to order this week, Wednesday, September 28th, 2002. And I will not- 20 hours later than that. What was that? It said 2002. I said 2022. I'm sorry, it's a 20, that's fine. I thought I said 2022. Okay, 2022. I was like, and I'll not compare that all members and persons that sit on agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond to that affirmative. You have on. I am here in 2022. John Hurd. Yes. Steve Corsi. Yes. Eric Talbot. I'm here to be here. Sadler, when I call your name, please respond to that affirmative. Sadie Cooley. Here. Dr. Ghani. Yep. Ashley Maher. Yes. Tonight's meeting of the Dr. Hansen's like-forwarding speech is adopted in a hybrid format consistent chapter 107 of the Act of 2022, signed into law on July 17th, 2022, which further extends certain COVID-19 measures regarding remote participation until March 21st, 2023. Before we begin, please go to the following. First, this meeting is being forwarded and also being simultaneously broadcast on ACMI. Second, persons wishing to join the meeting by Zoom may find information on how to do so on the town's website. Persons participating by Zoom are reminded that you may be visible to others and that if you wish to participate, you are asked to provide your full name in the interest of developing a record of the meeting. Third, all participants are devised that people may be listening who do not provide comment and those persons are not required to identify themselves. Those two participants and persons watching ACMI can follow the posted agenda materials also found on the town's website using those agenda platform. And finally, each vote tonight can be taken by roll call. So let's see how much of the town's business we can get tonight and now we'll move on to item number two on tonight's agenda and that is an introduction of our new planning director. Man, I'll turn that over to Sandy Pooley. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We are very lucky to have a new, talented and experienced director of our planning department, Claire Rigger. She's here tonight to say a few words and answer any questions you have. I'll let her talk a little bit about her experience here, she comes to us recently from Lowell with a nonprofit, a community development corporation before the city and before that plenty of other experience. She and I met today for the first time at our regular meeting. I think we're both excited about the things that the planning department is gonna do and that she's gonna lead us to do. So without blabbing further, I think it's best to turn it over to Claire and let her introduce herself. All right, thanks. Thank you very much, manager. Thank you, board for having me here tonight. Again, my name is Claire Rigger. I'm the new director of planning and community development here. I've been on the job about a week and a half. It has been a very busy week and a half and just a lot of information to take in and obviously the day-to-day operations of the town. So I've been working along with the extraordinarily talented staff downstairs. They have been really wonderful and everybody in the town has given me such a warm welcome. I've already connected with a few members of the community who've reached out and welcomed me to Arlington as well. It's been just very warm welcome. Everybody so far has been really nice and very supportive. It has been, that said, it's clear to me that Arlington is a community that is thoughtful, engaged, passionate. I'm excited to bring my experience and skills here to help the community meet their planning and development goals and aspirations. I was coming to you from the city of Lowell. The last two and a half years, I was a real estate director for a community development corporation. It was a little hectic during the pandemic. We still managed to cut the ribbon on 44 units of veterans' preference housing in Haverhill, nine units of veterans' preference housing in Drakeit and then break ground on a 27-unit property in the city of Lowell. I don't know if anybody here is a fan of this old house, but my Drakeit project was featured in their last season. Thank you. The town of Drakeit actually gave the coalition for a better acre a schoolhouse that we used. Did a beautiful, beautiful historic restoration. Prior to that, I was with the city of Lowell. I started there as their urban renewal project manager and moved to be the chief design planner. I managed development and design a lot of infrastructure projects. We built a $40 million parking garage, almost 900 spaces. I managed that project. We did a reconfiguration and a redesign of the Lord Overpass, which was a massive vehicle-oriented piece of infrastructure, a couple of bridges. We called it the Big Fill. We brought it all to grade and were able to do a separated bus lane. We had so much right of way, we were able to do that. That was another wonderful, wonderful project, I think, in the city of Lowell. Prior to that, I was with the city of Holyoke, which was out in Western Mass, you know, obviously, with its own challenges. It was a great, great learning experience.  So we did. That was really sort of the mandate there. And I was able to do hazardous materials and asbestos remediation in one of the mills, leading to the Wind Development Corporation, then went out to Holyoke and built the first mill housing project in Holyoke. We didn't even have any restored mills. Now in Lowell, we're out of mills. They have just developed their last one. And so that is really the culmination of 50 years of planning. It's slow, it's slow work, but very fulfilling. Especially with a community that's committed to it, such as I've seen in Arlington so far. So we've got a lot of work to do and I think we're gonna get it done. I think we're really gonna be able to put together to deliver some really good projects. And as well as establishing good programs. And like I said, meeting the goals that are so clearly laid out in the planning documents. Great, oh, very impressive so far. So I'm just gonna go down a lot because I'm assuming that everyone's gonna want to say something and so I'm gonna start just to hear it. Well, welcome. When we receive your information that we just pulled it out for that physician, we're definitely impressed with your resume and your qualifications and how those mesh into the planning directives that we have in Arlington. I'm sure you've seen so far if you've done some research in your first week, you get a lot of requests and a lot of discussions about affordable housing and I think that's been something that we've struggled with over the past couple of years but it's something that's both from a talent perspective and a resident perspective. A lot of discussions have been had and it sounds like that's right up your alley. So we're looking forward to having some discussions with you, me and town staff and seeing how we can use your experience and roll with some of the efforts that we've had the past couple of years to try to identify affordable housing. It's a tough needle to thread it out in Arlington but that's what we've been working on for the past couple of years and the best strategy is to do that and again I think your experience really touches on that and among other things, all the many things that the planning department does. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. When we were speaking briefly before the meeting I was really touched by something you said which was that you missed municipal government. So welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. I think that we are blessed to have senior leaders and all so many employees in town who really have a passion for this work. People don't do it for the money. They don't do it for everyone to be next to them every single minute of the day but they do it because they welcome tough questions, they welcome creative challenges and we have a lot of those. In addition to housing which my colleague just ably said I think that economic development is another really big and exciting challenge that we have and it's ripe for really creative people. We are thrilled to have you for that reason, thrilled to have the really strong team that's here in place for you to lead and to work with and I can't wait to see what happens next. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Chairman. I also want to echo my colleagues' comments and welcome you to Arlington and you mentioned your experience in Lowell and Holyoke as impressed you also had experience in Cambridge, experience in Newton and you bring all of those experiences to the job here. We're really excited to have you and I will say I've been in two conversations this week with individuals outside of town who had heard you came to Arlington and they spoke very highly of you and that is really wonderful to hear and we're really excited to have you and look forward to working with you. That's great to hear. Thank you. Sure. Nice to have you. Welcome again. Thank you. I'm very excited. As you said, you have an exemplary staff down in the planning department. Great. Knowledgen's very, very fortunate to that and thankfully you can thank the town manager for hiring the planning director that's definitely right up there. Same high bar. Same thing as Mr. DeCorsi. He didn't get to speak to Lou but I spoke to two or three other people who had very stellar things to say about you. So, which I thought would have mattered anyways but it certainly was and as I said to you earlier the nine years journeyman, journey person plays in there. And just sort of echoing what my colleagues have said definitely affordable housing. I know you've already gotten a sense for that. CDBG Opera is very heavily enmeshed in that. One of the things I think we'll be looking for is going through what we have done because of opera funding knowing that that money's coming to an end and how we augment that or correctly finish and phase it out. And then the other thing that we're all definitely concerned about which nobody's gonna make a huge dent in which I understand but it's more of a demonstration is economic development. I really think Broadway, the industrial zone for years, every town manager we've had, I've said can we get a planning director that maybe has relationships with flag companies. We've now moved forward in terms of our workforce with work bar and shared office space and things like that.  I don't know if you have any thoughts on anything that. And I also wanna let you know Frank Callahan, Allington resident, president of the building trades. He's on the permanent town building committee. He's been instrumental with the other members of we have a fantastic permanent town building committee in terms of free expertise that we couldn't afford but that's definitely someone, you should keep in your back pocket because he's a good resource but I don't know if you have anything you, or if you wanna hear from the chairman first and then comments. So welcome.  Okay, sure. So we need to make a very key hire in this department which would be the economic development coordinator. I think, I reached out to HR today. We have a few applicants. I'd like to see more applicants. If possible, we could keep that listing open a little longer. I'd like to get it out in a few more places because I do think that we do need a good, robust process to get the right person in here to do the kind of economic development that the town is looking to do. I am interested in economic development. Certainly I've had experience as an affordable housing developer but I've also had quite a bit of experience of disposition of public property to private developers, assisting private developers in getting any land issues cleared up in terms of transfer, to transfer them public property or any easement issues or things like that. That was part of my job when I worked in Lowell. We really focused a lot on Lowell's sort of primary development area. They had kind of, I would call it, the luxury of a big vacant spot as well. They did some master planning there, form-based code and it was really part of my job to sell the district to say, hey, we have these great parcels, we've set the table, we've done a lot of site work here. Who can we get in here that's going to do, that's going to provide a use that the city is looking for? It's a challenge. I think it's going to be a little bit of a challenge in Arlington. Arlington is a street-car suburb. It's always sort of even historically been based around residential, even residential business to some extent. I think that said, we really need to get out there and see what's available. The pandemic has kind of cleared the table and it's time to get down, to start to look at some of these storefronts, start to look at some of the, some entrepreneurs. I think we need to, I don't want to get too specific, but I think we should talk to some more breweries and then things like that. There's a lot of work that can be done there and I'm certainly definitely excited about getting out more in the community. I've already met with Beth Locke, who's the head of the chamber and she's talked a bit about the 250 year, it's called the semi-quincentennial. I practiced. And she said, hey, why don't you let's do something with that? I mean, what is Arlington, Lexington, Concord? I mean, we are right in there. So I think that's an opportunity that we shouldn't miss or shouldn't let us pass by. And certainly there's a lot of other great, great ideas and creative suggestions in the planning documents, but I agree, it should be absolutely a focus. Excellent, I know Mr. Hurd's ears perked up when he heard the semi-quincentennial. I just say that word a few times. Yeah. I would just call it the 2025. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And we'll have, we'll talk again in the future. Yeah, thank you. Welcome. Yes, indeed. Welcome, and one of those plans is to connect Arlington plan and I'm very much interested in that because I'm pretty much the transportation guy. I'm on the board with my own history with the MBTA right over at the Forensic Committee. I'm also on the Boston Region that's probably a planning organization. And so as you probably know, transportation is the key. And it will determine the kind of development you have and it will, it's business-wise, be in the kind of residential area you have, whether it's really geared towards single-out community vehicles or transit and so on. We've been waiting for our new planning director so that we can try to make some progress with that plan and certainly have some ideas. And this is how it has lots of ideas. You'll quickly find out that there are lots of people with lots of ideas. And one of the things we're pushing with the civic engagement group is that we really have so much staff. And so you can bring ideas, you can dump them, or you can try to make those ideas happen. And by that I mean, think of how to do the pilots, just think of what you can do to be for staff in conjunction with staff that you're not really taking a lot of staff's time, but also trying to move forward. The exploration of the idea and one of the ideas that has had some movement is the development of the Broadway Corridor. There was a contest called the Broadway Design, Broadway Corridor Design Contest, and it generated some interesting ideas. And there's a recording of the contest itself on ECMI and I'll break a little news here and we're gonna do a forum on that on the 1st of November. The time has been decided, you had to do the 7.38, I'm 7.38 o'clock and so far it seemed like at the town day and there's a lot of interest in it. And so we'll see what comes up that way, at least to me. That was a project that originated as an article that was really a resolution being a town meeting voted on it. And we wanted to move forward on it, but this was just a limitation of what staff could do at the time. So this engagement group decided to push forward with it and the contest happened and I think we have some interesting results as consequence, good consequence. Hearing you talk about things just really makes me want to see your CV. And so I don't know if I missed it, but if you have something you want to pass along because it'll be interesting to see what other things you have done because I was sure when you told us it's just a fraction of what you've done. And so that did generate some ideas and certainly give us some ideas of things that you are passionate about or at least very knowledgeable about and it can work with us. So I'm gonna be a little interactive and maybe put you on the spot a little bit. So based on what you've done and what you know about Arlington so far, what would you say is something that we could stand to do? And even if you want to go beyond that based on what you may want to do, it's like what is it you think that we can stand to do? And if you don't want to answer that now, we can come back to this for the time. No, no, I think one of the things I, so when I was preparing for the interviews, which was a fantastic process by the way, very, very generous, I was going through the plans including Connect Arlington and I noticed very, not hidden necessarily, but certainly I think should have been more celebrated was the reduction in single occupancy trips in vehicles, significant. Like almost 10%. I think this is something that Arlington could really hang their hat on if you were gonna get below, say 60, say 50. What an accomplishment that would be to get people out of their cars. You should be commended. Absolutely on that. I think that there's a willingness here to engage in something like that.  