thank you frank good evening everyone good evening everyone just going to call the meeting to order please tonight we have a very special selections meeting we're going to leave you for a couple minutes and go into executive session we're going to enter into executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel or to conduct collective bargaining session or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel police chief contract  item is the police chief contract and after we come out of executive session will go back into regular session have a second second all those in favor right roll call yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you will return in ten minutes thank thank you frank good evening everyone welcome to this very special board of selectmen is meeting for august fifth two thousand and fourteen all go through our go through our agenda seven eight seven p m citizens input will be having an eagle scout award we have topics not reasonably anticipated by the chair forty eight hours in advance of the meeting seven o five commander leo agnew and michael johns will be leading a proclamation for foxboro being a purple heart community seven thirty five we have a public hearing for n p s l l c u mass home games seven forty five p m board of selectmen open meeting law complaint procedure eight p m board selectmen town committee handbook eight ten p m town hall working group david feldman will give us a town hall update and then at eight twenty p m bill keegan our town manager will give us the town manager update you have the pledge of allegiance please him wh troop seven boy scouts of america in achieving the highest rank of eagle scout the selectmen would like to recognize nicholas counting for his eagle project of planning and coordinating the restoration of the girl school nature trails may this recognition express our congratulations on the completion of your service project where you cleared two hundred fifty yards of trails of debris and overgrowth and put down new mulch you also rebuilt two bridges one ten feet long and the other fifty feet long your project w provide a great means for teachers and students to be able to walk these paths and learn about nature first hand recognition is also given to your achievements within the community as a member of the foxboro concert band and marching band you played flute under the direction of mr stephen massey and mr george murphy for the past two years you participated in the talks for a community band we wish you success at bristol community college in fall river where you are working toward a degree in game development the citation is given under the contractor engineer there to explain what's going to be done with the schedule is so i have a car that i'd like to give each of you and if anybody has any questions that she called the planning  channel give you a quick plug just so people understand what the groundbreaking for you got a grant with the plan and what they brought forward and it's to revitalize that kind of barrier at pace and road with new playing fields parking lots things sir the two overgrown areas on either side of the new dry way down to the baseball field will be developed as multi purpose fields there will be additional walking trails all around the back it will also include tot lot improvements sidewalks handicapped accessibility some improvements around the concession stand a baseball  pad for a billion over by the plague top lot and other amenities but the town was very fortunate we got two hundred thirty two thousand dollars and we're hopeful that this will get us close to complete we've had you it being about seven o five i'd like to welcome commander leo agnew and michael johns to come up front please the manager citizens all of you in the crowd tonight pretty overwhelming actually the number of people thank you thank you for coming thank you for your continued support of veterans thank you specifically for your  our combat wounded and that's all we have talk about tonight is for expose combat wounded our purple heart recipients and it's not enough for us to just put on the license plates put on a sticker and have one night combat that's what this is about and i think you know our motto foxborough cares really speaks well to this this is a foxboro community effort this is something that the community has really stepped up reached out and said i have a neighbor who is a purple heart recipient i have an uncle who i think might have been a recipient and we've spent the last several months about two and a half months researching that so with that in mind when my office door i'm going to be displaying this the sticker that mr agnew commander of the massachusetts military or the purple heart just gave him a little b there saying that we support our purple heart veterans as the commander and his team do at the state house level on the fox pro team that put this together the board of selectmen as i mentioned as a whole a town manager jenny cupola has done countless hours me tell you about the process of what has brought us to this point some point in our past i'm not sure exactly when it is commander agnew and his team sent a letter to the board of selectmen former chairman of the board of selectmen mark sullivan took that letter and said this is something we need to do and it to the board and assign it to ginny cupola who is sense really you know driven the stis train in the right direction what started writing up a proclamation to say that foxboro supports its recipients then grew into a search a search through military veteran as an historical files throughout town and the state calls to the national purple heart hall of fame calls to the massachusetts the national military or the purple heart to find out who we have as recipients and that has developed into a list of seventy two we here tonight to recognize those most of us it's important for me to say that sixteen of those recipients are alive about half of them are here with us tonight and of that half of those it was an enormous struggle to convince these folks to come and stand up and be recognized they don't want to be recognized but here's the important