board of selectmen i'd like to call this board of selectmen meeting to order on monday evening january the 23rd two thousand and seventeen at what time is it back there seven hundred and five pm seven hundred and five pm thank you lisa i'm joined by vice chair sami baghdady selectman jim williams town administrator david kale assistant town administrator phyllis marshall and a recorder valerio is that a better name for you recorded like that i've been struggling in terms of what i should use there records recorder or recorder of the minutes most important person in the room exactly okay as well as franklin tucker from belmontonian and we have other representers here as well so we have a fairly light agenda this evening we have an update from the opeb other postemployment benefits committee looking forward to that and they're all here this evening we're going to vote to open and close the annual town meeting warrant we have some one day liquor licenses to approve is becca pizzi coming in or just the members of the boosters to authorize the i believe we will have a representative put her up thank you i believe they've been notified they plan on sending a representative okay cool we have some committee appointment discussions we'll probably have some discussion on the town administrator's report on the home rule petition license transfer that they were all anxious to hear about that david and some liaison reports both on the community path implementation committee which do a lot of work do you have the meetings david that they posted i forgot to bring those we can get them can we get those fellows so i can announce those under that section there capital budget major building projects what we're working on there jim and i both attended i don't know if you were able to attend cme the mastering association events on friday jim was there friday and saturday we can do it on the community announcements so we will just comment briefly about that and that's it so i'll do community announcements first and then we'll see if there's any questions from town residents i don't see many in the audience here other than the topics discussed so community announcements i'll begin with the winter weather information it looks kinda nasty out there tonight so for this is on our website david yes it is the winter weather resources visit wwwbelmontmassgovsnow okay that makes sense to follow official social media accounts on social dash media and there's a snow emergency hotline six billion one hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and thirty two thousand six hundred and ninety eight we've only had one storm hopefully that's the first and only right david as i remind everybody this is good if click on behind the link there's information how to contact the town and how to get notifications okay great if we have to do a snow emergency parking ban and it's useful information and we have a very good good reverse nine hundred and eleven right that in terms of when this ever happen there's a parking lot and the copy of this residential and commercial snow removal bylaws attached also okay nomination papers are available for annual town election which is scheduled for april 4th two thousand and seventeen they've been available since december 9th two thousand and sixteen and they are due back to the town clerk for certification by february 14th two thousand and seventeen at five hundred pm for those of you that are interested in writing for annual election renew your pet license okay make sure your pet license is renewed and to contact the town clerk's office with any questions for pet license renewal annual renewal so those of you that need to do that please contact the town administrator's office i think i announced this the last time david this is a terrific event being sponsored by the belmont vision twenty one implementation committee talk of the town sharing the passion of notable belmont residents to be scheduled it's scheduled for march 21st two thousand and seventeen from seven hundred to nine hundred pm in the chenery middle school auditorium clayton m christensen will be there lisa ellie alfie kohn and rupal patel and this could be found on our website as well and the host is jane clayson jane clayson johnson it's a great event and hopefully we'll be able to attend i already announced our local election polls open from seven hundred to eight hundred pm and tomorrow evening january 21st 24th excuse me i'm sorry at the beech street center located two hundred and sixty six beech street from six hundred and thirty to eight hundred and thirty pm toll brothers will be are they presenting their remedial action yeah i hope its called a remedial action plan there's actually two there's two things there's a public information plan and then there's a remedial action plan measure plan that's what r a m stands for i think although they've said it's remedial action plan but it's one and the same correct what's being presented tomorrow night basically there as the notice says their schedule their plan of attack with regard to dealing with the required dep notifications the twenty day public commenting period discussing what their remediation plan will be which will then allow folks to make comments to their licensed site professional in the twenty day commenting period right okay so that would be we discussed this on the town administrators report in terms of some thinking that we start to had on whether we need to consider a peer review this is just announcements we could do it under that of their ram plan and may provide comments during that twenty day comment period so we can discuss that so those of you that are interested and i'm sure it will be packed from six hundred and thirty to eight hundred pm tomorrow night i plan to attend myself and then finally with mixed emotions and i think the word's already out david hit the newspaper i didn't read the articles yet our town administrator david kale has submitted a resignation from the position of town administrator which is effective march 13th two thousand and seventeen and david can you describe the position sounds like a wonderful opportunity for you that you'll be taking in cambridge yeah this is an unanticipated but unique opportunity and i've been asked to join the city manager's leadership team as the assistant city manager for fiscal affairs wonderful going back home so i wanna thank david i mean we'll have plenty more to say about this but david's been with us since august two two thousand and twelve ralph was part of the board when we went to a extensive search and decided on david kale and david you've been an outstanding town administrator and you've really brought professionalism integrity and you've updated our team as well to the town administrator position and the budget process and all of that good stuff as well i think we'll have a lot more to say but i'm gonna miss you desperately and wanna congratulate you on this new position cause it sounds wonderful for you so i think colleagues what i'd like to suggest as part of this announcement is david and i have been already started our discussions about a transition plan and having gone through this once before with my colleague ralph jones and angelo firenze was on the board as well we had established the search committee we made some decisions around interim appointments so if it's okay with both of you i'd like to suggest that perhaps i lay out a plan for that by the next meeting to talk about whether that is consistent with what you're thinking about the matter but david congratulations again thank you you've worked tirelessly for the four and a half years with us and wish you could stay longer but completely understand you're accepting this new role i guess i'll say a few things if i may just because as march 13th gets close you really wouldn't wanna you won't wanna have to listen to me in your office by the way that may be true i would just say this is a bittersweet decision and that i would like to thank the board of selectmen both past and present members for the wonderful opportunity to be belmont's town administrator and for the support that you've all provided to me and to our team and it's greatly appreciated and i will always be grateful for the positive professional personal experiences that i've enjoyed during my tenure i would also like to say that part of that enjoyment is been able to work with a talented and dedicated and hardworking group of department heads employees elected officials and the various committees in town and we've achieved a lot collaboratively and we've done that within a limited framework of financial resources i think the town has a lot to be proud of i would be remiss if i did not thank the town administrator's staff for their hard work and their support and their teamwork they with our department heads and our employees are an extraordinary group of people and i will miss interacting with them on a daily basis and as i've said many times our department heads and our employees are the town's biggest assets and we should never forget that because they really are a bunch of dedicated and hardworking individuals that we should appreciate so again thank you for the opportunity i'm not quite going yet but thank you for the opportunity to wish everybody thank you and as i said it's a bittersweet decision but i really enjoy the town of belmont and working for it and i'm gonna miss it so thank you gonna miss you thank you just to work along david in the financial task force i mean it was incredible so we never would've made it through without you and i know i would've made it through as chair on the task force the amount of time and effort you put into that and how you structured it and the report that was written was just outstanding work so thank you i will have many more opportunities to thank david for his service at the town but we will continue to do business and we'll have to decide an approach that works for this community in terms of identifying a replacement yeah okay so the first order of business are there any questions from town residents in the meantime oh i'm sorry jim we wanted to do in the community announcements its just a little bit on the mma meeting right i attended the mma i only attended on saturdays the selectman association breakout jim was there as well a lot of buzz and discussion around school funding oh what was your table school funding it was school funding yeah so was mine but surprising not surprising but the colleagues at the table from other selectmen from other communities were western part of the state