I'm gonna buy that. I'm gonna buy that. But you know, certainly some of the folks here, my initial impressions are that there's better coordination or some, excuse me, I think some more coordination could be done between planning and city departments. I would like to have any plans, proposals, project proposals reviewed internally, I think by more departments before they go to the redevelopment board. Or even the ZVA. I think there is a lot of comment, there's a lot of work that could be done on those even before they go to a board so that we don't end up with someone proposing a project and then having to redesign based on stormwater or something like that. We'll get that over to engineering before. So those are really kind of my first two ideas. The single occupancy vehicle reduction of trips is I think is an excellent goal. And then for me internally, how do we do project review and how do we deliver to the boards who are volunteering their time? How do we deliver a more complete project presentation that's been viewed and vetted by more departments? Thank you very much. Sure. So I'll just circle you. So welcome board here. Thank you. I look forward to working with you a lot. I know too. Thank you. And could I just ask either Ms. Ricker or the town manager? I think there's something coming up if people want to sort of have a meeting with you and I'm blanking on the date and time. It's tomorrow at five. I believe it's on the first floor conference room. I'm not sure. I think it's in the lines here. It's in the building. I think it's in the lines room, but there'll be signs. I can tell you it is. All right. I remember reading that. I'm looking forward to that too. Great. So thank you. Great. Thanks for your reminder. So we will now move on to item number three, the end of the year budget report with the town manager and the controller. We will have either Cody, the town's controller present this. It used to be that she and I would share presenting, but once I became manager, I told her that she had to do all the work, so that's what she's doing. And she'll do an excellent job. We have talked about the fact that boards read everything, so I think I'll be short to the point and then if you have questions, either or I will be glad to answer. So this is Cody. Thank you for joining us. Good evening, Eda. Good evening, Eda Cody, town controller. I will present the year to date budget report tonight. This is actually has a summary of revenue and expenditures for fiscal year 22, which ended on 6 30, 2022. This is actually perfect timing for this presentation because last week the OR certified our free cash. So these are final numbers, no more entries. The report, actually the narrative part is very light, but it's packed with very useful information. I will try to give you just the essence of this 46 pages of numbers and percentages, and hopefully you'll find them useful. So as I said, DOR certified free cash last week in the amount of 15,912,078. This is an increase of $4.8 million over last year's free cash. And this increase is as the combination of revenue surplus and appropriation turnbacks. We had revenue surplus in fiscal year 22 in the amount of approximately $4.5 million. And the appropriation turnbacks were $3.3 million. We can, if you would like, we can jump to the tables actually. Right, so these are the expenditures. Like I said, we turned back $3.3 million. Almost all departments spent their budgets at 90, between 97 and 99%. There are a few that turned back some funds, mostly in salaries because we had vacancies caused by either retirement or resignations and the new people were hired at the lower rate. Everything else is where it's supposed to be. I will just focus a little bit on the reserve funds. On the reserve fund, we had budgeted $1.7 million and we had to do just two transfers this year, $10,000, it's actually on the other page at the top. Yes, so we only needed to do two transfers this year, $10,000 for the town managers by back and also $200,000 to the quiet department or to cover the overtime. We didn't have to transfer any money to DBW for snow and ice as the snow and ice budget was only over approximately $11,000 and the DBW had sufficient funds to cover this deficit. We did transfer $1 million from the reserve fund. There was an item that was reserved for the school department. We transferred it to the Override Stabilization Fund and then one was authorized in spring at the special town meeting. Next page, we have the articles.  It doesn't necessarily have to be at a certain percentage. So they are within their budget and we pay the bills as we get them. And we can move on to the general fund revenue because this is more exciting. We actually turned back, we actually had a surplus of $4.5 million. In the report itself, I did cover in detail some of the categories, but for the purposes of this presentation, I'm just gonna focus on a few big items. The first one is the miscellaneous non-recurring account and we got here $1.2 million. This is an account that we don't make an estimate for. We don't make a projection because we never know what we're gonna get. This is usually a one-time reimbursement either from prior years from various vendors or a federal or a state one-time reimbursement. The next one that's large is the motor vehicle excise. We've exceeded the projection by $1.5 million and this is because of a combination of the timing of commitment and the economic rebound. We also lowered this estimate by $575,000. So like I said, this category does have some commitments from fiscal year 21, which were posted in 22 and collected this fiscal year. The next large item is the permits and licenses, which here overall we exceeded the projection by $1.5 million, but it's important to note that the main driver of this category is the building and wire permits. We had a really good year with a record collection of $2.8 million and this is from both new constructions and also renovations. We had some large renovations. One of them, for example, was a million dollars and we had a few of $600, $500. $600,000 and $500,000. And now we get to the proverbial happy topic, the excise taxes, the hotel, Motel and Marijuana. Hotel was, we exceeded the projection by $200,000, but we're still not at the levels that we are pre-COVID. The meals, we had a record of $500,000 and this is a record and it's a lot more than we've been collecting pre-COVID. And Marijuana, it's over, we had a surplus of $100,000, although we increased the projection, we still got more. One more, a large item is the school Medicaid, which appears to be at 439% collection, but again, this is the timing and it's because the consultant that does the billing for the school department sent the reimbursement, but we didn't get it till 2022. So it became part of this year's free cash. And the last one that I want to mention is the state aid. The state got a lot of money and they actually spread the surplus that they gave us in a total of $200,000, $40,000 for the veterans, $70,000 in homeless transportation and tuition reimbursement, $80,000. So all this contributed to a good free cash. And if you don't have any questions or if you want to save them for later, I can move on to the enterprise funds, which are on the next page. I don't see it. Let's just go on and finish the report and then we'll just go down the line and questions and comments. Okay. So the enterprise funds are pretty straightforward, nothing much this past year. You have all the retained earnings listed on the report. AYCC, RINC and REC reported surplus revenues and that's because they've been experiencing an increase in the demand for the services. Wadansur had a revenue shortfall, but that's because we had a wet summer last year. However, we spoke with the DPW director and we will have a large commitment and we will see a good collection this fall because this summer was dry. And the council on aging had also a revenue shortfall of 22,000, but they also turned back $16,000. So that didn't really have a large impact on the retained earnings. And that concludes my report. Great. Let's spend more revenue. Summed up with that, it's a good year, but of course we're going to need questions and comments. So once again, we're going to go... I was going to go down the line, but you put your hand up. Move or see? I only have one question. What is school Medicaid? I don't think I've seen that term before. This is a reference that we get from the federal government for services that are offered to the... mostly to the students with special eds, such as speech therapy, nutrition. The direct services that we offer them to the students and the federal government puts aside some funds and they distribute them based on what we report and eligible.  