me know. I'm gonna say One is yes. Two is no. Are you ready to vote? That will cue the clock to start. I'll say vote So you can see I made a little slide One is yes. Two is no three substain When you press your button you should get a reply In your window. Yes vote received. No vote received if you don't press it again. You will get the response Don't keep pressing buttons if you're vote. You're happy with your vote one of the Members one of the issues was he didn't understand and he pressed a delete button Well, we don't use those buttons. We only use one two and three all the other buttons are non functional So if you want to undo a vote, you don't press delete. You just press the vote you want It's about all I have to say Mr. Greeley, thank you, mr. Moderator It is requested that members of the board of select and elected officials of the town town manager department heads of town staff Superintendent schools and staff committee's commission boards of the town many men regional vocational technical school district committee and superintendent members of the electronic voting committee and staff members of the general court representing Arlington also any Consultants who have been retained to work with the town relative to articles to be acted upon by this meeting representatives of interested parties of article 3 and representatives of the news media be permitted to sit with the annual town meeting and closure That's so moving. I want to amend that that it's going to apply to all the future meetings of this meeting So we don't have to do that again all in favor. Please say yes Opposed thank you. Mr. Greeley. Thank you mr. Moderator with your permission, sir There is Someone who's with us here tonight One of our directors who was unable to be here Monday night with your permission, sir I'd just like to introduce an individual who has for the past 13 years served as our comp Troller she has been 25 years with the town of Arlington 37 years in all of municipal service and Unfortunately for the town of Arlington. She has announced her retirement, but she wanted to spend at least one more town meeting Ha ha ha ha ha before leaving us, please welcome Ruth Lewis Ruth stand back Thank You Ruth Ready miss moderate. Yep, it is moved that if all of the business of the meeting has set forth in the warrant for the annual town Meeting is not disposed of at this session when the meeting adjourns at adjourns to Monday, May 4th 2015 at 8 p.m Second All in favor Opposed he was so moved any announcements or resolutions Mr. Tosti you also have a minute man budgets There's more at the back of the table As you know the superintendent has to go to 16 towns It's one of the more arduous parts of his job, so we're planning to bring up the minute man budget on Monday. Thank you Which night? Monday, okay, Mr. O'Connor James O'Connor precinct 19 your assistant town moderator I wanted to point out there are two pages in the back of the hall this page here. It has Contact information is used by the town clerk I know there are more than 10 new members of town meeting and there are other people that have had changes If you complete this form and get it to Stephanie or some of the staff in the town clerk's office They will update it and then you'll be able to be on the town meeting List not the email list, but the list of members with correct information This morning at 7 a.m. I removed Everyone by unsubscription from the town meeting at Arlington list org list that caused some confusion because people didn't understand even though for the past several weeks and Last week I stated that the earlier date of when everyone is registered or April 27th I will be terminating that list so that the efforts of the town staff Under Joan Roman and the moderators will be merging into the town meeting news list So for those of you that got an unsubscription Notification this morning that was to give you a little alert if you hadn't already signed up to the town meeting newsletter list to do so the page is in the back and As some of you know I hate to say this, but if you have cookies Blocked on your computer. You may have a problem with the confirmation notice and the confirmation email If anybody has a problem you can let me know I have an iPad here and I can register people which I did the other night for people that came to me There's also Joan Roman if you contact her one of the town meeting members said to me this morning I had trouble. I was getting some conflicts with it and it was resolved. So the town John and I and Joan Roman are working very hard to get this system all Efficiently operational, so please bear with us, but that's What did ask you to be aware of is to just update the information with the two sheets that are in the back of the hall Thank you Any other announcements or resolutions? Miss Olzinski Angela Olszewski precinct 17 and chair of a Ted We just wanted to let you know that we'll be opening the visitor information center on Saturday for the season The plan is to have it open Saturdays and Sundays weather permitting If you are interested in volunteering you can see Ted Paluso or me here or you can email us at Arlington Ted at gmail.com Announcements and resolutions. Mr. Jamison Gordon Jamison precinct 12. Thank you, mr. Moderator and co-chair of the recycling committee You should have all gotten a little doodad here in the back that community collection day is the ninth We hope to go lots more information on the web and as you saw beforehand We'd all appreciate as well as the staff that takes care of the room if you leave it clean and Recycle your goods afterwards. Thank you Yeah Oh the Arlington High Tennis Girls are outside telling cookies again at the break Before I forget to tell you Kate Lucian precinct 20 mr. Moderator may I invite Arlington resident Maya Gins to speak about her townwide cleanup? Arlington resident Maya Gins. What's he gonna speak about her Arlington townwide cleanup event on May 9th? All right. Yeah Good evening everybody. Thank you for having me. I just wanted to make you aware of an event We are having on May 9th From 9 to noon. It's a townwide cleanup. I'm sure some of you have noticed that this winter has left Arlington quite littered And it's a lot for any one small group to do so we invite you to come and join us 9 a.m.. To noon at the farmers market parking lot on Mystic Street, you can get a bag of gloves And we'll be having coffee and snacks and this is a great way to show your support for Arlington And it's also a great opportunity for kids to have a volunteer experience So I left some flyers at the back and I hope all of you can join us. Thank you so much Thank you That is for now since the resolutions Mr. Greeley Thank You mr. Moderator on Sunday, May 3rd Arlington's diversity task force of vision 2020 and Nepali residents of Arlington will be holding a candlelight vigil to show support for those Whose lives have been affected by the devastating earthquake? The vigil will be held in front of Arlington Town Hall from 7 to 7 30 Some candles will be available Participants are encouraged to bring their own if you wish to donate to the relief effort We will have a moment when you can donate via your smart phone or write a check to a recognized charity Chosen by the Nepali residents. Thank you, sir Thank you, sir That's it for now since the resolutions no more. Okay any Article 3 any reports of committees The bill of her mr. Moderator I'd like to move that the report is big right into the microphone mr. Bill of her and introduce yourself Mr. Moderator, I'd like to move that the report of the retirement board be received All in favor Those it is so received sir. Good evening I'm John bill for and I'm here on behalf of the Arlington Contributory retirement board in my capacity as chairman to briefly summarize the report just received Thankfully most of you will say I will not read the entire report to you But would like to highlight the key points The retirement board oversees two major funds Arlington's retirement assets and the other post-employment benefits Known as the OPEB trust fund. I wanted to take the opportunity to review some important information on each Back in 2007 The retirement board was quite aggressively lobbied by town meeting members and some town officials To transfer the town's retirement assets into the state fund called the Pritt fund This fund uses riskier investments in comparison to the portfolio in which the board previously had our assets invested Over the years the retirement board has opted for a conservative approach to the investment of retirement assets a Risker portfolio Although it may yield a higher return in the short term Historically results in a greater loss during a market downturn However after much debate back and forth and since the Proponents felt so strongly about their position and since the town meeting is the body Devotes the money to fund Arlington's retirement program the retirement board eventually agreed and voted in July of 2008 to transfer Arlington's 140 plus million dollar portfolio into the state Pritt fund Shortly thereafter the stock market took a precipitous your reading plunge Reducing the value of Arlington's retirement assets by 40 plus million dollars a State retirement official Estimated to us that Arlington lost 70 million dollars more during that downturn due to the riskier state portfolio Furthermore now that we are locked into the Pritt fund Arlington cannot have any management control Over our investments until we reach the 65% Funding level For this reason and as outlined in our report to town meeting the board is continuing to recommend That the OPEP trust fund remain in the current investment portfolio We would like to point out that although the gains are slightly higher over the past three years with the state fund a Current more conservative investment plan is a sound one Another consideration is the town's lack of control over decisions regarding our assets With regard to the retirement fund We no longer have the ability to recommend changes in investments and adjust things According to financial forecast We are locked in until the 65% funding level is reached And that is not a good place to be when it comes to our future At least after the 65% level is reached the retirement board members in office at that time We'll be able to monitor the state's performance on a month-to-month basis and Transfer the assets to a private investment firm if it is in the best interest of the town to do so Arlington is a community that prefers to have control over our own destiny and make our own financial decisions I have always held that as a strong principle both as our former treasurer and now as the chairman of the retirement board It is our job to be a watchdog over the assets of our employees and retirees And that is what the board intends to do in closing. Mr. Moderator just like to take another second to thank the town meeting Town officials and particularly the finance committee for the cooperation. We have enjoyed in the past Years we cannot always agree, but it is hoped in the future when we do disagree It will not be in a disagreeable manner. Thank you for listening to me. Thank you. Mr. Billeferr. Mr. Schlickman Paul Schlickman presign and chairman of the school committee rather than make a presentation under the budgets Article we'd like to do our seven-minute presentation at this point with the permission of the moderator Four minutes unless you get their permission with the permission the meeting We'd like to do our Presentation to town meeting now rather than within the budget article. So we'd like to request seven minutes Well, if it's report of a committee they could do it, but if they want more than four minutes They got to get the meetings permission Okay, so there's a motion on the floor to give them seven minutes as opposed to four which mr. Schlickman's article So gallantly put in the other day all in favor of seven minutes, please say yes opposed mr Yes, sir. Yeah, but I by fiat gave us four minutes anyways So I was the chair was unclear on the vote. Let's do it one more time all in favor of seven minutes, please say yes opposed You have four minutes, sir Very briefly then I want to introduce the members of the committee Bill Hayner precinct to is Jennifer Seuss precinct three Cindy Starks precinct eight Jeff Thielman precinct twelve and also Judson Pierce and Kersi Allison Ampe For the school department our former members are in town meeting Bill Kerry Patricia Warden Leba Hyam and Joseph Kerrow Superintendent Bode is here assistant superintendent Chesson and CFO Diane Johnson distributed the the the budget books to you with Julie Dunn Monday night, and I move Acceptance Receive all in favor of receiving the report of the school committee. Please say yes Post it is so received and superintendent Bode will give you some very brief highlights Good evening Kathleen Bode superintendent of schools. I guess they will be briefer than I had planned This evening I'm here to ask your support in the The appropriation for the school budget which will come up later in town meeting But the reason we're having the report tonight I'm asking your support for the recommendation of the capital committee for the funding of the Stratton renovations which will provide parity with our other elementary schools and also for the technology Funding that they are recommending All of the graphs but one you will find in your book But I did wanted to have this opportunity to make a couple of comments The first graph is a graph that you have seen before which just shows the relative relationship Of the town appropriation to the other the other funding sources for our budget one of the questions that we Always want to ask are we investing wisely in our in our schools? And what are the outcomes for that investment and to address this question is often important to compare ourselves to other districts in the Arlington's FY 16 budget and financial plan you will see a list of town of Comparable communities known as the town managers 12 these were communities Selected by town school and union leadership based on a number of metrics the first graph that you will see Shows Arlington in terms of its per people expenditures as compared to 11 other communities the second graph will show the achievement of our of our students Relative to the same group of peers and you will see that in the comparison of this We are definitely getting a terrific investment in our schools And I attribute that to the high quality of our teachers and administrators motivation of our students and supportive parents Partly because of our achievement role and results enrollment is growing in this next Graph you will see the trend that we have predicted