- Why are you not starting?

- I'm try. I tried.

One is stuck sort of open,

but that's as far as I could get to stick.

I emailed Patrice and asked

him to play on with it. So

- He comes,

okay, well

- We can all talk about

what a beautiful day

- It was.

- That absolutely.

- Okay, now hold on.

- And the town is starting

to spring to life for May

as this town's and we

appreciate this new session.

Yes, we do. We're done with snow

all dressed up for the marathon.

- Keep forgetting it's Monday

- And it's gonna be 48 on Monday.

Awesome. Great. I think a tailwind.

- Okay, mark Mar.

- Okay, we're we are.

Good evening everyone.

We are back in open session

and as many of you know,

we have amended our agenda

to provide a public status

update on 40 Oakland Street.

The town received two pieces

of electronic communication

from the Commonwealth on Friday,

one from the Executive Office of Housing

and Livable Communities HLC.

The letter did not answer

any of the questions

that we sent in our January 9th letter.

What the letter did say is

that the Commonwealth is pursuing

housing projects statewide

with a sense of urgency

responding to the seriousness

of the housing crisis.

They're working with the town to try

to build 180 homes on Oakland Street

to enhance the community and

complement the town's housing

and planning goals.

Those, those goals could be achieved

by concentrating

development of the units on

and around the parking area

and permanently conserving

the balance of the parcel,

which does not enjoy

such protection today.

HLC has had an ongoing

relationship with some groups

of Wellesley residents since early 2025.

The select board did not know

about this until September.

According to HLC, they have

been responsive to our community

for our request for community input

and have adjusted their

schedule to accommodate us.

They anticipated our questions

to pertain to planning

considerations, but believe

that our questions exceeded the

scope of what they expected.

The community has expressed

a priority interest in

clustering the housing development on

and around the existing parking

area with a commitment not

to build on the rest of the property,

which they are prepared to do.

They're prepared to require the developer

to offer a conservation

restriction to a qualified entity

of the town's choosing

and to require the developer to comply

with our inclusionary zoning requirements

of 20% affordable units.

They said our questions on

local permitting authority were

answered in the regulations.

If you saw our letter last

week, you saw we had a lot

of comments about the fact

that we had questions

about the regulations

and they are continuing

to work towards a July,

2026 release of an RFP.

So that's what the state said.

The second letter from the Department

of Capital Asset Management

and maintenance DCAM

provided the 30 day official notice

that Oakland Street has been

determined to be surplus

by the Commonwealth for

current and foreseeable needs

and will be made available for disposition

for housing purposes.

DCAM will accept any comments

regarding the disposition

and use of the property until May 13th.

The select board continues

to discuss public input

and all aspects

of the anticipated disposition

and the development.

As you know, we've just come

out as executive session.

There have been multiple

opportunities for public input

and feedback since the select

board's meeting in September.

There were meetings at Mass

Bay, we've held meetings,

we've taken public comment

and we have received

and continue to receive emails.

We now believe we need to hear from

a very broad representative

group of the town

and we are going to call for

a special town meeting in May

and we'll put a non-binding question out

to town meeting members,

of course residents

who are not town meeting

members are invited

and we'll be able to speak

and we will, the date is TBD.

We just have to work on a

couple of things for opening

and closing the warrant and

advertising and things like that.

So for this meeting, we are

have scheduled 25 minutes

for citizen comment on 40 Oakland

three minutes per speaker.

And I'm gonna ask please,

if you can avoid repetition,

we would appreciate that very much.

After that, we will do citizen speak

for items not on the agenda.

So this is the time to

comment on 40 Oakland

and Corey has a list of

people who've requested time.

So come up to the table, turn the mic on

and please give us your name

and street for the record.

- Our first person is

Marguerite Chatelier.

- I'm Marguerite. Hello,

- My name is Margarite Chatelier.

I work in town and I

live at 11 Colburn Road

and I serve on the board

of World of Wellesley,

but I'm not here in that role.

Thank you for giving me

the opportunity to speak.

I was so happy to read the

letter from the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts dated April 10th

regarding the Mass Bay Project.

I'm glad the state has

agreed to preserve the forest

and build much needed

housing on the parking lot.

This is a wonderful opportunity

for Mass Bay to access funds

to upgrade our state college.

I know many in town who

feel the same way as I do.

I want to speak for what I believe is less

is the less vocal

majority of our community.

I wanna urge a select board

to engage in conversation

with the state so

that we have the best

outcome for the community.

A place that welcomes

residents of all walks of life.

But to do that, we need

to say yes to new housing

and new neighbors.

I look forward to engaging

in future community

conversations on this project.

Thank you.

- Thank you Marguerite.

- Doug Youngen,

- Are we live here?

Good. Good evening and thank

you to the Select board

and for allowing me to speak tonight.

My name is Doug Youngin. I

live at 62 Oakland Street.

I'm the president of the

newly formed nonprofit.

Friends of Centennial.

Friends of Centennial

was organized by a group

of committed residents

who recognized last fall

that the proposed development

at 40 Oakland Street.

It's deeply misguided.

Let me begin by clearing

up a common misconception.

We are not anti housing.

Wellesley has made real progress

through thoughtful planning

and community input in meeting

important housing goals under

40 B, the MBTA Communities Act

and other state requirements.

We support well-planned housing.

What we oppose is poorly conceived

top-down development imposed

by the state without adequate research

or local input like what is

being proposed at 40 Street.

I wanna make three brief points tonight.

First, this land was never,

has never been surplus

for over 50 years, this

forest has been actively used

and cared for by the town

residents from Wellesley

and neighboring towns

rely, rely on it daily

for recreation and open space.

Our legal team has

developed a strong argument

that this land qualifies as

Article 97 protected land,

and yet it has been labeled surplus along

with a Mass Bay parking lot

that is full nearly every

day Classes are in session.

The surplus designation

defies common sense.

Second, this is the wrong

direction for high density,

the wrong location for

high density housing.

The state's own agencies have

acknowledged doing little

or no site specific research

on 40 Oakland Street,

yet they're proposing 180

unit multi-story development

with a four to five story

parking structure located on a

narrow winding road in a

single family neighborhood.

Oakland Street is already strained

by commuter traffic

from Mass Bay tripling.

The population in this area

is not responsible planning.

There are also limited walkable amenities

and the site does not meet

proximity expectations

for transit under the MBTA

communities framework.

In fact, it is twice

as far as recommended,

even though the state said it is steps

away from the commuter rail.

Third, we need your help.

The select board waited over three months

for a response from the state

only to receive a message

that makes one thing clear.