Could we hire a consultant to help us out and weren't billing timely in prior years and were recovering from prior years? Or is it... There was some issue of timing. So it was higher this last year than it normally would be. It was lower the previous year than it normally would be. I think it will flatten out, but it all had to do, I think, with the timing of our... through our consultant filing reimbursement requests. It sounds like the consultants are in their feet. Thank you. I just want to say I want to thank Ms. Cody and our town manager and his former iteration as deputy town manager and chief financial officer role that when we initially started getting these reports... I know when I first got on the board, it was something that I requested for a long time and then they started coming in and getting mind-tuned and every request that I've had along the way over the years certainly has been incorporated and it's made it much easier for myself to look at these and be able to understand them. So I do appreciate Mr. Culler and Ms. Cody for going the extra steps for all of us, not just myself. I know my colleagues also have comments along the years on how this is done. And one of the ease of this report is able to not only get the summary that we did from Ms. Cody, but looking at it ourselves like AYCC and the recreation department that's really exciting that there's sort of starting to rebound, not for the money aspect of it, but for the program aspect of it. The money's good too, but I definitely stand by the program aspect. And I do see that our, I think it was our investments were at about 130%. Is that as a result of the Treasurer's Office or is that the Comptroller or a combination thereof? Well, it is because towards the end of the year the interest rates went up a little and that helped with the final revenue numbers. But we've also had a conservative estimate to begin with and that's why it looks like we've collected a lot more. That is with a number of you at the Treasurer. And one sort of obscure, which I don't even know if it's a fund anymore, but for many, many years, and I know that the previous town manager came up with a model around the Municipal Building Trust Fund because that had such a large amount of money for so long that really was kind of stagnant in my opinion. Is that something that's still in play or did the previous town manager and previous board come up with a framework that that's no longer really something to look towards? That does still exist. You will see when we put out the report for the Long Range Clinic Committee on Friday at the bottom of that sheet, we always list how much is in that fund. I'm going to say it's about $700,000 now. We do keep it in case we have a claim for a loss on one of our buildings that exceeds. We have to pay a deductible on and that our insurance won't cover all of it. Mostly we have not had really big claims that way, so we've just sort of kept it as a reserve in case. I think the last time we used it was three or four years ago. I think there was some flooding in the high school, but that was about it. Mostly we just let it sit there. Just a quick question on that. Is that A, in here, and I missed it. B, in here, and it's incorporated somewhere else or C, not in here? If that's the case, could it be added? So it's C, not in here. Good. I was just saying, did I fall asleep and miss it? What this report has to date focused on is our revenue and our expenditures. We could add a separate report, particularly at the end of the year. I think it would be useful to show fund balances for how our funds go up and down. And I think, again, for an end of the year report, that would be the appropriate time because that's when we calculate all those things. The revenue and expenditures, we do a report of the fund balances like the one you're talking about. We'll calculate at the end of the year. And so this is the end of the year report for 2022. So just moving forward. We can do that. I don't need that because you just gave us a report on it. But if that could be incorporated for next year's end of the year report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can also give you the balance for this fund. It'd be 661, 561, 854. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ms. Cody, for the presentation this evening and for the detailed memo. And I'm just going to repeat something that you put in the memo regarding expenses. All departments stayed within their budgets. And that's something that I think townspeople would like to hear in the monitoring and the diligent work of our department heads and yourself and Mr. Pooler. So thank you for that. Just a question on page five under general fund revenue, property tax line and the amount received at 141.7 million is about 1.2 million less than what was budgeted. And I imagine it might be exemptions. There might be some abatements in there. Are there any receivable issues that are hanging out there for property taxes or is that just some other factors that show this difference? No, we actually have an excellent record of tax collection here in Arlington. I've worked in other municipalities and I'm actually impressed that every year we are at 98, 99%. This is excellent, 99%. It's a timing. We will be getting this money. We don't have any issues with the receivables. We usually collect them in time. And whatever we have that's not being paid, the treasurer will put a tax title and sooner or later we get it. But for the most part, we really haven't had any issues with the tax collection, even during COVID. Great. Thank you very much. So glad to see that the free cash was higher than expected. How much higher was it that we expected it to be? If I could. In the last couple of years, we had about $11 million in free cash. So it was about $4 plus million greater. There were some one-time events that I think we can't count on going forward. Part of it, as Ms. Cody said, was the timing of our motor vehicle excise taxes, which had to do a lot with the timing of when we got bills from the registry of motor vehicles and could send them out for FY21 and FY22. So when they came, we basically got a little bit of 21's money in FY22. So I don't expect to see that as high again. The other significant issue was licensing permits. I do think that Mike Champa has been doing an excellent job collecting those and verifying that the costs of building here is in fact what people should be paying is requiring affidavits from contractors. I am a little nervous about that going forward only because as interest rates go up, you're likely to see some slowdown in both home sales and in renovation projects. So a nice bump for us, but we'll be keeping an eye on that. And then I think the third thing that we are not likely to see again is those non-recurring revenues which really had to do with our reimbursements from the Fed through the CARES Act. And it's just the timing of things that we had spent and then the timing of the federal money coming into us, that's not going to recur. So I think going forward it's likely to be that our regular amount is going to be back toward that 11 million figure. Edith, is there anything you want to add on that? No, this has the main areas which we're not, most