 everyone welcome to the select board meeting Monday January 6th 2020 my name is Diane and Mahan to my right and your left John Herd, Joe Cura, Dan Dunn, Steve DeCorsi, Adam Chaplain, Town Manager, Doug Heim, Town Council, Marie Krupp, Board Administrator. And before I start I just have a statement on behalf of my colleagues on the board as many are aware this board had an executive session meeting with the full board the Town Manager, Town Council and Board Administrator on January 2nd. In the brief statement I've come up with because some people have asked for something is while I can't provide many details because we were in executive session and there are some things that are still in negotiation I can note that the manager is not asking for or being offered more money on the remainder of his contract. I can share that while some details remain to be discussed the manager did withdraw the following day on Friday and as we can now see thankfully indicates his intentions to stay with us here in Arlington. And lastly as with all executive session minutes they will be released in the future. So thank you so much. First we have an introduction of our new diversity equity and inclusion coordinator Mr. Chaplain. Thank you Madam Chair. So tonight we have with us our new diversity equity inclusion coordinator Gillian Harvey. She's I think one week in right is that right? So we're very happy to have Gillian on board. There's a lot of work to do a lot of important things to do in town and she brings a great deal of both academic and professional experience and a passion for this work. So without saying much more just wanted to give Gillian an opportunity to say hello to you maybe tell her tell y'all a little bit about yourself and answer any questions that you might have. Hey. So I just want to say I've been here a week and it already feels like home. Everyone I've met so far has been really welcoming and warm and Arlington seems like a great place to be. So I'm glad I'm here. I'm really looking forward to working with the commissions that will be under me. The Human Rights Commission, the Rainbow Commission and Disabilities. And I'm really looking forward to taking on this ADA coordinator role as well because that's something new that excites me. So yeah. Do you guys have any questions for me or anything? And one of the other groups which I'm not sure it falls within your purview and maybe that needs to be further discussion. But as you find with that Arlington very active vibrant community all the way down to our two high schools that we have here. So I don't know when you're discussing with Adam any sort of liaison, maybe touch base once a year or something like that because they are very active. And more times than not they'll probably see you first because they're very active. But it's really exciting because they have a lot of energy and they're 100% committed as everyone else is. I'm thrilled by your energy because I know you're one of those people that's going to do four or five things at the same time. I would just you know just with everything we just want to make sure you don't overextend yourself in any way. I know you'll be able to this kid say keep yourself in check. But I certainly know you've already hit the ground running and I look forward to seeing and working with you in the future Mr. Dunn. I didn't actually have any questions but I did also want to welcome you. I'm really glad to have you. There's some things that I'm so proud of that we've done in Arlington like the creation of the Rainbow Commission and like the score that we got on the most recent HRC. I don't know if you saw that we mean we got ourselves 100 you know once you counted in some bonus points which I think is and so there are things that we've done that I'm really happy about but there's so much more to be done and I'm really glad you're here to help us. Well I'm excited to help out. Mr. Kira. Thank you. I see that you were the executive cabinet of your student government out at UMass Amherst. So I'm going to channel our late colleague Mr. Greeley and say we're going to look for you to kind of just watch us and see what kind of governance you think we have here in but seriously welcome. Before I entered elective office I was on the Human Rights Commission for a couple of years and the chair for one year and I know that having a professional staff person is going to make just a world of difference for the capacity of the Human Rights Commission as well as the Rainbow Commission and Diversity Task Group and some of the other committed volunteers in town but they're volunteers and so their time is limited so it's going to make just a world of difference and really happy to have your enthusiasm and optimism. Thank you. Welcome. Oh Mr. Hart. Sorry. Just briefly welcome. Thank you for choosing Arlington with your resume. I'm sure you had many options so we're happy to have you here and this is a position that I think we really needed to fill for a while. And I think there's a lot of great things that we can do now with this position and you know I'm excited to hit the ground running and move things forward. Thank you. Mr. DeCorsi. I want to welcome you as well and I was looking at your resume. You have an impressive experience at Brown University and you're on the other side there we're working university community relationships and maybe there's an opportunity to do that here in the local area and one thing I would say to you you're the first person in in this job and if you need anything from us and as you go forward we'd like to hear from you because you know we're an uncharted territory in terms of where the job is going and if you feel like it needs to go in a different direction you need resources or anything we'd like to hear from you on on that as well and I just want to wish you wish you all the best. Great. Thank you so much. You'll definitely hear from me. Thank you so much. We'll now move to agenda item two our consent agenda. We have the minutes of the meeting