Voting:Board of Selectmen Voted: That the 1992 vote of Town Meeting (Article 41) as subsequently amended by the of the 2015 vote of Town Meeting, (Article 12) reorganizing is hereby replaced in its entirety with the following:
A. Vision 2020 Name Change
That the committee previously known as Vision 2020 Standing Committee will henceforth be known as Envision Arlington Standing Committee.
B. Envision Arlington Standing Committee Establishment and Purpose
That the Town hereby provides for the appointment of a committee and advisory board, to be called the Envision Arlington Standing Committee, which will create, implement, monitor, and review methods for open, town wide public participation in the Envision Arlington process. The Envision Arlington process is intended to be an ongoing process of discussion, action and review whereby all members of the community are invited to participate in a range of activities (including surveys, forums and online discussions) aimed at developing and refining how our community realizes the intentions of vision statements for Arlington (previously known as Town Goals under Vision 2020). The committee will create task groups or working groups, and support existing ones, consisting of residents, community groups, town personnel and other stakeholders. The committee will report to Town Meeting on the action items and evolving vision that will result from the Envision Arlington process.
C. Standing Committee Membership, Quorum, Administration, & Organization
The Standing Committee shall consist of nine (9) Voting Members including a Chairperson, and a ten (10) person non-voting Advisory Board. Voting members and the Advisory Board shall both be charged with fulfilling the mission of Envision Arlington. Only Voting Members shall have authority to make decisions and set policy of the Committee and otherwise bind the committee by a majority vote of a quorum. However, the Advisory Board shall have the right to be recognized at meetings and request topics and issues be placed before the Standing Committee on agendas. A quorum shall consist of a majority of Voting Members (5).
1. Appointment of Voting Members
a. Voting Members shall be comprised of:
i. Two (2) Town of Arlington residents appointed by the Town Moderator for three year terms;
ii. Two (2) Town of Arlington residents appointed by the Superintendent of Schools with approval of the School Committee for three year terms;
iii. Two (2) persons appointed by the Town Manager with approval of the Board of Selectmen for three year terms;
iv. Two (2) persons appointed by the Director of Planning and Community Development with approval of the Arlington Redevelopment Board for three year terms; and
v. One (1) Chairperson, who shall be a resident nominated by a majority vote of the eight (8) above-listed Voting Members following recommendations from the Town Manager and School Committee Members, and approved by the Board of Selectmen. The Chairperson shall serve an initial three-year term, with all subsequent terms for three years.
b. All Voting Members shall be eligible for reappointment.
c. At all times at least one of the four collective appointments between the Town Manager and the Director of Planning shall be a current Town employee. All Town Manager and Director of Planning appointees who are not Town employees must be Town residents.
d. A vacancy of the Committee shall be filled by the relevant appointing or designating authority.
2. Advisory Board
The Advisory Board will be composed of the following ten (10) total members: the Town Manager, the Superintendent of Schools, the Town Moderator, the Director of Planning and Community Development, Town Counsel, one secondary student residing in the Town of Arlington appointed by the Superintendent and approved by the School Committee on a one-year term, and the Chairpersons of the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, the ARB and the Finance Committee or such bodies’ designees.
D. Effective Date and Appointments
Following Town Meeting approval of this revised vote, all active Voting
Member appointments to the Vision 2020 Standing Committee will remain in effect for the Envision Arlington Standing Committee.
Board of Selectmen Supplemental Comment:
There are two administrative changes to the vote on Article 21 (page 27 of the Report of the Board of Selectmen). First, the word “reorganizing” should be stricken in the first paragraph. Second, the language of section “B” should be slightly modified to clarify that Vision 2020’s present “Town Goals” are not being replaced. The relevant portions should read as follows:
VOTED: That the 1992 vote of Town Meeting (Article 41) as subsequently amended by the of the 2015 vote of Town Meeting, (Article 12) reorganizing is hereby replaced in its entirety with the following:
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Envision Arlington Standing Committee Establishment and Purpose
That the Town hereby provides for the appointment of a committee and advisory board, to be called the Envision Arlington Standing Committee, which will create, implement, monitor, and review methods for open, town wide public participation in the Envision Arlington process. The Envision Arlington process is intended to be an ongoing process of discussion, action and review whereby all members of the community are invited to participate in a range of activities (including surveys, forums and online discussions) aimed at developing and refining how our community realizes the intentions of vision statements for Arlington (previously known as currently the Town Goals under Vision 2020). The committee will create task groups or working groups, and support existing ones, consisting of residents, community groups, town personnel and other stakeholders. The committee will report to Town Meeting on the action items and evolving vision that will result from the Envision Arlington process.