discourse was a wonderful event i suggested that perhaps they do it some time in the spring of the probably get more participants but even with all that weather a lot of folks showed up and we really nice article coverage of that in the metro to cardboard recycling pilot program you can drop off your car board at the town your thirty seven c street between the hours and nine a m and noon it must be flat and what does not need to be in the town is twelve dollars and fifty six sense if you go along with the proposals with me tonight the tax relief proposed actually twelve dollars and seventy cents again that's voted by the board assesses subject to the approval by the department of revenue  that would give you a tax levy levy about eighty five million six hundred thousand dollars for the coming year the actual tax rate between sixteen allows for a levee increase prop two and a half and it allows for any additional new growth the two and a half index if you will increases the levy by one million nine hundred eighty one thousand the new growth this year we're very happy to report came in result again part of the debt service for the town about four point three percent of the total levy is made up of principal and interest for the coming year and the excess levy capacity after all said and done is seventy three thousand six hundred seventy one dollars basically that comes out to a rounding because you can't open up a penny on the tax rate so where for all intents and purposes at full capacity at this point one of the quick things that we have to ask is whether we  classification under the national laws were allowed to classify property into by the different classes or their four major classes the residential commercial open space in an industrial sense belmont has such a small portion of the levee is in commercial we have given you some examples of what it would do it would be a dramatic shift to the commercial and a minimal shift from the residential in reality the residential and one thing we like to point out that this does not bring in one more dollar of revenue to the town what if we have a split rate which is shifting from one to the other so we're not passing up the opportunity to really increase the levy we're just simply shifting among the classes so so we'll be asking you for a vote on that ok the other item that is whether the city other towns will adopt a presidential exemption in a residential exemption once again does not bring any additional into the city or town that it is it's simply a ship only within the residential class and because the mine has such a very homogeneous housing population for the most part it would basically the again the average homeowner wouldn't see about sixty five percent of the homeowners wouldn't see any ships all the benefits would be very low value homes and the negative would be on very high value homes but again it does not bring any more into it the cost to administer that would offset you know would be costly to the town and it like i said i don't think the majority of taxpayers would even know the shift was taking place again it works in a population where you have a lot of apartment buildings that thought of the residential class that would not be getting effort to be put into it wouldn't wouldn't even be noticed or to be reality at the end of the day so again would be ascii you not to adopt a residential exemption and i have already informed you of the excess of the capacity of the so tax rates going up fourteen cents right from twenty six per thousand to twelve seventy i think that's the correct you're asking for us to increase the tax rate and the assessed values have gone up dramatically i mean from six billion five hundred twenty thousand to six billion seven hundred forty so about two point s seven million dollar pretty significant he says values increase from six point five billion to seven six point seven writes of you could actually when it actually is not at the rate it is much lower than questions i have a question on the residential exemption and i agree with your recommendation but my only question is you know that there's been recent increases in taxes you know d increases in property valuations and of course the override and it's it's it's kind of created a burden on many of our elderly and town and those on fixed income but there's really no way to grant an exemption that's targeted at that population and i correct i must they qualify based on income level rhythm that's correct i mean the residential exemption wouldn't solve it was the it that would have we have brought before a town meeting we give out the highest amount that we can in the commonwealth in looking at those so we are very aware of that fact and we keep that we're looking at homes and doing it and so if we have to send something you know in this form that i'm actually asking now is just that we've informed you of the excess levy capacity and that you're in agreement that that's because once these tax rates go into effect sooner or first yes you know they'll be going out just before the first of the year  probably the last week of the year ok where we sent in here this is basically that we've informed you of the excess levy capacity so that in this case we can't raise it anyway so it's not something you're signing away but so how does  revise it as we get better numbers as we go through it so usually by the town meetings we have you know there's a little difference and play case on those actual numbers ok yeah possibly foundations pushing village right possible  review whether it includes the community element department to make sure that any building issues and any expection zur done or special permits or adhere to health department does their work in terms of  inspections fire department is required to go to the establishments with alcohol licenses to make sure that pouring licenses to make sure their compliance with fire stink wisher and fire suppression equipment and get a certificate do a certification process police department and the treasurer's office so it goes through those departmental reviews  flashed years you'll recall the clerk presented a new permanent system that basically allows two the departments to use a workflow methodology so that when they've done their due diligence in their required inspections or sign especially the common vic's to basically have them issued and you have copies before you i mean we can this law and we really don't we don't have all fifty two licenses and we actually are in the package i believe as a paper clip you have them mr approvals so what you have for you the paperclip for the fifty some odd fifty two that have now been released through the review process as well as ones that we had in hand going put the package together and as i are so grateful in this year's packet i gave you the sort of standard letter asking for you to reconsider the license i gave you more background material than usual partly just to make sure that we were all up to speed on within the community not to sell or you know there's a lot of pressure at the time because of our financial constraints to sell and i'm glad we kept it on board and i think the friends of the that lyme have done wonderful work to sort of maintain it and not in sort of gale for his thoughts about whether it was appropriate for us you know extend so he looked to the future and he said well in terms of library services within the town where we're going to start run of aiding the high school and we may be renovating the