The state intends to

dictate what gets built

and where that is not good.

That is not how good planning works.

Our community has spoken

through more than 3,400

petition signatures, 500

residents displaying yard signs,

countless letters and

appearances at meetings.

Friends of Centennial is committed

to pursuing this challenge

through all appropriate legal channels.

We have engaged,

experienced counsel Hill Law

to guide that effort.

Thoughtful housing

strengthens a community.

We are not giving up. In fact,

we are just getting started.

Please visit friends of centennial.org

to learn more and support our work.

Thank you.

- Thank

- You. Doug

- Rayna already knows she's number three.

Number three.

- Hi Rena.

- Hi.

Thank you all for all

the work that you do.

Good evening, Rayna

McManus to Mulherin Lane.

For many reasons express both here

and in earlier meetings as

well as in written comments.

The proposed development is not

appropriate for this location.

I want to focus on just one issue.

The environment DAM intends

to preempt Wellesley's

wetlands protection bylaws.

And please don't be

fooled by any suggestion

that any development would be limited

to the existing parking lot.

No one has ever said it would.

The most anyone has ever suggested is

that the development might

either mostly be limited

to the parking lot, limited

to the lands, adjacent to

or surrounding the parking lot on

and around that parking area,

or would only disturb a few acres

adjacent to the parking lot.

But if you look at the map

or walk the property, you'll

see that immediately adjacent

to that parking lot are wetlands

and surface water bodies.

Any construction is going to interfere

with those protected resources.

And please also do not overlook

that any such construction

will be in Wellesley's Water

Supply Protection District.

And it's unclear if DCAM intends

to honor our water supply

protection district regulations.

When conservation land is involved,

especially when contiguous

to our own Article 97 Conservation Land

Centennial Reservation

Extra care must be taken.

These developments are not self-contained.

They will devalue recognized

open space functions

and values activities can

and will have negative

consequences on the interior

of the land, which can extend

to our centennial reservation.

Two years of construction

activity and noise will frighten

and scare off wildlife.

Where will they go for

the first time ever,

the forest will be shaded during the day

and lit up at night confusing

the circadian rhythms

of living things from

vegetation to mammals.

Concentrated density of people

will necessitate the use

of pesticides and rodenticides,

which are poisonous

to our environment and especially

to our essential bird populations

and industrial skill landscaping

methods will be introduced

in and adjacent to our

premier conservation area

for these in so many more

reasons, including the uncertainty

of what development will occur

on the open spaces on the

campus across the street.

This is the wrong location for

dense housing, for the sake

of the environment as well as

the health of the community.

And because biodiversity keeps

all of us healthy, I urge you

to do whatever you can to stop

this inappropriate project.

And I'd also just like

for you to recognize

that there are people

here tonight in support of

what we're saying, but

they've asked not to speak.

But if they could just raise their hands

and let you know that they are here.

Thank you again for all

the work you are doing.

- Thank you, Rena. Thanks Rena.

- Now we're going on to zoom. Paul White.

- Hi Paul. Oh,

- You're muted, Mr. White.

- Oh,

- Still muted.

- Here you go. Okay. I I apologize.

Turn off, turn off.

He's he's got the, can you hear me?

Yes.

- I, I I apologize. I,

- Paul, you have two monitors

on and you're echoing.

Can you turn one of them off please?

- Paul? Do you have us on two different

monitors or devices or a phone?

Devices? A phone and a computer.

There you go. There you

go. Perfect. Perfect.

- Thank you.

- I I apologize for that,

but I am pleased to tell

you that I, in light

of the comments that

were just made by Doug

and Rayna, I have, I

have very little to add

E except one thing that I

think should be pointed out,

which is that the select board

went to enormous trouble to

ask a series of very important questions.

And the response that we

received, that you received from,

from DCAM, I think

illustrates something that is,

that is clear to many of us,

which is that, that that, that

it has its own plan.

It is not interested in getting input.

And it was, in my view,

with all due respect

and exercise in railroading

the select board in sending

that type of response.

So I, I, I support and echo

what Doug and Rena said.

And with that, I, I yield. Thank you.

- Thank you very much.

- Leslie Hanrahan.

- Hi Leslie. Hi,

- How are you? Is this on? Yes. Great.

Okay. To the members of

the select board, thank you

for allowing me to speak.

Leslie Hanrahan five Putney Road.

After reading the April 13th letter

regarding the noti notification

of surplus property at 40

Oakland Street from the state,

it's clear that the concerns of town

and area residents have not been heard.

Instead, the state appears

to have created a narrative

that does not reflect the reality

of community input According to the state

and I quote through

community engagement efforts,

the community has expressed

a priority interest in

clustering housing development on

and around the existing

parking lot, with a commitment

to build not, not to build on

the balance of the property.

This assertion is deeply concerning

because it does not align with

what residents have

consistently expressed.

At no point have town residents

supported clustering housing

on some portion of the parking lot

and an estimated density

of 60 to 90 units per acre,

which is what would

happen if you took half

of the parking lot and used

the other half for parking.

Even the density of the

nines is far lower than that

which is being proposed

adjacent to the 80 acres

of forested land known as

centennial reservation.

Residents have, have also

never endorsed vague assurances

that quote, vast majority of

the forest will be preserved

or that the, or that

development will occur on

and around the existing

parking lot while the balance

of the property will be saved.

What does that even mean?

These phrases lack definition

and complete protection of the land.

Contrary to what the state thinks, we said

residents have repeatedly

and clearly stated

that the 45 acre parcel

is not surplus land

and should not be used to

justify high density housing the

highest in town in a location

that will ruin natural lands.

Over 3,400 people signed a petition

to Mass Bay in the state

expressing exactly this position.

Signs throughout the town

echo the same message.

This land is not surplus.

The state has chosen not

to recognize these concerns

and has offered us a false choice.

Residents have consistently

advocated for this land

to remain protected as

conservation land under the

Massachusetts Constitution,

not to be subjected

to large scale housing development

that would permanently alter

its function and character.

This land has many wetlands

and wetland buffers

and plays a critical role in recharging

and filter, filtering our water supply,

managing stormwater runoff,

supporting wildlife habitat,

and defining and maintaining

the integrity of our,

our water supply dis protection district.

It also provides valuable

recreational opportunities,

including hiking trails for both the town

and the broader metro west community.

I know you understand these

concerns, I know that very well.

But after a full year of

letters, public comment

and petitions, it's deeply unsettling

to see the state mischaracterize

community input in a way

that suggests support for proposals

that have never been

suggested by the community.

What the state is proposing is not

what residents of this town want.

