night because people are going to be asking questions are totally discretionary allocation issue here is two million six hundred thirty one thousand on the initial is a million for that million settlement the other thing is an accumulation of one time money's turned backs and some odds and ends the totals two hundred twenty seven almost two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars so while our initial  of one point four is pretty much where we've been the last few years that one time money flows to sup a little bit but it's kind of in the door and out the door it's not as if we could get it on a whole lot of extra things because it was already  world because we received all those meetings and all that writing of the report but all things considered that was a good thing to do so the one point four as we know them special town meeting is now going to be funded by free cash flow that's out of the capit budget fire insurance settlement those are the two kind of big issues i want to be aware of the very issue that's going to make him raise people's eyebrows i don't know is the harris field press bo however that cost is quite hard two hundred thousand dollars so what we've done after a lot of discussion and a lot of research is the call again we call harris field one has forty thousand dollars left in their billing account harris field two which was done in two thousand and fourteen has one hundred twenty five thousand dollars left and that money came out of ca weekends that we don't use it we don't people rent in the summer and we don't want yes and i think that i don't do this kind of thing we should be looking to raise to generate revenue from people who want to use that feel at times when the you know using it and i know the recreation plate you know they're touching on that and trying to bring the school department of preparation consultants but i also feel just feel very strongly that them because every other town does it around us every single other county and it can be done at off peak hours it can be done in many other places so that would free up cash for the capital budget committee to meet some of the other six million dollars i decided to honor the request by j marc klaas to do and i know this is a dreaded word he's on the sidewalk may have what he's calling sidewalk management program this will allow him to take a universal walk at the condition of all the sidewalks in the town much as they did with the roads in number of years ago create a priority list master list this is the priority order and which the sidewalks need to be addressed and then there isn't the jockeying and the phone calls but my street is one needy then the other street why aren't you doing the street will have it all laid out one dime and then you just work off your year that's fifty thousand and then we also talk about sidewalks my favorite part about all the new sidewalks that are going into the belmont center questions where big broad beautiful sidewalks when they need to be cleaned so the initial request from d p w was for an and when it was looked at a little more closely it was determined it could be less than eighty thousand dollars right now our share is looking like twenty six because i mean is that a standard part of what a modern sidewalk bristly does no i don't know ok so in case you in case you hear if i just put the numbers and i get to pick million four hundred fifty six thousand zero eighty turnout gear i don't think it's requirement i think it's a recommendation and it is something that so i would just check the chief on that because that's not the way it was presented to us on the public safety it's not a statute it's a regulation of the fire not i support it but i just want to make sure that people understood if it's something that we are starting to do in line with recommendations question and then could you explain to me that ambulance just the ambulance i didn't understand ambulance replacement last well for fiscal fourteen fifteen sixteen we have been putting aside fifty thousand dollars each year from the revenue that the town receives for the use of the ambulance fifty thousand of that we're taking and putting aside that sort of the savings account so that when it came time to replace the ambulance we have in that house right now it's th capital replacement requirement so when we implemented the program three years ago the revenue that was generated was approximately five thousand the increase in revenue from that distinct good place going to come in yeah i think a more detailed analysis is going on that because things have changed in terms of our ambulance and the cost risen over that period so that's one of our recommendations in the public safety is that we that the most high fission see boilers of this type are significantly more expensive than what of course regular boilers but they may not work as advertised with older heating plants and i wonder if you have an opinion from a mechanical engineer or somebody who knows that the efficiency will be realized in these older buildings when jerry here's his quest significant conversation about things this year but i don't think there's anything on the list of requests for sure that we felt really was not appropriate and we're pleased to be able to cover as much as we could there were some decisions about what to do about the to bring a lawsuit and they came up with a figure of a million three and we always thought if we get a million dollars with everyone pointing fingers at different people when they get to ninety five for someone say hargus get slaughtered let's take the ninety five untouchable that will be essentially in a lock box we won't try to raid it for other things like a ladder truck or with a couple hundred because we're going to be very stretched over the next few years there are a lot of things coming on particularly i mean they'll be bigger quitman but but the moving out of the substation and the main line of all of those electronic communication of that represents just going to be very expensive and that's going to be coming to the capital budget committee over the next few years so there are a lot of going to be a lot of pressures on the capital budget but that because that