public point and because you still exist would would you as as the better be willing to to provide some services if we had to cut back of them or reduce them in the in the in the public library or at the high school could you step in and offer some of these services force in coordination i said absolutely great question that we it was it was a great question and it's one of the reason we exist is to keep this library in existence  run right up to become part of the public system once again so mr cales question would you be able to help us out if we needed a little help needed a little needed you to provide some services for us if we were if we were having to reduce them during the renovations i said absolutely that's the reason we exist for that appreciate that so very question i'm very grateful for guy questions and we got a list of those sorts of issues which i appreciate you bringing them up because absolutely we're all on board with that we feel really good about being able to be a custodian for this building for the town to keep it within the ownership of the town but to help to preserve and maintain it we hated it in the last two years that was our big capital  so this every year when you've come before when i've been chair this is a wonderful example of the public private partnership we know which we continue to provide a needed service within our community perhaps even more so when three embark on the high school annually at your holiday open house and very dedicated and hardworking i think it's great that you keep the building open and you keep it maintained and you know occupied i know you've spent quite a bit on capital improvements even though it's the town's building based on fundraisers that you've had how many members do you have well we base our membership on people who make donations and we had last year we had over one hundred people make individual donations to us which we're very proud of you know there are a lot of these community libraries to subsist on one or two businesses supporting them but we feel like we have a broad base of individuals i meant card that's incredible ok that's wonderful and occasionally we have fun trying to rival the main library because well so we'll have to get you in the minuteman system right in vegas to be on and ask us to acquire a book which which they're waiting for at the main motion to a man the current license agreement between the town and the friends of the vent library for a period of an additional three years from jennifer she doesn't have a theme through december thirty first through i'm still seething i mean i was i think a longer lease would be nice because time just flies by but then again it's nice to be able to come in here and talk to you all i'm going to have this official you know conversation about it and we give you your early reports i'm going to read every single line seventy five licenses with me so why not licenses are interesting to read and the town itself which have this year and so the person telling would have been very helpful in putting together helping us with preparing the statements and implementing the new ga pensions and we would like to continue them for the open pronouncements as well as the second would be i would say the quality of services they have a very knowledgeable staff excellent third would be the increase of costs less than one percent in two thousand and fourteen fifteen and sixteen the cost of fifty thousand and fifty one thousand and fifty one thousand just bac eight seventy four and seventy five these are something that we need to consider for the next fiscal year seventy four sixty seven sixty eight will affect the like toward the seventy four seventy five to see what t these are licenses paid the fee yet so it there's nothing here that i don't believe that will not be able to be adhered to this week or early next week so it's really just starts on december first in the sense listed and known the revise the genders is that correct that is correct and what happens if if one doesn't get renewed them basically if you're not renewed then as of january first if your restaurant that has a common vic lice ok sounds good fights hard i'm going to roll through these i can read them all this is you have them right well do you want to vote to authorize oh yeah we have a motion and they haven't yet and so i had a mass transportation policy in boston executive coach story of motion to approve those licenses so move second on favor and we have class two licenses to buy and sell use the question about that from from time to time there's a car that shows up it's not the same car but they're the single car for sale right road as that would force eyes and i'm pretty sure and i don't know who's doing it but i think it's an individual so who who who do we have who enforces the licenses i would say that would be community involvement for enforcement based upon what the understood the square footage area that they were approved for the system and you went through the process with us there in the midst of their multi million dollar innovation so they won't be fully implemented to lay fully execute their renovation  i spoke with the managing director of the store last week and he is fully aware of what the conditions imposed by the board or that was also emphasized to joe kelly who is the president of star market and they understand the  restrictions on the requirements of their license and they intend to adhere to every restriction in ok issue that was brought to them as part of the condition of their licenses yes and yeah and i was just going to add and any conditions we imposed at the first hearing when we when we first approve a license or a transfer carry forward so a restriction on transfer ability will carry forward the no lottery or tobacco  that we have granted and over the line here to the extent that there they do not meet the condition we would have cause to then revoke the license is that correct you have a hearing to basically understand the complaint and incumbrance on the transfer ability from us it was that they said they wouldn't buy things for it so i just want everyone in the public to understand that so that we don't yet submit a bunch of letters that favor a motion to approve a class two license for p r automotive imports so move second hope favor in funny to have a motion to approve a class two license for brother's auto what you'll get a copy of that i have the agenda right here and there will give you a copy my other kitchen suzy's ice cream el centro michael's pizza so moved second on favor now i was trying to as i was reading these and i'll do this later on this weekend is checking off the ones that i frequent and the most a lot of these great restaurants we have great restaurants in town and we're from very casual to more formal like a sollie it's a venus grill so particular like t that license so moved that one favor that's the only blocking it is yeah this is happy to see studio cinema do i have a motion to approve the motion picture exhibition license for studio videoing but i think our departments that are responsible for the inspections and for the oversight to take it seriously do a tremendous job and it's at the time of year where we're trying to execute a lot of  faucets in the schools as you recall back in the summer we tested fifty faucets and they came back with a clean bill of health we as part of grant process and received  water sample with the first poor and you get a result about what the levels are in terms