Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Board of Selectments meeting for Monday, March 30th, 2015. It's a little past 7.15, and I do call this meeting to order. I would like to remind everyone that ACMI is filming tonight, so please smile widely when at the camera. Before we get started, I would just like to thank my colleagues for the past year. It's been an honor to serve as chairman and thank you all very much. That being said, I'll turn the meeting over to our Board Administrator Marie Cappelga for an organizational meeting. I'd like to nominate Kevin Greely for chairman. I'd like to move to close the nominations for chairman. Undecided. Well, this is just a close nomination. I'm starting to decide. Okay, so now we're going to go to Vice Chair. Wait, can we do both votes in one vote, Doug? We have the nomination for chairman. That was open, then there was nomination to close nominations. So the first roll call vote, I think, was the vote to close the nominations. So then we have to vote on the only nomination, which is Mr. Greely. I think it's, we said aye. Okay, fine. As long as it's unprocedural. Did we got the termination out? This is for the chairmanship. Oh, aye. Thank you. Aye. Mr. Greely. Aye. Mr. Greely. We've got to help Arlene tonight. So now we're going to move on to Vice Chair. I'm moving to nominate Diane Mahon. Second. Second. Second. I can't, I guess. Are you going to close? No, someone else has to second. I don't believe I can as chairman now. Second. If I have Diane put up to see him. Someone has to move to close. I move to close nominations. Second. Now we're going to take a roll call to close nominations. Diane. Aye. Chairwoman. Aye. Steven. Aye. This is Mahon. Aye. Mr. Greely. Aye. Vice Chair, which would be? This is Mahon. Anyone opposed? Hearing none, we'll take a roll call. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. So now we've changed chairs, right? Now we've changed chairs. I've moved to close the organization meeting. Congratulations, Mr. Greely. On your election and now you are in charge of the meeting. Thank you. Take it in the intact. You wish. I know. That's the best seat in the house. Thank you very much. That's where my dad was. Get the seat closes to the exit. Well, we've gone by a lot of time with that. So we're going to have to move the rest of the meeting along. So good evening everybody. First of all, I do want to welcome back our two colleagues who were re-elected on Saturday, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Kuro. And it was, we believe the lowest turnout in history in an Arlington election. And but what I'd like to do is thank the 2,697 people, most, many of whom I'm staring at in this audience tonight who did brave the weather and did get out there and voted. It's very important. Of 29,000 registered voters, as I say, 2,700 get out and voted. So the turnout was 9.11%. Second, I would like to thank both Mr. Kuro as vice chairman and also Stephen Byrne as chairman for the excellent job, which both of them did last year. Stephen is the youngest person ever elected to the Arlington Board of Selectmen. But I heard the comment much more than once about how he has conducted himself well beyond his years. So Stephen, job very well done. But more importantly tonight, for the first time in nine months, we have the return of the mayor of the town of Arlington, the woman who runs the office on behalf of the Board of Selectmen. Please, everybody, welcome back Marie Kruppelker, if you will. She's been working right along, but she hasn't been able to cover these night meetings, and we're certainly glad to have her back. So, as Stephen mentioned, this is a meeting of the Board of Selectmen for March 30th. The first item up is for approval of the Farmer's Market for 2015. Please welcome Patsy Kramer. Thank you very much. Isn't it nice in this cold spring to think about a farmer's market in June with fresh grown strawberries and fresh peas? And we're asking for permission to hold the farmer's market in the Russell-Karman parking lot. This is our 18th year. It is a very successful market. Arlington people really support the market. We'll have 25 vendors, pretty much the same vendors that we've had, two wine vendors. And I would also like to continue the parking pass program that we started two years ago, which has been very successful, and many people that come to the market are very grateful that we have it available. So, Patsy, it's Wednesday afternoon's when from... Wednesday starting June 10th, 2 to 6.30, and we go through October 28th, I want to say the last Wednesday in October. And you continue to whatever food is left over to make it available to the market? We do. Yes, we have what we call the Seconds Market, which is donated by some of the farmers, and we take it to Monotomy Manor, and it is distributed there for a dollar a bag. Thank you. Comments on the board? Move approval. Move approval. Is there a second? Second. Comments on the board? Yes, Mr. Dunn. I'm delighted to support it again. One thing I am looking forward to is that we're going to be getting new meters sooner than hopefully later in there. Meters? Parking meters? Yes. And when that happens, I'm going to hope that we can evaluate whether or not we still need the parking pass, but for now, absolutely. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, Pat. Thank you. All right. Now, this is for our consent agenda. First is the appointment of new election workers, Catherine Caruso for precinct 11, Roseanne Cazaza for precinct three, Catherine Gillis for precinct 14, Rita Head for precinct 14, Julianne Kelly-Dory for precinct six, and Mary Stretton for precinct 10. Next, we have a request for a one-day all-alcohol license May 16, 2015, at Fidelity House for their annual fundraiser. And third for consent is approval, the third annual bladder cancer awareness walk on Saturday, May 9, 2015. Is anybody here in the audience who would wish to speak on any of those three consent agenda items? Please come forward.  I'm sorry. I think it's only right. Hi. You've granted the okay for our two previous walks, and we'd love to do this walk again on Saturday, May 9, as you said, in honor of our mother's memory, Kathy Magrum. And it's usually a beautiful day, hopefully. Sunny, and we raised, I think, $7,000 last year. We expect about 30 or so people. Thank you. I'm sorry, your name? I'm Linda Magrum, and my sister Tracy Magrum were both Arlington residents. We started Tracy's house on 26 Fraser Road and walked down Mass Ave to here, and then we walked back. And if people wanted more information, how would they contact you? They can contact my email, Linda Magrum, M-A-G-R-A-M, at H-M-H-C-O dot com, and there's also the B-Can dot org website, and the walk is listed as the Arlington, Massachusetts walk on the website. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anybody else wish to speak on any of those items that I listed? Okay, motion from the board? Move approval. Move approval. Is there a second? Second. Second. All those in favor, please signify by saying, aye. Aye. All those opposed. All right, next we have appointments to the Disabilities Commission, Beverly Bevalaqua and Susan Savage-Tenant. Beverly, Susan? Is it Susan? Susan. Please come to the mic so we can embarrass you. Hi. Your name, please. I'm Susan Savage-Tenant. Susan, welcome. Thanks. Would you tell us a little bit about yourself, please? I am. I grew up here in Arlington, and I moved to California 33 years ago. I thought I was going for six months. But I've worked in the field of developmental disabilities. It's kind of my avocation, and I've done that my whole life. And I've returned back to Arlington, back to my family home, as a matter of fact. And I'll be staying here for the rest of my time. And I would like to contribute. I think I'm very interested. I love Arlington. I like to see all the changes that have gone on. And I think if I can have something to offer, I'd like to get involved. Well, in California, were any of the local boards as strong or as attractive as this board that you stand in front of today? No, it's striking. You know, that jumps right out at me. Obviously a qualified candidate here. First, I'd like to move approval.  Experiences. But I just wanted to pick one that's sort of my near and dear to my heart is your day vocational center. Oh, yes. I think here in Arlington, especially for when young kids hit 21, that don't go residential. That's an area that really I can kind of attest to the fact that definitely some more work on providing some of those. Or if they're out there getting the information out. So I'm thrilled to see you list vast experience. But this is the first time I've really seen that highlighted in the first paragraph. So I appreciate you doing that. Oh, good. It's what I love. I'm lucky. I'm lucky. And I'm like I have a place to do it. I hope I can be of some help. Thank you. OK. Thanks. Any other questions from the board or anything? OK. Is there a motion? Oh, you moved approval and seconded. OK, thank you. And is Beverly here? I think she is. Oh, excuse me, Beverly. That's OK. Beverly Bevilock, we're welcome. Thank you. Same thing. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, Beverly? Well, I am a retired nurse. And I worked with disabled clients, both physically and mentally, at the Furnal School for the Developmental Disabilities for 15 years. I've been a resident of Islington for 62, 52 years. I also volunteer at the Arlington Senior Association. I've been there since 1997 with, I make coffee, tea or whatever, greet people, do hostessing, help with the different programs that we have. What else can I say about myself? Well, that is plenty. Eddie, from the board? Yeah. Mr. Dunn. I just want to move approval and thank you for all the volunteer work that you're doing already, and thank you for being on this commission. I know I definitely rely a lot on the reports from the commission about some of the decisions we have to make, in particular things like the CDBG funding and things like that. So I definitely, it's a valuable board and I really appreciate the work it does. Thank you. Is that, am I on it or is that? We have to take a vote, but it's looking good. It's touching just about there. I like your chances though. You would move to vote. I did. I was seconded. I was seconded by Mr. Cuero. You're almost there. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Now, Beverly. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Excellent. And thank Beverly and Susan for being here. When people, you know, Arlington has over a hundred boards and commissions, and when they are, when people are first appointed, we ask them to come here and thank them for doing so. Do I say or leave? No. Well, the meeting gets really good from here, Beverly. I don't know. But you are all set, ma'am. Thank you very much for being here. We have a sign to 8.30. Okay. Well. Hang with us. Thank you very much. All right. So, right, we took, yeah, we took the vote on both of those. Okay. So, I believe we're still waiting for Kathy. So, okay. So, next on the agenda, licenses and permits, and we are going to hold a hearing for three different restaurants in Arlington to explain what's going on here. I'm going to turn this over to our town council, Doug Heim. Thank you, chairman. Thank you, members of the board. As you were notified by a memo dated March 26th of this year, the Arlington police department conducted alcohol compliance checks on 15 licensed Arlington restaurants on or about January 22nd, 2015. These compliance checks are conducted routinely by the police department. And in this instance, the department's operation found three established establishments served under aged persons. Officer Porchello of the Arlington police department is present here to provide you with some further details on the findings and the compliance operation as this board requires or is interested in, as are the license holders for the restaurants alleged to have served under aged persons. But for the purposes of efficiency, I think the first thing we can do is summarize the process here from Officer Porchello and then here from each one of the license holders. I want to remind the board that per year policy as revised on January 12th of this year, a violation such as the alleged violations in this case of your policy, the ABCC's regulations or the general laws including chapter 138 are punishable by a three to five day suspension of alcohol license for a first offense. It's my understanding that each one of these violations is a first offense in this case. The board also has a number of factors which you can consider in making a determination as to how long a suspension should be if the board in fact finds that a suspension and a violation and that a suspension is merited. These criteria include the licensees, policies and procedures and applications of those policies and procedures to guard against service to underage individuals, severity and type of the offense, the efforts made to identify the purchasers of alcohol at the establishments, the appearance of the underaged purchaser or purchasers of alcohol, the quality of the evidence of a violation, the circumstances of the case and the number in nature of the licensees previous violations which in this instance as I previously told you was zero. But with that said, I'm going to turn this over to Officer Porchello who can describe to you the basic operation and their findings while the written report is I think very, very good and gives you the information you need to know. I think it's also important to have the opportunity to have the police department answer any questions and present you a summary. Good evening. So on January 22nd, we conducted one of these stings and what these stings entails. It's two detectives. We go out and we have two volunteer undercover operatives generally from out of town and we try to hit all the establishments in one night and when I say establishments, I mean places in town that have been given licenses to serve Porchello alcohol. We supply the operatives with money to go into these establishments. We instruct them to attempt to get receipts, attempt to get the best description of the person who serves them the alcohol. If they are served alcohol, they do pay, ask for receipt and leave and leave the alcohol on the table. They come out, they tell us their findings and we go on to the next place. What I failed to mention is before we even go out, what we do is we take pictures of the two people, we take any forms of ID that they have, all their money, we lock it up, we make them sign consent forms to be with us and they have to sign guideline forms so they know what this thing entails and that's basically it and on the 22nd of January we had three businesses fail. It was a Punjab fusion taste and Mr. Sushi. Questions from the board? Yes, Mr. Mohan. I just have, just coming from court myself as working, I just look at the three cases and I just see one thing being different from the three establishments. I anticipate the answer may be no but I just wanted to ask you the fact that of the three that failed but one did not give a receipt. Did it import that you put on that or that's just some? No, no, we, so our operators are under 21 they're not always that mature and they don't really think if they get nervous they might just leave and there might be other people in the restaurant sitting nearby and we don't want to let the other people know what's going on. I just look at all things being equal. Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Dunn. So having, I know you do this every year and sometimes more often I've read your memos at this point, several times is there anything significantly different about the process this time than past times or is it? No. Thank you. And I read it too, but I forget how many did you hit that night in total? I believe we hit 15 total. 15 and then three were found, okay. And this was the first of two nights so we did another round of stings at a different date. And no incidences on that different date, I assume. We did have some failures on that. We're just dealing with this one night, I'm sorry at this point, excuse me, okay. So then my next step town council is to call up each restaurant one at a time. If you would allow me. I just want to clarify one thing. Each one of these operations are done with cash, correct? Cash, yes. So yeah, if at this point in time the license holders would like to present or we can call them in order. I just want to know what day of the week was this? Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. You know, I'm sure these restaurants feel bad but we're very strict on this, you know. Any alcohol consumption is to be done legally and responsibly in the town of Arlington. So this is just the order they are on the agenda. So the first restaurant we're going to call up is under Hope Color Inc. Doing business as Mr. Sushi. Daniel Ahn is the manager. Good evening. I'm Daniel Ahn, the manager of the Mr. Sushi restaurant. First of all I'm gratefully sorry about this matter. Mr. Sushi restaurant opened in 2001 since we opened. We have not had any troubles including like this the alcohol issues things. And unfortunately this incident happened on January. Again I am gratefully sorry about that and then I'm not fluent in English so let me introduce my Mrs. Gina Choi. Mrs. Sushi is a family owned business and she is a sister-in-law and she was in the restaurant that day as a manager. Sure. Hi, my name is Gina Choi and you know as she already explained Mr. Sushi is a family owned business and also I was at the site and Daniel Ahn was in the other restaurant. And also Julie Ahn she's the owner also she was in the kitchen busy doing the caring and stuff. I was at the register and I was on the phone too and also that day we had a new trainee and then we were really really busy and he wanted to help so I think he sit the guest the two people and then I remember as soon as he sit them on the table they asked him to order and then obviously he didn't know any procedure I mean we've been training but he was also you know really didn't have any idea what to do so he was asking his mentor there's another training guy and then he helped him to serve the beer and right after that this thing happened really fast within 15 minutes as soon as he served the beer I think they left so this new trainee was really I mean he was really surprised maybe he was you know not doing a good job that's why he left so we were just you know like training him did you ask him about the IED and stuff like that but you know he said okay I understand I'm gonna do that again for the procedure from the next time but you know they already left so we know what happened after that we really you know made sure what to do with those kind of like procedure and then you know so what did you change after this yeah we've been like gather all the workers all together some before the shift starts we always make sure you have to do the training I mean to check the IED no matter what how they you know look like some people we have a lot of like local guests regular guests even though you know their faces you know them all but you still need to check the IED and the legal age is 21 even though they ask you to serve the any kind of drink right away please follow the steps sit the guest and then present the menu if they ordered alcohol please check you have to do it no matter what that's what we've been doing it colleagues yeah Mr. first so did you say that the new trainee has left the restaurant he's no longer employed there is that what you implied he's there he's still yeah he wanted to help him and his mentor was busy so he wanted to help so he stood the guest but yeah he's doing working okay and thank you and my second question is you know you said he was in training and he was what what did that entail so before this incident occurred what was the training like he was basically shadowing he was so shadowing shadowing yeah all he actually we just asked him to do the you know do the like as a boss boy just clean the table or maybe like prepare the drinks that's all but at that time without seconds he just wanted to help I can I can certainly understand you know employee wanting to you know take on moral you know greater responsibility but I do think that you know may perhaps you know a training system that's more formal a training system that is you know is far more in detail than just you know following around another waiter is probably appropriate I actually I had to you know like a I was on the phone but I was on the phone also doing the takeout so I was like oh my God he was so fast thank you thank you Mr. Curell Mr. Burns point is any of your training material in writing for the new employees do you issue guidelines and writing to remind them we write you know like mostly the regulations and you know at the waiter's site and also we always you know like we are always in the site every step they go but the time it was of course like some misstep but that's what we're doing thank you okay Ms. Moore just because my family is in the restaurant business also at first to protect serving I'm serving underage but also for your benefit I think but I would be more comfortable hearing is a more solid structure this is not a requirement but I'm kind of hearing sort of TD tartaring I think what I would put before you is when someone new comes on they're either a bus boy bus person or if they are shadowing someone you have to have a rule and my family owns restaurants that you know see anywhere two to five hundred not in Arlington and you can't not break that rule and what has worked best for them is when that mentor feels that that trainee is appropriate to go on the floor by him or herself I think it would benefit you and I think it would benefit the board that if you just came up with something that you picture five criteria or your three criteria or your nine but one of the question would be do you feel that this employee is properly trained in the serving of alcoholic beverages and I understand that everything gets busy and all that but for liability's sake all the way around I'd be more I'm kind of wanting to hear something like that because I'm not being sarcastic or anything but can't really accept certainly not again I was busy I was on the phone he had a mentor and he was a bus boy I think you need more structure sure yeah we'll keep in mind is anybody in the restaurant tips trained? T.I.P.S. trained? yes okay any other questions on the board I just want to clarify if I may with Officer Porchello that it's routine that they once served they're not to drink it obviously and get up and leave and they're left within about 15 minutes correct? did you want to mention something? no so how does Mr.Chiro I move that we impose a suspension of three days Mr.Sushi for the violation I guess we typically choose the day well it's the same day of the week right so it'll be a Thursday Saturday night suspension of their alcohol license that can continue to serve other I would say commencing on the first Thursday in May Mr.Chiro so the process will be the board would make a determination and I don't think this would be a problem with your timeline but I just want to make sure to clarify for the board that you'd make a determination give me some time to write an opinion vote to make sure that opinion is consistent with your comments and the things that you've said would take place at any time after that so it could be earlier than May okay so just simply if I leave it just at three days that's sufficient that's right second second discussion and do I take any public input on a hearing such as this Mr.Hein? you may take public input if you want but you're not required to for the purposes of this type of license here okay alright so the motion is to suspend the alcohol license for three days which would be a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the date of which will be communicated later is that what we're saying Mr.Hein? yes all those in favor please signify by saying aye those opposed thank you very much other questions yep thank you good luck just make one point that three night that is a minimum and if this does happen again it just should be said that you will not experience a three night suspension again or at least I would not support a three night suspension again so I think I just wanted to make that clear well I believe it's up to two weeks for the second and then revoking of the license for the third and as was mentioned none of these three restaurants appearing tonight have any previous issues related to it okay next is must be tingling with excitement the Karma Veer Corporation doing business as Punjab fine Indian cuisine Jaspal Pabla, the manager that's represented by council thank you thank you yes sir good evening John the only representative here we have a corporation doing business I'm here with Karinda Pabla and Jaspal Pabla is here as well the owners and managers of the restaurant first of all they wish to apologize for the violation that occurred on the 27 it was their first violation in 16 years of operation that's not an excuse they just wanted to make that clear what I've given to each of you tonight is a I've helped with that I've worked with them over the past week and a half or so and codified a comprehensive alcohol policy that spells out exactly to their employees what and how they are to card and deal with all their clients and customers under the age of 35 years old I've also got for you a note of disqualification I only have one copy of these so I'll give them to Mr. Chaim they have spoken with the one server Ms. Sima whose last name I have trouble with Fapa Fapa Sima Thapa I read all through your stuff pronunciation sometimes gets me she was the hostess and she was training to be a backup bartender this was her first evening and she didn't get versed into the rules and she served the two underage folks who came in she has been disciplined she's been giving a warning that if it happens again she'll be terminated following the incident two weeks ago they have a weekly agenda for a meeting with their employees every Friday the first item, two weeks ago was alcohol check compliance regulations and the second thing the first one this week's meeting was to fully review the alcohol policy which in front of you and we have a fully signed version of the alcohol policy by every employee in the restaurant they are tip certified Sima has taken the tips course as well as the bartender and Garinda has been tip certified since November of 2013 so again they are extremely sorry that this happened that's still not an excuse and they promise it will not happen again I'm glad we entertained any questions they also have behind the counters alcohol books every driver's license in the state and numerous foreign countries as well and I've provided with them a copy of this which you gave you the first page it was 41 pages I didn't want to print it out put it in your books law enforcement guide to illegal IDs and how to spot them so they're taking this very seriously and you'll see in the back there's also things that they are posting next to the register a stop light that says if it's this day before certain such and such a year they had things of this nature before but they're going to make sure everybody sees them in multiple places throughout the restaurant with a service access to their point of sale systems and alcohol yes Mr. Dunn I thank you I'm impressed with the work and to keep it from happening again the one thing I just wanted to make sure is that does the training happen for new hires as well okay this is Gurinder Pavla and we just like we just changed the whole training thing with my application they have to read the whole liquor license before even they go on the floor and we're going to like you know have them tip print before even I'll take to all the servers I just finished with two of my employees and I will want to do it with all my servers everyone's working on the floor I'm really glad to hear that because I really think that that kind of that kind of commitment to keeping to train new people I think is the absolute key to keeping it from happening again so I'm really glad to hear you say that sorry first I want to say this is the kind of response when we get to this unfortunate place that I do like to see even though it's your first in 16 years it doesn't really minimize it any less but your response to this where you have codified policies I really appreciate the fact that you came up with a disciplinary action notice where you notify the employee and you have three steps for second and final warning I'm not going to go into alcohol violations so final warning but I'm saying this is the detail how serious that you took this they get one warning on that right and that's but what I'm saying is and I appreciate the fact that I think I saw on everything that went by tonight that at your March 20th 2015 staff meeting the first two or three items on your agenda dealt with going over this policy again and the only thing that I didn't see in your minutes not to say it wasn't discussed and I didn't see it in your alcohol service policy but I did see it in your disciplinary