We'll begin in five 4 3 2 1. Good evening. Uh I'm Chaz Kerry. I am the town administrator here in Brooklyn, Massachusetts and I have the honor and privilege to serve briefly as chairman
prom of this the select board's first meeting after the town's May elections. I'd like to first call the meeting to order and direct your attention to the first item on the agenda which calls for the board to organize with the election of a chair. I would note that we follow the procedure here that is written on
these note cards that were written by my predecessor Dick Liry uh when this position was created in the 1980s and so we are continuing in a long line of tradition here. Um so uh I would just note and uh welcome uh the results have
been certified Michael Rubenstein as our new select board member. Thank you and welcome and we'll now proceed with the election of a chair. Nominations are in order and uh no seconds are required. So I will take a nomination from John. Uh yes,
thank you very much. Um I would like very much to nominate someone who has been a real steady guiding hand to this select board. Um has been a good friend to all of us. I'm sure it's going to be
true where Michael, our newest member, is concerned as well. um has been a leader and um has been um someone who brings people together and in situations where sometimes it seems like there's no hope of finding consensus. Oh my gosh, I
just gave away who I'm about to nominate by looking at him. He uh he as the saying goes, he finds a way where there is no way. Um, so I want to nominate um our current um our incumbent
chair uh to Bernard Green to continue as chair. All right. Uh Bernard Green. Um are there any other nominations? Seeing none, uh is there a motion that nominations be closed?
All right. Uh it doesn't require a second. Uh we have to take uh to take the vote on that. Um I'll call the role. Mr. Green. Yes. Uh, Mr. Vancoag. I, uh, Mr. Warren. Hi. Mr. Pearlman. Hi. Mr. Rubenstein. I. All right. Um, the
nominations are now closed. Um, it has been moved that Bernard Green be elected chair of the board for the ensuing year. Those in favor of the motion will say I. Those opposed, no. Mr. Green. I. Mr. Vancoy. I. Mr. Warren. Hi. Mr. Pearlman. I. Mr. Rubenstein. I. All right. By a
motion is carried by a vote of five to zero. Uh and uh Bernard Green has been reelected chair of the select board for the ensuing year and will now take the chair. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Okay. Uh first order of business. Bernard, can you move your mic closer
now? Sorry. First order of business is to nominate and elect a vice chair. Do I have any uh nominations? Well, hold on. I nominate David
Pearlman. Sorry, I'm I'm not always smooth with these operations. I nominate David Pearlman. Uh any other nominations? Um I move approval of David Pearlman as vice chair of the select
board. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. Um gentlemen, I Paul Warren. I David Pearlman I Michael Rubenstein I and chair votes I I think that was a proper
way of doing it. I think so. Smooth as old. I have to distribute the Thank you. So, so I'd like to uh thank the select board for giving me the opportunity to serve you as chair for another year. And
welcome to the select board to Michael Rubenstein. We met over the weekend and had a very good discussion and I look forward to uh the contributions that he will make uh to the work of the select board for the town of Brooklyn. Uh we'll be facing many challenges local and
national in origin. Uh but we have we have the resources and the commitment to meet those challenges and we have many opportunities to do good things also for the benefit of the town and every resident and visitor of the town. So, thank you for uh for uh giving me this
opportunity to uh be chair and let's start our meeting unless anyone else has anything to say. Uh any announcements or updates from the select board? U Paul? Yep. Uh thank you Bernard and congratulations.
