Select Board Work Session - June 16, 2026

My vote.

Yeah, I'd like to just pull up and really discuss but just confirm that the UMass grant we're talking about relates to fiscal year '23, and that does not have any of the My that we're concerned about with respect to admi

Yeah, had we had the override not passed we we we didn't specifically say that position would be cut in FY 27, but because the sustainability division would sunset [clears throat] in FY 28 we'd likely leave that position

And then regarding 1R, so 1R proposes approval of a design advisory team for the Chestnut Hill commercial overlay zoning district and it sets number of positions by category. The specific individuals who would comprise t

How long does that normally take?

Uh so, I'm going to amend then my motion. So, one approval, I move that we approve items 1B through 1S excluding 1P and 1R as amended by Michael.

All right. So, with that we were mid-vote. Bernard voted yes. Michael?

You know, we could draft a motion that basically says if places wish to stay open, you know, hourly they currently are until 3:00, um subject to approval from the um police department, um then they can if they can do tha

But the board did ask that anyone wanting to stay open until 2:00 needed to come directly to the select board directly to the licensing board to get an approval.

So, theoretically some places can stay open until 2:00, but in practice what happened, for example, you just approved on the this latest agenda a new business on Comm Ave. They wanted to stay open until 3:00. Taco Bell n

All right, so I move approval of authorizing holders of alcoholic beverage service licenses to remain open until 3:00 a.m. on the nights of World Cup matches.

The only other thing I would just add to your note is that if we subject to the police department's approval. Um and that's a very That's very easy, right? You know, someone can call our office. The police department can

Right, I worry about that, too. I'm actually less concerned about the policy part and more the practical. So if there's an opportunity that presents itself, we want to be prepared to act.

Um so there I'm I'm concerned about in the first in the first sentence we talk about there being two reasons for removal, not attending meetings and a conflict of interest. But then in the second sentence we talk about n

showing zero um capacity zero to one kilowatt. And you might have seen um in the press recently that there's a very large substation that's being built underground um in Kendall Square or somewhere in Cambridge. Um so cl