The DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of better things for better living through chemistry presents the cavalcade of America Tonight's play one way out a true story of Korea Tonight's star John Lund as Danny Parker This is a story of the war and and yet it isn't the war story It concerns men and an intangible something called the American way It begins in November 1950 in the war-torn country of Korea Begins with a bunch of Marines and a problem and like all stories of this or any other war Its heart is in the men who fight it men like Danny Parker I'm Danny Parker. I'm alive Now just so we understand each other. It's not because I'm lucky and it's not because I'm smart Paul Marino was lucky. He's dead Jonesy was smart. He's dead There's a lot of them in Korea But like I said, my name is Danny Parker and I'm alive It all happened around the end of November 1950 The first Marines and a bunch of GIs from the 7th infantry were holed up When I say hold up Buster. I mean it. Hey Danny. I got another one Congratulations, how many that leaves Jersey about 999,999 That commie is a very lousy shot. Don't worry. They got some good ones You got a cigarette Jersey that kid cigarette. I don't you guys ever carry your own It's the price you have to pay for being adopted by two veterans of Guadalcanal match.  Hey Isn't it the sergeant Coleman over here? Let's make out like we don't see him Well, if it ain't the Rover boys, you fell us on a vacation sergeant. You bring mail now. I've heard him all Comics and kids how are we gonna win this war? I've been wondering about the same thing. How does it look? It's not food, but good. There's 20,000 of us and 100,000 of them and they're all around us. It could be worse Spoken like a true hero. Why thank you Danny Parker in case you heroes have overlooked a couple of details here They are we're running out of ammo food and medicine In fact, we can hold out less than a week a lot less Spoken like a true morale officer. You got any more good news if I can think of any I'll come back Don't let it get you kid something'll turn up. Yeah, sure. Yeah, relax kid Believe me. This is nothing back on Guadalcanal. It was different. You're wrong Jersey Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima Korea The mud all tastes the same The mud tastes the same and the blood is just as red.  You worry about your own few feet of dirt Not what's happened in 10 miles ahead or 50 miles behind This is supposed to be headquarters. This is supposed to be a smooth running organization. Where's Tex Carlton? I'm coming general. I had to find a map you never mind the max is to communicate from the first Marines. Listen Completely surrounded enemy forces on all sides and tend to keep fighting short and sweet They're depending on the Air Force come up with a miracle. Can we blast a hole in enemy lines for breakthrough? We try it they keep pouring in reinforcements. What's our strength on the field?  There's no airstrip Where you're gonna land a plane well if I fly over maybe I can spot some flat land one strip will be enough Okay, fly over and take a look but you've got to come up with something good something real good Yes, because if we don't there's gonna be 20,000 dead Americans Look at my hands are almost blue with those gloves back on, but they're all wet. What I'm back on They can never remember being so cold never They pushed us back Danny Two days ago. We had that hill now. They got it. What's so great about that hill? Yeah, what's so great about? Hey You hear something? It's a plane over there. Yeah It's ours That looks pretty Wish I was up there seems to be circling Observation plane probably taking pictures. Maybe we're gonna be in the movies. Yeah It's an observation plane. All right You won't need pictures. I can tell him how things look well He's gonna get knocked down for sure. He's got half the commies firing at him. We should brought some of his friends Hey, he's leaving What's it got alone? Jersey, you're a bitter man ain't I though Believe me Jersey Any pilot who flies over here just to put a mug like yours on film is bucking for a section eight General Colonel Carlton here good turn him in. Yes, sir Well text what did you find? I think we can do it general thinking isn't good enough We've got to be sure okay, sir We can do it, but we got to do it fast and they got a help What about the airstrip here? I'll show you on the map our forces are grouped Here the enemy's all around. I saw a flat piece of ground. It can be cleared for a landing strip Here it isn't too long, but it'll do all right the airstrip will be built here That's right, sir Then we send out fighter planes as many as we can get in the air Yes, we have them blast everything at the north of the strip clear out all the enemy opposition for say a width of 200 300 yards so that we can fly the ammo and food in yes, sir But those box cars can be hit awful easy then the fighters will repeat the bombardment the south end of the airstrip So we can fly the wounded out clear a path at both ends. You've seen the territory text. What do you think? Well, yes, sir. I have seen a general and on paper. It looks perfect. Yeah Too bad wars aren't fought on paper Tell me about what will come out of here? Tell me how hot it was kid.  Surrounded by yeah, you can say that again That guy is getting awful personal Got him good boy, Danny Only trouble is every time you shoot one three more jump in to take his place I once read where if the Chinese were placed for a breast and they started marching they'd never end They didn't say they were gonna march through Korea. I don't remember Jersey, yeah What are those guys digging graves ain't you the laughing boy? Hey side. I'm busy What do you want down there right in the middle of the pocket? It's an airstrip. Oh sure the kid here He ain't really a marine. He's Lana Turner. So help me the Air Force is gonna fly in ammo and fly out the wounded when So as it's finished, I guess Sergeant did anybody inform the fly boys from the wild blue yonder that in five days We're gonna be running right up our own backs war days Hardly give them a chance to enjoy the view How those engineers got that airstrip finished? I'll never know but they did it and the Air Force started coming Even transports were weaving out of their pattern to sweep the commies for us Made us feel pretty good to know that we hadn't been forgotten But then we always had the reassurance that the commies hadn't forgotten us either In fact, they were getting chumier and chumier and we weren't the only ones who were worried about holding the airstrip Get those planes loaded fast. We're doing a good job Colonel. Oh, thanks major easy with those wounded easy, but fast How long you think your men can hold the airstrip? 36 hours that all lose the far end of the airstrip by tomorrow night. How many more wounded? Oh, we got 700 lined up more coming in. All right, Lieutenant get that plane rolling We'll get them all out major and then what? That's a good question major a Real good question those commies are pushing and pushing. Yeah, you guys got any ammo not much Sarge ammo, I'll see if I can scratch them up and they fire so fast and it's cold Hey, we got a pullback where we're getting cut off. Come on. Let's move Kid Phil Look, I I got a hole in my stomach kids.  No ammo. We did the kids hurt bad Well, what do you expect me to do me and Jersey want to take the kid back get him on one of those planes Oh The commies already got the end of the airstrip to maybe three planes ago. They're four miles from the strip. I Hurt Danny. I'll take it easy kid. We'll get you back Burning Danny it Burning hot. I'll never make it. Well, go on. What are you waiting for? Go on try it, okay? Make a stretcher Jersey. Yeah, sure. How are you kid? I'm fine Danny fine No for a while. I thought something was wrong with my legs, but they're fine. I I Don't feel nothing We rigged up a stretcher and rolled the kid onto it. It was a long walk and kind of hopeless We thought we'd give it a try the commies were still blasting So we had a crouch low a couple of times we had to hit the dirt the kid took it. There was nothing else He could do Trouble well, it took us two and a half hours to cover the first mile Any it don't make sense We'll never get there in time. You got any better suggestions. No, none and keep walking The cold Danny Must be 10 below You know something it's a cold. I'm seeing things. I Think I see a Jeep. Hey, it is a Jeep. Must be an observation post.  This your Jeep sir? Yes, I'd like to borrow it my buddy shot up We're trying to get him evacuated.  See down there over to the left. Yes, sir That's the last plane and it's loading up fast with your Jeep You're welcome to try there's a walkie-talkie in the back the call of the field is black Mary. This is station orange Like Mary. This is orange over like Mary over. We got a wounded Marine. We're bringing them in hold that plane Listen soldier my buddy shot up. So hold that plane I'm sorry major, but hold that plane You carry on the conversation me and my pals are in a hurry and say for the heat Turn oh, what do you think hold it wait a couple more minutes for that casual eat from station orange All right, but the Cummings are shooting holes on the plane right now and duck. I told the general I was getting every wounded Marine out of here. There's still one left One more minutes and a calculated risk becomes wait a minute. Wait a minute Yeah, yeah, here comes a Jeep I get this man loaded quick. I told you we'd make it kid. Yeah, don't forget the right Phil Thanks, okay. Come on. Come on. Get him aboard and let's get out of here Clean sheets clean food and nurses man think of those nurses Man we got other things to think about come on Wallace linked to the DuPont cavalcade of America starring John Lotton And now Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont company You probably think of anti-freeze for your car only in cold weather But all through the heat of last summer your anti-freeze was on its way to you To make this year's supply of DuPont zero and Xerex anti-freezes Manufacture began as long ago as last March Well, why all this haste when the first snowfall was perhaps seven or eight months away Well, it's to serve you better So that your dealer will have it when you need it and Also to serve you better your local zero and Xerex dealer has set this week aside as anti-freeze week To remind you that now is the time to get your car ready for winter Before the first freeze jams up the service station Right now your dealer is better prepared to give you prompt and thorough inspection service Among the products that help him service your car better are zero and Xerex anti-freezes Two of DuPont better things for better living Through chemistry Now we return to our cavalcade play one way out starring John Lund The last plane pulled out and 15,000 of us gave it one long look and then went back to work Somehow some way the air force managed to get 4,690 shot up guys back home Frankly There were a lot of us that wouldn't have minded getting a little round hole and save the arm with a leg Just so we could have been on that plane I know it doesn't sound like big hero talk But nobody's a hero when it's 18 below and the ground is crawling with commies.  