December 16 2019 reappointments tree committee term strokes by our 1231 2022 Mary Ellen Arano Eliza Burton Susan Stamps at Tremblay and Mara Watts. Is there a motion move to new approval subject hall conditions are set forth move by Mr. Curel second heard anyone wishing to speak to any of those items if not an emotion by Mr. Curel seconded by Mr. heard all those in favor say aye aye those opposed unanimous vote we now go to an appointment zoning board of appeals alternate member to voting member we have Patrick Hanlon term to expire 1031 2022 you could just come up say your name for the record and my name is my name is Patty Hanlon I'm currently associate member of the zoning board of appeals and a Precinct 5 town meeting member and I've been we've all been intermittently to zoning board of appeals meetings and I've seen you in your role as acting an acting member and you certainly are very efficient and are on top of everything and even though you have the associates member status I always considered you a full member so I'm now thankful that dream is coming true and and especially in this in this current time with Mugar and some other issues but after the interlocutory appeal what the way it did I know your knowledge and wisdom especially with the perhaps larger meetings we're going to have in the future but I know that the tail manager has committed to working with the zoning board of appeals for appropriate venues and any sort of amplification of sound that you need so that's very good thank you Mr. Dunn welcome and thank you so as I don't remember when we appointed you associate if I gave this speech but I certainly have appointed given a speech to like everyone else to be appointed like as full member so bear with me but it bears repeating even if I gave it to you already which is this decision about Mugar is so important and the not only does the decision have to be right but it has to be done in the right legal way such that it holds up under what is going to be inevitably years of of lawsuits afterwards and so I just want to make sure that the ZBA feels empowered to get all the resources it needs to make a good and correct decision so that means we have to hire consultants we have to hire a specialist if we need you know whatever it is let's make sure it happens and I've certainly conveyed that to the town manager and town council and I know that they're all on board with it at the same time sometimes it's up to the ZBA they have to ask for it too so please don't be shy and get it right I don't think that China's is going to be our issue all right thank you is there a motion to so move approval boom by Mr. Dunn second about second Mr. Curell any further questions Kevin Mills was on that list too when I see that his name was taken off but Patrick knows him he could not be here tonight but he will be here on the 27th next meeting and he's in a so they were both done together so is there a meeting between now and the 27th of ZBA no there's not all right so we'll do that on the 27th okay if no further questions or comments on motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Curell all those in favor say aye opposed unanimous vote we now go to for approval food vendor license Mr. Hart yes for this particular application I'll be recusing myself as the current owner Anthony is my father in law thank you I'm just gonna wait that's just a procedural thing it's nothing bad or anything okay agenda item for approval food vendor license Anthony side Dali 159 Massav Magdi Ibrahim yes Ibrahim Ibrahim okay if you could just you've already introduced yourself just briefly state we have we have the common victor application but for the public viewing if you could state you know your plans which are to yeah I'm going to take over the store like this and I will see what I'm going to do for innovation but I'm going to do add the like frozen yogurt ice cream smoothie blast of food items any my colleagues have any questions is there a motion for approval by Mr. Dunn second secure any further questions or comments if not thank you for choosing Arlington yes on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Curell all those in favor say aye opposed that's a four zero vote if someone could just step out and ask Mr. Hurd unless he sees that gentleman come out and he reached my mind yeah now I have I don't know oh Doug attorney Hyme can you see if there's a citizen open forum list if anybody's out right there together thank you citizens open forum except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board should neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established it should be noted that there's a three minute time limit to present a concern a request I have two people signed up for us when now Evans when now Evans orchard place I have two questions and a request please and these are probably going to be answered immediately after the open forum because I believe you're going to be talking about the joint meeting but my first question is will there be an opportunity for public comment at the joint meeting next Monday it is going to be answered into the next agenda yeah it is and citizens open forum the way we establish it is we can't discuss anything because someone could say you should have posted that as a meeting I would have come in so but we will discuss it next okay then my request I believe this is going to be held up in the large room on the second floor of the senior center my request would be that every board member has access to a microphone the acoustics in there are awful and if it is a public meeting then the public has to be able to hear what's going on this is a problem in the lion's room as well so I would ask that either each individual board member have a microphone or there be a single mic that they can pass down the line as they speak I think this is really important okay thank you and now Chris Loretty thank you madam chairman Chris Loretty I have three requests for the board this evening related to the zoning board