good evening welcome everyone welcome to the audience again to the Board of Selectments meeting for Monday March 27 slated to start at 7.15 we had a little technical difficulties there so I apologize but our audience and everyone else was here at 7.15 and our first agenda item is a proclamation for our treasurer Stephen Jay Gilligan I started to say earlier when I first got involved in politics and words introduced to different people and leaders in the town and I was really involved with environmental issues that's sort of my first entree to mr. Gilligan and looking over and what I'll read from the proclamation afterwards he certainly has filled so many other roles in the town where he's volunteered ran for office and served the town of Allington and so many capacities that I certainly wouldn't do justice to him are his family but I do want to say to Stephen and his wife Nancy who excuse me who have gotten a known gotten to know over the past 10 15 20 years in terms of their commitment not only to the town of Allington to the schools to the vision of where the town is going I think they're certainly a extremely representative couple along with their their daughter in terms of families here in Allington that benefit from the citizens that not only get involved but really go the extra mile to make sure that anyone who moves into town or who has been here since time began certainly can be appreciative of all the efforts and in energies that they've delivered sometimes to the I don't want to say detriment to their family life but someone else who is also tried to serve in that capacity I know it's a it's a real difficult balance and why we're honoring Stephen here tonight I certainly want to thank Nancy and Stephen and Nancy's daughter who have put up with people like me and others that have taken time away from the important really important things that you know other important things to you all so the first thing I wanted to do was on behalf of this board of select men and Marie sometimes the sixth select men as we say is to read a proclamation to Mr. Gilligan to a thank him for his contributions and be mostly highlight for others in terms of all the things he and his family have given to the town so with that I will read the proclamation madam chair should we make him stand at the microphone and be seen by the millions watching at home certainly certainly madam chairman I want to thank mr. Greeley for suggesting that it will give me an opportunity to say things I've probably never said before Kevin's line but I know what he would say we're not on a six-second delay okay and the proclamation reasons follows from all the members of the board and Mrs. Kruppelka and in the citizens of Arlington whereas Stephen J. Gilligan is a lifelong resident of the town of Arlington formerly the village of monotony in the town of West Cambridge living on Cleveland Street and Falmouth Road and three generations of Gilligan's having lived at his current residence and whereas Stephen Gilligan attended the John a bishop elementary school junior high East and graduated Arlington high school in 1972 and whereas Stephen Gilligan learned dedication of service to others by attaining the Eagle Scout award which is really important that's a great time commitment the Eagle Scout award which is scouting's highest and has devoted decades of public service to our town serving as a town meeting member since his 24th year of age a member of the historic district commission for five years creating news districts chairman of the conservation commission for 10 years and leading the enactment of the wetlands protection and flood flooding bylaw and whereas Stephen Gilligan held the confidence of the voters being elected three terms as a selectmen developing three bylaws the repairs to private ways the beer and wine restaurant licenses and the Cyrus E. Downer Museum as well as supporting the creation of the Human Rights Commission and whereas Stephen Gilligan with the confidence of the voters being elected to serve 11 years as treasurer and collector of taxes recovered 11 million dollars in old school fund collected 11 million dollars in old school funds and recouped over one million dollars in litigating against a national financial institution as well as fulfilling a strategic goal by proactively attaining a triple A credit rating for our town and whereas Stephen Gilligan retires from public life with 40 years of service to the town of Allington now therefore be it resolved that we the members of the board of select men congratulate Stephen Jay Gilligan on his many years of accomplishments and service to his family friends neighbors and fellow residents of the town to hereby proclaim Friday March 31st in the year 2017 as Stephen Jay Gilligan Day with all the honors and privileges forthcoming. Thank you so much Stephen. Madam Chairman I thank you and each individual member members of the board. Maybe I shouldn't say it in order of seniority but Mr. Greeley Mr. Dunn Mr. Carol Mr. Burn and you Madam Chairman I thank you all very much for this recognition. I'd like to thank the Adam chapter lane town manager Doug Hyme I town council for their graciousness as well. It has been a bittersweet decision to step down from office but as the saying goes all good things must come to pass and I'm sure there are members in this room who are saying that last a good thing is coming but it I have to say I took office as treasurer on April Fool's Day of 2006 and I officially leave office as treasurer on April Fool's Day of 2017 and I'm trying to figure out who told me what when and I didn't take the hint but there's something I would like to say it's it's I love the town of Arlington it has been a privilege and an honor to render whatever service I could. I first walked into this room with my first official steps in April of 1990 as a member of this board my wife Nancy walked in with me I was on crutches at the time and she held me up she's been holding me up ever since I take my last official steps out of this room with my lovely wife Nancy as I said it's bittersweet I want to thank you all for your camaraderie your jabs your support your competitiveness and your challenges and for that I thank you all and I just say go Arlington thank you all very much. Thank you Stephen and Nancy and Katie and I remember my um when you first were elected I remember you on crutches and my mother-in-law and J. Marie Ruthman and J. Marie Hillier Hillier with former Selecman herself were really big fans of yours and we're really excited when you were first elected as a member of the board of Selecman so that was sort of one of the things I don't want to say cut my teeth on but when I became aware of Arlington as a board of Selecman and and who are the people on it I remember both Ruth and Jane and others speaking very highly of you and Nancy and this is before you became parents so um so thank you very much I I do appreciate that and thank you Nancy um just myself personally just even letting me just you know Ben Gerrier on my family situation and the support that you provided me really has um touched my heart and I really do appreciate it and and I know I can count on uh talking to you in the future and unfortunately for you I probably will so I I want to thank you for that so