evening everyone welcome to the selections meeting for tuesday may twenty seventh we are going to enter right into executive session and return for play by six fifty five come back into open session and we'll yes yes thank you you frank good evening everyone welcome to the selectors meeting for tuesday may twenty seventh read the agenda we have chairman's update six fifty five citizens input at seven pm topics not reasonably anticipated by the chair forty eight hours in advance of the meeting seven o five bill keegan the finance director contract seven fifteen jack author let foxborough care's seven thirty p m attorney o'connor's which is is being postponed seven forty five heather harding conservation open space committee formation eight fifteen and andrew upton michael brangwyn trader joe's new officer director twenty the town manager will give us a town managers report and a town manager's goals and objective memorial day ceremonies yesterday i was really great thanks very much mike despite the weather we had a good turnout and it stopped raining just in time just for everybody's information we're being visited by the zip trip this friday so if everybody can be down the common they'll be there from six am to ten am and interviewing different folks from the town and  was you know we saw all ages all types of people out there and you know my take out from it was you know nobody wanted to show up on a saturday morning to pick up other people's trash and people showed up for different reasons but it was a it was a good group so if you were there and you saw the businesses that donated them certainly a j dooley jake and joe's craft group take a minute and think about it and if you need services you know utilize those businesses because they're going to keep coming back and that's not why they do it but certainly you know the communities and it saved us a ton of money that the place looks good and i think it was less trash than last year because not so it was picked up but i think people are thinking twice about just throwing their boom town hall we have a really good diversified group that is committed to making this thing happen so where a good path can be a lot of work but we i think we're going to get there thank you just really quickly also for our board week we talked about how we develop our agenda for each of our meetings and so what we're going to do is we've got a calendar laid out for the year of the regular regularly occurring items and we'll add items as they come to our attention you know the board will be submitting their request for agenda items to bill sandra and me and then w will with a brief description in the time needed to discuss those and will insert them as the time allows and prioritize them based on the request so we also ask any one from the public would like to have agenda items to please follow that same process to contact bill sandra herman and myself and i would look at those in the queue being a little after seven o'clock anyone here for citizens input please come forward raising your name and address for the record claims donald's tranny the third i live it for rothschild drive in foxboro you just ran that through with the agenda thing we kind of didn't know the avenue to take so we figured this was going to a good kick off point end of summer street heading towards mansfield it's the last street on the right before you get into mansfield it's a new road it's the former residence of the carnahan's house which is one one rothchild where the board  the sold the property behind their house which abuts the amtrak tracks to my father and i we developed the property in two thousand and five my wife and i purchased the first lot we built our home at four rothschild so we've been there since two thousand and seven during the development process in the construction process of the road and i don't know exactly who it was but we were told by amtrak some representative that a fence would be put up behind the house once people were living on the road so it's a long summer street all the way from east st and sharon fence runs on both side of this tracks the whole way it stops on our side of the road approximately five hundred to one thousand feet up the street before hadn't down to the development so this fence on the opposite side which is the more street side to as you know high speed of multiple times a day trains going through over one hundred miles per hour at times and we are here tonight basically to get the ball rolling on trying to get a fence  t up i've tried to contact a few different people amtrak police comes by a lot we talked to them didn't really get anywhere with them so we basically want to just bring we drafted a letter we want to bring to the board we ha sent to senator timothy already he's putting that in the direction of where he needs to as far as the government goes but we're just looking for support from the board i'm not exactly sure what you guys can do but we just want to bring it out there so just a couple of quick things and then if you'd like she can you can read the letter if you want to very short if not we have copies for everybody and we can move along so from my house the tracks are about one hundred fifty feet from the back of my house their houses out in front of ours they're about three hundred feet and the macuser even close so they're in the cul de sac and they're about one hundred feet so by the end of this year we're going to have six children under the age of five on the road and it's just you know i mean like i said it's wide open you can walk right up there anybody can walk up there so it's a huge safety issue right now for us don and then the city you're looking for a fence yeah not a fence to be placed with  you go down towards mansfield a little further where industrial park there it's tight trucking there's a fence that fences off that whole area down there but in a span of about a thousand feet there's no facts now and then are you know that we brought the subject in i've been told my father about it because he's still on the road is not fully accepted by the town it's only the top code so he still has some obligations on the road he actually was in contact with somebody from interac and requested you know we need a fence put up and they basically told him we're not putting any fences up this year that's what they told him on the phone so i we didn't go that website route yeah that's good to know but i mean this is the website to get to the right there is a contacted somebody that from amtrak police they said this is the guy you need to talk to and he called them and basically told them