of appeals or ZBA and the first one relates to 86 River Street this is a property at the intersection of Mystic Valley Parkway where an auto repair garage received a building permit for the construction on a two-family in a two-family zoning district where auto repair garages aren't permitted now previously there had been a gas station at that site and if that use had not been abandoned and I think that's an open question then an auto repair garage could be permitted there but only with the approval of the ZBA and the ZBA did not give approval for this garage to be constructed there now even if the garage was already there as in a pre-existing non-conforming use it could only be extended as it is planned to be right now with the approval of the ZBA and again it didn't receive that ZBA approval now even if that auto repair garage was a permitted use in this two family zoning district they building that is there right now is a non-conforming structure and it can only be extended or expanded the way in which it is planned to be expanded with the approval of the zoning board of appeals and again it did not receive that approval and finally even if it was a non even it was a conforming use in a conforming building because of the extent of the increase in the footprint of the building and the amount of square footage that is being added it again require the the approval of the zoning board of appeals it didn't get it so for all of those reasons that building permit should not have been granted by inspectional services my request to you is that your board appeal the building inspector's decision to issue that building permit that is something you are allowed to do under state law and then that means that it will be appealed to the zoning board of appeals because they are the board that hears appeals from decisions the building inspector and they will be able to reverse the improper permitting improper granting of that building permit so that's my first request my second request is that before you do that you need to fix the membership of the ZBA and this is because the attorney who was representing the owner of 86 River Street is and it is one of the attorneys on the zoning board of appeals he met at least once with the building inspector before that building permit was issued and and again without getting and after that the permit was issued without it going to the ZBA this is an egregious conflict of interest on the part of the attorney and I believe he should remove from the board now because your board is the appointing authority for the ZBA you also have the authority to remove people and I'm asking you as my second request tonight is to exercise that authority and you should please let me know if you need a formal request written request from me to initiate that that action and finally the third request I have is that I keep going you got to your third thanks my third one is that you filled the other vacancies on the on the zoning board of appeals I don't know if you mentioned earlier I appreciate that you've filled one of them but right now there's still and a phone membership that needs to be filled as well as a an associate membership and the phone membership has been vacant for months I looked at the town website tonight or earlier today and as of as of that time they they're not being advertised and they really need to be filled and I suggest you do that because even if you choose not to remove this attorney with the conflict of interest he may well choose to resign himself after he hears from the State Ethics Commission thank you thank you that's all who have signed up is there anyone else here for citizens open form seeing none citizens open form is closed we now go to traffic rules and orders discussion joint meeting with the redevelopment board mr. chaplain thank you madam chair primarily we put this agenda item on so that the public's first knowledge of this meeting taken place wouldn't be when the agenda was posted later this week so we wanted to have an opportunity for this board to talk about it and there's also an agenda item on the redevelopment board's agenda tonight and they'll also be talking about the meeting but going further it wanted to present to you a draft agenda for the meeting and take any feedback comments or suggestions you have on that agenda so I this draft was just prepared today so paper copies have been circulated to the board but I'll quickly walk through the agenda some of these are very perfunctory others more substantive we'll ask both the select board chair in the air be chair to call the meeting to order after that we'd ask that you allow both myself and Jenny rate to then begin facilitating a dialogue between the boards which would start with a welcome and introductions of all board members and those in attendance we'd want to start talking about the presentation that I've given to both this board and the redevelopment board we're not going to do the whole presentation again cover some highlights see if there's any questions that members of either board want to answer and then have a discussion of sort of where we're at whether or not the two boards are interested in committed to working together on these issues going forward from there we'd like to have a discussion about how both the select board and the redevelopment board want to manage the review of future warrant articles I know last year there was discussion and really a request from members of the community to have the select board weigh in on certain zoning articles and I know on the redevelopment boards side there's often requests are interested in having the redevelopment board weigh in on town bylaws that have an impact on development such as the storm order bylaw so I think having a discussion in public between the two boards about how we want to manage that going forward would be prudent coming to terms with if the ARB says select board we'd like your review and approval or review and comment great vice versa or just what mechanism are we all