in the last three years We have grown by over 450 students which is equal to another school this a As a result of this we have engaged an architectural firm HMF H to do a Study of space to verify our enrollment projections and to give us options for space usage I also want to let you know that we did resubmit in April the statement of interest to the Massachusetts School Building Authority For the renovation or rebuild of the Arlington High School One of the things that You can that I want you to also take a look at is putting in the context of enrollment growth And who's moving into Arlington? This was a report that was made about a week ago This was a study done by Richard Florida who is the co-founder of city space senior editor of the Atlantic and a professor at NYU showing where People who are in the high-page knowledge Fields are choosing to live and you will see in this graph This is a nationwide study, and you'll see Northern California. You'll see DC in Boston and in the Boston area Arlington is one of the four communities So I I think this is again explains a lot why we're seeing this enrollment growth And I will cut my remarks very short right now and again. Thank you for your continued support of the schools Thank you very much. Dr. Vody Thank You mr. Moderator Alan reedy member of the permanent town building committee and town meeting member from precinct 16 I move that the report of the permanent town building committee be received Please say yes So received thank you mr. Moderator So I'm here to report on on two Significant projects that the committee has been working on this year and then an upcoming one And you should all have the report on your seats tonight The first the central fire station phase two the interior renovation This is following phase one which focused on the exterior of the building This renovation is to significantly upgrade and renovate the the interior of the building Since this building is is a historic building quite old there were a number of Conditions that were discovered over the course of the interior renovation that that we had to deal with however And in spite of in spite of that We are on track now to finish up this project within the next two months under budget and essentially on time Just slightly over we will achieve lead silver certification for this building following the Bylaw I believe we haven't in town to to set lead silver as a goal for all building projects And it is possible That we actually will get the gold standard which we're we're aiming to to achieve The second project the community safety building phase two which is the exterior renovation for those of you who have been following this Saga for the last couple of years I'm very pleased to tell you that we're down to the very last items That need to be cleaned up on this project And we're fully confident that this will be brought to a close in the very near future and that there is There is no change in the requested funding for this project from what we presented to you last year Just over three point two million dollars Then we move on to the next phase of the project which similar to the fire station will be a Very large renovation and upgrade of the interior spaces of the building Again, we shoot as we do for all of our projects for lead silver the construction bids were received today and We've just taken a quick look at them and we feel very confident that we'll be able to Conduct this project within the budget that was established for it and under Argo 24, which I believe will be Taken out of order tonight We do seek the construction funding for this project We hope to start July and then finish the project in just over a year afterwards and I'd like to just stop right now and Make a few acknowledgements on behalf of the committee We were very fortunate to have Real strong leadership both in the police department fire department with chief Ryan and chief Jefferson who really Just just jumped right into both of these projects and and work worked with us worked with our contractors They were our eyes and ears on the ground throughout these projects and and did a wonderful job The last project I'd like to mention is the upcoming Stratton school renovation, which superintendent Bodie just just noted this will be a renovation of the interior but also even more significantly so you know building systems accessibility of this school so that the Stratton school when this is done the last of the elementary schools that we committed to quite a while ago that That we will have a consistent level of form and function with the other elementary schools And we will be requesting design funding for this under article 24 as well Just one more second of your time, please I'd like to acknowledge the members of the permanent town building committee many of whom are in the hall tonight Adam chapter lane the town manager John Cole unfortunately was not able to be here tonight. He's our chairman bill Hainer from the school committee Chief Jefferson John Maher who has brought a wealth of experience and skill to the committee since he joined it Mark Mianu who's the facilities manager for the town and Suzanne Robinson who keeps us honest with all of our workaround lead and Sustainability, thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank your committee The helmet Thank You mr. Moderator Eric home with precinct 12 and chair of the electronic voting study committee Before I give the very brief report of the committee I would like with a moderate's permission to expand on a couple of instruction points or so on your handsets If you press a button now it will say received That's not a vote When voting is open? It has to say yes received or no received look for that I know the moderators said that but the point I wanted to make is that you can when the voting is not open and valid It can say received but that's not that's not happening So I think that happened a couple of times Monday so make sure that you see the yes or no and Press it again if you don't it can take a couple of seconds, but that should clear up any any difficulties The second thing is just a reminder to please return your handsets at the bins the close of the meeting And oh finally if you have a problem with your with your handsets if you think that something went wrong with the vote Don't touch any buttons and bring it over the table. We'll look at the display and we can tell a couple of things from that So thank you. All right, so now for the report. It's very brief Yeah, the electronic voting study committee was created in 2012 to study and make recommendations about electronic voting regarding the adoption there up to town meeting We studied it We recommended you adopt it You adopted it We hope you like it and we're done The committee and the moderator believe that any remaining tasks for Continuing to study and evaluate and assist with the operation of electronic voting can be handled by the town manager's office other town employees Volunteers that the moderator may choose to appoint such as myself this evening to assist with the voting And also importantly to the town meeting town meeting procedures committee So therefore upon the unanimous vote of this committee And I'd like to quickly name them and thank them for their years of hard work Moderator John Leone Adam ouster Secretary West Beale really chap it Steve Storch and Chris Moore I move that the electronic voting study committee be dissolved at the conclusion of annual town meeting 2015 all in favor post Finally, it will be resolved upon the dissolution of this meeting. Can we do our test vote this evening? We can Thank you all very much. Oh, mr. No We're gonna do our annual our evening test vote to make sure our There it is Will the Red Sox win? World series this season so we're gonna take a vote you all understand what we're voting on vote one for yes two for no and three for abstain This our test vote no The clock is starting so vote Oh It should if you press your one or two now it will I Got a yes received. I don't control that clock the computer does They're allowed to yeah Okay, so mr. Renau our expert says the cut it'll start Collecting your votes and tabulating them before I say go but don't bet on it wait till the clock starts before you vote vote Okay, let's have our tally mr. No 97 yes 71 no It carries Make sure you clicker worked correctly Look at seven. Oh my gosh Why don't you kill joys? Yankee pants Okay, okay, everybody's vote appeared to be right if so we're gonna move on Mr. Tosti Thank you. I moved that article three be laid upon the table All in favor laying three upon the table, please say yes post Article three is the table that brings us back to article 11 Over the last two days has been some Talk of a grand compromise among mr. Diced mr. Hanner and mr. Warden to consolidate their three Close but divergent articles on your seats you will find one which will get introduced Now procedurally though those three Article those three substitute motion Mended motions were put before the meeting so we have to dispose of them and Then we'll take up the original motion the new Opposed motion so mr. Diced John dice PC 13. I move leave to withdraw my motion All in favor of a drawing mr. Dice motion, please say yes Opposed mr. Dice motion is so withdrawn mr. Warden Thank You mr. Moderator John Warden precinct eight. I asked leave of the meeting to withdraw my Amendment proposed amendment to article 11 All in favor withdrawing mr. Warden's proposed amendment to article 11, please say yes opposed Mr.. Mr. Warden's amendment is so withdrawn Mr. Hainer mr. Moderator I move to withdraw my motion on article 11 We have motion withdraw mr. Hanna's Motion on article 11 all in favor, please say yes Opposed mr. Hainers motion is withdrawn mr. Moderator. I move the following amendment We William Hain at John L. Warden and John dice do hereby make the following amendment and the last sentence of section 1 a The following words to article 11 be deleted Appointed by a joint vote of approval by the Board of Selectment and the town manager as follows below in section 1 b and Replace with the following Before I read it. There is a slight change and I will explain why the change had happened Prior to the one that you got on the on your chair Be replaced with the following Appointed by an appointing committee of five members composed of the town manager The moderator the chair of the Board of Selectment the chair of the finance committee and the chair of the capital planning committee And or their designee The section 1b deleted in its entirety the section 1c be Reorganized as section 1b this that section 1d be reorganized as section 1c The reason for the change is that the long-range planning committee is an ad hoc committee and may have caused some Legal problems with it. We tried to smooth it out. We're looking for representation across the town. Thank you Well, I have a second on that motion Mr. Hain, did you have the two originals to me? Okay Mr.. Rehrig Thank You mr. Moderator Brian rehrig precinct 8 and mr. Good if we could get slide B up there I Forgive me everyone. I rise in support of the selectman's main motion, but in order to get there I'm introducing an amendment to that just off with the select with the moderators consent to That just made by mr. Hain or mr. Deist and mr. Warden to Simplify and reduce their proposal in scope Replacing their proposed language that appointed a committee of five With the following language appointed by a committee of three Consisting of the town manager the moderator and the chair of the board of selectmen or their designees If I could get a second on that Thank you I'm making this amendment to their motion in the event that the meeting feels that it needs to move toward this model that includes the moderator in disappointment authority I Urge you and I will urge you at the end to support my amendment and then vote down the amended motion by mr. Hain or Deist and And word So in support of the selectman's main main motion we got tangled up on Monday night We took very little time to consider what CPA actually means why we're creating this committee and what its mission actually is By supporting CPA the voters adopted this legislation that calls for creation of both the committee and a funding stream The committee's charge is to quote study the needs possibilities and resources of the city or town regarding community preservation That's a ground-up process through a series of required steps Doing outreach and public hearings and getting input from residents on the elements of the town's physical heritage that are valued by the community and How they can be enhanced and preserved for future generations? It creates an initial plan and each year presents recommendations for specific projects to town meeting So the committee's charges to bring forward community needs and desires in the focus areas of CPA Historic preservation open space and recreation and affordable housing Some of those projects will be already planned and vetted by the capital planning process as you will have already heard in last year's discussion We'll hear again into the capital plan where CPA can provide relief to the capital plan with leveraged funding Some will be projects percolating up from the community expressing the unmet needs and opportunities in Preserving our historic assets and increasing the affordability of our housing stock Attracting evaluating and nurturing those projects calls for a committee of energetic Engaged creative and passionate citizens for that reason the selectmen have proposed expanding the required five-person committee To the maximum of nine with four at-large members appointed by the select men and manager together We've heard proposals to shift those appointments elsewhere. I believe they belong with the manager and select men for three reasons First because the manager is best equipped To do the outreach needed to attract a wide spectrum of applicants Second because it is the most transparent Appointment process available to us the entire board and the manager will debate and vote on the appointments in public televised session and Third because an open and unified appointment process can best create a balanced coherent committee that broadly represents the community And offers needed skills and experience Now why not some of the other nominating entities were suggested? Consider the moderator with all due respect. He speaks for town meeting But the community preservation committee is not a committee of town meeting like for example Fincom and capital planning It's a separate entity like many other boards and commissions of the town which are traditionally and in almost all cases Appointed by the executive