issue that they were here tonight about is the law enforcement part of that policy for all years up until the present the town has provided insurance for events at the stadium through by having a craft organization providing general liability policy on which the times and the insured and that in a general liability policy protects the town for damages are caused by acts of the stadium it does not cover the part is settled the insurance five was also resolved at least in principle and what we were going to do was a f deductible get this thing resolved but what i've done and it's said been mentally difficult to act because of kevin's illness now and because of the transition that is happening but in place until at least the board joey porter his historical experience what i can for that this nothing is really different other than you know my i woke up and saw the exposure but i you know i kept pressing to talk to someone i love didn't have the benefit of tommy and your high side but that that's where we are so it's a solvable be it'll be primary it will be the principal policy the understanding that the maya policy was going to remain in place and that we could reach an agreement with the craft organization allocating the cost of the premium and that would that would take care of the craft responsibilities with respect to law enforcement protection and that way stadium events would be their responsibility in terms of the allocation the pretium premium non stadium events would be our responsibility but it was without the understanding that maya looked at that and maya saw that there is no risk of shifting either on to the crafts forum to great divide and that's why i think they then  we were hoping to get and the crafts understand that they had they had represented that they would provide us with coverage for the state in the bents and so that's my understanding i would have not been a party to those conversations that tickets had within the last few days but that's my understanding is that they're going to go out and find substitute coverage that will protect town law enforcement risk that arises out of our handling of gillette stadium and when's the first event there are two soccer events i think one is pretty soon i don't know exactly but sharp shock and something like that is another soccer and then there's the born drop concert which i think is july twenty conversation other than a recap of what was just been told and he was yes of frustration that they were unable to find a policy that they could buy on behalf of themselves that would cover alarm foresman operation so the conversation ended there and he didn't say that he was continuing it if you actually killed in more than he gave me today questions from the one true way so how will we get back to the seventy five hundred dollar deductible how does that happen you get the timing issue but that's important but that aside if we go forward with this this plan at the end of that process we will continue the to the fifty thousand dollars deductible was going to be placed on to the coverage only if we did not get two things indemnification the next in which they're satisfied that the indemnification language that was negotiated with the graft organization is it gives us better protection than the old and the patient and the other piece that they wanted to see was a shift of law enforcement risk onto another policy purchased by the graph booking ization that's the piece they haven't seen and if they haven't seen that then the deductible is going to go from seventy five to fifty eight my understanding would be that if if that is then demonstrated to them whether it's effective july one or july twelve or july twenty eighth we we can then go back to my and say ok that has been satisfied as well the  mean is there any approach that we can take with the craft organization to have some ownership of that deductible by them before we even go through this bid process let's just settle that right in fro that be done in the next five days before july first i mean put in simple terms you know if you get ten an issue of ten people is a half million dollars you're dealing with versus seventy five thousand a week ago it and i appreciate a candid answer i don't see this get resolved in july you know that we've been somewhat privy to the discussions and between our counsel my as attorney jim corinne his group and our town managers like moving glaciers in not not that it's anyone's fault but the dynamics of this is very very slow so i see july and into august before we get any glimmer of you know yes if we can't here well my question is is it good we have licensed events at the stadium subject to this being played up by june thirtieth what happens if this isn't resolve june thirtieth what happens to those licenses we're holding those licenses right now you know where i can give you what the craft organization would say this is not their  craft organization to cover this big change when at whatever it is for the new policy for the fifty thousand dollar deductible whatever you want with you next week two weeks that's fine if before we go down that road let's finish this discussion and we'll talk about that so i they asked if we could have a special meeting in a couple of days i says on how we can get together with the upcoming holiday for the thirtieth at this point would be tonight early in the day said he would be here but it would be a quarter seventy seven i don't know if i do without and then he would be here and then that broke down and john the day adding to the both so they could not be here tonight i didn't talk to them about another meeting that makes sense because the they are very concerned that somehow these licenses won't get issued and it puts the town and them in a pickle so basically if i hear this boy correctly us it's going to go on for a while so that's something that really doesn't matter to me all due respect what the matters to me is that the two fifty thousand dollars the doctor was coming by the time it's a great significance to the town for the for the money that revenue stream they created by the stadium that to tell receives to take that kind of risk is not happening right now i mean it's just it's on its own thinkable for the town to take that kind of risk  so i'm saying and i don't know about speaking the board speak for myself here you guys go away and if the fifty thousand dollars deductible and to this new insurance is taken can are taken care of or covered by them and it has to be legally informative comes into his neck is he going to get an hour thirty dec there's a lot of things going on with families just getting out of school it's a great it's a great disservice to ask this board to come in on thursday to do this but we've got to do it because that's what this board does it works together with all the community and all that all this town to make sure that it's amendable kids just get out of school today a lot of families have plans and this is bought into him so they need to have everything in order on thursday and it better be convincing in short and sweet rogers to join the meeting because i'm really not too happy about this has been dragging on since january first he said she said it's been going back and forth throwing stones at each other it's ridiculous so it needs to end thursday and i'm not taking a public servant now i'm not taking on the risk of fifty thousand dollars a direct quote from the t said happened to me by six thirty that you actually asked that correspondence i receive nothing and if this is so important i would think that they would be amenable to coming here tonight and cancel never the plans in i'm really just  john how do you feel about that because if if you if this board is going to ask me to sign that i want to make sure that it does not jeopardize anything we have my you know i can confirm that with my but my understanding was the way that the letter was drafted was to make the broker of record as identified in that letter the exclusive parkening agent for with the town with respect to purchasing large force and liability insurance and it in effect would sever the relationship with mine and that's numbers that is going to go up public and kevin was adamant that that cannot be shared he softened over time from the meetings back and forth but it's been somewhat of