likely we're not going to see in the future, especially if the non-recurring was the big one, was 1.2 million dollars so we cannot rely on that. Thank you. Does this, some of this is timing issues, does that additional free cash have more than a marginal effect on our long-range plan for projected deficits and etc.? We don't see that right. I'm happy to defer that. I'll keep them one and more, that's what I say to you. It has had some effect. We are still working on file numbers when you defer, just some things to come in to present on Friday and we will be able to talk about that right away. Thank you, Mr. Fincher. Thank you, and actually you answered my question with what you said about Mike, the entities made out for building and enhancements. So I'm pretty much, I'm happy what I say, and I'm going to ask three kind of general questions, which do not have to be answered now, maybe it'll be better to ask them, answer them, maybe when we do the first quarter report or as we get prepared to do the budget. We come to you by needs of, well, she's not a colleague, but she's actually on the select board in Brookline and we talk about things at times. We just understand how things are going on in our towns. It'll be interesting to see how we maybe answer these questions year to year, and certainly how we may compare to Brookline. So the three questions are, what have you seen as some biggest challenges with respect to financing the town and budgeting? What have been, you think, the biggest accomplishments being of the town in the last two years with respect to our finances being in, and I know this was a little pie to sky, but maybe not an unlimited budget, but certainly a bigger budget. I mean, what do you think the town could maybe do, if we had the potential of a larger budget, do you think we could leave a larger budget? I mean, what is it that we could do that you would think would be very helpful to the town? So like I said, these are the three questions that have come out now. I don't really expect an answer to them now if you want to play with them. Fine, but if not, let's maybe talk about them before. Yeah, I will give a couple of very quick answers to your questions, and I think these are conversations, particularly as we look at the potential for an override that we'll be discussing a lot. I think our strengths has been, as I think Ida indicated, we have very strong financial departments. We have an excellent comptroller, an excellent treasurer, and an excellent assessor. They really do a good job. We do an excellent job of collecting the money that we're owed. So I think, and the town has been that way for a long time, and there's a strong track record. So I think the residents can feel confident that the people who are looking after their money are doing a good job. We are continuing to move forward to try to automate things, put things online. We're in the process of looking at an online permit system so that people can apply for building permits and other things online, which I think will speed things up and make it easier for contractors and so forth. So I think there's a long history in continuing those in terms of being modern and efficient. I think, did you ask about shortcomings? I can't really think of any now. I mean, I don't mean to be glib, but I think, I will say, there's been some challenges we've had with some of our software and some of our vendors that has, for example, we've had trouble connecting with the registry motor vehicles to mark people who are late and paying their tickets and so forth. That's been a big struggle for the treasurer's office. We're continuing to try to get it resolved. Over time, I think we will see an increase in our ticket revenue on these sheets if we can get that resolved, but it's been a difficult issue. And finally, I remember, I had lunch with a new town manager from Watertown the other day, and he was telling me that they regularly have $5 million in free cash, excuse me, in new growth every year. We're lucky if we hit a million. That's just the difference in the kind of community we are. And so I think over the long run, making sure that we continue to do the kind of things that Claire Rickers was talking about, developing our commercial corridors, hopefully we can increase those, but we are just a very residential community and that is fundamental to why we have a structural deficit in our budget. And we'll continue to work on that. And there were challenges. So thank you very much, Mead. And with that, a motion to receive by Mr. Heard and a second by Mrs. Mahan. Mr. Heard? Yes. Mr. Korsner? Yes. Mr. Heard? Yes. Mr. Mahan? Yes. Mr. Korsner? Yes. Thank you. And so we'll now, and thank you, Ms. Cody. Thank you. Good night. Good night. Well, now we move on to the consent agenda on it. We have the minutes of meetings, August 3rd, 2022, bill setting meeting, August 22nd, 2022, and September 12th, 2022. We also have, well, I guess, we have a vote authorizing police detail for November 8th, 2022, by Julie Brazil, Town Clerk. And number six, a vote to receive study of the Town Office of the Town Clerk. And by Julie Brazil, Town Clerk. And seven, request a permanent Veterans Day Parade Friday, November 11th by Jeff Jungle, Director of Veterans Services, and number eight, a reappointment term to expire on June 30th, 2025 by the LGBTQIA Plus Rainbow Commission in the Rubenson. So... Second. So with a motion to approve by Ms. Mahon and second by Mr. Heard. Mr. Heine. Mr. Heine. Mr. Heine. Yes. Mr. Corsten. Yes. Mr. Hamlin. Yes. Mr. Long. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Jenkins. Yes. And I'll just say on item number seven, number six, there will be a meeting of the Office of the Town Clerk. There will be a lot more discussion about that after the election. The Town Clerk just wanted to get the report out to residents. The student resident later says, she received the report, and so more to come. Yes. And this may already have been completed for number seven on the Veterans Day Parade as you know. Traditionally, the chair gives the remarks. The chair coordinates with our veteran instructor, Jeff Chung, because he does do a really nice program. So if you haven't, going forward, if you could let him know which person to list to make the remarks on behalf of the board. Sure. Traditionally, it's the chair. Sure. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Excuse me. Next, we have an appointment to the LGBTQIA plus random commission terms expire on June 30th, 2025. Paloma Cotton Herman is Paloma here. Hi there. Yes. Okay. Hi. How you doing? Hi. So do you want to say a few words? Yes. Hi. It's wonderful to be here. My name is Paloma Cotton Herman. I'm the chair of Paloma Cotton Herman. I'm the chairman of Paloma Cotton Herman. I'm the chairman of Paloma Cotton Herman. I'm the chairman of Paloma Cotton Herman. I'm the chairman of Paloma Cotton Herman. And my wife and two daughters, and I are closing in on a year of living in Arlington. We're so glad to be here. And I was just, I was at my local coffee shop and saw that the LGBTQIA plus commission was looking for commissioners. And I'm always one to want to sort of put down roots and invest in my community. about the momentum and the leadership and the commission and giving my background in DE and I and as an educator and part of the LGBT community, I just thought what a wonderful way to serve the community and get to know folks and continue to build community here. So it's wonderful to have the opportunity. Thank you very much. And so I'll turn to my colleagues, Mr. Helmut. I'd very much like to move approval. Welcome to Arlington. We are thrilled that you and your family are here and it is always a special joy when a new resident dives in to get involved. I think you will find it rewarding. The other members of the commission I was thrilled to re-appoint Mr. Rubenson and our consent agenda just now. He has been an important part of that. Commission's leadership has had so many others. I think you have a great time and look forward to hearing the next great things that you do. Mr. Hart? Well, second that motion and just say welcome. We rely heavily on a lot of our boards and commissions and this one certainly is, we rely on this commission to do a lot in town and it's very active. So thank you for your willingness to give your time. Welcome to you and your family. Thrilled to have you here in Arlington. I just sort of want to put a plug in one of our previous colleagues, Dan Dunn. This was sort of his Ballywick with this committee and it's sort of fallen by the wayside and looking at your resume, it seems like you may have something that can at least evaluate the program to see if it's something that should be sort of continued or re-implemented but really getting our young people involved with the committee. I also have, which Mr. Dunn sort of extended an association with, it's a Mystic Valley group that incorporates Arlington and other cities and towns for our young people, middle school, high school that they have events and just sort of taking advantage my apologies of your background in education and also dealing sort of with that clientele, with that age group. I'd be interested and you don't have to answer this tonight but is that something that perhaps you could sort of take a look at and pass and see where we are with it? Absolutely, I spoke initially with Susan and Lisa, the co-chair, sort of where do you see areas of interest and sort of like education, just seems like a really natural connection.  