up on the sidewalks that they made and to me that's a public safety issue so i mean my opinion is before you criticize something you have to look at yourself especially with the way the sidewalks are going up town and all the side streets yeah i mean especially it's been a year on diet sidewalk on line and they never thanks to and to me it needs to be done in not just those sidewalks anybody who walks around tom villa i don't know if you've walked know actually it's not entirely accurate to say that the sidewalk has not been done because the sidewalk on one side of chicago wanted in sherman has been done but not both sides so far as i know that there is work to do and they have to actually remove the old sidewalk in some areas to be to be done for us it's that it's broke up concrete and it has to be repaired ok but deep enough views on that yes it's all up next meeting anybody else for citizens input conservation land the lane property we wanted to go to them first to make you know make sure they were on board with everything before we kind of went public with it so they did that so we kind of want to come it's night and just kind of fill you in on what that project  d so what we decided to do was a couple of years ago eighty came forward to the conservation commission with a proposal that she wanted to build a memorial garden up there and memory of de vry and dave was efforts conservation agent he served from hundred seventy eight to two thousand and eight when he retired and he passed away in two thousand and twelve and so it came forward with a proposal and conservation commission liked it friends group kind of started working on it and we went out to kind of see if we could get the proposal going tree text dept up the recreation department the d p w kurt from existing conditions we're kind of plugging away at it and then schneider electric and jack reached out to jim and then to myself to discuss some community projects that they wanted to get involved in they want to do more in the community we met with them we went over several options several projects  this made it kind of one of the final three at that point we were now we did some site inspections talked about it's more submitted to polls will and schneider ultimately decide i did that they wanted to go ahead with this project that's kind of what we presented to conservation last night and what we want to let you guys know about tonight because this isn't for the want to let the public know would like to get some public involvement you know that kind of thing and be thankful let's get thank you thank  project and we had several rounds and site was sidewalks to different projects and this is one of the top projects if you remember back in march we attended the conservation commission meeting in the tail end of that did a presentation on the david rich so they seemed the conservation commission seemed excited about that so we presented that idea of one of six or seven the discussion was not elected was is it grew they they got their corporate directive was to as a as a company that's been here for you know over one hundred years and a thousand people strong here in town wanted to give back to the community so the project they asked is if it could grow a little bit and be a little more substantive with some kind of more town wide benefit so looking at the lane property has had there it said two of the houses that were there were controlled burned down which left one garage as you come in off the north street you can see the garage it was really a gateway to eighty acres of conservation passive open recreation this camping hiking fishing but there's really no clear entrance so speaking with schneider and there it's not it was scheduled to come here tonight but they chose not to for the reason is we're still finalizing the paperwork on the grant they voted to approve the grant but until all the final work is done their corporate bosses says they can't speak publicly about it so they give permission to be here tonight so in recognition of that we're moving forward with conservation last night to give us a step up on the design and permanent process because it's an expedited construction schedule so i brought two boards the boards are in the application that you door street around the bend in the railroad tracks are right here so this is the garage of those remaining the other house was done here that got burned and the other one was up here if you continue of this road there's a gate and that's what opens up to the reservoir area the main focus as you come in this is the lane homestead property pictures of the garage as you come in and what we're in visioning here is reusing this renovating put a new roof on putting new siding change doors and have that as an educational conservation indoor outdoor classroom area where you could teach things you could have public meetings things like that it's open in the front in the back and very into the ground a little bit on the second level is storage right  is the vista these are the views that you see swans ducks turtles frogs it's a nice area that you can overlook that so what the what the plan is is to renovate the roads pay but it's long lived its life expectancy so repave this provide where this parking now is just on grass and gravel talking to the d p w that the plan is to use that reprocessed but  point paved reclaimed pavement that they bring up and they just stockpile so that's going to be all redone handicapped accessible parking here this pathway that's going to lead from the parking down to this area is going to be handicapped accessible vernal pools or other things like that that the students in the visitors would take a minute and learn as you go down this area here where visioning the drives to change these doors and have you know one large door one that you pull over that you can sit inside the classroom and outside to be on a patio where