a stalemate of late so that that's a good point just to say we're going to vote to send above referenced application of the town of foxborough through the board of water and so a commission a commission has owens to freestanding bill boards which incidentally managed by m p p development l l c a related company of the applicant the board of water and sewer commission as well as route one business community has waited patiently for the digital billboard bylaws to be promulgated in approved by a town meeting a reasonable orderly infere process that maximizes the opportunity for all concerned will best serve the interests of fox digital billboards are coming and should be licensed through prudent lean use policy it's sincerely signed it is chairman and we have a carbon copy of the board of selectmen in the planning board so i want to that that that's fine i want to talk about a a matter of grave concern certainly to me and i'm now speaking is a citizen businessman form a select then in a want  tank billboards and all this stuff and i'm concerned about a pattern of conduct it would appear that we've had some communications with this particular applicant the who what when where and why i think we can get into a little later but we're going to have to have this conversation because you know we're sitting up there with an empty billboard that's been empty for a year this catholic and is proposing something else and you know i don't feel kevin has explain this to me you know we've had some conversation with these guys and there was a discussion about revenue sharing and this is wholly unacceptable you know acceptable so i would say really on a lot of levels this is this is troubling and  you know we don't have a tommy manager anymore and then jim i'm going to say this to you as a former selectman who has walked in your shoes as far as i'm concerned you do have a conflict night i'm saying that being there i believe you do i'd like to see you get it in writing straightened out with the ethics committee before someone sends a letter to them and we've got another distraction here so i don't have the ability to speak back and have a dialogue this issue is specifically on the agenda later under action items i'd be happy to talk to but it is a sobering issue right now that you're coming up to make an accusation and walking away from the table so happy to know so if you want to organization and i know you're on later on the gender but we just wanted to forward qwest a two week delay in discussing the new licensing of regulation for commercial parking lot partially because it cheerfully respond occasion we want to have some dialogue with it because it's been a couple changes that were made that we haven't been able to do just that would be great if we could do it for july ninth that's the next meeting that would work so we're open to to that current regulations that are in place and i certainly i have no problem with meeting with the membership and ironing out those points of discourse two weeks might be more difficult to accomplish so if the board could look forward and just notify myself and the members of the room one businessman that fits better into your schedule we would be the twenty third and their right to lie twenty t work because i know i can put it on that agenda oh well i mean we're going to continue to operate under the current regulations until the board decides to adopt the new regulations solution we need to have before anybody else wish to speak again that's not my concern my concern is a very busy agenda for the board certainly if this group wants to bring discuss than just these written regulations that we have come up to light in the past few days and i think you need two meetings to one died just in a second meeting to really react to the first meeting and i think if we run into the twentieth you saw what you have had happened with the insurance this is going to be the exact same scenario and i would like to get it on the next agenda at any hour of the night as well it's on the agenda tonight to see him you know so i can move this up to right now so we can have a discussion about it so i can jump the agenda while i knew some basics was public so we can respond to you was a boy it's on the agenda so we can speak about this there's a lot more to those regulations than are written in front of you that we really need to talk about oh i understand but what i'm saying is does anybody object to having a quick conversation about this what they want to do it now being it's on the agenda tonight information coming our way it's got to start somewhere right now that's ok with me right we wanted time to spend with the chief and some of our other members before we came back to you it will save a lot of time if we have time to work on it then getting into a couple issues tonight and then just having more so if alarie and the people who were affected to find out why you know why these things were being changed and maybe offer more input because this isn't the final is my using this is like the first draft of the light on this to have an issue with what you saw to the night on i just thought i heard from ron ron or another business owner that there's too much to put off and squeeze it later so i figured why not start now i don't have a preference either way to be honest with you i don't know what crayon that's great certainly speak on it but i don't think i'm any different than any of the other board members because we've all kind of walked the same steps over the last couple months this initiated from the sheen sexual abuse allegations from the seventy's and eighty's that's when offered twenty thirty years and when we looked into it there's you know starting at that level was anything reported how was it reported what records were kept in kind of a chain of command of of an event and we found out the town of foxborough does not have and no different than many other towns a policy on sexual abuse reporting so if something happens can somebody go if i'm an employee of the town and i see something happening can i tell my boss without fear of getting fired do i tell my boss when i go to the police what do i tell my coworkers and what's the chain of command after that in where the action items so kevin pay goes in a group of people from town and i think they grabbed different departments put together policy a couple months ago it wasn't quite i think what the board collectively wanted so they said they'd take a second shot we received last week a policy called the town of fox bros child sex abuse report reporting policy and i think it's a group effort to with some outside help to put down the thoughts of the town and i'll just read the purpose at the beginning and i'll leave it at that you serving organizations strive to create a safe environment for youth employees and volunteers so that youth can grow learn and have fun part of creating a safe environment is making sure that youth are not harmed in any way while participating in organizations sponsored activities one riskin in any organization working directly with youth is child sexual abuse and it goes on in this is in draft so it's on the agenda tonight for some i guess some of the authors of this to present it back to the board and probably referrals for them and for their families to trauma informed therapists in the area who can provide them support in moving through obviously a very difficult time and i appreciate being able to be here tonight i know it's not the easiest topic to discuss but it's obviously one that's very important and i was able to give some input on the new policy i'm not going to talk specifically about the policy i think that cindy is going to do that when she joins us but i was going to talk just a little bit about some of the feedback that i gave in about some of the legal definition a glock and abuse and specifically about the behavioral and emotional indicators because whether people in this room are working directly with children or overseeing the systems that influence children or if you're parents and you have children or friends of your children in your own home this is such a prevalent problem and i think that it's really important that as a community we start the discussion about it because it's not the easiest thing to talk about  actually tara's going to do the presentation and