when i put fences up so that's why we are where we are now can you provide your letter to our town manage sorry to him it may concern we are the three families living on a small called the stack of rothschild drive in foxboro massachusetts and the answer train station is half a mile from our homes and that's the train tracks for the providence to boston commute and high speed a sela run along the back edge of our cul de sac and the backyards of our two homes at the time of purchase we were all told that a fence would be built as a protective measure to close off the train tracks from our properties having this fence is a matter of grave concern for all three families living on child drive among our three families there are currently four children under the age of four and our families are still growing trains are commonly a source of interest and fascination for children and our kids are no exception as they most always turn and notice when the trains raced by additionally one child in our neighborhood has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder a s d research from the american academy of pediatrics has shown that nearly half of half of children with d attempt to wander a bolt from a safe supervised place more than half of these wandering children go missing often into dangerous situations thus the train tracks pose an immediate and real threat to safety for all of our children the commuter  passes twenty times per day during the work week and about ten times per day on weekends the high speed speed a cell a train which does not stop in mansfield travels past our neighborhood at speeds close to one hundred mph several times a day as we move into the spring and summer months we as parents become increasingly vigilant but also concern for the safety of our children as we spend more and more time outside we are requesting with the firm insistence that a fence be installed along the stretch of tracks that are accessible from our neighborhood for the safety of our children the safety of our friends and family members children and for our peace of mind we implore you to build that fence a simple yet effective barrier to help us teach our children about and protect them from the dangers of the trains thank you you the better off you are and also bill if you could do this as the senator in the representative and bill also from the town to contact congressman kennedy's office and our next item on the agenda is we have an appointment jack off the left for foxboro cares jack mentioned that he's unable to make it tonight but mike johns will be standing in for him like to come forward her students who are finalists in a in art contest to design a logo for the town i don't always in fact i almost never speak from notes but i think it's important because these objects words and i don't want to mess them up so people created a caring community our sense of community is who we are but as often as we may use or write the phrase it will become more a part of it if that which we feel and believe and practice could be embraced by an image and i can if you will so the countless acts of reaching out could be instantly identify this something that took root in a caring community who in what we are as well as who we have been and will be can be summarized in two words foxborough cares i took the fox book here's concept to kelly our cash or who directs the art department at foxborough high school she put me in touch with a very talented group of students who illegally here really embrace the challenge of designing a meaningful logo based on two words and a heart it had so much to have the students involved and i appreciate kelly's willingness to facilitate twelve designs were eventually reduced to four which we presented to you this evening with your approval and selection of a design this will enable anyone doing anything for others in this unique community to put a fox broke cares logo on planet that speaks to the very core of who we are and what we are and certainly there are many among us who would be proud of where we're at foxborough cares logo wherever we go it wouldn't detract from the visibility of any organization or purpose for which a program was being conducted but would simply identify it as being driven by people who care very much in the special place called foxboro these meetings and he approached me with this idea this wonderful idea of taking the community and kind of branding the community coming up with this logo idea foxborough cares so when we do you know clean up foxborough are when we have the relay for life that has boxed our cares underneath it so it's bringing the community together to support each other we thought it was an awesome idea we had him come in and he actually met with the students as his as their client he met with them and they went over the idea and took down notes again they came up with thirteen ideas and then he came back again in narrative down to four so what they're presenting you with is four different options if you do accept this for different options for an identity for foxborough pairs and all of them are original in their own so how introduce the students this is molly sleiman she's a junior lindsay kind of who's also a junior christina politan who's our senior rachel mclaughlin who's also a junior and matt melo behind me who is the senior and they're part of the senior as you guys can see on each of the presentation boards they have a logo has asked for us to do a logo against al in foxborough the long way and then they did it in black and white a color option and then they thought about the branding where you see it so if you had banners during relay for life or if we had t shirts or hats created and the thought in brand so many different groups if i think it needs to be one as much as i mean there off there is how very little and that five students work collaboratively together still feel like you're going to hurt anybody's opinion actually like the second one and the reason being that i think it's a little simpler but the you with the heart in the middle foxborough stands out in the cares and i like that the different graphic you know one different from the other the foxboro in  would number two as well number one would be very close second i like i like the idea of the helping hands i think that sends a real clear message all yeah i like them all and so i've really like number two i think it has a very strong message through the graphics i think the graphics are really clear same a couple weeks ago at the same people say same people at the school committee and what this group did was they went to the middle