After agreeing to carry her friend's baby, the unexpected happened. Married couple Kevin and Nicole Barattini dreamed of starting a family together, but after many failed attempts at trying to have a baby, they knew something was wrong. Everything changed after a visit to their doctor. After years of trying to conceive, Kevin and Nicole struggled to get pregnant. With no positive results, it looked as though their dream of starting a family was never to be a reality. That was until something completely unexpected happened and their lives were to change forever. Leanna and Sean live with their five children in East Mauritius, New York State. Age just 37 and 40 respectively, the couple started growing their family at a young age, and always knew they were destined to be parents to a big brood. When Leanna became pregnant once again, it was not because she was looking to add to her family with their sixth child. In fact, this was to be a completely different pregnancy since the child she was now carrying was not hers at all. When Leanna heard that her friends, Nicole and Kevin Barattini, were unable to conceive, she volunteered to act as their surrogate. Leanna decided to do this selfless act to help the couple fulfill their dreams of starting a family. This would be very different to finding a surrogate through a third party, since that would require being away from one another until the birth. In this case, with the couples maintaining a close friendship, they could be informed of everything and be there for every step of the way. With regular contact, it allowed the couples to attend all doctor visits together and check on the developments of the pregnancy. Dr.  Rather than just having two parents excited for the newborn, there were four people in the room sharing all their joy and prayers for a healthy baby. In July 2016, both couples arrived at the most important appointment, which would confirm if the embryo had been planted successfully. Upon going to hear the news, it was most certainly a nerve-wracking experience for both couples, but mostly for the Barattinis, who were praying for their first baby. As for the fives, they were used to regular doctor visits, having gone through this process five times already with their own pregnancies. Nevertheless, they were still praying for a positive outcome for their friends and wanted nothing more than to be able to help out during this time in their lives. The Barattinis married in 2010 and settled in Smithton, New York, where they hoped they could raise a family together. After marrying, the couple desperately tried for years to fall pregnant but were failing to have much luck. After visiting specialists to discover the issue, they were told it was issues with Nicole's health that were preventing her from becoming pregnant. With the hope that this would not affect their chances, they were later given a prognosis that would shatter all their dreams of starting a family. Nicole's health concerns began when she was 16, years, old, and she started to discover small bumps covering her skin. While this covered her whole body, her eyes also turned jaundice, and she suffered from fatigue and fever. Realizing she needed medical attention, she visited the doctor who took blood from Nicole and found that she had only 8,000 platelets for every microliter of blood. The average adult is found to have between 140,000 and 150,000, meaning this was a cause for concern. Pediatricians diagnosed Nicole with thrombotic thrombocytopenia perpura, TTP, which is an autoimmune disease and causes fatal blood clots all around the body. At the time, the teenager was told the severity of her condition was a potentially life-threatening disease and that doctors needed to act on it fast. Nicole had to spend the next couple of days in the children's hospital following her prognosis, where she was to have her plasma change to prevent her condition from worsening. Fortunately, doctors were able to find a suitable medication to allow Nicole's condition to become stable and improve the disease which allowed the teen to live normally for the next few years. It was when she met her husband, and the couple was trying to have a baby, that the doctors explained to the barattinis that the TTP medication that Nicole was on would harm her baby should she fall pregnant, but harm her own health if she chose to come off the medication. While the news was obviously devastating for Nicole to hear, the heartbreaking moment came when she had to tell her husband the results. Her adoring husband recalled the moment, explaining, I got home from work and Nicole had that look on her face like something was wrong and I'm never going to forget it, I said, what's wrong, and she said, the doctor doesn't think we can have children.  Although doctors told Nicole she could fall pregnant, they also gave her the breakdown of what the reality would be should she choose to do so. She told reporters, I was able to conceive, Nicole said. But I wouldn't be able to have a healthy pregnancy, and it would result in death of myself or the baby. Although the outcome was not completely clear, it was still too big a risk to take, and Nicole was left devastated by the news. The news was, of course, heartbreaking for the couple and Nicole was left devastated by the fact she would not be able to carry her own baby. Feeling let down by her own body, and incredibly frustrated, she proposed the idea to her husband that maybe they should risk it. Her husband, however, was not into the idea and shut down the very notion of it. Kevin was not willing to put Nicole's life at risk for the sake of growing their family. The couple finally decided that they would stop trying to conceive and look into other available options at having a child. Fertility specialists gave the couple good news that Nicole's condition was not genetic and she could produce a healthy baby. Hoping to produce their own baby, Nicole decided she would freeze her eggs and began researching surrogacy options. Just as the Barattinis decided this would be their best option, and they were finally making progress, yet another hurdle got in their way. Nicole and Kevin were open to many ideas when it came to growing their family, including adoption. However, this too seemed to hold a concern for the couple due to the significant expense. After calculating the sums and hoping they could home a child, it soon became apparent that the asking price would be too costly for the couple and it was to no avail. This then ruled out the option of adoption altogether, and the couple focused their sights primarily on surrogacy. Despite many children worldwide in need of finding a home, there are many reasons why it is so expensive to adopt. In 2016, an article revealed that the high price tag is due to the legal fees involved in adopting. While private domestic adoptions can cost a parent in hope to adopt a few thousand dollars, international adoptions rake up a much higher fee. This is because the adoption process also includes legal and travel expenses, as well as agency fees. Deciding to go with surrogacy as the final option, the couple discovered that it would cost upwards of 75,000 dollars. Nicole and Kevin knew they could not afford this, and had to begin thinking about who could perhaps carry their child, but were having little luck. Nicole recalled, we had heard stories that sisters carried and mothers carried eggs for women who could not carry, but I don't have a sister, and my mother is over the age to be able to be a carrier. The next hurdle came in the couple's way was their location. Due to the Barattinis living in New York, the cost of surrogacy was not their primary problem. It is prohibited by law to pay someone within New York to act as a surrogate. They did have the option of paying someone out of state, but this would, once again, pose more problems and cost way more than imagined. The only option Nicole and Kevin had was to pay someone they knew without compensation. Gestational surrogacy proves to be the most common method chosen when a woman decides to carry another person's baby. Here, the embryo is created by IVF and implanted into the surrogate, meaning the mother's egg and father's sperm creates the embryo and makes the baby biologically theirs. Many choose surrogacy as their best option to have a child for many reasons, including if they cannot carry the baby themselves for health reasons, which was the case for Nicole. When Nicole and Kevin announced to their friends and family that they were on the hunt to find a surrogate, they were overwhelmed by the outpour of support and the number of people who offered to carry their embryo. Nicole expressed, it was crazy to see how many people stepped up to the plate. However, after such hope, the initial excitement soon wore off when tests found that none of the couple's friends were fit enough to carry their baby. During this time, Liana, who had recently just given birth to her second child, had heard about the baritini's struggles through a mutual friend. At the time, Liana knew she was not done expanding her own family, but the idea of helping someone else have a baby did cross her mind. While she privately decided she would not be a child carrier for another woman until she had finished having her own children, Liana was not completely opposed to the idea. The whole process of gestational carriers is incredibly thorough, and all hopefuls have to go through specific medical exams to test if the woman is at her absolute best health and fitness to be able to carry a child. The intensive process is what makes choosing surrogacy so expensive, and a lot of women are turned away. In addition to having their health checked, carriers are also mentally assessed to see if they are in the right state of mind to carry a child that is not theirs. While feeling down, Nicole and Kevin did all they could to keep their spirits high. One evening in December 2015, the baritinis went out for dinner with their close friends, as they found that spending time with their friends helped lift their spirits. They met with Liana and Sean Fives, who they had known for over 20 years. The Fives already had five children of their own and sympathized with their friends who were going through fertility struggles. Having been so fortunate with their big family, they wanted to help. When Nicole was at the point of giving up, Liana listened to her friends' concerns and came up with the idea that would help her friend out. It was at this time that Liana would do something incredible. Kevin recalls this moment, explaining, Liana goes, you know I have five children, Sean, and I want to have maybe one or two more. And Nicole and I looked at each other with a puzzled look, like, you have five kids, why would you want any more? Kevin continued, and she goes, no, not for me, for you guys, I'd like to carry a child. At this moment, Nicole and Kevin were speechless. Kevin stated, the two of us, just forget about it. We just, we all started crying. Having had such a long friendship with Liana over the years, they knew she meant every word. It was at this moment that the Barattinis realized that their dreams of having their own family could finally become a reality. Speaking of her generous decision to help her friends out, Liana said, I was blessed to have five kids, and they are all amazing, and I couldn't picture my life without them. And to see this family so deserving, it broke my heart. Realizing how important having her own children are, and the impact they had on her life, Liana wanted her friends to experience the same joy in their lives. Liana was hoping for her closest friends to have that same fulfillment that she has. Liana had been secretly thinking of acting as a surrogate for some time and, after giving birth to her fifth child in 2015, she was ready to help another couple. Having five children demanded a lot of Liana's time, but she was determined to help Nicole and Kevin. When she brought up the idea to Sean, she also ensured one condition would be fulfilled. She was going to make sure Sean was ready to help out more with caring for their five children before committing to becoming pregnant once more. Having hoped for this moment for so long, Nicole and Kevin did not waste a second with accepting their friend's selfless offer. When agreeing to go ahead with this idea, the couple also agreed to be there every step of the way with Liana. Fortunately, Liana passed all her medical tests, and after several visits to the doctor, it was time to plant the embryos