then i can speak on some of her recommendations for the policy group so i'm going to go through a lot of information really quickly because i know you have a full agenda tonight but i just wanted to start by a few national statistics in two thousand and ten it was an estimated three three million referrals for child abuse and neglect received by public social service or child protective services agencies and because there were multiple children in the home those referrals included about five point nine million children more than seventy five percent had suffered from neglect more than fifteen percent had suffered from physical abuse and approximately ten percent had suffered from sexual abuse that number is significantly less than the others because sexual abuse is often not disclosed so the statistics that we talk about are just reported cases but the majority of the cases don't go reported a report of child abuse as a maid is made nationally every ten seconds so in the approximately thirty minutes that i'll be here talking briefly about this that means there will be over one hundred eighty reports of child abuse in our nation a few things just to keep in mind more than ninety percent of juvenile sexual abuse victims knew their perpetrator in some way it could be somebody in their home it could be a caregiver or it could be a coach or somebody in their school system child abuse occurs across socioeconomic levels across ethnic and cultural lines within all regions and in all levels of education it occurs in this community and every community around us about eighty percent of twenty one year olds that were abused as children met criteria for at least one psychological disorder when i'm not in our focus of the kids for children on the clinical director at one of jr rise residential programs in concord where i've been for about eleven years now and i work with kids who have been exposed to chronic trauma and abuse and they all have multiple diagnoses and lasting impacts by this things like depression post traumatic stress disorder other mood disorders that we see pretty commonly happen equally with boys and girls when we talk specifically about sexual abuse the statistic is about one in every four girls discloses abuse and one in every six boys but as i said because so many cases go unreported it's really important that conversations like this start to take place and that some of the behavioral and emotional indicators that i'll talk about very briefly today are things that are on your radar in your everyday life most people are probably aware but the department of children and family is called d c f that's why massachusetts state agency that's responsible for helping families in protecting children from child abuse and neglect they were formerly called the department of social services so you may have heard the acronym d s s before d c f responds to reports of abuse and neglect twenty four hours a day i actually spoke at a conference this morning with about one hundred   line workers who have multiple cases of child abuse coming across their desk daily and that's all just in our region s becomes involved if there are any concerns that caretakers that includes parents step parents guardians coaches community and recreational activities leaders any person who's responsible for caring for children may be abusing or neglecting them so the most important piece how do we recognize child abuse and neglect going to talk about some legal definitions the legal definition of neglect is failure by a caretaker either deliberately or through negligence to provide a child with minimally adequate food clothing shelter medical care supervision emotional stability and growth just to kind of clarify that's provided that that's not due to inadequate economic resources or a handicapping condition that prevents them from doing so some of the behavioral science of neglect and attended medical or dental needs consistent lack of supervision the child actually reporting that there's no caretaker and home consistent hunger or nutritional  child who's stealing food from an activity and trying to hide it or really focused on trying to get food from their peers at lunch or if they're in your home regular chronic fatigue in listlessness due to the difficulties with getting their basic needs met at home they could be in appropriately dressed for weather poor hygiene you may see developmental delays with this group and a regular or non attendance at school or in child care the emotional signs of neglect or depression poor impulse control constantly looking for attention from people in their lives an affection a lack of parental participation in activities people who aren't showing up at sporting events continuously i should say just to specify all of this any one of these indicators alone does not indicate abuse it's looking at it in the context of a larger picture lack of trust in others feeling like the world is unpredictable or taking over that adult caring role one thing that i wanted to just include in this piece is child abuse and domestic violence often occur in the same family and a child who is witness to domestic violence in their home is experiencing neglect because the caregiver is not providing adequate adequate supervision and is not keeping them in a safe environment we're going to talk very briefly at the end about mandated reporting policies and i'm happy to talk more about that in the future if it's something that people are interested in but if you are a mandated reporter or you are a citizen who just wants to make a report if you are aware that a child has witness domestic violence in the home even if nothing directly has physically happened to them you do have a right to file and get d c f involved and if you're a mandated reporter you have a responsibility to do so signs of physical abuse can be a little bit more clear than sexual abuse which we'll talk about in a minute this is injury you may see injuries that are not consistent with the explanation offered the presence of several different injuries that are in various stages of healing injuries that may form the shape of a pattern of an object that may have been used facial injuries in infants and preschool children thinking mostly about whether or not injuries are consistent with the child's age and development i have a two year old at home and she has bumps and bruises all over her because she's a little daredevil but you have to think about if you have an infant who has bruises on their body and they don't have the ability to actually move around yet that's probably a sign that there could be some thing going on that needs to be investigated sadly bald patches on a child's head with their hair may have been polled repeated poisonings are accident behavioral indicators the child may have difficulty recalling how the injuries occurred or offered an inconsistent explanation usually an adult in that situation would tell somebody if somebody asks you about this this is what you should say when that gets mixed up with what actually happened you may see some inconsistency if x yeah i mean  clothing not appropriate to whether we talked about this a little bit with neglect that could be when there's a caregiver who is not providing adequate clothing in this case it could be if a child is trying to cover bruises on their body reoccurring physical symptoms like headaches or stomach aches flinch if they are touched unexpectedly this child may be running away from home they can stairs or frozen watchfulness and no attempt to seek support when her emotional indicators expressing a fear of going home being wary of adults being overly compliant or eager to please showing sadness or crying frequently and displaying poor memory and concentration on an apprehension or fear caused by crying of other children sexual abuse the legal definition of sexual abuse is any sexual contact between a caregiver and a child so that's not only limited to bodily contact but exposure to pornography excusing verbal language or pressuring a child for sex fondling masturbation sexual exploitation the definition is very wide physical indicators of sexual abuse are obviously going to be a little bit more difficult to assess but these are things that people should be mindful of fatigue due to sleep disturbances sudden changes and we children may experience