 Good evening everyone and welcome to the Arlington Board of Selectmen for our Meeting on Monday September 8th, 2014. It is a little past 715 and I do call this meeting to order Sorry for the delay. We we're trying out some new technology here in The hearing room and we're gonna hope that this goes smoothly. So thank you very much To start for approval, we have a proclamation for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month that I will read now before proceeding Whereas the National Institute for Health report Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children between infancy in age 19 And this tragic disease is detected in over 15,000 of our country's young people each and every year and Whereas on average five of our nation's children loses his or her battle with cancer Every day and many infants children and teens will suffer from long-term effect of comprehensive treatment including secondary cancers and whereas Founded by Ben Donna Rummer upon the death of his daughter Sophia 10 years ago Sophia's fund is dedicated to helping these children and their families in their battle against pediatric cancer and whereas Sophia's fund provides a variety of vital financial support to families battling pediatric cancer throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire thereby enhancing the quality of life for these children and their families and Whereas Sophia's fund also promotes nationwide awareness of Pediatric cancer and the need for greater recognition and research for the various forms of Pediatric cancer Now therefore be it resolved that we the members of the board of select men Designate September 2014 as 2014 as childhood cancer awareness month in Arlington so moved second We have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Aye Aye Oppose seeing none three nothing Thank you everyone Moving on we have a request for a vote to extend useful life of certain equipment for upcoming borrowers And a vote to proceed our treasure. Mr. Gilligan Thank you, Mr. Chairman members of the board. I appreciate your time this evening Before you is the long-winded vote To extend the life of certain equipment Those equipment items are listed in essence I'm requesting that the board take the vote to extend the life of these individual equipment items to six years Whenever Municipality issues a bond or borrows money There are several reasons for requesting that certain equipment have their useful life extended specifically in this case It is not only because the equipment will last us more than five years But with the way we're going to be structuring the borrowing. I'm actually Implementing an extended coupon such that we will not make our first payment until the next fiscal year And that will save the town money But in order to do that the bonds have to be issued in one five ten fifteen twenty year increments and That's from the sale date and therefore this equipment needs to be extended to six years in order to have Individual certificates at five year lengths Mr. Dunn entertaining motion Moved the maximum useful life for the departmental equipment listed below to be financed with a portion of the proceeds of the Borrowing authorized by the vote of the town passed May 14th 2014 under article 30 It's hereby determined pursuant to general laws chapter 44 section 79 to be six years And there's a list that's attached here That ends so move Second we have a motion in a second any further discussion Seeing none any further comments from the board seeing none all those in favor, please say aye aye opposed Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman. I regret being out of the office on Thursday and Friday and unfortunately had to use The photocopier to give you a copy of a spreadsheet Thank you I Would as I usually do I would have emailed this to the board this spreadsheet represents all of the Borrowing projects for the town and the upcoming borrowing I want to point out just a couple of things to you. We will be borrowing 14 million sixty eight thousand seven hundred and five dollars that includes the Approximately that includes the 21 projects under the capital plan as well as to water and sewer projects and permanently financing the Architectural plans for the central fire station. You'll see that down at the bottom of the spreadsheet I want to point out lest anyone think that there is an arithmetic error There are two columns that are off by approximately five hundred thousand dollars That is because whenever I do a borrowing I speak with the department heads involved Try and find a way to save money and in this instance when I made the phone call to the director of public works He said glad you called I can save us some money He expects to be able to do a half a million dollars worth of work on one of those water and sewer projects Internally and therefore Negate I need to borrow half a million dollars. It's great So we'll be saving we'll be saving on the borrowing we'll be saving on the borrowing costs. I also informed The town manager's office through the deputy and the director of public works that in the event that he that not $500,000 can exactly be saved and they need a little extra borrowing We can certainly do a short-term note at a moment's notice So the board doesn't need to worry about that at all My expectation is that we will proceed with the sale in in October So I will be coming back to the board once once we initiate that process My expectation also is that we will be timing our entry into the bond market into the borrowing market In such a timely