YouTube team keeping clean. What's going on? It's Engraven here with another video. And it's a very, very special thing when you got people that really have your back. Despite struggles, despite problems, you may have despite issues that you may be dealing with. When you have people that have your back, that really, that sets the tone for you moving forward to know that you got somebody that has your best interest in mind and they really have your support and you have theirs as well. And that's the case with DeSean Elliott and Marlon Humphrey. Because DeSean Elliott did say, hey, Marlon Humphrey, he's still the best cornerback in the game. Despite the struggles, despite how the season been going, he didn't say one of the, no, he didn't say one of the best. He said Marlon Humphrey is the best corner in the game. He said he's still the best corner of the game. Before we get into that, it's like I said, it's nice to know that somebody has your back and today is a very special day because today is November 3rd. So it is actually my wife and I's ninth wedding anniversary. So I can relate to somebody having your back through everything, through the ups, through the downs, through everything in between. So shout out to my wife, shout out to Carter, shout out to my family, shout out to friends, shout out to y'all, shout out to everybody. But anyway, so this presser, it started off with John Hardball. Now I didn't see much of Hardball's part. I came in late. So I just saw him pretty much leaving and said a couple of things and whatnot, but I pretty much saw him leaving and started with Deshaun Elliott. And the way Deshaun Elliott started, he was asked about if it was a good thing that they wanted to buy or would they rather have just been able to get right back to it with working on that defense. Since the defense was a big yikes against the Bengals. And he said it was good to be on the buy week after their performance. And he said that their expectations, they're higher, they're much higher than what you saw the other day, a couple of weeks ago. Well, it seems like that was so long ago. And so much has changed. Like we were once at first in the AFC North and then we got demolished by the Bengals. So that dropped us to second. Then the Bengals got beaten by the Jets. So now we're right back in first and everything is right again. But anyway, he said they all have to step up. He said the older guys, like the veterans, they have to step up and everybody else got to follow. Everybody, and it's true. It's true. They certainly do need to step up. Now he said that they have to keep working on their technique and execution. Oh, and trust me, we believe that. We believe that 1,000% because that's where everything starts. Again, I keep repeating. It's fundamental stuff for me. It's the fundamentals that seems to have been the biggest issue with the Ravens. So that's where it starts. That's not necessarily where it ends, but that's where it starts. So, and something that in a video that we put out earlier today, a question from subscriber video. We started talking about how I feel like the wink should simplify the defense. And the reason I say that is so, guys, instead of having to focus and think about, oh, okay, I gotta do that, I gotta do that, I gotta do that, I gotta do this, I gotta do that. Instead of them having to focus on trying to do good and so many different things, let them try to focus on doing something great. So let them specialize in doing something great. And then start adding, giving them more responsibility as they master that one thing, or maybe that one or two things, they master those things, then start adding more to their play. But again, I'm not a defensive coordinator, and that's just my opinion. So it is what it is. Anyway, he said, cause he was asked about Marlon Humphrey, like, what's going on, Marlon Humphrey? Why has he been struggling? What's going on with him? And he said, it isn't just Marlon Humphrey's struggling. He said it's all of him. And he would be right, he would definitely be right. But Marlon Humphrey, certainly it's been a big yikes for Marlon Humphrey. Anyway, he said that everyone has bad days and everybody can't have a bad day. But again, the same thing I said, a bad day, just cause you have a bad day, does not make you a bad player. Because we've heard some outlandish stuff from Ravens fans, and I know after a loss, not even just a loss, but after a beat down, and after, again, Marlon Humphrey's worst day as a professional, I know Ravens fans, they tend to be a little crazy sometimes. And some of them can just say some wild stuff. Like some people are saying, we should get rid of Marlon Humphrey. Some people are saying Marlon Humphrey is overpaid. Some people are saying we should move Marlon Humphrey to like safety or something like what? Like what's, why, why for what? Anyway, he said that, and again, he said that Marlon Humphrey is the best corner in the NFL and all of them as brothers, they all just gotta step it up, all of them. Like, hey, it's true, they do. They know what they need to do. We know what they need to do. Coaches know what they need to do. Front office know what they need to do. These other teams know what they need to do, but the other teams hope that they don't do it. But they know the task in front of them that's at hand.  Ooh, boys. We'll talk about that game when we talk about that game though. And then last, but certainly not least, Mr. Lamar Jackson, he also spoke to the media. They asked him, did he do anything fun? Did you do anything fun during the Bayouik Lamar? He said, no, he said the week was born.  So that was that. He said he's really excited for Nick Boyle to come back. And he said that Nick Boyle brings a lot to the table, blocking, catching and it, but he also talked about Nick Boyle's sense of humor. And hey, you need that in your life. Everybody needs a sense of humor. Can't you just walk around like this all day or just be serious all the time and be like, that'd be so boring. That'd be so boring. Like anyway, he said, oh, when he was speaking, he just sounded to me, he sounded very relaxed. He sounded very refreshed. It sounded like he was like, ah, that's what it sounded like to me. Like he was just like, he had a breath of fresh air. He got a chance to like, take a step back from everything. Because if you hear, if you listen to him before like, and listen to him compared to today, I don't know if some of y'all caught that, but he just, he just sounded like a different Lamar. Like he was like more at ease. But he also talked about, he was asked about the Raven success after the bye weeks. And he said that with all the success that they've had, he just said, he don't pay no mind to that. He said they just want to play and they need to play hard every single game, every single game. Matter of fact, after the bye week, before the bye week, he said they trying to go 4-0 for this next little stretch. And hey, if y'all do that, I'm right there with y'all. We wouldn't complain at all. He asked, he was asked how good the offense can be. And he said he really doesn't know the limit. Said he doesn't know, and he said they just have to take it a game at a time. And that has been Lamar Jackson this year, all year. If you listen to the pressers, every single presser, they ask some similar questions and he answers the same way. One game at a time. We ain't worried about stuff in the long run. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, but one game at a time. And that's all that he be caring about. That's all he speaks about. Of course they want to win a Super Bowl. Of course they got bigger goals and whatnot, but one game at a time, next game up, they only focusing on that. It seemed like with the Bengals game, it might not have been too focused, but anyway. He was asked why they haven't been as effective on third down, because third downs have been a struggle. They've been a big yikes for the Ravens this year. And he said that, he ain't even realized it was that bad, but he said that he was glad that they had to buy a week. And said they got to try to stay on the field or to help the defense out. Because obviously the longer the offense stays on the field, the better arrested, the more arrested the defense sees. And it's important too. That's why it's important to, of course, we love the big plays.  We love that. And that's a part of Ravens game. But sustaining drives is important. When you got those drives, well, you really got to grind it out.  Every drive ain't going to be like that. So you're going to have some drives where you got to grind it out. A little more than others. And that's fine. That's part of the game of football. But he talked about with him, with the offense having to stay on the field. Again, it helps the defense out that much more. You got a lot of veterans on the defense. You got, and even if you don't got better, you got guys that's tired. They get tired. The offense keep going three and out, the defense gets tired. So it's important that the offense sustain drives and keep sustainable. Remember that? Remember, oh man. Is this offense sustainable? We didn't hear that word in a little minute. And then last, but certainly not least, Pops Lamar. He was asked about his daughter. And I think, what did they call on? I forgot what he called on his IG post that got everybody talking about her recently, when she was dressed up as the Flintstone Pebbles, Pebbles I think. And he sounded really proud of her. And I was like, okay, that's what I'm talking about. And I mean, this week, when that picture came out, shout out to Mora from Twitter. But when that picture came out, a lot of people, they didn't know that he had a daughter. And I thought this was old news. I thought this was old news to not everybody, but a lot of people, especially Ravens fans, but there are a lot of Ravens fans that just didn't know. I remember Marlon Humphrey on his post game live streams on Instagram, his Instagram live streams. He talked about it over a year ago.  He was like, where's Lamar? Where's Lamar? And he was like, oh, he's going to have a baby. He's going to have a baby. And he was like, oh, was I supposed to say that? He said, yeah, something like that. And then Lamar has been posting this girl for a long time. So maybe it's just that people, maybe some people don't have social media and whatnot. If they don't have social media, then I could completely understand. So that will make it make more sense. If they don't have social media and they don't follow Lamar like on Instagram or something like that, or maybe Snapchat or whatnot, then okay, I could understand. So now that I said all that out loud, it makes more sense. But I just thought it was old news that he had a daughter. Well, it technically is old news, but to a lot of people that didn't have that access to him or whatever, it would be new news to them. So shout out to Lamar for being a daddy. And he said that his daughter was actually there now. And he looked like he was ready to just go be with her. And as a father, like, especially at that age, like man, it seemed like so long ago, could call it a six now. But that whole cheesy saying, oh man, hey, cherish the moments because it goes by fast, it's true. I'm sure all of y'all out there with kids, y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. My son, like I said, he's only six and I know exactly what they're talking about. It goes by crazy fast. And I remember when he hit like about three, four, I was like, man, I wish he could stay this age forever, man.  