good evening everybody welcome to fox bros board of selectmen so october sixth two thousand and fifteen meeting the time is six thirty we're going to go into executive session for half an hour and then we will come back to you and then reopen for the regular meeting so the purpose of us going into the executive session at six thirty s to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with union personality conducted collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with union personnel in the issue is the to discuss the litigation specifically related to the student officer page shoe and then we will approve the september twenty second two thousand and fifteen board's fleishman executive session minutes and they will come back to the regular session in very briefly between seven and seven forty five we've got citizens input selections update public hearing for the alteration of premises to in director transfer of stock for the renaissance hotel  planning board discussion kevin one felt for the foxboro housing trust state representative jay bowers is going to be joining us to talk about one forty in our ongoing concerns on the that stretch of road plus the home rule boards like a meeting october sixth two thousand and fifteen we just had about a half an hour of executive session that started at six thirty to discuss the litigation relating to student officer pay and we approve some meeting minutes from the last executive session so this evening starting at seven this it is important we're going to give a brief lichens update and seven ten the renaissance hotel at page's place will be meeting with us at the public hearing to discuss alterations of the premises change of the officers and directors transfer of stock at seven twenty we have a session hopefully kevin one fell from the playing board will join us to talk about the foxboro housing trust that was  wondering if those emails specially what's going on nationally like with hillary's emails and stuff i would guess that some of the stuff maybe is archived or is saved or if somebody wanted to go up to the town hall and request you know their public record over the past couple of years i've you know you might hear a certain stockmen say they've received numerous e mails from from residents in town and so i was wondering  if it's maybe at one point that our technology didn't was unable to house a town email for everybody but where we are they have expanded it now and seems like every town employee has one and even though you may not be technically an employee  paid employee obviously you're representing the town so i was just wondering if maybe there was some discussion of everybody having a town email and that way if somebody did want to come to town hall or that they are all saved it just seems kind of strange that maybe some are personal emails and i'm sure if somebody was asked to turn over emails they would be happy to do so but if they were all in town email everything would be very easily come up with you know what you are looking for with a certain  you know so if you if someone came up and they were requesting we want to know what people were thinking about splitsville or whether marijuana you know if they're saying they're getting e mails that maybe it would be easier for us track what the number of e mails that are coming in so anyhow i'm not i know we're not going to have discussion but i'm just wondering at some point maybe you guys could are a bill could find out why why why we don't have know they brought somebody in and i'm not sure if he was working across the board with just school things i know they've expanded you know so it just could be that maybe at one point there weren't enough town e mails or the was enough space to actually how was yours and it was i was just with everything going on nationally you know it was a discussion about you know i was just wondering if it might be something so that that we don't fall into that a year from now somebody is wondering about e mails or i think protection for you guys is well it is and we even though we're volunteers we are technically on employees with respect to our meeting law and stuff so you know before i'm not sure if we had the server and the you know my preference if there was a town e mail to use you know it would make my life a lot easier yeah sure these guys well that's what i figured too it's not it's not coming up it really wasn't a complaint it was almost like a general question listening to what's going on now nationally it just kind of seemed like you know how come our town officials don't have town e mail and  that way you guys would never be accused or or i'm wondering do you guys have to keep them so you have even though maybe an e mail now you're holding that on your computer i'm guessing it you know that it's somewhat archived maybe for a certain is the day that that big storm was supposed to be coming up and hitting us today so a lot of people don't know but it was just nice to see mary beth corral the police the boarding house the fire building inspector  it and it's it works everything and i think that the common agreement was you know now we know who's in charge and you know back in the day one people would show up and try to muscle in sam in charge in a more none of that happened and it came down to if something happened i think the sign that was approved a couple years ago we spent a lot of time on this board talking about drugs and alcohol and child sexual abuse but this is kind of a quiet group for domestic abuse and it was their tenth anniversary for the run i think it's the year they started in two thousand and two but they done to it's just a mild walk it was nice and i think the message that we heard from lieutenant governor played on was we're trying to make it so there's no door that  that's not the wrong door and it was just a nice group that got together and really that's the kind of the piece of the puzzle that is nice to have in foxboro you went to the mass conference it's free to members of the mass municipal association and i sat with the rent them in the walpole selectman and it's a good it's a good opportunity for networking it was that we had