and pray they took. At this point, all anyone could do was pray for the best. It would only take a week to find out if the embryo took, but this time felt like forever in the eyes of Nicole and Kevin. After all they went through, they were incredibly optimistic but nervous knowing how many setbacks they have already had. This would be the only chance to have a baby that was biologically theirs, so they were counting their lucky stars that everything would work in their favor. When the results arrived a week later, it was found that Liana was not pregnant. The news came as a downer to all, but the doctors provided more hope when they said they would plant more embryos knowing the high chance of them taking. This kept everyone feeling optimistic once more, and the couple continued to pray that the next time would work. After Liana went through all the correct procedures again, the couple waited for the results once again to see the outcome. This time, when the tests came back, it revealed the impossible. The moment of truth came when the two couples made their visit to the doctor's office to hear the results. When the doctor revealed that the embryo successfully took, the couple were made aware of the good news that Liana had fallen pregnant. The barottinis were overwhelmed with emotion but, just as they were taking in the good news, they were informed with even more news. Not only did one embryo take, but two. Nicole and Kevin were soon to be welcoming twins into the world. The couples decided to announce the good news to their families on Labor Day weekend. They planned a joint party with over 60 guests in attendance, and it was definitely to be a cause for celebration beyond what everyone was expecting. In front of the fives' children, their friends, and their family, the couples gathered to make the big announcement. After asking the guests to be quiet for a moment, they stood in front of everyone and shared the news that Liana was carrying Kevin and Nicole's twins. The big day arrived on February 10, 2017, when Kevin and Nicole welcomed their beautiful twins into the world. On this day, Dominic and Luciana were born. The barottinis were bursting with love and pride, and speaking of their miracle, Kevin said, It's probably the most amazing thing because you think it's the end of the road, now here we are with two beautiful children. This was truly a magical moment for the first time parents. The fives did one of the best things possible for the barottinis, and this will keep them in each other's lives forever. To show their gratitude, Nicole and Kevin named Liana and Sean the twins' godparents. Speaking of Liana, Nicole said, I don't have a sister, but I'd consider her like that. We don't hold back, we are open, honest, and I am constantly turning to her for guidance. Nicole managed to stay on her TTP medication while also becoming mother to her newborn twins. Having been fortunate enough to experience something so amazing when they were almost ready to give up, Nicole and Kevin wished for the same fortune for other parents facing similar struggles to theirs. Hoping to make surrogacy legal, Kevin wrote in a Facebook post, We have been working with local legislators and infertility specialists, reproductive specialists of New York to make surrogacy recognized in New York state. That being said we are happy that our story went public to help others in the time of need. Nicole followed suit with her husband's wishes and credited Liana for all her help. She said, There are people out there, like Liana, that will do it out of kindness, and it's easier to find them than it seems. It's never the end of the road. Nicole hoped to reassure women that there is hope and their lucky day is yet to arrive. Nicole and Kevin continue to fight for surrogacy to become legal so other hopeful parents are given the same opportunity they had.


And coach Kyrie Joe just talked about how adversity can be a good thing. You don't want to be in a position where you've lost four in a row. But so much has been thrown at you guys. What do you hope to gain and learn through this experience given the teams you've been competing against lately? Just know we have to do on both ends of the floor at all times is knowing the level of efficiency we got to have on both ends of the floor. You know, just the small things. I think that's usually the last part. That takes you over the top is the small things offers a rebound been in the right spots, not being a split second lead on switches, not point switching. Just a little stuff. I think we're going we're seeing right now that that's the difference in winning and losing and guys are conscious of that. And you know, I think we'll get better from it. It was a maker miss league. But aside from that, what else stood out to you in terms of execution in the fourth quarter that that made the difference in the game? Well, I make them shots. I mean, I feel like I got good looks and I didn't make them. And I feel like if I had made them never settle the team down. So that's a huge part of why things can go well for us. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Hey, Kevin, kind of kind of piggybacking off of that. It's not that often that we see you have an off shooting night like tonight that there was a thing awful for from Dave. Do you change anything up after a game where you don't have have a shooting night to your standard or is it just you trust your work and come back to this game and keep everything the same? Yeah, just trust my work. And most of the time is a mentality switch on what I need to do to be more effective and more efficient. And tonight I'll try shots that I shouldn't have tried. I shot over a double team one time in the fourth. I shot a runner going to the to the left, just trying to get to the game. You know, scoring wise. And sometimes that may push me out of the game. You know, when I try those tough ones, but it's all a learning experience. I'm glad it's happening now for us instead in a couple of weeks. And hopefully we build off of this and keep growing. And I hope we feel this this pain, I guess, from losing. Feeling like we're now where we want to be. I like this position for us. And I think it's going to make us better as we continue to keep, you know, watch your family going through practice, going through shootarounds and then playing a game.


Hello and welcome to the first in a series of videos about how to navigate and get the best from the new coaching manual platform for 2017. This series of videos is designed to help our users to get the most out of the platform and also get the most out of the great content that we've got within the platform. So, for people who've been using us for a while, you'll obviously have noticed a lot of changes over the past few months as we've sought to improve the user experience when using the coaching manual. So, today I'm going to talk about just some of the basic navigation of the new platform and kind of provide a guide around how some of that works and how some of it can be used by our customers, either whether you're paying customer or a freemium user. There's lots of things that you can do in the coaching manual and we're going to share some of those today. So, I'm logged in as a club user, which is our highest level of membership, and this is obviously the membership that allows users to add and remove coaches and players. But when anyone lands on the coaching manual, they land on the same page, which is the dashboard or the locker. I'm going to start by going through some of the items in the top navigation here to explain what they do. The first icon to look at is the search function. If you click on search, it brings up the search bar, which already has a number of pre-built filters so that you can find the content that you're interested in quickly if that's what you want to do. Or, we do have a fully functioning search function too, so if you want to search anything content-wise, you just start typing it in and the search bar will make suggestions for you. And it will filter by the content categories, so whether it's drills or guides, or even indeed if it's an individual, then again the system will filter so it will be users, guides or whatever. So I'm not going to use search. I'm going to click the X to remove the search function, and let's have a look at a couple of these other things on here. So locker is obviously the dashboard that we spoke about, so this is where we can store and curate our own content, as well as find some of the great features that we've got built in the dashboard menu on the left-hand side here. We'll go into that in a bit more detail shortly. The next thing to look at on the top navigation is training ground. So training ground is the area which was once classroom and training ground. We took the feedback from users who said that actually they kind of didn't understand the rationale behind it, and we kind of agreed with you. So we decided to put all of the content into the training ground, and then underneath the training ground are a number of category filters for different types of content. We've also built a really nice interface here so that people can browse content really quickly and find the things that are important to them. Whether it's videos, whether it's sessions, whether it's drills, whether it's guides, there's an area here where people can quickly and easily get a bit of an understanding of the type of content that we have in the coaching manual. We do have a number of category filters and we'll probably grow these as we develop the content, but it could be strength and conditioning, it could be the podcasts, and it could be news or it could be the sessions. So all of these filters will deliver different responses and will deliver different types of content. So just to explain, the drills are all of the individual coaching drills that we've built. Sessions is where we've put those drills into two, three, four part sessions, which coaches can use to deliver their coaching material when they're coaching each week. Then I'll go back to the locker and then also in the top navigation here we have this icon which pops out an activity feed so that all of the people that I follow socially or who follow me, I get to see what they're looking at. I also have an ability to create notes here so I can write whatever I like and just quickly and easily make a note of something that I need to remember for my next session, create that note and then that exists within my notes function so when I navigate into my notes I can see the stuff that I've been writing. So it acts kind of like a diary entry over time to keep the information that I've been thinking about whilst I've been browsing the site relevant to that. I can stick content, I can stick sessions and things like that in my notes as well. Then we have another pop out which is how to log out from the site or how to find help or how to edit certain elements of the account. We can edit the account from the edit button here, it takes us into the editing of my public profile but I'm going to go into how we can do that from the profile itself. So I go into edit profile here and it pops out with the edit button again, I'm going to shut that down. The other things to look out for in the navigation here are clubs and teams. So this is all the clubs and teams that I'm a part of. So it will tell me my clubs at the top and all of the teams that I'm associated with beneath that. Then we have all of the content which I've favourited. So I can quickly look at all of the content that I've favourited in there. Then I can have a look at the sessions that I've built in here. The latest content, so as things get released by us, it will populate in here, information that we want to share with you about things that we're working on will appear under your latest news feed. The idea is that this will integrate with the activity feed eventually. Again on the left now we also have clubs and teams so I can look at that, favourites, sessions, folders. So this is where I've created folders for content and shared and then we also have the social element of what we do which is followers, the people who are following me and the people then who I'm following. So we've got fully functional social platform now building into the coaching manual to help people stay in touch really with the coaches that they're interested in staying in touch with and the players as well of course. So that's a quick overview of the main navigation of the site when you log in for the first time.