So we had an orderly retreat That's official talk for we hauled out and hauled out fast Okay, okay keep it moving those those ranks Marie This is no dance. I wonder where he learns all those clever scenes. They got a joke book written especially for sergeants I didn't know sergeants could read keep moving keep moving. Hey serge Cold enough for you. Danny. You must have memorized the book. What are you talking about jay-z? It's a little joke between me and Danny. Let me in on it.  Why? You're gonna join up with the eight they holding the reservoir Sars time Well, then why because we want to do it the hard way keep moving keep moving It was a four day march to that reservoir and we had to pack a wild animals nipping at our heels Animals armed with everything the commies could get to their little friends We were tired and we were cold and we were beat The only thing that kept us going was the fact that at the end of the march was the reservoir and the 8th army Sure, we hated to run but they had us five to one and we wanted to even up to fight make it four to one So we marched and swore and froze and shot over our shoulders And hoped that we could hold out Hold out until headquarters could come up with a miracle Come in You sent for me, sir. I'll sit down. Thanks. Thank you, sir Here's the problem those 15,000 guys are marching this way in 24 hours. They'll arrive here at the reservoir. Yeah The 8th is on this side of the reservoir. They're heading to this point But that won't do any good, sir Because that puts the reservoir between them communication says that the commies are right on the heels of the marine That's right, but they'll murder them. Our boys won't have one chance in the house Unless we can get them across the reservoir and the bridge is out. It's blown into a million pieces. I know Sir, we got those wounded out But our planes are shot up and so are our pilots. There's no place to land no place to build a strip We can't airlift them out. I know so we'll do the next best thing. We'll drop them a bridge. Of course, it will drop them a What a bridge can you get me eight flying box cars? We haven't got five that'll take off I need eight. I need them loaded and taking off within 24 hours 36 at the outside loaded with what? Each one will have one span of a bridge you said those marines had an engineer company Yes, sir.  He didn't put it strong enough for Hey, dandy you jersey There's some hot coffee. You better get some. Okay hot coffee. Come on. Do you talk me into it? Well, it's been a great war, huh jersey while at last Danny Yeah, you think we got a chance Not much unless we can swim And it's a lot of miles of water.  I ain't gonna do that You'll do what you're told. Yeah, sure Hey carbo, where's the coffee over on your left? Thanks. No, I see it Man hot coffee. Yeah, no lineup either Looks like mud Tastes like mud too, but hot keep moving Always keep moving Guy gets himself free stripes on his arm and all he thinks is keep moving. Hey, let's flop here, huh? Never see so much snow Yeah, it's a cold too Where I come from in montana We have snow only it's whiter cleaner Smells better too In jersey we get dirty snow Say jersey Uh, can I see that picture of your sister? Why I just want to look at it. No, just a second. I Where did I it's not in my wallet in the left pocket? Hey, you're right. How did you? Yeah Yeah Tell me about it jersey What's the tell she's his sister? Well, uh, what she looked like in the morning Lousy Oh, you're a great help You can keep the picture. Oh, thanks She ever went a beauty contest jersey. Are you nuts with those freckles? I like freckles Hey, I don't hear any gunfire Relax, it'll be back.  Yeah, good for you Hey Danny Over there Over the hill planes Flying boxcars You think maybe they're gonna airlift us out unless they can land on water and those things that got wheels Yeah, but there's circling see that they're getting ready for a drop. Yeah more ammo I suppose so or reinforcements. That's something we can use from that height Yeah, you're right. They're close to japan. Maybe big guns. We got guns We need a way out Maybe boats There they go. They're opening their bellies.   I hope we get out fast. I'm gonna kind of this side is starting to get crowded That bridge came floating right out of heaven Suddenly the sun came out and it got warm And nobody was cold or tired anymore We packed up throw a few rounds into the commies and walked across the bridge A few hours later each one of us bent down and padded the ground on the other side And then the marching started again Two full days and nights And of course the sergeant had to pick me in jersey for an advance guard After all if there were any commies up ahead. He didn't want us to miss the fun Hey, you think this road is mine ain't you the optimist I wonder how long it'll take the commies to build another bridge and run up our backs soon enough jersey down What's wrong coming around the bend I caught the glint of a banner The first one is mine Hold it jerseys. Who goes there? Soldier You nearly got your teeth propped with your own serial number. Oh wise marine, huh? Hey, what are you guys doing around here? We're the first marine the first say we're supposed to meet you joes. I'm with the eighth army Well, here we are soldier And very glad to meet the eighth army. What took you so long? Well to tell you the truth It was such a nice day. We thought we'd walk And that's the story We joined up with the eighth turned around and let the commies know just what we were doing in Korea The rest you read in the papers We won the battle not the war yet, but the battle and me Well, like I said My name is Danny Parker and I'm alive Our thanks to john london the cavalcade players for tonight's story one way out And now bill hamilton speaking for the dupont company Sometime or other to ease the discomfort of a cold you may have rubbed on your chest the sacred incense of the temples of india Prized as a perfume and medicine by the ancient persians and Babylonians Known to the emperor justinian as kafura In our language, it's camphor Either pure or as an ingredient of ointments and salves You pay only a few cents for it and thereby hangs a tale as they say One of the most fascinating stories in all the history of chemical discovery camphor Almost all of it used to come from the island of formosa The men who harvested the trees there often lost their lives doing it They often lost their heads in fact for the reason was overrun by a savage tribe of headhunters And then in 1895 Japan won a war against china. The japanese took formosa They had the island's valuable camphor trees all to themselves and the price went up Until it reached nearly four dollars a pound The search for a synthetic camphor that would be steady in supply and price led chemists down a strange trail The trail led backward Backwards from camphor to a substance called pineen Backwards from pineen to turpentine And backwards from turpentine to the pine stumps dotting farmers fields in the south Today america is completely independent of any foreign source of camphor The du pont company sells it at the present time for about 54 cents a pound Which is a lot better than four dollars This is one of the things chemical science does It helps mankind in the age old war against scarcity And by increasing the supply chemistry is often able to level out prices Chest sands for your winter cold and dozens of other things are better and less expensive today Because of synthetic camphor one of the du pont companies better things for better living through chemistry Once again, here's our star john lung Ladies and gentlemen, you heard the story you heard the number of wounded Figure for yourself how many quarts of plasma were used Now figure how many more are needed and tomorrow morning go to your blood bank Give to help those who are helping you for it may be your blood That saves the man who is saving your way of life Tonight's du pont cavalcade was written by david harman and was based on the article one way out by benjamin blackman Published by air force magazine original music was composed by ardent cornwell conducted by donald boreys The program was directed by john zoller with our star john lung You heard stops cotsworth as jersey dick york as phil dan aco as sarge ed begley as the general and larry blyden as techs John lung can currently be seen in the universal international picture titled just across the street in which he has co-starred with ansher This is sigh harris reminding you to be with us next week when the du pont cavalcade will present the saga of jerry o bryan The exciting story of a dynamic irishman who led the men of main against a proud british sloop of war with astonishing results Our star denise oakete The du pont cavalcade of america came to you tonight from the belasco theater in new york city And is sponsored by the du pont company of wilmington delaware makers of better things for better living through chemistry Tonight hear both fibber magie and molly and two for the money on nbc


Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining us for the Board of Selectments meeting of January 11th, 2016. Happy New Year to everyone. This meeting is being broadcast by ACMI and we have a member of the media here. I just wanted to point that out as we usually do. If we could go to agenda item number one, the Poet Laureate Committee Update. Mr. Curell, if you can kind of lead us on this. Yes, thank you very much, Madam Chair. As you know, this board did endorse a warrant article two years ago to create an honorary position Poet Laureate in the town of Arlington. We put forward a warrant article as accepted by town meeting to create not only the position but also an appointing body. The program has been incredibly successful. I've heard from numerous people in the community including our library director has said that the office hours, for example, have just people lined up waiting to come in and meet with Poet Laureate. The committee that was established from numerous appointing boards at that time, they have been interested in being active in an ongoing basis, not just the appointment process. If it's possible, I'd like to introduce Lizza Halley who is the chair of the Poet Laureate. It's currently the appointment committee, a screening committee, to kind of talk a little bit more about what they had in mind. Hi, thank you very much for letting me speak today on behalf of the Poet Laureate Committee. Besides myself, we have John Burr, our secretary, Gene Howard who's here with me, and Pamela Powell on the committee. And we want to thank you very, very much for even establishing the committee. It's really been an honor to be part of it. To date, we created the process of choosing the Poet Laureate. We solicited the applications, recommended the amazing Miriam Levine to serve as the Poet Laureate, and we've striven to advocate and support her in her role. We're extremely happy with Miriam Levine's activities as Poet