some nice discussions on mutual issues of mutual interest what they did what they did they had a beacon hill update on legislation being discussed and how the legislation will affect municipalities and in particular they talked about the changes in the public records law and how this unfunded mandate will cost the towns in time and money and so they urged everyone to contact their state representatives to vote against it and one of our state representatives here this evening lieutenant governor karen plead always there and she spoke about the issues facing the administration during this past year and she also spoke about the community compact which bill is going to speak to you in his report and they had breakout sessions and i tended the breakout session in regard to collective bargaining and facilitating public meetings and it was good information and but it's good to be able to sit with your fellow selectman and find find out what their concerns are what some of different some of the saying and it's  r kind of a tour of all the new developments at that craft properties the hotels anything to do with the liquor licenses and the changes that stadium so we talked about october twenty second seventh i think every board for that twenty  permits and things that are going up at the stadium to kind of collectively walk in and i do want to be a public meeting it's not a meeting where because it's a working meeting the public is invited it's not an autograph and let's see the locker rooms of the stadium next so it's going to be at four o'clock am in beijing about an hour maybe an hour and a half just to walk it with the reason being when things come in front of us i think we have a better perspective and we can see the things that are going on because there are a lot of changes in this it's more changes coming so thank you guys all for making that they have a little quick shout out to the dance group that got together last weekend over the public safety building a lot of tables obviously that wasn't that well attended people did come by and drop off their prescription drugs but there's a lot of tables set up for you know different drugs and alcohol and stuff like that so thank you for fox for putting that on again that meeting you know that's an important effort that's going on so with all the hard work that was done in creating the master plan now comes the important step of actually implementing it and there was a very good discussion last week members of the economic development committee everybody had good ideas now we just need to focus and get everybody pointed in the right direction so we can really open up development opportunities not only downtown but the other nodes that have been identified in this what it was it was really a good first stop like jim said there's another meeting and october twenty seventh and hopefully this will continue to progress to a point where we can present pace and road for the youth basically for the neighborhoods for the sports for the groups that get together there and i think our goal was to wrap that up by the end of the calendar year in december and build it in the spring so we get quotes so if there's anyone out there that feels a passion for helping you know be nice to see some new people that moved into town to kind of you get a lot out of it i mean people but reach out to anyone on the board and we can direct you we've been if you don't if you put it on the tax bill and pay for it people complain if you reach out i think if you ask anyone that knows the history of the comment that effort is always done by the people and not tax money from the very beginning so we're confident going to get there and then the last thing is we've done it this is the third year with the schools the high school football team prefer thanksgiving we're looking for a couple probably a couple thousand dollars to buy turkeys for all of our veterans in tickets and all these donations were tax deductible you going to get a receipt that says no services of the provided for so it's a good time of year to do it if you're looking for that tax deduction that's it ahead of my short list which always gets too long that this is a public hearing or select one of the town of foxborough acting as the local licensing authority for someone to mass general chapter one thirty eight back to public hearing on tuesday october sixth two thousand and fifteen it's approximately officer slash director and transfer of stock for call and management inc doing business as renaissance hotel patriot place twenty eight patriot place foxborough mass manager scott williams all interested percentages they they don't add up to anything i could follow for you see what you see with call one management funded and that's the issue we're changing upset directors just explain what rents pope place management is the management company that holds the license and runs the hotel the the shares i had the same questions and these are these the different trust to make a motion to reset the vote taken on september eighth to approve the alteration of premises for the renaissance hotel and accept the new directors and then the discussion  much time complete application and it's going to run out and there's a certain date on it so we're looking for some dialogue and input from the planning board with respect to the goals and objectives i think we'll have and aipac and last time with the goals and objectives where the a developer was to put money in a fund we were to put it towards housing we need to come up with a committee grant was going to be a joint committee yes vote for where that went and i think the closure date is june two thousand and sixteen that's correct and if it's not used by june of two thousand and sixteen that's kind of open ended about what happens but but really the bottom line here is that you know in exchange for not continuing to do horrible housing all in one area of the town which is where a car on who it is i was going to be at the state hospital where the fit was probably not quite right there with it even though there's a variety of types of housing there in exchange for that mr king has agreed to make donations up