some sort of self mutilation self harm so there may be physical cuts on their body recurring physical elements difficulty in walking or sitting unusual or excessive itching in the general areas to do infections or injuries to those areas very briefly before we wrap up about some of the behavioral indicators in younger children versus older children and again i know that some of these aren't easy to read or to talk about but i think that because this is such an underreported but prevalent issue in our community it's really important that we're able to start the conversation about it so children who have experienced sexual abuse may show sadness they may cry often they may be very anxious display a short attention span change or loss of appetite sleep disturbances and nightmares they may be present as excessively dependent on other people they may express a fear of being home or a specific location it could be excessive fear of men or women a lack of trust in others age inappropriate sexual play with toys with themselves with peers sexually explicit drawings there is a star in amount of sex play in this age group that is developmentally appropriate but you want to think about if the information that they have or that they're expressing is unusual in some way or sophisticated beyond information that they should have at their age you may say reverting regarding to bad wedding or accidents you know this is a very common thing across the board seeing some sort of regression specifically in younger children a developmental task that was already mastered at one point to sleeping alone in their better toilet training there's of aggression in this area when they've been exposed to abuse poor peer relationships their self image dramatic behavioral changes or sudden nonparticipation that tiffany's overall just verbalizing poor self care poor self esteem and feeling threatened by physical contact or closeness with others moving into older children and some of behavioral indicators that you may see with them there may be a sudden lack of interest in friends or in activities a fearful or startled response to touching overwhelming interest in sexual activities hostility toward authority figures need for constant companionship regression in communication patterns academic difficulties truancy running away from home or current physical complaints that are without physiological basis lack of ability to trust others unable to have fun with others you may see suicide attempts drug and alcohol misuse poor person personal hygiene and promiscuity one of the strongest indicators of sexual abuse is a child's report that they're being sexually abused when a child says that he or she has been sexually abused it's really important that you take that statement seriously and resolved out in favor of the child's an error on the side of protection and this may sound obvious but sadly it's not and i come across many children in my work every single day who have told somebody about abuse in a more interact way which i'll talk about in a minute and nobody did anything because they wanted to believe didn't want to believe that something like that was happening some of the indirect ways that a child may disclose is giving a hint so maybe beside her keeps bothering me something a little bit more vague a disguised disclosure what would happen if somebody was being touched in a bad way and she told somebody about it a disclosure with strings attached to it i have a problem but if i tell you about it you have to promise not to tell these are three of the most common areas it's also very common for a child to recant to disclose disclosure once they've made it that's a very natural part of the disclosure process usually there's some sort of statement about what happened and then then you sit back a little bit and wait and see how people are going to react to it and depending on their reaction if you're supported by the people in your life then usually a child will fully disclose so if you are in a situation where somebody discloses to you or you suspect abuse what do you do how to respond to a direct disclosure find a place that is private to talk to the child you want to sit near them put him or her ease never touch the child remain listen to them but do not press them for details beyond that which they are able to share at that time and use the child's language reassure them but do so real stickley don't ever make a promise that you won't tell anybody try to get enough information to determine the child's safety and immediate action is necessary if you think that the child is in imminent danger the child must feel supported and you want to let them know what you'll do now that you know about the abuse neglect part of what we do ignore folk advocates for children for people who aren't aware is we conduct scene interviews and what that means is we have a forensic interview interviewer on the other side of a two way mirror and on the other side of the table just like this we have a representation from the police department from d c i have myself to provide referrals for mental health treatment an advocate who can advocate for the legal process and the district attorney so the child can go through the actual details of what happened just one time in the safety of a room with one person everybody else will have the information that they need then to carry on their investigations and limiting the time the child has to tell the story promotes the chance that they'll heal so if you are teacher a coach a childcare provider anybody who's making a report to the department of children and families you're absolutely not responsible for proving that abuse or neglect occurred having a suspicion based on good faith that a child is in a dangerous situation is all that you need to have enough evidence to make or port is going to fly through these really quickly as far as the legal requirements to file i'm not going to read through this list but many people are considered mandated reporters if you the biggest thing to kind of keep in mind is if you're a person who's paid to care for work with a child you are a mandated reporter if that is the case there is a legal requirement to file massachusetts law requires mandated reporters to immediately make an oral report to d c s when in their professional capacity they have reasonable cause to believe that a child under the age of eighteen is suffering from abuse and neglect mandated reporters may also choose to contact the local police if they suspect abuse or neglect the actual call the phone call have to be made immediately i will leave before i leave some pamphlets on the table in the back that has all the contact information that you would need for mandated reporting and then a written report also must be submitted if you are mandated reporter within forty eight hours everybody else just a citizen who observe something and has concerns you would still call the same hotline information that will be on the pamphlet you can make an anonymous report in that case and there is a number and requirement the number is here to make a report you call the d c s area office serving the child's residence and you ask for the protective screening unit there's a child at rest cutline which as i said is available twenty four hours a day you would want to you would be asked identifying information that you have about the child or the caretaker the nature and extent of the suspected abuse and any information that you have the circumstances under which you became aware of the child's injuries or abuse what action if any has been taken and any information that you believe would be important to the investigation and your contact information if you are a mandated reporter by law and you fail to make any either of these reports it can be punishable by a fine of up to five thousand dollars or imprisonment of up to two and a half years or both in extreme circumstances but the flip side to this is if you make a report in good face you you're protected from all liability nobody can sue you for harassment or say that you know you did anything wrong in that case as long as you did it in good faith based on the information that we've talked about today and you had good cause to believe that a child was in danger you're protected from all legal or criminal action so this is just an example of the