Laureate and seek to facilitate what she does in any way that we can. Because of our work, she's been able to establish the office hours at the library, as Joe was talking about, which have been really busy, give her reading a town day, offer a number of workshops at the senior center, make many visits to schools and other organizations more broadly, and she established an Arlington Poetry Prize contest, which received more than 300 submissions from local poets. And she also organized a ceremony to celebrate the winner. She raised the profile poetry in Arlington with articles on the advocate and other local media. I'm here today to let you all know that the Poet Laureate committee supports the suggestion of Doug Heim, the town council, that we would continue as an advisory committee to the selectmen to support the Laureate, rather than serve only as a selection committee. We believe that as advisors to the selectmen and as resources and advocates for the Laureate, the Poet Laureate will have more support. As advisors, we would advocate for the town to find a way to renumerate the Poet Laureate, as other towns in the region do, and we really want this position to be sustainable in the future. And we believe that this will be an important factor in making it so. So that's why I'm here, just to sort of confirm this idea that we would really like to be, remain as an advisory committee instead of sort of going under and then waiting until the position turns over and we find another Poet Laureate. So thank you. Before I call Mr. Cure or Attorney Heim, is there anything that you'd like to say or was it pretty much covered? Madam Chairman, the the basics of this are pretty straightforward. There's no reason that a committee of town meeting meant to establish to appoint a Poet Laureate can't also remain an advisory capacity for the selectmen and broaden their role and responsibility so long as there are certain things that remain vested within the selectmen. So this would be something, it would be a selectmen committee versus we don't have to go back to town meeting or should we? I don't think that you would have to go back to town meeting. You certainly could go back to town meeting to revise their charge pursuant to town meeting. I just don't think it's necessary because they'll still have that duty when the Poet Laureates term expires as a creation of town meeting, but they can also serve in this capacity for the selectmen. If I could, right before I call on Mr. Curel, if you could just through the town manager of town council, if there's any sort of report or update that we should give to town meeting in terms of we sort of change the status of this committee just to let them all know or if that's not necessary, that's fine too. But Mr. Curel? Thank you very much. I think to give a little bit more context, I think that some of the committee members had approached me and asked if there was a way to formalize kind of an ongoing role, especially in helping to do, you know, fundraising for programs and such. I have a motion before me that I'd like to offer that Doug did help to draft. And I think essentially what it amounts to is that the same group of individuals have two hats. I think probably legally it's two committees, but in practice it's one. So if I might, I'd like to offer the motion. I move as follows. That we first establish a Poet Laureate Advisory Committee as a committee to the selectmen charged with serving as a liaison between the selectmen and our appointed Poet Laureate, requesting and recommending works, readings, and other artistic contributions to the Poet Laureate and the Board of Selectmen, and advising the selectmen on the disbursement of Honoraria or other similar funds for programming and activities of the Poet Laureate through available town gift funds. And to second, appoint the members of the Screening Committee for the Poet Laureate as organized by the vote of the 2014 Town Meeting and Town Bylaws, Title II, Article 11, to serve as the Poet Laureate Advisory Committee for a term consistent with Article 11. Seconded by Mr. Curel, seconded by Mr. Byrne. Any further discussion? If you haven't already, if you could just e-mail to Mrs. Krupalka that motion. I saw her writing forever and I'm sure she had it. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next we will go to agenda item two, minutes of the meeting for December 21st, 2015. Is there a motion? Move approval. Move by Mr. Dunn, seconded by Mr. Curel. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed, unanimous vote. Three, we have reappointments. Reappointment for the Allington Historic Districts Commission. Jade Cummings, term to expire July 31st, 2017. Is there a motion? We also have several others to the reappointments heading. Where's that? Oh, I'm sorry. I jumped over. Let me go back to agenda item three. I apologize. Thank you, Mr. Curel. We have reappointments for the Board of Health, Kenneth Colberg, Board of Library Trustees, Adam Demolino, Frances Murphy, Commission on Arts and Culture, Adria Och, Barbara Costa, Commission on Disabilities, Maureen St. Hillier, Historic Commission, Patrick Guthrie, Open Space Commission, Jane Auger, all terms to expire January 31st, 2019. Move approval. Move approval. Seconded by Mr. Byrne. Seconded by Mr. Curel. I do see Mr. Colberg here. Is there anybody else here? If you both want to come up since you came to the microphone, if just for everybody at home, if you could just say your name, the committee will reappoint it to and any relevant information you'd like to pass on. Thank you very much. My name is Kenneth Colberg. I'm with the Board of Health and I'm here only to say thank you. I'm very pleased to be reappointed. My first term has been wonderful. I enjoyed the three years very much. I'm looking forward to the next term. It's my privilege to help advance the public health of the people of Arlington. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Well, we're going to take a vote, but you can stay here. Good evening. Hi, my name is Adam Demolino, and I just wanted to thank the Board of Selection and the Time Manager for working together and appreciate your consideration for reappointment to the Board of Library Trustees. I've recently become the Chair of the Board of Library Trustees. I really appreciate all of your work and support on behalf of libraries here in Arlington. We really appreciate the partnership with you. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you both gentlemen for showing up. Mr. Dunn. Just, I think you may have gotten the order wrong because I think we're supposed to thank you. We say this to volunteers who come up. You guys, the town does what it does because of volunteers and paid employees, but volunteers are very important. So we appreciate all the time and effort that you put into it. Thank you. Right before we take the vote by Mr. Byrne, seconded by Mr. Cura, I want to thank you, Mr. Cura, for pointing out that my eyes had jumped ahead. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? unanimous vote. Thank you so much. And thank you to the other reappointments. A now agenda item for reappointment Arlington Historic Districts Commission of Jade Cummings term to expire July 31st, 2017. Is there a motion? So moved. Seconded by Mr. Byrne. I'm not sure if Jade is here. If not, any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? unanimous vote. And I know the next person's here because I can see the gentleman. Now we have requests American Legion change of manager. Summary submitted by William Yorker McCarthy, manager. Mr. McCarthy. An old, but not old, a familiar face. Hello. See you all again. Nice to see you. If you can just say briefly in one sentence for anybody watching at home, just exactly what this is. It's a. I'm here for appointment as manager of American Legion. 370 Mass Ave. We're a veterans organization. We run to operate to support veterans, veterans causes and helping the community wherever we can towards any community causes. Community, state, national. Thank you. Sir motion. Move approval. Second. Seconded by Mr. Byrne. For the few who don't know, Mr. McCarthy was our former veteran service agent director. Did a exemplary job and passed that office on to our current person who's covering that. So it's good to see your face in a different capacity and you look fantastic. Everyone looks fantastic. Many further discussion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed unanimous vote. Good to see you again. Good to see you all too. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good name. We now have agenda items six. No, citizens. Oh, I'm so quick. It's good thing I have Mr. Cure over here. General agenda item six before we get their citizens open forum. I'm not sure if anybody signed in. Nobody signed in. So I won't do the preamble of what citizens open forum is. And now I'll go. I promise I think I'm going to do it okay for the rest of the night. This is only four more agenda items. Six, Cyrus Dallen Art Museum. We have reference material regarding an update and two approvals. I'm not sure of Mr. Manager if you want to say anything first or should I call upon the representatives from the Cyrus Dallen committee. I'm Heather LaBelle and the Dallen Museum and Jerry Tremblay is here with me tonight as well. Just wanted to update you on the restoration of the Jefferson Cotter House. So as you know that the Dallen Museum, the nonprofit of the museum is really very committed to you know helping secure funding for the restoration of the house and helping guide the town with the restoration of the house. So we did identify the mass historical commission as the potential source of funds, the preservation projects fund, and that's basically it's state money. It's a grant program administered by the historical commission. It's for historic properties, landscapes, and cultural assets around the state register of historic places. And so we applied. I worked with Carol Kowalski and Patrick Guthrie who is one of our advisors at the museum and we received $65,000. We figured that that would be a great way to sort of match, supplement the capital funds that the town had already allocated for the property. So I have the, let's see the scope of work, and also I just wanted to to step back a bit and say that this process has been about two years and coming because last year I think I came and I told you about the conservation assessment that we had, the nonprofit had worked with an architect to have to have her identify and prioritize some of the conservation and restoration issues on the property. And that report that she wrote for us formed the basis of the historical commission, the the preservation projects fund grant. We wouldn't have gotten it without that first. So it's kind of this is, this is how we hoped it would work out. So we got this recent grant, $65,000. It's going to be matched by a combination of CDBG money, I believe, and capital funds for the house. The bid package was announced in December. It was advertised for three weeks. The bids closed January 5th. We received three bids and we're in the process. Ted