school and did the same type of thing but put together math cards to to help educate at the middle school and i got to say and i am a little posher because my daughter is a senior graduating through the art department but over the last couple of years i've seen the art department in more places around town through the different groups that you put together in the different organizations and it took you know jack reaching out to you to say can you help but there's for in all i mean the work that you guys do in house so to say and bringing out to the community and just a quick point i've been coaching christina for now for seven and she told me probably about six years ago she doesn't need a coach and i'm only good for carrying her hearings to the point where she always hackles me i broke an arm three years ago on one of the jokes that she did  town they they're awesome this is an awesome group of students and they actually before coming here this past thursday but they brought this in front of a professional graphic design studio to have them create the work so in the last couple days i've been doing touch ups before the presentations i'm it's actually the top of the creative economy and we actually took an old school control into an arts studio and we rented it within two months the entire building was rented out in two months because because the arts have become so popular it's a new creative economy that's what's being as i'm reading here and you see stuff like this it just makes me sad to think about other possibilities that we could we could actually do for the movie so it's great great to see and the public to know that one witness and let the board the public know what's going on with the open space plan and the committee as we've done in the past and also to see if this board would publicly acknowledge the new individual that volunteered to be on the committee just briefly as some of you already know we started a committee back in two thousand and nine to get our open space plan written and submitted so that we could start applying for grants  the conservation agent did a fabulous job of pulling it all together along with the entire committee the plan was submitted initially in two thousand and eleven and approved by the state and d c s in two thousand and thirteen february  right and since that time we've been able to successfully apply for over three hundred thousand dollars in grant monies that the town has received i'm actually not sure how much we totally applied for but we've received over three hundred thousand to date  open space plan was completed before the master plan was drawn up so it's been incorporated in the master plan and going forward will be kind of sink in the to when making sure that everything appears in the appropriate place and not in both places so now space plan is approved the committee that planned it and drafted it and submitted it is sort of moving into now the implementation committee so it's basically the same core committee except sa we had three members of our committee pass away but other than that it's the same group and the focus of this committee now becomes the implementation updating and making sure that the open space plan is in sync with our master plan so that's really what this group is going to focus on going forward we have members from conservation recreation zoning and calm historical and just citizens that have stepped forward we advertised in the paper held the meeting people came we talked about it what we put in the plan is that you know this group is going to be responsible for looking at the plan meeting once or twice a year making sure that any updates to the plan are in there so that when it comes to two thousand and eighteen and we need to resubmit the plan we're not behind the eight ball that we're pretty much ready to go there's no requirement by the state or d c s in the plan that it's but the b o s has to approve or appoint the committee but we were asking that you would consider it just because when people step forward and say you know i'll do the work and i'm willing to do it we thought it would be nice if they could be publicly acknowledged and you know have people not we also thought that by bringing it to the board with this is televised there might be others people that say hey i might be working to help you know willing to help out they don't have to join the committee the meetings will be posted they'll be public meetings just like we've done all along there is an open space recreation planned workbook that is almost just that is the open space and recreation plan and it tells you exactly what you should do and that's what we follow and it tells you exactly who you should try to get on the committee and that's what we've done i did bring an updated copy that i think bill just handed out of the people because there were a couple people that said they submitted an application but they never made it to us but we were still able to get in touch with them and there were a couple of people that were not one hundred percent sure they would be able to do it until after we had had that meeting so this list as it is now is up to date as we have it what i selectmen them myself i would like to offer our enthusiastic congratulations to both the conservation commission and to the open space and recreation plant committee for their efforts and produce and foxworth open space gratian plan a west r p the plan provides a great deal of valuable data that will be extremely useful to town residents boards and committees in addition it will be an excellent reference for the planning board as it begins to draft the town's master plan the open space recreation plan will be an effective tool for further and fox bros ever is to protect its natural assets and retain its so my rural character the selectmen and i look forward to the creation of an open space and recreation plant committee which were presented to you tonight who will be responsible for implementing the open space recreation by its recommendations by developing strict strategies to the planning board has been concerned about the stewardship of our open land we were active during the open space planning we have incorporated several elements of it into the master plan today and as we move forward we want to encourage all the committees in town to work together to effectively utilize that which has been purchased over a period of years going back into the seventies when i was on the advisory committee we were very active in trying to put aside land for future utilization by the citizens as we look forward to recreation we put our work actively