Brookline Select Board Meeting - October 20, 2026

Amanda, yes. Anthony, yes.

Miscellaneous approval of miscellaneous items, licenses, and contracts. Uh, beyond the meeting minutes, which we always vote separately, do any members have any questions regarding items 6B through 6 I.

I know I know construction's very eager once this is approved to get out there.

All right, then we will close the public hearing. I move approval of NSTAR's petition to construct the underground conduit as previously described.

And I also vote yes.

Next is item 12B, review and possible vote on correcting term expiration dates for transportation board members. Uh so my understanding here is that we uh the collective we have made an error in the past regarding expira

So the the what I would suggest here and I'll try and frame this in terms of a motion. So right now you have six members of the transportation board each of whom there uh two of two of each are elected on a staggered bas

nine in this um warrant that allows you to have a lot more leeway about when you appoint transportation board members in order for you to be able to be compliant with your own schedule or to your point to kind of if you

board members are in place before local elections. That's why it's the first Monday in May. Um, because elections happen the first Tuesday in May except if Tuesday is the first day of the month. Um so um it's designed to

All right. Anyone else want to be heard before we take a vote on this? All right. So, I will go ahead and move that we correct the term expiration dates for transportation board members to the final day before the first

Okay. So you can speak into the mic and will you be do you have a four minute?

public school teacher in Brooklyn and I am also a special municipal employee as the as a commissioner and current chair of the commission for diversity, equity, inclusion and community relations. This res this Warren art

as both a specialist employee, but also an actual employee. There are other town meeting members who work for our town, whether it's our school department or other departments. What can I justify my actions as a town mee

millions of people who I mean maybe not millions but an entire neighborhood full of people who was not aware of this walk was not invited we we came because we were town meetings members and were deliberately invited so

Good evening, everyone. Susan Park, town meeting member uh in precinct 17, and I'm here um on behalf of the almost 400 people who signed the petition, very concerned about the sevenstory project on uh 26 Pleasant. Uh I'm

uh of the very valuable commercial district without which Kulage Corner would be a much less attractive place for any of the people who are living there now. uh and I hope you'll give um proper uh the proper hearing to u

Yes, you focused apparently clearly only on the neighborhood, but you're asking me to vote for it and I live on the other side of town. I should have had notifications of many of these things and I have not had them eith

um both of the um well I'll say Chestnut Hill Realy in speaking through their attorney um has let us know that they are looking at the numbers are concerned about interest rates as as Katha said earlier um and we expect

board, Todd Fremont Smith with Nord Bomb Company. I did I did want to clarify one as I get older. some of the comments about 2004. We did have an informal 24 2024 we did have an informal conversation with the housing adv