that is the manager and the board of select men The finance committee is yet another step removed from the voters It is itself an appointed body Appointment by Fincom or its chair would have holders of appointed positions appointing other appointed positions Some have suggested that the committee needs financial skills It will have plenty the select men's proposal proposed by law asks both the finance committee and the capital planning committee To appoint designated liaisons to community preservation Those Fincom and capital planning members will be in the room available to advise and coordinate with the entire process of Formulating community preservation recommendations to town meeting In the end, please remember that all projects recommended for community preservation funding will be worked through with capital planning and submitted to Fincom For its evaluation before being presented to town meeting the community preservation committee can't spend a dime Without this meeting approving it So let's set the community preservation committee up for success by encouraging the broadest possible Participation with the most open transparent and inclusive appointment process we have available to us Please let the manager and select men do their jobs Please reject the proposed amendment of mr. Hader warden and diced and Whether or not you modify it with my proposal and please support the select men's main motion. Thank you very much Thank you, sir Shlickman you were next in the list At mr. Shlickman passes Mr. Jamison Thank You mr. Moderator Gordon Jamison precinct 12 So we now have committees of six five and three as Potential options for the control part here. So my apologies. I don't have any graphic for the three But I did try to work through something that I thought me might be helpful if we could have the original one Okay, so so what we have here is The the way this works so the community preservation committee is in the middle The their appointing authorities are the five groups that each have their designee that is on the committee That's in the language of the vote no matter what we do tonight The vote of the put forth in the report of the board of select men Which is the thing that is on the floor now to be modified or not Uses the board of select men plus the manager a committee of six To determine the other four members To be a member to be designated a member They have to get two thirds four out of two four and four out of six votes because three and three would not appoint someone That that that would give you the way it is now that would be the committee The committee is going to get input from each of the five appointing authorities plus the fincom plus the capital planning committee plus The board of select men that's in parts 2a and 2d and Propose votes will come to us for final approval and The proposals for what is going to go in will come from variety of sources to be viewed by the committee So that's what's on the floor initially when we started this last night Monday Okay, so I was fortunate to get most of the the trifectas Amendment in the next one Well actually, let's stay here mr. Raerig's amendment Would have the the would have the A board of if I read his amendment correctly as posted up here would have a committee of three Consisting of the chair of the board of select men the town manager and the moderator I think that's too small. I'm would vote urge vote against mr. Raerig's kind amendment next figure Revised Okay, so this with one minor exception is what the three gentlemen have put forth like everything To the right from the middle to the right is the same as Nothing none of that's going to change on the left. We have the five Authorities are again doing their work and then actually the long-range planning committee as mr As they discussed has been removed that is now the chair of the capital planning committee so the board that the committee of Five and here you don't need to vote of three to be appointed We consist of the chairs of the board of select when the finance committee Capital planning committee the town manager and the moderator if I've got that right, okay Now I see advantages to both Mr. Raerig's aside. I see advantages to both The board of select men is quite skilled in the together with the manager is quite skilled in the art of appointment They do this all the time I think together they would and having five members of the board of select men I think gives a much broader thing So I tend to be in favor of the original vote from the board of select men, which is miss stamps noted is the way most towns run their appointment process So let's go back but this one here If you like the fact that the moderators in I want to remind you that in general We get down in this nitty gritty as a book as a body what it is a committee of town meeting This is not a committee of town meeting So that's why I tend to favor the vote as put forth by the select one I guess but it's up to you to make your decision. Hopefully that's proven helpful Thank you, mr. Moderator. Thank you, sir even Harrington Daniel court, I'd also like to write. I'm sorry Annie LaCorte precinct 15 I'd also like to rise in support of the select men's main motion I think that the CPA committee as in most communities is appropriately Appointed by the board of select men and it's especially important to me because I would really like to see this committee Consist of people who are not necessarily the usual suspects that these appointments be made in a public process On television where everybody can see who has been appointed and there can be some discussion About the members in a public place That's available to all of us to watch about the qualifications of the members of this committee The main qualification for the members of this committee would not be To be fiscal watchdogs the main qualifications of the member of this committee the members of this committee would be to ensure That the projects reflect the desires of the community for how this money would be spent and that the projects are Appropriate to the purposes for which this money can be used Keep in mind that this committee will not be able to propose Projects that exceed the amount of money that the surtax raises This committee is not going to have the power to fiscally Exceed the amount of money set aside by the tax increase the amount of money set aside by the tax or anything else And if they're going to contribute money to projects that are going to be funded under the capital budget for example They're going to have to coordinate with the capital planning committee and The final arbiter of what money is spent on what is us all of this will come to us for a vote So I think that it's appropriate that this is a selectments committee and that the main focus on what the Member should be concerned with is the nature of the projects and how they reflect community values That's a question of expertise in the areas of planning and community development and community Consensus and housing and all the purposes for which this money would be spent so I would appreciate it if you would support the selectman's main motion and not the Proposed change in the appointing committee if you absolutely feel you need to change the appointing committee Then I would support Brian's motion because I think that is the appropriate group to make this choice. Thank you The Michael man, thank you, mr. Moderator Tom Michael in precinct seven as I am a new member Town meeting member. I want to provide a little background about myself that is relevant to the recommendation of this article I worked in Arlington for about 10 years Through the end of 2013 and was a resident in the mid-80s and I've only recently moved back to Arlington I was a resident of acting for about 20 years and was and am still President of the Friends of the booth room rail trail They're proposed and partially built 25 mile Lowe to Framingham Analog to the mint man bikeway as a citizen of a town with a CPA for many years via my rail trail capacity I have had the opportunity to be involved in CPA proposals in Acton Carlisle Concord Sudbury and Westford In all cases Coordination with town staff and the town manager was hugely important in all cases the proposals Were closely vetted because they dealt with spending from the fixed CPA budget and spending money on one proposal meant not spending money on other another proposal or hoarding funds for future planned expenditures in all cases Proposals were vetted by the CPC to the appropriate boards In considering what is would be best for Arlington? Let's consider what the CPA is supposed to do It is really a segregated bucket of funds partially funded from the state coffers Set aside for specific purposes that is not beholden to year-to-year vagaries and pressure of town budgeting a Town cannot claw back the CPA funds into the general budget if the general budget has a shortfall The original warrant article proposed by the selectmen has the board of selectmen in coordination with the town manager choosing all four at large CPC members it provides and still provides plenty of opportunity for vetting feedback and liaisons with all relevant committees on the proposed projects and Of course the ultimate decision whether to approve a project lies with an up and down upper down vote of town meeting the current proposed amendment or the one Not mr. Erichs the original one by the trifecta The current proposed amendment has the appointing committee of five relegates the board of selectmen to just one of five votes The amendment proposes an appointing committee including you've already heard it chair of board of selectmen town manager town moderator chair of finance committee and the chair of the capital planning committee on Consideration I don't want appointed members of other committees setting the agenda for the new Committee by having the power to pick its members Of course the CPA should fund should be invested in projects and coordination Invented by other committees and as the unamended warrant article it would But it should not be constrained by the finance committee nor the long-range. I will now the capital planning committee Visions for the town. I don't like the idea of an unelected committee members controlling another committee Each committee should be a separate entity. I also prefer that the town Moderator not be included in appointing the in the appointing committee as a town manager and board of selectmen are dealing with Issues relevant to the CPA projects on a daily basis in running the town which is separate from running town meeting Though I am much more comfortable with the elected town moderator being part of the appointing committee than members of others committees in Summary I ask you to reject The amendment to article 11 and vote for the original warrant article unamended. Thank you for your time and attention Thank You sir a woman down here in the middle. Yes Nope right there. She's standing up. She's up. I was the one vote for John Warden's previous amendment And I'm disappointed that he withdrew it because it sort of seemed to cover the bases In addition to the to the five CPA Members we're just talking about four members here Four members and I feel really uncomfortable the last minute Three people are banding together and getting rid of their carefully thought through amendments and all of a sudden We have to make this decision on it without really thinking this through so I hope that we can keep up the debate I like the term limits So I would be inclined to maybe Consider Sean Harrington's term limit amendment But I really feel uncomfortable and there's one other point about this trifecta somebody just said The chair of the board of select men the chair of the finance committee or their designee's Well, I'm not really sure what that means and I really don't feel comfortable with that That's sort of vague. Well, are they gonna all get together and say we want this one person? so you really are They're gonna vote on who the designee is I really like to know who we're working with and I like the idea of the board of select men's original Amendment that we can actually go to the meetings And if you guys think there's something going on go to the board of select men meetings Give your input if there's somebody you think that should be on that committee Then by all means speak up because we can do that But if we're just gonna have all these other people these three people that I respect But they all have their time and they all have their say Let's give it back to the board of select men and we can go to the meetings and we can lobby who we think would be appropriate for that as well So that's all I wanted to say. I just felt really uncomfortable with this and their designee I'm not really sure what that means and now at the last minute They're taking out the Long Beach planning committee and putting in the capital planning committee, which I think is already Gonna be involved in that process anyway, so Just makes me really uncomfortable this last minute sort of ganging up and I'd really feel more comfortable going with the original amendment maybe with Sean Harrington's term limits. Thanks Mr. Paluso Ted Paluso from precinct six. Yeah six I'm gonna mention two numbers The budget for to the budget for 2016 is 141 million dollars The school represents something like 53 million so It sounds like about a hundred million dollars is Being managed by our town Manager Wow now the The losing my train of thought a little bit the capital the the CPA, right? It's going to be about a million five One percent Okay, I have to tell you truthfully. I'm astonished with the conversations here tonight and on Monday night And I'll tell you why I'm astonished the CPA Was passed by the voters Now When I think about it, I say well if the CPA was passed by the voters Why shouldn't the voters have some input? Into who gets on the committee and you know how they express their input They elected those five guys. I know they also elected this fellow They elected somebody who is the town clerk and they elected a treasurer So, you know if you're going to get into What I consider nitpicking, okay? My suggestion is take all the people who were elected by the voters We did not elect those people the voters elect them and I have to tell you if we don't trust them and They screw up. We'll kick them out It's that simple, right? So I want to suggest the following. Let's trust the people we elected Let's let them Pick the people on the committee That's what democracy and a republic is supposed to be all about Now as long as I'm at it and if I'm out of order, I'll probably get this in before I'm out of order You're not gonna laugh at this one. I I was very