and their budgets were a lot smaller than ours and they're dealing with issues that are a lot different than ours so it's interesting to see this sort of dichotomy and sort of this issues that they wrestle with so we talked about that and then i was able to talk to go to the annual meeting in which senator elizabeth warren senator ed markey and governor charlie baker spoke and they were all three of them were phenomenal in terms of their speeches and outline and particular governor baker outlined his commitment as evidenced by some of the work he's currently done with the missile monetization bill and sort of their approach in terms of appointment or their administration of local officials how they're committed which was great to hear about continuing to work with the local communities they've announced and it actually hit the globe and increase david i think it was three level funding or at least it increase whatever the increase in tax receipts were gonna be the increase in unrestricted government aid was going to mirror that and there was also a announcement by the governor that he was going to his administration was going to increase chapter seventy eight although there have been some comments about wasn't enough giving an increase by twenty per student and more to come on that so jim why don't you if you have anything to share from the meetings well i did go friday as well i attended the department of revenue the budgetary discussion i also attended housing on saturday i also went to the selectman's association and attended the general assembly i thought governor baker's remarks about the number of people having experiences selectmen in the government is interesting i thought that was very interesting as well yeah because it really does make a difference that it's not at all what you expect until you actually do it and i believe the increase of local aid he mentioned thirty nine he did i think yeah i think he did say that unrestricted government and fiscal aid but the chapter seventy maybe a little bit more than that children of certain right right yeah so that was a great conference and i was happy to be able to go yeah it's a great event i think we should continue to be active in it and you do get a lot of information and idea here and there nothing but a proponent for local governments so we certainly support their association okay any questions from town residents none so we have the opeb other postemployment benefits committee that's what that's this evening to present their either interim report or final report or at least they have comments on what work they're doing and ralph you're the chair you wanna join us and perhaps other members as well and we can join us you're all welcome to join introduce yourselves put the mics on and we appreciate you coming we've been waiting for seven o'clock we're just going to before you're not sure so the let me just mention again we established this group in february of last year well you got an interim report to us february of last year right february 26th to think about the purpose and duties under the direction of board of selectmen this temporary it's temporary working group will evaluate and make recommendations on the town of belmont's opeb strategy what we employed to date what more we can do members will be asked to evaluate the current policy and to consider whether it is prudent to adopt alternative operating funding alternatives for the town's unfunded opeb liability he came and met with us almost a year ago and you're back in front of us again so ralph i'll turn it to you to introduce yourself and all members can do that as well thank you i'm ralph jones i'm chair of the committee i think you've met everyone here at the last meeting we did except for timothy larman who has joined us and to the team thank you one of my announcements is that liz allison who had held that position resigned because of the workload of the planning board and she was kind enough to recommend a replacement who was very qualified as you've seen in his resume and we're glad to have him quite impressive tim thank you i also understand in terms of announcements that the selectmen have been briefed by the hr director on december 2nd about egg whip the acronym for employee group waiver plan we have been yes and i think that's an important development because of the estimate that it may very well eliminate thirteen billion of our assumed obligation for opeb in terms of our report i think we've had a real breakthrough and let me just explain what happened at our last meeting we reported that we were working with the town administrator and the hr director to get more detailed information on the actual cost of healthcare for retirees in belmont that was basically part of our analysis yep the costs get the real cost and then work from there geoff lubien geoff took the burden i think this summer of really working on that task and he got some good data although it was not going far back and it could not be released down to the individual level it had to be given to us in terms of subgroups of various types last week geoff and i met with representatives from the wayland opeb committee and whose work we shared with you last year chris doyle had made contact and we just hadn't ever gone out and sat down and talk with them directly and we were rather astounded to learn that the wayland committee had actually contracted out the data collection task that geoff had been working on to their actuary we thought they had done it all by themselves but in fact they had asked their actuary to do and as geoff said he almost cried when he heard that because he'd been working alone by himself and in fact it looks as if our actuary could very well get the information we need to model real cost most important in terms of using the actuary was that the wayland committee could get the results of employee specific information because the actuary was hipaa certified none of us are hipaa certified and therefore the town administrator and the hr director in the town could only give us aggregated data but using a hippa certified actuary we can get much more granular data and therefore have a much more robust picture of what our costs are i have shared the rfq that the town of wayland used with both the town admin with the town administrator and i wanna give copies of it to you because what i am proposing tonight was it included it in our time no maybe not no i'm just bringing it to you tonight you don't need to read it all right now but i think what you'll find is that i think this is the sort of rfq we should use when we hire our actuary for the fy sixteen biennial report on opeb obligations this basically ask the actuary to do two things the first is do the standard gasb forty five report using all of the assumptions that are imposed by gasb and if you heard in our previous reports they don't really very well reflect what's actually going on in the town the second part of the rfq says do that same report but this time use our data on our health costs our assumptions about experience with healthcare our assumptions about future trends and so they got a second and much more town specific and much more realistic picture of what their opeb obligations are and as we heard last year there were about thirty lower than what the gasb forty five there's an actual data versus estimate yeah exactly so what we'd like to do and what we we met last week we'd like to ask that the town follow the basic format of the rfq used by wayland and also if possible perhaps add a few additional tasks not unlike the sort of tasks you give to seagull on the plan for example there are some possible modifications to our health our health plan one that we heard from wayland was that as you know belmont just has a family plan and an individual plan those are the two options a lot of our corporations that we work for have family plans individual plans and plans for couples and since a lot of people are simply couples and have no children you can get a reduced cost and they don't have to have a family plan so it's a cost saving option and wayland even took it one step further and started giving couples two individual plans which apparently even had a lower cost so something like that we might wanna try out and see if it has any any benefits for our health costs obviously the rfq has to be developed by the official party here in the town who has the authority to do a procurement we understand that all that we're requesting is the opportunity to work with that person and help shape that rfq help shape the scope of work and evaluation criteria this breakthrough i think is very important this means that geoff can stop working on those data trying to interpolate and make assumptions about how all of these groups fit together and instead we can get a very robust actuarial report that we can then use as a model and then going forward use as a basis for estimating what our opeb policies ought to be any comments from other members maybe the only rfq chris if you could just get closer to the mic and say who you are oh sure chris doyle member of the committee maybe the only other thing maybe you were gonna get there was i think you were gonna ask if someone from the committee or you or someone could be on the participate in the review of the i don't know if that's appropriate town policy but the review of the rfq of the response no i think that's fine i mean certainly that would be okay with me plus it's okay ralph one final thing i think what our committee did at the end of our meeting and a long discussion was realized that this is going to be a longterm process of evaluation every two years we're gonna get our new report hopefully with new town specific information and we're gonna have to look again at what our options are and what our funding procedures should be so this is probably going to be an ongoing process for a couple of decades until the pension plan is fully funded so ralph if i may any other comments from committee members okay right geoff hi geoff lubien member of the committee the only other thing just to highlight is that wayland really partnered with the actuary that they hired to do a more consultative relationship after these two reports are generated to look at policy options to look at changes and things like that that's hilarious and so i think that's helpful given the fact that this is something's evolve and live for years to come i like that i like that a lot i think we've done a lot to address this issue by getting a professional point of view in terms of other matters that we can do