going to be comfortable with so that neither board is stepping on the other boards toes sort of in an unwanted manner moving from there by the time the agenda is filed we'll have a proposed outreach strategy for this zoning and housing discussion that we'd want both boards to look at and comment on and after presenting that talking about and allowing both boards to comment at that point we'd like to ask for public feedback on that outreach plan so that's the point in the meeting we would be proposing having public comment on the outreach plan that we'd be putting forward we then want to let both boards know what we're hearing from a committee as well as some citizens in regards to potential articles for annual town meeting the planning department and the ARB are not planning on filing any zoning articles for town meeting in sort of inconformance of what we've talked about wanting to go through this public process however the housing implementation committee is considering asking to file municipal affordable housing trust fund article and there's a couple resident articles that are looking to be filed and we'll have a brief I don't want to say brief discussion we want to let you know about those and filed yet to be more discussion to come and then talk about whether or not we want to meet again in the future as a joint board between two boards are exactly how we want to handle the interactions going forward and then wrap up so that's seem straightforward but I'm sure it'll take a while to get through all of it but open to any critique comment feedback you might have about this agenda. Like we'll have attorney high Mrs. Cropelka also in attendance or no. Oh I would if they're available I would serve. Yeah they're available in the same moment and as we touch base on earlier similar to the ZBA because I was in a meeting and that hair in your woman like this whole time trying to read lips but the board has had conversations and you have definitely made sure to put in place whether it be this joint meeting and ZBA meeting etc to make sure that they're notified of that and then whatever you think is appropriate in terms of notifying ACMI I don't think that it's necessarily falls on their meeting they have to cover but I know that I know Sean really likes it you know on behalf of ACMI and others want to make sure that that happens. In my correct to assume that you'll sort of chair the meeting. Quote facility of that. Well yeah any chairing facility I think it would be comfortable if you could do that. And then I would leave it to you and planning director to misery in terms of public comment something I didn't do tonight that I don't know if it was Mr. Donner Mr. DeCorsi is depending on the amount of speakers if we have a sense that you know is a lot and we want to be able to have the opportunity to hear from everyone possibly a time limit and or a statement that if you want to enter your statement into the rocket even if you've read it or if you want to enter it in and you don't want to read it or if you feel that you had more to say just encourage people to enter that as we've done in previous meetings and it will be part of the record. So I jumped in ahead of my colleagues I apologize. Any questions or comments or suggestions for the manager meeting time will be what are you proposing this is another Monday night Monday night we usually start at 7.15 I believe the A or B starts at 7.30. I mean this I think this board's prerogative is fine by fine by me. We want to keep it 7.15. But if they for some reason say oh geez I barely make can make it for 7.30 they make it 7.30. But if we cannot like to stop as early as we can but you know is that all right. Do that sound good. So let's let's aim for 7.15 but otherwise 7.30. And then I don't know if you're going to have and this isn't around citizens open forum and length of duration but if it's going to be like a 7.15 to no later than 9.15 meeting or I'll let you handle that because you may look at everything you want to talk about and say this has to go beyond you know 2 hours and that's OK. Yeah we can we can aim for that. Is that all right. But definitely a manageable which you Mr. Dunn. Oh did you have your hand. I did but I didn't want to interrupt. No I didn't want to interrupt you. All this sounds good. I just in terms of I think the question during a certain forum about feedback is a pertinent one. I think that the getting feedback on the outreach strategy in particular makes a lot of sense. I think we just have to decide how much the chair or we or the chair is inside. How much we want just like general feedback. You know for instance if we have a parade of people who are who are concerned about tear downs for instance I'm not sure that like how much of the that kind of conversation is is going to be appropriate. So definitely public feedback about the outreach part of it makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure if we want to throw it open to and even if we didn't want to throw it open how much success we'd have it you know shaping what the what kind of feedback we're collecting. And I guess I'd leave it to the town manager and chaplain and Mrs. Cropelka in terms of who will actually be the official keeper of the minutes and responsible for that. Maybe be someone out of plant. I mean you often work it out. I mean I don't want to speak for someone to say that a particular office should or should not do it. And that's you feel it should come out. But if I can leave that also to you organizing that. Mr. Don and Mr. Jephorsi. I'll wait. Okay. Thank you madam chair. Just one thing I'd process it. I imagine both agendas will be published on the ARB site as well as as our site in advance and on number four terms of the roles in reviewing articles. Are you going to come to us with a recommendation or is that something that you're looking for both the board and the ARB to have thought about maybe individually beforehand? So I think it's always better to give public bodies options to consider