all protocol and nine ten exactly a session to conduct conduct strategic session strategy session in preparation for negotiation with and on you present or to conduct collective bargaining i'm rebecca center from baker street and i watch this every time you're on at home and i have been concerned about what i have seen about the problems on oak street and on our street so i decided to take a ride around town and see what were the miles per hour that people should be traveling on some of our wrote i went to south street actually turned south street it's thirty it's thirty five mail street co cass says it's thirty but on porter's corner it goes down to twenty five mechanic street uptown thirty and it changes just thirty five no i street going over the hill road so i guess you can go as fast as you want baker street is thirty both ends and you know i live on baker street and i'm here to tell you that there are very few people who go thirty now i complained and the police chief told me that i would be the one that was caught because i complained so i'm telling you i'm very street i drove on chestnut street there's only one and it's thirty miles per hour by the cemetery old street is a very interesting and mechanic street when you turn onto oak street and i rode twice because i couldn't believe it there are no signs you can go as fast as you want if you turn from mechanic twenty by the stores and it's thirty an mean is thirty five now it seems to me that we could somehow get some system and i know that previously there was a machine at the town garage that took that made signs and maybe we can get some signs where all our streets going out of the common are the same it might help the police because they might have something to back them up i'm just sewing this out to you because it really bothers me that everything  disrupted and you can't say oh it's certified miles an hour well it isn't everywhere and i just want you and perhaps the highway people and the police can do something to put up to new signed and help the police to stop our crazy traffic now they come down railroad avenue in the middle of the night okes streets complain they turn not go in whatever no one right underneath my window this eighteen wheeler can't get around the corner he backs up go forward four or five times and finally leaves i don't appreciate that it  fence we did our work we found the funds they were funds that were left over at the end of fiscal year thirteen in the highway budget and we voted to go ahead and move forward with the fence and the stone and yesterday the c i p voted to support that so today i ordered the castings and the stone posts and in about eight to ten weeks we will have them and that's about the right time because we want to call whether that be able to shrink thank you just like to take a few minutes of the board's time we've been very fortunate over the years to have a great man a taker not only for the board of selectmen but also for advisory know you know i was talking about the courage to have pink hair but in the past year you've really taught me what courage is all about i've watched you for the past year fight your fight  never never once with a word of complaint always with a smile on your face you truly have taught me what dignity and courage and faith are about and i'm i'm grateful that you're a part of my life i'm grateful that you were you know an employee here with the town for so many years and that you brought crazy socks and crazy earrings and you know h and hats and you've made us laugh you proudest joy and you've always always been the ultimate professional and it's my daughter stella says to me all the time that woman has such style and  tonight i know that john would like to say a few words and again thank you for all you've done for us in the town of fox where we truly are grateful thank you pauline this is an official citation from the board of selectmen of the tom fox wrote to you and i'll read it this is a difficult is awarded as a token of our appreciation and recognition for your years of exemplary work providing secretarial services for the fox for board selectmen and the fox who advisory committee you've attended countless meetings and spent many hours with the many boards over the years in of always been professional and cheerful as a member of the foxboro cultural college so from two thousand and six to two thousand and  donated your time to ensure that the arts in foxborough continue and thrive you've been described as witty and generous by all who have been fortunate enough to work beside you unique styles pink hair you know bold socks which has had crazy airings have all made you one of a kind and i'll add a real class act on behalf of the citizens of this community would like to thank you for your many years of service in a commitment to the town of foxborough as you begin this next chapter in your life may you have health happiness who you actually lived with me for close to eight years an ad hom i really really appreciate all that you've done thank you market i absolutely just want to talk a little bit about pauline in the ad so i'm probably the only ad com chairman who had the experience of being chairman for a year with pauline at my side and being chair for a year without pauline at my side and i can tell you it's despite the fact that we had a wonderful talented person doing the minutes for us this year you were tremendously missed by by me personally and i know by a lot of other people  when i was first chairman pauline had a lot more experience that i did end up i knew nothing when i was first chairman back in the ninety's and i really leaned on pauline pointed so much experience i could ask her advice and we became really good friends during that period of time and i was really disappointed that she was unable to be there last year but it's good to see that you're doing well we were all very worried about you and going forward i can tell you you will be greatly greatly missed by the company and by just everyone in town government who knows you we really appreciate all that you've done for us thank you pauline since i won't be able to see your earrings now you have to call me and tell me what holiday oh i knew pauline beginning on the advisory committee on officially met her and he buys her committee and it was a great pleasure and she always had those one liners are we so often she would you know say something appropriate and funny witty had the opportunity to work with polly for a number of years on the common and on selectman and it's been a pleasure and most