and other strategy i think what you're suggesting here is that the rfq can be broader than just providing us a report on our unfunded liability and what the assumptions that would be based on actual data but also in addition to that looking at our funding strategy looking at other things that we can do to sort of impact this estimated liability in the future that's what the wayland rfq did and that's what their actuary for them they actually got more than they initially asked for in their rfq once they had hired the person and found out that that particular party was quite willing to give them a back and forth information on ideas advice suggestions and so they found it very helpful this is forty five the reports sent from odyssey that's in our binders dated december fourteen is that in that was the firm selected yeah that was the firm selective but that's the one in which it has a breakdown on actual costs yeah and some other discussions okay you'll see two reports both looking very similar but one uses the gasb and the other uses okay all right i really liked the idea a lot so when are we scheduled to out for our queue we were actually i looked at the list so one is of course sms which we use right kms kms excuse me seagulls involved there are notes something that jim had suggested before me the retirement board actually okay so we would go for request for proposal we've got one drafted we were anticipating some suggestions from the opeb working group that we can incorporate into the rfp we also don't forget the gasb regulations are changing with regard to the fiscal eighteen audit so those have to be incorporated because that will be a reporting requirement that needs to be reflected frankly probably in our seventeen and eighteen because most people have said you should just do it once and not have a split gasb forty five and the new gasb which for the moment i've forgotten the number seventy five seventy five so basically do both at the same time so that you have it reflect in seventeen eighteen i think has been generally the advice that we receive is report as of january 1st of this year from say fiscal sixteen as of the fiscal year i think so it's seven thousand one hundred and sixteen seven thousand one hundred and sixteen so but we haven't yet proceeded kms is not doing that for us we were waiting to issue the rfp and we've started to collect the directory data to provide to them and when would they have once we've decided on the firm when would they have the report for us its actually pretty perfunctory basis with these components that may add some time but generally we've already drafted an rfp we started working on directory data to provide to the actual firm but we can expanded it to include some of the points that you made geoff and ralph as well that consultant with nature of other than just sort of calculating a number for us and maybe a more refined by some consultant we appreciate the willingness of the town administrator and the hr director to have us help him about this idea if i may yeah of course i think it's a great idea i think it's a great approach i think this is something that can carry us forward to the future i'd also like to give selectman jim williams credit because i think this is what he's been asking for all along is this type of analysis and data from a professional consultant as a matter of fact do you have any comments jim well thank you sami for that it's just one of the things i've been concerned about ralph graciously invited me to thursday night's meeting when all of this was discussed so i strongly support this idea and it's great i don't know what enabling motion we need to take but i'd like to see us do that with the chairman tonight absolutely jim i support that completely i think that's a wonderful idea and i think we should have members of the opeb study group review the proposal work in conjunction with the town administrator's office and constructing it i will have a chance to read this as well i'm assuming ralph but and these consulting i think we always say we've done as much as we can i think we have but we don't know right i mean there's more that we can think about from a funding point of view maybe other strategies that we can employ as we approach our collective bargaining season as well in terms of impacting future costs i mean one of the things that you and i did as member of the boards when we had the opportunity to adjust plan design had a dramatic impact on the future estimate liability and i know some of this is collectively bargained the other point jim i think it was raised at the meeting now that i'm remembering mma meeting i think some of them some raised opeb and then one of the members of the board i raised opeb at the mma i was actually very surprised i was very surprised we were talking about school funding and jim raised opeb do that as it may somehow i raised opeb in this one but i thought it was a great question because i think what came out of that is i forget who the representative was on the panel and we talked about in perhaps this can be what would be helpful from us is legislatively we need some support on this and i know that senator brownsberger and representative rogers are aware of that and i've read that opeb state opeb study taskforce report and a lot of things that we can do it would be helpful maybe with the consultant or your input as well collectively what more can we do to or legislators can do and i'm sure will's very much familiar with this stuff particularly to encourage them to look at these issues and help provide legislative relief no different than they did i forget which year it was was it two thousand and twelve or i can't remember ralph we had the plan designed that was lobbied heavily by mma that resulted in whatever multimillions of savings generally the people we've talked to don't think there'll be any immediate action by the legislature the only thing that might trigger all of this is when the fy eighteen numbers start coming out because i think they're gonna be very interesting they're gonna be very large eighteen extra burrow numbers you mean yeah good and there's also gonna be reduced discount rate yeah which i think they'll need to do anyway there could be some sharp our discount rate is four and a half so it's not gonna be are there discount rates we use for opeb yeah that was because of floyd but wayland still uses seven there're gonna be some towns that are gonna be you can use a higher discount rate but you have to have cash in the fund which we only have minimum fully fund the ark in order to use the higher discount rate right which frankly is just use a high discount rate and really underestimate your future like you're not gonna get that kinda return on assets typically well it depends that depends if you know write it down i love this idea and thank you i'm glad that you supported as well so i fully support i think we've heard for all three of us moving forward with this type of an rfp incorporating some of the things you just discussed i mean i know you consulted the aspects about getting the actual data moving forward as quickly as possible do i get to make the motion yeah jim and i wonder the other point i wanna make is i'm fine with the study committee plus jim my colleague jim williams helping to identify along with david and the town administrator's office who we send the rfp to would geoff work on it then yes he's had his hands around the data more than anyone else well geoff thanks for the time you've spent no problem i'm sorry that you had to spend that time i'm sure that will help inform yeah i don't think its wasted at all no no i think it'll help the actuary no i think it will all right so mr williams i make a motion that we accept the recommendation of the opeb committee that we employ or issue an rfq to investigate or help me out david rfp i think to basically go out to issue an rfp issue an rfp this is called an rfq but we use our either one of em basically they issue an rfp so we can do our next biennial opeb actuarial study dated seven hundred and twelve thousand and sixteen incorporating the the recommendations of the opep working committee okay very helpful did you get that lisa just what was the date i didn't get the date seven july sixteen seven july two thousand and sixteen okay okay how much did you say what was we get the vote do you have a second in this second all in favor aye how much you say that once wayland did this analysis that their estimated future estimated liability with town are twenty percent twenty percent right off the bat but i think its been adjusted they've also implemented cost reductions that have been pretty significant yeah they did yes they were not at the fifty fifty split for employees they went to that they were not as aggressive as we were as we do this will they look at because i think that we've employed a lot of the sort of the tactics that have been suggested to manage our liability will they look at that as well to ensure that we haven't missed anything i think we can include that that would be cool yes i think we've covered everything but you just don't know right we've reach out to a lot of towns but a good consulting actuary who's been doing thirty or forty of these may have something we haven't thought about well i wanna thank my colleagues selectman williams for pushing this issue forward as he has for the past several months and i think we're ended up in a good spot we agree and i think that we would never have fully investigated this issue i don't think without this committee we wouldn't have really looked into this issue and begun to understand as well as we now do without that motion so good work yeah plus the warrant committee i was a town meeting member when i made the motion i remember that and i remember the warrant committee supported that as well so thank you well thank you committee for your time and efforts and i guess we'll move forward expeditiously on this david great great great okay have a good evening thank you ralph thank you all appreciate you all see you all thanks for the time that's great wonderful what are you looking at me like that for i'm appreciative of it when you play golf you don't celebrate your good shots and you don't get down over your bad shots you just steady as you go yeah exactly so i think this is okay i mean if you're yeah we don't as baker said if you're an elected public official we're all in this together we can appreciate that comment of course absolutely but thank you for yeah no you're right thank you for thanking you david did we agree to move