Uh and David as well. So, um, I want to, uh, remind people, I've made this announcement in the past, but this coming Sunday, May 18th, at 2:30, um, there'll be a tribute for Aaron Fury, uh, at Hunaman Hall, um, at the
Brookline Village uh, Library on Washington Street. Um Aaron uh is uh quite an amazing was a quite an amazing individual who's best known for paying his employees um after his mill um up in
Lawrence burnt uh to the ground frankly um and he uh paid them um throughout and paid their health insurance uh and he was uh one of a kind. So there'll be a a tribute for him. Uh Barney Frank will be uh present to speak at that uh at that
tribute. So, we're we're honored to have him uh have him present as well as our chair will be presenting a resolution. So, that's Sunday, May 18th at 2:30. Great. Thank you, Michael. Thank you very much and congratulations
on being elected the chair. Um, I would just like to recognize the dance department of the Brooklyn High School, um, which presented Progressions, a dance concert, uh, last week on May 8th and 9th and 10th. And I attended the
evening of Thursday, May 8th, and found the performance wonderful and invigorating and want to commend both the choreographers, the dancers, uh, as well as the technical crew. Thank you.
Uh David, also on May 18th at 1:00 is the Boston University commencement. We've each been invited to that. Uh it's going to be logistically challenging for us to go to both, but I am sure some of us will uh avail ourselves of that
opportunity. Okay. I'd like to um just uh announce that John and I attended the celebration of the life of Kitty Dakus. Um it was a very moving uh and personal celebration of a woman who uh in my opinion had a
huge impact on the world uh and the country separate from her husband. I her husband was inc is still an incredible uh u political uh person here in Brooklyn. Uh but Kitty Dak has also
played a huge role in his success and in um encourage him to do things such as bringing more women into state government that uh he may get most of the credit for but he but she was really uh the the the force behind that. Um so
we're really sorry to have lost Kitty Dakus. Um but it was really moving it really moving experience to participate in the celebration at the high school. John, um I just want to add to what our
excuse, excuse me, our chair just said, um one of the things that made it remarkable for me, I think for others, too, is um first of all, let's note that um the mayor of Boston was there um with her um uh child and um sat right near
where where Bernard and I were privileged to sit. Um the governor was there. um there were people from past years administrations at the state level. But the the point I wanted to um emphasize is there were a fair number of
people who were prominent um during let's call it the daucus years in state government and of course his um the banner year when he ran for president. Um quite a number of people there who had their roots in some sense at town
meeting. So there we were um in the same auditorium where town meeting will meet at the end of this month um rubbing elbows with folks who got their start at town meeting and then ended up either being in the case of Mike Dukakus a governor or in that governor's
administration or involved in a campaign of a presidential candidate at the national level. Um Brooklyn is is kind of special for that reason. Uh and um it was it was all observable um in in the auditorium the other day. Also um you
might imagine that there's a certain amount of security um concern when people of that prominence, governor, mayor Boston, etc. um you know appear in at an event in Brooklyn. And I think um it was handled very well by uh all
involved including excuse me the u the uh the memorial service that was organized by the Brezniaak firm David Brezniak being one of our uh Brookline products and a a
really good guy who I've known for decades literally and he was there and he his people did a terrific job of uh putting that helping to put that together with the Dukakus family. So, it was a good it was a good day. Yeah.