manner that we will take advantage of any slight Advantages in interest rates to the town's advantage. Thank you very much We need another Motion is there a particular language on this or just no, it's just it's a personal vote that the board takes To confirm the treasurer proceeding. I move we advised a treasurer to proceed on the Items that he's got aligned for us second. We have a motion the second any further discussion Seeing none all those in favor, please say aye. I I suppose I think the board very much for its time Have a good evening in October. Thank you Moving on we have the consent agenda. We have minutes of meeting August 18th 2014 we have a request from the Arlington Center for the arts 15th annual Arlington Open Studios The and their request is for the Art Center to be open on Sunday, October 19th from 12 Noon to 5 p.m. We have a request for a waiver of resident only parking restrictions on Tufts and Foster streets for Saturday, October 18th in Sunday, October 19th We have a request for the placement of a sandwich board at the intersection of Mass Ave and Route 60 from Sunday October 12th through Sunday, October 19th And we oh, sorry, and we have appointments of new election workers John Flood Jill Lewis Mary Scott Donna Smith and Barbara Wagner With approval subject to all conditions is set forth. We have a motion sec second Now before we take a vote, I will be abstaining from a minutes of the meeting from August 18 2014 as I was not at the meeting But other than that I All those in favor, please say aye. Aye opposed Three nothing vote within abstaining Thank you and moving on we have appointments to the Board of Youth Services Libby Cole Thank you very much for being here with us You just thought tell us a little bit a little bit about yourself, please Sure. So resident of Arlington for the last three years or so Grew up in this area in Massachusetts moved back here with my husband. Who's a teacher? I work for a large public health and education non-profit doing prevention Work for youth and adolescents around the nation sort of the crux of my professional career So really excited to have the honor to potentially serve In the town on the Board of Youth Services and looking forward to that Thank you very much. I appreciate you willing to serve. Do we have any questions from the board? I'm delighted. No questions. Just I'm delighted. Thank you very much for volunteering You've got great experience to your resume and thank you for volunteering it to the town Thank you, and I just say thank you know I'd echo that and just say thank you You know the Board of Youth Services one of us highest energy and most important boards they do a lot of work around you know supporting the Arlington Youth Counseling Center and another important initiatives Youth that needs so we really appreciate when good people come forward and willing to serve Thanks anyone in the audience here to speak on this seeing none Did we have a motion? Second sorry we have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I oppose three nothing. Thank you very much Thank you Moving on another appointment to the Board of Youth Services Lisa Good evening. Good evening. I please tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I am Lisa Pudula I have resided here in Arlington for over 20 years. I'm a town meeting member I have been getting involved with the Arlington Youth Counseling Center on a somewhat of a volunteer basis I've actually been doing a little bit of consulting with them I'm helping them with fundraising efforts and helping their staff members to kind of look at some initiating some Some long-term strategic plans. That was how I got interested in a board position. I am a professional fundraiser I work in development for Northeastern University right now I've been working for the last eight years in development in higher education So I understand the importance coming from the higher-ed side of serving our youth and getting them prepared For their futures and that was my interest in serving on this board Thank you very much. Do we have any questions comments from the board? I move approval and I've had the pleasure of working with Lisa on a number of campaigns And I'm really delighted to see her here help Helping out on the town side as well. Thank you very much. Thank you I'll I'll second and I'm sure you heard what I said about this being a high-energy board. So I know you'll fit right in Thank you any further comment seeing none Motion I made one. Yes. Okay. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed three nothing. Thank you very much Moving on. We have an appointment to the Human Resources Board Julie McKenzie. Hey Julie Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Um, I am a partner at Ruben and Redmond where I've been practicing labor and employment law for probably nine years I work mostly on behalf of Public agencies the nine state universities across the Commonwealth And I was interested in this position because It seems to dovetail nicely with my professional background and my interest in being involved in the town Although not too involved because as you can probably tell my personal life is a little busy So yeah, cool. Great. Thank you very much any questions comments from my colleagues No, I'm just delighted. I'm looking to resume here And I'm delighted to have this type of experience coming to the to the board and really thank you very much Especially knowing that you know life will be so hectic. So It's the same. I mean I you heard me say it earlier But it doesn't any