forward like we did right what we're doing is because some of the calculations were a little bit dated we've asked harvard pilgrim to recalculate the anticipated costs and savings so once that analysis is complete we'll provide you a recommendation to allow us to implement did anyone approve to move forward with this you've allowed you've endorsed us to move forward which we are doing update our information we'll give you an implementation date which i think fills we decided should be 7th june i think july one of eighteen so we will be doing that shortly so that we can as we noted it's the implementation and the communication and the ability to answer questions with retirees with regard to their prescription drugs that's gonna require hr to spend a lot of time so we wanna do it right so and we also wanna make sure we implement it so we maximize our savings to both the retirees and to the town so i think july one is when we decided to push it out to what can you say about gasb seventy five are we gonna tell craig to do something about that in connection with the two thousand and seventeen financials yes yes and does that put the entire one hundred and seventy one million on the balance sheet do you know i believe it puts what your accrued liability is on the balance sheet just the accrued liability so cause we have ninety three and a half million on the balance sheet now and we're accruing eleven million a year so is it would it be different than that though i will tell you the calculation and the methodology will change with gasb seventy five in terms of how they report it so it will be different so we're not gonna see that in the two thousand and sixteen probably will have seen in the june 30th two thousand and sixteen and there is something in the two thousand and sixteen management analysis oh no in the footnotes that describes the gasb changes so that's disclosed and then also i was wondering do you feel that you have a good understanding of the healthcare plan itself as it is or can we ask jessica to give us a quick overview of what's available i think that helps and who pays what would that be something that we could hear maybe at the next meeting cause if you're a new employee you come and they say okay here's your deal i just liked to i mean wouldn't it make sense to remind us ourselves of that yeah that's fine yeah yeah yeah that makes sense okay david next meeting perhaps part of that i mean would jessica be in a position to give us an update on any sort of collective bargaining matters she can okay if we're gonna talk about that david i did talk to you about one item last week which we should not disclose once we're in executive session okay so but you've spoken to yes we have yep okay all right all right okay anything further on this okay great let's celebrate your bad good shots or get down in your bad shots i do both actually yeah that was the golf coach cause that's a good recommendation and then we'll celebrate my good shots and get down to my bad shots constantly you'd be mindful like becca is when she runs she's a pro so anyway we're thrilled that she's joining us this evening so i would ask becca pizzi and curtis cole joined us on becca i know how busy schedule is appreciate it it's an honor to have you here tonight thanks for having me hi curtis hi becca hi how are you good to see you so we're here to hear more about the second annual correct becca pizzi family fund run to be held on april 30th two thousand and seventeen to allow you introduce yourself for the viewing audience we know in fact a lot of people know you curtis as well you start and talk about this event yeah so i was i'm becca pizzi from belmont and we had this first event last year and had so much fun and the proceeds went to the foundation wonderful belmont high school and it was just so great giving those out and felt like it was a great day for the community and everybody came together and it was a really fun day and very well organized i think we were pretty happy with how smoothly how much was raised we raised we made a lot introduce yourself curtis cole with belmont boosters yeah last year the net was seven thousand wonderful that's terrific of which one thousand went into scholarships for two student athletes at the high school they were awarded senior day with the balance of the scholarships and then the other proceeds went into the booster fund which funds grants the plan is this year is kinda the same formula for any of the net proceeds so it's great essentially as becca really wants and we're kinda just following her lead is that all the funds that basically go back into the athletic program at the high school okay that's wonderful that's terrific so this event is being held on april 30th i think he had good weather i don't remember it wasn't able to attend but i ran it last year thank you for coming i have done the brendan grant so it's the same route right same route are there routes for like the over sixty crowd kim and i did the over sixty we have to take a uber back we did the over sixty for the glen shockley memorial one yeah exactly you let me win yeah jim won by a nose i came in second times there's only two entrance in which jim came first and i came in second he won the year before but there's only one entry and the year before that i know the secret its uber i have done this this route it's not an easy road for those of us that don't run as often as you do becca of course yeah yeah its not no but there's water along the way i did run a number of times with my son kids raced too which is a mile around the track oh that's wonderful that's a lot of fun and they all get metals so what are you doing these days if we don't mind you asking no so still are you still marathoning yeah running marathons have you done any since last time we saw you april was the last bit in february i'm going to new orleans and texas to run those two marathons wonderful and i'm running ten marathons in two thousand this year ten ten just checking them out and doing the fifty states god bless you i've teamed up with a john hancock who will be one of our biggest sponsors most likely oh great and doing a lot of motivational speaking that's great it's just been so much fun so i still own my daycare and i still manage moozy's so everything's kinda like a puzzle oh you're still doing it yeah on your downtime right down time yeah so i'm assuming that you spend time within our schools as well i do i was just coming from pto and wellington is there more than we can do besides approving this fund run to support some of your efforts in town yeah i mean you need to let us know that it's more than we can do as a board to support efforts and inspirational ten marathons it's just a phenomenal almost one a month is incredible it's so fun traveling the world doing what i love and then bringing back and showing my daughter my daughter and i are going to disney this weekend well good that's good for her so she's kinda content well congratulations and thanks so much for continuing to inspire all of us thanks for your support and the things that you do so we appreciate that so i look forward to seeing you on the 30th of april right right jim yeah i see the chenery runners did you start that the cross country chenery we do a kids run every friday at seven hundred and thirty in the morning so yeah so that's fun i'm not attending that one but you would not believe the kids that come out so that's what i started and then i started the belmont track team that meets on tuesday mornings oh great so that's a wide variety group of people from belmont i used to run track at my school i love it yeah i love it how long do they run it seven hundred and thirty at the middle school so they do two times around the reservoir oh great yeah and then they'll all come to the race cause of the known benefits yeah when you do ten marathons i mean i'm assuming i mean you still have to train like you do because you just trained i'm constantly training so it's easier for me to just be training all the time last year i thought it would be really special just to do the world marathon challenge in boston and nothing else but now i feel like i'm ready to race again okay the last time we approved a run the last question we asked was how many people they expected and they said fifteen thousand that was at marathon we went at the train crossing oh yeah cause they couldn't turn left so they had to turn right jim it wasn't fifteen thousand yes it was it was five thousand six hundred people oh okay did i say fifteen thousand you did five thousand six hundred was still a lot how many people will be running we pulled it together in how long so last year it was just this last minute oh yeah sure it was a great idea you may have three four hundred people right yeah like five weeks to pull it off one hundred and forty adult runners in forty five well okay you may get a sense yeah i'd like to double it yeah sure well you'll have two more members of the board that will be there you can walk you don't have to run it but you can walk it yeah you can walk quickly i'm gonna suggest that you create an over sixty category for these two people yeah yeah you guys are right give us like an hour headstart the race begins on sunday but you guy's start on saturday we won't tell anyone that's perfect oh boy that hurts oh lord i know i've got to shape but yes sir would say is last year the town in your office was unbelievable in helping us pull this together because we had a short period of time we had people doing it for the first time and it came together yeah our town departments they're always terrific in helping well this is a wonderful fire it was great well thank you for saying that we appreciate that that's a wonderful event and its a great cause and supports becca pizzi's ongoing inspirations and belmont athletics yeah belmont athletics so with that gentlemen do i have a motion to approve the request from belmont boosters to hold a second annual becca pizzi family fund run on sunday april 30th two thousand and seventeen at nine hundred am sami since you ran you should make the motion okay so moved second all in favor aye thank you great to see you again thank you for your support thank you so much thanks good to see you nice to see you thank you thank you good to see you thanks take care see you on the 30th all the best becca thanks becca nice to meet you thank you so much absolutely start on saturday finish on sunday okay take care all right jim you better start training okay we have to go back up the agenda to vote open and close the annual town meeting