 Hi, welcome everyone to the selectments meeting of September 21st 2015 at 7 15 p.m. As you may have heard I've been talking to my feet. This is being taped by ACMI We also have members of the press mr. Sprig Bob Sprig here, and I want to welcome Nick from the Allington Advocate So nice to see you. I hope we see you for a long time and welcome to Allington Apologize for not being Promptly on time. We had a tour of the fire station at 6 30. I don't know if the town manager wanted to Speak to that or just explain. That's why we certainly Thank you madam chair So we tonight starting at 6 30 as chairman Mahan just mentioned We gave the board of select minutes some members of the finance committee who are available a tour of the recently renovated and completed Central fire station so it was I had the good fortune of having the tour a number of times But I think it was for the board to see what a you know a completed You know good capital investment is in the community and to be able to learn a little bit about the fire department's operation So I'm actually curious to see if the board had any You know comment or feedback after the tour mr. Don. I'll just say So the first time I went through that building was right after I was elected. I did I sat down with each of the department chair that head wow department chair people and I Chief Jefferson took me through the old building and so like you know it was as we know in really terrible shape And so you know now four years later or whatever it is I get another tour where I get to see what it really what it is renovated and Is a world of difference that's something to be proud of Yet no, I was really blown away by it as well, and I think a lot of things does go out to the actual People who are actual fire department who you know as we saw did quite a lot of work themselves in there And it really is home to them and it really speaks to you know how professional department They are and I think they have great leadership on their chief Jefferson. So we're we're quite fortunate to have everyone there Thank you, I was very impressed with the building both you know from a utilitarian standpoint, you know, of course It's primary purposes to you know facilitate the public safety function and also to to provide a You know comfortable living space because our firefighters do live at the fire station for you know 24-hour shifts But in addition to its primary function I was just really impressed with all of the care to the detail I'd encourage anyone who can see it that the detail from the energy efficiency Was put in the spaces for training that have been put into the station The preservation of some of the architectural features even though it's been thoroughly updated some of the old architectural features Some of the art and history that are in there are amazing and firefighting You know is a profession with a long tradition and I think that our department did a great job of trying to preserve that as well and preserve Allington's Traditions in there as well alongside the primary function. So thank you for facilitating a mister Manager and and you know, thank you to our department chief Jeffson in particular for seeing this through And I would encourage anybody from the public a anyone who has public business down at the fire station in terms of permits or Gathering information. Everything's handicap accessible. There's an elevator It's a great place to see it's a really good testament to the firefighters who work there Respecting the job that they do and helping them enable to do their jobs in terms of fitness room and and sleeping quarters And I'm gonna be the woman here the girl I was impressed with the security in the mechanical room But I was blown away by the kitchen in the state of the ox to hope and everything that they have in there So, please if you can get down there, whether you have normal business or if you see something on the website or Town web page and we will be having an open house on a Saturday early October I don't know the exact date in front of me But very soon we'll have the we'll push it out via the town's email list and the town's website So the public will have an opportunity to take it to it. It's great great tour. Okay. Thank you And thank you everybody for waiting for us gen item to an update on the Allenton Gateway project. Mr. Manager Thank You madam chair So one of the projects that Debbie town manager Andrew Flanagan's been working on for quite a while since last year's capital budget was Planning and designing and then getting towards implementation of some improvements to Arlington's gateways or entrances from other communities So we'll get to Andrew's departure and the next agenda item But before Andrew goes I did want to give him an opportunity to update the board For the board's information about where we are with the Gateway project and what you can expect to see in the upcoming months on that project Thank You Adam and members of the board So just about two years ago myself and Carol Kowalski our director of planning and community development put our heads together around I'm an area. I think we could really make some Significant improvements on in those were our gateways meaning the point of entry into Arlington from some other town or city there's actually to surprise to us is actually 11 of them and we went out and Retained landscape architect out of Lexington Esker and Associates to really go through what are some of our options were I'm very appreciative to the capital planning committee and how meeting in finance committee who All supported the concept through the appropriation the last two town meetings actually to provide us with the initial funding to Move forward with this so given some of our funding limitations We decided on focusing in on a few or in this case three That were potentially in the most immediate need and those three were so at the intersection of river and the parkway where you're either coming from Somerville or Medford no distinction you're in Arlington at Mystic from Winchester Where it's been it's been a really great job by citizen volunteers who maintain that and they've been a real part of the garden Club has been a real part of this throughout the process So those are the two we really initially focused on And then we turned our attention to the entrance from Belmont right off route to at 60 and its current state it's overgrown And there was a lot of work to be done there So the things what we went into this hoping to do a few things Redesign them hard scape and landscaping improvements landscaping that's as little maintenance as possible and the plan is to bring irrigation to each site It's pretty easy to do getting given with the water mains currently run So we're focusing on those three and the other big element was going to be a sign design a little bit different from what we've had reflective of Arlington And I think it will be a pretty significant improvement. I brought So our goal is the the sign It will it's made of a specific material that won't weather Like a traditional wooden sign And it will be hung on to grant bollards and attached by Rod-iron connection Our goal is to hopefully have these in by the end of the fall And then really start the irrigation and landscape work at the best time of year to do so which is the spring So as the town manager said Didn't want anybody to be surprised when you see work happen in all these places But I think it's gonna be a positive improvement to the town. So Thank you I'm curious about Mass out from Cambridge was that on the I'm assuming there's a You looked at that one. We did look at it and it's part of the scope of the mass out project Oh, so that's gonna get done through that effort. Okay. That's why I mean that was probably the one in the most immediate need But where it's being taken care of his part of the project. We decided to focus our attention great No, thank you very much and I'm waiting to see you know designed by Andrew and Carol Manufactured No, thank you very much this will be a great addition Thank You madam chair. So as he talks about Arlington's entrances I wanted to give the board an opportunity to talk about Andrew's exit so as the board knows Andrew Has been offered and accepted the position of town manager for the town of Andover That's something that I'm very happy for him. I'm very proud of him I think it's an incredible opportunity for him, but I do also think on the other hand It's a it's a big loss for Arlington. He's been here for nearly three and a half years This tenure here has seen the launch of Arlington visual budget The town manager's annual financial plan being honored as a GFO a certified award-winning budget Amongst many other accomplishments Also excellent collective bargaining skills, and I think a real improved Tenor of collective bargaining since Andrew's been sort of the co-lea with Karen Malloy as a HR director with collective bargaining So we'll be bidding Andrew farewell at a coffee on October 2nd in the morning But this being the last select was meeting before Andrew left. I thought I'd give an opportunity for the board to say Anything they'd like and sort of give Andrew an opportunity just be before the board before he goes to his next opportunity Yeah, I Sure, I think that You know Andrew's been here more or less I think since I've been on the board as well I think we kind of came in at the same time someone I have a certainly deep respect for and has really You know, I think brought a lot of facets of kind of our town management And I mean this with no offense to the town manager, but but up a level And I'm certainly happy for him as he or Andrew as you go to and over but I'm sure our paths will cross moving forward to You know different municipal functions and I wish you the best of luck. So thank you Thank you very much. I also I want to wish you well I think I've appreciated kind of your soft-spoken approach even under, you know, some stressful situations appreciated your input at the you know, long-range planning meetings where you're you're asked for innumerable scenarios and financial scenarios and forecasts and you've always Come through and it's really informed our decision-making as well as sticking it out with us every year You know for a whole Saturday morning on our goal-setting sessions I think that your input has been, you know invaluable and I think that and overs Quite a find, quite a catch. So thank you and good luck I won't repeat some of the things that other people said, but I will try to channel Kevin and say we'd appreciate weekly notes Saying which one has the better board of slackman? He's still here. Good luck And I should say mr. Grilly wanted to be here, but unfortunately he had some business that took him out of town Congratulations, Andrew. I want to congratulate the town manager for Obviously working with someone who rose to the level that and over was smart enough to tap your resources I know they will be missed. I know you've I think Arlington is a really good testing ground in terms of the Opportunities you've had to be acting town manager. I just think you're gonna have that 24-7 And over's board of selectmen. I know I've certainly put you through the ringer. So I would like to think I also helped mold you those calls on the off hours on the weekends and Just to try to Sight a case in point One of your strengths I think for me that I really appreciated was and it was really kind of quiet and on the down low I know recently within the past year. We had gone through a really important hiring here in the in the town of Arlington And I just had a little bit of trepidation and just you know didn't say anything to anybody and Mr.. Flanagan Andrew happened to be here that night and the very next morning. He was kind enough Picked up on that. I think that's very intuitive as well as you know sat down with the meeting showed me the different Exercises that the candidates went through and really gave me the opportunity to feel very comfortable Which I was because the people Recommending for the position. I had placed all my trust in and I wasn't involved in the process at all But any two words of advice I would give you is really God bless you being a town manager And you know they're gonna want you 24-7 And Mr. Chaplin's trained you well, and that's one great skill your intuitiveness And also acting upon it not trying to be showboating but really Getting to it and acting on it and getting it done And I wish you nothing but good luck good success and as mr. Burn said I'm sure our paths will cross in the future Mr.. Greeley will ask you that question in person Anything mr. Andrew you I keep trying to be formal Andrew anything you'd like to say thank you I'm all so much for out you very kind comments. So just about three and a half years ago I think that I stood here with this very board and said and I was serious and serious today that Arlington is the type of town that people in our profession of municipal management