year at meet belmont i think it's a fantastic event especially you know for new residents but also for people who already live in belmont you can come here and you can find out about every organization in the town and it always has a good turnout sit in that ota thank you ok my name is how they do pro and i'm with the girl scouts if you see massachusetts and i represent the belmont girl scouts here in town we're looking for adults to help mastro back three seventy seven here in belmont and we are looking at seeing if there's any new members here in belmont that want to join our cause is basically four kids from first the fifth great after which they're going to go to the boy scouts who are was presented just next to us here so we're looking at joining them and seeing seeing if they want to join us our first event actually is going to be in a couple of weeks on september f team out here in generally on the field and the kids are going to build some rockets made of soda bottles and launch those with water into the air so it's going to be a lot of fun a lot of water involved as well so we'll probably get all work quite wet the cluskey i work for the belmont after school in richmond collaborative at the basic at burbank site i am the site director and we provide quality out of school programming for k through four students my name is neil winston and i'm five acres now under a conservation restriction that means that the owners of the land have gifted us the exclusion to build on the property and it has to stay open forever under a chapter of massachusetts law the largest piece of land we have under restriction is the richardson farm owned by the o b family that has been owned continuously by their family since about sixteen thirty four and it is one of the oldest working farms in massachusetts at this time other land is located on belmont hill and it joins the other conservation land we work with many other of the of the  organizations in the belmont area and cooperate fully to keep space open for trails walking and you will notice that the historic waverly trail behind me is one of our the sub organizations that we've sponsored and it's listed on the national historic trail designation and if you're interested you go to our website the mt land trust dot org and we have a number of things that you can do such as volunteering to do monitoring for our conservation restrictions it's a pleasure to meet you and we would like to have you come to our meetings if you  rustling now i'm the chair of the community path implementation advisory committee were were charged by the board of selectmen to continue the work of the previous committee the community path advisory committee and procure a feasibility study for several potential route segments for a community path through the town a bell model that will run along the mass central railway right away and so we are we are continuing our work this year here in belmont there's ninety acres that a lot of people that live in belmont aren't even aware of a lot of walking trails but this is a lot of educational programs there and we're trying to encourage people to come either take a walk up there or consider the programs up there i'm also a cordon it or of habitats intergenerational program and our main focus there is to promote relationships between between the different generations and to encourage environmental stewardship and we have a lot of programs that hip sets up programs where seniors and schoolchildren work together on the property to maintain the property and to learn about the environment they we really have a lot of fun together did you know that the town of belmont has its own municipal art gallery well it does and it's located in the home or municipal building on the third floor it's a lovely space in belmont center  the gallery receives no funding from the town of belmont it's an entirely volunteer organization that supports itself on the sales and commissions from the sale of artwork you should stop by and see if some of the volunteers who work at the gallery are here with me today my name is richard hill helen morse i'm rebecca richards actually runs the gallery and kat seth and we have a very close relationship with the belmont art association and their representatives are here as well hi i'm christine chang and president and founder of the belmont art association which is maybe two and a half years old maybe three years old by now and we're just an organization of artists in belmont and around belmont and we organize a community act actually it's more of a community for us right now where we organize lectures and workshops about being an artist and we organize shows places for our artists to exhibit and another member here i am  bernstein photographer or not so we were having a workshop in september about finding your audience so if you go to belmont art dot org you can find out about that right the homer building third floor belmont center behind belmont savings bank and again we're having our ten year anniversary show september twenty fourth through october fifteenth and we hope everybody will come up and see us thank you i as you very tall moby all the name of the most well below is the one doing in the circles of life it is about fifteen feet tall and so it has a spend of about eighteen in the feet but i would think the model do that then the anniversary show environmental issues human needs issues and we also do a lot for elections we do vote a service and produce the voter guide for the town election with every town meeting member interview and we hold candidates nights and we making pretty good progress on a little behind on what the progress is very real you you've got a coat of asphalt from one end of the town to the other now on article roads and that's good news and starting to get the signals in place and there's a lot of rough edges but that's one of the areas that i've been very focused on for belmont thank you very much and where do you see that going in the future well i hope will be done i was supposed to be done this fall it's not going to be done this fall i hope no stolen loose ends but i'm looking for sometime next year or hopefully earlier in the year rather than later santa brownsburg or i'm currently standing here with state representative dave rogers ok so tell me what you do and what is what you do at how does it affect the town of belmont well thanks for the question i represent arlington belmont and cambridge in the state legislature of the state house of representatives and while the way i work the way the work i do affects the town as i work to fight for funding for  schools i just was able to secure one hundred thousand dollars for a community