you go in and out on three seasons done here this is the dave rich area that was proposed to the conservation which is if you remember some more some landscaping and some call outs on as you get the blow up of the area so you get down to this area made of planting wildflowers things like that where you could actually sit here and we envision you know someone setting up their easel and painting doing class work just relaxing over here there's a picnic area so this whole area is really just quiet passive recreation but in a larger you know it's the gateway to something really fabulous so rather than just driving by you coming here and you enjoy  the observation back crack park row crack rock on the trails the parking all of this we did a cost estimate which is in the back of the application and comes up to about one hundred thousand dollars snyder electric that would fund this to design it build it and probably six to eight months to get from beginning to end so as heather said we were in front of the conservation commission last night they unanimously approve even gave a one of their one of the members is going to be on the design team so we can kind of work together he erickson of the talk here she's lived enough up here she's on the design team just so we can you know as we design it we're not going in a direction that's impact her negatively we've got different numbers on the friends of group that are volunteering their time and i think the goal of this is to build this with the expertise that we have in town people that have stepped up before to hire them to build it is a set amount you know in a cost estimates or whatever we can get in kind donated services would be more money left over that we could make it even nicer  so a couple of things that you know i hate to say this is the what we're doing and you don't have the authority but kind of we're not here for approval because it's not selectively and it's conservation but when it's this is a public meeting and you get some notoriety out of being like able just to make a request if there are people that one that want to have input in the design is people that step forward that that's a great idea that we're trying to put into the plan this actual layout ca yeah they express an interest in being involved in the design there over office it is on the other side so they have direct access through past so one of the things that they thought was neat was their staff in there you know their workers could come and visit this and use it  their expertise would be incorporated into this such as they're strong in security systems so they're looking at you know how could they put their stuff here if you know we put in our budget fifteen hundred dollars for a gate and they basically said that's not enough we want more security because you don't want to vandalize the kick in their product to supplement this so they're very involved they're going to write a check to the friends of conservation conservation we're going to their conservation friends are going to run the project and then it's almost a turn key to give it over to the town when it's all done is exactly to be the name of the of the end result i mean is there go snyder electric they're doing it for you know the to give back to the community but i'm sure they would want the name on it somewhere it is not going to be snyder electric property but somehow in harmony we can do both and we were in front of the historic commission and they expressed the same concern that there's a lot of history when the town purchased this in the eighty's it's town property but still want to give recognition to the levy family and obviously the duty of risk garden is is y ninety nine thousand two hundred sixteen dollars that's what we're doing and yeah in the understanding is if it's a dollar more it's our issue they're not going to give a dollar more if this is money to be saved it goes into the product project to make it even better so that's why we're stressing at this people that can give in kind services or their expertise there's more money to put in and make it better for the town and we you know we reached out you know this is at the beginning so we didn't want to go too far until a conservation had seen it but i met with the superintendent spinelli we can half ago and she's very excited to have science classes that they used to at the school bring people in classes then they start doing that so the outdoor classroom for science and art is is a phenomenal asset to the town and then we're talking about the seniors getting involved in doing their classes there and things like that and i went to recreation with it and recreation is contributing to the project but we're  proud because we have like a great art teacher that comes in and that's just opens up another area for us that we can run programs because now we can have you know people out of the observation painting where you know we have a point yoga instructor and now in good weather we can do so it opens up other uses for the property you know that the recreation department could do so that brings up a another good point though is this someone that's going to oversee so that one day a bus lower kids aren't coming at the same time seniors are doing a quiet moment you know is there going to be someone that one person or a committee that kind of like we do it now i mean that's sort of the way we have to all work together now we just kind of talk about who's going to be running what programs at conservation lands ultimately you know they make all the decisions we run everything by them and we'll just have to do what we do now which is kind of in sync with what's going on we're in right to that point in this came up last night on building maintenance and what you know after you build it is there money in the budget to maintain it into police and things like that i'll be honest with the conservation and i'll say this to