was part of the overriding trend because we know that that has been underfunded for many years i think that that line item or appeared on the wall where people in management appears next year it will be a separate that's only the beginning there there will be more modulars and there will be more outfitting of spaces and it's very expensive and you have to be aware that going forward as well and it's not always a short term in the short term in the grand scheme of the universe  and but it's something that's being looked at and we have the high school probably going on and you know the new people not be asking for modulus again but you know that's sort of a first bill isn't on  twenty percent is it getting eighty percent is getting what's your sense of the power doing it's the most he stuff i wouldn't necessarily do it as a percentage i would make the phone observation i think there's been a bit of a shift and so what we're seeing is a lot of the prioritization and and choice making that we get capital budget did in the past is now being done by jerry before it gets so he's kind of balancing in way what's the most important thing to be time and hughes requests now are fewer than we've seen in the past but they are better able we are better able to have the past and he's been fairly creative about what he's been able to do out of operating budget and those kinds of things so we feel like we actually feel like we're starting to catch up despite all the dire would add to that i agree with that completely the things that we were not able to fund this year are the ongoing projects we put some money toward the security project but not as much as was requested we put nothing toward the building and the op this is the first able to do that and that we we try to find that one hundred thousand a year for that and there is a new request now to start a parking lot paving project for you know those needs and those have to be done at some point so you know we we able to fund most of the discrete items that we thought were the most pressing but those kinds of i going projects we were not able to have them in the budget for the tool and the idea of doing the pavement as we have done and building em all over the  rules of the high street is a fantastic idea and we're happy to do that we just had no money to do here so we haven't started with sources well and there are things too that we didn't do like the burbank school needs to have new floors and so we were able to do that this year which  take a look at the capital but you don't committees that's just a relatively small slice of that well that's that's like you know i mean hundred thousand and six point eight million and i'm just curious whether there's any appetite for work or for some his story for someone someone  when they're purchasing and why they talk about the progress on you know the pipes in the sewer and the five hundred project and all of that and so i mean we get a fairly comprehensive report from them every year but even now you know when we in the budget for this year they're just in the debt section they're not in the capital section so that's roughly two hundred ninety thousand dollars if you take that out of last year that put you at one five to eight for last year and one six or six  time funds of turn backs and miscellaneous insurance settlements and whatever the total on this year last year from this year that total two hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred dollars that's one time money you can't put a lot of weight on these percentage changes because they're changing for reasons that are somewhat idiosyncratic each year so you know i think it's fine to stay with the increases but just indicate that it should be it's not measuring anything that's all that definite that it's kind of volatile and next year could be quite different but not because any underlying policy has changed very much because turn backs and what's capital it's not capital motion see is somewhat complicated and i apologize for not actually distributing something to you which i probably should have done there are if you go to that i didn't sell this two million peter b two thousand one hundred forty few is actually broken into about seven different buckets of money all right the largest bucket of money is called chapter thirty four b money which is the pay as you go of fortune from the talent side only for retirement health right there is by the way and additional just under one point five million of hands you go money on the school side which is given the school budget so the total here's your go contribution from the town of goma in two thousand and seventeen is actually two million good hundred thousand for pay as you go retiring health so one three three in you didn't invent this your twenty eight number and then another one five it is in the school budget this are very aware right so again one three three of the largest portion is about forty seven percent of this two point eight million you see before us the other pieces are workers compensation of one hundred twenty three thousand unemployment of four hundred forty thousand i'm sorry salary benefits reserve eight hundred eighty eight thousand life insurance of nineteen thousand medicare cost of sixty five hundred and liability insurance of four hundred  roughly two point five million dollars that is in that would have been in the public schools department this year but is in fact moved to the facilities budget of the public works sort of public  and also on page forty four where the where the current draft of the report stands it says that the that the uses of a total school budget the fifty nine million and we we just talked about a fifty million dollars dollars mike mike has talked about two point five million is is being moved within the general funds from the schools to the to the facilities but the way they school department works in the way we have we have worked is as it is is that they look at a comprehensive a budget that gets funding not just from the general fund but about three point four million dollars of grants most of which are state and federal grants coming in directly to the school school district and plus another thirty one or three point