FNN. The Tiger Financial News Network. News update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here for the Tiger Financial News Network Market Update at 10 o'clock Eastern time Monday the 27th of November just about to wrap up the month. Looking at the Dow down 40 at 35,348. This is leg D. I'll just show you this briefly. I'll do much more in my show coming up. The Tiger Technicians try to identify the lowest low bar count each success of the higher peak alphabetize them ABCDEFG but it's that fourth highest peak peak D where other things can happen. That's we become a little bit cautious and you wait to see what happens next. Well we're in leg D in the Dow. I made a new recovery high 35,410. This is just a great leg A up in the weekly chart. I'll talk about that in a moment when we get back. Meantime the S&P has already made its peak D on Friday. It had a lower high than Thursday so it's trading down 7 at 45,51. Why did I not get very nervous and say oh oh peak Ds. Let's see if everything turns down because the technicals are still darn good. We're looking at the QQQ also made a peak D on Friday with a lower high. We're looking at 389,50 down 5 ticks IWM has been one of the weekend to see it just stuck at 178 gold. Having a pretty good day considering it's up 12 at 2015 highest in the fighting over in the Middle East you would think that gold would pull back but it's holding very steady the first time that I'm seeing of the gold and look at the silver golden silver holding pretty darn well. In fact silver is having a very good move today. It's up 49 cents at 24,83. Let's go to the bonds. Bonds right now are up 20, 30 seconds so yields are coming down a bit. Look at crude oil, crude oil is down 13 cents at 75,41 and if you look at the DBA this is the agricultural fund. Look at that sharp move down. So we might be seeing some deflation we might see yields ease a little bit coming down. That's really buoying the market. I'll be back in a few moments with the Tiger technicians. I will discuss all of this in greater detail. That's our chapter here. My service is the opening call. Dating news there. See you in a few moments.


Income tax 2021-2022 tax software, HSA deduction, moving expenses, deductible part of self-employment tax and self-employed SEP simple and qualified plans. Get ready to get refunds to the max diving into income tax 2021-2022. Lassert tax software. You don't need access to tax software to follow along, but you might want to have access to the form 1040, which you could find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov. Our starting point being the single filer Adam Smith living in Beverly Hills 90210 100,000 on the W-2 income, 12,550 standard deduction, 87,450 the taxable income, mirroring that over here on our tax worksheet income at the 100,000 standard deduction, the 12,550, 87,450 taxable income, relying on the software for page 2 to calculate the tax at this point 1515, which we're mirroring over here the 1515. That's the starting point back to page 1. We're focused on at this point at line 10 the adjustments to income which comes from schedule 1 line number 26. Let's go check out schedule one line number 26 here schedule one looking at page number two. So part two, we're focused down here health savings account deduction. Now this might not be one that you see all the time and people might have this kind of tie to their employer situation in which case it might be basically taken care of hopefully by the the employer possibly with a reporting of the W-2. But if it is applicable and you have more questions about it, then you might want to go to the instructions for form 8889 which could find in the IRS website irs.gov.  This is one you might not see all the time and sometimes there might be a health savings account possibly that's going to be tied to the employer situation as well in which case it might be something that's going to be taken care of at least in part with the reporting of the W-2 form. So if there's a question about this one you might want to look at the instructions for form 8889 general concept being an HSA allows you to make annual deductible contributions up to 3600 for individual plans or up to 7200 for family plans as of 2021 to help pay out of pocket medical expenses in the future. If you're age 55 or older you can make an additional 1000 ketchup contributions. So there's some restrictions however so not all taxpayers are eligible to have an HSA to qualify. You must be enrolled in a health savings plan that imposes high deductibles that meet or exceed IRS required amounts. So some general general ideas about that you could go into the instructions for the form in more detail and kind of start your research if you've got questions about it. I'm going to jump on over there. Let's do a jump on over and I'm just I'm going to say it's a family plan and you'll note that if I max out the family plan up top. Well let's say let's call it a self only plan to start off with and if I max it out I'm going to max it out and then go on over to the forms. That's going to give us that 3600. So the 3600 if I scroll down populates down here it's going to pull to the first page of the form 1040. So now it's in the first page of the form 1040. We also by the way have the form 889 the health savings accounts which you could do more research on the instructions for that form. And then on the first page of the 1040 we got the 3600 the total income is going down by the adjustments we made 3600 to the 16 to the 96 400 which we can mirror over here on our tax formula 100000 adjustments is going to be in the second tab. I've got the HSA contribution so we're going to say it's going to be then for what I say 3600. And so if I go back on over to page one 100000 minus 3600 the 96 400 12000 550 on the standard deduction gets us to the 83850 bringing that over to the page one 83850 on the taxable income. Page number two calculating the tax at the 14201 now. So if I go back on over this is going to be 14201. So there is that if I go back to the software and I was saying it was a family plan that I maxed out I'm saying I want you to take the max. Then I can see that on schedule one page number to 7200 pulling over to the 1040 the 1040 there's the 7200 to get us to the 92 81200 550 still in the standard deduction getting us to the 820050. Okay let's go back to the starting point I'm going to go back on over and remove that remove that going to go back to the forms back to the forms going into the schedule one page number two schedule one page number two adjustments to income. Next we have the moving expenses. This is one that's very much more like unlikely that you're going to see unless you're working with members of the armed forces and even then they're often they're oftentimes going to be reimbursed for moving expenses. The government's usually fairly good about that. And so they might even be applicable at that point everything should be taken care of through the reporting by the in essence the employer on the W2 in that instance it used to be that you had moving expenses if you changed jobs which was more likely so so again less likely to see that if you do then you could go on over here and you might get questions about what it was in the past and you say well yeah they restricted that changing jobs. You don't have the same kind of deduction that you had in the past restricted to basically military members. So I'm going to say armed forces move due to permanent change so that's going to be the And then you've got the different items that might be applied to it you could have a mileage type of calculation that you might need to go into but I'm just going to go lodging and travel for now and then go back to the forms if applicable then it's going to be populating