back page of the pamphlet that i leave in the back to leave some information about norfolk advocates for children and something resources that you can just take with you know cindy's going to talk a little bit more specifically about the policy but i'm also available at norfolk out tickets for children if anybody wanted to talk to any of this more my contact information will be on there as well so i know that everybody has a lot of other things going on i just i really appreciate the opportunity to be here and just even briefly start the conversation because this is such an important issue for our community and if we all have eyes out there to try to protect our children we can hopefully see those statistics drastically change so to kind of turn  so there's a couple of different items what first i really appreciate you coming out i appreciate you looking at various items that we sent i think it's very true the more eyes we put on this the more we protect the children in our communit the more recent policy that was sent out it is strictly based on sexual abuse and not the other areas that were in the first policy and i don't know if you want one that is strictly  you know we had asked for a policy for reporting so in a way you can look at it at that point the horse is out of the barn in you dealing with something that has happened after the fact and you're coming on to what to do what you gave us was kind of three steps that actually in and they're not saying this is a bad thing this is what i'm saying you put this into three steps the initial interview and screening so if somebody if you're trying to employ somebody for the time whether it's a recreation of the d any school it's the questions to ask it's the corey the story checks all the steps leading up to the interview process and how to carry that out and then there's also the middle part where you're talking about monitoring it into someone wants to go to the bathroom the two people versus one and you know the day to day activities dealing with this type of and then the third part is the actual reporting so i think it's a lot more than what i had asked for i think that what the board talked about that you brought a kind of a more in depth level but overall it seems like what this document is is how to write a policy right it's not a policy it's if you're going to do school you know that just seems like the steps they should consider when where i have high and i didn't highlight i apologize the ones i sent out we're there's three options i'm giving because i need to find out from staff where i don't want to lock people's hands and say you know here's the three options but we're going to do this one because i like you know you may want to do this or you should do this or you could do this rather than this you're hiring someone this is you do this this this and the other thing so that's why i'm saying it's not well see it's going in that direction yeah now i want to know his thinking of taking it to the next step and actually putting it into a policy yes but i wanted to get some feedback on whether or not you wanted all this stuff in there because i know it was a little bit more than you asked but i thought it was rather important and training employees when they're recruiting you know as part of the interview process i do some of it they do some of that but it doesn't necessarily have to be in here we can make that separate it's whatever you feel it's reasonable and then we just change the wording around it it's it's appalling it becomes the p you know there's a talking about here of felony i don't know can i ask about a felony or five years later i have it off the record that's what we need to rely on you but i think going in the direction of taking this and putting it into a policy i think is  really helps lay out all the sections that we really need to look at we were really focusing on the back end of it before the reporting aspect of it right and i think you know i was thinking that maybe if we could consider having a group now if you were to work with someone safe on the board of recreation and you know debbie as the recreation director and just take this in chunks like the the hiring process because that's where the majority of our encounters with children will be use through the recreation department they hire young counselors for the summer or you know individuals with programs and making sure that we have all of the a and we receive annual training on this and right just basic things like never allowing we are not allowed to permit a child to go with add another child to a large bathroom unaccompanied by another adult because you know there's evidence and that's part of the training they show at that even under those circumstances to young children there can be abuse how do you write so you know coming up with those procedures to follow from higher through reporting you know evaluation of in training to reporting and especially making sure that we're careful where we're not dealing with mandated reporters with the exception of recreation department and peers would be in that category as mandated reporters so making sure that they absolutely have all the correct training up documented i'm right you know so it just i think this was a good way of organizing all the things that we have to look at and addressing them so thank you well we can definitely change the wording and i do need to meet with a few of the folks and should highlight it and i apologize because i even wrote my notes like oh my goodness this is and i light it for you to see the areas where it says to me with i would invision you'd end up with a number of different policies in those categories and not that this is all one compassing you know i think it might be too big if it were all compassing i mean give me carve out of recruitment policy and whether you're responsible for children or not responsible for children then it's just any way you know it's one policy and then it's if it doesn't apply to you you just go to the next piece of it and the education and the training are going to be the next step and what jim had mentioned about you know a question about a felony conviction yeah you know again different companies have you know related to their business if you have a conviction in a certain area you will never be hireable right and so you know whatever the obvious ones that would enter it's right pertain to a child care situation i that was my next step where and the notes just you know why it shouldn't be me making that decision it should be who this policy affects most and what's you know what's fair and reasonable and what's mandated legally and sitting with them to say ok because we may want to add this or take away that and she's been great about coming in to do this and she's going to come in to do further like with staff because once we do this i really think it's important that the education piece happen and not just for me but from and then one for reporting yes that's all right you know how we feel about this yeah yeah i mean i think that there is the reporting piece there there will be obviously the legal guidelines that have to be taken into account because i mean i'm not familiar with all of the recreation department everybody but i mean anybody who is directly responsible for taking care of children have to be made aware of the mandated reporting part of it i think of that have to be its own kind of specific focus and that everything else is more about prevention and being personally i thought that we should be looking more in training for people to look for all aspects of it since they seem intertwined in so you know it was just something i want to throw out there also as you can actually  to the recreation group to see again where we have young people working with young children to provide all the training to look for these signs and you know trying to intercept things as early as possible that was one of the things that tara was super helpful with them actually is a recommendation that i was making separately and it doesn't necessarily have to be integrated but that was one of the things that tara did mention is that it's great you know to the sexual abuse and make an awareness and education but that we shouldn't and all the other signs of abuse and i thought there's no reason we can't have that as an educational