proud to serve on the town government reorganization committee and frustrated But the proudest thing that I felt was the oath of office for the town meeting members and That oath of office. There's a very key word in there respect for town me fellow town meeting members and Unfortunately a year ago. I heard words that were not respectful and On Monday night. I heard words that were not restricted Now I like to give a round of applause to John Leone for pointing that out at the beginning of meeting tonight But please do me a favor. I'm an old man Don't waste my time with personal issues. Take them outside the building Okay, don't bring him in here And when you present anything, please show some respect to the people in this room I heard words that if I had a any sense at all I would think we're not only disrespectful But we're also a little full of innuendo and that troubles me a lot Okay, so it's time to stop that. Okay Thank You. Mr. Paluso Quoro you were next in the list Thank you very much. Mr. Moderator fellow town meeting members Joseph Cureau precinct 15 I'm also a member of the board of selectmen I'm not standing up to specifically criticize any of the other proposals that we put forward But rather to state why I think that the board's recommendation makes sense You know what one of the things that was said the other night It was suggested that the board of selectmen is a bunch of glorified ribbon-cutters and that our You know, we're not sufficiently involved in the fiscal management of the town to be qualified to handle these Disappointment tasks. I wanted to just give you a Quick rundown of some of the ways in which we we are very much involved in the fiscal management of the town the collaborative fiscal planning First and foremost, you know, we facilitate the meetings of the long-range planning committee Mr. Tosti referenced that that plan on the very first night Many different stakeholders in town do and the board facilitates that We're also involved the budget and revenue task force audit advisory committee comparative compensation study committee coordinated finance stakeholder group The CDBG which we will you'll be asked to endorse and involves a lot of very difficult decisions with limited resources We approve bond issues authorized by this town meeting set sewer water and sewer rates other fees and fines We will be approving cable contract soon, which has a fiscal component contracts for the town manager We set policy for the Sims original development fund balance balance policy We approve leases for property under our jurisdiction recommend disposition of real property Approved statement of interest for school building projects. We're involved in Minuteman Hiring an oversight of the com troll our town manager Approved the assistant town treasure collector of taxes Phil vacancies on various boards including board of assessors recently we approve the classification of tax rates and when needed we authorize override questions That's to say that we are very much involved in in the fiscal processes We understand the need for the the collaborative nature and the collaborative tradition of this town And I think that through our discussion as a board on this article that we recognized That that's exactly what we will need on on the the CPC the Community Preservation Committee is an adherence to that to that tradition Now we're not always unanimous in the things that we do we've often disagreed Very seriously on appointments to committees We disagreed on the CPA itself as a matter of fact We are hearing went two or three nights on this article because we wanted to get it right When we put it before town meeting and we went through a number of iterations before we came to what we have before you this evening We also felt that it was Very important that the town manager play a role in this as has been stated before You know the town manager makes an awful lot of appointments to committees and boards in this town Usually they come for for confirmation by the board of selectmen not always and sometimes we make some There are certain cases where we make appointments ourselves and I just wanted to take a quick poll Of the folks here. How many of you have ever been appointed to a position in town either by the board of selectmen or the town manager for anything? Look around that gives you a sense of kind of the caliber of folks that we would be looking for At least I would be looking for as members for the CPC as well as other residents out in the broader community It's been stated that this was a ballot question With very as elected officials five elected officials were very cognizant of the voters who voted for this As well as those who who did not support it that it's going to be very important that this operate efficiently and that gets me to Kind of another point we've been discussing so much You know who makes the appointments to committee or whatnot, but we haven't discussed as much. How will this operate? How do we as a time? What do we as a town member want to get out of this? I Think during the debate last year during the debate around the ballot question We talked a lot about Kind of a dynamic tension with the CPA on the one hand It's a fiscal tool and so it's going to be very important that we we have close coordination With the other fiscal bodies in town on the other hand There are a set of public policy goals that are embodied within the CPA That's going to be important as well that does be given proper attention That having been said The board and our recommendation to this this body we went You know above and beyond what is typically done in other communities. We specifically spelled out First of all, I should say we didn't set aside any carve outs for any specific Boards of committees including ourselves. We want the four at large members to be drawn from the broader community That brought us possible pool But we did specifically call out that there would be a liaison function For a member of our board for a member of the finance committee for a member of the capital planning committee. That's very important And we went beyond that In the recommendation you have before you There's a specific requirement that before the community preservation committee comes to town meeting Which has the final say on any of the recommendations? They must present to the board of selectmen the finance committee and to the capital planning committee for feedback They must do that and we felt very strongly about About that aspect of it given that nobody has sought to amend that part of The board's recommendation. I'm going to gather that there's broad agreement on on that necessity No matter how we come down on on the appointing authority itself The last thing I wanted to note is we felt strongly about keeping the town manager in there as well And and acting as a partner with us one of the six six to vote on Appointments, you know the budget that we vote on here As mr. Paluso noted a large part of that budget that originates as the town managers but budget It's vetted by the finance committee That is the town managers budget when it's initially developed and it's also it's administered by the town manager It's important and he'll he'll be responsible for administering whatever projects we approve through the through the CPC So it is important that he be part of that process As well, so with that I would just respectfully request that you please You know reject the amendments that have been put forward and support the selectman's motion. Thank you Thank you, sir. Mr. Ruderman Thank You mr. Modder and Michael Ruderman precinct nine. I'll Try to take up a couple of questions that have come up in this evening in this evening's discussion three At a previous meeting there were what what I heard described as a flurry of amendments proposed to to the proposed the article 11 one was withdrawn in the meeting and the Proponents of three others have Put together along with commentary from I think another 10 or 12 people a Version that seeks to accomplish what had been seen as as as a common purpose and there's nothing you know last minute or you know Behind the scenes about it. It's simply a matter of different parties getting together to reconcile similar but not exact copies of amendments that that proceed along the same path question comes up That you know, of course, of course the it is expected that the community preservation committee will work in close coordination and seek out seek out projects and and have membership drawn from You The most representative description that you can hold of The great volunteerism that keeps Arlington functioning as a town the people that I correspond with another town governments Are frankly amazed sometimes that that a town of over 40,000 people can still function as a town with a town meeting Having long since gone to you know city governments where where there is a you know Perhaps a elected man a hired city manager and a and a board of alderman or a city council and that's it You know the same the same, you know five or seven or nine people who make all the decisions That's not the way Arlington has worked and I don't think I don't think we should change that We have we have proposals in front of us excuse me just second That all seek to accomplish the same ends and to quote from Quote from further down in article 11 that previous speaker just just alluded to that there doesn't seem to be any problem with at all that This committee shall consult with existing municipal boards including and then there's a long list of them and they include Finance committee capital planning committee. Yes, that's part of the intention and I seek to underscore that part of the intention by making sure That the nominating committee That reaches out and finds the talented people who are willing to give their time Is a little bit more broadly composed then What the select been proposed? Now I see I see no You know, you know mal intent here I'm simply saying that of course the select men are going to support their motion. It's theirs. They work very hard at it and You heard perhaps the trifecta of for the new members you've heard perhaps the trifecta of you know town meeting arguments Monday night trust the people we elect we work very hard at it and And You know, it's a solution looking for a problem. Well, I Humbly submit to you that we're not a solution looking for a problem that we are trying to get the most representative nominations that That Arlington can offer to its community preservation committee and that's why I speak in favor of the reconciled amendment that Three gentlemen have put forward tonight Thank You, sir Mr. Doherty Leo Doherty presig 19 can we move this question, please? And on all matters and all items on this article We have a motion to terminate debate on all matters on this article it has been second It's a two-thirds vote. Let's use our clickers though. This is a vote to terminate debate one will yes You do want to terminate debate? To know you do not want to terminate debate. I'm waiting for Mr. Rino is getting us queued up. We caught him by surprise Freshers on Mike There he goes Ready. All right, clock is up. Go ahead and vote one. Yes. I want to terminate debate to know I want to keep talking about it. Okay time's up and Oh, well, let's get a tally first. We don't need that remember. Let's just go right to the tally. All right 197 yes 27. No, it does pass debate is terminated Yes, sir 179 what did I say? I? Have dyslexia. Sorry No, really I mixed numbers up 179 yes So debates terminated It's a couple minutes to 9 30 You want to take the break and then vote on all this stuff, right? That's why I'm asking. What do you want to vote now? Okay, we're gonna vote now So we have Three amendments to the main motion We're gonna vote mr. Do's Sean Harrington's last so put that one aside for now we have the Hain or warden diced motion and we have mr. Rearig's motion First we're gonna vote on mr. Rearig's motion Just say if you want a three-person committee, you'd vote for that If you don't want Brian's and you want the five-person committee you'll vote for Bill John and John's If you don't want that then you'll vote for the selectments So first we're gonna vote on mr. Rearig's which will appoint a committee Consisting of the town manager the moderator or the board of selectmen it will amend the main motion. All right, is that sir Yeah, it substitutes No, if they vote yes on this That substitutes the language in Hain or warden warden Yes, if they vote yes on this it's gonna substitute in place of the five people And then we'll get a vote on that as amended then we're gonna vote on the norm big one It's confusing any way. We're gonna do it Yes, sir is This is amendment to your motion That's why I'm reading it The motion an amendment move the motion of the Hainer diced and warden. So we're gonna vote his first So if you vote for Brian Rearig's motion, it changes the wording in the Hainer motion Then We're gonna vote on the Hainer motion as amended by Brian Rearig's motion They just have to wait till we get there and they have to vote no on the Warden Hainer motion I'll explain it as we go So the first vote and you all queued up. So don't do anything yet If you want the three-person committee of town manager at moderator chaired a board minutes select man You'll vote yes, if you don't want that committee you're gonna vote no. All right You're confused still It's clear. All right, who's confused and You can take a crack at it. I thought I made it pretty clear Dugheim town council Brian's motion mr. Rearig's motion is to amend the amendment Okay, so if you're in favor of mr. Ward and mr. Hainer and mr. Dice's motion You don't want to vote for Brian's motion. Okay, but if you think Maybe I want to support the main motion or maybe I want to support a modified version of what mr. Hainer mr. Ward and mr. Dice have suggested then you want to vote for Brian's motion We will then decide After that's been resolved whether or not the actual amendment to the original motion is going to happen or not But right now you're just voting on should we amend the amendment to scale back what mr. Hainer mr. Ward and mr. Dice have Suggested does that make sense Okay, what he said Are you ready ready Mike? Okay, go ahead and vote Okay, so it's 100 excuse me 75 in the affirmative 132 in the negative mr. Rearig's motion amendment is defeated That now brings us to mr. Hainer Mr. Ward and mr. Dice's motion if you like the committee that mr The three of them have proposed you'll vote yes if you don't want to have that committee you'll vote no To the option for one is yes the option for two is no You get it you defeat the motion you're back to the selectments motion you're confusing