I respectfully urge you to

do everything in your power

to have this land removed

from surplus designation

and to ensure it is permanently

protected in its entirety.

Thank you.

- Thank you Leslie.

- That's everybody that

signed up in advance

- And yes, Wendy, please.

- This from town meeting.

Wendy Beck. Can you hear me?

Wendy Beck Vaughn PZ 26 Oakland Circle.

I represent ground zero

for whatever happens.

We've lived there for 35 years.

We are in a catch 22

because of the state's current

law without any adjustments,

which it sounds like they're

not interested in making.

So we either have to

swallow hole a new entire neighborhood,

very tall structure to

accommodate the parking.

And I understand there's still some issue

that there might be 120 cars

of students that might have

to use some parking spaces

in that parking lot.

I don't know where that came from.

So you can correct me if I'm wrong.

It will end up either being a

tower to accommodate 180 units

or the land will get spilled

out into those 40 acres

every single day.

If it's daylight, I can

look out my bedroom window

and something is moving

in the woods in human

and dog form every

single day, all day long.

Crack of dawn. I used to

walk my dog into the night.

It is used constantly.

And just the other day I was alerted

to a barred owl staring at me.

I live right up to the buffer,

which it's a little private way

and we're gonna get swallowed

whole Right now the street is

only about eight feet wide.

It's one lane in that

probably ac the three

acres are talking about the

parking lot and beyond.

There was a baral staring at me

and then there was a piloted

woodpecker flying around.

I've seen him year after year.

There was a lot of wildlife

just in that little expanse.

I saw a fisher cat one day years ago

and I thought it was an otter.

That was the strangest thing

'cause they run like otters

and I looked it up and

they're, they need space.

Everything needs space of

these kinds of animals.

And they will be putting rodenticide,

however you say it, around

the apartment building.

And there are tons of owls.

Anybody that walks centennial,

you'll hear them every

night grained horned owls.

And you know the catastrophe

that those rodenticides do.

The owls eat the sitting duck

rodents because they're sick

and not able to hide.

They get eaten in the owls die

and bald eagles, which is horrifying.

Anyway, speaking for

that little spit of land

and those very mature,

we have giant oaks there,

those very mature trees.

It hopefully something can

be done to protect that berm.

'cause they come down from

the college, they go through

that berm right across

the street from my house

and then up into the greater

acreage of the 40 acres.

Thank you. Yes,

- Thank you.

- I'll be super quick.

- Is it still on? No, I'll be, yes.

I, I'm sorry I didn't prepare anything,

but I, I just thought of one thing

that I don't think anyone's talk

that much about Name and street.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Lynn

Youngin, 1 62 Oakland Street,

the Sisters of Charity.

It's in the category of planning.

Like something will happen there soon.

Whether they sell whatever

happens, it's going

to result in more there.

They'll be closer to the forest,

more building more people, whatever it is.

And I just think that that

needs to also be considered

with this, that Oakland Street will

and the surrounding communities

will be dealing with more.

Once that is done in addition to

whatever else is done over at Mass Bay.

It's not just what's

gonna happen with this.

I think that Wellesley needs

to consider just the

overall planning of what

that would also mean with

the Sisters of the charity.

Thank you. Thank you for

letting me speak without Tanya.

- Anyone else? Okay.

We certainly appreciate all the concerns

that you have shared with us.

We take this very seriously.

I hope you know, from the work

that we've sent to the state

and all the comments we've made

and the questions we've

asked, we're continuing to try

to make inroads and we hope

you'll continue writing to us

and coming and sharing your thoughts.

So thank you all very much.

- Marjorie. Let me just

check someone just, oh,

jumped in online.

Ted did. Ted did you wish to speak?

I just wanted to double check.

- No, no, not on this matter. Thank you.

- Okay, thanks.

- Okay.

- Okay, very good.

Thank you all very much.

- Thank you. Welcome.

- Okay, so our next agenda

item is citizen speak.

Mr. Ty, are you here for Citizen speak

- One 40?

No. Okay, I'm just listening

tonight. Thank you.

- Yes. Okay. Thank you very much.

Okay, in that case we'll move on

to the executive director's report.

- Thanks Marjorie. Just a few updates.

The first is just a reminder

'cause I know it's ongoing tonight that

the work begins at midnight

for some tree work,

which we're gonna have

down in Wellesley Square.

And so when you hear chainsaws tonight,

we wanted to make sure

you're aware of that.

It has been noticed, but it

is a bit uncharacteristic,

but it's the best time that we can do

that without disrupting the merchants.

So just wanted to put

a reminder out there.

The other thing is, tomorrow

we're having the Wellesley

Climate Action Geothermal Solutions

for Affordable Heating and Cooling.

They are oversubscribed on

that event tomorrow at the Village Church.

So we look forward to

hearing the outcomes of that.

So I wanna thank Mary Beth Martello

and the Climate Action

Committee for putting that on.

I think there's in the vicinity

of 140 people or so signed up.

So it should be a great program.

The, the last thing, some

fantastic news we'd like

to share from and about

our oldest resident, Mrs.

Gertrude Gerie Hughes. So

Gertie's birthday is happening

and Gertie is, will be

celebrating her hundred

and seventh birthday.

So we love sharing this.

That's on April 19th, but she'll be having

an event over the weekend.

So we did have a resolution

and we normally don't read these,

but given the circumstances

for Gardy, we, I'd like

to read this on behalf of her.

This is from the select board

and thank you to Stephanie

Hawkinson for assisting us

with this so resolution and

honor of Gertrude Hughes.

Whereas Mrs. Gertrude Gerdy

Hughes will celebrate her

hundred and seventh

birthday on April 19th.

And is Wellesley's oldest living resident

and an outstanding member of our community

who throughout her long life

has shared her wisdom, humor,

creative, and athletic

talents with all who know her.

And whereas Gertie was born

in 1919 in Flint, Michigan

and was one of nine children a witness to

so much history during her lifetime.

She first voted in 1936 for

President Franklin d Roosevelt

and has cast her ballot in

every election since that time

with her late husband, Frederick

Gerie enjoyed living in many

states in the United States

and spending five years in

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Later in life. She

brightened the days of others

as a volunteer in the coffee shop at

Newton Wellesley Hospital.

And whereas Gertie is beloved

by her twin daughters,

Joan Orr and Jean Fre

and their families,

including grandchildren

and great grandchildren,

a natural athlete.

She's a gifted golfer, bowler,

tennis, and badminton player.

At age 70, she took up tap dancing,

performing in many local shows

and wowing everyone with her high kicks.