it is no less true because I repeat it the volunteers that we get Make the town a much better place because of the work that you do and we do and we I really appreciate you coming forward and spending Your time like this I move approval second motion a second and oh, yeah, I'll just say thank you very much and nice to finally yeah We're all pretty bleary-eyed at 7 a.m All those in favor, please say aye. Hi. So what does it mean that she recognizes you but not you We go to different different gyms Thank you very much three-nothing vote Moving on license and permits we have a request for a common victory license for worry Um nine a Medford Street, please come forward. Good evening. I'm a pastor of a Korean church in Medford So she's our church at Deacon and I came here for help her if you may so Please don't be we try not to be too intimidating Yeah so She took over a restaurant 9a Medford Street but month and a half ago and the health department member Natasha came in and why don't you renovate everything and clean everything and new tile and Clean every you know every detail and the last week Natasha came, you know, this is a hundred twenty percent Satisfied Thank you very much I do and so I'm sorry. So Natasha is From the health department, okay, and Has Marianne we got anything in writing from them yet or no? Yes I have there were a couple of things that came in later than he then when we had put this out Okay, they're fine with it. Okay They they go through the same standard by the final inspection, but I'm Natasha actually called on this and said good to go Okay, thank you great That was definitely my big question because Based on the on the reading of the of the packet And so there's no alcohol license at this time, but you may apply in the future. Is that right? Okay? And all right, I don't have any other questions I move approval subject to all conditions, but specifically just making Particularly clear that we do have to get sign off from all the sub departments before the issue, but so it's approval with Those conditions Second all those in favor, please say I want to have a roll best the core ground restaurant All those in favor, please say aye. Aye pose three nothing Okay, I'll tell my brother lived in South Korea for about 15 years, so I'll look forward to having nice place to bring him Thank you Moving on so there was a request for a common victory license for a New restaurant at 1345 mass av but they couldn't be here tonight, so we will table that to the next meeting Moving forward citizens open forum Except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon Nor a decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established It should be noted that there was a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request Here for citizens open forum Please come forward Hello, my name is Clara Gabriel. I'm here to Actually the agenda says one parking space, but it's two parking spaces for 35 Wellington Street Would you want to wait until we get to that on the agenda certainly? Okay. Thank you We'll be there shortly I'm sure So no one's here for citizens open forum traffic rules and orders in other business 10 Discussion for the across Lexington program I Don't see mr. Stevens here I would kind of like to have some his feedback on this for what he is requesting in the letter Yeah, I mean I think I read that there were actually two two section two parts to it. I mean what the first part was was our endorsement of The the across Lexington piece, but the other part was us actually Initiating a communication with with Lexington, which it seemed like a different group in Lexington that was initiating that around the plant removals I'm happy if you feel more comfortable. I'm happy waiting for the whole thing. I Do support on this program. I do think that we I'd like his some feedback from so I think we'll wait till on mr. Stevens can attend a meeting to speak on this He wasn't going to be able to attend, but I thought I can't see you on the corner I thought so he said someone else would but nobody else from yeah, no no one here Should we maybe Just table it to the end of the meeting just in case somebody. Yeah, that sounds good for now Short mean today 11 we have a we had a discussion on the select man's handbook for From our colleague, mr. Greeley, but he fortunately can't be with us He's out of town on business so we will be tabling that till the next meeting as well Now request one space on street overnight parking at 35 Wellington Street. It's Gabriel. Yes. Thank you for all bearing with us is my understanding that there is Exemption possible for parking on street for people who do not have a driveway in Arlington It's I would like to request that for myself as I don't have a driveway at all available to me or My boyfriend at at our house Yes, mr. Don so I'm reading so in our packet we get like we get your request and we also get Reports from the public safety departments about it and so in the including I call so and they included I Confess I didn't actually drive by your house, but I relied on the photos that are here and it looks like there is a driveway There is a driveway that seems to go to 33 Wellington, but not 35 Wellington Okay It's it's it was told to me when I moved in the landlord was Very clear that the driveway went with the upstairs apartment, which is 33 Wellington and 35 Wellington So it's actually so it is attached to the building so the driveway is like part. It's on the property part of the parcel It's just but it's two different two different addresses. Okay, is