professionalism that made our work that much easier and i don't know if many people i'm colorblind and i had no idea was always always you know mock what did you say we did speak up you know always had something to say something witty and the next day she'd always call me to me she wasn't sure on and always been a pleasure and i'm glad i'm so glad to see you doing so well unfortunately we're going to have to move on now yes so are you stand watch the program that we're going to set up to recognize pete turn as more than fifty years of service to the town of foxborough so we will be back here three weeks from tonight on the twenty seventh at five thirty in the evening and unveil a plaque to pete and have some things to say about him five thirty we want to accommodate pete and all of his family members and that includes grandkids and great grandchildren and once we have a program we'll go down the hall and hang the plaque by the inspection department and next to the plaque will be a copy of prose building permit number one the peach signed when he came aboard so hopefully we can all is moving forward with the testing program we mentioned that we have already done one testing program what we're actually back here tonight was that we were asking if the board of select would be willing to sign a letter that would go to the e p a questing them to move forward with the national pollution discharged permit that has been in here that has been  packages and had public involvement and solicited comments and got comments and then they just you know basically put it on ice and not have not gone forward with it them on notice here well farai desire to move forward on this so we want to get your feedback on that if you thought that the letter was acceptable or appropriate if you want to be involved with it or else we might have  was volunteered for that involvement in stone actually i read the letter and i'm somewhat surprised that they were allowed to operate without a permit and i imagine that the your involvement i read the letter also in just one question so when this is sent do they have any type of legal requirement like a timeframe to respond to  you i didn't ask that question i can find that out and i'm just curious because as you know it's gone on for so long i can't it's amazing when you read this you know we were we were just told  if you know even doing the we have freedom of information act to get this information so we'd have all of our facts straight and they said even requesting that got people you know opening up their eyes and saying oh ok we we do need to move forward on this so you know i don't i don't think they're going to sit on this all real long time but i don't know if there's there is you know if they have thirty sixty or ninety day obligation to to then it has to go through some type of hearing to have them justify not having issued that and and what i've been told is that rarely ever happens that they you know they prefer to get these things and just move my head and stuff so that's kind of a veiled threat in the letter that we would you know take it to the next to the next level but you know we you know we have  etion as to whether we pursue that or not or how we go about pursuing that but it would be requesting that some sort of judiciary review be done and and understand why that they haven't done and by the little surprised by it but i think the fact that you're addressing it to the representatives and senators that that alone should get somebody's attention and fact i wouldn't be surprised if you hear from one of their offices and maybe they can do some follow up for he was well i don't know if i'd put that line in there i was you know i mean if this is the first letter to them surprised by that well we felt that having the that line in their head gave it a little teeth you know words or gave it a little out a little extra push that you know it's it's that's not a friendly inquiry it's it's  you know we would like to and we're expecting some you know feedback or some action taken you know like he said i haven't been involved with this so i don't know you know i've read what you write in to us i know it's been a long frustrating process but  they this is not we're not the only town that has issues like this if you go on the website there's about a dozen permits that are just as old as yet invensys so this is not a unique situation and i want to make it out to be a unique situation but of all the businesses in the whole state they even have twelve it seems strange yeah and you know so the they have filed similar letters for other communities and stuff just i guess a distinguish who's at fault here you get the newbies a national pollution discharge elimination system application and n o i that invensys submitted and is good for five years so they did the stuff that they were supposed to do website what concerns me and i have a concern over that letter if the a p a fails to act on their requests will consider pursuing all available legal remedies it is a threat it's in the first paragraph if we keep that out you know we can always go back ringing the bell a second time and saying it's been thirty days i think the second letter would be more appropriate because when you get a threat at the first paragraph it's kind of you know the council yeah i think i'd rather use that space to say you know if can we set up a meeting can we provide you any information can we help you make a decision because of the urgency of something like that the last paragraph you actually come back and say since invensys nip these permit expired in ninety six e p a has a minister the continue the provision but then he says during this in time invensys has failed to comply with the terms of the exceeding allowed ph and general coliform of levels and then you've got to put it back in black and white and is doing something wrong what gives you the insight that invensys to put this it's kind of putting it on paper that this company is doing something wrong so you know if we're it's an amazon file that information was on file is it because they're doing something wrong because the rules change after five years and they're allowed to do stuff that they weren't in the previous five years but it hasn't caught up to them what i what i'm concerned about is this is going to certainly get over after the so it was a good guess invensys happen you during the permit or during the administrative approval afterwards because thing national words you mean it's it's the this the data that they  permit out there is allowing them to continue