thing it's not so much recognizing these purple heart veterans or our deceased recipients the important part of this is really educating our youth and their adults our community and reminding folks to remember these folks have been wounded in combat the suffering they've gone through started with a battlefield injury came home and their families their community has supported them the family's been there all our community now is putting a stake in the ground saying we're going to step up and do better we're going to be there we're going to provide them services tangible real services to make sure that we live up to the words never forget also selectman cupola on behalf of the town for their dedication and hard work to bringing this project to fruition and jenny will read a proclamation now on behalf of the board resolution declaring foxboro massachusetts to be a purple had a town where as an august seven seven thousand nine hundred two general george washington established the badge of military merit to be awarded to enlisted men in recognition of whenever any singularly action is performed in whereas following the end of the revolutionary war the award was all but forgotten in military terms it was suffered broken service only to really be revived in one nine hundred thirty two by order of the secretary of war through general order number three which stated by order of the president of the united states the purple hat established by general george washington at newburgh new york in august seventh seven hundred eighty two during the war of the revolution is h revived out of respect to his memory and military chief ment's in whereas the citizens of the town of foxborough have great admiration for and the utmost gratitude to the men and women who have paid the high price for our freedom by leaving their families and communities in placing themselves in harm's way for the good of all and where as our community has a proud tradition of military service and members of our community have been awarded the purple hat as a result of being wounded or killed in any action against the enemy of the united states or as a result of an act of any such enemy are opposing forces and where as the department town honoring the service and sacrifice of a nation's men and women in uniform that were wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedom enjoyed by all americans in and be a further result that the this effort well it started small it grew large in number which is reflective of foxborough service cross the nation about two percent of our men and women serve in the military and historically foxborough has sent about eight percent of its citizenry into the military so i'm not surprised that our number of recipients is much larger than we initially anticipated this effort grew  and present some proclamations at the same time i would advise invite postmaster and they be veteran tom driscoll to come up he also has something to present to the town i present to you senator james t not just memorial day and veterans day but this several other days that the board the town and volunteers make an effort to recognize veterans and it's very important on this day those who will this is the greatest country the world  ever seen but freedom clearly is not free and it's those who have sacrificed themselves in the families of those members who've gone over overseas in harm's way and come back and it's always a very special day for me as your state senator to be recipient and be a further nominee massachusetts senate can extend best wishes for continued success at this eighty should be duly signed by the president of the senate and attested to in a copy there of transmitted by the clerk of the senate signed by teresa marie president of the senate doesn't get a commission on the stand but show is pushing them yeah we've been using them at town hall we've been using that my home and i know a lot of you are to thank you that reminds us of the importance of remembering our veterans especially our purple heart recipients graduations foxborough i know and being provide community i really have been overwhelmed with the stories that i've read to see what you folks be the recipients have gone through and as mike said earlier to leave that legacy to teach our children to all of us to remember that freedom isn't free and again my congratulations and it really is wonderful to see such support from the community tonight so congratulations i have a proclamation from the top commonwealth of massachusetts th representatives peter by going to all the massachusetts house of representatives offices in syria graduations to the town of foxboro massachusetts in recognition of your for official certification as a purple heart town by the massachusetts military order of the  proclamation that august seventh of every year be declared purple heart day to honor those who have bravely served our nation the entire membership extends its very best wishes and expresses the hope for a future good fortune and continued success in all endeavors given today the fifth day of august folks who have pictures we want to get a picture to put in memorial hall so that we can again put that stake in the guard and say we the leadership of the town of foxborough and had stayed in the to choose it are here to support you the recipients and the families of their of so if i if i could invite you folks to come up and f support you and we mean that everyone here that is stood up in this picture and all of you that are about to be recognized by one team one community we had to serve you now what we're going to do is call up i'm going to be down the roll call of purple heart recipients are seventy two names of which a small number are here if there's a family member here is was here the next of kin please come up to receive a certificate from the from the town of foxborough purple heart recipients i would invite you to come up to opinion from the military or to the purple heart a certificate from the from the state representative state senator and that's for the recipients so at this point we're going to turn to the who are important here today the folks that drive this program