Her hobbies included gardening and sewing.

And she continues to craft

beautiful needlepoint designs

treasured by family and friends.

And whereas Gerie is the current holder

of the ceremonial Boston Post cae.

A tradition established in

1909 by Edwin Razer, editor

and publisher of the Boston Post Newspaper

to recognize the oldest resident

of each municipality in Massachusetts

and a practice the Select

Board is proud to continue now,

though afford be it

resolved, be the select board

of the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Send our warm congratulations

and happy birthday wishes

to Gertrude Hughes for her

contributions to our town and

community and witness thereof.

Set this hand on the 14th day of April.

- Well, on behalf of the

board, happy birthday Gertie.

It's wonderful to hear all the

things you're interested in

and we hope you have a wonderful birthday

with family and friends.

Thank you very much to Stephanie.

And that will be delivered

to Gerie on Saturday.

Okay, thanks Megan. The next

item is our consent agenda.

There are three items

on the consent agenda,

a one day license for the

Wellesley Historical Society

member event on June 17th.

A mobile food vendor

license for Oath Pizza

to operate at private events

and an amendment

to the Lockhart Restaurant

Entertainment license

to allow limited decibel,

indoor only amplification of music.

Unless there are any

comments, I'll turn it over

to Colette for a motion.

- So move to approve the consent agenda.

- Second. All in favor? Aye.

Okay, our next agenda

item is to discuss, oh,

we're not discussing, we

are discussing one 40.

We were originally gonna

discuss a modification

to the development agreement,

but I'll turn it back

over to Nathan, Megan

'cause there's been a

late breaking change.

- So just prior to the

meeting this, this evening,

about four o'clock or

so, I did have a call

with the developer as well

as his attorney Lawrence Lee.

And they have reviewed the plan,

reviewed the special permit,

and reviewed the challenges

and potentially modifying

the design for the project

with regards not only through the review

by the select board,

but in particular the,

the following review that would continue

with the historical commission.

And after consideration, they've

formally withdrawn their application

to amend the development agreement

and will proceed under the existing terms

and conditions of the,

I'm gonna call it amended

development agreement

where the board had authorized

for the porch to be removed

and then reconstructed.

And the applicant sought a

special permit for the designs

that the board previously approved.

And my understanding is they

will commence immediately

with the renovation

and addition to the

property under the design.

- Great news. Any questions or comments?

I'm thrilled that the

house is gonna be retained.

Look forward to seeing that constructed.

- Megan, did they give us any sense about

completion? Timing?

- I don't know completion timing,

but my understanding is

they are literally going

to be applying for permits,

you know, ho hopefully

by the end of the week it's great.

- Mr. Tai, would you

like to comment on this

or are you just listening?

- Thank you. No, that, that

was what I was listening for as

some members of the board may know.

I'm the HOA chairman at 1 48 next door

and we've, as many of our other neighbors

and other members of the

community, we've been suffering

with the way that house looks

for the last two years since,

since our community opened.

And we're just anxious

to have anything done

as it's been, it's been really

tough living next door to it.

So I'm, I'm happy to hear the news

and I hope that that they

do follow through with it.

- Thank you very much. As do

we. Well that's very good news.

Okay, our next agenda

item is board assignments.

And as a reminder,

since we're entering

into appointment season,

the first steps in our

appointment policy call

for board liaisons to reach

out to the chair, not staff

but the chair of their appointed boards.

And to ask the chair about experience

or expertise the chair feels

the board could benefit from.

And then the liaison should also discuss

with the full board select board

to see whether the board

has comments on experience

or expertise that might complement

the existing board members.

The board has recently

established two Com committees,

the General Bylaw Committee

and the Town Wide Capital

Planning Committee.

But before I turn to that, I

wanted to recognize Beth for

her continuing work with the

Merchants on community events

and formally reinstate her appointment

as the select board's business liaison.

That role for the public's

information has the same function

and parameters of other

liaison roles as a conduit

of information between the

merchants and the board.

Policy decisions are made by the board

and the staff will implement

those board decisions.

Any proposals for requests

of department action

or accommodations should

go through Cory and Megan

and Beth will share her

updates with both Corey

and the board on a regular basis.

I'd like to appoint Kenny to work

with me on the General

bylaw review committee

and to appoint Colette

and Tom on the town wide

Capital Planning Committee

with Colette serving as

chair for the upcoming year.

The citizen member

of the Capital Planning

Committee is also an appointee

of the select board

and will be discussed

at the appropriate time.

My understanding is that the goal would be

to constitute both committees

and have an initial meeting

or two before the summer break so

that when everyone reconvenes in September

schedules expectations

and norms are already set.

Would you like to add

anything to that, Colette?

- Yeah, I think that

it's helpful to let us,

and especially in this

first year, do some work

to get ahead of it.

The first two is gonna be the biggest,

the biggest lift that we have.

And I think it's really

important as we go forward to,

to think about leadership and,

and on those committees as a

deliberative step in doing all

that we can to have a

meaningful collaborative process

for all the planning that we're

doing in turnaround capital.

So yeah, I think it's,

I appreciate you making

those appointments now

and giving us a chance to

get started on that work.

- Moving on to our annual

town meeting debrief,

we had four items on the

agenda to discuss the order

of the warrant, audio visual

challenges, separate motions

for town and school budgets,

and to set dates for

the annual town meeting.

So let's discuss the order of the warrant.

As everyone knows, we had a motion

to withdraw from the consent

agenda articles that required

appropriation until after the presentation

of the town wide financial plan.

So my proposal for next

year would be to do non

appropriation articles on

night one after the ceremony

and then begin night two

as we did this year with

town wide financial plan and

municipal and school budgets.

And as this board discussed

last year, I'd like us

to consider grouping the

rest of the articles by board

or department primarily

for staff and presenters.

But I think it will also

help newer town meter

meeting members see more

of a full compliment of

what a board or department

does as opposed to doing them

in appropriations and authorizations

and perhaps another section.

And so those are my thoughts

and happy to have other thoughts.

- I mean I, I think I try

and reflect back on what,

what it was we were trying

to achieve with the structure that we

had planned for this year.

I, I do think it's really

helpful for time meeting members

to have a little bit of runway.

So you have time wide financial

plan, which is talking about

the current year and the out years

and then the budget for the

current year in the same night

because the way

that you vote on the current

budget might be affected by

what you see is coming down the pike.

And I just think it's,

I mean the intention was

to be helpful to town meeting members

to let them have a full picture

and a chance to have all of

that done in one night with the same,

the same body being there.

I think it's a great

goal and I think it's a,

I think this is a good plan to achieve it.