They talk back a little bit more too now. So they test you. But it's definitely a gift and a blessing. So appreciate y'all for being gifts and being blessings. Team keeping clean. I love y'all. Thank you. And just like that, we out. I'll probably see y'all later today because this seems to be a lot going on in the NFL, a lot of drama. You got the whole Aaron Rodgers situation with they saying he was unvaccinated. Some reports months ago said he was vaccinated. But now he's saying he's not. Then so he's out for the game against the Chiefs. Jordan Love, go do your thing against Patrick Mahomes and them. And then you got Michael Thomas. He was on the PUP list, but now he said he's going to be out for the year. So it's like, oh man, I'd say, say, Kwame Barkley, depending on how his tests go, he might miss the game coming up on Sunday for the Giants, even though, I mean, yeah. But still, so it's a lot going on in the NFC right now. And in the NFC, of course, the whole Henry Ruggs thing that is just a mess. And it's like I said, like I said in the video from this morning, hopefully we can all take that and learn from it. Cause just because it doesn't happen to you or you're not directly involved in a situation doesn't mean that you can't learn from it. So I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and we out.


What's up guys Ricky Kruth here welcome back to another episode of the pros and cons of being a real estate agent It is Saturday. I just got through showing one of my listings. It's a million dollar house on Perdido Key, Florida So I did that about 845 now.  It's the largest problem That's holding you back from accomplishing everything you want to accomplish Fear it's fear that is holding you back. Nothing else. Everything that you're scared of doesn't exist Let's start right there Everything that you're scared of everything that you fear that might happen Doesn't even exist it goes back to what I talk about when I say 90 to 95% of the things you worry about never happen It's absolutely true fear worry go together and you're scared about things that might happen And I think more so you're scared about the unknown. You don't know what's going to happen So you're scared of it because you've never been there. You have no experience. This is your first time in real estate You're trying to do your first deal or trying to get your first listing So everything is an unknown and so there's a lot of fear that goes behind that what I want to do today is try to take a Lot of that pressure off of you. I want to make you understand that there's nothing to be afraid of Okay, let's talk about the fear really quickly about You're scared to say make phone calls or you're scared to show property for the first time might get questions Asked to you that you don't know the answer to I'm here to tell you right now That you don't you're not expected to know every little thing Okay What your job is is to answer what you know and then go find the answers to the rest and bring them back to the Prospect okay, you're not supposed to be in a cyclopedia of every single last detail of every property No one in the world knows every little detail to every single property And can answer every single question that they're asked nobody So don't worry about the questions that might come up that you don't know the answer to it's perfectly fine When you're making phone calls, you're scared about rejection You're scared about how people are gonna react you're scared if you say the wrong thing They're gonna get the wrong impression of you listen to me. It's okay, right? You can't hide who you are Right if you mess up if they judge you over something like that Then They may not be the the prospect for you. They may not be the client for you Okay, you have to go through this Process you have to go through these stages. I call it and Fear is one of the biggest stages in the beginning of your career and every time you try to up your game and do something Exceptional and every time we try to go to another level There's always going to be a level of discomfort You're getting out of your comfort zone, right? When you grow you're getting out of your comfort zone The further you get away from your comfort zone the more you're gonna grow and so know this and Embrace it embrace the discomfort embrace the fear embrace the uncertainty and just go because I promise you Once you step into the zone that you're scared of and you realize that there was nothing to be scared of the whole time you're gonna become addicted to whatever that is that's gonna make you successful and 99% of people are not gonna get into that zone. You have a upper hand. You have a huge advantage Over all the other agents when you step in to that zone that you're scared of because most people won't do it Hey, George. Yeah, I got in Okay, yeah, but we're all good and they loved it these people loved it So I'm gonna stay with them and see what happens, but they they really liked it a lot. So yeah, ma'am Same here, ma'am. How about Sorry I had to case that call but back to fear.  The first thing is is a way to control fear Okay, the one thing that can control your fear is confidence When you have confidence in who you are what your intents are is that you are there to To work hard to do people right to be dependable to be professional to do the very best that you can do And you know that then that should overcome any fears that you have of say rejection Okay, because somebody rejects you. It's because they didn't realize how special of a person you are and that's their loss Not yours. We're in a world where we're automatically We automatically think the bad about people when we meet them a lot of times or a lot of the population I like to think of the good I look at people whenever they approach me. I've never met them You know, I look at them as this is to be good And I'm watching to see which way this is gonna go and you never know it could be good or bad, right? But at the end of the day, I get people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me wrong Okay, but most of society is not like that, right? They think automatically somebody's here out to get me Okay, because they've probably been gotten a couple of times Okay, so don't hold it against them That they judged you too early Okay, that's their problem not yours Okay, what I want you to realize is that this business is so unlimited that it doesn't matter We do the very best we can do to give the best impression to everybody we meet And we're going to capture 10 to 20 to 30 of the people that we meet when we have the best intentions Those people are going to love us forever. They're going to become part of our extended family They're going to do business with us. They're going to refer all their friends and family to us and that's what we're looking for But the other 70 80 percent of people who either don't like us judges too early already have a real estate agent, etc We can't help that and we have to understand that the rejection comes with the success You can't have one without the other Okay, so remember confidence and intent will overcome any fears Okay, and then when you realize business is unlimited closings happen every day It's okay to be rejected because that's their problem not yours Okay, the second thing I want to leave you with is That when you know That getting out of your comfort zone is what's going to put you in the best position Uh financially success wise Even physically pushing yourself in the gym out of your comfort zone Everything outside of your comfort zone is putting you in a better position in your life And it's enabling you to provide a better life for your friends and family And your co-workers and everyone around you You owe it to not only yourself, but your friends and family To get out of your comfort zone and be the best person and produce the best results and reach your full potential That you can possibly reach So don't let fear don't let discomfort stop you Because that to me is literally in in a big way a selfish act Not to give it all you have go full steam ahead Go all in push all your chips in the middle and say here. I am What what can they do kill me?  So I hope this video helps you if you have any Reservations about even getting into real estate or your in real estate You don't know if you you have it in you to make phone calls or at the doorknock or whatever the fears are Getting asked questions, you know the answer to I hope this video helps you realize that it's okay And that you don't have to know everything and that you don't have to convert every single lead People are going to judge you too early. That's okay Keep moving keep pushing keep putting that work in and everything is going to work out. I promise you So until next time, thank you guys so much click subscribe hit the bell Let me know if there's anything in the world I can do for you. We'll talk to you soon


Meanwhile, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Benjamin Carlo has made further clarification on how the loan, when approved, will be disbursed to various sectors of the nation's economy. The briefing is to distinguish between the considered 500 billion Naira loan, palliative request, and the $800 million request for national social safety net program. How do you not speak about one component? That bill, which was for about $819 billion, was not only for palliative, and so the breakdown was not only for palliative. The discussion was not only about palliative. The palliative component of that particular bill was $500 billion. That is to cushion the impact of the oil subsidy. As you know, Mr. President, from what we understood, believe that we can delay gratification for a greater gain tomorrow. So we suffer a little bit now because of the impact of the palliative, of the subsidy, and then when we get our country into autopilot with regards to our economy, we will now begin to enjoy the decision of removing the oil subsidy. And having said that, we will feel the pain now. That is what you and I are feeling. And in the wisdom of Mr. President, he said, Parliament, approve 500 billion, let us put it towards making a social, economic impact directly on the lives of Nigerians. News updates.