Fields has been managing the process for the town now and we're just evaluating the contractors and should make a decision soon. What else to tell you? So the scope of work will be the replacement of the roof, repair and replacement of the roof drainage systems, repair of the exterior woodwork, restoration of the windows and doors, and exterior painting. Part of that too is a paint, exterior paint analysis, which will determine, we probably will be able to go with a different color. Wouldn't have been white historically. So maybe not far, like stone colored or cream or something like that, but it'll be a very nice finish to the project to have a new coat of paint put on the house and if it's got a little bit of color to it, it'll pop and really stand out in the in the park. So we hope that as soon as the weather breaks we'll be able to start work, so it's some time in March. The work has to be wrapped up by the end of June and there are going to be some issues I think with contractors access to the property. So they're supposed to not take up too much space in the park around the the house, but they may need some parking spaces for their trucks and some space in the roadway there that I'll come at another time with a map. I don't have Ted's going to help me with pictures and maps to show you kind of what we think might might work for that, but that that will be maybe our next meeting. We can go over that with you the access issues. So does anyone have any Mr. Don question? Thank you. Good to hear. The bids came in roughly where you'd hope. They were high but that I guess from what Patrick Guthrie says that's pretty typical of the public bidding process the lowest bid was 170. So the so the we're thinking 130, 140, but 170 came from Alson and they are presently working on Maple Street property and they're doing a pretty good job. So we're checking their references and and Ted is pretty confident that we can make up that difference in CDB with CDBG money. Why does it have to be done by the end of June? It's the grant program dictates the so it's got to be done by the end of the state's fiscal year. Okay. And maybe I don't know is the permanent town building committee also involved in this process as well in some way or they is it just totally separate that the permanent town building committee that maybe that question for yeah, I don't know. I mean I've been just working with Ted a community development and planning. So they're not but I think it would be worthwhile to have a conversation with John Cole. We'll see if he thinks it would fit. I think just yeah let's make sure they know. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And my only question comment would be because perhaps at the next presentation unless you know right now off the top of your head, thinking of when the farmers market opens in this project in the area that's located. Do you know or do you have an idea when you say end of June do you literally mean the end of June for the project? Do you have a date or will you tell us that you next update? Yes, we'll have a better idea once we select the contractor and we sit down and work out the project timeline with them because they part of the contract stipulates that they really they can't interfere too much with our regular operations. So I think the farmers market probably should fit into that as well. So we hope that it's done way before the end of it's a small house. I don't think it should take that long to to do all of the work. So if we start as early as we can in March as soon as the weather breaks, hopefully it will, you know, may take, I don't know, I'm hoping a month. So, but we'll update you as we go along. And that's fine. If you do see that the project's going later into June, I would assume working with the town manager's office planning department sort of have the backup and or let the contractor's subcontract is no. I'm assuming the tail end of the project won't be as intensive as the beginning. So it may not be that much parking. But I'll leave that at the next meeting when you come in with Mr. Fields and anything from the town manager. Okay. Great. Yeah. Mr. Barr, thinking about the parking might make sense for the parking implementation and governance committee to kind of take a take a look at it even, you know, before we come back to the next Selections Meeting. Might be good for us to have some eyes on it because we're kind of looking at the lot and how the center works in general. So I'd be happy to, you know, relay that to the committee and kind of dive into it. Why don't we formalize that and take that as a motion to refer to the parking implementation and governance committee by Mr. Burns, seconded by Mr. Curell on this particular item, many further discussion. If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. That was closed. Thank you, Mr. Burns. So if you want to send the plan, any plan say up to Adam, I think that we can kind of work it out in the committee. I can connect with Ted Fields as well. Perfect. Okay. So what we're thinking when we have a better idea of what we know we're doing. Okay. Just to talk to you. I'll leave it to Mr. Barn when appropriate. I'll be happy to report to you. And then I believe you have a second part concerning two events in July and August. Yep. So we'd like to have host a celebration. The nonprofit would like host a celebration at the completion, in August actually, to give us some time to plan for the completion of the restoration of the house. And so we wanted to reserve the park for that date, which is Sunday, August 7th. And then we have a rain date of August 14th, the following Sunday. And we also would like to involve the town and everyone who helped make this program, make the project such a success. And I'd like to kind of be in dialogue with you all about that as we get closer to the event. That's okay. And do you want to, in one motion also, incorporate the Saturday July 23rd? Yes. So then the other date was Saturday, July 23rd for a free family performance by the River Creek String Band. And we're not quite sure on the timing of that, so we were hoping to just have the park for the whole day. Whole day meeting, 7-8 to 7-P, 9-8 to... Yeah, it'll be a family affair, so no later then. So let's say 7-7. That would be great. If we could... Why don't we say right now 7-7, and if things should change, if you could just let the select man's office and the town manager know. So a motion for the August 7th event with the rain date of August 14th, as well as the July 23rd event. Moved by... So moved. Mr. Kuro, seconded by... Second. Mr. Dunn, any further discussion? If not, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Unanimous vote. Thank you so much for everything that you have on your plate. Oh, it's no problem. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Agenda item 7, Arlington Conservation Committee, an update regarding assigned installation of great metals as well as a request. I see Mr. White is here. Hello, I'm David White from the Conservation Commission and we have two items tonight. One is reporting across Lexington Trails Program. This program is a program to get people outside and walking more in the outdoor areas. The first step of this program was two loops, A and B, in Central Lexington about three years ago. In 2014, they went to extend this program to create two loops in East Lexington, C and D loops. Those loops would include parts of Arlington's great metals and parts of Arlington's reservoir. They asked for permission to do that and we, the selectment agreed to that with some conditions that they identify which land was owned by the town of Arlington. That project is now completed. The signs are in place. The maps are available showing those new trails. And I've seen actually people now walking from the reservoir to great metals, walking from the Hupo Hill to the reservoir, which is really connecting parts of lands we own with other parts of Lexington. So it's encouraged a lot of walking activities there. The next item regards the invasive aquatic plants at the reservoir. You may be aware that every year Arlington spends about $20,000 to harvest water chestnut plants from the reservoir. Actually, half of the reservoir is actually in the town of Lexington. We, Nathaniel Stevens and I several years ago asked Lexington Conservation Commission for some contributions to support this effort. The Conservation Commission in Lexington recommended $10,000 to support the harvesting effort. But that proposal did not died further up in the Lexington. Government. I won't write it down then. So we are coming back again to ask the selectman of this town to ask the selectman of Lexington to contribute towards a aquatic plant harvesting at the reservoir. Currently that's funded by the Arlington Water Bodies Fund and we like to encourage a contribution for that effort since it is half in Lexington and people in Lexington use the reservoir and they have a park next to the reservoir. On Mr. Manager, did you have? Yeah, so I'll chime in. This was before the board. Was it back in 2014 or 2013? It was August 14. And probably before another time before that as well. In follow-up to that, I believe we had talked about at one point a letter but I had a follow-up conversation with the town manager who I otherwise get along with swimmingly. And he explained that there was just I mean even though it's a small amount of money just a very sort of fundamental dispute with funding this. I don't feel that I agree with it. I what I would suggest the board authorize me to do is start perhaps with a conversation with our recently departed from Arlington, Carol Kowalski who now has an important job in Lexington. See if she might be able to Make sure now. Give us maybe give us a little intel and help us understand what's happening there and then pivot from there in terms of sending a formal letter or a continuing informal conversation. I'll move the manager's recommendation. Move by Mr. Byrne. Seconded by Second. Mr. Dunn. Any further discussion? Mr. Dunn and Mr. Curell. Yeah just as I definitely think we should keep asking but I agree that it's not the you know it's not the battle that we're gonna you know go to war with Lexington over. So but I mean we should just keep telling them you know we think we think it's fair that you should pay. And someday we'll get there. Mr. Curell. Thank you. That was said by the guys when battling with all sorts of towns. I am just curious I mean beyond the the issue of fiscal you know equity and sharing the costs Lexington if they were to to actually share part of that burden would you see that we would have what else would you see us having capacity to do with the Tom water bodies fund that we can't currently achieve? Well I think if Lexington comes through with some pull we could probably reduce to some degree our water bodies fund request. Yeah. Great. Thank you. I mean I just want to note also that basically we pay twenty thousand dollars for the contractor but the R&D and DPW also does additional work as well as part of the supporting the effort. So there's more than just the twenty thousand dollars cost involved. Does the DPW crossover into Lexington territory? I think they I think they collected all from the out of your side. They are in the bill. I'm sorry yes. Okay on a motion by Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Dunn to authorize the town manager to have conversations with the specified Lexington town employee and or any other employees that he deems appropriate. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. An anonymous vote. Thanks David. I encourage people also to explore the trails next to the reservoir and great meadows. Thank you. The signs are up there. If you have any extra of those if you want to leave them with the select my office you can put them as people come in and or if you want to give some to the town manager's office or whomever else. And thank you for all your work on that. Thank you so much. Um agenda item eight the community choice aggregation warrant article request if I could ask the town manager to sort of give us a prelude and then call upon the proponents. Yeah. So in as a matter of brief introduction this warrant article request is about community choice aggregation and the folks from mothers out front will get into this in greater detail but this is essentially an issue that would need to be approved by town meeting by which not the town government but the entire population of the town would be able to bulk purchase electricity. And if they choose also by a greater degree of green or renewable energy then they would be able to buy from ever source. So there's a process that you can go through working with a consultant to actually aggregate your usage to go out get a competitive price allow residents to actually all residents would be part of it but then they'd have the ability to opt out. So with that I don't want to get ahead of them. I don't want to stuff in your phone. If I could ask whoever would like to speak to this if you could come up to the microphone and just say your name and go from there. Thank you so much. Good evening. Thank you for allowing us to speak to you about the warrant article we're proposing to engage a broker for Arlington search for a greener more affordable alternative electricity supplier. I'm Carol Saunders Chamberlain and I'm joined by my colleagues Ann Goodwin Ann Wright and Krista Kelleher from Mothers Out Front. Our entailer is also here both as a Mothers Out Front member and as a representative of the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance. Mothers Out Front works throughout Massachusetts toward a livable climate for all children now and in the future. We are building a townwide coalition to support this warrant article which currently includes Sustainable Arlington the Town's Energy Working Group and the Massachusetts Climate Action Network. I'd also like to acknowledge Ryan Katowski who is Sustainable Arlington's representative on the CCA project and who helped us craft the article and comments. Ryan our entailer and I are also members of the Town's Energy Working Group. We are proposing a warrant article because green community choice aggregation seems to be the fastest way both to quickly reduce our town's use of fossil fuels and to promote the development of renewable forms of electricity generation. Several neighboring towns including Brookline, Lexington, Cambridge, Dedham and Melrose are pursuing green CCAs. Organizations like the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance are supporting the development of green CCAs. We've supplied you with a packet of information on the topic and we'll be happy to answer your questions at the after our 10 minute presentation and in general this will follow the PowerPoint that you received copies of in your packet. So what is CCA? CCA or Community Choice Aggregation is a process by which local governments can seek proposals for cleaner and cheaper sources of power on behalf of residents and businesses. It is outlined in the Massachusetts Restructuring Act of 1997 Chapter 164 Section 134. In some areas such as a very large CCA in the Cape Cod Area CCAs have been done simply for local control and cost control reasons. We are looking for an alternative provider that will both keep costs roughly the same as or cheaper than ever sourced but also increase the amount of renewable energy used to generate our electricity and even with increased renewable energy by consolidating residential and commercial retail electricity demand. CCA has the potential to help Arlington residents and businesses save money. So how does the CCA work? Instead of ever sourced basic service Arlington selects a new default electricity supplier for residents and businesses over a set period of time. When you look at your electricity bill you will see a supplier services section. This is where we would see the name of our CCA supplier and the price per kilowatt hour we would have negotiated for Arlington residents and businesses. We would still get our electric bills from ever sourced. All residents and businesses currently on basic service would be switched to this new supplier and given this price. There are some really tangible benefits to customers of a CCA. There is no cost to the town but there is local control over prices. More stable prices and probable savings compared to ever sourced basic service over time. And purchasing more local energy puts money back into New England economies. Participation is optional. Arlington residents and businesses do have a choice. They can opt out without penalty. They can choose to opt up and support more renewable energy. They will not be automatically opted in if they have already chosen an alternative supplier. But one of the most important benefits is that a CCA can help Arlington support more renewable energy thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions which are creating the dangerous scenario of climate change. Through CCA ratepayers support more renewable energy from Class 1 New England sources. Class 1 renewable energy is energy that is generated in New England from projects built since 1997. It is designated through specific guidelines in the Massachusetts renewable portfolio standard or RPS. Melrose, Denham and Salem have been able to include 5% more Class 1 renewable energy than is currently required by the RPS and still keep prices competitive with ever sourced basic service. A CCA with increased Class 1 renewable energy content can help Arlington and Massachusetts transition to a cleaner more efficient energy supply and by increasing renewable energy in our electricity supply Arlington is complying with a state mandate the Global Warming Solutions Act in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. So why is buying Class 1 renewable energy so important? Because it is the best way to put money back into the local economy and it results in the development of more renewable energy. It may surprise you but not all renewable energy purchases actually make this happen. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council or MAPC has selected a CCA broker through a request for proposals process. Any community in MAPC's service territory can use this broker. The broker's job is to help a community get a supplier that can provide the price and product it wants for its CCA. This fall Arlington sat on the selection committee for the MAPC broker selection process. The committee selected good energy. The fact that good energy has been pre-qualified and that Arlington had a major role in choosing it helps in a number of ways. It can save Arlington time and it ensures that the broker is a good fit for Arlington's needs. Other participants in the MAPC procurement process were Somerville, Sudbury and Newton. So here is how the process of CCA would work from here on. This process the process outlined here was developed by the state. First, we need to get town meeting approval to retain a broker and begin. We could retain good energy. The MAPC selected and pre-qualified broker. Good energy develops an aggregation plan with Arlington. The plan is reviewed and approved by the board of selectmen then reviewed and approved by the attorney general the DOER and the DPU. When the plan is approved by all of the above good energy would issue an RFP for a competitive supplier. Then the town chooses a competitive supplier. The supplier helps with the public education before launching the CCA. It is really important to understand that there is no obligation to proceed at any time and no cost to anyone until the supplier is selected and the plan is set in motion. The only commission the broker takes is included in the price per kilowatt hour that electricity consumers pay on their bills. We've been told that a standard fee is a tenth of a penny per kilowatt hour. Remember that we would still end up with a rate that includes this fee and averages out to be competitive or cheaper than ever sources basic service price. Arlington is doing great work and can do more to contribute to state national international emission reduction goals. The state global warming solution act and the national new energy for America plan emission reduction goals are as follows 25 percent reduction by 2020 which is the state goal 80 percent reduction by 2050 which is a goal of both. CCA accelerates our progress toward these goals. Our warrant articles being submitted to you today by the town manager on behalf of the energy working group. However if the board would like to sponsor the article all parties involved would be more than happy to accept. In the town of Brookline where CCA is being pursued the board of select men sponsored the CCA article. There is more information about Brookline's articles and votes in your packet. Here is the text of our warrant article. To see if the town will authorize the board of select men to commence a community choice aggregation program and contract for electric supply as authorized by MDL 164 section 134 and through CCA decrease greenhouse gas emissions from the generation of electricity for Arlington residents and businesses by pursuing an increased amount of class one designated renewable energy that is required by the Massachusetts renewable portfolio standard or to take any other action relative there too. In summary we're enthusiastic about the possibility of a CCA in Arlington. As you can see in the appendix A in your packet many other communities are looking into or doing similar CCAs. A CCA would be an efficient way for our town to contribute to the state's goal of reducing emissions by 25 percent over 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. We are aware from energy working group members and other energy experts that if we continue as we have been over the last few years the state will not meet its emission reduction goals. I think we have all seen recently that there is a serious commitment on the part of many internationally to avert climate disaster through efficiency demand reduction and greening the grid but this doesn't happen easily or automatically it will require local action like CCAs. We are proud of Arlington's commitment to additional solar energy energy efficiency