one million in terms just in terms of really valving funds which are which obviously in user fees that pay for programs and it's you know that the that the analysis we do is really focus much more on how the money  spent and not get caught up on where the dollars are coming in from and that's and that's how i think we we feel at the school school department feels it's is the best way to sort of take a look at a year year on year basis but that's why in this current draft the number you see at the cop is going to be fifty nine million but what we will change that before we ship it out of town meeting members to make sure that that fifty million dollars that they'll vote on in an article in in may know the answer the question i don't know is how does that fire thousand get applied were not to the democrats happens so if you are leaving the districts like the six towns that are caus committee authorize the chair to deliver its final report on the fiscal year seventeen budget to the town clerk the final report should be based on the graph presented to the war committee on may eleventh two thousand and sixteen  discussions at its may eleventh meeting and other edits by the chair that correct typos and factual errors and hence clarity or otherwise improve the final report so some years ago i think there was a question of the war committee about whether we were getting enough clarity on finances and accounts when a team has that situation is that still questioners are an issue there clarity on  but there are more than ten firefighters so what you're doing right now this is you're of page thirty three matches up with the money just for the question about fire department and i didn't see an obvious explanation for how the percentage change from the prior year is one point five two percent because for the line for items that change significantly the well a large part of it is the twenty five that is the and sorry what was your question is though the percent change from the prior year is four point five two percent which is a lot more than the police department and i just didn't see the twenty five thousand turn out here other equipment replacements but in fact david i understand you say that this is actually going to go up from here because you're going to reallocate set aside well actually ninety six equipment plus the software for the new records management system writes nearly hundred nine that both the police and the fire department the last couple of years their budgets have effectively been flat or even i think the police department with the facilities to the facilities are poor as you see is a bit of a mess because if we're sort of part way in the middle of developing the school in the town side facilities together in the library is like one piece of three pieces isn't it because there's sort of a multi year or in production to all the three groups there and i think that's i think that's helpful especially think about a town meeting member taking a look at the articles here and maybe we could we could put the it in for each group and mention that the total budget is thirteen million and it's going to be voted under article ten section three or something like that and and i think i mean this is this is got something that tries to provide a framework for the whole put a number in this yet that matches up to what the town meeting many members vote on that want that they have that they would have to add the three different groups and we could provide the thirteen million and reference into the page forty five i mean i think i think we should actually take i think we should make the adjustment adjustment to the fiscal sixteen budget and to have a footnote but i mean basically take the same two point five million hou lines you know what staying out of the what's called operation is in their budget i'm just saying how much is moving in there would all add up into the to a budget and then perhaps a paragraph introducing the rest of it saying no for for comparison purposes during the books in special ed it is all of one book and most of them and so we're sort of playing with those names to try to make a presentation and we're trying to focus more on the concept of special have the different growth rates this is a five year look and it's also going from actuals in fiscal year thirteen to budget in this whole year to seventeen but it's a but it's for your growth rates overall it's eight percent but there are some  on what the legislature goes every every year and for the past five years they've been pretty good good but at the last time we had a recession the circuit breaker funds got cut quite a bit so that it's probably fair to say and her if i'm wrong the growth from the going to burst right ok i know that that that has to do with sources of funds to pay for the expenses that your point about the fact that special education costs are rising and will be rivaling regular ed costs which you know usual closer to home and and and because there are you know with the kids are they live next to you as opposed to having to go far away and you will be with the country jane and all that sort of thing so i know they'll be more work over in the in the coming years i think about that you know but it just is very real and over the years i think that our public schools has done an excellent job in trying to contain these costs but the fact is these are significant costs and they have been forever they've taken up most of the new funding for education from the state over the years and you know this is a national problem it's not just about the problem but it's true i mean there have been some sleet in the recommendations and studies that have been done to the seat needs to take a larger role but i'm not sure whether because they are they are  perspective you know this is a there's a this is a relatively long really thoughtful analysis for the schools and you know it's not just kind of like a reprinting of what we've done the past i mean we did great work in the in the previous years but this is discussion of that motion appraised for one point three seven five one million three hundred seventy five thousand and the horse under the special legislation any costs we have to incur to ca