um with that sorry we'll go to the consent agenda well surely surely others of us would like to say a few words I wanted to hug the show myself stand up again mr grilly I'm biting my lip no uh you know I've sat beside two Stevens on this board the most recent one needs some work but the first one I sat beside was Steven Gilligan and it's uh it it's a time I first uh got on in 1989 and as he says a year later in 1990 but uh you know I I think the comment I hear most recently is it's not the same old Arlington you know and they're right I mean Arlington turns over about 20 percent right every year in terms of who lives here or moves in or moves out of town but this Arlington for 40 years has been the better because of Steven Gilligan and we're less without it thank you mr grilly mr Doug so I would say that uh predates me by a lot but at the same time the very first things I was working on for instance was I came to this board for the to help create the info to change the data processing advisory board into the information technology advisory committee one of the first things that the information technology advisory committee did was advise on the purchase of a phone system and the phone system as I recall was being like the person who was making the proposal was mr Gilligan and I think that was my my first interaction with him and as a it's not as long as many of the people this table but that is indeed the I can I can tell you where I started and I can tell you where I am now and indeed mr Gilligan is here for for both parts Mr thank you I actually I moved to Arlington in 1990 so I think that you are the first local official I was aware of his name I was aware of so talk that up and you know I've appreciated over the years getting to know you certainly I think the first time essentially was during a training with the human rights commission I know you were instrumental in setting that up and that that's always been very very much appreciated I think by all have been involved because I know it was a tough tough fight when it first came into into being and getting to know you through the years schools and through this position I've really appreciated and appreciated talking to you about scouting so I just want to wish you well as you scout out new adventures as you leave here so thank you Stephen thank you very much Chairman and you know I think one of the one of the first committees I was on when I joined the board Steve was also on and I can say that we maybe had differing views at the time but I really have a deep respect for your commitment to the town Steve I really do and it's noticeable and I agree with everyone here that we will be worse off without you out being so involved so I wish you very well thank you and I just want to correct this I've learned a lot from this Stephen thank you and thank you everyone for being here for this first agenda item to honor Mr. Gilligan Nancy and Ms. Katie moving on to the consent agenda we have the minutes of the meeting March 13 2017 as amended we have the request for a special one-day bear and wine license on April 2nd 2017 at Robbins Memorial Town Hall for a private event Audrey Roth a request one-day all alcohol license April 15th 2017 Robbins Wittemore House for another private event Francis McQueenie we have a request for a special one-day bear and wine license April 15th at the Arlington Center for the Arts Theater 41 Foster Street for Blues Apocalypse 3.0 Carol Band and then we have appointment of new election workers Devon Diggins 208 Renfuse Street unenrolled precinct 14 Dorothea Jacobson 54 Medford Street Republican precinct 7 and Lynn Sullivan 23 Coleman Road unenrolled precinct 14 is there a motion to approve some move moved by Mr. Burns seconded by second Mr. Cureau is there anyone here on any the special events or anything else who would like to speak to that if not if there are no further questions on a motion by Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Cureau all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote Madam Chair I need to abstain on item two I was in Canada and not able to be here on March 13th and both favorably on the rest we missed you dearly did you really knew dead seriously so with attorney Himes consent agenda item two minutes of meeting we'll read 401 one abstention and under the consent agenda three four five and six will be a unanimous vote thank you Madam Chair thank you attorney Hime we'll now go to appointments first we have appointments with the board of registrar or voters William Logan bill term to expire March 31st 2018 if Mr. Logan come up and just say your name and address for the record and William Logan precinct 2 5 Mary Street and I believe this is a brand new appointment for you and yes I'll just give a little bit of my background I've been working on election since I was 15 on various campaigns I've also poll watched for various campaigns I studied election law while I was in election law while I was in law school especially the the Gore and Bush issue so that was very interesting and I believe in fairer and equal access for all people to vote and if I have to give a disclosure I've known Bill for many many years here in Allenton very active in East Allenton issues very active in electoral election issues as well as an attorney and certainly is well versed and has the experience for this positions so if there is a motion by to approve Mr. Greeley seconded by Mr. Byrne any further discussion Mr. Curell thank you very much I just want to say full disclosure that I'm an elected member of the Democratic Town Committee and according to the procedures laid out by law I know that you know Mr. Logan is here as as a nominee of the town committee I wasn't present for that the particular meeting where he was nominated but I do want to say that I think as an attorney long-time town meeting member I know he's also been a human rights commissioner and one of the first things that he did was to organize a public screening of Selma which dealt with the advancement of voting rights and I think the last time I saw you we were actually serving on a committee at a caucus to ensure a fair and impartial counting of the ballots there so I think you're well fit for this position thank you thank you any further question comments on a motion by Mr. Greeley seconded by Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye I suppose unanimous vote thank you thank you thank you bill next we have perhaps one of my last actions as chair regarding we had an opening on the ZBA the zoning board of appeals myself along with Mrs. Sullivan Mary and Sullivan conducted the interviews had some really exemplary candidates which is a good thing and some also is a bad thing because you'd like to appoint them all but in my opinion this round of interviews there certainly was an individual who rose to the top in terms of experience commitment and expertise and as well as initial knowledge in terms of exactly what especially with the zoning board of appeals with the MuGar oak tree development that's sort of at the forefront with some other issues before it so we conducted last week the interviews for the one opening that we had on the zoning board of appeals and I'm pleased to put forth to my colleagues tonight the individual that I had