want to come and work for and that is certainly proven To be the case for me as a person as a professional to not only serve the resident to this town to serve the board and be part of Adams administration here in Arlington, you know what I've taken away from everybody, but particularly Adam is a lot of Great great tutelage over the years and I think without I don't know if I'd be in the position I am today to go lead and over so thank you all very much I also want to just shout out real quickly to the senior management team the department heads and all the staff In Arlington they have supported me Through everything since I've been here and they're a great staff and the town is certainly lucky to have all of them So thank you very much Okay, next we'll have our consent agenda Which is the minutes of the special meeting of August 12th 2015 a request for a contractor drain layer license Out of bill rickha request for a special one-day bear and wine on September 26th at the region theater for Alpha Sonic Rock Concert a request for a special one-day bear and wine license on October 3rd at the region theater for through the doors a Celebration of Jim Morrison and the doors a request for a special one-day bear and wine license on October 16th at the Smith Museum 7 Jason Street through the Arlington Historical Society wine reception a request for a special one-day bear and wine Licensed on October 23rd my anniversary at the Robbins Memorial Town Hall auditorium for the fifth annual out on the town gala which supports the Arlington Youth Council Counseling Center as well as we have a request for parking restriction waivers on Tufts and Foster Street for the 2015 2016 school year first Could I get a motion to receive more approval subject all conditions set forth by mr. Cairo seconded by mr. Byrne first for my colleagues any questions we got in the minutes Is there anyone here from the public to speak to any of the Events that I cited for the special one-day bear and wine license or the contractor drain layer license or the Tufts and Foster Street Packing request waivers if not any further discussion all in favor say aye. I'll oppose. It's a unanimous vote We now are going to go to a public hearing for the request a theater license wine and malt For the Medford Street Theater Inc. Do you doing business as Regent Theater 7 Medford Street Leland Stein and Richard Starros? Are either of those gentlemen here? If you could come to the microphone You want to just give a brief or if you don't it's up to you Well as you know we've been For the past three plus years. I believe You've been so kindly approving the one-day permits up to 30 per year and also the you did approve of the blanket one one-year annual Beer and wine licenses for the two theaters in Arlington, and I know the Capitol Theater has been Doing so for quite some time so We are very much looking forward to the opportunity to To be able to serve beer and wine and not have to pick and choose and worry about all the paperwork and the great expense of the one-day permits and We've certainly had a lot of practice As the office is there a motion Conditions by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Cureau mr. Dunn I'm really delighted to support this. I think you have over you run a wonderful business in our town and you Have been selling you know you've been selling this responsibly as you say with a lot of different one-day licenses And I figure your distributors must be really tired of hauling it all in and out of there all the time Now you only have to haul it in so I am really glad to see that you're applying for this full-time One day, and I'm happy to support it Thank you I'm happy also to see you applying for it as you come up on your centennial, so there's centenary I guess Centennial celebration of the theater so good luck Okay on a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Cureau on those in favor say aye I We also have a request for a wine and malt license our JM ink doing business as sugo Cucina, Italiana at 162 Masab Josephine men a scalco and Rudolph are either of them here Well, we opened about seven weeks ago To compliment the food a beer and wine license would fit very well with my concept I've been in the business for a long time as far as responsibility goes as far as as far as alcohol. I am well versed I Was certified in tips training, but I need to get recertified, which I will My staff will be trained accordingly I won't be open late hour I think it's just something that would enhance my business and the Concept that I'm trying to bring to Mr. Dunn So I'm happy to support it I'm gonna just do you have one thought of caution and advice for you So we as you probably know annually the police department does goes out to all the restaurants and Package stores that does a sting operation and the ones that fail are inevitably ones that have hired a new employee Do not have a rigorous training program for their new employees and the number of times If someone has stood at that microphone and said they started and we're gonna train them next week But we didn't get around to it And so it isn't gonna be that you're serving someone underage next week or the week after it's gonna be in three I mean if you if the mistake happens it'll be in three years or five years And so we've had a number of restaurants I think I've had a lot more success with a written training program that they go through and they do like you know Like at some form of a test with each new employee or something like that And so I really encourage you to do something like that with your program and then stick to it such that We can only see you at your restaurant and never here It's a very methodical when it comes to things like that especially training I've been in the business for a long time and as far as management goes I had a rigorous training at my previous position. I was a general manager and It's something that needs to get done and something that will be inherently With every new employee it's It's detrimental to a business if you neglect that Sir that aspect of any of anything when you're serving alcohol or whether it be malt or beer malt or wine And it's something that I've been trained for in the past and That's something I'm not gonna let let slide Because it's like I said it's detrimental to my business if it does occur. So that's something I won't let Thank you Move approval subject to all conditions including tips training I Would just echo mr. Dunn sentiments from my families in the restaurant business business Chateau's no Sarah's Ideally and it's not required with your application But what we've seen that mr. Dunn spoke to is really having a multi-page sort of training Packet that you give to each new employee have them sign it as well as Depending on how busy you are at least monthly or once a year at your annual staff meeting Even the people that have already been you know this Go over it again and sign again, and I know I can hear your very methodical So that's the things when we see people come in that that's what they didn't have before and they implement So but I want to wish you good luck here in East Arlington on Mass Ave. We're almost done down there It looks pretty good. It's gonna look at a great job When it's done, I'm any further discussion. If not all those in favor say aye subject conditions. I Unanimous vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck Request for a common victual or an all alcohol license Shanghai three ink doing business at Shanghai Village Asian Cuisine and Andy Lee and or someone else Good evening. My name is may way who I represent applicants on high three ink Standing next to me is Andy Leon president and a treasurer and Also holds up 40% of the share Interest in the new corporation. He's also the proposed the manager So he is tip certified and he has We just have a brief discussion just now. He also talked about he would implement procedures to train the staff He has worked. Mr. Andy Leon has worked in the restaurant industry for over eight years He both restaurant that he have worked in are Have alcohol license so he has even though he has never been a proposed manager for these restaurants, but he has Went through tip training. He has went through staff training where alcohol is served on the premises So he has plenty of experience I don't know if I should Know that sounds have missed a young it mr. Kuro. Yeah, thank you and thank you for Speaking to that that point I mean, I don't want to beat a dead horse because I think my colleague already talked about the importance of this this particular location We have had At least one previous violation. So it is important to keep whatever procedures were there previously in place After that incident and if you could strengthen those I think it's incredibly important and I think that As my colleague said, you know a written program for your employees and making sure that all new employees who come on Participate in that I think is very important So I move to approve some of your politicians set forth second by mr. Burn any further questions? If not all those in favor say aye Unanimous folk We'll now go to appointments Allenton cultural council we have to murley gurera and Nilo muchala Both one to expire August 31st of 2018 and the second one September 30th 2018 I either of those people here. You could come up to the microphone introduce yourselves and give us a little brief My name's Nilo muchala. I've been a resident of Arlington for about seven years So when I came here, I initially started volunteering in different cultural aspects of the town Amographic designer by training and that's where my interest sort of lies I've branded and helped the international film festival There's been a Arlington author salon that was launched launched in the last year. I've helped them with some local design and also with Arlington public art of course like doing a lot of work with cheerful and Atrox monotony So last year I actually applied for a grant from the Arlington cultural council and I'm a grantee in the year 2015 And my project actually has to do with Arlington I'm interviewing folks around town from all walks of life per generation families to youngsters and Transcribing it and doing a couple of installations around town as a result of my interaction with the cultural council They are looking for a couple of new members So they requested I met with them and I'm interested in volunteering through that group within the town and That's why I'm here today Mr. Burr, I'll certainly move approval on I don't know how you fit it all in but thank you very much for As Kevin would say you're willing to serve so I really look forward to seeing the work that you do Hey, thank you very much as I read through both both of the I'll second the motion as I read through Both of these applicants CVs. I've enjoyed their visual art and performing arts very very much and I know that Our next applicant also brought some great you know honor on the town for the performance up at the Park Circle water tower and on yourself and all I could think when I read these CVs is how are we so fortunate to have this caliber of applicant Coming to to serve for us. So That's all I want to say. Thank you for applying and thank you for your willingness With that segue Merley Thank you Thanks. Well, hi, I'm Merley Vigara and I actually haven't been a resident all that long Two weeks after I moved in to Arlington back in 2013. I Realized that I lived next to this gorgeous water tower and I knew I had to do something with it So I jumped into the strangest application that I've probably ever written or the town has ever received I created a whole bunch of permits that didn't exist before I'm now friends with the Arlington fire department the police department you of course were so helpful as well So no, we were we were very very fortunate to have a project to be in a town that was so Welcoming of such an interesting Collaboration of the community's artwork and video projection and dance and music to put it all together into what was night at the tower last year actually exactly a year ago in 2014 And then earlier this year We were notified that it was chosen as one of three projects out of 5000 across the state last year to receive the gold star award From the MCC. So that was really wonderful. Thank you. Well, thank you. Honestly A pleasure to bring it to Arlington Hey, if ever you need to write a permit I will But but honestly it was such a wonderful welcome to the community for myself and then to have the Arlington Cultural Council Approach me about joining them for this three-year term I couldn't think of anything more that I would want to do beyond being able to be a liaison for the folks that are coming in and say Oh, you need a permit. Okay, let me help you So, thank you so much By mr. Burn all those in favor say aye opposed a very unanimous vote Another appointment to the Cemetery Commission Brian has broke Good evening Hi, I'm Brian has