or at least up proposals to start from. So I think we'll bring something for the boards to consider with no necessarily pride and authorship you know for the boards to get comfortable with but I think it makes for more more conducive to a good discussion if we have something for the board to work from. Yeah I think I'm glad that you said that because I think if it was just left out there who knows where it would go. So I appreciate that. That's all I had. Mr. Don. So I may have found an answer to my question for five and six so for about what we want in terms of public like how to manage public input and I mean this in a productive way like how to manage it in a productive way. Maybe swapping five and six and then that gives us if you know if we go through the first five in an hour then it gives us more room you know for broad public input and if we're at two hours and we get to public input then we can be like hey let's really stick with outreach. So it's fine. Okay. Good. Attorney Hine. Thank you Madam Chair. I just wanted to add that in addition to whatever the sort of operationally the manager in consultation with the planning director and some of the folks want to discuss in terms of the board's role in reviewing warrant articles. There are some legal dimensions to it that will be important to sort of make sure are clear for everybody. I think the board's already fairly familiar with the fact that you know warrant articles about zoning have to go through planning board but I'll make sure to add something that that'll help keep it confined especially for the public's education. There's probably a lot of people who will be interested to already know all that but there probably be a number of folks who aren't aware. So that will be like under number two. I think we're under number. When Doug makes a statement when it gets to four. Okay. Mr. Oh Mr. Carol. Yeah I mean I think to that end I think we all know what we're trying to drive towards here was it's been awkward at times at town meetings when some of these controversial zoning articles have come up and the board hasn't really had a statement but it's generally been our practice not to weigh in unless we're asked by by another body another reporting body to weigh in on their their articles. So if we can find a way that's acceptable to both both bodies to a mutual way kind of weigh in on our articles that'd be great to come up with a protocol that meets the legal snuff. Mr. Hard. I don't know how in detail get into this because we're going to talk about this next week anyway but I mean I think I would just envision is an opportunity for us to comment where we're going to the recommendation to tell me is always going to be from the ARB for zoning articles but I mean it should be a pretty simple process to have someone present the articles to us and just we'll have ability to comment people want to hear what we have to say on it. Mr. Yeah and that's one of the reasons why I asked it in terms of recommendation and glad attorney Hyam mentioned that in terms of you know there's a protocol and I know over the years occasionally there there there have been issues where the select board has made a recommendation and I get always talking back to my finance committee experience but there's been something that Fincom may want to comment on and it's not their comment that's before town meeting and then maybe that's you know if there ever was an issue that came up that there might be a disagreement between the boards and then somebody might want to offer a comment but I think that's right and I think it's important at the meeting for attorney Hyam to make it very clear this is the job of the two boards and this is what will be before town meeting because at the end of the day that's that's what town meeting will be voting on zoning from the ARB and the town bylaws from from from this body. Okay so with those suggestions from our discussion to someone want to make a vote to move approval of the draft with those suggestions so moved by Mr. Cairo seconded by second Mr. D'Corsi any further question or comments if not on a motion by Mr. Cairo seconded by Mr. D'Corsi all those in favor say aye aye opposed unanimously vote. Agenda item 7 our colleague Mr. Cairo believe you emailed me if you I don't know if you called me and if you texted I didn't I know I didn't you didn't text me because my text my phone's been sporadic I have no storage and I've been missing things all over the place but he asked to have agenda item 7 on and I asked Mr. Cairo to work with the select board office so to it Mr. Cairo. Yeah thank you very much Madam Chair to my colleagues we did put this on as a select board warrant article discussion. I I mainly wanted to have this discussion while we're still within the window to put something on the warrant if we so chose or needed to. I think that there's a discussion that that is worth having as we are approaching our long stated goal of removing the the debt shift from the from the property taxes which inevitably is going to put what upward pressure on water and and sewer rates as we approach this and as we discussed it during the override campaign and part of the idea was that the impact of those increases would be felt less by smaller households many of which would be senior households but I'm not sure that it's the complete solution. So in the fall in October I know that WB UR had had done a story that the board administrator had sent around to all of us referencing a report out of I think out of northeast and a drop in the bucket which looked at communities and it's where I learned that a number of communities in the state have discount programs for seniors sometimes were disabled generally means tested not always not always so I just spent a very enjoyable rainy Saturday looking at 38 different communities in Massachusetts and how they approached their water and sewer discount programs I I found them through Google through references in that report and then the MWRA advisory board actually