action letter you had everything else to not serve under 21 what IDs are acceptable but what you had in the disciplinary action is your policy to card anyone under the age of 35 now that may also be in this policy somewhere and I because I just got it I didn't see it because I think it is in there because I think that's a good role okay I'm sorry I tried to read it real fast I tried to get them to you before electronic things in all last week but I just didn't have a chance thank you other questions I think I know the answer to this but on that the notice of disciplinary action it says fusion tastes policy is to card anyone right that's a type of okay because certainly punjab is at the top I think I wasn't sure if they were owned by the same no no no that's a type of that's my mistake okay no problems so pleasure the board displeasure I'm moved as we suspend their alcohol license for three days to start on a Thursday date to be determined by the final vote second just briefly really briefly just with the same that Mr. Burn made earlier it's the minimum required by our policy and we really hope that this is the only time we ever have to deal with this with your company but we do think it is the appropriate thing to do with the changes going forward it's our policy and we think it's a smart one okay so all those moved and seconded all those in favor please signify by saying aye all those opposed again thank you sorry it is a policy we've done it on every restaurant at least the three days but you are exemplary in terms of how you've handled it since and I'm sure we won't see you again I'm sure you won't they just had wished me to ask one question if the three days had to commence on the day of the violation or if it could end on the day of the violation Tuesday Wednesday Thursday as opposed to Thursday Friday Saturday Mr. Heim can I ask you that question so I know the written policy states it starts on the day of the right so yeah Mr. really my understanding is first that that's Mr. Dunn's motion that that's that to that motion in the vote that you just took that's when it would commence secondly that is consistent with the board's policy as revised as of this January that penalties for violations are to commence on the same day that the violation occurred I believe there's been a fairly extensive discussion among the board about that whether the board wishes to deviate from that policy I think the board has the ability to do that but it is your policy anybody okay worth an ask thank you world thank you can you follow it I believe all those in favor we said aye then that that discussion came up after that okay the third restaurant we're going to bring forward is why plus why incorporated doing business as a fusion taste jason zen ye manager and again I'm pretty sure going to be represented by council yes sir yes sir yes sir yes your honor I kind of like that John don't put anything in his head John thank you John the only representing why plus why ink doing business a fusion taste I'm with jason zen and michael chen the restaurant manager jason the owner and the alcohol manager reaction over all manager I've just handed to you their alcohol policy which again over the past two three weeks I've helped them develop that's why you did see that typo and that one thing thought I caught them all but they again they've been in business for nine years with the mall and liquor license 2006 and 2008 jason and I came in he got an all alcohol license and it's been seven years since that point again in that time they have had no violations they were I'm not sure what happened this time may is one of their regular servers her name as you'll see is a well they call her may it's shu ming quen shu ming quen so shu ming has received that disciplinary notice that you'll see in there she has signed off on it she understands the severity of it they also had training program maybe not fully extensive but now they're going to be revising it have you gone over the alcohol policy with all the employees they've gone over that alcohol policy with all the employees I do not have a signed off copy as the previous restaurant brought in they do and are intending to enforce that again with all the employees on a standardized basis they have a little smaller operation so it would be easier for them to monitor they have taken of you see in the back of the package they have additional signage around the restaurant at point of sale and alcohol on the bar for in bluntly you're on 21 you're not going to get alcohol but also the stop sign the other indices they have the manual they will be buying that alcohol drivers license regulation manual in the next day or so so that will have that they are four of them three of them are tip certified I gave you the tips and the others will be tip certified shortly he can only do so many per day I gave them those copies so with that they do apologize that this happened and I'm sure it won't happen again but it's an unfortunate incident Mr. Byrne thank you Mr. Grayley thank you again for your presentation I was wondering what in this alcohol policy is different than the policy that was in place before well it's very similar wouldn't you get a good policy it's a good policy but it's going to be actually frankly the names but that doesn't deteriorate or degenerate from the product it spells out 35 years of age or under they're going to get carted it spells out what is acceptable forms of ID it spells out how they determine the acceptable ID it determines how they are to handle customers when they start to get intoxicated if they get belligerent it spells out Arlington's rules and regulations if they have two drinks they must be served food or they don't get further service and these policies were in place before this incident I say I've been working with them as well as a former over the past few three weeks developing these policies and getting them in place they had less standardized policy as most restaurants do until so they're now going to bring it up the code so the employees know it the employees will see it and they will have to maintain it and again they have one on the disciplinary it's a final warning you get one warning and you're out Miss Schumann was given a one week suspension for her serving the underage kids thank you John yes Miss Mahon just trying to stay in the same protocol on the last previous violation that we had you had the disciplinary action and you also submitted to us the signed copy with the employees I have a but she actually signed the wrong piece of paper that's alright no I was just wondering if they also were doing that step yes they do I have it but she signed the back of the alcohol policy as opposed to the actual disciplinary letter so I can get that disciplinary letter tomorrow if you wish it's not required I just want to make sure that I think it's really spelled out here specific to the incident as well as highlighting you know it encapsulates all of your policy so sometimes you sign different piece of paper it doesn't contain the same information I just want to make sure that these two gentlemen are confident that she's aware of what Michael did go over with her in detail but when he had her sign she signed the back of the the policy itself instead of the disciplinary letter that's why I wasn't able to provide you with that actual letter and then just two more questions I don't know if I can ask this can I ask if they have a POS appointed sales system if they use that in their business they do I was just wondering if you have a POS system and again just because my family is in the restaurant business it says nothing to do with anything but I'm not saying this was the case but I know in the restaurant business it's really stressed that everybody uses that POS system so a receipt gets issued so I if I was involved in this restaurant business and I saw something like that I would really sort of track my sales especially on alcohol and you can do that you can look at you know how much alcohol sold I don't know if you do it by you measure you know whether it's kegs bottles sold and you measure your waste you know if your bartender makes the wrong kind of drink you just beer and wine so you shouldn't but I would just tell you one of the other things I would stress with your employees is to really any sale they have they have to use the POS system and maybe they did but I do know that every time we've done and correct me if I'm wrong we've done the alcohol stings I'm going to call them they've given the same instructions and when they do get receipts they leave with them yeah Mr. Dunn can you tell me what the process is going to be for training new hires so when you hire a new employee I'm wondering what the training process is going to be now we started this policy when new I need to ask you to step to the mic stand right up here now we started a new policy here when the old employee coming we give the trading for one way about this new policy tell them how to sell the alcohol good we decided to put a service and a bar to now service alcohol under 21 always when customers coming they always see the site and the new service coming when they type in the new POS or computer they will see that before they serve alcohol I will say that every time we have a restaurant before us who has had a violation it almost always stems back to a training that didn't work and so I really encourage you to make sure that training is good and consistent for all of your new employees because that's really the best way to keep this from happening again thank you I move that we suspend the license for fusion taste for three days commencing on Thursday at a date to be determined the preparation comments by town council is there a second second further discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye all those opposed thank you very much sorry but you'll be notified John good job on this policy thank you sir well I'm sorry I pointed out I just wasn't sure whether they were both owned by the same that's all but a lot of others should see this John a lot of other restaurants should see this Mr. Chair could I before we close out this whole agenda item before Inspector leaves could I just make one note I think we all know that the people in Ireland can really support the alcohol licenses in restaurants they showed it on Saturday but we do take this seriously and this type of underage operative operation we were kind of wondering about its future because the funding comes through Allington Youth Health and Safety Coalition they had lost a grant funding they have gotten it back so it's a very important part of this I want to thank Inspector Porchello he's an active participant at the coalition meetings as well as his work in the Allington Public Schools and it's been very helpful to have that link to help explain the way that these operations work to the broader community that's concerned with underage alcohol abuse so I just want to note it's these were at risk and it's good to have these back it's an important tool to the board I think thank you see you then thank you Inspector Porchello thank you Mr. okay I'm going to take one piece of business out of order and then we'll do citizens open forum we are honored to have our superintendent of schools here along with a couple of school committee members so I assume Superintendent Bodea you speak on this which is a vote to approve the submission of a statement of interest to MSBA Arlington High School oh Adam you're starting this out of the chapter line yeah thank you Mr. Chairman just for a brief introduction and then we can hear from the superintendent this would really be a resubmission or a second try on behalf of the town to get the MSBA to approve moving forward with a high school renovation rebuild project last year the board heard a pretty in-depth presentation from HMFH architects in regards to some of the things that could be done with the school as well as a discussion from the superintendent and members of the school department so we were not successful in being chosen by the MSBA last year but once again rally the community around submitting again a statement of interest to the MSBA so with that if the board so inclined to hear from Superintendent Bodea good evening thank you for having us here this evening we are here this evening to ask for your support for the submission of the statement of interest on the high school it needs to be submitted by April 10th the school committee voted its approval last Thursday as we have looked at this statement of interest we really went over it with a fine tooth comb again this year looking at each one of the categories to see if there was something else that we would potentially qualify for and after much discussion we are staying with the same priorities we really do not qualify for priority 1 which is when a school is really uninhabitable it has severe safety issues but we did re-look at our priority 5 in particular and looked at the things that we should perhaps re-prioritize emphasize and did a couple of changes that we have is the enrollment update which is what we had last year but we obviously had to update it this year we also looked at a couple of things that have happened this winter that we need to emphasize to the MSBA and that is really the permeability of the mortar of the high school we have saw this year after this winter and some of the melting we have seen buckets of water in the hallways and this speaks to some leakage porousness of the facade of the building not facade but just the whole structure of the building so this might be something that might need additional an additional study as we go forward but we did mention it with a little bit more specificity in this and we also emphasize the security of the building we have as you know 52 doors and different egresses but just to be able to alarm them or put cameras on that would be a very, very expensive process and something that we certainly would like to see happen but the cost is quite significant and if we are going to be able to do a renovation of the building this is something that should be tied in with that process the other thing that we did emphasize even though it was also all of these were mentioned in last year's submission that is ADA we have one elevator in the entire building which makes access to some parts of the building really for all practical purposes very, very difficult for someone who has to use wheelchair or crutches and emphasize that because we know that those are two particular security the ADA compliance and certainly the structure of the building are three of the important things that MSBA