it is it a condo or is it? It's a it's an apartment. Yeah not owned Okay Interesting so in general That wouldn't meet the credit so we don't we don't give out a lot of exemptions and Generally what in the times that we do There literally is no driveway and not only that there is no place to put a driveway like so if that someone has a piece of property And there's room to put a driveway and they just haven't chosen to do it We still won't even give the exemption so in a lot of ways Your request would fall more under that category and that it's physically possible to have A car there. It's just that you know, I understand it's your landlord as opposed to you, but I'm I guess so I'm inclined to vote no unless I am there's some piece of information I'm missing or I'm otherwise persuaded by my colleagues. Is there is there anything else that I you think we should know There are there. I mean the upstairs neighbors do have a car and they park it there Yeah, there are four for licensed adults that live on the premises And there is room for one car to park in that driveway without Crossing over the sidewalk, which obviously isn't really going to be doable So simply Okay, that reason Have you sought out any other potential parking areas? I know Officer a tow does note that parking available in the pond lane lot or Potentially even working out a different agreement with your landlord. I Mean I With the landlord it doesn't seem like anything is going to change in terms of that spot It's always been very clearly the 33 Wellington The The pond lane is less than ideal simply because of Well the 7 a.m. Must be out by versus I mean I know that a lot of cars with this exemption do park up on Lombard Even parking up there and being allowed to leave it even if I if I Leave town without my car for a weekend then I'm potentially ticketable so it's It's rough But yeah, I am I understand these are always pretty hard for us But you know where there are potentially some other options I'm gonna stand by officer a tow's recommendation and unfortunately, I'm not gonna support the sparking space overnight I'll be joining you on that too. Even though these are always very difficult, but it's It's very tough. We really do try to get hold of a very high standard as far as the extenuating circumstances I mean the types of things that we often will do where as if there's a situation with with is a Disability in the home or something like that was really truly extenuating and it's not Reasonable to go to the off-site lot one of one of the factors that Keeps us in this place is that the town has taken a Couple votes on whether or not to permit overnight parking and has emphatically chosen not to and at that point At least without speaking for other members of the board it becomes When when granting an exception you have to really hold yourself to I hold myself to a pretty tight Standard because I know that I have to respect that and I want to respect the will of the voters on that one So having said that I will with sympathy I'm still Move no action on this request There's a motion is there a second second second any further discussion Seeing none, so I'm sorry, but we have motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Hi Thanks for your time My agenda do you need a URL or do you? We're just having some technical difficulties here with our novice agenda, so please again bear with us Moving forward we have a discussion on the board and town manager goals Managed chapter lane. Thank you. Oh, yeah, I would I don't know if the town manager degree But I would prefer to have the full board here. I don't know is that Yeah, so I'll just say what my intention was tonight was to garner any additional feedback after making the updates to then make second round changes for eventual approval in the 22nd, but you're right that we're limited in the ability to Gain feedback from five. So I suppose if there is any feedback that any of you would like to give me tonight I think that's that would be fine. And um, perhaps Maybe if time in a sheffelin did have discussions with Colleagues that are not able to be here tonight That might be helpful as well moving forward to the next meeting. Yeah, thank you so Any comments feedback for Adam from the colleagues? Yes Mine is just in general. I didn't even I didn't have any specific change. I think it's I like the I like the I like both the structure and I like the way that we've been adapting the structure as each year comes around You know, it's not this that we don't have a one-size-fits-all planning on this, which is good because reality intrudes on that type of thing So I'm happy with it. I definitely plan on voting to approve it I just was hope I just think that it's Significant enough that I'd prefer we did it, you know, which and I'm this discussion is totally appropriate It's just when we actually vote. I'd rather we were all here five five. Oh works best for goals. Yes Yeah, I'm happy with it too. I mean, I think it accurately reflects our discussions for folks who aren't familiar What that we do meet for an entire morning generally in June With the manager and some other staff and the board and we we spend a lot of time going through each of these goals and kind of Using the previous year as a benchmark and and adjusting them as we go along And so I think this reflects What we discussed as far as the manager and and us very well. I know that We use the manager's goals in his Evaluation I Guess what we've done is kind of just iterate through towards the next year. We've I Wonder if