God bless you. You know, yes. Anyone, whoever blesses you, sorry. But just sort of heading into that K-5 space, we're gonna be at the Dallin School. So just being excited about sort of newly entering the school system here, a lot of questions, a lot of excitement there. So absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to thank you for your willingness to serve and welcome Darlington and we've had a good experience so far and I know you'll add a lot to the Rainbow Commission. Thank you. Thank you. And I've had a chance to meet you at one of the Rainbow Commission meetings. So he already is showing that you're in great need in addition to the group being in. Nice thing about going last is that they've said it all, and I'll just also add that there is gonna be the picnic on Saturday. And it's gonna be at Robert Swarm Park, right? Yes, noon to two this coming October 1st. Absolutely, we'll be there. Great, great. So on motion by Mr. Helmets and a second by Mr. Her to approve the appointment. Mr. Kahn. Mr. Her? Yes. Mr. Korsley? Yes. Mr. Helmets? Yes. Mrs. Mohan? Yes. Mr. Davis? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The board. Thank you very much. Thank you for your tip. So I now move on to open forum. Except in unusual circumstances, any matter presented for consideration of the board shall neither be active on nor is it made tonight for the presentation in accordance with policy under which the open forum was established. You should be noted that there is a three minute time limit to present a concern or a request. Anyone have? Yes, we do have money in place. All right, cool. We'll just take the list and then give it a few more seconds and then lock it down. So this time we're gonna try and get that clock inside the window. Got it? I'm not seeing it. It's Mr. Shulman. We'll be able to see it. He'll be able to see it? The clock? Will he be able to see the clock? Mr. Shulman, can you see the clock? I cannot see the clock. I see the list of the appointments for the LGBTQ Commission. That's okay. I certainly can stay in these three minutes. That's fine. I'm just trying to work out the technology, so. Okay, glad to help in any way I can. Paul, look. Hi, should I start? Not yet, not just yet. We'll wait for Ashley. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm trying to figure out what she can see. What she can't see. All right. Yeah, I'm seeing the appointments too. Oh, I see a teeny tiny clock in my upper right corner. It says 119 right now. I'm still looking at your roll call on the LGBTQ appointments. All right, well, we'll just keep working on it. So we'll go ahead and get started, Mr. Shulman. So we have three minutes and 10 seconds. I'll yield back to 10 seconds. Paul Shulman speaking is a town meeting member from Pre-69. On December 31st, 2019, a thousand and two days ago, my downstairs neighbor was struck and killed on the crosswalk on Chestnut Terrace. Last year's move towards improvements were delayed through December and into this year because the town was unable to send attachments to the state Mass Highway and didn't do a follow-up if you recall that incident. So this year, things that were promised have not yet been delivered, including re-striping Chestnut Street and a flashing beacon at the Chestnut Terrace crosswalk. And I want to quote to you the words of former town manager, Adam Chaplinline, that he wrote to me in an email on December 16th. I now see the lack of clarity on the matter. The installation of the RRFB, the rectangular flashing beacon will go forward, next construction season, as part of the implementation of the other permanent improvements. It will not be contingent on further analysis. So we had a solid promise and a commitment of delivery of safety improvements on Chestnut Street, which the town has not done at this point. So I would like to ask that the select board place on the agenda for their next meeting a full report on the status of Chestnut Street and to urge the appropriate departments through your town manager to view this as a very high priority because on December 31st of 2022, we will reach a three-year anniversary of this tragic death. And to have no substantive progress on the improvements that you adopted in June of 2021 would be a real shame and really puts the town in a very poor light. So please put this on the agenda, make this a high priority, give us regular reports and get this work done. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So next we have Dray. Good evening. Good evening, Elizabeth Dray, town meeting member in precinct 10. I wanted to thank Ms. Cody for the budget explanation and all that work. I just wanted to bring up one thing that I had noted and voice some concern about the overtime budgets that seemed to be well over the appropriated funds so that the inspection department there over time was 106% over the appropriated fund. The fire department was 61% over and the police department was 57% over. I know that is an ongoing problem. And I'm just wondering what are these departments doing specifically to prevent this continued issue, especially as we face a huge override just to cover basic services. And also I would love to learn in the police department budget, there was a category called other purchases and that was 159% over budget. I would be wondering if there's a place that I could find out what that was actually spent on. And again, you know, this, I know our overtime is hard and I know it's hard to figure out and I know it's hard to budget, but this is consistently a place where the costs are well over what we appropriate for them. And I am wondering what tangible actions these departments are doing to control that. Thank you very much. Thank you. With that, we will now move on to item number 10, yeah. So discussion filling a vacancy on the board of registers. And so, see if Ms. Griselle is here. Out of town Clark. Good evening. So if you would like, I can give you just a quick update. I was able to speak with the chairman of the Republican town committee this afternoon. And he does have a name that he can forward to select board to make an appointment at your next meeting, ideally. Great. So I guess all you have to do is put it on the agenda, right? It happens. That's, it's wonderful how it all comes together, yes. Nice. And so, so, well, I guess we can keep this short and really sweet unless someone wants to say something which case it'll still be short, but all right. So we'll hear from them at some point, hopefully, before the election, right? That's the goal. They have this all settled by the election. Oh, yeah, I'm sure you'll have the name this week. So not a problem. Great. Alrighty. Have a good night. Thank you very much. Stay around for us, but is it for you on the agenda? Have a good night. So we'll move on to item number 11, or the corresponding received section. So we have our community electricity contract updates by Ms. Pooler, town manager and comments for the intersection at Park Avenue, route two frontage roads by Petru-Sofio Elmore Street. Motion by Mr. Heard. Second. Second by Ms. Mohan. Yes. This will sort of take your questions under new business which is here under correspondence received and I don't know if the town manager either tonight or in the future could give a quick