 Good evening. I'm calling to order the meeting of the Allenton Select Board from Monday, November 29, 2021. This is Select Board Chair Steve DeCorsi. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Diane Mahan. Yes, thank you. John Hurd. Yes. Len Diggins. Yes. Eric Helmuth. Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Maher is participating remotely. Tonight's meeting of the Allenton Select Board is being conducted remotely, consistent with an act signed into law on June 16, 2021, that extends certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency. The act includes an extension until April 1, 2022 of the remote meeting provisions of Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 executive order, suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law. And as order, which is referenced with the agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can fall along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, let me offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, is being recorded, and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. All participants have advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment, and those persons are not required to identify themselves for the broadcast. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials, also found on the town's website, while using the Novus agenda platform. Finally, each vote tonight will be taken by roll call. I will now turn to item two on our limited agenda this evening, which is the final vote for the 21 precinct map. Joining us again this evening is Atom clerk at Julie Brazil. Good evening, Mr. Brazil. Good evening everyone. So this is luckily going to be very fast and very simple. You've been provided with the map, which was produced by the Secretary of State's office, and the table of census blocks that was provided by the Secretary of State's office that does show all of the census blocks in Arlington and which precinct they are now assigned to. And the final piece you received a draft on Friday, I mean on Wednesday of the text descriptions of the precinct boundaries over the holiday. Adam Krawski revised that draft to fill in the gaps that the state was unable to sort of clarify. And then the state, I provided that draft to the state this morning. I also provided a draft proof reddit and agreed that Adam Krawski had used reasonable descriptions for things that are not roads and streets and slightly difficult to describe in writing. And I can now share with you that final document in draft form it has a grand total of four typos. If you are comfortable with those. And you can vote on it and they'll all be done and sent off to the state in the morning. Any questions on that part so far and then I'll show you the document. No, that's that that's fine. Do you want to start with the map to I don't know if we can start with the map and then go to the narrative just. Oh, I'm happy to. And just briefly, but I mean it's a little bit. And just while we're doing that. And you and I discuss this what there's no change in the narrative changes is nothing changed from what we voted last week it's just some minor corrections that the state had suggested on some Yes, yes, what you voted last week was the map. And so then we just a question of producing the actual descriptions. That go with. Is that the map. Yep. All right. Let me share the map. So while you're doing that I'm getting word that we may be having some audio problems with a CMI this evening so it's we'll try to work through those. All right. So this is the map. The state prepared it based on the files that Adam Korsky sent. And they generated it in the formats that they want, including the table of names and populations and the variances. So this is just it should be exactly the same. I was able to double check specific things and I double checked to make sure that we agreed on all of the population counts. For every precinct so that's the map. And then I can share the next descriptions. This is just a requirement. In order to, you know, in order to just describe as if you were standing literally on a corner, the street corner and walking the boundary of the precincts. The only changes. So what the document that was posted on Wednesday had some gaps in it. The document has cleaned all of that up and been reviewed by the state. In precinct nine. I propose that we amend the document so that we spell cemetery correctly centerline correctly. And the state. The state said suggested that we describe proceeding northerly along situate street. So it's just a little farther along proceeding along the shoreline of spy pond. And it's not to it's just along the shoreline adjacent to Pleasant Street. So it's just a slight clarification in the description. If it makes anyone feel any better, these four changes are purely grammatical and wouldn't have harmed the underlying accuracy of the of the description it would be possible to tell. What we meant. In terms of the legal description. So we have the descriptions for all 21. And I'm happy to answer any questions. People have at this point. In this Brazil one other question before I turn it to to board members do you have a copy of the proposed vote that you can share with the board as well. If not, I can read it. I can. But I mean it's pretty much one sentence. If you'd like, if you'd like to read it. Sure. Yeah, it says so what what's going to be before us is we have the map we have the narrative in the proposed vote that was sent over to us by by Ms. Brazil but also I think suggested by the secretary state is it says we the undersigned here by certify that at a meeting held on November 29 2021. The select board voted to accept as presented by the town clerk, the 2020 re precincting plan for the town of Arlington, and if voted it will have all five of our signatures. So with that I will now turn it to the board now start with Mr. Diggins. Thank you Mr chair. So, Mr. So cemetery, you're going to correct the spelling of that. From what's wide. It was missing an E. Because I wasn't sure I thought you, I thought what you had there was the correct that is the correction right. Yes. Okay, good because being later on we had to to there, and you hadn't. You said we're not going to have that I was like. We'll remove will strike the two. I got you. Yeah, okay so now that we're in agreement on cemetery. I can put this arrest in my mind. Thank you. Okay, Mr helmet. Thank you. I'd like to move acceptance with the boat language that Mr. Of course he read. And I want to add my thanks to the town clerk for her exceptional care through this time process up to the end here. And the whole working group that she put together are very hard working and very capable staff. And since he worked through the holiday, I want to give a special shout out to our director Adam Kuroski, who does a lot of unseen hero work for us in the town and this is no exception. We are very fortunate to have his skills and his integrity through this process and I just had to say something since we're looking at the product of his painstaking work. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. I definitely would like to second that and I just want to make sure that a motion is to accept the town clerk's 2020 re precincting plan for the town of Wellington and included in that are the actual descriptions of all precincts. And I want to also second Mr helmets on remarks regarding Adam Kuroski unseen unsung all the uns ever in terms of what he's contributed not only to this item but other things here in the town of Wellington so it's a great employee. It can never be replaced so thank you Mr chair. Thank you Mrs mahan on Mr heard. I am happy to support the motion. And thank you to our wonderful town clerk for joining us again into everyone that's worked on this and I will third Mr helmets remarks regarding our, our wonderful town staff. Thank you. Thank you Mr heard yeah now for that I also want to thank Mr Brazil there's a couple questions I had at the end of the last meeting she and I had follow up conversations and she actually showed me a few things and there's nothing that I would change so I wanted to just close the loop on that and I just wanted to make sure for the work that you did and Mr Kuroski as I said he's a hero of our of our last time meeting but also over the holidays doing a lot of work to make sure that this could be done for this evening so we really appreciate the work that he did and and the work that the other members of the re precincting working group have done over these last several months. So on a motion by Mr helmet, seconded by Mrs mahan attorney Heim. Yes. Yes, Mr helmet. Yes, Mrs mahan. Yes, Mr de Corsi. Yes, it's unanimous vote. Thank you Mr Brazil. You're very welcome. Okay, so it's not very often before 730 that we move to new business but we're going to go right into new business and then we will have an executive session after that so I will start with attorney Heim. None of this. Thank you. Mr chapter line. Thank you Mr chairman. One piece of new business tonight, continued compliments to our health and human services team, the Arlington public schools, and really the town population as a whole. The town continues to really dramatically lead in the rate of children ages five to 11 that have been vaccinated as compared to every other city in town in the Commonwealth. And, but at almost a 90% clip. And it's truly a test to the hard work. And I think it's a great contribution of Christine Bargerona and her team superintendent. Dr Liz home and her team, and having residents and parents that follow the science and are making the choice to have their children vaccinated and great support and help from the Arlington fire department and the Arlington police department and staff from the school to quickly put together these clinics where all reports suggest the children that are coming to get vaccinated feel as safe and comfortable as you can feel when you're getting a needle in your arm. So, just want to get pay high compliments to the team of people that are working hard to make these vaccinations available and congratulations on a job well done. Thank you Mr chapter line. Mr helmets. Thank you. And I'm glad the time manager brought that out. I spend a fair amount of time on public service Twitter and social media and Arlington is is actually the talk of the state right now. And I think that these are envious and all of our vaccination rates in general, and of kids and as Mr Chaplin said that really speaks to just how on top of this it isn't. It's so important because it heads off to the parents who trust the science. This will make everyone safer, the kids, everyone, the grandparents of the kids interact with and it's just a real credit to to our community that we're able to come together so and to do that and to jump on this so so thank you for that and please pass our thanks on to your team for their continued hard work as we head into two to year three of this pandemic pretty soon. You know, it was tired and they worked really hard as all our town employees were very grateful. I just wanted to highlight a couple of things that I've been saving. I think it's really important for the community to know that the town staff that works really hard to secure grants to supplement our revenues that we get from from property taxes and other sources to make our program stronger and to make our dollars go farther and about about a month ago. The town announced $100,000 was awarded from the Department of Energy's green communities program to install high efficiency LED lighting fixtures that person bracket elementary schools installation of the safety building. That's great because great revenue news but it's also really great sustainability news for the town and I appreciate the town manager and his teams continued walking the walk in that area. And also in the area of open spaces and resources, the planning and community development department select us security over $300,000 grant to continue and improve the work at the reservoir the restoration project there, which I've been following for a couple of years and I'm really excited to see that near completion and the thrill for the walking paths in the parking lot to be open next spring. But again just kudos to that hard work to secure the grants it's really important for our financial picture and for improving the quality of life for the town. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Helmets, Mr. Diggins. Because I have to jump at 740 new business. Thank you. Okay, thank you Mr. Diggins. Mr. Herd. No business. Okay, thank you Mrs. behind. Why they, um, I just want to. Since I know we have Susan Gilbert and other members of the news media. I'm tuning in that the town of Wellington opened up the reopened the COVID rent relief program. And we have information on the town website for people who may have applied for that in the past or may not have that that is once again open. So I definitely wanted to highlight that. I would leave with the town manager Mr. Chaplain if I'm sort of following up with his remarks. I know we had a very successful and early booked third booster vaccine at Town Hall for the residents of Wellington. I know there were a lot of residents that tried to book slots but they went quickly. So, if Mr. Chaplain could let us know through our health and human services director. If there will or will not be on another opportunity for that, which is fine either way I just want to be able to tell people. There is something come up coming up. Please check the town's website Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, however we are, or if myself and my colleagues say, you know, check out your PCP your pharmacy CVS Walgreens and get it that way. I would just like to, I have three and four three is, and I know the chair and I shared an email about this, but I want to reiterate that in terms of when we were discussing premium pay for town essential workers not for town residents that I know I asked for, and I think, perhaps in the same vein is to herd was asking something similar to see the premium pay formula that the town manager has come up with. I just want to see what the formula is. I know the number of employees. I just want to do the math. I just want to get involved in negotiations, although it's my opinion that premium pay for essential workers that's not a negotiable and can't be a negotiable point. There's no town employees on tonight. Because that has nothing. It's federal funding, which has nothing to do with town negotiations. So again, I really want to see that. And then lastly, for a future meeting. I just want to bring to the chairman and my colleague's attention. And I have had conversations with Mr Chaplain on this regarding the L life nifty's permit. The waiver that's coming up soon. I'm starting not only the combined sewer overflows CSOs that discharged in the book from Cambridge ensemble. But also the flooding issue. So I'd like to put that on a future. And I'll speak further with the chairman and town manager on this, because starting in. I believe next January, the town needs to have its comments on the upcoming it's every 15 years that the nifty's permits open up. But there's also some residents led by Kristen Anderson, who's a town meeting member who's very knowledgeable about this issue. And who would like to speak to all of us on the board regarding the current nifty's permit that's in effect, and how Cambridge and or some of them in MWRA committed to the current nifty's permit to do some things and that hasn't been happening. I don't want to go into that because I'd like person to present that because I don't I don't want to take some comments she would like to make for that. I will, and I will speak with the chair, Mr. Corsi and Mr. chapterling the town manager about having that on perhaps in December or January for sort of quick agenda item, because the town did take some steps at the MWRA in the city of Cambridge and some of them committed to. But then when the DCR Department of Conservation and Recreation. And the city of Cambridge and I renovated the areas down there. They took down. One of the major points that we wanted on the nifty's permit for notification so that's it for my new business. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Yeah, and I briefly just have one or two things before I get into that. We had a very limited agenda tonight because we added this meeting just for the sole purpose of approving or accepting the 21 precinct plan. We have a full meeting next Monday. We will have open forum and we'll have a full agenda on that evening next next Monday. I wanted to follow up on something I spoke to the town manager about this today, but we've been getting a number of calls at the select board office about the yard waste pickup in town and concerns about that. And there is a message on the recycling page on the town's website. I think there are still some issues that do what the town's asking is don't call jrm directly the town is working with jrm that have been delays but I'm a Monday pickup. And this is now the second Monday that there's been no pickup in our neighborhood so it's what's what's on that site right now. I think jrm is even further behind them. We realize I know they're working through this and we need to be patient but I'm hoping if we can get some updated information for residents and continue to work with jrm on this issue because it's it's it's it's getting confusing to people in terms of how long this is going to be because there's only one more week left. Our yard waste pickup the week of December 6 so I want to acknowledge the calls that residents have been making and let people know that the town manager and the DPW director have been working with jrm that there's a number of challenges this year that they're they're trying to work through and hopefully updated information can be provided soon on that. The other thing I just wanted to acknowledge I want to acknowledge Christine char council on aging the council on aging had run a Thanksgiving meal on delivery last week and she ran that and that was very successful and thank her for her efforts Christine char council also went down and had participated in that knows a number of volunteers so that was a big success so that's that's my new business for this evening. We are now going to go into executive session. I believe we're only going to come out of excess executive session to adjourn the executive session is to consider the purchase of real property 21 maple street and when we come out of executive session into open session will be there solely for the purposes of adjourning. Thank you. Is there a second. Second. Second by Mr. Hurd. Okay on the motion by Mr. Hurd. Mr. Chair and Madam Vice Chair can I just confirm one thing that it would be potentially a problem that would be potentially disadvantageous for the board's bargaining position to have a discussion in open session. Thank you. Thank you very much. On the motion. Mr. Hurd. Yes, Mr. Diggins. Yes, Mr. Helman. Yes, Mrs. Mahan. Yes, thank you. Mr. D'Corsi. Yes. Thank you. So for those participants who are on we'd ask you to leave the zoom call and we'll just take a couple minutes before we start. Thank you.