Uh Chaz, just quick couple announcements. Um one, uh tomorrow is the um police officer of the year award ceremony. Uh the 2024 police officer of the year is Detective Shanai Hattorii. Um and the 2024 life-saving award is going to officers Boris Fovic and Mark
Hetnik. I want to thank them all for their service. Also last year um because of um in his position we weren't able to celebrate Detective Daniel Lavilla who is the 2023 police officer of the year. So we'll be able to um celebrate that tomorrow at 11 at the public safety uh
building. So uh we look forward to that and congratulations uh to those officers and um um you really appreciate all of their work um for this community. Um, next week is uh National Public Works
Week. That's on Tuesday, May 20th from 12:30 to 5:00 PM at the Municipal Service Center, which is 870 Hammond Street. Uh, there will be an open house at the municipal service center. You'll be able to see um all the incredible things the public works department gets up to over there. Um, talking about
water supplies, sanitary sewers, um, parks and open space, urban forest, all the really interesting things. Um, it's a family-friendly event. Uh, we actually have members of the schools come in in the morning, uh, and then it's open to the public in the afternoon. So, it's a great event. We
love it. Um, really strongly encourage folks to come out. Rain or shine. Again, 12:30 to 5:00 open house at the municipal service center, 870 Hammond Street on Tuesday, May 20th. Yeah. Let me just add uh tomorrow we have expenditure and revenue committee
meeting. So, uh, a couple of the board members will not be able to attend the No. Yeah. event at the public uh safety building, but I urge other board members uh to attend. Uh it's really appreciated when select board members attend these
recognitions of uh town employees um particularly in the police department uh um who's been through some rough times and they they really appreciate when we come out and support them. So, and you said that's at 11 11 o'clock. Yes. At
the community room, public safety building. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Um, public comment. Tiffany, tell us the rules. Thank you for joining us for public comment. This is an opportunity for us to hear your perspective on the issues in Brookline
that matter to you. Each person speaking tonight is limited to 3 minutes. You don't need to use the entire time, but you may if you like. Once 15 minutes has been met, there's an opportunity at the conclusion of the select board's business for additional comments. Members of the public sometimes raise questions during public comment. We may
be able to provide a quick answer to a question, but are more likely to work with staff to get a more thorough answer and respond over email. The on-screen timer will flash orange when you have 30 seconds remaining and red when your time is nearly up. Please conclude your remarks at that time. If you have more to say, you're welcome to send an email
to board members expressing your thoughts in greater detail. Any person speaking must begin their comment by identifying themselves with their full name and either their Brookline precinct number or address. The first individual who signed up to speak tonight is Kathleen
Curtain. No. From here. Good evening. My name is Kathleen Burton and I live at 22 Shef Street and I'm the owner of the property there. It's a two family house. I'm here to speak tonight with you about the project that is um proposed for Heath
Chief Street and Hammet Street. It's a six-story building with an underground parking garage. And we have attended several Zoom meetings with the planning board. And there are some issues that we think are not being um handled correctly
as far as the neighborhood is concerned. Um first one is the drainage system that has been proposed for this. It's a drainage system that's going to be directly um next to my house and the house behind which is 557 Heath Street.
The regulation is that it's to be 10 feet from the property line. They want a variance to make it five feet from the property line. And it's very um dangerous for our houses because I have 105y old house with a stone in
cement basement. I do not get water in my basement regularly on a regular basis just in extreme instances. I think twice in the last 40 years. And this uh drainage system might cause my cellar to flood all the time. And the same thing
with 557 Heat Street that's owned by Mrs. Crowley. Um we want the the regulation not to to be enforced at least the way it is. We would like the um the drainage system move to some other location away from our properties
so that we won't face flooding of sellers every time there's an extreme rainstorm. The second issue I'd like to bring up is they want a variance on the location of the entrance to the garage. It's supposed to be 20 ft from the property
line. They want it to be 16 ft from the property line, which would be 1 ft in from the edge of the building. They're going to have a noise maker at the entrance to the garage every time a car goes in or out. This would be right next
to my house and would be 24/7 and my house is not soundproof. It was built in 1920, but it's an excellent house, but I don't want to listen to that all the time. The regulation is 20 ft from the property line and it should
be enforced and no variance given. They also want a parking um set aside 20 feet from the entrance to their garage, which would mean that it would be 15 ft in front of my house, eliminating all
parking in front of my house. I have a right to have guests. I have a right to have workmen come and and do, you know, plumbers and electricians and so forth. I have two tenants who need to move their cars around because they have to park one behind the other and they need to have a place to put their cars. You
can't set that up as a permanent no parking zone just to accommodate this this uh project. It's unfair to the neighborhood. All of these things are unfair to the neighborhood. And the most egregious thing is they have that concludes your time. They have refused
to do a study of the hazardous way site on their property which is the um central cleaners. It's Thank you. That concludes your time. Thank you very much. The next speaker is Janice Khan. Good evening, Janice Khan, town meeting
member, precinct 15. And I'm going to pick up actually where Kathleen ended. Um, so thank you for this opportunity to talk to you. So, the neighborhood residents in close proximity to the Chief Heath Hammond Street proposed 40B
um project continue to be concerned about the environmental health concerns raised by demolition and blasting at the site of both an auto body um shop and the central cleaners. The dry cleaners has been at 621 Hammond Street for over
60 years. and the dry cleaners for the vast majority of those years used solvents such as perloethylene perk. Um during that time the developers in their phase 1 and phase 2 initial environmental site
assessment specifically excluded the dry cleaners location despite already having control of that site. in reviewing the initial project eligibility application to the mass housing partnership um which is a funding source in appendix one
which is a checklist for the attachments it shows that all of the required attachments were included but under additional attachments if applicable 2.h H which is environmental sight assessment was not checked despite
saying in the narrative that the project includes two foreign three family homes described as dilapidated but what but which are in fact affordable housing rental units in the neighborhood and an auto body shop and a dry cleaner.