You know, I, I'm looking

at what happened in

time meeting this past year,

time wide financial plan,

took an hour, supplementals

took 15 minutes,

there's a break for 15 minutes.

The municipal budget

took about 17 minutes,

the school budget took about 80 minutes.

That's including questions

and deliberations and things like that.

So it is possible for

sure to do all of the sort

of big budget financial in one night.

And I think it's a really

good goal to try and achieve.

And so I I'm, I'm very

supportive of, you know,

thinking about what can we put

in night one for the ceremony.

The ceremony and

resolutions took 30 minutes.

So with that and everything

else, we, you know, we, we need

to put more things in night one,

I do think it's a really good idea to have

the board presentations put together.

I thought it was a great flow

to have DPW sort of having,

almost owning a night.

I, I thought that was very

effective. So that's where I am.

Yeah, so I, I

- Actually think it's too overwhelming

to do the town wide financial

plan and the budgets.

I think town meeting at its

heart is a business meeting

and I think when you

have a business meeting,

you set the table first

and you give people the

big flyover of where we are

and where we're going and then

everything flows under that.

I, I think maybe we could

have gotten them both

in on one night this year.

I don't think we can always count on that.

And I, I think it is fairer to people

to give them the high level

town wide financial plan,

let it sit overnight and then

the next night do the budgets.

So I, I actually think

having a little space

and I'm trying to think

how many non appropriation things we have

that would fill up one night

and whether that would yield,

- Well we have hr,

- A satisfying experience,

- Classification and salary

plans, revolving funds,

authorizations, other things,

bylaw changes, enterprise funds. Yeah,

- Yeah, I just, for me,

I think there's a logic

to having the town wide

financial plan first

as a business meeting and then

doing the budget separately.

I do think we want people

to be, have the time to

absorb the town wide financial plan and

although, I mean it was an

excellent, excellent document.

It's also a really long document

and it doesn't arrive

through no one's fault

that nothing arrives very

much ahead of town meeting

and that's despite best efforts.

So I think it's unreasonable to expect

that people are gonna

have weighted through

and I thought Megan did a

really excellent job setting

that high level view.

The slides were great and

everything told the story really

well, but separating 'em

I think is advantageous.

- Tom,

- I think it's important to remember that

where this started, the, the concept

of reordering the warrant is

because the duplication in

the presentations was tiresome

between the town wide

financial plan and the budget.

I, I don't think it's a

matter of absorbing, needing

to absorb one piece.

I I, I think frankly

the town wide financial

plan absent the graphs

and charts is an extremely

readable document now far more

than it was when I was

first on this board.

So I, I do think people can

make their way through that.

But I think the whole

goal here is to be able

to adjust the presentations so

that the flow from the

town wide financial plan

through the budgets allows

for shorter presentations

with less duplication.

And I think that's

what captures town meeting's

attention and makes this

- Move faster.

- Thank you Kenny.

- So I guess conceptually,

I think having all the,

like the financial plan

and the budgets in the

same place at the same

time makes a lot of sense.

But I just did collette's math

and so that's 240 minutes.

So if you start at seven o'clock,

we're going till 11 o'clock under that.

And I think

that will have a negative

effect on if we did it the same

way where the school is in, in that p,

those four elements.

So ceremony town wide,

financial plan, town budget,

school budget, the impetus

for the school budget was

to have a robust discussion about it.

And I feel like, you know,

just looking at the audience,

you start seeing people leaving

at 10 o'clock by 11 o'clock.

I think there's a lot of people

who are checked out on night one.

So while I do conceptually

think that makes sense

to do it all together,

I just don't know logistically

if we can pull that off.

- Right. I think what you're, and it's

'cause I've got it all, well it's not

that I've got it all in one list,

but you would be taking the ceremony away.

So the second night would be only,

so it'd be an hour financial plan

for the time financial plan

basically just over an hour

for the municipal budget,

just over an hour for school.

So that's like, you know,

like three something hours

you put your break in.

That's a time meeting night.

- I personally think that

would be fine if you got rid

of the ceremony, well be a separate night.

Yeah. I also think could be

shortened significantly. Yeah.

And I like really, really significantly.

- I also think that this was

the first year we did the town

wide financial plan and the budget

and there may be, you know, 10, 15 minutes

that we could further

streamline those presentations

and you know, maybe check in

with Megan A. Little bit more

about what the chair says

because I did say a few things

that Megan was going to say too.

Okay. Mark still believes

that the two pieces

of the budget need to stay together

and I think that's very

fair both for the people

who are hearing it, the

people who are voting on it

and on the same night.

So we can give this feedback to Mark

next audio visual challenges.

- Mark, can I just one question

on that presentation. Yeah.

So would we still have the

actual appropriations go

after capital plan and budget?

Yes. I think that logic

made a lot of sense. Yes.

- The only thing on that you just need

to consider potentially is the order

of the consent agenda, right?

So we're not in the same issue,

the same situation we were today,

- This year.

Can you do two consent agendas?

So if you broke the

financial stuff up from

- You could non financial

you, you absolutely could.

- You could have two

articles of consent. Yeah.

One non appropriation, one appropriation.

We could do the consent agenda later.

- Yeah, I mean the other thing

I, I was just thinking about

when you were just reviewing that is,

so the bylaw requires us to

give it orally to town meeting,

which the town financial

plan part of the general bylaw committee.

But we could film that in advance.

I mean we had the town wide

financial plan completed

at the start of March.

We distributed the letter

to all residents which

had the link to that.

So every resident technically had the link

to the IDE financial plan well in advance

of the advisory report that included that.

So we could prepare

because we had a a, we have to prepare the

presentation essentially

for advisory committee.

And so in terms of, you

know, that overview,

so you could do a more succinct

presentation potentially at

town meeting, but you could

do a fuller presentation

and have it recorded. Just

throwing that out there.

- Well and that would only

require taking the requirement

of an oral presentation at town meeting

'cause it would still be

presented to town meeting,

but the AV audio visual

presentation would be in advance,

which gives people more time

to digest it and read it. It's

- Just a thought.

- Yeah,

- I think that's yes

and you know, you could do that.

So people who, who like to,

there are certain people like

to prep beforehand, give them a chance

and then some people like to

hear things twice or more.

And so you, you can listen to it once

and then you can listen

to it in the meeting.

- Okay. Work for the bylaw

review committee already. Okay.

So av Megan, what would you

like to tell us about av?

- So I mean I think there was a, a couple

of different issues going on.

I think we'll continue to work on the,

the tech component of it.