them if they're at the table are not the best stewards of buildings you know that's probably why the two buildings got control burned  historically conservation animals and critters and things yes but buildings so they're going to need some help and guidance and i think this building would work into the main facilities program that we have in town where there's one um own natural setting that won't when the lane probably was purchased by the town you look at what the conservation commission had in the in your report that year and everything you see here is essentially what the have that what they would hope this property would be used for and it has to lesser degree obviously many many times over the years but this would be a permanent welcome for a wide variety of community interaction and it's just just a hole in the world opening up up there and have some of the most beautiful land of the setting and everything it's just a real great opportunity for the town and one last thing that just came up in the last couple days inside the garage there is some old farm equipment and it's been locked up and stored not it not a great money value but probably very important to the town we're looking to find a place for that matter if it's a storage binary shed or something in town so before in the dough too much so if there's anyone that has any ideas of what we could do with that equipment and paul talked about restoring it with your expertise to get it to a point where it can be displayed there are some things developing for every story then if some a question this is wonderful use of the conservation property that we like jack said we've been waiting for for a long time but it's also nice tribute to the lane family under edis direction and also dave ri i don't know if dave was our first conservation commission steward of the of the land and he was very instrumental in in purchasing the land and taking care of th nice way of saying thank you and i hope roberto has been contacted and this is where i think during the original triad before i got involved with the conservation commission yeah because that's wonderful she's  rice school media center one twenty south street foxborough mass on a pledge of license and transfer of license application for an annual all alcohol in a holder license for t and all walker incorporated d b a rally point in part nine mechanic street foxborough mass zero two zero three five manager tina walker all interested persons are invited to attend the h corporation which you can get to know workers at corporate that's it's going to be doing business at the rally point but the corporation is going to be tito block of that actually owns that she's hoping to keep the same that she has tipped certified she's hoping to keep the same staff that's working now my understanding is that they are tip certified and that she hires anyone else that they will both with the tips training for the for the premises so it's subject to obviously your approval for the transfer we have to pledge a license to the bank is part of us doing that and it's noted on it should be noted on the application t and marketing we don't forsee any huge changes on right away over time you know as the business grows when they get some different things but for the over time just to make it more appealing from the story just because it is an older building and you know my mom was focusing more on the interior over the last few years hopefully that'll be something we can do you know ok right  are you i think the building as it sits right now there really aren't isn't a lot of rain to make any expansions as far as that goes so i mostly just expanding the manual for more options and you know maybe some small paid options in those kinds of things but as far as the make up of the building it should remain as it is right and with the change of the name made no thank through the paperwork it's a it's a sizable investment you've been in the business you've worked side by side with you with your mom for for a while off and on  ready for this i think i am we've always done a lot of time talking about it so i think i'm ready to jump in both feet and you're familiar with fox cares i have talked to that we're just learning about it i'm interested in finding out more about it i suggest you reach out to them because being being a new first time manager they can act as a support system for you working with and anybody from the audience that has any comments or concerns process probably over the next couple of weeks of get out of securing someone that can be on site overnight just because the building needs to be on because it's an end or a hotel we need someone that can sleep there and be there if something were to happen so we haven't secured that person yet but we're working on is that is that a legal requirement if you have been in to have someone an employee on site twenty four of i'm just curious i don't know i don't live in the world so that you know i just think you know my my parents have always been there and i think just if something were to come up in the night you'd want somebody there that would be able to unify or alarm or something like that you want someone  seven thirty four m p s our senior public hearing discussion vote on doing a patriots two thousand and sixteen season application selectman acting as the local licensing authority pursuant to mass general laws chapter one forty section one eighty one in section one eighty three and chapter one thirty six section four town of  revised general bylaws chapter two twenty nine and also stadium rules and regulations which will conduct a public hearing on tuesday july twelfth twenty sixteen beginning at seven thirty in the fall tri school media center to review the application submitted by new england patriots l l c for the twenty sixteen new england patriots regular season home games including preseason and potential playoff teams