Despite urgings to the developer by the chair of the ZBA panel reviewing this 40B project to do the environmental assessment during the public process, the developer is continuing to insist on receiving the comprehensive permit first and then doing the environmental
assessment um at that potentially toxic site. Residents of the area are legitimately concerned about the potential public health issues that may be raised during demolition and blasting at that project site. They're also concerned that once the comprehensive permit is issued that the public process
will have ended and they will have no more voice in what's found during the construction process. Um I have been impressed by this ZBA panel. The ZBA's conditions are thorough a thorough attempt at being responsive to the
resident's concerns, but the comprehensive permit will still leave many unanswered questions even beyond the con environmental concerns such as the draining which was just mentioned to a butter. And I I really urge that um
the town officials and department heads um all who have been watching this closely really urge that this comprehensive permit be delayed pending further analysis. Thank you very much. Thank you. The next speaker is Jonathan
Golden. After Jonathan will be Nina Crowley. Thank you. Jonathan Golden, town meeting member, precinct 11, longtime listener, first- time caller. I want to congratulate uh Chair Green on his re-election, the vice chair, David Prman, on become the vice chair, and
certainly to welcome Michael to the select board. Tonight, I'd like to speak to three prominent issues, important issues in last week's local election that are crucial to the future of Brooklyn. The good news is that I'm confident that all of us in this room are committed to addressing all three
issues. These issues are commercial development, fiscal accountability, and voter turnout. I was so pleased to hear how all three candidates for select board spoke directly for the need for more commercial development in Brooklyn, an absolute necessity to address the
structural deficit in our town. I appreciate the cooperation of the town administrator, select board, and other key stakeholders on commercial development to date. Moving forward, please count on me to be a partner and ally in any way that I can. In terms of fiscal accountability, this was a major
theme of the school committee race. Six years ago, this community worked together to build a new Driscoll school. As a Driscoll parent, I am forever grateful. The new Driscoll school override vote meant the fiscal responsibility to add sections to Driscoll and build capacity to the
system as a whole. Driscoll has added capacity to the system as a whole by having four beep classrooms, one special ed beep classroom, and the pilot middle school winter house program. This is why I was saddened to learn about the Driscoll vice principal reduction and I will address this issue at the school
committee meeting on Thursday in public comment. But I'm incredibly grateful for the good work of the town school partnership to meet the needs of both school and town. Whatever the solution is to this vice principal question. Let us not let a $130,000 position impact the growth of the Driscoll school
population and all the programs housed there. Finally, I am guessing that many in this room saw a robust online discussion about voter turnout. If you read the comments, you you come away with the following conclusions. Too many voters don't know who we are, don't know who the members
of the select board are, town meeting members, etc. And I would say that's on us as leaders, not on them as voters. Too many voters feel that they do not have access to the information that they need to make choices in voting. Again, I would say that is on us, on leaders, not them. Many voters express they do not
believe that leaders have taken meaningful action that priorities important to them. I want to explore that idea forward and understand what's our responsibility as leaders, not what they're missing as voters. While some in town will offer a poetic and thoughtful case for the status quo, all of us as
current leaders have new realities to face. What can we do together to expand commercial development, uphold fiscal accountability, and increase voter turnout? I think there are many possibilities and I hope we will cooperate together to explore those possibilities. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Next is Nina Crowley. Hi, my name is Nina Crowley. I own 557 History. Speak into the microphone, please. My name is Nina Crowley. I own 557 History Street. is the building very next to the proposed project. So