piece even as a policy for people to understand i mean we have part of it  reason they can't finish this piece and then you know they do go hand in hand in some ways and in others they don't but so i appreciate that that is a good point and i know that was one of the points that terry had made that don't forget these i think we have a much more comprehensive piece of work to work with so i think we're good working with the different departments who sort of live and breathe this are going to really change how we work some of the areas  please come forward and set the table at least to speak obviously so unfortunate you do have to sit at the table because ye would you have guessed god already i asked the board to consider making an order permanent that was imposed on the printers for their dog after he bit  someone on the thirteenth this was because it was the third bite and the second bite under similar circumstances i have asked for a muzzle order to declare january december i believe i stated in my report that on following up with the person that made the complaint they said that he had been in their yard two weeks prior that that was incorrect in talking to her again she had mistaken the animal for another animal another dog in the neighborhood because i know it was so i called in the report correct yes so in in following up on with that person in and i'm very happy to keep him muzzled off the property because i want him not to bite and i don't want to be put down to something else or i hadn't seen the order but when i saw the newspaper article i was surprised that i just wanted to convey to the board that our experience with our as a neighbor is completely opposite of what we saw in the paper and i just wanted to urge the board to consider the restraint rather than the destruction that you know in his own setting he's never been any kind of a threat i would never even conceive of him being a threat we've been there with a large groups parties birthday parties graduation parties we've taken our granddaughter there for halloween if that's not a threatening night for a dog what is he's just he's not his own property he's a spider man that night you know so he's been a great neighbor to have so i think that i would really strongly urge the board to consider th restraint aspect or the restraint option over destruction or the boy always takes the dog officer so i am a patrol officer i should say recommendations typically i have never seen it not just go by i hadn't removed from the premises the owner of the owner or the premises of the person keeping the dog that all of her shall be securely and humanely muzzled and restrained with a chain or other tethering device having a minimum t and i like you to do so for the for the record if you could just name you name in here i'd just please rise to meet you oh yeah we did we are relying on the cable for the minutes of the meeting tonight so it's kind of a what myself and you can pull that down too if you want to would you like to introduce yourself and  the council on aging for many years i have been volunteering and certain aspects and just appearing in a number of the trips i've had which have been fantastic i have been working with  and physical land her doctor appointments for with an eleven mile radius and you know just i love i guess volunteer ing and i just thought this would be a nice step forward f next i volunteer at the senior center and at the front desk once a week i'm in the seven aging seniors i go on a lot of the trips and i don't do a lot of functions there i was on the trip committee  next year but thank you for coming forward ok this could be the most difficult decision we've  everybody likes me don't i think we're just sort of representing the same years of the the board so you know i feel i know the scene is a lot and i could speak up for them not much else i just i'm trying to keep my mind a i've just been as i say busy with volunteering for many different aspects of the town of foxborough and would like to become a little bit more involved in the council on aging because it's a it's a great program it's so great for the seniors in the function and what the role ends and so that's something you will find out once you get in and you become more involved in either their open meetings to attend i guess i have not attended meetings  there's open as they used to be some reason i don't know i was up for it or i think if you have a problem or situation you have to present at them week the month before and then come the next month for the record my name is broken and my past member of the committee myself years ago but chief and it's a very had this isn't what you are going to have to make it's too bad they couldn't both be on the committee because i broke both of them and they both work very very had and i worked with betty at the fox poll cable and she always gives one hundred fifty percent and she's always helping other people and has just said i just feel that things have to be said at times and it's not easy to say one is better than the other because they both had terrific people but but working with betty and seeing the things that she does for the town of vauxhall i think she  credit to the town and we just that i always like to say thank you very much for all your hard work in the same with melanie she works very hard at it too but i'd just like to say what i think about that being a past member of the committee and that thank you very much  listening to me you're welcome anybody else wants to speak seeing not want to flip the coin likely because you know what i think that's about the only way to solve the situation because they're going to both wonderful candidates they're both very qualified and they both enthusiastic and remember this was on the agenda this was on the agenda two weeks ago and weeks ago it was some confusion because one applicant was in then there was a letter of recommendation from confusion and i think it was a little bit of our office her office but they submitted back the same letter that was dated in may recommending milly so i was expecting maybe an update a letter but i think to read and choice in the packet i'm not looking at it right now jim was that at the point where there was only one candidate it was then they reconsidered when we sent it back to him saying there's actually two candidates and they came back and they sent the same package with the second applicant on it and i think i just wanted to mention i think it's you know i preach hate that recommendation i think it's the experience that elizabeth has as a board member i think would be helpful to the council on aging and i know millie would be great also on it i'm just thinking where there's only one spot maybe to bring someone with experience on would be something to consider even though i mean this you know i think this recommendation i guess i would have liked to seen a followup like or a vote like was there a vote by the board or is this strictly a letter from the secretary coming to us or you can see i don't think they can actually vote was she she says on it the board would like to have appointed the board she is a secretary and again i am not familiar with the candidates other than seeing you around and i am certainly not familiar with the board this is all i have in the packet and so are you both interviewed by the board as not of this process mohammed having been on many many boards i find it's always helpful when we need to appoint someone to a board someone who has experience on a board working with other people and is that a public hearing no no that's just what we are you ready to go course i am just well last week you were jumped everybody and cut the line this week we're on time so did i say that you know that to me involved it was a really well run event let me happy to do that the hall the caterers outstanding aphid we all enjoyed it for five i believe i know library effort and we held a donor thank you event last thursday at the library here and we had a local caterer actually a guy named dave land sea who lives i think in foxboro is a principal in the catering firm called next dine which did a great job great food another foxborough guy helped us with the wine that we serve his name's john gilmer he works for the martin eddie companies and the purpose of the event was to thank all of