brief sort of update to the community. People have been asking me since National Grid is projecting somewhere in the 50% increase and Eversource is predicting somewhere 66% increase. People were asking me about the town's electricity company. Would they be, and some of that is in correspondence received and encapsulated, but could you just sort of not read it word for word but just give sort of a brief update on that? That's all right, Mr. Chair. That was one of my new business, we'll take care of it. I'd be happy to, I think it's an excellent question. So as the letter says and just for the people at home, we are starting a new contract, a new two-year contract in November for the electricity that people can buy through our municipal aggregation, our ACE program. There are several tiers of how green you can get that. There will be an increase in those rates but because we bought electricity back in the spring and locked in rates before things really went out of hand, we are pretty confident that those rates will continue to look as attractive as they have in the past. We've saved on the order of $5 million to ratepayers in Arlington through this program to date. And I am obligated to say that past savings does not guarantee future savings. Understanding that, we will know ever sources, new rates also in November, that's when they go out. We have seen that National Grid just did go out and renewed their rates. We don't have National Grid for electricity. We have them for gas but not for electricity. Their increase was 62%, which I think reflects the fact that energy markets all around the globe are much, much higher than they have been. So again, I won't predict what ever source is gonna do in the next month when they buy electricity but I am just aware that the market is a lot higher than it was when we bought electricity back in the spring. So we are sending that mail out to all the people who get electricity through our aggregation program through the AIDS program and allow them to, if they don't wanna change, they will just continue on the program. If they want to change their level of greenness, they can do that. And I think we will continue to offer a very competitive and I would hope cost saving program to people going forward. Thank you, thank you Mr. Chair. Okay, so yes, Mr. Heard. I mean, Mr. Holland, thank you. I appreciate Ms. Mohan inviting the opportunity to talk more about this. I think it's really important and I think this may be an opportunity if ever source comes in with significantly higher rates, this may make the ACE program more attractive to more people and may provide an incentive for people to go higher on the scale. So I'm really grateful, Mr. Manager, to the team who responded to the select board's urging of being as aggressive as possible with the default rate of percentage, we're renewable to believe it's not 30%, which is what a lot of advocates were really urging us to do. I wanna specifically, I know you were involved or a former county resolve, Ms. Talia Fox, her sustainability manager has been doing outstanding work and I wanna give her some credit for that as well for not only putting this together but really communicating this and working with community advocates. So it's one of the best things about Arlington. I'm so proud of what we have done for sustainability and this is just a real win and I didn't want the moment to pass without communicating that. And as you pointed out in the letter to that, we had asked for I think just three categories but that we did end up with that fourth category because I guess the suit or ruling in Fitchburg mean that I guess DPU said that they really needed to have that fourth category. Otherwise they would be dropped from the program and would have to get back in and there was concerns that they could come back in. They're in? So that's what it's like. Yes, if we made any changes to our tiers we would have been required to make people re-enroll. And instead of doing that for the time being we're keeping the tiers we had. There is some speculation that DPU may change their view on that issue going forward but for the time being we're just keeping the tiers as we've had them all along which are for a lot of great green ways to save. Right, right. And then you did also mention that you're gonna send the letter out. I don't know what's appropriate to put in the letter beyond just what has happened but I didn't notice that for those at 100% it's two cents higher, eight out. And if it's appropriate to just express appreciation be for the fact that those folks are going 100% and that it really does make a difference to our goal being to help with clean energy and a better environment. I suggest, I just put it out there as an idea. Sometimes just telling people thank you goes a long way, you know, saying if it doesn't cost too much to do that. That's all. So on a motion by Mr. Heard and a second by Mr. Mohan. Oh, one other thing. The letter from Petru was sent at the tack. So on a motion by Mr. Heard and a second by Mr. Mohan. Mr. Heard. Mr. Mohan. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Of course. Yes. Mr. Mohan. Yes. Mr. D. Yes. Mr. Mohan. So I think it's safe to assume we don't need the second open forum, you know. So we'll move on to new business. Ms. Mayer. No business. Thank you. Okay. No business. Thank you. Mr. Poole. No business. Thank you. Mr. Corsi. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just briefly for the board's benefit that we are going to have a meeting this Friday morning of the Long Range Plan Committee. It's the first one this fall. Mr. Poole and we'll be presenting new revenue estimates and we'll have our first discussion with the representatives of the FINCOM and School Committee. And I would imagine in October we may talk to you about putting an agenda item on to start talking about where we go over the next year. But that's going to be this Friday at eight. Thank you. Ms. Mohan. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to be really brief. I received communication on the $19,000 to $25,000 saved the L.Y. Brooke Grant through the DCR. It seems like the clock is now kind of ticking on that in terms of where those monies might come from. I'd hate to lose this opportunity. So if you all were asking me, and I'm hoping we can make it happen and I think the decision needs to be made sooner rather than later I'd point to the surplus in free cash for the $19,000 to $25,000 and perhaps the municipal building trust fund and or anything else. I don't know if that's something the manager wants to. I don't mean to put you on the spot or you want to get back to us on that or? Not if I may. So we are in receipt of a state grant of $46,000, $7,000, $25,000 of which we can use toward this DCR study of the L.Y. Brooke which matching with the other money that is out there is basically going to be our contribution. So we've been working with them on the specifics of what they're going to study but the last I spoke with it was David Morgan and Lynn Trinard who were moving forward to get that done. It's my understanding that we are going to do those studies and so what I will do is double check on the progress of that and I'll report back to the board. Okay and what I will do is I just was playing catch ups giving my email. I did see an email with this subject line from Gwen Spieth. I have not opened it up and what I'll do is I'll forward it to the town manager tomorrow morning if not tonight as well as the select board office and ask it then to forward to my colleagues as an FYI. And the email may, I haven't read the body of it. It may say, thanks you've identified it. You know, we're going to get the matching 50 but the subject line seemed to, but I haven't read it so I'll make sure I do that. As we get into November and we touched on it very briefly and don't necessarily, I don't want, can't have any specifics tonight with the electricity rates and projected with ever source. And the town has done an exemplary job through health and human services and through the planning department for, you know, when we hit that winter months, people need, you know, we have a program for various utilities moving forward with the projected increased costs at least by, I'm aware of that had been sort of put out there, stated by ever source and national grid as well as I don't anticipate this getting done until the culmination of