and other important steps taken in the past few years and we hope that the board of selectmen and the town meeting will support CCA as a critical next step. Thank you. And now we are happy to take any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Kuro. Thank you very much. Thank you for the presentation and I know you've done a lot of outreach also throughout the town on this. I really appreciated the packet of material you provided. I did have one question and it appears in the warrant article language itself. You talked a lot about the class one renewable energy. What constitutes class one for a class one designated renewable energy? Yes. I'll have Aaron. Hi, I'm Aaron. E.T. Class one renewable energy is designated by the state renewable portfolio standard and it actually in the standard it lists specific types of generators that could qualify like wind, solar. There's a list of them and then it also requires that this renewable energy source needs to be built since 1990. After 1997. Okay. So those are pretty much the main qualifiers for class one renewable energy and it needs to be in New England. In the New England power grid region. Great. Thank you. You mentioned that good energy was pre-qualified. Oh, we were pre-qualified with good energy and that they would be responsible for issuing an RFP to identify a competitive supplier but then the town itself actually designates that competitive supplier and I don't know if the question is to you or to town council or the manager who actually in the town in this case makes that final selection and signs off on the competitive suppliers at this board or is it the manager You know we I think we have to research that but I would I think it would be the board you think it would be the board. Yeah. Okay. Great. And I was also wondering if you and I think this is for the manager also if you could talk just a little bit about the MAPC process that we that we sat on was that initiated from the energy working group or the our inner well now our facilities director brother energy director or if you could talk a little bit about how we became involved with the Yeah. So we became aware that MAPC was going to be pursuing a collective procurement to be able to identify a consultant or consultants to work on community choice aggregation and meeting with the energy working group with mothers out front at the table we decided that even though we'd be eligible to be part of it just being in the MAPC catchment area that given our interest in it we should have someone at the table helping to screen the consultants we actually had Eve Margolis the management analyst the town manager's office attend a number of meetings to go through the selection process go through the criteria actually even help trap the RFP again wanting to have as much input as possible a lot of input from mothers out front from Ryan from sustainable Arlington so we we tried to have as much of a fingerprint as we reasonably could on the selection process all right great thank you very much I have to say that that you know first plus I mean we look at all of the debates on the international stage and the federal stage and I feel like approaches like this just drive home again that at the end of the day it's probably going to be municipalities and states that I have much more direct impact in trying to combat climate the impacts of climate change I also have to say just just as my role on this board and some of our recent experience with cable contracts that when I look at this and something like community choice aggregation it feels like we actually can make an impact here in a way that we can't do after going through that whole process with you know listening to the cable companies present and then we can't impact the package they offer or the choices that are offered to the consumers we can't impact the prices at all and I the beauty of this when I when I compare that you know as a utility is that we actually can make some positive impacts here so I'm really glad that you've brought it forward and the managers brought it forward I'd like to hear what my other colleagues have to say but I'm I'm pretty enthusiastic about this Mr. Brown yes no I am I agree with Mr. Currow one I'd like to thank everyone for all their work on this I know this was you know a long endeavor I know that we've met you met with board numbers individually and it was a great learning experience for me and I will I'm happy to you know support this as well I think for two main reasons the first is as was you know touched upon several times was just the debate that's going on locally all the way you know up to the international level and I think that when we look at clean energy resources we have to you know make them as available as possible and I think this is a you know one main way to do this and secondly I really like that it's an option you know we're not forcing this down anyone's throat it is you know a simple opt-in or opt-out and I think that that makes it you know very easy to implement and you know just a common sense way of moving forward so I am yeah I'm happy to move forward um in any way that the board sees fit but I I look forward to supporting this Mr. Dunn in 2002 I think it was I was appointed to the first committee I was ever appointed to in Arlington which was the Arlington Power Municipalization Committee which was created because NSTAR couldn't keep the lights on and uh and so with the we were having so many outages we were calling Arlington the Third World Country which I'm sure many people remember and uh we looked at both municipalization at the time and aggregation and uh at the time we weren't we we issued a few different reports to the town meeting but we weren't ready to to set to recommend it but I could definitely can it it seems to me that this presentation is a lot more mature than the conversations that we were having then and it looks it's an idea that I that I could support I think towards the very specific question they have about whether or not the selectmen should be um sponsors of this I'm actually happy to leave it as a town manager we still get to weigh in as to whether or not it's a yes or no but I actually I like the fact that it's being brought forward by the groups that it's being brought forward by and I think that there's a lot of frankly I just think it'll do better town meeting that way just to sort of encapsulate and try not to repeat um I agree with in terms of when you sponsor a warrant article you've sort of lived, breathed and worked and evolved with the specific issue and we have received many emails information in our packet the town manager and the mothers out front have been very accommodating about getting this the information but I'm in agreement with what I think I'm hearing that this be a warrant article sponsored by the town manager and mothers out front with support unanimous or not but I think I can see where we're going by the board of Selectman I just have sort of one question just because and if you tell me stop right there we just included Brookline to you know give you an example what I'm looking at is where the actual funding from this comes the way I read the warrant article and vote by the Brookline board of Selectman it basically says that the residents have an option to contribute monies an average of seven dollars per month so my question would be would that be the similar similar vehicle here in Arlington residents would have an option what are the ever the averages and exactly how we anticipate that working or am I going off Mr. tell me so what that with that particular seven dollar reference to would be if residents wanted to buy more green electricity so it doesn't actually fund CCA or community choice aggregation it funds a choice to purchase a higher level of renewable energy and the actual funding is from yeah I mean as far as I see this there shouldn't be any traditional taxpayer dollars spent on this effort other other than town staff time you know dedicated to working on it that's great and I only ask that question because I'm thinking CPA a possible dead override high school Minuteman middle school elementary so when I saw that from Brooklyn I think what I'm here for my colleagues it may be a motion of support of the warrant article submitted by the town manager mothers out front moved by or someone wants to amend that I'm sure I'm kind of clarifying question I I'm I'm trying to make sure I'm following this my understanding is that Mr. Bernie Mr. Kuro are suggesting that they're maybe amenable to this article coming from the select men whereas you and Mr. Dunne it appears they're suggesting that they're you're happy for this to come from the town manager and and these private groups and that a warrant article hearing later there would be some expression of support on a positive recommendation am I misunderstanding well I'll wait to hear a motion because I heard support four times yeah I definitely I I was you know willing to I wanted to hear out the discussion I wasn't saying that the board should do it okay we should recommend it to Mr. Kuro yeah I think I'm playing board no that's it perfect I think my view is I it seems that the board is very supportive here but I think in some ways it hold it carries more gravitas have a take comes from the manager and comes from the energy working group who have been working directly on these issues first for so long it's also important I think that we I think the proponents recognize that the procedural nature of town meeting means that we are going to have to come back here on it on a formal hearing for this that will be you know open to you know anyone wants to speak pro or con and at that point this board would take a vote of an official recommendation to town meeting for them to vote on I think we can I think the sentiment here is pretty clear all right so um it seems like where maybe we should entertain a motion to receive the report and presentation by the manager and proponents by Mr. Kuro second and by Mr. Byrne and I only say that because we're going to take a vote when we have the actual warrant and an article hearing any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote thank you so much for your presentation in the pack of materials and fortunately or unfortunately you'll be seen us again yeah a few times fortunately it's a oh thank you oh my goodness we will now go to agenda item nine discussion town manager evaluation process Mr. Chapter Mr. Town Manager thank you Madam Chair let me start this by saying in response to Mr. Kuro I can't imagine how I could have more gravitas than the Board of Selecting oh I am I am helping you that was a good that was a soft one it's waste to be what what category is that that he's fishing for no go ahead sorry I couldn't resist yeah well what the Board has before them is a memo that was loaded into novice I had actually not loaded in the actual instrument the Board has used in years past but I provided a paper copy tonight what I'm what I wanted to prompt tonight was really just the start of the discussion I provided a draft of a timeline for submission of