work Thank you the board for having me here. Thank you. Mr. Chaplin so I've been a resident of Arlington for 32 years and I I moved to the cemetery neighborhood about five years ago. I'm on Sherbourne Street. I'm in the butter and before that I Was active as a volunteer on the vision 2020 reservoir committee and there was one day around 15 years ago where? We took sort of an education walk down all the way down Milbrook See where it meets the mystic the lower mystic Lake and that took us through the cemetery So that was the first time I saw it and I really thought well This is a really special place and it completely surprised me because I didn't know it even existed in town So since then I've done other volunteer activities. I'm I've been on town meeting for about four four years now and I've I've been curious about the cemetery operation. I've been to a couple of Meetings of Cemetery Commission, and I've been very impressed What I've saw with a level of volunteer support that the Commission gives the town So when the vacancy arose, I thought well, maybe I can make some contribution as well So that's why I'm here tonight Mr. Burns seconded by second. Mr. Cureau. Mr. Dunn Thank you for joining and thank you for your willingness to serve the Cemetery Commission ends up being It's gonna be at the pointy end of one of those difficult decisions We've got coming up because we are running out of room for the trip as you know I'm sure for traditional burials and the land to fix that is not, you know cheap And so we're gonna need to come up with creative solutions that are also palatable to town meeting as you also know has been a Challenge so I definitely wish you luck and offer your you know our support and creative solutions that to You know manage the space problem that we've got coming up. Oh Thank you. I appreciate that advice and I agree and I'm I have a lot to learn about the history of The cemetery in that particular problem, but I'll be thinking a lot about that Okay Any further questions on a motion by mr. Burns seconded by mr. Cureau all those in favor say aye Again a very unanimous vote. Thank you so much The next agenda item. I know the chairman really wanted to be here he worked Heavily with the town manager and the committee on this And I'm not going to be able to impart any of his wisdom and knowledge that he gained along the way I'm going to let the town manager do this But this is for approval for the board appointments to the CPA CPC community preservation committee mr. Chapter Lane Thank You madam chair. So as the board knows We are establishing as a town the first community preservation committee now and After passage this spring at town meeting the board has four at-large appointments to this committee So the process we followed was to solicit applications of which I believe we actually I've been using the wrong number We'd received 21 applications This board appointed a five-member screening committee with each board member appointing one of those members using a number of criteria Town experience financial experience other areas relative to the community preservation act That screening committee narrowed those original applicants down to nine applicants Those nine were then interviewed via phone excuse my cold for 15 minutes each by Chairman Greeley and I and I would say from the original pool down to the pool of nine This was probably the toughest choice that I've had to make in terms of volunteers who want to serve and telling Excellent volunteers. No, you know, we have other people whose service that we want And I think that's just a testament to Arlington as a whole but also to the people who applied and showed interest in this so before you tonight are The chairman and I's recommendations to you for consideration for appointment So you haven't the memo before you Clarissa Rowe David Levy Eric Helmuth and Andrew Bankston Excuse me. What is not contained in the memo is recommended term length. Yes Recommending is Clarissa Rowe for the one-year term Eric Helmuth and Andrew Bankston for the two-year terms And David Levy for the three-year term I believe all four of the candidates are here tonight and I know this is a big decision for the board but Speaking for myself and as much as I can speak for the chairman Greeley. We very much hope the board will approve our recommendations If I could I do see the four individuals here if you could come up and We all know you Because you're certainly very involved with the town but for everybody watching at home and whatever you'd like to impart in terms of Your service on the CPC or advice To the rest of us that for some reason they elected to have me come first The I think the Community Preservation Act is a wonderful addition to the town I think it's going to help Take care of some needs in town with affordable housing historic preservation and open space and recreation That I won't say not all of them have been underfunded, but they have been somewhat underfunded From my personal view I've been working on this since the 1990s statewide and I'm really happy that my own town has finally elected to be part of this group and I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to being on this Committee I'm going to retire from a couple of other committees so I can just focus on this one For one year as Adam said, and I guess one Anyway, I think it's a tremendous opportunity and I'm really happy that the three gentlemen behind me are also serving with me Because I think we can work very cooperatively Thank You miss Roe our former and still current colleague in our hearts Hello Eric helmet precinct 12 So I was really inspired by the voters decision to make an investment Because I think that's what the CPA Fundamentally is and it's a different kind of investment as Clarissa said it's an investment in things that for the long term make Arlington a great place to live and will continue to make a Make it a great place to live but that are difficult to fund in the short term and the fact that the citizens the voters the taxpayers Decided to do that. I think was inspiring inspiring to me and inspired me to want to serve Primarily to listen and to learn Which sounds a little Polly Anish, but I think that's what the CPC needs to do to really listen to what the needs are What those longer-term needs are with the sensitivity to what the short-term? financial practicalities are and find a way to Merge the two in a way that respects the integrity of the intent of the CPC and What we need to do to be fiscally responsible, so I think it's a fascinating challenge I look forward to learning a great deal from the other committee members who have deep expertise in each of these three areas and Appreciate it again David Levy as you know And I appreciate the opportunity to serve the town again. It's been a little while for me Running the housing corporation of Arlington for almost nine years and serving on town meeting and the Historic Districts Commission and other committees and I took a little break to start my own business, which has been fascinating and I'm when I heard about this opportunity And my wife told me to do it. I decided to put my name in the hat and But I am I'm really looking forward to it This is an important fund. I know it well from my work in affordable housing These are three separate areas that are underfunded in general So I really see our role is to advise the town manager and you on how we think this money should be allocated and You know, I take that quite seriously. So thanks for The vote of confidence and I'm looking forward to it Yeah Andrew banks and town meeting member for a couple years now my wife and I have moved here about nine years ago and enjoyed living here and have been Taken on more volunteer roles and see this as the next step and I really appreciate the opportunity I'm an architect about 18 years of experience So I see my role is kind of digging into some of the technical aspects of some of these projects and Being able to advise on that Thanks for the opportunity Mr. I'm gonna move approval. I'm gonna say thank you all you all have fantastic Qualifications as has been said before and you all have a lot to offer the committee and I really appreciate the fact You are willing to put forward the time on that To I will my my I do have some thoughts as to how the the money Should be allocated, which I know that Clarissa and Eric have heard at point-blank range Upwards of 15 times where David and Andrew you may have only heard zero to five times and maybe a little bit of a distance But I think it is really important that the CPA be used Very carefully in orchestration with our larger financial plan because we have this as As easy as relatively as the budgets have been the last couple years They are not always going to be like that because we have a structural imbalance and we are going to need another override And one of the only ways we're gonna get that override and maintain the services that we all know and love is we make the case that we're spending it on what we should be and The CPA is going to be held up to that scrutiny just like everything else And so I Encourage you to keep that in mind as you make your wise decisions Mr. Burn was that a second I Certainly seconded and I'm thank you all very much again. I know I Don't know if I'll go the direction Dan went with that, but I certainly appreciate I certainly appreciate his comments and deeply respect them but I think what I want to Really point out is the process that kind of everyone went through to be on this committee, and I think that from Of course we did a we picked out the people who the selection committee, and I think we really Picked out a committee that worked well together and did come up with a Objective process that got the right people for the job And I think Kevin and Adam deserve a lot of credit for that as well But of course you for for you know being willing to go through it, which I know isn't always easy for You know a volunteer role, so thank you very much, and that means a lot to me Thank you, thank you madam chair Once again, this is another situation where I just looked at the Canada points and wow Well, we fortunate was such a rich Canada pool overall and you all kind of represent the cream that rose to the top but but There's so many talented people came forward and I think we all kind of know you although when I read yours Your resume as I realize I didn't really know you and everything that you've you've accomplished professionally and And your volunteer life and what I want to Really thank the manager and the chair and the committee for is I think Most people know that there are three main programmatic areas that the that the Community Preservation Act Is designed to assist its historic preservation open space and recreation As well as affordable housing and I'm very impressed at the that the recommendations that came forward to us Really represent deep expertise in each of those three areas as well as the fact that every one of you Does or has served on on town meeting because it's going to be very important That that all of the recommendations the committee bring forward our recommendations that that can also pass you know town meeting muster and reflect the The priorities of the community. I think it was a great Great Event when the voters passed this this act. I know that number of you worked very hard on it I mean, this row is kind of the very godmother of the CPA in Arlington in Massachusetts, but I Think in talking to folks and I think even some who were skeptical and and you know opposed it at that that time of Recognized that it can be an important tool in our financial planning as well as meeting some programmatic needs So I have great confidence in and in the work that you'll do with the other five Statutory appointees to the CPA. So thank you I want to say thank you to a cursa David and Andrew. I Know you're smart enough to know what you're about the journey. You're about to embark upon I know similar to a community development block grant CDBG. You're probably going to get tenfold Really worthy possibly eligible projects and we're not going to be able to do them all I know I'll probably be one of the worst offenders in terms of That process I'm going to leave it to you and the rest of the committee along with the town manager and whoever you avail yourself to to define what that process is in terms of You know people who I know when I went out along with you all and we're selling the CPA and asking people to raise their taxes One attractive thing was the matching grant the matching funds from the state that miss roll was I'm gonna say the architect of But as well as when people heard what they could be applied to and I was very careful to say this could be done You know right now under this So I think that's going to be really a as you know First important step and sort of defining how people should find out about CPC What's the best way because you're going to have a lot of