I think Wellesley Media,

it, it was not the equipment on their end.

I think the challenge was the sound board

and so we'll certainly work and,

and I think they've tried

to work out some of the

kinks on it with the staff

and I think there was different

people there each night.

So from, which is fine,

but I think we've all had a,

they all had from the school

staff a taste of the issues

so they all helped us

try and correct them.

So I think we're at a

point where we, we can come

to consensus on how it best operated.

The other major issue, which

Brian DuPont largely identified

is the speaker that sits on the stand.

So when we heard it the best,

I would say night one is when

we heard it great

because the speaker was

focusing more on mark.

So when the speaker changed

more to the audience,

so they were hearing it better.

I know for us it was really

challenging to hear as well as,

and then some on the far

side of the audience.

So that speaker that is

particularly for Mark,

we think we're gonna either

replace it or move it or,

and I don't recall 'cause

we were trying to recall,

I don't remember the, the

prior moderators having that.

And so that we do think is

throwing off the sound projection

because you have it going in two ways

and keep in mind the stage

is really meant to project

not from the floor to project,

which is also causing some of the issues.

So we, they have been

really evaluating this,

but we think that speaker is actually one

of the major issues with

the, with the sound.

So we either can reposition it,

maybe have it come from

the side or the back be

because of the angle from

where the audio was was being relayed.

So, and James at the later

meetings was bringing his own

equipment as well to try and

resolve some of the issues.

So, you know, the goosenecks

obviously work better

and I think we've resolved

it in terms of having

a higher table.

Poor Dave Cohen is so tall,

but I think it actually made

this, the microphone closer

to everyone's mouths to do that.

So we'll continue to evaluate that.

But the speaker is the issue

because if you might recall

too, even when we were at the,

the middle school, which

we really haven't had

that many sound issues except for one,

remember there was like

one speaker blown one

time, but that was fixed.

There still was some garble

and that's when we had started

implementing the speaker.

So it's either the connection with that

or just the, the variability

in the sound sort

of going back towards the sage

and then from the sage that

we also think is causing

some of the issues

- We should get a remote control rising

and lowering flat of, you know,

- We're hoping actually to have

something like that here at town hall.

I think actually Glen has ordered it so

that it's a DA compliant

actually so that we can,

we can have it rise and

fall to the speaker. Yeah,

- There there's one thing Roger, can we,

sorry, go ahead Colette.

I've, I've gone back to time meeting

to watch it a little bit

to catch one or two things.

Actually when I was trying

to work out how much time you

spent on stuff, sometimes

even when you were as

as chair was going to the

podium, when you made the motion

to lay on the table, you

could barely hear it.

And so I, I don't know if

there's some testing we do

beforehand on like does

it work for the audience?

Does it work for Mark? Does it work

for Wellesley Media? But

that needs to get done.

- The main issue with tests,

the main issue with testing is

that sound changes

dramatically in an empty

auditorium than when there are 200

town meeting members

sitting in the auditorium.

It really dampens

and tamps down on re

reverberation echo all that.

So it's hard to test

how the system is set up

before town meeting gavels into session.

Maybe we can talk with the AV people ahead

of special town meeting about

doing a quick sound test

for like five minutes

before we actually start the

business when town meeting

members are sitting down just

to see if they can make last

minute tweaks to positions

of either speakers and or microphones.

But that's the only way

because we did ask Jonah the,

the sound guy at the high school

about doing a sound test on

night three and he was

like, there's no reason to

because it's all gonna change

the second time meeting starts. I

- Forgot they said that.

That's absolute point.

- Could we get 150 kids to volunteer

to come in for a little bit?

- But couldn't you have them

test it when they have some

type of assembly

and note where they've putting

everything and whether or not it worked?

- I think that's a better idea.

- Yeah. And but I think

when they do it, it's, it's

that front speaker, you know,

'cause it's unique to the moderator

but we, we think we've,

we don't wanna say we it

and James

and the sound, all the sound te the

auditorium team tech people.

Yeah the tech people at the

schools I think have identified

some ways for us to improve it.

- I just have to say James

was an amazing trooper when we

thought we were gonna have

to move outta the auditorium.

He's like, that's fine, I'll

bring my own sound board,

I'll run my chords, I'll stand

in the little alcove here,

I'll do whatever I need to do.

He was great. He really

was very accommodating.

He would've done anything Beth.

- So I, I agree this,

I I don't know any town meeting

members that didn't have

a really frustrating environmental

experience with the audio

and each night it was different, right?

So there was no predictability

better on television,

some nights better in person,

some nights it just changed

so much each night.

And I felt horrible for

the all the tech people

because they all were trying

so hard for me.

I think there's a bigger issue about

that space in the high school

because it, the layout of it

I think doesn't give a sense of community.

So when you look out, it looks empty.

So when you, and I'm sure

Colette, you saw this,

when you look at town

meeting on television,

it looks like there's no one there,

there are 200 people there,

but it looks so vacant

and I think, you know, at the

break even there's not as much

of a vibe

and then the ceremonial piece

is really cramped.

People speaking, it's a very, it,

the ergonomics of it seem challenging.

So I, I would like to

have a look at going back

to the middle school and to

Megan's point, we haven't had as

many acoustic issues over time.

There. We've had dramatic issues

but we haven't had persistent issues.

And I just think there's a

lot to be said about a space

that drives people to feel more connected

to one another. And

- There's a lot of issues, right?

There's parking James, it's much easier

for James at the high school.

There's a a lot of logistical questions

and of course the one that none

of us can control is the school schedule,

which is why we're setting

dates a year in advance

so we can kind of preempt their

or influence their scheduling so

that we can have town meeting

when we need to have it.

- I'm just thinking Marjorie

about our special town meeting

and we really do want a sense of community

and a sense of teamwork

and a sense of working

together to get somewhere.

And I think the, I don't

know if it's the slope

or the tightness or the

way those aisles are,

but it does have a

tighter community feeling

and it may be something worth exploring.

- Okay, Tom? - I, I actually

was gonna raise something else

and want to, but I, I have to say on this,

I squarely agree with Beth.

I, I think it is a much

better experience as a,

as the community of town

meeting at the middle school.

And I realize I, I realize

that there are some

negatives associated with it,

but I don't recall having the

level of physical discomfort

that people were having at the high

school, at the middle school.

I don't think we were

having the same audio visual

issues at, at the, at the middle school.

I I, I think that's

right on on this point,

but I was gonna raise

the H-V-A-C-I was having

conversations with Joe during

the day before each night.

There was only one night that

it was uniformly comfortable

in that, in that hall I was

watching people put their

jackets on it.

