news and happenings from a community newspaper greenspace debate and an uproar petition leads to heated arguments between residents and select selectmen meeting residents erupted in frustration after a selectman and a discussion on a petition with more than five hundred signatures requesting a return to the impacts the green space in front of belmont savings bank although the revised plan will still increase the size of the green space from what it currently is the original plan would have increased it more having it extend to the walls of the b airspeed building and consume what is currently parking spots in front of  petition urging selectman to restore the original green space design after what he called a unilateral decision to revise it i and all the people here both pro and con respect the difficulties you face here in belmont he said but you have lost sight of the wishes of the many missing mark board acted out of concern for the safety of our seniors members of the council on e g along with two hundred residents who signed a petition and requested the r process was correct in each and every sense of its conduct during william statement roberts interrupted which appeared to set off a chain reaction causing selectman and residents able to raise their voices stand down said williams to roberts at this point residents who had signed robert's petition jeered and complain demanding their opinions be heard you're out of orders and baghdad please e mail us your comments but this only lead to another burst from residents supporting robert petition we have they responded in unison you are not respecting the wishes of this community said roberts although baghdadi try to calm the  signatures necessary to call in special town meeting where they could potentially vote to amend the greenspace design back to its original form jonathan ways to reduce carbon emissions i honestly feel at this point that without some technical assistance from this working group that would be made up of some new faces i am not into positions act on the proposal being altered the current model of net metering the building mechanism that credits solar energy system owners for the electricity that add to the grid by reducing the buyback rate from an inflated retail rate down to a wholesale r but after a butters came out in fierce opposition the light board indefinitely postponed the plan since that time residents in opposition have proposed what they suggest is a compromise offering a buyback rate in between the taxi fare increase beer wine license plate  twelve a single taxi operated to do business in town for the last eight years yellow cab a belmont's rates have been a dollar forty drop or a three dollars and twenty cents per mile in twenty four dollar for our waiting times once in effect the new rates will be a one dollar million the drop rate and four dollar per mile rate in a twenty eight dollars per hour waiting time the company's own said business is off twenty to thirty five percent in that the reply is to make up for escalating operating costs such as insurance competition in unrelated services  e from brookline because he would be housing is taxi at his home in brookline so like many were not inclined to grant him approval according to selectmen belmont's taxi regulation stat operator must house the vehicle in town meaning that matthew would need to obtain a garage or purchase or rent a parking space in town the hearing for matthew's application would be continued at a meeting in the near music festival was one of only two of its kind in the state when it began with the iver being in the barracks yes that was more than two decades ago starting mid june and musicians featured on particularly new radio stations and it's all free and very grateful the event is able to enhance the community said olsen to launch its twenty fifth bands contest sponsored by belmont savings bank took place june seventeenth showing off young bands from belmont and surrounding towns hundreds bones popping filled the air as parents and children of all ages danced along and watched the young musicians whether it was the sixth grade band the dominoes high school show band that had the audience clapping along there was no shortage of saunas covered belmont's own band free shipping w contest and the two hundred fifty dollars grand prize playing the times in the rock bands to door cinema and cold war kids when you're a teenager band you have to play at everything you can said jasper wolf lead singer of free shipping alston started the pace in part music festival to create a more diverse range of activities in town my sons were playing a lot of baseball down the street and i just thought it would be nice to have x x specs around be nice to have they get by and people to attend that concert series this summer this series really picked up when the surrounding neighbors led by linda oaks made strong efforts to clean up the park can also planted lots of trees said allison to get funding and reaches out to neighbors including businesses to sponsor individual events and then tries to accommodate the sponsors music preferences in return for their generosity jonathan new officers join police department police chief richard model off on and off the graduation of three officers to join the ranks of the dome up police department the officers the turn of the six month boston police academy and graduate in june seventeenth along with sixty four of their classmates forty one of the new officers  join the ranks of the boston police department and twenty three are headed to cities and towns in