warrant open the warrant on monday february 6th two thousand and seventeen at nine hundred am to close the warrant on monday march 6th two thousand and seventeen at three hundred pm this is only the annual town meeting david correct is this mmhm yeah just include the meetings in may for those yes does not include the financial meeting or that's part of the the warrant i'm sorry go ahead the warrant articles will be submitted during this timeframe okay and then the schedule after the warrant closes on the 6th of march just to sort of highlight you've included the schedule in our account in our book here i have yes while the warrant is open the draft article language from departments should be submitted to the bylaw review committee the planning board the capital budget committee and the warrant committee around the 17th of february the warrant closes for later and your notice explains that warrant articles proposed by citizen petition must be received by the town clerk no later than march 6th that those are required so we'll allow that information be posted on our website yes so folks are aware that they have the citizens petition that they submit it by march 6th right this is for all nonfinancial articles this does not include the financial articles correct it will include a draft of financial articles as subject to revision as we finalize them so the financials as you know are usually taken up in the june town meeting but the warrant will include general information so no amendments or anything else can be done after the 6th of march no the amendments are scheduled are in the schedule and the amendments are after the warranty is voted well this is placeholder for articles this is not right per se the final articles exactly that means reviewed by town meeting right so the draft articles will be submitted to town council for them to review if they need to not citizen petition one and then they will be your schedule to vote the articles that will be on the final warrant will be april 3rd our work to include the final articles in the warrant will be april 3rd so you'll receive a draft of the articles in late march i thought we changed that date isn't that a monday april 3rd april 3rd april 4th is the election right okay that's right so you will receive a draft of the articles shortly after march 20th this is just to vote to include not to vote on them right okay you will take positions after you both final okay that's fine warrant article alright so when do the citizen petition close down the same date as the warrant the period for the warrant articles to be submitted is february 6th to march 6th so after march 6th there can be no that's the deadline yes okay there can be no articles after that but the schedule outlines when amendments can be submitted that's amendments to the articles right right and league of women voters is scheduled for march 23rd okay any other questions gentlemen for the motion to open and close the annual town meeting warrant on monday february 6th two thousand and seventeen at nine hundred am to close the warrant on monday march 6th two thousand and seventeen at three hundred pm so moved second all in favor aye okay we have two the league of women voters is the 24th of april i'm sorry we have two one day liquor licenses the first is from wait what do you need to vote this or you need to sign it so we can do that at the end of the meeting do it at the end of the meeting okay we have a one day liquor license application from the patrons of the belmont performing arts company to serve wine and malt at the trivia night fundraising event held on february 10th two thousand and seventeen at the beech street center from six hundred and thirty pm to nine hundred and thirty pm they're reviewed by all town departments there were no concerns so i have a motion to approve so moved second all in favor aye the second liquor license is a one day liquor license application from paulette black of the beth el temple center requesting to serve all alcohol at their gala event on april 1st two thousand and seventeen from six hundred pm to one thousand one hundred pm at the beth el temple center they're reviewed by all town and relevant departments and they have no concerns so i have a motion to approve so moved second all in favor aye okay committee appointments mbta advisory board david so mr chair is the chair you're appointed to be the primary contact for the mbta advisory board meetings but we have typically appointed an alternate in case your schedule doesn't allow you to attend we did appoint glen castro to do that but we feel that now that we have matthew haskell joining the team in our office that this would be a good opportunity of him to be the alternative instead of glen especially during budget time and during this time of transition i think matthew was looking forward to this and we'll be able to receive and communicate all information received does it have to be the chair i believe statutorily i can't say they know that for a fact i don't know jim whether you wanna serve in this capacity because i haven't been able to attend any of these meetings and i know matt will attend but perhaps more active involvement from the board of selectmen might be helpful it's up to you i mean i don't care i'd like to do it yeah would you mind no i've been i didn't think about this until just very this very moment so i think two motions one is to do i just designate do i appoint to i think you either can designate or you can also all right so i designated selectmen jim williams participate on the mbta advisory board in lieu of my participation as chair and do i have a motion to appoint matthew haskell administrative assistant town administrator's office to serve as the alternate representative for belmont in the mbta advisory board i'm assuming that they both can attend these meetings and that would just support jim's efforts okay great yeah i'll take him with me great sure so do i have a motion for that so moved second thank you all in favor aye okay excuse me with regard to this can we talk about that other matter that i discussed with you is that an executive session matter what are the matters like secret code is this like secret code associations or something no no remember the other day when i spoke with you on that other matter that other day at that time out of the time selectmen williams was like a double secret code selectman williams was inquiring if the mbta was in the process of possibly considering when they leave the belmont center train station to be able to reduce their speed from what they are able to travel at i know that the police chief has been in contact with the transit police representatives and i know that's something that's been communicated to them that we're in the process of receiving verification that keolis will be implementing a slower speed from the belmont center david what talk did you have we've had initial conversations the police chief is following up so i don't want to say it's been fully implemented but i know the conversations that have been had about making sure or asking that if the speeds of the train leaving belmont center station and crossing on brighton street can be at a slower speed than what is allowed so we will provide you information once we receive confirmation and conclusion from the mbta yeah what i can say is that my information was that the speed limit for the train at the brighton street crossing was seventy five miles an hour and this is the limit that doesn't say that can travel up to that yeah that doesn't say that they're going seventy five miles an hour but i thought it probably made sense since the distance between belmont and alewife is only a mile you don't really gain a lot of advantage by roaring through the intersection at seventy five and there's probably a more reasonable speed limit that could be assigned i agree with that so we're in discussions with keolis on the matter yes now david asked me where i got the information on the seventy five mile speed limit and i told him i got it from the media so whether it's true or not i have no idea no i think it couldn't be an alternative fact alternative fact yeah which is different from the real facts by the way but whatever it is i think we'll get feedback on okay well i think you're working with yeah no no on a little bit more active participation from this board i think might be helpful okay thank you this other matter about the discussion with the selectmen is into a warrant committee traditionally it's been the chair in the warrant committee and the vice chair serves in the capital budget committee i know sami you've expressed some not concern but you requested to yeah what we had done is switched the roles yeah we had and i as vice chair had been serving on the warrant committee and you've been serving on capital budget but my time commitments over the next few months are going to prevent me from taking on that role it's gonna be hard on me okay so i've asked not to be the warrant committee liaison it's your just like you designated jim to take your spot on the mbta advisory committee i think i mean if its only both you and jim i'd like to serve in the warrant at least the way through next few months if you want to serve on capitol we can just flip the roles i think jim's got a lot on his plate yeah i can unless do you wanna serve on capitol budget i mean you've been pushing for capital budget planning process which i think is wanting to talk about that much needed well no but if it's okay with both of you i want to remain on that it's not part of capital budget committee it's just a group of individuals that are doing that oh okay it's not all capital it's a capital i thought it was a capital budget committee project well well it's sort of chaired by anne marie and pat brusch is involved and now roy epstein is gonna be participating as david kale myself and floyd i mean not floyd carmen so i'd like to stay on that working group since we've made some headway and then after this spring we can decide what to do is that separate than that separate from the capital's budget it is absolutely separate it's been nothing it's been a group of a subgroup of the capital budget a quorum sub group cause it's been anne marie myself pat brusch which is not a quorum and david kale that's been discussing these matters and now i mean is this a formal committee or just a working group it's an informal working its an informal work and roy epstein in the warrant committee has expressed interest in we actually met with roy with some budgetary matters and asked whether