really want to look very closely at so you have a copy of it the only, the documents that are going to be submitted with it are the same as the last years except for the new enrollment report which you have so we're here also to ask answer any questions that you might have and as you know Mr. Hayner has been chair of our school committee for the last year okay Mr. Burn? thank you Mr. Greely thank you very much Dr. Bodie so I do like that this is going to be focused a little bit more heavily on safety ADA and permeability as you mentioned I think when we went on the tour last year that really stuck out to me being able to you know walk in a backdoor is frightening at times and I think that if we can really stress that this will go a long way so I guess first I'll move approval gladly and I guess the question is can you talk a little bit about the process moving forward and what we can do to kind of assist this process and achieve a best outcome? certainly I will mention in terms of moving there's very specific language that has to be probably read into the record tonight and Mr. Chaplin I think has that it should probably the school committee read it into the record it actually changed from last year somewhat so this is updated language so to that point as far as the process of moving forward we certainly should involve our representatives to see what support they can give us it really is an issue of what what other schools and districts were competing against this year last year there were over 220 submissions about half were core programs half were accelerated repair but on the other hand the MSBA has a limited amount of money which comes from the sales tax and I think in any given year it's a plus or minus around 500 million and when they accept a school into the program they literally encumber the money so that you know in a rough sense because the actual dollars are not known until you go through the feasibility study but they don't agree to moving forward unless they have the funds that are going to be able to support the project within a reasonable range we will not probably find out until next December it's about where it would be as it was this last year at least that's the timetable that we know I just want to add one other thing this whole process is also subject to the women of nature and God a disaster happens as it did out in Springfield a couple of years ago brand new school got destroyed so everybody got pushed down on the potential list coming up and that school had them in I have no idea what's happened to the school in some of it who just lost its roof in one of the snowstorms I do know the school my daughter teaches in in Lexington they found PCB they needed and from discovery to a brand new school was three years so they got prioritized so with all the things we've got going I mean it's important our NEASC certification is in jeopardy and the only area that we we got hit negatively was the facility the quality of our education the quality of the program is going accepting the impact of the facility so we we're producing a great product in a bad facility I've got to say that I haven't said done I just I'm very happy to support it and I think it's the message if her for me if her is we're ready when the state is and I think that one of the things we worked on really hard last year was to talk about the community and make sure the community was on board I think we've done that and I think that we should continue to do those efforts but we are ready when the state is thank you I just want to say this hits very close to home to me my oldest daughter is entering the high school next year she actually took her tour on Friday and I know that with the way that the timetables work that there's really no hope for her to see see this work maybe the younger one maybe but you know thank you for the work on this and I'm glad you clarified what has changed that it's just the enrollment data that's in here because our packets this week were 580 pages long so I'd love to say I read every comma but I skimmed through this because it looked like it was mostly material from last year and your enrollment projections are actually backed up by another item on our agenda we have the open space reports being presented as a lot of census data that shows the town adding several thousand people over the coming decades so a lot of those are going to be students entering our schools so this is incredibly important for us Dan is right we've worked with the community it's one of the most common questions I hear not only from other parents but also from alumni of I like the high who've been out for decades who care about their alma mater and the condition of it so I think that you're going to find a groundswell of support in the community going forward it's just convincing the state at this point so I think we're all singing from the same page here so do you want me to read this into the record I believe okay so this is Mr. Burns motion having convened in an open meeting on March 30 2015 prior to the closing date the Board of Selectment of Arlington in accordance with its charter bylaws and ordinances has voted to authorize the superintendent to submit to the Massachusetts School Building Authority the statement of interest stated on or before April 10, 2015 for the Arlington High School located at 869 Massachusetts Avenue Arlington Massachusetts which describes and explains the following deficiencies and the priority category for which an application may be submitted to the Massachusetts School Building Authority in the future and do the rest all of this prevention so there's not one and two but it starts with number three okay so three prevention of the loss of accreditation of the state of the facility four prevention of severe overcrowding expected to result from increased enrollments currently being experienced at the elementary and middle school levels five replacement renovation or modernization of school facility systems such as roofs windows boilers heating and ventilation systems to increase energy conservation and decrease energy related costs in a school facility as is consistent with the complex of buildings whose last major innovation took place more than 30 years ago seven replacement of or addition to obsolete buildings in order to provide for a full range of programs consistent with state and approved local requirements as needed to bring a structure sections of which are not less than 30 years and some sections as much as 100 years old up to modern educational standards of safety security and comfort and hereby further specifically acknowledges that by submitting the statement of interest form the Massachusetts school building authority in no way guarantees the acceptance or the approval of an application the awarding of a grant or any other funding commitment from the Massachusetts school building authority or commits the town to filing an application for funding with the Massachusetts school building authority Marie would you read that back to me please any other questions comments on the motion by Mr. Byrne all those in favor please signify by saying aye thank you very much Mr. Judd is also here thank you I heard you Kevin Mr. Judd Mr. Pierce Mr. John as soon as I said that that's not right but anyhow citizens open forum we ask that people get in the habit of signing in and we appreciate that the two are standing there did except in unusual circumstances any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be acted upon nor a decision made the night of the presentation in accordance with the policy under which the open forum was established it should be noted that there is a 3-minute time limit to present a concern or request the first speaker I have here former member of this board Ms. Clarissa Rowe thank you Mr. Chairman it's nice to have you back in the chair seat thank you I'm here as a member of the Arlington Land Trust and also as a precinct town meeting member for for as you know in the past I have been against any one of the things I've found in the last week is since our last 10 meeting votes in 2001 and before that in 2000 there are a lot of new people that have moved into the neighborhood of precincts 1, 3, 2, 4 which are who will be most affected by the flooding in the area one of the things that we feel very strongly about is bringing information to them and my friend Jennifer Seuss is one of the people that wants to know more about this development I'm very lucky because when I was board chair Brian Sullivan and I negotiated with the same developer and the same owner to no effect but that was 2008 and the recession was tanking there's a lot to be learned about this project poor Spencer had to sit with Brian Rearig and myself for an hour and a half to get we had a long talk about the history from 1630 on so you only went back that far we went we went back to the great swamp anyway we Mr. Lane who's hiding back there and I and a number of town meeting members are putting together a coalition the coalition's name changes every day I think it's now coalition to save our wetlands but its name is evolving what we're doing what we'd like to do is be here to help you all we know that you will be notified when the developer puts in a 40B application we will try to educate the new people that have come into town about what the problems with that particular site are most specifically the flooding and the traffic we're not against development as you know I became the development face for the Sims project when I was on the select board I do it for a living I understand it we're not against development in this town nor are we against affordable housing we have a tremendous record on affordable housing we just don't want it there so I want George to talk a little bit more about the coalition then I'll come back and ask some of the questions that I want to ask you thank you very much members of the board Mr. Manager, Town Council would like to give this opportunity to be before you tonight to talk on this matter of urgent importance first of all congratulations both Mr. Byrne and Mr. Currow on your decisive respective victories on Saturday and you too we both decisively in any case this proposal as we have understood it and thanks to the advocate for having covered it this particular proposal is not a very good one from what we can see and for a lot of different reasons one I think is that we believe and Clarice will address us a little later that the town has met its legal threshold in order to essentially not have a 40B to prohibit the 40B proposal and I think we believe that those numbers are there it's not a matter of technical skill in order to develop those numbers and reach a determination that a 40B will not be here in Allington it's more a matter of political will and I think that is what we're hoping that we can encourage tonight secondly the proposal I think has serious flaws in that they wish to develop and build on wetlands and I think most people by now realize that there are many valuable functions one of which is they act as a sponge to absorb water during peak rainfall and to build on a wetland is not a good idea we've seen ample studies done over the years correlating the negative impacts of development and this relationship is correlation to flooding this could only increase flooding in East Arlington where it already has reached epic proportions we have now over as long as I've lived in East Arlington and prior to that according to many of my friends so this can only create problems for us in terms of flooding that area is extremely important it's very fragile, very important part of the ecosystem that helps protect us against significant flooding events another issue that I think we need to examine more thoroughly will be the traffic impacts as we all know that area is already impacted beyond any critical threshold it's a serious problem particularly if they're developing on Dorothy Road which I understand is the case there will be traffic obviously coming through that neighborhood a neighborhood that is much too small to carry any more vehicles than already go through that area so those are just a few of the things I think that we're concerned about that need to be addressed and we do seek the support of the board in our efforts to convince Mr. Mugar that this is not a good idea I will go back to a number of years ago as many of you probably know I worked for the state senator from Arlington as a district director for many years and one of the earlier proposals the Mugar's representatives asked to meet with the senator to seek his of course support for this proposal well he surprised them by having me join him in the meeting and they did ask Bob Haven if he would what did he think about the plan and his answer to them was your plow is in hard ground in very hard ground in wet ground but the ground is not soft enough to plow that is for certain it hasn't changed much in all the years since we had that conversation with the Mugar representatives there was a pivotal meeting I think since Bob was the chairman of transportation the committee of transportation at that time and they needed a curb cut which obviously he was not inclined to support but in any case I think it's clear that there was a great deal of opposition that came up in East Arlington and I'm going to predict for you now that there will be equally vigorous opposition to this proposal as it moves forward you will see I think great numbers of people taking an active role in protecting their neighborhood protecting Arlington and essentially the environment itself thanks very much thank you and we have specifically at the moment the coalition has two groups hopefully soon the good neighbors and Arlington Land Trust I want to get every individual and every group that wants to be part of the coalition to be part of it Adam asked me today what the contact information was and at the moment it happens to be my email which is Clarissa.Rowe at Comcast.Net my phone number is 7-8-1-6-4-3-3-1-5-6 I don't promise to answer the call within 24 hours but I'll give everything we want to do is ask you to please write a letter to the Mughars I know that the planning director has called them and written them since we passed the Community Preservation Act but if you can thinking about it write them and say we would like to negotiate with them directly without not going through Oak Tree that would be I think a good idea if the lawyer that the town hires suggests that we think it would be a good idea the second thing was the 40B calculations and submitting those the third thing is to do some sort of resolution or a warrant article if