to discharge water that would not meet the permit that's what that's the way i would say you know else had you not putting the blame on invensys because there's nothing to say that they can't do that ok so that's a that's but that was your point it's just i think it just ok you know that that makes sense we can we can retool that paragraph to make that point because all the other stuff about the  five years in the ninety one and ninety five ninety six and him that his per regulatory and that we can understand that but we don't have any data other than going back to the books and you're not scientists and we're taking your word so that that's where it gets a little gray  came you know back before the dam was constructed there was a subcommittee that was created by the selection and the neponset reservoir committee and it's out of date now and i it's it's you know it's on our website it's under boards and committees and i think bob was on it originally he is not on it now it says carole gorman is is on it yeah ok well it will cost us too when we're meeting next and fact thursday this week if you want to go on a boat cruise there she will warners kind of take the group out just to look at the employ up another chair fine intended to be a family friend area for all ages it's a major recreation area a walking neighborhood with walks throughout including a connection walkway from   roger hill and chief hatfield to review what we could do our efforts have been guided by the desire to find a solution that will provide pedestrian and bit hick dechen be tested here and if successful can be applied to other areas of the town as a pleco depending on what their traffic and volumes and types are and the protests train activity we think that this is a good place to run some tests and see how well we can do the neighbors have done a lot of research on traffic calming measures that have been implemented and other communities and we've heard from them and i discussion and after we met with the neighbors bill greater and i met with chief hatfield and d p w director hill to get recommendations and concerns chief padfield wants to ensure that measures implemented would provide adequate with the safety equipment would not slow as emergency responses and not cause degradation or damage to emergency vehicles he stated the measures proposed that we've been discussing satisfy all of his concerns d p w director hill wants to ensure that measures implemented would meet acceptable traffic design standards were maintainable and w impede snow removal we believe that what we have been talking about does in fact meet those criteria and parents of them at this point recognize that north street is a high speed or higher speed road that terrorise a lot of commercial traffic trucking there has to be considered pace and road is a slower road which is close hadn't put the date code on and when i took out the back pages i didn't have it so the blue dots you have traffic calming the red dots of other crosswalk and i apologize for my  ok one of the things that was very important and several of the people from the residence that did this background a lot of work and other towns found that traffic calming tables which are longer as long as they have a gradual slope are fine with the fire trucks and that we have confirmed with chief hatfield and we feel that they could be used and tested here as we approach from from the roundabout north straight before we get to latin lane and as we come from chestnut street towards erect fields just before we get there to try to slow people down and then to use identification at the crosswalks to make everybody know that this is that it's a little raised with a big sign in the middle of the road that says no basically the kids have the right away if they were in the crosswalk you've got to stop for and then a speed hump is one that is smaller less it only goes up to three inches and set up by branches they've used several of them on the intermediate road at patriot place quite successfully a load they have said they that they do want to go back and paint them to make them more identifiable and i'll tell you that when i've been up there and photographed cars going through it i see the brake lights go on so i do know that people do slow down when they're going over them and so on a road like pace and which the speed limit should be lower than on your street i think it might be worth given that tried there so one of the thoughts that we had during the various discussions if we got to calming tables heading north of the activities at the crosswalks assign the slightly raised three just only about two foot by three foot just enough so people can see it and then maybe on pace and road traffic is supposed to be slower and because of the right hand turn they have to make coming from north street on to pay some road we could try one of the the smaller  additional rankle might be a he's got a growing machine and he thought it might be interesting to cut some of these rumble strips on to the top of the flagpole doesn't hurt any of the equipment but it might just be a little before we get to that first crosswalk so that because a trace of the construction up there is going full bore and at this point we already have over twenty children living on highly have the new and go to that area and just go where i think one of our concerns that we've got is by doing it on the stand and actually with the signs and some of the visual cues but then by not doing any of that you know tables that we were talking about we do have concerns speaking on behalf of you know folks who are in highland park as well really pushing more traffic potentially down the hypothesis from peace and on to normal right you go that's highly likely and that's probably what you want to do anyway knowing the highland park especially has two areas of entrance and exit where children are welcome to do all of that so i mean that you know willing to compromise that as long as we can continue the conversation or words or  very nice working together on this i think the whole collective team was you know neighborhoods planning for it roger and folks it's been good and i also appreciate the recognition back to the emergency vehicles as somebody who's had you know chief hatfields team their house when my son broke his arm in half i know that you know importance of making sure that their equipment is working and they can respond quickly and so i am happy you know that we are making progress and not jeopardizing you know any response times you know hopefully they don't