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Hey, hey, hey. Good evening everyone. Welcome to tonight's select board meeting. It is June 2nd, 2026 and first up on our agenda will be announcements and updates. Does anyone

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have any announcements or updates? >> Amanda. Um, so a couple of upcoming events just to note. Uh, this weekend is the Coolage Corner Arts Festival. Uh, on Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in

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the Babcock Street parking lot. Uh, lots of cool arts and crafts booths and food trucks and a beer and wine garden. So check it out. Um, the second announcement I have is that the town of Brooklyn Junth celebration is Friday,

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June 19th from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Cypress Field at Brooklyn High School. Um, a lot of community culture, music, food, performances, youth activities, and more. Um, so check that out as well. Um,

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the last thing I wanted to update is that this begins Pride Month. I can read this afterwards, but um there are a lot of events around town celebrating Pride. Um and especially encourage everyone to check out our Brooklyn Public Libraries

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who have a list of events throughout the month um that you should check out. Um and do you want me to read this now or later? >> Go ahead. >> Uh so I have a proclamation from the select board uh of the town of Brooklyn. Whereas the town of Brooklyn has a

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diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community and is committed to supporting visibility, dignity, and equity for all people in the community. And whereas many of the residents, students, town employees, and business owners within the town of Brooklyn who contribute to

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the enrichment of our town are part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community. And whereas various advancements have been made with respect to equitable treatment of lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning persons throughout the nation, but there

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continues to be discrimination against people from this community and around the world, making it important for municipalities like Brooklyn to stand up and show support for our residents who are affected. And whereas several cities across the United States recognize and

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celebrate June as LGBTQ Pride Month, and whereas June has become a symbolic month in which lesbians, gay men, bisexual people, transgender, and questioning persons, and supporters come together in various celebrations of pride. And whereas the rainbow flag, also known as

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the LGBTQ pride flag or gay pride flag, has been used since the 1970s as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. um and questioning individuals. Now, therefore, the select board of the town of Brooklyn, Massachusetts, does her

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hereby proclaim the month of June as LGBTQ Pride Month in the town of Brooklyn and invites everyone to reflect on the ways in which we can all live and work together with a commitment to mutual respect and understanding. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Any

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announcements or updates? All right, seeing none, we will move on to public comment. Melanie, if you'd like to review 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

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person speaking tonight is limited to three 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

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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

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you have more to say, you're more than welcome to send an email to board members expressing your thoughts in greater detail. Any person wishing to speak must begin their comment by identifying themselves with their full name, either their Brooklyn precinct number or street address, and a specific topic on which they wish to speak. The

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board encourages but does not require that remote users turn their video on when commenting. And we have Neil Gordon first. >> All right, up to the microphone. >> Thank you. Good evening. Neil Gordon, precinct one town meeting member and a

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member of the advisory committee. As you're of course aware, Brookline's annual town meeting commenced one week ago and after three evening sessions dissolved last Thursday. As you're also aware, town meeting is but the exclamation point at the end of a monthslong process. There are meetings,

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public hearings, and then more meetings. The compendium of that work, the so-called combined reports, expresses primarily the analysis, reasoning, and recommendations of the advisory committee and independently the select board. But the combined reports also

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include recommendations of other town bodies, both appointed and elected. It's those recommendations that bring me here this evening. A bit about process first. The warrant for our annual town meeting closed in February. For the benefit of

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the public, let's understand what the warrant is and what it's not. The warrant is a warning posted in every Brookline precinct that sets the agenda and limits the scope of town meeting. Within that scope, what's voted at town

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meeting is often substantially different from what's printed in the warrant. On every warrant article, the advisory committee and the select board hold a bylawmandated public hearing. Not so for a handful of other boards, committees, and commissions which made

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recommendations while ignoring the public's right to be heard. The advisory committee and the select board considered not just the article was printed in the warrant, not just the subject matter generally, and surely not just the article's title. We, the select