massachusetts boston's mayor walsh and police commissioner william evans addressed the graduating class w in addition to belmont police personnel swearing in was attended by town administrator david calle assistant out in this thread or phyllis marshall and family and friends of the officers in addition to the swearing in of the three new police allegedly found with nearly five pounds of marijuana in roughly one hundred sixteen thousand dollars cash on june sixteenth was arraigned in cambridge just recorded on june twenty second on charges of intent to distribute a class d drug in driving in a registered motor vehicle judge romance rob about rule the primes bail should be increased from two hundred fifty thousand dollars to five hundred thousand call last week asking a friend to bring him fifteen thousand dollars cash that he reportedly kept in his freezer on june seventeenth court clerk magistrate susan  michelle motion to raise bail plaza said the state also intends to seek forfeiture on the cash found in trying to this car attorney jeff travelling said on june twenty second this is not the type of case that would trigger a fifty eight a hearing meaning a movement for pretrial detention as prime's is currently being held in prison standing in front of primes as eighty year old parents traveling argue the primes is not a danger to the general public it has a good pair holi an associate bachelor's degree being elections and high school graduates in the primary caretaker for his parents the court  of five years in jail with a two and a half year maximum for each case however travellin said that in the first of the two cases a motion to suppress evidence has been filed which if successful would prevent the baiting has made a very welcome return to the market this season don't miss out on their fresh goodies this week and there's c and c lobster and fish  from two to six thirty pm thursday june to october rain or shine located in the rear parking lot behind belmont center the market office a variety of organic and conventionally produced food in a range of prices you can buy ingredients for an entire dinner at the market from products to meat and fish from wine to dessert and coffee this isn't the belmont farmers market or dot org for any changes in vendors guess vendors and performances all of our vendors are list d along with their websites so you can easily find out more about them snap benefits accepting the market except snap benefits food stamps and matches up to twenty five dollars for each snap shopper each week thanks to generous donations to the market benefits are processed victory and easily the blue market tent jonathan school committee begins looking at a new option of rebuilding from me and my caitlin killer with time running out reaching consensus among sixteen members by the deadline for qualifying for millions of dollars in state reimbursement funding for construction of a new minuteman regional high school the option of holding a district wide ballot is now on the table minuteman school committee members began debate  sixteenth holding a district wide ballot among the sixteen member towns in which overall majority rule would trump individual approval of the ballot box from each town we're at a point i never thought we'd get to  superintendent of schools and director and c e o i believe we have opportunities under the law but need to be seriously looked at the election would be a ballot vote in all member comm on the same day at the same time the existing regional agreement calls for in now the most agreement on running the district with a revised agreement failing to reach consensus and an aging high school with its accreditation threatened legal option of a ballot could be a way of removing a moving the high school building project forward in maine school committee members approved construction of a new high school building as the best option for the district and an estimated cost of one hundred  forty four point nine million dollars reversing other construction costs from massachusetts school building authority the m s b a is estimated up to eighty six point nine million dollars however and which has ten member towns in twenty trial that seventy three point eight million dollars project is nearly complete later this month franklin county talking to a school in turner projects it would go forward in towns would have to germany how to pay for their portion of that developer receives award north live residential corporation a burlington massachusetts  developed developer and home builder recently announced that the belmont historical society board of directors voted to award north flynn residential corp to historical societies david hard johnson preservation award in recognition of its preservation and reuse of the stables sulks cottage in the upham homes buildings located on the campus of mclean hospital in belmont the twenty fifteen historic structures are the tour a success for all more than four hundred visitors visited the gardens profiled in the belmont garden club's recent tour  private gardens and the club's woodlands public garden at the library were featured demonstrations of composting snow cover and year prevention products were presented proceeds will be used for community plantings garden therapy at belmont nana nursing home college scholarships and educational offerings to the public on horticulture and allan thank you for joining us for this episode of talking news we will be off there for the summer to die in august months but we'll be happy to in early september please join us at that time