interviewed and chosen to fill the current position opening and that would be Sean O'Rourke if I could ask Mr. O'Rourke to come to the microphone name and address for the record and sort of a brief synopsis of your interest and what you feel you can bring to this position hi everyone how are you thanks as so I've lived in Allington for 15 years my wife Kathy and I we have two children Kathy has been a was a town meeting member for many years knows many of you I have been a lawyer for 25 years and handled construction law dealt with many zoning issues not directly but on the periphery and it was kind of my time to give back to the town and I think with my knowledge of the construction law and litigation I've handled over the years and I could benefit the board and I'm happy to serve and I want to say in terms of boards and commissions and committees you know when I first got on the board 20 plus years ago and now really have evolved in terms of the interaction from a board or committee or commission and I really felt that Mr. O'Rourke Sean with his litigation experience in the courts as well as being involved Tina's wife with the last year debt exclusion and getting a sense of the community and and really fostering that citizen involvement and respect and civility that he'll definitely be an asset to the committee so with that first if there's a motion Mr. Greeley yes so I would like to move approval it always amazes me we have a hundred boards and commissions in the town of Allington it's just amazing what quality people come forward like Mr. O'Rourke to be willing to give their time and serve especially I love this in his resume he once was a senate page to which he attended legislative sessions and he assisted in the operation of the senate the guys done a lot in his life already sincerely that this is outstanding qualifications thank you for your willingness to serve Sean definitely talked about that seconded by mr. I will second and I'll say when we think about Kevin mentioned the hundred boards and committees I there's a sentence here in Sean's letter that says I believe that applicants appearing before the zba should feel that they are listened to and treated fairly even if they do not obtain the result they want I think you could really take out zba and put any committee or commission in the town and I think that that's you know I'm happy to see that and that's something that I really think that we all need to think about every time we we do serve in one of these committees and I think that you'll be a real asset to it to the zba I know it's a you know it's a difficult or yeah I guess it is difficult but you know there's a heavy workload there and I appreciate your willingness to take it on thank you and before I call on mr. Dunn I did recognize mr. Sullivan who helped provide the information for the interviews last week but I did have Ashley Maher who is the zoning board of appeals administrative assistant sitting on the interview so she could introduce herself plus also give a parameter of the zoning board of appeals what her function is so mr. Dunn thank you as well and I think the I'm very pleased to see you here and volunteering so zba obviously the biggest thing the like the for the headlines that we're going to see the zba is going to see for a while is demugar property yes and that and what I just wanted to say to that was was the select one wrote a letter to the zba like we took you know formal vote on it wrote on it which wrote a letter which isn't something we do all that often but the gist of it was is that we really wanted the zba to take its time be very careful and render a like a high quality decision and that we wanted to make sure that the zba had everything it needed in order to do that which includes resources from the town manager's office or the planning department and the planning and the town manager of course is very supportive of that so you weren't there when you sent the letter so I'm telling you take your time be careful and if you feel like you don't have something you need to do it right ask for it because we really want to make sure that the zba gets the resources it needs to to get that decision well written right I will thank you Dan thank you and I do know I don't know if Mr. O'Rourke wants to speak to this in terms of if you were successful which it seems you will be in terms of the next steps that you would take whether it was getting the binder or contacting several officials I don't know if you want to speak to that or one of the things when I when I interviewed Mr. O'Rourke at the end he inquired you know what is the next step I should do and he may have already done it already which is get the binder out of GPW on Grove Street through Ashley Marr have a communication with town council and the town manager and perhaps outside council and the other step that he indicated was speaking with the current chair Pact Quinn in terms of I think I've encapsulated yes all the steps recognizing that you know Mugar is um oak tree development that's something on the forefront and recognizing that might be a little extra time perhaps and other zoning board of appeal members in the past only because that's the issue beforehand so on a motion by Mr. Greily seconded by Mr. Bern any further comments or questions if not all those in favor say aye aye those opposed unanimous vote welcome thank you very much I believe it's March 28th yes thank you next we have licenses and permits requests for a sidewalk cafe permit cafe Nero 311 to 321 Broadway Bruce Kitter is the business representative if you could just say your name and address for the record sir Bruce Kitter cafe Nero okay and if you could just um speak to your um sidewalk cafe permit request sure I got some do you want pitches or if you have them do if you want to put them is that okay up there or whatever works for you that's an existing one so that's it it's 20 it's 26 seat outdoor cafe it'll be fenced in uh planters really they're really nice we uh they're actually all our planters all our outdoor stuffs all custom-made handmade we don't use any cheap stuff it's all very high-end our all our umbrellas are handmade custom-made for us they're really nice cafes nice seats i think i have much of a public speaker so that's okay um you know so we got some nice seats um we'll put a few of these really the cushion seats in and then a couple of the regular seats here tables there'll be umbrellas everywhere um you know our managers will come out two or three times a day clean up make sure uh the place is kept neat and orderly we heard that the town wanted well there's a bike path or something coming right through where we are so we added a bike rack to kind of try to help out the community and give them a spot so they can put their bikes and then come in our employees have a bike rack inside in the back room we have a ton of space there so there's a big empty area up back we're not going to be utilizing i guess that's a vote mr grilly so uh the tree we're not we're not doing anything with that tree are we i'm not touching it are you kidding me there's gotta be a tree wood in the sound you know it's someone to mess with yeah yeah i'm sure i'm overproof will subject to uh all conditions are set forth moved by mr grilly seconded by