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board and the advisory committee considered the actual motions, the actual words and yes, the actual punctuation that were voted at town meeting. Not so for some other town bodies. Their submissions to the combined reports are generally silent on

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what version of warrant articles they considered. They stated support, but support of what? Did they support the concept or a specific appro proposal as voted by town meeting? We can't know if they'd have supported the actual town

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meeting motion, the actual words, the actual black letter meaning of those words. The advisory committee and the select board shepherd changes through to the end. Not so for some other town bodies. for the boards, committees, and commissions over which you do have

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authority. I urge you to urge them to do better. Thank you. Anyone else? >> There's no one online. >> All right. See nobody in the room who would like to participate in public comment. There's no one online. So, with that, we will move on to miscellaneous

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approval of miscellaneous items, licenses, and contracts. But first, I will move approval of the meeting minutes of April 28th, May 26th, and May 27th. Were there any amendments to the minutes?

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>> We made uh recirculated those uh or did we did we >> reposted them? >> Yes. So, we reposted with and have made the edits that you suggested and that I suggested. >> All right. So, I then move approval of the minutes for April 28th, May 26th,

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and May 27th as amended by Michael and the town administrator. >> Yes. >> Michael, >> yes. >> Amanda, >> yes. >> Anthony, >> yes. >> And I also vote yes. With that, we will

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take up an omnibus fashion. items 3B through 3F, unless somebody would like one of those items to be pulled out. >> I just have a question about one of them. I don't know if you want to pull it out or not. Um 3F, I noticed that a

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lot of the moving appropriations around are related to salary and I'm wondering if those are roles that we have not yet filled within those those departments or why there is this excess pool of money that we can rearrange. >> Yes. So those are salary savings, right?

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Either a position was unfilled at the start of the year or the end of the year and or at some point during the year and as a result we have money available. Um it's not uncommon to have salary savings and DPW is a large department. Um I will say that we are you know we do see a

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number of vacancies at DPW currently that we are eager to correct for. It's one of those conversations we had at town meeting about why we're prioritizing negotiations with ASME in particular. Um, and so we're we fortunate that we have the money available, but we also want those

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positions filled. So it's not uncommon to see that number at the end of the year. >> And if someone might be interested in applying for one of those positions, how might they find that information? >> Great question. They can go to brooklinma.gov uh and um or they can um come into the

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um human resources department on the second floor of town hall. Um we are always happy during working hours to um have those conversations. Um if you go to our web page and go to um uh government, you can also click on um get

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involved and it will show you how to apply for the variety of open positions that are available. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other questions regarding the miscellaneous items? All right, seeing none, I move approval

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of items 3B through 3F. >> Bernard, >> yes. >> Michael, >> yes. >> Amanda, >> yes. >> Anthony, >> yes. >> And I also vote yes. And with that, we will now move to item number five, reserve fund transfer request. question

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of approving a reserve fund transfer from the DPW commissioner in the amount of 2,68,11069. Uh so I see here that there's a a list of various accounts and switches. Is this a similar explanation to 3F? >> So this is just these are all it's it's

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coming um right it's coming into the uh coming out of the reserve fund and into all of these different accounts. Yes. Ultimately >> snow and ice accounts. >> Yeah. These are these are predom these are for snow and ice different things for snow and ice. Yes. But Erin shoot our commissioners online can explain in more detail. >> So Chaz, I actually have to take this

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one with Kevin tonight because Aaron has the pleasure of going to her son's prom. >> That's right. >> Um Commissioner Shoot is uh is out for the night. So um Charlie Young, assistant town administrator for finance, and I'm joined with by uh Kevin Johnson, our deputy commissioner for operations, who can answer operations

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questions for us. Um, yes. So, we're looking for a $2 million reserve fund transfer uh to plug the hole in our snow and ice um account, which is an account, it's the only account rather that we're allowed to deficit spend out of once the uh the town administrator gives authorization in the middle of the

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winter. The budget for the snow and ice um for this or the snow and ice budget rather um contains just enough money to get the operation readied and get through say one snow event. um and that's what it's budgeted at annually and that's standard practice among other

