Brookline Select Board Meeting - January 27, 2026

the chair so declares an executive session therefore to be necessary. Uh

murdered by the Nazis, this day also honors millions of other victims, including the Roma and Cinti, persons with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, LGBTQ individuals, political dissident, and other religious

couldn't appear uh on Bill McGory? Um doesn't appear that Neo is here, so I'll I'll read it. Uh Neil Gordon, precinct one town meeting member and member of the advisory committee. I'm a Vietnam veteran and a member of Br

Okay. And um later on I I'll read the resolution that we uh will vote on for Bill Morardi. Okay. Okay. Melanie, we have one person raising their hand.

No. Okay. So, I move approval of the me meeting minutes for January 6, 2026 as amended. Um uh all in favor, please indicate by saying I. John Vansak. I.

And chair votes I. Okay. Next I'd like to take item 6B through 6S in omnivous fashion except for item 6D I think it is. Um which is the resolution u commending uh Bill McGraardy which I'd like to read. Um uh so let me st

knows all the things that he does other than MCing Veterans Day and Memorial Day. Those are just one of the one of the things or two of the things that uh he does and people should really know how critically important th

let's move on then.

Michael Rubenstein, I.

Yeah, I have so much that I've wanted to say about this and I'm I'm so glad that this was passed. It was something that was really needed in our community. Um I'm also happy to announce that Brooklyn for Culture is actua

Maybe, you know, our our guess at the time was, well, maybe an eager resident said, "Well, I really want to upgrade my um the power grid." And um you know, put in the request to Eversource and Eversource started doing th

So who so who's the requester?

association has agreed they do want to move forward with the project. So, I did also speak with the abutter who had some questions. I submitted written answers to those questions also to the town today. So, I think we've

Uh okay. So there no uh no no one wanting to speak. I will close the public hearing and um see if the board has any further questions. If not we will go for a vote.

Okay. Seeing none, I move approval of

uh families. So really can't answer that question. What we can say is that all of the parking for uh that exists for uh business uh businesses now for their employees uh and for their customers will be preserved plus som

customers that use that that center street parking area surface parking area every single day, every single week, every single month, every single year would come back and still shop at Koolage Corner if they had to park

Yeah, I think that's and that that's certainly fine as where as as far as we're concerned. Um I do want to come back to the question of public uh engagement. Um there was a survey that uh was basically advertised on um o

um the light stansions whatever this process if it goes forward will take a few years and I think we should be thinking about doing something now I'm very concerned about accessibility and the parking garage although I t

Um I think we could have parking garage, but we also need some surface space. And I'm concerned about the winter. I mean, I really think we have to think of this as four season. What does an open space mean on a week lik