he wanted to just sort of join forces because it seem to us or at least to me that the warrant committee i think the warrant committee was just i think roy was just expressing an interest in it no different than we are interested in it and i said why don't we just ensure that we're teaming on this and if you wanna designate someone from your warrant committee to work with us in this working group he said i'd like to do it so he's gonna be part of that as well so it's same with whomever wants to serve on capital i like to remain on that for now sure yep okay all right so you wanna serve on capital and i'll serve on the warrant or if jim wants to serve on the capital that's fine why don't we do that cause there's only a few months left unless you're too busy to do it in which case i'll gladly do it we can reshuffle the deck in giving you the option we can reshuffle the deck after the town election so yeah i'll just serve in capital so you wanna go we'll go the traditional route yeah alternate traditional route and i'm not trying to keep anything from you on the working in that major no no that's fine but you're working group is coming up with a financing plan that's part of it we're doing tours and i'm gonna report out on that in a moment here okay thank you david you need to take a vote i don't think so its just no different than the designation that's fine it's the warrant committee i think that's what the bylaw says okay okay david what's going on with the home rule petition whatever else you wanna report out on the town ministry town administrator's report i'm sorry david sure so i have had conversations with representative rogers and senator brownsberger on the draft home rule petitions with regard to the transferability of pouring and retail licenses and specifically the ones that will require all licenses to come to the board for transfer to either new owners even at the same location in the like so both have been both representative rogers and senator brownsberger have submitted those languages in each of those potential home rule petitions to the respective councils both the house council and the senate council we will receive feedback from both houses already weighed in senate is about to within the next week or so so we will then make sure that what we've presented doesn't have any fundamental flaws before we submit it as a warrant article to town meeting i would just also note that in the course of the conversations the legislature is in the organizational phase of appointing committee chairs in the like currently so they're not joint chairs or house or senate chairs at this point that they will be coming in addition to that and just doing some conversations i guess it's unclear whether having the home rule petition presented to the house and senate sooner than the anticipated may annual town meeting necessarily results in faster action i think we were advised that there are several variables that take place when home rule petitions are passed by towns and it doesn't necessarily it's not a one for one thing where if you did it in march that it gets treated any faster or any slower than if you did it in may it's really up to the chairs when does legislative session end there's informal session after they closed which is where we happened last year basically the home rule petition was passed that spring town meeting and i believe we went to testify in the fall to the joint committee responsible for reviewing home rule petitions with regard to liquor licenses the only thing i would just say is based upon our conversations there's not a guarantee that if you do something sooner that that's going to necessarily translate into faster action by the joint committees what committees will look know with that i think it's joint committee municipalities and regionals regional items so like i said i think the committees are not i just looked on the webpage today none of the joint committee chairs or memberships have been appointed yet so i guess in terms of schedule we will receive feedback from senate council and final feedback for house council on the language that was provided the board then can basically finalize that so that we can include it on a warrant and based upon what i just told you in terms of schedule yeah the only thing that's on scheduled is that i've heard informally that folks may want to call a special town meeting to move this forward more quickly well i would say that if we wait till the spring town meeting you can have a special town meeting as part of the annual they're not going to understand that but i mean earlier than that like an off cycle meeting based on what you just said i wonder whether that's productive to sort of call a meeting in march or april and our first meeting is may 1st we could do a writeup right then right you could and as i said there's no guarantee it gets acted upon any more quickly if we do it sooner yeah that's what we're hearing all these feedback that even though we might have as a town voted on a revised language for a home rule petition what you're suggesting david may not be taken up by the respective committees and looked at by the legislature any sooner they have their own pace and their own schedule yeah i don't need to think about that well i think i think we need the information that david's referring to i think we have plenty to do between now and whenever and i also think that if the issue comes up and it comes before the liquor authority we have our purview there as well so we can prevent transfer i mean if we want to we can continue on that basis so i don't know if anything's on the schedule or not but i think it's a prudent given everything that's going on to work within the schedule of the budget so david by the next meeting perhaps we'll know have feedback then we can decide then okay what you'd said is that we're going for the more restrictive language that's the only thing that we've been sharing with the shorter more restrictive language but we haven't at this point here or heard any negative feedback on that not yet okay we did message them and get an email concerning the bring your own byob alcohol yeah bring your own beers bring your own booze i guess it'd be beer or booze what's the thinking on that so right now we don't have a bylaw that restricts folks from bringing their own beer and wine to local establishments that don't have licenses and my understanding is because we don't they can't that is true yeah say that one more time please because we don't have a bylaw people can do that they can do that yes yeah i mean you used to do it full disclosure kitchen on common which i'm sad to seeing their doors close and buy a bottle of wine from spirited gourmet and my wife and i would have a nice dinner there so i think it's a quality of life issue for our community as long as there's not abuse there i don't think we should look at at least my point of view is a bylaws restricted is that why that was circulated was it for us to think about i think it had come up and someone grabbed the liberation but also the abc has issued new regulations to expand that to i believe yeah the corking different kinds of establishment other than and i'm trying to think pubs and to breakfast places and stuff like that yeah so they've expanded that to other kinds of eating establishments which is what we sent you last week bring a bottle of wine or something for breakfast is that what you're saying i'm saying that under the abc ruling you could go to different establishments and have the ability can a restaurant restrict that as a matter of policy i think they can i'm not certain so david what are you saying then that i mean the traditional use has been kitchen on the common are you saying now it's expanded to pizza places and is that or was it always available i think also and again i'm doing this from last week is i think it was taverns or breakfast places or those kinds of places or even that serve pizza that doesn't have a beer or wine license you can just bring in a beer or wine oh well or other establishments you're saying it's been expanded to then the typical as you say kitchen on common will you tell us the establishments as well nope nope nope just different kinds of restaurants oh interesting so maybe we should take a look at that but we wanna be probusiness obviously we do yeah if you didn't have a license can you if you have a license to serve your folks bringing in their own beer and wine i don't believe so and it's not all alcohol either it's beer and wine so the legislature has expanded yes abcc has it well they've issued regulations to allow the expansion if they can being their own beer and wine different kinds of kinds of stack different kinds of a stack can we read that and just so that everyone knows although i think we've mentioned it before there is another and i'm not sure if it's all alcohol license or not but the distillery over on brighton street sells their product and as a state license as a state license that doesn't come under the local license that is correct but they don't sell beer and wine do they david they just sell their own product right is that what that license restricts them to their own product so it's not like a package store and that's a separate alcohol license that we don't have authority over so is that something david because it's been expansion you think we need to take a look at or just leave as it is that is literally hot off the press we've been doing a review of our rules and regulations so this will probably cause us to take another look at that before we submit some draft recommendations we can have a bylaw that prevents that can we i think it was the licensing board can have rules and regs even if a state license is permitted or are we talking about the distillery now no we're talking about the expansion of of the byob we could have rules and regulations that say you can't maybe limit hours you can't bring your own beer maybe we need to think about that ceratin hours of the day yeah just as a rule like at dinner the rule and regulations does have statutory effect meaning that if we have that then you have from six hundred pm to one thousand pm well then they wouldn't get a common victualler license right if they didn't comply with the rules and regulations so as a way to enforce it right maybe we need to think about that a little bit more okay and then the next thing to report mr chair as you noted earlier in the meeting toll brothers is having a public meeting to discuss their remediation plan for the site and to talk about schedule and other topics with the