the donors and to allow people to get a little bit of a sneak preview of the library so many people work hard on it we had dodgin it pino when kevin penders in jerry cirilo over vacuuming literally all day thursday it was a little bit like it one of those h g t v shows trying to pull it all together but they did i thought the library looked pretty good the the book guys were in there loading the stacks right up till the very last second so  it was a great success i can't think gerry cirilo are architects did a great job you know i've been living with this project for years but we're really tickled with how it came out janet pino and jerry he worked with the architects on the design stuff so a lot of the things that you all saw thursday night i was seeing for the first time because i wasn't involved in the design phase so we were delighted with it i think it went well and you know the will be a public rededication sometime in the fall and we will try to carefully generate a comprehensive thank you lest we thank some of the donors thursday night but of course our our biggest thanks go to the people of the town foxborough who came up with the money and financial support the the board of library commissioners who included us in their great round and then of course our our private donors and library money so it was a you know we're at i think we're at the good part of this project we've we've done some of the hard part and now it's time to start to enjoy it again the band the geo trio with george murphy from fox pro did a great job really enjoyed them is a good event i just have to save the children's library took my breath away when i went up there it's just the most beautiful setting just left me speechless i think we really free we have some lucky kids and it took my breath lost art at the beginning the library the land the library is on came into the town in the in the one nine hundred sixty s in two separate parcels one one is really sort of the front piece where the the old library was and the other is that piece that extends down baker street trunk piece i think came into the town in one nine hundred sixty three from a frederick potter in the late sixty's mr potter deeded the second piece to the friends of the library who in turn dated it to the town of essential in spike smith who's the owner of eight baker street is here  historically mr potter that in the in his deed to the town he reserved an easement across the library property to gain access to the rear yard of eight baker street which is is kind of built a lot line to lot line without the library they can't get access to their backyard that easement technically expired when mr potter was no longer occupying the property which occurred sometime years ago at all times since then the library was honoring the easement and there was always a gate there and i think it worked pretty well with the smiths during the perm process which which was actually fairly contentious i don't know if you recall but the library agreed in the planning board put it as a condition of their site plan approval that we  seek an easement from from town meeting in in december two eleven town meeting voted to authorize your board to grant the easement if you so choose now we are wrapping up we have a temporary certificate of occupancy the hope is to get a final certificate of occupancy in the next month or so and this is a condition of the site plan approval rather than draft the easement myself boyd library and runs to a gate on the smith property or actually on the border of the smith property that grants the smith family and future owners of that property access to that back to clarify as you look at your copy of the easement plan you'll see that there are a couple of parking spaces that are impacted so we revise the easement slightly by reserving the right to park in those parking spots for the librarian and it's guests so i do have a slightly revised language and we simply added language to the reserved rights that add that we have the right to park within and permit parking within the designated parking spaces shown on exhibit day so it's always worked well in the past if there came a time when the smiths needed to access the property they could come into the library if somebody was impeding their access i think it's unlikely that it's really going to happen there's there's little parking there on you know evenings some parking on saturday none on sunday so that's and i do apologize so i even though we already had the town meeting vote in from two eleven i asked attorney  put it back on the warrant again because i simply forgot that we had it it's like ground like i don't and i'm not saying it won't happen again we need questions from the bo with this at all it did a nice job anybody else can take a motion oh i'm sorry sir you need to come to the mike i'm sorry it doesn't matter i'll get in trouble either kid gerald smith or as i'm known around town spike smith my address is thirty five eighty seven grand cypress drive naples florida i happen to be in town for this three weeks my daughters live in the house i have no problems but the thing that worries me is that property that we have paid taxes is the thirty years that i've owned it and we're the third daughter since eight hundred sixty and garrets plame who was our attorney way back when he said that the potters had been paying taxes in that corner forever so the town really had no right away and we just said in all let's leave it the way it is and i really hope that it will just be it will not bother us only in the fall when we take leaves out of the back yard and there's nobody around the library in the fall but i just want to make sure you realize that for houses built nine hundred sixty were the third owners and we paid taxes a long time for how big is it ten by twelve  back yard know of the ramp for the fences it was probably ten feet wide and no fourteen feet tall you know me so it's a vote to send take his amendments out just give it to a move that we approve the execution of an easement regarding the boyden library as submitted by the board library trustees second  for reals reality associate l c for free standing general general advertising billboard to be located in that one i will start by saying i don't know why this is an action i requested that th here this came to my attention couple weeks ago and just raised a lot of questions and so i saw it was scheduled for the planning board meeting week before so i tended that meeting and they discussed this application the reason it caught my attention is because as you know i have always had an interest in the signed situation up on route one and water and sewer involvement in that but when this came up i was surprised by it number one so going to the planning board they explained the concerns that they had and i i thought it was important that if we could have a discussion to see if we would support they have submitted a low letter to the zoning board of appeals and water and sewer migrating to the record earlier their letter to the zoning board of appeals that we should support the concerns raised by planning and water and sewer basically the signed by laws as part of the master planning process those will all be redone when the time is right and what this  request does is potentially bypass that change in you know that process so what i was hoping is that we could support the comments provided and request that the zoning board of appeals not permit the this chain this variance at this time until there's an opportunity for the town to work if i'm remembering correctly do you remember that there's that yeah so you know i think it's just something that needs more work and that i think this application is premature so i just wanted us to go on record if the board would consider that to support the other than it's in my packet and i don't know much about it other than the meeting that i had with you in gallup attorney gallon and he goes where they said they had an idea and they were going to bring it forward but other than that i'm not involved in this right so it's a little concerning and sobering to hear this at the table on a citizen's input so i think to be honest with you i know of this from a brief discussion i had five minutes to seven learn more about this in the last two days from business owners and fellow