second mr carol um any questions mr don so i guess i so i'm a little i was i had a similar question because i couldn't figure out like how the tree and the planter mapped on this on the diagram is it um it might just be the angle of that picture but we've measured that and it it it fits in okay without interfering with the tree okay i think it's just the angle of that picture so that so that pictures from uh guy richard hamilton he's our designer he got it online in the uk superimposed it and sent it over to me yeah so i might have just been the angle or however google does their map search thing or whatever okay cool i don't i don't want to i just but i did on the plans that you sent to us it shows three tables of four but there's an x through them oh that's that's the hat's his umbrella oh it means an umbrella it's it's a uk so he does all the design work in the uk and sends it over here to my architects in america and he drives in baddie all those things he calls he doesn't call he calls wood he calls it timber yeah just all the expressions that they have over there and he tries to interact with our architects it's uh it's interesting okay thank you dany susan and um i'm not holding this holding you to this but um the submission for your outdoor seating umbrellas i believe lists the cafe nero italian coffee company logo is that what you plan on being on the umbrellas yes i'm just curious i'm not saying you have to do that i just saw it in the submission but that's what you're planning on okay so it's the italian coffee company on all all four sides and then cafe nearer on the top that's perfect thank you i definitely appreciate that there's a nice design yeah that's yeah they're nice nice umbrellas umbrellas too so you can move around um anyone else here to speak to the sidewalk cafe permit for uh cafe nero if not an emotion by mr grilly seconded by mr curill all those in favor say aye aye opposed unanimous vote thank you so much and uh good luck thanks when you open uh soon we're about halfway through construction now so we made a few changes but i hope another four or five weeks thanks for choosing arlington oh okay it's my pleasure to clean down thank you um next um this is Sullivan do do we have anyone sign in for citizens open forum is there anyone here if you could just raise your hand if you offer citizens open forum no so with that i won't read the preambles recognizing that there is no one here for citizens open forum we'll go to traffic rules and orders and other business first we have gen item 10 for approval the curt brown memorial 5k road race april 30th 2017 um submitted by craig mcdonnell is craig or a representative here if you could just come up to the microphone and say your name and organization or address whatever for the record please my name is craig mcdonnell uh curt and i went to artisan together at alton high last october he had a long battle with cancer and he passed so i'm putting this together to try to um you know raise a little awareness and uh get the feeling together again feeling friends and whatnot and his wife lives up at hillside avenue with the two boys so i'm sure they'll be a part of the day if we get this approved uh and that's that's pretty much it and um the date as we said is april 30th 2017 starting at nine 10 a.m uh that was one of my um i gave marie two dates um i think the officer chose the 30th could that be modified because he's got a brother in florida i'm not sure if if he's sitting still not come up on the 30th so is that modified or can can we um if you have to consider mid-may uh the sunday before memorial day well when we vote we we need to vote a date okay so if you want to propose a date in may that's a little bit later okay um and and one of the questions i would have and perhaps mrs. Sullivan or someone else or yourself could answer that is in terms of um uh defining the parking um and maybe with a different date of may um perhaps the veterans memorial parking lot would be available i believe on this date on april 30th they not only have recreational activities but they had uh an event going on which would mean the alternative proposed site would be the high school okay you just have to have contact with them so do you want to request a date if it's april 30th we need to kind of nail down the particular tonight but if you'd like to move it further into may may yes if i could may 21st sunday may 21st sunday may so 5 21 17 at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. okay and then um if you want to um have the board vote that tonight subject to um terms and conditions of making sure that if the rec department parking lot is available you can speak to the rec director john marshal i think isn't it john marshal as well as if you could just double check um i speaking to officer cori reto how far your walk goes if it does go into the lexington side um you'd have to submit a similar request to the board of selectmen in lexington or if you somehow want to modify the walk and you have enough time between now and then we actually chose a route that was like uh the cross country would i guess is the rink bike path circle the res come back to the rink so so they won't be in lexington or mrs. Sullivan cori didn't realize at that point in time that it did just go on a bit so he he did put it in his report and we can follow up and maybe modify it or you know okay a good deal of the res is in lexington oh yeah yeah you're going around and yeah okay all right can i have oh mr dunn yeah i'll move approval subject conditions but i just uh so wish you best of luck with the event uh with the with the size i'm comfortable approving it for this time one thing to think about is that that bike path starts getting really crowded on weekends when the weather gets good so if your event is uh frankly more successful like in future years it's your i'm gonna ask that you move it actually like do something either change it off the bike path or move it significantly earlier okay because at that particular time you're going to start like i mean when you get there you're going to see it it's going to be like you know back and forth both ways and you know 50s 100 people that's fine but like when we have other requests for races and things like that coming in we say things like you have to be off by nine okay because uh that's the only way we can do a big event without uh interfering with the regular you know recreational use okay but good luck and i'll be happy to support it motion by mr dunn second second mr burn mr curill yeah yeah i think i think dn raised a good point actually my daughter's on the cross country team they actually do the res only but they do several several loops of it just just and i think it's partly for that for that reason but but give it a go this year and see see how it how it goes um i think for the bike path portions i believe that that's under the town manager's jurisdiction also to give the permission i think for us it's probably mostly the sidewalk portion okay and um on a motion by mr dunn seconded by mr burn for a nine a.m. road race on may 21st 2017 subject to amendments condition stated therein i would ask mr mcdonnell to contact the selectman's office mr sullivan and if um i can i was going to say the and also the town manager's