public tomorrow evening under the statutes they are required once they submit their remediation plan have a twenty day commenting period which they have submitted and we'll discuss tomorrow we've been asked to think about providing a town sponsored licensed site professional to review the plan and to make potential recommendations as part of the twenty day commenting period while the process yields that the licensed site professional does have a public commenting period and absorbs and collects comments from the public to potentially incorporate those into the plan it may be prudent to engage a consultant that we have identified to take a look at the ram and to make suggestions to the licensed site professional for toll so to insure that we have all the bases covered the licensed site professional can or cannot include them in their ram plan but i think that we've had conversations with toll and they are again looking to be collaborative and trying to be cooperative so i think that depending upon what the potential recommendations are that they would be considered seriously so i believe that is some of the things that we've heard so i actually suggested that we think about having a i don't know if it's a peer review per se but you know i know our health department received the reports from the lsp as well as we do as well it's a privatized sort of processes in place although there is rules and regulations and statutory oversight of lsp dep my understanding is that dep per se doesn't really sign off on any sort of ram yeah there's a comment period by statute and for us to hire a peer review consultant to provide comments on behalf of the town i think that makes sense i think that its a prudent idea i agree so we will engage that individual that we received a recommended as long as providing comments so whatever we provide it's a peer review we provide our comments but whatever the ram is they couldn't decide to incorporate it or not right right so basically the licensed site professional is required to provide a plan that adheres to dep regulations and that gets submitted to dep and basically gets filed so we will engage that we will receive will this or unless i hear something different i'd like to know who asked us to do this i actually asked david to take a look at it mark paolillo mark paolillo is the chair and the reason for that change i mean he said we'd been asked i just no no i don't think david i think you've heard from others i think david has heard from other folks as well and i think it's something local resident concern but i think david along with the health department has also chatted about this so when i approached david he said certainly not opposed to we'd been talking about this i mean i didn't source it completely the table was aware of that and also was talking to angela brown and the health department there've been several emails from members of the public that have talked about the ram and talked about what the town's ability i mean it's not to say that i'm not sure that it sets precedence this is a significant build there's a concern in that neighborhood about the environmental issues not to suggest that toll brothers has hired sage consulting inc and they'll be at the meeting tomorrow night not to suggest that they're not gonna do their job cause they're licensed but i think it's good government for us to provide our independent point of view hiring someone to do a peer review for a fairly small amount of money whatever the cost might be david well we've been asked to review and comment and we're making that review meaningful well i mean i thin by bringing on some of these issues look i'm a cpa in brittany's areas i think some of the stuff that will be presented might require someone who has that background jim you in favor of that yeah sure absolutely all right so do i have a motion to what is this to engage someone specifically or to pursue sort of investigated on i think we've identified individuals so we will engage them right so do i have a motion to approve the town administrator engaging in a licensed site professional to provide a peer review peer review of the ram plan that will be issued by sage consulting inc on the cushions village site toll brothers to provide comments during the twenty day comment period so moved second on favor aye thank you david for pursuing that i'm going to attend this meeting tomorrow night and i'm obviously going to sit in the back in the audience just to listen but we'll just see what comes out of that meeting but thank you david well that's not being sponsored by the board or anything no no that was inspired by toll brothers no i understand is it their requirement to do that or i think they started with the public information plan but they will be released i haven't fully read that plan that was sent to all of us so it might be helpful to look at that its starting at six hundred and forty five right yeah it's an odd hour six hundred and thirty six hundred and thirty six hundred and thirty excuse me then any further mr town administrator no when we get to the meeting that's we have a couple of small chance so i think everybody but just on liaison reports and then maybe others just two that i wanna report out on major building projects i already talked about that so it has been that hard working group that grew out of sort of this whole identification and the need to look at capital major building projects if you recall starting from i don't know if you're on the board at the time jim but board of selectmen tasked the capital budget committee to put together a priority matrix in the scheme they did that they provided it back to us they sort of provide it back to us that and then we asked capital budget committee to start to think about a plan forward and what grew out of that is ad hoc working group if you will not appointed by the capital budget committee but members of the capital budget committee which included myself pat brusch and anne marie mahoney david of course joined us and then it's been expanded now to include roy epstein the chair of the warrant committee for carmen is not a member per se but we'll be providing information on financial projections debts and all of that we have scheduled a number of tours beginning this friday i think we're touring one these station well he said i believe public works i think phyllips made a copy of the schedule so the working group this is the committee the committee yeah so we're gonna tour all the major building committees of buildings so please stay tuned we're gonna look at the incinerator site we're gonna look at a dpw facility the high school and the high school library for the libraries god help me we got a question is this a public count if you want that's fine we don't wanna post the meetings but i'm happy to listen there's nothing there that we just discussed i think part of the challenge of course is we have four major building projects we have the high school that we're in the middle of a feasibility study for that we're looking at in conjunction with the mass building msba masco building authority the library trustees of course have a feasibility study group as well that's looking at the library and so we have major building projects that if you collectively put them together cost this town several hundred million dollars so how do we approach this what's the plan in terms of moving forward over the next ten fifteen twenty years and i think this is what this group is hoping to provide recommendations to this board to capital budget committee warrants committee and then hopefully a presentation of town in terms of thinking about a way forward clearly the high school was right in front of us we're facing with a significant debt exclusion sometime in the near future but beyond that those other three buildings are in desperate need of upkeep and repair and of course we have the skating rink that's part of the outlook that we're looking at that per se because the skating rink we should revisit that at some point david skating rink was if you recall there was a public private partnership thought about that one and that's been strategically paused waiting for the high school yeah feasibility stuff to see what the footprint may or may not be that's right and you're part of the building yes and i might add mr chair the other one is the community path in some ways has an impact on some of the projects such as the high school and public works so that's sort of intermingled speaking of that committee path implementation advisory committee has been hard at work with our consultants pair and i went to a meeting last thursday thursday i think it was it was it thursday it's all blending in either wednesday or thursday last week last week last week lord help us and they are now scheduling i think this date has changed david three public meetings and they're primarily focused on right now is continuing to introduce i think what they've gone pare has done in conjunction with cpiac is introduce a very objective process where they have criteria for matrix now some of that's subjective for us but looking at all of the root segments and options broken down between the west the central and the east and also putting criteria having criteria for those in grading those and so from that what you're likely to see is top three sort of root segments for each of those particular areas of town i think there's a lot of objectivity associated with this process i support it it's difficult and challenging not to try to jump to a conclusion but pare has allowed cpiac to really take a very deliberative process in terms of how they look at this so to that end they are scheduling three public meetings i think the wednesday january 25th has that changed i thought it did that's the final schedule so wednesday january 25th at six hundred and thirty pm no seven hundred pm these are all going to be held in the town hall auditorium they will discuss the evaluation criteria for their western end waverley square to the dpw property then on february 8th at the same time seven hundred pm in town the town hall auditorium they will present the criteria for the matrix criteria for the central area which is the eastern end of the dpw property to belmont center you think about how they broken this down it really is logical and then finally on wednesday february 15th they will have a public meeting to present the evaluation criteria for the eastern end which is belmont center to the railroad bridge brighton street that connects it to of course the cambridge community path and then finally on march