come back to anybody house anytime soon but down it i think this is been a really good process just from my standpoint  as i mentioned the last time before i was before the board on this matter started in two thousand and twelve i worked as part of a committee in the community involving the satellite parking lot owners of people from gillette stadium as well as members of the board to review the parking lot regulations that had been in effect going back to the mid one nine hundred sevent and as a result of feedback from the group at that time that we were involved in it we didn't have it ready for when the board had actually issued that why census last june of two thousand  twelve we decided we would attempt to do so prior to the issuance of the licenses for the fiscal period wherein i sent out additional information to the different lot owners colo we had a meeting with the walk operators in general it went through again the item several on the list and some additional changes which i made and it was sent back to the group and then we had our meeting at the last allotments meeting and several people had indicated they had received them i gave the printed copies i made out for the group to ron young who said he would distribute them to the group and so now we're back before the board and i don't know whether we have any lot owners we'll be speaking on this matter or not but  certainly i have not directly heard from any other lot over about these regulations thirteen there are a variety of minor changes some of them are underlined in the document in terms of the wording that was added we also  realigned many of the things concerning the licensing that was further back in the document and move them forward because it made more sense as a collective document to read items that were by previous boards to the original regulations pride by becoming chief so we put them in the front part of the document and then we read number the document to match said we we had a meeting with the satellite packing owners and now what they went through the the regulations and there were some things which i didn't like lots have to be cleaned now it used to be flooded i was in twenty four hours and you know you know j j ali all the lots will be the same time you know things like that that the lot owners had agreed to the question i had was which is the newly numbered ten a was sufficient police officers shall be assigned to us packing area to provide safety and originally that was two police officers would be a sound but chief o'leary explained that the reason he did this gives him a little more flexibility and how many officers to be assigned so i had no problem with that explanation and then there was a number of newly numbered fourteen is the schedule packing fees that is charged at each pack it's just depending on the event so it was just too cumbersome so they dropped decided to drop that and no one had a problem no one had a problem with that so basically everyone worked together and we kind of i think the pretty good relation  taxis are packing the awaiting for our people to come to be picked up and also limitless and that was something that was presented as a concern by not only the parking lot on his but some some  so i think that's going to have to be addressed and i don't know whether it will be addressed in the parking regulations i just just zot i think it has to be addressed by enforcement of the bylaws that was enacted i did have a conversation with several residents as a result parking but no parking or standing and we'll have those in place prior to the pre season game that we have on the sixteenth of august and i know that it's unfortunate that there were mean they all know i don't know we really need to remind them now but then now they'll know that we know things you know we know well what have you guys want to do i mean i don't think you need to talk to tiger at this point reduce that it is more difficult when we try and have pick up points that have been created by culture and time as well as taxi firms that are taking clients from the hotel that have charted them for lack of a better word and then having an adequate parking spot because we can't put them out onto route one to drop off the state police want to keep the traffic flow going into here in the lot and at the same time we don't want people going up on to route one who are trying to exit out twenty thousand cars around the stadium both north and south so it's going to be a continuing thing that will try and monitored to reduce the impact for the residents where this is taking place their own family members or friends to come to their house they leave their car there and then they bring their friends up to that particular area to a lesser extent pine street somebody who actually had houses a secondary of the people all of that's more of a tougher walk yes but it does happen and again it's developed over time and is i think more noticeable now because more people take advantage of  there they're a force and until contrail lines the railroad track with a six foot fence to prevent people using that as a cut through it's going to be a continuing issue because again if they don't go all the way to north street they're going to that location private cars as well as taxis are licensed by us and that's in buses taxis my license and the allowed to do that if they get to that point they love to pull and got somebody off and well once the game is in play we don't maintain the traffic pose because we poll those people and do the initial screening and we pull them in because we have duties within the facility itself and on the grounds we can monitor to see what's there i know in particular i know a resident that lives across from there it's reminded me several times about the traffic issues that developed at that particular location it was coming from different directions barking  three it's thing for us and if we're ok with that being left on yes that that's what i'd be asking me too but where else would that be hosted or no they post there and they post their own rights we have no control over what  the board know that at some point well under the the prime regulation that has been there since i started looking at these the eighty's but i think the reality is it's a free market economy and you might start off thinking you're going to charge fifty dollars a car and then it's a small event and you drop your prices or vice versa if you know traffic's backed up to medway much as the weather so i could say to you today i'm going to charge fifty dollars for the