through the master plan program with conservation and recreation with regard to the  road recreation center and i would like to see that we ensure the trails and other features to permit the elderly as well as our youth to have a chance to effectively to come in front of us for approval this committee is set by the state guidelines and there's no requirement for the slightly right ok right but with i would like a great i know eight or nine out of these twelve members of the the members of the advisory  exemplary people from all all ranges of our society or our community so it's not all environmental people there's business owners this recreation my experience with this and i followed it from your right it's that it happened before the masterplan came around in the reason was if we one of the reasons was if we come up to with this committee and meet the requirements then we're able to get different grants then it was codified in the master plan and when it started it was hopefully we can get some grants and i followed we have been successful in grants in my work i'm working on one at all right now and so people think it's just to protect you know trees and wildlife the grant that i'm working on right now they just gave us two hundred twenty five thousand to do a river walk in an old industrial area so it's bringing in reading gardens in and pave walkways so people can enjoy the outside  know and get the booth playground you look at redoing that parking lot or getting some more spaces in that is eligible for part b a r c park right which would bring in about thirty forty thousand dollars and we would be able to do it without th so i'm a little long winded but i couldn't say thank you enough for this thousand and nine and then you submit it to the state initially the state gives you feedback there's a there's a workbook going to you know the way they want it so then you initially submit it once you initially submit it even though it's not approved you can begin to apply for grants because you're part way there they then write back and say do a little more this we want to little more this change goes through this through this goes back and forth and finally they approve your plan once it's approved it's good for seven years so this is the final version that the state approved and it's just after a lot of back and forth and  spots in here and why that's important to go to this committee that you understand a much better than me ok part of the community preservation act is it adds to your tax bill and you can be one percent two percent three percent but then they the the the state of massachusetts actually gives money to matching funds so we're actually losing money by not having it in our town improvements as long as they are the use for the community so we can to to preserve historic buildings correct it's pretty the worse it's used actually quite widely by a lot of communities around the commonwealth  provide more fun in fourth for this year so it's become very popular it's been used by a number of cities and towns throughout the commonwealth to develop new facilities to acquire land to preserve that which which is really important to various communities across the world the wrong that's correct the money actually has to be divided between environmental or open space issues historic issues and then also housing so there are there are formulas for how much has to go into each pot and then there are some left over that can be used and the money is actually how the money is users determined by a committee that is formed and it is the townspeople that determine how the money will be used they come forward to the committee and with projects than going to a developer who went to the town and you know they just finished up a kind of a community center we could have wedding and small christenings and things like that but in order for that to get voted it had to go to town meeting so they said it's going to be three million dollars to renovate this old house with an addition to the town meeting had to vote for ok the appropriation to accept the route said you have to accept the recommendation of the committee so there's a couple checks and balances along the way but i believe that's correct or you a little bit from everybody can do some good things so absolutely i've heard a lot of good stories because the preservation of historic buildings archives i mean goes on and on one more question one hundred twenty days to purchase it at that fair market value right before it goes to a developer so i think what this committee would do was just knock on our door and say hey this is an opportunity don't let it pass right through it because nobody from the state was i think the list of them is in here somewhere but there are there aren't there yet it's it is in here in the here currently under the inventory of land itself but this is this committee that's been working on the planning going forward isn't going to have any type of authority or anything to do that their goal would just be to realize this is happening and then alert not i just i did i just didn't know what that chapter sixty one yet you know s and i read through the plan and it's actually pretty impressive now is this this is going to be updated periodic we within seven the in years or do you have to wait the seven years yet you only resubmit it to the state every seven years but what you do in the meantime is we have like a folder already updates because for example pacing road is night and day you know that we have a master plan some of the stuff that we had to include in here because no one else to put it really best fits in the master plan so we just that's the point of the committee so that seven years from now we're not scrambling you know we'll meet once twice a year to kind of go through and say do we have all the updates so that we're ready to go into gaza meeting you know what have you gotten to the point where you're ready to start   for the town advertise it so and have you identified areas for community gardens i read in there about the farmer's market and possibly having a farmer's market on the common yet no we have not gotten to that point yet we're just at the beginning stages of figuring out who when the committee would kind of be willing to tackle what we need people here whenever the question of farmers markets has been extensively covered and the master plan where several possible locations identified etc there so that really is almost separate from that as a related but separate and we do is mention several things  witness where we stand on patient road at this point we're ready for a way to get