midterm elections, but it could, because you never know. I know the Senate and House down in Washington are talking of maybe the president proposing or subcommittee, someone from the Senate of the House, to the $300 billion for this anticipated increased utility costs in the upcoming winter season. And I expect that if and when that does go through and it seems like it may, although you don't know what Senator Manchin and him not getting something else, but that's all. But I just would ask come November, whatever opportunities we can give to residents and if there's businesses I anticipate if we did get federal funding, it would be similar to a CARES Act allocation which would go through the planning department and the CDB subcommittee and the town manager, but if for some reason that does not come through if the board could just be provided and or reminded of what is available through Health and Human Services and or the planning department, because I anticipate we're going to be getting that. You already did that, I can take care of that tomorrow. And then once again, I would just put a plug in and I know I've had conversations with the manager and with Mr. Dacorsi I'd love to have with the rest of the board, but that would violate the overmeeting law. I'm still getting questions and I believe there are still conversations in Zoom and or in-person meetings regarding the retirees and COVID pay reimbursement. I believe to date everybody else, including department heads, have as well as town employees, union employees, have received money from that, from the I think it's 33.7 or 34.7 million opera funding, but I kind of feel like we're sort of penalizing our very small pool of retirees and I'm putting the school side to side because my hat's just for the town side. I know they're still waiting for an answer on that. So I would just ask through the chair to the town manager when it is appropriate because I know this is something that hasn't fallen by the wayside. I know there's been communication but I'd kind of like to get that resolved and I just want to say I'd be very disappointed for some reason we found a way for everybody else but the retirees who, and I want to make sure they legitimately, which they did, worked during COVID, they're entitled to also get that benefit. So I'm not looking for a discussion on that. I just want to put it out and that's it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You're welcome. Mr. Herred. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to follow up on our very successful town day helped by probably just about the best weather that you could ask for for town day. So the results aren't always typical but it was a combination of a ton of work. A lot of people in this room, the chair led the way with Kathleen Darcy from KMSA of his bank, Bob Bowe's, Jeff from ACMI, too many people to name it but it was really a team effort. It was a lot of work and we were warned but it turned out to be an excellent day. I think it was clear from the attendance that the residents of the town wanted us to have town day and we'll have it going forward. We have already had set our meeting for next year's town day and we've kind of looked at this town day to see if there are any improvements, what we did right and where we can ever improve for improvement on timing and whatnot. But again, it was very successful. I was down there at five o'clock and I think Jim Feeney was probably there for about 30 minutes at that time working away. So you put me to shame but a lot of work and the DPW police department, fire department, too many to name, but again, but it was a fun day. Everyone that I know was very thankful that we brought town day back and everyone that was there had a great time. So thank you all who participated and came to town day, let's share. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Her, Mr. Diggins and all the people you just mentioned. I had a great time in town day and I had a great time watching thousands of people have a great time. It was a joy to see it back and I am really grateful for your vision, your persistence and your really hard work, all of you who made that happen for our community once again. My only new business is to suggest a new business to the chair, but that is kind of to expand upon Mr. Schlickman's suggestion and open forum. I think it could be, I would appreciate an update from the manager and whatever staffing team's appropriate on the progress, not only of that project, but on the other major transportation or road safety projects that we have at various stages in the harbor. I know that our work is commencing on MassAven Appleton with respect to funding and plans. I don't know if that might be beneficial and there may be things I'm not thinking about, but maybe something like that could dovetail with a top level report from TAC on how things are going. I'll leave that to you all, my decapable hands, but I think that I would appreciate that and if Mr. Chair, do you feel like that would be worth the words time and I'd welcome that on a agenda in your future. Thank you. So my new business, I was going to comment on Pound 8 II meeting, but Mr. Hurd did mention Mr. Feeney a couple of times, and he was very instrumental in making things happen. And I also want to say that I got involved because I know that this like board staff was pretty stretched meeting. So I wanted to help out in that room as much as I could and as much as I did, I also know that this like board staff still did a lot of work. And when I had questions about what to do because I hadn't done it before, I had this master spreadsheet, but still there was some things that I didn't understand and they were always very helpful and very gracious in answering the questions and helping to advance things that I know in those last few weeks, meaning they were doing a lot of work in. And Fran Reedy. Thank you Fran, she came back and she did, she did a lot of work and we are rewarding her as we did it with Kathleen for 10 bucks for each year. She did 15 years and as I said at Pound 8, made out even $1,000 a year wasn't really confiscating them for the work that they did. But we just want to express our appreciation in some tangible way. So that's coming her way and so yeah, and I actually got to know Fran more through that and I had, you know, for my one year on, it's like for a while she was on it, while I was on it with her. So yeah, and I was expecting Mr. Hurd to tell us what the date for next year is. Did he tell us that? I don't recall. That was 23, 22nd, 23, 9, 12, 23. But we're gonna double check up the holy days. Well we did, that's why we didn't do the previous. We did it in honor of Mr. Helm's birthday. Yeah, all right, there you go. It'll be the biggest birthday ever. Which is also your birthday, Mr. Hurd. As long as there's a big cake at the center stage, it should all be happy. Oh, here it is. Sorry. Which you will pop out of. Excuse me. So, you set it up. You set it up. Sorry, you know, and also Mr. Hurd's idea about having the fireworks on Saturday night, I think was a really good idea and it was nice to kind of see the evening culminate with that. And they say about the fireworks, I think in Arlington, you can kind of see it from most places. In Arlington, I live in East, which is pretty flat, but I mean, I can see them, I think from those who live in the hillary areas, you can kind of see it. So I think that was just a nice way to end the night. And the football players at cheerleaders and parents were very grateful. Because every Friday night, they miss it. They have to be in a game. So, they were thumbs up on that. Right, so all around good, you know, and so, yeah, my only other piece of new business is that I am planning on reaching out to the public memorials committee. Oh my God, just try to understand the basics about how the committee works before advancing more items to them, you know. And so, just let you know that I'm working on that and then we will decide what we send to them from top meeting or any other source. So, there's that. And I think that's it for me. Move to adjourn. Second. So, on a motion to adjourn, I'll move to behind. And a second by Mr. Heard. Mr. Heard. Mr. Heard. Yes. Mr. Crossley. Mr. Hellman. Yes. Mr. Heard. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Heard. Yes. Yes. Thank you.


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