first home game it starts monsoon an hour before the game you have to charge less because the further they want to walk half the walk the less they wan pay because of the rain so it changes that quick in a concerts or same thing like taylor swift friday night the traffic was gridlock on route one we charge forty dollars on saturday there's no business traffic we charge ten dollars because the traffic were just flying and we knew we couldn't get anybody to take so it varies that much and that short a notice so even if we called town hall on the week of the a mat that may not be what we end up to one and a football really goes by where they are in the standings and who they're playing if they're not doing well people w the revised licensing procedure regulations for commercial parking second more discussion i was in favor  ok thank you very much seat so that was that was one thing but i also noticed on the agreement that it's just a monday through friday thing and do you do not do the your operations on saturday you know on saturday we have a limited  to limit it ok but so i thought you know i mentioned to mark is a is a possible solution for the whole area and i've talked to the chief about this as well as getting a group of all of the  owners in that area ron bressie and all you guys coming up meeting with me and mark if you want to assign someone from the board and just talking about all the issues up in that area you know i mentioned to the chief that when vice several times and he has been a lot of cars on each belcher i think roger have field mentioned to me that there were issues with vehicles getting down there during events and some of the local trucking outfits  there have had issues getting vehicles through so we need to address these belcher and we'd like to like to talk about spring break and just get everybody together see if there's a way in iran offered for you to have some of the buses parked in his lot in on o we get everybody together in one room talk about all the issues hash it out they we can all come to an agreement and come back to the board with a plan for the entire area so that would be my suggestion we do that you know some time and of august around the new building you know the realized a compact there and it's closer but she's been hard to educate and i mean we put signs up we have people out there who are just going to offices we're having trouble down there the people just wouldn't listen to him and say go to the next one drop off eighteen people talk about it we go sit and watch the office and have the people that want to speak speak going forward then we can come back here just like changes did with all the satellite are looking forward to maybe open up a lot to it maybe and same agreement when it comes to planning boards concern was not only emergency access down the spell sure if there were parking on both sides but safety anybody's walking upright just have a right here at this table during and dislike in times of ill very body handed out and can come back from the board is that having a two hour discussion here tonight about it and that we bought the idea i think is a good one kind of kicking around a few months ago and by no means did have the urgency to put on the agenda as things that slowed down a little bit so what i'm going to suggest to my ideas of would call the select men and obviously we're not all men  let me go back a little bit when when most of the towns all the towns in new england started out back in the day they didn't have selectman they had a town meeting vote in people raise a hand all the voting members and that's how things were done as the towns got older in larger that got too onerous and they decided to appoint men select selected men to make some of the rules the budgets and things like that as the towns grew more they needed police fire and then the select men started to appoint committees so if you look over the years actually if you just look at foxborough you look at our t five members of the planning board four members of the housing authority and the only gender specific board is a select men and more so so then you go further to look at all the people that we appoint in town  forty five committees boards councils authorities agencies tax forces commissions and trustees in the town and again those forty five there's none with a does there's no group that is men to a select board and if you look at what we do we act as a board made up of select men and so like women but together were a board just like the planning board the school committee we act as a board now i have got some calls on this that said you know it's too politically correct leave it as it is there's a lot of history and that's important to towns and so be it i understand that and there's a certain merit to that but my feeling is eventually it's going to be common just like as policemen to become police officers and every other boarding committee in this town is gender neutral at some point it's going to be select board so it hit me last year when there was the majority of our board were women and we're calling them select men just didn't feel right for someone brought up senior citizen had brought it up to me that it's something you know would you consider doing that and at the time you know it was a gender issue  certainly but it's funny if you look at it recently that when this came out one of the meetings back in may the globe ran an article on it and they asked a bunch of select men and women what they thought and people  pretty ambivalent they never really thought about it they could go either way and i think you asked a few of you guys in your comments are in here but there was one woman victoria buds and she was she was quoted as she was a woman  women in public policy program at harvard and she says changing to a gender neutral term can be a one step in a prep and procession that helps break down the barriers to greater participation the really important part isn't just a gender issue it's anything we can do to encourage people to participate in a democracy and makes makes a democracy function better in this case the more people running and participating participating in local office the better outcome the better outcome we're all going to have so the fact that we're select men it may be a little intimidating for us aboard if it opens up to the feeling that it's all inclusive and we're all inclusive board and as time changed i wanted to throw that out to see if we had a majority of the board that would feel that way and then i think it's a pretty simple step i think