eight it's a summary of in hot topics meeting at the same time at seven hundred pm the purpose of the meetings will be to present the consultants conceptual design while the alternatives carried forward from cpi cpac as well as potential alternatives for each segment discussed at the meeting so i know this has been posted on the website i believe right so there's a lot of work evaluation criteria the matrix is very complicated on the bottlenecks bottlenecks and it's really a lot of criteria a lot of i really want to thank members of the cpiac in the amount of time and effort they put into this i plan to try to attend some of these meetings i don't think i can attend to all of them but if both of you are available gentlemen might be helpful to listen in what what can you tell us about the process what happens after march 8th so i think after march eight is that once they've gotten the feedback from the community i think they'll start to formulate their recommendations and then do we have a oh yeah they're gonna present to this board board of selectman for they'll recommend i'm assuming they'll have a recommended i think the way they've broken this down is they'll have recommended paths recommendation for path on the western end central area and eastern end and perhaps it's one and two in terms of recommendations i don't know i think they're gonna try to formulate from this process a rec cpiac will vote on because again pare works for the town supporting cpiac's efforts i think cpiac will then be presented with pare's recommendations and they'll take a vote and that vote will no different than before will be presented to this board for our consideration david i think that's what we heard right i don't know what the timing is jim but it could be sometimes after march 8th oh yeah sometimes after march 8th but i think so the cpiac has to they have to make their recommendations so if you're thinking about i mean it's not pare per say although pier works for us the community path implementation advisory committee that's advisory to this board that we formed that will advise us and recommend to us their recommended route segments i know there's been some objections in certain circles to the idea of scoring different alternatives right but like you in which you reflected in your comments i'm always attracted to scenarios i think that's really the way to do it but does this mean that the cpiac will actually select their recommended scenarios or are they gonna come to the board of selectmen and say well here's nine different ways to look at it no they're gonna i mean i don't think that would be productive if they did that because then it's back to like well how do we decide so i think cpiac based on based on the work that pare will be doing and again i think pare has been having attended a couple of these meetings it's difficult as we would all do to not reach conclusions meaning that how about this what about that why doesn't this make sense rather what pare has cause they've done this a number of times has consulted with us and really work with cpiac on ensuring that it's a very sort of deliberate logical process where they're really looking at evaluation criteria and the matrix the point of view of them of pare is that the matrix will then present i'm not sure how clear it'll be present alternatives that will sort of rise to the top based on the evaluation criteria that they've employed so it's a complex matrix approach that they've in fact it might be helpful to provide that i think we got those materials i think that both of you are copied on it right you copy on jim williams emails yeah so this is a distilling process yeah it is okay thank you any other liaison reports cpac or the cpa community we voted favorably on all the projects that are proposed they'll come before us wonderful the pq playground everything was settled up on that and the sons of italy the records preservation everything we did have one descending vote on that but so you have to judge for yourself okay that wasn't unanimous but all the other projects were unanimous okay great and on that committee i actually vote so you know i do deliberate with them on the opeb committee for example i don't deliberate with them i'm just the liaison and i stay away from deliberation on that committee that's it for me sami do you have anything no report okay all right any other matters david minutes yeah minutes are you here for purpose sir yeah i wanted to meet with the selectman my name's john higgins could you go to the mic there please do you have a question no i just wanna introduce myself and my company luxe express janitorial service okay we need to do that after the meeting if that's okay great all right so we have a lot of minutes here gentlemen are we prepared to move forward with these i hope i had two small comment you said you had something david yeah selectman baghdady vicechair baghdady had a good catch on december 12th meeting where we had the regular session yep where we basically on page three we had an extra zero so it should have been four hundred thousand instead of four million so that's a typo so and then on small mistakes big consequences and here's a change for december 28th one copy down okay oh i maybe okay so under the taxi cab number hang on here december 28th no go back on the forty million error on the 12th on page three the minutes are wonderful i mean i very rarely i don't have any comments usually the next to last what paragraph on page three of the december 12th meeting notes where's the number third four million right you wouldn't like four million sami great catch great catch i actually read em appreciate that i know you do that's why i know that when i reprove them i know you've read em yeah i look at them at a high level and then on page three of the december 28th there's a small change in the wording with regard to the taxi cab moratorium report provided by vice chairman baghdady stated perhaps a moratorium should remain as no one has requested a license during that time now the changes is no longer needed no longer needed right good catch okay so those are the two amendments we received but do i have let's go through the minutes quickly then gentlemen it's eight hundred and thirty pm so there a motion to approve we do these all at once let's do it all at once for a motion to approve the following minutes lisa they're in your agenda right right i'll just take the december 12th and 28th and write as amended so i will do those separately right oh okay so a motion to approve the july 11th two thousand and sixteen regular session and august 22nd two thousand and sixteen regular session the september 12th two thousand and sixteen regular session in the october 24th two thousand and sixteen executive session the october 28th two thousand and sixteen working session then november 7th two thousand and sixteen joint meeting with the warrant committee the november 14th two thousand and sixteen regular session the december 2nd two thousand and sixteen working session and executive session december 12th two thousand and sixteen executive session and the december 19th two thousand and sixteen regular session a motion to approve those minutes so moved second all in favor aye and do i have a motion to approve as amended the december 12th two thousand and sixteen regular session and the december 28th two thousand and sixteen working session so moved second all in favor aye the next meeting is february 2nd two thousand and seventeen at nine hundred am here in the board of selectmen room it's working session and then we have a meeting on monday evening february 6th at seven hundred pm isn't that the joint meeting david the isn't that the joint meeting with the it is isn't it no that's the 13th i believe okay then on february 13th i'm sorry the 13th we'll be presenting the budget is the budget presentation the joint meeting with the warrant committee and school committee here in the board of selectmen meeting okay no further business do i have a motion to adjourn i'd like to ask that the working session be on camera because it's gonna be about the financials i think in the spirit of open transparency would be good to have that meeting on when you said the financials but does that mean that is to report to the board where we are prior to budget submission to inform you about where we're at in terms of the budget process i mean that's fine i don't know if it's necessary but that's fine i mean okay and then my second question is i mean it's really more of a working session jim so i mean it's really not a formal meeting per se although we are meeting formally it's an open meeting and you really need camera to involve bmc in that i've been asked okay it's open meeting yeah its open meeting okay secondly you folks can attend the meeting and then we'd have the bmc come out eight o'clock on friday it means we wear a tie we can't dress as casually as you do go ahead the second thing is the executive session we were referring to can that be scheduled for february 2nd what the executive session the one that david was talking about humbly i don't believe you're gonna have enough time to do all you need to do on 2nd it's important so wait a second i don't even know what executive session you're talking about no no no that's the topic that you wanted raise tonight david advised should be an executive session right right is it ten minutes discussion i mean it's scheduled for will we be prepared by then if you're not gonna be prepared i don't know yet it's something that the three of us discussed well you can post that executive session if you're not prepared then we won't be known well we should spend ten minutes deciding that we're not prepared then because of the three of us need to discuss no i mean why don't we plan to meet in executive session to understand what jim is thinking about yeah that'll be helpful we don't necessarily have to that's fine no if i have to so we have a scheduled meeting is it at nine or eight david it's at nine that's fine nine works but that was thursday february 2nd cause we had tried it friday we changed it cause you weren't available i'm indisposed i'll tell you why so nine hundred am david knows nine hundred am works right let me just look is it nine hundred am because it's after the vhsvc meeting that's why that's right okay nine hundred am it is we start at seven hundred and thirty and then leave it yes okay it's groundhog day as well so all right we have a motion anything further adjourned so moved second all in favor aye pass one thank you take yours and pass it down please