over and very much on the third of june for some substantial upgrades at patient road yet so this is strictly an advisory committee this is this committee has actually no real authority to push through any any programs and i was also wondering about the makeup of the committee i mean when i went through the list the open space recreation committee and then you'd hit you had the advisors so i was wondering why is the committee make up not made up of all a member of the committees that would be the advisors  you know i'm thinking you know planning board conservation commission recreation admission board to hell if you know that well i know i know it is but then there's also you have my dishes correct you have four to three committee you have four boards are committees members from both the committees and then the other five are volunteers correct so my concern my turn is that you've got more volunteers than you have a lot of members of elected boards are commissions and i have no problem with this if this is strictly an advisory committee it is but i would not i would be rather hesitant to agr to this these members if the volunteers can override the elected member of the commission that that's my concern because i really would like to see this as an advisory committee and not a committee that has any really any authority no it was just well advisory committee right right basically what we did was we advertised it as we have been since two thousand and nine me and everybody that stepped forward and has been coming to the meetings and expressed an interest in getting involved we put on the committee we did in addition reach out to some key people and asked them over and over until they agreed to be on the committee but the open sleaze and recreation tells you ideally who you should have on the committee and i think they recommend five people from the community basically we have what they want on their ok well if you're gonna volunteers there was an application from michael keller knowledge in this committee the public is going to say your process for appointment to the committee applying to the board of selectmen so there is clearly has been a confusion i know that i did not apply to discredit i attend a lot of the sessions but because the procedure for appointment two committees within the communities that are not specifically  recreation so he's expressed interest in the open space for he's expressed interest in conservation and also with the open space so i would ask you please include mr callahan in the open space  i spent some time over the past two weeks and also i was on the agenda last meeting for the board and i asked to be really be held for two weeks so i could actually investigate further i did meet with with other and other members to find out more about the process here and how the so how suppose i actually took place is i read the plan the plan was actually developed under the normal process of the open space recreation plan the plan board was involved to a read it correctly that the plan is actually a year where you're actually year behind the terms of where you should be at this point in time in terms of point in the community going right on the committee itself as i understand it i think there was some confusion arose because there was a really clear as to what the the what the role of the open space recreation implementation committee is so i think for clarifying for the i think for the board's attention tonight is that their will is to help the various boards of committees use the plan and help them get through the plan and implement the various recommendations the extent that they can but they have you have no real role in that other than to just advise you provide information to them and how they can recommend these things to get done you have the history so you have to have more the history about how this plan was developed but it is true that is it is an important document for the making in the town of eligible for great great conditions and that's something that the state absolutely requires so i just think it would be helpful for the board to hear from you as to really what the role will clarify what the role is so they clearly understand what it what they write what you ask them to do of the committee yes ok so if you if you look at our seven year plan have kind of goes through you know from from forming the committee pretty much the committee is going to work in a supporting role with whatever boards or other committees need to use this open space plan part of it could be as simple as the research because we're all volunteers and we've only so much time so if something comes up you know one of the committee members could say yes i'll go research it or i'll go get an update on what's going on from the planning board at pace and report back and if that's really all it's going to be is just support to the different ford that are involved in this and that's why a lot of the collaborators and stuff are not the committee it's recreation conservation you know board of health planning board because the boards are actually the ones they have to do the actions the implementation committee is simply going to say hey we found out that you know we could put a great trail in here and there could be a grant and what do you think about the go to the right border hey there's a problem with this well that voids involves border help ok alert the bord r help whatever department handles it is going to have to deal with the issue with a concern of the project but the goal of the committee is just to try to get as many people involved to know what the goals of the plan are and to help us disability getting them done a letter a letter was submitted to town hall from mr kelleher listing his desire to be in this was on april twelfth listing his desire to be considered as a member of the conservation commission because of commission when we had when on the twenty ninth i believe it was twenty ninth of april the we would given a list of report ment's and from the conservation commission we were given two names in eric nelson actually there was a third meeting mr kelleher who was not we didn't and i didn't know about this on the twenty ninth and it was brought to my attention that this man had applied for consideration conservation commission and in my mind has his letter is excellent he's an excellent candidate i thought his name should have been brought forward for our one of the two positions conservation commission when it was brought to my attention i said you know what you should do is go i first i said have you been contacted by the town in regard to your