It was physically just uncomfortable.

Now I think part of this is, I,

I don't know why we're not roping off some

of the seats on the side and

and instructing people

to sit in the middle.

I think that would help. I mean

what Joe's doing is logical,

which is setting the hall

to occupant to occupy,

but it's not occupied the

way people are spread out and

therefore it over chills

and I think it's very

difficult for people to make it

through the whole night

if they're physically

uncomfortable To that extent,

- Well we should, you

know, take note of all

of these considerations

and we'll have to balance

and see what's available

and what works the best

for the most number

of those considerations in

town meeting members. And I

- Just wanna raise the point

and touch on it a little bit, Margie,

but we have had a survey

before where time meeting

members said they preferred the

high school for a number of reasons.

I know people have

different opinions on that

and we did have somebody really fall

and really hurt themselves

at the middle school

- And I do appreciate that Colette.

Yeah, but we had an earlier survey

that preferred the middle school, right?

- So I mean people have

different opinions. It

- Depends on the group.

- Yeah. So I, I mean there're

certainly, I mean there,

there might not have been an

audio, audio issues at the

middle school, but there's a lot of visual

issues at the middle school.

- Yeah, yeah, right.

So we're probably never

gonna get every something

that everybody loves, but

we'll try to get it better

for the most of the factors

that we need to consider

separating school and town

budget motions for me,

because enrollment is dynamic

and we're always going

to have an examination

of shared costs

and direct costs, I like

seeing them separately.

So I would

support keeping the

two budgets in separate

motions going forward.

Others?

- So Marjorie, I agree with you

and I think it was the first

year so we didn't have a lot

of conversation, but

that doesn't mean there won't

be conversation on either

one moving forward.

I just think it, it's a good

chance to take a break and talk

and then let people

focus on the next thing.

I thought it worked really well

- And now we know how to do it.

- The other thing, I got a lot

of positive feedback

about the chief speaking

and I think if you think

about what happened

with the enterprise fund presentations

and the chief speaking,

I think there's a desire

in the community to get

a little bit of education

about what's going on

with the departments and

put a face on the facility.

And I would urge us to look

at not long presentations,

but just like a quickie on what's new.

I know it's not a budget

thing, but what's new

or what's changed or what's

something in the key departments

where the community

places high value on them

and we want that kind of

sense of trust and loyalty.

- I think that's something

that Mark Kaplan would like

to raise at the debrief at the all board.

- So my question, so I I liked

the separate presentation.

My, my question was just for staff, now

that we've figured it out, I know it was

a heavy lift in the first year.

What's the maintenance

of that going forward?

- Well now that we have the allocated

how we would break up the budget

based upon particular line

item, obviously subject

to change based upon programmatic needs,

I think it's easier to employ.

I do think as we evaluate

the year end breakout,

I think some of that likely

would, that agreement MOU

that we have with the

schools would likely need

to be enhanced a little bit

to make sure that we continue

to capture everything.

We, we broke some things

out, we obviously went down

to a very fine level,

but, you know, once you

establish the forms,

and I really want to thank Paul Mangano

for spending a substantial

amount of time on that along

with Rachel and Tiana.

We have the process now

and we, we worked that out

with all of the departments.

So I think it's easier to

each year, you know, it's,

it's no different than once

you have the, the forms

for the capital budgets

or the main budgets.

Like, you know, how to

fill the form out now.

- So I I, I would like to

see that going forward.

And I just wanted to add to

Beth's comment about the Chiefs.

I did also have a couple

conversations on that

and when, actually I think Margie was

with me when I was

sharing with the resident

who was asking me that

we had the chiefs come in

and update us quarterly for

a pretty lengthy discussion.

You know, that resident really

appreciated knowing that

and was gonna go and watch those meetings.

So I think what we could do

is maybe send a blast out,

a periodic blast to time meeting

members when we have things

like either department heads or chiefs

or like, you know, last

year we did a thing

where we had the boards that be

appoint come and speak to us.

I think it'd be helpful to

let time meeting members know

then, because I think the

presentation by necessity needs

to be focused on appropriation.

But we have, you know, 20

minutes, half an hour conversation

with the chiefs about what's

happening in the department,

which I think is much richer.

And then our, our questions in back

and forward adds a lot to it.

So I think that we need

to let time meeting members

know when that's happening

and saying, heads up, you

know, this, this is happening,

this, the quarterly updates

happening on this date.

We encourage you to watch

it to get to know the chiefs

- Because the chiefs are so busy.

Megan sets the schedule

for their quarterly updates

far enough in advance

that we should be able to

include it in the w you know,

heads up folks, the

chiefs are coming in two

weeks or whatever.

- And we even could, I

mean to Colette's point,

do a targeted email yes.

To all town meeting members

from the select board office

to let them know the public

safety update when our

legislative delegation

comes to do their update.

But to that point, I

think it's a good idea.

- That's a good idea. Tom.

- I I couldn't agree more.

And I, you know, after the fact

we can send out a link and,

and the fact that it was done, the, one

of the reasons I I am so supportive

of this idea is I am very wary.

We have spent a lot of time creating

efficiency within town meeting i,

it really is going backwards to begin

to have individual

departmental presentations.

And I think you have to

be very leery of assuming

that it can be done in five

minutes, for example, just

to pick a number and

because sometimes you're

going to get in trouble

and it's gonna end up with

a lot of misunderstanding

and the need for a much

longer presentation than when

it was ever intended.

So I think trying to

make the community aware

of who's coming to our meetings

when, you know, for example,

we could have notified people

of the discussion about the

DPW campus feasibility study.

That was a, that's a

significant expenditure for a,

an expensive project.

People might want to watch

it either live or later.

So I think we could be doing

more of this about our meetings

with upcoming agendas.

- The other thing that

does is it gives people

multiple exposures to the

department in terms of

what they're doing, which

they can then relate

to the budget presentation

or the budget that they read.

Oh, I see this is the

result of them doing this

or this is the cost of them doing that.

They can, you know, pair the two together.

If they see the presentations

in advance of town meeting,

they can put them together.

That's a great idea. Yeah. Okay.

So we like the split budget motions,

ATM 2027.

- One other thing I thought

we should think about,

which is the use of electronic voting.

I thought there were a lot

of places where it made a lot

of sense just to do the voice vote

and I personally like

that it instills a little

more energy into the room

and it kind of moves certain things along.

I think we should maybe look

at using it a little bit more

because you don't know

how many people are there

at the beginning and the end.

And I think looking at the

cadence of using the electronic

voting a little bit more just so

that we have some accountability

is worth thinking about.

