Selectboard Regular Meeting 6/30/2020
Link to the full agenda:
https://meetings.brooklinema.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=1157&doctype=1
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPDATES – 4:00 PM
Select Board to announce recent and/or upcoming Events of Community Interest.
2. PUBLIC COMMENT
Public Comment period for citizens who requested to speak to the Board regarding Town issues not on the Calendar.
3. MISCELLANEOUS
Approval of miscellaneous items, licenses, vouchers, and contracts.
3.A.
Question of authorizing the Chair to sign an emergency expenditure request with the Department of Revenue related to deficit spending for COVID-19.
3.B.
Question of accepting a grant in the amount of $18,750 from the Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Streets for the Recovery Grant Program to fund the purchase of materials needed to create a Transportation Board approved Expanded Sidewalk on Pleasant Street.
3.C.
Question of approving Contract No. PW/14-25 Amendments No. 1 to Master Agreement and Task Order No. 1 for ongoing consulting and engineering services with Brown and Caldwell.
3.D.
Question of approving Extra Work Order No. 1 in connect with Contract No. PW/18-03 Skyline Park Maintenance with Park Landscape Associates, Inc for an additional 90 days of landscape services in the amount of $10,575.
3.E.
Question of approving Extra Work Order No. 1 in connection with Contract No. PW/18-02 Beacon Street and General Grounds Maintenance with Park Landscape Associates, Inc for an additional 90 days of landscape services in the amount of $58,945.
3.F.
Question of approving Extra Work Order No. 2 in connection with Contract No. PW/18-01 Traffic Signal and Emergency Streetlight Services with Pine Ridge Technologies, Inc for an additional 90 days of traffic signal and emergency streetlight services in the amount of $20,000.
3.G
Question of approving Extra Work Order No. 3 in connect with Contract No. PW/18-01 Traffic Signal and Emergency Streetlight Services with Pine Ridge Technologies, Inc in the amount of $15,000.
3.H
Question of modifying the Brookline Farmer’s Market License.
3.I.
Question of executing the Memorandum of Agreement By and Between the Town of Brookline and Welltower, Inc. and Welltower TRS Holdco LLC, and delegating authority to the Chair to execute in person on behalf of the Board.
3.J.
Question of extending, for an additional two-year period, the Ambulance Service Agreement between the Town of Brookline and Fallon Emergency Medical Services, Inc, originally effective January 1, 2016. The Select Board is taking this matter up on an emergency basis because the term of the original Ambulance Service Agreement, absent the extension, terminates on June 30, 2020.
3.K
Question of approving the School Department’s transfer request of the balance of the Vocational Education Account (29902990) of approximately $43,159 to 313099-524631 offset transportation costs for out of district students.
4. CALENDAR – 4:45 PM
Review and potential vote on Calendar Items
5. RESERVE FUND TRANSFER
Question of approving and transmitting to the Advisory Committee the following Reserve Fund Transfer for the School Department to offset the deficit fund balances in revolving funds not covered by other sources in the amount of no more than $500,000.
6. OPEN AIR PARKING LICENSE RENEWALS
Question of approving the 2020 Open Air Parking License Renewals.
7. UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES RELATED TO COVID-19
Discussion and possible vote on the open streets proposals for Strategy 2 and Strategy 3.
8. REIMAGINING POLICE TASK FORCE CHARGE
Question of reviewing the charge for the Reimagining the Police Task Force.
9. ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Discussion of items related to the Annual Town Meeting.
10. BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS – APPOINTMENTS
The following candidates for appointment/reappointment to Boards and Commissions will appear for interview:
Brookline Village Parking Benefit District Advisory Board
How to Guide a Person With Vision Loss
A comprehensive guide to how to interact with and assist a person with vision loss.
Many people would like to assist a blind or visually impaired person when appropriate but hesitate because they don’t know how. Often called “Sighted Guide” or “Human Guide”, these techniques are simple and easy to learn. The Town of Brookline, Massachusetts, has produced an instructional video telling and showing via demonstration clips, how to guide a person with vision loss in a variety of common situations.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, maintaining social distance when guiding a visually impaired person can be challenging. Modifications to the standard guiding techniques are recommended as we work together to mitigate the transmission of the virus. When guiding a visually impaired person, both the individual and the guide should be wearing masks and be facing in the same direction, so their breath is not directed towards one another. Using a glove can protect from skin-to-skin contact.
Ideas for safe guiding while social distancing: placing a hand on the guide’s back instead of the arm; putting a shopping cart between the individual and the guide with the guide in front; using an adequately sanitized extra cane, as a guiding pole with each person holding one end; and verbal guiding from behind the person with vision loss. The person with vision loss should also be using their usual mobility aid, such as a cane or guide dog, for added safety.
This video is free to all and may be used by any agencies, organizations, groups, or individuals who find it useful. The Brookline Commission on Disability welcomes questions, feedback and reports on how it is being used.
Contact the Town of Brookline’s Community Relations Specialist and ADA / Section 504 Coordinator, at:
1-617-730- 2326
TTY 1-617-730-2327