to i think it's three hundred thousand dollars ok so he's he's made substantial portion of that donation there's still some money that has to come in and so the benefits were our number one opportunity to use the money to do housing in other parts of the town and spread that type of housing around not all in one kind of location and also it so happens that since then the state has offered up a piece of land near ninety five one of st john mitchell moore in the housing authority of shown some interest in that so there's a great possibility that a portion of that money or well i'm not sure how much but could be put towards the purchase of that land because  looks like we're going to be beyond our golf for forty bay in the town of foxborough presuming that a couple of the other forty piece get approved the domain has been approved and i believe the one community way was also approved by the c p a that's a conservation right now that would that would free us up to do more senior housing and that's a possibility for some of that land that's up there which would also be considered affordable but it's just different type of housing so you could use that fund to go strictly senior falzon yes i mean it's still an affordable component it's just not congregant house saying or you know housing of that nature so i think some real opportunit we really do have to get our heads wrapped around getting committee involved and then trying to make some decisions about how we proceed ok so as far as the committee you want to give an overview of where we are with that committee of the committee was it was a have any good ideas on how to reach out to people and actually i reached out to two people in the last two weeks thinking one would say yes and i get to know those my search continues ok are you finding that because it's like i don't have time to commit or they didn't like and maybe it's lack of understanding too unless people really understand it and it's very public out of sight out of mind maybe you know and i think it's just the society we live in to it's people are busy and they don't want to get involved for whatever reason but and i said this at the last mean the town isn't trusted with this money yes if the town cannot get our act together to do it my vote is to put it back to the developer and say thanks but no thanks because have two more two more people ok and then between now so some of the largest takes if the date certain is june of two thousand and sixteen yes working backwards and we should have been doing this a while ago collectively together that's going to look at what the opportunities are i certainly would like to find out from john or some other representative from the housing authority how far along they are and making overtures to the state for that one particular piece of property ok if if that does not pan out i know that you know what conversation with mr king like as an example the house on market street was one that what that needs to be  replaced too out there cut the grass today right so that i need to be there were demolished and have a new duplex triplex something built or some type of a rehab on the existing property was part of the discussion we had the other night because in order to make that work we have to have so there's no there's not and there's not good enough soils there are there's not enough room to put a septic system and the housing authority at some point you need a silo we need cooperation between the three towns we probably have a little bit more horsepower collectively in j r s when you get off the bus and i think bill overheard you should really get your act together because we are working cooperatively to try to make a difference so i get the foxworth thing believe me i'm all over it and this is just another cog in that wheel so that you know because i sent jack wrote the letter we sent a letter to related it's the same deal you know we have the pleasure of having a four point three percent unemployment rate there's a lot of traffic a tremendous amount of traffic and that's good right i mean means people are work that's a rather chance to get two counties so we're bringing those two together again on paper we're hoping that circuit and metropolitan area planning commission will work together to create a analysis is always stuff has to be documented and proven and then it gets on to what if we just passed out this capital conversation about mass highway in their plan for two thousand and eighteen you all were i think billion in the hole with this switch of the administration so there's no money coming out it's really eighteen before they get that just going so i'm hoping that again we've got a little attention from them and i was really happy you know it and we got you know thursday i think and we're able to make some phone calls and get some who say ok we'll do it so they hear us which is good news that's good and yeah because you know two years ago we could set that would still be waiting for public she's volunteered of services if we need it for planning conceptual work i can picture a large board with the one forty corridor that with all the different development components and that is a leave behind it's and that's what our issues are the five or six i mean when you look at just the cloverleaf alone in the new design you'll see it done it to ninety five you know off the highway and you don't go around this you know hundred eighty degree round about the sex of about fifteen acres of space so and that's already on the plan for ninety five it will maybe two thousand and twenty unless google beats him to it with a you know a driverless car you know who knows but so i would love to have her participation because i'm not a traffic engineer i can try to do is bring them together and if we had maybe an ad hoc committee from foxborough formed we get an opportunity again in the second of november i gave you the flyer that mass i was going to come out to to in i think we're going to make some you know make some progress it's not going to happen tomorrow it's not going to happen next year but it could get on the list you got to get a movement towards it but i was thrilled that circuit