you can do it if there's a special town meeting for this spring town meeting having the town meeting votes in early 2000 and 2001 are not really good enough we need to get another vote that will help us with any kind of legal challenge that comes up so we're asking you to please put something on them the warrant in whatever form whether it has to be a resolution or whatever and that's what we're asking tonight it is citizens open form and this is a really important issue I guess I would like to go through the chair first of all you are the newly elected chairman he is one of your first issues so I anticipate the lack of response from the board tonight this is an important issue and I would leave it to the purview and coordination of the chairman and the town manager in terms of when and how many times it appears on the agenda as well as the three suggestions put forth if the chairman and the town manager could sort of caffeinate around that and then come back with possible action steps and secondly if I could through you Mr. Greely and if you don't that's okay if the town manager has any comments or guidance he wishes to give either the citizens at open form or members of the board Mr. Chairman so I would simply say thank you closer thank you George I think all of these requests that you've made are reasonable considerations for the board today myself town council and the planning director did speak with one attorney to make some further options but make a very quick decision to bring outside legal expertise in regards to a 40B proposal once that's accomplished I think we should have a conversation with that selected attorney about the path we should follow for these items and others and then have an agenda item either the next or the following board of selection meeting to make some decisions right we really don't have anything in front of us yet and we're just very appreciative I wouldn't dare say no to you Clarissa to the withdrawal no no problem but you know you and George demonstrate why you're the community leaders you are jumping on this as you both have and George you look terrific I hope you feel as healthy as you're looking so I mean it's up to my colleagues but I feel we need to wait but certainly I'd love to meet with the Mughars if that's an opportunity yeah Mr. Dunn I'm thank you very much for bringing this up I think that it is a very a very serious issue for our town and for the neighborhood and I don't have I think that it is a time we should take our time but I will be I'm going to be giving a lot of attention I'm sure we all will thank you for being here one of the other things I think there are two town meeting warrant discussions for a bunch of precincts and they're all both on the afternoon of April 26th I think some of the higher precincts are in the senior center and the Easter Ellington precincts are going to be invited to the Hardy School from one to three so we'll get more information out to you all thank you for your time thank you thank you next on our agenda item number eight for approval Ellington Public Art Youth and Initiative Banners of the Massachusetts Avenue Adria Arch thanks for hearing us out so I have with me Thomas Hartle and he came to me after seeing where you sit last year with a wonderful proposal to have a youth public art initiative and I'm just going to let him talk to you okay hello my name is Thomas Hartle thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight this is really something in memory of our daughter Gracie James she went to the Dallan she went to the Otterson she would have graduated in 2012 from the high school she was killed in a car accident and she loved to paint and as Adria was saying was really inspired by visiting and thinking wow Gracie would have loved this and that sort of idea came from to sponsor arts initiatives specifically for middle school and high school age children young adults and Adria explains the rest of it so I think you all have the proposal yeah and I guess what we're, well I know what we're asking for is your permission to have this go for as a pilot project for next year and have the banners on view from April till June or some you know a couple of months we're hoping for a three month period in the spring of 2016 move approval second I just I think it's a wonderful way to honor your daughter I'm very sorry for your loss and once again it's a creative expression and I love the fact once again we're including our students as we have in some other projects in town some of the other public arts projects in town and I look forward to supporting this in any way that we can a question in terms of who coordinates with both Adria and Thomas sorry for your loss I appreciate that is it the town manager's office about getting the banners up is it the select men's office my only other thing would be I will leave it to both parties to work in terms of if there are any already established sometimes when the Robbins library does the Robbins read and stuff like that I'll let you work out the logistics of that I just know it will be more cost effective for you all that you're not taking down a banner and putting it up two weeks later I'll let you work out the logistics in case I can't think off at the top of my head if there are any established banners that get hung it's more towards town day and in the fall I think you're going to be fine with this thing but I'll leave it to you to work with Mrs. Kripalka just to make sure because I don't want you to have to put them up and take them down I appreciate the donation and the money it's going to cost thank you again so sorry for your loss thank you thank you very much I think this is awesome this is really nice you can tell it's really thoughtful I just want to thank you I appreciate it thank you very sorry for your loss wonderful way to memorialize so on the motion by Mr. Kiro seconded by Mr. Dunn all those in favor please signify by saying aye those opposed thank you item number nine for approval a letter of support for the updated plan of the 2015 open space and recreation plan and LaRoyer chair of the open space committee welcome in nice to see you again thanks for letting me come tonight as you know from all the hundreds of pages of material that we sent you I'm sure you're afraid of it all word by word I just wanted to obviously ask for your support specifically we would like to get a letter of support that we can incorporate into the plan and I sent the office a sample of last year's letter just so you have something to kind of go on last time's letter I should say and if you don't mind I'll just give a little bit of background information and highlights just to remind some of you and inform newer members that might not be aware of all the process the first open space plan in Arlington was done in 1996 so it's been done and as Mr. Greeley said this is an update of the plan that was last approved in 2007 and again as you probably know but it's the state division of conservation services in the executive office of energy and environmental affairs that's the state agency that has the authority so to speak to approve the plan we have to submit it to them for official approval and then we're able to apply the grants and there's certain protocols that having that approval from the state is a good thing but of course we also want support and approval within the town so that's one reason we're here we're also just went down to the redevelopment board earlier this evening they adopted the open space the new open space plan draft which is essentially done but there would be just things that are being made we'll also be going to the park and recreation commission and the conservation commission to get letters and the MAPC the metropolitan area planning council that's just part of the protocol that we usually do so I just want to let you know that's the context also in terms of the plan itself as I said this is a draft it's a pretty final draft but it is a draft and if you looked at it carefully you might have seen a lot of funny characters or missing characters and letters and things which was quite shocking when I first noticed that myself it's because we sent around a low resolution PDF file and evidently when they compressed the file some of the formatting got lost I don't know but at any rate that will certainly be fixed and there are a few other editing things that have to be fixed but essentially it's done it's been the result of about a year's worth of work that we've put into this so also as I wanted to say thank you again to the board and also town meeting approved a CDB G grant that we used to hire VHB to help us do some of the work on putting this together but it was largely the volunteers on the space committee that did it so if I could just mention a couple of highlights you might have picked up on these yourselves one of them is there's a wonderful set of new maps that Adam Kurowski and the planning department put together for us both townwide maps showing different locations and then site maps of 20 of the major sites that we highlighted there those are in chapter 5 so we're we're hoping that one of the goals that we have for the next 5 to 7 years as this plan works itself through is to work with the town and the website to kind of break up some of this information and make it accessible to people so when they're walking around town with their smartphones they can download a map of the reservoir and see where the trail goes and see what streets how they can get the information that's in here both the maps and the text information more accessible to people so that they can be aware of these places and find them. One of the sources we used this year to get public input was the vision 2020 survey that was done a year ago January and one of the we asked about some of the little known open spaces like Malcoboa and Cook's and some of the tiny places that are not playing fields and the rank or the reservoir that a lot of people don't know about or maybe it's not in their neighborhood and so this kind of resource would really help people just become more aware of what we have around town. So the second thing I want to mention is the chapter 2 is in the accomplishments and it's quite a long list if you had a chance to look through and all the kinds of things that have been done over the past seven years since 2007. Elizabeth Island certainly is a very important piece. Sims development and the new parks and conservation restriction on the land up there that's in terms of open space and public access to open space is great. There's all the work on water bodies and invasives and there's lots of things that are you know they're all documented but we'll go into too much detail but the Community Preservation Act of course is another major thing last year that is going to help us in the future with fundraising and working with the master plan advisory committee and the planning board to be sure that the goals and objectives that are in this open space plan complement and work closely together with the goals that are in the master plan. So we use their research and information a lot to kind of supplement some of the new material that we put into the open space plan as well. In the last part the major part is the action plan that's chapter nine that sort of itemizes a lot of the specific things that we hope to try to achieve. Many most of them really are ongoing things having to do with you know maintenance and water quality and invasives and all those kinds of things park and playground maintenance and the playing fields and so forth. Protection of the Mugar land is very important in that set of goals so that's timely now and hopefully you know having the open space plan in place this updated one with a little bit stronger language and having the redevelopment board suggesting it makes a town policy and I hope that you will do the same. So I just thank you for your interest and support and I will be presenting just the just a report to town meeting as I usually do just as a report from the open space committee that the plan exists and it'll get up on the website and so forth but anyway I certainly want to come to you first so thank you very much. Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate all the time and effort that's gone into this. I'm going to say my favorite chapters are eight and nine and I really want to highlight in view of the previous discussion because I believe Spencer has this also on a laptop. The goals and objectives on page 117, goal one and goal two speak about goal one acquire ecologically valuable undeveloped information restrictions or other means and goal two I won't read the whole thing but it says preserve maintain and enhance existing open spaces including watersheds water bodies in natural areas et cetera. So I'm really pleased to see all the goals that are in there but especially in light of the conversation we had previously and then the only other thing I wanted to point out because A you've done the work and just said it was the action plan goals and objectives table where you do highlight on page 121 under goal one that one too says work with Allington land trust on the groups, town officials and landowners to negotiate acquisitions, conservation restrictions, transfers of development rights or other means to protect undeveloped privately owned property that could be developed under current zoning regulations. So I'm really pleased to see that and I know you and I and previous speakers have worked on a variety of different citizen issues throughout the town but I'm so pleased to see this document. I think it will be a good valuable too including you also mentioned the Allington high football field but I won't go into everything because everybody here has read it but I was really pleased in light of the previous discussion on the land I think has been in the open space plans almost from the beginning and you know it gets tweaked a little bit you know put in the votes that Clarissa had mentioned and meeting that's in there earlier you know so trying to present a strong face as we can to say that there's lots of precedent here already for supporting conservation of that land. Thank you Mrs. Land. I'll move approval I don't think this is a Mohan. I'll move approval. The report was a pleasure to read I really enjoyed it. I mean I've read the previous ones before and I thought I was expecting to see an updated version of the previous one and I got a ton of really good information and I really I thought it was an excellent document and really well worth the time. There's a draft up right now if you want to go and you can look at the Selectman's