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municipalities. So we we regularly expect this um this is a rather large reserve fund transfer. It's I think the largest we've had in some years, but we also had a sort of outlier winter. Um and so uh it was it was a heavy winter and and that that's reflected in the

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request. So um Kevin, if you want to add anything at all. >> No. Um you you you summed it up pretty good. Obviously, I would just like to add that um as Charlie said, we had a a real New England winter this year. Uh we

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exceeded we almost got up to 60 in 59.2 inches of snow this year. We had two major events uh one 20 almost 22 ines another one 16.5 inches of snow uh that we received and we did attend 19 we call

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them events but we had 19 weather events that we had to deploy either trucks to salt sand um or plow um and we had to bring in the contractors for four of those 19 events for these large events.

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So, and and this year, one of the issu um contributing factors was we needed to haul snow out of the business areas and and some of the um residential streets because of the amount of snow banks we had and and when you get into snow

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hauling for two or three nights at a time, it does uh that's where the cost comes in as well. >> All right. Thank you, Bernard. >> We're happy to take any questions. Where do you haul the snow to, by the way? >> We haul it up to the transfer station.

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We call it our snow dump. There's a large area that um is paved now. It's it's on top of the cap landfill uh at the transfer station. >> Anthony, uh two questions. First, um how much of the snow removal is done by

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contract work and how much is done by DPW highway full staff? uh the DPW uh in the during the contract uh during the snow removal, we are operating the the the big snow equipment. We have uh laborers

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on the ground and and doing the plowing and the sanding behind the removal. 90% of the uh the contractor comes in with all the trucks to haul the snow. They um so

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they'll come in with 15 to 25 trucks a night to haul the snow so we can load them and get them out. Um so they come with that and then we probably have four or five loader contractors also cleaning up behind. But it's a it's not primarily

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contractors, but it's the trucks that we don't have to haul the snow. >> Got it. So it's it's our guys driving the trucks. Is that what you're saying? No, it's not our guys driving the truck. It's uh subcontractors that are driving the truck. It's truck uh owner operators

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that we bring in to haul the for the night. >> Got it. And then my my second question is, has there been any thought um if there's a benefit to stockpiling equipment prior to winter months um and trying to plan for that in the budget

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>> there? No, there hasn't been any um discussion in the past for this. Um obviously it'd be a large um budget item to to uh reserve either trucks or a large equipment just for the in case we

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needed it. Um that's something I can look into, but it's something we haven't done in the past. What we do, what we normally do is we do reserve uh one or two uh one loader and sometimes a dozer in the um municipal service yard to to

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help with um when we get salt deliveries. We needed those that we need that extra equipment. >> Gotcha. Gotcha. >> Michael, >> and just one other procedural question. Um I notice this is a reserve fund transfer, so I'm presuming that the advisory committee also has to approve

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this. >> Correct. Do we approve first and then they do? >> That's right. The advisory committee I believe is meeting next week on this >> tonight. >> Tonight, it's actually tonight at 6:30. Um, but yes, the select board essentially conveys the request to advisory. >> Thank you. One other question I have in

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reviewing the memo, there's mention about sidewalk uh accessibility, about what percentage of the expenditure goes toward ensuring that our sidewalks are safe and would these be public sidewalks only presumably?

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>> Um, obviously we we have the uh we have our routes that we have to do each year. I didn't break it down by that, but um the inspectional part of it is is uh mostly done on on regular time. It's not

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usually done on overtime. So there's not much cost to the inspectional part of it. It's just um um time that we that we use throughout the winter. Um but as far as we do use some percentage of the

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hours and the money goes towards uh um Bobcats that we clear the intersections and the handicap ramps along the business areas, you know, Washington, Harvard, Beacon, um Center Street, Winchester, where the elderly population

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are high and around some of the religious uh organizations. >> All right. Thank you. Any further questions, comments? All right, seeing none, I move approval of the reserve fund transfer request

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from the DPW Commissioner in the amount of 2,68,1069. >> Yes. >> Michael, >> yes. >> Amanda, >> yes. >> Anthony, >> yes. >> And I also vote yes. So with that, we will now move to Chestnut Hill West

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Memorandum of Agreement. >> Question executing. Thank you. question of executing the memorandum of agreement between the town of Brooklyn and city realy upon passage of STM articles 1 and two at town meeting which happened just last week.

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So who would like to lead this discussion? Michael. >> Um sure. Um thank you. Thank you very much David. Um and uh on behalf of myself and the rest of the select board,

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I would like to thank t to thank all of the legislative body for uh their consideration of these warrant articles um as well as our uh uh partners uh city realy uh in terms of negotiating and engaging in uh this contract with us.

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Um, I think uh this is obviously uh a very big deal uh for the town of Brooklyn, something that has been on our plates for over two decades. Um, and the fact that in addition to this opportunity, it serves as a model for

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future opportunities both within this area and across town um is a uh very exciting prospect for the town of Brookline. I'll leave it at that. All right. Anyone else? May >> I just ask a process question? So, we

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approved the MOU and then what? >> Um, go ahead. >> Oh, um, so, uh, theou, uh, goes into, uh, get will get registered as part of the registry of title, um, for the four parcels that

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city realy owns that are covered by this memorandum of agreement. um that will occur after the attorney general approves um the uh the changes in zoning um that were uh voted on at town meeting. Um that is the last step in

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what is defined in the memorandum of agreement as the town approval >> meeting approval. >> Yes, town meeting approval conditions. Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. And um

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uh then that then the memorandum of agreement goes into goes into effect >> and it applies to any subsequent owner of the property. >> That is that is the consequence of registering it with title. Um, and incorporated within the memorandum of

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agreement is the process for also registering the 95-year tax certainty agreement, registry of title at the point of the first certificate of occupancy. >> Yes. >> That is granted for any uh building on

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the site. >> All right. So, with that, are we now publicly signing? >> Yes. So, you've got the document down on the official desk down there. Everyone can walk down and sign it. Uh Melanie is going to take pictures, but we'd like to invite up our guests um from >> a better suit

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>> uh from from elsewhere. Um I see some dignitaries uh including from city realy uh from the um citizens committee uh and the from the advisory committee. I also want to acknowledge the team from the planning department who couldn't be here

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unfortunately but who played such an instrumental role in this. Meredith Mooney, our economic development director, and Cara Brutin, our our director of planning and community development. But I want to thank everyone who is here and thank everyone who wasn't able to make it. Uh, and we'll have the select board sign, and then everyone can take a picture around

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the uh around the table and we'll uh do it that way. So, come on up, down, I guess. Board members and guests come stand around the table here. We have the board in the center and maybe

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one side here. volunteers here. Well, you're in a signing mood. If anyone else wants to sign Yes. >> Sure. Absolutely. I mean, David David says I'm sure David is not going to

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object. >> Sure. Go ahead. Uh >> Dennis Dowy, town meeting member, precinct 3, chair of the advisory committee. I just wanted to thank Michael Rubenstein for all the work that he did in presenting to uh both my precinct but also innumerable

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discussions with our committee to bring us up to speed on this particular uh project because it was an enormous amount of work and it was very appreciated. >> Thank you. In addition to those precinct by precinct presentations Michael gave, he

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also put together a website that included an FAQ that was dynamic and responsive to additional questions that came in after the initial batch. And that was also an incredibly helpful resource. So, thank you for putting that together. >> Thank you.

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>> All right. So, with that, we will now move to boards and commissions interviews. Conservation Commission interview Kelly Brilliant. All right, welcome. Uh, so if you would like to tell us a bit about yourself and

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why you are applying for this particular commission of conservation, uh, your background, your experience, anything you'd like, and then we'll have some questions for you after. Great. Um, so my name is Kelly Brilliant and I am the, uh, co-executive director of the

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Fenway Alliance um, in Boston, which is a consortium of 22 major cultural and academic institutions in the Fenway. Uh, we encompass some of the larger ones, the MFA, the BSO, Northeastern University. Um but and in that role I

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have been working on the muddy um river restoration project for over 25 years now and serve on the uh in my role as director of the Fenway Alliance. I serve on the um secretar's um mock committee,

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the muddy river maintenance and management oversight committee and I've been on that committee for uh I think approximately 24 years. Um that committee has worked diligently to ma oversee um the muddy river um to make

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sure the maintenance is done correctly by the city of Boston, town of Brooklyn and DCR um and to also manage you know and review contracts for the muddy river project. So that's the largest environmental um piece in my role as

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Fenway Alliance director that I work on. But when I was approached by um parks and the parks department here in Brooklyn to potentially consider serving on the conservation commission, it really intrigued me because I'm a resident of Brooklyn and yet I don't

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really have any civic role here. I have lots of civic roles in Boston. So to be in a civic environmental capacity in Brooklyn is a thing that's really close to my heart as a resident and a way to potentially give back to the town that I

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really love and the green spaces here that I really um appreciate. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions? >> Bernard. >> Yeah. as in your civic roles in both Boston

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and Brooklyn, do you talk to us about how you can help the two communities work together maybe a little better on the Muddy River? >> Um, that's a great question. Um, I have a lot of um dealings now with the Boston

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um parks department. Um, so we work with Kathy Eclipse and we'll be working with the new um director of parks very soon. But because of my role as director at the Fenway Alliance, we work on the tree maintenance of the whole entirety of Huntington Avenue for instance. So I

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work with parks department there. We work on programming Edgerly Plaza. So I feel like I can bring some of the close relationships I have with many of the players at the parks department into potentially any ways that could serve

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and benefit Brooklyn. Um, these are long established relationships I've had with people at parks and I really appreciate that. And I know um, for instance, Aaron uh, Chute and Jack Schlifer from here from town of Brooklyn through my work with the Muddy River and I've gotten to

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know both of them and really respect and Alex as well, Cassie um, what they do um, in terms of the Muddy River, but I've seen the beautiful work they've done with other parks and green spaces in Brookline. And I have to say, and please don't quiz me u on this, but I've

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plowed through the whole um your parks plan, that whole beautiful rich document, your parks and open spaces, and I was so utterly impressed by that document. And honestly, I would love it if Boston could adopt something like that. I don't think there's anything

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quite like that in Boston, but I was super impressed by that um wonderful piece of work that outlines all the parks, all the green spaces, all the maintenance that needs to is done and needs to be done. So, I really thought that's a great um you know, this is sort

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of something I want to do. This is run by really good people. >> Thank you, Michael. Um yeah uh coincidentally I spent a little time this week uh looking at that very same document from a slightly different lens.

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Um, so I'm wondering if you have any thoughts about uh sort of the intersection between our the needs of Brookline for open space and other needs of the town, whether it's, you know, commercial development

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um or housing or transportation um or, you know, athletic field use, etc. Um, and how you would sort of think about that in your role on the conservation commission. >> Um, Um, I'm sensitive particularly around

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affordable housing issues. Um, obviously there's a need for that both in Brooklyn and in Boston. And so I would be sensitive to those concerns, but I think there's always a way to do it where you don't have to damage or encroach on um

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necessary green spaces. You know, we need those green spaces as much as we need affordable housing. Frankly, this is where people rest. They get some relief in their day. they take their kids to the parks. To me, those green spaces and assets are just as important.

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So, I know there has to be a way to balance that and I think Brookline does a fairly good job now and I would love to help uh work with those efforts. >> Thank you. >> Question I have for you. You mentioned your work with the Muddy River restoration.

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>> Uh are there any other ongoing projects within Brookline that were of particular interest to you? Well, of course, you know, because of the Muddy River, the Homemstead Park, anything going on there, I'm very interested in and I use that park a lot. I I walk that um

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probably at least once a week. But I'm, you know, very interested in some of the others. Um I run around the um the Chestnut Reservoir a lot. So, that's a beautiful space and that one in, you know, intrigues me to work on something

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there. Uh but honestly I'm just pro parks and green spaces that people are able to use and appreciate these are um you know these are true democrac this is true democracy like a mentor of mine used to call it democracy and dirt and I think that's what parks really represent

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and I believe in that. Thank you. Amanda >> question now that your answers are kind of inspiring me but um >> in in the document that you were referencing the open space and master plan I think sometimes even uh passive

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and active open space ends up being in conflict or at least when you have >> scarce land who gets to decide how it is used um and I'm wondering how you think about that of if there are solutions that you can see that might accomplish

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instead of always pitting one versus the other. >> Um that's that's a good question and it's challenging, right? Um so we've dealt with that a lot with the muddy river which is by Mstead's decree supposed to be a somewhat passive place,

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but you also want to get develop the next generation of stewards, right? So sometimes uh allowing certain activation really helps that. So what you do here with this that springfest is beautiful. I um founded a festival through um the

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Fenway Alliance. So that's kind of one of my niche, you know, areas. And I just thought the way that Springfest happened and how it was done. I went a couple years ago. It was wonderful. So I think those are the kind of simple but lovely activations that can kind of balance

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that. You know, you want to develop the next generation of stewards, right? And the next generation of stewards might not just want to slowly walk through a park. They might want to do some other things. >> Thank you. Anyone else? All right. Well, thank you very much for your interview. We don't

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typically vote the day of uh an interview, but you'll certainly be hearing back from us in the near future. >> Great. Thank you very much. And I just want to say I'm seeing Anthony here. And Anthony, I am the person that you ran into at Otto's Pizza and you encouraged me to vote.

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>> That's amazing. >> I saw what you wrote on that Facebook page and I screenshotted it and my mom has it framed. Not actually, but she has that saved now. >> Thank you all very much. >> Thank you. >> All right, so with that, go ahead, Amanda. >> I ask a question. We have two seats on

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conservation that we have to fill. Um if and when we get to voting. >> Yes. >> Um okay. I'm just trying to like track. I feel like I kind of got dropped in the middle of the interview process, but >> yes, I think that's right. And we only have two applicants at this time. Correct. >> At this time, only two applicants, right?

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>> There actually a few more have come through. >> A few more. Oh, okay. >> And we were asked by conservation to place them on a future so I was potentially for the 16th if they are able to make a daytime meeting. >> Great. >> All right, >> good news. Okay, so with that, we will

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now move to our final item at 610. >> Wow, you've run a great meeting. >> Public hearing for a noise bylaw waiver request from National Grid to perform work at 192 Washington Street. sidewalk

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over the MBTA tracks for a project with the MBTA. And as a reminder to the public, we don't actually have control over this. >> Ah, I I wanted to I was was wondering if this would come up. So, you do this is this is different. So, this is being

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done on the MBTA's behalf, but it's National Grid making the request. So, it is slightly different. You do have you do have authority here, which is why it is framed in that way. All right. That said, because it's a T project, there's there's back and forth that could happen

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there. But formally, yes, you have the authority to issue a noise bylaw waiver here. >> All right. So, because they are doing another entity is doing the project on their behalf, that gives us control. >> Yes. >> Or MBTA themselves and

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>> or a direct contractor of the MBTA. A contract you But this is they're not in contract with the MBTA. They're just doing this work for the benefit of both the town and the tea. >> All right. And I see that there will be two phases each for approximately

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eight weeks in duration. Some of the work will be done at night but also much of it during the day. Uh would anyone else like to >> Maybe we should have a presentation. >> Yes. Go right ahead.

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Good evening. My name is Mary Molrron and I'm here on behalf of National Grid requesting a no noise ordinance. >> Could we ask you to speak into the microphone a little bit? Sorry, it's just for the broadcast audience. >> Oh, okay. >> Thank you. >> Should I repeat it? >> Uh, sure if you want. >> Okay. Thank you. >> My name is Mary Muller and I'm here on

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behalf of National Grid um requesting a noise ordinance for um Washington Street at Station Street for the part of the phase two project. the that's going on right now. >> Can you tell us a little bit about the project and what's what what's

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>> Sure. Um the project is um National Grid is lining um approximately 150 feet of existing 3-in critical main that is um going over the MBTA trolley tracks like AB below the bridge but above

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if you were underneath you look up but but so um we need to work um at night sometimes um and that's under the direction of the um Brookline DPW and engineers um they coordinate

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with National Grid and the contractor that's working um to minimize the impact in the neighborhood but also be able to get the job done because to coordinate with the MBTA is a very big thing. Now in the

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noise byw bylaw waiver application itself it says that the time when the project will take place will be mostly during the day until the MBTA and town DPW requests that the work be done at night.

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So is it about the phasing initial phase will be during the day and then at some point the work could be done at night. Yes, most of the work will be done during the day, but the critical like if they have to go under the track over the tracks um we'd have to shut

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down the tracks and we it's preferably to do it at night time than it is um during the day. >> Okay. >> Also in our materials, there are some uh town meeting members who are in this

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precinct that have expressed their support for passing this uh by waiver approving it. Anyone else have questions or comments? >> All right, >> two questions. >> Go ahead.

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>> Um the first question is is to you like because I don't have a great grasp on on noise. How much noise are we talking about um at at night? I honestly like I I couldn't tell you how loud it's going to be but and or how

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for how long it will just be done at night like you would hear. >> But it's like digging up >> it on under the bridge. Um yeah, like over the bridge. Yes. Yes. Or on the corner of Station Street. Yes. >> Do you know what type of tools will be

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utilized? That might give some idea. >> It would be a jackhammer. >> Okay. >> That's what I was going to get. Yeah. Um and then the second question which might not be to you and it might be more to towards Dan is if we are talking about

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disruption of the pedestrian bridge um if there's already a mitigation plan for pedestrians to be able to continue to cross. >> Dan, you might want to come up just so folks can hear. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So that we can take some of the

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learnings from what happened earlier on. >> Oh no, agreed. Um certainly we will do every everything will be in place to make sure that this pedestrian bicycle safe access through. >> Introduce yourself. >> I'm sorry. Dan Murphy, director of engineering and transportation. >> Fantastic. Thank you.

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>> All right. Now, this is notice as a public hearing. So, we'll open the public hearing. Would anyone like to be heard on the noise bylaw waiver application? Nobody in the room. Anybody online? All right. Seeing none, we'll close the

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public hearing and we can take a vote. >> Yeah, let me have a ask a question. Um, how close are the closest housing, residential housing? >> I mean, it's pretty much that section of the bridge. So, I think there's

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residences across the street. Um, >> Davis. >> Yeah. Old Davis. And then the the quiet street. I'm trying >> Oh, Station Street, right? >> Well, Station, but the other one directly across the station. >> White Place. >> Yes. place. So, those are probably the closest. >> Okay.

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>> You'll still hear the jackhammers. >> Yeah. I don't know how much jackhammering is. I don't know about if they're going to try and do jackhammer night if they don't have to. >> If they don't have to day and then insert the pipe at night, >> I think it would be quiet. I'm not certain jackhammer at night.

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>> All right. So, I will move approval of the noise bylaw waiver request from National Grid to perform work at 192 Washington Street, the sidewalk over the MBTA tracks for their project with the MBTA. Bernard, >> yes. >> Michael, >> yes.

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>> Amanda, >> yes. >> Anthony, >> yes. >> And I also vote yes. All right. Thank you for coming. >> Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. Have a good night. >> You too. We'll now have another opportunity for public comment. Would anyone in the room like to participate

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in public comments? All right, no one in the room. Anybody online? Seeing none, that concludes our meeting for the evening. >> Thank you, everyone. >> Incredible. >> Oh, that's a record. >> Thank you. >> That's something. >> Recording stopped.