office in terms of making sure the parking and everything is is all set up um anyone else who would like to speak to this issue if not all those in favor say i i those post unanimous vote good luck and thank you so much for doing this thank you thank you nice thing to do thank you next we have for approval the world world vision global 6k for water may 7th 2017 um is christina lee if you could say your name organization and or address for the record when you get a chance excuse me i am christina lee um i'm hoping to have you sit there sorry okay um world vision is an organization um that's based out of chicago and they do uh worldwide support for um children and families who are living in poverty so six kilometers is the average distance that um children in the countries that they serve have to walk to get to water um typically not a clean water source so um world vision is hosting a worldwide 6k it's not we're not having it as a race um it's going to be a walk because most of the people who i'm looking to have participate are young families with children and strollers um so there will not actually be any racing you know it's going to be timed um and so for every person that registers a clean water source is provided for a child that world vision serves in another country mr quirley um thank you for doing this can you drive it we had only walking in this case because i couldn't walk it but no no drive i mean it's going to be in the bike path so i don't think motor vehicles are permitted on the bike path i think this is wonderful i heard recently on npr that for $50 it could provide clean water to a family for their for a lifetime so any of these causes that are working to do that so thank you and move approval subject to conditions is set for second seconded by mr curill mr dunn you heard what i said about the last one in the trap thank you it's it thank you very much and i know and believe you received the different pieces of correspondence that we all have and it indicated that if you anticipate as you're getting your registration and if it goes over 100 that you need to um coordinate that with the town and not that this will still go forward but there may be some one or two extra steps that need to be implemented i just want to make sure that you all were aware of that thank you um anyone else here to speak to the world vision global 6k on may 17th on a if not on a motion by mr grilly seconded by mr curill all those in favor say aye all those opposed unanimous vote again contact the selectman and or town manager's office and good luck and thank you for doing this thanks good to see you next we have final votes and comments and i believe i had a i know i had a brief conversation with attorney heim and i think though was it the wording for revolving if you could tell me there's two that we need to put on hold for madam chair i'm sorry there actually four that we need to go for i apologize the first articles 29 30 and 31 are the cdbg application the bylaw amendment for departmental revolving fund bylaw and the revolving funds those are still being put together in conjunction with the offices that pull together that information and then also article 19 vote on the appointment of town treasurer um i'm sorry i apologize for this i'm still working on it to try to make sure that it reflects what a number of the select men have have been trying to capture you can throw me under the bus he called me and i didn't get what i said i'd get back to him so it's not duck's fault on that one in any event uh we do have a fairly substantive set of final votes and comments and i believe that we should have plenty of time given how efficiently we've run the schedule just yet i hope so do you anticipate do you anticipate attorney heim on an article 19 29 30 and 31 perhaps at the april third meeting absolutely um having some if not all of those recognizing you need to speak to the current chair and future chair and other members of the board i think what i've heard from the select men's office is that i need to have all the yes because no i'm not trying to put you on the spot so i will i will uh we have to send them out the 10th the reports so so whoever the soon to be incoming chairs um will have to tie up article 19 29 30 31 and on articles 11 12 13 14 17 26 and 59 for final votes and comments versus their motion to approve by some moves mr burn seconded by second mr dunn um any further comments on those warrant articles if not all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote and i don't believe we need to table the other four because we've discussed that they'll be on the next thank you madam chair gender item and right before i moved uh mr chapter lane have i missed anything i just wanted to mention to the board um before we go to correspondence received that i just um was looking at cause and event 5k that the board had previously approved that a prior meeting is on May 21st the date that mr mcdonnell just switched to so i don't know if you want to take a vote to give marianna and i the authority to work with him on an alternative date so he doesn't have to come back to an additional meeting is the same location so it's they cross each other they i think they turn around at the rink so they will uh move we amend the previous vote uh move to amend um agenda item 10 uh by mr grilly to have the town manager's office along with the selectman's office contact mr mcdonnell about a competing event on the 21st perhaps looking at the 22nd or other other is there a second second seconded by mr dunn any further questions or comments on that if not an emotion by mr grilly seconded by mr dunn on agenda item 10 is amended all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote thank you sorry about that i just thank you for no the chair should have picked up on that but she didn't shame on her um i'm going to go to correspondence received is anyone here for something else besides that because it's the last agenda item will take if not uh we have two items under correspondence received is there a motion to receive by mr curill seconded by second mr dunn um and we have the uh request reduction to traffic on alford road and lake street as well as a from uh tom and rami wilheim as well as a request from mr paul schlickman removal of pocking prohibition on mystic street which i believe that may mr chapter lane yeah so the board had sort of already informally referred that to me at the last meeting police the police department and assistant town manager are working on the signage in the legal department and the police department's traffic division are working on getting their proper updates to the website in terms of schedule one so we are we're on both of them already so if a formal vote to refer would be fine by me if that's what the board would like to do so on mr curill's motion to receive seconded by mr dunn is amended to refer to the town manager both of these items uh any further questions or comments if not all those in favor say aye aye all those polls unanimous vote we now go to new business mrs solovan well the election this saturday coming up everybody should vote um that's it attorney high no new business madam chair mr town manager mr chapter lane the only new business i have is that this wednesday is the rescheduled