in the metropolitan area council said that they would  away as a result of the texas designation but it might get some people's attention because we had one crossing guard that was you know never there about five years ago roger did a bang up job getting the life which created at hopefully the home rule petition holds together so we don't have to take a second vote but we have to change some of the wording and have a conversation so this is the situation that tripped up yeah describing earlier we have somebody says no you know  want another bite so we'll work with it at the cammies knew we've known him you know working in the in the building before so he's very helpful so we've got some correspondence that we need to maybe get man if we could just you know duplicate what happened in the box pro life would be grand so it really is huge i mean it's been it's been awesome to see and you know you guys have lived through a lot of bumps and bruises to get it done but it took ten half the right so you know and through that recessions with developers went belly up and kept going so you know what i do actually is really good you know good job i get it shows where the community works together and you know good leadership in planning and we can give you a map in a map is you know you know it's awesome today you can make these maps the size of the wall behind you and he said how about if i give you a map of our regional sewer system you know drop with a red pen we  around and get there with him breath of what that looks like to get using the regulations of roger and all of you to help us get that done i mean we have sewer downtown now we have capacity and i think it's going to be a game changer for future opportunities it'll come from down there in the rest of the town so but it's a bit of working together and you know hopefully we can do it on some other issues that we're working on and get things to to go so appreciate you know work with all  know i say some other things so we need to you know work with the governor i've met with him with you know leaders been there twice in the last four or five weeks talk about the same thing over again she was in the house is a very big topic and i picked up some really good information about the sting from two to real estate developers from all around the country as to what they think is you know the key elements of what we should be looking for for when to redevelop with down coming out as well that i can i mean it was also it was amazing to me that ten years ago when i when i went to the same conference i was probably one of the first priest per person to use a and i pad everyone has one and that if you raise these the trade shows everything's about technology so it's just the world has really evolved in that regard and i got an update on board docs which is that the comfort that we're looking to it's using to to to move o r meetings it's more a paperless environment and their next version of their software which we've been holding off until it comes out i actually did see the version of the the pilot version that's been that's been finished but in the day they're not they have not on since and since that since the last me i've had the tequila developers express a lot of interest in them in the fire station building where with finalized the contract documents for the auction process to go forward so looking police on saturday that several committees are involved in the community compact process and we've also been engaged in that process as well in fact we've been working on developing a strategy for what we would like to submit for consideration help from the state in various areas including housing competitive competitiveness job creation retention technology economic development all those all the key areas of which we're already in and fully engaged in but can provide from the state they can actually help us in these areas so we're fully involved in this process already and will be will be submitting those over the next few weeks i want i want the next minute i want to bring the board into this discussion so we were on the same page with you a when ten again was talking about that is that she said if you if the towns agree to this contact community contact they get like bonus points yeah fought things like you know grants and stuff like this is something that you're doing with your staff yes not so much with planning director and things like that but i'll deal eternal and it will we'll be sharing it with all of you in it with others to see if anyone else has a for the thoughts before we submit this but we'd like to get it through the town council as a war in article and it's going to pretty much be a personal mentions that the time has policies and they're defining a process for creating policies that involves you know time manager board of select looks like and so we created a department by department organizational charts with a version with names and without for you right now i think the one in your book is has names but it's a good tool for us for you know when you know when you're presenting to the ad com you know for departments to show their budget with their people or when you're talking about structure and it's a great tool for us to going through a job description analysis process compensation study so that you can kind of figure out where the pieces fit where maybe like future succession planning as times change technology changes maybe some of the positions may get revised or whatever  so i was the vice chair for a year and so down in the chair and be in boston tomorrow having our first executive board meeting but it's pretty exciting it's you know close to three hundred communities a members resolution without a lot that patience with waiting for the new the new version to come out to be able to do that so in this movie the detail of that now i can see why you can't say yeah we're working on it we're going to get it i mean it is very very thorough i was on the committee when this happened is they didn't do a proper job to inform the public you know what really they needed to know so it's their work is not trivial but if you interrupt it with an issue like this