information on your plate You may have already started to think about that Like what you would say to me versus me calling you each four individually to say I want to talk to you about these five projects You know will there be a public meeting will there be a brochure or something like that? So however you all define the process that works best for you But I know a lot of people are really excited about this and sort of one of the things I want to pass on to miss role Clarissa And I think we discussed this I have spoken to three very strong Individuals so who are? vociferously opposed to CPA and they now are espousing to me how important it is and how it should be applied Here in the town of Arlington As well as gave their very strong opinions on it, which I listened to because I think that's what a great job That's been done on this and will continue to be done on it Anything you'd like to add Mr. Manager. No nothing beyond with the board is that all right? We have a motion by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Burn any further discussion not all those in favor say aye All those opposed Thank you. Oh, yes, miss Rowe. I think I just want to reiterate one as Dan knows the the Bylaw that was passed a town meeting asked that we would have some Oversight by the capital planning committee and also by the select man and the finance committee and we welcome that But as Eric said, I think certainly the first year is a year of listening and the public having public meetings Real outreach Doing some inventory work really makes a lot of sense The community preservation coalition will actually come to town and give us for free a training session Which I think would be really great And then also if the capital planning committee and the finance committee and the select people want to come to that Training, I think it would be a great idea And I think the other thing for people that are interested go to community preservation Dot org. There's a tremendous website that gives you projects from all over the Commonwealth For the last 15 years and projects that it'll show you what's eligible in the different Uses and one of the best ways the act is used is when it combines uses So it's open space and affordable housing and you know, that's that's the kind of thing. So, thank you very much. We really appreciate your Mr. Chaplin town council reminded me the bylaw actually requires me to vote So In the interest of I'd like to retake that vote Made by mr. Dunn second and by mr. Burn on behalf of the four members of the board of selection and the tail manager all those in favor say I The other point I neglected to mention was myself and chairman really will facilitate calling the first meeting Of the community preservation committee will pool everybody's dates Set up an organizational meeting and the committee can figure out what day is best for the committee members to meet and set a schedule going forward for the rest of the Can I ask just a quick question if you don't have a quick answer? We can the other members of the CPC are they designated soon to be designated or we're waiting some have been some should be very So we have a deadline date or no, we're just going to wait, you know, I haven't said deadline, but it's about time that we Okay, so you can we actually set a deadline. I believe it was like end days after The Ag approved it, and I don't know what day the AG approved it was for us though. Is that for the all-file? Yeah, I thought that was just for our purposes I'll leave it to you to sort of you know and work with our four members to say, you know What should be a deadline? You know bar in any emergency circumstances, but like to get you guys have a lot of work. Okay, Mr. Kuro, sorry to mr. Dunn's point has the AG approved it? Yes, they have we're also Thank you very much. I know we'll be seeing a lot of you. I'd be interested in that training. I can make it I'll be there. Thank you so much Next we have a agenda item 17 a request for a food vendor license YRCH doing business as Fenway market You barrage wait you barrage Chaleghian I did my best You know you say correctly so I good evening My name is you brought so again I'm trying to run the business that already, you know running the two or three Broadway This is small convenience sister, and I'm in this business for last five years, and I would love to run that business So I request for the food vendor license for that. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Dunn, okay, so can you tell me so if you worked at you've been working at this particular location or you're not the Particular location. I have another business in Somerville. So I used to work in Arlington to in Mass convenience And so did you have a relationship with the previous owner that you would work with them before or was it just like It went the business went on the market and you obtained it or can you tell me more about the transaction? This business I don't you know, I did not know the owner So I stopped by one day and he really I think he recently bought that business and he was not like the really You know interested to run that business So I asked him if I was interested for that business before he pauses that one and he told me if you want you can you know buy it so I You know I just requested him. I would love to run this business. I love Arlington town I have one business in Somerville, but I love this town too. So I used to work in mass convenience in 245 mess app More than four five years That's that's what is thank you. Thank you move approval subject to conditions by mr. Dunn second by mr. Carol and any questions Mr. Bar, I don't have any questions But I do appreciate you wanting to come here that you just pop into a store and you know offered to buy it Essentially, so I think that's pretty cool. So I would just say you know similar to quite a number of businesses in Arlington You are in a residential area, and I know you're a smart businessman, and you also know the tenor of Arlington just Finding that balance of you know deliveries and pickups as well So under the bylaws in terms of what time that can happen and I know you'll be a good neighbor Even though you're a business you're also gonna gonna be a neighbor, so I want to wish you good luck Thank you so much on a motion by mr. Dunn second by mr. Carol any further questions if not all those in favor say aye Those opposed We have a request for a common victor license Han kaya ink doing business as brickstone cafe Vedros kaya I Ambedros kaya my wife, and I are I have been making pizzas for over 20 years 25 years We were we have been looking for any pizza shop because the Store where we what we had in Burlington got The building got sold and we found this place here. We have a High-tech wood fire brick oven that we want to bring in here Motion By mr. Burn, is there a second second Mr.. Kiro Mr.. Kiro Thank you very much. It is a New twist and I'm looking forward to the opening of your business I did want to note for the record that the board did today receive some written correspondence about the proposal asking that we remind you About issues around parking and unloading that they're having the past been issues with Parking and unloading on Alton Street and in the fire lanes in that area It is very important that you that you unload behind your business rather than out on Yeah, I've been I've been noticing that there are businesses in the same block. Yeah, so So it's very important. We're aware of that. Yeah. Thank you Mr.. Dunn, I think the other aspect of that has been the time that the deliveries come and the noise associated with it Because that definitely is a place where the commercial district and the residential district are you know separated by 18 feet or something like that There's definitely some friction there. Yes, so I think Some some sensitivity and some communication on the part of the business is there will help the situation in the long run So you definitely I think you've got some frustrated residents on that street. We've got a little bit of Repairing and perhaps relationships there. Not that it's your fault, but it's the situation that you're arriving in And so I think that the more you do to reach out to those neighbors and welcome They you know, you know see what you can do to make them feel better I think would be it'll earn you dividends in the long run. I understand. Thank you Okay Motion by mr. Burn second about Mr.. Kiro and for the questions or comments if not all those in favor say aye Unanimous vote good luck. Good luck to you. There's the brains behind the brawn We now have citizens open forum I don't know if anyone has signed in except in unusual circumstances and he matter presented for consideration of the board Shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentations in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was Established it should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern our request And this is propel good. Thank you, mr. Adosia Stranger to us all Yeah Okay, yeah, I'm eating number eight some other stuff and all of that if I'm a little ahead of your schedule because I know item 21. I don't know how much of a discussion, but perhaps if I After that discussion a lot of my concerns might have been addressed. I don't know so if you want I'll just go ahead with it now and waste your time with it here But let me start by saying I'm having trouble understanding how this changes improve the current parking availability I don't see any changes The only thing I see here is and I think it's a good thing that the town's going to bring in a substantial revenue from it All and that's important. I kind of go along with that But it doesn't seem to help for example a director of economic development in terms of trying to fulfill or fill up those nine vacans Storefronts that are long mess out between here on the fire station He's having trouble with that and I don't see where this might be an incentive for him to go on with it and then the stated goal of promoting turnover space in the business area That's somewhat in conflict with the plan to do away with the needed parking space in the Russell lot, right That's Been beating up on that one for several years in terms of the meter in the parking spaces it's never been enforced and I think it's an important thing for example a smile and I went down there and I took some pictures of what I saw down there and out of the hundred needed spaces 15 were vacant and 42 were filled with cars with permit stickers on them I got some photos here if you want them you can have them whatever But what I found was Here is the entrance from AC and Down this this whole this area right through here was primarily filled with Stickered cars now. That's the space. That's close to Accessing the businesses and so forth. That's the friendly space and by now open it up to anyone You're now restricting it and by encouraging employees to have their people to buy This will all be filled up before Anybody gets down there at 10 o'clock in the morning to do any business during a normal period not the summers But during the regular season so I Think it's going backwards doing that The other thing is the four-hour limit on the street meters That's that's just going to allow workers now to only go out once a day to put fill a meter as opposed to two or three times a day to move the car Because I see that and I think you all can see that Yeah, and I'm not sure why we stopped the street meters at Academy Street Jason Mill Street seemed like a more Logical kind of place to do it. That's the end of a line. It's not in between things There are 19 spaces out there with a potential of about $1,300 in revenue a week and And the other thing is Is it this is more of a question how many more traffic enforcement officers we're gonna have to hire to collect the money and Sped out and do more diligence in terms of What on I only see two in the center right now that may be three, but now we're talking six days 12 hours That's not a two-man or two-person operation. I don't think so. I don't know what the answer that as I'm sure you might have it Maybe it'll come up when you yeah, I think that I think that we Will be a part of our discussion. Yeah under The Anybody else here for citizens open forum if not and as mr. Burns stated just to keep continuity of the agenda Citizens open forum As I stated in the preamble except for emergency circumstances. We don't respond but since it is an agenda item Sure, we'll have responses to that as we get to it Item 19 for approval into caphawking sign request Deborah Kealy for William Haxton at 15 Pierce Street Is Ms. Kealy or mr. Haxton here Mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Curel any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye all those opposed a unanimous vote next We have presentation East Arlington public art project Cecilie Miller, but I would like to first turn it over to our town manager mr. Chapter Lane Thank You madam