why we are here mr warren a pair united states marine corps world war two hartley all of them united states marine corps world war two by the way i understand that everyone isn't going to be here these certificates from the town and other proclamations are going to be in memorial hall tomorrow evening from seven to nine o'clock where the new purple heart display is going to be debuted and you'll be able to receive your certificate if you see air force korea terry baldwin u s army vietnam and i know he has a family member here edwin ballard world war one and that's worthy of a note because there was a period as you heard in the proclamation where the purple heart was not awarded in that was up until nine hundred thirty two nine hundred thirty two this medal was united states army world war two i think we have a family member in the audience  but all callahan vietnam although j carbon eddie united states army world war two peter carnley joseph cook united states marine corps vietnam joseph f cook robert currie united states marine corps vietnam philip oh davis united states army world war two david h to sell united states army world war two frank flag united states marine corps vietnam robert p flaherty army world war two leslie de forrester united states army world war two lawrence c foster united states army world war one and fox afghanistan warn a hidden lying united states navy world war two clifford our homes united states air force world war two joseph s holt united corps world war two george kelso united states army world war two gerald f kennedy united states army world war two gerald kinsmen united states army vietnam richard w lampson united states army world war two little landry united states marine corps vietnam humor cawley united states army world war two ernest mcburney world war two james p mahoney world army world war two james man united states army world war two yes alan s martin the united states marine corps vietnam roy i martin world war two marion barry and united states navy korea gerald the metcalf united states army vietnam irwin morse world war two dominic n donald b roberts united states army world war two david robison world war two glenn s elite united states army world war two louis sid pass united states army korea these last two i had to tie to the bumper on my car to get them here thank you for coming floyd divots united states navy world war two thomas tribute go united states army vietnam never trip united states army world war one you vicky lowe granddaughter of mr tripp is being shy but she is here with us this evening arthur white world war two nelson young united states army korea theodore f young united states air force world war two we're close to wrapping up this part of the purple heart ceremony tomorrow evening from seven to nine at memorial hall on the foxboro common there as i mentioned the new purple heart display will be debuted with the proclamations you see here with the the frame stamp from the post office as well as for sports first purple heart medal and several others i invite you to join us tomorrow night from seven to nine at memorial hall and again any proclamations that we did not hand out tonight we'll we'll have there there tomorrow also this thursday i invite you to to pay close attention to the fox war reporter where they'll be an extensive research article by our town historian jack author let you know highlighting many of of the names you've heard call though tonight and lastly today's august fifth two days from now august seventh which is national purple heart day we will have the flags around the common still with this purple heart flag joining the other purple out flag on the common on both sides of memorial hall and this will be celebrated every year from now forward on august seventh location to be determined i would assume around the common at memorial hall this is the end of our program thank you all for your service thank you for you i mentioned a few minutes ago the most important people here are you the purple heart recipients and family members and next of kin we would like to get a photo of all of you i don't know if it's most appropriate to do that outside in the hallway so you can continue business ok so that's what we're going to do and the folks from the military or the purple heart will be joining us ok thank you very much thank mike thanks very much for terrific program fourteen beginning at seven thirty five p m in foxboro high school media center went twenty seven street to review the applications minute by m p s l l c for the two thousand and fourteen university of massachusetts home games these  proposed to gillette stadium application for these events is on file at the office of the selectmen interesting path all interested parties are welcome to attend thank you george and she would like to come up to the there were three home games this year really of the three warners the most significant in terms of attendance they're looking at between twenty and thirty thousand for the b c s game which will be august thirtieth then the second game will be their products made about fifteen thousand third game about ten thousand we did not see any significant issues  have the second game is an alumni game the games the first two games or three o'clock third game they're not they haven't published yet the second game is a new mass alumni amhurst so the public health people have important terms of how that will be done and in general the from the far standpoint public safety it's been staff  that level too and the input from chief o'leary was to request if they could have a train based on the fact that if it's a b c game that first game with about thirty thousand people than the need for public transportation i called the stadium today to get a update and they said that they have submitted their requests to the m b t a and that it's currently under review always supported the u mass games i think it was a public safety is the only concern that we usually have and having seen them for a number of times now i think we welcome it and it's good for foxboro y close the public hearing i moved close the public hearing on the application by