Brookline Select Board Meeting - March 10, 2026

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

Michael Rubenstein I and chair votes I. The select board will reconvene an open session following following the executive session.

know of as the person that Fort Knox was named after. Uh used to be Secretary of Treasury. Uh but in 1776 he took a band of folks revolutionaries to Fort Ticonderoga to to to uh recover cannons and other ordinance that t

incisive uh conversations with the community. So again, next week, next Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. at Florida Ruff and Ridley School, the auditorium. Uh, come one, come all. We look forward to seeing you there. And on a partic

Um but we will select from those three finalists. Uh and they each of them will have their sticker printed and then you can pick up your Brookline I voted sticker when you go to vote. Um you can pick up more than one. Uh

board? No. I move approval of the meeting minutes from February 24, 2026.

discussion and I'd like to pull out 6P um relative to the Brookline uh um community development corporation um matter because I see that David Cavell who's the interim executive director is in the audience. If any select

Question of voting to affirm the housing advisory board's February 4th vote to recommend with conditions and that's the key here. housing trust funding in the amount of $822,764 for the Brooklyn Community Development Cor

housing advisory board on um the funding of this critically important renovation of uh the u uh community development corporation's housings on on uh Boston Street. Um, and I just wanted to give the select board an oppor

difference when you compare the two decisions a as to how much being is being spent per unit because I I don't know what our limit is on how much we spend per unit, but I do know that the more we spend per unit, the fewe

It's fairly high as you as I think as I think you're aware. Um the this and actually this was something that was reviewed um in our submission to the HAB and was reviewed extensively um when we presented uh at their Febr

Including the two proclamations that were read earlier. All right.

of materials for this meeting. Um, and we're going to actually sign the bond uh

Authority with respect to each of the foregoing bonds. Um, unless there any

or convenient to carry out or to carry into effect the provisions of the

meeting through the multiple means. I'm trying to follow it. But I do want to offer a couple of comments. First, um, thank you to, uh, the MBTA for their patience, their presentations, and thank you to all the town staff

Yeah. At the end. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

retaining a U-turn option. That clear?

Corridor in consultation with town council and the commissioner of public

move favorable action on warrant article 3 annual authorization of compensating

town meeting to do and asking the select board to make a recommendation on is support of a as you say a specific set of of bills um that have specific mechanisms in there for accomplishing a specific goal around healthca

uh on Monday night um with the uh city Newton city council's uh committee on planning um and zoning. Um they raised similar concerns. Their two concerns remain primarily um how traffic will be handled at the intersection

community advisory group um the number of uh other stakeholders who have been involved um and as you and I discussed uh yesterday um this process is in some ways more complex than other processes because we have not only

Um, so and I conveyed this to Mike. We had a good conversation about this. I am really concerned about this not passing, right? this this to achieve a twothirds vote with the number of issues that are unresolved. There's