it's you go to our town bylaws you wherever says select when you change it to select board of probably a vote of town meeting but i think it would be initiated initiated as a an article sponsored by the select men a select women a select board so i thought to be an interesting discussion and curious to hear your thoughts on that thank you warming writing league and it's important to say it wasn't a lady that brought this to me i want to put anyone it's the board of selectmen said virginia cupola one of two women on the board i have no problem with that remaining the board of selectmen i am a woman but i call myself a selectman all of this is a title it's a convention to me it doesn't make a difference and that's truly how i feel because it's a why i also said it's a no it's a non issue as far as i'm concerned it cupola who said she would probably oppose changing the name and i do i don't i really don't think it's necessary i think you should be more concerned on who you're going to vote who you going to get to support as a person that you want to represent on the boys like men than a title that is just a title that doesn't  all i've heard it but i mean i really can't and then it would if he did vote to change it you'd have to go back through all the bylaws and and change and everything and i just i just don't think it's i just don't think it's that important you know i do see people struggle with that i wish they wouldn't they should feel comfortable calling any member of this board of selectmen that's what it said on the signs that i posted on everybody's lawn up there i was running for the office of select and that's what it is you know jokingly have said you know if if when jenny's elected governor i'm not going to call or govern us you know it's i think this is not gender or one of us and you guys decide to change his iraq war that that's the beauty of the democracy against now i've heard the way i speak john you warning well i had actually read the latest edition of the beacon today how boring and it was but you know all throughout the word selectman is used this is this is you know this is are you to support magazine and honestly i think the word so what it means you know the person who's in the position and it's you know this some legal language words as if you use the word man to really means billboards and in addition water and sewer is requesting to place a regular billboard or advertising on the water tower so it's there's a lot of action going on basically with  this topic and so because of the whole master plan he says that he was going to also look at zoning and signage you know billboards the use of billboards on route one when these requests came forward for the electronic billboards the planning board and water and sewer board and we had submitted letters to the zoning board of appeals to request that they not take action on that until the process of going through the master planning process was completed so what neil is asking is that we create a subcommittee that has a member of the board of our board as the chairperson along with his e p a member a member from the planning board someone from water and sewer and appropriate financial officer so that we can make some recommendations in advance of the next zoning board of appeals meeting which is scheduled for and that's your next thursday but question and i withdrew the electronic request based on the letters that was sent so it's my understanding that the three issues of the coming up on the fifteenth are all now static i don't believe there's any electronic  one s one that used to be electronic proposal now it's static there's one that used to be electronic inside the district now it's static and then there's a third entity was the water and sewer which is supposedly going to be in a water tank that the re's no application yet and i don't know what that process is so i think the zoning board in their letter said you know first of all this is not a hard jurisdiction so it's not were exhibiting our review policies because  outside of our jurisdiction i think but what does owning board is saying is guys there's a lot going on here they have the authority to do it but they're looking to us because other things that are attached to the signs that have been going off for quite a while  fifty percent share deals water sewer all that stuff they don't quite understand at all so can we put together a group planning board zoning board one of us to kind of look at it so we don't have a free for all fight between two private businesses in the water and so on so i think that's where we're at right now now the fact that two of them went from electronic to static the fact that it's three different areas in three  different financial opportunities or maybe no financial opportunity for the town is still thinks it needs somebody to look at so if this goes back to the zoning board they still may be in the same situation regardless of it's not exactly what they're looking to us for he actually says he's look so right now it's illegal to have a car it's not legal to have a an electronic void and i think what the planning bill is concerned about is the development of the master plan and i think that is also what the c p a was concerned about is what that what they they want they don't want to do anything that's going to go against the master plan down the road and i think that was they consume i think maybe so i don't think it's illegal i think if we check it it was for one specific sign that the town manager had brought forward so just it doesn't matter here tonight but i think you should check on that and i think i got that we know that you know i think you can still get a special permit for right because the state passed that law this year in january or february and what you're talking about i believe in law some wrong that was brought up for one specific site not not for the  is right to do that they changed state law on that that prompted these applications so we do need to look at it some more so i think the committee is probably a good idea so if the electronic board is le special permit i believe ok but do we have would we the town have to develop regulations in regard to that too to the legal way to do things you know like the size part of that plan i mean the state has regulations for setbacks and radius and how many times you can change and certainly route one is a mess highway so the town wanted to annex stricter regulations and i think you know it's maybe a trend of the future it's certainly could be very lucrative but if it's managed right