gillette stadium for three you versity of massachusetts home games second all those in favor and decision of the agio shall be final many efforts to submit new information to an investigation after decision has been rendered by the agio should be disclosed at a public meeting i wanted to ask the board to consider if we could just alter them slightly to say should  sometimes i believe that sometimes things may come out after discussion that may want to be brought forward and i think that you know the town manager and town council if they see value to that information i would leave it really up to their call to make that determination if some additional effort should be made if there is a particular violation and you know i think  i just wanted to leave that option there so that people had the opportunity if they felt something really important was missing that they'd be able to go back to the town manager in town council with some new piece of information it's not meant to keep things going or anything like that it is just meant to provide a little bit of flexibility here and again leaving in place the fact that it would be disclosed at the next public meeting and i'm looking i'm thinking of it more in terms of again the town council and the town manager determine making that determination so that you know were informing the public that some additional effort may be made but again it's just to leave that option open  so the way that it's worded it says should the agio determine that a vase dilation has occurred any efforts to submit shall be disclosed to the public meeting so manager as to the value or you know the merit of any new information in that way that decision is made independent of the board and that you know we hear it at our meeting in the public hears that it's happening but  you know in that way it's not i don't think any one person can influence the town council or the town and the town manager to do something that some doesn't have merit basically what i'm trying to do in the process of an all through the investigation period with without bringing it in front of the board so what was it was the intention all henri with respect to this change that if something came out after the terminator was made yes information that they didn't focus on that would've made a difference potentially and again i believe that determination of that merit to town council and the town manager to determine if that should be  sorry i'm a little uncomfortable and maybe there's just a bad taste in what happened in the first two but i don't like the conduit where individuals go to the town manager not to say it happened but you can do influence on somebody because we're his bosses the way that is the way from what happened last night and nobody wanted to talk about it he said i let the attorney general decide and then we'll take his decision so now we're kind of reversing the way that these regulations are we give you the onus is on you in town council to make a determination first and then it gets submitted to the attorney general and that whole process what this does is opens up the door for five people coming to the town council and to the town manager i think is exactly what we're trying to avoid there could be a situation where we do our best where you in town council work it out you come up with a determination whether right or wrong  general mistakes are made or there's information that's not there but if there's information that's not there at this point it's a public process then information needs to come to the table and we need to discuss it because i don't want to leave sure we're in a position where you're of has been rather a new information comes to the to the to the board i think it would be ok to discuss that in executive session because at that point this would be a new piece of mission i would that would be some of the for consideration occasion but at that point the the complaint or the lawsuit or whatever you want to term it is passed so there's no pending issue to bring in into executive session well except that it could it could have an effect determinant that a violation has occurred any efforts to submit new information to an investigation after a decision has been rendered shelby discussed in executive session at the next scheduled meeting with or should be requested to be put on the next  five people don't want to put it on or the chairman doesn't want to put it on you know i think that request has to be in public to say this is what we want to do to put it on the next agenda for executive session for review for in the last example they were willing to reopen it they said they would if they they were willing to to review it but they didn't really say it was going to determine their choices or decision one way or the  oh frank can you hear us so jim are you describing you want if some if one or five people come up with new information make that an agenda item i think so because i don't want to take anyone's rights away or shortcut a process but at the same time  what i'm trying to do is limit the process because it can just keep going and nobody's ever going to be happy one side of the other people that made the complaint if there's no validity in it they're not going to be happy so they're going to they're going to keep pushing it so anyone on our if it's against us we may not be happy but there's got to be an end point i'm trying to say if there's an endpoint let's talk about at the table and collectively to say enough's enough or yes then there's a bill saying we would do that in executive session sure correct ok but the request comes the authority to prolonging it but yet the other boards may have an opinion or you know plenty more may see it differently do we want to entertain a process where he gets routed around and if they have suggestions you can  prolonging it but this affects us but also all the other boards that run a little differently than us and i don't have a preference i just took a poll that's a policy consideration i think that i think the policy ought to come from this board and then we'll float down but i think handbook at our last meeting we had some discussion on this and