the narrative self-evaluation by me on February 8th that allowing the Board to review that self-evaluation and complete the evaluation instrument from February 8th to March 7th on the 7th bringing those completed evaluation instruments to the Chair of the Board then the Chair would work with the HR Director to compile the scores into that one consolidated our comprehensive document from March 7th to March 16th and then at the Board's meeting of March 21st the evaluations could be discussed and voted on by the Board in the public session Mr. Dunn Move approval I think this process has worked well for us I think we take it seriously I think it worked I think the feedback cycle has been helpful I'm really happy to do it again Second and yeah this is one of my favorite meetings every year I think we get a lot out of it so thank you So the way I understand it is we'll have the self-evaluation then the next sort of tickler date is March 7th for the Chair to compile Yeah so what what would happen is you just go through the dates again I didn't write it on On February 8th I'll provide a narrative self-evaluation and an official blank copy of this evaluation instrument and then I'd be asking Board members over the course of that course of that month to review the evaluation that I draft the self-evaluation and complete this document to be transmitted to the Chair on March 7th on March 7th and then between March 7th and the last date is March 23rd or 21st Should it be March 7th to 16th the 16th if I counted it outright I believe is the Wednesday or Thursday before the 21st so that we could have it ready for the agenda to be submitted put it on the agenda on the 16th and then have the Board officially deliberate on it on March 21st 21st I wrote down the wrong date that's it's sorry that's why I was sorry okay on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Burn any further discussion or suggestions I will say that I have availed myself with the current Town Manager in your predecessor that I usually have a 15-20 minute meeting in terms of when I gather my thoughts I plan on doing that again just as an FYI on a motion by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Burn all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed you unanimous vote thank you we now have articles for review article 6, 7, and 8 are pertinent to Minuteman Regional Vocational I'm not sure if I should call on Mr. Dunn yeah I'm happy to go with it article 6 Bond Authorization arguably it's the finance committee that should be doing it but just to cover basis they didn't actually make a recommendation I move no that we recommend no action a motion by Mr. Dunn of no action on article 6 seconded by second Mr. Burn any further discussion Mr. Manager only to add that not to put words in Mr. Dunn's mouth but no action today because there's nothing to act on yep okay all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote article 7 article 7 is to let Wayland out because they requested to come out and this is actually a moot point because it requires unanimous consent in Lexington at least if not others have already voted it down but Minuteman has asked us to vote on it I think we should say no because we wouldn't even in the we're going to say yes to article 8 I believe and article 7 we would say no because we want article 8 and so in the further defense is we're going to let Wayland out in the next article so this is not the place to do it so I move that we recommend no action because we need a better package in order to let of changes not just letting Wayland out second okay motion by Mr. Dunn of no action seconded by Mr. Cureau Mr. Chapter Lane have any further discussion if not all those of favor say aye aye all those opposed and now the much anticipated article 8 yeah so this is the big one yeah this is so we were here two years ago and we approved very very similar text it has changed in a few ways in the that I outlined in a previous meeting with us all there's a change in the capital that a little bit so the the capital apportionment is for one student as opposed to five student minimum which is going to be some smaller towns have more perhaps more likely to stay in it says that effectively that Lincoln can leave if Lincoln chooses by by saying that the school doesn't have to be in a host community anymore it says where it has to be but it doesn't say it has to be but you know Lincoln can get out those are the changes since those are the the significant changes since we voted two years ago what's also included which we also agreed to two years ago significant changes to operating calculation significant changes to capital appropriation significant changes to the governance such that the committee is weighted and so we get a larger vote as opposed to just one vote at the school because we are obviously you know larger town it also includes a couple interesting governance changes such that if we chose and other towns chose that the school committee member can be appointed by the Board of Selecting as opposed to the moderator which is not something that I necessarily contemplate us doing but it is in there all in all this is the work of many many years of many people including Brian Sullivan and Adam and Al Tosti and Charlie Foskett and who have been our negotiators at at various point in time Steve DeCorsi the school committee members the list of people who you have to thank to get this to here is very very long so all that said I move that we recommend the town meeting adopt this new regional agreement second motion move favor the election by Mr. Dunn seconded by Mr. Kiro any questions just because I'm please somewhat at novice at this I understand I read through in terms of the weighted vote and how that would be calculated computated et cetera I'm just wondering under the issue of I'm not sure what it's under the apportion portion amendment of capital costs it speaks to capital costs prior to July 1st 2016 as well as capital costs on or after July 1st of 2016 and then it outlines an additional funding vehicle of 1% being afforded to the member communities regardless of student enrollment so my question is when we're talking about the apportionment of capital costs the way that is to be determined is that our standing or status in our weighted vote category or is it something the voting calculation like how much of a vote we get and how much we pay in capital are different formulas they're not the same formula is that where you're and that's that's my question because I saw it is two separate things they absolutely know at this point I'm just thinking on behalf of Arlington how we will be assessed or is that to be determined it's um so the exact numbers I'll look at them see if I get the but I think I can answer this one I'm pretty sure I can I can't so one of the elements that's in this that I didn't mention in my earlier presentation which I which I probably should have is that there's a significant number of towns who may be leaving the district and so and all 16 towns hopeful Belmont is meeting Selectment is meeting tonight and I believe that they will be the 16th town to schedule their special town meeting so at this point and I think the latest town one is either February 23rd or February 28th or 24th something like that and so there are some towns who will be voting to leave the district Wayland for instance we will not be a 16 person a 16 town organization will be 15 when they leave and there are a few others and so the exact number of towns left is going to drive the exact calculations of both the voting and the capital so I can't I can't give you an exact number however all the towns that are considering leaving are quite small so the actual contribution by each one of them is is relatively small one of the things you mentioned there is the 1% so every so for every town must pay at least 1% of the capital which is a lot if you only send one or two students I mean you're paying a lot and so that means that it's going to drive out some of those smaller towns for sure from that 1% which frankly is why I was willing to concede the five student minimum was because I knew that that 1% was there that I was still going to hang on to to some of our money so call it four towns are going to leave that's my best estimate could be five I'd have to double check the list so that means the 12% will come if four towns leave then then that'll you know there'll be 12 left so those 12 will drive that 12% plus there will be some driven by student enrollment plus there will be some capital driven by wealth factor and all of that is going to be what drives the actual capital number did that answer your question or not it got me a little more clear okay I guess what I would sort of follow up is there any sort of caveat understanding after all the special town meetings four to six cities or towns opt out yep then what we're left with in terms of member communities then when we talk about the apportioned capital costs as well as that 1% whatever calculation which you've you've sort of outlined but until we hear the results of the special town meeting we really don't know are we and I think the answer maybe no are we committing ourselves through a funding process and that's it whether four to six communities opt out or not or do we still have somewhere along the way that yeah we are committing to absolutely no expenditures in with this vote and in fact we are but with this with the adoption of the regional agreement we have more leverage to say no to future spending than we did under the old agreement so to say it again because it's really important there's no spending being done with this regional agreement and it gives us more leverage if the district chose to do a project that we did not approve of did you have anything you want to have yeah you know so said another way I completely agree with everything Mr. Dena said said another way I think we've talked about it at a prior board meeting one thing the district has been considering is putting a question on the ballot to authorize an eventual school project without disagreement in place we would be in a worst position if they did that it was successful so there's a lot of pro reasons to move this forward but there's also a safety net reason to move this forward to put us in a better governance system and in a better capital allocation formula should they put it on the ballot and be successful to do so all right now I've got it all Mr. Dunn I just would say and the other thing is I'm I don't know if you in terms of understanding the capital and how for of the proposal or the stuff that came from Minuteman it's kind of like a photocopied and it says and at the title it says capital assessment model appendix a and so that top table describes how a million dollars of capital would be assessed so it's like a hypothetical million like what fraction would be paid by what towns and you can see and at the top it's and so it says capital assessment model a appendix a then it says 50 percent enrollment 34 percent chapter 70 combined effort 1 percent each member capital base so that's the what it's telling