now this committee could be put together to come up with some rhyme and reason he could do very well for the t on i think what was the perception versus reality up in place and we wanted to talk about cough report numbers which was the town's consultants numbers back one picture places being conceptualized and then after five years of operating place what the true numbers were in terms of incidence of police department fire department in packs and the numbers that we used were actually the actual numbers provided the match up perfectly with the police department and the and the fire department so also what that meeting that we had five months ago we talked about brian talked about some ideas he had for policies and proactive outreach that he's doing with the police department so we just want to come back tonight and talk about what what programs he has put in place how well they're working how well they're working with the cooperation the police department and take any questions you ma the projected incidents levels that they put for police activity a pager place that time i said at that time that you know even if those numbers that wasn't isn't good enough we have to get get better doing the right things those are a little less in within our control as is maybe some of the police incidents but real quick what i said i would do is update the board once we get to the six month period for two thousand and thirteen versus two thousand and twelve and for the period of january first two thousand and twelve through june thirtieth two thousand and twelve we had experienced one hundred twenty four police related incidents that p place again that falls in the line of seventy five only seventy five percent of what the cough reported projected through june thirtieth of two thousand and thirteen very pleased to report that we only experience forty three such somewhat out of our control as it relates to the health care center in various you know medical situations but again where we're managing it were putting less of a burden on the town in terms of public safety i talked about some alcohol management programs that we would be looking at a picture place to continue vigilance with the licensees one of those programs that he was somewhat unique in got a lot of support from the from ted mahoney from the a b c and that was my safe ride home program where we have contracted with foxboro taxi and veterans cab to prepare ensure that we always have three cabs on site on weekend nights  pager place since we is to that program on april twenty sixth one hundred sixty four gas have taken the opportunity to have safe rides home and use those cabs from your place i consider that a huge win in terms of people making the right safe decision in terms of how they they handle the the end of their evening and pay to place so i'm very proud of the restaurants are valet operator who actually administers a program on site through their supervision that again one hundred sixty four gifts of utilize this program i talked about a concern hiring a consultant to work with our licensees on education programs above and beyond the tips serve safe programs that are out there in the process of finalizing that list of consultants down to two and should be announced who will be working with what my research has shown that with service training  in education the most effective area is reinforcement on a regular basis currently a two to three year you know gap between certification is just not enough  and so it pays your place we're going to provide a very unique training program for each and every restaurant staff in operators in between those those times when they're required to get tips or service safe certified another program that we're very happy to be part of and that's the be a hero be a designated driver program we we paid her place sort of took restaurants in licensees appear to place are part of the hero campaign providing free non alcoholic beverages to anybody who shows the wrist bracelet that they have signed up to be a hero to be a a designated driver campaign against drunk driving and it's very simple in that there's there is a cure for drunk driving it's a designated driver so we're sort of using that very simple tactic to to make an impression on not only the restaurants a picture place hopefully the restaurants in the north county licensees in as a whole but also the community in young people to make that decision i want to take a quick minute jim senior vice president stadium operations also wanted me to mention that the stadium which is the largest tenant place has also seen a very dramatic drop in alcohol related incidents over the first seven months of two thousand and thirteen specifically the three recent stadium concerts bon jovi on july twentieth and the two taylor swift concerts on july twenty sixth and twenty seventh showed marked improvement when compared to similar concerts or the same concerts in previous years bon jovi concert reporting eighty six percent drop in police related custody when compared to bruce springsteen show in two thousand and twelve we sort of look at those demographics to be very similar the two taylor swift shows rip police custody incidents down sixty six percent when compared to taylor's two shows in safe service of alcohol throughout the venue jim in the stadium operations have a number of of events coming up that they look forward to working closely with the town's public safety officials includes revolution matches to country music festival shows later this month u mass football begins early next month international soccer game on september tenth brazil versus portugal which should be a full stadium event and of course the patriots season which begins a week from friday with the first pre season game the stadium is a had successful partnerships with masters is a b c c as well as team coalition where they have been awarded the team coalition championship performance award each of the nine last nine years in the big hero campaign that i mentioned earlier and working with norfolk county district attorney michael morrisey gym in the stadium hope to improve on their record setting two thousand and eleven be here campaign where they signed up twenty three thousand five hundred eighty designated drivers during the patriots home games so what i wanted to accomplish tonight and i appreciate the time you have in the lateness of us getting on the gender is to say that we're we continue to push unlike any retail  development in the in the marketplace we take this very seriously consider the presentation