we might want to consider a self evaluation at some point in the spring each year So how well we did against each each of our goals, but that's That's a broader discussion than this document itself It was just something I was thinking as I was reading through this that we generally iterate we Change them up based on what's what's actually happened during the year And do you mean the iteration is a good thing or a bad? Yeah, it's definitely a good thing. It's definitely a good thing But I don't know if we really sit back and do the exercise of take go stepping through what we had decided on the previous year And saying how did we do against that? Understanding that an awful lot of it is at the end of the day delegated to the manager So that was just a thought I had this weekend as I was reading through them But I think this reflects what we what we discussed very well Yeah, I am I do I like that idea Joe. I think I Would like to hear maybe what Kevin and Diane had to say about it as well before we do make any changes to how this works I do think it's important to have all five of us here for feedback That being said I really like the document Adam put forward I Agree that it accurately reflects the conversation we had and I think this is a that that's a really important morning for us every year this This is a pretty big endeavor, and I think it's one of the more important documents, you know that we Kind of we're working with the town manager put together every year, and I think it really sets us in the right direction So I am pretty proud of it So I think that that's what I have to say on it. I think that might conclude the discussion for now So I'll solicit feedback from the remaining two board members and then try to come back on the 22nd with a finalized document for approval That sounds great. Okay. Thank you for the feedback. Thank you Moving on This is a discussion for Nagaoka kill in our sister city relationship. I am sorry that I wasn't at our last meeting I do understand this did come up briefly, but as Yeah, my colleagues have seen in has been shared with others was a letter that I Believe myself in selecting really received from mayor Oda and Now I go cook yo and so prior to Writing a response From myself you I'd like to just make sure that I'm on the same page with my colleagues I think it's important. So in in my opinion. I think that I Do like the sister city relationship I think it is important for us and I would I intend and would like to Reaffirm our commitment as a town to our relationship with the understanding that it unfortunately does not look like Any select and we'll be able to travel there because the cost is pretty excessive Right now, but that being said, I don't Want this to come off that we are, you know trying to get out of The sister city relationship, you know, we did just have our 30-year anniversary and and I think it was a quite a great celebration where we commemorated a lot of great times that a lot of community members had as well as many of our You know cohorts in Japan have had as well and I am And I am that is my intention and I just kind of wanted the blessing of my colleagues That that is the direction that this board Would like to take it this time I completely support the relationship I know there's been a little bit of Friction over the last couple months and I just chalk so much of it up to the language difficulties I mean like it's that language makes everything harder and when you don't speak the same language it's very difficult and But we should I think we should absolutely I see no reason not to can proceed. I'm Delighted with it and I would just like to add that in a recent letter from mayor older He he was very happy with our relationship as well He I go I took from the letter that his sediment is the same as what I just explained. Yeah, I Mean I'm on the same page with you there. I mean I think we Would probably want to emphasize Maybe to them that you know We are volunteers here and many of the travels from our personal resources and it's just That's what makes it difficult for us to assemble delegations at certain times I would like it if we if we could thank him for Taking a look at the school exchange because it looks like he he did take another look at the school exchange and I'd like to Express appreciation for that because I do think that's a very important component of the exchange itself So I don't think it would come off as as lecturing or whatnot of actually we could maybe support him and his willingness to look at that again and As we appreciate it when those students come every year and our students have the opportunity I agree that that's a great piece of this relationship So what my intention is is to Draft up a letter that I hope will be before our next meeting that we can all endorse Fantastic, so thank you. And mr. Chair. I did want to note that the members of the conservation commission are here Thank you very much. Please come forward. We did table this agenda item to the end of the meeting Hoping that this would occur so Please mr. Stevens are Across lexicon. I'm not mr. I'm David white because they're white. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's a vision commission Nathaniel couldn't make it tonight And this is Mike Tabasinski from the cross lexina program Give your introduction to it about the program. We'll talk about our support of it Yes, thanks for hearing us today. Just give you a very short presentation to make you familiar with this Some materials were set in advance. I hope you had a chance to at least glance at those The cross just you know, we we did and we got them here. So Yes, okay, thanks So across lexington the acronyms stands for accessing conservation land recreation areas open space schools and streets in lexington The goal to develop 40 miles of wellmarked roots That in lexington a traverse connect conservation land recreation areas open space schools streets neighborhoods Basically to try to connect the town in a non-motorized way for recreation exercise and hopefully a little bit of a cultural mixing and Want to provide residents and visitors because Basically this concept doesn't end at town borders and there are no checkpoints to get between Arlington lexington And any other time? Yeah, people do cross all the time. I'm sure we know all about that And we want to provide more better opportunities for walking running cycling by providing guided paths that provide a pleasant off-street travel means for folks and Last year we rolled out We're lettering these routes like a B and C rolled out at root a and a root B for a total of about Oh, 10 miles of mark roots in lexington. They're quite successful well received by the public and so the project is Basically funded. It's a very inexpensive project on mostly the volunteers funds are either from CPA money or from some town money I'm told and they provide just for materials But as of now we have enough funds to do quite a few additional loops The ultimate goal will be have many loops with 40 or some odd miles so for a second round of Loops that we'd like to add we looked in East part of lexington and We found two really good locations for loops and they happen to include some Arlington properties namely some of the property owned by Arlington around the reservoir and Great meadows as well. So You know basically What we're here today is just to ask permission to mark Cross routes within those properties owned by Arlington and we'll just be doing marking We aren't building anything new. There's no new construction or new trails or bridges or anything We don't believe we need to go before any other commissions or or any other bodies to ask for permission for this And so I think in a nutshell, that's the permission we're asking for today Also Indicate across lexington in partnership with Arlington was a joint town We give we give full credit to who owns the land we don't we aren't really trying to put a stake in the ground and claim any I move approval, I think it's a neat program I'm glad that the great meadows is used. I mean I personally I only bike through it I've never actually gotten off my bike to wander around, but maybe if I see a better sign, I will who knows So I think it's great. I'm happy to support it I'll second and I'll just say I was very enthusiastic to to see this I'm an avid hiker and you know this this past summer my daughter and I took a We went 95 miles on the mid-state trail out in central mass, which is a multi-jurisdictional Trail as well and having clear wayfinding makes all the difference and that really is What attracts people to to these these trails? This really gets my wheels turning and I think about ways in which we could do something similar here in Arlington as well And I know there has been some talk about the mill brook and trying to develop that quarter quarter and such so I think you know putting Dipping the toe in this way I could see that it may be a catalyst for some similar initiatives here as well to connect up the the trails because connectivity is What it's what it's all about in these initiatives. I'm very happy to to to endorse this I Want to just confirm with either the manager or council though Are we the only vote that is that is required to allow this? I know that the great meadows comes under the board Does the reservoir land all come under this this board the reservoirs of the conservation commission? I Think that for the purposes of what they're asking for Your endorsement is all it's required. It's sufficient. Okay, just wanted to Sounded like that are already been checked But I just wanted to also note there's an app for this as well. I did note that Okay, I did note that very maybe coming to ask you about it, too Could you tell me actually a little bit about the group the the committee in Lexington that's been working on this the genesis of it? Yes, it's the called the greenways corridors committee and Initially, it was founded as the West Lexington Greenway committee someone really decades ago Even before I live in Lexington there is the inception of creating a route just to the west of route 128 That linked together all the open space over there including things like the power lines and the Burlington landlock forest and the Cambridge reservoir land and things like that. And so that project Started getting off the ground. It didn't completely get the fruition because we're being too ambitious Trying to create like a minute man type bike way over there There's too many environmental issues to do that. So we had to scale it back But another said well, why can't this idea really apply to anywhere in town? Sure So the name of the committee was changed to the greenways corridors committee so then we started to look at basically connections and right of ways and Since how we can create a system that that connects the whole town in a non motorized fashion It makes it very pleasant for people to travel. So Excellent, excellent That's great. I'm happy to support this. Yeah, no, I think I think this is a great idea as well, and I appreciate you bringing it forward Now are you familiar with the letter that mr. Stephen sent to us regarding Perhaps intergovernmental relations with the town of Lexington Now would you have any recommendations that you'd like to see us put kind of in with this Vote that we're going to take I think the truth. I think the path is a great idea I think we're also part of the panel and we have some some outstanding issues right in the reservoir as the letter indicates and the conservation mission in Lexington approved some funding for the reservoir aquatic But it got stopped higher up in Lexington Hmm Like to see better relationships in that regard many gain some support for the water chest of harvesting from the reservoir Okay, thank you mr. Chetland. It would be in that specific point if the board is interested my recommendation would be to support as you stated to support for the signs and then maybe take a position of Interest or support of pursuing financial Support from Lexington for water chest not another invasive species harvest species harvesting but not tying them together I think there's a bit of a history with those conversations in Lexington And I don't think holding a program such as across Lexington hostage would necessarily be an appropriate action for the board I agree with you. I just want to make sure I got the letter clear before we So Okay, so maybe perhaps we'll take two votes The first which we have a motion on to support the installation of the signs We had a motion and a second all those in favor. Please say aye. I Opposed three nothing votes. So those signs can go up which we are all looking forward to and up Do we have a motion regarding our? future You know discussions mr. Dunn I move that we both that we write a letter to Lexington Reminding them of the our joint responsibility for the reservoir and inviting their help in the for the funding and We all simultaneously ask the town manager to follow up with Lexington's town manager second We have a motion a second all those in favor. Please say aye. Hi Seeing none three nothing vote. Go. Thank you very much for coming tonight. I really appreciate it. Thank you Moving on quick meeting correspondence received We have a letter from the Attorney General's office regarding the approval of 2014 town meeting bylaw amendments And That is all of the correspondence received receipt Second I would just like to comment that I believe the acceptance of this letter officially marks the end of town council's first town meeting season Thank you very much Congratulations, the first of many Right Well, we're on that agenda item though Could I ask a question my little my little pet project the poet laureate? Does this mean that we can now advertise the that means we can now advertise to fill the selection committee, right? I don't know if that requires a motion or not because those those But we should probably write and write to the county appointing authorities let them know that it's It's clear. Yeah, they can make their appointments I don't know if we should do that in the form of a motion to send the letter Is there a process for that already those so we developed a process for them for the busking permits But I don't believe that we codify to process for my recollection I'll recall the bylaw just said that the selection to specify who the selection committee was and that they would actually set up the nomination Process and bring it forward to do we specify a chair? We didn't and that's a problem Did we and we specify but we do have a select one on that board, correct? No The body makes a recommendation to the board design of the of the town manager is on there, okay Interesting point. Yeah, would you like it the town manager to Could we would we vote to request that the town manager just notify appointing authorities that this is clear and and convene the first Yep, you do them. You are your designee convene the first meeting of of that Committee great. Yep Excellent to me No, I'll move that. Okay. Great. So we had a receipt. We had a second. All those favorably say aye. I opposed three nothing New business this is Sullivan. Well, it's just a reminder that we have town night this Friday night fireworks will be around a Dusk, we don't have an exact time so people should come 15 minutes earlier Then that so anywhere from 730 on please attend for the fireworks Reminded it to the select man that we begin town day on Saturday the 13th at 930 and we do have a select man's welcome And that's it. It's supposed to be good weather for Saturday Think is crossed. Thank you Doug no new business I have a few things First the recent announcement that with the hard work of the MAPC Mass dot has adopted a complete streets grant program Which would enable any community that adopts a complete streets policy to have access to grant funding for implementation of complete streets type projects So if there's no objection from the board I'd like to ask tack to put together a working group to come up with a complete streets policy to come back for the board's Consideration to get us in that pipeline Me and Mike Rademacher and Laura we never been talking about it We do it now anyways in the absence of a policy. So I think codifying it would be a very good idea There's already a few communities locally that have adopted policies. So there's a good framework in place for us to Copy from so again barring any objections. I'd like to Excellent idea to me. That's great. Sounds good Thank you Next Eve Margolis the management analyst has officially started as of today So I will bring her to the meeting on the 22nd to introduce her to the board We gave her a whirlwind tour of Arlington today. So I'm drinking from a fire hose for the first couple weeks Moonlight at the res the beach party to raise money for parks and recreation was Saturday night I got there a little later in the night and they had recovered from the thunderstorms that rolled in So I just have to say I have to tip my cap to Joe Connelly the director of recreation and all the members of the parks and rec commission that Put all the efforts that they put into putting it together And then everything that they did between 6 30 and 7 o'clock when people started to arrive to salvage the party By the time I arrived there everybody was having a good time and it was it was a really nice event So kudos to them. I think the chairman might mention this But I want to mention the the great work that the friends of the council and aging did yet again And putting on their 5k on Sunday, they really lucked out in the weather department. It was a great turnout So that was a very nice event as it has been for the past couple years and finally We're using novice agenda tonight Adam Kuroski and I continue to collaborate with the Selectman's office I'm going to move forward with going from the the demo version to the official version and Making hopefully what will become final changes into integration to the website and try to you know streamline all of the The kinks so we'll be we'll be you know in contact with that as the meetings go forward So I have thank you very much selecting them Election tomorrow Marry ends because so busy Marion so we're getting for a town day and she's what she's neglected to mention is that Also the Selectman's office is preparing for Tomorrow is primary of course in the state So if you are a member of one of the quote Designated major parties in Massachusetts or unenrolled you can show up tomorrow and vote in your primary for your candidates of choice And I encourage you to do that my second item is just a comment note to the my colleagues that This morning Adam convened a meeting of For a lack of a better word. It's kind of like a minimum working group It's a set of people who keep talking about minimum and I don't have anything specific to report but I just wanted to let you know that we continued to gnaw at it and it is a continues to be an intractable problem, but I Just didn't want you to think that we were forgetting about it Thank you. It's all I got. Thank you Thank you. I don't know much. I happen to be down at spy pond on Saturday the friends of spy pond We're running one of their cleanup efforts And they really have done a fantastic job the garlic and Belmont crew team was down there helping They also Honored a couple of people one gentleman's name. I didn't write down who has spent so much time Pulling the weeds on the cobblestones down there. I thought they were brand new cobblestones until they they explained it So take a look at it. It really looks beautiful down there they also unveiled a piece of Sculpture that was has been temporarily donated to the town by local artist Kevin Duffy. That was an ACC Funded initiative and it was really great. They were having the kids Compete to name it and I was able to congratulate some of the young people down there Who had helped our animal control officer rescue an actual swan? And as you all know, they've received proclamations from from the board and so I was able to personally congratulate the young people and was really Really extraordinary so Thanks go out to all of these volunteers in the community who you know all across the community I think we could all tell more stories from just the last couple weeks And I want to invite all my board members and everybody else to At noon over by Uncle Sam Plaza will be the official Ribbon cutting of the visitor information center that a lot of people Public works and ATED and a lot of folks have been working on it'll actually be the ribbon will be cut There'll be some school groups. They're singing a short little Ceremony that'll be at noon amidst all the other festivities at town day and Speaking of which I just want to thank the office, you know, we've been a little short staffed because of some Illnesses the last couple months, and I know that Mary Ann and Fran and the rest have been working really Overtime to keep things going and have a great town day and everything and so thank you very much for all of that Thank you. I am so I did have a list, but they it was chipped away at One for yes, as Adam mentioned yesterday was the Friends of Arlington friends of Arlington's Council on Aging 5k and Adam's a bit modest because he did place in the top 20 I believe and really it was like a bolt of lightning out of the starting line to to the finish And that really is an awesome event and they do a great job with it and I It's something I really enjoy every year For tomorrow town day The one other thing is that I was speaking with some colleagues before and telling them the good news that one of an Arlington resident who's also a town meeting member and also happens to be my cousin Mike Baker is getting an award for the work He does in the Jamaica playing community and he sets up, you know Quite a few events in it is really really integrated with all the residents over there And so I'm very happy for him and extremely proud of all the work. He does That being said I have no further new business so Move to adjourn second We have a motion and second all those in favor. Please say aye. All right the post Three-nothing vote. Thank you very much everyone