TOWN OF BROOKLINE MASSACHUSETTS 311th Annual Report of the Town Officers of Brookline for the year ending December 31, 2016 www.brooklinema.gov www.brooklinema.gov Table of Contents Town Officers………………………………………………………...……………… 3 Board of Selectmen………………….…………………………………………….. 9 Town Administrator………………………………………………………………… 16 Town Moderator..…………………………………………………………………… 21 Advisory Committee……………………………………………..…………………. 22 Town Meeting………………………………………..………...……………………. 24 General Government Town Clerk…………………………………………………………………... 49 Registrars of Voters………………………………………………………… 53 Town Counsel……………………………………………………………….. 54 Human Resources…………………………………………..……………… 56 Public Safety Police Department………………………………………………….………. 58 Fire Department…………………………………………………………….. 71 Building Department………………………………………………………... 77 Building Commission……………………………………………………….. 79 Board of Examiners………………………………………………………… 80 Public Works Administration.……….……………………………………………………... 81 Engineering and Transportation Division ……………………………….. 87 Highway, Sanitation and Fleet Services Division……………………….. 93 Parks and Open Spaces Division……………………………………….... 97 Water and Sewer Division……………….………………………………… 103 Recreation Department………………………………………...………………….. 106 Public Schools………………………………………..………...…………………… 109 Library………………………………………..………...………………………….…. 117 Planning and Community Development………………………………………... 122 Regulatory Planning..………………………………………………………. 122 Zoning Board of Appeals ……………….……………..…………..………. 122 Preservation Commission……………………..…………………………... 124 Community Planning…………………..………………………………….... 125 Housing…………………………………………………............................. 126 Economic Development …………………..……………………………….. 128 Housing Authority…………………………………………………………… 129 Human Services Health Department…………………………………………………..……… 133 Council on Aging……………………………………………………………. 138 Veterans’ Services……………………..………………….……………..… 140 Commission on Disability….. ……………………………………………... 141 Diversity, Inclusion and Community Relations…………………………... 142 Commission for the Arts…………………….……………………………... 143 Commission for Women………………………………………………….... 144 Information Technology Department……………………………………………. 145 Finance Treasury Division……………..…………………………………………….. 146 Comptroller’s Division. …………………………………………..………… 149 Assessors Division………………………………………………………….. 149 Purchasing Division……………………………………….………………... 151 Norfolk County Registry of Deeds………………………………………… 152 Retirement ……..………………………………..……………………..…… 154 Telephone Directory……………………..…………………………………………. 156 Town Fact Sheet…………………………………………………………………….. 157 2 2016 Annual Report TOWN OFFICERS For the Municipal Year 2016 ________________________________ ELECTED TOWN OFFICES APPOINTED BY THE MODERATOR MODERATOR Edward (Sandy) Gadsby (2018) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Sean Lynn-Jones (2019) TOWN CLERK Carla Wyman Benka, Vice Chair (2019) Patrick J. Ward (2018) Clifford M. Brown (2019) Carol B. Caro (2019) BOARD OF SELECTMEN Lea Cohen (2018) Neil Wishinsky, Chair (2019) John Doggett (2017) Nancy A. Daly (2017) Dennis L. Doughty (2018) Benjamin Franco (2017) Harry Friedman (2019) Nancy Heller (2018) Janet Gelbart (2017) Bernard Greene (2018) David-Marc Goldstein (2019) Neil Gordon (2019) TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Kelly A. Hardebeck (2017) Puja P. Mehta, Chair (2019) Amy F. Hummel (2018) Carol Axelrod (2018) Sytske V. Humphrey (2017) Michael Burstein (2019) Angela Hyatt (2018) Vivien Goldman (2018) Alisa G. Jonas (2019) Regina Healy (2018) Janice S. Kahn (2017) Gary Jones (2017) Steven Kanes (2018) Karen Livingston (2017) Bobbie M. Knable (2018) Carol Troyen Lohe (2018) David Lescohier (2018) Jonathan Margolis (2017) Fred Levitan (2018) Magdalene M. Moran (2017) Robert Liao (2018) Jennifer Rees (2019) Pamela Lodish (2018) Judith Vanderkay (2019) Shaari Mittel (2018) Mariah C. Nobrega (2019) SCHOOL COMMITTEE Michael Sandman (2019) Susan Wolf Ditkoff, Chair (2019) Lee Selwyn (2017) Pen-Hau Ben Chang (2018) Stanley Spiegel (2019) Helen Charlupski (2019) Charles Swartz (2017) Michael Glover (2017) Christine M. Westphal (2018) Lisa R. Jackson (2017) David Pollak (2019) COMMITTEE ON TOWN ORGANIZATION AND Julie Schreiner-Oldham (2017) STRUCTURE Barbara Scotto (2018) Jean D. Berg, Chair (2017) Beth Jackson Stram (2018) Donna Kalikow (2017) Richard T. Leary (2019) BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY Michael Robbins (2019) David Trietsch, Chair (2018) Martin R. Rosenthal (2018) Michael Jacobs, Vice Chair (2021) Robert I. Sperber (2018) Barbara B. Dugan (2020) Robert M. Stein (2019) Judith Katz (State Appt) (2021) Joanne M. Sullivan (2019) COMMITTEE ON CAMPAIGNS James Fleming, Chair (2013) CONSTABLES Frank Farlow (2015) Joseph G Figler (2019) Gary Jones (2014) Neil Gordon (2019) Barbara Pastan (2015) Stanley N. Rabinovitz (2019) Joel Shoner (2014) Cheryl Ann Snyder (2019) Sloan Sable (Selectmen’s Rep.) Thomas John Vitolo (2019) Linda Golburgh (Town Clerk Rep.) _______________________________________ 3 www.brooklinema.gov __________________________________________ SENIOR MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENTS BOARD OF SELECTMEN’S OFFICE PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Melvin A. Kleckner, Town Administrator Alison Steinfeld, Director Melissa Goff, Deputy Town Administrator Joseph Viola, Assistant Director Austin Faison, Asst Town Administrator Polly Selkoe, Chief Planner Kara Brewton, Economic Development Officer BUILDING DEPARTMENT Daniel Bennett, Commissioner POLICE CHIEF Charles Simmons, Public Buildings Daniel C. O’Leary Director Tony Guigli, Building Project Administrator PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Andrew Pappastergion, Commissioner COUNCIL ON AGING Frederick Russell, Water and Sewer Director Ruthann Dobek, Director Peter Ditto, Engineering/Transportation Director Erin Chute Gallentine, Parks & Open Space DIVERSITY INCLUSION/COMMUNITY Director RELATIONS Kevin Johnson, Highway Director Lloyd Gellineau, Director RECREATION FINANCE DEPARTMENT Lisa Paradis, Director Stephen E. Cirillo, Director of Finance/ Treasurer/Collector SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT David Geanakakis, Chief Procurement Andrew Bott Officer Michael DiPietro, Comptroller TOWN COUNSEL’S OFFICE Gary McCabe, Chief Assessor Joslin Ham Murphy, Town Counsel John Buchheit, Assoc. Town Counsel FIRE CHIEF Patricia Correa, First Asst. Town Counsel Robert J. Ward, Acting Jonathan Simpson Assoc. Town Counsel HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES TOWN LIBRARIAN Dr. Alan Balsam, Director Sara Slymon, Director HUMAN RESOURCES VETERANS SERVICES Sandra DeBow, Director William McGroarty, Director INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Kevin Stokes, Chief Information Officer 4 2016 Annual Report ________________________________________________ Boards and Commissions Appointed by the Selectmen ADVISORY COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION FOR WOMEN Dr. Anthony Schlaff, Chair (2017) Chris Chanyasulkit, Co-Chair (2018) Milly Krakow (2018) Casey Hatchett, Co-Chair (2016) Cheryl Lefman (2019) Jennifer Goldsmith (2016) Patricia Maher (2017) Christine Fitzgerald (2017) Nalina Narain (2019) Sonal Jhaveri (2018) Gretchen Soddard (2018) Rita McNally (2017) Dr. Gloria Rudisch (2017) AUDIT COMMITTEE Cheryl Ann Snyder (2018) Nancy Daly, Chair Jamie Tober (2017) Peter Finnerty Ginny Vaz (2017) Gregory Grobstein Grace Yung Watson (2017) James Littleton Vacancy (2018) Beth Jackson Stram Lee Selwyn BUILDING COMMISSION BOARD OF ASSESSORS Janet Fierman, Chair (2018) Gary McCabe, Chair (2019) Karen Bresawski (2017) Mark J. Mazur (2018) George Cole (2019) Harold Petersen (2017) Kenneth Kaplan (2016) Nathan Peck (2018) BOARD OF EXAMINERS Barnett Berliner (2017) COMMISSION ON DISABILITY Fred Lebow (2018) Saralynn Allaire, Chair (2019) Vacancy (2016) James Miczek, Deputy Chair (2019) Myra Berloff (2018) BROOKLINE INTERACTIVE GROUP Selectman Benjamin Franco (2017) Amy Emmert Robert Heist (2018) Leslie Forde Ann Kamensky (2018) Karen Katz Joan Mahon (2017) Adrienne Kerman Elaine Ober (2017) Raymond Latif Henry Winkelman (2019) David Leschinsky Noah Xu CONSERVATION COMMISSION Marcus Quigley, Chair (2018) COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS Matthew Garvey (2017) Peter Ames (2016) Pamela Harvey (2019) Evelyn Cohen (2017) Werner Lohe (2017) Lea Cohen (2016) Pallavi Kalia Mande (2018) Amy Emmert (2016) Deborah Myers (2019) Betsy Frauenthal (2016) Roberta Schnoor (2018) Donna Hollengerg (2018) Mori Insinger (2016) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Rina Jacobson (2016) Marian Lazar (2017) Renana Greenberg-Kehoe (2016) Jeremy Kindall (2018) COUNCIL ON AGING Ilana Hirsch Lescohier (2018) Roberta Winitzer, Chair (2019) Peter McDonald (2018) Peter Ames (2017) Courtney McGlynn (2018) Doris Toby Axelrod (2017) Giti Saeidian (2016) Judith Chasin (2018) Chris Santos (2016) Philip Fullerton (2018) Lauren Wisbeski (2016) Celia Lascarides (2019) Kat Zavadskaya (2018) Helen Lew (2017) Alberta Lipson (2018) John Mulhane (2019) 5 www.brooklinema.gov Yolanda Rodriguez (2017) Agnes Rogers (2017) HUMAN RESOURCES BOARD Muriel Stark (2018) Edward DeAngelo, Chair (2016) William Wong (2017) Lori G. Cawthorne (2018) Gerald Raphel (2019) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dana M. Teague (2017) Phyllis Bram (2017) Beth Venti (2018) Clara Chin (2018) Rita d’Entremont (2019) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY Jean Doherty (2019) COMMITTEE Marjorie Diana Harvey (2015) Ernest Frey (2015) Barbara Kean (2017) John Gallagher (2016) Sherri Lee (2019) Stephanie Leung (2013) Vera Sherma (2018) Ariel Soiffer (2013) Jackie Wright (2017) Vacancy (2016) COMMISSION FOR DIVERSITY, MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMITTEE INCLUSION & COMMUNITY RELATIONS Selectman Bernard Greene, Chair Sandy Batchelder, Jr. (2017) Joanna Baker John Malcolm Cawthorne (2019) Malcolm Cawthorne Wesley Chin (2017) Robert Daves Alex Coleman (2018)