i made back in march to be the sort of the baseline and we continue to try to improve upon that baseline so thank you patriots home games sign up locations throughout the stadium and when you do that you receive a bracelet you receive free nonalcoholic drinks at every patriots home game as well as with those bracelets you go into any  restaurant a pitcher place you will also be provided with with free nonalcoholic drinks at any time not just during patriots games and any time throughout the year you sign up also at the individual restaurant you can't right now we're working with  with the be here campaign to extend the sign up inside the restaurants and we're going to do a major sign up at the october twentieth walks so once we've worked out the mechanics of signing up outside of gillette stadium which we will do it though the the walk on on october twent th it's really just a matter of them having of bracelets providing those to us thank you thank you very much and you know years back when the town voted for patriots place and you know we gave the liquor licenses and work towards it we knew we were going to have restaurants and entertainment and you know now this football games and see double a games and concerts more than we had expected you know five months ago we did ask these guys to you know kind of do a reality check to see where we are even though you want full build out first time i really seen the car freeport what's important to understand is when they did these numbers these are their numbers when they first came out we said well you know can we double check that they are numbers or even chief o'leary chief hadfield i think those are codified right those are yes that we're talking about the same number so you're not underestimating and we're quite in the background you know it is what it is for them to come back again  what i'm seeing is you know there's always going to be issues when they have bars and detainment but i don't see anybody burying the head into the into the sand and hoping for the best the program's one restaurant talking to the other  a year or two or three ago so it and that kind of goes hand in hand on what else is coming down what other opportunities i think we have a good foundation for you know now that it's been running for a while the programs are in place and everyone seems to be acknowledging it show every time there's an incident it's front major that you know that's what's focused on but when we have a quiet concert that doesn't make front pages and that doesn't make the discussion so the quiet stuff is i think what we appreciate and it's a good opportunity to hear that right now unlike you when we were presented with this information five months ago i know there was discussion with town manager to come up with some additional information from the statistics of the impact on the police department and i know that that's we haven't had that come forward to us so you know  just ask that you know perhaps that's something we can get follow up from chief o'leary and to look at that also again appreciate the the programs and the focus on this as it is so important and thank you all but i just want to say i did have a chance to meet with them today and that was one of the things that i had impressed upon him i think that you know  i would like to try to see a more cooperative approach rather than these last minute we need to get this done because we have a game coming up and i think dan understood that and i think you know a measure to maybe we have some kind of a monthly meeting  with the top manager in one of the selectmen and just where are we at and what can we do to make this work better and it hope that we could have a chief give us some ideas to on that as well so i think this is a good thing and  october twelfth two thousand and thirteen to raise white begin to kept children to items to no one is that this is a game day traffic will be coming into town late the afternoon so they're not going to be operating after four o'clock possum's to the disability commission to attribute sparring on may first two thousand and fourteen i don't have a seven i move that we approve the application for a class one auto license at three phelps drive with an expiration date of january first two thousand and fourteen this request comes from kevin matthews of the alliance rental group l l c approve the yes thank you thousand and thirteen a second and more discussion falls in favor  guy get there larry ok can i get there june thirtieth two thousand and fourteen the expiration date in his current employment contract the board in mr pecos have now reached a written agreement to address the remaining eleven months of his employment under the agreement mr pecos will not continue to hold the position town manager but he will be paid his full salary and certain other benefits under his employment contract to perform a limited amount of work consistent with his former duties with such work to be determined by the board and the acting or interim town manager the common goal is to ensure that the town's interest in pending matters is fully protected and that there was a smooth transition in the office the board thanks to pay goes for a service to the town mr p thinks the board in the citizens of foxboro for the opportunity to serve as its town manager robert cutler who has been serving as acting time manager since june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen will continue in that capacity and so for a a difference in pay rates from the time clock position to the acting time manager position it comes to one thousand and ninety eight dollars per week a second that motion any more discussion from going to abstain from this vote because i  believe that we need to address the recruitment process as part of this discussion so i'll just abstain at this time and i will add to that statement there will be something to do in the future by this moment we need to calm the waters here a little bit so that's why i'm going to vote in favor of this so any more discussion is just under discussion by voting for this does not mean we're ignoring the fact that we've got in acting town manager we need to move forward to realizing that we need a full time permanent time manager but tonight i think we need to get through this step first before we go to the next step till the present time second he discussion just for clarification i think there was two weeks out of that as well right there was well it was it in its eight weeks totally lot was going on here but it really is only going to be for six weeks