here on the schedule one. You can also have another schedule that is populated and it's feeding into the schedule one the three nine oh three which if you wanted to look in this into more detail if you think it might be applicable and you're not sure you'd want to look at the Instructions for form three nine oh three that's probably the first place to go to do your research on that that feeds into the schedule one page number two the one thousand one thousand feeding into the ten forty ten forty now having that one thousand bringing the AGI down to the ninety nine thousand twelve thousand five Fifty still on the standard deduction getting us to the eighty six four fifty we can mirror that on our worksheet saying we have the adjustments over here let's add another adjustment and we're going to call this one what can I call this one page number two we're going to say moving expenses armed forces moving let's say armed forces will kind of abbreviate it did I spell it right did I spell it right this time it's like the first time since I've been doing these if I did I did spell it right even even I get it right once in a while one thousand and we'll delete this one we'll make that blue blue and bordered and then some this up so I picks up that so pick that so pick it up and then we're going to go back to the first tab so one thousand subtracted ninety nine thousand five fifty standard deduction getting us to the eighty six four fifty eighty six four fifty tying out to the to the ten forty page two then calculated the tax at the fourteen seven seven five fourteen seven seven five so there is that one let's go back on over let's go back to the to the first one this one's going to be kind of like the more complex one where we're going to change our income levels to self-employed so I'm going to go back on over let's take this one out back to the starting point and so now let's say I'm going back in schedule one page number two and we want the the self-employed let's let's start off with the deductible part of the self-employment tax so that usually is going to be applicable if you're obviously if you're paying self-employment kind of taxes which is normally or self-employment income that you have if you have a schedule C business that's the most common type of example so so if I go back up to the page one I'm going to say what if my income is not from W two wages but from a schedule C let's make that change and we'll see all there'll be a whole bunch of different adjustments which we'll get into more with the business income but just to get an idea of this now let's say that we don't have any income here but we have a sole proprietorship business and so we'll put it that into the schedule C business income I'm just going to just for the purposes of the example we'll just put a hundred thousand here and obviously we would have deductions and whatnot but I'm just going to say a hundred thousand keeping it simple going back to the forms so now all this other stuff happens right so for example I've got the income here of the hundred thousand flowing in from the schedule C so so we'll talk more about that later because that's not where our focus is where focus is on the adjustments and then we've got this adjustment now where did that come from like I didn't put anything into the adjustment here and if I go into the schedule one page number two that's where our focus is the deductible part of the self-employment tax but to understand that we got to know well what is self-employment tax and why am I getting a deductible part of it that'll make any sense so notice that what they're trying to do is if you go into the self-employment tax over here the schedule SE this is the self-employment this is basically the equivalent of social security and Medicare if you're an employee so if you're an employee then you pay half a social security and Medicare the government pays half a social security and Medicare they report that and do the withholdings of it the employer does and then they report it on the W2 doesn't normally have an impact so much when we do the data input to file the return because it's a flat tax therefore easy to calculate and we already paid it so it's just an informational type of thing if however you're in a schedule SE business then when we actually do the tax return we not only have to consider the calculation of the income tax but the self-employment tax the equivalent of the self-employment that the IRS wants to hold you responsible for which if you were W2 employee would have been taken out of your income by your employer not only that but the self-employment tax usually has an employee portion and an employer portion in other words you working for an employee an employer as an employee results in them having to not only take your self-employment tax out of your wages and pay to the government but also to pay their own half of self-employment tax so now the problem is for the IRS well what if you're a sole proprietorship then you're not paying any self-employment tax or payroll taxes so that means we're going to charge you the self-employment tax and you would think well then it would be fair then maybe to only charge me one or the other maybe like the employee portion or the employer portion but no they basically charge you both they say any net income on your schedule SE business is basically kind of like you are the employee of your business and the owner of the business therefore you're paying both kind of like the employee and employee or portion of self-employment tax we'll talk more about that later but that's the general idea so you see that then on page 2 of the form 1040 so and this is what you always have to keep aware of when you're talking to clients they're going to say there's an income tax but then there's this other tax that's on the books which is self-employment tax which is huge right that could be a very significant tax very burdensome tax that we have there and it also flows through to you know to schedule to here where we have the other the other taxes for the self-employment tax so then and that's that schedule to is flowing into the form 1040 page 2 and that's adding adding to the tax but let's say you were a schedule like a like a C corporation a normal corporation you would have you would have that tax applicable but you'd get to deduct the employer portion of it normally because you deduct the portion of taxes that was your employer so you say we should get a deduction for half of the tax but I can't deduct the self-employment tax on schedule C because the schedule C like the net income is what I calculated the self-employment tax on you to end up with a circle reference so what ends up happening is that you then get the deduction on schedule one page number two so schedule one page number two so how does how does all this work they're trying to mirror kind of an employee employer situation as if on a sole proprietorship you were the employee and employer so they're taking your net income from self-employment of the 100,000 and this would be net not gross so if I had expenses it would be the net generally they're calculating self-employment based on both the employee and employer portion in general charging you the tax which you'll see on page two of the 1040 adding that on tacking it on to this to the income tax that you're going to be paying but they also get to deduct half of it for income tax purposes which you see on schedule one schedule one schedule one here page number two that's 7065 this is what we're focusing in on here we'll dive more into this whole kind of thing when we get into the schedule C business but that's the general idea if I was to kind of mirror this on my worksheet look at see how much more complicated it gets I'm going to say okay the income