resit slash resident open operational changes to our set up this year but just to walk through the basics we are requesting a one open stadium training camp we'll have the additional training camps open in the on site beginning on the thirtieth of july two preseason games eight regular season games and two hopefully playoff games the open practice will be on august first and then we have to thursday evening games three one p m sunday start one one p m saturday start we actually have a christmas eve game and then an eight thirty monday and an eight twenty five thursday so we're kind of all over the board this year on we do have some some good starts and then we also the n f l has always reserves t lots open four hours prior to the game feats two hours prior and then parking lots to close immediately after which is standard operating this year a couple of small changes that we do have as we will have the additional hotel hopefully is on track to be open and operational for the regular season so that only nice to have the additional amenity the renaissance currently is sold out for every home games it'll be nice to have those additional rooms for fans as they come down we also will hopefully have the scorpion bar up and running for the regular season as well so another offering for fans coming pre game or post game waiting for traffic to clear can help ease congestion which is a nice option we so you have also were doing some work and having to stop making sure that traffic is stopped safely so that our patients can flow across the street so we're working now in shifting that footprint just slightly so that it's a clearer shot straight across from want to break into the venue through patriot place so we'll continue to do you know minor tweaks like that we're always looking to figure out ways to upgrade the experience to smooth out things that aren't necessarily running as well as we'd hoped but with that being said there i said no conduct policies to ensure that our fans take take ownership in the experience and it helps we've found that the fans themselves are our best line of defense when it comes to ensuring that everybody has a safe and and pleasurable experience of the stadium so we're going to continue to operate our conduct text time but we actually may have some upgrades rolling out mid season on that as well so that things that i think of covered everything sort of just i just sort of just have a curiosity that says the patriots have modified their past forward ticket exchange program for season ticket holders us a limiting their potential liability program will be administered through ticketmaster what's what's the pass it forward is the program that we have now so that our students and there's actually two programs i think better kind of being referenced here pass it forward as if you are a season ticket member and so you want to sensually ensure that your ticket stay within your family when you're no longer a season ticket holder rather then surrender your account number and surrender your account and hope that your family get funked up on the listing of their tickets this way you can actually centrally sort of well them to your family so that an account can stay in the family and then in addition to that we also have a program that we have with the n f l that allows our season ticket members to put tickets for games that they can't attend on an online system and then purchase the tickets through one another so it's a fan to fan resale site without any charge and that way it allows residents or season ticket holders who are coming to come to a game but we understand that's a big financial responsibility rather than trying to sell take it to a random stranger or gold or craigslist or pass them off in a different manner you can go to the resale site and essentially exchange your tickets and then another fans on the wait list has the opportunity to purchase those so you are absolved of any liability with respect to your account because we have one of the strictest squads of conduct in the n that if you pass a gets off and somebody misbehaves it comes down on you whether or not you are in the building so now you have the option of alleviating that financial responsibility another season ticket member who is a weightless member has the opportunity to go and everybody knows train crossing should help you know it seems like it's going to be much wider and a straight shot and the one thing good good news for the town they have increased their capacity so they and we felt you know i felt very positive to recommend for approval based on fact that the public safety officials receive all of the requirements that they are more seats yeah there's actually physically more seats in the building and the as the build out was complete and then the sections that were taken out were finished there was an additional the worse the actually added  ok so how does that work with the process that we're going through right now what they did in the nec the net differences not that significant at this point they don't i don't believe so i honestly wouldn't want to say it's yes it's right that it's gone it's it's really i think a matter of maybe sentiment all of us very much that you are here i just thought i'd recognize you that seven forty five it's like men's update i don't have a lot i do have a couple things first i just want to send out our condolences to kathy brady whose father passed back to the community we know of doing the craft group gives back to the community in different ways i think it's just a great display of public private partnerships with with businesses that are dead are actually getting back to the communities and i think it's it's a great message just to send to the to the residents of town and you know we're very fortunate to have to have companies like this  they they themselves will benefit significantly by redevelopment of the downtown area