there were a couple of final changes that were submitted does anyone have any additional comments or final final changes are due to look tasks in the next few meetings primarily in this next upcoming meeting we're going to be looking at renovation in addition is there a true savings we have to all before we go one hundred percent you know we're going to look at tearing down the new turn down the existing and building new what the impact is the operations we're going to start our public information kick off  we've talked about a web page we're working on frequently asked questions that we can post we're going to be working on a direct link from the home page sold there's no need to search for it once you go on the website and we're also timeframes we're going to put the link to the to the web page and we're also looking at setting up a facebook page where citizens can have direct comments to studies we need to verify cos we're not the first ones to build a town hall i know drake is in the in the process of finishing a town hall berkeley is is undertaking the process right now i believe they just broke ground so to be reaching out to those communities and compare costs we were looking at reaching out through different avenues through the  contacts that members of the working group have i have contacts in architectural industry in general contractors and you can reach out and verify unit costs in development cost so will be all the start to post where we're thinking these costs are going to be so nobody's going into this blind but the other thing is we need to start thinking about temporary location for the town hall operations during the process of renovation or building new i think we're we're almost there in agreement with whether town hall can continue operations if we're building behind but if we're building on its existing location with enough to relocate the operations and it's not going to be a small task to do i know there's certain members of town hall right now there are really want to kind of stay where they are until the very last  minute and we're going to be looking at town on sites whether there's there's something that we can either utilize partially utilize spread it out and look at other options so we have a we have a lot of play coming up  lot and found that the those results have been back so we we think we're pretty comparable should be able to build in the parking lot if we could excellent which will really provide us some option to not have to move potentially  the second thing is that the the issue of relocation of course is an important one and i think it's an important to stay from the beginning here that i know that they want to look at all tom properties but i have a significant space in the buildings and they do not believe they have space they have while there maybe the numbers in the schools are down obviously i think that's that's a given there were still programs going on each one of those spaces so it's not that we have additional perspective would be to try and stay away from that as much as possible not create a concern on a sara lee in the public about that type of thing so so that will be that i know that will that's a that's a vision that that some members of our committee  because we don't have the expertise on board yet to answer those questions but general questions about what we're looking at we'll certainly have answers and i think that what's good about that is that you know there's already folks talking on the blogs about you know what the perceptions are and unfortunately a lot of those perceptions and i was accurate so i think it's not too new for us that people do have legitimate questions and they want to be feel like they're part of the process has to questions and will try to answer for way we can try and  a bit more prepared each time we go through this process and i think bill i think the point you make about the security issue with the schools is important and you know i certainly agree with that i don't know if you need the board to just give you a consensus message to take back you you know i think it's one of the issues what i think we need to address upfront because i don't want that the committee to go in a direction that we know is going to get resistance and we've got a lot of work ahead of us and i don't want to spend time on that issue if in elementary to get a whole way not one of them has ever worked to get over that and for the reason that you've said plus five other suggests that it's not you know one thing if we had a vacant school buildings that be a different story i would absolutely support that but we don't have one and  one of the properties that came up as we were doing the review there's a school an old school over a community way that i'm not sure it is owned by the schools but i believe it is being used for some other part time with other town halls that have in the present being built or have been built recently current we also have an opportunity to talk to them about allocation of space and if they could do things a little differently than they did you know just like oops we  build your space it's not going to work one hundred percent exactly the way you write that but sometimes you might be able to by talking to people you can anticipate you know maybe some problems coming up   not to utilize any active space within public school buildings you again i don't like to do that normally but this is a case where i just think it's at the mo we can get issues of the way it just makes it easier to for us to focus on the issues before us and i think if that if the if the fifth the board felt differently they certainly would again the next item is kill keegan providing us a town manager update thank you madam chair the first well congratulations go out to town engineer chris gallagher and his wife on the birth of their new daughter leah who was born friday august first she is eight pounds ten ounces and twenty inches long and both child and mama doing doing very well with the regulations to both of them and to enter the sun as well by the way who was i guess taking a real liking to his daughter so  talked about throughout the day the