report documents for this meeting include the draft that you do that so someone can go online and download the draft and of course when you finish the final they'll be able to get that. It'll look a lot better. It drops a letter here and there because of the PDF but the message is clear it's really well done I enjoyed it. At least they didn't lose the photos right? Yeah exactly. And the maps like you said are very good. Fantastic. Thank you. And the hand of a professional editor is very evident here. So thank you Ann. I enjoyed it. The inventory of all the public lands and recreation areas that we have was particularly helpful as is the action plan at the end which is somewhat similar to the format that we saw in the master plan except this goes a little further with short-term, mid-term and long-term steps and some special funding sources called out that are very helpful. The inventory actually starts to get close to something that we've talked about as a board. I think we discussed this at our goal setting session after we had the surprise over the DAV building so in terms of some of our physical assets but also land because we do have a perennial question that comes up every year. You usually say Daphneasius holds their annual festival and oftentimes in their packet to us they ask for permission to use the lower practice field at the Audison. We have to say that's not under our jurisdiction. It's never quite clear whose jurisdiction it is in. That one was the one place probably in the whole town that I didn't see in the list and we've been trying to I think get to the bottom of that for a while. I certainly couldn't swear to the accuracy. You had an awful lot in there that I didn't. So are you talking about the pressure? The inventory. You have a chart. The Audison school line. Is that where you are? I mean my memory is where I am. Yeah, I don't think it's on the chart to tell you the truth. There's a lower practice field. Do you know any of the board members know what that's called? There's one on Acton Street that the school has per view over. And there's one I want to say on Appleton which is they call the lower. It's like if you go up Quincy you want to take a left on Howard to my house. You take a right. There's a parking lot and right next to that. They call that the lower. It's a Jason, I'm sorry, St. Anthony's is parking lot. Former St. James. This just says Crusher lot and Audison fields. Which is the upper. But it's because of that issue coming up right now. That's exactly the type of chart that we've been looking for that has exactly who is the jurisdiction how much land. What the condition is. I mean that's it's really helpful as I as I'm sure you know that master plan also wants to do more inventory work. As well the conservation commission in terms of water bodies. And so the open space committee is going to work with them as well to be sure that we do inventory accessor's records and whatever else other sources. There's a lot of I found by talking with Adam Korowski about the maps and trying to get correct acreages on all these different parcels. There are different ways of counting acreage from the assessors to the you know the different entities that actually own the property. There are certainly have been discrepancies with a Meadowbrook park and cemetery. We went around and around trying to figure out the acreages of who had what. I mean I think we got down to it but anyway it is something that's a little fuzzy but we should be able to try to pull resources to get everybody on the same page. It's very worthwhile and it's very helpful to me looking at it. This is a start at least. One of the other things that you mentioned was the little known rock areas and I know you had the series and the advocate as well on that. You mentioned having downloadable maps from the town's website to try to help people get there. I'm sure you're familiar with our approval recently of across Lexington that they do this marked walking trail program and we approved allowing them to go through Arlington Great Meadows and I think past part of the reservoir as well. Has there been any thought of something similar in Arlington with actually marked trails that might connect together a few of these lesser known like I think of like the reservoir and Mount Gilboa maybe places that the folks might otherwise not know how to get to. Not specifically but it's a good idea I'll take it back to the committee. I know that some years ago the conservation commission worked on something called walking walk in the open spaces of Arlington I think something like that and there was an effort some time ago to try to reactivate that re-implement it and update it again and make it accessible for smartphones and that sort of thing just get it up online. That's under the purview of the conservation commission and I think it sort of fell off the charts a little bit but it's part of the same effort I mean we're all kind of trying to do the same thing so I think that working with the concom on that and getting ideas from the Lexington group perhaps certainly in certain neighborhoods in like East Arlington the Minuteman trail and the new Greenway trail and all the places around Spipond I mean there's sort of natural pockets or you know connections that do exist already so that's it might be a great way to virtually connect them through trail markers through pedestrian routes. And the sign I know the park and rec is always talking about trying to get better signage in the town wide as well with the historic signs that's those have been really nice and so maybe that's another way we can work on this is to get some better signage and identifying these you know links. Thanks, thank you. Thank you Mr. Burner. I agree with I think everything my colleagues have said but thank you very much. I guess when I saw this on the agenda and I opened it up I really didn't know what to expect and it kind of blew me away how how informed of this plan really is and I think it was a really good use of CDBG funding and it's something that you know there was a pretty quick turnaround with it which isn't always the case so I appreciate that and I'm happy that it was supported through that funding. The only I guess constructive criticism I have I was looking at the map the action plan map action plan focus locations map and when I first looked at it and after our discussion I realized that I don't think it's the case but how it's numbered one through 14 when I first started I thought that it appeared to me like it's a priority list so that's just the only thing that started in the west that's what I assumed but I guess just when I first looked at it so maybe if there was a little note that this is strictly geographic numbering not a priority list or something along those lines but other than that I think it's really great and I thank you and everyone else who was involved for your work. Thank you. So let my colleagues very impressed with the report Anne if I may how many years have you been standing guard over our open space? Let's see probably since 99 I think that I got on the open space committee 89? No I think it was 99 or 98 maybe I can't remember now. It's been a while. This is the second major plan that I guess I've worked on. That service is exemplary thank you as is this report. So on the motion by Mr. Dunn which is approval for us to again to write a letter of support to be included in this plan seconded by Mrs. Mahan all those in favor please signify by saying I all those opposed. Thank you very much. Thank you. Quite a lot of writing coming up for the new chairman. The new chairman. Marie you got this right. You'll put it in front of me to sign. Okay 11 of future BOS meetings will take later. Warren article hearings I don't believe anybody is here in the audience on 14 so we'll take up 15 now first and article 15 was tabled from our was it the 22nd was it a February meeting? Yeah 223. Okay so this is a Warren article submitted at the request of Mr. Loretty and 10 registered voters is Mr. Loretty here. No. Okay so I see Mary Wynne Stanley from the board of assessors. Sorry. Good evening. Good evening no but Doug want to do a little intro here first. Mr. Chairman if I may as the board may recall the entire article the scope of Mr. Loretty contemplated for this Warren article was not tabled at the previous board of select meeting the were two sort of major components to Mr. Loretty's proposal after a fair amount of deliberation by the board as well as an accusal by yourself Mr. Chairman the board moved for no action with respect to a proposal to transform the board of assessors from an elected body to an appointed body which is significant for two reasons one because the scope of the conversation the board to have today is basically pointed around the part of Mr. Loretty's proposal that speaks to having the director of assessments appointed by the board of assessors or some other process other than the current processes by the board of assessors the other reason it's significant is I know that Mr. Greeley you recused yourself because your brother is a member of the board of assessors but that issue now being off the table it's no longer you know an issue of concern for you or for anybody else with respect to an appearance of a conflict or anything of that nature. Okay so what we are discussing Mr. Tierney would be appointed by the town manager or that's the only part of the article we're discussing. So it was my understanding of the board's vote that Mr. Loretty was basically highlighting the many recommendations the Department of Revenue had made which do go beyond those two issues but that the two issues that were major points of discussion for this board were one whether the board of assessors should remain an elected body versus an appointed body and secondly whether there should be any change to the way that the director of assessments is appointed and supervised. I believe if my recollection is correct and my notes are correct Ms. Mahan moved for no action on the issue of appointment versus elected by the board of assessors themselves and that was a successful vote of three to one. The second issue was tabled till this hearing that the board of assessors could weigh in from their perspective. I don't necessarily mean to indicate that the board of assessors couldn't speak to whatever they wanted to about this article. I just wanted to note that the board had previously moved no action on the issue of changing from elected to appointed. So I'm sorry since I did recuse myself are we, is that now two warrant articles? No Mr. Loretty's article has quite a broad scope and the primary reference point for that article is the department of revenues recommendations. Those recommendations weren't only limited to the board of assessors. As this board may recall there was discussion about a consolidated municipal finance department but the major crux of his warrant article was to my understanding those two issues and those are the issues that this board discussed at the previous meeting. Can you help me? I still understand. What happened was my memory is in front of us and the approximately 23 recommendations, he was highlighting recommendation 3 and 4. I can't remember which was which. One was motion we've already taken, no action to change the board of assessors from elected to appointed. Then there was further discussion on the next facet of it which was to whom does the director of assessments report. And I had said and some if not all of my colleagues were interested in what the board of assessors opinion would be on that because I certainly would be guided on that because there was some conversation that this conversation was held previously and a position was represented and I would rather hear exactly from the board of assessors and not accept. I'm not saying the position represented wasn't the position you all took but it may have changed or may not be that I'm sorry that I'm not getting this wait wait please let me ask the question because I've asked it three times I think so I still haven't got it. So now we're going to discuss this board's position on and appointed by the manager or by the board of assessors. So let me just for a minute pretend this board votes favorable action on that. On the original Warren article now there's a favorable action on the first sentence and non-favorable action on the second so why I'm asking that is is this one Warren article or it's been separated into two? It is one Warren article Mr. Greely and if I may I'll read the Warren article just so it's crystal clear for everybody. The article was to see if the town will vote to implement the recommendations of the 2012 Massachusetts Department of Revenue Town and School Finance Analysis report to make the adjustments in appointment of the town manager and to consider changing or to change the board of assessors from an elected to an appointed board or take any action related there too. So it is one Warren article I think this board could in theory move basically saying favorable action only on a limited part is essentially what the vote would end up being. So you basically be moving no you don't necessarily have to cage it as no favorable action but you could cage it as favorable action not these other ones. Adam did you want to? Yeah if I may Mr. Chair Attorney Hyme just summed it up no action could be no action totally any favorable action could have some shape and form of what was covered by the Warren article. Sorry Mary. That's okay good evening. I'm here this evening to speak because Mr. Greely is a little under the weather he is the newly elected chairman of the board of assessors recently elected assessor Kevin Felias here and our director of assessments Paul Tierney is here as well. The position of the board of assessors on this bifurcated issue which is now bifurcated now is that the director of assessment should continue to be appointed by the board of assessors and there are several reasons for that. This the issue of the elected versus appointed board of assessors came up in front of you several years ago and as a result of that DOR report and those recommendations the board of assessors engaged in a dialogue with the town manager concerning his input into the selection of the director of assessment. At that point time previous to that the board of assessors were solely responsible for selecting the director of assessment. As a result of that dialogue at that discussion there was a mutually acceptable agreement reached that in the selection of the board the director of the board of assessors by participating on a screening committee. So a screening