- That was one of the original

purposes of getting it.

I also would like to raise

getting attendance published.

It used to be in the Townsman.

I think it's really important

for residents to know which

of their town meeting members

are attending town, meeting

from meeting to meet, I mean, from fall

to spring over their term.

It's, it's very important.

- On, on that point,

and this is not my idea,

somebody else said it to me

and I don't remember who, but,

and I don't know if

you can do this or not,

but can you put on the ballot

the percentage of attendance

of a town meeting member

who is up for reelection?

- I don't know if you can do that.

- I would want to know that.

I don't know. We can ask

- Casey for sure.

Or it could be, it could

be published, you know,

after town meeting and

again, before elections. We,

- We had the conversation

a bit today actually,

because interestingly,

I think the town clerk would

say we should eliminate

electronic voting because

it town meeting goes faster

and it's very costly.

And I said, well, it's exactly,

I said basically verbatim

what Beth just said is, I

said, it's accountability.

And so certainly you

could get accountability,

a check-in in terms of who shows up.

But you, you don't get then who stayed

for the entire duration.

And so we, we had actually

had that conversation.

Well, we can publish the,

the check-in, you know,

we can work with Casey on that,

but we can certainly ask about the,

for the ballot.

- Yeah, because I think

there's a huge percentage

of the town that's not

paying attention at that,

that may show up in vote.

And I think that would be

information in real time

that would be very interesting to people.

- Right. The problem with

doing it on check-in is

that people leave during the meeting.

Right. But one,

- You, you, I'm sorry,

I was just gonna say it's

a very interesting idea,

but I'm wondering, I don't

know the answer to this.

If there wouldn't be some

strong challenges based on,

you know, there's a difference

between the woman, the,

excuse me, the person who

just decides, I'm gonna go

to Arizona for a week in

the middle of town meeting,

that's just my time

to play golf versus somebody

who's ill, I mean, who has COVID?

So I don't know how you differentiate

between the 75% attendance in the person

where it's legitimate

or a public health issue versus not when

it's published on the ballot.

- Well that's why I said from

meeting, from town meeting

to town meeting, because

you could get a pattern

and if town meeting members

wanna know, I mean they could,

I mean, if residents wanna

know, they could talk

to their town meeting members. Well

- I, I'll say that when I

ran for time meeting, I, the,

the townsman published it

and I looked at it to see,

I mean is there anybody you

know who doesn't go?

Everybody attended

attendance, like fell off

during COVID has never come back.

So, and I know people can be sick.

They'll tell you when I looked

at that, everybody attended

- What during one of the

votes we had 180 town meeting

members was 25% down. That's a lot.

- Were over 200 much.

- No, maybe what maybe one.

Maybe the last night. One

- Night.

Yeah, the last night.

- Okay. So annual town meeting is is

March 29th, 30th, April 5th, sixth, 12th,

and 13th at a location TBD for ATM 27.

The fall special town

meeting is November 9th, 10th

and 16th at the high school.

And if folks are tuning in

after the beginning of our

meeting, the board is going

to schedule a special

town meeting in May to

get input from town meeting members

and residents on their

preferred course of action

or actions with respect to Mass Bay

and 40 Oakland Street.

Mark and Madison would both

like to speak at the all board.

So I will send Mark the draft tomorrow.

We spoke with Tom

and I met with Madison this

morning so we know what he wants

to say, but I'd prefer

not to paraphrase Mark

and let him say it the

way he wants to say it.

Our next agenda item is

administrative matters

and we have four sets of minutes.

- So on three sets of

minutes, they were very,

very minor edits.

There was one edit pointed out to me

that might res require some discussion on

February 24, 20, 26 minutes.

Line one 13 there was a

proposed strike through,

but another board member

wants to keep it in.

That's the only thing that

might warrant some discussion.

Otherwise it seemed like

it was just ministerial.

Okay, let me go back. Line one 13

on the two February 24th.

2026 minutes. Okay.

- And that, that was me that

requested to keep that the

- Winter supplement.

- No, this is the

February 24th line one 13.

It's the right before that.

So the board members appreciated

the comprehensive planning

but requested time to

review the detailed proposal

as it was received just prior to me. Oh,

- Sorry.

It's 1 0 9. I guess the other

edits Bumped it down, sorry.

1 0 9 in your packets.

- It's one 13. One 13 in mine. Sorry.

So I that, that was my

comment during the meeting

because I would've given comments

during the meeting but I didn't have time.

And I have actually, it reminded me

that I need to send them informally.

I've given informal comments to staff,

but I'd prefer to keep that in.

- That's fine.

- Okay.

- So do you want me to make

a motion? So let me just see.

Move to approve the minutes of,

- Lemme

- See.

April 6th, 2026. April 7th, 2026.

February 10th, 2026 and

February 24. 2026 as amended.

- Second.

- All in favor?

- Aye. Aye.

- Alright.

Our next agenda item is

an executive session.

I request a motion to enter

into executive session

to conduct strategy with

respect to bargaining

with the Wellesley

Firefighters library staff

and Supervisor Association

and the custodian unions.

As I declare, having such

discussions in open session

may be detrimental to the town.

- So let me just find my motion.

- Sorry.

- Okay,

move to enter executive

session under Mass General Law

chapter 30, subsection 21,

A three to conduct strategy

with respect to negotiations

with the Wellesley Free

Library Staff Association

and Wellesley Free Library

Supervisor Association

and the A-F-S-M-E Local

49 Custodian Association.

As the chair is declared

that having such discussions

in open session is detrimental

to the town's position.

And to invite executive

director Megan Chop,

assistant executive director Corey Testa,

HR director Dolores Hamilton.

Who else are we inviting?

- I think library's still on,

but you can add in case they're available.

To jump on Marla Robinson

and Jamie Jergensen,

- Our library director Jamie Jergensen

and board of library

trustees chair Marla Robinson

to executives and no.

Okay. To executive session

- Second.

Beth Aye. Kenny Aye. Tom Aye.

Colette Aye. And I vote Aye as well.

So we will come out of executive session

for the sole purpose of

adjourning the meeting

and our next meeting is,

could be April 27th. Our

- Next scheduled meeting is

April 28th at the moment.

- Okay. Next scheduled meeting,

April 28th and then May 5th

and May 12th is the all board meeting.

- So I need to actually,

I forgot to put the,

to exit executive session

for the sole person

adjourning onto my motion.

So I'm adding that in. Corey, sorry.

- While we're waiting for

Wells Media to jump off,

I'm passing around the

formal resolution for Gerdy

that when he gets to UK.