chair as the board Recalls at town meeting this year town meeting approved funding of a consultant to start a public process to Bring public art to the Mass Ave corridor project in East Arlington So working with Arlington public art and Andrea arch and Laurie and Jane And others we solicited three Proposals from consultants who do public artwork such as this and after reviewing them with a group from a PA We selected Cecilie Miller to do the work So Cecilie's come on board and has a timeline and a proposed process to do community outreach outreach to the business community public meetings maybe even some pop-up art to get people to understand the concept of Public art in the corridor, but before we kick that off This is sort of a precursor to the kickoff to allow the board to understand the process It's going to be rolled out and ask any questions and give any feedback that the board might have so with that Joe woman's discretion. I would turn it over to Cecilie That's okay with my colleagues Hi everyone first of all, I want to say thank you to all of you for supporting this project I Feel I'm really honored to have been selected to help guide the the town through this initiative and This is the first public announcement of the plan to do a project in East Arlington And we're in the very very initial phases. So it's a little Little odd to be talking about it because we don't yet know what it's going to be we're hoping to engage artists in doing things that are a surprise that Indicate that they've listened to the town through an extensive public process, but They come up with something creative and unexpected and and new that will reflect the history and character and distinctive qualities of the neighborhood of East Arlington I Think you've got already an impressive track record of doing things here and Just my first conversations with people in the Arlington public art group at the library meeting Adam I feel not only honored but really excited about working in a community that has such a positive Spirit and has already accomplished so much I Wasn't sure whether I should go through the whole timeline because it's been passed out in paper I more wanted to sort of share with you a story from my experience in Somerville when I was at the Somerville Arts Council because as I say We really don't know yet what this project is going to be it could end up being You know a constellation of lights that hang over the Overmass Avenue it could end up being Some kind of sculpted treatment of the poles for the parking meters it could end up being Oral history stories somehow inscribed in on the on the on the ground We really don't know we just know that we want it to be about this place and this time in this community About its hopes and aspirations in some way and we'd like it to involve community participation if possible Community members may even be able to have to participate in making whatever ends up in in in East Arlington so just as an example one of the public art projects that I worked on in Somerville was a memorial for the Korean War for the Korean War and the very first meeting a group of Korean War veterans came in and they had photos of Memorials from various towns and they threw their photos down on the table and they were like we want A base like this this uniform But the person in this uniform would never be carrying this tool so we want to make sure that they're carrying the correct tool and You know they had it all sort of designed in their head exactly what they wanted In the end they talked a lot about their experiences with the war their memories and An artist transformed this into an artist named Ted Clausen Transformed this into a timeline about the war that really laid out its chronology and oral history Statements so that the commemoration of the war was in these veterans own words a series of small evocative objects that the veterans could have actually held during their service like like a trench digging tool and And What the veterans said was This is so amazing. We would never have thought of this You know, I knew it was a success because they said I would we would never have thought of this But it says exactly what we would want it to say So that's that's what we're we're hoping to achieve here to create something that people find familiar in some way because it's About the challenges and pleasures of being here, but also surprising and unexpected Thank you very much and thank you for your work on this proposal. I really appreciate that you provide us with some options and and And in the way that you broke down the budget I think that this is You know very important. I think You know, you may know that you know that part of Arlington has gone through Kind of tumultuous debates over the last few years about some of the the future and the vision as we've Reconstructed Mass Ave, which is our main corridor through there We're seeing something about a renaissance now between they are for a new school a Bunch of us are going to be attending a meeting on Thursday. We're going to talk about demographic changes in the town we're seeing an explosion of You know kind of an influx of people into into the town And I think that the way that you just described the project in summerville provides one example of a wonderful way that that Public art projects could really bridge Kind of the history and tradition of of that those neighborhoods with some of the new energy also that that's being being brought to bear One way in which This will be particularly important is that you may not be aware that the Arlington Commission on arts and culture is working on a cultural district proposal For the state right now and it's been decided to try to pursue maybe a slightly larger than normal Cultural district that would encompass both the center and East Arlington But of course you need some kind of continuity to tie those two parts of town together and as the Volunteers have been working they've worked a bit with mr. Fields as well on a map For the application that will go in on this There have been some holes in there and and The proposal to to kind of institute some new public art projects along Mass av in that area really has filled those those gaps I think and the proposal is going to help to make it a successful proposal. So this is incredibly important on so many Levels I think so You know, I don't know what your thoughts are about about how this will Kind of Help us to tie together that the two parts. I know this is focused on East Arlington But your thoughts on kind of tying together Two important parts of town through this initiative Yeah, well that actually already did come up in one of our conversations The possibility that this public art Intervention should we say could connect could connect the main center and East Arlington and how could it do that? So What we'll do is have a lot of conversations like this where people say this could be a goal You know a very Significant accomplishment if the if the public art project could do this if it could You know knit these two areas together connect them together by Well, we won't say by what means but by some some means and then that's a problem there that an artist can work on and can Think about and it's sort of grist for the mill So I think that will definitely go Are the processes that we hold? Public meetings where people give us share these kinds of ideas and thoughts and goals we convene a community advisory group and Continue those discussions with that group We compile all of this information and we make it available to a number of artists Three is a typical number and ask them to develop proposals and then we select from those proposals So that would be a prime objective to put in that document for an artist to think about Another might be how to get the town of Arlington to recycle more another might be How to give the kids in the local schools a presence in the commercial district, you know It'll these are the kinds of things that the kinds of ideas that we encourage people to come Forward with as well as just sharing their, you know their thoughts about how they like spending time in this area and what they remember about it and more casual kinds of things because Even there was another project that I worked on where it was in Union Square And what people in Union Square talked about was this has always been a place that people kind of Would hang out back going back to the Union Army when it was a Union recruitment center And so from that the artist ended up making these very playful conversational benches that that formed a kind of outdoor living room so that people could indeed you know gather and Talk and fall into conversation with with strangers in this space And it was this was just a Quality that showed up in what a number of different people said about the area Thank you very much Very good choice mr. Towne manager and whoever else participated in it. I'm really excited. I'm ready to sit down and throw five ideas it is I Think Arlington will be well served by you and your expertise on emotion by mr. Kiro seconded by mr. Don all those in favor say aye You Nana and since we're on television can I just mention that we are planning a first meeting on November 4th That will be at the main branch of the public library Seven o'clock and we'd love for people to come to that. That's just an open meeting and the true story theater is going to Moderate part of that so that should be fun make it a fun Kind of version of a public meeting so all are welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you Gened item 21 if I could turn over to my colleague mr. Burn. You certainly can't thank you very much So as I'm sure you've noticed we've been The parking implementation and governance committee's kind of been coming forward at the last few meetings Implementing some we're asking your approval for Kind of everything that we've been working on and you know We did find that at this time. We're kind of ready to bring a slew of recommendations to you kind of about Basically that shows what the center is going to look like moving forward And I'll definitely have to start by commending everyone who served in the committee Leland's here from the region he represented the merchants Of course the town manager and there's a really great team that was quite dedicated And I know we all serve on different committees, but to Be willing to shop the town hall at 8 o'clock throughout the summer a few times a month is certainly not Not regular for committees, and I was quite happy with their dedication I guess I'll Start by addressing some of some of Bob's comments Particularly where The main goal of this is to kind of increase the availability of parking on Mass Ave And I think where I understand that Bob doesn't Potentially or some and some others Might not see why this will increase turnover I think it does what we're hoping on and what you know other towns have seen is it does come down to economics when you start charging People Less to go into lots That's where they'll go in particularly for long-term parkers during the day. That's That's certainly where where they belong Quite frankly that we we can't afford to have people young or individuals kind of taking up The spots on Mass Ave that are really crucial to all the businesses there And I think that this strategy does work and and as you'll if you look across kind of you know The commonwealth I think you'll see quite a few municipalities who are kind of moving to this This type of parking structure And it's one that I do think will serve town will and I and I hope that you Will join me in supporting this I Am very happy to report that the meters are out of the lot and I'm sure everyone's seen that where we're And that that's all obviously a great thing for for everyone and there'll be quite a few less headaches Moving forward now And we're still as I think Adams memo really did a great job laying out everything that is has happened And is going to happen But for that was certainly one in the victory column So I guess with that I think everyone I know that this memo has been out and unless Adam has anything He'd like to add I'd kind of be happy to open up to questions or concerns and and go about it that way because I Could probably keep talking about this, but I feel like it might be going in circles Mr. Chaplain if I may be the only other point that mr. Adoshia raised and I think was What worth trying to clarify was part of the recommendations or the The memo talked about no longer defining permit spaces in the Russell common lot versus metered spaces And though there may be some validity to the point mr. Adoshia made about when people arrive at where they park We did feel that with the committee members feedback that the ambiguity that would occur during After hours parking or nighttime evening parking where people would come in they want to go to the region theater They want to go to dinner. They see permit parking only they're not sure where they can