following on the previous two neighbors um comments, I have additional comments you want to make. And the ZBA goes through this hearing process. But it looks it seems to me the ZBA when they
uh drafting the decision uh document did not put neighbors concerns into consideration. For example, uh in the decision draft, the ZBA
already put uh environmental site assessment study as a condition for building permit which we have not arrived to that position. uh that point during the order hearing because all
what I heard is ask developer to do the uh environmental site study before the comprehensive permit issued. Now all of a sudden in in front of us this become a condition which took the public and the
board out of the oversight join the process. Uh so that is not okay with neighborhood because with this highly potential highly polluted land neighborhood have a right to know what's
the pollution level is is that suitable for residential building and this has to be known before comprehensive permit to be issued and this is also required the document at the beginning of the application which is oversight by the
state agency. and al also oversight by uh the the town uh officials when they review the application. Um number two ZBA the project
uh number two for storm water system and this require uh the variance and uh uh the neighborhood have our own consultant geotechnical consultant made a recommendation to move the system away
from the neighbors building but it doesn't looks like ZBA is taking any of our consultant uh recommendations um to consider this and the developer does
have enough land to put a storm water system somewhere else not right next to our building and also have to you know ask for variance. Um this going to flood our system. The most importantly they
put this in the condition letter says this is the existing condition which is not true. So they shielding the developers liability future liability for a building uh future flooding. Uh
this is not correct. So that is what I have problem with. Thank you for your listening. And that concludes the time for public comment at the beginning of the meeting. Pardon me, Tiff. Uh Tiffany, that's all
for public comment at the beginning of the meeting. Okay. Um Okay. Thank you for those comments and and we will I'll follow up on Zoom to you just make sure that things are done properly. Um next miscellaneous items.
I'd like to start off with uh minutes from April 29, 2025. Does anyone have corrections or additions to the minutes? No, I'm sorry. This is just a small correction. I believe there's a reference to the word units that should
be unite. Okay. Okay. Good. Thank you. Okay. With that amendment to the minutes, I move approval of the minutes for uh April 29, 2025. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. John Vancoyak. Hi Paul Warren. Hi. Uh David
Pearlman. Hi. Uh Michael Rubenstein. Hi. Chair votes I. Okay. Next. Um I'd like to separately vote items 4B and 4 C. Item 4B which Jazz did uh talked about
briefly is a proclamation recognizing May 18 through May 24 as National Public Works Week in Brooklyn. There are a number of programs and events to help people understand the work of the uh uh Department of Public
Works, including tomorrow on Zoom uh an evening with the commissioner and her team, which gives everyone an opportunity to talk to and ask questions of the commissioner and learn a little bit about DPW and all the things that they do. Um many of which people have no
clue um that that happens. um unless they are the the victims of flooding or other uh type of problem that DPW steps in and helps with. Um you can find other events on the landing page of the town's website, including the annual open house
on May 20th, uh where children from age 5 to 95 can enjoy inspecting and climbing on trucks and other equipment used by DPW. It's just a very interesting uh afternoon. Um, and there are other events uh that uh you can uh
see on on on that page. So, item 4C is a proclamation recognizing May 31st as Arbor Day in Brooklyn. The proclamation recognizes the importance of Arbor Day uh and is a
key component of maintaining the town's designation as a tree city USA which is a designation uh bestowed by the National Arbor Day Foundation and the town has held this status for over three
decades. So um those are the two proclamations that uh I think are very u significant and important. Any other uh thoughts from the select board on on those or anything? David, just have a question regarding the selection of May
31st for the town's Arbor Day. There's a national Arbor Day that's April 25th, and I'm just curious about how this date was selected. I don't know the history of that, but I will get back to you. That's an interesting question. Okay, Commissioner Shoot is actually online as well. I see Commissioner Shoot is on.