puts out a report with rate information for each of the communities within the the water authority and they self-report on whether or not they have discount programs and then it's a matter of trying to slug through their city and town websites which I found there's a very wide variance and and how accessible the websites are for different very wide variants different cities and towns what I came away with is and after speaking to council is that it is probably possible for us to implement something without a town meeting warrant article depending on how we want it to be structured one of the common for means tested one of the common approaches to this has has been to tie it to some of the existing tax relief programs that we've supported over the last few years where if somebody goes to the assessor's office and they qualify for one of those programs and that they're called out then they're automatically they qualify for for the discount program they don't have you know it it relieves them of an additional burden and it seems that most of jurisdictions I looked at it doing that through the rate-setting process I did find that native had done a bylaw although within the bylaw they just designated the board of selectmen to set set the rate so we already seem to we have that authority authority there are different forms in which the discounts take some of them are flat percentages some of them are percentage off of the base rate so if you with the tiered system off of the first tier Revere has as you go up the tiers they actually drop the percentage as you go up so it's it's all over the the board there but it seemed to be most common to tie these to to qualification for the tax relief program so that that's one and that we could we could do when we come around to rate-setting without probably without any bylaw change and they seem to range anywhere from 10% to like Summerville's at 30% so they're pretty pretty high now some of the communities get even a little bit more creative and they try to incorporate some measures to give some relief to renters so if a renter for example has a lease that shows that they're responsible for the the water and sewer costs and they qualify for they obviously wouldn't qualify for the tax relief programs but if they qualify for example for heating assistance then they would qualify for for the discount program as well but they'd have to show that they have that responsibility and some communities even go so far as to address individuals in condo associations which that I think would probably require a bylaw change the way it seems to work is that most of these most of these are setting a point a cap on how much water you could have discounted and so they look at the entire number of units in the condo and they and then they divide that up and then they determine an average usage from that if the average usage is underneath underneath the threshold if somebody can show that there they qualify for the tax programs then they they get it actually a tax credit so that that looks like that would probably require a bylaw change I would think those are things I wanted to put out on the on the table and just get my colleagues thoughts on whether a do you think it is worthwhile I mean so I identified 38 communities but it's a partial list because I could just couldn't get to all 351 I couldn't find a source of information with had all of that is worth doing do we want to just take it up during rate setting and discuss it there and how expansive would would we want to consider you know looking at this would would we want a warrant article to be able to to address the the condo situation or do we want to start off I'd say definitely worth doing worth looking into I think if based on your research was very thorough if the only bylaw that you saw just kind of kicked it back to the select board and it's within our purview to do it during the rate setting when we set the water and soil rates then I think that's the best time to do it I would I think there is a lot of nuances in condos that I don't think we could put together I we can look at it but yeah I think it would be too complicated to yeah put something together for our time I only found one example of that I will say and I'll also say that most of these addressed anywhere from single to one or one to three family owner occupied primary residences that seemed to be the main the qualification some would just single family dwellings the island situation my gut says one to three probably does make sense we're starting to have a to look into it because there are a few condo complexes around that I think would benefit from this and have you know good amount of people that would qualify but I just I think it's a little more complex argument because you know look at the condos and square with condo docs one I definitely like the idea I like doing it by rate I like the element of giving the most benefit to the people with low usage most extending the benefit all the way up and I do like it expanding it to apartment and I'm not like I agree we can worry about condos in round two if we need to so we've got some that means I mean if we're we're kind of have a consensus around that I mean I think we probably have some run room I forget what month we set the rates so I think we've talked about having a rate discussion probably late winter early spring so that we could make it all work so we've got a little bit of time I'll say ditto ditto Mr. DeCorson yeah ditto I'm comfortable with that and definitely would go to the next one would anticipate would see whoever is appropriate to give us some some reference material when we get to that series discussion do you need the voter you think this discussions do you feel like you have enough do you want to vote or I didn't bring a particular vote forward the second one probably also is not a warrant after speaking council is probably not a warrant article issue that may need a some more research it's just it's an issue that came up at the last COA