I'd like to call the order of the Board of Selectments meeting for Monday, April 3rd, 2017. First order of business is a reorganizational meeting, so I will turn it over to the Chairman Pro Temp, Mrs. Kruppelka. I'm sorry, I should have brought that over to you. I apologize. The first order of business tonight is to have an organizational meeting for the purpose of electing a chair and a vice chair. So now I'm going to ask for a nomination from the Board for chair. Mr. Grilly. I'd like to nominate Mr. Joseph Currow for chair of the Board of Selectments. Second. Second by Mr. Byrne. I'd like to move to closed nominations. Second. All in favor? Okay. Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye, Mr. Okay. So here in a unanimous vote we'll go on to. No, that was to close nominations. Now we take the vote on the chair. Are you new here, Madam? I am, I am. I just said to talk, this is going to be good. Okay, all right, so now we're taking the vote for the chair. Okay, Mr. Currow. I abstain. Aye. Aye. Mr. Grinne. Aye. Mr. Grinne. Aye. Okay, so it's a four to a zero, one. Okay, all right, so now we can move on to vice chair. Do I hear any nomination? I'd like to nominate Mr. Stephen Byrne. Second. I'd like to move to closed nominations. Second. Okay, Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. Aye. Abstain. Aye. That's to close nominations. Now to vote. Now we're going to vote on the new vice chair. Mr. Stephen Byrne. So we're ready to take a vote, Mr. Currow. Aye. Aye. This is behind. Mr. Grilly. I know it's hide. Aye. You have to call Mr. Byrne to say. Okay, Mr. Byrne would do it except the nomination. Thank you. Okay, so all in favor, we do have now Mrs. Mahan. As I am stepping down, we have Mr. Currow as the new chair and Mr. Byrne as the vice chair. So I'm going to turn over the gavel for you. Here's your Benny Hill music. Exactly. Never been on this side. Oh, really? Oh, thank you so much. Excellent radio. So I'm glad summer's coming in. Hang on. All right. Glad to be back. I didn't play it up. Oh, geez. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Everyone set? Well, first of all, thank you very much to my colleagues for the vote of confidence and me and Mr. Byrne. Certainly work to earn that through the next year. And I do also want to welcome Mr. Dunn and Ms. Mahan back to the board who will look forward to working with you over these coming years. Those of you who know me from similar roles elsewhere know that I often like to open our meetings with an inspirational quote or lesson from history or from literature that either relates to leadership or Arlington or the business before us. And with the bittersweet moment that we have this evening, it was a little difficult. And I had to really think about it. I reached back to is actually ancient Rome and was the error of the Emperor Diocletian in the fourth century. Diocletian was undertaking a persecution of the early Christians at the time. And he became very upset that one of his district military commanders was refusing to take part in these persecutions with him. So he sent an envoy. And they found that this was true. And they sentenced the military commander to be burned at the stake. When the commander was on the pyre and the soldiers came to light it, the commander said, if you do this, I'll climb the flames to heaven. They relented. They backed off. Ultimately, the commander was martyred. But he's come down to us and has been known as St. Florian, who's the patron saint of firefighters. Because he had a reputation of organizing his military units into fire brigades. And if you look at our firefighters' uniforms and equipment today, you'll see that they all carry all over the world the Florian cross. So tonight, we're remembering another great Arlingtonian, who also stood up against persecution and to give voice to those who could not find it. And who devoted his entire life really to helping others first as a lifetime career firefighter. And then for the last eight years as our state senator. And of course, I'm talking about Ken Donnelly. And we all heard the news last night of his passing. I know it's shaken a lot of us. I first met Ken almost 30 years ago when I was working for the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Service in the state Senate, dealing with public employee issues. And at that time, Ken was a legislative agent representing the professional firefighters in Massachusetts and representing them very well. And during that time, I think one of the biggest achievements that he put through was to win passage of a cancer presumption for firefighters, which acknowledged the fact that our firefighters are often exposed to carcinogens and hazardous materials and such. So I can't help but be shaken by the sat irony that he himself lost his struggle to cancer last night. I think we in Arlington owe Ken a great debt. He was very committed. He was committed to the young and the old. He was committed to the little guy. And he was committed to one thing that he was particularly committed to was to battling the scourge of mental illness. He won for this town several years over in conjunction with his legislative colleagues, six-figure support for the Arlington Youth Counseling Center. And he was honored for that a few years ago by the Board of Youth Services. I spent many hours with him at various events around town. I know this is something that I think all my colleagues can relate to. We would talk a lot about the tension of balancing public service with family life and how you do that and the efforts that each of us make. And I think we can relate to this, too, to try to protect our spouses and significant others from the limelight. And he did that well. He would always light up when he talked about bringing his grandchildren ice fishing up north. He always made an effort to make their special events like First Communions and such. Arlington, I think, is greatly diminished without Senator Donnelly. He was a gentle soul, but also a real fighter. So I would like to ask if the board and the members here could please join in a moment of silence. Certainly ask that Ken rest in peace. And our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Judy, and all of his family. I don't know if my colleagues want to thank you all. I know that some of you are maybe new here or maybe new watching at home.  And I'd just like to let you all know who all is at the front table now, especially since we shuffled around a bit. So my name is Joe Curault. To my right, of course, is our new vice chair, Stephen Byrne. I left Mr. Kevin Greeley, Diane Mahon, as I said, newly re-elected, and Dan Dunn, board of selectmen. Assisting us in our business this evening is our staff, our deputy town manager, Sandy Poole, our town council, Doug Heim, and our board administrator, Marie Kruppelka. And I would like to explain why, ordinarily in Mr. Poole's seat, we see Mr. Chapter Lane. And I'd like to share the happy news that the reason Mr. Chapter Lane is not here is that just after 11 o'clock this morning, his wife gave birth to an 8.2-pound baby son, Roger Philip Chapter Lane. And I know that our good wishes go out to the entire Chapter Lane family, Adam and Rita and now Big Sister Pearl. So we wish them well. And we look forward to Adam's return after he has some time with his family. So without further ado, I'd like to move on to item number two on the selectman's agenda. Proclamation, April is Autism Awareness Month, and I'd like to turn it over to Ms. Mahon. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for opening the meeting with some very solemn news, some explanatory news, and some celebratory news. That's a difficult balance. And it's your first meeting. You stepped right up to the plate. I also would like to thank my colleagues in terms of April is Autism Awareness Month. Pretty much as long as I've been on this board, I believe Mr. Greerly was the first chairman. When I was elected back in 99, my first act the following year was to recognize Autism Awareness, and that's when they were citing figures that one in 162 and now we're down to one in 80 and some say one in 60 are diagnosed with autism. And one of the things before I read the proclamation is that autism, they say it's a broad spectrum or autism spectrum, it really is. You have some higher functioning autism children and young adults, and then you have some lower functioning, more severely affected by autism, but one is no more, no less than in terms of the diagnosis. But I think that from when I first got on the board when people heard autism, it pretty much was straightforward explanation versus now where people sort of recognize the extremely broad spectrum as well as dealing myself personally as well as other members on the board with family members that if you talked when I first got on the board back in 1999, there was next to nothing in terms of education, in terms of opportunities for individuals on the autism spectrum and part of the initiative by Autism Speaks and other groups, I mentioned Autism Speaks because that's to whom the proclamation requests usually comes from and to whom I'm a member and deliver to is feeling that one of the things they can feel confident about is the fact that education is out there and that just beginning research in terms of looking at the broad range of autism spectrum and what possibly could be offered. And I really think similar to developmentally normal spectrum kids, same common denominator as early intervention is key. And I think we've really seen that, certainly here on the town side, but definitely on the school side for all forms of children entering the educational system. With that, I want to thank my colleagues for once again doing this, for really giving their support, some of us walking the walk, whether it's family members, whether it's coworkers who have done this. I want to thank Mr. Chaplain through the Acting Town Manager, Mr. Poole for lighting up Town Hall blue because the first week in April, that's the campaign lighted up blue to get the awareness out. So the proclamation reads as follows, whereas autism is a pervasive developmental disorder affecting the social learning and behavioral skills of those affected by it. And whereas autism was once thought to be a relatively rare disorder, affecting only one in 10,000 people. And whereas more and more health professionals become proficient in diagnosing autism, more children are being diagnosed on the autism spectrum, resulting in rates as high as one in 50 children. And whereas unfortunately, while there is no cure for autism, it is well documented that if individuals with autism receive treatment early in their lives, it is often possible for those individuals to lead significantly improved lives. And whereas autism speaks and others are spearheading an awareness effort in order to educate parents, elected officials, professionals, and the general public about autism and its effects. Now therefore be it resolved that we, the members of the Board of Selectment, and do hereby proclaim April as Autism Awareness Month in the town of Allington and observe the town hall displayed in blue lights for lighted up blue, the week of April 3rd, in order to increase awareness of the autism spectrum disorders. And it's signed by my colleague, the Chairman, Mr. Curell, Vice Chairman, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Greeley, Mr. Dunn and myself and our Board Administrator, Mrs. Kropalka. Thank you so much. I hear a second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? Thank you very much, Ms. Mahan. And we thank the town hall staff also for enabling the lighting of the town hall and recognition of this.  Next we go on to the consent agenda. All items will be taken on a single vote unless otherwise noted or moved by my colleagues. First, we have the minutes of meetings, March 27th, 2017. We have a request for a contractor drain layer license, premier pavers and hardscape, Company 8 Oak Meadow Road, Lincoln Mass. Request for a contractor drain layer license, Terra Landscape and Construction, Cooperated 138 Fisher Street, Westboro Mass. Request for a special one-day all-alcohol license, 422-17 at Whitmore-Robbins House for a private event, Amanda Sagelsky and Christopher Allen. For approval, sidewalk cafe permits, Common Ground 319 Broadway, Gwynne. And Capitol Theater 204 Mass Ave, Richard Freeman. And appointments of new election workers, Darring Curley for Winslow Street, Democrat Precinct 10, Florence DeFelice, 109 North Union Street, Democrat Precinct 5, Whitney DeVito, 25 Central Street, Unenrolled Precinct 21, and Susan Lawler 163 Woodside Lane, Unenrolled Precinct 1. Do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? Move of approval, subject to all conditions? Second. It's moved by Mr. Byrne and seconded by Mr. Grilly. Do we have any discussion? Is there anyone here wishing to speak on any of the matters on the consent agenda? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It is unanimous. Thank you. Next, we move on to open forum. There was a sign-in sheet as it came in. Open forum, except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established. It should be noted that there is a three-minute time limit to present a concern or request. Do we have anyone signed up for open forum? Is there anyone here for open forum, citizens open forum? Hearing none, we'll close citizens open forum and we move on to the next item on the agenda. The next item on the agenda under traffic rules and orders and other business is the announcement and endorsement of Treasurer's Office personnel change by our brand new treasurer, Mr. Karman. And before you start speaking, Mr. Karman, I want to congratulate you on your election on Saturday. I see Mr. Hainer in the audience and I congratulate him and his school committee colleagues as well as our clerk, Ms. Winstain Leoconna from the board of assessors as well as everyone who ran for town meeting those some very hotly contested races. It was really horrible weather and so everyone who got out and voted, everyone who ran, everyone who won or competed, thank you very much. So we're very pleased to welcome you on the very first night, Mr. Karman. Thank you. You have the floor. So a few things I came for you tonight for. The first one is the, I think the most important one which you had given the lead in on the headline which is I've come to seek an endorsement from the Board of Selectment on a personnel change in the treasurer's office. Now, just to be clear, more to the people who are probably watching this on TV than all of us who understand the, you know, legal and statutory logistics is the Office of the Treasurer in Arlington is an independent authority. So there are bylaws and statutes that says the treasurer can effectively make personnel changes as they see fit. When I had campaigned, I was campaigning for the Office of the Treasurer. One of the things I said right away and I said early on that was if I were to win that I am not going to be the day-to-day department head of this office because of my belief the day-to-day department head of treasurer's office should be a treasurer professional. And I had further said that in carrying out this objective, I would work with the town manager, I'd work with the director of human resources to identify a treasurer professional that they were comfortable with and they could recommend to me to make that as the day-to-day appointment. So the nice part about being unopposed is you can start working on these things right away. So the town manager was gracious enough to agree that we would start working on this right away on the caveat that if someone came as a writing candidate or materialized a challenge that we would stop and through the process. I mean, I think as you guys probably watched in the newspaper and whatnot, I was pretty open about doing this. It wasn't like it was a big secret. I think first wrote it, I pulled papers on January 5th, which I think was a Thursday. And I put it on my website on January 7th. So that was a long time people knew this was out there. So Mr. Chapterland and I endeavored on this. After some discussion, he had recommended to me that the current deputy treasurer Michael Morse would be to be elevated to a department head level position within the parameters that we can do in an independent authority. He's very confident in Michael. He's very confident in his ability to run the office of the day-to-day. We then went to Karen Malloy, director of personnel. Well, I know she's director of HR, but actually the bylaw caused the director of personnel when dealing with the treasurer. So I went to Karen and in accordance with the bylaw, I talked to her about the changes. She had gone through some different things. We had sort of worked on a paying compensation package for that. We then went to the union. We met with union representation from Michael who is an SEIU. Their initial feedback so far has been good. As you would expect, they have some questions, some concerns, and things they want addressed. I don't see anything. I'm not speaking for Karen. I don't see anything to be insurmountable. Now I should also caveat that by, that's from a 40,000 foot view. I'm not a union negotiator. So this is that Karen Malloy and Sandy Pooler show in order to get this one finished. But I don't know if you, it's gone well so far, right? Very well, yes. It's gone very well so far. So that's what I would like. So what I would like is for the board of select men to endorse the recommendation of its town manager. So I don't need you to endorse me. I don't need you to think that I have any types of good thoughts