park That alleviating that ambiguity would be a sort of a beats all benefit And if it doesn't work the beauty of this government structure that the board has set up is we can change it Nothing's permanent. We're going to be monitoring. We want to get this right We're not just you know stamping it walking away. So if there is if there's issues, yeah, we'll fix it And I guess I will just add Two things I think two places that we had quite a lot of discussion on was one being loading zones I know Leland was a great voice in that and we We worked on this for a long time. I think at one of the first meetings We had a map out and we were you know looking in the median strip of could we possibly put a loading zone in there and At this point in time we we're not going to Recommend one, but again, it is something that that will move forward and kind of see if anything changes But we're really hoping to work with the different vendors and I think As the memo says Starbucks has been kind of difficult with their loading. So we're going to try to try to work with them to come up to a Resolution on that level as opposed to make any recommendations Through this report and the other was of course taxis, which we spoke about here before We've reached the compromise that the group agreed on where we would move redirect to of the Taxi Spots into the lot and then continue to have to on mass out So the two on Medford Street, and we'll be moving those into the rustic common lot Thank you very much. Thank you for all the work on unless I know it's been a long haul I think you described the the demand management really well And I have a lot of hope that that's going to help alleviate some of the issues that we've that we've had because as we I think Nelson Iger really demonstrated we don't Really have a supply problem for the most part in some some sometimes we do but generally don't have a supply but we actually have a demand problem and redistributing those cars into the into the lot during the day in particular is very Important I did have a couple of questions on on this I Fully support the the the proposal to move the the two taxi stands into the Russell Commons lot It's not designated in the memo though as to where those would be is it anticipated that there would be in spots That are close to Medford Street on that side of the lot so that they're not too far off Believe from the theater and from from other yeah, we ended up with spots facing the housing In the Russell coming on the two spots closest to Dormer way over towards the region. Oh towards the theater. Oh, so they're Somewhat visible even from from from from Medford Street. Okay, great. I noticed that you Okay, so you've I'll admit I'm a little disappointed that we're going with pay with paying display because I think it is tough why I Understand why because of the cost? I just I think it's tough for Especially older folks who have to go and walk to the walk to the machine and walk back several several times So I did note though that that the machines that we've purchased have the ability to do pay it What's it called pay-by-space and you know, I think We that that was also a pretty big discussion with who had and Correct me from wrong end, but it really was an infrastructure discussion on we can kind of we have Paying display now and we can you know, it just seemed to make sense So we could kind of get this going yeah as opposed to you know sure redoing a lot of putting in new poles Etc. Do the machine support the ability to punch in your license plate? Yes, they do We weren't gonna with the plan wasn't to activate that right away. Yeah, so we may I We did have a lot of talk between the three options pay by Pay display pay-by-space or pay-by-plate and where we came down was Of all the complaints we get about the existing meters paying display wasn't at the top of the list There's this recent that matters We you know, I Came in to the discussion thinking that pay-by-space was the way to go But after talking about it with Mike Rademacher and DPW the sort of northeast winter realities Managing that and making sure that you plowed out anything that you painted on the ground Had to repaint it every year and possibly put signs in the ground that you wouldn't plow up against start You really start to think about how Manageable it isn't a lot of that size. So I sort of led an argument against that It pay-by-plate we talked a lot about it Maybe we could think about it in the future But we did start to think that people would also get frustrated that they'd go to the machine not know It was pay-by-plate Have to walk back to the car know their plate and that there was some Correspondence from residents Saying that they did not like West Medford's Strategy which is put in your parking lot I put in your license license plate. Yes Gotcha, I can imagine objections on a number of levels. Everybody's thinking their head. What is my license? Yeah, I think in the head our privacy concerns are being tracked Yeah One thing that came up and At one point, you know, I've met with the center merchants a number of times I know at one point there was interest there in one or two Drop-off pickup spots in the vicinity of Broadway Plaza and I know that that that in the original proposal There was going to be a certain grace period Where the the meat is be free and the logistics around that just weren't workable. Was there any discussion of that at all? Drop spot I we did yeah with all of the restaurants in there now and some of the we weren't looking so much there We did have the discussion again led by really informed by Leland about Kind of looking at those spots the additional spots on Medford Street Right potentially that so you know if you do want to go in and buy a ticket or something on those lines I don't think we're ready to we're certainly as I said before not ready to do the 15 minutes But but that is something that we have Considered that's definitely on our radar, right? And we're meeting at Thursday morning and we can bring that back Am I understanding is that that the committee is going to stay together as kind of the Recommending body around the parking benefit district correct That's correct, and you know Adam and I we did a little bit for ACMI and we were very clear that we do want to hear people's Responses to it and we really hope that that will inform us moving forward The only other thing I wanted to say and I wish I had remembered it earlier this evening Oh, he was still here. I if I'm not mistaken Mr. Flanagan did a lot of work on this with the Parking media meter vendors and looking is that is that correct or is that? Laura's really been the word Laura's done a lot of it. Yeah, okay Okay, we'll thank Laura because I think every one of us when we run for this office have Was asked at some point about parking meters and and I think one of our nearest and dearest Priorities probably for every one of us was to get rid of those those old ones I'm thrilled so thank you to the committee for the report. I'll I'm happy to move approval to oh, well, I guess you should Mr. Dunn so the spaces on the street are going to be paying display as well No, they'll be right over us. Oh, they should be traditional me. Yes, and they're gonna accept Card and card and coin card and coin and because I guess I'm all the lot And I didn't know this the one the lots in the meters before the big issue was dollars getting stuck And that's why they would always stall and freeze and so we that we had to get away from that Oh, yeah, so card is a big win. Yeah as far as I'm concerned, okay So I guess I I'm happy to support and I'm glad the old beaters are you know, are disappearing? I was hoping as well for a pay By space as well because I really think that pay remotely is really another really good option for a lot of people So but we're still we're in the land of improvement and so My other thought question was so one of the things if I remember correctly for the consulting report was Doing periodic you talk about monitoring but like what specifically inventory like, you know vacancy rates and stuff like that What's gonna be the how are we gonna do that? What's gonna be the time frame? What are we gonna do it next? When should we you know, how does that work? So I think we're gonna have to lead on tack again who did the initial counts. Yeah For either their recommendation their bodies their expertise, whatever it might be I would say we should probably do it, you know after the meters have been up for the street meters have been up For a month or so, so it'd be sometime probably early next year See how it's working to account and then make adjustments. Let me ask a different more open-ended question I probably should ask first or just so what's what are we gonna be monitoring? How are we gonna know whether it's working or whether it's not working or what needs to be improved? What are we gonna be look like, you know, this stuff is gonna roll out What are what are you gonna be checking to see percentage of available spots? But that's not good. But is there anything that we're gonna get even with faster feedback on do you think? Like so If we wait for that inventory, that's month, you know, yeah, but out there I wonder if there's anything like from the meter machines or anything like that. I don't know Enforcement yeah, it's tickets. We will be able to get those things. We'll be able to get Well, you know, I was gonna say we'll be able to get Agenda item Yeah is defining the metrics. We actually want to Really help you think but still talk about it, but I'm just saying yeah I know that we're hitting you with some new questions and Mr. Burnett come and fresh off the table, but please Well, I was gonna say we do have the Ability of the future to add technology that actually could see the car in the spot on the street And tell you how long they're actually there So if we had that then we'd be able to get some really good data on how long people not how much they paid for But how much they're actually in there that that would give us a big Yeah picture to a number of metrics And that is also That kind of picture idea is also where the 15 minute for free came into play Before and when we decided not to go up with that technology at this point in time That's kind of what dismantled the free 15 minutes. And is that a cost choice? It was Roughly ballpark About $50 per meter, so it was pretty significant. What you Camera, yeah And above the service charge to operate it. Okay. All right. Thank you. Mr. Kara. Yeah, thank you I'm sorry. I forgot one of my questions or comments obviously with the new regulations will need new signage And I want to respectfully suggest that the the location of the current Signs as you're coming into the lots are just not Readable because you're driving in you're concentrating on getting making the turn and getting in there We have a big long parking regulation there I want to respectfully suggest that Having those signs next to the meters themselves or dispersed within the lot makes a lot more sense So your feedback somehow already made it to our sign placement subcommittee who have recommended Different spots that are within the lot great and I will say Howard I think it was Howard and Laura they they went and walked on the lot several times to pick out the right spots for it And they are they were fabulous with that Okay piggybacking on that As many of those P parking signs that we can get out on mass and anywhere else I think that I know when I drive through different cities in town sometimes even when I'm in Providence Rhode Island or Concord, New Hampshire that draws me to the fact more that oh there is parking and then I look at the businesses that are out there The second question I have I and I understand in terms of the $50 per meter Sort of have having some sort of a sensor in there And how that really is sort of cost prohibitive plus the other thing that goes in my mind is as Each one of those breaks down. I mean I hate to say this But like my computer printer and transcriber which I bought all at the same time inevitably go within the same month So I'm thinking of that cost there My last two comments or questions would be And I think this one's probably rhetorical But I know that we all have had the experience down at the lots the way that the parking stations are placed Especially in the winter especially people, you know, the elderly someone with the baby carriage, you know If you're not particularly tall you would have to stand up on that curb and and and protect it from the sunlight So I'm assuming that these new stations will be Yeah, I think that what you'll find and if you're even go out there right now You won't see those issues that we had in the past. Great. So engineering redesign to make them safer and then my Last question and then a comment that I want to make on the compromise the I'm not going to say this right the EV charging station Who installs that is that a vendor and has that been costed out in