committee was developed with four people the town manager or his appointee and in this recent go around it was the assistant town manager Karen Cove, Mr. Gilligan and a member of the board of assessors. So in fact the town manager had two delegates on that screening committee and on each occasion they recommended three candidates to the board of assessors and we selected from one of those candidates that were recommended. It's very important to note that though the director of assessment reports to the board of assessors and as you know the town manager act specifically provides for the board of assessors in the treasury office to be autonomous. There's numerous reasons for that and I'm not going to get into that now because I don't think it's part of the town's management team. The director of assessment assessors participates in the monthly management meetings. He attends all of these meetings and he's an integral part of the entire team. We are not off to one side doing something to the exclusion of the other town departments. We our director of assessments participates but reports to us and our position is that he should continue to do that. He should continue to select the director of assessment, the board of assessors should. I believe that if the people in this town are unhappy with what the board of assessors does including the selection of the director of assessments, they have an avenue. I would also say that as the voters charge the board of selectmen with selecting a town manager they basically we are charged with the selection of the director of assessments. So we would suggest that it is appropriate for no action on the second part of that warrant article as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. I guess my first point is that now that there are two grilly chairs in town who is going to manage dinner discussions at Christmas. I am very nervous about that and look forward to checking in on that. May I just comment that this evening was probably a much briefer presentation. Thank you. So I am going to move no action. At our last meeting I discussed why but I will just briefly state it again. One, I don't think the system is broke. I think that the board of assessors in appointing the director of assessments their team players in this and the town is involved. And number two as I noted before when it came to the DOR report I was a very big advocate of it. I spent quite a lot of time when I was first elected to this board on getting those implementations put in and the reason why I supported those is because all encompassing it was a great report. I am taking things out in a piecemeal approach is not something I would support and I just don't think it is a good way to govern and I am going to wholeheartedly support no action. Second. Second so the next one I saw was must have done. I am going to support no action as well but I am going to support it for a very different reason. I wish I would prefer that we make this change and I would prefer that the board of assessors chose to support this change but I also just as I wish the treasurer had chosen to support changing his position from elected to appointed and the other things in this DOR report. But I think that there was a time where I took a vote to try to fight this out on town meeting floor and I think one of the things I learned from it is it is not going to work and I hope that in the future we can come to consensus on these changes and we can move them forward but I do not think that having this fight when these two elected boards disagree is going to be productive and for that reason I am going to support a vote on no action. Thank you very much. I think you know that I wanted to hear from the board of assessors on this and I appreciate you coming in and shedding some light on this. For me in this discussion it was never about the hiring. I think if you read the DOR report the recommendation was that the board of assessors really take a leading role even if the town manager was making an ultimate appointment and doing the screenings. I understand we have set up a screening process that essentially flips that on its head but still includes that involvement with the town manager. That was never really an issue for me. The issue for me is always just assurances that the director of assessments is truly integrated and empowered as a member of the town manager's leadership team. I think like Dan I mean in my heart of hearts I think that I would prefer to see us find a way forward. I think that Steve raises some good points about doing it in piecemeal fashion. At the end of the day though I am very cognizant also of the fact that this is an issue in the recent election that we just had. It was a question that was front and center both to select the candidates and to the board of assessors candidates at the candidates night a couple of weeks ago and congratulations Mr. Feely on your reelection and Mr. Feely won reelection two to one and to my mind that constitutes something of a referendum on the issue and the notion of no action I think that we need to respect the role of the voters in this. I just want to thank the board of assessors Mary and Stanley O'Connor and Kevin Feely to get better Mr. Rob Grelly for being here tonight. There was some confusion for me because it was sort of permeating that the board of assessors might have been considering this favor so it was very important for me to hear from you all and I would be guided by that and especially and I do think maybe in the future as Mr. Dunn and others have said if we come to some sort of consensus on this and or any other issue contained in the mass report that that's the way to go but I can't echo even louder having these two boards with the appearance of going up against each other doesn't help anybody or any process but I just want to thank you for taking the time and staying here all night I will be voting no action. Did you want to comment on this Mr. Chaplin? Thank you. Somebody comment because I'm about to sneeze. All right. I make a motion that I'll say bless you. Well I'm also going to support no action although I'm 100% in favor of the coordinated finance department and you know that but that would have included an appointed board of assessors as well as an appointed director but I think Mr. Paltini sitting out there is an example of how the process seems to be working quite well so I also will support the no action. Any other comments? I'm sorry I pass I suppose this is an opportunity to make clear given the potential that there could be a substitute motion on town meeting floor and that could put me in the position of being asked my opinion and having you not for the first time during that discussion at town meeting I do think bless you. I do think there would be a great benefit to taking a comprehensive approach as several of the board members said tonight that being said on its face value I do think it would be still an appropriate measure to take to make the directive assessments appointed by the town manager as one step towards the modernization of our financial department and I would say something similar okay. All those in favor of the motion of no action by Mr. Byron please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Mr. Greely. Yes sir. May I would like to have a brief discussion if it's appropriate about how this should be reflected in our final report. It seems to me that we should reflect two separate votes. I don't know if that it would the town council is waving at me so he hasn't thought on this already. That is how I would put it together unless the board has an objection. I basically construct two votes for the purposes of the slackman's report only to reflect that Mr. Greely was not a participating in the first part of the vote and the discourse that took place there and now a second vote even though it's under one warrant article I think it will work just fine. But our actual recommendation if I'm wrong is that there is a single recommendation of no action that includes the two discussions and includes the report that says one was 4-0 or 3-1. I forget the number. I know one was 5-0 and the other one was 4 voters. Thank you. Mr. Chairman is that? Yes. I don't have to dive that door. No. Thank you very much Mr. Greely. Thank you for being here. Next is warrant article 18 of the assessment of the CDBG application. We have our director planning here and our subcommittee. Who would like to speak on this? Thank you Mr. Chairman. Good evening members of the board. The recommendation is for funding in the amount of $1,273,348. The CDBG subcommittee which was composed of Dan Dunn, Dr. Lee Byrne, Adam Tom manager myself and Anna Witten met twice to review the requests and to prepare this recommended budget for you. The committee worked to try to maintain funding even in recognition of the fact that many, I would say all except maybe two were reduced in funding because of the CDBG funds. We had some new applicants which is always encouraging to see it's challenging though to take on new organizations to fund when we know the trend is declining funds. For that reason we chose, the committee chose carefully with a lot of input from department heads who are affiliated with organizations that particularly in the public services area. I'd be happy to address any questions you might have about the recommended funding. Yes, Mr. Byrne. I don't have any questions but thank you very much, Carol. I'd like to just note that while in my opinion the CDBG subcommittee is a well oiled machine that really fires on all cylinders particularly this year. I think that we have the process down pat but I think that it's safe to say this is never they're never easy decisions and one thing I learned this year is that every so often the town has to market that it's CDBG and kind of solicit advertisements and this was one of those years. Which I think is why we got additional applications for funds. That means that the amount of people applying is going up and the funding is going down and there's obviously a mismatch. I'm very happy with the recommendations put forth. I think they're all incredibly fair and none of the decisions were made light heartedly. They were all discussed at great length. I guess further than that the only thing I would like to say is that you'll see an application from the housing authority with that funding that they're scheduled to receive under these recommendations. They'll leverage millions of dollars in state funding off that. I'm very happy for that and that's something I hope that we can continue to do and I urge everyone else to continue to do. Thank you. Oh, and I move. Second. Okay, but first we have to vote CDBG and correct? We have to vote this. I think that's his motion. Yes. No, this is the motion about the town meeting warrant article where we ask town meeting to support what we've approved. Oh, I didn't think about that. Well, and on the CDBG Adam votes with us on the town meeting warrant article. He doesn't. Oh. Are you all new here or something? Right? So am I correct we first have to support? We have to vote this. This is the recommendation from the subcommittee. Let's vote that first and then we can move on. Although I understand that maybe we've done it in reverse. Okay, so make that motion first even if you would. I move that this board has a recommendation. It supports the CDBG recommendation. And seconded. I just wanted to comment about some of the specific choices. So I think that Steve's pointing out the Drake Village, Life Skills Building Drake Village I think was a major component for things we're talking about. The support of the Arlington Housing Corporation. There's another big ticket item that appears that's most of what appears in line number one under affordable housing. I'll say some of the hardest ones we have are in the public services section. The public services section is very restricted in terms of the fraction that we can do. And so we literally spend every dollar that we can in public services and then you know, essentially we would prioritize, I'm sure we would end up prioritizing the public services more if we had the leeway but we don't and so in that case it becomes of that very fixed amount of money and how do we allocate it and I think we only made two or three changes I'd say of significance which was a couple thousand dollars here and there and we reduced a couple funds in like related to was the life alert for the seed years and we reduced a little bit in youth funding as well but we did increase some of the hunger and food programs that we saw there. So those were I wanted to comment on those in particular. If you don't mind just a quick follow up to Mr. Dunn's comment. When we did look at the senior cuts, the cuts that were unfortunately necessary, we did solicit the input from Susan Karp and ask her to prioritize what they could live with and you know, what would be easiest to handle. So I think that that's the process. For instance, Dailaride stayed as of her prioritization request whereas the life alert program which was I think $2,000 or $1,200 cut. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Just a question. I know that in the past you've talked about how one of your criteria when you're making these decisions is looking at programs, like your example, the housing authority that's going to leverage other funds CDBG or leverage volunteers or whatnot. Do you do the converse analysis also where like I'm looking at some of these I understand when a request is not funded. My question is about requests that are funded below the request level. There's presumably a tipping point with some of them where they won't actually be able to do the program that they're seeking to do and so that funding might go unused. Looks like the manager has something to say about that. I think one important thing in that regard to look at is most public service requests request an amount they've never received and don't need to receive. So one line that's not here but is in other versions of this document that we could show you are last year's budget and then recommended budget. So for prior funded programs that gives you a better sense of what that budgetary impact is. If you were getting at the programs that had never been funded before but are now funded this time I think our approach was it's your first bite at the Apple we were interested in your application and your program. Here's a good faith offer of funding to see where you go from there. Great. Thank you. And what we have done before I'm not sure whether any of these applying is people getting half of it this year and applying again next year if it's something more specific that means a specific amount of money. Well life and skills building is that example. Excuse me. Other comments? All right, so first the vote including the town manager on approval of the CDBG as recommended by the subcommittee and Carol. All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. So that's a 6-0 marine and now Mr. Burns I have a motion to recommend favorable action to town meeting which is we're just really informing them of what we've done on CDBG and that was seconded by all those comments all those in favor Mr. Dunham all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Okay. Back to item number 8 no, no, excuse me Warren article 14 excuse me disposition of real estate parcel 13 to 383 Cliff Avenue in Lexington Mr. Chapter Lane I believe. Yes, so this was an article that we filed at the request of local attorney Eugene Luccarelli on behalf of a client of his who owns a property in Lexington adjacent to the property in question basically there's a large swath of land that the town owns in terms of and initially acquired for water rights leading up to the great meadows. This small triangle of land happens to be where the property owner adjacent has their driveway in a small shed so they had approached the town to see if we would consider disposing of that land selling the land to them after a great deal of research by town council in his office it became apparent to both the town and to the resident in Lexington that it would not be advantageous to any further pursue either disposition or acquisition of the land based on the way it was originally acquired so based on that our recommendation to the board is no action and the party who asked us to submit it is also withdrawing their interest no action. Second. Further discussion? All those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. The removal process submitted by Mr. Loretty? Leon. Leon. Is he related to Mr. Judd? Yeah. Mr. Chairman if I may summarize this is basically just a resolution to gauge town meeting's interest in establishing a removal process for town meeting members who fail to attend some requisite number of town meeting sessions. I think it's been highlighted in a couple of different places at least in some folks is a mine is a problem and the town moderator as well as the town meeting procedures committee requests that the select committee move favorable actions so that we can at least gauge town meeting support for submitting an article in the next cycle to establish a process. I believe they established some reference they provided some reference materials Framingham has a process for exploring removal of candidates and it's really just there to provide the selecting some context to gauge town meeting's interest. Mr. Dunn. I move favorable action on the recommendation from the town moderator. I love town meeting and I love the town meeting process and I think that there is some power and incumbency and I think that if you're showing up to a quarter of the meetings then you do not deserve the power of incumbency and I think that you should be removed and if you can get yourself reelected then good for you but I'm going to be happy to support this. I'll second the motion. And I would note that we do have some of the committees and commissions in our books and our bylaws right now have provisions right now that if you miss more than three meetings your removal can be requested so actually some of the formulations here and Mr. Leone's memo are much more generous than that. And then one of the things I look forward to at the town meeting discussion as well as from the town meeting bylaw's procedures committee and the town moderator is and I understand the why it's just the language that gets the item before town meeting but what I didn't see in the submission by the moderator as well as the attachment from I think it's town of Bramingham and again I think this will get flushed out on town meeting floor is any sort of caveat for unique circumstances you know I'm thinking of a medical issue you know short term medical issue something like that but again I look to town meetings guidance and if somebody doesn't bring it up there then I will at that point that was the only thing in there that if you said Mrs. Mahan you have your druthers I'd kind of like to have some sort of I don't want to say catastrophe provision but better language than that so but we'll hear from town meeting thank you so I am getting the feeling that I'm on the other side of this issue from my colleagues I also you know really like town meeting and I do you know I think it's wrong when people don't show up and skirt their duties I agree with Miss Mahan's comments that sometimes there are you know extenuating circumstances that should be taken into consideration should this move forward but that being said these individuals are elected you know it's not like they're appointed members like some of the other committees where in that case I'm fine with you know if we if you're an appointed member and you stop showing up I'm happy to appoint someone else I'm not so inclined to tell the electorate that they you know shouldn't vote for whoever they want to vote for and that even though you support this individual I'm okay with this town meeting telling you know that individual who was elected that they can't serve so I'm not going to support this and I'm I think it sounds like this might be the lonely corner on this one but that's okay and I'm looking forward to further discussing this you know I'm also going to oppose the favorable action because of the impracticality of it to be honest I mean how do we enforce this we have to have at least four meetings before we know a person has won out of those four meetings so they've missed 25% I mean I know these details haven't been worked out but you know I think people have elected someone to town meeting they're disqualified from running again if they don't attend a certain number of meetings but I myself would travel for business frequently I look through here and thank God I wasn't on the list that's published here there's other years I could have been certainly because of business travel but now especially with electronic voting you have to I believe you have to be a town meeting member or we the Board of Selected cannot vote on Warren articles we are also elected town meeting members so I applaud the sense of it but I think it's very impractical to try to implement it so anybody else I've completely convention I missed a motion of recommending favorable action seconded by Mr. Currow all those in favor please signify by saying that's a 3 all those opposed nay that's a 3-2 the intelligent one the controversy that we're I don't know the last time we published a Selections report I was going to say when I first got on the board that wasn't as strange though as was 4-1 but so this is our first 3-2 how she voted okay final votes and comments article 11, 12 and 19 move approval second any discussion on any of them I have one but I hate to come back to this horse again though on this article 11 CPC was it not the chair's intention or did I miss here that the screening of candidates would be the chair or I didn't see the phrase my apologies I'll correct that I just have one question Adam the revolving funds the secondary view was it your intent that we would publish that in the Selections report or was it your intent that you would provide that separately so last year we put it as an appendix of the Board so with the Board's approval I think we should do that again I would think that's the right way to do it I agree so with the one amendment all those in favor please signify by saying aye all those opposed back up we want to look at Board of Selections meetings for July and August we didn't go that far but could I ask people to look at May for a second we currently have meetings planned for the 4th and the 18th because we have Memorial Day would people by any chance be able to do the 11th and 18th instead of the 4th or is that if it's an issue I know it's two weeks in a row versus a week in between but if it's an easy fix it's a good board to do it if not I understand so the 11th and the 18th okay alright thank you for that so Marie will you make that yep please thank you so then July and August we wanted to give people time to see if they knew what they were doing for vacations anybody have time in July and August can I recommend the 13th the 13th works for me okay yes August is the one I'm not sure so Marie July 13th and August who's who Joe did you just say Diane you said August I think the third I know it won't be available how about the 17th right in the middle there I'm fine with that I don't know about anybody else's August it's good for me as far as I know yes I'll do my best to be here well no I'm kidding I thought you were okay so July 13th and August 17th I'm a little bit my plans for July are a bit in flex so I'm a little concerned about 13th is at this time yeah but same thing we just did I mean we started to revisit it you know so I believe we are done with the agenda new business Mrs. Krippelka do you have anything I've just left those two things that everybody's asked for? Marie was there Saturday night with Diane and I reading out the votes and I'd say she got what 20 phone calls an hour, 25, 30 she informed the world of what the vote was going on there Piper's Dad what do you got for us? I join everyone in congratulating Mr. Byrne Mr. Kiro but no new business thank you Mr. Chapter Lane no new business except for that same congratulations wow Mr. Byrne I do have a couple things congratulations and thank you to everyone who did make it to the polls on Saturday even though Joe and I ran unopposed it's still humbling to see, to have people go out and check your name and I'm certainly honored to be on this board and it's something I enjoy very much and I really like working with the team up here and the team in the office and everyone else so thank you for that second I know everyone's really been focusing on the March Madness basketball tournament and I think a lot of people here in Eilenton were supporting Notre Dame particularly for Pat Connaughton and Eilenton Native and I just want to say how impressed with him I've been you know every time you turn around he's talking about Eilenton and every news article he's mentioning Fidelity House you know you can really I think his devotion to the town has really shown through and he's truly been a great ambassador so I'd just like to thank him for that and congratulate him on a real job well done and it's really been a lot of fun to watch thirdly I think that everyone when we go probably received an email asking for comments on Novus I would I think that that's something we should probably address in the near future so I'm more than happy if with the chairs permission to take the lead on that still and if not you are congratulations if everyone could send that to me individually Adam be happy to compile it and talk to Adam and we can get a kind of a little evaluation of where we are and where we want to go so thank you no further new business Mr. I'll be Mr. just piggybacking on that just for me for me tonight and it happened last week when I had I think it was attorney Himes because my original one was working I had to re-log on back four times as town hall guests any of you had that problem I don't know why all of a sudden and thankfully I got training by Mr. Chapter Lane and Mr. Dunn on how to do that so just I don't know that's something if it has to do with whatever the Wi-Fi server is and then secondly I just wanted to express my condolences and my colleagues to the family of Bill Dotson who was the almost 91-year-old pedestrian struck and killed on Mass Avenue, Sarlington he was an original member of the East Ellington's Residence Association also a standing member of the East Ellington Neighbor Committee he attended many many events under both of those organizations very vocal, very active, fantastic gentlemen, family man he was known for playing his harmonica and going up to the Fox Library and he had a certain route where he'd go to Ellington Diner and he made a pharmacy first and one of the things when I got the email from the town manager and I didn't see a name because we have to take steps in terms of getting notified but I saw the age and the location and I said a little prayer please don't be Bill Dotson because that was one of his top three I think he stopped driving on his own when he turned 90 that's just from my memory but he still could have drove in my opinion but I remember him saying when we were talking about issues surrounding East Ellington as well as when he was one of the people we spoke to about the compromise on the Mass Ave redesign because he was saying well that's good if it's going to address that sometimes when you go across Mass Ave it can be a very scary thing so in spite of his age he was a very agile, very on point, a great individual, he's going to be well missed in condolences to all of the Dotson family thank you Bill I just want to thank also like Mr. Byrne I just want to thank the voters for coming out and for returning the two of us to office I've enjoyed the last three years working with this board and I look forward to the next three and let's make it three good ones that's almost done nothing Bill I was also going to mention Pat and the thriller was both to be at Mr. Byrne's victory celebration and be watching that game on television and how close it was but a little known fact about Mr. Conniton Pat and the husband, I mean the father Len he's a member of the Selectones he actually twice came to a Selectones concert and played the piano for us even my daughter went to school together and I was thrilled to watch him play basketball at Fidelity House and you knew back then when he was in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade at St. Agnes this kid was going to be something and he certainly proved it and finally I would like to thank again 2,697 people who did get out to vote thank you very very much for that kind of civic dedication a lot of people have said signs have never gotten anybody elected and I believe that to be true but when signs are out there that's when people realize there is an election going on not a lawn sign other than candidates and I don't I will actually there were some out for Kevin Feely I think on election day but very few anyhow so the rest of you get more involved thank you to those who did vote that's it for me please signify by saying aye aye opposed opposed we are adjourned next meeting of the Board of Select on April 13th