is not coming from the W2 the income is coming from the schedule C so schedule C income that pulls into the first page of the form 1040 so we've got that now and then we're going to have the additional tax so the additional taxes that are going to be imposed here and you could kind of calculate the additional tax here but I'm just going to put it in place for now we might do more calculations on it later but we can see it calculated on form SE or page two that additional tax is the 14129 14129 so I'll put 14129 which flows on to the first page of the 1040 and the additional taxes here and then the adjustment half of that's deductible so if I then go to my adjustments to income I'm going to take this out and I'm going to move this down give me some more room give me a little room my elbows I can't stretch my elbows out I need some elbow room this is going to be self employment tax I already have it up here so you could do it this way this is going to be equal to the tax that you calculated and the additional taxes self employment tax here here divided by two half of it should be deductible above the line so if I go back to page one now I've got the one hundred thousand half of the self employment tax is deductible seven thousand sixty five bringing us to the ninety two nine thirty six ninety two nine thirty six if I go to page one so there's the ninety two nine thirty six then we've got the standard deduction at the twelve five fifty and then we also have this qualified business income deduction we'll talk more about that later I'm just going to plug it in for now when we get to this to the schedule see we might dive into that in a bit more detail but that's going to be sixteen oh seven seven sixteen oh seven seven that's going to give us to the sixty four three oh nine sixty four three oh nine oh eight surrounding difference that's okay page two is going to be the calculation of the tax nine nine oh oh tax calculated nine nine oh oh that's the income tax and then we have the additional tax we already put in place of the fourteen the fourteen one twenty nine so total taxes at the twenty four twenty nine at this point twenty four twenty nine at this point in time so you can see there's a whole host of other things that just happened the software helping us out with it but if you don't understand it you're not going to be able to explain it to people right it's just going to be a magic bunch of stuff that just happened right there that that's going to add on that's why the schedule see could add a significant amount of complexity now let's go back to the schedule one and then go down to page two and say say that okay what if we have then a self-employed set simple and so on so remember that if you work as an employee then you might have access to a four one K plan for for example or four oh three B which allows you to put money away for retirement and get a deduction for that when you put the money in but if you're if you're not working for an employee that provides you a four one K or four or three B then you might be able to put money into an IRA and get say just an IRA deduction which is down here and which we'll talk about later but the IRA deduction has a has a limitation a smaller limitation that's why the 401 K is one reason the 401 K is going to it could be quite beneficial as as a benefit if you're self-employed you're like well I don't want to be stuck with the IRA deduction I'd like to have a higher limit maybe of what I can put in but I don't want to put a 401 K plan into my sole proprietorship business because those are way too complex and I got to deal with way too much you know admin stuff to do that so the in between is to set something up that's a little bit more simplified like a sep or as simple or a qualified plan and that allows you to put money into it as well so notice if you're in a schedule C business these kind of questions start to come up tax planning questions like that possibly bookkeeping questions and questions about self-employment tax schedules about estimated payments in the future so a lot more consulting could take places much more likely to be needed and if you're dealing with business kind of entities okay so then if I jump over to that one I could say okay well what if we had a sep and that we're going to put in let's say it's a sep and let's say that I just maximize it I'm going to maximize it here and if you have more questions about them you could do of course your research for a sep and a simple and the differences between the two which might be best for particular organizations that's a whole topic in and of itself related to business schedule C type businesses as well we might touch on that a little bit more when we get to the schedule C at least and if I jump on over you could see the amount of the deductible that it maxed out at the software did is much higher than what would max out if we had just like an IRA type of deduction if we qualified for the IRA so now we've got that included as well obviously in order to take advantage of these retirement plans you'd have to have cash flow to do and which is often a problem for individuals and corporations who are trying to put that cash flow to work either on the personal or business side but in any case so that totals up now to the to the 25 652 pulling over to the 1040 so now in the 1040 we've got the 100,000 we've got the 25 652 and then if I mirror that on my software on my side I'm going to say this is self employed sep simple so on and that I said was we maxed it out at the 18587 18587 making that blue and bolt and bracketed check in the spelling on it did you spell it right I'm going to say this is self employed sep simple simple and so on and that I said was we maxed it out at the 18587 18587 making that blue and bolt and bracketed checking the spelling on it did you spell it right you're darn right I did my spellings improving as we speak we're going to sum that up then it's got to I got to add that into my totals 25 to 62652 pulling that over to the first page so there's the 100,000 minus the 25652 gets us to the 74349 so I can mirror that over here and say does that work we got the 74349 12,550 standard and then the business the business income 12360 so we've got that this should be 12360 now bringing the taxable income to the 49439 so 49439 off by a dollar rounding that's okay page to calculating the tax 6622 if I did so 6622 calculated there and then the self employment tax which we still have on on play notice the self employment tax isn't being affected by some of the deductions we're taking which are deductions for the federal income tax which again drives business owners crazy because they're like you know I you could get this down to basically you know pretty a reasonable number and you're like but what about the self employment tax you know and that's at the 14129 and gets the total tax to the 12,00751 so 20,751 here that we can see so I did that fairly quickly and we're relying on the software to some degree to do some of these calculations and obviously there's a lot of components being involved when we add the schedule C but then that's just kind of the general idea of those of those items obviously any of those items that apply you would want to be diving into a bit more research because when we're dealing with like I said this the sole proprietorship more time will typically be needed for counseling type of things especially with you know retirement what type of retirement plans would be beneficial for the business and and obviously more complications are going to be involved with deductions and self employment tax and and that kind of stuff as well


