Brookline Select Board Meeting - January 13, 2026

town. And the chair so declares an executive session therefore to be

David Cman I. [clears throat] Michael Michael Rubenstein I and chair votes eye.

Now, that's a far that's a town far far away from Brooklyn, but we all should be concerned about this turn of events where our federal government has, in my opinion, declared war on American citizens. The killing of an A

will be marching in the future and marched last week um to put a stop to it to try to put a stop to it. In that context, I released a statement titled The Shot Heard Around the Country, acknowledging that people will and

Uh, thank you very much. Uh, on the seboard, uh, we have received a number of emails. I'm assuming the other members have received them uh in addition to myself um from people in in the community who are understandably v

doesn't go to the actual person. Um, so I I welcome people to write to the select board about the situation in Iran. I'd actually like to learn more about it from them and I'd like to see what expression we on the me as

Okay, any other updates or comments?

As you likely have read in your materials and will hear in far greater detail from our outstanding public health director, John Klashinsky, these vending machines will dispense nlloxxone, fentanyl, nlloxxone, fentanyl an

Last night, the ACPH unanimously and enthusiastically voted in support of this program and urges your implementation. Our country has finally seen a dramatic decrease in deaths due to opioids in large part due to the wid

U, unfortunately the material in our packet for item 6C gave an unclear description of the purpose of the state housing choice grant that we will uh be receiving. Uh as a result uh many people uh expressed some concern a

The concern was that the uh language in the packet suggested that there was a bias towards uh housing um with this grant program. Um the [clears throat] program awards grants for housing, transportation, infrastructure a

and last week's minutes were January 6, Any uh corrections to those minutes? If

Chair votes I. Okay, let's move on to our main calendar. First, uh, is boards and commissions interviews. Uh, and this, uh, we have one candidate for the Commission on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Relation

Thank you. Um the second question is um last November town meeting passed warrant article 15 um to recognize and celebrate every month of June uh as LGBTQIA plus pride month and acknowledge um several uh days and months

You know the one of the reasons I did apply was because all three of those areas are ones that I'm really passionate about. Um, I have less expertise, I would say, in the immigrant advancement committee, but I'm very con

we've we either haven't noticed that they were out of compliance or um you know there there was no submission on that front. And so we are working with all of those applicants to get through that process. Now, um there a

Okay. So, let's open up the public hearing and after that we'll go through each one of the categories and and vote.

Okay. Uh let's move on to uh the the three categories. Two of which require a vote. I assume we're not going to vote on the ones that are out of compliance.

85 and 34 common victual entertainment and outdoor dining licenses. Uh any questions regarding any of those?

Chair votes I. Uh next we have the uh uh licenses that are substantially in compliance uh but still have a few things uh to uh fix. So I move that we conditionally approve uh these licenses and that's one alcohol license

Um but we're putting I think I may have talked to you about this. We're putting two vending machines uh for which we have funding in North Brooklyn because of foot traffic etc. The main library and Koolage Corner pretty