terms of I'm thinking about the old parking meters that we have every time they broke down and you know It was another cost to us. I'm so unfamiliar with that So, yes, Seth Fiederspiel whose attack member came and presented to the committee on electric vehicle charging technology And he gave us a bunch of pricing options And there's a few tiers of how fast you want to charge if you want two charging heads or one charging head so The technology I think is it's it's pretty You know far along it's not first-generation So there would be Install cost on the high end about 15,000 or the low end Maybe 7,000 we could probably get a stake grant to pay for the whole thing install And then we'd have to look at an annual maintenance contract to keep it Up and running so wouldn't fail and in terms of the generating power source Is it something that is in the infrastructure in the ground or is it something that everything is constructed above ground? The infrastructure be underground and have we looked into that to find out that that's going to be okay, because I'm just we're not there yet That that could be Where we put it. Okay. All right, and I would just say Just having been in Boston and seeing them sort of redesigned some of those EV stations some of the Equipment above ground. I know the city Have seen it has done sort of an extra protection Out there because for some reason I don't know if you break up with your boyfriend girlfriend or who's your dog That might be something you take it out on and I don't mean to make light of that and then I do want to say Originally when I had heard we were moving all the spaces the taxi stand Designated spaces into the lot. I was not in favor of that so I'm very happy to hear that there's a compromise I think it was really important for me. It's really important that there's visibility on Mass Ave For people especially people who are use taxes and are familiar with you can go there on Mass Ave And know that this that's a taxi cab stand So I do appreciate the compromise of I think you said keeping to yep too will be on and you know I think that if we received data that showed there was even more usage of it We might have even left all of them, but there was no data available to us to make an informed decision on it So, thank you. Mr. Cure Thank You madam chair I think that you opened a great line of questioning about maintenance. I was just curious are these new meters? Are they purchased or leased and what is the the maintenance arrangement for them? The all also the the lot meters are purchased will we'd also be purchasing the street meters We buy a good number of spare parts for the lot meters And then we do have a maintenance contract But they also do some training of our staff to be able to do some some minor so our staff is first line and their second line Okay. Thank you. I Know we have a vote. Is there anybody here would like to make a brief comment or have we answered all your questions? Mr. Adoshia you want a second pass? I'll give you one minute How many street meters we dealing with do we know probably approximately 500 500 That's all within that area. That seems okay. All right Getting back to the charging thing What kind of cost is involved in doing that if somebody wants to plug it in? How do you I? Don't have one of those so I don't know How would we charge for it the user? So we could either just charge for the space at a higher rate because they're using electricity Or we could find we could charge for the actual electricity that's being utilized Yeah, I see them in lots here and there but I never really approached them to see what the deal was I you know it is one of those things and when we first started talking about it and got the presentation I would even say that I I was a bit reluctant to install them, but I think that from You know vision 2020 survey this year Did address basically kind of ask if there was interest in it and I think they're from that survey We saw there was and and I think it's really just how car manufacturing is going I think you know while they might not be so common now. I'm Corey did provide Officer or to provide information on how many electronic electronic vehicles are in Arlington and and what we'll see is that continue to grow And I think it's how the market and you know, it's what comes first the chicken or the egg You know and answer one and I guess we don't have an answer at this point is What's gonna be the increase in the number of people? Policing this thing So that that's also something we're still monitoring and our officer retos on on the staff or on the committee with us We have a great line of communication with him and understanding the needs of it. Okay, so there will be a few more Yeah, no, we're prepared to staff it up. Yeah One of the good things for us and not so good for mr. Burnham town manager is this committee as I understand it will continue on And we're gonna leave it to these two fine gentlemen to put put this back on the agenda accordingly as you have been doing So far so on a motion by mr. Burn seconded by mr. Kiro any further questions if not all those in favor say aye Opposed unanimous vote. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. This is gonna be awesome Thank you And now gender item 22 update on the MuGar property site approval application. Mr. Chapter Lane Who will turn it over? I'm actually gonna turn it over to town council. I'll let you call on your own department heads Thank you madam chair so a quick update to the our site eligibility issue with the MuGar property as the board at this point knows the development team from Arlington land realty took the highly unorthodox step of Submitting supplemental information indeed a sort of quasi rebuttal to the towns or rather the selectments comments to mass housing This is as I said highly unorthodox and atypical largely because the process that's outlined by mass housing is that within 30 days of notice of an application to all of you you're supposed to give your comments and they're supposed to provide a Determination on the eligibility application within 60 days now. We obviously asked for an extension of time There's some other things that went into that But the long and short of it is is that the couple things that sort of go up in the air as a result of this supplement and Rebuttal are what is the timeline for mass housing making a determination? What in fact does this rebuttal really mean for us? I think it's a fair thing if the selectman were so inclined to determine that the Supplemental information renders it to be a largely new application That certainly would allow the selectmen if it were their Choice to do so to submit further response now, of course the danger in that is an endless cycle of Responses but again, I consulted with our special counsel mr. Whitten Who's far more familiar with the dynamics of this than anybody else that I'm aware of and he's Not quite sure he's seen a supplement and rebuttal of that nature So take that for what you will in terms of the robustness of the selectman's comment and what that means for the mass housing Process on the Arlington land realty application, but just to run down It's largely documentary documentation that they didn't initially provide. There's some commentary and response to Comments of the board and then there's some information that's essentially just sort of truly Supplemental so we did contact mass housing to understand their perspective on this and they said that they would Receive further comment from the board if the board was so inclined what I've asked Mr. Whitten our special counsel to do is to scrutinize the additional information that they provided so that at this board's next Meeting if the board is so inclined We could have you know additional Response prepared for the board, but suffice to say it's not my view that a further Hearing is necessary based on what information they provided and the fact that the public meeting or hearing whatever you want to call it Wasn't necessary in the first place, but I welcome any comments and instructions from you on what you'd like to see Understanding that we're now sort of operating well outside the parameters of a normal site approval Process and that that may mean many things for Arlington. I don't want to speculate too much about about that Okay, and before I call on my colleagues what I first like to say is I Definitely in approval of having this on the next agenda when we have a full board because it's a very important issue and I know Mr. Grayley's Expertise and would be welcomed myself personally. I've never heard of this before In terms of Matt the limited four or five times that I've had interaction with mass housing if I'm exaggerating, please Especially on the fact that a this board In the town manager department heads in the town of allington We were really put it on a pretty accelerated process in terms of getting little to know information from oak tree developers From their public hearing that they had down at the Hardy school from the site visit They stated over and over again to was it mr. Watson Greg Mr. Watson when myself and Carol Kowalski our planning director and Corey Beckwith Mr. Chapelling our town manager myself when we would start to point out what they had submitted In terms of what they were proposing and stating in the site visit whether it be a matter of a burn or Teography or hydrology they said over and over again. Well, but those plans haven't been created yet, which I thought was really unfair Especially when we asked for an extension and we were granted about half of that To me, it's very unusual then the oak tree also asked for an extension on their behalf My opinion would be if we could ask attorney Heim and Whitton to come up with a response perhaps two or three fold for the board to discuss Initially here tonight, but again at the next meeting with mr. Greeley that first of all for myself personally I kind of cry foul that in my opinion they are Submitting a brand-new project, which they haven't followed the steps They're taking the steps that they followed for there really no plan that they submitted to mass housing And then on the strength of the letter that this board sent which I'm not going to take That was all the department heads on and the town manager and others on an accelerated schedule that really Took this to piece piece by piece and now as a result of that. I think my personal opinion Dabbling a little bit in the legal field that when oak tree saw what the board of selectmen had submitted I didn't I don't think they expected that under the accelerated time frame that we had And basically I don't think we're on a fair playing ground because they have submitted the rebuttal To something that we haven't even seen yet. So we've commented on their original So my thing would be first of all I would say to mass housing if Councils agreed Will you consider? You know, this is a brand-new application We just we need to start over and we need to do you know the same due diligence, especially around our department heads Looking at you know, the plans that they kept saying would come are now here the second request would be if not, I would like to hear from our attorneys Hyman and Whitton in terms of What their recommendation would be for us requesting can we rebut their rebuttal can we you know Since they've started a new process in my opinion. Can we also have the same opportunity? Because basically what we did is we took what they presented and in my opinion torch pieces And they saw that I think that's why my personal opinion oak tree submitted this rebuttal I'd like us to have the same opportunity through our expertise Town manager and department had to look at their rebuttal and again submit an updated letter to that because I think we can Probably have a good go at that again But I would like to hear from my colleagues in terms of what we should do by the next meeting Anything we should ask Mr. Carol. I I'm happy to put in the form of a motion that the request We're requesting that that town council work with our attorney on a Mass mass housing on this and advise us on steps that we can take to Have this deemed application Motion by mr. Cairo seconded by Madam chairman may I just so just to I'm sorry. I apologize if it wasn't clear before I Can't say for sure I think the point does need to be made that in many ways this puts us in the position of having a new application It seems unlikely that mass housing will actually Agree with us on that score. However, they they already have told us that they would be willing to receive further comment from you So I just want to let you know that they are willing to receive something further than us I guess it's technically a surreply at this point in time, but They so they're it really just depends on what we want to concentrate on I'm sure mr. Whitton and I would be happy to prepare something for the board's consideration And the reason I asked the two requests even if the first