anywhere. But I do want you to endorse the town managers recommendation on this matter. Thank you very much, Mr. Karmann. Do any of my colleagues have any questions or comments? Mr. Dunn. I'm really happy to see Dean here. I'm really happy to have the, I wasn't a part of any of the conversations with Adam and Dean, I certainly talked to both of them separately at various points during this process and it is absolutely delightful to see everybody working together towards a common goal. And I think that they are working on sound principles. I think they've got the right goals in mind. I think the steps make sense. I absolutely move that we endorse these changes as the treasurer and the town manager are proposing. Do I hear a second? Second. And I just, I will, you know, I agree with everything Dan said. I think Michael is a great choice for the office. I, through working with them on different committees, I've really enjoyed it. I think he's knowledgeable and I think he's the right person to it. I particularly like the continuity, that I know hard times can come sometimes when there's change like this. And I think that the steps you've taken have allowed, have allowed the town to be better off at this time. So thank you. Ms. Mohan? Oh, no, no, Ms. Mohan. If I could, through the chairman to the acting town manager, Mr. Poehler, or perhaps our current treasurer, whoever you deem appropriately. I was looking at the timeline and listening also to the remarks by our treasurer, Mr. Carmen. Where are we in terms of discussions with SEIU? From what I understand, from what I've received that everybody is saying positive things, but they're, we're not at the end of the road with that. So my, my two pot question would be, where are we with that? And what, if any, that you can discuss are things that need to be finalized and agreed upon. And is our vote contingent, which I know Mr. Dunn will read the full thing that we've been given in terms of what the actual motion should be? Oh, yeah, didn't get that. Or if we can pass that, oh, Mr. Burden. Thank you. Am I correct to assume that the motion that Mr. Burden, Mr. Dunn will make will be contingent upon agree with SEIU? Because I'm just saying from what I've heard, I'm hearing that's still being discussed and not ironed out. I agree. So let me, with the caveat that I'm not a union negotiator. And I'm union, by the way. Yes. I will say that we had a preliminary meeting with SEIU. We went, it went very well. We gave them our offer. They came back and gave us their concerns and their feedback and things like that. There was nothing I saw that was very concerning. What I will say without getting into union negotiations is I think if you don't endorse this, it becomes a problem. I think it's the opposite. It's not going to be something that becomes a problem if you do endorse it. It's a problem if you don't endorse it.  Okay, we have a political body. We have a political treasurer. We have an article 19 out there. And so if I was a union negotiator, I would be very concerned that my person is now going to be caught in the crosshairs in line of fire between me and the five of you in town meeting. And so what I think endorsing it does is it does the opposite. It provides a clear and unified message from the treasurer, from the board of select men that this is our guy. This is where we're endorsing the recommendation of Mr. Chapter Lane. And I think it goes a long way to easing concerns that they may have. That was at least my reading of it. Does Mr. Poole have anything? Mr. Poole? Yeah. I agree with everything Dean Carman just said. We did get some feedback from the union. We then internally discussed some of the things I asked for. I think most of them aren't really a problem at all. Karen Malloy has been dealing day to day with the communication back and forth with the union. From where I sit, I would say it's just a matter of a few days before things are finally put to bed. Nothing that they've raised was a major obstacle. I think we'll have a deal very soon. And I do think it is important that we have their acquiescence and support. And they were very enthusiastic when we first met, just a few questions that they had. Again, I think we can get those who aren't out. Anything more, Ms. Mohan? If I could, if it's appropriate. And I'm balancing the line here. Being a union member, not anything associated with the town that when I have wanted to get involved, we certainly can't. So my concern here is taking a vote before that those issues have been resolved. Is there any way, including in the motion, that Mr. Dunbull state, as we have before us, that we can have some sort of three or four phrasing that says, perhaps after day-to-day operational manager of the Treasury and Collection Division of the Treasurer's Office, some language there upon successful discussions with SEIU? My thing is, we're approving this, but one part of the pie that needs to be resolved is, and it sounds like we're there from hearing from the treasurer and the acting town manager that SEIU has presented some issues. It seems as though those will be agreed upon. So I'd like to amend that just to include that this motion also includes sort of signing off SEIU's suggestions and then the town manager and town treasurer's agreement to that. So if attorney Han, is that something that can be included and if it can, what's the briefest way to say that? I think if you want to insert at the end of the motion that I've proposed upon successful, I think that the endorsement is the endorsement of a plan. So I think you can either, at the end of the proposed motion, assert something to the effect of as also recommended by the town manager and contingent upon SEIU's approval. I think that that would be approval of the position change. I think that would be fine. But one of the things I would note is that this is not synonymous with the agreement to appoint Mr. Morse as the assistant town treasurer. He's already the assistant town treasurer. We call him the deputy town treasurer. That's his position under state law in the town bylaws. So this particular motion does not have to have a specific form. I just wanted to try to make it as descriptive as possible about what was going on. So I don't see a reason why it can't be done. Well, I would ask you if possible. Mr. Dunn, you take that as a family item. So was I hearing the motion, Mr. Dunn? Yes, definitely. I have reading now from the suggested motion, which I definitely captures what I was looking for. I move that the Board of Selectment endorses the treasurer's plan to make deputy treasurer Michael Morse, our assistant treasurer under Title I, Article 4, Section 5 of the town bylaws and state law, the day-to-day operational manager of the Treasury and collections division of the treasurer's office, as also recommended by the town manager and contingent upon the reaching agreement with the SEIU. This is Mohan. I think Mr. Byrne. I will second, but I do have a question now. Because when we first took the motion and I still do agree with it, we were endorsing this plan at this current moment. And now with that stipulation, does our endorsement change depending on future negotiations? My personal answer is I would cross that bridge when we get to it. I think Mr. Hymes has some input. I think the end, thank you, Mr. Chair. I think Mr. Byrne, that the endorsement is what it is. You are essentially doing something that I don't even know is strictly necessary, as we're all sort of talking about it, as Mr. Carmen has sort of presented it. But it's something that the elected treasure is seeking from the Board of Selectment. And the Board of Selectment is just saying, yes, we like this and we want this, so long as this can be successfully negotiated with SEIU. And I don't think that should impact what we're hoping to achieve here. So I don't think it becomes anything other than what it would have been, which is that if SEIU negotiations had not worked out, then I think we would have had a practical impasse anyway. OK. That makes your question. Mr. Grilly? Yes, so thank you. Congratulations, Dean. And I really feel you're brilliant in the way you've handled this. And I thank you for being here in front of us, because you don't need to be. You're going to see a lot of me. Careful now. But where Mr. Morse is our appointment, but this doesn't impact it at all. You're saying the title doesn't change. Is that the idea he's still deputy town manager? So his responsibilities on day to day are going to change when we get through this process. Obviously his compensation will change. He's actually going to sit in that gigantic office. In the treasurer's office, he's going to get the treasurer's parking spot, and all of those fun things that come along with it. But yes, his title will remain deputy town treasurer, or at least how the bylaw calls it assistant town treasurer. But thank you for the respect you showed us by being here and asking. My pleasure. And I would also like to echo that. I think you've also been excellent in reaching out to a lot of people during this process. And I know some of the drafts you've shown me of some of the processes that you'd like to approach do include more frequent check-ins with the board of selectmen also, which I think will be much appreciated by all of us in interests of transparency and moving ahead. So is there any further discussion on the motion that's on the table? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? All right. Is unanimous? I cover a couple more things while I'm here. Certainly. All right. So also in your packet is an S&P credit rating document for the town of Arlington. That is a document that S&P gives us every year and explains why our rating is what it is. Arlington has a AAA rating, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I'm going to say this jokingly, but I'm kind of serious about it. So I encourage you to read the document. Something you're going to notice is that nowhere in it does it say that we have a AAA rating because the treasurer does a good or a bad job. So never thank me for any of those ratings. It's good, bad, or indifferent. With that being said, though, it does, and I don't know if you've seen it before, it does give a good analysis of why we have a AAA rating. It talks about community wealth. It talks about balanced budgets. It talks about cash reserves. It talks about debt load. And so if you have time to read it, I mean, it's a really good document to get your head around on why our credit rating is what it is. In addition to that, and I didn't send it out because I didn't want to overwhelm you, S&P also, and I'll send it out to you in a future packet, S&P also has a document that shows exactly how they weight each of the criteria that's in there. So if you want to score how our LinkedIn gets a AAA, they actually have a sheet. And so I'll send that out to you. I think it's a really good document to understand when we talk about having low borrowing costs and a high credit rating and things like that, how we get to it. And so I thought that was really important. And if you could, I'm sure you'll just receive that report, but that's fine. Yes, sir. But while you're saying you don't deserve credit, you are the one that interfaces with them, though. Absolutely. And makes the presentation. And so that's still very important. It is. And you'll do it well. Ms. Mohan? I don't know if I'm reading this correctly or misreading this incorrectly. But when we get what you've given to us for Allenton's general obligation, and then they sort of give rationale and description, one of the things I was confused about is, the way I'm reading this is it talks about the debt service and the percentages applied there, too. And then it talks about 73%, 74% of the debt to be retired within the next 10 years. But then it also says something about it speaks to our pension and OPEB obligation, and it cites a lack of a plan to sufficiently address. I always thought that that is a deficiency versus I always thought it was something that we were doing. And we're sort of we're not. It is something we're not doing. So we currently have a plan to fund our pensions by, I believe, 2035. It's regulated under law. It's by statute. We don't have a choice. Everybody does. And I think the absolute latest we can do it is 2040. There is no legal requirement to fund OPEB. And so right now, I think we put about a million dollars to it each year from various sources. And we go from there. I think as I look today, the OPEB fund has about $11 million in it. But it's a very serious issue. Every community is facing it. And unfortunately, I think every community is in the same position we are where they're not really addressing it. There was an article in the Boston Global a couple of years ago, if you remember, that said Arlington with it, then $7 or $8 million of OPEB funding had the most funded OPEB account in the state. I mean, if that tells you where everyone is. And so yeah, it's a big issue. And the rating agencies are picking up on it. If you ask Mr. Viscay and our audited financials, they've changed the accounting standards to really highlight that on our balance sheet as just a full liability today. So yeah, it's a big issue. I think that Mr. Byrn had actually highlighted that issue when we were discussing the audit, recent audit report, the change. Oh, was it Mr. Dunn? Mr. Dunn. Same seat, different person. You missed me. So I would anticipate my memory in terms of organization and the retirement commission, you have or will have a seat on that as a voting member or do you need to be- Mr. Billifer remains on the- Mr. Billifer, so you won't, okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions from Mr. Cameron? One last thing, I should point this out because it is kind of important. It's a couple of things just looking forward because when I said I'd come back, there's a couple of reasons I'll be coming back. So I guess I'll say the town manager and I, I think it's more Sandy and I have been working on a working memorandum of understanding between the office of the town treasurer in the town manager's office. And what we're trying to endeavor to do is when we talk about an integrated finance department, a lot of people stop and say well we can't do it right now because we have an elected treasurer and we have the town's professional management. I think there's a logic to the flaw in that logic. And the flaw is that the treasurer's office can't integrate with the town manager's office because the treasurer's office by statute is an independent authority. And so there's no actual requirement to work together. And personally I can speak, as the treasurer I can say that I think that's kind of ridiculous. I mean we're all on one team, we're all on the same side. So Sandy and I have been working on is to memorandum of understanding that says that even though we have this statutory independent authority that is the treasurer's office that we really want to work as more of an integrated department and we want to collaborate on things and we want to have a deputy town manager who's reporting, I keep saying that. A deputy town treasurer who's reporting to the treasurer but is also accountable to the deputy town manager and that the staff within the treasurer's office are following the same hiring processes, review processes and everything else that everybody else in the town is following. So we should have that, I believe we have an agreement, I'll call it an agreement in principle right now. I think Adam's gonna sign it so when he comes back we'll sign that and then we'll have that before you at a future meeting. I'll also, I have it on my computer right now I was gonna wait. There are a couple other documents I'll send to you and we'll come back and talk about it in another meeting. We have an, the treasurer's office has an investment policy that they've had in place since 2007, 2008, last updated in December, 2016. So I was reading it today and it says there's all these steps that occur with the investment policy and then it shared with the independent auditors, the comptroller and the trust fund commissioners and there's one group that was missing. You guys. And so it was funny because Michael Morris pointed that out to me right away and he said, look, look who's not on it. And so I have that on my computer. I was gonna send it in with some of the memorandum and some other things. I'm gonna send that to you. I'm gonna ask you to come, I'm gonna come back. I don't need you to endorse it because I haven't read it and so I don't want you to endorse it. But I think it's something you guys can read, you can look at, you can agree with it if you don't agree with it, well let's talk about it and let's figure out what the right way to go forward on an investment policy is. There are also some, there's this big debt schedule finder that our investment bankers from First Southwest give us. It's really kind of cool. It shows where our debt's gonna be on June 30, 2017. I don't know if you've ever seen it. It's 330 pages, whether or not you've seen it, you're about to get it. So that is, it'll be heading your way as well. So the next time I come back, we'll just sort of tick off those three items and have some good talk. Mr. Freely, look, he's a happy hedgehog. He's a happy hedgehog, yes.  