letter he said no he has submitted it to the town in the voice like it was address of course like when bush like and never got the letter was never in a packet so i told him i said once you go down town go to town hall right now and you apply make an application well he had never been contacted by the town to be told that he had to make an application i said why don't you go down to the town hall make an application for the conservation commission and make an application for the open space recreation committee so you could be considered because you have excellent credentials you would be an asset to either of those either of those committees and so now that's why i am asking that we appoint mr kelleher to lease the open space that he can't with our you pointed the conservation so at least give this man a chance to be on the open space committee have never seen him he's never been to any of our meetings i have never received he noticed that he wanted to be on the commission the two names that you mentioned were real white men to the committee but i had no  no knowledge things to get to the select means office don't necessarily get dragged down to write and that's one of my concerns too because if i had known there was a third the third person and third candidate vi had if i had that letter in my committee is more than welcome so we didn't exclude anyone anyone who expressed any interest in being on the committee we put on the committee and as i said before our hope is that even if people aren't willing or don't want to be on the committee that  at least show up at the meeting and maybe kitchen here and there you have to formally be on a committee to volunteer i'm not on the conservation board but i volunteer i you know so we're just going to say that if we can get the word out people say why can't commit but yeah i hope you  read very well a lot of detail the area that you know i looked at most closely really goes from a master plan perspective ensuring that this plan as it stands now dove tails into our current master plan i think is critical and so as i was trying to think through you know how best to have a review with all of the boards that are impacted by this so water and sewer planning board conservation commission porter selectman recreation committee i think those should be like the core individuals on the board and on this committee and then have additional  residents from the town with special interest in in the plan and what i really would like to see would be as the first step for this committee to as they organize to have each of those delegates from each of those elected boards to go back to their respective boards have a full review of the plan and then circle back to your group and ultimately circle back to us with any suggestions changes updates again with the idea of the master plan being what is really a huge guiding force here which wasn't in fire to a place that we're all proud of thanks thanks but does anyone else on the board i just like to hear your thoughts on the idea of having individuals from each of these affected board as part of this group might and it's been advertised and it's been discussed for years now if you're going to grab people kicking and screaming to come onto the board when they've had the opportunity you know i put in the category right now of no good deed goes unpunished we could volunteers have been working on this for a number of years if we complicated too much i think that's a bad thing i've worked with these and other towns and the work that you guys are doing the head and shoulders above what i've seen in other towns i think we need to stop going into debt complicating it if certainly start working you need to reach out to people that have said no before to water and  sewer but we've got nine people here and three people that have gone through the process it's not the board to make recommendations this letter is requests from the rec department in the concert ation commission you vetted it out you're bringing us recommendations i'm ready for there a finite amount of people that can be on the committee other words i can you know are you a lastic can you can you take it at a seat will they give you a recommendation which is what we went with and our hope is that although you have a core committee that you get  with a hundred volunteers that would be amazing but they kind of recommend committee which is what we have here what you also do in addition is whenever you do something and it's included in the plan you send it out to every board in committee in town and give them thirty days to give you any feedback and then if you don't have to write we just want your support and one of the main reasons why we're here tonight is to get it out to the entire public and gets more interest we'd love to have more people involved in it so we're not going to just likely done in the past we're coming for the board just to say this is what we're doing any feedback any support any anything you have to offer would be great and then we go on our way just just jimmy the answer but so the people at home know this is not a bylaw committee this is an ad then you is the board but a point but this board that we're talking about tonight strictly advisory with a lot of your backing without it we still  sort of put a wrap around this discussion here was it to be clear that the committee was looking just for an endorsement of the concept of the committee to to be an advisory committee temp and help implement the process like maybe that was one hundred percent clear and we've  commissioners and just like you think everyone else is already accounted for right planning board is here recreation conservation commission there's a member of our board who would like to volunteer i would recommend it because eventually whatever their recommendation is going to come in front of us and we're taking i druther have a member not get the answer that gets too political i'd rather have it independent i would like to look at the process of committee simonds and committee recommendations and you know just because obviously there's this communicate there's a lack of communication and you know it's an application maybe in a file but obviously it's not getting it's not going to the right place you know in the night if people apply by letter and if they're supposed to make out a form they're not being advised these almost no no no no no i would expect that any committee any committee who's beginning the reopen you know beginning the reappointment process would go to town hall and say is there anything in the file that letter was the letter that letter was