time that one of the previous hearings is going to be crazy because it was probably said 60 times, but just moving forward and this is the transcriptionist to me, I just like word search city or town and, you know, and just make sure like if you're going to a city, it says, you know, bye-bye city or this is city zoning bylaws, stuff like that. You did, I did hear Mr. Jackson. He said, town meeting, well versed with it. He knew everything there.  So it's not at this meeting, but I know we had a previous meeting. I only saw it once in all your submissions in your PowerPoint, so that's not bad. But I know it's a pet peeve, but to me, like when you come into a community, if you recognize what their form of government is and are consistent, that really gives me a sense that they know where they're coming to, they've done their research as you have. So with that, I will thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. Thank you for your thoughtful presentation and all your legwork. I appreciate some clarification on the intention because the way I've read the full breadth of your materials is a bit of a inconsistency that might probably just misunderstanding about your intent about whether you would retrofit the existing facility or do a tear down. Because I just kind of saw it sell different things in different places. I mean, if you could not only answer that, but kind of explain your business rationale and you know what, what you'd really prefer to do and why. Well, some of this is going to come down to supply chain and as I'm sure everybody knows right now, supply chain is extremely disruptive and just getting people on site is really challenging. So it's going to come down. Originally, I think the plan before I started was always to be a tear down. I visited the site multiple times. I met with Mr. Pencetti and if we can, I prefer to retrofit it, build off of what's already there, still make it gorgeous and beautiful, but maybe mitigating some of the noise to neighbors from tearing down a building, but we have to see what we can possibly do. So I don't have the exact answer and we'd have to go get architectures to do that, architectural drawings. But I know the plan originally was always a tear down. I'm leaning towards not being a tear down. So it moves a little quicker. Okay, so that's kind of up in the air. Are you confident that in either scenario you can fully execute the security, the mitigation for traffic, the green space and everything else that you're promising? Yes, the building size won't change. It's just whether or not it comes down and goes up or I could retrofit it to still be in that same area. So I'm not worried about any aesthetics changing. It's really going to come down to a speed of how we can get this done and what I'm really working with, right?  So that's kind of why I'm in between. Yeah, no, that's fair. Thank you. Can you say more about what you mean about green space? I think that in municipal government that has sometimes a specific meaning implying public use. So I'm not sure that's really what we mean here, but I'd be happy to know kind of what you think about that and what kind of benefit to the community. I don't know if it's a community benefit. It's a community benefit. Just adding more trees, adding some grass, making it a little more beautified than it kind of is right now, which is a little bit of a concrete jungle. Just making it a little bit more inviting. Yeah, sure. Okay. But no, it won't be anywhere where anybody's gonna sit or a loiter or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, green space often implies a park, or a bench or anything. So yeah, okay, great. And my final question, and this is a question and I think in a caution, and I just invite you to elaborate about this. I noticed, one thing I really appreciated in your applications, you talked about your strong commitment to only marketing to people over the age of 25 and you even cited some good brain science about why it's a good idea to wait until you're that old before you initiate marijuana use. And that from my day job, spent many years working in addictions and public health.  Delaying is a really good idea. This thing goes for drinking. So I appreciate that. One concern that I had is talking about your outreach to military veterans and the materials, talk about the potential advantages of cannabis use. And I think the caution I have and the invitation I have for you to elaborate is, you know, that's a population that is not immune to substance use disorder and in fact, rates of substance use disorders in the military veteran population range, but they could be as high as 12, 13% in veterans who have served since 2001. So there can be a vulnerability, particularly for veterans who have a co-occurring PTSD and other disorders and self-medication, you know, with alcohol with cannabis, with other drugs is something the veterans will turn to, but what they really need is treatment for their PTSD symptoms. So, you know, my concern is that the outreach isn't just marketing about how cannabis could be beneficial, but is honest and is balanced and is medically grounded in good information about, you know, on that topic and genuinely encourages people to not use your product if it is going to interfere with their mental wellness and is going to put them at a higher risk for addiction or for a recurrence. So I'd like to know your thoughts on that, just like kind of feel better about your approach when you talk about that outreach. Yeah, so as I noted earlier, one of our owners, investors is a doctor. He's an oncologist. Having him come in and meeting with veterans groups and talking to them is high on his priority list of things to do. And obviously he's a doctor. His goal is not to be there to push pills or push drugs or push us even per se. It's really to educate and help them navigate. What is the best course for them?  Like if I took an edible and it did this, well, maybe that's I don't want it anymore. And how do you find that right balance of what's best for that person? Cause every person is different. Every age group is different. The emails react differently than men, just like with alcohol. So making sure that we're educating based on the science and the facts is important and not just pushing it because it's a profit. And as far as the marketing, a lot of the marketing that happens in this industry right now is a lot of email and texting, right? I mean, the world has changed. Everything is flagged. Obviously I can't prevent a 21 year old from coming into our store, but I can turn them off from being on our email list. So whether we're promoting markdowns or promoting a special event, we can turn them off from that. So that would be the intent there is just flag that button so that anybody that's under 25, we're not marketing 2%. Again, I can't prevent them to coming in, but our goal isn't to get a 22 year old in the store every day. Okay, yeah, thank you. I appreciate the responses. I hope they gave any further questions. My colleagues have really covered some of the ground that I was going to. So turn it over to you, Mr. Chair. Hey, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. And I also want to thank the Caleb's Peak Team for coming in again. Mr. DeGestino has been a frequent visitor at our meetings and sit back with us again today. Just a couple of questions. And one had to do with the mentioned online pickup. I just want to hear a little bit more about security for those type of transactions and how that would differ from the customer showing up to the site. If it differs at all in terms of going into the building or the interaction with your staff. Yeah, so the parking is just so that they can come in. They show their, the front desk, their online order and they can just pop in really quickly and grab it versus sitting there trying to browse, figure out what they want. Someone like myself, I