Schedule appointment. You know, I would say this in all seriousness. Some of you may know, my dad's actually the treasurer in Belmont and he said to me when it came to investment management when we were talking this weekend, he said, always remember, no one will ever thank you if you gain the town 10% in a small trust fund, but they will crucify you if you lose 1%. So invest based on that advice. So I don't know how much, I don't know how much financial intellect you need to have versus common sense that you're, it's the public's money and do right by the public. Thank you. All right. I think that's a fine closing statement. All right, thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Cameron. Thank you very much. And now we move on to, can we take the vote? Oh, did we take them? We did not take the vote, I'm sorry. Hey, I'm still learning. Yes, okay. Okay, we have a motion on the table. I'm Mr. Jones second. I'm Mr. Byrne. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed? Actually, yeah. We could tell Dean that we voted it down. We actually did. We actually did. Didn't we? We did a vote. Oh, good. So now we've done it twice. Let's do it again. Let's do it again. Let's say it's to receive. Yeah, we are super sure. We're trying to punk me on the first night. I'll pay better attention. Okay, so the next item on the agenda is final votes and comments, articles for review, article 19, vote appointment town treasurer, which was tabled from 313 and 327, article 29, endorsement of CDBG application, tabled from 327, article 30, bylaw amendment, departmental revolving fund bylaw, tabled from 327, and article 31, revolving funds, tabled from 327. Mr. Heim, you have given us a memo. Would you like to speak to this? Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you members of the board for your patience on this. One of the things that was, I hoped would inform, article 19 in particular, was just having the town election and getting a chance to work out a few of the details of the memorandum of agreement. Mr. Carmen was nice enough to mention.  The first is rearticulation of some of the issues regarding the vote on the appointment of town treasurer. Just to be clear again, we're not talking about anything would take place tomorrow. We're talking about putting something in front of the voters to decide whether or not they want to continue to have an elected town treasurer or have an appointed town treasurer. And then with respect to the revolving funds bylaw, just a quick note, we talked about it a few weeks ago. It's essentially the municipal modernization act is pushing everybody to put your revolving funds in your town bylaws, which is what this does. There is a small piece that for the slackens report will be inserted, which is essentially taking the revolving funds and smashing them into a table that was not ready. So you'll see at the end of article, the vote on article 30, it says insert revolving fund table. There will be a table that has all the revolving funds and who administers them that gets smushed in there. But we need to have that be finalized. But other than that, this is that that one's also relatively pro forma. Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Heim. Do I have a motion? Move approval. And a second? Second. Okay. Mr. Dunn. So thank you, Doug, for your patience with me on article 19. I'm really happy with where it got to, and Doug did a lot of work, and I appreciate getting that done. Article 29 had occurred to me just now. Do we want to put a sentence in here talking about our concerns about the federal budget? So there are two options for that, Mr. Dunn. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Yes. There are two options for that, Mr. Dunn. One is to put it in the selectman's comment. The other is to put it in the CDBG report. We've done that a couple of different ways. There have been times when there's been a reference to the CDBG report within the selectman's report, but more often than not, the CDBG report has just been a separate document. Good enough. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry, I believe Ms. Wayman is on top of that. Okay. Do we have any other comments on the comments? Just, I would request that we hold hearings and then we do final votes. A couple of these show that I was absent maybe for the hearing, but I am here for the final vote on the Warren Articles. And to be honest, I almost wish the report would just show 4-0 on a vote, not Mr. Greeley was absent. I mean, I was, I'm not trying to, but there's been a time like when I missed this vote, which was 12 articles or something. And since I wasn't here for the final votes, it shows was absent or something. I mean, it's just sometimes you're hearing, sometimes you're not, and sometimes you're after the hearing, sometimes you're not for the final hearing. So I have to by law or something, right? If I may, it is your report. Our report, what is the feeling of the board? If we get to 5-0 right now, I'm happy to say 5-0. Yeah, that's my, thank you. Yeah. So this vote, this vote's the real one. Right, that's what we're saying. We should look into the policy handbook and try to, no, put the paragraph in here on that. I'm only half choking. If that's a hind, you know. I agree. I mean, it's up to the board, but if that's the board's policy, is the direction for me to work with Selectman's office to move backwards on the previous votes and comments? Perhaps from this night forward. Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with this night forward. You don't have to go back. No. Okay. Okay. Anything more? Hearing nothing. Who made the motion? I'm sorry. Was there a motion? Kevin. Kevin made it. Mr. Dunn seconded. Okay, I'll motion by Mr. Greeley, seconded by Mr. Dunn. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? unanimous. And now we move on to correspondence received. Request parking restrictions on Henderson Street, Nikki DePisquale 19 Henderson Street via request answer center and request resident sticker parking only on Cleveland Street. Cheryl Marceau, Cleveland Street resident. Do I hear a motion? We'll receipt. Here a second? Second. It's moved by Ms. Mahan, seconded by Mr. Byrne. Do I have any discussion on this? Is anybody here on this? Yeah. Mr. Gentleman, I don't know. Anyone here on this matter? Nope. There's no one here on this matter. I just wanted to say that I think on the first one, it came in through the request answer center. And I thought that Ms. Reedy of our staff gave an excellent explanation of what our current bylaws regarding parking restrictions near driveways and across from driveways so that the resident was, should be very well prized what their rights are under our bylaws. And actually the second one is a very similar type of request. So perhaps we might consider sending a similar answer to the same response that Ms. Reedy. We actually gave the second one to Corey to look at. Oh, you did? You did? Okay. Any further discussion on this? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It's unanimous. We now move on to new business. Ms. Kruppelka. Nothing other than we just had an exciting day on Saturday election. Congratulations to all of you and all our new town meeting members. Quite a few new ones. Thank you very much. Mr. Hine. I'd just like to echo that congratulations to the members of the board who are up for election and to say it's a pleasure working with this board. As a town manager pointy, I feel like you can credibly say that I have the great pleasure of working with this board and I'm glad to see it continue as it's compromised as well as the other folks who continued their seats or were nuclear elected at the election. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hine. Cooler. I'd like to echo and re-echo sentiments expressed. I don't get to work with you as directly as these others, but whenever I have, it's always been a pleasure and I look forward to doing it in a stint as acting while Adam is out with his new sleepless nights. The only one thing I would add is if this is an appropriate time, Mr. Chairman, is just a bit of news about our posting, our budget on the town website. That'd be appropriate this time. So if I could borrow Mr. Greeley's copy here. Ignore all the notes I've written in there. Yeah, the extensive thank you, Mr. Greeley. Every year the town publishes a financial plan which is an extensive description of the town's budget, the numbers that will be considered within the finance committee report going to town meeting and extensive descriptions of the department's activities, their goals and objectives for the coming year and their accomplishments for the past year. We then submit this to the Government Finance Officers Association and for the last four years have been awarded their Distinguished Budget Award for this document and this document will go to them again after town meeting. So it is now posted on the town website for anybody in the town to see and I encourage people to look because it really is an attempt by the departments to tell the public a lot about the work that those departments do. Absolutely, absolutely, I was looking through