delivered to town hall on april twelfth nobody else anything about it you know in the committee assigned the committees were reappointed on april twenty ninth can i just as everybody agree with jim that there should not be a member of the board unless you know i can do it i agree with you yeah right so if we will have someone from planning someone from concord water and sewer commission update on that and be create appreciate what you're doing thank you how would you sort her emotions so if that the i think the the motion will be that the board appreciates the the support from the board that's all make a motion to have for the board of selectmen to support the appointment of a committee by the conservation commission in recreation department to the open space  michael introduce yourself excuse me excuse me they're going to make good evening madam chair members of the board andrew upton representing trader joes today we are seeking approval of a change in the corporate office there's a new president current president will stay on as the c e o and a member of the board of directors this is a technical change that wired by the a b c c we have to do it for every town that we have a liquor license  n and it implicates no changes whatsoever in the floor plan the hours the management or any aspect of the store here it's just a corporate housekeeping measure that's required by the  that being said i am glad to answer any questions you may not i saw that i actually i was somewhat surprised that it had to if you were going to do something with corporate level that we had to know about it but i'm glad to hear a lot of snow note and up again pre shared the work of the veteran service committee as well as what john's about his service officer for the work for memorial day and and to thank the chair and all the other speakers that were there  of it in such a way that really really brings home the you know what's important to this community so it's great to see that tomorrow the i'll be at the i go to school while out with other representatives  patriots organization will be there to help to to present to thirty thousand dollars grant for the redevelopment of a playground at the idle school so i money thing is that there are fourteen such grants being distributed around the country and what's being still developed in terms of active rec creational use of the fields around the town so it's great to see the new field development as well as to the current field that should use and and the all of silesia go along with that really it's a great thing and of course fox twenty five will be here and they'll it will be a live telecast right from far from the common so if you've never seen it i encourage you to come out there with the hours that is if they start it i believe they they're going to be there early that would be about four thirty five o'clock setting up and then they start the broadcast i believe it's seven if i'm not mistaken and and i go all the way till nine thirty ten o'clock home i was taken so that it takes up a whole morning a suggestion that i gave the newest member of this like me you should take an opportunity to visit the stadium during an event you could go with the place you could go on the fly right and get a tour and it's very interesting and i'm looking forward to it actually see an actual operation and by the way i will be having guests on my show so so be surprised don't be surprised if you get a phone call about getting being a guest on the  show and then they're being interviewed so just be aware be aware that i may actually have all five you want different different times throughout the year just to kind of so people know a little bit about you and and overpower the things you're working on as well individually so i think that's  added a few to the list as well and i just want to take the opportunity for the board to provide feedback of additional items that you'd like to add or to substitute other items how could you don't think yours important  m i think that's fine too i you know i don't know which things are important to all of you so it's important for me to hear from you all you know on those points so i mean they're all importance in some way shape or form but they  you know that they're not maybe all achievable in one year but certainly that's my point yeah last year we ranked them in order you know five being the most important one the least important and just put that on a spreadsheet and is infrastructure improvements second was planning an economic development the third was personal labor relations d was facility maintenance of construction he was financial management after was regional services she was budget planning and h h was a community relations and i was sustainable practices so that we could do was in the main categories that we would typically deal with throughout the year more important throughout the year as what things will take on different life for their own throughout the year because that's just what typically happens but at least it that the sooner i can get this prioritize i'll start working with my department it's to help me know me as some of this work out and we yes that's right he would have some initial discussions about that i think that's a critical thing that we should do i mean i think it for them if we're going to garner the support of the community around building a new facility i think  sometimes rather be lucky than good but the timing was right in the sense that both the school facility for us and we had a part time facility process on this on the town side both retired at the same time or they're both one left for a job or they were retired so what we did was we pooled the resources of both the town and school to hire one facility director and then a lot of those the the school mate and so operations are already been established we did actually hire some and additional some additional staff for heat we put every building on a schedule so that we knew exactly when all those buildings were going to be and when the roof is going to come up the on the parking lot is going to be repaired the the windows are going to be replaced the floors are going to be you know redon recopy repainted all those things ago was that the key thing in this whole discussion was that we didn't want department managers running the buildings we wanted them to be running their operations and not being concerned about what if something breaks in the bathroom or something or they had a leak in the roof that they have to you know run around try to try to figure out who's going to fix it i have to tell you that my life changed overnight