grant award ceremony for the small bridge award that the town received a five hundred thousand dollar grant so i think a few members of the board are going to be able to make it i may be able to make it i might not but definitely my grata marker in engineering will will be there that's all i have for new business i definitely i'm in court working not as a perpetrator working on that on that wednesday um any further new business uh mr griller uh just a couple quick things first of all uh we want to send our best wishes to mrs reader chapter lane for the imminent arrival and we also want to wish marie quipalca well who's uh unbelievable in terms of what she has gone through and the spirit with which she handles it and is younger than most of us i think um the i i would just like this board's approval um uh about i've spoken to you about this before this uh no longer necessary where we now have that you know the new technology in here and i'm going to start a fund raising campaign if it is with the board's permission to not do a whole lot of work just basically replace this with some sort of a wood frame but enclosed would be the um the selectons award plaques for the with the past winners and then to add any new winners to it and i noticed just from tonight that i'll make sure that we keep a ledge on it for times like this when someone brings in boards so i don't know if i need a vote or would but are my colleagues okay if i do that depends who's getting the next questions award i think not you as chairman i would like to task mr grilly um in organizing that effort and bringing back it to fruition for a future board vote thank you madam chair i think it's actually next year we do another round of the select wins award it's every five years so thank you mr bern yes i do have um two things actually um first i think it um we'd all want to congratulate the arlington high school hockey team for winning the state championship i went to the um game um when they won against central catholic and it was an amazing performance um they're just an awesome team um you know there was a ton of community support and it was just an all around great time and i think um you know they really made the whole entire town proud and um you know we're very lucky to have uh have them here um second we had a parking implementation governance committee meeting on friday um we one bit of feedback that um you know we received then you know ask anyone who has any comments to please forward them to me in the town manager is with the uh library lot um we due to feedback we heard um we decided to do pay by space um we thought it would be you know appropriate for say families if you know you're bringing a few kids in to not have to go back and forth to the car like in the other lots where it's pay pay and display um we had some issues with the paint in the winter and you know it's the maintenance seems to be a bit difficult um and so we are um you know trying to decide on the way forward and how to make that you know a bit more opera operable um i one option um would be potentially installing signs another option would be um you know going back to pay in display which um or the other would be pay by plate and you know i think there are pros and cons to all of them it's something that the group is kind of working on um right now and working through and um if anyone has any ideas so i'd please send them my way did i miss anything there no that was good um and if i could on that that that actually the um ollington center parking meters was one of the league of women voters uh questions the other night in terms of how successful has it been oh wow is it going to be expanded um to other parts of the town and uh one of the things uh that i highlighted and if i miss anything mr duncan also add to that was that right now it's just planned for the center i highlighted that mr burn was the selectman liaison um along with mr chapter lane and others that initially there were a few little kinks bumps in the road that came to your attention especially in terms of people who were only parking for five or ten minutes or came on a meter that had 11 minutes and they wanted the 15 and once that came to yourself in the committee's attention that that was addressed um and if anyone had any other kinks that they sought to refer to you and then i believe the way we answered the question on that in terms of expanding it to any other areas that right now there wasn't the plan for that because this was the initial how should we have answered that question better um i think that you nailed it there and that there are no plans at the current time to to expand it i think we're trying to make sure that you know the center goes as smoothly as possible we're a very agile committee we like to respond quickly so um please if you have any comments um or any feedback um regarding anything that has to do with me is we're happy to discuss it um i heard a staggering stat at the meeting on friday and that the free 15 minute button has been hit already 67,043 times which is in a row same person which absolutely um floored me but you know i i think it shows uh don't add up that revenue well you know it gets to i think a really good point about the meters and that it's not about revenue toss it's full turnover and it's working so we're um 67 when they first go in now it's december i would say is it three months yeah so it's um i have to say i'm guilty of two to three times a week when i deliver my transcripts at like five past eight in the morning to the post office there's three a week since december i'm part of the 67 well no that's that's what that's exactly what we want to see and we we hope we use it so it um it's working well and um yeah that's uh that's what i have for new business all set all set mr chaplain on that it's good mr carol thank you and thank you thank you for that i've been hearing great things about the inventory too it's great um i just wanted to just um thank our our staff we had the first um civics day was here last um saturday um but thank um shout melanne adam karowski those who organized the whole thing but our staff put a lot of work in to make sure that we had some effective uh display boards and and uh the chambers were neatened up a bit and and uh you know ready to to receive people and i think you know we had some good mr dun and i were there and i think with some good conversations with the residents who who um came through and you know hopefully this will grow um you know in in the future so uh thank you for that i want to thank the chair because i'm cognizant this is your last meeting presiding so i thank you for a year and in that seat and i want to wish you both well in the election this saturday i hope you pull it off so thank you no new business new business um uh i guess piggybacking on that which would have been my last um new business i i do want to thank my colleagues for um collecting me chair this past year as well as a lot of things that people don't see each member of this board who's kind of worked behind the scenes with me in terms of setting the agenda and uh effectuating uh what we needed to get out there as well as making sure citizens and businesses and department heads and others were recognized as well as helping me to do the