meeting the director now former director mentioned that that it was sometimes a little bit frustrating that that some people in need come forward they need assistance example with electricity bill and she doesn't have that that flexibility with the heating assistance heating assistance fund and I wanted to try to explore whether or not there was a way to either expand the scope of the fund or or create a companion fund and Mr. Heim in my discussions with him today said that because there are federal if I understood this correctly because there are federal funds that are flowing into heating assistance it creates a difficult situation if you expand the purposes for it because you could have a potential co-mingling so I'll say I put this on for discussion to raise the issue I think it needs a little bit more research I didn't put them not the research into this that I did water and sewer just because even though we apparently we could create a companion fund with no town meeting action but I'm worried about a fund with no funding source and what I would say is anything that this board unanimous or a majority majority majority the majority approves of it for some reason on the second point it does change and it should be a warrant article or some version thereof I'll leave that up to you Mr. Kero because we have up until the date that the warrant actually goes to get printed the select board as we all know has the ability to do that my thing would be anything that this board would put on it as a proposed warrant article as with anything we always have you know want the reference materials so we can read everything and just you know around a condo question Mr. Hurd definitely would catch something perhaps all of you better than I would and things like that so but I certainly think it's worth exploring it sounds like it that won't need a warrant article but if circumstances change I'll leave it to you to implement that I want to do the same order Mr. Hurd Joe's just trying to get our sense about this merits further research with the only way I apologize the only way I would say wouldn't merit further research if it becomes so cumbersome for you and you know you say you know what this isn't really worth all the time or or maybe a conversation with the town manager that says you know maybe that's a goal or something that needs to be incorporated like I don't want you spending too many hours and I know you won't you have work life and family life any comments here I have no opinion on this one yeah and I just like to learn more I did before we go further it sounds like we'll time to do that so that's that's all okay thank you on correspondence receive we have the resignation from the zoning board of appeals by Mr. Quinn and we also have communication from our building inspector mr. Ciampa regarding Allenton liquor's violations update move by Mr. Dunn seconded by second Mr. Hurd any further question or comment if not all those in favor say aye aye opposed unanimous vote new business Mrs. Cropelka I'd like to ask the board's commission to decide for these upcoming voting for March 3rd for the extended hours okay by law which is a federal apparently a law that came out the other day we only can have early voting on town hall hours which means from Monday through Friday but I'm willing to extend we can't have on Saturday that's completely out I'm willing to come in and extend it from 12 to 5 and I would ask my workers and I'm sure that they would do it if the board would like to extend that Friday which I think is the 28th just to extend it from 12 to 5 and that's for the early voting and meaning that like the previous weekdays that have a full day on Friday to vote versus the district so be voting 8 to 5 8 a to 5 p yes if you'd like to is that amenable to my colleagues I mean it's kind of dictated by state law and we're just doing a little bit extra okay okay thank you that's it turning high thank you really new business I have is to mention that the FY 2021 budget I can't believe it's already the 2021 budget is coming close to being ready it's due on the 15th so a week from this Wednesday that'll be delivered to all of the board members as well as the finance committee on the 15th and then I'll plan on the board's meeting on the 27th which is the board's next meeting to come and present on the budget that time yes I'm sorry I miss her Mr. DeCorsi thank you madam chair just briefly I said a follow-up they talked to the town manager about this earlier today we had voted in the fall to move the bus stop for the 87 bus so it the bus would idle in front of playtime at the end of Broadway and over the break I was contacted by a couple of residents who are having to be patrons of the hair styling salon across the street expressing some frustration at losing the meters which is understandable but but also expressing some disappointment that since I believe it was December 16th that the bus stop was created in front of playtime and on several instances and I saw a couple myself over the break the bus is continuing to idle at Broadway Plaza so I just like to ask the manager through the planning department maybe to follow up with the tea because if we're going to move it for them and I think we all were in agreement it was a good idea to move that away from Broadway Plaza but it's for the tea's benefit as well and and I know you know there may be drivers who are coming new on the route but that that should be something that's done and if the tea isn't happy with that arrangement maybe we talk about something else but it's it just was a tough situation for them to lose the spots and to see the bus down the street anyway yeah yeah okay that's it Mr. Hurd Mr. Kira before I ask for a motion to adjourn our next gets regularly scheduled meeting of the select board is January 27th 2020 moved to adjourn by Mr. Hurd seconded by Mr. Dacorsi any questions oh it's non-debatable on a motion by Mr. Hurd seconded by Mr. Dacorsi all those who say aye unanimous vote good night Arlington