know exactly what I want. So I hunt down where it's at. And if I have to drive 45 minutes, that's where I go to get it. It's just easier to walk in, grab it and be out the door. So mitigating traffic and also mitigating too many people in one place, especially given COVID and taking people's time and consideration is super important. Okay. And Mr. Chairman, it's similar to the Dunkin Donuts app that many, not me, but my kids have where they hit an app on the phone and order their stuff and they walk in, pick it up and go. However, you walk up to the store, the security outside will check your ID to make sure you're 21 and it's a valid ID and that you're the person ID, you'll then go in and go to your quick order pickup line and we will again check your ID to make sure you're the person and they match the response. So we still have the same security metrics. It just, as Erin mentioned, it helps with timing issues, parking and traffic issues and it's all an internal system that's well-regulated and cyber-wise. Okay. Thank you for that determination. And the other thing I wanted to ask about and this came up previously when Kalec's Peak was before us, just while this is a B4 zone, it is surrounded by a neighborhood and I believe there was discussion about what you were doing in Swamskop because I think there are residences nearby, that facility, what you did there, now what you've found as you're getting closer to opening that you would do with neighborhood outreach for this site if you were selected. Erin, you want me to go through what we did there a little bit, or are you? Yeah, so it's really a communication thing and Peak can jump in, but once we were approved, it was, Pete will jump in on his meetings that he's had but our contractor also reaches out every week to tell them what's going on, if it's going to impede traffic, if there's going to be extra noise, anything that matter, like we've given them a three month timeline but every Monday, if something should change over the weekend, we had snow last week, so things got delayed. We get an email on Monday morning, how to all the neighbors, just to give them a heads up of what's going on. And then Pete, if you want to jump in? Yeah, Erin, that was a great summary of what we're doing now and Mr. Chairman, prior to even beginning construction, we, I don't know if you know our site in Swamskop but the back of our building to the nearest resident is about 12 feet and very, very close. We are the only business in the area, we literally sit in the middle of a residential area with no other commercial uses next to us. And we've had an incredibly good experience. There's a shared parking lot with the BFW but that's all one parcel, if you will. We've had a great interaction with the neighbors and it's just about communication like Erin said. We've met with them on site, we've done tours, we did, you know, site plan visits, we did a pre-construction meeting on site with the contractor. They have the contractors, you know, direct contact information. So just, I think when you're communicating with people at a high level, they appreciate that, they understand construction can be frustrating at times but we try to limit that as best we can. And we do a lot of that with trying to set the right expectation as to what is coming up. And generally, once these are open, they're very, you know, very smooth and as you guys have seen with Apotheca and other places, but you know, we understand construction can be frustrating especially in New England during the limited construction window when everybody's trying to get stuff done. And so that's how we've just been very proactive. And then since construction started, our project manager sends out emails through the town. Yeah, there's actually a email chain that includes the town and the directive orders. And they send out updates as appropriate with updates to schedules and things. So it's about being proactive initially and then executing against it once we're actually on site. Okay, thank you. That's all the questions I had. What I wanted to do is allow the board to ask questions and then we can move into a phase now if we're prepared to make a motion and I'll go through in the same order and go back to Mr. Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I am happy to make the motion and given the gravity of this motion, I would just wanna make sure that I get it right. So I'm gonna ask you and nor Mr. Heim to give me some guidance on the wording of this motion. Attorney Heim, do you have any suggestions on a wording of a motion? Yes, Mr. Chair, thank you. I think the appropriate motion would be if you're inclined to act favorably towards the application that the board grant a host community agreement to Calix Peak for the location and under the terms of their application contingent upon the successful negotiation of the specifics of a host community agreement between the town manager through the town council and Calix Peak. Frankly speaking, the actual host community agreement self is fairly straightforward and this is now the third time we've gone through it so I don't think that would take long but I think you'd essentially be approving contingent upon successful negotiation of the terms of the agreement with the manager, which we would then make sure that we bring back to you guys to have executed. Well, thank you, Mr. Heim. That certainly simplified things for me. So I'm gonna try and reduce that down to a sentence. So I would like to make a motion to grant the host community agreement contingent upon a revenue negotiations we need to do in order to make this successful. Great, thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Heard. Second. This is Mohan. Are we voting on the motion right now? Or are you... Just any comments on, you know, we have a motion in a second. I don't know if you have any further comments whether you're supported or nothing further and you're ready for a vote. I just wanted to go down the line again. Okay, no, no, when you're not, just thank you for the presentation. Thank you, Attorney O'Connor. It's nice to see you and you always come in very well prepared and as does whomever you're representing and I definitely appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mrs. Mohan. Mr. Helmuth. Nothing further, thank you. Yeah, and I just wanted to add, I didn't want to say it in the questions phase, but I was, I had voted for to approve the HCA previously when Kalec's Peak was here. I'm glad you came back. I appreciate your persistence and no presentation. I think Jiflinski has added a lot to the discussion here in terms of the security measures and working with our Allington Police Department. If this goes forward, so I appreciate your presence here tonight and Mrs. Mohan said, Attorney O'Connor, always well prepared for these meetings and we appreciate that. And so I certainly am willing to support this with my other colleagues and with that on a motion by Mr. Diggins, seconded by Mr. Herd, Attorney Hunt. Mr. Herd. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mohan. Yes. Mr. DeCourson. Yes. Jean-Anna, Ms. Cove. Okay, congratulations. And I know there'll be a lot more interaction with the town and for Mr. Degas, you know, I don't think it's the fifth time, but fourth time's a charm. So thank you very much. I appreciate the board's time. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you, everyone. They say it. Thank you. Okay, so that concludes item 10, item 11 is a discussion of the select board handbook. And I will turn it over to Mrs. Mohan. We had discussions about this previously and believe she brought it up at some meetings back in 2021. So I'll turn it to her and have a discussion. We may have to come back with specific language, but I wanted to turn the meeting over to her on this piece. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I haven't discussed this many times. So really just two things I want to accomplish. The first thing is to, whenever someone takes out papers for select board, that part of the informational packet they receive, along with any voter data on disk, a copy of the select board handbook. So it's kind of a guide of, sort of a very lengthy job description. And then, upon successful candidacy election, just sign a little face sheet that says, I have received and reviewed the select board handbook. What the understanding is, if you just pick it up and look at it, that can qualify as review. Not saying you have to review this, but I think it's really something that Mr. Grilly and previous board members have put a lot of time into it. To that end, my second request would be, as since this was, when this was first created, exception of myself, we have a totally new select board. And I was hoping that in the next whatever amount of months, six months, eight months, I know I've had conversations with Mr. Helmut and there's been some things more like housekeeping issues, things like that can go straight to Ashley. But then also maybe sometime in the fall or next spring, also have an agenda item discussion of how do we bring this select board handbook and make it more current? There may be things in there that we can condense and revise. And there may be things that are not in there. That we should put in there. So two-part thing, which is asking my colleagues if we could do the first part of it, which is just give it to the town clerk or have it available electronically and say, please include this in the informational issues. Should anyone take out papers?  So I guess first I would ask, I'd like to hear from my colleagues their thoughts on that. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Han. On Mr. Herd. You Mr. Chair, thank you, Mrs. Han. So I'm happy to, if I hearing you correctly, Mrs. Han, like a motion to authorize the town clerk to give any person taking out papers for a seat on the select board, the copy of the select board's handbook. And then, yeah, I didn't get a chance to dive into the handbook too much before this meeting, but I would definitely be agreeable when putting a future meeting where we have, when we know it's coming up for comments, just perusing through it, just the number of licenses, that are taken for all alcohol is incorrect. I think Ms. Dre had talked about the open forum, we had changed the wording on that. Informally we had done so, and I think we've referred it to it as the open forum for about a year and a half now plus. So we can certainly update that language as well. So I think that's a good idea for us to all take a look at the handbook and just recommend any updates as necessary to make it current. Thank you, Mr. Hurd. Mr. Diggins. Yes, I mean, I'm definitely supportive of giving it to candidates to mean that, and I would like to get to work on it some more. I mean, it's very good. It's very good, you know, but there are certainly some things that I would like to discuss, you know, and add more so than take away. And I can't imagine being chair without reading this, you know, and we'd like to certainly definitely add some things to meet. So I would like to have a meeting, you know, to work on this sooner rather than later. Of course, that's up to the chair to decide. And I'll simply point out that in appendix two, on page 60, this mention of a utility poll working group. Maybe, maybe we could do something with that. You know, that's it, thanks. Okay, thank you, Mr. Diggins. I mean, Mr. Helm. Yeah, I think these are both great ideas. I will say as the newest member of the board, I read the handbook when I was considering running. It helped me understand what the job was. It helped me actually had a, played a substantial role in deciding for sure that I was interested in it. I read it again after I was elected and saw just how out of date it was in some areas. So, you know, I would suggest, I'd be happy to support the motion. I would suggest if we proactively provide this to candidates, although I happen to think that we have a really good candidate for reelection for the open board seat coming up. But if there are future ones that it have a, some kind of a disclaimer or informational disclaimer that the document is in process of being updated, you know, for corrections and updated or forthcoming, just because we know it's been a long time since it's been revised. And to that end, you know, I wonder if, you know, a working group or subcommittee of two board members might be appropriate to just organize the flagging of this. I mean, there's, I think that Mr. Herd suggested there's, you know, some of this is housekeeping or maybe Ms. Mohan said this, housekeeping updates, but the experienced board members here particularly will, will immediately be able to spot things that are out of date. And I think maybe the newer board members like myself and Mr. Diggins, you know, might be in a good position to think about what's missing, you know, think about what could be helpful to people who are, I mean, I'm still, Mr. Diggins is an old hand, I'm still learning the ropes. So, you know, that, so, you know, some kind of a mix might be good, but perhaps with the goal of pushing out some of the updates and corrections that are administrative early, you know, and then really digging into the document to see how can we make it stronger and better, you know, might be an approach. But I think it's great that Ms. Mohan brought this up again because it's, it was an incredibly, even though it was out of date, it was a very useful document to me. And I think not only to potential candidates, but for residents who want to understand this office and its function. Another thing I learned running for the office is talking to people, so I'm running for select board and they, I would get this look. And, you know, David, you could tell they wanted to understand that most people really don't spend a lot of time thinking about what we do and what should they, you know, it's unusual. It's not if you don't come from this area, there aren't select boards in other states, you know. So, you know, I think that it could be a useful document that once it's cleaned up, we could even promote more proactively as an educational piece for residents about what the function of this office is. So, rah-rah. Thank you, Ms. Townell. Yeah, and I agree. So why don't we take, we can take action on the first part tonight as part of the motion. And then I think it makes sense. I'm happy to put this on for discussion, but I think maybe what I'd like to do is maybe ask board members take a look at the handbook if there are things that we can change right now and then we can put it on for further discussion. But I think Mrs. Mohan, maybe right in terms of a more extensive look at it, probably is later in the year, but let's try to get moving on that. So I'll take a, well, I'll take it as a motion by Mrs. Mohan, seconded by Mr. Hurd to provide the handbook to anybody taking out papers. And then we will schedule something before, over the next month or two to revisit this in terms of timing for particular items. So with that, I will turn to Attorney Heim for the vote if everybody's clear on what the vote is in terms of what we'll do in the short term. Okay. So Attorney Heim, we can take the vote on that. Mr. Hurd? I was laughing, Mr. Chair, because I was thinking to myself how you might want to update it right away to say how horrible the position of Blackboard is for any potential candidates thinking of pilling out papers, but I know you're a lot more ethical than that. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes, the meeting started at 7.15 and ended at 12.15. Yes. Mr. Helmet. Yes, and it's too late, Mr. DeCorsi. You're already committed. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Hurd, for making Attorney Heim giggle. I think that's the second time since he's been at one of our meetings that, yes. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Yeah, let's go. Okay, thank you. All right, item 12 for discussion, future select board meetings. So right now we only have one more meeting scheduled which is for January 24th. So if we could look at our calendars, I'm gonna suggest one thing for February, February 7th, it will be two weeks out. That actually works better on my schedule than starting something on the 14th. It does create an issue the week of the 21st because I think that's a holiday week, but I just wanna ask board members to take a look at their calendars. Seventh is one date that I would like to have a meeting on, but I'm open on other dates in the month. I'm five to seven, because either way, I mean, we're gonna have a three week gap, right? Because either we would do the 14th because we have three week gap between now, between the 24th being in the 14th, or we do the sevens in. And it is one way to get out of a Valentine's Day meal, but no, let's not do the 14th, if we can't avoid it. Just historically and procedurally for the office, we need two meetings in February. Yeah, so yeah, it even looks like the 23rd or the 28th, that's... Yeah, so I'm sorry, Ms. Mohan, go ahead. If I had to pick one, I'd like 23, just because it's enough time for the office for things that they have to get on, but I'm also okay with the 28th. So whatever the rest of my colleagues think is best for them. Well, if the office needs more time, then the 23rd, I mean, is fine. Otherwise, I was just assuming the 28th, but if there's technical reasons for doing the 23rd, then by all means. No, just that when people come in, if they're told they have to wait later, I mean, they want everything done sooner, I need this right away. So just for the office to continue the office functioning and doing the business administratively, what they need to do, I think going from seven to 28, that's too much of a stretch of time, that's three weeks.  And they're like, no, but I need it by the next 12 days. So just having worked in there, I would put out seven and 23, but if it turns out to be seven, 28, that's fine. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, thank you. How is the 23rd? And that does spread it out roughly every couple of weeks. Is the 23rd good with other members? Okay. Now in March, I mean, we don't know, Attorney Hime is going to be updating us at some point in terms of what's on the warrant, what we need for warrant article hearings. And that will take up a lot of our work in March. I think right now we schedule two meetings and we see what the warrant looks like and we may have to schedule more. So how does the seventh and the 21st look for March? Yeah, I mean, and then I would say, let's be prepared to do all the monies because last year we ended up going, I think like at least six meetings straight because we had a pretty intense warrant. And if we finish early, can get our report out early, I know that it would make a lot of people happy. Okay, all right. And I think at this point, I don't know if we need to do April, I think February and March, and we'll see where we are in mid-March in terms of what our schedule is. So it would be February 7th, February 23rd, March 7th and March 21st. But with the understanding, we may have to leave some nights open depending on how the warrant article hearings go. Okay, all right. So that's Ms. Marr has those dates. We don't need a vote on that. And that's what we'll go with now for our published schedule. Next is item 13, request for discussion of Black Lives Matter banner, Elizabeth Threy, Jason Street, Mr. Helmuth. Thank you. So I'd like to move to the seat, but also depending on how my colleagues are feeling about this, but with the referral to the chair, I think that would be good to close the loop on the discussion. And I went back, I wasn't on the board when this was last discussed, roughly a year ago, but I attended that meeting virtually at the time when I read the memo. And I think that the memo that Mr. D'Corsi and Mr. Kuro circulated raised some reasonable questions that need to be resolved before action could be taken. And I think that a lot of this had to do with integrating what has become informal practice with the sign regulations for Town Hall that were adopted many several years ago. So I think there's some integration work and some thought that needs to go into this before the board has actionable proposal in front of them. So I'm also cognizant of the work that we have to do. And I appreciate the residents passion for this. I also think that there's just a reality that the board has a lot of business that we have to get done and we can't always put things on the agenda on the last day that the agenda is finalized. So I think that it's not being on the agenda tonight. It doesn't mean that we don't think it's important but we have to juggle a lot of priorities. So I'm open to amendments of this, but and especially from my colleagues who were there who were here on the board before me but I might start with something like move receipt and referral to the chair to organize study and discussions with the intent of bringing this topic back to the board for discussion and some kind of action in a future date. Again, work with that, I think in a way that you think is productive. Okay, thank you, Mr. Helmuth. I'm gonna go down that line here, Mr. Diggins. I was talking to that and yeah, I'm fine with discussing and I liked Mr. Herop Helmuth's motion and I could see how we deal with Town Hall as being one of those sections to maybe add to the handbook. So that's it, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Herop. Yeah, that's fine of me. I think just to clarify, I think the discussion to have is generally how we use Town Hall. Yes. Not a discussion specific to this request. And then I think once we come up with how guidelines for Town Hall, then however we handle this request and any similar requests falls into that line. Yeah, that is my intent. Thank you, Mr. Herop. Thank you, Mr. Herop. Mrs. Mahan. No questions, thank you. Okay, thank you. And yeah, and I think as Mr. Helmuth just clarified, I mean, if I go back to the memo that we had discussed some time ago, there was discussion of development of a policy and that's, as Mr. Herop said, a starting point. So I'll support the motion as well. And I may look to create a subcommittee to look into this and report back to the board. So what I may do is put this on for either the next meeting or first meeting after that. And, but if members are interested, if they could contact me and then I will put it on the agenda and have further discussion at the next meeting. So on a motion by Mr. Helmuth, seconded by Mr. Diggins, Attorney Hyne. Mr. Herop. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Helmuth. Yes. Mrs. Mahan. Yes. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mr. Nanimous folk. Thank you. Now, a new business, Attorney Hyne. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I actually have a few items of new business. I just want to raise the board's attention. I'll try to hit them quickly. First, I want to let the board know that I engaged the Mr. River Watershed Association about CSOs, the town engineer and conducted a preliminary review of the current MWRA CSO reports. And I just want to thank Mr. Heran from Mr. River Watershed Association for allowing us to share so much information and insight. Which I think will be helpful for myself, the manager, the chair and vice chair, as well as others, including the Save the Electric Group in the coming days and weeks as we get ready for comments. I should know that other board members, board members know what I'm talking about. Secondly, I just also want to note that there was an initial conference of council regarding the new GAR 40B matter, where there is both an applicant and a butters appealing the ZBA's decision, which I know is of great interest to members of the board and a lot of other folks. Attorney John Witton, our special counsel is representing the ZBA. And while there's not a lot to report right now, I just wanted to know for folks general information that it would probably take a long time before the matter goes to hearing before the HAC. And that there may be initial opportunity for some mediation, but as Attorney Witton represented to the HAC, it's really important to us to be a butters to their counsel, have a seat at that table. Third, I just want to thank my staff very quickly, particularly Peter Buckley for his help in a long-litigated case in which summary judgment was recently granted for public schools. And then finally, I also want to note that Deputy Town Council, Mike Kenningham, is joining the Civic Engagement Group on January 13th to talk more about warrant articles in advance of the closing of the warrant. I had the pleasure of joining the Civic Engagement Group at a previous session. So it's a terrific opportunity for folks to learn a little bit more about filing warrant articles and to spend some time with Deputy Town Council coming in. Thank you, folks. Thank you, Attorney Heim. Mr. Chappell. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Given the hour, I'll be very brief. First, I want to say thank you to the DPW for their great effort on Friday in addressing the snow removal. Obviously working early morning and long hours, immediately responding to the storm and then again, overnight on Saturday, doing more crosswalk clearing to make sure that throughout the Mass Ave Corridor and Railway Corridor, people could get around as easily as possible doing that snow clearing effort. So big thanks to the DPW and at least the preliminary forecast says there might be more to come early next week. So we'll see. We'll see what the future holds in that regard. Additionally, I did want to mention that in coordination with the chair, we did discuss bringing the goals back tonight, but as we looked at the agenda, I think we well predicted how long tonight's agenda would go and did not put the goals on tonight's agenda, but we'll plan to bring them back on January 24th through the board's consideration. And that's all. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Helman. Thank you. No new business. To Diggins. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'll say that picture on the town's website of the snow plows is awesome. And so they didn't get to grab it in there. I liked that picture a lot. And Mr. Heim, he took my thunder, so I'm happy when the town council may promote something that I'm thrilled about and that is the Warren Arco workshop. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Diggins. Mr. Heur. No new business. Mrs. Mahan. No new business. Thank you. Okay. I have a couple of items of one, Mrs. Mahan and I in Mr. Chapter Lane attended the long range planning committee meeting last Friday. We have another meeting scheduled for January 28th with the news that Mr. Chapter Lane reported earlier in terms of the increase in lost revenues through opera funds that will change some of the figures going forward. The governor's budget is due to be released between now and the 28th and we're still trying to develop consensus. The town manager does have a requirement to issue a preliminary, well, I'll call it a preliminary budget. There's a budget document on the 15th and we're trying to help him with that process. But I expect that there will have a further report probably in our first meeting in February as to how things are going on long range planning. I also want to say on the CSL issue, I think food members received a copy of the report that MWRA issued in terms of the water quality standards. Attorney Hyme referenced that. I think what we're going to try to do for either the next meeting or well, the next meeting I think is to invite the MWRA or representative from the MWRA to our meeting to discuss the issue in ways that we can support them in locating funds and finding solutions and work with the town manager, the vice chair and Attorney Hyme on that issue. But February is a critical month for the commentary to the report. And there was a feeling that to gain, try to gain some insight and work cooperatively with MWRA we might be able to achieve that. Whether they come to a meeting or not, we'll find out what we're going to do that outreach. Two other brief things. I apologize, I didn't know the hour was late. I want to thank Senator Friedman for, there's an issue that has come up at AYCC with certain families that are covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield. There are issues on reimbursement for some clinicians where Blue Cross does not reimburse for clinicians that are not independently licensed. Other health insurers cover that. And it looks like Arlington now will be included in a pilot program at Blue Cross Blue Shield where they will reimburse for those services. And it's a big thing, one, for reimbursement, but two, for families in need who are Blue Cross subscribers, they are on longer waiting lists because a number of clinicians was more limited in terms of who could reimburse. So that is potentially really good news for AYCC and more significantly for the families in need in terms of what their wait time is. And I just heard that over the weekend. So I wanted to thank her for that. Last thing is Mr. Diggins and I had talked about, there will be a parking pilot program that is going to be before us. And I'm going to try to fit in the next meeting for discussion, not for action, but the proponents are working towards getting inputs and bringing something before us. So that's one to acknowledge that. It is something that a year ago I said to the proponent of a town meeting warrant article that if she agreed to which rather warrant article, we would have bring her in to present before the board. She did make a brief presentation last spring, but this will be more of a full blown presentation. I'm looking for a presentation commentary from the board, not immediate action because it's a complicated issue, but at least to receive the study. And Mr. Diggins is working with the proponents, I believe they want to do a forum for town meeting members in precincts two, three and four. So that's something to look for later this month. So that is my new business. We do have one last item. It's not on the regular agenda, it's an executive session. It's a very brief executive session, but I don't anticipate. We will just become out of that to for purposes of adjournment. The executive session is to comply with or act under the authority of any general or special law or federal grant and aid requirements, namely the approval of the executive session minutes of December 15th, 2021 and December 20, 2021. If I could look to, this is Mahantar motion on the executive session. Yes, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to move to go into executive session for the purposes you just described. And when we adjourn from executive session, we will adjourn concurrently with our public meeting. Thank you. Second? Second. Okay. The motion by Mrs. Mahant, seconded by Mr. Diggins, Attorney Hunt. Mr. Hurd? Yes. Mr. Diggins? Yes. Mr. Halman? Yes. Mrs. Mahant? Yes. Mr. Corsi? Yes. We're in executive session.


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