Evening. Yes, Erin Chute, Commissioner of Public Works. Thank you for for that question. Um we are really proud to be a Tree City USA um community for over three decades. Um the date that we have selected is May 31st um in Brooklyn and
aligns with Springfest. So we're having a um celebration at Olmstead Park celebrating um really we have various educational um activities opportunities. uh we're we're going to host a tree identification walk and have some
special activities to celebrate the importance of value of trees. So, we thought it was a really great opportunity to have something um meaningful for the community to come out to and um participate in. Thank you. That uh sufficient for you?
Yes. Okay. Great. Uh Paul, I had a quick question uh before we go to the omnibus vote. I I do have two questions about a question about 4K and 4 I. We hold on those and I just want to vote on these two items. Sorry move to the others. So
unless there are any other questions or comments. I'd like to move approval of items 4 B and 4 C. Uh the proclamation for DPW and Arbor Day. All in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vansoyak. I Paul Warren. Hi. David
Croman. I. Michael uh Rubenstein I and chair votes I uh okay next I'd like to take items 4D uh to 4T in omnibus fashion unless a board member like uh Mr. Warren uh would like to take an item out to discuss separately. Uh I'd like
to note that items 4 P to 4T are one-day licenses that do not require a hearing, just a vote of the select board. So um Paul, yeah, just a quick question. Um, I notice that that 4K is the office of diversity, equity, inclusion, community
relations. 4 I is the select board. U 30,000 plus being moved from professional services to uh looks like meals or um is that for a conference? I'm just curious what's going on. Sure. For um ODICR um there was uh it's for
programming events. Uh in this case it's for AP AAPI Heritage Month which just happened and looking forward towards Junth. It's making sure that money is in the right accounts to fund those things. On the select board front, it's to cover the cost of public service recognition week, which just happened last week. Um, so we're moving money into those
accounts to make sure that we have enough to cover it as you hit the end of the count, the end of the fiscal year. And I'm just curious from the budgeting process, Jess. So, were we expecting professional services to help with that and then we decided to do it ourselves or is it just we we found that bucket was light and we needed to move money
over? That's where the extra money is this year. It's it's opportunistic. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. Um, with that, I'd like to move approval of items 4B to 4T. Uh, all in favor, please indicate by saying I. John
Vascoyak. I, uh, Paul Warren. I, David Froman, I, Michael Rubenstein, I. And chair votes I. Okay. Next, our main calendar. Uh starting off the CDBG 5-year consolidated plan is put off until we
figure out what's happening at the federal government in terms of um you know funding uh uh programs. Uh so we'll go to boards and commissions and uh appointments. Uh first we have the uh question of appointing one of the
following candidates to the Brookline Housing Authority. Um, and those candidates are Erica Pereibba, Arlene Hill, and Karen Rojas. Uh, Tiffany presented or prepared a very useful memorandum on the three candidates and
the interviews that we uh held a couple weeks ago. Um, and and her u memo included links to the actual videos of our uh interviews, which I understand all select board members reviewed. And
um hopefully we have a good understanding of of who would make the best candidate for this position. Um any uh discussion this Yeah. Paul I just you know I want to say that um having sat through each of the
candidate interviews and also I really appreciated you putting this summary together was helpful to rewatch them. Um it's a tough choice. There's three great candidates with different perspectives and experiences. Um so you know where we land um is really not a statement of the
others that don't get appointed but they're all really very capable individuals. Uh thank you. That's a very important point and I hope that you with that you with with that uh the all the candidates
continue uh working with BHA and and working in the town on behalf of BHA residents and other residents of our town. So because I agree um all three were quite u extraordinary
applicants. Any further discussion? Okay. Uh John is the appropriate procedure to take u nominations or what do you think is the best? Well, we have three nominations already and uh what I was going to
suggest is that I go person by person to ind and and people indicate who they'd like to select and we'll just see who who comes out on top. Excellent. Okay. Unless someone has a different uh procedure. I think that's the procedure we followed
in the Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, so, uh, between Erica Pereibba, Arlene Hill, and Karen Rohos, um, John Vancoyak. Um, I would like to, um, cast a vote in favor of Erica Pereibba. But again, as others have
said, the other two candidates, you couldn't ask for better candidates. Okay. But, uh, Erica Pereibba, I think, uh, looks like a really good choice right now. Okay. Uh Paul Warren. Uh Karen Patina mean Karen Roas. Rojos, I'm
sorry. Patina Roas, sorry. Thank you. Okay. Uh David Pearlman would also go with Erica Perea. Okay. Uh Michael say um I would vote for uh Karen Roas.