Stop stop If you want this committee you will vote yes If you don't want this committee you will vote no that leaves us with the recommended vote of the board of Selectment as our only option. So if you want this committee Hainer diced warden, you'll vote yes No You don't want it one is yes two is no you ready mr. Renaud ready go vote We have 76 in the affirmative 131 in the negative that motion is also defeated now Before we get to the main motion We have mr. Sean Harrington's motion to set a Six-year term limit for the at-large members if you want to set the six-year term limit Then you'll vote yes if you do not want term limits you will vote no That clear Okay, finally. I got it right One is yes two is no as soon as mr. Renaud is ready But testing his technical skills He's all set to go As soon as he gives me a clock Okay, it's time to vote 104 in the affirmative 98 in the negative that passes So wait one more vote to go We now have the recommended vote of the Board of Selectment to establish the Community Preservation Committee as amended by the term limits of mr. Harrington If you want to go with that Recommendation you'll vote one for yes and two for no sir, if it loses with Let's let's address that the committee five is gone. No, no if it's a no vote the whole thing loses And we have no committee at all You're confusing the issue a yes We're voting yes if you want to establish the Community Preservation Act committee as amended by mr. Harrington You're voting no if you don't like the recommended vote of the Board of Selectment Ready mr. Renaud Ready go ahead and vote One is yes two is no We have a hundred and fifty nine in the affirmative 48 in the negative the motion passes It's nine thirty five 935 we're gonna take the seven-minute break to buy cookies from the Alican high girls tennis team Charlie's gonna get up and move Table everything Charlie's gonna get up and table everything as amended by Sean's amendment. Yeah I don't know what the hell I did with my buttons. No, no, no, please sit down. Mr. Foskett has the floor I Recognize mr. Foskett Mr. Foskett has the floor, please precinct eight and Chairman of the capital planning committee and I would like to ask if the meeting could Accept my motion to table articles 12 through 23 and article 25 to enable us to take up the capital budget article 24 and the water and sewer Bonds articles 26 and 27 because unfortunately I'm gonna be out of town next week And I think there's a good chance town meeting might end next week. So I make that motion Oh And also seven So we have a motion to table article 7 12 through 23 and article 25 I have a second all in favor. Please say yes opposed Okay, that is a two-thirds vote. They are table. Thank you, mr. Foskett. Thank you, mr. moderator Thank you town meeting members So I'm gonna try to use this little gadget here. I hope I'm successful. First of all Looking at that picture of the central fire station. I want to especially thank Chief Jefferson in the Permanent town building committee for Managing this product a project so that it's On time and within budget. It's really really wonderful This that work okay the The slide that you see behind me shows that names of the members of the capital planning committee And I'd like to ask those that are here, which I think Andrew Flanagan Michael Morse Ruth Lewis Diane Johnson and Brian Rarig and Barbara Thornton to stand. I just want to thank Ask the meeting to recognize these people they work very hard from essentially the beginning of December Two to four meetings a month right through the February March timeframe and I especially want to thank Ruth Lewis Who as you heard tonight is retiring? She's been on the capital planning committee for more than 20 years and has been providing us with outstanding contributions and leadership Ruth, thank you very much and best of luck and happiness in your retirement so I'm only going to take this my Required seven minutes tonight and we'll note that the total expenditures in the capital budget and by the way This is all explained in the yellow document the capital report which you received less on Monday The total expenditures are about 18.2 million 13.6 is bonded 1.4 is direct cash appropriations And about 3.2 million is from grants enterprise funds and other sources, which we affectionately call other The total impact on a tax appropriation this year is ten million two hundred thirty one thousand a hundred one dollars It which includes debt service from prior bonding There are a hundred and four items in the budget several hundred more in the five-year plan After this presentation you can ask questions about any one of them But I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to go through all of them and I just want to tell you that the official vote of the Finance committee is in the finance committee report, but there's a copy in your document I'd like to focus on three topics tonight one is the community safety building the second is the Stratton school And the third is the community preservation act and capital planning and one possible way in which we can successfully Work together in the future as you know the community safety Renovation project has been going on for some time There have been two phases that have been completed the garage deck Infrastructure and recently securing the out of building building envelope We originally planned five phases But as mentioned to you last year we're trying to collapse the last three into one to reduce the stress on the police department And to constrain costs in this Article 24 where we're recommending an expenditure of seven million six hundred and forty seven thousand dollars And we ask your support of this critical project for upgrading the interior codes And program functionality for the building that's our daily home for the policemen and women who are Arlington's first responders I'd like to say a couple of words about the Stratton school This is the final Elementary school renovation project that was initially undertaken starting around 1991 and included the the Addison Middle School and the seven elementary schools The other all the other schools have been partially funded by MSBA the MSBA declined to The fund the Stratton and we have an opportunity to complete this project during this year and next year and We are recommending that we move forward with that There was a working committee at a Stratton school building committee that Worked with the school department and and the school department contracted with DRA for a comprehensive feasibility study They issued a report and it's the result of that report that we have incorporated into the capital budget The Stratton school proposal as presented in the report came up with three different scenarios and The first three are just summarized on the slide behind me We we meaning the capital planning committee and the school department settled and agreed on the scenario number four Which is a single-phase project hopefully done in within a duration of 14 months to have minimum disruption on the academic life of the students and also To help a control cost because we strongly believe that that if we try to extend this product project We would be faced with additional additional cost The Stratton financing plan is basically to use both debt-executed funds capital non-exempt capital funds and the sale of town assets and the total project cost is about 12 million and it's Included over fiscal year 16 and 17 in this plan the slide behind me is basically a summary of the different Categories of exempt and non-exempt debt and I'm trying using this to point out that the even using the Funds from the debt exclusion in 2000 because of the declining exempt funds this the Stratton school is not going to increase taxes to the taxpayer I Think we all know what the Community Preservation Act is and there's some overlap between the capital planning committee and the Community Preservation Act committee in in the sense in the terms of what might be funded by capital planning or by the CPA in I Just wanted to show you on the left-hand side of this slide We have the three sources of funding that you are traditionally have seen in the capital plan cash bond and other And what I think we hope you will be seeing in the future is that there'll be four sources of funding cash bond other and CPA and We're looking at the a way to view the CPA Funding and planning very similar to the way we look at the other category today the other category includes the CDBG funds for example or water and sewer enterprise funds or other Independent bodies independent sources of funding and On which under which the expenditures are decided by independent committees and occasionally Some of the that funding moves into the into the capital budget So our proposal is to sort of follow this Approach and if I could just show you this last slide And so Charlie gonna wrap it up. Okay. I'm gonna wrap it up 30 seconds basically the Request would come to the CPC capital planning committee if they were in the CPA a cat in the CPA category they would be reviewed by the independently by the Community Preservation Act committee and They would make their determination as to whether the projects would go forward Those that did not go forward under the CPA would return to the CPC for further Evaluation and review and possible incorporation in the non-exempt capital plan in the future. So I'm asking that you support Articles 24 26 and 27 which are explained in more detail in the capital plan. Thank you capital planning report. Thank you very much Sir Mark Lombard precinct 13. I just wanted to say I'm in 100% supportive of the Stratton renovation project However, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce a fellow Ellington resident Lee Panatteri who would like to voice some concerns on behalf of the Stratton community regarding the Stratton renovation project Thank you Please mom of a second grader a present second grader at the Stratton elementary school Who will be in fourth grade during the year of the renovation? Six Pawnee Drive in Arlington your name. I wanted to of course I want to Lee Panatteri, sorry, I guess they didn't hear you mark. Sorry about that ladies and gentlemen Well, I want to join the previous speakers in In supporting the renovation of the Stratton elementary school as parents We are grateful for the town's financial support and we urge you to fund the renovation as requested I'm here to talk to you about a component of the renovation that will actually come before you next year You're probably wondering why is she here talking to me so late at night about something that we're not actually voting on tonight It's because it's extremely important It is a cost item and we want you to be thinking about it as it right at the beginning of the funding process It's about where the Stratton students are going to be while the renovation is going on We're urging a change to the proposed Stratton building plan So that the fourth graders will be placed in an elementary school and not at the Odyssey Middle School miss We drafted miss We don't decide where the students go we talked about the money and how it's spent but as far as where the students are gonna live You got to bring that to the school committee. Oh Absolutely, we have brought it to the school committee and the school committee has been kind enough to include us in their discussions What we're proposing is that they be housed at an elementary school in two additional modulars which would add up to about $40,000, so it is a cost item No It's not that's a school committee issue. I don't want to cut you off You can talk about The hundred thousand or so that mr. Foskey wants to give to the school committee and that you'll support it But where this two children are gonna go well very important issue We don't decide that we can't tell the school committee what to do or how to spend their money. We just give it to him Okay, well, I've placed a flyer We placed a flyer on your chairs explaining our reasons for wanting the school the kids to be an elementary school We it's gonna end up being about a $40,000 cost on the renovation end of it We do support the plan for renovating the school We want to make sure that town meeting allocates enough funds to place the then fourth graders in elementary school where they're appropriate It's the if you'd like me to stop now. I'd be happy to but you can keep talking about the money if you want but Well, I'll tell you where we came up with the money if you look at the capital and the The feasibility study we looked at the feasibility and found that it would be feasible to do this The there is a line item on page 25 of the feasibility study That budget was $400,000 for the modular classrooms. This was feasibility study. Uh, mr. Foskets The building committees feasibility study. No, it's not it's not um, oh, that's not Okay, well, I think you know where I'm coming from and I'm gonna be back here next year when we're talking about funding for the second phase of the of the project and think about Placing elementary students in elementary school instead of at the at the middle school and While it's a cost item the cost is really low It's only 0.4 percent of the whole projected budget Which is really small and you think about how important it is to place our students in an appropriate place for their education Thank you very much for your attention, and we urge you to go to the school committee and stress those points The school committee has been kind enough to include us We're gonna be going to the subcommittee and um, and I want to thank the members of the school committees that are here tonight Thank you. Mr. Harrington Steven You had your hand up you want to talk? You didn't okay, mr. Oh, okay even Harrington precinct 13. I just have a couple of questions. It's just informational So if you give me concise answers, I'd appreciate it if you look at the capital plan Book page two of three For the capital planning budget for this year. There's an item for flood mitigation grant FEMA millbrook $300,000 bond Mr. Moderator, I could just someone briefly explain where along the millbrook that is and You know just a very brief explanation of the extent of that work Mr. Rademacher is gonna Give us that precise information Michael Rademacher director of public works The funds that you're referring to a match We the town recently was received a grant from FEMA of about two million dollars But the town was required to come up with 25% of that This line item satisfies that request the grant money is going to be spent throughout the entire Millbrook to look for improvements to reduce flooding as well as to Make improvements upstream to try to reduce the amount of flow that comes during storm events So the millbrook goes like through the school right behind the school and down like in mill street and yes along that area And it's also up on the bike path right as I'm thinking right up on the Lexington side where we had sort of Washouts along the bike path over time correct And so do you see like culverts or like just a brief or you're not even near No, correct we are right now on evaluation stage of looking for areas for improvement Okay, thank you Miss moderate have another question and it's on from the redevelopment boards portion and it's 23 Maple Street I see a hundred and forty thousand dollars plus fifteen thousand For renovating on porches and things and my understanding is 23 Maple Street was school Building that was turned over the redevelopment board. It's rented out to a private entity and I just want to know mr. Moderator of If we include the capital expenditures as well as any operating expenses for that building Compared to the rents we're receiving is this This cash flow positive It's a tough question, so I'm not going to put you in the spot. I just wanted to know miss Kowalski was gonna answer that Nice and concise does that include the Hundreds of thousands that we spend through the school budget to Transport those students back to their home districts. You're yes. I mean 23 maple So it's all part of the property that's managed by the town manager and the redevelopment board and the town tracks the income for all these buildings the expenses as well as the capital expenditures and depreciation and amortization So it's just the town side expenses All right. Thank you. And then another question on the school side is it I'm looking at a hardy windows for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars Mr. Moderator, I thought how he was relatively new me too What's a hundred and fifty thousand dollars it was spending on windows, Mr. Fosk it For the last three or four years the I think the technical term is lint lentils on the windows the frames around the windows have leaked the bend of It's been a board of damage problem and it occurred well after the Warranty period et cetera on the project and we can't continue to let the building leak because if we do then we're going to lose The rest of the investment that we made in the building since we're spending the hundred fifty thousand dollars Leaky windows. I think we can all understand that after this winter The last one that I have is a five hundred thousand dollar line item at the pierce field replacement turf and my understanding is this is something that's an ongoing expense and You know every ten years not often and I absolutely agree that it needs to be replaced but has there been any discussion that pierce field be placed in an enterprise fund much like the rink is and Use some of the rental because it is rented out at times and use some of the the money that's spent for the field through fees even for Students at the school to set up an enterprise fund where this might be an asset that could be removed sort of as a burden on the schools and also Perhaps you know like the rink is The more cost-neutral to the town budget so Mr. Wander is who would you even ask about taking an asset and starting to put it into a Into an enterprise fund System flasks it can into partly and then mr. chapter lane would be the yeah, I think you know we the capital planning committee is just responding to the To the capital requests by the school department and I think the assets under the control of the school committee So I assume the school committee would be the appropriate body for you to address that with mr. Chapter Lane Adam chapter lane town manager I would have to double check the statute mr. Harrington but my understanding is school facilities would not be eligible to become an enterprise fund under state statute that enables enterprise funds However, I would defer to the school committee of the superintendent I think they could consider a revolving fund that would take in program fees and then pay for the cost of maintaining the facility On a go-forward basis if they so chose Thank you. Thank you, sir Fisher Andrew Fisher precinct six several neighbors asked Me to ask if the spy pond Field concrete bleachers are In the in the plans to get rehabbed And what the timetable is if they're if that's the case The spy pond bleachers in the plan mr. Foskett. He's nodding. Yes. Oh, mr. Chapter Lane's gonna Tell us what the deal is Adam chapter lane town manager There was a capital allotment I believe three years ago for the assessment of the bleachers and that's been performed through the work of the DPW and Mike Rademacher From that assessment. We're still taking a look at what exactly what kind of work and what kind of project we want to perform and I think we could Contemplate putting in a request in either next year of the year after his capital budget Okay, thank you. Thank you Mr.. Siano Frank Siano town meeting member precinct 15 Couple of questions really Due to the neighbors and what miss penitiri was talking about the million The million 85 that you're looking for or that's budgeted here and I guess the entire Stratton project comes to 12 million 075 940 but this year you're budgeting a million 085. Do I have that right? and so Of that million 85 is that enough money? to Look into what miss penitiri is talking about having The students at an elementary school as contrasted to put in putting them at the oddison or or or what? where the kids go those funds are Funds for architectural design services and planning for the entire project and it follows the practice that We normally do with large capital projects. We're before the project actually Starts and the major expenditures get underway The town or the school department under the guidance of the permanent town building committee Plan the project out in detail and I would assume that this planning process will include whatever physical Entities that are necessary to support the Allocations of the students during the construction process and Ultimately that would be up to the school committee to make that determination I guess do I have that right correct and the rest of the money would you would be seeking in later years? Do I have that also right? next year He's indicating the rest of the money necessarily be given next year. Sorry the rest of the money will be Proposed to town meeting in the next annual town meeting first spending a year 2017 and you don't expect the tax increase because of this that I hear that right well I I think I Can we pop that? Scream who's the controller of the if you flip down to the Colorful chart that won't the varchar at that one there. Yes. Thank you. Okay, so this this chart shows a non-exempt debt and exempt debt and you see that the Exempt that is the other blue bars the smaller blue bars and they have a general declining line There's a slight bump in fiscal year 2018 as As the stratum Bonding is issued and the debt comes online but Basically, what we're trying to do with the school department the town manager and the permanent town building committee and the treasurer is to fit this project in so that the Exempt Funding matches the decline in existing exempt debt, so you know, they might be a very small bump But I don't think it'll be noticeable. Thank you. And one last question. There's a note Page 8 use the microphone, please forgive me page 8 of your report funds from sale of assets 750,000 what what's gonna be sold the Capital planning committee made a recommendation to the board of selectmen what they had a hearing earlier this year and what to do about the the the veteran DA the DAV building that the town recently discovered that it owned and So Generally speaking if the town disposes of capital asset it has to use the funds for Capital expenditure, and we're recommending that it be used for the stratum Great Thank you. I just hope the school committee listens to the parents and to what miss penitiri was talking about this evening We all do is the moderate. Thank you. Mr. Leonard John Thank You mr. Moderator John Leonard precinct 17 Mr. Moderator exhibit three of the capital planning report items number 26 27 28 roadway reconstruction roadway reconstruction sidewalks and curb stones I'm just curious if any of that money is allotted To put it be put aside for the repairs that have to be done up at Downing Square, mr. Foskett But it's mr. Radham. I could gonna answer that And you can you please repeat the page you were looking at exhibit three items 26 27 and 28 roadway reconstruction plus sidewalks and curb stones is any of that money allotted to cover the repairs necessary To repair the work that was done up in Downing Square Radham ocher Michael Radham ocher director of public works. I guess I'm curious. What repairs are you referring to? As it stands right now sidewalks are cracked curb stones are leaving these sidewalks and There is some damage up there to the concrete since the project was completed and when I've made inquiries basically the response that I have gotten is The town owns it Well if there are repairs necessary we would make them Either through that capital repair capital budget or through our operating budget depending on the severity of the damage I'm unaware of the damage you're referring of so I'd have to take a look at it to determine the scope So I would guess what you're basically saying is that on the items that I mentioned As far as you know, mr. Radham making none of those that money is set aside for Downing Square as at the present time Our act the money is we have a paving program in place that currently does not Reflect the repairs you are suggesting Thank you Jamison Thank You mr. Moderator. Thank You mr. Moderator Gordon Jamison precinct 12 I too would like to echo the words thanking the capital planning committee and miss Lewis for her their long and hard service on page Four and five picturely page five So in the back of the finance finance committee report There's the one pager which shows that our total expenditures for the next physical year will be 141 million plus 21 million in enterprise funds In the table four in the middle of page five A pro forma budget is derived from that upon which the five percent the mr. Foskett has the difficult task of adhering to In the expenditure aspect How do we get to the 130 out of 162 or 141? Maybe you or the deputy town manager could address you're referring to the pro forma budget 100 130 million on table so the basically the We take the Total budget that's in the long-range plan. Yes, and there may be a slight discrepancy here because of timing of the Changes in the long-range plan. I don't I'm not sure if the numbers are exactly the same But from that we subtract Non-exempt, I'm sorry. We subtract exempt spending. Yes, and we subtract the water sewer debt shift, okay, and That's 11 that that's good enough for me That's 11. Yeah, okay, so and I just want to so I just want to air my Continued concern that it's not a big number But the way we appropriate money into our override reserve fund and then out of the override reserve fund It is counted as revenues both times Okay, just just to reiterate that concern I have on the table two on the other on the other page mr. Foskett. Maybe you want to stick around That's my prompter. I'll get it to see I know I was trying to leave the floor. I know so subtly so Remind me what the Atena funds are because for a year or so there looked like they almost disappeared and now they're back With town meeting when it authorized the town to lease certain spaces on buildings and parks and other properties like that to Tell communications companies in order to put their transmitting antennas up, okay gets gets income in the that money is Well earmarked for parks and recreation. Oh, okay, excellent We we you know we use it the fund goes down and we let it sit for a while it builds up need to move along here Okay, and Oh, yeah, ask that question. Sorry mr. Foskett. I I make a quick comment that the Vehicle replacement program for the police department has been stable at 131,000 for several years now How we're managed and pull that off. It's only probably chief Ryan's magical skills of budget management I note that we are spending four hundred thousand dollars on the school PC program How many PCs is that by I could buy a thousand? Are you asking mr. Good? Maybe mr. You buy the schools mr. Good you buy the schools PCs Okay, Dr. Cheson Okay, I will be glad to give you the exact Cheson assistant superintendent of schools I Didn't bring the exact number with me, but if you call my office I'll be glad to give it, but it goes beyond just a few it's going to Require the upkeep of the machines that are very old at the Odyssey middle school the high school, so there are about seven computer labs that have to be replaced For students. They were also about Yes, sir the budget covers the software. Yes. Okay. Thank you Let people answer dude Yes, good question. Yeah So I do hope that next year when we vote on the stratum that we'll have the forty thousand dollars that the woman requested earlier and last but not least in exhibit to page five Very quickly mr. Fosk it alluded now so last year on the floor of town meeting Those who are members then know that I spoke Strongly about the fact that I felt that the playground renovation program in town had been Sadly kicked down the road repeatedly and that CPA might help address that What I note in the middle here under recreation on the top of those two pages, which is five page five of seven is With all due respect to the capital planning committee each of the plant each of the the play yard playground reservation Repairs and restorations Appeared to be tentatively by the italics earmarked for the CPA. I was hoping that we'd have some leverage Rather than strictly Lobbying the CPA to do these projects so that we would get more projects done not just the same project So I hope that the capital planning committee continues to take into account the fact that this is a very Active town that our recreation spaces do need continued work And that we can have maybe some leverage from the monies from the capital planning committee together with the CPA to do that better and faster That wasn't a question it was a statement Thank you much very much mr. Moderator. Thank you very much Mr. Fuller Peter Fuller precinct 20. I spent some time comparing this year's five-year capital plan with last year's And I noticed last year's had an item for rink renovations one million dollars projected for 2016 This year it's not there. It seems to be replaced by a smaller amount 275,000 for rink electrical improvements. So my question is what happens with the other needs