concept of developing an r f p for those location to see if we can actually get that process going was able to identify a similar project that has already been done in provincetown during this past year  that location to that location so we can make the property more valuable in that respect so we're working on that pieces with the ideas just in time and your interview process is beginning this week with telephone interviews  narrow the field down to about ten that i will be meeting with face to face in our interview process i really pulled together my pail identified by the week of august twentieth as we call be doing interviews spend a whole day working on interviews tell you that i've i've done a lot of recruitments already is this one is was one of the most has some of the best candidates i've seen so i'm really really quite excited about that emotionally about the frequently asked questions the list of issues associated with the other townhall projects and the list is it is probably pretty significant but i will tell you that when i get i'm going to get that poster to pretty soon as possible we actually need to start working on the answers to those questions so we need to i don't want to just list them out there without without some some some one sort of response so we can start looking at that but i encourage people that have thoughts to you know to ask questions because we want to try to get those answers so as soon as possible do you want to talk about that as an agenda item i  can and i want to get some point we should i think we should talk about that because the you know there was a lot of information that we should be talking about i mean obviously the big question that people have is cost we're not a position to give a cost estimate at this point we  about the possibility of looking at a range of numbers based upon a square footage range that we that we think close on but we're really reluctant to put a number out there because once you do that becomes the number you can if it doesn't come in that people say you but you told us you know also we have to be very careful about that that we don't we don't mislead anybody but in the same time we want to be as informed as we can and sort of what sort of people have a pretty decent idea as to what they would be voting on when he when the first phase of late at night into into the early morning hours trying to finalize some some piece of legislation which they did finalize and i now actually have been something governor for his approval there was bills associate with economic  authority reform bill was it was was was passed environmental bond bill was passed the water infrastructure finance bill was passed the solar net metering bill was passed which is important for us because we have a project that's that's  to waiting for approval on the information technology bond bill was it was also passed in final the enemy is actually analyzing a swift shopping a shift swapping collective bargaining bill which was sent in and i'm not sure they're i know it's it's late following the process by just want to say thank you to my chance to get into the work that they did in the course of boards for all the support you for this program tonight this was tremendous in my opportunity and i want to see that those people in one room these are all those different ones you may not see the same people next year and also it's an annual event so if there was any but he missed this time this next year and michael jo in favor and i just want to make special mention thank diana gray for all of the minutes that she took for us she said in her note to us how the attached are the minutes my last ok i moved to accept the july twenty second two thousand and fourteen now i just had one direction on page seven in the town manager update to insert before the forts as chairman of the board should they vote i'd like to put in following a discussion on the proposed referendum question because that was it's not it's not referenced that we had discussion on the referendum question yes that's a good point and then work comes down to the motion of the second motion motion was made by john gray to direct f street for the new tall town hall site and can we add in eliminating the need for rep and referendum vote to decide the location of the new town hall because that was also part of the discussion and this just kind of so the motion of motion that cared for zero one should be at the end of that that's actually just action for that yeah i hope so actually so starting with a paragraph on page six then the chairman asked for discussion yeah that would be that would be ok and then just one last on page seven just above where the four is one zero vote two to bring the matter to a close which is open meeting law complaint can we just from the board of recreation and thank him for service and read the letter to the board of recreation effective july one two thousand and fourteen june foley will not be returning to the board of record and i for the past fourteen years had the pleasure of being  organization that has made a positive impact on many lies in the town that i love i have been able to raise a family that has been able to see and enjoy the great work the board has been able to accomplish the work that the board has done and continues to do will be felt by many for years to come i am very proud of being part of that i wish the best for everyone currently on the board in those to come i hope everyone gets a chance to feel i know as i have that the work that we do is important and it affects many lives in a positive way thank you for the strickland to the board of recreation for the term expiring may one two thousand and seventeen and thank her for her willingness to serve also all those in favor  that's the next one is a notice from the metropolitan area planning council of the election procedure for the twenty ninth two thousand and fourteen elections and the next is i move to approve the early opening of jake in jos for the dates of the five patriots home games that i scheduled to begin at one p m september twenty one october twenty sixth november twenty three december fourteen in december twenty