one is sort of rhetorical I'm just thinking of legally Going forward if we want to have something else in our steed that we said from the get-go And I want to town council and attorney Whitton's advice Would this be something worthy of even though we know what it is that we? Effectually state that This in our opinion is a new project and it should be deemed that way if you say you know what that might be a good thing to Do because we can use it in our tool of reservoir in the future or if you say you know what? That really isn't going to help us. It could hurt us the other way I just want your opinion on saying should we ask mass housing to consider this is a new request and then second give Your suggestions in terms of the opportunity we can it seems avail ourselves of which is any rebuttal mr. Dunn and anything else my colleagues one so I'm particularly They're things about the response is like okay, they didn't have a bank before that met requirements now They say they have a bank that meets requirements. That's one of those things like fine You you have a terrible application and now you've got one that's slightly less terrible But the thing that we absolutely don't have Haven't had the opportunity to reply to and that we still should hold them to the original statement until we have time I think it's like the wetlands stuff that I mean I to me that my biggest complaint about this proposal is what it would do to flooding in Arlington and the adjacent towns and They Like in their original plan was you know, it skipped over some facts It had the wrong floodplain like you don't map that there's just a number of huge things And so they gave a new statement like what did they call it the? The they put in it they submitted a new map, but there's no talk about what the new map means according to the plan and stuff like that I think that even if Given my understanding of so I mean obviously I'm going to defer to the advice from from you and Attorney Whitton, but to me it seems to me the mass housing is not interested in like probably starting this all over again But we should remind them about the places where it is. There's where they're still falling all over themselves with this application Mr. Burn I am so I think I agree a lot with mr. Dunn on this and that if You know, I guess that if they're already saying they're willing to take You know some more comments from the town. I guess I'd first ask did they give a time frame for that? They have not no, I don't I will say that I don't think that we're under the gun so we have time and they certainly have enough time to Have it next meeting when the board is fully constituted to have something ready for the board to examine at that point in time, so Thank you, and I guess my feelings would be that I Don't I agree with the end that they I don't feel that we have to you know say this is a complete new project I just want to continue focusing on why this is a flawed project And so I don't think it has to be we don't have to start from from Point a on this but we just have to continue to drive home The facts of why this is wrong for that part of our community and why it will you know be a disastrous project for You know East Arlington and I think we have a strong case there And I and I know that there was a strong case laid out in our initial letter and if we stick to those points I think we'll be Will continue to be an equally you know good spot on this Okay, I guess I'll leave it to my other two colleagues. I would like The two two requests I understand mr. Bird Regarding saying this is a new project and the reason I want that is I want their opinion in the sense of even if we make that statement The reason why I'm making that is I want to start over so that we have the same generous time That we had originally with the original application because to me this is pretty much a brand new application So that we're not saying to our department heads mass housing to come back with like they did before We asked for 60 days. We've got 30 They could come back and say well you now have 15 and we have 15 days to respond to basically a brand new application So if it's okay, I just like you know, there were recommendations on on you know making that point if it's advisable or not as well as as Mr. Burnham Mr. Cairo and mr. Dunn said regarding Availing us ourselves of the opportunity for a battle. So if that's okay with my colleagues emotion by mr. Cairo seconded by Mr. Dunn All those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote Thank you. It moves on and I'm going to Leave this to the town manager and the chairman mr. Greeley and Attorney Hime to put this on the next agenda with any Related items there too under correspondence received Thanks to chief Ryan for his leadership from Lori Kenshath on behalf of the Reverend Mata Flanagan and John Hodges first Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Allington a request from Jeffrey Hayden from our request answer center regarding Possible designation of a straight lane across Mass Ave from Park Ave as well as correspondence from Barbara Breece Who is from Bedford mass, but she outlines an incident that happened to her and has a suggestion and request Need to improve bike path path safety by the soccer fields motion to receive by Move proceed mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Burn any comments questions If not all those in favor Anybody well, I was wondering if we wanted to make referrals on on two of these if we want to refer to the straight lane question to the Well, I think since it's in the request answer center has it already been so in the request answer center to the board of Selectman That's why it's here. So I would recommend we first refer it if the boards are willing to engineering And then depending on what they say to tack if necessary, okay, so that would be your motion Yes So I'm okay with that as we're from but I will say that that is something that we Do we as that's one of the intersections we have spoken on this board? Well, I've been we did divide and we did design it that way and when we said yes on that I think one of the explicit stated risks of it was this concern that this Gentleman has right here and we chose to go it with this in particular direction because of the queuing that happens in the mornings All the way back up through Downing square. Yeah, and so any designation of a straight lane there will increase the queuing back through Downing Square Which is why we chose not which is why we chose to choose which is admittedly a relatively unorthodox Situation because generally one lane or the other is stuck behind somebody trying to turn but at the moments where brief Exciting moments when both lanes are free you can actually go through in the morning That is the time when that it gets it can get a little bit white knuckle So I will say so I'm I'm happy to hear another thought on it and see if there is an alternative But I will say that I think we did a lot of work on this one Related to the Downing Square and that was the choice that we made so it's you know Downing Square and that connected the intersection of We're gonna be here talking about them for a long time But in the interest of process we have their request Through our request to answer center on mr. Curell's motion to refer to engineering seconded by mr. Dunn any further questions all those in favor say I unanimous vote anything else Mr. Curell I was just curious and we did get the other Correspondents from Bedford and it came to us I was wondering if it makes sense to just refer it over to Park and Rex so they're aware where of it I realized though that anything like this would have to go through capital budgeting You know they are they are aware of it, but I think a referral to them nonetheless It would be appropriate on the board's behalf In town council is there anything that you have on that or I think that I think that a referral to the park recreation department It's appropriate motion by mr. Curell to refer to Park and Rex seconded by Any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye opposed on a motion to Correspondents receive which we have one thing one item left Made by mr. Dunn seconded by mr. Burn any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye All those opposed new business mrs. Cropelka I'd like to thank attorney Ed Marlinga for his assistance in Examining insurance issue for town state town day Scared the crap out of me. I thought you want to announce another person Is that I heard that it took the four members that are here tonight to take the chairman's place at town day on the stage Acting chairman was so magnanimous She wasn't up there all me all the time, which most people would get set that's very very nice But so seriously sorry. No, I'm sorry just a couple quick pieces Earlier today we are tonight. We saw Andrew and his departure, but as the board knows Carol Kowalski Planning director is also moving on to an assistant town manager's role for development in Lexington similar sentiments to what was discussed about Andrew You know a very good opportunity for Carol a loss for Arlington So so you know happy for her not happy to see her go But I did want to let the board know we will be we're just refining the job description now We'll be posting that position very shortly during the interim Laura Wiener will be the acting planning director while we search While we search for Carol's replacements, so I wanted to let the board know that also planning related I want to let the board know that the secretary of Economic Development Jay Ash will be in Arlington tomorrow At 2 30 to meet with me, and I'll have Carol and Ted fields up Basically, I think he's doing a tour of almost every community in the Commonwealth Commonwealth should learn about community priorities So we'll talk about the master plan We'll talk about some of the efforts that have been made in regards to co-working space Of which I think there's going to be some actual produce very soon But we'll also take the opportunity to talk to him about the viewer property He is the secretariat that has sort of the quasi relationship with mass housing So I don't know what he could do, but having a having his ear will be of benefit So I know telling you now if any of you are available between 2 30 and 4 you want to stop it and meet the secretary That would be great. Can I recommend that you have a map of the wetlands hanging on the walls? We do we do we we've got As you can see there's four square feet here that you can build on we can definitely do To other quick things is the board recalls the last bargaining unit that we did not have agreement with was with AFSCME This week we or this week the last week we Just today we reached a tentative agreement with AFSCME that we'll go back to the bargaining unit for ratification So I'll keep the board up to date on that and then finally this Saturday I'll be leaving for attendance at the ICMA annual conference. So I believe I'll send the board a note on this, but Doug will be stepping in as a acting town manager. So get ready That's all I have for new business You know other than thanking everyone who played a part in Town Day particularly the selectman's office It's all the new business they have Mr. Kiro Thank you. Yeah, I'll look at that as well. It was a wonderful day and the weather held out for us I did want to note on a more serious note. I Had the opportunity to attend there was a vigil for victims of Substance abuse at the high school two weeks ago Chief Ryan participated our fire department Participated as well in this and it was quite moving and quite Alarming to see just how many people in our community have been directly touched by by losses to substance abuse and To that end I did want to let I think I the office sent something around I did want to let folks here and at home know that Attorney general Maraheele will be in town on October 13th here in town hall Keynoting a panel discussion on on this issue. This has been her top priority For for her administration. She's actually worked closely with the governor as well on this She'll be here from 630 to 830 and it'll be a panel discussion. I think the police department is Participating in that. I think Mike Duggan from from Wicked Sober is participating in that and a few other folks It's it's a very Important topic and so I hope that folks will come out and and learn what they can do to help battle that it's being now sponsored by the Arlington Youth Health and Safety Coalition Mr. Dunn. I don't think it's over. Thanks about town day Also enjoyed the day as I know thousands of other people did Okay, and I guess with that, I'm sure Nick. You're really impressed with the way this meeting has been run This will be the standard by which you hold Mr. Greeley to in the future With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn by some mr. Burns second by mr. Cure all those in favor say aye Aye those opposed. We are adjourned. Thank you. A. C. M. I