of the rink Mr. Flanagan wants to tell us about that Andrew Flanagan deputy town manager The way we have funded Capital improvements at the rink over the past several years is trying to adhere to a policy where just about 50 the cost Here of the debt services 50% between the rink enterprise and the general fund Given the rate structure currently charged at the rink for the rental of ice time. We weren't able to fund the project in full in FY 16 Working with the recreation director. We determined that the electrical upgrades were of the most significant importance moving forward in the meantime over the next several years the recreation commission is Working with the rink and the director to determine whether or not they want to increase rates in order to find the next phase Thanks, I'll look for that in the future capital plan Also echoing a previous speaker. I noticed that various playground renovations Bishop Wellington Robbins Farm Park and The Reservoir Beach They all got kicked down a year in the five-year plan this year compared to last year Presumably to free up capacity for the strat in school I hope these things don't get lost in in other needs before they deteriorate to where they're unusable or unsafe and Finally just to thank you to the capital planning committee for your hard work And you're gonna have to roll up your sleeves and work a lot harder next year without Ms. Lewis. Thank you. Thank you, sir Thank You mr. Moderator I'm my name is Steve Revolac and I am from precinct one There are a couple of small ticket items, but I had a few questions. So I'm asking in the Capital Planning Committee's report. I'm looking at exhibit three page four or five There are two line items numbers 11 and 14 Which total about $90,000 for software licensing and software upgrades? I was wondering mr. Moderator are these for commercial software packages? And if so was there any consideration given to free and free and open source software alternatives the good David good technology officer the Line item you're speaking of is mainly purchased software open source software is Used on one of our Linux platforms where we do Linux Mint In the academic areas and a couple of other areas where we do Instructional computing Okay, thank you. Thank you very much and I also had a brief question about line item 16 Which was town micro computer program? Could someone elaborate on what the town micro computer program is mr. Good David good again? We have a four-year refresh policy Where we refresh a segment of our? Computer desktop printer Perseveral hot way, okay? Thank You mr. Good and thank you very much Thank you David Watson precinct 5 another information technology question There's a line item for $235,000 for replacement of receivable package That sounds like software and I wanted to hear a little bit more about what that is and why it's so expensive The Fosk it or mr. Good either one So The town Treasures department is the town treasurer The do you want to discuss this Gilligan? You buy a big piece of software I think mr. Gilligan is actually on top of this so since he's here You can get it directly from the treasurer Thank You mr. Fosk it would you please repeat your question? Are you steven Gilligan town treasurer and collector? In the information information technology section of the capital budget. There's $235,000 allocated for a placement of receivable package Yes, and I want to hear more about what that is and why it costs so much Well, I'll be happy to explain that to you the town of Violenton Treasurer's office utilizes a package called ICS That is the integrated collection system, and it is the software application package whereby all Billing and collections for real estate tax motor vehicle excise tax parking tickets water and sewer billing and other local receipts are Handled it is a billing and collection package that billing and collection package was designed Quite a long time ago at the time it was customized for the town It was proprietary and it was cutting-edge It is no longer cutting-edge. It is incredibly user-friendly It ain't broke, but It is 20 years old It is beginning to acquire risk with respect to its operations in management and its support the $230,000 is a placeholder for the replacement of that software package and quite frankly To give you a little scope Replacing a software package that receives and collects and bills for all the town revenues For $230,000 is a bargain considering in the next ten years. We will be collecting 1.2 Billion dollars in revenue, and I think we need An appropriate package to do that And has there been investigation of what the replacement with more current software is going to cause yes That investigation is commencing the town is retaining the services of a specialized Consultant to assist us in the analysis and create analysis of need as well as the creation of the request for proposal That will be issued prior to the end of this calendar year Thank you. You're welcome Thank you. Thank you, sir Mr. Lobel Josh Lobel precinct eight Based on some of the comments that came up in our precinct meeting before Tom meeting commenced I have a couple of quick questions one is One of the items in the capital plan is $50,000 for sidewalk repair And I'm just wondering how how much repair that is and how you decide how to appropriate that Given I think the the substantial need Mr. Radamakar Mike Radamakar director of public works that amount is Is sorely underfunded quite honestly for the amount of sidewalk work we need to do Currently it is used to just augment when we're doing a paving project If there's associated curb or walk work that needs to get Performed with the paving project we utilize those funds in addition to some of the paving funds We are going through a process currently of evaluating the entire town's sidewalk and curb Inventory to determine a more realistic number to bring the sidewalk up to Do you have an idea of the order of magnitude of that? I mean is it it's a little bit more like a million or something? It'll be significantly more, but the report is not complete. Okay. All right, and then my next question was that Given this past winter and several past winter snow situations, I'm wondering if you've given any consideration to getting a sidewalk plow for Mass Ave or Being able to enable better clearing at corners and things like that Mr. Audemarcker Mike Rademacher director of public works. We did actually get a sidewalk plow last year it Unfortunately was in an accident in one of our storms, and we weren't able to use it for the entire winter Unfortunately But I do expect when it's repaired it'll help our operations significantly I mean it just it seems to me that that rather than thinking this past year was an anomaly We probably should be planning This is more typical Thank you. Thank you, sir that's it Thank You mr. Moderator Roland Chappatt pre-sync 12 I Was kind of hoping I would get my answer from the comments that came from the treasurer But it wasn't quite what I was looking for so I need to ask the question mr. Moderator There was a new series of packages that I think were announced by the town manager Just maybe a several months ago Essentially what they're going to allow you to do is look at town expenses and incomes from your home Great idea from an internet standpoint. I'm so glad to see this happening I've looked at it a couple times. I think open checkbook is not one of them. Yeah It needs more work, and I'm sure you're working on that It it makes a lot of sense. I mean I'm involved with one of the Committees here in town and we have to rely currently on the information coming from the controller's office Which is fine when it gets to us, but it would be nice if I could just on my own system at home Access where we're spending the money in that particular account. I'm hoping it'll happen before So I'm assuming it doesn't right now it doesn't and of course I can't find the money in here Where how did you pay for all that? How did you pay for open checkbook? Yes? Adam chapterling town manager open checkbook Was funded in its development and first Implementation by a grant from the state under the community innovation challenge grant in future years if we want to maintain the service We will need to contemplate Funding for licensing on a continuing basis sir Yep Chris for more precinct 14 move motion to terminate debate Last kind of list. We have a motion to terminate debate all in favor. Please say yes Opposed that is a two-thirds vote and I so declare We have novel force to recommended vote of the capital planning committee It involves bonding, so it's a two-thirds vote. So we're going to use our clickers. We're going to vote all the recommendations at once. It's rating million two hundred twenty one thousand dollars Mr.. No, will you be ready? So if you want to vote yes, you'll press one if you want to vote no, you'll press two Ready so go ahead and vote one for yes to for no We have a hundred eighty eight in the affirmative to in the negative the vote passes and that closes article 24 Chat this sir. Excuse me. Mr. Fosk it You now bring us to article 26. Mr. Moderator move favorable action on article 26 Okay, anyone wish to talk about The sewer budget the water and sewer reconstruction budgets. These are the same budgets. We vote every year anyone want to talk about it No, it's seeing not mr. Monroe Why you're not Monroe your rental Are you ready sir? Again, it's a bonding issue. So we have to use two-thirds so to make Bond Council happy we get a Numerical tally Okay, so if you're ready, please vote one for yes to for no and you can vote Okay, we have a hundred ninety eighty affirmative. We have zero in opposition. It's unanimous vote and I so declare it that Closes article 26 and that brings us to article 27 sir No, we see table 25 We're going to do 27. Yeah So article 27. This is the opposite of the sore vote. This is how we get our water in water in Maine Standard every year. We vote this money. Anyone want to talk about water main replacements? No, mr. Mr. Harrington wants to So I'm Stephen Harrington precinct 13 You know, I'm not coming up here to say anything bad about the water main replacements, obviously, but If you look at what the MWRA says we use in water It's like 1.3 billion Whatever's and if you look in you look at the Actual bills And you actually get all the bills and look at them and add them up it's under a billion Whatever's and so There's a 30 or 40 percent difference between What we're actually using and what we're actually getting charged from MWRA for and if anyone's looked at their water bill It's not a small amount of money for everyone's pockets. You can imagine a 30% decrease Where's that 300 million gallons of water going? It's not and it's not leaks. So you saw out in LA last summer. They had a Water main break for you know, like eight hours. It's swamped it. That was 20 million gallons This is like an LA problem Every month. So I don't buy that it's leaks and I'm just wondering Mr. Moderator if someone has looked in that There's this huge discrepancy between what we're getting charged from MWRA and what we're actually using I think mr. Rademacher has a Story about the missing water the unaccounted for water, which is what we We calculated as it can be made up of many different Components leaks being one of them Unaccounted for water can be the difference between what an old meter registers Compared to a new meter there can be a percentage of water there that is not billed We have water that's supplied to town buildings, which obviously doesn't show up in the billing and that's would Be a portion of the water that you're referring to so we're trying to hone in on that percentage difference With the leak detection replacing our water meters and keeping a better tabs on water that's used at Municipal buildings. Yeah, Mike was kind enough to give me a list of every water meter in town and so I could access it including the town meters and It's it's I think it's on the MRW are MWRA and and I don't know if anyone miss moderate Has worked with them to because we're not the only community. There was actually a news story about It was Milton where they had the same type of thing where There was 30% or so discrepancy between The water actually used and the water that the MWRA was charging for and you know, this is Significant amount of money for everyone in town. So I don't know if there's anyone who's been Trying to work through the MWRA end of it because you know, I can't imagine it's such a large You know that it's so bad unless you know, you've got Things that show that you know slow meters are you know, the meat is a you know, pretty easy more technology. So It's hard to buy that it's a leak and meet is alone Well, we do we do keep in contact with the MWRA and they are required to Calibrate their meters that they sell used to sell us water So there is somewhere out there where this unaccounted for water is going I do believe a good portion of it is in the older meters I do believe that there is a significant portion in in leaks, you know A lot of small leaks will add up and leaks aren't always in the towns Water mains they are often in service connections to homes. Those are a little bit more difficult to find But we are being more diligent with leak surveys that we can we complete every year now to try to root out those Unforeseen problems and I do believe that when we get our meter replacement program done We will see a significant or another reduction in that unaccounted for water We do we do a calculation every year to determine the true unaccounted for water and this next this past year or this most Recent year our number was closer to about 23 or 24 percent, which is down from a High of about 30 percent maybe two or three years ago. Thank you very much Hannah Thank You mr. Moderator Bill Hanna precinct to how many old water meters if we still got out there. I thought we were We made that change a couple of years ago Mike Rademacher director of public works the project a few years ago was a project to Install automatic meter reading technology. It didn't replace the meters But it replaced the technology by which we read the meter. So now it's an automated system We don't have folks going to each individual home to read meters that comes to us wirelessly on a regular basis This next Around which was funded last year. I believe in the budget Will be to actually replace the meters themselves for you mr. Moderator So when I got the electronic one didn't I get a new meter at the same time? No, so There might have been a handful here or there, but it was not a townwide project So this is so when will this? When do you think this is going to be done by the we all time? We hope to