when this happened i mean it was amazing i called m one phone call my my heating system broke one day within twenty minutes i had somebody to fix it and it was it was fixed with and within thirty minutes it just you know that's the way it's supposed to be people should not have to  not to worry about the buildings being maintained and they take care of that central facility maintenance director will be responsible for taking care of all the cleaning responsibilities we never quite got to the point but we're well on the track of centralizing all the custodial staffs of them so every one contractor all those things and what i mean i mean one labor contracts so you don't have multiple labor contracts you know overlapping each other we you know there's some a source who could be outsourced because you know it made sense to do that school business business manager and finest director about about tackling over the next year and we're looking to do that bill did you did you fundies that you did you both decide monies so that if your roof needed to be replaced the money was the public actually gains confidence and wanting to fund building approved was because i know that what properly maintained nothing irritates me enough more than and i'm sure they will take a lot of residents through that if we don't maintain what we got that we sure what the proper process for doing that is i mean it's difficult to do it in an environment like this tonight but maybe if you have we have it will be tricky to rank them as yeah yeah that's what we did last last year past couple year's because it was it was a little bit more specific than what i'm concerned about his life over the last couple years and granted was a different time manager we came up with six or seven pages of categories in spreadsheets and then it got to the point where we were supposed to get an update every month and then it went six months and then it was the day before six months we'd get something thrown at us and we ended up more focusing on the matrix than the reality of what we needed to do in the that they had a great idea what on the list and then you get something that was unmanageable and i think it was a complete breakdown last time so i just don't want to go down that same half year of you know asking him to rank it different ways i think from your experience in working with the department heads you could actually come back to us and say from your experience working with the d p w in the rectifier and conservation thought this is what we're hearing first hand and this is what you think needs to be prioritized for this ranking is for us to give bill some direction on what's important from our perspective but i want to say i think it needs to come the other way around i think we've already tried that thinking granted it's a different time manageable i'd like to hear from you what you are thoughts are having been here for a few weeks and even were a couple months and then say this is what you think the priority here's what's interesting in see approach i've not done it that way as well but it's actually interesting to me because you know who knows better what the what's actually operational level appointments we suggested that we bundled bundled everything in then bill you suggested that town it dead and what you did as you bundled all the action items in one day and i would like permission board just to come back the way we used to do it so that each item i think and this was scheduled first saturday and the application was received on march twentieth but we didn't get in our packet until today the it's already occurred and i just have a question why the if with permission of the board i just had a question on the application was on march twentieth submitted in march twentieth and we get it after the after the event had occurred i just would like to be more cognizant of the applications and so that we can prove them in a masonic angel fund in this to be used for the parks for children in need to attend both some a program and the next donation is to the recreation fund and a check for one hundred dollars for the month club of foxborough and this is for the recreation so i make a motion that we approve the the receipt of these two donations to the recreation  make a motion to make a motion that we accept the minutes as amended from april seventeenth april twenty second april twenty ninth and may sex the second of those in favor of the next item is i make a motion to approve the change i've named dimitri from green valley it's just just a quick going to have a actually spoke to him when i was in there for dinner or a function in a red snapper in the only reason is to get people that might not just need steak to think there's other things in kind of bring more people in there so it's this is a good thing for them this is actually the original name and yeah we're going back to that was a game and make a motion to approve the change  the mr martin had come before the board earlier and a few months ago and announced that they were going to do this and now this is the invitation for the dedication and just  a quick note on that and i'm sorry from talking too much at these meetings the j c spent quite a bit of time two weekends ago in the call out and i won't mention their names because most of the people in g c you know how to do it quietly but they sanded and they cleaned and is to donations to the boarding library we have education for one hundred dollars for the purchase of materials for the children's department in this is from the month club of foxboro the second one is a donation of two hundred fifty dollars for the renewal of eastern children's museum library pass and this is donated by the foxboro j c s and so i make a motion that we prove approve both donations to the taxi this is a rino and no application the veteran services advisory committee will second up all those in favor  but then the next one is an appointment kevin coffin of twenty one young road to the stadium advisory committee it was requested there was a letter attached requesting  ok in the next is an application for our coins two coin operated pool table licenses f in the past ten to items this is the layout just the regular the occurring events and just kind of shows you where you know the different items like a discussion for example or where we start hearing about concerts things like that commercial parking lot license is reviewing for town meeting so it's just here for your information as we request agenda items going forward now that the last tonight so i can have a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion to address