selectman so i you know i'll leave it at that and i concur where you see we were meeting and we had many things on the agenda and this was two or three minutes by the way on the way out the door  with no plans get no nowadays no information given no nothing and that's all there is to talk about on that subject so any other further discussion i want to question might loraine from your perspective what action are you looking for the board to take or you're looking for us to send a message to the zoning board of appeals the action is that i'd like to review this in particular what i'd like us to draft a letter that  supports the position that the planning board and the board of water and sewer commissioners are taking in terms of requesting a delay  would a presentation to the selectmen be appropriate for this application of this has nothing to do with the selectmen it's not even i've table it's going listings it's support is e p a and whatever they're finding is i mean arrangements or deals that have been made on tour in terms of signing revenue i'm speaking to the application for an electronic billboard right now by the craft organization looking at what that potentially does  in terms of you know setting out the town and potentially other business owners if that there is granted is i think something that i would like to see us support the other boards that are more closely involved in it really you might go something say for the record please you know like say gay kendall drive since i happen to be sitting here and in the spirit of full disclosure i applied yesterday for an additional side i think the difference between the applicant here and me is that there's two different zones here i happen to be in the economic development zone where these signs have been allowed to date s one they haven't been ok and i just couldn't sit there and not say anything and that's that's really all i appreciate the clarification that's why they go  mike well i think the way the town but signed by laws you have to go for a variance anyways but not now those billboard signs have been allowed in the past in the s one zone they have been allowed in the economic development so craft organization has four or five of them and then the town and the kraft organization share two boards ok and one of the issues in the town is approached me several times because some of my trees block the most southerly sign and you know i've been talking to mr pecos for the last year and a half trying to get this on a warrant and he just kept pushing it off for whatever reason but i did apply monday and it will be on the not this week's meeting but the next month's meeting  preclude others from doing the same thing they got in the door first we've got another one that just is coming in in from what i understand over the weekend the water and sewer trying to do their own deal with water tanks which this may eliminate their ability senses this thousand foot radius around the side so it's kind of like who comes in first and is at the what was it the way that the town want to do it or do we want to bring it out to a process where everyone understands each other and want to maybe there's a mutual benefit and some understanding and maybe some regard to this point and i just think i agree with with lorraine i think i think would be good i would support a letter of support from the selectmen supporting the joined this process seems a little bit unusual in that it seems like it's circumventing normal channels that it's probably perfectly legitimate but i think this would offset is this if it was to pass and if an electronic billboard was to be built on route one it would begin to change the look and feel with the town i think would open a precedent and i know that we had of a very lengthy and healthy debate on this sixteen eighteen months ago and it turned out the town was against when agreed to draft a letter summarizing this discussion that we support the the input from the planning board and other boards to consider the master plan and to consider other you frank already ok thanks for your patience we're back and john could you start again with number three people in a number three on our action item list as first in goal a request for one dale liquor license application is for the home games for two thousand and thirteen on the  three a term expiring on july first two thousand and sixteen second new discussion all in favor five zero and again continuing with appointments i move that the board selectmen appoint robert wordly to the for a taxicab license i move that we approve a taxicab license for tony so libor expiring on december thirty first two thousand and thirteen second by lorraine i should be saying  all those motions by will second by lorraine and i correct you so that the record is on tape ok any more discussion all those in favor five zero again i move that we approve a taxicab license expiring on december thirty first two thousand and thirteen issued to the new owners of fox for town taxi the petitioner is veterans taxi of newton doing business as foxboro town taxi second second by lorraine more discussion follows in favor of five zero again a move that we accept a donation of three hundred dollars from the foxboro founders day planning committee to the animal control fund with thanks and gratitude second second by there anymore discussion i was in favor by zero again  i move that we accept a donation of four hundred dollars from the sharon credit union to the recreation good fun again with our thanks and gratitude second going by the main discussion i was in favor five zero again affordable status is a surrounding community board discussed that i think with this letter is another mass gaming commission bylaws if we think we are a nobody community impacted a bunny community we believe we are impacted community but this letter said is they've done their studies that they've reviewed the plainville studies in their consultant studies and the committee that we put together says they believe we are in impacted  the letter from the foxboro or a scene oh committee two for the selectmen to draft a letter to the applicant of the plane ridge slot house stating opposition that we are in impacted a the letter said no based on our direction he's done his research he's found a foundry to make the form mina factor the rails this is the cost nothing in the budget for two thousand and thirteen a fourteen here's my report  and it's you know basically do we accept it and then we find it so but again it's not happening tonight since you cannot just not hear yeah i'd rather talk with roger have him come in and we'll make it up early a exit into public session of the or so unfinished business and i think we might be coming back into public session briefly to make a statement very briefly only handle that first and we will be back in i would say five minutes something you think is me longer i don't think you'll be no longer just to make a quick come out rather quickly on the fur one item just to release a statement i don't really know well that's my that would be my plan if not i will then tell the media to go away but i think that's what i have in mind so we're going to come back into open session of five minutes ok so very very good please leave the room ok thank you welcome back to the horse like meeting and i'm going to ask jimmy developers to weigh in on yeah just finish up some of the discussions that we did we did going into executive session it's got a ton manager and based on those discussions regarding kevin take us which we can't disclose because it's u nder the executive session session just how we came out of that executive session we need to make a decision on a temporary basis to appoint in term town manager two to replace kevin while some issues  good job during the two or so weeks said he was here acting as town manager until we can figure out the process moving forward and we should appoint somebody such as bob as an acting town manager immediately until further action by the board of selectmen thank you more discussion i was in favor as five o k and now we will go back into executive session to discuss conduct strategy session in preparation for negotiation on your union personnel or conduct collective bargaining sessions of or contract negotiations with the new personnel yes ok thank you very much