job more effectively in terms of providing the information that it may seem at times that i was the person who presented it but it was my colleagues who actually did the behind the scenes work whether it was a sale of a property or the parking study anything financial so many meetings in terms of mma and others have gone to um that i haven't been able to so i really have and and enjoyed doing that and i have heard from especially since january the meetings of this board of selectmen that um people came up to me not just to give me credit but also my colleagues in terms of some what could be seen as um divisive issues um to the town that because of the five of us that it didn't really evolve into that and and people really felt very positive about interacting with town government and they recognize i think they've learned what board of selectmen what town meeting and others but um i just wanted to pass on the kudos that i heard from others to my colleagues in terms of um regardless of where allington was 30 40 years ago um coming before this board with the five of us here right now that um the only trepidation that people had was perhaps going before the microphone in front of a crowd of 20 or 300 um just the nervousness of that public speaking but they certainly said that my colleagues provided the environment that they needed to come up before that and i think that's really a testament to this board and and and where we'll go in the future and what previous boards and members of the board of selectmen have established so and i really do and i know you all know this take chairman um is an extremely uh important position and honestly i my vice chairman mr dunn dan really uh picked up some slack for me during the year especially at the last four or five months where things kind of built up um and really helped me to effectuate the job the way that i could so i thank all of you for electing myself for mr dunn this chair and vice chair um and i wish the future chair and vice chair um the same continued success that we've established the other three things just uh very quickly chair on that if i may for a second um in my 28 years that hearing we held that particular night that board of select men's meeting is the largest uh board of select men's meeting i've ever attended and i think the way mr dunn opened it added quite a bit yourself and by mr dunn added significantly to the civility of that discussion and you did just a magnificent job uh in terms of being fair and having uh so many speakers uh speak and i encourage all voters to get out there on saturday and return mr dunn and return mrs mahan to this board uh because they're a credit to this town thank you thank you um and then say that right too thank you mr really you can pass the 20 this way no i'm like um if we could if if uh possible uh what we've done traditionally the first week every april um and also leave to the future chair is the first week in april is usually autism lighted up blue if we can light up town hall that first week uh april third is the first official day of the kickoff for that um as well as um i'll probably be submitting to the future chair sort of a quick little recognition of that the second thing again um to the future chairman and vice chair along with the town manager there's been sort of discussions at this board of select men meeting in the past as well as at the league of women voters um in the ollington eats fundraiser that we had about uh the future chair with the town manager exploring a possible future joint meeting between the board of select men and school committee i know myself and mr grilly and others have banged this drum for a long time it may not be until the fall but it was really along the vein of the mass d o r report um and just a conversation about not a commitment to but a conversation about consolidation if possible if feasible and where fiduciarily um positive between town and school resources um whether it's in terms of bidding on projects whether it's a town school finance consolidated department recognizing the fact that any budget decisions monies expended uh or how to deal with liabilities on the school side has nothing to do with town or this board of select men so i just wanted to because i came up again um at the debate the other night and then um last two things are one of the questions that came up at the league of women voters was a projected date for the next override i had uh stated that from the last presentation that we had that the uh 2021 um budget would be the budget that would be talking about that we'd need for an override which could possibly mean 2020 there's also a discussion about 2019 i was wondering if the town manager um if either of those dates don't comport with uh what um i think it's mr don and mr curill on the long range planning finance committee or if you could shed it just a quick 60 seconds on that in terms of because people have asked me they're saying is it 1920 or 21 now so sure so uh thank you madam chair in the long range plan as it is currently depicted there would be the need for an override for fiscal year 2021 which as you suggested would most likely happen in calendar year 2020 uh however there has been discussions at the long range planning committee actually for more than more than a couple years now about whether or not the next override should be held off until the year it's needed or potentially be held before it is needed so that we don't drive the town to sort of a cliff scenario with very bad um impacts to a right doesn't pass so mathematically i would say what you said is absolutely correct that 2021 is today where we think an override will be necessary but there are ongoing political discussions about what the right time to have an override question is which could be 1920 21 and i think the only underlying factor is whether or not matching an operating override with the high school debt exclusion is preferable versus having them as separate votes in separate years and if mr done because that's where the 2019 which is where we're thinking about the high school if you could just briefly say where 2019 might come into play i just want to explain the two dates that's all and i'm not saying any date is wrong or right yeah no i mean until this board votes it it's not a it's not a it's not a thing and the so there are i've i've definitely come around there i think the town manager cited both reasons i think already one is that i think that we it will make a lot of sense to do it at the same time as the high school so rather than doing because those campaigns are so emotional and require so much energy that doing one campaign as opposed to two is going to be preferable and the timeline roughly aligns with spring of 2019 for that but it depends upon the state and the progress that that the school high school makes and then there's a question of if we put forward an override in 2019 and it fails we're going to be scrambling but we'll have but a year to put together alternative plans and like we'll be making a lot of cuts and we'll be saying here's like the next round of cuts that's happening whereas if you wait until the absolute last minute you're going to have one choice and that choice is going to be you know pass it or huge cuts and uh i would rather