path in belmont from the state legislature working with the chair ways and means i work on legislation that can affect not only this town but the whole state i've introduced twenty six pieces  legislation to try to improve life in the commonwealth with ideas for criminal justice reform environmental issues and a lot of other issues and then i'm i'm an advocate on a lot of different levels for the town so you're quite the active state congressman or state representative but can you describe one particular issue that you sponsor that you've introduced legislation for that you're particularly passionate about while there are so many but i guess if i had to pick one criminal justice reform i filed is to limit the use of solitary confinement in young inmates there's a lot of studies that show the effects of solitary confinement are particularly pernicious on the young developing mind and there's a movement now to try to rein in the use of solitary confinement president obama's the first sitting american president to go to a federal prison and talk about solitary confinement i filed a bill here in massachusetts to limit solitary confinement in young inmates still not ban it because prison officials need to use a sometimes if there's an unruly or disruptive prisoner but just to limit its use so that's one example and again i have twenty six different pieces of legislation so i'm really busy it sounds like a great cause and very relevant today while criminal justice is being talked a lot about with black lives matter and other movements so thank you's mr rogers all right so i'm currently and can you just briefly describe for me what kind of church it is and if you have a statement or a mission statement for it or so our mission statement is loving christ transforming wives were assemblies of god church we're planting out of a church in burlington also called  church and the church where we're starting used to be crossroads even jellicoe and so some of the members from crossroads even juggle are going to be joining us and we're excited to open soon thank you pastor kids on the hill child care thirty and we had a half day ninety one program currently standing here with the animal control officer so tell us who you are please and what it is you do my name is john magaw around us on the animal control officer  responsible for enforcing the town by laws regarding animal control and can you very briefly describe what those laws are for anyone any pet owners who might be watching this well there's a whole bunch of different laws there's a lease law there's licensing laws there's a picking up after a pet law avenue animals vaccinated up to date on their shots license of course  pretty much it i think that paints a pretty clear picture thank you very much i'm currently standing here with john phailin superintendent of the belmont public schools ok and what is your responsibility as the school superintendent i have the fortunate responsibility of taking care of the forty four hundred students in belmont that attend the schools and supporting the teachers of over five hundred fifty in our six schools and i look forward to doing it every day all right i'm a very important job i'm glad it's a job you enjoy doing the school year is obviously coming up if you could very briefly state key goals for the year and what your responsibility will be achieving them sure we're going to focus on social motional learning this year it's been a goal over the past two years that we've been building up to it we're implementing some work this year with our teachers in we expect to present that at our school committee meeting on september eighth and we're really looking forward to our staff and our students  turn pastor ok so tell me a little bit about pacing parks what kind of a church is it and if it if you could say a mission for it what would it be hospitality we're very welcoming church  and park is a congregational church which is part of the united church of christ nation and that's all it's a protestant church small and friendly congregation who welcomes anybody in the neighborhood we are in a phase of our life where we're trying to focus on our new mission direction so we're going through a process that's united church of christ called crossroads which  chance for the congregation to look at what their strengths are and focus or ministry in the area of their particular strengths and we found that our strengths really are in the area of welcoming newcomers so  being hospitable in the context of our neighborhood is what we're really all about thank you very much faster belmont high school real world career night try saying that five times fast saul pass the mike around you can introduce yourselves and tell us what you do like you have a thing you're trying to plug right here so why don't you tell us all about this year coming up with the foundation we have our d m sharpened run which is on sunday october fourth which will kick off our year followed by the spelling bee on nov fourteenth and lots of other great information on our website if you can check that out both of these events and all the events that we host are designed to raise money for the belmont public schools to increase the funding that's available for enrichment programs as well as for the other needs that may come up in the district thank you very much is to improve information and access to a healthy life for our citizens through inference through information about healthy eating and activity one of our big events coming up i public it's open to the public and it's a community dialogue bringing together stakeholders to talk about these issues it's october eighteenth from two to four in the afternoon and the public is invited and morris is an adult group we do morris stances that are in a style that comes from england near the welsh border in cross morris my daughter laura dances with i also teach banbury cross there a children's team they morris which comes from the region near oxford morris dances are basically street performance live to life music usually about four to six dancers on throwing sticks leaping up in the air and just having a grand old time my name is laurie pratt good and i'm vice president of the belmont dramatic dramatic club we are the second oldest continuously operating drama cloud in the united states and with me is we'll be serving some treats obviously anda their great  done the old adage it's not what you say it's how you say it because even though look at children performing this getting ready to perform hamlet music school we are we've been in belmont for over fifty years offering music instruction for all ages and all abilities and we hope to be doing it for fifty more