so we've reached out to them and asked them for this patient and they've they've been very enthusiastic about doing that and in recently we've we the the local y m c a so we've we've really tried to improve enhance the partnership discussion and i wanted to can you do more with that because we think it's really important that that the community in the stands that that we are working on many different fronts  it's not just one issue or another there are many different fronts which were working in partnership on the sun it's really it's really worked out well i just also want to know that this past year from a financial perspective are  working the at the stadium of events actually generated the thirty four percent increase in revenues that was the highest increase in highest revenue that we've ever taken in france from the stadium was nearly a million dollars in addition to what we normally take i highest year we have had was in two thousand and fourteen this year we took in almost a million dollars higher than that so it was a very successful year and based upon what we see planned over the next year it could be another very successfully i think so some of the events that certainly contribute to that world war of course the the one a classic which was very successful and of course the the cope of soccer events which was a three or four day event that upcoming for next year we're looking at and see double a look cross which will be about a four three or four day event there as well and i'm sure they'll be other international soccer events that will be coming back because they do like playing here in the big venues so i know they're actively working that we have i think ninety nine  finalists semi final process now we're not in finals process so we have to rebuild names yet but we are the next step in the process will be to go to a suspect site of which we will use an outside agency to do that we just recently from did a double panel interview process which now the field from seven down to four we've not identified those names yet and we've not and indicate that to those those can they just so i just want to let you know the process moving along quite  l the response i've gotten from those who participate in the process has been extremely positive and it's we we have some terrific candidates and i think the towel be very pleased with the selections that we  include weekends so we just want to make your body aware that that's in place right now because water has obviously been very scarce this past year it's a very dry season and it's we don't anticipate a lot of rain even this week we may see a little bit on thursday  road repair work is being believe it will be completed probably by the end of this week so we don't feel much will be some sidewalk where of course and some some might have worked beyond that beyond that we did finish the work we briefly paid that the new driveway in front that work on right now the the there are are we doing a lot of hiring and and and hiring is it's when we say a lot of hiring it's replaced positions that have been vacant is only up dizzily i think one and a half new positions but there's a lot of positions that taking some some badly needed vacation time this week should be back actually on thursday this week because she's she really working really hard in those areas and i think i think that's it that's all i have to report this point at some point you keep talking about about i would love to have a discussion of not two and a half percent and if there's going to be a year to do it you know we weathered the storm prior to you arriving with the economy dropping you and i know what if you don't do the two and a half percent you give that up for you know infinity and beyond but at some point if the revenues coming in and it's unexpected he'd be nice to say take that chunk and go two and a quarter percent or two and eight percent and for once i think we all owe it to the town to least discuss it and see how far we can get with that in maybe have a plan and a plan b have different pullbacks because you know it's like any any household or any business if the money is it will get spent unless we put the brakes on and put that aside and say rather than put it off for a rainy day back it out to the taxpayer you know us included so you know it's really love that it we certainly can have a conversation about i just just wear mine or buy that and those revenues can change from year to year and so it's not a guarantee amount of money we certainly hope that it will be a good year for the next several years and there are a number of different factors that could play into that if either of the relocation of soccer or if there is if there is other events that don't come come to fruition i can still have an impact a negative way on some revenues as well so we want to just be mindful of that we treat this as one time revenue so we powerful discussion it is it is and i'm not saying that through to take away from that i just want to be people to be mindful of not that it's a great great news that we got there and it's really a really pleased to see that happen but i also want we should we should that you know the meals tax is at a record high as well so all these different pieces if i could put them in one area and say look what are the ramifications if and when we do this so it's ok if you know we look at year to year maybe we don't maybe we can we can give something back maybe we can and i think it's worth having a discussion  gift donation in the amount of seven hundred dollars from friends of foxboro seniors for the paolo three part series program in june and fab fifty each program second gratitude motion made second an move to accept a gift donation of one hundred cases of coke products and thirty cases of water from the craft group for the recreation department slash derrius groups with concessions the second that with gratitude to