not get that close to that cliff so those are the reasons that i think work my current thinking is is that the 2019 is going to make sense so just letting everyone besides just the board um anyone else who follows us know that we will have no date has been set set but we will have discussions in the future there was the need for an operating override in 2021 which could possibly mean 2020 but there's also going to be some discussion um as determined by the future chair about whether um instead of having a 2019 and a 2020 vote do it all in 2019 so I just wanted to just because some people have had brought up and the bottom line is this is Arlington and you know we address the needs as they come forward and they're ever changing needs so um we're just trying to be responsive to that so there's no right date or wrong date I just wanted to let people know you know where the um divide or the extension you know so anytime between 2019 and 2020 for the 2021 fiscal budget and or high school renovation rebuilt um kind of look to 2019 2020 but nothing has been decided I just want to make sure people were clear on that so did we say that appropriately yep I didn't mean to so with that any further new business if not a motion to adjourn by Mr. Curell seconded by second Mr. Byrne all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed unanimous vote


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I want to talk about the changes bungee promised are coming and are in the works But have been hosh on ever since they mentioned these Via a bungee weekly update over a month ago, maybe even longer maybe two months I'm not even sure so the changes that were mentioned you can see on the screen now Although not many but a fact to stay in which Destiny 2 is in at the moment these changes no doubt We would take over DLC any time of the week. Well, I would for sure So new systems and rewards to give our most engaged players additional optional pursuits This is obviously a hint at a better end game and this is so so needed. It's unbelievable Better incentives for players who complete prestige activities again. This is what we need We need incentives to keep playing. We seriously need that quality of life Better rewards and replay value for strikes adventures and lost sectors Again guys, this is what's truly needed We need reasons to do lost sectors strikes and adventures and not just to be awarded an extra token because that will not do Private matches for the competitive community. Here they state. We are targeting early 2018 so that's great and it's confirmed to be on its way Crucible tuning like adjusted supremacist scone and better spawning rules now I am much of a PvP guy, but I know for sure a lot of PvP folks out there Ain't happy with the lack of updates and changes to the sandbox within this game better incentives for complete and crucible matches and Penalties for quitting competitive games Sounds like a great system for sure. Let's just hope those true warden playing crucible and not just an extra blue piece Okay, also when they say penalties for leaving games early. I hope they mean a true penalty and not something like Well, you backed out of that game early You won't receive XP for that match if they back out early Banned them for 20 minutes and not allowed them to play crucible if it's that harsh people will not back out It's as simple as that Continued improvements to the iron banner and the faction rallies including uniqueness of rewards Now back to which con they showcase this season through iron banner rewards and faction rally rewards and to be honest All seem great miss stream come out in the right time and the changes announced Look good and look like they would impact the future destiny in a good way ongoing improvements to exotics including adjustments to reduce instances of duplication new ways to spend surplus currency and materials looking at you legendary shards and An email interface which allows players to equip more than one email at the same time So these changes have been announced and why they won't fix every problem with a game It's still something to look forward to it still leads to a brighter future But within the time they've posted this the game has become even more of a nose People are straight up abandoning it and rightly so over the past few weeks We've seen few streams on a new DLC, which is out December 5th the curse of Osiris But we've heard nothing more on these changes They mentioned via one weekly update over a month ago the issue I have here is though because bungee and its current state Nobody really cares about a DLC if it's coming to a game, which is basically shit at the moment Changes are needed to the core system of the game to make this DLC worth playing Otherwise it will get boring after a week Yes for sure people the DLC has been in the work since before the release of Destiny 2 Most of the content is set in stone and to be honest content coming from this DLC doesn't even look too bad Imagine if this game's core was perfect We will all be looking forward to this DLC but the fact is Destiny 2 at the moment is in its worst state destiny as a franchise has ever been in in my opinion and nobody really cares about a DLC We need and want to know about changes to quality of life We need reassurance of that what they mentioned via that weekly update that these changes are actually coming And we're not just mentioned to keep us happy I for one would take a stream talking about these changes They mentioned and how they would impact the game and us as players over streams, which to be honest just spoiled the DLC They've basically already spoiled 80% of it and next week stream They're gonna show us all what we can obtain weapons and gear wise leaving us no surprise to have when a DLC comes out Another thing I miss I miss that element of surprise this game used to offer But yes for sure people bungee definitely need to take their head out the sand and address these issues We're all having even if they dropped a few lines on this next stream talking about major changes Which are coming and they understand we are upset and they're working on it That will kind of do at this moment in time But we ain't getting any of that nothing at all. It's silence on their behalf and I just don't get it Even this week's weekly update after the backlash from the stream mentioned nothing at all Something in my opinion just isn't right here and I don't know what it is But something definitely seems to be off about bungee as a company at the moment I don't know if they're having issues on the inside which are affecting the game I don't know if they're all good and dandy and plan to surprise us I don't know what's going on with them But I do know what's happening to their game as a result and it isn't good Yes, bungee have a majorly lower fan base, but they shouldn't be taking advantage of that Which in my opinion they definitely are and on that note guys. I am out Tell me what you think about this down below within that comments section Thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Instead of trying to select or enter or like down into a point of view, why not just be the view? Nice. There you go. That's love. And then you feel and see all the points of view so you become more sensitive.