it today and thank you and thank all of the staff. It's a huge amount of work that goes into this document. What was that again? I'm sorry, my knee, my elbow hit cereal, what was that again and said? Would you like to repeat your statement, Mr. Poole? I can't say it often enough, this is a great document and thank you very much for this work. Thank you and we hope to keep it a pleasure for you. So Mr. Greeley, tell Diane to turn off her phone. I don't know what I did. But no, just, you know, it's so sad about Senator Ken Donnelly, but there's so much to celebrate as well, you know, Marie Kruppelka, I don't know how many surgeries this woman has been through. It's such a thrill to see her here tonight. She's out in the snow and the rain on Saturday against doctors' orders running the election across the whole town of Arlington and stuff, but God love you and you are an inspiration to all of us. And the joy of having Diane and Dan back on the board and you as chairman at Mr. Currow. And I love Steve, did I leave you out again? You did, I'm sensing a theme here, Mr. Greeley. That's it, sir. Ms. Mahon? Just briefly to piggyback on what Mr. Greeley said, I'm happy with my colleague, Mr. Dunn-Dan, to come back to the board of select men. Definitely appreciate everybody who came out and you know, in spite of the weather and others and you know, I've spoken to people since the election and one of the things I wanna say that this board, I think in terms of what we've accomplished over the past year, if not years, that we think all the voters who came out, whether they voted for myself and or my colleague, Mr. Dunn or not, one of the things I know, all of us remain committed to, I think, sort of the tan amount, tenant that we hold ourselves to is that, number one, we're respectful and civil. Two people who come before us who have questions that we come across respectfully and civilly, as well as, as we move forward, we certainly recognize that there's, you know, differing of opinions, but I think we've been really successful in the sense that whether we all agree or not, I think we certainly have gotten to the point that nobody really feels that they came forth and whether they were successful or not, that they weren't treated with the appropriate amount of respect and cognizant, realization of everything that's going on in Allenten and I think in terms of whatever we have to do in the future, especially I've heard from a lot of people on the campaign trail, concerns about programs that we may lose mostly around human services, social services, as well as education. I think this board along, especially with my colleagues sitting here, have certainly demonstrated that, you know, we're up to the task. We're aware of what could be in jeopardy, but we're certainly aware of the fact I'm willing to that we're gonna roll up our sleeves and address that. It's not something that we're just gonna let happen and fall by the wayside. So I, again, thank you to the voters, everyone who came out and those who returned myself, Mr. Dunn and all the other elected officials and town meeting members to office and I look forward to the coming year and congratulations to Mr. Kuro as chair and Mr. Byrne as vice chair and God bless both of you at town meeting. It's, we certainly have said some warrant article hearings that you two will aptly speak on our behalf. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Dunn. I wanted to thank the voters for bringing me back. I'm really happy to be here. I'm really excited about the challenges we've got and I'm really excited to work on them over the next three years. And I definitely got, as it got closer, I got more and more. I said, you know, what does it mean that no one ran against you? And I said, well, in some ways, I tried to provoke people to run against me because I actually wanted the race, but in other ways, we don't, lately we haven't had that much to fight about and I think that that's a good thing. That may change over the next few years. We've got a couple of big ones coming up. So, but I look forward to, I really do look forward to the challenge. I'm very excited about it. And I'd love, Mr. Kuro, that, you know, if you can get you and Steve under here in 90 seconds, then that'll be the fastest opening chairmanship ever. I don't know if we're gonna quite make that. But, well, boy, that's laying down the gauntlet. Mr. Byrne, no, thank you very much. And I'm honored to be appointed vice chairman tonight. I look forward to working with Chairman Kiarawa. I think it'll be a successful year for the board. I'm very happy to see my colleagues returned to the board. I've enjoyed working with both of you and I know that I will continue and to enjoy working with both of you, both on things that we may agree with and maybe sometimes when we disagree. Ms. Greeley, I will always disagree with you, regardless of your stance on a matter. So, I look forward to that continuing as well. I'm just kidding, of course. But, no, thank you very much. And Marie, I am very happy to have you back. Thank you very much. I'm also, I did neglect to welcome you back publicly also and we're very happy. And you seem to have twice the energy you did before you left, so. Not to set the bar too high there, either, but just a couple of things. Firstly, I just, in transition talks with Ms. Mahan, we did discuss, I will be working the coming weeks with Ms. Malloy on the manager's review. I trust that everybody has gotten their reviews into the office. I have not, I will do that. Get them into the office. I haven't either, I asked even to remind me. We made sure that he was going out on paternity leave so you got a little bit of a grace period, but we're going to want to get on that. Secondly, I think really to Ms. Mahan's point, she was highlighting some of the human services and some of the things that we try to do and some of the fears. Every year, I know that middle sex senior services does invite public officials to go take a ride around on the Meals on Wheels and I did that on Friday. I actually happened to go with a volunteer Meals on Wheels driver. It was a retired island can fire fighter. It couldn't be better because he has a good eye for, Meals on Wheels is really about more than just the meals. It's about the visits and we had people telling us how lonely they are sometimes. And it's about just looking to check in on them and see if there are any other types of problems. And I know that there is fear out there. There's been a lot in the news about potential cuts in Meals on Wheels. I've talked to some of our legislators. I think that in Massachusetts we're going to be okay because we do it differently from some states. A lot of states, I think they rely on the CDBG funding for Meals on Wheels. We've got problems with the CDBG. We know that, but that's one thing I wanted to note. I also wanted to note also as far as seniors go, there is a new transportation outreach group that the Council on Aging has helped to put together and they did a transportation fair this past Thursday. It's a group of volunteers working with Bill Murphy and working with the Council, working with the Arlington Seniors' Associations. They did a transportation fair at the Senior Center. They did two sessions last Thursday. I went into the second session and by the time I got there, almost 70 seniors had been signed up for Charlie Cards. Mr. Muncie was there with a blue curtain and a camera and they had the forms to try to assist the seniors in signing up. As we've heard so many times, transportation is so important. There's currently a proposal that's been floating out with the MBTA, which sounds completely insane, where they're proposing that the ride premium services be discontinued and that Councils on Aging pick up these services between 5 a.m. and midnight. And as we know, we don't operate our transportation services between 5 a.m. and midnight. We struggle to put it together between CDVG funding and some private fundraising and such to keep those transportation dollars flowing. So that's something I think we're gonna wanna look at and follow very closely with the MBTA. I don't know if Mr. Byrne, you're up there. I know you specialize in transportation. I don't know if you're aware of this. I'm very aware of it and it's something that, through my day job, we're paying attention to. Actually, you saying that made me think fondly of a letter that actually Senator Donnelly sent just last week, calling out the cuts to the ride. And it just speaks to the work that he's done and I think it will have a lasting impression. Thank you very much. And that is all the new business that I have here tonight. Move to adjourn. Here a second. All those in favor? Aye. All opposed? It is unanimous. Next schedule meeting and Board of Selectment is April 10th, 2017. Thank you, Arlington.