you do you see where I'm reading that from okay and so that's everything that but you can imagine and so right now next to Weyland it says 23 thousand dollars of that million and so you can cross a line through Weyland hypothetically you know they voted four times to leave they're going to vote again and then we'll be into that 23 thousand will be have to be made up by everybody else and similarly Dover might go Boxborough might go Carlisle might go and the one the only one that starts getting to a size so to speak is Sudbury which is 53 thousand dollars okay I get it whereas Arlington Belmont Lexington which together combined for you know more than half are definitely not leaving okay and just with all this information provided I was really surprised that not only do we send the most students to Minuteman but comparing us to Lexington the difference between the two so obviously this Minuteman school is something that's very important to the residents and children of Allington I think we more than doubles and the amount of students I think our next closest is Lexington for some reason I thought that they'd be a little higher up so I don't want any of these conversations not that they have been geared that way to be totally money-driven funding-driven cost-driven without recognizing the fact that Minuteman is a very valuable asset to high school children in the town of Allington their parents and friends and family so I was just surprised for some reason I was thinking Lexington would send the most but Allington by far does so I think further on down the road with Mr. Dunn and Mr. Chaplain besides the fact of the amount of kids that we send there the knowledge in the intimate involvement in all the intricacies will definitely put us in good standing in terms of sort of shaping and modeling what the future Minuteman proposal will be and then hopefully getting the message out when at an appropriate time and funding and figure to the residents of Allington so I think you can you can bet on the fact that we will have a spending request at our regular town meeting so it's definitely coming okay I have a vote by Mr. Dunn a favorable favorable action seconded by Mr. Curel on article eight any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed that is also a unanimous vote next we'll go to the three pieces under correspondence received a motion for receipt by Mr. Curel seconded by Mr. Bern any discussion on the three items one is MMA annual town report award I don't know if the manager wants to speak to that so Arlington this year got third place in the annual town report oh we're dropping what are we doing I was I was angry at the young person so be happy to still be on the podium and then we have piece of correspondence from our acting director of planning regarding the public meeting regarding the housing plan on Tuesday February 7th at 7 p.m. in the senior center that's probably pretty self-explanatory and then we have a request for a crosswalk at the intersection of Warren street and I think Beacon I haven't gone on it yes Beacon street does anybody want to take any action on that for a crosswalk would that come under the I'm keeping in mind the don't over text tack excuse me Diane I talked to Corey about it and he feels that you should make the recommendation that it for attack because of the crosswalk and the situation where it is so moved okay a motion referred by Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Curel the agenda item for the written press for a sidewalk referred attack any further discussion if not all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote new business mrs. Cappalco attorney heim no new business mr. town manager two brief pieces of new business the board was made aware last week and we also issued a statement to the media but we have officially hired a new director of planning and community development Jenny rate who currently works at the MAPC is their assistant director of land use planning and their chief housing officer will be starting for the town of February 16th she has an extensive planning resume great credentials and a great reputation in the industry so I think she'll be really a great addition to the team here in Arlington any other piece of new businesses last Wednesday evening I had the opportunity to be the speaker at the friends of Robbins Farm Park's annual meeting at a home up off of Robbins Farm Park and it was really just a great event they you know they asked me to talk about things that were happening in town sort of the 10 minute snapshot of the number of the issues we're facing and they were a great group they were friendly they were accommodating they had a good grasp in the issues and just you know it was it was nice to engage with people in a positive manner in town that's all I have thank you Mr. Byrne and it's um you know quickly I was reading a article today in the state house new service and I mentioned that Mar Healy was going down to DC for the state of the union that she was going to be talking to the surgeon general and the white house drugs are and the article pointed out that she was going to talk to them about Chief Ryan and Arlington's plan to combat opioids so I thought that was really cool and kudos to Chief Ryan and his team and everyone else in town who's been working on that so thank you Mr. Carroll thank you school enrollment so the school enrollment task force did meet last week I think since then I have to say in eight years and elected office I've never received so many emails on a single issue in such a short time there's a lot of concern obviously with the parent community around the school enrollment particularly some of the proposals that have been floated around the Thompson and and how we accommodate the explosive growth in East Arlington so that will be taken up tomorrow evening again at the school enrollment task force last Thursday there was a public visioning session that was co-hosted co-sponsored by the school committee and the school enrollment task force at say 250 300 people probably in the in the in the town hall in balcony in balcony yeah indeed and um I wasn't there it was it was yeah in balcony actually yeah they had anticipated a lot of people not quite as many people as it turned out to be so the groups had to be split up a bit and focus community discussions really around tables just just sharing ideas around elementary school growth around middle school around buildings and facilities and such a lot of common themes came came out I think of those discussions which will be digested further as we as we go forward but it was a really excellent and I have to say it's been a really excellent civil discussion despite the the stakes and the passion that people bring to to the issues you know when they impact their kids just as you said on minute man we're always balancing the the dollars and the the real issues of the students so really we're taking this on kind of double barrel because Mr. Dunn and I will be tomorrow at the long range and Mr. chaplain at the long-range planning committee where the the school committee is has brought forward some material to to support the case that that the enrollment inflator that was put in place a couple years ago they they feel it's not adequately meeting that the needs of the school department there and so they will be expanding upon that tomorrow and we'll be discussing further I think and that's really all I have of new business but but stay tuned because I think that it's it's it's certain that one or both of of these discussions are going to lead to a need for board action Mr. Dunn I just want to point out to people that Wednesday the 20th community preservation committee public meeting so the community preservation act created community preservation committee who are looking at figuring out what their first funding projects are it is their first year of having that conversation and so here in town hall Wednesday the 20th at 7 p.m. All I got is there a a projected estimate in terms of how long the training or update will be or is it just a public meeting people come at last as long as it does I don't know what that I don't know enough about what the agenda is I know that they're seeking input on projects and plans I'm confusing it with something else I remember Ms. Rowe saying something about if you want to come and be trained on the CPAs two hours oh they did that over they did that already okay so this is a this is the public yeah this is a public committee this is what should the community preservation act or be funding in Arlington how do you choose what should we look at to all that oh great and who is it the community preservation act committee themselves that's sort of getting the word out through various avenues to different groups in terms of that this meeting is happening or is it yeah they're working with my office and using all our channels to push it all right push it out awesome that's it you know just one piece of new business and it may not even really be anything that can be reported back on I know we're you know we have the special town meeting and then we have the annual town meeting and we'll have finance committee more on articles as well as board of select men at all if I could just sort of take advantage of the town manager I know for the past three years and especially last year at finance committee when it came to and again this is thinking of when we were talking about consolidation of finances and other things including recommendations by the dor I know there has been for the past three years but especially last year I believe had spoken with the CEO Miss Johnson and also Dr. Bodie around the special education costs and sort of getting more of a handle on them defining them as well as projecting them out so knowing that you have to go to every meeting under the sun including that one I would just ask not to ask you to raise it because it's not board of select men thing but my memory from last year because as we all do I watch I can't really make many finance committees but I watch them all I know it's a topic that usually comes up around when you're there so what my request would be if it comes up and if there is a proposal because I think it was stated last year that would be because they were saying you know we thought we would get it this year and my memory is you'll definitely get it next year so if it comes up and if it is proposed if you could just provide us all you know a copy of that just as an FYI and then I'm saying it myself just sort of my sort of I don't want to say affinity regarding special education but I think you know my colleagues and others sort of know the vein the route that I'm trying to go down on that so I'm not saying it's a request to be done just if it is certainly would appreciate minimum summary I just want to check with this gentleman were you here for an agenda item or oh god bless you okay I just wanted to make sure I didn't want you to be sitting there all night and then we do that with that I'll take a motion to adjourn by Mr. Curell seconded by Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote