me and sing the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic it stands one nation under God indivisibley
and justice for all. We're always much better in sync when we're uh in person, of course. Our next item up is uh citizen speak. Uh as per our rules, we allow 3 minutes per uh speaker. We ask that you identify
yourself and give your address. Uh we allow also a total of 21 minutes of time uh for citizen speak. Um I will take care of the three minutes uh and we'll give you a 30 second warning. Um Mr. Milano uh can keep us on track for 21
minutes. Um we are online only obviously uh and so if you are here in the Zoom room and you wish to join citizen speak um you can raise your hand. You'll be promoted to a panelist. All right. No takers. Okay. Uh well then let's go to item
number four uh which is uh the naming dedication of the old fire headquarters building and meeting room. Uh we've had some developments in this. I know that there was a a proposal that was made up earlier. Um Mr. Milo, do you want to give us a quick overview of where we are
in this process? And I know we have uh I see Libby and uh Rich, I think both here online. >> Uh yes, thanks Mr. chair. Uh so, uh board members will receive um an email from Miss Duny regarding potentially uh
naming the meeting room in the old fire headquarters at 51 can have behind town hall after mother. I'll I'll let her andor Rick speak to to that request. um that I just did want to share and I I shared it with them as well is that Chief Madden um has also just flagged
this as something that the fire department has talked about internally as well as is thinking and and appropriate naming um because of you know the destruction is obvious many many many years of history as a as a fire building. Um, we do have, you know,
the building to think about for a name as well as the meeting room on the first floor and then there are other naming opportunities within the fire headquarters itself. So, I I do think there are a few opportunities here. Um, and so we should as a board and I'll start having a conversation about how we're going to approach those. Um, so I
think that's an overview of where we're at. Mr. Chair, I'll turn it back to you. >> Thank you. And I I know could you promote uh MP and Mr. daily when you have a chance as well so that we could hear a bit from them.
>> Good evening. Uh Mr. Ney, um you're on Zoom with the select board. Um we received uh a very warm letter recommending a a name for the new room uh the new meeting room in the a new fire a new uh old fire station
headquarters new building. Um, Missy, would you like to say a few words first or Mr. Ney? >> You can turn your video on for sure. shows up and speak. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman,
members of the board, it's nice to be back. I'm happy to be speak tonight in support conference room in the world fire department, first woman to serve as
chair of the board, Kathy. Kathy I first met when she served in my party committee when I was chairman and she served two valuable years on the committee at a very difficult time when we lost state aid in the amount of almost 50% town went through very tough
time she succeeded me as the chairperson and she endured the recession of 1999 and she was the chair for two years she was the second chair after Dr. in Coglin but she uh was an excellent leader of the warrant committee in very difficult period.
She was so successful that she followed that by getting elected to the board of selectman as it was known in those days in 1993 and she served six years of which at least three of those years was as the first chairperson as a woman. Uh she was an excellent leader. She by the
way also was a longtime town meeting. So Tom meet him all throughout the 90s and 20 well into uh almost uh in 2015 2016 I believe. So uh just a couple things to point out for she also served uh Milton
on the NWA advisory board and that advisory board service went for some 22 years and the advisory board as you may know is composed of the cities and towns that enjoy the benefit of the MA. She served as the chairperson of the MWA
advisory board from some 14 years from 2001 to 2015. She did a great job representing Milton as a constituent town and she did a great job leading the MWA advisory board. So, uh, as a member and chair of the board selectman, she
really led the effort on improving the infrastructure in the town. And I'm sure you find this and you have comments on who was before you as a slick person, but I will tell you that In our time period, we discovered uh I'll give you an example. The water and sewer my street was installed in 1895.
Uh we discovered as we had started having problems that was substantial work required to improve inflow and infiltration. Now there are some time reports that talk about that beginning in 2005. I can read to you from our reports in 199596 that Kathy led the way
in getting us to address those problems on inflow and infiltration starting with engineering studies followed by actual construction work. She also secured uh $1,600,000 in funding from the MWA to address substantial problems throughout many
neighborhoods, several neighborhoods. I wouldn't say many, but five or six neighborhoods in Milton that had problems with sewage connecting to the MD system, which as you know goes right through Milton down Brook Road. So, she was able to secure that grant and she
also really led the efforts on trying to get additional investment in water infrastructure. Uh, as you know, there are water breaks that occur, but uh, some of those water breaks are really the Zelda pipes have not been replaced. And so there was a substantial pike pipe
replacement program that began in the mid 90 mid to late 90s. So that was an important piece. Uh also she very instrumental in supporting and capping and closing the landfill. Uh you may recall that the town was under an administrative consent order and uh the
town was able to get together with the city of Quinsey and granted links and have materials from the Big D were brought in through Quinsey and not down Randolph Avenue. and we're able to save some $13 million in debt service as well as obviously you're receiving revenues
today from that golf course. So that's a couple of key pieces in terms of the leadership. Some of the other problems that she worked on and addressed was two Grand Avenue. Two Grand Avenue was a hazard. It was it was actually controlled by the resolution trust company at that point. Nothing was
happening. Uh and we were able to get that back on the commercial tax base and get that resolved with the assistance of our conservation commission as well. Uh and probably in terms of uh school construction, she was finishing up her
terms. She was a supporter for getting the schools in terms of being rebuilt or actually new construction. So there were six schools constructed at the beginning of the 2000s and she finished up in 1999. those efforts were beginning with committee meetings and presentations by
the school building committee. So overall I would also add by the way her contribution to the town wasn't just uh in meetings it was assisting throughout the town 40 hours a week is what I would estimate. I certainly wasn't able to commit 40 hours a week but she committed
and spent a lot of time in the meeting rooms and we're talking about naming one although that room didn't exist. She certainly spent a lot of time in the Cronin conference room as well as the Carol Blue conference room and she worked collaboratively with many boards in the town and certainly uh was able to
build consensus and set an excellent example for others to follow. So I can just say that uh she was a well- reggarded person. I personally I found her a great person to work with and I think having a congressman named her honor and recognizing her leadership as the first woman member and chair I think
is would be a valuable addition to the town. I'm happy to answer any questions or elaborate anything else. >> Thank you Mr. Neely. Um Miss Dumpy, is there anything you'd like to add to that? I just want to thank Rick for speaking about my mom and it really
means a lot to me and thank you to >> very welcome. Uh questions or comments from the members? >> Uh Mr. Wells. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Um thank you both. Um welcome back, Rick. Uh I as I said as
as I as I sit here um in my 41st year uh with the town I I'm you w it just took a long walk down memory lane. Just a couple of important points. Um you know people don't realize you know I
always talk about institutional knowledge and people don't realize the difficulties that were faced that the town faced even back then. I want to touch upon the MW MWR aspect of this because in my new role um I
often listen to Speaker Mariano talk about um the importance of being a member of the MW and and the gift that it is. I often hear of communities unlike us that are outside the MW MW net
that really struggle with water issues. Randolph Ober and Brady being like our neighbors that are not in it. I recently listened to him tell a story of how hard it was to bring the MWR into the town of Weimoth some 15 years ago and I've had
the privilege in my life to visit Quaban in those communities several times and you know we turn the faucet on and we just expect quality water. But um I knew Kathy my whole you know my whole professional career. uh she promoted me
to the rank of lieutenant 1991 I believe 92 as you did. Um so I think this is a very fitting thing. We often forget about those who came before us and those who contributed so much to impact the quality of life as it
exists today in the 21st century. So I thank you both for this. Um I'm sure that both Kathy and and Dr. Duny would be very smiling very proudly upon this. So, thank you, Mr. Chair, for this. I'm sorry for being a little long-winded,
but it's very rare that um Mr. Neely returns back and he unersells himself in his contributions to all he has contributed to the town of Milton in his own life. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells. This is an
occasion, I think, for for uh for for giving credit where credit is due. And so, your remarks are very wellreceived. Oh, Mr. Wells. Oh, you're on mute. >> I was I was lowering my hand. I want to make sure I did it. >> No problem. Other comments or questions
from the from the members? >> Um, so I believe we can make a motion on this tonight. Is that right, Mr. Milano? Or do we need to uh I think we'd want to possibly wait to hear from the fire chief because he wanted to weigh in a bit. So, I think we I don't know if it's best
for us to maybe table it till the next meeting with some input from the fire chief in between or if we if we would prefer to make the motion tonight. >> Yes, Mr. Wells. >> I'm running out of meetings. So, if it's okay, subject to any I think I kind of
know where the fire chief's at on this. Um, I'd like to make this motion tonight for the community room within the old fire station headquarters to um name this room in honor of the first woman
member of the then board of selectmen and currently select board um after Katherine Duffy. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. Um any further discussion? I I think from for my own uh part, Mr.
Daily, I I hear your concerns and I I also do want to hear from the chief about the sort of broader naming opportunities around both the uh the old building as well as the new building. And I know that we've had some discussions about um a plaque or some
sort of a a memory for firefighter Thomas uh in the new East Milton station as well. So, I think um you know, we can certainly have a a broader conversation with Chief Madden uh around that. Um, as has been noted previously, I think this
room uh will most likely be the home of many, if not all of the elected boards, uh, on a regular basis moving forward. So, um, for that reason, I think that it makes sense for it to be more of a townwide name than, uh, specifically
fire, uh, fire related. But, um, >> I think I think the point's well taken. >> Uh, any any other discussion? I know I asked for discussion and just made comments myself, but okay, we will have a roll call vote because we're remote on this. Mr. Wells, >> yes.
>> Miss Hagerty, >> yes. >> Mr. Driscoll, >> yes. >> And Mr. Daly, >> yes. >> And myself, yes. We're very very happy to uh to move forward with this. Thank you, Mr. Neely. Thank you, Miss Dumpy. Thank you, Miss Dumpy, for sharing your
mom with the town. and uh and and you know, we're we're very indebted to her and all of her work. Mr. Neely, same to you. >> Thank you very much. >> And we'll have a discussion later about how spec specifically to uh uh put a plaque up and make sure that uh
everyone's invited uh to attend. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thanks for joining us. >> Well, good night, Rick. >> Thanks. >> Great. Um, we have for our fifth item of business a discussion update uh Paul
Hogan and Katie Conlin uh for Massport CAC representative uh and Katie Conlin is chair of the airplane noise advisory committee. I see Katie. I Oh, I do see Paul. I think he's Paul H. Miss Conland. Mr. Hogan, are you with
us? I'm here. Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> You're very welcome. Uh, Mr. Hogan, can you hear us? Okay. >> Uh, well, we hope that uh Oh, there you're off mute now. >> Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me? >> We can hear you just fine. If you'd like to turn your camera on, you're very
welcome to do it. But if you don't want to, that's also totally fine. >> I was trying to turn the Oh, there it is. Sorry. coming on. I think it looks like maybe the camera doesn't isn't isn't uh cooperating.
That's all right. Why don't we move ahead and if it if it if you manage to turn it on later, I think we know what you look like. So Oh, >> right. >> This is it. >> No. Well, uh All right. So let me just uh I'll just say uh very quickly we
recently had a meeting uh it was alluded to I think in in a previous board meeting uh with Mr. Hogan and Miss Gland around uh the committee and appointments um and so we've invited them here tonight to uh both share uh their the latest uh from the airplane noise
situation as well as to talk about that committee. Uh Mr. Milano, is there anything else uh that we wanted to cover in this session? Uh, no. I think uh that works and I think turn it over to them to to provide an update and then we can talk about um
some of the outreach um opportunities that we're going to try to pursue moving forward. >> Sounds good. Uh Miss Conlin, would you like to start us off? >> Uh sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And it's always hard to follow Rick Ny, so I'll do I'll do my best. And congratulations. I think you made a great choice in
naming that room after Katherine Duny. Kathy was a great uh role model for me and others who followed many years later onto the select board. So, it's it's wonderful to see that room being named for Kathy. Um, I want to thank the chair and the town administrator for meeting
with and our uh state legislative delegation for meeting with us uh Paul Hogan who's the CAC representative and me in my role with the airplane noise advisory committee uh maybe a week or 10 days ago um to talk about u maybe re-engaging on this issue and what our
next steps might be as a town. um as you know the CAC position was vacant for um about a year or a little over a year. So it's it's wonderful that you've appointed Paul Hogan to that role. I'm looking forward to working again with Paul about 20 years ago. He was on the
school committee when I was on the war committee. So we worked together back then and um delighted to be working with him again now. Um and we talked about some outreach efforts that the board might engage in. Um, as you know, the airplane committee is an advisory
committee to your board and um, we have prepared some letters over recent years that the board has submitted, whether it was to the FAA or to Massport um, or to the state environmental office regarding the environmental reports that are done
at Massport either every two or five years. And we talked about some follow-up that might be done. And one of them was to follow up with the Secretary of Environmental and Energy Affairs to um follow up really on the 2024 letter that we submitted regarding one of the most
recent environmental data reports. And um we also talked about perhaps um trying to schedule meeting with the executive director of the Massport CAC with our new CAC rep and either the TA or a member of the board, maybe both.
Um, and we also talked about re-engaging with Representative Lynch as well as our two US senators because their staffs have been involved in the issues over the years. And um, I don't think there's been much recent communication with them in the last couple of years, but it
would be good to re-engage them and that's really more of a role for the board in the town government than it is for the advisory committee, but we're happy to help in any way with that outreach that we can. So, I think that's the synopsis. We um Senator Driscoll and our representatives
were agreeable to trying to set up some meetings at the state level that we thought might be appropriate and um I think that's a synopsis of where we're at and uh the board had invited us to come to this meeting as a follow-up. >> Thank you, Miss Conland. Uh Mr. Hogan,
anything to add? >> Yeah. Um, you know, Katie's really a wealth of information and um has really shown a lot of dedication to this. Uh, I've listened to her very carefully and um the board uh you know the committee
that she's with has been dedicated to this. It it really is kind of a looks like an uphill struggle. I mean obviously we'll have to impress upon Massport somehow uh the importance of this. Um, I've been briefed on the
change in runways and how Milton is enduring a much heavier share uh of of particularly uh arrivals landings. Um, and I can see them clearly from my perch at Pier Street East Milton. Uh, the
double planes coming in um all the time and um, you know, I think it's a question of equity, right? I mean, um, we talked about at the meeting and I was quite impressed with the delegation, um, and quite impressed with, uh, Senator Driscoll and his efforts in
this, um, because we have to find a way to talk to Mass, talk to other communities to see if we can get in here about the this inequity because it's causing some harm to Milton that I think ought to be addressed. And I know Mr. Wells um, was interested in me joining
the board because, you know, I have a legal experience. I I hope that we don't have to get to that level, but um certainly um you know, I can follow the action and if it becomes very inequitable for Milton, then you know, there's things we can talk about. But anyway, I'm happy to be on the board and
uh enjoyed uh talking to Mr. Zol at the meeting. And one of the things I just wanted to finish up with is that I would like to be able to go to these meetings with sort of a unified message from the town of Milton, the boards, the committees, and as many people as we can. And I don't know how to do that
whether it's a a resolution or letter or or whatever, but it's one of the things I think we can talk about 80 at at the March 6 meeting uh when we meet again. But thank you very much and thank you for electing me to uh to the position. >> Thank you. I I um have a couple of dogs
barking in the background so I apologize. Let me let me turn it to the uh members. And then I I do want to add to I believe uh at this meeting we can also appoint a member of our board to the CAC uh to serve as a select board representative which we we can do this
evening. Um so let me turn it to the members first for questions or thoughts. Mr. Wells. >> Thank you Mr. Chair. I don't think we can point someone Am I mute? I'm not muted. I don't think we're going to point someone. I think we can appoint
them to the ANOC committee. The C every community has one CAC rep and I believe that is Mr. Hog. Am I right Katie on that? That Paul is now our rep is on the CAC. We put a select board member to it as well.
>> I think Mr. Z just misspoke. I think he meant an act. So yeah, >> yeah, I think I agree. I think >> I I did. I'm sorry. The dogs distracted me. >> That's okay. So my question >> says
>> I have one question for Paul at the CIC meetings, Paul, what is the normal like? What do they talk about? What is their agenda? >> I I really don't know. Um I you know I haven't been to a meeting yet. Um, and I
guess though that anything that impacts the community, uh, the communities around um, would be subject to that. I know the MBTA has a similar advisory board and then Okay, we just hearing about the MWR advisory board. I mean, it's the, um,
the interaction of the um, committee. I know that Boston has five members. >> Yes. >> Um, and that they're relatively quiet about things. They don't put up much of a resistance. I heard that Watertown and and Belmont are kind of active and um you know I
have some connections to Watertown so I'd like to find out what's going on there. Um but you know my goal will be to try to meet who's there and and get on the agenda. I am familiar with the um legal counsel for Massport. I've worked with her in the past. I think that I try to reach out talk to her um about coming
aboard and and that kind of thing. But really, you know, it's going to be our mission to to make this important to people at Massport and on the board. And, you know, we're kind of, you know, the other cities and towns around us, Randolph, Wayouth, Quinzy, I think they
prefer not to have plans go their communities, you know. >> That's true. Yeah, you're right there. And just Mr. Chair, if I may, just a second question for Katie. Um, I know Katie that Caris was the, you know, the
lead on this with Murphy Hassie for as long nine years I can remember. Um, have you been a have you been able to successfully engage with and consult with KP Law on this issue? And I'm sure this is all brand new to them as well because I don't think they've been
involved in this at all in a community level prior to taking on Milton. >> Um, Mr. Chair, can I >> please go ahead, Miss Conlin? No, you may have wanted to respond to the first question, too, because you had your hand up. >> Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. My bad. My bad. >> No problem, Mr. Wilson.
>> That's okay. Um, I have not had an opportunity to engage with town council yet, but um but that's something we'd certainly be open to and and you know, could discuss um if you point me to the right person. Although I I think probably the outreach meetings we're talking about might be more
um imminent than than the town council that might be able to wait a little bit longer. I think it might be >> okay. um more important to schedule some of the followup with the federal legislative delegation and and the state environmental office um and and you know follow through with I I
do think it would be a good idea for this to meet with this executive director of the CAC with both our new CAC rep as well as some of the town officials. Um but on the on the first point about an appointment to the committee that would be fine since there
is a vacancy but I I thought we had been talking more of more of an informal liaison when we met a week or 10 days ago and you know I think either would be would be positive it it may be that there I know you serve on a lot of committees and if if you'd rather not
appoint someone as an official member of the committee you could certainly appoint someone as a leazison who could come to some of the meetings we I could be in touch with um as the representative of the board who could bring the information back to your board um and vice versa. So I defer to you on
how you want to handle that, but I think either is an option. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Hegerty. >> Thanks. Um thank you Katie and Paul um for serving the town in this capacity.
Um just for my own um for my own edification, what are some of the uh positions that we've advocated for in the past in terms of um in terms of ARNAV
is or have we taken any specific positions with the FAA on where we would like the flights to be diverted to? um
instead or how how has this um how has this worked in the past and what um what has the response been from the federal government? Yeah, the the town has and I can provide you some written information that give some of
the background on it, but in a nutshell, the most recent efforts over the last several years have been >> to try to persuade the FAA that they should test and then implement, assuming the testing is successful. of course the alternative paths that the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology had studied as part of the study that began about a you know almost a decade ago I think um that the FA and Massport hired MIT to do this work for them and they made recommendations on a number of runway
changes >> affecting a lot of different communities. um they did study and had put forward three ideas for flyable alternatives for the runway four right path. They did not really study the runway four left path >> but um none of that has been
implemented. There's been the unfortunately MIT kind of took the position that well it would put traffic over other communities and we really couldn't do that without community buyin and Milton's push back has been look there was traffic over other communities for many years and about a decade or so
more than that now ago a lot of that traffic was moved over Milton without any request or input from us and asking what our feedback would be. So, um, so that really has been one of the things the committee has been talking about a lot in the last few years is trying to
get the FAA to, um, follow that through. And the last correspondence was in July of 2023 when the board sent a letter to the FAA asking about the status and advocating for the testing. And of course, the FAA referred this back to the CAC, which, you know, it's really an
FAA problem that they created and they need to solve. So I think that's part of the followup that we need to continue. >> And remind did MIT complete their analysis or >> they did they and they made
recommendations. Unfortunately they studied this and they put forward these ideas. They didn't officially recommend them because >> okay >> of some of the ideas that there needed to be more community buyin from the wider community which of course is difficult to get. Nobody nobody wants to volunteer to take
>> it's inherently disappointing for everybody. Yeah. Nobody wants to take on more than >> Yeah. If if you're currently not receiving a lot of overflights then why would you volunteer for that? >> Yeah. But again, you know those
communities h the communities that >> traffic would be put over under the MIT pass. you they had traffic before and they don't have the traffic that they used to have because a lot of that has been moved into the narrow paths that are over Milton. >> Is there a means of um managing
uh or measuring equitable distribution of flights over over towns? Like is there monitoring of it or transparency or reporting of it? >> Well, there's there's complaint data. There's I mean there are monitors in
some of the communities. Um >> there's that that data could be provided by by the FAA. Um >> and equitable justice environmental justice was also an issue that was raised in the town's litigation as well as uh regarding four left um which also
brought in four right because they really have to be considered together. they're so closely spaced that the impact of the town for especially the area that's under both flight paths is um is really heavily impacted by both. So they need to be considered together
not just separately which is how the FAA and MIT wanted to study them. >> So I think we could obtain information to that effect probably from the FAA. Okay, >> that might be something I want to try to do.
Other questions from members? So, um I know we were going to think about uh having a draft letter for the select board to approve, uh but we don't have one quite yet. So, I think we can
take a motion on a drafting of of that. Um and I also want to u mention that I spoke with um Mr. Driscoll uh earlier about being either a representative or a a liaison. I think maybe starting as liaison and if he feels like the work is
uh something that he can dive into more we could think about an official appointment. Uh and Mr. Driscoll indicated that he'd be willing to do that. So um just putting that out there for the members. Of course anybody can nominate anyone. Um Mr. Wells
>> I'll do both. M if if if Mr. just um truly um interest I will gladly nominate um him to sit on the ANAC as our representative to the ANAC in secondary
as I said on our previous agenda item time is running short after me I'd um make a motion that to authorize the town administrator to start to draft a letter to do do we want to send
this to Massport, right? We want to send this directly to Massport and to copy both the federal and the state delegation on this as well on um and I think he should probably maybe have conversation with Paul and especially Katie on exactly what we want
to have a coder in that letter. >> That's a bit of emotion. Um I think >> I know it is. It was a broad motion. It was actually two mo It was actually two motions. So sorry. >> May maybe let's just do let's do um the the um the letter first because I think
um we have some specific language if um if anybody would like to make that motion. Um I would take that. >> So I'll make that motion on the letter with the specific language you referred to, Mr. Chair. >> Okay. And that that is to uh to
authorize the town administrator and the select board chair to work with Miss Conland and Mr. Hogan on the drafting of a letter to be sent to the congressional uh the US delegation as well as Massport. So that is a motion made by Mr. Wells. Uh do I have a second?
>> I'll second it. >> Seconded by Miss Hagerty. Uh this will be a roll call vote. Any further discussion on this? Uh let's start with Mr. Wells. >> Yes. >> Miss Hagerty. >> Yes. Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Dailyaly.
>> Yes. >> And myself. Yes. Um and then we can consider a second motion. Um I think that uh we were going to use the term liaison to anch. Um >> I'll make that motion. I'll make that motion, Mr. Chant, to appoint Mr.
Driscoll as the liaison to anch. >> Uh Mr. Driscoll, do you accept the nomination? >> Yes, I do. >> Okay. Wonderful. Um so this will be a roll call vote. Uh, we'll start again with you, Mr. Wells. >> I think you need a sec. I didn't hear a second. >> Oh, I do need a second. You're right.
>> Second. Yeah. >> Second. >> Seconded by Merty. >> I vote yes. >> And Mr. Wells, is it yes. Uh, Miss Hagerty? >> Yes. >> Mr. Driscoll? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dailyaly? >> Yes.
>> And myself? Yes. Um, okay. Well, I think we have our uh our um next steps set out here. Um, Miss Conley, Miss Ho, Mr. Hogan, I just want to thank you both again for your service on this issue and for bringing this back up to the town's attention. I know this is an issue that
plagues a lot of folks in Milton and we're very grateful. Uh, and I would certainly turn it over to Miss Conland for some final thoughts if you have one. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to mention we do have um a couple of vacancies on the committee. So, if there are residents who are interested in this issue and are will interested in
serving, it would be great if um they would consider submitting a volunteer application to your office to be considered for the committee. Um and um delighted to work with Mr. Driscoll. We look forward to that and we'll be in touch. I I'll provide some information to Mr. Driscoll so that he can have that
before our next meeting which is March 10th. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. And uh just a second to u Miss Conland's point, we always need volunteers for committees and so uh this one's I know is is close to a lot of folks and if it affects you
and you'd like to see some change, consider putting your name in the hat. Thank you again, Miss Conlin, Mr. Hogan. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, board. >> Thank you both. >> You're very welcome. Um, so I believe we're moving uh items seven and eight to
a future agenda item. Uh, some for some reason our uh fabulous uh DPW head is uh is is busy with other things this evening. Uh so we will let her do that work and and move the items. Is that correct, Mr. Milano? >> That is correct. Yep. Thank you.
>> All right. So let's move on then to uh item number nine uh which is a discussion of the labor uh labor college closure. Uh I'll turn this over to you Mr. Milano. I think you've been in touch with the um the college.
>> Yes. Thank you Mr. Chair. Uh so as members know um library did announce that they'll be shutting down um at the end of August and have been working um handinhand with Curry College uh through that transitionary period. Um I I appreciate and just want to note that
both um President Jay Gonzalez from Curry and um Will Sue from um library reached out prior to the news coming out just to give me a heads up and um you know I extended my gratitude that they were clearly working well together trying to um find pathways for um
students and for teachers to to remain um and you know for students particularly to finish their their coursework. Um there have been certainly conversations about what does that mean for the future of the library campus. Um so we at least wanted to have this um on
the agenda just so members if they had any questions or discussion points could do so. Um you know both president uh Jay Gonzalez um did offer to come into a future meeting if the board felt that was helpful to discuss it um with the board. So, just wanted to flag it as a a
preliminary conversation in case there's any um in particular direction the board wanted to take it. >> Thank you, Mr. Milano. Uh any questions from the members or thoughts about the closing that they'd like to share? >> Mr. Wells.
>> Thank you. Uh Mr. Chair, I'm going to be put my hand back down. So, a couple of things. Obviously, um I'm very grateful that I was aware of it, that I was made aware of this, but I think that people need to understand that two points. Um this is very sad
that the library campus is closing. I've been there several times and you it's the only two-year RN program in the Commonwealth, not to mention the other programs that they offer in the medical
field. It's really um a special place. The second thing is the diversity of the population there. They offer an opportunity for people to to achieve employment and achieve certification and and achieve an you know an RN status
that no one else does. To bl to to add to that, this is a big win for President Gonzalez and Curry. Um this is going to take a lot of work. um both at between the two parties, the state level. I think there's probably some possibility
here for the community. But um I really want to thank President Gonzalez for taking this over and establishing the Larry Nursing Center on his campus. This will become the largest um nursing program in the Commonwealth once this is
done. And it will truly help to um you know belaboring a little bit to solidify the future the future of the college as a campus even though you're losing one you it'd be awful you know as
you know Mr. you're in the higher ed business. The threats to smaller the threats to smaller colleges in this country today is just huge. And um I know that his his predecessor, longtime president Quigley had worries about this as many as 10 years ago about declining
populations. So this was really a win-win and a credit to the leadership of both of them. Both um Dr. Shei and Dr. and President Gonzalez are doing this and I I really thank them both for putting their heads together because this is a futuristic move not just for
the region but especially for our community and I know that was a long-winded but um this is going to happen sooner than later and we probably won't get a chance to talk about it again. So, um very grateful to both of them today.
>> Thank you, Mr. Wells. Uh other comments or questions from members? So I I may uh just add my quick um two cents as well. Um I Mr. Wells u definitely hit the nail on the head in
terms of the crisis that a lot of small uh colleges are facing. I think the labor news hits even harder because of the this another crisis that we have in this country which is our healthcare workforce uh which is declining and uh
and really needs uh to be shored up so that uh Curry College is able to ensure that we continue to have uh RNs graduating and able to work in our uh fabulous hospitals and medical centers around the Commonwealth is is really
fantastic. Um the second comment I want to make as just kind of an overall uh comment on the campus itself. Um as we've and Mr. Milano, you can correct me if I'm wrong here, but as we're at the uh visioning or the early stages yet of
uh our work with MSBA in terms of thinking about a location for uh new school. Um, we are we this building would fall under the purview of a of of discussion as to whether or not it would be suitable. I'm not the person to
decide whether or not it would be suitable. We have a whole committee for that. But I think for those uh who have expressed uh you know an idea of whether or not this could be uh leveraged to help the town save a little money. Um we don't know. Uh but we we can look at it.
Um, as we know with the Discovery Schoolhouse uh building, it's uh and older buildings aren't necessarily that uh much cheaper to uh to refurbish as as newer buildings are uh to be built. So, um I think that is TBD, but I just wanted to mention that for the
community's sake uh so that they're aware of it. And then barring any further questions or comments from the members, I think we can move along to our next uh item um which is I'm going to declare a quick recess for the select board and call to
order a meeting of the trustees of the Governor Stoen Trust. Um, instead of going into uh executive session though, I I believe the last time we met uh in executive session, there was a consensus among the board uh to have a discussion
in open session uh around the town farm property and uh and how we're thinking about um the situation moving forward. Um and Mr. Mr. Milano, I know there's an update uh that you were going to share that you'd shared with us previously that I think you'd like to share uh
publicly to help inform the discussion. >> Good. Thank you. Um so I I'll just touch on two pieces. The first one being um the trust has discussed has um working through potential um through the RFP process and and looking at a potential
lease with the developer um had made some asks around mitigation for um Governor Stoton Lane as as we know that's that's a narrow road that serves um some single family homes now and could potentially serve significantly more if the project were to move
forward. Um the proposal that was submitted was that um the applicant or the proposer would um fund design of improvements to the road um but would be unable to fund um implementing those um design improvements and instead would
would work with the town to secure or try to secure grant funding otherwise those improvements would have to be borne by the town. So the trust did have a conversation about um request requesting mitigation related to Governor Stole Lane specifically and the offer that's then been brought forward
has been to fund um engineering and design work um on improvements to Governor Stoton Lane but um not to fund the improvements themselves but to work with the town to try to secure grant funding to do so. Um that's part one. And then the other element of um an update I just did want to provide is
that um the 40B that's at uh 648 652 Cannab um did apply to funding from the Southshore Home Consortium for um funding to add to its sources and uses for their potential projects. Um and included in that is um a proposal to
shift uh a little bit of the project. So, that's a 116 unit project. They are looking at um converting into more of a low-inccome housing tax credit project whereby 60 of the 116 units would be uh much more deeply affordable uh with 49
units at or below 60% of area median income. Um so that would be pro you know units at 30% 50% 60% of area median income and the balance of the units on the project would be the traditional 40b that's 25% affordable at 80% of area
median income um so that was another piece of information I just wanted to share um that we expect um that change to happen that hasn't been um announced officially or submitted formally um so certainly subject to change but it is something that that project appears to
be um looking at an alternative pathway. Um so those I think Mr. Chair the two um pieces that you're looking for me to share but happy to add anything else if you or the members are looking for. >> Thank you Mr. Milano. Let me turn it to the members for questions or thoughts or
comments. >> I'll ask Miss Milano. So is that uh hopefully I'm not breaking up right here. So, is that saying that the developer for Town Farm is ready to move forward if we are able to partner on the
grand funding or is is the update from them that they're still um working out their own financing piece? >> Uh so where that sits is um we did you know we did request mitigation related to the road and that specific mitigation
was to um make that change. So otherwise it would be a 35 unit project as proposed um with funding sources TBD but the rest of the project would be as proposed um in addition to what was proposed in the RFP there would be design and engineering um costs borne by
the applicant uh for improvements to the road. Other questions or comments from the members? Well, I you guys are making me do all the talking tonight. Um, which I will try not to do too much of. Um it it's my
opinion um that if the Canton AB 40B uh turns into something that is much more significantly um scaled both in terms of more uh availability at different levels of AMI uh as well as uh you know meeting some
meeting some of the requirements that you know that we have as a town for um for affordable housing that we may want to I don't want to say um not I I I still believe that uh that affordable
housing is probably the most um ontarget application for that land based on the will of Governor Stoton whose trust we are now meeting underneath. Um, so it's my my thinking that we may want to
either uh we we could defer on the the current RFP. We could um put a new RFP together for something that is slightly less dense that would uh maybe alleviate some of the problems that uh engineering
of the road would be required to fix. Um or we can stay as is uh and continue our negotiations. I think those are are uh decisions that are up to the board. Um and uh I'm not going to obviously I can't unilaterally make those decisions.
So that's really a subject of conversation that we have to have here. Um and we can make a motion and vote or we can postpone and wait until to see how the um the the Cantonav 4B turns out uh and then make a decision or um make
no decision at all. So those are the choices before us and I I put it back to the members for their thoughts. Miss Haggerty. So for me, the biggest opportunity in um town farm
would be to get the town closer to safe harbor so that we can get out of the situation that we're in where we keep having 40bs imposed on us um due to our own lack of creation of
affordable housing. Um I think that if um that safe harbor can be achieved through other ends then we um I don't necessarily see the need um to move forward with town farm and
also given the um difficulty um with making a project work at the site and the infrastructure necessary. Um, you know, I it I I I I think I think it
makes a lot of sense to um at the very least hold off um and see how the Cantav project plays out. >> Do we have a timeline on when we would know if the Cantav project is getting
approval to go deeply affordable? >> Um Mr. M, you want to answer that? Then Mr. Wells has his hand up. >> Uh there have um continued to be some of our appeals in court as well as the conservation commission um contemplating further appeals on that project which
would delay um you know any kind of final resolution of that project. Um and then I would expect um in the coming weeks you know that that project it it emerges uh more officially as to what the the game plan will be for that
project. So I think in the near term we should see a more official indication of of this pathway or not as kind of step one and then step two being well it's still still going to be subject to um the ongoing appeals and other matters that the project faces as things stand
today. Um so there those two elements uh are still kind of in progress. So one is a shorter term duration and one would be a longer term timeline. And then if I could just to um Miss Hagert's point regarding um you know safe harbor and
the the 40B you know thresholds of so 10% of affordable housing. So 10% of the town's housing units according to the census need to be on the subsidizing housing inventory. If all the projects as currently proposed and permitted are built the town should um and will
surpass that 10% threshold. The question really then becomes, well, what happens with the 2030 census, which is when after the completion of the 2030 census, and really this takes two years after 2030 for the state to
adopt revised year-round housing unit figures. That becomes our new baseline. So right now it's about 9,800 housing units in Milton is what serves that we have to get 10% of to um to surpass to to be you know protected from any
further 40b type projects. Um so while we can try to forecast that out, it's it's really hard to say what that new yearround housing unit number will be um coming out of that census and and by the time so we're we're probably six years
away from getting a new target number. um for what we have today for the 2020 year round housing unit number if everything is built that's been permitted then we will hit that um a little bit harder to foresee once um the numbers are revised again in in five or
six years time >> so oh sorry >> one second so all that's permitted which does not include >> absolutely go ahead Winston go ahead >> gets us to that correct SHI number but the changes that can't nav gets us to Is
that deeply affordable? Which was the discussion we were having about Town Farm? >> Correct. On the SHI, the >> the 116 units proposed at 648 652 Kent Nav all go on subsidized housing inventory. We're going to get credit for all of them whe because of how they
treat uh rental projects. So even though some of them will be market rate, we're going to get credit for all 116. I think to your point the policy outcome of we're not going to just have units at 80% of AMI but we'll have you know a much more diverse deeper affordable
units um rather than otherwise. Um so that so that would be the case where we would we would not see an increase in terms of number of units on the SHI. It would just be the kind of composition of the units that are on that are different. And then after that it gives us about
until the next census plus maybe two or three years before our number may change. >> Correct. Correct. And you know obviously we can we can do some work to try to figure out how many single family housing units have been added and we can add in the multif family units. So
we would then be back below 10%. But the question of how many units below 10% will we be is kind of the harder variable to to come out with a more certain outcome just because relying on a census number um not necessarily our own. So a bit of a question then becomes
if we choose not to move forward with Town Farm, even if it's not RFP, not even a rethinking, leaving the Town Farm space would technically give us a space where if we needed to change or catch up in our SHI number, a space to build potentially.
>> Yeah. Right. Yeah. Because if those 35 units that we're talking about here were built, we would add those again onto the SHI. So that would serve as an opportunity in the future for potential housing if that that were be a future decision. Go ahead, Richard. >> Mr. Wells,
>> you sure? >> He muted himself, so I guess so. >> No, I did. I was Okay. Oh, most important. Put my hand down. All right. So, a couple of points. I don't I'm not going to comment on the Tom P thing. So, um I I do believe and you can tell me I'm wrong, Nick. We are in We are in
safe harbor for another year. Correct. >> No. So, sorry. There's two kind of different con considerations for safe harbor. Safe harbor is if you hit certain new housing targets on an annual basis that's 45 40 50. We are not in safe harbor right now. A 40B could come
in tomorrow and we will not achieve that until we get a new housing production plan >> or we get to the 10% figure. >> Okay. So, >> um, you and I have talked about this. So, the the important the thing that's
important to me about 648 652 is the lowering of the SHI because I talk often about poverty and about, you know, who's going to have the ability to get into these units. And when you lower the SHI, that's when you really impact those who
who can't get there. Um, the second thing is to to Mr. Dy's point at least I don't want to be public but I know of at least one if not two more potential projects that are on the horizon right now not big ones but similar 30 35 units
so I think by the time we get to 2030 um not only will we be if 648 652 comes to reality not only will we'll be above our 10% that will give a little give us a little bit of a cushion um to keep us
above 10% when we get to 2030 so that's Not long-winded, short, sweet. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells. Uh, other thoughts or questions from the members? >> Mr. Milano, it looked like you were about to say add something.
>> Nope, sorry, I was just putting >> Okay, no worries. >> Add one thing. Nick, can you >> can you share with us any materials we have about our um history with the SHI, including potential units? I don't think we've gotten a sort of a dispatch on that recently.
>> Yes, I can um I can provide what we use. The official SHI is is available and I'll distribute that. It's just it's a bit of a challenge because because all these projects are in construction. Sometimes they get added on and then after 12 months if they're not don't have certificate of occupancy, they come
off and they can't go back on until they're complete. So, it's not necessarily an accurate picture of what is um official. Um, so I'll distribute the SHI is the latest inventory as the state sees it and some additional context as to what um why some projects
are on there and some aren't. Um, ultimately what matters is at the end of the day, projects go on permanently once they receive a certificate of occupancy. The first two projects that have been well underway in terms of that um group of 40Bs that came in together 936 Brush
Hill Road is actively marketing units um including having their housing affordable housing lottery that should start having units moving in before the end of this fiscal year. And then 7-Eleven Randolph A um is marching towards completion this summer and fall as well. So those two projects should be
added to SHI more permanently. And then also those affordable housing units will be showing up um and over the next um six to nine months. So I think maybe to put a to cap a cap on this discussion for the moment. Um, I
think that um the the struggles that we have had as a select board in terms of thinking about the project were not so much about whether to have affordable housing on that lot or not, but really about the financial cost of putting uh
housing there and uh how it would impact the uh surrounding the immediate surrounding community um which we wanted to be mindful of. We felt like if we could make enough infrastructure improvements there that it would fit nicely in that space. Uh but I just we I
don't see the money right now for for that kind of an investment. And um I think my fellow members were kind of of the same mindset. So um I think what might it might be um nice to hear from the affordable housing trust on this as
well because I think Mr. Dale, you raised a an, you know, an interesting possibility, which is that we kind of have a a bit of a buffer there that we might want to be be able to use in in 2032 or or whenever we receive our new uh
guidelines. But I'm also mindful of the fact that we have some historic property on that or historic buildings on that property which are not in the best state of of repair. Uh which is probably something else that we need to have a think about. Uh so it might make sense to hear both from the affordable housing
trust as as well as the his I don't know who we would bring on the historical commission I guess Mr. Milano. Um so perhaps we can have uh a follow-up conversation with those two bodies uh in the next uh month or so uh to to um to
have a sense of where we might want to turn. Does that sound right to the members? Mr. Dailyy, >> I will I will report that out to the AHT um in our next meeting. I think there's also if we do go back out, this is just an
if, um some consideration for us if we if we need to include um the work on the road as a part of the RFP and what that project may look like. So maybe a complete rethinking of our RFP if we are back out in a year or two if we don't
move forward in this capacity. >> All right. Is that is that we have a consensus to close this item for for now, >> Mr. Wells? >> So, just a heads up, Mr. Chair, since we're on this um 440 Granite Avenue is selling pre-construction and it's out
there now. I know they're not all affordable, but just to give a sh only because a couple of people have come to me and I said it's called the granite at 440.com. people should go there and look and uh the develop there is selling pre-construction already and they are
moving right along and while there are only I'm not sure how many affordable units in that but um they should take a look at that website and if they're thinking of it um and that's the 440 grin up condos on Milton. >> Thank you Mr. Wells.
Uh with all that I will take a motion to uh adjourn our meeting of the uh Governor Sto Trustees. >> Chair, you have some minutes to approve. >> Oh, sorry. We have some minutes to approve. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Milano. Um I will I will take a motion
to approve some minutes. >> I think I'll abstain, Mr. Chair. I do not think I was at those meetings. >> I Yes, you were not there. Yes, that's correct. Um although you I think you were there on the December 16th meeting. Am I reading
that correctly? M uh Lynn, is that correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. So maybe Mr. Wells, we'll do the meeting that you >> I'll make a motion on the December 16th meetings to approve them. Great. >> Second. Hey,
>> motion's been made and seconded. Uh this is a roll call vote. We're remote. Uh Mr. Wells. Yes. Sorry, Mr. >> No worries. Miss Haggerty. >> Yes. >> Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dailyaly. >> Yes.
>> And myself? Yes. Um with Mr. Wells abstaining, uh I'll take a motion from someone else on the other minutes. >> Mr. Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve um the meeting minutes from the trustees of the Governor Stoen Trust
um meetings on December 9th, 2025, January 13, 2026, and January 27th, 2026. >> Second. >> Motion's been made and seconded. This is again a roll call vote. Mr. Wells, >> he's abstaining.
>> I know he has he has to say that. I abst >> Thank you, Mr. Daly. >> Yes, >> Miss Hagerty. >> Yes, >> Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes. >> And myself? Yes. Sorry, everybody just shuffled on around on my Zoom screen, so
I lost my order. Um, okay. Now, I believe I can uh request a motion to adjourn the Governor Stoen Trustees. >> I'd like to make a motion, Mr. Chair, to adjourn from the meeting of the um Governor Stoen trustees. Second.
>> Motion's been made and seconded. Uh, Mr. Wells. >> Damn. Yes. >> Mr. Dailyaly. >> Yes. >> Missy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes. >> And myself? Yes. All right. We are
reconvened as uh the Milton Select Board. Um we have uh committee reports. Um item number 10, uh select board finance committee and Milton budget coordination committee.
>> So I'll report out on those um combined. Um the work continues to close gap on FY27. Um if Mr. Milano wants to provide any updates um on recent developments that we've had on health insurance, I'll let
him jump in um after I'm done. But um at the budget coordination meeting that we recently had uh we've been discussing next steps following the close out of FY27. Um we've requested that the school committee and warrant committee work
with Mr. Milano um to model out the the impacts um if we change certain um growth growth factors for the Milton public schools over the next five years so that we can have a
fuller picture both on the town side and the school side of what adjustments will likely result um in in terms of service delivery outcomes um for both the town and the school. So, we're trying to get
a more um a more tightlyk knit um understanding of the town's financial forecast and the school's financial forecast. And then on for the select board finance
committee, we recently um learned about some health insurance savings from Mr. Milano and discussed possible uses on the town side for savings um in terms of assistance to the building department and upgrades to the zoning code.
Um and that's my very brief update on those two items, but a lot of work continues to happen um with the budget coordination committee and the select board finance committee. So I don't know if Mr. Milano or Mr. Bailey have
anything to add to that? >> Uh nothing to add for me. We were unable to have our budget coordination meeting this week due to the weather. So there have been a little bit more conversation there, but uh we look forward to continuing to speak with Warren Committee and the school committee. I believe the Warren Committee sent out an
email discussing uh their proposals for uh the FY27 budget. We'll wait for response as well as further communication on that as well. Mr. Milano, do you have anything to add? >> Uh, sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, um,
as Miss Hagerty alluded, we have had, um, a couple of tweaks in terms of where things stand. So, I will just do this quickly through two slides so people know what I'm talking about. Um,
pardon me. All right. So, um just to recap where things had stood is we were looking at about a one point um a $1,ion49,000 deficit at the end of our at our last meeting and we had talked about uh or requesting that the school committee
make that reduction to balance the budget. Um what has changed since then is we have had um additional information come in regarding our health insurance renewal. We had been tracking um a 10% premium increase for the town share of
the budget as well as the employees. Um the good news is that fiscal 26 our current year through January continues to track um much more steady than our prior year was. our prior year utilization. Um so our claim expense
exceeded the premium revenue by 20% last year. Uh which resulted in a significant draw down of our health trust. Um which is where claims are paid out of when we set the premium. We need to account for both you know the rising cost of medical expenses but also what our actual claims
history has been. if claims rise significantly um even when costs might be flat, we're going to experience a withdrawal from our trust. Um so the two factors when we're looking at a premium increase are are both the um our
experience which in 25 was was um worse than it had been in recent years and the trend in medical costs which as everybody knows continues to grow each year. Um all that said um costs have stabilized in this year through January.
um we feel comfortable that we should um end the year um with a little bit of an withdrawal from the trust but not um anything on par with last year. So things have steadied um which means we feel comfortable with a reduction in what we had anticipated for a premium
increase of 10% to 8%. So that's, you know, modest savings for employees, modest savings for the town budget, but for the town budget, that means about $255,000 in reduction in expenses um that can be used to go back into to balancing the fiscal 27 budget. Um one
thing I do want to note is that um the town's insurance coverage will no longer include the GLP ones for weight loss beginning on July 1. um that change is is something the insurers are are doing um and are implementing. Other cities
and towns are going through that same change. That that cost alone um is about 5% of our claims each year. Um it's it's a very significant cost um on an annual basis. Um they will still be covered for diabetes. That's just that's one distinction. The
other change that we did make um on a more negative change is that we have upped our forecast for the supplemental plans that the town offers to to retirees that are on Medicare. Uh we offer supplemental plans um Medex uh manageable blue for seniors. We have
increased our expected costs for those to 10 uh to 15% from 10%. Those are set on a calendar basis. So, um we're we're you know 6 months away uh five five months really away from setting those premiums um for the next year. Um but we
we need to set that now. Um our premiums for calendar year 26 range from 5% to 13 and a half%. So, uh the savings would have been greater, but we felt it was important to to make that change. Um the bottom line is that there's $255,000 in expenses that we can take out of this
budget that were um previously in health insurance that can be used to to uh reduce that deficit further. Um so a couple decisions need to be made about about what to do with that. Primarily being should we just put that to use to to resolve and and lower the
burden that we've asked of the school department um in balancing uh that deficit. Um, and the other element I would like to just chat about was um, the proposed use of free cash in the fiscal 27 budget. We
have $4.5 million in certified free cash. We have already appropriated $60,000 out of it. I've flagged here um, what we've been continuing to track as our proposed usage of free cash. Um, some of which we've discussed uh, pretty extensively. Um but so as in the next
agenda item we'll show the capital budget was set at using $1.216 million of free cash in accordance with our financial policies. We need to contribute at least right now $675,000 to the general stabilization fund. Uh so we've used that.
We have um payments to town employees for collective bargaining agreements that would be in this year's budget that we are not necessarily on track um to reaching settlements on. So, a significant sum of money would go unspent in this year's budget. Um, so we would propose to set that aside in free
cash. Um, since for right now we we don't expect to need that um in this budget. So, we'll have significant savings in FY26. We've discussed and and the conversation continues regarding a half million dollars of school reserves. We've discussed putting a million dollars of free cash into the operating budget
stabilization fund. And then the last chunk is in accordance with the financial policies just to again have a have a decent reserve there in case of a in a dire need that we would leave um about $450,000 not appropriated. At the end of the day that leaves about $85,000
in free cash not yet um spoken for in terms of um my my proposals here. Um so as you know to a couple of the points about how what should we do with these savings? Um there is some money. Um so
with that $85,000, I flagged a couple options. Um Mr. Dailyaly mentioned the planning board's request for zoning bylaw recontification um additional hours for the building department inspectors or putting it into stabilization fund setting aside for um you know the stone ice deficit as
potential options. Um my thought would be that we do the first two on this list. Um the planning board requested $40,000 for the zoning bylaw rate of codification. and I think $35,000 will will be an ample start. Um and then the the purpose for the request around
building department hours is that we have part-time inspectors who work hourly to do work. Um as we were just talking about with the growth that's happening in town with the the multif family housing, those put a significant burden on on their um ability to then get out and do you know the regular
single family additions and renovations and and new construction. So, um, my thought is that by setting aside some free cash because this is this could be a temporary need, um, and not necessarily a permanent need, that might be a way to to give that office
some additional bandwidth over fiscal 27. We would then use that time to evaluate whether those positions and additional hours are necessary again for fiscal 28 on a temporary basis or whether those should be made permanent. Um so in my view is it's not necessarily
recurring expense because sitting here today we may not need to keep those additional hours and that additional funding. Um I would view it as a as a sufficient use of free cash and then the other purpose is that building departments brought in a lot of revenue the last several years. So they have
been a contributor to to that free cash um calculation in recent years. Um, so that's that's really where the budget sits is the first question is we have savings on health insurance, which is good news. How are we applying that? And then in terms of the gain plan for that last remaining use of free cash, um,
those are two thoughts there. Um, happy to take any questions or um, uh, feedbacks and opinions uh, as to where it sits. Uh, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Milano. Uh, questions from the members.
Mr. Wells. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Nick, the savings, the 255, are you looking to reduce the school's million dollar plus
by another 255? That is that is that the bottom line in this or no? >> I I think that would be um the you know the path of least resistance here in terms of trying to get this budget over the finish line is we've we had we had
expenses that were going to be higher that now are lesser and the you know the one way to resolve that is to to make the ask of the school committee less um in in fiscal 27 and and and wrap the fiscal 27 budget up. So, so bottom line is yes. Sorry, that's a long-winded
answer for to just to say yeah, >> you're allowed to have them every once in a while, Mr. Milano. >> So, my concern there is that and and I appreciate I really do the the work that Miss Agony and Miss Dailyaly have taken
on on this. your the bulk of this is going to the school side again where on the town side absent what you just described in the in the inspectional services of the of the building department um
the majority of the town departments which we have been sent which was sent away for the last couple years like and I hate to say it be blood like don't bother us you get We're on the same boat again. And you
could tell me if I'm wrong. >> I would agree. I think um the school department is identifying positions to reduce. The town departments aren't in that position. So that that's the only one element here. I think um that's
that's that's a factor for for where I sit. Um, but you know, happy to to thought think about ways to to carve out maybe some of that and put it to use on on some town departments. Um, but that would just be the distinction between where for this year where the budgets
sit anyway. >> Oh, sorry, Mr. Chair. I just was I I just >> you know we've we've >> and I was just saying like when using a stick to beat the department heads on the town side like we've been telling
them for multiple years no no go away go away go away and and no disrespect to my colleagues on the school side they've come continually year after year give us more give us more give us more and here we are once again
fending off the town departments. I mean, just look where we are right now. We're not even, you know, these two storms have have put such a beating on the town equipment on the DPW side. Like their life expectancy just got like
shaved by I don't even know how many years, but that's the type of pressure. And I'm not even talking police, fire, library, all those other things. And here once again in your presentation they're not even mentioned it. They're like an afterthought and you're trying
to scramble. Both you Mr. Dailyy and Miss trying to scramble to do everything you can to take every single dollar that you can find and shift it to the school side. And it's just not a recipe for success in the long term. And I know
you've heard me say this before, but I I can't sit here quietly tonight and not say this. Thank you, Mr. Wells. Mr. Dailyy, >> I just add something to Rich's. Uh, Richard, I take your point and there's been a discussion in all of our meetings about especially the town's um side. How
do we account for the asks that are coming from the town? I think right now, and you know, it's not nothing is final, so your comments are are well regarded. Um, I think right now in in what Nick is saying is that there's no particular or we haven't targeted something that the
funds would go to specifically on the town side. I think we'd have to go a little further in and think about it, but we were thinking about the schools and the positions are thinking about cutting, but there are some other mechanisms that were also still discussing uh about movement, you know, special education fund as well as the
continued conversation about the school circuit breaker. So I think this is just one option um for the particular savings and how we'd be moving forward. But it's really an effort to get 27 done. But your incumbents are not unheard and they are
a big um part of our discussion in the three to five year plan we're trying to lay out in the spaces where where the town does get the asks that they've been pushed aside for for the last three to five years. At least some of them. >> Thank you, Mr.
other uh comments from the members. I think I would just add uh my my own to to Mr. Dies and to Mr. Wells. I I share um Mr. Wells's frustration uh as well as uh Mr. Dy's um you know, feeling that
there are there are ways to to for us to try to resolve this. Um I'm not sure that uh you know it feels like every year uh at least my three years on this life board um were cobbling together last minute
you know anywhere from one to however many million dollars for the for the schools and um and we continue to see um I think Mr. Well's comments are spot on. You know, in terms of this recent storm, the expenses on the town side are not
going down either. Uh and um I I if if I I won't project my own opinion on on what the school committee does, the school committee is going to do what they're going to do. I think if the school committee feels like they they
could uh that the schools could survive with a reduced staff, then that is the choice that the school commi school committee is making. Um I think if the school committee decides that they want to put money aside and reduce staff, then that is a decision that the school committee is making. I don't think it's
the select board's job uh to uh to ass to tell the school committee how to how to do its business. Um because it is their business ultimately. Um, I don't know now, Mr. Milano, if we want to commit that those funds to the budget,
uh, the 255. Um, I'm just not I'm just not quite sure. I don't know. I don't I don't know that how how folks feel about that. Are we are being asked to commit them now or is it more just a state of play?
>> I that latter. I think it's this we had expected to spend this on health insurance. I was actually pessimistic that the 10% would not be sufficient. So, we're happy to be in a position and I don't want to um act as if an 8% increase on health insurance costs for
employees is nothing. It's it's still significant, you know. So, it's it's not like we're saving anybody hundreds of dollars here. So, it's it's a good little cost avoidance, but um we didn't I didn't expect it available. I am more than happy to uh come back to this board with some thoughts on how to to use that
put that money to use. um where maybe it's it's shared a little bit. Um so um I would just note that we're getting to the point where time is of the essence. So perhaps that means we should um add a select board meeting um
if that's something the board members want to hear about in terms of how we how I um would see some potential uses of that funding. Um so you know h I'm happy to engage in that and I appreciate everybody's comments. Miss Hagerty,
>> I think it's always tricky to um you know conceive of these solutions when it's just dollars. Um I think it for me it's always helpful to
understand the programmatic impact of the dollars. So to understand, you know, what what $250,000 of funding means to the schools versus
$250,000 on the town side. Um it's tricky because the town departments came in at level service at 3%. So, um, we haven't really
heard what what they would use this for. Um, but I do think that, you know, the um, you know, on the t on the school side, the um, the funds will have a direct
um, impact in the classroom. So, I think that's my long way of saying I agree that we should have Mr. Milano present to us at our next meeting on what some options are.
>> Thank you, Miss Hagerty. Mr. Wells. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I didn't want and so I'm just I'm thinking broad ahead just and Mr. Milano knows when I mention this he's he's going to know where I'm going.
So, in 2021, the select board voted to takeund I may be off of the amount $160,000 out of free cash to fund body cameras for the police department
that came the committee and I stood on capital that came to us from him. We voted unanimously to support it. Went to town meeting was included in the budget and funded and that 160,000 and it may be 162 and
Nick you can correct me on that. The caveat to that from the chief and I don't like to get into police things here because I try to let Chief King be his thing but I am the chair of capital was that he would need a person to handle the
the IT aspect of it. We live in a video world today where people always ask they were going to need a position to go with that. So now we're going into 2027 and that emergency funding that we
funded in 21, it was funded in FY22 was actually voted the 21 town annual town meeting sits there and I I sit here and I see no Nick and I have talked I see no end in sight for this and the this is just one of the multitude of little
things on the town side that we just kind of push away. They never get brought to the forefront. They never get they just and and to Mr. Daly and Miss Haiti, this is no because you don't even know about this. I just I'm sitting here tonight and I'm
like this is never going to end. It's like a dog chasing its tail and I don't mean this in a negative way again towards the schools. There are town needs that we have to address that address the operational not just the
operational success of our departments but the quality of life for both the people who work in this town and the people who live in this town. This is just like one more thing that just it's it becomes I don't even know how to word I don't
even have a good word for it never ends but just never ending. So I I'm we have to we are the select board of the town. We have to advocate and protect all the aspects that make the town of Milton such a great place
including all of our operational departments. I know that was but again and Nick knows this. We talked about this at Capitol just three weeks ago, like 2021 we voted this and here we are going to 2027 and that free cash money
which was appropriated and funded in in a town meeting just sits there. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells, Mr. Driscoll. >> Go ahead. >> Yeah. Uh I I'm sure you've all seen the roads and
there's been no hot mix put on any of these po potholes that the city other city and towns have been doing. Our roads are really deteriorating and I'm all for education and when I was on the warrant committee it just ne we
could never you can never give them enough you know they always have to come back for more and more and more and the word out in the street that I'm hearing from people they've had it they've had it we have to take care of our infrastructure and start building our
other departments up and uh I'm all for education my wife's was a is a retired school teacher. My daughter's a school teacher and uh I'm all for it, but we have to start building our other departments up and uh give them some more
support. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Driscoll. >> Mr. Dailyy, >> yes. Uh I I would believe that we would have another select board finance committee meeting before our next uh
joint meeting. I would hope that at that meeting we have an update from the schools as to their uh final decisions and I think that is really the piece that we are trying to connect before we make this decision on whether it's the
255 or from our last meeting the discussion on um the codification as well as the money going to the building department. I think those decisions were made with um town resources in mind. Um, so I'm just trying to re reassure our
members, uh, Driscoll and Wells, that, um, we do share exactly what you both are saying and, um, none of this is final. Uh, this is about us trying to figure this out with the schools and also that projection for three to five years from now. All of these positions
as well as needs will be um, part of what informs that. We want to be able to say when can we get the uh tech position for the police? What are the resources that DPW is asking for and having uh a cohesive plan that takes into account
all of these asks and the possibility of us filling them and when. So um all of this is um part of the discussions we're having at the joint committee. >> Thank you Mr. Dailyaly. Any other thoughts from the members? Uh I might
add my own. I I do think Mr. Milano that this is uh you've got a bit of a mandate here to uh maybe think about I I I might come up with some scenarios where we split it in half uh because the budgets are roughly split in half. So if you split the 255 in half and half of it
went to the town and half of it went to the school. Um what would that mean for the town? It's not a ton of money. Um, and then you could also come up with a scenario where the entire 255 went to the uh town. I think we know what the 255 going to school looks like. So, we
don't have to envision what that is. Um, but I I think that those those two scenarios would probably be pretty interesting for us as as member Hagerty said to kind of really understand what is that what are those dollars do and and what specifically are they funding
in town. Uh, Mr. Wells. Mr. Chair, if you want, I'll make that motion to split it to 255 and a half right now. >> Well, I think we would uh I mean, I'm happy to >> I don't I know you didn't expect that and you don't have to >> I'm happy to entertain that motion.
>> Uh and uh and we will because you've made it. Um I think we would, you know, I I just wonder if you would want to defer until we see what the impact of of the 255 is on the town or we can make that motion now. and um and uh and then
understand what the impacts are with Mr. Milano. You could we could still then sort of figure out how to designate the whatever it is 125 or 120 and change. I als Mr. Wells would need a second on that motion.
>> I don't want to put Mr. Daly and Miss Hag in a headlock there, but um I mean, I'm thinking about it. >> The only reason I'm not going to second is because I don't think we need to make a final concrete decision yet until we
get to these final numbers, right? I don't want to say we have to be at um 50%. you know, there's a chance that maybe we decided all of it goes to the town or a smaller percentage after we pull all these numbers together because I also want to see the school's response to the warrant committee's chair's uh
letter that was sent out yesterday. And I think all of that changes the total amount of money we have to allocate for the rest of the budget. Well, >> do Mr. Chair, I'll tell you what, I respect them.
not not to put them in a tough spot. I will um I'll withdraw the motion for now, but symbolically I think you know where I'm going with that and I think you are as well. I >> I think I think many of us are Mr. Wells and I appreciate that. Appreciate the flexibility for our finance committee to
continue to do um some good work here. Um I think that we've set some pretty clear instructions here. U Mr. Milano, you in terms of just overall timing, I think our next meeting is March 10. Um, how does that uh how how does that work
in terms of the overall uh scope of things? >> Um, you know, I think it would take um I would suggest that we try to carve out a meeting a week before that just to try to get this buttoned up um ASAP and and
maybe it won't be on March 3rd, but then it it should definitely be that by the 10th. I just don't want to be in a position on the 10th where now we're kicking another week. So, if members are available, we could try to do a placeholder for a week from this evening um with a more limited agenda. I
>> I unfortunately have a standing commitment on the first uh Tuesdays of the month. Um but I wonder does this if this is a one item uh discussion, could we do even like a a noon meeting virtually?
>> Don't see why not. I can pull members for availability for um for next week, early part of next week. >> Any objections to that? on the part of the members. Okay, wonderful. Let's do that, Mr. Malo. >> Okay, thank you.
>> Uh, okay. And I guess uh did we get to the capital budget? We did not. >> No. And Mr. Chair, just um >> the capital improvement, we kind of spiraled on 10A there. >> So, I provided the materials um
regarding what the capital improvement planning committee's recommendations are. are they did wrap their work last week. Um I provided materials as to what the recommendations that the um the committee made. I'm happy to go through them in greater detail or respond to questions. I I do just want to make one
um observation just based on Mr. Driscoll's um comments is that um both that uh CIPC Chair Wells's uh proddding as well as DPW Director Marina Fernandez is um this year's capital budget includes a recommended increase of the
paving money. We've been doing a million dollars in borrowing and and paving. We have increased that to $1 and a half million dollars um as part of our recommendation for the capital budget fiscal 27 which would be um you know that's that's a more than 50% increase.
Not saying that that's something we can always maintain. Um but something we're able to do this year and in and in in addition to that there have been to give the state legislators and others there there do there have been additional resources that have been pushed to local
um to cities and towns for additional chapter 90 money additional um millionaires tax search charge money that has been being pushed to roads. But locally, um this year's capital budget does include an increase of um $1.5 million, the the balance of the CIPC, um
recommendations are, you know, facilities projects, cap replacement of equipment, and the like. Happy to take any specific questions. Um or if you want a more detailed presentation, happy to go through that. >> Uh up to the members, Miss Hegerty.
So um in terms of the additional chapter 90 money um due to the um bonding against the fair share. So what how do what does that translate into in terms of like number of roadways
or equipment or other eligible chapter 90 items that the town is thinking of like how does this um how is this expanding our capital program? >> So we have um we do just use cap chapter
90 um minimal um engineering services. It's largely put back into the roads where we don't buy equipment with it. Um, typically I can't remember when Milton last bought equipment with it. We had been getting about $600,000 a year with the adjustment. It's it's another $300,000 that's been coming. Um, we have
we're lucky to be part of the Surfage Regional Consortium. So, we get good pricing on pavement work. So, um, you know, we're able it's a multiplier. It's, you know, it's taken um, you know, a 50% multiplier on the work that we're able to do. And obviously we have to line that up with our water capital and
other projects um for in terms of those like pavement reclamation and and milling overlay projects that you'll see. that we're doing. You know, I I don't want to I can let Marina speak to a more specific, but it's it's about% increase. >> Additional streets that $300,000 is
>> I can't speak to what that means for our next round of paving depending on on the treatments and everything else that they've been trying microsurfacing and other aspects. But um la like for example, we had about $300,000 available last year and we did um a section of
Elliot and a couple streets in in that area um last year as part of um some of the additional funding. >> Thank you, uh Mr. Wells, and then it'll be Mr. Driscoll after that. Mr. Wells.
>> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um to Miss Hagedy's question, my answer is very blunt, very simple. two words, not enough. Um, you know, I've been on the capital for nine years. It's one of the things as Mr. Milano heard in our final meeting.
Um, it's one of the things I've really taken a special pride in because there's so many people who bring so much and work so hard on this. Um, you know, each year the challenges in everything from paving to sidewalk to new trees to equipment to all the infrastructure of
the community, the school buildings that just puts in pressure on a committee that for most of my operational life was just a paper exercise. we didn't really put in. And I really have to give a shout out to to Amy Dexter who has been
the person behind the scenes for all the years I've been there and even before she was there when I got there. Um working this. So I I hear to and listen, Megan knows this world inside out. Um well, it's not enough. It was a million
a year when I started nine years ago and we felt I just felt in my final year this had to be the year where we we had to bump that number up because I know I already know what Mr. going to go with this and when you have winters where you get 30 40 inches of snow on our streets
that only just creates such a a um and it just degrades our roadways that much more. So um I didn't we didn't I don't think to to her just final I don't think Marina knew we were going to do this.
So, she really didn't have the ability to give us, you know, a detailed plan as to what she was going to do with the additional half a million. But, um, the feeling of the committee was this was the year that we had to do it. So, I'm sure they will come up with it and I'm sure they will have the use the need is
not not not going away. So, I know that was long again. Sorry. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells, Mr. Driscoll. Uh Nick and uh Mrs. Haggy must know just four intersections just doing a handicap
ramp could eat eat that half million dollars up in today's world. So I do I do applaud uh $500,000 more dollars. But like I said, we're way behind
doing the roads. and her plan is to do the the the pipes underneath the these roads that have to be done now. We can't wait to do the pipes underneath. I know it could be 10 years off because uh a lot of these
roads are awful. They're just awful. Like Amore Road around the casting for two months they had a cone around the casting. There was two big potholes there on Amore Road and it's just not
it's not it's not acceptable. And on Milton Street there's a trench. I I went to the DPW about it two three weeks ago and I finally talked to Nick and it's still a foot drop when you go over it. And uh it's just the cars that you
damage. It just the stuff has to get fixed and uh we just have to start paying more attention to all this. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Driscoll. Any other thoughts or questions from the members
on the capital budget? Okay. Um then u moving forward I think we're I guess Mr. Milano item 13 is where we are now fiscical year 26 year-to- date budget for snow and ice >> we get any of that
>> it's worse than it was last week um so uh entering at the end of last week or at the end of the last uh vendor warrant that we processed um we were tracking at about a million dollar deficit for snow and ice um obviously largely due to the
that one big event but the timing of the events throughout the season have been against our benefit where there've been a lot of weekend storms and and Sunday work where we're not doing the work as part of our regular um duties. Um so we are we'll provide a more wholesome
update at our next meeting as we start to unwind some of the bills from this storm but sign expect a significant increase um just related to this most recent storm. Um last year's snow ice deficit snow ice budget rather was about um $800,000. So we've we've surpassed
that already this year. Um, and a lot of the work that we'll do in terms of trying to pause other spending will be to try to eat some of that within our existing operating budget as much as possible. Um, so we're I've already started to identify places where we know
budgets will be underspent. Um, and I've said this at prior meetings, but I'll just say it again is that this will translate to a lower um than normal free c not normal lower free cash um than we've been used to the last couple years as those you know turn back some departments just won't materialize
because we'll need to transfer that within this budget. So um you know there could be potential state federal funding assistance especially of a storm of this nature. Um maybe not necessarily Milton but we always hold out hope that that that's possible. Um but in the meantime,
it's something that we're we're looking to control our costs in other departments. Um and um keep an eye on this moving forward and hopefully spring will pop up very soon. >> Thank you. Any questions from the
members on the snow and ice budget? >> Okay. Um are do we need any motions on uh the Well, all right. Or we then we're going to item 15, I guess, the annual town meeting warrant. >> Uh item 14, Mr. Chair, that is
>> Oh, that's I was going to say I did miss that. So, uh item 14 is appropriation for the operating budget stabilization fund for fiscal year 27 of an amount not greater than $717,000 at $717,500. And just for the members, so this is
this is going to be a new annual ask um as this operating budget stabilization fund was set up with $700,000 through the tax levy um through the override. However, um whether or not to continue that annually is a select board decision. Um the select board is allowed
to increase it by up to 2 and a half%. select board's allowed to lower it to a some other lower number and then after which they can only um increase it by two and a half% or or just eliminate the appropriation altogether. Um now obviously as we my recommendation is to
um a motion to increase it by 2 and a half% to that figure but that is the ask it's it's the requirements it's a required uh step uh that we'll be facing each year to continue to to fund that operating budget stabilization fund through the tax levy. So, this is a portion that will go on the tax levy.
>> Mr. Wells, >> just to repeat, did you just say, Mr. Mono, that was your motion to increase it by 2 and a half%. Is that what you said? >> Uh, my recommendation that you do that. >> I'll make that as a motion, Mr. Chair. >> Okay. Well, the motion's been made by Mr. Wells. >> Second,
>> seconded by Mr. Dailyaly. Uh, do the members wish to discuss this any further or move to a vote? I guess we'll move to a vote. Mr. Well, you have your hand up, so I'll let you make the first vote. >> Absolutely. >> Uh, Miss Hagerty,
>> yes. >> Mr. Driscoll, >> yes. >> Mr. Daly, >> yes. >> And myself, yes. >> Thank you. So, uh, now we'll move on to the, uh, the town warrant. >> Mr. Milano. >> Uh, yes.
>> I know we have some removals. >> Uh, yes. Uh Larry Lford, chair of the local historic district uh study committee, um notified us earlier today that they'd be withdrawing uh their proposed bylaw amendment for local historic district um and intend to to
reset for October and I know that some there's some additional work um that needs to happen on that bylaw. So that will remove one bylaw from the warrant. Uh I'm sorry, one article from the warrant. Again, that's the proposal to establish a local historic district um in Milton Village. Otherwise, no updates
on the war at this time. >> Thank you, Mr. Milano. Any questions from the members? Okay, let's move on. Um item 16, I think we're skipping that. The road dilot,
>> no update. >> Uh and then item 17, the board and committee appointments master plan committee. uh we have um seven names before us uh of which we were uh going to select two. I believe we've shared
the applications from the members uh from these folks uh to the broader group. Uh and then I want to emphasize again Mr. Wells just give me one moment. I I I'll get to you uh that um we appoint three members including one of
which uh is is member Heggerty. Um the other uh warrant committee and uh planning board uh no sorry school school committee and planning board right >> planning board and warrant committee >> planning board and it is planning
>> planning board and town moderator sorry >> and town moderator >> sorry oh my god >> so all right we were all wrong um they will also appoint I'm not sure if they've gotten any applications in either or the this is a general pool of applicants uh for all three groups
So, just not being appointed here tonight doesn't mean that you're uh out of out of the running as it were. It's just heat one of our um MPIC Olympics. I guess I'm two days late for that joke. >> Well, >> uh member Heerty, did you want to did
you have a a a nomination or a question? So I I don't know if I've ever participated in the committee appointments when there have been this many nominees or this many applicants. What is the process that we typically go
by? >> Do members just like nominate somebody from a list and then >> somebody Yep. >> And if you want to say a few words about why you're nominating them or or um Sure. anything anything else, you're welcome to do that. So, the first the
first um individual on the list who I would like to nominate is Mindy Darbalof um who lives on Norway Road. Um she's been a long time um resident of Milton, raised her family
here, and she was the deputy chief of staff for Governor Baker. Um she has uh an incredible amount of experience um in the hospitality industry and um is an
incredible project manager, which is why I think she would be um an excellent addition to the uh master plan implementation committee. >> Okay. Uh do we I have a second on that before I get to you, Mr. Wells?
>> I'll that's I hands up. >> Okay. So, I second and concur 100% with Miss Hagerty. >> Great. Um, so that's one nomination. I think let's take them as a pair. Um, is there a second nomination?
Uh, >> I I have a nomination, Mr. >> Mr. Wells. >> So, I would like to nominate uh Mr. Burke who I actually met really came to know him through um Sean Tagayas who chaired the
initial NPIC. Um I think part of moving from the pri prior NPIC to this one is institutional knowledge. Mr. Burke brings an immense background beginning with the BRA in the
city of Boston. his background in municipal financing and I can't tell you how important he has been as the impecc to the deposit uh landing and waterfront committee in all the obstacles that we faced from the
time we we started. Um Dick knows he's a long-term you may not always agree with him but he just has a wealth of information understanding and one of the things I think that to to member Hagged's point about the expertise of
Mindy Dav is that we also want to cross over some of the institutional knowledge that Mr. Burke would bring to this. And uh that's my nomination for um the committee at this point. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells. Is there a second
for Mr. Burke? >> Second. >> Mr. Driscoll seconded. Uh is there anyone else that uh wants to nominate someone? >> I do have another nomination. >> Okay. So, we will cons we'll consider them all one at a time then in a vote. Please go ahead. Mr.
question for me is it with if there's a third nomination, we're nominating two. >> We're nominating two. >> We're just going to go by order and vote and then >> um yes. I think what we'll do is we'll take your nomination and then I'll uh ask for votes on uh each uh each of the
uh nominees. >> I think it's almost said uh my nomination is going to be for Rob Lavash. Um, my main point with that being is Mr. Levash is currently a parks commissioner and I know that he is working on a townwide uh, master plan
mostly around our field space and recreation space, but I think it's a good idea to have that townwide sort of um, plan in mind. I think if he's to have both plans sort of intersecting and that conversation happening from
multiple levels levers of town government, I think Mr. Bash would be a real resource um to be able to bring sort of all of this together. I think in Milton we've done a lot of things ad hoc without um committees speaking to each other and a lot of things die in committee. I think it's an opportunity
for uh Mr. Labash to represent sort of two different sides of looking at the town plan. >> Thank you, Mr. Daly. Do we have a second for Mr. Lash's nomination? >> I second. >> Seconded by Miss Hagerty. Do we have any
further nominations? Well, Nick, you can step in if I'm doing this wrong, but I think that we should be voting on uh the three and then whoever the the two highest vote getters would be our two nominees. Does anybody see a problem with that process?
I guess we have to vote. It's a vote to a point, though. I think you could go around and and ask each member for their two votes. >> For their two votes. Okay, let's do that. >> From there. >> All right. So, I will uh go to each member, ask you to of uh Miss Darbalof,
Mr. Burke, and Mr. Lavash um to name two uh and then at the end we will uh the two highest vote getters will uh receive our thanks and uh service on the committee. Um the third will still be active member of the pool and under
consideration by either the moderator or uh the uh the planning board. Um Mr. Wells, why don't we start with you? >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I vote for Miss Davalof and Mr. Burke.
>> Thank you. Uh Mr. Driscoll, >> Miss Davof and Mr. Burke. Thank you, Miss Hagerty. >> Um, I'm going to go with Miss Darbalof and Mr. Lee Vash. >> Thank you, Mr. Daly.
>> Uh, Darlof and Levash for me. >> Well, you guys made my position difficult. Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna recommend uh Darbalof and Burke for the committee. Uh, I have
strong suspicion that Mr. Lavash will end up on the board and I I hope that he does. Uh and I I I agree with Mr. Wells's nomination of Mr. Burke in terms of his uh wealth of experience. Um which is not to say that I don't appreciate
very much my good friend Mr. Labash. So I hope he forgives me for that vote. Um thank you everyone for for that. Um, moving forward, uh, we have, uh, discussion, approval, request to reserve the town green and
baron Hugo Gazebo. Does anyone feel like reading some motions? >> Uh, move to approve the request to reserve the town green and Baron Hugo Gazebo for the following events. Summer concert series on June 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th. Kids concert June 4th. Rain
date. July 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, August, August 5th, 12th, 19th. Rain date from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 pm. And the Caribbean Carnival on Saturday, June 20th, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
>> Second. >> All right. Motion's been made and seconded. I guess I'm a little foggy on which date the What's the second rain date? I guess the 19th of August is the second rain date. Is that am I reading that right? Okay. Uh, and the Caribbean Carnival was fabulous last year. Um, so
we've got motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? Uh, all right. Uh, this is roll call vote as we're remote. Uh, we'll start with Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wells. >> Yes. If the snow melts,
>> it's optimistic. Miss Hagerty. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dailyaly. >> Yes. >> And myself. Yes. Um, finally, uh, let's see. Not finally. Um, we have some one-day liquor license approvals. Um,
Mr. Daly, would you like to reprise your role as our motion reader? >> I don't see them. If someone else has them, go ahead. I'm just looking for the motions. I don't have them. >> You can go home then. >> I I have them pulled up. So, I'll just
go ahead and and break protocol and and read them. I'm I'll make a motion to approve uh a one-day liquor license application for the Catholic parishes of the Blue Hills St. Pas 10th, 101 Walcott Road, Trivia 9th, March 7th, 2026 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
>> Second. Mo motion's made and seconded. This is a actually I'll I'll go through some other ones, too. Okay. I'll also make a motion to um uh approve a one-day liquor license application for the Milton Art Center, 333 334 Edge Hill Road, for First Friday, March Art
Exhibit at Music, March 6, 2026, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Milton Art Center fundraiser, March 14th, 2026, 7 to 10 p.m. First Friday, May Art Exhibit at Music, May 1, 2026, 6 to 9:00 p.m. and first Friday, June Pride Month, poetry and music, June
5th, 2026, 6 pm to 900 pm. >> Second. >> Okay, motion's made and seconded. Any discussion? This is a roll call vote again. Uh, Mr. Wells, you're off mute. Would you like to vote? >> Yes. >> Mr. Driscoll, >> yes. >> Miss Hagerty,
>> yes. >> Mr. Daly, >> yes. >> And myself, yes. Uh, all right. Uh, I managed to lose my agenda. Uh here it is. Uh town administrators report. Mr. Milano, tell us you've got good news for us.
>> Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh no. Uh oh. Well, no. Not that I don't. I'm sorry. >> Well, I guess I don't. So, I'll leave >> I'll leave. >> Don't pull your punches, Dick. >> Um I'll lead with what is um frustrating
news for some. So, trash collection was canceled both Monday and Tuesday. the hauler will be unable and is unwilling to uh make a second collection required for Monday pickup. So, anybody with a Monday pickup will need to um uh hold
until Monday, March 2nd. Um so, uh we're apologies for that, but just with the two days of cancellations, they're going to be in town um making up for uh Tuesday through Friday, and then we'll be back on Monday for a regular week. Um, so Wednesday collection, which is
tomorrow, will be for people who have a Tuesday trash recycling day. Um, and then so on for the rest of the week. Um, we will just we're aware that folks might have more trash than usual. So, uh, additional stickers will not be required um, next Monday. Um, the trash
will just be picked up um, as long as it's out in bags and on on carts. Um, so apologies for um, the delay. We're still working with the hauler to claw back some costs related to that. um they just don't have the manpower and trucks to to to um pick up the Monday uh trash. So,
with the two-day delay, that um set them back. So, we've communicated that through the app, uh social media, through the town website. Um we'll we'll ping folks again in the morning and and then uh send out a reminder um each day just so folks uh don't forget to put out your trash one daily. Um and then
secondly, just um we've already talked about it a bit, so just thanks to all the crews that have been working. Um I it's it's strange to say we were fortunate, but I think in the grand scheme of things, Melton was fortunate to be on the north end of what happened to be a very very significant storm. Um
so a lot of heavy snow crews were out there starting Sunday night. Um they will be back this evening. Um they're mobilizing to do um hauling away from school areas tonight. Um so school areas
will be cleaned up. sidewalk plows are already out and hit all the sidewalk routes. Um and then they'll be back again tomorrow night to do more hauling in the business district. So, um business districts uh probably won't look um as good as some of the schools um until, uh after tomorrow night's
work. Um so, thanks again for for all the man hours and woman hours that have gone into the last um now two significant storms this winter. Um and and uh we'll get through it and schools will be open tomorrow. Sorry about the trash delays. Um and just take it slow.
Some of the side streets, you know, with this much snow, they are narrower. Um some of the side streets, we haven't been able to necessarily get down a black top, so it it might be slower. With school back, trash uh and recycling back. Uh we just ask folks to take it um nice and slow tomorrow morning. And you
know, a little bit of a coating to an inch uh of snow for the morning isn't what we needed, but um it won't be too impactful, especially if everybody's taking it nice and easy. So, um that's those are my two updates for this evening, Mr. Chair. >> Thank you, Mr. Milano. Uh Mr. Driscoll,
did you have a question for Mr. Milano? >> Yes. Yes. Nick, I I don't understand why they added to to have no trash today. The roads were passable. Those trucks are big enough and they have the arms. You know what I mean? I just don't
understand. And then they're saying they're not going to honor that day they're missing. They couldn't do that in the city of Boston. They'd get thrown out. You know what I mean? >> No, we that was really >> Boston would not let them do that. Nick, >> the second day was more on us. When
>> the other night when I'm out plowing Nick in Boston, Star Rubbish was doing the commercial in the height of that snowstorm. >> No. and and I live in Boston. I have a Monday collection. Mine was picked up today. Um so they they did their Tuesday. We we made the call yesterday
afternoon just because we were not certain what condition we would be in. So we made a more kind of um a cautionary pull on us to just say sit tight for Tuesday. We want to spend the day just trying to get the roads clear and not have you guys to work around to.
So that was more on our end than their end. And then that now trickles down to the the Monday aspect. But um a combination of of both parties in terms of that decision- making. >> All right. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Driscoll. Um so moving ahead uh to the chair's report, I I do have a couple of uh things to uh mention. Um, I just want to add my my thanks. I think the thanks of the all of the board, uh, to the DPW and and everyone who's been out there, um,
shoveling, plowing, uh, making the town safe after what was a historic storm, what could have been a worse storm, as Mr. Milano said, uh, but still, um, no small shakes. Um, I also want to encourage residents uh, if you have a fire hydrant on your street, uh, to
think about, uh, shoveling out the fire hydrant. Um, we have had a house fire recently where the fire hydrant hadn't been shoveled out and that does delay uh the response time for the crews. Uh, so if your back can handle it, uh, my back barely passed muster, but I was able to
get the fire hydrant in front of my house cleared out. Um, I would just recommend that everyone do that uh, for your safety, for your neighbors safety. Um, I want to let folks know also that Friday uh, at the high school is going to be the Milton Theater performance.
Um, this is the uh the championship team from last year. They'll be performing at the high school. Uh, it's a 45minute play and I think there are some uh other monologues that are featured. It's not quite as long as the musical and it's definitely not as musical as a musical, but it's still uh good theater and I
would encourage folks to to turn out. Um, and then finally, I want to acknowledge we had a select board meeting yesterday uh to um add a a spot on the ballot uh for the uh school committee seat of uh of Amanda, the
chair of the school committee um who has uh is has significant other commitments and is uh going to be stepping aside for her final year. Um, I just want to extend my thanks uh to her for her service uh to the town. It's not an easy
job. Uh, I know myself, I think we all know on this board, uh, being on a committee or a board uh can be a lot of work, particularly the school committee. Um, and we're very grateful to Miss Sio for her past service to the town. I'm also grateful for her for stepping down
in a way that will allow us to avoid having a special election and uh and just add an extra seat to the school committee uh ballot. Um so just wanted to acknowledge and thank uh Nerio for her service. Um we're going to go now to
uh members reports. Uh so this is uh anyone who has anything that they wanted to bring up to the town's attention or to our attention um or just give a shout out to someone in town um please go ahead and raise your hand if if you have something you'd like to add. This is not
a requirement just a opportunity. All right. Well, it is after 900 PM. Thank you everyone. Uh so we're gonna uh following that uh do we have uh oh sorry Mr. Wells, >> we do want to future it. We're going to do future around I don't have it in front of me. We do
>> So, I was going to say we don't have a public comment response, but uh we have future meeting schedule and then future agenda items. So, the future meeting schedule is March 10 and March 24 of of uh of 2026. And Mr. Milano is going to send out a poll to the members for a pro
hopeful noon time uh single item select >> meeting. Uh so then uh now we'll move on to future agenda items. Mr. Wells. >> So I have one. So um Nick, if you could just put Linda Lee Sheridan on for the next agenda. This is the as you know we
are in the 250th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and uh June will be the we will be hosting the I think the 15th it is the 15th Milton Music Festival and she'd like to come and speak to that. So, if we could put
her on the agenda, I'd be grateful for that. That's all. Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Definitely. Uh, Miss Hegerty, >> um, this may be more of a question, but, um, when does, um, the DPW director
present on um the upcoming paving schedule and just like overall asset condition of the of the town's roadways? Mr. Mullen, >> not been scheduled. It's It's not
happened um in in several years. Happy to coordinate that. And she did offer, if you'll recall, she wanted to come in and talk all things >> paving. So, we should we should get it on the books. Um, I don't know if like during
the deep snow and ice season is the best time, but maybe um late March or you know the first week of April. I mean, most everyone starts um opening up construction season around April 15th.
Um, but it would be nice, you know, there's a lot of commentary in our meetings and um, you know, in in the general public in town, you know, I see things on Facebook and whatnot. Um, but it would be good in my conversations
with Marina, she's very knowledgeable about um asset management and strategies on pavement preservation um and what has to happen townwide. So, I think that our
um our board and the town in general could could really um hear from her as to what what level of investment is needed um and and how the current how the
upcoming paving season um gets us closer to that goal. No, we can coordinate that and and having um new town engineer Darwin Sios in has been adding to the capacity in that office significantly and um you know it would be good to have him be
introduced to the board as well and just to to provide a more global update on the capital projects that they're working on as department with a specific focus on the roadway stuff. So I will coordinate with her and um schedule it accordingly. >> Thanks.
>> Thank you. Uh, I actually have two items, too. Um, number one, I think we have a new animal control officer uh for the town. I think it would uh be nice to uh to have him come in and and uh and meet the members at some point. Uh
again, not a probably a terribly urgent thing and he's still learning the ropes. Uh but that might be a good April or May meeting uh topic. Um second, and this is a more immediate one, um and I know Mr.
Wells will uh appreciate this. Um I you know the the the parking of the post office vehicles in front of the Milton Art Center remains a constant thorn in the side of the town. Uh and I think interfered with our ability to respond
to the storm. I know that we've gotten very few places uh with our with our current conversations. So I'd like uh Mr. Milano for a future agenda item maybe for March 10th. If you could draft a letter uh to our congressional
delegation for that, which I believe would be um Congressman Lynch and then our two senators, Marky and Warren, uh to um to have them ask them for their assistance in finding a solution uh to
uh what is um just an ongoing nuisance uh in a in an important part of town. And Mr. Walls, you have a hand up. Well, >> I agree 100%. As I noted in my email yesterday, and as you know, Nick, I've talked to you about this many times. You know, the Milton
Art Center is our tenant. It's a property that we own. It's um a vital part of this community. They have complained to us on multiple times where where the 14 spaces that this
Select board voted to approve public parking spaces on Edge Hill Road between Brian A and the the church at the top of the hill. They've commandeered and taken over. I went there again tonight. There were eight trucks sitting there. They've
been sitting there all weekend buried in the snow. These trucks don't move and it's just not right. You know, we hold our citizens accountable and the pressure for PA and East Milton is so crucial every single day for them to be
so um arrogant for this community even to the point that when the mil police went to tag them, they took the possession. You cannot tag us with federal vehicles.
Mal, um I mean, Mr. chair. We don't always go this way, but they have they are absolutely standing almost looking mirroring the image of the Trump administration in DC today in
our square in East Milton and this cannot be tolerated. This it's not fair to the residents. It's not fair. It's not from a public safety point of view. I didn't mean to be this this articul I don't know if articul outspoken about this tonight but it's so wrong they've
been doing this for so long and for Joan and Kevin and all the people of the Milton Art Center who are our tenants who are doing so much to try and bring something special to East Milton or to that to that section of Mil to all of
Milton. Um, it's so wrong and I've never seen such arrogance in my life as what they are portraying. There were eight trucks parked there tonight and between the spaces they took and I don't even know how Marine and the DP personnel would plow off the few remaining spaces
that exist. It's just so wrong. And I'm sorry. I know I advocated a lot there, Mr. Chair, but it is >> this is really real. This is like a This is almost like want you to spit in our face and tell us to like go away. Shame on them. Shame on the postal service for
doing this to uh to our community. >> Thank you, Mr. Wells. I maybe Mr. Milano, you can draw a little bit from Mr. Wells's comments to uh inform your letter, although I don't know about spitting. Uh but I I agree with him in in in principle. >> Might do it tomorrow. I'm going to see
the manager tomorrow. >> It might happen tomorrow. Mr. Don't get yourself in any trouble, Mr. Wells. Um, I know we are going to uh any final items uh for future agendas. >> Mr. Milan, I believe we're deferring on
our two executive session topics. So, I will uh I will take a motion to adjourn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All right. This is a roll call vote. Uh we'll start with you, Mr. Wells.
>> Mr. Daily should be more excited. Yes, >> Mr. Driscoll. >> Yes, >> Miss Hagerty. >> Yes, >> Mr. Dailyaly. >> Yes. >> And myself. Yes. Thank you everyone. Stay safe, stay warm, and shovel out of fire hydrant if you can. Have a good
night.