So for March, we're gonna do our St. Patty's Day adoption special, which we continue to do every year. And the good deal is, is the price is just $17. So this year we're gonna celebrate it on the Friday and Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. So the 15th and 16th, folks can come out and get a new pet, cat, dog, kitten, puppy, whatever's available, just $17. And of course with that, the animals already spayed near and microchipped, vaccinated, all that good stuff. So we're hoping people come out, you know, put on a green t-shirt or whatever, come see us and come pick out a new pet. Go to petfinder.com if they just want to scan the computer for a little bit, or their phone. They can also come visit, which we always encourage because a lot of times when you actually spend time one-on-one with these animals, you get to know them and often you don't pick one out, they pick you out. So we always encourage people to come see us and they can give us a call, but we can give them a vague idea of what's here. It's just best to actually just take a look for themselves. The idea of adopting something that's already spayed near a vaccinated microchip is such a great idea and such a great bargain. We've actually probably have saved the new pet owner $200 or more of having to go out and do all this on their own, make the time, make the appointments, all of that. Regardless of already getting all that and that great deal, that great package, we do encourage folks to go ahead and take their new pet to see their personal vet just so they can go and establish that relationship. That will be the lifetime connection for their pet and their pet's health down the line. But it is a great deal for $17 for those two days. There's $35 on a regular basis. I don't think you could beat the price anywhere else.


Calling to order the meeting of the Allington Select Board for Wednesday, rather May 19th, 2021. As a preliminary matter, this is Select Board Chair, Steve DeCorsi. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Diana Han. Yes, thank you. John Hurd. Yes. Len Diggins. Yes. Eric Helmuth. Yes. Staff, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapterling. Yes. Doug Hyam. Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Meyers participating remotely. Tonight's meeting of the Allington Select Board is being conducted remotely, consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12th, 2020, which encourages and allows open meetings of state agencies and local governments to be conducted remotely in order to mitigate transmission of COVID-19 virus. The governor's order, which you can find posted with agenda materials on the town's website for this meeting, allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. Before we begin, permit me to offer a few notes. First, this meeting is being conducted via Zoom, is being recorded and is also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Persons wishing to join a meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that they may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. Further, all participants are advised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Both Zoom participants and persons watching on ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using the Novus agenda platform. And finally, each vote tonight will be taken by roll call. I will now turn to the first item on the agenda, item number two for approval, LGBTQIA plus rainbow commission requests, pride proclamation and crosswalk painting, Andy Rubenson and Lisa Krinsky from the rainbow commission. Are the rainbow commission representatives here Mr. Chaplain? I see Lisa Krinsky so I can promote her. Okay, I'll start once she's on reading the proclamation and then I will recognize Ms. Krinsky. Great, okay, great, thank you. Good evening. So we have two items, a pride proclamation, a crosswalk painting requests. I'll start with reading the pride proclamation. Whereas the month of June is recognized nationally as LGBTQIA plus pride month to commemorate the uprising by transgender and other LGBTQIA plus people against ongoing harassment and abuse by New York city police at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 which marked the beginning of the modern LGBTQIA plus rights movement. And whereas that uprising was one of many acts of resistance to the enforcement of unjust laws and the local state and federally sanctioned harassment and abuse of LGBTQIA plus people, transgender and gender diverse people, black people, Hispanic Latino people, Asian people, indigenous people, women and anti-war and pro-democracy activists. And whereas political demonstrations, legislative advocacy and social change efforts to create a more just and fair world by all of these marginalized groups defined the second half of the 1960s. And whereas that work continues today by people of all races, ethnicities, genders, abilities, ages and sexual orientations, including and especially local chapters of Black Lives Matter, trans resistance mass and the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness. And whereas deeply meaningful acts by residents of Arlington have contributed to efforts to create a world in which everyone's humanity and dignity is recognized and honored. And these acts include the unanimous passage by Tom meeting of article 18 on May 2nd, 2016, adding gender identity and expression to the town of Arlington's non-discrimination provisions and collecting data about Arlington residents, sexual orientation and gender identity in the latest Envision Arlington Survey in the same way that other demographic detail related to race and ethnicity are collected. And whereas Tom meeting created the LGBTQIA plus rainbow commission in 2017 to promote LGBTQIA plus affirming policies for all residents of the town of Arlington. And whereas the town of Arlington was one of only 10 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to earn a spot on the human rights campaigns 2020 Municipal Equality Index and one of seven in the state to earn a perfect score. And whereas the LGBTQIA plus rainbow commission is aware that in Massachusetts, LGBTQIA plus people of all ages are more likely to experience disparities in health and wellbeing as compared with their straight and cisgender peers and that these disparities are even greater among transgender and LGBTQIA plus people of color. And whereas students in the town of Arlington who are homeless are disproportionately more likely to be LGBTQIA plus in the town of Arlington's 2019 youth risk behavior assessment found that sexual minority youth including lesbian, gay and bisexual high school students in particular are at substantial risk for serious health outcomes relative to their peers. And whereas the LGBTQIA plus community Arlington is resilient, creative and innovative and enjoys strong allied partnerships with the town's Human Rights Commission, Council on Aging, Disability Commission, Commission for Arts and Culture and numerous other groups, residents and elected officials that support the LGBTQIA plus rainbow commission's work to bring greater visibility and empowerment to the LGBTQIA plus population through education, advocacy and collaboration with other town agencies, schools and community groups. And whereas celebrating LGBTQIA plus pride month in part by displaying rainbow commission pride flags in Arlington center and issuing this proclamation our outward expressions, representations rather of the town's commitment to full inclusion of the LGBTQIA plus community in Arlington's civic life. And whereas many LGBTQIA plus pride month celebrations and commemorations this year will take place virtually and online in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to adhere to public health physical distancing guidance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, given it even greater importance to outward representations of support for the LGBTQIA plus community in Arlington. Now, therefore be it resolved that we the members of the select board reaffirm our support for equal protections for LGBTQIA plus residents of Arlington, be it further resolved that we designated June that we designate June 2021 as LGBTQIA plus pride month in Arlington. So with that, I'd like to introduce Ms. Krinsky if you have any words for the board. I know you made two requests and you would send us that proclamation. Thank you very much. So thank you and thank you for reading that. Now we are just excited historically the select board for the past number of years has supported a pride proclamation for the town and as the proclamation says, it's an important year this year and to represent it in the community, it's really important to folks. Great, thank you. And could you tell us a little bit about the crosswalk painting as well? Yes, I'd be happy to. So for the past few years, we have painted a rainbow flag in a crosswalk across from town hall. Given construction this year, we are proposing that we move that down to the intersection at Pleasant Street and Mass Ave and hope to have the opportunity to use chalk paint and paint rainbows across Mass Ave and sort of let everybody passing right through the center of town celebrate pride with us. Great, thank you very much. And I'll turn it to the board for questions, comments. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'd like to move approval. And if the board would indulge me a brief personal moment. Growing up as a gay kid in the 70s and 80s in Ohio, I would not in my wildest dreams thought that I would live to be able to marry the person that I love, let alone be elected to serve on a board where I'd have the privilege of voting on this proclamation. I am deeply grateful to my community for its commitment to equality for all. I am aware that none of us are free until all of us are free and that we have a long way to go here in Massachusetts and across the country and across the world. And I'm aware that telling our stories, being willing to live our truth is crucial as is the active support of our community and our allies. And to me, that is why Pride Month matters despite the progress that we have made in some corners. And for that, I am grateful. And I didn't wanna let this moment pass as a new member of the board without taking the chance to say so. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll definitely second that. Then I wanna thank our colleague, Mr. Helmuth, for sharing some personal details, not only of his personal experience, but also the experience that he's having here in Allington, you know, some cities or towns say this is what we're doing, we're welcome, we're open, we celebrate diversity, but it's actions, consistent actions that demonstrate that. And I know when we first started this particular initiative, I think with Mel Goldspeed and others, it was very well received. So I would have one comment with the question and one question. The comment with the question is, I know that I received as part of your request, shocking or temporarily painting the sidewalk in the center, and that you're looking for volunteers. I shared it on Facebook, but I was wondering if Lisa could speak to that in terms of any volunteers. I think it's happening on a Sunday, but if you could just speak to that briefly and then I have a second question. Sure, so our intent is to actually do the crosswalk painting in the evening, probably like June 9th or 10th, depending on weather. And what has usually worked in the past is with the support of Allington Police Department, we sort of move some of the traffic to the side, we have one lane, we chalk paint for a while, and then when that dries, flip to the other side to get across the street. We have had an enthusiastic, everybody wants to paint the street, it's just a fun thing to do. So we've had an enthusiastic group of volunteers, but anybody else who would like to come out and join us, we think we'll start probably around eight o'clock at night and it should take us two or three hours given traffic, but anyone who wants to come help us paint the street and paint the town, it's perfectly welcome to do that. And they can connect to us through the Rainbow Commission email if anybody wants to volunteer with us. And do you know off the top of your head what that email is, or if not, I can tell them to call the select board office. I, you know what, it's, I don't know it off the top of my head, but people can contact us through that. And if they can just Google the Allington Rainbow Commission, I think they can find it as well. Okay, and if you're on my Facebook page, it's on there. And then this request came previous years, and I understand why we can't do it last year this year, but people were asking if it is, could be, and is being considered to not only have a crosswalk shocked or temporarily painted in the center, if it could also happen in the East Allington and the Heights. So it's okay, Lisa, if you don't have an answer for this, but I know this question has come up. We hadn't thought about doing it in other areas of town, but we could certainly consider that. We have a meeting tomorrow night and we just need to think about sort of logistics and approval from you folks to do it in more than one location. Okay, so maybe not this year, but definitely maybe next year, because similar to other things, a lot of stuff happens in East Allington and the center and Heights say, what about us? And then this happens in the center and East Allington Heights have said, what about us? So I'm just passing it on. And I will take it back to the committee that next year we propose to do three locations a lot. And if we do it a long mass app, it'll sort of give that continuity to folks to traveling through town. Definitely, and I think it gives a more welcoming, not that it's not, but a broader welcoming message. Yes, that would be great. So thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Ms. Grinsky. Lisa, I appreciate it. Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Mr. Hurd. Thank you. I'll just note that I think Mr. Chaplain put the email address into the chat there. Are you looking for it? Thank you. We always look forward to this request. I want to thank Mr. Helmuth. I didn't expect to tear up at the beginning of the meeting, but it's certainly always good to hear personal stories. You know, I think Arlington, there's a lot of locations like Mrs. Mahan said that talk the talk, but when it comes to diversity, equity, inclusion, Arlington works the walk. And, you know, we have broad support for LGBT plus month. And I know a lot of people look forward to this, to the painted crosswalks and everything that it represents. So I'm happy to support this. And thank you for coming forward. Thank you. And best of luck. Thank you very much. We'll also have rainbow banners up in town that were previously approved. And we have one online virtual event that's taking place. And then we're also gonna have an outdoor sort of drive-by for folks to come and get some pride. So we'll, we'll share that out with the community as well. So people know other events that we're doing during the month. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Diggins. Yeah, sorry. I missed Ms. Helmuth's comments to me. My signal is just dropping without any warning at all. And that was the second time. So I imagine I'm gonna have problems to me, but try and get through this. Yeah, I hope I won't repeat anything. When we did this last year, my comment was we've come a long way, but we have a long way to go, especially for people in relationships, plus two, well, more than two. And what do you know? The town meeting, you know, approved investing partnerships of three, three plus. And I can't tell you how proud I am of this town. And I use pride. Mr. Diggins, we just lost you. Given another thing, Mr. Diggins, you froze up on us. Oh, okay. We just lost him there. Okay. Well, if he comes back, I'll give him an opportunity to speak. I go to complete his thoughts there. I also want to echo the words of my colleagues and thank Mr. Helmuth for his comments and I would really pleased to be issuing this proclamation. Again, thank you so much for the work that you're doing, Ms. Krimski. And thank you for the accommodation that you have made with the banners at the beginning of June. I know there was some discussion in terms of the high school seniors, and we really appreciate you working with us on that to accommodate them. So thank you so much for that. I don't see Mr. Diggins back here. Attorney Heim, should we hold off on a vote until he returns? No, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think what I recommend is that the record reflect that Mr. Diggins lost his feed at approximately 717. He has not yet returned. If you can take a vote on this particular action, given that town meeting is at eight o'clock, I would recommend you take a vote without Mr. Diggins. And if he can come in and supplement the vote, I think that's perfectly okay. There he is. Okay, oh, there he is. Okay, Mr. Diggins, you're back. We were just about to go to a vote, but if you had any more thoughts, I'd like to give you an opportunity to finish what you were saying there. Well, that was essentially it. I'm very proud of the town of how it's handled, how it handled the domestic partnerships. The amendments allow me for groups greater than two, that's why 80%, and the amendment to allow domestic partnerships, it was in the 90% range. And it's just, it's always been a very welcoming town. And part of what I said last year, and this is what I'm hoping for too, is that when we think about the word gay, isn't happy because like, regardless of your orientation, everybody can be gay, especially if we live in let live. And I feel that it's very much a town that lives in let lives, you know. And so I'm so happy to support this, but I'm really happy to be part of this wonderful community. Thank you. Great, thank you very much, Mr. Diggins. Okay, so on motion by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mrs. Mahan, attorney Hime. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. DeCoursey. Yes. Mr. unanimous vote. Great. Thank you, Ms. Grinsky. Thank you all very much and happy pride. You too. Okay. Item three is a discussion and vote select board designee to youth and young adult study committee. I'd like to start this one with Mr. Diggins. He actually brought this forward to the board originally for comments. And then we will hopefully have a nomination and a vote for our designee. Yeah, thanks, Vade. So as I said, the whole reason for doing this is to have town meeting and own this committee eventually. We will of course decide, first thing we will decide is whether or not it's a good idea to have this, but the presumption is that we're going to be at least explore it and come to the town meeting with some proposal for what that group should look like. And I don't really want it to be something that's owned by the select board because then it depends on the composition of the select board to keep it going. I feel that if it is something that is created by town meeting it is much more likely to last longer and rather than a few people coming together to come up with ideas of how it should look, I think it's better to have the broader community looking at it. Although there's going to be a committee of limited number, the meetings will be open. So we will get a lot of input from the community as to what that hopeful committee or board, most likely committee will look like. So I'll stop there. Okay, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Okay, and Mr. Diggins had, I'll let the other members now has expressed interest in being the designee, but I'll open it up to any nominations. And why don't we start with Mr. Helmuth? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to nominate Mr. Diggins for that role. Okay, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'd like to second that motion and thank our colleague, Mr. Diggins, for taking on yet another subcommittee task. God bless you. Mr. Herd, thank you, Mrs. Mahan. I second the second of Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Herd. I'll third the second of Mr. Diggins and thank him for bringing this forward and a town meeting has passed this. So we wish you the best of luck with getting the committee going. We look forward to hearing from the committee. So with a motion by Mr. Helmuth in three seconds, I will turn it to Attorney Hyme. And the motion is to nominate Mr. Diggins. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. D'Corsi. Yes. Thank you, everybody. Great, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Okay, item four for approval, closing on 1207 Massachusetts Avenue Real Estate, authorization and memorandum of understanding for public space. And Attorney Hyme is going to make a short presentation. Then we'll have a discussion. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you members of the board. I'm aware that this has been a long process and that many, if not most of the members of the board were not present when this issue first came up. I'm going to walk very briefly through a history of the property, which was originally developed in approximately 1920 taken by the town and tax title sometime in the 1930s. It is owned by the select board rather than by a different sort of organization or subdivision of the town, which is why the quick clean deed is coming before you. The Disabled American Veterans Club occupied it for many years. On January, in January of 2014, following the closure of the DAV, the select board convened a working group to determine the future of the property. In May of 2015, town meeting authorized the sale if necessary, improved it and made some subsequent commitments of proceeds from the sale to capital. Most recently, stable, not sure what's going on, but if anybody can't hear me. We just lost you a second ago. So if you could just repeat what you just said. I just want to note that town meeting authorized the sale and subsequent commitments have been made for the proceeds to go towards the capital plan, including in this year's town meeting capital plan vote. On October 27th, 2014, there was a public meeting on potential uses. In November of 2015, this board using working group and public input offered the property for lease for an innovation incubator space. Unfortunately, no bids were received for that particular concept. On June 16th, June of 2016, following further exploration of options, the select board authorized an RFP for the sale of 1207 asset. Just to summarize the RFP terms, there's a minimum sale price of $750,000. The building property was being sold as is. Highly advantageous bidders were to accept a 40 year mixed use deed restriction with an incentive with permit fees waived for a mixed use development. Other advantageous features were offered benefit to community consistent with mixed use and employment opportunities. There was only one bid received from the 1211 Massachusetts Realty Trust in met the criteria, accepted mixed use restrictions, proposing a commercial retail mixed with residential or hotel. Doug, we lost you again. True, all right.  So I'm gonna not try to go over too much, but in short, there was only one bid, that bid met the criteria and including the advantageous criteria for mixed use. There were some other specific terms, including contingencies on a special permit being received and a 21E inspection. In March of 2017, the select board authorized the town manager to execute a penis with final approval to come back before the board. The 21E inspection was completed sometime thereafter. I just wanna note that the Massachusetts Avenue Realty Trust was later reorganized as 1207 DAV post LLC. Thereafter, there was the development of the PNS and the special permit review. In October of 2018, the PNS was completed. Terms are consistent with the RFP, which they must be. Mixed use restriction agreement, which was attached to exhibit one and provided to the board as reference, was agreed upon and $75,000 was provided in down payment and ask group. In June, first of 2018, the special permit application was filed. There were ARB, subject to ARB review, public hearings, and to my understanding, a number of modifications of the initial proposal. That, I'm sorry, that should read June 21st, 2019. My apologies, I believe that was 2019. In August of 2020, about a little bit more than a year later, the special permit process wrapped up, it was granted. Pretty much with the terms set forth in the RFP and in the PNS, but a lot of additional general and special conditions that are normal for a special permit that's subject to environmental design review. I just wanna note that because the property was a co-development with the adjacent parcel, 1207 with the adjacent parcel, 1211, the ARB only waived half the special permit fees because the PNS provided for a waiver of permit fees for the premises, but because this is more than one parcel, they didn't feel comfortable covering building permit fees for the entire project. There was no butter appeal subject to litigation filed in September of 2020. Both the ARB and the Doherty Trust moved to dismissed appeal and in December of 2020, the motion to dismiss was granted. January of 2021, any subsequent appellate review ran and so we're here before the board for final authorization for this very long in development and transaction. Here's what's required to close of the board tonight. A vote for final approval by the select board, authorization execution of a quick plan deed with the mixed use restriction consistent with the terms of the PNS and the special permit rented by the Onington Redevelopment Board and then from the 1207 DAV post LLC, a payment of $750,000 to the town. There are additional required conditions remaining. So there's all the special permit conditions and I believe the special permit was attached as reference for the board. Obviously they have not broken ground because this hasn't property has been transferred yet but obviously all building permits and other pertinent things would have to be obtained before a certificate of occupancy. You'll see that I've stricken out a memorandum of understanding for public space use concurrent with the mixed use restriction. That is what was originally proposed to the board and including your reference material. I've had a conversation with a few folks about that and whether or not that's basically adequate in relative to the public space. And so I sort of suggested that we could change that to development except may have been eased and approved by the select board and town. That doesn't have to be done to close but it would have to be done as a condition of the special permit prior to essentially the opening of this mixed use to my understanding hotel and restaurant. And then obviously waiver of building permit fees when those building permit fees are assessed. Just wanna have a specific note on the permit fees because I anticipate that they're a subject of importance to the board and they've been subject to a lot of discussion at the ARB. The terms of the PNS essentially called for a waiving of building permit fees associated with the premises. Again, the successful bid in this case is essentially 1207 messages this avenue the property that the select board owns and the abiding parcel 1211 Massachusetts Avenue. And accordingly, the ARB essentially halved the special permit fees waived because it's one of two parcels developed according to the special permit application and the project. In short, it's my recommendation that the select board follow the same approach not waiving all the building permit fees for the entire project but waiving the building permit fees for half given that it's the development of two abiding parcels and you're only selling one of them. To my understanding, the applicant 1207 DAV post also known as the 1211 Massachusetts Avenue Realty Trust agrees to this and finds it to be an acceptable resolution of this matter. I know that council is with us. I can see that Mr. Connor has, Attorney O'Connor has raised her hand. If the board finds this information is sufficient and this approach is sufficient then I have a recommended motion here that the board approve the final sale of 1211 Massachusetts Avenue as previously authorized by the town meeting subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the purchase and sale agreement special permit for EDR docket 3602 and the agreement for four year mixed use restriction as amended. The as amended part is someone noted to me that the quick claim deed still says board of selectmen and we should revise that to select board and further that there's a typo, well, I think it's a Scrivener's error that we can correct that the year is spelled incorrectly. And then finally and further than authorize the execution of the quick claim deed as amended to transfer ownership by closing to 12 post-sat and DAB post LLC on the conditions and terms set for a period. And with that, if the board doesn't have any other questions, if the board has any questions, I'm happy to answer them and I know that the council for the other party is present in the meeting if you have any questions for them. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much, Attorney Heim. What I'll do now is I would like confirmation at some point maybe we'll do it through the questions from Attorney O'Connor on the agreement on the allocation of the building permittees because I know that was a point of discussion ahead of time. So if we could promote Attorney O'Connor, before we turn it over to questions, I would like to have that just confirmed for the board. Attorney O'Connor. Yes, good evening to you all, thank you. Attorney Doug Heim has described it, but with one, I think there's one difference. When Doug and I talked, my reading of the PNS is that the special permit fees are all included, but the building permit fees would only be as to, be given as to the premises. And we talked about there being half as a resolution of this. So that's a little different, Doug. You may recall the email I sent you, my reading of the PNS. The board asked for a mixed use development. I think the half of the special permit fees is about $5,000, but I do agree and my client agrees that the building permit fees, it would be 50%. Otherwise, we are in agreement. This has been a very long, expensive and arduous road for Mr. Darity, the amount of time that this took, the amount in legal fees and architectural expenses and the subsequent litigation that was instituted by the abutters. It was more than, it was an extraordinary amount of money for this mixed use development. This is a very small lot of land, 4,600 square feet, I believe it is. It's virtually an unbuildable lot and only has value to, I would suggest you to Mr. Darity or the abutter on the other side. So that would be my client's position on that. Okay, well, the building permit fees is what I was concerned with attorney O'Connor. I just have a question for attorney Heim and then I'll turn it over to the board. We don't have any jurisdiction over the special permit fees. Is that correct attorney Heim? That would be between the applicant and the redevelopment board. It's my understanding that the redevelopment board essentially waived half of the fees and that was their decision. So I don't believe the select board has a role in that further other than the fact that obviously the P&S was negotiated and executed by the town manager. I'm happy to continue to talk about that with attorney O'Connor with respect to the special permit fees in the ARB. But I don't think the select board is positioned to make a determination contrary to the ARB's decision at this point in time. If I could just, Doug, if I could respectfully disagree, this is a contract between my client and the board of selectmen. I don't really think the ARB could vary it to be candid with you. Mr. Chair, I obviously have a great deal of respect for attorney O'Connor's position on this. I think that the decision of the ARB was the decision of the ARB with respect to their assessment of the fees. If the select board wants to revisit the issue, the board can obviously provide some direction to me on that score. But I'm not prepared to sort of have that issue sort of have that issue be sorted out here now without some further discussion with the ARB. And attorney O'Connor, I apologize if I misunderstood your client's position on this. That's okay, Doug. Yeah. Okay, thank you attorney O'Connor. I'm gonna turn it over to questions right now and then we'll have a discussion. I mean, this isn't the type of thing that we're gonna be able to resolve tonight. And if it's something that we need to come back to have a vote on the transfer, then we'll come back at our next meeting. I had thought that these issues had been resolved. I think both attorneys thought they had been resolved and sometimes on live TV, that's what happens. And so why don't I turn it over to members? Why don't we put the special permit question aside, see if there are any of the comments or questions and then we'll make a decision where we go. Unfortunately, because it's our meeting, we don't have a long time to talk about this. And frankly, it's the type of thing that I think should be talked about offline in any event. But I will start with Mr. Hurd. If I can just ask one question about, just so to make sure that I'm hearing this right about the special permit fees. Mr. Corsi, I don't wanna go contrary to what you just said. Sure. But I just wanna make sure that I'm hearing. Attorney, did you say that ARB already waived half of the special permit fees? That's my understanding, Mr. Hurd. ARB has reported to waive half of the special permit fees and I believe what Attorney O'Connor is referencing is that half of those fees is about $5,000. Is that correct, Attorney O'Connor? Yes, Mr. Hunter. So I guess what's the issue if that's already been waived? No, my client's position is that the reading of the PNS is 100% of the special permit fees are waived and 50% of the building permit fees would be waived. Okay. We objected just so that you know, we did object to that at the ARB meeting. Okay. All right, so then we will push that one aside. I'm happy to vote to approve the transfer subject to whatever it needs to be worked out with special permit fees and whatnot, if that's appropriate at this time. I was happy, I was glad to not take up the memory of understanding just yet because I think we need to flesh out a little more as to whether or not that particular space, this board isn't qualified to make the determination of whether or not that complies with the bylaws. So if we were to make that determination, I think we'd want a little more from the ARB certifying that they as a board have made a determination that that public space that's being presented to us as complies with the bylaws as being presented. But as far as the transfer, I'm excited about the project, I think it's a good project for the town, I think it fits the neighborhood and I'm happy to motion to approve as requested on just the transfer for us to sign the deed. Great, okay, thank you, Mr. Heard. Do you want to make a motion on that or? Yep, so I'll move as requested by attorney Heim. Okay, with the exception of the, right, okay, as requested by attorney Heim. Okay, Mrs. Mahan. No, thank you, Mr. Chair. On Mr. Heard's motion, I'm a little reticent on where we don't seem to have answers on at least one major issue approving it. I'd like to come back at the next meeting and actually have that vote. Is it true, attorney Heim or attorney? Chairman Ducorsi, that's the vote that is anticipated for tonight or is my reticence that we should wait until we take a motion like that? Well, I mean, we have an unresolved question and you can question how material it is, but I think all of us were coming into this meeting tonight thinking that all the issues had been resolved. This is an unresolved issue and at some point between now and the end of the fiscal year, we've got to transfer the property because the proceeds from the sale need to be applied to the capital plan. That's for fiscal 22. If this issue isn't resolved, it doesn't survive the deed. And I think you may be right, and this is Mohan, that most time is of the essence this week. We come back on May 26th and we get this issue resolved so there's no open questions no matter what the size of the issue is. And I wanted to get the motion on the table from Mr. Heard just to have it out there, but I understand your reticence and given the hour it may require us to come back. So if you have any other comments, why don't we do that? And then we'll decide what we do with the motion and any action this evening. No, okay, thank you. And I guess just the lowly court reporter to me in terms of, I'd prefer not to take a vote tonight on at least one, if not other outstanding issues. If I could ask four quick questions under the plan special permit, I understand it's 1207 Mass Ave, it said 1205 and that was changed in initial to 1211, but I don't recognize the initials as Mr. Daugherty, Ms. O'Connor or anyone else who initiated that and do they have the legal standing to provide those initials? Attorney Heim, I don't know who initialed that. I don't have the PNS in front of me. Is that the plan special permits? I'm sorry, Attorney Heim. I believe there's a, sorry, thank you, Ms. Vaughn. I believe there were a few Scrivener's errors in the original PNS that was executed. I believe that it's not my initials, but I believe those are Mr. Doherty's because there was, I think the original reference was to 1205 rather than 1211 on the other side. So that's, that's what it is. Okay, and what I would ask is if that can get clarified because that does not look like a JD, looks like a ED or LD to me. And then on undercost in pro-rations underseller costs the three manumurations, one, two and three under 13.2 do those include all the seller costs. It says that seller costs, the seller shall pay for all of the following costs. And then it lists them. Is that all the sellers? Is that all of the sellers cost? Is there something else that isn't covered that the sellers not paying for? Mr. Chair, no, I don't believe so. I believe the seller is covering the costs. I don't think Mr. Conner has a different read of it. I think it's a fairly straightforward transaction where the seller is bearing, I'm sorry. I believe the buyer is bearing these costs. I don't think there's anything else that we're not registering or haven't been recorded. Thank you. I guess my request would be having started out in land court. My memory's a little cobweb, but if either Attorney Hyne or Attorney Cunningham could look into the actual seller's costs for 12.07 and 12.11 to make sure that that encompasses everything. And none of that falls on us. And then regarding the quit claim deed, I just had a real quick question. Does this agreement for mixed use the quit claim deed apply to 12.07 as well as 12.11 massive? Thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Just to touch on your previous question and this one. So we don't own 12.11. So this is only with respect to 12.07. The special permit condition applies to 12.11 with respect to mixed use restriction, but we're only conveying 12.07. So the mixed use deed restriction that we're attaching is for that property. The special permit is what will require mixed use of 12.11. Okay, and I guess I would leave it for when we discuss it that the next meeting, since 12.07 has been partnered in with 12.11 and I want to verify that an authorizing person initial this, I do consider it as both, especially under the quit claim deed. And then the other point that I wanted to note, and we can probably discuss this in our next meeting is with regard to the public space. If someone can give me a really brief, either Attorney Heimer, Attorney O'Connor regarding the town bylaws and the public space that it appears we're being granted exactly what that means, or maybe we should save that for the next meeting. Mr. DeCoursey or Attorney Heimer? Yeah, if I could just interject there for a second. I think we hold that for the next meeting. I do want to allow the other two members to talk. It is in the zoning bylaw, but we can address that at the next meeting and perhaps in between the meeting, Attorney Heimer might be able to update you on that as well. Any other questions? No, no, and I don't want that question to answer tonight, but I have a lot of questions. It's pretty vague in terms of the public space. I don't know if it's 25%, but maybe if Attorney Heimer could have provide the full select board more details on that. And then when we do, I prefer to vote this at the next meeting versus tonight. Thank you. Keep saying Attorney DeCoursey. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Mr. Diggins. Sure, my question starts simply procedural. So it needs to be to you, Mr. Chairman. I mean, so my understanding is that the town meeting has authorized us to sell this, and we need to sell it before the fiscal year so it can accrue to this year. With respect to these unresolved issues, I mean, are those things that can be resolved by us or do they need to be resolved by ARB? Well, I think over the next week, there'll be discussions between Attorney Heimer and Attorney O'Connor and the ARB and they'll come back to us. And I think Attorney Heimer said earlier that the special permittees are within the purview of the redevelopment board and not the select board, but that's something, it's one of the reasons why I think we're headed towards tabling this 10 next week, but we'll get the answer for you on that between now and then. Well, no, it's fine, no, it's really even a matter of getting the answer to me is more a matter of me, whether we have time to resolve these issues in time to then do the sale because it looks like we're locked into when we need to do the sale, so the question is whether we can do the sale sooner rather than later, mean and then resolve all these other issues, mean later with enough time to do the property deliberation. So I'm not trying to push the vote for now, but just to say we get to next week, and I'm a little concerned that we'll be approximately in the same situation next week, so I just want us to understand whether or not we should be prepared to make the sale and still have issues that need to resolve after the sale, whether that's possible, that's it, thank you. Thank you, yeah, and I think. Can I just point out that just so the board knows the title is done, I have the municipal lien certificate as soon as the vote happens, we can close the next day, so just so the board knows that. Great, thank you, Attorney O'Connor. Okay, any other questions or comments, Mr. Diggins? No, thank you very much. Okay, thank you. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Procedural question for you, Mr. Chair, would a motion be helpful at this point to either second Mr. Hurd's motion to keep it going or to motion move to table? Well, I think from where the discussion is going, Mr. Hurd did make the motion, but I think a motion to table is probably in order if that's what you're, if that's what you're so inclined to do based on Mrs. Mahan's comment to us, Mr. Hurd, if he's comfortable with that as well. I mean, that's fine with me, tabling is fine. I don't think that's an issue that's gonna hold up the sale either way, but I mean, if the board is more comfortable approving the sale with all the information, then I can withdraw the motion to approve. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hurd. Okay, Mr. Helmuth. Thank you, yes, I'll move the table to this item to our next meeting, if I could still ask a question. Sure. So, and this may be for Attorney Heim, through you, Mr. Chair, or you're at your discretion. Resident of the Town did email me about this issue today, and a specific question that I just thought would be good to ask now regarding the building permit fees as distinct from the special permit fees, which are under the purview of the redevelopment board. This resident said that it was not clear to them that the select board is free to change the building permit fees without town meeting approval because town meeting sets the fees. So, I just want to ask the question, does the select board have the authority to waive any or all of the building permit fees on its own? Yes, it does. Thank you. Thank you, I know for the questions. Okay, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. Okay, so do we have a second on Mr. Helmuth's motion to table? Second. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hurd. Okay, well, I'm gonna hold off on comments. We will come back and I think to your point, Mr. Biggins, if we come to next Monday, which is when we have to publish the agenda for next Wednesday and we don't have the issue resolved, we won't put it on the agenda for next Wednesday, but I think we should be able to get this resolved so that when we come to the meeting, we don't have open issues and everything is cleaned up. So, on a motion by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mr. Hurd to table, Attorney Heim. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Biggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mr. DeCourso. Yes. It's unanimous vote. Okay, thank you, Attorney Heim. Okay, last item, thank you, Attorney O'Connor. Last item is new business, Attorney Heim. No new business, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chapter-Lane. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know we're late in the meeting, so I'll be brief, but important to mention, I think as the board and those watching at home know, the governor made a series of announcements earlier this week in terms of the timetable of reopening Massachusetts. Many of those decisions having an impact directly on Arlington and its operation of town government. So we will be issuing a comprehensive statement on our normal Thursday schedule tomorrow, but our current thinking is to align with recommendations being made by the state in terms of openings and wearing of masks indoors and outdoors. And we'll enumerate that in the announcement tomorrow. And specifically to town government and town offices, we plan to bring all staff back to town offices as of June 1st and open to the public as of June 15th when the state of emergency has officially lifted. So I'll provide the board the more detailed text of what we plan to release tomorrow once it's prepared. And then that will be released publicly at the end of the day tomorrow, as has been our schedule for the release of information over the course of the past year. Thank you. Great, thank you, Mr. Chapter Lane. Mr. Helmuth. No new business, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. None for me, Mr. Chair, thanks. Thank you, Mr. Heard. Just very briefly, I talked to the town manager about this, but I'd like to see us try to designate a few areas in Arlington that's within our control for, I talked to some business owners in restaurants last year about particularly, about having some spaces that they could essentially give us an RFP for outdoor dining event if they wanted to have music and serve food and a way for some of our restaurants that lost businesses over the past year to bring people back into the fold in a safe way that makes people comfortable. So I'll follow up with the town manager on that, but it's certainly something that I think as the weather gets nicer and restrictions are lifted, it could be a good thing for both our residents and our businesses to enjoy some time outdoors. And then Arlington had a visit from one of our past Board of Selectmen members. Frank Heard this weekend, he wanted me to bring up, he was a big steward of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery and he brought up to me that some of the gates were in poor condition, so he wanted me to ask that we could take a look at what it would look like to either repaint or do some work to spruce up the gates to Mount Pleasant Cemetery, so I told him I would bring that up to our next meeting. That's it. Great, thank you, Mr. Heard. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the town manager. One of my questions was when Town Hall would reopen, I was hoping it was May 29th, because the statement was as soon as there is a vaccine available, especially in light of the Select Board, Treasurer's Office and Town Clerk's Office have been open pretty much throughout the pandemic. I'll look forward to understand it as 6-1 and 6-15 to the public, but I was hoping it would be May 29th. The other thing that I discussed with the chair and the town manager is the recently, in recent noise issues over Dillboy Field and Summable, the town manager indicated he would follow the model that we did last time that was successful. We had probably nine different models. The one that was successful was having our recreational director, Joe Conley contact his or her counterpart in Summable. And I believe that has either happened or is about to happen in light of town meetings about to start. If I could ask the town manager if he could either met myself in the chair, no, and or send a blast email tomorrow after that meeting with Mr. Conley so we can get back to the residents on Dillboy Field. And then I would leave with you, Mr. Chair, the board received an email from a resident. I'm blanking on her name. I wanna say Dr. Nora, Glory of Rory on Webster Street regarding a Verizon approval. And perhaps we can talk about that at a future meeting. So thank you, Mr. Ducorsi. And I am not the last person to speak, right? So I won't make the motion to suspend. That's right. I just have a brief comment and then I'll come back to you. Okay, thank you, Mrs. Mahan. Okay, just very briefly this afternoon, Mr. Helmuth and Mr. Chaplain and I had a meeting in the select board chambers with Mr. Feeney, Mrs. Bongiorno and representatives from ACMI, Jeff Monroe is there. And we had a discussion about returning to the chamber and we have a goal of returning on June 21st. That would be the first scheduled meeting after the full lifting of the state of emergency. We're gonna work with them. There are some technology enhancements that need to be made to the chamber, but it's been a good meeting. We've had two meetings recently on that and have made some real good progress. So I will keep the board updated on that. One last thing I just wanna announce, congratulate Ashley Meyers on the call. She has accepted the position of office manager at the select board and with thrill to have her accept that role. She's been in that role effectively for the past few months, but congratulations to Ashley. She starts officially on Monday in the new position. So with that, I will turn it back to Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chaplain. I'd like to make a motion that the select board meeting suspend and reconvene concurrent with the opening of tonight's regular town meeting that we remain in session and that our adjournment will also be concurrent with the adjournment of the 2021 regular town meeting. Great, is there a second? Second. Second, thank you, Mr. Okay. Motion's been made in seconded. Attorney Hine. It's her herd. Second. Mr. Diggins. Yes, sorry. Mr. Diggins. Mr. Helm. He appears before us. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. See you all in 24 seconds. Yes. Mr. DeCoursey. Yes. Okay, the last bell hasn't run for eight o'clock. So we're done. Thank you.


Let me get this out of the way right now. My name is Liam, and I'm a large fan of Nintendo, and I believe their best console was within the Nintendo GameCube. Then later on after the console's release in North America, I had the idea of creating a virtual GameCube that could be downloaded and played on a PC, a Mac, etc. The virtual cube, it would have been called. And further ado, here's how it all went down, and the consequences for dreaming up such an ingenious idea. Soon after the GameCube was released in North America, I decided to spend the week before Christmas working on a GameCube that could run on a computer. I called it the virtual cube, since that's totally a creative name. It would be able to run on operating systems such as Windows XP, Mac OS X Jaguar, etc. When I first opened the program up after converting the GameCube programming source code into an application, I was shocked to see the Nintendo GameCube startup screen. It worked. Then the main menu screen popped up. I had to insert a disk. I inserted my personal favorite GameCube game, Mario Kart Double Dash, into the disk drive. To my surprise, it actually emulated the game, just like one of those online emulators you see nowadays. However, this successful computer-like GameCube had a dark side at one point. It all started on June 5, 2002. School just got out and I was ecstatic to show the virtual cube to a friend of mine. He was an absolute Nintendo fanboy and he went nuts over the GameCube, who waited in the parking lot of the nearest Best Buy for two days before the console's release. Anyway, I went downstairs after my friend came over, and he was mind blown by the virtual cube. We played Super Smash Bros. Melee for hours on end. After my friend had left, I decided to troubleshoot some things and started to do the glitch where you could fight as Master Hand. I performed the glitch successfully, but when the stage select screen appeared, there was only one stage. It was labeled as All Capital Letters, Test. Thinking that this was normal, since the virtual cube hadn't gone into full development yet, I selected the stage. I spawned into the test stage as Master Hand, just like I predicted. The stage had texture-liking platforms, the music from the corn-area stage played in the background, and the backdrop of the stage appeared to be a public house or bar of some sort. My opponents were Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi. I found this odd, since I chose Captain Falcon, Fox, and Link as my opponents. I found myself unable to control Master Hand in any way for about two minutes before I tried plugging in a GameCube controller into a port in my PC. Now I was able to control Master Hand, but only with the D-Pad instead of the Control Stick. I was able to use Master Hand's attacks as he would use them in the final destination stage. My first attack walloped all three of the other fighters into the sky as I KOed them. Sweet, I thought to myself. As soon as the timer that told you how much time you had to fight gets zero, and knocked out Yoshi at the same time, I hit the power button on my PC to see if the new save state program I installed into the Virtual Cube would be able to save my progress through a game. This gave off an ear-splitting buzzing noise for about four seconds before I was greeted by a blue screen. Shit, I thought, not officially concerned yet. I restarted the PC, but instead of the startup screen, it went straight to my desktop, where the Virtual Cube program was still running, as if the computer hadn't just restarted. This time however the startup screen appeared, and then showed me this image. The text reads, A fatal error has caused Virtual Cube to reset. System settings such as the calendar and time have been lost. Uninstall, then reinstall Virtual Cube in order to solve this problem. If the error persists, please contact Nintendo at 1-800-255-3700 or visit support.nintendo.com for further instructions and or information. How did I? Did I just break the program?  I tried restarting the program to see if this was just a bug in the program, but to no avail. God damn it, I said out loud, although nobody was home at the time. I mumbled blasphemies under my breath as I started to reinstall Virtual Cube. The startup screen animation played, much to my delight, after reinstalling the program. Then Virtual Cube asked me to set the date. I set it to June 5, 2002. It then asked for the time. It was getting dark out, but we didn't have any clocks in our house and I wasn't wearing a watch, so I put in the time as 8.45 PM. However, it took me to yet another screen that wasn't in the original GameCube. A screen where you could enter a username that you would use if you ever decided to use Len, local area network, to play with other people, even though only a handful of games on the GameCube supported Len play. I was now a little bit spooked at this point. I never programmed in a username system, so how could it have gotten into Virtual Cube? I cautiously entered my username as, CarterTheKid73. The startup animation began playing again as a text box appeared, saying, settings saved. I was a bit relieved, but that feeling went away as soon as it came when Super Smash Brothers Melee's main menu showed up, which had a button saying, press A. I was legitimately creeped out by now. It usually told me to press the start slash pause button. I mess up the Virtual Cube by restarting my PC right when my previous match was about to end. I decided to play as Bowser this time instead of being Master Hand, but when the stage select screen loaded up, another application had launched. It was downloading another application labeled, termination.bat, and an image labeled, stopnow.jpeg. The hell? When it was finished downloading, I opened stopnow.jpeg, and this is what I saw. Piracy, it's a crime. This was piracy. Another text box appeared in front of me, and it read, Nintendo Incorporated have been notified of copyright infringement and or other methods of distribution prohibitions being disobeyed electronically, physically, digitally, etc. If you would like to stop the executives of this company from contacting federal services and organizations, please contact Nintendo at 1-800-255-3700, state your identity, and verify a payment of $10,000. For the love of God, how does Nintendo know of all of this? I realized now that this couldn't be a joke. Nintendo truly somehow knew that I was stealing their content. It doesn't matter if it wasn't intentional, it's still unacceptable. Now they've caught me red-handed as the one behind the virtual cube. I considered going into panic before it showed me another image. This time, the image caught me completely off guard, something I never expected to see. The image was depicted as seen below. This program has been seized. I was terrified by now. This had to be a dream. I kept pinching myself to wake up from this nightmare. There's no way that image could have found a way into the program. I tried to click aimlessly, hoping to close out of the image, but there was no way to get rid of it. I tried to restart my computer at that point, but another loud ear-splitting sound came out of my speakers for another four seconds, as if it were telling me not to restart. The next thing I knew, the desktop monitor began to crack open, spilling extremely hot mercury and toxic amounts of chromium onto the keyboard. The mercury got on my fingers, and I screamed like I never had screamed before as I went to dunk my hand into a tub of freezing ice water. My index and ring fingers had been crippled by the mercury. I rushed back to the PC to find colored ink splattered all over my chair, hearing sizzling and cracking sounds becoming more frequent by the minute. Eventually, the computer blue screamed before it cut to black. My $1,500 desktop PC is now a pile of gooey burning liquid on the floor. Then, the monitor snapped to life again, but showing an image of a distraught Mario with text saying, Copyright infringement is not acceptable. This is your punishment for failing to abide.  I had no time to answer that question, because I heard police sirens heading towards my house. I bolted upstairs, trampled my way to my bedroom closet, and then locked the door after slamming it behind me. I hid under piles of blankets in the hope that none of the officers would be able to find me. Unfortunately, they were better prepared with a battering ram and found me. Sir, come with me. You are under arrest for copyright infringement and violation of the law. An officer said to me, beckoning me to come over to him. He shoved me into the police car and drove off to a local jail not too far from my house. I ended up imprisoned for the next five years, even after paying a hefty $200,000 fine. Life in jail was worse than you could possibly imagine. Fellow inmates were beating me up each and every night.  I had recurring nightmares of walking into a dark room inside Nintendo headquarters.  After I finally concluded my five years in prison, I managed to strike a deal with Nintendo representatives, giving me special written permission to release, sell and manufacture the virtual cube after paying them $50,000 for the copyright infringement that landed me in prison. I saved up and bought a new Windows 7 laptop for about $700. I started the whole virtual cube project again from scratch, but I managed to finish it fairly quickly. It became an online success and continued to be a success until around late 2010. While the success is astounding, there's a painful and cruel moral to this story, even that the outcomes afterwards are positive, it's better safe than sorry.


What's good, Josh Boar Ross back again with another video. So man, check out 10 times Randy Orton shockingly went off script in WWE by WrestleMania, Randy Orton's one of the few individuals in WWE. He's kind of, I guess you could say, earned that privilege where he can go off script. He can say certain things that other superstars cannot say because they don't have that track record with the people in the back. He can get away with a lot of stuff. He's one of those superstars and they may say something to him in the back. They may not. He's that guy. Randy Orton is him.  Appreciate all love and support, man. Let's get right into this one. Since debuting on the WWE main roster in 2002, Randy Orton has been one of the top guys in the company. When Orton joined the popular Evolution Stable in 2003, it was clear that WWE had a clear vision for Orton's success. And it's certain that he's overachieved when it comes to WWE's expectations. And he is truly a WWE legend. For sure. Over the past decade, Orton has emerged as someone WWE can count on. And so can fellow wrestlers, as he's pretty much considered the locker room leader in WWE. One of the most under-appreciated things about the Viper is how he's always willing to give back and put talent over. And Orton rarely takes issue with anything he's scripted to do. However, there are 10 distinct occasions where the former WWE champion has decided to deviate away from the script and create a moment that fans will never forget. Joining us today is WrestleMania looks at 10 times of Randy Orton shockingly went off script in WWE. Should be a good one, man. Wishing Randy Orton to speedy recover hopefully he's good. Can't wait for him to come back. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Also check out our new channel, WrestleMania Shorts. Number 10, cursing. SmackDown 1000 featured a true treat for fans as WWE booked a reunion of popular stable evolution. During the segment, Batista made a common informing Ric Flair to keep that thing in his pants, and all the members of the group lost it, including Orton. Triple H could then be seen whispering something in Orton's ear, which Orton responded by visibly saying a curse word. This wasn't remotely scripted and WWE were forced to heavily edit the segment on their official YouTube upload of the Evolution reunion. Number nine, split jump.   But I don't think it's that big of a deal, but hey, I don't run WWE. This one though, this was funny.  But 2011 was a tremendous year for Randy Orton. Orton engaged in extended feud with Christian, and this highlighted Orton's ordering work so much so that Orton has labelled the feud with Christian as one of his all-time favourite rivalries. For sure. During this time, it was evident that Orton was truly happy with what he was bringing to the table, and this was on full display on an episode of SmackDown on the road to 2011's Over the Limit pay-per-view event. Jin and Charles Robinson couldn't believe what they were seeing. It was a hilarious moment, and it was great to see Orton let loose. Number eight, Live TV. You probably had to cut it for whatever reason, but it's just, what you know already? TV is awesome. Speaking of Randy Orton in 2011, during the All-Star Raw episode, Orton's mic malfunctioned during a promo segment, and it wouldn't handle this with a hilariously unscripted remark. As I was saying, Live TV is awesome. Orton declared as a live crowd cheered on. It's difficult for wrestlers to know what to do when something of this nature happens. Some wrestlers would just continue their promo, but Orton addressing it was a smart move, as Orton was right. It was live TV and anything can happen at any time. This off-screen comment was later edited out of the WB Network version of that particular episode of Raw, but thankfully YouTube footage of the original broadcast existed. Why? Why would they cut that? I don't know man, I feel like WWE, they micromanage a lot, especially like stuff like this, like I wouldn't have cut that. That makes it even more endearing when you hear that or see that, like you know, something happened live, that's what makes it live television and for him to kind of just, you know, have that little endearing remark. I don't, once again, I don't run WWE, so it is what it is, but still. Number seven, Blowing a Kiss. Of the world following Extreme Rules 2015, opened up with a promo segment between Seth Rollins, Randy Orton and Roman Reigns. During the segment, Reigns would stand on the announce table and as who was delivering his promo, Orton randomly went off script and blew a kiss. Some fans believed that Orton was blowing a kiss directly to Reigns, which would be kind of strange, while some fans stated that Orton's wife was in the front row, so the kiss was intended for her. Number six, Can't Keep a Straight Face. R-Truth has a reputation for being one of the funniest wrestlers in the locker room. Punched himself, bro. That's why R-Truth is a national treasure, bro. He said, wait, I got you Big Show. R-Truth has made a number of wrestlers bright character and he even made Brock Lesnar.  And getting Brock to laugh is funny too, bro. Orton almost fall to the floor with laughter during a memorable Raw segment. R-Truth almost made band yacht and break character during a backstage segment on Raw in 2020. Orton was backstage with his former mentor Rick Flair and this is when Orton and Flair were interrupted by Truth. Truth believed that Flair was actually a Kirito Zawa. Flair instantly smirked but Orton was forced to go off script and put his hand over his face as he clearly couldn't stop laughing. It was a brilliant moment that highlighted how Truth can make anyone on the roster laugh. Number five, Are We Off the Air? In 2014, a clip around Orton went viral. Following an episode of Raw in the summer of 2014, a video surfaced of Orton asking a production member of Raw if he was off the air. Once the production team member informed Orton that WWE were indeed off the air, Orton stopped selling and casually began to stroll to the back. It was hilarious to see. Incredibly lucky that the ringside fan captured the iconic moment on camera. Number four, For Getting Lines? Although after WrestleMania featured notoriously the hottest crowd of the year, the crowd is usually made up of the most die-hard wrestling fans, so they're prone to take over the show in any manner they see fit. The Raw after WrestleMania 29 was a newsworthy one, as the crowd were electric, and there were notably boob baby faces such as John Cena, Seamus and Randy Orton. Speaking of Orton, he was involved in a promo segment on the show with Seamus. Both of them teamed with Big Show the night prior at WrestleMania 29, but Big Show had turned on both men. No surprise, so they wanted revenge. The context of this promo was that both wanted to face the Big Show on Raw, but Orton got completely lost and forgot his lines. This forced Orton to go off script and audibly ask Seamus. It was a little awkward as it was rare for Orton to forget his lines, but it looked like the hostile crowd had thrown him off guard. WWE weren't impressed with Orton going off script to ask for his lines, so they decided to heavily edit the promo segment on the WWE network, so footage of the promo slip-up only exists thanks to original YouTube uploads of the- I can see them micromanaging that, I get that, but still. In from a segment, number three, eating a hot dog. By October 2014, Randy Orton was in such a strong position in WWE that he could go off script virtually every week and never be punished. However, most of the times Orton deviating away from the script was to enhance the segment, and this was most definitely the case on the October 6, 2014 edition of Raw. Orton was teeming with Kane and Seth Rollins to take on John Cena in a handicap match when suddenly Dean Ambrose wore a hot dog cart to the ring. Following some commotion involving the hot dog cart, Orton could be seen selling at ringside, but Orton wasn't just selling, he was legitimately eating a hot dog. This was an unbelievable moment, and it was captured on live TV for the entire world to witness. Number nine, flipping off the fans. A night of champions 2012 featured a stacked card and a red hot Boston crowd. Randy Orton at this particular pay-per-view would collide with Dolph Ziggler. The two would have a great matchup, but the crowd were heckling Orton throughout the match. Eventually, this got too much forward, and he proceeded to flip the ringside fans off in a quick gesture. But even though the gesture was on screen for less than a second, WWE was PG by the year 2012, so- Who remembers when Randy Orton flipped off Seth Rollins? Oh, that was so good. When he was teasing like, yeah, you know, no hard feelings after Seth had pretty much like ridden him off TV for a little bit, or had, you know, had storyline injured him or whatnot.  Everything's great. And I think they had a, I think it was like a tag team match on Monday Night Raw. And Seth Rollins was going to go for the tag, but Randy stepped back. Oh, what? And the crowd started going crazy and Seth like, what are you doing? Come on, bro. Come on, tag me, bro. So you get in and he put up the both the middle fingers. The camera caught it, but then the camera adjusted it or whatnot. But you knew he put up both the middle fingers and all that beat down was so good. Oh my God. That was so good. Who remembers? Great times. Going off script in this controversial way wasn't welcomed by WWE. Orton would be forced to apologize via Twitter following the incident in a tweet which read, had a blast tonight. Great crowd in Boston. Sorry if I offended anybody with that inappropriate gesture. And number one, laying into Kofi Kingston. When fans are asked about what is the most infamous moment of Randy Orton's career, the common answer would be probably the time he laid into Kofi Kingston on Raw in 2010. By late 2009, fans were sick and tired of seeing the same old wrestlers pushed into the main event scene. So WWE needed to push fresh blood. What are the talents WWE decided to push with Kofi Kingston? Kingston was an amazing athlete and was having solid matches on TV. He would enter into a feud with Orton and even pin Orton clean. This push was intended to delete Kingston winning the Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 26. One triple threat match with Orton and John Cena changed everything. The finish of the aforementioned match went completely wrong. Kingston was supposed to be pinned following a punk kick. However, Kingston got a burly, meaning Orton had to go off script and use an RKO.  This later WWE cancelling Kingston's push and his Money in the Bank victory would have been awarded to Jack Swagger. This unscripted incident would later be used for a feud between the two in 2019 during the time when Kingston had finally reached the top of WWE and was arraigning WWE Champion. It did not hit because I was looking forward to that. Okay, we're gonna blur the lines of what's real and what's not. They're gonna take us back down memory lane. Kofi now is the champ. Randy wants the championship. We know their history and what happened in the past. It didn't it didn't land. And I think the reason why it for me it didn't land or it didn't live up to what it should have been is Kofi was still this good goody two shoes, eat my pancakes with the new day and and all this other stuff. He still had that that gimmick about him. And it's like that's it's nothing wrong at times. But this is the guy that essentially was the reason why you didn't become WWE Champion years ago. This guy is trying to take this from you. This guy is trying to make it personal. Again, this guy is being very disrespectful and you I don't know it just came off like the power of positivity. That's cool to preach to the kids.  So that was my only thing. I just wish Kofi was a little bit more serious in his title run and definitely more serious in this feud with Randy Orton. That's my opinion. That's just my little little tidbit about that. But this was a great video. Randy Orton, like I said, it's Randy Orton the goat.  Comment down below. Let me know your favorite Randy Orton moment promo segment. Let me know down below, man. But I appreciate all the love and support got shown on channel road 250k and I'm still getting speedy. YouTube is in the world. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one. Peace.