of letter copper and then you basically let the faucet run for a little bit and they take a sample to see what those yield for the majority of the fourteen the levels drop significantly which once we took the sample after the flushing took place so what has happened is our facilities apartment under the direction of the superintendent and gerry boyle have shut off all the faucets that came back above the standard and they will be retested and we will then come up with a plan to either replace the faucets or shut them down permanently we won't know till we get the retesting but we've taken the faucets out of service and the superintendent has communicated the results to  the parents and is a significant information on the school web page but are the schools involved with that i think that we will be working on this over the break to as i said do some retesting and  work with our health department but i think the information's there and as head of the majority they can back within the standards as i said of the majority of the ones that have identified than a five with higher standards typically drop precipitously once you do the flush which may be a protocol after the retesting that they get flushed early in the day so that the first instance is based upon these results will be below the limits and then will evaluate where we are after we tested generally they are within the limits there are a few that we will have to work on but we are taking it seriously and taking a proactive approach and folks who want more information should go to the school web page and the superintend is posted all the information about this in the guise of being transparent and where exercising abundance of caution to make sure that we come up with a solution and we're hearing to what the sits in the pipe overnight that you know first comes out in the morning that that does that contains unacceptable levels of lead but this is so important and this is for the safety of our providing bottled water to those schools that are most affected or i believe there is one location where bottled water is being provided and that the sink has been shut down and just identified for washing hands as opposed to drinking so i know there's one in terms of the other sites want to do the retesting will evaluate whether or not what is the way to fix them or if we need to do other kinds of remediation terms of providing water or correcting the problem in itself we don't know till we do the retest and we see what the source of the issue is yet to me this is such an important issue i was going to emphasize i would say that we met john fail myself and jerry boy director of facilities met last week as soon as we got the results in the next day the first nine they're identified as part of first round of sampling was shut down immediately and then the remainder once we got the results were shut down too so i think the superintendent as i said has taken this extraordinarily seriously understands the importance of this and i think as i said i think in the guise of trying to be transparent his post all the information on the web page and   again i think that and i'm not at all not trying to make light of it because then i think it's a very child safety is a very important issue but this is an issue facing many municipalities and massachusetts unfortunately yes curious because i've forgotten how did this come up and first i think i think what the notoriety of what happened in flint michigan i think that that sort of started the conversations about water quality and a d i think just heightens people sensitivity even though there we do to some random sampling of drinking faucets anyway i think people in the in the effort to be  overly cautious or abundance of caution basically the m w are a came up the program to basically test the water quality so i think it's all meant to be proactive in the second question  report which is not an easy read and i don't think that i'm not being critical but i just like to know the difference if you see a faucet that has point three in its ok and then you see another one that has a point nine four and once i think the word clusters of fortunate but it's a jacka smilingly that for once it's flush that goes down to zero point three four how dangerous is a point nine is the point three do we have any sense for sure in then twenty i believe in me just because i think twenty is the standard so basically so no matter what you do you have a point to zero in the waters i'm not trying to say your question i think the number represents like i did by the million or something by the way it's two point it's twenty point zero zero so it's not too it's twenty point zero zero so basically we have some that down to two point five so right so the ones that are no point the ones that are ninety four and there are there are none there are ninety four no no what's the worst one just one forty forty and or it's not uncommon to have a protocol that all the faucets get flushed in the morning for that reason but just for i'm not sure that would make me one hundred percent comfortable guy because it means if someone the players you know just the wellington was camelot i believe in two thousand and eleven maybe so therefore six shouldn't have any problem you would think that's why we're retesting if put them out of service  guess the the end of the story is the story is continuing superintendent and the facilities apartment will be proactive and it's assessed and we'll get an update on that something right so david just wondered it's not really a matter but  and acquire a replacement boiler and they had it installed placed yes and it got installed and it was functioning midnight or eleven fifty nine friday night so basically the boiler failed at three thirty ish in the morning and it was up and running that evening about midnight no damage right no damage nothing no damage to the building clearly the facilities department took precautions to make sure that as best we basically it wasn't a town hall was closed just because we didn't want the activity in the building to let the cold air is you recall on friday it was one of the more bitterly cold days of the season so we didn't want people coming into the building to reduce the temperature even laser reports and you know i'll i'll just report on belmont high school building committee the committee now is ready to issue air requests for beds or proposals to hire stepping on your parade but did you see the the analysis of the census report that jim campbell said around did you see that it's an interesting i did it did you see the census report for what made him you know for the replies to the census the number of students at each grade level and the interesting thing he points out is based on the census there is one number of school children in each at the each grade level but then if you look at the understanding of the town meeting in the in the bond and dentures oh that's right no we we have to do that we have to do that as well i don't know whether we'll do that it's really something for george to do with walter the unfinished wri the me from last monday we're going to connect with our state legislature i did have a conversation with senator brownsburg and i think the prudent course of action is what i think ok just two weeks right now exactly you know ok any other business down taxi policy but i understand it's not we were going to do it on friday was on the agenda for last friday has nothing to do with your and we're not doing the tax