And um my vote is for Karen Rojos also. Good. Okay. So, um and we will u uh notify all the candidates in the next few days. Do you
want to do a second vote to actually vote for her? Um instead of individually, usually we'll do the individual cast and then we'll say question of approving Karen Patino Roas and then give everyone the chance to vote. What would we do without you? What
would I do without you? Okay. Um, so I I move that we approve uh Karen Rojos as the uh u person to be appointed to the Brooklyn Housing Authority Board of Trustees. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. Is
that good? Okay. Um, John Vancoyak I. Paul Warren. I. David Pearlman. I. Michael Rubenstein. I. Chair votes I. Okay. Okay. Next. Uh and and you we uh Tiffany, you'll prepare a notification
to the the three candidates and and um I think uh the housing authority will set up their own procedure for swearing her in. Yes. Okay. Next question of appointed Priya Gandir to the conservation commission
gandier I'm sorry to the conservation commission. Uh any uh comments or questions about that nomination? I think we're fortunate to have her. Yes. Agree. So all in favor, please indicate by saying I. John Vancoyak. I. Paul Warren.
I. Uh David Pearlman. I. Michael Rubenstein. I. Chair votes I. Next question of appointing Elizabeth Strier to the Brooklyn Commission on Disability. Uh any questions or comments? again a good good applicant
and we're very fortunate to be able to appoint her to the commission in my opinion. Um so I move approval of Elizabeth Strier to the Brookline Commission on Disability. All in favor please indicate by saying I. John Benoyak I Paul Warren I David Pearlman I
Michael Rubenstein I chair I have to get used to this new order and you're going to call on Michael Sammon. Yeah. Right now you put that on anyway. Okay. Uh next we have an executive session. So I'd like to we're
going into executive session to address uh an issue of um litigation and uh negotiations. Uh I move that the select board go into executive session for the purpose of discussing strategy related to bargaining with union employees and a
litigation matter. Bargaining with union employees and litigation must be discussed in executive session because an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigation position of the town and the chair so declares that an executive session to be
therefore necessary. Uh all in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vanscoy I. Paul Warren I. Uh David Pearlman I. Michael Rubenstein I. And chair votes I. We will return to open session after our executive session um
meeting which is scheduled for about 7:15. I can't guarantee that, but we will try. Check. Check. check. Check. Check. Check. And we're back in five, four, 3, two,
one. Okay, this is the the continuation of the select board meeting following our executive session. Uh, next item on the agenda is uh warrant article reviews. Uh starting off with a review of
um article two, approval of collective bargaining agreements and we uh we have to recons reopen that. Right. Right. And um I move uh approval of reconsideration. All in favor of Warren
article two approval of collective bargaining agreements. All in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vascoyak I. Paul Warren I. David Pearlman. Hi. Michael Rubenstein. Hi. Chair votes. I guess we announced that uh that we agreed to the settlement that
was reached with the teamsters uh and uh three ask me locals um for a 2% increase for a one-year period uh retroactive to July 1st,
2024. and that will be the um collective bargaining agreement that we will uh approve in warrant article two. So I move favorable action on warrant article two with those collective bargaining agreement details included. All in favor
John Vancoyak I uh Paul Warren I uh David Pearlman I Michael Rubenstein I and chair both. Melissa did I get that right? Okay. Yes, you did. Yes, you you didn't even need me for that one. Pardon me.