get started with the replacement in the next few months It'll be about a two-year process and is this a charge to my water bill or does the town pick this up or the state? the funding for the meter replacement is being paid for out of the The enterprise fund and it's covered in the water into a budget. Thank you Thank you, sir diced Okay, then you all else want to speak to a water meter water pipes Okay, seeing none. We're ready for a vote. Have you already missed one or no Okay, again one is yes to is no and we're ready go ahead and vote We have 190 affirmative and one in the negative vote passes So declare it that closes article 27 Fosca I move that we take article 25 off the table Most take article 25 off the table on the flavor, please say yes suppose So moved to the Fosca 25 is off the table. We have the recommended vote of the Finance committee to rescind Borrowing authorization from prior years. Don't they want to speak to it? But basically they don't want the right to borrow all this money anymore The Gilligan they've given up four million three hundred thirty eight thousand Thank You mr. Moderator town meeting members What this vote does is it resins? Prior votes that this body took over past years for money that was authorized to be borrowed But was in fact not Borrowed by rescinding these votes and these dollar amounts based on the projects that you see that freeze up debt capacity For the town and helps us to maintain our triple a bond rating from the credit rating agencies This is debt that we carry on the books Even though it was never borrowed and we need to take it off our books if there's any questions I'll be happy to answer them. Thank you. Mr. Moderator mr. Jamison Thank You mr. Moderator Gordon Jamison pusing 12 so Most of this I don't really care about although seems like we should take advantage of things We authorized previously is there a reason why we? Don't want to utilize these funds for any project. Yes, water and sewer seems like a logical the in any vote to borrow The under state law the vote stipulates Specific legislation under which the money can be borrowed and used the money may not be used for any other purpose Well, isn't that that's that's for example if you look at the Dallin school the Dallin school dollar amount Which is relatively small that project has been closed out The vote called for the borrowing to be used specifically for the Dallin school It may not be used for any other school however Freeing up that that $177,000 allows that money to be added for other school construction purposes at a future vote So this money frees up debt capacity this money can be voted again in subsequent warrant articles for similar purposes and And this this type of a vote is also negated by the previous vote that town meeting just took That says under the capital budget and for previous for borrowing for this year where money is freed up It can be used for like-minded projects So we're also taking steps to eliminate these kind of votes in the future. So Let's let's get so in in the water and sewer ones here. Yes We didn't borrow correct amount. Correct. So let's take The 200,000 for the MWRA water by rescinding that can we now borrow that from the MWRA? That and that's exactly what's been done when the town votes an appropriation for either sewer facility construction or Reconstruction or water facility construction or reconstruction. It authorizes the appropriation the expenditure an example of what you're talking about Also occurred with last year's vote to do the same I work hand-in-glove with the town manager and the director of public works wait to to acquire MWRA funding which would which then frees up town money the vote is still required. It just comes out of a different pot Okay, so let's skip down to the stratum seven hundred and ten thousand dollars was appropriated for work on the stratum at some point in time in the past Okay. Yes Can we is that money still available for use that money will be available for use? But it can't be used in this borrowing because it was a for a specific purpose as Delineated in that vote in past years. Okay, so I remain confused, but you're the treasurer Thank You miss moderate it frees up debt it frees up money and it can be voted in a future future date Okay, anyone else want to ask about giving money up? Seeing none Thank You mr. Moderate. Thank You mr. Gilligan. Mr. Renau when you're ready So yes vote is one a no vote is two if you vote yes We're giving up four million three hundred some odd thousand dollars, so go ahead and vote one for yes to for no 187 in the affirmative two in the negative positive vote and I so declare it And that closes article 25 Mr. Fosk it you want to take all those articles off the table moderate Charles Fosk at precinct eight I move that articles Articles seven and articles 12 through 23 be taken off the table All in favor of taking all those articles off the table, please say yes Opposed all those articles are back on the table that brings us back to article 7 6 articles 7 up before us To recommended votes one of the redevelopment board and one of the board of selectments for zoning by-law and regular town by-law amendments Regulations of posted event notices So these two things work in conjunction with each other, but they will be separate votes, so Mr. Harrington, what do you got? But does the selectman want to present or the ARB want to present first go ahead? We'll get you Good ten minutes left Okay, we have a motion to adjourn and second it all in favor of adjourning at this point. Please say yes opposed My opinion is a no vote mr. Bernal Good evening, Andrew Bonnell chair of the Arlington redevelopment board this Proposed by-law Creates a defined set of signs removes them from being subject to zoning Makes the approval guidelines more clear. It adds a section of these guidelines out of that Excuse me out of the zoning by-law. It's fairly straightforward makes signage in town much easier for a certain specific set of purposes, thank you And who wants to present for the select man on their position or does anyone want to thank you mr. Moderator Kevin really chairman Our motion is the same. It's just if the redevelopment boards motion passes We support that therefore that there would be the by-law change correct back. Yes Sorry, okay, so it's really we're supporting what the redevelopment board is doing if that passes then it requires a change in the By-law, which is what we are recommending to you Hey, thank you. Mr. Harrington. Thank you very much John Harrington precinct 15 I just need a double-check with town council. I'm proposing an amendment to article 7. This is to both the board of select man's recommendation or change in the zoning boards basically be adding two groups to the list of Organizations and persons here where it originally says signs erected by a person or nonprofit it would say Now it would now say signs erected by a person town committee student organization or nonprofit Now I know people are going to say well. They already have or you know protection under this and all that But I don't think that redundancy is necessarily a bad thing when we're talking about students We just had a group of high school kids here and And many people here were active with student organizations. They should be protected under notices as well when they have car washes to raise money for their Organizations or any organization for that matter that is extracurricular for in the school system town committees Basically our commissions And what have you I think is basically a straightforward as the article I just want to make sure that students are protected under this as well as our towns Hardworking commissions and committees. Thank you very much There are the second on his motion seconded, okay Thank you. Mr. Klein Thank you, mr. Moderator Christian Klein precinct 10. I'm the proponent of this article I also serve on the zoning board of appeals and on the Governing board of the friends of Robbins Farm Park, but I'm not here to speak on behalf of either of those organizations I would like to thank the membership for postponing this from last Monday's night Hearing as I was unavailable at that time So the next slide So what is this article about? Essentially, there are lots of events that happen around town All the time and we find out about them because we see something mounted on a pole that tells us it's happening Every single time that happens. It's a bylaw. It's a zoning bylaw It's a violation of those zoning bylaws You're not allowed to post signs like that anywhere in town and it happens all the time so When there are events that are being sponsored by nonprofit groups such as the Jason Russell house Somebody loses a pet. Somebody has a yard sale presently none of those are allowed But these notices are current in our community and we use them all the time have the next The article is also about providing a set of rules and regulations that set standards for what's appropriate and Clarify that your responsible posting should remain illegal. So things like this though What is not included? No, sorry. You can go ahead So what's not included commercial notices are not included in this article So this does not change any kind of commercial notices does not allow businesses to all of a sudden put up signs around town Commercial notices are still governed by the zoning bylaw. So whether it is a There has been some discussion about having Some kind of regulation regarding menu boards for commercial applications. That is not a part of this at all Posting of work job opportunities is still not legal It would not be affected by this and signs of a political nature are not at all affected by this that still remains Illegal use of free speech So why is this going into two sets of bylaws? Why is it going to be two votes on the same article? Essentially, there's a bit of confusion in the way the bylaws are written currently so title five of the general bylaws which governs the use of private property it was essentially set up to regulate billboard signs and outboard and other outdoor advertising devices and That's enforced through the board of select men Regular signs are under the zoning bylaws and they affect primarily buildings and property and it's enforced by spectral services so the problem is now if you see a sign that's up on a telephone pole, who do you call and The correct answer is actually you call the building department But it seems really odd that that's the building department's problem so What about notices so notices or signs? They're an everyday part of our community. They serve a purpose and they're not legal, but everybody still uses them So why do we sort of have this weird situation? Let's just go ahead and make what we want to do legal So we need to change both bylaws So as was outlined by the redevelopment authority the zoning bylaw We're going to create a definition for what a notice is And it's a very limited definition as to what a notice is and then we're going to say it doesn't belong in the zoning bylaws anymore And then you have to reference the general bylaws So what that then we go to the new general bylaw which creates a definition and It creates a process for how we can regulate these a process and it allows the notices That we like and that a follow the set of standards and creates an actual path for enforcement That's already existing under title five of the general bylaws And that's the strategy. We're trying to follow here So why should you vote to approve? Notices are how we most efficiently communicate with our neighbors and community We have a lot of ways to communicate online. We can communicate through the newspapers But if you want to find out what's happening in your neighborhood if you walk around your neighborhood You'll see the signs and you know what's happening in your neighborhood notices keep us well informed They approving these regulations and standards will set a basic set of expectations and guidelines for posting and it allows us to have some kind of enforcement The there is a draft set of regulations that is a part of the Selectments report which basic which I don't know if you've already had an opportunity to peruse them But essentially what it does is it states that notices have to be constructed of some kind of a resilient material It must be wrecked into a way that's removable and not dangerous They may not be erected earlier or removed later than allowed in the table that is a part of this notice They can't exceed the areas and so essentially we're telling you how big a sign an individual sign can be And then also how large your sort of overall campaign can be in terms of signs so that people aren't putting up hundreds of signs There's You have to include the name of the sponsoring person an organization that the date of the event and a contact phone number email address So that if there's a sign out there that is staying out too long, you know who to contact Or the town knows who to contact Notices can't be placed on trees. They can't be placed on private property without the consent of the owner They can't be placed on public property without approval from the Board of Selectments office town departments can establish individual policies for display of notices on public properties such as the Property that falls under the recreation department. They would be able to establish their own guidelines for how that would work And notices cannot be erected in a way that limits visibility at corners along public and private ways One question that will probably come up is well, what about telephone poles because they are private property with easements I have spoken with Representative from Verizon who is the owner of the poles their primary concern is that the poles not get damaged They're not concerned about having a sign in the way of them doing utility work because frankly, they'll just take it down And they'll probably do it in a brusque manner But they are hoping that if people are posing things on their property that they're doing it You know with devices that can readily be removed and don't cause permanent damage to the poles And that is their primary concern. So hopefully This makes sense to everyone and we can vote forward on that both Votes that need to occur to make this happen. Thank you very much Thank you, sir Fast 11 can entertain the motion to adjourn now if you want All in favor of adjourning, please say yes opposed Okay, any notices of reconsideration. Mr. Tosti has given me a notice of reconsiderations for articles 24 25 26 and 27 Any other notices for reconsideration? Seeing none be sure to put your clickers back to get in the buttons and we'll see you Monday night Thank you very much Thank you, Charlie