You didn't even need me for that one. Yeah. Okay. But but you're usually in very very um critical to get these things right. Okay. Um next warrant article 26 for reconsideration. This relates to
prohibiting um the imposition of broker's fees uh on tenants and and rental uh housing. And um the changes uh uh provided or coming from advisory committee really are minor changes just
to make it a little more coherent uh and to I think uh correct the scriveners error um in the recital. Is that is that correct uh Melissa? Yeah, the uh the board didn't have the advisory committee language at the time of the vote. So now
that you do, um I I think at the moderator's urging, he's looking for um one motion to deal with. And so uh as long as the board feels comfortable with the advisory committee motion, um that would be the recommendation. If you go if you are on the combined reports, um
you can find the advisory committee motion starting on page 26-11. Um so that you can see the language there. Okay. Okay. Um any questions? I mean I
have the language. Yeah. It's actually very simple changes, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I move reconsideration of warrant article 26 with respect to broker's fees. All in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vancoyak. I. Paul Warren. Hi. Uh David Pearlman. I.
Michael Rubenstein. I. and chair votes eye. Um, so we're re we've reconsidered uh I move approval of warrant article 26 as amended by the advisory committee to make uh some minor changes to uh
eliminate some confusion with respect to the legislative proposals that refers to uh and other uh changes correcting scriveners era. Um all in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vancoyak I
Paul Warren I uh David Pearlman I Michael Rubenstein I and chair votes I finally um Warren article nine annual budget appropriations article so Melissa tell us what we're doing here so when we last
voted on the budget I uh reminded you that I was still looking to get information from the school department around the group health savings that they were capturing from some of the staffing changes that they made. Um, I received that information on Thursday from Susan. I've gone ahead and validated that against what we had
budgeted uh for the group health budget. And so the adjustments that you see in front of you are essentially uh making the reductions in the group health budget and then redirecting that to the school department appropriation. Um, and you have the draft budget tables as part of your packet as well. I will say that
there are a couple of other changes that I'm hoping to get information on in time for the budget motion on Monday is the deadline for any motion related to the budget. Um so we might have one additional tweak. If not, we'll have to deal with it in the fall. Okay. Do we need So it sounds like we
need to reconsider our previous vote and vote the uh article 9 as amended and the additional changes that we'll just have to deal with in the fall. Huh. Well, I'm hoping come back and reconsider again. Pardon me. If I can get it this week,
we'll get it in your packet and then you'll have you'll vote next Tuesday. I I suspect that there are other budget related items you'll be voting on Tuesday anyway. Okay. Okay. Um so, uh I move reconsideration of Warren Article 9 which we will reconsider again
uh in the future. So, all in favor of reconsideration, please indicate by saying I. John Vancoy. I Paul Warren. Hi. David Pearlman. Hi. Michael Rubenstein. I chair votes I. Uh so I now move approval of warrant article 9 as
amended by uh the as Melissa uh indicated uh to make the changes with respect to the school budget. Uh all in favor please indicate by saying I. John Vancoyak I. Paul Warren I. David Pearlman I. Michael Rubenstein I. Chair
votes I. Thank you. Okay. And that is the final item on the agenda at 7:10 p.m. My god, isn't that great? Any public comment? Yes. Any public
comment? Please. Not even you, Regina. Somebody. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, uh with that, uh I will end the meeting. Thank you.